The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-02 00:00:00

'OR,EIGN INTELLIGENCE law in t .sOUTH WALES. 10th March have been received. - es in the papers is the petition which had arrived there from tile most influential inhabitants, call rrlndre. Willis from his seat on the led to be the arbitrary con • -• in connexion with the ,ditor of one of the 'active launched forth from against those who, though with the victim of )wn not MUNCH OF THE " GREAT NORTHERN the Londonderry Sentinel.) swerving greatn( as then itectur Will comb, fully rigged a 50 gun frigz The en T INDIA MAIL STEAMERS, 1 at Jarr hart, it i H avan a Id cea ,s to know what could induce essly. The libel, it would ap ie manner in which the learned s colony, which it is stated was 1 oojection, but hardly deserved such -ion it by the Port Philip paper. -ommercial matters were much 'en 1 _ course observed by the mer- Qverstocking the market is stated ,rable reaction. Sir George Gipps J Moreton-bay, the new adjunct of townships and government reserves. f all others appropriated for emigrant deal favourable is said ; but persons caution in selecting it for any expen he parties who appeared to be in favour Acing to China for a supply of labour, he great capabilities of the soil may be pf the attempt to initiate the Celestials, _ -J be fond of hard work. The to -1 discussion at Sydney was the new Municipal sight of the launch of the at this port by Capt. Coppin, immense assemblage of spec- e evening of yeAtsrday week all the hotels of thronged with gentry belonging to the neigh n, and hosts of visitors quartered themselves ds who were resident here. On Saturday an early hour vehicles of all sorts were in no the carriage and four to the donkey-cart— its quota of anxious but cheerful visitants ; • bosom of the Foyle was studded with " I most to rival the turn-out of small :es exhibits on a regatta day. It o'clock the wedges were driven home, .Tnificent ship moved majestically in any direction, or the in in her career, cheered by amidst the thunder of artil- Britannia." as soon as the - ---_______,, was performed after the e. by dashing a bottle of whiskey at her id, and at the same moment a flag was g the name of the vessel, the " Great 3 characters, to the gaze of the lookers-on. came into contact with the water it was continued to revolve rapidly until she of the crowd, and the s, not a single accident occurred, to the excellent arrangements any thing wanting kaocee dings , which passed Great Northern may realize he other proprietors. They terpri2ing undertaking; we wish my prove as remunerative as it was is. Nor, if the screw should succeed pulsion, can there be any doubt of this so many, that it will soon effect a In the water the Great )f a sailing vessel, being free paddle-boxes of a steam vessel ; r perceptible, giving a clear run space to be occupied by the ma y much less than in the ordinary o be similar to that of sailing ves pine the advantages to be derived As a government transport for from one point to another, she will that are used at present. How mild have been in conveying out a recent occasion, when speed was so ,he is equally well adapted for warlike inderstand, ire the dimensions of the feetin length ; between perpendiculars, feet deep in the hold ; burthen, 1750 th of the main-mast to be 90 feet, and nain yard 79 feet, and 221 inches dia foremast 83 feet, and mizen-mast 76 Le to spread 6,400 yards of canvass. , the upper one to be left entirely clear pierced for 44 guns; the windlass and laced 'twixt decks. She is to he pro himedean Screw, which willbe 12 feet pitch, but the length will be only 7 3 revolutions per minute; the gearing 20 feet diameter, working into a 'meter, upon whose axis is the n ine power consists of two cylin ., 4 feet 6 inches stroke, and to e ; nominal power about 370 horses ; nps, 19 inches in diameter, and 4 and cylindrical boilers. The engines abaft the vessel, leaving the midships The vessels already fitted with Mr. F. peller have, we are happy to learn, action, especially the Archimedes, the ument was attached, a vessel of 237 Resides this vessel and the Great seen already built, with the Screw Pro- Royal, 101 tons, 40 horse power, of ee, of Portsmouth, 30 tons, 10 horse power ; of South Shields, 270 tons, 60 horse power ; 10 tons, 25 horse power. There are now Britain, 3,600 tons, 1,000 horse power! s 200 horse power ; two packets for the Service, 130 horse power, and a French horse power. ntly to the launch prove that orthern on the most im- an extract of a letter, dated on board the N.P., 3d July, 1312 : d safe by the circuitous route of Bar nd Turk's Island. Here we are now, '-three passengers, per Clyde, from a steamer to proceed to our different of which, common to us all, is Havana. a company's schooner here, which lett ame time that we did, and which has bags for Havana and the Gulf of Mexico, as ksilver, which the Clyde brought from )uld not prevail upon the packet agent upon Captain Ewing, of the Clyde, teamer should carry us on to Havana, he mails by a sailing vessel. The cap- Dm the company's office in London, :he mails, by steamer, direct from St. gland to Havana ; but the instructions agent in Barbadoes, to return to that Island, had greater weight with them, ce of the mails, &c. on the most import niormed by a sailing vessel, a schooner nd in which they wanted us to take our '- Island, but which we refused. It was to wait for the Tweed, expected from )ound, via Turk's Island, Nassau, Ber- ) us all, that the interest of the Barbadians s and shareholders of the Royal Mail Steam powerful. The great lines of correspondence id Chagres to the Pacific, and with Havana Mexico, are evidently suffering from the which Barbados now enjoys. We arrived at Barbados, 24th at St. Thomas, coaled and left on the 26th, arriving on the 28th at where we found no other company's vessel Ea, a wreck, and a schooner. On the 29th ed there from Jamaica, on board of which he Clyde returning to Barbados. On the ith.mails from Jamaica, arrived at last from :he Leeward Islands, St. Thomas, and Port 'ere two days and six hours id the steamer to Havana direct not to proceed by the present route to of the Ist of June from London will fore the 2d of July, and the Havana same date will not reach Havana , if sent by way of St. Thomas, .nst necessarily take coals, they r port by the 28th of June. I can take in three hundred tons , which, at any place where there a much longer time : there the vithin twenty yards of the is tedious ; and at Barba cry difficult. The route Ados, Turk's Island, Porto Rico, and 'udenti 3 . We C s on the great We had zot to S money lies for your welfare, Ye remain, yours respectfuth With be CANOVAS C. 0. SEDWARD 'tie letter e received one passenger, and one passenger. At Falmouth 'ew tops of coals, but might s, brandy, and gin on the cookery on board . some of the provisions, such as Part of the flour, &c., of the coars and very unpalatable to all the ..custorned to better fare on shore rican ships: there was a total want of the berth s on board these steamers lark, and hot in a West India climate. he stewards and servants did not un- to be made known to the company, at a change for the better take place. rs are greatly dissatisfied at the de he entertainment and arrangements ; e vessels, and we found the captain t a g ainst forwarding the passengers handed to the captain rk , s I s l an d, on one, board 2 Clyde steame r , 29th J 184. passengers by the vesse l rid and Spain, for the 11a_ having been this day in ner being forwarded from or steamer*, !ssed on the we must in the small the van there a, &c is ~ is Haere sau, wh a which to com- steamy , , u r solemn protest against I d to notify to yon, that an y other party or parties l a nger and delay, and all leseription, which we may on to our destinations as e time that we feel ourselves under the dis sity otruaking this protest, we have the satis .essing our thanks to you for your uniform ttention to us, as well as to bear witness to ith which you have carried on the business A. REDONET, LORENZO MLA MESTRE, NM DE CASAS, G. BALMANA, JAMES BANKS." inptrial Varliament. HOUSE OF LORDS -THURSDAY In reply to questions from Lord MONTEAGLE, The Earl of RIPON said it was fully anticipated that the commercial treaty with Portugal would be very shortly brought to a satisfactory conclusion. Negotiations were in progress with the Brazilian Government, respecting the re newal of the treaty, which would shortly expire, and with re spect to the French ordonnance respecting the importation of linens into France representations had been made by this Government to that of France. The Poor Law Amendment Bill passed through commit tee, and was ordered to be read a third time this day. Lord CAMPBELL moved that it should be a standing order, that no member of the House of Commons should be allowed to plead at their lordships' bar as counsel for or against any bill which might be under their consideration. There %ere but three instances of their being permitted to do so, one of which was on the celebrated bill of pains and penalties against Queen Caroline. He did not, of course, wish to prevent their pleading at their lordships' bar on any judicial proceedings. The LORD CHANCELLOR opposed the motion, and said that in the practice hitherto no inconvenience whatever had been discovered ; but if any interference were necessary, it should take place through the medium of a select committee, and after very mature deliberation. Lord BROUGHAM censured Lord Campbell for want of delicate consideration in bringing forward the motion. After some observations from the Marquis of CLANRI CADE and Lord CAMPBELL, the motion was negatived with out a division. Several bills on the table were advanced a stage; after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THuRsDAY In reply to a question from Mr. DIVETT, as to the present state of the proceedings of the joint French and English oommission on the claims of certain English merchants, for serious injuries to their ships and property by French ships of war in the Bay of Portendic, Sir R. PEEL said he hoped if he used temperate and for bearing language in answering this question, it might not be therefore supposed that he did not deeply feel the justice of those claims. Although he could not confirm the expec tations of many, be must say that he had held out no expec tations which he was not justified in doing in accordance with the professions made to him. He thought, however, that the feelings of the British government could be better conveyed to the government of France through the medium of its ordinary communications than by means of speeches in that house. He still entertained a confident belief that France, actuated by a