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JACSArNi THE' GUARDSMAN I by CHAR , 1.0 Rog. ttiary Lorreper.) Naas and I II. are now ready, with a beautiful Portrait of the Author, and eight ILLUSTRATIONS on Wood a nd Steel, by PHrz. ' To be continued monthly, at One Shilling each. " It is really as needless to praise this poly-autobiographist month by month, as it would be to puff successive editions of the Waverley Novels. All the world whose opinions are worth a straw, have decided that Lorrequer is, ought to be, and shall continue first favourite." —Glasgow Constitutional. "With this number (2) is published a portrait of the author, engraved by Ryall, after a picture by Lover."—Liver pool Standard. Jack Hinton, as far as the promise of the first and se cond number goes bids fair to distance far and away his pre decessors in public favour, Lorrequer and O'Malley. If the first number was good the second is glorious."—Free- man's Journal. Dublin: WILLIAM CURRY, Jun., and Co.: W. S. ORR, and Co. London: JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Church -street, Liverpool. Sold by every Bookseller in the United King dom. NOTICE THE OLD QUAY COMPANY, in referring their Friends and the Public to their Rates of Freight, as advertised in 'the Manchester Papers of Saturday, and the Liverpool Papers of yesterday, beg respectfully to inform them that the rate from Manchester to Liverpool willbe 4s. 4d. per ton. (with a drawback of ls. Bd. per ton, if Ctrted to the Quay,) instead of 65., and that no charge will be made for their Vessels going into Dock, either to idelivr or receive Goods, thereby saving the expense of Cartage in Liverpool. The rates of Freight between Runcorn and Manchester, for all goods not hazardous, such as Gunpowder, Vitriol Carboys, &c., will be 4s, 6d. per ton. Mersey and Irwell Navigation Office. February 22, 1842. "YANG," THE CENTRAL FIRE WVWHEN Ke-shin, or " The Dreaded Hour," was appoint. ed Commissioner at Canton, and every Journal headed the intelligence then received with " Settlement of the Chi nese Dispute—Three Millions to be paid the English—Trade resumed at Canton," &c., CAPTAIN PIDDING'S 18 years' experience of the Chinese told him that his country. men had been duped ; and he predicted that, " though Ke shin might promise millions, he would never pay a dollar ; that, instead of resuming trade, he would enforce its stop page. to keep the English without tea ; land that " Elliot would rue the hour" when he first relied - en Ke-shin's pro mises. The public now know whose judgment of the Chi nese has proved correct, CAPTAIN ELLIOT'S Or CAPTAIN PIDDING'S and they see that CAPTAIN PIDDING'S predic tion has been verified to the letter. " YANG," the Chinese definition of whose name is " The Central Fire," has suc ceeded Ke-shin. " YANG" has officially - recommended " tit* witlilvoldiag all tea AVM the'Englisb,•euttl . tbeirsep-' ply is quite exhitusted," when he foretell that " they will become reverently submissive, and give gold for the precious leaf." Commodore Bremer's despatch mentions that " the Chinese had removed all the tea from Canton," and the statement that " 200,000 Chinese were ready to sack and burn the city," is singularly prophetic of Yang's name. CAPTAIN PIDDING still thinks that the force sent out will be found insufficient to coerce China, that no tea will come out whilst bullets pour in, and ;that " teas will be dearer than ever." CAPTAIN PIDDING'S Teas were formerly sold under the title of " Howqua's Mixture," and ":Howqua's Small Leaf Gunpowder" ; but hundreds of Grocers and Tea dealers, anxious to profit by the celebrity of tea which he aloneimports, and which they found it impossible to procure, have given the same title to rubbish of their own mixing, so that there is now scarce one but has his " Howqua's,' " Mowqua's," " Saoqua's," or some other mixture. Agains such imposition, the only security is " CAPTAIN PIDDING'S NAME." This they have not yet forged, and his signature is on every really genuine package. For country agencies, address Cap tain Pidding, 22, College-hill, London. GEORGE CARLYLE, Repository, 38 Bold-street, Sole Agent for Liverpool. J. H. PYER, Confectioner, 32, Great Homer-street, for Everton and Kirkdale. Bolton—G. J. French. Draper. Burnley—T. Sutcliffe, Book - seller, 20, St. James's-street . Blackburn—J. Parkinson, Chemist, 1, Church-street. Bradford—John Pratt, Chemist, 33, Ivegate. Halifax—J. W. Foster, 36, Crown-street. Leeds—C. Lawson., Confectioner, 39, Commercial-street Manchester—John Ford and Co., St. Ann's-square. Preston—Thos. Green, Music-seller, Church-street, Wakefield—J. Stanfiald and Co., BOokaelleas Wurcn WAS THE GREATER Foon.—ln a sermon, preached by Bishop Hall upon his eightieth birthday, he relates the following story :—There was a certain lord who kept a fool in his house, as many a great man did in those days for their pleasure, to whom this lord gave a staff, and charged him to keep it till he should meet with one who was a greater fool than himself; and if he met with such a one, to deliver it over to him. Not many years after his lord fell sick, and indeed was sick unto death. His fool came to see him, and was told by his sick lord that he must now shortly leave him. " And whither wilt thou go ?" said the fool. " Into another world," said the lord. " And when wilt thou come again —within a month ?" " No." " Within a year?" " No.' " When then ?" " Never." " Never! and what provision bast thou made for thy entertainment there whither thou goest ?" " None at all." " No," said the fool, " none at all ? Here, take my staff then. Art thou going away for ever, and hest taken no order, whence thou shalt never return ? take my staff, for I am not guilty of any such folly as this." LONGEVITY OF THE PEERAGE.—The following are the names and ages of some of the oldest peers. Perhaps there is no public body in the world, with the same limited num bers, which can produce an equal list of men who have attained to such venerable ages :—Abercromby, Lord, 72 ; Aberga venny, Earl, 87 ; Ailsa. Marquis, 72 ; Anglesey, Marquis, 74 ; Berners, Lord, 80 ; Besborough, Earl, 84 ; Bexley, Lord, 76; Bristol, Marquis, 73; Carberry, Lord, 77; Cath cart, Lord, 87 ; Colville, Lord, 74 ; Cork, Lord, 75 ; Dela mere, Lord, 75 ; Dinorben, Lord, 75 ; Donegal, Marquis, 73 ; Dorset, Duke, 75 ; Dynevor, Lord, 77 ; Ferrers. Earl, 82 ; Grafton, Duke, 82 ; Grey, Earl, 77 ; Gray, Lord, 78 ; Ha milton, Duke, 75 ; Harrowby, Earl. 80 ; Huntley, Marquis, 81 ; Leitrim, Earl, 74 ; Limerick, Earl, 84 ; Lonsdale, Earl, llnoktrklar n.L.M4S9. l esiLehil 73; Mostyn, Lord, 74 ; Norfolk, Duke, 77 ; Northwick, Lord, 72; Plunket, Lord, 78; Plymouth, Earl, 74 ; Ponson by, Lord, 72; Portland, Duke, 74; Rolle, Lord, 86; Ross more, Earl, 77 ; Saye and Sele, Lord, 73 ; Shaftesbury, Earl, 74 ; Sidmouth, Lord, 85 ; Sinclair, Lord, 74 ; Stamford, Earl, 77 ; Stanley, Lord, 76 ; St. Germain's, Earl, 75 ; Strathallan, Lord, 75 ; St. Vincent, Lord, 76 ; Teynham, Lord, 74; Wellesley, Marquis, 82; Wellington, Duke, 72 ; Western, Lord, 75 ; Westminster, Marquis, 75 ; Wynford, Lord, 75. RIDICULOUS STORY.—An eminent member of our bar (who was himself present) tells a capital story of a scene which occurred many years since, at an assizes in Lancaster, where Brougham conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Lord (then Mr.) Campbell, that of the defendant. It was eleven o'clock at night when Brougham had to rise to speak to evidence. He begged that the case might be adjourned, on account of the lateness of the hour ; but defendant's coun • - sel would not consent, dreading the display which Brougham would have made when fresh in the morning. Disappointed in procuring the adjournment of the case, he succeeded in obtaining leave to refresh himself for fifteen minutes; and, when the presiding judge had left the court, Brougham leaped on the bar-box, squatted on the witness table, threw off his wig and cravat, and spun a sovereign over his head to the crier, telling him to bring two bottles of Burgundy, a table spoon, and a wash-hand basin. The bystanders watched his movements with great curiosity : they expected to see him perform his lavations, but, to their surprise, when the wine was brought, he discharged the two bottles of Burgundy into the wash-hand basin and began to drink it with the table spoon, as if he had a bowl of soup before him. In a short time he had got through nearly half the contents of the basin, placed the basin near him, and, when the judge and jury came back to court, commenced his speech, stopping at times for a couple of spoonfuls of Burgundy. After having spoken for two hours, the court expected him to stop ; but no 1 he would have his revenge, and be went on till long after three o'clock next morning, to which he kept Campbell in court ! But this is only one of the innumerable freaks which we might record of him.—Life of Lord Brougham, in Dublin Monthly Magazine. ANECDOTE OF MR. WESLEY.—In the course of the voyage to America, Mr. Wesley hearing an unusual noise in the cabin of General Oglethorpe (the Governor of Georgia, with whom he sailed; stepped in to inquire the cause of it ; on which the Genera/ immediately addressed him—" Mr. Wesley, you must excuse me, I have met with a provocation too great for man to bear. You know the only wine I drink is Cyprus wine, as it agrees with me best of any. Therefore I provided myself with several dozens of it, and this villain, Grimaldi (his foreign servant, who was present and almost dead . With fear), has drank up the whole of it. But I will be revenged of him. I have ordered him to be tied hand and foot and to be carried to the man-of-war which sails with us. The rascal should have taken care how he used me so, for I never forgive." " Then I hope, Sir (said Mr. Wesley, look ing calmly at him), you never sin." The general was quite confounded at the reproof ; and, putting his hand into his pocket, took out a bunch of keys, which he threw at Grimal di, saying, " there, villain, take my keys, and behave better for the future." WATCH-MAKING is SWITZERLAND.