The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-15 00:00:00

Ir RT FLETCHER, ROSCOE, ROBE S, AND CO.'S BANKRUPT . rr HE ADJOURNED MEET G f:A. the EXAMINA .I TION of the BANKRUPTS in this BANKRUPTCY; will take place 'FO-monnow . , (Saturday,) at the GEORGE INN, Dale -street, at Ten o'clock. IMPORTANT TO PRINTERS. HALF THE SIZE OF THE COLUMBIAN PRESS, DOUBLE ITS SPEED, AND MORM THAN DOUBLE ITS POWER, WITTI ONLY ONE ni V TO WORK IT! KITCHEN'S PATENT SELF-INKING PRESS, pos sealing the above Requisites and Qualifications, may he saen at Work by Master Printers and oth'r Gentlemen in terested in the Improvement of the Arts, at the Office of the Newcastle Journal. I Solid Forms are worked at th if-Inking Press without ae Overlay. The Presses will be constructs at the cele7.ratel Works of Messrs. 11. and W. Hawthorn, Civil Engineers, Newcastle,' those Gentlemen having kindly afforded most valuable assist ance in what may be termed the Architecture of.the Machine, including the calculations for the dimensions and proportions of its several parts, and a symmetrical arrangement of the whole upon unerring scientific and philosophical principles, so that the Trade may rety upon the strength and truth of each Press; whilst it is confidently asserted that in beauty of appear , ance the Self-Inking Press is not excelled, or even equalled, by any hitherto known. Many Orders are now in course of exe cution, not only for Offices in England, Ireland, and Scotland, hut in the United States. Those of the Trade who have already had an opportunity of judging, have expressed their delight and astonishment at the beauty, effectiveness, and general utility of this invention, it. being . alike applicable to every description of Printing, and by its price placed within. the reach of every res pectable Master. The Self-Inking Press is peculiarly adapted for Book-work. Correct register is obtained with less than ordinary trouble. Testimonials from experienced Master Printers and Over seers, who have seen the Machine at work, will be published shortly. EXTRACT FROM THE INVENTOR'S CIRCULAR. 'Every experiment has been tried that practical experience could suggest, with a view to ascertain the capabilities and powers of the Press. The Machine already completed by the Messrs. Hawthorn is calculated for a super-roval sheet, and the form generally used was a broadside of solid small type. — The result of these several trials has more than answered the most sanguine expectations, and fully proved that my calcula tions had been considerably underrated. In the following de scription I have been equally careful to avoid exaggeration. The experiments were directed to ascertain-Ist, The power of the Press; 2dly, Its speed; and, 3dlv, Its general applicabi lity to all descriptions of work. FIRST,_ AS TO POWER. The power of the Self-Inking Press ,is, upon the most mode rate calculation, double that of the Columbian. It is certain that, if the connecting-rod and cheek-pins were adjusted (which can be done readily and with ease) so as to give the leverages full play and the power of a strong man applied, the most massive iron-frame ever made for a printing-press would be easily snapped asunder. SECONDLY, AS TO SPEED. The result, as to speed, enables me to affirm, as a general rule, that one man will, (with the improvements we contempl a te in the Machines now in progress,) be enabled to accomplish double the work that two men can now perform at the Colum bian; in other words, that one man will throw off as many im z.revilons as Jim,- men can now complete at two presses. Of course, it would be difficult to lay down an exact rule as to the pre c i se number of impressions per hour, because much will depend upon the activity and dexterity of the workman. I will take, however, as a criterion, a man who is tolerably active at his business, and suppose he can pull at the common press, with a companion to roll for him, 250 impressions per hour of a book form—the same man would, at the Self-Inking Press, without assistance, print upwards of 500 per hour. If a light form, he would throw a6OO impressions per hour; and of a large news form, one man would certainly, with a fly-boy, print with ease an impression of 1500 copies in three hours. I may as well remark that the Self-Inking Press will fall short of the Napier Machine as to rapidity. But here the compari son ends. The Napier Machine requires three ,persons to at tend it : the Self-Inking Press only one. The Napier Machine is not applicable to a tithe of the work required to be performed in a respectable office: but it is perfectly immaterial whether a heavy broadside or a light circular be laid on the Kitchen Press, as a proof o f whi c h I ma y add, we are now wor ki ng ev er ythi ng at it that' comes to the Journal printing-office. With .the Na pier Machine so much time is lost in "making ready" for a short number, that its speed when in operation does not compen sate for the delay ; lust at the Self-Inking Press, forms of all descriptions are got to work much sooner than with the Colum bian or any other known invention. The Napier Machine (and every other where the cylinder is used) injures the types: but the Self-Inking Press is not liable to this objection. The Price of the Napier Machine has hitherto been £500; the largest Self- Inking Press, is little more than one-fourth of that sum, and the smaller one only about one-fifth. -- And, after all, even as to speed, it is respectfully snbmitbd that 5tX) ina?ressions per hour is sufficient-for any - provincial newspaper. THIRDLY, AS TO GENERAL UTILITY. From the peculiar principle and arrangement of the Self- Inking Press, very little time will be lost in working a very email form at a very large machine. The consequence is that it will not he requisite, as at present, to keep a news-press idle through the week ; on the contrary, a machine of the largest magnitude will be applicable to every description of job, from a double-royal posting bill to a small card, It is intended that only three sizes shall be made, viz., Super Royal, Double Deftly, and the large News Press. Prices, and any other particulars, may be known on applica tion, by letter or otherwise, to Mr. KiTcutx, at the Journal Office. The Self-Inking Press is only one of a Series of Inventions, completed by Mr. Kitchen, for improving the profession. A Portable Galley- Press, possessing extraordinary advantages, and an improved Imposing Stone, will be speedily offered to the Public. Arrangements are also in progess to supply the Trade with planed Iron Imposing Surfaces, and Roller Moulds and Inking _rabies, for common Presses, as well as several other Articles used in the business, all of an improved Construction, and at moderate Prices. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oet., 28, 1833. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE—FRIDAY, Two O'CLOCK. We have a fair supply of Wheat in since Tuesday from Ireland, but very little coastwise. Of all other articles the arrivals are moderate. The local millers having bought sparingly of Wheat to-day, the transactions have been limited chiefly to a few country orders, at. our last quoted prices ; a few parcels have also changed hands, on speculation, within these few days. The distillers have taken a tolerable quantity of Irish Barley, but English has gone of slowly for malting, and holders are now inclined to take less prices, although the quantity at band is small. Some very superior Oats have brought a small im provement, but there is little demand for secondary qua lities. Beans, Pease, and Malt nominally unaltered. We experienced scarcely any inquiry for Flour and Oatmeal. REPORTED ARRIVALS, From the , 12th to the 14th NOVEMBER, inclusive. nut- COAST PO- BRITISL DILSCRIPTION S. LaN D. WISE. REIGN AMER. TOTAL. WHEAT Qrsl 5,386 110 450 5.9-16 BARLEY . . Qrs 514 1,503 2,022 OATS Qrs 3,388 60 3,4-18 FLOUR Sacks 2,108 2,108 Da BEAN.. Ctrl OATMEAL Loads 955 953 MALT Qrs 125 125 BEANS Qrs 110 900 1,030 PE As . . . Qrs BYE Suzr.l.En BARLEY CW I RAPESEED Barrels INDIAN CORN Qra COTTON MARKET—FatoAY, Two O'CLOCK. • There is a fair demand this morning, and holders ge nerally being disposed to meet buyers, they are able to purchase on similar terms to those of Friday last. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. 