The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-18 00:00:00

JUNL 18, 1833. y d~ THEATRE -ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Co v e r t., P OWER, of the Theatres-Royal Drury-lane and Leintgarden, is engaged at this Theatre for TEN NIGHTS, ,i4g,1113 Farewell Visit., previous to his departure for America; f i r h: ‘_ 'll make his Second Appearance This Evening, in Tw o riiiil(9lll3.l' Irish Characters. k- 1 i Present TUESDAY the 18th instant, will , be per for Present the New Play, written by James Sheridan ho ic k s, " favourite Ls g., called ki n ,, 0 , THE "WIFE, a Tale of Mantua. '" Pierre, Mr. Vande . nhoff 1 Mariana MissHuddart. After which, the Farce of • THE IRISH TUTOR. :4 - ° r u"roole, Mr. Power, in whiCh character he will intro , -ee the celebrated Irish Song of " e Groves of Bl lo conclude with a C om i c Ent T r h tainment, called arney., THE OMNIBUS; Pou ttlt i iperlA Or , a Convenient Distance. on an article in the " New Monthly Magazine," . : en pat "The Inconvenience of a Convenient Distance. on ~,,,, Pat Rooney Power. (r Tri Y o'"EsDAY, the Comedy of "The RIVALS." ,, Sir, Lucius paneger, Mr. POWER ; Captain Absolute, Mr: . N . an . ctenhoir ; `tar t . a nd, Mr. Cooke; Acres Mr. BroWne; Jylia, Miss H T iLd- - pq Lydia Languish, Miss Eyre.. After which "The you ! 'Na l - i t/ N . I :EN." Christine Miss Huddart. To conclude with ~...... ...„, ..z......._7 Z the TILER." Teddy, Mr. PowEii. all Co e I . possibly find room for an excellent letter on the it 410 tat T 4%, ion Laws before Friday. e 4 • 1 oestows more attention upon the twaddle of one of our Ve,eulporaries than he really merits. tr o , 4 ".' see the morale or what good effects would result yorksPhliblishing.the long letter relative to . , an old woman in tot c. (Besides there are some portions of the letter Th y e a d . at plan_ Th e stohurable verses of Ein Fischer will appear in our next. Se c7v? ve t f 4 Consta n t Reader is an old joke—see J Miller. communications must stand over forte present. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Zbt liatrpoot ettantlarb 7174 :5p.4.1' MORNING, JUNE 18, 1833. l atest date s f rom Portugal are Lisbon the 6th, of °port ° t h e Bth instant, but nothing had transpired 6 0 4 n Y moment. Don CARLOS it was said bad left Lis- Ni r tk/ A i° l 4 Don M IGUEL at C o i m b ra. S ARTORIOUs h a d of p e "' and Captain NAPIER had assumed the command tz h ! Di t°s fleet. Import a nt intelligence may be hourly i eted f rom that quarter. he sa lt following extract from a private letter, has been 1 , 4 b.v a friend : 41 14„ 4Gu 5, JUNE I.—We brought out Sir Pulteney Malcolm, fla g 0. the e to h ave returned to Chatham for a pay off; but as p ar ~ nee here was very much crowded, having on board 301) bar n i e , ab ove th e comp l ement, we h ave b een d e t a i ne d, an d kt o l.: °w 75 men extra our own number, which has crowded us I% Lisbo n i s very quiet, cholera carrying all before it; but 111 04 11 : t collie at th e t rut h o f t h e num b ers ever y d a y, a s the t or I°lk W ill not allo w even us me di ca l s t o en t er the hospital, Falk t h 5 Y Publish any report of the deaths ; still . no one can three "eels for a couple of hours without seeing► . two or I paiti 4l.l eti along in the disease. Miguel 's fleet is lying here, 41 1e ( 1 11.7 „ th ,e completing of an old rotten line of battle ship, f° h, th l he Queen." As soon as she is ready, they will sally °4 e ) h,:,: ei r squadron will then consist of 2 line of battle-ships. 4- v 0150 guns, 1 lame frigate, 4 corvettes, and 3 brigs." W e --- The 14' s 1 Ire received Demerara papers to the sth May 4 tti v e a ; 3l°4 3' was quiet, awaiting, with subdued fear, the °I the proposed measure for the emancipation of tie I; t v it e '• The following is from the Royal Gazette of 1 4th:, 4 V, and which we publish as a mark of respect ul h is tinguished officer to whom it refers h P r e but just time enough briefly to notice the dis t'otlatstt-4ell'a,anner. our late Governor , Sir Benjamin D'Urban, " 4 on his embarkation this afternoon. The George ft444 the 4 de of militia, under the orders of Col. S. A. Good eclromandant, were admirably arranged in double line, 4illge,4QP-House, on the road leading to the fort—the line i toli. -cill tittited to the Fort Stelling by the troops of the gar ., li tit! e h ave seldom witnessed so strong a muster of the mi vll4ll-14°411, this occasion, assembled to do honour to their late in Chief. kr ed e ° ncourse of all classes was immense ; its fact, it ap t4s if the t own h a d poure d f or th t h e w h o l e o f i ts popula tivTi-oPaY the last mark of respect to their late worthy 4l tlo ct e Geaeral l e ft C amp -H ouse, on f oot , a t h a lf- pas t t wo %I ; 1 1 , 4 e ompa dby a numerous body of gentlemen, who ttitllcy7deto take leave of his Excellency—and who proceeded 4,4,1411 t 0 the pl ace o f em b ar k a ti on , th e troops stationed, 151 4 t i e ," a ve before noticed, presenting arms, and the respective la Ying the national anthem. 4 ft th ; Lit es Were fired iron). the artillery and the fort, and he fine colony am id s t th e un f e i gne d regre t o f s i ncere p alld with sensations that appeared to deprive him of 4 ‘ v er of utterance." e eetved last night a file of New York papers to h er e May, hut they possess little or no inte res t.— 1811'. wer e some rumours of changes in the cabinet o f t tlth e n gteti• Mr. WLANE it is said will be tran s fe rre d ° 4llb " ' a te depart m ent, in which WASHINGTON I RVING 140itiefillaeed as chief clerk. Mr. LIVINGSTONE will b e `rated Minister to France, Mr. STEPHEN SON, of Vir 4eNi Nmister t o E ng l an d, an d M r . B RENT Consul-Ge to Paris. , • 11%expected that some of our friends . would have fur , ed It lop, s with copies of the placards which have emanated lot ti iit,he Trades' Unions within the last few days, and appear. In thecalyisgrace the very walls where they iloti ti se lice of these documents we are -prevented from th e li g their contents in the way we had intended. . But cre Nor. I llipi o ' we reflect on the subject, and on the language confirmed il l o ti f ed in theseiaddresses, we are the more Nl sti Previous opinion that the whole is an abominable ilroh:.raeY instituted by some political incendiar . ies em to_ Not e • Aoye dissension between the workmen and their i llt (1 . 1.8 ' and kindle a sort of civil war in the manufactur lPir , 14ttl ets• The men who lend themselves to this co s n t - , Nil!' ill the belief that it will conduce to their intere de. i i i h etter their situation in 'life, know little of the is thi a 4°f the real authors of these proceedings; but it d to lheirvterY ignorance and false security which will lea It Perhaps to their infamy. to %l lk. - r str ange that men possessed of even an ordinar t y , fO e ° ,: c°4 iloon sense cannot perceive that all attempts 'A f act ' l'exatious terms upon employers invariably fat kl tlt th th ey never can succeed. The masters may suffer, Nlii, eli ell are reduced to the most abject want, and so e,0r1;4 ten lose their caste in society, their characters 414 8 : tainted, and they are never of much use after 4ittect I t was but recently that we saw a petition pre iliti to the Rouse of Commons, complainin g of the fa kwe_B i n favour in that of ship-building in, the Isle of Man. 44,1 ' What gave an impetus to ship-buildin g ‘410'4? Nothing but the combination which prevailed o. 1 , 4 : 0 g the ship.carpenters of Liverpool a few k4llip-builders were driven from the shores of the .. e years \ a i g r. (Q,Y the refractory carpenters, and they sought labourers 111. e they could find them. Thus we lost a valuable ch ile of our trade to the serious injury of the town, or r tr e the operatives were left to starve upon a pittance . ire in the workhouse. The building of houses, it Is lkild'icabriot well be removed from Liverpool to Manz . - I,ls,tt. but it would be quite easy to bring masons, brie kli tti :' earPenters, plasterers, and painters from Dublin, lit f , tilirgh, Glasgow, and the west of Scotland. There 4 44 1°Iis ancis of excellent workmen in these several h 8 to be found only half employed in the places ll ltl e i i 4ve n amed, and who would be glad