The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent P-HOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS • - - - TAKEN- EY THE REFLECTION OF LIGHT AT THE MOUNT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WALK, LIVERPOOL. THE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS , by which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES of the Human Countenance and Person are " won from the hand of Nature" in the short space of a few seconds, respect fully announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Lancashire, that the Extraordinary Process IS NOW OPEN. The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of the late OBSERVATORY, ST. JAMES'S WALK, a neat and elegant Building has been erected thereon, in which the PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of which is ranked among the greatest scientific achievements of the present age, is now in DAILY OPERATION. THE PRICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING A FRAME, IS ONE GUINEA. JOHN RELPH, Manager. Specimens may be seen, and Orders received. at Mr. LA CEY'S REPOSITORY OF ARTS, 100, Bold-street. The ,e Invention was recently introduced into England, at ROYAL POLYTECDNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON ; and are a few extracts from the leading Journals he following 'elating s merits (From the Times.) THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has been so far perfected as to be almost incapable of further improvement. The novelty attendant upon the fact of being furnished in the short space of five seconds with a more correct miniature likeness than the most accom plished artist could paint on ivory, after days of laborious study, coupled with the fineness of the weather, drew together a host of curious fashionables, at the Poly. technic Institution, so many, indeed, that notwithstanding the short period of time occupied in the operation, the room was crowded for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting their turn. The apartment appropriated for the magical process—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the object desired, being on the highest story of the institution. From the roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about a quarter of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained, and it is so ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the sun. In a portion of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated seat is placed, on which the party whose likeness is to be taken sits, with his head reclined backwards. In this posi tion the sitter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite direction, about five from him, in which is placed the plate to be impressed with the portrait. Having done so for a few seconds, he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a likeness is presented to him. The likenesses which we saw were admirable, and closely true to nature, beauties and de formities being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are ashamed of their personal appearance had better keep from the influence of photography. (From the Morning Chronicle.) When we formerly described this process, the time requi site for taking a portrait was, generally speaking. about four minutes ; but in consequence of the great improvements that have been made, the time has been reduced to about five se conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the operation may require from a minute and a half to two mi- The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature here is her own delineator. The features are admirably marked out and delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi nary, that they are really startling. (From the Morning Advertiser.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter esting sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting crowds daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent -street. The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing, leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill could effect (From the Morning Herald.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRA.ITS.--:We were present on Sa turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented, and now for the first time brought before the public. By the photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken. in the short space of from ten to five and twenty seconds ! We say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring, the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course, may result from an assumed or unnatural position. Although the exhibition has been only of a private character, and of some two or three days, we understand that it has been visited by all the parties possessing the privilege. Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise and gratification at the extraordinary invention. (From the Court Journal.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.-We attended yesterday at the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap paratus at the Polytechnic Institution, by which photographic likenesses are taken, and with the greatest accuracy, in a period varying from five to twenty seconds. We were de lighhted with the exhibition. (From the Morning Post.) The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting for his return to a general desire to possess them, which he anticipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the best memento of a dear friend or relative. (From the Courier.) " Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy." (From the Weekly Dispatch.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We took an opportunity on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken by the photographic process. The room was crowded with nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution. It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing short of a complete copy of nature. F;orn the Observer.) PHOTOGRAPHIC `PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving, the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations, makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses • but, on the other hand, they w h o wan t th e real thing, and we presume them to be the majority, will unquestionably spend a guinea with great willingness in the production of a minia ture portrait which their fathers and mothers, wives, sisters, and brothers may " swear to." Separate rooms are also appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, and a female attendant waits upon the former to assist in arranging the dress so as to produce the most desirable pictorial effect. (From the Naval and Military Gazelle.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—For some time it was doubted whether Photography could ever be brought to operate satisfactorily on the human face and form, so as to enable the artist to take an unerring and effective likeness, the slightest motion inevitably destroying the picture in its progrees. Ingenuity, perseverance, and repeated experiments, have at length completely triumphed over the difficulty ; and miniature portraits, infallibly faithful, are now taken, from a sittting of from five to twenty seconds ; the time varying according to the intensity of light. (From Bell's Weekly Messenger.) EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES.—It is bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate looking glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likeness is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the most precious gift that can be given to those who love him while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest guide for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil paintings as large as life. We have reason to believe that the statements lately made relative to six ships of the line proceeding from Toulon to Brest for the purpose of being disarmed, is incorrect, and that those six vessels'are to form a squadron of observation, which the French Government purposes to employ on the coasts of Spain.—Morning Herald of yesterday. TIGER SHOOTING BY MOONLIGHT IN BENGAL.-It happened that we lay off Sangor, a short time since, an island contiguous to the Sunderbunds, which has for many years past been noted for tigers, which harbour amid its thi c k an d al most impenetrabl jungles, and for want of more interesting occupation three of us made up our minds to make a short excursion into the forest one evening to a large disused tank or jeel, which we had been informed only the day before was used at night by the wild beasts, which were accustomed to lown thither and slake their thirst, and that the foot tigers, as also those of rhinoceroses, were apparent everal defiles leading to the same. The moon shone exceedingly bright, and, having furnished ourselves with a case of cigars and a bottle of " brandy panee," we left the schooner at eight o'clock, attended by a serang and four Lascars armed with cutlasses, and bearing in their hands two mussals, ourselves equipped with three two-ounce ball tiger rifles. In this manner we made our way for the jeel, which lay about 250 yar d s o ff f rom t h e s h ore. On arriving at the spot we ascended a large bnbbool tree, which stood so as to give us the opportunity of observing accurately any animal that might approach the water, between us and the moon, and were quite near enough to it, being about 40 yards off, to depend upon our rifles taking the desired effect if we dis charged them successfully. When we had seated ourselves comfortably, we gave or d ers t o th e L ascars t o quenc h t h e torches, and to maintain strict silence, at the same time to keep a keen 100k -out, and apprise us if they perceived any beast upon the move, for the eye of a native by n i g ht i s quicker far th an that of a European. More than an hour passed away without our l hearing any noise, save now an d then the grunt of so e mew d hog, as he was busily ro u ti ng th e sides of the j ee l, (i. lake ) among the folah weeds, the root of which aqu a ti c plant that animal will travel many miles in a night to obtain. While we were becoming rathe r i m p a ti en t I a tremendous r us h was a short distance behind us, which was quickly followed by the mournful cry of some victim in distress. It was quite impossible to see what it was, on account of the thickness the jungle, but there can he little doubt that it wa f s a a w l n e , oar m e d, t ir l ihich had surprised and hounded upon a deer or growling and snarling intonations that fell upon our ears immediately lately afterwards. Suddenly the serang, who was seated in a tree by the side of us, gently said, " I hear a hye na speak there's a tiger at hand." The natives say that the form e ; animal is wont to follow close upon the heels of the tiger in his prowls, to prey upon his captive after the latter has abandoned mitagnlinfictst than five minutes after the serang had spoken, a sight presented itself to our view ; two large tigers, apparently a male and female, approached with stately pace towards the They stoop for a few second s wi th their heads tu rne d cls the jungle they had just quitted, as if att racted by sound, when one of them descended the defile, and to lap the grateful fluid. Now was our time. I'took aerate aim at the animal upon the bank, .whilst my two nions levelled their rifles at the one that was in the Irinking. Our " trine" discharged was simultaneous. f not both of my friends' barrels had evidently taken sure effect. The huge creature roared as he pltinged dis tractedly into the water, and in a few seconds disappeared, whilst the animal I had fired at bounded off into the jungle apparently untouched. We revived the light s of the mussels, and went round to the spot, and found that he was sunk about six feet deep in water. As there was no means of gettinghim out that night, we left him until the following day, when, with the aid of ropes, we managed to drag him on shore. He was a beautiful male Bengal tiger, and measured from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail nine feet and o Both, balls had told; the one had penetrated the u o er_the chest, We carried away the head and e Ales, and left the carcase behind us. We Ilklotsteps of a rhinoceros all around the tank, T `:' 'P unite fresh,—East Indian Correspondent. marks in the s FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE DETECTED CONSPIRACY IN BR US (From the Courrier Beige.) While France has b een convu l se d by etizeutes, Spain by insurrection, and the United States and England by agita tion, .the world beheld the tranquility of Belgium with astonishment. It was scarcely possible that this state of things could continue, for Belgium is every bit as constitu tional, and, consequently, must " go ahead" as fast as other nations which keep continually progressing in their onward course. The powers that be are not a jot less stronger, therefore, we also must show some signs of life, and thus this night have we also had our conspiracy. It was not the police, however, who threw any obstacles in the way to pre vent this explosion, which has been inevitable ever since the fetes cif September. The funds of the police are inefficient to provide for the safety of the state. There can be no doubt that the conspirators were all in earnest in this affair, and " meant business." In one of our suburbs, two new six-pounders and two field-pieces, with harness, ammunition, &c., all ready to sweep the streets of our tratquil city. Six persons have been arrested during the night ; amongst them is the attendant of the V. P., together with the captain of those who were wounded in September. Two generals have escaped by flying the country. The foundry at which the balls and cartridges were manu factured has been discovered. Four pieces of cannon have also been seized, and are at the Hotel de Ville. Attempts have been inade;to seduce the non-commissioned officers of the garrison, but they immediately denounced them to their superior officers. To-morrow was the day fixed upon for the breaking out of the conspiracy. The conspirators had extended their rammi fications throughout Ghent, Antwerp, Liege, &c. Had it broken out in the night it might have been successful, as the officers who live in the suburbs could have had their throats cut before they could have arrived at the barracks. This is the cause of the order given to the officers to return to the town. The pieces of artillery were received at the Tivoli Gardens. The conspirators consisted partly of Orangeists, and partly of true patriots ; each of which party had its Diego Leon represented by the two Generals. V. D. S. and V. D. M., who have taken to their beds. The brother of the former has been arrested. Of a truth, Belgium is a country of imitators. We have also received the following details : During the whole of yesterday afternoon the police and authorities were on the alert. Thousands of rumours were afloat respecting the goings and comings of those function aries. It was at first thought to relate to a band of robbers, which it is well known has extensive ramifications in the city. This, however, better informed people said was caused by a conspiracy against the welfare of the state. The law officers, accompanied by the police agents, re paired to the different quarters of the town to make domici liary, visits at the residences of the parties suspected.— Amongst others they proceeded to the house of M. Deere hen in the Rue d'Argent. They were compelled to break open the doors, and seized several articles. Gendarmes then went in pursuit of M. Decrehen, who was arrested and taken to the bureau of public safety. He is reported to have bad a violent altercation with the Minister of War. As M. Decrehon alighted from the carriage before the door of the Minister of the Interior, he succeeding in escaping, but was subsequently recaptured. Large bodies of people assembled about the streets, and troops are stationed about the town. M. Decrehen has been interrogated, but nothing is as yet known. Some other arrests have taken place, and the guards at the posts about the town have been doubled. A battalion of the 16th has just arrived at Brussels. The authorities declare that they have discovered the traces of widely extending conspiracy. The ministers assembled in council this morning, and several expresses have been sent off by the King. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. WEST INDIES Her Majesty's packet Magnet, Lieut. Griffith, arrived at Falmouth on Monday morning, having left Barbadoes Sept. 5, St. Lucia 6, Martinique 7, Dominica and Guadaloupe 9, Antigua 11, Montserrat, Nevis and St. Kitts 12, Tortola 13, arriving on the same day at St. Thomas, where she received the La Guayra and Leeward Island mails, ex the Tartarus steamer, and those from Jamaica, to Sept. 20, brought up by the steamer Flamer. On freight £9OOO. Her Majesty's packet Seagull had arrived at St. Thomas, and expected to leave with the next West India mails on October 7, The French government has issued an ordinance, which appears in an official advertisement in the Barbadoes papers. The following is the chief contents : " The port of Port Louis, situated in Grand-terre (Gua daloupe) is open to the importation of foreign merchandise enumerated in the tables A B C attached to the ordinance of the Bth of December. 1839, under the conditions and restric tions set forth by the same ordinance, and by that of the sth of February, 1826. as regards the importation of the same merchandise in the other parts of the French Antilles already open to foreign commerce. The failure of Messrs. William Jenkins and Co., of Lon don, we are sorry to learn, has had a very injurious effect on several of the West India merchants, and other individuals who had extensive and confidential dealings with the unfor tunate house in question. It had been moved in th e B ar b a d oes H ouse of Assembly, " that the militia bill of this island, as now constituted, has failed in its object of raising an effectual militia force ; and that this house being of an opinion that there is no existing necessity for such an establishment, under the present orga nised state of the country (having a police for the preserva tion of internal order), deems its repeal advisable," which was rejected by a small majority. A subsequent motion was made on the ruinous expense entailed by the keeping up of the militia of the island, which terminated in a like manner. Sr. LUCIA.--The Palladium states :—" The first subject of local interest here is the change of language in our courts of justice, announced by proclamation to come into effect on the Ist of January next. Much as we approve of every step made in our local institutions to approach the great model of the parent state, we cannot but sympathise with the num bers of our fellow-inhabitants whose ruin will be the inevita ble consequence of this measure. Already are lawyers, merchants, planters, and others seized with the panic ; and we hear but of preparations to quit the colony, and carry what little may ,be remaining of their wrecked fortunes to other countries. Our population was thin enough before : how it will be now, unless the valuable, though long-neg lected, capabilities of the island attract at last the notice of British enterprise. " The introduction of British sterling, as the only legal money of accounts, has also made a great sensation, and would have been hailed by every class as a decided improve ment, but that it has been brought to pass in a bungled man ner, leaving the cut-money in circulation without a tangible sterling value. " His Excellency Lieut.-Col. Graydon, being called to 13arbadoes by busineas of emergency, took his departure of Wednesday morning for the neighbouring island of Marti nique, to meet his Excellency Lieut. Gen. Maister, anc proceeded with him in the steamer to head-quarters. Capt Caldwell, of the 92d Highlanders, is confided with the ad• ministration of the government during the absence of Col Graydon, which is expected to be of but a few days' dura tion." The House of Assembly at Jamaica had been prorogued by proclamation from August 31 to October 5. We extract the following from our advices and from the Jamaica papers : . . " CARTHAGENA.—By the arrival of the Jane Ann, at Kingston, on Thursday last, we have intelligence from Car thagena to the 7th ult. Carmona still continued to blockade the town, and prevented the vessel landing her cargo. The Pickle and steamer Hydra were both there; but remained passive. The Attorney-General, it is understood, has given his opinion that the blockade ought not to be recognised, and that all commanders of her Majesty's ships would be perfectly justified in protecting vessels carrying provisions 'under the British flag ; but in the absence of positive orders from the commodore, they are afraid of the responsibility. In the meantime, what little trade there is between the coun tries suffers. The sloop Mermaid, another vessel with pro visions from this port, had also been warned off the coast by Carmona's fleet, and had sailed two days before the Jane Ann, but has not yet arrived. _ " Several deaths had taken place in the town from Car mona's shots. The Government Admiral, Tonon, was still absent ; nobody seems to know where. Rio le Lache, how ever, is reported to have declared for the government party ! What effect this will have time will show. Upon these mat ters a correspondent, under date of the 7th ult., thus writes— " ` We are still besieged ; last night the cannon on the walls poured forth a tremendous shower of grape, &c., as there was an attack on San Felipe. The Popa, too, has not been idle : several houses have eyelet holes in them from cannon balls; all the world here are sleeping and even living below, as they sometimes cannonade:in the daytime. * * Pepe Pazos' lady (Candelaria Eckart) was killed by a cannon shot on the 29th ult. The ball went through three partitions before it reached her. There have been two or three other deaths, but of a more lingering character, caused by splinters, &c. What has become of Admiral Tonon ? We have no intelligence of him since the 19th ult., when he came from Baru, and had a little skirmish with Podilla. " I suppose you wiil have heard that Rio la Hatche has pronounced in favour of the Government of Bogota, and they say that Herran was at Cucuta in July last, on his way hither, via Maracaibo. For this reason some say that Tonon has gone there to bring his troops—verenaos' !" STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.—The expectations pretty gene rally entertained, that the recent intelligence from the United States would cause an improvement here, has not been realised. We believe that some rather extensive orders were received by the Acadia, and others, which had previously been given conditionally, were fully confirmed ; but the effect of these orders appeared to have been fully anticipated, and the market for manufactured goods, and particularly for printing cloths, was quite as much depressed as any of those which preceded it. For yarn the market was flat; but there was no change in prices. _ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Nov. I. We have had a fair average market to-day in flannels ; dyed goods have been more enquired after, but prices remain ex tremely low. The declining prices of wool have had some influence upon the manufacturers, who purchase very sparing ly for immediate use only. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, Nov. 2.—The pacific aspect of American news has inspired a little more confidence, but the effect has not been so powerful as was anticipated, so that we have nothing particular to notice in the state of this mar ket. A fair, steady demand continues in fancy woollens ; and the general trade, if not very animated, is not bad. Prices, too, are firm ; and, in fact, they must immediately improve on an improved demand. Business is a little im proved in the warehouses. Employment generally is more than usually abundant for the season. PAISLEY.—For the last six months great distress has pre vailed in the town of Paisley and neighbourhood, among the operative manufacturing population. Within the last month this distress has greatly increased ; and from authentic returns, the number of unemployed now amounts to 6,000. BLACKBURN.—In consequence of the present depressed state of the cotton trade, the master spinners of Blackburn held a meeting on Friday, to take into consideration the propriety of running their mills short time. All temperance soldiers on board transport vessels, will, in future be allowed double rations of sugar, cocoa, and tea, for each ration of spirits stopped. PRZNCH BEGGARS.—The beggars by profession begin, as soon as soon as you are in sight, with a monotonous drawl of set words, all pronounced on one key, and precisely the same to every passer-by. Perhaps it is well for their own interest that they generally ask you to give for the merit of the gift, or the prayers they promise to breathe for you, for certainly there is nothing in themselves to prompt it. How different have I often thought it was from the genuine elo quence of Irish beggary, which makes the heart ache so bitterly that it would almost be a relief to give one's last six pence ! The begging in France is simply asking for money, while the beggar often looks all the time as comfortable and well fed as yourself. It is true they only ask for one sous ; but in the valley of Carnpan, when y ou have given them that , they make no scruple to ask yon for another. Nor is this only on the public roads. There is scarcely any place go re tired but you hear the patt er i ng of little bare feet behind you, th and, as soon as you look around, the demand is made en persisted in for a length of time proportioned to f g a l rl oi and u d ; breathin g which diffuses arou nd you the perfume the ability of the supplicant to keep pace with you. THE TOWER OF LONDON-DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION (ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.), (From the Times of Tuesday.) The painful excitement and deep sympathy which this event, announced in the columns of our journal of yesterday, had created in the public mind, was throughout the whole of yesterday on the increase. From an early hour in the morning, and indeed through out the whole of Sunday night, Tower-hill and all the ave nues leading thereto presented a most lively appearance. As night came on and gradually darkened, the outlines of the shell of that once magnificent building, the Armoury, toge ther with the Bowyer-tower, the new store-house, &c., be came distinctly visible frona the lurid glare of light playing upon the ruins, and produced from the immense pile of burn ing rubbish still smouldering and at times bursting forth in violent flames from within. The interior of the Tower during the night presented a truly singular and picturesque appearance. Groups of sol diery, in their sombre gray coats, exhausted by their almost superhuman exertions throughout the previous night and day, were to be seen reclining on blankets on various parts of the parade fronting the scene of devastation, under tents composed of the same materials erected on halberds, &c., to protect them from the rain. Several engines belonging to the fire brigade, as also thos e of th e C oun ty, W es t o f Eng land, the Custom-house, those belonging to the Tower, and others, were also stationed, together with the firemen, in such positions as to be ready in case of a fresh outbreak be yond the building were the fire was still confined. As morning approached, the fire in the body of the build ing at intervals burst out in large masses of flame, and it was only by the continual streams of water poured upon them that they could be at all kept under. At intervals, also, large masses of the heavy stone coping, with which the top of the building was ornamented, kept falling from its tottering walls, and several times it was feared that the beautiful basso relievo, forming the pediment over the grand entrance, executed by Gibbons, would also become detached before measures could be taken to preserve it. The face of the building is much disfigured by large streams of molten lead which had run down the walls from the roof during the fire. The number of windows on this side the building is 48, and through the apertures a very fair view of the whole interior of the Grand Amoury presents itself. Looking upward as far as the eye can reach, it meets with nothing but the tottering remains of the walls on the other side. Towards the centre, however, a far more interesting object meets the view. Opposite the grand entrance is to be distinguished the remains of " the grand staircase," which was considered one of the most magnificent in Europe. In order to convey an adequate idea of what thi s s t a i rcase was , and what, alas! it is, it may be well to give the following de scription, furnished to the reporter by one of the principal warders of the Tower :—The staircase consisted of a splendid trophy, consisting of arms and weapons, ancient and modern, comprising nearly 200 varieties, and nearly all differing in form or pattern. In the centre was a half column, support ing a marble bust of his late Majesty King William IV., ex ' ecuted by Joseph, which was presented by his majesty, and placed there on the occasion of his majesty's visit to the Tower with Queen Adelaide, on the sth of August, 1830. The mass, forming a splendid trophy, was placed within a recess on the landing, on a platform supported by eight brass six pounder guns, which served as pillars, and which were taken at Waterloo. In the centre of the platform was an inscription announcing the visit of King William and Queen Adelaide, and upon a tablet placed between two guns the following :—" The kettle-drums in this trophy were taken at Blenheim, on the 2d of August, 1704, by the British troops under the command of John Duke of Marlborough. The guns were taken at Waterloo, on the 18th of June, 1815, by the British troops underthe command of Arthur Duke of Wellington." Upon the walls at the sides were two large stars formed of swords and their brass scabbards, bayonets, and pistols. The one representing the star of the order of the Knights of the Garter, and the other of the Bath. Also two figures in gilt suits of armour lon ornamented pedestals. The rails of the stairs and the cor nice at the ceiling were ornamented with architectural figures, curiously formed with arms. Below, upon pedestals, existed two very striking groups ; one representing a knight in gilt armour preparing for action, attended by his squire, in the act of buckling on his spurs, and a Pikeman with his 18-feet pike ; the other group was a knight in a hannsome suit of bright armour, of the time of Elizabeth, in action, having seized a banner of the enemy, waving his followers on. On each side of the entrance-door was a knight in a gilt suit of armour, and over the door was placed the Ordnance arms in white marble, and opposite two beautiful brackets, upon which stood the figures of two other knights in gilt armour. The whole of this superb staircase is, with the exception of the eight brass cannon t a k en a t W a t e rloo, a mass of rubbish; they, as if in defiance of the devouring element, still raise their mouths amidst the ruins, and retain their position on the platform. The only other relics of England's glory to be seen from the grand entrance, rearing their heads amidst the ruins, is the large anchor taken at Camperdown, and the huge mortar employed at the siege of Namur, in 1695, by William 111., forming part of the naval and military trophies on either side of the grand entrance. As we stated in our journal yesterday, his Grace the Duke of Wellington received intimation of the terrible occurrence at four o'clock on Sunday morning. His grace at once for warded information of the occurrence to her majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Her majesty, it is said, ex pressed her deep regret at so severe a loss to the nation, and being anxious to obtain every authentic particular respecting the calamity, a messenger was despatched to the lord chamberlain, who, at her majesty's desire, visited the Tower on Sunday for the purpose of collecting information. After visiting the ruins, and having an interview with Major El rington, the officer in command of the Tower, his lordship returned to the palace to lay the matter fully before the Queen. At an early hour yesterday morning, Major Hall and Lieut. Gould, of the Royal Engineers, arrived at the Tower, under orders for the purpose of surveying the state of the ruins of the Grand Armoury, the walls of which, more particularly that portion near the Jewel Office, and where the unfortu nate fireman, Richard Wivel, was killed, they pronounced in a most dangerous condition. No doubt could exist of this fact, for it hung frightfully over the Terrace at the east end, and threatened destruction to the residence of Mr. Forman, M.P., at the corner. The whole building is pronounced in danger, and Colonel Eden, the commander of the troops, has issued orders that no person shall be permitted to go within fifty yards of any part of it, which order throughout the day was rigidly enforced by the sentinels and police on duty. A strong guard was also stationed at each end of the Sally-port steps, situate on the east side of the Armoury, and near the Jewel Tower, in order to prevent any one passing. After Major Hall had had an interview with the governor, preparations were commenced for shoring the walls, and large pieces of timber were procured, and by five o'clock last evening the walls on the west wing were made safe. Respecting the first discovery of the fire, and the exact position of the tower in which it originated, many statements have gone forth ; but, from inquiries instituted yesterday, they have been found to be erroneous. The following may be relied upon► as accurate :—At about twenty-five minutes after ten o'clock on Saturday night, one of the sentinels on duty at the Royal Mint observed a light in the Round or Bowyer Tower, of which from that spot a most commanding view is obtained. Thinking this was not right, he called the porter of the Royal Mint lodge out to look at it, saying at the time that a light in that tower was most unusual. The porter replied that he had often seen it, and again went into his lodge. A few mnutes after a shout was heard proceeding from some person on Tower-hill, alarming the sentry on the batteries racing Postern-row that a portion of the Tower was on fire, and for him to give the alarm to the guard-house. This person subsequently proved to be Sergeant Edwards, of the Ist Battalion of Fusilier Guards, and his statement, furnished to our reporter by Captain Delme Davis, to whom he made it, is highly important. . Edwards states that while he was in the Nag's Head pub lic house, in Postern-row, he perceived, to his great surprise, a light through one of the windows, just above the bomb proof part of the Bowyer Tower. He went out and crossed to the railings at the top of the moat by which the Tower is surrounded, and watched the light for a minute or two. At first it appeared but little larger than the glimmer of a candle, but it suddenly increased to such an extent that no doubt was left upon his mind that the place was on fire. He at once hailed the sentry stationed on the Curtain Battery, situate immediately under the Bower Tower. The sentry recog nised the sergeant's voice, and having answered, he was desired to alarm the garrison, for the place was on fire, which he did by instantly firing his musket. Ed wards himself immediately made the best of his way to the western portion of the fortress , and, on gaining an e n t rance , found the troops turning out, and the garrison alarmed by the rolling of drums and sounding of bugles in every quarter. When he reached the guard-house, under the White Tower, facing the green, he informed the captain, and called upon Nash, the sergeant of the night guard, to follow him. The only approaches to the Bowyer Tower were through the basement of Armoury, one to a private staircase, eastward of the Grand Stairs, which not only led to the Tower, but also to the roof of the Armoury. They made their way to this entrance, but unfortunately the keys were not immedi ately procurable. Finding this was the case, they proceeded to the western extremity of the building, and through a nar• row passage, only sufficiently wide to admit one person at a time; admission being gained to it near the north-eastern angle of St. Peter's Church. On getting to the end of the passage, they ascended a flight of steps, which led to a kind of terrace or wall beyond the north side of the Armoury, and twenty feet above the roof of the Old Mill Barracks, which it overlooked. This terrace led to that part of the Bowyer Tower called the Round Table, to which there were two entrances. On reaching it he informed Nash that it was in that building he bad seen the fire ; but they could then see nothing of it, although it smelt strong. Having broken open the entrance, the place was discovered in perfect dark ness, but full of smoke. They descended to the door beneath, and on bursting that open also, a mass of flam e rushed out upon the m . Th e y a t once effected their escape, and before they had retraced their steps into the centre of the Tower, the Bowyer Tower was blazing to the very roof. He believes at the time he first burst open the door that, had there been an engine and plenty of water on the spot, the calamity might have been prevented. [The London papers of yesterday add nothing of impor tance to the intelligence given above. The investigation into all the circumstances connected with the calamity is going on, and will not be completed for several days. It is strictly private. On Wednesday the Duke of Wellington visited the ruins, and was much struck with the stupendous scene of desolation, and the awful havoc which the confla gration had occasioned. His grace was tremendously cheered on leaving the Tower. The Brick Tower which is wholly destroyed, was the next turret on the east of the Bowyer Tower, and derived its name from the upper story, which was of brick. This upper story was erected either in the reign of Edward IV. or Richard the basement story, however, is of far greater antiquity, and is said to have been the prison of the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey, as was the Bowyer Tower, the place of confine ment of her hus band, Lord Dudley, prior to his execution.] A FORTUNATE REPORTER.—A Yankee editor, giving a descripion of the bursting of a cannon by which several per sons were badly wounded, says— Our reporter, who had his hand blown off, was fortunately on the spot, and has nar rated to us the full particulars of the catastrophe." —Evening paper. - - - NATURE OF SODA. — An intelligent correspondent, who very appropriately subscribes himself " A Friend t o Improve ments," has sent us the following interesting communication, which we beg to recommend to the attention of our agricul tural readers :—" in these times, when nit rate of soda has become a fashionable article for manure (there may be fashions in manure as well as any other article, parti cu l ar ly when newly introduced), it may be of some use to the f armer to know what is good and pyre from what is adult era t e d or g ro originally d di r t i y m s p a u l r t impure(. commonT e nitrate saltto ro chloride h s l o o d r d , nis so like coarse of soda), th a t it may be and is often mixed with it. The price of the common salt at present is not above one-tenth of the price of the nitrate of soda; and if it answers for manure, the farmer need not throw away his money upon a mixture containing, perhaps, 'one-fourth of common salt, or more. Fortunately there is a very simple mode of testing the nitrate —not a regular analyzation requiring some chemical knowledge, but one that must prove the presence of common salt at once ; and that is, to throw a small quantity of the nitre into the fire, and if it contains salt it will produce a crackling noise ; if it is pure it will burn very rapidly with a sort of hissing noise, and no crackling at all. Every one knows the noise produced by throwing common salt on a fire, and if the nit re be pure no such noise should be heard; and in proportion to the quantity of common salt so will the noise be greater or leas.—Aberdeen Herald. COURT CIRCULAR.--TnußsuAy Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon, attended by the Maids of Honour in Waiting, in a carriarze and four. Colonels Arbuthnot and Wyld were in attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wyld and Captain F. Seymour, rode out on horseback yes terday forenoon. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included the Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Fingall. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at Bucking ham Palace during the evening. The following - bulletin of the health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager was received in town yesterday : " The Queen Dowager has been much disturbed by cough during the night ; but her Majesty is not worse this morning. " WILLIAM FREDERICK CHAMBERS. " DAVID DAVIES. Sudbury-hall, Nov. 2." Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a dejeune yesterday afternoon to the Royal family, at Glou cester-house, in honour of the birth-day of the Princess Sophia. There were present their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge; and also his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at his residence in St. James s Palace, on Tuesday evening, from Dublin. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin cesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, returned to Kew yesterday afternoon. _ _ Mr. Murchison, President of the Geological .Society, charged with despatches from the Hon. J. D. Bloomfield, at St. Petersburgh, to the Earl of Aberdeen, reached town last night, after an absence of seven months, during which he has visited many distant parts of the R uss i an emp i re . Mr. C. Franks, chairman of the South Sea Company, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at his official residence in . Downing- s t ree t. Lord Ellenborough had an . interview with Si r R. P ee l, a t his official residence in Downing-street, on Tuesday. Sir R. Keane had an interview with Lord Stanley yester day, at the Colonial-office. Lord Burghersh had an interview with the Earl of Aber deen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. ENTERTAINMENT TO LORD ELLENBOROUGH On Wednesday evening the directors of the East India Company gave one of the most splendid dinners that has taken place for many years past, to celebrate the inaugur ation of Lord Ellenborough as Governor-General of her ma jesty's dominions in the East Indies. It was a recherche entertainment, and was given at the London Tavern, and did credit to the proprietors. There was nothing wanting to render this inauguration dinner the most costly and splendid of any that has occurred since Lord William Bentinck was appointed to the high and important office Lord Ellenborough is destined to fill. There were present at the dinner the following noblemen and gentlemen : The chair was occupied by George Lyall, Esq. ; on his right sat Lord Ellenborough, the new governor-general, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl De la Warr, Earl Rossyln, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Goulburn. On the left of the chair were General Sir James Law Lush ington, (the deputy chairman of the East India Company,) Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Jersey, Lord Hill, and Lord Fitz gerald. Besides these there were numbers of the nobility present. After the usual loyal toasts, the chairman gave the health of Lord Ellenborough, with the warmest wishes for his prosperity. Lord ELLENBOROUGH assured the company that he felt most deeply the importance of the trust which had been de legated to him ; but at the same time he expressed his grati fication in acknowledging histhanks to those who had thought him worthy of the high appointment. He felt confident that this partiality was in some degree owing to the opinion en tertained of him by those conversant with the affairs of India, that he had endeavoured to promote the prosperity of that country—not that there was any personal feeling in the question. His object would be to give confidence and strength to the government of that country. He should fail in the great objects he had in view if he had not the confi dence of those who had delegated him to the trust. The noble lord alluded to the connection which he had had with the India Board, under the governments of the Duke of Welling ton and Sir Robert Peel, as shewing the confidence they had in him in being delegated to the high duties he had to per form. He knew too well the great difficulties of the situa tion in which he had been placed ; and if he effected one tenth of the great objects he had in view, he, should be well pleased. His qualificationsfor the office might be judged by the fact of his desire to obtain an intimate knowledge of the affairs of India ; and having had the confidence of the noble duke (Wellington), he hoped that the interests of India, as well as of this country, would be advanced by his exertions. He felt he had to succeed a nobleman of great ability, and united as he had been with Lora Auckland, and knowing the great ability of the noble lord, he felt he had much to do in conducting with honour the affairs of India. To terminate the war with China beneficial to the honour of the country, and to produce tranquillity on both banks of the Indus, re quired a skill of no ordinary kind. In a word, his object would be to give peace to Asia, to give tranquillity to that country, without which the influence of this country was valueless ; to promote a liberal and holiest government, to augment the happiness of the natives, to impart what we know gradually and cautiously, having regard to the preju dices of the natives, and to elevate the character of that mighty people. (Loud cheers.) Feeling that it would be his first duty to promote the interests of the people of India, as it would be to the interests of England, it would be his duty to improve the resources of the country, as affording the best means of obtaining remittances to England. By this means the trade of both countries would be improved. He had the most unbounded confidence in the army, in its discipline, and the power of the go vernmen t t o comman d a willing obedience on the part of a grateful people. Deeply impressed with the importance of the duties he had to fulfil, he hoped that he should execute them so as to produce good to England as well as to India. Not having made one single promise in assuming the office of Governor-General, he was determined that the government of India should not be the government of a party. He was anxious that he should be able to do something for the good of the natives, and for his own undaunted country. (Cheers.) Mr. Lyall, after a few comments, next propsed " The Health of Sir Robert Peel and her Majesty's Ministers." The toast was received with the most enthusiastic applause. Sia Robert Peel rose and said, it was his duty, on the part of the members of her Majesty's Government, to return their warmest thanks for the compliment which they had been pleased to pay to them—a compliment which might be ex pected on ordinary occasions, it being in conformity with general usage ; but on the present occasion it was enhanced by the manner in which their names had been received. It must be satisfactory to the Ministers of the Crown to be complimented in a company, when so many were present who had distinguished themselves in a military and civil service in this and another country with which the proceedings of that day were so intimately connected. Yielding to none in his anxious desire for the prosperity of India, it must be highly satisfactory to receive such marks of esteem and confidence from those deeply inter ested in the affairs of India. Upon a mutual confidence be tween the authorities and this country and those of India, must, in a great measure, depend the successful administra tion of affairs in the latter. As his (Sir R. Peel's) name had been mentioned by the hon. chairman, he might say that, although he had not been brought into immediate connection to any extent with those connected with Indian affairs, still he had felt the warmest interest upon the subject. He should have been wanting in his duty if he had not required the as sistance of his noble friend (Lord Ellenborough) to undertake the high and important office to which he had been delegated. (Loud cheers,) After an acquaintance of 15 years, unche quered by a single misunderstandin g or dispute—knowing his high integrity, his strict honour, his great ability, his in defatigable industry and powers of expression, of which the company had had a specimen that ni g ht , he (Sir R. Peel) should be wanting in his duty to the country if he had not selected him to undertake the high office to which he had been appointed. When he asked himself the question if the East India Company would accept him, or that the crown would refuse the appointment, he felt confident that that great man (pointing to the Duke of Wellington) would not with hold his consent. When he (Sir R. Peel) recollected the knowledge of Indian affairs which the noble lord had, and stimulated as he was to promote the welfare of that country ; knowing,, too, the deep interest he took in advancing the in terests of the natives, founded, not on the narrow edge of the sword, but upon the broad basis of general good, though it deprived him (Sir R. Peel) of a valuable friend, yet he had considered it a paramount duty to ask him to accept the ap pointment. (Loud cheers.) He (Sir R. Peel) breathed but the wishes of all with whom he was connected that his noble friend might return to his native land, after having success fully executed the duties of his high appointment, in health and prosperity, to receive from a grateful people those marks of approbation which are accorded to those who bonestly perform their public duty. (Loud cheers.) The Chairman then rose to propose " the Health of the Duke of Wellington." Drank amidst great acclamation, with three times three. The Duke of WELLINGTON returned thanks for the ho nour done him. It was, said his grace, my anxious desire to attend upon the occasion of this festival to my noble friend, and I felt much gratified by the invitation. Having myself served the East India Company wh en I was a younger man, I have ever since felt the most lively anxiety to promote the advantage of that excellent body, which I so long had the honour of serving. Gentlemen, I must say I have occasion to congratulate you on this appointment, for not only is my noble friend known among the great statesmen of this country, by his admitted sense of integrity, zeal, and ability, but by his long and able administration of the office of first commissioner for the affairs of India, and the evidence he has given of having devoted all his talent to the grand object of making himself master of all the details of those affairs. My noble friend, therefore, unites all the advantages of a distinguished statesman with the know ledge and experience that might be expected to result only from a long residence. He has gained at home a knowledge which other men could only have obtained from lengthened personal experience in the country itself. Gentlemen, I say that the confidence of the Court of Directors could not have been placed in a person better qualified, and I fully concur with her Majesty's Government in the wisdom of her choice, for all must be satisfied that it is the wish of my noble friend to further the w e lf are , contentment, and happiness of the people, over whom he is to preside. My noble friend has stated likewise that it is his anxious desire to co-operate with the Court of Directors in promoting peace, commerce, and the arts, and which I certainly hope and trust he will do. I also hope that my noble friend may have the power to put at rest that great question which has been in a state of un certainty in the north-west of India, as well as in Central Asia, and thus give security to the possessions under your superintendence and government, and enable you to apply your great re s ourc es t o promote still further the happiness and prosperity of India. I feel great pleasure in acknowledg ing the compliment paid to me. (The noble duke sat down amidst loud cheers.) The band played " See the conquering hero comes." Several other toasts were then given, and at the termination of Lord Fitzgerald's speech, the Duke of Wellington quitted the room, passing through. the long range of visitors with a dignified or familiar bow to each, and with a tolerably firm step, which left, however, the recollection of the duke's emphatic words strong in the memory of his hearers, " when I was a younger man." The cheering continued during the whole of his grace's progress through the long range of apartments, and was responded to by the multitude as sembled withont. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, Under the Manage?hent of Mr. CLARICE, Sole L•,ssec During the remainder of the Season, the performances will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST SIX. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS VANDENHOFF, And the Last Night of the Engagement of MR. and MISS VANDENHOFF. THIS present FRIDAY, Nov. 5, will be produced, for the first time here, 'Mr. Knowles' last new Comedy, now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, with distinguished success, called OLD MAIDS. Sir Philip Brilliant Mr. Vandenhoff. John Blount .... Mr. Baker. Lady Anne... Miss Cleaver. Thomas Blount. Mr. H. Holl.. Mrs.Blount.Madame Simon. Robert Mr. Chaplin. Charlotte ..... Mrs. Clarke. Lady Blanche Miss Vandenhoff. At the end of the Play, A PAS DE DEUX, by Master and Miss C. Webster. After which, the Farce. of THE LIAR. . (the Liar).... Mr. Vandenhoff. Mr. Henry Vandenhoff. Mrs. Clarke. To conclude with the Farce of TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy the Tiler Young Wilding Papillon. Kitty Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. CHARLES KEAN will commence an engagement of Ten Nights at this Theatre, on MONDAY NEXT, Nov. 8, in the popular Play of the LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Charles Kean ; Pau line, Miss Ellen Tree.—To conclude with a favourite After piece. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF ARMSTRONG THE SHIP WRIGHT. FIRST NIGHT OF GUY FAUX ! ROARS OF LAUGHTER AT JACK THE GIANT KILLER ! THIS present FRIDAY, the sth, and TO-MORROW, (Saturday,) the 6th instant, the Entertainments to com mence with an entire Nautical Drama, with new Scenery, Dresses, &c., entitled ARMSTRONG THE SHIPWRIGHT; OR, THE RIVAL BROTHERS. Reuben Armstrong Thomas Dryrot.... (Temperance Tom) .... H. Beverly Annis Mildred Mrs. Emery. SCENES IN THE ARENA. After which, a new Laughable Extravaganza, called JACK THE GIANT KILLER. Jack the Giant Killer, Master Arnold ; Clown, Mr. Guest ; Giant, Mr. J. White; Giantess, Mr. Usher. The whole to conclude with a Drama called GUY FAUX! OR, THE GUNPOWDER PLOT. King James the First, Mr: . M`Gregor ; Sir Tristram Cony- wabble, Mr. H. Beverly ; Guido Faux, Mr. Battie. On MONDAY, a new Drama will he produced, with various Changes in the Arena, and other Entertainments ; also, in Preparation, a new Domestic Drama, of Thrilling In terest, in Three Acts, called the DEATH GRASP; or, a FATHER'S CURSE. NORTHERN MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS w ith S c i en tifi c and Literary Recreations, established with the sole ob ject of affording Working Men an opportunity of spending their Saturday Evenings in a sober and rational manner. PRINCIPAL VOCALISTS Mrs. JOHN PALMER, Mrs. RICHARDSON, 11" EARNSHAW, Mr. HADLEY, Mr. CRANK. Conductor, Mr. W. HOLDEN, Who will Preside at the Piano-forte. SATURDAY, November 6. PART FIRST. Glee—" Hark, the Lark" Song—" M`Gregor's Gathering"—Mrs. J. Palmer.. A. Lee Recitation—" Battle of Bleinhim"—Mr. A. Hay.. Southe Catch—" Ah ! How Sophia"—Messrs. W. Holden, Earnshaw, and Hadley Calcot Song—Mrs. Richardson. Recitative and Air—" All is lost now" '—Mr. Earn- shave Song—" Sweetly o'er my Senses Stealing"—Mrs Palmer Glee—" The Winds Whistle C01d".... Bishop Bishop PART SECOND. Glee—" New Mariners" Song—" Bay of Biscay"—Mr. Had1ey.......... Duet—" When thy Bosom"—Mrs. J. Palmer and Mr. Earnshaw " Go, Idle Boy" " The Crusader's Bride"—Mrs. J. Pal- Calcott .. Davy Glee- - Song—' G. A. Hodso Calcot mer Trio—" Forgive, Blest Shade Song—Mrs. Richardson. Finale—" God Save the Queen." THE LIVERPOOL BELL-RINGERS, Pupils of W. Thistlewood, jun., will, between the parts, an( at the close of the Concert, play some of their favourite airs Admission 3d. Reserved Seats 6d. Doors open at half. past Seven, to commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Members of the Institution admitted, with the usual pri. vileges. Parties capable of delivering short Lectures on the various branches of Science, and having Apparatus for illustrating the same, will be treated with by the Committee, on appli cation to the Secretary, S. RANSON, 18, Clarence. street. fit Ribtrpool -ttanDarb. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1841 The spirit to which Radicalism has to attribute the complete overthrow which it has sustained in this quarter, is, we are happy to observe, not confined to it. The sweeping out of Radicals at the various mu nicipal elections throughout the country has been tre mendous; Radicalism is everywhere a declining cause; Conservatism rides the winning horse in almost every instance. A London contemporary, in commenting on this gratifying state of things, attributes the change, but we think incorrectly, to the influence of Sir Robert Peel's government. It strikes us that Sir Robert Peel's government has had very little to say to it; the influential cause dates much further back than the very recent period when Sir Robert Peel became invested with the seals of oflice. The movement would have taken place whether Sir Robert Peel were in or out of office : and it is one of incomparably greater value and moment, because it has not arisen from any temporary excitement or the agency of any merely personal power. The short of the matter is, Radicalism is a worn out thing, and the desire to put it by as a cast-off garment is nearly universal. The feeling has been long gathering, and it obtains relief by exploding not only at a parliamentary, but a municipal election, and upon every occasion where it may legitimately show itself. If the movement had been brought about by the influ ence of a ministerial admiration of the talents of any individual, however eminent, or any adventitious cir cumstance, we could neither congratulate ourselves on the purity of its character nor speculate upon its per manence. The country rejoices at being delivered from the reign of Radicalism, and in the accession to power of Sir Robert Peel ; but the new ministry has been too short a time in office to have acquired any in fluence on its own account, much less an influence so widely ramified and so deeply penetrating as to have induced that happy revolution in the leading authority of the municipal corporations which we have just wit nessed. So far from seeking prematurely to accluire an influence of this sort, Sir Robert Peel, with a disinte rested forbearance which does him infinite honour, ri gidly abstained from the use or sanction of any one expression which could by any means be construed into a promise of great things to be achieved under his administration. His object has evidently been to curb and restrain extravagant hopes, rather than to raise or flatter them. With the Conservatives he had no need to use such dangerous expedients ; with others who are accustomed to deal in them, not more for the de• ception of others than of themselves, he might have been more successful. But Sir Robert Peel is the chosen of a principle—the minister of confidence ; and he has used none of the commonplace arts of men who seek to gain a hasty popularity to improve his po sition. His is the popularity which follows good deeds, not that which is sought by the promise of them. We conclude then that the cheering result to which we have been alluding has been brought about, not by the exercise of any ministerial influence upon the burgess constituency, but by the same cause which brought about the glorious majority of 91 at the parliamentary election—namely, the growing disgust at Radicalism, and the steady progress of Conservative opinion throughout the kingdom. There is a particular cause of congratulation on the score of the late , municipal r e t urns : it furnishes the most satisfactory answer to a favourite dogma of the late movement party, that Conservatism was something which could not endure the air of town, and could only flourish among the chopsticks of rural districts. There The Board o f C ustoms have iven directions that rough is no reply to t hi s absurd objection like a pract i ca l one ; g rice from the U n i te d S tates shall be admitte d a t ld. p er qr . Conservatis m , i t seems, can accustom it se lf t o a town duty, subject to future confirmation by parliament. life, and does raise its head among the oppidan consti- It is remarkable that us animal poison has effect upon the tuency, notwith s t an di ng all the facilities which the tow n hedge-hog. The Earl of Home died at Hersell-hall, the family seat, furnish es t o f ree-tra d e lecturers, anti-corn-lmv•facototirlyer yesterday week. men, di ssenting preachers, and all other t h e pretended At the Central C r i m i nal Court, Lon d on , o n Thursd ay , i ntroducers of new eras, march of intellect, and Robert Blakeslee was convicted of the wilful murder of James ed with g Bunion, a publican in E astcheap, whom he char advantages which our ignorant world has hitherto ob upo illegn hiallym detaining his wif e , an d sentence o f d e ath was pass e d st i nately rejected. One fact such as this is, in truth, SHOCKING DEATH OF TWO LADIES•—nIe Montreal well worth an hundred arguments. Herald announces that the wife of M. Narcisse Benoit, far- We acknowledge that there was something rather mer, near Three Rivers, L ower Canada, an d h e r sister, M rs . M`Donald, went, attended b y the hus b an d o f the former, t o startling, on a superficial view of the case, in the cir see a mill at Bouville Mountai n , w h en , melancholy to relate, cumstance that Conservatism flourished most i n th e both s i s ters got entangled in the machinery, and were crushed country—Radicalism in the town. Many causes might to atoms, being drawn th roug h a space not more th an th ree inches. he assigned for this. Many of our towns, it is known, TO CORRESPONDENTS. Has " Fair Play " any means of substantiating the state ments contained in his letter? A. " Lover of Propriety. " had better send his communica tion to the person to whom it is addressed. Publicity would be productive of no benefit to him or his readers. The subject noticed by " Inspector" is worn out. have far outgrown the ordinary means of church mi nistration, and this one fact alone would suffice to ac count for the latter circumstance. The contest be came unequal in respect of numbers, and Conservatism was thus for a time overpowered. The Radical philo sophers used to infer that Conservativism could not bear the collision of mind—the investigation of intel lect, and that it fled at the approach of the Mechanics' Institute, and the awe-inspiring lecturer, the newspa per, and the Penny Cyclopzedia; but it seems they were mistaken. We have often spoken in this journal of a Conservative democracy, and got laughed at for so doing ; but we have lived to see a good specimen of the reality in our own good town, and some of our ad versaries laughing with the other side of their mouth. Soon we shall have the argument altogether with us, that Conservatism is quite as intellectual an affair as Radicalism any day in the year—the argument, we mean, of number, as well in town as in country—and every man who pretends to the smallest grain of phi losophy, intellect, or common sense, ashamed to say that he is not a Conservative. It gives us some idea of the veneration in which some men hold a certain boundary line, real or imagi nary, of episcopal jurisdiction, to find the proposed or dination of an English bishop, to take charge of the church and reside at Jerusalem, objected to as an in fringement of Catholic discipline. The proposition is one which has given much satisfaction to the friends of the Church of England generally, and those who think that, by her orderly ministrations, the work of reviving ancient churches, which have fallen into de cay, or of gathering in infidels to the Christian fold, can best be carried on. It afforded a pleasing proof that the heads of our church have begun to identify themselves with a large body of her more zealous mem bers, and that the propagation of religious truth would no longer be left to unauthorised individuals, or to vo luntary associations, having no power to send forth emissaries, or conduct their missions rightfully in the name of the Church of England. Their proceedings, in the absence of all episcopal authority, could not be said to be carried on according to the discipline of a church which is strictly episcopal, and they conse quently lost that weight and those facilities which such a sanction would have imparted to them. The con templated ordination of a bishop, to take oversight of a Christian congregation at Jerusalem, was therefore a subject of much congratulation, both on its own ac cmint, and as an evidence that the Church of England would no longer confine its charities, as a church, within the shores of our island, or withhold them from any part of the world, however distant, where they could be brought to bear, with any prospect or proba bility of useful results. That such a step would be opposed by men who cordially hate both the Church of England and her doctrine—called in question as a matter of right, or treated with ridicule—we might easily have foreseen and expected. On such opposition It would scarcely be worth while to waste a word ; but it was not per haps anticipated that those who pretend to be animated with a zeal for the church beyond all other men, would have been foremost to raise a cavil at a step which, to ordinary members appears so well calculated to exalt her name and do her honour. Such, however, is the fact. There are those who profess to be actually shocked at so violent a departure from tradition, and exclaim that it is a deed without precedent—an infraction of catholic discipline—an intrusion upon the bishopric of the Greek patriarch, the legitimate successor of St. James; and they contend that it is an act of evil example. Discipline, discipline, is their grand cry ;—yea, disci pline before religion itself; the form in preference to the substance. The Christian people in Syria, or at Jerusalem, would apply in vain to such parties to come over and help them. Their answer would be, "We cannot ; the Patriarch of Constantinople is your bishop in the due order of succession; we durst not usurp his place, or intrude upon his territories; discipline forbids it, and constitutes an insuperable obstacle to your wishes; therefore we must leave you to him. Two sets of answers might be given to this objection, first, the corrupt state of the Greek church, and secondly, the miserably feeble and oppressed state of the eastern bishops under Turkish tyranny. Dr. Clarke in his travels in Russia, speaking of the Greek church in that country, says, "All that has been said or written of Roman Catholic bigotry, affords but a feeble idea of the superstition of the Greek church. It is certainly the greatest libel upon human reason, the severest scandal upon universal piety, that has yet dis graced the annals of mankind." And adverting to the state of religion in the Holy Land, he says, " Unar the name of Christianity, every degrading superstition and profane rite, equally remote from the enlightened tenets of the gospel of Christ, every where the herald of civilisation and of science, is almost as little known in the Holy Land as in California or New Holland. A series of legendary traditions, mingled with remains of Judaism, and the wretched phantasies of illiterate ascetics, may now and then exhibit a glimmering of heavenly light ; but if we seek for the effects of Chris tianity in the Land of Canaan, we must for that period when the desert shall blossom as the rose, and the wilderness become a fruitful field." " I have often reflected," says Burckhardt, in de scribing the dishonest conduct of a Greek priest in the Hauran, (but in words that admit of too general an application,) " that if the English penal laws were suddenly promulgated in this country, there is scarcely any man in business, or who has money dealings with others, who would not be liable for transportation be fore the end of the first six months." It would be easy to fill whole columns with descriptions such as these of the wretched state of the church and people, who are said to be under the apostolic jurisdiction of the eastern patriarch, and for the preservation of whose authority intact, our domestic disciplinarians are so extremely concerned ; but it would be superfluous so far as our readers are concerned, and there would be no hope that any thing of the sort would make an im pression on the worshippers of mere precedent and tradition. The question then arises, is there any weight, any validity in the objection which they have raised to the proposed appointment ? We answer that there is not, unless the upholding of a mere theory be of more consequence than the Christian welfare of a people,—the imaginary jurisdiction of a supposed suc cessor of the apostles, of greater moment than the actual condition of his alleged subjects. The objection has been met, however, in detail, and most conclusively by a writer, signed Anglo-Catholicus, whose reply at length appeared in The Times of the 20th ult. We shall conclude with an extract or two. After shewing that the intended mission is no act of hostility to the eastern church, but one of friendship and pro- tection, he proceeds to say : " If, then, the act of sending a Bishop of Jerusalem be in tended as one of friendship, and not of hostility, why, you will ask, has the assent of the eastern Bishops not been ob tained for it? I reply, because they are not in a condition to grant it, if they would. It might be made a pretext for their degradation at any moment. Within the last two years two Patriarchs of Constantinople (one since the unhappy act of Lord Ponsonby) have been summarily degraded. The Armenian Patriarch is momentarily expecting the same fate. It is not uncommon for a Patriarch, at his appointment, to stipulate what rank he shall hold upon his degradation. The late Patriarch is accordingly a simple metropolitan. Under these circumstances, when the Church is overridden by an infidel power, ready at any moment to degrade or bowstring her chief governors, thus depriving them in great part of their free agency, is any one prepared to say that Catholic princi ples in their utmost rigidity, without any reference to exist ing difficulties, are to be followed by our Bishops to their extremest result ? Are they not to consider the secret wishes, together with the helpless condition, of their eastern brethren? May they not aid them in the way they know would be most effective, in the way that is most desired, though it could not be openly requested, or even sanctioned ? Are they to stand by and see the ancient and orthodox Church of the East sink beneath the treachery and corruptions of Rome, though she call on them for aid, and be ready to em brace them open-armed, lest Rome, and those who would crouch to Rome, and be spurned for their pains, should charge them with schism ?" Next he shews, that, according to the ancient law of the church, and the opinions of the ablest writers, there will be no act of " schism" in the contemplated mission. He quotes Bingham for the doctrine that, "in case of pressing necessity, when the interest of God was to be served, every bishop had power to act in any part of the church; for, though all bishops had their particular churches to officiate in, and were not ordinarily to exceed their own bounds, yet the love of Christ was a rule abpve all ; and therefore men were not barely to consider the thing that was done, but the circumstances of the action, the time, the Manner, the persons for whose sake, and the end for which it was done." " From all. this, it appears that every bishop was as much an universal bishop, and had as much the care of the whole church, as the Bishop of Rome himself ; there being no acts of the episcopal office which they could not perform in any part of the world when need required, without a dispensation, as well as he." He thus applies this doctrine " Now the Eastern Church is in great danger of being overwhelmed by infidelity, or supplanted by the minions of the Romish pontiff. And consider the state of Jerusalem in particular. That it is a heathen city, " trodden down of the Gentiles ;" that, while the diocese of the legitimate Patriarch in theory may