The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-22 00:00:00

• imOCTOBER t.t_v• . LATEST NEWS FROM SPAIN Th e 11, 1 , ( From the Penis, papers.) • Pi d ' u " du Soir of the 16th instant contains some short ItagraPhs as to. Spanish news : aPini s : Ys ' I . " Private letters from Catalonia announce that (% ut . 11 i 3 generally favourable to the Queen in Catalonia. The Or„r„„4.1!1-General has spoken out with determination; he is rlsl , ng cit y h militia. of troo" r—ev write from Pampeluna on the 12th, that a column taade PR . winch left to attack Santos-Ladron, near Logro l no, to this chief prisoner, with thirty-two insurgents. He vas to, aceilca judged on the 13th, at Painpeluna. The engagement to o IPI near Los Arios, against Sit) armed peasants, of whom n2,s ve re killed on the field of battle. i , ; it is Valdespina who commands the insurgents of Vitto_- il ta ptlma. and Berastegui, who form in the whole four weak li t h "at The envoy of Valdespina, who proclaimed on the l e n I) ° 3 Carlo:: at Irun, at the head of 1409 or 1500 ' bandits,' e'rane 12th in the morning. The, partisans of the Queen Te, to ccupy Iron on the 13th." , nn, Constitutionnel of this morning contains the following - 7 ,1 4411, I . ,„ et tee news it recei ve d y es t er d a y : 'flat no good news ha s arrived for the Queen. ar ;. That • al rcoMmunicatio ns between Bayonne and Madrid interceit+ed That §` • 15 4 ,,ti : 16,11 a he aa h e a s s fie i l t d o li jo as not pronounced fur the Queen. ring . men in his power, who may declare fur toLLS. That Biscay is in a complete state of revolt. T hat the t roops of Cas:anos hesitated to attack the Carlist 7 . !. and had withdrawn to Tolosa. u. That Irun was in posse ss i on o f th e p r i es t s a nd m o n ks. rVl's. That A.rragoa and Catalonia had risen. bra Old Castile was the hotbed of Carlistn. s u ,That the irtrtisams of Don Carlos would not recognise the Piailusli debt of 1813. And in. • "r4 at El Pastor, the celebrated Spanish Liberal, resid ', t Bayonne had been applied to ny the Queen to enter P a in in tier- cat; se. --- • litit. ~, c -o risfittitien tie f thinks he has agreed toalo so, but he has " • Lae saniittri e Journal says that at Puente the monks inter- Pt the c orn , ..,__,_.,,„.............____...............nati0n betweek Madrid and the frontiers. 'lghth Night of the new popular Drama of JONATHAN BIiAD. r.nRD, which continues to be received with the most dis m,rltrished apProbation; A E A-N, of. the Theatres Royal, Drury-lane and Covent rrtra, on his return, from Dublin to London, is re-engaged 0- 11 - 1-" I Cights and will make his second appearance ju"'S present' TUESDAY EVENING, the 22d instant, When will be performed the comedy of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. .„7 _Sir Giles Overreach Mr. Kean. " elitkOrn. ........ Cooke Justice Greedy.. Mr. Andrews L 4, Lord Lovel..Mr. Lacy Marrall...Mr. Baker Allw orth....Mrs. Clarke I Margaret-- .Miss. Seymour. bra r m ` for the eighth time at this Theatre, the popula . r (1. --', as now performing nightly iu London, with unprete- Lilted success, called JONATHAN BRADFORD, Zon ath Or the M ur d er a t th e R oa d 7s id e. l nn . . . •si acrai an B ra df ord; Mr.Cooke—Squire Haves, Mr. Lacy—Dan " lta e k t , s Y , Mr. Benwell—Farmer Nelson, Mr. Andrews—Jack San Mt. Slaiter Caleb Serummidge, 'Mr. Baker— ipighabout, Miss Seymour—Anne, Mrs. Brooks. ttrueted expressly t uns ei 'lentl to the piece, " The George Inn," a new scene, for this piece, showing four distinct I t s atia t t n d_ e s, acted is at one time, viz., the Bar, the Parlour, the Sleeping -rooms. Ta'UORROW, (Wednesday.) Shakspeare's Tragedy of alt'thp, ell - OTHELLO. Mr Kean, his first appearance in that character—lago, • \ andenhoff—Ca • Mr. Cooke—Emilia, Mrs. Brooks— esdemoua Mrs. Vins?/119,; • with' ..JONATHAN BRADFORD. TO CORRESPONDENTS. V e HI RND TO THINGS AS THEY WERE," has been received. f eenctir in most of his sentiments but when he .is she that half the sum charged for the purpose to which he raules is for a stamp, and the greater portion of the residue made purposes which could only be dispensed with on being til a l t 4e good by individual contributions, he will see the dial 5. of effecting the change which he describes: _ c zlibcrpcol 7!UR,5104.17 MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1833. 15 11 a lat e h our last night we received, by the Nekv York racket ship Europe, Captain MAXWELL, files of American rapers to the 2d instant. They bring advices from exieo to the 30th August, and from Havana to the 10th BePternb er? We ha ve rece i ve d b y th e Th a is Packet, as leyhere stated, accounts f rom t h e l atter por t t wo d a y s tte etiPRESIDENT is prompt in following up his determi nb to w i t h draw the Government deposits from the u nit ed States' Bank, as appears by the following extract Washington Globe of the 27th September : "we understand that the following banks have been selected f th e S ecretary of the Treasury for the deposit of the money Sit th e Unit e d States, in the places w here they are respectively 44ted; the change to be made on the firs of October next:—. Bedtim e re Philadelphia New York ... Ditto .... Ditto 13 " 4 " 1 "••• • • - • ~ The_ C ommon wealth Bank. • Nit Ditto .... I)hia, Understand that anoth er b an k will be added in as Ph c il a .a n b del e .. km soon as th e proper i nqu i r i es an d arrang e men ts si eee e s ' s and, Probably a l so , anot h er i n N e w Yo r k, and that the ,arY preparations are in progress for carrying the measure fnlly tato eff ect i n other places as speedily as practicable." 11 1 e foll ow i ng i s the latest intelligence from the south .itrd relative to cotton : uousTA, SEPTEMBER 2O. COTTON. The market still tli e lit s ":l eS brisk, and a pretty large business has b een doing f or few day s past. Cotton sells readily from the g e ; to 15 g for rime • ew lots have been sold at 15 4 . g The re -aa`Pts continue') heavy f ' , and the stock keeps i ncr easing every tory if the article continues to come in at the rate it has done k le day s past, the whole crop, or nearly all, will be in arket befor e J anu ' ary. ,, Pr •nto the Havana, under date the 10th September it stated, ,f;eeThe favourable accounts from Europe have had quite an i a ari our market, particularly o u r C o ff ee , w hich is to-day 'toilet} brisk demand for all kinds. P r i me is now held at 1 3 NV: b re ' f air to go o d 111 to 12 d ollars, and infer i or 101 to 11. thi n -4 :e seen a sample sold to-day at 11 dollars, which is no-1 u ut inferi or t hi rd quality , and was hardly worth 10 dot ti 1;87;.0 Week s ago. Sugars in good demand at last quota- 11) e ac counts from Vera C ruz t o th e 30 t h A ugus t give eit Me ntable a ccount o f t h e ravages of the cholera i n t h e 1.41 Y (If. Mexico. It was stated that 16,000 persons have 04 e n victims in one month; and that the deaths were late "be days as hi gh as 12 to 1400. At• the date of fhe st advices from thence, the disease was on the decline. we Queretaro and Guanaxuato, where the rival armies bot'ie situated, the disorder had made great havoc among d ar mies, and r e t ar d e d th e l ess d estruct i ve course o f "til fighting, :qt. r , % 1 „. TANEy •was appointed secretary to the trea of th e U nited States, on the 211 September. On c ee fr e P t ing this a pp o i n t men t, Mr..TANEY resig ne d th e " of attorney-general. Rare o r ORLE ANS M ARKET , 14th SEPT. -- Disease and death tl r ely ever k nown more preva l ent i n t hi s c i ty, unless in " most fatal time of the cholera. Strangers generally have tieictt w atta cked, and many cases have terminated fatally among t . ose ho hav e been several years in the country, and who iteites - ' ause quently-considered acclimated; but it appears that „ a great d egree, i ndispensable that the tribute of an at should have. been paid to insure exemption from the here residence and the physicians of the city do not think that the T re i r " id eace of a season is sufficient to insure future safety. io crop s of "twithet • Cotton and Sugar appear advantageously, and clalending that the late rainy weather was quite prejudi i they bid fair to be abundant and good. in ir t e aew crop comes in slowly; and some Cotton of good Laie _ Bi s on hand, but limited generally at 20 cents per lb. 