indeed to earn lik,_ lower wages here than the discontented patriots of if'thitevolutionary unions. And, as sure as the sun shines, hi eh s Piracy be not suppressed by the government, the the the government is bound to do, or broken up by ii),Tetl themselves, which it is their interest to do, the t ti i jets will shortly be compelled to import operatives 11)4 the their contracts. Let not the Unions imagine ~ :)l e y can intimidate the incomers. Against this the jtlq r and Magistrates Will be provided, and summary ti t , ell e will punish every each of the law, be the conse kees 'what they may. native anxiou s to see the masters driven to this alter %4, Par f rom i t. We would rather see peace and 4vtve.ce resto re d , and % kr industry resum ed ; b ut t hi s w ill ~ be !bile these ill egal associati ons ex i s t, or w hil e kt lki 7 b aths are continued to be administered, or while a 11 oaths of disaffected orators and tap-room states- P e ..4ttre e allovved to dictate to and domineer over th e 111.lind well•disposed operatives. . At 1) 64 . ,f,k,„ ,z,l ;idea of the Board of Controul Mr. Cu4att,Es tttb,..l. of announced the limitations under which go %t7tit. propose to renew, for a period of twenty years, 't1 1 : 11 -er of the EasFirs t India Company. The pri nc i pa l 4 re as follow : The trade with China to be accessible to all the ~_ subjects of the KING, .e qually and unrestrictedly. No limitation as to the size of ships. Secondly. ,The company to cease being traders, to send no more ships to China, and to dispcse, at their earliest convenience, of the interest they have in the finishing of Indian silks. And Thirdly. The government of India, and the patronage thereof, to remain in the hands of the Company fur the period of twenty years ; the India revenues to be appro priated to the payment of the present dividends, and the liquidation of the debt, under a guarantee- from the Crown. This is an outline of the plan proposed. Whether ministers are seriously disposed to carry its provisions into full effect, is a question which we shall not take upon ourselves to answer. We shall, however, be exceedingly grateful to them for that portion of their scheme which relates to the China trade. It is but justice, and tardy justice after all, that the trade in tea should be opened up to those merchants and those ports who have the best facilities for carrying it on. The population of Lanca shire and the adjacent counties, taking Manchester for the centre, and forming a radius of fifty miles, is much greater than that of the same radius round London. It is beggarly justice, therefore, at this time of day, to be conferring upon Liverpool, and that reluctantly, those commercial privileges to which she has a natural right, and for withholding which so long it would be difficult to assign a valid reason. No people have clamoured more loudly for the bless ings of free trade than the good people of London; and their clamour has been in the exact ratio of their igno rance. They will now feel the effects of the policy which they did not understand, and will have reason to deplore them when blackened colliers alone shall float in those docks where Indiamen still ride in - the tarnished remains of oriental splendour. The China and India trade, in the course of events, must come westward and hither ward. Liverpool must largely pal ticipate in that branch of commerce which has hitherto been confined to the Thames, and it will go hard with the enterprise of our merchants if they du not transfer three-fourths of it to the Mersey. And why should we be envied this transfer ? Is it not enough for London to have the monopoly of the Bank, the mansions of the nobility, the houses of legis lature, the courts of law, and the offices of the govern ment ? These should satisfy our metropolitan friends, even though Shadwell and the parts adjoining were ruined. And by the way, we are not quite sure if London be entitled to those peculiar advantages over every other town in the empire. The geographical situation of the metropolis is unfavourable, even as respects England; but it is much more so when Scotland and Ireland are taken into account. But this is a subject we may as well discuss hereafter. We are quite content for the present with the China trade, and the new commercial facilities respecting India generally. The ministerial scribes are at present in as rabid a state as any unfortunate canine brother ever was in the dog-days. They have just sense enough to perceive that the imbecile ministers whom they serve exist only by sufferance, and that the extinction of their power and their expulsion from office are determined upon. It is so written in the prophetic almanack which they consult, and they consequently look forward to the crisis with feelings of apprehension bordering upon madness. In tile Times and Chronicle particularly the language em ployed proceeds apparently from the same vile source, and exceeds in violence that which gave a brutal and sanguinary notoriety to the rhapsodies of Anacharsis Clootz, and the other scoundrels of the first French re volution. The right reverend prelates of the church are menaced, not merely with expulsion from the House of Lords, but also with confiscation and degradation. The Duke of WELLINGTON is pointed at in the most unequi vocal terms as an enemy of his country, who ought to be banished from court and from society. The KING is threatened with a deprivation of that which the poorest subject in the realm would consider an act of gross op pression, namely, the removal of his friends from court, the alienation of his family, and the banishment of his private advisers. The people are told that the army is disloyal to the nation, and ready to draw its sword against the intelligent part of the community ; and this being the case, it is proposed to disband the KING'S guards, and reduce the standing army. The Chronicle urges the necessity of pulling down the hereditary peerage, and indulges in some dark hints relative to Charles the First, and Louis the Sixteenth, ending with " to-day a throne —to-morrow a prison." The Times calls upon the Commons to pass a vote, declaring " that the House of Lords, by setting itself repeatedly and perseveringly in direct opposition to reform, has rendered it impossible to carry on the government without an absolute extinction of that assembly which represents the people, and the establishment of a pure olio ashy in place of Kings, Lords, and Commons;" and it concludes by advising the " faithful Commons" to pass " resolutions and addresses to the Sovereign, that specific persons should be dis— missed for ever from the service of the crown, and ba nished from the royal presence" . 1 I Such is the language of the ministerial journals, and it requires little sagacity to perceive that it emanates from some member of the cabinet. Both articles may not be written by the same person, but the animus of the writing is precisely the same, the object and the means are the same, and both are equally treasonable. How wretched must be the situation of ministers when they are compelled to have recourse to such disgusting expe dients. Not content with their overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons,—not content with having sufficient influence to induce their unhappy Sovereign to offer a direct insult to the whole of the nobility of Eng land,—not content with the slavish state to which they have reduced the press, and the pledged, but dishonoured representatives of the people, they seem resolved to usurp the prerogatives of the crown, banish the royal family, and abolish the upper house altogether. These, their liberal and honest intentions, are boldly promulgated by their hirelings, and the language they employ, whether it be dictated by arrogance or despair, is alike scandalous and reprehensible ; but we are never theless delighted to add that such language is calculated to excite far different feelings than those which they wish to inspire. Thank Heaven the time is gone by when such appeals to the bludgeon and. the brickbat could be made available. The ruffian cry of the Times is now like the swagger •of an inebriated pickpocket, and the vapouring of the poor Chronicle is that of a tipsy old woman in a hysterical fit. Their influence is inert— dead—rotten. Such factious ravings only excite con tempt. There, is not a man in England, except Lord GREY himself, who is so dull or so stupid as not to know that this language of intimidation islired—paid for out of the taxes—and addressed to the worthless by men equally worthless, whose designs are infamous, and whose pretended love of reform has no other object than to secure a longer enjoyment of the emoluments of office to themselves and their families. •There was a time when the people of England, labouring under a periodical paroxysm of insanity, might have been induced to join an unprincipled administration in under miningthe throne, robbing the church, and degrading the nobility; but a returning sense of sound justice and policy, and an exposure of the selfish motives of the conspirators, have scared away the popular delusion, and returned the ingredients of the poisoned chalice to their own lips. The Ministers are universally unpopular. The very circum stance that they are compelled to seek the assistance of the Times is a proof of the fact. The voice of the nation is against them. 