'Wind, South-east—Fair. ARRIVED. Tntrinsie, *Bolton, fronfltahia, sailed 2.1 ult. Tagus, Wade, from Lis!iun, 2d or 3d instant. Monongahela, Brown, from Philadelphia. Marshal Blucher, —, from Denia. The Parker. Itesgin, from Demerara, was off Holyhead yesterday at now:. MELTON.—Hunting has commenced in earnest, notwith standin,, the loss occasioned by the deaths of Lord Plymouth and Sir H. Goodricke. Last year there were 480 horses at the different stables; the number is smaller this season, but it is still very large ; Mr. Errington has 20, and his brother. Mr. Massey Stanley, 18. A new club of five member has been formed. consisting of Lords Gardner and Rokeby, Sir P. John stone, Mr. Ginn - tore, and Count Matuszewic; they have taken the house opposite the George (formerly occupied by L or d Alvanley) for seven years, and made extensive alterations and improvements. Lord Macdonald and Mr. Maxwell have taken Lord Kinnaird's old house. On Wednesday week the show of " scarlet" included Count Matuszewic, Lords Wilton, Gardner, Rokeby, &c. UNEXPECTED TRIP TO TOE EMERALD ISLE.—A TRUE STORY. —Early in the last month, the " better half" of a far mer, residing not a hundred miles from Wickar, in Glouces tershire, left home with her two blooming daughters for the purpose of taking a " peep at the ranee shows" at Bristol fair, and of making sundry purchases. In consequence, how ever, of the party not returning for several days, considerable alarm was excited; and the disconsolate husband, accompanied by the favoured swains of the damsels, went to Bristol in search of their lost friends. On arriving there ' they could only find the vehicle in which all the y held - dear had taken their departure, and the horse quietly feeding in the stable of the inn. After a long and fruitless search, they came to the con clusion that the whole party had fallen in an evil hour, into the hands of ruffians, by whom they had been cruelly put to de a th. With this conviction strongly impressed on their minds, the father and the lovers retraced their steps to their homes, to console themselves as well as they could upon their supposed loss. In a day or two, however, the " murder" was out—the mystery solved. A letter, beating the Cork post mark, was received by the husband, informing him that the wife and daughters had gone to the Hotwells, from whence one of the Irish steamers was just about to sail; that they asked to be taken on board for," a little way;" but that the sailors, either liking their conipany too well to part with them, or Argettinii to land them at a convenient distance from the place of their embarkation, had tiiken them all the way to Cork—where they then were; and their funds being exhausted, they were under the necessity of writing for a remittance in order to-defray their passage home: The needful was of course sent , and in due time the whole partY were joyfully welcomed back to Wickar. As nii,ght he expected, the adventure has been the source c f much amtisement throughout the neighbourhood in which the parties reside,— Wstricivic Adverti,e.r. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. rifIHIS present FRIDAY, the 15th instant, will be performed .1 the Play of the • STRANGER, The Stranger, Mr. Vandenhoff; Baron Steinfort, Mr. Cooke; Solomon, Mr. Baker; Peter, Mr. Siaiter. Mrs. Hailer, Mrs. Brooks; Countess Winterst •n, Mrs. Vining ; Charlotte, Mrs. Clarke. After which, the favourite Op etta of NO ! Frederick, Mr. Frazer; Miss Ge gc ; Lady Doubtful, Miss geymour. To conclude with, for the last time, the Domestic Drama, called THE YEOMAN'S DAUGIiTER. To -MORROW, (Saturday,) (for the last time,) the popular Drama of JONATHAN BRADFORD. After which, Col man's Play of THE MOUNTAINEERS. To conclude with the Nautic'al Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. hllss TURPIN, of the Theatre-114A Haymarket, is en gaged for FIVE Nwirrs, and will make - her first appear ance here these Two Years on Monday next. the ISth instant, in the character of ROSINA, the Opera of TIIE BARBER OF SEVILLE. 1 4:_be Eitel:pool tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1833. We have no late news through any of our private cor respondents from Portugal or Spain, but we borrow from our able Landon contemporary The Standard, the following, via Paris, which, if it could be depended upon, placel the cause_of ISABE L LA the SgcoNp in a very desperate plight : " PARIS, Nov. 11.—The Journal de Paris and Journal des Debats of this morning contained the following announce ment:— " The retreat into St. Sebastian of Castagnos and of El Pastor is confirmed. "The insurgents have drawn near to this ci;.y. "Although the intelligence ,supplied us by the government is thus meagre, it is reported and very generally believed, that on the 9th, at an early hour in the morning, the garrison of St. Sebastian was summoned to surrender and refused; that the gates of the city were inrced; that the inhabitants offering no resistance to the Cart troop; they 'mule their triumphal entry ; and .that the General 'Castagnos and troops were made prisoners of war, but that El Pastor was not found. It is added that the failure of the Queen's cause at St. Sebas tian was owing to defection amongst her troops, who refused to fire when ordered on the forces of Don Carlos. I have supplied you thus faithfully with what is reported. I am not answerable for its accuracy, though, considering the quarter from which the intelligence comes, and the general credit placed in it by those who know best what is passing in Spain, I can hardly doubt that the report is well founded. The news of the entry of the Carlists into St. Sebastian is said to have arrived yesterday evening at Bayonne, and to have been trans mitted this morning by telegraph to the government. If this news shall be confirmed, the Queen's cause in the north must be considered as quite hopeless. "The division of Lardizabal is, it is believed, the corps of Don Carlos's army which compelled Castagnos and El Pastor to leave Tolosa, and seek refuge for the moment in St.*Sebas tian. This Royalist chief was Colonel in the Royal Guards, and directed the movement of Guipuscoa, where he has esta blished a provisional junta in the name of Charles V. He is a most energetic and active man, and extremely popular iu that part of the country. When he attacked Tolosa he was joined by eighty-five Coast Carabiniers and one hundred and fifty Foot Gendarmes, who abandoned the drapeau of the Regent to aid the Carlist party. From Burgos also he was aided by the arri val of a Chef d'Escadron of Lancers, belonging to Saarsfield's army, and who left the Royalists in order to join Latdizabal. "Letters from Madrid of the 30th speak of new insurrections in the kingdom of Leon. They-also state, that Saarvfield, when proceeding from Madrid to Burgos, disarmed all the population on the route. This fact alone shows how hostile the people were to the regent and her daughter. By the same letters we also learn that the Royalist Volunteers of Angarida (only four leagues from Madrid) had all of a sudden disappeared, in order to join the royalist bands of Locho. At Penzo Blanco, near Cordova, a band of guerrillas hail been formed, which kept the field. At Benabeto, in Leon, the Administrator of Couriers, and the Commandant of the Royalist Volunteers, had proclaim ed Charles V. " The retreat of Castagnos and El Pastor amounts to this, that the Royalists are absolute masters of the country from Burgos to the Bidassoa, since, as a matter of course, the three companies at Irun and the post of Behobia have followed the retreating movement of Castagnos. As soon as St. Sebastian shall have fallen, should it not already have done so, it is pro bable that Merino and Verasteguy.will be joined by Lardiiabal, and march against Burgos, where Saarsfield, abandoned by his troops and exposed to the attacks of the population, will have nothing to do but to fly to Madrid, or make his submission. Some think, on the other hand, that unless St. Sebastian shall have fallen, as I have stated above, Lardizabel will, on the con trary, march to the aid of Merino and Verasteguy, and attack Burgos before St. Sebastian." In consequence of .this news the French funds have fallen. On Monday last the five per cents. left off at 102 f. 5 c., and the three per cents. at 74 f. 15 c. We have been 'favoured with the perusal of a letter written by