The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

- CZ, • -,., MR. HAV.WOOD, PROFESSOR OF DANCING, 42, 14 T t son-street, Great George-square, respectfully an nonnces to his Friends and Patrons his EVENING CLASSES are open every TUESDAY and THURSDAY, for the Instruction of Ladies and Gentlemen in the present mode of Dancing. PRIVATE LESSONS—Monday, Wednesday, and Friday') • Evenings. Pupils in Ladies' Seminaries may receive Instruction at Mr. HARWOOD'S Rooms without joining . the general classes. November, 1842. JOHN EVANS, (SCALE-BEAM MAKER TO UER MAJESTt.) GENERAL FURNISHING IRONMONGER, CUTLET AND BRAZIER, LIVERPOOL, MOST respectfully returns his sincere Thanks to his numerous Friends and the Public generally, for the kind support and flattering encouragement he has met with for several years. J. E. wishes to call the attention of the Public to his ex tensive Stock of Cutlery and Britannia Metal Goods, Tea Trays, Fire-irons, Fenders, Grates, Smoke Jacks, Tin Goods, a general assortment of Furnishing Articles connected with his Trade, at Reduced Prices, without any Puffing, which will prove that no other House will be able to under sell him. No. 28, Paradise-street, opposite the • Unitarian Chapel. DROMOLI and HAUSBURG beg leave to direct the attention of their Friends to their SPLENDID AND EX TENSIVE STOCK OF JEWELLERY, constantly replenished with the most elegant Novelties from the first Manufacturers in London, and the production of THEIR OWN MANUFAC TORY, ON THE PREMISES, and forming an unrivalled Collec tion of Ornaments, to the selection of which their exertions are unremittingly devoted. The kind patronage conferred upon them since they com menced the manufacture of WATCHES has been an induce ment to still greater efforts, and they have succeeded, both in price and quality, in distancing all competitors, being enabled to offer advantages hitherto unprecedented. - The increased demand for the ELECTRO-PLATE af fording proof of the high estimation in which it is held, P. and H. solicit the favour of an examination of their Stock, being convinced that the superiority of the manufacture will at once be evident. The most prompt attention paid to the execution of orders, and Estimates furnished for RE-PLATING ARTICLES WHICH HAVE BEEN P LATE D U PON THE FORMER SYSTEM. Liberal terms to Exporters and the Trade. PROMOLI AND HAUSBURG, OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS. FURNISHING ROOM, COMPTON HOUSE. JEFFREY and MORRISH respectfully invite the at tention of their Friends and the Public to their FUR NISHING DEPARTMENT, which will be found replete with as cheap and varied a Stock as any in the trade. Having taken advantage of the great depression in the va rious Markets, J. and M. are prepared to submit the fol lowing List to those Furnishing : PRINTED FURNITURES, for loose Covers and Car riage Linings, ad. to 4;d. CHINTZ DITTO, warranted, 4id. to the richest. WATERED MOREENS, Sid, to 101 d. EXTRA QUALITY DITTO, in all colours, 111 d. to 15d. WORSTED CURTAINS, DAMASK, 151 d. to 21d. (the best quality made.) The Washing DAMASK, for Curtains, which has given so much satisfaction, 124 d. A great variety of OIL BAIZES, TABLE MATS, HEARTH RUGS, HASSOCKS, &c. FRINGES, ORRIS, and FLOAT LACES, GIMPS, BELL PULLS, &c., &c., made to order. An extensive Assortment of TABLE COVERS. The costly Prize Table Cover (to the Manufacturer of which was awarded the prize at the last Edinburgh Exhibi tion, for beauty of texture, and elegance of design) may be seen in this department. ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS UNDER THE PAVING AND SEWERAGE ACT. AT a MEETING held on the 18th day of November, 1842 , (pursuant to adjournment,) at the Parish-offices, Fen wick-street, to, take the Poll for the Candidates nominated at Saint Nicholas' Church, on Thursday, the 17th day of No vember instant, JOHN HOLMES, Esa. Chairman, No person having attended to vote for Mr. John Cuff, the gentleman proposed in opposition to Mr. Joseph Cooper, for the space of one hour, being the time fixed for taking the votes, Mr. Joseph Cooper was declared duly elected. EDWD. G. DEANE, Clerk to the Commissioners. PAROCHIAL ASSESTMENT ACT. NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN, that Her M a j es ty' s Justices of the Peace, of the county of Lancaster, act ing for the Division of Kirkdale, in the said county will bold a SPECIAL SESSIONS, (pursuant to the provisions of the Act 6th and 7th William the 4th, c. 96,) for hearing APPEALS against the RATES of the several parishes, townships, and places, within the said division, on FRIDAY, the second day of December next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, (by adjournment from the eleventh day of No vember instant,) at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, in Liverpool. Parties intending to appeal are required to give notice, in writing, to the Overseers of their objection to the rate, seven days, at least, before the day appointed for hearing the appeals, and to be prepared with evidence, on the hear ing, in support of such objection. Dated this 12th day of November, 1842. By order of the Magistrates, J. S. LEIGH, Clerks. A. LACE, PROTESTANT MEETING. Will be published on Saturday next, the 26th instant, A VERBATIM REPORT of the ANNUAL MEETING of the LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIA TION, at the AMPHITHEATRE, on Wednesday, the 26th October, with the SPEECHES of the "'Rev. R. J. M‘GHEE, Rev. HUGH M‘NEILE, Rev. HUGH STOWELL, &c. &c. &c. CRISP and HEALEY, 20, Slater-street; . NEWLING, Rane lagh-street ; STANDARD-OFFICE, North-crescent ; and PERRIS, Ch urch-street. • - --- Price 6a: LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. AT a MEETING of the LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, held in the Music HALL, Bold street, on the Evening of MoNDAY, November 21, 1842, JOHN MIDDLETON, Esq., in the Chair, The following Resolutions were unanimously carried : Moved by JOHN HOWARD, -Esq., and seconded by J. BRINDLEY, Esq•, " That the Report be adopted, printed, and circulated under the directions of the Committee, and that the follow ing be the Committee and Officers for the ensuing year : Treasurer.—Mr. Middleton. Secretary.—Mr. Thomas Gleave. COMMITTEE. Mr. Barrow, Mr. Ratcliff, Crisp, Leders, Gleave, Parry, Chapman, Thompson, Kennerley, Williams, Devine, Meredith, Hitchcock, Wood, Taylor, West, Lovatt, Simmons, Middleton, Heaton, Swindley, Minton, Welch, Waterhouse. Moved by J. MATTHEWS, Esq., and seconded by R. HARBORD, Esq., " That this Meeting being convinced, from the evidence lately adduced to the Public, of the necessity of a searching investigation into the system of Instruction pursued at the College of Maynooth, and the principles instilled into the Priests of Ireland; and also of examining into those laws which the Papacy assumes to establish. within this realm of England, most earnestly recommend that a Petition, em bracing these particulars be accordingly presented to Parlia ment." Moved by Mr. MEREDITH, seconded by Mr. CRISP, " That the Petition be placed in the hands of our Repre sentatives, Lord Viscount Sandon and Sir Howard Douglas, for presentation." J. MIDDLETON, Chairman. On Wednesday last, some undergraduates at Cambridge, in two tandems, commenced a race near Shelford, when one of the vehicles upset, and the driver was pitched on his head, and now lies with little hopes of recovery. WEST INDIA MAILS.—We have learned from unquestion able authority, that the West India steam-packet, which is considered to be due at Falmouth on the 19th instant, is likely to bring home two sets of mails, one being retarded six days, and the other accelerated nine days. This arrange ment is consequent upon the change of routes necessary to commence the new scheme of mail service, authorised by her Majesty's Government to commence operations in England on the Ist of October, and in the West Indies on the 25th of October, 1842.-- Times. We are happy to understand that the council of the Duchy of Cornwall ha ve made a donation through the Rev. Dr. D'Oyley, rector of Lambeth, in the name of his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales, of £lOO towards the erection of a new church, now proposed in the Waterloo district of that extensive parish. This is probably the first act of liberality exercised by the Infant Prince, and we hail it as a commence ment of similar acts of liberality to be exercised by him in future times. RATHER STRANGE.-..While some boys were playing in Albany-street, North Leith, on the forenoon of Wednesday last, they heard a hissing noise proceed from the side of the road; as they approached nearer, they discovered, to their horror, a serpent, firmly twined round the lamp-post. They killed it by striking it on the head, and afterwards carried it to the shop of Mr. Marshall, druggist. It measures two and a half feet in length, and is beautifully speckled with black, grey, and green co l ours; but how it came there no one seems able to conjecture. The editor of the New York Herald has offered for sale the whole of the newspaper establishment, including all its appurtenances, as now organised, and of which he is sole proprietor. He states that his intention i n ret i ring from the as practicable, and Herald is to proceed to. London adaii as soon to establish in that capital y_ weekly newspaper, for and exhibiting to movements, the purpose of defending, explaining, United State t s, which are now subject, Europe the institutions, laws, morals, resources , the and tendencies of ‘.. 5 to of all kinds, and from from imperfect knowledge and s rong all mis representation and falsehood quar ters. He also intends to establish a branch newspape"r in French and English, in Paris, to e ffect a similar purpo the continent. DESTRUCTIVE HURRICAN E O N THE COAST OF SPAIN'. —The southern coast of Spain was At Seville three housesvisited on t he 29 th alt., by a most destructive hurricane. were levelled with the ground, vess els driven from their moorings, trees felled, and the public promenades entirely devastated. Several edifices, and the cath edral in particular, sustained considerable damage. The entire crew of a Spanish lish revenue cutter was drowned near Cadiz , and a small brig, th e b oa t o f a French man-of-war, and a S E na ng nish schooner were thrown on the coast. 'The crews, however, were saved. The neighbouring shores were covered great extent with the remnants of vessels. On theto a 30th a French war-steamer towed into Cadiz the Russian schooner Enhigheten, which had lost all her masts. AGRICULTURAL. STATISTICS. — The quantity I f Lan. culti vated in the United Kingdom is calculated at 46,322,970 acres; uncultivated, about 15,000,000; unorofitable for cul tivation, 15,871,463, making a total r" . ' 77.191,433 acres. The land brought into cultivation " inclosure bills" during th rtv-four years amounts to 3,511,776 acr3s: The quantity of grain (principally oats) imported from Ireland into Great Britain in the year 1840, was 2,327,966 quarters. Foreign and colonial wheat and other grain entered for home con sumption in the same year consisted of 3,843,745 quarters. The total quantity of malt on which duty was charged in tl e United Kingdom was 40,000,018 imperial bushels. Thei e are sold in Smithfield 'Market, in the course of a year, about 180,000 cattle, 1,400,000 sheep. The average rental of all the cultivated land in the kingdom is abont.fl per acre, pro ducing £46,522,970, while the average produce of all the counties in England and \Vales is about three hundred millions annually! 