'The at th e Week, as . far as we have learned, are, viz.-20 bales r, B : 1 ' 3 8 at 18, good, but none of it fine ;—also ' 42 at. 18, and 4brot is cents per lb. round. The news from the markets will, no has excit e d t h e planters, they look for high prices, and Pleaao doubt, tqoaciousl y stan d out for t h e i r limits; — at t h e eat time there is little inquiry and few buyers." dot e following is an extract of a letter from Charleston, e d 16th September, 1833 : faZ u T r il a e b TrasPects for the growing crops of cotton are not so ver " they were a month back; the planters complain thayrlint,:o..ch:.and many of them say that they will not make snore o third,' of What teas calculated upon six weeks . Tlie Kale'•"fs . I don't think can be quite so great if we escape a whith is so comm on at this season." T he foll • nyrlog i 3 taken from the AugUsta (Geo.)Courier, ptenther 18th : TyraCorrn "'Op ha, "-N C RO P.—The prospec t o f a n exu b eran t co tt on which nowmaterially changed in the last month. The reports tvith confide fachos, th ough they may be exaggerated, speak bli uce of a diminished crop. This is attributed to the ghting .of the late drought.. It occurred at the worst loaded with on for the cotton plant. At its full maturity, velo pme t f o ruit. and_ urgin g its organization to the full de f vegetable life, the want of a full supply of ali.. ,:tre: must net*ssarily check its operation; and the di 2, e‘d activity- of its powers will be evidenced both in the "a.actAtratitity and •inferier luality of its product. In plain nklish„, in consequence of 4,,,soras an h d e y d o r . y . plant has dropped its b . g weather, the cotton too late for bolls, and it is now !Me fall any occurrence such as a. favourable season and a to enable it fully to retrieve the in " OnaaLpsto jury. urilia,:tfattihoenn:7. 'quality e r , tt ___ _ N, SEPTEmar.a 1 9.—One hundred bales Santee lfie f fair, arrived this morning, from Then:ma. It Li held at 17 cents." The Georgetown, Captain MILLER, from Demerara, arrived in the river at a late hour last night ; but the bag was not delivered. We understand that she is the latest arrival from that colony. Should she bring anything important, we willgive it in our Second Edition. ,The Postoffice - packet Thais arrived at Falmouth on Saturday from Mexico arid the Havana. She left Tam pico on the 6th - August, Vera Cruz on the ISth August, and the Havana on the Ilth September. From Mexico the accounts brought:by the Thais have been anticipated through New York a week ago ; but the dates from the island of Cuba are later than those hitherto received. The yellow fever had been making considerable ravages in the .northern parts of the Island for the week preced ing the departure of the packet ; hut our letters do not mention the cholera; which may, therefore, be presumed to have ceased in its destructive effects. The only com mercial intelligence of moment from the Havana was a rise, somewhat considerable, which had taken place in the price of sugar. Considerable purchases had been inade, - chiefly for American account; and there appeared every chance of the improvement in value being main tained. By the New York packet ship Sheffield, Capt. HACK . STAFF, we have received files of papers from that city to the 25th September; we had previously received ac counts one clay later by the John Wells. We have also Montreal papers to the 20th September, but they do not contain much matter of interest. In the weekly abstract of the Daily Advertiser for the 18th September is a de scription of a steam-boat on a novel construction, in vented by Mr. BURDEN, an ingenious mechanic of Troy (U. S.), for which we have not space. The boat is to be 300 feet in length, with an average breadth of about 40 feet ; the power of the engines will only be 75 horses, and the speed which he calculates upon accomplishing not less than twenty-five miles an hour. Mr. BURDEN has made experiments on a - laige, scale; - which - justify him in his expectation• of success with his "floating island," which is in an advanced state of progress. Should those expectations be rtalized, our present rail-road speed will cease to astonish. The rapids of some of the American rivers, which have hitherto presented serious ob stacles to steam navigation, as they often run at the rate of ten miles an hour, will then yield to a power, which, after overcoming them, will still make its way . _ at a speed far exceeding anything which has been , done hitherto, with the strongest tides or currents operating in faVour of the vessels. We cannot pretend to judge, from the details before us, if the plan will be successful or otherwise ; but we have a conviction, arising out of something beyond conjecture, that the speed of steam boats may be very much in creased. At the date of these accounts, the harvest, with few exceptions, was housed in the two provinces of Canada, and the neighbourhood portions of the United States. It appears that in the provinces, the crops had gene rally proved very good ; though in some districts the Indian Corn had partially failed. In Upper Ca nada there seems to have been the most favourable results, and in many farms, the produce averaged over the whole surface forty bushels of wheat an acre. From the'United States the crops are generally represented as being abundant in the northern, western, and south western states; and in Ohio and Illinois unusual crops have been housed. In the latter the quantity of wheat is said to be " prodigious ;" and it is thought "that the entire product will be at least twice what it ever was in Illinois in the most favourable seasons." In some of the southern states there is a deficiency; but it is computed that the abundant produce of the western states will easily supply that deficiency; and "that the harvest of the United States generally will be more than an a verage." It can hardly be said, with any respect for truth, that there is at present a settled and efficient government in England. At any rate it is tolerably clear that the ad ministration of which Lord GREY is the head is not that, government. The KING and his Ministers are entirely rnled by the_politicalnions. The tax-gatherer is hunted, out of society as wolves were in the olden times. The laws are openly violated by these political associations. The whole revenues of the country appear to be under their controul ; and they have only to resolve that a.cer tain tax is oppressive and ought not to be paid, and the tax in question is immediately repealed. In their hands the silly but good-natured and half innocent Lord AL THOR P is no more than a sheep..dog under the lash of a drove of butchers. " Holloa !" shouts blue-sleeves, and the dog runs. " Down with the taxes !" shout the unions , and down the taxes go. Verily we are in a most pro mising condition altogether ! The ministerial journals are commanded to announce that the house and window duties. will be forthwith abo lished. In fact these taxes are no longer to be collected in London. ln many, pacts of that vast "wen" their collection'has ceased.. .The commissioners, assessors, collectors, and their legion of clerks, are all ruined men, Their occupation is gone, and the union flag waves over the gin-shOp in celebration of the victory gained by the mob over the government. LOrd FITZWILLIAM and Mr. WILLIAM BROUGHAM, now are you avenged ! You set the example of resistance, and now it is brought home to the contemptible ministers whose supporters, if not mi nions, you are. As a matter of course, we of Liverpool and the country generally, from the Needles to the Orkneys, must come in for our share of the spoil. If the collection of these taxes has ceased in London, it must also cease in the provinces.. It will never do to pillage us while the peo ple at head quarters are allowed to go scot free. The crAlectors, therefore, need not trouble themselves to call for any arrears—that point is settled. The assessed taxes produced—we use the past tense for the sake of accuracyabout five millions per annum. The arrears must. amount to little short of. three millions .more. The interest of the colonial. gift of twenty mil lions will be from seven to eight hundred thousands addi tional. The payment to the Bank of England, and the contingent payment to the East India Company, are se parate items, 1%14,11 we shall, for the sake of distinctness, dismiss from the present estimate, for this also extra rea son, that the account is alarming enough without them. Here, then, is a dead loss 'to the government of five millions for ever—nine millions to be provided for in 1834—and nearly six millions per annum in perpetuity. How is this deficit to be made good ? Where is so much money to come from ? We should like to have half an hour's conversation with. Lord ALTIIORP on this subject, in order to convince him what a tremendous blockhead he must be if he fancies, or imagines, or flatters himself, that he has the power to impose a property tax, or effect re ductions equal to the deficit. The thing is impossible.