The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

>NOTHER ATTEMPT TO GAIN ACCESS TO HER MAJESTY AT WINDSOR CASTLE. (From the Morn" Herald of yesterday.) WINDSOR,—SATURDAY EVENIN G.—Considerable alarm and excitement was created in this town last evening in con sequence of a report that a maniac had gained access to the private apartments at the castle. It appears that about half past 10 yesterday evening a re spectably-dressed man got over the high iron gates leading to the castle, opposite to the long walk, where no sentries have hitherto been placed. He then walked across the park to the grand entrance to the castle, where Smith, the porter, a trusty old servant of the establishrnent,:was stationed. Upon seeing Smith, he thus accosted him :—" I demand admittance into the castle as the King of England." Smith, seeing the sort of character he had to deal with, replied, " Very well, your Majesty, but he pleased to wait till I get my hat. The porter then retired within the lodge, and putting on his hat, very quietly introduced him within the castle, and as promptly to the professional care of Mr. Russell, one of the inspectors of police on duty at the castle. He was immediately searched, and there were found upon him various papers, £l7 lOs in gold and silver, and a very valuable gold watch. He was then taken down to the station house Church-street, where he was placed under the care of Mr. Gillman, the superinten dent, during the night. This morning he was taken to the castle, when the Hon. C. A. Murray..the master of the household, requested the attendance of William Berridge, Esq. the mayor of Windsor, who promptly obeyed the summons, and the examination of the prisoner was proceeded with. The following facts were elicited : It appeared that the prisoner's name is John Stockledge, and that he resides at Withy-green, Manchester, in which town he is a partner in an extensive wholesale tea establish ment. He has been confined in two lunatic asylums—one at Liverpool and the other at Lancaster, from the latter of which he has been but recently liberated. He was on a jour ney of business, which was the cause of his leaving Manches tei for London. He arrived at Windsor yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, and, as we understood, took up his tem porary abode at the New Inn. He said, in reply to a ques tion'from the mayor, " that he was like all other men who wanted wives, he was looking after one"—evidently alluding to her Majesty. When asked how he managed to get into the park at that late hour, he replied that he bribed the sen tinelwith a sovereign to let him get over. This could not be,as no sentinel is stationed at this spot. He further stated that' he once before got as far from Manchester, towards Windsor, at Leicester, but the elements were against him, and so he returned home." He, left London by an omnibus yesterday, and thus pro et•cded to Hounslow, and from thence came on here in a hirod gig. When he was again asked what brought him to Windsor, he replied, rather incoherently, that " he was the kling - of England, and was impelled by the Spirit." He af terwards "An unknown power had done it," and that "it was the Spirit which helped him over the gates." Tlieexamination being concluded, he was sent off to Lon don in the custody of Mr. Russell, Inspector of Police, who proceeded with his prisoner forthwith to the Home-office, where he will undergo a further examination, on Monday, before the head of the Metropolitan pollee. The Hon. C. A. Murray intends to communicate with the man's friends, in Lancashire, by to-night's post. He appears to be between 40 and 50 years of age, and of mild and unassuming manners. He answered all questions put to him without the least hesi tation or reser.e, and has no appearance of viciousness about him. We understand that he has a wife and two children, who are now residing at Manchester. The following additional particulars have reached us : The only error in the account already pnblished in the hour at which that unfortunate man arrived at Windsor. Tne lunatic Stockledge did not reach the New Inn until nine o'clock on Friday night, and not at three o'clock in the afternoon, as stated. When he alighted from the chaise he paid the man who drove him from Hounslow (and who, it is supposed, somewhat imposed upon him) 15s. for the hire of the chaise, and 2s or 3s extra, for himself. When he entered the coffee room at the New Inn be ordered tea and cold meat, which were served hlm. He cut off a slice of meat, and a large slice of bread from the loaf, but eat not a morsel of either. He drank several cups of tea. Having paid for his refreshment, he told the waiter that "he should most probably want a hed," that "he was then going to the castle on business," and that "if he did not sleep there, he should sleep at the New Inn." The man who drove him told Mrs. Clodo, the landlady, that he thought the gentleman was not in hisright senses, from his extraordinary conduct on the road. When he was taken from the castle to the station-house, which was about 11 o'clock the same evening, he was placed in a cell by himself, Dobson, an intelligent sergeant of the Windsor police, sitting up all night in an adjoining apart ment, and visiting him in his cell twice every hour. Until the time that Dobson went off dirty the next morning he re mained, from the period he was taken to the station-house, standing. About eight o'clock in the morning he laid down on the bench. His conversation during the night was on the subject of the palace. He frequently expressed a desire to go out, saying, " I want to go to the palace, as I want a wije. I've left my money at the palace, and I must go for it." He further remarked that he was " directed" to go the Queen, and that he clambered over the iron rails, and went direcno George the Fourth's gateway to get into the palace. While he was at the station-house he was supplied with cciffee, between eight and nine o'clock, and again at eleven, but he refused to eat anything, although it was frequently offered him. In his pocket-book were found several letters on business, and tea invoices of goods supplied by the firm of Tickle, Stockledge, and Co. (in which he was a partner), to their customers. It appeared that he only left Manches ter on Thursday last. He was taken in the custody of Russell, the policeman, from Slough to London by the 12 o'clock train yesterday. He will be further examined at the 'House-office to-day. . We should like to know by what legal authority a case of alleged high treason, which had been partly inquired into be fore the Mayor of Canterbury, has been disposed of by the fiat of the Secretary for the Home Department, who ordered the party charged (the Rev. Mr. Davies) to be liberated on his own recognisance ? On the same principle all the prison ers charged with high treason at Newport might be liberated without trial. Either public justice, or the party so charged 'and.liberated ; has been seriously wronged—the former if he be:gitilty, the latter if he be innocent, which we are disposed to believe he is ; but that innocence he ought to have been allowed to make out to the satisfaction of the magistrates. Even for the offence of high treason, though fully proved, = the crown may grant a charter of pardon, and not a secre tary's fiat to discharge a prisoner, which looks very like an exercise of the dispensing power which the law and consti tution prohibit. —Herald. ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS.---(Extract from a letter from Sydney, dated June, 1839.)—" A great many ships are now • arriving from England bringing numbers of emigrants. I am sorry that this is the case, because I do not think one half of them will find their expectations answered. Employ ment, though more easily obtained than in England, still falls very short of what is usually represented at home, and this makes the people who come out with high expectations murmur and complain that they have been deceived at home, although very often they have only to blame themselves. The great fault is, that most of the emigrants have no fixed trade or calling, but express themselves willing to work at anything : this, however praise-worthy in them, is not the thing wanted here ; while mechanics, who are masters of their trade, and good household servants, are sure of employment. If you know any good cooks who want to come out, pray send them. Men-cooks are much employed here." SCOTTISH HYDROGRAPHY.—In the survey of the Ayr shire coast, under Captain Robinson. R.N., considerable progress has been made—the coast line having been comple ted from the Mull of Galloway to the northward of Ayr, with plans on an enlarged scale of the various harbours, including • Loch Ryan. The soundings have been accomplished from the " Basin of the Clyde." We, therefore, (on the comple tion of the coast line,) may look' for the publication of an accurate chart of this frequented coast; for which we have long sought in vain. The velocity and direction of the tides, depth, and nature of the bottom, have been paid particular attention to ; the result of which, we understand, will enable Captain Robinson to form some law to assist the navigator in knowing his position on entering the Firth, when no lights are visible. The facilities rendered by the Board of Admi ralty in providing a steam-boat for Captain Robinson's ope rations, have tended greatly towards the fulfilment of this desirable object. CURIOUS FACT. -'On Thursday afternoon l Mrs. Purvis, No. 17, Fleshmarket-close, bought for sixpence a fine cod fish, from Christian Lottitt, Fisherrow, and on opening it, found a handsome engine turned silver watch, without glass, or appendages. The seller of the fish insisted that though she had sold a cod, she had not sold a watch, and claimed restitu tion of the latter. Mrs. Purvis, on the other hand, main tained that she had bought the fish and all that it contained, and being in possession, is likely to laugh at the claims of Christian. The cod was caught in the Frith of Forth, by , 'John Loutitt, Fisherrow. As it is probable the watch has been lost by some seaman, it will be remarkable if it shall be ' again restored to ins lawful owner. Mrs. Purvis, we suppose, will readily show the watch to the carious.—Edinburgh Erentng Post. RAILWAYS.—In connection with the P.irmingham, Mid land Counties, York and North Midland, we shall ere long-, we hope, sec a railway communication in a line direct north . ward 200 miies, between the two most ancient and renowned cities in England, London and York.. A man may very well then breakfast in London, and dine with his friends in York the same day ; send a letter and receive an answer in six teen or seventeen hours. And when the Great North of England to Newcastle is added, we shall have a continuous railway communication between the metropolis and New castle, near 300 miles, directly to the north, and be within about 100 miles of Edinburgh. That we shall, ere many years elapse, be able to reach Newcastle from London in ten hours, there is but little doubt ; and we hope to see the time, and before many years, when a man may leave London after dinner, visit Edinburgh, transact his business, and return to town to dinner the next day.—Leeds Intelligences. CHARTISM.—The chartist leaders are doing all in their piaWei to set chartism again upon its legs in the northern towns and villages, with a view, no doubt, to excite the people to riot 'and rebellion. Within the last few weeks there have been several meetings of delegates held in the manufacturing diitricts, the avowed object of which is to form a new " Na tional Convention," whose sittings are to be at Newcastle npon-Tyne. In Manchester, Oldham, Ashton, Staley-Bridge, Boltbn, Bury, and moat of the towns of Yorkshire and Lan cashire, rooms have been taken for the purpose of holding meetings, and organising a new " m oral f orce ." To avoid the appearance of assembling in public meetings in lar g e n um be rs , they are in the habit of forming chartist lodges at different houses, which are held simultaneously, at each of which a spouter of sedition attends. No person can gain admission to these secret societies unless he be well known, and fur nished with "a card." The open proceedings ofthis dangerous clique are confined at present to the sending about the dis tricts paid itinerant lecturers, whose business it is to impress the people with a due idea of their wretchedness, to draw them of their money for the support of a new convention, and to stir up a feeling in favour of Frost and the other Welch rebels. A Mr. Bairstow and Mr. Feargus O'Connor have been the most industrious of these revolutionary lecturers, both have travelled through the districts endeavouring to sow dissension among the poor.