The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. A correspondent has sent us a letter, addressed to the Council lors of St. Paul's and Pitt-street Wards, calling their attention to the mis ra ,le state of Pownall-square and Cleveland-square markets. lie says, and justly, that as these markets are in densely populated districts, they ought at least to be placed on an equal footing with those of recent date by being covered in, being enlarged, and having better approaches. One or two letters we received yesterday we could not find room for. Ely Etherpo al attanliarl3. TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 26, 1844. We remarked briefly, last week, upon the pro ceedings of the worshipful, the borough magistrates of this town, and "the excellent stipendiary,"—as he delights to be called,—their Magnus Apollo. We had no disposition to follow up the affair. We thought the whole proceedings were but on escapade of the absurd vanity of the " King Log," which Radicalism uplifted out of his element, and his native insignificance, to yawn upon the magis terial bench, and lord it over this unhappy com munity. Reflection, however, tel.s us that we must not forbear doing full justice to the various matters in question, and the various assumptions of the gentleman who has been the prime mover in them. Mr. Edward Rushton is the chief-magistrate of a 'Conservative community, His fellow-townsmen know the amount, and the value, of his magisterial doings. They know that the empty tub rolled down a hill, whose noise scares her Majesty's lieges, is but an empty tub,—loud only because of its emptiness ;—but the world is not so enlightened. The world does not know Mr. Rushton; and, lest his late stage-inspired travestie of Cicero should be taken for the voice of Cicero himself,—lest the weak minded world should mistake the mock-heroic bub blings of a Solon goose for the philosophic wisdom of a real Solon,—we must, the subject being a tedious one, bestow upon the ambitious gentleman in question, as Shakspeare as it, " a little of our own tediousness." May we, in starting, ask of this excellent and truly modest functionary two questions ? Firstly— What does he think are the duties of a constable ? Secondly—What does he think are the duties of a stipendiary magistrate. Dogberry says—and Dog berry was not far out in his say—that the duty of the former is to " comprehend all vagroms." Un fortunately, the same eminent authority has not laid down the duties of the latter, for the reason, we presume, that, in his days, briefless Whig barristers had not often " the misfortune," as Mr. Rushton calls it, of being created stipendiary magistrates. Talent and judgment in Shakspeare's, as in all pre vious ages of the world, have been presumed to be essential to fitness for promotion; but Whiggery only thought of thus pensioning off worn-out tools, who were too heavy to rise of themselves, and too importunate to be got rid of otherwise. Hence we have no Shakspearian hints to guide us with respect to Mr. Rushton's duties; and must, therefore, un willingly, define them, according to ordinary practice in localities where such functionaries vegetate and draw their salaries. With this practice to guide us, we submit that the duty of Mr. Rushton is to hear and decide upon all cases which come before him, according to the law as laid down for him. Our excellent stipendiary, however, appears to have a vastly higher notion of his importance and the extent of his authority. Mr. Rushton imagines that, by virtue of his office, he sits at the head of a star chamber,—that he can call before him and censure men, for crimes not cognizable by British law—that he can take evidence, and frame depo sitions of the doings of individuals in their private capacity as British subjects, and promulgate censures upon them ex-cathedrd, and as if ex-auctoritate. All this Mr. Rushton has done; and the result is just what might have been expected. He has succeeded in bringing his office into contempt, and in dragging his brother magistrates into a share of the ridicule which he has provoked. He has found the oppor tunity of discharging his accumulation of bile upon the heads of his fancied victims; flourished his mock truncheon; walked off the stage with the tragic demeanor of the whole race of Bombastes concen trated in his own person, and left the audience, fiddlers, scene-shifters, and all, in convulsive laugh ter from the footlights to the back of the gallery I But let us come to the cause of this laughter—to the magn . ficent " resolution" with which Mr. Rush ton made his flourishing magisterial exit ;—we call it "his exit" because Mr. Rushton, the magistrate, here vanished, whilst Mr. Rushton, the virago, only remained, and we do not wish to dwell upon the unseemly explosion of fishwife oratory, of which he subsequently discharged himself, however appro priately such explosion explained the motives and feelings which prompted his course throughout this proceeding. It was premised that " Mr. Parker, a member of the Watch Committee, had attempted, upon two occasions, to interfere with the officers of police in the discharge of their duty within the ward of St. Anne's," and, accordingly, " Resolved.— That if any individual whatever shall, directly or in directly, interfere with any superintendent, inspector, or other ojicer of the police force, in the execution of his duty, every officer shall forthwith communicate the fact of such interference to the Commissioner of Police, who shall lay the same before the worshipful the Mayor," 4-c. We shall say nothing of the abortiveness of this laying of informations. We shall not remind our stipendiary of the stage direc tion—" a f °lrish of trumpets, and enter Tom Thumb,''—which should in future be the herald of his approach to similar great feats ; but we will ask him by what rule such "interference with the police in the execution of their duty" is to be determined. If by the course pursued by Mr. Parker, then we say that he did not so interfere. He offered his ad vice to the superintendent of Rose-hill station ; but be could not be said to " interfere " with them, in the legal significance of the phrase. If the inter ference is an illegal interference, then the resolution is surplusage. Such interference every officer of the force is bound to resent by the summary appre hension of the offender. It is plain, therefore, that obstructive interference is not the interference to be communicated to the Commissioner of Police, but only such interference as is not legally liable to be visited with punish ment :—such interference, for instance, as was prac tised in those good Whig times when members of market and watch committees could make market and other constables, in the discharge of their duty, of course, perform ie offices of canvassing agents, or twopenny postmen. But we never heard in those days of any extraordinary zeal to 'interfere with the duties of the Watch Cominittee. Oh, no That Whig-radical body and the Whig-radical bench never jarred in those days ; but, instead, they played to-. gether a pleasant duetto, the stipendiary's being the rst fiddle : • " Music was heard with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell." But the "interference" referred to—what, we ask again, is it? Bygones, we presume, are to be bygones. We are to forget the doings f the high and palmy days of Liberalism; and, now that we are a Conservative public, with a Whig-radical bench, (or, rather, a WhigJradical majority on that bench, the majority being either magnetized by its Magnus Apollo, or hopelessly dumb,)—we must carry out strictly its recent resolution, and permit no one, however high in authority, to even speak to an officer on duty. We have intimated already that it was not our intention to comment upon the temper and the arrogance of demeanour manifested by Mr. Rush ton towards his brother magistrate, Mr. David Hodgson, during these proceedings. It is not necessary to do so for. Mr.