The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

00L. " r y.leoe' yal, arc } gaged O r t p aranC e 8 DO Lt:d States, the 15th insfOt' xted °' Mr. Stuart6ra• fford.. l .Mr• .rd. Mrs. T llet. e i; Tree. na of i. Mr. er. mr. Baker' bliss Grant•git, :LLB'S S ; l :urt , . p o r.- 0 tart t r ; Flat e Cleaver ; ELLEN Tit'sco ime her e ,'„ e ' ss e atest st s og; EE Presideati;ora, Gray ; E" Miss Gertrudetoo s ELLEN TEAR /OS NOVEL . ARP T° f t" WOIN ,ment Sot, 001 d, brilliall Pry,. only gre at 4 .,, n t. sth ina - gp 0 ; wIZA d e rfo truly w.,,,° ° et weet , arts. - `l5Cf , >s L. 1 311 0 0, 11 ' 11 acerts , e the 'Veil° tres ',len „ o pil a . ro m n lat a lTia r3l Vici' of things re.t The P i r or with 1315, end , r , Forre s " d t he b e ha 6d. ces 5t [ COIIIIII2 ETION . L ACA, l3 b il ;TS ;T' fro. m ,• EE y shop I One • es. 6 04 I t nuttl' „ e ,' r ter• o f r. t es ; ball aPP ea e quaincaroti,l mit uS t° direc ; t t i l'o3t l e iewieg i,serteu as are 1 7 ar iolli N ro rereu via il a nies, ,s def d o thse r We -9"- n he 1 5, 1339' f the , akne ss ° ref rr isinterPo_ of th eir r of ; ciPl es pr.n . it • tho r w r c lore e ve ' or r der ork in best lot by Pt) ; ill ey meet fiat tiOn S ° u f n ed s ) falseuv 13 1414 !s braz en :ol tb 0 • 60 1 of th e ;cr presen t be ep As h 3 5 ,1 es' [li an" o 1 r : a t le ast o t rh% inbet e are that the c it' ear fa" g e eve t cr i e s. lie cbicll ""fivol interng;i:bile critter cox of t he ir s i 5 of tile d ' oie s t he Pn— Ltd - ' 4 o ll , v el ? It needed not the naive admission of urns to have e to confirm this obvious truth, and he ',tad,. blushed f or very s h ame w h en h e ma d e lit7 4i . led ginent in the H ouse o f Lords. Look at eralties I '.ety and look at the clergy, the upper ranks of fa et Periodical p ress : a ll b ear w it ness t o th e •. `' 9 pit to be we ll e d ucate d i s a l most synony lk" bei ng ;4`)ed ge a Co nservat i ve. B ut t h e possess i on differs from every other species of ac ,, 11, this ) that it causes no f ee li ng o f se lfi s h ness '4 k .,.,!5t of the p ossessor. W ea l t h may ren d er ~ ' Priril N and T avaricious ; power, cruel and tyran ea• • N tlm .es, haught y an d exc l us i ve : h ut i n pro be d egree in whi c h a m i n d i s enlightened `11,,. an xious that the bles s ings of instruction S hared by others. Like Mercy, 4 1)le ss " it is twi c e blessed : es him that gives and him that takes." f eelin gsdal fa te t hen ignoran ce . H e re j o i ces at every e ff ort to of empire o f knowledge, and roll away the "%up, Prejudice and error from the minds of his te antry ,Ntrv u . ' m en. The charge, therefore, that the the are opposed to education, carries absur e f a . t i ts ce of it. But the word has two meanings, , t ap ,Lisisiest advocates studiously confound. The '4k tto p r il l e _ s to a mere knOwledge of facts, laid up in ~e a cise of the memory, and produceable on like d ry goods from a warehouse : the other, %.4, , r al cult ure and training of the individual, by m i th e lie the head is filled, the heart is purified, Nevil . tr Passions of our nature are subjected to orjp04,11:1:1it:ral discipline. the grand difference between us and 0 nett s •tr eoi • They put faith in the first process, Pet it forth as the panacea for human wretch kid 1 4e . foll y They hold that secular knowledge l eat t • • 0 mitigate, if not eradicate, the corruption , 114 tit fir g a ature, and would have us believe that clever t-pr2Yn. syno nym for virtue. Now, in the first place, reasoning would lead us to this conclusion ; th e 4 , A n ext, history and experience disprove its I: r.erl ith' ie e r ti t V e i a tY w : i f i intellect has no necessary connec ;:k NATIeSS of heart, and, under the guidance becomes a tremendous instrument t '?% ild eed, the acquisition of mere secular know %r, cu W hich the discursive faculties of the under- P itt2 °le lY are emp l oye d , may m i n i ster to v i ce b y ▪ s'ig facilities for crime. And this mournful att est . f Led by the page of History. From many ore '''st names there, we turn with loathing . , gust • And why ? 'Because their hearts were the y prostituted the glorious gift of reason W. 4es...9fArrou g' ; , :t ake e ore, the question of National Education the Schoolmaster." may w e ll f ee l a l arme d at t h e d oc t r i nes :J ltie r L' el loolniaster." We object not to impart • '.:eofie, for we can have no interest in the continu- a t ign , orance But we would build on a sound It k k k . O lit t , We bel ieve not t h at t h e b ra i n a l one can „ktt, cure of c orru pt propens iti es , an d we h ave N ee a Intellectual when divorced from moral ex ai i ll jherefor e i t is that we insist on moral train tiativisPensable. But can we separate moral from We would no t as reason i ng men : w e dare klie coChristians. Hence the opposition on the part 48erratiVes to the scheme of Ministers, which tli t he-P l.u ves that th ey are t h e enem i es o f Ed ucat i on k tl t h refi llial of a phy s i c i a n to prescribe poison clat tl at he desire s th e s i c k ness o f hi s p a tie n t. 4 . ''e ex ert the n s •, 4 ioalready made by the Conserva -I.latit cause of Education. Look at the munifi ‘l.l4rae,se _ an d annual s u b scr iptio n s in support of the LPtef tBi un thei r part, and contrast t h em, not w i t h fr : i r l t s, but th e d ee d s o f t h e pseu d o Lib era l s. 8 Ye shall know them. We feel that we 'anced at this momentous subject, but our .. 04 , klt lier, P . 11 8 to reserve our further remarks for article, ly g• liarter N . Returns of the Revenue have just Nor A Z't end They exhibit an increase on the %r t i ng October 10, 1839, as compared with 1 , 1 %7 35 .011.1 ding quarter in 1838, in the customs of N u : in the excise of £19;200 . ; and in the mis 47tcle„ estimates of £9,278. The total increase in ber:drt4rnents on the quarter is £337,213, to which i i : k. 4 l4„ td £ 1 3,002 from imprest and other m0'9,52i ' 9 ,52i from repayments of advances. The it' 4l7 ado . th e quarter is as follows :—in the stamps, 0 0 0 ' . 11 the taxes, £16,762; in the post-office, - N t 3 -, 41-14 in the crown lands, £25,000. The total , 1 ,`74 4 4 : 96 ,514, leaving a net increase on the I ,l ticr eo 493,222. As the net increase is less than in the customs alone, it is but reasonable iqr li te th act• of apparent improvement on the presen Ztt. thee revenue to the payment of the corn t em ere a Et te as e on the y ear en di ng O c t o b er 10, 1839, Par ed t t ;,3 7 13, with the year ending October 10, 1838, `" (1 11 g :„'d 1 ; but we must not consider this as any ,9tl.ll,i.tistration of the prosperity of the country g..,,trianagement. In 1836 the October re (, ; in 1837 it was £11,489,933 ; '‘2. l „ It u , N 8 - as £ 1 2,052,751 ; and in 1839 it is 316 3 • From this statement it appears that the • lgar"enlent is more apparent than real, as the t4 t tili ee. w t as one of confessedly great commercial tk r et l , "na the effects of which the country had er e(' even in 1838. A comparison of the quarteriCt 41 1 just ended with the corresponding i„'tea ee ' 36 , shews a very considerable decrease— '4 only 1 1 :: t axes. Partially accounted for by the remis -4414 retti rti 0(4 t hat however, must be considered as an evi toa it " " industrial energies of England" can- Vl i ti e- i er he destroyed, even by the miserable ki t to,t th ° ,; Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer. lor ige ; . inese favourable indications will not last rtiti,lll' onset o The present st a te of th e money-market 'l et ti ttu t i ta e d• The occurrence of a commercial 44 revee Ilec 'usly with the defalcation in the post treo-11,e and an expenditure greatly exceeding "1 ) : 4rleoine, would, we apprehend, produce tracts. g g a rly account" in the ensuing quarterly \\*, (1 0 , - have "?i received e to the St. John's (N. B.) ,Weekly 1)44 t he 14th o f S eptem b er. Th ese papers CY littleh news that has not been alread g ' ► y anti /Ix dail y e a rrivals from New York. It seems that ktid: i t Of 114 Per, with th e b om b as ti ca l titl e o f th e t l / 414 the qite6 had ma d e i ts appearance i n D etro i t , 4 14; e olivi management of no less a personage 'qtfletiltspeake rial e d and refugee pirate Theller. This 15 0, h 4°ll ol v i n 8 o f the " persecuted patriot" WlCenzie 'ltitt no g Strai n He is still confined in pri ttitt,lllreBth'ewe are confident, f or an y l eng th of time. tilei t to h a most effectual have been, and are being, : e r the so vere i gn peop l e ' s w il l l a id b efore vant the Executive"of the United States." t4i t il4v e ykiiciarredeeived files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette 1) :11 0 4e ehie to the 14th of September, inclusive. l iqh p aper s Y occupied with extracts from the I ndies ' especially in relation to the affairs of Ne t cc dan • They comment with great severity ` r Y,' , ger °os and distracted state of the Mother 4 t ri t i Which k ekt sg uided they unhesitatingly attribute to the 4 Policy adopted in the government of t t 4 k4a4/ lie ozette animadverts in very strong ion, th e scandalous conduct of the Baptist `• tor 4 , 0 , it appears, had appealed' to Sir Lionel licre th e _ui etion. It is very evident that these N I Place .aggressors in every act of violence which te "lie„ ll : . °Pri e 4 ty tile c i c sland. The Gazette demands . . with q • th • ''e Where are all the other religious tl 'at 14,. h ear nothing of their defenceless state — VO N 'll3g °II of protection from the laws—or of • ' - ct ed , the c ommunity from whom our juries :qte ß IS even for the least part, their relent k, if • IN, iki o th e . murmu r is heard on their part, and t f „ a te bogie tninisters f 1. • o religion were persecuted, or . 1 'it of re qu i re tt t , th e d protection, there would be qic,e, ease intllnber who would complain. But 4 " 1 4 1 ,P i tlian e The whole of the religious bodies, m kt a: rreshyterians Wesleyan Methodists. klqr tri '4ll ) C ci ABsoeiation Methodists, Catholics, and o of t ! gnietly miaeon._ Pursuing their course, and ‘ l i i ‘Att h Is heard amongst them. Surely at , 'ust lie .