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FEBP , ;ARY 9, en to pledge himself by this adares. and claimed a right to re serve to hiniself the entire and unlettered power of disposing of the question, not by any fanciful analogy supposed to exist be tween England and Ireland, if that analogy turned out to be ouly plausible, not real, but upon firmer principles. (Cheering.) In short, he would not look to words, but to facts. ( Hear, hear.) Considering the bearing of the question on the state of Ireland (hear, hear), it was not necessary for him to defend abuses- in Irish corporations, to maintain the principle of self election, the exclusive adminstration of justice, to contend for the past misap propriation of municipal funds ; or to refuse his aid to prevent their future misapplication ; but when the question came before parliament he would look at the whole state of Ireland with a viers to determine whether; under pretence of removing one species of exclusion, we might oat in a measure of corporate reform be confirming another. ( Loud cheers.) He would look at the proposition to see to whom power would be given (hear, hear;) he would look to the objects for which the power might be exeressed (hear, hear;) and if he believed that it would conduce to the maintenance of the connection subsisting between the two countries—that the giving of it would confirm those ancient and settled institutions of the country which his hou. friend the mover of the address had ex pressed himself most anxious to maintain, he might consent to the plan, but he would not be deceived by a plausible analogy if he did not find real grounds for the proposition. (Loud cheering.) Therefore it was that he would not he bound to apply the same principle to Ireland as to England, unless he felt morally certain it would be employed in the same manner. (Hear, hear.) Recollecting, therefore, that ministers were not entitled to bind him .by a pledge of this nature, and being anxious to guard against any possible misunderstanding in future—f ee li ng that the course now taken was contrary to that Pursued, in other parliamentary addresses, and inconsistent with parliamentary usages, he proposed to move the omission of the objectionable words (hear, hear;) substituting for them others Which, so far from excluding a measure of municipal reform for Ireland, would leave the question open for everyone of the most extrem e opinions to approach as he pleased. In taking this course he still entertained a confident hope, although he found it necessary to propose an amendment, that there might be no division on the address, and he entertained that expectation because he felt persuaded that ministers might concur in his proposition without relinquishing-a firm determination to bring forward their own principles ; and enforce them in any measure which they might propose to the house; (Hear, hear.) He would read the words of the address as it stood at present, and then propose his amendment. , The clause to which he objected was to the following effect—to assure his Majesty,,that "being already in possession of the report of the commission appointed to inquire into the state of the municipal corporations in Ireland, they entertained the hope that it wilt be in their power to apply to any defects and evils which may have been shown to exist in those institutions a remedy founded upon the same principles as those of the acts which have already passed for England and Scotland." He moved that those words be omitted, for the pur pose of inserting the following—" to assure your Majesty, that being already in possession of the report of the commission ap pointed to inquire into the state of the municipal corporations in Ireland, we will proceed without delay to the consideration of any defects or evils which may have been proved to exist in those institutions, for the purpose of applying such remedies as may obviate all just causes of complaint, and insure the impartial administration of justice." (Loud cheering.) He had pur posely framed his amendment in a way which he thought ren tiered it:ppssible for gentlemen opposite, though retaining their own opinions on the subject of Irish municipal reform, and de termined to enforce their principles to the utmost of their ability —which rendered it possible for ministers "to avoid an appear *area' (ti'sinaion on the address by concurring in iris proposi tion„,S Hear, h ear. ) 4'he original question and the amendment having been put .from the. chair, A debate of some length and of considerable animation en sued. Lord J. Russem. defended the address in its original form. :Lord STANLEY declared that ho should support the amend ment if it were pressed to a division. • Lord Howicic supported the address, and rebutted the charges made against the administration, _that it had ex tended th e p ower an d soug h t t h e support o f Mr. O'Connell. He admitted the power of that individual, and he was sorry that it existed; but he was not, and never could be, the personil friend of Mr. O'Connell. Lord Du [MEV STUART said he should agree to the address, but he could not avoid re g r e tti ng t h at all mention of Poland iras omitted. Lord PALMERSTON contended that there was no ground for this complaint. It had not been usual in the speeches from the throne to describe any particular line of policy that might be in tended; but former speeches had declared the determination of this country to uphold treaties, and nothing had occurred to .require the repetition of that determination. Mr. O'CONNELL exclaimed with great vehemence against the injustice of refusing a full equal►ty of rights to Ireland, and vindicated the conduct of the Irish . government, which he de scribed as being perfectly impartial in its conduct towards the two contending parties. He renewed the threat of repeal, in case his expectations from the justice of this country should be disappointed. Mr. SHAW replied to the arguments of Mr. O'Connell. The amendment of Sir Robert Peel was rejected on a division, the numbers being— For the original motion . For the amendment. 284 243 Majority in favour of ministers.. 4l POOR I. WS IN IRELAND. Sir RICHARD MUSGRAVE gave notice of a motion for Tues day (this day) for leave to bring in a bill for the establishment of poor laws in Ireland. MR. O'CONNELL AND MR. RAPHAEL. Mr. HA ally love notice that he would submit a motion to the house respecting the circumstances connected with the election of Alexander Raphael and N. A. Vig,ors, Esqrs., for the county of Carlow, in June last. (Hear hear.) The house then, at a few minutes after eleven, adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Earl of SHATTESBURY, in the absence of Lord Denman, presented a bill for the abolition of capital punishment iu cer tain cases.—Read a first time. At two o'clock the house proceeded to St. James's Palace to present the address to his Majesty, voted on the preceding day. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY. After several not ees of motions had been given, new writs were ordered to he issued for Stoke-upon-Trent, in the room or n. Eleatheote, Esq., and ,for Cockerniouth, in the room of F. 13. Dykes, Esq., these members having accepted the chiltern 'hundreds. SESSIONAL ORDERS. On the motion of Lord JOHN itossEt.r. the house proceeded to the consideration of the sessional orders. The discussion on these orders possessed no particular interest. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. Wm. Ews RT, believing that the country was opposed to nocturnal legislation, moved the resolution of which he had given notice on the previous night, namely, that no new busi ness should be commenced after half-past eleven o'clock except such'as might be of a formal nature. The honourable gentleman's motion was negatived on a divi sion by a majority of 182. The numbers being for the motion 51, against it 233! FOREIGN CORN IN BOND. Mr. 1-IEATticoTE asked-the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. P. Thomson) whether it was the intention of government to bring in a bill to permit foreign corn in bond to be taken out for the purpose of being ground for foreign consumption ? • Mr. P. THOMSON replied that no such measure was contem plated by government. REPORT ON THE ADDRESS. Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY brought up the report on the address. On the question that it be read, a debate of some length en sued. Th e speakers were Mr. Fector, Mr. S. G. Price, Mr. Hume, Mr. R. Trevor, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Potter, Lord F. Eger ton, Lord Palmerston, Lord Mahon, and Mr. Borthwick. After Which the add ress was agree d to. - ANNUITY OF THE KING OF BELGIUM. Mr. ROBINSON wished to ask his right hon. friend the Chan cellor of the Exchequer whether any payments had yet been made into the public treasury arising from the annuity which his .Majesty King Leopold. had relinquished to the country. If his right hon. friend was not prepared to give him au answer at that moment, he would take another opportunity of mentioning the subject. Mr. S. Rica was prepared to state at that moment, that the arrangements with respect to the annuity proposed by his Ma jesty the King of Belgium, had been most strictly adhered to. In a short time an account would be laid o❑ the table, which would show the amount of the annuity which had become avail able for the public service. With the exception of some engage ments which his Majesty had entered into, for the purpose of granting pensions to faithful servants on his establishment in this country, the whole amount of the annuity would be made available for the public service. • . Adjourned at half-past eight o'clock. LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS. GRAY'S INN HALL, SATURDAY. LADY lIEWLEY'S CHARITY.--THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SHORE. Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Pat-• tison, sat in thii Hall to give judgment in this appeal against .the decision of the Vice Chancellor, and which has excited such interest throughout • its proceedings, not only to the Parties iinmediately concerned, but to the members of all reli gious denominations. The principal question in this ease was, whether unitarians were eligible to receive the benefits arising from Dame Hewley's charitable bequests. His Honour was of Opinion that the only persons contemplated by the testator, were such only as believed in the doctrine of the Trinity ; thereby excluding the defendants from the enjoyment of the charter. This appeal was in a great part heard V Lord Brougham, as-, Rsisted by Mr. Justicelittledale and Mr. Baron Parke. His lordship, however, resigned the great seal before it was con cluded, and the defendants agreed to close it and receive his lordship's judgment after he retired. The whole case was therefore begun de nova, and heard by Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Pattison. Their lordships this morning, after quotinttall the precedents and auth or i t i es relating to the question, affirmed the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor. J udgment affirmed. gulcinE.—Don Vicente Elisonda, a young man aged 21, a native . o f Columbia and a student at the L ondon U n i vers i ty, i es t"'Yed him se lf b'y cutting his throat, on Sunday last. The dent" had caug ht the small pox, Which, at the crisis, pro. 'l an aberration of mind. The jury returned a verdict of TemPorary Insanity." EmIN ENT MEN ov FIFE.-Sir John Campbell, Sergeant Spankie, !livid Wilkie, Captain Barclay, Mr. l'Culloch, Dr. Fleming, Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Gillespie, are names for whose local habitation s biographic historians will yet be zealous to pin quire.s!iy have every one of them lived in manses in the re te 9 r Ahey 6 f Cupar 1 believe that there are none of the coin- In unalt who better make their way, or achieve for *themselves more honourabl e places iu society, than the sons of the manse; • and assuredly no p re sbytery .can boast of a greater number of manses which have been distinguished for their sons than that of Cupar. The father of .the Attornev.General of England was minister in the county town, and could give his son no fur ther assistance than what he might derive from moral training and intellectual education. Two of his sons are knights. Mr. SSpankie was born in the manse of Falkl an d, an d h aving b ee n long distinguished as a lawyer in India, now holds a place second to few indeed at the English bar. The manse of Cults, where David Wilkie was born, still stands, and its churchyard displays the monument which the affection of the painter erected in memory of his parents. Dr. Barclay of Kettle, whose son war almost blown to pieces on the American lakes, and who, even among British sailors, had no rival in the brief but disastr o us Transatlantic war of 1814, is still alive, hale, and active, and near his 90t1 , year. Mr. 1 1 / 4 1`Culloch, the eminent Secretary of the India House—the friend and patron of so many of countrymen—the chief of Eastern merchants, was born at Dairsie. Kilmany manse witnessed the dawning glertes of the fame of Chalmers ; and Flick, the matu re d emi nence of Fl em i ng , a s the first Scottish naturalists. The place of the birth of Wilkie was long the residence of Gillespie.— Pifeshire Journal. a=rst7;l. MT, LEVER THEATRt, Ciluncli-STREET LAST WkEK of Mr. and. 11w Misses SMITH. IISIS present TUESDAY, the 9th, WEDNESDAY, the 10th, and THURSDAY, the 11th instant, will be per formed the Drama called THE MURDERERS OF MASSI C.- , After which a CONCERT, in which Mr.and,tfe MisseS'S*Tri will appear. • To conclude with THE CARAVA OR, THE DRIVER, AND S DOG. Blabbo lr. Raymond. Rosa Mrs.. 8. mond. Marchioness rs. Herbert. Carlo, by Mr. Raymond's Newfoundland Dog. A new Farce, translated from the French of M.:Scribe, by Mrs. Raymond, called THREE HOURS' COT.IRTSHIP, is in rehearsal, and will be shortly produced. / MASTER HUGHES, the CAMBRIAN HARPIST, begs leave respectfully to return thanks to his Friends and Patrons for their liberal support of his reent Concerts, and to inform - them that he will have the ho our, hy the desire of numerous Friends, to give a FAREWELL CONCERT in a few days.—Full particulars will be duly announced. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We do not know to which of the " Holts" the letter of Omega is addressed. The excellent communication of D, if possible, in our next. The whole particulars of the Excise affair, in the matter of glass, are already known to us. Nevertheless, we thank our kind correspondent. tri,be 31.therpool TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1836. The parliamentary campaign commenced on Thursday fast. We reprint the King's speech, which appeared in our second edition of Friday. In reading it from the throne the infirmities of old age in our revered sovereign were so ill attended to by the official servants who sur rounded him that the King could not proceed, and was obliged to order lights, which, being procured, his Ma jesty began de novo, and read with an audible voice one of the most jesuitical productions that ever was listened to within the walls of parliament. This was rather an unpropitious opening of the ses sion; but the ending of the first day was still more omi nous of disaster. The gloom of mid-day was not at all enlivened by the unanimity of midnight. An amend ment was moved in both houses relative to some expres sions in the speech, which seemed calculated if not in tended to pledge parliament to a similar measure of mu nicipal reform in Ireland as has been granted to England and Scotland. The ministerial peers, led by the pre mier, concurred in the amendment; but the ministerial lords in the House of Commons, led by Lord JOHN RUS SELL, stoutly opposed it, and carried the , original ad dress, which, by the way, was of Sheffield manufacture, by a poor majority of forty-one. This, we admit, evinced immense- prowess on the part of the home secretary, who was backed to the uttermost by the mendicant legion from Ireland ; but we question if it proves any wisdom. The weakness and want of cordiality on the part of the cabinet was thereby, and most unnecessarily, made manifest. Lord MELBOURNE and Lord LANSDOWNE acquiesced in the justice and pro priety of that which Lord JOHN and DANIEL disputed. How long they are to ride in the same carriage, or smell at the same rose, with such diametrically opposite senti ments to reconcile, we leave the reader to conjecture. One thing, however, is plain enough. Lord MELBOURNE is evidently disgusted with the popish alliance, and leaves all the dirty work and the consequent pollUtion to Lord JOHN. He is to feast, embrace, and cajole the beggar; but my Lord Premier is to be saved the indignity and the odour of coming into contact with him. OUr readers, we know, will gladly ,enough.spare us the trouble and themselves the slavery of wading through the various.topics alluded to in the royal speech. There are one or two, however, which we cannot