'They have no supporters beyond the walls of the House of Commons. They have no adherents but the vilest and neediest of the Whig sycophants, who have violated every pledge they ever made, who have betrayed their constituents, and have justly rendered themselves odious in the eves of all men. What is the state of affairs even in Lord GREY'S Myr) family circle ? His right reverend brother, the Bishop of HEREFORD, aroused to a sense of the Premier's revolutionary designs, has nobly and fearlessly come fortisard to lead the oppo sition against Ministers in the House of Lords. The KING must also see the humiliating position in which his' servants have placed him, and must. be anxiously waiting the opportunity to accept their . resignations. Talk of THE I.IVERPOOL STANDAIII). . . new peers indeed ! The thing is preposterous. The KING refused to swamp the house on an occasion of far greater emergency than the present, when the Reform Bill was the hobby and the healing measure of the day, and his MAJESTY is not likely to do it now, when the fe verd,,l hour is passed, when calm reason has resumed her throne, and an incapable Ministry are struggling with the reaction of their own unexampled blunders. No, no ; we have no fears on this score ; the spell is broken, the conspiracy is detected, and the Whigs being found • out, are thoroughly despised. So confident are we of this, that if Lord GREY should make an appeal to the country to morrow, his present supporters in the House of Commons would be defeated in almost every county, city, and borough of the United Kingdom.. We dare him to the listsl—we dare. him to meet the electors at the hustings—we dare him to ex pose to the ordeal of afi enraged constituency those men who, with pledges in their mouths, and perfidy in their hearts, have brought the very name 'of representative into contempt. What a sweeping there would be of the EBRINGTONS, DAVIESES, BURDETTs, LEsIIINGTONs, BROUGIIAMs, MACAULAYS, LITTLETONS, BERKELEYS, ABERCROMBIES, EWARTS, and others, if we could only be gratified with a new election ! We much question if Lord ALTIIORP himself would be returned. The country is indignant beyond all bounds at the ignorance and self ishness of the Ministers, and the meanness and servility of their supporters. The financial economy too of the CHANCELLOR of-the EXCHEQUER must excite derision, if not disgust. The noble lord, it would . appear, can pro cure tens of millions to squander away unnecessarily, and for speculative if not ruinous purposes—millions to Russia—millions to Gree",ce—millions to the West Indies —millions to the Bank and the East India Company; and yet he cannot spare a couple of millions to re lieve the unequal- pressure of. the house and window duties. He throws away thousands upon gaping lawyers and useless commissions, but he holds by the tea and sugar tax, or rather contemplates the increase of these taxes. But he reckons, we calculate, without his host. The Times may rave and splutter, but every body must perceive that it is but the dying bray of the animal. Yet a little while, and the lash of the master and the roar of the creature will be at an end. The refining of foreign sugars is again on the tapis, and again we must address ourselves to 'it in the shape of protest. We have no desire to oppose ourselves to the interests of the sugar refiners, or of the merchants trading with Brazil and Cuba. This port, in particular, is largely interested in the trade to the . western world; and with none of the countries composing it more than with the Brazils. Wa . desire the extension of the trade of Liverpool; but if, in striking the balance of good and evil for the country at large, we find that the admission of foreign sugars for the purpose "of refining should mi litate against the interests of the British colonist, we are bound to support that interest, even to the apparent in jury of another branch of commerce. We feel that, at this moment, it is especially our duty to stand forward in support of the West Indies, when they are threatened with evils which none of the protections that we have yet seen, compensatory or otherwise, are likely to avert. If any argument in favour of this, our view of the West India question, were requisite, as applicable to the re fining branch, we should find it among those adduced by the friends of the sugar refiners themselves, though ad vanced for very opposite purposes. A portion of the London press, in two instances especially;taking part with the refiners, but proceeding by, different courses, and both going widely astray from a just view of the question, seem only to concur in one point ; that the changed position of the West Indies, even upon the mere discussion of the proposed measures affecting their inte rest, calls for the infliction of further injury upon firm; since the menaced derangement of the concerns of sugar planters, too likely to arise from the . emancipation ques tion, will render the supplies defective to this country ; consequently, it is essential and just (that is the infe rence) that a greater amount of injury should be. done to our colonial possessions, to compensate for the lesser de gree already inflicted. This is an odd kind of logic, but we can make nothing else of it. The London Courier, of whose interest for the refiners no one can doubt who reads its articles, lays it down, that the proposed change in West India affairs is adding to the distress already suffered by the refiners. If by that the Courier means that the supplies of sugar from our . colonies will henceforward be very uncertain, we have nothing to say in opposition to such a sentiment. Then comes that delightful journal which sometimes con descends to indulge this " beast of a nation" With its lucubrations, and tells us that the Courier knows nothing about it. " It" (the Courier,) " appears to ascribe their sufferings to the proposition for negro emancipation, and to the consequent impossibility of procuring a sufficient quantity of sugar from our own colonies for foreign sup- Ply, after the plan of Government for the abolition of slavery, shall be adopted. Now, the fact is, that such an argument betrays a total misapprehension of the ques tion, and a total misunderstanding of the respective in- terests of the parties." The same pleasant journal then goes on to state, that the West India planters opposed the admission of refining foreign sugars, as there was no security against the introduction of a part of the sugars so refined into the country for home consumption ; and complains that the temporary laws of 1830 andlB3l were not renewed. The Courier rejoins upon this : "We did not say, nor did we suppose, that the sufferings of the sugar-refiners were to be ascribed to the proposition for negro emancipation. What we said was, that their sufferings would be increased by the consequences to be anticipated from the emancipation of the negroes ; namely, a decrease in the production of colonial sugar, the only sugar which they are al lowed to work