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JuLy 16, 1833, • THEATRE -ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. The Lao -'Fight but Three 9f Mr. DOWTON'S Performing in Mr. fln Liverpool. - s'OPER of the The a t re Royal, Drury-lane, is engaged for a Fortnight, and will make his second appearance here THIS these seven years, present TUESDAY, Jul;,r 16, when will be performed Colman's Comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE. T i ? ju i ri Russet, Mr. Dowton; Major Oakley, Mr. Cooper; , Lord et, Mr. Browne, as performed by them at the 1 heatre iie°aYa,l, Druy-lane; Mr. Oakley, Mr. t ai!denhoff• Sir Harry gie, Mr. Baker; Charles Oakley, Mr. Cooke; Airs. Oakley, tvsrseHuddart; Lady Freelove, Mrs. Clarke; Harriet, Miss After which the New Interlude of MR. AND MRS. PRINGLE. NIArP Jri ohn Brus M h, M Clark r. Browne; Mr. Peter Pringle, Mr. Baker; i ngle, rs. e To conclude with the Farce of „- HIGH LIFE BELOW STAlRS:ciLarreel, Mr. Cooper; Lord Dtske, Mr. Browne ; Kitty, Mrs. T tonnow, the Comedy of THE HYPICRITE. D f octo . r Li, t welli Mr. Dowton, his last appeav A o4 in that charac.er in r ; Colonel Lambert, Mr. B -ne ; Charlotte. ~ A liss tluddart. After which a favourite F ce, called SINIPsON AND L e CO. Mr. Simpson, Mr. Dowton, his last appearance i e , r ,e,in that character; Mr. Bromley, Mr. Cooper; Mrs. Brom 14iss Huddart ; Mrs. Simpson, Airs. Clarke. To conclude th the Farce of TURNING THE TABLES. Jeremiah tril,BAir. Cooper, his original character in London. , rhursday will be repeated the Play of HENRY IV. gen.len was received on Friday and Monday last, with loud and erated plaudits. Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton, his last a e o P n e „ ar auce here in that character.—Priuce of Wales, Mr. P er ;v er--- ,, Hotspur, Mr. Vandenhoff—Poins, Mr. Browne—Lady fah,, 3l ims Huddart. After which, the new Farce of SECOND . --11; - ` 71.1 TS• Mr. Jabber, Mr. Browne—Sudden, Mr. Baker On • Trapper, M rs . Cl ar k e . C riday, for th e BENEFIT of Mr. DOWTON, and the th a : t eNig'ht'Of his ever performing in Li , will be acted T. ornedy of the SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sir Peter r Dowton—Charles Surface, Cooper—Joseph tit te-e, Mr. VandenhoSi Benjamin, Backbite, Mr. Browne rNaib;!ree, ff— r Mr. Bak er —Si r Oliver, Andrews —Lady Tea th is & Hudda r t, M rs . C an d our , *s. Clarke. After which m r. lnterlud e o f TH E WEDDING AY. Sir Adam Contest, With D"t°n,—Lady Contest, Miss Huddart. To conclude l ts e Drama o f Charles 11. Charles, Mr. Cooper—Cap trown'e?P, (first time here) Mr. Dowton—Rochester, Mr. TO CORRESPONDENTS. W e 4 re obli ge d to postpone some a d m i ra bl y wr i tten l e tt ers f or weatintl or room. aa thank Ones of Them for his hints about a certain witness, with resp ec t t o th e su bj ec t genera lly we say " wait—only w w e ait a littl e. " probably open a " battery" on Friday, but it re quires rather a long gun to reach London. Zbe Eiberpool &tanbarii. T UESDAY MORNING, JULY 16, 1833. Fr om the C ornu bi an , a F a l mou th paper of Saturday's P te, we have extracted some important intelligence from : rtu gal• If thi s ne ws may be depended upon it is the °St decisive that has occurred since the landing of Don : 34 ° in that u n f or t un ate country. It is stated that the ,lP ° sing fleets o f th e two brothers met off Cape St. Vin cent' that a f ur i ous engagemen t t oo k pl ace , and that the t o jsl 3'4l force was discomfited and captured by Captain °p /Es. OllCince the ab ove was written we have received the 4 : io n journ a l s o f y es t e rday, which fully confirm the e°l ints fro m F a l mout h, an d th e i n t e lligence in the next pa d espatch es, Th e Bi rm i ng h am s t eamer , w hi c h b ro u g ht the has arrived in Dublin. If there be any of our friends who do not see the ne (l°4lT of c l ear i ng f or ac ti on , we . b eg , w ith respectful th ete rence, to hi n t t o th em , that they must be drowsy in h : extrem e . A n e l ect i on i s near er at hand than most ha ryl3 Ple dream of, and that it will take place before many I,,, °ll ths elap se i s t o our m ind a matter of certainty. ge twenti e th o f J u l y , t h a t i s t o say Saturday next, t l he the last d ay f or recor di ng c laims to vote under Provisions o f th e reform bill. All persons who 1 , 4 1Pe in hous es ren t e d a t or above ten pounds, and ted accordingly in the parish books, have a right to h ol e in all city, t own , or b oroug h e l e cti o ns, provided they :. ° e rented the house (shop, warehouse, or other pre -8e8)-for twelve months, and resided in the said city or The for six months previous to the twentieth of July. " cost of registering a vote is only a shilling, but it is , e eessary, i n or d er to qua lif y a voter, t h at h e s h a ll h ave pa id all arrears of poor rates due in April last, previous c> the twentieth of July. t We entreat a ll conservatives, therefore, who have, t r am inattention, i n d o l ence, or other causes, neglected to s trange as it may appear, it i s c hi e fl y among the higher lasses that this neglect of an important duty is most pre- Zent. L e t th em f or once b ear i n m i n d that it is not for f el l' own sakes that we call upon them to register, but 9 7 the good, nay, for the very salvation of that country Which they are the ornaments and the natural ' ll ardians. We do not ask them to come forward as a fa ti°4l. ; we call upon them to perform a duty. The poli eal Unions have taken care to secure the franchise fo r thieir members. When bad men combine, good men I°llld unite; an d th e p ar ti es t o wh om w e more particu -4 i t tLl Y address ourselves have no excuse for delay or neg ,:thiti a matter of such simple execution, and yet of ° it great importance. I , 4 rd GREY has postponed tile discussion on the Irish ti l " lll. eb Reform Bill from yesterday till to-morrow, and it Bch we approach the hour of trial the more anxious eons te Public mind on this vitally important and great rtitutional question. M eat bill 114 8 for its object the repeal of the act of settle -11111, -4 af 1 688, and a direct violation of the articles of 4 ` ° a betwee n England and Scotland in the first instance, hi d n gland and Ireland in the second. We are told by 1 1 . 8 0 "".JESTY'S ministers that the Protestant church in 4 44 1" is a cumbrous and useless establishment, that the at l i ti, `' e r Of bishops is disproportionate to its members, tiv e c liat the incomes of the remaining prelates are exces -4e s - ' / ' l arge. They, therefore, propose to abolish ten ir s e b ' 4 PP I Y the revenues thereof to other purposes, and Up on °se a tax upon the rest of the church dignit ar i es , an d t titn -ri all clergymen whose incomes exceed a specified ch, 4 " who are the parties who propose this scheme of the r bb Whigs ery ? The it, - The immaculate Whigs ! v s t4tid. ery men with whom the revolution of 1688 is a it tith -I ng toast ! WILLIAM THE THIRD of glorious and .se aq°llal memory, and the Whigs of his day, ourwi . d It e l a teli gious ancestors, made the church of England ; i 7 (l a Part, and a prominent part too, of the British to ll ic til tiett. They were at the greatest pains to secure its Pale' c hurch, to its bishops, and to all the clergy within . ti„vate, their respective rights, privileges, and immunt -4,' I.