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imptrial Parltamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS—THURSDAY. Parliament was further prorogued to-day, with the usual formalities, until Thursday, the 10th day of December next. Shortly after two o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Duncannon, took their seats near the throne, as Lords Commissioners, when the Lord Chan cellor directed the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod to summon the House of Commons to hear her Majesty's commission for the further prorogation of parliament read. • In a few minutes Mr. Ley, the second clerk, accompanied by other officers and messengers of the house, appeared at the bar ; when, the Royal Commission having been read, The LORD Cu ANCELLOR said,—ln virtue of her Majesty's commission to us and other lords directed, and which has just been read, we declare that this present parliament stands prorogued until Thursday, then and here to be holden. Colonel Powell was the only member of the House of Com mons present at the ceremony. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE. The following telegraphic despatches appear in the Paris papers "TOULON, Nov. 6. " BELIDAII, 2d (arrived by the courier.) " MARSHAL VALLEE TO TIM MINISTER OF WAR. " The Medeah expedition has succeeded completely. Abd el-Kader has not dared to oppose our march, and we have, therefore, not had any serious engagement. We have had 32 men killed TouLoN, Nov. 7 " THE MARITIME PREFECT TO THE MINISTER OF THE NIARINE ...... _ " A raaia was executed on the 223 ult., with the greatest success, upon the tribe of Beni Yacoub (province of Oran). Twenty men, women, and children, have been taken, among whom are the wives of different chiefs, and a much venerated marabout. Nine hundred and forty-three oxen, 2,600 sheep or goats, 60 cavalry horses, 30 camels, 40 mules, 300 asses, 90 saddles complete, some arms, money, &c., have fallen into our power." The Madrid papers publish financial decrees and manifestos, full of promises, which are probably the precursors of a new loan. Since writing the above we have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday, and the Madrid mail of the 7th, with letters from our correspondent in the Spanish capital. The Paris Messayer, which is to be the only government evening paper in futurc, contained, on Friday night, the fol lowing telegraphic despatch Toulon, Nov. 10, 5 o'clock. "THE CON,ITI. GENERAL TO TIIE PRESIDENT OF VII COUNCIL " The concentration of the Egyptian troops which were at Tripoli. Tortosa, Lataqui, and Homs, has been made in the • • -6' eh Vin.nt.i"c the Emir fiechir Saghir, was on the 22d at Ammana, with a con siderable force, within four hours march of Ibrahim. A de cisive engagement is expected. St. Jean d'Acre had not •• been attar he 27th This despatch is probably the precursor to an important event, as no doubt Ibrahim Pacha has concentrated his troops with the idea of making a last effort. If he should be de feated, the submission of Mehemet All must follow, as the continuation of a hopeless contest would only exasperate those to whose mercy he is to be a suitor. Should he be victorious, the Egyptian question will be further removed from a settlement than ever, as the allies will endeavour to repair the ill, and Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim Paella will pro bably grow insolent on success. We therefore look with great interest for the next news from Syria. SYRIA. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) OFF BEYROUT, OCT. 22.—Upon the 14th instant, the old Emir Bechir, former Prince of the Mountains in this dis trict, arrived from Sidon in the Gorgon steamer. The se cession of this prince from the party of Ibrahim is likely to be productive of great effects, as he is, without doubt, the most influential man in Syria. The terms which he soli cited were merely that he might retain his private property, consenting willingly to withdraw his claims of sovereignty in favour of his nephew, lately appointed to supersede him. These terms, I believe, will be allowed him. It was then intended to send him to Malta, a course which was after wards deferred, iu consequence, it is said, of the representa tion of Mr. Wherry, the English consul at Damascus, then with the admiral, who considered that the great influence of the prince was a cause why he should be kept at head-quar ters, for the sake of his advice, and even co-operation against the enemy, if necessary. The Emir seems much op posed to this arrangement. He is at present with Sir C. Smith, at Sidon. Upon the 16th intelligence was received of the evacuation. of Tortosa ; and on the day following the same news was re ceived respecting Tripoli, a place of far greater importance. It appeared that several days previous the English ships stationed at the latter place left it, and stood out to sea, and in consequence it was reserved for the good fortune of Ad miral Bandeira, who arrived there in his frigate, for the purpose of observation, to take possession of the town. It is reported that a very large force of the mountaineers was stationed there; amongst others, 3,000 of the flower of his Arnauts. ATHENS. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald) OCT. 28.—The French fleet, who were preparing to winter here, have just received orders to return to Toulon, and will leave to-day. A letter from Syra, of the 27th October, states that the insurrection among the mountaineers has become general, and all the communications of the Egyptians are interrupted. The want of provisions was beginning to be felt among the latter, as they had not camels to convey the provisions ; and the English had intercepted a quantity of biscuit coming from St. Jean d'Acre. Letters from Alex andria. of the 17th October, state that Mehemet Ali had seized on every article of provisions in order to send them by land to Syria, and that this arbitrary measure had caused great scarcity ; and, to add to the distress, the inundations of the Nile have this year caused great damage. M. Cochelet, French consul-general at Alexandria, appears to be the sole adviser and counsellor of Mehemet Ali ; and it is he who prevented the sailing of the fleet. Mehemet Ali is the warm defender of Islamism, and has therefore excited a warmer hatred against the Christians in the breast of the Mussul mans. Notwithstanding the credit which M. Cochelet en joys at the court of the viceroy, he is not without anxiety for his personal safety. A number of Christian families are leaving. A French steamer had been despatched to the coast of Syria to watch the progress of events. SPAIN. (From the Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) MADRID, Nov. 7.—Since my last some decrees have been issued relative to the better administration of the revenue of this country, and if one-half of the improvements proposed by the minister of finance be realised, he will have done more for the nation than any of his predecessors. But we have been so often deceived by pompous announcemements, so often have Spanish ministers of finance failed in the perform ance of their promises, that few persons, if any, are disposed to place much reliance on Senor Gamboa's protestations. That functionary's determination to cancel the New Five per Cent. Stock, which was issued with the sanction of the cortes, to serve as a guarantee for the temporary loans made to the government, has relieved our Bourse from the pres sure which such an immense sum, known to exist in the hands of private individuals, who waited but a favourable op portunity to put it into circulation, naturally created, and our funds, in coxsequence, experienced a rise of nearly two per cent. To-day, however, they have declined a, and closed at 251, cash price. UNITED STATES NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. (From the New York Herald Extra of Oct. 31.) Fancy stocks have taken a fall to-day. Stonington and Dry Dock, which have been the principal bubbles, have gone down 4 per cent. each ; Delaware and Hudson, per cent; Vicksburg, per cent. Sales of bills on Philadelphia, 3to I, which is a decline ; bills on Baltimore, 11 to 11. This has been exchange day for the packets, which sail on Tuesday from Boston, and Monday from this city. The de mand for bills on the continent has been considerable, and the supply short. This has been chiefly owing to the in fluence of the state of politics in Europe. The French houses here very generally apprehend war, and have refused in most cases to draw, which has sent the rate of bills up to sf. 10. At this rate, some of the houses came into the market, and hills rule at sf. 121 to sf. 14. On London, th e ra t e i s 81 to 9 per cent, or 4,83 to 4,84 dole. the pound sterling; Amsterdam, 404 to 41 ; Hamburg, 361 to 37 ; Bremen, 781 to 781. At these rates the demand for specie for shipment has increased. The rates are as follows : —Spanish dollars, 5i prem. ; Mexican do., 11 to 2 ; Ameri can Halves, Ito ; Five Franc pieces, 95 to 95.1 ; Spanish Doubloons, 16 45 to 16 55 dots. ; Patriot do., 15 70 to 15 75 dole. ; Sovereigns, par. At these rates the demand upon the banks reached an ex tent which has caused them to call many of their loans upon stock. This is one cause of the downward tendency of the stock market. Money could a few weeks since be obtained on state stocks at 5 per cent, is now difficult to procure at 7 per cent. This has had its effect in depressing their prices. The most recent quotations are as follows PRICES OF STATE STOCKS New York Canal, s's 1858 1845 1870 1860 Illinois, Indiana,' Corporation, Ohio, N. Orleans bonds, Sterling, 1870 1850 Mr. Jaudon, Mr. Alsop, and Mr. Brown, all of the United States Bank, it is understood, return