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OFFICES .TO LET-. vo be LET, a few excellent OFFICEA, of different sizes, J JL in Crown-chambers, Redcross-striet.--Apply to Mr. EDWARD PROUDFOOT, at the Premises. SECOND GLASGOW LOTTERY. BISH, 13, CORNHILL ; 27, POULTRY ; 138, REGENT • STREET, LONDON, is authorised, by the Commissioners at Glasgow, to sell the Tickets and Shares for the Glasgow Lottery, which is to be drawn at COOPERS' HALL, LONDON, All in One Day, 22d January, 1834. The Scheme contains Prizes of £15,000, £lO,OOO, £5,000, &c., &c., &c., in Houses and Lands; but the fortunate holders may receive the amount in money directly; and, in the late Lottery, Bish and his Agents sold more than two-thirds of all the capitals, and he paid them all in money, immediately after they were drawn. BISII'S AGENTS ARE LlvErtrooL—P, courier Office, Castle- street. Blackburn ....T. Rogerson, Bookseller and Printer, Stamp Office. Bolton •.J. Gardner, Bookseller. Clitheroe . . .. H. Whalley, Bookseller, Castle-street. Lancaster..... G. Carruthers, Druggist. Manchester .T. Sowler, Bookseller, St./Anne's-square. Manchester...J. Ro y le, Stationer, 93, larket-street. Prescot A. T. Ducker, Books er. Preston J. Walker, Booksellv . Rochdale J Hartley, Bookseller. Warrington J. and J. 'Haddock, Booksellers. Wigan T M. Lyon, Sub-distributor of Stamps. Chester Poole and Boult, Booksellers. Stockport King and Hardman, Executors of J. Dawson, Booksellers. PRESENT PRICE. - ----.- - ---- Ticket £l3 13 0 Half. £7 6 0 Eighth. £1 13 6 I Quarter 3 15 6 Sixteenth. 0 19 6 11.4 Letters, post paid, containing Remittances, duly attended to. • [Advertisement.] BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Philadelphia.—Know all Persons to whom these presents shall come, that I, Gilbert Robertson, Esq., his Britannic Mijesty's Consul, do hereby certify, that B. Wharton, Esq., (w o attests to the efficacy of OLD'ItIDGE'S BALM of COLU IBIA, in restoring HAIR,) is Mayor of this City, and that t Randall, Esq., is Protho notary of the Court of Comm() Pleas, to both whose signa tures full faith and credit is due. I further certify that lam personally acquainted with J. L. Inglis, Esq., another of the signers, and that he is a person of great respectability, and that I heard him express his unqualified approbation of the effects of OLDRIGE'S BALM In restoring the HAIR. Given under my hand and seal of office, at the City of Philadelphia, December 29,1833. (Signed.) GILBERT ROBERTSON. OLDRIGE'S BALM causes the whiskers and eye-brows to grow, prevents the hair from turning gray, and the first appli cation makes it curl beautifully, frees it from scruff, and stops it from falling off. Abundance of certificates, from gentlemen of the first respectability in England, are shown by the Pro prietors, C. and A. Oldridge, f Wellington-street, Strand, London, where the Balm is sold, and by all respectable Per fumers and Medicine Venders. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and Ils, per bottle. Also by C. Mawhood, 20, South John-street, near the New Custom-house; Danson, Bold-street; Rennie, Lord street; and Ross and Nightingale, Chronicle Office, Lord street. _ _ _ N.B.—The Public are requested to be on their guard against counterfeits. Ask for OLDRIGE'S BALM, 1, Wellington street, Strand, London. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. PARIS, Oct. 28.—M. Mignet has returned to Paris. Some journals state that he is the bearer of a letter from the Queen requesting the entrance of troops ; others on the contrary state, that in the present condition of the northern provinces M. Mig net would not have dared to have travelled with such a letter, and that the reason for his speedy return was because he was trusted with a verbal communication. That the demand was transmitted to Paris from Bayonne, by telegraph, few appear to doubt, and, indeed, though this news was published yesterday evening in the Messager, it is not denied by the Moniteur, or any of the government papers this morning. To-day is the day fixed upon for the discussion and decision of this important question, and as Lonis Phillippe is known to be a lover of stage effect, it is thought by some persons that the entry of a portion of the French army into Spain is to be announced to the National Guards at the review next Sunday. Of this I know nothing; but I merely supply you with the rumours afloat. Some of the "knowing ones " say, that a portion of the army will enter— will establish order in the Basque provinces —and will then im mediately leave, as they did after taking the citadel of Antwerp. This may be the case ; but in that event, they will leave the Spanish as they did the Belgian question, wholly unsettled. A private letter from St. Jean de Luz says : The civil war in Spain begins to have a most barbarous character. The chiefs of both parties in their decrees and proclamations order all per sons to be instantly shot, without trial or examination, who shall be found with fire arms in the ranks of the opposite party. — There is no doubt that these orders will be executed. So much the worse. Such decrees are inhuman, and thpse who profess to be lovers of liberty and trial by jury, as the Spanish refugees and constitutionalists do, should really know better. The best way of settling this terrible affair would be to betroth the daughter of Ferdinand VII. to the eldest son of Don Carlos, and let a joint regency be appointed to govern during the minority of the youngest or perhaps of the eldest. You must not expect in any other way to hear of the termination of this war for years to come." A private letter from Madrid on the 20th of October says : " The Council of Reiency is finally fixed according to the will of Ferdinand. Ihe members consist of the Archbishop of Meico, President ; Marquis de Santa Cruz; the Marquis de las Amanitas ; Duke de Medina-Celt; Don Nicholas Gaseli; and Gen. Castagnos, Duke of Bayleu. The names of these personages are known and popular. They all agree with the cabinet of Zea Bermudez, and all enjoy the confidence of the Regent; for though they do not immediately throw themselves into fundamental reform, they admit into their councils men of reform, by which they gradually prepare the nation for its future fate. "M. Mignet leaves immediately for Paris. His missson is ended, and he flatters himself he has been aeceived admirably well by the Queen. The Memorial Bordelais, of the 24th instant, has the following extract of a private letter of the 22d, from Bayonne :—" We have recived news from Navarre, which announces that Saraza and Farascual, two Carlist chiefs, were, one at three leagues from Pampeluna, and the other at Lombies, six leagues from the above town, at the head of three hundred insurgents, who took to flight as soon as they heard they were pursued. Tran quillity continues to reign at Saragossa. At it is said, 5,000 young men have enlisted in the Queen's service.