The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

; P l " .r°c e s , s ' he bar IM ' r. )one, an • a t , bet."... leiet . ` a ttere a aey r aoo nd followed them. She said she had ey. the usual caution, that she never saw Boughtle gave the half-penny piece to MF. sit „.,, if a very great gift. She further said 0 7 virualleed more money in Waiterford, and )Irh ose v tiote that did not belong to him (Mr. . 444 kr triZ ne y he had not seen. They were both N45, Ga TRE F -, o . f, es, a - FROM A MASTER. ktsyr'laantity of ouch, was charged with robbing his mas kt''f4id,„. af. boots, shoes, &c.—Mr. Thomas Vernon, 44 bl.s . "i se g ryT ee G reat Horner-street,said the prisoner . on the 2d instant, as a stable-boy, and 4 1 100 4 - 4ra i Y morning last. He then left the house. e same day, witness searched his house, f o4r a r c a o i a r t s , a vest, one air of breeches, one pair of 4 4 ti i7 e. 1 1 to e e f _b ( ?9ts, and two pairs of shoes. Inform.a kidentifierilee• Some boots and shoes were pi o '"qkr as Mr. Vernon's property. Bernard n clothe. in t' S'lon,ne t o him ... , ontenoy-street, said that the e` s for sale on Saturday afternoon, and offered a 1/4received which he bought for two shillings. He 7 :th e a bill describing the robbery. In about an ki r o ribllner .. 41 three Pai r , Came again with another person, and. wfwid,.it shoes for sale The other person had pre lry c'toz efrale-street TlPPrehendea boots. e of detained them, and • Ann Jackson, another e o t'hes y, er e d her : , said that, on Saturday morning, the Jo Pair of shoes for sale, and she bought i.. 1ik t4 41 he lo g ,il -J °hn M`Daniel, a shoemaker, in Dale- Prilo ner ' . ",,Tight a pair of boots and a pair of shoes ‘,r4i, 41 d th at L .ltie prisoner said he was a gentleman's *J•4 4 . 41 d to b, ,ufa Master had given him leave to sell the SWh en I} a pair of over-alls with the money.—The t the th e b oe aPPr a el,ended, gave his name as Brown, and 41 from ,put shoes were his own, and that he had w ere Birmingham. A coat, vest, and a pair of r't• ts and a No t e s afterwards produced, and were sworn to as e theb oo l a 'aPerty....__A l r.Vernon's son also identified a ' r anted for Pair of the shoes.—The prisoner was r rn trial at the Sessions. '1 4. 1 • t arn I ,4'°OKET PICKING. `Gilty and Brown, were charged with ; as Se n Ca ll 8 pocket. The former being an old of '4 elle. e aced to three nionth's imPrisonment ; the parti:'.AOLTING POLICE-OFFICERS. vyere fined in various penalties for assault pllrs fa the exercise of their duty. On the other ` 4 Js s e • l eeis f . e- °T,ce.rs were . reprimanded for an over . affi tto - re a i l men. authority, and warned to be more Titt vra E ROYAL, LIVERPOOL; fli6elri.sqLesPeetfully t the celebrated ttt,cEtr 'PALBERG, is a g edengg to give a SECOND q, sin Liverpool, which will take place THIS It,T,e,,he re e Pterqler 10th, being positively his Last A.p -rlALiite,„vfous to his final retirement from Public. j•l'VVANti tt o ", will be assisted by Miss BIRCH, ."r thi s -rP, and Mr. BALFE, who are also en 11:etic ccasion. a f Mr. Li W , , ,trt R OTON and Mr. F: VINING, of 4al Weo, t qal, Covent Garden, and Drury Lane.— liba's alto, • of Mt. MACKAY, o f t h e Th ea t re Royal, tert a l) .seat TU ESDAY 14 trient i to ,? Rill commence with'the Drama of a kelerk c,' - ' II •ND FOR AN OLIVER. 114 1 ,,ae .......... Mr. Dowton. 'elho"Yer, ........ . Mr. F. Vining. sata re rite. ................ Mr. W. H. Bland. whiehl)arlingtori... • ... oti tis ............. Mr. Slaiter. Ir k ' Interlude,from St. Ronan's Well, called the an Miss Faucit. 3 Iarg er e, LEIKUM INN. .I).odds (the Landlady).. Mr. Mackay, ( 'ser e rhich Character he will siny,- , ' n a Young man to my daddies door." b t ith T , To conclude with Ith ki t AND CONCERT, HAL w perform V, 8 111 ( .1PIPOSIT/ONS BE on RG the ill Piano-Forte. his . LATEST SioNoa IVANHOFF, AND MR. BALFE, f l r ati efY of favoufite 'Airsi Duets, and Trios, i l Er t o n . (ll a the most popular Oras: 6 4 4 tr t ‘ al bere hl e ,eufpplete 'greet to the wonderful . powers of 11'4 It altiz,,: Will perform on an entirely new SEVEN• by i r "TAL. GRAND PIANO-FORTE, expressly ma i, Messrs. Collard and Collard, and forwarded s • Rime and Son, Church-street. k k k th e ill!lesda -4 11 q( life SCHOOL for SCANDAL, and the tt ada - : ine GL EN. S ) , t d aY, t p ',! .I AMLEt i and other Entertainments. it "lfur ° 7 THE BENEFIT OF MR. DowTON, and his Aq- 1 4he D I .0011, GENTLEMAN, CHAOS ih and MARY QUEEN of SCOTS. not a w he tune. ktil 441VequeriZe°0LOGICAL GARDENS. iki,,,orid A e ef the unfavourable state LA Sept.e WcatsTher . ll i tole _lnltil .-vr, FRI, TO NORIIOW, WE ESDAr, S Spt• ° and the q6, - -, PTION of MOUNT VESUVIU \ ,........ :12N of th e FIR E-S HIP w ill t a k e pl ace . AbNt isstoti—ONt S HILLING. t TO CORRESPONDENTS. - le 6 4 klit r cYk u r r ess our ack now l e dgments to. Mr. Christie, Pcaltely favouring us with a file of American h`Qt o - g Particul ars respecting the Newfoundland ir th t !Ott st e o l l shall api ea • in our next, in accordance with 6, 4 , 6, our esteemed corresi eadent. h it 7l, „I , nre s whir the " infamous hole " in White tqlist:c4rwhicli the disgusting publications of the e , 3 ° PertiY sold is allowed to be kept open on 'le had better apply to the radical authorities °II the • subject. '4)41 MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1339. th a % I tilh ae n ges in the personnel of the Administration, given rise to some speculation as to the • ri ei gns of Mi n i s t ers , an d which we noticed ▪ s °4 last number, appear to us to admit of a , toet solution, ueca 0,1. use it is That Lord Howick leaves the too Liberal for him is a sugges 'lA we cannot give one moment's credence. N 4 r k a il ew, so long a g o as last Easter, and we 44:tance , eial that :ere very Howick's early acqainted with the cir- Pe• r h Lordarrogant and aspiring 10 gyp of ▪ ad C i Rae him an object of extreme jealousy to w r ao n 8 t om -rogues. Now, when Mr. Poul ett 4s.ti k w as thou g h t worthy of a transatlantic Dicta .i p r ," ` r age„., d Mr. Rice o f a soaring elevation to the 'ax• le. Was .not likely that the proud son of the tl th 'hrat„ hig England would be satisfied with his °lll c e in the Cabinet ; and it was notorious exi▪ sting circumstances, he could not be pro nif; r eason assigned then of his having had a lt- er ence with the Premier is no doubt the 'telA The p •world; and, as g oo), Premier is a man of the ' l 4l quarrels with any body in earnest, so he has, etig h 'Re • difficulty in drawing a bad-tempered per tot° _ 'No; 4 disagreement whenever it happens to be ‘'t,,, i Lortj t - ‘ l l --,,nwick left the Government on principle 11 Z I(11-11 :e' 1 1° , 1 1 Will we, for one moment, believe. It his 0 1 4 : i nsult to his common sense, an outrage 1 1 :e -4raeter for understanding and force of mind, ti:lnao Pe „ ete d - him of such childish inconsistency. ' l lte o . '"° voted for the notorious Appropriation ric iPie, and regretted that he should have th a t' in gilled, by principle, to enter, at Lichfield ' m apl the compact alliance then patched up with \ vile h e king ad so foully insulted his father,—the mmoho out-bid his colleagues in the House of l et to , fo 1 4,L - mcia' t i on r s Papist popularity by his over-vehement th e of the Irish Church,—the man who h ell Rho ` clot, an open question, and said he did so 1 1 , 41 (14 1 fished to defeat the Ballot,—that this man le E4 th e left the Cabinet on principle is neither more tei ori an r ank absurdity. Temper, my Lord Ho aodvr : the sp i r i t of L or d G rey an d L or d Dur -7e 'e Pride of the Father of Whiggery,—these * ith iti se° .o li r undoin g . Th e i m p er turbable Premier, 11 rti 1% - yo ur er - ways, -ways, is too much for you. He can ' and , r • i de or go a d your wra th j us t as it pleases h 4 eith er to El to way, he is more than your match. Le e a . h ''' )e out the last li n k that bound Earl Grey tA T 4 Pla v The sam e d ownw ard game is still be ", k w " si e same losing of supporters from the aki t i 7 g, th em ue Po ; on at the bottom,—the same sop- to e . o aths P.sh Cerberus—a sop for each , of his °4 4 a , s ' Wo F Yse and Sheil and More errall 44ant ao.l'peasing with men of the party whom they The hin ts 4 dare notpacify with measures. vary l• '" "e all bue, mysterious hints, of a more liberal tht.iaoierit mere moonshine. It is very natural, now th e 'ennt rv iB ;t e ver, and the steam is to be got up in tiZs,,hoidd curry autumn,—it is very natural that t ` • laetio .rry a little favour with the zealots of ii tlt oo ma n, the soul-sick and disheartened Radicals. h e o l ; v es th e n w ith with an atom of sense in his brains be 4bly he ° r an instant. Look at the acute Spectator, a a e ' I :\ v i a b t : lh4 tears away the flimsy veil, and shows how nothing, the " earnest reformer" crew 3 ou has ko to. expect from this pelf-seek rive re Lib eral re voi „,. measures !