pass over. His Majesty is advised to say that he . approves of the "prudent and vigorous conduct of the present govern. ment of Spain ;" that he has offered his "mediation in order to compose the dißrence which has arisen between France and the United States . f! and that he continues to receive from his allies, and "generally from all foreign powers, assurances of their unaltered desire to cultivate friendly relations." Let us take, these in their order. It is singular, if not humiliating, that the King of England should be induced or persuaded by his ministers to call that " vigour" on the part of the Queen Regent of Spain which is exemplified by a series of the most in human murders, and to call. that " prudence" which con sists in forging accounts of victories for the purpose of swindling in all the stock and money markets of Europe. It is strange that ministers should boast, through the medium of the King's speech, that they are mediators in a "difference" between France and the United States, while they do not condescend • to'say a single word about their own "difference" with the same republic upon the boundary question. How grateful the people must be to a ministry which takes so deep an interest in what con cerns foreigners, and takes no interest at all in what con cerns ourselves. The allusion to other powers is curious. His Majesty is made to say that "generally" he receives from " all foreign powers" friendly assurances. If from " all," why "generally" from all Y When a man says ".1 have generally received support in my canvass for the honour of representing Whig-cum-kick in the ensuing parlia ment," he means to say that he has received many pro mises, but that he has also met several electors who are decidedly opposed to him. The King's speech, in using the word " generally," means nothing more than this. There are powerful enemies somewhere ; and can we wonder at it, when we see his Majesty's ministers in boasted alliance with France, the natural enemy of Eng land, and' the most pestilent and revolutionary nation in Europe ? How comes it that his Majesty's ministers have no sympathies to interchange with any of the con tinental sovereigns, except the remorseless and perfidious Louis PHILIPPE of France, and the worthless woman, with her hired cheats, who trample upon the laws and berties of Spain ? How comes it that the Dutch and Belgic question is not alluded to, as heretofore, by the ministers of England ? Have they no-allies but the mob tyrants of Washington and Paris ? Do they take no in terest in the mean and unprincipled pensioner, the pro testant husband of the PrincesS CHARLOTTE, whom Lord GREY placed upon the provincial throne of Belgium, who has since espoused a popish princess, and who has conformed, in consequence of marital engagements and obsequious baseness, to all the impositions of the most bigotted heirarchy in the liomish church? He is not even alluded to. The young Princess of Portugal is equally forgotten, simply because she cannot, any more aid to the party now in than L EOPOLD , render any power. Rpia, however, and the King of the Netherlands are pointed at, although not by name. The naval estimates are to be increased. The rumour in the best circles is, that five thousand men, and a proportional number of of ficers and ships, are to be added to our fleet in the Me diterranean. The pretext is that our extended commerce requires this additional force. ,Where our commerce has' extended to since this time 'twelvemonths we are utterly at a loss to know; but even, if extended, why the neces- sity for a more powerful fleet, seeing that his Maje'sty's government are receiving friendly assurances generally from all foreign powers ? But the sooner the mask is dropped the better. France has virtually declared war against Russia, in favour, of the treacherous, dishonest, and demoralized Poles, and England is now so pitiably in the hands of the present administration that she cannot avoid taking part in a struggle that must inevitably cover her with disgrace, ruin her eastern.empire, and give Turkey—and a large portion of Asiatic Turkey too—to NICHOLAS. On the • first hostile movement by France or England, the King of the Netherlands will march into Belgium—the Em peror of Russia upon Constantinople. Austria will be compelled to join Russia for the sake of her own inter nal tranquillization. She cannot afford to lose Venice or Italy. She must contest the admiSsiort of French principles into any part of her territory ;' and, before many weeks a ftet the rupture, Prussia will see the policy of attaching herself to the interests of her nearest neigh-, bours. • But will France follow up the professions of an unsta , ble prince, and a perpetually shifting administration, in a a:r :t:xaA7'l.s,' way to make peril and not glory the more probable re sult of the game ? No. The people of France are mad to a.certain extent, but they have lucid intervals. The, present is one of their calm intervals. They will not rush into war for the sake of Poland. The intelligent people of France, watever they may profess, entertain the most cordial contempt for the patriots of Poland, simply because they know who they are, and what they have done, and how deeply they have heaped dishonour upon themselves and brought disgrace upon their nation. But thiS the artful 'Ministers of Lows'PlilLiPPE will do. They will lead 'l,O whigs of England into a quarrel vw • ith Russia. They will promise to unite in defence of com mon principles, but they will take care to make reconci liation impossible by blowing hot upon the one party to exasperate, and cold upon the other to compromise and concede. This to us is as clear as any thing can be. The deep laid policy of France—our new-born allies, our implaca ble enemies, who love England as. Carthage did Rome---L that pqicy is to involve us in a war with Russia. His Majesty's ministers do not see the snare. France repre sents that our interests in the East are insecure—that Persia is virtually a province of the Czar, and that our Indian empire is at his mercy. This may be true; but what interest can France, by means of this exasperating and insidious argument, have in ,common with England, with respect to Indian affairs ? Her professions are questionable—out fears are childish. She offers an opi nion to mislead—we adopt a principle which she laughs at. We respect circumlocution, are pleased with an epigram, and reject common sense. We call France a civilized power, and Russia a barbarian one. The dull and lazy brutes of Constantinople we call honest, rational, acute and honourable merchants; while in our commer cial vernacular the nobles of Russia, the statesmen of Russia, and the ministers of the Emperor, are regarded as untutored savages. This is a mistake. There is more, honour and intelligence, and much more civiliza tion, amongst the higherclasses in St. Petersburg!), than we find in Paris. In France we find madness—in Rus sia honour, acuteness, and principle. In France we en counter infidelity and the concomitant laxity of morals— in Russia we meet with candour, truth, strong national feelings, and the strictest honour. On - the score of morality, therefore, the ministers of England make a sad exchange by giving a preference to the dexterous infidels of France who hate us, our fame, and all our institutions, at the expense of Russia. They know not what lir do. Russia understands the present policy of EnglaWr, and she might be ,conciliated—France only understands it to abuse our confidence ani mislead us into interminable hostilities. But of this enough for the present. The last topic concerns Ireland and ,municipal reform. To speak frankly we do' not see how some measure for amending the corporations in that country can be avoided. The question is undoubtedly beset by evils. We. have committed a mistake here ; and such is our position that we must follow up the blunder by committing a still greater mistake in Ireland. No man can be so, blind as not to see that, by opening the corporations to the multi tude, the whole, or at least the greater part of them, must fall into the hands of the popish priests and their slaves. This is the policy of the present day. We are called upon to conciliate the enemies of England at all haiards. The priests must be deluged with power, even though the concession should lead to a deluge of blood. The :argument an the other side is—why should not the corpo ration of Cork or Dublin be as open to all classes of citi zens as is the corporation of Bristol or Liverpool ? We have a sufficient answer to this proposition, but we know that it would not be deemed satisfactory to what is called popular opinion. , But we have this answer to offer, in regard to the general policy, and as being more strictly applicable to the interests of the people of England. Mu nicipal reform in Ireland would not be the destruction of an exclusiire system—it would be the creation of an ex clusive. system—it would give all the power to' the po pish priests—it would make every corporation a popish citadel—it would convert every school into a mass-house —it would turn the channels of protestant beneficence into the kennel of monkish corruption—it would make the desolatedhoule of prayer a convenient confessional, and pervert what was the consecrated seat of piety rind holiness - to - the purposes of licentiousness and debauch ery. Such, we venture. to predict, will be the conse quences tif Lord JOHN RusS:ELL's con , templated munici pal reform for Ireland. In brief—corporation reform in that country would hasten, and render inevitable, the much dreaded— , . tifE - Li V . ERP 00 L :. STAN' DAR D . ~; <[>T";!T'.T..r c:t : faq_'tsatS :; f~iS ' a`..