The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-04 00:00:00

THE STORM. (From the Morning Herald of Friday.) On Wednesday evening a storm commenced in the metro polis which continued with intermissions throughout the night, and between two and three o'clock on Thursday morning the wind, and rain, and hail, and thunder , s and li g htning seemed to be contending for mastery with almost unprecedented violence. The flashes of lightning were remarkably vivid, and succeeded each other in rapid suc cession, and were quickly followed by peals of thunder that shook the houses in the northern parts of London and the neighbourhood to their foundations. The following are the only disasters from the storm that we have yet heard of, but we fear the damage sustained will prove to be very extensive. Shortly after four o'clock ‘esterclay afternoon the persons engaged in the long room at the Custom House were suddenly greatly alarmed, in consequence of a large portion of the glass from the windows fronting the Thames being blown in, as also the dead lights. The damage done is very_ consider able, but no person recetVe - dltie On Wednesday evening a large stack of chimneys at Spitalfields workhouse fell with a tremendous crash into the centre of one of the sick wards, burying in the ruins several of the inmates who were sitting round the fire. An aged man named Moss was killed, it is supposed instantaneously, and four men and one woman have sustained very severe contusions. A young man was blown overboard a west-country barge yesterday morning off Battersea, and was unfortunately lost. - Numbers of boats, barges, and logs of timber, were seen floating about the river, dashing violently against each other, having broken from their moorings. Kensington Gardens, Hyde, St. James's. and the Regent's Parks, are strewed with trees of every description, that have been torn up by their roots. The coachmen and guards of the various mails and stage-coaches represent the storm to be one of the most violent that has been known for many years past. Between the Lower-road, Islington, and the Kingsland road, the violence of the storm was particularly fell. About half-past five yesterday morning the electric fluid struck the back part of the residence of Mrs. Hannah Gaylor, a widow lady, residing on Canal -terrace, Kingsland-road, and forced in a portion of the wall of the first floor story, to the extent of several feet. Fortunately uo person was in the room. Reports are rife of considerable injury having been done amongst the shipping in the Pool. THE Rays:R.—When the tide rose vesterday morning, at a few minutes after twelve o'clock, the river was swollen several feet above its usual height, overflowing the banks on both sides, and, for two or three hours, the low streets in the neighbourhood of Horselydown, Rotherhithe, and Bankside, were inundated. Up the river, towaris Chelsea, Battersea, and Kew, the water presentedalmoSt double its widtb, carry ing away with its strong current several huts and habitations of poor fishermen, whose condition and cries were of a most distressing description. Deptfnrd, Greenwich, 'Woolwich, and various other waterside places, have sustained consider able injury, the river having flowed into the houses situated on the banks, and several have become in ruins, the walls having sunk from the effect of the water far beyond their foundations. In the river, from London-bridge to Deptford reach, the shipping presents a woeful appearance from the violence of the hurricane, which roared with tremendous fury, carrying with it rigging and everything thatcame in its way; innumerable tiers of vessels were carried away from their moorings, and drifted against other tiers, which were either driven from their anchorage, or the craft stove in, and the rigging smashed to pieces. During the raging of the storm a flash of lightning struck a factory chimney on the premises of Messrs. Cuthwell and Co., shipwrights, Leaver Itotherhithe, and shivered it to atoms. It was not until between two and three o'clock on Thurs day morning that the tempest brought its full force to bear upon the neighbourhood of Piccadilly and the parks. It was at that time truly awful in that quarter. The clouds which had hitherto swept along in broken fragments, had crowded into one dense mass, and covered the whole horiion with more than midnight darkness; the moon had . totally disap peared, the rain came down in torrents, the wind blew, the thunder pealed, and the lightning may be said actually to have blazed in the firmament. Perhaps one of the most magnificent objects, taking all these circumstances together, that ever presented itself to the human eye, was to be seen for an instant at Hyde-park Corner. The aid of powerful contrast was not wanting to complete the picture of the sub lime. At first there was nothing to be seen hut the quivering light of the lamps, which the storm was threatening to ex tinguish. The park itself was wrapped in the deepest gloom, when suddenly a single flash illuminated the whole visible horizon. The effect was indeed electric. It is astonishing what a multitude of objects were presented to the eye and impressed upon the mind in one short moment, and in the brief revelation of a single glance. The magnificent gate way, the figure of Achilles, the trees, the houses, were exhi bited with a sort of supernatural distinctness and collective ness, and then sunk into darkness again. It was like magic —it was lightning. As the storm rolled on to the north-west the flashes and thunder-peals were repeated at intervals, but its fury did not last above twenty minutes in the neighbour hoed of Hyde-park and Brompton. After that period the clouds in these neighbourhoods began to disperse, but flashes, though fainter and fainter, still continued tri cross the eye of the traveller, and the distant roll of thunder, decreasing at every repetition, but removed it to another scene. We can not better conclude this account than by the following extra ordinary circumstance connected with this phenomenon, which we copy front the Standard of last night : " The storm in the metropolis last night and this morning was one of the most severe to be remembered. It is hut jus tice to Mr. Murphy to say that he predicted it to the hour; and t o add that the predictions of his altnanack generally have been fulfilled with remarkable fidelity as regarded all that may be called extreme variations of the weather, though there have been aberrations, but not numerous or serious ones, in his anticipations of lighter changes. After the ex perience of the last year, it is scarcely possible to doubt that the author of the Weather Almanack' has arrived at a prin ciple, which, carefully and scientifically followed up, may enable us to calculate almost with certainty upon atmosphe i rical changes." (From the Morning Herald, of Saturday.) The severe hurricane, attended with thunder and lightning which commenced on Tuesday night, and continued during Wednesday and Thursday, was, on the night of the day nearly as severe on Wednesday night. During Thursday were numerous showers attended with violent gusts or wind. As the evening advanced vivid flashes of lightning streaked the heavens in rapid succession, and about 10 o'clock the metropolis and its environs were visited by a thunder storm, the effects of which were most felt westward of town. About Hammersmith, Shepherd's Bush, Fulham, &c., it was ex tremely severe, the rain descending in torrents, while the rolling of the thunder and the bowling of the wind was most terrific, when at its height a policeman of the T while endeavouring to gain a shelter from the pelting of the storm, was struck, opposite Lee's nursery ground, near Ham mersmith turnpike, by a flash of lightning, which nearly de prived him of his senses: and he describes that the house which he was passing, at the moment he was struck, appeared to him to be enveloped with blue flames. Between twelve and one o'clock a tremendous storm of hail came on, which, however, lasted only a few minutes, after which the moon burst forth ma resplendent light until between three and four o'clock yesterday morning, when it again became cloudy, and about four o'clock there was another storm of thunder and lightning. During yesterday the weather was more serene, the wind having shifted to the west, with but little rain. From the accounts which have reached us it would appear that the ravages or the hurricane, although its duration has been longer, have nut on shore been so extensive and la mentable as that of the 28th of November, 1837. On that memorable occasion in Kensington-gardens, in one planta tion, 25 venerable and lofty trees were made to bite the dust, rearing their massive roots high in the air, by one single gust. On this occasion, however, the damage done in either the gardens or in any of the royal parks has been compara tively triflin g . At Kensington and along the road as far as Turnbatn green, with the exception of a tew tiles, chimney-pots, &c., scarcely any damage has been done. At Ealing; at.d west ward towards Uxbridge, Harefield, &c., and on to Bucking hamshire and Hertfordshire, from the excessive rains most of the fields are under water, and the cross-lanes leading between the various villages are almost impassable. On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, Policeman John Hussey, 'l' 114, had a most narrow escape from being struck dead by lightning. While passing ou duty along the Addison-road, Kensington, the electric fluid struck hint with such violence as to deprive him both of sight and speech. In the course of the morning he, however, gradually recovered both faculties, and has nearly got over the shock. At about a quarter past four o'clock on Thursday afternoon one of the most singular accidents occurred at No. 2, Stone buildings, Lincoln's Inn. Just as the gentlemen were leav ing their chambers, a dreadful crash from the roof downwards struck terror into all present. It appears that a stack, con sisting of eight iron chimneys, had yielded to the pressure of the elements, and fell through the skylight, taking with it a large portion of a massive stone staircase, and sinking to a considerable depth into the foundation of the building. T. persons narrowly escaped with their lives. A Mr. Fitzpatrick, in the act of coming out of Mr. Spence's chambers, was vio lently struck on the head by a portion of the descending ruin; but though his hat was crushed be miraculuusly es caped personal injury. Had he been two steps higher up the staircase he must inevitably have been killed. The other party, a lad, was at the bottom of the stairs at the moment, bat 'the mass swept past and left him unhurt. The injury done to the building is very considerable. The noise occa sioned by the fall was heard at a great distance. Yesterday afternoon the melancholy tidings arrived in town of a ship having gone down on the Goodwin Sands, with the loss of all hands. During the squally weather on Thursday morning a laden coal-barge, navigated by two lightermen in the employ of Messrs. Vesey and Pate, was proceeding up the river, When the Diamond steamer passed her going down, and the united force of the swell raised by 'her and the wind, which blew very hard at the time, swamped the barge, and it almost im mediately went down, and discharged the cargo, 35 tons of coals out of her. The two lightermen were for some time struggling in the water before the crew of a Thames police galley could reach them, when they were picked up in the most exhausted condition imaginable and conveyed ashore. The barge, after being emptied of the