sense of justice, and by a regard for its national honour, would make a speedy adjustment of those claims. In reply to a question from Mr. FIELDEN, Sir J. GRAHAM complained of the reports of the inter views between deputations and the ministers of the crown, and said that such reports tended to destroy the confidential nature, and be might say the familiar intercourse, which usually prevailed at those interviews. Sir R. PEEL said that he would not charge those reports with absolute mis-statement, but the whole view which they presented was very different from the reality. Captain FITZROY obtained leave to bring in a bill to re quire and regulate the examination of all persons who wish to become masters or chief mates of merchant vessels. Mr. ROEBUCK then brought under the consideration of the house the report from the select committee on election proceedings, and moved the following resolutions : " That the compromises of election petitions, as brought to the knowledge of this house by the report of the select committee on election proceedings, must, if for the future I they be allowed to pass without punishment or censure, tend to bring this house into contempt with the people, and thereby seriously to diminish its power and authority. " That allisuch practices are hereby declared to be a vio lation of the liberties of the people, and a breach of the pri vileges of the house, which it will in all future cases strictly inquire into and severely punish. " That whereas in the late elections for Harwich, Not tingham, Lewes, Reading, Falmouth, and Penryn, and Brid port, the present laws have been found insufficient to protect the voters from the mischievous temptations of bribery, it he ordered that Mr. Speaker do issue no writ for any election of members for the said towns till further legislative enactments have been adopted to protect the purity of elections." The hon. member said that the house upon the subject of bribery was a band of hypocrites, and had it not been for the manner in which Sir Robert Peel stood by him he should never have been able to have brought the inquiry to a satis factory conclusion. He narrated and commented upon many of the proceedings which had tran3pired before the committee, and said it was to be regretted that men who, in private life, might be trusted with untold gold, yet did not hesitate to debauch a whole constituency by the debasing acts resorted to at an election. The hon. member concluded by saying that he would move the resolutions seriatim, and he therefore moved that the first of them be agreed to. Mr. C. RUSSELL entered his protest against these most unjust and most unprecedented proceedings. The inquiry had done no good, for although they had established the fact that compromises had been entered into, yet that fact was perfectly well known before, and they had not approached at all nearer to legislation in consequence of its being established before the committee. Major BERESFORD said he was innocent of bribery and corruption, nor could he find in the evidence anything which could implicate him in such charges. Mr. H. FITZROY complained of some errors contained in the report. Mr. Escorr was not prepared to say that the practices laid bare should escape all check aad all punishment because the proceedings were not precisely in conformity with his own views of what they ought to have been. He should, therefore, support the two first resolutions. The third re solution he could not support, because it was an indefinite disfranchisement of the boroughs implicated, which was a power that the house, in his opinion, had no power to ex ercise. _ _ _ . Capt. PLUMRIDGE said, that after what had transpired before the committee he would have put a question to Sir R. Peel, had he been in his place, as to whether he (Capt. Plu►nridge) should accept the Chiltern Hundreds now that it was ascertained that a compromise had been entered into by other parties, and thus enable that corrupt compromise to be carried into effect. Mr. AGLIONEY could see no use in investigations of the committee if they were to lead to no result. Sir W. FOLLETT contended that the Bribery Bill, which went through committee on the previous evening, was calcu lated to meet all the evils referred to in the report, and he therefore opposed the resolutions of the hon. member for Bath as unnecessary. The last resolution was one he could not at all assent to, for he much doubted the right of the house to suspend writs for an indefinite period ; and he thought it monstrous that no less than twelve seats should be placed in this position. He should, therefore, move the previous question, as an amendment to the resolutions of the hon. gentleman, and hoped that in so doing he might not be exposed to the unfair charge of wishing to screen bribery from punishment. Sir R. INGLIS also objected to the resolutions, and should have been better pleased if the Solicitor-General had met them with a direct negative. Mr. HUME complained of the dilemma in which the Soli citor-General had placed the house by moving the previous question, which if carried would prevent the house from expressing its opinion upon the transactions revealed in the report of the committee. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to know if government meant to give the Chiltern Hundreds to Major Beresford, Captain Plumridge, and other hon. members, in order to enable them to carry out their compromises as exposed in the re port? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds was in his gift, and when the applications were made to him, he would decide upon the subject. Captain PLUMRIDGE immediately applied for the office, but was as quickly called to order amidst considerable laughter. Mr. A. B. COCHRANE defended his conduct, after which Sir R. PEEL said that he had supported the appointment of the committee in order that the prevailing system might be reformed, but not with the intention of branding indivi duals for pursuing practices well known and tolerated. He thought compromises bad, because their tendency was to conceal the truth. The house itself had, however, been in some measure a party to encouraging compromises, by spd dling parties with costs in cases of frivolous and vexatious defences. He thought it necessary to put an end to these proctices by law ; but while he advocated the necessity for an enactment on the subject, he could not be a party to the suspension of the writs of the boroughs named in the third resolution, not thinking that sufficient grounds had been laid for so stringent a proceeding against so many boroughs. Mr. LASCELLES bore testimony to the impartial manner in which Mr. Roebuck had conducted the proceedings of the committee, but said, if the second resolution were agreed to, the house would find itself under the necessity of taking some step which might interfere with the understanding amongst the committee, that its recommendations should refer to future proceedings, and not to the past. Lord CHELSEA bore testimony to the courtesy with which Mr. Roebuck conducted the inquiry, but that courtesy was not sufficient to hide the bitterness of the pill which he com pelled him (Lord Chelsea) to swallow. Mr. WARD said, unless future proceedings were to be adopted he could see no useful result from all that had hitherto taken place in reference to these compromises. Mr. HAWES said, as member of the house, he would sup port the resolutions, if it were not that lie felt himself bound, as a member of the committee, to adhere to the original un derstanding on which th^ committee was appointed—namely, that it should report as to facts, and not recommend legis• lation. After some further discussion, in which Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Aglionby. Mr. S. Crawford, and Mr. Turner took part, Mr. ROEBUCK replied, and the previous question was carried by a majority of 136 to 17. Mr. Hume asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he would grant the Chiltern Hundreds, to enable those corrupt compromises to be carried out? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied that, if the hon. member applied on his own behalf, he would readily grant the application. (Great laughter.) The second resolution was then moved by Mr. ROEBUCK, but, being met by the previous question, it was negatived without a division, as was also the third resolution. The other business before the house was then disposed of, and the house adjourned. -.. , 1537..- HOUSE OF LORDS. — FRIDAY. On the motion of the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, the South Australia Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Poor Law Commission Continuance Bill was read a third time and passed. on the table a bill for the The Earl of RADNOR laid up repealwas read a first time, ordered to be read a second time on Thursday next. The Marquis of CLANRICARDR said, that at this late pe riod of the session he could not expect to carry into law the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill, and he should therefore move that the order for its second reading be dischar g ed. The motion was agreed to. Some other business was disposed of, and the house ad journed till Saturday at twelve o'clock. HOUSE OP COMMONS.—FRIDAY. Mr. lityrT announced his intention of withdrawing his motion relative to the Danish claims for the present session. Nlr. HUME commented on the injustice done to the claimants by the long-continued resistance to these claims. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied the justice of these claims. Sir R. PEEL, replyin to some observations from Mr. Thornely, said he had little d ou bt b u t'th a t a considerable quantity of flour would be imported from the United States declaration. under the existing corn lw. Mr. EwART hoped that if this the case, the right hon. baro ne t should t urn out not to be would hereafter admit his erro r when reminded of his prese t nt The house then went into a committee M r . WILLIAMS o b jected to an item of o f supp l y. 6, for conveying the Bishop o f Exeter to the Scill y Islands, as being paltry i n c haracter and extr ava g a n t in amount. Col. SIBTHO RP commented on the salarie s of Mr. Row land Hill and Mr. Henry Cole, arising out of the new post age plan. After a few words from Sir C. NAPIER in support of tle objection, Sir G. CLERK said that the charge yras for a visitation made by the bishop in 1838, and it . was in proportion to the established scale for persons of his rank. With respect to On the vote of £59,934 for South Australia, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the ex periment of a self-supporting colony had proved in this in stance a total failure. Lord STANLEY, however, expressed a hope thst the co lony would ultimately prosper, and be enabled to pay back a portion of the money advanced by this country. Mr. HUME opposed the vote, but the committee on a di vision affirmed it by a majority of 75 to 13. On the vote of £217,951 for the expenses of the land forces in China, a laughable collision took place between Mr. Hume and Sir C. Napier. The gallant officer told Mr. Hume he knew nothing about the navy, and was continually moving for nonsensical returns respecting it. In reply to this Mr. Humn logically proved that Sir C. Napier, by saying that he moved foi nonsensical returns, called him a fool—for nonsensical returns were foolish re turns, and no one but a fool would move for foolish returns. He also insisted that the man who supported a fool must be a greater fool still, and Sir Charles had continually supported him in the returns he moved for. The hon. member then retaliated by saying that if he had moved for nonsensical re turns Sir Charles had made very foolish speeches. In reply to a question from Mr. M. PHILIPS, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the 6,000,000 of dollars paid by the Chinese for the ransom of Canton Teas applied to the expenses of the war with China. Mr. D. ISRAELI said that the war was waged against the government of China rather than against the people. This he thought wrong. If it had been waged against the people, so far as to destroy their commerce, the war would have been over before now. . . Sir R. • PEEL said that in waging war against the commerce of the people of China they would be at the same time waging against the commerce of the people of England. Mr. O'CoNNELL said it was less desirable to do this as the justice of the war was somewhat questionable. The vote was then agreed to. Some other votes being agreed to, the house resumed. Mr. S. CRAWFORD thin moved, in pursuance of a petition from a large number of electors and inhabitants of the town of Nottingham, that a new writ be issued to elect a member for that borough in the room of Sir G. Larpent. Dr. BO W RIN G seconded the motion; and Mr. HOME said that it was useless to resist the motion after the course pur sued on the preceding evening. They were enacting a farce, and it was useless to continue any longer. Mr. BERNAL said it was a more serious reflection than any resulting from the mere issue of these writs that, at the close of the session, they would leave the house without having advanced a single step towards suppressing these enormities. For his own part, this reflection filled him with the deepest disgust. Mr. R. YORKE opposed the issue of the writ, for he could not suppose that the bill of Lord John Russell against bri bery had not yet passed into law. After a few words from Sir R. INGLIS, Sir R. PEEL said he had assented to the suspension of the writs in the first instance, in order that inquiry might be made, but now the committee had made its report, and that report contained no recommendation of any ulterior mea sures, it would, therefore, be unconstitutional to suspend the writs for an indefinite time, and for no apparent object. He hoped to see some clauses introduced into the Bribery Bill to prevent head-money and treating, and he entertained no doubt but the House of Lords would, in deference to the House of Commons, pass the bill. At all events he would in no way be a party to its defeat. Mr. WARD supported the issue of the writ. Lord PALMERSTON would rather the writs had been post poned until the Bribery Bill passed into a law ; not that he bad any doubt about its passing, but he knew there was a great difference in the impression on the minds of electors between a bill already passed, and one in transittz through parliament. He should not, however, oppose the issue of the writs, though he would rather they had been postponed for a week. .„. _ ...,.,... The writ was then issued. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY On the motion of Mr. GREENE, the report of the com mittee of supply was brought up and agreed to. On the order of the day for going into committee on the Newfoundland Biil. Mr. G'CoNNELL moved, as an amendment, that the com mittee on the bill should be postponed until that day three months. His object was to delay the bill until a communi cation could be received from the parties interested. He could not see the necessity for this alteration in the consti tution of the colony, when, according to the statement of the governor of it, the trade of the country was flourishing, and the revenue ample and increasing. There was nothing what ever to justify such a proceeding, and he believed the real reason for interfering was, because the majority of the people of the island were Roman Catholics. Lord STANLEY said, that at the last election in New foundland great excitement was produced by the conduct of some of the Roman Catholic priests, and this it was led to the suspension of the House of Assembly, and the present bill was intended to restore that body with some modifica tions. He denied that the majority of Roman Catholics was so great as the right hon. gentleman appeared to suppose. On the contrary, he believed the population were pretty equally divided as to religious belief, and this bill would give no advantage to any one party over another. Mr. HUME said, there were 70,000 Catholics, and only 30,000 Protestants. He protested against the measure as one of gross injustice. On the motion of Mr. PAKINGTON the debate was ad journed. Mr. P. M. STEWART brought up the report of the their Glad s a t g o e n n e t were e e n r o l t g d n u i t y y e of e f c t b e r d i b , e a rnyd andth that t t t r h e e a y t i h n a g d Ips wich election committee, which declared that Lord Desart andthrough but that there was no evidence that it took place with the knowledge of the sitting members. The committee recom mended that no new writ should be issued until the evidence should be printed and laid upon the table of the house. Mr. ESCOTT gave notice that he would this evening move that a new writ be issued for Ipswich. Adjourned. THE NORTH AMERICAN STEAMERS (From the Nautical Magazine.) We lay before our readers, from an authentic source, a statement of the time occupied in making the passages be tween Liverpool and Halifax, being all those made by this successful line since its commencement to the month of June last. The document is a most important one in steam navi gation, first, as not only showing the certainty of a quick communication across the Atlantic at all times of the year, but the average rate at which it may be made. The passage out gives 7,86 miles per hour, while that home, influenced by prevailing wind and current, gives 9.3 miles. The mean between these may be taken as the average speed obtained at sea, or what may be calied the sea-rate. In this case the sea-rate is 8.58 miles per hour. It will be seen in our volume for 1837, p. 752, that the sea-rates of the Atalanta and Berenice, in those comparatively-early days of miles, s i c le onsidered that: the the average of astielainigivneanvigbaetiniogn,77rmieidlefsr.omw6_hteon it passages of the British and North American line have all been made across the stormy Atlantic, whil e those above quoted were, at least two-thirds of them, in moderate latitudes, there is every reason to congratulate the proprie tors on the result. Passages to and from Liverpool and Halifax of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-ships, from July 4th, 1840, to June 4th, 1842. Ships' Name THE PROROGATION.— Her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected at Buckingham Palace about the 10th of Aug., for the purpose of enabling the Queen to prorogue the houses of parliament ; and her Majesty will return to the castle on the following day, if not the same evening, by the Great Western Railway, as the ceremony is over by half-past three o'clock.—Herald; CONSISTENCY.—In Leeds an active gentleman has lately spent a considerable sum, out of his own pocket, to prove the prevalence of distress. When the whigs were in power he spent a still larger sum in getting up facts to show that no distress existed. At the late meeting of shopkeepers the political friends of the gentleman alluded to declared that the distress had been in existence more than three years.— Leeds Conservative Journal. We have hitherto refrained from making any comment on the " scandal" which has lately been rife in the clubs, re specting the abstraction of a noble lady's jewels by a lady of high rank, her intimate friend. In adverting to it now, we do so merely for the purpose of stating that, however deeply the fact is to be regretted, but one opinion is entertained of the delicacy and forbearance of the noble lady whose confi dence was so sadly misplaced.—Morning Herald. IMPUDENT FRAUD.—On Thursday a fraud was discovered at the Exchequer-office, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, of an im pudent character. It seems that for some time the commis sioners of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in consequence of persons having got into prison without the issuing of a writ against them, have required on all petitions an office copy preecipe to be lodged in order to show an existing action. A pra'cipe was on Thursday brought back to the office, when it was discovered that the names of both plaintiff and defend ant had been altered to represent other persons, and was consequently a forgery of the proceeding, so th a t no such ac tion was in the office. The plan adopted appears to be for a copy pr&cipe to be obtained in an action which had been commenced, and then to alter the names to represent the parties whose names might appear on other proceedings—for instance, a detaining c re dit or and a person about applying to the Insolvent Debtors' Court. The detection was easily made, but it is feared that the system has been practised to some extent. By holding the altered paper to the light it was perceived that the original names had been written over, and made to, represent different persons whose names, it is believed, were required in the proceedings of the Insolvent Debtors' Court for the purposes above mentioned. THE JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES' ACT.—The following summary of the act will explain its design and illustrate its importance :—" That, after the passing of this act, neither the justices of the peace acting in and for any county, riding, division, or liberty, nor the recorder of any borough shall, at any session of the peace or at any adjournment thereof, try any person or persons for any treason, murder, or capital felony, which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony, is punishable by transportaion beyond the seas for life, or for any of the following offences ; (that is to say)-1. Misprison for treason.