The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

Eiberpoot atanbarb. 031 OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING CHRISTMAS is not a genial season for news. Every body is more intent upon the hospitalities, the fireside enjoyments, the family gatherings, and the interchange of presents and friendly communications with relatives, and with kindly remembered companions, than on the ecting or contributing to the gossip of t his c is Chris able exceptio❑ to the " than one The weather has and anger, and [eem a Interco prom It ma po - ver In fact, story, as dressed up by the " Liberal press, sufficiently piquant, being meant to serve a purpose, in exciting sympathy and commiseration for the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that wishes to be. The whole business, however, has been greatly exaggerated. Mr. GLADSTONE was naturally looked upon as a spy when discovered in the quarters of those against whom he had ex hibited the most inveterate hostility instead of friendship, and he was simply told—what he ought to have understood without any such intimation—that Lis" presence in a Con servative club was inconsistent with the mutual confidence which ought to exist among gentlemen belonging to the same political combinations." This might be plain speaking ; but it ought, under the circumstances, to have been anticipated. Even Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who is certainly not celebrated for any overwrought delicacy of feeling or expression, had the good taste to withdraw his name from the Carlton long ago. Mr. GLADSTONE, owever, seems to have been in search of a grievance, and witl: COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NE TI'S. MONDAY NIGHT. THIS has been stock-taking week, and one of festivity besides ; and we have, therefore, little of Commercial intelligence to report. The Ministerial interregnum has added to the paucity of transac tions usual at this season. Still, prices of all articles are firmly maintained ; and we have the prospect before us of a very active business occurring imme diately after the turn of the year. Consumers of produce throughout the country are generally be lieved to be verg light in stock ; in fact, to be in the position of hand to mouth buyers ; and, if money be continued in its present abundant supply, and no shock be given to credit by the formation of this new Ministry, a circumstance which does not seem likely, holders of imported articles of all descriptions will be in a very favouratle position. The Return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 18th December gives the following results when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .. 8,648,726; Increase .. £693.649 Other deposits .. 12,496,270; Decrease.. 10.974 Rest .. 3,080,773; Increase .. 3,556 On the other side of the account — Gore' nment securities £13,962,688 ; the same as before. Other securities .. 13,356,036 ; Increase.. £735,833 Notes unemployed .. 12,258,660; Decrease 156,440 The amount of notes in circulation is £22,236,465, being an decrease of £319,105 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £21,165,224, show ing a decrease of £344,931, when compared with the preceding return. ISSUE DEP Notes issued .. £34,495,125 £34,495,125 BANKING D Prop.'s capital.. - C14.553,000 Rest .. 3,080,773 Public deposits. 8,648,726 Other deposits . 12,495,270 7-day, &e. bills. 1,468,714 ARTNIENT, Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin & bu1n.20,475,971 Silver bullion .. 19,154 £34,495,125 PARTMENT £40,247,483 Gov. securities.Xl3,962,6BB Other securities 13,356.036 Notes .... 12,258,660 Gold & silt'. coin 670,099 £40,247,483 The SHARE MARKET has been very quiet during the past week, and the business done on a limited scale ; prices, however, have remained pretty steady. Dovers are much inquired for. In the beginning of the year a considerable improvement is expected. Birkenhead £22-shares, 2 d. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 84:1- :;-; Leeds Northern, 181 ; London and North-western, 1251; Midland, 791- ; North British, 9* ; South-eastern and Dover, 25 24i 5 1; Dutch Rhenish, 1 d. PRODUCE.—There is little to be noticed under this head, excepting an increase of firmness, and a slight advance of price in SUGAR. Both refiners and dealers are in the market; and this circumstance of the latter increasing their purchases so near Christ mas bears not the impression that they are light in stock.—To-DAY there is a good ihquiry for SUGAR, but business being partially suspended, together R ith the stiff prices demanded, tht sales are limited to 250 bags Dates at 355. id. per cwt.—There is nothing to notice in MOLASSES.—About 49 puns. Demerara Rum have been taken at full prices.— We have no transactions to notice in TEA ; and in other articles, owing to the intervention of the holi days, scarcely any thing is reported. COTTON.--The non. arrival of the U.S. mail steamer " Baltic" on her usual day, has tended to repress sales of Cotton, which, however, has main tained its price. The business of the week, which is generally a limited one, owing to stock taking, &c. amounts to 32,530 bales, of which speculators have taken 2,210, exporters 1,300, leaving 29,320 for the trade. To-day Cotton continues in mode rate demand, the sales being only 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The market has been flat, but prices re main just the same as on Friday. WooL,—There was a large attendance of buyers at the public sales held here on Wednesday and Thursday last, and for East India, Egyptian, and Cordova, there was a good competition ; the prices realised were -, 1 2 d higher than the last sales here. A USTRIAN DESEYTERS,—A notice has been posted up at Trieste, to the effect that the British government has entered into a treaty of reciprocity with Austria for the delivering up of deserters from Austrian vessels found on British territory. THE MEDITERRANEAN PACKETS.—The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamers will take up the service from Marseilles to Malta next month ; the Admiralty have in consequence ordered her Majesty's steam-packets Banshee and Medina home to be paid off. TFIE SIX-MILE BRIDGE AFFAIR.—The Freeman's Jour nal intimates that the change of Government is deemed a sufficient excuse for the next of kin of the rioters shot at Six-mile Bridge to abandon their prosecution of the sol diers implicated in the affray. If they had not this excuse, they would have made out some other equally plausible. CHRISTMAS TREAT.—Messrs. Harrison Brothers, of Church-street, in consideration of the exertions of the workmen employed in the alterations of their premises, at the corner of Hanover-steet, have presented them with a supper, which took place on Christmas-eve, at the Brunswick Hotel. Between forty and fifty persons sat down. Mr. Whitter was chairman, and Mr. Cailigan vice-chairman. POSTAGE TO SWITZERLAND,—The following has been issued faom the General Post-ofice :—Henceforward let ters for Switzerland, when specially addressed to be for warded in the Prussian closed mails, via Belgium, will be liable to a rate of postage of 1041. instead of is. id. the single letter, not exceeding half an, ounce in weight, and so on, according to the scale in operation for charging inlano letters. This postage may be paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender. A SURPLUS ESTATE.— In the care of George Joy, before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Friday, upwards of £30,000, arising from a suit in Chancery, had been paid into court, by which all the creditors will be paid in full, and leave a large surplus for the family of Mr. Joy. He was discharged under the act in the year 1842, when the debts were about £12,000, and on the termination of the Chancery proceedings a short time back, the estate of Mr. Joy, who died a short time ago, was paid into the hands of the provisional assignee of the court. The matter was adjourned until after the Christmas Recess. THE SHIP-BUILDING TRADE.