The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

CONCERTS A LA NIUSARD. lie are respectfully informed that a SERIES of i:RTS, a la Musard are intended to, be given at Newington, Bold-street, the first of which will ,n the Evening of SATURDAY, PCtober, 23d, sand wilt consist of nearly thirty Performers, ly of the Room, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Seven, and the Concert commences 1E FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER ELECTORS THE CHESTER. DIVISION OF THE COUNTY CHESTER FOR THE ELECTION OF CORONER. o ill health, which renders me unable to execute of CORONER, for the Chester Division of f Chester, with satisfaction to myself and the stage, I intend, after a period of upwards of service, to resign the said office, that another INER may be appointed in my stead ; and as my Ne- Mr. JOHN WOOD MASSEY, (who at various times has ' ' and assisted me in taking Inquests, and ng my late illness,) proposes to offer himself TE for the Office, I feel a pleasure in saying perience he has had on such occasions, he is petent to discharge the duties of the office, and he will meet with your favourable consideration on ass. I am, Gentlemen, CANDIDA Your very respectful and obedient Servant, F. THOMAS . _ .r, Octob 9th,1841 'HE NOBILITY, CLERGY, GENTRY, „AND EHOLDERS OF THE CHESTER DIVISION THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. rIY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN. TN consequence of the Resignation of my Uriie, Mr. F. THOMAS, (whose recommendation in my,Avour I have the pleasure of submitting for your inspeckan,) I beg to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the office If CORONER for this Division of the County, and assure you, should I be appointed to the situation, it will be my unceasing endeavour, by devoting the whole of my time to the faithful discharge of the duties which will devolve upon me, to give satisfaction. I cannot avoid taking this opportunity to return my best and most grateful acknowledgments to the numerous Electors who have already promised me their support. My Lords and Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant, JOHN WOOD MASSEI White Friars, Chester, Oct. 18th, 1841. A PERFECT SUBSTITUTE FOR SILVER" CATALOG UE, WITH ENGRAVINGS, POSTAGE THE M being sold FREE :aterial is so like Silver that it can offfy be told t on reference to the stamp by persofis well ac ith it. MANY SPURIOUS IMITATIONS are The genuine Metal, which we ~ivarrant more Silver, is only to be had at our yVarehouse. It lour throughout, and can be engraved the same —don, Spoons and Forks, full-sized Ta- Dessert, 10. As a cri Tea, ss. per dozen'. The Catalogue contains the prices, with Engravings, of every IRON MONGERY Article necessary to the Furnishing of a House of any size, 25 per cent. under any other old established house. RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-street, Oxford street. Established 1820. By Her MTjesty's Royal Letters Patent, PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS TAKEN BY THE REFLECTION OF LIGHT, AT THE VT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WALK, LIVERPOOL. rrHE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS, which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES in Countenance and Person are " wthi from the " in the short space of a few seconds, respect .,ce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Are, that the Extraordinary Process IS NOW OPEN. Nature The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of -1 13SERVATORY, S.T. JAMES'S W4LK, a neat and .filding has been erected therebn, in which the I OTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of which ked among the greatest scientific achievements of the it age, is now in DAILY OPERATION. LICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING IS ONE GUINEA. JOHN RELPH, Manager. as recently introduced into England, at 1L POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON; and ring are a few extracts from the leading Journals ) its merits : Invention (From the Times.) JGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has erfected as to be almost incapable of further The novelty attendant upon the fact of ed in the short space of five seconds with a miniature likeness than the most accom could paint on ivory, after days of laborious ,ed with the fineness of the weather, drew host of curious fashionables, at the Poly. so many, indeed, that notwithstanding riod of time occupied in the operation, the room ed for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting n. The apartment appropriated for the magial —for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the desired, being on the highest story of the institution. tie roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about - of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained, o ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the siau. an of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated ced, on which the party whose likeness is to be , with his head reclined backwards, In this posi itter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite about five from him, in which is placed the plate ressed with the portrait. Having done so fora few he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a .•esented to him. The likenesses which we saw ible, and closely true to nature, beauties and de being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are of their personal appearance had better keep from istitution re adroir fence of photography. (From the Morning Chronicle.) When we formerly described this process, the time requi - taking a portrait was, generally speaking, about four ; but in consequence of the great improvements that Jeen made, the time has been reduced to about five se conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the operation may require from a minute and a half to two tni- ninutes The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature here is her own delineator. The features are admirably marked out and delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi nary, that they are really startling. (From the Morning Advertiser.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting rowels daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street. The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing, leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill could effect. From the Morninq Herald.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented, and now for the first time brought before the public. By the photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken, in the short spa of from ten to five and twenty seconds ! We say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring, the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course, may result from an assumed or unnatural position. Although the exhibition hag been only of a private character, and of some two or three days, we understand that it has been visited by all the parties possessing the privilege. Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we Noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise end gratification at the extraordinary invention. (From the Court Journal.) PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap ratus at the Polytechnic IRstitOtion:,by which ph o t ograp hi c .sses are taken, and with Ilici,greatest accuracy, in a nod varying from five to twenty - seconds. We were de- Ahted with the exhibition. (From the Morning Post.) The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting his return to a general desire to possess them, whieh he `icipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the memento of a dear friend or relative. (From the Courier.) " Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy." (From the Weekly Dispatch.