a gentleman of high standing and great poli tical influence, in which it is stated, that Lord GREY has intimated his intention of retiring from the cabinet be fore the next session of Parliament. It is not stated who is to be the noble earl's successor, but he has stipulated that his illustrious sin-in-law, Lord DURHAM, shall fill some post of honour in the cabal. from which he had been expelled by Lord BROUGHAM and Mr. STANLEY. This, in our apprehension, is the most incredible part of the information. It is exceedingly probable that Lora GREY is anxious to retire. He is old and feeble, and his voice as well as his vision, we are assured, have failed him considerably of late ; but still we can hardly think it pro bable that on this compulsory retirement, caused by the decline of his mental or physical powers, he would make that which is unavoidable a condition for the return of his son-in-law, whose conduct the noble earl himself could not endure while Lord DURHAM had a seat in the ad ministration. Lord GREY, no doubt, is anxious to pro vide for his family, and as six thousand a-year may be of importance to Lord DURHAM, considering the present price of coals, the noble premier may be of opinion that this, his last clutch of patronage, should be equal to the sacrifices he must make in other respects by resigning office. All this is very plausibly put, and, in the present state of affairs, if Lord BROUGHAM or Mr. STANLEY be consent ing parties, we cannot see how any respectable or consis tent Whig, " out of doors," can offer any objections.— Lord DURHAM is a person for whom we have a parti cular respect ; he is just the man whom we Tories should desire to see in office ; he is the author, or principal author, of the reform bill ; his brains, though not exactly in the right place, would not be a contemptible garnish to those of Lord ALTHORP—mustard upon cheese being an orthodox 'compound ; and last, not least, as the Lord of DURHAM was at the start, it is but justice that he should be also in at the death of his party. In the con fusion which must speedily ensue, at the day - ofreek - :. - oning, which must'be near at hand, Lord DURHAM is well qualified to cut a conspicuous figure. The writer of the letter to which we have alluded is further of opinion, that this is the proper time fur the . conservatives to muster their forces, in order to make a successful charge upon the ministry. With all due deference we enter our protest against this line of policy. The Whigs are working their own ruin, in their own way, as effectually as ev er was done by any set of men in this world ; and if the Tories were to interfere in order to embroil their good inten tions, they would only encounter opposition, and de lay the crisis which is inevitable. Ministers are stir ring heaven and earth, at the present moment, to excite .public feeling in their favour, without gaining a prose lyte, or regaining a morsel of that popularity which they have lost, and lost for ever. Lord DuanAm's packed assembly at Gateshead, to consume a twelve-shilling din: ner, is a beautiful illustration of their faded popularity.— Mr. T. B. MACAULAY'S pilgrimage to Leeds, escorted by Lord MORPETH, and backed by Mr. MARSHALL, with a gasman in the chair, and a clerk of the political union as a decoy duck, is another lamentable instance of failure. In Birmingham they have not a single vote; in Hull, whiggery is at a discount; Bristol is Conservative to the back bone; no attempt has been made to rouse what for merly used to be called the "people" in Manchester ; and here in Liverpool we venture to say that no professed Whig will dare to shew his face. Why, then, should the conservatives be upon the move ? It is not plain that the Whigs are doing our work quite as well as we could do it ourselves ? The voice of the nation is against them. There is an end to all their boasted influence over public opinion. We defy them to muster, even though Lord ALTHORP were to pay for the entertainment, five hundred admirers.or supporters in any one of the great towns, Even in Cheltenham, its e tid waters are easier swallowed than Whig politics, and the royal town of Brighton, built by George the Fourth, and honoured by the presence of the ICING and QUEEN, is hardly better than a sink of radicalism. All this'is most refreshing. Never was there a party so universally despised in England as the whigs are at this moment, Even if appearances were otherwise, we still should say to the tories, be firm, be guarded, be united, but wait the events of the coming session! The hour of delusion is past. The people now see on What hollow professions the influence of his Majesty's ministers has been based. They have before them one of the stormiest sessions that any ministry were ever fated to en counter. They have their Pledges to redeem, and the people will not be seduced from their determination to extort the performance of their promises by any ex cuses, or any assumed-to-be - necessary and pressing reforms. The taxes ! That is the word. Lord AL THORP must be battered in breach at the very com mencement of the session. He must be prepared to re linquish at least five millions of his presen t income, or he had better "be a dog and bay the moon." He must not only make his peace with the unions and anti-tax combinations, by thus gorging them with more than one third part of the whole available revenue, but he must also provide his twenty millions for the West Indies, two milliOns for Greece (poor OTHO being very near his end) and various other sums as per sundry contracts of indemnity. To worry a government with these plagues upon their hands would be downright cruelty, if not murder. No, leave them alone, say we, and about. the month of March next we promise you rare fun. We have hitherto carefully refrained froth offering any observations upon the commission still -pursuing its in quisitorial and unconstitutional inquiries into the con duct of the Liverpool Corporation ; not that we have been unconcerned spectators, or have come to any resolution to allow the invidious flippancies, the half-concraW par. tiality, and. the short-hand details of the commissioners, (which last seem to be of primary importance in the farce,) to pass sub silentio. On the contrary, we have a .full budget of extrajudicial absurdities, intemperate ex pressions, and preposterous and ridiculous assumptions to unfold then the proper time comes. Our opiniim,—and we admit it is a humble opinion, but one nevertheless of as much authority as that of an unknown barrister, or of one who has only been a penny-a-liner in the courts, and never held a brief in his life—our opinion, however, be it sound or be it otherwise, is, that the present is an ille gal inquiry—one which the KING had no right to grant, and the assumed powers of which none of the KING'S subjects could be compelled to respect. If the Corpora tion of Liverpool, and Corporations generally, have deemed it expedient to answer any or all questions pro pounded to them by this usurped and unconstitutional commission, that is their affair, not - ours. It is obvious enough to those who give themselves the trouble to re flect for a single moment that all the evidence collected, or to be collected, whether favourable or unfavourable to the Corporations of England, will not weigh more than the dust in the balance against the preconcerted measures of his MAJESTY'S ministers. The Corporations, by yield. ing to this inquiry, have, perhaps unintentionally, but unquestionably, and most materially aided the ministers in their designs, and precipitated those revolutionary changes which they have long meditated; and which, we fear, will not be arrested until the monarchy and the cluirch of England are mere matters of. history. Some future HALLAM, writing upon the middle ages, will say, "Here began the folly, of which unreasonable concession is the parent, in the imbecile but liberal indulgence of which the last provincial strong holdS of loyalty were destroyed, and the rabble obtained supreme power." We have a strong presentiment that we shall :live to see that period of deep degradation and misery; but though - fully alive to the injustice of the present pro ceedings, our pen shall repose, and our lips be sealed, during the local probation. of these commissioners. As to the yell of triumph set up by our contemporaries