The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-27 00:00:00

n GENERAL PUR = NISHOwIN_G a-ez~~t WARRIIOUSZ THOMAS BRANCH - • very'extensive and valua FASHIONABLE FU D ANls.iti-AHoc ), Invalid, Sofa, Sna] ag Side-tables, and Cribs, Chest 4 of Dra%. Bedsteps, Bidets at i nark i rdsl.:.lootiaßantieekrs,, NY ARTICLI mine Tables, Pe ookcag Doul ass 'rods mid arms I Chaiis Pembroke, Ladies' Work Cottehes, Sofas, es, Run s. Cots, Dot Stools, Chefforners and Basin-stands, Risin hrary or Office Tables, Double LienLiCMCLI 3 1.... , A.. . , -- Knife Boxes, What Nots, Tea Poys, Devonports, e RECUMBENT & INVALID CHAIRS. an t Lounging, Library, and Devotional CHAIRS FOLDING SOFA AND CHAIR Bibto JAPANNED. STAINE. AND FANCY ' D CHAIRS In the greatest -- ' - 4 tage, Canopy, Fre -ess BEDSTEADS, of every form, gany,- Birch. and Painted Woods ; lair. Flock, and Straw MATTRESSES CHAMBER REQUISITES, Maho, ach,DOMe,C ?,Nursery s, Basin- .11 descriptions, of Drawers, Toilet Tani, vel Airers, &c. CHIMNEY and DRESSING GLASSES ads, Tow A.RIETY C D ORNAMEAIuI•IT'LI' FIGURES ITALIAN SCULPT QRI ASES, U Figured FLOOR •___ RNS, & EWERS ; and LOBBY CLOTHS, tting to fit Rooms, Halls, no/ ;hips' Cabins, anti Quipo INDIA MATTING, Black Hair Seating, of all Widths; INVALID, GARDEN, AND BATH CHAIRS; CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES Glazed and Fancy PAPER HANGINGS ; &c. BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL. JAMES CLARKE, Esq., Recorder. THE COURT of QUARTER be he SESSIONS the of the PEACE for the Borough, will ld in CROW& Sessions-house, in Chapel-street, on MO'N - a v of February next, at Ten o'clock in the COURT, in the D.S.Y. the 6th d, No TRAVERSE will be tried unless entered for Trial on first day of the Sessions, at my Office, in .e Sessions use, or previously a t iny:Office, in the Tow. •. 1. . a _aa Iml;rtinentS for Misdemeanours a and at these 3ail Mast DI Sessions against Persons admitteu for Trial, in my Office, in the Session's-honse, at or before Twelve o'clock on the day after the discharge of the Grand he Trial will stand over. RD. RADCLIFFE, Clerk of tile Pew BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, Es CH ARLES CROMPTON, Esq., Asabssor. THE COURT of PASSAGE for theT/AL of CIVIL CAUSES, will be held in the Nisi Pri Court. in the ecsions-house, in Chapel-street, on Most. Y, the 6th day lext,'-at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon. RD. RADCLIFFE, Registrar. Town-hall, 25th January, 1843. Manor f Februa THE LOSS OF THE LILY We have given in another column a brief announcement of the loss of this vessel, which belonged to Mr. Maxwell of this town. The following additional particulars we take from a letter written by one of the chief officers to a firm interested ,e ship's cargo "It is with deep regret-that I have to announce to you the :ass of the Lily, which took place in the Bristol Chan on the 13th instant, and frateful are we to the Almighty it the preservation of our lives. We had a dreadful time I it, and were surprised that she weathered the storm as she did, for every soul o n board fully expecied she would go to the bottom long before sha struck on the Taunton Sands. Two days after leaving Liverpool (on the 4th instant) a gale sprung up from the south-west, which lasted several days, at times varying in points, first driving the ship down the channel and then up. This, however, she stood nobly, but on the 10th the gale greatly incaeased, which drove us down as far as Padstow, and afterwards back again close to Mil fordhaven, where we endeavoured to run for shelter, but after three attempts were obliged to heave to and run out to sea. On the morning of the 13th we experienced a terri ., Never shall I forget it. It broke forth shortly three o'clock, accompanied by vivid flashes of light ning and heavy thunder, and for four hours snow, hail, and rain fell in torrents. All hands were upon deck, lashed to the rigging, and the ship became utterly unmanageable ; at times she was buried completely under water. In this state the ship continued the whole of that day, Friday night, and part of the following day, when she happily drove on shore the place above mentioned. Before 3 we had discovered t of water in her hold, and that her rudder was gone. was on Friday night, when we took to the pumps, and 1 them until they became useless. The hurricane had n abated, and the sea was making a clear swee- ic storll and aft carrying away with it spars part of the 5 o'clock part of the before daybreak the following morning she went bulwarks, boats, &c ship struck, soon afte ad on a most da gerous on Saturda .ernoon, to pieces.' About two hours after she struck, a vessel called the Apple dare. Mr. Williams master, came alongside, and, by means oat, took the crew off in safety. They were after mveyed to the li g hthouse, where every comfort and kindness was shown to them. We regret to add, that, some time before the vessel came ashore, a portion of the crew had forcibly broken into the store-room, and drank to such excess of spirits that some were lying about the deck in a shocking state of madness, and would have perished but for the humanity of their messmates, who secured them to the - sea washing them overboard ; and ng to pri mained until assistance arrived alongside of the -- -- , .tPfl of 23 men, besides Captain crew cut— onnander, ant hefnr, i *e first and second mates the wreck being observed by stationed along rong body of men wem iy part of the cargo that should be washed ming, _as the tide rose, the b up on the sands, where she soon broke alf, and her cargo floated out, and was washed upon the threw the ship hig THE ASSASSIN.—LittIe doubt is entertained, we believe, that the blow which fell upon the subordinate was intended for his principal. During the madness of the late,servile war in the manufacturing districts, it was boldly and frequently asserted—and repeated in the columns of the anti-corn-law —that three hundred patriots had bound themselves ,er by an oath to put Sir Robert Peel to death. The Al attempt—in which the mistake of the secretary for the prime minister seems to have saved the latter from personal injury—may have been the first fruits of that conspiracy. The history of Rome furnishes us with a very remarkable coincidence. We are told by Livy that when Porsenna en camped his invading forces along the Tiber, and the city was pressed with famine, Mutius Scnvola conceived the design of delivering his country. Passing secretly into the enemy's camp, he reached the treasury, where Porsenna, in the midst of a crowd, and assisted by his secretary, was issuing pay to his troops. It chanced that a similarity of dress rendered their persons less distinguishable—and Scxvola, fearful to excite suspicion by minute inquiry, struck his weapon into the secretary, whom he mistook for the monarch. Endea vouring to escape, he was seized, examined, and at length revealed that he was one of three hundred youths who had sworn the death of the invader ; the lot, he said, had first fallen upon him, but each was to take his turn. Thus are the words of the wisest of men verified—" There is nothing new under the sun ; the thing that has been is the thing that shall be.”—Dublin Evening Mail. A SCENE IN Low LIFE.—SUICIDE THROUGH AFFEC TION FOR AN IMPRISONED THIEF.—An inquest was held on Wednesday before Mr. Payne, the coroner, at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Emma Ranger, aged 21. By the evidence of 11 witnesses, it was proved that about two years ago the deceased married a respectable man. a chair maker, but though their circumstances were good, her violent temper and growing depravity deprived them both of that domestic comfort they were led to suppose would follow the wedding. Six months ago. when the husband, Alfred Ranger, returning frown work, expecting to find his tea prepared for him, he discovered that his wife, the deceased, had left home, and, with the assistance of an abandoned associate, removed to some place, where she alone could have the use of it, every article of furniture. The next he heard of her was that she kept company with women of the lowest character, and lived in a state of adultery with a notorious thief, now in custody on a charge of stealing a quantity of linen. Upon that charge he was apprehended about a week ago, and deceased, in her anxiety to get him liberated, for the witnesses said she was passionately fond of him, went round to all her friends, a cquaintances, and relations, including her mother, to en deavour to raise money for his defence by raffling some of her clothes. Having by that means provided a sufficient sum to employ a solicitor, and having been assured by him that he should be able to bring bun off, she was heard to exclaim, " 0 ! if he does but bring him off I could kiss his feet," and felt confident that she should soon again have the company of her paramour. Contrary to her expectations he was re manded, and when, at two o'clo c k on Monday last, at Wor ship-street Police-court, she teamed that he was to be con fined still longer, she raved like a maniac, saying, " Oh, my dear Jack ! Oh, i shall never see you again i" As the prison was driven off she cried bitterly, van and during the rest of the day was heard lamenting the fate of the prisoner (a man name d Dickenson). At four- o'clock in the afternoon she purchase d a pennyworth of oxalic acid, saying that she wanted it for the pu rpose of cleaning straw, a n d a t s i x o ' c l oc k swal lowed it in the house of an acquaintance in New Inn-yard, Shoreditch. Chalk and water were administered as an anti dote to the poison, though much against her will. for she said her reason for attempting suicide was that she was tired of her life ' • a nd in twonlinutes after her admissio n to t h e a b ove hospital she died. Th e witnesses who knew the deceased could give no other reason for the rash deed than that of her blighted hopes of Dickenson s liberation. The jury took the .Arne view of the case, and returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity.'AMEßlCAN CURIOSITY REGARDING QUEEN VICTORIA. —The idea of a female governing a great nation seemed t o them to lift the who le sex, in every other country, some what hi g her in the scale of importance, and to give to every wo m an in every lan d a ri g ht to considerd it as that she never a sort of hom I!! a - paid to the en tire sex. One lady tol us membered to have fe lt so intense an interest in any subject as that of the accession, coronation, and marriage of Queen Victoria ; that she h ad so literally devoured age of news paper details of the processions, ceremonies, dresses, and paraphernalia of these three occasions, and could read them all again with increased delight. Another said she had dreamt of Queen Victoria, and of being introduced to her oftener than any other subject, and that she would " - • the world to be able to see her, and speak to her in re When they understood that Mrs. Buckingham and my son ad each seen the Queen, both before and since i her accesut when , overw h e l m ed them with inquires; b n that I was present, as a member of the House -a not far from her Majesty's person when give ality." peech on pi ng the thro.