— The bare mention of a property or income tax at the pre sent moment would produce a convulsion from one end of the kingdom tothe other. Besides, be it borne in mind, an income tax can be resisted as well as a house or window tax. An income tax is not paid by the wealthier classes, for it is added to rent, and presses upon the mid dle and lower classes. It is notorious that when the late income-tax was in force, the owners of small houses and small farms, with tenants at will, almost invariably added ten per cent. to their rents. This ten per cent., there fore, upon shops and houses, would be found to be a hea vier burden, or, as the unionists would say, a more into lerable nuisance than the assessed taxes now virtually re pealed. The mobocracy and. scutnocracy would conse quently be up in aims against the new impost before it was six months in operation... For, remember, my Lord-AtTnOne, they have - the power to do what they please. The scum wills it, and the GREYS must obey. — To think, therefore; of an income tax, is, in our very humble opinion, a clear..test of insanity. As to any further stretch of economy, that is entirely out of the question. The revenue already suffers from the paucity of officers in all - its gre - at . departments. Let us take the Liverpool Custom-house for an example. Its business is managed in a way that would disgrace a Jew pedlar's shop for the sale of old Clothes. Its most re sponsible officers are nearly worked to death. There is not an ,adequate number of officers or clerks in any one department. The whole establishment appears to be un- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, der the direction of the ghost of old ALLAN RAMSAY'S miser, who lighted his hovel by means of a cods's head in a state of putrefaction. In the army and navy the same beggarly and shabby regime prevails. In the former a plan has been devised to cozen and cheat the poor dis abled and worn-out veterans who fought our battles, and who linger nut a weary life upon a pittance called " half pay." As it is under - Whig management, we have no doubt that the fraud—for a fraud it is—will be carr ie into effect. When this is done a trifle will be saved—a few thousands per annum will be , wrung from the bones and sinews—certainly not from the fat—of these unfor tunate gentlemen; but when it is done the army will be reduced to the starving point, and further bleeding will be impossible unless it be desirable to have a mutiny and a strike among the bayonets. , In the navy the same sour trout practice has for a con • siderable,space of time been in active operation. In 1816 we had eleven hundred ships of war, the most for midable navy that ever floated upon the oceans of the globe; at present, thanks to him of the bright sword_ JAMES GRAHAM by name, a second Bailie NICOL JARVIE, without the shrewdness of the original—a real weave', who presides at the Admiralty—a writer of pamphlets every sentiment of which he has turned into ridicule by his official conduct—thanks to him, Sir J. GRAHAM, baro net, this mighty navy has dwindled down to five hundred vessels of every kind, poorly provided, niggardly rigged out, armed as if they belonged to the Tailors' Company, and officered as if by the special appointment of the goos e polishers of the Lumber Troop. Oh, what a falling off is there, my countrymen! "Britannia needs no bul warks," sings TnomAs CAMPBELL, one of our Whig pensioners ; but, alas, the day ! the poet knows nothing of our now emasculated English marine. We have no bulwarks. The Whigs have sold our stores for ready money. Our ships have been converted into hard cash to swell Lord ALTHORP'S accounts. Our poverty has shirt us out from the Black Sea. We dare not fire a gun in any part of the world. We were unable to blockade the coasts of Holland in the late raid against our ancient ally. In short we,are in such a pitiful condition that even the Americans laugh at us. On these grounds we take our -stand, and we contend that economy cannot be pushed one inch or one farthing further. To conduct the bUsiness of the country in an efficient manner, and collect the revenue as it should be collected, additional officers are requisite, and these of course would expect to be paid, a payment which the present crippled state of our finances, crippled by the narrow views and stolid ideas of a philosopher of the mutton school, will not afford. Well, then, what.is to be done ? " Sir," as the impera tive creditor would say, " I must have my money." How are the six millions per annum to be provided for ? We have turned over. this question in our minds for at least forty-eight hours—debating the point with the still and inward monitor, while the great majority of our readers have been asleep—doing that at the dead and silent hour which other men do in broad day light----and e can come to no other conclusion than this—the fund holder must suer ! We see it as clearly as we see the pen, ink, and paper before us, that all these combinations against the taxes, yielded to by his MAJESTY'S ministers, must end in the spoliation of the fundholder. There is no way of meeting the deficit but by drawing upon the national annuitants—not drawing upon them in the mer cantile sense of the term, brit withholding from them that rate of interest which has hitherto been paid. We , admit that this is a serious point to raise. We are sensi ble that in mooting it we are trenching upon the feelings and touching the most sensitive nerves, of many of our readers. It is a disagreeable duty at all times to speak the unpleasant truth. It has, however, been our fate to speak it before; and we should be unworthy of any pub lie respect were we to shrink from the same openness when the very credit of the country—the honour and good faith of the country—the resources of the frugal— the. hopes . of the sanguine —the settlements of the pro vident—are all at stake. They Must, however, make up their minds to drink the waters of bitterness. The shallow fools, having money in the funds, who cheered Lord GREY on in his measures of revolution, and his schemes of family aggrandtgVitient, must now, lire the" bishops, set their honses.in order. Th ose w h o f oresaw the coming calamity, but made no exertions to avert it, are not entitled to our sympathy. Tho<e who did not forsee it are of a class utterly beneath our notice. The three per cents. converted into tzco per cents, is, we fear, the lastand only alternative of Lord ALTHORP. We have some private reasons Par believing that some mea sure of this kind has been discussed, if not determined upon. : It would be a measure, we admit, of barefaced robbery ; it would be a measure of audacious dishonesty and fraud; and one which none but an unprincipled and desperate administration would ever dream of. But the axe has already been laid to the root of the tree, and the people who consented to the spoliation of the church, and - who are making war upon the corporations,- c annot surely lift their hands in astonishment at an attack upon the funds. When national honour is once sacrificed, even in the slightest degree, there are no limits to its career of injustice. The hardened culprit, who is con victed of burglary, began his course of infamy by steal ing pocket