on the opposite side, it is precisely what we expected, and is no more to our ears than a cowherd or shepherd's whistle to the skylark. The "downfall of the Tories," the "last kick of. the Conservatives," and all such vulgar stuff, is extremely natural, but of no more moment "than the pickpocket's favourite exclamation of "down with the police!" We turn our attention, for the present, to a more dis tant object; and if what. we are about to animadvert upon do not open the eyes of Lord GREY, Lord LANS - DOWNE, Lord WESTMINSTER, the Duke Of DEVONSHIRE, the Duke - of SUTHERLAND, and others who have pro perty to lose, and noble estates to - be divided according to the principles of Agrarian law, then has the reign of "chaos and dark night" commenced, and insanity be come, not the intruder upon, but the director of, human affairs. The people of Scotland have obtained a sweeping measure of municipal reform in the Borough Bill of last sess i o n. The object of the bill, like all the other specu lative and selfish measures of the Whigs, was to expel the Tories from office, and confer upon the Whigs a monopoly of municipal and local power. With their usual purblindness, they fancied that if the Tories could be overwhelmed by the numbers of the new constituency, whom they had the vanity to reckon in their favour, they would then, among the provincial and borough functionaries, acquire as many ardent followers and sup porters as they did acquire at the mania election of the first reformed Parliament. Alas! how very shallow were their calculations! Their temerity has involved them in difficulties which they never anticipated. Their reform, concocted by - the puerile mind of JEFFREY, the Lord-Advocate, has proved to be as detrimental to their interests as that of the hundred-fathom-coal-pit intellect of Lord DURHAM, or the worm-eaten poetical states manship of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. We have not the full returns before us; but in all the boroUgh elections in Scotland which have taken place, the Whigs have been signally and disgralcefully beaten. Wherever the Tories have taken part in the contest they have succeeded,—in Port-Glasgow, Ayr, and Newton-upon-Ayr; for in stance; but in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Paisley, Stirling, and other towns, the Radicals, the thick-and thin haters of the Whigs, the men of the movement, the ultra-revolutionists, the knaves who go all lengths, the leaders of .every mob tumult,—these men have been returned as councillors in the first instance, and as Provocf.' anti l3ailiesja_ the nex't instance.. by _o_Egy whelming majorities. _ Alas, poor Scotland! She is in the hands of her political vampires. She is doomed, we fear, to retro grade from her high station in morals, science, arts, in dustry, and civilization. It may seem paradoxical, but it is nevertheless true, that, although unanimated by the fervour of English freedom, she has made those advances in national improvement which she never could have made had she been afflicted with the perennial restless ness of detnocraticalliberty. She has prospered in her agriculture and manufactures, beyond any nation in Europe, for the last seventy years. She has not engaged in any struggles for'popular aggrandisement, and she owes every thing, of which she has a right to be proud, to her total exclusion from those elective contests which have blighted the industry of her wealthier sister, and sown those dissensions which have led to conflagrations in the rural districts of England, t o usurpation on the part of the mob, to eight millions of money expended upon the idle rather than upon the poor, to combinations against industry producing poverty, beggary, and mi sery. Scotland has not hitherto participated in these scenes of crime, madness, and destruction, solely be cause she was differently governed from England, and because, apart from politics and popular excitements, her whole energies were directed to rational improve ments and profitable labour well protected. The curse, however, has come upon her at last, and the Whigs have endeavoured to make a poor country bear all the unne cessary burthens, and pay for all the excesses, of a rich and mob-ridden commonwealth. . She has been reformed, and therefore. we. shall'hear-Oi more of Scottish perseverance and indusire. Her nobles are now pronounced to he all tyrants—her landlords to be selfish oppressors—her banking system to be robbery— . her former system of municipal government to have been base and cruel—and that all that has been was wrong, and THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. that all that is, or is to be, must be right. Who are to be benefited by this reform remains to be seen. It is clear enough that the nation generally is not to be benefited. It is clear that the Whigs have riot made'what the Scotch call a "kirk and a mill" of this reform. It is clear that the revolutionists have the game all their own way; and we take the Duke of HAmILToN to witness, who has been a Tory since the death of his brother, Lord ARCHIBALD, of impenetrable memory, that the very scum and dregs of society have been raised to posts of great responsibility by the reform measure of Lord JEFFREY, commonly called in the circles of Edinburgh the " Master of BRouon4M." We say it in perfect seriousness, and with feelings of ir repressible melancholy, that " Caledonia, stern and wild," as the great magician now in his grave described her, must, unless a counter-revolution take place, sink into the abject condition of Ireland, which is beyond all clues tied the most - degraded and demoralised province in Europe. The Whigs introduced the borough reform bill 'upon speculation, foolishly dreaming that they could thereby advance their own hollow and party purposes; but it has worked contrary to their expectations. A peaceful country is devoted to the misgovernment and the contentions of democratic factions; the Whigs have b - een thrown overboard, and their worst enemies are now in office, strutting in gold chains, 'ready to enact the part of Sir JOHN KEY, and buy or sell patriotism, principle, and patronage to the best advantage of the parties concerned. Be it so-but let us return to England. Will the Whigs, with this miserable failure before their eyes, and radicalism in the ascendancy, attempt a similar reform in England ? The Corporations of. Scotland fell without a struggle. They had neither advocate nor apologist in the reformed House of Commons. They were condemned without trial, and consigned like carrion to the revolu tionary dogs. Is a similar fate to befal the Corporations of England ? If the destruction of these municipal bodies involved nothing beyond their twin chartered privileges, the ,inj4stice would Oc Ilitgrcint cough ; but we contend that:.this popular invasion of chartered rights involves the ,very existence of every other institution under the monarchy. It aims a deliberate blow at the crown itself... The privileges conferred by the crown are or ought to be as rigidly and sacredly respected as the rights and pri vileges possessed by the crown. If Parliament have a right to turn the stream, they have a right to drain the fountain. The latter may be a work of greater difficulty ; but still the right of attempting it is as incontrovertible in the last case as in the first. If they can sit in judg ment upon the acts of the SOVEREIGN, they have the same right to adjudicate upon the hereditary. faculties and royal immunities of the Prince. Will this usurpe(l authority be acted upon ? It is a step in advance, we adinit, of the present measures, but the same power which breaks a link in a charter, or a lock under a corporate trust, might as legally break into Windsor Castle WILLIAM the FOURTH holds the crown by the same tenure that WILLIAM the Timm held it, and by no other. He is litre to maintain the laws inviolate, and to pro tect the Protestant religion, and the ministers of that religion, "established by law," in all their rights and privileges. The Protestant religion, as was well ob served by Lord ELDON, has no safeguard or guarantee whatever except the KING'S oath and the KING'S acts. Every charter which has emanated from the sovereigns of the House of Brunswick, has been specially framed for the security of the church, and hence the exclu sion, until recently, of all persons from corporations who were not members of the Church of England. If these Corporations be opened up, there will be an end to this sort of security. The KING'S prerogative has already been invaded; but if charters are to be violated here as they have been in Scotland, the Church of England would be left without prop or stay amongst any of the municipal institutions of the kingdom. She /Mist sink into the condition of a mendicant church, the Unitarian chapel, patronised by Lord BROUGHAM, and the majority of his MAJESTY'S "ministers, becoming the only recognised and legitimate house of prayer; and this, to our thinking, is what the Whigs most anxiously desire. LONDON LATEST NEWS. TVedsneday Evening, halj:past Seven o'clock The Consol Market has become very flat, and the - Chasing 'nice of Consols for the Account was Sri ; Exchequer Bills .are 12 to 43; and India Bonds'.2l 23 pm. In the Foreign Market there is great flail - less, and but little business doing. Russian Bonds closed at 1021 3.