The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

BSCRIBEI r H lb CANDIDAT RGEON to t a., at the Clarendon- It the Sub. ersonal friends, 1 lot yet have deterrnin forward in any circular of the to adduce my long residence Lious services as lionorar I: Cholera Hospital, through 832, for their fa ent appointment 3idernic of ing the west a, I have to assure you that I s, faithfully discharge the and Gentlemen bumble servant J. PETRII treet, 16th Oct., 1841 ESTABLISHMENT, !ARISE-STREET. Priends and the Public from the metropolitan and provincial 3 been enabled to procure, FOR CASH ,t extraordinary BARGAINS in Silks ,e Materials for Dresses, of which he of the Chine Tout de Royal, at Is. 2d. _2,, at Si per yard ; French Garni ,chest and newest patterns, at ls. 'KETS, FLANNELS, LINENS, )AKINGS, FUR BOAS, CAPES, LS, of all des, )ectfully incites purchasers to an inspection ice Stock of Goods, and feels assured they )inted as regards quality and cheapness. ALVA/s , i LEY AND THE BISHOP OP ROME From the )üblin Evening Mail.) that we should have an accredited comes at a singularly inauspicious time It was but the other day that the ated and disturbed by the interfe- !pt that state The rc :jog - the estates of the: public property, have been I by his authority ; - anil there can be no l oodshed which has taken place in that ••• the Carlist rebellion, and all that during the present attempt of ly chargeable, to the inter nentate in the civil affairs of the alone have the right to as'independent as we would suffer no other authority on f which ti► war. The except their own sovereign national a a spiritual and a temporal ___Lthority that pretends to decree the va sarriage, pretends also to fix the succession to r that assumes to prohibit the sale of a temporal jurisdiction, in respect of rights of all the rest of the world. Lt upon him to say whether a war is dared the Carlist war to be, or unjust asly declared the cause of Christina ruself an authority which, in our view incompatible with the least notion of is idle, we repeat, to draw a Inc 6yeen the exercise of a spiritual life and land through the con suthority, reaching life and land 11 of flesh. It amounts to precisely the same he estates are claimed as imperatively in ther : the lives of the poor wretches who spiritual claim, are lost just as miserably star opponents ; and he would be amore ence yet can boast of, who would battle, the blood that had been 1 instigation of Gregory, from that which the secular command of Espartero. Liards were a wise nation they would prohibit rice in future ; and if the Pope persisted in his hey should treat him as a temporal sovereign. he world say if the Queen of England were to _oration in her capacity of head of the Angeli to prohibit the King and Parliament of France ig as they please of the revenues how paid in to the Protestant clergy ? They would be in ) declare that Queen Victoria's pro t more of her secular than of her uthority, and would hardly blame the French na- Pope t n bete t than sci e field of tired so 3 war against as, for our presumption, r at the present moment in a Of 'external - authority. The powerful and of Austria has to put up with her share also s no later than the month of May issued a, modest decree, by peror of Aust is are prohibited ed marriages, and th with the expedition from the Canada shore. For the defence an alibi, probably unsuccessful, (says the Herald) will be attempted to be proved. Some have en tirely refused to testify. They swear they did not see MiLeod with the expedition. We judge, continues the Herald, that though a strong case will be made against His preten- I M‘Leod, tt jury will not agree upon a verdict : but that the trial will show that the destructi of the Caroline wa wholly indefensible. The Herald thus concludes —The grounds of difference between the two great countries arc daily and hourly growing broader and better defined ; the atrocious kidnapping of Col. Grogan has stirred the whole northern frontier to a deed of mutiny, and there is the strongest necessity for prompt and energetic action, either to maintain peace or to prepare for New York Herald of the Ist contains an account of an interview with Mr. Wells, the owner of the Caroline, and one of the witnesses on the trial of M`Leod. He says the Navy Island expedition was a failure, that the boat was unarmed, and that no man will swear that he saw M`Leod shoot Durfee. An alibi, by oral testimony, will be one branch of the de fence ; the next will be the examination recently taken in Canada to negittive the positive evidence that M‘Leod took part in the affair of the Caroline. Another branch of the defence will be, the general character of the transaction, the circumstances of the times ; in short, impunity will be claimed on the ground that the Caroline was engaged in an open war on the British Province, and that she was cut off by the order of the proper authorities. The sales at the Stock Board had been large on the day previous to the vessel sailing, and prices had generally de clined. The M`Leod affair and the outrages on the border had had a great influence in the monetary circles. t and MI Catholic subjects of mder the happy freedom of your '`ion of this pernicious authority, ,ermarry and to educate your children, ,se of your religious principles on either .le same freedom is denied to your fellow ighout every country of Europe, which offi ;le authority of Rome. Will Gregory send ? He dare nut. Familiarity with Bri , ,nade even the Roman Catholic subjects of m independent to brook such interference. iritish freedom stoop to recognise the official ex tie Papal see, as Spain and Austria and France Ind Lord Alvanley will soon have the satisfaction to decree of the Vatican outrunning the Queen's cree to us every county of England. A more pernicious prop°. Id not have been made at the present moment. We sfied the pamphlet has not the sanction of any single rof her Majesty's government. It is the production ver man, unquestionably, but of orie who, it is equally , has read and written for the purpose of finding a ty for a preconceived scheme—not for the purpose of g a scheme to meet any existing necessity. SIR R. PE EL AND THE FACTORY SYSTEM (From Mr. Oastler's Fleet Papers.) I told you that I feared Sir Robert Peel with the real character of the working vas apprehensive his ignorance on that the ruin of his administrat . o.), as it was gs. I informed you, also, that it had ) been Sir It obert Peel's habit not to receive the de ns of working men, when they waited upon him, but custom was to require them to state their views in of the v .ow delighted to have the opportunity of stating to t Sir Robert Peel has received a deputation of work from the Short-time Committees of Lancashire ; •mtiently listened to them, whilst they rehearsed ' , le condition of the factory workers, whilst 'heir misery, and whilst they .emedies. The Premier received them with listened to them with marked attention, and d to those working men his approval of the very pro able manner in which they bad described the suffer their clients, and pointed out their causes and reme- Sir Robert Peel assured the deputation that " he was ~ ressed with the very great importance of their ' of the facts which they had laid before him, '- colleagues would devote their most seri stion, with a view to the happiness Jeln4 of those concerned." The deputation did to impress upon the Premier the close connexion .ire is between the factory system and the new poor how the latter was calculated to oppress and add to :rings of those who are engaged in the former. , this is as it should be. The government and the work sses are no longer strangers. The truth has been told :king men to her majesty's ministers. There was no n Chadwick, no Muggeridge, intervening to mar their or to suppress their evidence. I know what effect has produced on the minds of the working men by that in ew—l guess what impression has been made upon that ie premier. No man can come into close contact with orking men of England without loving them. It is the of idle cormorants of commissioners, their assistants, ecretar:es, who have lived upon traducing the working es, and who have ruined their patrons, the Whig govern (who listened to their lies, and acted upon their sugges ,—it is those despicable hangers-on, who have, by de.. lg the government, caused all the misery under which causes of t 1 to the que act that the premier will now com raises my hopes more than I can y seem strange to you, it is true, ilties of the government have arisen out. of ignorance of the character of the work that commissioners have found it the government believe that the , vicious, profligate, and hicl► has been re idle, turbule.' HE every measure a differ character, being t class of beings than the working If England; and consequently it has increased the misery it was intended to remove—forced the complaints of eopld to become louder; and then it required another f idlers, in the shape of commissioners, assistants, :aries, inspectors, clerks, and all sorts of idle drones, to the most industrious, reasonable, virtuous, and loyal e, from rebellion. Now, however, that the premier working classes have had a meeting, I anticipate the )b-Commission-Legislation ; and, amongst other sures, I think that I foresee the speedy enactment ?le, plain, efficient Ten Hours' Factories' Regulation shout one single hanger-on. Len Sir Robert Peel has received a few more deputations he working men, I am confident that he will see how the working people have been libelled by the Poor - rnissioners ; and when he has discovered that, there , übt that he will at once repeal the accursed New named under the assumption and .h of Jc lye declaration that the wonting c. alent, and profiim-, ses were idle, lazy and it is impossible The trot 3 much stre'ss - u . pon — ih - is - one fact, the philosophers of men who are ever dreaming of a state of exist thout restraint, which they call `liberty," but which the Christian school, know to mean libertinism. To ie way far the consummation of their hopes, they want rid of the aristocracy on the one hand, and of the poor - It roars their peace to see a race of men, who, so 'much their superiors. The re .: imposes makes them miserable ; and so burdensome," that, in order to