The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

SIIIPTEMBEIt 27; 1533; i nih ilated. • The shopkeepers k now that th e y owe their 'sses by the bank in question to - the unions: . .They will • t ousequ ent l y take care motto lose by both hands in fu - ,ure--by the e'wOrkthen w h om t h e y f ormer l y t rus t e d ; an d 1 4 the bankers whom- these workmen have reduced to in solvency. All this shows that the effects of these combinations are only felt, in the long run, by the workmen. and their near conne ctions, the sma ll s h opkeepers. B ut let us return again to the penny trumpet of Bir- I : ln gham. It c on t a i ns an art i cle i n the form o f quest i on nd answer relative to the manner in which the members . 7, 1 the unions are to become their own masters, and con- Qua the building business- of the country by • means of l' e rsons chosen by ballot. The following is their scheme F ur banking : " • have 'given a general outline of the productive I P:tt of the building business, but in what manner are the mem bers of these lodges to circulate the wealth they produce ? !. B . - By establishiag their own bank, with its branches and natttutions, by w hi c h t h e i r whole business will b e con d ucte d bon estly, e conomically, and with great facility. A.--Wilenee can th e b u ild ers d er i ve f un d s to support a ba nk and its branches ? • B .—Ey all the members paying all the common money of old a -- "` e lY which. t h ey receive weekly into the bank and its branches, 4 : 4 0 'receiving in return their own labour notes, which may. be de -1 uiivated,‘ The Build ers ' U n i on Not e s ;' when, as I doubt called ` 44 there soon will be, a union of all trades formed, they may We The Trad es ' Union Labour Notes.' The common gon e Y of old society, thus received, should be expended to pur 'a'e at first hand, provisions, raw- materials, &c.; and the 'e mbers o f the association should purchase with their labour • notes whatever they require, better and cheaper than they can livet Purchases, .with c ommon money of common so c i e ty ; e Peedily th ey w i ll exchange the i r b u ildi ng la b our advan ii7tee,o,usly for all parties, for every other necessary or comfort of do bits must be an - ingenious rogue, - and we have no has ambition enough to became a bank director or cashier. :How delighted would he be to receive the "old Inou e y the country," and give in return, to' his dupes, ;11,e labOtir notes" of the union ! would be a splen -41 speculation, and would undoubtedly give rise to a Plea sure trip to - America. Trust him! Oh, yes, trust ,„, ft° by all m eans; g i ve hi m t h e " o ld m one y ;" th at h e t r u ld willingl y r ece i ve , an d then bag and bolt. In short h; ia a seiteine for swindling ,upon the most approved i l lueiples of COSTER, or Mr. JOSEPH ADY. The following is the plan of infant education :-- A.—But hew are the children to be provided for ? th -13 yplacing them in schools expressly prepared to train nz ern fri; an - early age i n a ver y s uperior manner to the children °f Producer: under the existing wretched, cruel, and unjust system. A. " -- Who ar e t o e d ucate an d ta k e care o f them ? th a•---The b es t qua lifi e d persons, e l ecte d b y ballot from among e association ; or, if requisite, from general society, at the nl ant,ulnencerne Until the children shall be of an age to perform 14 task in very superior manner." ROBERT OWEN, in his days of folly, used to talk in this gannet,and we w e ll reco ll ec t a p ro ject of his for rock t' feed ing, rearing; and educating infants by steam. poor o Nyr . we suspect must, at sotne period or other, nave bitten this - Bruinlingem philosopher, for he also pro lo4es to d o t h at which his made his greatteacher ridicu lous over the whole world. It is pitiable to see paper and b w asted up on su ch d r i ve l as - t his. O WEN ' S schemes ave • be en tried and have failed. His philosophy makes War th upon hu man nature . I t outrages ' every sens ibili ty lifeis int erwoven with our dearest affections. It makes li g f e Mother an alien to her child, and expels from private We . those littlai and confiding interchanges of sympathy glehlosetheir value amid the glare and bustle of con !tegated. families. •OwEs's principles have, besides, il.irted hund re d s o f persons, awl in London alone, where labour notes" were tried, some thousands of mecha -les, as well inf orme d as thi s S o l o n of the Unions, could bear t , witnes s th a t t h e system un d er which they organi z ed n u eulselv es was one l i tt l e 'b etter t h an • plunder. Mr. v vwE N's inte n ti ons m ay b e go od, but his schemes are C alculated only for Bedlam. Chie word more, and we have done. The unionists tel l us that th e y w ill persevere i n th e i r plans eve n th oug h . th ey should perish in the attempt. This may evince courage --it certainly indicates a sincere belief in their but in - our opinion it is madness. The unionists mi ght as well passa resolution to commit suicide. Com pulsory conditions prescribed by the workmen have 'lever yet "stie'c'eedeiltid neve!. cad succeed. The com binations of the weavers which began thirty years ago Save rise to the steam loom. Combinations among the lace frarrie-wdrk knitters in Leicester and Nottingham drove the trade from those counties. Combinations among the ship-carpenters in Liverpool banished a great Portion.of the trade of ship-building to the Isle of Man, to the colonies, and to the most distant parts of the ern- Pir e• These are all undeniable facts; but the conse ,rlaencei to which we have to allude are of still more "dui moment. Combinations among • the. stoneina ',°us Will cause the ruin 'of that trade in most parts of - The 'master-masons, we understand, have already begun 'to dispense with stone lintels and sills, 4114 new substitute iron. • Columns, pillars, and pilasters Will i n futur e be - formed of the same material. Window :lnes are also being made of iron. Tiles and slates are h re ady beginning to be di s p ense d w ith. Plasterers Will ay . e less to do in future, paper upon wood answering quite as well as lime. Painters for the same reason may corn a moiety of their brushes, f or p a inting; in many in es , mu s t g i ve way to paper staining, and ornaments oi l be restricted t o i ro n ra i l i ng& and .Water barrels. 40 "ese ar e t h e natural effects Of folly and insolence. We ct n° t .sPeak o f th em as lik e ly to h appen ; t h ey h av e "t/l/ taken place ; and in proportion as the unionists Persist • In their deMands their labour will decline in th „ value ' , We. have•already, with ev e ry di s Po sit ion t o serve ai 7 oPeratives, tendered them our humble advice as their anatieere well-wishers, which advice they have disregarded; lei novv that w e are u p on t h e eve of winter t h ey fi n d h b o : Prospects more disheartening than ever—their destroyed --their c omfortless--their garners empty—th e i r cr edit ° Yed— their child ren ragge d an d h ungry. Thi s Punishme nt_lea v these awards of retributive justice—they corn e u r9ught upon themselves. If a junto of fiends had f or e "t of "'darkne ss and thick night" t o d ev i se a plan coo, the ruin of th e wor ki ng c l asses , th e y cou ld not h ave pos e ueted a scheme better calculated to effect their pur 'ph e than this abominable conspiracy of the unions. th 4t eY not see it, but disinterested' spectators d o see , tn du th ese unio ns are wor ki ng a revo l ut i on i n t ra de w hi c h . s t creat e a ne'w generation of artizans to 'displace the vili its° do* their w o rk i n a new way , to e at t h e b rea d scorned.,toe' th ey scorned ., to touch, and, in fact, tit reduce the piciaietuutents to pauperism. We are sorry for • it, but, l ated ju B titia mat ! which, being liberally trans the p Mea n; " things must take thei r course , a lth oug h °Pe should be hanged." • ; , 'r4(liCal 'fleeting , for the purpose of . selecting a : I . 'l " ll Mittee to assist his MAJESTY'S Corporation Commis -4 was held i n the city of London, on Friday last, ver vih ich a presided person of th e name of DILLON t 1 / . 4 ; fa me of this i n di v id ua l may not h ave ex t en d e d irola • we'have to state that he is a junior partner notoiriuu4 .cheap shop in 'Cripplegatethat he is tre at - • all the lit t l e meetings of the ward of that name — t conspicuous man in resisting the payment of tithes t an the l 'icat of the p ar i s h in which he resides—and, th " arrem'ef, has b een distinguished as a di s i n terestedocate of ." free t ra d e principles " in the 'columns o f e_riniothinrs news N pape r , un d er the signature of DELTA. g Particularly new or worthy of. notice was sa i d or Silty on tile occasion asion, and we should have passed f e er the an g hi r as unworthy of the slightest notice, but for the reappearance on the public stage of Mr. LAWYER tPheitasort, and Mr. PEARON, the gin-shop man, to whom tf e ei . t Y of London was mainly indebted for the honour being' twice Lor d - Mavored, and, for a time, repre tBeanted in Parliament by the immaculate Sir JOHN KEY,. Cl onal In order to inspire the citizens with addl.