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_ ~, "N s C NI , ss, , r V -I • COBB AND F.ASTWOOD, ,fia4PERB 4.1v1) r44.7l:Fir 85, GRIt4T GEORGE-STREET j_TAVING received their Winter Supply f FASIIIONA BLE GOODS, solicit the favour o n inspection from their Friends and the Public. C. and E. take this opportunity of returning thanks to their patrons for past favours, and hope for a coutinuance and an extension of their support. THE Subscribers have great pleasure submitting for inspection their present Stock of TWE DS, KERSEYS, DOESKINS, PILOTS, CLOAKING ' LLAMAS, Patent and other BEAVERS, with every va ty in WOOLLEN GOODS adapted for the WINTER SEASON. PHILLIPS AND HOLNIE, LIVERPOOL CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT, ✓9, LORD-STREET. THE COALI3ROOKDALE COMPANY RESPECTFULLY announce, that they have now OPENED their EXTENSIVE PREMISES, in Li verpool, for the Sale of BAR, BOLT, ROD, HOOP, AND iET IRON. RI VET, ANGLE BARS, AND BO ER PLATES. Also, a General Assortment of CASTINGS, AND IRON GOODS, for Home Use and Exportation, an inspection of which is respectfully solicited. JOSEPH ROBINSON, Agent. Warehouses—James-street and Sea-brow. TO CONSUMERS OF CORKS. JOSEPH MARSTON AND CO., CORK MANUFACTURERS. EG very respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and - 1--; the Public generally, that they have opkned extensive Premises in the CLARENDON-BUILDINGS 'JOHN-STREET, Liverpool, for supplying a superior quali of CORKS, at moderate prices, and hope, by prompt ution, to merit a share of public patronage. Private Families, Wine, Porter, an Spirit Merchants, Druggists, Dry salters, and Grocers, Ale and Porter Brewers, Soda Water and Ginger Beer Manufacturers, and others, may depend upon being supplied upon terms that will insure future favours. Exportation and Country Orders executed on the shortest notice, and Goods forwarded to all parts of the United Kingdom. The Trade supplied on liberal terms. ARTHUR NEWLING / 1 F ESPECTFULLY informs his Friend and the Public that Mr. JOSEPH DAVENPORT ha disposed of his entire Printing business, No. 6, LAWTO -STROWP, to him at a valuation as agreed upon by Mr+ ohn Harrison, of Manchester, on his part, and Mr. David Marples, of Liver pool, oa behalf of Mr. Davenport, with the understanding that Mr. D. was altogether declining the Printing business in Liverpool, and compensation was made accordingly. A. N. begs to state that the Office is furnished with large and small type suitable for every description of Printing, and he respectfully solicits a share of public patronage. 31, Ranelagh-street, Liverpool, Oct., 1841. NOW SELLING OFF. PRESENTS. LADIES ' AND GENTLEMEN ' S DRESSINg CASES/, WRITING DESKS, WORK BO YES, ENVELOPE AND PAPER /CASES, SELLING OFF AT A SA/RIFICE, AT GLASGOW OUSE GAS CONSUMERS SAVE 25 PER CENT. IN BURNERS, CHANDELIERS, AND WATER S L I D E S, (Warranted of the best construction), AT GLASGOW HOUSE, :)3, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL. D ANSON AND M`SEILL, 55, DALE-STREET. / FOREIGN AND BRITISH /SPIRITS. Finest old pale BRANDY, 725. per Den, or 365. per Gall. BRANDY, very fine, 30s. per Gallant/ RUM, finest old Jamaica, 16s. and I; , s. per Gallon. HOLLANDS, genuine old Schiedam, direct from Rotterdam in Cases of 1 Dozen, or 21 Gallons, at 725. per Dozen, de. livered from bond, duty paid. GIN, very superior, 10s. and 12s. per Gallon. WHISKEY, Old Islay, I6s. 6d. per Gallon. DITTO, Campbelton, 16s. per Gallon. DITTO, Old Irish, (as used in Dublin,) 16s. 6d. and 16s. per Gallon. DUBLIN and CORK PORTER, 4s. 6d. per dozen quarts, 2s. 9d. per dozen pints. LONDON DITTO, ss. 6d. per dozen quarts, 3s. per dozen pints. PORTER, in Six and Eight Gallon Casks, at 2s. per Gallon ; casks to be paid for and allowed when returned. EAST INDIA pale ALE, 6s. 6d. per dozen quarts, 3s. 9d. per dozen pints. DITTO DITTO, 4s. per dozen quarts, and 28.6 d. per dozen inpts. WINES IN WOOD. Duty paid and delivered (in Liverpool) free of expense. PORTS, of sterling quality, £32, £36, £39, £4l per llhd., or £l6 10s., £lB 10s., £2O, £2l per Quarter Cask. SHERRIES, first marks, £3l, £34 10s., £42 10s., £4Blos. per Hhd., or £l6, £17105., £22, £24105. per Quarter Cask. BRONTE MADEIRA, or MARSALA, (Florio,) £2l 105., per Hhd., £ll ss. per Quarter Cask. CAPE MADEIRA, £l7 10s. per Hhd., £9 per Qr. Cask. WiNES IN 'BOTTLE. - PORTS, very superior, 245., 305., 345., 365., 425., and 48s. per Dozen. SHERRIES, best marks, 21.5., 305., 365., 425., and 48s. per Dozen. CHAMPAGNE, very superior, 545., 605., and 7ss. per Doz PANILLA., / A NEW and very delicate article, for makini Blancmange , IX. Jellies, Soups, &c., resembling Isingliss, but much cheaper. Its great purity and highly nutritidus qualities (in dependent of its cheapness) render it quite:a desideratum to Invalids, Captains of Vessels, and Family, and if kept dry will remain good any length of time, and any climate. A single trial will prove its excellence. To be had, with printed directions for using, of Mr. Aspi nall, Druggist, 135, St. James's-street; Mr. Cumming, 5, South Castle-street ; Mr. Nixon, corner of Castle-street and Dale-street ; and Mr. Carter, 8, Bold-street. e t LIVERPOOL AND HOLYHEAD TELE APH. TO SHIPOWNERS, CAPTAINS, c. THE DOCK COMMITTEE DO H I V BY GIVE NOTICE, that from and after the first yof January, 1842, Watson's Code of Signals will be enti y discontinued along the Line of Telegraphs between this Port and Holy head ; and that from and after the first day of November, 1842, none other than MARRYAT'S NEW CODE will be used along the said Line. By Order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary. Dock-office, Liverpool, 14th Oct. 1841. Just Published, price Five Shillings, tBENEZER :—A NARRATIVE of the LORD'S DEALINGS with ONE of his ANCIENT PEOPLE. Dedicated, by permission, to The REV. HUGH M`NEILE. / Amongst many remarkable instances and provi ntial de liverances are interspersed minute and copious ustrations of Jewish Institutions, Religious Worship, and eremonies, &c.: for instance—The early training and ed tion of Jew ish Children, discipline of their Schools an Colleges, and hooks taught in them—Marriage Ceremonies, and Contracts —the " Phylacteries" and " Talith," and mode of using them in Prayer—the office and qualifications of the " Sho kat," or Slaughterer—the " Khasidirn," a Jewish sect, whose doctrine, discipline, and mode of worship,*are de scribed fro:n the Author's personal knowledge of them in Russia—Christianity as exhibited by the Greek Church in Russia—abstracts from very interesting letters the Author has received from his Jewish Parents—Frontispiece, a Rus sian Jew in fall dress for Prayers. Sold by H. PERRIS, Bookseller, 6, Church-street ; also by A. NEWLING, Ranelagh-street ; and by the Author, J. G. LAZARUS, 59, Soho-street, Liverpool. GREAT GEORGE WARD. ii r AT a numerous and highly-respectable ME ING of .L 1 the CONSERVATIVE ELECTORS o the above IN ard, held on MONDAY evening, the 18th in nt, in Mr. Nathan Parr's Large Room, St. James ' s -stye JAMES INMAN, Esq., Chair n, The following resolutions were carried u smously : Proposed by G. H. LAWRENCE, Esq., nd seconded by Dr. DICKINSON, That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby given, to James Lawrence, Esq., one of our Representatives in the Town Council, whose past services fully entitle him to be again put in nomination as a Candidate to represent the Ward at the ensuing Election. Proposed by W. L. COLLBURN, Esq., and seconded by THOMAS BOLD, Esq., That this meeting pledges itself to use every constitutional means to secure the re-election of James Lawrence, Esq Proposed by Mr. Councillor COOPER, seconded by Mr. Councillor ROBINSON, and carried by acclamation, That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. James Inman, for his conduct in the chair. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From Ike azford Herald.) The Rev. Philip Wynter, D.D., President of St. John's College, Oxford, has been nominated Vice-Chancellor of Oxford for the ensuing year, and his nomination has been approved of. The Rev. John Fearon, 8.A., of Queen's College, has been appointed to the Curacy of Kirk Deighton, near We therby. The Rev. Richard Payne, 8.C.L., Fellow of New College, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Downton, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Liscombe Clarke, M.A. of New lege ; patrons, the Warden and Fellows of Winchester Col lege. Rev. M. West, Vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin, and Chaplain to the Archbishop of Dublin, has been promoted to the Rec tory of St. Werburgh's, and to the Chancellorship of St. Patrick's, Dublin. Rev. William Henry Wickworth Simpson, Vicar of Bex hill, Sussex, to the Prebend of Heathfield, void by the death of the Rev. Martin Davy. Rev. Malken Mills, to the Vicarage of Scalford, Leicester shire, void by the death of the Rev. G. Evans; patron, the Duke of Rutland. Rev. John Harwood Hill, to the Vicarage of Welham, Leicestershire, void by the death of the Rev. Edward Griffin ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. Frederick Hamilton Bennett, to the Chaplaincy of the Daventry Union, Northamptonshire. Rev. Charles O'Neill Pratt, Curate of Middlewich, to the Curacy of Christ Church, Macclesfield. Rev. Daniel Cooke, Minister of the Episcopal Chapel, Lawton, to the Incumbency of the New Church, Goldenhall, Staffordshire. Rev. M. Lawler, Assistant Minister of St. James's Tonge, n Church, ear M Heywood iddl,eton to the Incumb ency of St. Michael's, . Rev. William Bailey, M.A., to the Vicarage of Ulting, , Essex, void by the cessi on of the R ev. J. Lupton, Rev. G. Hodgson , to the Rect ory of Church L en h Worceatershire void by the death of the R ev . S. Wellings ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. W. G. Sawyer Incumbent of Old Dalby, Leicester shire, has been licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Pet er b orough, to perform Divine Service acc ordin g to the Church, in a ch a .. pel at Seg's Hill, near Old Dalby, for Sawyer the benefit having of the inhabitants residing near the sp ot, generously offered to perform th is extra duty gratuitously. A SPORTING DOCTOR.