The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-05 00:00:00

VALUABLE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, CLOSE TO NEW SCOTLAND-ROAD.' By Mr. 131 - FORD, Peremptorily,—On SATURDAY next, the 9th instant, at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, at the George Inn Dale-street, by order of the Mortgagee, rIWO MESSUAGES or DWELLING-HOUSES, with the Appurtenances, on the north side of Dalrymple-street, New Scotland-road, in Liverpool, containing in front to Dal rymple-street and at the back respectively 33 feet 5 inches, or thereabouts, and extending in depth backwards on the cast and west sides respectively 41 feet 5 inches, or thereabouts. The Tenure is Freehold of Inheritance. MONEY TO LEND. Any Sum, from .C3OO to £5OOO, on approved security of House, Warehouse, or Greenfield Property. To be LET, a good FAMILY HOUSE, fronting Upper Parliament-street, Windsor, near Lodge-lane, and another fronting Berkeley-street, in Toxteth-park. The situations are high and drv, and the Rents reasonable. For further particulars apply at the Office of Mr. DilvsoN, Solicitor, Temple-court, Liverpool. TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. TILE LIVERPOOL MEDICAL SOCIETY request a General Meeting of the Profession TO-MORROW ( Wed nesday) the 6th inst., at Two o'clock P.M. in the Medical Library, in order to consider the propriety of Publicly expressing their ap probation of the conduct of the late Medical Officers of the A ldersgate-street Dispensary. By order of the Society, W. H. DUNCAN, Honorary Secretary. Royal Institution, 30th October. NORTHERN HOSPITAL. NOTICE is lerJ)Yi;:eti; that the Election of a House SURGEON, I%IATRON, and PORTER to the above Institution, will take place on MONDAY, the 2d December next. Applications to be made in writing, with testimonials, &c. (post-paid), addressed to Mr. GEoacki3. WAINwaiG fir, Trea surer, on or before the 20th instant. CHARLES lIORSFALL, Committee-Room, 4th Nov., 1833. President. DENTITII respectfully intimates to the Merchants, 41.) • Captains, Visitors, Inhabitants of Liverpool, and Persons going abroad, that the alterations in the upper part of his house are now co m pl e t e d, by w hi c h h e i s ena bl e d to have the entire TAILORING branch of his Business under his own and a su perior Cutter's immediate superintendence, which, together with his STOCK of READY-MADE LINEN, HOSIERY, and GLOVES, he can offer upon terms decidedly advantageous to those who may honour him with their commands. Gentle men who wish to furnish their own Cloth may have their Gar ments made and trimmed in a superior style. Charles Mackintosh and Co.'s Patent India Rubber Water proof and Air-proof Fabrics, comprising Coats, Cloaks. Fishing and Shooting Frocks, Capes, Overalls, Pillows, Cushions, Life Preservers, &c. Also, a superior Stock of Gentlemen's Dressing Gowns and Cloth and Camblet Cloaks. 31, Lord -street, Liverpool. IMPORTANT TO PRINTERS. HALF THE SIZE OF THE COLUMBIAN PRESS, DOUBLE ITS SPEED, AND MORE THAN DOUBLE ITS POWER, WITH ONLY ONE MAN TO WORK IT! KITCHEN'S PATENT SELF-INKING PRESS, pos sessing the above Requisites and Qualifications, may now be seen at Work by Master Printers, and other Gentlemen in terested in the Improvement of the Arts, at the Office of the Newcastle Journal. Solid Forms are worked at the self-Inking Press without an Overlay. The Presses will be constructed at the celebrated Works of Messrs. R. and W. Hawthorn, Civil Engineers, Newcastle, those Gentlemen having kindly afforded most valuable assist ance in what may be termed the Architecture of the Machine, including the calculations for the dimensions and proportions of its several parts, and a symmetrical arrangement of the whole upon unerring scientific and philosophical principles, so that the Trade may rely upon the strength and truth of each Press; whilst it is confidently asserted that in beauty of appear ance the Self-Inking Press is not excelled, or even equalled, by any . hitherto known: Many Orders are now in course of exe cution, not only for Offices in England, Ireland, attd Scotland, but in the United States. Those of the Trade who have already had an opportunity of judging, have expressed their delight and astonishment at the beauty, effectiveness, and general utility of this invention, it being alike applicable to every description of Printing, and by its price placed within the reach of every res pectable Master. The Self-Inking Press is peculiarly adapted for Book-work. Correct register is obtained with less than ordinary trouble. Testimonials from experienced Master Printers and Over seers, who have seen the Machine at work, will be published shortly-. EXTRACT FROM THE INVENTOR'S CIRCULAR. Every experiment has been tried that practical experience could suggest, with a view to ascertain the capabilities and powers of the Press. The Machine already completed by the Messrs. Hawthorn is calculated for a super-royal sheet, and the form generally used was a broadside of solid small type.— The result of these several trials has more than answered the most sanguine expectations, and fully proved that my calcula tions had been considerably underrated. In the following de scription I have been equally careful to avoid exaggeration. The experiments were directed to ascertain-Ist, The power of the Press; 2dly, It s s p ee d ; an d, idl y , I ts genera l applicabi lity to all descriptions of work. FIRST, AS TO POWER. The power of the Self-Inking Press is, upon the most mode rate calculation, double that of the Columbian. It is certain that, if the connecting-rod and cheek-pins were adjusted (which can be done readily and with ease) so as to give the leverages full play and the power of a strong man applied, the most massive iron-frame ever made for a printing-press would be easily snapped asunder. ..auit, as to speed, enables me to affi r m, as a genera l rule, that one man will, (with the improvements we contemplate in the Machines now in progress,) be enabled to accomplish double the work that two men can now perform at the Colum bian; in other words, that one man will throw off as many im eressions as four men can now complete at two presses. Of course, it would be difficult to lay down an exact rule as to the precise number of impressions per hour, because much will depend upon the activity and dexterity of the workman. I will take, however, as a criterion, a man who is tolerably active at his business, and suppose he can pull at the commo n p ress , w ith a companion to roll f'or him, 250 impressions per hour of a book form—the same man would, at the Self-Inking Press, without assistance, print upwards of S(X) per hour. It a light form, he would throw off 600 impressions per hour; and of a large news form, one man would certainly, with a fly-boy, print with ease an impression of 1500 copies in three hours. I may as well remark that the Self-Inking Press will fall short of the Napier Machine as to rapidity. But here the compari son ends. The Napier Machine requires three ycrsons to at tend it : the Self-Inking Press only one. The N apier Machine is not applicable to a tithe of the work required to be performed in a respectable office; but it is perfectly immaterial whether a heavy broadside or a light circular be laid on the Kitchen Press, as a proof of which I may add, we are now working every thing at it that comes to the Journal printing-office. With die Na pier Machine so much time is lost in "making ready" for a short number, that its speed when in operation does not compen sate for the delay 2 • but at the Self-Inkin g P ress, f orms o f a ll descriptions are got to work much sooner than with the Colum bian or any other known invention. The Napier Machine (and every other where the cylinder is used) injures the types; but the Self-Inking Press is not liable to this objection. The Price of the Napier Machine has hitherto been £500; the largest Self- Inking Press, is little more than one-fourth of that sum, and the smaller one only about one-fifth. And, after all, even as to speed, it is respectfully submitted that 500 impressions per hour is suf f icient