The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-05 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) On Thursday last the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. William Frederick White, Trinity College. MASTER OF ARTS. George Moyle, Lincoln College. Rev. Robert Pargiter Humfrey, Lincoln College. Henry Sherston Baker, Exeter College. Digby Charles Legard, Scholar of University College. Jelin Whitlock Nicholl, Jesus College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. The Earl of March, Christ Church. Hon. Adolphus Frederick Octarius Liddell, Christ Church. Robert Matthew Milne, Magdalen Hall. Charles Leopold Royds, Wadham College. Frederick Peel Round, Balliol College. Rev. John Charles Bentley, St. John's College, incorpo rated from Trinity College, Dublin. In the Congregation holden on Thursday, the 24th instant, William Henry Cope, of Trinity College, Dublin, 8.A., was incorporated of Magdalen Hall. The Cambridge Seatonian Prize has been adjudged to John Murray, M.A., of Trinity College, in that University. The Rev. Henry Jenkyns, M.A., late Fellow of Oriel Coll., and Professor of Greek in the University of Durham, Ilas been collated to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral of Durham, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Prosser, D.D. The Rev. Frederick Septimus Emly, M.A., of Wadham College, Rector of Kirkby Underwood, Lincolnshire, has been appointed to the Chaplaincy of Falkingham House of Correction. The Rev. Charles Dunne, M.A., of Balliol College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to the Vicarage of Eldersfield, Worcestershire, vacant by the re signation of the Rev. A. ,B. Lechmere, M.A., of Christ Church ; patron, Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart. The Rev. George Richard Anstey, of Acomb Hall, near York, and late of St. Alban Hall, has been nominated to the Perpetual Curacy of Wilsden, Yorkshire ; patron, the Vicar of Bradford. PROMOTIONS. Rev. J. F. Cole, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Kirdford, Sussex. Rev. J. C. T. Dunn, late of Lewes, to the Curacy of New haven,-and Chaplain to the Newhaven Union. Rev. Wm. B. Delmar,B.A., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of Elmstone, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Gregory ; patron, W. Definer, Esq. Rev. Mr. Bartlett, late Curate of St. Paul's Exeter, to the Chaplaincy of St. Thomas's Union Workhouse, in that city. Rev. H. C. Smith, Morning Lecturer of Kingsbridge Church, is appointed Evening Lecturer of the same• Church. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Simon Mackintosh to the church of the united parishes of Daviot and Dunlichity, in the presbytery and shire of Inverness, va cant by the death of the Rev. James APPhail.—.Gst the. (From the Cambridge Chronicle) At a Congregation, on Wednesday last, the following de grees were conferred : MASTERS 07 ARTS. Robert William Gaussen, Trinity William Browne, Trinity College. William Stevens Richardson, Trinity College. Richard Chapman, St. John's College. John Russell Shurlock, queen's College. Edward Feilde, St. Peter's College. Studwick Thornhill Warrington, St. Peter's College. Hugh Wynne Jones, Magdalene College. David Bruce, Jesus College. John Todd, Christ's College. BACHELOR OF ARTS. Albert Francis Jackson, Caius College. TRa SEATONIAN PRIZE.—The prize for the best English Poem to a Master of Arts of this university, was on Satur day last adjudged to John Murray, M.A., of Trinity College. Subject—Gideon: The Rev. R. N. Adams, D.D., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, has been presented by the Rev. Dr. Chafy. Master of that society, to the Rectory of Rempstone, Nottingham shire, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Hosking, B.D. The Rev. J. Haworth, M.A., of Christ's College, in this university, having been appointed to the Benefice of Christ Church, Chester, by the Bishop of Chester, the Rev. Chan cellor Raikes, and the Rev. W. Gibson, (the joint trustees,) has resigned the Vicarage of Croxton, Norfolk ; the patrons are the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge. Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, M.A., of Trinity College, in this university, and Perpetual Curate of Buxton, Derbyshire, sixth son of Earl Grey, to the Rectory of Gateshead, Dur ham, void by the resignation of the Rev. John Collinson, M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford ; patron, the Bishop of Durham. The Rev. C. Tower, of St. John's College, in this univer sity, Chaplain to the Lodge of Freemason's at Chigwell, Essex, has been appointed Provincial Grand Chaplain. LATEST NEWS FROM CHINA. (From the Singapore Free Press, July 25.) We have had the perusal of further private advices from Macao to the 27th of June, from which we learn that two edicts had been issued by the Canton authorities, the one pro hibiting all native vessels from trading with the foreign ships outside, in any description of goods, under penalty of death, and any foreign trade, except Portuguese, to be carried on at Macao ; the other, ordering all foreign ships to enter the port within five days, or to take their departure altogether, and threatening them with extermination by fire ships should they fail to comply I The chief superintendent had taken up the Cambridge, Captain Douglas, to act as a guardship, for the protection of British property ; she is said to be chartered at £6,000 for four months. A private letter says, thatin the event of the commissioner taking hostile measures with regard to Macao, British residents there will find it necessary to seek shelter on board ship, as the Portuguese do not possess the power to protect them. Sales of the drug are reported at 750 to 780 dollars per chest, and the trade still going on along the coast. There were about 60 sail of shipping detained outside already, independent of the numbers that had still to arrive. Accounts from Canton to the 24th June had reached Macao, that the commissioner had directed the Ameriean ships tkathad gone to Whampea to be secured, which it appears from other and somewhat earlier accounts, the hong merchants had re fused to do, on the ground of their having British property on board. There was only one British merchant at Canton at the date of the last accounts received at Macao from that quarter. The destruction of the surrendered opium is said to be going on at the rate of 3,000 chests a day ; foreigners had been invited to witness the process. At a meeting of British merchants held at Macao, on the 17th June, the following resolutions were passed : " That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the public no tices of her Majesty's chief superintendent, coupled with the explanation contained in his letter on the 14th inst. are to he considered as conveying a positive order from him, as the organ of his government, prohibitory of British ships and pro perty being sent within the Bocoa Tigris, in the existing state of our relations with the Chinese government. " That it now becomes necessary for British subjects to make some proper arrangements for the disposal of ships and property in the outer anchorages ; and that the committee be authorised to communicate with the chief superintendent, with the view of determining what course is most proper to be pursued. " That with the implicit reliance on the chief superinten dent, and the most entire dependance on the justice, wisdom, and power of the government of England to redress the wrongs of British merchants, this meeting is of opinion tha the interests of all connected with the China trade will b best promoted by a cordial unanimity and a strict adherenc to the orders of the chief superintendent." a The chairman refused to publish an amendment which was moved and lost, as part of the proceedings of the meeting. The object of the proposed amendment is stated to be, to avoid expressing doubts, after they had already acted on pre vious notices of much greater moment, in delivering up the opium, and in quitting Canton, where they had left behind so much valuable property. Captain Elliot had published a declaration, dated Macao, 21st of June, the effect of which it was expected would be, to cause the commissioner to put a stop to all foreign trade whatever for the time. The following are the principal passages extracted from amongst a great deal of rubbish : Elliot, &c., learns that official notices have been pub licly placarded and sent to the ships of his nation, inciting the English merchants, commanders, and seamen, to dis regard his lawful injunctions, issued in the name of his most gracious Sovereign. But wherefore are these notices silent upon the causes which have produced the conclusion of trade and intercourse at Canton ? The high commissioner has published his own communications to Elliot, but where are the replies ? That proceedings are highly inconsistent with th e princi ple of peace and dignity ; and Elliot must now declare the motives which have compelled him to require the merchants of his nation to leave Canton, and the ships no longer to re turn within the Bocca Tigris. He then goes on to describe his own acts and the treatment which he received, and observes :—That servants were not faithfully restored when one-fourth of the opium was deli vered, the boats were not permitted to run when one-half was delivered ; the trade was not really opened when three fourths were delivered ; and the last pledge that things should go on as usual When the whole was delivered has been falsified by the reduction of the factories to a prison with one outlet, the expulsion of 16 persons, some of them who never dealt in opium at all, some clerks, one a lad, and the proposal of novel and intolerable regulations. It is certain that the late measures of the commissioner have retarded the accomplishment o f th e i mper i al pleasure, given an immense impulse to the traffic in opium, which was stagnant for several months before he arrived, and shaken the prosperity of these flourishing provinces. It is possible that they will disturb the whole coast s o f th e empire, ruin thousands of families, foreign and native, and interrupt the peace between the celestial court and England, which has endured for nearly 200 years. The merchants and ships of the English nation do not proceed to Canton and Whampoa, because the gracious com mands of the Emperor for their protection are set at nought ; because the truth is concealed from his Imperial Majesty's knowledge; because there is no safety for a handful of de fenceless men in the grasp of the government of Canton, be cause it would be derogatory from the dignity of their Sove reign and nation to for4et all the insults and wrongs which have been perpetrated, till full justice be done, and till the whole trade and intercourse be placed upon a footing honour able and secure to this empire, and to England. A. correspondent of the Silurian Advertiser states that the presence of alumine is to be found in the iron ores of Rad norshire, and that is well worth the consideration of those iron masters who are at a great expense in importing the red ore of Lancashire. DOCKING OF HORSES.