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We took an opportunity on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken by the photographic process. The room was crowded with nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution. It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing short of a complete copy of nature. (From the Observer.) PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving, the likeness bein g no ques ti on o f op i n i on, b ut a p l a i n matter of fact, for nat ure i n thi s, as i n ot h er s i m i lar operations, makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses; but, on the other hand, who want the real thing, and we presume them to be th ey majority, will unquestionably spend a guinea with great w th i e ll i e tn 7 rness in the production of a minia ture portrait which swearr fathers and mothers, wives, sisters, and brothers may Separateanda female appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, tnot.l'enen, attendant are els also ees waits upon the former to a g s e e ist in arranging the dress so as pictorial effect. to produce the most desirable (From the Naval and PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. e it was doubted whether Photography human ever be brought to enable the artist to take an unerring ace and form, so as to picture in its the slightest motion inevitably destroying .experiments, dttffiakeulty ; and progr e e s . Ingenuity, perseverance, olaP a u.nt n l7l. a fr ayyriesnG:ageameatzfftheee:cittePilvm: likeness, time en, from a have at length completely triuphed over the ;aetnwe varying miniature portraits, infallibly Faithful, are sittting of from five to twenty secon d s , according to the intensity of light. (From Belts Weekly Messenger.) EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES. It is bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate lookin glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likenesgs is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the most precious gift that can be given to those who love him while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest F uide for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil paintings as large as life. Specimens may be seen, and Orders reeeivecLitt Mr. L.A.• CET'S REPOSITORY OF Mere, 100, BOld.BilVelit EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY We have learned, with sincere pleasure, that the unfor tunate differences existing between the Edinburgh and Glasgow committees of directors have at l eng th b een am i ca b ly adjusted. At a recent meeting of the general board, attended by members of both committees, the alterations in the con stitution of the board recommended by the last general meeting of shareholders were taken into consideration, and the following changes, which had been previously approved of by both committees, were unanimously agreed to, and will be embodied in the new bill for which the company have occasion, on other accounts, to go to parliament. The Edinburgh and Glasgow committees, as existing under the present act, are to be abolished, and the whole powers, both of the management and execution, are to be vested in the board of directors, who will meet, as at present, in Glas gow, and consist of fifteen members, (instead of twenty-four as at present,) of whom six shall reside within twenty miles of Glasgow, and four within twenty miles of Edinburgh ; the board to have power to name committees in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and delegate to them such powers and functions as they think proper. This proposed modification of the constitution of the board is, we understand, to be submitted to the shareholders, and will, we have little doubt, he cordially approved of by them. Both the interests of the public and of the company are con cerned in this result ; for however much the directors have hitherto held their differences in abeyance in every thing connected with forwarding the works on the line, yet these differences were of a nature that rendered harmony at the board doubtful, and unity of management impossible. The unseemly spectacle will also be prevented of a contest in parliament among parties who should never appear before that tribunal disunited. We understand that Sir Frederick Smith, the Government Inspector, was recently here, and examined minutely the state of the works along the line from end to end. We have not as yet seen any official report published, but we under stand that he was highly pleased with the substantial manner in which the finished portions of the works were constructed. With regard to the time of completing and opening the rail way to the public, it is understood that Sir Frederick con sidered it likely that the whole works, including the great whinstone cutting at the Croyridge, might be ready for traffic by the middle of November. From the energy with which the unfinished parts are pushed forward, we have little doubt that this might be the case with average weather, but taking into account the unfavourable season which we have had from the beginning of August down to the present time—certainly the most rainy season that has been experienced in this part of the country for many years—our wonder is rather that so much has been accomplished than that something yet remains to do. Should November, however, prove more aus . dicous, it is expected that by the beginning of December the wishes of the public will be realised. One advantage, at least—and that not a small one—has resulted from the wetness of the season. Much of the subsiding and slipping of the embank ments, which might otherwise have happened at a future period, has already taken place, and the consolidation of the works has thus been greatly matured before the line is opened for traffic. Upon the whole, therefore, considering the in creased security to the public the delay is not so much to be regretted; because whatever tends to inspire greater confi dence in the commun i ty i n t h e sa f ety o f t h e l i ne, will ulti mately be fo r t h e true i nterest and b enefit of the Railway.— tilaagoio Courier. - - - The walls of Dublin are posted with placards, offering bounties, not only to able-bodied, but ordinary seamen, for her Majesty's service. For the last twenty-five years, the dock-yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, -Plymouth, and Pembroke. have not presented such a scene of activity as they do now ; there being no fewer than twenty-six to thirty ships of different rates fitting out for active service. aXRtITM3. . . iN of the LIVERPOOL ACADEMY ,lODERN ARTISTS ii now OPEN, Coms,• Old Postoffice-flace, Church he until Du 911. ;atalogue, Is. ; Season Tickets, ss. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. 4uuwiTlNE'S C IURGIiNATIONAL i4CITOOLS, (AN SUNDAY next, October :IV TWO SERMONS k 1 will be Preached in ST. AUGI)STINE'S CHURCH, Everton, in aid of the National Seiko's connected with that Church. In the Morning by tOe/Rev. T. TATTERSHALL, D.D., Minister of St. Augustin 's ; and in the Evening by the Rev. W. W. EWBANK, M .A.; Minister of St. George's, Everton. Divine Service will commence in the Morning at Eleven o'clock, and in the Evening at Halt-past Six. PUBLIC NOTICE. p HYAM and CO. beg respectfully to inform their nu -LP • merous Friends and the Public, that, in consequence of extensive alterations to their Premises, 63 and 65, Lord street, they will necessarily be CLOSED for a FORT NIGHT, when they will be RE-OPENED with an extensive and superb Stock of every Material far all description of CLOTHING, of the newest and most splendid Shades, Co lours, and Patterns. B. H. and Co. beg to acquaint their numerous and re spectable connexion, that the object of the present Altera tions has been to remove the annoyance of passing through the Outfitting Shop to the Bespoke Department, which has been obviated by the Proprietors taking the next Shop, No. 65, as a distinct branch, where the Bespoke Department will, in future, be carried on. , N.B.