for any provincial newspaper. THIRDLY, AS TO GENERAL UTILITY. From the peculiar principle and arrangement of the Self- Inking Press, very little time will be lost in working a very small form at a very large machine. The consequence is that it will not be requisite, as at present, to keep a news-press idle through the week; on the contrary, a machine of the largest magnitude will be applicable to every description of job, from a double-royal posting bill to a small card, It is intended that only three sizes shall be made, vit., Super Royal, Double Demy, and the large News Press. Prices, and any other particulars, may be known on applica tion, by letter or otherwise, to Mr. KITCHEN, at the Journal o . firsee. The Self-Inking Press is only one of a Series of Inventions, completed by Mr. Kitchen, for improving the profession. A Portable Galley Press, possessing extraordinary advantages, and an improved Imposing Stone, will be speedily offered to the Public. Arrangements are also in progess to supply the Trade with planed Iron Imposing Surfa ces , an d R o ll er M ou ld s an d I n ki ng fables, for common Presses, as well as several other Articles used in the business, all of an improved Construction, and at moderate Prices. Neweastte-upon-Tyne, Oct., 28, 1833. GENUINE PATENT BRANDY.—This exquisite spirit, which has attained such high celebrity, and vanquished every prejudice, was first introduced by retail to the public, on distillery terms, by BRETT, of' Drury-lane; who having had experience ot the amazing improvement which it derives from MATURITY, has made arrangements for securing a successive supply of THE OLDEST BRANDY THAT CAN BE PROCURED; and, as a guarantee for his integrity, a certificate under official seal, is displayed in his counting-house, declaratory of the con fidence which the Patentee reposes in H. BRETT'S vending the pure Patent Brandy, in precisely the same genuine state in which he rec e i ves it f rom t h e Di st ill ery. H. BRETT has, moreover, made affidavit before the Lord - Mayor, that every ar ticle in the Wine and Spirit Trade, sold by him, shall be per fectly free from deleterious adulteration. Ladies and Gentlemen to whom health and economy are ob jects of consideration, are respectfully invited either to transmit their orders, by post, or to direct their servants or carriers to No. 109, Drury-lane, and not to be misled by servile imitations, at other houses in the neighbourhood. Imperial Measure. 1 The Pure Patent Brandy - 0 Wine Brandy, of equal strength and purity London Cream Gin Old Jamaica Rum Superior Overp_roof Whiskey l6 0 3 0 2 0 Prime Cognac Brands, as imported 31 6 561 4 0 Spirits of Wine, highly rectified BRETT'S mucimappro,ved SA pPLE HA.Nic , ER s of WINE, 175., of SPIRITS, 17s. 6d. each,, packages included. CoNoPrroNs.—Cash on delivery of goods in London or the suburbs. Exchanged in case of - disapproval, —forfeited if in ferior to sample. Country postage and shipping charges (if any) payable by purchasers. Discount on l y to the trade. HEN RI Bit ETT, Wine and "Brandy-merchant, No. 109, DRURY-LANE, London.—N.B. No. 109. Gallon. I Sealed I Bottle. 3 6 Pint. A duel, without seconds, took place at Pantin a few days ago between two chiefs of sections of the Societi• des Droits de l'Homme, Lethullier and Va than ; the former was found by two gendarmes, severe l y woun d e d i n t h e h ea d , an d t h ree pistols were lying near him; the other, Valban, had not returned to his home. It appears that duels are taking place to a frightful ex tent in the garrison of Paris. In the course of last week ten were wounded and some killed among the lancers and the car bin vers.—French paper. MARRIAGES. —ln the neighbourhood of Clapham, near Settle, there has been three remarkable marriages within these few weeks past, Mr. Lawrence Knight, of Horton, in Ribblesdale, aged 60, was united to Miss :Margaret Moore, a pretty girl of 24. Mr. John Atkinson, of Austwick, in his 59th year, married Miss Shepherd( ' who is not yet out of her teens. And last, though not least, Mr. John Shackleton, of Lawkland, aged 62, led to the hymeneal altar Miss Jane Howson, a blooming damsel of 21. TO CORRESPONDENTS, On carefully perusing the letter of a "Native of Cumberland," we find its statements and allegations inadmissible in many respects, even if otherwise substantially correct. In the first place the writer does not mention the day when he sailed when the occurrences he describes took place. This is fatal to his statement, inasmuch, that admitting it to be true, the proprietors would be prevented from inquiring into the par ticulars, and punishing, if need be, the parties implicated. In the second place, the charges are of so serious a nature, that we should not be justified in making them without a per fect guarantee of their truth, and an indemnity against the consequences. We regret that we cannot spare room in the present number to notice the proceedings at Coleraine. We have reasons, which shall hereafter be explained in the Court of King's Bench, for not noticing the subject to which "A FRIEND" refers. We perfectly understand the difference between the greater sum charged: and paid, and the lesser sum demanded and not paid. One of the parties interested has already made a communi cation to us on the subject, but we are not yet authorized to publish it. ?ODE Eibtrpool gztanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1833. Up to the momenti of our going to press nothing new had reached us from Spain or Portugal. The Cornubian of Saturday gives a short detail, in the form of a Diary, from an Individual of high rank in Lisbon, of the pro ceedings from the 12th to the 19th October. It is proved that the statement of the five gun•boats spoken of as destroyed by Don 111louEL's forces is correct. By the New York packet ship South America, Cap tain Marshall, which has made a remarkably quick pas sage, we have received files of American papers down to the 17th October,. and from Canada to the 11th. She brings accounts of the arrival out of the John Jay, the packet ship of the Bth September, from hence. Mr. Clay has bees making a tour of the northern and eastern states, and has met with a very flattering reception where ever he has moved. The controversy brought about by the PRESIDENT'S withdrawal of the government deposits from the United States Bank, and the consequent change in the secretaryship of the Treasury, seems to acquire more force as the period approaches for the meeting of congress. Our limits do not permit us to give the vari ous observations which the papers present on this sub ject. But some opinion may be formed of the warmth thrown into the discussion, when terms like " ruthless tyrant," and other hard names, are freely bandied about, especially as applicable to the PRESIDENT. An explosion of the boilers of the steam=boat New England, from New York to Hartford, which took place on the 9th of last month, has caused considerable agita tion in that quarter. There were one hundred passen gers on board at the time the accident occurred, which was at an early hour in the morning, and, consequently, when the greater portion of the passengers were in their berths. In consequence, the loss of life was not so great as it otherwise would have been. But at the date of the last accounts from the packet, received in New York, fourteen or sixteen of the passengers were dead, and many more were so seriously injured that it was feared several of them would not recover. These papers also bring us later accounts from the Ri ver Plate than any thing we had previously received; from which we make the following extracts, dated Bue nos Ayres, the 24th August : " Senores Ugarteche and Tagle have been formally installed in office,—the former as Minister of Foreign Affairs; the latter as Minister of the Home Department. The Department of Fi nance remains unoccupied. Despatches have been received from General Rosas, dated Head-Quarters on the river Colorado, 15th ult., which state Martiniano Rodriguez, who was in pursuit of an Indian force commanded by the Cacique Chocori, had forwarded a note sta t ing that he