on." "This question, however, is settled, so far as the present administration is concerned. Lord ALTHORP, last night, (Tnesday last) in the House of'Commons, in reply to some questions put by Mr. CLAY, said that It was impossible the present restricted system could be persisted in. It might be asked, why, then, had he not brought forward a measure to re move this impolitic restriction on the refining of foreign sugar? The answer was, that it would be inexpedient, as a question of time, till the West India question was settled.' " If we mistake not, Lord AirtiortP . .and'his colleagues, when objections have been made to their emancipation schemes, on the score of the defective applicatiOn of la bour to this essential branch of colonial cultivation, which would follow the liberation of the negro from con tinued moderate. toil, have always had for answer, that proviSion would be made for ensuring a sufficient amount of labour to the master for the purposes of cultivation. But in the midst . Of a ,discusSiOn 'on one of the resolutions he admits, in terms that are not susceptible of misappre hension, that such a defalcation in supply must be looked for as can proceed from nothing but idleness or insub ordination, to use no stronger term; and, as this defici ency-in the supply must leave the planter in a state of depression from the want of returns, it comes to what we set out with, that, as injury must arise to the planter from the measures now in progress through Parliament, it is perfectly fair, at such a time, to inflict further in• jury upon him, by a change in the refining laws; which change was deemed inexpedient before the attack now making upon his proporty and prosperity had com menced! Now, admitting the premises, We should incline to draw very different conclusions'; and should say that, on every principle of justice, it is expedient to pro tect. the remnant of the Colonial Interest. But it will be argue& that the refiners only want to work up foreign sugars for exportation, and not to interfere with the home market at all. We think it is incumbent upon those who take this position, first to show how that operation is to be carried on with due protection to the British planter, as regards what is termed the .home mar ket monopoly; and, secondly, which arises precisely out of 'the same case, how the - revenue is to be protected. It surely will not be pretended for an instant that either of these requisites was in practice during the operation of the 9th GEORGE IV. or 2d WILLIAM IV. If any such pretence were set up, we apprehend it would be in the power of the West India body to expose its fallacy in twenty-four hours. • We never have asserted, nor do we now, that, with due protection to the West Indian and the Treasury against fraud, it might not be expedient to allow foreign sugars to be refined in this country, care being taken to export every portion' of the 13' redacts. Still, it will read curiously in history, that measures of a nature immensely costly and injurious to British interests were taken to an nihilate slavery in British colonies, and that the ink which gave the sanction to such a law could scarcely be dry before the same legislature proposed to enact laws for advancing the interests of foreign countries exactly in the ratio that our own was injured, and in a ten fold degree to promote those evils resulting from slavery in such foreign states, the removal of which evils in our own possessions was made the pretext and justification for exposing them to the risk of utter destruction I One thing must, however, be always borne in mind in discu§sing this question ; that the property involved, and persons employed in the refining business, as com pared with numbers and value in the colonial question, are only as one to forty or fifty—and that every increase of trade consequent upon the admission of foreign pro ducts in competition with those of our own colonial pos sessions, must be attended with a corresponding diminu tion of our trade with those colonies. Which of the two, then, under these circumstances, it is both our duty and our interest to prefer, needs not our opinion. If Lord ALTHORP means anything by the remark we have quoted from his speech of this day week, we shall, perhaps, have shortly to return to the subject. Until then, some mat ters of detail, which we have prepared, may, with great propriety, be withheld. A meeting of the clergy in this town and neighbour hood, upon the subject of the Irish church, was held in the Blue Coat Hospital on Friday, and a petition was agreed to with only one dissenting voice. It is very moderate, and while it professes a, wish to witness the removal of real evils and existing defects, deprecates such a diminution of the Protestant establish ment as may injure the interests of the reformed religion, and check the diffusion of scriptural truth. It protests respectfully against the precedent of-apply ing church property to any but church objects, and while it approves of the abolition of the vestry cess, expresses a hope that the burthen of it will not be laid on the in cumbents. In these opinions every friend to moderate counsels, and every one interested in the present settlement of property, will surely concur. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Hall-past Seven o'clock. It is generally current in the political circles here that there is little doubt that ministers will be in a minority on the Irish church robbery bill in the House of Lords, and that the conservative party are certain of preventing this atrocious scheme from being carried into execution. Earl Grey is, it is said, at his wits' end —a journey which requires no rail-road to shorten its extent. Whether a batch of peers is to be created, of which Westmin ster's glory is to form one portion,'or whether the ministers will throw up the reins of government and leave the West India, East India, and bank questions unsettled, iu the hope of em barrassing their successors, we believe is not quite decided on ; but the latter is spoken of with some degree of confidence. Certain it is that domestic affairs wear so lowering an aspect that our capitalists of the stock exchange, who, if Lucifer were prime minister, would support hitn rather than have a change, have become alarmed, and consols have fallen very consider ably, the price for the account this afternoon closing at 891 s. Some considerable speculation has taken place in India stock, which yesterday was done as high as 219, but has gone back to-day, closing at 215 to 246. Bank stock has not attracted much notice since our last, the highest price having been 205, and the closing quotation this afternoon being '2021 to 2031. In the foreign market there has been a decline in Spanish bonds, in consequence of apprehensions entertained by the bond-holders that Don Carlos will be backed by so strong a party in Spain as to render the situation of King Ferdinand ex tremely precarious. The price of Spanish stock at the close of business this afternoon was 18i. There is _great heaviness iu all the foreign securities; Dutch bonds left off at 48i g ; Danish at 731 to 74; Russian, at 1041 ; and Belgian, at 911 1. The last price of Brazilian was 651 to 671. Portuguese scrip closed at 21 to discount. We learn by the accounts from New Orleans to the 2d ult. that the cholera had reappeared there; but few deaths had, however, occurred. In consequence of an official communication that the plague had broken out in Alabama, orders had been issued at Ancona that all vessels &c. from the lonian Islands should be subject to a quarantine of forty days. LOCAL NEWS. The Duke of Brunswick passed through this town and crossed the river to the Woodside ferry, on Sunday morning last, on his way to Eaton-hall, the seat of the Marquess of Westminster. We hear that he was pleased to express his approbation of the great facility with which carriages are landed, even at low water, at the'neW pier. This is the second royal visit with which Mr. Williams has been honoured; the Grand Duke Michael hAving also crossed at Woodside on his tour through. this country. • PASHIONABLE AnitivALs.