The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

HAWN DE LYON IFIELD beg to call the attention of ie Fitbite to their splendid Stock of SILK And CASHMERE SHAWLS and Summer MANTLES, form ing the Largest Selection of those beautiful productions CUM and SCUI either in The o ont of the Metropolis. ;inal principle of Small Profits a 'Large Con ontinues to be the mainspring 0 this Establish guarantees to the Public firs rate Goods at the following prices:— Real Chine SHAWLS 52s Damask Silk SHAWLS Id. the whole Square 215., 305., 425„ and 635. the SHAWLS 10s., 12s. 6d., 21s. and 30s CLEARING OUT OF SILK MERCER): AND LINEN DRAPERY GOODS, t, conger of Manchester-street. rder to wind up his present e Public, at a GREAT SACRI weII-assorted and extensive f every description of Goods in the TILLIAZI NELSON, i Business, now offers t( STOCK, consist above lir N. cannot allow the present oprPortunity to pass with inking his numerous Friends for the very liberal sup hint) he has received from them during the long period FOR READY MONEY ONLY rig Debts must be immediately paid. GLOUCESTER HOUSE, 33, OLD HAYMARKET. THE Proprietors this week respectfully intimate a con siderable addition to their previously superb STOCK of SILKS, SHAWLS, MOUSSELINE DE LAINES, &c., being the third delivery since the opening in April, and em bracing the latest Novelties brought out for that most decided d attractive Season in London: MAY. Expense has not been spared to obtaiwthe choicest SHAWLS / las produced, and it is hoped, that cautiousjudg :;ood taste, has been exercised in the SHAWLS OF a USEFUL AND GENERAL on visiting the room devoted to their ,ies will find, that whatever kind they may re quire, the moderate profit ciAarged will at once surprise and please. Changeable Satinnettes, (Variety,) 2s. 6&d. per yard. An importation of about 800 FRENCH MOUSSELINE DE LAINES, all 10s. 6d. the dress, real value, 255. ; British M. de Laines. 2s. 7d. the dress, (10 yards.) The LINEN, PRINT, and PLAIN DRAPERY, is abun dant, and each department receives that constant attention which its importance requires • COLLARS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, PARASOLS, LACE, &c. &c. &c. SHINGLER and JAMES. Gloucester-house, 33. Old Haymarket, , ment, combined wit DESCRIPTION ; hut reception, L [formerly 31, "aug han's.) PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SEA-WATER BATHS, GEORGE'S PIER, LIVERPOOL. IUTRS. PENN informs the Gentry and Public that it is her YL intention to continue the BATHS on behalf of the of her late Husband, and she trusts, by unremitting the convenience of visitors, to jperit a continu •aport so liberally bestoweVon the•late Mr. tion to ance of tha H. Penn. The Cold Baths are now open. Subscription for Six Months, £1 10s. ; Non-subscribers, for each time of bathing, Is. ; Children under twelve years, 61 Bathing Hours from Six in the Morning till Nine in the Evening. NEW AND EXTENSIVE K. 4 • • CARPET, FLOOR CLOTH, AND PAPER HANGING ESTABLISHMENT. Di and I. SMIT-Irespectfully inform the Inhabitants of o Liverpool and its vicinity, that they have OPENED an ESTABLISHMENT in the above branches of Business, WELLINGTON-BUILDINGS, 44, SOUTH CASTLE-STREET. The CARPET DEPARTMENT comprises An extensive as sortment of BRUSSELS, of the Neweatterns, and of their KIDDERM IN ERS are made by excellent qualit _.,:turers in the Kingdom, and, upon inspec tion, cannot fail to please. Scotch, Damask, Venetian, and Hemp CARPETING; HEARTH RUGS to Suit; Printed DRUG GETS of a beautiful quality ; Plaid Ditto, three and four he First Mane yards v Lon( ion and Bristol FLOOR CLOTH, for llalls, Rooms, , and Lobbies. Table Baize, Dish Mats, Hassocks, ;e and Door Mats, &c. PAPER HANGINGS exhibit a great variety of rich nt Patterns, suitable for Drawing, Dining, and is, Halls, Passages, Lobbies, &c. niced PAPER HANGERS sent to all parts of the Cabins Carria and elel Bed-roc Town or Country In announcing opening of the above Warehouse, .id I. SMITH pledge themselves to use every endeavour, j a careful selection of Goods, of the best fabric and style of Pattern and Colours, and a strict adherence to the system ^barging the Lowest Price, to merit a share of that pa and support they respectfully solicit. WINDOW BLIND MANUFACTORY, 31, PARADISE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. W. LEDGER DI ESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the PUblic, It that he has con-.menced Business as above, and also k b begs to state, he has had mauy years experien .e in it first-rate Establishment, and he flatters himself he w e enabled to give satisfaction to those who are kind enou to favour him with their commands. OLD BLINDS PAINTED, CLEANED, & REPAIRED 31 Paradise-street, May, 1841. BRUNSWICK HOTEL, HANOVER-STREET, NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION E. 'WHITEMAN, grateful for the extensive pa tronage he has received since opening the above HOTEL, begs to inform his Friends, that be has, at a con siderable expense, enlarged and improved his Establishment ; and trusts, by economy in charges, and strict attention to business, to merit a continuance of that support he has hitherto received. W. E. W. can with confidence recommend his Stock of WINES and SPIRITS. consisting of every variety ; also. the following ALES.:—Burton, East India, Wrexham, and - id every description of SOUPS, ICE PUNCH, &c, STEAKS, CHOPS, COFFEE, &c, always ready. HOT JOINTS from One to Six. DINNERS provided for Large or Small Parties at the TURTLE shortest notice WELL-AIRED BEDS B. HYAM & CO FASHIONABLE TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, AND OUTFITTING IVAREHOUSE, 63, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. ;stablishment will be found combined Elegance, Economy, Durability, Neatness, and Taste. THE attention of Families and Gentlemen is respectfully drawn by B. H. and Co. to the Prices annexed, of Articles Manufactured by them, with a feeling of confidence that all Orders they may be intrusted with will give the us. At this I ~st satisfaction. Merchants Exporting, Captains Sailing, flora this and other Ports, Emigrants and Persons going 'oad, will at all tier find great advantages in favouring B. . and Co. with a v ;, as their Stock will be found to consist of Clothing Sul )le for any Market or Climate, durable for wear, and economical in price. B. H. and Co. have at all times in their Stock every de scription of West of England Cloths for Coats; Diagonals, Checks, Moleskins, &c. for Trowsers ; Silks, Satins, Cash meres, and Marsellas for Waistcoats, and are constantly receiving acquisitions of new Patterns and Materials in con sumption, and of the prevalent Fashions Gentleman's Black Dress Coat from Do 0 19 6 0 5 6 0 9 0 1 2 0 1 7 0 0 9 0 0 1 3 Vest Trousers Do. other Coloured Dress Coats Do. Frock Coat, Silk Facings . Do. Fancy Woollen Trousers... Do. Do. Valentia and other Vests TO MERCHANTS, &C. FOR EXPORTATION 14 0 per Dozen 12 6 Do. 190 Do. 21 6 Do. 5 6 each. 3 3 Do. Striped Shirts from Regatta Do. . Duck Trowsers Do. Frocks .. Monkey Jackets... Flushing Trowsers Jean Suit, consisting of Jacket, Vest, and Trowsers Fancy Vests from All descriptions of Clothing suitable for Foreign Markets SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, CONSTITUTEC on the Principle of MUTUAL ASSU RANCE, with the'LOWEST RATES consistent with SECURITY, and providing for an EQUITABLE DIVI SION of the WHOLE PROFITS among the ASSURED. r EDINBURGH, 14, St.- Andrew ' s -square. GLASGOW, 141, Buchanan-street. OFFICES The LEADING PRINCIPLES of this Office are, Ist. To charge the LOVr EST PREMlUMS,*nsistent with perfect security ; and, ._ / 2d. To divide the WHOLE SURPLUS among those Members from whose longer payments they hive arisen, no share being given to Policies of only a few years' standing, on which there must be a loss, and not firofit. This is evidently more equitable, and at the same e more advan tageous for good lives, than the system of ' ivision generally PRACTICAL EFFECT of these two principles is, ▪ the first—namely, the diminution of the Premiums — the _greatest present benefit is secured to all; while by the second—the peculiar mode of division of the surplus—those who survive the average duration of life will derive the greatest future contingent advantages ; a combination pre sented by no other office. No ENTRY MONEY CHARGED. • Annual Premium to assure £lOO at death. 6 1 .e 2 6 In 1 ..e2 14 9I £3 5 9 I £4 1 7 The Premiums may be made to cease entirely, after a li mited number of payments. Those payable for 21 years only will be found nearly the same as most Offices require for the whole of life, however long. Comparative Tables of the Premiums of all the Scottish Offices, Prospectuses explanatory of the Principles, Forms of Proposals, and every information, may be had at the office of the Agent for Liverpool, CHARLES MURRAY, No. 2, George's Dock-gates North. Medical Officer—Dr. MOFFAT, Abercromby,terrace. AGENTS. Leeds—William L. Moffatt, Architect. Manchester—George Wadsworth, Accountant. J. and H. Charlton, Iron Factors Birmingham— TO FEMALE INVALIDS. " No less than 31,000 females have expired from diseases peculiar to their sex in one year."—See the Registrar-Gene ral's Report. TAR. BAYFIELD, R.N., o f t h e U niversity of Edinburgh, and Member of the Colle ge of Surgeons, respectfully an nounces to invalids, the above startling fact, as officially an s tated by the Registrar-General, informs them, that be may be daily consulted (either pen or by letter,) as a Physician-Accoucheur, by patients personally from those pe culiar diseases, which if unattended to, o . 