gratify less of our philosophers, and to ease them of the , ouired by the support of the poor, a dogma was pounded, that " the poor have no right to ature never provided a seat for them at her !ion that doctrine, so contrary to the divine law, 000 r law founded ; and this philosophy sue •rmining the Christianity of the constitution, i ,ot rid of the claims of the p oor. To acconi - i„ s i res of these philosophers, (the destruc -,ld the poor,) they have pictured the succeeded in setting has been that the deluded ari d by the sophistries of the p hil o. ,enevin;-zitthialet the:poorweriae,ionlersealoitf the reality tn e gre on ai .1 they were depicted in the ,aster (see Lord Brongliam s s peech on proposing th e oor law), a law that has been passed, on the principle he poor have no rights. at vans lion, are and at night ask tt ers, and have The result morning, think what thou bast to do; self what thou hast done learn from Corfu that the harvest of Corinth grapes :en very good ,this. year both in quality and quantity. lonia has produced [,early 1,000,000 of pounds, and about 7,000,000. A. fall in . the price is therefore d for. It was expected that a very large quantity of teat olive oil would be wade, as the trees were loaded fruit in fine condition. CASE OF COLONEL GROGAN The citizens of St. Alban's held meetings on the 21 and 22d ult., fof collecting the testimony in regard to the seizure of Colonel Grogan. It appears from one of the affidavits, that on the 19th nit there were present at the tavern of J. M. Sowles, at Alburgh, a short distance from the line, sundry persons from Canada, in company with James W. Grogan, and among the rest a dragoon who urged Grogan to drink, and was particu larly attentive to him, so much so that his extraordinary courtesies became suspicious. These suspicions were im mediately communicated to Grogan, and he was advised that a plan was on foot to kidnap him and to transport him to, Canada. Grogan finally following the friendly advice given him, went to Alburgh city, so called, and afterwards went to pass the night at the house of Mr. William Brown, his bro ther-in-law, who resides about three miles within the boundary line. -- Another affidavit states that a gang of armed men entered the house of Mr. Brown on the 20th ult., and they were in the uniform of British soldiers. and fully armed. This Mii. davit then goes on to state that Grogan was seized and dragged from his bed apparently strangled. From another affidavit it appeared that a gentleman over took a waggon, at the bottom of which, Grogan was placed badly wounded and bruised. He was taken to Missisquoi Bay, and from thence to Montreal. The outrage on Mr. Grogan has caused a great excitement all along the frontier. A call for a public meeting (to take place on the evening of the 27th in relatieu to the affair was issued at Burlington on the 24th, signed by a large number of the citizens. LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA We have received, through the " Boston Mail," advices from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo to the Gth ult. There had been a severe and important naval engagement between the squadrons of Buenos Ayres, under:Commodore Brown, and Montevideo, under Commodore Coe. Victory crowned the efforts of the latter, and the blockade of Montevideo has been raised in consequence. The above intelligence, brought by the South America, we were enabled to give in a third edition of Tuesday's STANDARD. About eight o'clock in the evening of that day the Caledonia arrived in the river. She departed from Bos ton on the day appointed—namely, Saturday, the 2d instant. On the following day she encountered a heavy sea, and, on Sunday, the 4th, the weather was so tempestuous that she was compelled to lie to, having lost one of her quarter boats, and several of her crew having sustained serious injury. After braving most severe weather, she at length arrived at Halifax, at six o'clock on the evening of the ith instant. At a quarter past six o'clock on the evening of the Sth, she set steam for Liverpool. Notwithstanding that she had boisterous weather nearly all the way home, she has performed the voyage in eleven days. She has brought home 53 passengers, a list of whom, with an abstract of her log, we have subjoined. The Acadia arrived out on the 2d instant. She also appears to have experienced much tempestuous weather. The additional information brought by the Cale donia is not important. With reference to the case of Col. Grogan, the Boston Morning Post, in the following para graph, throws so►ae new light upon the affair : " The dragoons who kidnapped Colonel Grogan do not belong to what is considered the regular British army. The regular soldiers, when placed on the frontier, have deserted to such an extent, that the government has been compelled to raise a force in the province for frontier service • and to this force the dragoons belonged. The. men and officers are chosen from those who are the loudest in their profession of loyalty to the Queen, and most bitter in their prejudices against the republicans of the States. They draw their pay and rations from the British government; and although they cannot be considered the most fit men to preserve peace on the frontiers, they are the most unscrupulous tools of tyranny, and those who would naturally be chosen to do the work that they were lately engaged in." The natural consequence of the unsettled state of affairs relative to great Britain, and of the increasing difficulties, is great pressure on the money market, inactivity of business, and a general depreciation of stock. The complaints of the inanimate state of business were general. There was but little current money in circulation, and the exchange brokers were entirely without occupation. United States Bank shares were at 51. At Philadelphia, on the 29th ult., United States Bank notes, to the amount of 3,000 dollars, had sold at the hoard of brokers at 66 cents on the dollar. Exchange on Eng.land. for the packet of the Ist and for the steamer, was at 94 to 10 per cent. premium. Bills were very scarce and in great demand. The cotto❑ market was still inactive. Great fears had been entertained that, owing to the small demand for cotton in this country, and the probability of a large crop, the dealers would be distressed, and the planters unable to obtain anything like a saving price. It is stated, however, that the prospects of a large crop is extremely doubtful. The ?siacon (Georgia) Messenger• of the 21st ult. has the follow ing, from which it appears that a failure in that district was apprehended : " A few weeks since, the prospect of a large crop was never more favourable. But for the last three weeks there has been more or less rain eve:y day, (except three or four,) which has greatly changed the prospect. Great injury is now daily taking place from the rot, worms, and other causes incidental to a wet season. We can now say, without a doubt, that the crop must be short of an average one ; and if the rains continue, that it will be almost a total failure." The news from Canada is scanty and unimportant. The death of the Governor-General seems to have thrown a gloom over the society of the colony. The funeral of his lordship took place at Kingston, on the 23d ult. The day was ob served as one of mourning and solemnity. The shops and places of business were all closed, and trading and mechanical operations were entirely suspended. The flags of the vessels in the harbour, says one of the papers, " drooped mourn fully at half-mast, and the people in the town everywhere put on, along with the garments, ' the spirit of heaviness.' " BRITISH STEAM-SHIPS ON THE LAKES A good deal of solicitude has been produced on the fron tier by the British government building several armed steam ships on the lakes, and the opinion prevails that it has been done in violation of the treaty between Great Britain and this country. The Albany Evening Journal gives the facts in the matter. . . . A treaty or arrangement was made in 1817 between the two countries, by which it was stipulated that the naval farces to be maintained upon the American Lakes by the respective parties, should thereafter be confined to the following vessels on each side : . . . - ‘;' - on Lake Ontario, to one vessel not exceeding 100 tons burden, and armed with an 18 pound cannon. " On the Upper Lakes, to one vessel not exceeding a like burden, and armed with like force. " On the waters of Lake Champlain, one vessel not ex ceeding like burden, and armed with like force." It is further agreed, that it either party should thereafter be desirous of annulling the agreement, and should give six months notice to that effect, the agreement should cease to be binding after the expiration of the six months. The Bri tish government gave notice to the President of the United States in November, 1838, that the Government had found it necessary to increase their armament on the lakes. Mr. Van Buren seems to have supposed that it was per fectly p roper an d sa f e to l et t h e B r i t i s h governmen t h ave as ta er fo d r e c r e en u c p e o ie n ss t o h n e o la u k r e p s ar a t s . it pleased, and to leave the Wednesd a A. C ANDID DOCTOR.