handkerchiefs. It is the same with a nation as with an'individnal2 When the executive government of a country becomes relaxed, and its laws cease to be enforced or respected, there is an end to the security of property. One right or privilege is first swept away, and then follows another. Link after link disappears un til the whole chain is gone. England, thanks to its mi. nisters and patriots, is in this declining, absorbing, and consuming condition. She has violated national co venants and acts of union—she has become dishonest— she has committed robbery—she preys upon private pro perty—she interferes with vested rights, and how is she to be restrained from doing acts of still greater audacity and injustice ? Nine millions of pouncli .sterling, we have said, have to be raised next year. Well,• let us see how. By re ducing the three per cents. to two per cents, and all other stocks in the same proportion, the result would bethat one-third of the payments from the consolidated fund would be saved. In other words, instead of . paying twenty-eight millions to the national c re dit ors we should only have £18,666,667 to pay. This would rid us, at one dash, of upwards of nine - millions per annum, la most convenient and refreshing relief.-- 7 a. nice little sum that would 'cheer the heart and the coffers of honest. Lord At.— THORP, and keep the Whigs in office, for, perhaps, two years longer. Bless them ! it would be an ingenious stroke of policy; for the family men might lie able to make something by selling out in time. But suppose all this done to-morrow—the fundholder robbed—the assessed taxes gone—Would the unions de sist from their work of agitation ? We venture to say that they would do nothing of the kind. On the con trary, having gained one victory over the Whigs and the Government, they would endeavour to gain another. I - Iving ascertained their strength and importance, they would not slumber or sleep while any rate or tax re mained upon the books. This present concession to the mob of London is one of the most 'fearful incidents in the history of the present cabinet. It shows that they are disposed to make a` sacrifice Of every institution and form of law rather than give up the emoluments of office. The revolutionary faction know thkwell. Hence their repeated and successful assaults upon the Government. They have carried one point, and they are confident of being able to carry any other :which they may 'deem worth their pains. Lord GnEy .may depend upon it that the police-rate will be the next ground of complaint and clamour. Before the end of twelve months that tax also will be resisted; and, if the same imbecility is al lowed to sway the Government, it would not surprise us to see the whole burden of the London constabulary thrown upon the nation. The church-rates too are sure to be opposed, and as surely will they be abolished. Tithes are already doomed—as the first act of the next session will show. 'What remains—rent?—aye rent— how long ? But no matter. • The worst' enemies which the working classes have, in Liverpool as well as other places, are of the peddling order of retailers, the tape, counter, and change-shil ling politicians, who in general are not half so well in{ formed as the workmen, but who insult and traduce them on all occasions. These upstart and conceited people profess liberal opinions,,and are incessantly. talking of liberty and universal benevolence, but they are. mean and petty tyrants in domestic life, insolent to their ser -vents, who can hardly be called their inferiors, and not very punctilious in other matters, which we have in our . eye, but which it is unnecessary to mention at present. .This sketch, which, we take it, is very near the life, and will easily be identified, is done . in consequence of some scurrilous and mendacious - observations which ap peared in a Liverpool paper of Saturday last. In a lead ing article Change-shilling writes as follows : The freemen are a drunken lace, and their flatterers and patrons know it. The election yesterday was alike condemna _tory of the system,' and the disreputable creatures it has created. .4 As is their wont, they grew thirsty on good St. Luke's, and despite' the fears of Mr. Rathbone and•the flutnmery of Mr. Ovimes, they would have bribes and beer A nominal candi date was also put in nomination, and for several hours the town was disturbed by the turbulence and drunkenness of the decent men who call themselves freemen." This is as deliberate . lying, as plain and downright falsehood, as it is possible to imagine. We have the authority of a gentleman who stood at the bar, and wit nessed the whole proceedings of the election, for saying, tlit during the day he only saw three men inebriated, two of whom were strangers, and the ,other a ten-pound householder, and not a freeman. As to the conduct of the burgesses, it was decorous and good-humoured throughout, and as far as we are judges of faces . and man ners, we did not see a man present who did not appear to b e quite as respectable as are any of the persons who publish the detraction. In the same article we observe some splenetic. allu sions to the new Mayor. We congratulate Mr. ALDER MAN WRIGHT on being made the object of these effusions. It shows tliat the RATHBONE faction know his power, and dread his influence. They recollect too with what ease he refitted their unfounded charges before the late com mittee of the House of Commons. We further congra tulate the Macor on the fact, that his election was the spontaneous_ work of the burgesses,- no canvassing, no solicitation of any kind having been resorted to_ LOXDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, Half-past SeveU n7c104. Our consul market has varied very little during;the'last three days, but there has been some degree of gloom.. .831 ; • was the closing price for the account. Exchequer Bills-have been very fiat. Yesterday they Vrere . done at 32pin, but they have rallied to 31 to 36. India Bonds fell to 20 prem. this morning, bat left oil at 22. There have been attempts to cause an advance in Portuguese Scrip, which has been done as low as 191: prem. but has Closed this afternoOn at 21) a, The Northern Bonds left off at 1011 for Russian ; 921 4 for Belgian ;d7 for Dutch, and 72-1 for Danish. Spanish Stock is: very fiat at 'Di. Greek has not recove re d it s depression, 22 to 2j is th: - : range of the quota tion; and Brazilian Bonds are flat at 64 Mexican Bonds, in consequence of the continuation or civil war, have fallen to 331 to 31. LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Five o'clock, Saturday. By the accounts received here - to-day, we learn that the Sophia, Eastern. had arrived, from Liverpool, at Quebec ; the Turn Tough, Williams, had also arrived, from Liverpool, at Charente, and the Britannia, Oliver, at Miramichi. The CP!o patra, Walsh, had arrived, from Liverpool, at' ginte Video. rile Lancaster, Lethbridge, from Liverpool, has it into Ply mouth leaky, with loss of sails, and bowsprit spiting, bound to Africa. The Richmond, from Liverpmil to Virginia, was spoken in lat. 48, long. 18. . . The letter from the agent at Genoa states that the Assimto, Pissal, had sailed fur Liverpool on the 2d instant. The agent at Smyrna, under date the 18th ult., writes, that the Swifi s ure, and the Mary, Captain Bale, were, at that date, loading for Liverpool. - `The agent at Sydney writes, that the Mediterranean Packet, Pugh, from Liverpool, had arrived there on the 29th March ; and the fYilliam, Boag, on the Ist of April, from the same place. . _ . _ . • -- • The agencies for Naples, and for the Sandwich Islands, are now vacant. Parties intending to apply must make application for the former to the Committee of Lloyd's, before the 26th instant, and for the latter before the 30th instant. LIVERPOOL CUSTOM HOUSE. There appeared in the LIVERPOOL STANDARD of the Ist ants.' under this head, an affidavit, having reference to a transaction which took place some time since upon a charge of a breach of the revenue laws. Upon that insertion some of the parties con cerned waxed rather warm, talked of daring us to publish the other two affidavits, and essayed an exculpation, Which appeared to us at