—The Bespoke Department will be carried on as usual, the entrance to which is at the First Door in Doran's lane. NEW AUTUMN AND WINTER GOODS, 114, BOLD-STREET. NIARTINDALE BROTHERS HAVING some time since announced th e i r d e t erm i na tion to retire from business, but being unable to dispose of their Premises (which they hold for a term), they have been induced to take advantage of the present DEPRESSED STATE of TRADE in the MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS, and having visited the LONDON and other MARKETS, they have succeeded in purchasing an excellent Assortment of New AUTUMN and WINTER GOODS, at extremely Low Prices. Their STOCK consists of SILKS, SATINS, SATINETS, and CHENE SILKS ; Black and Coloured VELVETS ; SATIN, VELVET, and CACHMERE SHAWLS ; CHENE ROYALS, CACHMERES, CHUSANS, and LUSTRES ; FRENCH, AUS TRALIAN, and BRITISH MERINOS; ORLEANS CLOTHS; Figured ALPACA CLOAKINGS ; a variety of PLAIDS, of differ ent textures ; Ditto DELAINES and PRINTS ; 7-Bth and 4-4th LINENS; FLANNELS, RIBBONS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, &C. These it is their intention to offer at the lowest remune rating rate of profit, and they feel confident that, for quality, style and price, their New Stock will be equalled by few, and excelled by none in the Town. The small remainder of their Old Stock will be sold at a still further reduction. WOODLANDS NURSERY, MARESFIELD, NEAR UCKFIELD, SUSSEX, AYD AT FARIS. WILLIAM WOOD and SON have the honour to an nounce to their Friends, and to Amateurs, that the newly-arranged CATALOGUE of their'immense Collection of ROSES, cultivated on upwards of 14 acres of Ground, also LISTS of their NURSERY STOCK, are now ready for distribution, and will be sent GRATIS on application. W. W. and Son have much pleasure in offering the under mentioned Roses, the varieties left to their own section, at the following very reduced prices. Good strong Plants, to be sent out in November. Per doz.i' Per 100. Fine Standard Roses 3osior £lO 0 0 Half Standard do 14 ,7 „ 50 0 Fine Half Standard do. Extra Fice Half Standard do 2. „ 7 10 0 Dwarf Roses Fine Dwarf d 0... Very Fine do. do l2s. „ 3 15 0 Extra do. do. d 0... Climbing Roses Do. do. Very Fine l2s. „ 2 10 0 The above are all warranted beautiful French varieties, among which are the very newest. Plants presented gratis to defray the expense of carriage and packing. j PRIESTLEY, CHEMIST, Lord-street, begs particu • larly to call the attention of his Friends and the Public to the undermentioned selection of Preparati9ns, compound ed at his Laboratory, a trial of any of which will convince the most sceptical of their decided superiority. THE FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. In this preparation are concentrated allcihe Medicinal Pro perties of Sarsaparilla Root. To persiins, therefore, who, from various causes, would experiene( great inconvenience, or with whom it would be utterly inipossible to prepare the Compound Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the advantages of portability and of keeping in any climate, will be found a most desirable mode of employing this much esteemed Medicine. Two teaspoonsful of the Fluid Extract, put into a wine glass full of water, makes a preparation equal in strength to half a pint of the Compound Decoction, formerly prescribed by the London, Edinburgh. and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. The diseases in which it has proved most beneficial are those of the Skin; such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive Diseases, Secondary Symptoms, &c., arising from a diseased state of the system at large. For removing Blotches, Pim ples, &e. trom the Face, this Medicine has no superior. The extensive use and high reputation of this preparation has led to numerous imitations, disguised by the name of Syrup, Essences, &c. The whole medicinal virtues of the Sarsaparilla consist in its extractive matter, and it possesses no real property in the form of essence, while the Syrup is injurious to the digestive organs by causing acid fermentation. PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS. Which approach nearer than anything yet discovered to the Chalybeate Waters of Germany. The style of pre paring PRIESTLEY'S SEIDLITZ POWDERS iS peculiar to himself, and combines scientific skill with great accu racy ; and though numbers of people unacquainted with the business, and others, have of late years attempted imita tions, they have invariably been found to be spurious com pounds, neither possessing the agreeable flavour nor the me dicinal properties of the Seidlit: Waters. Sold in Boxes, 2s. each, containing twenty-four Powders, to make one dozen tumbler glasses, and in Tin Cases, 10s. each. The latter are put up in a very eligible form for ex portation, or to use at sea, and will keep any length of time in all climates. VEGETABLE HAIR OIL Is allowed to he an excellent discovery for invigorating and renovating the human Hair. It eradicates the Scurf, nou rishes the Hair, prevents its falling off, produces a most beau tiful natural curl, and gives to artificial Hair a peculiar soft ness of texture and luxuriant appearance. Sold in Bottles at Is. 3d. and 3s. each. VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER A pleasant Tonic Tooth Powder, which simply removes all tartarous incrustations from the enamel ; and by its peculiar properties preserves that necessary covering. —Sold in Boxes, 2s. 6d. PRIESTLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE For Cleaning and Polishing Furniture without labour or trouble. This paste is used for cleaning and polishing every description of furniture, whatever preparation may have been previously used for that purpose , it adds a high lustre to French polish.—Sold in Pots at is. each, or 3 pots for 2s. 6d. FURNITURE OIL, Half-pint Bottles ls., Pint Bottles 1 s. 9d.. Quart Bottles, 3s GENUINE METALLIC LUSTRE This article is recommended to Housekeepers for cleaning all manner of Gold and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots, Pewter Measures, Brass Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair Rods, Brass Plates on Doors, Tin Covers, &c. &c.: with half the usual labour which is generally required with other preparations the above Lustre leaves a beautiful polish on the Metal. It will also be found useful in the Stable department, for clean ing Brass-mounted Carriage, Gig, or Coach Harness.--Sold in Squares at 6d. and ls. each. _ _ ESSENTIAL SALT OF LEMONS. For taking Iron Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stains, out of Linen, Muslin, Lace, &c., and for many other useful pur oses.—Price Is. per Box, or three Boxes for 2s. 6d. MUCH ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR. A few drops of this Flavour added to Custards, Cakes, Wines, Jellies, &c., communicate a most delicious taste of Almonds.—Sold in Bottles, with Directions, Is. 6d. and 35. CONCENTRATED ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER A teaspoonful may be taken for a dose three times a day in any liquid : _ _ Physicians' and Surgeons' Prescriptions carefully prepared. Medicine Chests fitted up for sea. Genuine Drugs and Chemicals. An order from persons residing in the country for any of the above preparations, with a remittance or post-office or der, will meet with immediate attention FOREIGN iNTELLIG.ENC.E THE LEVANT MAIL The Levant mail has arrived with letters from Constanti nople of the Sth, and Alexandria, of the Gth of October. A most violent shock of an earthquake occurred at Con stantinople on the night of the sth, such indeed as the oldest inhabitant does not remember to have ever witnessed. The first shock, felt at twenty-five minutes after two in the morn ing, was strong and lasted some time. The second at three o'clock and lasted from twenty to twenty-five seconds. This was succeeded half-an-hour afterwards by a third and slight shock, and at seven in the morning occurred a fourth. A great deal of damage was done in the Khan, at Constantino ple, and in the surrounding villages many lives were said to have been lost ; but our correspondent states that there were only five or six persons killed, though the loss of property is very extensive. The military organisation of Turkey was going on satis factorily, and a good disposable army will go a great way to wards insuring the future safety of the empire. General Jochmus has been placed by the sultan's firman at the head of the staff, and this measure, prompted by Lord Ponsonby, augurs well for the morals and respectability of the Ottoman army. Besides financial difficulties, the porte has many other weighty matters that call for its constant attention, such as the state of Tripoli, the attitude of Mehemet Ali, whose actions are at variance with his professions, and the discon tents of the rayah populations. From Alexandria there is no news of moment. The libera tion of the Syrians in the service of the pasha was continued. About 7,000 had already left Egypt, and more were expected from the upper country in order to be shipped off. FRANCE The Paris papers of Sunday contain a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, dated the 23d instant, announcing the arrival at Urdax of O'Donnell, with Generals Ortigoza and Jaure guy, and 2,500 men. The Count de Mouterron and several members of the foral deputation had also reached that town. Urdax is situated in the valley of the Bastan, about two miles from the French frontier. The Moniteur Parisien of Satur day night announces that several regiments have been ordered by the French government to approach the Pyrenean frontier, and that a squadron of ships of war has been despatched to the coast. This movement has given rise to much specula tion. Some of the papers consider it as indicative of the