° Protect them from future inroads, to place them N ie c () aci the control of Parliament, and render them as this t 1 4 3 the KING'S honour and the KING'S oath. For k o 41)urPese all the Princes of the House of Brunswick , b y sseending the throne of England, have been required N l3 " t 7 h for rns of the constitution to swear upon the gos- Ni t , a ' they will, to the utmost of their power, " main t le l aws of God, the true profession of the gospel, and 4e Protesta nt 4 4d t P o reser. ve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, h ri g/14 th e churches committed to their charge, all suc h 141 tt o th an 4 Privileges as by law do or shall appertain I n ent ° r any of them." toilowa.dditi on to this, the fifth article of the union has the a nd :, n i s C lause. viz., .‘ That the churches of England one p r —an d , as now by law established, be united into churcitretestant episcopal Church, to be called the united a'op . ,h. O f England and Ireland, and that the doctrine, a9tnrcll 3 disc ipline, and government of the said united the 11411 be, and shall remain in full force for ever 1.1 414i, 3 att1e are now by law established for the church of the , 4 4 , (1, and th a t the continuance and preservation of ei, ene l . q united c h urc h shall be deemed and taken to be an If al and fundamental part of the union." kt. 40,,anguage have any meaning, it is as clear as the sun w. w ua day, that the Irish church bill, if carried into a the par ° aid be a flagrant violation of the act of union on t ioh or t , °f Parliament, and a deeply dishonouring viola- Th e k i !us oath on the part of WILLIAM Tug FOURTH.— hig „ 111 ° Swears that he will preserve to the utmost of " , 417‘ i vet• the "rights and privileges" of the clergy,— tll kt - :;• vde ges which they then enjoyed, as well as any l 'o stt 'gilt be conferred upon them. It is in every re litio-440callser vative oath. Th e c l ergy might acquire ad once bylaw, and these the KING is bound to respect and preserve; but the KING cannot impair these rights, or diminish these privileges in the slightest degree, even with the consent of Parliament, without laying perjury on his soul, breaking his covenant with the ALMIGHTY, violating the tenure by which he wears the crown, and virtually signing his own abdication. We defy all the casuists of Europe, including the Archbishop ofDIiBLIN, to satisfy any well-regulated mind, or convince any man of sound reason, that any other con struction can be put upon the oath than that which we have given to it. What is the meaning of the oath if it do not impose a compulsory protection upon the Pro testant Kings of England ? It would be an act of im pious fo]ly to make a man swear not to do that which he could not prevent. It would be absurd to swear a king to give protection to a church over the rights and privileges of which lie had no control. It would be an insult to heaven and the holy sacraments to administer a vow which could not be kept, or which might be broken with impunity. The KING, per se, cannot rob the church; the oath was not imposed in order to keep the KING ho nest; it was not administered for the purpose of restrain ing the SOVEREIGN from breaking into a church, like an ordinary burglar, and committing an act of sacrilege by stealing the communion cup, or the minister's surplice. No, no. Far different were tile obligations it imposed, and the conservative duties it exacted. The KING can not be a consenting party to any measure interfering with the rights and privileges of the church or its clergy, with out committing a deadly sin, and trampling upon the awful sanctity and moral obligations of an oath registered on high ! And even if the obligations were less sacred, or the construction less doubtful, why should his MAJESTY be placed in a situation which makes him the instrument of other men's fraud, or a minister's folly, or a faction's crime ? Is the nation unanimous on the subject of this spoliation scheme ? Quite the reverse. A large portion of the people are indifferent as to whether it does or does not pass. The Roman Catholic members have voted against the bill. The Catholic priests declare that they have no wish to degrade the church or swamp the bishops. A majority of the people revere the church and love their SOVEREIGN, and it is but a vile remnant of a party com posed of levellers in politics, and latitudinarians in reli gion,--the sweepings of e v ery obscure sect,—the disaf fected of all creeds,—the vanity-puffed Unitarian, and the rank atheist,—these, and these alone, support mini sters in the scheme of plunder. It is painful to see WILLIAM THE FOURTH placed in a situation so humiliating when compared with that of WILLIAM THE THIRD; but from this situation he must be rescued by the peers. If they do their duty this bill will be the last act of folly on the part of the GREY administra tion. If they do their duty the church will be preserved, and the Whigs consigned to perpetual obloquy. They have done the state much injury. They have made an unhallowed effort to overturn every venerable institution in the country. They have run riot with the mob till the very rabble are ashamed of them. The minister has piped and the incendiary has danced ; the fire has blazed, and anarchy has had its hour of madness and blood; but thanks to the people after all, their good sense has re turned, the fever is allayed, sober reason has resumed her throne, and the minister of injustice will speedily receive his reward. We have had enough of the pledged Parlia ment—of this common house of fools and sans culottes. Let it be dissolved, and two hundred of its present mem bers will never again be returned to any Parliament. If the lords do their duty, and the KING is properly advised, we shall have a new election before the middle of Sep tember. We gave, in our last number, the resolutions of the West India meeti ng in London, on W e d nes d ay l ast, which we anticipated by some general observations on the character of the bill brought in by Mr. STANLEY, pro fessedly for the adjustment of this most vital question.— Our opinion, formed upon the very hasty peru s al which we had then been enabled to bestow upon the bill, in duced us to state, that it " is drawn up in such gross and manifest ignorance of all the fair bearings of the case, so much at variance with their (the ministers') own recorded sentiments, and so utterly destitute of justice or reason in many of its details, the result entirely of that self willed but lamentable determination to legislate on their own defective knowledge of the questibn, rather than seek the opinions of experienced practical men, that they find it can never pass even the present House of Commons in its existing shape ; and that it m us t s h are t h e f ate o f every other measure brought forward during the session ; it must present the appearance of a piece of patchwork— or, like the mass of stone separated by the quarryman, who, in his vanity, imagines he is an artist, it is only an incumbrance upon the earth until the master hands have chiselled it into shape and order." Hence we inferred o f Mr. S TANLEY ' S the real mo tive postponement of the second reading to last night—hence, also, we expect to find that stage of the bill further procrastinated, perhaps indefinitely. W e do not blame Mr. STANLEY for thus adjourning the consideration of the principle of the bill, which it is the object of the second reading to decide upon. The principle of the bill ! why, if it have any principle at all, it is that it is made to oppose and unsay almost every thing that is prominent either in the gene. ral sentiments verbally expressed on the question, or in the spirit of the recorded resolutions of Parliament. We do not, therefore, we repeat, bla me M r. S TANLEY f or t hi s postponement, in order