—There is no branch of Swiss industry so prosperous as its watch manufacture. Four years ago 70,000 watches were annually made. At least 100,000 are now produced. Ido nct know a more in teresting sight than to visit the watchmaking districts. A great deal of the work is done in the mountains, and nearly all the rough work is done there by women, the finer work by men. The wages earned are very low, considering the nature of the work ; but the tact is, that there is no scarcity of that skill and sobriety, and steadiness of hand and eve, essential to this class of work. There is no monopoly of capacity for it, as there is in London. It is highly paid work there, and the English watch-workmen possess the means of indulging in drink, not unfrequently without enough moral principle and intelligence to resist the temptation. It is sometimes the case that they get into difficulties before their work i s done, pawn their lathe and tools, and finish and spoil it with inferior instruments. Drink soon impairs the nerves, and they lose their steadiness of hand. There is, therefore, a constant scarcity of first-rate hands in London. This is nut the case in Switzerland; the moral and primitive habits of the people extend the sobriety essential to the perfection of the art over the whole community. It is indoor work, and suits them during the long continuance of weather too inclement in the mountains to permit of open air occupation. It is surprising how few . are the tools, and how delicate the peasantry, who carry on this by the artisan use of them - manufacture in Switzerland. Carouges and Geneva are the gre at marts of the trade, and thence wor k i s g i ven out to the su rrounding villagers, and they must wo r k h ar d to earn two I the majority do not average more than 30 francs a day ; anti vols. (15d.) Ido nut think, upon the whole, th a t t h e watch so far advanced in c i v ili sat i on, or so as in the northern ca n t ons. T here making community are remarkable for cleanli ness, o f religious feeling among them. It is customary is less real it yread the Bible, or some religious there for one of the family to book, aloud, on a Sunday ev ening. It is not customary i n the French Cantons, but o r.d.ts o f religion in the south than yocc,asionai .There is mo re o f the form, and less of the spun in the north ; nevertheless, save in the towns and Anglicised places round the Lake of Geneva,te sou th provinces. The the eminence of Swiss morality is largely maintained in the superiority of the watch manufactureis a signal evidence of the skill and mer it o f th e people. The pe rfection to which the art is b roug ht i s un i versa lly acknow.ledged,ss iniati on. It is an wa tches year by and both for elegance, accuracy, and finish, the Swi year, take a hi g h er ran k i n E uropea n est achievement of m i n d an d mora l s. Neither anand ignorant delicate nor an immoral pe op l e cou ld excel i n t hi s difficult n handicraft. The French custom-houses form but a very ' . slight impediment t o t h e progress of the manufacture. Al most every traveller is a smuggler of watches. A fellow traveller of mine smu gg l ed three watches through t h e French custom-house ; one was carefully stuffed in his neck handker chief, another is his pocket book, and a third in a box of cigars, which he produced, and virtuously presented to the official in attendance as the only article he had to declare, and which being half empty Was graciously permitted to pass. The best smugglers are dogs regularly trained for the pur pose; they are especially useful for crossing the Rhine into Austria, and I am happy to say constantly escape the murderous aim of the coast guard musketry on the dark nights and foggy mornings which favour their transit.— AntAentrum. MitiCELL,VNLOt There is now in the Fleet prison a debtor who iuu been confined there 27 years, having been committed by the Court of Chancery for contempt in 1815. The Hon. Octavius Duncombe, brother of Lord Feversham, will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar the Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Cawdor.—Morning Post. The Bishop of Lincoln, hi his episcopal robes, performed the rite of confirmation, and administered the sacrament, a few days ago, to the young man now awaiting his trial for the barbarous murder of a young woman at Mansfield, Not tinghamshire. The rite was performed in the chapel of the gaol, in presence of the prisoners. The Bishop remained an hour conversing and prayed with the, to all appearance, peni tent neophyte. . - - ODD DIRECTION.-A letter with the following direction passed through the Manchester Post Office on the 3d of February : _ To Manchester town a friend sends this letter, For Joseph Barlow, sen. the famous bricksetter ; He lives in Travis-street, next door to the station, Hope this will find him without hesitation EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. — The first train from this end of the line started yesterday morning, at seven o'clock, with upwards of sixty passengers in it; and the number at eleven o'clock amounted to nearly one hundred. The two corresponding trains from Edinburgh took about two hours and ten minutes each on the way, and both of them contained a larger number of passengers than those which left Glasgow. A few days ago, a woman who was picking up cinders on the Saint-Etienne Railway, as she had for some time been in the habit of doing, although frequently warned of the 'danger, became the victim of her imprudence. A train coming up, she placed herself, with her sack on her head; by the side of the road, but the sack being heavy fell forn•ard, and dragged her with it. The train passed over, and she was in an instant deprived of life. • MADAME LAFFARGE. — We have received a letter from Montpellier, bearing date the 14th instant, which states that the convict Marie Capelle (Madame Laffarge) is dangerously ill, and that her physician has given her over. In fact, she has received the last sacraments of the church.—Gazette des Tribunaux. The wife of the Carlist General Elio died a short time since at Chiavery, in Piedmont. The fate of the general's family is peculiarly sad. His father, who was also a genaral, died on the scaffold in 1822 ; and his mother soon followed her husband to the grave, dying of a broken heart. His brother-in-law,'the Marquis de Lealtad, died an exile from Spain, and be is now himself left with five 4ildren of tender age, four sons and a daughter. - - - We have before stated, that the occasion of the sudden re moval of the court to Brighton was for the improvement of the health Of the Princ4ss Rroyal. - We are now happy to state that Mr. Henry Blaker, the surgeon of that place, hav ing been called in, has lanced the gums of her royal highness, which has allayed the irritation, and she has since cut three teeth. The princess's health is now much improved. Ob server. COUNTY COURTS—BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENT DEBTORS' LAWS.—The three bills laid upon the table of the House of Peers on Monday, by Lord Cottenham, are thus designated :—" A Bill for the Amendment of the Laws re lating to Bankrupts, and for the better advancement of Jus tice in certain Matters relating to Creditors and Debtors." " A Bill to enable the Lord Chancellor to direct that certain Proceedings from the Court of Chancery. and Matters in Bankruptcy, insolvency, and Lunacy, may be carried to the County Courts." " A Bill to Improve the Practice and Ex tend the Jurisdiction of County Courts." They were all or dered to be printed. PETITIONING MULTIPLICATION.—The town of Manches ter, from which on Wednesday night 94, and on Friday 140, petitions to the House of Commons were presented for a re peal of the corn laws, last night sent one hundred and fifty seven on the same subject. Thus from one town alone there have been presented in three nights three hundred and ninety-one petitions. How many of these petitions are signed by the same individuals the present form of publication affords no means of ascertaining. Among the petitions presented last night we perceive the following :—" From the working men and others employed on the London and Brighton Rail way, and also of their wives and daughters ;" and a similar petition from the working men, their wives and daughters, on the Dover Railway. The sons, we presume, have either arrived at years of discretion or send separate petitions. THE VETERAN MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COM moNs.—The following is a list of the members of the pre sent House of Commons who claim to be wholly excused from serving on election committees, on account of being more than 60 years old, viz. :—Col. Baillie (Honiton), Sir R. Bateson, Mr. Benett, Mr. Bunbury, Sir F. Burdett, Sir C. M. Burrell, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Chapman (Whitby), Sir J. Chetwode, Mr. Clements, Mr. Clive, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Denison, Sir H. Douglas, Mr. Feilden, the Right Hon. Sir A. Grant, Mr. Gore, Mr. Hoskins, Mr. Irving, Colonel Langton, Mr. Loch, Lord Manners, Mr. Majoribanks, Mr. Ord, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Pendarves, the Right Hon. Sir W. Rae, Bart., the Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, Col. Rushbrooke, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Wallace, the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, and Sir M. Wood, Bart.-34 in all. THE CORN TRADE.—The decided manner in which Lord John Russell's amendment on Sir Robert Peel's motion on the corn-laws was defeated on Wednesday night, leaves little doubt that the ministerial measure as originally proposed, or with but slight alterations, will be carried ; and there seems every prospect of its being passed through its several stages with the least possible delay : this important matter may, therefore, be considered as settled, at least for a time. The probability of the new law coming into operation earlier than was at first expected, has somewhat alarmed the holders of free wheat, and the desire to realise has increased consider ably : a great degree of depression has, consequently, charac terised the trade at nearly all the principal provincial mar kets held during the week ; and prices have gradually, though not materially, given way.