—The medical profession furnishes its quota of (fox-hunting) enthusiasts, and many highly honourable traits are recorded of them. The following, for example :—A medical gentleman, of the name of Hanster, residing near Newbury, ordered his gardener to set a trap for some vermin that infested his garden. As ill luck would have it, a fox was found in it in the morning with his leg broken. On its being taken to the doctor, he exclaimed, " Why did you not call me up in the night, that I might set the leg ?" Better late than never; he did t•et the leg ; the fox recovered, and was killed in due form after a capital run. —Quarterly Review. -~ F , \•. ~~';.. being lha mur4ap?, and kid boo exraroltted for trial, , 110 Adama had gone to the office of Air, Colt, who, he had beard, was about to abscond, to demand payment of a debt of 200 dollars. Whilst there, Colt murjered him, it is supposed with a hatchet, stripped his boy naked except his shirt, and packed it in a chest, which he directed to a fictitious name in St. Louis, via New Orleans, in the Far West, and got it shipped on board a vessel for that port the next morn ing. The circumstance of Adams being missing, and some suspicious circumstances that had been noticed to occur at Colt's office on the night in question, led to his arrest ; and the case shipped on board the vessel being obtained frtm the hold was found to contain his body, horribly mutilated ; but a ring on the little finger was identified as his property. CURIOUS CHARGE OF IMPOSTURE. (Froze the Cheltenham Chronicle. At the public office, Cheltenham, on - Saturday, the 9th instant, Mr. Williams said he had a case of great importance to bring before the notice of the magistrates. There was a man in this town, under the name of Rembrand, who called himself a chiropodist, and professed to kill corns. He ex tracted from those corns what he called roots, and charged ss. for each of those roots. It appeared, in point of fact, that instead of extracting anything like a " root," he put a pair of pincers to the corn, and apparently took out some thing. but instead of taking out something he took out nothing, and showed to the person upon whom the operation was performed something like a fibre, which, he pretended, was the root of the corn, but which was in reality nothing but a piece of bristle. A gentleman who was present had actually paid him £8 155., at the rate of ss. per bristle. A lady, who had a similar operation performed upon her, had a number of these bristles in her possession, and a gentleman in court had another. Mr. Williams then proceeded to call the attention of the magistrates to the following clause in the Vagrant Act, which he thought would reach a vagabond of this description :—" Every person pretending to or pro fessing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of her Majesty's subjects." He (Mr. Williams) would suggest that one of the gentlemen who had been im posed upon should go with a policeman, and bring Mr. Rem brand before the bench. Mr. Henney said he was decidedly of opinion that he ought to be brought up. A policeman was sent, and returned in a few minutes with a foreigner, dressed in the pink of fashion, who gave his name as Lee Rembrand. He was followed shorily after by another gaily dressed young man, whose face was adorned with a pair of bushy whiskers and fine black mustachios. He said his name was Nieman. Mr. Rembrand.—l vant to know vy I came here? Mr. Williams.—You are brought here for imposing on these gentlemen. Mr. Rembrand.—Who is the gentleman who vill stan' the conseconce for taking avay my charactere, by sending police man to my residence ? The Rev. Cherles Parker, of Sarsden, Oxfordshire, stated —I came to Cheltenham on Monday last. Being very much pained with corns i called at Mr. Beavan's, chemist, High street, to ask him if he could recommend me to any chi ropodist. He showed me an advertisment in one of the papers, which directed me to 138, High-street. The terms of the advertisement were—fee, ss. per corn. I went accord ingly, and called upon Mr. Rembrand, who was engaged at the time. I saw the taller one (Nieman), and went into his room and took off my boots. He called a young man (Rem brand), who came in to operate on my foot. He began to touch my toe, and after he had got my foot in his hand, he said, " You will find that there is more than one corn in this toe, and my charge is ss. for every corn ; but I shall perform a perfect cure, so that you will not know that you ever had a corn, and your feet will be as complete as though you had never been tormented 'with one." Rembrand then began to operate, and with a pair of pincers he pinched my corn, and seemed to draw a point from it, with which he pricked my hand, arid said, " There, sir, that is one corn." He put it on my hand, and it appeared like a piece of bristle. 1 took very little notice of it, taking for granted what he said, and blew it off. It is the same sort of thing as that produced by Mr. Clarke. I spoke once or twice while he was operating, and ,he other person (Nieman) observed that he (meaning Rembrand) did not speak English ; for though he had been in England some time he had made no use of his time, and had not learned the language. He went on, appearing to take out several of these things, and showed each of them to me. He called each a corn. I forget the number he pulled out of the first corn. He then took a great many from a soft corn ) between the toes. I think he appeared to take 12 from that. When be had finished the operation Nieman said he thought he must look at them to see how it was done. He said, "That is thoroughly done ; now, sir, you will never be troubled again." When it was finished he said " The charge is £8 155., being after the rate of as. for each of these roots." There were 35 of these extracted from the three corns. I said, " I have not so much as £8 with me, but I will give you £5 now, and if I find myself perfectly cured I will give you £5 more." He took the note, and desired me to write my name upon it. There was some conversation between them, and an apparent reluctance to receive the £5, but they subsequently took the money. After this they presented me with a book, in which there were a number of statements of cures performed by them, and in which they wanted me to write my name. I said I could not do so, as I did not know that I was yet cured. They put a little plaster upon each of them, which they said would smooth the skin, but on going out I found exactly the same pain as I felt before. I then went to the Montpelier Baths, and mentioned the cir cumstance to the man who attends the baths, and who is a corn cutter. He looked at my corns, and said they had not been cut at all, and, to convince me, pinched up a piece of the corn. He said they were impostors, and had taken in a lady the day before in a similar manner. Several other witnesses gave testimony of a similar nature, and the surgeons who were examined, stated that they never observed anything in a corn similar to the small pieces of bristle produced. The magistrates committed the prisoners to gaol for fourteen days. A FIRE ROUND A MAGAZINE.—WhiIe the Phaeton was off Genoa a most alarming fire took place in the after cock pit, just before the magazine bulk-head. It was in the eve ning, while the ship's company were at quarters, and the captain and all the officers at their stations. The intelligence was quietly conveyed to Captain Morris first, and in an in stant calmness and self-possession were displayed in the clearest manner. " Mr. Beaufort," he said, " form the marines round the hatchways, and let them load with ball cartridge, and allow no one to come on deck. Firemen, with their buckets, attend me on the lower deck." Arrived on the lower deck, he commanded silence, and himself superin tending and directing them. the men drew the water, and, guided by the column of thick smoke, kept up a continual stream of water. For a time the smoke increased in dense ness and quantity, and each one near the spot could have had no other expectation than that of a speedy flight into the air. Captain Morris, however, remained unaltered, and not a feature gave evidence of the anxiety which must have existed within his breast. At length, the man who had occasioned the fire was in a great measure the cause of the preservation of the ship. The place where the fire commenced was a locker, in which were the match-tubs and matches for present use, and also the quarter lanterns, and it appeared that the purser's steward had also been in the habit of putting the purser's lanterns in the same place. The cooper (who was, as usual, the steward's assistant) had been drawing off spirits, and, having imbibed rather plentifully of the fumes, or probably, liquor, carelessly deposited his lan tern, with the candle unextinguished, in this locker, whence arose the dangerous fire. Sobered by the awful circumstances of his recklessness, the man endeavoured to make the best atonement in his power, and, aware of the exact position of. the fire, actually jumped into the smouldering heap, at the imminent risk of suffocation, and threw the burning matches into the cockpit, where they were quickly extinguished by the quantity of water thrown down by the firemen, and the danger was happily overcome, but not till the bulk-head of the magazine was half burnt through. Captain Morris, re lieved from this passing anxiety, spoke with the utmost satisfaction of the ship's company, not one of whom was heard to utter a word during the whole time. But while justly lauding the officers and men for their attention to his orders, they in return were aware that it was his presence of mind and example which materially contributed to so desira ble an end.—United Service Journal. TAE LATE THEODORE Hoox.