The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-18 00:00:00

a dea dly 1)10 0 0 i ur kn° ;cledge l • f o rmed a n l ! l a churc h . 8 0 n o --it iblic opiin o opialo e ver:: l ier eforet. vct i st ken rece l • o ur hung"' lc at l c A b e to at ta ,s va.s. had aCt ROrne.ed been Mtn, somewhatrs", hildren, effort w3- for dev c into on for the ex to • P k o mva a a s ,od 1.1 :hat, of '3,011 d an • •erP aa io in 1 • 13 bort in a v erY ' r ead ;aker then ' owa-c°llnol of erative Inhabit' TO CORRESPONDENTS. I'll EI TRE -RO Y AL, LIVERPOOL. p land it, , 13 1 , - ENE.F7T OF MISS ELLEN TREE, OS hr `" a Last Night of her Engagement. N'Thedetsheentf.PßlPAY, October 18, 1839, will be per- T , avottrite Comedy of HE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Sp Sir Pet er T eazle.... Mr. Baker. Oliver" Surface.... ' Mr. Gray. ft -I °B 4h Surfac e M r. Stu ar t. Stii,;"`TLes Surface ........ Mr. W. Howard. y il j a min Backbite. Mr..W. H. Bland. ‘Caildoti Careless ...... Mr. Bailer. • r. • Mrs. Cl ar k e. Lady Sneerwel l .. M rs . B a k er . v Li Maria .... Miss Cleaver. ' f , c t , iii l , Y Teazle... ............... Miss Ellen Tree. ''ropla...'“orthe second time here, a New Drama, per ,yzjeason with the greatest success at the Thea (laYroarket, called IL AN . , THE RANSOM : Ras A NECDOTE OF MONTESQUIEU, T receiv e d at this Theatre on Wednesday Evening T.tkrvanwith the most enthusiastic applause. i, e . • .Ir. G ray. Edward.. Mr. W. H. Bl an d. . president Montesquieu.... Mr. Chaplin. 4telie..., P hillippe.... Mr. Slaiter. -Nlrs. Tenet. Gertrude.... Miss Cleaver. , .Pauline .. ... Miss Ellen Tree, liguiBr;',,,riginally ' performed by her in London. k i lel it e'A-,BTONE, the popular Author and Actor, of ki,. 4 44 .. `a1, Haymarket, is engaged for Ten Nights, kig h r; • e his appearance On MONDAY NEr, Oct. 21s , ~,ttlaal. character of Henry Dove, in his Comedy of .i tay L 'IPE, and Wormwood, in the Farce of THE TICKE T. \ I CH i CAN SUCH THINGS BE ! Lteizi.lviiii: INCREASING CROWDS rush GREAT t t f b O T, H T E R I A 1, .. T b il c rw i l l t c h e o d u t t h a a n t the equal in the k. ki,4,l;cient and modern Necromancy. .His astounding 0 2 '0' Paralyse the senses of tlteiadmirin _nii . l Net-14,m breathless astonishment, at the g Ma u rv i ellons elew.`4el, behold. 1 . 4 hard, co . ch ar „, nscions that his Magic has . w . orked the t WC liPOn his Friends and the Inhabitants of Li !owe Jr_ve the potent power of his skill, by fill kNes u ‘ r Magic to overflowing—in fact, surrendering Otli t t,_`° their ineVitable destiny—to be operations trresisbly -411 the 11 ' 't . '-le of his cabalistic koth i ,, x y . , lc clic . . ;t I jt ' Pressing the sincere gratification which these It ret u l e te P rc 'ofs of his skill and success afford him, and ip t74 lt hi % :ug his hopes that his Spells will not desert him, tu t tok - trnYstic Summons will continue to be answered 1 "IS tir' WE oomE! WE C O M E ti will ENING, (Friday,) and during the week, the .normyita,;(„P his Woners of Visible and Invisible 0 k tG n j ' two parts •in the interval between which, vri e°4B Enteitainment when Mr. ALFRED OR. i tt , I ' l deliver his French' Lecture on Macbeth, and 'A lt , i l eolle S e i t l e tehes from his IVlono-Dratnatic Enterl l a a i r n e m: a n p t l 'VX4,l. ‘ c,if things . which may or may not 'MIS I .iNG by Miss L. BRU . CCE . The INFANT Qlli ' n , will appear. The Wizard will conclude the 4; 11 ,„ts with his Wonders, introducing the EGYI 3 . - Nof pOLOGER ! ! who will disclose the Mystic kzoi tlot uture Fate to any Lady who may be sincerely 1 f°r e - knowledge of the events hereafter to :11t , (It i klillissi° P , S Il ev o e x n es o , , 2 n s o ._ rt Is. • Gallery, 6d. tt i :Pe 4 at I k t he . Wizard commences at w6le concluding at half-past Ten or Eleven. LAST DAY BUT ONE. - 4 •liti• AT rIC NOW EXHIBITING,' LYCEUM ROOMS, BOLD-S EET, TURE OF THE C ()NATION, (P ), A OF BELSHAZZAR ' AST.) b b , ken fro m T en till Five o' ock. S' 0 , ONE S ILLING. Will be Open every Evening from Seen to "en the Roomwill be lighted up with Gas. L hE Lit AR II ,PPOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. ri , l TA` 4 e WA'"„;TION of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY at -1 -‘ 1 f MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW " o f Ten - kilo, t , GALLERY, CHURCH-STREET, TO , CT! "t S, ornin till dusk. Admission, One Shilling. - no Shilling. Season Tickets, Five Shillings. SAML. EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. GASKILL'S EA GAsvi-PRESSES XTBAORDINABY ! ! _ 'teet LL, Agent for the TIMES, 45, Lord ti,pueiUg the only Individual in TIMES, sup- I WITHeO FAI IMS dire LUREt c from the the TIMES Tii*Es OFFICE, iS , to furnish 4r, . 4 1 of A 7 ' FOUR o' CLOCK I Or f). ° l ; the D a y of its publication in London. qi4t-isKili, is the ONLY AUTHORISED AGENT FOR tAb Subscribe rs ar e assured of THE LATEST EDITI. 4 44 tl l ' e t r vt's are forwarded DIRECT ONS to the lim a us pair. e the commission of News Agents in Ln radon is saved to the Advertiser. ,NR hs e r w as the first to introduce the TIMES to the AO whC is r P oo l at Four o'Clock in the afternoon, .pre -te in _„,none of the Morning Papers reached Liver- -Lveniug. „, tl i'l ti s e ftraunication shall appearon to T d u a e y sd , a rs k . e room for it a o y wing W to e `: •e ° l l 2 l ( l : l °t a t • i ll i:, r ,l:c i :l a m tlY at rfl te will find n the columns of the S lt t io a n nd o a f r iN d i o r f . l'Nti -- hod t.;tl i of Se p t mber, a full de.x I ,teollett'„xperi t p 410111111.111, : xt li . e ation m r e e ll la s ti ve to Dr. Herschell shall appear Uje ziti r rpool &tanbarb. 1. 1. 11 ,, A w 11 3 /ORNiNG, OCTOBER IS, 133 P. vtI lltri t :„ 114111)2 greatly surprised if the accession to go t 4, te ' t of the two great deliverers of thrice-compact -3' ~.h es ' do not prove ' a source of serious annhoys '44,-ve-N, ot that we anticipate, as the Roman poet a 1111' 4.14 4 of the two great orators of antiquity, that the khi of their own eloquence will overwhelm them in 41 tme:rit.destruction : no, we dare say* that these ”. twin ki te ' u°lt s of war" will be as far from the untimely N t th ey are infinitely removed from the genius and e f i„ to e . ro and D emost h enes . But that they will i 'ltd . P l cces in the House* of Commons, all the re 'i . .4)0, 1 ' t heY may respectively happen ti°P ' to possess, and 1 41 1 ‘ i. t he Cabinet which they have undertaken . . . TI,, . (1, i s 41 4 ti a‘matter upon which no one but the indivi- It i,leniselves can entertain any doubt whatever. Itik44l,,isiaf curious io , tts coincide nce th a t they should simul joined i n d e f en ding the beleagured 141 11 } t to .. l it Were a se ason o f J u bil ee , and the Premier il ' L c .' (118 Play of fireworks to amus . e d the r, Bed-cham- Sheil and 14 .4 -' 147 8 and the Lacquies of Win so 4 titik 3 ' would outvie each other in coruscations of „ . (111 1(1. ° L . ' and fiery flights of antithesis. Declamation "kra ßt .: ll Riad; word upon word, paragraph upon ' ' ll ' s k -I ' l ,' a heap of obscurity and dazzlement, fire and f lie b e o i -nut f or war,— or the stern artillery of real . l t k l li o 4 of keen debate, boldly aimed and heavily hur - iti llie l l ii f e)--- ° ne might look as well . to Lord Normanby ), 'a l rt ilt i l: th e Epiperor of America. Pow, .Pow was , •ki ete . Pair. He, indeed, could say his little say 14e 1 . 1 0 , 41. (and that was but seldom) the Cabinet or 4te (l% to e 'night wish to hear him. But your orator - 4.1 e l' t 4 Prepared. Your great gun must be sio Swhilty,tpille.odijuPeee l i 3 s ef t o h r e e re h s e nl i t s of b i r .n o n u g ght into the field. es, it Placemen should accep g t es th ta e t i i r on. roffered tl l let i tb, t needs no conjuror certainly to P divine,. e di Present is all they dare to . look to in N I ., aistr ous l ' i x , ll tak e 4ill b Posture of affairs ; and if all they s e but little, that little they nevertheles Lord -1 1.) 0 * but it is not so easy to see w h y to i ke Z tie i lollid have thought it worth l i e or There is nothing in the character whilef the t"' e iti: ill e Scottish recruit so peculiarly calculated o e rkl j ate tile position of a sinking . The Lain itnoisotrffiyc'e helng e("44ter,ll,rnals talk of their accession M 'llt up on What they are pleased to call a better policy. kik% e°ll the idle subterfuge ! If by a better . they b ; 11 Y daPlte reckless, headlong, downward, policy, ; 1 \\ l ': I , °t the despairing Cabinet invite Mr. Grote, `qat th -rourton, or Mr. Ward ? Every body knows thty he MN are excluded from the Ministry because ‘`Attett: uncompromising Radicals. It needs no great hii 411 (1 : 4 4 °r discernment to perceive that Messrs. S e 11/41e.aeakulaY have been admitted because they are ( , - ' 4ll fin„4l.l earnest" indeed ! Why, does any sane he 14hiaet"rse that if Mr. Macaulay's accession to t ion at tritrnduced so much of Radicalism into it i as l l Oe 'r- : e .i r t and disappoint the wishes of Lords N e t tlll id b aba John Russell, the policy of the Cabin d e . ey are altered ? The proposition is nakedly absur h. 44 04 : 4 e l l n , c ' t a People's Cabinet, but a Windsor Ca i rs L ora chamber Coterie ; and if Mr. Anybody th''N 711 Melbourne the least annoyance in the 4 ,, oe h .,, l i : " "`Y expect to receive a note informing him . at e , kitrl th i e tc Q uee . ll has been pleased . to revise the list of lho istration and that in the new one Lord ' no t ! ll i e 114 s not the honour to perceive his name." vie h tU tl:t i i et thi ngs be called by their own names. If i:_ kj ttrlo e ;:: a democratic M . inistry,with all the evils • ~ o4 l lo lll3eii Y, that is one thing ; what we now have t u rl4 rv Ett ic 3l(l Ministry, which, under the shelter of a . it e °PPosition in both Houses of Parliament, ,rlri totivenie L rkti e te nt every now and then to sham a de l'- 4 ri tte ::: ll : p ell a c rt Y• y With an overwhelming majority t - : ) : 4 erva - t i 4 1 ,,,' and all but a majority in the other, the need be under no apprehensions oak a . e giant Macaulay 1 :4 1,11111- tIt a o 13 _ 4:11°r shoves - * an old jacket . or a Premier of i 'ilecil si a .sudden leak, the necessitous •tk , 4 r. 11 , the tetilm.