The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

.~. ~__.~ TO CORRESPONDENTS. In the adve!ti , etnent of the I.!ccnsed Victuallers• Ball, in our last pubiicAion, the price of the tickets was ttated t) be 138. instea4 of Os. The gentleman alluded to by " Fair Play" is certainly deservng of 'be homur, by birth, dignity, and princely liberality; and wer we assured that he desired the office, we sir old Le the first to enforcz his c'ahns to the utmost of our power. We were conspelted at a late Hour to withdraw several letters and paragraphs. Cbt ittnrpuol TUESDAY MO RA ING, NOV. 5, 1844. We should imagine that the result of Friday's municipal contests must have convinced all but the stupidly obstinate of the Radical party in this town of their unhappy and hopeless political imbecility. "The friends of justice to all classes, and the welfare of the town at large,"—as our poor Mercury ludi crously styles his faction—have been victorious in one contest ! " A number of persons of a certain description"—as the same oracle styles the Conser vative candidates for municipal honours—have de feated, in fair fight, the " well-connected gentlemen, fit to appear in the pubic service, and able to com prehend the bearings of questions affecting the general and local policy of this great community ; and— strange to say !—tbat community itself has had the casting voice in the struggle. Surely in this there must be something Radically wrong. We must want a reform of the Municipal Reform Bill ; and we long to know what is to he the specific, by which the Radical faction—the rejected of the people-- the despised of the constituencies which themselves createde--are to be restored to authority in the local affairs of our borough. Positively, if things go on at the present rate, before long we shall not have a single specimen of the genus to ornament and en lighten the Council chamber—a calamity to be de plored! We wish we could say that the faction have made their exit from the political arena like gentlemen. They have not. Their proceedings on this occasion have exhibited them in a very different light, as we shall briefly shew. In North 'l'oxteth they carried the contest to a close, with a candidate who had not only declared, by letter to his committee, that he " could not, on any consideration whatever, under take the duties of a common councillor," but had even intimated that, if they persevered, and he was elected, they mu s t "be p re p are d t o p a y th e fine of his nan-serving of the (Sive." Surely this was wan ton and disgraceful factiousness ! In -South Tox teth, again, they fought the contest against the Con-• servative, with a candidate wit) had previously de clared by letter that he " most decline, in the most explicit manner, the honour" of t, ing proposed; and enumerated such a list of bodily afflictions to prevent him, as rendered the liberty taken with his name a piece of heartless cruelty. The very letter in which this intimation was conveyed, and which stated that, "whilst I am writing I am writhing with .pain," should surely have preserved him from being so indecently trifled with, and from the additional pain of the defeat which has resulted. The nomina tion of Mr. Gladstone for Great George's Ward, in the Radical interest, contrary to his expressed wishes, is similarly scandalous, whilst the pro ceedings of the faction in Pitt-street are perfectly disreputable to all parties connected with them. The most rotten of the disfranchised rotten boroughs never took more scandalous measures for getting up a contest, or proved themselves less worthy of the franchise, than the parties in question. We are sure that the whole of these proceedings will meet with the reprobation of the respectable members of the Whig-Radical party. No course can he ima , ined so eminently calculated to prolong their exclusion from the confidence of their fellow townsmen, than a continuance of such practices. We beg pardon: there is one influence almost equally efficacious, viz : the twaddling insolence with which their opponents are continually bespat tered by such scribes as those of the Liverpool Mercury, of which the article from which we have quoted above, affords a few specimens. Whig- Radicalism in Liverpool has indeed cause to ex claim "save me from my friends !" The announcements conveyed in the address of Mr. Moss, at the meeting of the Grand Junction Comp-my, on Friday last, possess an interest not only to the holders of shares iu that Company, but to all who are embarked in Railway undertakings. We are now formally made aware of the fact, which we hat always aniicitytted, that those two great Railway properties, the Grand Junction, and the London and Birmingham Lines, have ceased to be carried on in conci.rt with e .cli o; her—have entered indeed upon a course of antagonism-; and we have, in the address in question, the opinions of a gentle man, perhaps better and more intimately conversant with Railway management than any other man in the kingdom, as to the effect, upon the interests of the Company over which he presides, of the unfor tunate split which has taken pli.ce. These opinions we purpose examining, having first, however, briefly noticed the proceedings which the Grand Junction Company have resolved upon adopting, with a view of strengthening their position. The course, Mr. Moss states, is for the GrandJ unc- • tion, "to be prepared for any alternative" : and an nounces that, accordingly, "all needful measures are being taken for putting before parliament their Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, and also their Shrewsbury and Stafford Lines," relying upon the judgement and fair consideration of the Board of Trade, to decide which of the rival schemes offered, are the most likely to be conducive to the public benefit. Mr. Moss cannot think that parliament will allow new lines to be made, running parallel and close to the Line of the Grand Junction Com pany ; but, allowing the worst to happen, and such competition to be directed against them, he believes . that, " the lines authorised, or to be authorised, north and south, as well as in Ireland, will, to a great extent, compensate them for any loss of traffic which threatens them"; and, he reminds the share holders that they possess an advantage in the race of competition, arising from the cheapness of con struction of their own Railway. He depends, too, upon the arrangements recently made and contem plated, for promoting the convenience of the public, amongst which, he mentions most prominently, the increased number of second class trains already pro vided; the increased comfort and reduced price of the third class trains, and improvements now mak ing, and hereafter to be made at their stations. From all these considerations, he deduces the con clusion that, "if parliament would only protect them against unnecessary competing : Lines, the public would be vastly benefited, for the Company have no wish for exclusive advantages, their view being to divide with the public the profit of increased traffic, both in the way of low prices, and increased accommodation!' We agree with the bulk of the opinions here ex pressed ; and, with Mr. Moss, feel assured that par liament will not sanction any needless competing Lines, provided the Grand Junction fairly, and in earnest set themselves to the work of providing all the reasonable accommodation within their power to the various important localities which lie adjacent to their Line. We cannot, however, but regard it as an unfortunate circumstance, and one calculated to weigh seriously against them with any Commit tee, before whom their claims to protection may be laid, that they have hitherto do ne so ver y, v er y littl e in, this direction, considering the vast margin of profit at., their disposal. A Company, which con cedes'to the loudest requirements of the public only upon_ compulsion, is not usually the object of public sympathy, when attacked in their monopoly :and we are nor, therefore, so certain as we should other wise have been —nor, we suspect, is Mr. Moss him self—that several of the proposed competing Lines, to which, as natural appendages to their own Line, the Grand Junction Company might have fairly laid claim, will not be thrown into the hands of their present projectors. The legislature, as evidenced by the Railways Regulation Bill of last year, appear to have arrived at the conclusion that some strong coercive