1 I ;\ -‘4P4S.talik .84-%4•..) \-. • IttIbtO 7 4*I I kiJNICATION BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. Why is sympathy like blind man's buff! D'ye give it up? Mr. Robert Stephenson has addressed to the directors of —Because it's a fellow feeling for a fellow creature. the South Eastern Railway, a report upon the projected plan "Rents collected," as the darning-needle said to the poet's of the French government for the establishment of a system pantaloons. of railway lines in France ; it is very voluminous and contains Have you improved in riding ?—Not exactly; I have fallen much important matter, as well tabular as otherwise. Mr. of a great deal lately. Stephenson has carefully investigated the plan in all its bear- There is at the present time a nest with five young rooks, ings, the expenses of the several proposed lines, the popula in the rookery of Joseph Jones, Esq., of Willerby, York- tion, manufacturing, agricultural, and fishing produce, and shire. traffic both of passeneer4 and goods, in the various districts through which they will pass • ' and, the effect the completion If there is a delicate, deformed, or weak-minded child in a of , these lines will have upon the South Eastern Railway, as family, it is generally the favourite with its parents. This is thus establishing one of the great lines through Europe, has a beautiful illustration of nature taking the part of the most been evidently studied by the author with his usual well helpless. known searching investigation and acumen. In the route FIRES EXTINGUISHED.—The mephitic vapour, produced laid down the main trunk goes direct from Paris to Amiens, by throwingla handful of sulphur on the burning coals, where passing through or near St. Denis, Pontoise, Beaumont, a chimney is on fire, will immediately extinguish the flames, Lien, Creil, Clermon, and St. Just. From Amiens, one on the same principle as it would suffocate any living creature. branch goes to Boulogne, through Abbeville, and Montrieul; In a proclamation of the Emperor of China, called forth a and another to Arras, Douai, and Lisle. From each of the few years since by the troublesome increase of appeals from latter places a branch extends to St. Omer, and from thence the provinces, .. his Celestial Majesty enjoined " strict search to Dunkirk and Calais: long since as 1835, the French .ref 't .., VA RIETIEa to be made to discover all lawsuit-exciting blackguards, and when found to punish them severely." There is a man in Sunderland who has been practising the " cold-water cure " to such excess, that he has to be hung up every night to get quit of the' surplus water ; and it is only by constant rubbing with horse-hair gloves that he is enabled to keep the fins from growing. The Bangor (America) Whig says—" A Yankee in Boston has set up a one-horse thrashing machine, for the con venience of parents and guardians having unruly boys. He'll lick an urchin, like thunder, for fourpence. Small lickings done for two cents only, and the most entire satisfaction warranted." REASONS FOR HAVING . A WlFE.—Have you means ? She will keep and increase them. Have you none? She will help you get them. Are you in prosperity ? She will double it. Are you in adversity ? She will comfort and direct you. Are you at home? She will make you com fortable. Are you abroad? She will wish and welcome your return. BRlBERY.—Sweeinzeds were formerly much used to bribe persons of quality or judges, to whom a request was to be made. The custom at last rose to such a pitch, that Louis IX. of France issued a proclamation, wherein he forbade all judges to take more than ten pennyworth a week. Philip the Handsome, subsequently curtailed this quantity to no more than what one could use in one day. government deputed M. Vallee Co examine the whole of the northern system of lines, upon which, and the strong convic tion with which the present government seem to be impressed, that some very decided steps in securinc , to France thebeog fit of railways would be a great nationaradvantage, ]4r. ,Ste. phenson has founded his report. In consequence of enzineer ing instructions by the French government, from which M. Valee could not depart, he has, it appears, in many cases acted against his own judgment; but, upon the whole, there does not appear to be any great objection to the plans as laid down, and as to the districts through which the lines pass, no difference of opinion can exist. Some few spots are no ticed where expensive works might be avoided, and better gradients secured. That very important consideration, the cost of a railway, has been most carefully considered : and under all the circumstances which have presented themselves in the different stages of his study of the subject, the author estimates the gross expense per mile as follows, viz.:— Earthwork, culverts, bridges, &c -09,000 Land compensation, &c. and stations...... 4,000 Permanent way B,OOO Carrying establishment. The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in politeness, whether real or imaginary, was agony to him ; for perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive. and inexperienced youth feels from the conscious= ness of having neglected etiquette, or excited ridicule.— Scott's Waverley. SCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE. Euler, the savant, was asked what was better than science ? " Conscience!" he replied : " the one is a tree of good and evil, which produces in its turn truth and falsehood, crime and virtue, life and death : the other is trully the tree of absolute good, and the fruits which it always bears are noble sentiments, just ideas, useful actions, principles, and truths." LORD BROUGHAM'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF. — It is said, we do not know how truly, that Lord Brougham and Vaux, in a playful mood, the other evening, wrote the following epitaph on himself :'--- " Here, reader, turn your weeping eyes, My fate an useful moral teaches; The hole in which my body lies Would not contain one-half my speeches." FEARFUL ODDS.—Corvisart, a French physician of some celebrity during the latter portion of the last century, was once lamenting, in company, the premature death of Mr. Backer. "It was not at all events for want of medical aid that he died," said he ; " for, in the last days of his illness, we, Halle, Portal, and myself, did not quit him for an instant."—" Alas !" interrupted the Abbe Sieyes, " What could he do against three of you r —Mirror. A CAREFUL WlFE.—There is in the town of Barnsley a very careful and industrious woman named Wood. She has been so careful that although she seldom lets a day pass without using her needles, yet she is using part of the last pennyworth she bought 20 years ago, one of which she broke last week. She, has not bought a single halfpennyworth of coins during the last forty years, nor has she had any given to her. A few days ago she gave her husband a severe repri mand for losing a packing needle which she said she had bought " nobbut four years sin'." HARVEY'S SAUCE.—Captain Combers may be said to be the original propagator of the celebrated " Harvey's Sauce.''. When on his road to Leicestershire on one occasion, he stopped, as was his custom, at Bedford, to dine at the prin cipal inn, then kept by Harvey, and had ordered a rump steak.. Mine host was in attenaance, when Combers requested him to desire his servant to bring from his buggy a quart bottle which contained an admirable sauce. Having mixed some of the condiment with the gravy of the steak, he asked Harvey to taste it, which he did, and immediately pronounced it a most excellent sauce for steak, cold, chop meat, or fish. " Well, Mr. Harvey," said my friend, " 1 shall leave the bottle with you to use till my return ; only be careful to re serve enough for me." Harvey had a wedding dinner next day, and introduced the sauce, which gave so much satisfac tion that several smaller parties were made up, and the bottle, as a matter of course, was soon exhausted. On his return the captain " called for his steak, and called for his sauce." and on Horvey apologising, he said, " Never mind ;_ I can make some more from my mother's receipt ; and, by-the bye, I will give you a copy of it. And he did so. Harvey then made it in large quantities, sent it to the principal oil-shops in London, and advertised it as " Harvey's Sauce ;" and by its extensive sale realised a large income. He subsequently sold the receipt for an annuity of x 64000 or £5OO a-year, and which he received regularly for the remainder of his life. The veteran captain gave me a copy of the receipt for my own use, on honour not to divulge it, lest it should invalidate or injure Harvey. THE CINQUE PORTS.—The following brief description of Walmer, with a glance at the Castle, may, just now, be of interest ;—St. Mary Walmer, which contains about 2000 in habitants, is two miles from Deal, on the Dover road, and situate between those two towns. It contains several very neatly built marine residences, and may be considered as the West-end, or the Bond-street, of Deal, the houses being con tinued throughout the whole distance, upwards of two miles. and are chiefly occupied during the summer season by visitors. The ancient fortress of Walmer Castle, for which the vicinity is chiefly celebrated, was erected in the reign of Henry VIII -to , defend this--portion of the British coast. The Castle of Deal and Sandown (Deal being the centre fortress, and about a mile distant from the two others) were erected at the same period. Deal Castle is the official residence of the Earl of Mornington, who holds the appointment of captain of the fortress. The Castle of Sandown is now in its pristine state, and not inhabited, except by a portion of the coast-guard and some artillerymen, a magazine of gunpowder being always kept within the Castle for use when required. Walmer - Castle is the official residence of the Duke of Wellington, as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. His Grace generally oc cupies this beautiful marine residence from two to three months in every year, visiting the Kentish coast. upon the prorogation of parliament, usually in August, and remaining till the middle of :November. In the summer of 1829, Wil liam the Fourth, a short time before he ascended the throne. accompanied by his illustrious consort (the present Queen Dowager) resided for some time at the castle. A spot be tween Walmer and Deal is celebrated as the landing place of Anne of Cleves, just previously to her union with Henry VIII. The present Queen Dowager landed at Deal' a little more to the northward, just before her Majesty's marriage with the late Sovereign, William IV. This immediate locality has also been considered as the place where Caesar first landed upon the invasion of Britain.