• e I with the Baptists themselves, ,t wi t the _":.esitation in saying that any one who 1 % svre i t . ad dress t r I 18 t o S i r Lionel will not fail to de he ( In c .,. tt neli e h i L e fo und." The address here alluded - No os go. cllnjudicious production. Amongst 'who_ , Ile propounds, he asks " where are the injuries against properties ?" Sir Lionel must be absolutely unconscious of what is daily passing around him to make such a silly inquiry. Is it not sufficient that the sugar estates are in a state of abso lute ruin—and that the whole island is in a state of devastation and waste. Is no injury sustained, where neither money, extra allowances, and no charge for rent, can induce the peasantry to take off the canes upon the ground—where, to have some chance of a crop next year, in the hope that by that time the people will be more settled, whole fields have been burnt down, rather than let the canes rot upon the ground , which would equally have destroyed the present as well as the future prospects of the estate ? Are these not injuries against properties ? But there is more than even this to complain of. It is next to impossible, on many plantations to carry on the cultivation. Watch men are found deserting their posts, and, in conse quence, whole fields of sprouts are destroyed. Again, in many instances the people will not plant the canes, even after having dug the trenches. This indisposition to labour on the part of " the people" (we suppose we must no longer call them Negroes) has been stimulated, fostered, and encouraged by the Baptist missionaries— the very men who claim Sir Lionel Smith's protection and who obtain his sympathy. Such are the beautiful effects of a liberal and conciliating line of policy ! There is every reason to believe that the labourers are now having recourse to the cowardly expedient of incendiarism as an act of vengeance against those masters who dare to assert their just rights. Several fires had recently taken place in the island, the origin of which remained wrapped in obscurity. A trash house, in particular, had been destroyed in the parish of St. Mary, which, it was strongly suspected, had been set on fire by a labourer on the property, who, in consequence of improper conduct, had received a notice to quit. If these suspicions are correct the in juries of the planters are thus most fearfully aggravated. As an evidence of the state of crime in Jamaica, we find that the Court of Quarter Sessions at Kingston was occupied for six days at its last sitting in trying the prisoners, of whom there were forty-four in a po pulation of only 35,000. Out of the forty-four, twenty seven were tried for theft, a crime for which the Ne groes have a very strong propensity. The truth is, that the people are rapidly degenerating. African customs and superstitions are again usurping the place of the religious sentiments which were expected to have made some impression on their minds gene rally. In some parishes Myalism has made rapid strides. This is a fearful fact, for such is the influence of the Myal man over those who are impressed with his supernatural powers, that the most horrid deeds are committed under the excitement. Sir Charles Metcalfe was looked for most anxiously in the island. It was sincerely hoped that the govern ment of the island would be altered. Unless some improvement takes place in the Executive, it will be useless for the planters to attempt to carry on the cul tivation. Sir Lionel Smith has entirely lost the confi dence of the respectable part of the community. As an illustration of the benefits likely to be derived by this country from the abolition of the apprentice ship, the Jamaica Standard furnishes us with a com parative statement of the importations into that island during the last eight years. We shall only take the three last as necessary to our purpose. The imports for 1836 were £1,756,504 ; for 1837, £1,504,223; and for 1838, £1,442,570. From this it appears that the falling-off since 1836 has been £310,000 in round numbers. The defalcation in 1839 is likely to be con siderably greater. Does not this simple statement furnish a conclusive answer to those individuals who, like Mr. Sturge, are constantly prating about the " prosperity" of Jamaica ? The " Planters' Bank " had already commenced operations in Jamaica under very favourable auspices. Its prospects are described as most flattering. The Royal Gazette contains an account of a dread ful conflagration which had taken place at Quibdo, the capital city of the provincp of Choco, in New Gre nada, which was nearly destroyed on the sth of August. The city, which was chiefly composed of wooden houses, continued burning for four hours. Thousands of people were reduced by this calamity to a state of utter destitution. A public subscription for the suf ferers was talked of and recommended in Jamaica. Files of the Guiana Chronicle to September the 2nd have reached us. The accounts which these papers give of the state of the colony of British Guiana are gloomy in the extreme. Much satisfaction was expressed in the colony that at length the doors of the Town Council-hall were thrown open to the public, and therefore a free publi cation of what transpired there might be expected in future. The consequence had already been, that a certain ambition was excited to obtain seats in the civic assembly, whilst the members evinced an anxiety to figure creditably in the eyes of their fellow-citizens. The perpetuity of the protection hitherto given .to the sugar of the British West Indies is strongly in sisted upon in the Guiana Chronicle, which states that upon its continuance depends the prosperity of the colonies. In this opinion, it is almost needless to say, we cordially concur. The accounts from the island of Barbadoes, brought by the West India mail, are by no means favourable. The labourers had been sadly negligent in the cultivation of articles of food, and a great portion of the country had been in a deplorable con dition from the continuance of dry weather and the scorching heat of the sun. The crop had been an average one, and 25,600 hogsheads had been shipped up to the 7th of September. The accounts from Trinidad reach to the 3d of Sep tember. One of the papers gives the following re specting the crop of sugar :—" The following state ment of the quantities of sugar shipped up to the end of June, 1838 and 1839, shows a deficiency upon last year of 1,798 hogsheads; and looking at the quantity shipped in 1838, after 30th June—viz., 5,888, and taking, as we believe we fairly may, the quantity now made, but not shipped, from the scarcity of shipping, at least at 4,000 hogsheads, the difference (minus) be tween the crop of this and of last year, will scarcely exceed 2,000 hogsheads, it will, however, fall short of an average crop (taken from an average of the last 16 years) of 8,000 hogsheads or something less than one third." Respecting the conduct of the labourers we have but unfavourable accounts. The exports.were estimated at about £450,000. and the imports at f 400,000. At Bermuda, St. Christopher's, and St. Lucia, the accounts were altogether favourable. By the packet-ship Sheridan, Captain De Peyster, which arrived here yesterday, we have received New York papers to the 26th of September, inclusive. The Sheridan made the passage in nineteen days. These papers furnish us with accounts of a disas trous fire which took place at New York on the after noon of the 23d ult., the particulars of which we have given elsewhere, in an article from the N. Y. Morning Herald. The accounts from the Southern States continue to be very -gloomy. The yellow fever was increasing ra pidly. The Morning Herald of September 23 states that the. deaths in Mobile averaged twenty-five a day. The disease had made its appearance at Black Creek, Florida. In New Orleans, on Sept. 13, there were twenty cases of the fever and six deaths. The inter ments numbered eleven. From the Ist to the 14th of September, the deaths in Mobile reached 209, and the sickness continued at the last accounts very malignant. There were four cases of the fever in Natchez on the 10th of September. In Augusta the deaths on the 18th were seven. The case of the African slaves at Hartford had been decided by the refusal of Judge Thompson to sustain the habeas corpus, and thus discharge the slaves from the custody of the Marshal. This had caused a very strong excitement, not only among the abolitionists, but among many humane men, who supposed that they were not slaves according to the laws of Spain. A new expedient for their liberation had been dis cussed. It was proposed to sue out another writ of habeas corpus, and to bring the blacks before one of the judges of the State, in the expectation that he might be so operated upon by the popular manifesta tions of feeling, as to order their immediate release. This project was, however, abandoned. Their trial has been deferred until November. The pressure on the Money-market at New York had not been, greater since the swing of 1837, than, it was on the 25th ultimo. Several failures had already taken place. The intelligence from Philadelphia and Baltimore was equally unfavourable. The specie at New York and Philadelphia is stated to be nearly as little, if not less, in amount, than it was in April 1837, while the engagements continue as pressing, if not as large. Accounts from various sources in Mississippi speak of the bad prospects of the cotton crops. It is said that the room was doing great mischief. The wheat crops in the New England States were extremely abundant. The relations of Texas and Mexico with regard to each other remained the same as they did a year ago. Bustamente and others refuse to acknowledge the in dependence of Texas. Immigration into the latter country continued to be on the increase. Accounts had been received from the city of Mexico to the Bth of August. All remained tranquil. A census of the population of Mexico had been taken, and it was found to amount to 7,014,140. In the year 1793 the population amounted to 5,200,000. The Morning Herald states that as yet no account had been received from the Commissioners who were surveying the disputed territory between Maine and New Brunswick. Permits to cut timber were still granted by the States of Massachusetts and Maine. This is a truly Irish mode of observing a strict neutra lity. The American government have evidently no intention of giving the disputed territory to England, as post-offices have been established by the States in almost every part of that district. All was quiet along the border. General Scott, Mr. Van Buren, and the Secretary of War, had been along the frontier with a view to make such arrangements as would preserve peace throughout the winter. Great dissatisfaction prevailed in Canada at the ap pointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson. The political prisoners were to be shipped on the 21st of Septem ber from Montreal to Botany Bay, via Quebec. Bill Johnston, who was conveyed with so much parade from New York to Watertown, and from whom so large an amount of bail was . required, has taken possession of Grindstone island again. This is another instance of the vigilance of the American authorities In our next publication we hope to be able to an nounce some further particulars relative to the pro posed " Liverpool Collegiate Institution." We know of nothing more likely than such an establishment to regenerate the social condition of this town, and to unite in a close bond all who stand up for the funda mental principle of Scriptural Education. At th . s eventful period, the most strenuous exertions and decided unanimity are required in defence of our con stitution in church and state ; and we trust that the churchman and orthodox dissenter, sinking their mi nor differences, and mutually conceding such points as involve no religious principle, will combine hand and heart to carry out the great object in view, and thus render the " Liverpool Collegiate Institution," emi nently useful to Liverpool and the county at large. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ,AT NEW YORK THE NATIONAL THEATRE, THREE CHURCHES,! AND SEVERAL HOUSES _BURNT DOWN. (From the k;lvi;O;kiiornin - 'i - Herald, September 24.) Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of four and five o'clock, smoke was seen issuing from the interior of the Na tional Theatre, particularly from the lower windows of the' side on Leonard-street. One or two persons passing by gave the alarm of fire, and in five minutes the City Hall bell rang. The report spread like wildfire through the city that the Na tional Theatre was on fire, and thousands flocked to the spot. When we reached the theatre the flames were still confined to the rooms under the stage, and were just breaking through to the pit and orchestra. The cry then was, that the fire broke out in the gas room, a little dark room, under private box, letter A. Others, and ourselves among the number, are of the opinion that it broke out further hack, but still un der the stage. Be that as it may, there is little,doubt that it was the work of an incendiary. The flames spread like wildfire; and, in a few minutes the stage was burnt through, and the green room, the wardrobe, and the scenery, were one mass of flame. At this moment, the interior of the house presented a most brilliant appear ance, and all the new and splendid ornaments, just on the eve of being consumed, shining with such surpassing bril liancy, gave it the appearance of a fairy palace. Unfortu nately, the fire occurred at an hour when nearly all engaged in the theatre were at home ; and hence all the valuable pro perties, books, music, instruments, &c. were destroyed. Mr. Mitchell, the stage manager, had left the house a short time previous, and there was then no fire in the house, and only Everard and his wife there. In the course of half an hour the stage manager returned. On finding that the door was locked, and that he could not make Everard, the house keeper, hear, he next tried to get into the window of his dressing room. To his great surprise he found this fastened. He, however, succeeded by breaking a pane of glass and put ting his hand in so as to raise the sash. Oh reaching the stage, he found the fire burning all across the rear, and just then it got hold of the scenery, and from thence to the body of the house. Finding that it would be useless attempting to stop the progress of the flames, he turned his attention to sav ing some of the dresses, and particularly the books from the treasury and other valuable effects. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of all present in their endeavour to save something from the theatre. Mr. Rock ett, Mr. Toomer, and others, rushed into the theatre at the risk of their lives to snatch articles from the flames, and acts of heroism were performed without parallel. The efforts of the engines were fruitless. The flames spread with such as tonishing rapidity as to defy all attempts to subdue them. In half an hour every part of the house was in flames. The beautiful and extensive private wardrobe of Mr. Wallack, worth 10,000 dollars (not to be matched in any country) was entirely consumed. It was deposited in a small room next to his private room up stairs. Wallack himself was early on the spot and rushed into the theatre at the risk of his life, to endeavour to save some articles of great value, but too late. The expensive wardrobe of Mr. Vandenhoff was in the thea tre, just inside the stage door, but part of it was saved. — Charles Kean's wardrobe was there, and only part of that was saved. De Begnis had removed only two days before a wardrobe worth 5,000 dollars, but all his valuable music, operas, scores, &c. worth 2,000 dollars, were destroyed. Se guin lost some music. The musicians lost their instruments. one lost a Cremona fiddle worth £5OO. Mitchell, Williams, Lambert, Mrs. Sefton, and most of the others lost great part of their wardrobes. In short, so rapid was the progress of ' the flames, that little besides the iron chest and th books were saved. The loss of Mr. Wallack alone is at least 25,000 dollars in dresses, new properties, &c. &c. all paid for, and on which there was not a centof insurance. The actors have lost 5,000 dollars. The musicians have lost in instruments 5,000 dollars. And there were lost in cash, notes, and bills in the Treasury at the time of the fire 5,000 dollars. The theatre itself was insured in the North American, the Hud son, and the Firemen's Offices. This was the joint property of Mr. Moran and Mr. Aymar. Such is the loss connected with the theatre. We have not time nor space to detail the appearance of the fire as the roof fell in, which was imposing in the extreme. Mr. Hamblin and Mr. Barry were on the spot, rendering every assistance in their power to Mr. Wallack, particularly Mr. Hamblin. Wallack was sadly cut up, as indeed he might well be. He has passed through two trying seasons. In the first he lost a large sum ; last season he paid off many of his engagements, and this season had a bright prospect of being rewarded for his immense exertions, and all his hopes are thus dashed to the ground at a blow, at least for the pre sent. The flames caught simultaneously the roof of the African Methodist Church, corner of Leonard 'and Church -streets, and the beautiful French Church, corner of Church and Franklin-streets. These were soon consumed. The fire then caught the Reformed Church in Franklin-street, and several houses in the vicinity, some grog shops, some assign nation houses, some respectable dwellings, some schools and missionary houses ; the strangest medley that ever was des troyed in one burning. The exertions of the firemen were tremendous, and after working four hours, they got the fire under with the following loss : Dollars. National Theatre and properties, ...... 120,000 French Church Dutch Church . 35,000 Negro Church . 15,000 Five * * * * * Houses 20,020 Three Dwelling-houses 260,000 IMPORTANT TO SHIPOWNERS.—The following resolution has been lately passed at a special meeting of the General Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's Retister of British and Foreign Shipping, viz., _ "'That it will be made 'a regulation, that every ship, after her return from a voyage beyond the Cape of Good Hope, or Cape Horn, shall, previously to her departure upon another distant voyage, be required to be placed in dry dock, or on the ways, for the examination of her bottom." And notice has been given, that the regulation will be adopted and carried into effect forthwith. Mr. J. G. Yandenhoff made his debut, yesterday evening, at Covent-garden Theatre, as Leon, in Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A COUNTRYMAN'S ADVENTURE.—On Wednesday, the 2d instant, Robert Duckworth, a carter, in the service of Mr. Downall, of Ashton, farmer, was sent to Liverpool with a load of hay, to sell for Mr. Gregory, the brother-in-law of his employer. The . hay was sold for five pounds some odd shillings, and the carter and the young lad by whom he was accompanied, returned the same night to St. Helen's. Here the carter took it into his head to have a " spree," and ac cordingly he sent the lad home with the team, while he, tak ing a contrary direction, towards morning found himself in Warrington. About day-light he went to a house of ill-fame, at the Town's End, kept by a woman named Ellen Howard. Before he got there he had spent his own money, but, on " taking stock" he found he had still remaining the five pounds and a few shillings, belonging to Mr. Peter Gregory. He put £4. in sovereigns and five shillings in silver in his fob, and the remainder, which was in silver, into his waist coat pocket. Ellen Howard was in bed, and another female, named Mary Johnson, was washing a pair of stockings. They were soon joined by a third female of the name of Taylor. Some liquor was sent for. The carter got as drunk as a car ter, spent his money as foolish as a carter, and then fell asleep as sound as a carter. By and bye he awoke—his " ladie loves" had fled—his dream of joy was ended—his money (or rather Mr. Peter Gregory's) was non est. Presently two men came into the house and said, " Where is the man with the money. The carter said his money was minus. They did not believe him, and while the one held him, the other took out of his p oc k ets a f ew coppers h i s female friends had left, and bade him a hasty farewell. Ellen Howard was af terwards at the Rodney public-house drunk. Betty Taylor, be found at the Hanging Ball, drinking with the two men who had been mean thieves enough to take his copper. He challenged her with the robbery. She said she did not take it, but that she had seen Mary Johnson take four sovereigns out of his fob. He next went in search of Mary Johnson, and was about questioning her concerning the money, when he was apprehended by the police on the charge of embezzle ment. On Monday all the parties were brought before the magistrates—the three females were committed for trial, and Duckworth, in default of finding sureties for his appearance to prosecute, was also sent to Kirkdale.—Man. Courier. CORRESPONDENCE. TO LAWRENCE HEYWORTH, ESQ. SIR,—A card, bearing your address as a candidate for Gt. George Ward, having been left at my residence, I respectfully request to know whether you are the same person who at tended a Chartist meeting held some short while since in this town. A REFORMER. 14th Oct., Upper Pitt-street. NIGHT TRAVELLING. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. GENTLEMEN, — Judging from the' beneficial arrangement made in respect to passengers continuing in the same car riages throughout the whole distance to London, and other points regarding their comfort, I am induced to believe that any suggestion involving that object will not be passed over by your honourable board without some consideration. The fact that the majority of night passengers avail them selves of those trains for the sole purpose of saving time and transacting their business the succeeding day, after accom plishing which they will frequently return on that same evening, thus losing two nights repose, call for these remarks. Being occasionally subjected to the above occurrence, I take the liberty of recommending to your attention a plan by which the fatigue would be remedied, and I think the following would accomplish it, at a trivial expense, far outweighed by the repose and comforts it would yield to the traveller. Instead of having a carriage with three divisions, each containing six seats, I would propose a night carriage, also with three divisions of six feet length, but the opening or door of the carriage to be at the extreme end, leaving a pas sage in the centre of the three divisions, which should, in stead of seats, be fitted up with three berths and a hair mattrass, on each side of the separate divisions; the carriage would thus contain eighteen berths, and near the pillow of each might be fitted in a small window, on the same principle as the berths of a ship, allowing the ingress of fresh air without incommoding any other passenger. The space be tween each berth would certainly be limited, say about 21 feet, but the recumbent position would afford much more rest and comfort than a sitting posture. Some additions may naturally occur to you, and I certainly hope they may be effected by you in adopting a plan which would add so materially