„.:caulay into the gap which Lord How_ 11 14 . 1 / 1 1 top 4_ 4 / 1 .r 1 /lad created. It will need all hands to l oolv / I L l t ' iltt b i , o 4l e tiuttuntl i et.rii i .tis e e lea etitoiii r eynat t t h eaen e snt hold. They may rest assured Rottenness will, the wretched craft N. is 741 Y I bllng against them as surely and as *otit'4lwhile th • o il _ ere can be no doubt that things s . v . i a ll . 41 40 0t h i Y enough until the Meeting of Part! ment. What turn things will take it is impossible to say ; but we think few persons can doubt that the pre sent Registration must be called into play very early in the year, and still fewer, either of Conservative, or Ra dical, or Bedchamber sentiments in politics, entertain the smallest doubt of the result. It remains there fore only to consider how the battle of the Constitution may best be fought, when a Conser v ative Cabinet is entrusted to defend the Citadel. That the Radicals gill then unfurl their own black flag as the only banner For the opposing faction is too plain. The battle then will be a battle in earnest. Every Waverer will be pushed aside. Every compromise will be rejected. Open and undisguised will be their enmity to every British principle and every Christian institution ; stern and untiring will be their efforts ; active and energetic the prosecution of their daring purpose. Upon the electors of Great Britain it will rest whether the noblest fabric of Government that the world ever beheld is to sink into destruction for ever. The Electors of Great Britain may be trusted, and the ark of the constitution will be saved. The approaching municipal contest has thrown our Liberal Contemporaries into an ecstacy of fear. They fancy all the terrors realized which a guilty and trou bled conscience so naturally presents. The time of reckoning has arrived, and they not unreasonably ap prehend that the scores of their misdoings will be paid off. They have ridden roughshod now for four long years over the people of Liverpool, and they are ago nized with the thought that their power is broken. Idle dreamers ! Do they think that men have nei ther eyes, nor ears, nor understandings? or did they suppose that the Municipal Reform Bill would abro gate the- common functions of the human mind, and deprive men of the simplest powers of apprehension and memory ? • Everybody , remembers the outcry: that used to be raised against the ancient Corporate mono poly; and everybody knows that the new municipal tyranny has exceeded the supposed iniquities of the former system,—as the loins are heavier than the little finger—as scorpions are more terrible than whips. As things used to be, it is quite tree that a number of the most considerable persons in the town exercised certain functions within it, though by no means so considerable as those which the upstarts of the Town Council have obtained for themselves by . the complai sance of a Radical Parliament and the connivance of a Radical Ministry. It is quite true that very little used to be said about freedom of election, or liberal policy, or the thousand-and-one other humbugs that the poli- tical impostors of the day can turn to their own profit. But in those much-abused days there were several anomalies unheard of that have prevailed since. Gross abuses had never been attempted that have now not only been brought into general use, but are scarcely disguised—nay, are almost boasted of. For instance, the Mayor used in former times to be elected by a large class of his fellow-citizens in open poll, not to be cliqued for and caballed for at Tavern Meetings and private assemblies of some few active and intriguing local dictators. One never heard then of its being ar ranged beforehand, and the office definitely promised to this or the other factious and ambitious individual. The old scheme had its abuses, and, if bribery were sometimes one of them, the advocates of Mr. Thomas Macaulay will perhaps do us the favour of perusing his very curious oration at Edinburgh upon Bribery and the Ballot, before they say a single word in censure of so very amiable and peace-working a contrivance as that great organ of Reform confesses Bribery to be : at all events, it was an evil resulting from the very po pular nature of the mode of election,—an occasional abuse of a very ancient • and constitutional system of local government. Again : there was no such thing in those days as an Election of Aldermen independent of the Election of Town-Councillors. The Alderman then was he who, having been chosen by his fellow-citizens to the high office of chief Magistrate and having discharged its duties, had passed in • consequence of their choice to this subsequent dignity. But who, we should like to know, in the name of Reform, of popular choice, of Freedom, Humbug, Liberality, or what you will—who, in the name of whatever is Radical and absurd, is your Alderman now ? Why, no one is so dull as not to be aware how these things are managed now. Mr. William Button—(that we may run no risk Of giving offence we are desirous or aiSuining a very un exceptionable instance for our case in point)—Mr. Wil- Liam Button, we will suppose, is a very great man amongst the Liberals; he chances to live in a very un safe quarter of the town—a quarter, we mean, in which Liberal sentiments do not precisely suit the taste of the inhabitants ; Mr. William Button feels accordingly that he runs no small risk of being rejected at the next Election; but Mr. William Button is likewise a gentle man of very sensitive disposition, and would by no means bear a beating with that equanimity which be comes a Liberal and a philosopher. Here is a dilem ma! What is to be done ? Why, says a certain very powerful junto of persons, try the ward, Mr. Button, and beat the Tory if you can ; if you can't beat him, never mind ; if the people won't have you for a Coun cillor, why WE-WE will have you for an Alderman ! ! Neither used the public to be scandalized in those old (and doubtless very abominable) .days of which we speak, by learning that the office of the Town-Coun cillors and Aldermen in Council assembled, with Re porters for the public press and all the paraphernalia of a deliberative assembly about them, was in fact and reality nothing more than a mere Register-office to the Tap-room of a Tavern. No one ever heard of the rulers of Liverpool assembling at a Public-house, dis cussing, concerting, and resolving on their measures, and then marching to the big room in the Town-hall to give them legal effect and force. It used not to be known in Liverpool that a well-known Angel saw a certain Radical, a Radical to his mind, Go up into a certain room with a majority behind ; But the Devil now quotes Genesis, like a very learned clerk, How Noah and his creeping things go up into the ark. However imperfectly, in the opinion of any of our fellow-townsmen, affairs used to be administered, at all events popular choice and public opinion were not openly and studiously outraged : gross insult was not added to deliberate injury. Neither again used the peace of the town to be sur rendered at discretion to the tender mercies of an ex asperated rabble. We never heard of a Tory and po pularly-chosen Mayor who received the intelligence of a riot with the calm and dignified expression, " DAMN THEM, LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT." Magistratesused to do their duty, and gave no cause of offence that we ever heard of, except this unpardonable one—they were unpaid. Now do the liberal writers, who are trying so perse veringly to throw dust into the Rate-payers' eyes, se riously conceive that any articles of theirs can make the people of England forget these things, one tithe of which would be enough to seal the fate of the Radicals for ever ? Have so many liberal souls been made fat for nothing ? While promises disappointed and pledges forfeited shall be passports to public infamy, the me mory of the last four years shall be recorded in endu ring characters against the little-doing and much-pre tending patriots of Liverpool. The opposition on the part of the Conservatives to the Ministerial scheme of National Education has been productive of one good effect, which is, that it has caused the writers on the Liberal side to drop the mask of affected zeal for Religion which they at first assumed, and reveal to view the lurking features of Infidelity. For some time the ground taken by our opponents was that of conciliation and charity. They were grieved, good men ! at the sight'of the jarring differ ences which have armed Sceptics with arguments against Christianity itself; and, asserting that if the Trinitarian Faith, as held by the Church of England, was the true one, it must ultimately prevail, they were anxious to bring Sectarians in contact with her mem bers in seminaries of instruction, and thus, by the bond of a common education, lessen the hostility entertained towards her communion. members of the Established Church, as though, through the portals of our National Schools, in which was to mingle an heterogeneous crowd of all sects, creeds, and persuasions, a large increase of proselytes would enter within her pale. But it is a troublesome task to play the hypocrite long, and we now find the defenders of the Treasury Committee scheme boldly insisting on the advantages of secular, and worthlessness of religious education. To the three classes amongst the Romans described by