—There are at present fitting out in the port of Sunderland 20 new vessels, the aggregate tonnage of which amounts to 8661 tons; and upon the stocks in the building yards nearly a similar amount of vessels of an aggregate tonnage. While the building of timber ships is so active on the Wear, iron ship-building is very brisk on the Tyne. One firm on the Tyne is launching an iron-vessel, on an average, every month ; another is executing a large order for the Austraia Lloyd's, and the builders of the W. S. Lindsay have a vessel of 1,800 tons burthen ready for launching, and have laid.dovvn the keels of three other large iron vessels. Last week an iron vessel was launched by Messrs. Toward, of St. Peter's, for Portugal; and last spring Messrs. Palmer of Jarrow, launched a large iron screw collier, the William Hutt, for the General Screw Collier Company. Messrs. Smith, :of Newcastle, have also launched a large timber paddle steamer for the Demerara mail packet service, and have a frigate on the stocks for the Sicilian Government. CAPTURE OF THE SQUATINUS ANGELUS.—A few days since an extraordinary large specimen of this very scarce and singular-looking fish was caught off tho Dover coast. It weighed when taken upwards of 501 b., its extreme length measured, 4 feet 11 inches, greatest width, 2 feet 8 inches, while such is its singular tapering form that the breadth across the tail is not more than 2 inches. It was forwarded to Mr. Grove's, Charing-cross, fishmonger, where its display attracted much public attention during the last three or four days of the past week. Yarrell de scribes it as the squatinus angelus, or angel fish, and states that it is also known as the monk fish, shark ray, and fiddle fish. The body much depressed, head rounded, anteriorly, both eyes on the surface, the temporal orifice large behind the eyes; mouth at the end of the snout, two dorsal fins both behind the ventrals ; no anal fins. Chiefly found on the south coast, but occasionally on the eastern. It is very voracious, feeding on the smaller flat fishes which, like itself, swim close to the bottom. The flesh is now considered indifferent, though formerly held in high estimation. The skin, which is rough, is used for polishing, and by the Turks at the present is made into shagreen. The female produces the young alive about the month of June. All the upper surface is granulated, and of a dark mottled colour. The specimen above alluded to displays six rows of sharp and rather formidable-looking teeth. routine work of c, le are filled for a while with good wishe s and, while in this mood scandal is usually unheard, and even politics possess less their neighbours their wonted exc' The aspiring statesman tious projects ; the use appointed place-hunter strives to for, 1-up and dis rin amid the socialities with which he is encircled ; and even the veriest mammon-moors ipper p his heart to dilate, and 100 l vith complacency upon, if habit restrains him c comfort and happiness of his from contributing to ours. The cu., y connexions, a f: gone out of his way to get up an incident that might make him talked about at Oxford, and regarded as an ill-used victim by those who impart tone and colour to the senti mentsl of Radical journals, and so-called " Reform Asso ^-rfulness of the time is contagious. ciations." Another topic, which affords more amusement than per manent interest, is the absence of the GREY and ELLIOTT clans from the new Mosaic Ministry. Have they evapo- rated voluntarily, or succumbed merely because they must ? Do they recognise the fact that they are intoler able to the public ? or have they been uneratefully neg lected by the distributors of honours and rewards? In any case, it is somethinz to be fairly rid of their dogma tisr their presumption, their perpetual blunderings and of whom, it is said, still re- fool makes many," so does the recollection of the great mission of Christmas will to man, " Peace on earth—good beget good deeds in thousands, who, on ordinary occasions, would be scared from the commission of a generous act by the coldly se conomy When, full of bliss, but half a We roved enchanted halls and t "Our thoughts fly back to childhood's hours, principles of it may be said, bas proved a remark od old rule," in more respects been wholly unlike that which commonly rules at the close of the year ; and the nent of the country, which generally goes on smother and more hopefully at this festive period than at any other time, from the absence alike of agitators and their dupes, has been, ort time at least, sion. Instead of organized and thrown into utter confi burnishing up our s kates, we are driven to the refuse of Libber goloshes, and new umbrellas ; and, in place necessity for watchfulness against furtive snow- e are const ed to take the edge of the footway, r to avoid the overflowing& of incontinent water- tead of seeing spouts. While in the world of politics—i the QUEEN and Her Ministers relaxing into the patronage .nd nartat of private theatri g the agreeable sur- of Christa trees with the youth who e our future rulers and legislators, we have all tl " and the bustle, ghbours or dissentient on the subject of Protestantism, must be considered by the country one of the most serious evils with which it can be afflicted ; and I feel certain that no government can retain for any considerable period the confidence of the people, which will not practically recognise the urgent necessity for defending the Church perintending the charitable I of England from her internal and external enemies. How a coalition of mere Whigs, who invited Papal agression, and then made most impotent attempts to check its pro gress,—Pusey- Peelites, who are more than half Romanists in princii ; how such a coalition can be en- dured by a Protestant people is more than I can under stand. To believe that the advances of Popery have been substantially arrested by the poor " Titles' Act," would be to ignore the plainest and most palpable facts ; and to fancy that the recent assumptions of the Roman Catholic priesthood in this country were not intended as the fore- runners of more extensive and mischievous operations, Id be a mo t dangerous delusion Protestantism, I am sorry to believe, is still in most !mminent danger; and, although it is not from the Legis- 'ature alone that it can hope for preservation an, stability, most essential for its interests that neither its open nor covert enemies, nor callous and incliffere t pro- lessors of its Tinciplts, should be en An interesting administration of our national affairs address has just been publi ,bed by the committee of the National Club, to show the progress of foreig❑ Popery, and point out how it endangers English safety eeornmend your readers to per,. se the document with attention About a quarter of a century ago, Popery seemed to have lost its hold upon the people Of the continent and among their rulers ; and it was during a period of apparent indifference throughout Europe that the Papists in this country continued to steal a march upon us, by inducing us to carrry out measures of pro fessed religious equality, the real objects and intentions of the claimants being the ultimate ascendancy of ultra montane principles—liberality towards Roneanists became a political cry, and English governments did not blush to the sister country, in order to preserve themselves in power. Such was the course of policy which preceded, and most naturally led to, that " Papal aggression," by means ef which the Bishop of Rome not merely insulted the Sovereign of these realms, (the fountain of all honour within her dominions.) but also " set up everywhere throughout this land, the machinery for introducing into it his Canon-law." The step was in truth not merely insolent and defiant, but it amounted to legislation, re pudiating and counteracting the legislation of this coun try. And, at the same time, the advances of Romanism and priestly influence throughout the continent have been most rapid and startling. In Spain and Portugal, in the two Sicilies, in Sardinia, in Tuscany, in Holland and Switzerland, in France, in Austria, within a fewyears, aye, even months, the pro gress has been enormous. Let two or three proofs suffice. Spain, which owes