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pond the lithit where more imprudence terminates, and reek less madness commences, arid exchanged the character of an adventurous trader for that of the gambling speculator. It is not to be wondered at if such should on strict scru tiny, be discovered to be the case; nay, we venture, to assert our conviction, that in nine out of ten recent instances of failures paraded before our notice by the journalists of the league, the rasult may, in a very great measure, be traced to the inordinate eagerness for gain of the unfortunate indi viduals, combined of course, with other concurrent causes the derangement of foreign markets by ministerial incapa citipu, and the consequent stoppage of those channels of demand which were depended upon to absorb our immensely increased manufacturing production, being amongst the forthost. We must then, whilst cautioning the public against being led to entertain the conclusions endeavoured to be forced upon them by the ministerial journalists, express our con fident., opinion that the intrusive manner in which the re verses attendantupon our present manufacturing system are held 42t0, notice, is far from being calculated to strengthen the claims of that system to legislative encouragement_ Ex perience has shewn that it is one which possesses almost un limited powers of extending its producing power; and it is not becauSe just now it has extended this power more ra 'pidly than sources of consumption have developed them selves, that we are warranted in taking measures to force a demand, which, in a few years, may be equally unable to keep pace with its progressive steps. Experience has shewn us too,—and of late the movements of its anti-corn-law em pirica have impressed the fact upon our attention—that it is capable of being erected into a powerful engine to act upon the social body ; and that it has little scruple as to its mode of action : and how know we that after we have conceded to its present exorbitant demands—after we have prostrated at its feet the colonial and the agricultural greatness of the empire, we shall not be called upon to make fresh sacrifices and 'to venture upon even more hazardous experiments, until at length we become the slaves of the unwieldy and unruly Power whose growth we have fed from the vital blood of the commonweal? THE APPROACHING "MINISTERIAL CONVENTION." The " Barebones" Parliament which is about to fasten itself, in somewhat of an eleemosynary' fashion, upon our good neighbours of Manchester, has not, like another par liament which will shortly sit in another place, the advan tage of commencing its proceedings by a Queen's speech. In the absence of such a document, however, its members have been furnished, by the Secretary and Committee with which it has originated, with a synopsis of the information which they are to be prepared to lay before the public ; and, if this is faithfully and impartially furnished, a vast number of the debated points in the science of political economy will be rendered from henceforth as plain as the noonday. The points in question, upon which the politico-religious preachers are to inform themselves for our edification, are the effect of the price of provisions upon wages, pauperism, education, morality, and the rest. All these matters the members are requested to ascertain in their various localities, —as if Dr. Bowring and the evidence of the Handloom Weavers' CommisSion had not settled them long ago. The disastrous operation of the new poor-law system throughout the manufacturing districts is to be dexterously transferred to the account of the corn-law. We are to have mills and M'Cullock, Malthus and Martineau hashed and rehashed; the political economists done into the Lancashire dialect— Bolton editions and 'Wigan editions—with the advantage of being delivered in the true conventicle twang, seasoned with choice texts of Scripture, and adorned into the bargain with frontispieces —in lead, copper, or wood—of the various So cinians, Independents, Baptists, Ranters, Jumpers, and Screamers by whom they are collated ; and, if the " mono polists" have the hardihood to stand their ground against all this array of " ministerial" erudition, they are to be routed utterly by the beating of the " drum ecclesiastic" which is to follow. We would, however, humbly suggest to the reverend gen tlemen, who are to be actors in the melodrame, that they should not bound their enquiries within the somewhat nar row limits laid down for them by the circular of the commit tee, although it may be convenient enough to be required to know what any influential millowner, who happens to be a member of their several congregations, can prepare them with at a single rehearsal ig his private counting-house, ur, better still, over a bottle of Port after dinner. We would not, were we a Manchestrian, afford gratuitous meat, drink, wasting, and lodging to one of these reverend divines, how ever moderate his appetite, in exchange for such meagre and inconsequential information, the whole of which we can pro cure in a few recently published " blue books," at the price of waste paper. The enquiry, we take it, which ought to occupy .the attention of a convocation of saints, should be of Pjore cornpfehelWiVP nature than merely the effect of the corn-laws upon the profit and loss account of a manufacturer's ledger ; but, with the known regard ever evinced by dissent and its teachers, far the comforts and the happiness, tem poral as well as eternal, of the human race, and especially of the poorer portion of it, might be fairly expected to bring into question the comparative tendency of the pursuits of manufacturing and ugricultute, as at present carried on, to promote permanently these comforts and this happiness. As a guide to these philanthropic divines we will enumerate briefly a few points to which their attention may very advan tageously be directed, and upon which authentic information, such as we know that it is within their power to furnish, would be extremely valuable,—as tending to shew the state of Ppipty ariiing opt pf t ie factory system, and the probable dependence to bp placed upon that system for providing for the masses of population which it is centralising in the manu facturing districts. For the sake of perspicuity we will place them in separate classes. Ist.—What proportionate increase of human labour has been brought into requisition by the increased producing power applied to manufacturing pursuits within the last ten years? 2ndly.—What proportio►► of this increase consists in adult labour, and what in the labour of children ? 3rdly.—To what extent the employment of females in ma nufacturing pursuits is superseding that of males ? 4thly.—At what age the male and female adult factory operatives become incapable of sustaining the amount of labour required of them, and are, to use a favourite expres ,.. 0 0 4 of qtir 4.merican brethren, " used up ?" sthly.—The proportion of cripples, idiots, and organically diseased, to the sound and healthy, amongst the children of the factory population ? fitbly.—The numberof children and adults annually maimed and disabled by the machinery in factories ? ithly.—The progress of socialism, infidelity, and chartism among the factory population ? Bthly.—The extent of the resort to stimulants to aid in supporting the existing long hours of labour required ? 9thly.—The effect of crowded dwellings, and want of cleanliness and ventilation upon the morals of the inhabitants of the manufacturing districts? These are but a few of the points to which the divines of tP•e approaching " ponvpntion " might, with great advan f•aP, extend their enquiries ; but we greatly fear that such enquiries would he retarded 'as highly mal-apropos by the I:itlemen of the Anti Corn-Law League. The suffering factory child—the worn-out adult factory slave—the count- less thousands of perishing souls, which tenant the diseased I.ad wasting frames of the'working classes in the manufactu ring districts, possess little of the sympathies of the well-fed teachers of dissent, and do little for the support of the vo luntary system in religious matters. It is the factory lord — the great millionaire—the propped-up of Joint Stock Banks — the gelf 7 compl4cm4 ovcrlooker—the trim shop-keeper—and Rpt these wretched victims of a devouring system, who build chapels, pay pew rents, and have a knife and fork, and F t t place at the well-spre n 1 board for the minister. For these and such as these it is that agriculture is to be prostrated. For the wealthy and not for the poor man it is that dissent Las ever agitated—that it has applauded and upheld an infa mous and grinding system of poor laws, and sets its face against a legislative enactment to limit the hours of labour in the factory i—and in behalf of the wealthy, and not of the poor it is that its teachers, smelling the good things of the world from afar , are abo u t t o congregate in such numbers an 4 excellent appetir e , amongst our good neighbours Ft f'Nfi n cl l ester.—" Nyhe . rc the carcass is., there will the ravens be gathered together.' The " convention " will enter into none of the subjects we have brought before their notice. They will "search the scriptures " with no such christian object in view. And Yet we are well dispose d t o re jo ice at " the-move "t o use t h e elegant language of one of its body, which h as prompted its assembling. we have long been aware of the influence w hi c h the preachers of dis.sent, — the ministers of that m u ltif orm d man-headed body, whose sole bond of union is bitter end uncompromising hostility to the religion of the church pf England—gaveelerciaed unseen the moveme nts of • • • - • e are glad that ov party. throunhout Great Britain dW , s . er .ornbined have imp e ll e d weening arrogance and self-seeking, them to a step affords the which journalist a justifiable Opportunity of exposing their hollowness, and of testing ractice. their l arge pro f ess i ons towar ds society with their practice. WeWe move i n question affords a are gl a d t oo , b ecause th e striking example of the evil working of the much vaunted voluntary system, and_ at the same time betrays the fact of its growing weakness amongst us. THE OXFORD TRACTS.—At the visitation held by the Bishop of Durham on the 2d instant, his lordship, in his charge, delivered many severe and pointed remarks upon the doctrines promulgated by the Oxford divines. He denounced Yli.4 6 V4illiSturbers of the peace' of the chgrebi and so decl dwbcpea'td tlidir tenets 'that'no . faVoUtch 61 thosvlews can'ex . Pekany COUtiteniinCe frbin' 'RESCUE OF A PRISONER.—thoQs Ratcliffe, a huge in dividual, was charged, at the potice-cohrt or Tuesday, by po lice -officer, No. 57, with having assaulted him; and rescued a'Prisoner from him. The officer stated, that he took a boy in file act of picking the pocket Of a female. He'(the officer) was 'in plain clothes. The 'prisoner adVanced to him, and asked' him what business he hid with the lad. The officer nIFI him that tie was a constable', end that he was 'taking the oy c9r picii.!fig, 4 poCket. The 'prisone r rushed atihim, trhck hiin Violently, and released the btiy fiord his gillisp. Th6'ilrisonte wai'assistdcl by a'n'other*Min' whoin the o ffi cer could not firid; The prisoner was a groom, and he and two Other officers had apprehended him that morning. The pri soner was fined 50s. and costs. In default of payment, he is to be imprisoned one month. LOCAL NEWS !Among the passengers who sailed oil Tuesday in the pact ship Susquehanna, for Philadelphia, were Benjamin Rash, KN., late Secretary of Legation of the United States of America, at the Court of St. James, and William W. Chew, Eki., late Secretary of Legation, and United States Charge d'Affaires, at St. Petersburg. THE.GIRAFFES.