believed the said Cacique had fallen back upon a larger force, and that probably altogether it did not amount to more than 300 men; still he did not think it advisable to attack unless he had nearly equal numbers. Colonel Rodriguez was therefore reinforced by Colonel Miguel Miranda's troop ; and having thus 250 cavalry, he proceeded by forced marches in search of the enemy ; but they fled to the woods y abandoning rooganos Indians; and they pursued the Ranqueles Indians, totally defeating them. A message was sent to the latter, of fering them their lives, provided they brought in with them the head of the Cacique Llanquetruz, and of his son Pichun ; but Llanquetruz had disappeared with 60 Indians, all that now re mained with him. A number of Ranqueles came over to Ge neral Roses : he ordered them to be disarmed, and the Boro ganos to become responsible for their good conduct; and all the Christian prisoners they had made were to be returned, &c. General Rosas also states, that the few Indians which now remain are in such a destitute condition, that they cannot any longer make incursions on the frontiers of Buenos Ayres, Santa Fe, Cordova, San Luis, and Mendoza; but that all these advantages will be speedily lost, if the domestic disputes which now so unfortunately exist in the country should interfere so as to prevent the confederate governments continuing the pre. sent operations. General Pacheco's division occupied the island of Chuelechel. This island is 10 leagues long and 21 broad, with excellent pastures, wood, and water. In fact, the despatch states that it is a complete " pass . ;" and that the occupation of it is of the highest importance both to this Republic and to that of Chili : also, that 400 men permanently stationed on the said island would effectually restrain the Indians from further incursions." We have elsewhere given some further extracts, derived from the several American and Canadian journals which have reached us. There has been some severe weather on the coast of the United States, from %Odell some da mage has been done to the shipping. It is admitted on all hands that the present govern- ment have been more rigorous in the collection of the taxes than any of the administrations which have pre ceded them during the present century. The surcharges for house and window duties during the last two years have been innumerable and beyond all former example. They have professed economy, and, perhaps, to a certain extent, they have acted up to these professions; but the severity of their exactions, and the sharpness of their practice, have entailed much hardship and oppression on the middle classes. They profess also to be charitable ; but their charity inflicts degradation, and, in many cases, exposes to ruin the parties whom they wish to relieve.— For instance, they inform the public that no assessed taxes shall be levied upon those who are in narrow and embarrassed circumstances. The announcement looks beautiful upon- paper; it indicates a kindly and conside rate disposition, and its tendency is to convince the sim ple that Lord ALTHORP'S benevolence is not confined to fat sheep and horned cattle. But what is the effect of this boasted lenity and bene volence upon tradesmen ? For a man of stinted means, who is struggling to maintain his position in society, and suppof t his family, as he has hitherto done, by his indus try, to confess that he is unable to pay six, eight, or ten pounds due for taxes is tantamount to a declaration of insolvency. I-Ie who should confess thus much must have no creditors, otherwise a run upon his till, and a demand of instant payment of his outstanding accounts, would be inevitable. The payment of even so small a sum must, in many thousands of instances, be an inconvenience ; but the moment the tradesman or shopkeeper admits it to be so, from that moment he is a marked and ruined man. The liberality of the Whigs, therefore, is an in sult. It is a mere mockery of distress. It is a hypocri tical evasion of their pledges and the duties of humanity. We do not wonder, then, seeing what we see, that the people are driven ,to desperate measures in their resist ance to the assessed totes. The illegality of their pro ceedings has been encouraged by ministers themselves for the meanest and most selfish of all purposes, and now that their objects are accomplished, the ministers affect a show of liberality and forbearance which is as hollow and rotten as Whig principles and Whig promises are now proved to be. We notice these facts, en passant, as Lady MORGAN would say, in order to show the deceitful character and the piti ful chicanery of his MAJESTY'S ministers ; for, after the demonstrations which have taken place, and the failure of the attempt to levy the taxes by means of the Royal Horse Guards, and two regiments of Infantry, we take for granted that the home and windc w duties will be repealed in the next session of Parli. ment. We are satisfied of this. upon other grounds. The enormous pressure of these taxes is beginning to e felt by s ome o the aristocratic Whigs, who occupy splendid mansions in London. One case to which we more particularly allude is that of the Parish of St. James's, in London, versus; the Earl of BURLINGTON. We admit, however, that the point under dispute has relation only to the poor rates. The parish officers have raised the rates upon Lord BUR LINGTON'S house from about £l,OOO to near £3,000, against which rate the noble earl has appealed, and, owing to some informality, in which that very respectable radical, Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT, and some other magis trate, are concerned, the case is referred to the decision of the Court of King's Bench. But we draw from what has transpired this important fact, that the parish officers of St. James's are of opinion that Lord BURLINGTON has hitherto, and for a long period of years, been underrated, and, if underrated to the poor, the inference is, that he has been equally underrated to the KING. It follows, therefore, that if an increased assessment be justifiable in the one case, it must be equally so in the other, and that if a rate of two thousand pounds per annum additional can be wrung for the support of the poor, the same increase must be levied for the taxes. This increased taxation ' will, of course, drive Lord BURLINGTON out of London altogether. Better to set fire to his princely mansion at once, or level it to the ground, than pay so dearly for the honour of spending his income among the " discontented spirits" of the capital. This new twist in parish proceed ings will do more to effect the repeal of the assessed taxes than all the orations of Mr. BRAIN, or the " passive resistance" of Mr. SAVAGE. It is quite delectable to see these worthy people cutting their own throats But, after all, we are bound to admit that the diffi culty of our position as a nation will not be removed by this repeal of the assessed taxes, and it is equally clear that the condition of the people of London will be ren dered much worse. The assessed taxes are represented, we know not how truly, to be war taxes, which, beside their inequality, are objectionable as a source of reve nue in a period of peace. The people who offer this objection cannot surely be the advocates of an income tax. A tax upon property, and not upon income, would be deliberate robbery. The injustice of such a measure is so glaring that we shall not waste another word upon it. If the defalcation caused by the repeal of the as 7 sessed taxes is to be made good at all, it must be by means of an income tax, and we should like to see the man who would dare to propose such a remedy in the reformed House of Commons. If the BRAINS, STEELS, and SAVAGES consider a saving of ten or twenty pounds per annum to be an object in the present depressed state of trade in London, twice these sums in the shape of an income tax would be a more serious inroad upon their means. The new financial measure would extort from then twenty shillings for every ten of which they had disburthened themselves by clamour and agitation. Are they prepared for this ? are they ready to exchange the lesser for the greater evil ? We think not. They seek present relief, and do not dream of any ulterior mea. sures of assessment. They imagine that the compulsory repeal of the house and window duties will be a salutary lesson to the noble CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and that economy alone will provide for the deficiency. The people who talk in this way know nothing of the misera ble establishments in which, and the paucity of the offi cers by whom the affairs of the state and the business of the country are conducted. It is impossible to effect any further reductions in these offices, without injuring, in a very serious degree, the commerce of the united king dom. It is a notorious fact, that, in the Customs depart ment, the number of clerks and subordinate officers is so inadequate to discharge the necessary duty in a prompt manner, that merchants are daily incurring losses from delay. There is not a merchant or broker's counting house in England in which the business is not better con ducted than in the Custom-house of Liverpool. This is not caused by mal-arrangement, or indolence, or by the intricacy of the system, but by the inefficiency of the esta blishment. Vexatious experiments and imbecile forma lities, under the pretext of preventing fraud, do certainly interrupt business and aggravate the other evils. But the chief source of evil is in the beggarly economy that prevails, inflicting far more injury on the country gene rally than would be sustained by an additional expendi -. officers. As in the Customs so is it in every other department. The working men are literally starved. A subordinate situation in the Excise is hardly more respectable, and certainly not so profitable, as that of a footman. Com parisons are odious between a half-pay lieutenant in the army or navy and the driver of a stage-coach. Even in the more important and hitherto more profitable offices of Whitehall and Downing -street they have been so re duced that no gentleman of any talent whatever, who could earn twenty pounds per month from 'FRASER, BLACrWOOD, or CURRIE, would condescend to accept a situation there. Economy, in point of fact, has been carried as near as possible, to a single degree above pau perism. How then are these reductions of the public income to be met We have answered the question before, and leave our readers to find a better one if they can. In our number of this day week we published a letter of the captain and mate of the emigrant ship Cumberland, put back to this port, upon which we made no comment. In our last publication we referred to the conviction of two men connected with the emigration ships; and we were led, by a knowledge of certain facts, to extend our observations on the question a little beyond the mere consideration of the case of the convicted parties. In short, we stated some of those facts, as applicable to cer tain vessels that have quitted, or are about to quit, this port for foreign countries, with emigrants on board; and it must he admitted that most astounding facts they were. Our exposures have roused the ire of some of the parties implicated ; and contradictions and accusations of false hood, directed against those opposed to them—ourselves, we suppose, included—pour in upon us. We have no objection to this. Do the parties concerned think to in. timidate. us by such a course ? They shall see. We begin by denouncing the practices of many of these people as in the highest degree disgraceful— as outrages upon humanity —as calling for the prompt inter ference of the higher powers to put a stop to their further continuance. Do we use too strong language ? Let the following show :—On Tuesday last, when the trial of O'NEIL and FOY was expected to come on, some of the myrmidons of these people—haying their offices in the vicinity of the Prince's Dock—enticed PATRICK MAGEE, the principal witness against O'NEILL and FOY, into a public-house in the neighbourhood, where they made him drunk; and he was found in a state of insensibility by the officers, who removed him to a place of security for the night. So effectually did they succeed in their object, that MAGEE did not open his eyes until daylight on Wed nesday morning, when he declared that the liquor he had taken must have been drugged. The same opinion has been expressed by other persons in an affidavit, which was produced in court, and has since been sent before higher authorities. The names of the parties concerned in this transaction are known to us, but we forbear, at present, from mentioning them. So much for tampering with witnesses, and impeding the course of justice. Next for a vessel now in the river bound to Australia. Fortunately for the passengers this vessel had not cleared out when the gales of the last few days set in on Thurs day night. It is the opinion of several experienced nautical men that if she had been out, and should have succeeded in weathering the gale at all, which they con sider very doubtful, there would have been little hope of many of the passengers escaping drowning or suffocation, even in their berths, from their nature and situation. As something more may in a few days be heard of this vessel, we shall leave her for the present, and come back to the Cumberland. In a paper of Saturday appears a long letter addressed to the Editor, bearing the signature of, " ROBINSON BROTHERS." They there deny the truth of the statement of the captain and mate, before referred to, and go into a laboured attempt at justification of their proceedings. On perusing this letter we thought we might have been misled by the statements which have been laid before us; and immediately resolved to visit the ship ourselves. We have done so; and found her at the furthest extre- tNI N-11r+ THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. N iNON'N,I/4 mity of the Brunswick Dock, the very- last ship in the Port of Liverpool ; therefore free from the observation of every one who did not make it his express business to visit her. We found her with her outer planks stripped off on the starboard side, nearly down to the bends, from the hawse-hole to the gangway—with the main channels removed to allow of her being stripped on to the stern. We found her timbers in many parts so thoroughly rotten that they yielded like mushrooms to the pressure of the finger—with a good deal of her lining also in the same state ; and many parts of it laid open to the weather, ex posing the remaining part of the cargo, and the people on board, to the inconvenience of the gusts and rain with which we have lately been visited. We found many of the passengers on board, who are without the means of obtaining a lodging ashore, chiefly without bedding-- living upon a few potatoes procured by many of them in the way of charity—without a fire on board to cook even this miserable food, but compelled to boil their pots on the quay—and all the poor creatures in a state but a shade removed from absolute destitution. We learn, on further inquiry, that the Agents for Lloyd's, in London, and for this port, have, at length, determined her state to be such as to render it necessary to discharge the re mainder of her cargo, strip off her planks on both sides down to the bends, and put her into the graving dock ; from whence she cannot come in a fit state to go to sea in less than six weeks. What, we ask, will be the condition of the poor crea tures who had taken their passage in her while this is going forward ? Two of them have already gone to their long homes ; some have abandoned all hope of redress, and returned to their former residences ; many of the remainder are without a single shilling in the world to save them from starvation—a fate that seems to threaten the whole number. There is no exaggeration in all this. If any one doubt the truth of the statement, let him do as we did —go and make his own observations on board the vessel. We could say much more on the conduct of the par ties connected with this ship. We think enough has been said already to lead to some justice being done to the sufferers, without having