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I l 1.. SIR THOMAS LAWBENCE'A CABINET OF GEMS. Price 215., handsomely bound, containing fourteen beautiful Drawings from 'the pencil of the above etninent Master. This splendid Work is particularly recommended to the Pa trons of the Fine Arts. Subscribers names received by the Proprietor. at 3, Euston square; and by the Publishers, Frasers, 2!5. Regent-street; W. Grapel, Liverpool ; and Grundy and Co., Ahnehester. This Day is Published, ASERMON, addressed to the Church of Englandjlenefit Society. By the ltev. EIUGH M`NEILa. Price 6d. May be had of U. PATTissoN, Standard-office; T. KATE, Colltier-OffiCe j J. DAVENPORT, Raoelagh-street, and all other Booksellers. LIVERPOOL FESTIVAL. • XTENV SONG, " The Unwilling Brid e ," j us t p u bli s h e d , as .1.11 Sung by Mrs. Wo n at the late Festival. J. B. PALMER respectfully informs his Friends and the Public that he has just received a supply of the above chnired Song, which hitherto has only been in Manuscript. Music Warehouse, 16, Bold-street, Nov. 1, 1836. r l iII E DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE lor Novem ber, price 21. 6d. contains :--I. The Dublin Review and Thctor Alnrray.—ll. Alison's History of the French Revolt' tion.—i 11. Song, by Robert Gilfillan.—l V. The Plundersweiler Fair; a new Et hico-Political Puppet-Play, from Goethe, by J. S. Mackie, Gallery of Illustrious Irishmen : No. VII. Lord Charlemont. Part IL—VI. The Three Wishes.—Vll. The Ruined Abbey.—Vlll. Essays on the English Poets; No, I. George Herbert.—lX. Jane Sinclair; or the Fawn of Springvale; by W. Carleton, Author of "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry."—X. Songs of the Greeks; No. I. Dublin: William Curry, jun. and Company; Liverpool: J. Wahl' sl ey. FRASER'S MAGAZINE for NOVEMBER, Price 2s 6d., contaias : The State and Prospects of Whiggism—The Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse: General Harcourt—Lines on Peel Castle, Isle of Man—Secret History of the Irish Insurrection of 1803 —The Last of the Lairds. A Tale of the Highlands—The British Association at Bristol—Wraxall's Posthumous Memoirs —Heiress of Dunbar. A Legend—Unmerciful Flagellation of a Voluntary Doctor and his Friends at Belfast—Story's Songs and Lyrical Poems—The Spear-head—November Sonnets, by Morgan O'Doherty, Bart. *,,,* The Gallery of Literary Characters fo the Month con tains a full-length Portrait of Edmund Lodge, Esq., author of " Memoirs of Illustrious Personages:' Proofs are offered for separate sale, in sizes to bind up with his Folio, Quarto, and Octavo Editions. James Fraser, 213, Regent-street, London; and W. Grapel, Liverpool. public ltobito. WEST TRI4:SAVEAN MINING COMPANY. HE Director% Of the a b ove C ompany h ere b y g i ve Notice, T that a DIVIDEND of TEN PER CENT. upon the paid-up Capital of the Company will be in the Course of pay ment at their Offices, 19. Austin-friars, London, every WED ?mania' and FRIDAY after the 15th of Nnvembcr.next. 1-1 EN li Y LUCAS, Agent. 174, Dale-street, Liverronl, 18th Oct., 1836. KILLENVERRIS CONSOLS MINING COMPANY. MEM Directors ior the above Compant hereby give Notice, th;ir a DIVIDEND of TEN PER CENT. upon the paid-up Capital of the Company will be in the course of pay ment at their Offices, 19, Austin-friars, London, every TUESDAY and THuttsDAY after the 15th of November next. HENRY LUCAS, Agent. 174, Dale-strect, I,i •erpool, 18111 Oct., 1536. REETI-1 CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY. CAPITAL f..100,01X/, IN 20,000 SHARES OF £5 kiACtl. Depo.vit, £2 per Share. THIS is one of the largest Sets itt the County of Co r n wa ll, and will yieid a good Dividend before the First Annual Meeting. For Prospectuses, Reports of the Minpe, and Shares apply to HENRY LUCAS, Agent. 174, Dale -street, Licerroul, Oct. 21, 14, 1836. THE NORTH TAMAR SILVER LEAD AND COPPER MINING COMPANY. FirlHE SHAREH ()LI) E RS are re ques t e d to attend a I GENERAL MEP:TING To-moarrow, ( Wednesday, ) the 2d November instant, at Twelve o'clock, in the Clarendon buildings, South John-street, to receive the Report on the Pro gress of the Buildings and Machinery, and on other special business. By order of the Directors, JOHN CH EY N Secretary. THE DIRECT LONDON & BRIGHTON RAILWAY, A CALL of 1;2 per Share having been unanimously resolved lA_ upon at the General Meeting of the Subscribers to this Undertaking, - hell at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on the ISth of October instant, to he paid at such time or times as the Directors should appoint, the DireJtors hereby give No tice, and require the Subscribers to pay, between the 12th and 15th of November next inclusive, El per Share, being a moiety of such £2 Call, to Messrs. HANK EY, Bankers. Fenchurch street, London, or to Messrs. H A lA, WEsr, and Co., Bankers, Brighton, who are authorized to receive and give Receipts for the same upon the Subscribers signing the usual Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, which will be lea with the Bankers for that purpose. All Shares upon which the before-mentioned payment shall not be made within the time above limited will become forfeited. By order of the Directors. 11. DEAN, Secretary. 3, Chapelplaee, Poultry, London. 21st Oct. , Kati. •• • TUE DIRECT LONDON & tGirroN RAILWAY. rIFIHE new Certificates wilt he ready for d e li ver y t o t h e Sub- scribers in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts and old Scrip at the Office of the Company, in Chapel-place, Poultry, Loudon, on and after. the I2th of November next. By order of the l)irect',rs. DEAN. Secretary. 3, Chapel-place, Poultry, London, 27th Oct., 1836. IMPERIAL I3RASILIAN POSTOFFICE STEAM-BURT COMPANY. CAt'ITAL, £IOO,OOO. In Certificates of £5O earh. Deroi,it £5; and the remainder to be called tar as required. TItt'STEItS. Robert Cot , "slcurth, Esq. RoNert M'Cuknont, Thfanas Moxon, Esq. BANKERS. Mesrs. Barnelts, Hoare, and co. THE Company is based on a Contract with the Brazilian Government, by which the Nom of 96.00 t) milreis per an num is secured to the Company, in monthly payments u t 800 milreis far fifteen years; for c6riveving the Mails twice each month from Itio de Janeiro to Para and .hack, touching at the principal intermediate Ports; with the privilege of carrying Freight ant Passengers, besides various other immunities. The Tenstces have appropriated S(X) shares in the ahr.ve un dertaking fur ills:61,1160u in Liverpool; applications f will be received by u r•Which • Charles Irmsides, Esq., Edward Moon, Esq., c, the Provisional Committee, Nathan Cairns, ) who will make an allotment of the same on or before Saturday, the I2th November, when an immediate deposit of £3 per share will be required to be paid into " The Bank-of Liverpool," in the names of the Trustees. Liverpool 3lst ()doter, 1836. Prospectuses may be hail on application to any of the above gentlemen; where also Copies ot the Contract and Estimates may be seen. THE Run A I, CoNSTABUL .1 II Y CoAI 7 .IISSLON. The following is the proper estimate which the Mitish Mother forms of the trafficking and mercenary whig administration, in connection with the new-tangled, tyrai nical. sanguinary humbug, caileti "The Rural Constabulary. Commission": —" We have no hesi tation in denouncing this affair at the outset as a job of the very worst description; we denounce it not merely as a scheme to scrape up a little more patronage and perquisites into the Down in, -street office—that would be very innocent, and natural enough to men 'of great occasions'-- but alsu, and principally, as wile s , st e p in that sneaking but decided inroad upon the true ponalar privi'isges of the community, nut only as a whole, but to jt:,l::iniw stalivisions, which has been at the bottom of all ii , MP tt I • p Icy of late years. Is it not strange that men who c a o r 7,,l ) ,.7: l l :7!;kti.l.Y .,s calkin g al.Ont ' giving an enlightened people the insz Englimimt.,,seui nf res t rictive local affairs, are every da.y depriv in Si) doin„o. breakin ." Powers which they alreaiiik enjoy, and re and an l'inter t , t iV," he uPon that social feeling, that heartfelt w , tniet, wi,ivh :veal prosperity and local peace of his ~e , n I it t le Englishmen lieZrYitte e and rational man ought to have ? Let that it is from Via nce— revolutionized Prance —that ‘...,"" d • citralizati,in."