—These graceful anti singular animals are to. be removed at the close of this week from Liverpool, in the splendid machines constructed for their reception in London. Those who have not yet inspected these remark able animals, ought to lose no time in doing so. They are very extraordinary, and well worth inspection. GIBSON, THE SCULPTOR.—Mr. Gibson has postponed his visit to England. His intention was to make a trip to his native town, Liverpool, in September; but the numerous commissions he received during the last season (in Rome) will prevent his so doing. It is now twenty-two years since he left England.—Court Journal. • ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.— On Tuesday last, at the Zoological Gardens, the Senegal lioness gave birth to three cubs. On Monday next there are to be great doings at these gardens. Amusements are to be provided unheard of before, and illuminations unequalled in brilliancy will be exhibited. Fireworks unprecedented in novelty will be fired. If the weather permits, this will be a very attractive fete. A pleasant evening.will be enjoyed by the crowds who will, doubtless, be present. THE CALENDAR FOR THE NEXT ASSIZES.—The calendar for the approaching assizes contains the names of 102 'pri soners. Of these there are 7 charged with murder, 3 with rape, 12 with burglary, 14 with manslaughter, 6 with' stab bing, 2 with housebreaking, 6 with forgery, 2 with horse stealing, 2 with maliciously cutting, 1 with perjury., 1 with stealing . , 1 with having returned from transportation before. the fulfilment of his sentence, 27 with riot and beginning to demolish houses, 1 with embezzlement of letters, 8 with of fences against the mint, 1 with making a false statement to the Registrar of Births, &c., and 2 for misdemeanours. OPERATIVE PROTESTANT BENEFIT SOCIETY.—We beg to draw attention to the notification emanating from this society. The principle of benefit societies is too well known to need remark or explanation. One of the features of this association is, however, preferable to all others in this re spect, as it does not hold its meetings in a public-house or tavern, consequently the members are not put to the expense attendant upon other societies, which, to a certain extent, instead of enabling persons to save money, offer inducements to spend their substance. We can safely and cordially recommend this excellent society to the notice of our opera tive Protestant readers. THE NEW CHURCH AT WESTON POINT.—We are glad to perceive that the church at Weston Point is now fast ap proaching completion. We noticed at the time that the stone for the erection of the building was presented in the most handsome manner by our townsman John Tomkinson, Esq., to whose generosity, and to that of the other donors to the same praiseworthy object, multitudes will have cause to be grateful for many spiritual advantages of which they have been heretofore completely deprived, whilst stationed in that locality. The architecture of the edifice is extremely suitable to its position, and forms a most picturesque appearance from the river. RIOT AND ASSAULT.—John Cunningham was charged, at the police-court on Tuesday, with having been guilty of riotous and indecent conduct, and with having assaulted the police-officers in Lace-street. —Police-officer 189 stated, that at seven o'clock on Monday night, there was a great and dis orderly crowd assembled at the top of Lace-street. He and police-officer 82 went to disperse the multitude. They were successful in persuading the majority of the people to go home, but the prisoner and a few of his companions deter mined to be unruly. The prisoner took up a large stone, and, striking the officer on the head with it, knocked him down. Another beat him on his arm with a stick, while the prisoner, seeing him prostrate, kicked him several times.— Police-officer 82 said, the prisoner and his companions were exceedingly riotous, and the chief cause of the turbulance which existed. The prisoner and another man, before they touched the other officer, beat and kicked him (82) with the most determined ferocity. They escaped then for want of assistance, but knowing the prisoner, he went with two others that morning, and apprehended him. When the offi cers approached, the prisoner seized a pitch-fork, and swore he would stab the first man who ventured to touch him. The prisoner was tined4os. and costs. In default of payment, he was ordered to be imprisoned one week. DEATH IN THE BOROUGH GAOL.—An inqueSt was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., on view of the body of Peter Mulloy, a prisoner in the Borough Gaol. Mr. Highton, governor of the gaol said, the deceased had been committed for trial for felony, on the 15th of January last. He was tried at the sessions, was convicted and sentenced to twelve months and hard labour. Before trial he was removed to the fever ward, by order of the magistrates, upon the recom mendation of the surgeon, and removed from thence on the 3d of March. After conviction he was put to picking oakum. Towards the middle of July he was removed to the Hospital by direction of the surgeon, and was regularly attended by him, and visited daily by the witness. Every attention was paid to him, but he gradually declined, and died on Wednes day morning. Mr. Archer, surgeon of the gaol, corroborated the former witness. On the 16th of last month deceased was again sent to the hospital, as his constitution was evidently breaking, and he had a cough and an abscess on the surface of his body. A man who attended him as nurse said that every attention was paid to him, and that he had everything he expressed a wish for. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from natural causes—namely, disease of the lungs. We notice the circumstance to shew that the most humane attention is shewn to prisoners who labour under disease. SUDDEN DEATH BY SUFFOCATION FROM EATING FISH. —An inquest was held yesterday before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Peter Thompson, a man of 66 years of age. On Tuesday last the deceased, who was a seaman, went from the office of the owners of his ship where he and others had been paid, and went to the house where they lodged in Shaw's-alley. Pinner was ready for them, and they sat down at table. The deceased had some fish and potatoes mixed. and took a piece between his finger and thumb, and put it into his mouth. He immediately gave a slight cough, and laid his head on the table. One of the men remarked that his (deceased's) lips were turning blue ; and he was im mediately raised and found to be (lead. He appeared to be quite well when he sat down. A. surgeon was sent for the moment lie was observed to be ailing, but when he arrived life was quite extinct. Mr. Taylor, surgeon, of Nile -street, 'made a post mortern examination, and staied. that on open ing the throat found a piece of dried fish lodged in the larynx, which had produced suffocation and death. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. HOUSE-BREAKING AND RODDEDY.—Yesterday, at the Police Court, a young man named Henry Rawsthorn was placed at the bar, charged with this serious offence. It ap peared in evidence, that Mr. Monies, drysalter, who resides in Upper Beau-street, had, yith hit; family, grqr. on Saturday the 31st. ult., to lodgo for a time at Seacombe. Mrs. M. locked all the cupboards and drawers before she went, and left the servant girl in charge of the house, with directions to lock it up, and to bring the key to her at Seacombe on Monday, which she did, having made all the windows and doors fast. On the evening of the day after, (the 3rd. inst.) Mr. Slater, joiner and carpenter, who resides in Beau-street, opposite to the house occupied by Mr. Monies, observed the shutters of the parlour partly open, and soon after saw the prisoner go up to the house, get over the pallisades, and try the kitchen window. He (the prisoner) then went to the front door, where he stood for five or ten minutes, a tall man then opened the front door and let him in. Witness desired his servant to go and knock at the front door and ask for the servant, and see if all was right. She went and knocked, but the door was not answered. He then went for a constable and they went together to the house. They found the back door open ; they went up stairs, and found the drawers and boxes open. and articles piled on the bed, as if ready for removal, and others strewed about the floor. Inspector Goodie was informed, and saw tile tame, The latter found a hammer and a sorew,driver; 'wilioh were afterwards identi fied by Mrs. Monies as hers. He afterwards went out by the front door, and the prisoner was pointed out to him, and he apprehended him. He took him to Mr. Slater's who identified him, and handed witness a box of lucifer matches which he had found in the passage ; some similar matches were found on the prisoner. Mrs. Monies received infor mation of the house being entered from Mr. Goudie, and on examining the drawers and cupboards that had been forced, missed a quantity of bed and table linen (which she specified) together with wearing apparel, &c., to the value of £25 to £3O. The prisoner wrs committed for trial at the Assizes. WALTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--The twenty-ninth anniversary of the Farmers' Benevolent Society was held at the house of Mrs. Stanley, Black Horse Inn, Walton, on Monday last, according to custom, it being the second Mon day in August. ' The members (according to the roll-book, being 222) began to assemble at ten o'clock, and by eleven most of them were present, tpgether with Joliffe's excellent band. At eleven precisely they moved from the B 1.7: Horse, in procession, to the Vicarage, the band playp several tunes on the way, headed by the president Mr. 'A rn. Young Nutt, the vice-president, Mr. Charles Musker, and the surgeon to the society, Mr. N. Harming. The vicar, the Rev. Thomas Moss, having joined the procession, they pro ceeded to Walton Church, when the prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Wilson, curate, and the vicar preached a most excellent sermon from the lst Epistle of St. Peter, chap. iii. and part of the Bth verse, " Love as brethren." The pro cession then proceeded from church ronnd the village, the vicar honouring them with his company as far as his resi dence. The dinner took 'place at three o'clock, which was served up in Mrs. Stanley's best style, and really did her great credit ; the wines, &c. were of the best quality. Among the company present we noticed Michael Ashcroft, Esq., George Wright, Esq., John Sanders, Esq., Mr. Henry Paris, Mr. Nanning, &c., and about 200 members of the society. In the evening they proceeded in marching order to pay their customary visit to their old friend, George Wright, Esq., where they were regaled as usual with a barrel of ale on the green in front of his house, the ladies with wine, &c., The every one seemed highly pleased, th e b an d playing " The line old English gentleman," &c., &c. They returned to their club-house about eight o'clock, and by this time the tables on which they dined had been moved from the spacious tent which had been erected for the occasion, where the ypung people of the village enjoyed themselves with dancing, singing. &c. till a late hour, when they all dis persed, highly pleased with the day's•amuseraent. This ap pears to be an excellent society. According to the statement of the annual balance-sheet they appear to have paid, during the last year, about £206 to sick members belonging to the society, besides nearly £6O for funeral money, and about £l5O for other expenses and by' the management of the committee and officers have this year saved £l7 ss. 6d., be sides leaving cash in bank £1226195. 