The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-08 00:00:00

~~ ~. . \ • qt! I/ 14 .o\‘kb g, they had received a liberal and . that in entering into their honourable had been sanctioned and encouraged It of the country ; and were he fur t the nation so highly favoured, was tain—of Britain, whose justice, whose ty, whose constitution have been the to philosophers, statesmen, and histoi r civilized Europe, what would be his ? Would he not take it for granted that nen were not only protected in all thei. ied and honoured by the paternal care vernment ? And could he be accused he refused to give credence to the foil tale : more than two years since the clergy church, throughout a great part of this ?.ceived any of their lawful income, if etched pittance doled out to them by the )f a hostile government. In bespeaki; iv for our injured clergy, we are ily necessary to state their case as i. Lie facts speak for themselves, a plain, Were their sufferings-known to the o well of the Protestants of this count; . ell of the British nation—we think atiiie,-.to *appose they could be heard IN The eilffsh public, we are well aware, ea of the condition of our impoverished e lived amongst them, and can speak' ition. We have seen their once happy :enes of contented competence and • joyment, now the abodes of wasting anticipation. We have seen sons, the e of their parents' declining years, school or from the University, to share the paternal roof, because the blessir !ation could no longer be extended to en daughters, the ornaments and dart" scene, torn from the embraces of till .nts, to earn among strangers that slit no longer be afforded to them in . We have seen ministers of the e; ived of the very necessaries of life, creditors, and rescued from the Ey by the humiliating alternative cy are the actual privations of poverty the most bitter, ingredient in the cup of .e was no superficial observer of hu d all the griefs that harass the distressed, re the most bitter is a scornful jest." d clergy are surrounded by the ma, eir woes. They are living amongst ' alien state is a subject at once of . ;ry. And we have seen a minister ed to and from his church, on the Sal imprecations and insults of the surroUJ ilst his dejected look and threadbare d their derision and their jeers ! at the bar of public opinion, we appeal t Majesty's subjects to determine w 1 security for property under a goverei s, if it does not encourage, this mon s t,, We appeal even to those most hnstiP nent. We tell them that the goverill t respect the rights of their enemies , ieir own. igitur cum proximus ardet the greater nor the less, because friend or their foe. No ! Our rulers ) rights of property to become an ell 3k on with stoical indifference whilst .nd are trampled under foot. No ! 1 1 rider an administration which consider ciples of truth and justice secondary to r, d questionable expediency. L an alor° o your title deeds. The sacrilegious 911 e robbed your clergy, call upon you 1 14 clto " set your houses in order." Do e - Wo the government ? So did y leaned upon a broken reed. Will Be wise in time. There is no safetf ) regard not vested rights ; and where . , ) do injustice, how shall w e o bt a i n sec; away the power ?—Dublin UnivP 9. IL IRELAND. EMENT.—When the registering barristert!, !form Bill, met in Dublin to di scuss the Ant on which they could agree was, that wear wigs and gowns.—Atheneum.. ting it about to be held in Dublin, wad / Lord Mayor, to enter into subscriptions i° aim. Men of all parties have combined il l charity. s about to take place in the Order of St. 1 7 to be increased from fifteen to twenty )w extras to be constituted regular coati), Te understand that L o rd Mun s t er i s to u" its.—Dublin Chronicle. OF ANGLESEY.—Reports, the usual 011 0 s, have been put into circulation on the , arture for England, that he will not re° of government in Ireland. We h ave , We' , ar knowing that these reports are altag Excellency will be absent about a fort bout which period it is understood that .oceed to perform his parliamentary dot e Advertiser. )R IRELAND.—It is said, on what pr aplotger ty, that among the measures conteniPciu melioration of Ireland, a o o s irliament on the subj ec t of a poporition " .-- "11 rate vertiser. s or A iced to hear of a summons having be n i n f ;ions, at the suit of one o f the OfO s ied at Clare Castle, against a yon u i r" g n e o t this town, for shooting without a '" C e.— ECEPTION.--Thomas Duigin a pe rson bel 4 cal profession, was opposed in the Insol in Dublin, the other day, by Miss " educed speared that the insolvent had s inning, who was the orphan child of a .blin, and who was much disfigured ous disease in her face. This, however, uigan from pretending a great affection, ship was continued for some time; o t ', ed by degrees to get possession of the ae, which was placed in the Funds, and ieve his necessities. She was married t ° , pretended to be a Catholic elergvine o ll ye been a fresh piece of villany on the arriage was denied by him, and the preL e ,4 to be found. Soon after, he married ati p' the cruelty to call with his w ife upo u f ie he found nursing her child, and cool' % e l Llf the money he had borrowed froiddef, is with her at the same time, an d _ h d No statement was made by thesu':to he was justly sentenced by the Court mt. lER.-A woman has been committed t ion at Falkingh am , f rom the neighbour poacher, she havin been detected in , .tity of snares set ingthat neighbourhooi. hi offender.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. N. 31.