The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-20 00:00:00

A uGUST 20, 1838, an d " ve r y s " with a liberal hand, will be admitted, but ° n the w h ole he is intelligible. We understand clearly e nough that his benefit is to take place on the 19th of Abeen ugust—that he never took one before—that he has six -and-thirty years a faithful servant of Vauxhall — that he is sixty-three years old—that he is one of the f_ew survivor s o f R odney ' s glorious battle—and that he t lo . ok s f orward to his benefit as a source which may con tribute largely to the comf or t o f hi s d ec li n i ng d ays . All these claims he urges a s h e can , and what more do we desire? As for Mr. Simson's critic, we have read column after column of the leading matter of the Times, from the cl ou d y and. confused verbiage of which we could only gather that some object of meanness pr corruption was ire,commended, without being abl e to extract the sem tiinneeof an idea. Sim so n i s i n t e lli g ibl e an d h ones t — le Times unintelligible and dishonest. As for style tne,y_need hardly quarrel about it. A , we cannot go through twenty lines of its criticism on r• Simson without lighting upon some distinct proof 0 0' ignorance. After a few lumbering sentences, the writer talks of Mr. S.'s rhetoric and "euphemism." Eu lViernism, indeed' Much Simson thought of euphemiz ing on such an occasion. We euphemize when-we com municate disagreeable thoughts in softened expressions. ; 1 ° say that a man is no more, instead of saying that he I ( 2.dead, is an euphemism. Troja fuit, instead - o 'roja !rata est, is an euphem;sm. If we say that thew iters ()f the Times are persons slightly endowed with intellect, and not much versed in the English language, instead of s aYing that they are blockheads who cannot write a di rect sentence, we euphemize. If we say that the Times leas always shown itself open to the attentions of the va fring governments of the day, and ready to abandon 'nem when the good of the people required, instead of raying that it h as b een regularly hired by each, and as gularly wrote ag,ainst each as soon as there was a pro spect of the wages being withheld, we euphemize. If Ive , say that that portion of the criminal code which rirese re the ass i stance of the funct i onar i es of the Old Bai , in its execut i on, has been so pecul i arly the favourite °I t he Times as to procure for it titles by which it is ge lierally known, instead of saying that it has always has earned for th e ga ll ows w i t h a sanguinary ferocity which i l as earned the n i c k name o f " Th e Bl oo d y Ti mes " or gt The Butcher Journal," we euphemize. If we say that benevolently relaxed from its ordinary custom in the e ase of an amiable member of the Society - of the Friends, ri danger of th e l aw on a c count o f f orgett i ng hi s name rthe en d of a bill, instead of saying " the Times was the to Write for Hunton the Quaker, sentenced to be 1 Illged for forgery, and worked for its hire," we eu- Plien u • ze and so forth. We give this short rhetorical e xercise for the benefit of the Times, .and we venture to s e aY it will never accuse Mr. Simson or any one else, of IPhernism again. —Standard of Wednesday. the l3 i ar readers have probably seen a report in some of 1-iondon papers, that the Aishop of London presented to th e u House of Lords a petition for church reform tuner° u s i y signed by the clergy and lay.-members of st Z t church in the diocese of Gloucester." We notice the u ut etn ent merely to contradict it. Whether it is entirely hu rne, or whether " clergy and lay-members of the tj ui l : 11 : in some other diocese have been wasting their but- 41 such an unnecessary employment we know not ; l ess %% ,:e cannot conceive why any man in his senses (un treuh"e Were. a dealer in parchment) should take the k e i t l e to get up petitions on such a subject. We ap , end that there are only two classes of persons who I,;the,Tvery anxious fot church reform; and we cannot see c ur i' either of them should petition about it. The one of sists of those who by Reform," mean the severance t he church and state, or rather, perhaps, the exist eoin'e of that church only as a tool of the state under lay azidTission ; the attention of her liturgy and articles, wh tontines, partly that she may embrace the liberals th in e ln she now excludes, and partly to show that the wanto n themselves, which were intended to guard against s at :en innovation, may be changed and altered at plea -I)6' and the alienation of her property, and the appro tien of it to such pious or other uses as to those who 4 11 get Now in the scramble for it, shall seem t lee e d t ; Aow for such persons to petition were surely abf;' e ss and unreasonable; they must be as unconscion ou,; Is a man who lately travelled with a friend of wh - r ; a long the Liverpool and Manchester railway, and a nd was constantly pulling out his watch and grumbling a tk i la se they were not going at the rate of more than five as f twenty miles an hour. Surely things are going on I rt as the most zealous reformer of the class could 3 --"'"Glouces ters hire Chronicle. LONDON POLICE REPORT. Cannon MARLBOROUGH-STREET. charged IrisAN " ExAmPLE."—SarahA n n Godwin, an ,esahwonian, holding a fine female child in her arm s , w ith h av i ng - ulted her. • • t•lite complainant said that, a few days ago, she received a vjloleat slap in the face from the . defendant ; but before further ':ltolence could occur she contrived to get . out of her reach. ortly afterwards, while standing at her . window, the defend came.tit by, and took up two large paving-stones, which she tew at he r , b ut which, fortunately, missed her, breaking the endow -sashes only. • - In defence, Mrs. Godwin said the child she had in her arms t as hu mbfoot,andfingers on each hand. Whenever the complainant mplainant met her she ld allude to this circum s t ance, and used to tell her that her t aild was an " example," whi c h so enraged her that she could nod restrain herself. she Well," said Mr. Hosk , ins, who was on the bench, "sup Pose did call your child an examplF,' what then?" s l I won't have my child •called an ' example,' " said Mrs. ;Main, who appeared to attach some dreadful signification to h`liie word. "No woman shall say I'm the mother an ' exam ;`s.' I've taken the baby to the surgeon's and I've had its fin se,,,ts and toes cut off." t huPon examining the little creature's limbs,. itapp th e a a t r t e b d e tl e i x a_t ttaga,:in actually undergone_ a surgical operation, and .„e• gess and toes had been removed. tse'n her great dismay the defendant was told that it was,,noef aerY, on account of her violence, to make an " example -„r•---She was ordered to find bail. lek:arottn. e Thompson, a stout, hearty young woman abo e u f t tb 22 e bar4l's of age complained to dr. Dyer, that . the overseers _ _ - 41 1 of St' James had refused to readmit her into t h h e e u W se, o t r b k e ptairias.e,s a Nyhenshehad applied to be taken into the au i se officers had told her that she should not be received as fo o d Innate of the house, but she should be supplied daily _ epees (1, and they had then handed . her a quantity of bread and gothe. This relief was not sufficient, she said, as she required m es and lodging as well as food. ka.41.% Bryant, the overseer, who was_pr . esenexplained to the . h: tes the reasons for the refusal give by the parish, and itu t s elat e nent fully proved that the applicant li was one of those . or teerntts examples, which every parish workhouse can furnish, ti;:he debasi effcts which commonly_ ensue from allowing khtioual and able bodied to depend_forsubsistence upon parish 4b 04 8 * he applicant was received into the workhouse when - os h er t seven years of ao•e in consequence of the drunken habits lash karents, fromcontamination of hich it was hu es th e Y (leenied advisable to remove her. When w about 14 she went t illti ''' taWn, andcommenced a course of depravity which she con liered for some time, and then returned again to the workhouse. aeon vicious character continued to b t e b d a i t s t pl e a d on every occa h parish e officers had be etl r_ was carried to such a I p y. it t c e h Ni e h re.,(lllently obliged to app . a Magistrate to punish her. l eft • ci gone into the workhouse whenever she chose, and had e ttr l .