recourse to other measures, which, we can assure those concerned, will be had re course to if that justice be withheld. The practices we have exposed in this respect must be stopped; and the laws of the country and of humanity must no longer be outraged. But, in the meantime, the suffering parties will be destitute; and we, therefore, trust that the appeal which we last week made to the charitable feelings of the public on their behalf will not longer go unheeded. There is an ominous tranquillity at present prevailing in Ireland. By tranquillity, we do not mean that the number of murcleis, or of attempts to commit murder, has diminished, or that there are fewer acts of outrage and lawless violence than usual. Far from it. The an nals of crime are as voluminous now as at any former period, and midnight assassinations of Protestants, and the agents of Protestant landowners continue unabated. But what we mean is that there is something like a portentous, if not unnatural calm in the political atmos phere of Ireland—in that land of storm, and hail, and hurricane. There can be no question that O'CONNELL is paying his devoirs to the "base Whigs" on the one hand, and begging from poor peasants their hard won pence on the other; and until the last doit is extorted from his countrymen, and the last favour refused by the ministry, O'CONNELL will be as chirpless as' a yellow hammer at candlemas. Not a note will come from him, musical or otherwise, until he has shot every arrow in his quiver in vain, and Lord GREY has peremptorily re jected his claims and pretensions. 'Whether he is to be provided for—whether he is to be made useful—whether he is to take rank under the "base" people whom he pretends to despise, will not be known until near the ad vent of the next session of Parliament. There are generally some changes effected about that period—a few weeks or days before the meeting of the House—and as it would be folly to throw a chance away, we presume that the honest agitator will bottle up his spleen, and the wrongs of the "hereditary bondsmen," and await the In the mean time his masters—the priests—are not inactive, but rather preparing themselves to renew the strife, and revive sedition and treason on their own ac count. We perceive, by a letter in the Dublin Free man's Journal, that a meeting recently took place in the town of Galway, on a Sunday, at which, says the letter, "after a most eloquent, animated, and able discussion of the question, strong, powerful, and comprehensive reso lutions were unanimously adopted " in favour of a repeal of the union ! The chair at this Sunday meeting was taken " by one of our most popular and talented Catholic pastors, the Reverend Mr. RORCII." Another priest of the name of HUGHES proposed some of the resolutions, which were seconded by VALENTINE BLAKE, Esquire, and JACK LAWLESS. The letter concludes by saying, that " Galway has fired the first shot, to which, no doubt, all Ireland will respond !" Is this a trick on the part of O'CONNELL to push for ward the priests in order to alarm the Government, and accomplish some dirty object of his own ? It may be so ; but we well remember how long and how sturdilyit was denied that the Catholic priests took any part in agita tion, or were at the bottom of all the excitement and deeds of blood and shame which have for many years disgraced and degraded Ireland. The murder, however, is out at last, and here we have a select party of priests, meeting in open day, and upon the sabbath, too, which they are bound to keep holy, for the purposes of irrita tion, to keep alive disaffection, to excite bad passions, and to kindle in the hearts of their ignorant followers a more savage and relentless hatred of the English Govern ment and the English people. Is all warning to be thrown away on the cabinet of Lord GREY ? Are the priests oflreland to be allowed to scatter firebrands for ever ? Do the former not see that Ireland is the only country in Europe where popery aspires to a complete ascendancy, and where the priests are tolerated in their intolerance. It makes no difference whether they preach the undisguised doctrines of the Inquisition, or whether they veil their machinations under the semblance of political wrongs. Their object is one and the same.— They aim at supreme power by means of revolution. But is this a period at which to endure such priestly dominanoo an , Isurping pretensinne ? Look at France— look at Portugal—look at the disconsolate whining of the pOor POPE himself : " Venerable brethren, we expressly proclaim that we ab solutely reprobate all the decrees issued by the aforesaid govern ment of Lisbon to the great detriment of the church, of its holy ministers of the ecclesiastical law, and Holy See prerogatives; we, therefore, declare them to be null and of no effect, and, express ing our most serious complaints against the audacious measures we have referred to, we declare that in exercising the duties of our office, and, with God's help, we will oppose ourselves as a wall for the House of Israel, and show ourselves in the combat at the day of the Lord, as the interests of religion and the gravity of circumstances may require. For the rest we place this cause, which is that of God himself, in the hands of the Lord. Supported by the powerful aid of him who best loves to manifest his wisdom and his power by drawing good out of evil, rather than by not permitting any evil at all, we firmly trust that he will bring back to a better way of thinking those whose actions cause the church to groan under the weight of such heavy evils, and that we shall thus avoid the necessity so painful to our paternal heart of having recourse to those spiritual arms with which God has invested our apostolic ministry." The POPE sees plainly enoug,ii that his reign is near its end, and these expostulations, addressed to Don PEDRO and his mercenaries, are the dying groans of an hysterical old woman. Are we therefore to suffer in Ireland what is no longer tolerated in Portugal ? Mr. SHEPHERD, instead of meeting manfully the recri mination which he provoked, and the argument which he raised upon the responsibility of literary agents, has shuf_ fled out of the controversy in a way worthy of the man and his cause. We have therefore no desire to follow him into his obscurity, or inflict a chastisement that might now appear to be unnecessary. Mr. SHEPHERD is pleased to inform us that he is an " old soldier," but had he said a superannuated one he would have been nearer the mark Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra - sequuntur. In tho translation, for " camps," read, scamp, "It 111 1 sN i t 4 FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. A few minutes after four o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Albemarle, and Lord Auckland, as Lords Commission ers for the further prorogation of Parliament, took their seats in the front of the Throne, wearing, as usual, their Peers' robes. The LORD CHANCELLOR here directed Mr. Pulman, the Yeo man Usher of the Black Rod, "to desire the Commons to at tend to hear the Commission read." In the course of a few minutes Mr. Ley, the chief clerk o, the House of Commons, attended by other clerks and officers o' that House, appeared at the Bar, when the Commission was read by the Clerk of the Journals of the House of Lords, in the absence of the reading clerk, Mr. Rose. The LORD CHANCELLOR then said, " In obedience to his Majesty's commands, and by virtue of the Commission which has been to-day read (the Commission was dated the 16th inst., and, as usual, signed by his Majesty's own hand) to us and other Lords directed, we now, in his Majesty's name, and in obedience to his Majesty's commands, prorogue the present Parliament to Thursday the 12th December, to be then here holden, and this Parliament is accordinlgy prorogued to Thurs day the 12th of December." Mr Ley, with the officers of the House of Commons, bowed and retired. The Lords Commissioners then rose from their seats and quitted the House. LOCAL NEWS. PREMATURE BIRTH.