coals, rose bottom-up wards and was towed to a place of safety. (From the North Devon Advertiser.) On Wednesday morning last, a fishing boat, belonging to Mr. Richard Blackmore, called the Lyr.mouth, of Lyninouth, left that place about three o'clock in the morning; at half past ❑ine a squall came on, by which the boat was instantly filled, and the crew, consisting of the owner, with two men, named Richard Fay and John Widlake, were lost. Another boat, with two hands on board, was missed in a dense fog about 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and has not since been heard of. (From the Cornwall Royal Gazette.) Owing to the late excessive rains the river Camel has risen to a prodigious height. Indeed the waters have never been so much swollen, since the water-spout which burst a little above Ca melford, about 30 years ago. On that occasion many persons were assembled to witness the flood, when they ob served a hare sitting in a hay-rick which had been carried away by the stream, apparently quite unconcerned ; and yes terday, as some people were gathered together at Buscarne, about a mile and a half from Bodmin, watching the swelling of the same river, they observed a cock-pheasant, swimming dow❑ the torrent, and looking around him from side to side, as unconcerned as a duck. They watched him till they could see him ❑o longer, and he still kept his scat. Perhaps the extreme ripidity of the water prevented him from taking flight, and he was probably drowned. (From the Dublin Eveniny Mail of Wednesday.) For several days we have had, with little cessation, avio lent gale of windfrom the south-east, accompanied with a heavy fall of rain. Yesterday morning the storm increased to a hurricane, and we understand blew with such fierceness at Kingstown that the I tolvhead packet boat did not venture to sea. In the afternoon there was a lull; but we regret to say that towards morn in:: the storm arose again, and has con tinued with unabated violence to this hour (two o'clock). The fall of rain, an unusual circumstance with so high a wind, has been one of the heaviest in our recollection; and all the low grounds in the neighbourhood of the city are co vered with water. We have not heard of any positive da mage done; but we fear the worst accounts may be expected from the coast. (From the Dublin Evening Packet of Thursday.) The weather during the whole of yesterday was extremely tempestuous. A large French vessel, laden with runt, brandy, and wheat, was driven ashore on Tuesday at a place called Six-mile Point on the Wicklow coast; one of the crew fell from the main-yard, and the other hands, from the petit in which they were themselves placed, could nut render him any assistance; A pilot boat put. cut to the assistance of the 4 vessel, and upon returning to shore it was swamped in the surf, and out of five men who were in at the time two, who were pilots, were unfortunately drowned. The ship is now aground. In the afternoon the sea presented an angry ap pearance along the coast. The Dodder overflowed its banks, and the water rose to such a height as to reach nearly the tops of some of the small houses in Serpentine Avenue. The line of railroad at the engine depot, near the Dodder bridge, presented the anomalous sight of a railroad and ca nal at the same place, for the stream was there at some height, and running with considerable rapidity. Owing to the severity of the weather for the past three or four days there are no less than 14 steamers, besides nu tnerous sailing crafts, detained in Kingstown-harbour. The Holyhead steamer, which started at nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, had to put back after clearing Kingston-harbour. A collier was lost on the Kish Bank on Monday; the crew fortunately got on board the floating light ship. Wicxeow, Nov. 27. —At half-past 11 o'clock this morning -- E - Francti lirissin distress rounded this head, when a boat manned by five brave fellows put out to her assistance, de spite the entreaties of their families and friends, it being the opinion of the inure experienced that no boat, however ably managed, could live in the tremendous breaker 4 dashed in by a heavy gale front the south-east. Notwithstanding, these poor fellows pulled oft to the aid of the brig, and they made for her amid shrieks of despair; but she stood out again. Still the skiff, with resolute boldness, pursued her, knowing her perilous situation, and conceiving her crew to be ignorant of the harbours that could shelter her. When about three miles distant from the land, the brig was stricken by an awful sea and rendered altogether unmanageable. She then reeled round towards the land, the skiff still following, and ran ashore at Six-mile Point, where an awful scene ensued, for the moment she struck the skiff was upset, and her five hardy fellows committed to the raging billows, two of whom, named Carter and Merigon, struggled for a while and then sunk to rise no more the latter was the only support of an aged and widowed parent, who with difficulty was prevented sharing the same grave with her son. The remaining three reached the shore almost lifeless. As to the saving of the brig's crew, no description could do adequate justice to-the intrepidity and resoluteness of Mr. Jones and the men of the coast guard under his command. Having tied ropes about their bodies, Mr Jones and one of his gallant men faced the mountainous billows, and though repeatedly dashed and crushed to the earth beneath their fury, still they braved them till they reached the vessel. They found the crew, six in number, quite exhausted, and they succeeded in lodging them comfortably iu the station-house at the Point. The captain of the brig is in a very weak state; he and his men are foreigners. As yet, nothing has been ascertained re specting-her cargo or intended destination. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 28.—1 t is rumoured this morning that the brig above-mentioned turns out to be a smuggler, laden with brandy and rum. WEXFORD. Nov. 28.—During the last four or five days, the wind has been blowing with great violence in a south-east erly direction, right against the most dangerous part of our coast. On Sunday night it arose nearly to a hurricane ; and the fearful apprehensions for the fate deny unfortunate ma riners that might be in the south of St. George's Channel, were but too unhappily realised in the morning. The Ariadne, of Belfast, laden with timber from Quebec, first struck on a rock near Tuskar Lighthouse, and was afterwards driven in a north-westerly direction among the sand banks near the Ra ven Point, north of the entrance into our harbour. She is a complete wreck, but most of the timber will be secured. Six of the crew perished; but through the active exertions of Lieutenant Lett, four of the coast guard and James Furlong, a young man belonging to the town, nine persons, who clung to the wreck, were saved from a watery grave. On the saute night the Watervritch, of Glasgow, bound to Leghorn, laden with coal and bales of wood, was driven in among the rocks, near Carnesore Point. No lives were lost, and it is expected that the cargo will be also saved. Doctor Waddy and a few others of equal bravery ventured through the surf, and brought t he crew safe to shore. —Wexford Conservative. WATERFORD, Nov. 28.—1 n the course of Monday night the barque Isabella, of Preston, Captain Berner, from Per nambuco, for Liverpool, entered the harbour, and went aground on Druuiroe Bank, a large shoal below uncannon and Passage. She had lost her sails, and appeared to have suffered much at sea. As the wind moderated during yester day, we may entertain every hope that she will be got off with little damage. There are upwards of 60 vessels windbouud iu the roadstead of Ballyhack and Passage of Waterford, owing to the prevalence of easterly gales. — Waterford Mirror. CORK, Nov. 27.—With the exception of the memorable and destructive snow storm in February last, by which suc h devastations were committed among the shipping in our har bour, we have not been for years visited with - such a ti erne a dons gale as that of Monday night. It commenced to blow hard from the S.E. at 11o'clock, at 12 the gale increased, and from one to six o'clock this morning, without a moment's interruption, a hurricane from the S.W. prevailed, the effects of which we look for with no little anxiety. Several houses in the more elevated parts of the city have been, some partially, others entirely stripped—whilst trees that had sustained the storms of many years gave way, and were torn up by the 'roots. Blackpool presents a scene of much distress and con fusion since an early hour in the morning, being all day in nundated with floods, to the height, in some places, of 10 and 11 feet, and extending from Spring-lane to Mr. Hackett's tanning establishment on the Watercourse. The Limerick mail, which left at half-past six, experienced ,much difficulty in getting through the flood. t was detained half an hour, and but for the intrepidity of the coachman, who dashed the horses through, the delay would have been several hours. The inside passengers weie half immersed in water, an in convenience experienced also by those of the Charleville and Rakes of Mallow in coaches, the coachmen of which report that the storm was frightful in the districts through which they passed. The poorer classes of the residents at Black pool have suffered much, the flood having entered their houses, in some cases several feet in highti—Cork Reporter. Accounts from Cove represent the gale of Monday night as the most tremendous that had been felt for a long time, the sea having washed over the quays, and much mischief having resulted to the more exposed residences. The brig Alexander Stewart, of Cork, Captain Owens, is partly ashore at Monkstown, but is expected to be got off this evening. She has not suffered much. The French schooner Le Rose Victoria, which had a few days since ran foul of the Caroline, of Plymouth, is now a wreck. A small American schooner. the Scotia, the property of the Messrs. Scott, of Cove, is ashore, near the French brig, considerably injured. Such was the violence of the storm, that her Majesty's brig of war the Rolla, waiting to take in volunteers for the naval service, let go two of her anchors in the midst of the gale, and suc ceeded in riding it out in gallant style. The Joseph Wheeler, of Cork, out 57 days from Barbadoes, arrived in the harbour this morning, and reported herself at the moment our ac count left—all well. The Marquis of Huntley, transport, from Kinsale, ran foul of a brig when entering the harbour — name not ascertained—and carried away her bowsprit. A sailor belonging to the brig, aged 18 years, in the confusion of the moment, was carried overboard, and drowned.—lbid. A sealed bottle, inside of which was a hastily written note, was picked up yesterday, by Mr. J. Brown, on the strand, about half a mile from Carlingford. The note is as follows : " Ship Juno.—A heavy squall has laid us on our beam ends, let. 55, and carried away all masts. We are now rigging jury ones, but fear we wilt be short of spars, almost all being washed overboard. J. Carson." The document bears no date; but as a qu'antity of wreck had floated iu at Grenore Point, both yesterday and the day previous, it was greatly 'eared that the vessel abevenamed had gone to pieces. The ;'ate of the crew is unknown.