The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-14 00:00:00

JUNE 14, 1833. hinted, that if the people of England had- from the beginning been aware of the demand that was to be made upon them, that language of a very different kind would have been held in all the petitions which had been presented to the house. on the subject of the abolition of slavery. He (Mr. Stanley) would .not do the English people the * injustice to believe so. He would never believe that any trifling pecuniary consideration would divert them from following out a principle they conceived desirable from the feeling of religion, morality, and justice. From a thorough conviction ot this, the legislature were bound to place thequestion upon a practical basis, and,setting aside all theoretical and fanciful proj ects,to follow it out to a real and substantial effect. And if the addition of £2,00(),000, £3,000,000, or even i:5,000,000 to the sum originally proposed would have the effect of render ing the final settlement of the question easier, he felt satisfied the house would agree with him that the additional amount would nut be unprofitably- bestowed. A timely concession of that sort might, he firmly believed be the means of saving more money in the end, and further,, if he mistook not, might pre vent what was more to be deplored than the loss of a little money, —the effusion of blood. Were these considerations not legitimate objects for the attention of a government? Was the conciliation of a hostile body who would have power and influence sufficient to baffle the operation of any Parliamentary enactment directed against them—was this, he asked, an object beneath the notice of government? It had been asked, would the originally designed loan of £15,000,00) have been repaid. He answered " Yes," trot indeed by the planter, but by the :negre. 'With reference to this country the supply would be in the nature of a loan, but to the planter it would really , be a grant. When the government were accused of not having made precisely accurate calculations upon this subject, he :begged the house to recollect the extreme difference of opinion ;which prevailed with respect to the value of the slaves; for . instance, th e h on . mem b er f or Liskeard estimated them at only . tow,(0), whilst the first claim made by the West • Indian interest was for no less a sum than £11,000,000. (hear.) With ail posssible desire to be saving of the public money, lie must say that this was not a ease in which to indulge parsimoni ous economy. If a majority should he found to defeat the proposition before the committee, they would not only commit an act of injustice to the West Indian proprietors, but run the risk o f d e f eat i ng the whole plan, and, he believed, that before many years pas se d over th e y wou ld l earn , by f a tal and bl oo dy experience, that they had consulted a false and pitiful economy in reducing the proposed grant. (Hear, hear.) Mr. F. .B LXTON observed- that the right hon. secretary had stated last night that no part of the sum proposed to be voted to the West India proprietors should be given to them until they had completed the whole of the arrangements proposed by go vernment. Ile wish e d t o k now w h e the r th e right hon. gentle man meant that the money was not to be paid until the appren ticeships expired. (" Oh!") Ile was prepared to expect such an answer as that. His object was to shorten the period of the apprenticeships, and he thought he had hit upon a mode by which, at no distant day, even the planter would be brought to acknowledge that the negro mind was in a condition to enjoy the blessing of unrestricted freedom. He would propose that the following words be added to the resolution :—" hat one half o f the said grant shall not be paid until the period of apprenticeships shall be expired, and the negroes consequently put in possession of all the rights and privileges which are en- Joyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects in the colonies." ( Wear, hear.) The adoption of that amendment would be no violation of the proposition before the house, and it would give Parliament great influence over the West India proprietors. It was iu the power of the planters to accelerate or retard the advance of the negro's mind, and he had no doubt that they would accelerate it rapidly if the house should adopt the amend ment. Mr. WASON next addressed the house amidst much noise. Be said that if he were not heard he would adjourn the debate. (Griians.) The hon. member continued to speak for some time, but the interruptions were so loud and frequent as to render hint completely inaudible. At the conclusion he was under stood to say that his objections were rather to the machinery than to the principle of the measure. Lord ALTHORP could easily imagine how those who ag•reed with the hon. member for Weymouth, that the negro should be at once entirely emancipated, without any probationary period of preparation, might, in consistency, vote for that hon. mem •ber's amendment ; but for the very same reason could not see on what ground the advocates—the large majority of that house --of a probationary period could justify his voting for that amendment. (Hear, hear.) The house .had sanctioned the principle of a probationary period, as essential to the welfare of the slave himself in a state of freedom; it was therefore hound to provide that the period of probation be sufficiently While to ensure the requisite fitne s s. (Hear, hear, hear.) While the probationary . period would guard the colonies and the negro himself against the danger, the bloodshed and strifes con sequent upon a sudden change from galling slavery to unre stricted fredom, this compensation would, he repeated, ensure them the cordial co-operation of the colonial legislatures, and surely such an end was worth the apparent sacrifice. It were indeed to be lamented that they should have proceeded so far in their noble career, and then stop short on a mere question of compensation,—that they should have passed a solemn resolution declaring that slavery should be at an end in the British colonies, and then deprive the executive of the means of following up that resolution to a practical conclusion. ( Hear.) The amendment of the hon. member would produce this prejudicial'effect. He therefore need not say that he should consider it as one of the most fatal the house could adopt, confident that the country 'would ratify the vote of compensation, as it would ensure them the cordial co-operation of the local legislatures to early its •own beneficent views into actual operation. (Hear.) Lord Flowicx, in supporting the amendment of his hon. friend (Mr. buxton), Aid not thereby mean to negative the Principle of compensation. Neither. did he mean to formally resist its actual amount,—though he was satisfied it was much higher than was necessary, or than the West India interest could have been brought to accede to,—as •he agreed with his noble friend as to the desirableness of having the cordial aid of the local legislatures in carrying their views into effect. Mr. PEASE, amid cries of " Question" and the usual symp toms of impatience, contended that the West India interest had ' 44 0 to make out a case of compensation to anything like the amount of the present vote. Besides, it would not be, the party which that vote would after all benefit, .as the money would 'find its way altogether into the pockets of mortgagees, without 'illy direct advant e thereby accruing•to•the colonies. Mr: BARING, who was also much interrupted by groans, laught er coo king and other midnight symphonies was then twelve o'cl.ick) said that he could not permit himself to give a silent vote When £20,000,000 of the public money was about t. O he voted away with ten times more haste, and, as time indecent iiiterraptions of honourable members would indicate, with ten litnes less discussion and . consideration than if it were some pery salary or testaestiae of 1:3,000 or £4,000. As a repre sentative of the people ked how was this euormous sum of money to be distributed ? and where was it to be procured— now was it to be raised ? 'Why was any remuneration to be given to the planters ?—of coarse, because their returns were to experience a diminution. • But the diminution of their returns would -also be accompanied with Ond of the revenue of the .°l.lfitry. This resolution, therelore; went to pledge the house f) what they had. not the power to fulfil. All the establish '.'citts of th e coun t ry h a d b een p ale d d own t o th e l owes t e bb, and at p.resent there were no means left of providing against guy diimnution of revenue. This resolution also was an admis tion !