—, 3e subjects of their inquiry that they WP were the only persons they had -:--- it s eemed to give a after her ase, and identity to tt ad never fel with who had actually seen the Queen, a to give them to know this fact, fur fiber related to the Q ueea's personat , d education ; though some few were ..e age, figure, fortune, and relative pasition of .et husband. One of the ladies bad been greatly pained at "" Queen had red hair, and was evidently much ' it was a fine rich brown. One as the engravings re- t the enquir lulus to their curiosit ranee, manners aring tha sured to enquired whether she was as presented her ; another, if she u 1 and genteel her manners ; and another, whether sne and sung and played like other young ladi heard to the contrary of all this, an' r they h vere delighted to find to with their wishes. their questions answered in conformiLy It was evid en tly a sa ti s f ac ti on to them also to learn that Prince Albert was young, handsome, amiable, and affection ate; but they wo n d e r e d very muc h that he could not b e made King." —Buckingham' s America. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. with a view to secu c ;nl na it., Tn which he r to the United S ages that hay United States with the recent treaty between those two governa sage also alludes to the relations of tht the Sandwich Islands, and states briefly the dition of the government and institution s of the Csland ; the import.n,e of trade with them ; and announces that th, Wilt:. President has informed the government that the United States feel bound to respect their independence, and would be greatly dissatisfied with any attempt from any foreign power_ to subjt taxes from tfiem in commerce went of a consul, with a salary, He recommends the appoint- to reside at the island as the ~ed into congress for the occupation territory of Oregon, which is likely A debate representative of the American g A bill had been introd - and settlement to become a prominent question in the State arose on the bill, but it was thought it would I e unsnccess- The health of the Governor-General of Canada is very unsatisfactory. The latest bulletin, dated 22nd December, 1842, states that his excellency " still continues in a most precarious state, and though be has been labouring latterly under disease of a must alarming nature, accompanied lat terly with great emaciation and general debility, yet there appears, for the last few days, a diminution of some of the most urgent symptoms." The New York paper, of the 2nd instant, gives a para graph of intelligence from Vera Cruz, dated the 30th of November, stating that a change, it was imagined, would shortly be made in the new tariff, increasing the duty on cotton goods. Some persons, it is asserted, speak with cer tainty as to this augmentation. The Mexican congress was discussing the question of a new constitution. Letters from Tobasco mention in lamentable terms a disas trous inundation which had overspread nearly the whole country, destroying immense quantities of cattle, and pro ducing a famine in the land. The inhabitants had petitioned Government for relief. The news from Mazatlan was, that hostilities had occurred in the Marquesas Islands between the aborigines and the French authorities, during which the Governor, an officer, and several soldiers, were killed. The F t li.v, 14. d.. 62 days from Liverpool, bound to n Vera Cruz with a cargo valued at 100,000 f., went ashore about two miles from Mazatlan. About 13,000 f. worth of the cargo had been saved in a damaged state, but the vessel was a total loss, though covered to the owners by insurance. The officers and crew were all saved. FRANCE We gave in our last the particulars of tl question. The Paris papers of Monday and Tuesday are occupied with the debate on the address to the throne, from the Chamber of Peers. Much apprehension has been felt both here and in Paris, that an amendment would be carried. calling for the insertion in the address of a passage, con demning the slave trade repression, treaties of 1831 and 1833, and insisting on their modification, which the mover of the passage contended might take place without disturb- lug any interest or exciting any commotion. This misgiving, however, was not justified, for, on a division, the amend ment was rejected by a majority of 118 to 67, giving the ministers a net majority of 51. The spefch of M. Guizot, the minister, is described as calm, frank, and manly. " His speech," says the National, " was expected with impatience, and in listening to his exordium, so brilliant and so happy, we feared for the moment lest the miraculous gift of elo quence might not give a triumph to the worst of causes." The son of Prince Jerome Bonaparte ' nephew of the Emperor, arrived at Marseilles on the 19th, in the Eurotas steamer. The young prince travels under the name of Count de Montfort. THE LATE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCI The accounts from the south and west of France speak ge nerally of a subsiding of the waters. Saumur and its en virons appear to have suffered considerably. At Saumur itself a great portion of the town was inundated to the depth of nearly five feet ; and at the cavalry barracks the water was so high that it was found necessary to abandon them. At Rosiers the inhabitants were obliged to remove with their cattle to higher ground, where they formed tents for their shelter. St. Martin was also inundated, and the waters there threatened great devastation ; but M. Bellon, the pre fect of the department was soon on the spot, and by his ex ertions and judicious suggestions succeeded in arresting the disaster. this gentlemani was for more than four hours in the water up to his waist, working like a common labourer, to preserve the lives and properties of the inhabitants. His example was of the highest value, for it encouraged many others who were fearful of the danger to lend their earnest A letter from Dax, in the Landes, gives the following frightful details of the progress of the inundations in that country, which were never - known to be so extensive, and the consequences of which cannot as yet be in any degree ascertained : " The Adour, by its torrent, has carved away so many houses and buildings, that upwards of 300 families are left without bread or shelter. The suburb of Saxar is rendered almost entirely uninhabitable. The St. Paul road is im passable nearly as far as Despouy, and the houses by its side have suffered greatly. The Quay and the Quartier de Bibi are submerged as far as the Porte St. Vincent. The river is up to the level of the platform of the bridge, which, how ever, still stands firm, though we are in alarm for its ultimate fate. None but those who have the most urgent necessity to go to Sablar are al:owed to pass over it. To-day the flood ceases to rise, but it does not begin to subside. Part of the church of Tartas has been washed down. The forge at Soutins has fallen, and with it fourteen persons have perished. We learn from Mont-Marsan that M. Adolphe Laraillet, proprietor of the iron-works at Brocas, near that town, seeing them threatened by the torrent, sent twenty of his men to open the sluices, go their exertions. While tl bridg ag himself with them to excite were at v k, the w g broke down, and all were O. M. A. Laraillet and ad. This is an ove: whelmine loss to his lather, who, after passing a intelligent industry, relied upon his two sons to carry on these works, which have brought so much prosperity into the Graudes Landes." long life in —Yesterday afternoon, as four of our fishermen were returning with a boat load of codfish, during a heavy swell, the boat was capsized near the shore by a breaker, and the men and cargo thrown into the water. All the fishermen being expert swimmers, they not only saved themselves but soon recovered their fish. BRIGHTON, TUESDA ARRIVALS FROM FRANCE.—If English outcasts infest Boulogne and the nearest coast of France—if British vul garians and swindlers have desecrated Florence and other of the most recherche - abodes of travelling virtuosi—it is well known that, in return, foreign valets, couriers. swindlers, and cheveliers d'industrie, are at this moment circulating in more than usual numbers in England, passing themselves off upon their dupes as counts, barons, and marquisses of the highest lineage. But we have now to notice the arrival of more dangerous visitors. A number of galley slaves have escaped from the bagnes of France. They are men known to stick at no crime to effect their purpose, and to possess, at the same time, a degree of dexterity that borders on the marvellous. We hear that a gang is already established at a house of ill fame in St. James's , an d we lose no time in warning the public of this momentable invasion.—Post. The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, of Saturday last, contains a very copious account of the causes which led to the stoppage of the Sheffield Old Bank, known as the firm of Messrs. Parker, Shore, and Co., which fully con firms the original statement in noticing their suspension of payments, namely, that their stoppage was caused by the decay of the trade of the town. When the era of bad trade commenced many of their customers were in debt, and they took securities which. a few years ago, would have been con sidered ample, but which now, for want of trade, have sunk so low that they will not fetch half their original value. Our contemporary adds that their prospects for the year, gloomy as they were before, are fearfully darkened; and that in creased misery, overwhelming poor-rates, bankruptcies, and insolvencies without number, may be expected. The favour able circumstance in the event of the week is, that the other banks of the town have escaped a run. They are stated to have been well prepared to haveoutstood the panic. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert have respectfully transmitted, through Henry Wheat ley and Mr. G. E. Anson, the sum of £5O in aid to the fund for the establishment and erection of an - asylum at Denbigh, for the reception of the insane poor of North Wales. There are at the present time no less than 664 persons suffering from insanity, without any provision for their protection or com fort. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales appears as a doner of 100 guineas, and the Marquis of Westminster , Bishop of St. Asaph, Dean of St. Asaph, Lady Emma Pee nant and the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, have ea ch givn donations of £4OO. Through the above munificent contribu tions, and those of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., Sir Richard B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., M.P., Lord Mostyn, Lord Dinorben, and the Hon. Colonel Douglas Pennant, M.P., each for £lOO ; and Lord Kenyon and Viscount Dungannon for £5O respectively, and the liberal subscriptions of the clergy and gentry through the principality, the fund already amounts to upwards of £3,250. MAstERS' AND MATES' BlLL.