in tention of Louis Philippe to interfere actively in the affairs of Spain, but the majority regard it as a necessary precaution, without having any hostile character. The ill effects of the insurrection it is feared will be felt for some time after all open appearance of resistance to the existing government shall have disappeared. It will tend to strengthen the re publican party ; and by some it is supposed that Espartero will be compelled, in consequence, to adopt more democratic measures. SPAIN The accounts from Madrid reach to the 15th instant. On the morning of that day Espartero was to leave the city for the northern provinces, to take the command of the army. Before his departure he issued a proclamation, in which. after reciting the advantages which the Spanish nation had enjoyed since the establishment of peace, he holds up to execration the wicked attempt to renew civil war. He calls the Spaniards to take arias to suppress the insurrection, and concludes by appealing to the honour of the National Guard of Madrid, to whom he intrusts the care of guarding the infant Queen and her sister. The news of the general sub mission of the insurgents in the Basque provinces had not reached Madrid at the above date, and it is therefore probable that Espartero would return to the capital when the in formation reached him on his route to join the army. El .Espectador contains a curious article in reference to the property possessed by Queen Christina. As guardian to her daughter, she is said to have disposed of the royal patrimony, and of the 28,000,000 f. belonging to her daughter; and that beside the 12,000,000 f. of the civil list ; to have saved during the seven years of her administration, 5,500,000 f. per annum, (37,000,000 f.,) which, added to her dotation of 81,000,000 f., would leave her in possession of 121,000,000 f. The Spanish journalists, presuming her to have expended 11,000,000 f. in Spain, which, looking at her parsimonious habits, he appears to consider improbable, states that she would still be in possession of 110,000,000 f. (£4,400,000 sterling,) to say nothing of the jewels, gold and silver plate, and other articles of value, which she carried off from the Palace. If this account of her resources be correct, there can be no pretext for the belief that the money which is said to have been in strumental in bringing about the late insurrection was sup plied by any one but herself. Notwithstanding the positive charge which has been brought against the French govern ment of having originated the insurrection, no single fact has yet transpired which tends in any way to confirm it. What ever may be Espartero's notions on the subject, it is clear that he is not a little solicitous of propitiating public opinion in France ; for in spite of the denuded condition of the royal treasury, and the disturbed state of the country, a courier from Madrid arrived in Paris on Sunday last, with funds for payment of the greater portion of the arrears of pay due to the French Auxiliary Legion. EXECUTION OF GENERAL LEON (From the Madrid Correspondent of the Times of Saturday.) Madrid, Oct. 15, Quarter past Two, p.m General Leon is shot ! At one o'clock to-day he was taken in a coach from the Convent of St. Thomas, in which he had been confined, (the barrack of the national militia of Madrid) and conducted outside the gate of Toledo, (the usual place of military execution, beyond that of Bilboa, being too far from his prison,) where at 42 minutes past one, he was shot by a platoon. A strong force lined the great street of To ledo, and prevented the populace passing through the gate to witness the execution. However, a gentleman who had been on the ground from an early hour, and who witnessed the scene, declared that he had died like a soldier. He wore his uniform as a cavalry officer, and addressed his guards in a firm voice, nearly to this effect:—" Comrades, I am ac cused of being a coward and a traitor ! lam neither. I have served Spain well, and I do not regret it. " Viva Isabella Segundr! Viva la libertad ! Adios Camarades!" He embraced his Advocate-General, Roncali, and the Fiscal who presided at the execution of the sentence, and then turning to the soldiers, gave the signal to fire. One dis charge sufficed, and he fell dead instantly. The Fiscal took charge of the body, and the mass of the troops of the line and Nacionalles returned into the city. As I write, a splen did hearse, drawn by two mules, covered with black velvet and cloth of gold, is proceeding to the ground to convey the corpse to the Campo Santo. _ Thus has perished the second victim of the policy of Maria Christina. It was a pity that he did not stand on his de fence before the council, as the brave rash soldier he really was, instead of allowing the lawers to inoculate him with their shallow pettifogging artifices, that must have called forth Espartero's contempt instead f his sympathy. Had he plainly admitted his error, and cried, " Viva Isabella Se gunda! Viva la libertad !" before the council of war, he might perhaps have been alive now. IMPORTANT TO AGRICULTURISTS Several cases have lately been brought before the magistrates in petty sessions in various parts of the country, and parties (farmers and others) claiming exemption for toll for thrashing machines ; the exemption has been allowed in some cases, and in others refused. The point, whether they are not liable, will perhaps remain unsettled until it has received the decision of one of the superior courts of law ; but in the mean time we give an extract from an opinion of the present Attorney- General on the point. In a late case at our City petty sessions, where the magistrates considered a thrashing machine to be exempted from toll, another point was also raised, viz., sup posing that a thrashing machine is exempt from toll, will not such exemption be interfered with in case any other article should be placed on the machine or in the carriage in which such machine is conveyed ? And if so, what quantity of such article would constitute " a lading," in the terms of the General Turnpike Act, 3 G. 4, c. 126, s. 32, which states as follows : • " For any horse, &c., or carriage employed, or having been employed on the same day, in carrying or conveying any dung, &c., (except lime) for improving lands, or any ploughs, har rows, or implements in husbandry, (unless laden with some other thing not thereby exempted from toll,) or any hay, straw, &c., which has grown on land in the occupation of the owner of such hay, straw, &c., and which has not been bought, sold, or disposed of, or or any horses, &c., em ployed in husbandry, going to or returning from plough or harrow, or to or from pasture or watering place, or from being shoed, such horses not going or returning on those oc casions more than two miles on the turnpike road on which the exemption shall be claimed." The following is the extract from the opinion of Sir F. Pollock, above referred to : " I am of opinion that a thrashing machine is not exempt from toll to whomsoever the horses may belong that draw it. In my opinion it is not an " implement of husbandry ;" hus bandry means " tillage:" and those tools or implements alone, are in my opinion, " implements in husbandry" which are employed in tillage ; such as ploughs, harrows, spades, &c., (perhaps also sowing machines or instruments for drilling) ; but a " thrashing machine" is not used in tilling but in preparing the produce for the market. Every farming implement is not exempted, such as a chaff-cutting machine, and many others." In our brief comment on the case lately heard at our City Petty Sessions, as mentioned above, we remarked on the ab surdity of the supposition that the legislature had intended to exempt the farmer's machine from toll, and at the same time to levy a toll on a straw or other covering necessary to protect such machine from the weather—in other words, pro tecting the agriculturists in dry but not in wet weather! But this new proposition put forth by Sir F. Pollock—that a thrashing machine is not an implement of husbandry—ap_ pears to us to be equally absurd ; and however ingenious such an argument may seem when used by Mr. Lett, or any other toll-gate keeper, we had not ,expect e d t o see i t a d vance d b y her Majesty's Attorney-General. It is evident that the pur poses and objects of " husbandry " are not fulfilled and complete until the grain is made ready for the market ; and no legislator could ever have contemplated affording protec tion to the farmer in one stage of his operations and refusing it in another, in the manner laid down by Sir F. Pollock. Again, " husbandmen," properly so called, are a class whose operations are not confined to tillage, but embrace reaping, mowing, thrashing, &c. ; yet, by the extenson of the princi ple laid down by the Attorney-General, such men would merely be required to prepare the land for sowing, &c. It is as necessary for the purposes of the farmer that his grain should be thrashed and husbanded, as that his ground should undergo tillage. We perfectly agree with the decision given by our magistrates, one of whom judiciously remarked that a flail (which we denominate a ruder kind of thrashing machine) would have passed, toll free, through any gate, and without any demand being made ; and further, we believe that the Act 3 George IV. contemplates exemption for all implements used by the farmer in the preparation of his grain for the market.