•on th a t compensat i on was necessary. ( L ou d cr i es o f " Ques fr,lit • ) If honourable gentlemen continued thus for this mode hours, it would not prevent him from contending against s mode of voting away the property of the country. On the a rt of the g overnmen t h e h a d no hesitation in saying that the f "se had no information either where this money was to come mjam or how it was to be distributed; and he could not consent et ; 2 0,000,000 were thus to be left at the disposal of govern ea n t. The voting of such a sum proved that there must be a que ' st l!ce of property by the planters, but there was another try . 1011 behind—that of a sacrifice by the people of this coun and in that point of view he could not consent to vote - ‘ ,"'„:Y this su m , although it might be the means of satisfying the st India gentlemen. He thought the experiment might have b een tried upon the smaller islands, leaving out the Mauritius and t a ka ; and although the Secretary for the colonies might by mealls make his peace with the West India delegates, he th e r: Baring) had nothing to do with them, but must look to ipterest of the . great body of his coustituents and of the 'Tierf England. ti.._ k ft Mr. Stanley and Mr. Briscoe had addressed the House, ,:4:_gallery was cleared, and three divisions took place: the first -:•"" 11r. F. Buxton's amendment; when the numbers were : For the original resolution 277 For the amendment ll2 Th e Majority.. j House havinm again resolved into a committee, s . --ord. A vriloao moved as a resolution, "That the commis ;i7pnre_rs fo r the reduction of the national debt be authorized to th e r ula,riate such portion of the money issued . to them towards perejelausuction of the national debt as they may think fit for the Purchase of the reversion of perpetual and redeemable annul 'was t ,, The nobl e l or d s t a t e d that- the object of the reso l ut i on te nni ' e nable the co mm i ss ioners to convert interminable i n t o hi s (pliable annuities, that being the only practicable mode, in deht,'" i ". of effectually reducing the amount of the national bei The resolution was agreed to, and the other orders of the day o. c r e lWlsoosed of, the house adjourned at a quarter past two LOXDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY,' JUNE 11. 3 ohn t . 11 4NKRUPTOY SUPERSEA)D. 1411-hrokear.thew otherwise John IN lawns, Lambeth-road, BANKRUPTS. -Matthew L I • , n _ ewtas, Laverpool. and Mr. Frod ,hain r..itooms, Liverporil. So icito . r , , _ai . nter ; J 7B t i m r. e T 2 , -,: d. ,... r T e n , 1y 23, at the Cla- Gregory, and tn.., Liverpool ; and Messrs. Adlington, ... Lon. ( To o rge 'Barlow, Stepney -green, iron-merchant. . ~,a:',otaviis Gidley, Cateaton-street, button-maker. , j , ( i b thlynes, Mitcham, carpenter. j):.Ph Stammers, Jermvn-street, bt. James's, _cabinet-maker. ( , i , , lab, Morey, Nantwiai Cheshire corn_ • 1 dra,l4ge Harvey Betts , Langport Eastover, th S a om er e • rsetshire, linen i • 3,, P ARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. lii i ., . Jac and M. Hall, Liverpool, n • and W. Pattie, carriers. — B. I 1).4? 1-.lverpool, Common brewers.—R. Fhompsoaers-I.il: N Intl 'P ',',l,leY, Bishopsgate. without, cabinct-m =local, and V 4. and R. M. '•var n , To" 11", Bideford, hatters.— C. C. ti,,,, • . ley-street Borough, hop-mercha G nt r s e . e — u .S. , M Bird and ,p, l‘ladd,,x_stree't, Han„,„...square, bit-makers . I. Stokes and L. amTli, Church -street, St. Saviour's, carpenteßri").okl anßdaßvßel.l ; - 5t.1, , , . INgger. N orthampton, iron-founders.---B. W .1. 3 . Strand, s urgeons. —J. Ward and E. Edwards,. Iklu.liol,ainkets.t—er J. a ons ul ' a be /fi,ici and W. Ashforth, Birmingham, lioi e n "• Ft and Manchester, tobacconists ' . a nd tn.d . W. Taylor, Manchester, millers.—E. Hinc ~,_. Shaw an d l,lirst Greave, Yorkshire, woollen-manufacturerstw_.oiie back — irsl . , arid C'„raylor, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, iron-masters. L—w 11 . 4. p . , ~"oNley, Barking, tssex, mast-makers.—T. , P. ov .. egrov „. e . an j d C•re,-, '""v(lfove, Shoreditch, wine-merchants. -G. Bacchus, N- , G i n • J. ureen ad J 0' B h s —J. Pons, J. W. Smith. and ••• It. Sm'tli . ' ' J. a . a i ne - t u i,',l o far as regards J. Pons. `•-•14 ,sMellor ‘ ,11,1: M. la,me Mile- en—roa,.. si......yers. st.. „thon..spinners•— Nar,:rr.roissien and W. Oldham Laneasnire. --. ,i coffin. - • La' ton, Church-lane. Whitechapc , 1113-5 w r.,_ DIVIDENDS. - --.1,,,,, 1, ~, Tillman and T. Fairclough, Liverpool, timber e -m bu er i c l h ae a r nt — s. Rule's -. 1, 1. Spencevaviea-street, Berkeley-3(1,11r S. s,„„p_ ~,.. .tot. Brown, Wat rd, Hertfordshire, grocer.-July 3 } , ! 4 14 ' 11 0: ek Exchange ar tholomew-lane, broker.—Ju) . i T ou • g A h : Ilti di . en, late of Fimbury-circus. merchant.-July 3, T. p W. l'lx• '4l°ll-(PIaY, Ybrkshire corn factor —July 5, Westlake, KrtioUtb, and J. Westlake, ' Ronise - y, • tailors.—July 2, J. Sergeant, • Ila,:n IY)ss Lincolnshire, maltstC•r. - -July 5, T. Rossetter, Ronyq Z, fc,rd,l',4hir, miller.--uly 1 S Crewe and E. Crewe, Burslem, St.lif 1, nirp, innkeepers —J 1 ' 27' 1,.. • Yorkshir u 'S. Mull" and •id slaw Edge thi o c e, COcmmon-brewers.—July 3, D. Nie , k)14„, ,rotriptort, Lancashire cotton s inner --JillY .• Sadler, late of Oxford, ' . - P • grocers. J. CETIFICATES JULY 2. IG, H. Sadler N I . ' utherland, Liverpool o ersmith —W M Jones Mole, Flint lkt R P , ri P S i ningtalottpercej. vitaxr 7 ; ' ,Li e l dr i :m u i r ri ham, on * iron-founder_—A. —J. __Millhigen, Wells-street, Wells, .ok„"3--road, wbolesaie jeweller.-eiler.g—S.Smith, Witney, Oxfordshire, • ''olds.:"4lrer:-W. Sell, St. MartiWa-lane, booksellW. B. Rey ktNe, Birmingham, draper—J. Spivey, King-street, Great Hermitage ', Provision-agent - - ......................„.... • kee,i')ll!,?,nT YE.T.—The Green Isle has not yet lost its brightest , twaiii. pie has indeed put his name on the Inns of Court to . tle ß , , Y hiin for the English bar; but ould Ireland need not .I, 44 e: l i i i r. The English bar won't have him. The Benehers are th 'nous for his rejection, should he try the experiment. As Wh4l n osed Woo and spat upon Hunt, so will they use Dan t 5 t. ' Ili., t th e ~' urn comes. Go where he will, he never can be called lz,nglish Las- that's pla. Ik TO CORRESPONDENTS. An extraordinary pressure of matter compels us to lav aside, for the present, several valuable letters from esteemed.corres pondents. Libtrpool FRIDAY MORNENTC, JUNE 14, 1833. We have no foreign news of any importance, owing, perhaps, to the late tempestuous weather. The accounts from Calcutta inform us that a dividend upon the debts of the house of MACINTOSH and Co. of Gs. Bd. in the pound, was expected to be paid before the Ist May. In consequence of the financial measures of the go vernment the funds have already begun to decline. Three per cent. consols closed on Wednesday at 90, but it would not surprise us to see them nearer SO before another month. Mr. HUME'S motion for the repeal of the house tax comes on to-night, and a call of the mem bers is expected. The motion relative to the Liverpool Election, and the wretched evidence given before a Parliamentary Com mittee, has again been postponed. The alleged reason is the serious illness of Mr. BENETT j but be this illness real or otherwise, it is obvious enough, from what fell from Lord ALTHORP, that the motion could not have been brought forward on Tuesday last. The noble Lord complained that members were in the habit of intro ducing frivolous matters to the serious interruption of the important public business. This would have been a hint fur Mr. BEXETT bad he been present. At any rate the honourable member for Wiltshire has abandoned his motion altogether, and his mantle has fallen upon— whom do you think, courteous reader• ?. Old COBBETT ? No. Mr. JOHN GULLY ? No. Captain BAYNTUN ? No, no ; but on Mr. Mark Phillips of Manchester ! ! MARK is a bold man, and has given notice for next Tues day. It is a farce altogether; Lord ALTHORP knows that it is, and even Lord JOHN RUSSELL is ashamed of it. What will the good people of this town think of being placed in the Reform Mill of a MancheSter states man; to be stripped and billy-rollered ? This will never do. We are most reluctantly compelled to advert to a sub ject which we noticed in our last with great pain. We allude to the illegal and unwarrantable combinations which have recently been entered into by the operatives of certain trades in Liverpool, Manchester, and many of the large towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The evil has reached so alarming a height, and is calculated to produce such calamitous results, that we deem it a duty, for the sake of the deluded victims, and even the mis chievous persons who delude them, to bring the matter before the public in a more detailed shape. We have already stated that