—With regard to a paragraph which ap peared in the STANDARD of Tuesday last, and a letter from Mr. Shipp inserted ou Friday, we think it a duty which we owe to the overseers of West Derby to publish the following :—" The Overseers of West Derby owe it in justice to themselves, from the unfair and garbled statements which have been published in the newspapers, to state, that, after a strict investigation of the poor woman's case alluded to, they cannot even for a mo ment admit, (as stated by Mr. Shipp,) that there bas been any wanton cruelty exercised to the unfortunate sufferer; but that their assistant constable was blameable in not previously con sulting them, and premature in removing the woman from her resting-place, they are willing to admit, but nothing more. The Overseers cannot, however, forbear expressing their dis satisfaction at the unhandsome manner in which Mr. Shipp has brought them before the public, without even consulting them as to the facts of the occurrence, by observing, that the course pursued is anything (to say the least of it) but correct conduct on the part of the Governor of the Liverpool Workhouse, and will not, surely, be overlooked in the proper place."—Public-office, Low-hill, 2d Nov., 1833. On Thursday night Lord and Lady Sandon had the honour of dining with their Majesties, at the Pavilion, at Brighton. - - A detachment of the 24th foot, under the command of Capt. Harris, have arrived in this town, from Manchester, on their route from Teignmouth to Cork, where they are to embark for foreign service. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON BOARD A VESSEL—OE Saturday an inquest was held on view of the body of John Evan, a sea man on board the Anne Paley, lying in George's Dock. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that the deceased, on the previous Thursday, was at the top of the wizen mast of the be fore-named vessel, endeavouring to bend the gaff topsail, and whilst in the act of .doing so he missed his footing and fell to the deck, from the height of about 49 feet. He was taken up in sensible and bled, after which he was conveyed to the Infirm ary, where he breathed his la s t from th e injuries sustained on Friday evening. —Verdict, accidental death. CAUTION TO CARTERS.—III consequence of the inconveni ence arising, and the interruptions to business caused, by carts standing iu the public streets, waiting for hire, the Mayor is determined to fine every carter brought before him in future for standing in the public thoroughfares in such places which are not appointed for that purpose. On Saturday, two carters were fined in the penalty of five shillings each for standing in Rose-street without permission. A BRUTAL FATHER.--An old wretch named Case, in the em ployment of the parish as a paviour, was placed at the bar in a state of intoxication, on Saturday last, in the Mayor's court, charged by Batchelor, the keeper of Bridewell, with neglecting and ill-treating his son, a fine little boy about nine years of age. Batchelor produced the boy, stating that he had been in custody some days, having flown to Bridewell as an asylum, in conse quence of his father's brutality towards him. The prisoner had been informed that the boy was in Bridewell several days ago, and directed to fetch him away, but he had taken no notice of the circumstance. Endeavours had been made to apprehend him, but he had contrived to evade the officers until this day, when constables were placed where he received his wages and he was there taken into custody. On being put into the dock, where his son was, the inhuman brute struck the little fellow a blow on the face. Mr. Alderman Leyland remarked that he never heard of such a brutal case, and asked the old man what he had to say for himself. The prisoner growled something un intelligible, and was remanded until Monday to get sober. BURGLARY AT A PAWNBROKER'S.--John Langhorn and Matthew Callegan, two notorious thieves, together with Maria Davies and Hargrave Crawford, the latter of whom is of the lowest class of depraved women, were brought before Mr. Al derman Leyland, at the M a y or ' s -c our t, on Saturday, charged on suspicion of having burglariously entered the shop of Mr. Roberts, pawnbroker, situate in Highfield-street, on Thursday last, and stolen therefrom several articles of wearing apparel, together with watches, rings, and other valuables. The two male prisoners are well known to the police, and considered to have been active in perpetrating many of the recent audacious burglaries in the town. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Roberts and his assistants, that, on the Wednesday night, the shop was left secure, but on the following morning they dis covered that thieves had entered the house by removing the bar which protected the cellar, and had carried away silver spoons, watch es _ „„,1 au a coner. prieon..ie having - been seen in the neighbourhood of Highfield-street, on the morning after the robbery, and known to be bad characters, suspicion fell upon them, and they were apprehended in Moyles's court, Orange-street, when a handkerchief was found upon Callegan, which Mr. Roberts identified as having been pledged the day previous to the robbery. The female prisoners were watched and seen to go into an outhouse, where they were ap prehended, and Maria Davies had a quantity of copper in her apron. Upon searching the outhouse, a silver watch and some spoons, the property of Mr. Roberts, were found concealed. All the prisouers attempted to escape when taken. The case was fully made out, and the prisoners committed to Kirkdale for trial. ACCIDENT ON TILE RAILWAY.—On Friday afternoon last a serious accident happened upon the Railway to a soldier of the 85th regiment of foot, named Wilson. It appears that Wilson was proceeding to Manchester on furlough, for the purpose of seeing his mother, and that when near to Newton the carriages stopped, close to where a detachment of the 85th were waiting to be taken up by another train. Wilson observing amongst the detachment several of his acquaintances, left the carriages, and ran across the line of load t owar d s th e m, w h en an engine unattached to any carriages was coining rapidly up. The poor fellow incautiously considered that he would be enabled to step across before the approach of the engine; however, it unfortu nately turned out otherwise, for the end of the engine caught him upon the loins, and threw him a considerable distance off the line of road. He was taken up in a state of insensibility, and conveyed to the station-house, where a medical gentleman who was a passenger in the same train of carriages bled him. It was then discovered that the force of the engine had broken hie collar bone, and injured the spine so materially; that it is doubted whether the unfortunate man will survive. Most of these railway accidents have arisen through negligence or in attention on the part. of the injured persons, and it would be much better if the guards were strictly to enforce the rules of the company, viz., to allow no person to get out of the carriages until arrived at their destination. OLD CONGO.—In a recent obituary there appeared a notice of the death of a person of colour, called Congo, well known in this town, but particularly to the older branch of shipowners and captains. This man represented himself as more than 1(X) years old, and from contemporaneous authority he must have approached that age. He possessed a vary athletic form, and, till within the last twelve months, walked stoutly with two or three mats on his back. He was coxswain to Governor Brown, who had the command of Cape Coast Castle seventy years since: It would appear that Congo followed maritime pursuits till he had reached threescore years and ten, and then found a comfortable asylum from care and want in the funds of the Liverpool Merchant Seaman's Hospital, who granted him, in the year 1807, a pension, which, at the time of his death, was five shillings weekly, and in the ledger account of this most in valuable institution the sum of £221 stands to his debit. GALE ON TITS MERSEY.