—Captain Fitzroy's bill for ascertaining the qualifications of persons seeking to be masters and mates in the merchant service is meeting with great and determined opposition. A few days ago a meeting of ship owners was held at Hull to take the bill into consideration ; Mr. E. Gibson, Mr. Alderman Thompson, and others con nected with the shipping interest took a part in the proceed ings. From the statements made by those gentlemen, it ap peared that there was a great demand for masters and mates, and that more vessels have been lately lost than in former years. From 1805 to 1815, including sea risk and water risk, the average loss was a ship a day ; from 1820 to 1825 three and-a-half ships were on an average lost, and from 1826 to 1832 the loss was reduced to two ships a day. These losses were attributed to the defective knowledge of masters and mates. After a very lengthened and desultory discussion, it was admitted by the speakers, that although they were op posed to the bill, yet a nautical education for masters, and the establishment of government schools for the promotion of education, were indispensably necessary. A petition, signed by ninety-four shipmasters, against the bill, has been confided to Sir J. Hamner and Sir W. C. Jervis for presen tation to the House of Commons, The chief objections urged against the bill are, the appointment of navy officers to be examiners, the emolument that would thereby arise to Trinity-house, and the government patronage that would be exerted. THE OPENI ity for stating, HG OF THE SESSION. that her Majesty has —We hate good author determined not to open t " by the Queen in person LUG caaam....,.,,, ~ - and that the Royal speech will be read by commissioners, as upon many previous occasions. Her Majesty is desirous to prolong the stay of the Court as long as possible at the Castle ,____ ----...4;.,„ en rtnAinvham Palace for the season, in Lat their lioyalHighne, ice of Wales and the Prineess Royal (who are always at Windsor) may continue to benefi n excellent health while till the latest period, by the salubrity ct the air in that urligutiu. us The accouchenzent ..of her Majesty (an event which cannot fail to be regarded by all classes of her Majesty's dutiful , nd loyal subjects with the most intense and devotional in .) is expected to take place *bruit the latter end of March, or very early in the month of Aprii. it is, therefore, ex pected that her Majesty will not take Jae,r departure from Windsor for town until quite the termination of .the ensuing month, or the commencement of March; but the pe r riod of the Queen's leaving the Castle for Buckingham Palace 141 depend in a great measure upon the medical advisers of the Sovereign. The Court will return to Windsor at as early a period as may iac considered advisable (with a due regard to the health of our beloved Monarch) after the important event to which we have referred shall have taken place. It must be-highly gratifying to our readers to be informed, that her Majesty i s In mast wrcellent iiealtb, and in the enjoyment of her usual flow of spirits.—Times ,of Monday. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE, ions of vessel, ',0,000 dollars. five days at St. Thomas, waiting tilt ►sgow steamer from England, but tc. ty of her Majes A Jamaica paper of the 3d instant states that it is calcu lated that a sum of £23,000 will be received on the Import "%reign Duty Bills beyond that of last year. The tax upon hereditaments had been reduced from 2s. to 6d., thereby relieving the population. especially the proprietary, of the enormous burden of £53,000. A capitation tax had been proposed, in order to meet the expenses of road communi cation through the island. A Vice Admiralty court had been held in Spanish Town for the trial of an individual who had kidnapped a boy in the island, and sold him into slavery in Cuba, where he remained suffering all the ills attendant upon that condition for ten years. He was found guilty, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Another trial had been made to raise funds for African civilization, but it was a failure. A strong disposition still prevails to encourage immigration to the fullest extent, and to the expenditure we may almost venture to say, of the last farthing ; and we be lieve that if the home government would take the measure under its direction, the colony, distressed and oppressed as it is, would make a great effort to be liberal in furthering an object, upon which, there can be little doubt, its whole pros perity and future welfare and salvation depend. The agri cultural societies of the island were doing great service in the promotion of good cultivation, and in the encouragement of industrial habits. The House of Assembly had voted the sum of 3,000 guineas towards the erection of a marble sta tue of Sir Charles Metcalfe, to be placed in the square in Spanish Town. This grant, together with theTgeneral sub scriptions throughout the country, would enable the com mittee to perform a work that would acknowledge with due honour a country's gratitude for the services of a good and great man. Nothing more had been said about an Island bank. Jamaica was tolerably healthy. Several storms of thunder and lightning, accompanied with heavy rain, had visited the island. A statement of the island revenue for 1843 bad been made out, and the expenditure is estimated at £108,297, and the estimated amount of contingencies at £360,751. The Jamaica House of Assembly had nearly closed its session, and the best feeling existed between the Governor and the Legislative Assembly. The crops through out the island looked well. The following is a return of produce made on estates in Grenada for a series of years : Lbs Molas- I Coffee I Cocoa. I Cotton 1841.4 6,901:64 Delightful showers of rain bad fallen at Barbadoes, which were very refreshing, as the canes and provisions in many parts had been suffering from drought. The yellow fever still raged at Antigua. Oswald Wood, Esq., Provost-Master General, his wife, and mother-in-law, (who had not returned from England more than seven months,) were taken off in the short space of 20 days. A party of twelve persons (four men, two women, and six children) had fled from a state of slavery in Martinique, and had arrived at St. Lucia. A French schooner was sent in quest of them, and arrived soon after the fugitives had landed, and her officers would therefore see those whom they were pursuing as slaves in the enjoyment of perfect freedom. The Trinidad Standard contradicts the report of the ex istence of small-pox in that colony. On the 12th December the Warwick arrived at Trinidad with emigrants, of whom 115 were for Trinidad, and 50 for Jamaica. The vessel was fitted up at Sierra Leone for the voyage by her commander, in preference to her lying there for some time idle, of which he had every prospect. The commander reports that Trini dad had obtained a most decided preference with the labour ers at Sierra Leone, and that any vessel going in after he came away would immediately get a cargo for that colony. The following are extracts from the Jamaica Royal Ga zette:—" Among the acts passed at the late session of par liament there is one which will have the effect to defeat the igimense tax now imposed by the Combined Court upon flour, and to enable us to obtain that necessary of life at a more moderate price. The act to which we refer is the one by which foreign corn is allowed to be manufactured into flour and bread in bond, and then exported without the pay ment of any duty. It is well known that ordinarily corn can be imported from the Baltic to England considerably cheaper than from the United States. Baltic flour, manufactured in England under the new act, will therefore be at all times able to compete with United States flour. Being manufactured in England, it will come into the colony as a British manu facture, and will pay only the two per cent. duty ; and if the present enormous duty of two dollars upon American flour be continued, it will drive that article entirely out of our market. Thus the Combined Court will be obliged to reduce or rather to abolish altogether the present colonial duty upon flour ; or if they choose to keep it up, will derive nothing from it. The duty upon American flour, under the new Co lonial Customs Act, will be 2s. sterling per barrel, which is quite as much as it will be able to pay, to compete at all with the flour brought from England. We hope some of our enterprising Water-street merchants will shortly make the experiment of the importation from home of some of the bonded flour manufactured under the new act. With the present discrimination created in its favour by the heavy colonial duty on American flour, it could hardly fail to be a good speculation." e on which they were stand precipitated into the raging floo, sixteen of the ere taken ou' NEW ZEALAND The following is an extract from a private 'letter just re ceived by a gentleman at Windsor from the Rev. W. C. Cot ton, chaplain to Dr. Selwyn, the Bishop of New Zealand, who left England in the early part of last year. The letter is dated from " Waimate, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, August 18, 1842 : " Waimate is the central station of the missionaries, and is situate about 13 miles inland from the Bay of Islands, which is one of the finest harbours in the world, lying almost at the north of New Zealand, on the eastern side. The situation is pleasant, and consists of a large tract of table land, which was chosen because those at home thought they might succeed in teaching the natives farming, but there has been very little done in this respect, the people being too de, sultory in their habits. They are a fine race, always cheer ful and ready to talk with you, and have a wonderful facility in learning to read. They teach each other, so that everything one man learns is quickly spread all over the country. The avidity with which they ask for paha-puka, or books, is very remarkable, and they not only ask for them as curiosities, but also read them and learn them by heart. " I read prayers for the first time in Maowri (the native language) last Sunday, and got on pretty well. 1 shall soon have to preach in the same tongue, for the clergyman who has the charge of this place is going to a new station. " The church is large and built of wood. There were be tween 200 and 300 present yesterday. The dress of some of the ladies is rather curious. Fancy a fat old woman, with a coal-skuttle-bonnet on her head, her face inside very much tattoed, with a bright scarlet shawl, a very fanciful printed gown, white cotton stockings, and showy sandals. This was a great chieftainess. " The way in which the Maowries make the responses is singular. They all keep exactly together, so that their voices resemble a heavy surf heard at a distance. They will, I dare say, chaunt well some day when they are taught, but at present their singing is the most extraordinary and out rageous thing you can possibly imagine. They scream out at the very top of their voices, and in some of their tunes, when they go down from one note tp a lower one, they make a most extraordinary slur, just like the sound produced from the violin on running the hand up. A great chief, called William Showe, who acts as leader in Waimate Church, got down so low when singing a solo, that all that was heard was an indistinct grumbling, just like what comes from a grinding organ when a mischievous rascal has flattened a bar or two of the pegs. The grinder does not turn, turn, wondering where in the world the sound has got to. Just so was Wil liam Showe's organ. " I must say the blackies are very civil. lamin no great danger of being eaten, for they are all Christians here, and know the Prayer-book well ; although I have to inform you that an old Pagan chief, called Terains, whom I saw on the river, made a meal off some of his enemies the other day." LORD CLIVE'S SWORD. — The sword with which Lord Clive was girded on being elected one of the knights of the northern division of Shropshire war of the most superb de scription. It was worn by Tippoo Saib, and was taken from that chieftain's person at the storming of Seringapatam. Its value is estimated at 2,500 guineas.