- „_ tlal In ix the wisdom of those leaders of the _ec7l3le, M. FP,IaoN told them that " a general cry was 004.e,d. that the trade of London was flying of to Liver- Tot this assertion we respond—" Sir, you spoke Yoe truth and we, of Liverpool, are much indebted to "Y 1 gentlemen of "the free trade system," for having bulliedti the government into the adoption of your ries--we thank you for having first opened the "Nt • and ' ndia trade to the enterprise of - our merchants— (l lastly, for having annihiktted the• East India Com- panv altogether. For these boons the good peOple of. London, who have hitherto enjoyed the benefits of the late East India Compapy's trade, will also be grateful when they discover that they are nOlonger encumbered' with it. As to the corporation of London, Seeing the hands'that it has unfortunately:. fallen into,_ seeing that Mr. HAR- MER presides in the police.courts, and sits upon the bench at the Old Bailey, and seeing moreover that Sir .LIC.EY is still an Alderman, a - Magistrate, and a criminal judge,. seeing all this with unutterable . disgUst, it isa'atatter Of little consequence whether the corporatiori •of : Tondos stands or falls. To be a member of it has now 'ceased to be an object with persons of the first grade either as traders or merchants:, There are, however, about one hundred other corporate bodies, such as the grocers, mer cers, apothecaries, and , others, that never possessed or exercised any municipal rights or privileges whatever.-- They were originally incorporated for the purpose of im proving the several trades and professions whose names they still bear. Many of theni are in the pessessiOn of large landed and funded prOperty; which was for the most part bequeathed to them by members of their body for charitable purposes. The cloth-workers', the cord ,wainers', and the painters' companies have several thou sands a-year, which they distribute exclusively among the indigent blind, in annuities of from five to twenty pounds, besideS other. funds divisible among the decayed ,members of their own body. , The merchant tailors, and the mercers, have each schools,. that have produced some of the greatest names that adorn the annals of our coun try, and yet one of :the objects of the meeting was to compel these corporations to submit themselves to an examination by his MAJESTY'S commissioners. The power ofa public meeting composed of the political shoeblacks r before described: goes. for nothing, for if these companies choose to remain silent, we apprehend that the commissioners themselves cannot compel them to answer their interrogations. The legislature might pass an act to authorise•connissioners to examine their accounts, and it might pass an act' to confiscate their pro perty at once, but the time has not yet arrived for the perpetration of so gross art outrage upon property, or so flagrant a robbery. - But judging by the spirit of the. times, and the reckless measures. of the present minis tersthe intimidation of the political unions on the one hand, and the infatuated apathy of .men of property on the other—it would not surprise us to' see some plan of this kind openly advocated and conceded in the next ses sion of Parliament. With this possible and even pro bable invasion of private rights in their view, it would be well for the persons most interested to be rigging out their storm sails. It will be a consideration to save even a remnant in the scramble. These companies pos sess large funds in the three per Cents. and other govern ment stocks. We believe the very largest sums at any one credit in the dividend books stand in their names. Incorporated companies, and charitable institutions in England, own as much stock as the different banks of Scotland. In 1826, - the amount held' by the latter was stated in evidence before a Parliamentary committee to be upwards of twenty five millions. Let us assume therefore, that the same sum, or say only twenty mil lions, are held by the .various companies, and that Par . - liament is induced to expose their affairs, and overhaul their accounts before a select portion of the collective wisdom of the 'nation. What then ? Oh !my Lord AL THORP, and my very .sagacious Lord JOHN RUSSELL; we have you here! The money in the funds—the twenty millions in the per shents —that fs "the sheet an chor of the companies! If they are .menaced if the gin-spinners prevail—if the KEYS, •PEARSONS, and the cheap-shoppery bear sway—they will " sell. out," and then would the all-hallowed funds come tum bling down some :fifteen or twenty per cent. in a single day. Look t o this Lord ALTHORP! You are per plexed.enongh already to make.the two ends of the year meet, and sore 4alled in riding . over your ricketty finances; but if once you make war upon the companies therewould be an end of Yon - I -finance system altogether. With respect to the corporations and the attack which has already commenced upon `them, 'we' seriously ques tion the right of the commissioners to enforce answers to any of their questions: -We' - should like to see this point brought to an issue. Every.lawyer knows that for any undue exercise of their powers, or misapplication of the funds. entrusted to their care, these corporations are amenable, on complaint being. made, to the .established courts of law ..a441 ,equity of the realm; but law and equity. are .now out .of fashion., These, proceedings re mind .us of the Star Chamber court, the .exactions of which assisted in. bi inging CHARLES the Firtsr to the seaffold! LONDON LATEST NEWS. Wednesday Evening, Half:past Seven o'clock. The Money Market .. continues witliout any material change; but there, is a degree of heaviness in . ,theyoarket, seeming to indicate an approaching decline. Consuls for account closed this afternoon at 881 1, and Exchequer Bills have fallen to 47 48 prem. Scarce any thing. has been done in the Foreign Market since we last wrote ; Portuguese Scrip is quoted at 20 prem., Belgian Bonds at WI, „Dutch at 48i and Bra zilian at 70. Russian Bonds left off this afternoon at 1021, and Spanish at 2li 3: • It now appears that the propositions of Marshal Bourmont are all fudge! So .far from his having put forth sixteen clauses, he has not 'proposed the sixteenth part et one. The intehigenc e b y the Echo has never been made pub l ic , and it is not unfair to presume that the despatches are of so ' unpalat a bl e a nature that they do not tempt the min i st e r to furnish even their' ' subservient 'scribes with an inkling of their contents. It is current, however, at the club houses, that Lord Wiliiain Russell has written home a description of the conduct and' 'designs of Don Pedro, by no means pleasing to the ministers, who begin to have a gliminering, that they have furnished their "ancient ally" (Turkey is another ancient ally,) with a king Stork to rule over theM. Since the arrival.of the Echo, we have had no intelligence from Lisbon ; but a day or two must clear up the mystery. Of this our country readers may rest satisfied, that, had any favourable occurrence taken place, as respects the Pedroites, we should have heard of it, they having several Steamers and other modes of conveyance, white the only . inerlitini . of Conveyance Don Miguel possesses would be through Madrid and Paris. Beyond doubt, the pea santry and the population are decidedly averse to Don Pedro and his mercenary band, who have given them no cause to re joice at the visitation. PUBLIC MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS. The fourth, and, for the season, the last exhibition of the Floral and Horticultural Society, was held on Wednesday, and contain ed, as we are informed, a good selection of dahlias (the main ob ject of the exhibition) and of autumnal fruits. We say "as we are informed,"—and we avail ourselves of the opportunity of using that expression to engraft upon it something in the shape of a protest against the practice that seems to be too prevalent in the, establishments of this town, where, by means of annual or other meetings, publicity is sought to be given to the objects of the respective institutions.; be those objects the increase of funds, as in the gases of pubile charities,--the extension of knowledge in science or natural history, as in the case before us,--or that general dissemination of the details of Meetings, which is a con sideration with those . Congregating together, for whatever pur pose. We'Should be: unwilling to impute to those who :have the direction of such institutions a desire to act otherwise than in a:manner calculated to aid, to the utmost, the objects they 'profess to support; nor can we imagine them labouring under a supposition, that there other 'way of 'aecomplahing that end than 'throtith the ".triedium 'of•the public press: If this be so, how unwiie must it be to withhold,from those who are alone capable of esunishing. information to the public, any, one of the faciiities requisite for doing.so ; and not only for tieing it, but for doing it in the most effective way. It is surely enough for those engaged in the conduct of the pub lic press to lie Vote their time and talents—a talent in this • particular respect'of no ordinary kind--to the collection and publication of faithful accounts of the proceedings at public meetings, or places of, public entertainment, with out its being considered a . favour conferred upon them to give them tickets of 'admission to those places, and with out leaving them to shift for themselves, with a not un frequent slight manifested as regards the