• Hodgson's vindication ; and it would be cruel to the stipendiary himself to dwell upon matters which so palpably shew his utter unfitness for the office which, to repeat his own words, it is " his misfortune to hold,"—his mis fortune, because the very elevation of the position in which it places him tends to exhibit mcre palpably to the public his total want of the discretion, the calmness, and the courtesy which such an office demands. But, whilst in pity we pass o ve r this portion of our subject, there are one or two remarks of Mr. Rushton to which we are compelled to direct his attention and that of his brother magistrates. Mr. Rushton felt himself aggrieved that any allusion should have been made " to the Orange matter," which, he said, "had, been b e f ore disposed of. " i Now, we must beg to inform him that th e ma tt er i n question is far from bei n g disposed of. It is not half disposed of. Mr. Rushton, may remember that with the " Orange matter' was coupled a Ribbon matter. He may remember how sedulously these two matters were classed together throughout the proceedings of the magistrates upon the .subject. A reference to those proceedings will remind him , that the order of the magistrates declared that , no Orangeman, or Ribbonman, should be permitted to be a member of the police force." Well, so far as regards the Orange part of the matter, it has virtually been carried out. The Orange members of the force have ceased to belong to the body; but, we ask, has one step been. taken by the bench to purge the force of Ribbonism ? Has even an in clination been shewn to do equal justice ? Has even an inquiry been instituted ? Mr. Rushton has been informed, on the best authority, that the societies calling themselves " the Sons of St. Pattick " and " Hibernian societies " are composed almost en tirely of Ribbonmen. Let him make the inquiry how many of the present police force have deposited with the Watch Committee certificates of member ship of these societies. If Mr. Rushton will not do this, where is the impartiality of which he boasts ? A few weeks ago we had to congratulate our fel low-townsmen upon the flattering condition of the corporate property, under the able management of the present Finance Committee ; and the grateful duty now devolves upon us of remarking upon the growing prosperity of our noble dock estate. During the past four months such has been the in creased activity of the commerce and shipping of our port, that the amount of dock rates has ex ceeded by twenty thousand pounds their amount in the corresponding four months of last year; and, when it is borne in mind that the nett surplus of ordinary revenue over ordinary expenditure in that year was seventy-six thousand pounds, we may safely calculate the surplus this year at no less than a hundred thousand pounds—a sum equal to the total revenue of nine ports out of ten in the empire, The question will of course suggest itself to most men,—to what purpose is such surplus to be applied ? Upon this subject we are not in a position to speak authoritatively ; but we rely with implicit confidence upon the ability and honesty of the gen tlemen composing the Dock Committee to direct it for the best and permanent interests of the port, and the augmentation and encouragement of its vast commerce. The demand will, no doubt, he made in some quarter, and those influential quar ters, for an immediate an dgeneral reduction of our dock rates; and no long period, we feel assured, will elapse before at least a revision, if not a great reduction of such rates must take place. But with the large works going on north and south of the present estate, and the urgent necessity for in creased dock space, and money to provide it, we cannot but question the prudence of giving up any large portion of our revenue at present, whilst we ' are borrowing for the uses of the estate which yields it. The surplus applied to the payment of a portion of the cost of the new work 3 constructing will materially decrease the amount necessary to be taken up under the recent act of Parliament, thus lessening one permanent bonded debt; and when these are completed, and in profitable operation, the Dock Trustees may, without feeling the sacri fice, make such reasonable concessions to the rate payers as their interests and those of the commerce of the port demand. In the mean time, it is gratifying to find that, already and unprompted, a most valuable concession has just been annour cad, and will shortly come into operation, by which the British shipowner will be materially benefited. Hitherto it has been competent, from some oversight in our dock acts, or the regulations of the committee, for vessels entered inwards from American ports to take outward cargoes for the East Indies, paying only a tonnage of one and sixpence, and light dues, whilst British ships were paying two and threepence per ton, and light dues, thus holding out a direct bonus for the employment of American vessels, and standing directly in the way of British ships coming from other ports to Liverpcol for a cargo. This unjust difference is now done away with, by the reduction of the dock dues on British ships to eighteen-pence ; and, as the result, we may look for a largely increased number of the best class of British vessels being sent to Liverpool for loading. This is one step, at least, in the right direction ; and, we have no doubt, it will be gradually and judiciously followed up until Liverpool is made to rank as the best port, both in accommodation and cheapness, in the British empire. The Radical portion of the community, and of the press, who abet the stipendiary magistrate and the bench in their recent attacks upon the power and influence of the Watch Committee over the borough police force, would . fain arrogate for the former the exclusive possession of the decorum, courtesy, and manliness of conduct fitted for their high authority. Thus, a contemporary of yesterday, after eulogizing the proceedings of the magistrates, proceeds to represent those of the Watch Committee on Saturday last in terms which, if warranted by the facts, would be utterly disgraceful to that body. " Unlike the magistrates," remarks the Albion, " who threw open the doors of the Session-house, and admitted the reporters for the press to record the whole of their proceedings, the accusations as well as the defence, if there was any, the Watch Committee went to work in their usual hole and corner way, and absolutely refused admission to the reporter of a tory paper, when he respectfully re quested it;" and, in the absence of any authorita tive information, he proceeds to tell his gullible readers "what had been permitted to ooze out as part and parcel of these proceedings." " Mr. Rush ton and Mr. D.Avling," he says, " were the two principal gentlemen se!ected for invective." The former was "soundly rated for the castigation he inflicted on Mr. David Hodgson, and sundry ex pressions were used about `want of dignity,' over heated language,' and so on ;" whilst, with respect to Mr. Dowling, the prevailing opinion appeared to be that he " should not have proceeded to read the resolution adopted by the magistrates to the police force, without submitting it first for the considera tion and approval of the Watch Committee," with other stuff of the same flippant description. We need scarcely intimate to any sensible reader that the whole of this cunningly dovetailed story is the raving of some penny-a-liner, as ignorant of what really did occur in the committee as his own ink-bottle. It served, hoWever, the purpose of our contemporary. The assertion that the Watch Com mittee wished for any hole and corner work is utterly without foundation. On the contrary, they were desirous that their proceedings should be as public as those of the magistrates; and, but for the mistake of a clerk in the office, who consulted Mr. Dowling instead of the committee, with respect to his admission, our own reporter would have been present. The rest of our contemporary's inventions will best be contradicted by the actual proceedings, which we shall briefly lay before our readers. .After a patient investigation of the whole facts of the case between themselves and the magistrates, the following resolutions, which we copy at length, were unanimously agreed to :—viz.