to the advantages of steam travelling. Recommending the above, with very great deference, to your consideration, I remain, gentlemen, yours obediently, MERCATOR. Liverpool, 10th October, 1839. THE REV. H. STOWELL & THE OXFORD TRACTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—As a warm admirer of the principles, piety, zeal, and talents of the Rev. H. Stowell, perhaps I shall not be considered presumptuous if I make a few remarks upon a letter, which appeared under the signature of " Ridley," in the Liverpool Mail of Tuesday ; in which an attack is made upon the rev. gentleman, for the bold and uncompromising manner in which he denounced the poisonous heresy con tained in the Oxford tracts, in his admirable speech-delivered at the late Protestant meeting in Manchester. It is not for the purpose of defending Mr. Stowell that I have been in duced to trouble you—he needs no defence from me,—but to point out a few absurdities contained in the letter of " Ridley." He says :—" I rejoice sincerely that there is a marvellous approximation of numbers of the English church to the true Catholic church again, from which they had been led astray ; and I trust that vulgar Calvinism will soon be banished from our pulpits, and Catholic doctrine and prac trice be restored, as at our glorious Reformation. Then, be assured, Romish and Protestant dissent may bray against our Zion in vain." What " Ridley" means by " Catholic doctrine," does not very clearly appear; but it appears that it is something op posed to what he calls " vulgar Calvinism"—therefore we may erlclude that he means Puseyism, which is Arminian ism mit,ed up with a little Popery. But, if this is what he means by the doctrine of the " glorious Reformation," I must candidly tell him that he is quite ignorant of the doc trine of the Reformation. Be assured that the glorious Re formation was not achieved by preaching the half-and-half gospel of Puseyism; no, but by the preaching of the great and glorious truths of the everlasting gospel, as taught by apostles and prophets, and as embodied in the articles of the Church of England, and which are reiterated Sabbath after Sabbath by Mr. Stowell and every true and faithful minister of the Church of England. These truths may be sneered at as " vulgar Calvinism," but they are the only " weapons" that are " calculated to deal a death-blow at the monstrous" errors of Popery, " drawn, as they undoubtedly are, from the armoury of the" infallible and unchanging Word of God. Had the doctrines of the Church of England been faithfully , and fully preached by all the clergy ever since the Reforma tion, Popery never would have spread amongst us to the extent that it unfortunately has ; for as it was these truths, preached by the Reformers, and accompanied by the Divine blessing, that was the means of effecting the Reformation, so it can only be by the same means that the Reformation can be preserved. I feel assured that Arminianism and Pu seyism are paving the way for the spread of Popery ; but I trust that the day is not far distant when the unscriptural doctrines of high-churchmen, as they very erroneously call themselves, will " be banished from our pulpits," and the glorious doctrines of the Reformers of our church be re stored, and preached through the length and breadth of our beloved land. " Then be assured that Romish and Protes tant dissent may bray at our Zion in vain." I shall now show that the Reformers of our church were evangelical in their doctrine ; indeed we have abundant proof of this from the articles and homilies of our church, which were penned by those excellent men. They breathe throughout the doctrines of grace, or evangelical doctrine, as must be quite evident to every one who, with an unpreju diced mind, has read those excellent works. But perhaps a few quotations, proving that the Reformers were evangelical in their doctrine, may not be out of place. I shall begin with Ridley, whose signature the writer in the Mail has thought fit to adopt, with what propriety remains to be seen. The quotations I shall give upon the authority of a clergyman of the Church of England, whose works are now before me. The following will shew that the great Reformer Ridley was an evangelical divine, or, as the writer in the Mail would say, a " vulgar Calvinist :" " His definition of the true invisible church is not a little remarkable. By the Church of England,' says Ridley, I mean the congregation of the true chosen children of God in this realm of England, whom I acknowledge, not only to be my neighbours, but rather the congregation of my spiri tual brethren and sisters in Christ; yea, members of one body, wherein, by God's grace, I am, and have been, grafted in Christ.' In his pathetic ` Farewell to all afflicted for the Gospel,' he thus concludes : Farewell, farewell, 0 ye, the whole and universal congregation of the chosen of God here living upon earth, the true church militant of Christ, the very household and family of God, and the sacred temple of the Holy Ghost, farewell! Farewell, 0 thou little flock of the high heavenly pastors of Christ, for to thee it hath pleased the heavenly Father to give an everlasting and eter nal kingdom. Farewell, thou spiritual house of God, thou holy and royal priesthood, thou chosen generation, thou holy nation, thou won spouse, farewell, farewell.' " Again "It was an essential branch of Ridley's theology that the great gift of perseverance is vouchsafed to all the elect. He says : ' Ye therefore, my brethren, who pertain unto Christ, and have the seal of God marked in your foreheads ; that is, to wit, who are sealed with th e earnest o f t h e S p i r it t o be a peculiar people of God ; quit yourselves like men, and be strong. You know that all that are born of God overcometh the world, and this is th e v i c t ory t h at overcometh the world, even our faith. Let the world fret, let it rage never so much, no man can take us out of the Father's hands, for He is greater than all. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth : who then shall con demn ?' " This shall suffice as it regards Ridley . . I shall now prove that his fellow-sufferer Latimer was equally a Calvinist with himself. Many quotations might be adduced : one, how ever, shall suffice : it is as follows :—" Do I now, in for giving my neighbour his sins which he hath done against me; do I, I say, deserve, or merit, at God's hand, forgiveness of my own sins ? No, no : God forbid. For, if this should be so, th(n farewell Christ. It taketh 4im clear away. It di minisheth his honour, and it is very treason wrought against Christ. Remission of sin, wherein consisteth everlasting life, is such a treasure that it passeth all men's doings. It must not be our merits that shall serve, but his. He is our comfort; he is the majesty of God ; and his blood-shedding it is that cleanseth us from sin. Therefore, whoever is minded contrary to this, he robbeth Christ of his glory, and so casteth himself into everlasting danger. As touching our salvation, we must not go to work to think to get everlasting life by our own doings. No : this were to deny Christ's salvation, and remission of sins, and his own and free gift." Thus speaks the great Reformer Latimer. Would to God that all the clergy of the present day had such clear views of justification as that great Reformer ! I had thought to have given several other quotations to prove the soundness of the doctrines of Cranmer and Hooper, but fearing that I shall take up too much space in your valu able paper, I forbear. Enough has been said, I trust, to prove at least that Ridley and Latimer were no Arminians, and that the " Ridley" of the Mail has degenerated from the principles of the great Reformer. But, Sir, " Ridley" seems to insinuate that if what he calls " Catholic doctrines" were restored, it would go far towards preventing the spread of " Romish and Protestant dissent." But, alas ! Sir, what is the fact ? Where the cold, lifeless doctrines of high-church men (falsely so called) are preached, the church is forsaken, and the chapels of " Romish and Protestant dissenters" are filled : but where the doctrines for which I contend, and for which our martyrs bled, are set forth, there the people flock, and there converts are made from both " Romish and Pro testant dissent." If proofs were wanting, we should have no need to go out of our own town for them. What churches are the best attended in Liverpool ? and where are the most converts made from " Romish and Protestant dissent"? I answer, without the fear of contradiction, in those churches where the old-fashioned doctrines of the Reformation are taught—the doctrines which " Ridley" calls " vulgar Cal vinism." But " Ridley" seems very sanguine in his expec tations. He hopes that " vulgar Calvinism will soon be banished from our pulpits" ; but I think there is little pros pect of his hopes being realised. Evangelical doctrines are fast gaining ground. God is raising up faithful ambassadors, who do not shun to declare the whole counsel of God" ; and although ungodliness, " heresy, and schism" are abound ing on every hand, yet I thank God there is an amount of real piety amongst us, such as there has perhaps never been since the days of the glorious Reformation. God is carrying on His work, and must succeed in spite of all opposition, until " the number of His elect are accompli s h e d," and His will shall " be done on earth as it is in heaven." I am, Sir, yours, &c., A MEMBER OF ST. JUDE'S CHURCH. October 10th, 1839. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sin,—The circumstance of the death of th e p oor un f ortu . nate woman yesterday, in this place, has filled the minds of every person of proper feeling with concern. . . The cause, as of many other crimes, may be traced to the practice of drunkenness, which abounds here to an alarming extent, and to which the party now in power in the Town hall have, in a great measure, contributed. They have contributed by a practice which, since the pass ing of the reform bill, has been common here, of treating the poorer voters with drink throughout the year, to a certain extent, but especially on the eve of the elections, and which, at this very time, is going on to a frightful extent. In ano ther way, by the great increase of licenses to pfiblicans. Four years ago there were only three public-houses in the township : there are now fourteen ; and, in most instances, these additional licenses have been pandered for votes, which is not the least disgraceful part of it. Last year a man, who was a Conservative, and who usual ly not only voted for, but was active as a canvasser on that side, applied for a license, but was refused. During the day of the election last year, when Mr. John Holmes was run hard for votes, a magistrate called upon this man, and was seen in conversation with him a full half hour. The man absented himself for the remainder of the day, and did not vote. This year he has got a license. Now this fact, with others of a similar nature, is well known here, and if any one will take the trouble, he will have no difficulty in getting the names of the parties, but which, for obvious reasons, I refrain from giving here. It behoves respectable men, like Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Crop per, Mr. Birch, and others, to go into these matters, and purge the body of magistrates from such accusations, by hav ing these delinquencies laid at the door of the real offenders. How can they expect the bench to be respected when such practices are not only common, but are well known to exist amongst them. D. Kirkdale, 1•lth October, 18391, MEETING OF THE BURGESSES OP LIME STREET WARD. On Friday evening last, a large meeting of the burgesses of Lime-street Ward took place at the Operative News-room, Houghton-street, to select a candidate to represent them in the Town Council. The room was densely crowded, and numbers were unable to gain admittance. The meeting ought to have been held in the large room of the York Hotel, to have accommodated all who were desirous of attending. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and a determined spirit was manifested to get rid of Mr. Higgins, which we hope will be followed up on the day of election. Mr. OWEN occupied the chair, and was surrounded by a number of in fluential individuals residents of the ward. The entrance of Mr. Rigby and his friends was announced by loud and prolonged cheering. On the cheers subsiding, The CHAIRMAN said, that he could assure them it was with great delight he saw so numerous and influential an assembly. They had come together to wipe away the dis grace which attached itself to Lime-street Ward, and which was looked upon by the whig-radical party as their own favourite pocket borough, in which they could dictate as they chose. He would confess that some time ago, he had no confidence in their being able to return a conservative can didate, and he had urged many of his friends to abandon all hope of doing so. Their opponents had always set engines at work, which he hoped every conservative would scorn to use ; but their duplicity and treachery had now begun to tell against them, in the disgust created by their acts ; and he had now every confidence, that if strenuous exertions were made, their principles—the principles of order and good government—would reign triumphant. (Cheers.) True, they had been unsuccessful in returning Mr. Lace, a man of unimpeachable character, and the highest integrity ; and, although Mr. Lace's address was couched in terms that did honour, both to his head and heart, the remarks made by his antagonists were of such a disgraceful and dastard charac ter, tha t h friends of that gentleman were stung to the quick, tnd resolved to make an effort to turn the scales. (Applause.) A band of men, determined to persevere, and persevere they would on every occasion, trusting that there was spirit enough in the ward to visit, with discomfiture, the men whose triumph was soiled by their conduct. To two of their fellow burgesses, Mr. Ellis and Mr. Holt—(cheers— they were especially indebted for their activity ; and he trusted that they would all prove by their actions that the town is sound at the bottom, and that their representatives in the Town Council would shortly assume the complexion of honest men. (Laughter.) The chairman here read a note from Mr. Ambrose Lace, stating, that he had made arrangements to attend the meeting; but that the serious, if not dangerous illness of his sister, Mrs. Roscoe, obliged him to be absent. The chairman concluded by an energetic appeal to all present to buckle on their armour, and be ready for the day . of combat, and then called on Mr. Rigby to state his principles to the meeting. Mr. Mein , presented himself amidst tumultuous applause. He said, Gentlemen, 1 come before you to redeem a pledge I made some time ago, namely, that if there was any difficulty in procuring a candidate, rather than the ward should remain uncontested, I would contest it myself. I now stand before you, therefore, to redeem that pledge. (Loud cheers.) Should you honour me by electing me as your representative. I will do my best, not only to serve you faithfully, but to pro mote every measure that will promote the welfare of the town at large. Both my political principles and my general opi nions are known to you all. I have been a resident in the ward for 27 years, and will yield to no man in a desire for its prosperity. (Cheers.) I am, as you all know, a member of the Church es -. E igland, and to my dying day will support that char, h to the extent of my power, because our national happiness dep3nds on her efficiency and prosperity. (Ap plause.) Ot my political views you are certain, and these are not days to timidly shrink from avowing them. (Hear, hear.) I am acquainted with the local wants and interests of the town, having had some years acquaintance with the ship ping'and docks of the port, and my experience, which I have , acquired from the active pursuits of trade and commerce, shall be at your service, to be employed for the general be nefits and interests of the port. Gentlemen, I hate pledges, and will be fettered by no man. If you elect me, I trust I ' shall serve you honestly and faithfully. It is as much as you will ask of me, and my future conduct will be the best proof ' of my sincerity. I have been more accustomed to act than speak, and therefore I place myself in your hands, convinced that, not for my sake, but for your own, you will fearlessly and unflinchingly do your duty. (Loud cheering.) Mr. JAMES TATLOCK said, that it cheered his heart to witness such an assemblage, and it inspired him with hope that, in the day of battle, they would gain a splendid victory. ' If they wanted the town governed in a straight-forward man ly manner, they mus t ge t r id o f num b ers out o f the present council, and send in suc h men as cou ld b e trusted. Hear.) The town had been carr i e d away b y nostrums, and he, for one, must say that he had found reform to be anything but improvement. (Loud cheers.) The reform bill had failed to give us good government, and had elevated the most unfit men to power, who had abused that power for their own pur poses, instead of using it for the public good. (Cheers.) We want men of single minds, and believing Mr. Rigby's character above the reach of slander, and, from his ability and station, admirably fitted to represent a ward, principally a ward of tradesmen, he had great pleasure in moving that Mr. Rigby was a fit and proper person to represent them in the Town Council. (Loud cheering.) Mr. FRANCE briefly seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. Mr. FITZJOHN had had the advantage of knowing Mr. Rigby for many years as a most valuable and public spirited inhabitant of the ward, and called on every man who wished to honour integrity of character, to pledge themselves to use every exertion to secure his election. (Cheers.) Mr. BARTON had pleasure in seconding the resolution, which was passed, and carried unanimously. JOHN FORMBY, Esq. said, that his friend on his right (Mr. Churchwarden Kilshaw,) his noble friend he might call him, for he was noble in appearance as well as in character— (cheers and laughter)—had intended to move the next reso lution ; but he was so oppressed with his various public duties, and the room was so intensely hot, that he had re quested him to act as his substitute. (Laughter.) Although he was not an inhabitant of the ward, he wished it prosperity —and he could assure them that that prosperity would not be diminished, if they secured the services of such a man as Mr. Rigby, whom he had long known and highly esteemed. (Cheers.) Mr. JOHN SANDARS felt it a privilege to second Mr. Formby's resolution, and he hoped that all conservatives would do their utmost in the good cause. He had little doubt if proper exertions were made, that Mr. Rigby would be declared duly elected. He would prove the consistent friends of his fellow burgesses, and of their best interests, and would be found an advocate for the preservation of property, which he could tell them was, by the acts of one portlOn of the council, placed in considerable jeopardy—(hear, hear)—many of the ruling body were almost strangers in the town, and sought by their measures to forward their own interests rather than to preserve the property of numbers of the old inhabitants. (Hear.) He must be permitted to entertain his own opinion, that persons having a real stake in the town would legislate most beneficially for all classes, the poor as well as the rich ; and he trusted all conservatives would join heart and hand in sending men of standing into the Town council. He would enlarge on this subject if it were not for the crowded state of the room. (Go on, go on.) Let every conservative be at his post, and prove to our opponents the real situation in which they stand, and the opinion enter tained of them by men of intelligence. Every single voter may do a great deal if he is resolute and zealous ; and if every ward in the town were strongly and zealously con tested, the majority of the wards would undoubtedly be won. (Cheers.) He thanked the meeting for their attention, and concluded by seconding the resolution. The CHAIRMAN, in putting the motion, observed that Lime-street ward contained nearly 1,000 votes, it was almost a borough in itself, and had always been a pet ward with the council. He hoped it would become a pet ward to others, and for a better reason. (Cheers.) Mr. SAMUEL HOLME, who was near the chairman, was loudly called for, and presented himself amidst loud cheering. He said, that notwithstanding he had considered it his duty on many occasions to take part in the public affairs of the town, he had never yet deemed it fitting to step out of the ward with which he was more immediately connected, as he considered it more respectful to his fellow-burgesses in other wards to leave the choice of their municipal representatives to themselves, without obtruding himself or his opinions on their better judgment. (Hear.) True, he had abundant precedents for doing so, for he scarcely took up a newspaper but he found several gentlemen, with whom he had the mis fortune to differ on many points, itinerating from ward to ward, propagating their opinions with a zeal worthy of a better cause, and with an alacrity that conservatives would do well to imitate. (Hear.) The gentlemen to whom he more particularly alluded were almost übiquitous, and were the Curatii of the council, if, indeed, the whole power of the council was not vested in their triune dignity. (Cheers.) Mr. Walmsley, Mr. Shiel, anti Mr. Blackburn met us at every turn, the industrious orators of every crowd, and re minded him of the story of the Dutch Skipper, who embo died in his own portly frame the various and conflicting cha racters of offender, advocate, magistrate, and judge. (Loud laughter and cheers.) In this instance he must make an ex ception to his general rule, for he was bound, not only' by the general wish for his friend's success, in which he was assured all who heard him partook, but he had other reasons ; for he was bound by the ties of personal attachment, the result of an acquaintance that commenced in his childhood, when at tachments are the most durable, because the most sincere. His