The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-25 00:00:00

JtNE, 25, 1833. iTHEATRE-ROY AL, LIV ERPOOL. Th e Mr. P ower ' s Last Night but Three. Ni7vlNew Dramas of St. P a t r i c k' s E ve an d . the N ervous M an n o g bee n received with the most enthusiastic applause on I nd aY, will be repeated To-morrow Evening. 11- lIS present TUESDAY, June 25, willbe performed'the ; favo urite Comedy o f THE RIVALS . sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Power; Cap Abso r. Van (,.,liihoff; Falkland, Mr. Cooke Acres, tainM r.. wne M .—Julia Miss Huddart ; Lydia Languish •ss Eyre. 4 0 co nc l ude with a favourite Drama called th LISH VALET; LaLai n ,Orßlun ders than . 100 ogan 0 (As originally performed by .in London.) h, ED NESDA 1( will be perfor d (for the second time w i,” a New Drama, written by Mr. POWER, and performed ia distinguished success at the Theatre-Roval, Drury-lane, e 41 34 ST. PATRICK'S EVE, or, the Order of the Day. Major ogherty, Mr. Power, as originally performed by him. To ip"llelutle with the New Farce, called THE NERVOUS MAN, utthe Mall of Nerve. M`Shane, (the Man of Nerve,) Mr. !th e as origivally performed by him in London ; Mr. Aspen, fh Aervous Man,) Mr. Baker. e N ew Farce of PADDY CAREY will be produced in a few days. *"."--.L.' zbe Eiberpool tanZiarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1833. T he spirit of combination has reached such an extent, tind i s supported by such diabolical means in Liverpool, t ks well as h i Minehester, Preston, and numerous other ; w as, that i t i s the imperative duty of the legislature to ; w as, so me p l an to root out and effectually suppress the t il • If this b e not done speedily, there will be an end Fill industry in these pla ces i n th e fi rs t in s t ance ; nex t th ere come increased pauperism, and, finally, demoraliza tion and, perhaps, bloodshed. w hen jour neymen plasterers pre i ume . so muc h upon ' ei r own wisdom and importance as to attempt to dictate the ii impose prep os t erous , an d even o di ous t erms , u p on .rr m asters, by m eans o f ill ega l assoc i a ti ons an d abomi ,' ble oaths, it is in vain to reason with such men, or T heirs to th em the language of truth and soberness, then is not a combination for the purpose of raising b l ' w ages and b e tt er i ng th e i r con diti on , f or th a t wou ld vid ao obj ec t to which no exceptions could be taken, pro e.a it were pursued discreetly and lawfully; but it is w ap ° , ll3 Piracy to degrade the employer, and elevate the 1 , - "" t nan over. the head of his master. It is a foolish as th ell as a wicked conspiracy, inasmuch as it is impossible all a k ` an y employer of any spirit or any independence can It ualit to it. It is a conspiracy, besides, in which the tu ° „ li nall of unsullied: and industrious habits is cit .. " the victim of some political incendiary or discarded ntl tai ll i n k ard, lazy, i nso l e nt, an d di so b e di en t, w h o finds no Sue 1 1 in g so profit a bl e as th a t o f ag it a ti on , an d who, conse i' Y, pr es id es over t h ese secret meet in gs , administer n! snr ne Vinegar-]till or other Irish rebel oath, and eat ate drinkingand drinkin at the expense of those deluded work• i tt -n w hom he has trepanned, and whom, of course, he is 'e to ruin. k i e l f il ese are facts which we most earnestly beg the work then. W ho are i n ti m id a t e d by th ese p ersons t o t a k e i n t o if -It‘ s erious cons id erat i on . Th e y mus t k now as we ll, "t better than we do, that the active. leaders and of e th nts of the se c l u b s are i n genera l di scar d e d o p era ti ves 1, 0 7 1 ,.._ e v ery worst character. If there be any class of i n - "en worse than another, they are of the worst class. ) 41 , 4 Positi on i n soc i e t y , h owever h um bl e , cou ld t h ey tlan?„ 4ll Y influence but through intimidation—an intinii tal Which the well-disposed operative should disre aii*"' and which a brave man would despise. It should ad ! he borne in mind that the oaths which these villains tk'clialster are positively illegal. Every man who acts i tth er their sanction commits an offence against the laws aw °I God an d man. If a wor k man w h o h as b een so a1i(5.11 Were taken before a Judge as a witness upon aistindictment charging another man with having admi tin h er e ( ' unla w f u l oa th s , h e wou ld b e compe ll e d to di sc l ose Pri aG e ,,, k new, and in default he would be committed to If lie should refuse to answer the questions so h e „" Would be punished; if by giving false evidence 8"°111d attempt to screen the accused party, lie would guilt of perj ur y, an d i ncur an aw fUl res p o nsibility. tl 4k " e se oath s , we are awar e, ar e a d m i n i s tered in the ekt ' after the victim has been led bound through Passages by a person who is invisible, a n d w h ose i k e is diss em bl e d . B u t thi s we suspect w ill not s hi e ld too " Person s conc e rne d. Th e h ouse, or tavern, or tap -4.1' wher e th ese .ill ega l oat h s are. dministered may be t ead ict d, which w e ar e surprised has no t b een d one al b, ; and as the administration of the oaths can be b ei fo, th e un f or t una t e l an dl or d would run some risk of 4 . 0 "A' Bent to the tread-mill, if n o t t o B otany B ay. There w o nl4 be a double expolure in thiS case, for the witness by 11 „ kl he asha me d o f hi s o wn w ea k ness a t b e i ng so duped too tile invi s ibl e i nqu i s i tor , an d t h e reta il er of ale would n i find all hi s b eer sour . th e f acts which we have stated are sufficient to j us tif y k w e gislatur e in re-enacting the old combination laws. th o : n kt be an act of mercy as well as justice to many l be ands of families, the heads of which are industrious p .ye ' if these laws were in force at this very moment. fe e l! si nce they were repealed, all peace, unity, and good 4 0 ; 1 , 4 between mas t er an d o p era ti ve h ave b een des ivhoeg• The master can repose little confidence in men ch eat ar e counsell e d an d d rum - ma j ore d, menace d an d i ne rt cl, by the vilest wretches in the trade ; while the e lb en th e ot h er hand, are restrained from serving their thev,ers as zealously, faithfully, a n d con fid en ti a lly as brt: Woul d do were they not ove r aw e d, i nsu lt e d, and w heat e n evil wh ... by the incendia r i es o f th e c l u b s . Thi s i s an h ought not to be tolerated one moment longer. th e e ()n est and we ll-di spose d workmen suffer most from lea s bin ation ; it is only the indolent and the worth- W"Iho thriveunder • ( - 00, Wo rk neighbour's expense. He dips his hand in the qtet l man 's ba s i n —h e ea t s t h e b rea d of his hungry chil 'loth h" e drinks th e mone y w hi c h s h ou ld b uy t h em b piti es for winter. To . put an end to this robbery, and t he t t he leading conspirators to condign punishment, fioratar]lament are bound to interpose and protect the rte a . n d industrious workman from such rapacity and eou ser , • i f ti stnent destitution and demoralization. are en le p l egislatur e should refuse to interfere, which we befo_ynodent they will not when the whole truth is laid teti%t re th em ; but should they refuse, then the masters th e ' d . hav e recourse to such means as the law leaves at s ad i t Is P'sal• We know what these means must be, Btif fer, 18 painful to contemplate the embarrassment, the B ut ri ng, and the misery to which they must give rise. 1 1 ; 8t 1 i0 a question of so much vital importance as this—a eot e t n which involves the very existence of the social il l Pact —all minor considerations must give way, and labo e eon . sPiracy be broken up by a general cessation of 441 There is in d eed another way. In Glasgow, Greenock, and all the towns in the west of ' o d, there are h undreds, nay thousands, of workmen ke Loall s y uld be glad to ac c ept muc h l ower wages than are • tt ato • Paid in Li verpool. Their transit hither by the th„ Packet s could be easily and cheaply effected, and authorities c urse would give th em amp l e protect i on. T h i s, oul W ould, in the end, tell upon the poor rates—it . %,,,,Rl.ndi.rninish wages —it would drive the scum of the apo'l.l°l ations to their native parishes, or to break stories t° Putt-11! roads; but all this must he done and endured Ttl itra q t• Q end to the present machinations. In fact, the oh l R _ lo n of workmen has already commenced, not jop ttle ' tland, but from Liverpool. A score or two df Pneo masons left this town on Saturday last on 4 n wa Y to Durham where some public buildings are 11 0 4 erected, an d WI ; that ere they expect to find work. We tilothe masters and the authorities of Durham will o n : C are that n one of th t' t to the a n i on the men whom they employ b l It will be as well to ascertain wee th • - eY are elr any burthen to the parishes in the route of 41 t . 