The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

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Trier . orop: ) the C °ll ott l _ l 2 Pa ° D e //l ade 5 1. 1' ,fi • ) f the r coutiou, .1 next' our —•• b iew wh ic 140 f the Virf.o0 C 1 ,P ;( I to P°'`r I lai t an 0 'et of the be e ffected by the calm, rational con itifilherli b e P e °Ple, that th e re li g i on f or w hi c h t h e i r Sable le a and died i s t h e TRUTH, — essent i a l, - we t h e ;eternal T RUTH,—elevating its lofty tones k .„,_. tlte Pet-to ul4 and turmoil of party strife,—declari ng, -ag es n g e ed, their i na li enable attachment to the 1 1441 th e . of r fix Pure and una d u l terate d P rotestant i sm, d aed e de termination to labour, with fervid Mk t i lal °nal we aried assid u i ty, to achieve the no b le and triumph of annihilating a Cabinet who 4 cop s: into the obsequious tools of Popery, i. 41 44 of i rn gri e i ng the reins of Government into the llibie the e who can recognise in the principles of kabe f Principles on which the British policy 4k4l)4Bered, and the measures of the British Ca /1144 The man really actuated by the dictates i NO 4 to nle and disinterested patriotism,—intensely tAi rei L a Vert the rapidly descending judgments of kikrerttYe--animated by a quick and sensitive k k liti ) , e °f the national crime of fostering Antichrist k attet B eni of the State—of alimenting, by means of k ' ary g r ants, hotbed s o f i mmora lit y an d sedi -4 ka (*No Ynooth— o f en d ow i ng Popery extens i vely i teg e a lai possessions, and consigning State pa and influence systematically to the brawling it kap :s of reb e l lion,—will give his cordial assent to the ea it lwl L . that, in effecting the downfal of the ,akle ta e inet, every legitimate exertion should 1,44,,,,_, ne cessitate, on t h e part of their successors, 11 1 , 0 7 i 4 uncompromising r Y• course of sound Protes klsettatecl a s we are with the solemn conviction (tiN cenlrnercial greatness, our liberties, nay our h44ist.tabalstence itself, d epen d a l toget h er upon t h e t l i,, c e and vindication of Protestant ascendancy, P ec uliar satisfa c ti on th e rap idl y i ncreas i ng t tli ta ea d imp ortance of Protestant Associations, Sh ie a gib ented z ea l and efficiency with which their tak la bours are conducted. Last week we had Ne tti e of detailing the proceedings of a tremen , I tail ar , n g at Manchester •; on Friday we shall have IN. "inonstration of Protestant feeling at Liver k ' e ther , iik e hi _ meetings of a like description are speedily Ith r t ee at Sheffield, Norwich, Worcester, Yar- L "k t i la i Zradford, Ipswich, and other towns through it rahi llnt rY; and the Central Association of Lon- I.Nof-ItiPYing its auxiliaries, and diffusing the e • - sot to .) t. 4% taf ta Protestant feeling from the centre to Nlrili er t e n ee of the empire. We trust these ex- L I th ey I.ie crowned with the success they merit ; L ,N• e ,,,! i1 l excit e a strong degree of interest on k l. th e 7 n eeted wi t h Popery, interwoven as they are k i t e.: 4 and highest interests of the State, and rif th„ ill . °Ef eeling and a rational enthusiasm on Ciro, l „ ' Insulted Protestantism of the country, 7t4ti t, e ,.. 1 Prove irresistible and overwhelming at the , hgtetral Election. Our torpor and indifference 74 ki ps eattered to the winds—our petty jealousies oeiti L h, 4 es buried in a generous oblivion—and Z i tati ori e , 4r t and hand should we strive, in every el! ' il -aL , l llode, to rid the nation of the insup- Og the bu s of a Popish Administration, and, oe , -ci`e Constitution from the very jaws of dis- N v e in etr eY the rotten foundations of negative rap t it e h were given it by the fatal act of '29, O N ~?eee mor e upon the so lid base which our 1 -1 11, 0 Refor mers cemented with their hearts' 1 1 :fre go ti o g r eat principl e o f C onserva ti sm (l e t us k; le lrell j is to purge a wa y th e l eaven o f corrup iptkiki b ati t o conserv e th e essen ti a l e l emen t s o f a kiit:ie:h . :! ic s'eine stamina. All that we want to - te es fabric of our unrivalled Constitution li N 8 exclu s i ve l y P rotestant c h aracter — t h e 4 or P opery 144 11... fra : n t' eradicated from its sickly and \ IN SO r ob -e--- its structure once more rendered Mtioh fro as of old, by the total and eternal k,, ' al L rotri its blood of the putrescent and te ,N .1 influence of Rome. Here lies our 1 14 11 0 i a Protestant policy is contained the lie ka e ll t :ol e e a afet L of prosperity, of national splendour IP A ' irl our present policy, the generative It :. . our Weakn ss, e our distractions, and our 4tt l e/re 1 1 L th e se ct t o what page of English history we t t - ,7i.... pre ' e a . truth is visible, written as with a sun- N• r ela elY as Popish influence dictated the po • ec tUat )L .. ly d e d. the government of Britain, has she hhe!eended in the scale of nations, and reaped satretrit7,.. 'est of misery, disaster, and disgrace, in 4 1, • "`l°li to 4 for he r apostacy ; and equally, in exact iti tie lle or 4B , k a lle maintai ne d i nv i o l ate h er trus t, an d tts ti ll elt ek rh t "" e l of her P rotestant i sm tower i ng i n ma • 44 Y far above every other ensign of national e(1 re nown, did s h e r i se , an d, w ith a brilli kit nd a e T er unparalleled in the annals of the *qtderlituroned a s Q ueen among t h e nat i ons — Q ll iter o c, tile fear, the hope, and the admiration of 11 0 7 , 4 0r 0 - England m i g h t b e t hi s again. The h e the a n England supporters of Protestant Associations leleketit-YBtie but s i mp l e secret o f h er strengt h. v e zte, -8 of her s t rength are to b e f oun d a l one i n kik Of tiB in• Not h er a b un d an t h arvests , th e lik rella ger m anufacturers, the riches of her mil ittitleeb_ ee l 4 1 the p rosper i ty o f h er agr i cu l turists, °tee ta °4 her commerci a l e n t er p r ise,—no, but in Th ob liti eni, lie the true elements of her great 4et 4 re the offspring, the branches, the fruit ; h tiett44 .1, I sni th e ‘ ll •11 the. parent, the trunk from whence they ii v t een 1 their e aP, their richness, their vitality. t t i t elud e V p h _be ed f b y again expressing the pleasure . w e . k y 'uite tae r ein the prosperity and increased activity titk a v ell oett Associations, and our fervent hope that , le t ' it i/ ti tit erii i rela in their efforts, or remit their exer tN powe redouble their assiduity, and, with aug- Il in kri ab rs, bend every energy in yet more impor -1404.4"ant labours in defence of the Altar and 14 %e l " il ave f "`............- k t 'ery arer.equently remarked in this Journal upon c if) bedvtlfYing circumstance in English History, ki ''''. 4Y, ha y °I Men, be their political professions what h ilit trik iene e ever been able to withstand the weight 1 / 4 !eli t i e e °f the great religious classes. By the lik te "ste ,„ 118 c lasses we do not of course intend to I tt4 . 11041-" i! Peculiar body or bodies of men in the tf lii e r ead til'eg extreme opinions, or advocating very Leapeetieicied measures. These, however worthy fr a re. by the necessity of the case, very far kth e ore b e , k tr eo llitilu 'H . g the largest or most powerful section 0,4311 ed Ch sty' We mean the great body of the S t ,i e st ie t „ l ,. hr eh, united together by the simplest I tt )of aii'dgible, as well as the highest and most af• our ~I)°asilile bonds,—including a large num \' • and "en-political Dissenting brethren, who %e iel l hey al . cesoPerate with the Establishment, be t 4 sa w a nd animated by a kindred spirit, and have k ill bi atti ‘i . sordid purposes of their own to serve. vik Of th e „ t ers have no more fellowship with the kt 7 llle eder os k 1'44 s-street Committee than they have i _ el sao t " l t be rae lsf Mahomet. Often, indeed, they are 41 .4 % o t : t hee the own ; and it is no unusual circum e e Eon of such a Dissenting father sent bikelellit Universities, and destined for holy orders eh . Nik tel l • Of such Churchmen then, and such , la e teNt t eo . einposed that great religious interest, Pltti„ ‘ Il i : , gt Party has ever with impunity of tiksokn lee % like th ese Not 4 of Park a , and in the prospect of an early tk t be t„ ment, we think that this reflection let lilielif°,nstantly or too forcibly impressed upon tie h libi od 0 7 It cannot be too seriously present ,rotio tr u steeev man whom a generous Constita -41 3', h with a voice in the destinies of his L tl nt o 0 w very Solemn a duty is imposed , upo . n him ' 4 el: "e cl trii Bt , ed by „ • Many and many an Election has K ati an • -el ajority of one : the Reform Bill was V rit a ti ns h--dinraPnrtant stage by a majority of one : the Of. 1„ , i f one eati o ...1 r l 4l Grant would never have been N I 'lt t th, or if more Member had voted for the cause Be3,Ottith„ o ne more Elector in one or two close ,. - , cn e ;,.._ , it Urth , ,'" had remembered his duties towards kett iiithe4e7cricic_ountry. d ket,,nstr atio "ts are nothing more, after all, than 'ly oe , 11 . 