—Newcastle Journal. NORWICH UNION LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION.—It is gratifying to see that the differences which have so long exiested in a long establishesi and respectable commercial es tablishment liks the Norwich Union Life Assurance Asso ciation, are in a fair way of being amicably and permanently settled. This is much better for the interests of the nume rous body concerned in its welfare than having recourse to the adjudication of the Court of Chancery—a prospect which the association had for some time past before it, and which is always a gloomy one at the best, but a particularly sad prospect it was for the widows and orphans whose interests were involved. This gloomy prospect has now cleared away. The character of Mr. Bignold has come out unsullied from the inquiry ; nor did Alderman Farebrother bear a stronger testimony to his able and upright conduct, than Mr. Paynter and others, who were his opponents. For this satisfactory termination of long existing disputes, we think the associa tion are greatly indebted to the good sense and busiuess-like habits of Mr. Godson, M.P., who, though a barrister, set himself most strenuously against litigation, and by his speech at the London meeting previously to that at Norwich, which we reported the other Clay, laid the foundation of that ami cable arrangement which is about to be carried into effect. We do not w under that the result of the meeting at Norwich produced the effect described in our report in the following words At the beginning there were many anxious coun tenances, but at the close every heart seemed to rejoice, and the room rang with acclamations. Thus, after two years of doubt and uncertainty, the prosperity of the society is now settled beyond all doubt. Morning Herald. ECCLESIASTICAL AND 'UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) In a convocation holden on Thursday last, the nomination of the following gentlemen to be select preachers at the en suing Michaelmas Term, was unanimously agreed to The very Rev. George Chandler, D.C.L. Dean of Chiches ter, late fellow of New College. The Rev. Ernest Hawkins, B.D. fellow of Exeter College. The Rev. George Gleig, M.A. Balliol College. The Rev. John Ryle Wood, M.A. Christ Church. The Rev Robert William Browne, M.A. late fellow of St. John's College. On the same day the following degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Francis Nicholas, Wadharn College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. John Somerville Broderip, Baliol College. Thomas Drayton Wintle, Pembroke College. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Charles Haughton Aitkens, New Inn Hall. Francis Hinde, Lincoln College. William Brooks Stephens, Lincoln College. William Ewing, Lincoln College. William Beckley Graham, Magdalen Hall. William Chapman Rawlinson, Magdalen Hall. Edmund Lane, Magdalen Hall. Fitzwilliam John Taylor, Christ Church. Edward Rhys Jones, scholar of Brasenose College. John Dobree Dalgarins, Scholar of Exeter College. Thomas Preston, Exeter College. Thomas Pearse, demy of Magdalen College. Edward Kaye Burney, demy of Magdalen College. Benjamin Jowett, fellow of Balliol College. Edward Dugdale Bucknall Estcourt, Balliol College. George Hadon, Balliol College. Thomas Carteret Manic, fellow of St. John's College. John Williams Deane, St. John's College. Philip Hayman Dod, Worcester College. William Samways Oke, Wadham College. William Yorick Smythies, Trinity College. Yesterday, the Rev. Henry Wall, M.A. and Vice-Princi pal of St. Alban Hall, was elected a Fellow of Balliol College ; and, at the same time, Frederick Fanshawe, from Winches ter School, and Commoner of Balliol College, and John Bil lingsley Seymour, from Eaton, were elected Scholars of the said College. On Friday, the 22nd instant, Stephen Charles Denison, B.A. of Balliol College, and George Tickell, S.C.L. Stowell Civil Law Fellow of University College, were called to the Degree of Barrister-at-Law, by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple. The Rev. Lewis Francis Bagot, M.A. Fellow of All Souls' College, has been instituted to the Rectory of Castle Rising with Roydon, Norfolk, on the presentation of the Hon. Fulk Greville Howard, and the Hon. Mary Howard, his wife. William Linwood, B.A. Student of Christ Church, Latin Scholar in 1836, and Ireland Scholar of the same year, has been elected to the vacant Boden Scholarship. The Rev. Henry Anthony Jeffreys, M. A. Student of Christ Church, has been presented, by the Dean and Chap ter of that Society, to the Vicarage of Hawkhurst, Kent. On Thursday last, William Henry Jones, Commoner of Brasenose College, and William Dyne were elected Exhibi tioners, on Sir Francis Bridgeman's Foundation, at Wednes day, at Queen's College. The Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, M.A. of Oriel College, and Rector of Brixton, Isle of Wight, has been collated to the Archdeaconry of Surrey, vacant by the decease of Lord Walsinghnm. Edward Elder, M.A. of Balliol Coliege, has been appointed Head Master of the Durham Grammar School, void by the resignation of the Rev. H. M. G. Buckle, M.A. of Wad ham College. Mr. D. B. E. Dwarris has been admitted to the Van Mil dert Scholarship in the University of Durham. PROMOTIONS. Rev. Thomas Maine, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Harrington, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Trollope. Rev. W. Vincent, B.A. to the Vicarage of Steventon, Berkshire ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. Rev. W. Baker, Vicar of Cherry Willingham, Lincoln, shire, to be Chapl ain of the Lincoln Union. Rev. Henry Hardinge, B.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Woodbrige, Suffolk ; patron, the Rev. Thomas Salmon, of Woodbridge. Rev. M. G. Beresford, M.A. of Trinity College, Cam bridge, Vicar General of Kilmore, to the Archdeaconry of Ardagh, vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. C. Le Poer Trench. R,ev. Henry E. Jolly, M.D. to be Vicar General of the Diocese of Tuam, in the room of the late Archdeacon Trench. He is also appointed Judge of the Consistorial Court of Tuam. Rev. Thomas Davis, Curate of All Saints', Worcester, to the Perpetual Curacy of Roundhay, Yorkshire, void by the death of the Rev. J. Dodsworth ; patron, S. Nicholson, Esq. Rev. Charles Haves, to the Sunday Afternoon Lecture ship of the Parish of Wath-upon-Derrn, and to the Curacy of Swinton, Yorkshire. ArchdeaCon Boston ' to the Vicar Generalship of Clo n f er t Diocese, vacant by the death of the Hon. Archdeacon Trench. Rev. John Sinelair, to be Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London. Rev. C. W. Gibson, Perpetual Curate of Chasewater, Cornwall, to the Vicarage of St. Clement's, in that County, void by the death of the Rev. F. Fenkins ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. (From the CombrOp Chronicle.) At a Congregation on Wednesday last, the following de grees were conferred BACHELORS OF ARTS. John Kitton, Queens' College. Richard Blanchard, Queens College. The following grace also passed the Senate : To purchase of Count Munster, from the Woodwardian Fund, a collection of geological specimens, about 20,000 in number, at the price of £5OO. On Friday last, Joseph Clark, 8.A., was elected a Foun dation Fellow of Christ's College, in this University • and on Tuesday last, Henry Brookland Maso n , 8.A., was elected a Fellow of the same college, on the foundation of Sir John Finch and Sir Thomas Baines. The Rev. James Geldart, LL.D., late Rector of . Kirk Deighton, in the county of York, and senior magistrate of the West Riding, whose decease we lately recorded, was ad mitted A.B. in 1783, and was the first man at Trinity Col lege, in the Mathematical Tripos. Marrying early, he was not a candidate for a Fellowship. The Rev. Jackson Delmar, 11. A., of Corpus Christi Col lege, in this University, has been presented to the Rectory of Swalcliffe, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Burke. Rev. James Whitley Deans Dundas, M.A., of Magdalen College, in this University, has been presented to the Vica rege of Ramsbury, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Edward Graves Meyrick, D.D., of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The Rev. Rowland Ingram, M.A., of Trinity College, in this University, has been presented to the Vicarage of Gig gleswick, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Clapham ; patron, ohn Nicholas Coulthurst, Esq. The Rev. Charles Acland, M.A., of Caius College, in this University, has been presented to the living of Queenbo rough, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Howman ; patrons, the Corporation of Queenborough. The Bishop of Ely has appointed the Rev. H. J. Rose, 8.D., of St. John's College, in this Unive rs ity, an d R ec t or of Houghton Conquest, to be one of the Rural Deans of the Deanery of Bedford. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—The transactions in the Cloth Hall still continue very limited, though, if any thing, there has been a slight improvement during the week. The demand is principally for domestic consumption. BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a fair attendance of merchants at the market on Thursday, but they were exceed ingly cautious in their purchases, and the business done was not very extensive. No alteration in prices, either of Goods or Wool, can be noted. Both the Yarn and Wool markets were very inert. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. 29.—There is no alteration in the Long Wool trade from last week's report. Some few sales continue to be made at previous rates. No improvement in Blanket Wools. ___ i3ARNSLEY LINEN TRADE.—We are sorry to say that the Linen Trade at this place is uncommonly flat. In the home trade a considerable number of weavers have been compelled to take in their reeds during the past week, but the drill houses are very busy, and it is to be hoped many will find employment in that department. —Leeds Intelligencer. MIDDLETON SILK TRADE.—The silk trade in this neigh bourhood has become very dull within the last fortnight. This week nearly every weaver, on taking their work to the warehouses in Manchester, and on receiving fresh pieces, they were ordered not to take them in before a certain time had elapsed, consequently many weavers have not more than half employment. —Manchester Courier. PRESTON.—The market has undergone a further decline of 4d to id per lb. upon yarns, and 3d to 6d per piece upon manufactured goods. Several speculators in yarns and goods, who had, last week, procured samples apd entertained intentions to purchase, with the view to resell during next spring, have declined for the present to treat at all, except at a still further and ruinous reduction i n p r i ces . Th e pre sent losses, sustained from spinning and manufacturing of cotton wool, have now, almost, wholly to be borne by the Joint Stock Bank shareholders, whose money was so lavishly and recklessly intrusted from 1835 to 1837, to all parties who had not the firmness to withstand the persuasive temp tations, then so alluringly held out. In this town, the cot ton trade is, we are told, about as bad as it can be. Money is exceedingly scarce, and in every branch of business com plaints are loud and startling.—Preston Chronicle. DUNDEE.—There is little alteration to notice in the state of our markets for the past week. The prices of flax, yarns, and linens, remain without variation. Hessian sheetings are in demand for the Brazilian market; but this has led to no advance in the price of the article, which is not such as would yield a profit to the manufacturer. The finer qualities of flax are getting scarce ; and holders are firm in expectation of a rise in prices. From a petition which has been presented by the unemployed workmen to the town council,. craving relief, it will be observed that twenty spinning mills are now at a stand in Dundee; at most of these, however, compara tively few hands were employed. It is the opinion of many of our most intelligent merchants, that bur trade has reached the lowest point of depression, and that we may indulge hopes of a speedy improvement. —Dundee Courier. The commissioners of the northern lighthouse have given notice of the erection of a beacon upon the Skirvuile, or Iron Rock. IMPERIAL BANK. — There was a meeting of the claimants of the Imperial Bank, at Manchester, on Wednesday last, at which meeting the inspectors made a report which was deemed much more favourable for the creditors than that of any preceding one. It appeared that negotiations had been commenced with the " shilling" shareholders, and that many of them were disposed to pay £5 per share, on condition of exoneration by the creditors of any further calls. If this should be quite general, a very handsome dividend may be expected. FORTUNE MADE EASY.