—Worcester Journal. A popish paper in Cork " rejoices to announce the con version of Lord and Lady Holland to the Roman Catholic faith, which gratifying event took place at Rome the latter end of last month." DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—An accident of a most dis tressing nature occurred at Prestonkirk on Monday. Two young girls—Jessie Steel and Mary Reid, belonging to East Linton, had left their homes on the morning, for the purpose of gleaning in the fields, and while attempting to cross the Tyne, at the village of Preston, by means of a plank, they lost their hold, and were both precipitated into the water. On the alarm being given, Mr. William Pringle, Preston, ran to their asssistance, and at the hazard of his own life, rushed into the water, and succeeded in dragging one of them ( J ess i e Steel) out. Life seemed to be extinct, but the means used by Dr. Hislop, Linton, to whom, along with Mr. Wm. Pringle, great praise is due, were at last blessed in restoring her to life. The other girl, we are sorry to add, found a wa tery grave—her body was not recovered till the following day.—Edinburgh Standard. THE ENGLISH GALLERY AT THE LOUVRE.-AlOOllOl the bequest of the fine collection of pictures of the late Mr. Standish to the King of the French may, in a certain sense, be considered as a loss to this country, yet the purpose to which his majesty has applied the legacy amply compensates for the change of owners. The reputation of this collection will henceforth be European, as a separate gallery has been devoted to its exhibition in the palace of the Louvre, which will very shortly be thrown open to the travelling world, in the same manner as the celebrated museums, which have for so great a length of time formed one of the chief attractions of Paris. His majesty the King of the French has given Mr. Standish's collection the name of " The English Gal lery" under which designation there is little doubt of its being better known to our countrymen than if it had remained in that gentleman's family. This gallery will occupy the liege above the Muse'e de la Marine, extending along that front of the palace which faces the rue St. Honore. The pictures are already classified and hung up, and will be very soon thrown open to the public.—Herald. IVE FRAUDS IN EXCIIEWER, BILV Considerable sensation has been occasioned in London for the last few clays, relative to a discovery of fraudulent issues of exchequer bills. In many instances t r ipli ca t es o f th ese documents are found to be in existence, and how they have been created has given rise to a multit u d e o f susp i c i ons. A s may be imagined the business on the Stock Exchange is much neglected. We take the following on the subject from the Times of Wednesday : It is understood to-day in the city that suspicion has at length been directed to a particular individual relative to the fraudulent issues of exchequer-bills, and that the party con nected with it has been taken into custody. He is said to hold a high station in one of the government offices, but at the , present state of the proceedings it would perhaps be scarcely right to mention his name, although it is pretty ge nerally spoken in the city ; moreover, it is scarcely necessary, as it must of course transpire officially within a very short period. Besides, it seems that the party apprehended is not the only offender, as, according to a full confession which he is said to have made, a great many other persons are impli catediinithe transaction. The amount of the frudulent issue is said to be as high as £150,000 or £200,000 according to the confession of the party. The bills do not appear to have been strictly speaking a forgery, if we may trust the general report, according to which the signature of Lord Monteagle has been obtained in a surreptitious manner. At the same time the practice which is suffered to have obtained in the office, of allowing different persons actually to sign the name of Lord Monteagle, and by his authority, was excessively loose, and calculated to give great facilities to forgery, while great difficulties would be thrown in the way of detection. There is rather a curious anecdote which is told in connexion with the affair, and one which is singularly illustrative of the carelessness with which the business of the office has been conducted. During the present investigation, one of the bills is said to have been shown to Lord Monteagle, who observed, that he really could not tell whether the signature was his signature or not. The circumstances which have transpired to-day would seem to show that a great many of the rumours which were afloat on the first discovery of an irregularity in the Exche quer-bill market were totally false, and had their source in idle conjecture, or, what is more probable, in the endeavours of the parties really implicated to turn suspicion into wrong channels. So much, however, of the late rumours still ap pears to be true that the surreptitious issues are in some manner connected with the sales of Spanish stock. Now the chief anxiety in the city is, admitting the bills to be for geries, (for the case will hardly arise if they have actually been signed by Lord Monteagle,) and also admitting the forgeries to have had a sort of government currency, to know what degree of liability will attach to the government itself to make good any sums that may have been lost by the tran saction. Had the parties holding them received them imme diately from the Treasury, or with a due degree of caution as to the parties from whom they took them, it would not be the., same case as if, lured by a high rate of interest, they took them of parties to whom they were utter strangers, or whom, if they knew at all, they knew to be in such circum stances, that honest possession of the bills was almost impos sible. If, however, as I before observed, the bills are actually signed by Lord Monteagle, it is pot likely this delicate ques tion will ever be practically discussed. At present it is the opinion of many experienced persons in the city, that the safe course on the part of the government will be to draw in the hills of the present issues, and at once issue new ones, to remove the complication which at present exists, and which, whoever may be the parties actually implicated, results from the grossest negligence and mismanagement under the Whig. administration. One of the latest rumours relative to this affair is the cap ture of a party in the city, who is supposed to have been the next chief implicated to the one already in custody. On this subject we have received the following communi cation from a source on which we have reason to rely : "The frauds committed in regard to Exchequer-bills have been committed through the agency of a person in the Ex chequer-bill-office. Whether the duplicate bills in circula tion are forgeries, or whether the bills, having been regularly signed, have been fraudulently obtained, is vet uncertain. The bills, whether forged or fraudulently obtained, were ap plied to speculations in foreign funds, chiefly Spanish stock. A gentleman, who held a confidential appointment in the Exchequer-bill-office, has been committed to prison. The following we take from the Times of yesterday : Though the events disclosed yesterday would seem to have brought the affair of the fraudulent issue of Exchequer-bills to something like a denouement. the interest excited by it has hardly at all subsided. In fact, until some official an nouncement is made from the Treasury on the subject, there is scarcely a holder of Exchequer-bills who feels entirely at his ease respecting this part of his property. Besides this, the credit of the government itself is mixed up in the ques tion to a degree which becomes more alarming the longer de lay takes place, and there can be no doubt that some very de cisive measure must soon be adopted at the Treasury to avert the consequences of this uneasy feeling. It may be stated, perhaps, as the more general wish, that an order should be made, not only for immediately calling in the whole of those in circulation, but for replacing them by others of a totally different mark and colour, so as to prevent any possibility of being confounded with them. With the arrangements that are at the command of the Treasury this ought to be neither a long nor a difficult affair, and even the fixing of a period when all uncertainty would be removed would tend to some extent to relieve the public mind. But, besides this, there is another feeling on the part of the monied interest, which is calculated to make a very strong impression at the Treasury, and which is, that frauds like these, to so large an amount, and continued for so long a period of time, could not have happened without a system of management at the Treasury utterly defective and vicious. Helace the Treasury will be expected not only to remedy the present evil, but also to es tablish such reforms as will make the recurrence of it im possible. It is well known that in the offices where the re sponsible part of the exchequer-bill business is conducted the attendance of the persons employed is very short and very uncertain, and that the facilities, therefore, for fraud, to any parties who are disposed to practise it, are very great; and we fear it may be added that many of those servants of the public are passing much of that time when they ought to be on duty either on the Stock Exchange, engaged in ha zardous speculations, or at the offices of joint-stock compa nies, where many of them act as directors. With respect to the party charged with the lead in this fraud, the name is not yet publicly announced, though it is as freely mentioned everywhere as if that had been the case. Much blame is at tached to the treasury for having allowed the whole of this day to pass without making any official communication either at the Bank or at the Stock Exchange. But, though they have done nothing, a number of minor incidents have com e to light which may be mentioned, as showing that the affair has very extensive ramifications, and it is thought very pos sible that the party apprehended is but an instillment in the hands of a confederacy, who have associated for the purpose of conducting this enormous fraud. It has transpired that the offices of various persons have to-day been searched, under a warrant from the Secretary of State, and it is also said that several individuals connected with the Stock Exchange have had notice to attend at the Treasury for an examination, supposed to be going on at the moment when this paragraph was penned. Several very important questions, too, have arisen in con nexion with this affair, the most material of which is, what has been going on at the Bank relative to the operation of funding Exchequer-bills, under the late notice from the Trea sury. We believe it may be stated that, until this day, no precautions have been instituted there to test the genuineness of the Exchequer-bills brought in to be funded, and yet such is the nature of the proceeding that any party delivering Ex chequer-bills could obtain stock in exchange for them, and dispose of that stock in the market, all within the period of a couple of hours. Thus, if the parties had resorted to this mode of obtaining a value for their Exchequer-bills, they would have realized immense sums, and placed themselves almost beyond the reach of detection. Another most important question is how the Treasury will deal with those parties who may be said to be innocent hold ers of these forged securities, and whether they will be repaid. This point must, we imagine, remain very much in doubt until the investigations relative to the fraud are complete ; for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it is said, conceives a broad distinction to exist betw een a rand originating solely with one of his own officers, and one concocted out of doors, of which that officer is made the tool. Something, it is clear, must be done to bring the whole circulation of the Exchequer bills under observation, without which it could not be known, even at the Treasury, what extent of responsibility they would have to incur by adopting the fraudulent as well as the genuine issue. These disclosures have brought to mind many circum stances in the money-market for months and even for years past, which wore thought at the time mysterious and unac countable, but which, in the hurry of business, passed away without further observation. As to the speculations in Spanish stock, for example , it i s recollected that the parties ostensibly engaged in them were persons of inferior note and standing, who yet carried on their time-bargains to such an extent that their differen c e s on the settlement of the foreign account, which only lasts for a fortnight, were often from £20,000 to £30,000. ; an d yet it was found: that they always contrived, in some way or other, to make good their engage ments. Hence they acquired, of course, the confidence of the jobbers in the St oc k-E xc h ange, and were believed to act, not for themselves, but for principals of real wealth, who, for some cause or other, chose, as is not uncommonly the case, to keep aloof from observation. It was contrived, also, to let it be believed that the funds raised by these different ope rations had some political object, and even as far back as the mad expedition of Louis Napoleon, they were connected with that expedition, as they have been latterly with the insurrec tion in Spain. Most of the speculations in Spanish stock, it should be obse rve d, are usua ll y unsuccessful, political cir cumstances and the state of the money-market turning con stantly against them ; and hence, some people suppose that the mode of raising money by false Exchequer-bills was an after-thought, devised to rescue them from a situation other wise irretrievable; and it is by no means thought improbable that a participation in these losses by the official person im plicated at the Treasury facilitated their employment of him as their instrument for getting out of their mutual difficulties. It may truly be said, we believe, that since the first issue of the document called an " Exchequer-bill," there never has existed so much excitement respecting that securiety as at the present moment. It is proper to mention, in order to save many innocent persons from suspicion, that the person now in custody is Mr. E. Bowman Smith, of the Exchequer-office. LONDON MONEY MARKET AND TRADE REPORT The business in Exchequer-bills continues for the while suspended. One or two small transactions under guarantee have been effected at the lower premium of 9s. They are quoted almost nominally at 9 to 11 premium. This inter ruption to the regular mode of dealing increases the business in the permanent stocks, which are quoted nearly :1 per cent. better than yesterday. Consols for money were at one period of the day quoted at 881, but closed at 881., and for the ac count, 881 to ; three per cents. reduced closed at 861 ; three and a half p er cents. reduce d , 96i ; new three and a half per cents., 981; long annuities (expiring the sth of Ja nuary, 1860), 12 5-16ths to 7-16ths ; bank stock, 162 to 163 ; and India Stock, 242 to 243. As the explosion of the exchequer-bill fraud will implicate parties who have for a long time past been the supporters of the Spanish market, the news from Spain, although of a fa vourable character, makes but trifling impression. It is not likely that business in any of the markets will take its wonted course till the public mind is relieved by a full disclosure. Spanish actives closed at 201 to ; Portuguese five per cents., 294- to *; Dutch two and a half per cents., 51 to ; Danish, 78 to 79 ; Brazilian, 55 to 57 ; Belgian, 1021 to 1033 ; Co lombian, 181 ; and Mexican, 24 to A. TEA. — Very little business done in the market, in conse quence of the public sales advertised for Friday. Company's congous remain the same—ls. 10W. per lb. cash. SUGAR.—The market was quieter to-day, and the sales of British plantation limited ; 71 casks of St. Lucia and 65 hhds. of Trinidad were offered by public sale, and fetched lower prices. 