The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

RED G J. ATHERTON, TAILOR AND DRAPER, LE-STREET, LIVERPOOL , An his periodical visit to the London Markets, informs his Friends and the 'ved A CHOICE SELECTION OF El''' . DESIGNS, of which he solicits an ETINGS, COMMITTEES , es TRIALS 'ORTED, on moderate terms, by Mr. a AND TEACHER OF SHORT-HAND. )een connected with the London press: )f receiving Instruction in the pleasing AND, are informed that a List of Re the names of the most distinguished 'niversities, gentlemen of the press, and at 25, Mount-street, opposite the Me- referred to Mr. A.'s rassz:4T s will also be a WEDNILSDAY EVENING a on moderate E AND MODERN SCULPTURE!! SQUAGLIA, -4 7 NT AND PLASTER PAUL FIGURES, .ctfully to announce to the Nobility, T iverpool and its Vicinity, that he has Dn the Premises. No. 8, FLEETS YARD. where he has now a rectly Moulded from Antique and opriate Ornaments for Entrance ies, Pleasure Grounds, Gardens, tins of Full Statues, from six feet Pedestals, Bracke t s , Figures for Busts, Basso Relievo, &c. &c. Nature for the use of Artists. s, Lib ical Specimens. ..nat an early inspection (which he ill be found highly satisfactory to the rs of the Fine Arts who may favour him PERKINS, AND CO•'S A.R.CLAY MATED LONDON PORTER, AND .ST INDIA PALE ALE. y e STOCK of the abo ve celebrated PC(RTER )IA PALE ALE is constantly on hand at the _.trppt. in Casks of all sizes, and various qua- .L, 11l a... 50... he Trade and Exportation. JOHN TYRE Office, Sole Age nt, Office, 4, Wolstenliolme-aquare W HAT SHOP. .Rbegs to call the Public attention to ---' CAP ESTABLISHMENT, JAMES-STREET, where he has HATS and CAPS in is determined to sell re a ready sale and a s WALKE ass without returning the Public in general, and hopes, by strict port, at ST. JAM _STREET, W DUNCAN-STREET /LS, SILKS, CACHNIERES, &c. OLDHALL-STREF,T. ti to announce his re turn from -made very extensive purchases in -iped and Watered Silk, s, Ottomans, Ottomans, Moire Glace, Cachmeres, Balzarines, Printed Mullins, and AND SQLTARE,TAISLEY, •TORWICH, icturel— ln Cardinals and Scarfs, Parasols, Gloves, iefs, and almost every other Fashionable superior quality and richness, such as to ;no , they are scarcely excelled. invites attention to his RAPERY S TOCK, Table i s h Linens, Sheetings, NERAL D ver s. Counterp an es, Quilts , Blankets, Bed ss-bleached Ir I be found amazingly cheap : po Pocket Handkerchiefs, f u ll size, th 6d. kerc hiefs, d. to 6d. .1,.. 3 6 id. t o o 6d. ao. n-chiefs, ls. Sh a wls, 3s. 3d. to 3 s. 6d. P a tterns, 16s. 10Id. to new s, Fast Co' ,ble Coved urs, 2s. 6d. 2s. 4 ici • uv• ROMOLI AND HAUSBURG 'LILLY direct the attention• of the Nobility, trid public, to their extensive and valuable SSING CASES, DESKS, WORKBOXES, and all descriptions of Cabinet CASE own workm on the premises irection, ensuring to the pnr iality and prices, that cannot fail educe the continuance of the con ,,hlishment has been so highly Of submitting to notice their CUTLERY, made expressly for them tion, (and h e i r name) of the most superior descrip q w arranted 0 0 PIECES FUL L SIZED, B ALANCED, --I HAN DLES, comp os ed of 1 DOZ. PAIR KNIVES and FORKS for £2 } 1 DOZ. PAIR D 1 13 6 DESSERT DITTO , 2 0 1 PAIR CARY' (8 in Do. L AL WARRANTED• OLI AND HAUSBUR PoSTOFFICE BUILDINGS, ......--' l_ oLOSIAL INTELLIGENCB qIIIP HIBERNIA. sTEA 3I-- kmerican royal mail steamer the arrived at this port on Sunday 'he left Boston on the 16th inst., ,rnoon, and Halifax, where she e 18th, at three o'clock in the •om Halifax to Liverpool was .ally short space of 9 days and im Boston to Liverpool, inclu ours at H a lifa x,2 i n the equally f 11 days and 1 h o urs, or in is t he shortes t p assage This 1 Liverpool. He r outward apers brought by this convey. 15th instant, they are unusu. er. a Washington paper, an- Nlr. Webster, as Secretary f o )f Nlr. Hugh S. Legere, Attor ...res. as his successor, ad ink _ eu n appointed to the Chinese mission. ,try and proceed by the overland ate Brandywin the sloop S. Louis, ri, were on the point of sailing for the President's son, w ould, it "-ie• as his private and con- Miss° Mr. Tyler the 9th instant say that Sir too Chas. w hole, bet ter. It was unders n a canal boat in tow of a steamer, an t come with him and his Wdarso p ite, at New York. Col. t Adjutant-Ge ner al in t h e army oroviuce, died at Kingston on condition of the island evolution had broken out ree regiments of troopins ce, we to re ,-.4 from Po rt au Pr state that t nat it has information, which renders it certain ..ed. States, of France, and 1 remonstrating against the 'Lice against Texas," and that States Minister were quite ex as conducted by Mexico, to be as. It also states, that it has States Charg6 in Texas has been on of this Government between retaliatory irruptions into ) - Orni n° to e Sandwich Islands had brought the in t been ceded to the British and taken possession of, on islands had . cornm an di n g the ) f February, Paulet, SHORT rge le of her :Majesty. that Campeachy still held out, M e xicans recapturing Lieutenant H os ken, R. N N. 29th ult., arrived at ew t a n t, after a pas sage of 12 ver made between Liverpool quite unexpected, and to ok ...as to leave New York on the its money article for the an Hi- Nin g a ccount of the money, stock, d rn came upon us unexpectedly, and in a age, last week, adding to our previous • somewhat like a million and a half that some two or three millions addi the course of the present month. .y beginning to turn. Exchange on as been sold at 109 ; and on Paris at r rate cannot be sustained, as it is bet -.yen to England we hear of one par ack in the Hibernia, rather than -- , ecie current may now be con is levet. anals, which always imparts life and )f trade, the comparative bareness of is and groceries, in the interior, and e impulse to business. 1 somewhat more ani :in price. In bread iownward, and the ap- promising ant, and the excess e hands and in the pe and in this ,ank of the United r:ngland in the Great Philad .;ia papers, tit ter to ar- r • lc works of that ttion on the subject. ited above, there has been a o h i n g on Saturdaye have t mo- 1, and at May be quoted rs, a list of whom, AM-SHIP AI intiNlA 0. a.m sailed again se N. 80 E., wind lioht breezes and N. 81 N,O loud I 61 NN lather. 1 1 1 , 13 Bi t :vim% s alrea, ?hreno 4 Damask T tEIGN 1 14 da W.S.W. and S.W., 260 miles : light breezes' and clear FOREIGN LOANS AND BRITISH COLONIES. weather. 22d.—Lat. 47 51 D.R., lon. 40 34 D.R., course N. 79 E., wind S.W., 262 miles : light breezes and cloudy We could wish weather.(From the Standard.) to see a statement of all the money earned 23d.—Lat. 48 57 D.R., lon. 36 56 D.R., course N. 76 E., by the labour of Englishmen, and, we grieve to add, of Eng- I wind S.W. and southerly, 270 miles : light breezes and thick lish women and English infants, that has passed from this weather. country without return in the course of the last 20 or 25 24th.—Lat. 50 17 D.R., lon. 27 11 D.R., course N. 73 E., years. We know that it would amount to some hund reds of wind variable, 274 miles: strong breezes and thick weather. millions sterling, to more than the Church and the Crown 25th.—Lat. 51 38, lon. 21 31, course N. 64 E., wind S.E., have cost the country for 237 miles : strong breezes and clear weather. At 6 o'clock, plaint of this. " Pleasant men," indeed, like the partieu a.na•, exchanged numbers with the Creole, of Liverpool. larly Reverend Sydney Smith, may break biting jests upon 26th.—Lat. 51 41, lon. 14 39, course S.E., wind S.E. and the bad faith of the cheats , but they have not a word to offer easterly, 255 miles : light breezes and clear weather. against the " setters," for the cheats who encouraged the 27th.—At 530, a.m., Cape Clear bore N.N.E. iE. cheats by constant speeches end occasional guarantees, still 28th.—Arrived at Liverpool at 6 o'clock, a.m. less against that most unpatriotic greediness of the lenders, PASSENGERS BY THE STEAM-SHIP HIBERNIA. that dragged them into the trap set for them. Political From Boston to Halifax.—Mr. W. H. Schwartz, Mr. F. economists can no doubt prove it an excellent thing to work infants to death, in order that millowners may realise mil- R. Starr, Miss Starr, and servant, Miss Isa. Hill, Mr. H. lions, to be thrown into the sea, or the not less ungrateful Shaw, Mr. C. D. Hunter, Mr. Jos. Yates, Mr. Almon Wood, and Mr. R. .11I'Lean.-10. abyss of republican treasuries in North America and South America, or new kingdoms like Greece. But whatever po- From Boston to Liverpool.