-- The attention of this Committee having been directed to the following resolution of the Magistrates, adopted at a Meeting of the Magistrates, holden on Monday, the 18th Nov., transmitted by the Magistrates' Clerks direct to the Commisfioners of Police. " Resolved—That if any individual whatever shall directly or indirectly interfere with any Superintendent, Inspe3tor, or Other officer of the police force, in the execution of his di ty, every such officer shall communi cate the fact of such interference to the Commissioner of Police, who shall liy the- same immediately befo:e the Worshipful the Mayor, and that any officer of police who shall be interfered with, and who shall neglect to com municate the fact of such interference as aforesaid, shall be dismissed the force : and further, that the Commis sioner of Police cause a copy of the minutes of this meeting, and the foregoing resolution, to be entered in the general order book of the police-force." " Resolved—That in the opinion of this Committee, the above resolution amounts to a regulation of the police force of the borough, and can only as such legally emanate from this Committee. _ "That this Committee express their anxiety at all times to co-operate with the Magistrates, in maintaining the due efficiency of the police-force. "That this Committee, being of opinion that any im proper interference with the police in the discharge of their duty, is deserving of the strongest reprehension, do hen by pass the following regulation : " That if any individual whatever shall so interfere with any Superintendent, Inspector, or other officer of the police-force, in the execution of his duty, every such officer shall immediately cominunicate the fact of such interference to the Head Constable, who shall lay the same before this Committee. _ " That the above regulation be communicated to the police force by the Head-constable. " Resolv.ed—That the Chairman be requested to transmit a copy of these proceedings to the Mayor, for the information of the magistrates. " Resolved further—That the Chairman be requested to obtain from the Mayor copies of the examinations of the officers, taken before the said meeting of magistrates, in reference to the case of Mr. James Parker, for the use of this Committee; and that the same be taken into con sideration on Saturday next." Now, we ask of our readers—we ask of the en tire Radical community—whether any proceedings could be more courteous, and yet firm, more digni fied and manly than those of the Watch Committee, or any proceedings much more opposite in character —more insulting and overbearing—than those of the magistrates. The latter, without a word of in timation to the Watch Committee, summon a meet ing, and upon evidence collected by themselves, proceed, by the censure of one of its members, for acts done in his private capacity as a burgess, to throw discredit upon that body. They go on to take the authority, with which the law has vested them, out of the hands of its members. They direct that their officer, without the common courtesy of first acquainting the Watch Committee of his in structions, shall proclaim to the whole police force their magisterial usurpation of authority ; and they conclude, as the climax of insult, that he shall record that usurpation, in all its insult of manner and language, in "the general order-book of the police force,"—the record exclusively of the orders of the Watch Committee, and kept entirely in their own custody ! Surely, a more unparalleled case of studied insolence was never devised than this last requirement. Compare with the above the proceedings of the Watch Committee, as given in the resolutions which we have quoted. The Watch Committee repudiate the existence of any power in the magistrates to make "regulations of the police force"; but they nevertheless, do not factiously set their faces against the necessity of some such regulations being made. On the untrary, they proceed to pass a resolution, on all foffrs with that of the magistrates, as they would have done, without prompting, had the whole facts of case been originally brought before them, instead of being brought before Mr. Rushton. But there are one or two little circumstances con nected with the progress of the affair which deserve to Le chronicled. Mr. Edward Rushton was in his magnificent vein when he dictated the fiat, which was to extinguish the Watch Committee, and to immortalize himself. The spirit of Pharaoh or Cheops, or Nebuchadnezzer, stood in his boots when he commanded his decrees to be written in the books of the Watch Committee • hut, like the latter monarch Mr. Rushton was pulled down next day from his towering altitude and compelled to "eat dirt". A hint was whispered him by the Town-clerk that he could not legally consum mate the insult meditated. He could not :be per mitted to record his edicts or those of the bench amongst the orders of the Watch Committee. And accordingly the chopfallen stipendiary backed out, and issued his instructions--his instructions—to override an express order of the assembled bench ! that Mr. Dowling was to omit that portion of the resolution. Nay, he was even compelled to convey, by way of apology for the insolence of the resolution in question, an intimation to the committee, through Mr. Hugh Hornby, that the whole had been written by him very hastily and under circumstances of great excitement. Alas ! to what humiliations do mingled vanity and passion sometimes hurry us ! Before we leave this subject, we must say that the time has now arrived when the question, as to the conflicting authority of the Watch Committee and the bench over the police, must be settled. The repetition of such proceedings as those of the last week cannot but weaken the influence of both bodies, and are calculated seriously to impair the efficiency of the force about whose regulation they contending. The sooner we have a formal decision of the matter, by a court of law, the better for all parties and for the interests of the town. We may add, in conclusion, that the Town-clerk agrees un hesitatingly with the able authorities already con sulted, that the proceedings of the magistrates are illegal, and that the bench are usurping powers of which neither according to common sense nor the provisions of the law are they in possession. We beg to direct the attention of our readers to an advertisement which appears in our columns this day, announcing that the annual sermon in aid o' the Southern and Toxteth Hospital, will be preached on Sunday morning next, at St. Barnabas Church, Parliament -street, by the Rev. Thos. Nolan, incumbent. We know of no institution which has greater claims upon the public for support than the one in question; and we, in common with others,' cannot but admire the manner in which the com mittee have hitherto managed it, under the able pre sidency of Jos. Brooks Yates, Esq. All parties seem working together for good, and it must he ap parent to every one who has paid a visit to the insti tution, that great benefit must inevitably flow from such a charity, so admirably conducted. We are therefore pleased to find that our worthy chief ma gistrate (following in the steps of his predecessor, who established the precedent) has in this particu lar instance in the kindest manner consented to be present, and sure are we that he could not give his sanction and presence to a better or more useful institution ; and when we consider by whom the appeal is to be made, there cannot be a doubt in the first place of a crowded church, and in the second that the response will be in every way worthy of a cause so noble. THE FUNDS.