—Salopian Journal. THE GRAVE OF Sus JOHN MOORE.—A military gentle masn, belonging to Glasgow, on visiting Corunna last month, on his way to the West Indies, writes thus :—" On Monday we went on shore and visited the hallowed tomb of a warrior, and, what made it more interesting to me, of a distinguished and gallant townsman, Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, whose honoured remains peacefully rest in the middle of a small botanic garden, under a plain sarcophagus,with a short inscription intimating the rank of its once noble occupant, enclosed by an iron railing. The whole, lam glad to say , in go od order. " —Glasgow Chronicle. GOVERNMENT AND EAST INDIA CorywNy's ORDERS FOR WOOLLENS.—A government order for urrey clothing has recently been contracted for in this neighbourhood , the quan tity ordered is 126,000 yards , and the price about Ss. per yard. Two orders for army clothing for the East India Com pany are to be contracted for on the 26th instant—one for 4,000 ends of Oxford mixture, and 300 ends of cavalry grey ; and the other for 4,000 ends of red cloth, 200 ends of maza rine blue, and 500 ends of deep green. The_ qualities are low,. an d the price will be about 3s. per yard. They are likely to be taken in this neighbourhood. Orders have also been taken in the neighbourhood of Dewsbury for 80,000 pairs of blankets, and at Batley and Leeds for 40,000 coverlets. Another order for 8,000 or 10,000 pairs of blankets has also been received at Earlsheaton. These orders will afford a sea sonable relief to the workmen, but the prices will leave very little profit to the masters.—Leeds Mercury. INQUIRY INTO THE AFFGHAN WAR.—We are now told that the atrocities committed by the army on its retreat are to be the subject of investigation, and the Governor-General is to be impeached for ordering the evacuation of Affghanistan. Be it so. That investigation will readily set all things right. We shall then not only know why Lord Ellenborough put a stop to an unjust and ruinous expedition, for war we cannot call it, btit why it was ever commenced ; and, more than that, by wheal it was first commanded—whether Lord Auck land took upon himself to do this wicked act without any other authority, or whether Sir John Ilobhouse gave him the directions, or whether the order came from Lord Pal merston, the minister for foreign affairs. It is on this point that the inquiry must finally resolve itself. It is a mockery to talk of the British constitution if there is no longer such a thing as the responsibility of Ministers. We are told "the King can do no wrong,' but if to this is to be added the corollary of " the Minister cannot_ be questioned for his ____," then in this nation in the fearful condition of falling an easy prey to the wild and reckless policy of the first bad man who may desire to exercise his irresponsible power.—New easile Journal. THE LATE STunm.—We regret to state that the Lily, of Liverpool, insured by the underwriters at Lloyd's to the ex tent of X 20,000, the property of Mr. Maxwell, at Liverpool, was totally lost during the hurricane of Friday week last, to gether with two valuable vessels, the Little Test, of South ampton, and another, name unknown, upon the Taunton Sands, situate about two miles and a half to the north of the north lighthouse in the Bristol channel. The ship was f re gistered at about 600 tons burden. She had a general cargo on board, consisting of cotton and silk goods, boxes of copper ore, gunpowder, muskets, sabres, swords, pieces of ordnance, &c., and, at the period of the unfortunate catastrophe, was on ber passage to Old Calabar, on the coast of Africa. Im mediately upon the wreck being observed by the coast-guard service, a strong body of men was stationed along the coast to protect the cargo that should be washed ashore. How fiver, that night passed without any being observed, as the sbkp held together. Towards morningois the tide rose, the breakers ,threw , the ship higher upon the sands, where she soon broke in ball, and her cargo floated out and was washed up upon the bead). By six o'clock in the evening very little of the vessel remainea; sbe,liad broken up entirely, and frag ments of the wreck , wit h spays, pgging, &c., were strewn in all directions, and for wiles distant along the coast. THE ASHANTEE PRINCES rho folldwing extraordinarz statement appears in the ton Times, of yesterday. ur contemporary indulges ii 's as to the aintly" educatiou of the youths, and the " saints"'by whom that education was imparted. With the exception of the omission of the,e un seemly expressions, we give the article as we find it.] The above-mentioned Princes, who were educated with so much care under a clergyman in this country, selected by Sir Fowell Buxton, were lately sent to the Gold Coast, and thence to the capital of Ashantee, to afford the King an example of virtue and morality, the result of the purifying influence of their education. They were accompanied from Cape Coast Castle by Mr. Freeman' , the Wesley r an mission ary, that worthy and excellent man being anxious to have the countenance and assistance of the youths in the good work he went upon to the court of the King, viz., to establish a Wes leyan branch mission at Coomassie. _ _ _lt was arranged, before they left this country, through the intercession of Sir Fowell Buxton and Dr. Lushington, that they :should be allowed £lOO per annum each out of the British Treasury, which they were to continue to receive, under the denomination of Her Majesty's Consuls at Ash antee. _ Previous to leaving Cape Coast Castle, the Princes had evinced certain amorous propensities, even while under the roof of the Governor, which had brought them under his Excellency's most severe reproof, and who only forgave them under promise of sincere repentance. His admonitions, however, were soon forgotten on their arrival at Coomassie. Prince William Quantamissa quickly inveigled the wife of one of the Ashantee chiefs into a criminal liaison with him, which, on being discovered, and the chief complaining to the King, the poor woman was taken to the door of the Mission house, where the Prince was residing with Mr. Freeman, before whose eyes, and in the presence of the amiable Prince, she was executed under circumstances of torture and barba rity too shocking to describe ! Great apprehensions were entertained at Cape Coast Castle, when the last advices came away, that the affair would lead to an interruption of that good understanding between us and the King of Ashantee which, under the able and judicious policy of the present Governor, has so long subsisted, and from which such great results were anticipated. DEATH OF A , MisERNEAR NOTTINGHAM.—An old man, aged 68, named William Ashers, residing at the village of Costock, and well known in the neighbourhood of Notting ham as a penurious eccentric character, having gone some distance from his house on Saturday last to fetch coals in a barrow, because he got them a halfpenny cheaper than in the village, became so fatigued, that he fell down and died. The villagers ' !mowing his miserly propensities, got into his house, searched it, but could find nothing. His nearest relations employed Mr. Samuel Maples, a solicit or o f N ott i ng h am , to go over the house with them ; and , the result of his more careful search enabled him to find no less than £1.,300 worth of property in notes, securities, plate, &c. To describe the singular spots in which property was secreted would be an endless task : a silver watch was found in a malt mill mouth - 7 -a splendid silver tankard was hid in a beam—plate, jewel lery, and money in boles and cannies that would be passed even by , Bow-street officers. Deeds, showing his title to land, houses, &c., which he kept most secret, were found to the value of £2,000. Logs Or FOUILTEEN LIVES. —I hoped to be able to send you for next publication a good account of our herring fishery ; but, alas ! instead of a pleasing one, I am sorry to tell you that a boat's crew, consisting of ten men, were all swallowed up in the deep by a heavy sea upsetting their boat. Many other boats were in great danger, but fortunately escaped with the greatest difficulty. The night previous to the loss, the boats all went out and left their nets shot till next morning, when all went out in hopes of getting plenty of fish ; but, melancholy to relate, while at the fishing ground at Aroonmore a storm arose, and all hands strove to gain the shore ; one fine young man was swept off his oar by a huge wave, and was seen no more. Another melancholy accident happened a few days previous to the loss above mentioned. A boat from Aroonmore was returning home when a storm arose, which upset the boat, and six brave men were thrown out, three of whom escaped a watery grave. I am sorry to have to acquaint you of the loss of so many lives, many of whom have left large families to lament their loss.— Ballyshannon Herald. FURTHER Loss OF LlFE. — Friday night, during the dreadful storm, a Galway wherry, with fishing-tackle for Killybegs, when entering that harbour, thy night being dark and the crew not being acquainted with the port, struck on the Rotten Island and went to pieces, throwing the crew (seven persons) on the mercy of the waves. Three of the men sunk to rise no more ; the other four were driven on a rock, where they remained a few minutes, hoping they had escaped a watery grave, but they were washed off by another wave, and one of them, an old man, was drowned. The re maining three were once more left on the rock by the waves ; and the sea falling , they were left to remain in their perilous s it u ation until next morning, when some fishermen, o e f B n,s r e u e c in k g . them, went to their assistance, got them into their boat, and Bruck less, conveyed t hearingh them t of o brought a doctor t o see them, and we are happy to learn they are doing well. One of them (the captain) is brother to the owner. The only article saved was about 200 sovereigns, which the captain had sewed up in a purse, and tied round his body, with which he intended to purchase salt and herrings.—Ballyshannon Herald. DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING. — On Monday evening a quarrel ensued between a shoemaker, whose name we have not been able to ascertain, and his sister, both residing in Nicholas-street, in consequence of some fault which he found with a male acquaintance of hers, who stood in the relation of what is commonly' termed a sweetheart. The unfortunate pair confined their quarrel to the use of vituper:. tive language for some time, but at length he took up a last to strike her, which she seized, and prevented him from ef fecting his object. Finding himself frustrated in this way, he drew a knife, with which he stabbed her in the left side of the abdomen, and, as if unconscious of having inflicted any injury upon her, the moment he was able to take the last from her band, he struck her with it on the temple. When, however, he saw the blood trickling down her face he ran for some sticking-plaister to a neighbouring shop, and on returning and finding the wound inflicted in her side, he went for a surgeon, but has not since been heard of. The unfortunate woman was then conveyed to Mercer's Hospital, where she was attended by Doctors Moss and Richey ; b u t little hopes are entertained of her recovery; as nearly three yards and a half of her intestines protruded through th e - -- wound an agricultural labourer, aged 37, FATAL RENCONTRE.—NEWENT, GLOUCESTERSIaIIE. I am sorry to have to communicate the particulars Iff a dis tressing event which occurred in the early part of last Sunday Bevan . married the mother of evening, in the sequestered parish of Tibberton, in this pmheniltev iannc'ustody at the police-station in this several years ago—that i c s ou a n t ty tids Jo in s n e town, charged with having caused the death of his step-son, James Wilkes. aged 28, t c i l i a e sp u k n n fn if r e t . uns l t t e he and his wife have had frequent quarrels for some years past—that on the evening of Friday last, the 20th instant, Bevan had words with his wife, which was of but too fre adpepceeaarssedt,haatwtdow, se fre quent occurrence, arising, as is stated, from annexea irritable and unhappy temper in the woman,. and from essive in dulgence in the baneful practice of drinking on the part of the man—that whilst the man and his wife were engaged in hi s pod cet a knife (a large clasuknife), this unseemly warfare Wilkes took part with his mother, upon which a scuffle ensued, and several blows passed be in the breast and inflicted a deadly woud, teen Bevan and his soncin-lar. The result was that Bevan, having b drawn s sd ve r f s r a o r m y from the effects of which he died almost instantly. An in quest was held on the body of Wilkes on Monday, when a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Joseph Bevan. MELANOIibLY LOSS OF LIFE.—On last Friday morning, as the boats belonging to the Roses herring fishery were en gaged in hadling their nets on the north side pf the Isle of Arran, a violent gale of wind suddenly sprung up from the north, and in a very short space of time it increased to a per fect hurricane ; every effort was made by the boatmen to g yawls—the reach the shore, but , alas! twelve poor fellows were doomed to a premature and wa ter y grave, ten of whom formed t he othercrew two n one e nof wereM r . lostF . o F u o t r n s f t e separater' s large fi boats.s h A few days in the effects of previous to this lamep table occurrence, as a boat was r eturn - Port nine t NwealsNisl,sei,vgr visited residing ieidanignbg a unfortunatelyshor short distance d r own drowned. d f . r 0 m 0 this s o ; f i p n e g rs f o r n o s m oBnutrntofn to Arran, she was capsised, and six be received on y th 4 e rn r o o s c t ks aw w f h u i l le an s d truggling e to gain the shore. One the even terrific Ni l : bsururvisivesorwsbdiine the following b d morning ffromwthunderneighbourhood , nsat tno remd. m T he , i s o t g ru o c f k F t r h id c ay h , o t u h s e e l3 of th a in po st o . r , it entered at one of the gables, whi c h it partially carried away, and in its progress broke four rafters, and carried a door off its hinges. No further injury was sustained, al though the woman to whom the house belonged, and one of her sons, were sitting at the fire. The continual storms which we have had since the 4th, have paralysed the efforts of our hardy fishermen, and, although there is every reason to believe that there is a large shoal of het rings off' the Island of Ronanish, the tempestuouA state of the weather has kept them from approaching t he usual fishing ground. Twenty seven,nets besides train of anchors, nets, averaging ropes,B4e., h ave b een l os t by the Portnoo and Ballyhillagh fishermen, on the 'morning of the 4th instant. The losses sustained in the Rosses, on the mornings of the 4th and 13th instant, in nets, ropes, &c., will be severely felt by a vast number of poor fishermen. We have to state the total loss of the Pladde, from Limerick to Glassendock, on the coast of Donegal; her cargo was 1,091 barrels of wheat, 569 barrels of oats, 249 barrels of beans— F. Spaight. And what will also be learned with regret is the loss of the Lansdowne, a new model of a schooner.—Bally. shannon Herald. Proceeding of a very important nature, highly interesting to the commercial awl shipinng interests, were discussed at a recent meeting of the, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, which arc reported in the Caledonian Mercury. The first of these related to our trade with China, and the other to the bill prepared by Captain Fitzroy, for the purpose of sub jecting wasters and mates of merchant ships to an examina tion and certificate of qualifications before being placed in their respective commands. The speaker on the first of these subjects gave a retrospect of the exports to China of British goods, founded on parliamentary papers from 1803 to 1838, and of the value of opium imported into China annually. From 1803 to 1808 it appears that the exports of the East India Company averaged £1,128,557 per annum for woollens alone; while the total value of the China trade from 1811 to 1816 averaged only £896,000; from 1817 to 1822, £750,000: from 1828 to 1828, 4709,000; and from 1834 to 1838, some thing more than 41,000,000. By a return from the India House, it is stated that the value of opium imported into China in 1817 was £737,000, increasing each successive year, while in 1827 it amounted to nearly 44,000,000, and since 1834 it has further increased, the value of opium imported into China from India in 1834-7, being upwards of 19,000,200 of dollars. Mr. Russell infers that the cause of the decrease of the exports of British manufactures, as shown by the above figures, coincident with an increase in the exports of opium from India to China, is to be attributed to the opium trade. He says, " Now, it becomes an import ant question. how can we procure teas, silks, &e., from China for British manufactures in place of opium ? It will be admitted that the trade in opium is the principal cause why we do not get our manufactures sold in that country, and I would refer you to the testimony of Captain Elliot, the late plenipotentiary there, who stated that he believed that if the trade in opium was done away with, it would be attended with advantageous consequences to the general interests of British commerce. Commissioner Lin, on the same point, threefold more of other articles. The partner of an eminent said that were it not fo r opioin the Chinese would purchase Liverpool house, resident at Hong Kong, thus writes on the subject :—` The mischievous effects of this traffic, in inter fering with the importation of British manufactures, as well as of all descriptions of Indian produce, other than the for bidden drug, in absorbing the attention and the capital of both native and foreign merchants, and in subjecting the whole foreign commerce to a system of jealous and vexatious restrictions, can hardly be over-rated, and are most palpable to any one on the spot whose powers of observation are not impaired by prejudice oe ipterest.' I may also refer you, as an illustration of what we might expect from such a change, to what has lately taken place in Ireland. There the great sums which were spent on ardent spirits are now applied . in getting food and clothing. Not only is the manufacturing industry improved by that circumstance, but the people themselves are now reaping a benefit from intemperatetheir habits. It is ten times worse iu regard to opium, for it is well known to be in the highest degree prejudicial . alike to the health and morals of the people. It is an thiportant truth also, that the land which is at present occupied in pro ducing opium is of the best description, and might . be em ployed advantageously in the production of more important crops." ASSASSINATION OF MR. DRUMMOND ADDITIONAI (From the Observer. it appears that M`Naup.iten had resided • for t • teen weeks in the house of a very respectabie widow, named Dutton, residing in Poplar-row, New Kent-road. Ile had been well known to that lady for a long time previous. It is nearly three vears since he first came to lodge in her house, and he occupied at that period the same apartment which he continued to rent up to the period of his apprehension on Friday. He was generally considered by Mrs. Dutton to be of a very quiet turn of mind, and appeared to have no occu pation, as he seldom rose before a late hour in the morning, when he left the house, and returned about ten o'clock in the evening. He remained ou this occasion three months with Mrs. Dutton, and her general impression was that he was in search of employment. The rent he paid for his apartment was 2s. 6d. per week, and the payments were al ways regularly made once a-week. On leaving Mrs. Dut ton's house, he stated that he was going to France, and that lady heard no more of him for many months, when he re turned and took the same apartment. He stopped only three weeks in England on this occasion, and then told Mrs. Dutton that be was about to leave for Scotland. About the first week in October lie again returned, and on Mrs. Dutt on opening the door to him he smiled, and said, " I see you have a bill in your window. Is it for my old room ?" Mrs. Dutton answered, " Yes, sir • " and M`Naughten replied, " You see lam come back. I said I should do so." No thing particular was remarked in his manner at this time, but the gloomy temperament which marked his general cha racter was considered to be rather increased thtin otherwise. He seldom spoke to any one in the house, though always obliging and civil whe n a dd resse d b y any person. He never took meals at home ; but on one occasion, about three weeks since, he caught a violent cold, and Mrs. Dutton supplied him during three days in which he was confined to his bed. He was never observed to read a newspaper or any other publication, and during the confinement above alluded to, Mrs. Dutton lent him a religious volume, which he appeared to peruse with much interest. Mrs. Dutton says, that her impression has always been that he had something on his mind. He was not at all communicative, but on one occa sion told Mrs. Dutton that he was in Scotland when her Majesty paid her recent visit to that country. He always appeared to be very moderately off, and .on his taking up his abode at Mrs. Dutton's on the last occasion, had