—Among these we have to an nounce two great personages from the east, who have taken up their lieSidence in the West Derby road, and have no objection to receive visits from those who are anxious to get an insight into matters connected with the east, for they are better in formed on these subjects than even Mr. James Silk Bucking ham himself, whose fate it was, after living there for a time, to return home rich in sterling disappointment. Not to keep our readers in suspense, we take leave to inform them that the per sons alluded to are a tine male and female elephant. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WATC-I.—The Commissioners of the Watch, &c., at their meeting on Friday, appointed Mr. Whitty to the situation of , Superintendent of the Nightly Watch, vacant by the election of Mr. Shipp to the Governor ship of the Workhouse. THE DRAMA. Mr. Hackett concluded his engagement and took his benefit at the Theatre Royal on Friday night, when he repeated his performances of Rip Van Winkle, Solomon Swap, and Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, to the fullest house that we have seen this season. In parting with this truly original actor, we feel that we shall not "look upon his like again" fur a long time to come. _ _ _ The hiatus occasioned by Hackett's departure has already been filled up by a fresh importation of dramatic talent of a high order, in the person of Mr. Power, who made his appear ance last night in the character of Denis Brulyruddery, in the play of John Bull. There are but few comedies in the English language so likely to revive pleasing recollections in the mind of an old play-goer as this, and still fewer that can boast of having called forth at one time the talents of an Eizery, Faw cett, Lewis, Irish Johnstone, Cooke, Blanchard, and Mrs. Da venport. Thus ushered into the world, John Bull was the delight of John Bull for many seasons, and its revival here is no small source of gratification to us. Power is now the first, and, we believe, the only good Irishman on the stage, and although we cannot say that the mantle of Johnstone has fallen upon him, still, as times go, he is an admirable actor, and the parts of Denis Brulyruddery in the first piece, and the Ambassador in the second, were both excellent iu their way as exhibiting the peculiarities of high and low life in Ireland. He is rich in brocrue, and easy in his action, and wins upon an audience by theluoyancy of his spirits. Mr. Browne and Miss Huddart were the liorrouraWe Tom Shnilleton and Lady Caroline Bray snore; between the heartless top and Jbppess of eighteen hun- ' dred and " the exquisites" of the present day there is no ether difference than that which a mere change of fashion has pro duced. They acted their parts to the very life, and therefore we can with a safe conscience say - that we never saw them better acted. Mr. Vandenhoff as Peregrine was rather heavy, the great fault of this excellent performer, but stage sermons are always stupid, and we suspect useless things. An appeal to our better feelings is always more effective in a play, when produced by an incidental contrast of light and shade, than by a laboured effort of either the author or the actor. Mr. An drews as Job Thornberry was too lachrymose, and in the scene with Sir Simon Rochdale he wanted some of the indignant spirit that roused the outraged tradesman to demand justice from the seducer of his daughter; but, on the whole, the cha racter was well sustained. Miss Eyre performed the part of Mary Thornberry, we-were about to_ say too well, for she made her more interesting than she deserved to be; this again is the fault of the author, and the most objectionable in the piece. In the afteipiece of the Irish Ambassador Power had an opportunity of exhibiting himself as an Irish gentleman, which he did with all th e e a s e that belongs to that most agreea.ble race of men. The title of the piece misled us net a little, for we expected a Belgian instead of a German scene. The house was respectably filled, and the audience appeared to enjoy the entertainment of the evening with great zest. Mr. Power is, we understand, on his way to America. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STrIND,IRD. Sta,—Would it not be as well to request your readers to re. gister so as to be enabled to vote if there should be a dissolution of Parliament, which is very probable; there were many de. lyirred voting last election in consequence of not registering.— I believe nert Thursday is the last day of registering.—Yours, June 17 , 1833. A CONSERVATIVE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVEEPOqI, STANDARD. Sir,—'twice have the abominable Sunday practicei on the Cheshire shore been brought under your notice, and twice have you in appropriate terms denounced them, and you very pro perly recommend to the magistrates of Cheshire the letter of your correspondent "A." Alas, Sir, in the Parish of Wallasey there are no magistrates, and you are probably acquainted with its isolated situation. Gohhinshire, the cognomen I understand by which the - parish of Wallasey is known by its more ancient inhabitants, was until these few years noted for its plundering of the vessels wrecked on its shore, and for its inhuman treatment of their suffering navigators, and is now becoming noted for its desecration of the Sabbath by scenes of indecency, brutality, and cruelty. The inhabitants of such a parish may not pro bably wish to be under the subjection of a resident Magistracy, if their wishes are at. all to be consulted; although from the influx of strangers into that parish, one would have anticipated a bet ter state of things, and that the barbarous manners of the abori gines would have been, if not entirely controlled, softened at least by the intercourse. The parish of Wallasey has at present an excellent resident clergyman, and sure am I that two resi dent gentlemen might he found , who, as regards intelligence and respectability, would be quite competent to undertake the onerous duties of magistrates • provided they possessed so much of the amor patria., independent of other considerations, to in duce them to do so; men who by their intelligent and impartial conduct would shed a lustre on an office Which Would dignify them. If, however, magistrates are not wished for, however necessary, and gentlemen will net act as magistrates, however competent, there are parochial authorities whose duty I conceive it to be to act in this matter. Officers who we are told are in stituted for the 'benefit and advancement of religion, - whose chief duty it is to suppress all profaneness and immorality, and to see that the public worship be performed with due decency and reverence, (1 Bacon's Abp., MO and 'although the rower to prevent or suppress the nuisance complained of may not be di rectly invested in them, the duty to have it suppressed does, and all that they have to do is to make the circumstances known to the magistrates at Birkenhead. The fact of the nuisance ex isting does not prove the necessity for resident magistrates in this especial case, so long as the duty to have it suppressed de volves upon the churchwardens of the parish, whose duty it is to make it known to the nearest magistrates, dud to co-operate with them for its suppression. —Yours, &e. J. M. Jane 12th, 1833, THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY Her Majesty having intimated that it was her. intention to be present- at St. Pant's on Thursday, and afterwards to visit the Alansion-house, in comoliauce with the invitation of the Lord Mayor, considerable Inistle prevailed east of Temple-bar, and the doors of the Cathedral were besieged at an early hour by crowds of - respectable persons, of both sexes, who were anxious to witness the most imposing and gratifying spectacle exhibited within the walls of the city. Precisely at eleven o'clock the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, attended by the sword-bearer and serjeant-at.arins, carrying the pearl, sword, and mace, en tered their carriage, drawn by six grays, and proceeded to Tem ple-bar, accompanied by the Aldermen and Sheriffs, and at a f...w minutes before half-past eleven notice was given that her Majesty's cortege, attended by an escort of Life Guards, was at