by the Acadia to Lon don, to resume the agency of the bank there. The hopes entertained that a resumption would be effected in January next, are again dying away. The three commissioners who went to Boston to negociate a loan in aid of the Philadelphia banks, have not yet been able to effect it. The impressio►► in Boston is, that the bank is insolvent, and they are not willing to lend her money without the guarantee of the sol vent banks of Philadelphia. The governor of Illinois is about to assemble the legisla ture of that state two or three weeks in advance of the usual time, to take into special consideration the means of meeting the interest due on the stock of that state in January next. Last year, it will be remembered, the interest was actually protested in this city, and subsequently settled. The session will also take into consideration the suit lately brought against the contractors for the state loans. The case decided against Mr. Delafield in this state recently, has been appealed to the Court of Errors, and bonds given in the re quisite amount. The state is so palpably in error in this case, that there is but little doubt she will recede from her posi tion, and appoint a commission to settle the affair. STATE OF TRADE. As we are just on the eve of a most exciting election, but little attention is paid to trade generally. The elections in all sections of the country take place at about the same time. Those, therefore, who have been here have hurried home to attend the polls, and those who have been preparing to come, put it off until after the election. This causes a stagnation in the market. We may, however, look for a short period of activity previous to the closing of the canals ; but dealers from a distance will not risk the possibility of being caught by a setting in of the frost. Already snow has made its ap pearance in the northern part of the state. Many dealers look forward to a large spring business, and as the stock of imported goods here is very small, importers have been in duced to send orders to some extent by the steamers. Open policies to considerable amounts have been made binding at the insurance offices. Asings.—This market presents no remarkable features. The stock of pearls continues to accumuluate. The sales of the week reach 600 barrels of both de scr i pt i ons, at 54- for pots and 5 to 5/ for pearls. COFFEE.—The demand has somewhat decreased. Holders are firm at jifevious rates ; sales have been as follows :-700 1500 Laguira, 101 to 11 ; Brazils, 101 to 111 ; 500 St. Do mingo, 11 to 91 ; 150 Cuba, 101 to 11. Dum—There is a steady demand for Russia sail cloth. In diapers and sheeting but little is doing. llEsir.—There has been some transactions in clean Russia at 215 to 250 dollars, 6 months. Hors.—The rates have improved by reason of a limited supply : sales at 35 to 40. MoLAssgs.—The market is dull ; 150 hogsheads P. R. sold at 32 cents. NAVAL STORES.—There is but little doing in this market. Turpentine is very scarce ; spirits have advanced to 32 to 35 cents. OlLS.—Sales of Whale have been unimportant. Sperm is scarce at 105 to 110. Linseed, English and American, is firm at 77 to 84. PuovisroNs.—Some descriptions have declined. Mess Pork sells at 144 to 15 ; Ohio prime, 13 dollars. There is a moderate demand for Beef, at 61 to 10. RlM—Sales have been made at 3+ to 3+, and 4 dollars for • SPIRITS.—The supply of foreign descriptions is small. Sales of Seignettee Brandy 1 dollar 45 cents ; J. J. Dupuy 1 25 ; Duman, 1 25 to 1 27 ; Common Brand Holland Gin, 89 to 921 ; St. Croix Rum, 80. SUGAR.—There is a scarcity of Muscovadoes, and prices are firm. Sales—St. Croix, 9to 9+; Porto Rico, 7-4 to 84; New Orleans, 71 to 8+; Brown Havana, 71 to 81. TonAcco.—The demand for Kentucky leaf, for export, has been fair. Sales average 92 for Europe. WHALEBONE. — SaIes for export at 19t to 194; for con sumption 20c. THE COTTON TRADI There is very little doing in cotton at any of the leading ports. In the Atlantic ports the purchasers are waiting for the further accumulation of the stock before operating. In the southern ports, the orders from abroad, particularly from France, are limited at prices below the views of holders, who pretend to place great reliance on the shortness of the grow ing crop. At Mobile the prices are one cent higher than at other ports, and the speculators throughout the south seem to be actuated by the same fallacious ideas that led to the dis astrous speculations of 1839. The mere fact that the crop of 1839 was less than that of 1838 was made the basis of a rise, without considering that the crop of 1838 might have been superabundant, as turned out to be the fact. The crop of 1840 was 2,173,000 bales, and it is generally allowed that the growing crop will be 1,900,000 bales, or 100,000 bales larger than the immense crop of 1838 ; and yet because it will be 300,000 bales less than last year, dealers are speculating for a rise. Their hopes are based, in a great measure, upon the large quantities taken for consumption in Liverpool this year. The probability is, that spinners laid in their stocks when prices were low, in anticipation of a return of activity. This has not taken place. The exports of yarns and goods from England have been unusually small, an indication of which is the low state of exchange on the continent. If, therefore, there is a continuance of peace, and the crop does not go above the lowest estimates, there is but little probability of a rise in prices. The following is a comparative table of the two last crops, with an estimate on the most accurate data of the growing crop. COMPARATIVE SI ATEM EN T OF CROPS --....., .. From 1838-9 1839-40 1840-1. New Orleans .... 568,562 .. 946,905 .. 800,000 Mississippi .. 16,432 .. 6,757 .. 6,000 Alabama 251,742 .. 445,725 .. 400,000 Florida 75,177 .. 136,277 .. 120,000 Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Total bales 1,360,532 s. and remarks at the leading ports, for the week previous to dates : Stock. Sales. Prices. Remarks. New York, Oct. 31, 12,000.. 3,000.. 71 a 111.. declinel a 1 New Orleans " 21, 48,528.. 10,300.. 8 a 11.. firm Mobile.... " 22, 4,955.. 600.. 71 a 101.. fading Augusta .. " 22, —.. 300.. 7 a 9.. do. Savannah " 23, 1,789.. 1,100.. 71 a 9... do. Charleston " 23, 4,300.. 2,300.. 7 a 91.. do. CORN TRAM Within the past week flour has advanced fully a shilling a barrel. Sales of Western brands take place at 5 dollars to 5 dollars 42 cents. Small shipments only are making. The receipts are fair, and the stock in the city is accumulating for the winter wants, but not very rapidly. From present indi cations the arrivals from the west and north, for the re mainder of the season, will not be very great—not much larger than last year. THE COURT, WINDSOR, THURSDAY. — Her majesty was driven out in a pony phaeton this afternoon, in the Great Park, by his royal highness Prince Albert. Her majesty was attended by the Countess of Sandwich, the Hon. Misses Paget and Anson, Lady C. Dundas, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Col. Wylde, and Sir F. Stoven. Her majesty returned to the castle at half-past four. Her royal highness the Duchess of Kent promenaded on the slopes of the New Terrace. her royal highness was at tended by the Lady C. Dundas. Viscount Melbourne left the castle for town this morning. Sir James Clarke arrived at the castle this afternoon, and will leave to-morrow. Lord and Lady Kinnaird, and Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, will have the honour of joining the royal dinner party this evening. Her majesty will take her departure for Buckingham Palace to-morrow afternoon. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—This afternoon, shortly before three o'olock, her Majesty and Prince Albert tobk their departure from the Castle for Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty was , escorted by a detachment of the Ist regi ment of life guards, under the command of Lieutenant Dun combe. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left this morning for Ingestrie House, attended by Lady C. Dundas. Lord and Lady Grosvenor and Sir James Clark left this morning for town. The remainder of the royal visiters and suite took their de parture in the course of the day. COURT CIRCULAR, SATURDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived at Buckingham Palace at five o'clock yes terday afternoon, in a carriage and four, with outriders, and escorted by a party of light dragoons, from Windsor Cas tle. Her Majesty was received at the palace by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, the Qroom of the Stole to Prince Albert, and the Clerk Mar shal. The royal suite followed in several carriages, and consisted of the Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Anson, Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Byron, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Fred. Stovin, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, and Captain Seymour. The Earl of Erroll, Viscount Melbourne, and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, had the honour of joining the royal din ner party at the palace last evening. COURT CIRCULAR, MONDAY. — Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the royal household attended divine service, yes terday morning, in Buckingham Palace. The Rev. Dr. Short, deputy clerk of the closet in waiting, officiated. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on Satur day evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Earl of Erroll, Earl of Bel fast, Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Colonel the Hon. Henry Cavendish, and Mr. George Edward Anson. The band of the Coldstream regiment of foot guards at tended at the palace during the evening. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked for some time, yes terday and Saturday, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen on Saturday. _ _ _ _ _ His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colone Tylde, rode out on horseback. The Duke of Cambridge visited Prince Albert, on Satu: at Buckingham Palace ....„ The Duchess of Kent attended divirie service, yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal. St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, and the service was read by the Rev. Messrs. Barham and Packham. Lady Charlotte Dundas was in waiting on her royal highness. JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET . THURSDAY EVENING.—The English stocks have further improved to-day, but the extreme advance gained during the hours of business was not maintained at the final close of the market. The cause of this partial reaction was the desire manifested by the operators for the rise to realize. Consols, which for money and the account had i eached 801 to I - , clos ed at 801 to -I. Bank Stock was recovered to 150 to 160 ; but India Stock declined, and left off 236 to 238. Exche quer bills are par to 2 premium, In the foreign stock market there has been a considerable deal of business transacted at advancing prices, and specula tion appears to be increasing, more particularly in Portu guese and the South American Bonds. Portuguese Five per Cents. were last quoted at 361 to 1, and the Three per Cents. 221 to 231; Spanish, 221 to i; Mexican, 291 to a; Dutch Two-and-a-Hail per Cents. 99 to ; Brazilian, 74 to 75 ; and Belgian, 98 to 100. The share market left off firm. Birmingham, 74 to 76 premium ; Great Western, 201 to 211 premium ; Southamp ton, 52 to 53 per share ; North Midland. 27 to 25 discount : Brighton, 121 to 121 discount ; and Blackwall, 4+ to I. FRIDAY EVRXING.—In the home funds there is no new feature to-day. Palmerston policy remains in :tofu quo, that is neither higher nor lower, which will be a negative sort of consolation for his parasite the Globe, which has some what arhitruily established the standard of a rise in the funds by which to measure the reputation and estimate the success of its patron. Consols left off as yesterday at 891 to for money and account. India Stock 236 to 8. Bank Stock 159 to 160. Exchequer Bills par to 2s. premium. There was some stir in the Foreign Market about Penin sular Funds. Spanish with the Coupons were worked up to 24 at one time, but they finally settled down at 23i to I. — Portuguese Five per Cents were 361 to 7, the Three per Cents 221 to 31. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 511 to 1, the Five per Cents 981 to 1. Belgian 29 to 100. Brazil 74 to 5. Mexican 291 to 30. Colombian 251 to 4. London and Birmingham Railways were 76 to 8, Great Western 211 to 21 premium. South Western 521 to 31 per share. North Midland Old Shares 27 to 5, the New 4to 2, Brighton 121 to 1, Blackwall 4/ to i discount. SATURDAY EVENING. — The funds dial of the Globe edi torial for reflecting the sunny splendours of the policy Pal merstonian is overcast to-day, for after some trivial fluctua tions Consols receded to 891 to for money and time, leaving our " foreign policy" at a discount of per ce n t. upon yesterday's quotations. India Stock remains nominally at 236 to 8. Bank Stock 159 to 160. Exchequer Bills par to 2s. premium. Preparations for the settlement of the account on Monday caused some activity in the Foreign Market, but prices of the less solid securities tended downwards. Portuguese 10s. in the pound Bonds fell about 1 per cent., the Five per Cents leaving off nominally at 354 to 61, but really the market sellers at 36, the Three per Cents 22,1 to f. Spanish Active with the Coupons declined to 23: to 1. Dutch Stocks were slightly depressed, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents c l os in g at 511 to 1, the Five per Cents at 98 to 1. Belgian were 99 to 100. Brazilian improved a shade, the quotations being 74 to G. M ex i can declined to 29 to 1. Colombian to 25 to 1. Some re-action upon the late advance in Railway Shares took place to-day on the arrangement of the account in the Share Market. London and Birmingham left off at 75 to 7, Great Western Old Sh ares 19 t o 20, the Half Shares 8 to premium. South Western 521 to 31 per share. The Gos port 3to 4.premium. North Midland Old Shares 27 to 5, the New 4to 2, Brighton Into Blackwall 4i to discount. FLOOD IN TILE DEE. In consequence of the torrents of rain which fell during the night of Thursday last, and the early part of Friday, the An Deetmm immense quantity rapidly about eight feet above i a it t t i sl i n m ei its usual level. a ta s in b e o d rn o e f ) b r e e o i r f t r e w e r s s b y the along the current, and being arrested in bridge, serious apprehensions were at ov ot : bpordoyceoefdeadhepurotm 10 p o tlr eh to eu th: r :pot, and, under the safety of that ancient structure. ultimately suc ceeded master of bridge h w i o s r d k i s rec h t o i directions, however, ceeded in clearing away the accumulation allowing free transit to the stream throughn th o e f timber, and bridge, which, we are happy to find, have sustainednumber no ma floated down was supposed to be about 3000. This of trees accumu lation was the consequence of parties who float timber a delay ing its transmission, in expectation of a flood— attended with manifest risk to the bridges along the e ractice river, and which is punishable by the statnte, and ought not to be repeated.—Aberdeen Journal. We can state positively that no information of the resigns_ tion of Lord Plunket has been rec eived b y the Britis h have vernrcent, and that the statements in the papers -no foundation but idle rumour.—Ministerial paper. " Why do you not admire my daughter ? " said a lady to a doctor. " Because," he said, " I am no judge of painting." " But surely," rejoined the lady, not the least disconcerted by this rude reflection," you never saw an angel that was not painted." Lieut. Hockin, of the Royal Marines, who was killed a the storming of Sidon, received three wounds, none fatal by themselves, but he continued fighting with his men, bleeding profusely at an artery, till he fell in a state of exhaustion, and was taken on board the Stromboli, unhappily too late for me dical aid to be available. Lord John Russell's rumoured marriage with one of the Honourable Misses Elliot is contradicted by the Kelso Chronicle, and we have good reason to believe that the con tradiction is correct, and that the original rumour was with out any just foundation.—Sun. Her majesty has recently enrolled her name in the signature book of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and signed the obligation of its fellows. This honour has only been once previously conferred, namely, by her majesty's predeces sor, William IV. SAGACITY OF A DOG.—Some time ago, a pointer dog, the property of a sportsman in the vicinity of Ripon, from some cause was hastily struck at by his master, who unfortunately fractured one of the animal's legs. The dog being a valuable one, was taken to an eminent bone-setter, in a village about three miles from Ripon, who in course of time effected a perfect cure. A. few days ago, the dog being again in fault, received a more gentle correction from its master; the poor animal, supposing it had again occasion for medical assist once, limped away to the doctor, who immediately recog nised his old patient, and after due examination, pronounced that the,present case did not require any surgical assistance, and sent the dog back to its master, who could not account for and was much perplexed at its long absence. NOVEL HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A few days back, George Emmet, Esq., of Birkenshaw, was proceeding homewards along the line of the Leeds and Whitehall road about eight o'clock in the evening, after enjoying a day's shooting upon Lord Scarborough's estate at Hunsworth, accompanied by his woodman, Whitley, when upon arriving within a hundred yards of the Half-way House, they were attacked by highway robbers the first intimation of which was a tug at the game bag, which was being carried by Whitley, and before the party could say Jack Robinson, the bag with its contents, consisting of pheasants, hares, and partridges, although dead, had once more taken wing and flown away, leaving nothing but a soli tary rabbit behind, which dropped out of the bag in the scuffle. The villains had no doubt the fear of Mr. Emmet's double barrelled gun before their eyes, or they would not have parted company without visiting the pockets of the party. Mr. Emmet had left his gun with Lord Scarborough's keeper, otherwise we are persuaded a dose of blue pills, which the scamps would not have found very easy of digestion.—Leeds Intelligencer. A CHINESE WIDOW FANNING HER HUSBAND'S GRAVE. —ln Davis's Chinese, which Mr. Charles Knight has just published in his English !Miscellanies, we find the following amusing story of a widow :—" After proceeding some time in these gloomy reflections, Chuangtoze proceeded along the tombs, and soon found himself near a newly-constructed se pulchre. The hillock of tempered earth was not yet entirely dry. On one side of the tomb sat a young woman in deep mourning, holding in her hand a large white fan, with which she constantly fanned the surface of the ground. Surprised at this sight, he ventured to ask whose tomb it might be, and why the lady took such pains in fanning it ? She, however, without rising, continued to wave her fan as before, but mut tered some words in a low tone, and at the same time let fall a few tears--a proof (thought the sage to himself) that shame rather than timidity prevented her from speaking out. When he had pressed her a little further to explain herself, she made this reply :—' You see a widow at the tomb of her hus band, from whom death has unhappily severed her. He whose bones rest in this sepulchre was very dear to me when alive, and loved me in return with an equal tenderness. Even in dying he could scarcely bear to part with me, and his last words were these :—My dear spouse, if you should hereafter think of marrying again, I conjure you to wait at least until the earth of my grave is entirely dry ; after which you have my sanction to espouse whom you please ! Now, as it oc curred to me that the surface of this ground, which has been newly tempered, would not very soon dry, I thought I would fan it a little to assist in carrying off the moisture.' " THE MYSTERIOUS WATCHMAN IN SHEERNESS DOCK YARD.