—In the course of an inquest held on an inquest on the body of a person who had been slightly IT, Mr. W a kl ey sa i d that a short t i mEts i nce h e h e ld bitten by a dn. The deceased had shown symptoms not unlike those of hydrophobia, and was attended sedulously by a surgeon-up to the time of his death. Mr. Wakley, eN amining the surgeon asked hi m the cause of the death of his patient, and the surgeon. With great naivete" and frankness, answered, " I cannot positively tell. Ido not know whether he died from the effects of the bite or from those of the medi cines I administered to him." asions, t slature fa of a merely UIITED STATE Third Edit;aii SOUTH- aection to which T next, between previously received Owing, in all few papers were bror ;ht by the latter vess to obtain the intelligence was intense crowded the whole day of which arrived in the river this after- noon a little after four o'clock, brings intelligence from America to the Ist instant, being four days later than the Dbabili ty, to the expectation that the Cale- donia would reach this port before the South America, very The anxiety the piers. were THE APLEOD CASE, UTICA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29 Late last night, and during the whole of this morning, witnesses arrived here in great numbers, both for the prose cution and the prisoner. The survivors of the Patriot army, which was in possession of Navy Island when the Caroline was destroyed, have come, with all the officers of that short- lived provisional government of which M'Kenzie was Presi dent pro tern. From Buffalo, Canada, and for a great extent along the frontier, the cry is " still they come." Mr. Bradley and Mr. Gardener, Mr. Spencer's associate counsel for the prisoner, have arrived from Canada with vo. lumious testimony, taken under commission, and many wit nesses to sustain his defence, and all parties are now ready to go to trial. It is now, however, well understood that the trial will not commence until Monday next, and, in the mean time, Judge Grindly will clear the calendars, both civil and criminal. It is not at all improbable that the case fourteen days will occupy twelve or The evidence of those upon the boat, says the Herald, in relation to the identity of M`Leod, is much less conclu sive than of those who swear they saw him go and return kT i ON 1) COMMITTA I OF GENERAL WASHER 41.11TT1 THREE LEWES, TuEsuAr.--Yesterday lieneral Washer . 'V.713 brought before the Earl of Chichester, Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley, and Mr. Blackman, the sitting magistrates, charged with the wilful murder of Hannah Devonshire, alias Several witnesses deposed to the position of the body in the pit, and also to the rumour of a !nail of the name Briggs haviug been charged with the murder, after whici: a" pair of syecia- _ des with the prisoner about two years ago. The s produced are the pair witness received from him. had them in her possession ever since. When the _ exchanged the spectacles he put on a pai r b e l ong i ng to wit ness, and said 'he could see very well in them . , ancli4kt he had a pair at home that he thought would suit witness better. The prisoner then brought them, but did not tell witness where he got them, but that they were too hold for him. Witness never thought about the spectacles until Tuesday last, which made her say when last examined that the spec tacles had only just come up. Witness handed the specta cles to the constable last week. In answer to a question by the prisoner, the witness posi tively swore that she only received one pair from him. The prisoner said his wife brought the pair of spectacles produced from London, and that he gave the last witness two pairs for her one pair. William Smith, the man who lived with the deceased up to the time of her death, recollected her having a pair of spectacles. Witness said the ones produced were them, and that he could select them from amongst a hundred pairs. They had a glass broken, which was put in, and ears added to prevent them falling off, by Mr. English, of the Cliff, Lewes. Witness added, that the glasses suited him very well; he tried them on and felt satisfied they were the pair in the deceased's possession when she left home. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, declared he was as innocent of the crime alleged against him as the first day he She has was born. The Noble Chairman said it was the opinion of himself and brother magistrates, that the prisoner should be com mitted for trial on the serious charge of murder. The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes, and the witnesses were bound over to pro secute. LAST MOMENTS OF LORD SYDENHAT‘I The following account of the death-bed scene of this la mented nobleman is extracted from the letter of an eye " For about a week after the accident (a fall on horseback, by which his leg was broken, and at the same time a deep and painful wound inflicted just above the knee) he appeared to be going on tolerably well, and, although he himself re peatedly expressed doubts as to his recovery, there was no thing to lead us to suppose, nor did the medical men give us to understand, that his presentiment was more than the na tural consequence of the lowness produced by weakness. " On Monday, however, the 13th, spasms came on, first in the leg, and afterwards in the stomach and throat ; yet still we had no idea that a fital result would ensue. The proro gation had at first been fixed for 'Wednesday, and subsequent ly, at the request of the assembly, postponed until Friday ; and so little prepared were we then for what was to follow, that during Thursday the Governor-General was employed in giving his decision on the several bills which had been passed, and in revising the draft of the speech which, at his desire, had been prepared for him. " On Friday morning his illness increased so-much that he was obliged to put off the prorogation, and after consultation with his medical advisers, he determined to prorogue the parliament by deputation. General Clitherow being the senior military officer at present at Kingston, was selected for the purpose, and prorogued the parliament on Saturday morning, at twelve o'clock, giving, at the same time, the royal assent or reservation to the bills which had all pre viously received Lord Sydenham's decision, and almost all of them his signature. In the night of Friday occurred that great change which made it evident that Lord Sydenham's illness was rapidly approaching to a fatal termination. Every one of his symptoms was fearfully aggravated, and even those who had before hoped most were forced to confess that hope was now vain. He was perfectly conscious of his own state, and about two o'clock on Saturday afternoon he, together with all his establishment, received the sacrament. He then dictated to Mr. Dowling his will. To all his establishment he left some token of his regard. He desired to be remem bered to Lord J. Russell, to whom he bequeathed a memorial of his friendship, and when that part of his will was read over to him, he exerted himself to say, with emphasis, though in terrupted by violent spasms in the throat, Dowling, Lord John is the noblest man it has ever been .my good fortune to know.' He then took leave of us all individually, saying something kind to each. To Mr. Murdoch, civil secretary, he expressed a wish that he should write the history of his administration in Canada. He repeatedly mentioned his continued interest in this country, and his satisfaction that the parliament was prorogued, the great institutional mea sures be had devised and proposed to parliament passed into law, and the purposes of his mission accomplished. To his private secretary he said, ' Good bye, Grey ; you will defend my memory. Mind, Grey, you will defend my memory !' He then spoke kindly to Major Campbell and Mr. Baring, adding, (motioning his hand to all,) Now leave me alone with Adamson (his chaplain) to die.' " The rest of that day and the whole night were spent by him in prayer and conversation with his chaplain. During this period he suffered very much, but his mind never for an instant failed, nor appeared to be clouded by his approaching death. Once or twice his spasms were so severe that we were afraid lie was gone; but it was not until seven o'clock on Sunday morning that we were summoned into his room to see him breathe his last. At this moment all pain seemed to have ceased ; his countenance had resumed its usual expres sion. He gave one long steady look up on us all around the bed, and expired at five minutes past seven o'clock. " I cannot conclude without adding my confident belief that in Canada Lord Sydenham has not left one personal enemy. and that his death in the service of his Queen and this colony, for whose welfare he died a martyr (since there can be no doubt that the severity of the two winters he passed here, acting on a constitution not over strong, alone rendered him unequal to bear the effects of an injury, not otherwise of a fatal character), will be hallowed to its good, that over his untimely grave past differences will be forgotten, a spirit of charity grow up and flourish, and all parties unite cordially to carry out the policy and administer the laws which .his master-mind devised and hiS• master-hand enacted. Lord Sydenham had just accomplished his forty-second year a few days only before his death." IMPORTANT INVENTION IN MACHINERY Our attention has been called, by an article in one of the provincial newspapers, to a very important mechanical in vention, for which a patent has recently been granted to two Scotch gentlemen, and which promises to effect a greater and more beteficial change in the working of machinery than has taken place since those most brilliant discoveries of Watt. The two great drawbacks of the steam-engine (besides the large space it occupies) have been the bulk, and the conse quent expense of the fuel which it requires—the latter pre venting its application to many purposes for which it would otherwise have been a most effective agent; and the former impeding its locomotive energy, and confining it, particularly as regards navigation, within comparatively narrow lim ts. Any reduction in either of these respects is thereby obviouisly so much clear gain. The invention to which we allude pro mises to effect a prodigious saving in both, by diminishing the expenditure of fuel to somewhat less than one-fifth of what is now required for an equal degree of power. It has already, we are informed, been put to the test by the con struction of an engine of about 20-horse power, which has far some time been driving alt the machinery of an extensive foundry with no larger consumption than we have just men tioned, and with every prospect of a considerably greater reduction being effected by some slight changes in the details. The motive power used is the common atmospheric air; and another great advantage of the new engine arises from a saving of space, equal to what is usually occupied by the fur nace and boilers of a steam-engine. If these things be so, it is impossible to calculate the results to which so important a discovery must lead. The following is a description of the engine referred to : The air-engine now working at the Dundee Foundry, for which a patent was lately taken out, is the joint invention of the Rev. Dr. Stirling, of Galston, and of his