—SATURDAY NIGHT.—The Funds have been firmly supported to-day, without particular feature, and Consols for money and the account left off 1001 to Bank Stock closed 205 to 206 ; India Stock, 286 to 288 ; Three per cents. Reduced, 991 to ; Three-and -a-Quarter per Cents. 102* to 4.; Long Annuities, II 13-16 ; India Bonds, 81s. to 83s. premium. In the foreign market very little has been done. The speculative stocks are rather firmer, which is the only alteration to notice. Spanish Five Per Cents. were finally quoted 241 to ; the Three per Cents., 351 to ; Russian, 118* to 1191 ; Peruvian, 241 to 251 ; Portuguese, 541 to 551 ; Dutch Five per Cents, 99 to * ; the Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 624 to 63 ; Danish, 89 to 90 ; Colombian, 131 to 14 ; Chilian, 100 to 102 ; Buer-os Ayres, 36 to 37 ; Brazilian, 88 to 89 ; Mexican, 36 to 4- ; and the Deferred, 16 to 1. The Dublin Mail states that if the Conservatives of that city will rally to the register the party will not suffer any loss of votes. THE WEATHER.—After a continuance of wet, damp, and very foggy weather, we have for the last three days enjoyed a clearer, drier, and colder, but much more sea sonable atmosphere. The Marquis of Clanricarde has commenced nineteen actions in the Common Pleas, Ireland, to recover the presentation to so many church livings, in the diocese of Clonfert. —Dublin Post. FATHER MATIIEW.—At a meeting, yesterday, at the Clarendon rooms, to raise money for this apostle of tem perance, a letter was read from Lord Sefton, inclosing his contribution, wishing the object every success. Amongst those present were Messrs. Lawrence Hey_ worth, Thomas Avison, R. Shiel, T. Harvey, C. Rawden, M. O'Connell, Sir A. Knight, R. All'son, and W. Brown. AFFECTING EVENT.—We have received intelligence of the almost sudden demise of Mr. William Hetherington, a fine promising young gentleman of 18 years of age, son of the late W. Hetherington, Esq., of Birkenhead, and recently appointed a second Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles. Last summer he had been engaged in a rowing match, and, from the exertion at the oar, his hands be coming blistered, he incautiously, whilst in a state of perspiration, dipped them into the cold water. Eruption and gathering ensued, causing much pain and annoyance, and this continuing for a considerable time, he went to London, and it is apprehended took unskilful advice, by which, though he appeared to be cured, the disease was probably thrown into the system, by the too rapid drying up of the sores. He returned home to his family appa rently quite recovered, and, after remaining a short time, resolved to return to the military college at Brussels, where be had before studied, to make the best use of his time in professional acquirements. On his arrival there he was congratulated by his former companions, to whom he was much endeared ; but, alas ! on Wednesday week, when he sat down to dinner with them, he suddenly re marked that he felt extraordinary sensations, and could eat nothing. Being observed to be ill and afterwards to faint he was immediately carried to bed, and received every possible attention, but to the grief of all around him, he expired early the following morning. We need scarcely say that his relatives in this country are plunged into the deepest affliction by the mournful intelligence. IMPORTANT TO PAWNBROKERS.—At the Worship street police-office, on Thursday last, Air. Attenborough, the pawnbroker of Crown-street, Finsbury, attended before Mr. Bingham to show cause why he refused to de liver up a coat, of the value of 205., which had been pledged at his shop, and the principal and legal interest cn which had been duly tendered. Anne Barrett, a poor Irishwoman, proved pledging the article on the 4th inst., and that on going to redeem it, the defendant refused to restore it, on the ground that he had already delivered it over to another person. The defendant produced the usual printed form of " declaration," filled up in the name of William Barrett, which is that of the woman's husband, deposing to his having lost the duplicate, and said that the pledge had been delivered to the person pre senting it. He maintained that he had thus exonerated himself from all liability. The complainant declared that neither she nor her husband had either made the declara tion themselves, nor authorized any person to make it for them. She had pledged the coat herself, her name was upon the duplicate, and all the defendant's shopmen knew her intimately, for her being constantly obliged to pledge articles there. Mr. Bingham said, he MS strongly inclined to think that the defendant was answerable for the property or its value, and that he was in a correlative position to that of a banker and his customer. The de fendant pointed out the extreme hardship of such a lia bility upon pawnbrokers, as it would place them entirely at the mercy of any unprincipled person who thought fit to commit a fraud upon them. They were imperatively required by the act of Parliament to give the necessary forms of declaration to be filled up, not merely to the ow ner of the property pledged, but even to any one repre senting himself as the owner. In compliance with Mr. Bingham's suggestions, the pawnbroker said be would obtain further professional advice with the view of having the matter more fully discussed iu a fortnight. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE MENACED MINISTERIAL INROADS UPON PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND. " The coming events cast their shadows before." LOCHIEL'S WARNING. We live in an age of expediency —an age of treacherous tampering with high and holy principles, and of cowardly submission to the dictation of factious demagogues. Such an age, all history warns us, has ever been followed in all established states of society, by the violent breaking up of the elements of which they are constituted—by the wreck of valued institutions, and the triumph, for a time, of fierce passion and anarchy. Happily, in this land, such periods have hitherto been productive of good rather than evil. The stern and sober genius of the British character, temporarily obscured ( r hurried aside from the even tenor of its way into bursts of wild frenzy, has passed through the fire not only unscathed, but even purged of the im purities with ehich years of apathetic rest had sullied its brightness. Like a stately tree which the tempest has bowed well nigh to earth, it has thrown off in the struggle the parasite plants which had wound round its trunk and branches, crushed the foul reptiles which had been gnaw ing at his roots, and risen again, renovated, freshened, and invigorated, to shadow with its verdure the herbage and the flowers. We fear not, therefore, the coming struggle. We feat not for any permanent damage to arise from it to Great Britain, her time hallowed institutions, or her liberties. But we must be prepared to vindicate them. We must be up and resolved to bear them unsullied and uninjured through the host of enemies by which they are surrounded. Happily, we are not left to speculate in uncertainty with respect to the quarter from which the danger is to approach us, to the hand which uplifts the weapon, or to the battle field in which the struggle is to be fought to an issue. The assault comes—alas that we should have to, set down an admission so lamentable !