4 " a rch. If th masters - of Durham do not wish th e ti aepera.tives to bee contaminated by the principles of moricashire unions, theywill be on Pt ohab g the their guard against their men who offer thgm th e i r serv i ces , an d opinions. __........„,„„:„.„_ tirli„,_ 1 1 1 144t. 0 men do foolish things, and flounder through ex- 1) )1i„ "Is 6y way of excuse, in nine cases out of ten they tts,it; their position worse —like the fish—" out of the h!Jo h .. R.-pan into the fire." We made, on Friday last, ~,, ohs . ithervations on one of those singular exhibitions jq misled zeal will not unfreqnently bring to View, 1 4 4.1-1 exposition of the proceedings of a body call- It3 elf th 2 Agency An!i-Slacery Cumiaittee. Mr. BUXTON and Mr. CROPPER published letters, stating that this fatnous deliberative and would-be-coercive body consisted of two persons—Chairman and Deputy chairman we suppose—and the Secretary—three very useful persons at all - meetings. This rouses the ire of Mr. JOHN CRISP, who sends a long letter to the paper in which Mr. BUXTON'S and Mr. CROPPER'S letters ap peared; and with Mr. CRISP'S permission, we will make a slort extract from his letter : ‘ " In reference to the letters of Mr. B UXTON and Mr. CROPPER respecting the Agency Anti-Slavery Committee, I feel it my duty to inform you, that every memker of that committee was summoned, and though, strictly speaking, there were only three present who are really members of the committee, there was pre sent, in addition, one .gentleman who was formerly a member, and who, after a long absenCe, expressed his readiness again to unite with the committee, and who was, in consequence, pro posed and unanimously admitted yesterday, when the resolu tions and minutes of the last meeting were confirmed. ( Quere— by three yr more ?) There were also present three delegates from the country, and three other gentlemen who are active and zealous friends of the cause—making the number present ten. lam thus minute on this point, because Mr. BUXTON'S 0.,d Mr. CROPPER'S letters have been understood to convey the impression that there were only two gentlemen present." We are quite willing that Mr. JOHN CRISP and his friends should have the full benefit of numbers, as described in his letter; and we ask how much of the ridicule and con tempt with which their proceedings are calculated to cover them will be thereby removed ? That two men, or ten men, nob Ody knows who, should meet in an obscure house in the city of London and send forth their dicta and decrees to the people of England, ex cathedra, on questions in volving the safety of nearly one hundred and fifty million of property, and the welfare of a million of human beings —themselves, in all probability, in a state of as great ig norance of the real merits of any part of the question as the most ignorant of the negroes whose cause they affect to espouse—that these things should be, and should be tolerated, is rather more than can be consistent with what is due from one man to another in society; and with this brief exposure of an affair which would be fit only for the lightest ridicule, if it were not that the public has been somewhat bewildered by their meddling pomposity, we shall take our leave of these worthy, perhaps well-mean ing, certainly misled gentlemen of the Agency Anti slavery Committee, advising them to look after their own private concerns in future. The House of Commons, on Friday last, performed another of those legislative feats which are calculated to astonish the world and add to the immortal renown of the first reformed Parliament. They have, as all our readers know, already voted that a majority of that house, on any given question, is no decision on the merits of that question; or, in other words, that the house may revoke on Monday the vote which may have passed on the previous Friday, thus declaring that what is black on the former day is white as unsunned snow on the latter. They have, accordingly, by these extraordinary contra dictions, proved to the perfect satisfaction of their, con stituents, that if in that house there be not a vast assem blage of dunderheads, who hardly know their right hands from their left, there are at least a hundred or two ho nourable members who have no mind or will of their own —who, if not fools, are slaves, and who, if not devoid of understanding, are totally bereft of every claim to con sistency and independence. The affair of Friday, which justifies us in speaking of the representatives of the people in this complimentary manner, was that of the discussion on the Irish church robbery bill, on which occasion Mr. STANLEY, in the ab sence of Lord ALTHORP, withdrew from the bill the 147th clause, which appropriated certain surplus revenues to other than ecclesiastical purposes. The measure had been carried hitherto on the assumption that Parliament had a right to deal with church property according to its so vereign will and pleasure. Ministers had not only re cognised, but had repeatedly contended for this principle, to the infinite delight of the enemies of the church and the united host of destructives. These ratter had, for se veral weeks, been congratulating each other that they had .driven the revolutionary wedge into the very heart of the protestant oak that they had opened the centre door of the sacred edifice; that they had led the despoil ing mob to the footsteps of the altar, and that they had only to give the word plunder! and thereby finish the work of ruin and devastation. There can be no doubt that ministers encouraged these hopes of robbery and spoil. They, in fact, were the originators of them, for their bill was founded upon the iniquitous doctrine that bishops could be swamped, bishops', lands sold, and the revenues of the church alienated by a simple vote of the reformed House of Commons. It was with this antici pated havoc in. view that the Roman Catholic members of the house, the Unitarians, the infidels, and the Humes, consented to the , Passing of the Irish coercion bill. Their covenant with the ministers was, that they were to tole rate despotism on condition that ministers would sanction sacrilege and plunder. The Whitefeet were to be sup pressed and the Irish unions silenced; provided that a dash were made at the. church, and its revenues confiscated. These appear to have been the terms and objects of the convention betvveen his MAJESTY'S Ministers and the O'CONNELL and HUME factions, and which terms and ob jects, duly recorded and explained, the reformers of the House of Commons continued to sanction'up to a late hour on the evening of Friday last. At that hour, how ever, a change came over the spirit of young STANLEY'S dream. " Charge, Citester, charge !" rung in his ears like a fearful omen. Some terrible vision had scared the eyes of the venerable premier, and the whole cabinet was in a state , of unwonted alarm. At length it began.to be whispered that ministers were hemmed in by their own factious engagements, and so situated that they had no choice between abandoning the obnoxious and spoliating clause and surrendering their seats, and with them the charms of office—their salaries. They found that they must either give up O'CoNNELt and HUME or give up Downing-street, and, like honourable men and honest Whigs, they sacrificed the former. The 147th clause was accordingly expunged from the bill, and the power of Par liament to deal with the revenues of the church openly disclaimed. Ministers have, therefore, been compelled, however reluctantly, to repudiate their own doctrines, to break their engagements, to violate their pledges, to dis appoint and cheat their wretched dupes, and, what is of far more importance to them—to retain their places for a few months longer. And are we sorry for this ? By no manner of means. We rejoice to see that some awakening sense of justice, or some fear of ulterior consequences, has flashed over their minds at this the eleventh hour of the church's peril. - In the cause of right they have done a little wrong : for the sake of their country, they have thrown overboard the Irish lumber. At the same time it may not be con cealed that they have, placed the pliability of their sup porters in the House of CoMmons in a very contemptible light. By these flights of inconsistency and stupidity, and by aiming to do that which is impracticable, or which they are afraid to attempt, they exhibit the pledged repre sentatives of the people in this their reformed parliament in a position which would make a mendicant blush. The nation must now , si.e 'that thepresent is the most subser vient house of commons that ever assembled in St. Stephen's chapel. Every man of that majority which supported-Mr. STANLEI in his motion to expunge the clause had previously resolved "to sanction it. -Twenty- Tour hours before the hour of eight o'clock on Friday last, every man of them was prepared to vote in favour of the plunder clause, and a great majority of them did not know that it was in contemplation to withdraw it until the Colonial Secretary announced the fact. What then are we to think •of such a- house of commons ? What confidence'can be placed in representatives who seem absolutely deprived of the power of volition ?