-2. Offences against the Queen's title, prerogative, person, or government, or against either Houses of Parliament.-3d. Offences subject to the penalties of priemunire.-4. Blasphemy, and offences against religion.-5. Administering and taking unlawful oaths.-6. Perjury and subornation of perjury. -7. Making or suborn ing any other person to make a false oath, affirmation, or declaration, punishable as perjury, or as a misdemeanour.- 8. Forgery.-9. Unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to crops of corn, grain, or pulse, or to any part of a wood, cop pice, or plantation of trees, or to any heath, gorse, furze, or fern.-10. Bigamy, or offences against the laws relating to marriage.-11. Abduction of women and girls.-12. Endea vouring to conceal the birth of a child.-13. Offences against any provision of the laws relating Co bankrupts and insolvents. —l4. Composing, printing, or publishing blasphemous, se ditious, or defamatory libels.-15. Bribery.-16. Unlawful combinations and conspiracies, except conspiracies and com binations to commit any offence which such justice or re corder respectively have or has jurisdiction to try when com mitted by one person.-17. Stealing or fraudulently taking, or injuring or destroying, records and documents belonging to any court of law or equity, or relating to any proceeding theirin.—Stealing or fraudulently destroying or concealing wills or testamentary papers, or any document or written in strument being or containing evidence of title or any real estate or any interest in lands, tenements, or hereditaments. The league having propounded that an increase of exported manufactures from this country is a symptom of bad trade at home, it must of course be taken as a melancholy fact that the exports of cotton yarn in the first six months of the pre sent year have greatly exceeded those of the corresponding portion of last year. From Burn's " Commercial Glance." a work published periodically at Manchester, we find that in the first six months of 1841 the cotton yarn exported amounted to 43,959,8621b5., and in the same period of 1842, the exports were 57,726,9061b5., showing an increase of 13,767,0441b5. upon the former amount, or about 30 per cent. Upon fourteen different classes of cotton goods exported, the comparison is reversed, not however so as to show a very serious decrease. The aggregate export of these goods, in the first six months of 1841, was 355,567,527 yards; and in six months of 1842, 350,141,569 yards : decrease 5,425,958 yards, being less than 14 percent. Altogether these facts would leave us to infer a favourable degree of steadiness in these baanches of our foreign trade ; but the leaguers will doubtless have ingenuity enough to draw disagreeable con clusions both from the increase and decrease stated above. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE LONDON.—On Wednesday morning the preachers assembled in the City-road Chapel, to commence the business of the ninety-ninth annual conference. The religious services being concluded, the names of the preachers constituting the legal cederence were called over, and they t oo k th e i r p l ace s, a s usual, according to seniority. Inquiry was then made as to the vacancies in the legal hun dred which bad occurred during the year,.by death or su `perannuation. The se were four. d:to be eight—six in Eng land and two in Ireland, and they were filled up as folli?ws . : —Messrs. William Evans. John Bustard, John Radfora, George Cubitt, Thomas Garbutt, and. Joseph Pretty were M and Roert as- elected from the English saroon and William C ro ok, inisters I from reland. Messr. AftT. these M pre liminaries, the conference proceeded to the election of a pre sident for the ensuin g year. On the votes being t a k en , it was found that the choice had fallen upon Dr. Hannah, theological tutor in the Wesleyan Institution at Hoxton. The Rev. Robert Newton was then, in the usual ma nner , elected to be the secre tary. We subjoin the number of votes for each candidate : FOR PRESIDENT. FOR SECRETARY. Dr. Hannah ..... . 129 votes. Robert Newton... 124 votes. John Scott .......118 ~ John Scott . 123 „ Both elections were duly confirmed by the hundred. MURDER OF AN INNKEEPER AND HIS WIFE.—On Friday information of a burglary, att en d e d w i t h mur d er, which was committed so far back as the 25th June, was re ceived in London, and forwarded to all the metropolitan police-stations. On the night of the 25th of June last, the house of Mr. James .Mawdesley, of the Oak-tree Inn, in' Coppal, Lancashire, was , broken and e n t ere d b y th ree or more persons, who stole 13s.in silver and a pistol. Two of them beat and wounded the said James Mawkesley and Fanny his wife so as shortly afterwards to cause th e i r d ea th s . I nques ts were held upon their bodies, and verdicts of " Wilful murder" returned against persons unknown. The tallest of the three men is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, and wore a dark-coloured dress coat and a hat. The two others were about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, and wore dark-coloured fus tian jackets and caps. It is believed that the men had been in the neighbourhood for some hours previously, and had found means to ascertain the defenceless state of the occu pants of the inn. Two bludgeons were left by the murderers on the premises ; one is a cart-rail painted red, the other is of ash, and appears to have been cut from a collier's sinking pick, and has a string at one end to go round the wrist. THE LATE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—Mr. Duval has pub lished the following account of the death of the Duke of Or leans :—" When I arrived at the house where the Prince lay, M. Not was there, and M. Ley came at the same time that I did. We were the only medical men about him from half past eleven till one o'clock. The Prince was stretched on two mattresses. His head, reclined on his chest, waved from side to side as his body was stirred ; his respiration was deep and difficult, his eyes half shut. There was no sign of outward fracture, merely some severe contusions, with blood on his right eye and ear. Blood was first let, and produced little effect, except that the Prince tried to remove the band on his arm from the bleeding. We imagined the Prince might have some consciousness of his state, but the autopsy has shown this to be impossible. The violence of the shock had been such, that if not broken by the disarticulation and breaking of the bone, it would have killed him on the spot. Cold lotions were applied to his head , and stimulants to the respiratory organs ; friction was employed ; still no sign ap peared of intelligence, but merely automatic movements. At midday the Royal family came in. The Queen flung herself at the foot of the bed : never did a mother's grief burst forth in expressions more full of grief and distraction. The King asked, was there a fracture ! We gave a negative answer, though with some hesitation. On this the King tried to con sole the Queen, stating that accidents of a similar kind had occurred to himself.; The patient, however, grew worse. 60 leeches were applied to the back of the head, when the Prince uttered a few fugacious words in German. He tried to tear off the leeches. At half-past one sinapsims were em ployed ; the pulse became bet ter, but the respiration worse. The involuntary motion of the limbs ceased, and a convul sive trembling began. This by-degrees subsided into tension and stiffness. Anxiety and despair were on every counte nance. The Queen, in agony, supplicated the Almighty for one gleam of consciousness to ba given to her son. She offered her existence for such a boon. The Duke d'Aumale said—' What will Joinville feel on such news ?' The King's resignation was more poignant than the louder agony of those around him. The physicians durst not look up ; they had no hope to give. Several more physicians arrived ; and at two o'clock the curate of Nenilly came to give extreme unction to the Prince. Convulsioes renewed. At three o'clock there was no pulsation but of the carotids. Medica tion was suspended. In this the King and Queen saw the announcement of the approaching end of their son, rushed towards him, embraced him in s obbin g s, and paid him the last adeus. How announce such a misfortune to Hena ?' exclaimed the Queen. At half-past four O'clock the illus trious patient expired." REVERSE OF FORTUNE. —Among the instances of the wreck of property brought abo ut by the crisis in monetary and commercial affairs in our Australian colonies, the case of Majot Lockyer may be cited as one of the most remarkable. This gentleman, as a correspondent states, is a retired officer er of the British army, who, after s ving ith honour, adopted the life of a settler and sheep farmer in New South Wales. After undergoing the various privations incident to this life, and residing in the bush 300 miles in the interior of the colony, he had increased his flocks to nearly 25,000 head, his stations were complete, and his establishment of shepherds and cattle was considered one of the best in the colony. In 1839 the Major resolved to sell his property in the colony, and to return to his native land, and therefore went to Sydney, and placed his possessions in the hands of Mr. Blackman, the government auctioneer, with instructions to sell tqe whole. At this time Major Lockyer had liabilities ,E 3 to discharge to the amount o f,ooo, the price of sheep was about £1 a head, and it was the opinion of the auctioneer that the property if sold, would, after discharging all liabilities, leave him £20,000. The property was advertised, but before the time of selling by auction caine on, Mr. Chas. B ouc h er, who represented hi m self as the " acredited agent of the British and Australasian Bank of London," came forward to treat for the property by private contract, when the sum of £25,000 was asked and agreed to be given. This, ac cording to the custom of the col ony, was to be p aid by in stalments, the first instalment of 15,000 by a bill at three months. Reference was made to a respectable mercantile house, who confirmed Mr. C. Boucher 's statement, and ac cordingly a conveyance to him of the property was executed. The bills given to the Major were never paid, and he en deavoured to extricate his property from the hands of Mr. C. Boucher, but the panic came on, the price of his stock fell 500 p er cent., and before he could effect sales sufficient to satisfy his creditors, executions were issued against him, and the sheriff sold the whole of the property at prices so ruinous as to leave the Major penhiless and even in debt. THE DUKE OF CAMBRlDGE.