brother, Mr. Stirling, engineer, of Dundee. The principle of the inven tion consists in alternately heating and cooling two bodies of air confined in two separate vessels, which are so arranged, that by the strokes of two plungers, worked by the engine, the whole of the air contained in one of the vessels is sent to the lower end immediately over the furnace, and is conse quently made quite hot, while the whole of the air contained in the other vessel is at the same time transmitted to the upper end, which is cut off from any communication with the furnace, and is therefore comparatively cold. The expansion caused by the heat renders the air in the one vessel alter nately much more elastic than that in the other ; and the two ends of the working cylinder, w hi c h i s fitt e d w ith a piston similar to .that of. a steam-engine, being respectively con nected with the two air vessels, a preponderating pressure is produced, by turns, on each side of the piston, which is thereby pushed to the opposite end of the cylinder, and so, by the alternate action of the plungers in the two air vessels, it continues a reciprocating motion, and is applied to turn a crank in the same way that a steam-engine does. It has been satisfactorily shown that this engine may be worked with very great economy of fuel as compared with a steam engine. The principal means of producing the saving is this—that of the heat which is communicated to the air from the furnaces, only a very small portion is entirely thrown away when it conies again to be cooled ; for. by making the air, in its way from the lint to the cold end of the air-vessel, to pass through a chamber divided into a number of small apertures or passages, the great extent of surface with which it is thereby brought in contact, extracts from it in the first place, but only temporarily, the greater part of the heat, and afterwards restores it to the air on its passage back again from the cold to the hot end of the vessel. The process of cooling is finally completed, by making the air pass through between a number of tubes in which there is a current of cold water, and thus far the heat cannot be made available again ; but the portion which is abstracted in this way is very small. As a sufficient expansive power could not be attained in so small a space without greater alterna tions of temperature from using air of the common density of the atmosphere, the air used is pretty highly compressed, and a much greater power is thereby obtained upon a given area of the piston. A small air-pump, worked by the engine, is therefore necessary to keep up the air to the requisite den sity ; but very little power is expended on this ; all that is re quired of the pump, after the engine has been once charged, be ing to supply any loss of air that may arise from leakage, which is found to be very trifling. The machine has been working oc casionally for above six months, and it has been proved to be capable of performing advantageously theamount of work which the inventors had anticipated from their calculations and pre vious experiments. It has now for upwards of a month been driving all the machinery at the extensive engineering works of the Dundee Foundry, which a steam-engine of approved e i this invention must necessarily cons t r uction had hitherto been empl o y e d to do ; and it has been ascertained that the expenditure of f ue l is, cateris pa ribus, less than one-fifth part of what w as requ i re d f or the steam-engine; but as considerable imp rovements are con templated in some of the details, it is confidently expected that a much greater saving will eventually be eff ec t e d. Th e w h o le machine, including its furnaces and h eat i ng apparatus, stands in about the same space that a steam-engine of equa l p owe r would occupy without its furnaces and b o il er . T a ki ng into account the sa vin g of s pace along with the vast economy of f be of immense impor tancefor all ordinary purposes requiring motive power. As an instanc e , it would reduce the expense of the power em ployed in driving machinery in Dundee alone by at least £25,000 or £30,000 a-year. But, viewed in reference to the purposes of navigation , it must lead to results more extraor dinary, and will render a vo y a g e to India round the Cape, by machinery, a matter of perfectly easy accomplishment.— Journal. Minin g THE TEA TRADE — LONDON , MONDAY. —The market for tea bas been steadier since this day week, and the public sales have gone off much better than could have been antici pated, seeing the heavy supplies that have come in continually, and the still larger quantities daily expected. Great difference of opinion exists, s wayed, no doubt, by interest i n many cases, as to the f u t u re range of prices; but as som e o f t h e dealers unconnected with spec ulation hav e suffered their - stocks to get very low, as a matter of prudence in the event of any sudden change in the state of a ff a ir s at Canton, they are obliged to come into the market as pirchasers forpresent wants, and this prevents a fall in prices. The deliveries last week amounted to 463,550 lbs., being an increase on the previous fortnight. trigt tiEY llKtr ANI3 1111Abt REPORT. 4 , • The tenour of the intelligence regarded in the City and cn the of rather a favourable complexion, but ,arly appear, unless it Must he taken for i-arited that people having made up their Minds .to find M'Leod tried, condemned and hung by the present arrivals,' were agreeably disappointed that no one of these grave events had taken place sir late as the 2d. instant. Upon the strength of this more encouraging aspect of affairs Consols improved to to 8 for money, and 88 to 3- for account. Bank Stock was Iti24 to 34. India Stock 242 k to 31. Exchequer Bills 10s. to 12s. premium. In-Foreign Stocks as in the Home there was not much bu siness doing. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents .were 511 to 4, the Five per Cents. 991 to 4. Belgian 102 to 3. Spanish improved to-day, the Active with the Coupons being 204 to 4 . Portuguese Five per Cents 291 to 4, the Three per . Cents 17i- to 18. Brazilian 42 to 51. Mexican 231 to 44. Co lombian 184 to 194. _ _ . why does not - so el The mallets tor c. moderate business doing. The public sales of tea were brought to a close to-day The result is a decline of Id. per lb. on green teas, and about former prices for other sorts. Company's Congou was at Is. 94d. to Is. 94d. per lb. cash. Tallow was steady to-day. Prime yellow candle, 475. 6cl. per cwt. on the spot. colonial p lace were firm, with a In the Hamburgh commercial markets during the week ending the 15th instant, coffee was quiet, owing to the arrival of supplies. Sales 5600 bags Brazil, at 3P. to 5d., and 1400 Domingo, at 41d. to 41c1. sch. The ord and good ord sorts were lower. In raw sugar large transactions; 800 to ouo boxes white and brown Bahia; 1300 brown and yellow Havana; 6000 bags :Manilla; 400,000 lbs. molasses. Rice sold for present wants. About 1000 boxes Cassir Lignea sold. English pimento was at 3 1-16 to 31 sch. English pepper, no alteration. Auctions of tobacco were coming on. COMMISSION OF BANKRUPTCY EXTRAORDINARY PROFLIGACY.-IN RE DAUNCEY BIII.MINFGLIAM, OCT. 20.—Some months ago the papers contained an account of the apprehension and committal of William Dalton Dauncey, ironmaster, a young man aged 22 only, charged with feloniously absconding from his creditors, and taking refuge upon the continent, instead of surrender ing to his fiat of bankruptcy. It will be recollected that the bankrupt, who for a period of a year and three-quarters oc cupied the Bordesley and Atlas mills, was taken by Superin tendent Stephens at a ball at Cuxhaven, and was afterwards ccmmitted to take his trial at the last Warwick Spring As sizes, but owing to an objection, grounded upon the invali dity of the notice served at the late residence of the bank rupt when the fiat was issued, he was, under the direction of Mr. Justice Matteson, acquitted. The creditors, prepared for this result, and determined that he should not escape with impunity, lodged a detainer against him, and Dauncey was transferred from the criminal to the debtor's side of Warwick Gaol. He subsequently petitioned the Insolvent Debtors Court for his discharge, and the schedule which he was com pelled to file for that purpose has exposed a course of reckless profligacy never before exhibited in any bankruptcy case in Birmingham. Dauncey having been remanded by the Com missioner of the last Insolvent Debtors Court held at War wick until the next circuit, the assignees under his fiat have, within these few days, brought him in custody from War wick, and subjected him to a searching examination before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy at the Waterloo-rooms in this town. _ At Dauncey's examination it appeared he commenced business at the latter end of the year 1838, and was bankrupt in the summer of 1840. During tbis period he con tracted debts to the amount of £19,183 Bs., having com menced business with a capital of £lOOO, and realised a profit of £3OOO, amounting together to £23,183 Bs. The assets were estimated at £1,668, leaving a deficiency of £21,515, which was accounted for by the bankrupt as follows— £. d. 1,484 17 8 770 0 0 • 225 0 0 Amount of debts owing to me, abput For rent Keep of horses during 1i years, about Discount and interest paid and allowed on bills and accounts during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0 Carriage of goods during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0 Taxes .. 175 0 0 Servants' wages, including wages paid to work men, about .. .. 4,580 0 0 Other household expenses for 11 years, about 1,000 0 0 Expenditure on the Continent, from Septem ber, 1840, to March, 1841, about .. Clothes for It years, at £5O a-year, about .. Law charges during the same period, about .. Surgeons' bills, about .. Travelling expenses .. Loss on erecting four new furnaces, and pulling down old ones, at Bordesley, about .. Loss on erecting guide mill, &c., at Bordesley 400 0 0 90 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 1,000 0 0 600 0 0 502 0 0 I Ironworks, about . .. • • Loss by paying to millwrights, engineers, black- smiths, bricklayers, labOurers,& breakages at different times, about Loss by breakages of driving-wheels and engine Loss by breakage of connecting-rod, about .. Loss by breakage of crank-pin, standards, cen tres, motions, and other parts of engine, about 100 0 0 Loss by breakage of rolls, pins, & boxes, about 100 0 0 Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £2 to repair GOO 0 0 300 0 0 200 0 0 per ton .. .. .. .. .. .. Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £1 per 1,000 0 0 ton, about .. .. 350 0 0 Loss on dead outlay, as paid Mr. G. Jellico on entering Bordesley works, about .. .. 650 0 0 Loss on breakages at the Atlas works, about.. 700 0 0 Loss at Dunkirk at the game of Lasquinette .. 370 0 0 Loss on a horse race at Wurtzen, in Prussia, about .. .. .. .. .. 7O 0 0 Loss by damaged iron during this period, about 500 0 0 Difference between my sale and valuation and my estimate of the value, about 1,500 0 0 Money in my possession when I was taken into .. _ . custody - - Excepted articles, as by valuation Difference between valuation, and cost price 0 1 • 4 10 0 5 0 0 Deficiency Amount of debts for which I have received no consideration 5,41 G 10 0 25,845 4 2 The bankrupt was then questioned in a searching manner as to several of the sums mentioned above, and answered in the most loose znd vague way and being unable to give sa tisfactory answers to many of the questions, the commission ers adjourned the examination. Not more than £4O has as yet been received from the estate of the bankrupt. The family of Dauncey are living in a style of great respectability in the neighbourhood of Warwick. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE (From Tuesday's Morning Herald.) Yesterday afternoon the tide in the River Thames rose to a height which has not been remembered by the oldest in habitant on its banks. From Blackwall to a considerable distance above the bridges, it was one continued flood. The water washed the steps of Fishmongers' Hall, on the city side of London-bridge. On the opposite side, at Bank side, the water was at least five or six feet above the wharfs, and Messrs. Barclay's brewhouse, in Park-street, was com pletely afloat, and their extensive cellars filled. It is impossible to calculate the extent of the damage done, but it must be immense. The Temple-gardens overflowed, and a boat might be seen rowed over them. On the opposite side of the river was the same. Half an hour before high water the passen gers by the. Moonlight steamer had to jump for the steps at Waterloo-bridge, and at Hungerford-marlcet it was necessary to have a boat to convey the passengers on board. The Duke of Buccleuch's garden's was seen wholly under water. The enormous cofferdam at Westminster-bridge was full of water, and all labour was suspended. The damage done is most serious. At Lambeth, the Bishop's-walk was two feet under water, and the tide flowed into the churchyard. It was necessary to have boats to convey the passengers from the church to the steam-boats. Fore -street, which is the next to the river, was flooded ; and up to six o'clock the water was being pumped out of the kitchins and cellars. On Millbank, at Johnson's-wharf, th e r i ver f oun d its way into the low ground by the side of the Penitentiary, and en tirely stopped the passage on that aide of the river. It was the same at the old Ranelagh-gardens ; but here more seri ous mischief has been done. At Battersea, and especially near the Red House, the destruction was most severe. The gardens at the South end of Chelsea College were under water, and it was necessary, when the steam-boat arrived at Chelsea, to take the passengers in a boat and put them through a granary window, for the garden of the Old Swan was a part of the river. Battersea Bridge appeared nearly under water. A poor woman was drowned in Plough-alley, Wapping. She was bed-ridden, and the inmates of the house where she lived, forgetting her in the confusion which prevailed, the water rushed in, filled the apartment where she was confined, and she was drowned. It was reported that another female and her child were drowned in a house near the same place, but it was impossible to approach the place to ascertain the particulars. The excitement among the poor people in this neighbourhood was extreme, and parents were running about in all directions, seeking for their children who were missing, and who, they were fearful, had been swallowed up by the angry flood. At six o'clock in the afternoon the trains discontinued running on the Blackwall railway, in consequence of the rail way being overflowed at the Blackwall end. Yesterday afternoon the spri ng -tid e rose to a mos t extra ordinary height at Greenwich, Deptford, &c. The extensive rope grounds of Henderby, Esq., at East Greenwich, were flooded and completely under water, which had forced the embankment. The Greenwich marshes, in the occupa tion of Messrs. J. and T. Wheatley, the coach-proprietors, were covered with one sheet of water. The borough of Greenwich, from Waterman's Pier towards the church, a distance of 400 feet and upwards, presented a stream deep enough to float a large boat, and in the space of half an hour all the cellars, kitchens, and lower premises were filled with water. The market-garden grounds belonging to Joshua Hargrave, Esq., county magistrate, were in a like condition, and many of the arches of the Greenwich railway might be passed in boat s . D ept f or d -cree k, Deptford-bridge, the houses on the south side of Blackheath-road, were all covered with water, and the flood reached the parlour doors of a vast number of houses. The damage done to property situated in the lower part of Deptford and Rotherhithe is stated to be very considerable. STATE OF TRADE M/INCHESTER, Nov. 19.—There was an exceedingly dull and inanimate market yesterday, both for yarn and goods, notwithstanding the gradual advance in cotton at Liverpool. There was no alteration in the prices of yarn ; but most de scriptions of goods continue to decline. and sales are made at prices never before heard of. Roc FIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18.—The market has been well attended to-day, and the de tnand for flannels quite equal to that of last Monday ; but there has been no alteration in the prices. The wool-mar ket has been rather duller, anti prices may be quoted a shade lower. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCTOBER 19.—This was a flat market generally, arising m ainly from our uncertain relations with A mer i ca an d t h unfavourable aspect of affairs in many parts of the world. Buyers are at a loss how to act, and the manufacturers are equally cautious in producing, consequently stocks are small and prices fi rm. New cho ice fabrics in small parcels were bought freely ; but the general trade was below an average. Business in the warehouses is better than expected amidst so many causes of depression. A POPULAR FALLACY.-(By Hood,)—" When you are eating, leave off hungry." Do no su ch thin g . Su pp osi ng your appetite to be honest and hearty—no pampered craving for delicacies, but a natural demand for wholesome food-- why then no shabby instalments, no ounce in the pound compositions with hunger—pay in full. The claim of the stomach is a just one, and let it be handsomely satisfied. Leave off hungry!—Pshaw !—as well Ply when you are wash ing yourself leave off dirty. There is only one reasonable reason that can be urged in favour of thus brining a Weal to an " untimely end "—namely, that von cannot get enough to eat. In such a case necessity makes the _absolute, an d b you may leave off as " hungry as a hunter the, who h as not ca ught his hare. B ut with the whole joint before eat you— your fill. As for th e ru l e, there is only one maxim of the kind that is worth any thing--namely, when jiwe are dying, l eave off alive. • THEA tßY„rtoll'Ai„ LlVE'ilro6l tinder the Mnnagenzent of M. CLAP Bble 1:s he Performances of this Evening will commence at [tan past Seven. Doors to be Opened at Seven. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. WOOD, And the Last Night of the Engagement of Mrs. WOOD, Me: WOOD, Mr. GIUBILEI, Miss • POOLE, Mr. BROUGH, and Madame GIUBILEI. THIS present FRIDAY, October 22, 1841, will be per formed, for the last time, a Comic Opera, in three Acts, called th POSTILION OF LONJUMEAU. The whole of the Music by Adolph Ada Madeline Mrs. Wood. Chapelou Mr. Wood Marquis de Conley.. Mr. Giubilei. Bijou . Mr. Brough At the end of the Opera, " A Pas de Deux," by Madame - Giubilei and Miss C. Webster. To conclude with the Burletta of MIDAS. Apollo Miss Poole. .... Mr. Baker Midas Daphne Mrs. P. Crowe Nysa Mysi • Mrs. Barton Madame Simon. On MONDAY next, the 25th inst., the popular favourites, MR. and MISS VANDENHOFF, will commence an-En.: gagement at this Theatre, for a Ihnited number of nights, when will be performed the Play of RICHELIEU. Cardi nal Richelieu, Mr.Vandenhoff; Baradas, (on this occasion,) Mr. Stuart; Mauprat, Mr. H. 101 l ; Francois, Mr. Pelham, from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, his first appearance here ; Julie de Mortemar, Miss Vandenhoff.—To conclude with the Farce of the IRISH LION. Tom More (the Irish Lion), Mr. T. Lee; Capt. Dixon, Mr. Pelham; Mrs. Fizgig, Mrs. Clarke. _ _ _ On MONDAY next, and for the remainder of the Season after that evening, the performances will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST Six. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH•STREET LAST WEEK of the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH working his Wonders. Last Night of the SONS OF EX TEMPORANEOUS HARMONY - . THE LANCASHIRE BELL RINGERS. Last appearance of Mr. C. SLOM AN in Liverpool. All who wish to see the Great Delusionist, or the Miracle of the Nineteenth Century ! must visit the Liver during this Week, as it will be the only opportunity the Lovers of the Marvel lous will have of beholding this SON of DELUSION, whose *extraordinary powers have caused all to wonder, from the throne to the peasant, from the peasant to the philosopher. 4 ' COME ONE, COME ALL. _ . He Wizard will be found incomprehensible as he is invul- nerable Hundreds of the best of the Liverpoel Sportsmen have tried in vain to WING him, but he is still on the wing, .and will for One Week more be their LIVING TARGET. The Wizard hopes . that " Hotno invulnerabilis" will still be • his motto; and he pledges himself that he wily exert all his • Powers to please his Patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. (c.