to afford time for a little ration ality being infused into the bill; but we do most strongly and unequivocally condemn that system of legislation, of which the leading features are precipitancy and igno rance, to say nothing of more exceptionable qualities, but too manifest throughout numerous clauses of the pre sent measure. The resolutions of Parliament, it will be remembered, distinctly laid it down, that the measures to be taken should be of such a nature as to combine the welfare of the negroes with the interests of the proprietors—that "towards the compensation of the West India Proprietors" a sum of twenty millions was granted—and that provision should be made for an efficient magistracy to be establish ed in the colonies, and to provide for the religious and moral education of the negro population, on liberal and comprehensive principles. This is the substance of the resolutions. The explanatory arguments admitted that no arrangement could be safe or satisfactory which did not ensure the cordial co-operation of the colonial legislatures to accomplish the object in view. On the 7th June the standing committee of the West India body in London recorded their determination, in consideration of the grant of twenty millions, to " recommend to their friends, and solicit the authorities in the West Indies to frame, without delay, such laws as will safely, immediately, and effectually carry the said resolution into effect." This ,was meeting the question honourably and fairly. It is not possible for us to know whether, at that period, the framing of the bill had been extensively proceeded in. But, whether that be so or not, the instrument, when brought to light, exhibits as much duplicity, as great a variance with the previously avowed outline of the plan, and as thorough an ignorance of what is necessary for a " safe and satisfactory settlement" of the business, as if those lectures successively given by the West India body, in their practical capacity, to the present Colonial Secre tary and his predecessors, during the earlier months of the year, had been altogethor spared. There is not a single clause applicable to the colonial legislatures in which those bcdies are not treated with contumely, degraded, and insulted. Nay, they are absolutely annihilated in their legislatorial capacity. The ap propriation of the compensation fund is mixed up with every kind of condition calculated to produce delay, vexation, and uncertainty ; and clogged with all sorts of expenses, at the mercy of the men called commissioners, which expenses are to be taken out of the fund specifi cally applicable to the compensation of the proprietors by the fourth resolution, although the fifth of those resolu tions distinctly provides for the expense of the magis tracy, religion and education being otherwise defrayed. And what a magistracy ! Not content with defrauding the colonies of their legislatures, in direct violation of their respective charters, they insult the whole respect able population by entirely depriving them of their ma gisterial powers ; and placing them tinder one hundred magistrates paid at £3OO per annum, selected, most .pro- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. bably, without regard to talents, capacity, or education, previous habits, from the Greylings and Hannibals of the fifth class, not heretofore, and better, provided for. These 100 magistrates, such as they may be, are to be divided among the nineteen colonies, which gives about five for each. Now, let us imagine five magistrates in the island of Jamaica which is 150 miles in length, by a mean breadth of between forty and fifty miles, containing between six and seven thousand square miles, with a population of nearly 400,000 souls. At present, this island has its legislative body, con sisting of a Council and House of Assembly, with its Courts of Chancery, Appeal, Vice-Admiralty, Supreme Court of Judicature, and Courts of Assize, and every other office necessary for the conduct of public business, filled by parties competent to the execution of their respec tive duties. It is divided into three counties and twenty one parishes. Each parish has its custos rotulorunz andbody of assistant judges and magistrates, varying from ten or fifteen to fifty or sixty—constituting a total body of magis trates of about 600 in number in the island. Besides these higher authorities there exists every class of inferior officers necessary to conduct the affairs of a community almost as variously ramified as that of England. Of these, the two Chambers of the Legislature are, by Mr. STANLEY'S bill, in its'present form, to be virtually anni hilated; and the whole body of 600 magistrates are to be, at one sweep, struck of the roll and degraded ; their functions being assumed, usurped we may well say, by the five stipendiary magistrates, at £3OO a-year each, selected from the list of half-pay officers of the army and navy, the batch of briefless Whig barristers, or, it may be, some even less competent parties,—uninured to the climate—ignorant of local laws and habits—and wholly unacquainted with the characters and peculiarities of the race of people whose cases are to come before them for adjudication. Is it necessary to argue the point as re gards the other colonies, each varying, in some or other of its customs and regulations, to an extent that renders the most experienced man connected with one colony incompetent to judge of the wants and requisite mode of proceeding in another, almost within his sight ? And yet, forsooth, all this is to be accomplished intuitively by five striplings of the GREY and STANLEY school in the Island of Jamaica, where five or six hundred most re spectable men at present devote their energies and ex perience to the preservation of order and support of the laws ! Just so in education and religion. The provision " for the religious and moral education of the negro popula tion, on liberal and comprehensive principles," consists in the extension to the colonies of the 52d of GEORGE 111, releasing Dissenters from certain restrictions here tofore in force; by which the whole negro population will be laid open to the operation of the wily and mis chievous doctrines of the KNIBRS and WIIITELEYS of the day; from which, judging of the mischievous results of their practices when under restraint, unbounded evils are anticipated by every person acquainted with the colo nies. Of education, we find not one word in the bill. But, without going further into it in detail, we see enough to mark the channel through which many of its leading provisions have flowed. And we cannot conceal our disgust at the fact, that authorities, still permitted to exercise functions in the Government departments should be allowed to introduce into the public laws of the coun try matter resting upon the dicta of a party with which they are too notoriously connected; and from which they receive overnight instructions, to do acts in the morning, the fatal . consequences of which, to the best interests of the country, are too palpable to be matter of the smallest doubt to any one who goes through the world with his eyes open. We had intended to go, seriatim, through the clauses of this, we do not hesitate to say, infamous bill.