its political freedom to Protestant armies, has recently forbidden the profession even of Protestantism by foreign visitors. The well-known story of the MAnlAC—one out of many cases—shows how it is in Tuscany with religious freedom. The new Emperor of the French has identified himself with the Priest party ; and, in absolute Austria, while the Protestant Synods are placed under military control, the Roman clergy has actually been freed by the Emperor from all subjection to the civil power. Reflecting on these things, can English Protestants permit themselves to remain mere passive spectators ? Will they support or tolerate a government having in its composition the slightest leaven of Papistry ! I cannot, I do not believe it ; and, if it was for no other consideration than the threatening prospects of the Pro. testant Church of England, I am sure that the great body of the community will be most anxious for the return to office of a Ministry in whose keeping the interests of our reformed religion will certainly be safe. Foreign affairs have not attracted much attention during the week ; though, of course, it has not escaped observa tion that the visit which the young Emperor of Austria has just paid to the King of Prussia has a motive and an object beyond mere personal esteem between the two Sovereigns. The most plausible solution of the problem which has been given is, that the guest and his host are both somewhat alarmed at the pretensions of their newly sprung Imperial brother, whose imitation of his uncle points to ulterior pretensions on behalf of his " dynasty," to the " boundary of the Alps, the Rhine, and the Py. rennees." The instinct of self-defence, therefore, draws them together in amity; and the autocrat of Vienna is content, for his own interest, to forget that the house of Brandenburg were once subjects of the Empire ; while the descendant of FREDERICK the GREAT i 3 not blind to the necessity of waiving his claim, for the present, to be re garded as Chief of the Germanic Confederation. LOUIS NAPOLEON is said to look very suspiciously upon these amicable manifestations of his neighbours ; especially as his new title and dignity, and his pretensions to an hereditary right over the allegiance of the French, have not yet been officially recognised by Austria, Prussia, or Russia. Nor is this his only cause of vexation. The Emperor NAPOLEON the Third has been jilted in love • The Princess VASA, on whom the hopes of the head of al t the BONAPARTES was fixed, instead of flying to the arms of her imperial lover, is to be married to Prince ALBERT of Saxony ; and has been already congratulated upon her choice by the Emperor of Austria. This is a cruel " cut." " Love's young dream " has been dissipated by the rosy breath of a court beauty ; and not only has the blood of a NAPOLEON been curdled, and the line of imperial succes sion diverted, if not thwarted, but the crown of CHARLE. MAGNE has been tumbled in the dust, ere the pretender to it had time to put it on. The first of the Imperial Corsican adventurers, in such a dilemma, would have turned re proachfully to his " star," and denounced the omen as inauspicious. main unprovided for out of the public purse. people pity the two " lost tribes ; others pronounce on " sarre 'em right ;" but all who em the Ir sh verdict, speak of them laugh at the forlorn condition in which events have left them, and express a hope that they will take a lesson from the conduct of ACHILLES on the loss of his fair captive BRISECIS, and abstain from taking fur ther part in the strife of factions till the nation asks them Cll3- to renew their services. While speculation has been busy as to the components of the new Government and its prospects of stability, a singular apathy seems to have pervaded the public mind with respect to one of the most momentous questions in volved in the change of administrations. Far too little stress, I think, has been laid upon the views entertained by the candidates for office touching the great topics of ecclesiastical polity which have recently undergone so discussion The advent to office of a Glve.rnment either indifferent sked, by persons not likely to be misled rantee can Lard ABERDEEN offer the country that anything himself once pro- a patriot, to bold dear, shall remain as it is ? re than once be has stood in the position, personally, As a Tory of the old school he aounced free trade, as tending to a forfeiture of national yet, for the sake of place, he clung to the skirts of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, and assisted to abolish all protection to the industry of Englishmen in their own markets. He denounced the French revolution of 1848 as a great European crime, and was lavish in his censures of Lord PALMERSTON for the encouragement which he afforded to the incendiaries of the continent ; yet he has since bestowed unasked eulogiums on that democratic despotism which enabled LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE to proclaim himself Emperor of the French ; and he has shaken hands with the man who, as a minister, has in curred the hatred, and awakened the fears, of all foreign powers. What, then, is to be expected from a coalition of ABERDEEN with PALMERSTON ? What confidence can be reposed in the propriety of their junction, either abroad or at home ? Lord DERBY, at the meeting of his supporters which took place on Monday last, at his official residence in ling-street, aptly and graphically described the op on which he had had to encounter during his term of rrayed against him he found about two hundred Whigs and Radicals, and about fifty gentlemen from the sister isle, whose only policy seemed to be to render e Government impossible. Then there was another party, numbering about thirty, but including among them many gentlemen of ability and official experience. These gentle men professed to be Conservatives, and that there was only one point of difference between them and the great party with whom they had at one time acted. This only difference having been removed, it was natural to suppose that these gentlemen, professing Conservative principles, ould not give any opposition to a Conservative govern- Communications were said to have passed con tinually between these gentlemen and the Whigs ; and the conducted through the iations were, up to now 'ention of a right hon. baronet—SirJAMEs GRAHAM t became obvio s that the followers of Sir ROBERT PEEL had been making private arrangements with the ion, and that nothing but e fall of the government would satisfy them. The real 'act was, that it was no detail of the budget which had d this banded opposition to the government. The ether he (the Earl of DERBY) should s to co solidate an op ead of the administration, and his party He was aware that he might remain in power, or not - • . Preserved office for a time by altering the budget ; seeing that he would have humiliated himself and his ing off party by ho _ e under sufferance, from men whose )bject it was first to degrade and then to expel him from power, he submitted to the expulsion, but refused to consent to the degradation. Ho himself had been unable, even with the support of 310 members—nearly half the THE BISHOP OF RENNES AND THE PRINCE PRES'. DENT.—The Breton of Nantes contains the following anecdote :—" Some weeks back Prince Jerome Bonaparte had invited the Bishop of Rennes to dine with him at the Hotel des Invalides. The hotel was then connected by the electric telegraph with the Elysee, at the time occu pied of the state. The conversation turned on the picturesque shores of the Atlantic, which the marshal had differing or professing to differ, from them on just visited ; and the marshal, after speaking of the mag nificent port of St. Malo, where he had been so cordially ,st every possible subject." received by the inhabitants, expressed regret that the offi- The force of these remarks has been acknowledged, with cial itinerary had not permitted his proceeding to Rennes. bitterness, even by Lord DERBY'S antagonists ; and The prelate, encouraged by the kindly tone of his host, dwelt on certain wants fell in his diocee, and, above all, of Whigs, Radicals, and Peelit es conf ess that they are sorely those ol his ecclesiastical seminary, the buildings of perplexed to divine how Mr. GLADSTONE, the High- which, he observed, were in a ruinous state. 