— Letters from St. Sebastian, dated the 19th, announce that a cutter, which left Santander in the night of the 18th, learned that that town was still under the government of the Queen, and that the factious Biseayans, who had come within three leagues, had retired, from the conviction that they should meet with no support. The government has ordered that the Carlist chiefs, who, driven by the Queen's troops, had taken refuge on our ter ri ory, should be immediately conducted before the civil autho rities, who will send them into the interior of France." IRELAND. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. DARING RIOT AND ASSAULT.-011 Friday last, the 25th in stant, while the Sheriff of Donegal was ekecuting an attach ment issued by the Court of Chancery against two men for non payment of rent, he was surrounded in the town of Letterkenny by a number of persons who attempted to rescue the prisoners, and who threatened the sheriff with immediate death. The lat ter presented a pistol, declaring,his determination to use it in self-defence, when the crowd recoiled ; but turning on the she riff's bailiff, they cut and beat him severely on the head. The police, however, coming up, the prisoners were promptly se cured. This daring attack took place while the barrister of the county and the magistrates were holding the Quarter Sessions in the above town. The persons arrested, and many others in the same neighbourhood owe seven years' rent, which no one dare demand ; and the process of attachment became neces sary to enforce payment of this impost, now as obnoxious as that of tithe, &c. &c. MURDER.—On Thursday night last a man, named Martin Bowe, was murdered at Ballinasloe, by three men with whom he had hail a dispute. There can be little doubt, we should hope, that justice will be speedily avenged, the perpetrators of this foul deed being well known, we understand, by the police.— Kilkenny Moderator: Tho following is the copy of an illegal notice posted up at Kells, on Sunday, and which was subsequently taken down by the police. It has reference to some land at present held by Duncan, of this city :—" Take Notice—Any person that will have any hand in the upper 18 acres of Lord Mouutgarrett's estate but the right owner, he will rue the day. They are full satisfied to suffer any kind of death, for they have this land long enough, I hope they will give it up without any disturbance. this laud is out of lease November next, 1833."—Ibid. MYSTRRIOL'S AND EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURE.—Sunday last, whilst a young woman was under examination at the Bel fast quarter sessions, in an action brought by her against a married man who resides at Moira, for a sum of money to support an illegitimate child which she swore she had to him, the following most appalling disclosure took place:—The defendant's attorney, iu his cross-examination, asked whether she had not, before, made a charge against tho defendant, of a much more serious nature than that of seduction ? She said she had. On being asked what it was, she replied murder !" This disclosure created a very strong sen sation in court; and the young woman was desired by the bench to state the particulars. She said, that about ten years ago (being then nine years of age) she was a ser vant with the defendant; and one night she saw him and his wife murder a man. After the commission of the deed, he washed the blood off his hands, and, with his wife's assistance, buried the body near a quarry. The body, the witness said, was afterwards found and reburied by two men, whom she named. The murderer swore the girl to secrecy; and she said she never would have revealed the crime but for the seduction, and refusal to support the child. After the details of this most mysterious affair, the man and his wife .(both being in court) were put un der arrest, together with the witness; and the police were despatched to make inquiries at Moira regarding tbe men who were said to have discovered the body. The three persons are now confined in the House of Correction, waiting the result of the inquiry at Moira. The girl still persists in the particulars of her very extraordinary charge.—Narthern IVhig. TT o TUE FAIR Sax. — The following advertisement appeared in a recent number of the Cornish Guardian:—" Wanted, as a better half, a lady of moderate fortune, say five or six hundred pounds, of small stature, genteel proportions, neat in her ap parel, and of modest reserved manners, of the age of thirty, but not i) artieular to five years up or down ; blue eyes would be preferred ; but not nice about the other features, provided the countenance is pleasing. She must not-be a milliner, as milli ners are too much given to showy dress and flaunting de meanour; nor must she be a confectioner, as confectioners are too apt to assume captivating looks to attract young customers; neither must she have been accustomed to a draper's shop, for the habit of extolling goods above their ,real value, though a i very common practice, is very apt to bring on a habit of ex aggeration, and, ultimately, of lying. A schoolmistress will be preferred, as she will save the expense of sending to school, and herself " teach the young idea how to shoot ;" she must be fond of music, for music is the very element of tender souls; if acquainted with music would be preferred, but she mast not make mouths when she sings. She must not have affected : ways in eating or drinking, now put on by so many ladies, par- ZOLper centgoose, ticularly in sipping tea or wine, in which some now imitate the --, entgoose, exalting their lips for the purpose of showing their snowy .______ -ki i:l' ,., . cks. The person making this inquiry is a man of a limited -... :-.•_: , ..- ~,. - -.. : , • , ?-,.-",,,i une, of the middle height, with a sallow complexion, but not ~.k. I S-i - 7--)`,',.- t . tsagreeable face, between twenty and fifty years of age. L...tVRA' -.!!:1, ,,- .‘„ 1.... t . umnications may be left at the Cornish Guardian office, r , -;r,..01 , k .k.:;::777:iiFIC. ,- ' il to:. Y.—No jilts need apply." - -- THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Fifth Night of the new Domestic Drama of the YEOMAN'S DAUGHTER, which has been received on each t epresentation with loud and reiterated plaudits. For the Benefit of Mr. KEA , (Of the Theatres Royal, Drurv-lane an ovent-garden,) And the last Night o f his agement. THIS present FRIDAY EVENL , the Ist instant, will I. be performed the Tra,gedv of BRUTUS; OR, THE FALL OF T.IRQUEV. Lucius Junius Brutus, Mr. KEAN, his first appearance here in that character. End of the Play, the Song of "The Sea! the Sea!" by Mr. Frazer, and a favourite Song, by Miss George. After which, for the fifth time here, a new Drama, called THE YEOMAN'S DAUG ITER. On Saturday, a favourite Traged nd Melo Drama. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of a "Native of Cumberland" will be at tended to. The letter of our excellent correspondent, the "Vest Indian," will, if possible, appear in our next. A " Country Radical" has our thanks for his good wishes, but he writes in so extraordinary a vein that we suspect he would not be over well pleased to see himself in print in his own fashion, and we have no leisure to translate him. The controversy about potatoes and the bogs of Kintyre, al though no doubt of a very interesting nature, is quite out of our line—at least so many acres of it. • vib e nib t rpool tanbarb, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1833. Various important but voluminous papers, relative to the state of the negociations between Holland and the London conference, have been published in the course of the week, but they are by far too dull and lengthy for our png-oci, We confess th%t ttice documents are important, but we must qualify this term by explaining that it is not the matter of the documents which gives them an inter est, but the absence of facts and concessions which would lead to the reasonable conviction that any rear settlement of the dispute is seriously intended. We do not regret, therefore, nor will the generality of our readers regret that we are unable to find room for these papers. The object of the ccurts of France and Great Britain is to impose harsh terms upon WrI.LIAra of the Netherlands— to strip liim of his hereditary dominions, and to encourage the commerce of Belgium, and the inland navigation of the Scheldt at his expense; while, on the other hand, the policy of the King of HOLLAND is to resist their aggres sive demands, and rather appeal to the sword than per mit his subjects to be made the victims of injustice. To think of any speedy adjustment, in this position of af fairs, is entirely out of the question. No settlement of the question can take place until the relative situations of the contending parties is entirely changed by some new convulsion in Europe. That crisis, however, may be near at hand. As regards the civil war now raging in Spain, in pain ful unison with that of Portugal, the French papers state, that the QUEEN REGENT has sent a formal request to LOUIS PHILIPPE for the immediate aid and interposition of a French army of at least 30,000 men. If this be true, we shall very speedily be in possession of the resolutions of the French cabinet. When Spain was last invaded by the French, in the time of FERDINAND, Louis XVIII. did not venture upon such a step without consulting the other sovereigns of Europe. They acquiesced, and the deposed FERDINAND was restored. Now, the question comes, will Loins PHILIPPE dare to invade Spain without following the example of Louis his predecessor, and first•obtaining the consent of the other powers ? We hardly think, backed though he be by the English Whigs, that he would act so rash and perilous a part. But, should he seek their consent, will it be given ? No. If refused, will he march never theless? That is cal rying the inquiry as far as we can safely go, and we here stop. We refer to our foreign head for other particulars. The news brought by the Nautilus is not confirmed by the Athol, and, consequently, the " important intelli gence': which was received from Portugal by the former vessel, and which put an end, for at least four-and twenty hours, to the mortal career of DON MIGUEL, is presumed to have had a Stock Exchange origin. The successes of DON PEDRO, he himself, as it was represented, leading the van, in all the victorious charges upon the enemy, are supposed to be equally apocryphal. The fact is, that all the recent advices from Lisbon come through such a disreputable channel that no reliance whatever can be placed upon them. The last and most authentic accounts admit that MIGUEL was at Santarem, a town about thirty miles from the capital, surrounded by his small army, which has, at no time, since he approached Lisbon, amounted to more than ten thousand men, where he awaits reinforcements, which, considering the season of the year and the state of the roads, it must be difficult to bring up. Where BOURBIONT is, no one, not even Don PEDRO, seems to know. The Lady Rowena, Captain MAIN, arrived here yes terday from Charleston, from whence she sailed on the 26th September. We were previously apprised of the sailing of the Lady Rowena, by the packet ship George Washington, three days ago. We have received by this conveyance, through a highly respectable house here, some detailed intelligence of the present and probable state of the cotton market in the United States, furnished by well-informed parties in Charleston, which we give in our third page. We have reason to believe that this will be found the best arranged statement which has hi therto been made public on this subject, so important. es pecially to this and the neighbouring counties. We were enabled to give in the Second Edition of our Tuesday's number some important commercial informa tion received from New York by the packet-ship George Washington, which arrived off the port on that day ; part of which intelligence we re-publish to-day for our general readers. We perceive, as we expected, that the determi nation of the PRESIDENT to withdraw the public funds from the United States' Bank, has raised a strong controversy in various parts of the union ; and the New York papers present a diversity of opinions, drawn from various quar ters, on this, doubtlesSlmportant, subject. It is difficult .for us, -at this distance, to comprehend all the bearings of the question ; but, from the best view we have been en bled to take, 'we are inclined to think that, whatever the policy of the measure, there appears more of the exercise of arbitrary will in the PRESIDENT'S decision than would seem to belong to the head of that form of government which is established in the United States. Connected with this subject of banking, a new feature presents itself in the following paragraph, extracted from the New York Gazette:— "BANKING.—We learn from the Philadelphia Intelligencer that the Girard Bank of that city, and the Manhattan Bank of New York, have made arrangements with the American agentof the Rothschilds of London, for the loan of one million and a half dollars each." We are prevented by press of other and temporary matter from extending our ex , racts from the American papers, which contain many interesting articles. But, as we are touching upon new features, we must notice an announcement of something perfectly new in steam navi gation, being an extract in a New York paper from one published in Boston. We noticed this in our Second Edition on Tuesday, but in 'such a manner that it might be mistaken for a Liverpool announcement From the Boston Transcript. " STEAM-PACKET TO LIVERPOOL.