the time to amount to a confirmation of all the leading ..factsaif the case— _Soma, people-do not -knowegalten-- the,---stea • welt off; . and are unfortunate enough to have injudicious friends, and over-zealous advocates. Since these gentlemen are so anxious for a re-agitation of the question, we indulge them, by subjoining the other two affidavits referred to in our former article. We wish them well out of the affair. Whilst we are upon the subject we would observe, that it might be well to ask, if the • case here referred to is a solitary one of that character; and whether there arc not sonic eight or ten more instances of " summonses issued" and " investigations suppressed "? Per- 'haps' if the Commissioners of Customs, 4ir any of them, or any other revenue authorities, have reasons for not pressing for such lure tgations, they might, without impropriety, hand the cases over to the Commissioners of Excise, as not being inconsistent with their official duties. W e m ay also be excused for remarking, that, although cer tain of the existing abuses in the Citstorns' department to which we drew public attention a few weeks ago, may be in some slight degree corrected, the amount so corrected forms but a small portion of the whole extent of the evil charged ; and we would ask, what will best define the regulation introduced within a few days•in the Landing Surveyor's office, touching the discharge of vessels. Is it " vexatious to the merchant, and prejudicial to the revenue," or not ? We shall be understood in the proper quarter. And we beg to assure certain parties that, contrary to their opinion, "the storm has not blown over"—and that they " will hear more of tke Matter" and shortly too. Our object is the public good, and we shall not sleep over it. • "Boroagh of Liverpool, Personally appeared before me, Charles Horsfall, Esq., Mayor, William Swan Dixon, whO made oath th a t on or about the 15thl September, 1831, James INl.`Cubbin showed him a sum mous to appear on the 29th of same month, served personally by Walker; he strongly enjoined him to answer the summons; I‘l.Cullen subsequently informed deponent of what has been before related. Deponent suspecting that the magistrates could not mitigate .to so.low a sum, called at the Excise Office, when he found the whiskey (as goods only,) leas condemned, and no penalty adjudged; as it appeared by the Excise books that the said M'Cubbin could not be found to be served with a sum mons, this deponent called upon Walker for an explanation, when he told him the matter was settled, and M'C. would hear nu more about it. Deponent told him he had been at the Ex cise, and the matter was not settled, and that M'C. was as ,is ever,. deponent threatened to write the Chairman of the Board of Excise, when Walker. observed it. would be use less, as it could do deponent no . gocrd,' . l . but do him, 'Walker, a serious injury. Deponent stated iris :Opinion that the magis trates could not mitigate the penal6r4o,£2 10s. Walker, in allusion to the observation, remarked, tisftt if deponent did •not move anything more in. the matter; he„.3 4 7iitker, would take care that. 11.1'Cubbin should not be troubled anat. more about it. De ponent further observed that if the transiOion was brought be fore the Board of Eicise they would direct proceedings against Farmer for the fraud. el: (Signed) " DIXON." " S;vorn before me, this 7th rAguary, 1833, (Signed) " H • ORSFALL, Mayor." • , " Borough-of Liverpool, . . " Personatiylppgared before me, Thos. Littledale, Esq., one of his Majesty's-auptices of the Peace for the said Borough John Little, of G*goly, master mariner, who made oath that in the month of ScUember, 1831, he was master of the Ailsa Gle'sg,ow trader, where,if James M'Cubbin was mate, and that on the 15th September, 1831, M•Cubbin was personally served .b'y Walker, and in his presence in the cabin of the Ailsa, with a summons to appear at the Town-hall, on the '29th September, 1831, (Walker then commanding the Customs' cutter.) Walker recommended deponent 'to prevail on said James M‘Cubbin to employ. Farrer to extricate him from his difficul ties, and stated the probable expellee would be £2 10s. as a mi tigated penalty. Deponent further saith, that on the Bth October following he paid to the said Ferrer, in the presence of and for accoun t of James M'Cubbin, £3 Is. Gd., being the miti gated pen a lty, a s Ferrer represented, for the saiSeizure awarded by the magistrates on the 29th September, and deponent fur ther.says, having afterwards heard that no penalty whatever was awarded against the said M . Cubbin, he saw and 'spoke to the said Walker several times respecting the matter, who inva riably stated to this deponent that he, M'Cubbin, having paid the mitigated penalty, and all other expences, the business was settled, and he, M‘Cubbin, would hear no more about it. • (Signed) "J 0,11 1 ,1 LITTLE. Sworn before me, this Bth February, 1833. (Signed) "THOS. LITTLEDALE." A Sch oo l o f nedicine has just been established at Notting ham, to whi c h th e Duke of Newcastle h as given the princely donation of FIVE HUNDRED pouNns.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.— [Very good. , We suppose that in this instance the sturdiest radical will not deny that the Duke has " a right to do what he likes with hi s oivu,' especially as this act of beueficence is conferred upon the very town. whose reforming mob fired and ransacked his castle.—Rd. Standard.] APPOINTMENT OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS rort THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER,--At a court Le e t h e ld l as t week in Salford, before J. Norris, E s q., Robert Chapman Sharp, Esq., of the eminent,firm of . Sharp, Hill and Co., was appointed Borough reeve of Manchester for the present year, an d Messrs. Brooke 'and Hodson were nominated High ons tables. The late Boronghreeve, Benjamin Braidley, Esq. and William Haynes and Henry 'Path, Esq., Constables, at the same time resigned their batons of office, having for two successive years perforated the arduous duties incumbent upou them in their respective situations, to the satisfaction of all parties in the town. POCKET Piciorm.—Some expert practitioner in the art of misapropriation, not having the fear of the learned Recorder nor the terrors of the sessions before his eyes, took the liberty, yesterday, of extracting from the pocket of the reporter to the STANDARD, on his passage through the Court House, ass India. silk handkerchief. We also heard of another instance of professional diving outside the Court House, a gentleman 'haying been eased of his pocket-book, containing however nothing of value. The police had better keep a sharp look out for the rascals. ComMISSIONECS OF THE WATCII.—At the meeting on Friday Mr. M'Fadzeo, one of the captains of the watch, was appointed to the situation of superintendent of the scavengers, vacant by the death of the late Mr. Asitburner. There were fourteen can didates. ThcF.i was no other business of importance. MAYORALTY. , The following account of the Election of Mayor, for the ensuing year appeared in the Second Edition of the LIVERPOOL 'STANDARD Of Friday last:-- 7 To-day being the -anniversary feast of St. Luke, on which the El ec ti on o f our Chief Magistrate takes place, the hustings in front of the Towu hall were opened at ten o'clock, and the usual formalities gone through by the Town-crier and the .Town-clerk ; after which, JAMES ACKERS, Esq., in proposing John Wright, Esq., observed; that his character was too well-known to re quire any commendations from him, and it was out of respect alone, on the part of the burgesses, that they were then desirous of showing their approbation of his conduct on the present occasion. • Mr. JAMES IRVING had great pleasure in seconding the nomination of Mr. Wright to the office which the retiring Mayor had filled with so much honour to himself and the public at large. The private character and public abili ties of Mr. Wright were well known they were placed in too great au eminence to be raised by any eulogium of his, and, therefore, he should content himself with merely seconding his nomination. •Mr. EIVING, (who had made his way through the win dow) nominated I. 0. BOLD, Esq. as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Chief Magistrate. This nomination w a s seconded - by Mr. CURRIE (a cooper.) A poll having been demanded, the Town Clerk administered the oaths to the Poll Clerks, and the Bailiffs proceeded to take the votes. At Two o'clock the state of the Poll was as follows • Alderman Wright - . - 2-43 • Mr. Bold - - - - - 227. There is no doubt entertained of Mr. Alderman Wright's return. We hare now only to add that the Poll was kept open until half past three o'clock,• when no voters appear:Jig for Mr. Bold, it was finally closed. The numbers were— For Alderman Wright- - - -3 39 Mr. Bold - - 304 And the Alderman was in consequence declared duly elected. James Crosbie and James Cockshott, Esqs., were ap pointed Bailiffs for the ensuing year. The bells were rung during the evening in honour of these appoint ments. ~} ~.