—The fa c t ;„ , , Li , ,,, a ,, borrowing this system of huge deformity of t' .,. km ,w 3 '° :;:ll k i 4 i n c . : et this iyi,ich, like the I , :in Nights' Entertaimrtents," rides ~,,utheestillsaaut,iil,:dreiit,,, tohte JA,,lhan Poor Law Bull, and will not be shaken off, t Bill has created such deep loathin 4 is absolutely requisite t „ `utzhout the empire.t hat an armed police order s ot their co from the nneoncealeddisaffection of the lower P!oteet them from of England are .on the v ery ". trvmen. The rural y verge of rebellion ! . ;:eut mini"' FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. (From the correspondence of the Latdon Standard.) PA ars, Oct. 26.—The Charts, de 183 G, contains the following telegraphic dispatches:— " Bayonne, October 22, half-past six in the evening. GENERAL. COMNIAN DANT OF THIS 22D MILITARY DIVI SION TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. The Foreign Legion has, received 250,000 francs and pro visions. The convoy has been attacked at Villava by the Carlists, who were repulsed and dispersed. Soule Carlists were killed." The second telgraphie dispatch is amazingly long:— " Bayonne, Oct. 21, ten o'clock in the morning. "THE GENERAL COMMANDANT OF THE 20111 DIVISION OF TOE MINISTER OF WAR. " Gomez returned to Cordova on the 13th, and proceeded to wa.ds La Mancha on the approach of Alaix, who arrived at Cordova the next day. Rudd was on the 11th at Val de Penas. At his head-quarters it was not known what direction he in tended to take. The defiles of Sierra Morena were intercepted by bands. Andalusia could only be communicated with by Est reinadura. It appears that no engagement has taken place. " On the 17th, in the preparatory sitting of the Cortes, M. Beeerra was elected President; Messrs. Alazaga and Cevallos, Secretaries. "Two battalions of the moveable National Guards have left Madrid for Toledo. All the Carlist artillery has been trans ported into Biscay. It is expected that an attack will be made ou Bilboa. The Carlist head-qurters were removed to lisco riaza on the 19th instant." The contradiction which this dispatch gives to the false re port put into circulation in that capital, at Paris, and in London, of Gomez having been defeated by Alaix, ought nut to be for gotten. Letters from Valencia state, that all communications are in tercepted. The success of Gomez has created much enthu siasm. Hopes are entertained that the young Ortafla will be found. His father was killed, but according to a letter from Catalonia, the young man has been saved. PAR IS, OCT. 27.—The Chniie de 1830 of last night and the Moniteur of this morning contain the following remusd of the last news from Spain : " We received by express the following news from Madrid, of the '2oth instant :—' The Chamber of Procuradores is very severe in its examination into and verification of the qualifica tions of the deputies and the validity of the electors. " The election of the minister of war, ad interim, was an nulled. " The courier from Andalusia had not yet arrived." The Messager des Chambres, which is " a thick and thin" anti-Carlist paper, will insist on it that Gomez has been de feated. It relies on Quiroga's dispatch, dated Gren a da, O c t. 15, and on letters add re s se d - to the Eco del Cornmercio, from different points of Andalusia, and all which announce. that on .the 1-Ith Ginuez was defeated by Alaix, the former losing from 1,000 to I,`A/0 men. A letter from Madrid says that GomPz was reported to have invaded Estrama.dura, and to be in the neighbourhood of Truxillo. According to other reports, Gomez had divided his forces into two columns. ' The one, commanded by Cabrera, and com posed of the bands of Arragon and Valencia, marching towards Arragon; and the other, to be conducted by himself, into Estramadura. As to Espartero, he is in so bed a state that it was reported that he was about to reeross the Ebro. Money and provisions were most rare at his head-quarters ; but the government had promised to send both. • As to the Christinos general Peon, it appears that he has been driven away, if not shut, .by his own soldiers, because their pay was not received by them; and the Baron das Autas had the greatest difficulty in putting down the revolt. The soldiers elected Peon's successor. Thus the spirit of revolt has gained the army of reserve. Castanun was obliged to promise Ames and money to the troops, and then, but nut before, the drunken vag,bunds shouted " V{1:11 /a Heine" and " Vice la liberte." The Castilian notes down the fact, that 30 brigands bad ap• proarhed nearly to the gates of Madrid. Of course the brig ands were armed Carlists! The ETtignol informs its readers that the Carlists had requir ed at Poso Blanco to he supplied with rations. This news was sent to Madrid from the head-quarters of the Minister of W ar , at Almodovar de Campo de Calatrava. Seven Couriers had been sent off in different directions to assemble certain gene ral:4. The Castilian says that Sanz was on the 13th at four and a half leagues from the fort of St. Issidur de Leon with 300 men. In the fort the Christinus had resolved on defending themselves to the last drop of their blood. The Revista of the 23th says, that the effective force of Go mez's column is 700 infantry and 4UO cavalry. The Retista National of the 2001 ' publishes a letter from An dujar, dated th e 15th. It says that Gomez's band, being warmly pursued by the column of General Alaix at Lucerne, Montilla, and Carcabuev, returned on the 13th to Cordova, where it was still pursued by Alaix. Rodil covered with all his forces the march. On the 14th, at two in the morning, the advanced ;;card of Alaix surprised the advanced posts of the Carlists. Not a Carlist escaped. Alaix did not, however, succeed in li berating the prisoners in the Carlist bands, as he proposed do ing. Espinosa did not aid as be should have done, says the lievista, or the Carlists would have been destroyed. The streets of Cordova alter the combat, were encumbered with Carlist dead bodies, but the inhabitants cried loudly in favour of Char les V. The Liberal says that General Mina's health has been greatly i In proved. M. de Latour Maubourg, as you already know, took with him an old intriguer named Cazes, to Madrid; he has, however, left, orders having been giveu him on•his arrival to leave Mad rid in 24 hours. It is asserted, that several holders of the Spanish bonds have resolved on prosecuting the government of. Spain. M. August I legnard, a merchant of Nantes. has commenced; he has pre twilled to the President of the Tribunal of the Seine a requisi tion, setting forth that he is a creditor of the Spanish govern ment fora portion of the active debt. In consequence he so licits the President to authorise him, in conformity with the 555th article of the code, to•put an attachment in the hands of all debtors or all holders of, or depositors of, all assets, mer chandise, or assignments upon the colonies belonging to the Spanish government. On luesday, an attachment was placed in the hands of Messrs. Ardoiu and Co., in consequence of the said requisition. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. MONTREAL PAYERS. The reply' of dm House of Assembly to the speech of the Earl of Gosford at the opening of the session of the Assembly at Quebec 'is of a nature to leave little hope of an amicable arrangement with that hotly. After recapitulating his excel lency's observations, the assembly stare-N ‘ 1 We have not deemed it necessary to enter intoldetail upon the consideration of the various subjects adverted to by your excellency until such time es, according to promise, your excel lency shall have communicated to us the reasons which have caused the convocation of the provincial parliament. Your excellency, in limiting the subject to which you have called our attention under the present circumstances, has, no doubt, been actuated not only by the motives expressed by your excellency, but moreover by the consideration that, although this house has, during the great length of the last session, zealously laboured f,r the welfare of the province, and with that view adopted a great many measures which we deemed to be in accordance with the intention of his Majesty's government, our labours have been rendered abortive in consequence of the systematic rejection by the legislative council of all the projects of law calculated to remedy the past, to protect the people for the fu ture, to enlighten them, and advance their moral welfare, to nnproy e the i r social and physical condition, and to intrust them with those powers and influences on the constitution, the ad ministration of laws, and the management of their local affairs, to which they are entitled, and which aro guaranteed to them by the very principles of government. The circumstance of that body having continued unchanged must necessarily pre clude the idea that his Majesty intended to harass the country by the repetition, doting the present session, of scenes so dis creditable to the vicious constitution which it is attempted to uph l' i li i e ld." reply concludes by stating a conviction that his excel lency is sincere in his wishes to promote the welfare of the country, and entreats him not to rest satisfied with partial re forms, - but-to ascend to the source of the evils under which the country suffers. The Montreal Gazette of the 27th of September, alluding to the above. says—• " 13y their determination to adhere to their demand for the revolution of the legislative conneil before they vote the supplies, the assembly has put it out of his excellency's power to continue longer his game of see-saw. He can carry his conciliatory scheme no. fort her—heinust make his election between support ing the constitution inta ct, or. for th e sake of a year's supply, surrendering it up to Mr. l'apineau and his leash of hungry WEST WORCESTERSHIRE CONSERVATIVE MEETING. Ki,;dermlnster, Friday. Octobe r 8. The members oftho West Worcestershire Conservative Asso ciation dined together. yesterday at this !dace, in the Assembly room attached 'to the Lion Inn, which was expressly tined up fnr the occasion, and decorated with laurels and evergreens,. and the banners of Colonel Lygon, the conservative member for the western division of the county, and Mr. Packington, the unsuccessful candidate at the last general election. Imme diately over the:chairman.was a white and red silk dag, upon which . was written " Chc i rch and King." The recent manifes tation of the desfructive•Sipirit at Worcester has been viewed by all well-wishers of the constitution with feelings of indignation, and induced therti . to come forward and express their determi nation to uphold the institutions of the country. The Hon. W. Coventry occupied the - chair, being supported on his right by the Hon. Colonel Lygon, M.P., and on his left by Mr. W. Troy , ; and am o n g st th e g en tl emen prese nt we observed Mr. V. B. Best. the mayor of Kidderminster; Mr. B. Forrester; Mr. John Brown, of Leigh-castle • Captain Cotton, Mr. S. Godson. Mr. P. Onslow (Vice Chairman,) the Rev. Mr. Villiers, Mr. .J. Morton, Mr. .J. Hancox of Wolverley-castle, the Rev. T. Taylor, the Rev. T. Morgan, Mr. W. Hancox, Jun., Mr. T. Haller), Mr. J. Cookes, Mr. J. M. Gulch, Mr. W. Boycott, the R ev. A . B. Lechmere, Mr. H. Clifton, the Rev. Mr. Borough, Mr. J. Amphlett, Mr. W. Prattenlor, Mr. R. Barnett, Mr. J. H a r ve y, M r. J. Best, Mr. J. lingers, Mr. J. Hyde. Mr Smith, Mr..J. Dent the Messrs. Cart wri n a' ot, Mr. W. 11. Cook, Mr. Kent, Capt. Smith, &c. The company consisted of nearly 200 of the most influential gentlemen in the western division. CONSERVATIVE DINNER IN ESSEX. Addon, Werbiesdoti, October 2( . The "True Blues" of this neighlemi ho o d dined to..oether yesterday, in the large room of the Blue Boar Hotel here; the muster of the gentry and yeomanry of the district was such as might. have been expected from the loyalty and constitutional feeling which have always lifer) the characteristics of the men of Essex. Many days previous to the festival all the tickets which, f ro m th e s i ze of the apartment, could be issued, were purchased, and every evidencegiven of th e d eterm i nat i on was gi of the p eo pl e h ere t o maintain what they are well aware is their own interest—the conservtivi. , cause. Early in the af ternoon the members fur both divisions of the commits arrived in town, and were received with every dernunstrati:tn of ap plause and approbation, many of the inhabitants walking in procession, preceded by the local band of music, and by men carrying banners, all seeming eagerly anxious to evince their hearty concurrence in the principles which it was the purpose of the meeting to declare its determination to sustain. At five o'clock abut 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Amongst those present were Mr. J. P. Elwes, M.P., Mr. Quentin Dick, M . P., M r. George Palmer, M.P., Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., M.P., Mr. Thomas Biamston, M.P., Sir H. Smith, Bart. M.P., Mr. John Round, Mr. J. Haselford, Mr. C. E. Parker, Mr. Thomas J. 'Tatham, Mr. S. Wright, Mr. C. E. Round, Mr. S. Phillips, &C. &c. The Chair was taken by Mr. J. P. Elwes, M.P. LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS, WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS. Mr. Walter, Secretary to the Ten Guinea Loan Society, summoned a refractory brother for El Bs. The constitution of this fraternal association is very curious. The members, who must be of " known good character, of peaceable demeanour, and whose general good conduct will bear the strictest investigation," meet weekly at the Red Lion. Gilbert -street„ Grosvenor-square. Each pays 'ls. a week, 4d. for rent, and 4d. for drink, and at the end of the year he is en titled to a check for ten guineas. But at certain times a mem ber may anticipate the end of the year by drawing his money at the beginning out of a tottery. In the case in question the wheel turued up in favour of the defendant and two others, whom be joined in a ticket; but he, being a householder, was obliged to guarantee for the repayment on the part of three brothers, who had paid but a portion of the ticket. Mr. Plummer aanowledged that he owed the money, but he objected to the addition of Bd. a week fur the rent of a room which ha did nut outer, and the price of porter which ho did nut drink. Mr. Walter.