-;:ir REMEMBER THE LAST WEEK—POZ ! When the WIZARD will VANISH, Mr. C. SLOMAN will DISAPPEAR, and the BELL-RINGERS will EVA ,• "'ORATE! Prices of admission :—Boxes, 2s. Gd ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, kfid. Second price at Half-past Nine o'clock :—Boxes, Is. Gd.; Pit ls. No second price to the Gallery. Doors open at Seven; Wizard commences at Eight. TO CORRESPONDENTS Pedestrian" says St. George's Clock is again unwell. We cannot procure for our Newry correspondent a copy of the STANDARD containing the Protestant Meeting, and therefore forward him a copy of the publication of to-day. A person in the position represented by " Decency" would certainly not be justitie4 in acting as he suggests, and it very rarely happens that The circulars to which he alludes are sufficiently offensive to warrant magisterial interference, as the law is now constituted. Ribtrpool &Santiarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1841 When the " old," " corru pt," " self-nominated " Tory Corporation of Liverpool was prostrated by the Municipal Reform Act, and a rampant and conceited " liberal" junto succeeded in scrambling into the poi session of local office, and the powers and dignities thereof, what miracles did . an expectant world open wide its eyes to behold, as the result of the long-desi derated change ! Not a patriot strutted upon the floor of the Council Chamber who had not his theory or his crotchet, .by the carrying out of which the coming of a local millenium was to be advanced. New docks, new public buildings, magnificent warehouses, parks, baths, all created out of surplus revenue—all achieved by the saving of Whig economy—were dilated upon, " From morn to dewy eve" ; and delighted Imagination beheld already rising up around us a city of palaces, before whose splendours the fame of Tyre in its day of glory was to be eclipsed for ever. And yet now, at the end of six years of Whig supremacy in the Council, what do we behold of all these confidently predicted benefits ? Where are the evidences of that superlative talent, purity, and ho nesty which the Whig party were to introduce into the administration of our local affairs ? Where be the public walks, which were to outvie the hanging gardens of Tivoli—the " playgrounds," which were to rival the Olympic or the Champs de Mars—the public wash tubs—the corporation cork jackets, to " teach the young idea how to swim "—the pegtops, hoops, bat tledores,—where be these components of the " rus ire rube" which was to spring up beneath the fostering care of the great Athelto of Vauxhall Ward and Lord street, and to be paid for by the cheeseparing parsi mony of the Whig finance committee ? Where, in deed ! We cannot see a vestige of them. They have " dissolved" surely —" The cloud capt towers — The gorgeous pinnacles—the great Hum himself ; * * * * And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind" ! Undeniably, so far as the public interests of the com munity of Liverpool are concerned, the accession of the Whig party to power in the corporation has been an utter and dire failure. They have not only failed in securing any positive and permanent benefit for the community and posterity, but they have failed even in protecting efficiently the interests committed to their charge. They have not only neglected important op portunities of advancing the interests of the port of Liverpool, but neglected even the bounden duty of re pelling oppression upon its privileges. Need we call to mind their suicidal policy with regard to the ques tion of Inland Bonding or the concessions wrung from them by the Cheshire landowners, owing to their ano malous position in urging forward, in defiance of pub lic opposition, their pet whorehouse scheme ? We need not. These things arc fresh in the memory and rank in the nostrils of the constituencies ; and when they are added to the insolence of tone which they have on all occasions displayed towards the respectable portion of those constituencies, and especially the Church of England portion—when they are viewed together with the reckless jobbing which they have introduced into every department of our local govern ment—with their gross mismanagement of the revenue of the town, and with the deterioration of its morals which has taken place during their administration of the police and the magistracy—we think we need scarcely urge upon the Conservative burgesses the necessity of prompt and vigorous exertions in every ward to deprive them of any further power in the mal versation in our local affitirs. in every ward, we repeat, Whiggery must be put clown. Notwithstanding the filthy alliance with which it is endeavouring to strengthen itself—notwithstanding all its newly acquired strut and bluster—the thing must be trampled upon to extinction. The town is sick, heartily sick, of the whole crew of tricky imbeciles ; and would gladly see them drummed out of every ward, to the tune of " The Rogue's March," with a poker and tongs accompaniment—or to any other tune, or with any other music that would befit the accomplish ment of so happy a riddance. Their whole career in office has been marked with alternate bombast and in capability, selfishness and insolence, pretension and failure; and if the interests of the community are to be advanced, the first step towards such a consumma tion must be a clear sweep of the Council-room, and the restoration of the power of the corporation to the hands of men of business and Conservatives, who have in view higher and nobler ends than the administration of its patronage for party objects. " Liberalism," in the Council, has had its day ; it has left its mark too wherever it has been able to reach. Conservatism has gagged the monster already; and another week, we trust, will see it kicked out of doors and hooted into obscurity. In our last number we stated a few of the reasons why, in choosing municipal representatives, it would be a great error on the part of the electors to give their support to any man of doubtful principles, and that Conservatives ought to vote for none but openly avowed and express Conservatives. We did not say but that there may be many very excellent and worthy men who would rather avoid being classed in this or any other great political category—marvellously proper persons in business and in private life, but willing to indulge themselves with a sort of amiable neutrality as to general politics ; but we endeavoured to show that neutrals of this sort would by no means answer at the present time : , . Non tali auxilio, nec idefensoribus istis, Teropus eget. We are under a stringent 'necessity to discard .such trifh dee earttpadd Id it by the entidget ntthlr adversaries, who utterly reject them, and will have to unless it be our pleasure to give the ascendancy to tt opposite side, we must abide most strictly by their example. This is the necessitits re; ; but we have shown that there is a better reason for the practice, and that if we were quite free to - act at our own dis_ cretion this is the course of conduct.we ought to pur- sue for its own intrinsic worth and fitness. To say that a man is neutral • on the great questions of general politics, and has his party yet to choose, is simply acknowledging a defect of character ; neutrality is not his virtue, but his fault; and it is a fault in these times so serious, that it is a duty, perhaps pain- fully, hut certainly, and really incumbent upon his fel low citizens, to.exclude him on this very account from a post having any sort of political trust connected with After the ample and bitter experience which the country has had of the consequences which follow from the ascendency of Radicalism in the national councils, there can be no object more worthy of a good citizen than to use every means in his power to prevent the recurrence of so great a calamity. Now there can not be a doubt that this object will be very powerfully, though indirectly, assisted, by shutting.out the princi ple and the party in our municipal, and every other institution, with which an influence is connected. Let us make the Corporation of Liverpool conservative, and we shall, by that act, give a moral support to the administration of Sir Robert Peel, of a value propor tionate to the importance of so large, populous, and wealthy a town. It will be another leaf added to the crown which our glorious cause has lately achieved ; and the advantage will not be without its reciprocity, for we do expect that if the government of Sir Robert Peel would derive any additional weight from Liverpool chopaing a council whose political principles should be in harmony with his, so Liverpool would be, no loser by affording this additional proof of its political identi fication. The religious question connected with the direction and management of the schools, is a distinct evidence that neutrality is a disqualifying circumstance, or certainly ought to he such, in any man coming for ward as a candidate for municipal preferment. It is not, as we have before intimated, the question just now, how or in what way the educational course of the schools ought to be conducted; but as there are schools in which a large portion of the children of the humbler classe's derive their education, and as the Radical party con tend for a system of an extremely latitudinarian chaiacter as to religion, it is necessarily a point of great importance to give a preponderance in the council to men of whose attachment to church principles we have the strongest Let the burgesses in their several wards choose good Conservatives, and then we shall be satis fied that the " plan for the management of the schools to be proposed early in the ensuing year by the rectors assurance and clergy of the town," as mentioned by the gentle man who attended at the Toxteth Wards meeting, on Friday last, or whatever other plan may be deemed ad visable, will be fairly considered. A Conservative council, it must be presumed, will act consistently with its own principles on this point as well as upon every other, whatever those principles be. Our Liberal mayor [hunts a non lucendo] may deem it "imperti nent" for a councillor to make any