—London papers. MILLERISM. — The creed of the Millerism fanaticism is given briefly and clearly in the following :—" They teach us their undoubting belief, from a minute examination of the prophetical writings, that there is soon to be seen on this earth a personal advent or appearance of Jesus Christ, in the same proper person and form in which he appeared 1800 years since— in like manne r as he ascended in the clo u d s o f heaven after his resurrection, and that every eye shall see and witness his descent. That immediately upon his appear ing there is to be a general resurrection from the dead of all the righteous, or saints, who have died and been laid in their graves in past ages, and who now, together with the saints who may then be living, are to be assembled together under the conduct of Christ, in some place of safety, and there kept for a season, until the coming ' storm of indignation' upon the world and the rest of its inhabitants shall have passed over. That this world is then to be destroyed, or rather pu rified by fire, and ' melted with fervent heat.' The wicked and unconverted who shall then be found in it shall also be assembled, and together with Satan, or the devil, be confined and shut up in the bottomless pit for the space of a thousand years, when they are to be brought up or out of the pit, and utterly destroyed or annihilated, having no further existence whatever—' which is the second death.' That then the saints are to be brought from their chambers of safety where they had retired, and together with Christ made everlasting in heritors and possessors of this earth, which shall then be re fined and purified by fire of all its dross and evil properties ; and that in this way and this manner ' the end of all things is to be brought about and accomplished.' The beginning of this scene, by the descent and personal appearance of Christ, it is distinctly and confidently stated, to take place in the ensuing year, 1843, and probably in some of the early days of April, being that day at any rate on which he was crucified."—New York paper. SUPREMACY OF THE POPE.—" If the Pope be the bead,of the Catholic Church, then the Catholic Church is the Pope's body, which would be but a harsh expression to Christian ears ; then the Catholic Church should have no head when there is no Pope; two or three heads when there are two or three Popes; an unsound head when there is an heretical Pope : a broken head when the Pope is censured or deposed ; and no head when the see is vacant."—(Brainhall.) This is a summary of the general declarations of the divines of England on the prime and leading article of all popery—the Pope's supremacy ; and, unless this point be strongly guarded, there can be no solid security against the seductions of Rome, especially when the too common mode of warring by vague abuse is wisely abandoned, and minds are led to think of it as still a true Church, however corrupted—as retaining much that is venerable—as the Church, to which in former times we were indebted, in some degree, for our second conversion —and as professing, though only professing, those Catholic principles, which have been so sadly neglected by sects cal ing themselves Protestant. Where this line of thought has been encouraged—particularly if, at the same time, any slur, or disparagement, or doubt, has been thrown upon the Church of England—it will be in vain to warn ardent and unthinking minds against Rome by suggesting its doctrinal errors, for the error must always be tested by an appeal to authority ; and, as no private judgment, nor even a sister Church, can pronounce authoritatively against another sister —as no General Council has condemned, nor under the sys tem of Popery could be summoned to condemn it—as Rome has carefully guarded her authoritative statements, so as to secure herself some plausible defence against her attacks on her formal system, while she reaps the full benefit of the errors which she privately encourages in her popular teach ing —as truth is intimately mixed with error in all she profes ses —and as both Scripture and the language of the Fathers, forged and interpolated as they have been with this object, may be artfully wrested to confound the distinction— a mind, therefore, imbued with true Catholic principles, little versed in the controversy charged against , and knowing nothing of Popery, may be easily led t o pause, and suspect that the erroneous principles or Y , l a a r s e tl that the gancies of s ec t with antiquity, h Rome may not really be professed by ber , or y.aeriexaggeratedaen that they y enemies,ar are truths, and vi m h i o c d h i t fi h e e d prac tice;eixntrava: a, and our own imperfect Andnow fromaitwyitiha t t h h e e yearning churches, the first question which will be asked, previous to the bos'rn. any examination of doctrine, will be that which the Romish controversialists so ostentatiously of schism. If we are in schism, to put ourselves within called, and to think afterwards odfeforward—the question then the first step must be p o u f t the true church, as it is penso reforming nt h h i e s r . 0 o e A c n i o d e s w t h i oen this it is to be tried. If con have doubts and mis othfetrh eor papalnot vv s e up a r r e e m in supremacy, schism,an d by they arising —and teach others to mis givings, r i o v i v n e g r a s i , a fromli sts are whatever w eak a here—if oarc e entertain them likewise —every advance which they make and encourage in Catholic principles must lead them nearer to Rome ; and every effort to hold their followers back when they reach the final barrier must be powerless. They are teaching them to steer on a lee shore, and place no beacon on the rock to warn of danger.—Blackwood'a Magazine.-- [We insert this paragraph for the purpose of shewing that many of our leading periodicals do not hesitate to artfully in sinuate much that is erroneous, whilst apparently they are contending against the errors of Rome.] Total cost, per mile £23,000 And the total cost of the undertaking, £6,109,306. Of this sum the Government undertake to pay, for excavations, bridges, &e. £1,970,750, the land and stations to be de frayed solely at the cost of the estate, leaving the cost of the railway to those who invest their money, £3,076,068. The traffic part of the undertaking is of gigantic extent, and Mr. Stephenson has handled it with his usual ability; and the numerous tables which the work contains, show a careful re search into all the necessary details. He estimates a total annual income From passenger traffic Goods, fish, and cattle 8,493,210 francs. 12,636,740...... Total 21,126,959 Or £845,078 per annum ; and deducting 50 per cent. for working expenses, leaving a profit of 14 per cent. on the re quired capital for the thirty-five years, the term the Govern ment propose for the shareholders to take the whole of the profits. To establish a fund for the repayment of the invest ment, Mr. Stephenson proposes 2 per cent. to be deducted, leaving a net dividend for the subscribers during the term proposed of at least 12 per cent. Mr. Stephenson concludes by expressing his thorough conviction of the profitable in fluence which the construction of these lines must infallibly have upon the interests of the South Eastern Railway, and must daily augment the international communication be tween London and Paris. RAILWAYS versus CANALS.—As an instance of the ex traordinary effects which railways have had in causing a depreciation of canal property, particularly in the Yorkshire and Lancashire canals, a correspondent mentions, that about two years ago the shares in the Rochdale Canal were worth about £l5O each, but that since the opening of the Man chester and Leeds Railway, owing to the necessary reduction of the tolls arising from the competition, the dividends have been so much reduced that the shares now fetch barely £4O each. Some two or three years ago, the shares of the Calder and Hebble Canal navigation sold at the rate of five hundred guineas each, but from the same causes they are freely offered at £lBO, being in each case a reduction of about 70 per cent. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DUBLIN AND LONDON. — A public meeting of the citizens of Dublin, and those inte rested in promoting the important measure of rapid commu nication between Dublin and London, was held- on Wednesday, in the Commercial Buildings, for the purkie of taking into consideration the best means of carrying into effect the report of the select committee of the House of Commons on post-office communication between England and 'lreland, and the communication of the Lords of the Treasury appended thereto, or of adopting such other mea sures as might appear most advisable for facilitating and expediting the intercourse between the two countries. Reso lutions were passed appointing a committee to.wait upon the lord lieutenant, to request that government would obtain in formation in order to come to a satisfactory decision bbtfureen the ports of Holyhead and Portdynallean. STATE OF TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES. —The prospects of business are gradually improving throughout the United States. Specie payments have been resumed through all the States except Alabama, Illinois, and Tennessee, and even in these a change for the better is apparent. Specie is tending rapidly towards New Orleans, where exchange is now ten per cent. against England and France, and tax pel• ' cent. against the Northern States. The effect of this is to concentrate upon New Orleans, the great outlet of the West, the specie which, during the last three months, has been accumulating at Boston and New York, and to attract a large amount which now lies useless in the vaults of the Banks .of England and France. At New Orleans it will be applied to the purchase of the immense masses of cotton, tobacco, sugar, flour, wheat, pork, lard, Indian corn, and other pro duce rapidly tending to that great mart. After equalizing the exchanges, it will move up the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri, and form the basis of a healthful future•business, : resting on low prices and a specie basis. For this we are , indebted, in a great part, to the new tariff. Under, the beneficial influence of this great measure, the drain of specie for Europe, to pay for the excess of foreign imports, has been stopped. Factories long idle have been set in motion, and nearly 200,000 operatives have resumed their avocations. The market for our surplus productions denied us abroad is thus opened at home, for these operatives with their families must buy of the farmer, and this year it is expected Massa chusetts alone will consume 800,000 barrels of flour raised in other States, and vast quantities of corn, pork, butter, cheese, and grain. Under the influence of the tariff, and the great harvests of the present year, almost unparalleled from Maine to Georgia, freights are improving, and are now higher at the great shipping ports of the South than they have been for a year past.—Bosion Bulletin. MANCHESTER AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY COMPANY.— A. special meeting of the shareholders of this company wds held on Wednesday morning last, at the Cutler's Hall, Shef field ; Michael Ellison, Esq., in the chair.—The chairman opened the business of the meeting by requesting the assem bled shareholders to observe, that they were called together for the special purpose of negociating a loan of some money with the exchequer-bill commissioners, on the security of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway. The directors have given orders that a sum of money (.L50,000) should be borrow ed ; and the exchequer-bill commissioners had considered it expedient, that there should be a special power given for that purpose. To give that power the shareholders had been called together; and it must be distinctly understood, for no other purpoes. That was the object for which they were met that was the only point on which there could be any discus sion ; and to that point only the business of the meeting must be strictly confined. Perhaps the best way would be to read the resolutions which had been adopted by the directors.— The solicitor to the Company, Mr. Stephenson of Manches ter, then read the resolutions ; the substance of which was, that the directors deemed it necessary to borrow £50,000 at the present time ; that an additional £50,000 should be bor rowed hereafter ; and that they be further empowered to bor row any sum, not exceeding £lOO,OOO, as the directors for the time being think advisable for the interests of the compa ny.