—Mark Lane Express. AFFGHANISTAN. — We have received from a correspon dent, on the accuracy of whose information we have every reason to rely, the following extract of a letter from Affgha nistan, which seems to afford ground for sanguine hope that the next mail from India will bring intelligence calculated in great measure to dispel the gloom caused by the late disas ters beyond the Indus :—•"fwo divisions of our troops, un iSTS6k4eO.IPNV-lei thli n JE, CA u lal l .l l A/ Burnes, were not to be restrained, and the consequence was, that all the Kuzzilbashes and part of another tribe were put to the sword." Our correspondent adds the following, in which, after all we have written on the subject, it is unneces sary to add how cordially we agree :—" And after all, for what ? To keep that scoundrel Shah Soojah on the throne upon which he was unjustly placed."—Times. LOSS OF A BRISTOL SCHOONER, WITH SEVEN OF THE CREW.—On Thursday, the 7th October, the schooner Pitt, belonging to Messrs. King of this city, in beating down the coast of Africa, from Gaboon to Angola, the wind being very light and the current strong, got ashore upon Cape Lopez. The crew carried out the kedge, and then the small bower anchor, and also threw the barwood overboard, but could not succeed in getting her off. Sent the krowmen ashore to the King of Cape Lopez for assistance, but he refused and stowed the men. On Saturday evening observed the natives along shore in the canoes, in great numbers, preparing to come off and take possession. The captain and crew, fearing that they should be murdered, unanimously resolved to abandon her, and they embarked in the long boat, taking only part of their clothes with them. Before leaving the vessel the cap tain insisted on setting tire to her, as he said the natives should reap no benefit by the loss. About an hour after leaving the vessel she blew up, and shortly afterwards a sea struck the long-boat and swamped her. Captain Antrobus, the mate, and two of the crew were immediately drowned ; the second mate and four of the crew were saved, after being in the water 21 hours, but only three have survived to reach this country, viz., Edwin Knight, second mate ; Benjamin Shuckburgh and James Kirkwood, seamen.—Bristol Mirror. ROBBERY OF A CONCH PARCEL, CONTAINING £2,000. — One of the most successful coach robberies, committed for some time, was effected the other day in the neighbourhood of Bury. It appears that Messrs. Cunliffes, Brooks, and Co., bankers, of Manchester, who have for many years been in the habit of sending money parcels to their Blackburn house, by the driver of the coach leaving the Boar's Head at half-past four o'clock, sent as usual, on Friday last, a box containing 1,500 sovereigns, and £5OO. in £5 bank notes. The box containing the money was placed in the front boot, but was not discovered to be missing till applied for at Blackburn. It is supposed to have been taken at Bury, by a person who occupied the box-seat from Manchester to Bury, and who was seen after the coach left Bury with a large carpet bag of considerable weight. He is about five feet seven inches high, of rather fair complexion, with a long thin sharp nose, and wore a broad-brimmed hat, a dark handkerchief, with white spots upon it, round his neck, and had on a long broad sleeved blue faded Macintosh. Another man, who is sup posed to have been a companion of the former, left the coach at Hardy's Gate, about a mile and a half from Bury ; he is also about five feet seven inches high, of dark complexion, dark short whiskers, and about 30 years old, wearing at the time a dark Macintosh over a black dress. No tidings have yet been heard of the men or parcel. DISTRESSING STORY.-" A young actress," says the Droit, " who will be remembered by the frequenters of the theatres on the Bouvelards, has just died in a state of the most cruel suffering and neglect in the hospital St. Louis, at the early age of 25 years. Beautiful, graceful, and intelli gent, Mademoiselle Estival had made herself remarked at her de'but in several characters of the modern drama, and her place was already marked on a stage of more importance than that of the Ambigu-Comique, when a singular circum stance, which had the most fatal influence on her future fate, induced her to leave Paris, and to contract an engagement with the director of the French theatre in London. A young man, calling himself Count Gustave de Boncourt, wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour, and living in great style at No. 11 in the Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere, where he gave himself out as Garde-Gen6ral des Forks, procured an Introduction to the young actress, and made her consider able presents. This young man, whose luxurious style of living, whose horses, carriages, and prodigality had pwsmptly seduced the young actress, this pretended Count Gustave de Boncourt, was no other than a man named Henri Journet, who had been previously condemned to 5 years' confinement in irons for forgery ; had been alternately a sub-officer in a regiment of cavalry, then a domestic servant, and who, while in this position, had robbed his master and mistress, M. and Madame Champy de Boizeraud, who lived in the Rue de Baume, of 50,000 f. in notes, I,Boof. in cash, and a consider able quantity of jewels, shawls, plate, &c. In 1836 Journet was condemned by the Court of Assizes of Paris to twenty years' hard labour at the hulks. Mademoiselle Estival was summoned to appear as a witness in this case ; but it appeared, according to the indictment, that she had received the greater portion of the stolen jewels, together with a considerable sum of money, without, however, bing able to suspect from what source they had been derived ; and that, in order to avoid appearing in court, she had set off for England. Since that time she had not returned to France; but a few months ago, her health being exhausted by late hours, by excesses, and perhaps moved by regret, she found herself in so deplorable a condition, that the medical men recommended her, as a last resource, to return, and breathe her native air. She came back to Paris, but here she found every thing changed as much as herself. A prey to incessant suffering from a disease of the chest, she exhausted her last resources, and soon found herself reduced to the necessity of soliciting ad mission into the hospital St. Louis. where, however, she entered in a false name. For four months Mademoiselle Estival waited for death—calm, resigned, uttering not a single complaint, indulging in no regret, and obstinately re fusing to solicit favoursf m any one, or to call to her bed side any of those who had known her in the height of her andsh yieldede found perceivedto herself t h e beauty and her fortune. she e e h l aasodtf Thursday last, however, when onlypoo of her incurable malady, solicitation s that t sta. short time to live, she watch by the bedside of the ndeyion g t .. ie s r i e i l e ig p io r u en s o s u is n t e e e r d s who the name of a person from whom she had in former days received not merely favours, but proofs of sincere affection. minutes afterwards an express, sent off to theViconAitefedwe —, announced to him the approach of the last hour of the young woman, in whose future fate he had once takers so warm an interest, but who had disappointed his intentions. He immediately went to the hospital St. Louis. On his arrival a smile played on the pale lips of the dying girl —a ray of gladness sparkled in her eyes. With a grateful voice she thanked him, asked his pardon for the past, and said that she should die satisfied and resigned, since he had not re pelled her memory from his mind. In another hour the young girl, once so brilliant—the actress once so applauded— died in the asylum opened for indigence by the hand of pity —a terrible lesson !" ROTA AMPHIVIEA,Tftt ) - =-Ere, t Under the 3fanage24?ent of Mr. Egerton, Sole Lessee DUCROW'S ESTkIILISHMENTDEPARTON THE th - 1:S/STANT FOR BIRMINGHAM CLOSING NIGHTS OF DUCRO TV'S NATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT IN LIVERPOOL THIS EVENING, (FRIDAY,) the performances will commence with the new magnificent Romantic Spectacle, from the work of Sir Edward. Lytton Bulwer, entitled / THE SIEGE OF GRANADA; OR, LEILA THE MAID OF THE ALHAMBRA/ Almamen. Mr. Howard. Leila Mrs. Nunn. ,/ DUCROIS"S SPLENDID SCENES OF TIIWCIRCLE The whole to conclude with THE DUEL ; . J OR, THE CHAMBER OF MYSTEWY Principal characters by Messrs. H. Beve n ri, Nunn, Egan, Barham, and Cullen; and Mesdames Nu and F. Carman. On MONDAY Evening next, th4ith instant, for the BENEFIT OF MR. EGERTON, LESSEE, Will be produced the gorgeous Spectacle of THE QUEEN OF CYPRUS, Which has been in preparation the whole of the last month. In the Last Scene will be accomplished the extraordinary feat of the SWIMMING HORSE, for which purpose the whole Stage will be converted into AN IMMENSE MOAT OF REAL WATER. Dancing by Miss E. GATES and Mr. HARVEY, from the Theatres-Royal, London.—After which. THE COURT JESTER, In which Mr. E. R. Harper, the American Comedian, will appear.—To conclude with THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Emperor Napoleon Molly Malony Mr. Sloan, (The popular Irish Comedian, who has volunteered his ser vices), as performed by him at Astley's Amphitheatre. On account of the extraordinary preparations necessary for the new Spectacle of the QUEEN OF CYPRUS, the Amphithe atre will, of necessity, be CLOSED TO-MORROW (Sa turday) Evening. Private Boxes may be obtained nightly for Families on ap plication to Mr. F. CARMAN, at the Box-office, from Eleven until Three o'clock. Prices of Admission :—Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ' • Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Lower Gallery , ls. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'clock,—Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit. ls.; Lower Gallery, 6d. No Second Price to the Upper Gallery. Second Price will be .taken for Children under Twelve years of age to the Boxes only. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Performance to commence at Sewell o'clock precisely. THE PANORAMA AND DIORAMA, WILL RE-OPEN ON THURSDAY, MARCH 3, AT THE PORTICO, NEWINGTON, NOTICE HE Public are respectfully informed, Wit the Proprietors T have engaged the above elegant and j&mmodious Room, their former one being too small for tlollccommodation of visitors, and, in order to gratify all clasies of society, they have been induced to LOWER the PRICE of ADMISSION to their UNRIVALLED EXHIBITION, the superior qua lities of which, over all others ever exhibited out of the Me tropolis, Messrs. GOMPERTZ and HASWELL would beg refer ence to the flattering opinions of those who have already seen it. Admission, 6d. ; Reserved Seats, ls. ; Children under 12 years, Half Price to the Reserved Seats. Hours of Exhibiting—Morning Twelve, Afternoon Three, and Evening Eight o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We observe in a radical contemporary an advertisement an nouncing the sale of Providence Chapel, Pleasant-street. Places of this description have been wofully at a discount. When the Liverpool Times next copies an article from our columns, perhaps the editor had better persue it : in his last Tuesday's publication appears the announcement of the Caledonia's return, in which that vessel is said to have arrived at this port on the evening previous, and the Acadia is said to have been hauled out of dock the day before, and to sail the day following, when in fact she had left on the previous Saturday. Ebe Ziberpool gPtantiarb. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1842 The world at large and the ladies of Liverpool—the liberal ladies at least—are by this time tolerably ac quainted with the person and pursuits of the itinerant anti-corn-law spouter, George Thomson. For twelve or fifteen years this excellent specimen of the class " Humbug" has contrived to shamble through life by the exercise of a libellous tongue, an unblushing face, and a stock of well-rounded sentences, plentifully in terspersed with trope and metaphor, and larded toge ther with a substratum of disgusting and hypocritical As the paid advocate of the Anti-Slavery So ciety and the traducer of our West Indian fellow-sub jects, who has drawn forth more sympathetic sighs from the tender hearts of male and female auditors, as he painted the amiabilities and the sufferings of ebony Appolos and Venuses than "sweet George Thomson ?" Who has moistened more cambric pocket-handker chiefs, with the tears drawn from fair eyes by•his "touching eloquence," than this flagrant charlatan ? same time, take the hheity of hinting to the world, and to our fair readers in particular, that few vulgar strol lers—few hunters of penny, sixpenny, or half-crown subscriptions—have made a better trade of it than has George Thomson. The anti-slavery vein was, however, not fated to en dure for all time. The emancipation bill was passed; and some people may have been shortsighted enough to say of this sordid retailer of hypocritical grimaces and maudlin sentimentally, " Othello's occupation 's gone !" A few, indeed, we know, there were, who said, " surely this lover of the human race—this man of large sympathies—this universal philanthropist— will, now that the negro slave is free, at once step for ward to throw the shield of his eloquence over the poor factory child, the white slave of the manufactu ring districts. But these people knew not George Thomson ! An abundant field, it is true, was here for eloquence ; but it was one which was poor in the pro ducts which the itinerant loved to reap. No well-filled purse—no sets of shirts, made by sympathetic hands, reward the advocate who pleads the cause of these de fenceless little ones. Their sufferings, their wrongs cried for redress from earth to Heaven. The pale cheek, the mutilated limb, the dwarfed, distorted frame, were living and harrowing evidence of their need of a protector ; but they had no gold to chink in the ear of the hired spouter, and the voluble tongue of George Thomson moved not in their behalf. The millocrat of the league, he knew, had a well-filled pocket—filled from the proceeds of the misery which he saw around him—and the eyes of the charlatan glistened at the sight ; his greedy ears drunk in the sound ; his itching palm clutched at the bait; and he became the well paid, the venal and sordid instrument of anti-corn-law agitation. In this capacity he has recently presented himself before the public of Liverpool. In this capacity he has, no later than last night, had the measureless au dacity to address an assembly of the ladies of Liver pool (!) and to teach them what he calls " the respon sibilities and t he duties which devolve upon them with respect to the corn and provision laws." We know not what absurd trash he may have uttered on the oc casion ; but, lest any of our fair readers should have allowed their minds to be swayed by the half-blasphe my and half-blackguardism which form the staple of his hireling orations, we shall take the liberty of placing before them a sample of the unblushing falsehoods which he is capable of uttering, on these and similar occasions, and which, having relation to an assumed occurrence in Liverpool, can easily be tested, if, indeed, it is not too gross to admit of a moment's hesitation. On the 4th of the present month the itinerant held forth to a meeting of free traders in the town of South ampton, in the course of which he delivered himself of the following statement, which we quote from a Whig- Radical journal published in that locality : "I recently attended :a great 'anti-corn-law tea party in the town of Bolton, in Lancashire, where fyou are aware there is a large amount of distress. On entering the spacious Temperance-hall, where this meeting was held, I saw before me, in the front of the orchestra, two rows of fresh meat — one to the left, and the other to the right—a short row, and a long row, much beef and little beef. As soon as I reached the platform, I inquired what the spectacle meant; and was told that was cheap meat and dear meat—the roast beef of Old England, and the roast beef of New England. (Loud cheers) An esteemed friend, Henry Ashworth, (a thorough repealer,) said to me, ' I went to Liverpool yesterday, where I found a packet just in from the United States. I enquired if they had any fresh meat on board. They answered, they had. I asked them if they would sell the same. They said yes. I said, at what price? They said l jd. a lb. I said, give me 255. worth. I brought it to Bolton, and then went into a butcher's shop and said, what do you charge for good cuts of beef? The man said 7d. a pound. I said give me 255. worth. I brought both lots here, and had them hung up where you see them.' And there they were, 200 lbs. of Yankee beef, fresh and fine and tempting, fat and lean beau tifully mixed; and 43 lbs. of English beef, in two sorry pieces, looking askance at their well-fed neighbours from the other side of the water! (loud laughter) Now we think it is scarcely necessary to state to a Liverpool public that this ridiculous story is, from first to last, in all its essential parts, a gross and impudent fabrication. No one will believe, we think, that the Mr. Henry Ashworth, (here referred to,) who is one of those truth-loving people called Quakers, could ut ter so palpable and deliberate a falsehood. From the teeming brain of Dir. George Thompson alone it can have emanated; and if the impostor is this day within the reach of our remarks, as we know he is, we call upon him to come forward and to prove, if he can, the truth of his monstrous assertion. Mr, tionry Abilwor Lb, tinerita purchana bs. of fresh beef at threehalfpence a pound ! What ship ? It must have had 4 'panne, and we ask to have that name produced ; for we are satisfied that no American packet would, or could sell such a quantity of beef at such a price ; in the first place, because it could not be purchased in America for three times tbreehallpence a pound, and, in the next place, because, being a strictly prohibited article, it would never have been permitted to be openly landed in Liverpool ; and however capa. cious . may be the pockets of Friend Ashworth, we should imagine that a gentleman belonging to so cau 6w:a a fraternity would not readily have undertaken to smuggle ashore so bulky a parcel as 200 lbs. of beef. The whole story is incredible; and although amongst the gobemouches of Hampshire, where its probability could not be tested, it might be swallowed easily enough, yet in Liverpool, we imagine, even amongst the blindest and silliest of his followers, it will with some difficulty pass muster. We call, then, upon this flagrant impostor, on the next occasion of his delivering an oration in Liverpool, to clear up this strange story. But we do not believe that he can; for our firm conviction is, that of all the unprincipled pretenders which this age of agitation has produced, the greatest is this very gentleman—this adored of the ladies—Mr. George Thompson ! * We have made some inquiries upon this subject, and are informed upon perfectly competent authority, that the gene ral prices of American mess beef (the best quality for ship ment, in pickle) have been 12 or 13 dollars per barrel of 200 lbs. Last year, however, they were much lower, being about nine dollars. The latest accounts from New York state that they had neverprevi9usly been known so low as at that time, the best quality being worth only eight dollars, or a little under 24-d. per lb. To this, however, in order to estimate the cost here, must be added the freight from New York, 4s. 6d. per barrel, charges at New York, including cartage, lighterage, cooperage, ships' charges, commission, &c., in all about 10 per cent. upon the cost, together with similar charges in Liverpool, which would make another 10 per cent. ; and the *lee' would . then reach 50s. per barrel, without duty, in Livtirpool, 3d. per lb. The duty of 255. per barrel would raise the price to 755., or Q.& per lb. And this for salted beef only ! With respect to fresh beef, it is, as we have stated above, a prohibited article: and in a very recent New York paper we noticed it quoted from 6 to 123 cents per pound, the latter of which prices is as high as that of friend Ashworth's " prime cuts," 12i cents being equal to about 7d. English. We hive elsewhere noticed the efforts making by the Manchester League-men to retard legislation upon the corn laws ; and we beg now to refer our readers to the abstract, in our columns, of the speech delivered on Wednesday evening, in the House of Commons, by Lord John Russell, as an evidence of the perfectly good understanding which exists between the Leaguers and his lordship. There are few who do not remember the perfect storm of indignation which was similuted by the "liberals" one and all, when Sir Robert Peel re fused to prolong the sittings of parliament during the winter, in order to legislate impromptu upon this ques tion. The Right Hon. Baronet was then " cold blooded," " hard-hearted," " cruel," and we know not what besides. He was accused of despising alike the demands and the miseries of a suffering people. And yet now, after five months spent in maturing, in its details, a measure for the settlement of the question, and after that measure has received the support of a majority of 123, against the combined efforts of fac tion in the House of Commons, we are told by Lord John Russell that there is no hurry!