—Mr. Henry Oxward, Mr. litical economists may prove in the case, common-sense men Lorenze Papanti, lady, and servant, Mr. J. D. Staele, Miss S. T. Pratt , Mr. George Prat t, Mar y M y ers, Mr. J. G. will think that the money would have been better applied in aiding British men to add cultivated continents and islands Ward, Mr. John Bottomley, Mr. William Lottimer, Mr. to the British empire, to multiply customers in the British Lewis Atterbury, Mr. B. B. Atterbury, Mr. A. Munkittrick market, and to secure some return for the outlay. Let us and lady, Rev. R.. H. Neale, Mr. J. C. Martin, Mr. Mere suppose that the hundreds of millions that have been given dish Colhoun, Colonel Sampson and lads-, Mr. Thomas away to strangers had been invested in Australasia, the Ca- Cook, Mr. Jacob Hittinger , M r . Henr y E y re, Rev. R. l i adas, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, South Africa, how Turnbull, Mr. 0. Haney Joes, Mr. Wm. 0. English, Col. very different would have been the result? We care not for Thomas, Mr. Eugene Rousseaus , Mrs. T. S. Perry, Mr. the argument of partial failures upon a small scale, because Joshua Leavitt , Mr. Leonard J. Wyeth, Mr. Crawford, we know that these failures occurred because the unsuccess- Mr. Charles L. Roberts, Mr. Alexander Urquhart, lady, lid enterprises were partial, and because they were upon a nurse, and child, Don E. Calderon and lady, Miss M`Leod, small scale. This is the truth not to be disputed, that an Mr. F. A. Campbell, Mr. H. W. Barlow, Mr. John Parrott, industrious and intelligent population, planted in a healthy Mr. J. R. Willmer, Mr. J. H. Wilson, Mr. Stephen climate, and on a fertile soil, in sufficient numbers for recipi °- Crocker, Mr. F. A. Huntington, Mr. Wm. A. Ryan, Mr. cal aid and protection, and with an adequate supply of money, John Maulson, and Mr. John Arrowsmith. -50 . must succeed, and succeed rapidly. The British colonies From Halifax to Liverpool.—Mr. Ed. Binney, Mrs. present all the conditions required for success. Our native Widdicombe and infant, Colonel Oldfield, Mr. C. Hamel, population are certainly intelligent and industrious, and they Major Nl`Queen, H. Green, (D. A. C. General,) Judge are said to be excessive : indeed, in a highly cultivated coun- Haliburton, Mr. J. Lewis, and Mr. J. Woodman.-10. try, the farmer class must always be excessive, because, though men multiply, farms do not. The money, too, has been abundant to excess. Why, then, are we only beginning a rational system of colonisation ? Because the foreign swindlers, intending never to pay, held out a higher rate of interest than, under a bad system, our own colonies seemed to promise. Whigs and political economists held out the republicans of the new world as men whose honour was above suspicion, and as men whose liberal institutions—that was the cant—would qualify them to cultivate the desert much more effectually than it could be cultivated by the subjects of the British Crown. As to the honour of republicans, we refer for it to the Rev. Sydney Smith, and the other patriotic holders of American stock ; but surely it was the strangest notion in the world to entertain, that the most intelligent and industrious people in the whole world, and the greatest foun ders of whatever colonies have prospered in the new, should not be able to make as much of equally good land as Spaniards, and Portuguese. and German, and their descendants. Our old system of colonial government was very bad—scarcely anything could be worse ; but still it was at least as honest as the system of government upon the faith of which the fa cetious author of " Peter Plymley's Letters" hazarded the profits of his living and his canonry—profits all created, let it not be forgotten, by the labour of Englishmen. If the successive governments of the last twenty-five years were not otherwise chargeable with the prodigious waste of the savings of the nation in foreign loans, it is impossible to ac quit them of the guilt of not having prevented it by invest ments to the British colonies ; to this guilt, however, the whigs added the guilt of positively encouraging the prodiga lity by their guarantees of loans to strangers. AUSTRALIA. The advices received from Sydney reach to the sth of February, and these state the failure of Messrs. Willis and Sandeman, merchants trading in the colony, for an amount, according to the estimate of some persons, as high as £lOO,OOO to E 120,000. The report of the general condition of the markets is, that although they have wanted the ac tivity which usually characterises them at this particular season of the year, a moderate amount of business had been transacted, while prices were pretty well maintained. For wheat and flour there was no great demand, and there was every probability of a further reduction in quotations. The last rates quoted were ss. to s s. 6 d. for wheat , according to sample, and 13s. to 235. for flour. Manufactured goods continued in fair demand at paying prices. An account of the Port Philip revenue for the years and quarters en din g respectively the 31st of December, 1841 and 1842, had been published in the Government Gazette. From this it ap peared that . the total amount of revenue for the year 1842 was £76,830, being an increase of 11,000 on the previous year. The principal items occasioning the advance in re venue were £5,000 in Customs' receipts; £2,000 for fees at public offices, and 2,000 increased assessment on stock. Post-office department also showed an increase from £1,360 to £1,240. The land revenue exhibited a frightful decline. The proceeds of such sales in 1841 reached £71,152, and in 1812 they declined to £2,729. The gross amount of revenue for the year 1842 was £87,371, a decrease as compared with the previous year of £56,230. The total quantity of spirits o n which duty was paid in 1842 was 67,139 gallons, an in crease of 7 ,000 gallons in the year. In the Sydney papers we find a few extracts from New Zealand, but they are not interesting to the general reader. The Union, arrived from Port Nelson, gave a very unsatis factory description of the emigrants there, who are stated to be suffering from the lowness of wages and the high prices demanded for provisions. Rates in the domestic markets averaged as follows .—Mutton ls. 2d. per lb ; beef Is. ; pork Bd.; coffee 2s. Bd. per lb.; tea 3s. Gd. ; bread Is. 2d. per 41b. loaf; and pigs, alive, per carcass, 4 3 / 4 d. per lb. CAPTAIN CONNOLLY AND LIEUTENANT STODIIART.— It is with great delight we have to state that we have seen a letter from India, which flatly contradicts the report of the murder of Messrs. Connolly and Stodhart by the barbarians. The account comes via Meshio, and is grounded on letters received by certain Jewish houses in that place. The writer has no doubt of their veracity.—Dublin Evening Post. - - - BRAZIL : RETURN or MR. ELLIS.—Her Majesty's ship Malabar has arrived with accounts to the Ist of April from Rio de Janeiro, and the 11th March, from Buenos Ayres. Mr. Ellis, the British Special Envoy, has returned in her, after having received the most special marks of favour from the Emperor and all the elite of Brazilian haut ton. In fact, his short residence seems to have worked a most friendly feeling in favour of British interests, and there can be no doubt, we conceive, judging by the tone of the Government organs of Rio de Jadeiro, that negociations will be imme diately opened in London for the purpose of effecting a new commercial treaty. Prince Joinville had arrived in Brazil, and the Court festivities on the occasion are described as being very brilliant ; though it is proper to mention that Mr. Ellis was an honoured guest upon these occasions. Ex change 26, and Stock 69. There were to be more paper is sues. Cape of Good Hope papers of the 6th of August have ar rived by the Vernon off Falmouth. In reference to politics, these journals afford nothing particular, except a confirma tion of the generally quiet condition of the north-eastern frontier, and the disposition of the Boers to settle themselves in their various occupations. On the state and prospects of the new settlement at Algoa Bay the accounts are favoura ble. At the latest date there were 17 vessels in the port— a criterion of the increase of trade, and the opening it affords to extend the employment of the shipping connected with the colony. The export of wool during 1812 from Port Elizabeth was in amount 905,7361 b., and the rapid progress of the bu siness of the place is shown by the comparison of the value of produce shipped from Table Bay and Algoa Bay for the last 21 years. The Table Bay returns in 1821 gave the amount at £130,578, and in 1842 at £167,134; while the returns of Algoa Bay for 1821 were £1,500, and in 1812 £112,871. From Natal there is nothing worth detailed men tion. An official announcement of the government:in Hol land of its opinions and views respecting the affair with the Boers had been published in all the journals, clearly showing that the supercargo of the Dutch vessel Brazilia, who had gone so far as to publish a pamphlet for distribution among the disaffected, holding out hopes of succour from the Hague were the contest continued, and attempting to establish an indisputable right to their occupance of the soil, was not war ranted in giving utterance to such opinions, or encouraging the malcontents in their opposition to the Eogli‘b troops. Abundance of rain had fallen in the neighbourhood of Caffre land, and for many years the country had not bee❑ refreshed by so copious a supply of water. The interior of the colony had also received much benefit from this change in the wea ther, and the Fish River with the other streams were full for future wants. The destructive disease known as the " glan ders" had again broken out at the Cape and some of the ad joining districts. The governor had issued a notice on the subject, in which he instructs the field cornets to destroy every infected animal found at large, and exhorts the inba• bitants to put to death at once every horse showing symp toms of the contagion, and to use their utmost endeavours to prevent its further progress. STATE OF TRADE. MANCRESTER.