for some time past the walls of Liver pool have been covered with placards of an obnoxious and illegal tendency, and we had authority for stating that the principles asserted in these placards were se cretly connived at by certain members of the revolution ary party. Our first statement has been confirmed, inas much as we learn that a few persons moving in a circle above that of the workmen have countenanced and even acted upon their arbitrary and dictatorial plans. We are happy at the same time to state, that few, if any, of the ill-used and calumniated burgesses of Liverpool are members of these abominable and unlawful associations. The general tenor of the first placard, which was issued by the masons, was . to the effect that the system of wholesale contracting was injurious to the rights of trade; that it brought the ancient trade of masonry into disrepute, and that the wholesale contractors put into their pockets the profits of a trade to which they had no right.. • This seemed very plausible—it attracted some atten tion—and many persons thought it a common circum stance, and then forgot it. But in a few weeks, one of more swelling importance from the operative bricklayers made its appearance, couched in terms of apparent res pect in the beginning for the and their masters, but letting drop various hints of their power, extent, and importance, •and declaring that they were resolved no Linger to 'work for any one who did not strictly confine himself to his own, branch. Then came a furious docu ment from the united plasterers, threatening all who dared to disobey their mandates, declaring that only so many apprentices should be employed by any master or set of masters, fulminating bulls of excommunication, and boldly stating that their laws (!) were like the laws of the Medes and . Persians, which altered' not. This was somewhat startling, especially when the united painters issued their manifesto, which still graces the walls, some what improved in style, and with sentiments less violent than the plasterers. We were much struck with the singular succession of placards, and were led to make inquiry respecting them. 'Will the public—will his MAJEsTY's Government believe that there has been for some months a systematic organi zation of the operatives, not only in this, but in every other large town in Lancashire and Yorkshire ? That every workman in the building department is connected with them, and is sworn upon the sacred scriptures to obey the commands of the club of which lie is . a member That hundreds of industrious and respectable mechanics, under the influence of fear, or from some mysterious cause, have been compelled to join these illegal societies, and obliged to subscribe to their funds ? That meetings are nightly held in secret conclave ? That all confi dence is at an end between masters and their work men, and that demands have been made by the clubs of so infamous and arbitrary a nature, that nearly all the works in Liverpool and many in Manchester are at present suspended! Yet such is the fact. To such an extent has this disreputable system been carried, that under cover of a desire to put an end to wholesale con tracting, the private contracts between masters and their employers have been demanded to be sent to the club rooms; and when a starving stranger has been employed who was not in the club, the whole have struck until he has been discharged or joined the society ; buildings have been abandoned ; the Lock Hospital was for some time in abeyance; and in Manchester two masters are placed under the ban of the clubs, and are to be suspended from carrying on any business for six months, to punish them for being refractory We were at first disposed to supect that the masters had attempted some reduction of wages ; but on inquire we find that such is not the case—that the rate of wages is , precisely as much as was paid during the time of war, when wheat was a guinea a bush Pl. Is work so brisk that men are in earnest request ? By no means. Num bers have been unemployed, and there is no doubt that the weekly contribution to the club has been ill spared by many an industrfOus and unwilling member. But it is high time fur legislative interference; and if my Lord MELBOURNE is not .rouSed by the denijnstrations of strength and audacity exhibited by 'the united societies in this and all'the .other large towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire, nothing but a downright revolution will rouse him and his 'MAJESTY'S apathetic government. Is it.to be borne that men are to be compelled, at the tisk of their lives, or from a fear of ridicule, to join an illegal society, whose principles they detest ? And are they to swear upon the holy scriptures that they will become parties to acts at which every thinking man must revolt ? Impossible that such things can be tolerated, whilst there is a vestige of government in existence.—B u t the evil has a deeper root than is seen. It may be traced to the noxious poison which has been infused into the minds of men. Some unseen agents are at work fomenting discord, and sowing the seeds of rebellion ; and if the evil be not promptly met by a.corresponding movement on the part of the executive, the bands of society will be broken, and this country become the seat of anarchy, spoliation, and confusion. We would advise all those men who have unwillingly joined these clubs, to quit them immediately, and those who have not, to abstain from them with firm resolution. We should be the last in the world to advocate the suppression of clubs constituted fur the legitimate pur poses only of protecting trade ; but we must express our abhorrence of those principles which, under such a spe cious cover, invade the just rights of another, and lay restrictions upon masters which are unjust and detestable, and which, like the shipwrights' society, some few years ago, will lay an incubus upon the trade of to port, and bring eventual misery upon the men themselves, - We are glad to perceive that the labours of the factory commission are drawing near a close, and that Lord AL THORP'S tourists and querists are about to be summoned home to give an account of their travels. The ultra in quisitorial powers of the mountebanks employed on this mission were, to say the least of them, revolting; so much so, that a respect for common decency prevented us from publishing them in the columns of the STANDARD ; but besides their indecency they were useless, and had no connection with the real merits of the case. The object sought for by the millowners was to overset the evidence collected with unwearied pains by Mr. SAD LER. Some of these respectable spinners, wise in the affairs of Mammon, had recourse to an excellent expedi ent to satisfy the commissioners that the facts already published could not be depended on. They invited these gentlemen to sumptuous dinners; they regaled them with hock, claret and champagne; they stuffed them with ducks and pease, poultry and puddings ; and la boured to convince them that in a land abounding with such luxuries, where the wine was ruby bright, and capons fair and fat, there could be no maimed children, no sickly brats with stomachs stuffed with fur, no dwarfs, no girls with broken spines, no old women of nineteen years of age, no kicking, no lacerating, no strapping, no baly rollers. Ingenious though the device was, we strongly suspect that it will not succeed. The judge bousing with the accused does not look well in a picture ; and evidence collected in this way, even though it were reported by an angel, and corrected by Lord ALTHORP himself, is good for nothing, for this simple reason—it will not be believed! The expense of the commission, therefore, however it may benefit the tailors or the lawyers con cerned, is just so much money thrown away. It would have been better to have given it to buy crutches for the lame, or soup for the poor. The political horizon is hourly becoming more murky, and the struggle of the elements is coming nearer its crisis. The leading ministerial journal has put forth a manifesto for the removal of the Bishops from the House of Lords. This important and demi-official document runs in these words : " We can assure our readers, one and all, that we are serious iu our recommendation to remove the Bishops from the House of Lords, and to make steady and useful diocesans of them, instead of Ministerial fags-of-all-work in Parliament." This appeared in the Times of Tuesday last, and we not only give it credit for being serious, but we are also inclined to believe that it speaks the serious sentiments of some, if not the whole, of his Majesty's ministers. Six or seven of the prelates voted in the Duke of WELLINGTON'S majority of twelve against ministers on the Portuguese