—Extensive preparations are being made at various places to pay a suitable compliment to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, on his con templated visit to the Marquess of Londonderry. The in. habitants of Durham are making arrangements for giving an eclat to the visit of his Royal Highness to the University. On Sunday, a boy, named Henry Price, nine years of age, engaged to ferry Mr. Evans, shoemaker, across the Monnow, near Monmouth. Mr. Evans took his seat with his back to the boy, and when he stood up on the boat reaching the land, he found that the poor lad had fallen into the middle of the stream. Before he could get to the spot the boy had sunk. At Milford, on Sunday week, off the Smalls, a young man named Keeffe, a native of Youghal, a seaman on board the Alexander, of Youghal, fell from the main crosstrees, a height of forty-five feet, on deck. The captain ran to him, and asked him if he was much hurt, when he answered, " The devil a bit,—was not that a clean trick, captain ? Five Ribbonmen were prosecuted to conviction at Armagh Assizes by the Attorney-General, and Judge Crampton sen tenced them to seven years' transportation. One of them (Rice) was in most comfortable circumstances. A NEGRO BURNED.—We learn from the clerk of the Highlander, that while wooding a short distance below the mouth of the Red River, they were invited to stop a short time and see another negro burned. They were informed that the fellow who was prepared for the exhibition was ano ther of the gang recently mentioned as having committed enormities, and fled to the swamp, one of whom was burned, as already published. The last fellow, it was ascertained, had killed a man, and carried off women, one of whom he had violated ; and for this they bad him well chained, and the fagots ready, with a view of giving him a foretaste of his inevitable fate.—New Orleans Bulletin. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT—TWO LIVES LOST.-011 Thurs day last, a herd-boy of the name of Raining. residing at Loch-bank, went to bathe at Kelton, tempted like many others by the extreme beauty and warmth of the weather. The tide which was not a high one, came rippling to the land with the greatest gentleness ; and as the unfortunate boy could not swim, he kept proty close to the side from getting beyond his depth. But in wading forward it is sup posed lie had tumbled over one of the little brows excavated a little by spates and tides ; and in that way suddenly lost his footing. But, be this as it may, he in a few minutes was seen struggling by some females stationed at the side, who immediately called loudly for help. Their cries brought to the spot the son of Mr. Crosbie, farmer, Kelton, a youth who, on being thoroughly urged, entered into the water with his clothes on. But very unfortunately, from inability to swim, he speedily became as helpless as the other; and to the deep consternation of all onlookers both sunk to rise no more alive, within a short distance of one another.— Dune fries paper. A family, residing near St. Cloud, was robbed about six months ago of money, plate, jewels, linen, and other pro perty, amounting together in value to about 20,000 f. Sus picion fell upon a man and his wife, who had previously lived in it as servants, but were discharged. These persons were arrested, and found to be in possession of a sum of 6,000 f., for the acquisition of which they could not account. They were detained, and subjected to repeated examina tions, being constantly kept from any communication with each other. At length we learn they have admitted the robbery, and confessed that they had hired a lodging, un der a false name, at Meulan, about 28 miles from Paris, where they had buried the treasure under the hearth of the kitchen fireplace. Here on a search it was all found, except part of the money which had been spent. These thieves had two accomplices, who have been arrested. THE WEATIIER.-With gratitude to Divine Providence for its beneficence towards us, it is our pleasing duty to announce the continuance of fine weather, calculated in every way for the accomplishment and fulfilment of that beautiful prayer in the liturgy—" That it may please thte to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth; so as in due time we may enjoy them." Nothing can be more pro pitious. The markets already afford a sensible indication of the appearance of the crops ; and yesterday new potatoes of the very finest quality were selling for 9d. a stone. We have received the following communication from a most intelligent and well-informed correspondent, who has recently had an opportunity of personally witnessing the appearance of the country and the crops over an extent of 1,800 miles, snd who thus writes his impressions :—" I have travelled during the last six weeks from 1,600 to 1,800 miles in Ireland, and never, within the memory of the oldest man living, was the bounty of Providence more manifest than in the extraordi nary luxuriance and abundance of the crops than it is this year. During the whole of so long a journey I have not seen a field of corn prostrate by wet or storm, and scarcely the top of a potatoe injured. Verily, the old times and seasons have returned to us."—Dublin Evening Mail. TRANSLATIONS OF THE LITURGY.—The intention of the Committee of the Society for promoting Christian Know ledge has been directed during the present year to the pre paration and completion of several new versions of the Liturgy. The first or these is a version of the Liturgy of the Church of England into the Amharic or modeiln Ethiopic —the language of a great part of the country of Abyssinia. This has been translated by the Rev. C. Isenberb, a clergy man of the Church of England, in the service of the Church Missionary Society. A translation of the Liturgy into the Turkish language has been undertaken by the Rev. Mr. Fieldshed, of the Church Itlissionary Society, assisted by a native of Constantinople. Portions of the Liturgy have been translated into Armenian. Modern Armenian has been chosen in preference to ancient Armenian, or Armeno-Turk ish. The Prayer Book has been translated into modern Greek, and a large number of copies distributed. It has also been translated into French. Portuguese, Dutch, and por tions of it, at the request of the Bishop of New Zealand, into the language of that distant country. The Times of Friday defines a statesman. The subject matter of the article is Mr. Duncombe's motion on the sub ject of the distress of the country ; and the Times observes, that " what a man is in private life, such, in intention at least, will be his public politics. If he seeks out and relieves distress—if he never breaks a promise, never leaves a debt unpaid, nor even defers its payment; such a man, though he may err in judgment, will yet be legislating for the good of the people . • • But !! ! . if he be an idle, careless, self-indulgent spendthrift ; who l i ves it puzzles the world to say how . . . _ . who does nothing, makes no- thing, earns nothing, gives nothing ; who throws away money in horses, or in gambling, or in debauchery ; such a man is a HUMBUG" . . . " But," continues the Times, " we are wandering from Mr. Duncombe." TRADESMEN'S BILLS.—A correspondent makes an appeal to the monied classes, in this time of manufacturing distress and commercial difficulty, to assist in relieving that distress and removing that difficulty by paying their tradesmen's bills as soon as possible after they are presented. We would certainly urge the consideration of this matter upon the at tention of our more wealthy readers, and beg of those papers with whom we exchange to do the same. They who have no difficulty at any time in providing for their wants, know not the value of ready money to the trading classes. To the man of wealth it is of little or no consequence whether he pays his bills one week or another; but the payment of them a few weeks or months earlier than usual may relieve the tradesman from difficulties, and be a means of saving indus trious artisans from being thrown out of employment. We can even conceive of cases, and not improbable ones either, in which the payment of a few pounds may save several small tradesmen from utter ruin. Paid to one, it enables him to meet his engagements and satisfy, perhaps, the de mands of another, whose engagements are equally pressing; and so on with others. We offer these remarks in anything but a spirit of dictation, and trust they will be so received, and meet with the consideration their subject demands ; and shall conclude by reminding those to whom they are ad dressed, that many tradesmen who are really more than sol vent, are, at such seasons as the present, broken up, and have their families reduced to beggary, merely because they cannot, at the time when needful, realize their capital.— Birmingham Advertiser. A RETURNED TRANSPORT: EXTRAORDINARY CASE. — Stephen Nash was arraigned, at the Waterford City Assizes, for returning from transportation before the term was up. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and added a most impressive and remarkable detail of the " horrors of transportation." He said he was put to work in a dockyard gang o: labourers, and because he would not join in a plan to rise and escape, he was not sure of his life for a minute, his mind was mi serable, and he preferred death to remain there any longer. He determined to escape at any risk, and he made his way to a vessel by swimming. He told the captain that he ran away from a man-of-war in consequence of which the cap tain.would not take him. He was then backwards and for wards three weeks on the beach, and swimming to the vessel through water that was full of sharks. one day hungry and another day thirsty. The vessel was Ift mile from the shore, and his only food was a musty biscuit and an old muscle that he found on the beach. At the place where he was at work, if a man was only found with a hit of tobacco in his month, he was taken out, tied under a triangle, and got fifty lashes. As for Norfolk Island, he could call it nothing but the Island of Sodom and Gomorrah. " 11Iy Lord," said the prisoner, in piteous terms, amidst great sensation in court, " have mercy on me. I care not for my body, but for my soul, and I would as soon have you pass sentence of death upon me as send me again to New South Wales." The Judge : " I really feel most distressed, but I believe I am left no discretion." Prisoner : " Oh! my Lord, do not send me back." The Judge : " I wish to God that the unhappy people who are putting themselves into circumstances that make it necessary to send them where you come from knew what you, and others like you, had to suffer. It always gives me a degree of pain equal to what I feel in pronouncing the capital sentence of death when it is my duty to send people to that rigorous country. I feel this pain not alone on account of their feelings, the anguish of their being torn from their family and country ; but on account of the dreadful fate that sentence of transportation is, of the frightful punishment and suffering that awaits them, of which you have had experience. I wish to God they heard you here this day, and, taking warning from your statement, would avoid crime in future." The prisoner was then removed from the bar, still imploring mercy. " SHOOT THE PREMIER "!