'lf the Churchman, will be able to take up the same canticle with Prince were only aware of it !' exclaimed the bishop. MOLESWORTH, the U nitari an ; how the ' But, monseigneur, he shall be aware of it,' replied the rigade, with Mr. Lucas of th e Table t at their o Governor os the Invalides ; and calling one of the servants, =ire, ,d, are to bob-a-nob with the author of the famous 1 same servant returned, and said something to the marshal, Asti(' to the Bishop of Durham; and how Mr. CARD. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.—On Christmas eve, the who, turning to the bishop, said, ' Monseigneur, the seat at John Knox and the Digby, emigration ships, were prepared Princs President charges me to announce to you that he WELL, the rejected of Liverpool, and withoul any to sail from the Mersey for Australia, but have been since will give you a private audience to-morrow, at noon.' all in Parliament, is to convince the comme rcial world detained by adverse winds. The British Queen left the The bishop looked his astonishment, when the marshal that he is the fittest man in Her Majesty's dominions for depot at Birkenhead on Friday morning with about 250 went on—' In our days, despatches have the rapidity of registered passengers, 45 of those were Scotch agricul- lightning : in a few years more, and all France, nay, all the position of President of the Board of Trade. turists from the isle of Skye, the residue being English Europe, will be in the cabinet of a minister." The next Concerning one member of the new Cabinet—or rather artisans and agricultural labourers, all of a very respecta- day the bishop was received at the Elysee at the appointed th e p r ojected Cabinet, for it is tolerably certain that, what- ble class. The depot was a scene of activity on the same hour. ' Monseigneur,' said the President, ' The Prince ever progress may have been made with preliminary day, as the Frtur was being prepared for her departure is aware of it; and in consequence ha signed this morning . dep S o h t e w w i a ll it t io ak g e fo 2 r 29 fa p i a r s w se e n a g t tr e s r ,.wh A o as decree, s a e l oo lo lo w a in ry g . yo l u a t, e oo o of ai for a t o b x e io re o p s a t r at o foyoorueroTelree arrangements, the Ministry has not yet been formed— oaren Tuesdayat present (thisresnt in ge there has been a good deal of gossip during the last few great number of children are going out by this vessel ; in their barracks, and our q young levies in their colleges, days. Mr. GLADSTONE, it is said , was grossly insulted and, from their clean appearance, healthy looks, and good shall be comfortably lodged ; they have assured rights to e i m odo to st bg e lg to parents removed above our solicitude.' It is said that the generosity of the by certain members of the Carlton Club, in one of the apparel, woulde the lowest of the classes. The Panama was to President went further, and that the happy prelate carried club-rooms, on account of the share he took in the factious sail yesterday, with about the same number of passengers. back with to his diocese promises which ensure to the defeat of Lord DERBY'S first great financial measure. She will of course be detained until the wind is favourable. cathedral of Rennes a brilliant future." eof Commons—to carry on the government, and it ras really difficult to say how it could be done with a arty not numbering 100, and united with two other Sir WILLIAM ngs of a " ministerial crisis, :ear of heart and mind, whieF ropriave to no s asons, save those only of the rce and threatening. P. mentary conflicts he Lords, nstead of being at their manor nd baronial hall urse which it ual to renew 'rom the Eve of t :Nativity till Twelfth-night— e which keeps mutual good feelings alive and for months, and often 3 ,ronolis to come—are part .nd, for once, the:Senate and new harlequins, and a new cabinet are e.d for the same evening be that the defeat of the Earl of DERBY'S ancture has created less n among the public than would have been the 3 it happened at another time; for even reflective t the matter sion for t s of the period, they have enerally to prepare for the task of winding up and the bu! unraccl the perplexi to ascertain their true p of the past year; to by "free-trade corr. nercial on for the present, and to decide upo❑ the measure and mode of their opera tions for the future. But, nevertheless, the retirement ervatives from the helm of affairs has not been ed unmovedly. The late P. R OF THE EXCHEQUER, whatever may be said to ,men of the "Manchester School," contra o would fa übject the country to the experiment of a little " People e's Charter," like that pro- eci by Mr. JOSEPH Humn some four years ago, were iopular among the monied and mercantile interests of the capital, as was evinced at the last general election, when Mr. MASTERMAN was placed at the head, and Lord JOIIN RUSSELL at the tail, of the poll for the city of London And the prospect of an ABERDEEN-RUSSELL -of a Peelite, Whig, Radical, A.IOLESWORTH cabinet ;' by no me s to the taste of those whose n the F enervation of n goori understanding with foreig' ewers, upon the stability of own commercial laws and financial regulations, and cm the confidence with which the community are red by their ru s as to the firm maintenance of all the fundamental Institutions of the cogently THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, ISn. DESTRUCTIVE GALES UP to Thursday night, we had the weather which has prevailed for weeks pasta—rain every day ; on Friday it was fine until evening, when a change took place, the sky being overcast and the rain pouring down very heavily. About eleven o'clock a gale came on, which continued with terrific force until between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, when it moderated, and ceased altogether about ten a.m. on Saturday. The streets of the town on the Saturday morning were full of debris, — bricks, slates, &c. having evidently been flying about in all directions during the night, and the effects of the gale were apparent in chimneys blown down, but, happily, in nothing of a more serious character, although fears were entertained of heavy calamities to the shipping outside. Notwithstanding at twelve o'clock the previous night we bad one of the most terrific storms of rain ex perienced during the last two rainy months, the morning of Saturday wasbeautifully clear, a full moon and brilliant blue sky leading ordinary observers to anticipate the commence ment of a good old English winter. The storm of Satur day did not expend itself exclusively upon Liverpool, but was felt for thirty or forty miles round. At Woolton two large trees were blown down completely across the road, interrupting for a considerable period the access between that place and Liverpool ; and the fall of a heavy embank ment in the same place appeared imminent. At Preston, the damage done has been very considerable. A correspondent of the Liverpool Albion says : "On the morning of Saturday last, (Christmas Day,) Preston experienced the effects of a violent hurricane, more disastrous in its effects, (loss of life excepted,) though of shorter duration, than the great storm of January, 1839. On Friday the atmosphere bad been damp, and warm for the season, and the evening closed with a gentle breeze blowing from the west. Towards twelve o'clock the wind gradually increased, and by two o'clock on Saturday morning it had increased to a gale. About four o'clock the blasts of the hurricane were fright ful, and their force irresistible. A large mill, in the course of erection by Mr. George Smith, adjoining his existing mill, in Moore-lane, was levelled with the ground. The building was six stories high and eighteen bays in length, and was completed so far that the roofing was on. The windows were not in, but the floorings were laid. The building stood in a hollow, at the north side of the town, and was