6d., and cash on hand £39 3s: 6d. It was also 'state'd at dinner, that Richard .Squires, Esq. had presented the society that day with £1 Is. Williani HarveY, Esq . . £2 25., John Harvey, Esq. £1 is., Miss HarVey £1 is., and John Sanders, Esq. LI Is., for which they were very thankful. WARRINGTON—EXCLUSIVE DEALING. --A. public meet ing of the inhabitants of \Yarrington was held, on Monday afternoon, at the Sessionsr Room,' find, afterwards, by ad journment (in conie.quence of the vast number of persons attending), at the Lion Hotel, for the purpose of considering whether any or 'what steps should be taken to put a stop to the system of exclusive dealing, now carrying on in the town. William Gill, Esq., the senior constable, filled the chair ; and am ongst t h e lead i ng mem b ers o f b o th part i es present were —J. W. Patten, Esq., M.P. ; Joseph Crosfield, E sq . ; Thomas Lyon, Esq. ; William Hall Esq. ; Dr. Kendrick ; Richard Harrison, Esq. ; John Clare, Esq. ; Joseph Per rin,Esq.the Honourable and Rev. Horace Powys, rector of Warrington • H. Stanton, Esq.; J. B. Edelsten, Esq. ; B.- Molineux, 'Esq. • H. Hardy, Esq. ,• R. Brown, Esq. ; Rev. T. Lowe; and the Rev. T. V. Bayne. The meeting was also attended by a vast number of operatives. The rector of Warrington, in an address of some length, spoke of the ill effects resulting from combinations raised for any purpose, and part i cularly of the town into a nar ie I ; • ' • t-- 4 r P•lannet. lie condemned the for that of directing the trade system altogether'; and' hoped that, now the election was Over, and 'partY 4pirit had, in Sande :degree subsided, it would be " given ul3" by Sll parties. He afterwards moved a reso lution to that effect, which was seconded by John Clare, Esq., and supported - by Joh n W . had pra c ti se d d e lusive dealing with hi m f o r mere Patten, 'Esq., M.P. EY lands, a chartist; Movedl!), an amendment, attributing all the ,: blame in establishing a 'system Of exclusive . dealing to the tories, who, he said and the adoption o f a petition to that effect, to be than tin* *l's, and' Suggesting, as a remedy, vote presented by lgr. Blackburne, th e b orough member, to by ballot, par liament. This amendment th e c h a i rman declined to put, it being out of the terms of the notice ; and, the original motion having been negatived by an overwhelming ma jority, the chairman declared the meeting dissolved, and • left the chair. Rylands was then called to the chair, and some foolish speeches were made. STrAM TO HArstRIMOIL—We are glad to perceive that a direct communication between this port and Hanaburigh is about to be opened. The vessels appointed are the Ham. burgh, Captain Bridge, and the Manchester,-Captain Bohn. VESTRY MEETING.—A. parish vestry meeting was held in St. Nicholas's Church yesterday, when Mr. Peter Plumpton was elected an assistant overseer and collector of the poor's Some teetotallers had .an excursion up the river a day or two ago, and the bills announcing the great event to the party intimated that they would take water at George's pier. PICTURES.A collection of good pictures, by modern artists, is on sale at Mr. Burton's, Bold-street. We ob serve several sketches by Mr. Bowness, a young artist of great promise. OLD OFFENDERS.—John Murray, a young man, and Catherine Carr, a young woman, were yesterday placed at the bar of the police-cOurt, charged with an intent to commit felony. They were found together under circumstances of strong suspicion, and on their persons were found several skeleton and other keys. The man had previously been ten times committed, and on the last occasion was imprisoned for 18 months. The. girl had been three times committed. The former was sent to gaol for three months, and the latter for one month. THEFT FROM AN EMPLOYER.—At the police-court, yes terday, a man rimed John Higham was charged with having stolen some pieces of sheet lead and some files from the pre mises of his employer, Mr. Berry, engine-builder. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner had been suspected, and that he was detected going out of the gate with some thing bulky under his jacket,. which proved to be the lead prbdueed. Five files were also found possesSion be longing to Mr. Berry. He was committed for trial. DANIEL O'CONNELL IN A SCRAPE.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a youth, named Daniel O'Connell, was placed at the bar, on a charge of " not begging," but of stealing a gammon of bacon. The great " Dan," it is well-known, is often guilty of begging, and that too not from the rich alone of his deluded admirers, but from the poorest of his countrymen, who can ill spare their mite, to make up the extortion which he impudently denominates " as if some value were given for what he shamelessly pockets; yet, strange to say, while the destitute mendicant in the streets is apprehended and punished, the ", big beggar man" passes from door to door unmolested in his vocation. Dan going " the whole hog" with his " gammon," contrives to " save his bacon." His young namesake (for so his probably was) was not so lucky. For his appropriating the gammon of bacon he was consigned to durance vile for 14 days. THFATILE-ROYAL.—To-night Madame Vestris will take her benefit. She has obtained the assistance—if any were wanting—of that most delightful actress, Miss Ellen Tree, who will play the charming part of Julia in " The Rivals." " The School for Scandal " was capitally represented on Wednesday night. Mr. Farren's Sir Peter 7eazte was a most finished and artist-like perforinance.—We perceive that on Monday next Mademoiselle Taglioni's young—and as many have asserted, successful—rival, Mademoiselle Cerito, will make her first appearance. Her engagement is only for four nights. The metropolitan press has been unanimous in commendation of Mademoiselle Cerito, and all London has run after her whenever she has appeared. Monsieur Guerra, an accomplished and graceful dancer, will assist Mademoiselle Cerito, in conjunction with Miss O'Bryan.—On Friday the musical amateurs will be delighted to find the elite of the Italian Opera Company will make their appearance in Bel liiri's delicious Sonnambula.—Madame Grisi, Ernesta Grisi, and Lablache are amongst the announcements of engage ments. Who says there is nothing to be seen at the Theatre Royal ? The crowded houses of late bear witness of a willing ness to support that spirited establishment. LAUNCII.—On Wednesday morning a beautiful ship was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. William Simons and Co. She is named the Argaum, and registers 460 tons new measurement, and, from the fine frigate model of this vessel, it is expected that she will be a very fast sailer. The figure-head is allowed to be an admirable likeness of the Duke of Wellington, who reckons, among his hundred fights, the battle of the place whence the ship takes her name. The Argaum is the property of Messrs. Ross, Corbett and Co. - , of this town, is intended for the East India trade, and is to be commanded by Captain John Leitch, junior, whose expe rience has made him well acquainted with that trade. While Captain Leitch has earned the highest character as an able seaman, his passengers on former voyages to the eastern seas cherish feelings of the liveliest gratitude for his affability and anxious attention to their comfort.—.Greenock Advertiser. THE " TIMES' " ATTACK ON PROTESTANT ASSOCIA TIONS.—Some time ago certain very able articles appeared in the Quarterly Review, exposing the principles, practices, and tendency of popery in a manner that commanded univer • sal approbation. These articles were attributed to Professor Sewell ; and amongst others they challenged the approbation of the Rev. Hugh M`Neile. The praise of that gentleman, though masterly, just, and eloquent, was exceeded by the somewhat slavish adulation paid to the writer by the Times. With an unaccountable, but not unusual, inconsistency, the Times last week fell foul upan those who take the lead in agitating the protestant cause, the learned professor of course amongst the number, and denounced them, and the associa tions that acted with them, as " incendiaries." It would be of little use to explain the original causes that gave protestant associations birth to an enemy like the Times, but to those who do not know the circumstances it may be useful briefly to state them in the words of a highly respectable correspon dent of the Morninglierald, and his plan of destroying them : " The first occasion of the formation of this society was the exposure, in 1836, of the monstrous intolerance taught by the Romish hierarchy from Dens's theology, under thE sanction of their bishops ; an exposure which has never since received any refutation. Soon after that period the writer of this letter joined the society, and ho only requires the Romish church to act towards other communions as they act towards her, in order to induce him to abandon it. For example, there is not a Protestant state in Europe which prohibits the profession of Romanism by its own subjects; let the Roman ist states do the same ; let Spain, Portugal, the Italian States, and, especially the Pope, proclaim religious liberty to all their own subjects ; let them permit them to erect Protestant churches, and allow Protestant works to be printed and cir culated in the vernacular languages of their respective coun tries ; let them do this ; and let the Romanists in Ireland al low the Protestant electors as free an exercise of their fran chise and constitutional prerogatives as the Protestants of England allow the English Romanists the exercise of theirs. I say, let all these things be done, which are, in truth, nothing more than common. justice, and it will be the deadli. estblow that can be aimed at the Protestant Association." VESSELS LOST.—lntelligence has been received at Lloyd's of the loss of five vessels at sea during the late gale s. Tuesday week a large schooner, called the Mari Ann, be longing to Aberystwith, wastotally lost off the shore at Fresh; water, hear Milford harbour. It appears from the report of the master, Captain Jones, who fortunately escaped, with the rest of the crew, in a long boat, that the vessel was on her voyage from Saundersfoot to Drogheda, and when about eight miles below Milford harbour, it was discovered that-she had sprung a leak, and five feet of water in her hold: The crew took to the pumps, and used their utmost efforts to save the vessel, but finding it impossible, after three hours' exertions, they put the long boat over the side, and got clear of her, and at the time above-mentioned, she sunk in deep water. The vessel is stated to be insured, and the loss is between two thousand and - three thousand pounds.—On Tuesday week, during the violent and destructive hurricane from the north west, the brig Othello, laden, was lost on the Holy Sands off Yarmouth, about three o'clock in the morning, and the crew narrowly escaped. The vessel was bearing up the channel to the east of the sands, which extend five miles in length, and a mile in depth, and at low water are high and dry, and the weather at the time being extremely dark, the crew were unable to see them until they came within a cable's length, when it was too late, AO in the next moment she ;struck, and imr.ne4liAtely iiitciied on her beam ends. The crew got' into the b'Oats, and made for the shore, and four hours after they were picked up by a fishing smack, and conveyed to Yarmouth, where they were landed. The vessel and cargo are valued at £3,000.—0n Monday, the 4th instant, the splendid ship called the Inverness packet ran on the rocks of Piedcar, and became a totd wreck. She was on her passage from Stockton to Rochessr, and is valued at a considerable sum. The crew escaped from the rocks by their boats, and all were saved though greatly exhausted. She is insured in several offices. The average price of wheat in Paris is 16f. 40c. The 41b. loaf (two kilogrammes), in Paris, is now 64 centimes (12 sous 4 centimes), or 61d. per loaf. At a dinner last Thursday to Mr. Blennerhassett, who was nominally defeated at the late unfair and invalid election for Kerry, Mr. Sergeant Jackson suggested, very properly, that parliament should be made ac9uainted, on an early occasion, with the violence that prevailed at the Irish elections, as well in Kerry as elsewhere.' . . The accounts from Tipperary exhibit a frightful state of crime and disorganisation. On the 3d inst. two armed men, with their faces blackened, were on the road side near Glen bower, waiting for the agent of the estate, with no very cha ritable intentions towards him. He, however, escaped them. The following Friday three men attacked the house of Mr. Wallace, a gentleman who has been active in preserving the peace, and fired a pistol so close to his head that the flash of its explosion singed his hair. He escaped only by the ball having fallen out whilst the ruffian was striking Mrs. Wal lace. The villains wady . , their escape. A few days since a fisherman named Massey, residing at New Romney, discovered in a pell at low water, and about mid sands, a curious old measure resembling copper, and holding about a pint, having a bell-metal handle with the figure of a lion or some other beast thereon. On minutely examining the body of it, the date 1412 was deciphered. Some time ago two metal spoons were found on the same spot, marked I 88. It will be in the recollection of some of our readers that about twenty years since the keel of a wreck was dug out from this place, and brought up to the town, but the name and date of the vessel could not be as certained.—Kentish Gazetlq. NEW ORLEANS.—A meeting of the chamber of Com merce at New Orleans has come, to a resolution to petition congress to place the boats of the Royal West India Steam Navigation Company upon the most favourable footing. If this proposition were acceded to, a direct receipt of news would take place every 22 days, and the line would commence on the Ist of October. The routes were laid down thus : No. 1 London to Havana, by way of Corunna, Funchal, Barbadoes, and Nassau. Returning, Havana to London, by way of Barbadoes. No. 2. On the arrival of the Lon don steamer at Havana, one steamer would leave for Hon duras, Vera Cruz, Tampico, New Orleans, and Havana. Another would leave at the same time for New Orleans direct, thence to Tampico, Vera Cruz, Honduras,' and Ha vana. No. 3. Halifax to Havana, by New ork and back. No. 4. Barbadoes, Leeward Islands, Jamaica Etna back. Comparing the present yith thp last parliament, it will be found that the Bank of England Ims loSt one member—Mr. Pattison. The London bankers haVe lost two member s — Mr. Grote and Mr. W. 44w00d. The country bankers have lost s twO mcpabei; --. M 1 7- tleCtor and Mr. Rickford. The National Provincial Bank has lost two members—Mr. Courteney and Lord liallyburton. The London Joint-stock Banks have lost three members—Mr. Muskett, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Jervis. On the other hand, the London Bankers have gained one—Mr. Masterman ; an d th e L on d on Joint stock Banks have gained two—Mr. P. M. Stewart and Mr. Rennie. The Irish and Colonial Joint-stock Banks remain the same. Thus it will appear that the Bank of England and the private bankers have, upon the balance, lost four members, while the joint-stock banks have, upon the balance, also lost four. THE WELSH COAL FIELDS. — The Welsh coal fields ex tend over twelve hundred square miles, and there are twenty three beds of workable coal, having an average thickness of ninety-five feet. Each acre will yield about one hundred thousand tons, being at the rate of sixty-ftye million tons per mile. If f rom thi s wii . deiNct 4:,0g, half l or . waite, and the minor extent o f th e n O6. heal, this willaftord a supply of coal equal t o, thirty-two million to,p. per square mile. L e t it be conceded' that five millions are eqAal to one-third o f th a t c co oa n t u ti m el p d t w io i n il irt m E ee ti t g l , v la it td h -L a t p li r e b ri p 7 o ;e ti l p i 1 1 , q t,ite uare mile of the Wel s h consumption of one hundred years ; aiqrsis there. tiro fro 00,e thotisand to two thousand sq uare m i l es i i i t hi s district,, it would supply Eng land with coal for two thotts'and year aftcr all the English mines were exhausted. ' ' TURNPIKE I IcIADS IN GREAT BRITAIN. — The aggregate length of the Turnpike Roads in Great Britain has been cal culated to be 25,000 miles, at a general breadth of from 50 or 60 feet. The cost of keeping these roads in repair differs considerably in various counties, being in the neighbourhood of London, an annual cost of £550 a mile, in Wales, £2O, and in Yorkshire, £6O. The average, however, is about £5O a mile. Nearly all the road trusts are in debt for borrowed money, and it is supposed that the debt is on an average £320 a mile, or probably for the whole of these turnpike roads six millions sterling. TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS The adjourned monthly and quarterly meeting of the town council was held on \Veduesda;•, in the council chamber, within the Town-hall. When the Mayor had taken the chair, at a quarter after eleven o'clock, there were only twenty-one members present, including the chairman. As the municipal act requires that :twenty-two members shall be in attendance in order to form a council, a messenger was despatched, at the suggestion of Mr. Birkett, to the office of Mr. Proctor, adjacent, to ac quaint that gentleman that his presence was required at the chamber to form a council. Mr. EARLE said, that if the mayor adjourned the council upon the first occasion that twenty-two members were not present in five minutes after the usual time for commencing the proceedinrs, he might rest assured that there would be a larger and more punctual attendance afterwards. Mr. Earle added, that Sir George Drinkwater was in the habit of taking up his hat and walking out of the council whenever the ne cessary number of members were not present in five minutes after the appointed hour for proceeding with the business. The MAYOR said he should have no objection to act upon Mr. Earle's suggesti on on some ot h er occasion, but in the present instance it was impossible, as it was necessary that a council should be formed in order that no further delay should take place in confirming the dock committee pro ceedings, _ Immediately after this conversation bad taken place, Mr. Councillor Jones entered the chamber, and twenty-two members being then present,. the business of the day was commenced. DOCK COMMITTEE. The deputy TOWN -CLERK read the minutes of the pro ceedings. of the Dock Committee. He was proceeding with the reports of the sub-committees, when Mr. HARDORD asked if it were necessary to occupy the time of the council with these reports. In the Watch Com mittee they had reports from their sub-committee which were never brought before the council. Mr. G. 1-ToLT said, a very large proportion of the business was now done by the sub-committee, and if the mere pro ceedings of the Dock Committee were read, they would be very meagre indeed. Mr. Isaac HOLMES asked if some alteration had not taken place in the mode of doing business in consequence of the admission of reporters? Mr. BENN said the report which the deputy town-clerk had commenced reading, was one that had been made to the sub-committee, and as it was a mere recapitulation, it was unnecessary to read it. Mr. BIRKETT observed, that the statements brought for ward by the Dock Committeewere sufficiently explicit on al matters save those of a financial nature, which were the most important of all. They mentioned the per centage a which they borrowed money, but not the sum borrowed What he most wanted to know was the precise amount they' borrowed. , Mr. BENIV thought it was unnecessary to state the amount borrowed. Mr. JOHN SMITH said it was easy to perceive that such a statement would be productive of great inconvenience. Mr. EVANS said the .Dock Committee conducted their bu siness under peculiar acts of parliament. What did it matter whether the sum borrowed were mentioned or not ? If any gentleman conceived that any thing was wrong, he had the power of making enquiry and satisfying himself. The money market was known to be in a very delicate state, and the com mittee were not called upon to make useless exposures of their negotiations. If the committee were in such a state that it was indispensible for them to raise money speedily,—and he was he was happy to say the very reverse was the case,—such exposures might prejudice the public interest very seriously, Mr. BENN said it might be satisfactory to know that the committee had no difficulty about money. The were refusing it at 4i- per cent. Mr. IllaKErr thought that if they were to conceal any thing, it should be their rate of interest. At present, how ever, they were showing the rate of interest they were pay ing, and not the amount of money they had borrowed. He did not want the Dock Committee to come to the council and to say whitt they wanted to borrow, but he was anxious that they should conic there and say how much they had borrowed. Mr. EARLE asked whether all these questions and an swers were in order ? He hoped they might not be kept till midnight talking over the subjeet. The MAYOR said, that as the question put by Mr. Birkett had been answered, that gentleman had a right to proceed after having obtained the information sought for. It was competent for him to submit a motion, with the view of having the amount of the money borrowed submitted to the council. Mr. Bum Err said he was not prepared to submit any mo tion at the moment, bnt he would consider the subject. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES asked whether it had been fully de termined to stop up the Salthouse and Canning Docks ? He had been told that, at the trifling expense of £l5OO, the Can ning Dock might be worked out of the George's Dock ; and as the council must be aware that if both docks were stop ped, the coasting trade would be put to great inconvenience, he hoped the subject would be taken into consideration again, and that they should have the Canning Dock worked from the George's. The MAYOR said it appeared from the proceedings of the Dock Committee, that very extensive arrangements had been submitted for the approbation of the council with respect to the accommodation of the coasting trade, and that if Mr. Holmes had anything in addition to submit to the Dock Committee, they should be happy to receive it. Mr. BENN said the subject introduced by Mr. Holmes had been again and again considered, and that the Dock Committee had arrived at the conclusion that the most expe ditious and effectual way of completing the .arrangements in both docks was, that 'both the works should go on simulta neously. The estimated cost of going to work according to the plan proposed by Mr. Holmes would amount to £lO,OOO. Mr. ISAAC HOLMES said he had been speaking on the subject to Mr. Thomas Tobin, and that he believed £l5OO would do all that was wanted. For his own part, he did not think the cost would exceed £lOOO. The conversation here dropped, and the proceedings were confirmed. GAOL COMMITTEV. The report of the Gaol Committee set forth that Martha Cowdroy had been appointed matron to the Borough Gaol. Mr. PARKER begged to ask, if the person appointed were a member of the Established Church ? The Mnl att said, out of the numerous applicants the tes timonials as to character, conduct, and ability, in favour of Martha eowdroy, were ;considered most satisfactory. The question as to whether she were a-member of the Established Church was nor asked. She produced excellent testimonials as to character, Mr. ISAAC HOLMk;S said the question as to what place of worship she attended ought to have been one of the very first asked. The MAYOR said she had a very satisfrctory testimonial from a respectable clergyman of the Established Church. He considered that she had a most satisfactory character. Mr. PARKER requested that the testimonials be read. It seemed to be the general opinion that this was unneces sary, and the subject dropped. ASSIZE COURTS • AND ST. GEORGE ' S HALL. In reference to the report of Mr. Elmes on the plan sub mitted by Dr Reid, for ventilating the Assize Courts, on the plan adopted for the Houses of Parliament, the following report of the surveyor was read:— " The surveyor, in conformity with the directions of the council on the 4th instant, respectrully submits his report on Dr. Reid's principle of ventilating the New Assize Courts, &o. "The inconvenience which is experienced by individuals, especially those wLOl4e profession calls them to attend crowded courts, but ill ventilated, or rather, without ventila tion, has long been the subject of complaint; and its baneful effect on the constitution is too well known to require further remark. " There is scarcely a building of a public nature, in which individuals congregate, but what is either subject to the op pressive heat of an atmosphere which scarcely allows of re spiration, or to sweeping currents of cold air rushing upon them, occasioned from the ineffectual mode of ventilating. " The plans for ventilating the new Assize Courts, which have been arranged under the direction of Dr. Reid, will not be subjects to these evils ; the general principle being the uniform diffusion of pure air, as it may be required. The principle having so well succeeded in the present houses of parliament, under circumstances when they have been crowded to excess, is most satisfactory ; and the experiments exhibited before your em4tnittee are so, demonstrative of its powers, that gour surveyor, with the fullest confidence, re spectfully recommends the adoptiOn of the plans by the council ; which also embrace the warming of any separate part, or the whole of the principal edifice, and which is in cluded in the estimate. " With reference to the expense which will be incurred in carrying out these plans, your surveyor has no means of estimating it. A great .part of th e expense w ill b e i n the construction of the build . lng, whi c h, w i t h t h e apparatus, &c. has been estimated at 4) 02, in addition to the ordinary m ode of ventilation, which Mr, E,lmes states to b e th e max imum. The correctness of this estimate your surveyor has no reason to dogbt s l4ut the actual cost may be ascertained se p a rately rom the gen era l estimate, when the specifications are prepared and the work advertised for. (Signed) " JOSEPH FRANKLIN. "llth August, Mr. EARLE moved the adoption of the report. He h a d said on d the subject. little to add to what he had h ereto f ore the ago, and He was in company with Mr. Cre sswe 1 a to few he took the opportunity of aski ng hi m as the plan in the House of C ommons. M r. Cr success of e hi m permission to say, th a t h e never was in sswC" gave roprn, that was better ventilated, or more comfort a bl e , that the House of Commons. • Mr. EVANS. said, he had since. the last council investi gated the subject, thought he knew the whole prin ciple. He could lint help expressing regret that the plan would be so expensive, and he believed that hereafter that principle would be applied to buildings at a cost compara tively trifling. This was certainly a new era. They had heard it said that the government would, if possible, tax the air which we breathe. They had at all events arrived at a time, when it was necessary to pay a very high price for a supply of atmospheric air. Mr. GLADSTONE said, Dr. Reid's charge for ventilating the Wellington-rooms was four times as large as the work was now to be done for. D r. Reid, it appeared, was to be paid a large sum for superintending the wexki yet he was to be in Liverpool only about one week, Mr. G. H. LAwRENCtf, s4id the Plans were Dr. Reid's, but with the estimate he ha d nothin g to d u , His charge for seeing that his plans were carried into execution would be £SGO. Mr. EARLE said the Wellington-rooms were not now to be done upon Dr. Reid's plan. If they were to b e vent il ate d according to Dr. Reid *, p l a n, they would c ost t h e amount of the original estimate, or .41-100. Dr. Reid had not pretended to estimate the cost. He had merely furnished the plans, and the cost of adapting them had been estimated by Mr. Elmer. I Mr. EVANS said he should like to know whether Mr. Elmer was to receive 5 per cent. on this additional cost. Mr. EARLE could not answer the question, but he believed the 5 per cent. was to be paid upon the original estimate. Mr. BUSHELL said it would be absurd to think of build ing the Courts without ventilation. The cost of the pro posed plan would be very l ar ge undoubtedly, b u t it was bet ter that the work should he effectually done at once upon a system which they knew would answer, than to run the risk of expending a much larger sum in alterations, and perhaps never have the work effectually done aftor all. Mr. ALEXANDER SMITH said two plans were submitted to the committee by D,r. Reid, One of those h a d b een tr i e d and found eifeetnal, the other would have been but experi mental. He thought it was desirable, with a buildin g th at would cost so much, to have the work done in as complete a way as possible at first. Mr. IsAnc. HOLMES having here intimated th a t h o s h ou l d not divide the council on the subject, no division took place, and the proceedings of the c,aminittee were confirmed. Tiu ELECTION MOTs. The MAYOR read a petition which he h a d received from certain householders residing in Atherto n - street, stating that on the evening of the 29th of June, the d ay of the borough election, a large party of riotous and disorderly persons pa raded the streets in the neighbourhood of the Custom-house, and broke several windows, and did other damage to houses belonging to the said householders in A therton -street. They further stated that the expense could not be borne by many of the householders, and they prayed the council to grant them some reparation. Mr. A. SMITH, kill. said he had been given to understand that the town-clerk, in reply to a simi laT'4)A/ ca ti on , h a d sa id that there was some flaw in the aa Pf narliam en t, w hi eh pre vented reparation from, being made- The MAYOH—What he said was, that the. act conveyed no power of the kind. Mr. SMITH asked whether the parties had not a claim on the borough or 'county ? For his own part, he thought they had a claim, under such circumstances, on the county. The TOWN•CLERIC had always said that if they had a claim at all it must be on the county; but, in the next place, that they could have no claim on the county unless the proceed ings of the ri o t ers s h ou ld b e such as to show that there was originally a determination to demolish the houses. Cases had been before the judges which were much stronger than any of the cases which occurred at the last election, and in those cases the judgm en t o f th e courts was g i ven aga i nst t h e claim, inasmuch as it could not be shown that there was any intention on the part of the rioters to go for the demolition of the building, Mr. CASE said the present was an application to compen sate out of the corporate funds. He asked the town-clerk whether they could apply the corporate funds to any such purpose ? That was the question. Until lately, it had been the understanding that parties receiving damage of this nature should be reimbursed out of the county funds, unless it could be shown that the rioters proceeded on the intention of demolishing the house. However, the council had nothing to do with that point. All they had to see was, whether they could apply the corporate funds to such a purpose; and, under the authority of the town-clerk, he was satisfied that they could not. It therefore only remained for the council to state to the memorialists that they had no such power ; and with that view he begged to move—" That the town clerk be instructed to inform the memorialists that their request cannot be complied with, as the corporate funds can not legally be applied to such purposes." The TOWN-CLERK said he had informed the committee that the council had not the power of granting reparation under such circumstances ; that the corporate funds were held for the benefit of the public, and could not be applied to individual purposes. Mr. Isaac HOLMES conceived that something might be done for the sufferers. He recollected that the council had departed upon one occasion from the regular routine. Upon that occasion certain philosophers had come down to the town, and it being thought right to entertain them, the then , ayor had £4ol' firnted to him -- I w tun gra, .or the purpose. _t had been suggested to have a subscription raised for the indi viduals in this instance, who had, no doubt, suff ere d severe ly, and to have the m a y or head the list. He thought the coun cil might grant £lOO to the mayor for the purpose. his worship might contribute a certain part of that sum, and that by this means the sufferers might be indemnified. He thought it would be an extreme hardship if the poor people were com pelled to bear the whole loss. If the subscription plan were adopted, more service would be rendered to their fellow townsmen than could be rendered by entertaining individuals at public dinners who were of very little consequence so far as the trade of the town generally was concerned. Mr. Holmes concluded by stating that it bad been the intention of Mr. Cooper, if present, to submit a motion to this effect. After a few observations from Mr. BIItKETT, the motion was adopted. ILLUMINATING THE TOWN-HALL CLOCK. " Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned occupiers of pre rniSes immediately adjoining the Town-hall, beg most re spectfully to submit to your consideration the great inconve nience felt both by ourselves and the public, from the want of the Town-hall clock not being lighted by gas. Trusting so generally notorious a complaint has but to be mentioned, in order to be removed, " We are, Gentlemen, yours, most obediently John Deane, Pierce and Crossfield, Thomas Baines, Robert Jones, John Jones, Thos. Bean, Henry Lyon, Mander and Allender, G. and J. Robinson, A. Holden, W. Sirdefield, Butler and Colquhoun, S. Towers, Wareing Webb, Thos. Hall, Charles Drury. Thos. Nixon, , John Wilson. " July 31, 1841." The MAYOR said, this petition had been presented a few days before, and as the clock was undergoing repairs at present, and this the proper time for entertaining such a subject, he had procured the surveyor's report, which he he would read. First of all, however, he wished to state, that in the years '27, '2B, and '32, the same subject had been brought before the council. The following is a copy of the surveyor's report : TO THE MAYOR " The surveyor, having examined the framework of the dome, with reference to illuminating the dials of the clock, reports, that the space between the external face and the curb which suports the dome is too confined to admit the gaslights, without removing some of the principal timber, which cannot be done without disturbing its stability ; and, in other respects, the burners must, of necessity, be placed so near the timber as to endanger its safety. He therefore cannot recommend a compliance with the memorial. August 10, 1841." The MAYOR concluded by presuming that the council would be satisfied with the surveyor's report, and come at once to the conclusion that the thing was impracticable. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BIRKETT said, it had been the practice to pay for the lighting the church clocks out of the parochial rates, but that now appeared, according to the opinion of the poor law commissioners, not to be a legal payment. Under these circumstances, be thought it the duty of the corporation to light the public clocks, and not to subject the churchwardens to the expense. The MAYOR. said, that when the parish refused and com plained, it would then be time enough to bring the subject before the council. Mr. EVANS said, they were not lighting the churches for the sake of the churches, but for the sake of the parish. He thought the parishioners might light their clocks as well as keep up their scavengers. He looked on it that if the cor poration paid for the lighting of their own churches it would be quite sufficient. If they were to enter into an equitable adjustment, he thought in all likelihood that other matters would be discovered which the corporation paid for, and which the parish ought to pay. After a few words from Mr. BIRKETT and Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE, the report was received and adopted. FINANCIAL RETURNS Mr. PROCTER said, .that presuming no objection would be made to the following motion, he begged to move it without any observations :—" That it be an instruction to the finance committee to place upon the table of the council the names of all persons receiving annual salaries from the corporation of Liverpool, specifying the amount paid to each person in the years 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841; also the amount paid by the corporation for deputations to London, specifying the amount paid in each of the said years." He said it might be convenient, as the finance committee were making up their annual statement, that those returns should be furnished at the same time. Mr. CASE rose, not for the purpose of objecting to the mo tion. He saw no difficulty in complying with it. In fact, so far as the salaries went, it would be a matter of conveni ence to have them placed before the council at one view, and particularly so for the information of the new members. Al ready the salaries were placed in the front of the accounts, but not in that convenient form Mr. Procter had in view. With regard to the other part of the motion—the expenses of deputations to London—these, although they were printed in the mass, were not particularised. He therefore begged to second the motion.—Agreed to. THE BOROUGH FUND The MAYOR said the last subject on the paper was to con sider and determine upon the application in favour of the general borough fund of £6991, ordered by the council, with the approbation of the treasury, to be raised under the bo rough fund act, for repayment to the borough fund of that amount paid for the purchase of land for the Gill-street mar ket, and to resolve upon the accumulating fund to be set apart for repayment of the said sum. The recommendations of the finance committee having been read upon this subject, they were confirmed upon the motion of Mr. CASE, and the council adjourned at twenty minutes to one. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE The weekly meeting of the dock committee was held yester day. There were present, Messrs. Benn (chairman), Hors fall, Barclay, T. Holt, Middleton, Sandbach, Evans, and Ripley. The accounts for the week having been passed, the pro ceedings of the last meeting were read. Amongst them ap peared the following resolution, with reference to the salary of Mr. Hartley, the surveyor. " Resolved,—That in pursuance of the resolution of this committee on the 10th December, 1840. requiring the exclu sive services of the surveyor, who agrees to act in confor mity thereto, and has proposed in consideration of the ad vance of salary, that the dockworks shall have the continued services of his son, who will, as heretofore, be compensated by himself ; it is agreed that the surveyor shall be paid £2OOO per annum, from the 24th of December last, with the under standing that his son is to follow his profession as engineer, but not personally to superintend other works ; and that the surveyor is not to absent himself from Liverpool, except for dock purposes, and with the concurrence of the committee or their chairman." The proceedings having been confirmed, the following reply of thanks from Mr. Hartley was read beg respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of the resolution of the dock committee of the sth instant, for which I beg of you to convey to them my thanks, as well as those of my son. It shall be my endeavour faithfully to discharge, as I trust I have hitherto done, the duties required of me ; and I feel assured that I shall have the zealous co-operation of my sou.-4 am, very respectfully, " - August 7, " Mason, Esq. Secretary PA the Dock Committee." "JESSIE HAItTLEY." A report of the sub-committee of works, that they had made au agreement with Messrs. Bowers and Murray, exca vators, on certain terms, to excavate Salthouse Dock, was confirmed. The North Harbour Master presented a letter, through the sub-committee of works, suggesting that the fenders at tached to steam vessels should be made of cork or wood which would not sink, as, when they did sink, they often caused considerable inconvenience. For instance, something recently got between the sill and the gates of Clarence Dock, which prevented them fro►* shutting as they ought. The Harbour Master suggested that a bye-law should be made on the subject. After some discussion, it was resolved, before framing any bye-law, that the secretary should write to the owners of steam-boats, requesting them not to allow their vessels to use fenders made of any material that was likely to sink. Mr. E. G. Deane, on the part of the Paving and Sewerage Commissioners, stated that that body had ordered several car goes of square sets, for the purpose of paving Waterloo-road, two of which had been discharged from Clarence Dock ; but an intimation had been received that they would not be al lowed to discharge any more there. Ile' therefore requested the committee to give orders that the commissioners should have this facility granted to them, as otherwise considerable expense would be entailed upon them in cartage. A resolu tion was ultimately passed, and ordered to be communicated to the commissioners, to the effect that they might land the sets anywhere in Trafalgar Dock, but that they must be im mediately afterwards removed from the quays. An application from Mr. John Wood, import officer, to have a hut erected on the quay of Clarence Dock, for the use port gaugers and other officers, was referred to a sub-com mittee. The manuscript chart of the coast from Liverpool to Holy head, prepared by Messrs. Walker, the authors of which had requested permission to dedicate it to the committee, was produced by the m ar i ne surveyor, who handed in a list of the errors iu it. The marine surveyor stated that it appeared to be accurately laid down, but that he could give no opinion upon the accuracy of the land measurements. A resolution was passed to acquaint the authors that they had the consent of the committee to dedicate the chart to them so soon as the errors pointed out by the marine surveyor had been corrected. The affair of Curwen and Hughes, keepers of the Rock Lighthouse, was then investigated at very great length ; and in the course of it the marine surveyor and his assistant Mr. Jones, stated decidedly that they had no confidence in Cur wen. The subject te rm i na t e d b y C urwen b e i ng suspended, and the matter was referred back to the sub-committee, with the view of obtaining further evidence. The committee then proceeded to the consideration. Of financial matters, and shortly afterwards separatOLL BITE FROM A CENTIPEDE.—Qa Wednesday morning a dock labourer, named Joseph, Pox, while engaged on board the Caroline, in the West India Dock, which vessel has just arrived frqrn Aamaica, felt a violent bite in the lower part of the thigh, whe n h e. p erce i v ed a, large centipede foully ed. hexing to, bis flesh. He called to, some of the men, kin too much shocked t o to u ch the venomous reptile himself, who caused it to relinquish its hold, but not without some difficulty, as, they wished to preserve it as a curiosity. The length of the creature .was nearby ten inches. As the wound bled considerably, and the man felt in pain, he walked to the Lendpn Hospital, where the wound was cut out to the ex tent of the circumference of a halfpenny, and half an inch in depth.— Times. LISCARD PETTY SESSIONS The adjourned sessions were held at Liscard on Tuesday last, before Sir Edward Cust and H. Maddocks, Esquire. Bridget Maccarrell was charged by Hainan, the police officer, with having a quantity of whiskey in her possession. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner came over from Liverpool and was taken at the ferry, and, upon being searched, there were found in her basket two jars of whiskey, and under each arm she had concealed a couple of bladders filled with the same spirit. As there was no evidence of her having offered any of it for sale, the magistrates dis charged the prisoner, and at the same strongly cautioning her not to be found again on that side the water, as there is every reason to believe that she is one of a gang of persons who deal extensively . in smuggled spirits. John Atoningham, W. Smith, J. Williams, were charged with being drunk and fighting, at Poulton-cuni-Seacombe, on the evening of Sunday. It appeared by the evidence that the parties are servants in the employ of Mr. Parry, of Sea combe Hotel, and that on the night in question they all got enlivened by John Barleycorn, and, as is usual on such oc casions, it ended in a general fight, when some hard knocks were exchanged, and one woman, wife of the prisoner Smith, met with a very ugly thump on the eye, but as there was a deal of conflicting evidence, the magistrates determined to bind all the parties over to keep the peace, except Moning ham, whose conduct was proved to he the most outrageous, his being the haad that struck the woman, for which offence the magistrates fined him 10s. 6d. and costs, and for the general row 2s. 6d. and costs. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—John Naylor was charged with being drunk, and assaulting Mr. Higgins, of Tranmere. It appeared that on Saturday evening last the prisoner in dulged in a larger quantity of the ardent spirits than was compatible with his health and liberty. The consequence was that apartmenti were found him in Governor Booth's re pository, and he was this day brought before the magistrates. As his employer did not appear against him, he was fined for being drunk, and this upon his own admission, he ac knowledging that he could riot tell to three or four quarts how much drink he had had, nor recollect whether he was drunk or not. CORRESPONDENCE DELAY IN THE DELIVERY OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,—I beg through the medium of the Standard to call the attention of the Post-office authorities to the arrange ments which have just taken place affecting the conveyance of letters from Chester and Liverpool via Eastham. The alteration that has been adopted is extremely inconvenient, as it causes a delay at Little Sutton and district, of more than 12 hours in the delivery of letters than formerly. lam compelled now to go to Liverpool to post my letters, if I wish them to be received in London or Dublin the following day, the only time being before 7 o'clock, a.m., that they can be posted. This only requires to be inquired into to know how to be remedied.—l am, sir, A READER. Little Sutton, August 11. HINT TO PEDESTRIANS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR. — Observing, in your journal of this day, a letter con taining some valuable suggestions to pedestrian tourists, to gether with one which appears to me objectionable as well as dangerous—l allude to the practice of witting the extremi ties to allay thirst—permit me to say, for the benefit of those of your numerous readers, who may contemplate an autumnal excursion on foot, that I have invariably found the washing of the mouth with spring water, assisted with a soft tooth brush, to be an efficient and delightful remedy ; and this plan comes with the additional recommendation, that it cannot be followed by any disastrous consequences. It may be as well to add, that it has been subjected to a threA years' test by a Liverpool, Aug. 10, 1841. PEDESTRIAN. THE SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Understanding that the non-employment of steam packets for conveying the mails to and from Brazils, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres, (so particularly desirable under existing circumstances,) is entirely to be attributed to the supineness and indecision of our lords of the treasury, I beg to point out to you a recent striking instance of the disad vantages of employing sailing packets for that purpose. Yesterday letters and newspapers were received from Rio de Janeiro, by a merchant vessel bound to the north, to the 21st of June, by which it is known that the packet Delight had sailed on the 16th—fire days previous f—and only ar rived to-day—one•day later ! ! !—Yours, &c., • August 11th, 1841. DESPERTADOR. THE CHURCH AND CONSERVATISM " Wherever the church is in a healthy state, conservatism tri umphs : wherever it is dead or inactive, radicalism is in the ascen dant. Let the governors, then, look after the governed—the upper after the inferior classes—the ecclesiastical body after flocks com mitted to their charge and conservatism will be strong, powerful, and predominant."—Liverpool Standard. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—The above quotation is from a paragraph copied from the Liverpool Standard into many of the public papers; and I shall, with your permission, adduce one or two local cases in confirmation of your propositions, and in support of the duty of the respective parties therein mentioned, which duty you have so legitimately deduced from the pro position. While passing through some parts of North Wales in June last, I stopped at Newtown, in Montgomeryshire. It was my first visit to that romantic scenery. In perambulating the town and its vicinity, three large edifices arrested my attention: one was a Baptist meeting-house, which, since its original erection, has been enlarged thrice ; another was a Methodist meeting-house ; and the third a public room or rooms for lectures, either on politics, dissent, ►mechanism, or infidelity, as each adventurer's taste or interest may ac tuate the candidate for oratorical fame or for lucre. The parish church is a small and apparently neglected edifice, out of public view, unless sought for. The incumbent, or vicar, has not, as I was informed, resided there for many years; but committed the charge of the large and populous parish to a curate. There dissent is rampant; and yet, from the great thirst for religious dissent at Newtown one might hope, from the great boast made of the moral and religious efficiency of dissent, to find a population religious, orderly, peaceable. The reverse of all this, however, is the case. The town has been lately under a military surveillance; and the postillion whom I had engaged assured me that the town was most notorious for its immorality and disorder. It cer tainly bore that appearance. Oil the day of the election (last June) for the Montgo meryshire boroughs, the unwashed friends and admirers of Sir John Edwards, having found that their radical candidate (Sir John) had lost the election, began to demolish the build ings, shops, and houses of the supporters of Mr. Choi mondely, the conservative and successful candidate ; to at tack the magistrates and police; and it was not until the military had been called to arms, that the advocates of Sir John Edwards, and of " civil and religious liberty," were compelled to live in peace, and spare the lives and properties of their unoffending neighbours. Of all the voters at New town, four only, if 1 rightly recollect, voted for the respecta ble and conservative candidate. So much for dissent, radi calism, and " civil and religious liberty," at Newtown The next town at which I arrived was V elshpool. There I found but little of the trophies of dissent: but there I found the appearance of order, respectability, and a high state of conservatism. Tiro CHURCH is in the ascendant at elsbpool, being favoured with a resident vicar, who, with his curates, labours in his vineyard. Welshpool is also in the county of Montgomery. Wrexham, Denbighshire, was my next place of halting and of sojourning. In that town dissent and radicalism ap pear dominant. And no marvel : fur, on inquiry, I found that, until the present r es p ecte d v i car, t h ere h a d b een no resident vicar in that large and populous parish for many years. The late Dean of St. Asaph, Mr. Shipley, a tho rough wing, had been the vicar for upwards of half a cen tury, and committed the parish to any curates whom he might get as cheaply as he could. Over the ecclesiastical resgesbc of Wrexham, during that half-century, the CHURCH may advant ageous l y throw a veil. Suffice it to say, that Wrexham h as h a d a fair field for experimenting on the moral and social condition of the people; and in that town, as my information is, there are not fewer than eleven or twelve different religious sects, each striving for its own " interest," and all striving against the curiacn. But the , experiment mad e b y di ssent on t h e re li g i on an d mora l s o f Wrexham, is as great a failure as at Newtown. In one of the streets leading towards Chester is a grand colonaded new chapel, or meeting-house, lately erected. On inquiring what the building was, it was replied, " That, sir, is a monument of dissenting pride and churchmen's folly." Not compre hending the drift of the answer, I interrogated, " What?" " That new chapel, sir, stands on the site of the old one, which was scarcely half filled—an old-fashioned, plain build ing, and too much so for modern taste ; and that new erec tion has been built to a great extent by the contributions of church-people —at least called church-people—in Wrexham and its neighbourhood. The funds—after various ways of raising the wind—being still deficient, the minister went to Liverpool, and, in company with a drictor of dissent there, called upon and obtained from churchmen and churchwomen in that town a considerable sum of money. On his return to Wrexham, one of his first acts was, signing an anti church-rate petition !---a hole-and-corner petition, hawked about the town by ono of the pillars of his meetinghouse or chapel." " Well," rejoined I, "we are liberal in Liver pool ; but I was not aware that we had church-people who contributed to pull down the church in this kingdom." " You are right, sir—quite right ; for every churchman who contributes a shilling to build or support a dissenting inte. rest,' or patronises dissent by his presence in their chapels, does so much towards pulling down his own church, and the ancient institutions of his country." And, Mr. Editor, I repeat that every churchman who don in any way contribute to support dissent, does just so much to promote discord, strife, popery on the one hand, or infi delity on the other. Witness the close alliance between the dissenters and papists and radicals and chartists and social ists, especially in every political movement against the church and all the venerable and valuable. institutions of Great Britain. And what is the conclave of dissenting teachers at Manchester to do, but to agitate the country in defence of the a l olition of the corn-laws? Not that they care for the poor, though that be their pretence ; for it is well known that the dissenting ministers are strenuous advocates for the present POOR-LAW : and they further show their care for thg poor—consigned, to the union poorhouses—by at tempting to deprive those poor of religious instruction ; for it is notorious that the dissenters unite with infidels in op posing the appointment of regular ministers of religion for the union poorhouses. But, in the approaching agitation on the corn-law question, these dissenting preachers have two objects in view : one to depress the agricultural interest, and, through that, to reduce or ruin as much of the church property as depends upon the landed interest ; the other, to preserve in place and power the present administration, so as to deal out to the church more " heavy blows and great discouragements," which my Lord Melbourne and Co. could not do if out of office. I am, sir 91h Ari.qust, 1841. VIATOR ALTERATION Or THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM.---Sir Peter Laurie, in adjudicating upon some case of little im portance, at the Mansion-house, made an important an nouncement on th e su bj ec t o f p r ison discipline. felt great gratification in loeinf., , able to assure the public limn the ch a i r in which h e sat, that the Penitentiary system., which was so loudly reprobated by men of humanity, was about to he eo , n _ pletely altered. H e had heard from unquestionable author ity, that after the long trial which had been given to the so litary and maddening process in, that place of punishment, it was at length discovered that the cruel rigours of the plan were not productive of the good anticipated ; that the silent and solitary system, instead of causing an improvement of morals, deprived several of the wretched delinquents sen• tenced to pine within its walls of the use of their reason alto gether; and that the Government was at length awakened to the necessity of prison reform, as regarded the horrible place of punishment called the Penitentiary. Three men and three women bad completely lost their reason last year, and th e same number of men and women have lost their reason within the last six months. Mr. Hohler feared that the model-prison which the government are building will be the means of establishing a more vigorous system of punish ments than was possible even M the Penitentiary. Sir Peter had no apprehension of the kind ; he did not think that any thing could possibly be so bad as the Penitentiary. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE, OXFORD, AUG. 7.—The Lo - rd Bishop of Salisbury has collated the Rev. W. E. Hony, of Exeter College, to the honorary prebend or canonry of Grinisten and Yettninster, anciently founded in the Cathedral of Sarum. James Wentworth Buller, Esq., having presented the Rev. J. B. Kitson, late of Exeter College, to the vicarage of Pe'put, Cornwall, he has been instituted to that living by the lord bishop of the diocese. The Lord Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. John Pendrill, of St. John's College, to the British chaplaincy at Ghent, Flanders. The Lord Bishop of Worcester has presented the Rev. Charles J. Penny, of Queen's College, to the perpetual curacy of Bobbenhall, Warwickshire. The Lord Bishop of St. Asaph has presented the Rev. John Hughes to the rectory of Nannerch, Flintshire. The Queen has sent a donation of £lOO to the City of London General Pension Society. Accounts from Poland state that the harvest is superb. Another ghost story has been got up in Cambridge. It is stated that Sir George Cockburne goes to the Medi terranean in command of our fleet in that sea. O'Connell has entered his youngest grandson, only four days old, a member of the Repeal Association. Gloucester Musical Festival takes place on the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th of September. The choruses will exceed 300 performers. Twelve convicts have obtained their liberty this week from the Warrior convict ship, Woolwich, in commemoration of the visit of the Queen to witness the launch of the Trafalgar. The total population of Turkey is 23,000,000, of whom 16,000,000 are Mussulmans, and 7,000,000 Christians or Jews. The competition among the Margate steamers which ena bled the' Londoners to reach that favourite watering place for one third the usual fares, has lately ceased. According to the most recent naval intelligence, the Mint. people are apparently not yet provided for. We find that Captain George Elliot, a nephew of the first lord of the admi ralty, is shortly to be appointed to the command of the North Star, 28, " ordered to be commissioned." During the deluge of rain in the storm on Tuesday night last there was a slight mixture of snow it did not, however, lie on the ground, but melted as it fell. To have snow in August is indeed unusual in Lincoln.—Lincoln Gazette. The following extraordinary inducement was held out by a solicitor, who advertised last week in a morning paper, for an office-clerk : " A small salary will be givdn, but he will have enough of over-work to make up for the deficiency." What is the Instrument with which every tooth in your head may be drawn, not only without pain, but without per ception of the operation, provided you open your mouth, and keep your eyes shut? A black lead pencil. Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow one evening by ob• serving, " I should not like to go up in a balloon with you, for fear of ourfalling out." Why is a fresh-plucked carnation like a certain cold with which children are affected ? Because it's a new pink off (an hooping-cough). A public meeting was held in London on the subject of the election outrages in Ireland. when it was unanimously re solved to petition the House of Commons to appoint a com mittee of enquiry. The Regent's Park will be thrown open to the public on Sunday, the 15th instant. The King of Prussia has just issued a Cabinet order di recting that, in future, any foreigner wishing to marry a Prussian subject, within the territories of Prussia, must pro duce a certificate of the local authorities at home, attesting that by the laws of such country, the marriage can be con tracted, and will be deemed valid there. A bill drawn by Captain Elliot on the Lords of the Trea sury for a sum exceeding £5,000 sterling has lately bean the cause of litigation at Bombay : the bill was sent to England, and, on payment being refused, was returned to India : an action of trover was instituted by the party who shipped the opium against the Bombay agents of the firm in China to which it was consigned : a verdict was found for the plaintiff to the amount of the bill. ROYAL. BIRTHDAYS.—The present month is fruitful in the anniversaries of illustrious persons closely allied to thu British Crown. Friday next is the birthday of her. Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Tuesday following (17th instant) is the anniversary of the birth of her It oy s i Hi g h ness t h e Duchess of Kent, mother of our most gracious Queen ; and the 26th is that of Prince Albert. DEATHS FROM DRUNKENNESS.—A few days ago two men, the one named Thomas Beadle, bricklayer's labourer, the other named John Bailey, a sweep, went into Mr. Lodge's, at York, where they drank six pints qf rum, nearly neat. Beadle fell senseless in the house; but Bailey was enabled to lease the house, and until he reached the air ap peared quite steady. The unfortunate men did not, however, long survive. As usual at this period of the year. numerous bodies of Irish peasants have arrived in this neighbourhood, to assist in the labours of the harvest. Owing, however, to the very backward state of the crops, and the smallness of them, very few of these men can find employment, and there are now, we regret to say, above sixty of them in our union workhouse. —Cambridge Advertiser. For weeks past, during the gloomy weather, many persons have complained of difficulty in their respiration, and of being otherwise affected. Medical men of experience at tribute the cause to the want of a due portion of oxygen gas in the atmosphere, and the air not being properly raritied, occasioned by the absence of sunshine for many days. BLACK DOINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The Senate of Georgia has been recommended by its committee of internal improvement, to raise money by an annual tax of one dollar per head on all slaves between the ages of 10 and 65 years, and ten dollars per head on all free persons of colour residing within the state.—Anti-Slavery Reporter. It is not to be denied that serious grounds of uneasiness are afforded by the state of the weather, if its general unpro pitious prevalence through the country at large may be as sumed from the experience of what is witnessed here. It may, however, be stated, that, even within the range of 40 or 50 miles, the rains have by no means been equally heavy or uniform, for in some places a succession of days of fair and even sunny weather, has prevailed, whilst this metro polis has been deluged with showers.—Morning Herald. MIGRATIONS or BIRDS.—The business of incubation being now over with most birds, the migrations again com mence. The Sanderling, the Mountain Finch, the Siskin, the Grey Gull, the Blue Gull, the Crossbeak, the Godwit, the Bar-tailed Godwit, the Cambridge Godwit, the Purple Sandpiper and the Purre, usually visit us during the early part and middle of the present month ; and the Grey Plover and the Knot arrive towards the latter end. The following generally take their departure in the course of August :—the Razor-bill, the Field Titlark, the Dottrel, the Turtle Dove, the Quail, the Cuckoo, the Swift, the Bunting, the Paffin, the Red-legged Sinew, the Foolish Guillemot, the Lapwing, and the Wryneck. A miser, who possessed a fortune of more than a thousand franks, but who did not expend more than six creutzers a day for the milk and bread which formed his only food, lately committed suicide at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, by shooting himself with a pistol, which he had purchased the day before, after bargaining for a longtime in order to obtain a diminution of price on the weapon. ACTING THE AGREEABLE.—An Englishman seldom lays himself out to act the agreeable to women—a Frenchman never omits au opportunity of so doing : hence, the atten tions of the latter are less gratifying than those of the former, because a woman, however free from vanity, may suppose, that when an Enelishman takes the trouble—and it is evi dently a trouble, more or less, to all islanders to enact the agreeable—she has really inspired him with a desire to please.—Lady Blexsington's Idler in France. THE WAY TO TERRIFY.—Prince Belloselaky possessed to an eminent degree the talent of telling a ghost-story. At a large party, one evening, the ladies drew their chairs around him, and exclaimed, " Do, Prince, terrify us a little." Upon this, the prince ordered the lights to be extinguished, with the exception of one, which was left burning in an adjoin ing apartment, the door of which remained ajar. The narrator commenced his tale, which turned, as might he expected, upon the apparition of a horrid phantom, advancing slowly, in the midst of darkness visible, towards a person in bed. For the last ten minutes the prince had kept his hand extended on a marble table ; his voice assumed a sepulchral tone. All at once, he applied his icy hand open the bare arm of his hostess, who uttered a piercing scream. The terrified auditors rushed into the other room, and, in their confusion, extinguished the solitary light. The sudden darkness redoubled their panic. At last the servants made their appesranoe with flambeaux ; and the prince, who began to be alarmed at the success of his experiment, succeeded with some difficulty in calming the apprehensions of his fair audience. "Ladies," said he, " 'tis all your own fault; you requested me to terrify you a little, and I like to make myself agreeable." THE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PRINTING TELEGRAPH.—A remarkable curious instrument, bearing the name of the " Electro-Magnetic Printing Telegraph," was yesterday ex hibited, for the first time, in one of the lecture rooms of the Polytechnic Institution. The object of this invention is to convey information from one place to another by means of the electrical current, in such a way, that words or sentences transmitted front one locality are instantaneously printed in another, however distant ; and this, too, without the agency of any person in the place to which the correspondence is to be forwarded. The means by which this extraordinary effect is produced are simple enough. Three wires for the passage of the electric fluid are first laid between any two given places. To one end of these wires is attached a dial-plate with one revolving hand, which is kept in motion by a spring, A peg stops the hand when required ; and the face of the dial-plate contains the letters of the alphabet separately arranged in a circle, each letter having a small hale in the plate, immediately underneath it, into which the peg is placed, when the revolution of the hand is to be arrested. To the other end of the wires is affixed a small frame-work. and into it are introduced a cylinder, round which the paper to be printed on is placed ; also, a wheel, having the letters, of the alphabet arranged regularly on its edge, and a small: inking roller. All these revolve horizontally and sitnul taueously, the wheel with the letters being placed between, the ink roller and the cylinder for paper. Motion is com municated to these parts by a pair of electro-magnets at tached to them and communicating with the wires. Thus, if the word " the" is to be printed, the hand on the dial plate is allowed to revolve until it reaches the letter f, be yond which it is prevented from passing by the peg. When stopped, the printer places his finger on a sitting attached to the plate, which allows a current of electricity to pass to the wheel with the letters, which immediately presses the letter t against the paper, it having previously been inked by the roller, and then retires. The other letters are arranged in the same way until the word is complete. A peculiar part of the mechanism, and that which can hardly be explained without a diagram, relates to the passage of the galvanic cur laatantdhat by the the cur rent from the dial-plate to th e wheel with the letter s on it, i n order to produce correspodndiailn_gp inteotioht shall be h b e ot printed so letter indicated by the other. This, however, is effe c t e d b y a s i mple arrangement on the face of the dial-plate, which makes and breaks the current exactly its the way required. The inventor of this extraordinary machine is Mr. Alexander Bain, the chrono meter maker; and it appears to us that its introduction for telagrivhie or other similar purposes might be attended with great success. The length of wires laid on at the Poly technic Institution is not more than a mile ; but were it the distance of a hundred or a thousand, the instantaneous effect would be the same. There are some minor partieu lars which require occular inspection in order to be fully un derstood ; but these will easily be arrived at by attending the , lectures at the institution. STEAM-BOAT FARES.—The trivial amount of expense at which persons can travel by steam is now almost incredible,, and must be felt as a great boon. A traveller from hermit• may reach London, via Hull, so far as fare is concerned (it content with the steerage), for 10s. 6d. Glasgow, by steami to Stirling, and thence by coach for3s. To Stirling Is. The' opposition on this passage has h ad the effect of reducin g the . fares to a very low rate, and,, as a matter of course, A bas. caused a corresponding activity on the part of those eonape _ titors—fer example, during last week the Benledi sailed u n wards of 1,200 miles t... and from Newhaven, Stirling, 11 ,4, 3 Largo. m Id T w h e e l; B ai l :e idg re e as o o f n A t l o la b n el v ie ie ve A th il a ° t a' th e i a s n is be the re p a r e e i r m h f or route ; the distance from Alloa to the bridga being • le that from Stirling, and the coach fare from both stroller tto, au dy the same. The fare to Dundee it. Zs. el ace ill ear pertb Is. 6d. more. Largo and Leven I . . ; then ce ti t* 9d. Kirkeldy Is. We have s. osi, . zln d only noticed tine' Oyttart second cabin fares. —Ed iNbriegh Oliset:oor, ett" " 7 " 6 .r.