—In this country the horse's tail is regarded as a useless or troublesome appendage. It was given to ward off the attacks of blood-sucking flies. But men choose to remove it without being able to give the horse any other protection from the insects against which it was intended to operate. They say that the long tail conceals the horse's quarter, diminishes his apparent height, heats him at had work, and soils his rider. It is also supposed, that amputation of the tail renders the back stronger. These sage sayings have been promoted so extensively from one to another, that it seems to be universally decided that all horses must be docked. These, it will be observed, are very strong objections to a long tail. It is a terrible thing to hide the quarters, and to make the horse look lower by an inch than he really is. Evils of such a nature are not to be suffered, The tail may be useful in some respects, and in the good old times it was permitted to flourish as it . grew, being only bound up whe n it t rou bl e d th e h orse ' s rider. But in times like these, when men clamour for freedom, and practice tyranny, it must be cut off. It is said, that the back becomes stronger after the tail is docked ; that the back receives the blood which formerly went to the tail. There is no truth in this. The small quantity of blood saved can be furnished by one or two additional ounces of corn, and there is not the slightest proof that the back becomes stronger. Some writers have contended, that the tail of the horse, like that of the greyhound or the kangaroo, assists him in turning, in the same way that a helm guides a ship. Whether this be true or not, th ere can b e no d ou b t a b out the utility of the tail in keeping off flies, which in some horses give extreme torment. I have heard or read of a troop of cavalry em ployed, I think, in some part of India, that was quite useless in consequence of the annoyance the docked horses received from a large species of fly. In this country, for two months of the year,thin-skinned horses suffer excessively, and many accidents happen from their struggles or their fears. At grafis they are in c ons t ant f ever. It is surely worth while inquiring, whether all that is gained by docking balances the loss. In comparing the t wo , i t ought to be remembered that lock-jaw and death are not rare resulte of the operation. Stewart's Stable Economy, MISCELLANEOUS. The late tournament at Eglintoun castle is said to have cost the noble earl £20,000. The hair dressers of Bradford have agreed to close their shops at eight o'clock during the winter evenings. A large issue of new silver is taking place at the bank with the dividends of the present quarter. It is said that the Duke of Leinstcr is to have the Riband of the Order of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Duke of Bedford. The queen has ordered three shawls of Berlin wool to be manufactured for her by the girls of the Edinburgh Asylum for the Blind. Young Howlett, the jockey, who won the cup at Warwick, on the Duke of Richmond's Confusionee, weighed, with saddle, bridle, &c. under four stone ! Messrs. Mosley, cotton. spinners, and manufacturers, Bul lock Smithy, near Stockport, have stopped payment. Their liabilities are understood to be £45,000. LARGE HARE.—On Friday last, the greyhounds belong ing to Mr. Leathes, of Egremont, caught a hare which weighed not less than 101bs 10oz. LARGE CABBAGE.—Last week, a Scotch cabbage was cut by Mr. George Holmes, which was grown in his garden, at Northallerton, the weight of which was 321bs 12oz.—Carlisle Patriot. EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.-Mr. James Craven, of Richmond, planted this year one potatoe, of the second early kind, which produced 350 potatoes, measuring five pecks. --- - - WEIGHT OF STEAM.—Steam is 1,800 times lighter than water—that is, a given portion of water will, in the form of steam, occupy 1,800 times the space it did before. The revising barristers have decided that the mayor is the ,proper returning officer for the borough of Manchester, and have delivered the revised list of voters to the town-clerk. One of the mail packets from Dover to Calais, on its way across, a few days ago, saw an enormous whale, which passed close to the vessel. It was supposed to be following a shoal of herrings. Linen, which is the staple :manufacture of Ireland, was first made in England in the year 1253, and was only worn by the luxurious : the generality of persons wore woollen shirts. • WARRINGTON.—Henry Alderson, Esq., has been elected boroughreeve ; and Mr. Thomas Okill, Mr. James Buckley, and Mr. William Oxley, constables, of this town, for the year ensuing. The King and Queen of Hanover have quitted their sum mer palace of Montbrillant, and returned to the capital. The Prince Royal of Hanover has returned from his residence of Georgenparc. PENNY POSTAGE.—More than two thousand proposals from parties competing for the supply of stamps by a supe rior method, to be used in the collection of postage, are now lying before the Lords of the Treasury.—Globe. Daniel W. Harvey, Esq., has been elected commissioner of police for the city of London, which vacates his seat for the borough of Southwark. The writ, however, will not be issued till parliament meets. It is rumoured that, in the event of a dissolution of parlia ment, the Marquis of Tavistock will be proposed for Cam bridgeshire, in the liberal interest, in conjunction with our present worthy representative, Mr. Greaves Townley.— Cambridge Pree Press. The authors of the great robbery of the royal cabinet at Berlin, committed some time ago, have been discovered. A whole band of thieves and receivers were concerned, among whom the principal are a goldsmith, a barber, and several Jews. Lord Fortescue, in consequence of advanced age, has re signed the Lord Lieutenancy and Vice-Admiralship of the •ounty of Devon, and Lord Ebrington, the Lord Lieutenant , Of Ireland, is appointed his successor in both offices. The expense of sending the Fleece to London, from Aus tralia, a distance of 15,000 miles, is not more than 34d. per lb. including freight, brokerage, commission, dock and land ing charges ; while the expense of transmitting German or Spanish wools to England, is from 4d. to 4id. per lb.—South Australian Miscellany. SWIMMING EXTRAORDINARY.—There is now to be seen at Stourton Lodge, near Leeds, a chicken w hi c h h as aban doned the habins of its kind and formed such a strong attach ment to a brood of Duckling, as even to accompany them into the pond and swim about as if perfectly aquatile.— Leeds Intelligencer. MoNEY CLue.—A number of working men at Kendal have formed a money club, for the purpose of obtaining butchers' meat and other articles of food cheaper than by going to the regular market. Sheep are regularly bought, slaughtered, and divided according to each man's share, the price per pound varying from 34d to 4d for excellent mutton. —Preston Pilot. A GREAT VISITOR.—Last week, a person named Samuel Hulmes, of Radcliffe, Lancashire, was visiting at Mr. John Farrall's, Bunbury, Cheshire, the girth of whose body is 6 feet of his thigh and leg 3 ft. 4 in. and 2 ft. 1 in. his arm (above the elbow) 1 ft. 8 in. his height is 5 ft. 10 in. and his weight 28 stones. He is abou. 50 years of age. The government at length, it is asserted, intend next ses sion to include the lace factories, where machines are pro pelled by steam or water, in the new Factory Bill. There are about 37 such factories in the counties of Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Gloucester, Somerset, and Devon.—Not tingham Journal. " The Empress of Russia," says a letter of the 20th inst., from Berlin, in the Augsburgh Gazette, "is so far recovered as to be able to travel to the south, and intends to go to the Crimea. At the same time the Grand Duchess Olga, the Emperor's second daughter, is so seriously indisposed as to excite great alarm." PROHIBITION OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN SPAIN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.—Lord Palmerston has sent instructions to the British Minister at. Madrid, to be com municated to the various British Consuls in Spain, informing them that any British subject preaching or teaching religion, or distributing books, in that country, will be rendered liable to a State prosecution. The total cost of the several prisons of England and Wales, in the course of last year, amounted to the sum of £302,902 1 ls. Bd.: the receipts of the prisons, and earnings of the prisoners, in the course of the year, amounted to the sum of £30,160 18s. 4d. leaving, as the actual cost du ring the year, for the maintenance of prisons, the sum of £372,741 13s. 4d. We are happy to learn that the last accounts from Canada are more favourable as to the prospects of the ensuing winter. With a force of 15,000 British troops, little apprehension need be entertained. Mr. Poulett Thomson's appointment had, however, occasioned great dissatisfaction, which was in creased by a report that he intended to fix his head-quarters at Montreal, instead of Quebec.—Brighton Gazette. CONSTABLES.-Mr. Pakington has intimated his attention to move, in the ensuing sessions of parliament, to bring in a bill for the creation of a general constabulary system through out the country, in accordance with the district constables bill. He also proposes to delegate to the commissioners of police in London, the nomination of the chief constable, al though it is in the gift of the country magistrates.—Stafford shire Gazette. SAVINGS BANKS.-it is a remarkable circumstance that, of the workmen, the painters, locksmiths, jewellers, tailors, peruquiers, and butchers are those who put the most in the savings banks, whilst the men employed by the wine and li quer merchants invest the least. Such is the wonderful pro gress made by these establishments, which were hardly known 25 years ago, and which are now estimated at nearly 1,000,000,000 of deposits in the 1200 savings banks founded in Europe. CHANGE RINGING.—On Monday, a trial of skill in change ringing, took place on the peal of ten bells, of the Parish Church of St. Peter, Huddersfield. There were ten com panies of ringers in attendance, viz., Mottram, Oldham, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Halifax, Ashton, Manchester, Elland, Liversedge, and Birstal. Taking the execution as a whole, it has perhaps seldom been excelled, and the principal streets of the town were crowded with attentive listeners. Manches ter and Halifax bore away the prizes. —Leeds Intelligencer. PROLIFIC POTATO ROOT.—A few days ago, a root of early potatoes was taken up in the garden of Mr. William Doug las, Low Moss, near Broughton in Furnace, which contained not less than one hundred and sixty-one potatoes ! Three of the largest of the potatoes of this prolific root weighed two pounds and a-half, and the whole weighed Silbs.—Carlisle Patriot. Lord Brougham, accompanied by J. Leader, Esq., M. P., for Westminster, arrived in this town, from the north, on Thursday evening last, and remained all night at the Victoria Hotel. The following morning they left town for London, by the train at a quarter before ten o'clock.' His lordship looked exceedingly well, and did not appear any worse for the accident he sustained last week.--Preston Chronicle. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. — Before the late changea ble and wintry weather set in, the harvest operations in this neighbourhood were nearly completed. Except in a few so litary instances, the ground is now cleared—the excepted in stances being scarcely worth mentioning as to extent. Our market every week is glutted by supplies of wheat, a great portion of which, however, is of impaired quality.—Preston Chronicle. Her majesty, through the lord chamberlain, Lord Ux bridge, has taken private boxes for the season at Drury-lane and Covent-garden. The sum paid by the sovereign to each lessee of the winter houses for her box is £4OO, which is ex clusive of the amount given by her majesty when she visits the theatres iu state, which it is expected this season will be soon after Christmas. IRISH DESPERADOES OUTDONE.—The whole of Ireland (says Captain Marryat) would offer nothing equal in atrocity to what I can prove relative to one small town in America ; that of Augusta, in Georgia, containing only a population of 300, in which in one year there were 59 assassinations com mitted in open day, without any notice being taken of them by the authorities. NICE, OCTOBER 21.