—We are happy to find that conoe: extinct in this town. Ne arl y 200 of the "4 i of Brighton met the galla n t but unsucce,) in Pechell, B. N. last night at the Old fr, ided, in the a bsence of Admiral Rolle'l in attending the dinner by indisposition , is vice-chair. After the cloth was rcrc' e l was sung. The usual loyal, constituF,, s were given, and the evening passed IP FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. tu t FRANCE. CC HESS OF BERM—The Gazette Medicate has the fol- V"-" The illness of the Duchess of Berry is variously .We shall state, in a concise manner, what we believe 4 . " 4 truth. Since her residence at Blaye the Duchess has r l eaced several attacks of indisposition, which are either :2 1111 t of her situation or the effect of the fatigues to which " 4 a exposed herself. These attacks were chiefly a slight I of the chest, accompanied with a cough, but without Ptom of real malady. In the night of the 17th of De however, she was taken with a violent pain in the attended with symptoms of suffocation. This created the Government was informed of it by a telegraphic Drs. Orfila and Auvity received orders to proceed • In the meanwhile, Dr. Gintrac had been called in Jrdeaux. On his arrival, however, the attacks had sub- They were owing to mere indigestiou, which was quite ;Ovhen Drs. Orfila and Auvity reached Blaye. The object gentlemen's journey seems to have been to ascertain Ire of the Duchess of Berry's indisposition, and to make as to the salubrity of the place where she is confined.— regard to the first point, they appear to be convinced t he pains and symptoms of suffocation where the effects of 'ion; they also found, by au attentive examination of 'st, that it is not the seat of any disease. They, in con 'n with Drs. Barthez and Gintrac, held a consultation, (scribed what is calculated to remove the symptoms of 'n. With regard to the question of salubrity, it is said Ir medical gentlemen unanimously agree that the fort of combin es every possible requisite of salubrity, and con atly presents nothing capable of affecting the health of J eehess."—Galignani's Messenger. taR OF PARIS.—The Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes States that there were consumed in Paris, during the 18 31-776,784 hectolitres of wine, 28,573 hectolitres of and 112,359 hectolitres of beer; 1,161,1361 b. of ('rapes, oxen, 14,389 cows, 62,867 calves, 288,203 sheep, 76,741 and boars, 996,369 kilogrammes of cheese. Paris also .td in the same Year, oysters to the amount of 702,180 f.; Ater fish, 477,6i.0f.; sea-fish, 3,415,159 f.; poultry and 426,28-If. ; b u tt er , 9,117,091 f .; eggs, 3,904,387 f. From Iles of mortality we learn that nearly one-fourth of the ' born in Paris die within a year, and that one-third of not live to complete their second year; that only one- Leh 20; and not more than one-third live to the age of 45. L there were born in Paris 15,116 males, and 14,414 fe raaking a total of 29,530 children, of whom 10,378 were late.,,, The number of marriages was 6, 6 5 4 , and of h ,p 17996. On an average there are a greater number of ed to the population of Paris than females, and if ' 4l increase, which is about 179th part per annum, is lined, the population will, in 16 years, be augmented 111 . 11 , and 31 years two-tenths, in 44 years three-tenths, in a four-tenths, and in 69 years one-half. On the same ~t• Will take 117 years to double the present population.— the total population of France was 32,566,934 souls. SPAIN. • Madrid and Paris we have detailed accounts of insur- 48 in various parts of the country in favour of Don Car ,!l(l it appe a rs evident that the priests are determined to 4 7 Cause of that Prince all the assistance in their power. " 1 appears to be in favour of the Queen's party ; but the l ees, especially those of the north, are Carlist. Up to the at moment, the ecclesiastical party has always prevailed IP 4 in• We are not aware that any change has taken place Public opinion of that country sufficient to weaken the of the old tyranny under which it has dwindled from the 400 sf o th f e E h u i r g o h p e e s . t to very nearly that of the lowest among the eons, --, H ,,' buc a expel 3 4 vi, t l:-... , .able p`' b e ;1i NI aged biZPen„ e 41 ne e d.. further t i h e result 01 as the i hi 4a4 ex vhose MLI, t ation of he theni Zp - roPto i aoriaos , o kac e r? . h a t) , his n rro, L' id t, d that Watch. their ri 1: 0 14 ,Ye. ] LI care d e horde, used o f v e , wh The to folio i t : th e ,,, e4 I ' 4 atur! el ergy ofivl i ' th irie4 as c f this • • t th regari if we 'digesetilo)rt , the : ~,' th est, t i raking I ,7tion w i t tt perso • t irescrit, it four ti. it really lain, 1 10 .dye comb, the p . qtleativ -- e,, ~ Pr )UntrY 8"W:11es, Lk too, r r f z ,,...tru of and WO 5 4 - 1,1 scatmare, 1 4 ( 1 183 ,e4 O , x and 1 — ;hed cl' ak fro!! ° ,g l and e l; LPPY l v 41 441 ed ill ad Pe ' a k ;water i rig po f? t ab il 26 , 2 ;, the . 'ldr et r bo e ' r f s 0 ' 'old ° not share ill i leach 2U amine , cot ther ed to e;istl:aki darlifl e 'lthsA te oi • their , t , l s a dd4 subsi i :tal i n( ti theif "'e; fined, estab I7 yea rs l a e, ha t clii I .ou' . , _ will i „Ig 111 ` ll the ,I, acce' y the ' li_ ap of 7 1,1 Ma, humaii J'. 3 ; r„ S in V i '7O the d, i ' ,l l!id app, „, il ice m se s, e: mall. ' s, s 4 t rum, Pain. 1 pt di. ' til e • . of ._.: Plthlti LT , the ster 0. , t:` of the TURKEY. Irk "STANTINOPLE, Jan. S.