The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

MR. RICHARD DAWSON hasconstantly on sale, and Orders for the purchase of, SII, tES in all the various JOINT STOCK COMPANIES, a begs to announce that v io bis Quotations of the Marjcet Price ill appear in the Standard Newspaper on Tuesdays and Frid , s, Weekly. Any Orders from the Country with which h e 'may be favoured will be punctually attended to. Exchanqe-alley, Liverpool. BATHS. BIRD AND ATCHERLEY, CHEMISTS, GREAT GEORGE-PLACE, BEING long r ware of the necesqity of BATHS in the southern part of the town, ha ve j st erected, in a complete manner, and on improved princip s 'APOUR and MEDI CATED BATHS, HOT and D PLUNGE BATHS, with SHOWER BATHS, tegu ted to any temperature. Should they be honoured by public patronage, every attention which personal superintendence can bestow, together with the suggestion of the Medical Profession, may be strictly relied an; as the application of any remedial agent, in the form of vapour, can be safely and effectually introduced. AN APPRENTICE WANTED. PARTNERSHIP. "To'the Members Of the Pilots' Committee. Subscriplion for the Relief of the t lost in No. 1 Pilol Boat, off Ft. .. £ s. The Corporation of Li . verpool lOO 0 •The Mayor Sir J. 'rain I t. Saml. Thompson, Esq 5 0 Peter Bourne, Esq 5 0 Saml. Sandbach, Esq 5 0 Jno. Higginson, Esq 5 0 'Sir G. Drilskwater 1 - Sir T. Brancker 1 Tho. Foster, Esq Tho. Littledale, Esq 2 0 • Chas. Lawrence, Esq 2 .0 IL Houghton, Esq . 2 0 Jas. Aspinall, E5q..... 2 0 C. Horsfall, Esq 5 0 James Cockshot, Esq 2 0 • I. O. Bold. Esq 1 0 • City of Dublin Steam Packet ,Company Jas. Heynorth, Esq lO 0 W.& J. Brown and Co lO 0. Mr. Waterhouse and 8 0 Friends W. F. Porter, Esq 5 0 Jas. Aikin, Esq. Brocklebank, Req 5 0 Potter, Esq. 5 0 G. Irlam, Esq. 5 0 .1. Bibby, Esq Jno. Taylor, Esq 5 0 ' Jno. Askew, Esq 5 0 C. L. Bahr, Esq lleyworth and Co. Newton, Lyon, and Co 3 0 • J. Higginson, Esq 2 0 • Dirom, Richmond, and Co. Thos. Tobin, Esq 2 0 N. Roskell, Esq. .IL F. Porter, I..sq. ...„ 2 0 John Owen, Esq 2 0 W. Foster arid Co 2 0 F. Ashley, E ' q 2 0 R. Jones, Esq. 2 0 J. W. Gibsone, Esq 2 0 Two Ladies • 2 0 Tattersall and Sons 2 0 Saml. Hope, Esq 2 0 W. Tarbet, Esq. D. Jackson, Esq 2 0 Henderson, Sellar, and __ _ Co. P. Pemberton, Esq 2 0 'Geo. Highfield, Esq I 0 John Clint, Esq. Tho. Tinley. Esq 1 0 C. Lorimer, Esq. Thomas Morris, Esq 1 0 Harrison, Esq 1 0 Smith, Esq R. Harrison, 1!:sq. G. Birlev, Esq 1 0 C. Fletcher, Esq 1 0 Russell, Esq. A. Low, Esq I 0 Tho. Kaye„ Esq. Nicol, Esq. Bogie. Esq. D. Lamb, Esq. 1 () R. Jones, Esq. Jos. Mann, Esq. Foster, Esq.... H. Littledale, Esq.:... 1 0 Geo. Crossfield, Esq. .. 1 0 Capt. Sharp . 1 U Tho. Ripley, Esq . 1 0 Henry . Riiiley, E5q..... 1 0 —lmrte, Esq. Jos. Ewart, Esq. -- Donald, Esq. Dawson, Esq. Amlerton, Esq. Jas. Moon, Esq K. Arrott, Esq. R. Semple, Esq Ed. Jones, Esq 1 0 1 Powles, Esq 1 0 Wilson, Esq. Bishop, Esq 1 0 Huson, Eiq_ 1 0 i Tho. Royden, Esq. 1 0 ' Gordon and Co 1 0 -- Sinclair, Esq. Pearson and Melling 1 0 H. J. Sanderson, Esq 1 0 Jno. Jackson, Esq 1 0 W. Dickinson, Esq 1 0 ,Jno. WCammon, Esq 1 0 Jno. Foster, Esq 1 0 C. ()kill, Esq 1 0 R. W. Ashley, Esq 1 0 A. Lodge, Esq 1 0 T.. F. Dyson, Esq 1 0 G. Fidler, Esq 1 0 F. Gouthwaite, Esq 2 0 1. C. Mot rall, Esq. 1 0 R. Wise, Esq. Kenneth Dowie, Esq 1 0 Edmund Molynenx, Esq 1 0 Mr. W. Parlour. - I 0 Mrs. Barke . H. Williams, Esq 1 0 Geo. Green Jun. Esq l. 0 W.Wolstenholme, Esq 1 0 Barton. Esq 1 0 Timothy Bourne, Esq 1 0 W. Rushton, Esq I 0 P. W. and Co R. Musgrove, Esq 1 0 Capt. Chapman . Thos. Taylor, Esq 1 0 Robt. Jones and Sops • ..' 1 0 W. P. Bnshby, Es4f•• • • 1 0 Edw. Hughes, Esq 1 0 Additional George Brown, Esq., Everton-crescent 5 0 Thos. Molyneux, Esq 5 0 I Anthy. Molyneux, Esq 1 0 Messrs. Moss and Co 5 0 Corporation orßichmond 2 2 W. anti S 2 0 A GENTLEMAN, fully conversant in he Wholesale WINE lA_ and SPIRIT TRADE, in chic he has been engaged for some years, who has excellent co xions, and who is free of all pecuniary engagements, but wh requires an increase of capital, wishes to form a connexion ith any one willing to in vest from £3OO to £5OO in the business, to take an active part or otherwise.—Address M. N., (post paid,) with real name and address, Postoface. Liverpool. WE, the undersigned, Executors of th Will of ROBERT PRESTON, - late of Liverpool, in e county of Lancas ter, Distiller, Rectifier, and Bandy Mer ant, recently-deceas ed, do hereby give notice, that, upon his ease, which happened on the nineteenth day of November no ast past, his interest in the late three several partnership concerns of ROBERT PRESTON and Co., Rectifiers and Brandy Merchants, WILLIAM PRESTON and Co., Distillers, and FAWCETT, PRESTON and Co.„lron founders and Engineers, all of Liverpool, entirely ceased ; and that his Executors have no share or interest whatever in any of those partnership concerns. Witness our hands, this second day of December, 18.33. MARGARET DAWSON. JAMES DAWSON. lIENRY HOLMES. JOHN LEYLAND. THOMAS RODICK. Pilot-office, Dec. 6, 1833. A T a MEETING of the PILOT - COMMITTEE, held yesterday, the foll9wingleyer was read:— "(it wrcEmEN,—The exemplary conduct displayed by a few individuals durinv, the late severe gale, and the successful effoits made by them to rescue some of the Pilots from a situa tion of extreme peril,. on Friday last, when their boat was cast on the Formby store, ought to be made known to your Com mittee. "Mr. Sumner, the village surgeon, was indefatigable in his benevolent exertions; he promptly procuy a bottle of spirits, which he attached to his neck, and, when tide had partially receded, finding that no boat could still roa c h th e d is t resse d Pilots, he castoff his clothes, and bold committed himself to the waves, and by perseverance ha r hed the Pilot vesse l, where he found some of the crew near y exhausted; he admi nisteiel the cordial with judgment, and afte r w a rd s he assisted in bringing the poor sufferers on shore; when they were safely landed, his skill was exerted to the uttermost to revive and cherish them. This is not the first instance in which he has hazarded his personal safety to preserve the lives of shipwrecked mariners. As a token of your approbation, and an encourage ment to others to imitate his praiseworthy example, a beneficial memorial might deservedly be bestowed on this humane charac ter, who is the parent and sole supporter of a numerous family. " A few persons of an humbler class of life deserve their meed of praise and reward for laudable exertions. One man, named Wm. Formby; rescued two sinking Pilots from a watery grave, hilst the tide drifted them in an almost lifeless state • and Robert Kershaw succeeded in saving the life of a third, from complete exhaustion, was unable to raise himself from the waves and surf, when by long continued efforts he had nearly gained the beach.-. 1 am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "Dec. 2, 153.3. "MILES FORMB Y." It was resolved,—That the warm thanks of this Committee be conveyed to Mr. Sumner for the distinguished inert he evinced in savim.s, the lives of eight Pilots from the wreck of No. I Pilot boat on the 20th of November, 18.33, and that the Public be recommended to join in the subscription, to bear some substan tial mark of approbation to this worthy gentleman, for his cou rage and humanity in this and other instances of his successful of on similar occasions of imminent danger. That the Chairman, W. F. Porter, Esq., the Vice-Presidents, James Aikin, Esq., and James Fleyworth, Esq., be a Sub-Com mittee to carry the above Resolution into effect. "SIR,—In cranmunicating to you the above resolution, allow me to express my individual admiration of your truly heroic and humane conduct on the melancholy occasion referred to, and I beg to assure you that I feel great pleasure in subscribing - my self, with every sincere wish for your happiness, "Your most obedient servant, "D. ROWLAND, Assistant Secretary. "To Mr. John Sumner, Surgeon, Formby." Widows and Children of the Piluti n7aby, on the 29th Nov., 1833: £ s. Mr. Hughes 1 0 Mr. Prior Haselworth, Esq 1 0 Borstal], Esq 1 0 Bywater, Dawson, and Co. Capt. J. I'. Phillips 1 0 Giibt. Cumming, Esq 1 0 Jno. Lockett, Esq. 1 0 W. Fairclough, Esq 1 0 Jno. Forshaw, Esq 1 0 Capt. G. Forster T. Todd, Esq. Mrs. Smith, per do 1 0 Dr. Ferguson .. j 0 Davies, Esq 1 0 Tho. Fisher, Esq 1 0 Tomkinson, Esq 1 0 James Barton, Esq 1 0 T. Toolmiu, Esq 1 0 Captain Simpson 1 0 Richard Cumming; Esq 1 0 John Bouch, Esq 1 0 R. Cardwell. Esq 1 0 J. Wordy, Esq 1 0 S. W. Silver and C 0.., 1 0 E. Arnaud, Esq. Mr. E. - Franceys 1 1 John Yates, Esq 1 0 John Hall, Esq,. 1 0 W. Forde, Esq 1 0 Andrew Harrison, Esq 1 0 W. Alexander, Esq 1 0 Button, Esq 0 Charles Turner, Esq 1 0 H. Holterfort, Esq. XV. J. Browne, Esq 1 0 John Fletcher, Esq l. 0 H. Dutchman, Esq 1 0 H. S. Henderson, Esq 1 0 T. Bean, Esq. W. Foster, Esq. W. Fletcher, Esq 0 10 John. Glover, Esq 0 10 Smethurst, Esq 0 10 Grapel, Esq . 0 7 Wm. Etches, Esq 5 0 A Collection at Great George street Chapel, per Rev. Dr. Raffles . 40 2 Henry Laffer, 2' 0 Enoch Harvey, Esq 2 0 William Harvey, Esq 2 0 James Harvey, Esq. G. Atkinson, Esq. .. • • 1 0 John Holmes, Esq 1 0 Henry Holmes, F.sq. John Huddlestone, Esq 1 0 George Lawrence, Esq 1 0 Woodcock& Haliburton 1 0 James Bateson, Esq. William Dry, Esq 0 10 Mrs. Newsham 0 10 Miss Newsham 0 10 Mr. H. Williams, pilot 1 0 John Martin, do Thorley Lester, do 1 0 Win. Whitby, do . 1 0 Wm. Hudson, do 1 0 Hugh Williams, do 1 0 Robert Williams, do 1 0 1 0 Thos. Chatterton, do. 1 0 John Bird, do 1 0 Stephen Peers, do 1 0 James Walker, do 1 0 Watk in Williams, do 1 0 John Bark, do 1 0 Joseph Quirk, do— 1 0 Robert Neale, do William Woods, do 1 0 —J. Prior, do. 1 0 Thomas Harrison, do. 1 0 Wm. Bainbridge,.do. 1 0 —W. Moles do lO John u r ller, do 1 0 William Jones, do 1 0 —J. Leatherbarrow, do 1 0 John Hughes, do 1 0 Owen Roberts, do 1 0 William Cullen, do 1 0 Thomas Parry, do 1 0 Henry Wiggins, do 1 0 Wm. Rowlands, do 1 0 John Williams, do 1 0 Robt. Taggart, do 1 0 William Parry, do 1 0 Richd. Roberts, do 1 0 Owen Roberts, do 1 0 Ehenr. Hughes, do 1 0 John Bradford, de 1 0 Robt. Williams, do 1 0 John Shepherd, do 1 0 —D. Thornhill, do, 1 0 Hugh Roberts, do 1 0 Samuel Jones, do 0 10 John Jones, do 0 10 John Hamlet, do 0 10 Joshua Bennet, do 0 10 John Downey, do 0 10 Matt. Matthews, do 0 10 John Jones, do, do 0 10 John Roberts, do 0 10 John Davies, do 0 10 William Morton, do. 0 10 John Tatlock, do 0 10 Tho. Chatterton, do. 0 10 William Jones, do 0 10 James Swift, do 0 5 Mrs. -Alice Cawson John Leece, Jun. Esq 1 0 George Wilson, Esq 1 0 The following per Mr. E. Smith—A Friend, 55.; Ditto, 35.; A Sai - for, 2s. 6d. los. ed. übscriptions. Mr. Geo. Atkinson Mawdsley Solicitor . 1 1 George Withers James Judson I— R. Hutchinson 1 0 Rev. Thos. Bold, 0 10 I Standard Newspaper CONTRACTS. MITE TRUSTEES of the DOCKS will be rea on Toes _l day, the 31st-December instant, to receive T tiers for the .supply of COAL, SLACK, and COKE, fora p iod of twelve months, commencing Ist January, 1831. Further particulars, and printed forms o ender, may be had on application at the Dock Surveyor's o ce, Trentham _ street. Sealed Tenders to be addressed to the Committee of the Dock Trustees, and to be left at this of ce, - on or before the 30th iust. Dock-yard, Trentham-street, Dec. 5, 1833. PELICAN LIFE AS LOMBARD-STREET A DIREt Matthias Attwood, Esq. M.P. Wm. S. Clarke, Esq. F.R.S. John Cooper, Esq. Wm. Cotton Esq. F.R.S. Wm. Davies, Esq. Sir Charles Flower, Bart. and Alderman. James A. Gordon, Esq. M.P. Thomas Parke, Secretary. ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY TlilS COMPANY. A very low rate of premium, and freedom from all liability of Partnership. A large invested Capital in the Public Funds for the security of the Assured. Payment of claims in three months after death. Extension of time for payment of renewal Premiums to thirty days. Permission to pass, in decked vessels, along the shores, of Great Britain and. Ireland, and between them and the opposite shores from Hamburg') to Bordeaux. A tender of Arbitration in all disputed cases. Purchase of Policies on the most liberal terms, when the ob ject of an,psurance has been effected, or individuals are unable to continue their annual payments. Agents for Liverpool, THOS. CROOK and SON, 19, Exchange -street East. 3URANCE OFFICES, SD SPRING-GARDENS. :TORS. 'Hugh Hammersle , Esq. John Hawes, Es Sir W. Heygate Bart. J. Petty yusp tt, Esq. William Simla er, Esq.' George Sh Storey, Esq. Matthew tiug, Esq. CRAFTY TORYISM To the Elitor of the Salocian Journal. " Equidem iimeo Amaos et dona ferentes."—Vmd, Mr, Editor,—That irreclaimable Tory, his Grace the "Duke of Newcastle, has be - en practising some of his accustomed innova tions in this county. No..sooner had he completed his recent purchase of the ilafod Estate, than; being informed that no medical assistance or advice had been hitherto afforded to the sick poor round his mansion, Cwmystwyth, nor indeed in acircie of ten miles, and that the smallpox was very prevalent and fatal, he immediately directed a very respectable medical gentleman, from Aberystwith, to attend the poor iu that district twice a week, at his grace's expense,. and that every person who was so disposed should be vaccinated, and proper advice given, and medicines dispensed to them from the same benevolent source, and that this assistance should by no means be confined to his grace's tenantry, but extended to all poor persons indiscrimi nately, and that two rooms should be fitted up, contiguous to Hafod, for the convenience of the medical gentleman and his patients. His grace also directed his steward to employ all the poor labourers in draining and other improvements, at from 15d. to 18d. per diem. Now, Mr. Editor, although this cunning Tory's beneficence may appear to you, and to others of the unthinking world, all mighty . well; and, indeed, I must acknowledge, it has already alleviated much human misery, and will, provably, under Pro vidence, be, in a great measure, the means of arresting the progress of that dreadful scourge, the small-pox; yet I must put in my veto to all such pranks; and I must insist uon it, sir, that you very Seriously require of his grace au explanation of his conduct, and how he has presumed to introduce into thii Whig neighbourhood a practice so diametrically opposite to every system of Whig policy, and such a daring innovation on the principles of real, immaculate Whiggery, in (..lardiganshire This dangerous precedent ought to stimulate every real Whig to assist, heart and hand," in putting down all such attempts to conciliate the "prefanum vulg . us." If this, sir, cannot be conveniently done before the next ses sion of Parliament, I propose that this Lycurgus of G—, and Solon of N—, be requested, jointly, to bring in a bill, as early as possible, to restrain all such Tory innovations, and that, if their usually persuasive eloquence should fail in convin cing the "reformed house" of the imperative necessity of such a measure, that John Gully, Esq.; 1V1.P., may be requested' to join his science to the logic of his co-legislators to put down these Tory absurdities with a strong hand; and surely, sir, this mighty phalanx must prove invincible. If something of this kind be not done, believe me, sir, that many of our Whig electors will, through folly or ignorance, be absurd enough to make awkward and unnecessary comparisons, and, perhaps, not quite so advan tageous to the Christian charity of pure Whiggism as might be wished by, sir, your most obedient servant, A SUCKING WHIG. Aberystwith, 7th Dec., 1833. PARTIES IN FRANCE AND THEIR ORGANS OF THE PRESS. There are three principal iiaitiWin revolutionising France — the Royalists, the Liberals, and the Juste Milieu—which are each d►vided as follows : " 1. The Royalists of the elder and legitimate branch of the Bourbons, and advocates of the ultra or Polignac system. They are advocated by La Quotidienne. "2. The Royalists, partizans of the Duke de Bordeaux and of universal suffrage, of which the Gazette de France is the organ. " 3. The Royalists, neither of the Quotidienne nor Gazette system, but who wish to have ' Young Henry' as their King, with a reasonable proportion of liberty. " 4. The Liberals, represented by La Tribune, who desire the Republic, one and indivisible. • 5. Those who, with Le National, dream of a_federative Re public a l'Americaine. " 6. Those who, with the Courrier Francais. long for a bond . fide Citizen Monarchy, surrounded by democratical institutions, a la Fayette. _ _ _ "7. Chose who, represented by the Constitutionnel and Journal du conslierce, hold to the existing Government, with a liberal Chter.' _ _ _ " 8. The Juste Milieu of the Doctrine, a pedantic, theoretic party, who were liberal with the Bourbons, and are now Royal ists with the Revolutionists of July. They pretend to possess all the talent. . " The Juste Milieu of the Tiers Parti, who want neither talent nor reputation ; but have not yet been able to gain the summit of power, which they desire to have exclusively. Talleyrand is favourable to this party, of which Dupin is the head. Its prin cipal organ is Le Temps. "10. the quand-rueme Ministerialtsts, who have but little opinion, but a very large appetite for the loaves and fishes. " 11. The Bonapartists, playing their last stake. " 12. '1 he Politiques (or policy party,) who, like religion, are many.—These manage so as to serve the powers that be, and never to compromise themselves with any of the powers that may be.." The Trinity Board have deteimined to erect a lighthouse at St. Anthony's Point, at the entrance of Falmouth harbour, and their surveyor has been directed to prepare a plan and estimate. The Drapers' and the Ironmongers' Companies, it is under stood, have determined to follow the example of the Merchant Tailors', by refusing to submit their affairs to the investigation of the Corporation Commissioners. The Corporation Commissioners opened their inquiry at Hull on Wednesday, when the Town-clerk read a protest from the Corporation against the legality of the Commission, but at the same time stating that it was not the wish of the Corporation to prevent any of their officers from giving such information as might be required. Lord Napier has received the valuable appointment at Can ton, in China, fixed by the legislative arrangements of last session of Parliament. The salary is 16000 per annum. Major-General Sir Amos Norcote and his Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant Norcote, leave town on Friday morning next, to embark and proceed in the Cruizer brig of war to Jamaica. They had the honour of dining with their Majesties at Brigh ton, on Saturday last, and of taking leave of the King in the evening.—London Paper of Wednesday. The John Bull, East India paper, gives a melancholy account of the late storm at Mungleghaut, which appears to be, and we hope will prove, greatly exaggerated. It states the loss of boats and other small craft at 20,000, of human lives 300,000. At the conclusion of a trial at the late Assize, Mr. Justice Gaselee said he hoped that the magistrates generally would en force the observance of regular hours at the beer-shops ; and he trusted that the officers of excise would watch the proceedings at those houses, which were not altogether under the control of the magistrates. Most of the cases at this assize, his lordship said, had originated or been matured at either beer-shops or public bouses.—Chelinsfiyrd Chronicle. ROBBERY AT KENSINGTON PALAeE.—Last week, James Gray, who has for some time past been in the service of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, absconded from Kensing ton Palace, taking with him about four dozen of silver table spoons and forks. He is a native of Salisbury, about thirty , years of age, of fair complexion, and about five feet eight inches in, height. The itev. Mr. Rice, - who died a few days ago, at his house, in the Royal Crescent, at Brighton, was a renowned Biblioman ist. His collection of early English Poetry includes some of the most rare gems, and others that are unique. Mr. Rice gave £5O for Anthony Munday's "Banquet of Daintie Conceits," a thin quarto, consisting of 72 pages, purchased from the Bibli °theca Anglo-Peetica. We understand that process has . issued against Mr. Gully, M.P., in an action of assault committed ou the person of Mr. ltidsdale, his brother sportsman and quondam friend. Mr. G. it appears, notwithstanding the multiplicity of his senatorial duties, has not altogether forgotten the use of the pugilist's as well as the orator's weapon—the arm. A diversity of opinion exists as to the "gentlemanly" conduct of either party. BURGLARY.—On Monday morning last, at an early hour, the dwelling-house of Mr. William Turner, merchant,-Great Homer street, was burglariously entered, and the thieves succeeded in carrying away plate and other property to a considerable amount. Amongst the most valuable property stolen was a silver teapot and cream jug, masked M. 8., a silv er b ow l, p ar t of a punch ladle, silver sugar tongs, W. M. T., a dessert spoon, and two German silver sauce ladles. A quantity of wearing apparel was also stolen, and the burglars gut clear off. 4179 rupees is the amount of the subscriptions at Calcutta, on the 22d of July, towards the erection of a monument at Edin burgh to the memory of the late Sir Walter Scott, Bart. It has been also resolved that a bust of the lamented baronet b e placed in the Town-hall. AN ARTFUL QUESTION.—Dominico, the harlequin, going to see Louis XIV, fixed his eyes on a dish of partridges. if he King, who was fond of his acting, said, "Give the dish to Do minico."4l," And the partridges too, Sire?" Louis, penetrat ing his art; replied, And the partridges too." The dish was gold. DON-KEY'S DISAPPOINTMENT.--We understand Sir John Key is quite inconsolable, because he has not succeeded ip get ting the Governorship of Newgate. Weare really sorry for the Man to lose his chance of two good things in so short a space of time. However, there was no coping with Cope. Witli_great sincerity we wish the Baronet better luck next time. We do not think, however, he would have been quite at home in the Governor's h6nse.—Age. GENERAL POST - OFFICE. — In consequence of the very bois terous weather during the last week, the following notice was posted up yesterday at the General Post-office :—" His Majes ty's steamer Lightning, with the Lisbon mail of the 3d instant, has been detained at Fahnonth by stress of,w - sather ; his Ma jestv's steamer Colombia, with the Cadiz and Mediterranean mail of the 2d instant, detained by stress of weather ; his Ma jesty's brig Reindeer, with the Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres mail of the 3d instant, detained by stress of weather ; his Majesty's brig Thai; with the American and West India mail of the 4th instvt, detained by stress of weather." The British government has just adopted a measure which still greattyferrlitate the--navigation of the Sound, - It is well known that, during the prevalence of certain winds it is im possible to double the point of land on which stands the fortress of Cionburg, and on this account there is a vast assemblage of vessels waiting for a change in their favour. This inconveni ence will now be remedied by stationing a steam-boat so as to be always ready to tow the vessels through the narrow channel which runs by the fortress, and thus merchant ships will be re lieved from botlf delay and danger. On dit that the fountain of honour, our liege Lord William the Fourth, is about to elevate to the ducal dignity the following worthy nobles :—The Marquis W e ll es l e y to be Duke of Dublin; Marquis of Lansdowne to be Duke of Kerry' and Earl Fitzwilliam to be Duke of Rockingham. It will be noticed these creations, if they take place, will he all Irish Dukedoms. That Old Footle eminently merits his, will be admitted on all sides. Who is his heir-apparent?—lt is honouring ould Erin, certes, in elevating to the ducal dignity such leviathan absentees as the Marquis of Lansdowne and the Earl Fitzwilliam ! We should like to hear how Daniel O'Connell will relish Lord Lansdowne's title of Duke of Kerry—the county where he, Dan, is lord of the ascendant; however, he may console himself with the fact that he is the agitator of all Ireland.—Age. The Alltion of Monday says—" Some of the officers of the Bankrupt Court lately waited upon Lord Brougham, to repre sent that the quantity of business there was so small as not to furnish sufficient to defray the expenses of the establishment. The noble lord's remark in reply to this statement was laconic and gentlemanly- 4 It is all those damned attorneys!' 'No, my Lord,' observed the deputation, it is not the attorneys; it is the merchants; who are so indignant at the plan of paying five per cent. to an individual, for doing what they themselves would willingly do for, nothing, that they rather prefer a deed of composition, however unsatisfactory or defective, to making the debtor a bankrupt; and the consequence is that the Judges are not supplied with business enough to occupy their time.' quoth the Chancellor, `they shall go circuit, and assist the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court in their vocation.' The new court seems to work well!" During several days past, a report has been in circulation, which seems to gain additional credit, that three vessels, now lying in the river, (two of them powerful steamers of the first class,) have been purchased by Don Miguel's agents in this country, for the service of that " individual." One of these vessels was formerly bargained for by the same parties; but the transaction was broken off owing to - Miguel's reverses, and the consequent decline of his credit. - It•would appear, however, that he has by some stratagem " raised the wind," his agents being now " flush" of the " sinews of war," and making large purchases of munitions, &c., in the English mark e t, f or th e u se of his troops in Santarem. Amongst the alleged orders given 1.7 the agents, four thousand great coats are said to form one. 'Die vessels alluded to, it is further understood, are to be fully manned and armed for the better protection of the contemplated supplies in their conveyance to the shores of Portugal. Napier, doubtless, will keep " a sharp look-out" fir this new adventure ; and, as four thousand great-coats (got up at the expense of the enemy) would (in this cold weather) form a handsome " Christmas offering" to Don Pedro, he may have the pleasure of presenting them to him, for " the better comfort." of her Majesty Dontia Maria's troops during their winter campaign. 7 THE L VER POth, STANDARD. GLAMORGANSHIRE AGRICULTURAL REPORT. An excess of moisture was experienced in November, which rendered clayey soils unfit for working. Potatoes, on or near the surface of the laud, were materially injured. The mangel roots, also, were a little damaged, especially where they had been taken up and left exposed on the ground, being in thiS state more liable to injury than before their roots WiliglooseneelrfrOm the soil. Wheat sowing is still not quite completed in some places; the braid of the early . sown, although still sufficiently thick, does not seem so luxuriant as at the beginning of the month, having been beaten down by the heavy rains, the re peated washings of which have also, in some light;soils, laid bare the coronal roots of the plant. The season has likewise been rather wet for storing the mange! crop, the land being very heavy for carting it off, but favourable for the growth of the root, which continued to increase in size till they were taken up; the crop is still below an average, as well as the turnips, excepting the Swedes, which greatly excel the other sorts this year, and in general are a fair average crop. The corn market continues drooping, and prices are extremely low. Wheat 6s. to 6s. 6d. per bushel. Barley 3s. to 3s. 4d. Oats 2s. to 2s. 6d. Stock have also been selling throughout the autumn at equally ruinous prices : Good Beef 3d. to 4d. lb. ' Pork 6s. per score. Mutton, although scarce at every fair n • in the county, may be purchased on did. to sd. IY lb. the shambles from Hay, delivered at the canal for the Merthyr market, about 425. per ton.—Merthyr Guardian. ANECDOTES OF PARROTS. , kFROM THE MISCELLANY. OF NATURAL HISTORY.) In passing by the garden, (of a house the narrator visited at the Cape,) we heard a talking, which our Portuguese, after at tentively listening, pronounced to be "plain Dutch;," nor was it long before we had a specimen of as "plain Englishs". After our ears were saluted with the squalling and screaming of a fowl in distress, and indeed, in the act of being strangled, which excited our astonishment, as we could see all around us; the voice of a boy under flagellation was heard, crying_esst most lustily, " 0 Lord, sir ! 0 Lord, sir, I'll be d—d if it was I, sir; I never saw the old cock before, Sir." To unravel this mys. tery, we went back to the house once more ; and, on making known the strange circumstance,' we were conducted to the gar den, and a tree was - pointed out to us, where we saw, almost enveloped in the thick foliage, the arch-deceiver in the shape of a large cockatoo. I was at a loss which to admire most, the half-stifled and broken sobbing (if I may so call it) of the fowl, or the outcry of the boy, as detected in killing and _stealing what belonged to his neighbour. The girl told us that their fa ther had lately given the amazing price of fifteen dollars for this bird in Cape Town ; that it spoke in different languages, but that in all of them it made use of such gross expressions, and swore so profanely, they supposed they should soon be obliged to part with it. Nor would theystai long in the gar den, possibly fearing a repetition of " plain Dutch , by the same author. It was a remarkably fine bird, in full feather, and nearly white; and, in shutting its eyes, a large sort of fan, as if turning on a spindle, rose up on either side from the neck , and covered them completely. The folowing curious circumstance occurred with a couple of parrots in London. A tradesman, who had a shop in the . ,,Old Bailey, opposite the prison, kept two parrots, much- to the .an noyance of his neighbours, one of which was green, and the other gray. The green parrot was taught to speak when there was a knock at the street door,—the gray put in his word when ever the bell was rung ; but they only knew two short phrases of English a-piece, though;.they pronounced these very dis-. tinctly. The house in which these Thebans lived had a pro jecting old-fashioned front, so that the first floor could not be seen from the pavement on the same side of the way; and one day,.when they were left at home by themselves, hanging : out of a window, some one knocked at the street-door. "Who's there ?" said the green parrot, in. the exercise of his office.— " The' man with the leather !" was the reply,—to which the bird answered with his further store of language, which was "Oh, ho!" Presently, the door. not being,opened as he ex pected, the stranger knocked a second time. " Who's there ?" said the green parrot again. " D—n you, who's there !" said the man with the leather, "why don't you come down ?" to which the parrot again made the same answer s " Oh, ho !"----- This response so enraged the visitor, that he dropped the knocker, and rung furiously at the house bell; but this proceed ing brought the gray parrot, who called out in a new voice, "Go to the gate." "To the gate !" muttered the appellant, - who saw no such convenience, and, moreover, imagined that the ser -ants were bantering him.—" What gate !" cried he, getting out into the kennel, that he might have the advantage of seeing his interlocutor. " Newgate!" responded the gray parrot, just at the moment when his species was•discovered. What proved a peculiar sagacity in the imitations of Dr. Thornton's parrot, was, that they were effected sometimes with out his voice; for example, there was a scissors-grinder, who came every day into the street where the bird was kept. All parrots have a file in the inside of the upper mandible, with which they grind down the under bill, and in thin they are em ployed for an hour every evening. This sound people usually mis take for snoring. This scraping was attempted, but the nice ear marked the - difference; and he had recourse to his claws, which he struck against the perch, armed with tin, and, ob serving the time of the turning of the wheel, he effected a most exact imitation, which he repeated every Friday. Sometimes the child's pap would be taken to the window, and beate*With a spoon : this he would immediately imitate by striking - his broad bill against the sides of his perch. Parrots are sometimes extremely quick in picking up certain words that happen to strike their ears; and this they often do very untowardly, so as afterwards to repeat them with an ap parently mischievous intent. We remember a parrot which - belonged to a lady, which was the innocent means of getting its mistress into a very unfortunate scrape. A friend of hers having called one afternoon, the conversation of the two ladies took that turn towards petty scandal, to which, we grieve to say, it is but too frequently bent. The friend mentioned the name of a lady of their acquaintance. "Mrs. —!" exclaimed the owner of the parrot, "Mrs. drinks like a fish." These words were hardly uttered, when the footman. in a loud voice, announced "Mrs. —!" and as the new visitor, a portly, , proud dame, came sailing into the room, "Mrs. —I" ex. claimed the parttl, "Mrs. drinks like aTS'IS." — . — MrS: wheeled round, with the celerity of a troop of heavy' dragoons, furiously, to confront the base and unknown maligner. "Mrs. —!" cried the parrot again, "Mrs. --- drinks like a fish." " Madam," exclaimed Mrs. to the lady of the house, "this is a piece of wickedness towards me which must have taken you no short time to prepare. It shows the blackness of your heart towards one for whom you have long pretended a friendship; but I shall be revenged." It was in vain that the mistress of the parrot rose and protested her innocence; Mrs. flounced out of the room in a storm of rage, much too loud to admit of the voice of reason being heard. The parrot, delighted with his new caught-up words, did nothing for some days but shout out, at the top of his most unmusical voice, "Mrs. —! Mrs. drinks like a fish." Meanwhile Mrs. —'s lawyers, having once taken up the scent, succeeded in. ferretting out some information, that ultimately produced writ ten proofs, furnished by some secret. enemy, that the lady's imprudence in the propagation of this scandal had not been confined to the ingtance we have mentioned. An action at law was raised for defamation. The parrot was arrested, and carried into court, to give oral testimony of the malignity of the plot which was supposed to have been laid against Mrs. good fame; and he was by no means niggardly o f hi s testimony, for, to the great amusement of the bench, the bar, and all present, he was no sooner produced, than he began, and continued to vociferate, "Mrs. --t Mrs. drinks like a .fish!" till judges and jury were alike satisfied of the merits o f the case; and the result was, that the poor owner of the parrot was cast with immense damages. It was rumoured on Tuesday, in the political circles, that the Premier's visit to the Royal Pavilion was fur the purp ose o f submitting the great measure of church reform to his Majesty, among other important matters connected with the meeting Of Parliament. It is said that the Administration do not mean to affect the right of existing incumbents ' except in cases of gross and glaring plurality. i here a re to be, it is understood; two bills on the subject. The outline of the plan has been tfrawn up by the Lord Chancellor, and, according to rumour, it has been generally approved of by his colleagues.—London paper. VETERINARY , NEAR EASINGWOLD. — The follow ing very-singularhas been communicated to us by a corre spondent.n, f ar rier, of Easingwold, brother m r. L. casest Stephenson, eso and successor to the late Mr. J. Stephenson, of Acomb, was lately called in to look at a young horse belong:ng to Mr. B. Lund, a respectable farmer at Yearsley. On examining the animal, he found a large tumour under the ear, which he at once opened,- and. on inserting his finer in the orifice, to his surprise he felt a hard substance , which 'be supposed might be a piece of the cheek bone that had been chipped oft by a blow. Mr. S. then proceeded still further to enlarge the incision to admit the introduction of an instrument, when by great force he succeeded in extracting the substance, which proved to be a large tooth. It is conjectured, that when the horse had been casting his teeth, the one in question had got fastened in the upper jaw, and, by continually chewing his food, it had been gradually forced into the place whence it was extracted. The tooth is now in the possession of Mr. Stephenson, the Old Rose and Crown Inn, Long.street, Easingwold. The operation was performed in the presence of Mr. B. Lund, the owner of the horse, and Mr. florriby, a neighbouring farmer.--York Herald. EPITOME OF POLAR EXPEDITIONS. (CONTINUED FROM OUR PAYER OF THE 15Th ULT.) 111 Itil2 Sir 'Thomas Button proceeded on the same voyage of discovery, with two ships, whose names were the same as those under the celebrated Cook in his last voyage—the Resolu tion and the Discovery. He passed through Hudson's Strait, saw the south point of the large island, (named on souse of our charts Southampton Island,) and gave it the - name of Carey's Swan's Nest, and steering from thence S.W. made the main laud of America in GO 40, to which he gave the name of Hope's Check. Button wintered in Port Nelson, so called from his pilot, in latitude 57 10 N., which, in 1816, was the principal station of the Iludson's Bay Company. Ile lost many men by cold and hunger ; "yet," says Foxe, "he was supplied with great store of white partridges and other fowle, of which I have heard it credibly reported that •this company killed eighteen hundred dozen in the winter season." Button reached no higher than the latitude of 65 on the east coast of Southampton Island. In 1614 Captain Gibbons was sent out in the Discovery; but his ship was beset by ice on the N.E. coast of Labrador, in about 57 N., where he remained nearly five months, in a sort of bay, to which his ship's company, in derision, gave the name of Gibbons his Hole. Escaping at last from his place of confine ment, he made the best of his way home. Robert Bylot, who had been with Hudson, Button, and Gib bons, now appointed masher of the same ship, the Discovery, of 55 tons burthen, set sail from England in April, 1615, passed through Hudson's Strait, as far as Cape Comfort, on the cast coast of Southampton Island, in latitude 65 N.; but having proceeded northerly about half a degree, and finding, as he says, the water sh 7 allow, and the land trending to the N.E., (which, however, is doubtful,) he returned to England, without making any discovery. The following year Bylot, with Baffin, (who had acted as his pilot in the former voyage) proceeded again in the same ship, the Discovery, being her fifth voyage on the same object. They now stood along the west coast of Greenland, and saw some islands in 72 15, to which, finding women only on them, they gave the name of Women's Islands : they are situated close to the Sanderson's Hope of Davis, the extreme point which that navigator reached. Coasting from hence, in an open sea, they passed a " fayre cape," in latitude 76 35, which they named Cape Dudley Digges; then standing N. westerly, they passed Whale Sound, in 77 30; then Sir Thomas Smith's Scund, which was choked up, not with ice, but with whales, and extended beyond 78 N., this being the farthest point they reached to the northward. They then stood five days to the southward of west, through an open sea, and saw Alderman Jones's Sound, its lati tude 76 30; and in two days, standing snore southerly, they opened Sir Jame s Lan ca ste r ' s S oun d ; from whence they con tinued their course two days, south-easterly, the sea still open, till they came to latitude 71 16, when, meeting with much ice, they struck off from the coast due east, and passing through Baffin's Strait into the Strait of Davis, made the best of their way home ; first touching, however, at Cockin Sound, on the coast of Greenland, to collect scurvy grass, sorrel, and orpine, for their sick, who, Baffin says, were cured in eight days by the scurvy grass, (cochlearia,) boiled in beer. This might be con sidered as the most important of all the voyages, if the brief account of it could be depended on; but there is nothing left on record, except a meagre sort of journal by Baffin, unac companied by any chart; Bylot, as would appear from Habakuk Pricket's narrative of Hudson's voyage, being unable either to read or write. The floating masses of ice drifting from the northward, and the heavy swell from the same quarter, when , off Whale Sound, would seem to indicate that Greenland ig 11(1 part of America, but a large island, or, rather, an archipelago of islands. fwe except an obscure attempt of Hawkridge, who had ac companied Sir Thomas Button, in 1612, the ardour of the dis covery of this passage seems now to have abated. It was, how ever, revived in 1630, by one Lucas Foxe, a shrewd, sensible man, who, having availed himself of the information gained by preceding adventurers, was so certain of making the passage, that he obtained a letter from Charles I. addressed to his brother the Emperor of Japan. This enterprise was, in fact, under the immediate patronage of the king, who contributed one of his own ships, fitted out in a most complete manner, and victualled for eighteen months. Sir Thomas Roe and Sir John Wol stenholrae were named by the king to superintend the equip ment of the voyage. Some merchants of Bristol having fitted out a ship for the same purpose, under the command of Capt. James, requested that she might accompany Foxe. Early in May, 1631, his majesty's ship Charles, of eighty tons, left Eng land; but, owing to foggy weather and ice, it was the 15th July before she reached the islands of Salisbury and Nottingham. From hence Foxe stood over to the continent of America, and made the land in 6110, which he named Sir Thomas Roe's Welcome, and, directing his course to the southward, discovered Brook Cobham, since called Marble Island; after this he an chored in Nelson's River; and, concluding that no passage existed between that point and 61 10 N., he next stood to the northward, between Southampton and Cumberland Islands, and on the west coast of the latter gave names to King Charles' Promontory, Cape Maria, Trinity Islands, Lord Weston's Portland, and Foxe's Farthest, being, as the name imports, the extreme point to which he proceeded, in latitude 66 47 N. Adverse winds, long nights, a waning moon, and the sickness of his crew, obliged him "either to seek for harbour, or to freeze to death in the sea," and he therefore returned to Eng land. Captain James wintered in the eul-de-sac of Hudson's Sea, named after him James's Bay, came home the following year, and published a dismal account of his sufferings from cold, hunger, disease, &c., though the latitude in which he passed the winter was only 52 3. Without adding the slightest infor mation to the geography of Hudson's Sea, he decides boldly there is no such thing as a north-west passage. About the same time one M. de Groseiller, of Canada, was despatched from Quebec, for the purpose of discovery. Land ing near Nelson's River, he fell in with a wretched hut, in which were six people, nearly famished. They were part of a crew of a ship which had been sent from Boston, and which, while they were on shore, had been driven to sea by the ice, and was never heard of more. Groseiller went to Paris; but, meet ing with no encouragement from the F renc h governmen t, came to England, with a letter from our ambassador to Prince Rupert, who received him favourably; and, bein g joined by other noblemen and merchants , fitted o ut a s hip in 1668, which Captain Gil'ain was appointed to command. He proceeded up. Davis's Strait to 75 N, returned to Rupert's River in the bot tom of Hudson's Bay, and there wintered. In the mean time, Charles 11., by his royal charter, constituted Prince Rupert and certain lords, knights, and merchants, a body corporate, known by the name of "The governor end company of the ad venturers of England trading into Hudson's Buy." From the moment this body of "adventurers" was instituted, the spirit of adventure died away.; and every succeeding effort was palsied by the baneful influence of monopoly, of which the discovery of a north-west passage was deemed the forerunner of destruction. Even the publication of De Foutes' voyage failed to rouse the attention of speculators. At length, how ever, in 1720, one Knight, who had long been in the company's service as master of a ship, and subsequently governor of one of their forts, reminded his old masters that they were obliged, by their charter s to make discoveries and extend their trade, and that if they refused to indulge him with an expedition for these purposes, he would apply to the crown. Being nearly eighty years of age, the company thought it more advisable to • satisfy his "troublesome zeal," as Robson calls it, than to let the business be taken up by some abler hand. His instructions were to find the Strait of Anian, in order to discover gold, whales, and other valuable commodities, to the northward, &c. Knight was so confident of success, that he caused strong chests to be made, hooped with iron, to hold the gold and copper which he was determined to find, and which seem to have engrossed his mind more than the discovery of the north-west passage. The two ships sent under him and Barlow were never heard of more; but some of their remains were discovered six or seven years afterwards, in a bay on Marble Island, where their crews appear to have perished in a most miserable manner. In 1722, one Scroggs was sent to the northward, ostensibly to look for these unfoitunate sufferers, about-.vhich, however, ilobson says, there was not one word in his instructions. This Scroggs ap pears to have been totally unfit for any expedition, on account of his ignorance and timidity, but exceedingly well qualified to answer the purpose of the Hudson's Bay Company, who seemed to .enjoy their monopoly in perfect tranquillity, without giving themselves the smallest concern about making discoveries either by land or by water. At length. a gentleman of the name of Dobbs, having well considered what preceding navigators had stated with regard to ' the high tides from the northward in the Welcome, prevailed on the Company, after much importunity, to send a vessel to the northward, in 1737, but she returned without doing env thing, never having reached so high as the latitude 63. Dobbs, perceiving the reluctant and negligent conduct of the company, ' applied next to the government, and, by his perseverance and sanguine representations, obtained the Furnace, bomb, and the • pink DiNcorery, to be appropriated for this service, under the ' orders of Captain Middleton, a commander in the British navy, who had served as master in the Hudson Bay Company (or many voyages. Middleton left England in 1741, wintered in Churchill River, and, in the summer of 1742, proceeded up the Welcome, to Wager River, and looked into (he says sailed round) what he was pleased to call Repulse Bay. From thence he returned to the southward. On his arrival in England, Dobbs accused him of wilfully misrepresenting his discoveries, to curry favour with his old employers, and of having . taken a bribe of £5OOO from them not to make any discoveries. Ile denies the bribe; but admits that he might have said to some of the governors that he would discover the passage, and none -nrthase with him should be the wiser for-it. His officers, too, -swore to his having misrepresented facts. The Lords of the Admiralty called upon him to answer the charges preferred against him by Mr. Dobbs, which he did at full length; but without satisfying them. To evince, on the contrary, how strongly impressed they still were with the probability of a north-west passage, their lordships procured an act the follow ing year, (18 Geo. II.) for granting a reward of £20,000 to the person or persons who should discover a north-west passage 'through Hudson's Strait to the western and southern ocean of America; a discovery which the preamble states to be of "great benefit and advantage to the trade of this kingdom." The offer of this reward immediately brought forward new adventurers, who raised by subscription a sum sufficient to _equip two ships. the Dobbs, commanded by Captain Moor, -and the CalTornia, by Captain Smith, which left the Thames in May, 11 46. On the 11th August they reached the coast of America, about Marble Island, and, having made some obser vations on the height, direction, and velocity of the tides, they stood to the southward, and wintered in Port Nelson, where they were treated with great jealousy, and closely watched by the servants of the Hudson Bay Company. They remained here, we know not why, till the Ist July, when they again proceeded to the northward, and examined Wager's Strait; here the two commanders differed respecting the examination of Repulse Bay, and the ships returned to England without having accom plished any other discovery beyond that of ascertaining Wager Water to be a deep bay, or inlet. Two accounts of this voyage were published ; one, containing ninny curious and sensible ob servations, by . Mr. Ellis; the other, a laboured and conceited performance, in two vols., by "the clerk of the California." After this, the spirit of discovery in the north seems totally to have sunk, and the Hudson's Bay Company were left in that state of apathy which seems most conkenial to their habits and interests. They sent, it is true, Mr. Hearne thirteen hundred miles in search of copper; and, after the lapse of a hundred years, they discovered that Chesterfield's Inlet. at the distance of a hundred leagues from one of their establishments, was not the north-west passage; but they never once thought of sending any one a little farther to the north, where, probably in half the distance travelled by Hearne, the sea coast would have inter rupted the traveller's progress. (To be continued.) Drrirm, WIDOW.—Tha clerk of a large parish not five miles from Bridgenorth, Salop, perceiving a female crossing the churchyard in a widow's garb, with a watering can and bundle, had the curiosity to follow her, and he discovered her to be Mrs. —, whose husband had not long been interred. — The following conversation took place : " Ah ! Mrs. —, what are you going to do with your watering can ?" " Why, Mr. p.---, I have begged a few hayseeds, which I have in my b u ndle, and am going to sow them upon my poor husband's grave, and have brought a little water with me, to make them spring." The clerk replied : " You have no occasion to do that, as the grass will soon grow upon it." "Ah ! Mr. P—, that maybe; but do you know my poor husband, who now lies here, made me promise him, on his death bed, I would never marry again till the grass had grown over his grave; and, hav ing a good offer made me, I dunna wish to break my word, or be kept as I ant. "—Liverpool Courier. • FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1833. We do not put much faith in the last news from Portu gal, for the attempt to negotiate has already been tried and has failed, and Don PEDRo is not the man to sacrifice any personal acquisitions for the sake of - peace ; but, such as it is, we give it in the words of our private correspondent : Falmouth, Doc. 9, 1533, The Confiance, steamer, arrived to-day from Lisbon and Oporto, with mails and despatches. She sailed from Lisbon the al instant, and on the sth received a mail from about out side the bar of Oporto, which had been waiting there four days for the packet. The persons in the boat informed the com mander of the packet that a smart attack had been made on the lines on the Ist instant, which ended in the troops resuming their former positions. There was some loss on both sides. The boat was sent off immediately after the action, and had no subsequent communication with the shore. Letters from Lisbon state that our government and that of Spain are interfering to put an end to the contest, and that Colonel Hare is now at Santarem on the part of this country for that purpose. At Lisbon all is anxiety to know what this will lead to. No change had taken - once in the ministry. Don Pedro still resists the efforts of Palmella's party to return to power. The official account of the proclamation of Donna Maria in the Cape de Verd Islands appears in the Lisbon Chronica of the Ist instant. Men-of-war at Lisbon,—the Asia, Donegal, Revenge, Cas tor, Carron, steamer, and Sparrow. Off Oporto,—the Stag, Orestes, and Savage. It is in Joe Miller or some other excellent work that we are told of a glazier who, being hard pushed for em ployment in some finished town, induced a simple Quaker, by means of a pretended vision and revelation, to rise from his bed in a dark night and demolish the windows of a neighbouring cathedral. The Friend was caught, or, perhaps, confessed the offence, and lie had to pay the da mage ; but the man of glass and putty was, nevertheless, kept in full and profitable employment for many a day after. The story of the Quaker and glazier has been revived, as a practical joke, by Mr. TuomAs BABINOTON MACAU LAY, the patriotic member for Leeds, with this difference, that his version of it is a decided improvement upon Joe Miller. He was too good a judge to entrust any friend or brother Whig with the construction of that clause in the India bill, which has given him near ten thousand a year; for lie framed it himself. He did the damage, and got the job. He made the clause, and filled it up for himself at one and the same time. He drew the bill, and wrote " £9,600 per ann., T. B. M.," in the corner of his note-book. He assembled the members of the council, in his mind's eye, and sat himself down amongst them; and while he was planning the regeneration of India, and laughing at slave emancipation, he was carving out a splendid sinecure, and a princely outfit for the honest, eloquent, " talented," and all that, Mr. THOMAS BABING TON 'MACAULAY We give this turnspit of the Whigs credit for his in genuity. But what was Lord GREY about that he allow ed so rich a piece of patronage to slip through his fingers ? Are there no poor barristers of the name of GREY ? Or had ministers, become tired of MACAULAY'S confessions upon the corn laws, end deemed it a matter of cabinet policy to ship him forth the kingdom at the first convenient opportunity, calculating upon the many chances afforded by an eastern sun and the cholera morbus ? It might have been one of these, or all these reasons put together, which made the fortune of this patriot of Leeds. But the real reason itself is of no importance whatever. MACAU LAY is entered outwards—calendered, hotpressed, and finished—and we have no wish to hear any more of him. It is, nevertheless, one of the most glaring and. dis graceful jobs which has happened since the passing of the reform bill, and that is saying a great deal. Lord BROUGHAM planned jobs for his friends, and Lord GREY for his relations, bear witness the Russia mission and Lord DURHAM ; but Mr. MACAULAY has jobbed .for him self. Four hundred a year was about his price when he first offered himself to the liberals of Leeds, and now he has managed to cozen a place worth £9,600 a year, and £l2OO for an outfit !! ! What the Leeds people will say to it we know not, now that the man of " teeming eloquenC,e" has taken himself of and them in. At„any rate, they must be heartily sick of the very name of 111.1cAuLAY. We are, — reader, are not you ? Who would have believed, only a * few months ago, that the first formal attack by corporate bodies and local magistrates upon the religious institutions of the country would be made in Scotland ? • But such is the fact, worthy reader. In that land of song and sentiment, of poetry and patriotism, of education and metaphysics, of morality and religion, where the ark of the covenant still rests in the temple of public opinion, where every hill and glen is hallowed by the recollections of religious struggles and the church's sufferings, and where, if there be a class of men on earth truly revered and loved, that class are the humble, unpresuming, pious, and exemplary pastors of the kirk—in that land, however, reform has - touched the sacred edifices with defacing fingers'; a revolutionary faction has obtained power, the simple citizen has become a rabid demagogue, the insolent pre tender in religion sits in high places, and desecration and destruction are the order of the day. The Whigs have been permitted to do that in Scot land which they have proposed to do in England, in the next session of Parliament. They have reformed the boroughs. They have changed the old mode of election, destroyed the self-protecting power of the corporations, deprived the free burgesses of their birthright - inheritance, and established a democracy in all the towns. The race of staid and honest bailies is now extinct. The wise and good have been jostled out of their places . ; the loyal and true have been cast into the shade; the props of the kirk have been removed ; the elders have been su perseded by pragmatical, self-opinionated, and inspired sucklings; the Nicol Jarvies have given way to the Anacharsis Clootzes ; and a legion of " teachers and preachers," professors of political economy, and patrons o f penny magazines and useless knowledge, are pulling to pi e ces what the martyrs reared and left as a blessed legacy to their posterity. In Glasgow, the change has been of the most sweep ing and levelling kind. Hardly a vestige of the old civic system of government remains. The men and the system are alike changed. The merchants have been beaten down by the shopkeepers; lay divines and specu lative attorneys are the id o l s o f the mob ; an d the b a ili es are chosen from the ranks of those who are the deadliest enemies of the institutions of the country. Two of the leading members of the council, we understand, are preachers, or rather ranters, in some obscure conventi profess no other creed, religious c l e; some of them or otherwise, than is Edinburgh Review ; and in the articles of the d the character of the whole may be inferred from the followi ng no ti ce o f mot i on entered I on the council books That an add ress to h i s Majesty, and petitions to Parliament, h e presented during the ensuing both session,Re s Res ol ved,— o‘ the following effect:—That the legislative endow ment connexion at present existing b etween the State an d t h e of Parliament, Catholic Church of Canada the Episcopalian Church of Eng land, and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, be folt-tei abrogated ; and that the funds thus liberated from the exclugi", support of these c h urc h es b e app li e d to suc h sec ular nati on4 l .. purpose as th e l eg i s l a t ure may determine, with the exception of as mueli as shall he necessary to satisfy the jost claims of Pr e. sent incumbents." CA IRA ! Saint Mango for ever! This is a towering speculation for the Glasgow Bailies ! They are not eon tent with battering to pieces the pulpits of Jolts gs°.% ' and canvertiug into paupers the ministers of the kirk, they soar higher, and, with an imperti-Aence which should be punished in a horse-pond, they presume to counsel the spoliation of the Chur.th of England ! They jump from the Trongate to Canada, as their great-grandmothers 01' witches used to do from the Gallowsgreen to Lapland, in 3 night, riding on a broomstick or a flash of li,ghtni n g . They threaten us with their resolutions as if they we re legislating for a rabbit-warren, or passing an " order in council" against wearing cocked hats or cooking sheell 6 ; head broth on a Sund a y. Th e y p ra t e as pom pously an • dogmatically as if they were diScussing the expediency of deducting fourpence per week from the salary of the keeper of the tollbooth. They recommend a g rand Or lage, knowing that they have nothing to lose, and that the secular purposes to which they would devote the re venues of the English Church might be made available for purposes more consistent with the modest and humbl e views of grasping conven ti c li s t s . Th e Archbishop of CANTERBURY must doff his hat - to the Bailies of Gittso 4 and the clergy of Canada send their Easter offerings to the Trongate ! What a pity that tarring and feathering hag gone out of fashion, and that the water process of testing old women is in desuetude ! From the reformed town council of Glasgow to the a d ", herents of OWEN and CARLILE, th e t rans iti on i s naturalan u easy, for they are both fighting under the same banne r ' and making war upon the Established Church. In t his work of moral debauchery, the co-operative or St. Sintn nian reformers, as they are called, work openly. Th e y do not talk about appropriating certain portions of th e church revenues to " secular purposes" as the canting liberals of Glasgow do ; they do not conceal their inten tions under a mask of religion ; they do not assume /I devout look when they are about to commit a r obbery they tell us in plain and unequivocal terms that they meditate the extermination of Christianity, not merelY the overthrow of the church, but the extinction ofreligin n e itself—of religious observanc e s— o f re li g i ous duties' i moral restraints—of sacred obligations, and the rending asunder of those ties which bind society together, and upon which the social system rests. The means whie b , they employ to this end, are thu s d escr ib e d by the Unite ( ' Serrice Gazette : "Their first operations were confined to the more susceptible materials afforded in the towns. But that is no longer the case. In order that the rural population may be fitted to b e their auxiliaries, missionaries have taken the field. Owen e ta : braces the whole of the manufacturing districts; Carlile the editress of the Isis lecture through Lancashire ; Hethering" ton carries his impieties and revolutionary sentiments across the Tweed. But the chief organ for communicating their scow meats to the poor and the public is the unstamped papers. 'r have eight weekly unstamped papers, all varying in price fro° one penny to fourpence. Those papers are numerously circle, lated, and edited on principles ad a pt e d t o th e diff eren t tastes ° I their readers; the Christian Investigator and the Penny Ch i l i° for the Radical who has not thrown off the profession of CV's tianity; the rest, Atheistical, Agrarian, and Owenite. Th ese papers are to be found in all th e l ow coffee--shops, beer -shops , and eating-houses. In many they are left g ra t u it ous ly, till habit an custom Compel the proprietor to become a subscriber, that h e may gratify the depraved tastes of his visitors. The support ed of these papers are not merely the lower orders; amongst Wel are to be found shopkeepers, 'squires, and members of Parlia'n ent. The first grand movement of these agitators is against the Church; but should they succeed in producing a convulsion, through t he assessed taxes and a turn-out of the trades, a great point will be gained. They look for a demolition of th e a lt ar , i n the belief tha t the throne is sure to follow." This beats the reformed bailies I These last only Pe" tition the legislature to plunder the Church; but Messrs' OWEN, CARLILE, HETHERINGTON and Co. set about th e work of plunder themselves in right earnest. The °Pe ratives of the large towns and the rural population o f that agricultural districts are to b e l ec t ure d an d discipline { into atheism, as the people of France were previous to th e first revolution. The lower orders in France were firs t . taught to reject the Providence of God and the authority of his inspired works, in order that they might hold ru less regard, or contemn with more intense rancour, the authority of man and the restraints of law. The labour' ing population of England and Scotland are to be brutal ized- -and led step by step to the lowest pitch of depravit.Y . " and then they are to be led on to the work of devastation and blood. The infernal missionaries are in the field; the press is in full work—th e p enn y magaz ines, fir s ; started by Lord BROUGHAM, are in every pot-house 811 7 1 coffee shop—the gloating reader i s d ose d d a y by day night by night with every species of pollution—with and blasphemy of the most revolting kind—with prin ts obscene—with atrocities at which ordinary human nature would recoil—with studied slanders against the affluen t ' and malicious calumnies against the Church and its nisters—all this is done with great art and care, and an immense expense, in order to bring about that terrible convulsion which is calculated to lay our land under a d e°7 luge of blood. In addition to these monster-missionaries, the aeer ed t it ,, ed ministers of hell, w e a re f ur th er t o ld by a Lona ( ' newspaper, which assumes to be the organ of the ters, that these different sects are about to form a n evi r unholy alliance amon gs t th emse l ves , f or t h e p u rpose ° f forcing upon his MAJESTY'S Ministers such a measure° Church reform as shall bring th e E s t a bli s h men t down It' their own level, and facilitate the final separa tie° between the Church and State, as prayed for by the arr °- gant authorities of. Glasgow. We do not go the -; treme length of believing that th e Di ssen t ers general', are animated by such sentiments, or meditate such evi ls ' on the contrary, we h ave reason t o k now th a t by far 00 0 most respectable p or ti on o f th e Di ssen t ers , t h e Wesleya n Methodists, hold in utter abhorrence all 'such mischievt, and impious projects, and are rea dy t o join the Ch ure ,. to-morrow if necessary, in resisting th em e ven unto de an ' . It is with feelings of joy and gratitude that wn are e re abled to make this acknowledgment in favour of the Wes leyan communion, and we still cherish the hope, lowering as the times undoubtedly are, that if the church is h e true to herself, with their aid we shall not fight the g °od fight in vain. It must be admitted, however, that a large Por tiel L f and the worst and most reckless portion, of the Dissentel; are against us. The Socinian and the Roman Cuth ° e(l l are leagued together. Men who by nature and cr e have ever been distant as the poles are asunder are n ° _,.‘ united against the Church of England. .The Unitarian' whom the Roman Catholic now calls brother, must kn ° ,. that if Popery could once more obtain an ascendancy , het the Unitarian, would be the first whom it would-cousi% to the flames. All this, nevertheless, is overlooked 12 1 4 the hatred which both entertain towards our relig i° ue establishments. These two opposite parties tak e , t oil lead against the Church, and they are followed , by u other sects and coteries, some Christian, some demo' Christian, down to the conceited infidel and the av °wed atheist. if The conflict about to en su e w ou ld b e less doubtful these champions of anarchy an d revo l u ti o n had net Ii their allies the Whig party and the Whig Ministry' o r is generally believed that Lord GREY has a m church reform already concocted, revised by. Lord j° o ct RUSSELL, approved of by a majority of the cabinet , a r , which was to have been submitted to the KING y est i e d day. It is described to be a mea s u re of unexamPee o r tyranny and injustice, carrying reform into the i v de , sanctuary of private property, and despoiling an d grading the Church with unsparing severity. Th is b l : 5 , is to be followed by one , for remodelling the bor oug i v and giving to all householders, who contribute t ° r , poor rates or police rates, a vote in the election o f e ve d porate officers. Such is the report as we have ree l it from a quarter generally we ll informed. easure:i ti to Be this, however, as it ma y, we h ave s t a t e d enoug` ye , show that th! Church is amongst the breakers. i9 i ur iv itli nerable establishment is beset by enemies armed The the axe, the sledge-hammer, and the crow-bar• do or incendiary has his torch lighted ; the felon is at 1.. e tt with his bag; the - bailies of GlasgA. have then . off, claiming a share of the spoil. -~~:-'~: ~~ -- THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS GEORGE. TIIIS present FRIDAY, the 13th instant, wit be performed the musical Play of the EXI Daran Mr. Vandenhoff I Count Calmer Mr. Frazer Count Ulrick ...Mr. Cooke I Seivitz. ...Mr. Baker. Katharine • Miss George Sedona Mrs. Brooks I Alex.ina.. ' Mrs. Vining After which will be produced, (for the first - time here,) a new Farce as performed last season, with distpguished success, at the Theatie-royal, Haymarket, called UNCLE JOHN. Principal characters by Mr. Baker, Mr. Benwcll, Mr. Webster, Mr. Slaiter, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Seymour. and Miss Brooks. To conclude with the musical Farce of ROSINA. Mr. Belville .Mr. Fra - z - e;1 - 1,V;Iliam Mr. Baker Phcebe ...Miss Seymour Rosina Miss George 'rickets to be had of Miss George, No. 10, Commutation row; and of Mr. Parker, at the Theatre. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ERRATUM.—In our publications of the 6th and 10th instant, in the Agricultural Society's advertisement, for Mr. IV. Rad, (author of the prose essay on Draining Moss Land,) read Mr. W. ItEED. Ebt iliiberpool AtanVarli. DECEMBER 13, 1833.