question, and that we have no doubt is deemed a good reason enough for telling them once more to put their houses in order preparatory to the general swamping of the right reverend Bench. Ministers, who have it in their power to throw away twenty millions of money belonging to the people, and forty or fifty mil lions more belonging to the planters and proprietors of the West Indies—absolutely to annihilate this vast amount of property, as if it were as valueless as one of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S plays,—ministers who can do this, with the consent of the people, can have little difficulty in excommunicating the Bishops, or if they think fit, in shutting the doors of the House of Lords altogether. Well, let us suppose it done—let us take for granted that the spiritual peers are expelled, that coronets are dispensed with, that the Duke of NORFOLK is converted into plain Mr. JOHN HOWARD, and the Duke of WEL LINGTON reduced to Mr. ARTHUR WELLESLEY, of No. IG, Piccadilly, how long pray will it be before the crown and sceptre are seized for poor rates and melted into money? The Bishops have as clear a right to their temporal dignities and their legislative functions as the House of Brunswick has to the throne; and if the former are despoiled the latter must sooner or later meet the same fate. But what next? The Commons of course ivould be untrammelled and omnipotent. Their bills would be drawn, accepted, and indorsed by themselves, and pro perty of every kind would be the next object of attack. Why should the Duke of BEDFORD levy a tax upon every turnip and cabbage sold in Covent-garden market ? Why should any man have more land than he is able to cultivate with the aid of his sons and daughters? Then, again, would it not be a nuisance to suffer so many people to rush to the Bank every quarter day to - receive their dividends? Aye ! this last is the sore point. At present it i s al most sacrilege to whisper a word of warning on the sub " ject. If we were bold enough to hazard one, we kn ow that we should be told of the " honour," the credit," and the " good faith" of the country ; and it would be fortunate if we were not bored or dinned to death with an universal outcry of robbery and treason. But what is honour ? It is a " word;" and what is deGt Y. An obliga tion to pay so long as we have the means. You cannot extract milk from paving stones, any more than sun beams from cucumbers. All revolutions have a tendency to make capital take to itself wings and fly away, to de stroy national credit, and exhaust the resources of- the with country. The revolution which is now progressin g such rapid strides will inevitably, if not checked, reduce England to a state of embarrassment and poverty, in which national honour, and national faith, and so forth, will, ex necessitate rei, be words without meaning —fine phrases, we adMit—vastly harmonious when jingling i n rhyme in a lady's album, but when relating to money in the funds, nothing more than expressions full of sound and fury signifying nothing. The revolution seriously contemplated by the ministerial journal, which i s t o un seat the Bishops, degrade the Lords, plunder the Church, and put the Crown in Chancery, will not be accom plished without producing all the evils above enumerated, and ten thousand more than we have time to describe. It would be a revolution in which the reckless, the worth less, and the beggar would be ranged on one side, and the people of property on the other. It would be a war against wealth—the beggar's and the swindler's cru sade—a sort of political burglary committed by the rab ble upon the savings of industry and the accumulations of enterprise. That such a revolution is begun is as clear as day, but it is equally clear that it is the duty and interest of all those who have any thing to lose to resist it to the uttermost—to buckle on their armour and meet it at its early onset—to stand up manfully and fear lessly for the KING, his Crown and dignity, for the rights and privileges of the Peers, spiritual as well as temporal, and for the preservation of that happy institu tion of the three estates which has stood the assaults of ages, and over which the banner of true liberty has waved, the envy and admiration of the world ! The important question of the destruction, or other wise, of our colonial possessions has assumed, since our last publication, a form much more definite, and we may say. much less unsatisfactory, than it had a week ago. It may not be amiss, from the constant variations that have taken place pending the discussion of the subject, both before and since its introduction into the House of Commons, to bring together the five resolutions of Mr. STANLEY, as they now stand confirmed by the votes of the House ; the two last at an early hour on Wednesday morning. " First Resolution.—That it is the opinion of this Committee that immediate and effectual measures be taken for the entire abolition of slavery throughout the colonies, under such pro visions for regulating the condition of the negroes as may com bine their welfare with the interests of the proprietors." "Second Resolution.—That it is expedient that all children born after the passing of any act, or who shall be under the age of six years at the tune of passing any act of Parliament for this purpose, be declared free—subject, nevertheless, to such temporary restrictions as may be deemed necessary for their support and maintenance." " Third Resolution.—That all persons now slaves be entitled to be registered as apprenticed labourers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restric tion of labouring under conditions, and for a time to be fixed by Parliament for their present owners. " Fourth Resolution.—That, towards the compensation of the West India Proprietors, his Majesty be enabled to grant a sum not exceeding E 20,000,000, to he appropriated as,Parlia ment may hereafter think fit. " Fifth Resolution.—That his Majesty be enabled to defray any such expense as he may incur in establishing an efficient stipendiary magistracy in the colonies, and in aiding the local legislatures in providing fur the religious an 4 moral education of negro.population to be emancipated, on liberal and com prehensive principles." These are the bases on which his "MAJESTY'S ministers propose to.rest this momentous arrangement. We hay THE LIVER. POOL STANDARD. contested heretofore, with some force, and certainly with every sincerity, the justice of those plans that have been proposed by Lord GODERICII and Mr. STANLEY in their original shape; and we maintained then, as we do now, that they were unjust in principle, and would prove im practicable in execution. Whilst we grant, that we take a more favourable view of the question in its present shape, that change in our opinion results more from the admissions of the ministers, as to certain leading princi ples, than from any conviction, so far as we have informa tion of the intended details, that in practice it will operate beneficially for the negro, the proprietor, or the country. After all the casuistry that has been expended upon the question of " man not being entitled to have any property in man," it is now settled, that the negroes of the colonies having been placed upon the soil under the sanction of numerous laws of this country, in the distinct character of " property," those persons who have exchanged for them that which would have purchased property of any other description, are entitled to compensation, as in all other cases they would be, when an attempt is made to divest them of that which has cost money, and to which a high value is attached. It matters little whether the deprivation be total or partial, gradual or abrupt; the rights of property are equally violated when uncontrolled possession ceases. The question becomes, then, only one of amount, as re gards the compensation to be afforded for the injury sustained. It is because the principle for which we now contend, as we ever have done, is admitted, and that most distinctly, by the fourth resolution above given, that we consider the question, in its present form, improved. The admission was very strongly made by Mr. STANLEY, in his speech in support of the fourth resolution; and it gave us some pleasure to find him making an effort to redeem his political character from the odium which he drew upon it by his original language last month. The principle, however, is admitted; and West India pro prietors are not to have unqualified spoliation committed upon their property, as was once proposed. The whole affair, nevertheless, even under this im proved aspect, is beset with difficulties which, we fear, will be found insurmountable. There are so many and such varying, even contradictory, interests to