comprehend the city and neighbour hood, it is in fact restricted to the church and convent 10 which he or his deputy res id es ; th a t it wo uld cost him his life to set foot in many parts of Jerusalem ; that the Anglican Bishop is sent not to his people, but to ours, over whom he cannot exercise pastoral juri s di c ti on , w hil e ou r bi s hop, being authorised to dwell there by the Sultan, and guarded by the power of the English name, might, in case of necessity, yield him a protection, which no law could gain for him from his own despotic monarch." Other equally cogent reasoning is added ; and upon the whole, we may safely conclude that if Anglo- Catholicus does not satisfy some persons on this head, he can scarcely have failed to silence their battery. What a load has been removed from our hearts by the perusal of a few lines which appear in a contempo rary of Tuesday last ! " The philosophers" are still alive, though beaten to a jelly and pounded out of all shape and likeness ; and we have not the sin of mur der to account for. The Council Chamber knows them no more, and will echo no longer their "most sweet voices ;" but their surpassing talent and almost superhuman eloquence will not, therefore, be lost to the world ; for from henceforth, like the fallen spirits of old, they are to have a " pandemonium" of their own, in which the unlucky Mr. Charles Holland—the twice-rejected—will out-Cobden Cobden himself, and " thrice-rejected Rathbone" make a noise, compared with which the most successful effort of the most re nowned Kentucky screamer will be but a whisper. From henceforth the Liverpool Anti-corn-law Asso ciation is to be the lever with which our battered Radicals are to move the universe. Already, we are told, the " preparations for the struggle of next ses sion" are being made upon a gigantic scale; and there is no knowing what will be the astounding effect pro duced by the infusion amongst its members of the host of the rejected. There is one unfortunate circumstance however, which we are afraid will sadly impede the success of the agitators. The public has a provokingly retentive memory; and notwithstanding all the pre tensions of the exclusively-enlightened to express the opinions of the aggregate people of Liverpool upon the subject of the corn-laws, it will be borne in mind that upon that very question, Liverpool has already spoken out, loudly and decisively, by repudiating the claims of the agitators themselves, and denying them any longer a share in the management of her local affairs. The question of the corn-laws was one of the most prominent of the clap-traps upon which " Liberalism" relied in its last appeal to the constituencies. " Cheap bread" and " free trade" were the alpha and omega of many a " Liberal" claim for municipal honours; and we are undoubtedly entitled to take the answer which has been returned in its comprehensive sense, as ex pressing the opinion of the town upon these clap-traps of party, as well as upon the individual fitness for municipal honours of the individuals who put them forward. For the people of Liverpool the cry for cheap bread has no charm. They care not for the freedom of trade contemplated by \Vhig legislation. The anti-corn-law gentry may agitate, therefore, as they will ; and the public will be thankful that a safety valve has been thus provided to let off the extra steam which Monday's defeat has generated in the systems of the vanquished. But unless they be found amongst the mercantile constituency of Mr. Henry Holmes, there will be few men in Liverpool disposed to follow, in an anti-corn-law crusade, the same shallow and incompetent doctors, whose pretensions to wisdom and virtue in other matters have been so thoroughly appreciated. It is a hopeless case, gentlemen. You are but lost Whigs, and not even Mesmerism can restore you to complete vitality. We congratulate our fellow-townsmen upon the prospect which is before them. - The glorious struggle of Monday released us, we hope for ever, from Whig domination in our municipal affairs; and the meeting of yesterday was the preliminary step, we hope, to wards getting rid of another evil, almost equally intol erable, the domination of the poor-law commissioners in the management of our poor. The harsh and grinding system of Somerset House must be rooted out of Liverpool, at least, if it is ever permitted to exercise its tyranny over other portions of the kingdom ; for it must be evident to the most ardent admirer of the principle of centralization, with such facts and evidences before him as was adduced to the meeting, yesterday, by Mr. Aspinall and others, that its applica tion in such a community as ours is an utter impossi bility. The poor of Liverpool, at least, we repeat, must be released from the intolerable pressure of this system of tyranny ; for, however successful may have been its application in other parts of the country, here, it is plain, it can never be put in force, and ought never to have been attempted. The people of Liverpool have, before its introduction, managed their own poor ; and they must, we are confident—for the voice of such a meeting as that of yesterday cannot have been raised in vain—be intrusted again with that power, and en abled to provide for the wants of their suffering brethren without the intervention of the busy officials of Somerset House, or the necessity of adhering to the cold-blooded and unfeeling regulations which they have invented. LOCAL NEWS, BREAKING INTO A HOUSE.—Two youths, Matthew Mur phy, and 'William Richardson, were yesterday charged with having been found in an uninhabited house, corner of Salis bury-street, into which they had broken. When they were detected, a third boy effected his escape by the front door, from which he removed the chain.—The owner of the house said that the lead on the premises (which were empty) had previously been stolen. As it was evident their purpose was a felonious one, they were committed for three months. COMMITMENT.—A boy, named George Smith, was yester day charged with having committed a felony at a public house in Burlington -street. The prisoner and another boy were observed by the barmaid peeping about the bar. Her attention was called away for a moment, and she immedi ately afterwards missed a bottle containing about a pint of shrub. A police-officer soon afterwards saw the prisoner in the street with something bulky in his pocket, which proved to be the bottle.—Prisoner said he had got it from his mother, and did riot know what it contained. He afterwards, on being required to accompany the officer to his mother, be came restive, and the girl then came up, and identified the property. The prisoner, who had previously been six times committed, was sent for trial at the sessions. OBTAINING AND APPROPRIATING A MASTER'S MONEY. —At the Police-court, yesterday, a butcher, named James Mason, was placed at the bar, charged with having received a sum of money on account of his master, and appropriating the same to his own use. Edward Lowcock, butcher, St. John's Market, said that the prisoner had been in his service, arid had gone to receive the amonnt of .a bill of £1 Os. 7d. due from Miss Marriot, Bedford-street. The money was paid to him by Ellen Jones, the cook in the family, and he gave her a receipt for it. He did not pay it over, or account for it. The circumstance being discovered, he was taxed with the offence, and said that he had received it, but had lost it out of his pocket, which he showed one of the witnesses had a hole in it. It appeared, however, that he had afterwards collected some money which he paid over to his master, with out stating anything about the loss of the former sum. After receiving the sum in question, (on Saturday last,) he had left his employment, and had not returned. He said nothing in his defence, and was committed for trial. R..OI3BERY OF W ATCH MOVEMENTS.—Ye s t er d ay, at t h e Police-court, a journeyman watchmaker, named Thomas Burrow, was placed a t th e b ar , on a c h arge o f h av i ng sto l en a quantity of watch movements and other articles, from the premises of Mr. Samuel, watchmaker, &c. Mr. Dowling opened the case by stating, that on the 12th of March last Mr. Samuel's shop had been broken open, and a number of articles were abstracted. Nothing was heard of the offender until yesterday, when a circumstance, which one of the wit nesses would state, led to his detection. R. Copeland Newby said that he was foreman to Mr. Samuel. On the night of the 12th of March, he had the movements of thirteen watches under his care as foreman, to be polished and prepared for gilding. He saw them sa fe in a deal box on the premises that night, as well as a d e pth or pitching tool, a miniature picture in oil, done on ivory, and other articles of his own and the workmen's, which he placed in a drawer. When he went to the shop next morning, he found that his key would not fit the lock, and after entering he looked about an d m i sse d the whole of the articles. He gave information to his employer, and bills particularizing them were immediately put out. Yes terday a person came from Mr. Thorn s, watch gilder, to get one of the movements, which was of an un usua l ki nd, cased ; and he immediately recognised it as one of those that had been taken away. He afterwards went with Police-officer Lloyd to the prisoner 's house, in a court out of Rathbone street, and they there found the depth tool, the picture, and others of the articles. The prisoner had formerly been em ployed at the shop, and had work to be do ne out o f it s i nce . He was there on the night previous to his (witness's) dis covering the robbery. Richard Thorn said he wa s a watch g ilder, and resided at No. 11, L eigh -street. The movements of several watches were brought to him by the prisoner some months ago, and he purchased them. He disposed of some of them in the way of trade. That produced he sent to Mr. Samuel to get cased. Another witness, in Mr. Thorn's em ploy, said that on p re senting the movement to Mr. Newby he claimed r it as his master' s . H e a f terwar d s went to the prisoners, and found th e depth tool, the miniature, a loc k , &c., which were al so c l aimed. Some small tin bones for holding watch movements were also found, bearing t h e numbers or marks p u t on them at Mr. Samuel's. The arti cles respectively were id en tifi e d . Th e pr i son e r, on being cautioned in th e usual form, said that he had nothing to just at present, an d h e was committed for trial at the ne xt sessions.