—no necessity to proceed to legislation !—no necessity to lighten at once the burthen which, it was urged, was depressing the industry of the nation; and that parliament must only "ponder" and "deliberate" and discuss, and thus prolong indefinitely the existing unsettled state of the public mind, and the suspense which deranges every branch of our commercial and social system. Upon what ground, we should like to know, can such a proposition be defended, except upon that of faction ? If the necessity for legislation was urgent five months ago, it is equally urgent now; and we venture to assure his little lordship that the great mass of the public—and that body is not composed of the mob gatherings of the manufacturing towns—is not disposed to wait his convenience for the settlement of this question. The people of England are heartily sick of Whig agitation. They look upon Whig men and Whig policy with a perfect loathing; and what ever his lordship's friends of the League may say, that people will not, to prevent the passing of Sir Robert Peel's just and satisfactory measure, allow themselves Lord John and his fellow place-hunters may ride back into the position from which the deliberate voice of public opinion so lately ejected them. It will not do, my lord. It will not, indeed ! When we last addressed our readers upon the sub ject of West Indian affairs, the result of the endeavour, on the part of the planters of British Guiana, to reduce the cost of sugar cultivation to the level, rendered ne cessary by existing prices, by means of internal regu lations with the labourers, had not been ascertained. It will be remembered, however, that we anticipated no benefit to arise from those regulations; but feared rather that the attempt to carry them into execution would lead to heart-burnings and between the planters and the labouring classes. The arrival of the West India mail, with dates from Jamaica to the 17th, and from British Guiana to the Bth ult., has, we regret to say, affirmed the correctness of our fears. On the latter date cultivation in Guiana was almost entirely suspended, the population refusing to work at any other than prices which have been proved to be ruinous to the planter, and treating every overture and attempt to reason with them with contemptuous, and in some in stances, even riotous insolence. "To such a pitch," writes the Guiana Times, "have matters gone, that on one estate within our - . knowledge, and wry probably upon several which he have not heard of, the young gentlemen employed as overseers and under managers have been obliged to cut grass for the sustenance of the estate's horses, the humane, virtuous; and religious labourers sitting idle in the cottages, the costly pro perty of their employers, and doggedly refusing to per form even that most necessary service." The same journal remarks—" the gentlemen of the Anti-Slavery Society boast of the moral influence they are exerting in Spain, France, Holland, and so forth ; but if a foreigner were to witness such scenes as have been rife in this colony during the past week, he would recom mend his fellow countrymen to expunge the word " emancipation" from their language. Now we do earnestly entreat the serious attention, not only of every friend to colonial interests, but also of every friend to the true interests of the negro race, tothe state of things here described. We have here the great experiment of the cultivation of our West Indian possessions by means of free labour, the result of which is watched with anxious eyes by every nation of Europe, and by countless millions of the African race, in the very crisis of its determination. The planter has declared and proved that, even with the protection which the home market of Great Britain affords him, he cannot mature his produce, with his existing means, except at a cost greater than the price which it returns him. The vast capital embarked in this, the noblest and most fertile of our West Indian possessions, is at this moment threatened with utter destruction ; the germ, which has here been planted, of the liberty of a countless race, is about to be blighted for ever, and the heart rending fact proclaimed to the world—proclaimed to the slave-owners and slave traders of other nations—that the prosperity of West Indian cultivation is incompatible with the free agency of Ike African Zabonret! The entire ruin, we repeat, of this and of other colo nies, is inevitable unless the helping hand of the go vernment at home is stretched forth for their relief. The promotion—and the extensive promotion, too—of Immigration, by which the planter may be enabled to carry on profitably and energetically the cultivation of his estates, can alone ward off this dreaded calamity; and we do trust that the present government will no longer avert their eyes from the contemplation of the duty which is before them, but step forward at once with a large and liberal measure of relief. Already the boon which we ask for British Guiana and for our other West Indian possessions has been accorded by Lord Stanley to the planters of the Mauritius, who have been labouring under similar but far less pressing difficulties. Immigration from amongst the supera bundant population of the continent of India is about to he promoted, under the sanction of the government, to supply the deficiency of labour in that colony. And, we ask now, is it just, is it politic, is it safe, that the same boon should be withheld from the planters of the British West Indies ? Can any government, and least of all, can any Conservative government defend so par- o utiwiso, svickod it count) Bel lliNt kyllich, by turning a deaf par to their •reasonable wants, must doom these fair and fertile lands to be abandoned to progressive decay and ultimate barbarism, with all the glorious promise which . they hold forth, under a sys tem of proper encouragement and protection, of be coming, at no distant period, the stepping stone to African civilization,—the fulcrum by which that un happy and degraded continent may be elevated and brought within the light of Christianity and the enjoy ment of the blessings of rational freedom ? We are quite prepared to admit, with Lora Stanley and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, that the system by which our 13ritisli West Indian possessions are managed vicious, and to some extent is calculated to create a' portion of the evils, complained of, viz., exorbitant cost of production. Malversations, we are aware, must always be practisecTto some extent, and expensive ma nagement ensue, where the evil of non-resident pro prietorship exists.; and the complete success of free labour cultivation will, perhaps, never be attained until, from amongse present emancipated negroes of the West Indies, a class is created who, as tenants of the soil, shall occupy a middle station between the absentee proprietors and the working labourers. For the pro motion of such a system these colonies at present pos sess important and valuable facilities. The capital of the proprietors is ready to be abundantly embarked in the development of the vast resources of the soil. The material forla midale class, composed of intelligent and moderately educated negroes is already created ; but the working labourer is not to be found. Immigration alone can supply this important desideratum ; and can any sin cere friend of the cause of humanity, we ask, refuse to accord a measure which must be productive of such vast advantages ? Can the abolitionist even, with ail the bitterness, with all the jealousy with which he re gards the planters and the very cultivation itself of those possessions, advanCe one argument to show that, protected as is everyinhabitaut of the British West In dies, enjoying as - he does the blessings of a free consti tution, receiving as he may the light of progressive civilization and Christianity, the degraded native of the shores of Africa may not safely, and with perfect consistency and humanity, be encouraged by a British and a Christian government to exchange the wretch edness of his own home for the amelioration of his condition, which immigration to our West Indian colo nies is calculated to secure to him ? Whatever may be the prejudice of the professing abolitionist against such a measure these important facts press seriously upon our attention. The produc tion of the British West Indies is rapidly decreasing ; the profit of the cultivation of those possessions has ceased to exist, and capital is daily being withdrawn from them. The effort has been made by the planters themselves to induce immigration as their most effica cious remedy; and that effort has failed,—we fear from the impediments thrown in the way by the meddling and prejudiced spirit actuating the professed friends of the African in those settlements from which the supply of labourers was with most confidence anti cipated. Immigration from Sierra Leone has ceased almost entirely, owing solely to such interference, aided by misrepresentation of the most unscrupulous descrip tion as to the views of the planters, and the condition of those immigrants who have already left that colony. The effort to reduce the cost of cultivation, by internal regulations between the labourers and the planters, has produced only the effect which might have been ex pected from it, (in a country where the free labourer is surrounded by injudicious friends, inveterately inimi cal to the planting body and equally so to the real in terests of those whose welfare they profess to have at heart,) viz., exasperation on the part of the negro and the almost total suspension of cultivation, And, coin cident with this untoward and indeed disastrous state of things, we have before our eyes the moral certainty that no administration, however strong, however well disposed to foster to the utmost the beneficial working, during its infancy, of the great experiment of negro emancipation and the cultivation of our tropical pos sessions by means of free labour, can for any length