• When tired of the confinement, pursuing her vicious tile Rork util she thought proper submitto_ to the confinement of Pris..house again. She committed 17 times to being discharged from confine- I lie llt n ' and had uniformly, on re. ad ' 'made her appearance at t . rs, and demanded 4bo tuission, Whi c h if not immediately complied with, she set . F an offence of this fles,tit.hreaking the 'windows an 4 t,,, tiption she had only been lib l e a r m are s dtha n tmoruing, and had admission as her ri t ,Z 9rs usual to the workhouse, demanding 'i r be it was " her parish." . Ilro t , r : Bryant asked the Magistrate if the parish could, with 111; le is tY, make the workhouse a receptac b le er fo e r x s e u la ch si c e h a a w ra a c a te p r r s a ! list. "yer agreed in considering that e sh e . r, ana told the applicant that she svis v ry . youncr and strong, ati ee "ght to endeavour to do something toward her mainten ...._ laic:A! tot can I do, and where can I get I've got a right to go ittillot, saucily. " I've got a parish, an work ?" said the ap- Wo r i t t e Y ow,li workhouse. I won't be turned out of my own 'Mr "se ' b ut • Bryant said that the girl should have food every day, t)f tertaiuly he should recommend e the Board • to keep her out xi _ Wo rkhouse. asT• Dyer considered that the case was in very good hands, a therefore dismissed the applicant. S T , ioh,: ; 11 e OP TRADE.—Tbere has not been any material a i l s te d r i a s: triet.l,le Our last notice, in the woollen cloth trasle of h Tht i le% ts i he demand continues fair, and the stock . in the Leeds e e ..1" l alls is low. The merchants are still reluctant to give th e nvarice required by the increase in the price of . wool and ttoth'e'avanced rate of wages and the consequence is that . in Posi ti Places the manufacture' is nearly at a stand, from an ind . is- I'ss s "'Jill the part of the manufacturers to continue the pio- Nehilst vvool is at its present prices and the wor . km9 t are e iituff4F higher wages. There is not much business doing h I) at e .i` r .ade at present, which may be in a great measurenla.tstels slid ea .a misunderstanding between the dyers and pres a. N 'neir enaployers We understand that the quantity of u ba l d stuffs exported has recently increased, some English firms ii,,,_",t, established dye-houses on the Continent.—Leeds Intel vit, ei: i‘k i , l 4 ,_ ne shall we find greater adepts in the art ise npvnin to r oil g than his Majesty's Whig ministers ? sc), ;PLY—nowhere. We venturehave Had we leisure—which at present we be khl i e • .oors;pace--7which just now we cannot spare; wels shouldg allu lees' to ti c"' th" most indisputably by but a :14 the times and ci rcumstances now by-gofneew. passing as w t ell l i te evid ence of the past, we have also that of the presetlrL—re , sent th tis for the promise—for the performance, alas! '3 , s till 'lb a i- 811 eitil e dis tant, the uncertain future. One ot the L boasted , ag... ea upon which, they assured us, they entered into office,_ s.,notrsduction of taxation; and that, not_grudgingly!nit . larg_ely tieee set at name only, but in deed also. That this principle has , ks gla i ;`„ at nought, it were needless to insist upon, the fact being arei tio "g as the noonday sun. Yet, nothing daunted,. or as •-ars, -is confidence from the circumstance of a long parliamen v,!.olstve4icat.ion being at hand, broken vows are being . renewed .. , 'lied „pledges tesumed and disappointed hopes being rekin e,N •„ 1 ne Assessed Ta; s is.ch ycould not abolish this wisaa, are promised to ebe ."givien up e- n c e o .r u t Clever, cunning "tor )( 81 to-day we can do nothing for -e • say they; ' but to tie 1° ------- Aye ' to-morrow !The y 3 ar'e most obnoxious, t'ther°P.Pressive taxs, says my Lord ,Althorp, !vhen pressed the . th night b •s r Y ar e .• Y a motion of Mr. T - Aum e sto consider repeal, e r4a.... uumus—unjust—indefen but next session —(when • ,, lAi e shave becom e once more Bible; his Majesty's opposition !") a,, endeavour to take them off. Clever, cunning Whigs, a' '/• a gain ! 0 what a weight of popularity would this assur 111 - rocur e s ' were itnot that the of , la t t . it• , so Wid o l r ye, Is deutetedeil: anFletreditetastrtuheesstoe ; iie to u is a a n i cdhseyeonu to be f 7i le r Ce n, :: - -7-• A sharper who takes penury lagt,nnst our plenty—who takes our ready cash, . T} id pays us nought but wisilt9, hopes, and promises, &He eurreney of idiots!" him._ Carlisle Patriot, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1833. We have received by the packet-ship, the Pocahontas, which arrived here yesterday, a file of Philadelphia pa pers to the 20th July. They contain no political news of any interest. The following, which is taken from a New York paper, is valuable as showing the character of the population which is to form the next and succeeding ge nerations of enlightened republicans : " There are in the United States 1,000,000 of children and youth between the years of five and fifteen who are not in any school, and who have not any means of instruction. There are in the state of New York 80,000 young' men' who are unable to read, and yearly adding to the number of voters who go to the polls. One-third of the inmates of our juvenile prisons and of our penitentiaries are, when committed, ignorant of their let ters, and one-half of them are not able to read." After detailing these facts, the writer of the article ex claims, "Friends of Liberty! are not our free institu tions in danger ?" We think they are. We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter dated Pernambuco, 11th June, 1833. It is not at home only that Englishmen are robbed with impunity for every dirty state is now permitted to prey upon thenr:— "The Clyde, bound from Liverpool to:Pahia, was. wrecked a few days ago about fifteen leagues from Goiana ; accounts of the disaster were sent here to the Consul requesting assistance. "The Consul sent his. son,llr. Gunston, and six custom-house officers to take charge of the wreck, with authority from the President to call in the' Juiz de Paz, or any other constituted authority they might find in the place, in case of need. "A smack was also -chartered and sent off immediately to bring the goods to this Custom-house; the smack was loaded, and brought a full cargo free from damage, discharged, and de spatched off for the rest. In the mean time, the goods were discharged from the wreck, and deposited by the Custom-house officers in a church hard by. On the arrival of the smack, she was again loaded with the goods from the church, and when ready for sailing, there appeared a body. of about 300 men armed, who took possession of the church and the rest of the goods, which they divided amongst themselves, and then formed a determination of murdering the Custom-house officers and the two Englishmen, who, however, were fortunate enough to escape to Jangadas. "The loaded smack it was supposed would be able to get away, Without being boarded by the ruffians; but her non-ap pearance here up to the piesent time leaves but little hopes that she escaped. "The amount of goods thus plundered is estimated at £12,000 sterling. .We should be glad to know how the English Government brooks such plunder of British property in this lawless country. The French and American governments we are certain would demand and obtain immediate satisfac tion. The Consul has protested against the government for the loss, but judging from similar protests, we do not think any satisfaction will be derived from it by the English Under writers." We observe by the Parliamentary proceedings that the House of Commons have voted £lO,OOO of the pub lic money for the support of the Metropolitan Police. This, to say the least of it, is taking a strange liberty with the people and the taxes, and one which savours more of bribery and corruption than any thing we ever beheld during the long period of the unreformed Parlia ments. Are the people of London so reduced already, that they are unable to maintain a sufficient constabulary force to protect their persons and property ? It must be so, otherwise the noble CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER never would sanction a grant which is in every point of view objectionable and unjust. The police establish ment is expensive we admit, and it is as efficient as it is costly, and it is a useful body into the bargain. But these are no reasons why the whole people of England, who have police of their own to pay, should be called upon to contribute to the support of the police of Lon don. There is something, therefore, in this job, which requires explanation. We could understand the WOOD job, and the KEY job, and many other Whig jobs, but this police job is beyond our comprehension. Will Mr. EWART do us the favour to ask