—more downward, destruc iteet:lhtleoltif e :.,. " L u i r e a r r a Y is. measures. Mighty fine talking, Much cry but little wool. In the th ' t ed eti r : - ° ll se of Commons, that has already re tit b ' e l . Your liberalism—of a House of Lords, No °rile cl,_ ll ` e tit I ?3' the plainly spoken voice of the ‘."Avarting and defeating your nefarious ( 41 4 mes with f try . a grown and growing majority in the re, -16411'1st f rom lev e with worse after worse reports )I tl a 4.lil t;t Y l i "ceeeY d ° i llll ; Registration—with an absolute Your at a n appeal to the Constituencies would •ty— ji talk of rlgioule combination in a hopeless minori :n o : ti lers are re active measures ! The philosophical are' and always have been, the greatest and tradi e fools in En land ; but we suspect you " u pon , their g simplicitylittle D l / 4e real a too far. 14 0 t e„sling 5 eal llng of all this is quite obvious. Every ''teir —li ght the best terms for himself. The tail pay' rhe English Radicals deserved little, and" they have got less. The Whigs think they may cheat them and laugh at them just as they like. Every one makes himself snug in his own berth, and cares or his neighbour. And so the confederacy goes along for the present. But as these changes are not at all calculated to raise them in the good opinion of the public, and most assuredly not to facilitate the internal movements of the crazy machine, we think the speculations upon them are rather to be regarded as a harmless pastime for a natural curiosity, or an enlivening interlude in this dull period of the' Recess, than as any serious inquiry into the prospects of our Church and country. They will serve as a toast at Liberal meetings, wherever such assemblages can still be scraped together ; and probably their better health and better manners will, even in these choice gatherings, be oftenest toasted to Here 's to them all, great ones and small, Who promise so much, but do nothing at all. The contest which has just terminated at Manches ter is full of the most auspicious interest. Day after day some new instance of Ministerial audacity and turpitude is made known to the world. Week after week, and year by year, new schemes develop them selves, imagined at Derrynane, and carried into prac tice in Downing-street. Infidelity, and the unblushing advocacy of the grossest sensualism and the vilest pro fligacy, are selected for marks of what used to be con sidered " honour." The Apostle of things that we do not choose to mention in the pages of this Journal, is presented by the Prime Minister to the notice of a Maiden Queen. All things are overturned. Religion, and loyalty, and decorum are disregarded and de pressed. Nameless abominations (for such are the doctrines to which we have alluded) are promoted and distinguished. Not that even the Premier can pretend to honour them, but he has a pleasure in exhibiting to the world how entirely and completely "he cares for none of these things." And there are short-sighted persons who believe that such things can pass and leave no mark behind them ! But it is not so. There is a bar of public Justice to which the criminals are sooner or later brought up for trial. Public opinion sits in judgment. Ever since the accession of our present Sovereign, in whom and for whose welfare the liveliest interest is felt from one end to the other of the Empire, the register of public opinion has marked down in its blackest characters the evil doings of the wretched Whigs. Many and many an honest individual who formerly had little regard for politics—the father of a family, a husband, a brother, or a son—has read and heard of the Mel bourne influence, and the Normanby intrigues, and has not heard in vain. The growth of sound opinion is silent, but sure and steady. It grows in secret, " Like the summer grass, fastest by night, Unseen, but crescive in its faculty." And now, bear witness, Manchester !—once impreg nable stronghold of the triumphant Whigs—favoured focus of Dissent—enemy of agriculture—one-eyed advocate of blind commercial theory :—bear witness, regenerate and rescued Manchester, to the certain progress of sound religious sentiment. The Constitu tion of England shall yet be saved from the hands of those that hate her. " Nothing," said Bolingbroke, " can destroy the Constitution of Britain but the peo ple of Britain." We have repeatedly had occasion to contradict the many lying statements put forth by our radical con temporaries, on the subject of the treatment of the Hill Coolies, in British Guiana. WTe have now the means of rebutting, in the most unqualified manner, the false and infamous charges brought against the proprietors of those estates on which the Coolies have been located. The Times of Saturday and yesterday has published a long correspondence relative to the condition of these emigrants. This correspondence is official, and may, therefore, be appealed to with some degree of confidence. It consists chiefly of dis patches from Governor Light to Loid Glenelg, and the Marquis of Normanby ; and as Governor Light is an acknowledged Liberal, we trust that our contem porary of the Chronicle, and his radical friends, will consider his evidence as conclusive on the subject. In the first of these dispatches, the Governor says that " the Hill Coolies were accustomed to a marshy soil, to very low wages, and precarious scanty food ;" and he then adds—" here they are supplied well, lodged well, and though on limited wages, in comparison with the free labourer, yet are as carefully protected from oppression, and their complaints redressed as speedily, as those of other labourers." He says that each gang has a leader, from whom they receive the work to be done, and interpreters to explain their wants. He significantly states, that " hitherto they have been very lightly worked." He had not heard of a single case of punishment for breach of contract. It must be borne in mind, that the stipendiary magi ... strates are exclusively liberals, and therefore not likely to show any partiality towards the planters. On the present occasion we shall only extract one additional remark from Governor Light's dispatch. He says that " the Coolies on Mr. Gladstone's property are a fine healthy body of men, and that he firmly believes that they possess more means of enjoyment than in their own country." The Radicals of Liverpool are straining every nerve in order to prevent the election of Mr. Peachey to the office of assistant-overseer. For this purpose they are resorting to the meanest and most corrupt expedients — intimidating • those over whom they can exercise any influence, and lavishing their " secret service money" in qualifying the besotted and ignorant Papists of the town to vote. They well know that these Papist householders are completely under the controul of the Priests, and that they may be depended upon to "go the whole hog" with their liberal tax-payers. The Conservatives of Liverpool Must seriously begin to bestir themselves, or else these mushroom Popish voters will completely swamp the constituency, and neutralize the influence of the respectable classes of the town. Many of •the voters who presented them selves at the Sessions House yesterday, and who went up to poll for Mr. Eastwood, were of the very lowest class of Irish Papists, and evidently had their taxes paid by proxy. Mr. Tinsel Atkinson or Mr. Walmsley could explain the matter. Every fresh election affords demonstrative proof of the steady progress of Conservative re-action through out the country. At Manchester the influence of Liberalism has been almost annihilated. At Cam bridge the Conservatives have gloriously triumphed over their factious opponents. The turncoat Gibson must now be classed under the category of " rejected candidates." His only alternative now is, to creep into Parliament under the wing of O'Connell. At the last general election, the borough of Cambridge was contested by a Whig and a Conservative, with the fol lowing result For Mr. Spring Rice 685 Mr. Manners Sutton 595 Whig Majority . . .... 90 At the election which closed on Thursday last, these numbers were reversed. The final close of the poll was as follows : For Mr. Manners Sutton 717 Mr. Milner Gibson Conservative Majority .. 100 The electors of Cambridge have thus afforded another proof of the sort of popularity enjoyed by the petticoat administration. We do not wonder that Lord Melbourne is reluctant to have recourse to the expedient of a dissolution of Parliament. , We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal Gazette, Despatch, and Standard, to the 2d of August, inclusive. The news from the island continues to be of the most gloomy character. The Despatch of Au gust 2d furnishes us with some-particulars from vari ous parts of the island which are extremely discoura ging. A correspondent from Manchester writes—" The negroes struck work on the 25th ultimo, declaring that they intend to take several weeks' holidays. This pro tracted desertion from labour shows at once that the negroes are too rich and independent. It is a state of society which cannot last. Unless we resort to immi gration of sonic sort, the cultivation of sugar must be abandoned in 1841. The export will be quite trifling. I verily believe the negroes themselves wish that the cultivation of sugar should be thrown up. Our situa- tion is dreadful—heartbreaking ; nothing but ruin star ing us in the face; the half of the crop allowed to rot on the ground ; nothing done for next year, and the pastures in a bush fearful to behold." The accounts from Clarendon are equally unfavourable. A corre spondent from that parish writes—" From what I have experienced for the last four or five weeks, in conduct ing considerable waggonage upon a large pen between the Mountains and Salt River, suffering from the breakage and upsetting of carriages, tumbling pro duce, Szc., into the gully, &c., I can safely report that the cattle are allowed to range at large. The first inti mation of which we get, is by discovering in the morn ing's ride round the estate 100 or 200 head of cattle, browsing on fine young sprouts, to the total destruc tion of next year's crop. Such, I have just heard, is the case in our neighbouring parish of Vere; but this is poor consolation. I have just returned from a scene of this kind, and hastily mention this by post. I an ticipate that this August will witness more depreda tions than last, in the destruction of property from ne glect !" Another correspondent from the same part of the island states that it is much in favour of the ne groes that they have done so well. "We owe every thing," he says, "to the natural principles by which they are influenced, and not to their false teachers." A petition was in course of signature in the