— It is useless to do so. If the clauses were divided into three classes, we should say that one class was merely explanatory—a second either wholly unintelligible or impracticable--and the remainder full of injustice, and destructive of solemn vested and chartered rights;— whilst the whole mass betrays the most perfect and unal loyed ignorance of what is calculated to' do any thing short of entirely destroying and sacrificing the colonies. The adherents of the ministry are in a sort of dog-day fever, not exactly biting each other, but running wild from office to office, with famine in their eyes, as if they had eaten their last loaf, and had booked their last pledge. But let them roam and rave ; when the sky falls they may catch larks ! The cause of all this apprehension, good reader, is, that the days of the present administration are considered to be numbered. The Whigs see that they can hold together no longer; they have overwhelmed themselves by their own blunders ; and as it is an unpleasant matter to part with office, reputation, and salary, all at the same time, they have resolved to set fire to all the combustibles in the camp, and die hard. • Magnanimous statesmen ! fallen though they be, they have our heartfelt sympathy. We wish a speedy end to all their sufferings, and for this reason we regret to see them made the sport of every battered hack who fancies he does them good service by prolonging their miseries. Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY has given notice for a call of the House of Commons on Thursday next. If this motion be acceded to, which is mote than probable, seeing the desperate condition of the Ministry, and the deplorable prospects of the two hundred and odd honourable members who sit there for the last time, then Sir JOHN of Wrot tesley-Hall will have an opportunity of instructing the house as to its solemn duties on this trying occasion.— We should not be surprised if the Commons were to read a lecture to the lords, full of wise saws and modern in stances, inflated with Whig gas, and balanced with Whig dulness. It will be a rare charm for mortified ambition— "Sweltered venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog; Cool it with a baboon's blood, Then the charm is firm and good." Collision with the upper house is the virtuous and be nevolent object of this honourable member of the lower house. On Wednesday he anticipates the defeat of mi nisters, and he consequently fixes the following night for calling together the great assembly of the pledged to sit in judgment upon the other and more independent branch of the legislature. Such a proceeding is quite a novelty in parliamentary tactics. It is worthy of the mover and his employers, but we beg to inform them that it will not succeed. The lords have nothing to ap prehend from public opinion, and they have as little to fear from the resolutions of the commons. The people do not care the feather of a goose for the sentiments of the reformed assembly. Even the nailers of Birmingham and the weavers of Coventry hold them in contempt. BROUGHAM'S head has been taken down from the ale houses; the ALTHORP arms have disappeared, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL dances upon nothing with his feet towards the welkin. A time there was when a little noise fright ened the isle from its propriety, and when Lord GREY'S franks, superscribed by an attorney, could call into ac tion the bludgeons and the brickbats of the political unions, but that time is gone by. If the commons choose to provoke the hostility of the peers, let them do it at their peril. The constitution prescribes a remedy ; and we are fully persuaded, that if an appeal were now made to the nation, the electors would reject with scorn the great majority of the serviles who, from a dread of that appeal alone, cling to the present administration. We venture to say, that four-fifths of the whole constituency of Eng land are not only dissatisfied, but absolutely disgusted with their conduct. They have attempted more and done less than any former parliament. They have now been in session for nearly six months, and we defy their best friend to point out any one measure that they have car ried worthy of the slightest commendation, with the exception of the Irish coercion bill, and that, to say the least of it, is entitled to no praise, simply because there would have been no necessity for it, provided the govern ment had felt disposed to enforce the previously existing laws. Putting aside the curfew bill, what else have. they done ? Nothing. The bank charter and the India char ter are both in a state of suspension. The West India bill must be postponed for another year. JEFFREY'S Scotch bankrupt bill is withdrawn. Lord BROUGHAMS brother still holds his sinecure in the Court of Chancery. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL has postponed his bill respect ing imprisonment for debt. Instead of attending to the real interests of the country, the reformed representatives of the nation have wasted their time in foolish inquiries, on subjects that a coterie of superannuated spinsters would be ashamed to discuss, in prying into wretched gossip, worthy only of a tap-room statesman, and ascer taining how much beer a bemuddled sawyer may have drank during a contest in which one HENRY BROUGHAM drank as much as himself. There has been nothing but frothy oratory, or dapper impertinence in the house, — talk and nothing but talk—from January to July. From such representatives the nation now longs to he delivered, and we implore the KING to grant its fervent prayer. After receiving the prescribed number of bullying pe titions, his MAJESTY'S ministers have discharged the Reverend R. TAYLOR from Horsemonger-lane gaol with out requiring the payment of the fine imposed upon him, and without insisting upon any other surety for his "future good behaviour" than his own recognisance. The case of this man has induced us to turn our atten tion to the practice of inflicting pecuniary fines on mis demeanants. The most beautiful feature in the adminis tration of English civil and criminal justice is, that no thing is assumed to be true that is not judicially proved to be so, and when a sentence has been pronounced by the court, there is no legal means of increasing its se verity, the constitution having left in the hands of the Sovereign no other power than that of mitigating, or pardoning it altogether. But, when a pecuniary fine is inflicted as a punishment for a misdemeanour, which the offender has not the means of paying, the power of increasing the severity of a judicial infliction is lodged in the hands of the crown, who may be advised to let the law take its course—and thus imprison a man for life who is unable to pay the fine imposed upon him. When the Court of King's Bench sentenced the late Sir MANAS SEH LOPEZ to pay a fine of ten thousand pounds, and "be further imprisoned until that fine be paid," it had no jet. dicial knowledge that Sir MANAssEH possessed that num ber of farthings—no evidence on the subject was of fered or required, and, therefore, this part of its sen tence was pronounced upon the faith of common rumour alone, and might have operated as one of imprisonment for life. TAYLOR was detained in custody for the non payment of (we believe) a fine of two hundred pounds, a sum that he was not more likely to pay than the national debt, and hence was elevated to the rank of a martyr. We should especially bear in mind that what the general voice may tolerate against a notoriously bad man, or an ob noxious individual, might be made use of to crush ano ther of a very opposite character, for precedents are very important things in the administration of the law. We do not quarrel with the system of punishing in "purse and person" so much as with the loose manner in which the thing is done. If the offence can be purged by a pecu niary fine, evidence of ability to pay one should first be obtained, and, in case of non-payment, the period of " further imprisonment" should be clear and definite.