his friend Mr. SPRING RICE the meaning of it ? Did any of the parishes threaten to join the political unions if their police and poor rates were not reduced ? The Radicals of Edinburgh, with a quacking book seller of the name of TAIT at their head, have commenced a crusade against the religion and the venerable kirk of Scotland. The object of TAIT is solely to acquire some mob popularity, and a leetle money by the sale of his magazine. He was very properly sent to gaol for refus ing to pay the annuity tax, which is levied chiefly upon the wealthier classes for the support of the established clergymen of Edinburgh, where he had the felicity of sleeping for a night, and paying the money next morning. This is the first time that we ever heard of the main tenance of the Scottish clergy being a burthen upon that country. It is true that the mode of raising the stipend in Edinburgh is in many respects objectionable, and it is to be regretted that some plan was not devised long ago for providing the means in another way, rather than by a house tax. But this is not now the question. The an nuity is sanctioned by long‘nage and an act of parlia ment; and if it were deemed a grievance, parliament had the power of redressing it, and supplying the necessary funds. TAIT, however, and his sans culottes, do not content themselves with objecting to, or petitioning parliament against, the tax; they refuse to pay it ; and he, the fool, rather than pay it, enacts the part of a martyr, and marches to prison, followed by a rabble of chimney sweeps, scavengers, fish-women, and other members of the unwashed brigade, who, perhaps, never heard of the annuity, and who, certainly, never contributed a single dolt to it in the course of their lives. Worthy bookseller ! We should like to know how many copies of. the odious head which decorates the cover of his magazine he calculates upon selling in consequence of this filthy exhibition. It may bring him a few dozen half crowns in September next, but if there be any sense extant in the modern Athens, it ought to sink him a few pounds in public estimation. Cannot Mr. TAIT see that his conduct is illegal, and, moreover, is quite as dishonest as if we were to break the panes in his shop window and refuse to pay for them ? It is, we admit, within the limits of possibility that Mr. TAIT does not see the transaction in this light, but what then ? Why, the poor man is daft —the magazine and Brougham's head have rendered him fatuous ! The whole affair would not be entitled to any notice if it did not show the animus by which such men as TAIT are impelled. This is an attack upon religion itself, and in these assaults the revolutionists take great delight. The tax is made the handle with which to bring the mi- nisters of the church into contempt. But it cannot surely succeed. The people of Scotland cannot be so degraded as to join in any conspiracy the object of which is to overturn their national establishments, shut the door of the House of Prayer, banish their exemplary pastors from the parish church and the parish school, convert the pul pit into a rostrum for inspired tinkers, and the church itself into a spouting-room for pragmatical Unitarians, or fashionable deists. No, no; they have, like their English neighbours, drank deep of the poisonous cup, drugged by the philosopher, and heated by the atheist; but they are not so far gone as to countenance the gambollings of a puffing bookseller who, after all, is only "looking after the Biller." Of the many changes produced by the revolutionary mania of the present times, there is one which is seldom adverted to, but it is a change nevertheless of incalcu lable importance, and likely to lead to serious conse quences. • We allude to the progressive and unexampled decay in every branch of the trade and commerce of the metropolis. London, for a long series of years, has en joyed commercial and manufacturing advantages in which no other town in the KING'S dominions has been permit ted to share. The general welfare of the nation has been sacrificed in order to secure extensive monopolies to the discontented and capricious citiiens of London. Never satisfied, never thankful, ever fidgetty and mur mering, these people have been protected, fostered and encouraged, by virtue of exclusive privileges which it is impossible to defend on the ground of justice or sound policy. In the India and China trade they had, until lately, the whole of it to themselves. In the same way they once monopolised the Levant trade. They still enjoy a monopoly in banking. Upon them nearly the whole revenues of the court and the aristocracy are ex pended. Four. fifths of the whole interest of the national debt is spent in London. An innumerable host of law yers, drawing wealth from the remotest corners of the empire, live there in luxury, exchanging their fees and costs for beef, pudding, port wine, cabbages, wigs, fil berts, Wellington boots, cheese, black cloth, green peas, Kensington candles, sausages, and Hunt's patent black ing. There also are the head quarters of the ministers, the pensioners, the dignitaries of the church, the supreme judges, the foreign ambassadors, and various other per sons who derive their revenues either from the taxes or from foreign countries, and which revenues are almost wholly and exclusively spent in the metropolis. But notwithstanding these advantages, London is fast falling into decay, and the withering blast of revolution has struck the most splendid capital in the whole world. Its inhabitants have long lived upon the spoils of the country, without being conscious that they were the most helpless and dependant of his MAJESTY'S subjects. In their pride and ignorance they have assumed the air and tone of dictators, prescribing the customs, forming the manners, altering the laws, undermining the institutions, despoiling the church, decrying, impugning, and striving to bring into contempt all that is venerable, sacred, or praiseworthy in the land. But with all this insolence and love of violence, these worthy patriots did not see that they were scuttling their own ships, tearing up by the roots the bread trees which their ancestors had planted, driving away from their shop doors the customers upon whom they battened, writing beggary in one street, and insolvency in another, and hastening the downfall of the system which raised them to that pinnacle of greatness where• they have become giddy, and the value and resources of which they are unable to appreci ate or comprehend. The merchants of Liverpool have no reason to com plain of the fatality which has long prevailed among the London philosophers, for it is hastening the crisis which they have long foreseen, and bringing to the shores of the Mersey that trade which has already to a considera ble extent deserted the banks of the Thames. We defy the wit or power of man to prevent the transfer of the greater portion of the India and China trade from London to Liverpool. It must eventually come here. Wapping, Stepney, Blackwall, and all the commercial suburbs of the metropolis will in a few years be deserted outposts, where the owl will cry and the bat flicker in the twilight.— The present abodes of the discontented will then be fireless and tenantless. The howl of the' revolutionist will then be, not for reform, but for bread. The inno cent may suffer, but the guilty majority will be justly punished. The mob of London cry " down with the church !" and the ministerial journal, the Times, had an article on Friday last recommending the unhousing of the reduced ladies of rank and biith who inhabit some of the royal palaces, and also the entire dismantling 'of these ancient buildings. Pillage is the word, and the Times leads the van. If the palaces of Kensington and Hampton Court be considered useless appendages of the crown, how long will it be before Windsor Castle and Buckingham House are held to be public nuisances ? But why select these mansions ? Why spare St. Stephen's Chapel ? That is already a nuisance in more respects than one. In the first place it is two hundred miles from the cen tre of the United Kingdoms, where it ought to be, according to all republican calculations. In the second place, it is by its situation overawed, and, in some de gree, at the mercy of the London rabble. These are sufficient reasons for dismantling the old, and building a new House of Commons in the midlaad districts, at some spot equi-distant from the capitals of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Why should every representative of the people be compelled to travel