only one shirt. He had no boxes in his room, or property of any de scription. M`Naughten's habits were remarkably sober and steady. The room he occupied was the back apartment on the second floor, and he seldom remained in it, if not labour ing under indisposition, after nine o'clock in the morning. It was his habit to get up about that time, clean his shoes in the back kitchen, and then go out for the day. He seldom came home after ten o'clock, and sometimes he was earlier. On Friday morning he went out about nine o'clock as usual, and, after being absent from the house a short time, returned and went up stairs fora few minutes. He went out again soon after, and Mrs. Dutton heard no more of him un til she was told that he was taken into custody. Airs. Dut ton states, that she never saw much money in his possession, and her belief was, that he was a young man in canfined cir cumstances. She also says, distinctly, that she never heard him mention Mr. Drummond's name, or allude in any way to politics. It is very difficult to reconcile the apparent poverty of M'Naughten, as evidenced by his latidlady, and borne out by his personal appearance, with the possession of so large a sum of money as £BOO. There can be very little doubt of the genuineness of the check or receipt of the Glas gow Bank for £750, and that fact proves the sum to have been deposited by the prisoner in the bank alluded to. His being in Scotland at that period, too, would strengthen the probability of his having transacted business there; and the singular narration of Mrs. Dutton, relative to his mode of life and habits, attaches a degree of mystery to the motive which influenced the prisoner to the commission of his deadly crime, to the solution of which, at present, no clue has been obtained. Some papers found upon him led to his connexion with Glasgow being discovered ; and a messenger from the Home- Office, accompanied by a police-offieer, left London for that place at an early hour on Saturday morning, for the purpose of discovering if he has any family connexions there. It is the opinion of Mrs. Dutton, that.the sum of money he was possessed of on Friday must have come to his hand during the last two or three days ; but this is in a great mea sure contradicted by the receipt before alluded to. The assassin is not at all known as an applicant for relief, or otherwise, in any public department. Mr. Drummond entered the public service in 1811, and has been actively engaged during a period of more than thirty years. He held the appointment of a chief clerk in the Treasury. Mr. Drummond was private Secretary to the Duke of Wellington during the period of his Administration ; also to Sir R. Peel in his short Ministry, and held the same office on his return to power in 1841. Air. Drummond is the son of the late Mr. Charles Drum mond, one of the original partners in the bank carried on under the family name. He has three brothers : Mr. George Drummond, the leading active partner of the bank ; the Rev. Arthur Drummond, Rector of Charlton, near Blackheath, Kent ; and Berkely Drummond, Colonel in the Fusilier Guards. He is also a cousin of Mr. Henry Drummond, of Albury, the head of the bank, although no longer an active partner. (From the Times of Tuesday.) It is with extreme regret we have to announce that ano ther unfavourable change has taken place in Mr. Drum mond's health. The improving state in which we described the unfortunate gentleman last evening continued through the greater part of the night, but towards morning he became Very restless. It soon became evident that the inflammation was increasing ; and at ten o'clock a consultation of the medical gentlemen took place, when it was at once determined that the patient should be again bled, which operation was immediately performed by Mr. Guthrie. Tile following an nouncement was then made for the information of visitors : " Mr. Drummond is going on rather favourably than other wise." Throughout the day the unfavourable symptoms did not in the least decrease, and the most painful anxiety was manifested by Mr. Drummond's friends as to the result. In the course of the afternoon it was seen that Mr. Drummond was not so well, and in consequence another consultation was held at five o'clock, when it was deemed necessary to take more blood from the sufferer, which was at once accom plished. The medical gentlemen remained in attendance a considerable time, and subsequently issued the following announcement :—" Mr. Drummond s till cont i nues i n a cri tical state." Before separating, however, it was considered necessary that another consultation should be held in the course of the evening, and nine o'clock was appointed for that purpose. Upon their again assembling, Mr. Drummond was found to be much in the same state, but, if anything, rather im proved from the effects of the bleeding. At ten o'clock, when the surgeons left, the following bulletin was given : Mr. Drummond is much in the same state, but, if any thing has gained a point." Anotherr - consultation was appointed for an early hour this morning. The gentlemen who attend the consultation are— Dr. Flume, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. 13ransby Cooper, and Mr. Jackson (apothecary). (From Wednesday's Times) The last account we published described Mr. Drummond to be in a very critical state ; and the unfavourable symp toms increased so far during the night, that Mr. Guthrie, jun., who sat up with him, deemed it necessary, about four o'clock yesterday morning, to call for further assistance, and accordingly Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Jackson were sent for, and were promptly in attendance. Without hesitation the suf ferer was again bled, which appeared to cause a slight im provement. At ten o'clock, a consultation took place, at which, as usual, all the medical gentlemen attended, and shortly afterwards the following bulletin was issued : " Mr. Drummond still continues in a very precarious state." Between that period and four o'clock, the visits of one or other of the medical attendants were frequent, and at the last mentioned hour another consultation was held, when the announcement as to the state of the patient was as follows : " Mr. Drummond is in a very unsatisfactory state, but, if anything, his symptoms are one shade more favourable." In the course of the evening it became apparent to those in attendance upon him, that Mr. Drummond was getting much worse, and at ten o'clock the medical gentlemen again met, and remained in consultation some time, at the close of which the very alarming announcement as follows was made : " A change, considerably for the worse, has taken place." DEATH OF MR. DRUIVIMOND (From Thursday's Times.) It now becomes our very painful duty to announce that Mr. Edward Drummond died yesterday morning about half-past ten o'clock. Our readers will, no doubt, be fully prepared, from the accounts we were compelled to give yesterday of the hopeless state in which he was left by his medical attendants on the previous nights, to hear the melancholy intelligence. After the last consultation, which took place between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, it was announced to his friends that the deceased's dissolution was fast approaching— that, in fact, mortification had taken place, and that all hu man aid would, consequently, be of no avail. Although the unfortunate sufferer had been gradually sink ing the whole of the day, the great change which indicated his speedy dissolution occurred about seven o'clock,when the whole of his family were immediately summoned, and re mained in attendance till the last. The deceased, who throughout his short but severe illness bore his sufferings with great fortitude and resignation, re mained perfectly sensible till the time of his death. The unfortunate gentleman, who, we understand, was in his 50th year, bore a most estimable character, and was be loved by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance; and it is almost impossible to describe the gloom which the me lancholy - event has cast over the circle in which he moved. At a very early hour in the morning the residence of the deceased gentleman was literally besieged by persons making anxious inquiries respecting his state, and which continued throughout the greater part of the day. . Shortly before eight o'clock a messenger froni the Queen called to snake inquiries, and returned with the intelligence of the hopeless situation in which the 'deceased then was to Windsor. Immediately after the unfortunate gentleman breathed his last, another messenger was despatched to con vey the melancholy tidings to her Majesty. A messenger from her Majesty the Queen Dowager also called a few minutes after the deceased expired. Ortly after the last consultation on Tuesday night, Mr. Jackson, the apothecary, returned to the house, and sat up during the night. Almost immediately after his departure, at half-past seven o'clock, Mr. Guthrie arrived, and remained with the deceased till his last moments. There were also in the room with him at the time the deceased's three bro thers and his sister. For some time previous to his death, Mr, nummond was entirely free from pain. A post nzortem examination of the body will be made at one o'clock this day, and the coroner's inquest is appointed to be held at four o'clock in the afternoon. Mr. E. Drummond was nephew of the present Viscount Strathallan, Baron Drummond, of Cromlie, and Baron Maderty, in the peerage of Scotland. This family have been remarkable for their steady attach ment to the Stuart family, and William Drummond, Esq., fourth viscount, personally espoused the fortunes of the Chevalier i❑ 1715. He was slain at the battle of Culloden, and his name included in the Bill of Attainder passed in 1746, with that of his eldest son, described as James Drummond, eldest son of William Viscount Strathallan. His lordship had two other sons, one of whom, Robert, was the original founder of the bank at Charing-cross. Ile died 1804, leaving four sons and one daughter. The second son, Charles, (a partner in the bank,) married in 1784 Frances Dorothy, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Lockwood, of Portman square, and by her left at his decease, in 1823, four sons and two daughters,—viz., Charles, banker, at Charing-cross, born 1790 ; Edward, (the unfortunate deceased,) born March 30, 1792 ; Berkeley (Lieutenant-Colonel Scotch Fusilier Guards,) born May 27, 1796 ; Arthur, (in holy orders, rector of Charlton, Bent,) August 20, 1797 ; Charlotte Matilda and Eliza Maria, The Times of yesterday contains the following beautiful allusion to Mr. Drummond's usefulness:-- " His career, thus,;ewat;;;lTza lamentably closed, had not been a useless or unlionoured one. Haying entered into the Service of the State as a clerk of the Mast *. at an early age, his assiduity, fidelity, and good humour introduced him to the more immediate patronage of the minister of the day. As private secretary to the present Earl of Ripon when Chancellor of the Exchequer, he displayed Those qualifica tions which recommended him succes ively to the of Mr. Canning. the Duke of Wellington, and