`t'A~:l~'3Cc7S '.^. Cki^..'m'aKF House, in discussiug questions of the most silly and al surd nature—questions that would provoke the derision of a twopenny spouting club, be a reproach to the intel lect of a free-and-easy society, and put out all the pipes of a smoking parliament in a pothouse, by means of the convulsive shouts of mirth which the bare annunciation of them would excite. No, Mr. EwAar ; if you wish to shorten the discussioni, and jump earlier out of the House into bed, you must keep all your curious motions to yourself, and induce your friends to follow so good an example. . . _ The bantam of the Chronicle crowed most furiously on Saturday last. Who spurred it, or whether it was spurred at all, we have no means of knowing; but, judging by the note of the bird, it must have been in a towering rage, bordering on the ludicrous. • The people of Liverpool have generally had the credit of speedily forgetting the excitements caused by party and political contests; but our contemporary, on this oc casion, departs from the rule, and will not forgive the exemplary punishment which its idol the King of the Beggars received in our Exchange-rooms nearly a fort night ago. The gentlemen who hissed DANIEL, when he was being toadied by Mr. Councillor and Justice-of-the Peace RATIIBONE, are consequently abused in the best style of an infuria&l washerwoman, and are called •" blackguards" and every other low epithet only to be found in a slang dictionary. We apprehend the gentle men in question care as little for the abuSe of the.people of the Chronicle as we do; for we are delighted to ob serve that they feel so acutely on the subject. O'CON NELL was expelled, amid hootings loud and deep, from the Exchange-rooms, and they know it. . He was indig nantly spurned by the moX respectable inhabitants of the town, despite the hired retinue of Irish hodmen which followed him ; and he was taught a lesson which we feel persuaded he. will remember as long as he liVes. " t ile was taught the folly and the price of his impertinence in exhibiting himself before an assembly of Englishmen, and he left Liverpool, as we 'have reason to know, under. the most perfect and galling, conviction that, however successful he may be in deluding and plundering his own wretched countrymen, he has not a chance of playing the Same game by imposing upon the Saxons of this island. No; DANIEL must in future confine his oratorical dis plays to Irish patriots only ; for, although in a few of our towns be may find a seedy unitarian, .or transmuted quaker, or, perhaps, soine rabid dissenter to take hith by the hand, and make him the lion of the hour in some steam factory or infidel seminary; still, he may rely upon it, that his character is properly appreciated and exe crated by all classes of intelligent Englishmen. As a proof of this,'let the Chronicle call to mind the treat ment which, the mendicant received from the Mayor, who, being a gentleman, knew his own position in society, and refusedt6 shake hands with the fellow whom RATIIBONE intruded upon his presence. Mr. CURRIE, of course, did, not wish to offer any unnecessary or invidious disrespect to O'CoN ‘ NELI, ; .and he accordingly studied to be absent from the Town-hall when the agitator was brought thi ther. Mr. RATHBONE, however, could not understand or appreciate the delicacy et the Mayor's conduct, and he had the bad manners to send for the chief magistrate, as if the Mayor had leen RATHBONE'S footman. But he received a proper )Ibuke. The Mayor came, looked coldly, bowed fortnall and stiffly, and then—exit DANIEL and his Friend ill an unenviable fit of shivering. They entered warmly and boldly, but came out—quaking All this must be as well known to our contemporary as it is to us, and therefore the great folly on his part to re vive the subject, and give us an opportunity of making the facts still more extensively known. It was the treat ment which O'CONNELL experienced in the Town-hall and Exchange-rooms of Liverpool which detained him so long on the road to Birmingham that he did not arrive until the dinner was devoured and the guests more than half-seas-over. His , reception'here travelled faster than , DANIEL. It reached Birmingham b6fore him ; and it was the dread of a. similar reception by the conservatives of that town which suggested the expediency of not ar riving until after it was dark, and his company had been despaired of. But in refer'ence to these men and matters the Chro nicle threatens . us I It threatens to itripale certain gen tlemen unless we spare Mr. Justice RATHBONE They are to be tomahawked, unless we desist from wounding the render feelings and nice sensibilities of the peace loving and peace-preserving assailant of General GAs- COYNE ! This is a curious way of executing the duties of a whig journalist. But hear its own words:— "But we will not be satisfied in future, if the things go on, to retaliate upon beardless boys and nursery vipers. We will fix upon the* leaders•of the party—for they all encourage the pro- Ceedings of their bantling paper. And we ask how Mr. John Moss, Mr. George Grant, Mr. Sandbach, Mr. Ilorsfall, and Mr. Lawrence, will like to be the heroes of such a rabid article as that which appe►►red on Tuesday? They may depend upon it. we will take them in hand, if they do not Wei:fere, and they are all much more vulnerable than Mr. Itathbotte, inasmuch as they are all infinitely his inferiors in character, talent, respectability, and every attainment, moral and intellectual." The .scribe of the Chronicle makes a mistake here. The LIVERPOOL STANDARD does not ride upon the cable of any man or set of men; and the gentlemen above named, and thus menaced, as a sturdy beggar would threaten a defenceless passenger in a lonely road, have no more control over us than the proprietors of the Chro nicle themselves. We might indeed have better grounds for making two disappointed parsons and a certain sti pendiary responsible for the abusive articles in the Chro nicle than they can have for making any merchants or bankers of Liverpool responsible fur ours. Our contem porary may therefore do his worst in his own way. REPEAL OF THE UNION! dismcmherment principles and poli c y To this we must tome—t o re peal—t 9 are carried into f u ll —to a sanguinary c ivil war , if the annunciated in the Ki n g's Speech, effect. Th ese are our opinions-'and we candidl y de clare them, even though we should stand unsupported in avowing them. ____..._.—.—......., Oar inimitable representative, Mr. ,EwAar, haS al ready recommenced his most amusing performances • in the House of Commons, and we in common with the rest of his constituents, owe him a laugh. On the second night of the session Mr. EWART brought forward a Motion to this effect, Viz., that nothing but . mere formal business be transacted in the House after the hour of half-past eleven o'clock at night. This was improved upon by the member for Ireland, our repre • sentative's most particular friend, who moved that the House. should adjourn every night at eleven o'clock. Itis unnecessary to say that both the motion and amend ment were kicked out by a majority of -something like five to one. . . . Will this very feeble,person (our member) never take a hint under any circumstances ? He complains of the tedious debates of the House, which often send him home to his nurse with a sick head ache ; but be forgets the head aches he infliCts by the immense roars of laughter which all his speeches produce. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on this occasion, WaS obliged to rebuke him, as a kind schoolmaster rebukes naughty children. He asked the honourable member for Liverpool, how the business of the state, bow the husiness . of the" public offices, now overwhelmingly gteat, could be carried on, if the heads of departments, the secretaries of state, and all the cabi net ministers, were compelled to be in parliaMent during the businesslours of the day ? Mr. EWART, of course, trucked his thumb and said nothing. He had no reply to offer. " Little Jack Horner sat in a corner."--7 not eating his pie, for the honourable member would have given his best frank for a pie in a quiet place —but he sat chewing his teeth, swinging his hat, and looking as melancholy as a rabbitin a snare. We sincerely' wish that some kind and honest friend would persuade Mr. EWART not to parade his absurdities so frequently before the public. It is little to the credit of the town of. Liverpool that it should have a represent ative who is the laughing-stock of the House of Com mons, and whose penny-trumpet is never sounded but to divert its members. We can easily imagine O'CoN NELL's motives in supporting the motion of Mr. EWART. He and his tail are idlers, of scanty means, in London. They know that there are at least two Hundred conserva tives who have other business to engage their attention during the earlier hours of the day ; and they know that if they could Obtain forenoon sittings their power would be increased, for a considerable number of their oppo nents would necessarily be absent. But EWART, and a few small spoons of his order, are unable to comprehend the sinister motives of O'CONNELL. They imagine that more business Would be better done in the daylight than by candle light, and they are perpetually complaining of long speeches, senseless de bates, and late hours. Now, a moment's consideration would point out a much more rational cause for these senseless debates and late hours. Mr. EwARr himself is a serious offender in this respect. His trumpery mo tions, and more trumpery speeches, are, day after day, vexatiously consuming that precious time of the House which would be a million times better occupied by the consideration of important measures. It is he, and per sons of his narrow calibre, such as BOWRING, ROEBUCK, BUCKINGHAM, HUME, WANLEYi WITALLEy, and other equally erudite and learned worthies, who consume the time of the .Mouse, and laugh away the tide of the LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Seren o'clock. The failure of an old and highly respectable mercantile firm, Messrs. William Ward and Co., has occasioned very great re gret among the merchants, of every shade of politics. Mr. Ward is a hank director, .and, a few years since, was one of the members for the city of London, on the conservative and mer cantile interests. The liabilities of the house are variously es timated, but. it is generally supposed that they will not much ex ceed £50,000.. There have also been rumours in circulation this afternoon of failures in Manchester and Glasgow, paused by the want of remittances from New York. The failure of Mr. Ward is stated to have arisen Our of some Chancery pro ceedings in which he was unfortunately involved. Consols closed at Ryi 91 for Money, and 90h for the account; Excheauer Bills 20 pth. ; India Bonds, 3 pm. ; India Stock 2541; 31 per tents, 90 ; New Ditto, 9g. In the foreign market there was an increase of business this afternoon. The increase of our naval forces had the effect of lowering the Russian and French Stocks. Spanish Stock did not fluctuate snore than 1 per cent. The closing prices wer e , Russian,- 1091; French 5 per cents., 1101; Spanish Stock, 471 The Railway Shares continue to command much of the atten tion of the dealers - in the Foreign Stock market. The quota tions }MVO been on the decline since last week. The Great Western Shares have fallen from 17 to 141; the Loudon and Brighton, (Stevenson',) from 111 to 9; the London and Bir miDghata from 61 to 62; and the North Midland from 31 to 11, and 2 premium per share. The Greenwich Railway Shares have maintained a premium of 81 to 9 per share. The Graves end, Dover, Blackwall, and other minor shares, are rather lower than last week. COLLECTION OF IRISH TITHES.—The Irish- Court of Ex chequer has decided in a tithe cause, Fi'zgerald Clerk v. Lee and oth ers , that, i n cons equence of the obstructions offered to the service of the process of the court by some of the defendants, a notice posted o n the parish church, on the chapel, and at the usual places for publishing notices of road sessions, shall be deemed a good service, the attorney'for the plaintiff having un dertaken to write to each of the patties by the post, acquainting them with this decision. The Lord Chief Baron said, "By making this rule, the military and police will be saved a great deal of trouble."—Mr. Baron Smith: "A great deal of the dif ficulties of' service will be got over in this way. We wish to give - the defendants every notice that their own refractory con duct will allow us to do."—Mr. Baron Foster: " This will also prevent any objection which may be made, that we give too much trouble to the military and police in aiding the service of the subpoenas issuing out of this court." TURN-OUT OF ENGINE-MEN ON THE RAILWAY.—The directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway have been subjected, during th e past week, to considerable inconvenience from a general turn-out of the engine-men, which, as we, have heard, took place under the following circumstance :—For some time past the directors finding it expedient to increase the number of engine-men, and of having a few men of superior mechanical skill taught to manage the engines, gave orders that two or three mechanics from their workshops should accompany the engines as firemen. The regular engine-men, however, ses specting that this new regulation would lead to a reduction of their wares, strongly remonstrated against it . ; and on Wed nesday, two of them refused to start from Liverpool with the men who' had been sent to assist them. They were conse quently immediately discharged; the result of which was, that the whole of the engine -men, and a number of the firemen left their employment as soon as they had completed their first trips on that day. This unexpected occurrence, of course placed the directors in a very unpleasant situation, and there was some :irregularity in the departure, and more in the arrival of - the trains on that and the subsequent days. The directors have filled up the places of the turn-outs from amongst the mechanics, whose previous knowledge of the construction of the engines very soon enabled them to Surmount every difficulty in their 1 new vocation. We understand the turn-outs earned, ou an average, about 40s. per week. . /9 i , CORR.ESPO DE2V-CE. THE POLL BOOK TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIKEI?POOL STANDAIID. is now some time since I ventured to trespass upon your kindness, in allowing any remarks of mine upon a political subject a space in your valuable columns. I trust this may be my excuse in troubling you upon the present occasion. The point I ain about to touch upon is one, as I think, of no ordinary moment, of no trifling importance, in these tumultuous and revolutionary times ; times when all men who entertain opinions, on political subjects, especially those which imme diately affect our constitutional landmarks, ought with an exemplary. .beldness, openly and fearlessly to avow them, and, by so doing, at once to place themselves above all hurtful com ment or suspicion. I am led to make these observations, by observing, alike with astonishment and extreme regret, the extraordinary and incon sistent manner of voting practised. by individuals at the late municipal election in this borough. Now, sir, lam far from saying that A or B has not an undoubted right to vote as he pleases on all occasions; but I do say that the votes of all per sons are open to public remark and public censure. A man in voting at an election, no matter whether municipal or . parlia mentary, discharges a great public duty ; he thereby ueclares what he thinks of the questions pending'upon the issue of such election—his opinions are supposed to be expressed in the vote he gives. For instance, you would not