—A HINT FROM THE LEAGUE. —We have had handed to us the following startling details, which, as showing the diabolical spirit that animates the dissppoiuted members of the League, we think of sufficient importance to deserve a prominent place.—We shall proba bly soon get at the truth of this diabolical business, not withstanding the sedulous attempts which have been made by the League, here and elsewhere, to have it hushed up. It now appears that some desperado in Manchester is the guilty party. On Thursday night last, there was a meeting of shopkeepers to receive the report of a deputation which they lately sent to London. Only some dozen persons attended, and the proceedings were of the most unimportant character, except in one respect. Mr. Abel Heywood, one of the deputies, in the course of his speech, declared that he had conversed with one shopkeeper in Manchester, who had refused to subscribe to the expense of the deputation, and on being told that Sir Robert Peel would not give the delegates an audience, he said—" I'll subscribe to a deputa, ti on to go up to shont Sir Robert Peel, but I'll not sub scribe towards any deputation which seeks to make en im pression upon him by argument." So, after all, it appears, notwithstanding the violent protestations of the League, there are wretches sufficiently abandoned seriously to enter tain this demoniacal intention. Who the villain is is known —to Mr. Abel Heywood. at all events ; and we call upon that person, if he at all affects to lay claim to the title of si patriot, to give up the name of the miscreant, and let him be held up to that public execration and punishment which he so justly merits. In such a case, concealment is scarce a-less atrocious crime tdan that attaching to the blood - thirstd wretch himself.—Manchester Courier. A WOMAN IN A TRANCE.—On Monday morning, the 18th instant, an aged widow, named Betty Butterworth, of Wolstenholme Fold, Spotland, near Rochdale, after eating a hearty breakfast, lay down and fell fast asleep, and conti nued in that state until Friday following ; all attempts to awake her in the mean time proved unavailing. When she awoke, she asked for some porridge, which, being furnished, she ate with apparent greediness. It is stated that about six months ago she slept upwards of a week in a similar manner. She is in a good state of health. FATAL DUEL.—" A duel took place lately at St. Peters burgh," says a letter from Berlin, " between Prince Dol gorouki` son of the Russian general of that name, and Prince Jaschwill. Prince Dolgorouki was killed. They were both officers of the Imperial Guard."—Galignani's Messenger. There were in 1841, 288 troops of yeomanry cavalry in Great Britain, comprising 840 officers and 13,434 men, or a total force of 14,274 ; the expense of which in that year was £82,026, The largest gun ever made in this country has just been completed at Woolwich for the Pacha of Egypt. It is about 12 feet long, with an immense quantity of metaal at the breech. The diameter of the bore is within about one-tenth of 16 inches. The weight of solid shot with which it will be fired is 455 lbs., and shells of 330 lbs. COMMERCE OF SYDNEY.—We perceive, by the shipping intelligence in a late Sydney paper, that there were, at that time, 81 vessels in the harbour; 95 vessels expected ; and 21 colonial whalers at sea. In the same paper, three steam boats, with the hulks and other property of the Steam Navi gation Company, are advertised for sale. NOBLE BEQUEST. — The entire property of the late Mr. Moore, of Liverpool, New South Wales, amounting to above £20,000, has been bequeathed for the promotion of educa tion and advancement of religion in the Colony, in connexion with the Church of England. The building and endowing of a college is the principal object ; and the Lord Bishop of Australia is one of the trustees appointed by the will to see the truly Christian designs of the testator carried into effect. The following are the receipts of railways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made :—Birmingham, £17,788; Great Western, £15,507 ; South Western, £BO9l ; North Midland, £4760 ; Manchester and Leeds, £4BOl ; Birmingham and Derby, £l4OO ; York and North Midland. £1756 ; Great North of England, £1435 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2464 ; Black - wall, £1316; Northern and Eastern, £l6Ol ; Hull and Selby, £1059 ; Eastern Counties, £llB2. ARRESTING THE DEAD.---011 Friday Mr. W. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis and Co., of the Lower-road, Deptford, furnishing undertakers, appeared before the sitting magis trate, at Greenwich, to ask his advice under the following circumstances :—Mr. Ellis stated that he was employed to bury the body of a poor man, named Taylor, late a convict keeper on hoard the Thames, lying off Deptford Dockyard, who, at the time of his decease, happened to owe a person residing in the neighbourhood £l5. The tender-hearted creditor had called upon the widow of the deceased, at No. 3, King's Head-row, Deptford, demanding the amount of his claim, and, in a short time afterwards, she mustered £5. which she gave him. The creditor had insisted on being paid £lO. He, however, went away, and said that he would call again for the residue. He came again on Thursday evening, and insisted upon being paid £5 more, and that, in the event of its being at once paid, he would leave the re maining £5 to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased. The mother, brother, and widow of the deceased were pre sent, and, with tears,' assured him that it was out of their power to comply with his demand. The creditor then went away, threatening that he would arrest the body the next morning. The mother of the deceased, a respectable woman, told him that he might use his discretion ; the body was in a putrid state, and begged him to remember that the coffin, &c., were the property of the undertakers. The creditor re plied, that he had a man waiting at the adjoining house who was ready to take the body in execution. Mr. Ellis told the magistrate that he feared he should be interrupted in the discharge of his melancholy duty, and wished to know if the party could legally stop the corpse on its way to the place of interment. Mr. Grove said, that he must hesitate in giving an opinion. He remembered, however, that the body of the celebrated Sheridan was arrested on its way to the grave by the joint legal proceedings of a large number of his creditors, but that was for a large amount. Mr. Grove recommended the applicant to apply to Mr. Mallalieu, the superintendent of the R. division of police, who would afford him all the protection within his power, and prevent any infringement of the public peace. Mr. Ellis thanked the magistrate, and went at once to Mr. Mallalieu, who told him that he knew nothing about the law of the case, but that he would send a sergeant with a police-guard, in order to prevent any violence or confusion tending to a breach of the peace. Mr. Ellis then withdrew. There was a sentence in Mr. O'Connell's speech on Mon day evening which will not a little nettle his obsequious auxiliaries. For months past, his friends of the press, through lack of something substantial to growl about, have been abusing the Irish Government for its hard-hearted indifference to the wants of " the starving poor." Many an indignant denunciation have we had of its inhumanity, and many an admiring ejaculation at the patience of the people under its disregard of their sufferings. Well, Mr. O'Connell spoke on Monday evening, and what did the Liberal "Leadefr" say ? We quote from the report of the Morning Post : " He felt bound to give his testimony to the promptness and readiness with which the present Government conducted and afforded their power to distress. He did not know any locality where distress existed that had not a share of their bounty." COLLIERY DISTURBANCES.—A fresh turn-out of the colliers in south Staffordshire. The men have paraded the towns in the neighbourhood of Bilston, in bodies of from 20 to 50, demanding provisions from the shopkeepers, and some bread was .aken from several shops. A leader of one of the gangs who has been taken into custody is an old offender, having been committed for felony on a former occasion. When arrested he had in his possession the handle of a miner's pick, a formidable weapon in itself, but rendered still more dangerous by being loaded with lead. He was brought before the Magistrates and committed in default of sureties. The Magistrates have adopted measures for putt ing a stop to these breaches of the peace, and we hope their efforts will be successful. STATE OF THE POTTERIES.—SOVOraI of the col:ieries in the neighbourhood of Burstein, are now in work again, but many of the " turn-outs" still refuse the terms offered by their masters. An unfortunate occurrence, one of the melan choly consequences of the suspension of work in the mines, occurred in one of the pits in this neighbourhood on Tuesday, from the explosion of fire damp, by which one poor fellow was killed on the spot, and four others were dreadfully in jured. This deplorable accident will, it is hoped, induce greater precaution on the part of the men, in adopting th e necessary measures for excluding the foul air which has ac cumulated in the pits before they re-commence operations. A PATRIARCH.—The following letter appears in a Cork paper, addressed to the editor :—" Ballinawoona Castle, July 26th, 1842.—1 think you will not have any objection to insert in your next publication the death of a very old man, my poundkeeper, on part of the lands of Clogker, near Do neraile, named Louis Wholehan. He died yesterday, at the age of one hundred and eighteen years and seven months ; he was married to his first wife more than fifty years, and had no offspring. He married a second wife at the age of one hundred and nine years, by whom he has had a son, a fine boy, and very like the father. From his great age, I have given him his house and the parish pound, many years rent free, which made him comfortable, and prolonged his life. He never lost a tooth, nor had he a grey hair on his head. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, GARRETT NAGLE." SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT.—After the most severe and prolonged distress which this country has known in modern times, it gives us heartfelt satisfaction to see a few rays of light break in upon the gloom. The exhaustion of the resources of all classes will make a revival of trade both slow and precarious ; and we see no reasonable ground for expecting durable prosperity until our manufacturers arc put upon an equal footing as to the chief necessaries of life with their foreign rivals, whose goods are now com peting with them in the principal markets of the world. But it is certain that the fearful stagnation of the last three or four months has been in some degree owing to the suspense about the tariff, and to the consequent locking up of some considerable classes of foreign commodities in bond till the reduced duties cameinto operation. That event having taken place sales of goods are resumed, and the seaports begin to display greater activity. The very favourable weather, also, not only cheers the spirits, but affords substanlial ground for hoping that food may become cheaper and more abundant, in which case manufactures and trade cannot fail to receive a stimulus. The markets of Liverpool and Man chester have experienced a decided improvement within the last fortnight. At Liverpool, where prices and operations are governed by the barometer more than by anything else, and where as corn falls cotton rises, and vice versa, there has been a material revival, both in the cotton maket and in most other branches of trade. We wish it were in our power to state that an improvement was already obvious in the con dition of the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire, but there appear to be no grounds for such an assertion. All we hear would lead to an opposite conclusion, and this is borne out by the reports of the state of trade during the week at the seats . of our staple manufactures—except, perhaps, at Brad ford. At Derby the distress is unmitigated. The increased commercial transactions in the seaports may be expected, however, to act favourably on the manufacturing districts, and to relieve them from a portion, at least, of the depres sion which is at present almost overwhelming.—Leeds Mur cury. ARREST OF A NOBLEMAN IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE. — One day last week a carriage and four drove up furiously to the door of the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, at Machynlleth, and three persons, who were conveyed in it, stepped into the parlour of the hotel, whilst fresh horses were attached to carry them on to Aberystwith. A gentleman was seated in a room into which the travellers were shown, whom one of the strangers immediately recognised as Lord Huntingtower, the nobleman against whose person they had an execution for debt. He had arrived at Machynlleth from Aberyst with a short time before, and thereby saved his pursuers a stage of their long and hasty pursuit. His lordship, after being taken into custody, despatched a messenger with all speed, with a detail of his case, to his mother, th e Countess ofeesart, and be was then transferred to Montgo mery gaol.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The Chester Courant says, " The arrest of Lord Huntingtower has led to a series of disclosures in the courts of law, of which the following is a detail. Lord Huntingtower was rem oved to London from the custody of the gaoler of Montgomery on Wednesday, under a writ of jzabeas corpus, obtained at the instance of his lordship ; and on being taken before a judge, to an order for his cornmittment to the Queen's Bench, gets lordship's solicitor and counsel objected to the validity i the bench warrant, upon which he was first taken i n Mont gomeryshire f ; first, on the grounds that the nature of the offence with which he stood charged was not set s forth in the warrant ; and secondly , that the magistrat e b e fore whom he was taken by the police-officer who effected his caption, not having drawn out a commitment (for want of bail), that his the goaler had no power to detain lordship ; and it fol lowed that if the bench warrant and the detention under it were adjudged to be invalid, then that th e w h o l e o f t h e sub sequent detainers lodged against his lordship (amounting to Several about £8,000) would be bad also. subsequent hear ings took place between the respective counsel and attorneys for the contending parties (the sheriffii of Montgomeryshire being ably represented by Mr. J. Lloyd), when the mat ter was ultimately settled on Tuesday last, by his lordship's counsel and solicitors giving the contest up, and consequent ly the bench warrant and the detainers were adjudged to be good and valid, and his lordship having put in bail to the fermer, the judge (Coleridge) made out his lordship's com mitment, and he was consigned to the Queen's Beach." Ebr Eibtrpool gslanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1842 On Saturday last the committee upon the Ipswich election came to a decision, and the sitting members, Lord Desart and Thomas Gladstone, Esq. were un seated on the ground of bribery. The committee found, however, that neither of the candidates in ques tion had been cognizant of the illegal practice, on ac count of which their seats were forfeited; and they are consequently eligible to be elected again in the present parliament. We must confess that we were not prepared for this result. From what we have noticed of the evidence brought before the committee, the case of the petition ers appeared to us to be singularly weak ; and we are satisfied that nothing but an excessive prudery, on the parts of the honorable members composing it, could have induced the committee to such a decision. Such a ridiculous affectation of virtue, if persisted in, will shortly render it impossible for a House of Commons to be elected at all ! Men will be afraid even of paying their just debts, lest common honesty should be termed bribery. Candidates had better make an assignment of their effects to trustees, or to Mr. Roebuck as provisional assignee, before going upon their canvas, lest a stray shilling' should find its way into a voter's hand, and afford food for a Coppock conspiracy. Even this resource will scarcely avail them ; for by the decision in the Ipswich case, any indiscreet friend or marked enemy can void an election, in despite of the determined honesty of the candidate himself We regret deeply this decision, not only because in Mr. Gladstone the Protestant cause has lost a staunch supporter—a set off, by the way, against the acquisk tion of Mr. Colquhoun to its ranks—but because it is calculated to stultify and even falsify the notion that a committee of the house of Commons is a tribunal fit to be entrusted with the liberties or lives of English men. The most valued portion of our constitution is fast being wrecked by the veriest ape that ever entered its portals—JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK ! Shame upon English gentlemen, who can permit themselves to be thus fooled and betrayed by a thing so contemptible. It is really a hard case when a public journal canno afford to be, or dare not be, HONEST. In such a piti able plight appears to be the Manchester Guardian. Upon a recent occasion, that influential organ of the Manchester millocracy gave—by misadventure, we sus pect—a report of the improved state of the Manchestei - - market. The report in question was in inopportune. It was thrown in the teeth of the veracious deputations which were at that moment badgering the Govern ment with representations of an entirely opposite state of things; incontinently a hurricane of reprobation was poured upon the offending journalists; and annihilation—had the power of his denouncers been equal to their will to injure—would by this time have been his portion. We might have sympathised with our contemporary could we have convinced ourselves that this casual lapse into the practice of truth-telling was likely to be the forerunner of a permanent inaintainance of that practice, in defiance of the dictation of the League Agitators. But the Guardian is a slippery journalist. His virtue is akin to the valour of Bob Acres; and in the very publication in which he is dilating upon the value of " honesty" and " veracity," and the iniquity of "petty misquotations;" in reply to his league tra ducers, we find him going the whole hog of literary theft, to suit his own purposes, and petty misquota tions to restore his credit as a discreet journalist with his offended masters. Of the theft in question we think little, although it is committed upon ourselves. We are used to such things. But when a journalist thinks it worth while to steal a whole column of matter, without acknow ledgment ; when he adopts it so unreservedly that he cannot find time to correct a very obvious error—one would scarcely imagine that, if honest, he could find time to cut out trifling passages, and to garble quota tions, merely because they are not likely to be palatable to this or that faction amongst his supporters. Yet of this littleness of conduct was the Manchester Guardian guilty in his publication of Saturday last. At a late hour on Thursday night—so late, indeed, that we apologized to our readers for any inaccuracies or omissions which we might commit in giving the news which she brought us—we received our advices from America, by the mail steam-ship Caledonia, in time, with the aid of a little exertion, for our post edition. The news in question the Guardian copied, errors and all, and amongst the rest the very obviously erroneous statement, that papers had been received from New York to the 17th instant, when the steamer left Boston on the 16th ! We do not complain of this, although an acknowledgment would have been cour teous. Of course the bulk of our news was extracted from the American journals. That fact was stated distinctly; and the Manchester Guardian had no right, in copying our quotations, to garble them for his own purposes. We give the passages, for the purpose of shewing the animus of the omissions, premising that they are stated by us to be from the New York American : " It is almost too early to form an opinion as to the result of the crops, but our advices lead us to anticipate large pro ducts, far exceeding what can be disposed of at profitable rates to the producers; thus affording little prospect of a re newed demand for manufactures, either domestic or foreign. The supply of both descriptions is abundant, and sales can not be effected except at enormous prices. MANUFAC TURING DISTRESS, therefore, it will be seen, is not confined to Great Britain. " IVlost of the American manufacturers have already stopped their mills, and the rest will probably soon follow their ex ample. Great numbers of the labouring population have been thrown out of employ, and were it no for the constant demand in this country for agricultural labour, great want and distress must have been experienced. We commend this picture to our free-trade agitators." In the first paragraph, it will be observed, the American journalist expresses an opinion that neither foreign nor domestic manufactures can be sold except at enormous sacrifices. We pointed attention to that fact (in a line or two, which in the hurry of writing or composition was not marked by the usual typographical sign of its not being a portion of the original text), as proving that " MANUFACTURING DISTRESS WAS NOT CONFINED TO GREAT BRITAIN." This remark , however, although, from the omission which we have pointed out, the Guardian had no right to know, and we dare say did not know, to be a remark of ours, he omitted. It would not suit THE CASE of the. Anti - Corn-law League Again, in the next paragraph, in. noticing the fact that most of the American manufacturers had closed their mills, and that " great numbers of the working population had been thrown out of employ," the Awe" rican journalist added, that " were it not for the con stant demand in that country for agricultural labour, Sailed from 1 Passage Liverpool Out. 1 Houle 1840 Britannia .. Acadia .... 