—Piedmont continues to be infested by numerous bands of robbers. The gendarmerie, ca valry, and troops of the line, make frequent patrols on the high way, but hitherto to no effect. The audacity of the banditti is such, that they lately stopped a carriage be tween Nice and Turin under the very walls of the Royal park of Racconis, in spite of the large body of troops stationed near that château. This state of things has now lasted three month.— Gazette du Midi. RYE.-It is reported, upon good authority, that the Goverment commissioners appointed to survey the south eastern coast have reported in favour of a new harbour of refuge being made close under Winchelsea, a mile or two to the west of the place where Rye New Harbour used to run out of the sea, as marked in maps, which some years ago was the most excellent harbour, but does not exist now, having been entirely destroyed through neglect. No place could be better adapted for a new harbour than the flats im mediately under Winchelsea.—Brighton Gazette. THE WOMAN AND PHEASANT.-OD Monday last a beautiful cock pheasant alighted upon the Independent Chapel, Stourbridge : from thence it flew into the house of a woman named Bate, by whom the bird was caught , but it soon afterwards died, it having been previously wounded by some sportsman. Several persons who had been in pursuit of this bird, made a claim to it, but the old lady would not be duped out of her feathered prize ; she being determined to eat the bird herself as she never thought in her 63d year, to partake of such a dainty.—Ten Town's Messenger. INDICATOR OF THE LEVEL OF WATER IN BOILERS.— M. Passot has invented an instrument, something on the principle of Leslie's differential thermometer, to inform one of water in boilers. It consists of a recurved tube, and con taining a liquid, open at both ends, of which one end is in communication with the upper interior part of the boiler, and the other with the lower. The difference. of pressure a t the two ends is obviously due to the height of wat er i n th e boiler, and therefore measured by the height of the liquid in the tube.—Railway Magazine. A STUPID PASSENGER.—An amusing scene was witnessed on Tuesday morning at the Rotherham Railway station. A person who had paid his fare from Doncaster to Sheffield by Gibson's coach, on arriving at the station, refused to remove from his seat on the coach in order to enter one of the car riages. The other passengers having taken their places, and the train being ready to start, he still remained true to his seat, and declared that he " would not be done" by any of them; and there he sat for some minutes alone on the coach after the train had disappeared on its way to Sheffield, amidst the laughter and jeers of the lookers-on, who were highly amused at the passenger's pertinacity. We understand he was afterwards induced by the strong persuasions of some of the persons connected with the railway to take his departure by the to 4 o'clock train,—She%field IriB. ~\ ik BRUTAL COI•TDUCZ iort r-A naitgators f?om the t\ilway took possession of lic-house at Galgate, on Monday, and threatened to murder any one v;ho should attempt to molest them, and on the constables going to the spot, they were fiercely attacked with pokers, tongs, &c., and anything, in fact, the brutes could lay their hands on. After a good battle, four of them were secured and brought to Lancaster, and taken before a county magistrate, after which they were committed to the Castle, to be imprisoned to hard labour for two months. A warrant is issued against the other, but he has not since been heard of.—Preston Pilot. THE SEA AAVIC—A specimen of this rare bird in this part was caught on Monday last, in the Lune, a little before the ford, by Captain Cubin, of the Surprise. He first observed it swimming about the Old Bridge, and having got his boat, he, after chasing it for about an hour, succeeded in capturing it. They are very expert divers, but their wings are so short as not to be available to them for flying. It is about a foot long, black plumage on the back and grey on the belly ; the legs, like the diver species, are placed so far behind as to enable it to stand quite upright when on the land.—Preston Pilot. THE WEATHER.-We have during the past week had most delightful weather for the completion of harvest operations, and the gathering in of a most important esculent vegetable in this district, the potatoe. Some complaints are made about injured potato crops, but we believe they are not to any considerable extent. Grain is much cheaper in our mar ket than a few months ago, and we sincerely trust the result of the harvest will eventually prove that it has produced " seed for the sower, and bread for the eater," thus offering ample reason for gratitude to that Being whose " benevolent hand has indeed been in love extended. "—Lancaster Gazette. LAMENTABLE CIRCUMSTAN CE.—A very respectable per son, of the name of Creighton, who resided at Dudley, has been lost for the last fortnight. Every search has been made after him, but without success. It appears he left his home a fortnight ago, and in the course of a few days wrote to his family, stating, by the time they received that letter he should be in eternity, and he was seen by several people near the Fox yard (the day he left home) a place where there are many pits. Last week a number of the inhabitants of Dudley searched these pits, but in vain. The family is in a most de plorable state.—Ten Town's Messenger. The ministerial organs are leaving no stone unturned to put down the " No Popery "! cry ; to silence the conserva tive press on this sore subject. By the jade wincing so, we see how she is galled. So long as popery identifies herself with perjury and perfidy, the tria juncta in uno of ill-fated Erin, so long shall protestant Britain re-echo with the cry of "No Popery " 1 Repealers may render their idolatrous ho mage to these three Roman Graces ; but the sentiment shall circulate round the land, with three times three,—" No Per fidy ! No Perjury ! No Popery ! " ADVANTAGES OF RAILWA Y S.—Along the line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway, six miles from the town ter minus, commences a rich field of iron-stone, which is work ing to a considerable extent, and after yielding some hundreds of pounds; per acre to the landholder, paying twice as much in railway dues and handage, with nearly £2,000 per acre for mining, and a fair remuner a ti on f or cap it a l, i s now d e li vere d in the River Tynd,, after a sea voyage of 85 miles, at less cost than the transit 'alone would be by the turnpike-road to Whitby, the place of shipping. POWER OF STE AM.—A train of coaches, weighing about 80 tons, and transporting 240 passengers, with their luggage, has been taken from Liverpool to Birmingham, and back from Birmingham to Liverpool, the trip each way taking about 42 hours, stoppages included. The distance between these places by the railway is 95 miles. This double journey of 190 miles is effected by the mechanical force produced in the combustion of a quarter of a ton of coke, the value of which is 6s. To carry the same number of passengers daily between the same places by stage coaches, on a common road, would require 20 coaches, and an establishment of 3800 horses. —• A correspondent of the St. James's Chronicle recommends a more distinctive dress for the Established Clergy as indis pensible, " for, (says he) it is almost impossible to recognise a clergyman in general society by his apparel, and hence I am convinced, a vast influence over the tone of conversation and the pursuits of society, which the Clergy would otherwise have, is lost." He goes on to advise the adoption of " cleri cal hats," as recommended by the Bishop of London to his Clergy ; " since,( says the writer) the use of it would tend to banish the black neckcloth and light coloured trousers now so generally worn by the Clergy, and which confound them with military men, and even with shopmen." COLLEGE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS.—The new school for instruction in civil engineering, now so important a profession, and becoming almost daily more so from the great and exten sive national and public undertakings now in progress, is go ing on very favourably. The directors have taken Gordon House, near Hamstead, a large establishment, which is fitting up for the reception of the college, which it is expected will be in active operation early in the spring. The Duke of Buccleuch. the president, has given a donation of £l,OOO to wards its objects, and many presents have already been made to the library, and also models of machinery and specimens for the museum. The candidates for the appointments of professorships are numerous, including many of first-rate talent, although few have yet been decided upon. Lanci BRocoLl.—There is at present growing in the garden of Mr. Thomas Hartley, of Croftend, near Broughton in Furness, a brocoli of the following most extraordinary di mensions, namely, six feet two inches in height, and seven teen feet and a half in circumference ! The seed which pro duced this giant of its growth," was sown in the month of September, 1838, and transplanted in the month of March, in the present year ; it is in every part both strong and heal thy, and as finely curled as any of the smaller plants in the same garden, in which there is also another plant from the same seed that likewise stands fully six feet two inches high. Carlisle Patriot. The bobbin net machine exporters were extremely busy -during the last week, both in sending away the best workmen and the best machines. Several orders are in town for ma chine insides for France, though scarcely any machines have been building in Nottingham since 1836, except those for Burton's new steam factory at Mapperley. The number of bobbin net machines since that year has decreased nearly one half in England. A branch establishment of the jingler stocking frames are now making new frames in Ostend. This description of stocking frames was invented in London, by Mr. Holland, the fleecy patentee, in 1836 his frame now stands in the room of the Society of Arts, in the Adelphi, - Strand.—Nottingham Journal. MURDER BY A LUNATIC.—On Monday week an inquest was held at the Lunatic Asylum, Anlaby-road, near Hull, on the body of Charles Donally, a lunatic, who had been in the institution about a week, and was lodged in a room con taining two other insane persons, one of whom, named Rich ard Hilton, was received on the 25th ultimo: the name of the other was Wilson. These were all considered harmless persons, and were accommodated with one of the rooms ap propriated to patients of a quiet disposition. Nothing unu sual occurred up to bed-time on Saturday week, when they were, as usual, locked up ; but next morning Donally was found dead on the floor, between his crib and Hilton's, with many marks of violence upon him. Hilton's hands were bloody. Wilson was closely covered up in bed. Verdict, " Found dead."—Halifax Guardian;. THE LATE EARTHQUARE.—The most remarkable effect of the shock in Edinburgh, and which was not at the mo ment observed, is the detaching of some blocks of freestone from a stratum, which was laid bare by the formation of the Castle-road, on the south of the esplanade, and which now lie across the footpath. Two of these blocks are of consider able size, and will weigh at least ten tons. To the effects of this phenomenon may also most probably be ascribed the extraordinary and anomalous state of the barometer for the last four or five days. That generally faithful indicator of the weather has, during that period, been fixed at " set fair ;" while, as almost every one has experienced, the weather has alternated from frost to fresh in the night, and from sun shine to rain throughout the day.—Caledonian Mercury. HULL DAVIS' STRAITS WHALERS.—We are happy to an nounce the arrival of the Swan, Capt. Dring, with 3 fish, which made her appearance in the Humber on Monday last ; she has on board a fine polar, or white, bear, taken in the water with a running noose, by means of which the m o ns t er was hoisted on bo ar d an d comfortably lowered into a large cask, one end of which had been previously fortified with a strong iron grating—the other end being closed with the same material when his bearship was conveniently lodged. He has been purchased by a gentleman of this town, and is intended to enrich the Liverpool Zoological Gardens.—On Tuesday the Comet, Captain Ward, with 5 fish ; and Duncombe, Cap tain Dean, 2 fish, were safely riding at anchor off this port. The Ellison is now the only absent ship ; and that she may speedily return, and all the endeavous of her crew he crowned with success, is our sincere wish.—Hull Times. SANATORIUM IN THE METROPOLIS.—An institution is projected to provide for those of the upper and middle classes who may require it, the amplest means for restoration or al leviation in sickness ; including not only the best medical and other attendance, but baths, suites of rooms kept at a uni form temperature, and other appliances beyond the reach even of the comparatively opulent in private dwelling houses. The advantages of such an institution to professional and com mercial men, and all whose avocations lead them to live chiefly in chambers or lodgings, are very obvious. It appears that they are capable of being realised at a very reasonable rate. By this institution it is probable that many valuable lives may be prolonged, and much suffering avoided. A meet ing on the subject was held yesterday, at which it was stated that the establishment could be put into operation with about a hundred beds, at an expense of about £3,000. HYDROPHOBIA IN A Cow.--In the beginning of the pre sent month a fine young cow, the property of Joseph Reid, Esq., a magistrate of the county of Surrey, residing at Thorn ton-heath, near Croyden, while grazing in a field near that gentleman's residence, was attacked by a dog apparently in a rabbid state and bitten in the throat. The wound healed up shortly afterwards, and the cow seemed as well as usual until Thursday last, when she was turned out to graze, and soon afterwards she was attacked with all the symptoms of that dreadful disorder hydrophobia. She foamed at the mouth, tore up the ground, and roared in the most frightful manner. Several labouring men were sent for, and after considerable difficulty they succeeded in getting her into a shed. She was so violent, however, that it was impossible to go near her, and it was at length found absolutely necessary to shoot her. The carcass was buried immediately afterwards. THE CHARTISTS IN WARWICK GAOL.--John Collins and his fellow-prisoner Lovett having made an unsuccessful at tempt to induce the magistrates to alter their diet, and to al low them the society of their wives, we understand that Mr. Edmonds made a formal application to the chairman of the quarter sessions to overrule their determination. Sir Eard ley Wilmot refused to interfere, stating, first, that he had no power over the visiting magistrates ; and next, that, if they were dissatisfied, the prisoners might apply to Lord Nor manby, who could make - what order he should think fit. We do not know whether the learned clerk of the peace will take the advice of the worthy baronet, nor do we know whether the worthy novelist's answer will be yes or no; but we hope his lordship's official conduct in England will be a strong " contrast' to that which has given such satisfaction to O'Connell in Ireland.—Birmingham Advertiser. THE ANTI-CORN LAW AGITATORS OF MANCHESTER.— The only idea that looks like any thing English, which these clever personages ever yet conceived, is that of giving a cheap dinner to everybody in the universe who is of the same opi nion as themselves ; and the Anti-Corn Law Circular " ex pects that it will be by far the largest banquet in the world." All the members of the House of Commons who voted for Mr. Villiers' motion are to attend, so that it will not only be seen, by the speechifications, whether Colo ne l Tho m p son i s as good a man as James Ackland (the Hull gentry are divid ed on the point), or whether Master Paulton, who got pelted out of Worksop for talking nonsense, is not a better man than both of them put together ; but it will also be tested, whether those gentlemen who at present cut such a conspi cuous figure as anti-corn law advocates in parliament, and who will be disengaged after the next election, would be worth their travelling expenses as delegates for the league. It is said that, in order to mark their sense of the corn-laws, the league will allow no bread at the " banquet." What will come on with the cheese ?—Morning Herald. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The following are the Foreign Orders of Knighthood wilich have been conferred on his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by Sovereign Potentates. His Grace is Knight Grand Cross of the (Anstrian) Order of Maria Theresa, Knight of the (Danish) Order of the Ele phant, Knight of the (French) Order of the Holy Ghost, Knight Grand Cross of the (Portuguese) Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Prussian Eagle, Knight of the first class of the (Russian) Order of St. George, Knight Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of the Annunciation, Knight of the Order of the Rue Crown of Saxony, Knight of the (Sicilian) Order of St. Januarius, Knight Grand Cross of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit, Knight Grand Cross of the (Spanish branch) Order of the Golden Fleece, and Knight Grand Cross of the (Swedish) Order of the Sword, CAUTION TO TAVERN KEEPERS.—The following informa tion has been received of a robbery committed at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham, by a foreigner, believed to be a native of Hol land or Belgium, who will probably pay a similar visit to tavern-keepers in the metropolis or elsewhe re . H e arr i ve d at Dee's Hotel on Tuesday se'nnight, with luggage consisting of a box in a black oilskin cover, and a large carpet bag, and remained until Sunday, when he disappeared, and with him half-a-dozen each of silver table spoons and forks, marked " D." His box and carpet bag being opened, were found stuffed with hay and turnips. He is described as about fifty years of age, and five feet eight inches high, stout, of dark complexion, hollow visage, and light eyes ; speaks with a foreign accent, has lost most of his front teeth, and has a very gruff voice. His dress was a dark frock coat, with large blue trousers, and broad brimmed hat.—Staffordshire Gaz. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last, Mrs. Nixon, a woman in the 88th year of her age, living a t Fevershain, fell down a well fifteen feet deep, with seven feet water, and es caped with only a few bruises. It appears that the well is situated in the kitchen, and has been enclosed some years with slabs, and then paved over with bricks ; and it is sup posed that Mrs. Nixon, stepping rather heavily on the spot, in coming out of an adjoining room, the pavement gave way, and went down with the bricks and rotten timber. She sus tained a complete ducking, but floated aferwards, and caught hold of a lead pipe which supplied a pump, and thus held on until rescued from her perilous situation, where she remained full twenty minutes.—Canterbury Journal; THE IRON TRADE—A statement of the iron-trade of Great Britain (up to June, 1839) is published in the Railway Magazine. The following are extracts :—ln Great Britain there are 239 furnaces in blast ; 14 out of blast ; 31 building. and 83 contemplated. The annual produce of iron is 1,008,280 tons. The weekly produce, 19,390 tons of iron, and 90(10 tons of bar iron. To produce this quantity, 3,000,000 tons of coal are required, and the labour of 40,000 persons. The most extensive manufacturing firms are Messrs. J. and C. Bailey, Messrs. Guest, Lewis, and Co. These four esta blishments produce above one quarter of the whole amount of iron manufactured in the empire, and nearly one half of the whole amount of bar iron. Messrs. J. and C. Bailey alone manufactured 82,000 tons of iron, and 40,000 of bar, being one-twelfth of the whole quantity of the former, and one-tenth of the latter. Some geologists at Chalons-sur-Saone have recently dis covered a fossil elephant in a quarry at Pretez, near Tournus, in the Saone-et-Loire. The two tusks were nearly entire ; they are of a large size, and the ivory is white, but brittle. One of them has been uncovered to the extent of three or four feet ; but on the least exertion being used to raise it from its bed, it breaks into pieces. These are not the first bones of this species of animal found at or near the same spot. A gentleman in that neighbourhood has two large teeth found in digging a well, one of which is that of an ele phant, and the other of a mastodon. The site of this coin• mune, the calcareous strata of which run under the left bank of the Saone, was formerly, according to the opinions of geo logists, an island in a great lake, which covered the plains of La Bresse.—Galignani's Messenger. EKTRAORDINARY ESCAPE. — The ' Breton,' of Nantes, gives an account of the extraordinary escape from destruction of a gentleman of Poulinguen. It appears that a few days ago this gentleman, who is both a sportsman arid naturalist, wish ing to pass the day on a little island, or rather rock, which is at a distance of two leagues from the main shore, was landed there by some boatmen, who were to return for him before the evening. The wind, however, having got up suddenly with much violence, the boatmen were unable to return, and he was compelled to pass the night upon the rock. For some time his situation, although highly disagreeable, as it was very cold, and he was without a cloak, was not one of real danger, but as the night advanced the sea became more and more agitated, and the waves dashed over the rock with such force, that to prevent his being washed off he was obliged to lie down, and grasp any little projecting parts with his hands. He had remained in the situation for some time, when he un fortunately let go his hold, and fell a depth of 20 feet into a sort of basin, at the base of the rock, full of water, and the waves dashing into it. Here he must inevitably have been drowned if a wave had not thrown him on the edge of the basin, where he was fortunately retained by his coat becom ing entangled with an angle of the rock. On his recovery from the effects of his fall, he was enabled by great energy, to regain the summit, where he passed the remainder of the night. In the morning the weather was still so bad that he could entertain no hope of succour, and his little store of provisions, consisting of a bottle of wine and a piece of bread, which he hail placed in a crevice, having been carried away by the sea, he would have been destined to experience the pangs of hunger in aggravation of the other horrors of his situation, if he had not shot a cormorant on the preceding day, which was still in his pouch, He succeeded, notwith • standing the unsavoriness of the meal, in eating a portion of this bird, and his hunger was appeased. Towards the middle of the day he was perceived by the crew of a fishing vessel which was running to port ; but the sea was too violent, and the wind too high, for them to render assistance, and he was compelled to pass another dreadful night, in which the cold was so intense, that he has since said he felt relief in the kind of warmth imparted by the waves as they broke over him. At the break of the third day, the weather• having moderated, a pilot vessel appeared. As soon as the pilots had cast an chor, they sent their little boat to the rock ; but the sea still ran so high, that two attempts to take him on hoard failed. On the third, the gentleman, in the energy of despair,leapcd into the boat, which, but for a rapid manoeuvre of the rowers, he would have upset, and in a short time was landed at Pou linguen in a dreadful state of exhaustion, but truly grateful to Providence for his escape. " LIBERALITY" OF THE MAYOR OF KIDDERMINSTER.— On auditing the accounts of the Town Council, at a finance committee meeting of this body, on Wednesday last, Richd. Law, the mayor's servant or constable, made the exorbitant demand of twelve shillings for his expenses in going to Wit ley, a distance of twelve miles from the town, and conveying (of course he must have a vehicle) a haunch of venison for the dinner of his masters at their annual jollification. The mayor, Charles Talbot, Esq., who has received his own sa lary of twenty-jive pounds a-year, without any scruples of conscience, loudly demurred at having to pay his subordi nate the twelve shillings, and by the part his worshipful took the sum was disallowed, and " poor Richard" has had his journey to Witley and back for the venison, for naught save the pleasure of seeing his " liberal" masters eat it. We opine, after this, the burgesses will send his worship to the right about by recording their votes against him at the elec tion which takes place this day. The burgesses of Kidder minster must get rid of " the Shabbies."—Ten Towns Mes senger. PUBLIC EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—A parliamentary re turn just pr:nted shows the amount of assistance which has been rendered by the Irish National Board of Education to the instruction of the people, since its establishment in 1831. It has aided in the building of no less than five hundred and fifty-five schools in seven years, at an expense of £41,819 for building, £5,835 for fitting up, £12,484 for salaries, and £3,771 for requisites. It has given assistance to 1,019 schools previously in operation, to the amount of £2,270 for build ing, £6,803 fitting up, £l,Oll salaries, and £11,253 for re quisites. The number of children on the roll in the schools up to September, 1838, was 103,026 males and 78,239 fe males—total 181,264. The sum disbursed in seven years in the promotion of education is £239,255. The schools built are pretty equally distributed throughout the different pro vinces-183 being in Ulster, 100 in Munster, 145 in Leinster, and 125 in Connaught—total 555. Of the schools before in existence, and aided by the Board, 368 were in Ulster, 226 in Munster, 326 in Leinster, and 99 in Connaught—total 1,019. Of these, 308 have ceased, from one cause or other, to be connected with the Commissioners of Education. A curious mystification has recently taken place in the Rue de la Cerisaie, near the arsenal. A young employe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, residing in a house in that street, fell in love with a young lady of the Maison Royale of St. Denis, who was passing the vacation with her aunt, who lived in the same house on the floor just above, but with whom he had but few opportunities of direct communication. In order to excite the imagination of the young lady, who was of a romantic turn, he lent her novels of the most amo rous character to read, which he attached nightly to a string let down from her bedchamber, taking by the same convey ance those which she had read during the day. The aunt, having discovered this mode of corresponde nce , secre tly sen t back her niece to St. Denis, but let the string down every evening for a fortnight as usual. O ur emp l oy e was asto nished at receiving no billet-doux with the returned parcels of books, but, finding the string regularly drawn up, and being ignorant of the absence of the obje c t o f hi s l ove , con tinued his nightly supplies until chance informed him of the' trick which had been played. He became furious at the discovery, and has threatened to p rocee d aga i nst t h e aunt for the amount of a month's subscription paid by him at the circulating library for the use of the books !—Galignani's Messenger. FORGERY.—We understand that Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co., of New-street, Birmingham, have disco vered that a forgery has been committed on their banking es tablishment, by the imitation of their £5 notes. The fol lowing particulars have been handed to us, which we pub lish in order that the public, by examining the notes offered to them, may detect the imposition. We believe that up to Wednesday last, only two of the forged notes had been pre sented to the bank. These were both dated 27th October, 1837, and numbered consecutively 21,836 and 24,837 ; and purported to be signed by " Rd. Spooner." The plate from which the notes were printed was badly executed ; and there is only one "1" in the name of " Marshall," to whom they are made payable. The narrow black border which surrounds the £5 notes of the bank has upon the two forged ones been thickened with writing ink, as the plate seems to have been deficient in that part. Upon one of the forged notes there is little or no trace of an imitation of a stamp on the black, and on the other only a very imperfect one.—Staffordshire Gazette. "THREE ENGLISII WOMEN FORA PARTHING."—A droll scene took place here, says a Paris letter of Sunday, yester day, in the middle of the Rue Rivoli. We have a species of pear, which is, I suppose, imported from England originally, and hence it is so called ; but, as the generic term of the pear is feminine, it, to an untaught ear, describes one of the milder and better portion of the creation ; hence, when an unfortunate vender of pears was yesterday roaring, in the most fashionable part of Paris, " Trois Anylaizes pour deux liards," one of our countrymen, who happened to be passing at the moment with his wife and two daughters, ignorant of the momenclature of the pears, imagined that the cry was intended for his family, and immediately knocked the poor vender down, to the latter's great surprise. When, however, the matter was explained to our compatriot, he, rather than be had up for an assault before the Police Correctionelle, satisfied the man in a way which probably induces him to regret that he so seldom has the chance of meeting a regular John Bull with three ladies, when he is crying out three English women for a farthing, six for a sous.—Paris Paper. RIOT AT WIGAN—THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. — About twelve o'clock last evening, we were considerably surprised by information that the military were called out to suppress a riot, alleged to have taken place in one of the Wards. From the best information we have obtained on the subject, it appears in Queen-street Ward rather a close contest is likely is likely to take place, the candidates b e i ng M r. Eckersley, one of th e o ld est and most respectable muanufac turers in the town, and Mr. Burland, on the conservative side, and Mr. John Dobb, and Mr. John Acton, on the Radical side. During the week a good deal of excitement has prevailed in the Ward ; and for the last few evenings parties of men, armed with bludgeons, have paraded the streets, and the most wanton and diabolical assaults have been committed on the peaceable inhabitants of the town. The other evening a most respectable individual was knocked down and beat at his own door, and on Wednesday night another person who, with two or three friends, was on his way home, was attacked by some armed party, and kicked and assaulted in a most shameful manner. This was no longer to be borne, and, in consequence, a great number of hardy fellows armed themselves, and last evening peram bulated the streets, in order to prevent the declared intention of the " Dobbites" from stealing and " botteling" (to use Mr. Ewart' s e l egant phrase) Conservative Voters. About midnight, the parties met in Queen-street, words passed, and blows were soon had recourse to. One man, a conservative, named Crook, who resides in Bretherton's row, had his head very much cut, was dreadfully kicked on his body, and con veyed to Mr. Pennington's surgery in a very dangerous state. They in return made a sally on the armed party said to be in the employ of Mr. Dobb—a regular fight was the con sequence, which ended in the discomfiture of time radicals, who, finding matters were assuming a serious aspect, fled in all directions. In consequence of this, information was given to the mayor, who immediately called out the military, pro ceeded with them to the spot, arid read the riot act. The crowd who were then assembled in the street either dispersed or entered the public-houses in the neighbourhood, and the military paraded the streets for nearly two hours ; after whicl. they visited, headed by the mayor, most of the public-hou ses, which they cleared of the company in them, and then marched to the barracks,—Wigan Gazette of Friday. NAVIGATION OF THE DANtinu.---Mention has often been made of making a canal, which would join the Danube to the Black Sea, from Rassova to' Kustendji. While awaiting the execution of this project of canal, which offers considerable difficulties, the Danube Steam Boat Company has constructed a road from Rassova to Kustendji, with the authorisation of the Turkish government. The distance, which formerly re quired three days in order to go from one of these points to the other, by following windings of the river so far as its mouth, and then proceeding along the coast as far as Kus tendji, will only take six hours. A steam-boat between Knstendji and - Constantinople will be attached to the ser vice. The new road will be open to• circulation in a few weeks. The Augsburg Gazette, which gives this news, adds, that with a few ameliorations, five days could easily be gained on the distance- between Pesth and Rassova; so that there will be an economy of six days ; and the journey from Vienna to Constanttnople, which now takes 14 days, will only take eight days. , A STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—The following curious cir cumstance we give from an eye-witness, on whose veracity we can rely: it can also be attested by several persons of re. spectability. The following are the words of our correspond. ent :—" A few days ago I had occasion to visit a workman whom I had employed digging potatoes near Mountrath ; in the same field there was a man similarly employed, who had with him a young greyhound. Considering it a favourable opportunity, if I could procure a hare, to have some fun, I proceeded in search of one, and had not gone many perches when I saw one lying in the same field. I cautiously called for theman to bring over the dog, who immediately complied. Advancing towards her he took up a stone, and when within two or three paces of her he struck her, and apparently killed her. After a few minutes, when not a symptom of life ap peared, I made a large aperture with my penknife, and ex tracted the whole intestines, with two young leverets, and, singular to say, she revived as if only stunned from a blow, and in a few minutes recovered so as to be nearly able to beat an excellent greyhound, and would have done so, only she came in contact with the bushes at one of the field gates, af ter long running. The two young leverets are alive, and in my possession, in perfect health, and likely to live."—Lein seer, .14-press. A POINT IN SHOPKEEPING.—Except in London, and in few of the larger provincial towns in England, the best modes of constructing and laying out shops attractively are little un derstood. To the London shop there must be perfect faci lity of access. A very small obstacle would be considered in jurious., A shop approachable by steps would be placed at a serious disadvantage in comparison with one level with the street ; and, in point of fact, few London shops have steps at the door. The entrance ought to be so convenient that the passenger should slide in almost imperceptibly, as if drawn insensibly into a whirlpool. One instant he is in the street ; and the next, before he knows rightly what he is about, he should be alongside the counter. Thus, his half-formed notion that he wishes to buy something, must not be im peded by steps. His purpose is not sufficiently strong to en counter the trouble of mounting an elevation ; and, besides, steps tend very much to cut off his retreat, should he not find what he is in quest of. There is a feeling about him, that, by mounting steps, he would show his determination to buy, and that he should have some difficulty in coming out again with any degree of decency, if he did not make a purchase— all of which is most injurious to the interests of the shop keeper who has heedlessly two or three steps at his door. Reader, if you are about to set up a shop, take care to have no steps !—Chainbers's Journal. AGRICULTURAL STATE OF IRELAND.—It is in evidence, that the extensive arable territory of Ireland is not half cul tivated. There are five millions of acres waste, capable of cultivation, and unemployed labour is imploring for per mission to render them productive. It is not an exaggerated calculation, that the reclaimable wastes of Ireland would yield a rental of four millions, if brought into cultivation ; and if, in addition to this, a proper system of agriculture were adopted, and the means of internal communication extended, the present rental would be more than doubled. Ireland would be thus fully enabled to supply the agricultural wants of England, whilst the augmented employment afforded to the people would greatly enhance the revenue, and con siderably increase the demand for English manufactures. That Scotland is inferior in soil and climate to Ireland is known to every one ; yet the revenue collected in the former, in 1834, on articles also taxed in Ireland with precisely simi lar rates, amounted to £2,377,386 per annum ; while the re venue collected in Ireland on these articles in that year amounted to £1,975,331 per annum. Were trade and the consumption in proportion to the population, and the coun try on an equality of condition with Scotlond, the Irish revenue would have been nearly £8,000,000. By raising, therefore, the condition of Ireland to an equality with Scot land, six millions a year might be added to the revenue. — British and Foreign Review. GREAT MEETING OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.— In answer to the numerous ltiquiries of our friends, from all parts of the country, we are happy to announce that the council, has resolved to call a general meeting of the anti corn-law league, to be held in Manchester, to report the past proceedings, and to concert measures for the future manage ment of the qampaign. We are not able at present to name the precise day when the meeting is to be held ' • but our friends will have due notice of it in the circular. It is also intended to invite to a great banquet all the members of par liament who voted in favour of Mr. Villiers's motion, and other distinguished advocates of the repeal of the - corn-laws, 'to meet the deputies assembling at the general convention of the league. We:have to request, that not only those Anti corn-law Associations, which have already joined the league, but all others, will immediately forward to the secretary at Manchester, the name of the chairman and secretary of their respective associations, that we may be able, at all times, to communicate with them, and that, at the same time, they will give us intimation whether they intend to send a deputa tion to the meeting, and to the dinner, which are both to take place on the same day. We request our friends to commu nicate with us as early as possible, for they will perceive that great preparations will be required for a banquet, which is expected to be by far the largest ever held in this country.— Anti-corn-law Circular. LORD BROUGHAM.—We have been favoured with the pe rusal of a letter, which arrived by this morning's post from the north, addressed by Lord Brougham to an intimate friend, contradicting in the most indignant terms the rumour that he had in any way either originated or countenanced the late heartless hoax concerning him. " Nothing (says his lord ship) can possibly be more false. It is not only not true, but it is the very reverse of the truth. For knowing that I had more than once been killed by the newspapers, when there was little, if any foundation, for saying 1 had been in any risk,•l thought it extremely likely that exaggerated reports would get about of an accident so serious as that which had now really happened, and I took the precaution of writing that none of us had been hurt, both to my family at Brighton, to a friend at Edinburgh (where I thought the coaches might carry the rumour,) and to two persons in London, Mr. Eden, my brother-in-law, and Mr. Miller, of the bankruptcy-office, both of whom I believed to be in town. These letters must have been delivered in London on Monday, for they were sent to the post here on Saturday night. If either Mr. Mil ler or Mr. Eden had been in * London, as all here believed them to be, the stupid joke never could have succeeded. But unfortunately, it happened that Mr. Eden was not in town that day, and Mr. Miller was most unexpectedly on his way down here, having left town unknown to me. Indeed, the report, to those who know me, must appear most ridiculous. Judging by past experience, I must have had every reason to believe that the announcement of my death would have been the signal for an attack upon my life by a considerable por tion of the public press. But it is unnecessary to reason on the matter. The rumour is absolutely and entirely false, and I can give it no stronger contradiction. I feel a kind of de gradation in even noticing such a story."—Courier of Thurs day, THE DIME OF WELLINCTON.—The following anecdote, connected with the exploits of his Grace the Duke of Wel lington, as a fox-hunter, is not generally known, though cha racteristic in more than one point of view :—lt is well known that his grace's noble estate, Strathfieldsaye, is in the immediate neighbourhood of the hunting establishment of the Bramshill fox-hounds, and that his grace is a liberal subscri ber to the maintenance of the pack, and when in Hampshire a constant attendant in the field" with Sir John Cope. His grace, though a good military horseman, and a good rider in the riding-school sense of the word, is anything but a good horseman across a country, and has no idea of a steeple-chase heat. Nevertheless, he is a bold rider, and never hesitates to go straightforward after the hounds. The consequence is, that the noble duke generally gets three or four tumbles every time he takes the field, though fortunately, from his activity and lightness of figure, he has never yet received any injury. A certain French gentleman of some rank, and formerly an officer in the imperial army, heard of these mishaps of the great military hero, and shortly after took a small house in the neighbourhood of the Bramshill hunt. The Frenchman used regularly to attend the muster of sportsmen on the hunting mornings, and when the Duke of Wellington was absent, was accustomed to exhibit signs of disappointment, and forthwith ride home without joining in the sports. But when the duke made his appearance, the countenance of the Frenchman would brighten up, and though he took no part in the business of the chase, he was invariably observed to keep as near his grace as possible dur ing the whole time he continued in the field, and to evince an earnestness of interest in his career during the run quite marvellous. At the conclusion of a hard day, in which the duke bad received two or three tumbles, one of the gentlemen of the hunt, in returning home, fall in with monsieur, and perceiving him more than usually excited, ventured to ask what were his motives for following the hounds, and what was the cause of his app'arent delight ? "It is," replied the Frenchman, " my delight to behold the ' overthrow of Old Waterloo,' and I find I can only obtain that great gratifica tion when he is with the hounds, so I daily attend, in hopes to see him rolled in the dust and mud, and, fortunately, I am very seldom disappointed." MATRIMONIAL TENDER AND RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY.—The Hampshire Telegraph, for the present week, has the following statement, transmitted by a correspondent, and the public will no doubt be considerably excited in this city, to discover who was the swain from whose lips the cup of connubial bliss was so cruelly dashed:-" We have this week to record a most amusing adventure, which has much enlivened the dullness of our quiet neighbourhood. It will be in the recollection of our readers that, a few weeks since, a votary of Hymen (who was at the same time a lover of precious metals) inserted an advertisement in the county pa pers, announcing his wish to form a matrimonial engagement with a lady possessing certain mental and bodily graces, as well as the trifling additional attraction of £lOOO sterliil, and'"stating that, if the fair one were wholly unencumbered with relatives (who are occasionally troublesome) it would be a further recommendation. It appears that some of our brave sons of Neptune belonging to the ships at Portsmouth, and who are alike waggish and warlike, determined to hoax the gentleman in search of a wife and fortune, and having artfully replied to the advertisement in a very lady-like man ner, ultimately appointed a meeting with a Miss Isabella to take place at the India Arms Inn, Gosport, on Tuesday evening last, at which time and place, Miss Jones (one of the Portsmouth cyprians) and a gentleman calling himself her brother, attended accordingly, and who were shown by a waiter into a private room, giving directions that if a certain gentleman (the advertiser, of course, but whose name we have been unable to learn) inquired for them, he was to be shown up stairs. Punctual to the hour, the fortunate advertiser ap peared, after travelling all the way from Bath, and was at once formally introduced to the blushing and beauteous spe cimen of innocence and virtue before alluded to. The kind hearted brother then generously retired, leaving our friend from Bath to discuss his future happiness with the lady whose prepossessing manners and appearance had evidently made an impression upon the heart of our swain. Shortly after wards, Miss Isabella Jones rang the bell, and announced to her brother that preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, and the 'affianced one, delighted with his future prospects of domestic bliss, was invited to take a glass of wine with his intended brother-in-law in the room below. Imagine his consternation, when, on entering, he encountered his affec tionate brother-in-law, surrounded by about a dozen of his friends and relatives (whom the Bath gentleman so much abhorred,) and who simultaneously greeted him with such a shout of laughter as at once dispelled all his visions of con nubial felicity, and which we should think would tingle in his ears until he departs towards that bourne from whence no traveller returns. We wish the joke had ended here, but the jolly tars, anxious to wind up the affair in a manner likely to teach the fortune-hunter a lasting lesson, saluted him with a shower of port-wine, negus, brandy and water, and other agreeable libations, with which they had been regaling them selves, and the man, who came so far in search of happiness and a wife, was compelled to sound a retreat, and to implore the protection of the landlord from his merciless tormentors ; and being quickly deposited in a closet, he was under the necessity of remaining perdue in this situation until the sons of the ocean departed, when the deluded individual decamped, looking very like the ghost in Hamlet, and muttering ' curses not loud but deep,' u po n th e h eads of his persecut ors."— Bath paper, • ♦, Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, of Woodhall, near Haydon bridge, exhibited in Hexham market, on Tuesday last, two white globe turnips, each weighing 301b5., and 3 feet 6 inches in circumference.—Newcastle Journal. AN ENORMQUS CABBAGE.—Mr. Wilkinson, of the Four Horse Shoes Inn, had, yesterday, a present of a cabbage, grown in a field at Rufford. It measures nine feet in cir cumference, and weighs 39ilbs; It is what is commonly known here as a Scotch Cabbage, but is described as the Brassica Campestris by holticulturists.—Bolton Chronicle. The Railway works near Chippenham are in a state of ra pid advance, and the line in progress now extends from the mouth of the Box tunnel at Pocketidge nearly to Christian Malford. The changes in the height and level of the country cause in this distance every possible change in the form of the line, from embankments of 60 feet to cuttings of so great a depth.—Bristol Journal. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We had occasion to ad vert a short time ago to the' delay which appeared to have taken place on that part of the line of this undertaking, si tuated close to Bathwik Terrace. We are happy to state now that the Tunnel at the spot is commenced, under the management of Mr. Vaughan, the contractor—Bath Herald. CAUTION TO NEWSVENDEDS AND OTHERS, We are glad to observe that vigorous measures are being taken for the suppression of those infamous publications which manage not only to exist but to realise a considerable sum, by min istering to the bad passions and vicious taste of the depravtd or silly portion of the community. At Brighton, we are in formed, the sale of such papers is wholly stopped ; and the magistrates of Bristol, Bath, and some other places, infested with similar infamous publications, would be only doing their duty in exercising the powers given them, for the like bene cial purpese.—Bristol Journal. INTENDED CORPORATION.-It iS daily more probable that almost all parties of the ratepayers of the borough of Oldham will apply for a charter, to be incorporated accord ing to the municipal corporations act, entirely owing to the certainty of the town being governed, in two years, by the rural or county police. The principal as well as the hum ble inhabitants, dread the introduction of a police in whose election they will not have the least participation, and over whose proceedings they cannot exercise any restraint. Un der these circumstances men of quite different shades of opinion in politics think that a corporation would be a lesser evil than a rural police.—Bolton Chronicle. LECTURES or SoclALism.—Mr. Brindley, the powerful enemy of national infidelity, commenced a fresh series of lectures in the Corn Exchange, on Wednesday evening, and managed his subject with consummate ability. We intended to notice these admirable lectures more prominently, but our other engagementss would not admit of it this week. We perceive that another lecture is announced for Monday night. —Manchester Courier. Some wags practised a wicked hoax on Mr. Vigors, M.P. last week, by circulating a placard calling on the poor people of Carlow to attend at his lodgings, when he would distribute among them the sum of £lOOO. which it was alleged he had for that purpose. Accordingly, very much to the astonish ment of the hon. member, he was surrounded by crowds clamouring for cash, and it was with difficulty they could be convinced that the announcement was a hoax.—Carlow Sen tinel.. • CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT BRIDGEWATER.—One of the most important, respectable, and influential meetings ever held in this part of the country, took place at the Clarence Hotel, Bridgewater, on Monday, the 28th of O c t o b er , t o present to Mr. J. Ruscombe Poole a piece of plate, sub scribed for by some Conservatives of West Somerset, as a tribute of esteem and gratitude for his eminent gratuitous services in aid of the Conservative cause in the division. About 150 of the leading gentry, yeomanry, &c., in the divi sion, sat down to a sumptuous dinner, admirably served up by Sutton.—Dorset County Chron. ARCHIBALD BOLA M.—This individual has taken his de parture from this country. He left Sheerness on Sunday the 13th instant, on board the Woodbridge, bound for Sydney, with a cargo of convicts. He is said to have appeared in ex cellent spirits, and to have addressed several letters to his friends and representations from various quarters, consider able indulgence has been extended towards him during his stay on board the Hulks, and that the same will be continued to him during the voyage, and subsequently on his arriving at his destination. Transportation has in his case been stripped of half its horrors and severities. SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS. - -The interest excited in the pub lic mind by the progress of these works is very great ; num bers, both of the inhabitants and strangers, are continually visiting the beach to view the active and bustling scene ; the work is carried on with spirit, and during every moment the tides permit, and at the low water of the night tide, there may now be seen nearly 200 men working by the light of between 20 and 30 fires, which has a singular and interesting effect. We understand that in embanking, pile driving, quarrying, &c., the contractorsare.paying upwards of 250 men, and are willing to employ many more . able hand s if th e y s h ou ld o ff er ; in fact, they seem determined to spare neither money nor personal exertions in expediting the work, and endeavouring to realize the anticipations of the supporters and friends of this great undertaking.—Hampshire paper. , MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.—OH the afternoon of Wednesday last, blowing at the time S.E., enough to make the " stoutest heart to quail," a tiny craft was observed in the offing, running for the harbour, which it fortunately reached in safety. It proved to be a small open sail-boat called the Alice, of this port, with only a solitary individual on board, named Dan Stewart (well known for his daring exploits and hair-breadth escapes,) who had left Whitehaven that morning under the most auspicious appearances, anti cipating a favourable run to Douglas ; but he had scarcely cleared St. Bee's Heads when the breeze freshened, and from a still and glassy surface the billows began to heave in violent commotion as the gale increased. To return was impossible, he therefore prepared for the emergency by reef ing his canvass, and under skilful management and a heart undaunted, his " trim and tight-built wherry" bore him over the agitated and angry ocean in perfect safety, in less than seven hours—a distance of upwards of 40 miles. Cer tainly a most providential deliverance from impending, and as may be conceived, almost inevitable destruction. Manx Liberal. EXPIRATION OF CHARTISM.—On Tuesday evening last, John Hilton, alias Slatty, the ultra-radical operative, whip per-in, or bellman of Middleton, went through the streets of the town and neighbourhood of Middleton, making known, that on that night a public meeting of chartists, of consider able importance, was to be held in the chapel ,elonging to the radicals, to hear harangues from three of their forlorn dele gates. One of them was named Butterworth, from Man chester; the second was Curren ; and the third a Yorkshire man, whose name we forget. The audience was meagre and contemptible, and the whole affair was obviously a complete failure, there being only about thirty lads present. The more rational and respectable of the radical party were absent; as they are thoroughly disgusted with the late doings of the des picable faction, and suspect Butterworth to be a whig spy, and faithless to the cause he professes so much zeal for. It is quite evident that chartism has expired in Middleton, for the partizans and worshippers of O'Connor and Co. cannot, without much difficulty, raise funds for holding the smallest demonstration, even if it be only a beer-shop discussion.— Manchester Courier. QUEEN ADELAIDE.—WARWICK, THURSDAY.—The good folk of this town are in an extraordinary state of bustle, in consequence of the expected arrival of the Queen Dowager to-morrow afternoon on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at Warwick Castle. The mayor and council received a letter yesterday from the Earl of Warwick, appris ing them of the intended visit of the Queen Dowager to Warwick. Immediately a meeting was held, when it was determined that the mayor, with the clergy and inhabitants, should receive her Majesty on the entrance of the royal suite into the town. A brigade of the Warwickshire yeomanry is to escort the Queen Dowager from the border of the county, and another troop, headed by their colonel commandant, the Earl of Aylesford, is to assemble in the court-yard of the castle, to receive her Majesty. At Leamington Spa a highly respectable meeting, in compliance with a requisition numerously signed by the principal inhabitants, was held at the Town-hall, when it was determined that every mark of respect should be paid the illustrious visiter at Warwick Castle, should her Majesty be pleased to honour the Spa by her presence, which it was fully anticipated her Majesty would do.—Herald. TOTNESS.—What does the Duke of Somerset think of his tricks at Totness now ? The voters have risen en masse against his unhandsome revenge towards those who opposed his popish nominee Mr. Blount, and Lord Seymour may moult his feathers at his earliest convenience. It is—no it is not—singular that the whig press have whopped their hands over their mouths, after the fashion of old Captain Copp, about this most disgraceful transaction. A whig duke endeavours to thrust down the threats of his tenantry a popish relation as their representative ; and, because they make wry faces, he takes them by the nose, and shows them and their families the way into the street. And yet, because the duke happens to be a whig, the whig press know no more about it than if the man in the moon had kicked his wife out to eat porridge at Norwich ! What a convenient thing it is to be deaf, for the deaf are always dumb ! 0 ! for the quick indignation of the Chronicle, and for the epigrammatic silli ness of the Globe, on such an occasion ! To hear the Chron icle waste its wrath, and the Globe squib its small crackers, upon such an invasion of personal conscience and constitu tional freedom ! But the mischief of it is, they have such hungry ears, and rabid eyes for tory faults, that 'they can neither hear nor see aught amiss in the practices of their own most delectable patrons. Excellent and best of all pub lic instructors !—lbid. CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT MACCLESFIELD.- The conservative inhabitants of this borough, on Monday evening, made a demonstration of protestant and constitu tional feeling, unequalled on any previous occasion of a simi lar kind. It was the anniversary dinner in celebration of the formation of a conservative association. Two years ago, the members of the society mustered in the room of an hotel for this purpose ; but, as consarvative principles progressed with time, no hotel apartment in the town could be found capable of holding them, and this year the spacious building used as a national school was had recourse to for their accommoda tion. The interior was elegantly fitted up, and decorated with flags, banners, evergreens, dahlias, and other emblems of joy. The banners. &c., bore appropriately loyal inscrip tions, such as " Protestant ascendancy," " May our princi pal men be men of principle," " Fear God and honour the Queen," " Queen, Lords, and Commons," &c. Between four and five hundred respectable individuals sat _town to dinner, a more influential number never having before con gregated in Macclesfield. Sir F. Burdett, pursuant to an invitation forwarded to him, had intimated his intention of being present at the meeting, but owing to some misunder standing in reference to the day on which it was to take place, he did not arrive, much to the disappointment of the mem bers of the association. From a letter which was read by Mr. Ryle, the banker, at whose house Sir Francis was to so journ, it appeared that the secretary of the society had made some blunder as to the time fixed for the dinner. The chair was occupied by Mr. H. Wardle, and near him, at the cross table, were Mr. Egerton, M.P ; Mr. T. Grimsditch, M.P. ; T. Trafford (chairman of the quarter sessions).; Mr. W. C. Townsend (recorder of Macclesfield) ; C a pt a i n Hill ; M r. J. Y; S. Daintry ; Mr. T. R. Daintr Mr. R. Wood ; Mr. W. B. Dickinson ; Mr. E. Hall ; Mr. E. Legh ; Mr. J. C• Ryle ; Mr. G. C. Legh ; and Mr. J. Ryle. The toasts and speeches were of a truly loyal character, and the evening passed with the greatest enthusiasm. Manchester Courier. ANSWERS TO A MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.