2700 bags of Bengal were offered; white sugars went about 6d. lower, middling to good white fetching 68 s. 6 d. to 71s. 6d. ; low t o middling ditto, 645. to 675. 6d. ; Khaur, 425. to 455. 6d. COFFEE. --140 casks of Jamaica were offered, and nearly all sold, from 70s. to 116 s. 6d. for ordinary to good middling. Cocoa-560 bags and barrels of British plantation, partly sold ; ordinary to good, 40s. to 455. ; and 2500 bags of Guay aquil, 335. 6d. to 31s. - Rica.-660 b ags o f ordinary broken yellowish Ben ga l so ld at Ils. to 11s. 6d., which is rather dearer. PEPPER.-960 bags of good brown Eastern, partly sold at 34d. At the last meeting, at Wells, of the Bath and Wells Dio cesan Church Building Society, nearly £7OO was contributed to its funds. THEBTitE.IIOYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee NOTlCE.—During the remainder of the Season, the per formances will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST Six. For the BENEFIT of MR. VANDENHOFF Fifth Night of MR. and MISS VANDENHOFF, who are engaged for a limited period ; and First Appearance in Liverpool of Mr. HENRY VANDENHOFF. THIS present FRIDAY, October 29,1841, will be revi v ed the Tragedy of Caro. Compressed into three acts, with alterations, by J. Vandenhoff. Cato Porcius.. Mr. Henry Vandenhoff. Juba.... Marcia Miss Vandenhoff. A PAS DE DEUX by Master and Miss C. Webster, To conclude with the lasi new Play, written by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., called MONEY. Sir Frederick Blount Mr. Henry Vandenhoff. Evelyn Lord cilossmore Mr. H. Holl. Lady Franklin Georgina.. Clara On MONDAY next, the Tragedy of KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Vandenhoff; Edgar, Mr. Stuart; Oswald, Mt. Chaplin ; Kent, Mr. Baker ; Regan, Miss Cleaver; Goneril, Mrs. Baker ; Cordelia, Miss Vandenhoff. With a Favourite Afterpiece. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE THIS EVENING (Friday), the 29th, and TO-MORROW (Saturday), the 30th inst., SIR HUON OF GUY ENNE, with other Entertainments. On MONDAY NEXT, Nov. Ist, COMBINATION OF NOVELTY AND TALENT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. EGERTON, LESSEE, On which occasion will be produced a New Nautical Drama, performed in the Royal Surrey Theatre an entire Season, entitled ARMSTRONG THE SHIPWRIGHT. Mr. HOSKINS has kindly consented to perform for that Night only. NEW SCENES in the ARENA, never performed in Liver pool; and First Night of SIR HuoN OF GUYENNE at Half-price. fiN MONDAY next, Nov. I s t, th e E n t er t a i nmen t s w ill kl commence with an entirely new Nautical Drama, with new Scenes, Dresses, &c., entitled ARMSTRONG THE SHIPWRIGHT; Or, The Rival Brothers. Armstrong the Shipwright.. A Tee-Totaller Mr. H. Beverly. SCENES IN THE ARENA, By Mr. Wells, Mr. Pablo Fatigue, and Signor Nicholo, in troducing an entirely new Act, entitled JACK TI-SE GIANT KILLER. A NEW BURLETTA, In which Mr. Hoskins, Mr. H. Beverly, and Mr. Egerton will appear. - The whole to conclude with the Grand Spectacle of SIR HUON OF GUYENNE. Sir Huon.. Mr. Howard Sadak.. Mr. H. Beverly. The Public is most respectfully informed that this Esta blishment will shortly close, for the purpose of preparing the Christmas Novelties, which will include the Performances of the first Artists in Europe, and the most brilliant Specta cles ever produced out of the Metropolis. During the Season, the Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, commencing at Seven o'clock precisely, and to terminate as near Eleven as possible. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET, LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR OF THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH PERFORMING HIS WONDERS IN LIVERPOOL, & OF MR. C. SLOMAN & THE LANCASHIRE BELL-RINGERS ! THOSE who wish to see the GREAT MIRAFLE of the MAGIC WORLD, must visit the " LtER" on the Evenings of FRIDAY, SATURDAY, MOND A-, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY, November 3d, which s h ptl be the LAST NIGHT—POZ ! Mr. C. SLOMAN'S BENEFIT takei6lace THIS EVEN ING (FRIDAY Mr. J. H. A. begs to inform his riends and the Public that his BENEFIT takes place on MONDAY NEXT, No vember Ist, on which occasion he solicits their patronage and support. On TUESDAY EVENING, a Grand Treat to the Inha bitants of the opposite Shore, at the request of a number of Families on the Cheshire side. He will commence his Per formance at Seven o'clock instead of Eight, concluding in time for Parties to catch the Last Boat. On WEDNESDAY, the LAST NIGHT, Mr. J. H. A. begs to inform the charitable, that he will give the whole of the Receipts of the Evening to the WIDOWS and ORPHANS of the CREW of the unfortunate STEAM-SHIP " PRE SIDENT." The WIZARD begs to inform the Public, that he will not pay the Receipts of the above Evening into the hands of Mr. Charles Mackie, Commission Agent, in consequence of the attempts Mr. M. has made—first, in a speech delivered by him at the Amphitheatre, and subsequently in a corre spondence printed and circulated by him, tending to injure the Wizard in public estimation. Mr. Mackie shall not shcv his Charity on this occasion, nor shall he be the Agent, consequently there will be no Commission, so, perhaps, " Charity will begin at home." The Receipts of the above Evening will be paid into the hands of Messrs. Pim and Co. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. J., Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London, is informed that a parcel, left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, will safely reach us. We have no means of ascertaining the information requested by our Bradford correspondent. The name of the vessel is not a sufficient guide to enable us to make any inquiries on the subject. The two concluding " Sketches of the Shannon," by W.— " A Visit to Kilkee," and " Trip from Limerick to Dublin, by the Upper Shannon"—are postponed until after the Municipal Election. We presume that " A Poor Wesleyan " intends his letter merely as an explanatory epistle for ourselves. " Daffey " very properly utters an indignant remonstrance against an insinuation of the Mercury about the publicans of Wigan being unworthy to occupy a seat in the council chamber, and asks if there are not men of sufficient intel ligence amongst that body to discharge the duties of a town-councillor. We hope the licensed victuallers will remember on Monday next the Mercury's slander, as well as all the other injuries inflicted upon them from time to time by the radical town-council. Ebe Ettnrpool attanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1841 The Conservative candidates at the approaching mu nicipal struggle have reason to congratulate themselves upon Mercurial forbearance. By the time that these remarks will meet their eyes, the entire body were to hare been exterminated ; flagellated to death, or smo thered beneath a column of objurgatory twaddle; pelted with shocking nicknames or slimed over with nauseous slanders, by our amiable contemporary. They were to have been held up, one by one, to public gaze— a Conservative pigmy in contrast with a " liberal" giant—a small herring stuck on the same fork with a salmon, and exposed to the same scorching fire of edi torial scrutiny. But " a change came o'er the spirit of his dream," and Conservatism is spared the promised infliction. A warning spirit stood up before him, and, in a moment, " changed his hand and checked his pride" ! Our contemporary has imbibed a sudden horror of personality, (!) or of those longitudinal pieces of sheep skin which result therefrom ; and from henceforth, like the immortal knight—(Sir John, not Sir Joshua)—is determined to " eschew slander and live cleanly"—a determination whereat we have no doubt the world at large, and the Conservative portion of it in particular, will be, beyond measure, gratified. We did, ourselves, purpose entering into such an examination of the comparative fitness for office of the various candidates, as that from which our contempo rary has shrunk; but we are induced to spare ourselves the task, although not from the same motive which has influenced our contemporary. We can see no difficulty in canvassing the merits of any number of individuals without being personally offensive to those from whom we differ. We could he condemnatory without being insulting ; and we think that we could be, even, severe without being slanderous. Men who are conscious of being in a bad cause may be afraid of being foul mouthed; but we who have no such cause in hand could enter upon its advocacy in any form, without mistrusting our temper. We shall not then enter into any individual compa rison, and for this ample reason : the present struggle is not one of which individual fitness should be the leading test. Were it to be fought on that ground alone.