8 of the effects which individual con ittea refleetila ItelenallY Produce. To the right-minded i la: t ette e i g - citizen the rn • / is clear enough, l' Ndl Y of an t he singularP • cIP e 1 4 e 4i le th4t y attach importance that might 4,. be e) , every „ .. t o his own acting up to it. He apt qt who "` etid o _ Power of every kind, with which he fetehas w ed . , is a trust confided to his care by if n ine aster, an itted himself to be described as an ost per 11 re d he is resolved to exercise it as one ki t e be Met u Ni ti et c.tvu ie jan exact rec k oning. Acco rdingly, ", 1 fra rtv :.' in his mind t h at by the exercise of tki ii i lti t v it ; Fran' Sci he can g i ve hi s voice for Truth, A nd e c an repres s F a l se h ood, he will the se will be his first objects. Now it can need no warning voice of ours to assure every such loyal and truth-loving citizen of England in how great peril the time-honoured institutions of his Church and country have now been placed. It is not only by legislative assaults in Parliament that in roads can successfully be made. There, it providen tially happens that the good cause has a powerful mi nority in the one House, and an overwhelming majo rity in the other,—backed, too, by so very greatly pre ponderating a balance of influence and intelligence in the country, that the enemy can hope for no great triumphs. But much evil is in the hands of the Exe cutive Government to do if they will, and this will unhappily is seldom wanting. Every new promotion to the Bench of Judges or the Bench of Bishops, every Commissionership, every paltry place down to the lowest bribe the Minister can give, is made an engine of jesuitical subtlety. Bishops are subscribing to Socinian Sermons, and (shame to the age in which we live !) the insane apostle of open infidelity and un blushing profligacy is presented by the Prime Minister to the notice of a maiden Queen. The appeal, then, is now to be made to the bar of public opinion ; and upon the result will depend the solution of this mighty question—whether there is in Great Britain a native force of sterling principle suffi cient to govern and preserve her, or whether the period of her glory is passed away, and, like the empires that have preceded her, she is about to sink into hopeless and immediate destruction. For ourselves, we do not doubt the result. Manacled as she is between Popish Ireland and canny Whiggish Scotland, England will assert her own preeminence, and vindicate to her own subjects the high place she holds among the nations of the world. Let the Whigs, then, dissolve the Par liament. Neither the smiles of Royal favour nor the frowns of Ministerial authority can prevent the well assured return of a good working majority of sound Conservatives. The eaves-droppers of the peddling Cabinet, whose slavish occupation is to circulate Whig falsehoods when invented by their masters, and to invent them when their masters' imaginations are at fault, would have the country believe that the patched-up concern is about to make a new start in a yet wilder career of Liberalism. That principle should have the smallest influence in restraining them from so very preposter ous a course, we do not for one moment imagine : but we should suppose these crafty and unscrupulous tac ticians are not quite so blind to the state of feeling in the country as these idle rumours would imply. One used to read in the nursery how There lived a man in Thessaly, and he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a quickset hedge, and scratched out both his eyes : And then, when he was frantic quite with blindness and with pain, He jumped into another hedge, and scratched them in again. Everybody knows that the Whigs ceased to be popu lar, because they became Radical: that every fresh reef shaken out in the canvas of Liberalism was so much increase to the danger of the storm that raged around them. To use the language of one of their own supporters, as fast as they gained friends at the bottom of their mrty, they lost them from the top. Lord Melbourne lo'ig ago acknowledged that all the higher classes in the community were against him. And why ? Not assuredly for being too Conservative. How, then, can it be imagined that his party will gain anything by becoming yet more desperately and reck lessly democratic ? The plain truth is—Lord Melbourne, with a saga city worthy of a better cause, is playing a little more boldly than before the very transparent trick which he has practised from the first upon the philosophic Li berals. These egregious dupes are the veriest simple tons of this gullible generation. Every other section of the united Reformers gets something from the Mi nister. The Papists have Ireland and a slice of the Colonies : the lower Radicals have snug places and well-paid Commissionerships : the old Whigs (rani nantes) who yet adhere to them have invitations to Buckingham Palace, with dim visions of Peerage and Baronetage in the distance :—but the philosophic Li beral is satisfied with a vague rumour in the Recess, and a point-blank disappointment in the Session of Parliament. He is flattered—trifled with—permitted to deliver to empty benches an annual oration on his favourite crotchet—thrown overboard to appease Sir Robert Peel—and broadly laughed at behind his back. So much for the Philosopher. But his turn is just now come, and hence the rumours of more liberal policy. In the teeth of the present opposition, a deeper plunge into democracy would be sheer mad ness. The tesselating and dovetailing of the Cabinet still goes on. The last hit of Mosaic-work inserted is Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay—by way, we suppose, of wiping off the reproach cast upon it by Lord Brougham and echoed by the voice of the whole country, that it was an experiment of what a ministry could do which did not possess a single man of talent amongst its members. They have now got their man of talent in the person of the new. Secretary at War ; and, if ever they are taunted with the same reproach again, they will point to the pages of the Blue and Yellow, and, from the most florid and rhetorical pages of that repo sitory of "leaden quills," adduce triumphant proofs of the intellectual prowess they have at their command. And yet the circumstances attending the elevation of this clever Edinburgh Reviewer to his present position are by no means flattering to the Whigs. The place was offered to him some weeks ago without a seat in the Cabinet, but this mutilated honour was refused by the man who had been pocketing some £lO,OOO a year of public money in India as the perquisites of an office which he had the address to create for his own peculiar benefit, and which is utterly useless for any purpose but that of rewarding, from time to time, some needy Whig-Radical dependant, whose claims and importu nity in this country are somewhat inconvenient. He knew the creatures he had to deal with. He knew that they are a party bankrupt in talent as well as cha racter; and that, however they may coquet and give themselves airs at first, they must u!timately consent to take him on his own terms. They offer him a place and refuse him a seat in the Cabinet. This is in effect saying, we can trust you to a certain point, but no farther—we are anxious to have at our disposal your sophistical rhetoric and verbose declamation, for we have not a single man amongst us whose attempts at oratory would not disgrace a schoolboy ; but we don't fancy you at the Council-board, where your volubility of tongue and your vivacity of intellect will greatly em barrass our sleepy consultations. So said or thought my Lord Melbourne, and, we doubt not, sincerely; but after hawking about the office for some time, and finding no other man willing to take it who was competent, and no man competent who was willing, he closed with the terms of the member for Edinburgh, and admitted him, sorely against his own inclinations, to a seat in the Cabinet. The next piece to be hammered in by the ministerial lapidary is, as we are informed by the Government prints, Lord Clarendon. We are told, with mysterious ambi guity, that his lordship is to occupy " an important post," but of its nature and name we are left as igno rant as perhaps the writers are themselves. Judging by the rule of Contraries, on which the principle of selection in Lord Melbourne's Cabinet seems to pro ceed, we should guess that, as Lord Clarendon owes the whole of his little reputation to his acquaintance with Spanish affairs, of which he made himself last Session the " single-speech" hero, he will be chosen to displace Lord Minto at the head of the Admiralty, or, perhaps, ease Lord Cottenham by participating with him in the labours of the Woolsack, as the long-talked of new Equity Judge. This would no doubt be very ab surd ; but what of that ? Can anything be more ab surd than some of the late ministerial changes, and would not results equally satisfactory to the country have been gained if the members of the Government had drawn in a lottery or played at puss-in-the-corner for their places ? But, seriously, we would ask what party or section of a party in the nation can be at all propitiated by the thimble-rig shifting of ministerial peas which has taken place since the prorogation of Parliament ? True, in deed, Sheil and Wyse have been taken into partnership, in order that they may do more effectually the work of the Taskmaster, who, at no very distant period, cha racterised the other members of the concern as " base, bloody, and brutal ;" and, so far as the religious viru lence of the Roman Catholics extends, we suppose they do feel some satisfaction at seeing these represen tatives of the Papists hoisted into power. But what sacrifice has been made to the Moloch of Non-finality ? what accession of strength has the democratic por- tion of the 'Cabinet obtained wherewith to claim the suffrages of the grumbling " Reformers" at the next election ? Is it in the substitution of Mr. Babington Macaulay for Viscount Howick, whose vaulting ambi•• tion has so far o'erleaped itself as to cause his petulent Lordship to turn a somerset out of the Cabinet ? We advise your thorough-going Liberals to peruse care fully the article in the Edinburgh Review on the His tory of the Revolution of 1689, by Sir James Macin tosh, which was sent home all the way from India in 1836, by the said Mr. Babington Macaulay, at a time when, being but scantily informed of the rate at which matters were " progressing" in England, he fancied that the Whig-Radical vessel was sailing on a Conser vative tack. They will there find some wholesome doc trine, which, though somewhat unpalatable to their taste, we strongly recommend them to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. We advise them also to contrast the furious ha rangues of the Richard Lalor Sheil who declared, so help him God ! that he would pay neither Tithe nor Taxes if within two years from the period at which he was then speaking a Parliament were not assembled in College Green, with the late mincing and strait-waist coat oratory of the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, which was full of abuse and calumnious false hood against the Conservatives ; but in all that regard ed measures, for which he was once the loudest yelper in the pack, like Bottom, he " aggravated his voice so that he roared them as gently as any sucking dove." Do the Liberal party congratulate themselves in the exchange of Lord Monteagle for Mr. Francis Baring ? We hardly know upon what grounds they can do so, for we believe there is little doubt that he adheres to the anti-hog or Russell section of the Cabinet, and will therefore by no means be taken by the Radicals when the Ministry put themselves upon the country for their deliverance as a