—from the Conser vative ministers of a Protestant Queen; and the objects of attack--the first objects, for who knows how far apos tacy will plunge into the slough of degradation when it has once planted there its foot I—are the established Pro testant Church and the Protestant University in Ireland. The doom of these venerable establishments has already been resolved upon. The handwriting is upon the wall; and if the mind and the steady resolve of England come not at once to the rescue, another session of Parliament will see the breach which has so long been insidiously mined, at length carried, and the united forces of Popery, Socinianism, and Infidelity howling in triumph over their prostrate battlements. We warned our readers, at the close of the last session of Parliament, that the first step in this inroad upon the Protestantism in Ireland was in preparation, and that it would assume the shape of an attempted conciliation of Popery and its allies, by the introduction of the infidel principle of the system of the Irish Education Board into the Protestant University of Trinity College, Dublin. And now, we tell them, without reserve, that the disastrous measure will be presented to the acceptance of the legis lature in the session which is approaching. And to what hands is its preparation entrusted ? To the arch Jesuit, who governs that Education Board—to the sworn ally of Popery and Socinianism, Mr. NYSE ! We need say little more of its character or its anti-Protestant tendencies, when we state that it is sanctioned, if not suggested, by Sir Robert Peel, and licked into shape by Mr. Wyse. Already the mission of the latter gentleman, to prepare the people of the sister eountry for the measure, has been opened. At a recent meeting of the "liberal" and po pish parties, held In Cork, its terms were propounded by him, vaguzdy indeed, yet with sufficieat clearness, as to its general character, to rouse the enthusiasm of the anti— English mass of the meeting in its behalf, whilst the pro test against it of the Protestants present was clamour ously cried down. A natural result of this first overt step has been an indignant cry of reprobation from the Conservative press of Ireland,--amongst whom it is not a little significant, with respect to the amount of Irish opposition which be will have to encounter, that Sir Robert's anti-Protestant policy does not meet with a single supporter,--whilst the Popish and Repeal faction in that country is loud in gratulation over their approach ing triumph, and the consummation which they see in the distance, viz ; the ultimate downfall of the Protestant church, arid the submission of Ireland to the close em brace and the undivided authority of the see of Rome. As a sample, and a very mild one, of the feeling of the Protestant press upon the subject of he proposed outrage upon Trinity College, we extract the following remarks from the leading journal of Ireland—the Dublin Evening Mail:— " Within the last few years six new professorships and ten addi tional fellowships have increased the efficiency of its literary staff. The entire curriculum of studies, scientific, classical, and theologi cal, has been, within the same period, reformed and advanced; and the best proof of its present efficient condition is to be found in the examination papers of the several classes and subjects of education. In practical science a great desideratum has been in like manner supplied ty the establishment of a school of engineering. Its divinity school bears as high a character as any in the world, and not only supplies a learned and efficient clergy for the Established Church of Ireland, but has for some years (and this is a matter of the utmost importance) powerfully assisted in giving au active, zealous, and well-informed clergy to the west of England. " Is such an establishment as this to be tampered with—are the benefits, religious, moral, scientific, and social, which it diffuses through the country to be sacrificed, or even risked, for idle theories and crude experiments, either of a vain sciolist, or of a conceding administration ? ' The whole country will say N 0 to the ruinous proposition." We mean not, however, to say that the contemplated tampering with the Protestant character of Trinity Col lege will be proceeded with, without some preliminary ac tion upon the public mind, to prepare it for acquiescence, by an attempt at justification. Oh, no ! Sir Robert Peel takes few steps so direct and bold as would be a straight forward attack upon that or any other institution. The epithet " tortuous" is the distinguishing one of his pre sent policy, as it has been that of his entire political ca reer. Accordingly we are to have a preliminary " en quiry ;" we are to have astute instruments employed, of whom, no doubt, Mr. Wyse be one, to depriciate the character and usefulness of Trinity College, as at present constituted and regulated, and to ferret out pleas for its conversion into an Infidel University. We shall have the old sectarian arguments against education in the doc trines of the Established Church set up by titular bishops and backsliding Protestants. Such a process is, in fact, now going on ; and of the mode in which it is being con ducted and its objects,: let British Protestants judge from the following passage in the Dublin Monitor:— " An inquiry is at this moment in progress, and the question of academic, collegiate, and University education for Ireland is well nigh settled No minister can any longer retard the question of a free, liberal, perfect, and permanent system of education for Ire • land. We anxiously await the coming session." And what is the opinion of the well-informed Protes tants of Ireland, with respect to the intent and issue of such " enquiry ?" The following passage from a late number of the Dublin Warder will afford an ample so lution of the enquiry : " While on this subject we may mention that we have received an able letter from a scholar and divinity student of Trinity College, which is too long for insertion in our present number, but contains an important statement we cannot keep back. It seems that Dr. Elrington, the Regius Professor of Divinity, in his opening prelec tion this term, mentioned to his class the possibility that this might be the last year in which he would be privileged to address them as an officer of " A PROTESTANT" University. This from such a quarter is emphatic. The same correspondent informs us that the divinity students of Trinity College intend to meet publicly next week in the Rotunda, to protest against any interference of Sir R. Peel with the University, and that the Rev. It. J. M`Ghee will be requested to take the chair. We see also that a pamphlet on the crisis of the Church of Ireland, from the pen of the Venerable Dr. Millar, of Armagh, has been published yesterday by Curry and Co., making a powerful appeal on behalf of the Church against the trai tor premier. Once more we say, let us be up and doing ; for, in the words of Dr. Millar, the struggle is for the existence' of Protes: tantism in Ireland." Alas that we should have to record such doings, and such opinions of the faithlessness, of a professedly Pro testant and Conservative cabinet ! But it is not sufficient for such a cabinet that the Pro testant character of one of the most valued institutions of.; our country is to be sacrificed to the demands of Popery —that the University of Dublin is to be prostrated and degraded before the aggressive foot of Rome—hut M AY- NooTH also, the hot bed of sedition, from *hose impure recesses crawl abroad, through the length and breadth of the empire, the spawn of the filthy teachings of Peter Dens and his fellows in bestial and murderous suggestion ; —MAYNOOTH is to be aggrandised, and her sacerdotal propagators of treason and outrage multiplied by the same apostate hands which are preparing to desecrate the revered halls of old Trinity. The Popish seminary is to receive an increased grant—a largely increased grant— from the treasury of Great Britain; and with respect to the terms of such grant the Dublin Freeman informs us that-- ‘. On Saturday a deputation from the assembled prelates, consist ing of the four archbishops, waited on the Lord Lieutenant with in structions explicitly to declare, on behalf of that learned body, that were an increase of the grant to Maynooth College determined on by government, it should not be accompanied by any change in the constitution and fundamental laws by which the college is at pre sent governed; and