parish of St. Elizabeth, praying the Assembly to remove the Stipendiary Magistrates, and for a reduction in the du ties on sugar. Respecting the present condition of the island the Despatch indulges in the following remarks :—" The sable population, at the moment we write, are revelling in the full enjoyment of that licentious liberty which their misleaders have taught them to prize. They are celebrating the anniversary of entire emancipation in a luxurious display of feasting, junketting, and gaudy dress, and expressing their satisfaction, without a thought of the future, that they are now free to be as idle or improvident as they please. For, as ease and sensual indulgence constitute their happiness, as long as they have sufficient to feed upon, why should they trouble themselves to work ? The proprietors, in the meantime, are looking on with despair at their blighted hopes of cultivation. They see ruin spreading around without the power to avert it. They may expend their capital in vain : they get no remunerative labour ! and whilst they groan under the system of pernicious prejudice and partiality by which they are oppressed, they find their characters calumniated, and their proper ties and privileges invaded by the sanctified sinners who prompt the misrule." The Despatch, while animadverting on the fatuitous policy of the Home Government, remarks—" Nothing can be more clear to every rational and thinking mind than that the policy pursued by the present reckless ministry is not only injurious to Jamaica and other British colonies, but to the interests of the nation at large, and the apathy displayed by our trans-atlantic fellow-subjects on the dismembering projects in agita tion, proves that they are too short-sighted to view correctly the inevitable consequences which must be the fatal result. - For, whilst they are coolly contem plating the ruin and oppression of the West India proprietors, they do not calculate that that cruel catas trophe will be the forerunner of their own decay, and that foreign powers, profiting by the insane policy of fanatic - statesmen and factionists, will build their com merce and prosperity upon the wreck of Great Britain's colonial trade ! By a strange perversity and intellectual blindness to their own welfare, they are adopting the same course towards the valuable sugar colonies of the West Indies which separated the vast continent of America from the trammels of Britain, and at a moment when the British colonists by a ruinous concession — the abandonment of one-third the apprenticeship—en deavoured to conciliate their sympathy and regard, they are actually coercing them into the abandonment of their estates, and to the investment of their capital in some other country where they may be secured from fanatical tyranny and misrule." These remarks on the ruinous policy of the Melbourne administration are equally applicable to any other portion of the British dominions. Under the tutelage of the " Cabinet of incapables" the whole of the great interests of this once mighty empire are fast sinking into ruin. It seems to be the settled maxim of the " Shabbies" to exalt other nations as much as possible, and to depress and hum ble their own: Such is modern patriotism ! The Jamaica Bill continued to be the source of great excitement in the island, and great dissatisfaction was expressed in reference to its provisions. The Jamaica Standard explicitly states that it was considered even more objectionable than the Suspension Bill. We quote the following remarks on the new bill from that spirited journal :—" In its principle, in the first place, it is radically bad ; for it goes to invest one individual — a governor, with the advice and consent of his own elected council, with the whole power and privilege of legislation, over free subjects of the British constitution, which has declared emphatically, and upon a principle — the first grand point and ingredient in its own composi tion,—that without representation there can be no government : and without such self-elected government there shall he no taxation This as regards the principle of the bill, let the conduct of the parties affected by it, or the eventful operation of the measure, be what it may. But when we come to view it in all its possible effects, in the latitude which it opens to any one man, of exercising authority which only constitutionally belongs to the three different branches of the state ; in the incentive to discord and disagreement between the executive and representative body, as the only necessary step towards the unlimited sway of the former : and the too great likelihood, judging of the future from the past—of such very conduct being pursued for such unworthy purposes,—we are indeed lost in that somewhat indescribable feeling which won der, detestation, and alarm may be imagined to produce." These remarks are very just and sensible, and we believe that they express the opinions of nine tenths of the white population of the island. Whilst speculating upon the celebration of the first of August, the Royal Gazette exclaims—" While we raise our voice in gratitude for the liberation of the slave, we must not forget the thousands who from that morning were doomed to suffer privation and want. Unfortunate people, whose all depended upon the labour of a few domestics, annuitants, widows, orphans, all reduced from a state of comfort and independence to that of beggary. This is no fanciful picture—the privations and wants of many in this city alone afford too melan choly proof of the exactness of our statement—and thousands are ready to come forward and say, we are ruined !!" It then proceeds to inquire whether the peasantry are more happy than formerly, and thus answers the question—" We doubt it much—for while they are freed from the authority of men, heartburnings and troubles have been springing up to embitter those moments which heretofore were devoted to pleasure. The intoxication of the moment has not yet subsided. They feel the independence of their present state, and continuous labour is, therefore, not to be had. The labourer at the present period conceives that he is con ferring a favour on his master to work. In fact it is so; for, from the prolific nature of our soil, and the genial showers with which we are blessed, it is notori ous, that one day's work in a fortnight will supply an individual with more provisions than he can consume. Then where is the incentive to labour ? Again, we state as a fact which is undeniable, that the negro at the present time can live on 3s. 4d. currency (2s. ster ling) per week ; if then they can make this sum by labouring one day or one day and a half, what induce ment have they to work more ? That the labourer is over-paid, and that he receives much more than pos sibly supply his wants, is too apparent from the numbers that have visited the town these two last weeks to purchase good things for this day, and to purchase fire arms, which are still to be seen, being carried in numbers into the country." A severe shock of an earthquake was felt in Kingston on the 29th of July. Scarcely any damage was done Mobile, by it. There had been a riot at Spring-hill parish, which was put down by the military. Six of the rioters were captured. Several Baptist missionaries had been sued and con victed for slander. connected with the slave question. They were severally fined from £lOOO to £2500. By the steam-ship Liverpool, Lieutenant Fayrer com mander, which arrived on Sunday, we have received papers from New York to the 24th of August inclusive. This noble vessel made her outward passage in seven teen days and a few hours. She steamed the whole voyage out nearly, the weather having been too bois- terous to permit her to make any use of her sails. She was telegraphed off Holyhead on Saturday afternoon, at four o'clock, but did Not reach port till the following morning, in consequence of the heavy gale which blew during the night. The Liverpool has brought home between sixty and seventy passengers. We are in debted to the kindness of Lieutenant Fayrer for a flip of New York and other papers. The news brought by the Liverpool is of very little importance. The New York papers are chiefly occu pied with accounts of the dinners, fetes, and proces sions with which Mr. Clay was honoured in his progress through " the imperial state and city." A great sensation has been created at Baltimore by the escape of a nun from the Carmelite Convent. She is insane, it is said, and has been removed by the mayor to Washington. The• populace were with difficulty prevented from demolishing the convent. _ The Yellow Fever was on the increase at Charlestown and New Orleans. It had also made its appearance at The boiler of a steam-boat had exploded at New York and scalded a number of respectable individuals. An extensive seizure of Yorkshire woollens had taken place at Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the following account of the transaction :—" We learn that itl consequence of information which transpired a few days since, at New York, a Custom house officer came on from that city, yesterday morn ing, and seized large consignments of woollen cloths at a respectable commission-merchant's, in Front-street. It is but justice to say, that the firm to whom the goods are consigned are not inculpated in= any fraud upon the United States revenue, they being merely the reputed agents and receivers for the purposes of sale. Rumour gives various amounts as to the value of the goods seized—from 60,000 to 100,000 dollars. It is, at any rate, the most extensive seizure ever made in Philadelphia. The grounds for proceeding on the part of the Custom-house are said to be, chiefly, making entries at less than the true value. On dit, that an importer, for many years a resident of New York, is among the missing. It is further stated, that two or three merchants from Yorkshire, who arrived by the Liverpool, have been arrested in New York on a charge of being connected with the alleged smuggling." The same journal, in a subsequent number, adds the follow ing particulars :—" The day before yesterday we men tioned the seizure by a Custom-house officer from New York of a large quantity of woollen cloths that had been consigned to a commisEion house in Front-street. We regret to be called upon to state that another seizure of cloths, and to a very considerable amount, which rumour varies from 60,000 to 90,000 dollars, took place yesterday at one of the ware-rooms of a Philadel importing house—a house that has heretofore done a very extensive business. We withhold all names for the present, and trust that the matter will, in the end, turn out less culpable to the parties implicated than the first statement would seem to infer. The story is, that a New York Custom-house officer communicated his suspicions to the Philadelphia Custom-house—that an affidavit was made before one of our aldermen, and warrants granted to search certain premises. On reaching the principal warehouse of the firm in question, the suspected goods could not be discovered. A further inquiry led to the examination of an apartment in another building, where the cloths were found, seized, and taken in drays to the Custom-house. It is the belief of some of our merchants, that a speculation to the extent of £500,000 sterling in woollen cloths has been entered into in Yorkshire, for the purpose of introducing them at reduced duties and under false invoices into this country—chiefly at New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. The goods seized here, and now libelled, are said to form a portion of that great speculation ; while those lately seized at New York and Boston constitute other portions." Advices had been received at New York from Tam pico to the first of August. The city of Tampico was at that time unhealthy. Bustamente entered the city of Mexico on the 17th of July, and was received, accord ing to some accounts, with demonstrations of joy. Every thing was quiet at Tampico, and business good. Meta moras was still considered in a state of siege. News had been received that General Lemus, with 2006 federal troops well armed, was at Mondova, on the 24th of July, and contemplated marching on Monterey, to attack the Centralists under Canaliz. A letter from Tampico, dated July 28, says—" After some delay, the conquering party commenced their system of exactions, and they are trying to collect new duties on goods im ported during the revolt. All the merchants have protested against this attempt, and the government, perceiving its injustice, are ready to abandon it. The merchants are burying their goods. Two conductas have arrived with two and a half millions of dollars, and trade seems to resume its former activity. The sickly season approaches, and purchasers are fearful of coming to Tampico. If peace continues we may count on better times." The Tuscaloosa Flag, of August 8, says that a daring attempt had been made to burn the capital of Indiana. From Canada there is very little news. The Morning Herald of August 28, says—" We understand that the British commissioners for exploring the boundary are preparing, and almost ready to begin, their recon noisance. We have every reason to believe that this difficulty will be soon settled amicably." Bill Johnston, the Canadian " patriot," who had been arrested at New York a short time since, on his arrival at Watertown, requested permission to look after bail, which was granted. He gave the authorities " leg bail," and has not been seen since. The Canada papers give a very favourable account of the crops in both provinces. On the 17th of August a fire occurred at St. John's. N. 8., which destroyed one hundred houses ; the total [oss being estimated at from 500,000 to 800,000 dollars. The commercial intelligence from New York will be round in another column. It is, on the whole, of a favourable nature. It was currently stated at New York that large purchases of grain and flour were being made by speculators, in consequence of the unfavourble accounts of the harvest in England. ELECTION OF COLLECTOR OF PARISH-RATES. — On Fri day and Saturday, the polling for the election of a Collector of Parish-rates, in the room of Mr. Glover, resigned, and which is contested between Mr. Peachey, and Mr. East wood, was carried out with much ardour on both sides. At the close of the poll, on the latter day, Mr. Peachey was 61 persons, and precisely 100 votes a-head of his antagonist. The contest was resumed yesterday morning, and the exer tions made by the Popish priests, and their radical coadjutors, in bringing up voters for Mr. Eastwood were so great, that his minority was, at the close, reduced to one person, and twenty-two votes. Notwithstanding this comparative gain on the day, no doubt can be entertained, but that Mr. Peachey will be triumphantly returned, particularly, as we understand, that his friends intend on this day to rally to the poll. Though we deprecate the introduction of party in terests in a matter of this nature, as the liberals have done so, the conservatives must do their duty. EXTRAORDINARY SUN-FLOWER, &C.—Mr. Crawford surgeon of the Steam-ship Liverpool, has brought home a dried sun-flower, without, however, the leaves of the flower itself, of gigantic size. It is of a somewhat pyramidal or conical form, as large as a min's hat, and broader at the base or cup, which is nearly flat, and which measures two feet eleven inches in circumference. The stamen, or stem is pf proportionate thickness, and is parallel with the base or cup, the weight of which had probably given it a vertical position. The whole of this enormous husk is thickly covered with the seeds of the plant,—many thousands in number. The whole is of course shrunk from its original bulk in the process of drying. The plant on which it grew was twenty feet in height, and such a one would form a noble object in the pasture, more resembling a tree than a flower. It was, we learn, procured from an Indian in the interior of the country. Mr. Crawford has also brought over many beautiful and curious specimens of several varieties of the gourd. Two of them are of enormous size, of a smooth yellow surface, and swelling to a large bulb at one end, and a smaller at the other. The others are of various forms of fine variegated colours, notfunlike the speckled hues of the most remarkable species of the snake. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATIONS.—We are glad to learn and we hasten to announce the fact that those two bold champions of our Protestant faith—the Revs. Hugh M`Neile, and Hugh Stowell—are about to exchange pulpits for the purpose of ad vocating the strong claims which these associations possess, upon the cordial co-operation of every well wisher to the community. The period fixed upon for these discourses will be immediately made known, and we have no doubt they will produce a beneficial effect. LICENSING SESSlONS.—Yesterday was the day appointed for the Magistrates to consider and declare to what appli cants licenses for new public-houses should be granted ' - but, in consequence of the Court-roo m being occupied by the rate payers polling for the yet-pending election of Collector of Parish-rates, contested by Mr. Peachey and Mr. Eastwood, the Sessions were postponed until Wednesday. MARTIN'S GRAND PICTURE OF THE CORONATION.—WC have not yet been able to pay another visit to the Lyceum, and must therefore defer our promised criticism on this magnifi cent painting. We feel assured that the public of Liverpool will not fail to avail themselves of the opportunity thus offered for examining and admiring this splendid production, which far eclipses any thing of the kind that we have ever seen. DANDY'S PICTURE—THE OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAL. —Exhibitions are now quite the order of the day in Liver pool. Among the most promising and attractive of these we class the Grand Painting by Danby, which remains on view at No. 25, Bold-street, for a few days longer. Those who have not yet seen this sublime production have a treat in store, such as can be rarely enjoyed. We recommend an early visit lest the opportunity should pass away. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER. In our last publication we stated that, up to seven o'clock on the Thursday evening, there was every probability that, when all the returns were made, Sir George Murray would be at the head of the poll by 100 at least. We obtained this information from the best authcrity, and regret that the re sult proved otherwise. During the day, and until late in the afternoon, but more especially from the commencement of the poll to about two o'clock, Sir George maintained the head of the poll by a considerable majority; but, after then, the whigs gained an accession to their forces, and, as it ap pears, stole a march on the right hon. candidate , for the numbers were announced by the boroughreeve at eleven o'clock on Friday morning as follows For Mr. Greg 3096 Sir George Murray Colonel Perronet Thompson Majority over Murray At the time the information was sent to Liverpool, some few of the returns of those districts calculated most upon by the conservative party had not been received, and hence arose the mistake by the official gentleman from whom we received our information. The second polling commenced on Friday morning, at eight o'clock. The polling places were the same as those used on the previous day ; and, in order to induce the elec tors to vote a second time, the walls were placarded in every direction. The contest was carried on with great spirit till four o'clock, when the polling finally closed. When the returns were made, the conservatives announced that they were in a minority of 208, but the whigs asserted that their majority was 240. Both parties, however, were in error ; for the numbers, as stated by the mayor at the Manor Court house on Saturday morning, were — For Sir teorge Murray Mr. Greg leaving a majority of 265 against the conservative candidate. There appears to have been great bungling in making up the returns by both committees. Notwithstanding, however, that our hopes and the hopes of the conservatives of the kingdom have not been fully realised, the result of the present contest cannot be looked upon otherwise than as a most signal and triumphant victory on the part of the conservatives of Manchester, who have on this occasion polled nearly 1,000 more votes than at the last election. By way of comparison we subjoin the num bers at former elections for Manchester :- 1834. Thomson Philips. Braidley 3315 3163 2535 Largest majority over Braidley.... 1837. Thomson Philips.. Gladstone.. se Largest majority over Gladstone.... 1877 1839. (Boroughreeve's precept.) 4158 3750 2281 Greg Murray .... Thompson . Greg... Murray Majority over Murray.. 1839. (Mayor's precept.) Majority.. The last figures are from the returns of Sir Geo. Murray committee. The failure of the election is to be atributed to a want o proper arrangement and organization of the conservatives The whig machinery was put in motion , a nd worked b y a skit ful electioneering agent, sent expressly by government to au. perintend the operations. There w as no lack of spirit or energy on the part of the conservatives—they did their duty manfully and nobly; but the committees were not formed, as they ought to have been, by efficient and well-disciplined electioneering officers, and hence so much was not accom plished, as otherwise would have been. The ground, how ever, has been made secure, and come another election, when ever it may, the triumph of the conservative cause is certain. Whether or not Mr. Greg, being absent at the nomination, can be legally returned, will, of course, be a subject for fu. tare inquiry. At six o'clock on Friday, Sir George Murray addressed the electors from the Royal Hotel. Sir George, on his apppear ance, was received with the enthusiastic applause by a very numerous assembly. He complimented the electors and the inhabitants generally on their conduct during the contest which had just terminated, and which would redound to their honour. He was not there to cause any unncessary trouble, nor to promote anything but peace and harmony, and good will amongst them. (Applause.) He was gratified to find that he had polled more votes than had ever been polled be fore in the same cause, and he thought that that was a suffi cient justification for him to offer himself before them as a candidate for their suffrages, and it was also sufficient to jus tify those who first induced him to come to Manchester with that intention. He had also, on two occasions,—in the nomi nation which took place before the boroughreeve, and also in that which took place before the mayor—he had, on both those occasions, received the show of hands in his favour. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) A show of hands was expected to be an indication of popular opinion, and that popular opinion had been expressed in his favour; and if the vote of the electors would not sanction popular opinion, he would go away with the grateful recollection of the forest of hands of the industrious men of Manchester whicji were raised in his favour. The law imposed upon the electors the duty of choosing - their own representatives ;—to their decision he would bow with satisfaction, and would exhort those who heard him to do the same ; but when he bowed to that de cision, he could always boast that the decision and the hearts of the multitude were in his favour. Should it be his fortune to become their representative—and the question was yet to be decided by men practised in legal knowledge, of business habits, and intimately acquainted with such matters, they would find him acting on every occasion in the manner in which, from the addresses he had delivered to them, they would expect to find him acting. If he should have the honour to go to parliament—he might have that honour still —his course would be what he had stated to them. Those particular contests ought not to he contests for the interests and advantages of any one individual, or of any one party in a state, but they were contests instituted for the preservation of liberty and the interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) Wherever they found a man qualified to advocate those in terests with success, then they would do well to take that man, and make him their representative. (Hear.) He thanked them for the kind manner in which they had listened to him, and 'for the kind attention which had always been granted to him since his arrival in Manchester, and which had created an impression on his mind never to be erased. He would now take his leave of them, and wish them good night, expressing his anxious and ardent desire for the pros perity of the trade of Manchester. (Cheers, which were repeated frequently. On Saturday morning, at a meeting of the conservative committee, Sir George Murray attended and read the follow ing address, with was received with loud cheers by the gen tlemen assembled : " TO THE ELECTORS OF THE TOWN OF MANCHESTER. " Gentlemen,—The result of the contest which has just terminated for the representation of the borough of 1\ lan chester has not afforded to me the gratification of being placed at the head of the poll, but it has been such as to show clearly, however, by the near balance of opposite interests, that my acceptance, at a moment's notice, of the invitation with which I was honoured, was neither a rash nor a pre sumptuous step. " The number of votes recorded in my favour on both e!ec tion days, has been greater than the number recorded at any former election for Manchester for any candidates professing similar opinions ; and the majority obtained on both days by the opposite party has fallen very far short of the majorities which they have had to boast of in all previous contests. Such has been the result at the poll ; and you all know, gen tlemen, what the result of the appeal to a show of hands made from the hustings on two different nomination days, and before two different returning officers. These are strong indications of the bias which public opinion is gradually taking in this important, populous, and intelligent commu nity. They are sure indications that the people of this coun try have too much discernment to be long imposed upon by even the most artful delusions, and are too firm in their at tachment to the principles of justice to suffer their minds to be long warped by unfounded prejudices, or misled by calumnies which partisanship may have at any time induced interested men to propogate against their opponents. " The most marked characteristic of the people of England has long been candour on the part of every man in expressing his own opinions, and fairness in judging of the opinions o( others. This honourable national characteristic has never been more conspicuously shewn than during the recent con test, and the impression of esteem for the people of Man chester which it has made in my mind will never be effaced. " It is a most pleasing part of my duty to offer my warm est acknowledgements to those gentlemen who paid me the high compliment in my absence, and without any solicitation on my part, of putting me forward as a candidate on the present occasion. Their exertions in the cause to which they are attached, and their curtesy to the champion they had chosen, have surpassed my most sanguine anticipations. " To those of the electors of ;Manchester who have given me their unhesitating support on the ground of our profes sing similar political opinions, I return my cordial thanks. A bond of union, formed not upon expediency merely, but upon principles, cannot fail to be lasting. "To those electors also, who, although not professing a general concurrence with me in political sentiments, have yet deemed it conducive to the public interests to record their votes in my favour on the present occasion, I owe my sin cere thanks, and my acknowledgment of the independence they have shown by setting public interests before the feel ings of party. " I trust, gentlemen, that I have given no just cause of offence to any one during the contest in which we have been engaged. I regard every such contest in the light of an op portunity afforded to a free people for the expression of pub lic opinion, and to make it the foundation of any lasting dif ferences upon any narrower grounds than those of public principle, would be to mistake its object. " I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your faithful and obedient servant, " GEORGE MURRAY. " Manchester, September 6, 1839." ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. — In consequence of the un favoifrable state of the weather last evening, the Grand Gala at these delightful gardens has been postponed until Wednesday (to-morrow) evening, when we trust the spirited proprietor will be amply rewarded for his persevering zeal in catering for the public amusement. LIVERPOOL WELSH BRANCH BIBLE SOCIETY.—The an nual meeting of the above society was held at the music-hall, Bold-street, on Friday evening last, the Rev. Robert Davies, M. A., Minister of St. David's Church, the president of the society, in the chair. The chairman opened the meeting by expressing the delight and gratification it always afforded him to meet his fellow-countrymen on every occasion that could contlibute to their temporal and spiritual advantage, but on no occasion, did he feel more delight than when he met them to further the objects of the British and Foreign Bible So ciety ; a society which maybesaid to have emanated from the Principality of Wales and brought into existence throughthe instrumentality of the late Rev. Thomas Charles ; a society established by the Providence of God to meet the efforts of infidels and papists of the pr esent day ; a society found, in an especial manner, to promot e the glory of God and the eter nal interests of the human race. Mr. David Lewis, one of the secretaries, read the report, which conveyed a most in teresting account of the labours of this branch, both in the distribution of the scriptures among the Welsh residents in this town, and in the contributions obtained in support of the institution. The subscriptions for the past year amounted to £323 Os. Bd., being £79 13s. 5/ more than the proceeding year ; making in the whole, since the establishment of the society which has now existed five years, the sum of £1033 3s. Od. The sum of X 286 was remitted to the parent society, as a free contribution for the past year. The Rev. Thomas Phillips, one of the agents of the parent society, furnished the meeting with most interesting and exciting details of the operations of the society at home and abroad; reciting a va riety of delightful anecdotes illustrative of the benefits ac cruing to the family of man from the efforts of this excellent and flourishing institution. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. Messrs. John Hughes. Daniel Jones, John Jones, Owen Jones, Joseph 'Williams, and others. The meeting was protracted to a late hur. The spacious room was densely crowded by a respectable and most attentive audi ence, who separated with expressions of delight and satis faction with the proceedings of the evening. EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. — The Chancellor Aguessau wrote a work on jurisprudence, in five volumes, in a quarter of an hour each day his wife kept him waiting for dinner. PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. It will be remembered that about a month since an address, of which we subjoin a copy, was forwarded from this valua ble Association to the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressive of their gratitude for his Grace's firm and Christian defence of scriptural education, and we have now the gratification of presenting to our readers the reply of his Grace, together with the letter of the Rev. J. R. Connor, which accompanied the address. ADDRESS. " To his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and those other Lords Spiritual and Temporal, who supported his Grace's motion, for an address to her Majesty, upon the late ministerial proposal for an Education Grant. " We, the undersigned members and friends of the Liver pool Protestant Operative Association, desire to express to your lordships, our most earnest and heartfelt sense of gra titude for your firm and Christian defence of scriptural edu cation, snore especially at a time when the enemies of the pure word of God are making such efforts to break down the bar riers which exist between truth and falsehood. " The temperate and dignified, but at the same time un compromising, course which your lordships felt it your duty to pursue, in opposing the late attempt to force upon the country, (contrary to the wishes of nearly one-half the House of Commons, and the general sense of the nation as expressed by more than 3000 petitions,) a grant for a system of educa tion not only unscriptural in its character, but opposed to the Established Church and the Protestant Institutions of the land, demand from the nation at large their most grateful acknowledgments, and for which we first offer our hearty thanks to our heavenly Father for his over-ruling Providence to this our native land. We rejoice to have the opportunity of thus expressing our gratitude to his Grace, who stood forth as the first prelate of the Church, and to your lordships, both spiritual and temporal, who so faithfully supported him in re sisting the encroachments of those opposed to the true prin ciples of protestantism, which have existed for so many years as the bulwark of the English constitution." V.- THE REV. J. R. CONNOR'S LETTER. MY LORD ARCHBISHOP,-At the request of the Protest ant operatives of Liverpool, I have the high honour of en closing to your Grace an Address unanimously carried at their last Public Meeting. The Address has been presented, through the medium of the Press, to the other spiritual and temporal Peers who voted with your grace on the motion alluded to ; but a spe cial allusion having been made to your Grace in the Address, as the originator of the motion, the Operatives conceive that they are bound to transmit their Address to your Grace per sonally. " They do it, presuming upon the high and holy feel ings ever manifested by your Grace for the spiritual welfare of the country, and humbly hoping it will be received as the ebullition of hearts grateful to God—the Giver of every good and perfect gift—and to his Bishops, the instruments by whom he guards the towers of Zion. It may not be irrelevant to add, that the Liverpool Protestant Operative Association is strictly a religious Society, established to support our Ishr tional Church, the glory of our land. I have the honour ti) remain, Your Grace's humble and obedient Servant, J. R. CONNOR, Chairman, Minister of St. Simon's, Liverpool. THE ARCHBISHOP ' S REPLY. Lambeth, Sept. 5, 1839. Rev. trust that my absence from home on official duties, which occupied the whole of my time during the last three weeks of August, will plead my excuse for having so long delayed my acknowledgment of your letter, and of the Address, which accompanied it, from the Members and Friends of the Liverpool Protestant Operative Association. I am exceedingly gratified by the approbation thus ex pressed of my conduct, and the attachment implied in that approbation to our National Church ; and I beg you to assure the parties who have signed the Address, that I consider it as an imperative duty to oppose every measure which may have the effect of depriving any portion of the people of that early instruction in the faith and fear of the Lord, which is-only to be found in the Scriptures, and to which every child that is born in a Christian country has an undoubted right. I remain, reverend Sir, Your humble and obedient servan W. CANTERBURY. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP LIVERPOOL. This fine vessel arrived at this port on Sunday mornin last, after a fair average passage for the season. She hai been signalled off Holyhead at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and might have arrived with that night's tide, but for the extremely boisterous state of the weather, which ren dered it perilous to attempt the passage through the banks after dark. It began to blow fresh towards evening, increas ing gradually to a gale, which, between eleven o'clock and one in the morning, approximated to a hurricane. Captain Fayrer, under the circumstances, in order to avoid all chance of accident, stood out to the westward. During the night several of the passengers, although inured to ordinary gales during the voyage, felt considerable alarm, and, considering they were not seamen, not without some Cause ; for the se a was lashed into white foam by the violence of the wind, and the spray was so dense as to obscure the atmosphere, so that objects could not be distinguished at any considerable dis tance. At the commencement of the gale the barometer fell rapidly. The topsails were struck, and all was made snug. Towards daybreak the gale moderated, and, as soon as the tide served, the vessel resumed her course to port. At a few minutes before eight she rounded the Rock point, and on her way up the river fired several guns as signals of her arrival. In a few minutes she reached her moorings in the Sloyne. Thus, as she sailed from the slip at New York at a quarter before three o'clock on Saturday, the 24th ult., she made the passage in fourteen days and seventeen hours and a half ; and, but for the gale on Saturday night, would have accom plished it in probably ten hours less. The Liverpool has brought upwards of sixty passengers. The following are the names of the principal parties : Lucinda Howarth, Salem ; Miss Fayrer, Liverpool ; Mrs. Harvey, Upper Canada; Miss Scott, Toronto; Mrs. Archi bald, two children and servant, West Indies ; Rd. Dempsey, Philadelphia • Joseph Gautier, France ; 'William Innes, Montreal; William Robertson, England ; F. Teterel, M. Chustel, France ; Gustavus Smidt, Baltimore ; H. S. Black man, West Troy ; J. C. Kunkeiwan, New York ; J. Alex ander, Baltimore ; Doctor Azearete and lady, Havana ; Hon. E. P. Bouverie and servant, England; Barnard Hall, Ja maica ; Joan Guell, Havana ; M. Rafael Gazera, do. ; Jas, Johnston, Seotland; George R. Haswell, New York; Chas Kessler, do. ; M. Berti, do. ; B. Seymour, Jamaica • Henry I atenby, Lynchburg ; Dr. Bachman , Switzerland ; Dr. Welti, do. ; Mr. J. Archibald,West Indies ; Joshua Moss, Sheffield ; G. Millar, Mexico ; Hon. Louis M`Lane and servant, Baltimore; G. B. Lightfoot, Liverpool; John Hudson, Leeds ; Mr. Arnold, Toronto ; Rev. John Scoble, London ; Charles P. Bossone, Boston ; Mr. Wood, Canada; Alex. Harvey, Upper Canada ; Darius Ogden, New York ; John Sefton, do. ; J. Penn Gaskell, Philadelphia ; Rev. H. Reese, Liverpool; Rev. Moses Parry, Wales ; Charles Dris : sler, New ork ; Charles Graves ; James Rose, Palermo ; Thomas Blotiaux, Antwerp ; M. V. De Pina, Havana ; William Taylor, England ; and J. Beatty, New London. LOG OF THE LIVERPOOL. The following are some of the particulars of the outward voyage : August lst.—Wind W.S.W. ; 2, p.m., cast off moorings and proceeded down the river. 2d.—W.N.W., 185 miles, fresh breezes and cloudy, W., with heavy rain. 3d.—W.S.W., 186 miles, lat. 51 25 N., lon. 9 16. W., strong breezes and cloudy ; NV., with a heavy westerly swell. 4th.—W.N.W., 170 miles, lat. 51 24 N., lon. 14 6 W., strong breezes from west, spoke the Gansbroolce, for Belfast. Sth.—W.N.N.W., 170 miles, lat. 50 4 5 N., lon. 18 20 W., fresh breezes and cloudy, with heavy cross sea. 6th.—N. by W., 165 miles, lat. 50 18 N., lon. 21 33 W., fresh weather, with continued heavy rain. 7th.—W.N.W., 180 miles, lat. 49 31 N., lon. 25 54 W., heavy grles from W. S.W. Midnight, tremendous gale from S.W. with rising sea. Bth.—S.W. to N. W., 140 miles, lat. 48 54 N., lon. 29 25 W., hard gale, with tremendous sea. Passed a vessel under close-reefed maintopsail and reefed foresail e barometer fell from 30 20 to 29 25. 9th.—W. by S.W., 150 miles, lat. 48 23 N.,10n. 32 5 W., more moderate weather, with heavy sea; passed a large ship standing E. 10th.—W.S.W., 180 miles, lat. 47 43 N., lon. 36 45 W., fresh breezes and thick, gloomy weather ; heavy bead sea. llth.—S.S.W., 200 miles, lat. 47 22 N., lon. 41 20 W., moderate breeze, with dense fog : thermometer fell suddenly from 59 to 52. 12th.—S.W. to W., 180 miles, lat. 46 28 N., lon. 45 W., dense fog ; daylight cleared a little. Spoke the Rainbow, 21 days from Bristol, for Quebec : she reported having met with very severe weather. 13t5.—W.N.W., 200 miles, lat. 45 1 N., lon. 49 20 W., thick foggy weather spoke the barque Cumberland, from Liverpool, 14th July. 14th.—W.N.W., N.W., 225 miles. lat. 43 43 N., lon. 53 57 W., thick and foggy : spoke the American ship General Washington, from Liverpool, 17th July. 15th.—N.W. by W„ 243 miles, lat. 42 45 N., lon. 58 58 W., light winds and clear weather. 16th.—S. and E. 212 miles, lat. 42 5 N., lon. 64 W. , moderate breeze and clear weather : meridian, strong gale, with heavy rain. 17th.—S.E. and N.W. by W., 220 miles, lat. 40 40 N., lon. 67 11 W., strong breezes, with heavy rain, and cleared off; wind shifting to N.W. by W. 18th.—W. S., 215 miles, lat. 40 20. GRATIFYING FACT.—At a recent annual meeting of the London New Cemetery Company, the chairman " had great pleasure in announcing to the meeting the gratifying fact, that the burials in the cemetery for the last year were double the number of those of the year preceding." A DRUNKEN DUCK.—A few days ago a duck, belonging to a Mr. Marsland, was placed on a table at the Woodman Inn, Wakefield, when it drank off a glass of ale and sixpenny worth of brandy and water, and, afterwards, three sixpenny worth in a neat state, to the astonishment of the company. Preston Pilot. TTEATMENT OF ERYSIPELAS BY RAW COTTON.—Dr. F. Robertson, of Augusta, Geo., reports, in the July num ber of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, two cases of erysipelas successfully treated by the external ap plication of raw cotton. MR. THOMSON'S CHIEF SECRETARY.—Everybody knows how much depends upon a great man's secretary—more perhaps than on the great man himself. When, therefore, Mr Poulett Thomson was made Governor General and Captain General of the British provinces in North America, " who will be his chief secretary ?" was a question of some importance. We understand that Mr. Thomson has selected a Mr. Murdoch for that office. Who is Mr. Murdoch? In answer to this question we shall mention that Mr. Murdoch was junior clerk of the fourth class in the Colonial Office, at the time Mr. Elliot, a clerk of the first class, went to Canada with Sir George Gippps and the other commissioners. Mr. M. has now succeeded to the office of the chief secretary of the Governor General of Canada, with a salary of £l5OO a year.—Colonial Gazette. VOCAL FHENOMENOII.—MESSINA (Sicily,) AUGUST 11. —We have here a vocal phenomenon, which is perhaps, un precedented. It is a girl only 18 years old, gifted with a bass voice, which for extent and power rivals that of Lablache Her name is Clorinda Senganelli. Yesterday she made her debtlt at the opera of Messina in the part of Orovisto, in Bellina's Norma, and was received with great favour. Her success is, however, solely ascribable to the extraordinary nature of her voice, for her method of singing is as yet very imperfect. Madle. Senganelli, who was born in the village of Galbi, nea r Syracuse, may be termed a rustic beaut y ; she is tall and broad shouldered, and her features, with her large black eyes and long thick hair of the same hue, denote a masculine and energetic temper. The municipal authorities of this place intend to procure her admission into the Royal Conservatoire of Music of Naples. HowDEN GREAT HORSE FAlR.—Great preparations are making by the innkeepers and others for the approaching fair, it being confidently anticipated that the attendance of foreigners, dealers, farmers, and graziers, will be very nume rous inconsequence of the great demand for horses in this country and on the continent. The fame of the horses of Yorkshire is deservedly spread, and they are so .highly es teemed, not only in this country, but in France, Germany, Russia, America, and in other parts of the world, that dealers come over, commissioned from emperors and kings, to buy the horses of this county, at this celebrat:d mart, in order to improve the breed of their own, for which they frequently give exhorbitant prices. In the year 1200, King John granted to Bishop Philip a license to hold an annual horse fair at Howden, which is held on Sept. 25, and six following days, and is admitted by dealers to be the largest and most cele brated horse fair in the kingdom.—Hull Times. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY. We beg to draw the attention of our readers to an adver tisement- in another column, announcing a publiC meeting on Friday evening next, in behalf of the'above-named im portant and venerable society, which was established in . 1780, and which has been engaged, we understand, in the distribution of the Holy Scriptures fore the past ,59 years to the naval and military population of the kingdom ; and has, during the past year, furnished 3,944 copies to 51 regiments, besides free grants to barrack and guard-rooins, - wards 'of hospitals in various garrisons, and to regiinental schools. To 27 men-of-war 1,178 copies have been granted gratui tously ; to merchant vessels, seamen of the navy, and mer chant service, fishermen, river, and canal boatmen,- 7,431, making a total of 12,553 copies during the past year, and 344,186 copies since the formation of the society. The society has auxiliaries and associations in almost every large town in Great Britain and Ireland, and through the medium of agencies at the various ports, endeavours to pro vide effectual !means that our seamen shall be visited from vessel to vessel, and the-Scriptures offered for sale, besides supplying copies gratis to every vessel that floats, as the property of the vessel for the general vise of the crew ; and having the countenance of government, it possesses Peculiar facilities and advantages for supplying - the seamen .ofhe navy, as well as soldiers generally. As it respects its operations in this port; it has cirenlated nearly 7,000 copies of the Scriptures to the seameii since 1832 ; and when we consider the number of sailors who fre quent this port in a year, being on an average 80,000; and the circumstances in which they are placed, being debarred • from the public means of religion, we know of no Society which has strongevelaims for the support of the'shipowners, merchants, and the public in general, and we trust that the efforts which are now making to bring this cause forward, will call forth the willing and cordial assistance of all who • desire the welfare of cur seafaring population. , .• THE ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF PAINTLNGS.—Our readers will perceive that the annual exhibition of paintings in ,Post office Place is now open. The collectionis exceedingly gocqi, and embraces several pictures of a very high order of merit.. We have not yet had an opportunity. of preparing ,any ex tended critique, but shall do so in n few days. About fifteen thousand of the• ladies of Liverpool,have " proved their regard for their characters'-' by signing4the address at present in course, of, signatnre,exp . yessive of the gross insult offered to the Queen by the I)rd - el - Mt - lion of Robert Owen, and we anticipate that: about doyhk that , number of names will be found attached to the sheef,S when the whole of them are returned. The ladies ,sleergi the . highest praise for the zealous anxiety they'have evinced in this matter.---what a significant answer does the letter of Mr. Baylee ;erted in our publication of` last Tuesday) afford to the oft-repeated 'boast of Mr. Finch; that he is • ready to meet any twelve of the . " priesthood" of theChurche , • of England The Collegiate Institution progresses favourably. A meet ing of the promoters was held yesterdaY, and,' though we are not at liberty to state the proceedings in detail, we are able to say that the report was most satisfactory, and - everything appears to favour the contemplated erection of the building.., • THE CHESTER REGATTA.--We perceive that„the on the Dee is announced to take place on the 13th instant, (Friday next,) when, our Cestrian • neighbours promise us, much amusement may be anticipated. We hope the weather will be fine. - - WRESTLING.—A wrestling match has been made between John Nichol of Bottle', and Jas. Hague, of .Scriggar-housesi near Carlisle, for £5O. a side, to come off at Liverpool, in October next, when £25 will be given by the Association, open to both counties.—Carlisle Patriot. It may he useful to many of our readers to know that news papers directed to Wiesbaden, and we suppoSe to other places also in that vicinity, with " via France" written at the top, and " Germany" omitted, and on which twopence has been paid in England, cost only twopence more on delivery there, going by Paris quite as quickly as by any other way ; while, if sent by the German mail, through Ostend, the charge is 2s. 6d. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This place of amusement is undergoing a thorough repair preparatory to its opening under the management of Mr. Ducrow. It will be painted and beautified in the most popular style. One of the earliest - novelties will be a representation of the recent Tournament at Eglinton Castle,--in the arrangements of which Mr. Du crow himself assisted. There is very little doubt, from the acknowledged talent of the artist, that Mr. Thicrow's pageant will outstrip the original in every thing calculated to make such an exhibition interesting and effective. LAUNCH.—On Saturday last was launched, from the build ing yard of Mr. Oliver Chapman, Chepstow, a beautiful barque, called the Charles Jones, burthen 336 tons, intended for the East India trade, and to be commanded by Captain M`Fee, late of the ship Aliquis. . This noble vessel, as she glided into her destined _element in gallant style, was hailed with cheers by a numerous body of spectators.. She is named after Mr. Charles Jones, optician, of this town. RAILWAY CASUALTY : THREE COWS KILLED.-oil Sa turday evening one of the' railway trains from Liverpool to' Manchester, when near Rainhill, came in contact with seve ral cows which had, by some means, got on the road, and killed three of sham. Two of the carriages were thrown off the rails ; but, fortunately; the .engine was stopped without any further damage having been sustained. Another train, proceeding from Liverpool, and the second-class train from Birmingham, were detained four -hours by - this accident; THE ASPHALTE NUISANCE AGAIN.—About 2 Months ago, the manager of the - Asphalte Company's works, in Boundary-street, Vauxhall-road, pleaded guilty to an inform ation exhibited against him, before Mr. Rushton, for a nuis ance in manufacturing the asphalte. It was then understood that the company were about to try a new mode of preparing the bitumen for use, and which, if it were successful; would completely abate the nuisance. If the process has been tried it has totally failed; for during the past week, the nuisance has been greater than it was before the informations were laid. The Town-hall authorities must, therefore, not only look after the asphalte works, but the other works at the north end of the town, or it will soon be, rendered. puite uninhabit able, unless people can live and breathe among smoke, and stench, and noxious vapours.—Albion. FORTUNATE ESCAPE FROM DEATH Mr DROWNING. — The. William Fawcett, steamer, \Tas stationed; `on•Saturday night, at the George's Pierhead, for the purpose—should'she arrive—of conveying - the passengers. by` - -thb . Liverpool on shore. During the height of the storm, between nine and. ten o'clock, a boy, in the-service of Me.: Pollock, the-esteem ed agent of the Transatlantic Steam' Company,• fell between the vessel and the quay. ,The pour little fellow shrieked most , dismally, and thereby alarmed the, persons on -stoke- and -in the steamer, who made every exertion . -to rescue hint. from drowning. A rope was thrOwn to him, and fortunately, the ' brilliant light cast on the spot' by the gasAight placed jillt above the edge of high water enahled'the youth to Pee and Ito• - catch hold of the rope. lie was immediately drawn out of ' the boiling surge, carried to a house near George's dock l and soon restored to health. .. ~ MERIT RRWARDED.—It must be fresyri,,th i e • reinory iof our readers, that in April last, , a police eqx ° l #, Aimed Bailey, was murdered in the diseharge of hi' . * 0 ~- , taniel • 4 Cole. On that occasion, a captain' of ti n 0.7 0 OykrsSel, named Rigg, came forward, ia a verY.l4 p. ~ . yOted manner, to the assistance . of the dec4Se ,- 1 ,. f o Vgti mate the sense the Liverpool POlic - e - Tdrce enter gin of the .. _ ~. . conduct of Mr. Rigg, they have Prescilted . loin with a very elegant silver snuff box,with. the follotfin- inscription upon it: - -" Presented to Captain Rigg, by the ()iliccrs of the Li-ver pool Police, as a testimonial of their estent for lii: conduct, in the apprehension of Daniel Cole, for the inui•dcr of Police Constable Bailey, April, 1839." The box \‘'L - ,.; presented to Captain Rigg, at the North StatiOn, Rose Ilia, by. §,win tendent Edward Tyrrcl,. who, in a neat and appropriate speech, delivered it tolim, in the presence of the Tread Con stable, and several -of the Inspectors and , O ffi cers, who cheered the captain on the: ecasion. In acknowled 6 'menfthe captain made a short, straightforward, and seamanlito reply. 'Albion. - , : ^ We have frequently had the pleasure to acknowledge the kindness of various parties, in gratifying the rising generation, and yesterday "iy invitation from the proprietor, theteachers and children e St. Paul's Church Sunday School were per mitted to view " Danby's grand picture of the Opening of the Sixth Seal," at No. 25, Bold-street. It would have af forded the highest gratification to any bystander to have wit nessed the feelings of mingled surprise; delight, and 'awe, which pervaded the faces of these juvenile spectators and it may be asserted, that none of them will ever forget the scene in which all the kindreds of the world will be engaged. . ee ; MR. LUNY'S PICTURES. — We deem it a duty .- wi Otketo the many patrons of the fine arts in our ". good old'toien" of Liverpool, to direct our attention to a most interesting collection of paintings, now - open to public inspection, gratis, at Mr. Palmer's gallery, 12, Berry-street :These beautiful works of art, the faithful transcripts of nature; are from the talented pencil of that distinguished marine painter;' the late Thomas Luny, Esq., of Teignmouth, who, for upwards of thirty years devoted his time to the strlyo Marine subjects. How far he has succeeded in this difficitlty branch of the art, the public will judge for theraselVeS•; but, were we called upon to say, that for brilliancy of - exedution,'without being laboured, and fidelity of representation; Wilhoutliting need lessly minute, he has never yet been excelled•lifally artist of modern times. Nature was his -master, and-riath?e drily did he transfer to the canvas. The majesty of the storm—the sweet repose of the calm—the devastating fury of the hurri cane—the golden beams of the rising sun, struggling through the fleeting mist of the morning—the placid moon dispelling the gloomy shades of night—the exciting scenes of the battle vividly. displaying the invincibleness of England's glory, her " wooden walls," are here placed before the view. The four principal pictures are wonderful delineations of four of the most memorable naval victories gained •by the British, viz. St. Vincent, Camperdown, the Nile, and Algiers. It is an utter impossibility to convey to our readers au accurate description of these splendid works of art, withont going far beyond our limits, but to tie duly admired and appreci ated, a dozen visits would scarcely suffice. We'therefore strenuously recommend all our friends to embrace the earliest opportunity for seeing them. COPPER ORES IMPORTED into the - United Kingdom lathe year ending January 5, 1839 ;-25,7787-21,cists. - . FINE COPPER EXPORTED from the United Kingdom In the year ending January 5, 1839 :-7,451 tons 13.ewts. 0 nrs. 21 lbs.. Sir' Charles 'Shaw, who served in Spainviith considerable credit, has been appointed commissioner of tblibe for -Man chester.—Cupid. The number of passengers on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway for the week ending August 30th was 17 114 , . Several slight shocks of an earthquake are said to have been felt in Cardiff, and the neighbourhood, during the night of Sunday last. —Merthyr Guardian. • The talking canary, which has excited some astonishment, died last Saturday evening, at Brighton. - The owner states that she had refused 600 guineas for the bird. It had been exhibited only 22 weeks. Boghos Bey intends setting up a journal in Alexandria, and had selected for its editor a Frenchman, who had' re paired to Egypt for the purpose of establishing a silk hand kerchief manufactory ! The Marylebone vestry is engaged in tracing out persons charged with mutilating tombstones and interPolating parish registers, having reference to an estate at Bermondsey, worth £BO,OOO. . It appears from the London Catalogue, that 25,000 vo lumes of books have been published in London within, the last 25 years, not including successive editions of the seine work, or editions not recognised by the trade. Cunsous FACTS . Oft WINE.—" It is estimated," says Morewood, an excise officer; who published awork on inebri ating liquors, " that one half of the port, and fivb . -siiths of the white wines consumed in London, are the produce of the home presses." Many thousand pipes of spoiled eider are annually brought into. London from the country,. for the purpose of being converted into fictitious port wine."— Wine Drinker's Manual, 1830. A Frenchman, Making the tour of London, writes to his friends in Paris to the follow ing effect-:—" There is a liquor sold in this -country which they call wine, (most of the inhabitants call it wind ; ) of what ingredients it is composed I cannot tell ; but you are not to conceive, as the word seems to import that this is a transla tion of our word yin, a liquor made of the juice,of the grape ; for I am well assured there is not a drop of any such juice in it. There must be many ingredients in this liquor from the many different tastes, some of which 'are sweet, others sour, and others bitter • but - thOugh it appeared so nauseous to me and my friend, diat we could not swallow it, the Eng lish relish it very well—nay, they will often drink a gallon of it at a siting • some times in their cups,,for it-intoxic ates, they will wantonly give it the names cif all our best wines."