~ .. LIVERPOOL MICHAELMAS SESSIONS. The qaarter sessions Or this borough commenced at the Ses sions'-house yesterday, before the worshipful the Mayor, James Clarke, Esq., Recorder. Chas. llorsfall, Esq . ., the fate Mayor, Peter Bourne, Esq., Sir Geo. Driukwatcr, Sir Thos. Brancker, and Messrs. Crosbie and Cockshott, the two Bailiffs. There are about L5O prisoners for trial, 129 of whom are from the county House of Correction at Kirkdale. The business of the sessions commenced about half-past ten o'clock by the swear ing in of the grand jury, which was composed of the following gentlemen:— Henry Ashton, Esq., Foreman. Thos. Crichlow Molyneux, Esq Leece Drinkwater, Esq. Thus. Moore, ES T .Richd. Griffiths, Esq. Thos. Moss, Esq. Edivd. Gibbon, Esq. Hatfield Nicholson, Esq. Francis Heywood, Esq. Wm. Nixon, Esq. Henry Hamer, Esq. Chas. Backhowe Robinson, James Harvey, Esq. Esq. John Higginson, Esq. Was. Shand, Esq. .John Myers, Esq. Arthur Thomson, Esq. Peter Serjeantson, Esq. Robt. Bann, Esq. Geo. Hall Lawrence, Esq. Richd. Butler, Esq and Nathan Litherlaud, Esq. , James Harvey, Esq. The gentlemen of the bar present were Messrs. Wain, Pres ton, Hal, Bartley, Hanmer, Lawrence, Venables, ilaincock, Hall, Roscoe, Cromp'oa, Rushton, Courteuay, Carr Graham, and Watson. , The grand jury being summoned, and the customary forma lities gone through, the learned recorder proceeded to address the gentlemen of the g ran d i nques t. He said that it was stated some time ago, that the prosecutions at the assizes furnished an important test of the state of crime in the borough of Liver pool and its vicinity, and he feared that the observation was - materially confirmed * by the present state of the calendar, which embraced a large number of offences, and some of a higher class than had ever been tried in that court. It was to be attributed to the alteration of the criminal laws, and to a laudable desire on the part of the magistrates to diminish the county expenditure. Here he might observe that those who were looking into this subject very minutely, and who we re to be commended f or it , h a d admitted that the. prosecutions -insti tuted were marked by no extravagance, and he - was not aware that any of the cases which would he brought before them ad mitted of any difficulty in point of, proof. Be lamented that some misdem e a nors, committed by woikinco in the town, wcuid come under their cognizance. They proceeded from the most erroneous opinions, which it was surprising could. be enter tained by any class of persons, especially in these days, when an increase of knowledge had taught the first principles of sound freedom, which was to allow every mau freedom to work upon his own terms, without interruption from any quarter. Some had seen their error, and others would do wel, to follow their example, and he was sure that the industrious artisan would never fail to receive in the town an ample reward fur his services. It was uunc cessary for him to snake any apology for drawing their attention to the several important acts of the last scssious of Parliament, he should therefore allude to them. The one which enlarged the fund for payment of simple contract debts, by making lands of every description subject to their discharge, was worthy of great praise. It was an act of justice, being necessary in a commercial country, where pecuniary engagements were, for .theemost part,..4444--of a liigh.or nature thask-skorple• contracts, The correct feeling which led to the passing of this act should pervade the whole country, and if the disposition to pay debts, was as strongly felt as it ought to be, there would be less neces sity for the commissions which were so frequently sent through the country. not much to its credit, .many would soy to its disgrace, for the relief of insolvent debtors. A moral reform would cure much of the evil. In the sauna wise spirit another act for the further amendment of the law and the better advancement of justice had passed. Many, he might say, all its provisions flowed from the purest prince 'es of justice, and should b e k nown b y the country at. large. Under a rig appli cation of a certa i n maxim of the law, which said that'personal causes die with the deceased, a creditor might sustain a very te rial injury iu his real and personal property, anti neither he, nor his executors, had any reniedy against the wrong doer. This had been altered, and the act might, in dial respect, be very properly viewed as a material advancement - of justice. It also contained a provision fora less expensive recovery of debts not exceeding t2O. Whether, however, the provision would hereafter b e f oun d sufficient, was a matter of considerable doubt. It was thought a hardship upon a Liverpool creditor to compel him to go to the verge of the couuty. for the recovery of his debt; i t was a still greater grievance to send ,him to West miuster-hall for that purpose; and, undoubtedly, it was fitting that the tradesmen of Liverpool and other large towns should have a ready, and, comparatively, an inexpensive way to the recovery of their debts, especially when they were smell, and not entangled with any difficulties of law exceeding. the average abilities o f recorders to surmount. They might not be aware that inferi or courts, as well as inferior ma,,e •istrates , were viewed with some jealousy ; he, for one, did not complain of the feeling, a l t h ough it was occasionally carried too far. There was only one other act to :which he adverted ; it was the-one which removed the necessity of electing corporate officers on the charter day, when it fell upon thaSunday, and making an e l ect i on on the Saturday . preceding, or on the Monday following, perfectly legal. In justice to the Corpora tion of Liverp oo l he might remark. that the election on Sunday was always a matter of pain. to them, and they were prepared with a billmany years ago to alter the practice. It was supposed, however, and lie thought correctly, that a ren oral law should pass for the whole kingdom to correct the e , il, and such a law had at lengths passed, t ar dily, he admitted, but to the satisfac tion of every one who was' anxious to pie mo e a decent and pious observance of -the sabbath. He would no': further detain them from their duty, sensible that they wruld view the obser vations as a mod e, for as such they were rnea it to be, of pro mulgating a number of excellent laws, being fit to be known,- and highly creditable to the Parliament v high had passed them. The learned Recorder having concluded, the gentlemen of the grand jury retir e d to their labours. SERIOUS ROBBER Y FRO M THE PERSON.