-}; Dutch at 49 ; and Belgian at 911 95. Portuguese Stock has attracted less notice, 691 70 being the price of the Old Bonds, and 60 those of the New. Spanish this afternoon suddenly advanced to 23 and closed at 23; By the accounts from Spain we learn, under date from St. Sebastian, that the couriers froM Castile and Navarre had failed, the roads being in possession of the Carlists. They had also defeated a body of the Queen's troops near Guetaria. The letters from Pampeluna state that a new emigration of the young men of that town had taken place, to join the Carlist standard. A patty of the Prince's troops or partizans had sallied out of Aspaylia and advanced upon Toulouse, where they were met By El Pastor ; but they vigorously attacked and defeated that chieftain. At Penzo Blanco, and at Benabeto, in Leon, Don Carlos had been proclaimed King : and the royalist volunteers of Argando had suddenly disappeared from that town, it was supposed to erect the standard of Don Carlos. Letters have been received from Freemantle, (Western Australia) to the 14th June. There had been no arrivals from England since the Ist of Aril. A stoppage of the i irculating medium had taken place in -consequence of the Lieutenant= GoVernor Irwin having refused assistance to the bank, although, it is said, his predecessor, Governor Stirling, on the establish ment of that institution, had promised such assistance. In consequence of this, the Lieutenant-Governor had become rather unpopular. The natives had caused considerable an noyance to-the settlers, and a yeomanry corps had been formed to resist their attempts. Government had offered a reward for the heads of four of the natives who had been most daring in these attacks. One old chief, who had displayed .(Treat fe rocity, h a d b ee n shot a. fear days previous, at Perth. The colony, h owever , w as o n th e advrice, despite of these impedi ments; the farms were rapidly improving, and the stock of the farmers increasing ; but the want oftnonev was felt a great evil, as few i n di v id ua ls in the colony, except the merchants, could muster Lilt). Supplies had been received, in considerable abundance, from the neighbouring colonies, Van Dieman's Land, Sydney, &c., and more were expected from the Cape.. By the commercial advices from India we learn that at the end of Jung freights at Bombay were at £4 ton, and nominal ; at Bengal freight was from £5 ss. to £6. By advices fiom Algiers we learn that the consuls of Eng land, Spain and Sardini,a had sent Charges d'Affaires to Bou g ia, to represent those nations there, but that some demur had been shown by the French authorities there. • LONDON LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. Lloyd's, Fire o'clock, Wednesday. The Elizabeth, Jenkins, and the Hall, Hughes, have arrived from Liverpool at Bombay. The Ferdinand, Geucke, from Liverpool, bound to Stettin, arrived on the 2d hstant at Elsinore; the Adolphine, Roggen rack, from Liverpool to Wismar, arrived at Elsinore on the sth; and the. Helena, Schutterow, bound to the Baltic on the came day. The letters from Heligoland state, that from the *t to the dth,there had been very heavy and,squally gales from N.W. and W. The Betsey, - for Liverpool, arrived at Leghorn on the 3lst ult. with a general cargo. On the 26th July the - foll Owing were loading at the Mauritius for Liverpool. The Margaret, Taylor, to sail in about a'week. The ship Sir Francis Burton, Reed, bound from Bombay to Liverpool, having undergone the requisite repairs, proceeded on her voyage 27th July. On the 2.5 th June the following vessels were loading at Bom bay for Liverpool. The Minerva nearly ready, with 2tYLA) bales Of Cotton board. The Maje s tic, Ilero, and Diamond, had 10(x) bales of Cotton each. _ _ _ -„„ The James Haddon and the Tampico, both for Liverpool, lad arrived at Vera Cruz. CHARITY SERNION.-011 Sunday next, a Sermon %via -be preached at St. Augustine's church, Shaw-street, by the Rev. A. CaMpbell, one of the Rectors of Liverpool; after which a collection will be made for the benefit of the new free church and the two free 'schools in Great Howard-street. CAPTAIN loss.—lt was stated in the city, yesterday, that, at the end of last week a 'Treasury order for VSOUJ was trans mitted from the Treasury to the Bank of I?mgland, to be naid to the credit. of Captain Ross, for the discoveries that gallant officer has made in the North Pole, and for the hardships he has suffered.—Evening Paper. Cnuncii RATE.—At a vestry meeting, held at the parish church of Portsmouth, on Friday, the Sth instant, to make a church rate of sixpence in the pound, Mr. Price, an Unitarian, moved, as an amendment, that the same should be , reduced to threepence. Mr. P. having, by previously circulating printed bills, occasioned a very numerous attendance of the parishion ers, the discussion was protracted to so late an hour, that the chairman 'had not sufficient daylight left him to ascertain which side predominated. A poll was, therefore, called for , which terminated at the close of the following day, when it was found Mr. Price's amendment was rejected . by a majority of more than two to one.—Hampshire Te!egraph. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MA R KET.—It has, for some time past, been a subject of regret to many of the most respectable in habitants of Liverpool, that the cattle market should - be held on Monday. The con s equence is seen in the numerous droves of pigs, especially those by the steam-packets from Ireland, driven through the streets on Sunday, to the great annoyance of the inhabitants, and the unnecessary violation of the sabbath. The ease was the same in Glasgow formerly. But the magistrates well desirable pleased and council of that city, as trustees of the ma r k e t, have this klouth changed the market day from Monday to Thursday. We Nye not aware if the magistrates of Liverpool have the power 'of carrying into effect an arrangement of a similar maitre. If they have the power, we think the pubi to see it exercised. If they have not, then it miglitl) e no,; to lose the first opportunity which May present itself of °Er ic world be taining the requisite authority for effecting the change. EMIGRANT SHIPS. - We again, and we hope for the last time, notice this subject. It is one which we.can with great sincerity say required atten tion from some quarter. 