—In the copper store rooms there is a watchman who does duty night and day without receiving either pay or provisions, which is not the only quality that renders him valuable to the lovers of economy, as he neither plunders himself, nor suffers others to do so. A more ancient, but at the same time more efficient Charley can scarcely be found. This protector of public property is an ingenious piece of machinery, consisting of a painting on wood, which is placed in a position commanding a view of a store room. It resem bles a door in form, and presents at first the figure of a grenadier with the pointed cap and grotesque uniform of the olden time, bearing a musket and standing in the attitude of a sentinel. The moment any person touches or picks up anything in the room, whether it be a bolt or a socket, or piece of pipe, or any other article in the place, the door turns on a pivot, and on going round strikes an alarum bell, and gives warning to the store-keepers to be on the alert. The grenadier appears again, but he has changed his appearance, his musket is grounded, and his countenance indicates a de termination not to be trifled with. If the attempt to remove any of the stores is repeated, he turns again and gives a second signal, and thus he continues to act as often as any one dis places the smallest article. The painting itself is said to be upwards of a hundred years old, but is not of a very choice description. It is admired because of the purpose to which it is applied, and valued on account of the effect it produces amongst the workmen, for since this guard has been mounted occulation in the copper store room has been almost unknown, and it is believed could not escape detection. The artisans and labourers employed in the dockyard have more dread of this automaton policeman than they would of many who, though appearing to possess intelligence, are but automata. The inventor of this machine is one of the store-keepers, but he keeps the secret of its motion to himself, notwithstanding that the Lords of the Admiralty, and other persons of high rank, who have witnessed its gyrations, have much wished to have their curiosity upon this point gratified. The contriver, ihso dependent wever, rightly o n judges the e t o h s a e t e t u h s e whole tody o f value th es c o o f r e h t i s o w f i a t t s c hm a n prin ciple of action. There is only one spring perceptible in the joints of the stone flooring, and this is pointed out to the visitor, who may cause the figure to turn by pressing with the right foot, but that effect cannot be produced by u s i ng the left. This spring, however, is only a device, or at least a poor apology for not unrAvelling the mystery—for let a person stand where he may and touch any of the property, he is sure to be detected. THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITfoN. THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBI ON of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORK f MODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN for the Seaso rom Nine until Dusk. Admission, Is. Catalogues, Is. ason Ticket, ss. Also, every Evening, BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, Is. SAMUEL EGLINGTON,/ Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place. MR. DUNCAN'S PICTURE OF PRINCE CHARLES EDIARD AND THE HIGHLANDERS.. MR. HILL respectfully announces, tkt this splendid NATIONAL WORK, now on P IVATE VIEW, at Mr. LACEY'S, 108, 'Bold - street , will positively leave on SATURDAY, at Twelve o'clock. Tickets (gratis) to be had at Mr. LACEY'S. DREADFUL STORM AT BRIGHTON (From the Times of Yesterday.) BRIGHTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 15 was visited on Friday by one of the severest gales remembered here, being little less violent than that which a few years ago occasioned so much damage to our pier. We regret that three vessels laden with coals were driven on shore a short distance from the town,—the whole of the crews were, however, saved. This coast DeLween one and two 0 - Clock a prig was seen maul windward off the town, and danger being apprehended officers and men of the Coast Guard at the Brighton station followed her along shore, provided with a supply of Dennett's rockets and Captain Manby's mortar for communicating with stranded vessels. Her topmast was carried away by the gale and the mainmast was immediately cut away by the crew. She then drifted towards Black Rock, where an anchor was let go, but the chain cable was immediately snappedasunder, and she came on shore at about four o'clock, under the cliffs, three-quarters of a mile eastward of Kemp-town. Cap tain Marsh, of the Bearshide Coast Guard station, Lieut. Pratt, of the Brighton station, Lieutenant Prior, of the Greenway station, and Lieutenant Newnham, of the Black Rock station, with all their men, were speedily on the spot, which was soon covered with thousands of spectators. The water was at this time raging at the foot of the cliffs, and a communication was endeavoured to be effected with the vessel, which was only a short distance from the shore, by means of the rockets and mortar, the former of which was used under the direction of Lieutenant Pratt, the lat ter under that of Lieutenant Prior. The wind, how ever, blew with such force that the projectiles had hardly left the spot from which they were fired than they were car ried inland. The crew then made a line fast to a buoy, which being washed on shore, and the tide being now some what on the ebb, the rope was made fast, and one of the crew reached the shore by this means at about five o'clock. The others, seven in number, remained in the vessel till about 7, when the water was sufficiently low to allow them to wade to the shore. They were kindly attended to at the Black Rock station. The brig proved to be the Mary, of Sunder land, burden 130 tons, Captain Kemp, bound to Shoreham), with a cargo of coals. In the mean time, however, the attention of the party on the cliff had become divided by the arrival of a schooner, which at about six o'clock was driven on shore about 200 yards to the east of the spot where the brig was wrecked. The schooner had been on shore about an hour when intel ligence was received that another brig was stranded at Porto bello, about four miles further to the eastward. Intelligence has reached Brighton that on Friday night a vessel laden with wine went down near the Cheers Lights, off Bognor, and that the crew escaped as by a miracle, after being at sea in their boat for several hours. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald.) On Thursday last, the Rev. the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, capitularly assembled, were pleased unanimously to nominate the Rev. Frederick Benjamin Twisleton, LL.D., formerly Fellow of New College, in this University, to the office of Canon Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral, the same being void by the lamented decease of the Rev. Arthur Matthews, late Fellow of Brasenose Col lege. — Nile Rev. Thomas• Frederick Dymock, M.A., of Balliol College. has, upon his own petition, been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Walls to the Rectory of Hatch Beauchamp, vacant by the decease of the Rev. W. G. Dv mock. _ Y Phis day se'nnight, the Rev. Edward Caswall, M. A., of Brasenose College, was licensed, by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, to the Perpetual Curacy of Stratford, under the Castle of Old Sarum, Wilts, void by the resignation of the Rev. A. Stonehouse, on the nomination of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Sarum. The Rev. Edward Meade, M.A., of Wadham College, has been presented to the Incumbency of Malvern Wells, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. P. E. Boissier, the patron. The Lord Bishop of London has collated the Rev. William Hale Hale, M.A., of Oriel College, to a fourth Canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral, On the 3d inst. the Rev. Henry Edmund Fryer, M.A., of Pembroke College, was instiuted to the Rectory of Winter slow, Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. Matthel,v,Marsh, 8.D., of Christ Church, on his own petition. The Rev. Henry Gough, M.A., of Queen's College, has been appointed to the Assistant Curacy of Penzance Chapel, void by the cession of the Rev. E. Griffith. PROMOTION S Rev. J. Wyndham, M.A. to the Rectory of Sutton Man deville, Wilts, void by the cession of the Rev. W. Knatch bull ; patron, W. Wyndham, Esq. Rev. W. Stracey, B.A. to the Curacy of St. Buryan, Cornwall, void by the appointment of the Rev. M. N. Snow, to the Chaplaincy of her Majesty's ship Calcutta. Rev. G. D'Arcy Irvine, Curate of St. Mary Radcliffe, Bristol, to be Chaplain to the Bridewell in that city. Rev. C. F. Smith, to the Curacy of Handley, Cheshire. Rev. Alexander Scott, Rector of Bootle, Cumberland, to be the Governor of the Free Grammar School of St. Bees, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Ainger, D.D. [There must be an error here. Dr. Ainger had no con nection whatever with the Free Grammar School, and it will be seen, from a statement in another part of our paper, that our townsman, Mr. Buddicom, has succeeded the reverend doctor as Principal of the clerical Institution of St. Bees. — E. L. S.] Rev. J. Atkins, to be Chaplain to the Union, Windsor. Rev. W. Tyrrell, to the Rectory of Ahoghill • Rev. John Nevin, to the Rectory of Portglcnone ; Rev. deorge Kirk patrick, to the Rectory of Craigs—the three Rectories for merly constituting the one Rectory of Ahoghill, north of reland. Rev. Edward Labatt, to the Living of Meveagh, Derry The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Gustavus Aird to the Church of Croich, in the parish of Kincardine. [n the Presbytery of Tain and shire of loss, vacant by the induction of the Rev. Robert Williamson into the pastoral charge of the congregation of St. Andrew's Church, Picton, Nova Scotia.—Gazette. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE STREET, LIVERPOOL, UNDER the MANAGEMENT of Mr. EGERTON, (Lessee of the Queen's Theatre, Manchester,) IS NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON, Decorated with Unparallelled Magnificence in the Moorish Style of chi tecture, from Designs by Mr. GEORGE JACKSON, n., of Manchester, Composition Manufacturer to her J. jesty.— The NEW ACT DROP, painted by Messrs. r KER and JOHNSON, Artists of the Theatre-royal, Drury- ne, and the Theatre-rOyal, Liverpool, represents a restore and splendid view of the COURT of LIONS, in the LHAMI3RA, which, in conjunction with the DECOftil. lONS of the THEATRE, will fully realize to the spect4tors the Grandeur of that Palace, and show the extent of knowledge in the arts possessed by that extraordinary and renowned people, the Moors of Spain. Principal Artists engaged in the Decorations :—Messrs. PARKER, JOHNSON, KELSHAW, MATHEWS, &C., &C. The Gilding, by Mr. KEARSLEY. The whole under the imme diate superintendance of Mr. GEORGE JACKSON. THIS EVENING, and DURING the WEEK, the Per formances will commence with the Gorgeous Spectacle, with new and beautiful Scenery, of novel and peculiar construc tion, magnificent and characteristic :Costume, splendid and. correct Banners and Propertiei, and most extensive Ma chinery, called JANE OF THE HATCHET; Or, THE WOMEN OF BEAUVAIS. In which ONE HUNDRED FEMALE WARRIORS will appear in full costume of the period, and go through a variety of Military Evolutions. The Scenery painted by Messrs. Parker, Johnson, Kel shaw, Mathews, and Assistants—Properties by Mr. Light foot, and Assistants--Dresses by Mr. P. Macready and Assistants—The Machinery by Mr. Aitken, Mr. Morgan, and Assistants. Buonaventure (a young farmer).. Mr. W. J. Hammond - market woman) Miss Daly Mathieu (an old soldier) Mr. T. Taylor.—Jaques de Villiars, Mr. Emery—Nicholas, Mr. Weston—Jeanne, Mrs. Weston. To be followed by the new and laughable Burletta, now act ing in London with most decided success, entitled THE RAILROAD STATION. Mr. Sampson Jones .. (first-class passenger) Hammond. Mr. W. J During the Evening the Band will perform several Overtures, " Fra Diavolo," " .Eduardo e Christina," and " Joco." The whole to conclude with Dibdin's Extravaganza of DON GIOVANNI ; Or, A SPECTRE ON HORSEBACK. Don Giovanni... Leporello Mr. COOKE, and the whole of his unrivalled Establish ment of Artists and STUD of HORSES, the most beaut,iful, docile, and numerous in Europe, are engaged ; an early in timation will be made of their appearance. CONCERT , MR. H. F. ALDRIDGE, JUN. respectfully announces that his CONCERT will take place on the EVENING of WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, at Mr. LASSELLS' SA LOON, Great Richmond-street, under the patronage of the Committee of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, of hich occasion he will be assisted by the following Voca nd In strumental Performers : Principal Singers Miss HAMMOND, Miss ALDIIIDGE, Wss LEACH, Mr. DO Mr. J. ISHERWOOD, (of )D, and / the Manchester Concerts,) Messrs. BALL, BOOTHBY, CASE, COBB, HIGHTON, WARING, DUKE, and PALMER. Solo Instrumental Performers. Mr. E. BROWN, Mr. H. F. ALDRIDGE, JUN. and his Pupil, Master F. TIVENDELL. The Band will consist of OBOES. VIOLINS. Messrs. Elliot, Prin. Second, D. Stubbs, H. Tivendell, Hammond, Wilberforce, Thompson, Hilton, Mackenzie. VIOLAS. Messrs. Gillins, Prin., Armstrong, Robinson, Sergeant. VIOLONCELLOS. Messrs. Davies, J. Tivendell. DOUBLE BASSES . Messrs. Tayleure, Messrs. Scruton, Cafferata. CLARIONETS Messrs. Leonard, Jolliffe. BASSOONS Messrs. Jones, Harrison. HORNS Messz s Thompson, Edwards, T. Fisher, T. Jones. TRUMPETS Messrs. Hanson, Bradbury. TROMBONE ----- Edgar. FLUTES Messrs. Fisher, Mr. Druce. KETTLE DRUMS. Mr. Fileen. GRAND CASA. Mr. Clarke. TRIANGLE AND CYMBALS. Mr. Brindtey, Jun. ALDRIDGE, JUN. be had at the principal. Music BRIDGE, 35, Seymour-street. Hornby LEADRR-Mr. H. 1 Tickets, price 4s. each, tc Shops, and of Mr. H. F. AL] THE THREE CARACCI. THE celebrated PAINTINGS o f S u bjects from Religi History, by ANNIBAL, AGOSTINO, and LTA) ICO CARACCI, are NOW ON VIEW at the UNION LERY, Slater-street, (out of Bold-street,) from Ten till r o'clock by daylight, and again from Six till Ten o'clo in the Even ing by gaslight. These splendid Works were originile painted for the GIUSTINEANI PALACE of ROME, amMere, after two cen turies, acquired by LUCIEN 13uorrarAnTE, in whose posses sion they were engraved. Lucien afterwards sold them to Ex-Queen of Etruria ; and from her Son, his Royal High ness the DUKE OF Lucca, they were purchased by William Buchanan, Esq., of Pall-mall, London, (Author of the Me moirs of Painting,) through the means of the Signor Gal vani of Florence, a distinguished Artist and Connoisseur. ADMITTANCE—ONE SHILLING. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. TO CORRESPONDENTS The communication from Birmingham has been anticipated by the morning papers of yesterday. There are so many persons alluded to b y name i n t h e l etter of " One of the Committee ': (of Everton Ward), that we could not think of publishing it without the writer's guarantee. Tae lines by " A. G." have been received. POLL BOOK We are glad to find that a complete list of the voters polled for the election of Sixteen Councillors for this Borough, on the 2d of November, is already in the hands of the printers, and will be immediately pub lished. It will skew the duplicate qualifications of the voters, and the wards in which they polled. The list has been examined with the polling papers in the possession of the Mayor. It will be found of great value as a book of reference, and will prove of great service in carrying on the canvass for the ensuing year. Ebe XiberPoot A)tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1840, By the arrival of the Great Liverpool, from the Me diterranean, we have received files of Bombay papers to the 30th of September, of Malta papers to the 31st of October, and of Gibraltar papers to the 26th of October. Their contents have, however, been antici pated by the arrival of the overland mail from India. The London mails of the 30th of September and the sth October, for India, Egypt, and Syria, still re mained at Malta waiting instructions as to their dis posal. We copy from the Malta Times of the 31st ultimo the following account of the operations of the combined fleets of the allies off the coast of Syria. Beyrout, 22d October, 1840. DEAR SlR,—Since closing my last, Tripoli, Tortosa, and Latakia, have been quietly evacuated by the enemy, the three castles of the first named place were mined and fired, but one only succeeded in exploding. A report having reached the admiral that Acre had been evacuated, the Phoenix was de spatched to ascertain the truth, and on the 20th having com municated with the Revenge, at anchor off Kaifa, and taken on board Captain Waldegrave at 4 p.m., proceeded to recon noitre the place, which was very soon ascertained not to have been evacuated, as on the approach of the steamer to within a mile of the town, the whole of the batteries opened on her, to which she quickly replied, and after half an hour's smart cannonading, and the service having been fully performed, she returned to this place yesterday morning. Acre appears to be strongly fortified, as from 50 to GO guns were engaged by firing on the Phoenix, and appear to have been well served, as many of the shot passed over and near, and, but from her lowness in the water, she must have been hulled repeatedly. The Talbot and one Austrian steamer arrived from Constan tinople yesterday with troops, and the Hastings sailed for Malta, and this morning the Vanguard arrived. 3,000 Turkish troops (part of which have arrived and the com mander on their passage here) make the first detachment of the 10,000 coming. The whole coast from Latakia to Cape Bianca near Acre is quietly in our possesion. The marines belonging to the ships are all re-embarked, and only the supernumeraries remain on shore, and are divided between this and Sidon. The squadron still continue very sickly ; Lieut. Penny of the Gorgon is dead, and was buried here yesterday with military honours. Lord Fred. Kerr is ap pointed to the Gorgon in his stead. Sir C. Smith has established his head-quarters here, and all are busily em ployed in organising the Turks. Most of the Egyptian prisoners are embarked in transports, and will shortly leave for Cyprus. The following is the present distribution of the fleet : At Beyrout.—Princess Charlotte, Powerful, Edinburgh, Bellerophon, Vanguard, Talbot, Gorgon, Wasp, Hydra, (since arrived at Malta), Phoenix and Confiance, Austrian and Turkish admirals and squadron, a Russian schooner, and Brilliante French corvette. At Sidon. — Thunderer.—Thunderer, Pique and an Austrian frigate. At Tortosa.—Carysfort At Scandaroon or thereabout.—Benbow, Zebra, Magicienne, and Stromboli Off Acre.—Revenge. Off Alexandria.—Asia, Ganges, Implacable, Cambridge Daphne, Dido. At Tyre.—Castor, Hazard, and an Austrian corvette. Gone to Malta.—Hastings, Cyclops. We learn from the same journal that on the sands outside Acre there was a cavalry camp of about 1000 strong, and that from appearances they seemed to be making additional works in the town. It was not pro bable that any attempt would be made upon it for some time, as the weather had already begun to be somewhat boisterous. The pitched battle with Ibrahim Pacha afforded an excellent opportunity to show the bravery and fidelity of the Turks. Ibrahim had taken up a very strong position near Beyrout with 3000 men. Four thousand Turks were sent against him, under the com mand of Selim Pacha, assisted by General Jockmuss, Commodore Napier, and Col. Hodges. The attack was so impetuous that in a few minutes Ibrahim was completely routed. One thousand Egyptians were made prisoners, and the rest were killed and wounded, or took flight. With respect to the general war, it is stated that the Egyptian army, at the most moderate calculation, has lost 20,000 in killed, wounded, pri- soners, and deserters. The Malta Times furnishes us with the following extracts of a letter, dated the 18th ultimo, from one of the ships stationed off Beyrout, which will be found interesting Since my last we have taken Sidon, Tyre, Kaifa, and in fact are in possession of every place, except Beyrout, between Tripoli and Sidon, Ibrahim, they say, is retiring on Bal bee ; and Osman Paella got driven back by the mountaineers and left with only 1,000 men. Soliman Pasha has retired with a few men to about three hours distance, and considers his cause almost desperate. At Sidon, the Thunderer, Austrian Prince's frigate, steamers Cyclops, Hydra, Gorgon, and Stromboli, battered away for about two hours, then landed the troops at different places to charge simultaneously. The Turks numbered about GOO, the Austrians 100, and the English GOO. They met with a sharp resistance, and had not the colonel com manding the besieged been killed, our troops would have been nearly all destroyed ; for they had manned the houses, and bulleted our men with a fearful advantage. However, they all laid down their arms when the colonel was killed, and we became masters of the town. It was a hazardous affair, but it succeeded well. The commodore led the shore-going at tack, and of course:it was done in a sailor-like style. I re gret to say the town was sacked, but not by the English. We too had a little affair. A deserter came off and told us he had been present at the placing of a train of 200 barrels of powder beneath the old Venetian castle, to blow it up. Com mander Worth, Lieut. H. C. Schomberg, with three mids., and a mid. of the Hastings, volunteered to go and take it up, andbring away the powder. They manned a barge, pinnace, and gig, set off at daylight, and within pistol-shot of the ene my, succeeded in bringing off 30 barrels of powder, and pitch ing 70 overboard. In this daring exploit we lost only the midshipman, Mr. Luscombe, and one seaman ; one seaman and the deserter were slightly wounded. Whilst on shore, our ships continued throwing shot to keep away the enemy, and so admirably were they directed, that they passed within three feet of our people's heads, who, however, knew there was nothing to fear from such gunners as ours. The attempt to remove the powder was renewed in the evening, but they were better prepared, and kept up a tremendous fire, which the balls from our ships little checked ; but they had the effect of frightening the enemy, so that they could not take aim, and no one was killed, though the boats were riddled. The Edinburgh's boats assisted on this occasion and had one man wounded. We got out 11 barrels more, and threw some into the sea, then cut off the train, which led over a bridge communicating with the town and castle. The same night the mine was fired; indeed they blew one part of it up before our boats left. This affair cost the enemy the loss of sixty men, besides officers. The mine was intended as a sa lute to us, when we should get into the town, and immor talize us in its ruins.—The Benbow has been unfortunate. She sent boats to land marines to take Tortosa, a castle near Tripoli ; the boats grounded, with deep water between them and the shore, and they encountered a heavy fire from be hind a wall, by which eight of the crew were killed and eighteen wounded—a greater loss than at the taking of Sidon, where we had only six killed and twenty wounded. Mr. Cumming, mate, who led the Turks in the attack on Sidon, and carried all before him, behaved so manfully as to elicit the warmest commendations of Commodore Napier, who has given an account of his conduct to the Admiralty cud recommended his promotion. We have received a file of the Sydney Gazette to the 14th of May. These papers merely. supply us with intermediate dates. By the royal mail steamship Acadia, Captain Mil ler, we have received New York papers to the 31st ul timo, Boston papers to the Ist, and Halifax papers to the 3d, all dates inclusive. The Acadia arrived here on Sunday, having accomplished the passage from Boston in 13 days and 20 hours. Owing to the pre vious arrival of the Garrick, in little more than 15 days from New York, the news brought by the Acadia only extends over the space of four days later. The principal topic of discussion in the American papers is that of the election frauds. Our contempo rary of the Journal has not found it convenient to en ter at length upon this subject. He merely remarks that the charge " seems to rest on the sole authority of the New York Herald." So far is this from being the case that the charge rests solely upon a mass of docu mentary evidence, in the shape of affidavits, which oc cupy about six closely printed columns of the Herald. A letter on this subject appears in the city article of the London Times, which seeks to invalidate the statements put forth in the New York Herald. The writer, how ever, does not attempt to rebut the evidence upon which the whole case depends. He merely deprecates the violent language in which the Herald indulges while writing on the subject. The exaggerated tone of our transatlantic contemporary has nothing to do with the real merits of the case. The facts disclosed in the evidence to which we have referred are quite sufficient to satisfy any unprejudiced mind that frauds of the most scandalous character have been committed in the United States in the cloak of the ballot. The repub lican party in this country would be highly delighted if they could obtain similar facilities for influencing our general elections. They would not, for a moment, hesitate to resort to the same tricks as those which have been recently exposed in the United States. We know the principles of the party too well to justify any more favourable opinion of their political morality than that which we have expressed. The latest returns of the state elections appear to be generally in favour of General Harrison, although the faiends of Mr. Van Buren are still confident of suc- The commercial and monetary intelligence from the United States will be found in another column. The rate of exchange upon England remained at 10S to 109. The commissioners appointed by the United States' Government to survey the disputed boundary had completed their task, and were on their return. They assert that the line claimed by the United States is the true line. There is no news whatever in the Halifax or Cana dian papers which have reached us. The election of a Socinian to fill the office of mayor of one of the most thoroughly conservative boroughs in the kingdom has, as we anticipated, excited the re probation and disgust of a great majority of our fel low-townsmen. The members of the Church of Eng land feel it as a studied and gratuitous insult, and will resent it accordingly. It is one added to the many outrages which the council has already directed against the established religion of the land. But in the minds of a large and influential class of Protestant Dissent ers who, although liberals in politics, do not happen to be enamoured of the Socinian principles of Mr. Tho mas Bolton, the election of that gentleman has raised a strong suspicion that a principle on which they have hitherto existed—viz., the principle that religious opi nions form no test of fitness for political privileges — may be carried to an extreme length. Coupled with this feeling is the consciousness that claims equally as strong as those of Mr. Bolton have been overlooked in the persons of individuals of their own religious opi nions ; and that the direct tendency of this ultra libe ralism of the council is to establish as an axiom that, in Whig-radical estimation, the worst religionist the bet ter politician, the better magistrate, or the better mayor ! We are ourselves quite of opinion with our dissent ing fellow-townsmen. Had a Socialist been in the council, he must, on this principle, have been preferred to the Socinian, Mr. Bolton ; had an open Infidel been within their reach, the tyrant majority of the couucil must have been delighted at the opportunity of dis playing their inordinate liberality in his election. Away with those shackles:which the practical decency of our forefathers has imposed upon us ! We live in an era of enlightenment; and provided he have the ordinary faculties of mankind, and is of right liberal principles, what matter if the man of our choice be a Musseltnan or a Hindoo. The nearer to the church the further from any chance of Whig-radical preferment ! We must repeat our confident expectation that this appointment is one which cannot but be advantageous to the cause of true conservatism. It is high time that professing churchmen and Protestant dissenters should see the tendency of their alliance with popery and infi delity in political matters. In the abstract it may be easy to argue that religion and politics have no con nexion with each other; but in practice it will one day or other be found that their connexion is intimate. There are few men who would boast of their connexion with a community of which an Infidel is the elected head ; and between Infidelity and Socinianism the choice is only one of degree. The point of the wedge admitted, the entrance of the entire instrument will be matter of easy accomplishment. As a whole the proceedings of the present session of the council, so far as it has gone, will, we trust, not be lost upon our fellow -townsmen. We ourselves were quite prepared for this, and are prepared for further outrages upon decency. Whig-radicalism, although still supreme in the council, is at the last gasp. The head of the incubus is bruised, but the tail is still lively as ever ; and it is the nature of all venomous things to sting with the more deadly effect the nearer they ap proach extinction. We fully anticipate from the ma jority of the present council a more marked disrespect for public opinion and a more insulting tone towards their political opponents than has distinguished the party in their more " palmy" days ; and we are there fore the less surprised at the various impertinencies which characterise the proceedings of Monday and I Tuesday's council. The Mercury of Friday last has a long, dull, and verbose article on the subject of the corporation schools, in which the writer endeavours to prove that the Bible neither is, nor ever was, excluded from those schools. This question lies in a nut-shell, and may be disposed of in a very few words. The Education Committee, some five years ago, decided upon adopting the Irish system of national education in the corpora tion schools. This system notoriously excludes the Bible from its schools, and only permits an hour to be set apart for separate religious instruction, not under the schoolmaster's inspection, but under the voluntary superintendence of the various ministers of religion. The resolution adopting this Bible-excluding system has never, to this day, as far as we are cognizant of the matter, been rescinded by either the Committee or the Council. Let that resolution be first rescinded, and then we shall be prepared to enter into an argu ment with the Mercury. Until that is done, all the assertions of the Mercury are not worth a rotten nut. We dare say that our readers have occasionally met with some male or female tabby, whose on dits have passed invariably for law—whose jokes have been re peated again and again to admiring circles—whose pilfered wit has always met with the ready laugh—and whose superhuman displays of learning have furnished a theme for the wondering comments of gaping auditors. Woe to the unfortunate wight whose daring tongue should venture to disturb the complacency of such an oracle—to question the correctness of her word—to doubt the originality of her witticisms, or deny the accuracy of her note-book ! We ourselves are unluckily in this predicament. We have offended the nice sense of delicacy which distin guishes the respectable old lady whose editorial lucu brations adorn the pages of the Liverpool Mercury. We have rudely impugned the verity of her oracular wisdom ; and are not to be honoured with more of her sweet conversation until we have learned to clothe our remarks in more gentlemanly language. Mercy on us ! How are we to survive under so lamentable a depriva tion ? Sad, however, and cruel as we feel it to be, we are, nevertheless, bound to submit. In the performance of our duty to the public we cannot avoid being sometimes cruel, but are never willingly rude. On the occasion which has given such heavy offence to the Mercury we convicted that veracious print of having presented to its readers a mass of senseless misrepresentation, pur porting to be a report of the proceedings of the late municipal election : and, in proof, we particularized an instance in which the reporter had studiously omitted the details of a judicial inquiry, in order that he might be able to falsify the result. We did this in plain lan guage certainly. Our object was to shew, and we did shew pretty distinctly, that, however ingenious its quips and cranks, its riddles and charades, the reports of passing events which that paper contains are rendered utterly worthless by being distorted, and even falsified, to serve the pnrposes of party. It was matter of difficulty to rebut what we had ad vanced, and therefore it is that our contemporary takes refuge in—his gentility ! Even in that refuge, how ever, we shall be compelled to disturb him, by bringing before his notice an instance of gross and flagrant lying in his last publication. In a leading paragraph, headed " North Toxteth Ward," after alluding briefly to the melancholy decease of Mr. W. W. Currie, the writer goes on to say, "The tories, with their usual disregard of decency, on the same day, and almost immediately after the melancholy intelligence was known, called a meeting, organized their canvassers, and commenced at once by sending out thirty of their body, who were at work until one o'clock in the morning !" Now, reader, what "taffeta words"—what silk-paper phrases can we possibly find to characterize such a statement as this ? We have the authority of the candidate himself, and of a numerous public meeting of his committee and friends, for declaring that, from first to last, the Mercury's statement is the very reverse of true. The disregard of decency spoken of was evinced by Mr. Rathbone and his friends, who were busily engaged in convassing the ward before Mr. Smith's friends took a single step to secure his return We will not he so uncharitable as to say that our contemporary was aware of this fact. It served the purpose of his party, however, to circulate the slander, and to do this the Mercury is the ready and servile tool. The lie is now in every tap-room and beeihouse in the ward ; and, on what Mr. Thomas Bolton would term the authority of an anonymous editor of a news paper, Mr. Alexander Smith and his friends are to be twitted at every step of their canvass with inhumanity and indecency. The sole end and aim of the slanderer will thus ever be answered whilst conservative supine ness allows this locomotive register-office for clerks and servants out of place to boast of its "extensive circulation," and to poesess the power of scattering its venom so widely. The alarming frequency and the fatal consequences of railway accidents, within - the last few weeks, loudly demands the interference of the legislature. The public will not rest satisfied unless something is done in order to obviate, as much as possible, such lamentable ca- tastrophes It must be evident that the paucity of accidents on the Liverpool and Manchester, the Grand Junction, and several other lines, when compared with what has taken place on the lines on which so many lives have been recently sacrificed, must be taken as a proof of superior care and management on the former lines. Culpability must, therefore, rest somewhere in con nection with the recent accidents. There must be some lack of judicious management, some imperfection in the regulation and superintendence of certain lines, to account for the great disparity in the number of acci dents to which we allude. It behoves the directors of those lines which have of late been so much prejud with the public, to institute the most rigid inquiries into the subject. Amidst the conflicting statements which have been published respecting the causes of the late accidents it is frequently difficult to point out where the blame rests ; but that blame does attach in some quarter, we feel justified in assuming, from the circumstance that accidents are of such rare occur rence on some of the old-established lines. The directors of the lines which have obtained so melanc a notoriety within the last few weeks may rest satisfies that a material loss of public patronage will eventuall3 result, unless they adopt some better regulations fo: ensuring the safety of their passengers. Justice am humanity, as well as the dictates of common sense loudly demand an inquiry into this subject. The frightful and heartrending casualties reco in our paper of this day afford additional reason pressing this subject upon the minds of railway dire tors. From the particulars which we have elsewher furnished it is quite evident that there has been a gross neglect of proper precaution displayed. Whether the engineers, or the machinery, or the general superin. tendents, are to blame, we do not pretend to say; but we do sal' that a culpable degree of inattention to the , ._ ordinary means of security has been manifested ; and we (16 not hesitate to affirm that the interference of th legislature, for the prevention of such accidents in future, will be imperatively demanded by the public voice during the next session of parliament. The rapid multiplication and extension of our railways, and the consequent great increase of travelling by this mode of conveyance, render it still more necessary that parlia- it should devise some more stringent regulations any at present in existence, for the public protec . But, first of all, we repeat, let the directors of various companies see what may be done by irn ving their regulations and mechanical arrangements. We rejoice to learn that the cau of conservatism •er presented a