—Newry Telegraph. (From the Cork Constitution of Saturday.) We mentioned on Thursday that great fears were enter tained for the vessels that, after being so long wind bound, went on Tuesday, and it is said that a number of them are stranded along the coast, between the Harbour's Mouth and Kinsale. Never, we believe, has a storm left behind it more lamentable traces of its fury. In Dungarvon Bay there are five vessels wrecked, and no fewer than twenty lives lost. The names of the vessels we have not heard, but one of them is a West Indian, laden with ruin and coffee. She struck on a rock, and in less than half an hour after, the casks were rolling through her sides. Three bow-sprits, we are informed, were driven into Traruore Bay (Waterford) on Wednesday, and after them a vessel disntasted and without any one on board. The Nora Creina steamer sailed from Waterford quay . on Monday, and returned on either Tuesday or Wednesday, her cargo shifted, and the pigs, sheep, &c. that were on deck, washed overboard. From Wexford the accounts are equally disastrous. We subjoin one relating to our own city WRECK OF THE ROBERT NOBLE OF CORK. —T h e Robert Noble of Cork, Lewellyn, master, which sailed from Cork for Newport, laden with flour and oats on Tuesday, was on Wednesday night, at 12 o'clock, cast ashore at Kihnore, about ten miles from Wexford. The master and crew saved. The vessel is much injured, but part of the cargo will be saved in a damaged state. Loss OF THE MARY OF LIVERPOOL—The following let- ter, which ought to have been in time for our last publica tion, announces the loss of the Mary of Liverpool. It is not a little gratifying to us that the cut representing the mode by which the survivors were rescued from the wreck of the Kil larney, seems to have been, under Providence, the means, in this instance, of saving seventeen human beings from a dreadful death. The Mary was 368 tons burden, and besides cotton, had on board sarsaparilla , isin g lass, India-rubber, and other valuable commodities. Since the letter was written she has gone to pieces, and the Reporter tells us that "the destruction of property by the country people from that mo ment it represented as being enormous, very little of the cargo being saved." We mention the fact on the authority of our contemporary. Did we rest it on our own, of course ' it would be denounced by the liberal press, (the Reporter in cluded) as a gross libel on the honest persons whom they call " the people." TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK CONSTITUTION. Richjin dstown, Nov. 27, 1838. Stn,—On the morning of Tdesday, the 27th instant, at dawn of day, I was informed that a vessel had struck in Clonakity Bay, at Simon's Cove, near my house. I instantly proceeded to the spot, and found her about a quarter of a mile from the rocks, all masts gone, the crew on the bow sprit, with a tremendous sea. They had made several inef fectual attempts to send a line on shore, attached to pieces of spars, buoys, &c., all of which failed from the out-haul of the sea. In a little time I recollectedgke manner of taking round the rope, which I saw descri and represented in your paper in the case of the Killarney steamer. Fottunately there were near several hawsers of small boats, which we fas- tened together, and after a great deal of exertion got round, and so near the ship that they were able to throw a grapple into it from the bowsprit, by which means we got a strong rope from the vessel to the shore, and after four hours' bard work, had the heartfelt gratification of saving seventeen hu man beings, every one of whom must have perished but for the plan of getting the rope to the ship. I must not forget to mention the able assistance given by the Messrs. Crofts, Lu cas, and the Coast Guard, as well as the people on the spot, all of whom behaved in the very best manner, and in many instances risked their lives endeavouring to save the crew. She proves to be the Mary of Liverpool, Captain George Smith, master, from Maranham, to Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton. I fear the ship and cargo will be a total wreck. Conceiving that the above plan of getting a rope to a ship in distress, when practicable, cannot get too much publicity. I am, your very obedient, THOMAS LUCAS. WRECK OF THE MARY, OF ST. JOHN'S—TWO rES LOST.—The Marv, of Si. John's, New l3runswick, 54 tons burden, is wrecked at Whiting Bay, near Youghal. She is so high up on the strand that there is no probability of her being got off. Her sails are blown to ribbons, her masts almost gone, but her hull is little injured. Two of the sea men, we regret to say, are lost—the remainder (seventeen in number,) with the captain, are saved. A gentleman who went from Youghal on Thursday to see the vessel, writes as follows :—We are indebted for the extract to a respectable mercantile friend to whom we have often been under obliga tions for similar favours : " We,saw the seventeen who survived, with the captain also a fine Newfoundland dog which was on board, and by whom all the eighteen were saved. As soon as the vessel struck, a rope was fastened about his neck and he was sent ashore. it was then made fast, and the sailors got ashore along it, but the two men who perished fell from exhaustion, and were drowned." Since the above was written we have spoken with a person who observed the vessel before she struck and witnessed the way in which the crew were rescued. The waves were run ning so hign that every time the vessel sunk between them not even her masts were visible. When she struck, there was an earnest and anxious consultation as to what was to be done. The dog seemed to comprehend the emergency. He jumped up, placed his paws on the bulwark, and motioned with his head from one to another as if to make them sensible that their chance of safety depended upon him. The motion was understood; a sailor prepared a rope; the animal bent his neck to receive it: the moment it was secured he sprang overboard, and amid the conflict of wind and wave bore it to land. One end was made fast on shore, while to the other was attached a plank, on which five of the crew successively were saved. The sixth was to have been a hoy, whom they called "Bill," but as he was about to step on the plank, his heart failed, and he was drawing back, when a sea swept him and a seaman overboard. They shrieked fearfully, and made one desperate struggle to reach the plank, but it was vain— the wave was retiring, and they were hurried away and drowned. The boy, a few minutes before his turn to take the plank, asked the captain for eleven sovereigns which his father had given him in America to bring to his mother, who lives in Belfast, remarking that if he was to be lost, the money should be lost with him. The captain handed them to him, and boy and money went down together. After this no attempt was made to laud by the plank. The tide was falling, and at low water the vessel was "high and dry" upon the strand. Among the survivors is a boy of the name of Donovan, from Kinsale. The sailors were all taken to the house of a man of the 'name of Conyngharn, just at hand, by whom and his family all the attention that they stood in need of was humanely paid them. The Mary was a new vessel, this being but her third voyage. Her cargo con sisted of timber and a few bags of flaxseed. Loss OF THE ST. PATRICK STEAMER ANN THREE OF HER UREw.—To the losses above enumerated-we have to add that of the St. Patrick steamer, the property of the Water fold company, by whom she was purchased from Sir John Tobin. She left Liverpool on Tuesday morning about six o'clock, and had nearly reached herdestination (Waterford) when, about eight o'clock on Wedue s sday evening, she struck the shore near the Tower of Hook, and was soon after dashed to pieces: So total has been the destruction, that we are told not a plank of the timber work remains. Her cargo consiste&of heavy goods, soap, hats, &c., and we are sorry to add that three of her crew perished. The remainder, however, consisting of 20 persons, were saved. The captain's arm, we understand, was broken.—About three years ago, a vessel of the same name belonging to the St. George Com pany, having mistaken the light, was lost, with her cargo, in the same place. The lilies were saved. ROBBERY OF NEWSPAPER PROPRIETORS The Doncaster Chronicle of Saturday contains the follow ing notice under the head of " Correspondence :—" A few months ago, during our temporary absence from home on business—a Doncaster Chronicle was ordered to be addressed to ' John Crook, Esq., Clement's-inn Chambers, Strand.' The paper was sent, and this week applicatinn•was made for payment of the account. We found John Crook, Esq.' residing on the third flat; and when the subject of payment for the paper was started, he professed himself to be very sorry'— (no doubt)—' but the paper had been ordered by a young man without any author-ty from him.' On our ex pressing surprise that, when he found the liberty taken with his name he did not apprise the parties, who were thus swindled out of their goods—he replied, that he was 'delicately situ ated,' forsooth; and then the trouble—he received between forty and fifty papers in a day,' to his great annoyance; and to have 'to open all these, and to write to all the proprie tors We told him we could not comprehend his feelings of delicacy,' and as to the annoyance,' we would take care he should not long have to complain of that; as we would apprise our brother proprietors of the trouble to which he was put, and no doubt they would soon relieve him from the very disagreeable visitation." In another part of the same paper the subject is thus alluded to:— " After we left John Crook, Esquire,' we confess we were puzzled to know why the parties should be anxious to get so many provincial newspapers into their hands: in the course of the day the mystery was solved. " Having been walking several hours, we sent to a cele brated restaurateurs,' in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly, to procure some of the ' creature comforts,' which he so libe rally dispenses. We were shown into a splendid dining room, fitted up in the usual London style; and on looking around, one thing did surprize us—viz., the number of pro vincial papers—thirty or forty at least—which were in the room, our own being amongst them. On inquiry, we found that these papers were supplied to the proprietor at some thing less than half price by some party iu the city. We could not ascertain who supplied them, and, of course we do not say it was the young man,' whoorder,pd this journal to be sent to 'John Crook, Esquire;' but, no doubt, it was somebody who obtained the papers equally cheap (for we do not know how things can be obtained cheaper than by not paying for them), and who imposed upon the respectable restaurateur (whom we most distinctly acquit of all intention of doing wrong) by some well-invented tale of 'agency,' or something of the kind, to account for his obtaining them. We insert this statement, as well as the other, as a caution to our brother proprietors." PRECURSOR SOCIETY. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) The new coach-and-six (the Precursor,) which Mr. O'Con nell is to drive through the Convention act, was turned out yesterday for an experimental trip. Mr. Ignatius Callaghan occupied the box-seat—whilst Peter Purcell, as guard, blew the horn for the collection of the annual tribute. On the suggestion of one of the Corporation of Bachelors—the gallant and reverend "Rectos" of Einyvale—" the daughters of the Green Island" were unanimously elected members of the society; whilst, on the motion of Mr. O'Connell, his " dear friend General Cloony," was admitted to a similar honour. As the Precurser Society affects to be legal, and to pursue its objects by legal means, we must suppose that in the authory which raised Mr. Cloony to the rank of " Gene ral" in the army, Mr. O'Connell and the other members re cognize a legal authority. In copamenting upon the proceedings of this Society, it is obvious that our remarks must be chiefly, if not exclusively, confined to Mr. O'Connell: he is the Society—the rest but the wig and cloak, the shoes and inexpressibles with which he keeps his body comfortable. On this occasion he brought forward his promised address to the radicals of England and Wales, prefacing it by a speech, the objects of which appear three-fold-1. to per suade the population of this country that their condition under the rule of Victoria is worse than that of the Poles under the despotism of the monster Nicholas-2. to bolster up the tottering fabric of Whig administration—and 3. to depreciate the rivals who tore trout his brow- the laurels of English popularity—Oastler, Stephens, and the once-beloved Feargus O'Connor. The address to the British radicals dis creetly confines itself to the two latter of those objects; but it compensates for the loss of a third part by the grossest vituperation heaped upon the English people. He contrasts their agitation with his own, and accusing them of the most treasonable and bloody designs—says of ttient : " They speak of violence ;" and of himself, " Give me the agitation that breaks no law, infringes no statute; give me the agitation that takes away from no man his property, that encourages no violence, and above all, and befnie alt, give me the agitation that shudders, as it were, at the slightest shedding of human blood." (Loud cheers.) Nay, in Ireland this peaceful agitation will " not allow one blow to be struck—one man's hand to be lifted iu anger against another." Either the lamb-like agitator speedily forgets his "own rede"—or erects a u different standard for England; for, in the course of the proceedings, we find the following happy illustration of his peaceful, legal, and con stitutional doctrines:— " I ant glad," said Mr. O'Connell, "that there is so much unanimity of feeling amongst us on the subject ' [the re specting the persons and pensions of our neighbours'. " A man in the crowd here exclaimed—' And in England too.' " Mr. O'Connell—l thank you, Sir, but you do not appear from your accent to be an Englishman. " Man—No, Sir, but I met O'Connor in Preston, and I said I would kick the ruffian. " Mr. O'Connell—You never were more right in your life." The Times of Wednesday, received this morning, has, from the nature of his late addresses, very happily antici pated the course which the demagogue would take in his address; and indeed it is so complete a rafacciamento of his speeches (given iu our columns elsewhere) that we do not mean to stint our space by the idle repetition. Instead of it we give the powerful and brilliant paragraphs of our distin guished contemporary, and doubt nut that our readers Will thank us fur the substitution : " lie tells his whiskey-steeped admirers that the English have always oppressed, and hated, robbed, and butchered them, going back for illustrations to the treaty of Limerick, what he calls the massacre of Mullimas, and the conquering career of Cromwell, who, having a faithless and cruel enemy to deal with, treated them on some occasions to a spice of their own mercy and morality. But somehow or other, this histortgrapher forgets the wholesale massacre of Protestants in 1641, the burnings and tortures and pike-murders of 1796, and the return made by the England of the ISth and 19th centuries, for similar manifestations of goodwill from the Irish race and their perpetual attempts fur 300 years preced ing to sieze that power (under the name of independence) which would have enabled them to make war on this country as on a foreign kingdom, and become an ulcer in her side. The England of this and the century before it has been re cognised by the whole civilised world as a generous benefac tress to Ireland. The vassalage of the Irish, entailed upon them by their own ferocious hostility to Great Britain, the people of this country have converted into a state of equal freedom with their own. Our whole domestic history for the last 60 years has been but one series of beneficences heaped on Ireland, unbroken save by the savage efforts of the Papists, to repay our liberality from time to time with rebellion. When famine raged among these grateful Irish, and when their own bloated demagogues did nothing but whine to Eng lish charity for relief, who fed, and clothed, and comforted, and saved the race of serpents, who are now taught to whet their fangs for our destruction—who, but the 'detested' Eng lish nation ?—The base-minded scoundrel who spits his daily venom at the people of Englaud, because they have learned to despise his villainies and 14, reject his counsels, has the folly to avow that when he and his papist accomplices were weak, 'they cringed to us,' but now they are strong enough they kick us off.' And this code of magnanimity and mo rality it appealed to, as an answer to the reproaches which all honest men have brought against its professors-=-Viz., that they have made promises which they never fulfilled, and took oaths which they have flatigiously broken. Aye, we confess it all; when weak, we cringed, when strong we bully; we are perjurers, we are traitors • hurrah, boys! who's afraid? Lying, perjury, and Popery ?or ever !' " Our able contemporary thus concludes : " One word more. Mr. Daniel O'Connell declares that the Irish Papists can have no further reliance on England, bnt must work out a repeal of the union for themselves. Now, it is not the first time by a dozen that the Irish Papists, as a military power, have set themselves, sword and pike in hand, against the British Protestant and Papist as a power; and what has hitherto been the result? By they have done much; by 'cringing,' more; but what have they got by fighting? - Let them try again, if not yet satisfied. England has no objection." At the conclusion of the day's proceedings, we find that the society adjou rne d hi mse lf to Tuesday week, being en route to the county of Wexford in the interval. We find it announced that in this peat national movement only eight or ten Barristers have embarked their character and prospects. We know of but one Member of Parliament (Mr. O'Brien, of Clare,) out of Mr. O'Connell's own family, who has sanctioned the agitation with hi s name; and though Priests in abundance crowd round the banner of agitation, no gentleman of independent property or station has put his hand to the preliminary Orifiam of Repeal. We are curious to know—perhaps Mr. Ray, the Secretary of this and the Trades' Union would be kind enough to inform us—how many of the Tradesmen of Dublin have enrolled themselves on the books of the Precursors ? There is a topic of a, nature so delicate, and of a character so startling that in all former societies, and upon all by-gone occasions, even Mr. O'Connell avoided any, the slightest al lusion to it in his manifold addresses and out-pourings. It cannot fail attracting observation that that gentleman's shy ness upon the subject is gradually giving way, and that the deep-rooted sentiment of his heart is now from time to time gradually developing itself, in sly, but affectionate references, to the-re-possession of the forfeited estates. Duke of Devon shire, Lord Lansdowne, Whig absentee landlords, look to this! ' NOVEL STEAM-SHIP. —A ship, called the Maria, of Lon don, Captoin Black, is now fitting out in the West India Export Dock, with two locomotive steam-engines, and ma chinery of ten-horse power each, for the purpose of pro pelling the vessel by means of paddles,. which are made to ship and unship like coach whe e ls , and can be put on or taken off without much trouble while the ship is tinder weigh. The Maria is a vessel of near 500 tons burl hen, built at Yar mouth, and has made a sailing voyage . to Quebec and back, unaided by the power of steam. She is of the ordinary de seription of vessels of her class , and the engines and ma chinery are placed between two decks , occupying a space of not more than twenty faet in length by five in width on each side. The vessel is going to China, and the paddles are only to be made available during calms and light winds, which it is well known are met in certain latitudes on the East India and China voyagers. WARRINGTON THE HEIR AT LAW.—" Money often makes the man;" and there never was a better hit of good truth than the maxim which says—" Prosperity - finds . friends; Adversity tries them." No sooner was it known in Warrington that Charles Higginson, the man who, a few weeks ago , was sent to Knutsforefor trial, on the charge of being-" a sham fireman," bad come into sundry large possessions, and plenty of cash, by the death of his second cousin, the late Richard Pickering Higginson, Esq., of Bedford, near Leigh, than his friends mustered pretty strongly, and from. plain " Charles Vines," the painter, he was quickly transinographied into Charles Vines Higginson, Esquire. To be sure, he was in prison, and confined to gaol allowance; but two professional gentle men of Warrington flew to his assistance, and there.was quite a race between them as to which should be first in pro curing bail for him; and on Monday, a few minutes after Mr. Lyon had .1 aken his.seat on the Warringtoale.n_ch, Mr. Wright, builder, of Leigh, and Mr. Clay ton, cooper, of War rington, were presented, and accepted as bail for Mr. Hig ginson's appearance, to take his trial at the next Knutsfoid sessions. A few minutes after this another active solicitor made his appearance, and tendered two other gentlemen us bail; but Mr. Lyon having already granted a supersedeas fur the discharge of the prisoner from linutsford, that step was unnecessary A race to Kriutsford followed, to announce to Mr. Higginson that the necessary - bail for his appearance had been procured. He was taken before P. Egerton, Esq., a county magistrate, who happened to be attending a meet ing of poor-law guardians, at the George inn, and having, in the presence of both his legal friends, entered into his own recognizance for his appearance at the sessions, he was forth with discharged from the custody of the governor of Knots ford gaol. Mutual congratulations followed, and Mr. Hig ginson was immediately brought back to Warrington. On the way, the party had a bit of an upset at Latchford, by com ing in contact with a gig going to High Leigh; but that, all things considered, was excusable. Next day Mr. Iligginson, by the aid of the proprietor of a ready-made clothes reposi tory, was attired in a new suit of sable black ; and thus fur nished, accompanied by Mr. Bayley, he went in a post chaise to take possession of his newly-acquired estates at Bedford. The executors of the late Mr. Higginson were in attendance, and gave him formal possession. The will of the late Mr. Higginson was dated 1822, and his then acquired property was left amongst his uncles and cousins. Charles Higginson, as the nearest telative of the deceased, comes into this pro perty acquired since the making of the will, in- addition to his share under it. The estate at Bedford consists of a new ly-erected mansion, about thirty-five Cheshire acres of land, and seVeral coal-pits. The whole property to be divided, it is said, will exceed £40,000. • EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Monday, Win. Phillips, a carter, in the service of Mr. Ardem, brewer, of Penketh, was brought before the magistrates at ,Warrington, charged with embez zling the sum of one sovereign, belonging to his master. On Tuesday, the 20th of November, the prisoner received £4, on account of his master, from Mr. Jackson, of Ashton. When he returned home he only paid over £3, and said that was all he received. Ann Naylor proved the receipt of the £4, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE SOLDIER'S B 1: IDE.