—Since the defeat of the Turkish kr i ii ~near Koniah no important news has been received from kti„,, Alinor. Nothing, therefore, is known of any movement thjeance that Ibrahim Pacha may have made. However, on 8 1 1, 44 1 of January a grand meeting of the he`ouncil, at which the tio,' l4 resided in person was held at palace of the Seras te,' ehosrew Pacha. The question of war and peace was dis ttte„e't in it, and it was unanimously resolved, that upon accept 14i: conditions, the Fitffa should be revoked, which was issued ex e Year against Mehemet Ali. (This is a decree of the Mufti te t j ° , l , lll Paunicating Mehemet and his son Ibrahim.) As the first at,ttion, it is required that the Pacha of Egypt shall make a l' k ',' l ission to his lawful sovereign, and the investiture of the b e t t kalik of Syria, which is the object of Mehemet's wishes, may to.oonsequence. Halil Pacha, formerly Capitan Pacha, is av e - ' l l ) ssioned to convey to the Viceroy the resolutions that !k t ,,,00n taken. He has already embarked for Alexandria, , I lev er latlied by the Cabinet Secretary of the Reis Effendi, and hs". nigh functionaries of the Porte. Al tx e Russian lieutenant-general, Muravieff, has sailed for be eA a lldria, and despatches from the court of Austria have also em, "Pt helpthther by a shi of war. It is not doubted that these GoV wlti owerfully seconded at Alexandria by the English TV:intent. ,Nri li , e applications made directly to Mehemet Ali have been , net to his son Ibrahim. Turkish commissioners are Oied for this purpose to the Egyptian head-quarters, accompa ktirnbdr Colonel D u hamel, an officer in the suite of General 4 4 C i gf• There is, therefore, every reason to presume that Tilltlistiee will be shortly concluded. e ca e h l tews of these events has caused general satisfaction in ora e r it4ll . The public tranquillity, which . has not been for . a the f ut lit disturbed, is consolidated by increased confidence in c.Ppe; lt re• Every body attends to his business, and there is no :still alice of alarm. The speedy return of the fleet, which is oopi e " . ll ,ehered in the Dardanelles, was expected at Constanti 44ee 4 . 4 he capital of the Ottoman empire has now the appear- Zl. " 4 the mo s t perfect tranquillity.---A ustrian Observer, Jan. V, M a d, EAST INDIES. O s Papers have been received to the 6th of October.— ehin s a hormusjee Bomanjee and Sulimany came in from ou ti - e ',,which she left on the 18th of July, touching at Angier 14415 e nth August. By this opportunity we learn that opium. ttl,l"ng at 456 dollars a chest; that cotton was in good de -' and bore a fair price but that every other branch of the 4 ice Was on the decline. The select committee was . prstung th Il e of conciliatory conduct with the Chinese authorities, and at th e system of concess i on an d conc ili at i on w i ll now b ecome k: t azzlount in Canton is certain, for it was learned at Angier a t~lr.Plowden, who, it will be recollected, resigned in con 011ence of being outvoted by the advocat es o f vigorous m ea - Os, had passed on his way to Chin a , w h ere h e was to resume Qv ' presidency with a distinct power of enforcing .his opinions, e4 l against a majority, on his own responsibility. It a CHINA. taeOpears, by late accounts from China, that several engage ta between the insurrectionists and imperial troops had uktt k " Place between the 20th and 25th of dine' June, in which the unde r the command of Governor Le of Canton, had sus- Th,4 of • men. The rebel forces amounted to 40,000. il b e l e t ti t4 l , 4 B, l s u in ica a t n io u n between the Canton authorities and foreign unsettled state. The British colours had not a d tiu. lB „ l44 Yed since the dispute between the company's factory ,k , tat 8 -4.,-,tuzese first took place, in May, 1831; aiTd the United ) 4° 4 ; 'la g had not been displayed in front of the American 'eft COce the Ist June. The consular agent of that country Nilat e l l a some time since, and a successor had not been ap . ofThef °flowing MEXICO. are eSanta the MEXICO. 1 upon between the armies tairie nte a.nd arli vo uskensi on o f h os tiliti e s betwe en th e t wo p ar ti es un til th e Man y et the decision of the Chambers on the project of peace__ qeeenntted to th em by G en eral Bustameute, and proposed by of Pedrasa and Santa Anna. al Bustamente is to withdraw his troops to the town bingo ll iV and its immediate environs. Pro v iZ parties may use the necessary escorts to procure the 4 . „,908 required by the respective armies. he troops, if any, of both parties who , may be on the Vet " aze to remain inactive in the place wherever the con tir L'en, which is to be accompanied by an order of the respec e_nnnanding generals, may reach"them. t'roin thnireceding article a force of 1000 men, infantry, a ng ru . z o — ri t z h a e b s a e , er from Y ucatan, and every moment expected to arrive at may and eoptinue their march to the towns of Puebla de Coscomatepec, to avoid the rt;l.4ers a of the climat e , which a prolonged stay at Vera Cruz I ght expose th em to. conln case Go vernment and the Chambers should not accede e project of peace, as expressed in the first article of the e... relation, still the hostilities are not to recommence, but the gi t rY of General Bustamente will then take it into further con eration The division under the command of General Bustamente owte_,march for Puente de Chulula, in compliance with the 2d th1 a v , ...1,. and will immediately adopt the measures conducing to abject, • - th e The division under the command of Santa Anna is to occupy h o city of Puebla as soon as the troops of General Bustamente and e evacuat e d th e positions which th e y occ upy. Santa Anna 13 of the ustamente, the Supreme Generals Slicers belligerent forces republic, and the generals and belonging to the THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. division occupying at present the city of Puebla and its suburbs, promise, on their word of honour, to fulfil all and each of the articles forming this armistice. Puente de Mexico, Dec. 11, 1832. The principal conditions of the project of peace sent to Mexico are—l, the recognition of Pedraza as President until the let of April, 1833, when by law a new President and new Chambers are to be elected; 2, a general amnesty and recognition of all the laws and measures adopted by both parties since the Ist of Sept- 1828. in number, in lat. 33 N. long. 66'W., having saved nothing but a chronometer and quadrant, and what clothing we started in. The nearest land was the island of Bermuda, which bore about S.B. 100 miles distant, which we endeavoured to reach, but the wind blowing heavy from W.S.W. we could not fetch it, but drifted to the eastward of it, and was in the boat five days, it' blowing a gale most of the time, when we fell in with ship, Grand - Turk, Capt. Madegan, who rescued us from a watery grave, and treated us kindly."