more' triumphant aspect than it does wesent throughout the whole of North Waits remendous efforts were made previously to the late .vision by the radical faction in every county in that irt of the Principality. Those efforts have, however, roved utterly unsuccessful. In the county of Denbigh, Tecially, the conservatives have gained materially on the last registry. Many cases occurred in which the radicals had neglected to pay the shilling with their claims to the overseers. In one parish, near Denbigh, 8 objections made by the conservative agent were sus lined on that point. At Llanrwst the whip party ejected to all the conservatives indiscriminately, most f are gentlemen of the greatest respectability , Sin number. The objections were served by a coin non bailiff, who went to their residences at the last aoment. It so happened that this bailiff, either from [rink or some other cause, forgot to serve any of the Iverseers until it was too late, so that, notwithstanding attetnpt to annoy the electors by giving them the Duble to attend the court to support their votes, (being •eviously on the register,) the objection taken to the ervice on the overseer by the conservative agent pre- ed. If any thing could induce an elector to exert isellit would be such conduct as this N very im- )octant objection was taken by the conservative agent ,o the objections made by the Whig party at Chirk, Ruabon, and another parish, viz., that Mr. Morris, a ?rincipal tenant of Mr. Biddulph, and the general ob ector in those districts, died some weeks before the registration, and that the objections must therefore fall to the ground, there being then no objector in law, no Dne to authorise the advocate to support his objections , no one to withdraw an objection, no one liable to costs in case the objections were frivolous and vexatious, and that at law, if a party, during the progress of the cause, died, there was an end of it. These objections were very numerous, particularly at Ruabon, which is a populous parish. The learned revising barrister stated that he had looked into all the books, and there was no case of the kind, and decided on reserving the point until the last day of the registration. He ulti mately gave judgment at Ruthin, and stated that the objection taken by Mr. Home, the agent of the con servatives, must prevail, and that all the names would therefore be retained. The success of our Denbighshire friends is, however, not greater than that which has attended the efforts of the conservatives in the adjoining counties; and we have no hesitation in saying that radicalism has sus tained its death-blow in North Wales. The return of the aldermen and assessors of Mr ackburn as the representative of Lime-street Ward, Las suggested one or two questions very proper to be lut to some of the leading supporters of that gentle man. The first is, whether a person of independent olitics was not engaged by the Reform Association , he day before the election, to act as poll-clerk ?—the ,ext, whether the chairman of the Ward Reform As ociation did not, upon his own authority, on the )rning of the election, dismiss this person, and ap- point instead a clerk in his own service ?—and, whether it was not in the book kept by the individual who had been so appointed that the errors were de tected, by which the principles of the burgesses were misrepresented, and Mr. Kilshasv wronged The contest for the election of a councillor to re sent North Toxteth Ward, in the room of the late lamented W. W. Currie, Esq., is likely to be one of the most severe that Liverpool has for some time wit nessed. Both parties have had their public meetings, and both candidates are now formally introduced to the notice of the electors. The sensible and energetic speech of Alexander Smith, Esq. will be found in ano ther column, and amply justifies the choice which the conservatives have made. Mr. Rathbone's address 15 also before the public, and must be pronounced one of the most flippant and insolent productions that ever emanated even from the pen or the lips of this virulent traducer of his fellow townsmen. By way of compli ment to the electors he asserts that he is " well aware of the cruel intimidation, the undue influence, and the corruption that have been made use of in some of the wards." These complimentary terms, we feel assured, will be appreciated as they ought to be by the inde pendent electors of North Toxteth. They will cast them in Mr. Rathbone's teeth on the day of election• If the charge of intimidation and corruption be ap plicable in any quarter it is so in reference to the recent proceedings of the radical faction in almost every ward in the town. The electors of North Toxteth will do honour to themselves by the rejection of the rejected of Pitt-stree t ward. They will, we trust, teach Mr. Rathbone that they are not to be insulted with impunity. They will, we hope, prove that bribery, corruption, and intimida tion cannot induce them to give the preference to a man whose political character has been already con demned by a large class of the electors of Liverpool. We hope that three hours from the commencement of the election will not elapse before Mr. Rathbone re ceives demonstrative evidence that he is the rejected O f North Toxteth. THE REVEREND R. P. BUDDICOM The Reverend R. P. Buddicom, M.A., F.A.S., the re - , spected minister of St. George's, Everton, has been appo inteo Rector of the Parish and Principal of the College of St. Bee' s in the room of the late Dr. Ainger. The rev. gentleman ill been connected with the congregation at Everton for upwer'l of twenty years, and has been deservedly valued as a faith minister, a sound divine, and a distinguished scholar. ile has also contributed considerably to the theological writing, of the present day, and we are sure a fitter person could nc' t have been selected as successor to Dr. Ainger. We under stand, from undoubted authority, that the Earl of Lousdal e ' who is patron of the living of St. Bees, with his usual ur banity, immediately placed it at the disposal of the Bishop ef the Diocese, thereby enabling him to bestow it on the Prin . pal of the College. The duties of the rev. gent l ema n in the latter capacity will be rather onerous, hut the emolument, which is considerable, is chiefly derived from those service s ' which consist principally in superintending the clerical etiu . ; cation of about forty young gentlemen , who are desirous 0' taking upon themselves the sacred office, but whose pecu niary circumstances will not admit of their availing them selves of the more expensive tuition to be obtained at Ost b r`,. and Cambridge. St. Bees is a small village and township m es " beautifully situated (in an extensive parish of that name) 011 the sea-shore, about three miles and a half from Whitehavq.; and the inhabitants, about 600 in number, are princie,"2 supported by those who attend the institution to which A',.`; Buddicom has been appointed, and by the boys attending the Grammar School, which is a building totally distinct, m ,a l l l l , under a different management from that of the College. ;10.e latter forms, in appearance, part of the village church, and, • believe was formerly used for the purposes of divine wors1,11,1:, butbeing in a very dilapidated state, was, in 1819, converted and is Dr. Law, the then Bishop of Chester, to its present use, e i. now an object extremely picturesque, and a beautiful sPe men of architectural taste. The residence of Mr. Budd,i,f„°g adjoins the church, and resembles very much the dwe"”ii honse which has recently been erected, and is the first hni'.o ing to the northward of Birkenhead church. The seen er , Y i l t tl the neighbourhood is proverbially picturesque, and the a t e , is exceedingly fertile. The inhabitants of the village ar e • r e a spectable and intelligent, and though their moral c ona.,el a , may be much improved under the pastoral care of Mr. D'„ dicom, they are far from being a class addicted to any r e ' s , moral practices, or tainted with infidel or chartist eriee i P te n The gentleman who has lately officiated as curate at Eve r ifi e accompanies Mr. Buddicom as theological tutor, an e _ e vir which was at one time held by the Rev. R. Parkinson, ,"„n Fellow of the Collegiate Church, Manchester. We have,ec tile induced to give these few particulars as we conceive minutiae relating to the present sphere of Mr. Buddico'we labours will be interesting to our readers, and because it . have heard the most incorrect statements made respectinglo, The inhabitants of Liverpool, lay and clerical, have.:_ te , tamed an irreparable loss by the remo val of Mr. Budd'i and we assure him he is followed by t he wannest prayer'afa multitudes, that he may continue to r eceive the condort "so support which the doctrinal truths he has so long faithfully preached are calculated to impart , a nd that his iNle nisterial devotedness and scientific acquiremen ts inay be the means of accomplishing much spiritual good to the Pe e l' amongst whom he is sent. of A most important duty devolves upon the proprieterss_.e. Everton church, in the selection of a suitable person to e' ceed Mr. Buddicom. A meeting of the body , we pertcore, from an advertisement, is convened for F rida y next, hope ceive a communication from that gentleman, and we e t he for the interests of the church at large, for the welfare ol .1, congregation, and for the satisfaction of Mr. Budd!ioer,f who will necessarily feel interested in the future contlit' his Hock, that the choice will r est on one who land er, tried and found faithful—who has abilit y , energy, 0 1 :i to severaace for the responsible duties he will be called ( 1 1) perform. Such a gentleman may be met with i our WI," CI a ( tui in of all la,