inquiry concerning the religious profession of the master or mistress of a school endowed or supported out of the civic funds; but a Conservative mayor or council will think differ ently. What we would expect of a Conservative coun cil would be the establishment in the schools of the religious ascendancy of the national church, but not in such a way as to he intolerant of religious liberty in such as may conscientiously, though erroneously, dis sent from •it. This is the principle which has been adopted by the. Presbyterians in Ireland, and upon which they now receive aid from the National Board of Education in that country. The rule of their schools is Scriptural education, and the Catechism of the General Assembly--that is to say, in other words, Presbyterian Education ; this is their rule, but it is not a rule to which they make no exception ; it is the rule, but they relax it in behalf of Roman Catholic children whose parents come forward and record their disapprobation. By this means Roman Catholic and other children are not debarred the general education conveyed in their schools. Less than this we could not expect from any body of men who were sincere in their own religious profession, .more, we do not know, that we_should require. This is the principle on which all men who would be consistent must act. We are no friends to any intolerant, persecuting, or exclusive system ; we wish men first to act consistently, and then with a proper feeling towards the weakness and errors of others, and a due allowance for the exercise of a con scientious liberty. All this will be observed in the course which we suggest ; we should then have a Conservative council establishing a system of education in conformity with its own religious principles, just as it should do; but, at the same time, not rendering that system exclusive, nor insisting that all the children who attend the schools shall partake of its benefits to their full extent, if the parents of any come forward, as in the Presbyterian schools alluded to, and state their objection thereto. To accomplish an object so important, there is now the strongest appeal made to the municipal electors of Li verpool. It rests with them ; they have the power ; and if they have the. will also, they cannot but find the At the numerous meeting of the electors of North and South Toxteth Wards on Friday evening, Mr. Alexander Smith, jun., the Conservative candidate for North Toxteth, in vivid terms presented us with a re view of Radical administration in the Council, and its results : " He would ask the electors," he said, " whether it was in the power of the conservatives, even if they became the dominant party, to do worse than those men had done who had been in power for the last few years ? He should like to know what they had done for the town ? (" Nothing," from a hundred voices.) Really nothing. He believed there were more people out of employment at present than was the case for the last century ; and to what was this owing ? Why, every improvement had been put a stop to ; not a single thing was doing ; and, until lately, when they commenced to build the new courts of law, there had been no expenditure of money. There would, indeed, be an expenditure of £lOO,OOO for the building of the courts, and £30,000 more for another erection ; but those sums had been wrung from the radicals as if the conservatives had been squeezing from them their hearts' blood. (Hear, hear, and cheers;) The truth was that the dominant party in the council had set their faces against everything like improvement, or the promotion of public works, unless the hobby of the aldermen, that of erecting docks with warehouses around them, were to be con sidered as such. But this circumstance of the docks and warehouses had been the means of preventing a very large sate of land near the docks; and the consequence was that the treasury of the corporation had been drained to the last dregs, so that nothing could be done in the shape of improve ments, the widening of streets, or a thousand other things, which, in so large a town as Liverpool, were constantly re quired." We may add to this, that all they have done by their cosmopolitan system of education, seems to have been a produce of just' such fruits as one might a priori have reasonably expected from it. In the Sixth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons under sth and 6th Will. IV., recently published, the inspector of the northern district states it as his belief, and gives his data for the conclusion, that the amount of juvenile criminality in Liverpool is proportionably greater than in the metro polis, or any of the most populous manufacturing and commercial districts in Great Britain ; and that, judg ing from the description of the offences, and the num ber and frequency of the recommittals in this class of prisoners, the character of juvenile delinquency is ge nerally, and in Liverpool in particular, more desperate than that of the adult class of criminals. May we not fairly trace this melancholy and disgraceful state of things to the want of sound religious instruction, and education for the poorer classes; or, in other words, to the non-religious system patronised by the domi nant Liberals of our Corporation ? The fruits are indeed most deplorable, and leave every man who pre tends to the smallest feeling of benevolence, without excuse, if he neglect to use whatever influence or pri vilege he may possess for the purpose of putting an end, we hope for ever, to so ruinous a domination. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN GAP RAILWAY.—On Tuesday last, previous to the departure of the first afternoon train from the St. Helen's station, a porter, named John Baxter, in the employ of the company, was killed by some waggons which had just been detached from the engine running up to some other waggons which were being discharged of their loads, and against which he was standing, in the centre of the line. It appears that the deceased saw the waggon coming, but was unable to g et out of the way, as a horse which had been employed in d ra wing was standing close to the line, and he could not get past it. He was very much crushed, and lingered after it only a very short time, although every attention was shown him by Mr: Wolfenden, the company's agent, in procuring him m edical as sistance. An inque s t kas been held on the body , and a v erdict of " accidental d eat h" was returned, with a deo d a nd of ss. on the waggon. The Cireat 'Wes . ear York to-mo, &PPOINTIviI appointed by the last outward voyag' We understand that the Rev. R. T. - St. Anne's Church, Lancaster, baS been car of Blackburn to the benefice of St. n Blackburn, vacant by the resig ion Porter. Sohn's the Evangclist, nation of the Rev. Jack; APPOINTMENT.--The Rev. Thomas G. Walsh has been appointed by the vicar of Blackburn to the benefice of manuel Church, Feniscowles, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.. George Edimindson, now vicar of Sainttield, in the diocese of Down and Connor. Our readers will observe an advertisement. in nnOliker column, informing them of the intention of Mrs. Gardher to;prolong her stay till the 10th November. As this lady has been very successful in the cure of deafness, we should till be embraced by all who impor- conceive the opportunit tunately require her aid THE HALIFAX 'STEAMERS.—According to the terms of contract the Mail Steam-packet Company of proprietors is bound to wait the pleasure or orders of government at home, or British authorities abroad, to the extent of a detention be yond the appointed day of sailing of 48, or at the most 60 hours it is believed. STEALING A WATCH.—Charles Houghton was charged at the Police-office, on Wednesday, with having stolen a gold watch, worth about twelve guineas, the property of William Thomas, Esq., of London. The prisoner seeing the com plainant in a state of intoxication, in the Old Haymarket, on Sunday evening, went up to him and asked him what time it was, and seeing the watch, immediately seized it and ran off. A cry of " stop thief" was raised, and the prisoner secured. He was committed for trial. PURCIIASE OF WOODSIDE FERRY.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Birkenhead was held on Monday evening last, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking into consi deration the propriety of the commissioners purchasing the Woodside Ferry, on behalf of the township, and of autho rising the commissioners to take the necessary' steps for that purpose. It was very numerously and respectably attended. The chair was occupied by John Deane Case, Esq. The chairman detailed the objects of the meeting, laying before the assembly the proceedings of the commissioners, touch ing the proposition of the railway company to form a tunnel and to sell the ferry. He then alluded to the - offer-of Mr. Jackson to purchase the ferry and the subsequent tender of the Ferry by Mr. Jackson to the commissioners. On the nth October it was resolved by the commissioners that it would be beneficial to accede to the terms of Mr. Jackson'S contract, that an act of parliament should •be obtained for embodying the necessary provisions for insuring the prospe rity of the township, that the surplus of the profits of the ferry should go towards a reduction of the rates on the inha bitants ; that a committee should be appointed for settling the contracts and reporting to a general meeting of the commis sioners •, that the commissioners were not to be made per sonally liable ; and that the railway company should have the power to construct a tunnel. The committee so appointed bad very minutely investigated the books of the Woodside Ferry, and, in consequence of the report they had made to the commissioners that very evening, the commissioners were most warmly prepared to tell the meeting to authorise them to go on with the purchase of the ferry. The resolution to be proposed was as follows :—The commissioners having ma turely considered the advantages which the township would derive from the purchase of the Woodside Ferry from the Railway Company and F. R. Price, Esq., recommend such purchase to this meeting, resolved, that this meeting autho rise the commissioners to make the purchase on such terms as they may think proper, and that authority being given to apply to parliament for an act for regulating the said ferry, and for obtaining the funds required for the purchase, and that so soon as the draft of the act is prepared, and before it is introduced to parliament, the commissioners do lay the same before a general meeting of the inhabitants." The re -solution was put and carried unanimously. In reply to a question, Mr. Mallaby, the clerk to the commissioners, said they had the power of compelling the Corporation of Liver pool to provide suitable landing places for the ferry steamers, and he had no doubt for cattle and merchandise. They could by mandamus compel the Dock Trustees to do all that they wished free from any check or control. The ferry would be of great advantage in reducing the rates, but Mr. Mallaby thought it would be injudicious to enter too widely into the question, for by so doing they would make too apparent the advantages they possessed. CAUTION TO DRIVERS OF COACHES AND CARS.