—ln 1813 Mr. Hook was appointed to the offices of accountant-general and treasurer of the Mauritius,'whither he proceeded with every prospect of fortune before him. He held these offices from 9th Octo ber, 1812, to 28th February, 1818. In 1814 he was made su perintendent of the government press, which duty he per formed to April 15, when a regular editor was appointed. In April, 1818, he was sent home a prisoner ; and in October, the same year, he was released, the law officers declaring there were no legal grounds to detain him. The public were taught to believe that his dismissal from office arose from peculation ; but in this affair gross . injustice has been d one to Mr. Hook. It is true that a defalcation did exist i n the cash balance, but it is equally true that the subject of o ur memoir was innocent of all participation in the abstraction of the cash ; morally, he was perfectly innocent ; but legally, and insomuch that a principal should be accountable for the acts of his subordinate, he was to blame. The truth is. that General Hall, the Commander-in-Chief, had reason to be.. lieve a deficiency existed in the military chest, and he issued an order that on a certain day he would investigate the ac counts, and see that the balance corresponded with the books. The day arrived, the balance was found correct, and the books were verified by the General. Subsequently, howe ver, he had cause to suspect th a t mon i es were got together from various parts of the island, with which to make up the balance, and this gave rise to an order that on the morrow morning, at nine o'clock, he would again investigate the accounts. On that morning Mr. Hook's deputy destroyed himself. Hook was of course answerable for his acts, and was thus called upon to make good the deficiency, which was upwards of 50,000 dollars, or about £12,000, of which about one-third has been'paid. All Hook's property was seized, and he was sent home a prisoner. Party spirit was strongly directed against him in this affair, and while he was, as a tory, on all hands abused, the public were little aware that another individual, of pre-eminent talent also, and one of whom his country is justly proud, was also the victim of a deputy's dishonesty ! However, Mr. Hook's trifling property was seized and sold at three different times, and he was for six mouths a close prisoner at Hemp's lock-up house in Shire-lar e, and for twelve months afterwards a prisoner in the King's Bench. This was in the years 1223-4, and 5, when in the month of May of the latter year he was dis charged, with the intimation conveyed to him that if he ever after acquired property that property would be still liable for the deficiency. Even within the last year some of Hook's effects were sold in the Mauritius, and carried to government account. MARLowE AND SHAKSPEARE.—A single play was sold on Tuesday week by Mr. Evans, for the enormous sum of £131! No other copy was known to exist. It was thus described in the catalogue :—" Marlowe. The true Tragedie of Richarde Duke of Yorke, and the Death of Good King Henrie the Sixt, with the whole Contention between the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster, as it was sundrie times acted by the Right Hon. Earle of Pembroke his servants." Printed at London by P. S. 1595. " There are," said Mr. Ch a l m ers, to whom it belonged, " p assages in the true tragedie ' of sufficient splendour to justify what has been said of Marlowe's mighty line.' " Capel has given two lines from Shakspeare's Henry Vl. What ! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground ? I thought it would have mounted. And in his boundless admiration of Shakspeare, Capel ex claims, " that he who cannot discern the pen that wrote them ought never to pretend to discernment hereafter." An unfortunate remark, for the verse s are M arlowe ' s slightly altered and improved by Shakspeare. "We will now pro ceed (continues the catalogue) to submit a part of the speech of Richard, as written by Marlowe, and adopted with alter ations by Shakspeare. MARLOWE. Glo'st. What ! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sinke into the ground I had thought it would have mounted. purpl e re i ns i n thee, (Stabshire againe.) See, how my swo rd weepes for the poore Ki ng ' s d eath ! Now I f ow tearernef ablle o a f l w o a u i r e s house!sh e d D Fo o ar w l is n iu m e e c , sahP d i ea h ao sparks k usnec o esektfoeli htfelie dma ell, and safe I sent thee thither, & c . SUAKSPERE. Glo'st. What ! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted. swordSee j how sue m h y parpe l weepstearer be for a t lay h w ep s oo o r te K d ing's death ! 0 may Dl F f r oa o wn m those e sparkh, o d s o e wno who e w f tl iofe di do . esaa w a ya n i f ln a i l sa l eg o n, f t our til e eh thither ouse l bshe Bell, tyh a ee n t (Stabs Aim again.) The *et of the speech is adopted with equal closeness. TErNATRE.ROYAL, LIVERrom., Tinder the itraacigeoient of Mr. CLARICE, Sole Leoarx, The Performances, until farther Notice, will commence at Half-past Seven. Doors to be Opened at Seven. The Last Night but Three of the Engagement of Mrs. WOOD, Mr. WOOD, Mr. GIUBILEI, Miss POOLE, Mr. BROUGH, and Madame GIUBILEI. HIS present TUESDAY, Oct. 19, will be performed, for the fifth time here, with new and appropriate Sce nery, &c., Bellini's Opera of N 0 RM A. Norma Mrs. Wood. I M Clandian Elberta Miss Poole. I Orveso Mr. Wood. Mr. Giubilei. At the end of the Opera, PAS DE TROIS, " LA TYROLIENNE," By Madame Giubilei, Miss C. Webster, a Master Webster. To conclude with the Musical 'arce of THE REVIEW. Looney M`Twolter, Mr.T.Lee. John.. Mr.,Slaiter. Caleb Quotem .... Mr. Baker.. I L c Miss E. Honner. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), r the BENEFIT of MISS POOLE, the favourite Op of FRA DIAVOLO. Zerlina, Mrs. Wood ; Lady Allcas . Miss Poole ; Fra Dia volo, Mr. Wood; Beppo, Mr. Giubilei; Giacomo, Mr. Brough.—After which ; a variety of. Singing and Dancing.— To conclude with the Farce of THE OMNIBUS. Pat Rooney, Mr. T. Lee; Tom Dobbs, Mr. Baker. On THURSDAY, a favourite OPERA, and other En tertainments. ...... On FRIDAY, Mrs. WOOD'S BENEFIT, a nd positively the Last Night of the Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Miss Poole, Mr. Giubilei, Mr. Brough, and Mad. Giubilei. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS!! THE MOST GORGEOUS FAIRY SPECTACLE EVER PRODUCED! ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. Doors open it Half-past Six, and commence at Seven. Performances to terminate as near„Eleven as possible. Second Night of the GRAND EQUESTRIAN FAIRY TALE ; and Second Week of the celebrated PONY RACES. THIS present TUESDAY EV NING, the 19th instant, -11. and during the Week, wi 'be produced a splendid Equestrian Spectacle, entitled SIR HUON 0 GUYENNE ; Or, The Christian Knight in Fairy Land. Sir Huon of Guyenne Mr. Howard, (his second appearance here.) Sadak Mr. H. Beverly, (his second appearance this season.) SCENES IN THE ARENA, by Master Miller, the Hibernian Youth, Messrs. Guest and Nicholo, and Mr. Wells and his Pupil, Master Arnold. THE PONY RACES ; Or, Doncaster in Miniature. The whole to conclude with the laughable Extravaganza, entitled - THE TAILOR OF TAMWORTH. • Gregory (the Tailor) Mr. H. Beverly. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Anti-Bolus " is not sufficiently careful in his composition. uT,.;ITED STATI3S, We gave the following important intelliget;ee, 'ought by the New York packet-ship Sheridan, which arrivod in the river on Friday morning, in a second edition of our last uumber. The Occurrences detailed are calculated to increase the anxiety already felt concerning the issue of the M`Lcod trial ; and whilst they serve in some degree to add to the amount of our " Western complicationi," afford at the same time a clue by which the mystery of these transactions may be, without ranch difficulty, unravelled. There is a lawless rabble thirsting for plunder, and ripe for any mischief, on the one hand, and a weak government, willing, perhaps, but unable to restrain them, on the other. The proclamation of Mr. President Tyler is the strongest evidince on the former point; it establishes that "sundry secret lodges, clubs, and associations exist on the northern frontle r; that they have collected fire-arms and other military materials ; and that their object is to make hostile incursions into our territory ;" or, in other words, that the old system of "sympathising" or conspiration on the part of American citizens with the base and disloyal among our own people, is once more revived and in full operation. The President issues his proclamation with a view to deter these parties from pursuing their danger ous and nefarious practices, and is entitled to full credit for being sincerely anxious to put a stop to them ' • but neither his good faith, nor friendly disposition, nor good sense, it is lamentable to say, affords any sufficient guarantee to us that he will be able to accomplish his just and amicable pur poses. If the federal government were possessed of due authority, the existing complication arising out of the arrest of Mr. M'Leod would never have been heard of, not only in its more recent, but in its earliest stages ; no " Caroline " would have been burnt, because an efficient Executive would have permitted no Caroline to be laden with war-like stores within the boundary of the Union,—and " sympathising" would have received its quietus on the very first symptom of its appearance. Again, could the Executive have prevented it, we do most potently believe that Mr. M`Leod's confine ment would have been but of very short duration, and that it must now feel very heartily ashamed of the disgraceful exhibition of impotency which it makes in its own peculiar, and of the flagitious outrage which it is forced to acknowledge has been committed in the name of the republic. Arguing from these premises, we may yet hope, but we must at the same time greatly fear, that the friendly disposition—if we may use the phrase—manifested by Mr. Tyler's proclamation will be able to carry the American government through its present difficulties. . . The arrest of Grogan by our soldiers, if the American ver sion of the affair inky be in any degree credited, is rather an untoward circumstance ; not that it can affect by any reflex operation the perfected and unalterable circumstances of the case of Mr. M`Leod, but that it may have the effect of in flaming the brutal and murderous appetite of the mob, and of rendering the critical position of the administrative still more arduous and embarrassing. If any wrong or indiscre tion has been committed by our soldiers, they will not be screened by the authorities ; and as our government has the disposition, so it unquestionably has the power, to make am ple atonement for the injury. On