to the extremity of the empire in order to legislate for the whole empire. We are, besides, of opinion that the court, the no bility, and the aristocracy of these realms would better consult their own dignity and interest by leaving London to take care of itself, and to consume its own ashes. If the noble and the wealthy be now the sport of every worthless demagogue, and every tipsey orator, and every arrogant and unpx incipled blockhead; it is for them to consider how far they have conduced to this enmity and obloquy by mingling so long and so freely with the most heartless and demor'alised population in Great Britain. The savage yell that has of late years been directed against the KING, the QUEEN, the Royal Family, and the whole of the nobility, has had its origin in London. There the utmost licence of scurrility and invective, of misrepresentation and slan der prevails, and low-bred malice breathes in its cellar or its attic the pestilential atmosphere of treason and se dition. The dishonest there revel in the spoils of their victims. The beggar there makes war upon the affluent, and the outcasts of society and the scum of the earth pass for gentlemen and patriots. And by whom, after all, is the great mass of the London population supported? By this insulted nobility—by this reviled aristocracy -- by the wealthy and the great--by the land-owner, the fund owner, the colonial proprietor, the annuitant of every class, and by the whole fraternity of placem en and public servants Deprive London of only one-half of the income spent in it by these persons, and nine-tenths of its tradesmen would be bankrupts before the next quarter day. The day, however, we suspect, is not far distant when the nobility and gentry of England will be compelled to leave London in their own defence; and when that day comes, and we care not though it were to-morrow, then will be raised a wail more loud than when Carthage fell, or when the vengeance of Heaven was poured out on the cities of the plain. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. For the BENEFIT of Mademoiselle TAGLIONI, and her last appearance in England, on which occasion she will appear in her most popular Dances, assisted by Mous. Silvain and Mademoislle Garbois. Second appearance of Mr. Blanchard, of Covent Garden; and the unrivalled Pantomimic Performers, Messrs. Brown, King, and Gibson, of the Ade!phi Theatre, who will make their second appearance this Evening in a new Comic Pantomime, which was received last night with shouts of laughter and ap plause. Second appearance of Mrs. Gibson, (late Miss Davis,) Columbine of Coven-garden Theatre. ripHIS present TUESDAY, the 20th instant, will be per -IL formed the favourite Comedy of 1/ THE HONEY COON; OR, HOW TO RULE A WIFE. Lampedo, Mr. Blanchard—Rolando, Mr. Browne. Duke Aranza, Mr. Vandenhoff—Juliana, Miss Haddad. At the end of the fourth act a Rustic Dance by the characters. To be followed by the celebrated Dance, called La Mazourka, performed by Mlle. Taglioni and Mons. Silvain. At the end of the second act, Le Pas de la Sulphide, Danse par M'lle. Taglioni and Maus. Silvain. At the end of the Play, La Tyro lienue, the characters by M'lle. Taglioni, • Mons. Silvain, and Garbois. To conclude with a new Comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN AND THE BLACK HEN; OR, THE SILVER EGG. Harlequin, Mr. Gibson.—Pantaloon, Mr. Brown. Clown, Mr. King.—Columbine, M . Gibson. On Wednesday, the popular Play of T Wife. After which the Farce of Two Strings to your Bow ' To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime. TO CORRESPONDENTS. If the " MYSTERIES OF PATRONAGE" in our paper of Friday last are too profound for our literal friend P. P., we would recommend him to look to the debate in the House of Com mons on the evening of the same day, where he will find a solution of one part, with Lord G. SONIERSET'S name at tached to it. The Parody on Pope's " Man of Ross" will not suit our columns. There are some of T. W's verses which are fair enough as times go, but upon the whole they are exceptionable. It must be a mistake; there may be a few freemen who are members of the Trades' Union from compulsion, but we are confident they are ashamed of the connection, and anxious to dissolve it. A word in their ear—the sooner they cut the schoolmasters who guzzle at their expense, the better. TO OUR READERS. We announced in our last number the appearance, on this day, of so Report of the Evidence given before the last Committee of the House of Commons on the late Elections for Liverpool. We regret that the in terposition of an unavoidable delay, arising chiefly from the extent of the impression required, will pre vent its appearance earlier than Friday next; when it will be presented GRATIS to our regular Subscrib ers, and to the purchasers of the STANDARD on that day, as announced in our last publication. EDE Elba:pool Atanbarb. THE LI VERPOOL STA N DARD. We have now arrived at that point of the discussion upon the great West India question which places out of doubt its being passed into a law in this country, and, consequently, renders opinions upon its details unneces sary. We are also on the eve of learning the effect pro duced by the measure in the colonies themselves ; of which a foretaste has reached us, within the last week or two, in the view taken by the legislative colonies of it, as first promulgated by Mr. STANLEY. That the origi nal proposition should have excited strong feelings, which led to immediate expressions of condemnation, and menaced more distinct marks of dissent, is what we have always expected, and in that expectation we are not de ceived. It is true that, at the date of the last accounts frpm thence, the information received in the West Indies was restricted to the intelligence of a contemplated loan of fifteen millions, coupled with a compulsory service of twelve years on the part of the negro. So gross was this, that even his MAJESTY'S present ministers could not carry it forward a second stage. That principle was abandoned, and a gift' of twenty millions substituted for a loan of fifteen. Still the term of service remained. — The conclave of saints was assembled, and, through their official organ in the public department, demanded a di minution in the term of labour of nearly one half of the specified period. This was yielded by the minister with out a struggle. The case, then, stands thus. The pro perty of the colonies being valued at 130 to 140 millions, the minister of the crown says very kindly to the colonial proprietors, " Allow me to destroy your property at the end of twelve years, and I will lend you a sum of money equivalent to 2s. 3d. in the pound upon it." The minis ter subsequently feels a little ashamed of this sort of compromised robbery, and changes his views to this ex• tent :—"I think my last proposition was a very bare faced one ; and as I would wish to rob you in a gentlemanly sort of way, I will improve the con ditions ; and instead of lending you 2s. 3d. in the pound . Upon the value of your property, I will give you 3s. in the pound upon the amount, in such manner and at such time as I may hereafter determine, for the privi lege of now making a law to effect the robbery." This condition is acceded to ; precisely as a timid old gentle, man grants the request of a highwayman, who puts a pistol to his head, and, with very expressive words, demands all his property ; but with a promise that, if it be given up willingly, he will restore him as much as will pay his expenses to the end of his journey; hinting, at the same time, in no equivocal terms, that any hesi tation would be useless, as the property he will have. This, which is a most agreeable picture, precisely repre sents the case as between the Government and the Colonist. We hold the question of whether the appren. ticeship. shall be twelve years or seven,—the last act of the robbery—to be wholly unimportant, with reference to final results. It brands, it is true, with additional dis grace the infatuated party which demanded, and the weak ministry which conceded so extensive a diminu tion of the originally-proposed and pledged term of apprenticeship labour; but whether the term had remained at twelve years or been reduced to two, instead of seven, appears to us perfectly immaterial, as a matter of fact. Little as we are inclined to compliment either the mini sters or their abettors on this question, we have no dis position to fix upon them so unqualified a mark of folly as would attach to them, if we could imagine they be lieved the negroes of the West