—The Loan was a fine new ship, of this port, belonging to Samuel Hicks and Son, on her first voyage. She was 420 tons burthen, cost 25,000 dollars, and was insured. The owners had on board an invoice of cot ton insured at 22,000 dollars. There was other freight on board, making up a total value, for the ship and cargo, of 75,000 dol lars, most of which is insured in Wall-street. UNITED STATES. By the packet-ship Canada, Captain Wilson, which arrived here on Tuesday, we received New York papers to the 16th ult., inclusive. No exception had yet occurred among the Legislatures of the other States, to the general practice of disapproving of the doc trine of nullification and of the conduct of the nullifying party in South Carolina. The opinion seemed to be gaining ground, that the differences which had arisen, would be amicably ad justed.—The following are extracts : Noirrti CA ROLINA.—The joint committee of the Legislature to whom was referred the communication of Governor Hayne, of South Carolina, have made a long and able report on that subject, acd recommended the adoption of the following reso lutions : " Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, doth entertain, and doth unequivocally express, a warm attachment to the Constitution of the United States. " Resolved, That the General Assembly doth solemnly de dare a devoted attachment to the Federal Union, believing that on its continuance depend the liberty, the peace, and the pro sperity of these United Stater. "Resolved, That whatever diversity of opinion may prevail in this State, as to the constitutionality of the acts of Congress imposing duties on imports; yet it is believed, a large majority of the people think those acts unconstitutional; and they are all united in the sentiment, that the existing tariff is impolitic, unjust, and oppressive ; and they have urged, and will continue to urge its repeal. " Resolved, That the doctrine of Nullification avowed by the State of South Carolina, and lately promulgated iu an or dinance, is revolutionary in its character, subversive of the Con stitution of the United States, and leads to a dissolution of the Union. "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use all constitutional means in their power, to procure au adjustment of the existing con troversy between the State of the South Carolina and the Gene ral Government ? and to produce a reconciliation between the contending parties. • "Resolved further, That a copy of these Resolutions be respectfully communicated by his Excellency the Governor of this State, and to his Excellency the Governor of South Carolina." THE TARIFF.—Of this fruitful topic of collision for the last sixteen years, the National Intelligencer of Wednesday says:— " The House of Representatives, having entered into a bond, secured by sundry sets of Yeas and Nays, duly recorded in the Journals, to employ itself exclusively upon the Tariff until it comes to some determination in 'elation to it, yesterday set to work upon the bill reported by Mr. Verplanck, from the Com mittee of Ways and Means. What is to be the ultimate fate of this bill, is a matter of doubt. We should be able, perhaps, to form something like a conjecture . upon it, if we certainly knew what are the views of the Executive on the subject. On this point, however, there are various reports, and of course different opinions. One says, that, if the message of the President and the Annual Treasury report be consulted, it is clear that duties are to be taken oft to the amount of six millions of dollars. Another says, that the President, in addition to his proclamation, has orally declared his opinion to be, that the protective system ought not now to be impaired. Thus are we so confused by con trary reports and opposite opinions or declarations, that do man can certainly say w►iat are the views of the administration at this moment as to the Tariff. In fact, things have taken such a turn, that there is difficulty in determining what are the politics of the government party, not merely as to the Tariff, but as to other questions, of a more general nature, and of wider bearing than the details of the Tariff bill." A correspondent at Washington remarks, that "there is no apprehension of the necessity, at present, at the application of U. S. force against the Nullifiers of South Carolina." That the proposed Tariff is considered as an Executive disposition to yield to the doctrines of the Nullifiers, and whether adopted or not, will have a tendency to appease the wrath of the hot heads who have occasioned the excitement. THE PROPOSED TARIFF--The prevalent opinion at Wash ington is, that Mr. Verplanck's proposed Tariff, which is now under debate in the House of Representatives, will not pass either House this session of Congress. The Washington writer for the Commercial Advertiser, thinks the Tariff Bill will pass both Houses. . GENERAL BLAIR.—It appears from Saturday's Telegraph, and it is confirmed by a letter from Washington to the editor of the Journal of Commerce, that on Thursday evening, Gen. Blair, who some time since attacked Duff Green in the street, is in a state of derangement. The report is, that the grand jury had indicted the General, and a writ for his arrest had been issued. He went to the theatre, armed with two pistols and two dirks, declaring that he would not be taken. He took his scat in the stage box, where he remained for some time, with a pistol in each hand. About nine o'clock, he fired a pistol, but without injury, and, apparently, without purpose. Great consternation ensued. The performance was stopped. The police, aided by some citizens, surrounded him, and to them he gave up his arms without the least resistance. With more difficulty he was persuaded to leave the box. But, in the lobby, he became quite savage—threw off his coat, stamped with a noise like thunder