—The market this week has been very calm. Prices have suffered no declension, and the reason that a smaller amount of business has been transacted during the week is the anticipation, from the large arrivals of cotton, that a speady fall in the price of the raw material will take place. In this condition the market presents no feature calling for any remarks on our part. For the prices we refer to our previous quotations.—Manchester Advertiser, of Saturday. BOLTON.—The prospects of trade in this town have be come rather less alluring during the last fortnight than they have been for a short time past. Counterpanes have not materially changed in demand. Fancy goods, muslins, &c., have received a slight check. Power-loom cloths have been much less in demand, and cotton yarns equally less. The mills continue working full time, and the stocks are as yet very low. Brass and iron foundries are equally brisk with what they have been during the late improved state of the trade. Bleach works are not quite so throng of work as they have been of late. During the short time the improved state of trade has continued, the condition of the people has strikingly improved.—lbid. BLACKBORN.—For 30's, 32's, and 31's jacconets there continues a very brisk demand, but heavy cambrics, com monly called domestics, are rather dull. Fine and fancy goods have a moderate sale at remunerating prices. Stocks are very low, and weavers of some descriptions of work receive an extra price for their labour if taken to the ware house in a given time. Yarns still remain firm, and some sorts are a shade higher; but buyers and sellers are very cautious in their dealings. Hand-loom weavers continue to be better employed, and as weaving continues to be very brisk, manufacturers can scarcely get hands to meet their demands. Power-loom weaving is about in the same state as we noticed a fortnight ago. Weavers, at several establish ments, have given notice for an advance in wages ; other factory operations have full employment; but masons, joiners, and house-builders have not full work. Block printing con tinues brisk.—lbid. TRADE OF LEEDS.—There is scarcely the same amount of briskness in the woollen trade of Leeds and the neighbour hood as there was a few weeks back ; but the manufacturers who recently commenced working full time have not relapsed into shortened hours. As stocks of goods are low, alid as little has yet been done for the autumn trade, we have reason to hope that our markets will speedily improve. —Leeds In telligencer, of Saturday. HUDDERSFIELD.—ScarceIy an average amount of business has been done in the fancy goods trade here this week, the demand on Tuesday being less than that of the two or three preceding market days. Prices, however, remain steady.— Ibid. HALIFAX.—The business done in the Piece Hall, on Sa turday, was about equal to that of the preceeding week. Long and short noils are still in good demand, but long wools are not so much sought after. The demand for yarn is steady. —lbid. BRADFORD.— The market was well attended both by buy ers and sellers on Thursday, and a large amount of business was transacted. The prices are firm for plain as well as for fancy goods. There has been an average demand for yarn, but no advance in price. There is a good business doing in the wool trade more particularly in the combining sorts. Short wools and noils meet ready sale at advanced prices.— Ibid. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—There continnes to be a steady demand for all kinds of combining wools, at last quo tation. Blanket wools are more enquired for, and some sales have been made at the full rates lately held out for.—lb id. LEICESTER.—The glove branch, so important to Leicester, is extremely dull : many of the hands are wholly unemployed, and the great body but partially. The Lisle thread season appears to have ended sooner than usual : the weather, hitherto, has been cold, which, it is conceived, is the cause of the early falling off, as it has been observed that a warm spring prolongs the season for these light articles, whilst cold has the same effect on the woollen glove trade. Hopes, however, are entertained that this depression will not last. The cut-hose branch is a shade better. The fancy hosiery trade keeps improving, and, in all probability, in a few weeks, will employ a considerable additional number of hands. The worsted spinning trade is expected to be affected, in some in stances, by the stoppage of the bank of Messrs. Phillips and Co. : but, where this is not the case, the millowners are doing a fair amount of business. The fancy sock branch still keeps in a very depressed state.—Nottingham Journal, of Friday. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The wrought cotton hose branch may now be said to be in rather a flourishing state, the hands, especially in Arnold and the villages in the east of the county, being fully employed. There is a singularity in this demand, which is principally for hose under .10-gauge, above that quality being extremely dull, though it is the most profitable manufacture, very few hose are made in this district under 30-gauge. Some few years since the demand for fine cotton hose was such, that 70-gauge were made, and found a market at twenty shillings a pair. There is a peculiar circumstance connected with cotton hosiery, which is, that, though the price of cotton yarn varies in a progressive ratio as to number of hands to the pound, yet the difference of the value of the material between the finest and the coarsest cotton hose is not great; the increased value consisting in labour and profit. The silk hosiery trade is still languishing, and is gradually, though sensibly, diminishing. The French bounty system has nearly annihilated all the export trade, and very few but gossamer hose are now made, great quan tities having cotton tops and feet. These, too, are prohibited in France and Spain, and in all their colonies. There is something of a revival in the plain bobbin-net trade, which is sensibly felt in some of the factories.—lbid. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY MAY 22. There has been another good market : the merchants have bought freely, but the manufacturer cannot yet obtain an advance in price. There has also been a better feeling in the wool market ; though there is no decided change in price, yet the prevailing opinion is, that the raw material will pro gressively advance i❑ value. TRADE OF KIDDERMINSTER.—A decided improvement has taken place in the carpet trade of Kidderminster. A gradual revival of trade i❑ that town has been observed for the last month or six weeks, and many firms now are in full work, and a great deal of bustle and activity prevails through out the town generally.—lVorcesier Journal. BANK OF ENGLAND.—The following notice was posted at the Bank of England on Thursday : " The Governor and Company of the Bank of England are ready, until further notice, to receive applications for loans upon the deposit of approved hills of exchange not having more than six months to run, Exchequer Bills, and East India Bonds ; such loans to be repaid on or before the 18th of July next, with interest, at the rate of 3 per centurn per annum, and to be for sums of not less than £2,000 each. " Bank of England, May 25, 1843." The rate declared in this is precisely the same as on the last occasion, and the notice will have no effect o❑ the money market, as money can be readily obtained for less than two per cent. Indeed, within the last two or three days, before which period money was getting a little into demand, there has been so great an abundance, that all sorts of conjectures have been set on foot in order to account for it, the most current rumour being, that the Bank of England has lent largely upon Consols, though upon inquiry it turns out that this rumour has no other foundation than in the fact that the transfers of the stock in question have been made into the names of the Bank brokers. TRANSPORTED CONVICTS.—An important act was passed on the 3rd ult., respecting transported convicts, with the view of amending the law relating to " tickets of leave." By the statute 2 and 3 William IV., c. 62, a period was defi nitely fixed before the governors of the respective colonies could grant " tickets of leave" to the numerous convicts. In transportation for seven years, four years of service was required before a " ticket of leave" could be granted ; if transported for fourteen years. a period of six years; and eight years on a sentence of transportation for life. The present act repeals the former law respecting tickets of leave, and declares by the second section, that the governors shall, from time to time, recommend such felons as they shall think fit to be recommended for au absolute or conditional pardon. Persons who hold tickets of leave can, under the act, possess personal property, as well as bring actions, not withstanding a conviction. The property so acquired, on the ticket of leave being revoked, to vest in the crown, and to be disposed of at the discretion of the governors of the colonies. The operation of the act is provided for by the fifth section :—" And be it enacted, that this act shall be proclaimed by the governor or lieutenant-governor of every place to which felons and offenders have been, or now may be, transported by law, within six weeks after a copy of it shall have been received by him and shall take effect in every such place from the day of the proclamation thereof; and in case ber Majesty shall be pleased, with the advice of her Privy Council, to appoint any new place or places beyond the seas to which felons and other offenders under sentence or order of transportation may he conveyed, this set shall take etrct.lt In etrr.l . finch fi'citti the titne of ittch or reluttltnt!" SPAIN A telegraphic despatch received through Paris, and dated Madrid, May 20th, gives the following intelligence : " The Cabinet is formed—the Ministers of the Interior, War, and Navy are Messrs. De la Serna, Hoyos, and Cuetos. The Minister of State is not yet named. The President of the Council has announced to the Congress the suspension of its sittings until the 27th. " There has been a great deal of agitation, but all is tran quil again." THE 'WHEAT CROP.