the gates. The Lord M4yor then alighted, and, proceeding to her Majesty's carriage, in the ancient form "welcomed the Queen's _Majesty into de good city of London,"—a Welcome which was most graciously acknowledged by her Majesty iu her reply. that :ha was very happy to have the pleasure of meeting the Lord Mayor within his bordship's jurisdiction. The pro cession to the CUthedral then formed in the following order : City Law Officers. Sheriffs. Aldermen. Her Majesty's suite in three carriages. Lite Guards. The Lord Mayor. The Queen. Life Guards. _ . On arriving at the Cathedral her Majesty was received by the Duke of Gloucester, the Bishop of London, and the Dean and Chapter, and was conducted at once to the pew, the organ play ing the national anthem. The Bishop of Hereford preached a sermon. Shortly after the conclusion of the service her Ma jesty accompanied by the Duke of Gloucester, Prince George of Cambridge, the two Princes of Salms, and her suite, pro ceeded to the Mansion-house. The Royal party entered by the principal door, and were received by the Lady Mayoress and 'the Master of the Ceremonies, carrying his wand of office, and conducted through the saloon, which was thronged by very ele gant company, to the state drawing-rooms , where a most costly and elegant collation of the most delicate fruits, ices, &c., was set out. The table for the Queen was served in gold. The com pany soon after withdrew into the Egyptian-hall, which had been most magnificently decorated, and the floor of which was covered with scarlet cloth. At the upper end of the hall a chair of state and a footstool were placed, with the Royal standard and the Lord Mayor's banner floating over them. Her Majesty took her seat, the Duke of Gloucester and Prince George of Cambridge standing on the right of the chair, and the Lady Mayoress on the lett. The Lord Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, then brought up the following address, which was read by the Recorder,— " May it please your Majesty,---In the name of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation of the city of London, 1 humbly beg leave to express to your Majesty the grateful sense they . entertain of your Majesty's gracious condescension in ho flouring the Mansion-house of this city with your Majesty's royal presence; we most cordially participate with all his Ma jesty's subjects in admiration of those eminent virtues which so greatly distinguish and adorn the illustrious consort of our be ' loved Sovereign, and the bright pattern and example they afford to that sex on whose good conduct the happiness and 'dearest interests of domestic rife and the good order of society so mainly, depend. " The powerful stimulus which your Majesty's gracious ap pearance at St. Paul's has given to the benevolent purposes of this day will ever remain deeply impressed on the hearts of the citizens of London and the whole public. Deign to accept our. most earnest wishes and fervent prayers, that your Majesty may, with our most gracious Sovereign, through the course of along life, enjoy the utmost degree of health and happiness, and our confident assurance that your Majesty's illustrious name and exalted character will descend on the brightest page of history to the latest posterity." To this address her Majesty returned the following answer:— " Mr. Recorder,-1 thank you very sincerely for the dutiful and affectionate address you have presented to me in the names of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation of the City of London. " The expressions of loyalty and devotion towards the King, my husband, and the sentiments of your dutiful feeling towards myself, will ever be remembered by me with gratitude ; and I beg that you will rest assured that no exertion shall be wanting on my part to promote, b o th by m y su pp or t an d countenance, thoseinteresting charities which f have attended this day, and which, with many others, reflect such honour on the benevolent feelings of this, the greatest city in the world." After the ceremony of presenting the address the Queen sa luted the Lady ?Mayoress, and the Lord Mayor presented the Aldermen and the Principal members of the corporation to her Majesty. Her Majesty remained upwards of half an hour on the visit to the Chief Magistrate and the Lady Mayoress, and expressed the high gratification with the reception ;be had met with from the citizens of " the good city of London" had given to her. The Queen then departed amidst the most enthusiastic greetings of the large assembly. SLAVE LABOUR IN TRINIDAD. We have a file of Trinidad papers, which contain two very interesting documents respecting . " the horrible and heart rending" treatment of th e s l aves in the West Indies, the pub lication of which we f ear w ill cause th e f ree labourers of England no little astonishment, not to say envy. The first of these documents is a note from the Protector of the slaves to the Governor, stating that General Grant, prior to his depar ture for England, had furnished the Protector with an extract of certain despatches, addressed to him by his Majesty'sprin cip.al Secretary of State for the colonies, directing certain in quiries to be made respecting the labour, treatment, clothing, and food of slaves. '1 he Protector states, that to obtain this he had consulted the most respectable and intelligent planters of the island. The second document is the questions put by the Colonial Se cretary in his despatch, and the Protector's replies. We publish this entire, that the planters, so long vilified by sectarian malice and cant, may stand right with their countrymen; be it remem bered it is the Protector, and not the owner of slaves who an swers. _ What amount of daily labour is usually performed by planta :ion slaves ? The quantum of labour usually performed by plantation slaves is as follows : Cutting fuel wood,—one cord per diem, five feet by six, or four by eight, the length of the log being regulated by the size of tue furnace. In general the length of the log does not exceed three feet. Draining land.—Drains twelve inches broad and twelve deep, or fourteen inches by fourteen from 160 to 3ij - running feet, varving with the quality of the soil. Lining land.—The land being prepared and pickets furnish ed, two men, assisted by two boys to hand pickets, may plant 2,00 to 250;) per diem. Round ridgiug.—The canebed, twenty feet in breadth, being cleared of stumps, trash or dry boughs, (and the earth from the trenches to be thrown into the centre of the bed,) the daily task varies from 100 to 15J feet in length. Holing and embanking.--The ground being already round ridged, the holes 21 inches by 18, the task varies from 130 to 200 holes, according to the quality_ of the soil. When the laud has not been round-ridged the task varies from 70 to 120 holes. Planting canes.—The holes being prepared, from 350 to 400 holes is the usual task. Cutting canes.—From twenty to twenty-five loads of a mule, or four or five cart loads, or about as much as willfid a receiver of three hundred gallons. Weeding.—With the hoe from one hundredand thirty to three hundred holes, according to the state of the canes. Stripping canes.—The cane bed being twenty-five feet broad, from one hundred and fifty to five hundred feet, or from one hundred and ninety to six hundred holes. At what hour in the morning is the daily task usually com menced ? At what hour of the evening is it usually finished ? The daily task is usually commenced at six or a quarter after six o'clock. Nurses, whose infants arc weaned, at half-past seven, and those sucking at nine. 