—But, my dear fellow, one of your brothers un dertook to drink it for you, which you know is all the same in law. (Loud laughter.) Another brother volunteered to smoke your allowance of tobacco ; but your chair stands in the same place. Now if you bad been punctual you would have bad your lot and your pi s ie, and as you were not, I think that in stead of grumbling you ought to be thankful to the brothers who took youi part and did duty for you in your absence. (Laugh. ter.) You see, gentlemen, here's the card of the constitution of our society. Now brother Plummer has the use of his eyes as well as me. Brother Plunirner.—No, I havn't, because you wears spec tacles, and outside this you sticks on a spy glass. (Laughter.) Mr. Walter.—Well, gentlemen, as I was saying, here is the card, and if brother Plummer was not able to read, another brother could have read it for him'and proved that the two four pences a week were insisted upon. If he did not do that, he has no one to blame but his own plumbeosity. (Laughter.) Mr. Plummer.—What do you mean by my own pluinbeosity, I wants to know ? Mr. Walter was about to give the etymology of this word, but the Commissioners, fearing that that explanation would put an end to all feelings of brotherly love, told him not to mind it, and decided that Mr. Plummer was bound to pay according to the rules of the society. COURT OF REQUESTS.—THURSDA T. AN AbLICABLII SETTLEMENT.—The landlad y of the Hope public-house, iu the N e w- roa d, summone d a ru d e excavator for 16s. 6d. Consmissioner.—What's it for? Landlady.—Beer and gin. Excavator.—Ah ! but we've settled everything hamicably, Commissioner.—lndeed; bow does that happen ? Excavator.—Because I don't owe it all. (Laughter.) But, my good fellow, how do you call it. an amicable settle. ment? You say you don't owe the inuirey. 7 -But I do owe it. (Laughter.) Then you acknowledge the - debt?—NO, I does'nt. Don't trifle, sir. What do You acknowledge 11—V y, as I said afore—l said ve'll settle all by a ha:nit-able arrangement. Now just tell us what you mean 2—Won't I—now look's year—l acknowledges as this here 165.6 d. was di unk ; but how was it drunk, haye ? Vy' she conies in and drinks half, as a matter o'course; werry well then, if so be as she'll pay half, I a'int no objection to pay my half. You understands Me—if she goes and pays me 8s: 3d:, 'ity, I a'int no, objection what somedever to pay her jest the satire, and se by that means we're quits. (Laughter.) " Now, sir, how mulch do you think you ought to pay? Ax that there question of her, toy lord. (Laughter.) Plaintiff protested against any amicable arrangement. She assured the cotninissioner that the defendant had not only drunk all that was charged to him, but that he wanted to drink a great deal more. (Laughter.) Commissioner.—No doubt of it. Nor, Mr. Jubbs, what have you to say ? Defendant.—Vy, jest as I said afore. Commissioner.—Well, then, sir, you must pay it in a month. Defendant.—Werry well ; and if you catch es me in our tun nel, vy (here he nodded) you may, but you'll do more nor any on 'em—(laughter)—mark that, my lord ! Here the shaggy defendant adjourned to the public-house op posite, after an ineffectual attempt to induce the plaintiff to take something "cold without" at his expense. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the Ist instant, wil be performed the 'tragedy of RICHARD 111. Richard, Duke of Glu'ster Prince of Wales, Miss Chaplin. Earl of Richmond Mr. W. Howard. Duke of Buckingham Mr. Chaplin. Lord Mayor of Loudon Queen Elizabeth Mrs. Stanley. Duchess of York.. Mrs. Clarke l Lady Anne .... Miss Faucit At the end of the Play, A PAS DE DEUX, By Mr. J. Ridgway and Madlle. Marie. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN; OR, ALL VT THE DOWNS. Captain Crosstree .... Mr. W. Howard. Lieutenant Pike Blue Peter (with the Ballad of "Black-eyed Susan") Mr. G florucatitla. William Mr. Slaitar I SIMLII Miss Faucit. Dolly Mayflower.... Miss Chaplin. On WEDNESDAY, BRUTUS. Lucius Junius Brutus, Mr. Stuart; Tullia, Mrs. Stanley; Tarquinia, Miss Faucit. After which a BALLET DANCE. To conclude with the WRECK ASHOR E. Marinaduke Magog, Mr. Baker; Bells, Miss Chaplin; Alice, Miss Faucit. TO CORRESPONDENTS. I:he Verses of " J. II." shall appear on Friday. • . The object of " Gruel's" note has not been lost sight of. The challenge of the Rev. J. B. M'Crea to Father Maguire in our next. The versos of " Thos. E.," though creditable to a boy of 14 will nut suit us. We cannot answer the question of " A Constant Reader" posi tively—indeed it has given rise to a doubt in our minds which we had not previously entertained. If he will have patience until Friday we shall give him a definitive reply to his query. The doggerel of " Tom in the Middle" must have been in tended for " Grand-mamma." " Literary Notices" in our nest. . We are obliged to defer the report of Mr. Addam's eighth lecture until Friday. Vbe Eiberpool gitanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1, 1836 The French papers of Wednesday and Thursday fur nish us with the accounts of the proceedings at the erection of the Lsuror monument, which took plape on Tuesday in the presence of the King, his court, and ministers of state. This relic of Egyptian superstition, brought from Thebes, consists of a single block of por phory marble, on which are deeply sculptured hierogly phical representations and inscriptions in honour of I?hamses the 1., IL, and 111. (Sesostrisr,) and has been de posited on a spot renowned in France as the Place of the Revolution, and precisely where stood the instrument of death on which Philippe D'Egalite, the father of Louis Philippe, was beheaded a very short time after he had been the first in the National Convention to vote for the death of Louis the XVI. We envy not the feelings of the King of France at the painful reminiscences which this scene must have called to mind; Whilst we think that these things considered, as this memorial has been brought to France, an appropriate resting-place has been asigned it, were it not for the interruption it must give to the fine view which previously existed of a grand and uninterrupted vista when approached. If Louis Philippe thinks, as a matter of policy, that such a monument is calculated to obliterate the recollection of the days of horror, well and good; but if the line of Shakspeare was ever truly applicable to any monarch, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," it is particularly so to the pre sent French ruler. As a matter of pure taste, however, we candidly confess that a museum or temple expressly built for it would have been more suitable, if the Pa risians are to be taught to admire idolatry in exchange for their new theories of abstract human rights and po pular intelligence. It appears indispensable even to the temporary security of the present dynasty of France, that these displays should take place to divert the atten tion of mischievous spirits from contemplating greater follies, or possibly the performance of serious crimes. As a stupendous memento of that learned superstition which brought down the vengeance of the Deity, and destroyed an entire people, this obelisk on "La Place de Concorde" may have its uses; but, alas the French are neither a religious nor a reflecting people. The monument itself is termed by antiquaries a monolithe, and its transportation to Europe has caused itnniase labour and great expense. With regard to politics, there is nothing new of strik ng domestic interest from the French capital. The prosecution of the war against Constantine in Africa, and the departure of the expedition for that purpose, accom panied by the Duke de Nemours, the King's second son, had fully occupied the attention of the war department. The suspension of intercourse with the Swiss cantons had been relaxed, and the expulsion of the refractory re fugees was proceeding. The report of the committee nominated