Gibbon—the people who thought all religions equally true, the priests all equally false, and the ma gistrates all equally useful—they would add a fourth, consisting of those philosophers who hold all equally useless ; and therefore they are loud in their vitupera-, tion of the Conservatives, who allow " visionary doc trines" to stand in the way of " sound practical know ledge." They make a new use of the mysteries of Revelation, and represent them as speculative points on which men may harmlessly differ, and about which one opinion is as true, and therefore as valueless, as another ; and avow that, in the cultivation of the youthful mind, all consideration of them may be laid aside as superfluous and unnecessary. With these reasoners the difference of creed between a Trinitarian and Socinian is slight and unimportant, and absolutely vanishes in comparison of the advantage which each might attain by purely secular instruction. Now if this is not Infidelity, we know not wherein it consists. The Infidel denies the fact, as well as the necessity, of Revelation ; and although, in this " decent" age, our opponents care not to incur the odium happily still attached to such a character, it is impossible they can believe firmly in the truth of doctrines as emanating from the Deity which they think it in no degree in cumbent upon teachers to place before the young. Formerly they insisted that the peculiar doctrines of Christianity could still be imbibed under their system, and on that ground they recommended it to the public; but now, irritated by opposition, and the mode in which the utter futility of such a plan has been demonstrated, they screw their courage to a denial of the necessity if such doctrines being made known and inculcated at all, and denounce as contemptible and frivolous . the differences which have broken up the Christian world into so many denominations. Now this is the language of Deists, and if we were a nation of such, we should admit that there was much force in their arguments ; for, in that case, the single point on which Religion would turn would be belief in the being of a God, and agreement in this would be sufficient to include all in one common system of instruction. There could be no possible objection to it on the ground of any separation of morality from religion, for any scheme of Natural Theology is utterly inadequate of itself to establish a code of morals ; and the one great and single fact of a Supreme Governor _• _ _ - . being admitted, the law of conscience would' be the only guide in enabling us to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. And it is this law of conscience—the system of Natural Religion—which our modern Educationists would substitute for the Bible. Not daring to impugn openly its. authority, and unable to disprove its truth, they would by this evil cunning do all that lies in their power to weaken ,s influence, and lead men to erect a system of mora. lity, such as was taught by Socrates or Epictetus, in preference to that conveyed to us in the pages of the Gospel. The following extract from Miss Martineau, quoted by Captain Marryat in his " Diary in America," shews the exultation which Liberalism feels at the prospect of such a consummation. After mentioning that the birthday of Tom Paine has been recently cele brated in several cities in the United States, he goes on to say : " The nature of the celebration in Boston will be understood from the following toast given on the occa- sion : "By George Chapman : Christianity and the banks tottering on their last legs. May their downfall be speedy,' &c. " Miss Martineau informs us that The churches of Boston, and even the other public buildings, being guarded by the dragon of bigotry, so that even Faith, Hope, and Charity are turned back from the doors, a large building is about to be erected for the use of all, Deists not excepted, who may desire to meet for free discussion.' She adds, 7 his at least is an advance' ; and, in a few pages further, 'The eagerness in pursuit of speculative truth is shewn by the rapid sale of every heretical work. The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle-question, as sorrowfully as the most liberal members of society lament the un limited circulation of the false morals issued by certain Religious Tract Societies. Both testify to the interest taken by the public in religion. The love of truth is also shewn by the outbreak of heresy in all direc tions' t " Truly this is an advance ! but of such a kind as, with God's help, we will resist in this country; how ever unphilosophical it may appear to Miss Martineau and the Liberals to prefer the blessings of Christianity to the crudities of " speculative truth." We trust that the Greenwich job has been marked and properly understood by a watchful public. It is the most barefaced insult to the British Navy which could have been perpetuated by our shameless Go vernment. Not long since a Downing-street journal boasted that all the Ministerial appointments and changes lately were directly in the teeth of Toryism — a bravado not very seemly, seeing that the great majo rity in England are Conservatives, or, as our Contem porary would render it, " hold the creed of Toryism"; and, therefore, to make appointments in its teeth is in fact to hurl the gauntlet of defiance against the nation. But Ministers now seem determined, before they are kicked out of office, to chew their contempt for every Observe, they did not positively affirm the proposi tion that this Faith was the true one, and therefore, as such, demanded the vigorous protection and support of the State. Such an assumption would have little accorded with the candour of Liberals. With the'm " Black 's not so black, nor white so very white." They only put the case hypothetically, lest they should shock the many-headed hydra of Dissent. " Your if is the only peacemaker." And with this plausible sophistry they sought to deceive the vigilance of the ,art and portion of the public service. The facts o: the case are of course perfectly well known to our readers. A valuable appointment, preeminently due to naval merit, is vacated by the death of a gallant sailor, the companion in arms of Nelson, who may almost be said to have expired in his arms. What is the conduct of a No-Patronage Whig Government ? Does it look in the Navy List for the name of some gallant veteran who has fought and bled in his coun try's service—some one of the few surviving heroes of Camperdown or Trafalgar, who have a right to expect that their honourable scars should plead against ingra titude, and that the successor of Sir Thomas Hardy should he one who has some claims upon his country for reward ? No ! Lord Minto puts more faith in the hired bullies of Roxburghshire than the brave sailors of Britain. The latter only minister to the glory, and secure the safety, of the empire : the former assist in continuing the pay and patronage of office. He must have a quid pro quo. Politics are the only battles in which he cares a fig for victory : and, there fore, over the heads of some fifteen or sixteen gallant officers, who have fought in general engagements, and whose plea is, " Look, Sir ; my wounds — I got them in my country's service," is hoisted Admiral Fleming, who once saw the smoke of a naval action at a distance, but who is in politics a Whig, and moreover—hear it, shades of Nelson, Col lingwood, and Hardy !—" has spent money at elec tions" in the Whig-Radical cause. The appointment is indeed, as we heard a naval officer call it, " scan dalous" ; and if it does not fill the measure of public indignation against Ministers to overflowing, the Navy may justly complain of an apathy towards her interests disgraceful to Englishmen. The British Queen, which arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday, has brought intelligence from New York to the Ist instant, inclusive. She made the passage in the short space of thirteen days and twenty-two hours. She has brought in specie the sum of 700,000 dollars, together with remittances, it is stated, of one million sterling. If this is correct it will tend very materially to restore the confidence of European capitalists in the financial operations of the transatlantic banks. The Chelsea Bank, one of the institutions under the new banking law, suspended its payments on the 27th of September. They permitted a number of their notes to be protested by a notary public. Matters are, it is rapidly approaching a crisis with the bubble banks. The amount of paper in circulation belonging to the above bank is not considerable. Its failure, there fore, is not likely to affect the money market to any se rious extent. The present crisis, it was expected, would separate the sound from the speculative banks. The Morning Herald states that the current of specie, which is now setting towards England, has become so strong that a turning point in the present crisis will soon be reached. From the 10th of July to the 10th of August the exports of specie from New York have been, for England 3,029,000 dollars, for Havre 862,327 dollars, making a total of 3,891,327. The excess of specie exports over imports up to the 10th of July from the Ist of May was 361,954 dollars. At that time the knowledge that a large amount of goods had been or dered from England first began to excite fears that the supply of bills would not be sufficient to meet the de mand, up to the appearance of the new crop. Appre hensions were therefore, entertained that a drain of specie would be the result. The cotton crop at that time, was exceedingly promising and forward. The banks kept their line of discounts rigorously low, in or der not to stimulate the demand, and the United States Bank came into the market as a seller, to an extent just sufficient to keep the rate below par. Notwithstand