—M r. Fletcher, a publican, ap peared at Warrington Petty Sessions, on Monday, to show cause why he refused to deliver up •his daughter's clothes. Miss Flether, it would seem, " had a beau, who fur a soldier would go ;" this coming to the ears of her parents, she eloped on Monday night with the object of her affections, a corpo ral, engaged in the recruiting service at Warrington. On the following Thursday, just two days after she Caine of age, they were lawfully married by licence at Warrington church, and the husband now sought to recover possession of her wearing apparel, she having left home with nothing more than the things she stood upright in. Mrs. Fletcher, in strong terms, alluded to her daughter's misconduct, and made no hesitation in asserting that the public-house till had furnished the necessary supplies for obtaining the license, wedding ring, hoops, &c. Both resolutely refused to give up a single halfpenny worth of the "soldier's bride's" clothing, unless compelled to do so by the strong arm of the law. Mr. Lyon, the chairman, said the complainant had no legal claim to the clothes of his wife, as she was under age, and not in a situation to have acquired any property of her 0,11,, The corporal asked whether he was not entitled to a &Ws which hid been presented before marriage to his wife by her father ? Mr. Lyon decided that he hail no such right, but, even if he had, the magistrates had not power to decide such a question. Both parties then left the office. PUBLIC-HOUSE INFORIMATIONS.—On Monday, two publi cans of Warrington were convicted in the sum of £2 10s. 6d. penalty and costs, for having persons drinking in their houses during the hours of divine service. COACH ACCIDENT.—On Friday se'nnight, the Star, Lon don coach, was overturned at Sankey, near Warrington, and one of the horses killed. Some of the passengers were slightly injured, but they were all able to proceed on their journey to Liverpool. RUNCORN "PAYING THE PIPER."—At Daresberry petty sessions, on Tuesday, Mr. Francis Rigby, of the Egerton - Arms Inn, Runcorn, was summoned before Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., and Peter Jacson, Esq., to answer an information, charging him with permitting drunkenness and disorderly conduct at his house on the morning of Friday, the 9th November. Wm. Harding, a constable, stated the facts of the case. On the morning named in the information, between one and two o'clock, he heard a fiddle playing, and some persons dancing in the back part of defendant's house. He afterwards called Mr. Phillips, one of the constables of the town, and they went together to the defendant's house. Harding pulled the win dow down at the top, and saw a number of persons dancirig, and two fiddlers on a table playing. Some of the persons were drunk; one of them could not stand. He requested Mrs. Rigby, who was in the room, to let him in. She said she would let no person in, and that her house was hercastle. The fiddlers wished them to be let in, and threatened to split their skulls. A sofa was then placed against the door to prevent the constables entering the room. Mrs. Rigby af terwards let them in. She said it was only a treat see was giving to the waiters and servants after the wakes. There were several strangers in the room, amongst whom were some girls; they were making a great noise. He did not see any chink in the room, but it was evident, from the state some of the company were in, that they had been thinking. Mr. Philfilw corroborated the evidence o f Harding, and said Al'. Rigby had requested him to see Harding, and get the matter arranged. Mr. Rigby, in defence, said that on the night in question, his wife had given the servants a treat after the Runcorn wakes, and the persons found in the house by Harding were his own servants and their friends, and that no liquors were sold. The bench reminded the defendant, that this was not the first time he had to answer the charge of misconducting his house; and after advising him to be more circumspect for the future, inflicted the penalty of 40s. and costs. Mr. Rigby expressed his intention to appeal, as he considered the information had been laid by Harding through ill feeling. • A legal gentleman, who lately paid his addresses to the daughter of a tradesman near Holborn, was forbidden the house, for which he sent in a bill of ninety-one pounds thir teen shillings and fourpence, for two hundred and seventy five attendances advising on family affairs. RULES FOR CHOOSING A HORSE—HINTS FOR NOVICES. — To define a perfect horse is nearly impossible; to tell you where to buy one so completely so. As a purchaser it is im material where you go, whether to Hyde Park Corner, Newmarket, Smithfield, or Newcastle, you will most proba bly he taken in wherever you go; however. I shall endeavour to describe such outward beauties and active qualifications as are requisite; and if you meet with such an one keep your eye on him. The height of a horse is of little consequence provided he is higher behind -than before. Nothing is more pleasing to a traveller than the idea of continually g ettin g forward. Let him carry his head low, that he may have an eve to the ground, and see the .better where to set his feet. The less he shifts his feet the easier he will move for his rider, and (important qualification in a roadster) he will. brush all the stones out of his way, which might other Wise throw him down. If he turns out his toes as well as be should do, he will then disperse them to the right and left, and avoid the trouble of kicking the same stone a second time. A bald face, wall eyes and white legs, (if your horse is nut a gre y one,) is to be preferred, as, in the night, although you may ride against what you please, no one will ride against you. His nose cannot project too much, for by keeping a constant tight rein on him, you will sit as firm as if you were held on. Mr. E. G. WAKEFIELD AND CANADA.—There appears, in the last number of the Spectator, a letter, signed Wakefield," referring to some statement of Mr. Roebuck's, in a recent letter to the same paper. The tone and spirit of Mr. E. G. Wakefield's letter is not calculated to weaken ti .e interest with which politicians of all parties, and the people who are not ordinarily politicans at all, are waiting the dis closures that must succeed to L end Durham ' s re - appearance upon the stage of parliament. M r. Wa k efield, whose talents have acquired for him some weiglo, and authority in the party to which he belongs, as a laborious and unflinching inquirer, hints at disclosures to come, relative to the dispute between the two great Canadian parties, that will make " many won der at the depth of their previous ignorance." He whose opinions and sympathies in favour of the party who took up arms to obtain a redress of their grievances were of the strongest character, has been forced to abandou them. His "deep-rooted conviction" availed him nothing, it appears, when he came into actual contact with the Canadians them selves, and became a personal examiner Of their grounds of contest. " I believe now," he says, " that I was blinded and misled, as many others have been, by a cou we of rnisrepi esen tat ion—a regular system of delusion, to whit % I was once (how ever uniuteutionally, as Mr. Roebuck still is) au active party, and which while it occasions the most erroneous views here as to the motive of the dispute iu Lower Canada, has a still more mischievous effect in deceiving the French Canadians as to the state of feeling in this country with respect to their position and objects." Tire TEA. PLANT.—At the first meeting of.the Medico - Botanical Society fur the season , he ld last week, Sir James M‘Gregor, Bart, in the chair, Dr. Sigrnontl commenced by delivering a lecture on the cultivation and medicinal effects of the tea plant. The learned professor commenced his dis course by adverting to the great mystery in which the system of the Chinese in preparing tea had been for some centuries enveloped, and then proceeded to explain its culture. It was well known that the tea plant produced the principal beve rage of the inhabitants of the Celestial Eintere, and was found beneficial and nutritious in every quarter of the globe. When the time of picking the finer sorts arrived, it appeared that the labourers employed were compelled to avoid gross food, and adopt the purest diet; and, moreover , that t hey per formed the operation. in gloves, The authorities quoted shower' that this extreme delicacy was for the purpose of pre venting the slightest injury to the leaf front the breath or skin. lt would be as well if this example of cleanliness was followed by the tea dealers of England. The spots adapted for the cultivation of fine teas were very limited, but those for the coarser descriptions abounded; and there was as much difference in the flavours of teas known under the same names, as between the sherry drunk at a carabet and that selected fora gentleman's table. The Chinese who could afford it, drank their tea strong, and they had a proverb by which the poverty of the individual was implied, who "drinks weak tea and eats insiped rice." That the Hong merchants used not generally to deliver for exportation their finer sorts, there was no doubt; for it was proved by the fact, that since the open ing of the trade many new varieties had been brought to Eng land. The flower of the China tea plant had a fine and fra grant aroma, and differed its the form of , the blossoms from the lately discovered Assam tea shrub. He contended that the plant which produces black tea, and those front which green tea was obtained, are of a different species. In exem plification, he exhibited a specimen of a black tea and one of a green tea plant, received from Mr. Loddiilge. The leaves were different in size, thickness, and general appearance There was, however, some small mystery practised by the Chinese in converting the damaged inferior black teas into green, which were then sold to Europeans for genuine green tea. Unce, however, a European had contrived to get admit tance to a dishonest manufactory, when he detected the labour ers engaged in this fraudulent process. The proprietor of the establishment seemed to be conscious of the imposition he was about to practice. When the European endeavoured to gain admission into other establishments, the doors were immedi ately closed. The process was first to allow the tea to be heated with turmeric over a charcoal fire, which gave a yellowish hue to the leaves, and the fine bloom seen on the superior green teas was added by the application of a mixture. of Prussian blue (known to contain, prussic acid) with gypsum. This was the only kind of green tea deleterious to the con stitution. The doctor then refuted the assertion, that copper was to be found in unadulterated green tea. The eater of a sandwich, or the drinker of coffee, had more to fear from the effects of copper, which had been proved to exist in those articles, than the person who drank green tea, even to an excess. The learned professor, in the course of his disserta tion, ably illustrated his observations on the planting, gather ing, and other processes observed in the manufacture of tea, by elegant paintings, the property of Mrs. Morrison. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. rri HIS present TUESDAY, December 4, 1838, will be 21. performed the Tragedy of DAMON AND PYTHIAS; Or, The FORCE OF FRIENDSHIP. Damon Mr. Stuart. Pythias Mr. Howard. Calanthe,....Miss Faucet I Hermione , Miss Cleaver. After which the new Farce of TOM NODDY'S SECRET. Captain Ortnond, Mr. W. Howard.' Toni N0ddy,.......Mr. Baker I Inkpen,.. ..... Mr:Slaiter. Mary,.. Miss Grant I Gabrielle,..Mrs. Te et. To conclude with the Romantic Melo-D ma of ROBINSON CRUSOE. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), for the BE ''FIT of Mt. SLAITF.R, the Comedy of SPEED THE PLOUGH. After which the Ballet Dance of THE OLD COMMODORE. To conclude with the Melo Drama of LUKE THE LABOURER. Mr. Knowles' last new play of The Maid of Mariendorpt. as now performing nightly with the greatest success at the Theatre Royal, Harmarket, is in preparation, and will, be produced previous to the close of the present season. / • TH EATRE-ROYAL, . LIVERPOOL. - m It r S e s . p l e ' c li t i l. ; h. y E T o and announce Nlr. e t l i l la A t P L l i N r BENEFITa the honour take place on FRIDAY EVENING next, the 7th instant, on which occasion will be performed the celebrate,d Comedy of THE BELLE'S STRATAGEI . Doricourt Mr. W }lnward. Flutter Mr. X) aplin. Letitia Hardy.. Miss Faueit. I Mrs. Rackeit..Mrs. Clarke. Lady Frances Touchwood Mrs. Tenet. After which, an Interlude, called the ROMAN ACTOR. Paris (the Roman Actor) Mr. Stuart. In the course of the vening, a variety of Popular SONGS, by Miss Land an liss Grant. To which will be added the favourite Farce of PAST 'FEN O'CLOCK AND A RAINY NIGHT I I Dozey Mr. Baker. I Sam Squib Mr. Slaiter. Lucy Mrs. Tenet. Nancy Miss Cleaver. .0 conclude with a Panoramic Representation of the QUEEN'S VISIT TO GUILDHALL. displaying the whole of the ROYAL AND CIVIC PROCESSION. Tickets to be had at the usual Places ; of Mrs. TELLET and Mr. CHAPLIN, 10, Queen - square; and of Mr. PARKER, at the Box-office, where Places may be taken. - o % "Hon. J. C. HnARTT: " Sir,—Last night there was a general rising among the patriots of Upper and Lower Canada. In the city of Quebec, 'l'heller and Dodge, the Yankee prisoners, had 2500 armed men under their command--at Montrea l, 20d0 men commanded by French officers from France: Dr. Nelson entered Canada by Napperill, and swept everything; took all the loyal volun teers prisoners, and got 800 stand of arms derosited there for loyalists. ." Dr. Nelson left Napierville last night at six o'clock, with 1500 men, to march upon St. John's, at which places he will be joined by 1000 from the parish east of St. John's. The town was to be burned at day-break this morning. (Novem ber sth.) All communication by land is stopped. The pa triots have possession of the lines. Bill Johnston is to work at his old stand. Siittirday night, 1000 men (from Ohio) at tacked Fort Malden, U. C. On the whole, the loyalists of Canada are very unpleasantly situated. "I am, very respectfully, your ob't servant, "M. S. GILMAN." "FRANKLIN COUNTY, Vt., Nov. 4, 1838.—Messrs. Editors On Friday last, the tories in Canada began to arrest the principal Canadians at L'Acadie, and other places ; on Sa turday, the Canadians rose in open rebellion, and from what I can learn, the rising will be general throughout the province. Yours, in haste. X. Y." l_We do not know who " X. Y." is, or what dep e n dence is to e placed upon the letter; but it is post marked St. Albans, Nov. 5.l—N. Y. Express. The first of these " important" stories we find in two of the morning papers, and the other graces the columns of the Express. Our readers will estimate them rightly, we suppose, without any help from us ; the absurdity is too palpable to need exposition. We may remark, however, that the editor of the Troy paper might have spoken of the statements fur nished him with somewhat more directness, if he had looked on the map for any such place as Napierville, or reflected a moment on the probability of such events taking place at Quebec, Montreal and St. John's and the news reaching Plattsburg, all within 24 hours, or of an attack on Malden, at the western extremity of Lake Erie, being made on Satur day night, and known at Plattsburgh on Monday. ?.S.—Since the above was in type we learn that there has been a little outbreak at Beauharnois—unconnected, how ever, with any party or movement on the American side of the line. Mr. Ellice, the seigneur, of Beauharnois, was for a short time a prisoner in the hands of the rioters, but was quickly rescued. The disturbance was soon and easily put down, and seve ral of the ringleaders were captured by the troops. An exaggerated account of this affair was probably the foundation of the story from Plattsburgh. MORE RUMOURS.—About nine o'clock thiS morning, a gentleman called upon us, with the astounding information, that a British officer had just come down, post haste, from Canada, and brought word that the lower provinces were all in commotion; that Sir John Colborne had proclaimed mar tial law, &e. &c. Thereupon we took measures to ascertain what truth there might be in the tale; and this is the result :—Colonel Clive of the Grenadier Guards has indeed arrived—but his intelli gence is of a very different character from that reported. No martial law has been proclaimed—no invasion or rising has taken place—and nothing has appeared to indicate that any such is probable. On the contrary, this officer says that he was instructed to inquire and look about, on his way down, and especiallly at the points which have been indicated as the seats of warlike movements. He has accordingly visited Chazy, Champlin, Plattsburgh, and other places on and near the frontier line, and held full and free communications with the American officers at se veral of the frontier posts ; and he is perfectly satisfied that there is no serious mishief to be apprehended. CANADA.—We received yesterday Montreal papers to the date of Monday last. The patriotism and courage of the in invaders who had assembled at Napierville, seem to have fled, if they ever had any, before even the appearance of Bri tish troops. Two columns, one under the immediate com mand of Sir John Colborne from St. John's, and the other under that of Col. Love from St. Valentine, reached Na pierville on Saturday morning last at the same moment, and found the place deserted by no less than four thousand men, who had collected there—probably twice the number of their enemy, who now sought them. The two affairs which have already been mentioned by our correspondent at Whitehall, would seem to have, been of more importance than his letters led us to expect. In both the attacks of the insurgents, they were repelled by the militia of the provinces alone For the accounts from other parts of Lower Canada, we refer to our extracts. The followin letter was received yesterday : L'ACA DIE, Nov. 12, 1838.—Sir—I am directed by his Excellency Sir John Colborne, to acquaint you that the re• bels, who had assembled in arms in the district of Montreal, have been entirely dispersed by her Majesty's troops and the volunteers. 1 have the honour to be, &c. WM. ROWAN, Secretary. To Jas. Buchanan, Esq. her Majesty's Consul, New York, (From the Courier of the 12th.) On Saturday afternoon the annexed despatch reached-town, announcing what so was much feared, that the rebel force had evacuated Napierville before the troops reached it. NAPIERVILLE, NOV 10, 1838. Saturday, 9, A.M. Sir, —I am directed by the Commander of the forces to in form you, that the force under his command has just arrived here. The rebels, to the number of 2,000, vvacuated the town about two hours ago, and about the same number had previ ously gone off, many of them having thrown away their arms. The cavalry are now in pursuit of the former, on the Chateau guay road. Colonel Love's column reached the town, from St. 'Valentine, at the same time with the Head Quarter di vision. 1 have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servan JOHN EDEN, D. A. G It will be seen by the following despatch, which was re ceived from Major Carmichael yesterday, that Beauharnois has been retaken from the rebels, and that the prisoners taken with the Brougham steamer have been released. Beauharnois, Nov. 10, ten a.m. Sir,— I have the honour to acquaint you, for the informa tiou of his excellency the commander of the forces, that, in conjunction with Colonel Philputts, a detachment of one offi cer of engineers, twenty-two sappers and miners, one cap tain, three subalterns, four sergeants, two buglers, and one hundred and twenty-One rank and file, 71st Regiment, with upwards of one thousand Glengarry men, were landed at Hungry Bay this morning, marched, and took Beauharnois, rescued all the prisoners, with the exception of Messrs. Ellice, Brown, Norman, Ross, Norval, Bryson, Houndslow, and Surveyor, supposed to be at Chateauguay—with the loss of one man killed and three wounded, of the 71st Reginient. The men are very much fatigued, and we wait here for orders. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant, L. CAI:MICHAEL, Colonel, P. S. Major . Hill, Assistant Quarter Master General. (From the Montreal Courier of the 12th inst.) By a private letter received yesterday, we regret to learn that Mr. George Hay, a respectable farmer on the banks of the Richeiieu, about six miles above St. Valentine, has been robbed by the rebels of all his moveable property, including his valuable stock of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, &c.; and that all the loyal inhabitants on that side of the river have experienced similar treatment. Mr. Hay's house had been used as a barrack for several days by about 200 of the rebels. The letter also stated, that atanit 100 of them have advanced about a quarter of a mile over'the lines on the opposite side of the river, and take their stand at a place called Beech Ride, near Alburgh. Besides being well armed, they have three pieces of cannon. The loyal inhabitants in that quar ter are worn out with fatigue and harassed with constant alarms. The Chatnbly mail carrier who arrived Yesterday afternoon, reports that the volunteers had been fired upon by the rebels, and that Mr. Dixon, the postmaster, had been obliged to fly to the fort for protection. Nine prisoners, who have been arrested in the neighbour hood of St. John's were brought to town yesterday afternoon in the Princess Victoria. Among these are two noted re bels, one named Mongeon, the other Richard. E. R. Fabre i and Doctor Lusignan, have also been arrested. Through the whole of yesterday, very large volumes of some smoke were visible in the direction of the Chateauguay; and last night a large portion of the heavens was illuminated by an extensive blaze, which was visible in the direction of St. John's, supposed to be St. Athanase. The Brougham steamer which was captured by the rebels, is a good deal crippled in her machinery, and was towed down to .Lachine yesterday. The mail-bag from Upper Canada, that was on board of her remained undiscovered and unopened, although its contents were valuable; it was brought into town yesterday. Consideiable sensation was created in town yesterday, by the arrival of Messrs. Ellice, L. G. Brown, R. H. Norval, John Macdonal, John L. Grant, John Bryson, John Ross, Houndslow, David Norman, Dr. Surveyor, and another whose name we did not learn, about whose safety some ap prehensions had been entertained. It appears that after their captu-at Beauharnois, they were, as it was supposed here, conveyed to Chateauguay, where they were confined to a room, from which day-light was carefully excluded, but they were allowed to have candles burning. Doting this time they were well treated by the Cure and the nuns, who were per mitted to send them a profusion of luxuries from their larder and cellars. They were also allowed to send money for any thing they wanted from the village. They were being con veyed in carts on Satuarday, as they believed, to Napierville, and had reached La Pigaounier, in the Seigniory St. George, when their escort hearing of the evacuation of Napierville, left them and fled. They were allowed to proceed in the same carts in Laprairie, and were even advised, it is said, by some of the older rebels, which road to take as the safest. They reached Laprairie about two o'clock yesterday morn ing, and this city about ten. Extract from a letter dated " Quebec, Thursday Evening. " There are now in this city a good number of strangers, particularly Americans ; I learn. that a few of then were ariested yesterday, but I did not hear for what cause. " It appears that depositions have been made against se veral individuals in this city, who attend secret meetings, and that warrants have been issued for their' apprehension.