poli c y i s requ i re d to force ex i st i ng C om• panics into concessions to the convenience of the public; and there are many schemes sanctioned last session, which tend to prore th a t th e w eapon, in which their greatest reliance is plac e d, is encourage ment to compet i ng Lines. We cannot, therefore, assure the proprietors of the Grand J unct i on Li ne, o f i mm unity from legislatorialro y inthe pe r r e t iirisal for the past. Their fancied exclusive p through which their Line runs w i ll,we are confident, be strongly and successfully attacked; and, although we rely, with as great a confidence as Mr. Moss himself, in the elasticity and resources of the con cern over whose interests he so ably and honestly presides, we fear that, for a time, the . shareholders must prepare for some sacrifices of in t e rest upon their i nvestments an d l ess imposing dividends. The future welfare of the concern i s, however, still in the hands of the direction, and may be ad vanced, or sacrificed, according to the extent to which they prepare themselves to carry out those improvements of which their important Line is so capable, and, we may add, so greatly in need ; and here we may address to them a few words of advice —of complaint indeed—suggested by that portion of Mr. Moss's speech which points to the proposed future proceedi-igs of the Company. Mr. Moss al ludes to improvements to be made in the Company's stations. We have heard too of projects for short ening the Line from near Warrington to Liverpool, by which, the outrageously large angle, at present seen upon the map of this line, will, to some extent, be cut off. But really, and seriously, we must tell the Board that, such alterations as we have heard are, in projection will not satisfy, and ought not to satisfy, the public. The Company must do some thing on a more extended scale. They must not hope to be permitted to drag their traffic some miles round to a junction with the Liverpool and Man chester at I-luyton or Rainhill, for the sake of saving the cost of an independent station. Both stations of the Liverpool and Manchester Line are already incompetent enough for the accommodation of its own legitimate business; and when so great a dis tance can be saved by the Grand Junction, by a di rect line from near Runcorn Gap to the south end of the town, the expense of a separate station and tunnel ought not to be an object of consideration, with a Company so wealthy and prosperous as this has ever been, and is at the present moment. In such an effort the public and the legislature would recognize a bona-lide desire on the part of the Com pany to make the best use of the extensive means at their disposal; and without such an effort we are satisfied that the encroachments of rival undertak ings must go on and become, at no distant date, seriously damaging to their interests. We have made these remarks with all good feel ing towards those of our fellow-townsmen, and others who are embarked in this undertaking, and we trust that they will be taken in the same spirit in which they are offered. They may be found worthy of consideration. The retirement of Mr. Sands from the office of Mayor, at the close of the municipal year, affords us an opportunity, which we gladly embrace, of making a few remarks upon the mode in which he has dis charged the important functions of that high office. Mr. Sands, it will be remembered, entered upon the discharge of those functions under circumstances of some difficulty. A charge had been preferred against him, affecting his private character as a mer chant; and some men there are who would have preferred to waive their claim to such an honour, rather than undergo the searching ordeal necessary to clear them from the imputations brought against them. Mr. Sands was not such a man. He went boldly to the proof of the perfect purity of his actions. He was absolved from every thing which could savour of even the appearance of dishonoura ble conduct, by an imprtial tribunal ; and he en tered upon his duties, as Mayor of the second town in the empire, with a character for probity and honesty, not sallied in the slightest degree by the attempt made to do it injury. Entering upon such an office under such circum stances, the conduct of Mr. Sands in his official ca pacity has naturally been more strictly subjected to criticism than, otherwise, it might have been; and we rejoice to say that even the tongue of malice can not bring against it an imputation. We do not affect to say that it has been to our own perfect sa tisfaction. Upon one subject, and upon one alone (which will be sufficiently recognized by those who have beea in the habit of perusing our leading columns), we have felt it necessary to object to his proceedings and opinions. We pass this by, how ever. We know that, on that occasion, the conduct of the Mayor was dictated from motives the most pure of what he was led to believe was his duty ; and we:readily forbear all further notice of the subject We can well afford to an honourable man the right of private judgement, and esteem him still honest and consistent, ;iltliough he may differ from us upon any particular point not all-important to the cause of which we are the humble and unworthy advocates. In the hands of Mr. Sands,—and we have watched his career attentively,—the duties of the Mayoralty of Liverpool have been performed with dignity and credit to the tow-, over which he has had to preside. It has fallen to his lot, during his tenure of office, to dispense the hospitalities of the Town-hall to many distinguished visitors. It has I been his privilege to entertain royalty ; and none who have attended his entertainments upon any of these occasions can say that the honor and credit of this great town were not munificently sustained by him. But better even than this,—because mere vanity and ostentation could not he said to have been the impelling causes of action—we point to the readiness shewn by Mr. Sands, on all occasions, to make his high office subserve to the cause of charity and the social amelioration of his fellow-townsmen. In this use of his dignity no man within our memory has excelled the gentleman of whose merits, as Mayor of Liverpool, we are at present recording our humble opinions. We take leave of the subject. It required not even this length of remark. We may, h- wever, further express our grateful sense of the personal amenity which has ever distinguished Mr. Sands, whilst occupying his high office; and assure him that he will retire into his station as a member of the council with the good wishes of all, with whom his more elevated station has brought him into contact. A paragraph appeared in the Journal of Saturday, and was copied into the Albion of Monday, contain ing statements respecting the forthcoming election of mayor, and aldermen of this borough, to which we feel bound to give the most decided contradiction. It is asserted—and sneeringly asserted too—that Mr. James Lawrence is to he elevated to the mayoralty, by a species of compromise with other gentlemen, supposed to be aspirants to the office, and agreed to at a preliminary meeting of Conservative members of the Council ; and a list of names is given of the parties to be elected aldermen, as a set off to the withdrawal of opposition to Mr. Lawrence. The whole of these details are pure inventions,—as false as they are utterly ridiculous. No such preliminary meeting as is spoken of has been held. Of that we are well assured. And, further, we are perfectly confident that Mr. James Lawrence would never submit to owe his elevatio n to the mayoralty to such a degrading compromise with other aspirants, as is alleged to have taken place. Mr. Lawrence submits his claims to that honour entirely to the unbiassed and unbought con sideration of the members of the Council; and we believe will be elected by their unanimous voice, although certainly in accordance with no procon certed arrangement by which his honor can be com promised. With respect to the parties to be elected to the office of aldermen, we are assured that not only has no such arrangement—no such "compromise"— been entered into, upon the terms alleged by the Journal, and , copied by the Albion, but no arrange ment at all has, at this moment, been come to, or, so far as we are aware, attempted. We could not point, nor do we believe that any other man could now point, to the name of a single gentleman whose aspirations to the honor of election to the office of alderman is secure, or, from any other consideration than his merit, likely to be responded to by the majority of the Council. We are unwilling, for reasons which on a former occasion we have given, to enter more at length into this subject, or to suggest anything to the Council with respect to the course for them to adopt. We leave the elections to he made unreservedly to th e i r good judgment and consideration. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGIIT. — The funds have scarcely supported the currency of yesterday. business having been limited, and the market closing early. Con sols for money left off this afternoon 994 to ; and for the account, 991 to par. B ink Stock closed 203 to 205 ; India Stock, 287 to 289; India Bonds, 89s. to 91s. pre raium ; '1 hree per Cents. Reduced, 99 to k ; New Three and-a-quarter per Cents., 101/ to 101 ; and Long Annui ties, 12. Exchequer-bills continue to feel the influence of tb- increased demand for money, leaving off to-day at 655. to 675. premium, which within the last fortnight shows a decline of Bs. premium in the.e seeuritie., the quotation having been previously 735. to 755. premium. In the foreign market business was of the least impor tance. Spanish is quoted rather firmer, but the Stock Exchange Lad closed before The Times was received in the city with the news of the attempt to assassinate Ge neral Narvaez and Baton de Meer. The effect is antici pated to be unf-tvourable when the market opens on Mon day. Spanish Three per Cents. this afternoon closed at 35/ to 1; Five per Cents., 234 to 24. The other prices i p ; ere Dutch nt 1: 9 w 5 o 4 • • were--Belgian, 101 to 102 ex div. ; Brazilian, 85/ to 86i; Chilian, 101 to 103 ; Colombian, in to 14; Danish, 884 to 9 Fo B u 9 r ; a -tHh the l iv f i p v e e r Cents ., Cents., 211 9 7 1 0 ,• 9 t 9 h e ; a to nd i Mexican, 344 to the Deferred, 15 P " 1184 to 194. to 4: and Russian, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WATCH COMMITTEE AND THE LATE HEAD-CONSTABLE. We must say that we have seldom approached a subject with greater difficulty —with greater regret, that the duty should be imposed upon us,—than we now approach the consideration of the questions h at issue between Mr. Miller, one late H ea d- consta bl e , and the Watch Corn• mittee. Upon the appointment of this gentleman to his onerous and important office, we imagined that we re cognised, in his character and reputed fitness, abundant motives for his selection by the Watch Committee. We advocated his claims accordingly ; and, up to a very recent period, we have been under the impression that he was fulfilling the expectations of that committee and of the town Tie event of his retirement, even, we regarded as only attribtrable to a mistake, on his part, of his duties, arid a wrong impression as to the extent to which he was subject to the controlling power of the Committee. Upon this subject we knew that differences had arisen, which we trusted that the good sense of Mr. Miller would ena ble him to reconcile with the perfect peribrmance of his duty. Entertaining these views, we regretted the ne cessity which he felt of resigning his trust, and were pre pared to pert with him in the perfect conviction that he had done his utmost to earn the respect, even although he could not fulfil the expectations, nt the body by whom he was appointed. We would willingly have been left under these impres sions, as, we are sure, would the '\arch Committee. But—oh what a curse it is to have injudicious advisers, or a headstrong temper!—Mr. Miller has not been con tent with the considerate manner in which the reasons for his retirement hive been sought to he placed before the public by the Watch Committee, but has rushed into print, with an evident inclination to provoke a contro versy and a sifting of the whole subject of his conduct in the office which he held. With the letter from him which has resulted it is now our duty to deal ; and being driven by himself to the performance of that duty, he cannot complain if we do it unreservedly. Mr. Millecwishes it to be understood that the sole ground of his offence is his disobe.yal of express orders on the day of the laying of the foundation stone of the docks at Birkenhead. Of the precise degree of his cul pability, here, more anon. In the meantime we must beg to remind him that. although with the charitable intent to allow his character to go forth to the world with as little damage as possible, his admitted neglect, or viola tion of orders on this occasion was alleged by the Watch Committee as the ground of their diss?rtisfaction with him, it was not, as he must well know, the only ground. Mr. Miller was not discharged because of his proceedings on that day. A select committee had for a week pre viously, as was well known, through the press, and par ticularly well known to himself, been sitting to inquire into the general conduct of the police, his own conduct included. On the very day of his admitted delinquency, the general committee had been summoned, by the secre tary's letter, dated four days previously, to, receive the report of the special committee. It was received during his absence from the duties prescribed to him on that day; and we state without reservation that. wi h that re port before it, independent of any thing else, the Board could have had no other alternative than that of enforcing Mr. Miller's removal from his office. The late head coe stable therefore is a little disneenuous when he makes use of the Board's kind consideration for his own future pros pects, to raise a charge of undtre severity against him. And now, with respect to the circumstances under which Mr. Miller went to Birkenhead, in direct contra riety to the orders of the Wateh Committee. We give, at foot, his own statement, and proceed to supply the real facts, which are a little tortured, and such parts of them as it suits h s purpose to conceal suppressed by him. An application was made to the Watch Committee of Liverpool, by the Birkenhead commissioners, for a num ber of the force to attend on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new docks, in order to prevent any breaches of the peace which might occur. To this application the Watch Committee acceded, by granting a force of fifty men for the occosion, to be sent under the superintendence of an inspector; and, on a subsequent application from Mr Miller to be permitted to accompany them, he was informed that the arrangements were already made, and that an inspector was sufficient. The subsequent proceedings of Mr. Miller are detailed in his letter sub joined : but some very important circumstances, bearing materially upon the conduct of the chairman of the board, whom Mr. Miller accuses of unauthorised interference, are omitted to be mentioned. Mr. Miller says, correctly, that on his return in the afternoon, he was reproved by the daily hoard, then sitting. He was, in addition, in formed that he must for the remainder of the day confine himself to the superveillance of the force in the town ; and that the charge of the police attending at the Pier head and at Birkenhead was to be confided to Mr. Dow ling. A resolution of the daily board to that effect was duly recorded in their minutes ; and yet Mr. Miller's own letter acknowledges his contumacious disregard cf its requirements.. He deliberately took upon himself to perform Mr. Dowling's duties. He ordered an additionel force to be sent over to Birkenhead; and, when remon s:rat d with by Mr. Lawrence and reminded of the res.. motion of the Committee, he persisted in refusing to faith. draw that order. He argues in his letter, in defence Of such refusal, that he was not subject to the individual (Tders of the Chairman of the Watch Committee. We say that he was at least bound to obey the resolution of the Board itself, and abstain from interference with that portion of the force which had been placed under the erders of Mr. Dowling. We tell him mo:eover that Mr. Lawrence had authority to interfere, bring null orised by the Committee t s see their orders carried into effect ; and w e tell him, further, that Mr. Lawrence never did so in terfere as he has represented din doing. Mr. Lawrence never sent back a man of the Force. Mr. Dowling, who was in charge of the Porno, end to whom it wael ft tojudge of the necessity of their proceeding to Birkenhead, did what Mr. Miller states to have been so officiously done by thy Chairman himself. We are sorry that Mr. Miller has compelled us to enter into these particulars, and much suspect that, in the pro ceedings which he has taken in this matter, he has been misled by evil advisers. We know, and he knows himself too, that the conduct of the board towards him has been most considerate ; they were forbearing to the last. Wilful men however—and he certainly appears a most wilful on. will have their way, and must of course bear the conse quences. If Mr. Miller is not satisfied to do so—if he wishes a public investigation into his case—let him de mand an enquiry into all the circumstances of his conduct since he took charge of the force, and we are confident it will not be refused him. Will he try this issue? It is a more manly one than the course which he is at present pursuing. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. SIR,—A. report of the Daly Bo ird of the Watch Com mittee having now been published as part of the proceed ings of that committee read at the last Council, wherein I am charged with having " been guilty of a flagrant dis obedience of orders," I feel it necessary to the vindica tion of my character with the public to enter into an ex planation of the circumstances which led to my resigna tion of the offic... of Hea I•constable ; and I hope you will allow me. the medium of your paper for that purpose. I at once admit that my orders from the Daily Board, with respect to the Birkenhead festival, were, that a force of fifty men, under a superintendent. should he sent to attend there, at,d, as readily, that I subsequently deviated from those orders. But, under what circumstances, and whether I was justified by them, or, at any rate, that the committee are, not justified in using the strong expres sions above quoted, are points on which I confidently appeal to the public. Mr. Layct•ck had, previously to the festival, invited me to breakfast wit h him on that day, which friendly invitation I accepted. On the day before the festival, Mr. Laycock called on me, at my office, and, after a few minutes con vereation and renewing his invitation, was leaving the room, when Mr. James Lawrence and one or two other gentlemen entered. A few words th-n passed between them, Mr. Laycock saying, that he wished Mr. Lawrence had permitted me to take charge of the force, and Mr. Lawrence replying, that the committee had already granted a force of fifty men ; and that he thought that, with a suorrintendent, would be quite sufficient. It might be inferred, from the report, that an application had been made for my services, and a refusrl, "in the strongest" terms possible," had been formally given by the Daily Board. If so, I was not acquainted with it, and only heard the passing conversation above alluded to. In the evening I made what appeared to me sufficient arrangements for preserving the peace in Liverpool ; and the morning of the festival, I crossed over to Mr. Lay cock's, and with no other intention than of accepting his invitation. and returning again to Liverpool about ten o'clock. When the procession was forming, same con fusion occurred from the pressure of the multitude of people, and I was then urged by several influential gen tlemen to marshall the procession. Fearing mischief might ensue if this act were not at once promptly per formed, I consented, and gave my services, and, as the first necessary step, I took the Liverpool force under my own orders, thereby, as I admit, deviating fiom the di rections of the Daily Board. On my return to Liverpool, I was called before the Daily Board and reproved for this interference. I expressed my regret at having given offence, but that 1 was not conscious of having acted wrongly. In the evening, between eight and nine o'clock, I re ceived official reports that the men who had been on duty the whole of the day at Birkenhead were completely ex hausted ; and that the crowds of people in the streets, and about the terry, rendered a reinforcement indispens able. I, therefore, acting on my own responsibility, ordered an inspector and twenty men to proceed to Bir kenhead. When this additional force was on the point of embarking, Mr. James Lawrence called at the Pentral Station, and asked by whose authority these men were sent. I answered, by my own. He desired me to with draw the order. I declined to do so, stating that I con ceived that 1 was carrying out the views of the committee /).V supporting the force which they had ordered to go t o Birkenhead, and toat I did not consider lie was entitled, in his individual capacity, to interfere. Mr. Lawrence then left me, went down to the Pierhead, and, in direct opposition to me, ordered the men to go back to their beats, with the exception ()flour or five, whom he di rected to proceed to Birkenhead. Mr. Lawrence shortly afterwards gave instructions for the withdrawal of the whole force from Birkenhead. About midnight I again saw Mr. Lawrence, when he informed me of this inter ference, and I then told him that he had compromised me in the eyes of the whole force, and that I felt it was impossible for me any longer to retain the office of Head constable with advantage to the public or with honour to myself. Had the report of the committee which is published been confined to the result, namely, my resignation, or, having entered into some detail, had it given an impartial narrative of the above circumstances, I should have re mained silent ; but I cannot allow such reflections as it contains to pass unnoticed. It is impossible for me, in this limited space, to en t er into any explanation of my .general conduct. The committee and I differed as to the extent of power and discretion which ought to be vested in the Head-constable for the due and efficient performence of this responsible office. I will add, in conclusion, for the satisfaction of the many influent al gentlemen in this town who took an interest in ray election, the following cp , . - imunication which I received from Sir James Camp bell since my arrival in Liverpool, tes ifying the opinion which he and a large portion of the community of Glas zow entertained of my services as Superintendent of Po licy there, after a discharge of the duties during eight years. _ 1 am, sir, your most obedient servant, 11. MILLER. Liverpool, Ist Nov., 1844. [Mr. Miller then gives a letter which enclosed the very handsome subscription of £360 by persons in Glasgow.] LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO A FRIEND IN MISFORTUNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sta,—The following letter was left at my house on Saturday last, evidently by mistake, and as the - direction was torn off, I take the liberty of forwarding it to you, under the impression that by your extensive circulation, it may meet the eye of the eentleman for whom it seems to have been intended. I wish the postmen would be more careful. The seal was unfortunately broken. I am, Sir, Your.; obediently, PHELAN b'BOTHEREM. Clarence Dock, Nov. 4, 1844. DEAR WILL,—I told you a week ago how it would be! but you are a pig-headed fellow, and will always have y?urown way. Why on earth did y ou com p rom i se th e dignity of the family, by contesting such an out of the way place—such a compound essence of vulgarity—such an Australia and Caliphornia as St. Anne's Ward. I re collect seeing by the newspapers, that there was indeed such a spot; but it was one, where nothing but savages had been seen, and where it was destruction to a gentle man to have been heard of in its precincts. Don't you see now what a fo , -1 you have made of yourself, by putting out such a ridiculous placard on the walls? And how all sober, sensible men laughed at it! The most provoking thing of all is, that notwithstanding the lies put forth by the Radical press, about Parker's beer barrels, and the poor Papists, whom he bribed to sell themselves for a quart of his double X, there were scarcely any of the gentlemen in the ward would condescend to favour you with a vote. I went in a quiet way to look at the fellows who voted for you ; and I am ashamed to say, that striking a fair average, the lowest of the low, the priest driven creatures and the cadaverous homunculusses who registered their votes for you, ought to sicken you for attempting any more to get into Council. Your attenuated dignity is gone for ever. and the best thing you can do, is to quit Liverpool, until your unseemly speeches are forgotten, and until your services are wanted! Depend upon it that you arid Bolton, and Ra . hbone, and Shiel, and Holt, and Dicky Vaughan—what's-his-name ?—are a flock of gone geese. Your cackling has betrayed you, and the whole of you may be politically slaughtered a hundred times over, betore any golden eggs can be discovered among the whole batch. You see what your violence and folly have done. It would not have signified a farthing if you had made a political suicide of yourself; but you have sunk our party —we are irrevocably and irretrievably ruined. What with your furious and dirty speeches—Walmslev's 'ambition—Evans' warehouse scheme—Barclay's stories in the Wavertree omnibus—your discharging all the old and tried servants of the Town-hall, and your republican aristocracy, we are done for, for the next twenty years; and those cursed Tories, who seem most unaccountably to have the popular voice with them. will ride rough-shod over us for the rest of our lives ; and they have got the government, the parish, the corporation, the docks, the highway board, and everything e!se, down to the very news-rooms, under their own thumbs. It is lamentable and abominable; but it cannot be helped, and the best thing we can do is to submit with resignation. We shall have two Tory representatives for the rest of our days, as sure as a gun. I don't think there is the slightest chance for us now, unless we could get up a cry of universal suffrage and annual parliaments, and so come in again for a year or two upon the surge of the revolutionary wave ' • and I think it would be a capital move. To be sure Louis Philippe won't fight • O'Connell is going down, and the Anti-Corn-Law League is already gone; the church is too strong; people are sick of the school question, and think that the schools are going on very well as they are; and then there's Brooks and M`Neile among the parsons—(confound them both !) ' • and there's Jim Aspinell amongst the gentlemen ; Sir Thomas amongst the merchants; Sam Holme amongst the trades. men ; and scores of those hard-headed, ignorant ship wrights, and others of the Conservative democracy, who ; , re all ugly fellows to grapple with, and are not easily put down. What fools we were to throw the whole in fluence of the town into the bands of the shopocracy and trading classes! Why, there's dozens of tradesmen who have had the audacity to learn Latin ! and unless we hold the candle to the middle classes, as they call themselves, we have no resource but to budge. Bur, my dear Will, you must turn over a new leaf : you must pot be so very violent ; you must not call yourself a " tetrier," a leveller." and such like ugly names ; you must try to be a very " sucking dove," speak molly, use a little soft sawder, and get your stomach into better condition by swallowing a few grains of blue pill now and then. Ellison will supply you with good one.. And when you have got ha ma-tery of your ill-!empers, you must mount the balcony of the Bull Inn. Clayton square, and tell the people that they arc plundered by the Tories—that they pay a shilling n bu-hel too much for their corn (but don't tell them that, if foreign corn is imported duty free, they will have Gs. a-week knocked off their wages)—tell them that the advent of the Whigs to power would be attended with the inestimable bles,ing of having Billy Ewell again as our Presentative in parli i ntent, and you as member of our Town Council—that they would theta have sixpenny loaves for a halfpenny, and that money would tumble in without the tro able of working for it, and that the primeval curse is all nonsense. And then you can say that Annual Parliaments. Uni versal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and all the Yankee nostrums are great blessings : and would speedily lead to the repudiation of the national debt, the exting.tish ment of the peerage, (all hut Lord Sefton, because you have once or twice rrned with him); that a president with £lOOO a year would b- cheaper than a monarch ; and that the bishops and clergy should be like M.D.'s, only se it for to physic people when they want it ! This would to te with the fools, and they are always the majority; and so, by a little cajolery, and a good deal of humbug, you may perchance, as you dearly wish, get egain into that room, which you once described, in your own elegant phrase ology, as " the most ill ventilated room in the town." You see, my deer Will, I am tendering you good ad vice, if you have only the good sense to follow it. Let me add, however, that the life of a demagogue is any thing but easy ;—lie must go forward, or be left behind ! The expectation of the "people" travels rather rapidly ; and. being easily gulled, they are unfortunately in the habit of believing all that you mob orators say to them. Bet I shall not moralise, for I know your temper is none of the best, and that a little quiet will be beneficial to you. Perhaps the Conservatives may yet make you an alder man! To be sure a little more cubical space might help you ; but the vast extent of your mind will always be a drawback upon your body, and I rather despair of seeing You look any better. All things considered, you art better out than in. You would be continually saying things that would disturb your repose. David llodgson,, however, is revenged ; and as to door Thornhill, when he heard you had loss St. Anne's Ward, he jumped—he stuttered—he swallowed two pints of half-and-half—he smoked three pipes of shag,—and, after throwing up his shocking bad hat to the top of the ceiling, he shouted out * * * [Here the MS. was so torn that we could not make it out.] I am, dear Will, Your own chum. Aqua-street, Nov. 4, 1844. ** * ** * John Paley, is the mayor elect for Preston, and E. D. Salisbury, Esq. for Lancaster. The British and North American royal mail steam•ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sails hence with the usual mails for Halifax and Boston to-day. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—Un der the new charter of this college, the following surgents, resident in Lancashire, have had the honour of fellow ships conferred upon them _ Junes Ainswo th. Manchester I Charles Bouthower, Liverpool Robert Thorpe, Manchester I John Cooper, Liverpo , il Wrn..las,Wilson, Manchester John Prince Halton, Liverpool Thomas Turner, Manchester I John Maurice Banner, Liverp. John outflower Manchester Wm. H. Bainbridge. Liverpool J. A. Ransome. Manchester Henry Stubbs. Lii,erpool Joseph Jordan, Manche: ter Wi litn Gill, Liverp . ool Samuel liarto.., Manchester James Long, Liverpool John Windsor, Manchester Abraham Wood, Rochdale •James Dawson, Liverpool J. Stockdale Harrison, Law.. Robert Bickersteth, Liverpool Samuel Gasket', Lancaster THEATRE-ROYAL—The perfoianances at this theatre during the nights not occupied by the concerts noticed elsewhere, have been principally those dramas in wfiich that emllent representative of Scottish originals and ec centrics, Mackay, has won for himself so many admirers. In one of these, "The Rights of Woman," Miss Mon tague has succeeded in making a decided hit, and shown that she is equally at home in comedy and in tragedy. Her JV/dow Blandish is a delightful piece of acting. Last night Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean entered upon an en gagement, when the " Gamester" was performed ; and we may look for a series of our best standard tragedies. We are sorry, by the bye. to record the loss of Mr. Comp ton, who appeared for the last time on Saturday night, previous to proceeding to the Princess's Theatre, in Lon don. The high success which his talent deserves attend his steps. COMM:TMENTS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, the following persons were committed to take their trials at the sessions, on the several charges stated A boy named George Hill, charged with stealing, on Saturday, a cheese, value Gs., from the shop of Mr. Twineham, in Whitechapel. John Tarlrton, for stealing on Sato' day, a pair of boots from the shop . of Mr. Henry Plimer, Dale• reet. Mary Watkins, for stealing from the 'Jerson of Alexander Mc Kinky, in Brunswick-street, lss. i t mo• ney. Mary Jones, for stealing from the stall of Joseph Birtles, in St. John's Market, 3!hs. of mutton—a seci , nd offence of the same kind. Anne Green, charged with rob bing James Cawell of 255. in a hause of ill fame, in Al bion-street. Eliza Hampson, also an abandoned female, for robbing William Rigby of his watch, which she after. ward threw on the ground when the police-officer came up. Charles Turner, on susideion of entering and robbing the house of William Williams, in &tun& ry street, during the absence of the family on Sunday. lie was seen to come out of a back window, and attempted to escape by a back passage, after passing several yard walls. Sevrral drawers were found to have been opened, and a quantity of wetting apparel, &c., removed for the conve nience of being carried off. The prisoner wag not before known to the police. Sarah Stowtnan, for robbing a man named Wiliam Neild of a sovereign ; and Joseph Mur phy, for stealing in Bannister-street, on Saturday, It jacket belonging to Joseph Blood. LIVERPOOL JEALOUS OF BIRKENHEAD The exposition which we gave last week of the increasing financial resources of Liverpool, and t e accounts which have since been given of toe growing prosperity of onr noble Dock Estate, ought really to furnish matter suffi• cient, in the minds of all reasoning men, to absolve us from the trumpery charge of vievrincr,' w'th anything re sembling jealousy or fear, the projects of our neighbours of Birkenhead. For all this. however, we may be excused if we allow ourselves occasionally to smile at the absurd vaunts which reach our ears with respect ta these prokets, of which we give here a couple of specimens, extracted from a letter of Mr. lierapath, addressed from Liverpool to the R iilteay Magazine of last Saturday. BIRKEVIISAD - SegccLATioNs.—The following may. I believe, be depended on. One gentleman, in a small way, has cleared .412 000 by !and spec ulations; anothe as;ured me he had cleared 413,001 in a fortnight ; a third boughfsome land, several years for 4'3,000, and thought he did exceedingly well to sell it, some years after, for 4'l ,0 0, hat his successor has actually re sold the same land, lately, for 489.000. Now, is not such bra gadocio sufficient to tempt any man, who is not possessed of lamblike meekness and the gravity of a stoic, to retort upon the boasters or to expire in a fit of laughter ? Might it not tempt one to remind these fortunate speculators of a fact, which we su-pect they know already, that " all is not gold which glitters;" that debtor and creditor statements which look s u rpri s i ng y well, on paper, do not always wind up unite so well. It would be wisdom in such men to keep their gains secret until they are actually in hand. Puffery of this descrip tion is rarely the accompaniment of bona fide prosperity. But let us proceed to extract No. 2. BIRKENHEAD AND LIVERPOOL —Many will, doubtless, be the lets and hindrances ~,i rsenhe,d will have to encounter, but it is and must continue to be a rising place. Whether that rising will be to the prejudice of Liverpool is another matter. Few think it will ; but many think that London will su ff er by it. I have heard tat London merchants have already prepared for making Birkenhead their head-quarters. The Wallasey Pool is a place which nature seems to have forme , ' for docks. It is a long narrow lake. of 159 acres of water, which, besides wharfs and warehouses, refpfres little to render it one of the finest floating docks upon one of the nobl st rivers in England, and in the very heart of our manufactures. Birkenhead, therefore, can hardly fail to rise. and rapidly; and it appears to me, that, instead of Liverpool being jealous of its prosperity, it should re. joice and foster it as it will he the means of concenerating on this spot, more and more of the export and import trade of England. If any parties should feel alarm it is London. Bristol, [lune/4x. These places may suffer, but Liverpool hardly can. This is almost too provocative of mirth to be withstood. The London merchants "already prepared for making Birkenhead their head guart , rs!' The Trinity House, the new Royal Exchange, the Ea-t India House, Lloyd's Coffee House, the Goldsmith's Company, and all the other companies, migrating to Wallasey Poo! ! Why the whole peninsula of Wirral will shortly become worth its weight in gold! Seriously this is sad stuff. The parties who have been beguiling Mr. Herapath have much to answer for. THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY v. THE MEMORY OF THE LATE RICHARD RADCLIFFE, ESQ. When, last week, in common with others of our brother journalists, we had imposed upon us the task of paying our humble tribute to the memory of the late town-clerk, we certainly did not conceive that we were in danger of drawing down upon ourselves, or upon them, the censure of one individual in this community. We spoke of Mr. Radcliffe's talents and manly honesty of character in terms which our feelings, as well as our observation, dictated to us as just and well warranted. We had, occasionally, had to express our objections against some of his public acts and opinions ; and we never hesitated to do so free!y, but without acerbity. The hand of death, however, had just sunk alike the public officer and the man in the lot of our common humanity ; and we thought we could, at such a moment, aff rd to sum up the excellencies of both, with out an imputation upon eur motives, or being compelled to search with too prying a gN . z.e for frailties by which they tn;ght have been obscured. We erred, however, it would seem, in common with our contemporaries, as the following rebuke, administered to us by the editor of the Liverpool Mercury, and to which we beg to direct the attention of our readers, will show : " DEATH OF THE TOWN-CLERK.—It will be seen from our obituary that Mr. Radcl ire, whose health had, for some time past, been visibly dec.ining, departed this life on Friday night last, at Leamington. The important offices he held under the Corporation of this town. at a salary of .e2oofo a year. are now vacant, and will probably be filled up on the 9th of November. The deceased had the reputation, in the minds of many persons, of being a sound and ready lawyer, and is described by some of our contemporaries as being possessed of many excellent quali ties in all the relations of life —indeed, of all the virtues that can adorn a human being. We are sorry that we should have been compelled, by the indiscriminate and somewhat injudicious en logiums. confounding ill distinctions of thereat characteristics of our fe low-men, which they have lavished on the memory of Mr. Radelitre. to intimate. even thus vaguely, our dissent fr , m their opinions. So far as private feelings are concerned, the maxim de mortuis nil nisi bonum may be a good one, but for the public good and the ge erat welfare of society, we must say that we consider its c,unterpart, de mortuis nil nisi VERUM, infinit ly preferable." Um, the charity and trniability of heqrt (0 which prompted this most uncalled-fir paragraph, we will not trust ourselves to remark. Legit it speak for itself. We are bound. however, to say a few w , rds in yitriication of our own cour=e in this matter ; and to enable us to do to, we beg of the Akrcury to point to that portion of our notice of the deceased against which he so strenuously dissents." We do not conceive that i- is any part of ;he duty of the journalist to drag from the newly-closed grave, and to holdup , o the contemplation of the world, the private trailtirs of any man. Ours Fliall never be the hand thus wantonly and unnecessarily to lacerate the gr,eving heart and flood the weeping eyes of the widow and the fatherless. The Mercury thinks differently; and, as the question is only one of taste, we leave him to folio v his path, and shall keep to our own. But, so far as regards the truth and justice of what we have writ ten of Dir. iinde!iiTe ' we challenge him to show how we have offended, and have little fefir of the result. Nearly £26,000 has now been subscribed for the Man chester public walks and parks. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Tuesday, at one of !he Metro politan police-offices, a young man named Whitton was chargt d, upon hi, own confession, will hav!ng embezeed be 'property of a butter factor at Liverpool, in whose service he had been as confidetilial clerk. He had gone up to a pol c-man, and delivered himself into custody. He was remanded for inquiry. When h, was again brought up, a letter from Mr, Powell, of this town, (the gentle man who,:e money the prisoner had embezzled,) was read. in which Mr. P. stated that he declined to prosecute, and the young man was therefore discharged. RIMIONISM IN LIVERPOOL.—At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. M. O'Connell was obliged to confess that ribbonism was " but too prevalent in Liverpool, and Mancbester,under the names of Friendly Brothers, Hibernian Societies," &c. Perhaps it is not out of place to call the attention of the magistracy to this lamentable avowal from one not likely to confess too much as to the exittence and spread of this frightful con federacy amongst us, a participation with which, as Mr. O'Connell added, " was criminal and dangerous, and likely to bring those " guilty of it to Norfolk I s l an d or Van Dieman's Land. LIVERPOOL GUANO MARXET.—During the past week, several large parcels of lchaboe on the •pot are currently reported to have changed hands at £6. That price has been offered and reused for several cargoes deliverable in January and February next; 100 tons have been taken for export to Hamburg. A new feature in the market is the receipt of orders from France for the vineyards there, at limits, however, a shade belaw present prices. On Thursday last, the cargo per Sphynx, in the hands of Messrs. Priestley Griffith and Cox, and the cargo per 'l'antivy, in the hands of Air. Richardson Part, were both offered at public auction; £5 15s. being the highest bid for each, both shipme is were taken in by the selling brokers at £6 ss. The cargo per " Aurora " held by Mr. Vincent Wancstrocht, N ,, rth John -street, is by far the best yet imported from Ichaboe. It vet y much resem bles the Peruvian 'n colour and dryness and possesses, accot ding to Mr. 11 uson's analysis 78 2.5 per cent. of rich, available fertilising matter. The first contract was ef fected from the quay, on Thursday last, at £6 55., but the bulk has gone into the bonded warehouse, originally the station of a Customs locker, who was immeliately compelled to quit his quitters, owing to the noxious efflu via threatening his health. It has just come out that several crops manure d with guano have been utterly de stroyed in Scotland, and on tracing the affair it turns out to have been imported from here, where the article was artificially manufactured last year to a great extent from sea sand, the refuse of hide cargoes, and all sorts of rub bish. From this it is evident how essential it is to have it either out of the bonded stores, from the ship's side, or from parties of the first standing, whose character is a gust antee against all frauds. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.-00 Saturday even ing last, the first of the concerts for the winter, (with lite rary and other recreations,) for the working classes took place at the Nelson-street Assembly-rooms, under the patronage of his worship the mayor. The room, which is admirably adapted for the purpose, whether as regards ac commodation for visitors, or facility for hearing, was well, and, we may add, respectably attended, the body being well filled with honest men and bonnie lasses of the indus trial order, and the reserved seats and gallery above, by a concourse of well-dressed persons of both sexes, anxious to partake and contribute to the general enjoyment. The entertainment went off throughout with the greatest echit. Miss Whitnall, Mr. Ryalls, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Crank, kindly contributed their undouLted talents, as vo calists on the occasion ; and the excellent selection of duette, glees, &c., was only equalled by the taste and precision with which they were accomplished —many of them being loudly encored. Where all was so good, we shall not attempt to particularise, especially as we have but little time to spare, and hope to hear the same talented •bigers again, on a similar occasion. The mayor honoured the meeting by his presence—having come from Aigburth to countenance these rational recreations for the mechani c and his wife and c hild ren , at the close of their weekly toil. lie was enthusiastically received, and more than once addressed the meeting, in a facetious and agreeable manner, dwelling on the advantages of such amusements to all, in preference to the wasteful and demoralizing se ductions and iodulgenci , s of the tavern. Those present were also addressed, at intervals, by M r . W. Rathbone, Mr. John Smith, and others, to a like effect. Mr. H. V. Lewis presided at the piano, and favoured the company with a solendil " Fantasia" on ' hat instrument. At the close, thanks were heartily voted to Miss Whitnall—and also, separately to the gentlemen vocalists, who bad so h an dsomely come forward to g rat if y those present ; the treat closed by " God save the Queen," as a grand finale — and three hearty cheers for the mayor, who enjoyed the co ncert to the end. The greatest order was preserved throughout, and it is confidently hoped that other musical individuals, as well as literary and scientific gentlemen, will come forward to lend their aid on future occasions, and thus realise for their less fortunate townsmen and their " sweethearts and wives" the delights of " Saturday %: night a-shore.', _.-.- •~ Nov. 5, 1844. SPAIN. The following important news has been received by ex press from this quarter. " MADRID, Oct. 27. " A fresh conspiracy has just been discovered. General Narvaez was to have been assassinated at the gate of the French Embassy, where he dined. General Prim was arrested this morning. Other arrests were made last night and this morning." " BARCELONA, Oct. 27, "At 8 o'clock this afternoon two assassins were ar rested at the moment they were about to attack the Baroll de Meer, who was alighting from his can iage at the thea tre. They were rescued from the guard which was e,cort7 ing them to th e At arazinas by a mob, consisting of at least 500 armed men. " BARCELONA, OM 28. " Four or five h un d re d persons, wearing red ca p s on their heads, proceeded to the Rambla, and seiz ed upon. Alcade and his deputy, who were rescued by the Mosof o f the Foreign L eg i on . Ocher troops arrived , rioters were dispersed. The Baron de Meer on loll" the theatre proceeded along the Rambla. Forty person! were arrested. Two o ffi cers and a gendarme wer e stabbed with knives." EARLY CLOSING O F A TTORNE YS' OFFICES .--- The attorneys of Ormskirk commenced closing their offices at seven o'clock in the evening, on Monday, the 28th uIL• MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—We subjoin the return.P the Municipal elections of a few of the ne'ghbourig towns.. At Manchester thirteen Radicals and three, con: servatives were retur ne d : at B o lt on se ven conservativnej and five radicals : at Lancaster four conservative° .del two radicals at Wigan all conserva tives, and on Fri when the three radical aldermen go out the coun cil be wholly conservative : a t L ee d s three conservatives 50" eight radicals : at Preston all conservatives. GUNPOWDER PLOT.—This day is the annivertairrye`4__se..l the happy deliverance of king James 1., and the tales of England from the most traitorous and blooyff tended massacre by gunpowder, and also of the 11 : 1 ;( arrival of his majesty King William, foram delicee, efi ca as our church and Nation." We understand that In sr ig fortuity with the requiren ents of the rubric. th ere A na be divine service this moriiing at St. Jude's Churcoeta the in the evening at St. Simon's, Gloucester-street. u `'. Bey. latter occasion a sermon will be preached by t 7ope- David James, in aid of the funds of the Protestem7 rative Association. 11 be IRISFI SOCIETY.—A meeting of this society Y /1 4 . 1 ,. t a held in Liverpool on Monday week, and m ore 1 ,, twenty sermons will be preached in its behalf. o n Stle";: the 17th instant. We rejoice that such a society 11 , 1 . ! 0 b., ceived the promise of such suppo r t i n Liverpool. Jr ject is to instruct the Irish-speakin g population of i re in the Scriptures in their own tongue, and a lreadv */ been instrumental in te a chi ng mu ltit u d es , many oi.the are liv ng witnesses of th e h a ppy resu l ts o f sea rching A Scriptures, and making the sacred vo l ume the stan dee ' of doctrine and rule of life. hos , FAST SAILING..--Orl Tuesday'last, the new ft io.-- ter George Canning, No. 7, recently launched by Mr. P e ,_. t Cato, Brunswick Dock, made her trial trip to test T o sailing qualities in competition with No. 12, hitherto thel swiftest sailing boat of the fleet. The two boats lei r at Prince's Pier-head togethr. the wind blowing stroll:, fr') a S.S.E., and proceeded up the Mersey to Rock FerrY.,ar„ from thence back and roun d t h e C ros b y Li g ht SZ beating hack against the ebb tide and strong wind. George Cawing 9 acquitted herself to a d m i ra tion, he a ,' l t No. 12 in every point of s aili ng; an d w h en s h e arria. - , the George's Pier-head, N o . 