to examine the documents relating to the dis pute with France had not arrived, as it was not likely it would be tendered to the assembled Diet before yester day or this day. It is considered by some of the journals that the election of M. Mounard to the station of reporter of the committee augurs the triumph of the more violent section of the liberal party, of that which is most opposed to the influence or interest which France takes to herself in the affairs of Switzerland. M. Monnard was a leading member of the committee, the report of which on the the conduct of the alleged spy council occasioned the French Government to suspend its intercourse, ani to close the frontier. Our Spanish news, furnished by these papers, comes down to the 17th from Madrid. We give these despatches in another part, but there is great secrecy observed with regard to some of the telegraphic communications, which are dated after "night fall." Alaix does not appear to have more than 2500 men with him ; and, from the best information we can obtain, Gomez appeared to be moving with a view to gain the mountains of Toledo on his return, doubtless to preserve the immense booty he had obtained, and it ap pears that he had detached Carbrera, with a large body, for the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy. This appears the more probable, for we learn that on the 11t1A.two battalions of National Guards marched on the iglitfrona Madrid to Toledo. We must refer our readers sri to s ti tleemxta p rao f orio r ii f ti . tr a r r t y lr m , i a ll n u ce atr u: t r in e o s. ot . l te thi,scene oG said he has x- Ceeded his orders; but it is far more probable that he has been , governedby circumstances; whilst his generalship and intrepidity hitherto, it cannot b e d en ied , h ave created a roost powerful diversion in..favour of tile arms of his r If he succe e d s i n avo idi ng or defeating t rps. Said to be in quest o f hi m, and we have a presentiment that he w ill, i t w ill be a most ex, o l se .): al ar ow master,.. go a s u t s er e . o . tram-d nary proof of skill, courage, and devotion ; but i what , shall be said of his band of heroes and their Roman like perseverence ? We hope ere many days to have some interesting intelligence to furnish to our readers. The state of affairs at Madrid varies little from our last report. The Cortes had assembled, and had elected a speaker and secretary ; and they were proceeding to dis cuss the question of the regency, as the first and most important. The ultra-liberal party appears to predomi nate, if we may judge from the circumstance of M. De- caze, the private secretary to the new French ambassador, .having been peremptorily ordered by the government to 'quit Madrid! How will the French nation brook this insult ? General Lamour Maubourg had delivered his credentials to the Queen Regent, at a public audience, together with an autograph letter from his royal uncle. She replied briefly to the address of the ambassador. merely acknowledging the declared sympathy of Louis Philippe. A very numerous meeting. of Spanish creditors (bond holders) took place at the French Bourse on Thursday. After a disorderly discussion they came to a resolution not to accept the form of payment proposed by the Spa nish finance minister, whilst it was agreed not to press the payment in the present embarrassed condition of the go vernment. A petition to the King to interest himself with the Queen Regent, on their part, and to assist her against Don Carlos, concluded the proceeding.. This is all natural enough from thos:t whose patriotisM is govern ed purely by their pocket internsts. As a prist: , cript we add, from the Journal des Debats of Thursday, that Gomez, after having evaded all pursuit and out-generalled the forces of Quiroga, Rodil, Alain, and Espinosa, each superior to his own corps in numbers, and out-manoeuvred and out-marched them all, will really have crossed the Guadiana, on his route to gruxillo, and with the means of capturing the fortress of ruento Ove juna, at the western point of the Sierra Mountains ! The dinner recently given to Sir John Beckett, at Leeds, and his speech, are as decisive on the fate of the O'Connell Melbourne cabinet in Yorkshire, as our own recently noble festivals have been in Lancashire, with out enumerating those of East Worcestershire, West Worcestershire, and Essex. These manifestations of sound feeling on the part of the reflecting classes, com posing the great social community of the English people, are, as Lord Sandon pointedly remarked in his speech at the dinner meeting of our own Operative Conservative Association, " Another evidence of the expiring and mi serable state to which the efforts of the faction, opposed to the constitution of the country, are now reduced." Yes, my Lords Melbourne and Russell, they afford a striking indication of " those agonizing throes by which are marked their utter and final extinction :" Those efforts of our unreforming rulers, are now chiefly limited to a co-operative exertion with the priestly band of spo liators associated with the " justice -rent" conclave, and now headed by Doctors Murray and M‘Hale. Our rea ders will draw their own inference from the recent com munication of the former " pastoral" christian, to this upright body of Irish subjects! We have now passed through nearly two years of un mitigated whig-radical and pro-popery government— unmitigated in its principles—undefended in its morals —standing upon a false plea, and endeavouring to jus tify its acts, by a system 'of pleading at utter variance with all the accustomed usages of our mixed monarchy, and our family customs. Happily for the' interests of truth and experience, and the elucidation of justice in her fairer form, but unhappily ,for every other in the state, this downward movement of our imbecile cabinet, having no right or influence with the real people of Bri_ tain, and no unity of design within itself, has enabled us to discover effectually the state of parties—to sift the moral and political work of each section—to ascertain conclusively to what three out of four of them would, had each the power, without opposition, turn the working principle of the reform bill. It is an entire paradox, that these elements have hitherto worked together even for a common object, although that object were the ex tinction of our constitutional monarchy; and we are not in the least surprised to find, that the republican section is preparing to burst the bonds of its confederacy, and throw overboard the Litchfield house treaty, as Louis Phillippe has trampled upon the quadruple alliance, and turned his back upon the all-sufficient lord of Protocols ! The real English radicals have found out there was one party to the contract with whom they could not safely or even possibly go on; and that although he was the su preme dictator of the government of England—the " must" and the " will," and the hurdle-master over his troop of lambs, mules, and donkeys, it were yet not en tirely incompatible with the dignity of his high estate, as the King of the Beggars, to accept, as we learn, of a second thousand pounds, and to negotiate a truce with the factory masters, to serve his own peculiar Trish and popish political objects by aid of the most essential arti cle---rnoney ! We say, it is most truly unfortunate for the ministry, but useful to the country, that a Bell has been rang, and is still ringing, the clapper of which neither the chief of the Melbourne cabinet, nor his deputy can muffle, for the bell, aided by the pulling of the ostler, (Oastler,) who has been called to its aid, has given double tongue to unharmonious sound, and