ened period keep up the existing protection in the home market by which West Indian produce is enabled to compete at all with foreign slave-raised produce .. . , Something, then, must, it is evident, be done, and that immediately ; and, from the government of the .ask for.no unreasonable boon. We ask for no large expenditure bf the public funds, although those funds have already been readily and lavishly devoted to the advancement of the wild and impracticable schemes of those who profess to have in view the same ends at which, above all other ends, we aim. We ask only the active co-operation and the countenance of the govern ment to the endeavours of the planters to procure a supply of labourers for the British West Indies. We ask for such aid as will enable them to neutralize the efforts of their enemies to withhold that supply ; and we trust that, from a statesman endowed with the high moral courage which distinguishes the present Secre tary for Colonial affairs, we shall riot ask in vain. Let Lord Stanley, trusting to no merely official representa tions as to the state of the West Indies, and of British Guiana especially, calmly and intently, and for himself, examine the present condition and prospects of those noble dependencies; let him examine their bearing upon that great measure, in the securing of which he was the honoured instrument ; let him examine their bearing, above all, upon the future civilization and the future liberties and happiness of the African race; and we feel satisfied as to the judgment to which he must come, and confide unhesitatingly in the known firm ness and decision of his character for the adoption of those prompt and efficacious measures which alone can avert from our West Indian possessions the doom which otherwise we cannot but dread. The anti-corn-law agitators of Manchester appear resolved to draw down upon themselves and upon their cause the indignation and disgust of the entire com munity. Yesterday, we are informed by our reporter, a meeting was held of the merchants and manufac turers of the league in that town, for the purpose of agreeing upon a memorial to be presented to the liberal members of the House of Commons, praying them, not merely to vote against the first, second, or third reading of Sir Robert Peel's modification of the corn laws ; not merely to gain for the advocates of free trade in corn, the greatest amount of advantage of which that measure was capable; but to stop all legislation, whatever upon the subject, to obstruct, by every practicable means the passing of that bill, to move amendment after amendment, to take up the time of Parliament, in order that no settlement of the corn question should be arrived at during the present session. Now we do not hesitate to characterise this as one of the most wicked propositions which was ever put forward by a party, containing even the merest sprink ling of respectability aniongst its ranks. Confessedly, at the present moment the commerce of the country is almost suspended, until the government shall have had time and opportunity to develope their financial plans before Parliament. The proposed modification of the corn-laws is viewed as one only of a series of amelio rations of our present restrictive policy; and the great industrial interests of t'he nation look forward with anxious expectation for their full developement, to enable them to put forth freely their energies, and to restore employment, plenty, and contentment to a suffering population. And yet these unprincipled " leaguers" deliberately propose that no such amelio ration of the condition of the people shall be permitted ; that the invigorating stream of commerce shall remain dammed up by torturing suspense and uncertainty ; that prostrate industry shall remain prostrate; that suffering and despair shall still be in the house and in the heart of the working man, unless the majority of the legislature and of the nation will concede to their threatening agitation a measure which, in their own secret souls, the agitators know to be fraught with widely spread and irrevocable destruction to every in terest and every class which comes not within the circle of their own selfish and sordid contemplation ! Can wickedness, we ask, he greater than the wick edness of such a proposition? Can faction, by any possibility, plunge into " a lower deep" of unmitigaud infamy ? Surely it cannot ; and we do trust that there will be found very, very few amongst the " liberal" members of the House of Commons who will be dis posed to listen to a proposition so mischievous and degrading. At the same time we are quite ready to meet the attempt. Nay—but for the present injury which it must inflict .upop, large suffering masses of the people—w 6 could almost be disposed to bid it welcome; for certain, we are, that no step on the part of these frantic agitators would be more effectual in rousing a united and discerning nation to contemplate the utter worthlessness and want of principle which lurk at the bottom of this ft ee trade agitation, that an effort so purely factious, so insufferably impudent, and so recklessly dishonest. We have pleasure in referring our readers to the very satisfactory proceedings at the half-yearly meeting of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company, held on - Wednesday last, which will be found reported in another column. It was our intention to have offered, in this publication, a few remarks upon the present position and future prospects of this much-maligned, though important, undertaking. By some mistake, however, for which we cannot account, the reports of the directors and of the engineer have not reached us; and we are, therefore, compelled to defer our observa tions until these documents are received. The long-expected general meeting of the share holders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway took place on Tuesday last, at Glasgow, and col . inued, without adjournment, from eleven o'clock in the fore noon till twenty minutes to nine in the evening. After the reading of the report, which stated that the com pany are about to apply to parliament for powers to raise an additional sum of £300,000 for the comple tion of the line, the much agitated question of running the Sunday trains was brought forward, Sir Andrew Agnew addressed the meeting with much warmth and animation, and eventually, when a vote was come to, there appeared— Shares. Votes. For running a morning and evening train 7589.. 1219 Against it .. • • Majority .. ....4113 571 LOCAL NEWS During the last fortnight, the weather has been exceedingly favourable for working of the land ; and the ground is now dryer than it was at any time during the last summer. The planet Mars may now be seen every clear evening in the west, of a dark red colour, from about half-past five to half-past eight, and will continue till about the middle of June. EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—A gentleman who attended the opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, left Edinburgh for Glasgow at one o'clock on Friday afternoon : he dined at Glasgow; after which he proceeded on to Gree nock, and took iis passage on board the steamer Princess Royal, for Liverpool, and arrived here at half-past eleven on Saturday forenoon ; the whole journey having been accom plished in the unprecedented short period of 221 hours. The climate of Britain, so remarkable for fickleness of temperature, has given rise to an infinitude of ingenious in ventions for the protection of those who are constitutionally predisposed to suffer in health from such causes ; but, while every other part of the human frame is, by some laudable application of the arts to manufacture, rendered impervious to weather, the face must still remain exposed ; and the pe culiar delicacy of the female complexion undoubtedly under goes great, though gradual, change from the action of excess, either of heat or cold, upon its surface; in this instance, ROWLAND'S KALYDOR affords the so much-desired , and valuable protection ; maintaining, unimpaired, that peculiar brilliancy of tint—admired beyond all other possessions ; and, as a preservative, is equally efficacious, whether against the injurious degree of heat felt in crowded assemblies, or exposure to harsh winds, and the low temperature of the winter season,—See advt. TOYTETI-I-PARIL PILOTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. —On Tuesday evening the Rev. T. Nolan commenced the first of a series of lectures on Church History, to the mem bers and friends of the above association, of which he is pastor, at Toxteth-hall. The reverend gentleman, in this introductory lecture, gave an outline of God's providential dealings, from the commencement, with his church; insti tuting an analogy between the establishment of Judaism, the promulgation of the Gospel, and the revival of truth at the period of the glorious Reformation. This latter point the reverend gentleman dwelt upon in consequence of the dis position to discountenance and recede from the principles of the Reformation by those calling themselves the Oxford party. The lectures, which are commenced at the request of the operatives themselves, are to be continued monthly, taking up the centuries. We cannot estimate the amount of good to be achieved, under God's blessing, if the various branches of tfle Protestant Operative Association were to arrange somewhat similar plans under the clergy of their various districts. TUN Furs, WcpNgspAy EyENING•—in respect of busines the Stock Market has beep very quiet all day, the dealers being chiefly occupied in making up their hooks for to-morrow which is settling day. The Funds however im proved, which would seem to indicate that so far the account is what is called a bear account. Consols left off SO buyers both for money and time. Bank stock improved to 1691 to 1701. India Stock 245 to 6. Exchequer Bills 20s to 22s premium. In the Foreign House a slight advance may be noted in Dutch Stocks. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 52 to k, the Five per Cents 102 to 4. Belgian 1 0 21 to n. Spanish Active with the Coupons declined to 24Z sel lers. Portuguese Five per Cents were 321 to t, the Three per Cents 191 to /. Brazilian 65 to Mexican 351 to 6 . Colombian 221 to 3. AmPurnmarruz.