totally destroyed. The crash of the falling mess was tremendous, and was heard far above the roar ing of the storm. The loss will be (at a rough guess) about £5,000 or £6,000. About a hundred yards from this spot a smaller building was being erected by another firm, and here the lofty chimney had several yards of brickwork blown from the top, and some of the outer wails were considerably damaged. The East Lancashire Railway Company's platform at the Preston station was destroyed, The corrugated iron roof, of probably about seventy yards in length, and many tons in weight, was hurled away, and lies torn and heaped up in all shapes. The force of the wind at this point must have been terrific. A factory chimney in North-road was blown down. Several houses in course of erection have been laid in ruins, and the destruction of chimneys and roofs in the town is incalculable. Some idea of the power of the hurricane may be enter tained when we state that, in more instances than one, slates were blown through bedroom windows from off houses on the opposite sides of wide streets. During the gale the moon shone with unwonted brill'ancy, and scarcely a cloud was seen, though each severe gust brought with it a shower of water which dashed against the windows with great force. The western sides of all houses exposed to the gale were, on the appearance of daylight, found to be covered with salt spray, which must have been carried on the rale for miles, as in the case of the storm in 1839. The wind abated towards seven o'clock, and the re mainder of the day was beau' ifully fine. In the afternoon scarcely a breath of air moved the branches of the trees. The streets are strewn with slates and bricks. From the outskirts of the town we hear that the effects of the storm have been very severely felt." The steam-ship " Mail," on her passage from Liverpool to Dublin, was overtaken off Point Lynes by the gale, and the carp enter washed overboard and lost. She had to put back, after being at one time completely under water ; and it was only owing to the excellent qualities of the vessel and the management of her commander, Captain Cooper, that her passengers and crew were safely at anchor in the Mersey at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday evening we had a repetition of our recent visitations of wet weather; and during the night the wind rose to almost a hurricane, coming from the S.W., veering during yesterday to S.W.W., and at times shelving a disposition to blow from N.W. The appearance of the river at high water, and for some time before and after, was the nearest approach which we have seen to that which it pre sented in the well-remembered January gale of 1839. Although only a 16 feet 1 inch tide, at least two feet more water was in the river ; and all approach to the pier-head was impracticable, the spray delug;ng the whole of the quay for at least one hundred yards from the river, and even falling in the old church yard, as was the case in January 1839. Several vessels in the river drifted from their cables, and were saved from mischance of a serious character by our tug boats. About twelve oclock it was known that a Dutch vessel was upon the north bank. The signal of distress was given from the Rock Light-house ; and the Liverpool life-boat was launched and promptly manned. The tide was ebbing at the time ; and it was only by great exertions on the part of her crew that she was preserved from being driven against the north corner of the basin, in her attempt to get to the opposite shore of the river, which was her best route to the north bank. Just before noon yesterday, among the other freaks of the hurricane, it burst through one of the monster panes of plate glass, which decorate the front of a new dram shop, called the Crystal Palace, situate near the bottom of the London-road. The glass flew splintered in all directions, and in a minute or two the whole of the largo window with its tasteful ornaments was a complete wreck. A customer, who had called in to view the splendid fittings up of the bar at this Palace, was so greatly elarmed at the crash, that he fainted, believing that the whole building was about to tumble around him. In Whitechapel, another dram-shop, the wine vaults occupied by Mr. Mather, was seriously injured. The building is a corner house, erected against an older resi dence, and being tall and narrow, the gale, after pene trating the plaster which stepped the fissure between the two, completely cleared the opening and caused the upper portion of the wine-vaults to lose its perpendicular, and to totter as if about to fall into the adjoining street. Serious apprehensions were entertained yesterday lest the entire building should fall. The gale extended into the interior of the district for a considerable distance. At Wigan, on Friday night or Saturday morning, a chapel was blown down. Several uncompleted buildings were injured in the districts tra versed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire and East Lancashire Railways. A wooden hut was demolished on the latter line at Burscough station ; and serious damage was done to the roofs of many of the factories and other prominent buildings, in North Lancashire. It is a gratifying fact, however, to mention that, from what cause, whether the wind or something else, we cannot say, the water which has for some weeks flooded this part of Lancashire, and which on Thursday last covered the rails for nearly two miles between Rufford and Ormskirk, has disappeared, shewing some very fine growing crops of autumn sown grain, which had previously been hid by the deluge which had afflicted the district. The casualities at sea have been unfortunately great : The Denison, Captain King, belonging to Messrs. C. W. and F. Shand, of this town, sailed from the Mersey on Friday last, for Antigua. On Christmas night she went ashore during the gale on Bernard's Wharf, Fleetwood, having previously lost all her sails and lower yards, and parted both chains off Lytham. On Sunday morning she beat heavily in the flood tide and filled, when her main and mizen masts were cut away. The following partculars have been obtained from the mate of the vessel, who returned to town with the survivors of the crew, at half past three o'clock yesterday : " When the pilot left the ship about 3 in the afternoon, (Friday) with the steam-boat, we stood on till 2 o'clock to the NW; tacked to the SE, stood on till 2 a.m. (Satur day) when the wind suddenly increased. We shortened sail as much as we could, when a gale came on, and our sails were rent to ribbons. We could then only let her drive, having made all as secure as we could, until day light. It became more moderate then; and we got what sail on we could set, and reached to the Southward until 11, when we made the land, and saw that we were close to the banks of the mouth of the Ribble. We took sail in and let go our anchor in 6 fathom water, paying it out to the end of the chain, which ultimately broke. We then let go the other, our best bower, giving her all ; and she brought up. At 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the Lytham Life-boat came off and put a man on board as pilot. He attempted to get to Fleetwood ; but found that she would not cast the right way ; so we ddclined to get her under way. At 7 o'clock in the evening the other chain parted. The wind was then more Southward, and we then got sail on and went towards Fleetwood. At half-past 10 the ship was broken up, under a steam anchor and cable, under Piel Lighthouse. We got a boat out and the pilot and 4 men went ashore to get a boat out; but the pilot did not come back till half-past 2 o'clock, the ship having taken the ground half an hour before, and being then beating heavily. We pumped her and found that she was making more water. At half-past 5 on Sunday morning the wind had increased to a gale, a stormy sea making : and the ship began to sink until she bedded herself and sunk, the water making a clear breach over her. We cut away the mainmast and mizen mast to rase her as much as possible, and all hands took to the foremast. The long boat was washed