— The practice we now complain of is a relic of Star Cham ber justice that ought to be abolished—it is contrary to the spirit of the constitution, and is in direct violation of that clause of the " great charter" which declares, " that no man shall be amerced beyond his means." The judges, in fining offenders, no doubt suppose that the parties can pay the fines imposed upon them. If they knew at the time of passing a sentence that the party before them could not pay a fine, would they venture to imprison him for life ? or, have they the power of passing such a sentence ? We never heard of such a sentence, and we believe that it could not be legally passed, how ever gross or aggravated the case may be. If Lord BROUGHAM will take this subject in hand he shall have our best support. The finance accounts for the year ending January sth, 1833, published by order of the House of Commons, contain, under the head of "Trade of Great Britain with foreign parts," an abstract of the value of the IMPORTS into, and the Exports from Great Britain, for the years 1831-2 &3. The total value of the IMPORTS into Greal Britain, according to the official rates of valuation, was In 1831 £44,815,397 1832 48,161,661 1833 43,237,416 For the same period the exports were as follows : In 1831. Produce and Alarm- ) s . £60,492,637 factures of Great Britain Foreign & Colonial Merchandize. £8,535,786 Total exports 1832. British products £60,090,123 Foreign and Colonial 10,729,942 Total £70,820,065 1833. British pr0duct5......... £61,582,037 Foreign and Colonial 11,036,758 Total In the latter year the value of our exports was In Cotton Manufactures Cotton Yarns 6,725,505 Total £13,786,255 This branch of English industry, therefore, supplies two thirds of the value of all the manufactures and produce that is exported from Great Britain. The British and Irish Shipping entered inwards from foreign parts was YEARS. VESSELS. TONS. MEN. In 1831 13,548 2,180,042 122,103 1832 14,488 2,367,322 131,627 183.3 13,372 2,185,980 122,591 The FOREIGN vessels entered for the same period were as follows: YEARS. VESSELS. TONS. MEN. Iu 1831 5,359 758,828 41,670 1832 6,085 874,605 47,453 1833 4,546 639,979 35,399 These last will be found to amount to something more than a fourth of the whole number engaged in our import trade. There is one circumstance connected with these ac counts that we feel no small degree of pride and pleasure in laying before our readers, because it is more imme diately connected with the town of Livet pool, and shows an increase of a magnitude that is unexampled in the history of any port in the world ,—here the subject ceases to be one of dry detail, and amply repays us for the labour of entering on an investigation so apparently uninviting. The net receipts at our Custom House, after deducting drawbacks and repayments .For the year ending January s', 1833, amounted to £3,381,557 Those of all Ireland for the ) £1507,219 same period were S ' All Scotland £1,373,616 making a total of leaving a balance of in favour of Liverpool above the amount collected in ALL Ireland and Scotland. When Liverpool with a restricted commerce can thus contribute so largely to the public revenue, what will she do when the East India and China Trade is thrown open to the enterprise of our merchants ? What may we not hope for from a further extension of our commer cial relations, as a means of increasing the wealth and population of the town and its vicinity. THE LATE LORD DOVER.—The death of Lord Dover, at his residence at Whitehall, at au early hour on Tuesday morning, has plunged several noble and distinguished families into deep affliction. This accomplished young nobleman had been for some time in a declining state of health ; and two months since his medical attendants feared that his disorder was a serious one. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Countess of Carlisle (mother to Lady Dover), and others of the noble lord's connections were at Dover House when the melancholy event took place. George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Baron Dover, of Dover, county of Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, a trustee of the British Museum and of the National Gallery, F.R.S. and F.S.A., born January 14, 1797, married March 7, 1822, Lady Georgiana Iloward, second daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and niece to the Duke of Devonshire and the Countess Granville. His lordship was the only son of the present Viscount Clifden, by Lady Caroline Spencer, sister to the Duke of Marlborough. Lord Dover has left an infant family of six children, the eldest, the Hon. Henry Agar Ellis (the present Peer), being in his ninth year only. His lordship was a staunch political adherent of the present administration, and on the change of Government in November, 1830, he was selected by Earl Grey to succeed Viscount Lowther, as Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. This office he, however, resigned a few weeks afterwards, on account of his delicate health, and he did not subsequently accept any other appoint ment under the Crown. In the spring of 1831, his lordship was created a British peer. Lord Dover was warmly attached to literary pursuits, and was an author of high reputation; his last work was "Correspondence of Horace Walpole with Sir Horace Mann," published from the originals in the possession of Earl Waldegrave. He also wrote the "Life of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia." His lordship was a personal friend of the late King, and of the King of the Belgians, who stood sp onsor for one of his children in 1829, LONDON LATEST ArEWS. Saturday . Evening, Hay:past Seven o'clock. People's minds here are in a state of great uncertainty; the general belief is that the government of Earl Grey will not exist a week longer. The Irish church robbery bill 'has been postponed until Wednesday, and but little doubt exists that ministers will be in a minority. Our capitalists, or rather our speculators, whose creed is "things as they are," have conse quently become rather fidgetty, and Consols for the Account have fallen to 891, closing at 89 Exchequer Bills have been on the advance, the premium being 58 59; and India Bonds are firm at 33 to 35. Bank Stock is - 205-1 61, and India 245 to 246. The foreign stock market, as might be expected, has shared the heaviness of the English market. Belgian Bonds have fallen to 924, Russian to 1041 5, and Dutch to 48i its Portu guese Scrip does not maintain recent advance, being now at 2i. discount, and the Bonds are heavy at 591 60. The agents of Don Miguel here • have begun to display un wonted activity. They have purchased the United Kingdom steamer for £23,000, and, to distinguish themselves from the Pedroites, have paid for it. They have likewise chartered the Lord of the Isles and the Thames steamers to take men to the fleet and munitions, at a charge of £7O per day,_ and these three vessels will proceed instanter to their place of destination. The Lord of the Isles is entered out for Cadiz, and the United King dom for Gibraltar. This is but fair play, for hitherto Don Miguel has had to contend single-handed against all the despe radoes of France and England, covertly supported by their re• spective governments. LOCAL NEWS. FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES FROM LIVERPOOL.