—The Cincinnati Gazette says : " We feel well assured, by information from the wheat growing region, that the growing crop promises more than an average yield. The frost has not affected it to any consi derable extent." The Trenton Emporium says :—" A farmer, residing in the neighbourhood of Trenton, informs us, that the wheat and rye never looked more promising at this season of tie year. The prospect of an abundance of fruit, he also says, is at present very good." MILK IN BOSTON.—The consumption of milk in Boston annually is set down at 2,000,000 gallons, and in London, with a population 15 times larger, the estimated annual con sumption is only 2,500,000 gallons. One man brings into Boston, over the Worcester railroad, about 200,000 gallons yearly. — New Orleans Herald. On Sunday a shoemaker of St. Cloud, named Briet, on his return home at eleven o'clock at night, from the environs, where he had been with some shoes, found his wife and his child, aged six years, lying murdered on the floor. Their heads had been battered in with a hammer. The police have commenced an active search after the author or authors of this atrocious murder.—Paris paper. CLEVER FRAUDS.—The Journal de Calais of the 24th instant states, that an ingenious fraud was discovered by chance at Boulogne during the last week. A quantity of British lace, inclosed in leaden boxes, conveyed by fishing boats, was thrown carelessly on the shore and covered with sea weed. At a convenient opportunity persons were sent to carry the boxes into Bologne, which was done by conceal ing them in carts of sand. At Calais, a quantity of British tuille concealed in beer barrels, constructed with a double bottom, was discovered by a Custom-house officer, who, having some suspicions, pierced them with a sword. MONOMANIA CURED.—The Belgian journals relate the following strange occurrence :—" A gentleman, named B—, a nativt of Holland, has been confined in a madhouse at Brussels for religious monomania. He one day got loose, and climbed up one of the trees, with the design, he said, to go straight to heaven. Those below who saw him climbing up feared a fall, and the director of the establishment ordered mattresses to be placed under the tree. Before this could be done, he jumped down, came on his feet, and was but little hurt. The shock, strange to say, cured his mental alienation, and a few days since he left the madhouse per fectly well." Two men, named Martin and Cantavella, both Spanish refugees, were tried at Montpellier on the 17th inst., for the murder of two Poles, named Adamousky and Schesky. It was proved in evidence that the deceased were quietly play ing cards with another Pole, named Vezyk, in a cabaret at Cette, when the prisoners came in, and, after asking the landlord some questions, inquired who the persons were who were playing. On his replying that they were Poles, the Spaniards exclaimed that " all Poles were pigs!" On hear ing this Adamousky rose, and, going up to the intruder, told him not to come quarrelling there, but to leave them quiet. The other immediately drew his knife, and stabbed the un fortunate Pole in the stomach, who fell lifeless on the floor. His comrades immediately rushed forward, and Schesky was stabbed in the belly so severely that his bowels pro truded, whilst Vezyk was wounded in the hand. With great difficulty the prisoners were got out of the house. The third Pole ran and gave information to the police, and the Spaniards were arrested on board a boat in the harbour. The two Poles died the same day; Adamousky, without having spoken a word, and the other, after having given a full account of the transaction to the juge d'instruction. On the trial the prisoners endeavoured to wake out that the Poles had commenced the attack, but this was most fully disproved. They were condemned to hard labour for life, and exposure on the pillory. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE. - If the following statement, given by a Radical paper, the Limerick Reporter. be a cor rect version of the affair, the " peaceful demonstration" at Nenagh, has been attended with loss of life under:these cir cumstances :—" Mr. Brereton, who resides near Nenagh, directed two of his men, one of them an Orangeman, to watch his plantations on Wednesday night with fire-arms suspecting that some persons might have recource to them for green boughs, to adorn their houses at the approach of Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. It would appear the interposition of Providence prevented any of the people from having recourse to the premises of this, their well. known friend, or dreadful, indeed, would have been their lot; for, horrible to relate, the Orange watchman having, it is supposed, mistaken his fellow watcman for one of the peo ple, fired at him, shattering his abdomen all to pieces. On last evening the unhappy victim of this sanguinary wretch was not expected to survive many hours. We understand Mr. (lemon and Mr. Poe, two protestant gentlemen, Mr. Vitxpatrick, oC Mill,iew, and other to v . nequouhoggcntletncrt, p rotestant and Colibile) Afforded ItrFe quatitltica of [wen bOttibil Ind In puny inlitill3olll *LW. true for the Parliamentary Vrottetitnas HOUSE OF LORDS.--.TIIURSDAT. The House of Lords did not sit. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TxuRsnAy. - - In reply to questions pu t by several hon. mem b ers , , Lord STANLEY said , that Canada could produce a supply of corn beyond the quantity required for it s own popu l a ti on . The Canadian legislature in passing the bill was nearly unani mous, in support of which assertion he would lay upon the table some extracts from the journals of the House of Assem bly. The noble lord also declared, that it was not at present the intention of the Government to extend the principles of the Canadian Corn Bill to our other colonies. Iu reply to a question from Mr. VP. 0. STANLEY, Sir R. PEEL said, that it was the intention of the Govern ment to uphold the decision of the legislature, in support of the union of the sees of Bangor and St. Asaph, but he was quite willing to give early consideration to the means of in creasing the efficiency of the Church Establishment in North Wales. Mr. CHRISTIF. moved for leave to bring in a bill to abolish certain oaths a nd subscriptions now imposed in the Univer sities of Oxford and Cambridge,. and to provide for the exten sion of educ a tion in the universities to persons who are not members of the Church of England. The hon. member en tered at great length into the nature and objects of the uni versities, and argued that it was competent foe the state to interfere with their regulations on the ground of their being public institutions. He was of opinion that it was expedient to abolish all religious tests except as qualifications for de grees in divinity, and thus to admit the dissenters to the ad vantages of the universities on equal terms with members of the Church of England. The result of the adoption of his views would be that sentiments of Christian charity would prevail through all classes, and Jew, Catholic, and — rotestant would be linked together by feelings of universal toleration. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended that the establishment of the London University had taken from the hon. member the strongest grounds upon which such a mo tion might have been founded, as that university had the power of conferring degrees in medicine, which was the chief view the dissenters a lleged for their d es i re t o b e a d m i tte d t o the universities. He objected to the motion as holding out a premium for the infraction of university discipline, and as an interference with the arrangements of the w h o l e sys tem. He was resolved to maintain the statutes of the uni versities, and thus to fulfil the intentions of the pious men who had bequeathed those endowments upon which they were founded. Mr. M. Grnsos said that by educating religious sects in separate universities, they were perpetuating sectarian feel ings, which would almost of necessity, be softened down were they to be educated together. He contended for the right of the dissenters to the emoluments and advantages of the uni versities, which were not intended exclusively for the study of theology. He would not speak of Oxford, for he did not know how matters were there ; but at Cambridge it was ab surd to say that there was anything like religious instruction afforded. The instruction was almost entirely classical and scientific, and, as was said by the Bishop of St. David, theo logy formed the smallest possible portion of the system of education in that university. Sir R. INGLis was prepared to refuse his assent to the mo tion, whether sought as a boon or claimed as a right, on behalf of the dissenters. The Catholics could scarcely lay a claim to these endowments, because three-fourths of them had been made since the reformation ; while the dissenters, as such, never had any shadow of claim to them, for not a single en dowment had ever been given by a dissenter. Religion was at Oxford a supreme element of education, and he was aware of instances in which the want of religious knowledge had im peded the progress of men in other respects distinguished for their abilities. There did not appear to be at present any spirit of conciliation on the part of the dissenters, and though he would at any time have opposed the motion, he should upon that account be more than ever opposed to it at the present moment. He feared if this bill were agreed to, the effect would be to cause a laxity of discipline in the universities, while there was no sufficient reason for the intrusion of dis senters, as their grievances had been removed by the esta blishment of the London University. Sir H. W. BARRON referred to Trinity College, Dublin, where Protestants, Catholics, and dissenters were educated together, without any disadvantage to the cause of religion. Foreign universities presented to us an example of toleration which it would be well to imitate. Mr. SHAW said that in the Dublin University the students were not compelled to reside within the walls, and this difference in the point of residence neutralised the applica tion of the argument drawn from the practice in Trinity Col lege. lord STANLRY contended that Cambridge was not so ex clusive as it was said to be, and cited the cases of members of the Church of England and Roman Catholics who had been educated together in that university. He was of opinion that the relief which had been already given to the dissenters had in a great measure broken the force of their complaints. He thought the present motion calculated to revive all those animosities which had in 1834 been hushed into quiet. It would, in fact, destroy the connection between the Established Church and the universities. On the other hand, he would say that he did not approve of the compulsory attendance at chapel enforced on the students, conceiving that it was not calculated to elevate their ideas of religion, for if they took up the notion that in attending chapel they were merely ful filling an imposed duty instead of attending Divine worship, it must weaken the effect of religion upon their minds. He believed it would be a positive benefit if this rule were to be relaxed, but this was a matter for the consideration of the dissenters themselves. Lord J. RUSSELL said it was no answer to the claims of the dissenters to be admitted to Oxford and Cambridge, to say that their grievance in this respect was much alleviated by their admission to the London University. Oxford was altogether exclusive, and although Cambridge admitted Ro man Catholics and dissenters, yet they could not aspire to university honours ; while in Dublin University those honours were open to them. The noble lord concluded by cordially supporting the motion. Mr. WysE said he had been educated at Trinity College, and resided within the walls, as did also some 400 other students. The consequence of the system pursued in that college was, that the most enduring friendships were formed between Protestants and Catholics; and this system might, in his opinion, be advantageously extended to Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. C. WYNN opposed the motion ; for, although some changes might be advantageously made in the discipline of the universities, that change should be made by themselves, and should not be imposed upon them by parliament. Mr. REDINGTON supported the motion, contending that a s these universities were established in catholic times, by Ca tholics and for catholic purposes, it was rather hard that Ca tholics should be d':prived almost altogether of any advantage arising from them. • Mr. ROEBUCK commented on the course of proceeding at the universities in calling upon boys to sign the Thirty-nine Articles, which had puzzled all the scholiasts from the first promulgation of Christianity to the present hour. This calling upon boys to subscribe to their belief in what it was impos sible for them to understand was a strange way o f t eac hi ng the ingenious arts. lie denied the ameliorating effect of the peculiar religious teaching in the uni vers iti es , an d b e li ev i ng the whole system to be unwise and unjust he would sup port the motion of Mr. Christie. The hon. and learned gentleman, in the course of his speech, asked if it would be said that members of the Church of England were better men than dissenters ? Sir R. INGLlS.—Certainly. Mr. ROEBUCK said that this avowal was neither favour able to the Christianity or the modesty of those who assented to it, for it savoured of the prayer " We are not as other men." Lord SANDON advocated the necessity of religious educa tion. Mr. R. Yoaks: stated, that he had purchased immunity when at college from attending seven times a week at church, and had the attendances reduced to, two. Now, he was at a loss to know the value to religion of such attendance at church, if some £5O extra expenditure would decrease the ratio of worship from seven to two. Mr. CHRISTIE replied, After which the house divided, and the motion was nega tived by a majority of 175 to 105. Sir V. BLAKE moved for leave to bring in a hill to appor tion and regulate the overwhelming labour and business of parliament, in a manner calculated to allay discontent, and to preserve and maintain the inviolability of the united empire upon a satisfactory and permanent foundation. The hon. baronet read hit bill amidst the laughter of the house, for it was drawn up in most eccentric terms, and went the length of repealing the unions between England and Ireland and England and Scotland. There was no seconder of the motion, and it fell to the ground amidst general laughter. Mr. G. W. Wool) obtained leave to bring in a bill to exempt from parochial and municipal taxation buildings used for li terary and scientific purposes. The house then adjourned HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAT. In reply to a question from the Marquis of LONDON DERRY, The Duke of WELLS NGTON said he had reason to believe that Mr. O'Connell and other magistrates in Ireland had been deprived of the commission of the peace for the part they had taken in the agitation for the repeal of the union. Had notice been given of the question, he would have been able to answer the question positively. _ _ . In reply to a question from the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, The Duke of WELLINGTON Said it was the intention of the governinent to advance £21,000 towards public work s i n I reland. The Earl of MOUNTCASREL presented several petitions from Ireland complaining of the operation of the new tariff in that country. A desultory conversation ensued. It was long and so far tedious that when the Earl of Alountcashel, who was the last speaker, sat down, - The Duke of WELLINGTON asked if there were any more to speak. . .. _ The question was answered by a laugh, and soon afterwards their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY Sir J. GRAHAM, in reply to A question from Mr. Lasubton, said that no further progress could be made with the Factories Bill until after the Whitsuntide recess, at which period he would take the sense of the house upon the educational clauses. The house then resolved itself into committee on the reso lutions respecting the Canada Corn Bill, and Lord J. RUSSELL moved the omission of words from the first resolution, having the effect of making the legislation of this country dependent on that of the Canadian Assembly. Lord STANLEY denied that they were making the legisla , firm of this country dependent on that of Canada. They had merely waited to ascertain what course the Canadian Assem bly would adopt, in order that the British agriculturist might be protected before they attempted to admit the corn of Canada free of duty. Mr. F. BARING said that the fact still remained uncentra dieted, that the legislation of this country was made depen dent on that of Canada. Colonel WYNDHAM expressed his determination to oppose every thing that was connected with free trade. They were told that under the corn law of last year prices would range from 545. to 585., instead of which they ranged 101. or 12s. below those figures. What else could be expected when it was a fact that Mr. Gladstone did not know a cow from a donkey or a plough from a wheelbarrow. (Great laughter.) Yet such were the men upon whom the agricultural interest of England was now dependent. The committee divided, when Lord J. Russell's amend. went was rejected by a majority of 2(13 to 94. Lord WORSLEY then mused the following amendment : " Tifat it is inexpedient to make an alteration in the provi sions of the act of last session, regulating the duties on the