alarmed the prime minister himself in his slumbers at Brocket We envy not the consternation amongst the noble and mighty of the whigs—they richly deserve all the contempt and disgrace which will inevitably accrue to them from their unhal• lowed connexion; nor is it any part of our province to cleanse them from the mire of their own freely purchased political iniquity. Pretending to know nothing of the merits of the transaction to which we allude, beyond what is put before us in print, we leave Mr. Bell, Mr. Condy, and Mr. Potter to adjust its truth amongst them selves; but we have a right to draw our own inferences from the vote given, and apply its consequences to the advantage of the parties interested, in our own way, as politically opposed to them all. And now, as we are enabled to arraign the worthy confederates on far more serious grounds, let us cull a page from a powerful contemporary, who adduces a yet stronger ground of argument, than all that the exposure of the factory peccadilloes can effect. What says the London Times in its Friday's leading article ? " If the history of England were now to be written, materi als for it, at once authentic and invaluable, would be found in the vast conservative meetings by which every great town and district throughout England have of late been animated, and continue to be so, in the various classes and comprehensive numbers of those who attend them, the perfect unanimity of sentiment which they exhibit with regard to the one great evil, which now oppresses the British empire, and the one grand re medy by which alone it can be cured." Shall we extend a little further : " The evil to be guarded against, as is felt and declared by all conservative Englishmen, high and low, rich and poor, tem perate and zealous, is the danger of inordinate and wanton change, the sacrifice of the tried for the untried ; and the nature of the remedy is pointed out by that of the evil. It consists in a general and strenuous co-operation of those who love their country, for the persecution of all change not proved by satis factory evidence or reason to be indispensable to the public good, and for the overthrow of that weak and unprincipled Mi nistry, whose accession to office was the signal for such calami. tons experiments on the safety of the nation, while its continu ance in office is announced by its own members and their parti zans, to depend on, and be inseparable from, the unmeasured progress of revolution." Here is another full, and, we consider, an unanswer able justification for what we have recently written on the course and policy of the Melbourne administration ; and the talented writer's premises, as the grounds of that justification, are borne out by the declaration of him who, at the Edinburgh dinner, and when denouncing the House of Lords, declared himself its "organ-blotter." The meetings of Liverpool, of North Lancashire, and of Leeds, have furnished one page in the historical ca- reer of conservative England, sufficient in itself to dis- pute the entire authority of the Whigs, and to disturb the repose of Brocket-hall, had there been no disunion in the camp. And whether the mighty lord "do little" and " do less" has appeased the fears of the trembling Lamb, in his recent visit or not, the day of reckoning assuredly approaches; and the consolation of Francis the First awaits no one member of that piratical crew, who have been cruizing under false colours againSt the birth right liberties —the most choice inheritances of Eng lishmen. No, not even the belted knight of Spanish diplomacy will be enabled to exclaim "tout est perdu sur thoneur"—the case is hopeless, and the disgrace inevita ble. Well, a moral crisis then approaches, and how will the government meet it? Within the last fifty years three great principles have been started for the govern ment of her European family, of which Great. Britain is a leading member. We had, first, the age or march of rea- son commenced ; in France it performed prodigies of va- lour at a celebrated spot, now covered with an Egyptian pillar, and successively known as "La place de eoncorde" —"La place de la Revolution," and a variety of other names. Here, under the vision of the blood red cap of liberty, and aided by the presidency of Doctor Guillotin, it despatched in mock legality its thousands by day, whilst another tribunal acting as its confederate assisted it at night, d /a lanterne ! This principle was put down in France by Buonaparte at the battle of the sections—in England by the firmness of William Pitt. Since the peace of 1814, we have been assisted with a new principle in name, but, in reality, only a modification of the other, this has been denomi- noted the march of intellect, carrying in its right hand a crooked wand, a sort of accommodating hand maiden named reform,—this principle has been proved to be retrograde in its character, and its companion not only a base coquet in design, but an arrant jilt :in practice! The danger attendant on their united progress having been rerdered doubly apparent, from their becoming linked with an old associate of evil, and a common enemy to the welfare of mankind, as an engine of spiritual tvr ranv, the old English principle or preservation has been aroused from its slumber, and as that principle is based on the authority of scripture—on the code of morals— Nov. 1, 1.836. on the love of order, law, peace, and integrity, it is en tirely contradistinguished from the others, and having truth for its guide and rational freedom for its object, it acts with union and with concord, and will assuredly tri umph. We have strong reasons for believing that the Whig Cabinet is sadly disturbed—that its most valiant mem bers are suffering gYeat mental indisposition, arising from this manifestation of the preservative principle,—the cholera of unpopularity which sternly follows in its train, is a sad competitor for weak governors, and neither the fumigations of the Attorney-General nor the camphor bags of Mr. Rice, will prevent the convulsions that are threatening their ill-conditioned limbs, and now freely indicated by the pulse of their own paid organs of the press, one of which in terms of despair laments their ap proaching disorganization. Knowing as we do the game of O'Connell and his priestly supporters, armed with the spiritual authority of Pope Gregory, and proclaimed by his Nuncio, Dr. Murray, we confess we pretend not to "charity" sufficient (although appealed to by the learn ed Jesuit) as to be very sad fur the additional confusion and embarrassment which is given by its recent associ ates to a Cabinet already involved by its own dishonour able intrigues beyond the rational hope of extrication. Doctor Murray has had the presumption to appeal to the justice and generosity of a Protestant King of England for support of the men, who have dishonoured his crown, and who are prepared to advise that King to break his trust with the Church ; but the assumed moderation of this leader of Irish popery will avail little against the firmness of the Sovereign in this respect, backed as he is by the House uf Lords, and by the voice of the intelligent classes of a loyal and affectionate people. If those who are nominally his Majesty's Ministers, are at all capable of exercising reflection on the past or foresight for the future, they must be heartily tired of that condition of uncertainty to which they have reduced themselves and the power of their government,—they must see that they have prepared a crisis for themselves rather than for the English nation, by their jugglery in Irish policy. The feeble replies of Lord Melbourne and Lord Holland to Lord Lyndhurst's