—Mr. Thomas Blake moved, that the foregoing resolution be adopted.—Mr. Hoyland seconded the motion.—Mr. H. W. Parker, of London, solicitor, wished to know at what rate of interest the money was to be borrowed.—The Chairman replied, it was five per cent.—Mr. H. Parker said, he wished to move an amendment ; the object of which was to introduce words into the resolution, restraining the directors from applying the money in any other way than laying it out upon the works.—The Chairman said he thought such a question could not be entertained ; in fact, it would be virtually res cinding a resolution that had been passed at the general board of directors. The payment of interest was not the purpose for which the money proposed to be borrowed would be applied ; and he was of opinion, that that meeting could not pass a resolution which would interfere with one already passed.—Mr. H. Parker said, that the directors were already paying the Interest of money out of their capital.—The Chair man said, that the company were fully authorized to pay interest out of the money coming into their hands.—Mr. Stephenson read the resolution, passed June 29th, authori zing an interest of five per cent to be paid to those share holders who were not in arrears on account of money coming for their shares to the Ist of July next.—The chairman said he really thought, that the meeting would support him in stopping this discussion, as it was not within the limits of the object for which the meeting had been convened: that was his decided opinion. —After some further discussion, the chairman put the resolution, which was carried; Mr. H, H. Parker being the only dissentient.—A vote of thanks to the chairman, for his able and impartial conduct in the chair that morning, was then carried unanimously, and the meeting ,seperated. EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION AT HARROW.—On Monday an investigation, which had been commenced on the previous Monday, was proceeded with at the private residence of Benjamin Rotch, Esq., a magistrate of Middlesex, the Lowlands, Harrow-on-the-Hill, into a charge preferred against an individual of the name of Patrick Leith Strachan, occupying chambers at No. 56, Quadrant, Regent-street, and said to be highly connected, of having committed an indecent assault upon one of the pupils belonging to Harrow School. It appears that some few days since the accused, who is stated to have lately returned from America, went to Harrow to visit a youth at the public school, to whom he had con trived to obtain an introduction from his father, who returned to England in the same vessel with him. On seeing the youth he professed to be much attached to him, and invited him to spend a day or two at his residence in town, at the same time telling him that he would invite a youth to meet him from the Military College, Sandhurst. On the following morning, the youth applied to one of the under-masters for permission to do so. From some circumstances which transpired in the course of the interview, the youth was strictly questioned, when he made some disclosures as to the conduct of the ac cused towards him which induced the authorites of the school to lay the facts before Mr. Rotch, who issued a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner, and he was taken into custody on Sunday, the 6th instant. On the Monday fol lowing he underwent an examination before Mr. Rotch, when he was remanded to New Prison, Clerkenwell. At an early hour on Monday morning the prisoner underwent a final examination at Mr. Rotch's residence, which was strictly private, and the result was his committal to take his trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court, but he was released on entering into sureties to a large amount for his appearance to take his trial. We understand that the worthy magistrate, aasisted by the authorities of the school, are still engaged in prosecuting inquiries as to the extent of the accused's misconduct at other establishments. It has been ascertained that he had for a considerable time been en deavouring to obtain some boys from Sandhurst College, and with respect to one had actually succeeded in gett ng him to his chambers, under pretence of visiting London, previous to going home for the vacation. The holidays halving com menced at Sandhurst on Saturday fortnight, the boy in question proceeded thence to the prisoner's, but, of course, did not remain long with him, as be was taken into custody the following morning. Neither time nor trouble appeared to be of any consequence to him, as in one instarce he con trived to introduce himself into a respectable family, and for a period of five months was incessant in his endeavours to induce the gentleman to send his son to a public school, and, having succeeded, had made arrangements for the youth to remain with him a few days in London, previous to going home for the Christmas vacation. In another family, of equal respectability, he had pursued the same course for a period of eighteen months, and had similar arrangements for the boy to visit him. The magistrate further stated that at present he believed the extent of the prisoner's proceedings had not been ascertained, but it was to be hoped that what had al ready occurred would operate as a sufficient warning to parents not to allow their children to make such visits for the future. THE LATE STORM AT SEA.-LOSS OV LIFE . At Rotbesay. on Friday last, the William, of Gloucester' I foundered off the south end of the Bute. Two of the crew were lost with her. Their bodies have since been washed ashore, and interred in Kingarth•churchyard. On the night of the 26th of last month, during a fearful hurricane from the N.W., four vessels were totally lost off Halifax—the Sophia, Thomburn, from Sydney, for that port; the barque Argyle. of Waterford ; an American ship, name unknown, on the rock at Point Novo ; and the Free Trader, belonging to Liverpool. In the case of the Argyle, the crew, amounting to seventeen persons, were all lost. Those of the other wrecks succeeded in making the coast in safety. In addition to the wrecks of the convict-ship Waterloo and the Abercrombie Robinson, the following vessels met with a similar fate during the same storm :—The John Bagshaw, crew all saved ; the American packet-ship Fairfield, valued at £20,000, crew all saved ; the Spanish schooner Sabina, with a cargo worth £lBO,OOO, at Algoa Bay • the brig Henry Hoyle, of London; the Reform, a brig: the Ghika and Al batross, schooners; all on the same coast, and within a few miles of each other. Twenty-one persons perished with.the Sabina. The extent of loss of the above vessels, including the Abercrombie Robinson and the Waterloo, is estimated at between £300,000 and £400,000. The storm at Cadiz on the 18th of last month was attended with the most disastrous effects. While it raged, upwards of twenty sail are said to have been lost • among them were the subjoined :—The French brig Letitia, with a valua ble cargo of wheat, from Pont L'Abbe for Marseilles, foun dered off Santa Petre ; loss about £2,000 7 out of the crew of 11 seamen, 8 met with a watery grave. Another French vessel, Emanuel, Captain Webb, drove on the rocks near Cape Candour, and instantly was lost ; she was laden with codfish, bound for Cette ; the crew, excepting one, was saved. The Spanish schooner 'Valencia, with fruit on board, was totally wrecked on the sand of Santa ; crew saved them selves by the boats belonging to the ship. The Engliih brig, called the Eight, belonging to London, wrecked on the coast at Tariffa ; those on board were saved by a vessel that happened to be near at the time, and taken to Cadiz ; her cargo consisted of wheat, which had been shipped at Alexandria for Liverpool, for which port she was bound; she is insured to the extent of £3,000. The brigan tine Aurora, Captain Pepin, on Jersey, wos lost near the spot ; also the Galieia, the Jean Armand, and a Spanish vessel, called the Nuew, at Couil. On Tuesday, the Bth instant, at Copenhagen, a ship, cal led the D'll Geshwister, of Emden, from Koningsberg for the river Thames, was lost on the Dutch coast, near Duelind point, at Bornholm. A fishing-boat, in attempting to reach the vessel, cspsized, and its unhappy freight, consisting of 5 fishermen, were drowned. The crew were afterwards saved, in consequence of the weather m9derating. They were taken off the rigging. The following are extracts from letters received from France, from which it will be seen that the lamentable loss of the Reliance has not been the only catastrophe which has happened during the late tempestuous weather : " HAVRE-DE-GRACE, Nov. 15.—1 t is reported from St. Vallery-sur-Somme of the 13th, that the French lugger Armoricain, from Bordeaux for Abbeville, was lost on the morning of the 12th, on the banks at the entrance of that port, and only one of the crew saved. Her cargo, consisting of wine and brandy, was scattered along the whole coast of Crotoy, and several of the casks have been picked up and secured for the benefit of those interested. The number of lives supposed to have been lost is five." " CALMS, Nov. 16.—0 n Sunday last, the Alexander, Captain Gay, from Bordeaux for Dunkirk, with a general cargo, consisting of wine, brandy, &c., while coming into harbour, during a strong gale from the eastward, and a heavy sea rolling, was driven with great violence against the pier head, sustained much damage, and must discharge her cargo before the necessrry repairs can be made. Next day (Mon day) the Little Henry, of and from Dartmouth, for Hay's wharf, London, was totally wrecked on the coast during a severe storm from the north-west. The crew were saved, but her cargo was lost. The wrecked hull and rigging were sold on Tuesday. DREADFUL STORM AT MADEIRA Funchal, the capital of Madeira, and the whole of the island has been visited with one of the most dreadful storms that has occurred since the flood in the year 1803, when upwards of 400 persons were swept into the sea ; and, had the late deluge occurred at night, as was the case in the former ca tastrophe, there is no doubt but hundreds of persons would have been drowned : however, as far as can be learnt at pre sent, few lives were lost except in the distant parishes, where several hundreds of persons have been carried into the sea. The summer was very hot, and the weather continued beau tifully fine until the 15th October : it then rained heavily un til the 24th, when the rain partly ceased. A correspondent of The Times says, " About mid-day the whole of the island appeared buried in one vast cloud, threatening total darkness; the barometer fell considerably ; the air became very oppressive, with a strong sulphurous smell ; and the wind veered about to nearly every point of the compass. At one o'clock the rain began to fall in torrents ; and about an hour afterwards I per ceived, at a distance of about a mile from the shore, an im mense rising in the sea, which was soon connected with a mass of dark clouds overhanging the bay, to all appearance charging themselves or drawing the water from the sea, for the space of about ten minutes, followed immediately by a heavy swell or rising of the ocean, which swept towards the shore ; and, although I was at a considerable elevation above the level of the sea, it appeared high enough to sweep over the city ; its force, however, was broken, and it subsided on the beach. The