0 properly treated, e fitn application undermining • , , '--Hg the malady to a fatal issue good constitution, cause th unhappy by Pr patient to ering existence ; whereas by a timely female . g, that [eld, whose experience in the treatn ie y set t the last 16 years, he is warranted in 611 not only be speedily removed, but the pat ien t restored to her pristin e state of health. Dr. Bayfield may be d ail y consulted personally, , at hi s resi dence, No. 18, NORTHAMPTON -SQUARE, UOSWELL-ROAD, LONDON, or by letter, post free, describing symptoms, &c., and also enclosing a fee of 10s. or a post-office order to that amount—when the requisite medicine will be forwarded, to any part of the three kingdoms. • Dr. Bayfield respectfully announces that his invaluable SPASMODIC TINCTURE, so celebrated for affording im mediate relief in all cases of Spasms arising in the stomach, bowels, and in the system generally, can be purchased only of him at his residence, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 9s. duty in cluded, in stopped bottles. One dose is sufficient to relieve the most 'violent paroxysms. to Dr. the disease Sole Afent— Mr. STETENe, Chemist, 12E, St. Jobn.9treet.rostl, London. D A N S O N AND M'N E I L L, 55, DALE-STREET. FINE OLD WINES. Old Bottled PORTS, of the 485., 425., and 365. per dozen. highest character Fine Ditto DITTO, from 345., 305., and 245. „ the wood, and fit for im- and mediate use l6s., 145., and 12s. per gallon. SHERRIES, old and deli-1 485., 425., 365., 305., and 245. cate Wines, pale, brown, per dozeigand 18s., Hs., 14s. or gold and 12s.'per gallon. BRONTE MADEIRA LISBON, (dry or sweet) 3os. ; 13s. Od. „ j CAPE MADEIRA ll7s. and 18s. per dozen; and Bs. and 9s. per gallon. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SPIRITS. WHISKEYS, Old Irish, }l6s and 17s. per gallon. (as used in Dublin) .... • DITTO, Old Scotch (Islay) 16s. and 17s. „ DITTO, very good z.. 10s. 6d., 125., and 14s. per gall. British GIN, finest qualities 10s. and 12s. per gallon. HOLLANDS, genuine old} Schiedam, direct from} 325. per gallon. Rotterdam DITTO, also in Cases of 1 1,- 10s. per dozen . , Cases and Bot- Dozen each, or 2 Gallons tles included. from bond, duty paid .. BRANDY, (finest old pale) 365. per gallon; 6s. per bottle. DITTO, of fine quality .. 30s. and 28s. per gallon. RUM, very fine old DITTO, (very good) ...... 12s. and 14s. per gallon. WANT M ED, a Situatint3 as °ANESS or LADIF,R` MAID, by a young person, aged 26 years, that would have no objection to go abroad. Apernber of the Church of England. Most respectable ref e ces will be given. Apply by letter, post-paid, to A A, Standard-office. EDUCATION LT NORTON, near St oc kt on - on -T ees , c o n ducted by Mr. CHAPMAN, late Second Master in the Priory School, London. In this Establishment all the Pupilifire Parlour Boarders. The terms are from 25 to 30 Guineas o fer Annum (the only extra charge is for school-books); these include Board, and Instruction in the English, Latin, Greek, and French Lan guages ; in History, Geography, the Use of the Globes Writing, A-' • - M Land -q”- ae atheinatics. Drawing, Engineering, &c., &c. The French Language taught by a native. No vacations unless desired by the pa rents. The quarter to commence from the time of entering. Prospectuses of the Establishment, and every particular, may be had of Mr. C. WEATHERILT, Chemist, Agent, 24, Copperas-hill, Liverpool. FRESH ARRIVAL OF GERMAN CABINET FUR. NITURE. EDWARD ROWLAND respectfully announces to his Friends and the Public, that he ha now on View, at his Establishment, a most superb collectio "consisting of Din ing, Loo, and Card Tables, Sideboard Chiffonniers, Book cases, Secretaires, French Beds, Chairs, and various other Articles, most splendidly and substantially finished. Arcade Passage, May 15th. *** Twenty-two very large Packing Cases on Sale. NEW FRUIT AND ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, NO. 16, PARKER-STREET, CORNER OF CLAYTON-SQUARE, LIVERPOOL. JOHN WILKINSON, in returning thanks to those Friends who have so kindly favoured him with their orders since his commencement in burs, begs to assure them and the Public generally that exertions shall be spared on his part to merit a continuance of that support he has liberally received. J. W. most respectfully invites the admirers of elegance and economy in living to inspect his well-assorted Stock of Foreign Fruit and Sweetmeats, which will be found of the best quality, and at exceedingly moderate prices, namely : Muscatel Raisins, French and Portugal Plums, Eleme and Turkey Figs, very superior large Spanish Chesnuts and French Walnuts. Jordan Almonds, fine green Grapes, a choice assortment of Succades, Apricots, Lime, Peaches, and Oranges, French Crystalized Fruits, &c. &c. London Pickles, Sauces, Jams, Jellies, Spices, Tamarinds, Preserved Ginger, &c. &c. _ _ _ _ The Trade supplied with Confectionery at the Manufac turer's prices. Country orders punctually attended to. IMPORTANT NOTICE {R. SAMUEL HAIGH, Proprietor of the WOOLLEN LU. CLOTH ESTABLISHMENT, CLOTH-HALL, 71, Lord-street, Liverpool, in returning4anks to the Inha bitants of Liverpool for the very libera,Vsupport given him since opening the above Mart, respectfully announces, that, owing to circumstances unnecessary to insert, the whole must be cleared off the Premises previous to the Ist of June next. HOUSE AND SHOP TO BE LET, MORISON'S WRITING INKS THESE INKS have stood the test of between twenty and thirty years practical experience in the United Kingdom, and they have been gradually elevated in the esteem of all who have used to the present time. The OFFICE and COPYING INKS are well known in the Merchant's Office and in the Bank articles of the best quality. Their superiority for fluidity permanence, and f id the latter for its excellent copying pro i erties, particular at tention being paid to its manufacture, is fully admitted. MORISON'S RED INK is acknowledged to be of the greatest purity, brilliancy, and durability of colour. Manufactories , f Liverpool, 31, Duke-street. 1 London, 12, Wilson-street, Finsbury. SPECIFIC CURE FOR SPASMS BAY FIELD, R.N., Physician-Accoucheur, Mem ber of the University of Edinburgh, Member of the College of Surgeons, &c. has the pleasure to announce to the public and aged invalids especially, that he has discovered a most invaluable Specific for the immediate re and ultimate cure of Spasms in the stomach and bowels, ell as of the constitution generally, by which many vaktable lives have been preserved during an extensive practice for the last 16 years. He respectfully calls the reader's attention to the following letter from a lady of rank, which he has selected out of numbers he is able to produce. " Cheltenham, Plough Hotel. " Lady 11- presents her eomplimentS to fir. Bayfield, and will thank him to send her another packet of his excel lent SPASMODIC TINCTURE. Lady R- has much pleasure in thus bearing testimony to the benefit she has de rived from taking it, according to the directions, since which she has had no return of her former distressing malady ; for previous to a friend informing her of Dr. Bayfield's remedy, she had been for years a martyr to the most excruciating spasms. She therefore wishes to know whether Dr. B. wishes her to continue taking the Tincture, it is now nearly three months since she had an attack, but as she is about to have Cheltenham for the north, she wishes to have a packet to carry with her. " Aarch, 1839." The Spasmodic Tincture can only be purchased of Dr. Bayfield at his residence, No. 18, NORTHAMPTON-SQUARE, GOSWELL-ROAD, LONDON, in stopped bottles, price 2s. 2d., 4s. 6d., and 95., duty included, which shall be forwarded im mediately on the receipt of a post-office order for the quan tity required, to any part of the three kingdoms. Sole Agent— Mr. STEVENS, Chemist, 122, gt. John-street ,road, London THE CHEAPEST ESTABLISHMENT IN LIVERPOOL FOR GENTLEMEN'S DRESS, OF First-rate Quality, Superior Cut and Workmanship, AT THE CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, DANIEL MYERS, NAVY AND ARMY TAILOR AND GENERAL OUTFITTER. This Establishment is constantly receiving the newest Styles of Fashionable Materials for evert Article of Gentle men's Dress, suitable for home consumption and for :ex portation. ANIEL MYERS, in tendering to his Patrons, the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Professional Gentlemen of Liverpool, and county of Lancaster, his thanks for the distinguished encouragement he has received, begs to assure them that the advantages which have so umch signalised this EstabliShment, and gained him the preference for a Good Article at a Moderate Price, .will ever be adhered to ; that all orders will begot up with the best attention and skill of talented. Foremen, engaged from the West of London, and the charges upon such aßeduced scale that rivals competition. LIST OF PRICES. s. d. s. d. Superfine Saxony Dress Coats 1 8 oto 2 0 0 Extra ditto Woaded 2 2 0„ 2 12 Ditto ditto, very best that can be produced . Ditto ditto, ditto Black, Wool-dyed Blue, Invisi ble Green, Mulberry, and all the most expen sive colours ..... . Superfine Saxony Frock Coats, lined with Silk Extra Ditto Ditto, diito, with Improved Circular Skirts Extra Saxony, the very best that can be produced, Black, Wool-dyed Blue, Invisible Green, Mul berry, and all the most expensive colours . Cashmere and Summer Cloth Coats Shooting Coats Summer Trousers, (Woollen article,) at 9s. 6d. per pair, or 3 pairs for . . • • Ditto ditto, 125., or 3 pairs for . . . .1 13 0 Woollen Plaid, ditto, from Plaid and Plain Doeskin, ditto, at . 2 0 Very best • ditto. ditto, at . . 1 8 0 Summer Waistcoats, at Bs. 6d., or three for . . 1 2 Cashmeret and Shawl Patterns, ditto, from . 0 11 0 French, ditto, ditto, from . . . Embroidered Satins, ditto, ditto D. M. particularly invites the attention of the Clergy and Professional Gentlemen to his PECULIAR WOOL-DYED BLACK CLOTHS, warranted to retain their colour, and to his mode of contracting by the year, as they can make a ma terial saving, and have a constaat change of two or three suits at one time. GENTLEMEN CONTRACTED WITH BY THE YEAR UPON THE Under the super- 2 Snits per Year intendence of ta- 3 Ditto ditto lented Cutters from 4 Ditto ditto the West of Lon- 5 Ditto ditto don. ' 6 Ditto ditto £8 0 0 11 14 0 15 4 0 Bost quality 18 10 0 21 10 0 By returning their Clothes after the usual time of wearing, SERVANTS' LIVERIES made to Order, of the first qud. lity, at £4 per Suit. NAVY and MILITARY UNIFORMS exact to regulation a choice Selection of Epaulettes, Swords, Belts, &c. Gentlemen going abroad completely fitted out at a few hours notice MERCHANTS and CAPTAINS supplied with every AR, TICLE of DRESS SUITABLE FOR ALL CLIMATES . . _ _ _ By the doz. By the doz s. d. s. d. Good Saxony Dress Coats from 1 6 0 to 1 18 0 Ditto ditto Frock ditto ll2 0 to 2 2• 0 Summer Coats 0 6 0 to 0 13 0 Good Saxony Trousers (various) Ditto ditto Waistcoats (various) White Drill, Jean, and Cashmere Jackets All Cut and Made in the first Style, and suitable for Ex portation. A great variety of Macintosh's Waterproof Fabrics, and of Patent Waterproof Cloths, Camlets, Cashmerets, &c. &c. This Establishment is closed on Saturday, until the evening. THE CIVET CAT, 72, LORD-STREET. OUTRAGEOUS !—A man lately died in Kentucky so tar's ciously tall, that it took two clergymen and a boy to preach the funeral sermon. POISONING A FAMILY.- The family of Mr. Joseph Powell, farmer, of Edmonton, have, within the last few days, miraculously escaped being poisoned to death. The particulars, as far as they have transpired, are as follow : Mrs. Powell, who is in a delicate state of health, has been accustomed to take for supper a basin of new milk boiled. This was brought to her by the female servant on Tuesday night last. She took a spoonful or two, and complained that the taste was disagreeable, and that it made her feel sick. Her two sons each tasted it. They then called in the girl, and desired her to do the same. but she manifested great reluctance, and said that she had had her supper, and had no Wish for anything more. The mistress and her sons then said, ." If you do not taste a spoonful or two we shall - think you have put something bad in it;" upon this she took a - portion, when they all became ill, Mrs. Powell alarm ingly so, being seized with violent retching, and complaining of a burning pain in the throat and stomach. A medical man was immediately sent for, and partial relief was afforded, but the life of Mrs. Powell is considered in much danger ; she is unable to leave her bed. The servant girl, also, is in a precarious state. The basin containing the milk has been preserved, and found to contain arsenic, as well as the pan from whence it was taken. There is much mystery in the transaction. The girl is too ill yet to give any testimony. UNITED HiPATES The following appeared in a second edition of Friday : The transient ship Fairfield, which arrived here at an early hour this morning, has brought us papers from New York to the 18th instant, being three days later than those pre viously received. We are in momentary expectation of the arrival of intelligence by the Columbia, or Great Western ; but we prefer announcing the news by the Fairfield as early as possible, though we can discover in the papers before us very little which would interest the general reader. Much speculation is still indulged in as to the intendedopera tions of the new President, Mr. Tyler. He is represented to have reiterated the necessity of issuing a scire facial against the United States' Bank, and as intending to vote against the renewal of the charter, and distinctly intimating his opinion that he would vote against the incorporation of such an institution. A numerous and enthusiastic assembly of the citizens of New York took place on the 15th ult. to respond to and approve the sentiments declared by Mr. Tyler. Several resolutions, expressive of their confidence in him, were passed with acclamation. A tornado had " struck down" in Amite county, which is described to have been as ruinous to the timber as the great Natchez tornado, but no particulars had been received as to the damages done. The election for Mayor had terminated in the return of a Mr. Morris, by a majority of about 400 votes. Robinson the murderer had expiated his crimes on the gallows NEW YORK COTTON MARKET, -APRIL 17 The sales of Cotton are about 1000 bales. Holders keep back, or ask a little advance, which deters buyers.—Sales, 3000 bushels North River Corn, at 53 cents per bushel ; Wheat not deliverable ; 1800 Jersey at 54 cents. The stock of Potashes is reduced to 50 barrels, and the price is six dols., from the scarcity. MOBILE COTTON MARKET.-APRIL 7 The receipts since this day week have been 5146 bales, and the exports for the same period 10,310 bales, viz. to Liverpool 10,019, Havana 28, Boston 237, and to New Orleans 36, leaving on hand, and on shipboard not cleared, a stock of 117,869 bales, to against 171,962 bales last season. — Yesterday there was no new feature in the Market, except further advanced pretensionsof holders, which checked oper ations, the sales not reaching more than 800 or 1000 bales. The stock now on sale is reduced to about 10,000 bales, which of itself would be a bar to heavy operations. Liverpool classification—Good and fine, some fair 11i ; inferior and ordinary 10. Since the above was written, we have received by the Columbia and Great Western steam-ships, New York papers to the Ist instant. In the House of Assembly for the State of New York, an important debate upon the case of Mr. Nl`Leod had taken place on the 19th ult., on the motion of a Mr. Homann (a decided Locofoco) for the release of Mr. M`Leod, Mr. Homann holding it to be inconsistent with the national honour to continue Mr. M`Leod in prison after the govern ment of Great Britain had taken the affair of the Caroline upon themselves. Mr. M`Leod, however, still continued in prison at the time the Great Western sailed, and nothing definitive was known of the negotiation between the United States government and that of Great Britain, nor would anything definitive be done in the matter until the extra ses sion of congress. It was, however, known that a good un derstanding subsisted between the organs of the two govern ments at Washington on the subject. Congress was to be convened on the 31st of May, and the eyes of the whole country, it was said, would turn in anxious expectation on the first movements of the dominant party. The new president was going on well, and the impression was becoming general that he would infuse into every branch of the public service a degree of energy and integrity that had not been seen since the early days of the republic, oc cupying, as he did, a position independent of all parties. In Canada a strong opposition was growing up against Lord Sydenham, and the Canadians were in a state of con siderable excitement at the proposed alteration of the timber duties in the imperial parliament. A meeting of the com mercial interest had been held at Quebec, and strong resolu tions against it passed, with which they had waited on the governor-general. The American markets remained much in the same state as by the last advices. The money market was easy. No difficulty was experienced in obtaining loans by parties with proper security. The stock market had not undergone much fluctuation. The shares in the bank of the United States were quoted at 17 at Philadelphia, while at New York the price was as low as IQ. The transactions in foreign exchange for the Columbia and the Great Western had been large. The market was firm, at 107- 3 / 4 to 1071: the principal transactions were at the latter price. On France the rate was sf, 284 c. to sf. 271 c. SPAIN No Parliamentary event ever excited so much anxiety as the Ballot for the election of the Regency. At an early hour all the avenues leading to the Legislative Palace were incumbered with'people, and it was necessary to double the posts to keep off the crowd who pressed around it. All the public galleries and the tribune diplomatique were filled with spectators. The members of both houses were dressed in their grand costume. It was first ascertained that the num •ber of deputies present was 196, that of senators 94; in all 294 voters, and the absolute mojority consequently 146, or one more than the moiety. The next step of the assembly was to decide, by 254 against 36, that the vote should be public. The next question to be solved was whether the Regency should consist of one, three, or five members. 153 voted in favour of regency. The former only obtained the majority with the aid of the 15 or 20 rnoderado senators, who at first intended to support the claim of Queen Christina—otherwise the tripple system would have triumphed, the majority, with the accession of the latter, not having exceeded 17. The two houses then proceeded to choose the person who was to be vested with the exalted functions of Regent. The tickets, written by each member, were read aloud, and when counted, there appeared— For General Espartero .. 179 For Augustine Arguelles .. .. 103 For the Queen Dowager 5 For Count Almadovar 1 Por Brigodier Thomas Garcia Vicene, one of the heroes of May 2, 1808 1 Blank ticket .. 1 General Espartero was then proclaimed sole regent during the minority of the Queen. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Oxford Herald.) PROMOTIONS. Rev. Evan Evans, incumbent of Blaenpennal, has been inducted to the chapelry of Gartheli, near Llanddewi-brevi ; patron, the Revd. Samuel Evans, vicar of Llanddewi-brevi. Revd. Robert Fayrer, curate of Tissington. Derbyshire, to the perpetual curacy of Scissett, in High 'HoYland, York shire ; patron, J: B. Beaumont, 'Esq. 'Rev. William Martin Mungeami of St. John's col lege, Cambridge, to the ministry of White's Row episcopal chapel ; patron, the rector of Christ Church. nitallields, 'London. Rev. H. M. Rice, to the rectory of Southill-with-Calling ton, Cornwall, vacant by the death ofthe Rev. J. Trefisais ; patron, Lord Ashburton. Rev. Henry George Walsh, M.A.; to the newly conse crated church of St. John the Evangelist, Clifton, Bristol. Rev. Chas. Carpenter, formerly of 'Falmouth, to the cu racy of Buckland Filleigh. Rev. W. Brocklebank, late of Queen's coll., Cambridge, to the perpetual curacy of Udimore, Sussex. Rev. Robert Bond, to the vicarage of Briston, Norfolk, vacant by the 'death of the Rev. George Preston. The Queen ii t as been pleased to present.the Rev. David Waddell to the churdiand parith of Stow,"in Abe presbytery of Lander and county of 'Edinburgh, vacant by the death of Dr. John Cormaek.—Gazelte. • • • , DIOCESE OF ARMAGH. -= The Rev . John H. Stubbs has been appointed to the rectory of Dromiskin, county Louth ; patron, the lord primate. The Rev:"Joseph Abbott is ap pointed curate to the district of Aughavilly. The Rev. H. P. Disney, to the district of Kildarton. The Rev. John Wade, to the district of Altadysart. DIOCESE OF CONNOR.—The Rev. William Boyes has been appointed to the Curacy of Dunhaghy, in the county of Antrim ; patron, the Rev. W. Wolsley. DIOCESE OF LEIGHLIN.—The Rev. Joseph Fitzgerald has been appointed to the Curacy of Staplestown ; patron, the Rector. DIOCESE OF CASHEL.—The Rev. William Newstead Falkner has been appointed to the Prebend of Newchapel, county Tippepary ; patron, the Lord Bishop. DIOCESE or LIMERICK.—The Rev. Robert Knox has been appointed to the Treasurership of Limerick; patron, the Lord Bishop. The Rev. R. Hurly has been appointed Vicar-General of Ardfert and Aghadoe ; patron, the Lord Bishop. SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES BERESFORD CONFIRMED. Yesterday morning, the ship Tigris, Captain Symons, arrived in the West India Import Dock, from Colombo, which place she left on the 20th December; Cape of Good Hope, February 28; and St. Helena, March 15. In conse quence of a report which appeared in the papers, on Friday,' that Lord James Beresford, of the 10th hussars, had com mitted suicide on board that vessel, being on his passage to England, and which painful intelligenee had not reached his lordship's noble relations, and being therefore generally dis credited, our reporter proceeded to the West India Docks yesterday afternoon for the purpose of making inquiries on board the Tigris relative to the reported suicide of his lord ship (brother to the Marquis of Waterford), and he found that the report was unfortunately too true. It appears that Lord James Beresford, who was only in the 26th year of his age, embarked passenger on board th e Ti gr i s f or E ng l and , and that it was remarked at the time, and at a subsequent period during the voage, that his lordship appeared to be la bouring under slight symptoms of insanity, and that his ser vant was in consequence ordered to pay more than usual care to his lordship, which he did. On the night of Tuesday, the 27th April, his lordship was in his own cabin, and did not evince to the servant or to the passengers during the day anything particularly remarkable in his usually somewhat eccentric manners. The servant, before going to lie down in his settee for the night, went to his lordship's cabin for the purpose of inquiring whether his lordship needed any further attendance that evening, and having repeatedly knocked at his state-room door without receiving any an swer, the servant opened it, and discovered the cabin floor partly covered with blood, and on proceeding to the water closet adjoining the apartment, he found his master (Lord James Beresford) reclining over the seat, with his head nearly severed from his body, and quite dead. The rash act was committed with a razor, and so determined had been his lordship to effect his dreadful purpose that only a small por tion of skin at the back part of the neck attached the head to the body. The alarm having been instantly given, the ut most consternation prevailed among the passengers (27 in corpse b p a e o f bthee yon tho u nmcdebrteshr the power of an t h d e crew s hoifp ; 11 au b nm u d t a pn n aas y isd eatte mpt After apt th t ae o c r mo e s na t sn o ug r l e l t: l dt i co e Lord James Beresfordfwas, with great solemnity, consigned hasto a c g r r e a a v t e e d in g r t e h a e t a g b ri y e s f s of and t d h t o r c e e s a s n a . m o T n h g i s l t he a mneonbtlaeble relatives event of the deceased and the fashionable world generally.— Observer. TiIEaRE.ROYAL , LIVERPOOL* Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee. THE PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON, WILL COMMENCE :AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO RE UPENED AT SEVEN. The New Drama of VALSHA, having been received last night with the most distinguished approbation, will be repeated this Evening. Second Week of Mr. and Mrs. YATES : Mr. PAUL BED FORD, Mr. WRIGHT, Mr. LYON, and Mr. WIE LAND. In addition to the above, the celebrated BOLENO FA MILY are engaged for a limited Number of_Nights, and will make their second appearance this Evening, in their Classical Performances. THIS present TUESDAY, May 18, will be presented, for the second time here, with the gorgeous and magni ficent dresses and properties from the Adelphi Theatre, the new Drama, called VALS 1-1 A Or, THE SLAVE QUEEN. Produced under the immediate direction and superintendence of Mr. Yates Valsha. Mrs. Yates. Graff . . Mr. Lyon. Bolbec To be followed by the much-admired and elegantly Classical Entertainment, entitled - - L'ATELIER DE CANOVA; Introducing the following beautiful groups :—The Gladiators —Samson and the Philistines—Venus instructing Cupid— Ajax and Patroclus Fighting Gladiator—Beneficence — Battle of the Amazons (has relief)—Dying Gladiator — Group of Trojan Warriors. The whole personated by the BOLENO FAMILY, Male and Female Artists. To conclude with a Drama, called OLIVER TWISi; Or, THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS. Oliver Twist Miss Chaplin. Mr. Bumble.. .. .. Mr. Baker. I Fang Mr. Vivash. Bill Sikes...... Fagin Mr. Yates. I Nancy .. Miss Cleaver. The Dodger, alias the Artful, alias Lumpy Jack. Mr. Wright TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) the favourite Drama of VICTORINE.—After which, for the first time here, a new Ballet Spectacle, called the DEVIL ON TWO STICKS. In which the BOLENO FAMILY will introduce a variety of novel performances. To give due effect to this Ballet, an engagement has been made with Miss E. WEBSTER and Master WEBSTER, from the Italian Opera House, who will make their first appearance in Liverpool. Elie Etbrrpoot &tan Darb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1841 That servile tool of priestcraft and prime mover of sedition, Mr. Darnel O'Connell, hats issued a fresh or der to his countrymen to " agitate, agitate," now that a dissolution of parliament is so near at hand. But we have become so accustomed to this signal, and, in deed, to the effects which usually follow it, that it has ceased to give us any disturbance. Besides, we have, we may say, chemical authority for not paying much attention to it. 'Fake a kettle of water, put it on the fire, and agitate, agitate as you will under it, you can not raise the water beyond the boiling point; if you agitate beyond that, the fluid goes off in steam. Now, Mr. Daniel O'Connell has kept Ireland, any day within our memory, in hot water—in water heated to the boiling point ; and what more can he do if he were to give fifty orders a day to all the stokers, and pokers, and fire-enginemen under his command? He cannot "exaggerate the caloric," and we defy him to produce any new result unless he adopt some new or greater power than that which he has hitherto used, and which he calls "peaceful agitation." Will he order an armed insurrection ? He has hitherto eschewed that dernier resort, and repeatedly declared that he never will med dle with cold iron, hot balls, or explosive powder in any shape ; and we commend his prudence. What then may we anticipate as the result of his present mandate ? Why, it is just like the word " attention" upon parade; it intimates that if there has been any relaxation, it is now to cease ; that mass-house fulmina tions, and Captain Rock's police must immediately be put on duty, and that Popery may keep its ground, all the usual and well-known arts and artifices are to be put in requisition. Popery is now in possession of all that, under ex isting laws, it can attain to in Ireland. That "all" is, we admit, a great deal too much, and ought to be diminished; but all its capabilities have been fully brought out, and we are decidedly of opinion that the force of mere agitation can no further go in extending its dominion. If we are right in this opinion—and we think we are—the utmost that O'Connellism and priestcraft will be able to do at the next general elec• tion will be to give to Ireland the same number of po pish or liberal representativeg (between whom there is no difference) that she now has—if, indeed, they will be able to do so much. This is all they can do; but, even to effect this, they must put on all their steam and use the most desperate exertions. The appeal to the country—yes, to the united king dom—will be on two great questions : Popery and the Corn Laws. We say Popery; because, let no man imagine that Popery is not the deadly enemy of the national prosperity and happiness, and that it is not, at this moment, exerting a most baneful influence in the kingdom. We have encourged it so much at home that through Ireland it now rules us. Nor is this all ; it is rapidly acquiring strength in all our colonial possessions, and we have given it a sort of legal establishment therein. Let us look well then to this, that, whilst through its agency our councils at home are distracted, we do not, at some future day, become deprived of our colonies through the same fatal instrumentality. The Irish Disturber knows well that the No Popery cry will be raised—nay, must he raised at the ap proaching election in Great Britain, and he trembles at the consequences. These are the remarkable words in which he makes his confession on the subject taken from his recent agitating appeal addressed to the seven millions : " In the new parliament that will speedily be called, the anti-Irish, mean, and malignant prejudices of the English faction will, of course, obtain a triumphant majority in England against the rights and the liberties of the Irish people. So far as England goes, Stanley is quite certain of a decided majority in - the next session in favour of any bill to annihilate the Irish franchise, even though ten times as atrocious (were that possible) as the present bill." If the anti-Popery—the just, enlightened, and the righteous anti-Popery sentiment shall only effect so much in this country, we shall have no great fear for all that Mr. Daniel O'Connell can do with all his mightiest anti-Protestant "mean and malignant preju dices" in Ireland. We do indeed deeply s ympathise with our Protestant brethren in that country, who are grievous sufferers under a system of rule which seems especially constituted to favour everything Popish,. and persecute whatever is Protestant. We are not insensible to a state of things so truly afflictive and injurious ; but we are encouraged by the thought that the time of their deli verance is approaching, even by the confession of their arch-foe. The Protestants of Ireland are, we trust, reserved for better times; but, with ail their sincerity, staunchness, and stoutness of heart—and we well know that no men possess more—it is plain that it is here, in Protestant England, that the battle for Pro testantism must be fought and won. And it will be won ; yes, though O'Connell says it, it will be so; and then we shall certainly hope better things for Ireland than she has for a long time enjoyed. A man who belongs to no party, and has no party of his own, and thus stands a mere isolated unit in our national assembly, would require an extraordinary de gree of talent or merit to be a very formidable person age, especially if he bound himself to strict truth or fair dealing in his course; but there is a mode of ob taining notoriety—an unenviable notoriety—not diffi cult in any place, but particularly easy in such an as sembly as our House of Commons. Now that Lord Howick is one of those who are not very formidable on their own account, either from talents or statesmanship, is a proposition that few, we think, will deny—whilst all must allow that he enjoys a considerable share of notoriety : the only question that can exist as to the pinnacle of fame on which he has placed himself is, by what means he has arrived at it. A London contemporary designates his lordship as the " Lord Cardigan" of the house—we were going to say that he was the Ishtizael of the senate—a "wild man, with his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him ;" but we deprecate calling names ; it may be better to content ourselves with merely scrutinizing his lordship's acts. On Friday it will be seen, that Mr. W. E. Gladstone, the member for Newark, felt called upon to complain of an attack made upon his eminent and excellent father by the noble lord on a previous evening —and certainly a more wanton and unprovoked assault we do not remember to have seen attempted. Lord Howick, it may be necessary to say, gives the value of his vast eloquence, immense information, and profound states manship, in support of ministers on the sugar ques tion. He does this of course like the rest of his corn -peers, in the livery of the most unequivocal and shame leas tergiversation ; but knowing well that it carries condemnation on the face of it, and feeling naturally sensitive to any allusion regarding so sore a point, he would argue that no man who had himself possessed, or even whose father had been the owner of West India property, has any right to taunt him with it! " You or your ancestors have been possessed of sugar estates, and have had them cultivated by slaves" (this is the potent armour on which he relies)—' •" and therefore you have no right - now to be a foe to slavery, or to tax others with encouraging the system ; whereas our liberal and disinterested advocacy of emancipation, once upon a time, gives us the privilege of turning round and encouraging slavery at pleasure." This, surely, is most admirable doctrine ; worthy of his lord ship's school of ethics, and great talents as a " states man !" We conceive it, however; to be a sort of in quoque, that will not avail in this case. There are two sorts of inconsistency, (we should like to remind him), the one of which is honourable and virtuous;the other neither the one nor the other—there is the honourable inconsistency of abandoning error, (if it should have been our lot to fall into it)—and the discreditable in consistency of knowingly embracing it, after having once moved in the right way. It was upon the first of these that the noble member for Northumberland relied for gagging Mr. Gladstone in future, or for neutralis ing the effect of his powerful speech delivered on the preceding Monday. We shall give the accusation in his lordship's words, as we find them in the Times of Thursday _ _ " He (Viscount Howick) could not regard with any other feeling than that of disgust those petitions against the plan of the Government which had been laid on the table of the house, signed by all those names which he remembered were attached to every petition and remonstrance against the mea sures which at the time were proposed for the benefit of our own negro population. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible for him to forget the part taken in the debates of 1833, and who was before that time the owner of Vried-en-Hoop estate in Demerara, andthat it was clearly shown that the rate of pro duce, per head, upon that estate, and the corresponding mor tality among the slaves by whose overworking that produce was produced, were excessively high. He could not forget that in three or four years, when there was an enormous pro duce of sugar, there was also a diminution in the number of slaves of 81, being above one-seventh of the whole number. ear, hear.") If there was any foundation for this charge--ang real ground of accusation we believe there was none — but if there were any,• it is a•charge not against Mr. W. E. Gladstone, but against his father; and is it not, we ask, a remarkable proof of Whig paltriness, mean ness, and vindictiveness, that an " eminent statesman" of that school should attempt to screen himself from the polished shaft which could not fail to hit him, by bringing forward such an accusation against the father of an open and honourable opponent, behind his back, or without notice ? But the noble lord has been amply punished for his temerity. On Friday night the member for Newark took an early opportunity of bringing the case before the house, and we are much mistaken or the noble lord got quite enough of it on the occasion. We shall only subjoin two short pas sages from Mr. Gladstone's speech : • " He (Mr. Gladstone) would feel himself highly flattered if any hon. member of that house could remember the part which he had taken in the great measure for the abolition of slavery ; but be would challenge the noble lord to say what part he meant to allude to. Did the noble lord mean to in sinuate that he had opposed the great measure of emancipa tion then carried through the house ? Did he mean to say that he (Mr. Gladstone) had attempted to resist that measure, and when he found resistance hopeless that he had endea voured to embarrass it ? The noble lord could say no such thing. To these statements, however, referring as they did solely to himself, he would never have ventured to call the attention of the house, had not the noble lord thought fit to allude to others." Mr. G. then quoted the charge preferred by Viscoun Howick, as we have given it above. He then said : " Now, he asked the house whether that was not a charge of the very gravest description, and shether it was not one which no man ought to presume to make unless he were pre pared to verify it by proof ? The charge, as he (Mr. Glad stone) understood it, consisted in this, that there was great mortality on the estate, and that the mortality was traceable to the overproduction of sugar. That, the noble lord said, was clearly shown; but he (Mr. Gladstone) denied that was ever shown. It was asserted by the noble lord, but not shown. In 1833 the noble lord, after making a similar alle. gation, gave notice of a motion fora return, exhibiting that mortality which took place upon the estate in question, and nothing else. He (Mr. Gladstone) said, he should object to its production, because there was a great deal of other evi- dente absolutely necessary to sustain the proposition of the noble lord, which he proposed entirely to omit. When the motion was brought forward Lord Spencer recommended the noble lord to withdraw it. The noble lord did so, and thereby abandoned his investigation ; and yet the noble lord now said that these points were clearly proved. The noble lord had therefore stated that to be the case which was not Le case, and his attempt to show which he himself aban doned." For the remainder of Mr. Gladstone's satisfactor and eloquent defence both of himself and parent, we must refer to the debates ; for our purpose we have said and quoted, we think, quite enough to show how aburd in principle, and unsupported in point of fact, was Viscount Howick's unjust attack. The London Standard has passed a high eulogium on Mr. Gladstone's speech, but riot higher than we think it deserves. " Mr. Gladstone's speech," he says, " was admirable in substance, and manner; and it was " a useful speech. Few men have less reason than the " honourable member for Newark to dread the closest " scrutiny of a father's life ; few men have so much " reason to be proud of the parent whose name he " bears. But the principle is the same, whether a " man should have such a father as Mr. Gladstone, or " be unfortunately the son of Mr. Hume, or Mr. " Daniel O'Connell. The pretended, or real Jelin " quencies of the father will never by one of manly or " gentlemanlike feelings be reproached to the unoffend " ing son in discharge of a public duty." I Had the member for Newark been so disposed, he might have gone further, in our opinion, and vindicated the great body of West Indian proprietors, by jibbeting such conduct as that of which Viscount Howick and his associates stand convicted. For, having such adversaries to deal with, is it any wonder that this pro prietory should, at a former day, have been slow to take their word on any point relating to the effect and consequences of emancipation, or the measure of jus tice that the proprietory should experience at their hands ? It would seem that the planters well knew their men, and had good reason to distrust all their promises and declamation. The first act of the drama exhibits them to us, indeed, as prodigious philanthro pists—men in whose eyes no sacrifice appeared too great for the attainment of so great an object as negro emancipation ; but in the second, we behold them the eager partisans of free trade in slave-grown sugar, and, consequently, the most effectual promoters of slavery and its horrors in other countries. And what is their reply when charged with this double iniquity ? As to slavery, it is—oh, "we have no power over the slavery of independent states ;" or, " we cannot afford to dis courage it by paying an extra price for the free-labour sugar of our own colonies ;" or, " we want revenue ;" or, finally, "we carry on a trade already in slave-cul tivated articles ; and it is mere prudery not to extend it to sugar"—when we want it. Such are their puerile defences touching the vital point of slavery. To the West Indian proprietors their only answer is—" we have given liberty to your slaves, and, with free labour, you are now quite able to compete with the labour of slaves"—an answer in which we can much more easily discern insult and mockery, than justice or truth. What the West Indians complain of is, want of la bourers. You have emancipated their slaves, but have you given them free labourers—effective labourers in their room ? If not, how can they compete with slave labour, or any other sort of labour ? But time has been remedying the evil, and will at length, we should hope, completely obviate it; provided that, in the in terim, no new disaster be thrown in the way. Justice to the slave, therefore, and justice to our fellow subjects, demand that this iniquitous scheme of the Whigs should be rejected—and rejected we trust it • will have been, before these lines have been committed to press. Much speculation is indulged in by our metropolitan contemporaries as to the intentions of ministers after the result of the present protracted debate is ascer tained. One of them, whose anticipations are usually well grounded, asserts that Lords Melbourne, Lans downe, and Palmerstone are all opposed to a dissolu tion, as well as Sir John Ilobhouse, who expects a peerage. We are informed that the Sandwich election has produced a considerable impression on the Queen, and that reflection has rendered her far less disposed then fortnerly to support the ministry, Them does not now seem such an improbability of a resignation as existed a few weeks since. The entire failure of an attempt to create a real excitement in the country seems to render a dissolution worthy only of a set who are plunged in a lower depth of infamy, if possible, than the incapable crew who hold the reins of government. The London Times of yesterday states, on the au thority of a correspondent, that, just before the budget was introduced, Lord Melbourne complained to the Queen that the time had come when the state of parties in the house, and of public feeling out of it, made it necessary that the ministers should resign. On this her Majesty remonstrated. Lord Melbourne then said that the only alternative course for the ministers was to adopt some strong measure such as should be cal culated to make a popular ferment in their favour. The Queen, with a wave of her hand, replied, " Any measure !" Hence originated, it is added, the present proposals of the ministry. We trust her Majesty knows her duty to her people far too well for this anec dote to be true. But she has been long associated with those who would not hesitate to resort to this dangerous expedient; and the schoolboy proverb says, "evil communications corrupt good manners." The Morning Chronicle declares its sentence to be decidedly for dissolution ; and as that journal is sup posed to be very much in the secrets of the ministers, we shall not be at all surprised to learn that, however desperate the expedient, it will be that to which they will have recourse. Mr. Alderman Evans is a doctrinaire, if not a dia mond of the first water ; and one of his favourite doc trines is, that the municipal body ought to have more power. • Now we have never contradicted the erudite alderman on this point ; but we have reminded him that one species of power, and a very important and considerable one, is derived from men's acts. Cha racter in, society is power; it is power in individuals, and we see no reason why it should not be power also in corporate bodies. Let our Council then, we say, no matter whether consisting of Whigs or Tories, act well and consistently, for the benefit of the town, and they will acquire power—moral power; a greater power and influence, in fact, than they could derive from any mere act of parliament; but let it act in a different way, and it will have but a naked authority,—be con temptible in the eyes of the citizens, and become a target for the shafts of ridicule and odium ; elevated, in short, only to become obnoxious. We make this remark because we understand our " municipal Bentham" intends making an attempt in the Council to-morrow to rescind the resolution lately carried to oppose the inland bonding bill. Now we ask so great a stickler for municipal importance and dignity, is this the way to promote the influence of, or increase the respect of the people for the municipal body ? Is it by repealing resolutions one day , that have been deliberately passed on another—is it by stultifying itself after this fashion, that the corporation will acquire weight or value in the popular mind ? Alderman Evans, we are aware, was in a minority on the last division ; but is it on this account that he now seeks to disturb the determination agreed to ? If so, then we must say that he evidently pays more re gard to his own wounded vanity, and exaggerated no- tions of his self-importance, than he does to the cha racter of the body at large .to which he belongs ; and we respectfully but earnestly call on the members of the Council to he punctual in their attendance at the meeting tomorrow, if for no other reason, for this of giving an effective negative to this repealing, and self-stultifying project contemplated by Mr. Evans. There is no occasion that we should now go over the grounds on which we base the necessity of opposing the inland bonding bill ; but this we will say, that whatever error there may be in neglecting the bill, o suffering it to pass as if we had no concern with it there can be none in paying due attention to our loca interests—none in .the Council being alive to them— none even in an excessive care and caution in guard ing against any proposition or measure calculated to do the town an injury, no matter from what quarter it may come. The Council, have, we may say, but just come to a prudent resolution to this effect, and we ask Will they, at the instance of any individual member, whether to gratify his spleen, or to restore his self complacency, or for any other equally insufficient cause, agree to cancel this resolve ? Mr. Alderman Evans appears to us to be acting the part neither of a good corporator, nor of a good citizen, in this matter ; and we earnestly call upon all other members of the Council, of whatever creed or party, to defeat the attempt. .......memme"....••••••00.0•••••••••••• CHURCH MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION MEETING —The speech of the Rev. Professor Scholefield at this meeting yesterday will be found to repay perusal. It is one of the many exemplifications met with by every reading man, of the value of historical knowledge in the elucidation of truth. The same may be said of some of the speeches at the anniversary meeting of the Pastoral Aid Society just held in London. We will endeavour to make room for a condensed report on Friday. _ LOCAL NEWS ROBERT HECTOR.—The sentence on Robert Hector, sur geon, who was convicted at the last Liverpool assizes, for rape on a married woman, and against whom sentence of death was recorded, has been commuted to twelve months' imprisonment. Among the passengers in the Columbia, were Mr. Mrs. and Miss Vandenhoff and other members of the family. Captain Miller of the Acadia, who was left behind ill, also came in the Columbia, perfectly' restored to health. He will sail to-morrow, in command of the Acadia, for Halifax and Boston. DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY IN THE STREET.—A t the Police-court, on Friday, a stout man, named John Mur ray, was placed at the bar under the following charge :—On Thursday night, the prisoner and two other men were seen to attack Mr. Gurnall, an elderly gentleman, in School-lane. A policeman deposed to capturing the prisoner just as he was pulling the watch out of Mr. Gurnall's fob. The two others ran away. The prisoner offered great resistance to the officer, but was finally secured. Mr. Curnall said he was attacked at the time stated, by three men, and received a violent blow on the head. Two of them seized him by the arms, and the prisoner put his fingers down his (witness's) fob, and was in the act of pulling out his watch, when the officer came up. The chain was pulled out, and the glass broken. He was committed for trial at the sessions. A DEAR NAP.—On Friday, a fine-looking little sailor boy was brought before Mr. Rushton, amongst several others, for sleeping on board a vessel during the watch-hours ; the dock regulations requiring a watch to be kept for the two hours before high water and two hours after it. The poor fellow was fined 2s. 6d., with 2s. 6d. costs. On paying the money he said, " Sir, it is too much to pay for an hour's sleep. I was working hard all day ; I watched for two hours, but was then so much fatigued that I fell asleep." Mr. Rushton said, " Aye, it is too much certainly, to ask such boys as you to keep watch after a hard day's work." Mas ters should be more considerate, and not, for a mere paltry saving, exact a duty from mere lads which they can scarcely be expected to perform, however willing they may be to obey their superiors. SOCIALISM.—Amongst those who had the honour of being presented to her Majesty at the Levee, on Wednesday last, was John Brindley. Esq., the untiring opponent of Robert Owen and the Socialists.,. That gentleman, with the Rev. J. H. Woodward, the Rev. P. Young, and P. F. Aiken, Esq. were appointed a deputation to present, through the Home Secretary, the Bristol address to the Queen, complaining of the evils of Socialism. it had 10,000 signatures, and was headed with the name of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. A second address, from the female inhabitants of the same place, contained 20,000 signatures. Petitions to both houses were also sent in, each containing 10,000 names, with occupation and residence. THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The Columbia and Great Western, have both proved themselves first rate steamers. The former accomplished her last passage from Boston to this Dort in thirteen days and fourteen hours, having remained at Halifax several hours, and the latter performed the voyage from New York to Bristol in thirteen days and six hours. The Great Western reached Bristol on Friday evening at eight o'clock, and the Columbia was off Holyhead on Satur day morning at six. The Great Western brought ninety seven passengers, and the Columbia fifty-five. The tide of emigration still runs strongly towards the United States; 350 passengers sailed for New York, on Sunday in the Ros cius. NEW STEAM-BOAT ON THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL.—On Thursday, the 6th instant, a new steam-boat was tried on the Bridgewater Canal. She is built of iron , and worked by a new description of propeller, or " revolving screw scullers, ' the invention of Mr. Peter Taylor, of Hollinwood. The arrangement consists of a series of oblique vanes or curved blades, which are affixed upon two shafts or axis ; each set is six feet in diameter : the vanes of one work between the vanes of the other, in the same manner as the teeth or cogs o f w heels. By this arrangement the two sets, although six feet each in diameter, are together contained in a paddle box, only nine feet eight inches in width, the smallness of the space occupied offering great convenience for passing locks of canals. Tne apparatus is well protected from the banks and bottom of the canal, with neither of which it can conic in contact. The vessel started from Manchester on Thurs day morning with a timber float, which she tugged up to Preston Brook, and returned the same day, (the whole dist ance being about 50 miles,) tugging on her return three I loaded boats, belonging to the Bridgewater Trust. THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAM-SHIP AND THE PRESI DENT: — The non-arrival of the President has, we regret to hear, involved the families of her very numerous crew in the deepest distress. On the supposition that she may have been lost, the pay which they have been accustomed to receive has been stopped, and the sudden deprivation of a source of in come which was necessary to their maintenance has left them in the most unfortunate condition. The public caunot fail to feel for their distresses, and will doubtless, alleviate them to the extent of their power. In order to raise a fund for their assistance, we perceive that the British Queen is to be open for general Inspection, during to-day and to-morrow, at six pence per head. TULIEN'g CONCERT -Mr. Julien intends giving three more Concerts at: the Amphitheatre, viz., on Wednesday, Thursday, and 14'iiday THE PRESIDENT.—It will be perceived that the British Queen, steamer, is now open to public inspection • the pro ceeds to be appropriated for the benefit of the families of the crew of the PRESIDENT. This very fine vessel is ex tremely well worth seeing. PARKGATE. — This heretofore much neglected watering place having lately come into the possession of the Hon. E. L. Mostyn, has undergone extensive improvements ; the old bath house and several such unsightly and dilapitated build ings have been razed to the ground, the pier, which was so many years in a ruinous state, has been repaired and partially rebuilt, the approach at the north end is paved with large oblong blocks of mason's work, embedded in cement. A strange sort of accident occurred at Rainhill, near Pres cot, on Saturday last. The London mail train, which arrived there about half-past five o'clock, carrying the bag for the Prescot post, which happened to be very large that morning, and which had been given to the engineer, by the guard, for him (as it is customary) to throw it off the engine to the postman, who was waiting to receive it. The engineer did so, but the bag unfortunately caught against the flag-post, and rebounded against the engine, and caught on one of the wheels, which dragged it upwards of forty yards before the engine could be stopped, and it was then found that the bag was nearly cut in two, and newspapers, letters. and small parcels were scattered about in ' pleasing confusion' with an appearance as if they had been in a chopping machine; several articles had dropped out of the letters, chiefly small articles belonging to watchmakers, which were collected, and on the bag being opened at the Post-office, many of the letters were found in such a shattered condition that it was with great difficulty that their intended destiny could be traced out. It is supposed, however, that the whole of the articles, or nearly so, enclosed in the letters, have been found. CAUTION TO THE BENEVOLENT.—We put our readers on their guard against another of those begging impostors, who have, of late years, infested this and other localities, levying contributions from the charitable and humane. On Friday last a rather healthy-looking young man, dressed in a somewhat rather shabby suit of black, called at the shop of Mr. Galt, confectioner, Lord-street, and applied for a dona tion for some object or another, presenting at the same time, a petition, professedly got up by the Rev. E. Ashton, vicar of Huyton, and bearing the signatures of several respectable parties in the neighbourhood, with the various sums they had given to the petitioner. among which we instance the Vicar's name for £3, and the Churchwardens of Huyton, £7lss. Od. Mrs. Galt, influenced by the fellow's tale and his respecta bly-signed petition, immediately relieved him; but he had no sooner left her presence, than she began to suspect the possibility of being an impostor, and, in order to ascertain if there was any truth in the fellow's statement, she wrote - to the Rev. Mr. Ashton, who denied all -knowledge of the man. The May meetings have brought to London an unusual assembly of country visitors, and Exeter Hall and the churches have been crowded to excess. The fortunate pos sessor of a ticket for the Protestant meeting might have sold it for a guinea in the course of the morning. The Rev. Hugh M'Neile was announced to preach at St. Cleniit's on Wed ❑esday evening, and the attraction was so powerful, that up wards of a thousand people were turned away from the doors, not being able to gain admission : and the crowd was so dense within the church, that Mr. M'Neile was full fifteen minutes in passing from the vestry-room to the pulpit. We understand that the extensive firm of Messrs. Acra man, Morgan, and Co., of this city, have obtained the con tract for the building steamers, and conveying the Brazilian mails.—Bristol Gazelle.—[The contract which was entered into by Messrs. Acraman, Morgan and Co. is not, as implied in the preceding sentence, with the British, but with the Brazilian Government.] Lord Howick last week intimated to some of his support ers in North Northumberland that Sir Robert Peel may be regarded as the Prime Minister, and that ere long he may have occasion to ask their assistance in an appeal to the con stituency. The noble lord has hitherto enjoyed his seat by sufferance ; he will be lucky if he is still regarded as a fit ob ject of toleration by his generous opponents. STOPPAGE OP A BANK, AT WHITBY.