pledge that they intend to plunge still deeper into the filthy mine of Liberalism. That he is a better financier than his predecessor we will charitably admit, and for this simple reason, that it was confes sedly impossible to find a worse. But the important act remains. Not a single doubtful supporter of the Ministry can be secured by the changes that have taken place. Lord Melbourne has given no indication thereby that he intends to pur sue a different line of policy than he has done hitherto ; for we presume that Lord Normanby will hardly dare to repeat the experiment of wholesale gaol deliveries on this side the channel : indeed, from his refusal to in terfere in behalf of the boy Coker, we augur that his Lordship will act upon the proverb, that " the scalded dog fears cola water"—and therefore disgust instead of satisfaction will be the result in the case of those growling patrons of the administration, who, despising it for its weakness, have lent their support not because they coincided with its policy, but because they hated that of the Conservatives. And more than this. The desperate state of the Whig-Radical craft has been laid hare. There is not a sound plank in the ship, and the crew have been obliged to stop her gaping leaks with old rags and gimcrack lathes, which will not help her to weather a single storm. The sooner she goes down head foremost the better. We had read, withont believing it, the account which has been going the round of the papers, that a Bench of Magistrates in Leicestershire last week fined a do mestic servant of the name of Pick forty shillings for having cleaned his lace boots upon a Sunday morn ing ! We treated the story as an impudent falsehood, concocted perhaps in the pages of the Examiner, or some other similar paper, whose honourable office it is to coin and circulate calumnies against the Church. We could not credit such a piece of fanatical tyranny in the nineteenth century. But when we find that the statement remains uncontradicted, and that it has been noticed in a leading article of the London Times, we must suppose that it is true, and that Mr. Barnes, of Sixhills, did actually summon his unhappy servant, and that the bigots on the Bench did actually fine him in the sum of two pounds, for putting a little of War ren's blacking upon his boots on Sunday morning. Are the,=e sapient Dogberries aware that they have acted illegally in this matter, and that they have no power whatever to inflict this fine ? Setting aside the wretched superstition which would convert an act of cleanliness into an act of sin, and deserve to be ranked with the worst Rabbinical corruptions of the law of the Sabbath, we wish to know what authority these Magistrates had to interfere with the toilet of a foot man ? We presume that they derive their jurisdiction from the Statute of Charles 11., " for the better ob servance of the Sabbath" ; but this embraces only such offenders as violate the law by pursuing their ordinary calling for gain (such as buying and selling, &c.) on the Sunday. If it were otherwise, how in the name of decency could any ordinary matter of house hold and domestic economy be performed on that day ? We should like to be informed whether this Bench of Boobies dines on the Sabbath, and exacts from its menials services of any kind on that day. If so, we trust some informer will summon every house hold of them before some equally wise and religious body, who, by repeated fines, will mete out an equal measure of justice to that dealt to the poor boy Pick, and thus bring them to their senses. We advise the former to appeal against the conviction at the Quarter Sessions, and have it quashed. The question of the erection of warehouses on the dock quays will again " come on" for discussion in the Council Chamber to-morrow, when we sincerely . trust it will meet with the fate which it merits—that of being decided in the negative. We are by no means sorry to find that the meddling individuals who have endea voured to wriggle themselves into notoriety by urging the necessity of the proposed erections, have decided upon bringing the matter to an issue before the first of November. The great mass of land and warehouse owners in this town, as well as those who have a con tingent interest in the perpetuation of the present sys tem, will thus have an opportunity of forming an opi nion of the merits of their representatives in the Town Council. We feel convinced that the division which may take place to-morrow will not be without a bene ficial influence on the result of the approaching election. It is impossible to peruse either the pompous pam phlet recently put forth by a certain vainglorious Al derman, or the inflated articles with which the radical press has been teeming for the last few days, without indulging in a hearty fit of laughter at both the Alder man and his servile adulators. With our radical con temporaries, Alderman Evans is the very facile pin ceps of mercantile men. He and the sapient editors of the Albion, Times, Mercury, Chronicle, and Journal, while professing inextinguishable hatred of every spe cies of monopoly, have not hesitated to lay claim to a perfect monopoly of all the good sense, rational views, and mercantile prudence in the town. When the Sir Oracle of the Council Chamber chooses to perpetrate a sixpenny pamphlet, embodying the results of his sage experience, no man in Liverpool is fit to give him an answer. The merchants of Liverpool are bound to pay implicit deference to his opinions. They are no judges of what is fit and expedient for promoting the commer cial interests of the town. Silence is also prescribed to the warehouse owners themselves, who, it appears, have no right to form an opinion on a subject so deeply af fecting their interests. Our liberal antagonists are the only men that know, or can know any thing about warehouses, shipping, and commerce. Every thing must bow to their infallible dictum. Even facts—stub born as they are acknowledged to be—must bend them selves to their theories. Statistical details they laugh to scorn, and the evidence of the senses they treat as utterly worthless. It is in this spirit that the Albion of yesterday speaks of the " already-abandoned and oft-refuted allega tions" of the opponents of the dock-warehouse scheme, as if all the arguments brought forward within the last week against that iniquitous measure were utterly be neath notice. The fact is, however, that neither the Albion nor Alderman Evans has ever attempted to reply to one of those arguments. Indeed, we have repeatedly noticed that the Albion shrinks with instinctive horror from grappling with an argument. The editor seems to dread a syllogism as much as he would a boa con strictor. We are not surprised to find that the Albion de signates as " trumpery" all that we have said respect ing " irreparable injury to thousands," " wholesale robbery," &c. It is in perfect consonance with genuine liberalism to make light of such matters, excepting when the injury happens to fall on the shoulders of a soi disant " liberal" himself. We fancy that the editor of the Albion himself would assume a different tone if the Corporation or the Dock Trustees were to start a Monday newspaper, supported out of the public funds. Alderman Evans seems to consider the amount of property invested in the present warehouses in the town as quite a " trumpery" Matter, for he did not hesitate, with one stroke of his pen, to reduce its estimated value from £4,000,000 to £2,500,000, adding, that its value " bears a small proportion to that of the other fixed property in and about the town." A stranger may be deceived by such a statement, but we feel as sured that no one who is at all acquainted with the value of property in Liverpool, can be misled by such an outrageously fallacious statement, especially when the relative value of land in different parts of the town is taken into consideration. Before the question of dock warehouses comes before the Town Council for formal discussion, we recommend the members of that body to peruse a pamphlet which has just been published, in reply to the dogmatical nonsense of Alderman Ivans. In that pamphlet they will find every position- assumed by the Alderman demolished seriatim—if, indeed, any thing can be said to be demolished, which never had any better foundation than " the baseless fabric of a vision." The whole substance of Alderman Evans's pamphlet, as proved in the " Remarks in Reply" to which we have alluded, proceeds on the gratuitous assumption that the erection of warehouses on the dock quays, is indispensably necessary, in order to multiply the faci lities for carrying on the commerce of the port, and that the objects contemplated in the erection of such warehouses cannot be accomplished in any other way, nor at a much smaller cost. The " Statement of the Committee of Merchants" suggests a variety-of expe dients which may be resorted to without incurring the expense of warehouses, or inflicting any injury on private individuals. Among these we may briefly enumerate an improvement in the practical manage ment of the dock estate—a better system of working the docks—more stringent regulations regarding the discharging of vessels—the deepening of some of the docks, and the conversion of some of the basins into wet docks—the provision of additional cranes—the construction of more convenient sheds—the laying down of a railway around each dock, for moveable stages, &c. &c. To each of these points we trust the attention of the Council will be directed in the course of to-morrow. MEETING OF SHOPKEEPERS. On Friday night, a meeting of shopkeepers took place at the Clarendon-rooms, in order to carry out the arrangement, which worked so well last year, for the earlier closing of the shops during the winter months. At eight o'clock, the time fixed for the meeting, the attendance was very slender, but it improved considerably as the proceedings of the evening advanced. Mr. Woolwright was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in calling attention to the object for which they were assembled, expressed his regret that greater publicity had not been given to the present meeting. They were called together at a short notice by means of a placard, and from a very unfortunate omission, the newspapers did not contain the advertisement of their meeting that evening. This was the cause of the limited attendance. It would be in the recollection of those present, that in November last year, resolutions were adopted at a public meeting, pledging the shopkeepers to close earlier than they had previously done. Though not universally observed. yet being the first season, a much greater unanimity prevailed with regard to the regulation than could have been expected—greater in deed, than he had seen in other towns where a similar under standing prevailed. Some dissentients there were, and they acted under the mistaken impulse that their business would be injured by an earlier closing. But they (the meeting) had now reason to hope, that such dissentients, finding tl e inaccuracies of their views, would give way to public feeling and succumb to the general good. The committee think that the closing will be more generally observed this year than last. At the former meeting it was urged that some plan ought to be devised for enabling the young men to em ploy their leisure time profitably, and accordingly an institu tion was formed for carrying out that object. The success of that institution had been as great as could be expected. During the summer quarter, (the least favourable period of the year) there were from 210 to 220 subscribers, and when it was considered that all that season they could not get out until late in the evening, there was every reason to believe that the October quarter would be even better attended. After a few introductory observations, the Chairman called upon the secretary, Mr. Willacy, to read the report. The SECRETARY read the report, which gave a detailed ac count of the proceedings of the shopkeepers, from their orga nization last year to the present time, dwelling on the work ing and advantages of the young men's association for im proving their moral and intellectual character. Mr. FERGUSON, in moving the adoption of the report, said that although there existed some little cause for regret, there was still more for congratulation. Some persons had, it was true, obstinately, perversely, and unjustly refused to acquiese in the system of early closing ; but he hoped that these would speedily become converts, and that the next annual report would be even more favourable than the present. There was abundant cause for congratulation at the exertions made to ameliorate the condition of their dependents—exertions which had met with encouragement from so many good men, and the success of the past was a guarantee for,the future. (Hear.) Mr. B. WILLIAMS seconded the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously. Mr. MINTON moved a resolution to the effect, that the shopkeepers of Liverpool close their shops at eight in the evening, from the Ist October to the 31st of March, and at nine from the Ist of April to the 30th of September, which he hoped would meet with their approval. Having some time back been one of those who canvassed the town in order to effect the object for which they were assembled, he could speak personally of the grateful manner in which the propo sition was received by the bulk of the shopkeepers, and even where objections existed, those objections were founded on necessity—the peculiar nature of certain kinds of business, and such like feelings, than on principle. The non-shopkeep ing part of the community had given their sanction to an abridgment of the hours of business, and he could not but express the debt of gratitude which they owed to the press for the assistance it had rendered them in carrying out their views. Already they had effected a great social reform. It was never intended that a man's life should be occupied be hind the counter from sunset to sunrise.—(Hear, hear.) He has mental, moral, and physical qualities to cultivate, and how could that cultivationlproceed without rest and leisure ? After drawing a striking comparison between the many hours which a shopkeeper devotes to business, as compared with a mechanic, a merchant or a labourer, Mr. Minton concluded by making a forcible appeal to the meeting in favour of the resolution. The resolution was seconded by Mr. PHILLIPS, and car ried unanimously. Mr. JEFFRIES said the company would be anxious to learn from him some information respecting the institution for mental improvement, which the assistant drapers had formed. It was the opinion of many, when the subject of early closing was first mooted, that their assistants would be rather in- jured than benefitted inCl;;;c7er - Q habits if they had more time at their disposal. To meet this objection, the young men memorialized their employers, that if they would grant the boon of early c l os i ng , it wou ld no t b e a b use d ; an d when their wishes were acceded to, an institution was esta. blished by them under the name of the " Assistant Drapers' Institution." The number of members originally was 150 ; but in consequence of a deficiency of that essential requisite, cash, for effectually working it, 89 members withdrew. It occurred to the principals, that the success of this institution for the improvement of their dependants, was immediately connected with the system of early closing, and, accordingly, on the first of May, a directory, consisting of thirteen prin cipals, was formed for its management. The number of mem bers now belonging to it is 206-167 assistants and 39 princi pals. The attendance during the summer months has been good ; but of course it will inc r e as e i n the w i n ter m on ths. men The young evince every disposition to improve them selves, for which praiseworthy purpose they have formed classes for mutual instruction. At present there are three classes—the first, a grammar c l ass (th e y b egan a t th e r i g ht end by learning correctly the principles of their own language,) —the second a French class, in which they have the services of a French tutor—and the third a class for acquiring a proper knowledge of book-keeping—an indispensable requisite for men engaged in business. The institution has received very liberal support ; 220 volumes (many of them valuable works) have been presented to it. LOrd Sandon and Mr. Cresswell sent a donation of £5. each. In Liverpool, donations to the amount of £lO9. 10s. have been received, and elsewhere do nations amounting to £55. 6s. The speaker proceeded to state, that when the directory was formed, the institution was £l4O. in debt, which the young men themselves nobly in sisted on liquidating. But it would require 340 members at 15s. each to meet the current expenses of the institution ; and he urged upon the principals coming forward to support it. The subscription was moderate, considering the advan tages it held out—for a principal, 21s.—an assistant, 15s. and an apprentice, 10s. The institution was not limited to drapers—it included all grades of tradesmen, their as sistants, and apprentices. It waa gratifying to see the ap pearance which the institution presented, and many young men frequent it who formerly spent their evenings in the ale house. The speaker in conclusion, stated, that arrangements were being made for the delivery of a course of lectures, and he trusted that the institution would receive the cordial sup port of the classes for whose benefit it was designed. Mr. WILLIAMS hoped that employers would give the in stitution their assistance. It was well entitled to it, and in serving it, they served themselves. The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Orange, Mr. Tait, and other speakers. A subscription was made for liquidating the treasurer's balance against the society, and after some further business, thanks were voted to the chair man, and the meeting separated. A WONDERFUL HORSE. - It may not be generally known that Isaac, an aged gelding, who has, by his victorious ca reer as a racer, created quite a sensation in the sporting world, is the same horse that run at our Hurdle Races in 1836, in the name of our townsman, Mr. Speed. At those races he was unsuccessful in both his efforts, and was beaten in indifferent company. At the time we allude to he was the property , of Mr. Speed, conjointly with Sam Darling, the ce lebrated jockey, who we are told parted with him to his pre sent owner (Mr. Tome) for a trifling sum, without the con currence of Mr. Speed. Since this the horse has been run ning with varied success in different parts of the country, but this year his performances have been most extraordinary, he having won no less than twenty-one races out of the twenty three in which he has been engaged, beating many of the best horses of the day. His late running at Shrewsbury is one proof of our assertion ; and it is thought by many, bad the horse been entered for the Goodwood Stakes, he would have walked off with them, Isaac having since vanquished Barna cles, the winner of that prize, and other horses of greater ce lebrity. Indeed, his doings on the turf have no paralel since the days of Dr. Syntax, Reveller, and old Euphrates. Isaac was originally purchased by Mr. Speed for £36, and at that period was little thought of as a racer. We have heard that Mr. Speed has still an interest in the horse's winnings, which is allowed him by Sam Darling, in consequence of the latter's never having had Mr. Speed's sanction in the disposal of this most extraordinary animal. From the repeated winnings of Isaac, he is at all times heavily weighted, a n d it is n ot un common to see him running three or four heats for a raoe after having carried 10st. in the preceding one. The quantity of work the horse is made to undergo renders his success the more surprising, many horses breaking down with a tithe of the labour. In verity Mr. Tome must have been a " cunning Isaac" to get possession of so rare a bit of horse-flesh : his winnings must be great.---Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-Flu D AY. UTTERING FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES. A consumptive looking Irishman, Owen Sherry, and his wife were placed before Mr. Rushton on a charge of uttering forged Bank of England notes. There were four cases against Sherry—in three of which he had succeeded in passing £5 notes, and in the fourth instance, he made an unsuccessful attempt to pass a £lO note. The first witness was a Mrs. Ashton, who keeps a public-house in this town. O n th e 20th of July last, the prisoner came to her house and called for two glasses of ale, for which he tendered a £5 note (produced) in payment. Mrs. Ashton requested the servant to take the note up stairs to her master, and ask his opinion about it. Mr. Ashton, on seeing the note, expressed his suspicion of its being genuine, and told the girl to take it across the way to a neighbour (Mr. Holmes) and ask his opinion of it ; the girl did so, and the opinion beinc , favourable, the note was changed, and the prisoner departed. The note remained in the possession of Mr. Ashton until it was tendered to Mr. Ackers, the brewer, when the forgery was discovered. In the second instance, the victim was Mrs. Farraday, who keeps a public-house in the neighbourhood of Canning-place. The prisoner came toiler house and bought a barrel of sour ale, the price for which was 16 shillings. This occurred on the 18th July. He tendered a forged £5 Bank of England note for payment. Mrs. Farraday sent her daughter to a neigh bouring house for the purpose of getting it changed ; the party who changed the note made the girl write her name on the back. It was subsequently paid by Mrs.' Farraday to Mr. Richmond, the spirit merchant. The note produced in court bc re the girl's signature, which she identified. On the same day the prisoner paid a £5 note to a person named Gillen, who keeps the Dolphin Inn, Burlington-street. He owed Gillen an account of 16s. and received the balance. Mr. Robert M`Laughlin stated that on the 16th inst. the prisoner came to his house, and as he (the prisoner) owed him an ac count of £3 18s, he asked him for it. He tendered a £lO Bank of England note, and said he would pay the account if witness would give him the difference. The witness looked at the note, and believing it to be bad, told him to call in the morning for the change. Witness asked him for his address, which he wrote on a slip of paper—" Owen Sherry, 38, New Bird-street." This address was false, the prisoner having left his lodgings in that street some time previously. The note which the witness produced was numbered 72,256, and bore the signature "J. Robinson." It was badly executed, as indeed were all the others, and could hardly fail to be de tected by the least experienced eye. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, replied that his wife found the notes and he believed them to be genuine. He had asked the opinion of a person in Cleveland-square, who assured him that the notes were good. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, in order to afford time to consult with the Attor ney-General ; and there being no evidence to implicate his wife, she was discharged. - YESTERDAY. A YOUNG RUT PRACTISED THIEF. A 'mere boy, named William Wellington, was placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a large block from one of the docks. The article was too unwieldy to be readily portable, and he was consequently detected. Enquiry being made whether he was known, Mr. Parkinson said that be had been seven times committed, and fourteen times discharged. He was sent to the House of. Correction for three months. SHAMEFUL ROBBERY OF CHILDREN. Mary Webster, a masculine looking woman, was charged, on two separate complaints, with robbing children of their clothes. ,A female witness said she saw her on Saturday go up an entry in Marybone, with a child, whom she robbed of part of its clothes. The child came home denuded of its frock and pinafore. It had been seen by its father some time before, and he identified the clothes. The prisoner, in consequence of the information given, was apprehended, and when taken to the Vauxhall station, pawn-tickets were found upon her, by which the articles stated were recovered, and that of the other child, which was taken to the bellman, one of whose stockings was found in her pocket. The prisoner was committed for three months to the House of Correction. SMUGGLING TOBACCO. Henry Williams and John Wilson, two seamen, stood charged with having smuggled a quantity of tobacco from on board of a vessel. Mr. Brook, solicitor to the Customs, conducted the prosecution. Police-officer Brooks stated, on Saturday he stopped one of the prisoners in Queen-street, with a bag (now produced) on his back. He asked what he had got there, and prisoner said it was his clothes. The officer, however, felt the bag, found that it contained some thing hard, and asked him what it was,—when he acknow ledged that it was tobacco ; that he had got it from on board the ship Roscoe, then lying in the middle of the Prince's dock, and that he would deliver it up. He detained him. He afterwards found the other prisoner coming inside the same dock with something, which, on searching him, turned out to be also similar tobacco, brought from the same vessel, some of it was concealed in his boots. The first quantity found weighed upwards of 131h5., the other upwards of Gibs. The tobacco, which was formed into large cakes, was pro duced. The prisoners were remanded for further examina tion until Saturday. A WITNESS IN A WRONG BOX. A labourer named Wm. Scott, was placed at the bar along with Willman, a man of more respectable exterior, the latter of whom, however, was admitted to be the witness. The police-officer who had conveyed them to the Station, in Vauxhall-road, said, that on the previous night he saw Scott taking the other, who was drunk along Dale-street. Think ing he was not in safe hands, he took them both. It did not appear, however, that Scott had done any harm to his com panion, and as the Bridwell-keeper stated, that Logan was very drunk, and finally gave his name as " Barbara Logan," Mr Rushton ordered the bearded Barbary " to pay 2s. 6d., or be imprisoned for two days," and discharged the other. ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING. Thomas Dutton stood charged with inflicting a serious wound on a sailor, the effects of which were such, that he was taken to the infirmary, and was yet in too precarious a state to be removed. The following is an outline of the facts :—lnspector Walker stated, that on Sunday morning, about one o'clock, he heard a scuffle in Great George's-street, and on going up found the prisoner on the ground. Another witness saw the prisoner draw a knife and make a cut at the neck of the injured party. Another said, he was going along with his brother, the person whose neck was cut ; another friend, carrying a quadrant and other articles (his brother being on the eve of going to sea,) when the prisoner came up and hustled his brother off the pavement. A. re monstrance was made, and the police appeard, when the pri soner dropped behind. When, however, they had passed the police the prisoner again came up, and began as before to stagger against his brother a second time. A slight scuffle again ensued, when his brother cried out, " Oh 1 am cut!" It was necessary to procure immediate surgical aid, which the inspector assisted them to obtain. The patient was finally taken to the Inihnia.y,- Iv lir ehe remains. The prisoner, as a matter of course, was remanded. SPREE OF A JACK TAR. Hugh M`Mullen, a good natured looking sailor, was placed at the bar, on a charge of not paying the sum of 6s. due by him to a Carman, whom he had hired to carry him and his chest, &c. up and down the streets and quays, for a space of upwards of four hours. The driver had Nken him from place to place, according to his directions, calling at several lodging houses where he was known, but where they would not receive him. Jack was half seas over, and the ports were all closed against him. The Carman, however, it appeared, had taken care of him, and finally got him to an anchor. Jack wished to pay only 3s. for which he inti mated he had bargained for the cruise, but when the distance Was explained to him, and the time occupied, he agreed to pay the demand if the magistrate thought it was right. Mr. Rushton ruled accordingly, and Jack, having stumped up, was released. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON. A woman named Elizabeth Smith, was fully committed for trial, at the Sessions, for robbing a man named Robt. Cottingham, of eleven sovereigns, from his person, on the night of Sunday. The exportation of manufactured goods to the United States has fallen off• considerably of late. The New York ships, including the packets, get very little freight. The packet-ship Independence had a freight of only £450. IMPORTANCE OF THE CHINA TRADE.—It was stated, in the course of the interview which the Liverpool deputation had with Lord Palmerston, on Friday last, that cne of the deputation had exported more cotton pods to Canton in one year than the East India Company had exported, in the same period, during their monopoly of the trade. LIVERPOOL RIDING SCHOOL.—We beg to direct the at tention of all lovers of the equestrian art to Mr. Smith's advertisement, which appears in another column. His school is extensive and well protected ; and all his arrangements will be found of a superior order. We know of no exercise that we would more strongly recommend than the delightful and health-promoting one of riding. POWNALL-SQUARE MARKET.—We gave in our last, a no tice of a meeting, held on Wednesday, of the inhabitants of St. Paul's Ward, to consider the present state of Pownall square Market and the opening of Edmund-street into Pow nall-square, at which a resolution was passed, recommending to the Council the taking down of the buildings between Ed mund-street and the square, so as to afford a more direct communication to the market. Mr. John Deakin, in his address as a candidate for the representation of the ward at the approaching municipal election, states, that he is an ad vocate for the extension and improvement of the market, but not for the opening from Edmund-street. MURDERS AT SEA.—A young man named John Went worth Fairbank, was, on Wednesday, brought before the Magistrates, at Falmouth, charged with the murder of Cap tain White, of the barque Secret, of Liverpool. Several witnesses were examined, and it appeared, from the evidence of George Minty, the mate. that, on Sunday, the 14th of April, while the vessel was on its voyage from Guayaquil to St. Andero, he was awoke by the Captain screaming out " Murder !" and the Captain afterwards said, that the Iri soner had " knifed" him. There was a large wound in his stomach, of which he died in about an hour. Tne prisoner was steward on board the vessel, and the Captain had or dered him three dozen on the previous evening. hen se cured, the steward had a pistol in one hand, and a dagger in the other, and he snapped the pistol at the mate. The pri soner was committed for trial, and the witnesses bound over to appear at the Central Criminal Court. George Minty, the mate was then himself charged with causing the death of James Shaw, a seaman who had belonged to the same vessel,. by beating him in the most brutal way with an instrument called a " colt," and also with a rope. The prisoner was also committed to take his trial for murder. GAELIC SCHOOL SOCIETY.