- Morin has left the city." We have been favoured with the following extract of a le ter, dated " Sandwich, Oct. 30, 183: " All the Western and London Districts are in a bustle : 500 militia are called out at Chatham ; 350 are at Port Sarnia. All the militia here and at Amherstburgh are ordered to be in readiness at a minute's warning. The Lake Shore militia are ordered out, and the whole of the troops at Amherstburgh have been working day and night, and all last Sunday, gettilig the fortifications ready." The Official Gazette of the 9th inst. contains four ordinan ces of Sir John Colborne and his Special Council. The first is that authorizing the banks to suspend specie payment. Its provisions are similar to that issued on a former occasion, and its duration limited , to the first of June next. The se cond ordinance authorizes the seizing and detaining, for a limited time, of gunpowder, arms, weapons, lead, and muni tions of war. The third ordinance authorizes Sir John Col borne to take such steps as he may deem necessary for the suppression of the rebellion, and to erect tribunals for the trial and punishment of the rebels. The fourth ordinance authorizes the apprehension and detention of persons charged with high treason, suspicion of high treason,' misprision of high treason, and treasonable practices, and of the suspen sion, for a limited time, as to such persons, of the habeas corpus act. -- THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS FIRED UPON. (Correspondence of the Argus.) Sackett's Harbour, Nov. 12. My dear Sir,—A boat (not ten, as stated in the accompa nying extract), conveying a company of Colonel Worth's regiment from Ogdensbnrgh to French Mills, on Thursday last at noon-day, was fired upon, and one man badly and dangerously wounded. The boat was in American waters, and the men in full uniform Their character could not be mistaken, if, as fatally appears to be the case, within musket shot. Colonel Worth started forthwith, with a suitable force, down the St. Lawrence, to look into this business. [Extract frogs the Sentinel, published at. Prescott (Upper Canada), Nov. 8, 1838.1 We regret to learn that an American soldier was shot near Cornwall, on Wednesday last, by some of the volunteers sta tioned in that vicinity. A gentleman Just arrived in the Dolphin states, that ten barges, apparently filled with men, were seen passing down; that they were hailed, and did not stop or make any satisfactory reply; and the volunteers tak ing them for rebels, fired. It proved, however, that the men were American soldiers, bound for some part of the country below. An American officer came to Cornwall the following day, making bitter complaints respecting the circumstance. We have no doubt every satisfaction that can reasonably be required will be given. If the boats were hailed and did not hail too, in times like the present, no blame whatever can be attached to the volunteers. They did no more than their duty. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET—Nov. 16. We have no change of any moment to notice in the Stock THEATRE : ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR.S7'UiII?T, On which occasion his Sister, MISS ELIZA STUART, Of the Theat res-Roval, Bath and Bristol, and Mr. Braham's Royal St. James's Theatre, London, will make her first and only appearance. (AN MONDAY next, the 10th instant, 11 be performed ki the new Play written by S ir lidw Lytton Bulwer, Bart., called THE LADY OF LYONS ; OR, LOVE AND PRIDE. Claude Melnotte (originally performed by him at this,Theatre.) Damas Mr. Baker. Madame Deschapelles Pauline To conclude with Colman's Play, compressed into Two Acts. called THE KOUNTAINEERS ; Ott, LOVE AND MADNESS. Octavian ' Mr. Stuart. Sadi Mr. Baker. I Floranthe.... Miss Cleaver, Agnes Miss Stuart. Incideutal to the Piece, Song—" When the bollow drum," Miss Stuart. Duet —" Bonny Tawney Moor," Miss Stuart and Mr. Baker, Song (introduced) —"Bid me discourse," Miss Stuart. Duet—" Faint and wearily," Mr. Baker and Miss Stuart. Finale—All the characters. Tickets to be obtained of Mr. STUART, 14, Upper Beau• street; Messrs. 1-littik's Music Warehouse, Church-street; Messrs. ROCKLIFF and DUCKWORTH, Castle-street; and o Mr. PARKER, at the Boxoffice, where Places may be taken Vie litherpool ei:tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 4, 1838. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—The arrival d the packet-ships Pennsylvania and St. Andrew, which left New York on the 9th andl6th ultimo respectively, has put us in possession of important as well as me lancholy intelligence, from Canada. We subjoin as many extracts as our space will afford. _ rum the New lark Cowie?. and Enquirer of Nov. 9 CANADA WAR RENEWED. We have to announce the important and thrilling intelli gence that the Canadian population is again in arms, re solved to strike a blow for freedom. The news by last night's boat is, that a general and simultaneous rising of the French population on this side the St. Lawrence has taken place,and that several small posts bad fallen into their hands: they had made prisoners of the soldiers stationed at Napierville, and secured a considerable amount of arms and atuniuni tion. . . St. John, it was believed, would be attacked last night by a strong force, estimated at seven or eight thousand. The utmost consternation prevailed at St. John's yesterday, and every means was put in requisition for the emergency. Capt. Price's sloop, the Daniel Webster, we understand, was not permitted - 'leave the port. Several of our citizens went down last n i ng . This movement is said to be headed by Robert Nelson, Cote, Gagnion, Hotchkiss, and several . foreign military leaders. Of its results a few days will inform us; and this evening's boat will probably bring a pretty decisi%e indica tion. All accounts speak of arms, ammunition, and men in abundance. May God prosper the right. Martial law is again proclaimed within the district of Montreal, and we shall doubtless be called to chronicle scenes of bloody on' rage (From the Montreal Herald—Extra.) Monday Morning, Nov. 5, 1838. 'he events we have so often predicted are now matter of history—the Canadians have again risen in open rebellion, evidently under more efficient organization, and martial law was yesterday proclaimed in this province for the second time in the short space of 12 months. Most alarming intelligence reached town yesterday forenoon, that the whole country was in a state of insurrection, and that many loyalists have been murdered in cold blood in the county of Acadia. Further accounts but too plainly corroborated the previous rumour, and a considerable body of troops was despatched to that county. The steamer Princess Victoria, which took over a detach. ment of the Royal Artillery on Saturday afternoon to Lapa raire, was twice set on fire by the rebels while at the wharf but fortunately escaped without much injury. The loyalists in Laparaire had ten minutes' notice to leave the village, and getting on board the steamer Britannia, they have ar rived in town in safety. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a party of 300 rebels attacked the house of Mr. L. Brown at Beauharnois; and, after about twenty minutes' fighting, Mr. Brown, Mr. Ellice, jun., Mr. Norvai, Mr. Ross, and the other constitutionalists surrendered themselves prisoners. and-nothing more is at present known of their fate. Mrs. Ellice, Miss Balfour, and the other females in the house at the time, took refuge in the cellar during the engagement. Mr. Brown and Mr. Ross are both wounded. Yesterday forenoon an Indian woman, at the village of Caughnawaga, who was seeking for a stray cow, discovered a large body of armed men in the woodst and gave informa tion of the circumstance to the Indians, who were then as sembled at church. They immediately seized what arms they could procure, such as muskets, tomahawks, and pitch forks, and giving the war whoop, charged their foes, who scampered off as fast as they could, throwing down their arms as they fled. Seventy-five were taken prisoners, and brought into town handcuffed, by the Lachine Cavalry. A consi derable number of arrests were made yesterday, among whom are L. M. Viger, the President of the People's Bank; D. B. Viger, an ex-Legislative Councillor, Chas. Mendelet, John Donegani, C. S. Cherrier, and a great many other leading rebels. The volunteers were ordered out, and vied with each other in doing their duty with alacrity. They were appointed to search every suspected house in the city and suburbs for al-ins, and they brought in a consi derable supply. It was remarked that in Canadian houses theme were very few men to be seen, and it is supposed that they were nut far off. The gates at the different barricade were closed, and strong pickets p laced to guard them. Re s inforeeinents of troops were sent to various quarters of the district. At Beauharnois the rebels took possession of the steamer Brougham, on her way to Lachine with the mail on board. It is currently reported that during the engagement Mr. J. IN-'Donald, whilst leading on a party of dragoons against the rebels, was shot dead, five bullets having pierced his body. His xcellency Sir John Colborne arrived yes terday morning in the John Bull, and issued the following Proclamation : PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA.—J. COLBORNE. By His Excellency, Sir John Colborne, Kni.ht Grand Cross of the most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. Ad ministrator of the Government of the Province of Lower Canada, Lieutenant General in Chief of Her Majesty's Forces in the said Province, &c. &c. A PROCLAMATION. "PLATTSBURGH, NOV. 5, 1838, Whereas there exists in the District of Montreal a traitor ous conspiracy, by a number of persons, falsely styling themselves Patriots, for the subversion of the authority of - Her Majesty, and the destruction of the established Consti tution and Government of the said province; and whereas the said traitorous conspiracy hath broken out into acts of the most open and daring rebellion ; and whereas the said rebellion bath very considerably extended itself, insomuch that large bodies of armed traitors have openly arrayed them selves, and have made, and do still make, attacks upon Her Majesty's subjects, and have committed the most horrid ex cesses and cruelties: — And whereas in the parts of the said district in which the said conspiracy bath not as yet broken out in open rebellion, large numbers of such persons, so calling themselves Patriots, for the execution of such their wicked designs, having planned means of open violence, and formed arrangements for rais ing and arming an organized and disciplined force, and in furtherance of their purposes, have frequently assembled in great and unusual numbers; and whereas the exertinns of the Civil Power are ineffectual for the suppression of the aforesaid traitorous and wicked conspiracy and rebellion, and for the protection of the lives and properties of Her Ma jesty's loyal subjects:—. And whereas the Courts of Justice in the said District of Montreal have virtually ceased to exist, from the impossi bility of executing any legal process or warrant of arrest therein ; and whereas the public safety requires that martial law should be exercised ; now, therefore, I have thought fit, by and with the advice and consent of h e r M a j est y 's Execu tive Council of this Province, to issue this Proclamation, to the end, that it be made manifest, that I shall arrest and punish, and cause to be arrested and punished, all persons who have been hitherto, or who now are or hereafter may be in anywise acting, aiding, and assisting in the said conspiracy and rebellion, and who hereafter may be in anywise acting, aiding, or assisting, in any other conspiracy and rebellion within the said district of Montreal, according to martial law, either by death or otherwise , a s to me shall seem right and , expedient, for the punishment of all rebels in the said district. Given under my hand and seal of arms, at the Government House, in the city of Montreal, in the province of Lower Canada, the fourth nay of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and in the second year of Her Majesty's reign. By his Excellency's command, TIIOS. LEIGH GOLDIE, Acting Secretary of the PrOvince. The following extracts are taken from the New York Spec tator of Nov. 9: — (From the Troy Daily 14'hig.) IMPORTANT FROM CANADA. It appears from the following letter, received from Platts, burgh this morning by the mayor of the city, that there has been another rising among the patriots in Canada. Its state % meats are at best mere rumours, and must be taken with great allowance. -I‘4 i ~~ s' N. 74 \ market. The business transacted yesterday was rather more extensive, and in a few instances at a trifling improvement in prices; but the market generally, for all descriptions not paying regular dividends, must be considered much depressed. United States Bank closed at 1.21 ; Delaware and Hudson, 714; Harlem Railroad, 552; and Stonington Railroad at 40 a decline of 1 per cent. on the closing price of the pre vious day. Sales were made of 10,000 in 6 per cent. Trea sury Notes, at 2 per cent. premium. The packet-ship St. Andrew, for Liverpool, being still de tained, some further sales of bills on London have been made, for transaction by her, at 91. to 9 per cent. prem. the pre vious rates. NEWFOUNDLAND. - W' have been favoured with a copy of the Newfoundland Public Ledger of the 9th ultimo, in which we find the Tolloiving apposite and and forcible remarks respecting the conduct of the Popish faction towards Dr. Kielley : " Long previously to the commission of the late foul offence against the liberty of the subject, on the part of the House of Assembly, there was an assurance in the mind of every man of ordinary observation, that the priests' party were prepared to go any and every length in the accomplishment of the one great object of subduing all things to themselves; for almost every species of the most abominable tyranny was had re course to, for the purpose of coercing individuals into a line of conduct which neither their judgments nor their consciences approved. The thunders of the church were had in requisition, and were dealt forth in all their sickening, disgusting, and—to weak minds —in all their appalling ferocity ; and those from among the best of our ,Roman Catholic population who have paid the common debt of nature during the prevalence of this infernal system, have died and awe been buried like the brutes which perish—with- out one ray of consolation from the lips cf any Christian pastor, or one solitary rite at the final inhumation of the mortal remains It was not enough that they were persons of strictly moral or religious habits—they had died in the midst of their POLITICAL sins, and were, of course, accursed ! " It is, however, a partially redeeming feature in the Roman Catholic population of this country, that there are a few, although a very few, of the members of that faith, who openly avow their sense of the utter wickedness of the course which the Priests have been pursuing. There are doubtless very many others who secretly entertain the same sentiment with regard o it, but who are deterred from any open expression of their views, from an apprehension that it would involve in it the thorough ruin of all their temporal concerns. Among the former class of these Romanists is the very Dr. Kielley whose late noble stand against the despotism of our villainous house of Assembly has done him such immortal credit, and which has, at the same time, contributed so largely to bring our affairs so prominently before the British public.—Al Priests' Assembly as it was, it had no terrors for him —he nobly refused to do that which his own sense of honour and his own conscience forbade him, and there fore frustrated the intention of establishing a precedent which he felt would be deeply injurious to the liberty of his fellow-citizens.--The Doctor, it should be mentioned, was once a surgeon in the British Navy, but having lost his commission in consequence of pro tracted illness in the West Indies,* he sat himself down here, and has laboured to provide for a respecta ble family all the ease and comfort befitting his pro fessional rank ; but being one of those who come under the vulgar denomination of " Mad Dogs"—(an epithet applied by the Priests to all those who have sufficient firmness and moral courage to resist their imperious and unlawful commands)—he has been the object of ceaseless persecution—the Priests not only refusing to associate with him in funeral processions, but to per form ire last offices to the dying, where the parties had been guilty of availing themselves of the profes sional services of a gentleman on whose skill and ability they were disposed wholly to rely, and in whom the Protestants, besides, generally entertain the utmost confidence. "We have been thus particular in noticing the cha racter of Dr. Kielley, because it is to that gentleman we are indebted for the stand which, in the present important instance, hi.s been made; but there are se veral other individuals in the community who are at this moment suffering under the politico.ecclesiastical ban for sins of political.otnission or commission, who are certainly entitled to our sympathy. "With the religious tenets of the Roman Catholics, as a distinct class of Christians, we have nothing whatever to do. Matters of that nature are better suited to the pulpit, or to that portion of the press which is of a much less ephemeral character than is that of the newspaper. And, indeed, speaking of the religious tenets of the Roman Catholics, we hut sel dom hear of them ; they appear to have altogethe r merged in some peculiar doctrines regarding the safety of the State; and so it is that we find the priesthood (we mean the priesthood in Newfoundland) assuming the character "of politicians. It is in their character of politicians that we have had to deal with them. And what has the Roman Church in New foundland taught us, but that instead of being a reli gious establishment, it is purely a pot at—restless in the extreme—impatient of control—disaffected to wards British (because they are Protestant) institu tions—and secretly, yet strongly opposed to every principle of public liberty ; in short, that it is one PO LITICAL humbug from beginning to end. Such is the Romish Church in Newfoundland ; and it is to that very church that we owe all the miseries which we have endured since the first moment when the govern ment perpetrated the folly of giving to Newfoundland a local legislature. The power of the priests must be restrained, and the most effectual way of doing that is by disfranchising their subjects. We want nothing less than a strong government, and a rigorous admi nistration of British laws." * The Doctor's character is well known to Professors Sir Astley Cooper, Henry Cline, sen., John Heighton ; James Blundell, W. Bebbington, sen., James Curry, and others at St. Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospitals; as well as to those under whom he has practically served, in the British Navy, viz., Barry O'Meara, John Saumerez Downe, Sir W. Burnett, Drs. Alexander Denmark and Dewar, Physicians of the Mediterranean Fleet. Further, the Doctor's charac ter is to be found in the records of the Admiralty; and if the dead could rise and speak in his favour, there would he found in the list, Lord Exmouth, Sir Israel Pellew, and Sir James Brisbane,—to say nothing of the living witnesses, Sir Chas. Hamilton and Sir Thomas Cochrane, the late Governors of this Island. MR. URQUHART.—A correspondent, who expresses himself in terms of warm approbation of the very spirited, enlightened, and energetic addresses of Mr. Urquhart, an abstract of one of which we published last week, suggests the propriety of inviting that gentleman to attend a public meeting of the mercan tile interests of Liverpool. We trust that the sugges tion thus seasonably offered may be speedily acted upon. We understand that the Chamber of Com merce at Hull intend to give 'him an early ifivitation• Mr. Urquhart, from the position which he occupied as Secretary to the Eastern Embassy, and from the long intercourse which he has enjoyed with those patties who are best acquainted with the commercial and political affairs of the East, is peculiarly qualified to render the most essential services to the mercantile and trading communities of Great Britain. From a note which he has recently addressed to Mr. Cargill, of Newcastle, it appears that the recent commercial treaty entered into with Turkey owes its origin to his suggestions. When we consider the important nature of his communications, and their direct bearing upon our commercial prosperity, we cannot avoid echoi n g the wish of our correspondent, that Liverpool may be favoured with his lucid and powerful expositions of our foreign policy. THE LATE STORM.—In another part of our paper we give insertion to a small portion of the information which has reached us respecting the devastations of the late hurricane, the effects of which on shipping , we regret to find, have been of the most destoctive character. Our contemporary, the Mercury, vary shrewdly anticipated the melancholy news which vre have received within the last day or two, by observing the extraordinary and continued depre ssion of the barometrical column. In corroboration of the obser vations of the Mercury we find, from t he Cork Cotati tution of Saturday, that "at Monkstown,at 4, p.m., o n Wednesday last, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the S.W., the mercury sunk below 28, the lowest nutn on the scale, and reached a point which may be ex pressed by the number 27. 6." In Cork a shill* de pression was observed. In the circular barometers the index descended to "stormy," and proceeded in reverse course to "fair," and in some to " set fazr , from which it slowly retraced its unusual course during that and the following day. We fear that we are destined to hear of many more disasters than we have yet been apprized of, is it is probable that; from the sag; whi live taia You the obj, cull obi We obs Por acin