—who vote by a signal ?---=who are arithmeticians after the mannerof the learned pig ?—and pronounce this to be right and that wrong, or right wrong and wrong right, without a moment's reflection; and according to the fiat o f any mi nister of the crown? Degradation can go. no further than this; ,and _we therefore leave them to their consti tuents. A new election would be rare sport 1 . By the way; we should like to know how it came to be contrived that honest Lord ALTHORP was non est on this memorable occasion. He has hitherto conducted the bill through the committee, and yet its most important THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. clause is entrusted to the management of Mr. STANLEY, who seems to monopolize in his own person the offices of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Colonial Secretary, and Secretary for Ireland. Why was Mr. LYTTLETON not. charged with the duty more especially belonging to his office, and for the non-discharge of which he is in the receipt of a handsome salary ? Does be stand in awe of ,his friend Mr. O'CONNELL; or has he some qualms as to the propriety of rashly identifying himself with the pre sent measures ? These scruples bespeak a sensitive mind, which calculates chances, and has a presentiment of events. But the right honourable Secretary need be under no apprehension. The danger is more remote than it was a fortnight ago, and his coronet is secured. The present manoeuvre is quite in keeping with the po licy of the Whigs. The Minister who originates a bill is seldom permitted to carry it. Lord GODERICEI was removed in order to get rid of the precocious Lord HOWICK, and Mr. STANLEY was called in to complete what they in their wisdom, or rather in their ignorance, had commenced. For the same reason, perhaps, Lord ALTitonP gives way to his more impetuous colleague, and poor Mr. LYTTLETON is- told to stand by, like the dog in the play, and look on. Look on, .but be silent, Mr. LYTTLETON ! It is expected, and we hope the ,expectation will be realized, that Lord BROUGHAM'S bill for the establish ment of local courts will either be pulled to pieces or die a natural death in its transit through the Upper House. The people who use' the whip, as well as the people who are whipped and driven in the "march of in tellect," are passionately fond of pompous words, and like the Mandingo slaves, will endure any burthens, provided they are allowed to listen and dance occasionally to their native music. The pompous and delusive title of the LORD CHANCELLOR'S bill is music of this kind. It is called a bill to bring cheap justice to the poor man's door, and hence it is extolled by the nine hundred and ninety nine of the multitude, who know nothing at all about it, and who imagine it to be fraught with every blessing simply because it emanates from one of the most seduc tive and successful quacks of the present day. A greater delusion than this bill, or one calculated to do more harm, or become a greater nuisance to the mid dle classes of society, never was attempted to be palmed upon the public. By this bill all actions for debt where the claim does not exceed £2o—and all actions for da mages in which these are not laid higher than the above sum, are to be tried under this bill, in local courts, be fore six jurymen, and before Judges who are to receive fixed salaries out of the public revenue, or perhaps out of the poor rates. The decisions of these courts may be appealed from to the courts of Westminster under cer tain limitations, and if not permitted to be appealed from, the parties will be compelled to submit to whatever wrong may be inflicted. Now, supposing that these courts and their juries were qualified to administer impartial justice, and that the demi-judges who preside in them were as good lawyers as are to; 3 be ,found in Westminster-hall, which, by the way, is not likely to be the case, (for remember, reader, this, too, is a Whig job,) but, assuming all this for the sake of argument, still we contend that these courts would give rise to endless and vexatious litigation, in which neither party, the successful as well as the unsuc cessful litigant, would • consider they had obtained sub stantial justice. Heaven knows we have lawyers, trad ing lawyers, sharp and hungry lawyers, and swindling lawyers in abundance ; but, if this bill should ever pass into a law, we shall have a new and more numerous race of this worst species of the human shark. At present we have instances of rapacity daily committed by attorneys. Actions are hourly being commenced for no other earthly purpose than to pillage the public and put fees into the pockets of these persons. In three cases out of four the proceedings are instituted, not in the hope of recovering the plaintiff's debt, but securing the costs to the attorney. In our brief experience we have known. hundreds of in stances in which the lawyers' costs were the only costs sought to be recovered, under circumstances wherein no damages or any other costs could be recovered from the defendant. Look at HUNT'S case the other day, against a Liverpool and a . London newspaper. Forty shillings, or, in other words, nominal damages, were awarded by the jury; and forty. .shillings were far more than the full value which HUNT should have recovered; but, in de fending. the two cases, paying . the sharks' costs, the fees of court, &c. &c., it will take near two hundred and fifty pounds to defray the expenses incurred. HUNT gained nothing by the action—not even a morsel of reputation, for that to him would have been something—but, on the other hand, the honest attorney whom lie patronized gained his costs. If HUNT were blackened before, he certainly is not whitewashed now ; and, as for the de fendants, they are fleeced, while the attorney carries off the spoil, laughing in his sleeve. . - This we say is the present practice, and a monstrous practice it is, which if Lord BROUGHAM would reform he would do himself - immortal honour and the state an in valuable service. But the noble and learned lord is not a reformer of this class. Lord BROUGHAM'S law is writ ten in the books of JEREMY the Benthamite, and is totally inapplicable to the existing state of human :society. In fact, his bill is calculated to increase in a tenfold degree the evils he decries. He wishes to inundate England with cheap law and dishonest attorneys. He wishes to build a court in every town and hamlet, and locate a lawyer in every street, whose neighbours are to be his clients, and, of course, his victims. In,short, he desires to extend the trade of litigation, to encourage actions, to multiply writs, to make every trumpery debt, and every frivolous dispute, and every silly quarrel, and every loose word spoken in jest or earnest, the subject of a formal trial be fore six cobblers, or as many tinkers, or as many 'goat.: , herds, or cat skinners, and a grave judge who, questiOn less, will be some suckling barrister of the name of Grey,. Russell, Brougham, Harmer, Drinkwater, Lickspittle, or some such respectable name. This will never do, and we implore the lords to kick out the bill with all possible expedition. The noble and learned lord quotes Scotland as being a country where these local courts have been long estab lished—where they have worked well, and are highly prized by the people. This is another delusion. Every man who knows anything at all of Scotland, knows that the Sheriff and Town Courts, to which his lordship re fers, are an unbearable nuisance. It is they which have rendered the people of Scotland so litigious in their dealings, and so much addicted to cavilling in their settle ments. 'ln these courts the payment of a just debt may be resisted and parried off for almost any length of time, provided the defendant have the means of supplying the lawyer with the necessary costs. From the court of Sheriff Substitute there is an appeal to that of the Sheriff Depute, and from both to the Court of Session, and in three cases out of five these courts are resorted to in order to shuffle off a payment until a more convenient period shall arrive for committing an act of bankruptcy. The local courts of Scotland are consequently a nuisance in the worst sense of that word, as would be the local courts contem plated by the LORD CHANCELLOR, for the benefit 'of the purblind reformers of England. But they are a nuisance in another obnoxious way, as respects Scotland. They have called into existence those lawyers, proverbial fOr their sharpness,, and not very distinguished for their . morale, with which that country swarms to - an intolerable redundancy. Name a man with whom it is dangerous:in' reside in the same county nearer than ten miles, and you must name a Scotch attorney. There are many men of high reputation and undoubted honour amongst them ; but in general they are pettifoggers of the worst . class, who literally prey upon the poor. These men practise almost exclusively in . the local - courts, so unbound e dly praised by Lord BROUGHAM, which_ is a proof that his lordship either knows nothin g of the subject, or has. been imposed upon. From such courts Peers of England defend us 1. On Tuesday last, the members of the True Blue and Conser vative Club for the Western Division of the county of Glonces ter, dined together at the New Passage -Inn, Colonel Granne in the chair, supported by Dr. Cooke, Mr. Alderman Daniel, and Colonel Masters. The company was so numerousthat the room in which the meetings of the Club are usually held (wherein about 80 persons can assemble) was found Wholly inadequate to the necessary accommodation on thisoccasion, and many gen tlemen were theretbre obliged to content themselves with dining in another part of the house.---Fe/i.v Farlgy's Brs:.tol Journal. ~. ~+d:lt LONDOAr LA TES" YXWS. Saturday Evening, Half mast Seven o'clock, We stated the general report of some arrangement between the ministry and the Conservatives, with, respect to Irish church robbery measure, by which the" former preserved them selves from overthrow by moderating their nefarious plan.:". We are 'borne out in our general statement by the result of last night's proceedings in the House of Commons, where, it-will be seen, Mr. Stanley abandoned one of the-most atrocious of the clauses, (clause 147,) much to the dissatisfaction of Hume, - , O'Connell, and the destructive party. The Consol market has recovered from its extreme depres sion, and the quotation for the Account closed this afternoon at 90, 3 / 4 1 ; Exchequer Bills are flat at 49 to 50, and India Bonds firm at 30 to 32. We have had a general improvement in the northern bonds during this day. Belgian Stock left off at 91.11 : to 924; Dutch at 491 3 / 4 , and Russian at 104 3 / 4 105. Brazilian Stock has also been on the advance, the price being 681. In other, bonds there is nothing to notice. We have accounts from Mocha to the beginnino . of February. They state that the Mahommetlan army under Belmas, after taking Judda and other places and ports of the Red Sea, had attacked Mocha, and after a bombardment of fifteen days the place had surrendered. The bashaw had shewn great care of the foreign residents, but was about raising the duty on all foreign ships 7 per cent., which would Tut tsem on the same footing as that paid by the Arabs. The whole sea from Judda to Min was in possession of the bashaw Belmas, but the country was in a very unsettled state, and reports were current that the King of Sannah was raising a large force to endeavour to re take his dominions. Coffee was scarce, and the price high. We have late advices from Bermuda, which mention that the imports to that island, during the year 1832, amounted to £97,351 sterling, of which £15,219 were from the United States. The exports only amounted to £25,287, of which £2,882 were sent to the United States. The Ocean had arrived from Wales with a cargo of coals intended for the steam-ship Rhadamanthus, expected from 1 flgland. Another depot of coal was established at Madeira, as a supply on her way to Bermuda. We learn, by accounts from Nauplia, that the Prince Royal of Bavaria arrived at Porgos on a visit to his brother, and pro ceeded by land to Nauplia. Wishing to surprise King Otho, he proceeded in a private dress to the palace, and, entering the chamber of the young monarch, rushed forward and embraced him. The son of Miaulis, who was with his Majesty, imagining treason, drew his yatagan, and, but for the rapid interposition of the King, the frolic would have terminated tragically. We have a file of the Barbadian to the 16th May: The new governor-in-chief opened the session of the legislature on the ith. In his address upon that occasion his Excellency says, " I believe I may lead you to expect that some improvement is intended from home in the judicial system of this island. Judges bred to the practice of that law they have to administer, and exclusively devoted to its solemn duties, seem particularly ne cessary to a society composed as this is. I beg to congratulate the house that his Majesty's government has relieved the island from the burden of contributing to the governor's salary. Al though this arrangement may seem to place me in an invidious position, compared with former governors, who benefited largely by your imprudent generosity, as the means of affording a considerable degree of splendour, all which, with diminished means, must cease with me, still I sincerely rejoice in the measure, as an earnest of the King's government to relieve you, in every practicable way, from the pressure which weighs against your private fortunes and public resources. I thus early declare my opinion that all militia companies, wholly composed of free men of colour, or of free blacks, ought, in the first in stance, to be commanded by commissioned officers of their own caste. The surest way of securing the faith and loyalty of all subjects is by giving them an interest in the institutions of the country they belong to, and by removing every mark or excep tion tending to bind their energies or intelligence to a degraded or limited scene of action." LOCAL NEWS. On Monday, a youth of about twelve years of age, having by accident fallen from the Sheffield into the Prince's Dock, a young man of the name of Bond, son of Captain Bond of Lan caster seeing the accident, immediately sprung from the pier into the water and succeeded in bringing the youth in safety to the vessel's side. We feel great pleasure in giving publicity to this act of praiseworthy bravery. - - - - - - - LANCASTER ASSIZES.—The assizes are fixed for the 12th of August. The cause lists are arranged as follows :-1. Lonsdale, Amounderness, Blackburn, and Leyland Hundreds. 2. Salford Hundred. 3. West Derby, and places out of the county. Wit nesses in the first list are to be in attendance at the opening of the' court on Tuesday morning, the 13th, those in the second list at the opening on Thursday, and those in the third on Saturday morning. CURIOSITY PUISTISHED.—Last week one of the Leeds coaches to Manchester left a hamper of fish at a public-house on the road for a gentleman who lived at a short distance. The curi osity of the landlady was excited to see what kind of fish her rich neighbours had sent, and for that purpose she began to pull the straw on the hamper on one side, when a large lobster that was on the top laid fast hold of her finger with its claw, and in getting it away she lost her nail and finger end. She vows never to look into any person's basket in future. - - APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Before Lord Chief Justice Denman and Mr. Baron Bolland. York and Yorkshire, Saturday, July 13th; Durham, Saturday, July 27th; Newcastle and Northumberland, Wednesday, 31st; Cumberland, Saturday, August 3d; Westmoreland, Thursday, Bth; Lanca shire, Monday, 12th. ROBBERY.—The hat warehouse of Messrs. Ledward Brothers, No. 2, Covent-garden, was entered into on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning last, by the opening of the padlocks, with false keys,tand afterwards forcing the locks of one of the doors. Fortunately the robbers found - little cash, and left the hats, supposing them to be too bulky for removal. This is the second time robberies have been committed in Covent-garden, on Saturday or Sunday, within two months. DARING ROBBER tEs.-011 Friday night the house of Richard Houghton, Esq., Great Nelson-street North, corner of Great Homer-street, was entered from the garden. The robbers seem to have entered several rooms on the first and second floors, and carried off every article that was portable. The family was not disturbed, and the burglars escaped with their booty undetected. From appearances on the drawing-room door, it would seem that they had, used fire to force open the lock. On the same night the house of Mr. Isaac Harrison, in Roscommon-street, which is not far from Great Nelson-street North, was also entered, and the robbers, the same, perhaps, who entered Mr. Houghton's house, escaped without molestation. OLDIIA M ' silk weaving at Oldham, Middleton, and other neighbouring towns round Manchester; is still very brisk, but no advance has vet taken place, as was expected in the spring, but the weavers have all full work. The cotton weaving is also brisk, hut the wages are miserable. The cotton weaver in the above neighbourhood cannot carts more on an average than five shillings per week. The plain sarcenet weaver can earn from seven to nine shillings per week.—The hatters at Oldham have gone to work at the advanced prices. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The flannel market on Mon day was unusually well attended both by buyers and sellers; the finer qualities met a biisk sale, and middle 'and low qualities were readily sold up. at the advanced prices of last week, the manufacturers of inferior qualities have this week advanced two shillings in the pound, and have promised to advance two shil lings more if the market continues. There has not been a better prospect for the flannel trade during the last ten years. The weavers of finer goods expect an advance in the course of a few days. • THE DRAMA. On Friday " The Stranger" was produced at the Theatre- Royal. A more detestable play than this piece of German sentimentality is, we do not know; and, we suspect, has had its influence in creating some of the spurious sympathy of which we have already begun to feel the bad effects. Mrs. .Haller, the faithless wife, is clothed with all the attributes that make virtue lovely in our eyes; she is extolled as a paragon of excellence, and the closing scene leads to the inference that she is pardoned. by her injured husband. In private life this is perhaps the greatest crime that can be committed, and to the stern and rigid exclusion of offenders of this class from the home of their hus bands and fathers may be attributed the purity of our wives and daughters. This salutary dread renders them pure in word and in thought, and impresses upon them the necessity of not only being virtuous, but of appearing to be so. To hold up, then, to the young and thoughtless that this crime can, under any cir cumstances, be palliated Or forgiven, is bad; although in particu lar cases this may be done, publicly it should never be done. Vandenhoff and Miss HiLdart were the Stranger, and Mrs. Haller, and they supported their characters with great ability. " The Hunchback" was performed on Saturday. This, the best of all Sheridan Knowles's . productions, is too well known, and has been too often performed here, to require any comment from us. The only novelty was the Julia of Miss Huddart. The less we say about " Tom and Jerry," the afterpiece that fol lowed it, the better. Last night Power's new drama of " St. Patrick's Eve, or the Order of the Day," was got up here for the first time. The scene is laid in Prussia , and the incident is, we believe, founded :in fact. Frederick the Great, finding himself closely pressed by Count Daune, resolves on a midnight movement, to facilitate WhiCh he issues an order prohibiting the use of fire or light within the lines of his camp, on pain of death. Mayor Diwherig (Power) is first cajoled into striking a light by. his friend Gustavus Schonfeldt, (Cooke,) who has been wounded, and wishes to write a note to his mother, and to his mistress, to assure them of his safety. While the major is writing the note for him,' the king enters, and the major is, in consegnence, tried by a court martial and sentenced to be shot. From this fate he is rescued by the mistress of Schon feldt, the king conniving-at his escape, which gives the major an opportunity of saving the king from an ambush that had been laid four kidnapping him, from amidst his camp, to which his physician. was an accessory. The major is of course pardoned. This we think the best of Mr. Power's performances, and we never saw a better picture of the cool determined bra very of the soldier, indifferent to all personal consider ations, With whom life was nothing—honour every thing. Mr. Baker, as " the old Martial king, poet, and philosopher," was really excellent. His action in the scene where the feel ings °Me man -were in opposition to the duty of the sovereign, and in 'his reply to the entreaties of the ladies; when he tells them that a King must be just before he is merciful; that his first.dtity'Was to preserve the moral force of his army, without which he . .could not preserve discipline among his soldiers, or protect, his people,'was finely executed. The only prominent parts .or ; the piece are the King and the Major, but Miss Eyre, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Clarke did all that could be done with the parts'allotted to them. The 'Pit was nearly tilled, and the dress cirele presented an unusually gay appea:fance, runntrr is in circulation of a contemplated Congress to be held at Vienna. Sir Hobhouse is said to have still a hankering after the representation of Westminster; but u e suspect that the day of both the Baronets is gone by. There are at present suet' public Committees of the House of. Commons sitting :—Ou Land Revenues, Dramatic PerforM- Knees, Admiralty Courts, British Channel Fisheries, Army and Navy AppOintmeuts, Derry-bridge, and Stafford Bbrough. Horse-stealing was seldom, if ever, more prevalent than at present, not being confined to any particular district, but ex tending more or less over every part of the kingdom.—Edin burgh .ldvertiaer. WHERE SHALL I DINE P—This question, which forms the title of an amusing farce, must soon be asked by war eracious sovereign'of his present ministers, if their organs of the preis are to he relied upon. The chief of these has actually had the inconceivable stupidity to bestow half a column of solemn trilling upon the astounding fact of the King having been, us he has . frt!uently been before, the guest of hero of Waterloo on thb anniversary of that memorable day. From, this Waterloo dinner the most fearful forebodings are drawn ; till at length the writer 'checks himself, and recovers from his fitful dream, b announcing that on such a day his Majesty dines with Lord Holland ! We shall probably next be told, though his Majesty, it is well known,. is .no gourmand, that the fate of the ministry depends upon the merits of the respective dinners.—Murniny Harald. e take the following from one of our contemporaries ,of yesterday : " ost of OUT readers have, perhaps, heard that a meeting of 'the Liverpool etergy was held a few days since, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Lords against the Irish Church Re form Bill. But many' of them, perhaps, hive not heard that, on the 18th instant, (the day on which the annual sermon for the Charity Schools was preached,) the Mayor had a party of upwards of forty of the clergy to dinner. Now what, it May be said, had the dinner and the petition to do with oue another? Stop a moment and we will tell you a curious little anecdote connected therewith, which has been whispered about until it has reached our ears, and which will tend to show the unceasing .activity of your wily old Tory. It is to be observed, that at this said dinner were many of the clergy who had not attended the meeting where the petition was agreed upon. Well, as they each- and severally entered the Town-hali, there stood in the vestibule a person with pen, ink, and parchment, on a little table before him, calling upon them to sign the petition against the ministerial mea s u re . A n d we d o h a ppe n ourse l ves t o know one clergyman who had not attended the previous meeting, and who could not conscientiously si g n it when required, who felt extremely uncomfortable during the whole of the .day, at the idea of partaking of the Mayor's hospitality after relasing to sign, what - he -.conceived to be, his petition as displayed in. his mansion." The author of this piece of stupid balderdash we know well, and we grieve to add that he is a clergyman of the Church of England, who is ambitions of rivalling the Rev. Doctor Wade. We know too that he is much em ployed as the purveyor of scandal to the radical press of this town, and we put it to the reverend gentleman, in all seriousness, whether lie would not be better employed in preaching the gospel and in soothing the distresses of the poor and needy than in this species of panderism. Our last Tuesday's namber contained a short account of the petition to which this article refers, the chief feature of which is a respectful protest against the precedent of ap plying church property to any butchurch objects. Should the contemplated spoliation of the church be carried into effect, to what city of refuge will the reverend gentleman fly ? Will he seek shelter in France ? Will America foster him ? Has he read the history of the French revo lution ? The hospitalities of the Town-hall had no refer ence whatever to the petition, and if the clergyman al luded to "felt extremely uncomfortable," that discomfort must have arisen from feeling that he was in better com pany than he is wont to keep. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STiI2VDIRD. SlR,—While the anxiety of the country is daily becoming more intense from the contemplation of the approaching crisis, the hopes of the constitutionalists are raised by anticipation, while the fears of the parties in power are producing such a nervous state of excitement on their various systems as to make them almost frantic. The bare idea that the administration is about to be dissolved, and that the Gray goose, with all the little goslings too are about to b e d r i ven from their pens, is to the Whigs insupportable. That the labour of the first reformed Parliament is about to cease, and that its services are about to be dispensed with, must be to many of its honorable members intolerable : that the days of good government. are about to dawn again on this once happy country, and that constitutional freedom may, by a possibility, be preserved to those who hold the excellent and venerable institutions of their country dear, must be to the radicals most horrible ! But, when we look at the signs of the times, and at the scroll, or scrawl, of the Times, and coupling the fact of its ,being the organ of the present Go vernment and with our eyes fixed on the means resorted to by this same Government to pass a measure to secure themselves in place, who is there with the welfare of his country at heart can regard, without apprehension, the coming contest ? So long as the House of Commons was purely Protestant, and only co-equal with the upper house of Parliament, the united Parliament acted as a check on the extreme opinions of the various political and religious creeds, at the same time tole rating and protecting all who entertained them, and secured to England that great barrier to religious anarchy—its national church and its political institutions; but, by opening the Com mons house to all, it has endangered both, and has converted it into a debating club for all creeds and professions, and for all manner of men,—it consequently becomes factious. It is evi dent that, in some future day; there will be in the Commons a coalition of parties, the object of which will be to have the bishops ejected from the House of Lords, and, on the ex clusion of the bishops, to separate the church from the state. O'Connell, too, or his party, will attempt, by every means in his power, to have a Government in Ireland independent of England, and, by fomenting discord here, may gain his object there; while those entertaining peculiar creeds, and who, from religions principle, are opposed to ranks and dignities, conjoined to others favourable to a republican form .of Government, will attempt to have extinguished both lords and king. The re formed Parliament cannot, therefore, be considered in any other light than as the germ of a new form of Government, which is to branch out on an immediate or future day, and which, as the lamented Mr. Canning said, "may take the place of the British constitution, but the British constitution will be no more." Probably, in these days of self-sufficiency, it may be considered presumptuous to point out the historian's opinion of the fall of Carthage. " So long as that great maritime power allowed itself to be governed by the senate it was powerful and happy; but when the people, grown insolent by their wealth and conquests, and forgetting thatthey owed those blessings to the prudent conduct of the senate, were desirous of having a share in the government, they arrogated to themselves almost the whole power. From that time the public affairs were transacted wholly by cabals and factions.' That the people of this country, forgetful of the blessings enjoyed under their boasted constitution, the envy of the world,—are arrogating to themselves the sole power, is be yond question :—hence, why the . political unions ?—why the exaction of pledges ?—why the principles of insubordination afloat and encouraged,'as evinced by the trades' unions?—why are the people impressed with a contempt for the national re ligion ?—and why talk of ejecting the bishops, and of swamping the second branch of the legislature? Why ? but that the mo-., narchy maybe destroyed, and that a pledged Parliament may act alone. And is it, for a moment, to be expected, that the "brave peers of England and pillars of the state," foreseeing the flood that is setting in upon them and their country, and which threatens the existence of the constitution and the happiness of the people, should iamely surrender their right of private and public judgment, and their sense of public duty, to such men as the high-principled Cobbett—the doughty Gulley—the restless O'Connell—the pledge-giving and pledge-lareaking Brougham, or the pawning gentleman ; that they must tamely submit to the gradual sacrifice of the established religion and the con fiscation of its revenue ; to be sacrificed merely to sooth the virulence of party, and to render palateable oppressive measures, made necessary by misgovernment. If the peers of England have great privileges and constitutional rights, they also know that they have corresponding ditties to per form ; and, their house being the intermediate branch of the legislature, it is bound to protect the legitimate prerogative of the King and the constitutional liberty of the people. Is it to be presumed then, that the House of Peers being invested with such rights will neglect its duty? Much sooner would the ve nerable Eldon place his irrey head upon the block, and much s ooner would the he ro ofWaterloo have his laurels trampled in the dust. And if the peers of England have rights to uphold and duties to perform, so have all men in the nation; and so long as we have the protection and the blessings of the British con stitution, it is our duty to exert every nerve in its support; and should, therefore, our most gracious Sovereign deem it advis able, by and by, to dissolve the Commons, it is our duty to do our utmost to have men of intelligence, respectability and worth elected —men who, knowing the value of our civil and religious institutions, widdo their utmost to have them preserved to us and to our latest posterity.—Yours, &c., I. M. EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKE IN THE RECORDER'S WARRANT. In the Recorder's last report of the prisoners under sentence of death to his Majesty's Privy Council, the name of Job Cox, convicted of stealing 1;5 out of a letter, appeared; and in the account given in the public papers it was asserted that all the prisoners, with the exception of that man, were respited during pleasure, and that he was ordered for execution on Tuesday. It is true that the report was made, and that the Recorder sent down his warrant to Newgate for the execution of Job Cox; but it is as true that his Majesty's Priiy Council never sanctioned that order for carrying into effect the extreme penalty of the law, for they had respited every man whose case had been laid before them by the City law officer. How so strange and dangerous a mistake could have been made will, no doubt, be matter of future inquiry. We have been at some pains to collect the following particu lars of the case. Of the correctness of the substance of the account there is not the slightest question, and we believe we can vouch for the accuracy of the detail. On Wednesday morning Sir Thomas Denman, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, on casting his eyes over a news paper, saw the paragraph representing the fact that Job Cox was ordered for execution on Tuesday. He considered it to be one of those errors which are sometimes made by the " flying reporters" of the press, who jumble facts and falsehoods together in the hurry of collecting news, and soon afterwards his lordship adverted to the circumstance in the