little hospitalities of the occasiOti;atid'ei , en a great backwardness in communicating that information known to the conductors or stewards of the assemblies, but not necessarily known to those attending on behalf of the Public press; but without which the reports of their proceedings cannot, except by great caution and exertion, if at all, be given with the desired accuracy. We are not, in these remarks, pointing particularly at the society named in the out set. Nor should we have made them at all at the moment, were we not quite aware that, in applying our observations generally, we are not likely to injure either this, or any other public institution. Our object is the exact .reverse of that. And if those engaged in the direction of such institutions think the intervention of the public press useful to them, they will do well to adopt the practice universally followed in the metropolis. That practice is, invariably, to send tickets of admission to each of the different newspapers for the nee of thtle who may . attend on their behalf ;—to appoint for theni comfortable and onve nient positions to take their notes;-to furnish them with co pies of resolutions or documents, ivhich may be brought for ward in the course of the . proceedings,, and genefally with every requisite information ;—and if, perchance, the occasion should 'be a public dinner,, to give directions that they shall be treated as guests, and not as interlopers. By these means, the pro ceedings at public meetings in London are reported in a man ner which cannot fail to strike every one as most perfect. When the same cwarseis pursued here, then, and not until then, will the same perfection be attainable. THE LI VERPO3I_, STANDARD. LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM. One'Of our contemporaries has been instructed to comment upOn an article in Our number of Friday - last neon the- partial' and improper proceedings of the sub-committee iu some recent changes of newspapers in the above establishment. In short, a laboured and most impotent attempt at apology has been put forth for this compound display of political feelings and violated compact. To guard against any possible misunderstanding of our motives, we again state that if our own proportion, which is equal to that of any other paper published, were swept out of the room altogether, it would cause us not the smallest annoy ance. It would, we repeat, be rather a benefit conferred upon us, in a pecuniary sense. But we have and shall continue to watch the proceedings of parties who do acts, in their public capacity, which are inconsistent with the impartial discharge of their duty. As for the trash about the "Liverpool Ude," the Cuisinier of the room, " taking it into his Milesian head" to feed his customers' according to his own fancy, we think the said Mile Xian, if such he be, will not be much obliged by the intended compliment ; and the " parallel," as it is called, would have been much more - " complete" if the writer had in troduced a dissertation on the merits of calves' heads, a subject that would come very naturally from him. But if either he, or hiemasters, think they can parry the charge by such a course as they have adopted, we Will try to undeceive both them and him. The Times and the Morning Chronicle we are told have more numerous readers than the Conservative morning pa pers ; and we are also told that " the readers of the Sun, the Globe, and the Courier, far outnumber those of the Albion, the Standard, and the St. James's Chronicle, papers which, in four cases out of every five,—we might say in nine cases out of every ten—are taken up only when no other evening journal can be had." Now, we should be perfectly justified in saying that this assertion might be designated by a single word which may not be said to " ears polite." We may, however, recommend it to the admirers of MUNCH A USEN, as well suited to their taste. The Sun is read for its third edition during the sitting of Parliament; the Globe is consulted as one of the organs of those Atlases, our present rulers ; whilst, of the poor Courier, so fallen from its once " high and palmy state;" the less we say of it the more, we apprehend, will the people concerned be obliged to us ; it is certainly running at a great rate—down wards. Of the others mentioned, our excellent London name sake, for instance, we would say that there is not an evening paper published which is half so much read through the United Kingdom by the respectable and well-informed classes of society, .as the Standard. But the whole attempt to excuse• the act is one of evasion. Else, in the spirit of impartiality, why cut down what are called the tory papers thirty or forty per cent., whilst the radical Times is only reduced ten pet cent., and the "neutral" Herald, purporting, by the title_ given to it by these same gentlemen, to be the essence of " impartiality," is to be lopped off twenty-five per cent. But we have not done yet. There is something in the arrangement of the provincial papers which we will touch upon, without scruple, at the expiration of another week, if we then find the present plan persisted in. In the meantime, we will content ourselves with a single and very short remark on the composition of the proprietors and sub scribers to the Exchange-room; we mean it as a general answer to the apology put forth--rthat the majority of them are persons who have nothing in common with the writer of the article to which we are now alluding;—they are strict con servatives. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sra,—lt delights us poor Tories to see how the STANDARD works its own way in spite of liberal conspiracy. -How the case stands with regard to the Exchange News Room, the Tory " nobs" must decide ; but a pennyworth at Scott's is as 'much as I can afford just now, it is therefore with the widow I have, to do. • For weeks (and I think months) after the STAN DA RD was set up, it was not allowed to go near Scott's,—but now she takes six or .eight copies (you know bow many) of each publi cation, but only, that small number, which causes actually a scramble for them in the mon; you cannot get hold of one with out waiting a length of time and "bespeaking" one. I think that widow Scott ought to discover that the number of her visitors on STAN haat. days are much more numerous than they are on-other days. 1 have counted eleven hiere4rys ' aye, eleven copies of that old gossip, lying quiet as death on the table, whilst a copy of the STANDARD was not te be got hold of without waiting your turn, and this only a fortnight ago; and nearly as many of the Unitarian paper have I counted on some Tuesdays. Does the poor woman think that any body will take Mercury if she goes to the expense? Quere. Does the fund for the houseless poor go towards finding widow Scott an ample num ber of "Bott's' dull sheet? I have stated - facts; you may make your inferences. Surely it cannot be that so many of Scott's readers are Tories. It is too bad that the old woman will not take a sufficient number of the paper. most read in the room, and force one to read the dull trash of the " top-spinning•man down to the sprinkler of holy water." Ha!, ha! , That was the cut.—Yours, &c. A POOR TORY. LOCAL NEWS. -On:-Wednesday evening, about eleven o'clock, as two young Men Were . Ptoceeding along the. Park-road, on their Way tnime, they ware attacked by threc men, who were armed blud- • geons. One of the. young men' was immediately felled; .the other being extremely poWerfut, succeeded in knocking down two of the. miscreants; and, upon assistance appearing, they all three decamped, leaving behind them one of their weapons. Two of the men were in the garb of sailors, the third was dressed in a fustian jacket and trousers.. . AccinENT,:—On Wednesday morning as a • bread-cart was proceeding along the lower part of Park-lane the horse took fright,' and made a start upon the Parapet, knocking 'down two children; the cart-wheel passed over one of them, a boy about seven years of age, and broke his leg in two places, the other . escaped with' a Eight bruise on the head and a fright; the boy was carried into a surgeon's in the neighbourhood, where he was promptly attended to, and is now in a fair way of recovery. The horse was stopped almost instantly; and appeared after ward§'extremely quiet. It is stated that government has obtained a vote from the House of Comthons of £15,000 on account of the Commission • appointed to inquire into Municipal Corporations.—Will the public be benefited fifteenpence by their labours ?—Salopian Journal.-L[Of a surety the distribUtiOn of .fifteen thousand. pounds among some thirty or forty young Whig laWvers,. must redound to the honour and glory of the empire. With nothing to eat. can they be expected to talk? Our respected contem porary appears also to • haVe overlooked the other advantages that will arise from these commissions. In the liist place, they arc admirablycalaulated to embody all the disaffection in the country ; to create dissension where it does not. already exist; to develop more' prominently the organs of destruction; and lastly as a lever—Archimedes never dieamt.of one more power ful than this—by means of which the 'Whigs will uplift the most venerable of our institution's from their very foundations.