Indies would willingly labour for any, 'even the shortest of the periods named above, when such a law as that now brought to its last stage in our legislature should be promulgated in the colonies. It is true they have freely asserted that the negroes will work, industriously exert themselves, on such a principle. Again and again have they said it; but as to their belief to that effect, our ideas, we repeat, do not go to the extent of imagining the existence of such perfection of full;/. The alternative of our judgment, however, and that in no diminished degree, is open to their free adoption. The measure has been one of an extraordinary nature throughout. Suggested by fanatical zeal, inflamed in no small degree by party spirit—snatched at by Ministers as a means of obtaining a momentary popularity with a clamorous and somewhat powerful party—hatched in secresy, and based in ignorance of the merits of the whole question—carried on through a course of vacillation, the na tural attendant on such ignorance—defended, against the inbreakings of truth, reason, and experience, by falsehood, folly, and obstinacy, and, finally - , sentfrom the Lower to the Upper House of Parliament, by majorities of whom to speak in fitting terms might be inconsistent with strict prudence ;—the whole progress of the measure has been one of wickedness pregnant with mischief; ; —its consum mation, now on the eVe of. being effected, will, we fore tel, be marked by extensive ruin to the fortunes of the colonists, and by scarcely less injurious consequences to every leading interest of the empire. GOD grant we may, in this case, be false prophets. Our inclinations and wishes are adverse to our opinions; but the latter are the result of an overwhelming conviction. Among the tabular matter in our fourth page our mer cantile friends will find the last monthly returns of the London and West India docks, containing accounts of the stocks in those establishments, made up to the 31st ult. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. Since we last wrote there has been little domestic news here, and few rumours worthy of notice. Our Consol Market has also been passive, and the closing price for the Account was 89 this evening. Bank and India Stock have both been on the advance, India Stock being 2441 245, and Bank 2091 210. In the Foreign Bonds all the northern securities are looking up: Russian are 104 ; Dutch 51a a ; and Belgian 961 to 971. Spa nish Stock continues to attract some notice; 231 a- is the price. No material speculation has taken place in Portuguese Bonds or Scrip, which closed for the former at 871 88, and for the latter at 23i 241 pm. It will be seen from Mr. Kemble's manly address, that he does not intend to petition against Mr. Crawford's return for this city, on the ground of his not being a freeman. Mr. Craw ford on the day the election terminated, became a freeman of the Worshipfui Company of Spectacle Makers; and we doubt not when the record of the cost of his election is placed before him, he will he able, without calling upon his new company, to see through the motives of his backers. Altogether the matter is very dis graceful to the constituency of London, but is no more a proof of there being no reaction than had Mr. Crawford been rejected; for Mr. Kemble's friends displayed a supineness by no means unnoticed by their opponents; and the conservatives of London generally were very lukewarm during the whole progress of the election. It will be observed, that of 12,000 voters not more than one-half of them have polled. We have a file of the St. Kitt's Advertiser to the 25th of June inclusive. The mild weather and genial showers during the month have caused the fields in which, a short time previous, no hope was entertained of getting the canes established, to send forth fresh and luxurious shoots, promising to he all that could be expected. The polatoe fields also, from a blighted and sickly appearance, had changed to a strong and healthy one, and the yams lately planted were shooting . up strong stems. There had been but little reduction in the prices of articles for estate con sumption. Corn meal was 23 dollars, flour 9to 91 dollars per barrel; sugar 4 dollars per 100 lbs.; rum 2s to 2s 3d per gal lonj and molasses 20 cents per gallon. We have a file of St. Vincent's papers to the end of June. They contain the address of the Lieutenant-Governor to the two branches of the legislature. His Excellency states, that he shall diligently labour to learn the laws and customs of the colony; and congratulates the colonists that, in times of such depression as the present, permanent relief had been afforded by his Majesty's Government in defraying the entire salary of the Lieutenant-Governor out of the funds at the disposal of Government. The House of Assembly, in its reply, states, that a bill for raising the supplies for the current year was in pro gress through the house ' • and, notwithstanding the unprece dented difficulties the colonists laboured under, it was hoped the faith and credit of the colony would still he maintained. Antigua papers have been received to the 24th of June. The two houses of legislature had assembled. In his address on this occasion, the Governor-in-Chief made the following obser vations : " Learning that the labourers in this island, although equally commendable in point of character, being for the moment equally misled, have been induced to participate in an error lately pr eva l en t amongs t th ose i n a neigbouring settlement, it becomes desiralle, in the same terms of explanation, to dispel the delusion here. " It is, therefore, imperative on me to state, in consequence of certain expectations understood to be entertained by the slave population on the occasion of my arrival, that no com mands of a novel nature, in relation to them, have emanated for my guidance from the Crown." The assembly, in reply to other portions of the address, ex press their satisfaction at the assurances of the Governor. Large quantities of cotton twist are now being sent from Manchester, and delivered free in Russia, at lower prices for the twist than the raw cotton from which it was made would, at this moment, cost in Liverpool.—Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. IMPORTANT.—Lord Teynham has at last turned up. His lordship, on Thorsdav evening, presented a petition from a parish in the county M a yo. Where is Lord Winchilsea ? - . SINGULAR FACT.—There is at present living in Low-street, Sunderland, a child that was born with the mark of a butterfly upon its face, which is subject to the following remarkable changes :—ln the summer season, the resemblance of the head is prominent, the wings, legs, &c. highly coloured, the whole of a considerably greater degree of heat than any other part of the child's body ; in winter, the wings, legs, &c. are scarcely per ceptible, the head diminishes to a mere speck, and the whole is a death-like coldness. AWFUL EFFECTS OF SUDDEN FRIGHT.—AII the world has heard of the Eider duck-bunters and others, who might happen to be placed in circumstances of danger, suffering dreadfully from the effect of sudden alarms. The hair has been known to turn grey in a single night; and persons have been instantly struck dumb. What we have now to report, as having occurred under our own observation, does not fall short of any such re corded consequences.