that subject there can be no just cause of quarrel at present ; the immediate question is, what is to follow in the event either of Mr. M`Leod be ing sacrificed, whether by the process of the ordinary or the extraordinary—the State, or the Lynch law of the country ; or his liberation being still delayed after the mockery of trial to which he has been so insultingly committed, has con cluded ? " We conceive that beyond all doubt "—says a Lonflon contemporary—" the government and people of the United States must be held responsible for the life of this British subject. If the government be so feeble, so timid, or so dis organised that it cannot enforce the law, and vindicate its peace, among its own people; the foreign state, outraged by reason of such imbecility or incapacity, must visit, without hesitation or delay, the penalty of such abject infirmity or collusive felony, one or the other, on that government." There will be no dissent from this opinion, —and therefore it is we say, that the relation of war and peace at this moment does not depend so much on the feeble wishes, or inefficient good dispositions, of a powerless Executive ; but upon the passions or caprice of that many-headed monster whice is the virtical ruler in the State. Let our subject who has suffered such cruel indignity, and in whose person the country to which he belongs has been deeply dishonored, be lynched by the mob, or lynched with the forms of a court of justice, or let him any longer endure a wrongful imprisonment; it is not for us to inquire, or to know by whose error, or weak ness, or aggression the crime is committed, and the deed done; it is on the part of the republicans a national offense, and as such must be atoned for. They have had notice which they have not attended to, and by the fact of that neglect become responsible for whatever consequences follow from it. Most devoutly is it wished that the casus belli may not arise in that aggravated form which would make war inevitable ; but if such should unhappily not prove to be the case, then it will certainly be a matter of strong consolation that Britain has not assumed a hostile attitude, or risen in her might to vindicate her wrongs, till the wrong was clearly established and made manifest in the sight of all men. If the magis trate may not " bear the sword in vain" towards the culpable and disobedient placed under his authority, most assuredly he is justified in defending his people against injuries sought to be inflicted on them by others, or in obtaining redress and indemnity for them if actually committed. If America provoke a war, on her head be the consequences ; we have not sought it. We demand from her a British subject whom she detains unlawfully. In that detention she has already committed a great crime, and flagrant offence towards this nation • should she consummate it by depriving the indivi dual of life, or by still refusing to set him at liberty, we can-,. not see how our Sovereign, as the legitimate protectress of her people, can do otherwise than vindicate their rights by demanding satisfaction from, or inflicting chastisement upon, the guilty authors of such an outrage. War is a great evil, a scourge, a curse, a pest ; but a war undertaken in such a cause, and for such an object as this, would, as it appers to us, have at least justice on its side. We now give the intel ligence received by the Sheridan, as it appeared in our second edition of Friday. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it has come to the knowledge of the Government of the United States that sundry secret lodges, clubs, or as sociations exist on the Northern Frontier ; that the members of these Lodges are bound together by secret oaths ; that they have collected fire-arms, and other military materials, and secreted them in sundry places ; and that it is their pur pose to violate the laws of their country, by making military and lawless incursions, when opportunity shall offer, into the territory of a power with which the United States are at peace ; and whereas it is known that travelling agita tors, from both sides of the line, visit these Lodges, and har , rangue the members in secret meeting, stimulating them to illegal acts ; and whereas the same persons are known to levy contributions on the ignorant and credulous, for their own benefit, thus supporting and enriching themselves by the basest means ; and whereas the unlawful intentions of the members of these lodges have already been manifested in an at tempt to destroy the lives and property of the inhabitants of Chippewa, in Canada, and the public property of the Bri tish government there being ; now therefore, I, John Tyler, President of the United States, do issue this my proclama tion, admonishing all such evil-minded persons of the con dign punishment which is certain to overtake them ; assur ing them that the laws of the United States will be rigor ously enforced against their illegal acts ; and that if in any lawless incursions into Canada, they fall into the hands of the British authorities, they will not be reclaimed as Ame rican citizens, nor any interference made by this govern ment in their behalf. And I exhort all well meaning but deluded persons who have joined these Lodges immediately to abandon them, and have nothing more to do with their secret meet ings, or unlawful oaths, as they would avoid serious conse quences to themselves. And I expect the intelligent and well-disposed members of the community to frown on all those unlawful combinations and illegal proceedings, and to assist the Government in maintaining the peace of the country against the mischievous consequences of the acts of these violators of the law. Given under my hand,at thecity of Washington, the twenty fifth day of September, A.D. one thousand eight hun [L.s,] Bred and forty-one, and of the independence of the United States the sixty-sixth. JOHN TYLER. By the President : DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of State. The Herald says that the organization of these lodges and secret societies is very extensive and per fect, and then proceeds to give the following particu lars, which are designated as a shameful violation of neutrality. If there be any truth whatever in the nar ration, which we very much question, the men en gaged in the transaction were merely volunt eers , an d altogether unauthorised in their proceedings. ANOTHER ATROCIOUS INVASION OF THE AMERICAN SOIL BY THE CUT-THROAT BRITISH SOLDIERY.—By a letter from Alburgh we learn that another atrocious invasion of our territory has been perpetrated by our amiable neigh bours, the British. On Sunday night last, a party of twelve British soldiers, fully armed, crossed over into Alburgh, Vt., from Canada, in three waggons. They then proceeded to the house of Mr. Brown, which is situated four miles this side of the lines, who is brother-in-law of Colonel Gro gan, one of the political refugees of 1838, and who has re sided upon this side ever since. This was about mid night. The brave band of British midnight assassins then stealthily entered the house with bayonets fixed. A portion of them proceeded to the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and with bayonets at their throats threatened them with in stant death in case they made the least noise. The others went to the bed where Col. Grogan was sleeping, seized, gag ged and bound him hand and foot, thrust a bayonet through his leg, another into his side, and in this horrible state, nearly destitute of clothing, he was hurried into a wagon and driven off into Canada. These are the circumstances of this infer nal affair, from a source entitled to the fullest confidence. Colonel Grogan is an American, but for a few years pre ceding the outbreak of 1837, he resided on Caldwell's Manor, some two or three miles from Alburgh, on the Canadian side. An enthusiastic republican, he early in the contest became an object of suspicion and hatred to the loyalist cut throats of Canada. In the winter of 1838, the British soldiery sur rounded his house, drove his helpless wife and children to this side of the lines, on foot, through the inclemency of a Canadian winter, burned his house, and plundered and hid waste his property, to the amount of upwards of 6,000 dols. They will now complete their vengeance by murdering him on the testimony of some perjured scoundrels, such as Bri tish gold never fails to procure. The people now have some of the fruits of Mr. Webster's truckling subserviency to English insolency. The murderer M'Leod, who boasted that he assisted to massacre unarmed American citizens, came voluntarily into the State against whose peace and dignity the atrocious crime was committed, and boasted of his participation it. He was arrested like any other criminal, and ordered to trial before the State Courts. The British Minister demanded his release. Mr. Webster, our federal British Secretary of State, is very sorry his power cannot reach the case. If the matter was left to him, he said he would take the greatest pleasure in surrender ing up this wholesale murderer of American citizens. What further license can the British ruffians ask, than is thus given them by our Secretary of State, for any deed of murder, or kidnapping, which their hellish passions may prompt them to commit. The Canada Tories very well know the powers that he will never trouble them. If this alleged outrage took place at all, there are not the slightest grounds for supposing it was com mitted with the sanction of the British authorities. The account is written in a tone of exaggeration which leads us to have some doubts of its truth, but that Bri tish magistrates connived at it is utterly absurd and improbable. We can afford to bear the abuse of the angry loco focos much better than they will bear the chastisement our arms will inflict upon them in a cer tain contingency. The New Era of the 27th contains the names of the Jury giomopdr w omv h ee o dn 1 : v candid,er e t o try and M intelligent. Leo d , an and who, it says, are all interesting t e e r2e6stth questioni.ng to the The money mar k et was b r i s k er , an d p r i ces ge ner a lly Marge amount of specie was recewed on The of the corn t ra d e was b eco ming very n Cand a s of must becoming be o ura first resource , states . The Herald states that the rst resource, as that country is capablean immense grain-growing one with proper theencouragema been brutall y d firm murder encouragement. S ca t c h ar d an d Ad ams, pprinters,Ndaewmsl,,oof York, hof the name of J. C. Colt had be en arrested on s . 