rain still continued in torrents ; and at four o'clock the roar of the water in the river N. S. do Calhao, which was forty feet in depth, began to give me some alarm ; when, looking out of the window of my house, I perceived that the bridge was being swept away, and that the water was rushing into the streets. I immediately left the house; and on reaching the street the appalling sight that appeared in every direction was enough to make the stoutest heart quake with fear: The street in front of the garden of my house was upwards of three feet deep with water ; and hundreds of men, women, and children were wading their way up the stream, flying towards the mountains, whilst others were flocking to the town, not knowing where to go for safety, amidst the most dreadful shrieks and cries that can possibly be imagined. As I approached towards the river, the scene became still more awful, the water having burst open the wine-lodges, and the contents being swept into the sea; whilst the streets in the neighbourhood were all overflowed with water, and the inmates of the houses ezcaping by ladders, and over the roofs of the buildings. Upwards of 200 houses have been destroyed, or become untenantable by this disastrous flood ; and the quantity of wine, corn, &c., swept into the sea and destroyed is very great; but at present it is utterly impossible to state any thing like an estimate of the amount of damage done." The Government made immediate arrangements to admit the poor into the forts for shelter, and to keep order ; but the overflowing wine gave opportunity for intoxication and the confusion for frequent robberies. "The news from the interior, or rather the coast—for from the interior we have none—is awful. Half of Machio is swept away, and all the fishing-boats belonging to the vil lage. In the parish of Madalena nearly all the houses and part of the population are gone ; in Calheta many houses are washed away. Fayal and Porto Cruz have suffered much, entire vineyards having been swept into the sea. Santa Cruz has suffered less than others ; but at Canico the disasters are great." The weather moderated ; but on the 26th It blew a hurri cane from the south, and the sea rushed furiously over the beach into the lower streets of Funchal. Six vessels were at anchor in the bay : at five o'clock the first, the American brig Creole, was driven from its anchors on to the beach ; and at intervals followed the English schooner Wave, the Portuguese schooner Novo Beijinho, the brig Dart of Lon don, and the Sardinian schooner Gloria Madre Esperanza. All on board the last vessel perished. The ship Success was saved by its anchor becoming entangled as it dragged with one left at the bottom by a large American ship : next morn ing the ship got out to sea ; and afterwards returned in safety. The wreck of an unknown vessel was found at Porta Cruz, the crew apparently swept away ; and another Sardinian schooner was wrecked at Porta Santo. Up to the 2d, they 1 still remained without news from the interior. The Times of yesterday (Monday) brings but few further particulars of these events. One of the papers published at the place, says,—" Our contemporary calcul a t es th e l oss a t 300 contos of reis, but that calculation is contradicted when the same paper states that there are found to he more than 300 houses thrown down or totally destroyed in the streets of the Paugneirois and neighbourhood. We are of opinion, and many well-informed persons concur with us, that the city has sustained a loss not much under 2,000,000 contos of reis." Lord Dinorben's new mansion at Kinmel Park is being re. built on the plan of the old hall before the fire. THE Loss OF THE RELIANCE. — The City of Boulogne steamer, Captain Tune, which left that port at ten o'clock on Thursday night, ar.d arrived atLondon-bridge w h ar f yes terday afternoon, brings some additional facts relative to the wreck of the above vessel. The information is obtained from Captain Tune, who gleaned it during a sho r t conversat i on with Dixon, the carpenter, who still remains at Boulogne, and in the absence of any official account, may be deemed of some importance, as showing more clearly the circumstances under which the ship struck. The statement made to Cap tain Tune is, that previous to the Saturday morning when the Reliance went on shore the weather had been so hazy, that the officers of the ship had been unable to take any ob servation for upwards of 70 hours. At the time the vessel grounded she was heaving to under close-reefed main-top and staysails, and veering her head to the northward, when she struck on her heel. Her head immediately came round, and she fell broadside on the sand. The tide was, as has been already stated, ebbing at the time, and the sea running very heavy, which caused the vessel to break up speedily. The fact that the Reliance when she split was, as is now first ascertained from Captain Tune, more than two miles from the shore, which is low arid sandy, will account for the awful loss of life which occurred. Several other bodies of the ill fated crew have, since the last accounts were received, been brought into Boulogne, and buried there. The mother of one young man on board died only a fortnight since, leaving her son a handsome fortune. The weather at Boulogne on Thursday last was so boisterous, that the Brittannia, Dover packet, which left at ten o'clock, a.m., after vainly endea vouring to cross the Channel, returned to port at half-past one o'clock. BURNING OF A LUCIFER FACTORY.—Last night, at about 20 minutes to 11 o'clock, an alarming fire was discovered raging in a lucifer manufactory situate in William's-court, a narrow thoroughfare leading from Guildford-street, South wark, into Bankside, adjacent to the Phoenix Gas-house. The premises consisted of a brick building about 20 feet in depth, two stories high ; and in addition to the lucifer fac tory, which was carried on by a person named Phillips on the first story, the floors above were used as workshops by a wire-worker named MiNiel. Upon the alarm being raised, the utmost confusion prevailed amongst the numerous poor families tenanting the houses in William's-court • for to all app e arance, such was the violence of the flames, t he destruc tion of these dwellings was inevitable. No doubt existed but the fire originated in the factory in question, from the fact that the smoke first appeared to issue from the windows looking into it, and that shortly afterwards the destructive element burst forth from every part of it. Information having been forwarded by the police and strangers to the dif ferent stations on that side of the river Thames, in the course of a short time two engines arrived from Southwark-bridge road district, in charge of Mr. Henderson, the officer in command, who, with the firemen that accompanied him, put the machines into order for operation. They, however, for upwards of twenty minutes, were unable to afford the slightest assistance to prevent the flames extending, not a drop of water being obtainable in the neighbourhood to supply the engines. In the interim the fire had made alarming progress ; the roof had partially fallen in, and every portion of the building was turning rapidly. Other engines of the brigade force, under the snperintendence of Mr. Braidwood, subse quently came up, but out of six only two were able to get to work, from an insufficiency of water. In about three-quarters of an hour the flames were subdued. No damage was done to any other premises but those in which the conflagration commenced; they were entirely destroyed. Unfortunately for the sufferers (particularly IVl`Niel, the wire-worker, who has a large family depending upon him for support) they are uninsured ; consequently, the loss will be severely felt. Upon inquiry, it was ascertained that the delay of water did not arise from any negligence of the turncock, but to the dis graceful state of the pipes laid down in the streets. The same complaint occurs at almost every fire that takes place in Southwark and its suburbs. EXTENSIVE FIRES. On Saturday night last, about eleven o'clock, a fire was discovered on the farm of Mr. Oldham, situate in Freiston Ings, about four miles from: Boston, and there is too much reason to fear that it was the work of an incendiary, there not being a dwelling-house within half a mile of the place. Four stacks, viz. two of wheat, the produce of seven acres, one oat stack, the produce, of 10 acres, and one large hay stack, together with a large brick-and-tiled barn, were soon enveloped in flames, which defied all efforts to check them, the wind unfortunately blowing very strongly at the time. About one o'clock on Sunday morning the fire raged with awful violence, and illuminated the country for many miles around, causing a great number of persons from Boston, as well as from a considerable distance, to hasten to the spot. The fire-engines from Boston were in attendance as speedily as possible, and commenced playing on the burning mass, but too late to save any of the property. Before the arrival of the engines, two rows of men were formed from the barn on the premises to a pit which was near; and, by passing buckets from one to another in quick succession, a large quantity of water, was thrown upon the buildings, but with out producing any beneficial results. Great praise is due to Mr. R. Clarke, of Leverton, Mr. Westmoreland, of Fish toft, and to several of the neighbouring farmers, who assem bled at an early period, for their untiring exertions . to stop the progress of the fire, and in fact to all present, who lent willing assistance ; but, unfortunately, their endeavours were fruitless, the whole of the property being destroyed. The damage done is stated to be between £3OO and £4OO, but Mr. Oldham was insured. It is difficult to account for the above abominable act, Mr. Oldham's treatment of his la bourers being extremely considerate. The wages he pays are ls. 6d. to 2s. per week above the usual rate in the neighbour hood ; indeed, the alacrity displayed by the labouring popu lation to extinguish the flames was truly gratifying, as was the fact that not a single epithet of reproach against him was uttered by any of them—on the contrary, their execrations against the vile incendiary were loud, and evidently heartfelt. —Stamford Mercury. SINGULAR CONFLAGRATION. The neighbourhood of Farleigh Hungerford was thrown into some alarm last Tues day night by the appearance of an extensive fire, which broke out soon after dark, and, being visible from a great distance, excited an apprehension that some property of value was in course of destruction. It was found toproceed from the ruins of the old castle in that village, particularly from a solitary round tower, standing in the south-west corner of the castle yard, about sixty feet high from its base, and completely en cased in the most luxuriant ivy. The ivy grows from a single stem, which had attained the extraordinary thickness of several feet, and is generally pointed out to strangers as a curiosity. The branches were of a proportionate strength and extent, and closly embraced the whole tower with a sheet of interwoven cordage, so as effectually to preserve the ruin from falling, and bid defiance to the power of time. On Tuesday evening some persons having incautiously lighted some dry leaves and sticks too close to the wall, set fire to the ivy, and in a few minutes all was in a blaze. The night was fortunately calm, or the whole of these picturesque ruins would have been, in all probability, destroyed. The appear ance of the conflagration under the darkness of night was singularly beautiful. The venerable tower with its mantle of glossy green wrapped in fire, the light reflected upon the broken architecture, and illuminating the surrounding sce nery, at one moment with a volume of flame, at another with a shower of sparks, or a broad sheet of blazing foliage torn from the walls in the attempt to stop the destruction, pro duced altogether a scene of peculiar interest. We are happy to add that the fire was fortunately subdued, and beyond the loss to the lovers of the picturesque, no material injury has been sustained.