that if accompanied by any condition, they would feel it their duty not to accept of the protferred increase. The deputation had a long interview, rt which Lord Eliot was present. The answer of his excellency was by no means satisfactory, he hav ing totally avoided giving any promise that no change in the consti tution of the institution would be attempted." Cool enough the assumption of their reverences ! In solent enough the attempt to dictate to the Government the terms upon which they shall be permitted to violate, in favor of Popery, the Protestant principles of the British constitution. But a far better, because a more independ ent, authority, the Dublin Monitor, which, although a Popish and Repeal authority, has never fallen down pnb licly to lick the feet of O'Connell and his ruffian priest hood, assures us that no such gingerly scruples animate Sir Robert Peel, in his projected sacrifice of principle to the aggressive demands of faction. Hear the Monitor in comment upon the above paragraph : " We are informed that the above representation as to the nature of the interview with his excellency and Lord Eliot is factious in the extreme, and wholly unwarranted by the facts. The last sen tence is, indeed, worthy of the discomfited champion of the exploded protest.' . . • " Although no definite promise was given to increase the May nooth grant—because his Excellency could not give one, the increase not resting with him—it was well understood that his Excellency is favourable to an increase , while it weer was contemplated that such an increase should e accompanied by any change in the fundamental laws of the institution " We believe implicitly the independent authority. We reject that of the slavish organ of Popery, which only seeks, in concert with the minister, to blind the people of England to the full baseness and folly of his designs. That Sir Robert Peel is not acting Without some con cert with a portion, at least, of the Popish and Repeal party in Ireland, a recent occurrence will serve to testify. Our readers will, doubtless, remember the strenuous op position which was offered, during the last session of par liament, to the " Charitable Bequests Bill." It was denounced, in parliament and out of doors, as an insult to the Roman Catholics of that country ; and it was espe cially and indignantly declared that the Romish hierarchy could never consent to take their seats at the new board, or to interfere with its operation. An announcement, however, has just been made, in the columns of the Evening Freeman, which proves that a portion of that hierarchy have renounced their past enmities, and, doubt less, for a consideration, are willing to embrace the thing they loathed. Dr. Crolly, Roman Catholic Arch bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, Dr. Murray, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, with the Right H on. Anthony Richard Blake and John Richard Corballis, Esq., laymen, have consented to take their seats at the board. The quarrel is patched up ; and the Whig section of the Romanists of Ireland are about to pull lovingly to gether with a Conservative administration, in the grateful work of inflicting more " heavy blows and great discou ragements" upon Protestantism In Ireland ! Can British loyalists and Protestants—can the friends of British connexion in Ireland—forget the lamentable results of similar alliances in past time ? We cannot. They are written in letters of fire upon our hearts. They are proclaimed aloud, in the exulting shouts of triumphant Popery, throughout the land—in the clang of convent bells startling, morning and evening, the ear of slumber ing Protestantism—in the proud seats of superstition rising around us, mocking with their lavish magnificence the humb'e and unadorned erections of our church and straining to vie even with our proudest cathedrals—in the swarms of vulgar emissaries of Rome, whose furtive and scowling looks meet us in every thoroughfare, as they ply unceasingly their mission of evil, and prowl about from victim to victim. 01) ! what a fearful amount of evil has Sir Robert Peel already to answer for, as the result of his insidious and fatal concessions ; and hove vastly will it be increased, unless the further progress of those concessions be arrested by the indignant voice of an aroused Protestant peoglel - We invite our fellow townsmen who love their religion, who love their country and its liberties, to ponder well over these signs of the times in which we live. We tell them emphatically that now is the time, if ever there was a time, when every lover of his Church, beset as she is on every side, deserted as she is by those who are bound to protect her,—attacked, as are her pure doctrines, by masked enemies within her pale, and open enemies with out,—poisoned by a false liberalism, as are too many of her professing friends, and perverted as are the hearts of more by the mammon-worship of the age,—to buckle on the armour of the Truth, to throw political and even per sonal friendship to the winds, and to rally together with the intelligible and resolved motto, deeply graven on their hearts—NO SURRENDER ! A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT MA GISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS, BY A MAN OF THOUGHT. I.—l do not think that I shall pay due honor to Mr. Edward Rushton if I do not make his speech—his " elo quent speech," as the Mercury calls it—the subject of my first thoughts. 2.—1 think it was not discreet in Mr. Rushton to re mark that " his firmest endeavours had been, ever since he became police magistrate in Liverpool, to prevent every man connected with the administration of justice meddling, either for or against, in any political or local squabble whatever." People are apt to remember past interferences " of this very same dignitary ; and some are even illnatured enough to hint that his present course is somewhat like " meddling in a political or local squabble," and that his eyes have been most conveni ently blind to such "meddling" when his own political party were in the ascendant. 3.—1 think it was superfluous in Mr. Rushton to tell us that he entertains "strong opinions upon local and political matters," when he must know that all the world thinks that he owes his elevation to the office of stipendiary, far more to his "strong opinions upon po litical matters," than to the possession of any super abundant fitness for that office. 4.—1 think I could laugh at Mr. Rushton's allusion to " the noble science of self-defence." I always thought that Jem Ward and John Langan were the greatest pro fessors of that art in Liverpool, but Mr. Rushton's practice is very unlike theirs, which was hard-bitting, whilst his is only old-womanly scolding. " Noble science," forsooth ! Why, every frequenter of Billings gate can practise it quite as well as a stipendiary magis trate. 5.—1 think it is a pity that Mr. Rushton should have "the misfortune to remain in the office he holds" when he is so enamoured of the "noble science of self defence," and so many of our heavy weights want customers. 6.—1 think, to conclude with Mr. Rushton, that, in his contest with Mr. Hodgson, he made a sorry Goliath. Although a " man of war from his youth upwards," versed in the " noble science of self-defence," and "a Colossus," to boot, the sling and ttone of David told a tale. 7.—1 think, as a postscript to Mr. Rushton, that in the next insurance effected upon the furniture of the Sessions-house, a clause ought to be inserted to provide against the demolition of the desks and tables by the fists of magisterial dignity in a passion. B.—l think, as a postscript to Mr. Rushton, No. 2, that, as a subject for the next Exhibition of Paintings, the " Colossal" form of the stipendiary in a stupendous rage, as he appeared at the Sessions-house on this occa sion, might form an excellent study for " the madness of Hercules." 9.—1 think it was a pity that Mr. David Hodgson " did not see" Mr. Wm. Earle. He should carry a mic scope, rather than lose sight of so charming an object 10.—I think I wonder —no, on second thoughts, don't—that Wrn. Earle could be present and take part in the magisterial attempt to avenge his defeat in St. Anne's Ward upon poor Mr. Parker. William has always been, in my humble thoughts, a little-minded being. I never thought, however, he had in his composition so small a portion of the man, and so much of the wild cat. Poor William ! thou art a most cantankerous piece of miscalled humanity. _ _ _ think it was rather good of William to forget " the placard " referred to by Mr. Hodgson, and yet to remember that it was circulated " during his mayoralty." I think, however, I admired more to hear him boast that "he did not bear those rancorous feelings that some others generally did." (!) I don't think, but " some others" think, that William is made up of "rancorous feelings." I think I don't know any more amiable feeling which enters into his composition. 12.—1 think, upon the whole, that the proceedings of their worships were very contemptible throughout. and excellently adapted to bring the discretion of the bench into disrepute. 13, and last.—l think I have thought too much, and so has the community, about so paltry and factious an affair. THE STANDARD RAILWAY MAP. We extract from our provincial contemporaries the fol lowing gratifying notices of the Railway Map which we furnished in the STANDARD last week. In compliance with a request from the Railway Record, we forwarded the plan to London, and it appeared in the columns of that paper on Saturday : (From the Railway Record.) We are indebted to the courtesy of the editor and pro prietors of the Liverpool Standard, for the loan of the very excellent plan (on the opposite page) of the railways in that and the surrounding most important districts. The " plan " appears at first sight to be a wood-cut, but it is in reality entirely typographical. We have never before seen anything of the kind attempted on so large a scale, and certainly the execution does great credit to the Standard establishment. We are indebted also for the following masterly description to the same journal, one of the very best of the many good journals emanating from Liverpool, and which is particularly deserving of com mendation in respect of its railway intelligence. [Our contemporary then gives the lengthened description of the railways, which appeared in the STANDARD on Tues day last.] (From the Shrewsbury Conservative.) NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—The spirited proprietors of the Liverpool Standard, on Tuesday last, furnished their readers with a beautifully-executed map of the ex isting and projected railways, accompanied by a lucidly drawn-up explanatory description. It shews, in a strik ing manner, the advantages about to be conferred on Shropshire by its rescue from its present state of isola tion, through the proposed Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester lines. We perceive that the conductors of the same paper (which is published on Tuesday) now communicate to their read ers the Mark-lane and Smithfield markets, and the Lon don share-list of the previous day, together with whatever intelligence may reach the metropolis by seven o'clock on Monday night. The train conveying this information arrives at Liverpool at ten minutes after five a.m.; cur contemporary issues his broadsheet at six, and his readers have thus on their breakfast tables, on Tuesday morning, all that has transpired in London up to the night before. (From the Preston Chronicle.) LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRERAILWAYS.—TheLivcr pooI Standard, of Tuesday last, has given a detailed ac count of all the railways completed and projected in the above counties, illustrated ,by an exceedingly ingenious typographical lan or chart, which exhibits their respective lengths, and relative bearings and positions, together with all their branches and ramifications, from the termini of the Lancaster, and Fleetwood and Wyre, at Preston, to near the extremity of the Grand Junction, and the pro posed Newton and Shrewsbury lines, at Wolverhampton. The towns comprised in the plan are Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Todmorden, Haslingden, Rochdale, Oldham, Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Southport, Formby, Ormskirk, Leigh, Ashton, Stockport, Manchester, Newton, St. Ilelens, Prescot, Huy ton, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Sutton, Hale, Runcorn, Warrington. Altringham, Brook, Knots ford, Northwich, Middlewich, Crow, Newcastle, Stoke, Stafford, Wellington, Shrewsbury, Wem, Ellesmere, Wrexham, Mold, Holywell, and Chester, the whole of which important places are connected with a net-work of railways, the aggregate length of which must be several hundreds o' miles. The total number of projected lines shown on this map is about thirty, and of those already finished about twenty. BAIL COURT-SATURDAY. King, the QUEEN V. COOPER. Mr. Stuart Wortley, Q.C., moved for a certi orar i to remove the indictment in this case from the sessions at have Liv e r p been ool . p u T b i h i s e h i e n d d a i c g t a m i nesntt the was for a j libel, s hu a alleged to prosecutor, which amounted to no very gra ve c h arge, as it merely imputed the poisoning of some foxes. There was the affidavit of the attorney that diffi cu l t po i nts of law were likely to arise. - -Rule granted. EMBEZZLEMENT. — On Saturday, a young man, named Arthur George Reed, was charged, before Mr. Rushton, with having stolen a letter containing six £5 notes, while he was clerk at the post-office at Stafford. Since the alleged robbery, it is said he had married a Miss Bryers, of Chester, and became landlord of the Concert Tavern, Richmond-street, in this town. The robbery had been committed in October, 1843. Mr. Rushton decided that the prisoner should be banded over to the Staffordshire authorities. Nov. 26, 1844. THE BRAZILS. The swift packet from the Brazils arrived on Satur day. By this arrival we learn that the elections had passed off without any serious disturbances. Alt houg h apprehensions were entertained that some rupture would take place at Pernambuco, up to the sailing of the pa cket, however, nothing had occurred. Two of Admiral Brown's squadron had been captured by the Montevideans, and a slight skirmish bad taken place outside the walls of the city, between RiVeir a and Oribe's parties, in which th e former were reported t o have been victorious. H er M a j es ty' s steamer Go r g o n was still on shore. Business transactions had been to a fair extent. siderable quantities of merc h an di se continued to be re ceivedCon- in anti c ip a ti on o f th e i ncrease d d u ti es . The sal es of coffee have b een t o an average amoun t, an d the busi ness in exchanges h a s b een ex t ens i ve . Exchange closed a t 25R an d 251 , b u t thi s conveYr ee sailing so soon afte r P engu i n , th e b us i ness transaction s fur her have been of comparatively small amount. The lanthe arrived at Buenos Ay res , September 3rd,from Liverpool. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette publishes a decree, declaring Zan' bano and his followers as traitors, and ordering them to be shot without any trial. In consequence of recent dls• closures said to have been made by the Government, Generals Ramirez, Uristizabel, and Espinoza, have been ordered to quit the kingdom without delay. The csen tence on General Prim is stated by some of the Madrid journals to be imprisonment in a fortress in some of the Spanish possessions abroad. There seems, however, to be some doubt whether the sentence will be enforced to its full extent. During the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies 0 0 the 16th a question was put to the Government by g a i Roza de Togores, as to the late movement of Gene ZurbanO. He wished, he said, to know, whether proper measures had been adopted to putdown this insurrectional demonstration, and to defeat the criminal designs of the general. The Minister of War replied that the chamber might feel perfectly tranquil on this head, for that the Goi vernment were fully prepared to defe n d the cause ° A order, and put down any attempt to assail the rights and security of the Throne. UNITED STATES. The steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews, a t ' rived in the mersey shortly b e f ore noon on Satur day She left the wharf at fifteen minutes past two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th inst., and made this port in 13 days 161 hours, the shortest passage she has accomplished during the season. She brought 31 passengers. The Great Western spoke the Boston mail steam-ship Caledonia on the afternoon of the 21st inst., inlat. 