3. us A p i c p i e o r n s oonf '1,3 3 ' ' . '~. " \l. \/ N .E EAR Eibtrpooi attanDarb. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 19, 1841. That Tories are good canvassers, and rather skillful in the management of election affairs, we have the ac .knowledgment of adversaries who desire nothing so much as to profit by their example. The acknowledg ment is at once gratifying and stimulative. It is gra tifying, because there is virtue in a proper use of the attainment ; and it is stimulative, because it' leads us to look for success where the talent is plenarily called into exercise. There is a good occasion at the present moment for a little display of this species of artistic ability; and we would earnestly beg of our Tory friends in Liverpool not to disappoint the public in general by declining to gratify them with a taste of their quality on this occasion. We are called upon, in the first place, to be consist ent; we say consistent, because in our choice of par liamentary representatives we have declared, in com mon with the majority of the nation, that a Whig Mi nistry is not worthy of our confidence ; and it will certainly be both strange and inconsistent if we do not act_upon the same rule, locally, in our choice of muni cipal representatives. There are some, indeed, who pretend to see a distinction between the cases. Local government, say they, is a different thing from na tional; there is no need to embarrass it with political ingredients ; give me a man that will stand up for our local interests, and look fairly to the good of our town, and I care not whether he be Whig or Tory, or what colour he may be of in general politics ; I shall sup port him as my representative in the Council irrespec tively of such considerations. Now if the individuals who delude themselves with such an hallucination be longed to the Whig party, which we have rarely, if ever, found to be the case, we should be exceeding sorry to attempt' awaking them from their dream ; but as they are almost invariably Conservatives, or persons who, on other questions and in other respects, may fairly be reckoned as of our party, we should esteem no pains thrown away that would be likely to relieve them from so great an error. And a great error it is ; because, in the first place, it is casting a stigma on Conservative principles ; it is leaving it to be implied that Conservatism is not the best form of patriotism for every purpose, and that the Conservative body does not afford a sufficiently ample collection out of which to choose a fit and proper municipal councillor. Now a Conservative, if he were well instructed and sufficiently enlightened, would by no means think so meanly of his own principles, or of the party to which he belongs. If he understood the principles of Con servatism thoroughly, he would perceive that they in clude the duties of a good citizen not less in a limited than an enlarged sphere of action towards his locality, As well as towards the state ; and to admit that there is any other better code of rules for his direction in the one relation than in the other, or any so good, is really to admit that there is something unsound in the system itself; and this, we say, is dishonouring to it, doing it despite and injury, and a manifestation of gross ignorance as to its genuine character. But on the other hand, if the doctrine be good, and the sys tem sound for national purposes and general adminis tration, upon what principle should the municipal boundary of a town be debarred from its operation ? There is no such isolation known in our country. Conservatism, or the necessity for it, can be excluded by no such arbitrary demarkation. To administer the local affairs of a district well, they must be adminis tered on the Conservative principle, or there is no truth in it, and, as a necessary consequence, by men who hold that principle; and the Conservative who votes for any other than a Conservative is, consequently, no friend to the immediate circle and community to which he belongs, whatever he may profess or suppose him self to be. The simple question then is, is not every Conservative municipal elector bound to vote for a Conservative municipal candidate ? We answer that question by saying that the man is a traitor to his principles who does not. It is a mistake—quite a mistake—to imagine that the grand political distinctions of Conservatism or Ra dicalism can, or ought to be, shut out from a munici pal contest. If our local affairs were in their charac ter as far removed from anything connected with ge neral politics as the management of a turnpike trust or a river ferryage, which they are not, yet it would be our bounden duty, for other reasons and for other pur— poses, to give to the town the advantage of a Conser vative corporation. Why did we struggle so long and so hard to re-establish Conservatism in the national councils ? Because we were convinced of its value; because daily experience taught us that Radicalism would prove destructive; because, in short, we had no . choice left between the re-instatement of a Conservative Ministry and restoration of a Conservative policy to the State and absolute ruin. Shall we, so far as Liver pool is concerned, now stultify ourselves by exhibiting indifference in 'the choice and composition of our municipal government ? Shall it be said, that though we esteemed and actually discovered that Conservatism was essential to the prosperity of the country nation ally, yet that Radicalism, or Liberalism, or any other ism of that sort would do well enough for our town ? We use these plain arguments because, though of a very simple and obvious kind., they should, if borne in mind, be quite sufficient, in our humble opinion, to stir up the Conservatives to the achievement of an object which, until it is accomplished, leaves their public, political work but half done, and Liverpool in an anomalous state, which is anything but creditable to them. With regard to any specific measures which we might expect a Conservative council would adopt, in contradistinction to those carried out by the Radicals, it is, we conceive, not only premature, but unnecessary to speak just now. The Mercury, indeed, foreseeing the probable issue of the contest, jumps to some con clusions to which we, who creep along the ground, are quite unable to follow him. He draws his inference, on one head, from. the little discussion which took place at the last meeting of the Council between Mr. Har bord, Mr. Alderman Sheil, Mr. Hodgson, and other members, relative to the appointment of Mrs. Boyce to the situation of second mistress to the South Scbool, and a remark made by Mr. Hodgson that the j tloi was eomipg 4vlien gua. alsetwiiour, would not le likely to waste the time of tha Council. But we know of no warrant which any part of the discussion would afiord for the Mercury's lucubration ; that which, we conceive, will be generally thought most remarkable in that conversation was the consummate folly of Mr. Alderman Sheil and his worshipful backer, the mayor --the umistakable doodle and noodle of the transac tion. The one would not allow their schoolmistress to be asked of what religion she is of ; the other clinches the argument by declaring that it is " impertinent" to propose such an interrogatory. Now, we would hum bly ask, are not these very fit persons to have the care of schools, or the appointment of teachers for the rising generation ? We have to thank Mr. Harbord for put ting the question, and eliciting such an exhibition of Popery and Socinianism in the persons of the two worthies above-named, and Mr. Hodgson for the manly candour with which he avowed his opinions; but we repeat, that as to what measures a conservative council will adopt on the subject of education, it is pre mature as yet to speak, and the question need not now be agitated. What we have at present mainly to look to is the ex clusion of radicals, and the election of conservatives— to make our municipal and parliamentary policy homo geneous, and to give to Liverpool what it has too lOng wanted, A DECIDEDLY CONSERVATIVE GO. VERNMENT ! ! ! The recent arrivals from the United States have not solved for us the question of peace or war between Great Britain and the people of that republic ; and yet they have disclosed a state of things existing upon the frontiers of our Canadian possessions which it is im possible to contemplate without serious misgivings. The power of precipitating a collision between the two countries is at this moment placed absolutely in the bands of a band of lawless and savage " sympa thizers" in the northern states of America, whom the government of that country either will not or cannot restrain within the bounds of law and order ; and al though it is quite possible that the immediate cause of jealousy between the two countries—the trial of M‘Leod —may have passed over without those results which have been anticipated, yet it is quite clear that without some immediate and stringent measures are resorted to by the government of the United States to repress the violence of tone and conduct towards Great Britain, displayed by their frontier population, the disastrous calamity of a war between the two countries may be averted for a time, but must ultimately, and at no dis tant period, be the issue. We are no advocates for war, at any time or with any country ; and especially we should view with deep sorrow any serious embroilment with America. As a nation we have no quarrel with her which could justify a resort to the sword for its settlement. As a nation, we do not think that she entertains towards us those feelings which would hurry her government into the adoption of a hostile policy towards us. But the ques tion nevertheless arises and presses for solution—" Can we much longer remain at peace with a country which, whilst it professes towards us sentiments of friendship and respect, neglects, at the same time, to take ade quate steps to restrain its lawless