suppose a person who voted for Mr. Councillor Rathbone and his colleagues would agree to the endowment of the parish clergy. Wolf then, in. my humble opinion,.the burgess who giving three votes, votes for one cokservatise and two radical-reformers, such burgess pro fessing to be a tory, staunch and firm, not only aids a cause he 'declares he dislikes, but also by upholding one which is in direct opposition - to his declared opinions, casts a reproach upon the political party to which he says he belongs, and strengthens one which would dash down all he holds dear to his country and his home. These, Mr. Editor, are not times when wishing to please a friend, we ought to allow private considerations to give way to 'public duty, and by so doing injure our religion and our country. If we are indeed'eonservatives, let us not mince the matter; we may give a vote to please a friend, but that single vote may destroy the chance of victory, when had we done, as our hearts told. us we were in-duty bound to - do, we might have not only secured victory; htit, do I'go too far when I saY ; perhaps. saved our' country front revolution and ruat ? Let no ulan give way to private considerations when his country . calls upon him to throw them aside and assist her in maintaining her freedom. Do our political adversaries ever vote for tory candidates to please their friends ? Ali ! no; the instances are indeed very rare. Why then should we, by sup porting radicals, throw•that weight into the scale which, by de ciding the contest, gives victory to our country's enemies: Why should a clergyman of the church. of England (and clergymen have done so very recently) vote for two unitarians (I ! ) `and one conservative; at the same time declaring. himself to lie a supporter of the protestant religion, as the- national reli g ion of his country? Does this man faithfully discharge his duty to his country—not to mention higher considerations? I sir, deny that be does. lie resembles the husbandman in the fable, mho fostered the viper which afterwards bit him-. Ile upholds (at all events in the .political world, and politics are now closely connected with religious considerations) an enemy to the church of England, he goes hand in hand with all)an who would, if he could, level it to the dust. Cats you, Mr. Editor, believe. that such a man loves or wishes well to his religion and his country ? I cannot think he dues; he may say he does, but he mistakes his motives. I admire that individual of whom we eats say. "Ut sus opera his verbis ne cl!Berant." None of your half-and-half men ! We cannot iu these times please all parties, hut let us at least have an approving conscience in the matter. We feel that sorrow most whirls is occasioned by those who should have been fur our comfort; so alse is that blow most dangerous which our glorious constitution receives from those who are professedly her friends. PshaW, sir; to tell me that the individual who pro fesses trinitarian rightly performs his duty when he openly up holds a man who professes unitarian principles, and who would if he could, exterminate. protestantism altogether. Now can people wonder when they bear so much said of the progress of dissent, and of the advances popery is snaking in the touted kingdom. Far, very far be it from me to try to. bring disgrace upon the protestant clergy : persons are not wanting who strive so to do. lint who el n see these things without endeavouring to show the folly and inspropr;ety of such inconsistent conduct? Such men as Mr. M'Neile are exclaimed against hecattar they expose the errors of popery and arianism; but, sir, when. do you see them act inconsistently in the support of their religion ? Do you see them countenancing, by their votes or otherwise, the admission of papists, See. into the councils of the state or the borough ? 1 and yet, for doing their strict duty iu this, they ale called bigots. for one deny that they cou'd act otherwise : and act consistently. I feel certain that their consciences would be ill at ease were they to' uphold a doctrine which is destitute of the testiniony of scripture as to its truth: The thing is impossible; 1 should as soon expect to see them eulogizing " Dens"rheology." What an example should clergymen set to the lay portion of the community? How great is the force of that example? It is a common thing to hear a Person say that he goes to a theatre, and finds an innocent amusement, and that there can be no horns in it, "because I sow a clergyman there." It is not my businesS to decide where a minister of the gospel is or is not to go ; but only see the effect of such a step ; it confirms others in opinions which:may or may net he wrong. 'And a layman may with equal propriety say, he voted for Mr. C:aor Mr. A. because a clergy man slid so; and be would not have done so had he thought it wrong. oe that the established church woqld be injured by it. And thus is the consertative cerise injured, yea deeply and foully injured, by'men who should be eery jealous, even of the humblest of its tenets; by men who shook' be-amour, its first, though, at the Hanle lime, least iotruding supporters. What an effect may not this have upon elections of greater moment. But I will hope for better-things for the time to come , and excusing myself fur trespassing thus upon your time, remain yours, &c., ARGUS. Liverpol, 3d Feb., 1836.- • DRAMATIC MONOPOLY. TO TIM EL 4 2T(JR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDSRO, Stn,—ln some former numbeis of your paper, we announced our intention to produce a drama called the .Tewess, at the Liver Theatre. As our exertions to cater for public amusement from the opening of our house to the present moment. with a kind and liberal feeling from those who were aware of the re striction&uuder which we laboured, and the personal attempts made to frustrate our prospects, we feel it a duty whiclrwe owe . the play-going public to explain why we have been obliged to withdraw the drama alltided to. Sonic weeks since, We received an application from Mr. Yates to produce a translation of the Jewess, .the one performed at the VictoriaTheatre, London, and, consequently, en unlicensed piece. We at once concluded the engagement, not having the most distant idea that a personal or invidious attempt would be made to obstruct its production, the same piece being now nightly performed at two theatres in Liver pool. The following is a copy of a letter received from Mr. Yates, explaining his reason for being obliged to decline the engage ment : Mcgifield, February 4. 1836. " TO RAYMOND, LSO., LIVERI 3 OOI.. " DEAR Sitt,—l have received two official communications from the legal advisers on the one part of the proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, and on the other from those of the lessee, stating thaV they intend proceeding against Mrs. Yates and Miss Betts for the penalties they will incur in performing at the Liver Theatre, and i have also received a notice from Mr; Bunn not to subject these two ladies of his company, under these circumstances, to: such proceedings; I have, there fore, only to follow his directions and to express my kerstraal regret al the circumstance. " I remain, sir, " Your very obedient servant, " FRED. H. YATES." The public Will please to observe that no interference has taken place withlke other theatres in the town, performing the same drama, but every exertion made to ruin us, having ex pended a heavy sum of money for scenery and other matters connected with it. The right to exercise such conduct is most questionable, as far as the patent is concerned. The patent granted to the theatre in Williamson-square empowers its pos sessor to play only such pieces as are licensed by the Lord Cham berlain. The drama in question never was licensed, therefore does not interfere with the patent. We ask the question— Have not several dramas which never met the chamberlain's eye been performed in that house ?—have not the patent rights .theretty been, v iolated ?—and have its lessees any more authority to represent such pieces than we have ? We assert that an in habitant of the Antipodes has as much right to interfere with us in playing an unlicensed drama as any patentee of Liverpool, unless iu the distinguished character of a common intiffmer. Having explained this personal attack, we leave the public to judge of its deserts. It is not alone a private but a common wrong. In our humble persons monopoly im wielded against the public, and they are told that they shall not have rational entertainment at a moderate price, nor any, except such as an individual may please to give them, when, where, and at what charge he thinks proper.