51 deg. 30 min. W., long. 12 deg. 18 min. W. The contest for president has been virtually decided l° favour of Mr. Polk. It is true, complete returns hale not yet been b e been received receivedf romr a one-half from States the h that States, at but give b those that have e greatest number of votes and deemed the most doubtful; New York, Pensylvania. and Virginia, have all returned electors favourable to Mr. Polk by very small majorities. On the result of these States depended the success of th e democratic candidate. The first steam-vessel ever despatched from the United States for any parts beyond the Cape of Good Hope had sailed from New York on the 4th. It was the steam Pro' peller Midas. Severe frosts and snow are said to have been experi enced in different parts of the United States at the close, of the past month. In Canada, al so , we h ave tidings °' the near approach of winter. Money was abundant, the demand for foreign exchang e active, and shipments were about to be made to Europe. The Great Western is said to have brought half a million of dollars. The quotation o n L on d on was 110 to 11°4' Stocks had fallen—a result of the elections, it is given out. Freights were active, with a disposition to advanc e ' Tobacco, per hogshead, 30s. to ,355. ; naval stores, 25. 6 "' to 3s. ; measurement goods, per ton, 30s. ; heavy 355. ; ashes, 255. to 30s. ; beef, per 3041 b., ss. to ss. 6d. Seamen's wages had advanced generally from one to three dollars, and the rate to Europe, with small stores, Wa s 15 dollars per month. In Canada the Governor-General is succeeding 9 glori ously. 42 conservative s are e l ec t e d, 23 ra di ca l s , and doubtful. This leaves 10 more returns to come in, ° which a fair proportion are sure to be conservatives. It is probable that the dinner to Sir H. Pottinger Wil l take place on the 17th December. The progress of the eclipse of the moon agreed dos& with the calculations, as already published. The French, by the latest accounts, seem trying wha t debauchery and vice can do to confirm their ill-gotten plwer in Tahiti, in vain. The Tahitians in crowds bale retired to the hills, and are resolved to be neither cor rupted nor subdued. At home, it is finally arranged that Mr. Pritchard does not return to the consulate of Tahiti , but in lieu thereof Lord Aberdeen has cffered to a ppoint him British consul in a neighbouring island. The gentle an an appointed, or to be appointed Mr. Pritchard's stfe' red l° ib r ie, is yet t d w to e b a e re a a .l autho rity, that it is a fact; if so, Lord Aberdeen, it is presum ?soumreadn, Catho li c.upon m o s t This presum able, was ignorant of the religious opinions of his protege . But whether or not, if the gentleman in question be a Ro manist. public steps, it is clear, must be instantly taken to prevent his going out to Tahiti as British consul. The notion of a Romanist consul giving proper protection to Protestant uniasionaries in that island, is preposterous. The cause of all that has happened there is the resistance Romanist error has given to Protestant truth; and for England to send to Tahiti a liomanist consul is to aban don her missionaries and the Tahitians also.—John Bull. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25.—Wind S.E. light. ARRlVED.—Livingston, from Calcutta—Camilla, Knowles , from Vastizza—Enterprise, from Smyrna—Enrequita, Paris, from Denia—Aristides, Stabb, from Antwerp—Thomas Batters by, from Ichaboe—and James Calder, Webb, from Charleston. SAILED.—Ivo, Meneck, for Trieste—Lanark, Frith, for MO' bile—Patriot, Cuthbertson, for Naples—Ann Dingwell, LoneY , for St. Thomas—Queen, Leary, for Ichaboe—Jamaica, Gibson , for Jamaica—and Constantinople, Young, for Leghorn. Edward Bowstead, from China to London, was spoken 15th Nov. in lat. 45 N, long. s 6 W ; Mobile, from Penang to L Oll don, 14th Oct. in lat. 2 N, long. 26 W, by the Livingston. d Fanny Peat, Welsh, hence to Danzic, was totally wreck e d 15th instant, on the north side of the Isle of Skye ; crew sav e " , Mary Winch, hence at Monte Video id 53 days to Peruvian, Pitkethly, and Camoena, Ch r i s tie, hence a Janeiro ~Serafin ; Horacio, and Neuvc Ramoncitc, hence at Haval El ,. Centurion, Galle, from Sierra Leone, at Cove. On ist Plu rs , in lat. 23 20, spoke the Duke of Wellington, hence to Hon" Peruvian, Cole, from Ichaboe, at Crookhaven Fame, Brew. hence f:ir Dordt, at Kingstown ct• Jessamine, Miller, hence to Ichaboe, w as s p o k en 2nd 0 11 lat, 17, long. 27. Ullswater, hence to Lima, 24th Oct. in lat ;ot, S, long. 32 W ; Indian Queen, hence to Demera ra , 23rd Ws , " — off the Smalls 00l t ° WARREN POINT, Nov. 23.—The Orissa, ( f rom LiverP this Bombay,) having discharged all her car go h ere , p ro ceeded r e. morning for the Clyde, in ballast, to underg o th e necessarY arg o pairs, after which she will return here, and reload her c for Bombay. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 25 ' too Despite all the writing and talking about Cotton being n o low, done with an evident intent to get a spec u l a tive run tj ;er, it, it is down, and seems inclined to go lo w er and 1 0 on e perhaps beyond any previous point in the memory of 9. o l',, in re in the trade. Consumers merely purchase for their iintre' . det wants, and it is well known many of them are working ,1 " 0 00 several months contracts. The daily demand averages 4 .4 bales, which is done in so quiet a way as to cause a very flagg'ite and inanimate feeling in the market. The stock is now at , or e lowest, as the imports corning and to come will in fates keep it up. 35. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, Nov ed Our Butter market is absolutely wild; prices have .lon2 P v ie up since our last 5s per cwt. The consumption is larger thla',o have known it upon an y prev i ous occasion at this t i me or ! . .,4 year. Pickled Butter i s f u ll y 6 s per cwt. h i gher; b u t we '.Ulf remark that this extre me s t a t e o f exc i tement has entivrK checked the export demand for the present. Beef arld, e d; very steady both in price and de man d. B acon i s o verlook but prices are much as lately quoted. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 25 ' th e We have had a large supply- of Beasts at market to dpli greatest portion of second rate and inferior quality. The sl its of Sheep has been small, which were all sold at an advO c ut illi, price. Anything good, either Braits or Sheep were cg sought after, and sold readily at an advance in price. 4id to Sid Mutton 5d to 6d. CKET, NOVEMBER 2 5 ' L PRODUCE. NORTH HAY MA AGRICULTUR s. d. s. d. Hay, old 2,1 b Oll 0 1 1} Potatoes, v•001b. 1 0 new Clover, new .... 0 1 0 Short-tops Green ditto .... 0 0— 0 0 Pi n k- eyes 11 6 Straw, Wheat... 0 4 0 5 Cattle Oat 0 Barley 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 (Turnips,2,-) ton s () 0 0 -2 3 2__ ...03 0 s. d. TIDE TABLE. DAYS. MRN. EVN. HEIGHT HOLVDAVS• Tuesday 26 11 54 - 16 3 , a plr Wednes. 27 011 028 t 6 2 Mars rises 311 1 551 , : Thurs... 28 045 1 2 15 11 Length of day 91P Friday.. 29 lig 136 15 5 Length of night ' Saturday 30 1 54 2 12 14 8 St. Andrew. 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