—Bath Journal. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LAWTON, NEAR SANDBACH.— The extensive and valuable corn-mills of Messrs. George and William Pointon, known by the name of the Steam-mills, being worked by that power, are completely destroyed, with the exception of the boilers, engine-house, and the outside walls. The whole of the valuable machinery, with the stock, save several tons of cheese and the books of the firm, are re duced to a heap of smoking ruins. These mills were carried on with very great enterprise, being worked night and day (Sundays excepted), and the workmen left them as late as half-past ten or eleven o'clock on Saturday night last, at which time all seemed safe. The fire was first perceived by the wife of one of the workmen, who having part of her family indisposed, accidentally happened to be up, and on looking out towards the mill, about one o'clock on Sunday morning, thought she saw a light in the uppermost story of the build ing. As the mill had been broken into and robbed on seve ral occasions, she naturally thought that thieves were again busy at their unlawful vocation, and made an alarm under that impression ; but, on a second view, the alarming fact that the premises were on fire was evident. The floors, four in number, gave way one after another; and in two hours and a half from its being first perceived, the whole of the ex tensive building was completely gutted, and the only service the engines could render was to play upon the burning mass now lying on the ground-floor. The value of the stock, as near as can at present be ascertained, was about £1,500, and •it will take £2,000 at least to put the mill in as good a state as it was in previous to the calamity.—Macclesfield paper. FIRE AT KILLYMOON CASTLE.—A dreadful fire broke out at Killymoon Castle, the residence of Colonel Stewart, near Stewartstown, county of Tyrone, at an early hour on Satur day evening, which threatened destruction for a long time to the whole of that fine building, which is one of the most splendid edifices in the north of Ireland. At an advanced hour of the night the fire was providentially got under, the stables and some of the out-offices having been completely destroyed by the devouring element.—Dablin Packet. DREADFUL FIRE AT ROTHERHITHE.—ShortIy before 11 o'clock last night a fire of a very calamitous character was discovered raging in the lower part of the premises belong ing to Mr. Smith, situate at No. 36, Paradise-street, Ro therhithe, within a few doors of Paradise Tavern. The flames were discovered by a police-constable of the M divi sion, whose attention had been drawn to t::. raises by a strong effluvium, evidently arising from c0n...,.. ..dun, and no sooner had he reached the front of the house, than the fire told its own tale, for the flames instantly shot forth from the lower floor with such amazing rapidity as to reach the top of the house. He immediately raised an alarm, and with great difficulty awoke the inmates from their slumbers to a sense of their danger, when a pitiable sight presented itself ; most of the inmates had -to rush through the flames almost in a state of nudity ; but, unfortunately, a young female of the name of Shea, in the excitement of the moment, threw her self from the second floor window, and falling upon her back, received such violent bruises, that her life is despaired of. A messenger having been in the interim despatched to the various engine -stations, with intelligence of the outbreak, in an incredibly short period several engines belonging to the London Brigade, West of England tire-office, and the differ ent parishes, were on the spot, but some considerable time elapsed before they could be got into operation, owing to the great scarcity of water. The large floating-engine was moored along the side of the river, and set to work. which being done a great body of water was poured upon the devouring element, but owing to the ravages the fire had made in the interior, the firemen were unable to save any portion of Mr. Smith's premises ; finding that it would be useless to endeavour to save the adjoining premises, which was, owing to indefatiga ble exertions on their part, partially accomplished. About half-past 12 o'clock the fire had burnt itself out;. not a por tion of either the premises or stock or furniture was saved, excepting only a few bare walis. Considerable damage was also done to the premises belonging to Captain Pearsey and Mr. Biggs, both of which were contiguous to Mr. Smith's. The origin of the fire could not be ascertained. It was gene rally reported that the buildings were all insured in the Royal Exchange Fire-office; but whether the inmates were equally fortunate we could not learn. Mr. Frederick R. Surtees, Barrister-at-law, on the Northern Circuit, is shortly to be united to the eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev. C. Douglas and the late Lady Isabella Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Arran. Miss Douglas is on her mother's side a niece of the Duchess of Inverness, and paternally a niece of the Earl of Morton and the Earl of Aberdeen, as also cousin of the Earl of Hare wood, and firEt cousin of the Marquis of Abercorn. A DOTHEBOYS HALL.—HULL POLICE -OFFICE, Saturday Nov. s.—Fottr youths, very indifferently attired, applied to the bench for assistance, to enable them to get to London. On being questioned by the magistrates, they stated that they had run away from school, at Winton, near Kirby Stephen, in Westmoreland, kept by Mr. Twycross, in consequence of ill-treatment. They all stated thot they were not half fed, nor allowed to write to their friends, except what the master dictated. They had walked from Winton to Selby, and thence had taken the packet to this town. One shilling and sixpence was the whole sum they could muster on setting out upon their journey, but they had received assistance from the authorities of several places at which they halted. Wil liam Griffiths, one of the youths, said he was seventeen years of age, and had been at the school seven years. It was two years since he had seen any of his friends. He did not know where his parents resided. His father is a bookseller and stationer in London. He knew the residence of his grand mother. William G. Wright said his father was a lawyer at Temple-bar. He had been at the school two years, and had not seen or heard anything of his parents during that time. Th omas Wilson said his father was a lawyer in the Strand; lie had been at the school six years, and had not seen or heard anything of his parents or friends during that time. Thomas Forbes said, he had no father ; he had been five years at school, but he had not received any letter from his mother during the last two years. A. lodging-house keeper said she had kept the applicants for three nights ; they had remained in the house during the day, and had conducted themselves in an orderly manner. She thought that half-a-crown would not more than compensate her for what she had done for the lads. The mayor ordered 3s. to be given her from the poor box. The magistrates then subscribed towards defraying the expenses of the youths to London, and the deficiency to be provided from the poor-box. The mayor also said, he would go down to the agents for the London packet, which was to sail that afternoon, and make the best bargain he could for their passage. The boys had gone by way of Ripon.—Ken dal Mercury. CLOSING OF PRISONS FOR DEBT.—The metropolitan prisons for debt have, within the last few days, presented a different appearance to what they have been fo: some time. The Fleet and Marshalsea prisons have been closed : the former was shut on Saturday, and the latter on Thursday last. There were seventy in the Fleet, and only three in the Marshalsea ; and their removal took place to the Queen's Prison, under an act passed during the last session, author izing Lord ,Denman to issue his warrant for their passage from one gaol to another. From Tuesday to Saturday the removals took place from the Fleet. Some of the prisoners had been confined a very long period, and a few upwards of twenty years ! An eccentric character, named Jeremiah Board, had been an inmate of the Fleet twenty-eight years, having been committed to the Fleet in 1814. The case of this man, who has been removed to the Queen's Prison, is very singular. He was a farmer at a place called Newton's Farm, and was committed to the Fleet in 1814, where he remained without much disturbance, except some Chancery proceedings, until 1838, in which year the present act for the Insolvent Debtors' Court was passed, and in this act an important alteration was made, giving power to creditors to proceed against parties who preferred imprisonment to taking the benefit of the act, by which proceeding they would be compelled to give up their property. The provision has been productive of considerable benefit; persons have been pro ceeded against in the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and com pelled to disgorge their property ; others have arranged with their creditors and gone out of custody. In the case of Board, a gentleman named Richardson, as executor of Mary Chappell, filed a petition under the compulsory clause, and a vesting order was made under which he was appointed assignee, and by a decisive act a good deal of property was obtained. A messenger of the court was sent to the prison, and on the person of Board, and in his possession, a large sum of money and securities for money were found, which, of course, the assignees seized. Mr. Richardson claimed to be a creditor for £8,185, and the matter has been before Mr. Commissioner Harris. Advertisements had been inserted to discover creditors, but very few were found. There was somewhere about £1,600, and a dividend was declared. Board is now sojou rn i ng i n the Queen's Prison, where he is, of course, a " character." At the present period there are in Queen's Prison about 280 persons, a very few in the rules, and those who had the privilege when the act consolidating the prisons was passed were allowed to remain twelve months. Day rules have already ceased, and the other privileges will he denied at the time mentioned. There are 228 rooms in the prison ; and in some of these apartments, by the recent increase, " chums " have been placed : that is to say, two have been lodged in one room. Some alterations have been expected in the classification of prisoners, which will now probably take place. In Whitecross-street Prison there are about 360, and 120 in Horsemonger-lane Gaol. The total number of prisoners for debt in Loudon may be now stated at about 760. Some years ago there were as many in one prison. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. CHINA.-PEACE CONCLUDED. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (Froliz yesterday's Times.) TIM Es OFFICE, 'Monday 5 o'clock, a.m. We have this moment received, by express, the Paris papers of Saturday night, Kith a letter from cur corres pondent. The Messages. says :—" The following intelligence, re ceived by express (the telegraph, no doubt), has been com municated to us : " ALEXAt.:DRIA, Nov. 5. " A. treaty of peace has been concluded between the British Plenipotentiary and the Chinese Government, the principal articles of which are— " 1. China will pay in three years 21,000,000 of dollars. " 2. The ports of Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, and two others, are open to British commerce. " 3. The island of Hongkong is ceded for ever to her Britannic Majesty. " 4. The prisoners taken will be restored. " 5. An amnesty shall be proclaimed. " 6. The officers of the two nations shall be treated on a footing of equality. " 7. The islands of Chusan and of Golong-Soo shall be occupied until the tribute shall have been paid." SPAIN. The same courier has brought us the following, dated " MADRID, Nov. 15. " M. Olozaga has been elected President of the Congress, by a majority of 82 to 41. His competitor, M. Acunha, the former President, was the Ministerial candidate. " M. Cortina was elected Vice-President." " PERPIGNAN, Nov. 19. " A letter from a Cavalry officer at Barcelona, received on the 18th by express at La Jonquiere, states that `after a san guinary engagement we (the troops of the Queen) have been obliged to evacuate the city (of Barcelona). The inhabitants have possessed themselves of the artillery. We have bi vouacked for the last two days at the foot of the ramparts. The Angels' -gate was the" first that was carried by . the Na tional Guard. The women were armed with pikes. Detach ments of troops of the line still occupy Aldarazanas, Mont juich, and the port.' We are assured that the insurrection has extended itself to Solsono and Lerida." With reference to the revolution in Spain, previous inti mation had been received. The Paris Moniteur of Saturday contained the following : —" In the evening of the 13th inst., 30 workmen of Barce lona attempted forcibly to bring in at one of the gates several casks of ;dile without paying the tolls. The people joined them ; the guard was disarmed,.and a soldier killed. Rein forcements having arrived, 12 persons were arrested. The editor of the Republicano was thrown into prison. " On the 11th the workmen deserted the workhouses and filled the streets of the city. 10,000 of them form part of the National Guard. At 5 o'clock p.m. the avenues leading to the Town-hall were occupied by the National Guards, who refused to surrender their posts to the troops of the line. A regiment was drawn up en ballaille, on the Rambla, with six pieces of artillery. All the troops of the garrison were under arms. A collision was expected. Several National Guards had levelled their muskets at an officer. No stage ' coach or travellers reached Figueiras from Barcelona on the 16th ; the gates were closed. The cavalry and infantry of the garrison of la Jonquiere have left for Barcelona. Horse expresses succeed each other on the road between Barcelona and Figueiras." COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. WEST INDIES. The Clyde, royal mail steam-packet, from the West Indies, arrived at Falmouh on Friday morning, at three a.m. The despatch used, being in the strict letter of the new regulation, she started again, barely allowing time for the lieutenant to get over the side when the ladder was raised, and no further communication allowed, the representative of the London press hanging on by the stern. It was ordered by Captain Elliot, that the Tweed, which had been on shore, should come to England, but the Clyde, from her longer service, and also having sustained damage by being on the rocks, had the preference. She has but a small freight, and about 11 passengers. She left St. Thomas's, Oct. 24; Bermuda, Nov. 2 ; Fayal, 12. The Clyde brings intelligence of the fa vourable commencement of the new system, which has been introduced without the least confusion or derangement of the mail service, four ships which were the number required— namely—the Clyde, Teviot, Trent, and Tweed, having been in waiting at St. Thomas's previous to the arrival there of the Forth on the 21th of October. The Tweed had not incurred any damage, as was supposed to he the case, by touching the ground at Turk's Island, the dangerous navi gation of which will in futhre be wholly avoided, as the cdm pany's ships will no longer be required to touch at that place. The Solway, respecting which some unfavourable reports have been industriously circulated, left Bermuda L incompany with the Clyde, on the 2d instant, in as perfect C'o'ndition as when she left England. The Solway proceeded - to - Thomas's. (FROM THE Pm:Tits.) The weather in Trinidad has of late been highly` favourable to the planters, and from the improved and advanced state of - the cane-fields an increase of sugar in the next crop was looked forward to. 1,502 emigrants had landed in Port of Spain from thz. , Ist January to the 31st July. • The Tobago Times of the Ist October contains an adver tisement, to the effect that any quantity of the celebrated manure, Guano, can be had in that island frota the estates Telescope and Grafton- It is stated in the St. Christopher Gazette of the 23d of September, that the small pox has made its appearance in Trinidad as also in British Guiana, and that in consequence the quarantine law had just been put in force in that island. The prospects in Dernarara, according to the statements put forth ill the Tobago Times—are still dark and. gloomy. It says :—" The crop •of this year, on the whole, will fall short even of last year's. As, however, the weather is very favourable; immediate relief to the money-market is exr pected from the sugar to be made before Christmas. Fresh capital is wanted for the cultivation of the estates, as much as emigrants are. The process, long ago foreseen, will be, that property, at its greatly depreciated value, will not be worth the purchase. The ruin of all who became liable for high prices, and have no other resource to fall back on, seems to be inevitable. Those who succeed them, coraingin upon easier terms, can afford to be content with a diminished rate of gain. The colony may survive the shock, after the destruction of the best part of a whole generation of spe culators. (From the Jamaica Morning Journal, October 19.) Several showers of rain have fallen during the last few days, and at present there is every indication of the October seasons having set in. On Monday evening the weather was squally, and very many persons seem to think that we shall have our share of the blowing weather which has been expe rienced at Antigua, Saint Christopher's, and other places to windward, and also lately at Cuba. It is some time since we have experienced any squally weather in this island, and have reason to dread those visitations which occasionally occur, and formerly used to be rather of frequent occurrence. We have been favoured with a view of the statements of exports from this island during the present year, and have been delighted at perceiving the increase which has taken place over those of 1841. The statement is incomplete, not including the exports from Port Maria, Lucea, and Savanna la Mar. Notwithstanding these omissions, it appears that 13,321 hogsheads of sugar, 3,850 puncheons rum, and 1,233 tierces coffee, have been shipped in 1842, over and above the shipments of the previous year. Our British as well as Jamaica readers will be gratified at the increased production of our staples which this statement shows, and will join us in the anxious hope that they will continue to increase in the like ratio every year, until our island has reached that pitch beyond which increased production becomes an evil. Hhds. Sugar. Phs. Rum. Tres. Coffee. 1841 1842 Excess The Praslin estate was this day bought at the bar of the Royal Court, by Mecher G. Todd, Esq., for Messrs. Cavan Brothers, of London, for £1,430 sterling; and the Unellti vated estate, Union de Micoud, by Mr. Master, for £900. St. Lucia Palladium, Sept. 8. ST. VINCENT. — The following is the crop of the island for the present year shipped :—Sugar, 8,504 hogsheads, 381 tierces, 282 barrels ; Rum, 951 puncheons, 19 hogsheads ; Molasses, 3,312 puncheons, 78 hogsheads ; Cotton, 280 bales ; Arrow Root, 23 puncheons, 692 barrels, 1,287 boxes. The crop of Barbadoes for the same period is,—Sugar, 20,397 hogsheads, 1,646 tierces, 715 barrels ; Molasses, 4,411 puncheons, 330 hogsheads, 55 barrels; Arrow Root, 352 packages ; Ginger, 163 ditto ; Cotton, 226 bales ; Aloes, 2,956 goui de. THE NIGER EXPEDITION. Extract from a letter dated Cape Coast Castle Sept. 26 1842 : " The Wilberforce, you will recollect, was here in March last, at which time Captain W. Allen was preparing to re ascend the Niger, to look after the Model Farm' people, and if possible to do something to retrieve the fame of the expedition. He proceeded hence to Fernando Po, to fit out the Soudan, to accompany him. While he was still lying there the Kite steamer arrived with orders from Government that only one vessel was to go up the river, and she was only to have on, board four or five white men at most. Her only object in going up was to be the bringing back the people lett at the farm.. On receiving these orders Captain Allen and most of his officers and crew went on board the Kite for a passage to England. The other commissioner (Cook) went home by the Golden Spring. The Wilberforce. under charge of her present commander (Lieutenant Webb,) proceeded up the river, and found the Model Farm' a very perfect model of disorganization. The blacks who had been left at it, having plenty of cowries (a species of Indian shell used as money) and goods, voted themselves to be independent country gentlemen, and managed to get hold of a lot of na tives, whom they very coolly made slaves of, and whom they compelled to work on the farm, each gentleman being pro vided with a cat, or slave driver's whip, the better to enforce obedience. The model farmer himself (Carr, brother of the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone) has never been heard of, and had, as it afterwards appeared, been killed somewhere near the mouth of the river. The Wilberforce brought away farm implements, people and all, and those of the latter belonging to this place are now being discharged here. The steamer got on a rock in the river, where she remained five days, and came down with a hole in her bottom, which now compels her to go home. So much for the last speech and dying words of the far-famed Niger expedition. A more mismanaged piece of business from beginning to end is not, I will venture to say, to be found recorded in any history." There is a dramatic author in Paris of such prolific powers, that every morning whilst he is shaving, he brings out a new piece. In less than four years, the Bishop of Montreal has or dained twenty-one clergymen, and admitted six already or dained, for the diocese of Quebec. Within the same period, twenty-seven new stations have been opened : while, through the unfailing bounty of the munificent and venerable societies in England, the number of churches has fully kept pace with the advancing list of the clergy. HANOVER, Nov, 11.—We hear that his Royal Highness the Crown Prince will set out to-mprrow to pay a visit to his bride. He will stop a fortnight at Altenburg, and before his return pay a visit to Berlin. His royal highness enjoys ex cellent health. On the other hand, neither the journey to Rothenkirchen nor his return to Hanover, appeared to have any favourable effect on the King's health. It is said, that within these few days some circumstances have happened which have cast a gloom over the generally cheerful temper of the temper of the king. One of these circumstances is the death of Dr. Kohlrsush's widow, who was for many years the attached friend and companion of the late Queen. She was buried yesterday, and by the King's orders all the household and servants of the Queens attended the funeral. The death of this lady is said to have very greatly affected the King.