—Anne Clark, Fanny Whaling, Thomas Whaling, Constantine Maguire, &if ig.,t Whal ing, and Mary Kilts, stood indicted for having stolen from the person of Michael White, sixty sovereigns and sixty half sovereigns, his property. Mr. Raincoc appeared for the prosecution, from whose statement, and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prosecutor was a cattle-drover from Dun dalk, in Ireland, and that, on the 20th of August last, he re turned from Bolton with the sum of money above-named, being the produce of the sale of his cattle at that place. On the 22d, he was passing by the top of Lace-street, in this town, when one of the prisoners (Maguire) accosted him, hy asking him how he was, and _how long he had been from Ireland. The prosecutor intimated to the prisoner that he had not the plea sure of his acquaintance, but the latter pe rsua d e d hi m h e h a d , and that he knew several people of - the prosecutor' s acquain tance, from Dundalk. Aftersome conversation, the prosecutor was induced to go with Magui'ee into a public-house in Standish-street, kept by a person named Clark, where they had two glasses of ale each. .Mai , uirn paid, for the first two glasses, and the unsuspect 'lrishman, not wishing ng to be outdone in generosity - 4 - hi s new f r i e nd, paid for the others, and, having no silver,: he pulled out his check bag of gold, and changed half a soveieig,n. Having regaled them selves, the Irishman rose to depart, when the p risoner invited him to go to his house, in Dice-street. h e accepted. the offer and they went together. When he arrived at the house, he saw the elder female prisoner (Fanny Wha li ng) in th e house, and Magui re l e f t the house saying he should be back in a few minutes. He had no sooner gone, than the other three • female prisoner s an d Th omas :Wh a li ng came in. They imme diately proceeded to lay hold of him, and Thomas Whaling, placing his fingers to each side of the prosecutor's mouth, pulled him back, while the other female prisoners opened his waistcoat, and seized hold of the purse. Prosecutor struggled to get away, and manivred to scico the purse, when the woman Kitts bit him severely in the hand. Not being able by these means to make him let go his hold, Bridget Whaling pro cured a knife and cut the bag in two, leaving the fiagments of the bag itrhis hand, and the money in theirs. The robbery be ing accomplish e d, the prisoner Maguire opened th e d oor an d the prisoners made their escape. Maguire inquired from the prosecutor " what was the matter?" when prosecutor replied that he knew well what was the matter, as he had assisted to rob him. Maguire pretended that he knew nothing about it, and was anxious to pursue them, but made his escape. Information was instantly given to the police, and the whole of the prisoners were apprehended. Messrs. Venahles and Hall, who were engaged for the defence, hy cross-examination o , endeavoured to shake the prosecutor's testimony, - by attempting to show that he had been in company with other loose w omen in the house in vestion, but without effect. Gaskell, a police officer, apprehended the prisoner :'..laguire and Bridget Whaling on board the Dublin Posteice'paeket, the Thetis, and knowing both to be bad characters, illthough unaware Of their connection with the robbery in queslion, he searched them, and found upon Maguire the sum of £2 Bs. Ma guire on his being . searched, said, " It's of no use, you can't reach me;" he also said that he had no knowledge of his female Companion, but Gaskell had previously seen them engaged in conversation together. They had taken their passage to Dublin in the name of Fassmore. The case was fully proved against all the prisoners, notwithstanding the respectable evidence of Several Irish hodmen to prove an alibi for the prisoner Thoma.s Whaling. The certificate of a former conviction of Bridget Whaling was put in and read, and Mr. Parlour, the superin tendent of police, stated that the house where the prisoners re sided was one of the worst character in Liverpool. The trial occupied about two hours, and titer a lengthy summing up by the learned Recorder, the j - cry returned a yerdiet of guiity aZains ail the prisoners. ' lai:y7Kitts. and Anne Clark were then seit tenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour, and the rest were sentenced to twelve meadlis'. itriprieoinnent in Ler - caster Castle. On hearing the sen t ence , " Go o d luck to your honour," said Thomas Whaling ; "Thank you, sir," cried 'Mt - guire." SINGULAR ROBBERY FROM A Porteret.—Jane Gillespie, a nymph of the pave—weeping ,most piteenelv— stood indictea with havin;:r feloniously received three bunks, two handker chiefs, one work big, one frill; two dresses, and various ether articles, the property of - Miss -Freme Homer. According to the evidence of Mrs. Statham, the lady of the Hey. Mr. Statham cf this town, and others, it appeared that Miss limner ivilS . OU visit at. Mr. Stathani's, and that the a;tielee in question were packed up in a trunk and sent by a putter to the carrier's ware house of Messrs. Shanklin, Manley, and Co. It was directed to Miss •Ilemer, Kirkdalo, near Eiverpoot. The porter who had it in charge, on his way was met by a respectably dressed man, who asked him if lie could us an errand fur him into Bostock-street, saying, that lie could leave his burden at the Farewell Inn until his return. The porter - accepted of the en gagement, and both of them entered the public-house, where the box was deposited in the hands of trio heediady. • The etranger said that he would wait until the porter returned with an answer to •the errand. Both the porter and his hirer went out o 'the public-house together, end the landlady was not aware that the gentleman ,vas no'. the Owner of the Lex, and the porter had no sooner gone than the gentleman inquired for the trunk.— received it, and walked off. It need scarcely be stated that :he porter went on a foul's errand : the person he went to iequh, for, in Bostock-street, was not known, and on his return he found that the box and the gentleman had escaped. It was some time before the owners of the property end the police were aware, of the robbery, for the porter, fearing he might have to pay fur it, kept out of the w ay until the police waited upon him for informatio n . li e st ood a great deal of examination from Mr. Hall as to his know:edge of but it did not app ear th a t h e was a pa r ti c ip a t o r in the te gentleman, berg. The rol prisoner et the bar was not char g ed with the felony, but as a receiver, it having been discovered that sh© had pledged several articles with Mr. Gillard, the pawnbroker, in Loudon-rued, and a bl r. Sharp, in the same business, which were identified by Mrs. Statham and. Miss Horntr, as t hei pro perty of the latter, which was deposited in the box. The pri soner's lodgings were searched, and the Sketch Book, Wharton's Lives, and other articles belonging to the prosecutor, were found. The , prisoner, in her defence, stated that she was sitting in a public-house in Charles-street, kept by a man named 'I homy son, when a person who called himself a .clerk in the docks came in, with a bundle in his hand, and, having treated her with something to drink, they made it agreeable to go home together, and pass the night, which they did, and he made her a present of the articles found upon ber premises. The land lord of the public-house corroborated tins statement, and be lieved that the prieoner had no previous acquaintance with the person who entered his house, as ho had inquired from him who and what she was, and had ultimately iutrodueed himself to her. The jury found the pi isoner gqty, bue recommended her to mercy. Tile learned recorder took the recommendation in to consideration, and after a seve re l ec t ure on the wickednees and imprudence of women of her description receiving property from those with whom they chose to cohabit, sentenced her to only one mouth's imprisonment. 'lwo other unfortunate women of the town, named Mary Spotswood and Mary Thompson,. were found guilty of having stolen from the person of a man named Faulkner, three half sovereigns, four shillings, and a pair of spectacles, his property. The prosecutor had imprudently accompanied the prisoners to a house of ill fame, and was there robbed by them. Sentence, three months' imprisonment. • . Bernard Winter and Martin Truson, two youthful bone grub bers, or pickers up of "unconsidered trifles," who profess to obtain an honest livelihood by the purchase of bones, were in dicted for stealing three iron pans and a small copper pan, the property of Mr. Statham, confectioner, of Castle-street. It. ale , peered that the prisoners had made a purchase of Is. id. worth of bones of Mr. Statham, and, in putting them into the sack, they had, accidentally or otherwise, boned the four pans. •The pri soners, for the offence, bad been in prison since July. They were found guilty, but the Recorder ordered them e. be dis charged. . _ Three incorrigible young thieves, old acquaintances of the police, two twelve years of ..age, and the other fourteen, wero convicted of stealing a five-shilling-piece, one lialf-crown, four shillings, and some copper, the property of Joseph Sanders. The case was fully proved against the prisoners, and Moony received a good police character. They were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonmept in Lancaster Castle. A VAPOUR 13A TH.