—We safely assert that not one person in ten thousand is au fait at the niceties of man ner required in a Ball Room, and has that self-possession which tends so much to the happiness of the individual, and to the forming of those connexions which lead to FORTUNE! —Therefore that little bijou of a book, entitled THE BALL Room GUIDE, published by Mitchell, London, should he in the waistcoat-pocket of all Gentlemen who would behave COMME IL FAUT, and dance correctly as to the figure: nor will the reticule of the lady be complete without this SHIL LING TREASURE.—It will be observed that the leadins por tion of the press have given their unqualified approbation to this delightful little work, of which nearly 30,000 copies have been required by the public. The Editor of The Times calls this—" A very neat, well got up, sensibly written little book, worth at least five times the price at which it is charged. Its merits ought to make it a work of great utility." • The Editor of The Herald observes :—" Let no novice presume to enter a hall-room without having perused it." The Editor of The Chronicle says :—" Certainly much needed, and far superior to any thing of the kind hitherto published." The Editor of The Post says :—" It is a sterling produc ion." The Editor of The Standard remarks :—" If any person wishes to learn the best rules of the best society, we recom mend a purchase of this beautiful little production. There is nothing better in the language." WEST INDIAN AFFAIRS. EXTRACTS FROM " REFLECTIONS ON WEST INDIA AF FAIRS," BY LIEUT.-COL. THE HON. SIR EDWD. CUST. ADDRESS TO THE COLONIAL OFFICE. I could have wished to have addressed, with every cour tesy, to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, the ob servations that it had occurred to me I could lay before the public, with some advantage to West Indian affairs, after my return home from an excursion through the principal British and Foreign possessions of the Caribbean sea. But the in cessant changes of the Principals in the Colonial Department scarcely give me any option, on the present occasion, but that of addressing the entire Office. I will make no allusion to the inconveniences resulting to the Colonies themselves from the late fluctuating appointments, further than to remark, that at a moment when the Office takes upon itself to do so much without consulting those who are the most concerned, it would be consolatory to the Colonists if they could have more satisfaction in the greater stability of those to whom Colonial affairs are entrusted. True it is, that, amidst all the recent changes, the situation of the most active 'Under Secretary remains always unaltered, and I might therefore have selected him for my correspondent, without any appre hension of being obliged to modify my address ; but, whether justly or not, I have found that gentleman's influence to be so unpopular in the colonies, and considered to be so hostile to their interests, that to address my letter to him might have been misconstrued by all parties ; and 1 might either have been imagined to participate in his supposed views of colonial policy, or intend satirically some remarks in opposition to them. I have no such motive. My object is to state, as concisely and as clearly as I can, the opinions I have been induced to form during a recent voyage through the Wind ward Colonies ; and although I shall not profess an absence of prejudice by a hesitating inclination to blow hot and cold upon every question, I shall endeavour to steer as clear of it as a man not ashamed to write himself a Churchman, and a West Indian planter, can he believed to do by those of op. posite denominations. DESPOTIC AUTHORITY or THE COLONIAL OFFICE. I consider that the Colonial Office in its collective juris diction (for I will not attempt to dissect the individual influ ence that directs and controls it) is at the present moment, and has been for some years, the most unequivocal Autocracy in existence. The Russian Emperor rules absolutely, with out a show of constitutional authority : he can appoint and depose his Governors, increase or diminish their salaries, and enforce laws by his unquestioned power. All this is of course done by our Superior government, but it does not hesitate to override, at its pleasure, every constitutional influence ; for whilst it leaves the semblance of a will to the two estates of the several mighty rocks of the Caribbean Sea, it is only when their freedom of legislation is discreetly moulded upon the previously ascertained will of the Colonial Office, that their laws are permitted to come into operation. Thus the ma gistracy, the militia, the police, and the prison questions, are all arranged in Downing-street, without reference to colonial interests. The Governors are the mere creatures of its au thority, of no imaginable influence but what they derive from id nomination; they are unequal to represent at home the just grievances of the colonists, because they know that if these should in any degree clash with the preconceived opin ions of the department, their situations are in immediate jeopardy ; and they are in no position to make head against its influence, by an appeal to the good sense and justice of the British people, without hazard to their individual inte rests, and ruin to their professional prospects. THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGROES. But whatever may be the faults of this system, and what ever may be the sins which the Colonists may be disposed to lay at the door of the Colonial Office, it is not justly charge able with the evils resulting from the emancipation of the negro population. The " pressure from without" carried this measure; which, founded on no sound principle of co lonial policy, and carried through, not by the dictates of a sober judgment, but by the fervour and heat of sectarian zeal, has been followed out (as it will not be surprising to reason able minds to learn) with much danger and risk to the pros perity and happiness of the very people whom it was intended to serve and benefit. The Emancipation Question was car ried through with too much intemperate feeling to admit of that patient and discriminating consideration which was ne cessary to raise a naked uneducated barbarian to the condi tion of a well-clothed, comfort-understanding christian la bourer. Time was not allowed to the planter to prepare for the mighty change, had he been ever so well disposed to do so ; at the same time I am free to confess that a West Indian temper, goaded and provoked by incessant interference and attack, was not in the best frame to prepare the proper means of amelioration and improvement. Much was done by the planter, for which he obtained neither credit nor advantage ; for whilst the least meastire of change was of necessity a pre sent and immediate charge upon his income, it was out of all question to calculate how far he might hope to receive any satisfaction himself from his exertions. The benefit, there fore, was clearly upon the side of those who did nothing, and if very little was done, compared with what ought, and might have been done to prepare for such a portentous change of condition, it was a natural consequence of the intemperance with which " this free," as the negroes call it, was hurried on to its hasty and ill-considered conclusion. With the clear and discriminating judgment of a great statesman, Mr. Can ning had early laid d own th e principle, that the only safe sys tem of emancipation was to direct it through the instrumen tality of the planters. The plan pursued was to carry the measure in spite of them. lam one of those who, looking back upon the past, may very reasonably regret that we did not immediately set forward, from the date of the resolutions of the House of Commons on the subject of Slavery in 1823, to'prepare for the inevitable change, which from that mo ment awaited the slave population of our colonies ; but un less the measures of amelioration had been prepared and acted upon in unison with a large portion of the proprietary body, we should have done little good ; nobody could foresee what preparatory steps would be advisable ; and a treatment of the people by any individual landowner in advance of the adjoining properties, has always met with an unsatisfactory as well as a most ungrateful return, in consequence of the standard of feeling all around being below that of those so partially benefitted on any one property. No greater exam ple of this truth can be quoted than what the History of the Estates of Codrington College can produce. Bishop Porteus, writing in 1784, just half a century previous to the act for abolishing slavery, thus describes the endeavours of the trus tees to benefit the negroes on that estate : " This society has repeatedly and earnestly enjoined their managers and agents in Barbadoes to treat their slaves with lenity and tenderness. They have for many years maintained a Catechist in Orders on the plantation, whose sole business it is to train up the negroes in the principles of religion, and to perform divine service for their benefit on the Lord's day. And that the slaves may have leisure to attend this and other religious duties, the society has humanely given them the afternoon of Saturday for cultivating their own land, and attending to their own family affairs." Religious education and the Sa turday holyday was therefore given up to the slave on this property fifty years ago, yet I could not -learn that the Cod rington Estate is better off at the present day than its neigh bours in the island of Barbadoes, nor that the negroes have evinced a better result from this good preparation for the change, than those, among whom no such ameliorations had been introduced ; nor did I find that they worked with more steadiness and fidelity than their neighbours. I write this with some despondency for the future success of the great experiment through the West Indies ; but I believe it to be principally owing to what I have already stated,—namely, that no material benefit is at any time derived from being in advance of the general feeling that is entertained on any subject. (To be continued.) POPULATION FOR THE COLONIES. (From the Colonial Gazette.) Nearly the whole of the communities that have been pro• duced by colonization from modern Europe, exhibit one common feature, which is described by either of the relative and convertible terms " redundancy of land," or " scanti ness of population." The only exceptions to the rule are a few small settlements whose inhabitants never had a greater extent of unoccupied land at their disposal. Elsewhere, universally more or less, population has always been deficient in proportion to land, and remains so still. It follows that in all these " new countries" property in land can be very easily acquired—where, in one word, land is very cheap— there it has ever been impossible to produce much wealth, except by means of some kind of slavery. The reason is sufficiently plain. Land being very cheap, nearly every head of a family obtains land of his own ; and thus the whole la bour of the community is not only cut up into fractions no larger than the number of hands in a family, but is employed in-the very same occupation. Hence two evil consequences in particular. Although the labour of a single family, when employed on very feriile laud, returns a coarse abundance for all the hands at work, it produces little more ; and when all the members of a society work at the same occupation, and of course produce the same things, they have no motive for exchanging the products of their industry. In such a com munity, there is little combination of labour in each work, a very small surplus produce, if any, over what keeps the pro ducers in a rude plenty, little or no divisions of employments, scarcely any trade, and finally social monotony and stagna tion. Lord Durham draws the picture of such a community. Speaking of the " country districts" of both the Canadas, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, he tells of " a widely scattered population, poor and apparently unenterprising, though handy and industrious, separated from each other by tracts of intervening forest, without towns or markets, almost without roads, living in mean houses, drawing little more than a rude subsistence from ill-cultivated land, and seemingly incapable of improving their condition."* This description would serve for any colony of modern times, in which some sort of slavery has not taken place. In the others, the natural tendency of great cheapness of land to separate labour and limit its productiveness, has been counteracted by means of forcing a portion of society to work in combina tion. By means of slavery, and by this means only, most of the colonies of modern Europe have been enabled to profit by combination of labour and division of employments, and to obtain a great surplus produce for exchange•witk other coun tries. From the plantation of Hispaniola, down to the pre sent hour, in New South Wales, colonial trade has been the result of compulsory. labour. The surplus produce, the ex changable wealth of the first Spanish colonisers, of the plan ters of Virginia, of the cultivators of the West Indies, Spa nish, Danish, French, Dutch, and British, the producers of the precious metals in South America, of the sugar and to bacco growers of Brazil, of the wool and wine producers, in South Africa, and of the wool growers of Australia, has been due to the labour of slaves, red, black, or white. Even those colonies of America which repudiated slavery, have had their kidnapped " indentured labourers," their " redemptioners," and " free niggers," whom, to the number of 400,000, and down to the present day, they compel to work for hire by virtually forbidding them to cultivate land on their own ac count—not to mention that, economically speaking, the Uni ted States, are to be viewed as one community ; that the great market of the north for the sale of flour, pork, and salt fish, is the slave states of the south ; that nearly the whole foreign commerce of the United States depends on the vast exchangeable produce raised in the south by the labour of slaves ; and that if those slaves were set free to occupy and cultivate land on their own account, the grass would soon grow in the streets of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York. How slavery in some form has been of advantage in modern colonies, is only a question of degree as respects different places. In those places where slavery in every form has been shunned, the deficiency of population in proportion to land is yet more obvious. And now that slavery has been abolished throughout the British colonial possesions; that strenuous efforts are made to rid the United States of the moral curse of slavery ; that the colonies of Australasia are deprived of their convict slaves ; that the universal abolition of compulsory labour is demanded by a great preponderance of opinion in the civilised parts of the earth, so that those colonies which yet cultivate slavery tremble for their property in man —now, indeed, that deficiency of population, which is the characteristic feature of modern colonies, has come to from a subject of the deepest practical importance to the whole colonial world. Our especial concern is with the colonies of Britain, on whose prosperity her own is essentially dependent. Where, then, let us ask, in the whole colonial empire of Britain, is there a sufficiency of people to insure the greatest produc tiveness of industry, or even, now that all sorts of slavery are everywhere abolished, to prevent such a condition of society as Lord Durham says that he beheld in the wilds of Canada? Which is the British colony that does not call aloud for more labour, more people—for a larger share than it has yet ob tained of the redundant population of other countries? These questions lead at once to the important and interesting sub ject of Mr. Elliot's report. A state paper on the subject of emigration would ill deserve the name if it did not embrace a great variety of topics ; and the reader will understand that the " agent-general for emi gration," when writing for the information of parliament and the public, was bound to produce an elaborate and somewhat voluminous work. The whole subject on which it was his duty to furnish information may be divided into a number of * Report, parl. paper, p. 75. distinct parts. Some of these we shall now enumerate. The British colonies in which the want of immigration is most felt, are the West Indies both insular and continental, especially the continental settlements and larger islands, where population is most deficient in proportion to land. — The inquirer will therefore e.93ect to find in the agent-ge neral's report, a full and particular account of the measures which have been recently adopted or suggested, with a view to increasing the population of the West Indies by means of immigration. The motives and results of an attempt by some of the planters to set on foot a system of immigration from Malta and the south of Europe, forms a very interesting topic. Then there is the vote of £400,000 by one of the set tlements of British Guiana, for defraying the cost of an immi gration of labourers, and the disallowance by the Colonial office of the ordinance of the Court of Policy for that purpose, including a description of the circumstances which led the colonists to adopt that measure, and the Colonial-office to render it null and void. Mr. Burnley's and Sir Edward Cust's plans for inducing free negroes inhabiting the United States to settle in the West Indies, deserved attentive con sideration. The possibility of establishing a system of free emigration from America to the West Indies, under the sole management of the imperial government, so as absolutely to prevent frauds having any tendency towards a revival of the slave trade, though the colonies would defray the whole cost of the operation, is a suggestion which merited ample notice in Mr. Elliot's report. Nor would any one think the report had been overloaded with matter on finding it to contain a plan for securing the services of immigrants to the West Indies as labourers for hire, by means of enhancing the price of land throughout these colonies. Without some measure of that kind, it would be idle to introduce labourers into the West Indies, because if land remained as cheap, as easy of acquisition as it is at present, the immigrants would not la bour for hire, but would occupy and cultivate land, each fa mily by itself and on its own account ; and the means of surplus production for external commerce would be in no way augmented. There is a valuable paper on this subject extant in the Colonial-office ; it bears Laid Glenelg's signa ture, was produced before the House of Commons committee on colonial lands in 1836, and seems to have been made for Mr. Elliot's use while descanting on the economical condition of the West Indies. It will be presumed that he has made a good use of it—but we must proceed to other matter. IMPORTANT IMPORMATION FOR THE SHARE HOLDERS OF THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY. (Second Sitting at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before 211 r, Justice Erskine, and a Special Jury.) _ THE SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY V. RICHARDS. Mr. KELLY (with whom was Mr. Dasent) stated that this was an action in which he represented the interests of a body of gentlemen associated under an adt of parliament, passed in the late reign, for the purpose of forming extensive docks at Southampton, a situation most admirably adapted to that purpose, whether the interests of the trading community of London, or those persons more immediately connected with the town and country of Southampton, were taken into con sideration. The idea of establishing these docks, as was but most reasonable, had been suggested by the passing of the act for the formation of the Southampton Railway, for by the establishment of proper docks at that place, in immediate connexion with the railway, it was manifest that great ad vantages would accrue to the shipping and trading interests of this country. Under these prospects the directors com menced their works, and in order to carry them on, it was evident that those who had become proprietors of shares should promptly pay up the calls upon those shares. It was now more so than ever ) for as the railway would be Completed in the course of next year, the directors of the dock com pany were most anxious, in the discharge of the high duties reposed in them by the great majority of the shareholders, to push the progress, of their own works towards the;:. comple tion with the utmost celerity. By all who knew tin! situation of Southampton and had lately visited that place, it would be remembered that the terminus of the railway was within a few yards of the proposed entrance to these docks, so that the greatest facilities would. be afforded not only for the em barkation and landing of passengers, but also for the ready and immediate transfer of goods for the purpose of being taken up to London or vice versa, by the railway, thus avoid ing in the latter case the necessity of beating up or down the channel, which Was admitted by all seafaring men to be by far the most dangerous portion of the voyage to or from what ever part of the globe south of England the vessels might be bound. These advantages were more expressly held out to the American trade by the formation of these docks, and therefore it became the duty, as it was the interest, of the directors to finish these docks at the very earliest opportu nity. The defendant, however, bad opposed himself in every possible way to the wishes of his brother proprietors; and though there were now, 'and had been for some time past, 300 men at work night and day in this arduous undertaking, he had up to the present time resisted the payment of the first call of £2 10s. per share, which had been made so far back as July, 1837. By this course the efforts of the directors would be completely paralyzed unless an end was put to it speedily ; and as the defendant still persisted in his opposi tion, the present action was actually forced on the directors in order that he should be compelled to pay that which was legally and honestly due from him. In order to prove this case there would be very little difficulty indeed, for the act under which the company was incorporated had prescribed a very succinct and clear course of proceeding in such matters. All that was necessary to prove, in the first place, was that the defendant was proprietor of the shares in question, amounting to forty, which would be done by the production of the company's book ; secondly, it would be proved that the call in question had been duly made ; and thirdly that the proper notices thereof had been given, as required by the act, in two London papers, and one " usually circulated in Southampton." These were the three points which it was incumbent on the plaintiffs to make out, and if that should be done, then, under the direction of the learned judge, they (the jury) would find for the amount sought to be recovered, which wag £lOO on the call, and interest thereon at 5 per cent. Under the plea of " never indebted" the defendant could not possibly have any valid defence to this action ; and though he was represented by a very learned and eloquent gentleman, it was, in fact, an undefended action. Under these circumstances it might bi a matter of surprise that the cause should be tried by a special" jury at this unusual time ;.that singularity, however, was easily explained, for the defendant had himself applied to have the cause tried by a special jury, which being opposed by the plaintiffs as involving delay, was only granted by the learned judge before whom the applica tion was heard, on the condition that the trial should not be postponed beyond this day. William Bolger was then called, who stated that he was the clerk of the company, and produced the documents allu ded to by the learned gentleman. Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD, for the defendant, however, closely cross-examined the witness, with the view of showing that the forms and requisites of the act had not been com plied with, and objected to the admission of all three instru ments as each was proposed to be read • but The Learned JUDGE having overruled each and every ob jection, the documents in question were read, and the case for the plaintiffs was closed. Mr. Serjeant TALEOURD then said, that under the present state of the pleadings, he did not feel himself at liberty to contest the case any longer. It was competent certainly to him to address to the Jury such observations as he might deem proper ; but, as he was not in a condition to follow them up by any evidence, he thought that his proper course would be not to occupy the time of the jury any longer. At the same time he wished to understand from the learned judge whether he would reserve to him leave to move the court upon the objections taken by him to the admissibility of the proof adduced by the plaintiffs, or whether he (the learned judge) entertained so decided a view of them as to induce him toerefuse such leave. ..... Mr. Justice brisKINE : I certainly shall not give you leave to move, for I feel so confident on th e p o i n t th a t it wou ld b e idle to do so. I admit that the most confident men are some times mistaken, but I entertain so very clear a view of the matter, that 1 cannot allow you to think I have any doubts on the subject, by reserving you leave to move. Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD: Very well, my lord. I can only say, further, that I hope my learned friend's brilliant state ment in his opening may be realized. Mr. KELLY : I have no doubt of it. Mr. Justice ERSKINL then shortly addressed the ju r y o n the nature of the case, telling them that, from the state in which the pleadings left the cause, there could be but one result—namely, that the verdict must be for the plaintiffs. They bad heard all the requisites of the act complied with under which the company was incorporated, and they were entitled to recover the amount of the call. The jury, accordingly : under the direction of the learned judge, found for the plaintiffs a verdict of £lOO, the amount of the call of July 180837, on the forty shares held by the defendant, together with interest thereon, making, in all, a verdict of £lll 10s. FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. (From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.") Velvets, satins, and various materials broches, are worn, and for full dress the Eglinton velvet raye pearl grey ; for dinner, the same material, black on an orange ground ; also violet reps, with broad satin stripes, plaid and plain satins. Cotton velvets are also worn in Paris. .In mousselines de laine those embroidered with silk on plain ground are the newest. Ceintures are worn of ribbon rolled round the waist, and tying in front, with long ends. A novelty in evening dresses is worthy of notice ; the very clear tulle dresses are made with three skirts, each shorter than the other, and trimmed at the bottom, by which means the weight of a full trimming on so slight a material is obviated, and the light appearance preserved, with the richness of a full trimming. Manteaux are no longer confined to the useful and com fortable, but many very elegant ores are made; none more so than the long cloak of dark satin, lined with pink or lilac, confined at tke waist by a cordeliere and tassels reaching to the feet ; and a cord is placed about an inch from the edge ; all round the cloak, sleeves, and collar. Bournous of various forms, are made, from tht Arabian to the more elegant French bournous. Paletots, velvet shawls, &c. &c., are all fashionable. Velvets is much in favour for bonnets ' • the colours most approved in that material are pale pink, Sevre blue, red cur rant, green, scabieuse, peony, terre d'Afrique, a pale ecru colour, pearl grey, lapis blue. Nceuds ' cordes, brides, all of velvet ; ribbons are used only on satin bonnets. In velours epingle f blue Louise, and coffee-colour are the favourite shades, the feathers generally matching. Evening coiffures are remarkable for simplicity ; their prin cipal peculiarities are, that they do nut conceal the hair, are very low at the sides, and placed very backward on the head. Some very pretty coiffures are composed entirely of lace veils or scarfs ; they are simple and pretty, and form demi voile on the throat. Turbans will also be fashionable, and those preferred are the Persian and Arabian, with long gold fringe. Scarfs of every description will be very fashionable; for full dress they are made of dentelle d'or and d'argent ; flounces also of this material, with headings, are in prepara tion for dresses of velvet and other rich materials. Fur is in high favour, and will no longer be confined to the boa, palatine, muff, witchouras, &c., it will also be much used on dresses, shawls, fichus , to which it gives much rich ness. Guipu re lace continues in favour. The Princess Sophia is said to possess the most splendid and valuable casket of brilliants in Europe. It is valued at £140,000. Among the rumours current about ministerial embarrass ments and contemplated changes, there is one which, su premely ridiculous as it must appear, is in circulation and ac credited in high quarters. It is well known that the Premier is extremely anxious and has been for some time past, to get rid of Lord Normanby. His lordship, tenacious in etiquette still more it seems than of place, refuses to be moved to 40 inferior station. But he has now, it is said, proposed as an alternative, to vaca t e t h e Home ()thee on condition of being raised to a dukedom, the title to be Duke of Normanby. So far, Lord Melbourne does not appear to entertain the abs 4 dity.—Courier. 44 HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.—On this line all the worts continue to be prosecuted as rapidly as the very unfavourable weather allows. About twb-thirds of the whole of the iron work of the superstructure of the bridge over the river Ouse, at Selby, are now on the spot, and the men are busily en gaged in fixing it; the whole of the iron work of the bridge over the river Derwent, near Wressel Castle, has arrived there, and two of the ribs are fixed across the river ; the greatest portion of the entire length of the railway is bal lasted, and the contractors are busily engaged in laying the permanent way. We understand that it is highly probable this railway will be completed by Midsummer next, and that in the course of the year, there will be a complete rail way communication between Hull and London.—Leeds Intelligences. COLONIAL NEGLECT AND FOREIGN PROPi TIATION. (From 131ackwood's Magazin(for December.) Among the various and pressing interests, the considera tion of which is now brought home to the British empire, there is none which is of such paramount and growing im portance as the extension of our Colonial Empire, and the securing of our connexion with it. The more minutely and anxiously that our social condition at home is considered, the more it will be 'found that the maintenance, not only of our domestic prosperity but of our national independence, is en tirely dependent upon promoting the growth and maintaining the connexion with our colonies ; and that our trade with other countries, so far from being a source of strength, may at once be converted into the greatest cause of weakness on the next occasion in which this country is engaged in a mari time contest. , The facts on ,this subject which are to be round in our Parliamentdry nepOi•is are of the very highest importance, and perfectly decisive of the vast superiority of colonial to foreign commerce. Nevertheless, that they are very little known, even by those whose whole fortune audio. terests are wound up with the subject, appears in the most striking manner from the astonishment which the facts con nected with this subject never fail to excite when stated to an intelligent and respectable assembly ; and, unless these facts are constantly brought home to the public mind, and come at length to influence the measures of governinent by the ac cumulated force of public thought; it may confidently be pre dicted that a catastrophe, at some future and possibly not distant period, awaits the British empire, greater, perhaps, than has ever yet befallen any civilized nation. We have now been so long in the enjoyment of profound peace, and in the possession of an export commerce to every quarter of the globe, that the older part of the present gene ration have forgotten, the yofinger never have experienced, what it was to have 66 exPort trade of England to nearly all hut its own colonies closed by foreign hostility. Fortu nately, however, the experiment has been tried, and a durable monument remains of the consequences which result to all classes in this country from such a stoppage in the vent for our produte. In the year 1811, the hostility of Napoleon had closed all the harbours in Europe against our commerce, while the Americans, by a new intercourse art, shut us out froM every harbour in the United States. The consequence was, that the exports of Great Britain, which, in the year 1810, amounted to forty-three millions, sank in the next year to twenty-seven ; and the fall in the exports and imports taken .together for the one year, amounted to no less than thirty-six millions. Mr, Brougham, in terms no less just than eloquent, in the debate upon the Repeal of the Orders in Council in 1812, thus described the state to which the manufacturing districts in England were reduced by this calamity :—" Take for example, one of our great staples, the hardware, .and look to Warwickshire, whete it used to flourish.Birminghatn and its neighbourhaod, a disttlet of thirteen - Miles round that centre, was forMerly but One til lage, I may say one continued workshop, peopled with about 400.000 of the most industrious and skilful of mankind. In what state do. You'now find that once busy hive of men ? Silent, still, and desolate dui ing half the week • during the rest of it miserably toiling a t re d uce d wages , for a pittance scarcely sufficient to maintain animal life in the lowest state of comfort, and at all times swarming with unhappy persons, anxious to work for their lives, but unable to find employment. He must have a stout heart within him, who can view such a scene and not shudder. But even this is not all : matters are getting worse and worse ; the manufacturers are waiting for your decision, and if that be against them they will instantly yield to their fate, and turn adrift the people whom they , still, though inadequately, support with employment."—` In the West Riding of Yorkshire, the ap plications to the parish officers have so alarmingly increased, that they have given repeated warnings to the master manu facturers, and I believe to the higher authorities, of their utter inability to relieve the increasing distress, or to answer for its consequences. Among other circumstances which marked this part of the case, there was one peculiarly affect ing to every one who heard it. It had been proved that at Kidderminster, where the great carpet manufacture is almost entirely destroyed, the wants . of the poor became so pressing, that they were fOreed to patt with their little stock of furni ture, which used to make their cottages in some degree com fortable, and even the clothes off their backs, to raise food, until the pawnbrokers, having already loaded 411heinselves with such deposits, refused to issue any more tickets. But at Sheffield the same feature recurred in a heightened and still more striking form. The workmen in the cutlery trade, unable to obtain soy longer their usual market from the mas ter dealers and merchants, or brokers refusing to purchase any more, were compelled-to pawn their articles at a very low valuation for money, and even for food and clothes ; so that this extraordinary- state of things arose—the pawnbrokers dame into the London market with the goods, and there met with the regtilar dealers,.whom they were able greatly to un dersell, in such wise as to supply to a considerable degree the London and other markets, to the extreme augmentation of the distresses already so severely pressing upon this branch of trade."