-- Shall I open and peruse i anymore of the m oun t a i n o f epis tles lying before me n beautiful chaos? I asked myself this question. I hesitated a moment as to whether or not I ought to open' more of the matrimonial letters. It is certain, thought I, that though I had an infinitude of love epistles before me, I could not by possibility have one in the vast mass, better than that before me. And if th ere b e one or two of 'the number pretty similar in their contents, I may— how seasonable I then deemed the discovery !—find myself in the same predicament as the ass between the two bundles of hay ; that is, remain undecided until I have lost both, or all three, as the case may be. My determination therefore was, after a few moments' consideration, to read no more letters. What thenwas to be done with the rem a ining,huge archipelago of epistles ? Thrust them into the tire ? I felt reluctant to do that ; their beautiful paper, lovely seals, ad mirable penmanship, all rose up and elo quent l y , t h ough silently, pleaded for their preservation. But what is the use of preserving a congregation of unop ene d , unread letters? I concluded the thing to be very foolish ; more especially as they might fall at some future time into some unhallowed hands, and reveal matters, both as regarded myself and others, which ought to be sacredly kept an everlasting secret. Into the grate, therefore, I fl ung the whole lot ; and what a bright and brilliant blaze they made !. " There," said I to myself, " there go two flames ; the one physical, the other moral ; the one caused by paper, the other made of lady love." And I could have wept w hi le I thus moralised.— Walks and Wanderings in the. World of Literature, bj/ the duthw of " The Great MetropoliB," • THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL . W I The Public is respectfully informed, that the ce. e FAM I RUSSIAN NATIONAL SINGERS, THE lest MATWEITSCH, who obtained so much celebrity.ti? season in London, and who performed before her I%Ne t he • or the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and at manY Nobility's Concerts, are engaged for FIVE N , G O'S will make their second appearance This Evening. be rrHIS present TUESDAY, November 5, 1839, 1 performed the popular Tragedy of B R U T U S. Lucius Junius Brutus ..... 'Mr. Stuart. Titus Mr. Vs/Howard. Tullia.... Miss ' e er. Tarquinia Mi Faucit. After the Trage 3-, a CONCERT By the Celebrated Russian National Singers , i ps9 , THE FAMILY MATWEITSCH- At the end of the first act of the Afterpiecet COSSACK NATIONAL DANCE , ' By Messrs. ALEXANDER and NiclioLa., To conclude with the favourite Melo-Drama 0' the MAGPIE OR THE MAID. p TKE On WEDNESDAY, the Tragedy of RICHAT flow: THIRD. Glo'ster, Mr. Stuart; Richmond, Mr. , c er, ard ; King Henry, Mr. Gray ; The Queen, Miss Lady Anne, Miss Faucit. After which, a CONCP the Family MATWEITSCH. To conclude with the letta of MIDAS. DAYS . 010 5 MARTIN'S PI FOUR CTURE OF MORE THE, c oitoN 05, IVA. will remain for Exhibition, at tik LYCEI9I goo BOLD -STREET, FOUR DAYS MORE. r rce' Admission, ls. ; Children and Strhools, Hall ) Nine' Open from Ten o'clock till Four ; and from Six t° when the Room is Lighted-up with Gas. ___---- LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION: c ell: MBE EXHIBITION of the LIVERPOOL ACALi„,OI of the WORKS of MODERNO RT ISTS IS '';ipe OPEN, at the GALLERY, CHUB - STRE ET, °gag' o'Clock in the Morning till dusk. A m i ss i on , One ~'!n gs . Catalogues, One Shilling. Season Tickets, Fire Shwa';ierv)"' SAML. EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Ac It is also open in the Evenings, from Seven 'clnekorS U Ten, BRILLIANTLY ILL[ WITH Admittance, ls. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Stanzas by C." have been received. hich We hope to be able to furnish the information Nl' Elector" desires in time for our next publication. Ebts Ltb'rpoot &tanDarti• TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 15 t P If there is one fact in the theory of our con stitti more essential to its very existence than another, l'i° hO , that which sep a r a tes the p ersona l c haracter of `he 'tbe vereign from the conduct of the Ministers, Who v i e w responsible servants of the Crown. There is ° Tle t ig of Monarchy which would make it appear to b e ll° that better than a monstrous and unbearable anom 2l r de' which represents the destinies of the EmPire as bet pending upon the humours and ca prices of him who happens to be seated on the 'throne. r paleY Who ever read the startling illustration 0 ' v ige' which he compares th e commun ity to a flock 0. 'or' ons in a field of corn : ninety-nine of then' gs g for ing all they got into a heap ; reserving 10 th , 1 . 1 4e3P themselves but the chaff and refuse; keeping tij et , ' 01 for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst Pig ..at eri the flock ; sitting round and looking on a ll the 701 whilst this one was devouring, throwing abrit • l ig htb ° wasting it," without feeling how strongly it ah i 5° made to tell against the principle of a monarchl'es 0 1 convinced was one King of England of the clang to such comparisons, that George 111., when solicited of bestow a vacant bishopric upon the Archtlearsiell Carlisle, hastily answered, " What ! on Pige °ll , m ,pose l No, never !" A little consideration, however, ". L a; a . n os of the difficulty of reconciling this apparen t — fir e el lr and experience reads a lesson on the subject l e .° l -t erei ts phatic, perhaps, than any oth er in which e of large masses of men are concerned. 1, its °°'r In the mixed monarchy of England, wi t— ' row plicated system of checks, balances, and Inu te :d i viil l trol—with its inherent jealousy of prerogativ e ' a of O r the fact of a dynasty overthrown on accooltiothiPg lated rights before the eyes of the penPi c „ o thiPg, can be more hazardous, nothing more foolish,ooTh more to be deprecated, than the mixing da le ne ittic e the Sovereign with the invectives which Public an ' t beit launches at the Ministers of the Crown• le ht acts, whether of evil or of good report, they °-oatio stand forth as the shield interposed between tbe,ditioo. and the Throne. They take office upon this c7 c , r 0 45 and know the terms on whi c h they occuPY be a ° of high honour and influence. The Crown' lleY ee pt i ° the head of a driveller or a profligate; bu t, e, ,,t tb e)' , cases of the extremest nature, so desperate t'eptioo' sup al ersede all reasoning, and from necessary 0c ' e r, 014 to the almost univer s rule, the doctrine that _tnetoit can do no wrong ought to be cherished as the bsiror guard of the Monarchy, and, consequent, Prefervenll)t the blessings which have flowed, and, we orntl° trust, will for generations continue to flow, t of form of civil polity in this country. t;hertY And in this there is no danger to o th e ffir biu subject. We do not thereby sacrifie (G 4 9 , 0",,, do ° should !) the substance for the shadow, and fe r te r , in ignorant idol-worship to an empty oat° . o ti sons good and manifold, but too numer nue pr e ‘, to be recapitulated here, the people of 1 3 r , it ': 0 0 ; 0 monarchy to any other form of Governole°"f6eoeif have provided, in the responsibility of i ts ° 0 e ftl i o effectual security against a permanent invas i° ot ry rights. No servants of the Crown in this etn,liotl.'.o aid and abet their master in an unconstitn' oaa, , t he l e o tempt, without being brought to the bar 0 1 je veJ it'd oiP t i to answer the impeachment which wou ld eer. o o at their heads ; and in this conviction -4°l retil:lo of punishment —we are as safe as hurna ll io % oa, i ,. can make us against any violent usurP at t as .) 11 1 part of the Throne. It is powerless Nvithotlen. cutive ; and an Executive cannot lend :t ,ithoo t instrument of unconstitutional ambition, cio ert' be kening the thunder s o f a na tional imP ea ver eie, e o is, therefore, un necessary t o m ake the S , ° • t osli eci D l V object of attack, and altogether unsafe an with to or No more certai n m i ne can b e laid, w here ob lic vi e the fabric of the monarchy to atoms, than Pfor the ment directed a g ai ns t th e i n dividual n'"°. J' ate hrol'.v being wears the diadem of. Britain upo n h t l i s e Wt Hence, then, until the Whigs, un der ilt i° fag' to Pro j 1' tration of Earl Grey, were base e nong; s 0; de Doe p the name of " patriot King" to the li r- ist rp °r ot tion—and still worse, the Melbourne Pe cows the S Ot t paroxysm of their madness at finding poiv King William favourable to their tenure ° o ' lla iopl i) t a s the dangerous e xam pl e o f m aking the PerS raf t)' (P . of a youthful Queen the watchword of ewhicil°9„J, exposing them to all the misconstructinnsa t hete t I'i ,re': and deniagogues were sure to pu t up° • and •io•' • ' 11 1 O above all, of allowing her private filen ( 104 he I dilections to he proclaimed by the m cause of important changes in State ever the custom to abstain from all 15 Throne, and allow measures to be decide (hobl,lo merits, without reference to the liking s or the highest personage in the realm- „„ a ll P , n" These are considerations which aPP' 7 r vat' cops e DA' t he alike. All of them—Whig, Tory, y Radical—can appreciate their force/ If Great t jtoe, slightest wish that the constitutio n 0' c oo ` should continue composed of its tbree _ . _ . I.ll v : / 1 / A elements—King, Lords, and Cornill°lll/0 are reasons addressed to the understanding' ire e P and palpable. But with the Conserv,' his b higher and nobler principle : it resides 1111,,itil l' ls c ioo ri LY well as in his head, and is interwoven s eri 0 1)e, tions. With him, monarchy is lik e the he r erile ,l° l ; and mists may obscure his face, hu t froVi°°,ll bt that beyond and above them shines t11 : 0 7.0 i e offi ce nary, and that ere long he will burst P splendour, however dark and lowering may appear. TlBnhe hemni n.tdrhdti Discomfortable eehrvesegsalnao dnb de c i : o r u aoon s bu i dbat outrage know'st thou lit i i iti That when the searching eye of heave ° 1 , 5 och But He fires the proud tops of the eastern Pilbc;e, And darts his light through every gu ilt) oci °l Then murders, treasons, and detested t ine, 1 ; ,1 The cloak of night being' plucked at n, ° li s p' r eP Stand bare and naked, trembling at the ° 5 po t ti o e ii icl i Loyalty with him is a principle which drool.° for its continuance upon the degree ° he may personally experience-- ti „,l True as the dial to the s°ll' , i. I Or, Although it be not shone uP° . ' t eve fee'cepOe It is, therefore, with pain and regre t ~3 , ,t i ag,l : , ili c e upon to protest loudly against the 13- ii r ach w- i: f re li ,l employed at a public dinner by 1 0 w ith re f forr i Conservative Member for CanterhurP eh e , pIA „ a we his to the Sovereign of these realms. l ' e .orY t 1). himself, and so far as in him lax did in) A, t 4.1 , tio,