12 was a cons id er able " 15 , tance behind. The George Canning is a beautiful sPees. men of naval architecture, well finished, and refi r e e d great credit on her builder. Her appearance e 5 1; 30 universal admiration ; th oug h a littl e out o f tr i m , she proved herself the fastest boat in the service. THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The Secretal of this flourishing Club h as rece i ve d separate and 9Peo.citao warrants for upwards of twenty vessels belongim , the members, authorising th em , un d er th e h an d an d se ,il r Lords of the Admiralty to carry the Blu e E n sign of .b..-e Majesty's Fleet, with the distinctive mark of the Clo,_ the Crown and Liv e r. W e h ave now th ere f ore a Clo u ' g our own town, having th e h onour an d pr i v il ege of Aces the national flag, irrespective of any other yacht club. Ad promptitude and co n de scens i on o f th e L or d s o f the 'a. miralty in thus attending to the wishes of the Club , veyed through their honorary secretary, affords a gr 3" ing proof of their de s i re t o encourage t h e fi ne sciences, of building and sailing ; an d if we may j u d ge f rom the al' lr d in which the matt e r h as b een t a k en up arid patroaizea here and elsewhere, we ma y ven t ure to say t h a t they w i d have no cause to repent of the confidence they have l 1 Ice in the members. Th e mont hl y meet i ng w ill take place 1 place thin eveni ng , w h en a l arge num b er o f a ddition al members have to be b a ll o t te d f or , an d a b ou t an eV 3 l number are to be proposed. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—George Godwin, E st i' F R.S., F.S.A., the Honorary Secretary to the London Art Union, to whose energy and talent the public ar e mainly indebted for the eminent success of that refine° and refining s ciety, as we ll as it s exem ption from the he of the Lottery Act, is now delivering a h;ghl!" successful course of lectures, upon the History of Archi tecture, at this institution. In his lectures of Tuesday and Friday last, he has traced the progress of architecture. from the earliest record of it in Genesis, to the period of its most successful application by the ancient Greeks, lustrating his remarks by a great number of beautiful diagrams, representing the best specimens of the archi tecture of the ancient nations whose ruins are now eson% Two lectures only remain undelivered, in which Mr. Godwin proposes to consider the Homan, Byzantine, arid Gothic archit.cture—summing up with a review of the present state of architecture, and especially as it ap pears to exist in our town. We are glad to find Mr. God win's audiences to be increasing, a sure sign of ap= preciation ; arid we trust that it is not the last time ,ho will honour us by his presence at this institution."'" Arnongs' the audience on Friday we noticed the Hey. ll' M`Neile and family, and several of our town-councillor s and aldermen. i _ .4,- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, Nov masa 4.—Wind N.E. SAlLED.—Henrietta, Pearce, for Vera Cruz—Satisfaction: Weak ner, and Grace, I.corgie, for Ichaboe—Hotsplir• 111,tCh burn, for Antigua—and St. M ar ti ns , V aug h an, f or St. John 5. St. Helena, Deslendes, from G o ld C oas t . a t Cove in 68 daYS. On 28th Oct. in lat. 46, long. 15, spoke the Cro wn, hence tv Mobile Ann Wis', Smith, f rom Ri o G ran d e, at Cove, i n 68 days' On 23rd Oct. in lat. 47, long. 15, spoke the Walton, hence to Trin dad. Rando'ph. Campbell. from Ichaboe, at Cove Ann, Goudre. from Galatz. ditto Wa ter- Selina and Thomas, Davies, from N ew f oun dl an d, at urd Miry and Jane. Osborne. from Naples, ditto Mary Worrall, from Valparaiso, at Kingstown Bounty Hall, from Allica, ditto ct. ff n o Hawk from Malaga to Liverpool, was spoken 27t.. -. the Smalls. Lydia, Jones, hence t o A n ti gua , 25 th Oct. 10 49, long. 7. Emu ons. Short, from Newfoundland, oT Cape Clear e rr, John Cock, Stenning. m Ichaboe, at Cove. In la' cut long. 25 W, spoke the Fre Queen 'ste amer ) h ence to CalF COVE, Nov. 9 —ll e teal ta and of a vessel named sarrd e s is h a. was picked up near t, e li.ththouse yesterday. Mem.—The minra saled from Live pool fir Reston 27th October. L iver - WARRHN POINT, Nov 2.—The Schooner Mary, frOln,ilSt pool to Killybegs, put in here this afternoon, with loss ci 1 to and cargo shitted. Nov. 3.—The Orissa, fro m Liverpo: he r Bombay, struck on Carlingford Bar, ye s t er d ay , uns hipPe,"„ja rudder. and drove on sh ire on the S car , where site is " t to badly, with her bottom injured. Assist ance h as b e en sen t lighten her. fro o DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—lt has been blowin g a h eav y gale ,1 to E.S.E. fo • the last 24 hours. The Kingston, from LiverP°': o o Atrica, is sunk anti burnt, and the Capricorn. fr om St. CA„rero to Liverpool, is sunk in th e Old Ki ngs t own Harbour saved. The Sovereign, Rogers, from Liverpool to N e ' ot o• N.S. Is on shore at Greysto es . w ith masts cut away. all' "vie ther vessel is on shore at the Breaches, broadside oft' mil Rosebud, Montgomery, fro m Q ue b ec to B elfast, dr o ve on s h oe at the Skerries during the gale, but does not appear t () .., s elt received any dam , ge ; crew and passen g ers save d. A Y.:001- name unknown, is reported t o b e l os t , w i t h all hands, 0"„,ito briggan. Nov. 3.—The William and Isabel, from Archer Fief Gloucester, is sunk in the Old Harbo ur of Kinestrivs ) '„ c K el , ' saved. The Shannon, Collins, i s a t o t a l wrec k at Kit - 100 0 n 0' and the Busy. Hu g h es , f rom D u bli n t o L i verpool. is Ine:, th e malted, in Kingstown H ar b our . M em — i n add i t i o n above casualties, the Iron Duke, (steamer) that arriv d r of , verpool this morning from Ettiolin, reports hat the Jun o tr, Milford, and Commerce. also sunk in Old Kin gs t ow n iltV d ' o inC crews saved : and th t the Kish Light-shi broke adrift„ster" the gale. anti put into Kingstown, but was towed out ye s day to her st4tion. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, NOVEMBER 4• Wind at Holyhead, East, moderat e b reeze, in the rn ° rot " East strong breeze in the evening, • d• (S tea mer) Off Point Lynas, inward bound, No. 8953, Nimro at 10 a.m., and 3912, Flora, Sc. at 230 p.m ha? a LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, No r t ' o ° r . ecotti Theretilsienpoatstthewseleigkh.tes,htleirntraindeonirmCveottsounppnlli3erd anxiet y t° k o e th cro seives during very readily, ne vert h eless, holders have evince d 0 ed 5,00 0 realize in this way. The daily business has averaig,u ' n the bales, to-day 4,04 0. Speculators h ave a lso be e "d lid' tapis, and t a k en several thousano bales of Surats at 2 The market closes with a quiet feeling. ------ ,_____,____._____ ------------ LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET , i'" j pe rio x . - I , i 5. The Butter market is rather quiescent , ar the ba rn ", quota disposition at all is evinced by holders to lessen onr at tions. Fine Kilkenny, Ca hi, ti a figure Carlow, and select Cu T he demand for as Bss to 86s. Belfast s , sto 8 is• *derable ad pick ed Butter is much checked b the recent cons' nds• is 141 per cwt. for seco Vance in price. The nominal rate Y s • the market; There is very little good Beef and Pork left i n er the former brings 85s to gos p er t i e e e, the Lit er 68s to 72s , b irrel. No change in Bacon . Prime Hams very scarce, an" worth 56s to 58s. -----,----- still touch as LIVEROPOL LYING•IN HOSPITAL, HORATIO-STREIIT. ---- [MONTHLY REPORT.] ----- OUT PATIENTS. IN PATI ENTS. Admited ........... Be •• • 34 g I Admitted 5 Di•charged. cured Total admission for the year D:s harged, well.. • ...... Remaining in Wards. Mothers ................. 4 5 Infants .................. T o t a l admission for the 1 06 y e ar ............. Consu:ting Surgeon, Treasurer, Samuel Woods Thos. Blackburn. Esq. jun. Esq., India.buildings• LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1841. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, Sy JOSHUA PLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street. U./Q.4, ST. Gsoaon's CaIISCENT,LIVERIOt / / _ ...... +,....,