* Now, in order to appreciate the misery that would ensue to this country from a similar stoppage in its export trade at the present time, we have only to reflect upon the vast in crease of exports, imports, and population, which have since taken place ; we have only to recollect that our exports, which in 1810 were forty-three millions, had, in 1838, risen to one hundred and five millions ; and that our imports, which in 1809 were thirty-one millions; had risen in 1838 to sixty-one millions._; and that our population, which at the former period was seventeen millions, is now twenty-five. Now, if such wide-spread and heart-rending misery was pro duced then, what would be its effects now, when the manu facturing establishments of the country have nearly tripled, and our manufacturing population has advanced in a propor tion unheard of in any other age or country? It may con fidently be affirmed, that the misery, devastation, and social convulsions-that would ensue, would be greater than ever yet were experienced in the world. If we look at the jealousy with which we are regarded by foreign powers, and the general aspect of the political world at this time, we shall see no reason to believe that the ele ments of strife are awanting in the political atmosphere, or that the time is far distant when war, even on as great a scale as it was waged with Napoleon, must be undertaken by the British empire. With Russia, it is universally admitted, we are in a state closely bordering on hostility ; it is only a ques tion of time when that gigantic contest is to arrive. The menacing aspect of the Baltic, of the thirty ships of the line lying ready, and thirty thousand land troops ready at a mo ment's warning to embark in them—of the Dardanelles, where fifteeh British ships of the line are constantly stationed at the back door of the Russian empire —of Affghanistan, where twenty thousand British troops are permanently sta tioned in the very heart of A.sia,—all demonstrate that both parties are preparing for this great contest, and that it will be carried on on a scale that will render the world itself the field of battle. And on whom are we to rely for maritime support in such a contest ? Is it on the Austrians, who could not furnish a ship of the line ar two frigates to save England from destruction ? or on the French, who, what be tween dread of Nicholas, and separate interests at Algiers, have drawn off from the British alliance at the very first out break of hostilities in the Archipelago ? or the Americans, whose government is so weak, and their hostility to this country so inveterate, that thousands of armed pirates have for two years back kept up an almost incessant warfare upon the Canadian frontier? Everything indicates that a great maritime contest is not far distant, and that, when it does arrive, we will have to depend almost entirely upon our own resources for our defence. And are these resources, then, particularly our maritime strength, in such a state as to warrant us in any reasonable expectations that we shall be able to maintain our maritime superiority in the contest, and avert the evils of actual blockade from the British harbours ? The preparations of the enemy are well known : they have thirty ships of the line and eighteen frigates constantly in commission in the Baltic, and fifteen ships of the line and twelve frigates con stantly in readiness in the Euxine. In considering the force which England has at her command to resist aggression from such an enemy, we shall not go back to the higher palmy days of British exertion during the war; we shall not go back to the year 1809, when the British navy consisted of two hundred and forty-two ships of the line, and a thousand and sixty-one armed vessels of all sizes. We shall content our selves with reverting to a humbler and more parallel period, viz. the state of the British navy in 1838 compared with 1792. before the revolutionary war commenced, and when the naval and military establishments of the country were on the scale to which Joseph Hume always refers as the ne plus ultra point. of economic perfection. Now, upon turning to authentic documents, viz. the returns of the navy in 1792, given by Mr. James in his Naval History,t we shall find that the defensive naval establishments of the country at the two periods stood as follows : Line in Frigates in Line, ordinary Commis. Commis. and building. 1792, 26 52 124 1838. 21 9 70 Frigates, ordi- Total Tot a l G ran d T o t a l nary and build. Line. Frigates. of all Vessels. 1792, 63 153 115 411 1838, 84 90 99 363 But perhaps it will be said, that though the British navy capable of meeting an enemy, is not thus one-half of what it was in 1792, yet this is because the resources of the country have so fallen off, that it was not able at the latter period to maintain the defensive establishment which was in existence at the former. To ascertain whether this is the case, let us examine what was the state of the population, our exports and imports, at these twd periods, as affording. a measure of the agriculture, manufactures, and general resources of the country. They stood respectively as_follows • _ _ - 1792. 1838. Population of Great Britain 1 12,680,600 27,250,000 Exports. Official value Imports. Official value ...... £19,659,358 £61,268,320 Tonnage -- - Thus it appears that since 1792 the population of the Bri tish islands has more than doubled, the imports more than tripled, the exports more than quadrupled, and the commer cial navy increased about seventy per cent., while the ships ' of war, in all branches, have sunk to nearly half of their standard in 1792. This, too. has taken place during a time when the colonial empire of Great Britain has been multi plied above five-fold, and the chances of hostility with which we are brought in contact at different points over the globe, have been increased in a similar proportion. We invite the whig-radical writers to examine and contradict these facts if they can, and submit them to the deliberate consideration of all the sober reasoners, and of all the intemperate admirers of democratic wisdom throughout the realm. It is impossible for any one who is a friend to his country to contemplate such a state of things without the most serious alarm—an alarm which is only rendered the greater from the experienced difficulty of getting such future and contingent events to arrest the attention of government or the nation iu this unthinking age. But, above all, if the matter is seriously considered, and if we reflect upon the imminent hazards of a maritime war, the miserable state of preparation in which the British navy is to meet it, and the awful effects which will ensue by the stoppage of trade, and the blockade of our har bours by hostile squadrons, it must be evident that no more important subject of consideration ever was submitted to the attention of a thinking nation. And we dwell upon the sub ject with the more earnestness, because, when our situation as a whole is fairly looked in the face, and the policy which duty and interest alike prescribe, is adopted, there not only is no ground for alarm, but the most satisfactory prospects of future prosperity and welfare are opened on all sides to the nation. It is in our colonies that this source of strength is to be found ; it is in our descendants on the other side of the Atlantic and Pacific, that we are to look alike for the only certain market for our produce, and the only undecaying eleMents for our strength. Some very striking facts on this subject were brought forward upon the late dinner given upon the occasion of the embarking of the first emigrants to New Zealand, at Glasgow ; and we willingly give a place to them ,here, as exhibiting, in a more striking light than has yet been done, she incalculable importance of the British colonies, not merely to the extension, but to the independence and ex istence of the mother country. * Parliamentary Debates, xxiii. 548. James's Naval History, 11. 404; Barrow's Anson, App. 424. T. Pollees Parliamentary Tables and Finance Accounts for 1838. (To be continued.) " After an union of only 27 years," says the Ddbats, " the wife of the porter of No. 25, rue de la Cerisaile, named Degand, presented him, a short time ago, with his twenty sixth child. Dn. WHITTAKER'S SERMON TO THE CHARTISTS.— It appears that besides the very large sale which this most excel lent sermon received in this country, two editions of it, translated into the Welsh language, have also been dis posed of. MISCELLANEOUS. In the olden time there was no punctuation in literary works, which is still the case in legal deeds and other instru ments. Stops were first introduced in the year 1520; the colon in 1580; and the semicolon in 1599. Colonel Peyronnet Thompson is stated to be about to offer himself as a candidate for Leominster at the next election.— Hertford Journal. NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBERS.—The printer of an American paper says that ?natty of his patrons would make good wheel horses, they hold back so well. LORD BROUGHAM.— We announce that hopes are now entertained of the ultimate recovery of Telfer, the person who drove the carriage when Lord Brougham was killed — Carlisle Patriot. CABBAGE.—A large red cabbage was cut on Wednesday last in the garden belonging to Mrs. Metcalf, at Kirby Lons dale, which weighed upwards of twenty pounds. There were numerous other small cabbages growing on the same stem. — Preston Pilot. • VERY SINGULAR. Mr. James Wright, of Penrith, coach-builder, has now in his garden a pear-tree in full blos som. This tree, contrasted with the other leafless ones in the garden, and at this cold season of the year, presents a somewhat singular appearance.—Carlisle Patriot. Many thousand acres of land are inundated to the depth of several feet in the neighboarhood of Gainsborough, in con sequence of the incessant rains which have fallen. The marshes and the low lands have the diiPearanee of a sea, being one continued sheet of water.—Hull Times. We understand that a meeting of the Edinburgh Protestant Association is intended to be held in the beginning of next month, at which the Rev. H. M'Neile of Liverpool, who has so distinguished himself in the cause of Protestant and Scrip edfiCation, and other speakers from a distance, are ex pected to be present.--S'iviiiBll Guardian. AWFULLY FINE WRITING.—The following incomprehen sible sentence is copied verbatim from a circular letter issued by a schoolmaster in Spalding :—" Oblivion ! with all its sar castic spleen, can no longer contemn the splendour of the lu minary • but like an ripostaeg, shrinks into nothingless, and labrinths itself into obscurity." HOUSE PAINTING.—A very simple method has lately been adopted to render the surface of paint perfectly smooth, and eradicate the brush marks. It is done by a small roller co vered with cloth or felt, about eight inches long and two inches in diameter, worked in an iron frame on pivots, simi lar to the common garden roller. The flattering coat by this method is made beautifully even, and looks exceeding well.— Preston Pilot. A COACHMAN'S COMPARISONS OF GENTILITY.—Perhaps the follo*irig illustration of a coachman's notions of compa rative gentility is worth preserving. It was made by a well known whip, who sported his " bits o' blood" between Bol ton and Manchester, and given in answer to a person who asked him what he had got inside ?—" A Manchester man, a Bolton chap, a Wigan fellow, and a Liverpool gentleman." —Preston Pilot. HINT TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.—It has been sug gested that a certificate, printed on parchment, framed in oak 'and glazed, should be given to every labourer who has gained a principal prize. Steil d proof of industry and good conduct would ornament the cottage of the possessor, and there is every reason to expect it would stimulate others to a similar course. The subject was mentioned by the Rev. C. James, at the Saffron Waldon dinner.--Preston Pilot. Allusion having been made in this paper last week as to the probability of Mr. Ewart becoming a candidate for the representation of the Dumfries district of burghs, we are now authorised to state that the Right Hon. Sit Alexander Johnston will have the honour of offering himself to the con stituency, on the retirement of General Sharpe, by a disso lution of parliament or otherwise.