'Task-work, when performed by an able and well-disposed ne gro, is invariably finished before half-past two o'clock, and very frequently at one, p. m. Indolent persons require, of course, a longer period to complete the same quantum of labour. When slaves are not tasked their labour ceases at sun-set, with the exception of throwing their grass, which may occupy thirty minutes of their time going and coming. What is the ordinary length of the intervals of rest during the day, and whether that rest is generally complete, or whether any duties are then to be performed either for the owner or for the more immediate advantage of the slave himself ? The ordinary length of the intervals of rest allowed during the day in crop is half au hour for breakfast, and one hour for dinner. The ordinary intervals of rest out of crop time are one hour for breakfast, and two hours for dinner. No duties of any kind are exacted during the hours of rest, except (which rarely happens) as a punishment, and then for the benefit of the estate. To what extent labour is required by night, how many nights or parts of nights in the week the same slave is usually em ployed, and during what part of the year uoctunal labour is in use ? The extent of -labour required by night in time of crop is dependent upon circumstances, when the weather and fuel are good, the boiling process is accelerated, and the boiling house closed between seven and eight o'clock in the evening. When the weather is wet or the fuel damp, the boiling process is occasionally protracted until ten, and sometimes eleven at night. (Our cundie makers will sigh at this ftightful picture,) When night work occurs, the people in the boiling houses are changed every other night, all others are changed every day. On some estates there are three spells, generally two. Noc turnal labour is in use during the crop season only, which lasts about five months; viz., from January to June. What is the average nature, amount, weight or quality of the food allowed to plantation slaves, male and female, adults and children respectively. The average nature, amount, weight and quality of food allowed to male plantation slaves are as follows :—viz., codfish salted, three pounds and a half per head per week; head peo ple, double allowance. Out of crop, one glass of rum per diem, and more in wet weather; in crop, three drams daily.. Those negroes whose provision grounds do not supply a sufficiency of food, are allowed, weekly, from four to six quarts of farina ceous food, with reference to the health exhibited by the indi vidual. The allowance to femaleS is in every respect the same as to the males, except in the article of rum, for which tobacco is usually substituted. Children under the age of fourteen years receive half the allowance given to the adults. Independent of the weekly allowance distributed to their parents for their support, many of them are fed from the kitchen of the proprietor, a mess of yams, tauniers, salt fish or pork being prepared for them. At Christmas the male slate receives four pounds of pork, three quarts of flour, one bottle of rum, one pint of sugar, and half a ptvind of tobacco. To the females four pounds of pork, three quarts of flour, one quart of sugar, one pint of rum (to those who ask for it), and half a pound of tobacco. To children a proportionate quantity of pork, flour, and sugar. On New 'ear's Day sugar and runs to the adults, more than sufficient for the day's consumption. Salt is given when required; an iron pot occasionally. (The heart that does not bleed at this must be of the seine composition as the pot.) • What are the articles of clothing usually supplied to planta tion slaves, their number and quality, and their usual cost price ? The annual allowance of clothing to females is one Osna burgh petticoat, one woollen wrapper, two shifts, one net, one Kilmarnock cap,. and one blanket, every second year. 'to males, two shirts, two pairs of trowsers, one cloth jacket or wrapper, one hat, one woollen boithet or a cap, and a blanket, every second year. Head people receive a double allowance of clothing. To deserving negroes other articles of clothing arc added, such as checks and handkerchiefs, a superior hat, a white linen shirt, or a pair of shoes. (Signed) HENRY GLOSTEH, Protector bf Slaves. The Duke and Duchess of Northumbeiland will shortly_ pro ceed to the Nle of Wight in consequvnce of the Duchess of Kent 'having 'selected that place as the tesidenw of herself and. the Princess Victoria dtu rug_ the summer months. Irwin Castle, the seat of the late Lord Henry Seymour, which was occupied by the heiress presumptive during the summer of IS3I, has hcOn, again taken for their Royal Lliguesbe,c for the eu,suincseiwou. Tills' LATE STORMS. We had a sudden change of weather in this district on Tuesday last, from which there resulted one of the great est floods ever remembered at this season of the year.— The early morning of that day was bright and sultry; but towards the hour of ten in the forenoon clouck began to gather thickly—in an incredibly short period all around was black and lowering—a few drops of rain fell—than - der and lightning followed—and then arose a storm of rain such as has rarely been witnessed in this clime. Fir nearly an hour it came down in torrents, and the flow of water upon the ground became so excessive as to produce an inundation which fur some time choked up every out let. In Carlisle the street gutters could not con-r tain one-twentieth part of the water which rushed to theit passages; and ,the immediate consequence was, that streets, lanes, courts, and entries, were inv o l ve d in one general deluge. In the lower parts of the townespe ciallv Rickergate and the neighbourhood—several cellars were well nigh tilled with water ; whilst through many houses it flowed with all the effect of a regular and rapid current. In the country, ill elevated and exposed situa tions, the Water issued like a torrent along roads; lanes, walks, and wherever •it could find a way- to escape ; and upon level grounds it rapidly accumulated, and satin pre sented a most formidable appearance. Shortly after 12 o'clock the violence of the rain abated, and before two o'clock it had become fair and somewhat serene; but about half-past three the rain came on again, accompa nied by a high wind, and it continued extremely wet and boisterous throughout the night. The extreme violence of the rain did considerable mis chief in the country,—in the fields, beating down the hay grass, damaging the young corn, and carrying off large portions of soil,—in the gardens and orchards, battering tile vegetables, destroying the seed-beds, knocking off the young fruit, and washing away the earth and the gra vel walkS,—upon the roads, bursting the conduits, re,:,t ing up the soil, and sweeping away the surface materials. But the greatest mischief arose from the rapid and exten sive rising of the rivers Which encircle this city, which overflowed their banks with great violence. The Eden, which was extremely low, owing to the long drought, began to increase in its volume in the afternoon of Tues day, and in the course of the night it rapidly rose to a great height, rolling along in a terrible torrent, and soon placed the whole of the low grounds upon its banks un der water: the meadows in its vicinity, around Carlisle, were one continuous sheet of water, to the extent of many hundreds of acres. The inundation occasioned by' this violent rising of the Eden has done great damage in all directions. Perhaps the most extensive work of de struction which it effected was at the bridge now effect ing at Warwick, where it carried away all the frame work, machinery, scaffolding, the flat-bottomed boat. used in conveying stones, and destroyed much of the prepara tory operations of, the builders. The timber, &c., front that place, came floating down the stream to Carlisle bridge—one piece of the frame-work entire, having the appearance of a large raft, and the boat uninjured—where, by active exertions, the greater part of it was recovered. The loss to the contractors, Messrs Nixon and Denton, it was at first apprehended, would be very serious; as it is, the amount is stated to be about £5O or £6o.—Carlisle Patriot. EDINBURGH.—Tuesday morning a thick mist came on from the eastward, which continued to increase in den sity till about mid-day, when the darkness became so great that business in many parts of the town was either totally suspended or had to be carried on by means of gas-light. About one o'clock the gloom - was fearful. Several flashes of lightning, followed by peals of thun der, occurred at this time, and a soaking rain fell, which gradually dissipated the mist and darkness. After a short intermission, the rain again descended in torrents, and continued till midnight. The earth is now liberally sup plied with moisture, and vegetation is now progressing with extraordinary rapidity. Some fields of wheat in the vicinity are already in ear, and early potatoes are in full bloom. There was a heavy thunder-storm with torrents of rain over the whole western district on Tuesday, and as far as accounts have been received from more distant quar ters, it appears to have been general over Scotland. ACCIDENT BY LIGHTNING.