ing this, small amounts principally to Havre, went out by every packet ; during this time the utmost anxiety was evinced to hear by every packet of sales of Ameri can stocks in London; such hopes were, however, not realised; each packet brought accounts of thickening disaster in the London market ; goods began to arrive very heavily, the supply of bills was decreasing, and the first serious shipment of coin was made by the steam boat of the Ist of August, at the same time that the issue of post notes by the United States Bank first be gan to attract attention by their quantity, and to oppress the market by the extent of the purchases made in them. The United States Bank still continued to supply the market with bills and draw the proceeds in specie, which was taken to Philadelphia. This checked the foreign export up to the departure of the Liverpool on the 24th August. For that vessel the United States Bank sold about 500,000 dollars worth of bills, and drew the amount in specie a few days afterwards, from the city banks. Since that time the institution has ceased to draw ; but the demand has continued to increase, as is evident by the above statement. At the departure of the Great Western it will be recollected that vessel was de- tained for the return of an express which had been sent to Philadelphia on the preceding day with the news by the British Queen. The result of that news was an order to keep back a large amount of specie which which would otherwise have gone in the GreLt 'Western. When the British Queen left, the demand for specie was increasing, while, at the same time, the prevalence of sickness and the low state of the rivers at the south would retard the crop at least one month later, and that at a very critical moment. Many failures and many more extensions were taking place in consequence of the pressure on the mercantile classes. . The cotton market in all the cities of the Union was exceedingly quiet. The old crop was supposed to be nearly all in, and the stock on hand in all the ports was less than for some years previous at this season. Flour was rapidly pouring into New York, and prices consequently receding. The fever in the south still continued. Several ad- ditional deaths had taken place at Augusta. At New Orleans to the 20th ultimo there was no favourable change reported. At Mobile the mortality was fright ful compared with the population. The disease at this place was neither mitigated in violence nor diminished in extent. A dreadful explosion of a powder mill took place at Westfield, Massachusetts. About 100,0001bs. of gun powder, it is said, were burnt on the occasion. Seve ral buildings in the vicinity were destroyed, but happily, no lives were lost. The Philadelphia paperS announce the arrival at that port of the ship Euphrates, M`Neil master, in 36 days from Cape Mesurado, on the West Coast of Africa. She had been taken on the coast by the British ship Harlequin, as a slaver, and given up to Governor Bu chanan, United States Consul at Liberia, who put a new crew on board, and ordered her to Philadelphia. She was fitted out at Havannah, under American at the meeting on Wednesday, seems anxious to do all that lies in his power to rectify the absurd blunder of his reforming brethren in the council chamber. About the necessity of having Warehouses on the Dock quays there may be a difference of opinion among mercantile men; but about the propriety of having Corporation Dock Warehouses there can be none. They ought not—they must not be allowed. Owners of every description of property are, more or less, interested in this question. If the corporation are to be allowed to appropriate the public funds to the erection of Warehouses, why may they not build houses, shops, or cottages in the same way ? We see no difference whatever in the two cases. The principle in both is precisely the same. Nay, the corporation would be equally justified in applying the funds en trusted to their management as public stewards to pur poses of trading, as they would in carrying the 'Ware house scheme into effect. The house and cottage owners must therefore look after their interests. They ought to join the other classes to which we have alluded, in solemnly protesting against the flagrant robbery with which so many of our fellow-townsmen are threatened. Whatever injures or depresses any considerable classes of tradesmen, must also of necessity inflict a corresponding amount of injury upon the whole trad ing population of the same community. If the Ware house-keepers, coopers, porters, and carters, are to be ruined by the selfish projects of an aspiring and arro gant faction, what is to become of those shopkeepers who are mainly dependent upon those classes for sup port ? The ramifications of the evil which would be inflicted by the erection of the Dock Warehouses are S 3 extensive, that we are justified in saying that all classes of the tradesmen of Liverpool have a pecuniary interest in opposing the scheme. While we refer our readers to our report of the pro ceedings at the meeting held on Wednesday last, we cannot avoid exproccing niir surprise that the Ware house-keepers have remained so long silent under the foul aspersions which have been so long and so perti naciously cast upon their characters. We allude more particularly to the reckless charges of dishonesty which have been brought against them by certain gen tlemen in the Council—charges as unfounded as they are malignant and injurious. The accusations brought against the Warehouse-keepers have been made, in many instances, by men whose standing in the town is anything but respectable. Perhaps this circum stance may have, in some degree, caused the Ware house-keepers to treat their libellers with silent con tempt. It is with great pleasure that we direct the attention of our readers to the report of the great meeting held on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of petitioning the Town Council against erecting any more schools with the corporate funds on the system adopted in the present schools. The Protestant Operatives of Liverpool have done honour to them selves by coming forward to protest against the latitu dinarian schemes of the liberals in the council. They have done perfectly right in insisting, as they have done, upon their claim to a share in the benefits arising from the application of the public funds to the pur poses of educating the children of the poor, and in declaiming against the gross injustice of adopting a system of education which excludes them from the enjoyment of those benefits. Mr. M`Neile's speech will be perused with much pleasure. His description of the manner in which the Bible is used in the Corporation Schools affords a complete refutation to the absurd boastings of the liberal press on this subject. He has placed the Corporation be tween the horns of a dilemma from which they will find it impossible to escape. We shall be curious to see how these sages will receive the very reasonable and modest petition of the Protestant Operatives. goods, but placing their confidence on the stability of the houses of respectability and long standing from which they emanated. But in Liverpool the great bulk of the merchants were merely immigrants, of only a few years standing, and unknown to the bankers, who would consequently refuse to make advances upon their warrants. if one of these mer chants went to a banker with his warrant, the banker would naturally say—" No, we cannot make you the required ad vance; you had better go to your broker, and he will proba bly place confidence in you, and accommodate you ; but as to us we do not know you, nor the value of the goods in your warrant." Mr. BIRKETT—DO not the London warrants, then, on which the bankers advance money, contain the value of the goods mentioned in the warrants ? Mr. HARBORD No ; not that I ever heard of. Mr. GRuNDY—In that case, then, a common transfer in `Liverpool is quite as good, if not superior, to a warrant as in London. Mr. HARBORD—Undoubtedly it is. Mr. HARBORD, after explaining the nature of the warrants used in London, proceeded to state that one principal ob ject of their meetinc , he had yet briefly to advert to. Certain language had been used having a tendency to injure their character and reputation as a body which it became necessary to refute ; and to show that it proceeded from parties who, in scrutinizing their conduct, were actuated by vindictive or self-interested motives. They wished their character to be examined at the bar of public opinion, so that they might stand fair in the eyes of their fellow-towns men. Labouring as they now were under the most un deserved imputations, though they were known in Liverpool, where a defence might be superfluous,—if any of them went to London on business, or to obtain information on their vocation, they would probably be looked upon as the very offscourings of society, and, therefore, unworthy of con fidence or credit. He did not boast of his birth or of his wealth ; but be prized as highly as any man his good name ; and he might say that he could go step by step with Mr. Evans in respectability, whether it were of birth or other wise. _ _ Mr. EARLE, who had shortly before entered the room, here remarked, Why we of Liverpool have not any of us, I believe, much reason to boast of birth ; but having heard the object of the meeting stated, I apprehend 1 am out of place. The CHAIRMAN. — The meeting has other objects, which are set forth in the resolutions. It is a meeting of the warehouse-keepers. Mr. EARLE begged pardon. He thought it was a meeting of warehouse-owners. As be was not a warehouse-keeper, he would withdraw ; but he should be happy to attend the meeting of warehouse-owners, which would doubtless ere long be called, on the subject of warehouses on the docks. Mr. hARDOILD