—Dumfries Courier. Captain Taylor's floating breakwater has been exhibited at Bodmin before a great number of scientific men with the most perfect success, its buoyancy and cheapness being an extra recommendation to it. It has been proved that the wind does not influence the sea beyond the depth of nine feet; and as Captain Taylor's floats will reach 18 feet below the surface, they will ensure smooth water in a harbour of r efuge.—Exeter Flying Post. FAGGOT VOTES.—Sir Gilbert Heathcote divided a field at Langham into fifty-seven life-rents to as many men, all of whom claimed to be registered to vote, and were placed on the county list. The revising barrister has just given a writ ten opinion against their right to be on the list, considering that the life-rents were made for the purpose of manufacturing votes, - and has therefore expunged the names of the whole of them.—Lincoln Chronicle. THE HoN. E. M. LL. MosTYN.—We regret to state that this esteemed gentleman had another accident a few evenings ago. He was proceeding to his dormitory at Bodysgallan, and fell on the stairs. He fell with his thigh against the edge of one of the stairs, the part being close to the recent frac ture. He was not seriously hurt, but it will retard his re covery.—The demise of Sir T. S. M. Champneys liberates the Peckforton, Beeston, Parkgate, &c., &c., property, which now falls under the direct controul of the hon. gentleman, subject to Lady Champney's life interest, an event that the tenants will hail with satisfaction.—Chester Chronicle. THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY ACT.—Unless a charter is obtained for making Warrington a municipal borough, within two years from the close of the last parliamentary session, the whole of the police establishment, now under the direction of the commissioners appointed under an act of parliament for building a new bridewell, And improving and watching the town, will be placed, like the rural district, under the charge of the county magistracy. According to the present population, twelve policemen will then have to be appointed, to do the duty now very satisfactorily performed by three policemen, and the deputy constable.—Preston Pilot. PORT OF FLRETWOOD.—The Commissioners from the Court of Exchequer, sent down for the purpose of surveying and setting out the boundaries of the Port of Fleetwood, finished their task yesterday se'nnight. They commenced on the previous Monday to survey the coast and creeks be tween Preston and Lancaster, and determined the limits of the port as follow :—to conimehce at a ruff of water called the Hundred End, about two miles to the west of Hesketh Bank, continuing up to Preston,_ thence along the coast on the north side of the river to, Lytham, round the coast to Blackpool, and on to Fleetwood. Thence to the river Broad fleet, four miles from Sea Dyke, including both sides of the Wyre, and the river Broadfleet.—Mid. ACCURATE OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—Mr. Gurdon, of the Norfolk circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Ipswich, vacated by the elevation of Sir R. M. Rolfe to the bench. — Globe. [One of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy, who bears the name of Charles Frederick Williams, must be a little sur prised at this piece of intelligence, he having been for many years Recorder of Ipswich, which Sir R. Rolfewas not. The Recordership of Bury St. Edmunds has indeed been given by Lord Normenby to Mr. Gordon, whom we mentioned as one of the candidates some time ago, but the Home-Secretary did not venture to give even this small bit of preferment away until he had prevailed on Mr. Maltby to disembarrass the Government by withdrawing his claim, which that learned gentleman did, and, thereby, it is thought, saved the Go vernment from another serious shock !]—Morning Herald. STARTLING FACTS ! — The late three years' war with Eng land, the most powerful nation in the world, cost the United States about 90,000,000 dollars. The three years' war in Florida, with a remnant tribe of Seminole Indians and a few runaway negroes, has cost us 40,000,000 dollars, or nearly half the expense of our war with England ! In the war with England, our navy and army, after covering themselves with glory, achieved an honourable peace. The war against the miserable Indians and negroes was wickedly commenced, has been ingloriously conducted, and threatens to be inter minable ! There is not, in the history of wars among civilised nations, a parallel for the wantonness, imbecility, and cor ruption which distinguish this humiliating, dishonourable, and infamous crusade.—New York Paper. PRIESTLY TYRANNY—THE CONFESSIONAL.—In the early part of the year, a lady of this town hired as her se rvan t a young woman of the Romish persuasion, with the clear un derstanding that the girl was to join in family prayers and the reading of the holy scriptures. The terms were complied with accordingly for a considerable period „without reluctance or difficulty of any kind, till the day of confession arrived. It then became known to the priest that the girl had been guilty of the•heinous crime of joining in Protestant prayers and reading the Bible, and straightway she was strictly en joined to discontinue both, being further commanded to leave her place if her mistress insisted on the fulfilment of the original contract. The mistress did not feel it convenient to part with a good servant, and, of course, Mother Church has had her will.—Preston Pilot. A DEFINITION OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Monday, at the Town-hall, during the hearing of one of the charges of drun kenness, the accused person denied the allegation of having sacrificed too freely to the jolly god, on which the following colloquy took place between the mayor and the constable, who was the witness. Mayor :—" Arc you sure he was drunk ?" Constable :—" Not regular drunk" Mayor : ` Was he drunk ?" Constable :—" Gradely." Mayor : " Was the man drunk or sober ?" Constable :—" Neither." Mayor :—" What then "' Constable :—" Sharp fresh ; well, so fresh that he did not know what he was doing, but not regular drunk." On this elaborate definition of inebria tion the bench seemed somewhat puzzled how to act, and the defendant, who admitted the allegation of "fresh," but indignantly repudiated the accusation of. " drunkenness," was reprimanded, and liberated on payment of costs.—Pres ton Chronicle. THE NEW CUSTOM HOUSE AT GLASGOW. —The building intended for the Custom House of Glasgow is nearly finished, and will probably soon be ready for furnishing and internal arrangements. The barricade is removed from the front, and the spectator has now a full view of the exterior. We are not yet aware exactly of the extent of accommodation within ; but, from the outward appearance it seems limited, when the vast amount of business done at the harbour is taken into consideration. The building is very plain, and upon the whole shabby ; but that, of course is not the fault of the citizens or the architect, the goverment being the parties at whose re sponsibility it , is erected. The absurd figures on the top will shortly be removed, and be replaced'by the royal arms, the cutting of which is nearly completed, and seems to be in a style creditable to the taste and ability of the artist.—Glas gow Courier. DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.—The number of unemployed wea vers in connection with the trade of Paisley, is still on the increase. In the country, we understand, this is fully as much the case as in the town. In the village of Kilbarchan, for instance, we have been informed, nearly one half of the weavers are idle. A second meeting of the business classses in Paisley was convened in the Court-hall, on Monday, to hear the report of the committee as to their inquiry into the state of the unemployed. Though from four to five hundred had been invited, only about a dozen or fifteen persons at tended, and from the inquiry of the committee it appeared that there were only about a hundred men applying for relief who were entitled to receive it. From that circumstance, and the thinness of the meeting, it was considered unadvi sable to proceed with a public subscription, and that in the meantime, the managers of the poor should be recommend ed to assist the families of those in want.—Scottish Guardian. TIIE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.—It is not generally known that this patriotic nobleman stands higher in the scale of church building, and the education of children in the principles of the established church, than any other noble man in the kingdom. His church patronage in Cheshire, Flintshire, and Denbighshire is very great. The noble mar quis built the family church, Eccleston, near Eaton, in the cathedral gothic style, at a cost of nearly £12,000, and has lately presented to it a very fine picture of " The Dead Christ." He lately built the church of Pulford, at the cost of £4,000, designed by Mr. Jones, a citizen of Chester; and has subscribed very largely to numerous others. The fine old church of Northop he lately gave £lOO towards rebuild ing the body of, and also all the stone from a quarry close at beinghand, , the same quarry that hi s l or d s hi p ' s castle at Halkin, in Flintshire, was built from. Hi s l or d s hi p has schools for boys and girls at Chester, Eccleston, Aldford, Poulton, Pulford, Dodleston, and Halkin, where from 1600 to 1700 children are educated on the most improved princi ple, and the major part of them are clothed. The noble marquis attends very often the various schools, and takes great interest in the same. Family prayers are read every morning by his lordship's chaplain, the Rev. G. Edwards, in the family chapel, Eaton, at a quarter before ten, and every Sunday evening. The whole of this very large establishment a ttend very regular. The nobl e marqu i s is klown to be very tolerant to all classes of religionists. He is rebuilding all the cottages at Eccleston and Aldford in the most picturesque style, and, when completed, they will form two of the prettiest villages in the kingdom. His lordship's agent has the management of all the alterations in both cottages and farm houses.—Chester Chronicle. ,rio Aecititsrf ON THE SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAT.'"'" - „ - train to London on this railway was thrown off t he terday morning a short distance above WeybridgefilinOf of sand which had taken place in the night. No !let o 'o l injured ; but the stage coaehes conveyed by the:ulnae' left behind ; and the passage of the next train to I,ol'":"Acci' layed beyond its time. The harmless effect of thes7..gew dents, occasioned by the state of the weather, to the r; i , ifif gers on railways, bas been lately remarkable.---P ,O Paper. The singularly wet weather we have all along kept or ;be still continues, and Nottinghamshire is once merel y ;WO third time during the present year) su ff ering seve rscoiv the overflowings of the river Idle. From Gamston to 1 a kie ! fluence with the Trout, its course on each side was a cteas " waste of waters," and thousands of acres of land are,:iessi ral feet deo: The ears of Retford, and many of t h e g a ', Ide s are a complete sea s and, with the exception of 1 829, tlielote inhabitant in that neighbOlitthood cannot remember a occurrence.—Noltingham paper. FOOT RAcg.—The great match for £5O a-side , °I' ll; on Monday last, on Doncaster race-course, betwer: ° . the croft, of Nottinghatis s rind Benjamin Hart, of iPt,tjatil,' latter having been for some period the champion of The distance was 160 yards, and at the appointed men were at the starting place, in eteellent condition'—ct fit signal being given, both went off, Ben being ratthheeir:::: sti.rting ; but they were immediately abreast, and k e i w oli upwards of 100 yards, where Hoscroft rather led, ar lu about two feet. This is the first time Ben has lost,.a , o rgi fact may be chiefly attributed VI the disparity in Ben being close upon forty, and ll6g.te.roft only twea`Yepsr The result has been attended with disagreeable eon 6equ so' to the inhabitants of -Bolton Moor, backed him to the fall amount of all they could strong was their confidence in his prowess. —Pre n ear Gaiosb i ert , ° Of The populous village of Misterton, Ben's nelghboail.'„ go was the scene of a good deal of uproar on Wednesu a d isleg 30th inst. A keeper of an anti-temperateg hotel /1 0 oft upon himself to inflict corporal punishment t is. jiter half, in direct violation of his marriage vow, as vvel` 8 1;0 1 1 position to the spirit of gallantry strictly observe' 0 0 above place, whereby he subjected himself to i the village made to punish all such aggressors; viz' beiV a stang,"—which is, that a boy is mounted s h o ulder itr ael and carried round the town, who at every corner of _ ‘ , 3 or°! publishes the misdeeds of the faithless husband. 