Sir It. Peel. Under these statesmen it was his lot to discharge, for nearly twenty years, duties which are only inferior to those of a Cabinet Minister, because they are less conspicuous, but the faithful discharge of which can alone alleviate the anxieties and mitigate the asperities of official station. As there is no connexion so close as that which binds the English states man to his secretary—a connexion unknown and unappre ciated in foreign Courts—so, perhaps, there is no grief so profound as that which an English statesman feels for the loss of him in whose person the qualities of friend and par tisan have been harmoniously blended—who has been the associate of his public counsels, the confidant of his public cares, and the cheerful companion of his private life. " Happen, therefore, when it might, the death of Mr. Drummond could not but be widely lamented. The man whose qualifications for public duties were prized by Can ning and Wellington, whilst the charm of his personal in tercourse was no less valued in private circles, could not have passed away for ever, without the deep and earnest regret of those to whom he was known, either as an inti mate friend or as a public servant. But how bitter is the sting added to the poignancy of ordinary sorrow by a death so sudden and so awful! " We leave, however, the numerous friends and kinsmen of the departed to indulge a sacred but not solitary grief. Our duty is not less sacred, though less soothing. It is ours to bid the people of England remember the fearful stigma which this horrid murder has branded on the En glish name. The attempt, be it remembered, is not a single one, although its success has been, thank God ! without a precedent for many years. There is something overwhelmingly fearful in contemplating the degeneracy of national character. One shrinks back from tracing the gradual erasure of ancient and traditionary virtues, be cause it is the most sure and fatal omen of national calm Seculum, ignavia cedibusgue impurum, in fiedissimam cedit servituthn. We are yet, as a people, novices in co pying the melodramatic massacres of Young France, and the Lynch-lawlessness of Republican America. There is still enough of shame and courage left—at least, we hope so—to arrest this mania of foreign growth, before it be comes too fierce and powerful to cope withal. Heaven grant that the masculine courage and honest sense of our countrymen may not be slack to redeem the tarnished re putation of our common land, laws, and faith ! " For the wretched criminal we have little to say. His fate rests with the justice of his country. It would ill be come us to wrest one prop or stay from beneath a man whose doom is so uncertain as his. We will not anticipate his de fence or his evidence. The laws of England are severe, but, even in their severity, merciful. They will presume no guilt against him, but will wait for proof. To them we commend him. " This, however, we venture to say—if he be innocent (that is, morally innocent, by reason of insanity, which can be de monstrated to be congenital, inherent, or of irresistible force), he will be at once acquitted. But if this cannot be shown on good and probable testimony, we do earnestly trust that no undue exertion will be made by the soft-hearted to twist and torture unimportant incidents into symptoms of insa nity—that no over-refined humanity will endeavour to argue back the crime itself into a proof of madness, and so as to save the criwnal by his own wrong—that no maudlin sensi tiveness will lift up its plaintive voice to rescue the convicted felon from a doom which a justice higher than man's has pro nounced against him by whom man's blood has been shed. Such conduct would be unworthy of a great, of a brave, of a religious, of a Christian people. The greatest mercy has, ere now, been the greatest cruelty. Those laws are the most merciful which deter men from the most atrocious crimes." PARTICULARS OF M'NAUGHTON DURING Ills RESIDENCE AT GLASGOW, (From the Glasgow Constitutional.) We regret to have to state that the assassin is a Scotsman, and a native of Glasgow. lie is the son of a most respect. able tradesman in this city, whose name he bears—Danie M`Naughton—and was brought up to the trade of a wood. turner. His conduct and habits, which were always eccen tric, became so disagreeable to his father, that nearly ten years ago such misunderstandings occurred as led to a cessa tion of the correspondence between the parties. After working for some time as a journeyman, Daniel commenced business on his own account in Turner's -court, and latterly had his workshop in Stockwell-street. From the first he was very abstracted, and parsimonious to a proverb. To save money he bought and cooked his own victuals, lodged in his own workshop, and, excepting on the article of clothing, in regard to which he was a little vain, his purse strings were seldom unloosed. He, consequently, saved a consid era bl e sum of money, a t one ti me his bank account reaching to about £l,OOO. Having devoted himself greatly to reading, he became somewhat enthusiastic and romantic in his ideas; instead of attending to his business, he wandered about the most remote and unfrequented of our country roads, invari ably carrying with him a book, political or religious, although he never showed himself a partizan in either. His opinions in politics were of the most violent and Radical description. About the beginning of Jan., 1841, his "fitful" temperament as one of his most intimate acquaintances terms it, could not submit to the drudgery and confinement of a workshop, and he disposed of the materials and the goodwill of the business to a young man who had been an apprentice with him for three years. The proceeds of this transaction he devoted to the replenishment of his wardrobe, and, after drawing his funds from the bank, he left Glasgow en route to France,with nearly one thousand sovereigns in gold on his person. He did go to the Continent, where he remained for some time ; but, according to his own account, he had never been more than fifty miles from the coast. He subsequently resided in London, and his procedure there is graphically described in another column. While in Glasgow he lodged with a Mrs. Pattison, in Clyde-street, Anderston, very near the spot at which Smith, the cotton-spinner, was shot, and some of his letters to that lady, and others, indicate, at least, an aberra tion of intellect. He came to Scotland, and to his old lodg ings, about the time of the Queen's visit, and called upon a few of his former acquaintances, all of whom observed that his eccentricities had been increased rather than diminished by his travelling. He again left Glasgow, and went to Lon don, some three or four months ago, where he seems to have been in some degree subject to hypochondriasis, and on such occasions he would confine himself to bed for days— Be was decidedly temperate, and inculcated temperance on his friends ; but, on the occurrence of these " fits," he availed himself largely of the eau de vie medicinally. He was ex tremely fond of argument, and did not hesitate as to the side he espoused, provided he had an opponent. So far as we can learn, the pistols found on him in London were a pair which he had in his possession in Glasgow, and with which he was in the habit of " fowling." In his lodgings here a few scraps of manuscript have been recovered, chiefly notes of medical lectures, which, it seems, he had attended. One paper, however, indicates that his mind had been unsettled a considerable time ago. In reply to some communication of M`Naughton, Mr. Johnston, M.P., for Kilmarnock, writes, under date of nth May, 1812 :—" I received your letter of the 3d May. I am very sorry I can do nothing for you. I am afraid that you are labouring under a delusion of mind. and that there is no reason for you entertaining such fears." Once, when urged by Mrs. Paulson to go out and exert him self to get a situation of some kind or other, he said he had done every thing for that purpose, but that he was persecuted and tormented by a set of devils. On being farther ques tioned on the subject, he added, that if they (the devils) did not give up tormenting him, he would blow their brains out. He left Mrs. P.'s for the last time, it seems, about four months ago, without saying where be was going, or t a ki ng even a change of li nen w i t h hi m. He carried along with him, however, the pistols and all his money. At one time M`Naughton spent about three years with a company of strolling players. This was about fourteen or fifteen years since. He is,we understand, about thirty-three years of age. We may mention that an official gentleman arrived in Glasgow from London on Sunday, for the purpose of re ceiving information regarding M`Naughten. This was prin cipally procured at the house of the assassin's father, who is a very respectable man. Amongst other matters, the father recollected that his son had-told him, about the beginning of last summer, that he was going to call on Sir James Camp bell, the lord provost. On application to his lordship, we learn that about the end of May, or beginning of June, M`Naughten did call at his residence in Bath -street. There he had some conversation in the hall with M'Naughten, who is des cr ib e d b y th e l or d provost as a jolly-looking man, and as speaking very coolly, although evidently labouring under some hallucination of mind. He told the provost with great earnestness that he had been incessantly watched and dogged by certain parties who had an at him. He said they had forced him from his home by their spiteful machinations, and the very night before they had obliged him to fly to the gelds in the suburbs for refuge. Sir James Campbell asked the name of the complainer, which he gave, as also the name of his father, and afterwards reasoned with him as to the folly of his notions. Sir James, likewise inquired, pretty broadly, whether he had ever been treated as if it had been suspected there was anything wrong with his (AV Naughten's) intellects, and being replied to in the negative, seriously ad vised him to consult his relations or some medical man as to the state of his health. At this visit be talked neither of religion nor politics ; but just shook his head, and said that "be could not get rid of them at all." Immediately after this, the lord provost sent for his father to converse with him on the subject; but it would appear now, that although the man called he did not find his lordship within, and the matter was forgotten, until the recollection of the circum stance was brought to mind by the arrival of the messenger, who waited upon his lordship on Monday, along with M`Naughten's father, and learned the above particulars. The father of the assassin says that he could not do with his son at all in his place of business, for although he was well behaved, so far as sobriety and industry were concerned, he was frequently reading books, and keeping others off their work. lie is described as being most anxious to make money, and frequently wrought night and day for that pur pose. He was a violent radical, and spoke furiously against the conservatives of this city (Glasgow), frequently declaring that they and Mr. Larnond, their agent, were constantly against him. In November last, M'Naughten wrote to his father from London, to draw £lO out of the Glasgow and Ship Bank. It was only on going thither that the father learned his son had so much money, and to save trouble he sent him £2O, as he bad said in the letter he liked London much better than Glasgow. We have made every endeavour to procure the letter of M'Naughteu to Mr. Alexander Johnston, to which a reply is inserted above, but without effect—indeed, it is very probable it may have been destroyed by Mr. J. at the time, as a piece of absurdity. So far as we can judge, the assassin, IVl`Naughten, seems to have been a tolerably sane person, except upon the subject of toryisen. ME PRISONER M'lsTAticirrort.