—This day the Reverind Doctor O'TooLE and Colonel NIMROD WILDFIRE, M.C. for ould Kentuck, intend sailing for the U. S. by the New York Packet Ship. The Egremont regatta will take place on Tuesday and Wed nesday next. The Mersey cup, to be sailed for by yachts of from seven to fifteen tons, will be contested on the first day, as will the Egremont cup, for yachts not exceeding seven tons. Friday is the day on which vessels may be entered, at the Egre mont Hotel. With every reason to hope that the weather will prove favourable, we expect that the fair will reward with their smiles the efforts of the brave to please them by a display of nautical skill. About ten days ago a person, apparently a travelling hawker, stopped at a small public house, at Clatter-bridge, between Neston and Bebbington, in Cheshire, and laying down his pack, called for a glass of ale. He had scarcely tasted of the ale, when he complained of being excessively ill, and requested the host to send for the nearest doctor, for whom his appearance showed that he had immediate need, and wished to lay down on a bed until the doctor came. He was helped up stairs, and the land lord dispatched his bov on his best nag to Neston, a distance of about two miles, for the doctor. In less than an hour the doc tor arrived, and, on his being introduced to his patient, observ ing his situation, he requested the landlord to withdraw, and close the door. Our informant does not cpmmunicate p.nv fur ther particulars, excepting , that the doctor immediately disin cumbered the pedler of his male attire, and produced to the world a fine thumping boy! ! Soon after, the female, for so it proved, requested that her pack might be brought up, on open ing which, there appeared complete dresses for the mother and child, of a costly description; and our informant further states, that the lady has plenty of sovereigns in her possession for present emergencies. We are happy to state, that the lady, who is about 30 years of age, and - her son, were doing well, when the last accounts came away. THE BUILDERS' TURN-OUT.—lnformations have been laid before the magistrates against several of the turn-out joiners, under the statute, for leaving . their employment before the work they had contracted to finish was completed, and warrants have been issued for their apprehension. One of these mis guided men was brought up at the New Bailey, on Monday, for annoying the workmen of Mr. Millington, and was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace. Manchester Courier. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday last a poor shrimper, named John Molyneux, who was in his boat, in Bootle Bay, was run foul of by a foreign vessel going out to sea. A rope was thrown to him from the vessel, but, as he was entangled in the net, it was found impossible to save him. Died, on the 6th instant, at Banbury, in Oxfordshire, Mrs. Wason, of this town, and mother of Rigby Wason. Esq., M.P. for Ipswich. By the death of this lady the poor have been de prived of a benefactor of no ordinary description. Her purse was never closed against the necessities of the indigent, and it may with truth be said that no case of distress was ever made known to her that she did not relieve. She was a constant and liberal subscriber to the various charitable institutions; and among her other acts of benevolence we are proud to record her liberal contribution towards the fund for the relief of the dis tressed Protestant clergy of Ireland; and we will only say to those who possess the same means as this amiable lady,—" Go thou and do likewise." Her remains were interred, on Friday last, in Clifton Church, near Bristol, along with those of her late husband, whom she survived some years. PRESTON AND WIGAN RAILWAY.—We do not know that we can better recommend this undertaking to the favourable consi deration of the public, than by calling their attention to the proceedings of the public meeting of Saturday ; but in addition to the advantages set forth in these proceedings, it has been suggested to us that the public do not adequately estimate the benefit they will derive as passengers by the railway, both to Liverpool and Manchester, the circumstance of being enabled to reach either of those towns in the short space of two hours, being equivalent to a reduction of the present distance by the direct road. The committee are busily engaged on their can vass, and we are happy to find that their exertions have so far been most successful.—Preston Pilot. PRESTON RACES. The weather during . the week has been extremely fa vorable to the race-going folks, who on the whole have been as numerous (though lacking a very large proportion of the respectability) as fur many years. The sport, if we ex cept Wednesday's, has been rather poor, the different races being won east, with very poor fields, and nothing about them to make them sporting races. On Wednesday, however, the two races were most severely contested; that for the cup was one of the most beautiful ever run over this course. Liverpool took the lead and kept it at a rattling pace, closely followed b Consol, but, when within a few yards of the winning post, Darling fairly lifted his horse (Consol) in front, winning by a head. P. Lye, who rode Liverpool, was completely exhausted by his exertions, and when he came in to be weighed was obliged to be support ed ; and probably had he not been so exhausted Liverpool would have been the winner. The plate on the same day was closely contested, Mr. Dick's Allegro beating Mr. Townley's Algiers after four heats ' • Captain Parker's bay gelding Lottery being drawn after the first. The third heat, which was done at a very fast pace, was declared a dead heat.—To use a market phrase we should say " of horses there was a short supply," so much so, that there was only one maiden horse here, and consequently no race for the maiden plate. At the entry Captain Parker's b g by Lottery was entered for this plate, but as it is impossible for one horse to make a race, the plate was withdrawn. On Tues day, however, the horse was brought to the post, and walked over, it being the intention of the owner to claim the plate.— The gamblers of the lowest grade (the thimble-rig gentry) were most numerous, and exercised their nefarious calling with the greatest effrontery. On Tuesday, before any company arrived, the moor was literally covered with them, and their numbers, including the various decoys, could not amount to less than a thousand—we have heard it stated at nearly two thousand, — consequently they were too numerous to thrive, and many of them would be minus their day's expences. The robberies have been less numerous than on some former occasions, but it al ways happens that there are some stupid folks who attend such places with a lot of sovereigns in their pockets • such was the case now; one of the lightest of the light-fingered gents. got his hand by accident into a country woman's pocket, and twelve sovereigns stuck to his fingers, with which he marched off. The young thieves were very active doingbusiness in a small way,— stealing a reticule or some such portable article. The races have passed off without any material accident; the upsetting of a few carts and gigs, without any serious injury to the passen gers, being all we have to report under this head.