37„,f Fitb all others not to follow his example, on pain of mee t ,,;gl lo " the same punishment. On the crowd arriving wi s t ",;ul shot of the remises of the man in question, he Woe" foe! and fired n m ongtt them, wounding several in the face% . 0 pi proceedings are said ttillaye been instituted against the offence.—Boston Herald. fartbfr The belief gains ground, that there is to be tt ti ;0 shuffling of places amongst the incapables new sd ti, Lord Normanby is to be expelled the home-ci ffi ecfr,reev, vided for the Privy Seal. Lord John Russell I ; t a le to the home-office ; while• Lord Clarendon is to gr a P P So ° the difficulties that envelope our colonial relations: at alt are the most recent rumours on the subject. Of ti ,'; s p're en events, the public may be assured—that the Queen te et t t e ; advisers dare not meet parliament, without It he in put some of the more helpless incapables amongst!, los, " the rear rank." Lord John Russell is the on l .ll, business amongst them ; but he can't work for a Mantalini of the home-office is a sad drag upon til e 6 goihg his interesting prototype observed of himself, be I , a st b e n fast to the bow-wows." A cellar and a mangle L i ch t ,`; found for him somewhere. His efforts have don e , a t see bring the whig mantua-making Concern to its Pre s of insolvency.—Morning Herald. 6 01 ' EPITAPHS.—Perhaps no country abounds in beti nic e e pithy, or strange epitaphs, so much as our own ; sqdicl in keeping with the gravity of the tomb, end othersti3to of no very becoming levity. The old woman of 6,00c7, whd survived some three or four reigns, and w llO t t i ftso' her own pdsthtimous eulogy, tells us, among other ,o( " An etid of all perfection I have seen ;' little deeming then of " the march," and of that Antio'',( of time and space, the railway, As regards the , l os portion of our species, decidedly the most brantil ° a monument are those of the elegant Yceine- -- , " Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning ue'", , She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to Lea-o'o'oole But as regards the death of this more interesting r no il creation, those mothers who neglect to try that n oll s' a s dicine, Atkinson's ',Vents' Preservative, will b e et kw they have to reproach I—See advt. A 1 , 0r7 EXTRAORDINARY DOCILITY Of, A - since Colonel Brown, of the 2nd battalion of the rifle d l ecl, stationed at Windsor, was presented by the Pcle.sersd‘' tM mond with a very fine young deer, from Goodwoon rc b has been for some time past "in training" to n s i pe slo the regiment, and on Thursday made its first IV for in public," In the morning when a company ° gee s 'se marched from their barracks to the castle, V l° oo o 7ol guard, proceeded by their full band, the deer took t teilt c ,"he in the barrack yard, just in front of the musk, and otos'y stately and quietly before them; through the tow n ' If" ( 1, castle precincts, through Henry the Eighth's gatel e r th , there, and during the time occupied in relieving t fro's, the it amused itself by rolling on the grass and eati ng sr on hands of many who were present ; but no soon`,. posit band strike up to return than it resumed its fornie'saat, . t it in the place of the drum-major, who was not Pr,,, s e bete I s e thus returned to the barracks, in Sheet-street , v'd cenltio domiciled), leading on ite newly-adopted friends ° °,,, nions. It is not only exceedingly tame, but b ° ' t harness."—Hull Times. An tbe a o o LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE EAG."` ol3 ' — i itilEP th° few weeks of the Queen Dowager's excursion, the tir ing If descanted upon the impropriety of her AlnjestY o° 3 dori conservatives exclusively, with a soreness s° l i e f d' o s l fl affected, that the world was deceived into the e...."-aieibo general fit of splenetic jealousy prompted their etr:felt . t complaints. They seemed to write as if they reslajehthi on the principle of " love me love my dog, her f ee& the not noticing the grandees of the party which a t lat I ° , 0 the Queen by the ear, was offering a studied 31 Queen herself ; but those, whose occupation le ad' ss hao'o ll watch closely the manoeuvres of these scribes 101`',.1',0 peen suspected from the first that their loyal indien.ail he, gammon, and that the whips themselves had lain 3 t t e excellent plot," to be looked coldly upon by . r i f Or(of Dowager, in order to provoke the affection of th et ut yeris,P enced mistress by persuading her that they were E y6' ill' her sake. This was easily to be effected, without 01,1619 breach of decorum, by themselves showing the ~‘ e ,„, ° e der" to the royal tourist ; and for a time-the sc z p . , e ' - a ts vocie as nicely as they could wish. But the best r s laY ss ie Hue soap-bubbles as soon as fools are called t s ; 3 . , e s o 1 part in it ; and so it happened with this on the ~.iassobi' ager's approach to Leicester. The Biggses and' which the radical corporation is composed, not cc, do iagjd ing the refined policy of their betters, instead olAr..lirteh thing slyly amongst themselves, resolved (the bet'Lcorpoe'i, boobies !) in town council assembled, that " th e ., to l' e ,er should not notice the Queen Dowager on her vio' ter." This was acting up to their instruction w o ,lle,er geance. It is rumoured that Lord Palmerster„,oo9o heard of this cursed contretems, declared that /le,' a pl; tv e . trust a Biggs or a Winks, or any fellow w it ' t bs I s th e patronymic, with so much as a kitten in a bag ill ee,{lll At all events his organ, the Globe, and its ivOrlfteg„ gyro Chronicle, have ceased, since the cat was let o c s i ti itiof,ci' away at their old tune of the Queen Dowager l" er l eo Queen, by not noticing the country cousins of sr h o ld , per elusively loyal and loyal servants. —Morning n e . 5 o et: l iol° A NEW VERSION (HY AUTHORITY.) —There i s ra th sii haps (in their own conceit) so important a bor e oie rc t is : l , in the kingdom as those at Hull, and therefhaOcii ordinary attention is due to their proceedings• iue s enrolled themselves under the banners of a Mr- J",st hg ts tia. but that gentleman having recommended 11 0 '7.; itil l ri se; spicously to the notice of the crown as to reeeiL e P o el,' er to spend a few years in one of its most cele u " - ,sh they transferred their allegiance to their " lord bib v or , Pe ens the most noble Earl of Durham ; and once n efteel i w 's 11 , 1 ,1 some pretence or another, they knock uP weir supper to celebrate his lordship's praise, and,Thisoooll, questionable consequence. The anniversaryas t ,f ovation came off last week, and as many legs °f 0,4 tb • trimmings were devoured as usual ; but tbe,Y ir co , P Fe el o t offended at being told, that in the course Of, t h an , P Et a rc t o , committed a very glaring mistake. The chairwar " The good old whig toast—the PEOPLE- - th e Z, 1'0 . 4 all legitimate power !" and a Mr. Smith, as tive of the Smiths at large, who form no inclis- o' tion of the people, very properly returned the tt ite6 , . came it not to strike these Hullites--or r iu like—that the toast is indeed so old as to bac s e s t P l y ; ei,',;r in obsolete and inappropriate ? Do theY„,";tet o „,*- in the last edition of the whi Vade Mecuob t "... o i for j toast are materially altered? When ThomP - r - :te telw se " e ro member, he used to write them a weekly let te to hi e en d. all these sort of thi ngs ; b u t M r . Hutt sc e lto l e tst: s ° o l them in the dark, j us t as h e means very so° ls in the lurch. T o t oas t the people is not on.iuo'; quated—a piece of grand-dad ra di ca lism, e c i l eiaS s ,pro,e the spirit of the age —a Sternhold and liche Sa t e o i ts exploded any time these six months past. :,ber,,` t bst version now is, " The Ladies of the Beslck s T io p . ec o ii' source of legitimate power;" and it is to be ttas ove radicals of Hull will not fail, at their next e rb i adopt this authorised alteration.—Heral d '_ The V . :e s ; rol: FLUCTUATION OF THE WEATHER• nyipe ltd changeableness of the climate of Englan d P more fully illustrated than within the lasts w,,c a e b l ly 0 3 : 1 , 0/ . 0 perature, which during Monday was remrh. i te st ,,is rain during the night, had on Tuesday reorilil,c2, peo . l o g degrees, bing only four degrees above free, o 'l s or i l: re V e r the wind south-west. ln• the course of t s l i o • el e r sfe clouds which had previously obscured the „ o va ,d, and the sun shone forth in all his splendour. boa ing the foot pavements and paths became Pe i P ad iesf ole ! e lf when evening set in the stars shone in the V, with uncommon brilliancy, and about tenookcaiiiiihe"),, rose, as it is termed, " on her back t I . o iagi a s night. At an early hour on W e dnesda , y ie u g l r °, ecao , at lj e e j erefi ei e isi i a l mometer in the open air stood at 24 degrees below freezing point, the pools being s o' t be a third of an inch thick, and the trees, & c '' jogio ri orn to hI ,s hoar frost. During the early part of the de og s EP, was south-west, but about eight o'clock 0 4 seVoil i s, on, during which, about ten o'clock, the Wt west, from which quarter it continued to den 501,4 day. The fog up to eleven o'clock watvelAsoe",rty that hour, however, it began to clear on: the te , 7ter s ; one o'clock a sudden change took place ;" he stl! sos ir oc; the thermometer rising to 40 degrees, am" 5 o f 10 c oti t h e it commenced rainieg, i wax .. a f ter a qUarter TO 10 o'l o ,o came intermingled with large flakes of snocc . :. o , r leci t e tip at intervals during the afternoon until fi'_'. it eoe t , c locrdo‘:,, soaking rain descended, which continued. 51s 0. 0: o carte sion until morning. On Thursday sii . q 9 t . a t 01 01 Eire;, thermometer was below the freezing 1 1 ° 1 1 loelc nn "0 it began to Snow heavily ; from twelve o e c_ o de six yesterday morning, rain and sleet 1, e0 .9 . ; vi i e quantities ; at seven the thermometer agt!' n elo`i o tb e ed, and it was very frosty. Soon after san, c , ii , uP to rain, and has continued raining at interis of our writing.—Preston Chronicle. __ oil I S t e ;lre lt o le i , ACCIDENT AND SINGULAR EscAll : '• e een' s di s t , evening an accident occurred at ) l i'. C' t se ,o l/ 0 this town, which, though not attended byyetri dent, was marked by circumstances of a a d re ran ratter. It appears that a dramatic spectec,..4o,., w e , f the of Waterloo, was in course of represein; a ftgl, e rt j jeo t ,l conclusion, a number of persons in rnilititiiroatry; eil o sef li t lected in the area, and a general fire ot some time. In the midst of the firing":tibsconilig--1:011t of t o t went out—the place was enveloped i n ch ish tti 3 190; distress were beard from the gallerY, ' f e ee )1P noo a 0 of ,0„. theatre was much crowded. It was s s an . ts os• e jo ti ts the spectators had received a severe woui, ley, surgeon, happened to be present, tc.. Lis ec De 7 0 . 9 , gentleman was called in, and the suiferero;ca to 1 0 9 , to the Mitre Inn, next door. H e pi n the e w e po ( h ec P te ll named James Bainbridge, a stable-boY, ley , op t o f Pritt, of the King's Arms, and Mr. I t°ss t ee ov a , (013? found that a missile had struck him ° l f t w eieli w o ol t ' s O E I 4 passed obliquely under the upper liP ari d Pi ea sitT e rt! t divided) thence traversed the left che i e%„ l sly se' l ePolt grazing the eyebrow in its course, and ;`, it "; 4 5 4 untouched. On investigating the caus a t tha t woa q, t he ,54 , that one of the firelocks had burst, the barrel had shot upwards into the contuse- 0 0 - 10 0 de , the er id youth in the way described. BY f r aet s olP i see. 1 , the In a it. 0 was put out on the instant. If the lit 1 1 lig ( gen 0 P r e been elevated a hair's breadth rnore! c an al ceived the fragment probably in his ci), r i e h seP h ea; pressed ever so little more, he '''' h ; it e ijoi o throat—in either case the wound won e bas e._ we ly . been fatal. Amore singular escal le d` o i a g e? , t, e r `ds t ° , pad top We are happy to say the patient is s ay t tbt te stiP we understand Mr. Chicken band s°l-v o c on s a benefit. It is perhaps needless !. f ri bable were for some time in a state of inittu —Preston Chronicle. , tr e talk,