—On Saturday evening, the St. Winifred left George's Pierhead with the mail and passengers for the Etna, post-office steamer, which was at anchor in Wallasey hole. The sea ran tremendously high, and all that Lieutenant Sarsfield could accomplish was, just to throw the letter-bag on board the Etna. To tranship the passengers was impossible ; and he was most reluctantly compelled to return with the whole, between twenty and thirty in number. But another difficulty now arose. The violence of the storm rendering it extremely dangerous to approach the Lancashire shore, the steamer bore away for the Sloyne, where, under shelteiof the Cheshire shore, she came to anchor. The unfortunate passengers could not land till eight o'clock yesterday morning, having been detained on board, in the awful gale of Saturday night, and without meat or drink, for more than fifteen hours. CANADIAN AND BRITISH METHODI STS .—._} Xtraet from the Christian Guardian, published at York, in Upper Canada, Oct. 2d.—" Methodist Conference—Five o'clock, p. m.—The Metho dist Conference met this day in this town. The first business taken into consideration after the organization of the Con ference, was the resolutions of the British Conference on the union of the two Conferences. These resolutions were under consideration the principal part of the day, and were at length unanimously and cordially concurred in by the Canadian Con ference. On the adoption of them by the Conference, the Rev. George Marsden, representative of the British' Conference, made a few very affecting observations under the strongest emotions; after which the whole Conference kneeled doss n, and Mr. Marsden offered up a most fervent and impressive prayer." Thus has a measure of the most vital importance, and fraught with the highest probable advantages to the present and future generations of this province, been agreed to unani mously by both the British and Canadian Conferences. The particulars of this proceeding in both Conferences will be given hereafter. STEAM VES S E L ON THE ESTUARY Op THE RIVER DART.— The arrangements for having a Steamer always ready for tow ing vessels in and out of Dartmouth Harbour are, we are happy to hear, complete—the necessary sum being subscribed. Dart mouth harbour being the only refuge for shipping, in gales o f wind, from Portl an d to Pl ymout h , will no doubt be resorted to, since no fear of unnecessary detention can, for the future, take place; and we trust the spirited inhabitants of Dartmouth and Totnes, who have embarked their capital in this undertak ing, will reap the benefit of their praiseworthy exertions in ren dering the port of Dartmouth accessible at all times. The steamer will also be applied in keeping the channel of the river clear, u 1 to Totnes, and towing th e vesse l s up an d down. His Grace tie Duke of Somerset has been very instrumental in ef fecting this desirable object. The removing all impediments up to Totnes is beginning as it should be : the rail road to Ash burton will then be rendered more efficient, as the culm, coals, and merchandize will be taken into the carts alongside the ves sel, which will save the heavy expence of lighterage, waste, and quay-dues, and be conveyed thence to their destination on the rail road, the distance of which, from Totnes to Ashburton is nine miles, and the estimated expence £l5OO per mile; or £14.000 including the expense of the act. Upwards of .1;10,0a) is already subscribed towards the undertaking, and the inhabit ants of Ashburton, at their last meeting, resolved another Ses sion shall not be alloy, ed to pass without an application being made to Parliament for a rail road to form a more perfect com munication with th e s hi p pi ng. Branches of a lighter construc tion are intended to be formed to Bridgetown and up the Hemps ton Vale to the rich and reipulous neighbourhood of Broad- Izernpston wed IppleFon,—;:Vaebtaw ! p ae „, Gcizeoe. 1 / 4 4 % s„, NOVEMBER j __ 1831...0e' LONDON LATEST NEWS. Saturday Evening, H44l:past Seven (v There is not much to notice in our consol marke t ; di e t o f ral bearing of the funds is upward, and 88 is the P rice 4). 3 per cents. alternately buyers and sellers. Mell e Y il ,. hi cieer on the Stock Exchange, !slid is worth 4 per cent. DlThi to bills are 34 to 36 premium, and India bonds, after being.'" dcei 20 premium, are 20 to 22. The dividends on Belgian fo rm a t Portuguese stock are now in cour s e of payment. The di ex-dividend, is quoted 914, and the latter also without no 0 . dead at 684. The Regency stock is 601 All the srt° oat' bonds have improved since our last, and have been Pe r to ll higher than our quotation of this day. Russian bonds 4p c to 1031. Dutch 21 per cents. are 50h j, and the 5 Per at 93% %. Danish bonds are 731. Spanish and Brazi lian b° 67. are both better, the former being 23% %, and the latter 661 0 , In the share market, in consequence of the advices fr° l3l ho o mines being favourable, the Imperial Brazilian sha re : o lok been as high as £64; this day they are £6l 10s. to r." s a Nothing has been doing in any other of the schemes. urr" - o f ts counts from Trieste we learn that the crop this year was estimated at twenty - three and a half millioei pounds, being four millions less than last year. rob t hst We learn by the commercial advices from 1-laree u 'ur c of• business had been very active there, but in consequence o fsto fee pouring in on all sides, this article had become fi llt ' A tbs less than five millions of pounds had recently arrived, an total during the season was estimated at twelve milliou Pcili-dy That of sugar was stated to be twenty-four million P an d Accounts from Oran to the 13th ult. state that the F renc h hsa converted the mosques there into barracks. The Ari7tbrie made a desperate attack on the 10th, to the numb er (3 ', f) 1 thousand men, but after an obstinate conflict of three beur- a i s were compelled by the artillery to fly, leaving one flen die ; br r dead on the field. They were, however, preparing f or 11-81' attack. of frgill The accounts from Dantzic mention that the crops throughout Poland were generally good as regards i c l us- oei but that the quality varied, although some of the new hi " r fine . thi We learn by the advices from Chili that the republic t o 1 ps end of July was tranquil. A project of a law proposing iis e pt. tariff of duties had been submitted to congress by the P t O jos J os' In this he proposes to remedy the grievances complained wto der former regulations, by substituting an ad valorem , t i n e, continue in operation for five years, subject, in the mesrle-hol to such alterations as commercial changes may i n duce. 11 „,,is also submitted a project for admitting the yessels of Old o f into the ports of the republic upon the same terms * 6 t is h : f :f t other friendly nations, with the same privileges, the IL" - be p ro. establishing commercial houses and manufactories , tection of the laws, &c. 4%. 16 , LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NE The Pedestrian, Wm. Bell, L a i r ° r Y iv 4 e 's d F on irs th o e Pc s l" th k b S e ta°lb l iir t :' Liverpool at St. Petersburg. On the 4th the CresS e rketer y fillon, and the Wassilig Welleky, Wulf, sailed from t burg for Liverpool. p iber li '1 he Maria Brandt., Grotru, arrived on the 30th SeP te Archangel from Liverpool. 0 0 " The Ilenriette, Kramm, sailed on the 22nd ult. fro° of mund for Liverpool. 80 1 The Dart, from Leghorn to Liverpool, was spoken ,„m, sii• off the Gut of Gibraltar. The Friends, from Denia to Liverpool, was spoke n 7 " - tee r in lat. 48, long. 7. 