—The ship Bland, recently arrived from the East Indies, brought the usual supplies of live stock, cer tain portions of which were still in existence when she reached this port,—amongst others some poultry; and the necessary means were resorted to for landing them. After four months' imprisonment in their coops the poor creatures were, doubtless, much gratified at the prospect of a release ; and the process was so far advanced that they were in the boat, ready to come ashore, when one of those fearful agents of the law—we don't mean Jack Ketch, but a Custom-house officer—made his ap pearance, and insisted on their being reconsigned to prison, un til a regular trial should be gone through, and their condemna tion or final acquittal, in due course of law, should be formally pronounced. Unhappy hens! But, mark the consequences! From the moment of their being reconveyed to their coops to that at which we write, the cocks have never been heard to crow, and the hens have invariably laid imperfect eggs : that is, eggs enclosed in the skin which forms the interior lining of the ordinary shell, but destitute of the shell itself. We under stand that the occurrence has become matter of serious physio logical inquiry; the object of which is to determine,—first, if there be any, and what affinity between bipeds of the human and feathered races—secondly, through which particular nerves of the latter race the influence of terror is likely to affect their habits and condition—and finally, whether, in this especial case, the effect was produced by an intuitive abhorrence of the race of Custom-house officers generally, or by some accidental dis covery that the organ of destructiveness was strongly developed in the cranium of the individual officer whose immediate act seems to have led to such astounding results. We trust the inquiry will be sedulously pursued; and if we were permitted to offer an opinion on so momentous a question, we would re commend that a pair of the fowls should be sent to the Zoolo gical Gardens, in order to ascertain what alteration in their pre sent unfortunate condition might he effected by change of air and kind treatment; and that the final result of the investiga tion going forward should be made the subjectof a course of lectures at one of the scientific institutions in the town, by Doctor Van Ovumbacher, who would be quite equal to the task. In the meantime we would suggest, as likely to throw some light upon this important examination, that the Inspector Ge neral of the Customs might advantageously summon a jury to phrenologise the head of the officer upon duty on this occasion, and report the result to the Surveyor General, who has for tunately arrived here within the last few days on a tour of in spection to the outports. This report, together with all the facts of the case, the latter authority would, doubtless, feel it his duty to make the subject of a special representation to the commis sioners in London ; who, in turn, would submit the whole mat ter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Spring Rice; and through him it might reach Lord Althorp ; from whom, in his zeal for the advancement of natural history, all due attention to the question might be fairly expected. Should this course be pursued, it will be a source of much gratification to ourselves that we should have been so fortunate as to be the first to draw the attention of the public to so interesting an inquiry. The proposed Dinner of the South Lancashire Conservative Association, ou Thursday next, at Newton, will be on a scale consistent with the high respectability of the party assembling. A considerable number of members from Liverpool and its vicinity have made arrangements for carriages to convey them from hence to Newton and back, as the regulations of the Rail way Company compel them to close their gates early in the evening. A full report of the proceedings will appear in the STANDARD of Friday. The Preston and Liverpool Turnpike Trustees have abandon ed the intention of directing the highway between Preston and Hutton Mill, from a consideration that on account of the present debt of the trust, and the probability that, by the construction of the railroad from Preston to Wigan, the traffic on the road would be considerably decreased. The alteration could not be accomplished without a very considerable increase of the debt. MELANCHOLY ACCI DENT.—On Friday night,about ten o'clock, four labourers, in the employ of M r. Atherton, of New Brighton, had fastened a small boat in which they were to the stern of a steamer. When the steamer arrived at that part of the river where the labourers intended to land, the master ordered the engine to be stopped and the men to cast off the punt. Thefour men, who were unused to the management of a boat, rushed forward all at once. The consequence was, that the boat filled with water, and two of the men were unfortunately drowned.— The other two were saved by means of life-buoys thrown to them from the steamer. JURYMAN FINED. —On Friday afternoon, at the conclusion of the crown business, at Lancaster, before Sir Thomas Denman, Mr. Robert Fletcher, merchant, of Toxteth-park, Liverpool, who was summoned to serve on the jury dur ing the first week of the assizes, was fined £2O for non attendance, by order of the Court. On the first day of the assizes, several other gentlemen summoned on the jury did not answer to their names, and it was ordered that they should be fined £5 each, with an intimation that the fine should be increased every time their names were called over without their answering,. We presume that the parties found it advisable to attend to the notice, to that effect, which they received from the officer of the Court, by letter, as they all, with the exception of Mr. Fletcher, either made their appearance or gave a good and sufficient reason for their absence. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE BY TURN-OUT JOINERs.—On Saturday night last an attempt was made by a party of seven or eight persons, supposed to be all turn-out joiners, to murder a man named Thomas Bridden, a joiner, in the employ of Messrs. Buxton and Sons, Oxford-road. It appears that Bridden, who is a native of Derbyshire, came to work with Messrs. Buxton, on the turn-out of their men, and was shortly afterwards in duced, by the intimidation offered by the turn-outs, to leave the town, and go to Bolton, where he was apprehended under a warrant for deserting his work, and, being brought before the magistrates, was ordered to return. Shortly afterwards he again absented himself ; but returned to work of his own accord, by which he appears to have given great offence to the turn outs; and given ri se t o th e murderous atta c k ma d e upon hi m on Saturday night. About eleven o'clock he was standing in Clarendon-street, within a few yards of his own door, when two men came out of a beer-shop in the neighbourhood, and, after a short parley, began to abuse and threaten him with violence. He was retreating to his own house, when six or seven other men came up; and, just as he laid his hand on the latch of his door, one of them seized him by the collar, and struck him two or three times upon the neck and the side of the head. Ile got away into the house, and then found that be had been severely wounded in the neck by repeated stabs of some sharp instru ment ; and that one of his ears was nearly divided, apparently by drawing a sharp knife across it. The murderous intention, however, failed; none of the stabs having taken effect in a vital place. We are glad to learn that two of the men are known ; and a warrant ha s b een i ssue d for their appreh ens i on . A rewa rd of twenty-five sovereigns has been offered for the discovery of the man who inflicted the wounds.—Manchester Guardian. CONNUBIAL Biass.—On Tuesday last, a rather aged son of the last, whose name we did not happen to hear, appeared on summons before the sitting magistrates at the Town Hall, to answer the complaint of his better half, who attended by his side to complain of ill usage. He was in the constant habit of beat ing and punching her, she said and she prayed their worships to interpose their authority in her behalf.' Crispin, in defence, did not exactly deny the charge, but alleged in justification, that his wife's tongue was too unruly for his management, and he prayed their worships to be so good as to separate them.— The magistrates, however, did not feel disposed to fall in with this suggestion, and, after consulting a white, intimated to the husband that he was to find sureties to keep the peace towards hi s wife. " No, no," exclaimed Crispin, amid the laughter of all present, "no, no, I'll not be bound in that way , !" " How," quoth the bench, "you will not be bound?" "No, no," was the reply, " I will not be bound to keep the peace her." It was finally arranged that this happy couple should separate.— They had been married just twelve months !—Preston Pilot. Their Majesties continue in excellent health at Windsor. The King came to town and held a Levee at St. James's on Wednesday. His Majesty returned to Windsor in the evening. On Friday . the King reviewed the third battalion of Grena dier Guards in the little Park. Their Majesties, besides their official attendants, were accompained by the Dukes of Welling ton and Dorset, and Earl and Countess Brownlow. After the review, his Majesty addressed Colonel Lambert, the Command.. ing Officer, in terms of the highest approbation of the appear ance and discipline of the regiment. The Duke of Wellington continues at the Castle. A LEITH CARTER V. THE REFORM BILL.