—On Monday several medical me n o f em i nence connected with the various lunatic asylums of the metropolis. amongst whom were Drs. Monro and Sutherland, visited the prisoner M'Naughton at Tothill fields, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he suffered from aberration of mind. Although the prisoner made such an !extraordinary statement as he did on Saturday last at Bow-street, which at the time was considered indicative of an unsound state of mind, he has not followed up that line of conduct; on the contrary, he has maintained a sullen de meanour, and the replies to what questions have been put to him were v er y sens ibl e . T he result of the interview of these gentlemen was in ea c h case t h e same —namely, conviction on their minds that M'N aug h ton was perfectly sane, an d t h at the statement made by him before Mr. Hall at I3ow-street was a premeditated one. Mr. Lavies, the surgeon to the prison had a second interview with M'Naughton on Monday, and h e is perfectly convinced of the total absence of mental derange ment. It is very evident that the prisoner views with the greatest indifference the atrocious attempt which he made on Mr. Drummond's life, for what meals he partakes of, only his breakf as t an d di nner, he eats with a keen appetite. These meals are furnished at his own expense, an application being made to Mr. Hall for a portion of the money found on him to be allotted for that purpose. When these are taken in, as well as on all other occasions, the prisoner in variably is found to be sitting before the fire. Although several books are placed in the cell for his accommodation, he has not yet been found looking at one, not- has he asked for pen, ink, or paper. To noire of the turnkeys has he uttered a word further until, when his dinner was conveyed to him on Monday wliich consisted of a rump-steak), he observed " that it was very hard to be prevented the use of a knife and fork." On being informed that it was one of the prison regulations, he maintained his usual silence. Lieu tenant Tracey, the Governor of the prison, whose opinion is valuable from the great practice that he has had, decidedly states that M'Naughten is not insane. --Standard. . . ROYAL LIVER THEATRE, ~ Under the Management of Mr. W. R. Copelziti. Fourth Appearance of Mr, W. R. COP ELA,V. THIS EVENING, (Friday,) kGAI TO-?'sIORIZOW, (SP turday,) the 27th and 28th instant, will be !iresented an entirely new Dramatic Version of Sir Walter cott's Tale, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. After which, a laughable Extravaganza, trauilated from the French ,-vntit!eri THE DESERTER ; or, 14 GENTLEMAN in BLACK. A DOUBLE pi ANTAL, DORNPIPE. To conclude' with the Farce of A DAY WELL SPENT. ?A.—Gallery, 6d. (The number to the Boxes,• 3s.—Pit, Gallery is limited. Second Price—Boxes, 2s.—Pit, ls. Doors to open at I - Tall-past Six. Performance to begin at Seven. Second Price at Half-past Eight. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOI , STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester afords its proprietors the yratifY ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, wizen its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CORRESPONDENTS We cannot decipher the whole of the communication of H. H., but to the portion we understand we say "no." A person who spells so incorrectly as to write " which," " concientions, ' and " Brittain," can scarcely expect us to insert his letter. This to " E.” We presume the report of the proceedings at Kirkdale, on Wednesday, will gratify " A friend to the legitimate drama," but the insertion of this letter would involve us, in all probability, in a correspondence which we have no wish to provoke. The decision of the Scottish judges in the celebrated Stewarton case does not, we believe, affect the much agitated question as to the right of a patron to present to a living, an incumbent to w h om a ma j or i ty o f t h e mem b er s of a church are opposed, but it decides that the ministers of parliamentary churches, of chapels of ease, and of other non-parochial places of worship, have no right to sit in the General Assembly, or to take any part in its deli berations. Ebe Etbrrpool gtanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1843 The Mercury's FEELINGS (!!) have sustained s severe shock ! Listen, reader, to the melancholy circumstances ; and then try to estimate the amount of anguish inflicted upon a mind so sensitive, nerves so frail, and a frame so fragile, that it would " Die of a rose, in aromatic pain." The Mercury is, it would seem, a devoted supporter of the Collegiate Institution of this town. He sub scribed his mite to the erection of the building ;" has " expressed his good wishes for the prosperity of the institution ;" and, greatest good of all, " suggested an improvement in front of the noble erection—we can not see why an improvement could not be equally well suggested behind—and an alteration in the colour of its placards ! After this we should scarcely wonder if some philosophic individual were to boast his love for the Church of England, upon the ground that he had suggested an alteration in one of the flues at St- Peter's, or in the vane upon the spire of St. Nicholas's. But the love of our good Mercury did not stop here. He had absolutely in store for the new institution benefits of which its founders, in their most sanguine hours, never dreamt. He had absolutely on the tapir a kind of semi -matrimonial arrangement between the Collegiate Institution and the Mechanics' Institution The two were to co-operat e in engaging " all the talent in the country" to deliver lectures. The " first lee") turers in the country" were to be retained, by the joint purses of the Collegiate and the Mechanics'; and the opportunity thus afforded to these gentlemen, of " gir' ing four lectures a week, and in the same town, would be an irresistible inducement to personal effort, and to the production of splendid illustrations." Well m a y t h e M ercury exclaim " judge our feelings''' when th e prospect of so pleasant an arrangement Was rudely dissipated by a "miserable paragraph" i n the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Miserable paragraph," ill deed, which could be the cause of misery so poignant to a philanthropist so enlightened ! Henceforward the ill' stitution so valued, in whose front and the colour Of whose posters Mercury suggested an alteration, is "a huge pyramid standing upon its apex." It is a wretched low church affair, sectarian in its objects, narrowed in its sphere of usefulness, and, "in a few years," wi ll present " the most splendid failure ever known in thes e kingdoms ;" and all for what ? Because the LIVES; POOL STANDARD, suspected of being a supporter of its usefulness and its worth, remarked, last week, TIP" the indecent circumstance of a Frenchman—a teacher of the young —being permitted to sing, at a sole • held in the Mechanics' Institution, " the revolutionary composition called ' the Marseillaise Hymn,' in eharac" ter ;" and to compare with that indecency, the de corous proceedi ngs w hi ch distinguished the opening of the Collegiate Institution ! Slight cause this for th e flood of bitterness with which the pseudo friend,—lh e i . suggester of alt erat i ons in front and in the colour 0.1. its placards, — pours out forthwith against the devote d institution ! But let us see how our serene friend deals with th e . " miserabl e paragraph " which has so expeditionsl) ; converted hi s l ove i nto frenzied hate. We erre d , 1_ seems, in d escr ibi ng the proceedings in question n 7 having occurred upon the same day. The Marseillais' Hymn was s ung at the Mechanics' on Thursday, aria Haydn's b eaut i ful strain was sung at the Collegiate o_. 1 : Friday. W e " blinked the truth, " we are told, be , cause we omitted to tell the world that " the meal at the C o ll eg i ate Institution was the solemn and form al a opening of th at i nstit ution,—that at the Mechanics merry Christmas party, a soiree, an assemblage 0 friends and ne i g hb ours to take tea together':" Most Jesuitical commentator, we " blinked no truth." If you will be a t t h e pains of reading our paragraph 0 your own columns, you will find that we ex press called th e meet i ng at the Collegiate Institution o "formal opening," and that at the Mechanics' Instit o l tion " a soi r e e. " The former was a meeting of 10 ' orderly, hi g h m i nded Conservatives—a formal dres s party, if you will; the latter was an exhibition e a Liberali sm , en di shabille,—its affectation of loyalty attachment to our constitutional monarchy tb l9lll aside. But the editor of the Mercury says, "he did rig ht 1 : to sing such a song. The "Marseillaise" is a "i rs ; natzonal" song ; " a pr o d uct i on to which Vrance f „ deeply zndebted, (!) and whi c h i s as d ear to t h e hear' 1' a Fren c h man as Rule B r it ann i a ' i s to ours." 0) 11341 t 3r' the m an w h o could have the audacity to commit to ho paper assertion s so monstrous is scarcely one to a, reasoned with. The Marseillaise Hymn " truly n o tonal" ! "dear to the heart of every true Frenchnla rl if , —a pr o d uct i on which breathes in every line the lv ° e like longing for blood and the savage thirst for reveng e which, until France in her reign of terror showed tb n e es to the world, we thought were the attributes of sae fi ; o f onlya production which has ever been the signa h ' as that worst of national miseries, civil war ;—which., maddened been howled by the lips of intoxicated and rnad u bi e- r fiends as they dragged their victims to the scaffold' it slaughtered them in the streets, or bore away t ij trunkless heads, still shouting its wild blood-insp iring _ eor notes, as they reeled off to the commission. of hoof murders ! Danton, Robespierre, Marat, your lips o f sung it,—this truly national song, dear to the hear t a i s 9 , every true F renc h man and to republican " Labereoi of th e M ercury class I Who, then, can deny ' t . s eo s neat beauty, it s nat i ona li ty, the Christian ef it ! ra of which it breathes, and the consummate proP ri° singing it at all Mechanics' Institution soiros hint to Most J esu iti ca l brother, may we venture to he r, you, th a t, f rom t h e fi rst to the last line of the lumber ing producti on upon which we have remarked' Yui °l ' have been ver y, very i ndiscreet ? You have s Pi t Y