on the floor, and with his stentorian lungs, challenged the whole theatre to a conflict. The police shrunk away, and the general was conducted to his lodgings, by his friends. These circumstances will-serve to account for General Blair's extraordinary and hitherto inexplicable outrage. Poli tical excitement, operating upon a sensitive mind, has, to some extent at least, warped his reason. Gen. Blair's reputation in this city and elsewhere, until this session, has been that of a good hearted, generous, gentle, and sensible man. The following anecdote is related of the late Governor, now General Hamilton, of South Carolina :—When a boy, he was impatient of control, hair brained, and given to the trial of bold, but inconsiderate experiments. When a lad, and at school in Providence, in Rhode Island, he took it into his head one day, to test the power of gunpowder on himself. For this purpose, he loaded a pistol and deliberately holding it against the mid dle finger of his hand, he shot it off, and' the effect was, that, which almost any boy of common sense would have anticipated, the finger was blown off with the cords and bones to the palm of his hand. Many have probably seen the mutilation of his hand, without knowing the cause of it. [General H. is about repeating the experiment on a larger scale.' KITTEN PlE.—The New Bedford Gazette states, that one evening last week a lady in that town made up a fine batch of dough, in a trough, and left it on the hearth before the embers, iu order that it might rise before morning, when it was to be transformed into plump " dough bats." On going into the kitchen in the morning, the lady found a batch of seven " young infant" kitchens, all snugly bedded in the warm dough, and the old cat sitting by, watching, with Turk-like gravity, this unlooked for addition to the morning breakfast! SHIPWRECK.—Loss OF NEW SHIP LOGAN, OF NEW YORK, FROM SAVANNAH FOR LIVERPOOL.—We have been furnished with the following particulars of the loss of this ship, by Captain Bunker, who arrived here yesterday, together with his officers and crew, in the ship Grand Turk, from Boston.—" Left Tybee Light on the 16th Dec. for Liverpool, wills a fair gale from the south, which continued, blowing a gale from the westward until the 19th. At 1 o'clock 45 minutes, p.m., the ship was struck by lightning, which descended the starboard-pump, from thence it passed up the after hatchway, and passed oft. We imme diately found the ship on fire, and commenced breaking out cotton from the main hatchway, to endeavour to find the fire; in the course of half an hour got into the lower hold s and on the starboard side of the pump we found the cotton on fire. We then commenced throwing water and heaving the cotton over board, which we did by cutting the bales in pieces. We conti nued working in this way for some time, in the hope that we should get the fire under • but, after heaving eight or ten bales over, we found that the 'fire was raging between decks on the larboard side. We then left the lower hold and commenced breaking out between decks. In a short time we had broke out 20 or 30 bales, but the smoke becoming so suffocating was obliged to leave the hold and close the hatches. It was now night, and the ship under close reefed topsails, but we were de termined to save the ship and all the cargo if possible. Find ing, after all the hatches were closed up, the upper decks began to grow hot, we therefore cut holes around the pumps and cap stern, and hove down water, and continued at it all night. At daylight found all the upper deck, from the mainmast to the after hatchway, was on the, and in some places the deck had been burnt entirely through; concluded then to take off the main hatches; after working about an hour in heaving water, found the smoke so bad that the men could not stand it; we then closed the hatches for the last time, and continued throw ing water through the holes that were cut, the fire still gaining on us ; and finding that no hope was left of saving the ship, the long boat was then ordered out, with sixty gallons water and L what provisions could be obtained. We then embarked, sixteen DOMESTIC. It is confidently asserted that his Majesty's Ministers have abandoned their plan for emancipating the slaves in three years : this statement is given outran the authority of the friends of the ministers, and by the societies formed to promote the imme diate abolition of slavery.—Guardian. It is underitood that one of the first proceedings in the Upper House of Parliament contemplated by the opposition peers, will be a notice of motion on the foreign policy adopted by government. —Herald. It is rumoured that Sir E. Codrington will succeed Sir J. P. Beresford in the command at Sheerness, in April. Lord Hill held a levee on Thursday, at the Horse Guards; which was attended by eleven general and about forty other officers.—The lucrative military appointments of Director- General of the Royal Artillery, and of Colonel Commandant in the same corps, have just become vacant by the death of. Lieutenant-General Sir John Macleod, G. C. H. The pay.and emoluments of the first-named posts amount to nearly £3,000 per annum, with residences at Woolwich and in St. James's Park, of which the gallant General was Master-Gunner.— Times. Major General Ponsonby, who is nearly at the bottom of the list of major-generals, is spoken of as about to obtain the Colo neley of the Bth Hussars ' over the heads of several old and meritorious Lieut. Generals. To be sure he is cousin to my Lady Grey, and at this moment commands at Malta with a salary of £6OOO a-year. A ineking of delegates from the various mills and manufac tories in the Own and neighbourood was held at the Angel Inn , Leeds, on Monday •evening, when resolutions expressive of the determination of the meeting to persevere in supporting a ten hour bill, independently of , party or party politics, was unani mously agreed to, and an address to the operatives of the West Riding voted, warning . them against the t r i c k er y o f th e pre tended friends of restriction, who wish to cajole them into a support of an eleven hour bill.