—We perceive that Mr. Egertoit's bane fit is fixed for Monday. next, when a new dramatic specta cle, entitled the " Queen of Cyprus," will be produce 4 for the first time. We understand that this piece ha been some weeks in preparation. To give it effect, severa acquisitions to the company have been made, Mr. Egerton' enterprise and perseverance ought not to go unrewarded, anc we hope a bumper benefit will be his reward. THEFT FROM A DWELLING-HOUSE. — An elderly man, named Nicholas Ensard, was, yesterday, placed at the bar of the police-court, on a charge of having possessed himself of a handsome coat, which, it appeared, did not belong to him. Mr. Richard Phibbs said that he was now out of business, and resided in Falkner-street. On Wednesday night he saw a new frock coat on the hall table of : the house. Yesterday morning he enquired for it, and his servant said it was miss ing. Mary Victory, wife of Mathew Victory, said she assisted him in keeping a second-hand clothes shop, in Sir Thomas's buildings. On Wednesday night the prisoner came to their shop, and offered the frock coat (produced) for sale. He asked 13s. for it, which she paid, and said in reply to her questions, that a Spanish captain had given it to him, and that he lived at No. 13, Fontenoy-street. On her way thither she saw the prisoner at the door of Mr. Mellor's spirit vaults, and told him he must return with her to the shop, as she thought the coat was not honestly come by. He said that it was, but tried to get away. He then said to his wife, " I have got myself into a hobble through that young sailor,—he gave me but little for selling it." He then pushed witness aside, and ran clown Manchester-street. She pursued and cried " stop thief," when constable Moore came up and stopped him. The police-officer said he took the prisoner into custody, and got possession of the coat which was claimed by Mr. Phibba. The prisoner, on being cautioned, said—" I am innocent ; I am sorry I have come before your honour. The coat was given to me by a man to sell for him." He was committed for trial. MELANCHOLY AccIDENT.—An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, the borough poroner, on view of the body of John Broadhurst, who had been em ployed on board the Mersey, Birkenhead steam-boat. It appeared that the vessel was, at the time, laid up for repairs in the Coburg Dock. The deceased who was 33 years of age, had gone on shore to call on his wife on Tuesday night, and returned with her to the dock at a late hour to keep his watch. A ladder was placed from the east quay to a sailing vessel along-side of which the steamer was lying. His wife descended first, and. the deceased followed,—walking, in cautiously, with his back to the ladder. He had only gone down two or three steps when he lost his balance, and fell into the dock striking the other vessel in his descent. A police officer was quickly on the spot, and he was taken out, and immediately carried to the Brunswick Dock station•house. A surgeon was instantly sent for, and as animation was suspended, every exertion was made to effect rescusitation, but without avail. The deceased had some wounds on his hand, which it appeared, had been occasioned bp his coming in contact in his fall with a bolt in the sailing vessel, but it was the opinion of the surgeon that death was caused mainly by the immersion in the water. The jury accordingly re turned a verdict of " accidentally drowned." SUDDEN DEATII FROM BURNING. — On Friday evening last, William Stothard, a child four years old, residing with his parents in a cellar under the house No. 13, Sparling street, was left by his mother, who was under the necessity of going out, in the charge of his sister, seven years of age, who had also another younger child to look after, She went out into the street with the little one, leaving the deceased in the cellar, the door of which, it appeared, he had closed on himself. A girl named Cameron, who lived in the house over the cellar, came down to see the mother of the deceased, and found the deceased on the floor, with all his clothes burnt off! She gave the alarm, and two men came in. Her father found the deceased in a dreadful state, and carried him in a blanket to a surgeon in Park-lane, who could do nothing to avert his pending dessolutiop, and he was taken home again and died in about ten minutes. An inquest was held on Wednesday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was burnt to death, but how the ignition took place there was no evidence to show. It should be added.that the parents of the deceased are in destitute . circumstances, and that the poor mother had gone out to pledge some trifling articles to relieve the immediate necessities of the children. REFRACTORY OVER-FED PAUPERS.-At the police court yesterday, seven boys, Charles Walker, William Hawkins, John Cuwson, Hugh Fitzsimmons, James Murphy, George Young, and John Pyke, were brought to the bar, on a charge of refractory conduct in the workhouse. It appeared, from the statements of the under-governor and the superintendent of the boys' department in the establishment, that, on the previous 'day, the prisoners, who had been employed at easy work out of doors, refused, after getting a plentiful dinner, to return to their work, though they positively had divided equally amongst them and the other boys (in all 42 in num ber), 188 lbs. of " scouce"—a substantial dish composed of meat and potatoes, which averaged 44 lbs. to each ! They had also been promised some additional allowance of food after they had completed their work ; but though time was given them to consider the matter, they persisted in refusing to go to work ; and behaving most outrageously, no recourse was left but to bring them before the magistrate. Mr. Rush ton made strict inquiry as to the quantity of food given them, and the replies confirmed the statement made. The only de fence made by the principal spokesman of the delinquents was, that the superintendant had promised them more dinner at the time, and that they refused to go to work until they got enough. Mr. Rushton expressed his astonishment at the allowance made, as stated. and which appeared to him to be a profligate sbaste of food. The wonder was how they could consume it. The conduct of the prisoners was most shameful. They obtained an asylum as objects of charity, at the expense of the community, including even the hard working and independent-minded poor, yet refused to per form the moderate work assigned them on a plea of insuffi cient food, when they actually got each more than double tbe .quantity which the generality of hard-working carters and I,ltion . rers, who toiled from early to late, could get. He (Mr. Illation) was as strongly in favour of the poor being sufficiently fed i s i; the jyorkhouse as any man ; hut he really thought the allowance ta4s l .,e this case would operate as a premium to parties to go i ntOtlw.c&tal;tlishrnent, in place of struggling r,..quLd send out of doors for themselves. He ;a the prisoners to a place where they would 614 their raG ou more circumscribed, and their work not so agreeable. lie then ordered them to be each imprisoned in the Muse of Correction for 21 days. . RENIARICABLZ TUNA.CITY or LIFT--A onv.,soar °ld lamb, belonging to Messrs. Sutton and Co., ur the Trubshaw Farm, was missed on the 13th of January, during a heavy fall of snow, and was not found again until the Ist of the present month, when it was discovered in a ditch, standing in an upright position, having been nineteen days enveloped in a snow-drift, by which it had been reduce/1 to a mere ske leton. When brought into the fresh air, it could neither stand nor walk; but by the judicious care an , l treatment of Messrs. Sutton's old shepherd, Joseph Jenirinson,. it has now quite recovered from the effects of so loßg a deprivation of nutriment. —Sta f ford Advertiser. CONVENIENT OBSCURATION OF THE LIVE RPOOL Tiaras. —Our contemporary, the Liverpool Times, on Tuesday last. in chronicling the sayings and doings of then cent anti-mo nopoly gathering, informs us that, " on the stage there were congregated a very large number of mere': ants, brokers, tradesmen, &c„ the names of the principal portion of whom were unknown to us." We are really not at all surprised at this unfortunate state of ignorance on the part of the Times, or his reporter. But it. is a little singular, nevertheless, that the Times should know that these great unnamed were " merchants, brokers, tradesmen, &c.," and not dissenting preachers, sweeps in their Sunday clothes, and other sorts and conditions of men. The Times has acr nvenient kind o ignorance at all events. He doesn't know ' the nobodies of his party. ROBERRY BY SHOP LADS.—Yesterday, at the Police court, two lads, Owen Jones and William Davies, and two women, Catharine Pattison and Elizabeth Flood, were placed before Mr. Rushton on a charge of the two first of stealing, and the others of receiving and disposing of sundry pairs of shoes, the property of Mr. Bostock, boot and shoe maker, Paradise -street, corner of School-late. It appeared that the prisoner Davies had been in Mr. Bostock's employ for three: months, and that Jones had be en a b ou t a f or t n i g ht, but had been discharged on suspicion of klishonesty, On Saturday last, Mr. Bostock, according to order sent to Mr. James Aspinall's, in Rodney-street, six pairs of shoes for the ladies to try on, by Davies who got into company with Jones by the way, It was agreed between them that Davies should deliver them and Jones go back for them. Jones accordingly called and received them, and, t appeared took them to a house in Cherry-lane, (out of IVlarybone,) and gave three pairs of theca to two women to pledge. They pledged two pairs at Mr. O'Donnells, and one pair at Messrs. Powell and Tunstall's, both in Scotland-road, each for Is. a pair. Information was given to the police officer John M`Comb, who exerted himself in a praiseworthy manner to discover the delinquents, and having found the articles stated, and obtained a description of the women, succeeded in ap prehending one of them in Vauxhall-road, and the other in Freemason's-row, They said a young man had given them the shoes, but that they did not know his name. From fur ther information received, he apprehended Jones in Bootle alley, (out of Old liall•street,) and Davies in Addison street, yesterday morning before day break. Jones, after being cautioned told him how the rpbbery hadbeen concerted