2.5 th pc The John and Edward, Melhuish, sailed on the from Cuxhaven for Liverpool. THE O'CONNELL'TRIBUTE: WITH A SONG (NOT) FROM THE BEGGAR'S 000' ot ub 14 Whilst the citizens of London are conspiring in c t 1 ,14 or pay taxes to the King, the lieges of Dublin are asse o e o ut 4 parishes to levy tribute for DanieL The sound is gol, sop o the begging box, and forthwith, as swarms of bees at of a bell, the parishes are gathering. St. Audeon's—St. Gudgeon's— St. Bridget's—St. Fidget's— St. Andrew's—St. Laurence O'Toole's-- St. John's and St. Mary's— St. Vitus' Vagaries, And the parish like-wise of All Fools ; St. George and the Dragon. St. Molly O'Flaggon, (If such in the calendar b' St. Luke's and St. Thomas, Saint Pie-crust-and-Promise— St. Nicholas Without and Within: With about half a score Of Saintesses more For the National Tribute have started; All proving the rule Which says that a fool And his money are easily parted. Dd " f It is a usual complaint with your patriots that -ee i s O impoverished country, and her population the P° )re n e o 'o world. Now, if the readiness to part with money for 00 eer, received be a proof of its abundance, there is no place b lic os where money seems a greater drug. It is as plentY l e it ° t , berries at Michaelmas, if a man knew how but to whee is; of their pockets. Dan, indeed, has only to hold out " r; and the rhino comes down in a golden shower. if, se of Well, since beggary has so high a sanction in bin:Owego, Le °tight to take care that provision be made for hie witioov of the wallet; and either for shame give up his oPe t bst i o the poor laws, or through honest impudence laroclanu e , to thinks himself the only pauper in Ireland who de e r put on the parish.—Dublin Evening Mail. 'IIO P C , " / A gentleman in an inland county has made, and is st ill the t ip the experiment of letting small portions of land to boYt to e io , of poor but industrious people. They are taught b°"sele of plant, and rear all kinds of vegetables usually IT I 0 Vin ii 3 his. e they pay a small rent, and the residue is their own- ob e t 0 0 60 course, materially assists their parents, and at the j, enables them to obtain clothing, &c. Th e g round i c C i 1,1 0 , 4 0 1 chiefly at odd hours, in the mornin g and evening; an o lek e st vantages are thus obtained—the boy s o bt a in a 1 3 " „on" gardening, and they are kept fr o m mi sc hi e f. The 00 has succeeded to admiration.—Brighton Gazette. ei INQUISITIVENESS.—Two Scotchmen met the flier 0 0 1 0 one of the bridges of Glasgow--one of th e m having i ° alsl, e d a very handsome fowling-piece—when the followini,, od ensued :—" Ode, mon, but that's a bonnie gun." " is it." " Whar did ye get it ?" " Ovrre bye there. ,„0 wha is it for ?" " D'ye ken the Yeditor of the Gla i r a raid F" "Ou, aye." " Wed, it's no for him." t O bi 1 . The opportunity has been seized of the hon. M ta lre_ar Whitehaven's presence amongst his constituents, t° to r e d consideration the best means of enabling that port dir e pate in the advantage of a free trade t o the Enst h at° e ir China. A public meeting was holden on WednesanY tt ' t er r o o e i th e eet Mr. M. Attwood was present, when it was determine p rialize the Lords of the Treasury to permit goods, buo of, and imported from those countries, to be No' ,f r o , f Whitehaven.—Carlisle Patriot. • .., t o Gustavus, the ex-King of Sweden, has at last ell7giti l/ til the obscurity into which he had fallen, and ap”ar e .i.e lii7ets it fore the world, as the author of a ag ainst t ;i s ,jo o 7 o o' of the press , published at Aix-la-Chape e. e% :,„ 10 C ur!grateful, 'for the press has always been open to 1 " 1- eti ll e r , '' the tries free from censorship, whenever he wished to aPP free j .i lg public, and he has frequently taken advantage of thn' re lee t e sr He now, however, wishes the public journals to - he, he y 'l i b ( ill a complete nullity for political purposes, and that be limited to the publication of ordinances and n e i‘ief' o er„, Swedes peruse these lucubratious of their quondam a ria sr s will find reasons for congratulating the m selves more „y to t i t il 4 on the expulsion from the thron e o f thi s avow ed en e n - s ei lic liberty, who has neither learned nor forgotte - eel r during his misfortunes.—French paper. Lusus NATURE, OR SIAMESE LAMBS.-011 .1hd-r ,, 6 M iel :l f ? ing last, Mr. Thomas Teasdale, of the Shakspearby brought to our office a singular production, create" a KO those freaks of nature which baffle both naturalists an w oo res it , pliers. The head and neck were a portion of 'M e w I 'l l o 4 ' former badly shaped, the neck enlarging much ' , t wo be o 11 1 : where there are four perfect legs, two in f ro nt MA L: t i the It At the shoulder the substance divides, and behind W7 0 040, 1 ' of two lambs are perfe c t and se p ara t e d f r om ea' four hind legs and every other part in proportion. s o itr e are both tups, or of the male species, and veauck foes bet faced•ewe, at Sandford, a small hamlet midway it, Ofir, pleby and Brough. The ti m e f or p ar t ur ition sefl s s e e a ,io 6 o; been completed, as it or th e y app ear t o b e the usu al t be( mountain lamb when first yeaned. The shape , ° f es when it stands before you, would remind the far' - a sso' e t o stitch harrow, having a s ma ll pi g snou t or l on g pointeof t ti je continues to increase in breadth to the'extremitY „g bodies.— Westmoreland Gazette. eor ST. PETERSBURG, October 11.—The failure 0- f t bc tt- • rf a our southern provinces has been long known, m l 1 :0 04 4 harvest in the districts which may be called the gr to h e o r i , the northern parts of Russia, has been asc erfaille l : o cient in all descripti o n s o f gr ain. Th e account , ' ai b it e dise ceived from many parts of the interior arc truly t o, 41 1 01 At Rybinsk on the `Volga, our principal mart for g o d s' i kl, 4 4 of rye, wheat, fl our , & c ., are hi g h er th an w ith us, l ee iOri`," ( on hand were bein g p urc h ase d t o f orwar d s till fat the to interior. The old stocks are of interi o r quality, a' ra stf of all food advancing, the only hope of the poor fa . , t, °r o de,' fore, left is either in the landowner remitting his re i " o sser to," sistance from the government. Here, where the, et° of people exist principall on black bread awl, t y, s il ac i potatoes, comparatively, forma small portion 01 ,. t lie, t ie) a failure in the produce of grain is attended wit" io eAr eat misery, and which the government are endeavourer by every means in their power, and have thus I.)! 1", - se s to open the ports for the free admission of all Frai! t i . te bol f tp tunate that the harvest in the lower Baltic nist r • i t h abundant, as we may expect to be well supplied w1,d1 0 ,,t „i plus Corn as soon as the spring is sufficiently advama e ros,',oo of shipments. We are experiencing an active„ tbePtA. Wheat for the interior, and we have only 40,0"'" 1;.°, 20 b4 Kubanka and 30,000 tschets of soft Wheat in Loc° - it at 0 , 1 p;1 is held at 31s. Id. to 31s. 9d., as in quality; s( t i * sith ° o ,'d Orlowsvher winter Wheat has entirely failed, an t t eso c pet/ ports of foreign Corn of similar quality; a gtotasts it e o article will be experienced. We have scarce*? -7/ o r,.."' e r i t Rye. The last price paid was 255. 3d. to 2fise a n . 2 6s. n's d o4 bar delivery to Finland, as well by many inillers,ets 1 offered in vain. Of Barley 12,006 to 13,000 tsch b ab e b t l sary to meet the consumption of our brewers., 1 1' 0 040 quality is readily taken by them at 235. 11d.; lm e r , o t 19s. 11d. to 22i. Ed. Of Oats we do not at pr e ' - a re,f;p • dr plies, although the demand is extensive,- one°, t`• advancing, and may be quoted at lis. Ild. to la ti la quality. Foreign Malt is here unknown, but vr° chasers if offered on moderate terms. ote " ) (ADVERTISEMENT.) SHOOTING GALLERY.—Mr. W a r ren 's s chooltl g i l t i c lit e l , e ' ffi ri flr r the young idea h ow t o s h oo t , " bet to instruct vonstbto in the art of taki ng the surest aim with " pistok sl si tj derbusses, or guns' continues to ba- , welt atteo - t hen ,11 men, and others w h o are d es i roas . e ff eeonorn isioit ev dools t ie t nition, and shooting to some fpierpose—when t t b i to- c: l , s e/ s , whether th e . game be a fowl of the air or a fool n` at e t o'l teach the fair how to shoot would he a work of 04 . 1 ,0 i v as nature has not only supplied them with sone ti v a :o ll e taf t i ; them to shoot with unerring aim. Mr. Warren aPr s gio v il o understand the science o f shooting, and we i '‘te t e a l scientific knowledge of his weapon is' as neces sai llaP t -s. man as to the soldier. His premises are, well nl gr purpoee, and, st n i g ht, are well illtiaainated with a