—The keel of a splendid steam-packet, with four engines to ply between New York and Liverpool, will be laid this week. She will be of a large size; and, as the enterprise is undertaken by gentlemen of capital, no expense will be spared to make the experiment in the best pos sible manner, so that there can be butlittle doubt of its success." The taxes still form the prominent subject of domestic interest. A grand attack was made upon the resisters on Saturday last, in London, which terminated rather fa vourably for the assailants, some few pounds in money, and several articles of furniture, of no particular value, having been secured for the, government. It is pitiful—it is truly melancholy—to see the execu tive of this once great nation reduced to the sad alterna tive of calling out the Life Guards to hold in check a few THE L I VERPO unruly tradesmen, and protect the sheriff' in collecting the just debts due to the KING and the public creditor. What an imposing force ! The Royal Horse Guards, or Oxford Blues, two regiments of foot guards, and three thousand armed police, under arms the whole day, fur nished with forty rounds of ball cartridges, pistols loaded, muskets ready, bayonets fixed, orderlies riding about, all for what ? Was THOMAS ATTWOOD, and his million of men, on Hampstead Heath ? Had Captain NAPIER, now Admiral PANZA, taken Portsmouth ? Had Sir JOHN KEY declared war against the Treasury ? Had CosTEn returned from the Hulks with a legion of felons to rob the bank ? In short, was the Thames on fire ? Nothing of the kind, most inquisitive reader ! All these martial movements and this magnificent display were caused by one citizen HARMER proceeding, in the course of his official duty, to levy upon the goods and chattels of some three or four inhabitants of Marylebone for certain ar- rears of taxes, which these worthy people had refused, or were unable, to pay, and the whole sum due not exceed ing eighty pounds sterling ! In former and better days these dishonest patriots, and valorous costermongers of Cockaigne would have been beaten into submission by a constable and a broker's apprentice. For the very threats they have used recently they would, in those days, have been sent to gaol. For daring to challenge the right to levy taxes, or for meeting to combine against their pay ment, or for uttering any declaration in contravention of law, or for offering even passive resistance,they would have been indicted for constructive treason, found gui'ty as a matter of course, and either hanzed or sent to Bo tany Bay. These times, however, are gone by, and the law has fallen into the sere and yellow leaf; it exists only to be trampled upon, and its mandates, instead of being respected, are universally despised., And is it come to this ?—that upwards of five thousand armed men have to be called into requisition to aid the' sheriff in collecting the house and window duties in Ox ford-road, London ! When the present ministers gave. up the tithes in Ireland, they represented that the cost of collecting them by military force exceeded their value. It would app,..ar that ministers , are pretty much in the same way in England as respects the assessed taxes: With all the imposing force described above they could only execute their warrants upon , three individuals—two of whom paid the money, or it was paid by their friends, and the third refused. If the government should be compelled to call out three regiments of soldiers at every trumpery distraint of this kind, it will be the dearest kind of tax-grinding that ever was tried, for they will be pre cisely in the enviable situation of the Irish drummer who spent half-a-crown out of sixpence a-day. It is melancholy, we have said, to see any government, much less the government of this extensive empire, whose commerce and manufactures are entirely dependent upon public security and the power of the laws, reduced to so abject and humiliating a plight. But while we lament the circumstance, it is impossible to sympathise with those who are now reaping the harvest of their own folly, and who are the sole authors of the calamities which they deplore. Their own Lieutenant in Ireland told the' people to " agitate, agitate ;" and their devoted adherents, Lord FITZWILLIAM and Mr. W. BROUGHAM, tendered the same advice in England. Ministers yielded to the Irish call ; and as sure, as the sun shines, they will be compelled to yield to that nearer home, and now resounding amid the echoes of Downing-street. The surrender of tithes was a cow ardly and a most unjust concession to the rabble of Irish priests and their slaves the mob. O'CONNELL, in bis most towering days, was never anything but a tool of these priests. Ministers, however, yielded, and in so doing they not only connived at treason, stratagem, and crime in Ireland, but they gave being and influence, and, as it would appear, sovereign power, to the revolutionary party in England. The people of this country are supine and slow in their movements. It requires something more than ordinarily attractive, or some act unusually iniqui- tons or infamous, to rouse them into action. But when once roused, all the persuasive eloquence that ever drop ped from human lips—all the innocence that would charm the hyaena—all the guilt that would convict an angel— would not shake them in their purpose, or turn them from their design. That they had abundant reason for being discontented we freely admit. They of course did not see the injustice of robbing the Protestant clergy of Ireland. In the hey-day of their political fever, fraud, combination and spoliation, had no repulsive aspect to them. An Irish parson was considered fair game. Slander had re presented him as an indolent and useless labourer in the vineyard of charity, a cumberer of the ground; a perse cutor of the poor; and the million mouthed mob accord ingly set upon him in full yell. For three years the Pro testant clergy of Ireland were refused the payment of their tithes. They were reduced to a state of helpless dependence, akin to pauperism. Ministers of our re formed religion—exemplary and pious men—to the eter nal disgrace of the British government, were reduced to the painful necessity of selling their books in order to provide sustenance for their families. At all this distress the Irish priests rejoiced, and the English rabble laughed. But the Providence which weeps at folly punishes guilt; and the people of this country, who had no sympathy for the deeply-injured and cruelly-persecuted Protestant pas tors of Ireland, were soon convinced that the evils they inflicted, and the wrongs they encouraged, would be ter ribly avenged in their own persons. Lord ALTHORP, the brother of a Popish priest, was selected to be the instru ment. We have ever done this noble lord justice', and now in so serious a case we will not deny that he was an unconscious tool. Nature in her bounty had so ordered it—in kindness. Lord ALTHORP, however, finding all other resources unavailing—that tithes could not be collected—that the Protestant clergy - were in absolute want—that robbery prevailed over the law—called upon the Commons—the reformed House of Commons—to grant a million sterling out of the consolidated fund of England to make good a portion of the arrears due to the Protestant clergy of Ireland. He had suffered the priests and the rabble.to pillage with impunity, and then he called upon the com munity of blockheads, who form the mass of this " beast of a nation," to make good a part of the damage. This was the first obvious and tangible upshot of agi tation. The costs fell upon us of England. The hedge priests had piped, and we had danced; but the sluggish and stupid animal had to pay for his former mirth and entertainment. It was 'delightful beyond expression to see the " Irish parsons" robbed; but it was hail and snow, fire and brimstone, to be compelled to pay PAUL for the frauds of PETER. And so it was. To saddle us with a million -for the sake of peace—to take from our pockets that which should have come from the priests, demagogues, and beautiful peasantry of Ireland—was as flagrant an act of injustice as was ever committed by any government in the worst of times. The revolutionary party—the people of the unions—the insolent tradesmen of London —soon saw and felt the force and the injustice of this sort of policy.- Hence all their present soreness and violence. Hence their resistance to the assessed taxes. Hence their determination to agitate, in order to extort from the government something equivalent to the extra charges and burthens imposed upon them for the relief of the Irish clergy. They are right at last, although like the ministers and their servile and ignorant parliament, they have been wrong from the beginning. In this struggle, however, between the government and their former supporters—in this war of roguery against knavery—it is distressing to- witness the infatu ation which prevails. One man, a member of the union, states, that he has for twenty-two years paid his assessed taxes and other rates, but that owing to the stagnation of trade, and the distresses of the times, he is now not only unable to pay them, but is so reduced in his circum stances, as " not to be able to make that decent appear ance in society for himself and family that he was desir ous to maintain by his labour." What this man means by a " decent appearance in society," is a question of degree, and can only have reference to his income or his wages. It is clear enough, however, that he is worse off now than formerly. We take for granted that he la bours as hard, or is willing to labour as hard, as he was wont to do. Why then is he worse off at present ? Let the political unions—let the disturbers of the public peace—let the blockheads who clamour against and de O.L STANDARD. nounce the aristocracy, answer the question. Thes men who complain are tradesmen, shopkeepers, and ar - tizans. They arc almost entirely dependent upon the wealthier classes—they are better or worse off in the precise ratio of the amount of income spent in the metropolis. They ' condemn the taxes ; but these people have been living upon the taxes during their whole lives. If they deny this, or he unconscious of the fact, then are they the greatest fools extant. The monopolies of London are nearly annihilated, and trade and commerce are upon the wing to more advantageous out-ports. London has little or no trade of its own. Its inhabitants are not a manufacturing population. They do not occupy the centre of an agricultural district, but, on the contrary, are surrounded by the most sterile tracts .of land in all England. Their river is a source of wealth and a channel of trade we admit, and so are their canals; but the city itself is merely an entrepot, and as the trade they once enjoyed leaves them, which it is doing rapidly, then must the tradesmen become still more dependent upon the wealthy residents with fixed incomes, upon the body of pensioners and annuitants, and all those having fixed salaries in public offices or courts of law. But do they hold out any inducement to these wealthy residents to remain in the metropolis, and spend their revenues among the shopkeepers ? Far from it. With a strange and incomprehensible infatuation they are stir ring heaven and earth to expel the wealthy from the fashionable squares and streets of London. Thousands of them have already emigrated, perhaps never to return. Many thou • sands of noble and affluent families are at present so journing on the continent, conferring upon foreigners those benefits which were formerly and exclusively con fined to the tradesmen of the capital. And why do they absent themselves? Why ! we say again, let the politi cal arid other unions answer the question. We refer to a case tried at the sessions on Wednesday, in which two men were convicted, and sentenced to im prisonment, for obtaining money under false pretences from a poor Irishman, who had arrived here with his wife and five children, with the intention of emigrating to Atherica. It will be seen that the prosecution was directed to be carried on by government. We care not how, or by whom the parties might be proceeded againg; but it affords us much satisfaction to find that some check is likely to be put upon a system which, in_ many cases, appears to have been much more nearly allied to the crimp or kidnapping system than anything else we can mention. It very frequently happens that when parties desirous of emigrating arrive at their port of sailing,— and we do not speak of Liverpool as worse than other places in this respect,—they.are met by a class of per sons not unaptly designated in the report of Wednesday's trial as "hookers-in," whose occupation partakes very much of the character of the sailors' crimp. We do not think it worth while to extend our inquiries further into the character and general proceedings of these men at this moment ; nor shall we make any sweeping con- clemnation of the class. That there are many of them decent and well-conducted people we are inclined to be- lieve. That there are many of a different description we are quite certain; and our conviction upon that head has too good a foundation to render any equivocation neces sary in expressing the opinion. In many cases we be lieve, too, that the proceedings of these "hookers-in" are without the cognizance or sanction of the owners or charterers of the vessels; and we have great satisfaction in bearing testimony to the anxiety of many highly re spectable persons, to provide every possible comfort and convenience to those who go out in ships under their charge. There are other cases which we should have no difficulty in mentioning, where the principals in fact are principals also in the delinquencies to which we refer. Every kind of deception is practised upon those unfor tunate creatures,—for such we must call them, at any rate ',when they fall into the hands of people like these; — they are delayed from day to day, often from week to week, beyond the period fixed for the sailing of the ship in which they have taken their passage ; thus the little sums they may have provided, over and above their pas sage-money—with the hope of establishing themselveS in some way when arrived at their destination,—are ex pended in sustaining themselves ashore previously to their embarkation. We have heard of ships, which, if not pronounced absolutely unseaworthy, have been pro tested against by competent parties as utterly unfit for the purpose of conveying over sea the numbers of per sons stowed away in them. We say stowed away, but we might use a stronger term; for when eighty-four passengers, old and young, male and female, are put, with a portion of their luggage, in a space of twenty six feet square, and fifty-four persons in a space of twenty six feet by seventeen feet, for long voyages, our recol lection is carried back to the Black Hole at Calcutta, or the 'tween decks of an old slave ship, as the fittest sort of comparison that could be made for such a mode of pro ceeding. We have, infact, heard of places thus stowed, having their gangway so encumbered that exit or entrance could only be effected by crawling upon the bands and knees; with one of two almost certain results in case of heavy gales—either the exposure of the passengers to drowning from shipping seas, if the gangway or hatch were left open, or to suffocation if it were closed. Mu c h more than all this have we heard, of which we shall, for the present, decline speaking. To such evils and inconveniences as these have many of the poor creatures been exposed, who have left their native land in the hope Of finding elsewhere something better than their former homes have furnished them with. It is true that agents have recently been appointed by go vernment, by whose exertions the condition of emigrants has been much improved, and a check put upon some of the frauds and tricks, which the disreputable portion of the principals and agents in these transactions have'been too apt ,to practise. There is also an act of parliament for regulating certain matters touching this class of ships. But this act—the passengers' act, as it is called—(9th Geo. IV, c. 21,) is a loose and most inefficient instru ment for the purpose which it is intended to accomplish; and if any advantage is to result from legislative enact ment, or the exertions of the government agents acting un der it, a thorough revision and great amplification of the provisions of the present law must take place with as little delay as possible. What, for instance, can be more ab surd than to leave open to misconstruction the quantity of that indispensable article, water, to be taken on board for a long voyage ? What more improper than to allow, in the first place, the taking of three passengers for every four tons which the vessel may measure, without stipulat ing the extent of cargo which such vessel may also take ? Two children under fourteen years of age, and three under seven, being computed as one person. And yet these, , and numerous other omissions and other incongruities, stand prominently forward in the act in question. Upon this point we could borrow with considerable advantage from the laws of the United States. By those laws only two passengers are allowed to be taken for every five tons burden of the vessel, under penalty of 150 dollars for every passenger exceeding that proportion, and forfeiture of the ship if such excess should be beyond twenty passengers in the whole. Of water the vessel is also required to have on board _sixty gallons, together with 100 pounds of salted provisions, one gallon of vinegar, and 100 pounds of wholesome bread, for every soul on board, without li mitation of age, over and above all stores shipped by the' passengers for their own use. These allowances are for a voyage between America and Europe, and in like pro. portion for a shorter or longer voyage. Other useful re gulations-also exist in America on this head, well worthy of imitation. The subject must, we repeat, be revised here—promptly, and thoroughly, and judiciously revised. Such is our unqualified opinion now; and we shall return to the subject with a determination proportioned to the extent of the evil requiring correction. Since the foregoing was written, a case has been brought to our notice of a vessel now in the river, and on ' the point of sailing for Australia, upon which we make the few following observations. She is carrying out, be sides her crew and 8 cabin passengers, 138 other passen . gers, who are thus disposed of : In a space of 11 feet 5 inches fore and aft, by 23 feet 6 inches across the ship, are placed 36 men and boys. Twelve of the boys have to sleep in a space of 11 feet 5 inches by 6 feet—being 111 inches fur each. This hole is immediately behind the . foremast—so far forward, in fact, that every sea the vessel ships must go into the berths, if the hatch be left off, and, if battened down to protect them from this evil, suffocation is almost inevit able. Immediately abaft this place arc stowed a number of casks, chiefly ashes ; and then comes another space, measuring 24 feet 3 inches on the starboard side, and 23 feet 2 inches on the larboard side, by 24 feet in breadth, in which are placed 102 men, women, and children, with their baggage, where they must eat, drink, and sleep. The cabin is stowed with bale goods, wine, stores, &c., and a poop has been built on deck for the cabin passen gers. This vessel ; -of whose condition we will not here speak, is about to sail, in this state, on a five months' voyage ! Were we wrong in stating above that such things are calculated to carry back our recollection to the Black Hole at Calcutta, or the African slave ship ? Can such practices be any longer tolerated in a country pro fessing Christianity ? 'We think an answer in the nega tive must be given to both these questions. When a newspaper lends its aid to the development of any system that has a tendency to promote the general welfare, and admits into its pages a candid statement of differences of opinion between those whose interests suffer by violent changes, those little ebullitions of temper which often creep in may be overlooked, because of the good which often arises from the discussion of questions which are of importance to all. But when ,we see a public print condescend to become the pander to the worst of principles, and echo the sentiments promulgated to the world through the penny trash published at Bir minham, it ought to be exposed and treated with the contempt it merits. The publication to which we allude is filled with the most daring insinuations and the most abominable and revolutionary doctrines ; and yet, after the information which has been laid before the public on this subject, here is a local journal of extensive circu-, lation which aids in the promulgation of doctrines which, if carried into effect, would soon sweep away the property, if not the persons, of all its subscribers. We beg the attention of the Croppers, the Browns, the Booths, the Hopes, to a few extracts from the publication to which we have alluded, and let them consult with the editor of the Mercury upon the propriety and consistency of advo cating.those principles which recommend equality,—the destruction of all who differ with them, and the general spoliation which these writers are now expecting, and of which they, no doubt, intend to have a large share. We perceive in this publication a letter which appeared in the last Mercury but one, and another which is, no doubt, to appear in the Mercury of this day, purporting to be from a master tradesman of this town, (which we take the liberty of doubting ;) ',and, lest we should mislead our readers, and our prognostications should not be verified, we will give an extract or two, so that they may judge for themselves, and that there may be no mistake. The letter commences thus : "Stn,—l have to acknowledge the courtesy with which you have treated my last communication," &c. And further on— "I recommended my own men to enrol themselves at once, and, if possible, to carry on the objects of the union to even a greater extent than seemed then to be contemplated!" We venture to say, that if the writer of this para graph be a tradesmen, he is one whom neither Whig nor Radical would employ to build a pigstye ; for, if the poor deluded men who are now paying the penalty of their foolishness by starvation, have not gone far enough already, we know not what remains except downright robbery. The last paragraph of this epistle runs thus : "Labour, sir, is undoubtedly the source of all wealth," &c. As our worthy contemporary of this day will, no doubt, have it at full length, we merely glance at it to show that we are not wrong in our premises; but, as there are a few rich points in the publication in question which we think he will not publish, we will do it for him; and, singularly enough, thete is an attack upon the press in general in one of the numbers, which contains a letter previously published in the Mercury:— " The artizan smiles at the insipid sophistry and the gross mis statements which eo frequently appear in your broad sheets. Our sturdy cause is daily gathering strength. Now, in fair play to your customers, you ought to keep a little near the truth, because you induce masters to take airs before the time! "If knowledge be power, then we have more knowledge, and, consequently, more power, than our worthy masters; but ' They must dream of their might, While we put them to right.' "THE TIME IS NOT QUITE COME! but this you may take for granted, the union is not so easily broken up. As to ourselves, gentlemen of the press, if you knew the rising spirit of the labourer—if you knew that the lava of the working mountain will shortly scorch you up, should you obstinately retain your present position," &c. Look to it, worthy senior of the Merdury ! a " scorch ng" in the fire of republicanism will cure both you and mndreds more, who are now the advocates of popular systems. After some cursory remarks the writer proceeds—" Ig norant imbeciles! we will shortly have it in our power to change conditions with you, and to tell you that the lot is yours." Then follows a most heroic piece of declama tion—" The working man rises with the sun ;" so do thousands from choice. What hardship is there in early rising ? We presume masters rise with the sun a 4 well as workmen. " The eye of the overseer is upon him all day long ;" and so it should be, for experience has shown us that men, in general, will not do a fair day's work without being looked after. " His scanty meals are de voured in haste, and without comfort." We have alway s understood that there are regular and stated hours allowed for meals, and we think there can be no doubt of it. "His babes are reared in ignorance, and his wife enjoys no peace." If the children of any man, be he rich or be he poor, in this age of schools, and magazines, and insti tutes, be reared in ignorance, it is the fault of the parents alone. An abundant provision is now made for the education of all, and especially for the children of the artizan ; and we, therefore, set down the former part o f the paragraph as a downright lie. That " his wife enjoys no peace," we can better under_ stand. How should any respectable and decent woman enjoy peace when her husband is swilling and spouting at the G-arrick's Head, day after day, and night after night, earning nothing by honest industry, but degrad ing himself by accepting, like a common beggar, the alms and contributions of the charitable ? His home is not the centre of his delight,—his family not the scene of his exertions. He is filled up with fancied notions of his own degradation, and is degraded by the very means he is adopting to shake off' his imaginary yoke. Numbers of women who deserve better thing s " qnjoy no peace," because that which ought to feed and clothe their off spring is spent at a dram shop, and their husbands quit the employ of respectable masters, and submit to the un merciful lash of a club, which is a thousand times more arbitrary than any master would dare to be. As to the master manufacturers of Leeds, all the threats which human ingenuity can invent are directed against them. "Their case is to be settled without difficulty or trouble, their families are to be broken up, they are to be marked as long as they are inhabitants of time, and their names are to be recorded, for the curse of all future ge- nerations ! 1" And this is the nauseous, abominable stuff poured into the ears of the mechanic, and these are the objects at which certain individuals are aiming. But the moral force of the country is overlooked, and we venture to levelling,p that all th ese fi ne sc h emes o f " equa li zat i on, labour no t es ," an d suc h p h antas i es o f M r. o r v p E l N 'e 's ey brain, will soon come to nought. Every man in the country, (no matter what may be his political opi nions,) who possesses a shilling to lose, or domestic com fort to forfeit, must of necessity be the uncompromising enemy of such systems as these. Based in fraud, and reared by those whose only object is spoliation—they must come to nought. The discussion of the question of trades' unions will only throw more light upon their deformity, and show the gulph to which they are leading the population of the country. But this cannot last—no man can serve two masters, and, therefore, he cannot serve the public and the union at the same time. Hundreds of the better disposed have seen this and returned to their employment; and as Choice and free-will are yet left to us, to a certain extent, let no 3 ~~~ NOVPMBER 1, 1833. man be employed who subscribes to an union fund ; let it be resolutely opposed by every respectable man, and the, cure is certain. Thousands have paid to it who will pay no more ; and every man who has once got loose from its tyrannical trammels, breatheS in freedom a purer at mosphere, and feels thankful for his liberty. As long as it is the ordination of Divine Providence that the bulk of mankind shall earn their bread by t he sweat of their brow, and as we know "that the poor shall never cease out of the land," it is in vain to talk of equal' ization. Men may as well attempt to level the moun tains, to fill up the rivers, or to pluck the stars from the ir courses, as to destroy the ordinations of Providence. The state of man admits of amelioration undoubtedly ; bu t 29 long as rebellion and drunkenness go hand in hand, as long as idleness and dissatisfaction remain an incubus upon the land, so long will there be partial distress► which no desire' of the benevolent—no enactment of the legislature, can reach; and just as crime and punishment go hand in hand, so do rebellion and contempt, idleness and want. We would not have the working classes suppose tha t by opposing the system we are inimical to their interest; —quite the reverse. But whilst we shall always defend them when they are in the right, we shall as decid edly Oppose them when they are in the wrong. The systete they are upholding is a theory of which the only results yet developed are,—support to the idle—countenance to the abandoned—diminution of funds to the industrio us ' d a stoppage of circulation which is injurious to a recognition of principles which are destructive of free trade, and which will at last end in a reduction of wag es to all who are members of it. The best advice we ea° give to those who have been so ill advised as to abide by it is, " Come out from among them, and be ye separa.te, and touch not the unclean thing; for whilst they pro mise you liberty, they are themselves the servants of coffer If the writer in the Mercury be really a master tracle 9 : man, and has been giving the advice to his men whic h 15 there detailed, it would be well for him to furnish t • 111 ' public with his name, that they may form a correct e sti mate of him, and he will no doubt receive from them sub' support as his pacific advice seems to merit. The trade s man who can advise his men " to carry on the objec ts ()f the - union to even a greater extent" must be A v er ' ,, honest sort of fellow, and one deserving of every en c() ; ragement, and would make an excellent chief niagigr a for Sydney Cove. We beg to recommend him to I f rj GREY, who no doubt will put him into commission. : lA ,. letter was ; no doubt, received on Thursday night too law a for insertion in the Mercury of Friday, but a copy a been forwarded to Birmingham early enough for (' tion in the Penny Magazine. We perceive by a report in Felix Farley, that the mayor and corporation of Bristol have very properlY 3 ' o spiritedly refused to furnish the itinerant commissienle with any information relative to the management of Dock estates of that city. How these learned gen tle, ~, men came to claim the right o f inquiry into this de , scription of property we are utterly at a loss to or l i e g , ture. Surely they could have had no positive ins till er tions to push their invidious and unconstitutional-W / o tigations so far, and therefore we are willing to a- 461 1 that to ignorance and over zeal which we should othebt; wise characteristic in less gentle terms. They with as much reason and propriety, inquire into the n; nagement, and demand a sight of the accounts of t Liverpool and Manchester Rail-road Company,' or an t other joint stock concern.. • Will a similar attempt be made to pry into the Liv e ; pool Dock estates when the commissioners open ti t court next Monday, and, if so, will the attempt be sisted here as it has been in Bristol ? We know not' On the subject of corporations, now that we are advertef:. ing to them, we observe an admirable article in the P r o sent number of the Quarterly Review. The co nduct the ministry is freely and ably discussed, and the c°or missions are thus briefly and pithily noticed:— " It is an inquisition' wholly inconsistent With our allel e/It liberties. King William the Fourth is now made . to iel O th : claim of visitorial power over the corporations of the reallii,Lf assertion of which, by James the Second, was one of the " v , justifications of the elevation of William the Third. i"t have been astonished that any corporation has subraitte",: this inquisition. We are surprised that the several - re col : have not acquainted their colleagues, that when the King has °l'c constituted a corporation, he can only visit it through his Court f),,, King's Bench. But some corporations have submitted ft°'-g weakness, because there is no longer any counterbal anci t power left in the country . to which the oppressed can aPP e3 . I , O others from not having the means of maintaining an exP ensl a legal contest for rights that are now shadows; but the vaa.i% ei from a proud feeling that, as they have done no wrong , I- 00 0 would not have the appearance of resisting inquiry !—a ge ner d motive; but we doubt whether generosity is the quality w hich s h e be exerted when the national institutions and public liberty a r e• danger. If the amiable and disinterested Hough and his P e di e' able associates of Magdaline College had listened only to t i , e t ter tates of personal feeling, they would probably have bee n t ot pleased to have evaded all controversy with King Jan' es; , public duty led these quiet but honest men to a resist anc i which the illegal commission was defeated, and the tyranslica quisition of an arbitrary chancellor overthrown." We respectfully submit these reflections and historles, reminiscences to our own and other corporate autliorit'tbe There are some persons who flatter themselves thatito House of Lords, the conservative assembly of the ri3tora will never permit any Violence to be done .with c° r P t he tion charters. But we are afraid they are rnak in „O' wish stand father to the thought. Supposing this c'etoe cleric° in the Lords were justifiable, is that anY e% itl for a neglect of duty on the part of those who roP °s :o o Because the watchman will do his duty, is that anY ° D o' why we should leave our doors open, and invite th c , filar, with his dark lantern and crowbar, to igsrec premises? T, IIS " But we deny that this reliance upon the l ip# either reasonable or justifiable. How did their I , c )rus b ill? act on the first grand concession bill ?—the ref° lll / 3t io o —the church 'Swamping bill?—the bishop ano illi o el' bill ? They yielded in the most pusillanimous 1115- t i i er And what security have we that the Lords will act ° 60 05 wise when the bill for spoliating the ancient corp°l3ll be io is brought - before them, as most assuredly it 'Steil the n3xt session of Parliament, if the present rpin Al be in office ? None whatever. Shut the door, tb eli ti ', we, against all inquiry, for if the. battle is to he 1 r° oli be better to fight it outside the threshold. , Nothing c ht to more clear than that the corporations have the r i g ve resist inquiry, and that. the KING and Commons o pt ° right to enforce it. Let the House of Commons legfestef as it pleases, if in the dark so much the better, for g erti o 4 will be the tyranny and injustice, the blacker the and the more near and certain the day of vengeallee. LONDON LATEST NEWS• c lo‘ 4 " Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven , r er In the Consol Market this morning there was verli; buoyancy, and Consols for the Account touche d ar- They subsequently, however, receded to 87 at 88, closed. or r t In the Foreign Bonds there is also a great degree of iip `l/ e. meat. Belgian Bondi are 961, 974; Dutch 5° ii kir Cents., and 911 for the 5 per Cents. Russian Stock c'-sl,ce 103 i; and Danish at 73i. There has been some deg y 9 l o ) heaviness in the Portuguese Bonds, which are quot ed lit 0 )) for the Regency Loan, and 724 1 for the Old f on ds. Pr 3 Bonds are at 661671. Spanish Stock is 2 2 1 I. f tv',". .The commercial accounts from. Trieste state that, theopec; crop had proved very satisfactory at Smyrna, both ee r quantity and quality. The figs,.however, were by 11° Pie 0 1 productive. All was quiet at Smyrna. th 41 The accounts from Gibraltar state, that up to the 1 ".11 3 ' ) ; 0 ' three posts remained due from England, the road ha'seftc being interrupted. There were the posts of the 0 - d ber, and 3d and 10th October. r o'; , a tly By advices from Manilla we learn that the rice creP h b Wpb very bad, and that in consequence the exportation e s ei 4 ; i i j pendcd by the Indians, who were in the pra ctice af c ce ej or always a supply sufficient for the consumption o f the year. The sugar crop had also proved defective; ari i of ueral appearance of things was unfavourable. rri r t ° te r Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's of tile:ie H.M.S. Rattlesnake off Plymouth, on the 27th iastaa:'tte weeks from Rio Janeiro. From San Blas the Rattl' Abe ceeded to Valparaiso, and from thence to CoquiLu b° ' two millions of dollars on board.