first acquaintance with Mr. Rigby commenced 35 years ago, when he was the valued and confidential assistant of his father ; and Mr. Rigby's conduct in early life gave presage of his success in after days. Every person must admire the man who is the architect of his own fortune, who, by a long career of honest industry, raises himself to honour and to wealth (hear) ; against whose character the whisper of slan der is hushed ; whose word is his bond, passable among all men, and whose integrity and uprightness is only exceeded by his unbounded benevolence, whenever the institutions of his country demanded his aid. (Great cheering.) Such he believed Mr. Rigby to be; and he envied him the spirit which. caused him to scatter gifts with a munificence that might well put many men of almost princely fortunes to the blush. It was such men we wanted in the present day to manage our public affairs ; for he held that the man who could not ma nage his own affairs, was not fit to be entrusted with the more complicated affairs of the public. (Hear.) If, there fore, such qualifications as he believed Mr. Rigby possessed, were a passport to public confidence, he trusted th e y wou ld mark their sense of them by returning a man to the council who had been for 27 years a resident in the ward, who was the possessor of considerable property within it, and who would serve them with honour and independence. (Cheers.) He would not go into council an emaciated mute, to register the secret decrees of any coterie, who, clamorous in public for the advantages of publicity, can yet strangely compromise their avowed opinions and consult their own security, by firing into the council chamber from the masked battery of the ANGEL (Loud laughter and cheers.) Nor n ould he, he might venture to promise if they, in the exercise of their un doubted right, should see fit to reject his claims, consent to enter the council, invested with the questionable dignity of a pitchforked alderman. (Loud cheers.) It seemed to be an , established maxim in the present day of liberal things, that the surest mode of arriving at aldermanic honours, was to creep in through the loop-hole of popular rejection. (Loud cheering.) He would freely confess, he lamented, that poli tical opinions should be made the test of municipal qualifica tion, because it deprived us of many of the best and most valuable men. He quarrelled with no man for his opinions. , He has a right to enjoy them as he pleases, provided he does not prevent others the free exercise of their own. A differ , ence of opinion purifies the political atmosphere, prevents stagnation, and tends to preserve the national health. (Hear) But it did come with an ill grace from those who, for so many years, cried out against what they termed the exclu siveness of the old councils, that they now seek to rivet the ' fetters of exclusiveness on the neck of the town, and slam the doors of the Town-hall in the face of any man, however high his character, however great his qualifications, unless , his political opinions square with their own. (Loud cheerins.) Was this freedom of opinion ? (Cries of " No !") Vi , as this true liberality ? (No !) He admired not such slavish free , dom. He loved not such modern liberality. Party spirit too often blinded men's sight, and prevented their recognising t real merit, and they were too apt to be satisfied with empty profession, habited in a garb to which the wearer had no earthly pretension. It enabled Birmingham counterfeits to pass for i current coin,& converted our municipal elections into a species i of political Fancy Ball, where men were found assurning the to ga of senators whose acting was a burlesque, and who possessed few if any qualifications for the character they had selected. , (Applause.) Among the sins laid to the charge of the old [ magistrates, that of granting licenses by the batch was not in , the catalogue. (Hear, hear.) They were of opinion that , the town needed no more public-houses, and if ever they t anted a single license it was under peculiar circumst ances . But now we have them scattered on all sides with such pro fusion, that, unless there is some abject in view with which we are to remain unacquainted, he could only ascribe if to a wayward opposition to the temperance societief;—(laughter) —but as he understood the grand master of the temperance associations was to sit for Great George's - Ward, he might safely leave the matter in the hands of a gentleman of such prodigious sagacity that he had discovered every man, how ever poor, to be worth £l6OO ; and he trusted that when Mr. Heyworth took his seat he would do all in his power to put an end to the shameful abuse. (Cheers.) It was not his in tention to detain them by any remarks on the general course pursued by the council. He freely admitted that that body contained many estimable individuals, for whom he entertained high respect ; but like all popular assemblies it contained others who, for the interests of the public, would be better out of it; and believing that they of Lime-street would be benefitted by the substitution of Mr. Rigby for the self-suffici ent and inflated personage who was again a candidate for their suffrages, and who, as far as he knew, had no establishment in the ward to identify him with its particular interests, he trusted they would strain every nerve to convert that person age into an alderman,—(loud cheering)—and that Mr. Rigby would succeed in wresting this forlorn hope of the town from the grasp of those who are the bitter_ ene mies of those national institutions under which IN elson triumphed at Trafalgar and Wellington at Waterloo, and un der which our beloved country had risen to unexampled eminence and prosperity. Mr. Holme sat down amidst loud applause. Mr. GLADSTONE, Jun., being called on, addressed the meeting in an animated speech. He spoke of the professions of the whig candidates as reforming balderdash. He hoped the leading merchants of the town would put themselves for ward, generals, not troops, being wanted. The reformers dis played great energy, and lost no opportunity of pouring in fresh poison. They had, so far, beaten us municipally, by, means not very creditable, and which he hoped no conserva- • tives would stoop to adopt. They ought to contest every ward. Mr. Gladstone then took a review of the proceedings of the Popish Protector Society, and drew an animated pic ture of the way in which certain Protestants are made to do the work of Popery, whose extension he described as fatal to the extension of real liberty of conscience. Popery cringed where she could not strike, but strikes to the death where she has the power. (Cheers.) The conservative party slum ber till they are shamefully defeated. It was their duty to look after their votes ; and they ought to recollect that during the late contest for parish collector, the conservative candi date had more single votes than his opponent, and which would now be the case had not the radicals swamped several wards by paying the taxes and placing on the registry num bers of Roman Catholics, who were little better than paupers, and who, from this discreditable circumstance, obtained a settlement in the parish ; and it was highly probable the pa rich might sooner or later be burthened with their main tenance. (Hear.) Mr. Gladstone concluded by calling on all conservatives to use every exertion ; and even if defeated to persevere, as perseverance and intrepidity would be sure in the end to prove victorious. The above is a mere outline of Mr. Gladstone's remarks. The crowded state of the room, and the intense heat, ren dered it a matter of no small difficulty to take notes of the proceedings, and it was utterly impossible for those who came in late to force their way up to the platform. Mr. M'lSTeile's name being mentioned by Mr. Gladstone, in the course of his address, a gentleman proposed three cheers for him, which were given with a heartiness seldom witnessed. A gentleman, whose name we could not learn, proposed the thanks of the meeting to the chairman, which was seconded by Mr. James Copple. The chairman briefly returned thanks ; and after three cheers for Mr. Rigby, the meeting separated a little before ten o'clock. MEETING OF THE CANDIDATES OF WEST DERBY WARD. Yesterday evening, a very large and influential meeting of the conservatives of this ward, was held at Mrs. Shaw's Edge- Hill, Coffee-House, John Walker, Esq., in the chair. Amongst those present we noticed, ohn Saw Leigh, Esq., G. H. Lawrence, Esq., John Bent, Esq., Kenneth Pringle, Esq., Lieutenant Soden, R.N., John Webb, Esq., WM. Peers, Esq., Richard Brasey, Esq., William Dent, Esq., Michael Rogers, Esq.,Francis Grundy, Esq., Robert Frank, Esq. and many other gentlemenof the highest respectability in this ward. The Chairman, in an appropriate and luminous speech, opened the business of the meeting, by stating that they had that evening met to take the most effectual steps to se cure the re-election in the Council of their long tried and valued friend John Smith, Esq., whose active and independent conduct in the Town-council had been beyond all praise. The Chairman drew the attention of the meeting to the con duct of a certain individual, whe arrogated to himself to be chairman of the reformers of the ward ; and who refused all approach to a modified list of objections, notwithstanding the express and conciliatory wish of the Mayor to that effect. The result of the revision, in consequence of the obstinacy of that individual, was a decided loss to the reformers them selves, no fewer than six persons having thereby been gained by the conservatives. Twenty-six claims were made to be rated, and out of these two were conservatives, and were substantiated ; the remainder were faggot votes, eight of which were disallowed. The blame of unnecessarily dragging parties from their homes to appear at the court of revision for eight days did not, therefore, rest with the conservatives, but was solely attributable to the reform party. Several resolutions, approving of the past conduct of John Smith, Esq., and pledging the meeting to use their most strenuous exertions to secure his re-election, were proposed and seconded in appropriate and energetic language,—by Messrs. Leigh, Bold, Lawrence, and Dent. A committee being appointed, consisting of from 30 to 40 of the most influential gentlemen of the ward. JOHN SMITH, Esq., rose, and in a powerful and eloquent speech gave an account of his stewardship, and entered into a detail of his opinions on the respective questions of educa tion, the warehouse controversy, and the recent act of Par liament to empower the Council to lay a watch or borough rate of 6d in the pound, for the purpose of relieving the bo rough fund from such contribution in future. On all these questions Mr. Smith's expositions gave the greatest satisfaction. A very liberal subscription was entered into to defray the necessary expenses ; thanks ware voted to the chairman, by acclamation, for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting, which was one of the most respectable and animated we have yet witnessed, separated with three times three hearty cheers for the candidate and the cause. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT KIRKDALE. Considerable excitement and alarm was exalted in Kirkdale and its immediate neighbourhood on Sunday and yesterday, by a rumour that a man of the name of Bibby had killed his wife. The case, (though the coroner's jury have, in conse quence of the evidence of the surgeon, returned a verdict for the minor offence,) is one of so extraordinary a nature that we supply the whole of the evidence, as well as some prefatory particulars, which are corroborated by the evidence or de rived from a visit to the tragic scene. The prisoner is a farm-labourer, latterly in the employ of Mr. Fogg, of Walton, and is stated to be an industrious, saving, and rather ingenious man in his station in life, being not only well acquainted with the various departments of husbandry, but useful by his ingenuity in repairing carts, barrows, or agricultural implements. He is above 40, and his wife was about the some age. The neighbours generally concur in the fact, that though the wife was considered a sober striving woman, they did not live agreeably together, but were frequently known to quarrel, though lit was not re marked that they came to blows. The prisoner is said to be a quiet man, excepting when affected by liquor, and it was stated by several of the neighbours that he was the more readily affected by having been injured by a kick of a horse on:the head some years ago. Of this however, no evidence was adduced. They have had three children, but two of them are dead. The other a boy of about 2 years of age, was in the house when the fatal assault took place, on Sunday morning last. The very small house or cottage in which they lived is situated in King-street, Kirkdale, a small street of nearly new houses running east and west. The cottage is recessed several yards from the frontage of the street, the intermediate space forming a little yard divided from the street with a parapet wall topped by a little railing. From this yard the unfortunate deceased used to retail coals, and the lower part of the house, in front, was used as a little apple and cake shop. The public-house of Mr. Powell, to which the deceased re treated, is next door, and at the corner of a street leading north, called Summer-gardens. In this last street close by, on the same side, is the house of Mrs. Aspinall, where the deceased died, in less than half an hour after she had left her own cottage. The prisoner was apprehended by Inspector Angus near his own house, about eleven o'clock on Sunday. Yesterday, about one o'clock, P. F. Currie, Esq., and a respectable jury visited the premises and viewed the body. They afterwards went to Liverpool, to which most of them belonged, to hear the evidence, the prisoner being there in custody. The inquest was held in the office in Orrell's-court. The prisoner was allowed a seat during the examination. He is a sallow-looking man, with sandy hair, and was dressed as an ordinary country labourer—a smock frock and a fustian waistcoat. He appeared to be dejected and emaciated, and was, it appeared, so deaf, that when asked at the close of the evidence (with the usual caution) if he had anything to say, he could not be made to comprehend the question. The following is the evidence : Elizabeth Aspinall being sworn, said :—I am the wife of Samuel Aspinall, and we live in Hartley's-court, Summer's gardens, Kirkdale. I know the deceased. She was the wife of the prisoner, whose name is William Bibby. They resided in a small house in King-street which is near to where I live. Yesterday morning about ten o'clock, the deceased sent a little girl for me to come and see her at Mr. Powell's, who is a neighbour close by. I went there, and saw the deceased sitting on a chair. She asked me if I would allow her to come into my house and lie down, as her husband had been beating her. She asked me to look at her head. I saw one of her ears was very dark. She afterwards got up and came into my house. I got her a pillow down stairs to lay her head on the table, and she vomited a good deal. She said two or three times after she got into our house that her hus band had nearly killed her. She wanted a doctor to be sent for, and I sent for one. No doctor came for nearly half an hour, and the deceased was then dead. My next door neigh bour was with me when the deceased died. She laid herself down on the floor soon after she came in, and was in that position when she died. The deceased was about 40 years old ; and for what I have seen of her was a sober woman. For the last fortnight the prisoner and the deceased have lived very disagreeable. The deceased in giving an account how her husband had beat her, said, that he had a child in his arms when he first struck her, and that he afterwards put the child down, and then struck her with both his hands. I did not think she was in a dying state when she said this, but she must have been from the short time she lived after wards, and when she told me to send for a doctor,. she then said, " I think I am dying." During the last fortnight, the deceased was out one or two nights, and she and the prisoner had some quarrel about it. Elizabeth Powell said, I am the daughter of Elizabeth Powell, and live in King-street, Kirkdale. My father keeps a public-house there. I knew the deceased very well. She and the prisoner have lived close by for the last four years. She was often in the habit of coming to our house, and to work for my mother, and sometimes she would have some thing to drink. Between nine and ten o'clock yesterday morning, the deceased came into our house. She had her cap in her hand. She called me by my name, the moment she came in, and said her husband had been nearly killing her. She asked me to give her something to rub her hand with, and I think it was the left one which appeared much swollen, and was swelled half-way up her arm. I got some vinegar and rubbed it over her hand. She asked me would I send any one for a police-officer. I sent one of my sisters for Mrs. Aspinall, who immediately came, and the deceased and she went out directly, and I never afterwards saw her alive. For the last fortnight or three weeks, the deceased and the prisoner have lived very uncomfortable. They used to quarrel, but I never saw any blows given, but I have often heard the noise of their quarrelling. When the deceased first came into our house, she complained of her head, and said her husband had done it. She asked for a glass of whiskey, after she came into our house, and I gavelit to her, and she drank it. The deceased, about twelve days ago, stated to me that she had broken open a box, in which her husband kept his money, and had taken £1 12s 6d out of it. and that she bad taken some of the clothes out previously and pledged them, but that her husband knew that she had pledged them, and had taken the money to redeem them. Sarah Rustage, a girl of about twelve years of age, daugh ter of William Rustage, being sworn, said, I knew the de ceased very well since she came to Kirkdale. I knew the prisoner. Their house is in King-street, and there is a small court in front of it. I went often to the house. It was a small shop, where they sell sweets, cakes, and apples. Late ly the prisoner and deceased often quarrelled. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, as near as I can tell, I was stand ing by the gate of the court, in front of their house, when I heard the deceased scream out " murder ;" and on looking into the house, the door of which was open, I saw the pri soner strike-out with his lists, as if he was striking at some body, and the deceased immediately afterwards screamed out ETPr27?pr) f) t: s\-1 Pi) r- 4*' " murder!' several tirneii— From where Ivr -AMA could not see the deceased. Directly after the prisoner ca Irdi 7jA. to the door, and he tucked up his shirt sleeves, and struck, as I supposed, at the deceased again. Prisoner then came out with the'Child'in and "soon after the deceased came out, and went into Mr. Powell's. From where 1 stood I could distinctly see the blows struck by the prisoner ; but I cannot swear that they were struck at the deceased. There was no one else in the house but the prisoner, the de ceased, and the little child. After I saw the blows struck by the prisoner, I heard the deceased cry out " murder." The deceased afterwards walked to Mrs. Aspinall's, and she seemed very much hurt, and leant by the wall as she was go ing. Mrs. Aspinall was with her. By a Juryman.—After the prisoner and the deceased came out, I went into the house, and looked in, but there was no one else in the house. Edward Barrow, sworn—l am a bailiff, and live in Morley street, Kirkdale. Yesterday morning I was standing in King-street, Kirkdale, opposite the prisoner's door speaking to a man of the name of William Hale. I heard some one from the inside of the house screetch out murder, and on looking towards it I seen the prisoner sitting on a chair with the child on his knee. I saw his band go up, and saw him strike several blows at something, but cannot say whether it was at the deceased. I thought that the prisoner and his wife were quarrelling, and I shook my fist at him ; but I did not go into the house as I once got myself into a scrape by interfering when a man and his wife were quarrelling, and I made a vow I should not do it again. The prisoner came to the door, after I had shaken my fist at him, and pulled out his watch, and I turned my back, and saw uo more of him. John Knowles, said I am a shoe-maker and live in Kirk dale. Yesterday morning I was passing the prisoner's house, and saw him tucking his shirt sleeves up as if he was going to fight some one. By the time I was about 10 yards off I turned opposite his house, I saw the prisoner sitting on a chair. All of a sudden he juinped up, as if in a hurry, and he ran across the room as if to strike somebody. Di rectly afterwards I heard a scream of " murder," and a noise like some earthen-ware pots falling. I stopped until I saw the deceased come out, and she went into Pownall's. Prisoner came out before her. I have known the prisoner for nine or ten years. I have heard tell of their quarrelling and fighting at different times, but never saw it. I have seen him tipsy, but cannot call him a drunken man. He is a labourer. Jane Baines said—l am the wife of James Baines, and live in Summer-gardens, Kirkdale: I knew?. the deceased. Yes terday morning I saw the deceased walking in the passage leading to Mrs. Aspinall's house. She was saying, " Oh, 1 am dying," and seemed hardly able to walk. She leaned her head against the wall for some little time, and then went into Mrs. Aspinall's house. I followed her in, and she began to vomit a good deal. She appeared to be dying, and asked for a surgeon. I sent off fora surgeon, but she was dead be fore he arrived. I asked her where her child was, and she said she did not know, and that her husband held the child with one hand while he hit her with the other ; also, that her husband afterwards laid down the child and struck her with both hands. She several times said that she was dying •, that he had catched her right under