noble exposition in his remarks upon the Lord's proceedings with regard to the Municipal Bill and its rejection by the Ministry, would lead one to infer, that they must have bad great lack of information with regard to the probable disturb ance of the public peace in Ireland, or the display of popular commotion likely to be got up in favour of their violent course,—here, their expectations have been foiled, and the hopes of their guardian angel frustrated—the blustering agitator has been nearly as much disappointed in Ireland as he was last year in England ; for after all he has made but little progress, compared with the means taken, and the government patronage of the Lord Lieu tenant placed at his hands, independently of the indi vidual exertions made by the ministerial representatives in their various circles. Falsely insincere as the Melbourne Cabinet has in controvertibly proved itself to the icterests of the Irish branch of our Protestant establishment, it has dug a pit for others into which it has deservedly fallen itself—de feat and despair now stare it in the face—its prop has proved in reality a broken reed, and the inflated vanity which led O'Connell to rely on the impression, that his tour to our manufacturing districts would have produced a popular demonstration against the House of Lords here, of which there now exists no hope of his being en abled to accomplish, has also led him widely astray with regard to Ireland. The difference between him and Mr. Sharman Crawford, has proved as fatal to his promise of obtaining for his proteges the exclusive and unanimous support of the Irish radical interest, as his expectations ' with regard to England were chiefly and deservedly • frustrated by his own violent letter against that illustri ous assembly, which aroused the first feeling of indigna tion against the government, which could afterwards give him countenance, whether previously, or not, im plicated in that discreditable procedure. There was, therefore, abundant reason for the ministers having lost ground with the reflecting classes in this country, and in Ireland with the Protestants, en masse, even before the termination of the last session ; for their lame defence in no way exonerated them from a connivance with, if not a direct participation in, that hostile declaration and its ruffianly abuse of the hereditary Peerage, replete with. sentiments wholly unsupported by the English nation, and decidedly objectionable, however presumptuously ' they may deny it, to the personal feelings of the King. Who then can wonder at the position into which Lord Melbourne and Lord Jokn Russell have brought them selves ? Will their parasitical apologists of the Strand, with all their brassy effrontery, tell us, that the King of England grieves, because " a heavy blow to, and a severe discouragement of, Protestantism" has beenfirBt averted by his faithful peers, and their decision now freely responed to by his loyal subjects ? In the language of our powerful contemporary the London Standard, more than a match for the very best of them : " We take this defeated measure as the key of all the rest and such as it is, whether considered as the essential article of that treaty which keeps Lord Melbourne in power, or as the public act of homage, by which Lord Melbourne's cabinet ac knowledges its master!" It cannot be too often impressed upon the attention of the people of England, that the corruption of popular representation in the reformed parliament of the House of Commons, is already rendered by the confederated factions more prejudicial to the consistency and security of the state itself than all the alleged corruption of the old borough system—the Carlow and Manchester jobbery to witness. This evil can only be removed by the people them selves, and by what means we have freely pointed out to As a people, dead indeed should we be to the evidence of our common understanding, were we not fully alive to the advantages of a rationally reforming administra tion ; and having seen both sides of the question, the• conviction flashes on the mind, that from Sir Robert Peel's admini%tration we had everything to hope—from the present everything to fear! We make no reserve on this point—we owe it as a duty to our fellow-citizens —we owe it a matter of loyalty to our King, and of common respect to our own judgment, to declare that the ruin of this country is consequent upon the stay in office of the present Cabinet. ‘Ve use no improper _ . terms—we start no improbable hypothesis; but we build on matter of fact data, furnished by those we condemn,. and let their time-serving supporters refute it if they can. 'We are willing to take issue with the entire Ca binet upon three speeches last delivered in this town, by Lord Sandon, Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone, and though we cannot possibly go into that discussion to-day, for our municipal election merits some share of our attention, deeply connected as that election is with the prosperity and comfort of its inliabi:ants, by the return of men attached to sound principles in re ligion and government, we unreservedly assert, after an attentive perusal and consideration, that the address of the latter gentleman was altogether so explanatory and conclusive, as not to leave our opponents a leg to stand upon, nor the opportunity to gainsay the keenly illus trated political declension of Mr. William Evrart. The independent men of Liverpool are now too much alive to what is due to themselves, and due to their common country, to be any longer gulled by vain sophistries, or deceived by idle and unmeaning promises. We must have honest men in the Cabinet—hone, t men in the House of C ommons, an d , as a necessary ad j uvan t, honest men i n th e T own C ounc il , an d not allow reform ed acts of p ar li ament, if reformed they be, to b e per verted to the purpose of infringing on our religion .?ILJ tni! our domestic liberties. Although we may happen to differ with his Worship the:, Mayor on political matters, we make no scruple of expressing our conviction, now that his term of office has drawn to a Close, that, under the present constitution of the council, their selec tion of Mr. Currie was the best that could have been wade. Mr. Currie has for a long series of years advocated popular principles—has more than once figured on the balcony of-the Bull Inn, Clayton-square, and has furnished no small quota of respectability to the party with whom he has long been identi fied. By his speeches and writings (for the Mayor is a literary character) he has helped forwards the movement in this town, and radicalism owes much of its triumph here to bis powerful k < . FRIDAY. MASTER SLENDER AND HIS Boos ot , SONNETS!—A very sentimental, and withal, very consumptive looking gentleman, about 20 years of age, wearing a round blue jacket, and his shirt-collar turned down d /a Byron, was summoned before Mr. Commissioner Dubois, by a bookbinder named Harrison, fur payment of the sum of six shillings. What do you say to this? asked Mr. Dubois of the defend ant. Defendant—Say, sir, why I could write a whole volume upon it. (Laughter.) You must know, sir, I have a taste for poetry, and having sonic idea of setting up in that line, I writ a great many fugitive pieces —rich as sonnets, and sich likes; and as it was my intention to employ Mr. Murray to publish 'em, I thort I'd have'm all hound up together, so as to look decent and tidy. (Laughter.) Well, sir, and gentlemen of the jury, this here's the book, and I mean to say the binding's a disgrace to my genus. (Laughter.) Mr. Commissioner—That's a great pity—just hand it up— (The thing was done in blue morocco, and resembled a large cyphering book.) Will you allow me to read a portion of the contents to the jury? Defendant—\'Pitt► inconceivable pleasure, sir. The Commissioner here read to the Court the following por tion of a sonnet to Mr. Graham's balloon ! " Great Gawky, wonder of the hopper skies, Oh, how I loves to see yer body rise ; There's lots of fear, although they tries to mask it, As they hangs dangling in a wicker basket; For me, when'ere I takes a hariel ride, I means to book a place in the hinside— And mounting huppards to the hopper skies, I shan't feel giddy t.—eos shot both hies!" Although the whole Court was convulsed with laughter, Master Slender maintained the most imperturbable gravity. The Commissioner intimated that there were odes to Daniel O'Connell—" Sonnets on my mother," and a few tender epistles "to Sarah." The worthy Commissioner, on charging the Jury, 'observed that the value of the binding could be estimated alone by a bookbinder. The contents of the book was mere rubbish; hut it did not follow that the bookbinder was to charge an exhor hitant price for what certainly appeared to be a very indiffer ent binding. The Jury decided that 45., with the payment of costs, was amply sufficient. CHEAP LooGINGs.—A very intelligent girl, named Mary Morgan, was summoned for is. 9d. lodging money, at 3d. per night. The poor girl, who had evidently been well educated, assured the Commissioner that she was not unwilling to pay, but that she could not; and as to the value of the lodging, there were 18 persons all sleeping in one room I—they were all hud dled together like so many swine. The plaintiff, who looked the very essence of depravity, pres sed for an immediate payment ; hut the Jury considerately al lowed the poor girl a period of two months fur payment of the debt. On yuittin;.• the Court she respectfully and feelingly thanked the Commissioner and the Jury. WINE TRADE. The total importation of all wines into the United Kingdom for the year 1835, amounts to 9,039.551 gallons, being a de crease, as compared with the irurrtations of the preceding year, of 726,565 gallons ; this is immense. The total deliveries from bond for home consumption and exportation, fur 18 , 35, are 8,293,9'5i gallons, being an increase over 1834 of 174,258 gal luny. The total stock of wines in the United Kingdom of all sorts, on the sth January last, amounted to 9,776,140 gallons, which shows an increase upon the previous year's stock of 690,598 gallons. PORT3.—The importation of Portugal wines during 1835, amounted to 4.269,890 gallons, or upwards of 37,000 pipes. The deliveries for home consumption, 2,780,024 gallons, being a trifling decrease as compared with 18.31. The export deliveries of Ports were 475,084 gallons, showing an increase upon 1834 of 178,546 gallons. 'fhe stock of Ports in bond 'n the sth Jana- ary last, was 4,218 264 gallons, or nearly 37,000 pipes, the Loa- I don stock alone in August last being 24,100 pipes, showing an increase, as compared with the same stock upon the sth Janu. ary last, of 3,250 pipes, so that if the ontports have increased in the same proportion, the market most remain heavy. Trig INTAGE.—No material difference of opinion, it is thought, can exist as regards the Port vintage of 1835. The rain commenced on the 19th September of that year, and conti nued until the 12th October during nearly the whole of the gathering, which dest ro y e d - a ll p rev ious hopes of a favourable vintage. Almost all the grapes were gathered in rain ; • and the vintage, therefore, as regards quality, Inuit be Fieldale a failure,- , although as to quitntity it was an average crop'. The 'Port Witty' trade is now untiera tieuCs'ysteni, which has not yot had -time-to develupe itself; .the future value of =Ports; the'i efore - can not , he , stated, although it must nothe forgot thatthetracte in Portugal is unrestricted, and increased facilities- ace thereby afforded .to the merchant and grower.. ' . . SLIERRILts.--The total import .0.1 - Sherries last: year amounted to 2.732028 gallons, or 23,756 pipes, being a decrease - 42ND the previous year of 714,585 gallons; or 6213 pipes, The total de.: liveries of Spanish wines for home consumption last year are 2,230.187 gallons, being a decrease upcn the former year of 49,666 gallons. The deliveries for the.present year .will tend te, decid e whether thisarticle has arrived at its maximum of demand' for home use. The total stock of Spanish wipes on sth Jan. last,Was 3,699.239 gallons, a .flecrease• err the 'pre v i ous y ea r O r 241,282 gallons. This evidently arises from a:ditniaigherl ply, and is calculated 'to relieve,' in some - degree, the great 'Ores; on the market,: anti thereby faeilitate sales. The Stock, k however, is too heavy, and the holders too pressing, to afford prospect of any improvement in prices. The London stock alone, on the 31 s t A ugust last, was 21,716 butts. The vintage of 1835, both us to quality and quantity, is held to be a full average. Ma nErn A.—The importation of this wine, which of late years a decrease of 167,873 gallons upon the pre ha s been languishing in the British market, amounted to 2(54,825 gallons only, being h a e nd to l ta u l at i l ml y o . rtati ons of these Yines last vious year. The vintage of 1835 is repteseuted as being defi 70i gallons more than the im ciernitz E b ri o c t a N s v r i o N r s a — lit t y i sr )( T i r .t r s was 18.33701.,44,11,hgea total consumption h b , i; m ing deliveries of 183.5 were '271,361, being an increase over those of 1834 of 11,031 gallons. The stock of French wines on the tth of January was 319,350 gallons, showing a decrease, as compared with that of January 1835, of 38,706 gallons. The Claret vintage of last year is considered a failure as to quality; it is deficient in body and colour. and vapid in flavour. The Otarets of 1831, concern ing which so much difference of opinihn'existed, appear to have materially improved, and have been sought after us the only available wines to succeed the vintage of 1831. A good Claret vintage is much wanted, and the present year promises this, unless spoiled by the weather before it c a n b e realized. Although the home demand for Fr e n c h w i nes in 1835 appears to have slightly increased, this improvement is not ap plicable to Claret. Champague has materially i ncreased in consumption, and the French Ports have also swelled th e h ome deliveries. The rental ks relating to Cape, and other c h eap anro: of littlea hilml()n1 interestby t o t r be e e x s t p r erespectablerespectablepo r ti on o f t h e trade, Port, Sherry, and Claret, seem the staple articles of British use.--Seutsman. We learn from Kneel that, during the storm of Wed nes d ay night, about thirty fi boats were wrecked on th e b each o fshing Derry oge. The loss is estimated at between two and three hundred pounds, a loss which, the poor fishermen, will be all but ruinous.— Newry Telegraph. GER MA NRA IL 1(0A D.—lt is a remarkable fact that in the for mation of the railway between Prague and Pilsen,The individuals employed were chiefly females, each of w hose . wages am ounte d to about 6d. a day. There were upwards o f 2000 regularly engaged as labourers, in forming the embanktnents, excavating the soil, &c. During the two first years the engineer was able, iu the course of 40 English miles, to cut no less than 696.465 cubic tardy, and to, construct 807,814 cubic yards of embankment, besides laying the war with malleable rails. lie erected euring these two years 73 bridges from three to 18 yards each, with 133 culvees; and be also made 236 waggons. Aud 411 this at au expense of about £75,200 sterling.—Strany's Germany.