1 July 4. 1 August 4. 2 September 4. 1 September 19. 2 October 4. 3' October 20. 2 November 4 3 i December 4 Britannia.. Caledonia.. Acadia .... Britannia .. Caledonia.. Acadia .... 1841 Columbia.. Britannia .. Caledonia.. Acadia .... d. h. d. h. 12 10 10 0 11 4 11 0 11 11 11 3 12 9 10 22 11 5 12 4 11 23 11 7 Columbia Britannia Caledonia. Acadia .. , Columbia Britannia Caledonia. Acadia ... Columbia. Britannia Caledonia. Acadia .. Columbia. Britannia. Caledonia Acadia Columbia 1842. Britannia.. Caledonia.. Acadia Columbia.. Britannia .. Caledonia.. Acadia .... Columbia.. Britannia.. Average Passage, 1 H 23 i 11 21 14 17 10 16 1 January 5.... 13 3 12 0 4 February 4.... 15 9 12 0 3 March 4.... 14 0 10 18 4 March 20.... 16 13 12 18 2 April 4.... 13 3 11 15 5 I April 20.... 13 17 11 1 4 May 4.... 12 6 10 18 5 May 19.... 11 23 10 15 3 June 4.... 10 19 10 7 6 June 19.... 12 5 lO 2 5 July 4.... 11 5 10 11 6 :July 20.... 10 22 921 4 August 4.... 12 23 11 1 7 August 19.... 11 20 11 23 6 September 4.... 11 19 10 21 7 September 19.... 13 11 11 3 5 October 5.... 13 19 10 26 8 October 21.... 14 4 12 6 7 November 4.... 11 20 11 23 8 November 19.... 15 15 11 8 6 December 4.... 14 17 11 17 9 January 4 8 February 4 9 February 19, 7 March 4 10 April 5. 8 April 19. 10 May 4. 8 May 19 11 June 4 14 12 11 3 pl.bk. 16 8 12 8 20 17 15 12 12 22 10 14 13 21 10 18 14 IS 10 8 11 22 9 17 11 17 I 10 10 by chronometer,—Out, Home, 11 days 3 hours. 13 days 6 hours ; [The editor of the Nautical has fallen into a very common error in calling these steam-ships Mr. Cunard's vessels. The ships are the property of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-packet Company. The design ing of the vessels and the management of them from the commencement have been conducted by gentlemen in Glasgow and Liverpool. The contractors for carrying the mails to North America are S. Cunard, of Halifax; George Burns, of Glasgow ; and David M`lver, of Liverpool.] Two handsome silver salvers have been presented to th e Hon. and Bev. P. R. G re y , M . A. , by his partshioners at B ux ton, as a memoria l of respect, on hisremoval to the rectory of Morpeth, Northumberland. The following musical festivals will take place in Sep tem - ber :—Norwich , under the direction of Professor Taylor; Newcastle, under th e dire c tion of Sir Geo, Smart; and Worcester, under the direction of Mr. Surman. The Read ing festival will take place in October. A most characteristic anecdote of a high-tying " Reforme r ' , was elicited last week during the examination of witnes ses on the Newcastle-under-Lyme election petition. The r ea d er will recollect that Mr. Harris , the Liberal member for New castle, was unseated a few mo nths a g o for brMer ; but had the assurance to present himself to the " enlightened" Re formers—in the face of repeated notices of disqualification that were published during the contest —and was returned once more by a narrow majority. This reckless conduct is at last explained. Mr. Harris declared at the time of elec tion " That it was the toss-up of a halfpenny ichether h e was eligible or not, but if he got a Whiy chairman, all would be right , s &c.—Really, Mr. Harris, this is " too bad." The bitterest opponent of Liberalism never made a more cutting and merciless attack upon it than this ! THEATRE-ROY AL, WILLIAMSO?k-SQUARE, the salary of Mr. ft. Hill, he had to observe that the late Government had entered into an arrangement with him by which his services were secured for carryin g the penny post age system into operation, but the present Government had given notice to Mr. Hill that his services will be dispensed with at the close of the present quarter. A conversation occurred respecting the inconvenience re sulting from the intervention of dragomans in the intercourse between our ambassadors and the Turkish Government, in the course of which Lord PALNIERSTON said he had endeavoured to induce the universities to establish to establish the study of the Turkish and Arabic languages, with the view of obtaining persons properly qualified to fill responsible situations in the East. _ . On the supplemental vote of £lO,OOO for education, Mr. I'. HOWARD said that as the money was collected from the whole community it should be shared by the Ca tholic schools. Mr. O'CONNELL was of the same opinion, and said it was a manifest injustice, that by the terms under which the grant was distributed Catholics were excluded. MISCELLANEOUS. Several of the Dublin papers state that the Rev. Robert Daly will be the new Bishop of Meath. The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of. Balliol College, Oxford, has been elected head-waster of Rugby School. The harvest is so unusually early, that it has already com menced in various districts of Scotland. THE AMERICAN ALOE. —One of these plants, which is said to flower only once in 100 years, is now in full blow at Harden Grange, the seat of 'W. B. Ferrand, EN., M.P.— Leeds Conservative Journal. The Rev. R. L. Page, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and a beneficed clergyman at Bury, St. Edmonds, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat on Monday last. A ver dict of " temporary insanity' ? was returned at the inquest. T. B. Isherwood, Esq,, of Marple Hall, qualified on Mon- 1 day, at Knutsford, as a magistrate for the county of Chester. Holkam Hall is now closed to the public, in consequence of the death of the venerable Earl of Leicester. The first importation of cattle to the Tyne, under the operation of the new Tariff, arrived at Shields on Thursday evening, in the Henry, a small vessel from the island of Guernsey.—Newcastle Journal. MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE.—We understand that banns of marriage betwixt Mr. Sariaris and Miss Adelaide Kemble were proclaimed in the churches of this city on Sunday last. The parties were proclaimed three several times. The bride groom, we believe, is of Spanish origin.—Glasyou - The Hon. Mr. Clements, assistant poor-law commissioner, has been unexpectedly placed in charge of the important ma nufacturing district of Lancashire, and has left Ireland in consequence.—Newry Telegraph. Lord Dalmeny, eldest son of the Earl of Rosebery, will shortly lead to the hymedtal altar Miss Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq., and grandniece to the venerable Earl Grey. The House of Commons has, this session, been occupied for five months, or (deducting two days a week) for a hun dred and ten days. It has, on an average, sate from four in the afternoon till eleven at night, so that its labours will extend over the space of one thousand six hundred and fifty hours. The Queen, it is understood, is again in !he way of adding to the impediments already existing to the King of Hanover's chance of ever reaching the throne of England. The qualification for Commissioners under the Property and Income Tax, is £2OO per annum in land and tenements over and above all ground rents, incumbrances, or reserva tions, or of personal property to the amount of £5OOO. Advices from Ascension to the 29th of May say that the Niger Expedition awaited the termination of the rainy season to make an ascent up the river ; the water not sufficing for the purpose at that date. An address from the General-in-Chief of the Polish Army has been forwarded to every member of the British Parlia ment, expressive of gratitude for the sympathy evinced, in a recent debate, for the wrongs and woes of Poland. Last Night but Two of Mrs. R. HONNER - . Thirteenth Night of the New Ti, of Superstition, called GISELLE, or. Tn E Pli ANTOM NItiIUJAANCEILIS. THIS present TUESDAY EVI,ViNG, the 2d instant, DAMON AND PYTHIAS. After which, THE KING'S GARDENER. To conclude with G I S E L L E. Mrs...R. Homier. Giselle Tll EATRE-ROY AL, LIVERPOOL. AIR. TRAVERS respectfully announces to his Friends and the Public, that his BENEFIT will take place TO-MORROW, (WEDNESDAY,) the 3d instant, previous to his engagement at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. The Performances will commence with Barnett's Grand Opera, THE MOUNTAIN SYLPH Donald .. Mr. Travers Miss H. Gardner After which, A FAVOURITE INTERLUDE, In which Mr. W. J. Hammond and Miss Julia Bennett will appear.—The whole to conclude with THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug In which character he will introduce, in addition to the Ori ginal Music, the " Death of Nelson," and, by particular desire, the old Ballad of " Sally in our Alley." Tickets to be had of Mr. COOKE, at the Box-office ; at Mr. RoamEß's, 26, Tarleton-street ; and at Mr. HIME'S Music Warehouse, Church-street. TO CORRESPONDENTS " J. H." must use his own discretion in the selection of the particular work he requires. T. H. SUNDERLAND.—If our correspondent and " reader" subscribed for a copy of the STANDARD direct from our office, we should feel bound in some degree to attend as much as possible to his wishes ; but really it is taxing our patience to be taken to task by him, considering that he only buys our publication from a news-room at half price. It is poor encouragement for us to make improvements to meet with such support. We always give the stations 01 the British army, at the commencement of each month. It our correspondent had been a "constant reader," he would have long ago found that out. •