importation of corn, by which alteration the protection in tended to be given to the British producer of wheat no longer q rests on duties whi c h are i mposed by th(' in - a : 7lal legislatur e , and the produce o f w hi c h is not ava il a bl e i n aid . the burden of taxation under which this country is now labomme." Colonel Wool) was of opinion thee the alarm raised re lative to this proposition was as absurd as the panic which prevailed relative to the importation of cattle, lie con fessed, at the same time, that had not this been a portion cf the measures of last year, he should not approve of it, b u t the honour of the government was committed ; and after all it was better to encourage the importation of corn fro m colonies of our ow n th an f rom f ore i gn countries. Mr. C. WOOD said that the Canadians were very reluctant rnbnpose the dots `lt s 11.1 end *mild not lia . ve done zo btit uutioklutstiot fur th o' cOotitlott'or duty lo 014 cvuhttyi The only practical result of the measure would be to transfer the income hitherto received by our own exchequer into that of Canada. He could not see the policy or advantage of thus throwing away revenue for no earthly purpose. Mr. 0. GORE, notwithstanding that her Majesty's present ministers were essential to the welfare of the country, yet he felt bound to oppose them in this instance, for he thought the measure ill-timed and injudicious. The measure had come like a thunder-clap upon the farmers, who had not as yet recovered from the effect of last year's measures. After some further observations the committee divided, and the amendment of Lord Worsley was negatived by a majority of 203 to 102. It again divided on the resolutions, which were carried by a majority of 21S to 137. The house then resumed. A motion of Lord CLEMENTS respecting the disbanding of the yeomanry corps of Ireland led to considerable discussion, but the motion was ultimately withdrawn, with a view to be ing again brought forward prior to the discussion of the Arms (Ireland) Bill. In reply to questions from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, Sir J. GRAHAM said he had received that morning a com munication from the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, intimating that he had felt it his duty to remove Mr. O'Connell and Lord Ffrench from the commission of the peace, in conse quence of their presiding at repeal meetings. In answer to other questions Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the conduct of the Lord Chancellor in the course he had pursued was approved of by the Government. He also said the Government had received no intimation of any breach of the peace at the repeal meetings. with the exception of one at which a repealer had been killed, but there was great ex citement, and her Majesty's peaceful subjects were in a state of alarm. He believed the Lord Chancellor had intimated to Lord Ffrench that it would not be consistent with his duty to preside over a repeal meeting. Mr. M. J. O ' CONNELL gave notice that on Monday next he would move for the production of the correspondence on he subject. %The other business before the house was then disposed of and the house adjourned. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, AND OTHERS The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester affords its proprietors the gratify- ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesses, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday—occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Cotton Trade, when its Exchange and Hotels are thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers--is firmly es tablished in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Rev. Henry Carpenter thankfully acknowledges the receipt of five pounds from " A Friend of Missionary Labours among the Heathen," which will be applied, as the donor seems to wi3h, to the funds of the Church Missionary Institution in Sierra Leone, fur educating native African Missionaries. In answer to " AN INTENDING TRAVELLER," we have not heard that cheap train tickets are at a premium yet, but we do understand they are likely to " rise in the market" if they go off as rapidly as they have done during the last few days. Some of the present holders, we have heard, have purchased on speculation. &Ltbcrpoot &tanDatt. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1843. Our excellent contemporary, the Morning Herald, remarks thus upon the proceedings of government and the Conservative party, with respect to the Edu cation Bill : Sir James Graham is, it will be seen by his reply last night to Mr. Hedworth Lambton, resolved that the responsibility of a rejection of the government attempt to give to the fac tory children a sound religious and secular education shall rest ou the House of Commons, for the right hon. baronet pledged himself to take the sense of the house upon it after Whitsuntide recess. And if, in the meantime, the clergy and the laity of the Church of England only do their duty ; if they only arouse themselves from the apathy into which they have hitherto rested; if they only let their voice and sentiments be beard, as those of dissent and non-conformity have been in the House of Commons, there is no fear that the front of might and menace presented against this offering of humanity will be irresistible. We have elsewhere inserted the form of a petition, and we implore the clergy to adopt its form and to procure the signatures of their parishioners thereto. There is, we assure them, no time to be lost. We also direct the attention of our local Conservative contem poraries to this form of petition, and beg of them to urge its adoption on their readers. May we impress upon the friends of religious edu cation in this town to be up and stirring upon this question ? Let an aggregate petition be prepared, and extensively signed ; and let every separate conyreya tion—every separate body of Protestant Conservatives —send up their petitions to strengthen the hands of the government upon this important question ! If this measure be lost, upon the Church, and the Church alone, will be the responsibility There is surely a line of boundary, beyond which even the privileged incendiary, O'Connell, ought not to be permitted to carry his mischievous agitation. Putting aside for a moment the question whether that agitation is one for the dismemberment of the British Empire, or merely for the repeal of an existing act of Parliament—whether it is a legitimate or an unconsti tutional object which it has in view—there is surely a limit, beyond which the peculiar means put in requisi tion cannot, with safety to the peace of Ireland, be permitted to extend. Assemblies of hundreds of thou sands of excited and ignorant men, brought together to listen to the insolent ravings of a reckless fanatic, can scarcely be considered to have any other action upon the constitution, except through the medium of the terrorism which they must create; and whenever agitation, however legitimate its object, assumes this shape, it has certainly far exceeded the limit, within which it may, with prudence, be tolerated by any go vernment. The repeal agitation in Ireland has, we contend, ex ceeded such limit. Its gatherings are no longer to be viewed as legitimate and constitutional expressions of popular opinion. They are but demonstrations of unarmed rebellion, which the occurrence of a day or an hour—the overflowing of one drop of the cup of sedi tion which is held to the lips of the excited masses which compose them—may lash to violence and out rage. It is true they are within ' 6 the letter of the law ;" but they are in flagrant violation of its spirit, They are, overtly, peaceable, but in reality they are aggressive upon the forms of the constitution and the will of the legislature. They threaten no violence, in words; but they " darkly hint" at violence, as their ulterior purpose I They say to the united legislature, " We, a section of the empire, have determined upon being severed from the main body ;" and, when asked by what means they hope to accomplish such an ob ject, reply, significantly, " by our numbers, by our union, by force, if you put force in exercise to prevent such accomplishment"! Such is the present position of the repeal agitation. Such is, virtually, the threat which these assemblies direct against the legislature and the peace of the em pire. And when we reflect upon the nature of the in struments by which they are organised ; that those in struments are a priesthood solemnly rowed to the de struction of British supremacy in Ireland; when we reflect, too, upon the character of the man, whose fiat can convert these aggregate meetings—these mere " demonstrations"--into an avowed insurrection of bloodthirsty and savage traitors ;—can their continued toleration by the executive be regarded as any other than an act of conscious weakness or of utter madness Day by day, hour by hour, the loyal and peaceably disposed amongst our Irish fellow-countrymen are placed by this incendiary agitation upon the brink of a precipice. Day by day, the very existence of the Empire, in its entireness, is threatened with attack, and thousands of loyal Protestants in Ireland menaced with impending slaughter; and between the consummation of this disaster is interposed only the will of one man (.9 and that man the most heartless de magogue that ever fastened himself upon the credulity and fed upon the unruly passions of a nation ! As an example of the furious ravings, by which these assemblies are worked up by this incendiary to the verge of actual outrage, we turn to the reported proceedings of a recent demonstration held in Cork, in which he thtis openly dares the executive to interptig Wr the tit!mrtviktlon of tly: lire en d g o c d mite of country. Speaking of the promised effort of govern ment to repress his favourite agitation, he exclaims— " Let them attack us ; and if they do—what will be the consequence ? What will be the state of the three per cents. ? If they did attack us, and some penniless, shoeless Irishman found his way, on the deck of a steamer, to Manchester or St. Giles's, and collected a number of Irishmen around him, and one would ask, What news ?' to which he would reply—` Your father was cut down by a dragoon—your mother was shot by a policeman, or your sister'—but I will not say what happened to her. Let him but say that ; and I will ask Peel ' How MANY FIRES WOULD BLAZE OUT IN THE MANUFACTORIES OF ENG LAND?' (Hear, hear, and tremendous cheering.)" Can language of more direct import than this be con ceived ? Can anything more atrocious in sentiment— more suggestive of violence—he imagined ? The legislature of Great Britain are to stand by and witness the forcible severance of Ireland from the British Crown, on pain of seeing the towns of England— wherever a degraded and vicious Irish population is to be found—involved in conflagration and outrage ! But proceed; and mark how recklessly this suggester of incrndiarism goes on to lash into fury the wild pas sions of his ignorant listeners. " They shall not," he continues, " MASSACRE (!) us. No—we are safe; for Ireland reposes in peace." (Peace " Her thousands are aroused"—&c. And again—" I offer you the Repeal of the Union! (here the entire audience rose and cheered for several minutes.) Ido not talk to you or warn you to be afraid ? no, that would be ludi crous. (Hear.) I tell you this : ENGLAND IS INCA PABLE OF I'UTTING YOU DOWN ! (Tremendous cries of ' hear, hear,' and deafening cheers.)" What, we ask, is the meaning of this ? " England is incapa ble of putting down" an agitation thus threatening to the peace of the country I Indeed ! Is this so ? Is the fiat of Daniel O'Connell, in reality, paramount over the will of the united British Nation? Has this mer cenary tool of POPERY already his foot upon the necks of the Protestants of Irelond ?—his torch already within reach of the dwellings, and his dagger at the throats, of Englishmen ? No—no—no ! There is a stern and resolute defiance seated deep in the hearts of the British people, which, when the hour comes, will paralyse the threats of the traitor, although surrounded by all the brute power with which Popery can encircle his audacious front. And that hour, we contend, has come. The hour has come when, at length, this ferocious bullying of the British nation, by a factious incendiary, must he put down. It may be that his reckless violence is within the forms of the constitution. The arm of the law may not at present be strong enough to put down —because it has never contemplated the task—his ruffianly gatherings. The tolerant spirit of the British Constitution permits the full expression of public opi nion ; but it has never contemplated these displays of physical force as a legitimate expression of that opi nion. If it be, however, the case—which we doubt— that these tumultuous assemblages, which in England would be promptly put down, are in Ireland above the powers of the law, then, we say, boldly and unhesi tatingly, that the law ought to be furnished with new powers; for certain it is, that this continued violation of its existing powers can no longer be tolerated with safety to the institutions or the peace of the country ! We are happy to notice that, at length, steps, which at least are in the right direction, are being taken to put down this dangerous sedition. The leader of Irish agitation—the author of a vast portion of the system of outrage, which fills with murder and crime that un happy land—has, with nine or ten of his confederates, been deposed from their position upon the magisterial bench. Let the government of Ireland go on in this vigorous course of action. Let them declare, in prac tice, that the proceedings which they thus discourage are dangerous and illegal. Let them arrest the pro gress of their authors ; and they will deserve and re ceive the thanks of all good men and loyal subjects ! The remarks, in our last, upon the virtual admission made by the Manchester Guardian, that the Repeal of the Corn Laws was sought by the manufacturing body as the means of obtaining cheap labour, appear to have somewhat ruffled the usual serenity of his temper, if . , we may judge by the following passages which appear in his Saturday's publication : " We well knew he (the Standard) would not attempt to grapple with" (the position of the Guardian,) "or even to quote it in his columns : and we have looked to the Standard with some curiosity to see how he would contrive to give it the go-by. On Tuesday last he said—nothing. In the Standard of yesterday, however, there is an article on the subject, which is certainly a curiosity in its way. The editor has, of course, entirely shirked the real point at issue; and with the view of keeping the point out of the sight of his readers, has garbled and falsified our words in the most flagrant manner." The fairness of the Guardian himself is, of course, proverbial; but putting that aside at present, let us see how far we have deserved this somewhat hard lan guage of our angry contemporary. We quoted in illus tration of our position, that cheap bread was sought with a view to the reduction of wages, the admission of the Guardian that the manufacturing body " have long been aware that foreign manufacturers are rapidly acquiring the same advantages of capital and machinery which they themselves possess; and with the further advantage of food at half price, the foreigners mnst ! eventually beat them out of every market ;" and for the purpose of our argument we had quoted quite suf ficient. The League party had again and again de clared that they had no such object in view as a re duction of the price of labour. The Guardian himself has always treated, as perfectly absurd, the position that the price of food has any connexion with the price of labour, And yet, here we had him admitting that the foreigner was beating us in every market, one of his most powerful weapons being " the advantage of food," (and, of course, labour) "at half price I" But the Guardian had appended to his assertion that "the foreigner must ultimately beat us out of every market," an alternative. The entire paragraph stated that we must either submit to be thus " beat in every market to which both parties had access on equal terms, or the English manufacturing labourer must submit to be half-fed." We omitted this portion ; and for the sim ple reason that it raised quite a different question to that which we were discussing ! We were not entering upon an inquiry as to the comparative advantages of half wages and half bread. We were not discussing the manufacturer's position in the struggle of competition with the foreigner ; but simply sheaving that he sought to aid himself in that struggle by means which he had strenuously repudiated ! W e showed that he sought for cheap labour; and it was perfectly beyond our pur pose to enquire whether the working was to be bene fitted or injured by the reduction of his wages; whether such reduction was to be preferred to the alternative mentioned by the Guardian—(a reduced quantity of food)—or whether such alternative was the true one. By this omission, and especially of the words marked in italics, the Guardian urges that we have " substi tuted a totally different question for that which he proposed to us." We beg his pardon. We chose, and had perfect liberty to chimise, our own question. We distinctly stated, moreover, what that question was ; and we proved it to our own perfect satisfaction, and, we rather suspect, to the Guardian's annoyance. And although the Guardian may think that the fact of " a journal professing to be at the !head of the Con servative press of Liverpool being driven to this pitiful and contemptible course "—(hard words these, Sir Oracle !)