—An extraordinary sensation and panic was felt in Whitby on Monday last, by the closing of the banking establishment of Messrs. Cam gion, in Church-street. The parties in this old established and well-known firm are not only bankers, but ship-builders, ship-owners, manufacturers, and very largely connected with the trade of the port. THE ARCHIMEDES. — This extraordinary vessel, which has been chartered by the Great Western Steam-Ship Com pany, for the purpose of making experiments on the effect of the screw, arrived at Bristol on Wednesday. It is pro posed, we arc informed, to adopt the screw principle in the large steam-vessel now building, and intended to ply between Bristol and the United States, in conjunction with the Great Western. WEST INDIA PACKET STATION.—The following mem bers have been nominated a select committee on the West India Mails :—Mr. Freshfield, Lord Dalmeny, Lord Vis count Ingestre, Captain Pechell, Captain Dunscombe, Mr. Charles Wood, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Mr. John O'Connell, Lord Viscount Sandon, Lord Worsley, Mr. Philip Miles, Mr. Craig, Mr. De Horsey, Mr. Oswald. and Mr. Richard Hodgson. We are glad to see that Lord Sandon's name occurs in this list, and we doubt not his lordship will do his best to see that the interests of Liverpool in this affair are not neglected or passed over so lightly as heretofore. The Town Council have petitioned parliament in favour of this port, and it was presented on Tuesday evening by Sir R. Inglis, on behalf of Lord Sandon. Friday next, the 21st inst., being appointed by her Ma jesty, and gazetted, for the celebration of her birth-day, will be kept at the Custom-house and all the other revenue offices as a holiday. AIR. GEORGE THOMPSON.— This gentleman, having in his last lecture, at the Mechanics' Institute, taken a brief view of the history of ancient India, will in his next lecture proceed to detail the conquest of that country by the English. The adventures of Lord Clive in India are fully as strange and romantic as those of Cortez in Mexico, or Pizarro iu Peru ; and we have no doubt that this portion of our history, of which so little is generally known, will be made by the lecturer as interesting as it is important. REV. J. BAYLER AND DR. BUTLER.—The late con templated discussion between these gentlemen, was broken off, as will be remembered, in consequen ce of the alleged incompetency of Mr. Baylee (a popish reason proof of this allegation, Dr. Butler commented upon certain passages from letters sent privately to a Romish priest at Birkenhead, by Mr. Baylee, and inadethose communications the ground of his shrinking from testing his principles by t he Word of God. Publicity having thus been given to a portion of the correspondence, Mr. Baylee has been induced to pub lish the whole in order that the public may judge of the truth of Dr. Butler's ridiculous excuse. We hope the pamphlet will be issued to-morrow, and we are sure it will be read with interest. Mr. Baylee deserves well from the protestant public. • THE REV. J. BAYLEE'S LECTURES IN REPLY TO Du. BUTLER'S BOOK. — The Rev. J. Baylee delivered the first of his course of four lectures in reply to the book published by Dr. Butler, the Romish priest, on Friday evening, in the Music-hall. The Rev. Fielding Ould presided. The subject was Transubstantiation. The entire course will be published, in order that Dr. Butler may have no excuse for declining to meet Mr. Baylee in public discussion. The lecture was a compact body, so to speak, of close reasonings, based on scripture, showing the fallacy, to use the mildest term of the doctrine of transubstantiation. It occupied about two hours, and elicited great applause. The second lecture, which will be on the Sacrifice of the Mass, will be delivered on Friday evening. STORMING A House.—George Williams, 'William Hum phries, and John Fagan, were charged with having violently attacked a house in Spittal-fields, in which they broke both the door and the window, and caused great alarm to the fe male inmates. The prisoners, it appeared, were connected with a house of ill fame, and had taken offence at complaints made of the annoyance and inquietude they had caused to the peaceable neighbours. There were various grades in their delinquency, and the first was fined £5, or to undergo two months' imprisonment; the second 20s, or fourteen days ; and the third ss, or ten days. Two girls, who lived at Wil liams's house, were soon after placed at the bar, for threaten ing the complainants as they retired from court. They were committed for fourteen days. 867 dinners OBTAINING MONEY TINDER FALSE PRETENCES.—TWO respectably dressed foreigners, who gave their names as Dominick Geannani, and Louis Roque, wer..; placed before Mr. Rusliton, yesterday, charged pith this oTence. Several gentlemen stated that the prisoners laid accosted them in the streets on different occasions, and by various representations, that they were destitute—that they were about to emigrate, and had not received the remittances they expected from their friends—that they were exiles &c. &c., eltained various sums in silver, and from one of them a sovereign. - One of the witnesses remembered to have assisted Geannani twelve months ago, and he then said. he was going to America. The prisoner had made a similar statement to another gentleman in April last year. Mr. Dowling said that he had received a great number of applications respecting the false representa tions of the prisoners, by which they had obtained consider able sums. Geannani made a statement in defence, but failed to convince the magistrates of honest intentions, and both prisoners were committed to gaol for fourteen days. CORONER'S INQUESTS.—An inquest was held yesterday, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of John Downs. On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, the deceased, who was 28 years of age, went with his brother-in law, William Brown, to George's Pier, intending to proceed to Birkenhead. When they got there, the packet was about starting, and was a short distance from the steps. The de ceased went down the steps first, and was followed by Brown. Deceased made a jump to get on board, and a policeman, who was standing on the steps, caught hold of his coat lap to prevent him, and pulled him back, and the lap was torn off, and deceased fell into the water. He rose again to the sur face, and remained a minute or two, and then sank. Before he sank a police-officer jumped in to his assistance, and brought him to the surface three or four times; but they were then about seven yards from the steps, and no assist ance could be rendered them. The officer remained in the water about 25 minutes in the water, and then came on shore again without the deceased. The body of the deceased was afterwards picked up, and was recognized by the witness. The jury brought in a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death " casually and by misfortune."—Same day, an inquest was held on view of the body of Robert Moss, a boy of eight years old, whose parents reside in Ma thew-street. On Wednesday morning the deceased and two other boys went to play in a house which is in course of erec tion in that street, and which has no gable end to it, as other houses are being built against it. They were seen in the se cond story of the house. While they we r e playing, s ome one cried " the police are coming," and they ran down the stairs. The deceased followed the other two as f as t as h e could, and when he got to the landing of the stairs, he fell over into the foundation of the houses building against that in which they were. He was immediately taken home, and surgical assistance was procured ; but lie had undergone con cussion of the brain. and"--T— died , on Saturday evening. Ver dict, " accidental death. Same day, on view of the body of Robert Hughes, a working man, 36 years of age. On Friday afternoon deceased was at the King's Dock, looking for work. A vessel was unloading brandy, and a man was drinking some of it through a cane, and asked the deceased to have a dram. He consented, and suc k e d th roug h the cane for about half a minute. in He after war d s be c a m e intoxi cated, and was ta ke n home a cart. Mr. Wood, surgeon, was called in s ame night, and fo un d hi m i n a cornotose state, and perfectly insensible. He succeeded in recovering him, but he died next day. On a post inortem examination, he found the brain congested, and the right lung much inflamed. Death was caused by congestion of the brain, arising from i n temperance. Verdict, " di e d f rom apop l ex y, b roug ht on b y e xcessive drinking." LORD MELBOURNE AND T HE P ALACE D INNERS .—At the Q u een-square police-office, London, a labouring man was brought up on Saturday, for obstructing the footway in front of the House of Lords. It appeared that he was walking up and down with a board on which was the following placard: " Viscount Melbourne and the boy Jones. Extract from Jones's Peep iuto the Palace Viscount Melbourne... E. Jones.. .. Majority for Lord Melbourne.. —863 Thus giving your lordship a clear working majority of 863 dinners over me.—London : Pattie, Brydges-street." In answer to the charge the prisoner said he had been employed by the publisher of the work to carry the board, and was told to go to the most frequented. places. As the name Mil burn was on the bills he thought the House of Lords the best place to go to—(great laughter)—he didn't know he was committing any eine. He was fined tive.shiLlings.