—Leeds Intelligences-. The Bristol General Political Union is on its last legs, in consequence, it may be fairly presumed, of a return to good sense and sound feeling on the part of the operatives. Mr. lie rapath, the president, we understand, has resigned, and a ge neral break up is expected shortly to ensue.— Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. TRIAL OF THE BRISTOL MAGISTRATES.--HiS Majesty's At torney General has directed a nolle prosequi to be entered upon all the informations against the Bristol magistrates, so that no further proceedings can be had thereon. This course he has in fact been compelled to adopt, in consequence of the triumphant acquittal of the late mayor, and the special opinion of the jury solemnly recorded, that the government were themselves a guilty party, in having neglected to send a military force, ade quate to the protection of the city.—Feli.v Farley's Bristol Jour nal. SHOOTING OF GAMEKEEPERS.— , -TWO gamekeepers of Sir G. Heathcote, of Normanton, near Stamford, were severely wounded in a conflict with a gang of five poachers, on Wed nesday night. The poachers were evidently prepared for fight ing, and shot at the keepers with as much coolness as at the pheasants. There is no account of any of them being taken as yet. Film—We regret to learn that a destructive fire took place on Thursday last at the extensive blanket manufactory of Messrs. Johii Early, jun. and Co. of Witney, Oxfordshire, by which the valuable machinery, and all the property in the pre mises, were destroyed in the short space of two hours. How the fire originated has not yet been discovered. This lament able accident will have the effect of throwing out of employment a very large number of hands. LONGEVITY.—Died on Saturday morning, in Lambeth work house, Thomas Carter, in the hundred anu fourth year of his age, had beau air inmate of the establishment for seven teen years, and for upwards of the last two years he had been daily supplied with porter, wine, and every nourishment re quired by him, by the master of the house, independent of the usual allowance to paupers. He was in possession of his facul ties almost to the last moment. NOVEL PUNISHMENT.—On the afternoon of Hogmanay, as one of the servants of Mr. Rodgers,_ of Hairlaw, was returning fromS.Hasgow with a cart, in which were, among other articles, a number of jars containing spirits, &c., the servant having oc casion to call at Neilston toll-bar, during his temporary absence some thieves, who were on the look-out, made a dive at the jars, and succeeded in carrying off one; which happened to be full of whale oil. It was instantly missed, when an immediate pursuit took place, and in a twinkling the rogues were cap tured. A consultation was then held by the captors as to what punishment should be awarded, when it was resolved, tient. con., that the delinquents should either be marched olf to Paisley, and there given up to the proper authorities, or otherwise have to drink three flowing glasses each of the stolen beverage. Af ter a strange exhibition of wry faces, they consented to partake of the nauseous draught prescribed, which was administered to them in bumpers, with all the honours. It acted as a 'capital emetic, if not in clearing their consciences, at any rate in-clear ino- their stomachs. A few hearty kicks into the bargain were then applied to their respective seats of honour, when they were dismissed.—Glasgow Courier. PORTSMOUTH, Saturday, February 2.—His Majesty's steam packet Firefly, Lieutenant Baldock, left Woolwich on Thurs day last, for Plymouth and Falm ou th. Sh e will take the next Mediterranean mail. `I he Firefly is a new vessel of 560 tons, just finished at Woolwich, has superior accommodations, and can berth about 50 yassengers. The steam-frigate Dee, Com mander Oliver, arrived at Woolwich on Wednesday last, from the squadron in the Downs, to undergo some trifling repairs. The Salamander, Commander Austin, is nearly ready at Wool wich, and will proceed to sea next week, to try her engines. The Lightning steamer arrived at Woolwich from Plymouth on Monday last. The Revenge, 78, Capt. D. H. Mackay, ar rived at Plymouth on Thursday se'nnight from the eastward, and having taken out her lower deck guns, sailed, on Wednes day, for Gibraltar, where she will take on board a whole regi ment for the West Indies. The sentence of a court-martial has dismissed from his Majesty's service Second Lieutenant Lamont, of the Royal Marines. A court-martial will sit on Monday at the mess-room of the Royal Marines, to investigate the conduct of Second Lieutenant Parke, of the same corps, on the occasion of his calling on Lieutenant Patten, on board the Briton, for an explanation in behalf of Mr. Lamont. A Field Officer, two Captains, and three Subalterns of the Line, and seven officers of the Royal Marines, will form the court. Cul. Lewis, R.M., will be President.—Hampshire Telegraph. ESCAPE OF BENJAMIN SOLOMONS, BROTHER TO THE NOTO mous "IKEY," FROM THE CITY OFFICERS.