—" proves that its conductors feel the diffi culty of supporting the interests of monopoly in a place the prosperity of which depends upon free trade," &c., we maintain that the course which we adopted proved only that we had discretion sufficient to confine ourselves to the consideration of one subject at once ! In conclusion, .we beg to inform our contemporary that we have never "shirked," or been afraid to grapple, any question which he or any other man pro posed to us; and if he will now put into a specific shape the particular question which he wishes us to meet, we are quite prepared to oblige him. We are perhaps aware what this question is, al rea d y ; h ut i ts more distinct proposition will prevent mistakes. Our fellow-townsmen are of course aware that, in the person of the editor of the Ilercury, t h ey h ave a GENIUS quite competent to settle satisfactorily the entire catalogue of political and social questions, which distract the mind of this great country. The qumion we hat:. frequently " condition-of-England" hid the opportuno of reminking upon, tPIAt oontemportAryi btlt IV4 tiu romOqthet to have seen the puzzling matter, which has been the.? stumbling-block of politici ans for years past- - v e the remedy for Irish discontent—discussed by the Mercury, o r any other English journalist, in thie.sam2i candid spirit as it is discussed in his last Friday s publication ; and we take the liberty, therefore, 10 place our contemporary's oracular wisdom readers, an d particularly before the British Cabinet that " We do not believe," remarks the AfercurY, a repeal . of the le g islative union between the two cons:, tries would remedy the chronic maladies of Ireland. Agreed ! We are not prepared to say that universal suffrage,before our rote by ballot, a repeal of the tithe rent charge, .of the grand jury cess, together with the adoption of a fixity of tenure act, which are Mr. O'Connell s h sary sE,,ENTs "—what means this would prove any modification of Ireland's social evils." Neither are we. " But this, we are sure, that Tilla WOULP eccs BE SUBSTANTIAL REVOLU TIONS IN P"P -g Who doubts it ? " Abolition of the tit h e rent charge is CONFISCATION OF THE PROTESTANT C ar utrgc!: Again we say, " Doubtless." 7.11 grand jury cess is an abuse which 'imposes hardshiPs have no concep tion. Fixity of tenure' is nothing more or less than that last desperate remedy to regenerate (?) Which, coeval; and to give its inhabitants a stake in the hedge, s in the last extremity of the Prussian monar chy, 1461 . adopted by Prince Hardenberg, who, bg a stroke of his pen, converted the tenants of the soil into freeholders--; and by Lord Cornwallis, who constituted the ,dots ° Land being India proprietors in the same manner . (!) o ssessi ull the only means of existence in Ireland, its P gives the proprietors a power unknow n in this conntlio O'Connell would transfer it from its present owner s s the occupiers, subject only to a rent charge. 11111 HIS ONLY WAY TO A BETTER STATE OF THINGS 1) THE ONLY GLEAM OF HOPE FOR THE larrUgg'im.( Bad indeed must be the state of the coun t r y , I°l 0 TH2. ONLY CHANCE OF GOOD IS IN TROC111;IN UPON THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, hOWeVer badly REVENUES." acquired." (! !) tithe Exquisite morality this ! The abolition of the c 4 rent charge is a "confiscation of the Protestant Ciniftrnd revenues " ; ergo , it i s a boon to be prayed for: v-iv, doubtless is prayed for, by this Popish scribe! of ity of tenure" is nothing more tha n the robbery of Protestant landowners ; ergo, it is " the only ch alice o f good" for Ireland! How beautiful the pro ex tensi v any one of these sentiments, from the most circulated journal of this Protestant an d loyal Nolo nity ! " A stroke of the pen," only, it requires to g t; effect to the Mercurial remedy for Ir ish discoatenthe " a stroke of the pen," which will me rel y conve the Y the property of Protestant and other landowners to various tenants and squatters, who vegetate ur n o b. lands of Ireland, and enable that fine country t° s scribe itself as the " First flower of the earth and first gem of the gee' of and, above all, the most productive Rome! We really were not precisely aware that ali t ' P t i,is any O'Connellite morality could be moot edill i t y of loyal town. We were not aware that the " tenure" morality—the morality by which gem in the tiara " He may take who has the power, And he may keep who can"— re get was the morality even of " Liberalism" in the r : „ the age ! There is certainly a modifying feature,:;sity Mercury's f honest philosophy—that, alo n g with hat th e oi, fixity" we are to have a 6 ' re nt charge"; bted, of that rent charge must be greatlY do i t ig when we look at the summary mod e in wh, clo proposed to get rid of another " ren t charge'''. " tithe rent charge" oreq' We leave the whole effusion of our contettlP d pu blic ; a ° oe however, for the consideration of the would suggest an especial consideration of lit to owners " of property in this good town of 16 ' v r o t 1 ' :vhere Irish most do congregate." Wi,11„:1011' fixity of tenure " in the classic regions of Y' 3 " l , to road b and Marybone, accompanied by a rent e her v P o i ' er of such got rid of when it suits the purposes or the e o g i e f such moralists as he of Derrynane and the - the Mercury ? We have already, on several occasina°' certain strange decisions of the stipendiary 119,i'rries who presides in our Police-court ; and s o ar in casf° the equally strange latitude which be pern t ' of criminality or involving a fine to some a til t e : persons under him. We have done so cel l ; forbearance and g od f -°- - feeling to those wboln '' iori s of sidered at fault as was consistent with the °P iri en eta li) ; the constitutional principles of justice Whi ch se res t ` pervade our laws, and with the consequent the public; and we hoped that the hints we bo")woo'`i out (for we can scarcely call them reprehensi°nsvairlAal' ' be taken in good part, and have saved us the 'jig es task of animadverting on new cases of a lio analagous nature. Unhappily, however, °tl t ', JO ° have not been realized ; and we have f ° er a LI attention to a report, in another column, 1/cear3y traordinary proceedings in that court on Jri Saturday last. ; „g of i° , l°r , i ° The former day is set apart for the hear pe'e e. 1 mations against publicans and beerseller s for in t to of the recently-procured act, requiring than 11 : 0 ti ri# from midnight on Saturday until one n'cic servic6 day afternoon; and also to close during divilideecidedi'' on the afternoon of that day. Of this law we b, to e d approve, as regards the time of e losing-- - "t b°° !ioos ilf :,,6 the least, it is peculiarly stringent in its Pr°l--nott severe in its penalties ; and judging from the t j ra te ge are constrained to say that our police rnagis to c praeti" w „t pears—contrary to his accustomed cases (as for instance in that of the small ten e ; he F re i ; in which he requires the strongest proofs tb3t),,,,t0 vious proceedings have been strictly accu rate heli' t 'f' , contented to arrive at a conviction on wha t ' i e n se, i ,a, e 4 the public will generally deem to he verY rested, isolated, and even ques ti o nable evidencer'ejoice men find an occasional hobby o n which they erroittev ride ; and magistrates must be occasionally P e 01° io we presume, to bestride theirs too; but ear Of ° l l O taken that this recreation be. not carried car O t her s tl t° cause unnecessary annoyance or injurY t° itosh o J may unluckily come within reach of it. ISl ,f' d to; it , present hobby is assuredly the act alltluedo whether it be that he had something t ° s parentage, or from other causes, he aPPear Elie e lf to drive it to the top of its speed—alb eit a f r cretion would perhaps be more whol esonle pa to and the public interests. ~ 3 cel l' The two cases to which we have alluded sit e " t or which we refer our readers, bear us ol t ' l' w hieb elusion, and what are the re fl ec tio c n a s bnaet : itsb.. . tiail i ot o :e d ra ° oo , - joi p ee : give rise? Why, first, that there in the mind of any reasonable man, conviction and a heavy fine would have f° the le i a b l e informations of Haines in both cases , : io yirig 0 .0 fendants not gone to the expense Of l -1 1 0 es 0 1 do ; and energetic counsel in their behalf. ony a 1/ 0 believed implicitly nearly throughou t, 31.1 ; „, 1 01 %0', of his labouring under misapprehens set*°' slowely raised in the mind of the magist ra ti te. es s l teill iitig' that it appears to be determined to pur'"eli h espionage, which is alike abhorrent to 1 - A °l4.s t f i ef cif 1 10- v and to English constitutional justice dete r je tec t ' eo iti sending out police-officers in disgui s ' n e .d' io° all, petty delinquencies, for which there 5 4 , in ° r fo r for such extraordinary and, We may 1 4°17 , e f itl' e ' means. Such missions may be correc t of "pi 5c the detection of thieves and s ecret of t he sedition, or treason ; but their enll 3l°)') L . ,oclY 0 0 0 0 mere sellers of ale, is an insult to a la r g .4 c a vtl , c ot' community, whether sellers or purchaserliich same time, amounts to an admission (''' at or P o se , selves do not originate or a ssume ) th a t OfP;i3eif force, well paid and well clad at tile P f on e ° fesf er are incompetent to the performance ° l:o , e 11° 11 , simplest and easiest duties. why, w e rj ; it od er i Or e l ; than six to seven hundred of thes e Ilic oc casi c°4 ol 4 'r (or sticks if you will), who, bating Brl . oo, ba Ve or a rare and slight popular coluln° t ' l liot on l i i time on their hands to look after' e ve '' fit daf' offenders, but to conserve the public P nig ht 01. o ttr e : ‘ order. They have power at al l time", ri d to 5) :01V 1 , enter any public-house in the tow ping I! 1 ' he ro , ,1 0 of `i" sufficiently enforce the new act afi:ee t A o rb ' ve being degraded to the condition 3" rig e a 01111.: S e D e for such are men employed as Hain es t° Rushton calls these emissaries the delec ll , , n et l OY , should prefer a preventive force; for ' pti o h t I t o somewhat the order of the day to s s A dic ,f I it, r , tiotk Ini..”lon of offence so as to ;bp Rbithi tht matith that "Preg"'