—Preston Pilot. TILE DRAMA. Since our last notice of the proceedings at our Theatre-Royal, the managers have successively produced " The Hypocrite," " The School for Scandal," the first part of " King Henry the Fourth," " The Revenge," and, last night, the first part of " King Henry the Fourth," and " The Kentuckian;" the last piece for the avowed purpose of giving us "more last words,' or a parting benedicite from our American friend, Mr. Hackett. Sir John Falatuff is one of the few creatures of the imagina tion that has obtained a " local habitation and a name;" we quote his sayings as those of a person that has lived or is living; and so powerful is the charm of his wit that we become enamoured of his very vices, and cease to wonder that Prince Hal was in love with " that mountain of flesh," maugre his arrant cowardice and barefaced rogueries. The revelries at the Blue Boar in Eastcheap betray such a rich fund of humour that he who can witness a representation of them unmoved must be in every sense of the word a cynic. All onr expectations were fully realized from Dowton's per formance of the " old fat knight.' We cordially entered into the spirit of the scenes, fancied ourselves as almost joining in his orgies, and re-echoed the laugh of his followers as if we had been inspired by one of his own " cups of sack;" and we can make no better comment on Dowton's Sir John than by adding that this was the feeling of the most crowded house we have at tended for the season. This fact, the full attendance on Friday night, is, we think, confirmatory of our opinion that the admiration of the drama is not on the 'decline, and that where it wants proper support the fault is owing to the erroneous judgment of managers, who endeavour to substitute garbage for wholesome food. Vandenhoff wanted the fire of Shakspeare's Hotspur, to convey an adequate idea of the fierce,_ untameable spirit of the author's character, and we regret to be obliged to repeat that this gentleman's greatest fault is, that his characters generally sink in the comparison with the principal artistes, who are his contemporaries, simply because he reserves his powers for single passages, instead of supporting his part as a whole. He pos sesses all the requisites for an actor of the very first grade, if he could be perstia4ed to call all his great powers into action. Wallack left us on Friday night, and was succeeded lastnight by Mr. Cooper, who made his first appearance on our stage for the last seven years, in the part of The Prince of Wales, instead of Wallack, and is in every respect his equal. Cooper's act ing is that of the gentleman, and lie is always correct to the latter in his delivery—au excellence that is too little regarded by ordinary performers. He soars far above mediocrity, and is capable of going through a greater range of characters than almost any of his compeers; we draw a very favourable augury from his performance of last night, and look forward to much pleasure from his future exertions. Mr. Hackett closed his labours in' England last night by performing Colonel Nimrod Wildfire, in The Kentuckian!' We have already noticed this piece of Yankee gasconade ; what passes for wit in one country may be stupidity or imper tinence in another. The Colonelis •avowedly a caricature of his countrymen, drawn by the pencil of a native artist, and bears the usual strong resemblance to the original—if on his return he can persuade his countrymen to laagh at their own absurdities, he will do more to quicken the march of civiliza tion and true refinement of manners than a thousand laboured essays will ever effect; the most powerful weapon that folly dreads is well-directed satire. We thank this gentleman for the hearty laughs he has afforded us, we wish him every success in his own country, and shall be most happy to see Lis place supplied here by his equal—in his cwn or any other line. The Bishop of Gloucester has augmented the two small livings of Horsley and Upton-St.-Leonards, in his diocese, by a perpetual payment of £l5 a-year each from the revenues of his see; and the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty have met these benefactions bya grant of £2OO to each of those benefices. The Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral intend to establish a sermon on Sunday afternoons in the Cathedral ; the preachers will be paid by the members of the chapter. There i s a growing conviction that if the Established Church is to main_ tarn the honourable station she has hitherto held, her clerg y must exhibit an energy, zeal, and self-denial, commensurat with the character of the times. This will be the most effectual reply to the reflections now so lavishly cast on the ministers o the church.—Worcester Journal. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'clock. We have just received a file of New York papers to the 24th ultimo. They contain distressing accounts of the prevalence of cholera. At New Orleans the inter ments are stated to have been eighty-one on the Bth of June. The Boston Gazette of Saturday gives the fol lowing extract of a letter, dated Matanzas, June sth : " You can have no idea of the gloom that prevails here in consequence of that dreadful scourge, the cholera. In the ci ties it has nearly ceased, but in the country its path is marked with desolation and ruin. On an estate having one hundred slaves, every soul perished. Another with sixty lost fifty-five. A slave ship lately landed four hundred miserable wretches, of whom all but three died. Eight negroes were taken down on an estate sixteen miles from this town a few days ago. The pro prietor, Mr. S., an Englishman, an old acquantance of mine, im mediately Caine to town to our house. His servant was taken down after he got in, and died in the yard under my window.. The old gentleman returned to his estate the day before yesterday, where he found 38 out of 69 dead. He was immediately seized himself, when a black boy was despatched to us with a note stating that his master was dying. The boy had scarcely delivered the note when he staggered, fell on the floor, and in a few hours was a corpse. The old gentleman is dead, and the estate entirely de serted. This is a picture of many other estates. HAVANA.—A postscript to a letter from Havana of the Bth instant, states that the government had then resolved to sus pend the granting of clean bills of health." The Times of yesterday contains the following para graph : "The very thought of the possibility of the Tory locusts coming into power has created a great alarm—we may say a panic—in most of the great towns in the north. At Halifax, Manchester, and Liverpool, the run for gold has been very great. The ultra-radicals are in high glee, and the age of the " De- structives " is approaching 1" We lose not a moment in giving this statement the most unqualified contradiction. It is a diabolical false hood altogether, and invented for the basest of purposes. CORN EXCHANGE. TUESDAY, Two O'CLOCK. To-day our market has gone off without business, but a fair retail business has been done in Wheats with the dealers at full prices, chiefly in fresh red Irish, at 7s. 4d. to 7s. 10d. as in quality ; also, in Canada, at Bs. to Bs. 3d. for red, and 9s. to 9s. 3d. for white. Speculators would have bought at a very small reduction. Oats were in fair request at an advance, fine west of Ireland having brought 2s. Bd. to 2s. 9d., Wicklows 2s. ald., and Scotch 3s. Oatmeal was dull at 235. to 235. 6d. for new, but Irish Flour was 6d. to Is. dearer. In other articles there is no change. COTTON MARKET. TUESDAY, Two O'CLOCK. There is a good demand for Cotton this morning, principally from speculators, by which holders are ena bled to obtain prices fully equal to those of yesterday ; the sales may probably amonnt to 4,000 bags, the chief part of which is for resale. Arrived :-1 New York, and 1 Philadelphia. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, 16th July.--Noon, Wind N.—Fair. ARRIVED: Eagle, Lyon, from New York, (sailed 25th ult.) Monongahela, Brown, from Philadelphia. Fanny, Taylor, from Newfoundland. Highlander, Monden, from do. Samuel, Bond, from do. Laurel, Dobson, from Jamaica. Sophia, Easton, from Montreal. Bransty, Wilson, from Tampico, (sailed 6th May.) Effort, Orfeur, from Zante. Caravan, Nichols Hogarth, Allen ; Hope, —, and La Grange, —, hence at New York. Brunette, Fahs, from New Orleans for this port, was spoken Id inst. in lat. 41 15., long. 51 30. Europe, Maxwell, for New York. Tallahasse, Glover, do. SAILED. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, NTH JULY. Wind at Holyhead, S. W. light breeze.—Off Holyhead inward bound— No. 1186, Reindeer, B B. at 5 a.m. No. 539, Combatant, B S, at 8 a.m. No. 642, Corsair, B B, at 9 30 a.m. Off Holyhead, outward bound, No. 694, James Grant, B Rk, at 1, p.m. Off Great Ormshead, inward bound. No. 643, Dart, B Schr, at 12 noon. Off Voel Nant, inward bound. No. '737, William Donald, B S, at 1, p.m. No. 565, Olive Branch, A S, at 2 30, p.m. No. 577, Theodosia, B Bk. at 2. p.m. Off Floating Light inward bound— An American Packet Ship, with a red star on her foretopsail, st 2 40 p.m. MOST IMPORTANT NEWS FROM PORTUGAL , DESTRUCTION OF DOM MIGUEL'S FLEET. The Birmingham, steamer, Capt. Beazley, in the service of the Queen of Portugal, arrived here about three hours since, having on board M. Mendizabel, who brings despatches of din utmost importance from Lagos. To the politeness of Captain Beazley and that of an officer who was in the action, an account of which we are about to relate, we are indebted for the following statement : On the morning of the 2d instant, the squadron under the command of Capt. Napier, consisting of the frigate Rainha da Portugal, (flag ship,) the Dom Pedro, the Donna Maria frigate, the Portuense corvette, and the brig Villa Flor, sailed from La gos Bay, leaving the Britannia, Birmingham, and William the Fourth steamers, to take in supplies of coals, &c. for the use of the ships. On the following day the Villa Flor came into the Bay and made signal for the steamers to join the fleet imme diately. The Miguelite fleet having been descried off Cape St. Vin cent, and there being but little wind, Captain Napier wanted the assistance of the steamers to take his ships in tow, so that he might bring on an action. These vessels not having been engaged for a service of this nature, there was some demur on the part of the crews, but on the sth a breeze fortunately sprung up. Being to windward, Captain Napier made all sail, and at three o'clock bore down on the enemy, closely followed by the other ships of his squadron. The devoted fleet of Dom Miguel was drawn up in line of battle, presenting a very imposing appearance. The Admiral's ship, (the Don John, 74 guns and 750 men,) was the headmost ship, then followed the Nao Rainha 74, also with a crew of 750 men; the next was a large Storeship of 52 guns, and 640 men; then the Princess Real, a noble frigate of 48 guns; the Cor vette Princess Real, and three brigs brought up the rear. At a quarter past 3 p.m. Captain Napier first hoisted his flag; at half-past 3 the enemy first showed his colours. The Rainha bore down under full sail, making for the second ship in the enemy's line, (the Nao Rainha 74.) At five minutes before 4 the action was commenced by a broadside from the Princess Real frigate, immediately . frillowed b y broadsides from the Storeship and the Nao Rainha; which, had the guns not been very badly pointed, must have totally disabled the Rainha. but the only injur y sustained was in the rigging. The Rainha never fired until close alongside of the Nao Rainha, when Captain Napier, attired as a common seaman, boarded that ship sword in hand, immediately followed by his officers, and such part of the crew as had been selected for that duty. The Pedro following closely, the Rainha ran up on the lee quarter of the Nao Rainha. and also boarded her; the conflict was dreadful; but in ten minutes the constitutional flag floated proudly over that of the despot Miguel. The Don John, (the Admiral's ship,) which had hitherto only tired her stern guns, now set all sail and attempted to make off, but was pursued by the Rainha and the Pedro, and surrendered without resistance. The Donna Maria frigate, in the mean while, had engaged the Princess Real, which vessel was defended with much bravery, And did not surrender untill she had became totally unmanagable. The Princess Real frigate also struck, and the Corvette in endeavouring to make off, having fallen athwart the Birmingham steamer, hove to and struck her flag, al , though the steamer offered no obstruction to her escape. The officers of the Constitutional squadron have suffered se verely. The following is a list of the killed and wounded : Capt. George, a volunteer, killed on board the Rainha; Capt. Goblet, of the Don Pedro, killed ; Lieut. Woolridge, flag lieu tenant to Capt. Napier, wounded severely, since dead; Lieut. Millett, marines, killed; the master of the Rainha da Portugal, (name unknown) killed. Wounded:—Capt. Naier, junior, severely; Capt. Reeves, severely; Lieut. Edmonds, severely; Capt. Vincello, of the marines, severely. The commander-in chief received no other injury than a severe blow by a crow bar. The steamer was despatched so soon after the action that the total loss of killed and wounded had not been ascertained. The loss on the part of the enemy, particularly on board the liainha, 74, was very great; the captain of that ship was killed. The captured ships were all carried into Lagos, where they will be immediately refitted for the service of her Majesty th - e Queen. After the action the conquered crews were incessantly shouting " Viva Donna Maria." On the return of the squadron to Lagos with their prizes, the municipal body presented Capt. Napier with a crown of laurel, on a silver plate. The Birmingham fell in, on Tuesday. with the George the Fourth, with Gen. Bounnont and his staff on board, going to the aid of Miguel, and informed them of the important event which had just occurred. Capt. Beazlev has no doubt that the General and his party will fall into the - hands of Capt. Napier, as the Tagus is blockaded. The number of troops which have declared for the Queen is between 6 and 7,000, which makes the force now under the com mand of General Villa Flor about 10,000 men; and we are as sured that the utmost enthusiasm in the cause of Donna Maria prevails throughout the South of Portugal. The Birmingham touched at Oporto, and communicated the news, which caused, as may easily be imagined, unbounded sa tisfaction. We have no time to make any remarks on the foregoing in telligence,and it is unnecessary that we should do so. We will, however, congratulate our readers that this contest cannot he much longer protracted, and that the result must be such as the friends of liberty desire.— The Cornubian. The first General Court of the Seaman's Hospital Society was held yesterday at the London Tavern, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed this session, John Labouchere, Treasurer, in the chair, at which a statement of the society's affairs was laid before the meeting. It appeared that nearly 1,000 seamen of all nations had been relieved during the last three months. The governors expressed a hope that from the extensive assistance which the institution affords, it'vrould meet with support from the_ public corresponding to the great de Taands upon it.— London Paper,