— Exchange on London, Nov. 4. at threes months' date, 27 21- 32 pence.—Journal de St. Petersburg/I. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. J. Hammond. rrl-lIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 22d instant. the Petit Comedy of THE HAPPY MAN. Paddy Murphy Mr. Leonard. After which, the Melo-Drama of THE BRIGAND. Alessandro Massaroni . (As originally performed by him in London.) To conclude with THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The lines " To Memory," are sadly below our " Standard." All marriages must be certified by the residence, as well as the name, of the party forwarding them. We cannot insert the letter mentioned by " One of the Twenty," and cannot explain our reasons sufficiently without a personal interview. The STANDARD was, as usual, forwarded last Friday to our correspondent at " The Elm, Wolverhampton," and we are quite unable to account for its non-arrival. The paragraph referred to by " A Playgoer and an Old Sub scriber" was sent by a correspondent. It did not emanate from the usual source of such notices, and was unfortu nately not read with our usual care. Some of the lines by " A. S." reflect a little credit upon his poetical genius, but such a descent " from the sublime to the ridiculous," as that conveyed by the two first lines, spoils the whole. We need only transcribe them to show that the " tyranny of poetry " has too much command over our correspondent : " Almighty, great, eternal God ! All nature's laws obey thy nod." A correspondent wishes to know what is the meaning of the following passage in Mr. Rathbone's speech at the Roman Catholic Benevolent Society's dinner, on Wednesday last : —" In Catholic France, where Catholicism is the esta blished religion of the country,—(l wish there were no ,• establishments,—with all my respect for churches gene rally, I wish none of them to have civil power; for when . ever they have had it, Catholics or Protestants, I believe they have abused that power,)—but let it be recollected that Catholic France provides more liberally for the Pro testant clergy, because they are allowed to marry, than it does for the Catholic clergy, because they are doomed to celibacy." We readily apologise to a contemporary; the Manchester Courier, for having, in a recent article, overlooked unwil lingly his excellencies as a journalist. He has, however, with all the circulation which he boasts, occasionally com plained of his friends for the same slight of which we have unwillingly been guilty ; and, under any circumstances, the gross language which he makes use of towards a brother conservative for an unintentional omission does not become him or any gentleman. Ely Etberpool &tanbarD. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1842. We beg to refer our readers to the important foreign news communicated in our columns this day. Our war with China, if the news in question is to be relied upon, is at an end ; and one, at least;of our entangle ments in the Eastern World thus got rid of—whether honourably to us as a nation or not so, with the meagre intelligence which is before us, we express no opinio n We must confess, however, we like not the considera tion which appears on the face of the telegraphic despatch, as a recompence for all the sacrifice of life and Christian character which Great Britain has su s tained in this unjust quarrel. TWENTY-ONE MIL LIONS OF DOLLARS ! Really there is too much of the buccaneering character in this feature of the settlement to satisfy our taste. We wait, however, for further in telligence before we commit ourselves by any remarks. Well—the " grand demonstration"—the " GREAT FREE-TRADE FESTIVAL," which was to strike terror into the soul of monopoly, and prostrate the domestic agriculture and the colonial greatness of England at the feet of the manufacturing Juggernaut, is over ! Buckingham—" humbug Buckingham" has had his say; Bright —not he of " Gibraltar," but the quaker of Rochdale—has illuminated the elderly spinsters and petition-hawking blue-stockings of our good old,town ; Ashworth, of three-halfpenny beef and pauper-migra tion notoriety, has dribbled forth his small modicum of absolute wisdom ; Richard Cobden, M.P., - the new light 'of the world, has delivered himself of a 'string of his stereotyped sophistries; and yet this great port — this " hot-bed of monopoly"—Liverpool--stands pre cisely upon the same spot, upon the shore of the Mersey, which it occupied a week ago, and we are not aware that any thing stranger or more portentous has occurred than the spoiling of a few Saturday's dinners, and the exhibition, by the female free-traders, at various dissenting chapels, on Sunday last, of an unusual number of undarned stockings and dingy , looking cambric pocket-handkerchiefs ! Seriously and candidly, this much-vaunted affair, trumpeted though it has been by the League press as something inordinately important and triumphant to their cause; has achieved absolutely nothing, beyond contributing some hundred or hundred and twenty pounds to the agitating fund of the Anti-Corn-law League, and preparing the way for an irruption of mendicant committee-women into the courts, alleys, and cellars of the town, in search of shillings and pennies, wherewith to feed the craving stomachs of the Buckinghams, the Aclands, and other itinerating hire lings of that pestilent body. We defy the whole Anti-monopoly Association, from Charles Holland to Edward Rawlins, junior, to point out one new fac', which is a true one, or one new argument, which is not based upon absolute falsehood or perversion of the truth, as having been added, by this amphitheatrical tea-and-toast festival, to the stock of the existing oft refuted anti•corn-law facts and arguments. As a mere demonstration of strength, it was composed of but a miserably-small portion of the wealth or the respectability of the town ; and, with respect to any probable effect which it can produce upon public opinion, we cannot but look back upon it as an utter failure ! The only two addresses which were at all listened to, and which are worth a mordent's notice, were those of Messrs. Buckingham "and Cobden. As a mere lecture, the address of the former gentleman was precisely of that superficial and flimsy description which might have been expected from such an orator, to be deli vered to such an audience. As an effort to win con viction from men of intellect, it was as contemptible as it well could be; as one intended merely to please an audience of self-satisfied male and female quacks, it was eminently suited to the occasion, as partaking of the sloppy character of the materials upon which that audience was assembled to regale. Its characteristic was egotism, larded here and there with hypocrisy and sheer nonsense ; but it contained, as well, a few instances of extreme want of judgment, to one of which, in particular, we shall take the liberty of directing the attention of our readers. In attempting to particularise the causes of the distress at present existing among the industrial and commercial classes, the speaker remarked that " ano ther cause of the distress in question was this : we had, by the application of manual, mechanical, and other powers—by mineral wealth and manufacturing power—by the application of steam—so increased our powers of production that, according to the usual estimate made in such cases, the power of production of the population was equal to some thing like THREE HUNDRED MILL:ONS OF PEO-• PLE" ! Of course the meaning intended to be here conveyed was that our power of production had been increased until it had become sufficient to meet • the power of consumption of this three hundred mil millions, or, according to his own estimate, of NEARLY ONE-THIRD OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE ! Great Britain, with seventeen millions of population, not one third of them employed in manufactures, can, according to Mr. Buckingham, manufacture for one-third of the whole world! And, we ask, if this be the case—if production has made this gigantic stride—if our present manufacturing masses cannot be fully employed with-. out engrossing the trade of one-third of the human race,—can any man be bold enough to stand forward . and say that such production has not been urged forward far beyond the extent to which a reasonable hope exists of its being met by consumption ? Can. any man stand forward and say that production to• such an unheard-of extent is not OVER-PRODUCTION ? But, argues Mr. Buckingham, in continuation, " so' long as the world is open to our enterprise, and we can penetrate into other countries and bring back. their produce, that power," of (production) " tremen dous as it seemed, will not meet with any check or arrest for a hundred years to come" ! Or, in other words, if seventeen millions of people can take and . consume the produce of three hundred millions of people;. the manufacturing masses and the manufacturing, machinery of Great Britain will be kept employed.• m agnificent gentleman—and his , But, says the same absurdity was cheered by the very sensible people• present at the Amphitheatre—the world is " very . slightly peopled compared with its capacity to sustairs toPulation ;" a of consumption e° °ugh for tl , I . t B present poi 11° ns• This t I'l°4d —for whi Ir°lll cl raise a 4 good return 1 markets" —for co rn parativety /ye ask, go fort For w h at i s pounder forces Ma nufacturing nm dities whi c h 10 othe r wor d s, g l utting, with t Ptndles, l the rn glut ting the 11 , ve Yend our pom 1 ,1 i nconvertible 4 the prices of an d by them mt 1 f evert other Position of or Bu ckingham fc `ms hitherto do, The addre ss ( IL tr erent characi 't was rambling add ress itself to th e anti-corn-12 . 411 of sense ti flews of his par' It'• Cobden i `' l tars of the lead Iliterest; but wit' , shall be able Year, with respe 4 1% th e cu l t i va , ha ve o t h er men a ye contended milt ing the gra thr own out of c con tend that no :es he argue tl 011 11 1 ?Ie question 1 wion a pamp la ger of Lord t ,. and Farm '' 4 " wh en w h t h est land s h ou k ,li etdd rise or f 11 7 1 1 1 of the f orme a e at is 40s. IN ac re, varyin g in v 4 ' , ss. per acr 4 4 ilining this e Maintains t ltiat ter, the bet acr e, and the uc t e . I'Y that l an d r it was culti an acre now of °n', we ask th e congrega' suppom lu te men of an; statement ? Pc a htch we may 181) °sing of the not to `Q stan 11 41 of its desigi cultiv re ntal now, an e utal " years al t hos e "years al v g , price s o f o f al• The en k le ' ri t -e differ ent t h at 41.1 ; and the ran ee and a con 1 rfe ctlY astoun B ut what, le "'Nations this ! Il ve uhjectionF fo ß t r icultu re is f( re :Valuing 'l' t i l ° ll are bat 1 4 411 not stop t 0 ; 14 a t a period B° s• per qua Paces Could onli is Perfectly pos tT ir es might a] t to suppose oh x ' er ation of an II I st, alth oug h : l ie proved an ' l 4 it scarcely to Cobden with P arliament o tton and c le Safety to t: op png advocat of 'nary fallacii 11 "nob of mil ti,. ° constitute are satisfied, got up 1 (14 s atisfied, b) br oad even , 14 ad question toe Ptr ap and t 44 ' 8 Minds at p as s , ° , / ling. Er '''Y overratet