—The other day a Leith carter formed one of a party who were discussing the merits of the Parliamentary reform biil, when, in reply to some observations as to its efficient working, he exclaimed with a most sarcastic sneer—" Reform, d've say—ma certie! I see little gude it's dune. A' thing's as ill as ever! There, for in stance, ye canna ride on your cart o'er the Links, but your lickit in for your halfcrown as fast as ever ! There's little re form there yet; and if the Parliamenters had been worth their lugs, it wud hae been ane o' their first jobs to hae altered that, I think !"—Glavow Courier. KILDARE-PLACE SOClETY.—Notwithstanding the efforts of the present Government to discountenance and put down scrip tural education in this country, and, necessarily, to eradicate Protestantism out of the land, it will afford great satisfaction to our readers to learn that the schools of the Kildare-place Society are progressing with vigour and success. We have much pleasure in quoting the following from a circular recently issued by the secretaries of the society, accompanied by a copy of the report of the committee to the last annual meeting:— "The schools in communication with the Kildare-place Society, throughout the country, were never at any time more efficient, both in numbers and diScipline. The amount of scriptural instruction afforded in them is very considerable, and is con stantly increasing; and the proportion of Roman Catholics who attend the schools is fully as great as usual, and they appear equally anxious with the other scholars for scriptural'. instruc tion." This is most consolatory to the hopes of the Christian patriot, and if (as the circular proceeds to say) the suns of one shilling per annum were contributed to the funds of the society, by each adult Protestant in Ireland, ample means would ge supplied to ensure the important national and Christian ob jects of these schools, and the combined efforts of popery and of infidelity would be defeated.—Dablin Warder. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—" Who has the job ?"—PAUL PAL—And so the scheme of a National Gallery of Painting, which was to rival the Louvre, and raise England in the esti mation of the Continent, has vanished like the " baseless fabric of a vision," leaving "no other wreck behind" than a pall!) , project to vamp up an old house for that purpose; including in the snug little job, the desecration of another altar. They are furious enemies to chapels and churches these Whigs; and we expect, should they " hang long upon the tree," to behold West minster Abbey converted into a Panorama, and St. Paul's into a Horse Bazaar. The truth is, these I t rreat men of mighty re source, are put to their last shifts to raise the wind—the sum to he conjured up by letting off the Crown Lands around the King's MeWs, is too tempting tor them to suffer it to'be applied to any other purpose than their own necessities—so national taste must be sacrificed to ufinisterial expediency. It is this contemptible, narrow-minded, Palterin , vita the Arts, which in England keep s them in their infancy ; but we are notdisappointed, we expected little encouragement for them with the Whigs. They have other arts to cultivate, than the Fine Arts—one of which is to secure their salaries from whatever fund they can finger. "The Whigs love the Arts 2 —and to found a fit Gallery, They tax the poor Nation, and—turn it to salary."—'Age. PAGANINI'S CONCERT. This extraordinrav artiste gave the first of two concerts at the Liver Theatre last bight, in which he was assisted by the vocal powers of Miss %Veils, and Miss Watson, and by Mr. Watson, who accompanied them on the piano. It is difficult, if not impossible, to convey an idea by mete description of the Signor's feats on the violin. his instrument appears to form a part of himself, and, like any member of his body, obedient to his will, and giving expression to any sounds that the exuberance of his fancy may suggest—in a word, with his fiddle and his bow Paganini becomes a sort of magician, possessing the power of doing whatever his will may command; and almost every thing that he does appears to lie so impos sible, that we can scarce credit the evidence of our eyes and ears while we listen and look upon him. We perceive, with regret, that some attempts have been made in other places to run thi s m a n d own, on the supposed exorbi talky of his demands. This is at once illiberal and unjust. He has as good a right to issue his notes in exchange for those of the Bank of England as any other merchant or banker; and, as they are not a legal tender, no one is compelled in take them contrary to his inclination. We remember well when the same stupid objection was raised against Catalani, whose appearance in England did mote to improve and refine our taste, even in singing our own mus i c , t h an ever cou ld h ave been done by the - foreign studies of our own musicians; for, until her singing became popular, we were content with what we possessed; it was her fame and fortune that acted as the spur to the industry of our native songsters, and rroduced a Paton and others that are not far from being her equals. Perhaps there is no country in the world that owes so 'much of its . greatness and prosperity to the adoption of the manufactures, arts and sciences of other countries as England. It is the pe culiar characteristic of English industry to imitate and im prove all that we can borrow from other nations—and to do this is almost a part of our social system—hence any man, come from where he may, who brings us what we did not before pos sess, is an acquisition to the body politic. We hope then to hear. no more of this kind of narrow-minded reasoning with respect to foreigners, the illiberality of which, we repeat, is only equalled by its absurdity. . To return to the concert, from which we have almost unin tentionally digressed, the house was but moderately filled. This, perhaps, to the attractions of the Theatre- Royal, where' was owing Taglioni is still performing. It is almost un necessary to add that the performances were, as they richly de served to be, loudly applauded. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (Written exclusively for the Liverpool Standard.) Since our last the following meetings have concluded :—the Lewes, Huntingdon, Wolverhampton, Oxford, Exeter, and Burnley, all of which went off with much spirit, but,upon which very little betting, with the exception of the btisinesi'done upon the Wolverhampton alluded to in our last, was effected. The Burnley (Lancashire) races terminated on Friday, and were far from being contemptible. Col. Hargreaves and Charles Towneley, Esq. officiated as stewards. The Burnley Stakes were taken by Augusta, beating four others. This filly was purchased the other day at York, by Mr. Richardson of Man chester, for the sum of £7O, after which she proved peculiarly fortunate, by winning the Tradesmen's £5O, at York, and again being successful at Burnley, thus amply redeeming the pur chase-money. The Tradesmen's Stakes were won by Jerry, beating three others. The Habergain Eaves' Stakes were won by Mr. Walker's Brown Stout, beating three others. The Hunters' Stakes, by Jessy, beating five others. The Burton-upon-Trent meeting, which opens this day, (Tuesday,) promises excellent sport ; most of " the crack horses" that run last week at Wolverhampton being entered. Little else at present engages the attention of our sporting arena." Some business was done on Friday, and yesterday, (Monday,) upon the Great St. Leger, but principally at old prices. • Mussulman and Rockingham get up, and the latter enjoys much confidence, more indeed than Belshazzar, whose running at York is thought nothing of. Rockingham not going for the " Thirty Sovereigns" has improved his condition, and procured him more friends. Marpessa is where she was—at 13 to 1. A great number of our sporting gentry, of Lancashire, have not yet returned from the Wolverhampton meeting, and it is supposed that they intend to make it their business to at tend the Burton meeting. The following is the latest state of the betting in Manchester : GREAT ST. LEGER.-5 to 1 against the Duke of Cleveland's Muley . Moloch ; 61 to 1 against Mr. Watt's Belshazzar. (t) ; 81 against Mr. Walker's Mussulman; Bto 1 against Mr. Watt's Rockingham; 13 to 1 against Mr. Forth's Marpessa, (offered); 13 to 1 against Col. Crawford's Mole, (t); 16 tol against Anne ; 20 to 1 against Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge, (t). None others named. The latest betting at Tattersall's does not materially vary from our Lancashire prices, with the exception of 2,100 to 100 being bet against each of 20 in one bet ; the horses selected are the 8 above quoted in the Manchester betting, with Con noisseur, Jack Faucett, Tim, Tutor, Glaucus, New Fashion, Lot, Laurel's Dam, Frankenstein, Forrester, Clearwell, and Dancing Master; 1000 to 10 against MrsHouldsworth's Titus, (t) ; 600 to 20 against Lot and Laurel's Dam, (t); 6 to 4 on Belshazzar against R oc ki ng h am . Up on th e Derby for 1834 the following bets have been made :-17 to 1 against Olympic, and 18 to 1 against Comet, (t) ; and upon the Oaks the hating is 12 to 1 on the field. - BURTON RACES.—IIe Cup Stal;.es, 2 to 1 against Kalmia, 3to 1 against Independence. The Bretby Handicap, 2 to 1 against Her Highness,3 to 1 against Kahnia, , l to 1 against In dependence, 5 to 1 against Giovanni, and 5 to 1 against any other. EXECUTION AT LANCASTER. John Roach, the soldier, who was tried on Friday last for the wilful murder of Corporal Maggs, in the barracks at Manches ter, under the circumstances detailed in the report of the trial, was executed yesterday morning, pursuant to his sentence, on a gallows erected behind the Castle. In the interval between the sentence and its execution, the unfortunate man, who is a native of Ireland, and a member of the Roman Catholic religion, was attended by the Rev. Mr. Brown, the resident priest at Lancas ter, and we understand exhibited every mark of deep contrition and repentance for his crime, and of resignation to his untimely fate, the justice of which he fully acknowledged. The same propriety of behaviour which marked his conduct during the T►rogress of the trial and afterwards, has, we believe, been mani fested by him ever since his committal to gaol, being deeply sensible throughout of the enormity of his offence, and conscious that his own life must make atonement for it. It was generally expected that he would plead guilty ; he was, however, induced to stand his trial, though it was manifest during the whole course of it that he entertained little or no hope of escape. At eight o'cltnk yesterday morning the prisoner was brought out for execution. He walked out with a quick and firm step, hardly glancing at the assembled crowd, and placed himself under the drop, with his back to the people. The executioner having put the cap upon his head, and adjusted the fatal rope, the burial service of the Catholic Church was read by the Rev. Mr. Brown, who kneeled down at the verge of the gallows. During this awful interval the prisoner stood firmly, though, as upon the trial, a convulsive twitching of the head and arms, manifested the struggle that was going ou within. The service being con cluded the bolt was drawn and the prisoner was launched into eternity. He did not appear to struggle much. After hanging the usual time the body was taken down, and placed in a shell, to be interred within the limits of the gaol, pursuant to his sen tence. There were about 20.:0 persons present, of whom a great portion were boys and girls belonging to the factories, who had been liberated a quarter of an hour sooner than usual, in order to allow them an opportunity of witnessing the execution. FATAL EXPLOIT.—On Sunday se'nnight, (on Sunday too!) at Oldham, a man named Bulloughs, who had been drinking hard previously, att em pt e d, i n b rav ado, to drink two shillings' worth of gin, but before he cou ld accom pli s h hi s L e astiv feat - he fell down and expired; leaving a wife and large family to de plore the inconsiderate conduct of their natural protector. How TO KILL A WlFE.—"What! your third wife dead! Dear me, how came you to be so lucky ? " " Why, I knew that they could not live without contradiction, and so I let them have all their own way." A horse-dealer had a son, who being a lad of spirit, proposed, as a novel expedient, to open a stable (.n the principle of strict ly honest dealing; but the father, who was a prudent man, dis couraged the idea, observing, " that he disliked speculation." SINGULAR PHENOMENON. — Within the last ten days two re markably large swarms of flies have been noticed at North Shields, proceeding from the sea in a westerly direction. On one of the occasions au opportunity was taken of estimating the height of the mass, which appeared to be about twenty-one feet, by six or eight in breadth. It was several minutes in passing by the observers.—Newcastle Courant. An Irishman, on being asked, what did he come to England for? said, "Is it what I came here for, you mane? Arrali, by the powers! you may be sure it was'nt for want, for 1 had plenty of that at home !" 'When a magistrate of the sister kingdom was told that the qualification of the Irish constituency bad been raised, be ob served, " Sure it's as asy to swear to ten pounds as to 4Us." WELSH FLANNEL; A RATIONAL REASON FOR MARETING.— " HOW could you do so imprudent a thing," said a curate to a very poor Taffy ; "what reason could you have for marrying a girl as completely steeped in poverty as yourself, and both without the prospect of the slightest provision ?"—" Why, Sir," replied the Benedict, " we had a very good reason; we had a blanket a piece ; and as the cold winter weather was coming on, we thought that putting them together would be wanner." In the Market-place at Bath, on Tuesday, a man named Stradling offered his wife for sale to the highest bidder. The lady, it appeared, had been sold for half-a-crown on Monday at Lansdowu fair, but the bargain was nut considered legal—first, because the sale was not held in a public market place, and se condly, because the purchaser had a wife already. The lady was dashingly attired, and had a halter, covered with silk, round her neck. Ihe bidding amounted at last to five shillings, at which sum it was understood she was bought in. It happened, however, very unluckily for the husband of the fair one, that the police had an eye to th is li t tl e transaction, for just as the affa i r had concluded he was apprehended for having created a public disturbance, and was politely handed to a temporary lodging in the Bath Gaol. Th e a b ove di sgrace f u l ex hibi tion assembled,- as may be easily imagined, an immense concourse of spectators.— Bath Chronicle. A discovery of considerable importance, as connected with the production of steam, has just been made by the superin tendent of one of the gas establishments in the metropolis. He has ascertained that an excel*nt fuel may be provided in coke, gas, tar, and water, applied in particular_proportions; and as the weight of this fuel is little more than one-third of that of the qua ntity of coals requisite to produc e th e sam e result, it will no longer be difficult to establish communication by steam with India and other distant parts of the world, the great and indeed hitherto insuperable objection, the weight and bulk of . the fuel, being liow removed. C o l one l Torrens, the member for Bolton, some time since, we understand, took out a patent for a discovery of a locomotive p ower, st ill more aston i s h ing t h an this, for his principle was a power derived from an article re quiring so little bulk that a quart of the liquid would produce sufficient for the impulsion of a ship or carriage over fifty miles, The subtlety of this article, however, is said to be such, that it cannot be confined within any known metal, and therefore the discovery is without beneficial result. There is no objection of this kind to the new discovery above named.—Court Journal. FASHIONABLE ABSENTEES.—We have before remarked the extraordinary and unpatriotic system of absenteeism which is the distinguishing feature of the present season. It is with anger for the act, and sorrow for the fact, we state that upwards of thirty families, of the first rank and fortune, have trans ported themselves from their own country for . protracted resi dence on the Continent. We do not hesitate, in the strongest manner . possible, to express our loud and earnest reprobation of such un-British conduct. We are sorry to say' that, during the season, too much of the money of the people of fashion went into the pockets of foreigners, and we are grieved to find at the concl u sion that instead of the good old plan of showing . themselves to their tenants in the country, and the exercise o; old English hosPitality, they hurry off to spend the remainder of their annual income abroad. In the list of these fashionable emigres we arc sorry to number the Marquis of Hertford, Lord Warwick, Lord Monson, Earl Cowper, Lord Fordwich, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Lowther, Mr. Fitzherbert, &e. &c. In addition to which shoals of fashionables, we hear, are on the eve of departure for the Continent.—.4ye.