—OR Thursday the 14th instant, about 12 o'clock, a very serious accident occurred at the corner of Leece-street and Berry street, in consequence of the very quick driving of a car. Au elderly lady, who had only just stepped of the footpath, was knocked down, and the wheels of the car went over both her legs, fracturing one, and most severely lacerating the other. The driver of the car, after turning his head and seeing the lady laying in the street, drove rapidly down Bold-street. On Wednesday last the man was summoned to appear before Mr. Rushton, who exacted the full penalty of forty shillings and costs for so driving, connected with the unfeeling con duct exhibited after the accident. The decision of the magis trate does not prevent the relatives of the lady (who only arrived in town the last Tuesday evening), obtaining that redress which the law provides for in such cases. Every day witnesses the danger to which foot passengers are exposed, by the improper manner in which both. Coaches and cars are driven down Leece-street and Bold-street, but it is hoped that the present melancholy circumstance, and the decision of the magistrate, will serve as a timely warning for the future. The driver of the car is considered by his master as the most steady man he has in his employ, but this circumstance was not deemed sufficient to justify any mitigation of the penalty. THE Wuto POLLUTION.—If the end of the world itself is not drawing near, surely the end of the whig portion of it, in Liverpool, at least, must be at band. The kid glove has shaken fists with the brawny wielder of the three-pronged fork. The " broad-cloth" of whiggery is shoulder to shoul der with the serge and fustian. The new calf-skin is under the same alehouse bench with the new vamped ; and the Bathbones and Earles are " hail fellows, well met" with the Caseys and the Gallayhers. Tom Brown smokes his black stump in the same atmosphere with the ilavannah of his aristocrat acquaintance; and the dingy fingers of Mr. Mickey Dermot are obtruded without hindrance amongst the rappee , wherewith the scion of an ex-councillor titillates his olfactory nerve. Omens these, we think, of a fallen state, if not of the end of all things ; symptoms cif running into disreputable courses, if not also of approaching ruin. " Call you this backing your friends," Mr. John Rosson ? Sad backi n g — cruel kindness—destructive protectorship! A few more weeks of this hobnobbing in back streets, between whiggery arid its sweet-scented allies, and we wouldn't give five shil lings each for the coats or the characters of the whole whig fraternity. We meet already, as we cross " the flags," some visitations, which resemble the lingering effluvia of tobacco and beer, from the overnight's conversazione, far more than the scents of " distilled essences ;" and what then must be the result of that constant association with rank smelling, greasy companions, towards which whiggery, under demoral izing and dangerous protectorship, is rapidly verging? a taint, we fear, which an ocean of lavender water, or hogs head of eau de cologne would not be sufficient to wash away; and which it may even require some years of rigorous exposure to the open air to get entirely rid of, at least so far as to be rendered presentable either in a 'drawing-room or in the council. And yet, notwithstanding the gulf which is before them, it is perfectly lamentable to observe how lightly some of the infatuated amble along, hugging the conscious ness of their borrowed sweetness, and luxuriating in the " verdant mud," with which they are bespattered. We. never meet the candidate of Great George's Ward, in particular , without a sigh for his misguided and pitiable condition. He has evidently no misgivings with respect either to his com pany or the road he is upon ; but is evidently ready to " g° the whole boo ' ." and roll in the " verdant" commodity before mentioned, Ile is ready to drink the circean cup to the dregs, and " Graee is in All his steps, fire in his eye," as he whisks past xis, rejoigiug in the growth of his bristles and tusks—those " Sad marks of his unhappy state" to those who have not, like him, submitted tti, tke wiles of the enchantress. We could weep, John jtori,ion, for aIP consequences of your doings! THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The following is, we be lieve, a correct list of the candidates at the approaching mu nicipal election Werds Everton Scotland. Vauxhall St. Paul's Reformers, M. Ashcroft George Quayle Win. Preston Joshua Edwards Chris. Rawdon Ridgway Henry Holmes Conservative; Thomas Shaw Isaac Holmes Exchange Castle-street Peter %Elope St. Peter's Ebenezer Rae Pitt-street James Aspinall John Holmes Wupiright Hugh fpyphi' Great George Rodney-street James Lawrence H. Lawrence W. Itathboals C. Holland Abercromby Lime-street St. Anne's. R. Gladstone J. Buck Lloyd James Parker John Cooper I'lios. Morecroft Thos. Chalmer West Derby J. Shaw Leigh South Toxteth Simon L. Trotrnan Wm. H. Tayleur North Toxteth Alexander Smith W. Loekerby. ROBBE4X ox TILN GursnAs.—Three females, of aban doned character, were put forward on Wednesday before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of baring robbed Mr. William Rafferty, American shipping agent and provision dealer, Waterloo road, of a pnrse containing the sum of 410 in sovereigns and lOs in silver. The complainant deposed that between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, on Saturday night last, 11P was passing through Garden-lane, and observed a num ber of girls standing outside the door of the house in which the prir soners resided, one of whom laid hold of him by the arm, while another gave him a shove, and a third whipped thP hat off his head and ran with it into the house. lie immer diately pursued her up stairs, where he found six women in A room. One of them threw the hat to the tipper end of the apartment, and then the whole six goehed round him anfl made a tremendous uproar in the place. He asked for the mistress of the house, when a female came up and said 3110 was the person. He asked her for his hat, whereupon she told him to give the girls something to drink, and that biS " beaver" would be safely returned. He ar i ng th e no i s es of several other women in the kitchen underneath, it struck him that he had no other remedy but to give them money to drink, and he accordingly banded them a shilling, but had no sooner done so than the three prisoners, assisted by two others, threw him against the jam of the window, and held him so fast that he could only make a couple of kicks at there with his feet. They succeeded, while holding bins in this position, in lightening him of his purse, containing the tea guineas. He called for a policeman several times. but no officer appeared to be within hearing; and he was induced to sit quietly down in the house, and abide the result, in con sequence of having been informed by a man that it would be,. better for him to make no noise, and that if he kept quiPP the woman who had stolen his - money would return and re ,. store it. to him. Believing this advice to be well meant, be acted upon it to the letter, and made no further noise what' ever, and remained in the honse until between six and sever ) o'clock the following morning. About that time a boy en' tered the place, and said that if the complainant followed him he would procure the money. He did so. The boy took him to a place where a person would have to crawl upon hi s bands and knees to effect an entrance. As the complainant we?, Preparing to enter, a woman came up to bins and said that he went in his brains would be dashed out by the wretches inside, and that the boy was absolutely leading him there for the purpose of having an end put to him for euer. Of course , after receiving this friendly intimation, he refused to procce 4 further. The complainant concluded by stating that he took two or three of his companions to the house with a view of trying whether he could obtain any tidings of his money, 1 :"'1' it was all to no purpose : the purse as well as the money he" vanished. The prisoners were committed for trial on the charge of having aided an d as s i sted in the commission of the robbery. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE.—The weeklY meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday, but the business done was of a mere routine ilescription. The fol lowing members wer e present : — Messrs. Berm, (chairro a°o Horsfall, Hornby , Mellor , Holmes, Evans, G. Holt, Aiki°' T. Holt. Smith, Tobin, Chapman. Ripley, and Middleton• The tender of Messrs. Bibby and. Sons, to supply a quan titY. o f pozzolano was accepted. J o h n Probert was appointed keeper of the store at the Q ueen ' s G rav i ng Dock ; and the stun of Xla was ordered to be given to Benj am in Balube.r; whose furniture was p ar ti a ll y destroyed by the late fire e W atkinson-street, in cons id erat i on o f hi s h av i n g been itl Sur service of the est a t e f or a per i o d of fifty years. ,the ,a veyor was dire c t e d to report upon t h e propr i e ty of placius lamp at the head of Clarence Graving Deck. and alsoc:1 to the . fixing of an additional mooring buoy at the south m a j ±:: Queen's Dock. Fifty copies of the chart of the Welsh and by Rear-Admiral Cardeu, were ordered to be taken, '"' meeting separated.