proceeded to say, that he might here state what the warehouse-keepers had done, and what they in tended to do, as an exemplification of the spirit of accom modation which they had manifested towards the merchants. -Respecting the general management, in which the latter appeared to take great interest, [Loy had alivvrn covory to meet their wishes. Even as late back as 1831 they were requested to meet the bulk of the gentlemen engaged in the wine and spirit trade, and who constituted the Wine and Spirit Association. They did so ; certain resolutions were proposed and carried involving certain rules and regulations which they were desirous should be carried out. These were all agreed to by the warehouse-owners, yet strange to say, very soon afterwards, a highly respectable spirit merchant, who himself presided at the meeting, was the first to break through the regulations of which he had been the principal originator! (Mr. Harbord here instanced the case in which they were first broken.) The warehouse-keepers had ac cepted the rules and regulations laid down, and all parties expressed their satisfaction ; but the result was they were not acted upon. He thought it, therefore, great injustice to attach blame to their body, who had consented to every pro position made by the trade. Mr. DANIEL LEDSOM seconded the motion. With respect to the charge of pilferage, he believed no serious charge could be made against the warehouse-keepers. Under any ware housing system, pilferage would take place to some extent. Mr. TAYLOR said he sometimes employed not less than seventy or eighty men in the manifold operations of manag ing his warehouses. He had taken the management entirely in many cases. In one case he had seven thousand bales of cotton entrusted to him, and he managed them through every department, having undertaken to do so on proviso that the merchant would give him his business. When the charges came to be made up, the merchant sent to him and said that he was highly gratified, as the difference in management had made a difference of full 2s. 3d. per bale in the charges, which in 7000 hales they would allow, was a material saving. In that case he had simply charged the expenses and not accord ing to any recognised rate, and the difference was 2s. 3d. per bale on 7000 bales. He was convinced that if the merchants would give the warehouse-keepers the entire management of of their goods, it would make a great difference in the amount of charges. He (Mr. Taylor,) employed his own carters and porters. In reply to a question, Mr. Taylor said that he said to the merchant above alluded to, " If you will give me your business as a warehouse-keeper I will undertake the entire management of your goods." He believed that the time and close superintendence of the warehouse-keeper on the spot would cause a material saving. Mr. BIRKETT. — What time of the year was it ? Mr. TAYLOR.—I do not exactly know, but it was in the summer. Mr. BIRKETT.—Yes, but that makes a great difference from the long hours you have in summer. Mr. HARBORD was fearful that Mr. Taylor's meaning might be misunderstood by the public. He did not mean that he had worked without profit, but only that he had not charged that sort of rate which usually appeared amongst ac counts of charges. Of course they had no right to pry into what profit Mr. Taylor had made on his cartage and porterage. In reply to a question from Mr. Grundy, Mr. Harbord said he could warehouse foreign clay'd sugars in Liverpool as low as in London, and adduced several instances of it. In the course of aconversation that ensued, Mr. BIRKETT, stated that with respect to charges London had an advantage from its plenitude of dock room, which enabled vessels after discharging on one side of a dock, to haul over and receive a cargo from the warehouses on the other. Here the case was different, as vessels to accomplish a similar object would generally have to move from dock to dock. Liverpool had however, a decided advantage in the import trade over Lon don. Mr. DOVER, proposed the fourth resolution, having re ference to the calumnies thrown upon the general body of warehouse-keepers. He said that it might seem altogether unnecessary to propose such a resolution as this, when he saw around him, gentlemen who had been in the warehouse business for ten, twenty, and, (as in the case of the respected father Of the worthy-chairman), for even thirty years. The character of every man was however, dear to him, and lie urged the resolution, not so much with reference to a vindi cation of their characters in the town, where the aspersions cast upon them would he less prejudicial ; but from a desire that they, should stand fairly elsewhere where they were less known, and where these aspersions might have a stronger ef fect. What, he would ask would be the impression of these at a distance if these calumnies were not refuted, and who could judge of them only by the reports of the meetings in the Town Council, and from the reports in the news papers ? And they had not alone to apprehend the bad opinion that might be produced of them, elsewhere, but also that of these in Liverpool who did not in the way of business come in contact; with them, and who would naturally form an equally unfavourable impression, if these accusations remained unrefuted. Mr. Dover then proceeded to cite a passage from a speech of Mr. Alderman Benn, on the subject of dockwarehouses, wherein it was asserted that pilferage took place to a large extent, and sometimes with the guilty concurrence of the porters having the charge of the warehouse, over whom it was imputed, due surveillance was not kept, so that they and others had opportunities of carry ing off property. Now, they had heard a great deal about pilfering, and if it went on to the extent stated, the ware housekeepers . were much to blame ; but he begged that it might be remembered that the whole of these charges were mere assertions. Mr. Benn had mentioned a ease of a chest of indigo having been pilfered ; but if such a thing had taken place through the negligence of the warehouse-keeper or his servants, the owner could suffer no loss, for that warehouse keeper could be made to pay the amount. With respect to the statement that there were no rooms suitable for the showing of indigo, it was altogether groundless : for there was scarcely a warehouse-keeper present who had not two or three warehouses which were adapted for that purpose—they having gone to the expense of building new warehouses for the express purpose—and now found that they were not half occupied. Mr. Dover then referred to an article in the Albion, of the 7th May, the style of which showed that the writer was the same individual who had published a pamphlet on the subject of dock warehouses, to which he should next have occasion to refer, for the purpose of showing the nature of the calumnies heaped upon them. In the article in question, they were styled " jobbers and adventurers." The same epithets were also applied to them in the pamphlet of Mr. Alderman Evans. To show how little they merited such appellations, he thought he need only mention the fact, that there passed through their hands yearly, property of the value of between ten and fifteen millions sterling. If they deserved the odious character given to them, in speeches, newspaper articles, and pamphlets, it was quite certain that they would never be trusted to such an extent as that. The warehouse property of the town paid one-fourth of the local rates, and he must say that persons occupying the posi tion that they did, ought not to he spoken of in such an un justifiable manner. Mr. Dover then went on to object to the vesting of the management of the proposed dock warehouses in the dock trust. It was not fair that such a body, hating the public money at their disposal, should employ that money in competing with the individuals who contributed to the payment of it. They were not afraid of individuals or public companies building warehouses with their own mo ney, because such persons, before building, would take care to ascertain whether the warehouses were wanted. It was not right that the dock trust should turn warehouse-keepers, and become, as 'they must do, master coopers and master porters ? and he thought it was unfair that they should de stroy at least one-half of the business of cart-owners. He trusted that there would be meetings of all the persons whose business would be injured by the proposed scheme ; and that the master carters, coopers, and porters would step forward and vindicate their trade, which was about to be taken from them bythe corporation. If the dock trust had a right to turn coopers, porters, carters, and warehouse-keepers, they had an equal right to become tailors, shoemakers, Viz., and to carry on the whole trade of the town. He considered that every owner of property in Liverpool, whether that pro perty consisted of cottages, houses, or warehouses, was inte rested in this subject ; for if a public body like the corpora tion, which was instituted for different purposes, took it into their heads to build warehouses, why might they not, at some future time build cottages ? Why not build houses ? Mr. Guyton seconded the motion and the meeting sepa rated after voting thanks to the chairman. BAZAAR FOR THE POOR.—The Bazaar for the relief of the distressed poor, got up by the ladies and others of the Catholic Benevolent Society, was held on Tuesday, Wed nesday, and yesterday, at the Assembly Room of the Adelpbi Hotel, and was numerously and fashionably attended each day. The articles exhibited, particularly, the embroidery, showed great taste and perseverance on the part of the ladies who produced them, and most of them were sold. A military band was in attendance, and the rooms presented a very gay appearance. The total receipts on the first day were, we learn, about .X-100. We have not heard what was received on the subsequent days. VAUXIIALL WARD.—Henry R. Sandbach, Esq., is the candidate for this ward in the room of Mr. Shand, who re tires. The Liberals have not hitherto ventured upon any opposition. PITT-STREET WARD.—It is with considerable pleasure that we learn from Mr. Bibby's Address, which will be found in another part of our paper, that that gentleman has con sented once more to become a candidate for the representa tion of this Ward in the Council. Mr. Bibby's activity and commercial knowledge are too extensive to admit of a mo ment's doubt that he will not be eminently successful in a ward which has already benefitted so materially from his valuable services. ALARM OF FIRE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—On Tuesday evening, shortly after nine o'c l o ck, considerable alarm was created throughout the town by a report that a portion of Windsor Castle was on fire, and that fears were entertained that the private apartments of her Majesty were in the most imminent danger. The town and barrack engines, as well as the powerful engine belonging to the castle, were immediately on the spot. It proved to be only a chimney on fire, which was caused by one of the female servants throwing a sheet of paper on the fire, and which was speedily extinguished. THIS LATE OUTRAGE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--Thomas Ainger, the individual who committed the outrage at Wind sor Castle, was brought up for examination at the Guildhall on Tuesday, when it was proved that he was a maniac. He was ordered to be detained in custody until he could be ad mitted into a lunatic asylum. THE GLASGOW IRON STEAM-SHIP "ROYAL GEORGE." This beautiful vessel, belonging to the Glasgow and Liver pool Royal Steam-Packet Company, is now on her second trip between this 'port and that from which she sails ; and as another, and a new and splendid specimen of what can be accomplished by our Scottish competitors in steam naviga tion, she has attracted much and deserved. admiration. She is the second iron steam-ship produced by the same proprie tary, the Royal Sovereign, placed on the station a few months ago, being the first, and also a crack, we may say a twin, ves sel. It is very natural for common observers to suppose that we, of Liverpool, entertain some slight feeling of jealousy at these advancements of our northern countrymen, who some hundred years ago were perhaps a hundred years behind us in matters of science and nautical enterprise. If, however, such a feeling ever found harbour for a moment within us, it was of that nature which resolves itself into a generous rivalry, and which hails every mutual improvement that may tend to the advancement of mutual intercourse and commerce as a benefit attained not only for Great Britain, but through her for the vast regions to which extend the ramifications of her internal traffic and manufactures. It is scarcely possible to estimate the advantages derived by a country, even though circumscribed in extent, from the facility and rapidity of transit derived from the agency of " steam." Steam is, in deed, the moving power of the day. It is rapidly ap proximating town to town, state to state, continent to continent. Its advantages are developed More peculiarly in " coasting" than in " ocean " navigation, surprising and admirable as are its achievements in the last. About twenty years ago a voyage hence to Glasgow, along a coast of upwards of two hundred miles in extent, was an under taking of such peril, and generally of such delay, by sailing craft, that few persons could be induced to under take it. Now, steamers, of a large size, capable of contend ing with adverse winds and waves, and fitted up in a manner to gratify, in accommodation, those who would . recline iu the very lap of elegance and ease, perform the voyage with the regularity, and more than the speed of mail-coaches, over tie gam.: extent of ground, and at a cost, too, immea surably below that of travelling by land in former or in modern times.' The Royal George is of abdut .500 tons burthen. She is 180 feet in length ; 200 feet from the , figure head to the taff rail ; 22 feet 8 inches in beam ' or 40 feet over the-paddle boxes. Her engines are of 120 horses' power. The diameter - of the cylinder is 61 inches, length of stroke 5 ft. These en gins, are le iutiful highly finished pieces of machinery , and 'l" were manufactured by Messrs. Todd & Macgregor, Glasgow:.- The saloon, or principal cabin, is a very spacious and mag a , nificent apartment. The entrance from the deck is exceed ingly well contrived, there being a door and flight of steps i 7 on either side of the vestibule or " companion," leading to, r" the landing at the top of the main stairs, so that. in storm - r: 1z ; weather the windward door may be closed. The " arehi- 5/ tectural" visitor on descending may anticipate the general '. 4-24 style of the whole. The panelling of the stair-case is finely painted in rosewood. The banisters are of polished the ra il s of polished rose-wood, and all, beepeak the old English or Elizabethan. in ire aweeieee and a . eracf- The folding doors leading to the saloon are of rosewood— admirable specimens of the massive gothic—the. styles are finely moulded, 'and the pannels are projected in alto relievo beyond them. The dark colour of the rose wood is relieved by massy florcated gilt hinge-work . of and other ornaments of the same-material. On entering the cabin, the visitor cannot fail to be struck with admiration. The apartment is about 40 feet in length, and about '22 in width, occupying the whole breadth of the vessel. It' is lighted by three windows of plate glass on each aide, by the stern windows, and by the square dome or deck lights. The style is massy gothic,—and the whole of the wood - work , in cluding the walls and the furniture is of choice dark and and variegated rose-wood, as a substitute.or rather improVe ment upon oak. Between the .side windows there are in serted gothic pannels or frames with raised mouldings and interior gilded frames, for the reception ,of pictures in papier inaeld, in proportion, but now fitted up with crimson drapery:, The mouldings and other decorations, including the trusses: that form knees or brackets on the top of the pilasters between the windows and the pannels, in the angle formed by each pilaster and the roof beam that rests. upon it,' are beautifully carved iu open work and richly gilded. Some idea may be formed of the very liberal expenditure bestowed on this apartment, when we state that the' gilding alone of one of these trusses ;cost six guineas' nd a halt. They are' of two patterns, one of each being placed alternately, and have a fine effect. The corni cing and beading is also gilded. Across the sten:l . :windows there is a tine transparency, a view of Windsor Castle with the royal residents and their visitants in the fore,-ground. Sofas or ottomans surround the al. , rtment, divided by massy carved rosewood arms or elbows. These are of. great width, and the backs reach to half the height of the cabin, forming a semi-circle at the stern. They are cushioned in embossed crimson velvet of a peculiarly rich and appropriate fabric. The tables are also of rosewood, standing in massy single gothic pillars, and so contrived that though there is a space between, they may be elongated and form a " festive hoard." all round the room, in the form of a horse-shOe. 'The chairs are in corresponding gothic style of the choicest description. They are of solid rosewood with cushioned seats and backi corresponding with the sofas. They probably weigh little short of 501 b. and cost upwards of five guineas each. The roof is one of the most attractive portions of this beautiful saloon : between the beams, it is decorated with tracery and graining most elaborately carved in alto. At the. entrance, there are two state rooms, one on each side, which narrow the saloon, for a short distance from, the door way. The architect has rendered this arrangement highly: decorative. The roof formed between the two state rooms is of semi-cir cular form. The door is in the centre, and on each side there is a sideboard of gothic design, richly 'carved in 'rosewood Over these are mirrors, each otheir perpendicular plates fixed'' in concave position with the segment formed by the - . wall where they are placed. The frames of these are of fine Open, - gilded carved-work. The doors of the two state rooms lead ing from the saloon face the stern, and have been much ad-' mired. In the upper panel of each there is a mirror within antique framework, surrounded and surmounted ,by gildeli v ornaments of exquisite design and execution. The twoskiTr.' lights are glazed with stained glass, each pane—twenty i containing a separate portrait of a - British monarch, stiff-'. .rounded by rich gothic decorations. These were exeotkir by Mr. Cooper, of Edinburgh , who has discovered. anew' mid" admirable process by which to stain glass, for which he little taken out a patent. On the whole we shoulck say. that, this cabin is the most costly and magnificent we have fet 401'4, and that the whole as well as the. vessel, her engines (b Messrs. Todd and M`Gregor) and her general equiprae* are an honour to her proprietors, to the_ part froin whichs sails,—indeed, to the country to which she belongs. ' The ladies' and gentlemen's state rooms are fitted la . a scale of corresponding elgauce and comfort , but we' not room, on this occasion, to notice them in detai l . 