and savage popula tion from making continual inroads upon our territory, and abetting rebellion and outrage amongst a portion of our people ?" This question, we submit, presses urgently for solution; and it must be solved satisfac torily to the British nation before we can hope for any security for our Canadian possessions, or look forward to the enjoyment of any perm'anently peaceful relations with the American government. It may be said, indeed, that the government of the United States has, within the last few weeks, taken measures to repress the hostile aggressions of its fron tier population upon our Canadian possessions. The President has indeed issued a proclamation for the pur pose of discouraging the formation of secret associa tions, amongst the citizens of America, for purposes of hostility to Great Britain ; and threatens those to whom it is addressed with the certainty of condign punish ment—and, moreover, with the withdrawal of Ameri can protection, in case, during any of their lawless incursions, they should fall into the hands of the Bri tish Canadian authorities. But is this all, we ask, which the government of the United States is entitled to perform ? Is it sufficient for a nation, claiming .to be a civilized nation, and to be recognised as such, to declare merely her own non-participation in the out rages which may be committed by the individual peo ple or states which compose it, and to entail upon the country which has the misfortune to be its neighbour the necessity of a constant watch and ward to restrain the commission of those outrages ? On the contrary, it is certainly the duty of such a nation, herself, to take strong and prompt measures upon all occasions when she anticipates that they may be required, to compel her subjects to maintain inviolate her own relations with foreign nations, and to treat any attempt to vio late those relations as an act of rebellion, to be put down with the same rigour as if it had been directed against her own internal arrangements. The government of the United States has not done this ; and the tardy proclamation of her President can not and ought not to be accepted as evidence of a sincere desire for the preservation of peace with Great Britain. It is an acknowledged fact, that the " sym pathisers" of the American frontier, to the number of fifty or sixty thousand men, avowedly waiting only an opportunity to rush into a war of aggression in Canada, are provided with arms from the arsenals of America herself; and it was undoubtedly the duty of the Ame rican government, with the experience of the past be fore it, to take care that an opportunity of providing themselves with such arms should not be left within the reach of its unruly citizens. The American exe cutive.is, or is not, able to coerce its people into the order which is required to be observed in a civilised country. If it is thus able, it is deeply to be censured for having neglected to exert that ability ; if it is not, it has no right to usurp the character and to be treated as an independent power. We trust that, still, we shall be able to preserve our present peaceful relations with the United States; but we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that the pre sent anomalous position of the government of that country with respect to its state legislatures presents abundant grounds of fear for the permanency of those relations. The American government must strengthen its executive power. That government must put down from within the prmdatory spirit of its frontier popula tion ; unless it is resolved to draw down upon itself the just hostility of every country which has established institutions and order to protect—unless it is resolved to throw itself beyond the pale of forbearance from every civilized state. America has its points of weak ness as well as Great Britain; and if by her own ladles" with respect to the conduct of a portion of her people she wantonly pro yokes retaliation, she must not be surprised if Great B..ritain, or any other nation, should cauterize those points of weakness, and stir up the same strife within her own bosom which she is ob viously bent upon raising within those of her oppo nents. The debilitating curse of slavery is upon her. The population of her southern states are within the , reach of the breath of agitation ; and that breath may fan into existence a flame before which all the powers. of her democracy will strive in vain. Let her, then,. not depend too much upon the world's forbearance,. unless she desires to see her advancing prosperity struck down at one desolating blow, and the fabric of half a century's growth prostrated in one hour of wild. outrage by the manacled hand whose blood and toil. have cemented it together ! We had not intended to discuss Mr. WNEILE'S: claims on the fair consideration of a Conservative go— vernment for promotion, but to leave the facts to speak,. which in this case they do most loudly. But the elaborate article upon the subject which appeared in. the Chronicle of Saturday last, written with an affecta-• tion of candour, but with real malice, must plead our apology with the reverend gentleman for a defence , Ntrifich we could well wish had fallen into abler hands. Before Mr. M‘Neile came to Liverpool, his talents } . eloquence, and activity in the cause of our national. church, had made a deep impression on the religious portion of the community ; and wherever he was an nounced to preach or speak, whether in London or the. country, the churches and rooms were found too small to accommodate the multitudes of all classes who thronged to hear him. We well remember the dense masses of attentive auditors by whom he was periodi cally surrounded in the Church of St. Clement Danes, tho Strand, it was at that period of his histavy that ha resisted with such signal success the spread of the Irvingite heresy, In Liverpool he was soon felt. No description of ours can do justice to the almost miraculous effects produced throughout the town by his unwearied minis try in the pulpit, in the school-room, and in the private chamber : for as yet he had not appeared upon our platforms. Gentlemen from all the congregations in the town and neighbourhood, strangers from all parts of the world passing through, dissenters of all denomi nations were to be seen from week to week at St. Jude's. The impreSsion made upon dissenters was manifested by the numbers of Baptists and Quakers whom the reverend gentleman received into the church by public baptism ; and the permanent religious effects may in some 'degree be estimated by the fact that the congregation of St. Jude's contains now between 500 and 600 communicants. The writer in the Chronicle does not know Mr. M`Neile. He admits, indeed, (as who can deny) the brilliancy and power of his speeches on various sub jects, but he can form no idea of the scriptural research, • the solemnity, gravity, depth of reasoning, and clear ness, beauty, and simplicity of illustration which give such a charm to the professedly religious instructions of the reverend gentleman. Frequently have we heard the remark, and felt its justice, that Mr. M'Neile's reading of the scriptures was in itself an elucidating commentary. It was the education question that brought him fully before the Liverpool public, as an orator as well as a divine. It is not too much to say, that our new Church of England Schools would never have been built but for Mr. M`Neile. The success of the enterprise depended upon the sympathy and liberality of the town at the moment ; and no one conversant with the facts of the case will deny, that, the meeting at the Amphitheatre, where that success was secured, would have been a failure, exciting little sympathy and producing little Money, but for his burning eloquence on the occasion. His sermon on the subject, preached the week pre vious, and briefly reported in the Courier, had been made the theme of abuse in the Town-council, and the reverend gentleman himself denounced as a pestilence to the Liberals. This added immensely to the interest excited by that celebrated meeting, and Messrs. Rath bone and Blackburn have good reason to remember the recoil. Mr. M‘Neile next defeated the designs of the volun taries against our church-rates. A meeting of the op ponents of the church was held upon that subject. A meeting of the friends of the church followed, at which the reverend gentleman spoke with his usual efficiency. And when the dissenters called a third meeting, and by a quibbling requisition endeavoured to give it the character of a town's public meeting, Mr. M`Neile at tended, endured patiently the brutal treatment he re ceived, maintained his ground, extorted from an un willing chairman the confession that the meeting was a private one of the friends of a particular measure, and then immediately withdrew, when nearly one-half of the meeting followed him. These things checked amongst us the overflowings of liheralism which followed the passing of the muni cipal reform hill, and gave returning weight and influ ence to the friends and supporters of the Church. It was the reluctant acknowledgment of Mr. M‘Neile's bitterest enemies, that Mr. Cresswell was mainly in debted for his triumph over Mr. Ewart to the results of Mr. M‘Neile's labours in the town. Those labours have been continued with unabated energy. We need not speak upon the important sub ject of church building. St. Silas is a standing monu ment of the reverend gentleman's unprecedented effi ciency with his congregation, and all who know the history of it, know that his energy on that occasion gave practical impulse to the Liverpool Church Build ing Society. His appointment, beyond all competition to be one of the trustees of that society, bore honour able testimony of the estimation in which he was held by the subscribers. To come to events of a later date, Mr. M`Neile's unrivalled exposure of the practical abuses of the Irish registration system is well known, and held in grateful remembrance by every admirer of Lord Stanley and advocate of his lordship's bill. Mr. M‘Neile's speech upon the corn laws was ano ther masterpiece; and however our contemporary of the Chronicle may affect to sneer at the reverend gen tleman's scriptural argument from the history of Tyre, it is gratifying to observe that Sir James Graham thought it of sufficient consequence for adoption in one of his speeches to his constituents, and introduced it as having been used " with vast skill by an eminent and dignified divine." It is our deliberate conviction that no one individual in the kingdom has contributed more than Mr. M‘Neile to our late anti-revolutionary reaction. And this he has done chiefly by awakening among all classes of the community a renewed and intelligent attachment to the Established Church. He has defended the church, not with the mere assertion of arrogant pretension, but by scriptural arguments, which commend themselves more and more to the good sense of the nation. It is not the smallest part of Mr. M'Neile's well earned praise, that in the midst of his popularity, naturally exciting envy, he has remained friendly with all his reverend brethren, and cordially co-operates with all. Is a Missionary or Protestant movement to be made by the evangelical clergy, Mr. M‘Neile is the chief mover of the town. Is a church building or diocesan education movement to be made by the high church clergy, (as they are commonly but improperly called,) Mr. WiNeile gives it the crowning impulse for adop tion and support. We know not whether any serious intention of pro- moting the reverend gentleman be entertained by the government, but we are assured no appointment could be more serviceable to the best interests of the church in these agitating times; and we are assured that no appointment would be more popular, or so popular, with the great bulk of the conservative electors of the United Kingdom. LOCAL NEWS. A RIVAL TO . MR. ALDERMAN EVANS.—A correspondent of the Albion suggests, indeed earnestly recommends, to the reformers the propriety of their putting Mr. John Holmes in nomination for the mayoralty. We should be glad to see both gentlemen nominated. Lord Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at the Adelphi Hotel, on Thursday evening from London, and em barked, on Friday night, for Dublin, in the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's Contract mail-packet the Princess. ENIBEzzLEMENT.—Edward Scott was put forward before Mr. Rushton on Friday on a charge of having embezzled is. the property of John Rooney, a baker, of No. .20, Spring field-street. The complainant deposed thal the prisoner had been in his service about ten or eleven weeks, and that he supplied his customers with small bread. The prisoner was employed to carry it out and to deliver it to his customers. His duties were to receive payment for the bread which he delivered, and to hand over the amounts to his employer. He served Mr. Brannen, of No. 20, Hanover-street, with bread to the amount of 35., and Mr. Lund with bread to the amount of 4s. About two o'clock on Monday afternoon he sent the prisoner to receive the moneys due from those par ties; after having been paid by them he put the amount in his pocket, and was subsequently arrested in a state of intoxi cation in Vauxhall-road. He was committed for trial. STEALING A BOlLER.—William Thompson was charged before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, with having stolen a boiler, the property of Mr. Samuel Martin, of No. 14, Netherfield road North.—Joseph Robertson deposed that he was an ironmonger and locksmith, and that his shop was in Vaux hall-road. About eight o'clock on Wednesday evening last the prisoner and another man brought a hand-cart, with a copper boiler, and a leaden flange, to his door. They said they had brought it from the house of a gentleman who would call in the morning about its value. Witness asked his name. They said he lived in the New-road, but refused to name him. Tne prisoner and his companion then left the boiler in the shop and went away. About eight o'clock the following morning the prisoner called again and asked whe ther the gentleman had come to the shop in the interim. Witness said not. The prisoner said he came to be paid for his trouble, and that he would await the gentleman's arrival. Witness then went out and procured the assistance of con stable 827, by whom the prisoner was taken into custody. John Carty, gardener to Mr. Martin, deposed that he left the boiler safe in the washhouse on Wednesday night, and that on the following morning it was missed. The boiler found was identified as the property of Mr. Martin. The prisoner was committed for trial. STEALING SUGAR.—George Bird was put forward at the Police-office, on Friday, on a charge of having stolen five pounds weight of sugar, the property of Sir Thomas and Jas. Brancker. George Swindles deposed that he was an acting locker in her majesty's customs, and that on Wednesday last he was on duty at Leicester's No. 165, bonded ware house, in Sefton-street. About half-past eight o'clock in the afternoon of that day Mr. Birkett had a lorry at the warehouse door in question. The driver came in and said he had,ealleil for Messrs. Brancker's sugar. Knowing that the Messrs. Brancker had sugar in the bottom room, witness weighed a number of bags of it, and knew that one bag, num bered 471. weighed before leaving the warehouse 1 cwt. 1 qr. 13 lbs. When the lorry had been partially loaded, constable 350 came up and gave witness some information which caused him to, reweigh the bag of sugar No. 474, and he discovered a deficiency-of 5 lbs. The prisoner had been employed by Mr. Birkett as a porter to remove the sugar from the room to the lorry, and when the deficiency was ascertained he was missing. James R. Eastwood, a clerk, deposed that he saw the prisoner make a hole in the bag after it had been placed in the lorry, and .scoop the sugar thereout. He was com mitted for trial. Ronitr,RY FROM THE Pgro , (111 or 4170,—We have., an f; ,•o former occasions, noticed the robbery by some prostitutes £l7O from the person of Thomas Kelly, immediately on his arrival front America. "I esterday another of the parties who robbed him, calling her name Sarah Marshall, was examined at the Police-court, when Kelly swore that she held his arms whilst the others robbed him, but that she also saved his life by requesting her companions not to kill him. She made no defence. Committed to the sessions. SIiOCKING ACCIDENTS.-011 Tuesday afternoon John Dye, a poor Irish reaper on his return from harvest, was passing along Great Howard-street, when a bale of cotton tell from a warehouse several stories high, and struck him to the ground. He was immediately conveyed to the Northern Hospital, Leeds-street, and found to be so dangerously in jured that but slight'hopes are entertained of his recovery. — On the same day Patrick Cormick, while engaged in unload ing the ship Martha Ritchwood, now lying in the Prince's Dock, fell from the deck into the hold. He was immedi ately conveyed to the same hospital, when it was found that he had .sustained a dislocation of the shoulder, compound fracture of the leg, and a severe wound of the hip. He now lies, as may be supposed, in a very precarious state. THE PORTICO CONCERTS.—The second portico concert took place on Friday last, and was extremely well attended. Many of the songs and glees were encored ; indeed, the audience appeared as if they were determined to have enough, and to applaud to the very echo, " till echo did applaud again." Mr. Stott sun,gWade's " I've culled every flower" very well. " Lady of beauty" was capitally and effectually given by Miss Stott, Messrs. Case, Stott, and Davies. Hutton's ballad of " The first adieu" was sung by Miss Stott. This young lady has a sweet voice, but her enunciation is very bad. We could not ascertain what the song was about ; and had it not been announced in the bill as an English song, we should have been in difficulty to state whether it came, as neighbour Constance says, from " or Germany, or France. The chorus, " Daughter of error," was encored. Mr. Davies sung Purcell's tine scena, " Mad Tom," "As it fell upon a day," by Mrs. Armstrong, and Miss Stott was amongst the repetitions : they sung it with much taste. " When a little farm we keep," by Miss Stott and Mr. Hornby, was encored : they gave it wits much spirit. Last evening the third concert came off, and was equally well supported as the others. We believe some pro menade concerts are to begin here upon a novel plan. A BEGGING IMPOSTOR.—Patrick Murphy, a man having the appearance of a decent mechanic, was placed before Mr. Rushton on Saturday last, charged with having solicited alms from a gentleman named Frost, and with having pre sented a begging petition bearing forged signatures. Mr. Frost, on examining the signatures, immediately perceived that several of them purported to have been written by parties with whom he was intimate, and that they were forgeries. He ordered a police officer to be called in : upon which the prisoner, whose demeanour had hitherto been most bland and gentle, as became one who humbly sued for alms, began to show, that, as well as the cunning of the fox, there was in him a spice of the wickedness of the wolf. Rushing at Mr. Frost, he endeavoured forcibly to re-possess himself of the petition. He knew well where the shoe pinched. Could he destroy the petition, the chief testimony against him would be wanting. Mr. Frost, however, held it fast, while the pri soner tugged manfully to carry his object. Finding that he could not get the petition to his mouth, he endeavoured to carry his mouth to the petition, his great object being evi dently to eat his own words. Mr. Frost, however, foiled him, and in due time the officer arrived and took him into custody. In reply to the questions put to him, he said he re sided in Scotland-road, and had received the petition from a person named Smith. The officer sought for this Smith at the place where Murphy said he resided, but no such person could be found. Mr. Rushton 'asked the prisoner what he had to say for himself. He replied that he was passing Mr. Frost's door, when a person requested that he would take that document (the petition) in and give it to the master, waiting for an answer. Mr. Rushton committed the prisoner to gaol for three months. A COOK IN A MESS.