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k` Neb 3 Vutitirationo. PORTRAIT OF TIIE ORIGINAL LAWRIE TODD. FRASER'S MAGAZINE, No. XLVIII. forDECEM BE R, price 2s. 6d., contains :• - -On the Erect' of the Theban Temple of Ammon ;—The Galt MSS. ' e Gudewife, by the Author of the " Annals of the Parish- —Poets of the Day. Batch the Third; Sartor Resartus (co elusion of Book I.) ; Members of the Northern Poi cal Union : Mackenzie, Attwood, Fife;—Gallery of Literary Characters, No. XLI[I., with a full-length Portrait of Grant Thorburn ;—Household Ser vants, by the Author of " Old Bailey Experience ;"—Old Eng . lish Political Songs; — Mephistopheles Politicus;—The Last - News, with Three Ceers for the Earl of Durham as a Tail piece ;—The Fraser Papers for December. James Frazer, London; and W. Grapel, Church-street, Li verpool. JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY. M Manchester, Obe Established in Manchester, 'verpool, Birmingham, S and-Leeds, with Branches in th Towns adjacent, upon the principle of the Scotch Banks, t styled THE NORTH ERN AND CENTRAL BANK ENGLAND. Capital £300,000, in 30,000 Shares of £lO each. Copies of the Prospectus and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the Provisional Committee-room, 82, King street, Manchester ; from Mr. HARDING, Solicitor, CiOss street, Manchester,. Mr. WORTHINGTON, Solicitor,. Chapel walks, Liverpool; Mr. W. S. HARDING, Solicitor, Waterloo.. street, Birmingham; and Mr. Jokiri W. CROMPTON, Solicitor, Leeds. Liverpool, Dec. 3, 1833. . C. W. WILLIAMS, EsQ.-INLAND NAVIGATION. In our last, treating of poor rates, we incidentally introduced the name of Mr. C. W. Williams, the active, intelligent, and distinguished member of the Dublin Steam-packet Company. However well convinced ourselves of the merits of any man s character, we should feel in-some degree reluctant to their ac knowledgment, fearing the imputation of flattery ; but, as in the present instance, when their works testify for them, we can indulge the pleasing duty of rendering them the tribute of justice, without being open to the charge of adulation. On Saturday last we promised that, in our publication of this day, " Mr. Williams should speak for himself," and thereby afford better evidence than ours, to the patriotic spirit of his labours, and the immediate and prospective benefits to his country, from the judicious enterprise, superior intelligence, and unwearied perseverance which, have marked his speculative exertions. He seizes upon the nracticable, and is neither deceived nor disap vointud in the resu,t; he begins rit the right end, and ever thing goes right with hi m .; ins t ea d o f b eing " in the clouds,' looking for political utopeze, he is in London, in Liverpool, in Dublin, on the banks oft the Shannon, deriving information, and seeking how he may apply it to the improvement of his country. Such a man it is that Ireland wants, and such best merit the ceratitude of her People. Mr. Williams has written one of the most intelligent and useful pamphlets which, even in this publishing age, we have yet seen. Its title is so comprehensive of national utility that we give the whole of it, although long. " Observations on the Inland Navigation of Ireland, and the want of Employment for its population, with a description of the river Shannon: sug gested by the report of the select committee of the House of Commons in 1830, ou the state of Ireland, and the remedial measures proposed." The pamphlet also contains " examina tion of the Application of Money Grants in aid of Public Win-lcs." More interesting topics of inquiry, considered as to national results, could not have been entered upon, and Mr. Williams has brought to them a mind fully adequate to their sober and useful development. We co u ld not afford space to any review or analysis that would do justice to the work, the titlepage of which bears out our assertion, and points out the necessity of perusing the book itself for the information of which it is a co pious and valuable repertory. We, therefore, confine ourselves reluctantly to an extract from the introduction. "My politics," says Mr. Williams, "are Trade and Commerce: these are the great pioneers of civilization, and will continue to be so in all ages and in all countries,"—most true, and would to Heaven that we had more politicians of the same caste ! At the outset, Mr. Williams affords to us a valuable and very little known piece of information ,• and upon which a very erro neous idea universally prevails. It is, that there is, on Govern ment securities, no less a sum, at this moment, than £14,181,100 capital lying inert and unavailable. We cannot otherwise account for this dead capital, but in the disturbed state of the country through political agitation, which clothes every pursuit of an enterprising nature with the discouraging gloom of inse curity.' While O'Connell and his instruments are evoking, on every side, the spirits of revolution, how can it be expected that prudent men will run the hazard of transferring capital from the funds, small as is the produce, to objects of national speculation, however great and certain would be the profits to a more tranquil and less excited state of the population ? "It is clear," says our author, "that the naked aver 7 m6nt of Ireland being in want of capital is unfounded. This rids the question of a great diffi culty, and enables us to see our way somewhat clearer. The question, the useful, vital question is, how are we to turn the current of accumulating capital, as in England, to setting the springs of industry in action, and giving value to productive labour ? " It is not, then, capital, but available capital, that Ireland wants—capital that may be so employed as to fructify and re produce itself through the instrumentality of labour. " We see it is not the want of means which occasions that de pression of which all complain, though so few have pointed to the real cause. Neither is it to the abundance of capital alone that England owes the active spirit of trade and enterprise which everywhere prevails. This is the gist of the argument. The question of capital being disposed of, we are in a position to consider the state of Ireland in a practical point of view. The following short summary will then be found to comprise the leading features of his case : " 1. The population want employment. "2. That employment can only supplied by the pursuits of agriculture, internal trade, commerce, or manufactures. " 3. These cannot le promoted without the means of inter course, and interchange, and adequate facilities of transport. " 4. These latter do not exist in Ireland." 1, Here is the text upon which Mr. Williams expatiates, with At force of facts and reasoning which it is impossible fur conviction to resist, and which finds corroboration in the common sense of every man who has the opportunities of common and dispassion ate observation. There is not a true friend—or who wishes to be a true friend to Ireland, who should not earnestly peruse this valuable pamphlet; and in order to assist to its publicity, we shall, if possible, continue our extracts from it. We shall not omit to say, that there is at the end of the book a very fine map, showing the course of the Shannon, and the comparative state of England and Ireland in respect to canals. —Dublin Warder, November 30. LONDOY GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 30. Royal Regiment of Artillery.—First Lieutenant William Halstead Poole, to be Second Captain, vice Burton. retired on half-pay ; Se cond Lieutenant George Charles Rawdon Levinge, to be First Lieute nant, vice Poole INSOLVENT. Nov. 25.—Samuel and Thomas Darwin, Sheffield, roller manufae , turers. Dec. 2.—William Jenkins, Brentwood. Essex, linen-draper. Dec. 3.—Joseph. Slater. l'eppard4 near Henley, Oxfordshire. coal merchant. , —Samuel Barber, Drury -Iw, draper. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Marmaduke Brewer, Rosser Thomas, GL•llygare,,OlaalDr7.,anshire, coal-master. BAN KRUPTS. Francis Darragh, Liverpool, joiner, Dec. 14, Jan. 20, at 11 o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool; solicitor, Mr. Harrison, Temple chambers. ••••..