2 The Royal George, Capt. Cooke, is of a beautiful trip _ She is so well put together (being " as s tron g as iron' make her") that no vibration is felt by the motion df engines ; and she has already proved herself the fasteiklo on a station second to none. in the beauty and evedisfeStrdt its steamers. So much for iron versus wood. _ • - CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY. ' An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of ails:COM:: pany was held on Wednesday, at the Royal Hotel, in thiS eitY; to consider the propriety of amalgamating this company with the Grand Junction Railway Company. A neither of On tlemen were present, and a lengthened discussion toole place, which, as it was of a private nature, we are . not authorised to report, but we give the motions put and the decisions upon them. The Right Worshipful the Mayor, as Chainlicanetif the Board of Directors, presided. The first " That this meeting agrees to the amalgnidation of this Company with the Grand Junction RailwaY'Compeny, on the terms proposed in the Circular sent to the shareholders, and now read, due security being obtained for the immediate completion of the Chester and C,rewe line by the Grand Junc tion Company, should £250.000, the capital of the Chester and Crewe Railway Company, be found insufficient to effect the object ; also a guarantee being obtained for the' wOrking of the line upon terms adequate to the wants of the city of Chester and the neighbourhood. On this motion being put, there appeared for it— ; present 285, proxies 922. The follow ng amendment was then put : " That the consideration of the question for amalgamating the Chester .and Crewe 'Railway with the .Grand. Junction Railway be poStponed for one month ; and that the draft of the agreement proposed to be entered into be then submitted to the meeting." On the numbers being taken, theke appeared for the amend ment, present 338 ; proxies 1t)8. Thus, a majority of 761 was obtained in favour of the original motign, to carry out the intention of amalgamating the interests of "'the Create Railway with those of the Grand Junction-a iineasure 2 that we have every reason to believe, will be highly conducive to the prosperity and ultimate success of the Crewe underteltiflg —a measure that will enhance the value of the Bitlenhead line,—while the welfare of this city, (although note.PerhaPs, taken into account in the contract,) will be forwarded, betotid the possibility of cUleulation.—Chester Gazette. CASTLE-STREEP WARD.-7-A IneCtilig of WC ,Dureersfes oi this ward was held last night at Mr. LlOyilSeStrinley when Mr. nape was received with the warmesf enpaskaseln, and elicited considerable applause by the explicit which' he detailed his sentiments. We are glad to learn that the returns of the canvassers are so extremely favouirtiotelo the good cause as to warrant us in : assuring our readerk.tliat the termination to Mr. Organ Stopper's foolish exiipreans is " nigh at hand." TeSTIMONIAL OF RESPECT.—The parishioners as fise ids of .Rev. 'Win. Stewart, of -Hale, have presented Pia} with an elegant Bible and Prayer-book, eaciehearingenpon a:sil ver shield, the _fullowine inscription ;—" Presented by his parishioners and friends, to the Rev. Stewart, M.A., of Hale, on the 27th anniversary of his ministry, as a testi mony of their respect arid esteem for the, faith:ful.discharge of his pastoral duties.-27theSeptember, 18394;1eae- e s,s IN CLUEST.—On TueSday an inquest was helitispf6sesUe F. Curry, Esq., coroner; touching the death of joaamaslossins, aged forty.five yearn.—Arthur Lewis, an interesthiiglairaged twelve years, stated, : that his father Wasdeittlfamitesliaed with his mother in Andersonstreet. •He svenfit&bach ly on Friday night. His Mother had laid' ih "bed y, unable to eat. The doctor had seen her driring-dit (witness) slept in a little bed in the same room ivitU,bisdirne ther. He was not aware that she got up or'sventsuizteikthe room during the night. About seven o'clock xiereissertning, he got up and called to his mother,. but .oetive ialft•no answer. He put his hand td her face, mid found7that.she was dead. So far as he knew, she had seentrallry geoddrutaith. —Mr. David M' Clay, a surgeon of the. Southern Diapnisary, stated, that he had attended the deceased on Friday. laaVfor an inflammation of the throat, bile& did not then-c6hsider her dangerously ill. When he called again, he'founcl-that the remedies which he had ordered—viz., leeches_ otectlie throat—had not been applied. He left an order for leeches from the dispensary. On a post-rnortem examination; he found that she tad died Of' apopleXy arising frain natural causes, and having no connexion whatever With - tile disease of the throat.—Verdict,." Died by the visitation of - God;" TILE LONDON TIMES IN LIVERPOOL AT FOUR o'cOcx. —Mr. Rowland Hill, with his post-office refOrin;.seenis to have infused a new spirit into the news-agents, for. ree4ntly they have been vieing with each other as to who 'should be the first to bring the morning papers the earliest into South Lancashire.. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Lewis, of iManchester, managed, by exerting themselves in their Usnal spirited man ner, to contrive to receive them in that town-b y six. o'clock in the evening, being one hour earlier than the Liverpool agents could obtain them. Mr. Gaskill, however e the agent for The Times, last week devised a plan by which The Times could be delivered iu Liverpool and other parts of South Lanca shire BY FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTEKNOON' of;the same day of its publication in London ! From what weliear, it ap pears that Mr. Gaskill discovered that a train (unconnected with Liverpool) arrived in Birmingham only a few minutes prior to the departure of a Liverpool train (unconnected with London) and he stationed an agent in Birmingham, to transfer the papers from one railway to the other, '(without the intervention of the postoflice), by which means, to the astonishment of the inhabitants cf. Liverpool, and of the press, " The Times was delivered in Liverpool at Four o'clock in the afternoon !" The agents for Whig papers in a few days afterwards followed the example ; and the Hunting Advertiser• and other papers of the same stamp of politics were seen in Liverpool about. the same hour. The Times, however, being supplied to Mr. Gaskill by express from the office to the Euston Square station, we should imagine that that paper would arrive more regularly than any other, but, in fact, we never considered that a Lon don morning paper has arrived, until we see the naies. it is certainly commmendable to witness enterprlie in trade, manufactures, or commerce, and it is not too niuch to say that the news agent also as the means of giving =information to all classes of the reading public, as conveyed inthe morning papers three hours earlier than it has been accomplished since a railway has been established, is deserving of much praise. { colours. The slaves captured in the Spanish schooner Aini stad had not yet been brought up for trial. Numerous questions and conflicting claims will er gage the atten tion of the court on the occasion. The result is uncer- ;ain. By some it is thought that the subject may yei come before the President for action thereon. Intelligence had been received at Monte Video to the sth of August. The blockade of Buenos Ayres by the French squadron still continued, and it was the general belief at Monte Video that it would last for a long time to come, as the French fleet was attempt ing nothing new, and General Rosas preserved his po pularity at Buenos Ayres. An account was recently circulated that a reconciliation had taken place between the government of Buenos Ayres and that of Monte Video. There does not appear to be any truth in the statement. The Buenos Ayres British Packet states that a num ber of the justices of the peace had addressed the Go vernor, (Rosas,) congratulating him upon the discovery of the plot against his life, and on the apprehension and execution of Don Domingo Cullen, &c. These communications are couched in very strong and pointed language, accusing the Unitarians with being the au thors of the plot, and denominating them pirates, outlaws, &c., sold to the French ; and the parties con cerned in the addresses declare that they would in defence of the important life of his Excellency the Go vernor shed the last drop of their blood, convinced that it is preferable to die than to submit to humiliation, ignominy, and slavery. The news from Canada is not of much importance. The Montreal Herald states that the political prisoners from Upper Canada had not yet arrived, but that they were daily expected. It is stated that about 30 of the Lower Canada rebels are to be released on condition that they remain in the province, and give security to the extent of £l,OOO that they report themselves once a month to the magistrate nearest their residence; failing which, or in consequence of misconduct, the bail is to be forfeited. On the 27th of September Mr. Wand, gaoler, was relieved of the charge of 87 pri soners, who were convicted of high treason before the court-martial. Of this number 58 were put on board the steamboat British America, to be conveyed to Quebec, and then transhipped on board the Br!.falo convict-ship. Two, Dr. Brient and G. Levesque, were liberated on giving securities that they would leave the province in forty-eight hours, and never come within 200 leagues of any of her Majesty's possessions. The remaining 27 were required to give bail to a large amount for their good behaviour for seven years. The appointment of Poulett Thomson to the Go vernment of Canada was producing general dissatis faction. The merchants are displeased because he has always advocated the reduction of the duties on Baltic timber. The admirers of viceregal pomp and splen- dour are mortified at the idea of having a Governor with no higher pretensions than one of themselves—a Governor whose education, habits, associations, and very fashion of thoughts and