off the deck, but being fastened by a warp, 12 men secured her and got in, remaining for some time for the others. At length we let go, and landed between Glassendock and Fleetwood. The partes lost are John Framingham, seaman, and -- Williams and Thomrs Jenkinson, boys. Another large ship was seen on Sunday off Fleetwood, having lost her main-top-mast, and fore-top-gallant-mast. The steamer Nile was sent out to assist her into Piel. In the Mersey a number of accidents have occurred. The Manilla, for New Orleans, and the Centurion, for New York, were in collision yesterday (Monday) fore noon, when the former was cut down to the water's edge, losing her wizen-mast, and having her deck house damaged. The Centurion lost her bowsprit, and sus tained other injuries. The Elizabeth and Conway, about the same time, cut away their masts at the north end of the new docks, in Bootle Bay. The Elizabeth had put back only the same morning, on account of the gale. On Christmas day the St. Catherine, from Havana to Liverpool, with sugar, was driven ashore at Southport, and grounded in the sand, The crew were saved by means of the life-boat ; but the cargo, which is being discharged, is in a very bad state. Yesternight (Monday) the brig Margaret, for Drogheda, was in collision with the Constantine, for New York, in the Mersey, when the Margaret lost her top-mast, bul warks, and stancheons ; and the Constantine lost her fore-top-mast. The schooner Mary Ann drifted from her anchors the same morning, and was abandoned. She was subsequently taken into the Coburg dock by the crew of the Jackal steam-tug. It was reported, also, yesterday afternoon, that a ship and schooner appeared to be ashore in Bootle Bay, below the land marks. A number of vessels were compelled by stress of weather to put back into this port yesterday (Monday), among which were the Elizabeth, for Savannah, with the loss of her sails; and several ships have broken adrift in the Brunswick, King's, and Queen's docks. Accounts of grave disasters are fast thronging in from all parts of the coast. At the Gaston docks in this neighbourhood, the water, lashed to fury by the storm, has washed away a c. - msliterable portion of the coffer dam, placed for the security of the works in operation there in connection with the raihvay, and destroyed much valable proper Ly—among which are the ponderous machines used in raising earth, 10l z stones, & P , J;lhei From ,ve learn that on Christmas-day the Ebba Brahe, of Liverpool for Mobile, had put into Stud well Roads with loss of her topmast and her fore mainmast heads gone. From Holyhead, on Sunday, it was reported that a vessel supposed to be a schooner, laden with oranges, was wrecked on Christmas-day, the crew of which were believed to have been lost, as nothing could be heard of them. From Waterford, we are informed that the Zante, from Trieste, went ashore on Christmas-eve on Atherstone Bank, above Duncannon, but was expected to be got off next morning. From Belfast, we have intelligence that the Lowther of Liverpool, from Glasgow to Rouen, get ashore on Bird's Island last Wednesday night, and was expected to become a wreck. It may be mentioned that, amongst the casualties caused by the gale, the minute-hands of the clocks of the Town Hall and St. Nicholas' Church were broken in two. Possibly the simultaneous accident to these two clocks may suzgest to those who have the care of them the propriety of keeping their minute-hands in harmony with each other for the future. The inhabitants of Cheshire would be glad to see such harmony established. APPROACHING MARRIAGE.—The Marquis of Headfort is to be married early in February to Lady Macnaghten, widow of Sir William Macnaghten, who fell a sacrifice in Cabool during the Afghanistan war. THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.—Baron Brunnow, Russian Minister at this Court, has entered on the possession of the new residence erected by the Messrs. Cubitt in Chesham-place, near to the mansion of Lord John Russell. He is about to celebrate the completion of the building by a dinner to the workmen in the employment of the builders. The Baron is particularly distinguished for his munificent contributions to charities. THE STAFFORDSHIRE. COLLIERIES.—The colliers in the neighbourhood of Dudley have accepted the offers made by their masters of 4s. 61. per day. They are still, however, evidently discontented, and appear eventually determined upon realising ss. per diem. It is computed that one iron and coalmaster, in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, has lost from the late floods no less than £20,000. THE CHOLERA IN CANA DA.—The following statistics - of cholera in Quebec may possibly be of interest. Quebec has been five times visited by cholera:—ln 1832 there died 3000 persons ; in 1834, 2500 ; in 1349, 1180; in 1851, 280; and in 1852, 145. The medical faculty are of opinion that the disease is now endemic on the North American Continent, and will constantly reappear in summer at various places, for many years. They affirm, however, that its virulence is gradually wearing away, and that it will eventually fall into the same class as other diseases. THE GENERAL SCREW STEAM-SHIP ARGO.—The sixth of the splendid fleet of 1800 tons iron Screw , ships, built by Mare and Co., for the General Screw Steam Company, who have the contract for conveying the mails to St. Vincent, Ascension, St. Helens, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Calcutta, was launched on Thurs day, from Orchard-yard, Blackwell. The Argo is 240 feet long, 39 feet in breadth, 27 feet 3in depth. She measures 1110 tons, and is to have engines nominally of 300-horse power. THE TRUCK SYSTEM.—Some heavy convictions took place before the Bilston magistrates on Wednesday, against parties who had been systematically carrying on the truck system. The parties convicted were Messrs. Rollason and Son, iron wire-manufacturers, and Job SalaLiman, a manager in the establishment of Mr. White house, of Prior Field Colliery. The former was con victed upon three informations, and fined £34. lls. 61., which sum was paid. The latter was convicted on two informations, and paid a guinea each to the informer on eight others. All the fines were paid. NEW WenKs AT DUNKIRK.—The Journal de Com merce, of Dunkirk, gives a piece of news which should be recommended to the special attention of our new First Lord of the Admiralty. It states that the French govern ment has great views with respect to that port; and not only is the concession demanded in 18 , 15 by the municipal council with respect to the enlargement of that harbour to be granted, but all the establishments of the marine, without exception, are to be increased to such an extent that they will form the most extensive docks existing in the north-west coast of France. The journal adds:— " But this is not all. According to the plan it is intended to place the railway station in the park of the Marine, and to construct, a new basin to the east of the present port, and in front of the commercial basin, the use of which will be reserved exclusively for the steamers be longing to the state." THE APPROACHINGSTRUGGI.E. — The Committee of the National Club have issued an address on the "progress of foreign Popery, as affecting English safety." It is a docu ment of more than ordinary ability, and deserving atten tive perusal. Amongst the points connected with "foreign Popery " to which the address calls attention, is the fact that " In France, the absolute autocrat of the French nation is the close ally of the Pope. He has restored him to his seven hills.' He guards him with French armies. The new French Emperor and the Priest party in France arc identified ; so that the French army and the French Roman priesthood are united under one head." The conclusion at which the address arrives, upon the facts set forth in it, is that a great struggle is impending between the principle of Popery and the principle of Protestant truth, which will be fought in and by this country ; where upon the twofold question is asked, " how we are prepar ing," and " how we ought to be preparing " for that struggle. MURDER BY REBEL HOT TENTOTS.