'lf our efforts have tended to bring about the performance of an act of justice in the case of the unfortunate passengers by the Cumberland, that result. abund s antsy compensates us for whatever labour it may have cost. To those who answered, by their contributions, the appeal which we made on behalf of these poor people, their grateful thanks are due and offered, as well as to the respectable profes sional house who gave their gratuitous assistance in effecting the object which has been accomplished. By the means thus supplied, the gentlemen who undertook to distribute the sub scription have been enabled to support the passengers whilst tae arrangements were making for finally disposing of them; they have als - o furnished such as bad lost their bedding with mattresses and blankets ; together with provisions for sixty days for between fifty and sixty of the people, who were embarked on Wednesday, on board the Symmetry, a vessel belonging to the same persons who had chartered the Cumberland, and who have furnished a passage on board 'the former vessel for such as chose to go in her. No less than eight of the original pas sengers by the Cumberland are dead ;—some, in despair, have returned to their homes;—the remainder are provided for as above stated. In accomplishing this object the committee have incurred a responsibility exceeding the amount which has been subscribed ; but they did so without hesitation, not doubting that, on the- fact being made known, the difference would be promptly contributed. It is only fair, with respect to the charterers of the Symmetry, to state that the accommodations - provided in that vessel are, at least, as good as those originally appropriated in the Cumber land; and, in consideration of their having, in this respect, done their duty, we shall abstain from any comments upon the .misrepresentations contained in the placards or bills issued by themselves or their agents—with reference to the capacity and condition of the ships in which they have invited emigrants to take their passage—further than to state, in this cantionary way, that all such misrepresentations are anything but credit able, and expose them most clearly to legal proceedings for breach of contract. It may be expected that we should notice a letter on thiS sub ject, published by one of our contemporaries early in the week. We will only do so to the extent of remarking, that the dis guise of a "Shipowner" is too flimsy to hide the writer of the letter in question. His abuse of the authorities whoSe duty it has been to keep a check upon the delinquencies of parties whom we feel it altogether unnecessary further to designate, is as gratuitous as it is unmerited. The parties referred to can well afford to treat with perfect contempt such imputations as are conveyed in that letter. And if the writer of it were to de vote half as much pains and talents to the protection of those who come under his charge, as he is known to exercise in glos sing over his own proceedings, the necessity for severe Stric titres upon those proceedings would not have existed to the ex tent that we have shown it has done. In conclusion, we are anxious to do justice to those whose conduct has exhibited a marked distinction from that of others whom we have felt it our duty publicly to condemn. In our anxiety to do that justice we have put ourselves to the trouble of personally visiting, and minutely inspecting the arrange ments of most of the ships now in this port taking in passen gers for emigration, both for America and Australia; and when e see the arrangements made on board such vessels as the Jessie, the Vestal, and the Bardavter for the latter, and the Cale donia and Great Britaikfor the former country, we record, with pleasure, our conviction, that. they are as creditable to the char terers as they must be conducive to the comfort and health of those who embark in them. So long as ships are fitted, and conducted in the manner which those are that we have named, and others which we have seen, so long will emigration be divested of, at least, those inconveniences to which vessels of inferior class expose their inmates. If the expatriation of our fellow-subjects is to proceed, (a question which we are not here called upon to discuss) then certainly such vessels as those here referred to, and all that may be fitted up like them, will be sought for as conveyances. In all such cases the houses concerned manifest the strongest desire to carry into effect the provisions which the law has made for the protection .. of the emigrant whilst on board ship; and the slightest intimation on the part of the proper authorities that a remedy has to be applied to any defect, is met by its prompt and willing correction. The establishment, therefore, of a public authority to superintend the emigrants, and the notices which we have, on public grounds, and on such grounds only, felt it our duty to make upon the subject in our late numbers, so far from tending to injure this port as a place of embarkation, which we know has been contended for by some persons, must of ne cessity raise it in the estimation of all who are desirous of going to any part of America or the Australian settlements; since, in the absence of all such checks upon misconduct in other ports, emigrants will flock here, under a conviction that the very ex istence of powers operating as a check will prevent the necessity of their application; whilst, if needful, the remedy is, as it ought to be, within their immediate reach. Considerably above ten thousand persons have embarked at. this port since the spring 'of the present year; and as most of them are strangers to the place, it is as touch for the interest of respectable houses en gaged in the business, as it is for that of the emigrants them selves, that they should be kept out of the hands of those dis reputable persons whose mal-practices we have, as we believe, been instrumental in effectually exposing. THE CHASE. Sir Thomas Stanley's Fox Hounds meet to-morrow, the 16th instant, at Puddiagion ; Tuesday, the 19th, at Bebington ; Saturday, the 2.3 d. at Backtbrd. Each morning at ten o'clock. Mr. Wickstcad's Fox Hounds meet - to-morrow, the 16th iast., at Swinnerton ; Tuesday, the 19th, at Crewe; Friday, the 22d, atHankelow. Each morning at lail-past ten o'clock. The Cheshire Fox Hounds - meet to-morrow, the 16th instant, at Marbuty, near Northwich ; Monday, the 18th, at Norley_ beach ; Wednesday, the 20th, at Shavington; Thursday the 21st, at Cholmonaele7 ; Saturday, the 23d, at Bar-bridge ; Monday, the 25th, at Sandiway-head; Wednesday, the 27th, at Mere-hall ; Friday, the 29th, at Worthington-half; Saturday, the 30th, at Weaver-hall. Each morning at half-past ten. FIELD SPORTS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. No. mi. [The following letter, from a fair yet unknown corre spondent, induces us, and we trust not unsuitably, to a postpone, for the present week, one of few contem plated retrospective notices of writers on " Field Sports ;" some of whom, independent of their own intrinsic merit, convey much interesting information illustrative of those numerous games and diversions which had so much in fluence on the manners, customs, and habits of this and other countries, in the early periods of their national ex- istence. The able writer of the Cynegetica, already before our readers, has favoured us with some valuable remarks upon this unlooked for contribution. Both the matter reviewed and the critique afford so much of novel and amusing in formation, that we beg leave to introduce them, by way of first courses, for the entertainment of our readers, which our retrospective notices will not unaptly follow, by way of remove. t —ED.] Foxholes,_ Wed n e s day afternoon. Mn, EDITOR,—It was beneath the Grecian skies that a young and active - huntress, in her course as rapid as the winds, pur suing on the mountain tops the timid inhabitants of the woods, by a licautiful personification of mythology, was first and de servedly deified. Temples and altars soon arose in all lands to her honour, and in later ages her worship extended to the Bri tish isles ; for, " amongst other goddes also," says Ilolinched, " had in most reverence, Diana was chiefe, whom they ac compted as their peculiar pattonesse, for that she was taken to be the goddesse of hunting, wherein consisted their chiefest ex ercise, pastime, and delight." • Alas ! alas ! Sir, Dian's revels are now exploded, and her attendant nymphs dispersed. Diana Venatrix, we are told, may inspire awe and terror, but can never inspire love—she may repel, but will never attract. _ V:et, as the impartial are ever ready to hear either sick, and always disposed to kind interpretations and favourable opinions, "another Diana, in her diversions," entrusts, at this late day, her vindication to your columns. - Pray, Sir, entreat your correspondent Leporicidus to appeal on her behalf to classical authority for the examples which are well known to abound there ; and in the meantime aid her, as you are a sportsman, in establishing her claim to full participa tion in the sylvan pastimes, without losing her title to be sup posed all that is gentle and amiable in human nature. Did Frank Osbaldeston ruin up in disgust, as the fearless Die Vernon bounded over the gate he fain would open to her steed? Do we not,• on. the contrary—the barrier topped —see him, in the next instant, at her side, all admiration at her gallant bear ing ? And in strict confidence, Mr. Editor, seldom have I my self appeared in the chace, either as a spectator or an actor, hut it has been whispered that the ladies add an inexpressible charm and lustre to the scene. in;;;;;a1 memorable instances has history recorded my fair countrywomen as enlivening the chace. We are told, too, that in foreigu parts, ladies of distinction pride themselves upon their adroitness in shooting flying; and when has poet failed to sing, or painter to represent, the admired nymph delighting in the nnocent amusement of the angle ? hawking especially was long a constant and favourite amusement with - the ladies.— the ages of chivalry and the feudal system, w e fi n d that both they and the - knights appear e d foremost. in the field, priding themselves on riding welt, cud carrying gracefully a hawk perched on the hand; but when, (as my brothers tell me,). at the commencement of the,last century, shooting came into practice, hawking fell rapidly' into disuse. - Now they' persist, Mr. Editor, in rudely declaring, that the exclusion of the fair sex from the shooter's avocations is •amply compensated for in the deadly precision imparted to that branch of field sports by . the intro duction of the fowling piece;. but I shall always maintain that our sports have lost a distinguishing mark of the highest rank and elegance. Willingly would I commit my certificate to the flames, and resign my favourite light-barrelled Purdy, could I even hope to render myself instrumental in reviving among the fair daughters of merry England the princely sport of hawking. As to my shooting, affect not, good Mr. Editor, either incre dulity or surprise. Remember that in this, and other of the field 'sports, I am sanctioned by the examples of crowned heads. Out of respect to authorities so illustrious let your rising sarcasm be chucked. Listen and be convinced. Queen Elizabeth, when at the age of sixty-seven, was ex tremely fond of the chase, and very - freve n tly indulged herself in foiluwing the hounds. " Her Ma jes ty,'' says a court i er writing to Sir Robert Sydney, " is well, and - excellently disposed to hunting, for e v ery second day she is on h orse b ack, and con tinues the sport long. She seems to have encouraged it among her dependants. A feat of activity performed in her presence by John .ielwyn, her park-keeper, was thought an ex ploit of sutteient merit and renown to be eng rave d on the brass NOVEMBER 15, 1833. plate of his monument, at Walton-upon-Thames. " Ile, in the heat of the chase, suddenly leaped from his horse upon the back of the stag, (both running at that time with their utmost speed,) and not. only kept his seat gracefully, in spite of everf effort of the affrighted beast, but, drawing his sword, wit it guided him towards the Queen, and, coming near her presence, plunged it into his throat, so that the animal fell dead at her feet." The appearance and exploits, likewise, of a female Nimrod in the field, the Queen of Portugal, are thus described by Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, in his Historical Memoirs of his own Timex:—" Whether the diversion was hunting, or shooting, or falconiug, she was constantly at the King's side. No woman in Europe indeed rode better or with more skill. She was admitted to be an excellent shot, seldom missing the bird at which she fired, even when flying." Dr. Moore, too, describing a hunting party at Prince Lichtenstein's, ht Austria, mentions the Princess as very active and conspicuous on the occasion. "At the beginning of the scene," he says, " I was a good deal surprised to see a servant hand a fusil to the Princess. who, with great coolness, and without rising front her seat, took aim at a partridge, which immediately fell to the ground. With the same ease she killed ten or twelve pheasants or partridges, at about double the number of shots. He adds, " Though I had - not heard of it- before,.l- now understood that . shooting is not an uncommon amusement with the German ladies." In. that country, Mr. Editor, you will also recollect, where the: chase was - kept up in a style of royal magnificence, such as is reepresented in the pictures of Rubens, and Wouvermans, and Suyders, we find it was numerously attended by people of qua lity of both sexes. This was especially the case in wild boat hunting, at which many of each carried javelins. The animal, after being overpowered by the dogs, or caught in toils, as well as secured from doing any mischief by the huntsmen, was usually speared by some person of the greatest distinction pre sent, for whom such honour was reserved, frequently by a /a 4, the attendants assisting. Although I could urge various pleas on behalf of the right and propriety of my participating in the - amusements of the field, I can scarcely flatter mvself that my unknown name and authority would have influence with the world at large, and, therefore, I rest my claim upon the declarations of those whose superior parts and learning must ever command deference. And so without yielding one tittle of that for which I justly contend, or confessing my arguments to be inconclusive, or my pursuits unwarrantable, I shelter myself lot the present, Mr. Editor, under the signature of VENATRIN. POLAR EXPEDITIONS. (Written expressly for the Liverpool Standard.) The first Northern Expedition of. Captain Ross and his gal lant companions was a wonderful proof of .the bold daring of human nature; a handful of British sailors, accompanied by a few scientific associates, devoted themselves, for fame, to the dangers of exploring a part of the globe closed against the approach of all previous navigators by the icy barriers of the friged zone. What assurance has this little band of heroes — thus braving Winter on his very throne—based . es it is by a vast platform of eternal ice, carpeted with everlasting snow—that the secret of the pole was not guarded by Providence? That phenomena,' unknown before, might not forbid man to ap proach that point of the sphere, and live? That intensity of frost would not search out the imperceptible moisture in the ery timbers of their vessels, and rive .them into shreds? .That the human body would not - congeal to its vitals, in spite of all the protection they could-afford to it? In short, that cold would not be found to possess, in its polar strength, some qua- lity capable of frustrating' all their calculations, and destroying even life itself within a few hours.* How difficult awes for us, at home, to avoid being contincally and powerfully drawn to take a comparative view of their .state and ours, as we ruminated on what was passing in various parts of the world. Who could help admiring the stern resolution which could calmly place itself in such a situation ? Who could help thinking of the awful void which awaited their brave coun trymen after the sun had shown his face for the last time for the season, and of their struggles to suppress the feeling of for-. loin despair ? Row often did we picture them confined to two Solitary bulk heads, on which the light of the bright orb of day would not strike for months to come; as separated from every other thing that had life .by leagues of solid ice; ignorant of what was passing in the inhabited world, and environed by a degree of cold to which the inclemency of our own winter would be as a summer's day, and in which even the brutes of the re 'gion could not abide. But reflecting . upon the interesting events likely to result to science, our minds dwelt upon a subject, if possible, of still higher interest. The passage of the pole, from which the north ern coasts of Europe, Asia, and America.would bear south of the navigator—himself then left without anything which could pos... sibly assist him in determining his course, but a correct know ledge of the time, and yet no means of ascertaining that time afforded him—all his ideas respecting the heavens and the reckoning of his time reversed—the change not gradual, as in proceeding from the east to the west or the contrary, but in stantaneousthe magnetic needle. pointing to its then unknown pole, or flying round from the point of the bowl in which it was suspended—that which indicated north becomingsuuth—the east being then the west, and the hour of noon that of midnight; were circumstances and problems calculated to excite in our minds speeulations at once the most interesting and important. Feelings and reflections such as these naturally rendered the first polar expedition, under the command of Captain Ross, one,. of the most interesting that ever occurred. However short.ol our expectations, in a scientific point of view, might have beet' the results of that expedition, happily it proved that it was possible for man to live, amidst the utmost rigour of the polar December; and the friends of those who engaged in the second enterprise had, comparatively speaking, scarcely any room for apprehension on their account. They could, begin feel that time was even something snug in the •condition of the adventurers. We could think of them as well houses in; picture to ourselves the delight attendant on the reading of a new number of the North Georgia Gazette; enter into the bus tle of preparation for the play; see the grim scenic walrus. hemmed in by his assailants, his canvas sides panting in shorter and quicker heaves, until one tremendous groan proclaimed him dead; view the mimic ship make her way through floes and ice bergs, and hear the shout with which her finatemancipation was greeted. The name of a north-west passage at length became "familiar as household words," and the yague and erroneoul notions we had contracted of the polar regions and arctic cli mate, were defined and corrected in a series of expeditions pro; jetted by the national zeal for discovery. If, therefore the second expedition of Captain Ross excited a less degree of generaribtereat, it May be accounted for in the extended knowledge which he and - subsequent navigatora already had imparted, and our familiarity with its attendan t perils. And if, in the literary and scientific world, the result of his first voyage tended to damp the expectation or important discoveries in his second, now, indeed, has this brave and en terprising' man not only amply satisfied his country, but bas drawn upon himself the Well-deserved applause of the whole civilized world. - In placing the illustrious name of King William the Foarth on the true position of the magnetic pole , he has acquired for himself an imperishable and a lasting re nown. Most cordially do we repeat our congratulations on his suc cess; nor let him and his brave associates for a moment sal )- pose, that, while barred by the hand of nature in the frozeo main, the deepest interest for their safety, heightened, as it na turally was, by the delay of all intelligence of them for so long a time—ever ceased to animate the bosoms of their anxious friends and countrymen in England. Since the eipedilion despatched for their relief, under the command of Captain Back, one of the most frequent and heartfelt toasts at all social meet ings in this town was, "The safe return,-to their native shore s, of Captain Ross and his brave companions."—But see! On winter comes*the cruel North Pours his furious Whirlwind forth • Before him—and we breath the breath Of famish'd bears that howl to death. Onward he comes from rocks that blanch O'er solid streams that never flow ; his tears all ice ; his locks all snow— Just crept from some huge avalanche. Oh! breathe thou gently, old Winter, on the dauntless sons of a land which alone acknowledges thy dominion, who, i g normq of their deliverance, still seek the brave sailors emancipate n from thy icy fetters. Alas! and Wave we, in this age of in': prevement, no invention by means of which *e could impar' to these generous tars the unutterable joy of the adventure r, whom they seek, welcomed at' home by their delighted friends, and repaid for all - their trials by complete and final success• Spirit of Fortunatus ! where is thv once famed cap? the recent discoveries of Captain Ross tend to the formation of more conclusive opinions than have hitherto been e x pressed. and will probably terminate all further attempts in search, ° a the north-west passage. Still, however, at the present pert% .of discussion, it may be desirable to consider how far, i n Roin of fact, the question of a passage from the Northern Atl a ntic t° the Pacide is actually solved. With this view, and for the sa i l of affording other-inform4tion preparatory to the appearance °` Captain Ross's forthcoming publication, we propose a has t y glance at the history ofpolar expeditions to point out briefly what former navigators have done,and to show the progress mad e by our recent expeditions, especially the last; leaving it to oto readers to decide what, if any thing, still remains to be d on e for the accomplishment of the contemplated object. In our next, or its following paper, we propose to supply th ig epitome of polar navigation. • Count Segur's narrative of the retreat of Napoleon from 11i6.s.c° sc forbids us for a moment to doubt of the possibility of such an evo,'", As a further proof of the effects of cold on human life, PontopP i " 3 4 l i records the melancholy fate of a corps of about 8,000 Swedes, arrest, by intense frost, on the high ridge of the TVndal mountain, in N or ; way, where they were found soon after, .frozen to death—" sonl, sitting, some lying, and some. in the attitude of,prayer." Polar n av o 'f gation has given us so clear an insight into the power and extent _,_ cc frost, that we feel little inclined to impeach the veracity o f ty bishop's statement, more especially when we call to our remem bran °( that boiling water poured through a cullender from the main -to P one of the discovery shißs,fell on the deck in ice, resembling shot- • The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the 1 -1 , 3 r; lequin, from Calais, arrived off the Custom-house on Mon d '' at two o'clock, p.m. Also the Company's vessels the llaroon a t ; from Rotterdam, the - Lord Melville, from Rotterdam, and th Queen of the Netherlands, from Boulogne. Mike Murphy, the successful opponent in the late fie:Wir t Whetstone, took the death of his antrigonist so muck to • be' l i . ; that he never recovered his spirits. He was in a dreadful sPi`, of prostration when he surrendered to his trial, and, suffered to go at large without punishment, gradually sunk der the excitement, and died.--Sunday Paper. THE RATHCOOLE PEEP. AGE.—A claim to the ancient P ee ry age the Viscountcy of Tracy of Rathcoole, which has been psu nearly 37 years in abeyance, is at present being actively P r Zile cuted by a gentleman, a member of a respectable m ercan uc h house in this city. Nearly all the preliminary steps in ,s tbe cases have been complied with, and the opinion of one 0, he „ first, if not the very first law officers of the crown taken in 1 ,, s matter.—This opinion is decidedly in favour of the clainiao! right. The possessions attached to this peerage are imirielP' —Dublin Paper. . BRITISH FEELII4.—It is a fact illustrative of the stretlr, feelingS of interest and attachment entertained by Br itsh sl; jects, in all parts of the world, towards their native land. l;tca sum of '275 Spanish dollars has been subscribed and r e "“wia to this country by the inhabitants of Singapore, in the llr for , Ocean, for the relief of the widows and children of the'"'.„. t ee tunate fishermen who perished upwards or a year sinc e, c' LL coast of Shetland.—Edinbur,gh Advertiser. a'r etw TUE LATE EDMUND KEAN.—Mr. Kean, it has bee n tamed, died intestate, and though it has. been calculated.,"re, during the 19 years he was before the London public , hr' f his ceipts amounted to nearly •150,1X10, his affairs at the tinie death were in such a state that neither Mrs. Kean, his `"`";„is or his son, have thought proper to take out letters of , tration to his effects. Mr. William Halton, one of the c .;; o a' tors of the estate, having made an application to the ne.„, t a r to tive Court of Canterbury, for administration to be granvea him, both the widow and son (the next of kin), were, s e „ t ivg with a citation, according to the practice of that Court, them, either to take out administration themselves, or it ' va r . cause why Mr. Halton should not de so. Neither of jest ties having appeared to this citation, the oroinarV 11 n granted letters of administration to the creditor, who'ha s ; ,,,%e°' the whole of the effects of poor Kean, within the pi ev ' — Canterbury, to be under the value of f. 600.