manners, all exhibit the peculiar style of the " commercial road." It was ru moured that Chapman or Revans were to be sent out in the train of the Governor, as attaches at least. The hint operated like an electric shock. The Montreal Herald exclaims, in reference to this rumour, " No, no, that cannot be; low as the Imperial authorities may estimate us, that must not be attempted. There is some blood in our veins yet." We sincerely rejoice to find that a powerful oppo sition is in course of organization against the scanda lous and monopolising Dock Warehouse job, which the grasping liberal faction have attempted to carry into execution. The Warehouse-keepers have already come forward to express their sense of the injustice of the proposed scheme. We hope to see their example followed by those other tradesmen who will be injured, if not absolutely ruined, by the successful issue of the spoliating plans of the liberals. If these gentlemen should succeed in their jobbing projects, the injurious effects of their scheme will be felt most severely by the coopers and the porters, the latter of whom will be almost annihilated, as the work to be done in the con templated Dock Warehouses will be performed by those only who are to be employed by the corporation. Again, the carters will suffer the loss of nearly one half of their business if the proposed buildings should be erected. Surely, then, these classes ought to com bine and co-operate with the 'Warehouse keepers. The Warehouse owners, likewise, whose interests are still more deeply implicated in thi s matter , oug ht im mediately to convene a public meeting for the purpose of agitating the question. Whenever they do assemble, we trust that they will obtain the support and assist ance of Mr. William Earle, who, from his attendance MEETING OF WAREHOUSE KEEPERS. On Wednesday last, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the warehouse keepers of this town took place at the Clarendon Rooms, South John-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the proceedings to be adopted by them relative to the proposition of the corporation to build warehouses, or more especially with reference to the proposed mode of management, to rebut the calumnies and misrepresentations Virown by certain members of the council upon the ware house keepers as a body,—and finally to pass resolutions px.- pressive of their opinions on these subjects. Nearly all the principal warehouse keepers were present. On the motion of Mr. Dover, Mr. Hallowes was called to the chair, which he took after some urgent pressing on the part of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN, having read the advertisement calling the meeting then said, that all who were present were, no doubt, aware of the resolution of the corporation to erect warehouses on the dock quays, the management of which they purposed to give to the dock trustees. Such a measure, if it (lid not finally annihilate, would have the effect of seri ously injuring their business, and that of others; and it therefore became necessary to take some steps to oppose such a measure, or at the least, to express their decided objec tions to it, so that the proposed plan might be defeated or modified. Another object of the meeting was to rebut the calumny cast upon them as a body by parties who had accused them of being jobbers and adventurers," and persons who cared for nothing but their own individual interests. A series of resolutions were then brought forward, and agreed to unanimously. These will be found in another column. Mr. TAYLOR moved the first resolution, which was to the effect, that the corporation, in placing themselves in the position of warehouse keepers in the general management of the contemplated warehouses, would be opposing the present warehouse keepers and occupiers in their legitimate business. Mr. WlCnight seconded the resolution. Mr. GRUNDY said, the second resolution had just been put into his hand, and he begged leave to propose it. It went to combat the principle adopted by the corporation, of taking the public property and employing it to the detriment and in jury of private property. He considered the adoption of such a principle, not only unfair but unjust,—particularly as they purposed to retain the management of the new warehouses in their own hands. If the corporation chose as trustees of the public property, to make sales of such land as was avail able for warehouses by public erection, leaving the business to be regulated and balanced by the fair scale of public com petition, the warehouse keepers could not object to such a course. All would then have equal chance, the warehouse keepers would know exactly what they had to contend against, the course of competition would be such as was usual, and the business would find its own natural level. But compe tition with a public body, like the corporation of Liverpool, having unlimited funds at their command, and those funds public funds, was impossible. Such a business must be a monopoly, and one that would be destructive of any merely private interest that attempted to contend against it,—and he should continue to combat such a principle. He concluded by proposing a resolution to the effect, that the meeting deprecated the principle of a public body, constituted for other purposes, setting themselves against private interests, as unjust, and that they were opposed to the corporation establishing so dangerous a monopoly, &c. Mr. Green seconded the resolution, and it was agreed to. Mr. Hammitt) said, it fell to him to propose the third resolution, which he read, to the effect that the warehouse keepers repeated publicly that they were ready and willing, if it should be required, to enter into arrangements with the merchants, &c., to take the management of goods (as per formed by the dock warehouse companies of London) with their present warehouses, whereby the complaint (whether real or imaginary) of pilferage would be done away • that their charge would, in all cases, be lower than those of Lon don (including cartage and fire insurance ;) and further, that if the Liverpool dock rates were as low as those of London, the Liverpool charges would be, in most instances, 30 per cent. lower than those of London. [The Chairman requested Mr. Harbord to add the words, " at the same time the meet ing wish it to be understood, that they have no desire to in terfere with others' business." To this Mr. Harbord slightly objected, inasmuch as he thought the proposed clause was implied in the resolution read, as it prefaced the proposal to undertake the management of the warehouses with the words " if it be required." The CHAIRMAN said they set out by deprecating the con duct of the Corporation for interfering with the business of others, and if they did not make it distinctly understood, it would appear as if they had themselves afterwards proposed to become carters, and porters, and coopers. Mr. BIRRUTT said, that conclusion did not necessarily follow. Mr. HARBORD repeated that he thought the addition un necessary, but as the chairman felt desirous of distinctly show ing that they had nothing selfish in their intentions, he should have no objection to the addition. He thought it was per fectly right in Mr. Hallowes to be jealous on a subject of that description, as it would let the puplic of Liverpool see that, though they were particularly wishful to take care of their in terests, there were no motives of undue selfishness in their proceedings. it ought to be borne in mind that if the dock trust erected warehouses, and undertook the cartage, porter age, and cooperage, they would be a monopolising body—en croachers upon the business of other persons ; whereas, if the warehouse-keepers were to have the warehouses, they would be compelled to employ the masters in those several trades, amongst whom there would necessarily be such a competition as to exclude everything like monopoly. If the merchants were to make an unanimous proposal to the warehouse-keep ers, and furnished them with such forms and documents as they thought necessary for their guidance, he felt - as sured that they (the warehouse-keepers) would aecept of such proposition, and was equally convinced that they could manage the whole business as well as it was managed in London. He could refer to one instance in his own experience in proof of their desire to meet the wishes of the merchants. Since the opening of the China trade, he had himself (as well as others) gone to very considerable expense in fitting up warehouses for the recep. tion of tea and other East India produce. He had even written to a commercial gentleman in London to send him down several men who had had experience in the East India warehousing system there, and who understood the manage ment of warehouses for indigo, tea, &c. lie had thus intro duced " the practice of the port of London," of which so much had been said. They had also introduced the " warrant" system in the metropolis, as a further concession to the opinions expressed of its efficacy ; but this system, after a fair trial, was now nearly done away, it having been found inapplicable, owing to the difference of this locality. Mr. Evans had, in alluding to the new project of warehouses, dwelt strongly on this system, as one highly worthy of adoption ; but it had not in practice realized the expectations he had formed of it. He (Mr. Harbord) knowing as he did the peculiar character and circumstances of this port, felt convinced, that if warehouses were erected on the dock quays here, the warrant system would not answer. In look ing at the practice of London, it ought to be considered that when the warrants were issued, the bankers made ad vances upon them, without knowing the value of the goods to which they related, —they not relying on the amount of the