—WINTERDERG, Nov. 7.—lt is my painful duty to inform you that a most erael mu:der was i,erp..:trated by Hottentot bandits, near Post Retief, yesterday evening. The dogs of onr highly esteemed neighbour, Mr. George James, gave the alarm between eight and nine o'clock yesterday evening, exciting suspicion that persons were prowling about the premises. On the herd going out to ascertain the cause, he was im mediately shot dead. Mr. James went out instantly on hearing the shot, and must have been seized by the bandits, as he was heard pleading with them for mercy. This was not shown him, as his remains were found this morning with five gunshot wounds in his body, and his head blown to atoms. The murderers then attempted to fire the building in four places, but desisted on Mrs. Jamee offering to let them in if they would only spare her life. About thirty Hottentots and two Kaffirs, under the command of the notorious Spielman Kivet, then rushed into the premises, and commenced helping themselves to whatever they fancied in the store. This wholesale pillage was put a stop to by Spielman, (who is well known to Mrs. James and her family,) until he had first helped himself. The rest were then al lowed their turn, and the sentries were relieved outside, in order that they might secure their share of the booty. They insisted on having ammunition, and a gun was up lifted to beat out Mrs. James' brains on her refusing to produce what they demanded. They eventually got about 60 rounds, and abundance of blankets, clothing, bread, and meat, besides every hoof on the premises, consisting of 4 valuable horses and about 90 head of cattle. Here, then, we have l iinother valuable member cut off from our little community; a widow left with a family of nine children ; and the whole of their hard earnings swept off in an hour. The whole of our mounted burghers,under Sweet nam, are off after thevagabonds, and I trust will overtake them. You may not have heard that our late highly respected Com mandant Bruce was removed, and his valuable mounted force broken up on Friday last. The chapter of disasters commence within 24 hours of his departure, after having kept the district in comparative safety upwards of ten months. Anothercommunicationdetailing this melancholy case adds, that at the time of the attack the wife of the murdered man had only been confined two days before, and that notwithstanding her precarious condition, the ruffians stripped the place of her necessary bed-clothes. M. D'ALBARET'S IMITATIONS OF VOLTAIRE.—He acted the part of Voltaire in a passion, much inclined to throw his valet-de-chambre cut of his window, because a schoolmaster, a friend of Rousseau's, had been admitted r into the drawing-room. M. de Voltaire said th a t he e w b a i s td a r Savoyard eo. i‘i. d, cu A r b te a , r e a t l th b o a u d g hb been es e h p a r da n t wife and at h out burst of rage, and imitated the chief action to perfection. The costume was copied to the life. He broke, and that in good earnest. snuff-boxes, and porcelain plates, and tore up pasteboard, as the illustrious old man had done. " Thou brute—thrice brute !—Goth !—numskull ! —dost thou not see that this child-whipper is come here to brave me ?" " I will turn him out, monsieur." " No, thou wretch ! he would say that I fear him, that I fear his master and his thinspun stories ; I do not wish that." " Then I shall beg him to wait, monsieur." " Still worse, thou animal ! To await me ! Do I wish to see him ? Do I wish that he should stare at my pictures, my mirrors ? A beast, a pedant, from that prince of pedants, Rousseau ! Oh ! you deserve drubbing." And he broke, with his cane, more than a dozen plates. " Shall I call Madame Denis, monsieur ?" " Madame Denis, Madame Denis !—call my niece to a priestling Thou art becoming more stupid than my father, and I did not think that possible." " But, monsieur, he is not a priest, he has a wife." " She is ugly !" " They ara married, lie has a wife." " She is ugly !" " They have four children, one has been for some time helping at M. Rousseau's." " She is ugly !—she is ugly, I tell you ! Do not tell me another word about this brood of apes, or I will knock you down." Here a snuff-box is torn in pieces with tooth and nail. " Well, monsieur, if you wish, I will go to keep the mapister company." The anger of M. de Voltaire rose to a degree that be came madness : he stamped, shrieked, broke everything around. " You I—you to keep company with the devil's curate." I am asked for, and you are to appear ! Do you supeose that you will be mistaken for me ? Is there a resemblance between us ? Could you even say go to the d—l in French ? Do you know Latin as ;he does ? Ah ! you to present yourself ! Give me my wig and cane, and I will go myself; yes, I will go, I will go to fleece him ! I will go to give him a lesson, the lesson of Voltaire to Rousseau, and it shall be no trifle !" He goes off in a fury lifting his cane, and raising his voice still higher. His eyes suddenly turn towards a window ; he steps short and assumes a pastoral air. "My heifer, my white heifer and her calf! She is getting better! Ah, what a pleasure ! Run, fetch me some bread, I will take it to her, and then come back." After this eclogue, be folds his hands ane pronounces a blessing : M. de Voltaire is fond of giving a blessing. He goes down to the meadow, strokes the heifer, embraces the calf, and looks round upon his flocks. All this is related to us by the personage en scene; he counts them, talks with the shepherd, and forgets completely, or at least seems to forget, the schoolmaster. The poor wretch had waited the entire day ; his patience is exhausted ; he is dying of hunger; and in the evening, when the great Vol taire has numbered, first his heifers, then his sheep, then his blades of grass, he suddenly exclaims : " Ah, the Savoyard Curate ! ma foi —he must sleep at the farm, and to-morrow we shall dispute. He was master of every species of finesse, which he hid sometimes under the appearance of anger, sometimes of emergencies,g od nature . His it assume e p p g e e e n r i a u n s e e e n o a f bl ed qualitieshi m that on p iwb a ua n sr d eat l , i s e could be tender and devout, a p b o le ss , ;d e v s iAt s hen such a character suited his purpose. mirrorim i imitation o which b o t f eb b e Voltaireseem! seemed d t t was o b be a r ilß e ve'u tl ditdn e ei c gtdi t ol e an d ro . itt I have seen persons in sit motionless in astonish ment, so perfect was the imitation.—Nemeirs of the Cowden d' Oberkirch. LALTEST INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY EVENING, DEC MBER 27. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TATTE RSALL'S BETTING, kIETROPOLTT. 1000 to 30 agst Tobolski Uaivanism lti arva Lunpedo Weathergage CHESTER CUP. Merry Bir 1000 to 15 agst DERBY 400 to 25 ag3t Orestes 400 20 Sittingbourne 1000 20 Barbatus 750 Brocket FUNDS, STOCK, ,IND SHARE MARKET, Consols lower on sales; other Enqlish descriptions firm. No great change in Railways ; some shares being a trifle better. Gold Mines have recovered their buoyancy. and prices close at an advance for favourite schemes. Land Shares very good. Mexicans have declined. Political news being very unsatisfactory. Turkish lower. CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Account 1 1001 k.i Bank Stock .... Do. Money J 1041 I Exchequer Bills, L. 45 5....... Three & Qr. per Cents. 66 9pn FOREIGN 231 1 Mexicans Ditto Threes..... Spanish New Def. 24 Do. Threes .. 501 STOCKS Spanish Passives Turkish ..... ... , par ipm .. 2 11dis Swedish RAILWAY London Stock Do. Quarters INfidland Stock Do. Halves N. Staffordshire .. 4 31 S. East. & Dover. 83 4 .A.mberp,..,Notting- 125 6 791 811 ham, &E.June, Manch'ter, Sheff and Lincolnshire 30 Caledonian Do. Preference East. Counties .. East Lancashire.. Edinb. & Glasgow Great Northern .. Do. A... Do. 8... 13 1 N. Monde Agua Fria..... Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek Port Philip Iprn . 3/ -btu Australian Agricul. 275 South Australian.. 52 20 22 CORN SHARES East Anglian Great Western .. 95 - 6 Lane.S.LYorkshire. 84} 5 Do. Fifths ...... London, Brighton, & South Coast.. 1071 8/ Lond.&S.Western 90 91 York, Newcastle, & Berwick Do. Extension .. Do. Preference .. -- York &N.Alidland 59 CO Norfolks .. Leeds Northern .. 17 181. Caley Preference North British . Do. Preference Shrewsbury, A„ 39 40 102 3 MINING 2pm fpm ri apm 2} Pm LAND ! 280 HARES A. Californian Australian ... Freehold ..... B. Australian . Colonial 1.1.1-ariposa ;HAREs. Van Diemau's MARKET The supplies of English Wheat are moderate, and trade is steady at Monday's currency. Foreign fully as dear. Fine Fresh Flour sold in some instances ls. per sack higher. Barley, Beans, and Peas steady, at full terms. Oats Gd. to Is. per quarter dearer. Seeds unchanged. Wheat, _barley Oats . Beans ARRIVALS. English .... 3892 Irish. Foreign 13431 6,210 520sks & 5760 brls MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE Cluing quotationsz—District - Bank 7.1- pm ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 841 ; Midland, 79 1 ; North Western, 8 1; South Eastern and Dover, 25. AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR AT THE CAPE.-'The follow ing circumstance is mentioned in the last received Graaf- Reba Herald:—" On Sunday last a singular duel came off in the outskirts of the town. Two young Fiugoes, it appears, had been quarrelling for a week, and at length worked themselves up to such a pitch that they resolved to fight it out. The combatants stripped, and arming themselves with a neck-strop apiece, the battle com menced. A powerful Fingo, with a double waggon-whip, acted as second, or ' bottle-hoPer,' to both parties, and when he perceived either of them in the least degree flagging, a judicious application of the doubled waggon whip was had recourse to. The fight lasted nearly three quarters of an hour, at the end of which time of the lads was quite exhausted and cave in. Both of them were covered with blood fro.n head to foot, and it was evident they had received a wholesome lesson. The bottle-holder, in reply to a question from the only white spectator, ob served that they would not quarrel again, and that this was the Fingo method of putting a speedy end to all quarrels." CURIOSITIES IN THE BERLIN LIBRARY.—During my sojourn at Berlin, I spent a morning in the library, and was much gratified by the examination of its principal c uriosities. Amongst them the thble of COar!es 1.. which he bore with him to the scaffold, possesses to an English man great interest. It is a small volume, bound in black leather, and bears evident signs of having been much used. It was lying open, appropriately enough, at the 7th chapter of Job, which commences, " Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ?" By the side of this interesting relic, which should be in our national collection, lies Luther's original manuscript translation of the Holy Scriptures. Turning over the leaves, it was very apparent from the vast number of corrections and alterations in the mysterious Book of Job, as compared to the other books of the Old Testament, that it was to Luther, as it has been to many other learned divines, full of difficulties- Some of the chapters present a tangled mass of additions, erasures, and amendments, showing clearly that Luther was puzzled by the original. Another interesting NI S. is Goethe's " Faust," which is very clear and legible—SO Clear, indeed, and free from alterations, that I cannot think it is the original draft of that immortal work. Close to these literary curiosities is preserved Otto von Guerick's original air-exhausting apparatus, consisting of two hemispheres, which when placed in juxta-position, and the air exhausted between them, couid not be detached by the strength of thirty horses. — Correspondent of the Literary Gazette. TisdpdntaeahapwrnneittirycwrhdhngdoAthhbeee.tson: AND NIGHT IN THE TROPlCS.—Scarcely has o'clock ,caamsirtooi co m m enced omrndteTmgoktdeavpl hioespehlimoseer,gani• ecdnecnoveakll alinrelneenelemi soacavnd rgatweeva.ogtedrcetdaysalbl delightf ul, i regi ons w weerhldge, shyr inhabitantsoenofhnnonsduai pdgi trt,effhoesevtutgthbef,ssaaareeeoetyyehr wildb. fleweney o p rloe d stot e: oat palmsdeean animationt t i kk,n s ri rgeand seed i niotl n oiwedwt onhlhaanntsoachnei over shelter nec i esalt o ei ertaemvnnahi lassitude teeniiai hdstergrtuer N do-foedeboespe a veuhli neetai humming-birds, ni r eoes e e eerr:: f s a. Not hdoeAtt forest, oae n r ne o bs o brt noon ao a styaroh p sfm: r eys o erft f nrit o rerhoe u sgeop n untts d ei olltneehl tiet silence ytahlirireyd::stt: eiai g p bsipee r pt e cwi o amongan° h a mgt i o hl of e ce t w toot t hh h hfn h eee i atmosphere trembles from the excessive heat, and the thermometer of Fahrenheit, when exposed to the full chatting influenceemhmerry eirgnwrhievening gohfc maalol tunes,2nyl f 4sdr the scorching drhe s ue c fensh o sifieen r . less o ppressive, breezes spring up, and the cool air of the The forests are now glitter ingstcherleivcr eakse. arets a But groups to c l u la np u so n t oh t i fi u n gg peopleth e r can exceed the beauty of the scene when the full moon rises, shedding its silvery light over the broad foliage of the tropics. Whatever may have been the fatigue of the day, whatever the body may have suffered from heat and lan gour, all is forgotten when this spectacle presents itself. Such a night baffles description, it is the quintessence of equinoctial life.—Voyage in the Tropics. SMART PRACTICE.—A week or two ago four creditors started from Boston in the same train of cars, for the pur pose of attaching the property of a certain debtor in Far mington, in the state of Maine. He owed each one sepa rately, and they each were suspicious of the object of the other, but dared not say a word about it. So they, ac quaintances all, talked upon everything but what they had most at heart, When they arrived at the depot at Far mington, which was three miles from where the debtor did business, they found nothing to " put 'em over the road" but a solitary cab, towards which they all rushed: Three got in and refused admittance to the fourth, and the cab started off. The fourth ran after and got upon the outside with the driver. He asked the driver if he wanted to sell his horse. He replied, that he did not want to ; that be was not worth more than 50 dols., would not sell him for that. He asked him if he would take 100 dols. for him. " Yes," said he. The " fourth_ man" quickly paid over the money, took the reins and hacked the cab up to a bank, slipped it from the harness and tipped - it up so that the door could not be op t jumped upon the horse's back and rode off " switch," while the "insiders" were looking out of the window, feeling like singed cats. He rode to a lawyer s ' got a writ made and served, and his debt secure, and got f a o n r d so doi s. back to the hotel just as the " insiders" came uP Tu"" blowing.ThTehe"that s y if the fortunate one, who found property sufficient to.P:z his own debt, would not tell of it in Boston.—Americ paper. cabmanaold men soon offered ttboapcaky his hoursoei wrrcceeh.lif fire-flies, geet.dshmr:a MERCHANTS' DIVING-ROOKS.—From advertisements in this day's Standard, it will be seen that the Merchants' Dining-rooms, in the neighbourhood of the Exchange, are henceforth to be carried un by Mr. F. E. Morris'', lately a part n e r in the same establishment with Mr. Jose") Feeny. Mr. Morrish intends, on Friday, to ,vied up th 3 year by setting before his friends a bar on of beef—a truly seasonable and thoroughly English dish, redolent of the loin n d m ch u e s e t r ayniedldthpernenoebdloenhceo. Harespitaliti soup, esofar istocra tic halls in the olden time, to which of nece ssit y the knightly sir- : creg and ox-tail, dalenish the boar c d s perie y nced caterer, and ily are re t p any oo well-known to need o eulogy. ocfkt it, ease LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, By THE PROPRIETOR, ROBERT PEARSON THACEER, OF No. 7, PERCY-STREET, AT THE STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. No. 4, ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: IN &DVANCE 20 5. ON OiM) 1 ........ 221. 1' .. 500 1000 1000 1100