reconcile, that, in the adjustment of the compensation, a mass of confusion, almost chaotic, may be expected to arise. The mortgagee, the heavily or moderately encumbered pro prietor, the free planter, the private possessors of negroes, the owner of one, and the owner of five hundred,—in every shade and variety of position,—all will be strug gling for the preservation of their individual rights, as all may be justified in doing; but, we repeat, it requires no great foresight to discover that difficulties, almost inextricable, must, of necessity, present themselves in the adjustment of such an infinite variety of interests, complicated, as those interests are, by every shade and degree of complication. When we consider that in the single island of Jamaica there will be found between five and six thousand claimants upon the compensation fund; and contemplating, as we may, the almost infinite variety of circumstances under which the claims will be advanced, it is not likely that we have over-rated the difficulties with which the whole question is surrounded. LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. The Consol Market has not been materially affected during the last two or three days, but there is a general appearance of heaviness, and the quotation for the account has laden to 90i. Little has been doing either in India Bonds or Exchequer Bills; the premium on the former being 295. to 315., ant ou the latter 50s. The Foreign Market affords little matter for comment. — Spanish Bonds, after being 19 20, are 1912.—Dutch Bonds are 49i, and Belgian 911. A. yacht bclouging to the Royal Club has arrived from Oporto, but we do not hear of any news from this quarter. The Portuguese Scrip is 112 discount. We have a file of the St. Vincent's Royal Gazette, which contain the following : "DOWNING-STREET, Feb. 13, 1833.—5ir,--I am directed by Viscount Goderich to acquaint you, that with a view to afford. the utmost possible relief to the revenues of St. Vincent, Gre nada and 1 obago, their affairs will be placed under the more • immediate superinteudance of Lieutenant-Governors, who will act in subordination to a Governor, to be annually resident at Barbados. The Lieutenant-Governors will receive salaries very much reduced in amount from those which were enjoyed by the officers hitherto holding the Governments of these colo nies, and ,as the reduced salaries will be entirely out of money voted by Parliament, the colonial assemblies will no longer be required to make any contribution towards the support of the officers. At a period when the West India interest is suf fering so severely from various causes, it is matter of satisfac tion to Lord Goderich to he enabled to announce to you the removal of any charge which can be supposed to have been burthensome to the colony of St. Vincent. The Royal Gazette asserts that Sir James Lyon was appointed Governor and Com mander-in-Chief of Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, and St. Yin-. cent, but ou receiving his instructions he found them so differ ent to what he expected, that. lie declined the appointment. Capt. Taylor of the Royal Navy had been ultimately appointed, Lieutenant Governor of that island. Late accounts from Tobago, state, that General the Governor of that island was about to depart thence in con sequence of the government becoming vacant, the island being added as a dependency on the government of Barbados. THE DRAMA. On Tuesday night last Mr. Hackett performed the part of Rip Van Winkle, in the dramatic ,romance of that name, taken from Washington Irving's well known. tale. In this character he shone as an actor of the first grade, and exhibited powers that convince us of his having studied in other than the Yankee slang-schools. The contrast at the opening of the se cond act between the hale, hearty, bluff Van Winkle of fifty, who ascended the Kaatskill mountain, and the old man who had unconsciously slept for twenty years, was beautifully imagined and finely executed. His astonishment at finding the " leetle sma-al bush" on which he hung his rifle, as he supposes, the night before, grown up to a " great pig tree,"—his beard lengthened, his clothes worn out, and the stock of his rifle worm eaten, and the barrel rusty, were so natural as almost to convince us of the reality of the scene. We have seen this character performed by Yates, who throws into it an indistinct recollection of his having undergone a twenty years' captivity in the phantom ship. Hackett has no other recollection than that of having caroused on the mountain with some "queer fellows" on the night before ;—heuce, his astonishment is the greater at finding the village changed, himself unknown to every crea ture in it, and " The King's Head" altered into that of " The General Washington." The Most popular of Mr. 14tatikett's characters is that of Colonel Nimrod in the Kentai..-kian. This piece has been constructed for the purpose of ridiculing Mrs. Trollope, but, with the exception of the Colonel himself,. it is far from being cleverly hammered together. A Cockney grocer, of the name of Jenkins, is introduced under the assumed name of Lord Granby, and of course passes, until he is disco vered, for a very decent sort of - nobleman in that laud of alliga , tors and other plebeians. Connecting the English heroine with this impostor, the Americans intimate that her's is a swindling speculation. Now, to say the least of it, this is a mean and ex tremely-vulgar way of attacking a woman. It is " far-down west," and "rotten" coarse in the very idea. She sketched them to the life; she painted every leg, and nose, and top-boot, and cat-skin cap in the whole republic; but she did not invent anything ; she did nut libel them as they do her. The truth of this is confirmed by every scene in the piece itself, by the din ner bell, the " free g emmen of colour," the language, and by Nimrod himself, who was so ferocious 'cute, that although his father could lick the best man in Kentucky, he could lick his fattier. Hackett's acting, however, is spirited in the highest degree. He is the very soul of the piece, and, if we mistake not, is capable of drawing characters of a much superior order to any we have yet seen him attempt. It would be worth his while, perhaps, to favour us with a specimen of a first-rate Ame rican gentleman. We don't want a gentleman of congress— none of their senators—no generals or mayors—but a simple gentleman, of elegant manners, and correct education. That we have never yet seen attempted. Even Cooper fails mise rably in depicting an English nobleman in one of his best novels. He has no idea of the character, and we suspect few of his countrymen have. They must wait for the portrait until they. have a monarchy. The house has been well attended this we week, and we hope will be to-night, when Mr. Hackett takes his benefit. TOE COUNTRY BANKERS.—The resolutions agreed to by the committee of country bankers against the proposed alterations in the system of banking are conceived in a spirit of very strong opposition - to them. The following are a few of the arguments that have been circulated in support of their view of the ques tion :—That in case of a general substitution of Bank of Eng land notes for country notes, the agricultural interest will be liable to suffer materially, because, as business is now managed by country bankers issuing their own notes, the advances made by them to farmers are usually the last to be withdrawn. That looking as well as other men of business to the rate of exchange, and the probability of some difficulty in the supply . of money in London, the invariable rule laid down by them is to- shorten the accommodation in London, and to maintain all their coun try advances to the full. That supposing country bankers to us 4 Bank of England notes exclusively, and that the Bank will regulate Its advances to the country by -the rate of exchange, advancing freely when the exchange is high, and withdrawing them as it declines, the country bankers will necessarily follow the course of the Bank, and in the case of a falling exchange will call in their 'advances in the country. That in consequence of this, the implied bond between the country banker and his customers wilt cease. As the case now stands, the customer assists the country banker in the first instance by taking his notes, and afterwards circulating them; therefore, when the season of difficulty comes, the country banker feels bound in honour not to withdraw his advances._ Under the new system no delicacy of this sort can be exercised. The country banker will feel himself at full liberty to choose between the . person who owes him a certain suns of money and the securities he holds in London, which will have fallen in price, and to save himself from.loss by the sale of his securities, he will call in his advances from his country customers as a matter of course. A woman named Catherine de Brouwer died in the refuge for the aged, in the former Convent of the Ursalines at Brus sels, on the 29th ult., iu the one hundred and seventh year of her age; she was born iu 1726, under the reign of Charles VI., Emperor of Germany; her prodigious memory revealed all the remarkable events that took place at Brussels during the fol lowing reigns, which she related very minutely, with the addi tion of many curious anecdotes. The number •of descendants now living, children, grand children, and great .erand 1:),/ THE EXPEDITION TO AFRICA. It . is now many months since the Quorra and Elburka left this port on a commercial and scientific expedition up the river Niger, under the direction of Mr. Richard Lander, whose arduous attempt to trace it to its ter mination had shortly before been crowned with success. About the middle of October, after a prosperous voyage, the expedition arrived in the Nun river, previous to which, however, we regret to state that the death of the commander of the Quorra, Captain Harris, deprived the travellers of- the advantage of his admirable judg ment and ability. He was a naval officer of great ta lents.; perseverance and skill, he had spent several years on that coast in surveying, and being an excellent drafts man, was every way qualified to have facilitated the success of the undertaking. The expedition proceeded to Brass, which consists of two towns, governed by King Boy and King Jacket. The former is an old acquaint ance of Mr. Lander's, a confinement in his territories having terminated the list of the misfortunes of himself and his brother on their previous route. As they were ap proaching the close of their toils, they were attacked and plundered by the Kirree people, and carried to the King of Eboe, from whom they were purchased by King Boy, who counted on transferring them at a handsome profit to the English. In his dominions they did not ex perience much harsh treatment, beyond an equal scanti. ness of civility and food : in some respects this chief seems not to be without his good qualities. At, one of his interviews with the King of Eboe, Lander describes him as being "dressed in a style far superior to any of his countrymen, and wearing a jacket and waistcoat over a neat shirt of striped cotton, to which was an nexed a silk pocket-handkerchief, which extended below the knees. Trousers, I believe, are not permitted to be worn, either by natives, or strangers of the same hue as themselves, the king alone being an exception to this rule. Strings of coral and other beads encircled his neck, and a pretty little crucifix of seed beads hung on his bosom. He commenced a long narrative of his great ness, power, and dignity, in which he excelled all his neighbours : and to convince me of his veracity, he pro duced a pocket-book, containing a great number of re commendatory notes, or ' characters,' as a domestic would call them, written in the English, French, Span ish, and Portuguese languages, and which had been given him by the various European traders who had vi sited the Brass river " These testimonials, it seems, sometimes tell too much, the ignorance of the bearers, andtheir turn for ostentation, being made the instruments of revenge for past impositions and roguery. Amongst the certificates of King Boy was one under the hand of a Captain Dow,' stating, that he alone deserved his con fidence, for he had not abused it, and possessed more ho nesty and integrity than either his father or King Jacket. When the Landers last left the country, they parted on very ill terms with King Boy; they had given him an order on an English captain, then in the river, for the articles stipulated for their ransom ; but, after carrying them on board the vessel, the demand was refused in a peremptory and uncourteous manner by the captain, and King Boy, in a transport of passion and disappointment, returned in his canoe to escape being carried to sea. By the news received from the present expedition Boy appears to have got over his chagrin, and to have vi sited the vessels with the most friendly disposition. His sable Majesty was treated with the greatest kindness and respect by the officers of the expedition, and on his part received them with a liberality which augured fa vourably for the ulterior objects of the voyage, and in order' to improve the good understanding thus com menced, he was presented with a splendid highland dress, with cap and feathers, by Mr. Macgregor Laird, (who, we are glad to hear, was in ex c elle n t he a lth an d spirits,) the custom already alluded to forbidding the con cealment of his ebony hue beneath the lower parts of the European costume. This new array seemed to give him a still greater admiration for his proper self than he even usually exhibited; he anticked, chuckled, and surveyed himself in it with as much complacency and delight as a boy just put into breeches. The expedition proceeding forward in the prosecution of its grand object, King Boy volunteered his company, and took considerable interest in the affair, the idea of the steamers " walking the waters like things of life," putting all his wits to the stretch. The expedition had succeeded in reaching the Eboe country, and king Oboe was staying on board the Quorra when king Boy de spatched a canoe to Brass, to announce their safe arrival. Respecting the character of the natives it is said, in Lan- der's former journal, " The Eboe people, like most Afri cans, are extremely indolent, and cultivate yams, Indian corn, and plantains only. They have abundance of goats and fowls, but few sheep are to be seen, and no bullocks. The city, which has no other name than the ' Eboe coun country,' is situated on, an open plain : it is immensely large, contains a vast population, and is the capital of a kingdom of the same name. It has, for a series of years, been the principal sea-mart for native traders from time coast, between the Bonny and Old Calabar rivers ; and for the production of its palm oil it has obtained equal ce lebrity. Hundreds of men from the rivers mentioned above come up for the purpose of trade, and numbers of them are at present residing in canoes in front of the town. Most of the oil purchased by Englishmen at the Bonny and adjacent rivers is brought from hence, as are nearly all the slaves which are annually exported from, those places by the French, Spaniards, and Portuguese."' We have conversed with two seamen who happened to be in Brass River at the time the expedition arrived, from whom we have learned the above particulars. Their in formation, it will be seen, completely disproves the re ports of various kinds which have been abroad, that the natives had risen in hostility against it ; one report even pretendinc , to know the manner in which they had ex pressed their alarm, that " devil ship had gone up the river to set the towns on tire." Much progress, we hope, will be made during this voy age towards establishing a good understanding. with the respective chiefs. It is to be lamented that the conduct of individuals trading to the coast has not always been such as to conciliate the dispositions of the natives, or gain their confidence in the good intentions of the British government. Travellers, on the other hand, have been too much in the power of the despotic princes to give their professions much weight, or to induce a reciproca tion of friendship. Independence is needful to ensure a proper respect fur friendly offers, and as this will be the case to a great extent, in the present instance, we hope the result of the undertaking will be, not only the accom plishment of its vastly important mercantile projects, but also the removal of hostility and suspicion from the minds of the African chiefs and people.