—II will be seen by an adver tisement, that a meeting of the friends of this society is to be held in the Music-hall, on the evening of Wednesday next, when a deputation from Scotland, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Mackay, of Dunnon, and John Campbell, Esq., of Carbrook, is expected to attend, who, with others, will powerfully en force its claims. The society wasestablished in 1811, for the purpose of gratuitously teaching the inhabitants of the high lands and islands of Scotland to read the scriptures in their native language. At that period the population amounted to about four hundred thousand, of whom it was reckoned that three hundred thousand were unable to read in any language, and the greater number of these could only speak the Gaelic, knowing little or nothing of the English tongue. Anxious to accommodate its plan at once to its own means and to the nature of the country, the society resolved that its schools should be ambulatory, whereby the benefits of a religious education might be communicated to a greater number of persons, in a much shorter time, and at much less expense, than could possibly be accomplished in any other way. The Gaelic School Society has really no competitor whose rivalry it might provoke in this exclusive walk. It does not inter fere with any other institution whatever, being enabled to oc cupy ground and to penetrate to localities altogether inac cessible to the labours of those societies whose teachers are permanently resident at their respective stations. In the course of the last twenty-seven years, the society has taught upwards eighty thousandpersons in the highlands and islands of Scotland to read the Bible in their native tongue, and has, during the same period, distributed about an equal number of copies of the Gaelic Bible, Testament, and Psalm-book. It has been enabled to do all this, inclusive of the charges of management, at the moderate expense of about thirteen shil lings for each person's education. Such, too, has been the eagerness of the people to learn to read " the words of eter nal life," that in many instances the father and the grandfa ther have stood up in the same class with their children and grandchildren, and mothers, with infants in their arms, have joined in the exercises of these Gaelic schools. In the soci ety's report for 1836, some interesting details will be found of the result of the scriptural education thus communicated, and soiree notices also of these are published in the History of British Revivals. The number of schools has for some years been maintained at fifty, doing the work of two hun dred stationary schools in such localities; but unless the public support be enlarged beyond what has been lately af forded, it will be necessary considerably to reduce the esta blishment. THEATRE ROYAL. Mr. and Mrs. Wood continue to draw good houses, and to delight their audiences. What attraction is to succeed theirs, has not transpired. The arrival of the London morning papers by this evening's mail is iooked for with considerable interest by lovers of news, and those who take an interest in the national drama. Last night the season at Covent Garden was to commence with " Love's Labour Lost," and an address written by Mr. Dance. But the hinge upon which public curiosity turns is this ;—the feelings and opinions of the audience with respect to the bold innovations attempted by the new management ! Admission to the dress-circle is raised to seven shillings— upper boxes five, and the shilling gallery iv done away with. This last is the point. It is a bold step for any management to hazard, and odds are taken that there will be a riot. In short, that the nights and days of the famous 0 P era will be revived. We shall see. Much may be said in favour as well as against this experi ment. By those hostile to the success of the new lessees, it will be laid hold of as an apple of discord, and lustily kicked about as a football in favour of the rival houses. Owing to the nature of the pieces to be played—Light and Genteel Comedy, with drawing-room pieces, such as proved so at tractive at the Olympic—Vestris has decided, upon conside ration and experience, that the noise and bustle all but un avoidably attendant upon a shilling audience in an upper gallery, would tend to neutralise the effect of her entertain ments and to annoy the occupants of the dress-circle and the more exclusive audience in other parts of the theatre. But, as a set-off to this, it should be borne in mind that Covent-garden 'is not only a patent, but emphatically a na tional theatre ; and, as a national theatre, it is a violation of the law of use and wont—a law of all others the most dan gerous to disturb—td exclude the twelvepenny gods of Cock aigne from their part of the house. We believe that during the run of the Christmas pantomime the shilling gallery will be thrown open ; but the question is, will the excluded not declare war against the exclusives, and refuse to enter as a favour doors which they will demand to be at all times open to them as a national right ? Vestris deserlies success. There is a fine working com pany at Covent Garden : one more efficient for the work al lotted to it could not be assembled any where in England : the state of the market as it is confirms this view. With all its assertions and speculations—of guesswork there has been more than an ordinary supply—the London pr.;ss, with the exception of two well-informed papers, is weekly disseminating errors which a moment's reflection would suffice to correct. For instance, they comment in an assured vein of expectancy, upon all parts in Mr. Ward's and Mr. Vandenhoff's line of business being ably sustained, because they have inserted the name of " Vandenhoff" in the list of the Covent Garden company. There is misconception, if not a downright mistake somewhere. Mr. Vandenhoff and his daughter are not in England : they are now swelling a heavy salary-list at the National in New York, and neither father nor daughter will play anywhere in England for twelvemonths to come, and if all goes well not for some years. If, therefore, the name of any member of Mr. Van denhoff's family be a bona fide insertion in the list Of this season's company at Covent Garden, it may turn out to be that of a son of the well-known tragedian, but not the father. Whether any of the " liberal" Dock Trustees have really promoted the attempt, is not known ; but if Mr. Vandenhoff has taken to the stage as his profession, we think, and without any disparagement to his abilities, or prejudice against the issue of his trial, that out of any hundred men, let their latent ability or " modest assurance" be what it may, ninety nine novices must inevitably fail for one that succeeds by accident. There is not a more complicated department of the Fine Arts than the STAGE, nor one for sustained or mo derate success in which, the axiom of the ancient sage holds more true—" Life is short and art is long." WATERLOO CHURCH. — We understand that the founda tion-stone of the intended new church on Litherland Marsh will be laid on Wednesday morning next, at 10 o'clock. MARTIN'S PICURE OE THE CORONATION.—This gorgeous picture still continues to attract numerous admirers, and many i will find it a great accommodation now that the exhi tian s open by gas light. We have no hesitation in saying, that splendid as the scene must have been, and difficult the task of representing it, that Mr. Martin has succeeded .so well, as to leave nothing for the most fastidious observer'to wish. The evening exhibition seems to be particularly at tractive, and many who recollect Mr. Martin's "Belshazzar's Feast," in the same room, declare their preference for the Coronation. THE WEATHER. — Sinceourlast publication, it has been for the most part rainy, and with the exception of a few brief intermissions inclining to cold for the season. Friday after noon was fair ; but towards dark the air became chilly, and rain again fell in the night. Saturday was slightly showery, with sunshine ; but the promise of the evening was succeeded by a night of almost incessant downfall. The following day was again fine, and beautiful and clear in the evening, but before daybreak yesterday, the rain fell copiously, and con tinued in drizzling showers until nearly sundown. Thus we have had a succession of showers and sunshine, with an almost corresponding vicissitude in the temperature. The most important consideration, however, as regards the weather is its probable effects upon the crops, and in this, we see no good ground for serious apprehension. The farmers had previously, actively exerted themselves in housing the out grain, and in this part of the country, we may state ' that the whole is secured, and, what is better, for the most part in good condition. The quantity of after-grass is also great. We have reason, too, to believe that the crops in the nortl. +4ll short, or in such detexio r n.i. „ l.... dition as some of our contemporaries would tam write. themselves into the belief of. But it is not usual fgr - those who have samples of new wheat coming into market, or who have previous stocks on hand to prevent the gloomiest side of the picture, with a view to maintain very high priceS as long as they can. The appearances of the late potatoe crops is excellent, and they will be heavy. The early crops are larger and generally fine. Jaws.—We beg to call the attention of such of our readers as are of this persuasion, and of the Christian public in ge neral, to a course of lectures now being delivered in St. James's Church, by the Rev. H. S. Joseph, of Liverpool, (himself a converted Jew,) on the spiritual interests.of the descendants of Abraham. The first of these lectures was de livered last Thursday evening, and was listened to with deep interest by a crowded congregation ; amongst whom we hope were many of those for whose benefit the service was prima rily intended. We trust that the exertions of the preacher may be attended with equal success here, to what he has met with in Liverpool ; where we understand he has had the gra tification of admitting several of his Jewish brethren into the Christian church, by administering to them the sacrament of baptism. We shall be glad to find that Mr. Joseph's suc cess in Manchester has exeeded a hundred-fold what he has met with elsewhere. The second of these very interesting lectures will be delivered in St. James's Church, on the evening of Thursday next, as announced in our advertising columns.—Manchester Courier. TUB MERSEY.—At the late meeting of the British As sociation, Birmingham, Mr. J. B. Yates read a paper "On the changes and improvements in the Embouchure of the Mersey." He referred to the new channel in the horbour of Liverpool, which had been brought before the notice of the association by Captain Denham. The intricacy of access to this harbour arises from the accumulation outside of nu merous beds of sand, which are frequently and suddenly changing their position and elevation. It can scarcely be doubted, that at some remote period the estuary of the Mer sey did not exist at all, or, at most, in a very limited form ; a forest and morass may have occupied the laud between Formby Point and Helbre. Numerous trunks and roots of large forest trees are, to this day, found along the Cheshire and Lancashire shores, while extensive tracts of peat are ob served in many places starting up among the sands. A vio lent disruption must have taken place in the mouth of the estuary, by which enormous masses of sand and made have been thrown out, perhaps proved by the homogeneous struc ture of the banks on either side. In 1828, a number of human skeletons were disinterred opposite the Leasow Light house, affording strong evidence that a burying-ground had formerly existed there ; and a similar cemetery is discernible at Formby. This lighthouse stands in the place of another, which was nearer to the sea by more than half a mile—a site which, at the time of its erection, seemed to have been firm, dry land, but was renderd useless by the encroachments of the water, which continued to increase. It was not until the sea had broken down the ridge of sand which had formed its boundary, that a strong embankment was made, extending a mile and a quarter in front of the present lighthouse. The sand-banks in this estuary are tossed to and fro by the force of the wind and tides, and are constantly changing their shapes and elevations, and, having no escape, they remai n pe n t u p i n the bay. In 1687, an excellent channel existed opposite to Formby point, its depth from three to ten fathoms ; but, not being marked by buoys, the Rock Channel was at that time the entrance in common use, though dry at low water. It has since become deeper, and thus a change has taken place upon the Hoyle Sand Bank. A ridge, running along the middle of this bank, has been cut through by a channel having forced itself in a northerly direction, from Helbre Island to wards the Light Ship. The Channel described, by Captain Denham at the Dublin meeting is now useless, although used for some time with advantage ; but it runs perpendicular to the course of the tide, whicn accounts for its present state. Fears have also been entertained that the other channel, called the Horse Channel, was filling up. Lately, a diagonal channel has been formed, by ading the ebb current, of the tide in its natural diagoUal course, between Lancashire and Cheshire. This was done by dredging, by means, of a double= toothed harrow, twelve feet across, dragged backwards and forwards by a steamer of 100 horses' power, over the 'in truding banks, the inner part of which was stated to rise 43 feet higher than the outward or seaward part. Au enormous wood scraper is also used. The matter taken up appears to contain a small portion of peat, and weighs somewhat lighter than the sand found within the estuary. This new channel has been proved to answer the purposes of navigation beyond original expectation, and the approach to Liverpool is even better than before.—At henceum. NEW METHOD OF PLUCKING A HARE.—On Wednesday week, the following singular circumstance occurred to a party of young gentlemen who had been on the moors shooting : They called at a public house in a country village in the neighbourhood of Hell Shore, Holcome Brook, near 16ins bottain, and having a hare with them, they ordered the land lady, an old woman, to prepare it for supper, meanwhile they retired to an inner room to refresh themselves, and the glass was circulated freely, enlivening their spirits after the fatigues of the day. Another and another jug were emptied, but no supper appeared ; one of the party took a peep through the key hole to see how matters stood, and from what was going on he felt confident the lunch of venison would soon smoke on the board ; but, after some time had elapsed, no food making its appearance, the patience of the party was ex hausted, and one of them left the room and went to see what was the matter, when he beheld the poor hostess quite alarmed, who dropped the remains of poor puss, which she had been attempting to pluck, instead of caseing. The gen tleman vented his mind in sundry violent expressions, when the bewildered landlady said, Lord save your honours, what could I do, I have been pulling and pulling for these three hours, till my arms verily ache again. I have been up, and I have been down, and have tugged, and tugged my heart nearly out, and cannot clean the hide of this same thing for the life of me. If your honours had brought a hen, a duck, or a goose, I defy any woman (tho' I speak it) in this parish to out-pluck me at that." The truth is, tne woman had been attempting to pluck the hare, having mistaken it for a cat; the mirth of the company, though before checked with the cravings of hunger, broke out in a loud lusty laughter. The jug was again ordered to be replenished, and by the aid of good old Cheshire cheese and hotre brown bread, they were supplied with a healthy, if not luxuriant, repast. A circumstance similar to the above took place some years past in the neighbourhood of Ashton-under-Lyne, which' Mr. Butterworth has noticed in his history of that parish,- , --80/- ton Chronicle. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR.—FRIDAY EVENING: — This a teri r3ALT jestp rode out -on , harseback through : tile - -Great r jisli -to arA7 A f r_ ginia Water. The Q u een was acccimpanied4 Vise°. - bourne and Visc6unt PalinerstOri, attended` "Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss . Spring - ifice,ZEarl of Surrey, Colonel VVemyss, Hon. IVlajor Neppel, *Viscount Torringtcin, Lord Byron, and Baroness Lehzen. The Countess of Sandwich and the Hon. 11iss rift followed ' :r ,43 the royal party in a pony phaeton: Yesterday afternoon General Sir Charle i slikr r ie ar rived at Frogmore Lodge, on a visit to her bness the Princess A ugus t a . Earl and Countess CoWper took their depYrtii9elrtom the ' ll n• castle -this morning, fr Lond, worning, for. London.. - The following disting,uithed persona^ - 4 tliO royal dinner party this evening Royal iiii.mcksth6'Dtt6hess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Mrs. Canylkif; -9 ' Hon. Misses Spring Rico, Paget . , and Pitt'; 5 ' bourne, Viscount .Palmerston, Earl of Siirrey,Lcrralk 6 " n Hon. Major Keppel; . poro e i Wei ' nVss and,Bardii4L6igle-' Her Royal Highness the Doilies-. ofNeift the castle duringthel_day. WINDSOR, SUND,II EVEN ..NO.--This mornhigli 4 F-STAL m l - 1 jesty attended Divine service "at St. G'ArkeVi leelltira" companied by her ROyal HightieSs attended by. Lady Charlotte-,Dinnlas, -Lady z gA4',,,'• ff6 i r. Mrs. Campbell, Hon. Misses . Paget, Pitt; att - Oltieel Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, ,';rBUrrh - tr,7 Lord Byron, Hon. Major Keppel, Caroness Lehzen. - . The service was read by the Rey. C. W - . z- k•iiii4t l -. 331 1104 Ihuf communion service was read by the Rey..:gi.Rtn'ltliainialitrv 7l, l 1 the Rev. Dr. Goodall. The sermon Yitg' pke,4l.•l3iPifi%7! a I Rev. D. Markham, from' the 15th clikiyPorr trz2s i7..4 IR 5P ,- ' - part of the sth verse. • • • - • s7al This afternoon ' shortly.after foeb'elop,'lleMitetty left “ifiaza the castle, and after prow enading oneO ?t,Jsr4l"fAeZrpee, walked for nearly an. hour on tha terrace - ififi'mfti or vote apartments.- The Pneen was acconipar4OS;',V4eihntit "rf 9 di Melbourne and Viscount PaltherstOn, antlitttenWly'Yciaily awl Charlotte , Dundas, Hon. Mrs. Campher 'w Hon.' Misses Spring 'Rice, Pitt, 'and - P4eY,'„ BvrOn ; ad! Earl lof Surrey, Colonel Weniyst,, \l joy: and Bara- es nest f..ehzen. • - rrodJ Ti* royal m ,party was not accopanied by her Royal Higl-4,nrrtna ness phe Duchess .of,Kent. has lax -Thie royal dinner party, last evening, in - claded the ing- distinguished personages :—Her Royal .'Highness- Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas; Hon. Misses Pitt, . 19 ' 11 Pag4,-,and Spring Rice ; Lady Sandwich,Han. Mrs - Camp-' l,Ol 'bell, IlTiscount Melbourne, ; Viscount Palmerston,' Lord By_ '!'off Earl of Surrey, Hon. Major Keppel, and BarontsPnectsh Lebzen. • Tlie same distinguished guests, and :Suite of her Majesty io? will form the royal: dinner party this evening. - - “ 1 :to • Her Royal .HiOniess .the Princess, Augusta, acebmpanied' , lJ by General Sir Charles Thornton, and 'attended - by Miss' Wynyard, attended, piyine service, this morning, at the pa-` risk church. . - • Sir. James Clarke arriv'ed_at tie castle in the course of yesterday. . Her IVlajesty, accompanied by the distinguished visitors at the castle, and , attended by a numerous : suite, . rode out on - horseback, yesterday afternoon, in the Great Park. - Her Royal Highness the Duchess-, orKent, attended 'by C. Dundas, walked. yesterday • afternoon 10 Mefaidc Lodge, ann drove back to-the- castle, in a pony, pliaeon. The splendid Arabian horse which has - recently arrived at the cattle, as a present.to her. :Majesty, was . tranmitted to the Queen by IL G. "Warringtiin,-Esq., her Majesty's con sul at Tripoli. For perfect spun:lc:try and - beauty 'it may be pronounced to be unrivalled. - • , LADY FLORA HASTINGS..' • . •.. , . TO THE, EDITOR OF THE' TlikkES. Sir,—Having carefully cOnstdered the.extraOrdinary pub lication given to the world .13Y - the MErupiii of'Hastings in the Morning Past of the 14th inst., r feel it neeegitify;.in justice to Lady Portman, to, lay before the public Only:a few obser vations on this painful subject. - Lady Portman is, called "The Accusei." • Lady Portman never originated any accusation against Lady'Flora Hastings, but having been informed.of the preValence of suspithons en tertained respecting Lady Flora Hastings; and observing the appearances on,which they were fournied; - it'seenied to her to be necessary 'that the doubts which reited . on Lady Flora 'Hastings, and .tended to reflect dishonour upon the COurt, should be cleared_ up. She was, liOweve - r,.actaated by no feeling against Lally Flora Hastings, nor hdcf - she;any desire but to discharge Witli.the most - scrupulous 'propriety her di& ftcult and distressing-dutv.• Lady.Portman never 'thought of nor 'suggested', the medi cal e.iamination ; she never ref,cired nor 'delivered any mes- • sage, suggeSting, or requiring, or adtising it ; she never heard that anything. of the kind was likely to. take place, until after she had come into the moth at the' -. 'request of Lady Flora Hastingi. The statement : that tdthat occasion the de meanour of Lady Portman " was unnecessarily abrupt,' utu. feeling, or indelicate," I only notice for the purpose of giv ing to it Lady Portman's-absolute no more cruel ac cusation than this can be madeagainst Lady Portman, nor any more unfOunded and incredible. . . . I refrain froM commenting on other serious but uninten tional misstatements in the publiCation; yet,lPannot conclude without declaring, with .the. utmost sincerity, .that to Lady Portinan and to me it has always been matter of, thp deepest regret that eircumstanees_ so singularly difficult and distressing should have occurred to create, so much pain and so much sorrow. Your most obedient servant,..• • PORTMAN. • Bryanston; Sept. 27. THE CULTIVATION OF TEA . IN ASSAM. , . - - (Fro)il .the Tirnes,) The issue of the attempt to: ,cultivate tea in Assam has ac quired increased itaPort i ancg4i,n9e th4'.; ~,Le 'suspension of the trade with q4ina„ !Incl.te,,gilyilVaini'ohltres' Which appear to threaten it, pacjikaa grtitifyino"44-1 1 4 that the opening of this newfiel,kar...e.,njerptise I . lo,4l;itri a: . tyntilus to the ac- tivity of thel,,typii . 40:g 4. .1 kml4 India and'at . home. tAt the : sartie„t* 9 . - iat:4o : kei . etki . 'Ci'm forming - in' city one also' R vfm t e.sWligyi It:ay:for carrying out tt rt upon a larisfc4 - 1k ' iv i ati i',o3. i tfi fa - ..n.lit'in Assam, where, frarta.-em 19 . ant , : m?ili 'A vtll . 1 ;:•- ralblilhe Indian anthoritieS . ,„44 - p 5rp, , ,,,,,0 U tt i : '`gtand from actual survey It, s.p cksol 111 $ 7 - 'abounded with the tea plant, an, . e 44 1 4P-rd., P ilirreting its fur t ~-,---- ,----a----44 . - '......t - le ; ~,,,-.1. ta ~,...•,..ei.,,-,,,..---....,, 4 ...,. , the greatest-0X 4t; ' Ts... ItistiL Trpstenre_of the Bengal Company;the,- 8%6,4 . 0.,* iidtk(gy i'VETatTon; through I . agents spee4allzalnrn , ,-.1 alq4lol 4 14. • btectjti jutittion - of the interests 4f4 e;1.0 - '....1titr i fg •ft ' , tiNe‘he itinte . - readily effected, 4 i,x,pidy a - ',JO „„: ii , s .. thial ,kFthe f outset been reSolv'ed.iipon: vo,ttto , F p s iefikindia as Might : he,iliSnoseek9..s,pp Trike, -- F -. 'Ala - las .'' been accepted,. accepted,. and "at two - gedillig47,3 lhfr ' es to 'II the 13engal Tea ASsociaticm ta 3 teNgi?4 allfalSenssed 76 . and arranged, and that . asseelatt6fei - ettin ttecl'ifivie a - the- 7,- title of the _Bengal Branch 'As.sain.r6,,;,';. ,:i'll'he'ldading,ii point.insiSted,upon, not oppo ‘ Sed z tlf * ille' r ;naiiWgentS, and I carried in the,meeting, was, aresdl ii., 'foisliEcuring Ali to ' 1 depen4ent.Share in the dif*tien.i? • ffkk*ifiNlileh view''' it vya,s, te4olved. that - the ".4041 m I.:l4'rc;tfiaducteil :' by a, con - in:Ake' of direetol-V tti U'ReNil'ikeltitively'l int , that country,. It . was alsO'sliplied;thiit in order to promote a material better . inid'et andlng;:ieiti in-the-Lon don direction should be _referentially - . given to ineinbers of the Bengal CorapanY.who should b4io returned to England: , !. and were duly qualified, according to 'the proportion vitich . a the Bengal snbscriPtion - bbre to tlitit'd the city. - at Bengal company appears to hive gone to -work on- , their own account previously in a husinea,s:like Manner: They'' applied to the Govern° r-Gene raftbrong4 his priVatetecretary'' for his opinion as to the proPriety, of Making over tatthern theil " means and appurtenances" employed in thbse-exOrlinents'l, which have been undertaken, and which . might berendered available to private enterprise supported by a Competent ' capital, whilst they could be no longer serviceable:or'worthy the attention of .a goYerament no longer engaged in trading pursuits. The reply received Was exceedingly favodrible, being an approval, notifiedofficially, of the project, with theproviso' that `no exclusive rights in land, or privileges tending towards a monopoly, were sought or asked for." With'respect to the transfer of the establishment with the Workiug . triachineiy em ployed in the experimental cultivation, no reply had been re ceived from the. Indian authorities tothe (late of the meetings in question. At the same time that these negotiations were carrying on, letters had been addressed on' the part of the Company to the GevernMent superintendents in Assam, re questing all possible information. .From one of these a reply had been received of a very 'encouraging character, the pur . port of which was that there was an " unlimited field for such operations as Were contemplat(;J, ahandance of teaplants in a country"..said 'to be flowing . with milk antl'honey,provi sions ahund - ant; and easily procured," atill'OrilY' requiring la bour and capital to develope the ample I•cF , ources:posseised. It was stateds;alSo in this coniuninicatiou; that-at that time there were plantS in cultivation . .e..pial to-,the production of 100,0001b5., of tea, if i tlas in 6..tus, (I' kuailipyla t ton were pro vided.. Steps hag behe t4lell to - re!ned'y the deficiency of hands by procuring fainilieg in miniberrlici easy terms to proceed and settle in that cynnfiv, null-v7.orresponcknce opened with Singapore to obtain,(lllin'eseattizans conversant with the details of tea pregaratiey: ~ 'AtFiti large a quantity as 100,000I1as...had in so short 4:sii4 df tie been planted and made . ready on the experimetitargiakifiaS where,- on a scale sca only, the. eultivatimi hail 'been 'attempted by the government, to verify the fact of the adaptable facilities of the country, well-grounded e.xpectations . may fairly - be enter tained, that if the cultivation be adequately followed out by private and public enterprise, a sufficiency of teas will in the sour,se,of a very few years be, produced to render this country entirely independent of the "ChirieSe market. . . AULTERATION OF CitAX". - -7The Mercury of-. Friday last, contains a letter frOM Mr. J.' II Johnson; chemist, in which he` says :—‘e A feiv'clays ago' a rei , PeLiable -Woman, resident in this neighbinifhoo;•earriettiitaintatate•of considerable excitement 'and. alarrif,'havingsiii*kered, 'after-she had had her tea, - a -Consi,derable-qtfantity of; a white ' deposit at the bottom atter bream jiig, which she feared was poison. On looking: "atit'inY srstiMprEciailhif Nip Ahat, Vi.hiting had been 'iiiiicia With' the 'cream,:bileat tlEti*rsurphurclicid did not aa£'iiti * it, I e'..ficaniiiiietFik . ilfBt ) e - plertieularly, and found 'it . fii bra%Li . 'Powdered alt7lirMer;- , L- - -sulphate of lime. . Thi s • littl — ; ill'. 5 to , thejtellichkee- : OQtlib , 'entr . would materially 'imprii Iffie.Co'nsistentg. - :brefeerfAi}', l l.)nt, I fear, the im prroV.ehient-would, ncitikqd"tte . . ' rbt , Amotint of injury to be aPpFelieridedTrom thiSrinenitilicitfiAd" I must leave to be determined 131; the 'medical' profel.4l6fif 'The idea Of receiving 'into the'stomaeh, susPended' in tea Or coffee, any quantity howebersiriall, of-the. almost insoluble substance, is by no means a pleasant one, and - although I trust such instances as the one above 'stated 'aid rat of coniniOn occurrence,' yet, I think it' right to'eauthin - the . p i ablic agaitiat such attempts at imposition, and from tlfe foregoing IlwoUld suggest,..when any doubts are entertainedilhat it is safer to buy milkrather than cream." ' . THE LATE MR. HIRAM SIMPTON.,---Inlipediately on the arrival of the Liverpool Standard at - the Lever's Arms Hotel, on Tuesday last, a report-of the inytiest on the late Mr. Hiram Simpton was read, 'and the verdict of the 'coro ner's jury being that of " self-Miirder," so little anticipated, Captain Darbishire, so well known for his humanity and kindness, set on foot a stibseription for the widow' and child. It gives us pleasure to say, that in a very short time the libe ral sum of £lO was raised, Which no doubt will be increased. The mayor, magistrates, alderMen,:and . councilmen, are fol lowing this noble .and generous example, and tiiii•tod prosper their. philanthropic endeavours. We' aver . glad in being enabled to state that' Mrs. Simpton is not inieleanly in her habits, and not illiterate, as might be inferred from ,her unfortunate hushand's letter, but tin honest, asober, modest, and industrious woman.' [Sincenthe'aboye was in type,: we understand that the watch committee; aSeeveiiing,'alt&boni menced a subieription7inid upsi-ard's •Of fifteen po un d s were subscribed; books fora, similar, purpose, Will be,)ol 7 at the bars of the principal inns, at the nosiz-r00m5,i0.44 the various booksellers shops.]—Boitaii. chr6 le;: ;Arlo The new packet Litynet, Lieut. Poil'ister,-late entiTintliader of the Lyra packet; is appoitited•tO sail froni -I%lMb - tab, on the 17th October, with the West Inilih Mrs. Craven Berkeley. is, to be a 'Roman 'Oath - Olio. SOCIALISM:--Mr,,Brindltty,-. the celebratad:ftft4c:of the detestable doctrinfes nf , Socialism, : has commencad..a.fierie of lectures in. theltenham this.week r . with eminent success. — Gloucester Chronicle. . • • The Galway- Alvertiser announces that the -number of failures among the inerchants.and traders of the town, within the last week, has b een .very.conSiderable.. The cause is s4l to-be owing thebaulics...44aving,Taused to discount bills, i except to a very staallisaniowita*a4 lArrfq. : - - ZS ;11w , •