between him and Davies, „and that, they ha taken the six pairs to a house in Freemason's-row. Davies, when taken denied that he was guilty in this instance, bat said he and Jones had got a pair of boots about a fortnight ago, from a house in Duke-street, where they were left by mistake, and that they had sold them in a cellar in Fontenoy-street for a shilling. The whole of the :prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions. DIFFICULTIES OF AN EDITOR Nothing can exceed the perplexity to which the conductor of a public journal is often exposed, in the discharge of his arduous and multifarious duties. This has been frequently the subject of remark. He has so many tastes to gratify, and so many varying humours to please, that it is almost im possible to keep his readers in good temper. We have had within the last week or two a curious specimen of this diffi • culty ; and it will, perhaps, afford some little amusement to our readers to be made acquainted with it, and will offer a few useful hints for the consideration of the parties more immediately interested—the writers of the cammunications. Were we to publish all the epistles with which we are favored, tendering advice to us in our editorial capacity, a more pre cious jumble of contrarieties in opinion would rarely be perused. We think it right, however, to give publicity to the subjoined communications—one dated little more than a month since, and the other the 23d inst. The insolent tone adopted by the writer of the latter almost induced us to con sign it to oblivion ; but, calling to remembrance the senti ments expressed by our first correspondent, and being able to lay our hands on his letter, we thought some little instruc tion might be gathered from a perusal of bob. There are some persons who have the vanity to suppose, that as soon as their names are placed on our subscribers' book, they have a right to exercise the most unlimited control over our opi. nions and the various subjects which we ought to discuss, as well as the mode of handling them. We beg to tell such meddliug, self-sufficient gentlemen, that they are entitled to no such privilege, and that in future we shall pass unnoticed all their uncalled-for effusions. Let them read the pages of the Standard with a little more attention, and they will find that their complaints are generally without foundation ; and we feel persuaded that in few, if any instances, they proceed from a bond fide " Subscriber." The following are the let ters to which we have alluded : TO THE EDITOR OF THE 4irEppoo.4 STAND AR!". Sip —As the emissaries of the Anti-Corn-Law League and the advocates of free trade arc so sedulous in the propa gation of their absurd fallacies, I am glad to perceive that you take every opportunity of exposing and refuting their speculative theories. At one time, sir, I feared you were devoting too large a portion of your valuable space to the discussion of theological subjects, whicb, in the opinion of the great majority of your readers, ought not to be forced upon their attention with too great frequency. It is per fectly true, sir, that you ought not to flinch from asserting and maintaining the doctrines and principles of the Esta, blished Church; and it is equally clear that nothing - should deter you from manfully resisting thg di;serninntion of he,, resy, whether proceeding from within l ir without the church. "*", 4 ..re.cuel'fi! yCni have already done with sufficient firmness and precision. No one can mistake on whose-side you are resolved to stand"; and now whca of subjects of a commercial character agitate the country, I hope you will not cease to make known to the conservative public the nature, objects, and effects of every measure by whomsoever introduced, as I am glad to see you have been recently striving to do with commendable diligence and abi, lity. I have hard much conversation with intelligent and ex, perienced men on this matter, and I assure you I speak the sentiments of a vast multitude of your supporters when I say, that we are pleased beyond measure to find that you are determined to express your sentiments on every subject in teresting to the commercial community, which is beyond, dispute the most legitimate object of discussion in the co lumns of a newspaper. Opportunities will doubtless occur when you will feel called upon again to notice the heresies put forward by the professed friends of our scriptural:.hurch, and the open, undisguised attacks upon her creeds and cere, monies by her avowed opponents ; but at present lo)nceive there are other subjects which should engage your attention, an d which are of paramount importance to the ptblie.— Yours, &c., A PROTESTANTIB42.ANT MERCHANT, Great George square, Jan. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sia,—l perceive by the Standard of yesterday, thit your paper continues to flourish and your circulation to increase ; and this success you in a great measure attribute to the upholding of conservative and Protestant principles.. Now, sir, as a subscriber, allow me to ask you by w h a t tile you lay claim t o the championship of Protestantism, whist the daring and slanderous attacks now regularly made,by the Mail remain not only unanswered, but unnoticed ? That print has now become the avowed and open vehicleof Pu seyism ; and the Protestant Standard, the organ of Evan gelicalism, (proh pudor !) lacks either the talent or tie cou rage "to fight the good fight." The press, it is to) much to be feared, is no exception to other worldly occurations : success naturally introduces negligence and inactivity. Still I cannot help thinking that your silence in this instance arises from the want of moral courage to face your adversory ; for, had the articles in question appeared in the 4./bion I have little doubt they would long since have been notice() and re ! fated. The Mail, however, being a political friend and a doughty foe, is, to say the least of him, an incotvenient+ antagonist. I have not the vanity to suppose that this com munication will rouse you from your apathy : before, how ever, bringing the nuisance complained of to the notice of other papers, will you, in your communication to correspon dents, in answer to this inquiry, simply state wiether you still intend to allow the articles in question to pass un heeded by" It Your silence is criminal, and your fubscribere are calling out shame ; and many, like myself, are beginning to think that we ought not to support so lukewarm a " Pro testant champion.' A SUBSCRIBER. Liverpool, 23rd February, 1842. * The italics throuhout are the writer's own. t Had " a subscriber" clothed his question in terms a little more courteous, we might have condescended tc have given him a reply. THE CORN-LAWS. MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN FROM THE " WOMEN tF ENGLAND." At the present moment, in almost every town in the king. dom, there is a knot of " women" who are neglecting their household duties, and the interests of their families and hawking about a petition from house to house, for the 'total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws," to be signed by the female inhabitants of the respective dwellings. In thistown this unfeminine agitation is carried on with much pertipcity and activity ; and, though there is a great wish on the pert of these female politicians to conceal the steps they are sedu lously carrying out, yet we can assure them that their pro ceedings are looked upon with no little suspicion by,their immediste'friends, and with the greatest disgust by the ilight judging public. As a specimen of the contamination to yhich these ladies subject themselves by their misplaced interftrenee we may mention that two or three of the party in the ours* of their perambulations have ventured within the precin:ts of houses, over the doors of which God has written, " T is i s the way to hell." Especially has this been the case with the parties to whom Juvenal-street has been allotted. No won der that much astonishment is expressed at the large nktnber of " lady" inhabitants, in dwellings of this description, who were greedy to attach their signatures to the paper presented to them ; but we put it to the husbands and fathers of the females who thus expose themselves, whether they ate not called upon to interpose their authority to prevent their wives and daughters thus placing themselves within thereach of every species of insult and indecency. We have elsewhere alluded to the unblushing falsehood put forth by "hand some" George Thompson, and perhaps it may have thteffect of checking, in some degree, the enthusiastic devotioi with which this plausible advocate is regarded by these ladies. We need say no more than simply give an outline of the memorial to which we have alluded ; and we only noice the subject because there is such a manifest wish to klep the whole affair as secret as possible, its concocters eldently being heartily ashamed of it. The memorialists first express their loyal and affectionate devotion to her Majesty's person, and then allude to:he un exampled misery at present prevailing amongst the louring classes of this country, which they assert is " frighttilly in creasing." They draw from these premises the extramdinary conclusion, that " the total repeal of the restriction, on the importation of food would restore to the nation at urge the blessings which flow from commercial prosperity ;" Ind they therefore supplicate her Majesty to "interpose her oyal aid IN FAVOUR OF THE TOTAL REPEAL OF THE CORN-TAWS." Such is the nonsense to which the " Women of Eigland" are asked to subscribe their names, and which her !lost gra cious Majesty is asked to listen to. PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGZS.--The Lord Chaniellor of England has referred to the Irish judges for the grounds of their decision against the legality of Presbyterian marriages, in order to form a bill for the amending the law thiesession. WAGES OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW INCENDIARIIS.—The stipend paid to Mr. George Thompson, for agitating the women of England on the subject of the corn-laws, s £4 per week, awl all travelling and other expenses ; arid to Mr., James Acland, late editor of the North Cheshire Rfortner, for agitating the working classes, agricultural and commer cial, .43 per week, and all travelling iand other expaises!— SlockfrorrAdvirtiiei-: