The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

(F r , FURTHER PARTICULARS. ) c mi th e a l . ---- h...' twen "ning Herald and the Times of Yesterday.) Zters !g still FRIDAY .—The examination of the N tat i t - e s ` u t going on, and Nov. * the disclosures hourly taking Oka ea _ ,S ; t th.e extensive 'nature of the chartist conspiracy itlite isl;.nahon. It would be impossible for me to tran- Llttl4,Z, notes of the evidence in time to reach you for your etlk or Oa P.pe, but you will receive it to-morrow, and I c e rgaaj wi ,, d a gree with me in sayinthat a more extensive tail se. Political plot has not existed in these kingdoms Ihe y years. g, and nagthisetrate,s still continue indefatigable in their exer kritic.ipal ernuc are using all possible efforts to arrest h°igil ee °,lspirators, many of whom have still eluded '" e foll lw • 'III placard has been widely circulated. " HIGH TREASON. l 'ilip ' " £4OO Reward. tlilthe'reera'itn' the for undermentioned.persons stand charged 11 1 41ou ts o ref high treason, committed at New . port, in L. and tore, on Monday, th e 4th of November instant, r it _ Or . ° ,, f e°l.:2o_ Hundred Pounds is hereby offered to any „ h lo ' ih r f •-uns who shall apprehend . either of them, or I , „Willi am - T'lnation as shall lead to their apprehension. ti:b. 4 o, "nee, of Ponty of commonly called or known ayi,7 the watchmaker ' I) ' 7 d 0 , 1 ," Jones, of Tredeg . r iron works, collier, commonly piL il , o ll;it e ll°A 2 l as,. David,L - a th . etinker.' Zveor kn oll " 4 or Tredegar iron works, mason, commonly ' 4 Oll ll nas' Ja Pontypool,' Lewellin, of beerhouse-keeper. xe 4 4 :'Port, m on . "By order o l f B3 th 9 e ., l%lagistrates. tk, ' B , ofp n , Monmouthshire, Nov. , 't Ou ,o, _ LYpool, called " Jones the watchmaker," . _ and_ e Sroourgthiceirnltoeestinetrelstnyer, was deposed to as having been th from Pon_ty 1 has been apprehended t,72 r ah,,,. ~ miles town. He P° 4; taken in the Crwnlyn il"Pai."l:.. from here, .by some men who followed 4 t . ttiti e li' bile house into which he went for the purpose koipprehe"uirnete refreshment. e was armed, and resisted iti 'clzed h0,°,4, Presenting a pistol to the breast of the man I v laf no n :2 l ,?t him ; but,. being pressed upon, he said, tl ie r tre wer % and threw his pistol down. kr,: i l le 4 t i , -c,s(l., coroner, has fixed M Oa for taking 0 Ils co . 4e coroner's inquest on the b;dies. y The town !at e , iet 'and the accounts from the hills state that the t lf i l h a a o P li a i r tn t oeftthe men have returned to their work. sdl ord _B, omitted to state that . Zephaniah Williams,, lii'k e rs,f or a the Royal Oak, near Risca the chartist head- t ,,,, 4 , aose apprehension a reward of £lOO was offered, alien. Ilat N, to w 'ElvPortz', Saturday Morning, Eight o'clock. .47tte !lferaains quiet, and all apprehensions of a further tileL l ?! e , l e have subsided. The magistrates still con kesers, 4."ngs, and proceed with the examination of the eo listet ilst large rewards are offered for, and the police e Chet h i ul es are unceasing in their efforts to secure, h Ft4l;,tqinainttdeceloniNniction of the several leaders of the re- Inv municatimi of yesterday, to 11 t e b Odie ' s of 'th nine chartists killed in the AN ist kAilyatici were buried' on the afternoon of Thursday, in the ' m ator r s " ° f Stow ; the military and a vast concourse of qwer e • accompanied them to the burial-ground, where y see. itletrred in three graves, three in each. I Ttie ee c re _ y t tlis rl t l 4 to produce a great sensation, and sin tale ! k io s44 of° e warnings which their untimely and . wre /t it rd will not be thrown away on their deluded e n. foll ow . r a `,den tih 'r,;g is a list of the names of such bodies as have to this time :—David Morgan, of Trede- f Al,:t410,4111, Evans, of Tredegar, Abraham Thomas,. o 4 1 'da re , 1 % illiarn Shell (or Shill), of Pontypool, William t he F tresidence not stated), David Morgan, who died p ls listrs Fields and 'William 'Wilson, of Cwmtillery. ik d r i)l, an is not include those who . died at Caerleon, one at Tr'S four who have been since ascertained to have ':lF'i; e rriaj ii Nat . . In addition to these known deaths, seve ,'N t o I na state of danger, whilst others have been lit t : rl Ntr to ➢ , o htain a chance of recovery. They complain VI, Into ~I,erost and the other ringleaders, who have led 'b e ,i',"e snare. I am told that poor Morgan on his teenounced the authors of his miserable fate, and e k ttribl 3 °rPhan children against being deluded by h '4l, \ le,ha l e . e ar tifioes of political demagogues. mq of ~ n o room for the conclusion of th . e evidence, ,' l lee cu e highest importance inasmuch as it proves the 'e e 'l_ i r t .i s o y i s lo t e,,, a tn n__o es r f g g a e n v i e s r l in c e o e n t s!i a irac'y for the subversion of the and tharits leaders and many k t ° t% o iv.r were prepared to go to any length in the the co Its traitorous 4e objects.] iteefi nclu sion of the evidence the prisoners being called i. „ eld said, " I h ave not hi ng to say against this., hhrhone,..?Ler Rees at 8 o'cl' throuol the medium of a sworn inr ock the} , came to threaten every one te at % "4 '` s, and i n consequence of that he came with them , . / It 4!liset.i°ll,,,ch afraid wa to stay behind them he to came 14 Ala I here s nothing in his hand as when was he cam ee---nothing in the world. He had no more to !kit' wi lug e ou anhing to say . etri)e,;lloNni?tted to Monmouth'Gaol, to take your trials for Z e as c t l f s n, tier Rees said, he never was before a justice be pleofis F li s was the way in which the innocent were made th ti: ) „ rt he guilty t ,Piris.one.rswere then . committed_ to . Monmouth sk. j‘oeir trials at the next assizes for high treason. 11 4 acl e h a e r nes, the watchmaker, was then placed at the t , ,t h e evith ged with high treason. liehe Pre e ,;,?Fe offered in this case was of a similar character t:riSOne-'l4g. After all the witnesses had been . examined, ti e llli e d r t , was asked what he had to say in his defence. ! e was t h il at h Should reserve it for his trial. ;Nearly ti ne e c ommitted. ki t , e tsed ntY other charges were investigated, but they itetl no interest ; and with the exception of a few com s44targed.lort terms ofimprisonment as vagabonds, were t r e e tt{)i e l i t e ll aljd ot t ) te: b a ll t tl i o ' , 3 : l\ o ' f o trade 9.—The peace of the town has . been remains completely at a stand-still, the the inhabitants being devoted to attend tlatti• anxious inquiries reecting the prisoners. During LOtl f . 14 4tio n f ° C th 9 Jones the watchmaker, ye . sterday, who g as then chief chartist orators of the neighbonrhood a t to ~e °a diutor of Frost and Vincent, the court w; •14 - " e ess and among the visiters we observed Sir tge Nan, Bart.,of Tredegar • Colonel Millman, of nard s , • r e 41 , the Lord-Lieutenant o Lla no ` ; ',°, l . Lewis, of St. Pierre ; Mr. W. Williams, ges 4"o}* Castle, &c. kiitt,titoie,jet.4o.enieenrecionngimitted for high treason, and will be to Monmouth gaol, for, trial at the 14 (1. 1.1. • 11,, 1 ", ss ion, which is, 'I understand,. agreed upon . , o noi c ," u ie, solicitor to the Treasury, will be here this th - Prepare the indictments. call,at ence is in some measure restored, ve feel that that . by the name of riot which should . have l Ym il Nil e an insurrection ;" for a riot is, strictly sp f ealc ; h lt e exeitesudden outbreak of popular fury, arising rm . 4 vt e lltle e ,, r neUt of the moment ; while here has been suffici vithalo„' to show that this was no momen . tary outbreak, , se4Planned insurrection, deeply organised, managed 11; i :41 4 9:41. y ilt e it; o e e n e he_ e au : rlrlm t sr r es u no l t y fa a e s t t s o o n f is p h r in o g vid a e n n d ee which has been defeated ke ti t ity o e f t d Proof that the plan has been long matured, the all descriptions possessed by the deluded gives sufficient evidence of the state of pre hitti`t't °.! can its organization be doubted when we _find tr, % fo r 201.11.'soners men who have worked in one, empldy N t; e 44, tears marchina distance of 20, 30, or 40 miles 4, 1 ; 10 4 8 1 ".e 4 , many of whom had never been in Newport 1 1. 5 ' h ed, th l ', 4l their Whole lives thatded to which it may be 't t ;: and a h 9t has been proved in some portions of the l ec t 4 „ i n evenning' districts no persons would be allowed . to et Ch; t ". l or four hours without enrolling himself in . the (4 4 eia 4 tist Lodge of the place, with its sections, captains, 1-, 441 8, that all the boysW formed into Youths Tiio-7:3uges, and the women" into their Females' ,at e -s fro„.ecY their designs were conducted with may be ga- 'holainer fact, that 'although the march of the rebels kei yet the by parties living nearly 50 miles Yir,,letititoLue inagistratei were entirly ig - norant of the fact, t i0 1 ., 43 Unaware of their designs, until the very day pre -4 '' th ue ing' carried into operation. One of the ma sery tl art t i t'o, self informed me that he was secretly informed messenger who respected him, and wished to t tleed ' 4l le, of the intended attack, and that he was to he ' e t Whie? Sunday night as he was going to chapel, pFevi i,,to at thi _ I nothing definite was known of their intentions. os ia ) 1 3 'Very mo ment were there three hundred Char . t. Ni t r • e to: se ssion of one of the gates within half a mile hand k,-----outlayinc, parties in ambush upon every jri ee ",ne,s boasting' that they were to be joined by itkr th e - head seven pieces of cannon, and Frost march 44°F th e ea.d of thousands to attack the town in the entil'aet o f from which they were only prevented tniab •L-rovidence, a terrific night of rain and dark `tis ne s Prevented them from eLipleting their march h 4 ve th e i .„g• If they had succeeded in arriving during (i f th be estgate, then undefended by soldiers, would . ,raveerirdiai:iitrprised, and the town sacrificed withth e e nc liy e s th e Y, of th e This This was fortunately prevented,. multitudeeic4)trlorv.eserved the town from being sacked td ‘ ,. and ,i! ‘ g the magistrates resumed their . sitting at 11 ill ' 4l lF r Le r some proceedings of no public interest, t . [s etN. od °st (the uncle of the ex-magistrate) was brough l aimeYer a i Y v : Ikcateti the n were examined, whose evidence strongly ttit4v...the Cl( ) - s e Prlsner.] the °f the evidence, the Chairman said that cir "ettr,e such strong suspicion had arisen in the course 'aretmnatio'2gation, that the magistrates had come to the metes i a I.:7Atscs bind him over, himself in £2OO. and two ,1 0 1, r any j,'""• each to appear at the next gaol delivery to gss e ln L ev Iltrge which might be brought against him. Th l tlto b e e . Was next brOught in, and after evidence was k arj,,, e nust committed for high treason and sedition. Th - "R. ad journed at half-past eight o'clock on Monday e l' NT 24t) it ~,„L 'aYor Newport , -as p p ,, continues to improve in health, ' 4 ces' W onW er allY reported this afternoon that Serjeant \i • s have presented some unfavourable appear 15r;r; erlea4-.e the the solicitor to the Treasury, was expected to tlsl,,tiratoissionlinlid,ictments, and I understand that a special %id L 'e aPpointed, and the attorney-general come net the prosecution. Mt h, OWL b t eg 4 1' i '' :' FAR' FAR AT SEA !"—The ship Margar h e a t s . , W'il'ic,'tlit ci-„veu ate his port, on Friday last, from Quebe, ion. s a iin'e ri soner of rather extraordinar des le n s s p t t h a n h t C ll4 d e n d e owl which was captured at sea, not . 401„::Yagir-i;ttis'illie:triroancivann!, land. Whither the solitary bird kN tt Ls of far-) over E s e cE — Cußious CLAIM OF PREFER hgtionlkuleei4o'nelle i likely to arise a most important q t:rr---.4tt,;.111 connection with the affairs of the Imperial i t, - ti eo ll ,, t 2-!Y, w hether a party who kept . a purely discount law.a k, zl,vvith the bankthat is, who paidpurely discount is, who paid in bills indorsed i t , tt o , to o k . .., ph i ,— - out cash, and who also, t in the time of the 14 P ie ' 41'8- Nlnent, was a creditor. . The a case is this,— c,tietlel)°,ill Parties are entitled to receive twenty shillings di • of de u", whilst another creditor , whose account is . purely a ti v.14,4,,ep05it, and such deposit in ash, is only entitled to k ra ait,,, g ia • That hi v. g'-' le I thorities are divided in their Itr it , l3r te et ° , l the subject igsapearhaps known to but f9w ; a e n r d a a y a la; l ,li pi ( l ) . e v ! of the case, ,the could . not, iftteesne who ,_kriuhae, otherwise than highly bepeficial to 'lt ' -.P3 III eithe r 11 °W or hereafter, similarly circumstanced, the t a 8,1,e,..°f eer numerous readers may be induce , ... into I lot aok • (s," °ll of the question. A B then Paysa. um ° al eel I,Y two months date) for £5OO, but which bill is hat l Y , 144044?, Yidorsed ; it being, as it is technical ) . y . called. ,4?1,k stops uln blank ; in Plainer terms, simply A B 110:happrepayment before the bill is at maturity ; iel i ~.t ° the authorised parties to surrender up on . t i h i w e li b Ti i ci ll iel , tatesio,„"e bank refuses to do—in fact, not having first, daktile draftl 11 r a kes his claim on four grounds, that t (Itr, 8, WaS pecially indorsed ; second,. the !oti6e,,,athi w t ' therefore legally authorised to re-issue such . ti - " 04 f0 . „ 41 ,eh a special indorsement alone would be a jus 40rultlehif the bank in so ing ? third, that bankers were he, s -1, till threePonsible fort he safe custody of bills so ii -1•44 tto 4 w arrival at maturity • fourth, that the case in tee ta kle 43 essentially different from ' those, where parties PliP lbe •easil d epo't ' • t, n et , etaii v ),. , 1 s, inasmuch as such cash deposits had , 0 tLa ha v i„ I 'aced at the disposal of the bank, by the de iell ," 4 re -g a greed to accept a certain interest in return. 'att 'a treasons it was replied , that indorsements, special as (I r ' t hat " in lila k 4 artu the batik e , were in law synonymous ; and, there 'll Itit ° 0 Possessed the undoubted right to put such . 4 ) r ) t iall "Penlation at its discretion if previously accept9d , there re Y that alien t e the,. e ank vras not liable, in law Qr in equity, °llL.—Clironicle, of examiliati wl fiords afte- - ,yoa id to me 0 kat I did net ssia H e then„ o t plied I diuriv were not. L le witr'e s " ° n• a, that the go aaen t took play having aPPrf: L t Malpawbe; led gun. it • was [ of it, as pressed, an d 92 ue r —I am garde iny h i ms elf in til l riot see him I° . a e I foul] , af e E; l e ft nly t te ll He did un rt that day'' that I ha"b ar eP t. isoner at C to dge room uP then a - .or s t prisoner Au Ito of men' do he ha d d to ,ndeallourlce_ talf-past 01; ;cape fr 9a l9 e 9aia ruing.. ii v e told was. li . • - lion w fro ith at not he 1 sa es ; ",,,port. n j risoner hack I h e ali t v ls c lock. no t uho t s ee o' that st eleve w ho s before, baud at my h us pe't, I nes'e,„atieu had a" a t told hini or 0 tbe , t tement _ f 10 lie state v ;3l , ta ke his tr' The chi c. idge, NO"' can in C°s ure a ring b arb° ring - - DIABOLICAL PLOT AGAINST HUMAN LIFE, AT BADSTOCK.-TWELVE LIVES LOST. (From the Bath Herald of Friday.) This morning, at four o'clock, one of the most awful cala mities occurred at Badstock-wells-way pit, which it has ever been our melancholy duty to record, by which the lives of twelve unoffending fellow-creatures have been sacrificed. At about that hour the following individuals, viz., Richard Langford, aged 44 ; Farnham Langford, his son, 16 ; Alfred Langford, another son, 13; James Keevil, 41, and his two sons, Mark, aged 15, and James, 14 ; William Adams, 19 ; Leonard Dowling, 12 ; William Summers, 26 ; Amos Dando, 13 ; John Barnet, 41, and James Pearce, 18, assembled at the pit for. work. The whole number were booked at the top, prior to being . let down into the pit, when, as soon as their weight was felt fully on the rope, it broke asunder, and precipitated the whole twelve to the bottom of the pit, a depth of two hundred and fifty yards, or 756 feet, by which frightful catastrophe they were all dashed to pieces, and con signed to instantaneous death. So terrible was the shock to life and limb in falling this tremendous depth that, out of the twelve bodies, only one was sufficiently entire to be instantly recognised ; the rest were literally smashed, and dissevered limb from limb, and presented a sight so awful and ghastly that the seven men who had been doing the night duty, and were waiting to be relieved by this very party, were so horror-struck that they were found wholly speechless and stupified bp the men who went down to look after the party which had met with this awful fate. The evidence taken goes to establish, beyond all doubt, that some diabolical malice had caused this cala.; mity wilfully and premeditatedly, and that the rope was per fectly sound over night, bat had been chipped nearly in two during the night. Those who are acquainted with the strength, thickness and general construction of these ropes are aware, that it would be easy to weaken and damage them by a blunt instrument, so that they would preserve the out ward appearance of their usual strength, but would snap when the ordinary weight was suspended to them. It was quite clear, from the appearance of this rope, which was nearly a new one, that it had been so practised upon ; for where it gave way, the fibres were jagged and uneven, in the part which had not been tampered with, but in the rest, they were almost as even and level as if a knife or chisel had passed over and into them. The very night before, this same rope had borne a weight of 32 cwts. We lament to say, that there is, at present, no clue to the perpetrator of this diabolical act ; and worst of all, that some of the unfortunate sufferers have left widows and families, viz. R. Langford, a widow and two children, J. Keevil, a widow and five children, and J. Barnett, a widow and seven small children. The inquest took place, this morning, before R. Uphill, Esq. County Coroner, and a highly respectable jury, when several witnesses were called and examined. The Jury, after a short consultation, roturned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The weather throughout the day has•been gloomy and unsettled, which has prevented her Ma jesty taking her accustomed airing. Yesterday afternoon the following illustrious and distin guished visiters arrived at the castle. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, from the royal military coilege of Sanddurst. Her Royal Highness, the Duchess, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, from Kew, attended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left the castle early this morning for town, to pay a congratulatory visit to his royal sister the Princess Augusta, on her birth day. His royal highness returned to the castle this afternoon at our o'clock. The following distinguished personages will form the royal dinner party this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess and Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Princes Ernest and Al bert of Saxe Coburg, Ladies C. Barrington, Lyttelton, and C. Dundas ; Earls March, Uxbridge, and Erroll ; Lords Melbourne, Palmerston, A. Paget, and Torrington ; Hon. Misses Cocks and Murray ; Count Kolowrath, Count Al bert Esterhazy ; Baroness Lehzen, Miss Kerr, Hon Major Keppel, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. WINDSOR, FRIDAY EVENING.—It is expected that the Court will leave Windsor very shortly, for Buckingham Pa lace, where her Majesty will remain about 10 days nr a fort night. It is believed that her Majesty's departure for town will not be delayed beyond a few days. We believe we may state, in confirmation of the rumour, that one of the reasons which induces the Queen to visit London for a short period before Christmas, is to visit the National and Haymarket theatres, accompanied by Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Saal field, and his brother Prince Ernest. , It is likewise rumoured, should the weather prove favour able, that a grand review of horse, foot, and artillery, will take place in Hyde Park, during her Majesty's sojourn in the metropolis. Some little urchins, on Guy Fawkes Day, not having be fore their eyes the fear of the treasurer of the household, and the others of the papist faction which now bask in the sun shiae of the court, absolutely had the temerity to march into the precincts of the castle, carrying the effigy of the pope, with a lanthorn in one hand and a bunch of matches in the other, "liken regular Guy." This, however, was an in trusion not to be tolerated, under present circumstances, in the immediate neighbourhood of our protestant Sovereign, and the little boys had scarcely got to the end of " Remember remember, The sth of November. Gunpowder treason and plot.', when they were sent to the right about, with more kicks than halt-pence." This may be a lesson to those who would remind her Majesty of certain historical facts, although not so palateable, perhaps, as we could wish, to the Queen of protestant England, hemmed in, as the court is acknow ledged to be at this peculiar period, not only by acknow ledged papists, but by the secret emissaries of popery. Her Majesty, as a protestant, would, perhaps, do well to bear in mind that " 'Tis wrong to trust Those, whom their very priests instruct to keep No faith with us."—Havard's Scanderby. THE QUEEN DOWAGER-THE ROYAL PROGRESS. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) GOPSALL-HALL, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager returned from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at Warwick Castle, the day before yesterday, at tended by the Earl Howe, lord chamberlain, Lady Clinton, Hon. Miss Mitchell, Rev, T. It. Wood, and Sir Horace Sey mour.. On Monday her Majesty left Warwick ; on the fol lowing morning Queen Adelaide visited Leamington Spa, ac companied by the Countess of Warwick, and attended by the Countess of Denbigh and Lady Clinton, Her Majesty's chamberlain, the Earl Howe, and Earl Denbigh, master of the horse, with the Earl of Warwick, Earl of Aylesford, Viscount Brooke, Lady Mary Fielding, Lady Caroline Neeld, Sir Horace Seymour, Miss Mitchell, Rev. J. R. Wood, &c., were in the royal suite. The royal visit to that fashionable resort was to have taken place on Saturday, but the weather was so unpropitious that it was deferred until Monday. It was at the express wish of the inhabitants that her Majesty honoured the Spa with her presence, they having agreed, at a public meeting, on the subjoined address, which was for warded to the Earl Howe on Friday evening to present to her Majesty : " May it please your Majesty,—We, the vicar, church wardens, and other inhabitants of Royal Leamington Spa, having learned, with feelings of sincere gratification, that your Majesty intends to visit the Earl and Countess of War wick, at his lordship's castle, in the immediate neighbour hood of our town, most respectfully approach your Majesty on this occasion, and humbly solicit that your Majesty will condescend to favour the Royal Leamington Spa with your presence, in gracious compliance with the anxious and unani mous wishes of the inhabitants, publicly assembled, who de sire to express on this occasion their high and unfeigned es teem for your Majesty's person." Early next morning Earl Howe answered the above ad dress, stating that her Majesty would visit the royal spa that morning ; but as the weather was so unfavourable, the visit was subsequently postponed. I will here take the opportunity to say that the clergy and inhabitants of the spa ought to consider themselves highly favoured by the Queen Dowager receiving their address, for throughout the " royal progress," the greater number of the towns had addresses already pre pared, but were informed by the Earl Howe that they would not be received. This ought to be mentioned out of fairness to the residents of the other towns through which the royal route lay. It was about two o'clock when the Queen Dowager and suite, in three carriages, with outriders, arrived at the spa. Her Majesty's reception was most enthusiastic, the fair occupants of the widows of the dwelling-houses and the multitude appearing emulous to excel each other in their vociferous manifestations of pleasure. The gentlemen form ing the committee of management received her Majesty im mediately on entering the town, and formed an escourt to the Queen's carriage. At the end of High-street the royal cortege passed under a magnificent triumphal arch, constructed of evergreens, and tastefully ornamented, having the words " Welcome, Adelaide" in letters of gold. The royal cortege then passed through Bath-street, over the bridge, to the Royal Pump Room, where her Majesty alighted, being as sisted from the carriage by Lord Warwick. Viscount Eastnor and the members of the committee lined the path. The master of the ceremonies, Dr. Jephson, and several other gentlemen, were then introduced to the Queen Dowager. After making a brief stay her Majesty and attendants pro ceeded through the town. At the top of York-terrace, in front of the chapel, the whole of the charity children of the town, exceeding 1,200 in number, were assembled on a platform. The petits enfans, on the approach of the carriage in which the Queen Dowager was seated, loudly huzzaed, the Whole of them directed their inquiring eyes on her Majesty, some looking fearlessly, and others timidly, on the illustrious visiter. The procession alted a few minutes, when the Rev. J. Craig had the honour of being introduced to her Majesty. The Queen Dowager was much affected, and expressed her self in flattering terms to the rev. gentlemen on the neat appearance and decorous behaviour of the children. Another triumphal arch was erected, over which was inscribed, " Gon bless the Queen Dowager." The royal visiter and noble attendants then took their departure, and were accom panied as far as the Town Hall by the committee. The church bells rang a merry peal, and it seemed that the day had been converted into a holiday by all classes. The ex ertions of the inhabitants were crowned with success, and, indeed, they were highly creditable to that rising watering place. Shortly after half-past ten, on Tuesday morning, her Ma jesty, attended by the Earl Howe, and the Earl and Countess of Denbigh, left Warwick Castle, for Gopsall Hall, the seat of Earl Howe. Her Majesty visited the interesting ruins of Kenilworth Castle, once the finest residence in the county of Warwick, its park and chases having in the olden times occupied five square miles. It was there, as most of our readers must be aware, the famous Earl of Leicester entertained his royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth, with all the extravagant splen dour and romantic pageantry which that age could exhibit. It was in that castle the unfortunate Edward 11. was impri soned, prior to his being removed to Berkeley Castle, where he was afterwards so inhumanly murdered. After making a short visit the royal party proceeded to Coventry, where re lays of horses were prepared for the royal carriages. The Earl and Countess of Denbigh and Lady Mary Fielding took leave of her Majesty at that town and started for Nuneham Paddox, near Lutterworth. After the necessary delay caused by the change of horses the Queen Dowager and suite resumed their journey and arrived here early in the afternoon. Early on Monday morning the Queen Dowager will leave for Drayton Manor to stay a few days with Sir Robert and Lady Peel. It is generally thought her Majesty will honour the Duke of Rutland with her company at Balvoir Castle, but of this I am uncertain. lam happy to add the Queen Dowager is in the enjoyment of excellent health. ARRIVALS AT THE ADELPHI HOTEL.—Lord and Lady Hawarden and family ; Fleming, Esq., M. P., and family; Sir W. Beecher, Bart., lady and family ; Sir E. Hayes, Bart. M. P., and family; Sir Rufane Donkin, Bart. M.P.; —Ara bin, Esq., and Lady ; Lord Lilford ; Sir Richard and Lady Keane ; Mr. and Mrs. Maysuch ; Lord Fullerton, Hon. Mr. Jerningham, Mr. Vandaleur, Sir R. Burke, Capt. Hinde, of Halston ; Messrs. Bolden, of Lancaster ; Mr. Baum, of Dantzic ; Sir Henry Ross, Col. Clive, Capt. Routh, Capt. Trewitt, Capt. Trotter, Mons. Delessert, Mr. Maher, Mr.P., Capt. Sanders. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire was expected at the Adelphi on Monday, en route to Ireland, but, in consequence of the weather, his Grace has postponed his visit. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MR. J. G. VANDENH OFF, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent- Garden, is engaged for Five Nights, and will make his second appearance on this Stage, this Evening. THIS present TUESDAY, November 12, will be pre sented Mr. Sheridan Knowles' favourite Play of THE WIFE : A TALE OF MANTUA. Julian St. Pierre Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff, His first appearance in that character. Leonardo Gonzaga Mr. W. Howard. Ferrado Gonzago.... Mr. Gray. Lorenzo.... Mr. IV. H. Bland. Bartolo Mr. Baker. Moriana.. Miss Faucit. Floribel.. Miss Barratt. To conclude with the Melo-Dra,matic Romance of the FORTY THIEYES. On WEDNESDAY, Shakspeate's Play of KING JOHN. Falconbridge, Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff, his first appearance in that character; King John, Mr. Stuart; Hubert, Mr. W. Howard; King Philip, Mr. Gray; Queen Elinor, Mrs. Clarke ; Blanche, Miss Faucit ; Lady Constance, Miss Cleaver.—To conclude with the Melo-Drama of the IND BOY. On THURSDAY—Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff will perform, for the first time, the Duke Aranza, in the HONEY MOON. On FRIDAY—Mr. J. G. Vandenhoffs Benefit, and the last night of his Engagement. The Last New Play, written by Sir Edward Lytton Bul wer, Baronet, called the SEA CAPTAIN, or the BIRTH RIGHT, as now performing nightly with the greatest suc cess at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, is in preparation, and will be produced, with New Scenery, Dresses. &c., on MONDAY NEXT, November 18. LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. X EEkiiii3ifiorlOithe LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN, at the GALLERY, Churc street, from Nine o'clock in the Morning, till dusk. fission, One Shilling. Catalogues, One Shilling. Seaso ickets, Five Shillings. It is also open in the Evenings, from Seven o'clock until Ten, brilliantly illuminated with Gas. Admission, One Shilling. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. rht ttherpooi otaitbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1339. We have received a file of the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 12th of June inclusive. We extract from these papers the most important articles of intelli- gence. The gOvernment of New South Wales had determin ed upon sending between two and three thousand bushels of good seed wheat to the settlers at Nepean, for which they would only be obliged to give security to return a:certain quantity after the next harvest. A company was in contemplation, for the purpose of running steam-boats to the flourishing township of Wollongong. The capital was set down at £lO,OOO, in shares of £5O, most of which had been taken up. The Commercial Journal comments with great seve rity on the contemplated execution of several blacks, for the murder of two white men. It maintains that these blacks are not answerable to the laws of the in vaders of their soil—that they have never received any payment for their land—that ,they have, on the con trary, strictly speaking, been robbed of it—that they do not acknowledge the laws of the colonial govern ment as supreme—and that they will not submit to the process of naturalization, to enable them 'to claim a Briton's rights and privileges. How, then, it is de manded, when they slaughter both man and beast, trespassing on their uncultivated wilds, can they be in dicted for murder ? The same journal then proceeds to remark, that these blacks may be considered as at perpetual war with the colonists, " and when, as with the Caffers, they have an.opportunity of spearing man or beast, they will do it, and generally with impunity. If the government desire to protect the whites against these treacherous and savage blacks, let all the known tribes, both far and near, be told that war - is declared against them, and that it will be right and lawful for white men to shoot them if they disturb the peace of the settled districts in any manner." If such language may be taken as expressive of the sentiments enter tained by any large number of the colonists of New South Wales, we need not feel surprised that the blacks are reluctant to come to amicable terms with the set- tiers. We have reason to suspect that the outrages committed by the blacks are, in the great majority of cases, mere acts of retaliatory vengeance, in the perpe tration of which they consider themselves fully justified by the conduct of the whites. Great complaints are made at Port Phillip of the pil fering and annoying habits of the natives, at many sta tions of the country. Two of the natives had been killed on a recent occasion, while endeavouring to plun der a shoemaker in open day. The police regulations of the district cannot be very efficient when such con sequences ensue. The inordinate cupidity of the na tives is well known, and some means should be forth with devised for preventing any thing like familiar in tercourse with thern.• Seven bushrangers, who had been guilty of highway robbery and murder, had been captured in the neigh- bourhood of Berrima. These desperate marauders had, it appears, long carried on their depredations with .mpunity. The supply of provisions at Sydney was plentiful, and prices were declining. In South Australia flour had risen from £3O to £4O per ton, and in some cases to £45. Potatoes had also advanced from £l4 to £3O per ton, and were even scarce at the last-mentioned price. At Hobart Town the best flour was about £4O per ton, and other articles proportionably dear. The Whigs just now are a luckless set. Without power or influence in the country, which they have so long and so wretchedly misgoverned, they read in every event which occurs evidence of their approaching downfall. All the ingenious shifts and expedients by which they have attempted to bolster up their party, and infuse something like continued vitality into its existence, have signally failed. The Reform Bill, which was meant to exclude the Tories more than to benefit the nation, and which was to be the sheet an chor by which the Liberals were to ride out all the storms of the political world undamaged and triumph ant, has, at last, through the medium of the Registra tion Courts, turned against its authors, and aimed a deathblow at their power. Ipswich, Cambridge, and (we may add) Manchester led the way, and prophesied their fall. The municipal elections, in which if any where one would have thought the Whig-Radicals might have looked for consolation, have been a source of nothing but despair. The notable attempt to con vert Convention demagogues and Chartist agitators into peace-loving respectable magistrates, has proved abortive,—and, not only abortive, it has been one of the most fruitful causes of their humiliation and shame. The Whigs are a luckless set. Their Attorney-Ge neral, " plain Jolp," is sent on a political mission to Edinburgh, to eat marmalade and oatcake at a public breakfast—because a dinner was not just convenient— and undertake the Quixotic office of defending his col leagues against the damning evidence of incapacity and weakness brought forward by Lord Lyndhurst in his Summary of the Session. Something he did say of what the Whigs had done ; but more, far more, of what they would have done in the way of jobbery and misrule, if that nuisance the House of Lords had not ' interposed and prevented them. But the crowning glory of the Whigs was the way they had treated Char tism. " I have put down. the Chartists," said the At torney-General, while a smile of self-satisfied suffici ency played upon his lips. " I have put down the Chartists by the arm of the law. I have asked for no gagging bills. I have demanded no suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Act. I have indeed made no use of suspensions of any kind, for I have hanged nobody; but Chartism is extinct. How different would have been the conduct of a Conservative Attorney-Geneial ! He would have attempted to prevent that which I was solicitous only to punish." Such was the language of Sir John Campbell ; but, " Ah! luckless speech and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear." At the very moment when, over hot rolls and coffee, this Whig functionary Nl . las felicitating himself on the disappearance of Chartism, an armed and organised rebellion was about to burst forth in South Wales, and one of those magistrates whom Lord John Russell chose to honour for his rampant Radicalism was at the head of a band of ruffians, whose avowed object was the plunder and murder, by wholesale, of their peace able fellow-subjects. It was Chartism in its most ma lignant and frightful form : and we take it the inhabi tants of Newport, Pontypool, and Monmouth will read the account of the speech at the Edinburgh breakfast with mingled feelings of wonder and disgust. What a contrast betyeen Barry's snug parlour in Auld Reekie—wherein was assembled the rump of the Edinburgh Whigs, to hear the laudatory self-gratula tion of the Attorney-General, in which he took infinite credit to himself for the fact that the law had achieved over Chartism a bloodless triumph—and the wild and gloomy hills in the neighbourhood of Newport, on which, at that very moment, bodies of armed men were being drilled and organised, some of them in caverns underground, for the purpose of bursting, like a destructive thunderbolt, upon the devoted town ! Verily, Sir John is no prophet : " To- day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a Frost, a killing Frost, And, when he thinks—good, easy man !—full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls—." But far graver considerations than any affecting the vainglory of a conceited Whig force themselves upon us in consequence of the late outbreak in South Wales. How Was it that so widely-spread and dangerous a conspiracy against property and life had extended its ramifications on every side without attracting the notice of Government ? It is next to impossible that a vigi lant Ministry could have been kept profoundly in the dark as to the machinations of so large a body of men as took part in the late insurrection. But perhaps Government did receive a hint, and suspect that some thing of the kind was going on. We have been told that such was the case, and that from some of the neighbouring magistrates the Home-office was in formed that mischief was brewing amongst the hills. What, then, shall we say of that functionary who thought thirty soldiers sufficient protection for a town menaced by a body of many thousand exasperated colliers and miners. Providentially the cool courage and admirable discipline of the handful of troops sta tioned in the Westgate Inn dismayed the rioters, and an easy victory was gained : but who can calculate the horrors which would have ensued, had the desperadoes been more resolute, or the little party that garrisoned the inn wavered at the sight of the overwhelming numbers opposed to them ? The duty of a Home Secretary is like that of the Roman Consul, to see ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat—to provide before hand against such disastrous outbreaks as have dis graced Birmingham and South Wales. If the Government believed that the efforts of the Chartists were at an end, and when they commissioned their Attorney-General to send round his begging-box for applause on the ground that they were effectually suppressed, it only proves how inefficient an Executive we possess, which knows nothing whatever of the movements of a vast, armed, insurrectionary body, regu!arly disciplined and drilled, and ready at any moment to convert one of the peaceful towns of Eng land into a heap of smoking ruins. Is it credible that such a thing could have happened in the days of Mr. Pitt, or under any Administration gifted with ordinary energy, foresight, and vigilance ? If, on the contrary, Lord Normanby was apprised, as we have every reason to believe he was, of the approaching and meditated attack, how culpable is the Minister who tempted the poor deluded victims to rise en masse in insurrection, because no precautionary measures had been taken to prevent them, and no force provided to intimidate them ! We doubt not that this matter will be made the subject of grave inquiry in Parliament, and let the late Irish Lord Lieutenant look to it, if he has been playing the same tricks with the Chartists which it is proved he has been doing with Ribandism in Ireland. The word impeachment nowadays is a subject of mer riment with the Whigs, but they may yet find that the lives and property of Englishmen are not to be sacri ficed to mob violence with impunity, while my Lord 111elbourne dances attendance at the Castle, and my Lord Normanby superintends private theatricals at Chatsworth. By and bye the Melbourne Ministry will be like Sir John Cutler's silk stockings, which were darned so often with worsted, that at last it became impossible to tell of what material they were composed. All the changes which have taken place betoken an uneasy restlessness—a conviction that " there 's something rotten in the state of Denmark," which renders it expedient to get clear of the concern as soon as pos sible, and feather the nest in some quarter where the yearly income will no longer depend on the veering weathercock of politics. Spring Rice has taken to himself wings—aye ! the wings of an Eagle—and flown away. Lord Howick has marched off like a sulky schoolboy, and brought down upon the Ministry the wrath of the multitudinous family of Greys. Sir Robert Rolfe has transferred his person to the Bench of the Common Pleas, or Exchequer, for which; having been all his life an Equity lawyer, he must be so admi rably fitted. And last, not least—most ominous sign of the fast-approaching overthrow of the Whigs !—Sir John Campbell—cunning John, who never was known yet to miscalculate his own interest—is said to be on the eve of leaving Ministers in the lurch here, and accepting the seals as Lord Chancellor of Ireland. But mark the left-handed wisdom—plain men might call it roguery—in this matter. The Whigs know that they cannot stand as a Government more than a few weeks, if so long, after the Session has commenced. If they deny that they know this, they will at least admit that this catastrophe is in a high degree probable. Now Lord Plunket, the present Irish Chancellor, is perfectly competent to discharge the duties of his situ ation for the short period before the meeting of Parlia ment : and then, if the Conservatives eject the present Government, he will of course retire, and pocket his pension. But it seems there is a better arrangement than this. Why should not two retiring pensions be sponged out of the public ? So it is said the present Attorney-General is to go to Ireland as Chancellor — Lord Plunket is to receive his pension—and in two or three months, when the Whig-Radicals are out, Sir John will also retire upon his allowance for life. Is not this a delectable expedient on the part of men who deafen us with their gabble about economy, retrench ment, and reform ? It is a gross job, and as such will be looked upon and repudiated by the people of England. The municipal elections, in Scotland have proved fully as adverse to the interests of 'Whig-Radicalism as those which have taken place in England. Everything that has recently taken place in the political world has had a tendency to render more hopeless than ever the prospects of the present patchwork administration. They have been beaten—most signally and completely beaten in the registration courts. The battle has been fought and won before the Revising Barristers in a manner which reflects the highest credit on the untiring zeal, energy, and perseverance of the great Conservative party now happily in the ascendant in every part of the kingdom. At the recent elections under the Municipal Corporation Act the faction have sustained a blow from the stunning effects of which they have not yet recovered. The insurrection in South Wales has also proved to Lord Melbourne and his coadjutors a most " untoward event." '[he specimen thus afforded of the ultimate design and real nature of modern liberal ism has determined many a waverer, and caused many who were halting between two opinions to enrol them selves among the ranks of Conservatives. Nor is there wanting a voice from Scotland which bodes no good to the Melbourne administration. The reaction in favour of Conservative principles is not less manifest across the borders than it is in England and 'Wales. Except ing in " Auld Reekie," and a few other strong holds of "'philosophic" Whiggery, the liberals stand but a very indifferent chance of success at any future election. Our " cannie" friends in Scotland have discovered that the " tree of liberty" planted by the 'Whigs is sap less and barren—that reform has proved an unproduc tive fallacy—that the splendid promises of a political millenium held forth by the Whigs have proved as baseless as the airy fabric of a vision. It is not upon light or insufficient grounds that we assert the fact of a wide-spread and permanent reaction in Scotland. The last general election afforded strong and unequivocal evidence of this fact. At the previous election, the proportion of Conservatives to Radicals was only as one to three. At the last election the num ber returned was equal with that of the liberal represen tatives. At the next election, we feel assured, there will be two Conservatives returned to every Radical. We ground this conviction, in the first place, upon the result of the registrations for the last two years, and, in the next place, upon the ascertained issue of the recent municipalgelections. We proceed to glance at a few of the more conspicu ous instances in which the municipal elections in Scot land have proved favourable to the Conservative cause, and, in doing so, we rejoice to be able to add that there has scarcely been an instance of an adverse character. Eveu in Edinburgh itself the Conservatives have main tamed their position without any loss. Their strength in the Town-council is the same as it was last year. The radicals have been unable, notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions, to advance a single step. At Leith the contest was comparatively divested of a politi cal character—the several candidates ranging them selves as advocates of the "eastern or western harbour." We are, therefore, unable to say what the precise issue of the election has been in reference to the state of par- .es. At Musselburgh two Conservatives and two Radicals have been returned ; but the Conservatives were at the head of the poll. At Glasgow the two par ties are equally balanced in the Council, precisely as hey were two years ago, there being sixteen conserva yes and an equal number of Radicals among the rnem- The decision of every important question must rest with the casting vote of the Lord Provost. At Portobello parties remain in the same relative position as before. At Dunbar the Conversatives have put in the whole of the new Councillors. At Greenock the Conservatives have gained one, and the parties are now equally divided. At Dumbarton five Conservatives have been returned in opposition to four voluntaries and one radical churchman. Here the triumph has been complete. At Renfrew all the gentlemen elected are Conservatives. At Falkirk the whole of the Coun cillors and Magistrates are Conservative. At Airdrie the Conservatives have 'carried all their candidates by considerable majorities. At Cupar-Fife none but Conservatives were returned. At Perth, where, pre viously, there was not a single Conservative in the Council, two sound Churchmen and constitutional ists were returned at the last election. At Aberdeen four Conservatives and two Radicals have been elected. We are unable to state the result of the election at Kirkaldy, as we do not find the politics of the respective candidates specified in any of the papers before us. We have the same remark to make respect ing Montrose. At Brechin the Radicals have sustained a mortifying defeat—all the Councillors chosen being Conservatives. At Forfar the former Councillors were all re-elected : their politics are not stated, but, from the tone of the Montrose Standard, we suppose they are " all right." At Paisley parties remain in statu quo, the Conservatives having made no preparations for a contest. At Kilmarnock the result of the elec- tions has placed thirteen Conservatives and three Li berals in the Council. We shall not close our list without giving our Liberal contemporaries the benefit of the election at St. Andrews, where two Conserva tives and ten Whig-Radicals have been returned. As we are not aware of the previous state of parties in that burgh, we cannot say whether anything has been gained or lost by the Conservatives. Such is a summary of the municipal elections for Scotland. The above results are highly gratifying to every loyal Conservative. The counties of Scotland have already returned an overwhelming majority of Conservatives to Parliament : indeed, we cannot count more than one or two Radicals as having been returned by the county constituencies. The burghs bid fair to rival the example set to them by the independent county voters. Scotland will soon be found Conser vative to the very core, and will, we hesitate not to say, contribute—most honourably to herself, and most auspiciously for the interests of the kingdom at large— to the speedy and irrecoverable downfall of the most worthless and mischievous Administration that ever disgraced the annals of the country. The Albion of yesterday is unusually lugubrious in its tone, which is a very remarkable circumstance in a journal which is generally characterised by the mirth provoking jocularity of its leading articles. The editor is evidently mortified at the result of the late municipal election : but, even in the midst of the deep gloom and despondency which has come over his mind, he still finds some source of consolation in the soothing reflection, that " the Reformers of Liverpool are not alone in their mortification." Catching at this straw which has fallen in his way, he proceeds to exclaim that the Whig-Radicals of this town are " not the worst off, when the trophies of the conflict are counted up." Not the worst off, indeed ! They have escaped being so by the narrowest chance in the world. But for the casting votes of the Liberal returning officers for Everton, Exchange, and South Toxteth Wards, the Radicals would only have returned five, while the Conservatives would have returned twelve members to the Town Council. Again, in Pitt-street Ward the Radicals barely escaped defeat, their " splendid" ma jority having dwindled down to three : whilst, in the remaining wards, a little more exertion, and a better system of organisation, would have resulted in the return of the Conservative candidates. When we read the exclamation that the " Reformers of Liverpool were not the worst off" in the recent con flict, we imagined that the editor meant to contrast the issue of the municipal election in this town with that of the struggle at Leeds, at Wigan, at Bristol, and a score of other places, where the Liberal faction have had an extinguisher put upon their hopes of future ascendancy. No such thing. The Albion is too cun ning to allude to these defeats. It would not suit its purpose to commit itself by acknowledging the reac- tion which is now so apparent throughout the king dom. Its consolatory reflections are not derived from the circumstance that the Radicals of Liverpool have been less soundly beaten than their brethren in other. towns. Its " drops of comfort" are drawn from a much nearer and a much more humble source. Our readers will scarcely believe us when we tell them what has administered the healing balm to the wounded spirit of our contemporary. He has discovered that only two of the " old Council ascendancy party" have been returned at the recent election ! Wonderful dis covery ! Astonishing comfort to the " mortified" Reformers of Liverpool ! Did it never recur to our contemporary that "only two" of the members or im mediate connections of the " old Council" were pro posed as candidates, or else " the consolation" enjoyed by him under the defeat might have happened to be considerably less ? Does the Albion insinuate, that if the candidates for the other wards in which the Con servatives were successful had been chosen from the " old Council" party, the election of the latter would not have been quite as secure as that of those who have been returned ? The Conservatives returned the whole of those candidates who had anything to do with the "old regime," and that by very large majorities; and the Albion is welcome to all the consolation which such an " untoward event" is calculated to afford the chopfallen Liberals. The editor of the Albion need not be surprised that " the Tories seem wonderfully elated with their suc cess"; nor need he express any astonishment that they should predict that " in 1842 they would be the ruling party in the Council of this borough." if he looks at the numerical superiority of the Conservatives, taking the aggregate amount of voters polled at the recent election, he will see some reason for the exultation of the Tories, and much cause for Radical .despondency. The Council proceedings of Saturday last call for very little remark. The most important transaction was the election of our friend Joshua as Mayor of Liverpool. He has, at length, attained the summit 'of his wishes. The Reform Association have carried their point against their more aristocratic brethren. They must now look out for another chairman. We recommend the rejected of Scotland Ward to their choice. It may prove a stepping-stone to the Mayor alty. Why should not the " man of paint" succeed as well as the " man of grain" ? Several of our contemporaries have bestowed the highest encomiums on the late Mayor. We see no reason why we should dissent from them. His con duct has been, as far as it has fallen under our cogni zance, gentlemanly and dignified. The sensitiveness of the Liberals in the Town Coun cil, on the question that the inquiry into the persona tion of voters should extend to all persons who had so offended, is not to be wondered at. Such an inquiry would prove exceedingly inconvenient to those gentle men among them who prate so loudly about " purity of election." We hope soon to shew these superlative purists that many of their party have not entered the Council with " clean hands." The shyness of certain of the Liberals of the Town Council in reference to the acceptance of the liberal offer of the Earl of Harrowby and Lord Sandon, " trammelled as it would be with the condition" that it should form the nucleus of a library accessible to the public, is truly amusing. The very men who manifested this shyness have always been loud in their advocacy of the " education of the people." But who would expect consistency from a Radical CORRESPONDENCE.- EXCHANGE WARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The mention in my former letter of Mr. R. Rawson's delinquency has called forth a reply not only from himself, but from a correspondent of the Albion, " Radical" by name, and probably the clerk of the Ocean Assurance Company will not thank his friend for his rather officious interference. Making all due allowance for the irritation displayed in Mr. Rawson's letter, and which is natural enough in one smarting under the consciousness of being found out, the only point for me to notice is his denial of a promise not to vote. Ido not wish to make use of the name of my inform ant without his authority, and his temporary absence from town prevents me from obtaining this, but in a few days I shall be able to satisfy Mr. Rawson himself on this point. The principal charge Mr. Rawson wisely does not notice, and his radical friend only recriminates that other persons have given similar votes. _ . He first asserts the baseness of the precedent, and then admits that Mr. Rawson followed it. Kind friend, and ad mirable defender ! My charge is, that Mr. Rawson made a political engine of the Ocean Assurance Company, and this he tacitly admits. He does not pretend that he is the occupier of the office, or that he pays the rent. It requires no great insight into fu turity to foresee that they will not be paid in his name again, or if they should be, he knows very well that his name will not stand upon another register. CONSERVATIVE. TO THOMAS SANDS, ESQ., COUNCILLOR FOR EXCHANGE WARD, &C. Sir,—l take the liberty of addressing, through the public press, in order that the. public, as well as yourself, may be come acquainted with the case. About three weeks ago, I happened to go into the police-court, when, among a great number of improper characters, three boys were brought up, charged with playing marbles, and being disorderly in Han over-street, during the hours of divine service. The police officer, very modestly, stated that complaints had been made by several respectable persons in that neighbourhood, he, the officer, had stated that fact to Mr. Whitty, who directed him the next time they offended to take them up. He accord ingly had done what he was ordered. The boys had every appearance of being of the worst description; but, on the officer making his statement to Mr. Rushton, he, the latter gentleman, instead of giving the boys a reprimand for their conduct, immediately ordered them to be discharged, and gave a severe reprimand to the officer for what I considered doing his duty, and told him it would have looked better if he had given them a good dressing with his stick. Now, as I understand that there was an order made by your committee, that the police-officers were not to make use of their sticks, I should like to know how the officers are to act, inasmuch as your orders are in direct opposition to those of the stipendiary magistrate. As it has been frequently declared by the judges from the bench and the criminals at the bar, that sabbath-breaking has been the first step to the ruin of the latter, what are we to think of such doctrine as that laid down by Mr. Rushton, when it is a notorious fact, that pitch-and-toss, and all sorts of gambling and sabbath-breaking prevails in this town with greater impunity than any other in the kingdom ? I trust that you will, in your official capacity, bring the above case before the Town Council or the Watch Com mittee, so that the officers may know how to act under the like circumstances.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, AN ELECTOR OF EXCHANGE WARD. 11th November, 1839. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRI DAY. EMBEZZLEMENT. Thomas Barber was brought up on a charge of embezzle ment. It appeared that the prisoner had been employed by Mr. Gilmore, a butcher, in Brownlow-hill, to collect his out standing debts. In April last he absconded, and it was then discovered that he had obtained various accounts, ranging from £22 10s. to small sums, and had not handed the money over to his employer. The prisoner was apprehended the other day in a neighbouring county. On his voluntary examination he confessed that he was guilty, and was put back to take his trial at the sessions. YESTERDAY. ROBBERY FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE. Two young men, well known to the police, and both of the same name, (John Williams,) stood charged with entering a dwelling-house in a court leading out of Vernon-street.— Police-officer 174 (John Chesworth) said, that a little before two o'clock on Sunday morning, while he was on duty in Marybone, he saw a man (the lesser of the two prisoners) at the corner of Pickup-street with a bundle in his hand. He asked him what he had got, and he said they were his wife's clothes which he was fetching from a mangle, in Cheapside. He having suspicions of the truth of this, said he would go with prisoner and see. He accordingly went along with him through Pickup-street, and while there the other prisoner (the taller) came up with two or three other men and attacked him. The latter prisoner on coming up said, " Let him go ; the property is his own." Witness received several blows and kicks, and the bundle became unfastened, and some of the clothes fell into the street, and were taken up by some of the persons assembled. Police-officer Christopher Maguire came to his assistance, and they took the lesser prisoner to bridewell, but found nothing on him. Maguire, and Cearns, another officer, afterwards succeeded in capturing the other prisoner, in Pickup-street, at two o'clock on the following morning. Jane Hewson, a widow woman, said she picked up the handkerchief produced. The tall prisoner came and snatched away all the clothes during the scuffle, except the handker chief, and made off. Police-officer Cearns corroborated the statement of the first witness, as to apprehending the taller prisoner. Ann Hatton, wife of Hugh Hatton, said she lived in Par court, Vernon-street. Her husband was ill on Saturday night, and she went up stairs to give him something, leaving the door below on the latch. A little girl soon afterwards came in and called her down, and when she returned below, she immediately missed two shirts, two table covers, two curtains, two dresses, a sofa-cover, and other articles, inclu ding two silk handkerchefs, and two cotton handkerchiefs. Alice Finlay, who lives in the same court, saw two men in dark coloured dresses came up the passage about the time mentioned, and go to the far end of the court. One was a little taller than the other. She immediately afterwards heard of the robbery. (The prisoners were in dark clothes.) The handkerchief found was afterwards identified by Mrs. Hatton, as one of those she had missed. The prisoners called two girls, who attempted an alibi, as regarded one of the prisoners, but their testimony was not to be believed. Both the prisoners were committed for trial at the Sessions. Mr. Rushton complimented Police-officer Chesworth, for his promptness and determination in bringing the prisoners to justice. OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. Thos. Brown was placed ai the bar, charged with defraud ing several respectable trades-people, out of sundry articles, by representing them to be for his master or others. Miss Hannah Thompson said she kept the shoe shop, No. 84, Whitechapel, along with her mother. On the 26th October, the prisoner came in and asked for a pair of boots. He se selected a pair, and said that if she (witness) would make out the bill, and send it to the Swan Inn, London-road, where his master was, he would pay it. Witness sent her mother with the prisoner to that inn, she carrying the boots,wrapped in paper. The prisoner was afterwards apprehended. Mrs. Thompson said she went to the Swan Inn with the prisoner, and waited in the lobby. In a short time the prisoner looked over the settle, and said—" My master is in, and if you will give me the boots, I will bring you the money in a minute." She handed him the parcel, and the prisoner went out, but did not return. The barmaid of the inn said she saw the prisoner pass the bar, and go out at the side door into St. Vincent-street East. He had no master at the inn.—There were three other similar cases against the prisoner ; but only one of them was taken, in which he had gone into the shop of Mr. Dickenson, and asked for some knives and forks, which he represented were for Mrs. Gilman, publican, Disney street. He said that she would choose one or other of the sets produced, and if they were sent by him he would return the money, and those not taken. A little boy was sent with him to the house. He took the boy to the back door and told him to wait; but he went through the house, taking the articles with him, and did not return. He was committed for trial. ROBBERY FROM A SHOP Richard Murphy was charged with breaking a shop window and abstracting six silver spoons. Mr. Ashan Cohan said he was a pawnbroker, in Paradise-street. About ten o'clock on Saturday night he was coming out of the shop, when he saw the prisoner and another man at the window doing some thing. He walked round them, and saw a pane of glass broken, and the prisoner handing something to his com panion. The prisoner then ran towards Custom-house-lane, and the other towards Hanover-street. He pursued the pri soner, and caught him at the back of Mr. Halls's, a publican. William Humphries came to his assistance, and Police-officer 406 apprehended him. Upon him were found a hammer, two putty knives, and a box rule. William Humphries, a working carver and gilder, said he heard the glass break. They took the prisoner to Nuttall's public-house. Martin, the police-officer, said he had since ascertained that the marks on the window corresponded with the small knife blade. Henry Cohan, son of the first witness, remembered putting six spoons in the window opposite the glass that was broken. He saw them on Friday afternoon, and they were not afterwards sold. The prisoner was committed for trial. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY Twa servant girls, Margaret Norris and Mary Mullen, the former very good looking, were placed before Mr. Rushton under the following circumstances. Mr. Hall, of Queen's square, who had given them in charge, stated, thet, yesterday his house was robbed of a sum of £136, which had been taken from a drawer in his bed-room, sometime in the afternoon or evening, as his wife had seen the money at three o'clock, and the money was missed at ten o'clock. As no other persons were in the house on that day, he had no alternative but to have both the prisoners apprehended. One of them it appeared had been out during part of the afternoon and evening, with leave from her mistress. The other had gone out at the back door, while it rained, and remained out for some time, without leave. She was seen by the stable boy, who wondered why she voluntarily went out in the wet. The other girl, who came home before her, in a plain stright forward manner accounted for the duration of her absence. She had been with her sister who was at service in Bootle, and had remained with her and a friend to see them off by omnibus from Dale-street. The other did not account for her going out, and there were some additional circumstances of suspicion attached to her. She (Mullen) was ordered to be remanded. The other received a good character from her master, who said neither he nor his wife thought she was - the guilty party, and but for the pecularity of the case, he would not have had her apprehended. Mr. Rushton, on investigating the whole case, said that he thought no imputation ought to rest upon that girl (Norris,) whose story he believed, and she was immediately discharged. IMPUDENT ROBBERY FROM A SHIP William Grace, a graceless fellow, was charged by a sailor with having gone on board the ship of the latter, deliberately entering the round-house, and there arraying himself in the complainant's jacket, with which he was in the act of making off, when he was brought to by the indignant tar. The case was proved, and as the prisoner had but recently been let loose from gaol, and had before been seven times committed, he was summarily sentenced to three months' imprisonment. FINES FOR DRUNKENNESS. - _ Yesterday, no fewer than one hundred and sixteen persons were fined at the police-court, in sums of 5s or 2s 6d, according to the circumstances of the case, or in default im prisoned for three or two days,—being drunk and disorderly, or krunk and helpless in the streeis. This would argue that the cause of temperance, which is said to be doing wonders in some parts of Ireland, has not latterly been so successful as it was for some time in this town. GRAND .JUNCTION RAILWAY : DANGEROUS ACCIDENT. —On Saturday evening, about half-past six o'clock, as the first-class train, which leaves Birmingham at five o'clock, was proceeding with considerable velocity, at about seven miles this side Stafford, it came in contact with an engine and tender that had been left on the rails. There had been no signal given by the police at their several stations previously, and the night was so dark that the first intimation was a vio lent concussion, which broke the engine and tender to pieces. Several of the passengers were severely, but not dangerously, hurt. As the company, in their recently amended act, deemed it requisite to apply for several remedies against any person that might place or leave any obstruction on the line of rails, we should hope they put them in operation in this case, against their own servants and labourers, of whom there were eight or ten standing close to the engine, at the time of the collision, without exhibiting any light or any other signal, THEATRE ROYAL. Last night, and to a brilliant house, Mr. J. G. Vanden& hoff made his first appearance on this stage, in the part of Leon. And of all first or early appearances which we hays witnessed of aspirants for distinction, as actors or actresses, we have no hesitation in recording that of Mr. Vandenhoff,' jun., to be the most successful. Bias apart, there can be but one opinion on this point. When his debut in London was noticed in this journal, we took occasion to observe, that when he appeared here he should have fair play ; and fair play he may depend upon at the hands of the general press, which it is but just, as well as courteous, to include in a no tice respecting the exhibition of talent in a department of the Instructive and Fine Arts, with which the party feelings or the politics of its possessor have nothing to do. Mr. Van denhoff may be easy on the score of petty enemies : he can afford not to notice them. No friend can wish him such assistance as the dislike of the envious or the mean! .but, if assailed by it, he ought to know, as a man of the world, that it can do him nor no public man either lasting or serious injury. Say what people will, in embracing his new profes sion, the step has been evidently a considered one, and he has stood the first trial with more than credit to himself and the management, in London and Liverpool. If he can play any ten or twelve leading parts—whether in Genteel Comedy, the Mixed Drama, or in High or in Domestic Tragedy —as well as he can and does play Leon, why then his success is certain. He has only to apply himself resolutely and devo tedly to master the essentials of his art, which Genius itself cannot otherwise secure than by submitting to a succession of drudgeries, and, in addition to reputation, he may com mand a handsome income, if not an enviable fortune. At the termination of the Comedy he was called before the cur tain, when he bowed and briefly acknowledged his thanks for the encouraging reception extended to him by so numerous an audience. In the circumstances, a gencral notice is at present pre ferable to any hasty analysis of Mr. Vandenhoff's conception or acting of a single character. It will be more appopriate to " dogmatise" at the conclusion of ,his engagement, when we shall have had an opportunity of judging of his powers in such parts as St. Pierre, Faleonbride, and the Duke Aranza. Judging from first impressions, which, however, as regards acting, are especially fallible, we should anticipate that Mr. Vandenhoff will fill up a place in his new profession at present unoccupied by decided talent—namely, a line of parts which, for effective representation, require the union of requisites , s for Genteel Comedy and First Tragedy. Perhaps he is not - • endowed with that peculiar and rare genius for attaining erni nence in high and passionate tragedy ; still for such talent as he has shown that he possesses, he has an ample field from which to select a number of fine parts,—and pick them he should, as every prudent man before him has done. A word or two in respect of others. • The play of " Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" was well cast and well acted throughout. Miss Cleaver and Miss Faucit played and looked admirably. Air. Baker's " old, woman" was the most picturesque of her sexy and Slaiter the most attentive of full-blown daughters ! Michael Pe— rez the " Copper Captain," was ably represented by Mr • Howard, who was on his mettle, and more than satisfied his - audience. This is one of the best things we hare seen him do. COURT OF REQUESTS.-THURSDAY, OCT. 7. ROBSON V. HODGSON. This was one of the numerous cases which have arisen out of the publication of Robson's New Liverpool Directory. Mr. Hodgson having subscribed for the work refused it on delivery, and resisted payment, on the ground of alleged in accuracy. He proved from a copy produced in court that he had gone through the first 50 pages of the alphabetical ar rangement, and marked 260 errors , and argued, that, taking these as a fair average, the whole f that arrangement, Occu pying 158 pages, would contain 820 errors, and the three ar rangements together into which the work is divided, consist ing of 424 pages, would have about 2200 errors. The alpha. betical arrangement also was objected to as exceedingly de fective. The Commissioner, however, after adjourning the_case to the following morning, decided in favour of the plaintiff. We have great pleasure in Making it' known, that, along with ' 8 the recent change in the proprietory and politics of the Lon- , ~ 34 "‘ don Courier, the same Editor, who conducted it with so' . '"„ much talent before the whigs came into office, has again re•l''''";* sumed his editorial duties. THE MAGICAL FIGURES !—ln consequence of the nufn"- -- ber of visitors to Mr. Colles's apartments • during the past ' week, he has determined upon keeping them open every even- , ing, this week until nine o'clock, for the accommodation of those who may find it inconvenient to attend during the -P2 ", , 1 . ec-6) day.—See Advt. CHESTER DIOCESAN CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.— On Sunday afternoon last, the sum of £59 10s. lOid. was collected at St. Anne's Church, Aigburth, after an excellent . sermon by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, in aid of the praise worthy objects of this society. It is, we believe, the largest Church collection that has been received for the same pur- pose ; and as the want of church accommodation is still very grievously felt, we hope many of our clerical readers will render their assistance to alleviate it. BLUE COAT HOSPITAL.—On Sunday morning; the new Mayor, Joshua Wahnsley, Esq., accompanied by a great number of the Town-council, attended divine service at St., - YrtA, Peter's Church, where a most impressive sermon was preached - by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, and a collection , made in be- . half of the funds of this most benevolent institution. The 12iri5 rev. gentleman chose for his text the 6th GaL v. 10. We are:mot happy to hear his appeal was most liberally-responded to, the. - collection amounting to the sum of £45. The choir was composed entirely of boys and girls from the school, and their swat singing was universally admired. In this institution, nura.: l l 2 4l hers who would doubtless have remained in total ignorance of the Gospel have been taught to praise their Maker' s name,, and to look up to him, through his•bleased Son, for pardon of their transgressions ' and for thoguidanee of the Holy Spi mijm o rit to direct them for the time to come. There are 350 chil- slum dren in the establishment, 139 of whom are orphans, 203 fa-ri) ni therless, 5 motherless, and 3 who have parents, but in indigent 10ff circumstances. lo " A PENNYWORTH OF PEACE !—And what that is, any- -ind body in Lancashire can tell you ; and if you be not in Lan- ::91, cashire, I can : it is laudanum or opium disguised in treacle, and termed in other places ` Godfrey's Cordial.' It is in vain to remonstrate with the poor on this practice—they al ways ask you what they are to do, and think it unanswerable to add, ' A pen'orth of peace is worth a penny.' Thus are lin the constitutions of the poor sapped and stupified even in the to cradle, and all the wisdom of England cannot point out any:. - tie remedy, but that of taking off the violent pressure on the ,-ris means of existence."—lforeitt in Tait's Edinburgh .4faga- , - zihe, April, 1839. Is it possible that a man of Mr. Howitt's information can never yet have heard of the far-famed Manchester Medicine? —" What that is, anybody in Lancashire can tell him," — and, indeed, we believe, in any part of the United Kingdom. For it is an indisputable fact, that, since the commencement of the present year, its sale (extensive as it has been for the last half century) has increased beyond all former precedent. It were almost superfluous to add, that we allude to that nics and inestimable preparation, ATKINSON'S INFANT'S Pas• SERVATIVE, which, so far from " sapping the constitution," and " stupifying" the senses—like those dangerous corn. : pounds, whose basis is laudanum or other opiates—allays ir ritation, and assuages pain in the mildest and most innocu ous manner ; thus affording real comfort, both to the anxi ous mother and her suffering babe.—( See Advertisement.) REMOVAL OF A NUISANCE.—On Saturday, at twelve o'clock, in consequence of numerous complaints having been made tolthe authorities by the inhabitants residing in Russell street, Bronte-street, Dansie-street, and the neighbourhood, Mr. John Wesley Davies, bone-boiler, in Bronte-street, ap peared before the magistrates to answer to six special informa tions laid against him by Inspectors Thomas Fresh and Jas. Cottam, Soulby, police-officer, John Pickering, gentleman, and others. Between seventy and eighty witnesses were in Court in support of the informations. As Mr. Davies, how ever, consented to plead guilty, the cases , were not gone into. Mr. Rushton, in such case, inflicted the penalty of £5 ; but, as Mr. Davies distinctly promised not to manufacture size there again, the penalties will not, 'at present, be enforced. Thus, a most intolerable nuisance has been effectually re moved from that neighbourhood. DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK.—Captain Little, of Mt slnp Glasgow, at Baltimore from . Liverpool, on the IStla''S - ept., , lat. 39 40, long. 61 2Q, took from a fragment of the poop , Of • the wreck of the ship Arab, Capt. Robertson, from 146401 - - ras, for Hull (England), three exhausted men, the ittiiitors of nin .•_.:n, who had all perished, except these, when - the• ship when to pieces, in the gale of Sept. 13. The survivors had been on t;:c raft five days, with nothing but two cocoa nuts to eat. The rest had starved, become mad, and plunged into the sea. The names of those saved are William West wood. carpenter, of Selby, Yorkshire, England ; John Arsley, a Prussian ; and Halvor Haralsen, a Norwegian. THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL DISTRICT BANE.— WC understand that some considerable changes have recently taken place in the management of this establishment. T4R . , most important of these is the appointmen, of three gentle men, viz., Thomas Truman, James Heald, and §apakie Walker, Esqrs.„ as a board of managing directors - „iiitii* the entire control is vested durint., the intervals of the iuont.l4: sittings of the general board of directors. We leiiila;a4:p; that the general manager has tendered his resigna , companied by an offer to continue his assistanOe so fie 4 may be useful. We believe that Mr. J, ' • 4 nection with the bank now depends on the' apkol,44'' successor to the situation which becomes yacaO4N - l i i t d " b i . -.40S Vii!.- -- Tl . 111, , ..1 / paration. We understand, however, thit.,,gf r AW ps 4,.. his situation with the good opinion 'of:tliel39vito . 0. i, which was expressed at a very full meeting : el:lW Ot last`,, when a resolution was unanimously ' adiOteg&L't e st'ffect that, notwithstanding the disasters which haLPg9c_piml during Mr. Jackson's management, it was the iiannauh3l_opinion of the board, that there was no impeachment of 14 'integrity or general ability, and that he had been actuated by a zealchis consideration of the interests of the bank, to which he had unremittingly devoted his time and attention.—Manchester Guardian. FRAUD UPON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM PANY.—Notwithstanding the many convictions which have already taken place for the same offence, and the almost cer tain discovery of any person now attempting the commission of it, we have to record another instance. A person of the name of Robert Stephens, who described himself as a lath maker or cleaver, in St. James's -street, Toxteth-park, was on Friday brought before our county magistrates, charged by the officers of the Grand Junction Railway Company with having on the previous day ridden in one of their carriages from Hartford to Liverpool having made his fare only to Warrington, thus defrauding the company of three shillings and sixpence. The case was clearly proved, and Stephens was fined thirty shillings besides the costs,And in default of immediate payment, was ordered to be committed to the COunty Gaol for six weeks. ENORMOUS POTATO.—The lovers of potatoes, and- the curious respecting natural and unnatural productions, may see at our office a specimen of the farinaceous root, the di mensions of which are gigantic. It was grown at Helsel, in this county, by Mr. James Clare. It is one of the pro duce from eighteen plants, which yielded a return of three measures of ninety pounds each, being a total of two hundred and seventy pounds. All these were of large size, but the Brobdignag now in our possession was far superior in this respect to any of its brethren. The root, when taken out of the ground, weighed four pounds ten ounces, and was an object of great admiration at the Root Show, on Wednesday last, when it gained the premium in this department. The root is of extraordinary shape, bearing a rough'resemblance to some uncouth animal. Those who have seen it have com pared it to several descriptions of quadrupeds; according to their several fancies. Some declare that it is like the hippo potamus ; others, that it resembles a pig ; while several are of opinion that it is most like a bear. The portion which indicates the head certainly' has a considerable likeness to that of the last-named beast. Such of our readers, however, as have curiosity enough to call and inspect , the root, _may judge for themselves.—Courier,• -- i , - ' - . t MEI