— Edit'. Liverpool Standard.] Lord Francis Leveson Gower, with a - fortune of £lOO,OOO. a-year, is receiving half-pay as an ensign in the army; and John B. Striven, Esq. a wealthy member of the Irish bar, and King's counsel, is also on..the half-pay list, as lieutenant.— Limerick Chronicle. : [Whether this be truly or falsely slated we do not know; but we can hardly suppose that the writer of this . contemptible piece of radical sneering is ignorant of the fact, that half-pay is granted to the officers of the army and navy as a retainer for services to be performed whenever the exigencies of the state may require them. Until Lord Leveson Gower has forfeited his right by some act of military insubordi nation, or the King has dispensed with his future services, . his right to receive this half-pay . is as indisputable as his right to any other part of his income. Gratuitous services are not in any case accepted either in the army or navy,- on the good old legal principle that no responsibility attaches to an agent whose services are not paid for.-- , -Edit. Liverpool Standard.] On Wednesday, a most serious - riot occurred at a beer shop in Crosbie-street, between two parties of Irishmen, and which is likely to be attended with fatal results. In the midst of the fray, the landlord, it appears, interfered and. stabbed three per sons; two, it is supposed, dangerously. .A party of puke was immediately on the spot, and, through the promptitude and activity of Mr. Parlour, the landlord was taken Into custody. On Wednesday night, as a gentleman was returning home about nine o'clock, he was attacked by a gang of miscreants, near to Mr. Ashcroft's farm, Kirkdale, anCrobbed of a Old lever watch, seals, &e. and 19s. in money. The gentleinan was knocked down and dreadfully beaten. AVe Understand reward is offered for the discovery of the wretches. C. W. WILLIAMS, ESQ.—We are glad to perceive by . the following paragraph in the Limerick Chronicle that the exertions of this public-spirited gentleman to improve. the inland naviga tion of Ireland are duly appreciated :—" Friday night, the risinc , town of Killaloe was illuminated, and bonfires lighted up, on the arrival of Mr. Charles Williams, of the Inland Steam Navigation Company, to whose enterprise and very successful efforts to improve the navigation of the Shannon the country generally is deeply indebted. COMFORTABLE . LODGINGS.—At. the Police Office, in New York, in the month of July last, a case of slight importance being investigated, it appeared in evidence that five families were residing together in one cellar in the city. 'I he presiding Magistrate asked one of the parties, a woman, if she did not find it intolerable to live with so many persons in a cellar, during such hot weather; to which the woman replied, that it would not be so inconvenient to live with five families, only one of them kept boarders. A silversmith and jeweller, carrying on an extensive business in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, London, was examined on Monday at the pOlice-office, Marlborough-street, charged with the felonious possession of a Bank of England note for fifty pounds, the property of Mrs. Hampton. It appears from the examination that the accused had both bought some dia monds of Mrs. Hampton, and had also sold to her several arti cles of plate and jewellery, and admitted that he had carried on an intrigue with Ann Vickers, her maid, who is now in Maid stone jail to take her trial at the next assizes, for robbing her mistress while at Margate. Mr. Chambers the magistrate re refusing to accept bail, the prisoner was again brought up on the following day, when the other magistrates coneurriig with him in opinion, he was fully committed for trial. NEW AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT.—The New York papers de• scribe a new steaih-veSsel recently launched in the following lustrous terms. 'The blue and orange satin damask, and the yellow and scarlet worsted damask, must be extensively splen did :—" We have rarely seen a more beautiful specimen of this kind of naval architecture. She is 153 feet in length, and 23 in breadth, or, including the guards, presenting a deck of 50 feet wide. Her promenade deck is 116 feet long, and her inirthen about 275 ton's. She is propelled by two low-pressure engines of 120 horse-power, manufactured at the West Point Foundry, and her boilers are of copper, staunch and strong. The main cabin is spaciOus, being 74 feet long, and admits of a table 64 feet in length. The gentle Men's cabin has 60 berths, and the two cabins appropriated for the ladies 28 berths. The former are decorated with curtains of yellow and scarlet worsted damask, and the latter with splendid blue and orange satin da mask, beautifidly feitooned, All the cabins are overspread with handsome Brussels carpeting, and the furniture through out is of the best deScriptiOn. The ceilings are of ample height, and the (leeks - spacious and unincumbered. We hate seen no .boat of the same dimensions better adapted for convenience and safety.than this; and added to her other accommodations, she has a place for exit •at the stern, so that ladies may leave it without being annoyed ,by the bustle and intrusion too com. monly frequent at the usual side gangway." THE NEW PlN.—Adam.. Smith devoted - a page of his Wealth of Nations to the art of pin-making, in illustration of the division' Of labour; the Spectator then may surely spare a paragraph to the announcement of a new improvement in the manufacture of pins, especially when, itis considered how much our fair readers are interested in the perfecting of this minute but indispensable item of the toilet. Numerous and sharp were the complaints of the clumsy o'd-fashioned pins, whose heads were rudely formed of a twisted coil of wire, not only unsightly, but apt to yield to the pressure of the nail and wound the` delicate finger, endan gering the equanimity 'the fair one's „temper as well as he r flesh. The pins at present in general use are a great. improve ment upon the old ones, both in the firmness of the head and their neat appearance. The simile " neat as a new pin" has risen in estimation accordingly. The head is still formed of a separate piece of wire, but fashioned in the shape of a frustruth of an inverted cone, and more firmly fixed on; but even these heads have been known. to come off. To put this inconvenience beyond the possibility of accident, the new improvement of which we speak has been devised. The . patent •‘ - inunoveahle, solid-headed pin- 'consists of one entire piece of. metal;" the head is formed of the wire of the pin itself; it nearly resemh:es the conical head, but is smaller and neater. This may possibly . be only a recurrence to the original mode of making pins, be fore the principle of the division of labour was known, and when every individual pin was* made separately and at once, like a nail, and as rudely fashioned. Be this as it may, the perfection to which our manufactures are advancing is evidenced by the last new pin, as well as by the most recent improvement of the steam-engine.—Spectator. Saturday last being St. Matthew's day, the election of two bailiffs for the town _and liberties of Bridgnorth took place.— After the jury had been sworn,. and locked up in the Guildhall for about four hours, it was made known by their foreman that choice had been made of Alderman Boucher, malster, and Al derman Jones, wine-merchant, to serve the office for the year ensuing. Previous to the election of bailiffs; the hall was crowded to excess, and much bustle and altercation took place, in consequence of a large number of burgesses making their ap pearance, and roposing•two burgesses, (not in the corporation,) office to serve the of bailiffs. Our correspondent says, the bust ness is likely to be taken before a superior tribunal.—Salopian Journal. CAUTION TO WAGGONEES.—On Saturday last, a servant man belonging to Mr. Lawrence, of Llynclys, near Oswestry, when near the Gobowen, .with his master's waggon loaded, was, in consequence of drunkenness, thrown down, and. the wheels passing over him, he was killed upon the spot.—And near the same place, on the same day, another waggoner fortunately es caped the same fate, as he tell, but thc.wneel only passed over his toes, - without doing much injury. —On Wednesday week, a waggoner was killed near •Harkscott gate, in consequence of the waggon going over him. ' DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF CHINA.—On the 15th July,. died at Pekin, the consort of the Emperor of China. A general mourning has been ordered in consequence.. The Montshur employes are for twenty-seven days to wear garments of coarse white linen, and caps without tassels or buttons; during one hundred days - they must not shave their.heads. The Mongolia employes are to aszumc the same mourning, with the exception of the white garments. The Chinese people must leave their heads unshaved Yor the same period, and are :to wear no tassels on their caps tor seven days. The right of nominating the Empress belongs to the Emperor's mother, who solicits, within' three 'years, one ofthefive sponges of her son for that office-- , Russian paper. MARCH OF INTELLECT.—A little boy at one of the hospitals was frequently found in a most unseemly state. His age, of two - years and a 'half, forbade the idea of his being druak,ito'say nothing of his inability to walk to the gin-shop, or, when he • was.there„ to pay for his drams. • Yet the general appearance of the creature, as well as the odour of his breath, which ought, as that of an infant, to have.been pure as new-made hay, pet mitted no doubt of the fact: it was pronounced by'the doctors that the small beast was drunk; in short, an habitual . diunkard. The means of inebriety were discovered in the ,case of spirits of wine used for the cupping-glasses ; it was found that the buy took a cupping-gla ss too muc h ; the rogue had stolen a march upon the . dotors ; his inquiring spirit had led him into the secret of the .spirit of wine; but, alas ! his knowledge stopped short at its most direct use. This is always the result of a smattering. The first use a .servant makes of his literature is to read his master's letters; but this is no more an argument against education, than this .drunkenness against burn ing spirits of wine. under the • cupping-glass. This march of intellect is a mauvais pas when it halts : science must not be taken at the wrong end, or the pupil will he found drunk .instead of a doctor.—New Monthly. Pohmeoh ivioNS.-Are these 'Unions conducive to the spread of rational freedom ? Are they . beneficial to the work ing classes; or rather, is knot clear and undeniable that they . are fraught with immense and inealchhible mischief ? As to freedom, they have it in their mouths, but their practice belies and contradicts their a ssertions. They act the part of bullies, and attemptto concuss Parliament into the adoption of all their vagaries, crotchets, and absurdities. Their creed is, "No taxes," and perhaps an agrarian law, "universal suffrage," and their grand aim, the ascendancy .of the worst of all tyrants, the "mobocracy." It is fortunate that their ravings are heeded and despised by the sensible, sagacious, and intelligent public. It is a happy circumstance for Britain that the Unions are so imbecile. These Unions of late have become public nui sances, -which every sensible and patriotic man—every well -. wisher to his speciesshould unite in endeavouring to discoun tenance and put down. To the working-classes they have been productive of great evil, imbuing their minds with false and ab surd- notions of their own importance—swaying them in opposi s they can timmtrin to their fellow-citizens, surely as much interested in good g prete N n v d ith to th b e e ir — c a l u n d plo ex ye c r it s i7 on th , e yho mt s o place•themsel ves in collision e enterprise and talents they depend for subsistence. Happy will it be for the country, but most of all will it be well for the " Unionists" themselves, when Political Unions, and their ill ; favoured progeny, the Trades' Unions, are consigned to the "tomb of all the Capulets," to which place of rest we sincerely trust and fervently pray these anomalous and unconstitutional combinations will soon be consigned, never more to raise their " hideous fronts."—Caledoniam llteroury. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Stn,—l am a constant reader of your paper, not as assenting to its political creed, but as being desirous of ascertaining the amount of information and power possessed, and the value of tilt arguments used by those, who, whilst differing from me in opinion, maintain their own with apparent sincerity and un dutibted talent; but, giving you credit for sincerity and talent, 1 am not a little surprised at the want of judgment you have evinced in the singular classification of newspapers which Ap pears in your article of this morning on the Exchange news room. In the article to which I allude, you speak of the Times and the Chronicle as being Radical papers l—now, nothing can be more absurd—what is there Radical about them, unless you aim at a subversion of terms, and mean to take inibecility, cu pidity, hypocrisy, and vacillation to be symptoms ofßadicalisin, instead of absolute Whiggery ? As a Radical I have nothing in common with that theatrical thundering, ministerial tool, the trumpery Times, nor with the. spasmodically-consumptive Chronicle; these I leave to the hol low professors of liberal opinions, who promise but to mislead, who poison where they pretend to heal, and who by turns cringe, threaten, or cajole, just as it may suit the service of their dar ling god, SELF-INTEREST. No, sir, give me an out-and-out Tory to deal with, an antagonist who disdains to use a mask, and then 1 know how to take my stand without fear of "a treacher ous stab i' the dark." Hitherto, I have believed the editor of the Liverpool Standard to he an out-and-out Tory, and in that fat!' I shall still con tinue; if, by inserting this letter„ or something more pertinent, he will allow his readers to understand, that sliould they wish to see pure Radical principles honestly advocated—should they desire to know how the faithless Whigs , are despised by the great mass of the people—should they be open to a conviction, ,that the Times and the Chronicle are merely (and only) the mouthpieces of these same Whigs—should they, in short; feel disposed to render justice to all parties, they will first become readers, also, of the True Sun ; they will then have it in their power to a ppreciate, to approve, or (if they can) to confute the masoning of unflinching Radicalism. You may, sir, charge the Whigs, but not the Radicals, with as much unfairness and double-dealing as you please; there is "ample verge and scope enough ;" and you may even cite the matter in question as a case in point, for there is not at this moment a single copy of the True Sun taken in by the manag ing parties for this news-room; but, whilst you throw the greater part of the onus upon the Whigs, you must not forget that herein they are aided, perhaps not designedly, by the Tories. Repeating my hope that fair play will be afforded to' all par ties, I am, yours, &c. A SUBSCRIBER. • Exchange News-room, Sept. 20, 1833. . • TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STrIND4RD. Ste,--I beg leave, through the medium of your paper, to di rect the attention of the worshipful the mayor and other magistrates of Liverpool, to what I consider a very extensive and injurious species of fraud which prevails in the different public markets of the town, and which imperatively calls for immediate and effectual redress. I allude to the fraudulent state of almost all the scales or weights, or both, by which the ' public, and especially the pone, are continually defrauded to a very ruinous extent. Being in the habit of constantly purchas ,ing both fish and butcher's meat in the markets, I can assure you that in nine cases out of ten I find the articles very consi derably deficient in Weight; and have occasionally had them taken back again, rather than submit to the fraud. I may se dect the following as the most recent, though not the most atro cious case., Last Saturday 1 bought a small quantity of beef steaks in St. John's market ; on bringing it home : I found it 'three ounces short of the alleged weight, as paid for—of course I had it taken back. The butcher was so impudent about it that I was obliged to carry my complaint to the police-officer of the market, who sent a man with me, and brought in the scales; on trying them, one was found two ounces fifteen drachms lighter than the other--the meat of course being always weighed in the heaviest scale. In this case the officer de tained the scales, and said they should be jorleited : hut I think I soon after saw them again in the possession of their fraudu lent owner—whether adjusted cr not I cannot say. I must however add, that this man assured me that. three fourths of all the scales in the market would, on inspection, be found in. the same state. If this statement is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, I leave it to the magistrates to judge if it be not high time for them to interfert• in the case. If a poor man buys a pound of meat, surely it is too bad that he should be robbed of three ounces of it ! I understand, indeed, that there are two offices in St. John's market, at which it is intended that proper persons should attend for the purpose of re-weighing any articles bought therein that are suspected to be deficient, upon payment by the purchaser for the trial. Sir, I visited both these offices this very day; Satur day, 21st September, at half-past eleven o'clock, in the height of the market, and found them both closed, and no person in them; and again at two o'clock they were closed, and empty, and I presume continued so all day. All this calls loudly for redress, and for the honour of the town I hope it will not be withheld. • Sept. 21, 1833. Yours, &c., WHIG GREEDINESS. " These shufflers require sharp looking after."—Odd Play TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. St a,—l understand that, at their evening orgies, a certain squad 1 of small politicians, Most exactly comprehended within the two terms whiv and liberals—l understand that a mongrel pack of this one evening l a t e ly, employing themselves in t i d e ei r s a over their gin and water, canvassing the strictures of. us have deem e d it our duty to mak on csri which vo ti he i t t : l n th were,, some the recent conversion of certain ci-devant patriots of our ac quaintance into devourers of taxes. These worthies urge, as I learn—and one of them whom I fell in with, but not at the gin shop, urged the same—they urge, that there must be such ap pointments as Chairmen of Boards of those very pleasant things stamp and assessed taxes, and moonshine . comniissi o ners, corn; missioned as a, pretext for having a share of taxes. And, further, they urge that I and that outrageous friend of mine, whose frightful name must not be mentioned, but who, in his Register, has been, in his own peculiarly gentle manner, tickling the pretenders—this squad of whig-liberals urge, just and can did creatures as they are, that we should neither of us suffer a of of taxes to go a-begging for want of a eustninex. Now, Mr. Editor, this is just the measure of the men. Ne ver did the old saving of -"s-measure a peck out of their own. sari:" apply so well as it does to this case. Re they bawlers far repub licanism, be they disclaimers ever so noisy on the sufferings of the poor, through the pressure of the taxes,—be they what you will, I have always found that your Whig-liberal would cease his clamours, and rest from his melting harangues, did. but the slightest shadow of a title;—did there appear the merest possi binty of the most paltry thing in that way making its approach in his direction, or could he gain but a glimpse of a piospect of his own deserving lips being feasted with the pleasures, and his body with the ease, which are to be found in the receipt of a share of taxes. As to the necessity there exists for our having . chairmen of stamp and assessed taxes, and humbug commissioners, I an swer, as I answered the individual Whig . before alluded to, that, "certainly, whilst robberies are committed , there mus t be robbers; but this would be no justi6cation, Frank, for you and I taking to the profession." And, with regard to what would be my conduct, had I the opportunity of regaling on a lot of taxes—if it Will be a con solation to these liberals, whilst sympathising with their lacer ated friends and cronies • be it as they suppose : let it be that I would grasp on the first opportunity. And let them look sharply after me, if they think it worth the while , and , if the y catch me at the pillage,. let them not spare me. Nay, let them lay on now, in anticipation if they like; for I have not the vanity to hope that I shall ever have an opportunity of giving them a more substantial occasion. But there is my friend, not aforesaid, but afore-alluded to. Have they caught hi - % ? And .teas not he had opportunities? What, the devil! Forgive me; Mr. Edit or , but - it would move a saint to swear; what , I sa y , ' Brougham, and Denman, and Macaulay, and Poulett Thom son, and Spring Rice, and shoals of other shuffling and shallow things, not to mention my own.worthy old reforming coadjutors, who have just taken the bait, and are suffering under the lash; what, I say, whole shoals of creatures of this description be admitted to share in the pillage, in order to enlist their stupen dous powers in support of the thing, and my friend, and .Mr. Cobbett, for I must grace your columns with his name, and this' man, their mighty terror, never he tempted, never have an op portunity, were he inclined, of disgracing himself, of lending his aid, and of receiving, as his reward,'a share of the boots , ! Yours, &c. THOMAS SMITH. Gloucester-place, Sept. 23, 1833. HEATON PARK RACES. This important meeting to our Lancashire sportsmen com menced on Wednesday last, with that animating spirit, nothing abated from the display in former years. Front an early hour in the morning vehicles of every description from various parts of the country were seen wending their way towards the Park, and the course presented a most splendid and crowded appearance. The regulations were as upon former meetings. viz., that none were admitted but in car riages or upon horseback, which was the means as heretofore, of maintaining the respectability of the meeting. Two elegant stands, one for the accommodation of the public and the other for the distinguished visitors at Heaton House, were erected and decorated in a tasteful manner at the expense of the Earl of Wilton; upon the latter we observed the Earl and Countess of Wilton and large party of fashionably-dressed females, the Earl of Lichfield, the - Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Grosvenor and Lord Robert Grosvenor, Count Matus chevitz, Captain Bvng, Mr. W. M. Stanley, Captain White, Mr. Osbaldeston, Btc. &c. - The management of the races was entrusted to Mr. John Etty, the clerk of the Manchester course, and the steward was the Earl of Lichfield. All the riders were gentlemen and members of a racing or fox-hunting club. The sports of the day opened with the contest for The Stanley Stakes of 10 sovs. each, A.F. Which were won by Count Matuschevit.z ns Fitzdictor, (Mr. Bur ton,) beating Mr. Houldsworth's Circassian, (Mr. Kent,) Lord Wilton names Falconbridge, (Lord Wilton,) and Mr. W. M. Stanley names Caractacus, (Mr. White) ; seven paid. The above was a most excellent race, particularly well contested be tween the winner and Circassian • the betting was about 6 to 1 agst the winner, who was so little expected to win that 10 to 1 might have been had against him. Circassian was backed at 5 to 4 on her against the field. The Heaton Park Stakes, (Handicap,) of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and five only if declared by six o'clock the evening before run ning, for four year olds and upwards. One mile and a half. Were won by Lord Lichfield names Westport, (Lord Wilton,) beating Mr. Payne names Windcliffe, (Mr. White,) and Mr. Giffard names b f Isabel, (Mr. Burton) ; twelve paid. Won easy. The betting was 2to 1 colt Westport, 7to 4 agst Isabel, and 4 to 1 agst Windcliffe. The Grand Junction Stakes of 20 sovs. each, h ft; ono mile, 4 subscribers. Were won by Mr. Osbaldeston names b f by Whisher out of Alecto, (Mr. Osbaldeston,) beating Lord Wilton urns Theodore, (Lord Wilton,) and Mr. Houlds►rurth's Ostrich, (Mr. Kent); one paid; 6 to 4 on Theodore, 2 .to 1 agst Ostrich, 4 to 1 agst the winner. . . _ _ A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs., given by. .Mr. King, added to a subscription of 10 sovs. each; St. Leger Course. Was won by Lord Wilton's Chancellor, (Lord Wilton,) heating Mr. Cosby names. Giovanni, (Mr. White,) Mr. Osbaldeston's The Saddler, (Mr. Osbaldeston,) Mr. Osbaldeston's Lady Eliza beth. (Mr. Kent...) Count- Matasehevites lawn Sleeves, (Lord Grosvenor,)•and•Sir J-. , Ge-rardts Dame Durden,(Mr. Malony); nine paid. Lady Elizabeth made the running and led off at a stiff pace, closely followed by Chancellor and Giovanni. Be hind the hill a change took place, Giovanni leitding and the Chancellor second, but when near home the Chancellor made a push and stole the lead, a pretty contestensucd between the two, but the Chancellor succeeded in winning byabout three lengths. The riding of his lordship was excellent, and his winning the cup appeared to give great satisfaction to the meeting, who dis played their feelings by three loud and hearty cheers, which were gracefully acknowledged by the earl. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, with 20 sovs. added by the Club, for horses not thorough-bred; once round and a distance. Eight subs. Was won by Mr. Ongley's Donnington, (Mr. Kent,) beating Mr. Pickernell's b g Willey, (Mr. White,) Mr. Armistead's The Guardian, (Mr. Surdefield,) Mr. Burton's Sister to the Ad miral, (Mr. Burton,) MT. W. C. Codrington's br g Conservative, (Mr. Codrineton,) and Mr. Jones's Tommy Tickle, (Mr. Pistle). 2 to 1 • agst Dounington, 3 to 1 agst Conservative, 3 to 1 agst Tommy Tickle, 5 to 1 agst the Aduanal, 5 to I agst Willey, 5 to 1 agst The Guardian. Won easy. . . THE -.DRAMA. The instances are exceedingly rare in any of the liberal pro fessions, where the mantle of a father, who has gained a dis tinguished name, has fallen upon his sou. To prove this asser tion we need only glance at the bar and . the bench, and we shall discover several living instances of fathers attaining the highest forensic honours whose sons have not risen even to me diocrity. These reflections were forced upon us last night, at the theatre, while we witnessed the performance of Sir Giles Overreach by Kean the younger, for thus lie will. be designated for many a day, who, with a voice and person that bears a strong resemblance to his sire, is as unlike him in spirit as " Hyperion to a Satyr." Perhaps it is this genzleman's misfortune, having adopted his father's profession for the exercise of his talents, that be should bear any kind of re semblance to him; because at present it forces us into that proverbially odious thing, a comparison, which is unfavout able to his pretensions to supply the hiatus occasioned by the death o f that great a c t o r. IsTo one can see Mr. Kean's. performance of Sir Giles without being convinced that he has long and la boriously studied the character; - but we fear that he has fallen into the error of studying the Sir Giles Overreach of Kean the first, instead of reading that of Massinger, and in doing so has forgotten that the copy of any work of art is .almost necessarily inferior to the original, because the admiration of the copiest generally leadi hiin'to copy even its faults. 1-lad we never seen Shylock or Sir Giles Overreach, by any other than the living .Keati, we should, perhaps, think more favourably ,of those per formances by the Kean of whom we are now speaking. He possesses many of the•qualifications necessary to the formation of a good tragic actor, independent of the name he chances to bear, and, like Charles Kemble, may gain by his own merits the highest rank on the stage. in spite of his descent, which, at present, operates so much to his prejudice. The play was very - respectably got up, and he was well supported by Cooke, in Wellborn, and Baker, in ilarrall. The part of Lord Lovell was assigned to Mr. Lacy, who made the most of it, .and continues to improve upon us on acquaintance. DAVIS STRAITS, AND GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY. HULL—Abram, Hibbs, full; Alfred, Brass, full, 28th July; Andrew Marvel, Wright, full; Brunswick, Blyth, well fished, 16th August,. Comet, Martin, full ; Cambrian, Dring, full; Duncombe, Scoffin, full; Ellison, Bennett, well fished; Ever thorp, Johnson, well fished; Lee, Lee, full; Lord Wellington, Harrison, 28 fish; Mary •Frances, Coldray, full; Sarah and Elizabeth, 'Father, 9 fish • Si s t ers , Dannat, full; Swan, Dring, full; Truelove, Manger:full ; Volunteer, Parish, nearly full; William Lee, Parker, 20 fish; William Torr, Dannutt, nearly full ; Zephyr, Ash, ditto. 'LONDON.—Margaret, Turpin, 28 fish; Regalia, Philips, 26 fish. WHlTBY.—Phcenix, Mills, 19 fish; Camden, Armstrong, 23 fish. NEWCASTLE. — Cove, Palmer, 150 tons; Grenville Bay, Tay lor, 27 fish; Lady Jaue, Fleming, nearly full; Lord Gambler, Warham, 28 fish. BEHWICK. — NorfoIk, Harrison, full. BHuNTIsLAND. - 7Majestic, Smith, 11 fish; Undaunted, Wat son, 12 fish. KIRKCALDY.—CaIedonia, Gray, 30 fish; Chieftain, Todd, 37 fish; Earl Percy, James, 15 fish ;- Triad, Stodart, - 11 tish ; Viewforth, Oliphant, 22. LElTH.—Clarendon, Lyalt, 28 fish North Pole, Stewart, 34 fish; Pi ince of Orange, Guthrie, 28 fish; Ulverstone, Straiton, full; William and Ann, Listin, full. DUN nEu.—Advice, Deuchars, 26 • fish; Alexander, Thorns, 21 fish; Dorothy, Davidson, 19 fish; Friendship, Davidson, full; Horn, Stevenson, 100 tuns; Heroine, Welch, well fished; Princess Charlotte, Adamson, full; Thomas, Thorns, full. MONTROSE.—EIiza Swan, Mills, 25 fish; London, Burn, 22 fish; Monarch, Fulton, 20 fish. • ABERDEEN. — Dee, Cook, 12 fish ; Hercules, Reid, full ; Middleton, Kerr, full; Neptune, Bruce, 3 fish; St. Andrew, Reed, 150 tons. PETERHEAD.—Commerce, Steward, 5 fish;. Gleaner, Ander son, full, lfith July; Hannibal, Birnie, nearly full; Joseph Green,. Volum, 18 fish ; Pers.verance, •bgston, full; Resolu tion, Hogg, full; Superior, Manson, nearly toll; 'Traveller, Simpson, 20 fish ; Union, Carduo, 6 fish. This account is up to the 11th Auumst 0 • We take the following from a New York paper of the 30th ult., which requires no comment: — At a recent meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society of London , Mr. Fowell Buxton said— " He had exulted at the progressive improvement of the negro, and at the glory which would have redounded upon this nation from being the first to emancipate the negroes. He then referred to the sturdy Republicans (the North Americans,) who could cut the throats of any who spoke against liberty, and who had offered a reward of 5000 dollars for the head of a gen tleman, who was, he believed, now in that room, because he dared to raise his voice in favour of the slaves. He (Mr. Bux ton) had hoped that the Americans would have caught the infection, but they must now bid farewell to all these hopes. — A clause in the East India Bill had passed last week, almost sub silentio, the effect of which would be to destroy slavery . in our East India dominions in a few years; and with the assist ance of the large assemblage of members of parliament which he saw around him, he had hopes that next week the obnoxious clauses, relating to the West India Slavery, would be got rid of." It is to be regretted that some of the American gentlemen now in England do not step promptly forth and disabuse the British public, in regard to the real character and objects of Garrison , and the scandal he is bringing upon his own country by his misre presentations. It is Garrisonwho is referred to by Mr. Buxton, as the person for whose head five thousand dollars is said to have been offered, " because he had dared to raise his voice in favour of the slaves." But such is not the fact, although from one of Garrison's speeches Mr. Buxton was warranted in draw ing the inference. A reward was offered was offered by the state of Georgia for the arrest of Garrison, as the writer and publisher of incendiary articles, the tendency, if not the de sign of which was, to foment insurrections among the slaves of uth. CORONER'S INQUEST. A jury assembh:d on 'ttiesday morning at the Ship Tavern, Mortlake, to.inquite :into:the circumstances td :the death of Henry HarnHealt, late head butler of the gilt plate pantry - t in the establishment of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber land. • The deceased was universally respected. Mrs. Mary Gosden was first called. She was employed to wash the platein the department of the deceased. Ever since the intelligence had beeircommunicated to him that he was to accompany his Royal Highneis. to Germany he had appeared very melancholy and mu c h d e p resse d i n spirits. On Saturday last he was more than usually dejected. The last time witness saw him alive - was on Saturday, about ten at night. The de ceased never complained of any ill treatment from hii Royal Highness. She had often thought, from his peculiar manner, that something would occur with him. His Royal clighness who Was in the inquest-room, here re marked, that it was only ten days ago the deceased had fallen down stairs. He never cotild have supposed the deceased .could commit suicide. He was of the most harmless disposition, and if spoken to, would cry like a child. Frederick Schuler, gamekeeper.—Witness never heard the deceased complain of ill usage, but has heard him say that his Royal flightless was a good master to him. John Longford, page to his Royal Highness.—Had occasion to go to the pantry about a quarter past eleven o'clock on Sa turday night; the deceased was absent; he looked for, but dirt not find hiin: The, following - morning, about seven -o'clock; witness went again into the pantry and found a letter near a writing-desk, directed to Mr. Franzileur a page to his 11, - .yal Highness, which witness delivered. 'the deceased clisiiketi going to Germany. The deceased was addicted to drinking. Conrad Franziieur, the page to whom the letter wa s dire led, produced the following translation of the contents: — "Kew Palace, Sept. 21, 1833. "Dear Franzileur,—l bid adieu to the world. See how far the tyrant has carried matters with me, after serving 20 years, and really like a slave. I can say with Maria Stewart, '1 ant better than my reputation.' Do not curse my soul. I Mil Sukey I am to receive £2 sterling, from Miss 13ecchellis £3, from Mr. Jell' 15 dollars 25 grochen. Pray take care that the 7 come into the hands of my father. I next beg you to pay ail my debts out of my wages now due. First, to good honest Gi)edickeineyer is to have £4; secondly, Mr. Worst, thirdly, Mr. Klose, £1; and ail bills where it can be proved that owe any money. May all good men be happy. God bless good Prince George, and may he soon recover his sight. I curse the Cumberland and old Ball. (Here it was ex . plained the latter name meant Ball, the steward.) Herewith I resign the splendour of the world, fer my soul is pure and blessed. Amen. " HARNFIELDT," Conrad Franzileur's examination resumed.—A great many questions were put as to the terms on which the deceased and his royal highness were, and the replies showed that the de ceased had always expressed the greatest respect for his royal master, and satisfaction at the treatment he experienced from his master's household. The witness further stated, that in presence of another party, he, by means of the key of deceased's desk, which had been. enclosed in the letter sent to him, opened the deck, and found £2l in money and two sealed letters, one directed to his father in Hanover, and the other directed to his royal 'highne.3s's steward, at Berlin. The letters witness delivered into the hands of the Duke of Cumberland. They were both written in German. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was next called. The Corcner here remarked your Royal Highness is not now among your peels, and it is necessary you should be sworn according to the usual form. His Royal Highness was then sworn, uttering the words of the oath with particular emphasis. His Royal Highness said that he wished the gentlemen of Lha jury to 'know he was most anxious every thing connected with this circumstance should be made as public as possible, and he hoped there would be no hesitation on any of their parts to put any question to him they desired to be answered. He had intelligence on Sunday morniug about eight o'clock from his page Flanzileur, who stated to him Harnfieldt had destroyed himself. In the hurry and worry of the moment, on a man roused from his sleep, he was astonished, and asked the page again what he meant. The page represented that Harnfieldt had destroyed himself. He then asked where they had found . the body ? The page replied, the body was not vet found, and witness then inquired, how he knew the deceased had destroyed himself, to which the page replied, it was from the contents of a letter which had beeu delivered to him by the witness Longford. His Royal Highness then ordered strict search to be .made for the body about the groUnds, and to have the ponds and river dragged. Sometime after the page returned and delivered into his hands the two letters found in the writing-desk of the deceased. (His Royal Highness here produced the two letters aiiuded to.) His Royal Highness said he felt him.clf in a situation of difficulty, but in consequence of the melancholy cir cumstances which it was presumed had occurred, he thourot it was right by opening them to throw as much light as possible on the subject. The Rev. Mr. Jelf agreed with him in the propriety of opening the letters, and they were accordingly opeaed and read in the presence of two friends of the deceased, his countrymen and relatives. The letters were here produced by his Royal Highness, and the witnesses were appealed to, who separately declared the letters were untouched until the seals were broken in their presence; and also that the letters now produced by his Royal High ness , were th e id en ti ca l l e tt ers taken fromthedesk of the deceased. The Rev. Mr. Jelf came forward and read the letters in English :- Ihe first was addressed to his father, and the second to the Duke's house-steward, in Berlin. Their contents were an enumeration of his effects, and betrayed the unsound state of his mind. His Royal Highness then resumed his evidence. In the course of incidental observations he observed that he considered the deceased's property might amount to between five and six hundred pounds. He had never entertained the slightest sus picion of his honesty. When it was communicated to Mr. Ball, the head steward, that it was necessary the plate should be sent to Germany, it was determined upon that it should be sent to Messrs. Rundell and Bridge, fur the purpose of being packed. Mr. Ball applied for permission to send the plate with -; break. His Royal - Highness said he asked who was to accompany it? Balls replied, Harnfieldt; but on reconside ra tion , his Royal Highness said he directed that Harnfieldt should remain at , home, as he was to have company on the following Sunda), and would require the attendance of the deceased as a servant out of livery. He was then particular in stating this, because he wished so show there was no blame to be attached to Bali, Le twixt whom and the deceased he had never heard there was any previous quarrel. This conversation took place in the press oce of his son Prince George and Sir John Sleigh. Decedsed had been with him since the year 1814. He had never c0r01,. -7 ned of ill-treatment, nor had he (his Royal Highness) at . at.y time had the least intention to sli g ht him. He seldom had uc,: ision to speak to the deceased, except it might be to ask him to brew some ginger beer, or mix some wine and water. His Royal . Highness said he bad often remarked that the decea...:d was stupid in appearance, but he was never so drunk s, tc, be unable to discharge his duties. His Royal Highness said he was attached to the deceased, and looked over many tsdngs which he might perhaps otherwise have noticed. There were few men whose servants remained longer with them with him (His Royal Highness.) Ball, to whom ailusioo had been made. had been in his service fifteen years. Harper, :lie por 7 ter, upwards of thirty yea rs. Not lon g a g o, an old woman died who had been in his establishment fifty years, and the steward at Berlin had lived with him upwards of twenty years. His Royal Highness said he had sent for a magistrate (Mr. Painter) to advise with , and shortl y a f ter his arrival the laSdy was found. Sir John Sleigh and Mr. Painter corroborated a portion of s evidence. hisAlinouyianibeHriogfhontehses; witnesses were examined, whose testimony fully confirmed the assertion that the deceased had expressed, "content with his situation," and also proved in positive terms the general feeling of his Royal Highness towards the deceased as a master. It was explained that the quarrels alluded to betwixt the de ceased and Mr. Ball the steward, had occurred through some reflections made by the butler on the frequent intoxication of the former. The repeated acts of dissipation on the part of the deceased, it was stated by Mr. Jelf, had apparently reduced him to a state of partial imbecility. . Several Jurors put various questions to his Royal lliehness alluding to rumours which had gone abroad, to all of which his Royal Highness gave such decisive and satisfactory ausers, confirmed by frequent appeals to other persons who were pre sent, as to show the unfounded character of the reports. Other portions of the evidence went to the finding of the body of the deceased in the river Thames, near the Ship tavern, Mortlake, about eight o'clock on Sunday night. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and of corpulent habit. The jury, after an examination of six hours and a half, upon a very brief consultation, returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." His Ravel Highness, upon quitting the room before the ver dict was delivered, said,—lf the verdict was returned in the form he expected, the deceased should be interred with the usual respect paid to one of his establishment. IRELAND. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—Last Friday, Lord William Beresforrl - who holds a commission in the 43d Light Infantry, nOkifi-Tgar.: rison at Waterford, and who is at present with a detaehnierdiit Knosktopher, in the county of Kilkenny, met with a very Seri ous accident while fowling in the neighbourhood of his station, with a double-barrelled fowling piece, double cocked. Having diicharged one side, and no object being in view, he set , about. reloading the discharged barrel, keeping his left hand upon the muzzle of the loaded barrel, which unfortunately he had neglected to uncock. hi - an unlucky moment it weld off, and shot away the fore-finger of his left hand. Surgical aid was procured as soon as possible, and we have satisfactan ia stating that his lordship is doing fully as well as could be expected Lord William Beresfor is next brother to the - Marquis of W a ter ford.— lr o terford Mirror. EFFECTS OF WHISKEY.—On Thursday last, a most melan- \ choly accident occurred in the house of a man res iding at . Tbonawilly, near Barnes mountain. Having happened to leave hiS house for a short time, his three children being in bed at the time, the two eldest, a boy and a girl, respectively of the ages of nine and seven years, got up (it is supposed in a frolic) and repaired to a keg of whiskey which was inadvertently lAt stand ing on the floor, and having drawn the bung drank so immo derately of the spirits, that they were seized With convulsive fits, and died, notwithstanding all the efforts that were made to gave them.—Derry Journal. THE NAV AI, STATION AT COVE.—The Paymaster of the Forces, and Lord Ebrineton, who has no official designation that we recollect., but who is a volunteer journeyman ef our precious ministers, have been obliging enough to visit this city. Au expectation prevails that the First Lord of the \.diniralty will also increase the number of our ministerial visitors—and there is some odd association in men's heads in.t.woen those parties-.--as if they had some common object in view. What the Paymaster has to do with the First Lord of the Admiralty, s i n obvious—but things are orered oddl enough in our times ot —and we ought not to be surprised at an y v thing. Common rumour says that Sir James Graham brings the Adimr:lty.eyes with him, to examine the better the artificial as well the phy. l sical temptations, which Cork harbour displays kr a nava arsenal. We hope all this is as true as we wish tiit to be—as wlreland e poron of , wish it, not alone for the advantag e of this but for the permanent welfare of t he empire. A statesman would never have thought of rooting Olt4t'saYal.etblishrnent as possible.. from Cove—nor would he hesitate to plant one there if it were an undertaking to be commenced; hut there are few statesmen objects —many politicians—and a world and all of those peer things, who think the test of political ability is to undo wi•otever is good, and to raise up as many crude experiment: If Sir James Graham really mean to apply to imv the noble accommodations of Cork harbour—if he come here with that honest intention —it is but reasonable to hope to-tee at once undertaken a design so full of general advanta4e. But that he does contemplate that important purpose reinians to ba seen. We wait.—Cork Constitution. ANECDOTE.-' An eastern tin pedlar haring fix,e. hi= waggon in a shed—no matter whether it was—in Jersey Ci'y or at Hoboken—that is nobody's buSiness—the stable, tr. , ver, was noted for keeping horses as lean as Pharaoh's cows. As he walked from stem to stern, and discerned the ! (.- on the horses' rumps projecting like so many small says he.. "Mr. Landlord, do you make horses here?" " nate horses here!" says the surly Dutchman' " what do you mean, sir r" "Why,.l thought as how you ad just been setting ,up frame P . —New lurk pupas.