•.."1, • George Laing, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 20, Jan. 14, at 1 o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool; solicitors, Messrs. Norris, Allen, and Anthony, Great Ormond-street. Joshua Loire, West Derby, Lancashire, miller, Doe. 11, Jan. 14, at 11 o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool: solicitors, Messrs. Taylor, Roscoe, and Turner, I3.ldford-row. Augustus Lines. Aylesbury. Buckinghamshire, grocer. • Moses Mason, likestone, Derbyshire, tallow-chandler. Horatio Nelson Powell, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, scri vener. _ _ John Leighton, Nottingb - trn, dealer in paper. James Ogden and Charles Wahnsley, Hollinwood, Lancashire, cotton spinners. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Chadsvirk and Taylor, Engine-bridge, near Huddersfield, mill wrights.—R. Curson anti J. East, Lees-mews, North Audley-street, Hanover-square, carvers.-5. and M. Freebody, Hurley, Berkshire, car enters.—li. Jones and Co., Liverpool, coal-merchants.—Williama and Ilickes, Plymouth, coal-factors.—E. Frere and Co., Clydach-iron works, Breconshire, iron-masters.-5. Lunham and R. Cressley, Chis well-srteet, cheesemongers.—J. Shield,,a.nd T. Greenwell, Newcastle, wharfingers.—M; and S.Turner, Newtown, Montgomeryshire.—Chap man and Doggett, Ringland, Norfolk, farmers.—H. S. May, and J. D. Carew, Tiverton, Devonshire, surgeons.—Anthony anti Davies, Carditr, Glamorganshire, linen-drapers.—Lucas and Cook, Liverpool, and Lucas, Cook, and Co., Demerara.—Cornish and Co., Holloway as far as regards J. Duncan. DIVIDENDS. _ _ Dec. 21, W. Roberts, Angel-court, merchant.—Dec. 24, E. Thomp son, Globe-stairs, Rotherl'iithe, ship-builder.—Dec. 24, J. and J. drimble, Elm-street, Gray's-in-lane, coach-snring-makers.—Dec. 24, R. Hardcastle, West Smithfield, plumber.—Dec. 21, S. Parker, Ar gyle-place, Regent-street, hronzist.—Dec. 27, A. Hickson, Horricas tle, Lincolnshire, grocer.—Jan. 8, W., W. H., and J. Pearson, New castle-upon-Tyne and London, iron.plate-workers.—Dc. 2:1, W. B. Bahbage, Great Yarmouth. mast-maker.—Dee. 27, T. and T. H. Ro binson and It. Hancock, Manchester, cotton-merchants. CrIRTIFICATES, DEC. 24. I. Z. Pulbronk, Great Surrey-greet, Blackfriars-road, hoot and shoe-inaker.—W. Croggon, shn., Belvedere-road, Lambeth, and fir lace-row, New-road, artificial-stone-manufacturer.—W. Tills, jun., Stutton, Suffolk, miller.—R. Biddle, Cardiff, brick-maker.—H. Red stone, Winchester, linen-draper.—J. Blake, Blandford Forum, Dor setshire, victualler.—J. Forbes anti D. Russel, Mark-lane, wine-mer chants.--T. Cocks, Little Lant-street, Southwark, oilman. A merchant in Boston advertises for sale a camel-hair shawl, the original cost of which in Calcutta was 1,000 dollars. The immortal Locke was a first-rate piquet-player, being far more distinguished for that talent in Oxford than for hiti meta physics. As some men were clearing a cesspool in Wellington-street, St. Benedict's, they found, at the bottom, three chamber lamps, which appealed of great antiquity. Not supposing them of any value, they were sold at a small price. One of them being sent to a jeweller's shop to be cleaned., it was discovered to be silver, of curious workmanship, and at least 300 years old.—Nortvich Mercury. EmicriANTs.—The accounts which have been received at Elgin, relative to the emigrants who went to America this seat son, give little encouragement to others to follow their example- By the return of a person who went out to America, along with mpny . others from this part of the country, we learn that Mr. Skirving, from Forres, is no more. Mr. "James Thomson and two of his daughters, and Mr. John Thomson's wife, did not survive many days after their arrival in America • and a young man, a son of Mr. Thomson's, was so very ill, when the person we allude to left that country to return home, that he was not expected to recover. It is melancholy to think that it is not vet.four months since these two brothers, with their families, left this country. where they had plenty of employment, and sailed for America in the best of health, taking with them up wards of £5OO each, and,that in all probability there are not more than two or three alive out of the eight persons composing the two families. We never advocated emigration, as we al ways considered that the man who had a suffietency to pay his passage, and support himself until he could cultivate land, or otherwise establish himself in a foreign country, could have laid out his money with greater advantage and benefit in his native country. When any person prospers in America, we are sure to hear of it ; but it is seldom we hear of the miseries which many of our countrymen suffer when they go there. unless in cases such as here stated, where whole families are almost swept away. Strange are the tales which have been told concerning the sufferings of the passengers, in some of the vessels which left this country for America this season. In one instance the passage extended to nine weeks, with storms and hurricanes all the time. 0 ten did the captain and sailors give up all hope of ever being able to reach the land, and so impressed were the sailors and passengers with the awful situation in which they were placed, for such a length of time ' that they firmly believed there was some person on board who had committed - murder; accordingly lots were cast, and the lot fell on one from this part of the country; but it yet remains to be known whether any charge of that description could be laid against biro.—Elgin Courier, CONTEMPORARY PRESS. Rumours have been rife for some days past of disagree ments and changes iu the cabinet. We have not before alluded to them, having no landmarks to go by. The data upon which they have been grounded we can now, from our own sources, state to be as follow : .At the close of the last session, Earl Grey did—as the preceding year he had done—announce to his colleagues his then decided resolve not to meet another session of Parliament as minister. This time he intimated that his determination was final. gilt the noble Premier has a family, unhappily too numerous, not all provided for even yet, and those who have the good luck to be endowed, are not all secure of their places in case of his retirement. To preserve them to those who were in,and to leave the coast clear for those who were out, it was deemed advis able by that far-seeing gentleman, Ned Ellice, as he is familiarly termed, (a good sort of fellow in some re spects), that some kinsman of the Greys should in any case take the helm in his stead. Lord Durham was the man considered to be the most convenient tool. But his Lordship had been more used to govern stable-boys than gentlemen and colleague Ministers ; Mr. Grant and others of the cabinet remem bered that even at a cabinet - dinner he would lose his temper, fall out with and complain of the laquies of his hosts, and so they demurred; the pulse of the country too was felt, and there was no chance. The scheme did not therefore answer so well as the Greek loan and va rious other enterprises of Mr. Ellice had done. A great commotion was the consequence; various combinations were formed, but none succeeded. Some proposed Mr. Stanley —he was too young; others the Duke of Rich mond—he was to, stupid; nobody ventured to think of Lord Brougham—he was too slippery. So after dining in town without resolving, the Ministers adjourned to Woburn Abbey, to shoot rooks and confabulate without the risk of eaves-dropping. But neither with dining nor shooting could they hit the mark ; so the result of this turmoil is, that for the present Earl Grey remains pre mier, and all further discussions are adjourned till after the holidays—that is, until January. This we have good .reason to believe is the - status quo—ante bellum.— Guardian and Public Ledger. LONDON L4W COURTS. COURT OF KING'S BENCH.-MONDAY. THE KING V. W. J. BANKES, ESQ., MR., AND ANOTHER. The Solicitor-general on the part of the prosecution (the Pa rish of St. Margaret's, Westminster), detailed the particulars of this case, and read, by the consent of the defendant's coun sel, Sir James Scarlett, the evidence of Barker, given at the po lice office before his departure for America, which it appears Mr. Bankes did all that he could do to prevent. The evidence called was that of the police officer who apprehended Mr. Bankes and the soldier, which did not amount to anything more than an inference that their meeting was not a casual one: The reply of Sir James Scarlett was a triumphant answer to the charge, after which a great number of distinguished charac ters were examined as to the character, habits, and pursuits of Mr. Bankes, all of whom concurred in opinion that he was un likely to commit the offence that he was charged with, or any other breach of decency. The Duke of Wellington said that he had been acquainted with Mr. Bankes for 20 years; Lord Fitzrhy Somerset had known him since he was a boy at school; Mr. Smedley, Deputy High Bailiff of Westminster, had known him 30 years; Dr. Butler, formerly master of Harrow School, 30 years ; Cham bers, 33 years • Lord Burghersh knew him from his (Lo r d Burghersh's) Childhood ; Mr. Galley Knight, many years; the Earl of Ripon, 20 years; the Earl of Caledon, many years; the Rev. Henry Jones, many years; Sir E. Kerrison, many years; Sir W. S. Rose, for very many years; Mr. Seton, from his school-days; Dr. Batten, since he was at college; the Earl Brownlow, years; Captain Yorke, 10 years; Mr. Clive, M.P., many years ; Mr. R. Gordon, M.P., 28 years • Mr. Harris, one of the judges of the Insolvent Court, from his boyhood ; Mr. Dundas, all his life; Mr. Henry Alexander, a barrister, the same ; Lord Gage, 2.3 years; Sir J. Becket, 12 years ; Mr. Peache, 27 years ; the lion. W. Best, four or five years; Mr. Arbuthnot, 12 years; Lord Cowley, since 1814; the Earl of Breckuock, 12 years; Sir Colquhoun Grant,. 23 years; Mr. Henry . Smyth, Professor of History at Cambridge, since he was at College; Henry Beachy, Esq., many years; Mr. W. Alex ander, a barrister, seven or eight years ; Lord Stuart de Roth say, since 1812; David Bailey, Esq. (this witness said that he had travelled in many parts abroad, in all of which he had heard of Mr. Bankes, sometimes in no friendly terms, but he had never heard of such an imputation as the present, and if any ground for such a charge existed, it was probable he should have heard it) ; the Rev. Mr. Piggott, 25 years; Mr. Dominick Browne, M.l'., 27 years. To explain the departure of the witness Barker there was called Thomas Goold, who said—l knew Barker; his sister was mar ried to my son. He came to me in May last, and told me he had had some words with his brother, and that he wished to go to America, and asked me to get him a passage in a ship going to New York. I did get him a passage on board the ship Amity. I paid the passage-money in the end of May. Barker was bringing some of his clothes to my house to put in his ch e st o n the night (the 6th of June) when this affair happened. 11r. Smith, who chartered the Amity, proved the payment of Barker'spassag,e-monev before the Ist of June last. Another witness, the' clerk to the vessel, corroborated this statement. • A clerk to the defedant's solicitors proved that he went to the Downs, and from thenee.to the Channel, in which he re mained a week, boarding every . outward bound vessel to search for Barker, but without effect. This closed the case for the defendant Mr. Bankes. For the defendant Flowers there were called George Collins, a private in the same regiment, who proved that he George with him on the night of the 6th of June, and left hint in Charles-street on that night about twenty minutes to ten O'clock. He gave him a good character. Three serjeants and three privates of the same regiment also gave the defendant a good character for honest and manly con duct. One of them, when asked if the defendant was likely to be guilty of such an offence as that charged, answered "No; he was quite the reverse; quite the other way." Mr. Watkin, assistant to the surgeon attending Tothill-Gelds prison, stated that 'the defendant Flowers was affected with dis ease when he come to that prison; it seemed of two or three weeks standing. The jury ; after a few minutes' consultation, found the defend ants Not Guilty. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.--MoNntr. HUNT V. AGER AN onizris.--This was an action conducted in person by Henry Hunt, Esq., the ex M.P. for Preston, against the printer and proprietors of the True Sun, a London evening paper, for copying a libel which originally appeared in the Liverpool Journal. The words complained of were these : "RIOT AT PRESTON. -It appears that Hunt, the late mem ber, pointed at Counsellor Seager, and said, 'There is a black sheep.' Ihe mob fell upon him and murdered him. In the affray, Hunt had his nose cut off. . The coroner's inquest has biought in a verdict of wilful - murder against Hunt, and he is in custody. Fudge." The only interesting feature in this trial was the great dii play of erudition, on the part of the plaintiff's witnesses, as to the precise meaning of the word fudge. All the great lexico graphers of ancient and modern times appear to have been consulted on the occasion. Mr. Foster, of the Leeds Patriot, thought that it meant stuff, or nonsense. The jury, as if con vinced by the reasoning of this gentleman, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with one farthing damages, for this fudge pro secution. THE LATE GALES. On the night of Thursday last, a most tremendous gale of wind from W.N.W was experienced in the Moray Frith, dur ing the violence of which the new schooner Fancy, of Spey, Geddes, master, from Wemyss to Spey with coals, in attempt ing the harbour of For:soy, was unfortunately driven on shore among the rugged rocks at the back of the New Pier, where immediately the lives of the crew became exposed to the most imminent peril. On the disaster being known, an express was dispached to Banff for the aid of the coast-guard, with Captain Manby's apparatus, to endeavour to preserve the crew ; and not a moment was lost by that excellent and active officer, Mr. Birnie, in proceeding with his men for Portsoy ; but, happily, before it was possible fur them to reach that place, they were met by a second express, who communicated the gratifying in telligence that the exhausted and worn-out crew of the schooner had, through the great and persevering exertions of the pilots, seamen, and others, in Portsoy, been rescued from a watery grave, which at first, in the belief of all who witnessed the awful scene, was certain to become their melancholy fate. The ves 'sel went to pieces, and cargo lost ; part only of the materials axed.--Edinburgh Advertiser. We scarcely ever.recelleet.snch stormy weather as was ex perienced here on Thursday night and yeslehriv morning. For some time it blew a hurricane, many house - roofs' were seriously injured, and we fear that accounts from sea will prove calami tous. The fluctuations in the barometer were very rapid and singular; at one time the mercury was lower than we ever no ticed it. Among the many instances of the superiority of steam conveyance, we have to mention the extraordinary and safe passage made by the Glasgow trader, the Toward Castle, Capt. Stewart, which left the Clyde at eleven o'clock on Thursday night, and accomplished her voyage against the greatest storm we have experienced for some years past. This vessel arrived safe here yesterda.y evening witkout th e s li g ht es t acc id en t.— Belfast Chronicle, Nov. XX DeNnez.—lntelligence has been received, that two vessels belonging to this port have been wrecked in the Baltic. The Comely, Straton, while on her passage to Riga, was lost on the Island of Bornholm on the 2d current, but the crew was for tunately saved. The Malvina, Miller, while on her homeward bound passage. struck on °swill, and was taken into Carisharn, where she sunk. AY/2, 3011 Nov.—Our town was visited yesterday by a tre mendous hurricane from the west, which has done some da mages to our port and shipping. Early in the morning, the sloop Queen Adelaide, of Cardiff; bound from Glasgow to Li verpcol, broke from her moorings in Rotnsay Bay, and about eleven o'clock a.m. she was driven ashore here. The crew are saved and she will be got off, but much dam a g e d. About three o'clock, P.M. the sloop Kitty and Maly, of Drummore, (in Kirkcudbright,) on entering the harbour, was dashed against the south pier by a sea, which carried away the captain at the helm, the remainder of the crew were drawn ashore with ropes; the captain's body has not yet been found. Another sailor was dashed off the quay and drowned, while endeavouring to assist the crew'of the Panmure. His name is Thomas Martin, a re markably sober man. He has left a wife and family to mourn his loss. This is the extent of the damage done as far as known. At Troon there are three or four vessels disabled ; the brig Kilmarnock sunk, the Fame ditto, and a strange brig ashore, name unknown. There are also two vessels ashore at Largs. P.S.-- Martin's body has been found. It has been again blowing a furious gale of wind all night and the early part of the morning, from the south-west; and we greatly fear that we shall have another calamitous account of shipwrecks and other devastations, the consequence of the storm. This is the most severe season with which this country has been visited for many years.—Dublin Evening Mail, H'ednesday. FURIOUS STOII3I AT LIMERICK.—On the 28th ult. a violent gale of wind set in from the W.N.W., accompanied by occa sional heavy showers of rain, and the same evening the gale as sumed all the appalling characteristics of a most furious hurri cane. Throughout the night the scene was terrific in the ex treme, and the streets presented a most desolate aspect. Nearly all the public gas-lights were extinguished, and the howling of the storm, as it swept in pitiless squalls through every street, lane, and alley, struck terror to the hearts of every inmate of those mansions which suffered more or less from its destructive power. A spring tide, raised with the storm beyond its usual boundaries, dashed with desperate force against the quays, rolling a vast mass of waters over them. The strong banks en closing the Abbey river (Island and Sahnon-weir) were broken up, and the waters rushed in, deluging the fields on both sides to a wide extent. The cattle grazing there, cows and sheep, were saved with great difficulty. The long pavement or cause way, from Quinpool to the Thornond-gate distillery, was inun dated, and the fields around flooded. In Bridge-street a chim ney fed iu, and tore away the roof and - Ceiling, but without fur ther damage. The yards of the city gaol were full of water, and the tide came up to its very gates, as it did also to the verge of the flagging on A.rthur's-quay. The underground kitchens in houses adjacent to the river, were two feet deep in water. It is worthy of remark, that a very few hours before this dreadful commotion of the elements, the quicksilver fell rapidly, and to a degree so low as we scarce exer remember. The lowlands on the Upper and Lower Shannon must have suffered severely by this extraordinary invasion of both wind and water. The horses of the Mini; coach arriving yesterday, had to wade knee-deep several miles of the road, especially about Cratloe, without a vestige of the ordinary landmarks, but under the care of an experienced and skilful driver. The Salmon-weir re ceived considerable damage, a great portion of the large timber - work having been torn up and sent adrift. Some of the strong est houses in the city literally rocked in the blast like a cradle. A house building off William-street, towards Thomas-street, by Mr. P. M`Namara, of Thomond-gate, which wanted merely the roofing to complete, was hurled to the ground by the ungovern-' able element, and became a pile of rubbish. A turf-boat swamped off Coonah Point, when two persons perished, one a K rown lad of 16 or 18 years, the other a boy of 10, Thaddy Spellicy and Michael Lynch ; the remainder of the crew, with two females, clung to the mast until the flood subsided, and were thus saved. The Derwent merchant vessel also, which arrived the same evening from America, after anchoring in the Pool, lost one of her hands, who was blown off the yard and perished in sight of his messmates.--Limerick Chronicle. On Thursday night week we were visited by a most terrific storm. During the whole of Thursday the appearance of the clouds, as they drifted in wild confusion through the air, seemed to portend a hurricane; and about eleven o'clock, p.m., the hollow moaning of the wind announced its approach, blowing in a south-easterly direction, and in a short time the river of this town was swollen to an unusual height, entering the back yards of various houses. The tempest continued with unabated, fury until five o'clock on Friday morning; however no serious in jury occurred in this neighbourhood.—Boyle Gazette. For nearly forty-eight hours past we have had severe weather, with wind that at times amounted to the violence of a strong gale, accompanied by heavy rain. About three o'clock on Fri day morning, the night being almost entirely one storm, several large vessels made fast to the mooring ground at the Abbey, opposite the city, were torn from their station, dragging the moorings, but fortunately sustained no damage, When break ing. loose, they snapped a ponderous chain, each link of which weighed forty-seven pounds!- A very unusual and most extra ordinary circumstance, probably the effect of hard weather at sea, was observed in this river about one o'clock on Thursday; the particulars of this case are very well stated in the official report of the deputy-pilot master at Passage, which we subjoin : 'PASSAGE, Nov. 29.—The first part of yesterday, (Thursday,) there were extremely heavy gales, which gradually increased until noon, when it blew a storm from the southward. Shortly after it became more moderate, and the tide began to flow re gularly. At one p.m., a heavy squall came down from the west ward, accompanied by a most strange return of the ebb tide, and in one hour the water had fallen perpendicularly about four feet, but at two p.m. the flood again returned, and the tide rose ra pidly. This is the most remarkable irregularity of the tides that I have ever witnessed here."— Waterford Mirror. The weather has been most unsettled during the present week. On Thursday the wind blew strong from the south-east, but during that night, and on Friday morning it blew a hurricane from the north-west. We fear we shall hear bad consequences from sea. Several houses have sustained injury through this city and neighbourhood; we heard of one house having been blown down in Bishop-street.—Derry Sentinel. The weather on Thursday night, and nearly the whole of Friday, was of the most boisterous description. We anticipate melancholy intelligence from sea. A correspondent in the neighbourhood of Gilford informs us that on the morning of Friday, between the rain and the storm, which blew from the north-west, the waters rose over the low grounds nearly six feet above their summer level, an occurrence unprecedented in the memory of the oldest inhabitant of the country along the Bann. —Newry Telegraph. WRECK OF THE MINERVA FROM NEWFOUNDLAND TO LIVER POOL.—For some days past the gales here have been unusually violent, although we have as yet heard of but one casualty of any consequence. That one was in the instance of the Minerva, which, having encountered the storm at sea, had become water logged,• and was driven into Youghall on Sunday. She was then a complete wreck. For a fortnight previously . she had been buffetted about by the tempest, and during this period the suffer ings of the crew were extreme. From the time that she became un manageable they were obliged to seek for safety in the rigging, where they were exposed to all the severities a the weather.— While in this situation the mate died—one of his arms lied been broken a di: y or two before, and he was unable longer to bear up against the multiplied miseries by which he was surrounded. One of the others unfortunately lost his life by a fall from the mast-head to the deck, but this was occasioned, we believe, by his having drank too freely of a cask of rum which they had taken up with them. The captain, whose name was Muid, died through privation and fatigue, having previously, in anticipation of his approaching fate, consigned his watch and papers to the care of one of the crew, named Hanlon, who is a native of Y oughall. The vessel was boarded on Sunday by some of the inhabitants of that town, by whom the exhausted crew were con veyed to shore, where every attention which their destitute con dition required has since been paid to them. The vessel, which is supposed to have been an American, was on her way from Newfoundland to Liverpool. When she first encountered the gale, she was only off the banks of the former place, where the sea ran so high, that besides the casualties we have mentioned, three of the crew were washed overboard. Three others, who had had their limbs fractured during the voyage, have been taken into the hospital at Yougjeall, where, notwithstanding the se verity of their sufferine, it is hoped they will recover.—Cork Constitution. THE CASTLE Foozi.E_tußs , MARCH. A PARODY. Tune--`,' The British Grenadiers." Some talk of great King Shamui, Who nobly-ran away— And some of Ignoramus, The glory of our day, But high and low shall quickly lin 3W The worilicof both appears In the tag, rag, big brag brag Of the Castle Foozh-iers. Whene'er we are commanded The Tories to assail, i - 5,_ Forth marches Phil the Candid, With Goosefort at his tail ; The flag of vengeance at our head Old Foozfe's self appears. With his tag, rag, brag brag brag, And the Castle Foozle-iers. Woe to each Orange justice, Who would our course impede, In vain, in truth, his trust is, Ills fate is soon decreed ; Fair play, he cries, but we despise, And meet the claim with sneers, And a tag; rag, brag brag brag, Of the Castle Foozle-iers. But, oh I a loyal Parson 's the object of our hate, Yet carrying still the face on We cry " investigate"— Strict truth pronounce the tale that once Had cost the tellers ears With a tag, rag, brag brag brag Of the Castle Foozle -iera. Your Colonels and your Carters May raise a pretty fuss, The chance of catching Tartars Has little weight with us ; Law cries forbear, we little care— ' What Whig the law reveres, Like the tag, rag, brag brag brag Of the castle Footle-lers. On ribbons, caps, and flounces, And such like " ladies' geer," Our ardent valour pounces, So noble our career— Of every gown in Portadown The hue our chieftain hears. Thro' the tag, rag, brag brag brag Of his Castle Foozie-iers. In vain th' indignant nation Cries out. in fierce disgust— Our word is—" Situation"— For this we lick the dust. We•cling tapla.ce and boldly face A People's jibes and jeers At the tag, rag, brag brag brag Of the Cattle Foode-iers. Then let us fill our glasses, And drink a health to those Who fly at lads or lasses, That wear the Orange clothes ;- May all the corps with Foozle soar, Above thestarry spheres, ' With a tag, rag, brag brag brag Of the Castle Footle-iers. Dublin Evening Mail, The Lord Bishop of St. David's has presented Mr. James Skinner, student of Marisehal College, Aberdeen, to a Founda— tion Scholarship in the University of Durham. Air. Skinner. is a grea t- g randson of the Rev. John Skinner of Longside, in Ab e rdeenshire, the popular author of " Tullochgorum," " Ewie wi' the crooked horn," &c. isoom or A MonnaN BAILIE.—A stately, dace, honest, " ane o' thae newfangled bantlin Burghs God-fearing othe p rsßeformonag Bill,"personage, i happened rather unexpectedly t o be raised to the dignity of a bailie at the last election, the d u .. ties of which office he knew as little about as Prester John being better acquainted with the rules of the Kirk than the quirk; and forms of a court. Immediately after his appointment, h e returned in triumph home to receive the congratulations of his better half, and prepare himself for the intricate duties of his new station. Having seated himself by a good blazing fire, the honest dignitary began to cogitate on the important functions which he had been called upon by his townsmen to perform, when a loud rapping was heard at the door, and a person on business announced, " Nirantin' the b a ilie." "Send him this way (quoth the worthy magistrate) an' let's hear what he's got to say." The stranger immediately entered, and after making a slight cong6 with hat in bawl, proceeded to say—" I was wushin' your honour to tak my oath anent a bit dispute in which I'm concernt wi' twa or three o' my neighbours." " Ave, just so," said the bailie, (with becoming dignity,) "sit yer ire's doors there till I speak wi' a friers . anent the matter, in the idler room." The simple reason tor the worthy's retiring at this particular juncture was, that he never heard an o a t h adminis tered in a court of law in his life, and judging it prudent to have better counsel than his own , applied in this sad dilemma to his half marrow, who delivered her judgment in the following terms: "Jamie, I'll tell ye what I would do for this time, were I the bailie. I would just gar the man say As shure as death' to a' that he tells ye—it's baith short and pithy, an'll do weel eneugh for an oath till ye learn a better." The prescribed form was accordingly administered, and the parties separated, mutually satisfied with the legality of the proceeding—the applicantbeing as ignorant of the ordinary form as the bailie.—Glcujou• paper. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. For the BENEFIT of Mr. BRAHAM, and the Last Night of the engagement of Mr. BRAHAM and Miss 're/WIN. Ttl IS present FRIDAY, the 6th instant, will be performed the favourite Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. ' Hawthorn, Mr. Braham ; Young MeadovS, Mr. Frazer. Rosetta. Miss T p i. • To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OP A. Captain Macheath, (first time here,) Mr. Braham. Peach'em, Mr. Andrews. Mrs. Peach'em, Mrs. Clarke.-Lucy, Miss Seymour. Polly, Miss Turpin. Mr. ANDREWS respectfully announces his EN EFIT, VI.NI WEDNESDAY next, the 11th instant, n which occa sion his Daughter, Mrs. BALLS, will ha the honour of appearing as KATE O'BRIEN, When will be performed Shakspeare' ragedy of KING LEAR. King Lear Mr. andenhoff. Au admired and popular American Niger Song, called " JIM CROW," in character, by 11 , Ir. Benwell. After which, the Interlude of PERFECTION. Sir Lawrence Paragon, Mr. Andrews, with the old favourite Song of "We shall ne'er see the like again." Kate O'Brien, (with '"rhe Forest Fairy's Song,") Mrs. Balls. A Jockey Dance, in character, by Master Bickerstaffe. 10 conclude with the Musical Farce of THE FARMER. The Farmer ; Mr. Andrews, with the popular Song of "The Old English Gentleman." Tickets to be had of Air. ANDREWS, 4,.Commutation-row. SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS, rEIHE LIVEIiPOOL AMATEUR PHIL RMONIC _IL SOCIETY respectfully announce their int Lion of having THREE GRAND MISCPLLANEOUS T. CAL and IN STRUMENTAL CONCERTS, at the ARDMAN-STREET, Rooms, under the superintendence of Mr.: vurox; the first to take place on FRIDAY, the 20th instantind the succeeding ones early in the ensuing year. ;1 Subscription to the whole, (inc Guingit; Two Tickets for each Concert. The surplus Funds will be expended in the purchase of New Music, and in the payment of such of the profession as it may be found necessary to engage. The Prospectus may eb - had: at the Music Shops, where Persons wishing to become Subscribers are solicited to leave their names and address. J. It. HEPWORTH, Secretary. Cononittee-rvon, King-street, Soho, 2d Dec., 1831. trbe Eiberpool Atanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1833. About ten days ago Sir JOHN MILLEY DOYLE, &C. &C., &c., &c., and some seven or eight brother-officers and fellow-adventurers in the cause of Donna MARIA of Por tugal, arrived at HORNE'S Hotel, in this town, having come passengers in the William IV. steamer direct from Lisbon. These important personages were at some pains to conceal as much as possible the fact of their arrival, or retreat, or whatever it may be, from the knowledge of the public; but in case that fact,—so deeply important to the interests of the world,—should transpire, (as secrets sometimes do from cabinets and the King's private cham ber,) they desired it to be stated, that they had revisited these realms. for the purpose of buying horses for the service of Don PEDRO. "Horses !" thought we, " they must be asses who be lieve it;"—but we said nothing. Two or three days af terwards our London private correspondent, quite uncon. scions of who had arrived at Liverpool, but whose ex cellent letter,—which the evidence before the commis. sioners of the star chamber compelled us to throw over board,—furnished us with an explanation of the reasons which had induced Doyle and his fellows to honour this country with their presence. It appears that the heroes located at Lisbon, having earned as many laurels as they could conveniently carry, were anxious to receive a small compensation in the shape of pay. They, in an humble memorial, supplicated PEDRO for a few milreas, merely to keep their pockets in friction, and meet the charge for those bottles of wine which confinement in town-quarters did not enable them conveniently to steal. PEDRO took great offence at the bare mention of money, and replied to the insolent request by ordering them on ship-board at an hour's notice, and a speedy departure to the place from whence they came ! This accounts for the living freight on board the William IV. steamer. Our private correspondent of Falmouth will supply the rest:— " His Majesty's schooner, Pike, Lieut. Brooking, arrived this morning from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 24th ult., being three days later than the African. No event of any consequence had occurred in the meanwhile; but the accounts now brought fully confirm those previo . usly received of tha unpopularity of Don Pedro and his ministers, and of the general feeling through out the country in favour of Don Miguel. The Pike brings only one passenger. She was prevented from touching at Oporto by the barsteruus elute of the 11 eather. " Falmouth, Dec. 3, 1833." We have received accounts from Barbadoes to the Ist, and Antigua to the Cth November, with files of papers. The House of Assembly of Barbadoes, on receiving the Governor's message on the Abolition Bill, came promptly to a conclusion to suspend all proceedings upon it until they should learn the determination of Jamaica. The Antigua Weekly Register of the sth November contains a report of the Joint Committee of the Council and House of Assembly to the Governor on receiving his communication, with the act of Parliament for the Aboli tion of Slavery, and the circular despatch of the Colo nial Secretary. This report is an exceedingly able and well-written document, which we regret that want of space compels us to omit, at this important crisis of colo nial affairs. The committee urge, in a temperate but firm manner, their various objections to the measure. Speaking of the apprenticeship clauses, they thus express themselves : "We deem it advisable merely to state our settled conviction that the apprenticeship stage must disappoint the hopes and reasonable expectations of philanthropists, and can be produc tive only of a constant sense of humiliation and disquietude to all parties concerned—tending to substitute for the kindly feel ings, mutual dependence, and the interchange of good offices, which, whatever may he alleged to the contrary, do now, in a great majority of instances, so happily prevail,—a state of con stant irritation, discontent, and strife ; leaving the negroes, in all human probability, in a condition more unfit for the enjoy ment of a rational freedom than at the commencement of it ; — subjecting, moreover, the master to the obligation of main taining labourers over whose conduct he can have no per sonal influence or control ; superseding the usual motives which stimulate to industrious labour in the case of freemen ; and yet doing away with that necessary sense of an instantly impending coercion, in duties designed to be of an involuntary and compulsory nature." On that most extraordinary part of this ruinous mea sure, the distinction of periods of servitude, we find the following just remarks : "The di,tinction, moreover, regarding the time of servitude of the prmdial and non-prmdial classes, is, we think, unfortu nate ; and calculated to excite a jealousy, not unnatural on the part of those who constitute, in truth, the most useful and meri torious class; and to confirm those existing prejudices against mere rustic occupations, as being more degrading, which it is of such infinite importance to counteract." The London papers of yesterday favour us with the description of an extraordinary scene, in which an at torney and the Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM appear in dis tinguished parts. The facts are, that Lord BROUGHAm had committed this attorney to the Fleet prison, illegally and wrongfully—that he usurped a power which he did not possess—that the attorney suffered much injury in consequence, and brought his action to recover compen sation for the damage• he had received. Lord BROUGHAM was defended by the SOLICITOR GE NERAL, who, wonderful as it will appear, did not attempt to justify the noble and learned Lord's conduct, but took shelter under his official privilege, thereby conceding the monstrous point - that the Lord CHANCELLOR can in flict an injury upon a subject of the KING without the law affording him any remedy or redress. The matter is curious inasmuch as it clearly estab lishes the gross ignorance.of Lord BRoUGUAM. What ! ignorance ? Yes—ignorance in him who is the great law reformer—who is the leading assailant of the exist ing system—who is the loudest declaimer against its errors, absurdities, and abuses, and who nevertheless is found wanting on one of the most essential points of legal knowledge which relates to the liberty of the sub ject. The venerable Earl of ELDON was a witness subpoe naed fur the plaintiff, and it is gratifying to remark that the whole bar rose when he entered and retired, as well as when he was giving his evidence. He was also com plimented by the SOLICITOR GENERAL, in the name of the bar, upon his reappearance among them. Infirm as the venerable and learned Lord was, he was examined as to his practice in committing persons fur contempt of court during the time he was Lord Chancellor. He an swered as follows.— "I took all possible caution not to dedrive a subject of his liberty without due cause; but it is impossible for me to say, (being advanced in years, and my memory being on the de cline,) whether there was any mistake in my conduct during the twenty-live years I had been in the Court of Chancery. But if I did commit for contempt for not paying money without a demand and refusal, it must be a mistake. If I hare committed such a mistake I ask pardon of my country for it. But my Secretary of Bankrupts can answer these questions better than I can. I take this opportunity of saying that Ido not appear here as a willing witness, but, being subpcenaed, I thought it my duty to attend to give evidence between matt and man." What a reproof to Lord BROUGHAM ! "If I have committed such a mistake, I ask pardon of my country for it !" No, Lord ELDON never committed any such mistake ; but Lord BROUGHAM, the reformer, has ; but will he "ask pardon of his country for it?" The SOLICI TOR-GENERAL pleaded Lord BROUGHAM'S official privi lege, and he was acquitted ; but will the wrong end here Is there a place where a man can be deeply injured, in fact, ruined, compelled to take the benefit of the insolvent act, and yet be debarred from obtaining redress ? Yes, there is such a place, but it is only in the court over which Chancellot BROUGHAM presides. The crusade against the press by the professed cham pions of the "liberty of the press" goes on merrily ! The Dublin Pilot has suffered by proxy for Mr. O'CONNELL. The proprietor of the Brighton Guardian has been sent to gaol for bringing some very sensitive persons into contempt—for such is the vile slang of the law. Shoe black HUNT has obtained a farthing damages from the proprietors of the True Sun. The proprietrix of the Carlisle Journal is in limbo upon speculation. One CAVENDISH, the owner of an Irish paper, has been mulcted a second time by Lord SLIGO. Some nineteen or twenty poor wretches are now dancing at the tread- , mill for selling penny papers, and yet Lord BROUGHAM and CHARLEY KNIGHT are both at large, making money most furiously. The illustrious, liberal, and benevolent Lord DURHAM►r, the author of the Reform Bill, has crimi nal prosecutions pending against the Standard, John Bull, Durham Advertiser, and Newcastle Journal. The Times itself is before the courts for reporting accurately some trial in these courts, which are, by a fiction, in which we English people delight, supposed to be open to all the world. One of the attorneys, some of his rela tions, and several of the agents and coal-heavers of Lord DURHAM, have perpetrated two actions of battery against Mr. HERNAMAN, of Newcastle. In the present dearth of business, caused by the decline and fall of London, in consequence of the Reform Bill, some worthy attorneys of that city are reaping a yellow harvest among the news venders. IVe have not heard that Mr. ADY has yet com menced proceedings against Sir PETER LAURIE, or that Mr. CosTER, or Mr. IKEY SoLomoss has presented an indictment againt the Recorder of London; but it would not surprise us to hear that such is the fact. The "liberty of the press I" LOUIS PHILIPPE! Lord DURHAM !--ha ! ha! ha! Of Lord DURHAM'S crusade against his own favourite toast we have already treated; and as we have a particu lar respect for the noble earl, we shall seal up what we have further to say until another opportunity. Lord SLIGO we pass by. The dupes of the Penny Magazine we leave where they are till another day. Mr. HERNA MAN must go to the sessions ; but as for the others, they deserve a more extended notice. HUNT in court, complaining of the press, is like sour small beer in the dog days—a sign of the times ! If a chimney-sweep were called a " filthy animal," we have no doubt that he would recover a farthing, if not more, in that court over which Sir THOMAS DENMAN presides, who called GEORGE IV. a NERO, and told Queen CARO LINE to "go and sin no more." HUNT'S action against the True Sun is the fourth he has instituted upon the same squib. It began with our contemporary of the Liverpool Journal. Some wicked wag of Preston, during the late election, in that town, sent a paragraph to the Journal, in which, with true Lancashire gravity, it was stated that HUNT had incited his friends to commit a murder, and that, in the conflict, he (HUNT) had lost his nose. A cow, if it could read, would have at once seen that the libellous matter was a hoax—a mere squib—a paper cracker, let off in honour of the defeat of that illustrious Statesman But HUNT, whose education, we fear, has been sadly neglected, and who has, certainly, never_ read the dia logues of old LUCIAN, could not, or at least did not, appreciate the joke in the way it was intended. He commenced actions against four newspapers; the Liver pool Journal, the British Traveller, the True Sun, and the Globe. Here were practice, pastime, and profits for an attorney, and, at the same time, a reasonable (per calculation) modicum of compensation for the alleged wounded feelings, and the demolished nose of the ex member for Preston. A man without a nose is like a ship without a bowsprit, or a Staffordshire utensil with_ out a handle. His prominent characteristics are gone— he is deemed an outcast—he is beyond the honourable pale of personal insult, and, in short, he is in that lamenta ble condition so pathetically bewailed by the poet:— " Noseless and nousless, without wit or smell, To thee shall odours rise all inexpressible 1" " Privations, or deprivations," as the Solomon of the Yaghars, whose proverbs are translated by Dr. BOWRING, says, " are by comparison." A man may or may not be happy in the deprivation of that Parliamentary repre sentative of his face, according to circumstances. Had General JACKSON, our esteemed friend, the President of the United States, been minus that promontory of hu manity, he would. have escaped the fangs of Lieutenant RANDOLPH on a late occasion. This, however, we con fess is an isolated case. The learned are excessively de mure on the subject. Lord KAMES and DANIEL O'CON NELL confine themselves to tads ; Drs. GALL and COMBE adhere to superior excrescences ; Dr. ROBERT OWEN has no idea upon noses except rearing them by steam ; Dr. COLLINS is not a Nosologist ; and Lord BROUGHAM contends that he knows nothing which the nose does not indicate by its extraordinary sympathies. How HUNT has thrived by his prosecutions it is not for us to say. He may have made money, or he may not; that somebody has, at the expense of the newspa pers, is clear enough ; but the whole of his conduct is beautifully illustrative of the fact, that the loudest de claimer in the walks of patriotism—the noisiest talker about liberty—the favourite champion of the mob—the darling of the rabble, as HUNT has been—are the worst enemies of that liberty they profess to prize, and the greatest encouragers of those restraints upon free speech which they profess to hate and condemn. But we - toss this poor faggot of the rabble into his pro per place—the coal-hole of public opinion upon which its very menials trample with contempt. He and Lord DURHAM are worthy of each other. But we collie to the case of Widow JOLLIE, of Carlisle, now in prison for a libel upon Lord LONSDALE. The Whig papers have laboured hard to fight off this case against the quadruple prosecutions of Lord DURHAM, and the bludgeon feats of the noble Earl's agents. The press of other matter has prevented us from noticing the affair sooner—but better late than never. A woman of the name of JOLLIE is the real or assumed proprietrix of a wretched and almost unknown newspaper called the Carlisle Journal. She, the ostensible proprietor, was convicted of an infamous libel upon the Earl of LONS DALE. The writer of her paper, an obscure hack, long in the pay of the Whigs, has been suffered to remain concealed. She has kept this fellow at so many shillings per week, to do all the vile work of the party who er, and that vile work has for ma n y patronise her pap years been comprised in a series of abominable libels upon Lord LONSDALE. He was accused of appropriat ing the funds of certain charitable establishments to his own u s e. He was accused of robbing the poor—of plun dering the alias-box of the needy and infirm—of pro fessing to be the guardian of donations bequeathed to the indigent or for the purposes of education, which he con veyed into his own pocket. These charges would have been a serious libel upon , or th e f a i r E LIZABETH BROWN HUNT, Sir JOHN KEY RIGG. JACK SHEPHERD, the founder of his family, who was hanged, would have deemed such accusations a scandalous imputation upon his character. Lord Loss- DALE, however, than whom a more honourabl e or upright man does not breathe—a more generous or noble-hearted DECEMBER 6 103. ndividual does not exist—bore those slanders so long , that their very repetition, day after day, and week after ivoek, gave to them, in certain vulgar circles in Cumber land, the appearance of truth. Unopposed and uncon tradicted, the libellers themselves began to assume that the noble earl's forbearance was tantamount to a confession of guilt. They had repeated the slander so often that, like Lord BROUGHAM about Queen CAROLINE'S info' cence, they believed that what was originally falsehood and fiction, became truth by sufferance. Mist epresented and defied, Lord LONSDALE was at last compelled, though most reluctantly, to institute lega l proceedings in order to expose and punish that which he had too long tolerated. Conscious of innocence, he nevertheless saw the progress which falsehood wa s making, and had made, upon the boundaries of popular credulity. Three liberal journals, under the patronag e of the Whigs, had indulged in these slanders for a long period of time. The noble earl, acting under profession al advice, attacked them all. He did not go into court a 9 Lord DURHAM went. He challenged the parties to the proof of their allegations. He gave them the opportunity of putting truth in the foreground in vindication of their conduct. He went into court as a private man who knew nothing of his "order," and he called upon the defend ants to substantiate their charges if they could. Two of the parties did penance, acknowledged their offences, and were instantly pardoned. The prosecution was stayed as soon as an apology was made, and Ira punishment was inflicted. Not so the widow of the Car lisle Journal. She braved the law, and at length she and her partner, the supposed editor and writer of the slanderous articles, were brought to trial. He e scaped by a flaw in the indictment, but the lady was found guilty. Even here the matter would have ended had the defend ant evinced . anything like contrition, or had refrained from perseVering in that course of malicious insinuation which had preceded the conviction of the proprietri%. The writer of th© paper, undaunted, and almos t telling the world that the verdict of the jury was unjust, con tinued to heap abuse on Lord LONSDALE. The conse quence was, that his female and only responsible partner was sent to gaol. That the noble earl advised this act of extremity we, know is contrary to the truth. Lord LONSDALE is now old and infirm ; he knew nothing of the imprisonment until it had taken place, and for which his legal adviser is entirely responsible. But here arises the question-7 Is Mrs. JOLLIE not the real author of her own misfortune ? Is she not in gaol upon speculation ? Is it not a calcula tion of pure profit and loss, as to whether she is likely to make more by being in prison than by being in her shoe, She defies Lord LONSDALE, and appeals to the Her editor perseveres in calumny, and she goes to a state-room in the tower of "merry Carlisle." She orders her journeyman to fire away upon the lord, and she hang s out a begging box from the window. This, we sus pect, is the stratagem ; it is ingenious ; it is peculiarbr, after the fashion of the Whigs; but it will not do. What possible analogy is there between this prnsec g ; tion and that instituted by Lord DURHAM ? The Earl e ' LONSDALE is placed in an involuntary position. lie h ag been compelled by the defendant to proceed against her. If she were allowed to escape, Lord LONSDALE W° lllCl thereby give countenance to the libels written and vivi" Ling against him, and the defendant would have the triumph of being innocently accused and wrongfully imprisoned. Let her do simple justice to the reputation. she has unjustly assailed, and we promise her that her prison doors will be unbarred on the next day. If she calculates upon making money by remaining in g a°l ' that is another thing, and we have no counsel to giv e her, for such a proceeding would be as dishonourable t* hei as it would be disgraceful to the provincial press. Our space prevents us from noticing the Bright on Guardian ; but this much we will say, that the mode procedure by which the Sussex magistrates obtained a con y iction is very discreditable to that body. A libel, "having` a tendency to bring them into contempt," is one of. those, abominable remnants of the Star Chamber practice which cannot be too soon erased from the records of a free country. The prosecution of the Dublin Pilot, however, is too rich to be passed over . This, we venture to say, is one of the most extraordi nary prosecutions that ever took place in England- - W e beg pardon, in Ireland; even in that island where mira cles are still in operation, and where the facts of every day occurrence are a million times more strange than . fiction. Mr. O'CONNELL, in the month of April last, wrote a letter addressed to the people of Ireland, which first ar peared in the True Sun of London, and from thence was transferred to the columns of the Dublin Pilo t' In this letter the repeal of the Union was strongly.urge and the Protestants called upon to join the Roman Ca tholics in their attempt to force that measure upon the Imperial Parliament. This letter, appearing upon the heels of the curfew bill, gave great offence to the vernment. It was signed " DANIEL O'CONNELL" inthe usual way—all the world would have known it to be O'CONNELL'S even though his name had been suppre ssed —and yet the government of Ireland condescended to the meanness of prosecuting the proprietor of the Pil °6 • for the openly avowed production of the Great Agitator' They passed over the hawk and made battle upon t he wren. They had the writer before them—he was the counsel who defended, and admirably defended too, Its own letter—if wrong had been done he was the wrOng doer—if the government had been libelled he was the libeller—and yet with these facts staring them inthe: face they attack the menial and spare the master. A l l thing more dastardly we never witnessed in the c ourse of our lives. But this is not the worst part of the transaction' Since that letter was written Mr. O'CONNELL 1 135 re ; ceiVed overtures from the ministry ! The man whose writings have been declared by a jury to have a ten dency to bring the government into contempt, has been offer a et,, a responsible situation in that government ! If Ilia W : l te ings were of this dangerous tendency why neg°°?!.... with him ?—why court him ?—why offer him a bribe •he why hold out the hope of a seat upon the bench, or t ct post of Attorney General ? If he had accepted the 14; named office would Lord WELLESLEY have called 11 Y , o to him to prosecute his own letter ? Would lie have sale ., Master Attorney, " make prey of your own wo rks a prosecute I3ARRETT your friend—file a criminal inform tion against the publisher of a letter written by Y ° l s., . self?" No. If O'CONNELL had taken office F3A ll ° would have escaped, ergo BARRETT is convicted beans, the negociation with O'CONNELL has failed ! too Some of our readers may think that we have dwelt much on this matter, but we beg to assure such reades; if any such there be, that these prosecutions are of l a cy more iL:portance than is seen at the first glance.. Tho„ show the disposition of the parties who form the g°v e . r f i s ment in Ireland. They show to what miserable sli ! they are driven, and by what paltry malice they ar e , 13 e , fluenced. The prosecution of the Pilot, prote to fence of O'CONNELL, the studied appeal to the ants, the appeal to their better feelings, nay °v en t ap their weaknesses, mixed up with recollections c' f pier, prouder and more prosiTrous days, when Faro ment sat in College-green, and her silk and linen do . factures were in the most flourishing condition , w il tho o more to effect and accelerate a repeal of the lini c ' n anything that has occurred since the day of its f° l " - tion. and the est,. A Cra C "' The marriage announced between the Hon. d Fr e ; brother to Earl Craven, and Miss Smythe, sister to LA . , Y fer rev delick Hervey Bathurst, is understood to have been " a d. the until the consent of the Court of Chancery can be obtai e- 00 - young lady being a ward of the court, and under age . o f ever, the proposal and settlements are now before Ir e n - y N il masters of the court, and it is expected that the ccreu l° very shortly take place. , 0 1 1 1 Mn. SADLER.—The following extracts from lett e _ r h ijc foe'i Huddersfield, 28th November, will show the state of ?In v ° je 9 ,l ing in that populous town towards Mr. Sadler: —" i " - r d 813 learnt that Mr. Sadler has been written to to come forty e: hig be' offer himself as a candidate for the representation of bi l l rough. If he is at all apprised of our good feeling,teVh'e ob et th e l here he will not hesitate in declaring himself. letter we have seen observes as follows:—" If Mr' nell6 Sadler has any ambition to sit again in Parliament he e , f o r g hope to represent a constituency that has more res Pee" „ecti i{tfie character than that of Huddersfield. His condu ct res the factory bill must attach every good man to hint; 81 0 ' , ne o ' r important' question of Irish poor laws should come he ad scs , zion, as is expected, who can enter with a cle arer . more humane heart upon that discussion ?" I