—The master of one of the vessels belonging to this port appeared, on Saturday, before Mr. Rushton, to show cause why he refused to pay to William Allen a balance of wages claimed •by the latter. Allen proved, that he shipped at this port to go to Donegal, thence to Quebec, and back to Liverpool, in the capacity of cook, at £3 per month. The defence set up by the captain was, that Allen, having shipped as cook, was unable to perform the duties of that office. In the first place, lie was a man of very filthy habits. He kept his galley in such a condition that it became necessary, at length to turn him out of it in order that it might be put and maintained in decent order. Mr. Rushton requested to be informed, specially, of the grounds for the allegation that he was unable to perform the duty for which he had shipped. The mate and sevaral of the men were called to testify touching the plaintiff's qualifica tions as a cook. From their testimony, it appeared, that when the applicant attempted to make soup, he made, what the sailors called " a regular mess of it." By the way of making it extra good, he put into the pot all the materals lie could think of, boiling herrings, peas, pork, barley, potatoes, and dumplings all up together, thinking, thereby, " to make the gruel thick and slab." Then, it appeared, he had no notion when any articles of food were done. Eggs he boiled too hard, potatoes too soft; he would do a piece of pork till • it was nothing but fibre, and the next day send to the men a piece of beef half raw. Moreover, and above all, he had, spoiled the captain's cakes. Mr. Rushton : " How was that ?" Mate : "He sent some cakes into the cabin, and they were not fit to cat." Allen : " I didn't make 'em. The steward made 'em. He brought 'm to me ready made. It wasn't my business to make cakes." Steward : " Well, if it wasn't you business to make 'em, it were your business to bake 'em. They were properly made, but they were not properly baked. The complaint was, that they were not pro perly done." Alien : " Well, the steward came to me, and he would have 'em whether they were done or not." It was proved, generally, that Allen was but an indifferent cook. The captain, very fairly, called upon the seamen to say what the complaint was worth. One said 30s. a month would be fair wages ; another thought he was entitled to £2. The captain expressed his willingness to give him £2, which was awarded. ROBBERY BY A SHOPMAN.—At the Police-court yester day a genteelly-dressed young man, named Henry Jutres, was charged with having robbed his employer, Mr. Minton, mercer, of Bold-street. The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner was in his service as a shoptnan, and having some reason to doubt his honesty, he asked him on Saturday for the key of his trunk. He produced it, and they went up stairs together, when six silk handkerchiefs and several pairs of gloves were found in it. In the first instance he said his mother had given him the property, but afterwards he con fessed to the robbery. The prisoner had been in his service a month. Mr. Minton then handed up a paper to the bench, which we understood to be a recommendation of the prisoner to mercy on the ground of his respectability. Mr. Rushton said, he should b glad to attend to the recommendation, but the public had a right to be protected against depredations of this sort. Felony by a person in the situation of the prisoner was aggravated by the respectability of his position. A poor creature who stole from necessity there was no sym pathy for, except in common with all the unfortunate ; but where a man in good clothes, and without the temptation of necessity plundered, the respectability of his position came in to weaken justice. This was the exact position in which the prisoner stood. Mr. Minton had made this charge against him, and though it was a painful duty to send the prisoner for trial, it was his duty, and he should do it. The prisoner was then sent for trial at the ensuing sessions. Sr. HELEN'S.—SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—A tradesman of this place, a brazier and tin-plate worker, named John Critchley, met with his death on Saturday week, under most painful and exciting circumstances. The deceased, accom panied by his wife, had been out . the evening previous, and,• a before returning home, called at public-house, where they continued until the multiplicity and strength of their pota tions subdued the husband's propriety. When they left the carousal, which was at an early hour after midnight, Critch ley was much,inebriated. On their arrival home, a quarrel ensued between the husband and wife, the consequence of which was that the latter determined to take up an apart ment separate from the husband for the night. Soon after she had retired she heard a noise, as of some one falling ; but imagining it was merely her husband staggering to and fro in his room, she contented herself, and went to sleep. She arose at her usual hour next morning ; but shocking, indeed, to her feelings must it have been when, on descending the stairs, she found her ill-fated husband a stiffened corpse. Medical assistance was, however, procured, and it was found that the neck of the deceased was dislocated, and, by other bruises on his body, there was no doubt but he had fallen down stairs, which caused the noise his wife heard before going to sleep, but, perhaps, unfortunately attributed to an other source. An inquest has been held, and a verdict of " found dead" returned. PRESTON AND WYRE RAILWAY.—On Tuesday the half yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at their office in King William -street, London. The chair was taken by Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart. It appeared from the report, that in spite of the manufacturing distress and the unfavourable state of the weather ' the traffic on the railway from the Ist of April to the Ist of October had been to the extent of 107,920 passengers, which was considerably beyond that of the former half-year. A steamer, called the Express, daily plied on the lakes, and other steam-boats were now going between Fleetwood and the Isle of man, White haven, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and a large traffic was going on between Belfast and the manufacturing districts of Lan cashire. The commerce of the port of Fleetwood had in creased so extensively as to dictate the necessity of a dock for large vessels, and to leave the quay free for steam-boats and coasters. The iron facing of the wharf at Fleetwood, and a pier for landing cattle at all times of tide, were completed. A large edifice, called the North Euston Hotel, had been erected. and a church had been finished and consecrated, and the new town of Fleetwood was forming rapidly. The works of the railway stood well. The total cash for traffic during the half-year was £20,8-11, which left a net profit after ex penses of £8,504 ls. 5d., which was to be appropriated to the payment of a dividend of £1 ss. per share of £25. The total cash received on account of the railway was £310,000, and toward.; the harbour X 67,000. A 1.1- 13 e suns being still necessary for the completion of the other works of the com pany, a further issue of new shares of £25 and a reduced rate was proposed by the directors. Mr. Phillpotts having suggested an alteration in the report, it was agreed to and then adopted. A vote of thanks was then passed to the directors for their gratuitous services, and the meeting ad journed. GROSS MISCONDUCT, AND DISMISSAL OF A POLICE OFFICER. Two young men, of respectable appearance, named Abraham Hollis and Frederick Buxton, appeared at the police- cour t, yes t er d a y, b e f ore M r . Rushton and Mr. Houghton, having been admitted to bail to answer a charge preferred against them by police-officer No. 111, whose name is William Ton. The officer stated that, about ten o'clock on Saturday night, he observed the prisoners in St. John's Market going about from stall to stall without purchasing any thing, and suspecting them, he took them both to the market-office. There he searched them and found two rabbits upon them which they said they had bought in the market. On being asked where they had obtained them they pointed out the stall, and it was found that their statement was true , yet, notwithstanding this, he carried them to Hotham-street Bridewell, where he booked them as drunk and disorderlY• Mr. Rushton asked the officer why he had not set them at liberty when he had ascertained that their story was true? The officer replied that he was afraid of being reported to the Watch Committee. Mr. Rushton then said the conduct of the officer had been most disgraceful. Having ascertained that the story of the young men was true, and clearly know ing that to be the fact, in order to save himself, lie came into court and said he had locked them up although he knew them to be innocent. The officer must be broken, and he s hould not enter the force again. The young men must be dis charged. He was very sorry for what had occurred to them ; their only remedy for what they bad suffered was by action , at the same time it• was a sacrifice which all good men mus t make up their minds to submit to. The conduct of the officer had been unfeeling, but lie could only pledge himself that he should not be taken on the force again, and he kilo; that he would not be admitted without his (Mr. Rushton s) consent. The officer on duty at Hotham-street Bridewell said when the officer brought the young men there, he said he knew them to be bad characters, and he had taken them upon suspicion, and on this account he insisted upon having them booked. Witness was rather doubtful of the case, be cause lie observed that the officer was the worse for nevertheless he did book them, but told the head constable immediately on his arrival. Mr. Rushton.—You ought to have sent to me and 1 would . have discharged them. M r ; Whitty said the Bridewell keeper's instructions were to set-1 for the inspecto r , in all such cases. On his (Mr. Whitty ,d ) arrival he thought the young men were not booked, but t(.? his great surprise they Mr. Rushton said there had were. 1 r. been a want of due caution on the part of the Brid ewell keeper, and it must not occur again. The bridewell k ee p er . said be was. very sorry for what occurred , bu t he would. be more caref u l in future. The parties then left the court.