-011 the night of Sunday, the 20th of January, the warehouse of Mr. G. Wheeler, a wholesale watchmaker and jeweller, in Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, was broken into, and plundered of property to a con siderable amount. Since the robbery the city officers have ap prehended two persons who are supposed to be concerned in the plunder, and who stand at present remanded on the charge. From information which the officers received, they had reason to believe that the stolen property had found its way to the house of Benjamin Solomons, and they, in consequence, ap plied for a warrant, on Wednesday last, to search his premises, which was at once granted. In the afternoon of that day Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, accompanied by Forrester, and two of the city patrol, proceeded to the house of Solomons, in Petti coat.square, near P etticoat-lane . On entering it they were met by Solom o ns h imself; and Mr. Cope made known to him the object of his visit; but, knowing his d e t erm in e d c h a r a cter, he first laid hold of him on one side by the collar, and Forrester did the same on the other side. At this moment Solomons made a desperate effort to get from the grasp of the officers, and was powerfully assisted by his wife and servant, both of whom clawed and struck the officers repeatedly. During the struggle, Solomons, by the most extraordinary exertion (as he is but a slight man,) contrived to slip out of his coat, quite in the harlequin style, and, leaving his coat in the hands of the officers, darted into a back-yard, and, bounding over a wall, got clear off. The officers, after losing their man, searched the house, ,and found upwards of twenty valuable watches of differ ent descriptions, forty rings, and other articles of jewellery, to gether with a piece of cloth, and other property, which they took away with them. They also took away Mrs. Solomons and her servant, on the charge of assaulting and obstructing them in the execution of their duty, but they shortly afterwards liberated them. On examining the coat out of which Solomon slipped it was found . to have in the pockets nearly £lOO in bank notes and gold, and which the officers have iu their possession. Ireland causes much uneasiness here. For some time past rumours have been very current of the removal of the M a r q u is of Anglesey from the Viceroyaltyship, and Lord Melbourne, the Duke' of Richmond, and some others have been spoken of as his successor. We have, however, reason to believe that the Government have decided upon strong measures being used for the tranquillization of that country; and also that the Marquis of Anglesey will return to Dublin.—Courier (City Correspon.) GIVE AND TAKE.-Sunday, the Experiment, tender to the Ranger cutter, in the service of the customs, brought into Dover 106 tubs of foreign spirits, and one man taken, near Hastings. As soon as the officers jumped into the smuggling boat, the smugglers leaped into theirs and rowed away in it,. together with the fire-arms. The man above alluded to hap pened to strike his foot against the rattlings, fell overboard, and was taken prisoner. EXPORT OF COTTON GOODS.—We perceive, by Buns Com mercial Glance for 1832, just published, that there has been a considerable increase in the export of cotton yarn during the last twelve months, as compared with the precedmg year. To Germany alone the increase amounts to near nine millions of pounds weight, and to Russia, six millions. The export to In dia was considerably less than in 1831. In plain and printed calicoes the decrease, it appears, amounted to near fifty mil lions of yards. There seems, however, to have been a larger export of muslins, fustia.ns, and some other articles of inferior importance. LEGAL AGE.—The law of England not making portions of a day, except in cases in which it becomes necessary to ascer tain the priority of distinct events occurring on the same day, as the execution of several deeds, &c., a person is of full age who has lived during some part of every day necessary to constitute a period of twenty-one years. Thus a person born at eleven o'clock at night on the Ist of January, will be of age immediately after the midnight between the 30th and 31st of December, although he will then want forty-seven hours of completing twenty-one years.—Manning's Proceedings in Courts of Revision. THE LIBEL. ON COBBF.TT.—On Wednesday, the rule for a criminal information, which had been obtained by Mr. Cobbett against the proprietors of the Leeds Mercury, was discharged. The objection made to the rule by the defendantS'was ' that no certificate of proprietorship had been produced by Mr. Cobbett from the Stamp Office. The court held this, objection to be fatal. We observe that the editors of the Leeds Mercury com plain that they were selected for prosecution .by Mr. Cobbett, instead of the original authors of the alleged libel. They say they only copied it from another paper, and contradicted it on . the first opportunity. DEATH FROM STARVATION AND COLD.—On Friday, an in quest was held at the Feathers, Dean-street, Westminster, on the body of a young man, name unknown. He resided at one time in Old Pye-street, and tried to pick up a livelihood by cutting pieces of turf in the fields, and selling them for sky larks.. The frozen state of the ground cut off this employment, and he sold his shirt off his back to buy a loaf. • The next day he complained of chilliness and trembling of the heart. On Sunday he crawled to the workhouse, and the next morning was found dead. An old pauper, aged 80, said no medical man was sent to him, and the groans of the poor fellow during the night were heart-rending. o one came to visit the ward, The nurse explained this by saying that she thought the deceased either mad or labouring.under the influence of liquor. Mr. Oilier, parish surgeon, sate' the deceased.had died from inflam mation of the lungs, brought on by exposure to the cold and want of proper diet. Verdict.—Died by the visitation of God. AN INCORRIGIBLE IMPOSTOR' AND SWINDLER.-A young man, covered with stars and orders, who called himself Sir Al fred Fitzherbert Brown, was brought before the Lord Mayor on Saturday, and on the Monday and Thursday following, charged with defrauding an innkeeper at Calais of £25 and cloak. He told a vast number of lies •; said he was employed on a special message from the King of Naples to the Russian Court; and appears altogether to have been one of the most impudent and accomplished rascals living, though he was only nineteen years of age. lite could speak five different languages, had travelled a good deal, and appeared to have been playing the rogue in half the cities of the Continent. He pretended to be a nephew of Alderman Lucas; who, it seems, had rescued him from great distress when a boy, and put - him on board a King's ship. He had made use of this connection with the Alderman to swindle.several persons out of their money. As the offence with which - he was charged was committed abroad, the Lord Mayor could only administer to him a useless reprimand. GREAT CONSERVATIVE DINNER.