—We are, &c., • W. J. HAMMOND, M. RAYMOND. - Liver Theatre, Monday, Bth February, 183 i. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Liverpool Dis pensaries was held on Friday afternoon, at two O'clock, at the Board-room in the Parish Offices, Fenwick-street. In the ab sence, from indisposition, of the president, Mr. florsfall, Mr. Alderman Freme, one of the vice-presidents, took the,chair. Mr. Freme annouueed the cause of Mr..Horstall's absence, and at the same time stated that he had senithe handsome and mu nificent donation of fifty guineas. Mr. Boardman, the secretary, then read .the report of the committee for the past year. It stated that the institution was in a thriVing state, and spoke highly of the zeal and exertions of the medical officers. No less than 66,707 patients hail been relieved during the last year. The annual subset ipt ions chewed an increase, but vet the iustitution had barely been able to keep out of debt, and if they bad merely had the subscriptions to-de pend on they would have been in debt to the amount . of £BOO. The treasurer's account was then also read. It appeared that there had been only one church.collection this year at St. Mi chael's. The new subscriptions amounted to £llO, and there were only £5O of arrears. But there had been a great falling off in the of the old subscribers from deaths, removals, and other causes. While the account was being read, the Rev. C. W. Lawrence came into the room with a donation of £lO 10s. .from Mr. Mountfield. Votes of thanks were .then passed to Mr. Hors fall for his services as president and for his handsome donation, a s well as to the other officers, including the honorary physicians and surgeons, for their unremitting attention to the interests of the charity. Mr. Jackson moved a vote of thanks to the tni nisters of St. Michael's for the collection; he hoped that next year they would have to thank many more 'clergymen, and he was sure it was only from their not being aware that the institu tion required their assistance that it had not been afforded. Mr. Horsfall was reappointed president, and Messrs. Proms. and Mulleneux vice-p res id en ts. A g ratuity of 25 guineas was voted to the secretary, Mr. Boardman, over and above his salary, on account of his extraordinary exertions to promote the interests of the institution. The chaktnan stated that it. was mainly ow ing to his personal solicitittions that so great an accession of new subscriptions had been attained to supply the defalcation caused by the lapse of old ones. Mr. Jordan, Dr:Duncan, and other gentlemen also bore testimony to Mr. Boardman's vigi lance, and referred to the state of arrears as a proof of his in dustry and attention. When the ordinary business of the meeting the Rev. Mr. Monk alluded to the possibility of sweiTtabilisghed the form of a self-supporting Dispensary being a ' had concluded,hi among the pour, and stated his opinion that suctr be taken could not emanate from that institution; mightbb,ruttha propral District Pro up, perhaps with sonic prospect of success, poor, and incttl vident Society, whose officers went among the th ' e The subject gave . cated habits of prudence and foretboo, rise to some general conversation, the r ev: gentleman's ideas it was understood that the being generally approved of, nuttier would tic again mooted and the District Provident S- 0 . b een su ggested by Mr. Mock. ciety, where it had already • 41.4 ::1:1-:S~uX:.`:.43yitIY:.1~Yr~ } 6 u+h~:Kv~ z . ,Gq.IL NE '1 .'_; Sr. DAYM's SociEry.--We. ta i d ers;;;ll ,l the nwi)!, , erA ti 4 li society will meet together at th e i r ao Wer,,aly diaua ott the Ist March. WELSH CHAlitTy • . Srcnoor..--We have much pleasnrc iii stating, that the managing counnittee.of the WellanitOn•goilik have kindly consented to grant the use of that splendid suite of apartments for a ball, to be given on the 29th instant, in aid of the funds of this excellent charity. This, we belipie. is thd first occasion on which the towns have been granted for a "charity ball. Mrs. Bateson has consented to officiate as lady patroness. CATHOLIC ORPHAN BALL.—Our readers Will obServe, by an advertisement in another column , that this ball t a k em place; under distinguished patronage, at the Town-hall, nu the instant. It is gratifying ,to find_ that the sale of tickets hus already been considerable, greater indeed than the friends hf the charity anticipated. TUE LATE GALES.—During the recent gales there has heed a lamentable loss of life on the Donegal Omit) coast, amongst the poor fishermen, and nets and fishing boats to a ctinsiderabld extent have been destroyed. THE FORMBY SunscurPTioN.---We understand the sums ale ready received for the widows and orphans of the men who re; ceutly lost their lives off Formby amount to upwards of eleven hundred pounds.- The Dock Committee have given the. Muni ficent sum of £500; and £2l Lis. will be found advertised in our paper of to-day, collected in the searchers and landing waiters' offices of his Majesty's customs in this port. As the subscription is about to be closed, it is desirable that those per= sons who have not yet sentiu the amottut of their subscriptumS .Should do so without delay. StRGICAL OPERATION.—Iti consequence of a teound ceived twenty-two yearS• since ir; the Service of his country, Mr. Silvester Richinoni eldest son of the late Silvester Richmond, Esq. of this town, .was obliged on Saturday to submit to the painful operation of having his right leg amputated. -Mr. Gill of Liverpool was the operator. Bon Row !—The head of our learned and highly-gifted tovett clerk appears to be wholly engrossed by only one idea, namely, the difficulty and the immediate necessity for bdrrowing td "carry.out the printiples" of the municipal corporations' re form act; at any rate we can assign no other canoe for the extraordinary fact, tht whenevei .called upon to enlighten the town council on any subject connected with the "borough," he invariably reniinds them of their coming troubles by intro ducing into his reply the word--" borrow !" No One knows better than Mr. Town-clerk thaCthe town coffers will soon- be emptied; that 'his redecessor's claim is unpruvided for; and that Mr. Stipendr v-Justice Hall must be paid quarterly ; therefore great ere 's due to him for the ingenious expedient he has adopted for . f lierizing the Minds . of the councillors to borrowiry as the beSt s#tem of supporting their increased ex penditure. The leatneit , cleak, 'however, may have' over esti mated the credit of the ecalucil. Thee are thauyanxious tti borrow who do not find in the possessors of beak notes aud specie an equal readiness to lead, the letter being generally fond of asking curicus and impertinent questions as to the definition of the wool "seem ity,"•Und, moreover, cannot be persuaded that all engrossed and sealed skins of pArchment are of equal value. On this account we would suggest to Mr. 'Town-clerk the pro priety of adding to bis.vocabulary the word •• cs is the frequent use of which would ciorvey as Useful at id as delicate a lout as his " BOR-ROW FIRE ON BoAED.THE NEAN YORK PACKET SHIP HIBERNIA. —On Saturday evening the American packet, Hibernia, lying in the, Clarence Dock, v.hich had that mornin! , arrived &mit New York, was discove'ted to be on fire. The cargo consisted of a large quantity of turpentine, smite cotton, and sott►e miseel.; laneoub which were consigned to Messrs. W. and Joines Brown and Co. The landing waiter and Cristom-houNe officers had in the course of the day visited the vessel, and it, is said; re marked a smell of fire near the forecastle.. At near six O'clock a thin white smoke vEasobserved to issue from the filre•hatcli; which gradually increasing in density, left no doubt but that the vessel was on tire. .The alarm was quickly given, an'd by six o'clock Mr. Whittv, along. with iMir of the Lest. engines ar• rived, and flrr upwards of an hour and-a-half every ~xertion was used to get the fire under though unsuccessfully. Prom th density of the smoke it was impossible to ascertain in what part of the vessel the, tire was, and it became evident that, the ex— ertions of the firemen] were directed to the wrong quarter. Mr. Purnell and Mr. Hodgson recommended that the vessel should be scuttled; as . the only plan to - get the fire out, which if it eon tinned Might prove of serious consequence to the surrounding shill+ M Dowling ,*were To this r. Whitty and Mr. Dowlin were opposed, - g it possible to save the vessel without. Further en deavours, howevett, proving unsuccessful, it was al length de.; term ined to scuttle the vessel, and she was drawn out..fer that purpose to the lock leading to . the George's Basin. The water in the lock having been loweredtillthe vessel grounded and was about eight feet below her water mark, tt large hole was then made at her bow and her side close to the water's edge, and on the lock being ag s ain filled,- the ,vessel soon sunk The vessel 'having had the leaks stepped, was . raised, the pumps going all Sunday, and the cargo on being unshipped, was 'found not to be so much damaged as was anticipated. The tire was . found to have been confined to a very limited space immediately under the forecastle, and from what we have betn aide to learn, could only have recently originated, surmises say spontane ously, from the cotton having been packed in a damp and heated state at New York. The. ves;el not having been twenty four hourS in - pith, the hiss will fall upon the underwriters. We understand great poise is due to Captains Harris and West, and to Mr. John Grayson, the master carpenter of the vessel, for the prorript and efficient Services rendered in estirn guishing the fire. THREE TioDIES Wasson ASHORE' AT FORMIIY.—On Prieny mowing- the bodies of three men were cast ashore at Formby. That their relatives and friends may be acquainted with their melancholy fate, we give The followin ,, det:criptinn of each :-- No. I.—About five fact:ten niches Biggs - red whiskers, and very geod looking. DresSed in blue jacket; blue .waistcoat, nearly new, lined with red liaise, blue striped shirt, marked on the hip with A.P., No. 1; lilac neckerchief; blue cloth trows,'re, with a patch half a yard long in front of each thigh; flannel drawers; blue-grey yarn stockings ; new shoes; straw hat, with !dad: oil cloth cover; strong drab top-coat ; a knife in hit pocket, marked D.M. Pe—son. No. 2.—About five feet six or seiten inehedligh ; no coat on; blue waistcoat, similar to No. 1; striped shirt ; two pair of canvas.trowsers, one nearly new; a sort of yellow ground neckerchief; at rung. blue-grey kuit stockings; shoes nearly new. Nos. 1 and 2 seem like father and son, both very good looking: No. 3.—About five feet seven indics high ; drab haragan emit ; grey cloth waistcoat, vet v-9111; blue striped cotton shirt ; corduroy trowsers, rutich patched and torn ; mine-give yevu stockinws; strong slows; two hamikerohief, were! his sleek, ono.; red and the other blue, both cotton. For roe consolation of their surviving friends, v e may add that they will he. ileeently interred in Formby Church yard after the coroner's inquest has been held over them. The neighbourhood of Wigan has been most agreeably en livened by a splendid ball and supper given on Wednesday last, the al instant, by John Hodson,. Esq., ia celebration of attaining his majority. The ball-room was elegantly decorated for the occasion, and attended by a numerons assemblage of the rank, beauty, and fashion of the surrounding countrY• Dancing commencenlattout nine, and the gay waltz sprightly quadrille were spiritedly sustained by the far-rained Lancashire whose virtues and beaut v. still shine with a lustre uuditninished, however otherwise degenerate the days of once " nierrie Lug lande may be." At twelve o'..lock the sipper-mow teas thrown open, and the viatris did ample honour to the well-known skill and ability of Mr. Horne of Liverpool, who upon this, as upon former occasions, pr o ved himself 1.(1711 COpia. The table was tastefully decorated, and every delicacy of the season was there in profusion. After supper dancirg was resumed and kept up with unabated spirit till an early hour in the morning; when the guests retired highly-gratified be the urbanity and at tentions of their polite host. STAMP DI'TY oN NEWSPAPERS,—The Chancellor of thd Exchequer has given nntice, that on the Bth of Marc h. he pur poses bringing in a bill to emend and consolidate the laws re htiye to the stamp duty on newspapers. UNSVA ALPED NEFSPAPERS.—At the Bolton petty sessions on Monday week, Joseph Lawson was convicted in the penalty of £5., costs £2. 3s. Cl., for having sold an unstamped news paper, lietherinyton's Twopenny Divpatch, on the 2d January last. _ NORTIMRN CIRCUIT.—(Lord Denman and Sir 'lames Parke.)—Yorkshire, Saturday, Feb. 27; Durham, Saturday, March 12; Northumberland, Weiluerday, March Ifi; Cum berland, Saturday, March 19; Wes►moreland, Thursday, March 21; Lancaster, Saturday, March 26; Wednesday, March 30, atLiverpopl. RECORDEUSHIP OF WIGATC.-Mr. Segar, barrister, of Pres ton, has been nominated recorder fur Wigan. . PamuozioN.—Lord Palmerston has bestowed the vacant junior clerkship in the Fo:ei?zn-roflice, an Mr. W. M. Iluskis.; son, a near relative of the late eminent statesman of that name. REPEAL OF TILE STAMP DUTIES ON NE`A'SPAPEIIS.—A. meet ing was held in the Town-hall, Salthrd, last week, James 11,01, boroughreeve, in the chair, at which it was unanimously agreed to petition parliament to repeal the duties on news- papers._ 'hit: NEW SHERIFF.—The patent for the appointment of the new sheriff (Charles Standish. of Standi s h, Esq.) was received on Thursday evening. Thomas Mrchall, Esq. of Ribbletun Hall, has been appointed under sheriff, and the business of the shrievalty will be conducted at the office of Messrs. Gorst and Bite hall. eston Pilot. . THE MUNICIPAL REFORM 1111. L.—This reform bill is imme diately to be reformed. Mr. E.J. Stanlet gave notice of a mo tion in the House of Commons, on Thursday, on behalf of the Attorney-General, that on Tuesday (this day) he would move for leave to bring in a bill to indemnify persons holding corpo rate offices under the great municipal hill. Another bill will be introduced on the same day; for the more effectual registra tion of persons entitled to vote for members of parliament. The corporation bill will,. of course, put au end to all the suits arising out or the new ,corporation elections, now pending in the Court or King's Bench. Loans-LiErrtilYANTs of Coi - sms.—The death of the Duke of Beaufort ereateirrt - vacauey in the ()Mee of lord-lieute nalit of three counties, which has been filled up by the appoint ment of -Lord Segrave, for the county of Gloucester, Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., for Monmouth, and Penry Esq., for Brecon. Sli.vita GROATS:—The Gazette, of Friday, contains a pro , elaulation announcing an issue of Hew coinage of silver groats, hum his Majesty's Mint. NEW SHERIFFS (IF THE NoirrnunN Col-NTlEs.—County Pa latine of Lancaster, Charles Standish, Esq.,_ of Standish B a l l, Cheshire, Egerton Leigh, of High Leigh, Esq.; Thomas Irwin, of Calder Abbey. Esq.; Northumberlan± - nias Riddell, of Eeltou Shropshire, Sir Edward Rouse Broughton, of Downton, cholas Edmund Yalburctli of lleslingtou Ball, Esq. t , , Esq:; Yorkshire, Gr.Ascow MANI:FACTO:MS.—Among the numerous exten. , sive manufactories, 'y Montiet, d for anti extent :—:(.lessts. w„ck. the following arc ingenuity at L3aln , ~ st ' fermata :and s. thrw. ~fa,c,tore of chloride, titrniiici tid ' ll ""P -m„st wrotores u , z, extensive of any of the kind in Europe, gl - i e n u„twhich cover itl*""ki• mud Within its walls there are t l i , ' , l: v.,ix64lture 4rois of t ( A WY three hundred ols, or tire. ',dices. Ihe one apartm • platinum vessels cut alone cost upwai4,; 4)(1:9000. oneatidinindred furnaces, g''')!,u(h There‘Li• upwards of —Cie lnrrd~ St a tatio. time OF THE: LATE )2 10,1lE141VELL:—For a long .he sale no 11 of ' '1 •• Lme MC 4; t 4 i Vin this quarter of the country has excited, so intereyq. !tliong the curious in buoks, any virtuoso generally, as that of the decaged Mr. Mother Well. hooks Base all sold remarkably' well, many uF those of a rare descril , liol bringing high prices.. The sale'of the moire Works published by the 'Maitland Club we believe takes place to-cave as %ilk[i's a ccalectiou of ancient a rmoury, autographs, ezcl„ '"e auction will terminate. At yesterea‘'s stile a couple 4 v9latnes, consisting.of &Ong declarations" and "full and particular accounts" of: the enerutions, &c. rliirn hare thk"i place in Scotland etvir g the last sixteen - years, hron'Ot thus' moderate sum of Se. each ; and and an edition of the production of the P2th century-, was sola for fire guineas. This was considered vet y cheap. The sale of to-da . ' I will douldioss be numerom4 attenticd.--G/wwe Courier; • • I