the ear. When she said this she appeared to be sensible that she was dying. For a long time past they appeared to live on very indifferent terms. I never saw her drunk. I have known him for twelve years. - John Angus being sworn, said—l am an inspector of police. Yesterday, a little after eleven o'clock, I was in company with Mr. Bradshaw in Kirkdale-road, whin information was brought to me that a man of the name of Bibby, residing in Kirkdale, had killed his wife. We went there immediately, and found a crowd of persons close by the house of the pri soner ; and the prisoner was standing with his back against the wall, with the hammer which I now produce in his hand. I did not at first observe the hammer in his hand, till some of those about told me of it. The prisoner went into the court in front of his house, and laid the hammer quietly down, and then came back and stood in the spot where I had first seen him. The prisoner appeared to be quite in liquor then. Augustus Broadbridge sworn. I reside at Kirkdale. I was called to the deceased between ten and eleven yesterday forenoon. I found her dead. I found her lying on the floor of a house in Summer's Gardens. I examined the body. On the left side 'of the head and neck there were marks of severe injury, and the parts were much discoloured. I have since made a post mortem examination by direction of the coroner. Upon removing the scalp from the skull, I found considerable effusion of blood on both sides of the head under the scalp. The skull was uninjured. The brain was uninjured also, but there was a little vascularity of the blood vessels of the brain. The blood-vessels were fuller than in a healthy subject. I opened the chest immediately after— found the lungs healthy, but an effusion of serum in the cavity of the plura or chest of 14 to 16 ounces of serum. The aorta or large artery of the heart was considerably en larged. Between the pericardium and the heart, there was an effusion of fluid, about two ounces in quantity. All the ribs were perfectly sound. I did not discover any other external marks of violence than those I have first mentioned. In my opinion the cause of death was an effusion of water into the cavity of the chest, and between the pericardium and the heart, and which effusion may be attributed to excitement as well as to the excitement of spirits, a quantity of which I found in the stomach. I am decidedly of opinion that a blow could not have occasioned the effusion. The effusion has been going on for some time. The deceased had been under my care about nine months. She complained then of an ulcerated sore throat and a difficulty of breathing. The effusion of blood under the scalp as above described, was not •the apparent cause of death. A blow or a fall yesterday may have slightly hastened death. The discolouration in the neck and head of the deceased which I observed when first called in, might have been caused by a blow or a fall. Whether it was a blow or a fall it must have been very severe to occasion so much blackness so soon. There was no corresponding injury internally to account for death. On looking at the case altogether, I do not think the death of the deceased has been occasioned by violence, although from the previous state of the health of the deceased, her death may have been has tened by violence. Persons frequently die from concussion of the brain, and on a post mortem examination in such cases, there is frequently no trace left behind differing from those presented by the brain of the deceased. The Coroner, in adverting to the evidence, then said that this was one of the most extraordinary case that had ever come under his notice. The whole result of the investiga tion before them, as to the causeof the death of the deceased, depended on the evidence of the surgeon, and thatwas so far exculpatory of the prisoner as regarded the 'major offence, that it would be scarcely necessary for him to define to them the legal distinction between murderand manslaughter. There could be no doubt but that the prisoner had grievously M used the deceased. This was borne out by the very clear tes timony of the little girl (the third witness,) as well as by the declarations' of the dying woman herself, which, in such case, was legal evidence. The surgeon, however, attributed her death to internal disease, which he admitted might be accel erated by external violence. If they thought there was malice prepense in the blows given by the prisoner, which hastened or produced the death of the deceased, the offense would be murder : if not so, but that the blows he inflicted did acceler ate her death, the offense would be manslaughter. 1f,.0n the other hand, they conceived that she died from natural causes, they would find a verdict accordingly. The jury, after retiring for about ten minutes, returned, when the foreman stated that twelve of them had agreed to a verdict of " Manslaughter, considering the prisoner had hastened the death of the deceased ;" and added, that three of them were dissentient. _ _ The prisoner was theh committed on the Coroner's war rant to take his trial at the assizes. Lord Langdale (brother to Mr. Bickersteth, of Rodney street, in this town) has purchased Templeton-honse and its domains, at Roehampton. The new barque Competitor, Capt. Prichard, which sailed from this port for Sydney, N.S.W., on Thursday last, has put back, after being off the Salters, and experiencing a most severe gale, by which she lost her foretopmast and maintop gallantmast. She is expected to sail again by the end of the week. The United Kingdom, Capt. M'Coll, is now in the South Graving-dock, and will be dry to-day (Tuesday). PUGILISM.—We understand that Brassey, a notorious boxer resident in Bradford, engaged in a prize fight on Tues day last, with a man named Charley Langan, of Liverpool, for 100 sovereigns. The battle took place at Woodhead, on the borders of Derbyshire ; it lasted 21 hours, consisted of 71 rounds, and was decided in favour of the Bradford man. We are infoimed that the antagonist of Brassey died at Liver poolon Wednesday night, of the injuries he had received du ring the conflict, and that Brassey was apprehended at Leeds on Thursday, tb answer for his death.—Leeds Intelligencer. THE TRANSATLANTIC STEAM-SHIM—The Great West ern, which will leave Kingroad, Bristol, on Saturday next, for New York, will take out her full complement of passengers. The applications for berths have been far greater than the ship can accommodate. The British Queen, which will leave Portsmouth for New York, :on the Ist of November, has nearly 200 berths engaged already. The packet-shies still, notwithstanding the opposition of the steamers, get a fair share of passengers. The. Siddons, which sailed yesterday for New York, had upwards of 20 in the cabin. CHARGE OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.—On Friday morning two officers, belonging to Falmouth, delivered into the custody of Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, John Wentworth Fairbanks, a young man, 19 years of age, and steward to the barque Secret, of Liverpool, who stands charged with the wilful murder of William White, master of that on the high sea, between England and Rio de Janeiro. The prisoner had undergone au examination at Falmouth, and stands committed to Newgate for trial at the ensuing sessions. The circumstances connected with the occurrence have already appeared in:this journal. - - LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S INSTITUTION--We are happy to see such strong indications of a determination to make this association conducive to extensive benefit amongst this intel ligent and industrious class of our fellow-citizens. We are delighted, too, to perceive,- that the promises of good held forth When a slight indulg,ence was claimed by the shopkeep ers' assistants will fain to be fully realized. The association is commencing the winter campaign with spirit, by a course of twelve lectures on Chemistry, by Mr. C. G. Feinaigle. By the syllabus, we perceive, that the course will emb o dy a vast quantity of valuableinfoftnation, and we have, inits ar rangement, a foretaste Of the talent of the lecturer. IMPERIAL BANK, MA'kcirtsTEß.—An adjourned meet ing of the creditors of the linperiat Bank, was held at the Clarence Hotel, in Manchester, on Monday last (yesterday.) The attendance was more numerous than at the' preceding meeting. The object of the meeting was, to ascertain whe ther the directors were prepared to make any proposition to the creditors, by which the affairs of the bank could be wound up in the most satisfactory manner. After a length ened discussion, the following resolution was - passed, " that six gentlemen be appointed from the body of the creditors, to act with the creditors, under a trust deed, to be prepared for that purpose, to investigate the state of the bank, and its capability to pay its debts ; and that this meeting recommend that all legal proceedings be stopped till they report thereon ; and that they be requested to bring up a report this day three weeks ; and that the future and present assets of the bank be placed under the controul of the same gentlemen. Six gen tlemen were nominated, and the proceedings terminated about four o'clock.—Fronz our Correspondent. PRESENTATION OF ROBERT OWEN TO THE QUEEN.-- We are requested to state, that the sheets containing the signatures of the ladies of Liverpool to the address to the Queen, proposed by Mr. Brindley, and expressing abhorrence at the presentation of the infidel, Robert Owen, at court, must be sent in to Mr. Crisp's office, Church-street, on or before Saturday nezt. We are informed that innkeepers, postmasters, and licen sed victuallers ;are writing a memorial to the new Chan cellor of the Exchequer, to obtain the Right Honourable gentleman's support to those measures of relief the state of their trade require, and which they failed to obtain last ses sion of parliament, on account of the penny postage having been forced upon the government. Mr. Hughes, who has the management of it, intends pressing the whole case upon the Chancellor previous to the meeting of parliament. MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--During Wednesday night last several panes of glass were broken from the exterior of the Queen's dressing room in a mysterious manner. No clue has been discovered as to the mode in which this outrage was perpetrated. An inquiry was insti tuted into the matter, but it terminated without any satisfac tory result. The panes were of thick plate glass, and yet three flint stones of considerable size were found in the room. The outrage took place between the hours of one and seven o'clock in the morning. None of the sentinels on duty had heard any noise, which is the more extraordinary, as two of them are placed within twenty yards of the spot. Messrs. Acraman and Company have purchased Clift House and the adjoining grounds, for the purpose of forming a dock, in which, we hear, it is their intention immediately to commence the construction of a largeiron sp Journal. hi .—Bristo( ~~~- -,- • '*---- *l4'll - : v 5 1 t /: •-?.:;:-.)- 4 -..,,...........- ~ waeigTivig