—On Tuesday last a dinner on the most splendid scale was given at Birmingham to William Stratford Dug,dale, Esq., the Conservative member recently re turned for the northern division of Warwickshire.. Few public fetes have of late years created so general an interest in that town and its neighbourhood. Not fewer than from 240 to 250 sat down to one of the most sumptuous dinners ever provided by Mr. Dee. Isaac Spooner, Esq., occupied the chair of the principal table, having for hisAtissity J. - W. Whateley, Esq. The party, as a political ditinel-Wrty, presented a striking con trast from its numbers and high reapectubility to entertainments of this description recently given in Birmingham. Mr. Dug dale, on entering the room, was most enthusiastically greeted, and took his seat on a chair ornamented with laurel and orange ribbons on the right hand of the president. Several loyal and constitutional toasts were drunk, and several excellent speeches delivered in the course of the evening, which was passed by the company in the most hearty and convivial man ner. ROBBERY OF THE MAI'OR OF LEEDS.—On Saturday even ing, about 7 o'clock, as Thomas Tennant, Esq., the Mayor of this borough, who had just arrived in Leeds Irian an excursion into a neighbouring county, was proceeding up Bank-street, he was attacked by four villains, who had, no doubt, followed him along Boar-lane, and who seized him behind, stopped hi& mouth, and eventually threw him down. One of them took from him a small portable writing-desk, in which were £165 in £5 provincial notes of the Boston and Lincolnshire banks, and I.:50 in sovereigns and half-sovereigns, besides various letters, memoranda, &c. 'They also rifled his pockets of an antique silver snuff-box, a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles, and a gold watch and chain, the seals of which were broken of during the struggle, Mr. Tennant having retained his hold of them: with this booty the theives made off in different directions . ; but by the activity of ourpolice, however, a portion of it was recovered the same evening, nine sovereigns and three of the notes hav ing been traced - to the possession of Elizabeth Woodhead, to whom it had been sent by one of the robbers. The writing case was found early on Sunday morning in a field near Bruns wick Chapel; its apparant contents were gone, but the thieves had overlooked one of the parcels of notes value £lOO. The snuff-box and spectacles were found in different places at a short distance. Two men and three women are now in cus tody, on suspicion of being implicated in the transaction ; their names are William Robinson, John Pickersgill, Elizabeth Woodhead, Elizabeth Brown, and Mary Wells. They have been severally examined before Alderman Hall and 'Thomas Beckett, and remanded for further examination this day.— Leeds Ltelligencer. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—It may be remem bered that about a month ago three brothers, named Berryman, were taken to Bow-street police-office, charged with having robbed the house of Mr. Hancocks, a farmer, residing near Bisley, in Gloucestershire, and also with having shot at the son of Mr. Hancocks, who was in the act of reaching a gun from the dresser when the fellows entered the kitchen • and one of them, supposed to be James Berryman, deliberately levelled at him and shot him in the face and neck. They then secured the elder Mr. Hancocks, and the rest of the family, and robbed the house of plate, wearing apparel, and other articles, together with about 7U or 80 sovereigns. The prisoners, against whom suspicion attached, were subsequently traced to London, and taken into custody by Ellis, one of the Bow-street officers, as sisted by an officer attached to the police of Gloucestershire, and having been generally charged on suspicion of the outrage, they were ordered to be taken to Gloucester to be examined by the magistrates of that place. Last Thursday week the pri soners were brought before Mr. Burgh and Mr. Hyatt, M.P., at Painswick, near Stroud, and two of. them, Thomas and James, were identified by the elder Mr. Hancocks. It was also proved in evidence that the prisoners left London on Wednesday, the 31st of October, and proceeded by a van from Notting-hill to Cirencester. The robbery took place on the night of the 2nd of November, and on the following day they arrived at the Bird. in Hand public-house, at Burford, a distance of about 24 miles from Bisley. They appeared fatigued, and fell asleep in the tap-room, and the next day they proceeded to London by a van, having been absent about a week. The person at whose house they lodged in London proved that they were in his debt for rent before they went away, and that on their return they paid him the amount, and that each of them wore a drab outside coat, which they appeared to have recently purchased. It was further proved that the van by which they returnedto town was robbed of a quantity of gloves, and also a halo of goods, Which had been forwarded from Worcester to a Mr. Leech of Lon don. The fragment& ef several pairs of gloves, answering the description of - those stolen, were firund at the lodgings of the prisoners, and other evidence having been produced, the pri soners Thomas and James were fully committed to Gloucester gaol on three separate charges—namely, the robbery at Mr. Hancock's, shooting at his son, and robbing . the van of pro perty mentioned. - Ellis and the other witnesses were bound over to attend the trial,