—Wiiiinn Price, a rustic labourer, was indicted fsr stealing a copper tea-kettle, the property of a pub lican, named Formby. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Formby, that the prisoner was in her tap-room regaling him self with a pint of home-brewed, during which time the kettle was boiling on the fire. She left the room for a few minutes, and on her return, the kettle, water, and prisoner were non est inrentits.. Suspecting that the prisoner had stolen•it, and was somewhere about the premises, she made search and discovered him in the petit, but unaccompanied by the kettle; she was re tiring, thinking that some one else might have stolen it, but her attention was attracted by a volume of steam issuing front the receptacle, and was consequently i n d uce d t o exp l ore t h e premises, and succeeded in bringing the kettle to light again. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and as a caution to him to refrain from getting into hot water again, the Recorder sen tenced hint to 14 days' imprisonment in the House of Cor rection. Several other cases were tried, but none of any interest, and :he Court rose at six o'clock. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES Yesterday a general meeting of th e G overnors and Subscri bes to the 'Liverpool Dispensaries, was held in the Clarendon rooms, for the purpose of electing two honorary Surgeons to the North Dispensary, -to 611 up the vacancies occasioned by the appointment of Messrs. Banner and Wainwright to the new hospital. The Rev. James Aspinall book the chair at eleven o'clock. and requested the Secretary to read the advert6emeut calling the meeting together, with the minutes of the Medical Board that had examined the certificates of the different Candidates, -(nine in number) after which-- - •• ~ • _. Mr. Eden was proposed by Mr. Joshua Lace, and seconded. by Mr. Thomas Penny. Mr. Dodd was proposed by Mr. R. F. Breed, and seconded by Mr. Branch. Mr. Jones was proposed by the Rev. R. Davies, and seconded by Mr. 11. Lightfoot. Mr. Stubbs was proposed by Mr. Carr, and seconded by Mr. IL Muss. Mr. Halliday was proposed by Dr. Carson, and seconded by the Rey. F. Murphy. . . Mr. Cheesbrough . wa9 proposed by M. A. Hodgson, and se conded by Mr. G. J. Wainwright. Mr. Hayes was proposed by the Rev. Mr. Blundell, and se conded by Mr. W. Wilson. -- Mr. - lievan was proposed by Mr. W. M. Duncan, and se conded by Mr. G. W. Ewing. Mr. Taylor was proposed by Mr. Samuel Cearns, . and se conded by Mr. Payne. At three o'clock the polling ceased, and after a short period the Chairman announced that Mr. Eden and Mr. Stubbs vroto declared duly elected; and that the numbers were fur each Candidate as follow Mr. Eden 489 Stubbs 374 Jones lB4 Cheesbrough 137 129 Bev au 67 Dodd.. 31i Hayes .. 33 Taylor .. 12 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Since the Holywell Hunt races there his been little betting on any of the great events of next se a s o n, wi th th e ex c e pti o n of the business done at the Newmarket second Ortober meeting, at which place eight horses were spiritedly backed for the Derby, and three for the Oaks: the St. Leger was not toiichcd upon.— The meeting was exceedingly fiat, and had it not been for the betting, it would scarcely have proved tolerable. The attend ance as well as the sports were very indifferent, the: fen; er falling off can only be accounted for by supposing that the South Downers have not vet overcome the debilitating effects of the St. Leger fever. The Holywell Hunt meeting concluded on Thursday, and, fur a wonder, with a fine day. The excellent running of that adroit cup stealer Pickpocket retrieved his almost forgotten good character, and his name will, without doubt, be lasting in the minds of the Lancashire - knowing ones, whose pockets were considerably eased both upon the cup and the Baron Hill Stakes, they having heavily backed Speculator for the former and Her highness for the latter, tho result to them being equally as great matter of astonishment as their crude Chancellor and Perseverance being beaten by Jack Faucctt in the Mostyn Mile cunteFt. There arc no other meet ings upon which sporting men specul;:te at present ulon the tapis; indeed, the racing , in this part of tie country is last drawing to a close, and may be said to end with the Wol caster and Tarporley Hunt meetings, which commence next week. The following is the latest state of the e..ds:—The Dei by. 9 to 1 agst Bubastes, (t;) 16 to 1 egg Guardian, - (t;) IS to 1 egst Comet. (t;) 20 to 1 agst Emigrant, (t ;)-20 to 1 agit t;) 20 to 1 agst Plentpo ; 2:,) to 1 agst Chifner's colt, (t . ;) to 1 agst brother to Whale; 4t) to - 1 agst brother to Kate; and 40 to L ag,st Pincher. The Oaks. 7 to 1 agst Cotillion, (t;) Bto 1 apt Eleetress ; and 20 to 1 agst Amado- . . STATE OF TRADE. The Bradford market, on Thursday, was consideralil.y flatter than the previous week, Particularly in six-quarter merinos., owing in a great measure to the advance in wool, which the ma. nufacturcrs say will not leave a remuneration, and the mer chants refusing to give a correspendentadvance. Three-quarter merinos are in much demand at last weeks' prices. • At the Halifax market, on Saturday, consideiable business was done at tbe tip-top prik.es. Wool tent of acn; to did manufactured goods, at an aavance; but the makers' say that the high rate of wool prevents faun realLziug a tor profit. he Huddersfield onke , oil Tuesday, was rather slack. thaugh for some middle qualities of cloth, wanted for the com pletion of orders there was a good demand at a small advance. Fine wool still 'looking up—demand rather itaneas.ng than The Rochdale flannel market, on Monday, October li, was much the same as the preceding wcok. Low prices seem to be most in request. Son.e of the. manufactut ers are giviug out.. less work; thevseeto determined rather to stand than to sell at present Friccs. • The silk weaving iu the neighbouring towns round Manches ter grows worse; weaveis aim avers have nut more than i:atf work. The Company's Indigo sale closed on Wednesday. The prices, as con•pared with l as t sa l e , are now a b ou t equa l ; th e purchases for Yorkshire ha:e been large,— Lecits Intellige»cer. In consequence of the dcpi.e,sed state cf the Oltlatu cotton market, the mills here are st,:rkin ,, "slicrt tune." The iron works in the ne i g hbourhood or Bradford are at the present time in a state of great activity. DESTRUCTION OF THE ".BRITISU LEAP TEA."—On Thurs day, pursuant to order:: given by the Lord Mayor, fur that pur pose, the i mme n s e seizure made by the Lxcise officers, of Britiatt leaf tea, belonging to Mr. Ilcale, was consumed in the yard ad joining the interior building of the.Excise-oilicc, in Old Broad_ street, London. The leaf was conveyed to the yard in fifty seven hogsheads, and thrown into five large macs, and at nine o'clock in the morning they were fi red by the Excise officers, and continued to burn throughout the who.e day. For a con siderable time the inhabitants of the boosts witnin many hun dred yards of the FAcise-office could not imagine from t;ience the extraordinary smell_ proceeded, • in many cases producing violent nifections of the head; but at lent:tli it was generally known that the "British leaf" was undergoing a process it was not intended for, , and hundreds of merchants and others pro ceeded to the Excise-office to witness the ceremony. "the odour emitted was so strung as to almost overpower persons of weak nerves. The quantity ordered to be dest:oyed was 11,000 tbs, Engines were placed near the Ares to be ready in case of need, bqt no imident gee:med.