—Licopool Courier. MANCHESTER SAVINGS' BANK. Mr. Gibson, the late agent to this establishment, whose sin gular apprehension by the London Police our readers are ac quainted with, was examined before a bench of magistrates at Manchester on Tuesday last. Mr. MILNE en the part of the Trustees and Managers of the Bank stated the case to the bench, and after detailing the facts of the case, contended that, if the bench should be of opinion that the offence did not amount to a felony, there could be no doubt that it came within the provisions ot• the act 7 and 8 Geo. I V. cap 29, and would amount to a misdemeanour under the 49th section of that act, which he Would take the liberty of reading : " if any money or security for the payment of money shall be entrusted to any banker, merchant, broker, attorney, or other agent, with any directions in writing to apply such money or any part thereof, or the proceeds or any part of the proceeds of sueh security for any purpose specified in such direction, and he shall in violation of good faith, and contrary to the purpose so speci fied in any wise convert to his own use or benefit, such money, security, or proceeds, or any part thereof respectively, every such ()tender shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being thereof convicted, shall be liable to transportation for fourteen years, or to fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court." Mr. BRANDT addressed the magistrates on the behalf of the prisoner, and insisted that the evidence fell short of proving. that he had converted the money feloniously. The letter ad dressed by Mr. Gibson to his son containing an admission of embezzlement, would bear a very different construction to what had been put upon it. The sum of £lOO was placed in his hands in 1819, was supposed to have continued in his hands, and it was supposed that he had converted it to his own use; but in the face of these suppositious, there was the fact that he had made frequent advances to the Bank, and was it not natural that, when he found himself short of cash for other purposes, ho should iu return borrow a portion of this sum. This was im proper, it was true, but it was not felonious; and this was all that he had done, but standing in the unfortunate situation he did, he could not call any witness to prove the fact. As far as the accounts went, they were a mode of book-keeping which was required of him; as an honest man, he had entered the £lOO as being in his hands, although the money might not be there, but by entering it to his debit, he made himseif responsi ble for it as a debt which he owed to the bank. With respect to the expression in the letter to his son, that he had taken no money belonging to the bank except tile £lOO which were placed in his hands for current expences, that was no proof of felony, for he did not say that he had taken the specific money entrusted to him. Mr. Gibson had been led into this act by ex cess of delicacy :—on looking over au • old bankruptcy account he found that there was a denciency of £3O or £4O. he could not meet the commissioners in consequence, becanse he was afraid of the p ena lti e s he had incurred being enforced against him, and, therefore, to use his own expression, in an evil hour, considering that he had only the alternative of living in dis grace in Manchester, or of leaving the town, he chose the latter. At the close of the proceeding the magistrates were of opinion, that although a case of felony bad not been made out they should not be doing their duty without eommittiug Mr. Gibson for trial under the 7th and Bth Geo. IV%, but would admit him to bail on entering into his own recognizance iu £2OO and two sureties of 1:,10) each, to answer the charge the sessions. Mr. Gibson will remain in custody until his bail is perfected, ANECDOTE OF TILE LAIRD op LOGAN.—An under grieve on the estate of Logan happened to have been the means of plac ing a young woman in the neighbourhood in a situation not very advantageous to her character. As the proofs of their ac quaintance was every day becoming inure apparent, a lawyer, at the request of her friends, called upon the " gay deceiver," and laid down the alternative of marr iag e, or an action for " breach of promise." Being a ease of no little difficulty, the poor fellow began scratching his head; but remained silent till the patience of the lawyer became exhausted, and he demanded an answer to his proposal in a very angry and decisive tone of voice. "Toots, Mr. M—," says the Laird, who was present at the interview, " diuna be sae tlighty,--it's a puzzliu , case; and when you see the lad's thrang consulting the crown L sellers On the matter "en J _ • • 111111111 I I I I I I I I I 111 THE HURRICANE. On Tuesday this neighbouthood was visited by one of the se verest storms, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, that we ever remember to have witnessed at this season of the year. Coming as it did, unexpectedly, the craft on the river Mersey-were not prepared for so tempestuous a visitation, ebd, iu consequence, the damage done to them will, we fear, be very considerable. So great was the swell in the river that it was with great diffi culty that the steam-boats employed at the ferries could land their passengers, and at one period all communication between this and the Cheshire side was suspended. A brigantine was driven ou shore early on Wednesday morning, on the rocks near Bootle, and suffered some da mage . The zinc covering of some the sheds in the Clarence Dock was stripped off, and we have heard that considerable damage was done to the gardens and plantations in the neighbourhood of Everton. It is rumoured that a woman and two children were drowned in one of the fiats coming down the river. Several ships were obliged to put. back;' but for the names and particulars of the damage sus tained by them we refer to our shipping intelligence. The' Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday contains an account of a similar visitation, which we subjoin. "Tut: WHaniuit.—A gale of wind, amidst amounting to a hurricane, commenced on M on d ay n i g h t, cont i nue d t h e. w h o l e of yesterday, and has not yet taken off. It was accompanied throughout by heavy rain ; but we greatly fear that the advan tage resulting from the latter vvid be more than counterbalanced by the injury to the fruit trees and heavy crops likely to be su:- tained from the former. Owing to the gale, which is still blow ing fiercely from the North-west, the Packet, with the London mail of Monday, had nut reached when our Journal was going to press," The London papers received last night likewise contain ac counts equally distressing. The following account is extracted from the Guardian of Wednesday morning :—" Yesterday morning at an early hour it commenced blowing a severe gale from the south-west, which increased towards the middle of the day to a perfect hurricane. Such a violent storm in the month of June was never before remembered. On land its effects were very severe, and in some places it was with difficulty the passengers could keep their footing. Chimney pots were blown off in all directions. In Lambeth, the streets were strewn with ' broken tiles and pots, dislodged from the house tops by the wind. A great number of trees in the parks and fields in the vicinity of the metropolis were blown down. In Cotton-gar dens, near the Speaker's house, a large elm tree was torn up by the roots, and fell over the wall into the Thames. The storm was more severely felt on the river, where, we are sorry to state, two accidents occurred during the day, attended with loss of lives. About three o'clock iu the afternoon, a peter boat, containing tw o p ersons, a fi s h erman an d a boy, was blown over, in Half-way R eac h , b etween G ravesen d . and - London, and so great was the agitation of the water, that both perished before any other boat could approach them. About six o'clock in the evening four young gentlemen belong ing to Westminster School were sailing up the river near Lambeth stairs, in a small boat, when a sudden gust of wind capsized the boat, and they were ail immersed in the stream. Three of them swam towards the shore, and were picked up by the waterman, who instantly put off to their assistance. Nearly a quarter of an hour elapsed before the fourth, a promising youth named Webber, the son of the Dean of Ripon, was taken out of the water by means of the drags. He was in stantivtaken ashore to a publichouse opposite Lambeth Church but all attempts to restore animation proved fruitless. Severa boats lying under the arch on the city side of Southwark Bridge were blown over, and much damaged. The wind blew so tremendously in the afternoon that tie coal barges weio unable to conic up with the tide. The river presented a scene of confusion during the whole day; a great number of hats and bonnets, which had been blown off the heads of persons on the bridges, were picked up by the Thames police. A great num ber of ships were driven from their moorings in the pool, and injured." Since writing the above, we have been favoured with an extract from a letter dated " BANGOR BRIDGE, 12th June, 1833.—A more terrific night than the last I never was out in ; from three o'clock yesterday afternoon until our arrival this morning, it blew a perfect hur ricane, the sea running mountains high, and at times making a complete breach over us. The Prince behaved admirably ; indeed, had it not been for her excellent qualities as a sea boat, added to the great attention of the captain and crew, not a man of whom was below for a momen t, I do not know what would have become of us." CASE OF TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD. We extract the following from Mr. Banner's Clinical Reports, which appeared in the last number of the London Medical and Surgical Journal; after giving the particulars of the case, which was one of hemorrhage, in a lady of delicate constitution, Mi. Banner goes on to state, that on the 6th of May last, between the hours of nine and one, the patient appeared in a dying state, she was quite unconscious, the pulse could only occasionally bo felt, the eye was half closed and glassy, the breathing scarcely perceptible, she had taken half a pint of brandy and a consider able quantity of red wine without producing any effect on the system. As a last means Mr. Bickersteth proposed the opera tion of transfusion, which was agreed to, and immediately com menced as follows : " Blundell's apparatus was used ; I made an incision at the bend of the right arm, and laid bare the vein for three-quarters of an inch; the apparatus was immersed in warm water, and placed in a convenient position; a ligature was now applied round the husband' s arm; I ma d e a sma ll o p en i ng i n t o th e pa tient's vein, and introduced the small loose pipe, which was hell there by au assistant; a large orifice was made in the husband's vein, from which the blood issued freely into the receiver of the instrument; the pump was now exhausted of its atmospheric air, and the elastic tube was attached to the pipe already in the patient's vein. Mr. Bickersteth attended to the pipe and arm, Dr. Jeffreys to the constitutional symptoms, whilst I pumped slowly about five syringefuls of blood into the system, when, from the increased oppression in breathing, it was thought pro per to rest awhile. After waiting a few minutes the lungs ap peared somewhat relieved, and two syringefuls of blood was in troduced, when the breathing became again laborious, the pulse now became perceptible at the wrist, We consequently felt jus tified in not persevering with the injection. For a short time after the operation the pulse could be felt, when, for nearly two hours, the patient remained in a very doubtful state, the breath ing and pulse scarcely perceptible, time body cold and clammy ; at three o'clock, p.m., a decided improvement took place, the breathing was more natural, the pulse could be felt stronger, and she was enabled to take weak brandy and water. From this time the patient gradually recovered, and is now well. The rallying efl'ects from the operation of transfusion are not so im mediate as I had been led to suppose; if it had nut been for the oppression in breathing which was produ ce d, I should have considered the immediate effects on the system trifling. The pump will contain about two ounces, the quantity of blood that was introduced - no doubt kept up vitality, and enabled the sys tem to rally. The more I reflect on this operation, the more I feel confident ofits usefulness as a means of saving life, in cases of extreme danger from the effects of hemorrhage."—Landon Medical and Surgical Journal.--[This is the second instance in which blood has been transfused into the system in this town and the first in which it has proved successful.] (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) IMPROMPTU, On hearing that Mr. Benetes motion to disfranchise the Licerpool Burgesses was postponed on Tuesday last. " We'll disfranchile the Burgesses—sure as a gun," Said the Whigs in the heyday of power; " They'll not do it," says Sam; " Your reason," quoth Tam ; " Why, they've SAID IT !! what would you have more V. • Alluding, we suppose, to the Whiga never performing their praise. HortEsTr.—Sunday morning week, a girl from West Arthur lie found a pound note on her way to church, at Paisley, and honestly delivered it over to her pastor, the Bev. Mr. Bremner, of the catholic chapel. Mr. Bremner announced it front his pulpit; and, on Friday last, a poor man from one of the villages in the south called and joyfully received his pound, without a farthing of expences.—G/aw o w Courier. EuitorEAN Bre inGEs.—The oldest bridge extant is that over the Gard at Nismes, which was built nineteen years before Christ; the architect is unknown. Its curve is a semicircle, the height of its key stone 4 feet 9 inches, the diameter of the circle of curvature at the vortex 80 feet, the span 80 ft et, and the height 40. The boldest arch in the world is at Nisines, also in the church of the Jesuits. It was built by Cubisa Its curve is the segment of a circle, and although its chord i s on ly 28 feet 3 inches, the diameter of the circle of curvat ure i s 364 f eet ! The circle of curvature of the New Loudon Bridge, (the main arch,) is 321 feet, while that of the very celebrated bridge of the Holy Trinity, at Florence, is only 21 feet more. Westminster Bridge is remarkable for the specific height of its key same.— The widest arches are those of Vielle Brionde, over the river Allier, of which the span is 18.3 feet, and that of Ulm, over the Danube, 181; they are both, in curve, segments of circles • the former was built by Greiner a n d E stone, in 1443 , an d t h e latter by Wiebiking. BARONY OF RUTHRRFORD.—John Rutherford, of the parish of SL George, Hanover-square, Esq., has presented a petitiod to the King, claiming the Barony of Rutherford. It was re ferred to the Law Otheers of the Crown, and, pursuant to their advice, directed to be transmitted to the House of Lords. It was preferred on Thursday, and their Lordships have referred it to a Committee of Privi►eges. RIGHT OF SOLDIERS TO PASS OVER BRIDGES FREE OF TOLL.—The collector of the tolls at Kew-bridge was summoned before Mr. Gregorie, at Queen-square, for demanding and tak ing toll from two foot soldiers, who were in regimentals and on duty, and had occasion to pass over the bridge. In support of the information, it was contended that, according to an act passed in April last, the collector of toles subjected himself to a penalty of five pounds for demanding and taking toll from sol diers on duty. 111 r. R o bi nson, the proprietor of the tolls, said that ever since the bridge had been nuid - , toll had been taken, in accordance with the orders from the War-office and that that this w as th e fi rst case o f t h e ki n d i n w hi c h he had ever been considered to have acted ibegally. lie knew nothing of the law as it now stood, but had always been guided by the Secre taries at War, whose regtOat . ,ins, as regarded the taking Vol front soldiers, were posted .n the toll-house. Mr. Gregorie ob served, that no orders from the War-office could overturn an Act of Parliament, and as an offence had been connnitted, conviction must necessarily follow, but he would mitigate din line to one half, viz., 10s. and costs. THE CRUSHING OF A DEPRECIATING TIII:ORT.—" Well, my good girl," said Sir David. Barry, on Thursday, in his free f ,,,thy way, to one of the winders in Mr. Clark's mill, "did any one ever say to you that your right shouider was higher than your left?" On few points is a young maiden more sensitive than on that of personal symmetry, and it is with exceeding reluctance that any confession of defect on this point is ever made. Truth prevailed, however, and she blushingly confessed that .such a remark had been made to her by some of her ac quaintances. It so happened that the girl next examined had to plead guilty to a . simi,ai defect. Sir David began iuunem ately to theorise on the subject, conceiving, that there must be something in the thread-winding process that had a tendency to elevate the right shoulder at the expense of its neighbour. llacl a third instance occurred, the conclusion would have rested oa a base sufficiently ample,' and it would have gone forth to the world, to the blighting of their matrimonial prospects, that thread-winders were a lop-sided race. By great good fortune, however, the left shoulder of the third girl was sufficiently ele vated above the right to make. full amends for the other mt.. The equilibrium was thus happily restored, the embryo theory was crushed in the bud, and the clever, handsome, thread winders of Paisley have been restored to their full chances of hymeneal co-partnery.—Paistcy Advertirer. A TIZAP PAULIAMENTAIIY.—Feargus O'Connor came into the House one morning lately with a bright green cravat round his neck, a waistcoat of many and brilliant colors, which was displayed to the very aim-holes, a quid watch-chain all abroad, and a pair of double-bleached Russia duck trowsers. He hada speech to make, and was dressed in this conspicuous fashion that he might " catch the Speaker's eyes." He had seen fellows in dusky black and brown stand up tell times a night, stretch out their right hands, and then sit doss a again, each time " invisible•or dimly seen;" : thdrefore, he assumed this glittering array, and no sooner did he dart into file