—During the thunder-storm on Tuesday afternoon, one of .the chimneys at the works of Mr. G.'N\Thyatt, Openshaw, was struck by the elec tric fluid, and a part of the stone-work thrown down. The lightning ran through the greater part of the works, and a dozen men were knocked down by it, but none of them were hurt. In the drying cylinder rooms a window was forced out. Within twelve yards of the chimney there is a day school for young children, but, fortunately, all the windows were open, and no further mischief was done by the shock.—Manchester Courier. THE LATE GALES. The wind blew so tremendously, on Tuesday, that the Bris tol and Newport steam-packets, after two attempts, could not succeed in making the passage from Bristol to Newport, and were obliged to put back. The packet cane in ou Wednesday, having experienced a severe passage. SIIIPWRLCK WITH Loss OF LIVES.—We lament to state that on Tuesday last, between twelve and two o'clock, in a heavy gale of wind, the sloop Edward of Bristol, from this port, with 50 tons of coal on board, three seamen, brothers, named Weeks, and a passenger (name unknown), gut on shore on the eastern point of Newport river, where she was completely wrecked, and all on board perished! The following. day the body of one of the men (Henry Weeks) was found not far from the wreck. On the inquest, no evidence was elicited how the ves sel was lost; and the verdict returned was Drowned.—illerihyr Guardian. LYTHANI, June 14th, 1833.—The Allemand (brig,) Captain Ferrara, of Genoa, bound from Liverpool to Genoa, with cotton, hardware, &c., is sunk opposite the village of Lytham—crew . saved. The Industrie (galliotte) Capt. F. Porlevotte, of Kn iphausen, bound from Liverpool for Rotterdam and Amsterdam, with rock salt, is on the Horse Bank; the vessel is broken in two — crew saved, except one man. .The Eupheznia, Cant. Beck, of Stromness, bound frog: vcrpool to Sligo, with a general cargo, is ou shore about three miles along the beach N. W. of Lytham—crew saved—vessel and cargo expected to be saved without much damage. POULTON, I?ItIDAY.—This place and neighbourhood was vi sited by one of the most severe storms ever witnessed on a Bri tish coast, on Tuesday and Wednesday last. The wind was in a westerly direction, and it blew a complete hurricane—every thing gave way to its fury; the havoc and destruction com mitted on the houses, trees, and fields is immense in this part of the country, for never before was such destruction ever wit nessed in the month of June. The ocean presented one con tinued scene of magnificence and terror; and it is to be feared that the entire crew of one ill-fated vessel has become the victim. of its fury. This vessel was seen standing for Wyre, but. be fore it had made its entrance it was observed to suddenly dis appear, and all on board, it is awfully conjectured, perished. We are happy to observe that in the case of the other vessels it has been attended without loss of hie, with the exception of ono poor mau who met with a watery grave and has since been which is washed up at Lytham. The shore on Wednesday presented a. pitiable scene; scattered portions of the unhappy vessels coin . pletely lining the beech. A ste t r h n e of st a er vessel of port of Belfast ," and a boat, n ij ia . rk E e . d . " Donaghadee, Andrew Smirk," has been washed up, the crew of which vessel are supposed to have met with a watery grave. A vesse l sunk off th e Knot-end; crew drowned. But the most surprising event ever heard of on these shores remains yet to be told. About four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, during the midst of the storm, when it was expected that a boat could not live for a single moment, a boat was observed making for the shore, manned by two men, and thou g h th e breakers were run ning very high, miraculously landed, and the men escaped with their lives. On Tuesday, a party of two men, Mr. John Thompson, jud. of Stalmine, and a Thomas Curran, shoemaker, of the same place, set out from the Knott End in an open boat, intending to go over to Peel, a distance of about 15 miles; but no intelli gence has been since beard of them, excepting that their boat has been washed up at Heysham, near Lancaster, and they themselves, it is doubtful, have met their deaths, as this is ail the intelligence that can be learnt up to Friday, at three o'clock, the time when our account. lett Poulton. The rain. during the storm, descended in torrents, laying all thelow lands under water. The damage dOne by the storm in the fields and gardens is immense, but the former in particular ; the wheat has suffered in great measure, the greater part of the ears of which are entirely beaten off, but whether the crops have suffered more inlaild we have not been able to learn, as we are now speaking of those lands annaiximating the coast. Durint , the violence of the gale two houses were blown down at South Shore, near Blackpool, besides other damage of minor import ance in that neighbourhood. Several boats from Blackpool have been out to reconnoitre, since writing the above, and by the account given, several more wrecks are on the coast, as they passed mane that were sunk. It is expected that a great many of the dead bodies of the sufferers wit! be washed up in a few days. LANCASTER, JIVE 14.—The gale on Tuesday blew down several trees in this neighbourhood, and did considerable damage on the coast; there is a Dutch vessel, called the Norge, wrecked at Heysham, and no hands on board of her; two men were drowned yesterday, returning from the wreck, by their boat upsetting. It is said that tau or three bodies have been washed on shore.—!'resters There are a set of scoundrels connected with the metropolitan press—the off-scouring of society, who for sixpence would upset a coach, sink a man-of-war, burn down a house, or trample au old woman to death by a mad bull iu Staithfield.—True Sui'. THE COUNTRY BANKLRS.—A correspondent assures us that in addition to the bankers surrendering periodically all account of their issues and assets, they Avill :tiso be compelled to diet themselves a ccording to Act Parliament ; not to drink strong exciting wines which may mislead their judgment, and thus endanger their solveucy ;—to eat meats that arc light and easy of digestion, to enable them to sleep well :—not to marry un der a certain age ;—and not to many at all without, firs . , wal ing known their intentions, and the name of their intended, to commissioners about to he named, consisting of Mr. Marry-at, Sergeant Marry-whether, and others. For every bey that may afterwards be born, 1:1(X) deposit to be paid into his Majesty's . exchequer, aul for every girl to be invested. in the funds for the benefit of the children until they attain the age of 21. Every child to he inoculated, and a statement of its ailments to be forwarded every six months to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, to be consiuered as a confidential document. By these means it is to be hoped the bunking business will be placed on a solid basis. Our correspondent adds that the above regula tions refer only to country bankers. The London bankers Will be allowed to have the care of as much money as they eau col lect together, without any security, and to inoculate the child ren or not, as they please—and afterwards to fail or not as they please. Adyenttners also in Loudon will be allowed vi contract loans for foreign States, and afterwards pay neither principal or interest, as they please, without sending coniideu tial stalnmeuts to Lord littlsorp. It is only the country bank era who do not know how to manage their affair* who were tka, cause of the panic in 1.a5, and of the high tide in 1824, that his Majuty's geveraineut WO: it necessary to - legislate ter. —Awe.