presence of one of the Under Sheriffs as of a very mischievous nature. The Under Sheriff, in some surprise, observed to his lordship that the paragraph was correct,that theße corder's warrant had been received on Wednesday evening at half-past six o'clock at Newgate- that the intelligence had been communicated to the culprit, and that notices had been sent to the Sheriffs and the other officials. "What!" said Sir Thomas Denman, " Cox ordered for execution ! Impossible. I was myself one of the Privy Council present when the report was made, and I know that uo warrant for the execution of any one was ordered. Cox was ordered to be placed in solitary confine ment, and to be kept to hard labour previously to his being transported for life, to which penalty the judgment to die was commuted." The Under Sheriff repeated the extraordinary in formation to his Lordship, who instantly requested that he would forthwith apply at the Se-retary of State's office, where he would be reassured of the fact, and receive an order in contravention of the learned Recorder's warrant. It is needless to say that the Under Sheriff, who was very glad to be the bearer of such good tidings to a poor unhappy fellow-creature, very spee dily exe cuted his mission. He found that the correction of Sir Thomas Denman was accurate according to Mr.Capper's book, in wh i c h his allotted punishment was regularly entered, a nd Lord Mel bourne, immediately upon being informed of the mistake under which they laboured at Netvgate, sent thither an authority to . countermand the warrant, with the black seal, signed "New man Kuowlys." Cox had just '22 hours previously been told in the usual solemn way to prepare for death,,.and as he had ca 1..... ciliated largely and correctly upon the merciful character of the administration, he received the awful news as if he had been struck to the earth with lightning. We are given to understand that the learned Recorder was, up to a late hour on Thursday night, "of the same opinion still.", • Nobody doubts that the firm Impression upon his mind was, that Cox was ordered by the Privy Council fur execution, but every one who has heard of the circumstance is astonished at the strange and serious nature of the mistake. It will be remembered that, some time ago, a great noise was made, and ' very properly made, at the learned Recorder's delay at Wind sor, with a report in his pocket, a whole ni g ht, during which the condition of several wretches under sentence of death was by no means enviable. Upon that occasion Mr. Haines, the Common Councilman, gave notice of q motion iu the Court of Common Council on the subject of so culpable a neglect, but he never thought proper to persevere iu his intention. The public are not, perhaps, aware of the exact nature of ft Recorder's report.. It does not consist of a transcript of the short-hand writer's notes of each particular case, but is merely the condensed account of each case, made by the Recorder bin' . i self, from th e sh or t-h a nd wr it er ' s no tes. It s, of course, liable to some objections, which cannot start up on an examination of the complete evidence 'contained in the account of which it is the more abstract.-4undon Paper.. At a meeting of Radicals held last Monday on Nottingham forest, resolutions were adopted strongly condemnatory of the conduct of Ministers, and a petition to the Ling was agreed to, praying his Majesty to dismiss them from his councils,- FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. HOLLAND SITTING OF THE TWO Cain-ERRS OF THE STATES GENERAL UNITED. HAGUE, June 17.—At one o'clock the President of the first chamber having read a Royal Message, directing the Minister of the Interior to close the session, a committee was appointed to receive his Excellency, who having been introduced with the accustomed formalities, took his seat at a table before the throne, and spoke as follows :-- "Noble and Mighty Lords—During the present session, which I am commanded to close, our commerce and navigation have been attacked; superior forces have attacked the citadel of Antwerp, where our soldiers and seamen have heroically maintained the glory of Holland, and seated their fidelity with the blood of a great number of brave men. " Your co-operation has aided the government calmly to wea ther their new storms. A loan, ordered by the law, has been realized by the patriotism of the nation. Our own resources have again sufficed to ensure the defence of our territory, our honour, and our independence. The law on the landsturm (or levy en nuzsse ) would, in case of need, have rendered this defence still more formidable. " Public credit has been confirmed; the laws on the budget, and other financial laws, have contributed to consolidate it. "In the midst of these labours, and notwithstanding the criti cal situation in which the country was placed, the legislature has not last sight of the importance o f p ossess i ng a co d e of n,t tional laws. This. great work has , been prosecuted with zeal, but at.the same time with the necessary prudence, and advances to its completion, " The treaty communicated by his Majesty has put an end to the acts of violence exercised towards the country. It brings home our ships with their cargoes, and has r e st ore d t o the country and the King the brave defenders of the citadel of An twerp. • "In this manner there are again hopes of a final airange ment of the Belgian question, which has been so long a subject of uneasiness to the Netherlands and to a great part of Europe. "The King desires that this final arrangement may take place as soon as possible, and while_all credits will be made to attain this object compatibly with the honour and interest of Holland, the new credits granted for the extraordinary ex penses of the war and naval departments during the next four months, will be used with all practicable economy. lam in structed to report to you this assurance. I declare, in the name of the King, the present ordinary session of the States General to be closed." His. Excellency then wiihdrew, accompanied by the Commis sion, and the assembly broke up. FASHION, FACTS, AND FICTIONS. On Wednesday the King held a Levee, at which the presenta tions were very numerous. The Queen, accompanied by a nu merous suite, went to the Fancy Fair, in Hanover-square. Her Majesty and suite went in three carriages. The IJuke of Wellington received her Majesty at the rooms. The Queen returned to the Palace about five. - - On Thursday her Majesty held a Drawing-room at the Palace at St. James's, which was very numerously attended. Car riages, filled with company, arrived at the Palace before the gates were opened, and were setting down for two hours. The weather being propitious, numbers were collected at the avenues to the Palace. The band of the Life Guards performed pieces in the course of the afternoon, alternately with the band of the Foot Guards. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland came in state in three carriages, accompanied by Prince Alexander, and Prince Charles of Salms, and attended by Lady Sophia Lennox, Baron Linsingen, and Sir John Slade. • The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Princes Alexander and Ernest of Wurtemberg, and his Serene • Highness the Prince of Leiningen, came in state, escorted by a party of Life Guards, and attended by Lady Char lotte St. Maur, Sir John Conroy, and Sir George - Anson. Her Royal Highness entered the palace by the Standard Court-yard, and was received with the usual honours. Their Majesties entered the State Rooms about two o'clock; the Queen received the company in the Throne Room. In her Majesty's suite were— The Duchess Dowager of Leeds (Mistress of the Robes), the Marchioness of Ely (Lady in Waiting), the Marchioness Wellesley, the Marchioness of Westmeath, and Countess Brownlow (Ladies), Miss Eden (Maid of Honour in Waiting), Miss Hope Johnstone, Miss Bagot, and Miss Mitchell (Maids of Honour), Lady Caroline Wood, and Lady Isabella Wemyss, the Eail of Denbigh (Lord Chamberlain), the Earl of Erroll (Master of the Horse), Hon. Mr. Ashley (Vice-Chamberlain), General Macdonnell and Captain Pechell. R.N. (Equerries), Mr. Hudson (Gentleman Usher), and the Page of Honour. The presentations were very numerous, the dresses extremely splendid, and the Court excessively crowded. This was the last Drawing-room of the season. In the evening the King went to dine with Lord Holland, upon which occasion he was attended by Sir Herbert Taylor! Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the P - rincess Victoria proceed almost immediately to Norris, in the Isle of Wight. SEVEN PARISHES WITHOUT A CLERGYMAN !—We believe there are few of our readers would credit the bare assertion that seven parishes could be found in this neighbourhood " deprived of the advantage of a legally resident clergyman," in some of which, when an interment has to take place, the afflicted rela tives have to scamper the country round in search of an admi nistrator of the " last consolations" bestowed on this side the grave. Such, however, is really . the case, and a petition, signed by the churchwardens of the parishes, was transmitted last week for presentation to the House of Commons. These parishes embrace a great portion of the district between Sheffield, Rotherham, and Worksop.—S4fiSeld Iris. WHAT'S IN A NAME ?—A new paper, entitled the Hickory Nut, and Upson Vigil, with the motto, " Crack it who may, it will be discovered sound to the kernel," has made its appear ance at Thomaston, Georgia. It avows an adherence to a strict construction of the constitution, and its determination to sup port the present administration so long as its practical republi canism shall continue to stand, as now, steadily and gloriously prominent.—New York paper. " Why was Adam like summer?" asked Reeve, of Peter Robertson. " Because (answered the latter) he had a 'glowing Eve!'" Reeve called for grog and cigars.—Aye. EFFECT OF TERROR.--1 few days ago a female child, about three years of age, while amusing herself in Buchanan -street, came in contact with a horse and cart, and was overturned, but without sustaining the slightest perceptible injury externally. In a few moments, however, she expired fioni the mere fear, as it would seem, which the concussion excited; and was carried back to her mother, whose side she had left only three minutes before, a corpse. On examination, the circulation was disco vered to have been totally deranged by the shock.—GLayow Herald. THE KING AND THE NEW POLICE.—" On Tuesday evening, when his Majesty dined with the Duke of Wellington, in honour of the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, on the cloth being removed, preparatory to the health of his grace being drunk, his Majesty, addressing the Duke, said, Welling ton, have you no other person in the house that fought at 'Waterloo?' The Duke answered . his s overe i gn i n th e nega ti ve , upon which the King i,an , e Oh yes, there are, for I saw two policemen in the Waterl oo m e d a l s , l e t th em b e replied, Oh called in and join in drinking your health.' The commands of the King were instantly obeyed, and Mr. Superintendent May, of the A division of police, and Mr. Inspector Adamson, of the same division, were introduced and had the honour of drinking the Duke of Wellington's health in the presence of his Majesty." POST-OFF ICE REGULATION.—A considerable sensation has been created in the metropolis in consequence of a general seizure of coach-parcels, which were ultimately found to con tain letters, contrary to the Post-office regulations, and by in formations having been pressed against the offending parties. As the Bristol mail was about to leave London, all the parcels were taken out of the coach by the officers of the Post-office, and we understand that one firm in Bristol has been subse quently served with no less than six Exchequer writs.—This is all extremely fine and very vigilant, and there can be no doubt that the offenders are guilty of great meanness, to call it by no more criminal name; but we are, nevertheless, entirely at a loss to understand by what law the parcels in question were opened. We must not be told of a Post-office regulation. The Duke of Bichmond must find some other ground fur so tyran nical an act as the breaking open of mercantile parcels, which are, by law, permitted each to contain a letter of advice, which may contain communications of the most important and coqfi dential nature. His Grace may borrow hints front the French Post-office, and enter into treaties with the French mail-con tractors, but we must have no breaking often parcels, if his Grace pleases. We know the liberality of NA hig Governments : but this system of asyionage Englishmen will not peaceably en dure. The time to have made the search was when the parcels were brought to the office to be booked; then the bearer should have been secured, and the officer have proceeded to the sent:er of the parcel, and demanded that it should be opened by him, in the of f icer's presence. This might have been legal, under the suspicion alleged to exist: what has happened will most certainly not be suffered to rest where it is. Several persons have expressed their surprise that the Duke of Hesse Darmstadt should be induced to spare his "Brass Band" for a whole season in order that they may exhibit pub licly in England. To us this seems nothing extraordinary; our King, like the Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, has at present a "Brass Band"—they perform in Downing-street and in the two Houses of Parliament every day—Sundays not excepteo. Like the Duke's musicians, their performances are remark able rather for noise than harmony, and we have no doubt, it' his Majesty could induce them to go, he would be just as ready to get rid of them, as the Duke of Hesse Darmstadt. • The poise these bands make leads us to believe that they regulate their blunders, and endeavour to conceal their ignorance, by an ex traordinary exertion of lungs, under one of Hoyle's rules for bad whist-players—" Whenever yon are in doubt, trump it." FETE AT C A RNOCK }loss.—At Caruock House, on Monday, younger amiablet r ei and th, accomplished eldest the 10th instant, the marriage of Captain William Maxwell, with ng ther f late of the 14th Dragoons, hiss Nora S Sir William MhaaxivweSltie Bart. , wart, daughter of the late Sir M. Shaw Stewart, of Ardgowan, Greenock, and Blackball, Baronet,-was • celebrated with every demonstration of joy, good-will, and har mony that so happy, so equitable, and so promising a union so • naturally inspired; both parties being mutually allied to the most honourable ancestry, and to the most distinguished nobility that our country at present can possibly boast of. At the prin- • cipal approach to the mansion-house was erected a grand tri umphal arch, decorated with evergreens, and sin mounted with garlands of. flowers, for the happy pair and their highly respect able company t o p ass un d er . PI he large family flay was hoisted from the barnsau of the mansioti=house ; another thigwas seen • floating from the top of the rnintoof Bruce•Castie,. which stands on the estate, a lasting memorial of Scottish incleperefee s , ; another plantecLon thelawn. behind a 12-pounder carcinaffe, t o • • announce •aloud the bridegroom's arrival,. end to mark the pro- • gress of the union ceremonies,, while various 'other - flags weie .- seen'studded - iii other conspicuous placesornd the'whole scene was enlivened by the attendance of an -excellent band of music from Bannockburn, all beautifully dressed in ex,i't uniform of the Stewart's tartan and bonnet, &c. The company began. to assemble about six o'clock, p. tn., and the bridegroom - from, Pot- • maise about seven , when a loud rebound of cannon announced his arrival,—arousingthe shonbering, echoes, which reveiherattot from the surrounding woods and rocks with an iMposing effect, and served as a grand symphouy at the intervals of the music band. The nuptial ceremony was performed by the Rev. Greig, of SL Nmian's, and about half-past seven o'clock the conclusion was again announced by the roar of cannon, which was repeated with many cheers by the assembled multitude out of doors; immediately after which the united and inlppy couple were seen to mouut Weir splendid carriage, drawn by foto- hana some and well-matched greys, beautifully caparisoned for the occasion, as also th e postiliiuns, iu their new liveries, who drove off, in flue style, with their joyful charge, for Craigforth House, near Stirling. At this time the air seemed to reed with reite rated cheering front the company and assembled multitudes, that even seented.to vie with and drown the hoatse rebound of , - the cannon. In a short time they were int of sight, but sinxi; ously followed by the most hearty good Wishes for their future welfare by every one present, who also seemed to regret that , those. whom they so heartily respected were now long to leave them. After which the company retired to the mausion-house, and spent the evening with the greatest festivity and harmony ' till a late hour, enjoying the full effects of that good old Scottish hospitality, under the roof of Dowager Lady Shaw Stee.art, for which her ladyship is so truly distinguished.