—were individual character or business talent the possessions which, in the eyes of the entire constitu encies, are recognised as conveying the title to corpo rate office, how ready should we be to array Conserva tive against Whig—the individual against his opponent in every ward ! But it is not so. The struggle now is for the supremacy of a principle in the Council. We have to decide whether we will have that body Conser vative or Radical; allied with the supporters of the constitution in church and state, or leagued with the admirers of republic institutions ; arrayed on the side of our established religion, and supporting an honest system of religious education for the people, or lending itself to the attacks of dissent and infidelity against the faith, the order, and the moral wellbeing of the com munity. We have opposed to us not individuals merely, in their own private characters perhaps irre proachable, but the banded strength of a faction, in whose h an d s t h e i n di v idual candidates which th ey b r i ng forward are b u t unreflecting puppets, galley slav es , chained to the car of a truculent democracy, which seeks to trample beneath its feet the free expression of the will of the constituencies, and to raise from the midst of this loyal community the wild yell of th e le veller and the destructive. In their collective tcharacter alone the burgesses must regard tile candidates in the present struggle, as the nominees of a Popish and Socinian junto, which has inundated the registeries with its blind tools, to be en abled to ride roughshod over the independent consti tuency of the town. Individually, what are the Rath bones, Hollands, Quayles, and Prestons, that their be ing foisted into corporate power should be the object of such superhuman exertion and lavish expenditure ? Strip William Rathbone of his hat and his almost col larless coat, divest Mr. Charles Holland of his free trade philosophy, abstract from Mr. George Quayle the reputation of a mulish obstinacy of resistance to the claims of law and decency, or withdraw Mr. William Preston from his vats and his still, and what is there remaining to distinguish any of the four worthies from any similar number of tap-room oracles, inebriated with the cant of " Liberalism," or obfuscated from the effects of an overdose of Mercury ? Assuredly no thing, unless it be an extra rampancy, a wilder deliri um, a more superlative offensiveness of tone and man ner than can be arrived at by ordinary men. Beyond the everlasting catchwords of their party—the constant iteration of their nauseous pretensions to superior libe rality and wisdom—there is nothing to entitle any one individual of the set to be regarded with one particle more respect than should be paid any wooden or leaden effigy which it might have pleased John Rosson and his associated protectors to set up. The question then which the burgesses of Liverpool have now to decide is not whether they will return by their votes these particular specimens of Liberalism— not 'whether they are in love with the acrid countenance and phraseology of Mr. William Rathbone, or the scraps of all the political philosophers muddled toge ther, as jerked out in the harangues of Mr. Charles Holland—not whether they admire this or that system of commercial legislation, this or that religion, or no religion at all; but, emphatically, are they prepared to place the government of their town in the hands of its independent burgesses, or to be handed over, in per petuo, to the dictation of the Protector Society and its Swiss mercenaries ? This question, or these questions, have now to be decided in every ward. There can be no midway question—no splitting of hairs—no hang ing back. The whole issue is at stake in the success of every particular contest ; and every individual vote must be regarded as deciding it Need we then impress upon the Conservative portion of the constituencies the importance of untiring energy and unceasing exertion ? We feel that we need not. There is a spirit in this loyal and intelligent community which will not be put down and trampled upon. In every ward we trust the battle will be fought as Eng lishmen fight their battles—manfully and perseveringly, and the result will be one of triumphant success. Above all things, to attain this result we would impress upon every voter the importance of being early at their post, in the front of the battle. Be prepared to baffle every stratagem--to defeat every attempt of the expir ing faction; for depend upon it they will die hard, and cling to their object with a desperate tenacity. Let the experience of past struggles be borne in mind ; and remember, above all lessons, that experience teaches us to POLL EARLY ! From all that we can collect of the spirit which per vades the great mass of the Conservative inhabitants and electors, we now feel confident that no legitimate exertions will be wanting to secure, on .Monday next, an object of the utmost importance to this town. Municipal electors of Conservative principles will re collect that any neglect on their part to attend and vote is absolute treason to their cause and party. Their votes are of the utmost consequence, and for this rea son—because our battle is, in a great degree, " strict principle against mere numbers," and success depends on universality of action. A Protector Society is a sort of coiners conspiracy, and they can forge their counters for this or any other given occasion almost without stint; to oppose them successfully, the Con servatives must rely on their unbroken numbers, and their entire strength being brought into action without the exception of a single man. Any sanction which may have been given to the Protector Society by an opinion as to the technical legality of its proceedings, can make no alteration in their real character; their proceedings demonstrate clearly what we say, that the contest is one of principle against mere numbers. They are a violation of the spirit of a law which de clares that a man shall be the possessor of a certain description of amount of property before he be deemed qualified to exercise the privilege of an elector. Pro tectorism sets the laws at defiance; enfranchises a pauper with one hand, and fastens upon him the chains of a new slavery with the other—goes out into the highways and byways to call in voters to the registry, and then with this motley group proceeds to the polling booth to fight the battle of what ?—of principle ? It would be a profanation of the term to name it in con nection with such doings. Truth to say Liberalism has no principles ; its very title is a negation of them. The question of Monday then is, shall Liberalism be permitted any longer to domineer in the municipal go vernment of this town ; or is it to have a renewal of its lease ? • "We have not seen any attempt," say a liberal con temporary, (the Liverpool Times,) "to show that a Tory majority could improve the management of the police, the dock estate, or the finances of the town. What, then, could they do, unless they were to take upon them to defeat or retard the construction of the new warehouses around the docks, planned by the pre sent Dock Committee and Council, or to separate or expel from the public schools the children whose pa rents do not choose to have them educated in their re ligious dogmas ?" Our contemporary, in short, sees in Liberalism, and the Liberals, nothing but perfection—is a blind wor shipper of the sect, and being sunk so profoundly in delusion himself, very naturally supposes that any de parture from the system must be error, and wishes to impress its value upon others. "It has not been shown to him how the Tories could improve upon the manage ment of the Radicals ;" but surely there is nothing surprising in that circumstance. The Tories have had no opportunity to shew it to him ; they have been out numbered in the council—and the best intentions and designs would necessarily be abortive, if brought out in an assembly whose preponderating portion was radical and destructive. Our contemporary would not expect that the Tories would enter into a detail of all their plans and meditated improvements while the Radicals held the seals of office —and indeed, that mode of demonstration which consists in mere talk is not a favourite with the Conservatives. We repeat, then, that they could not shew him, specifically or satisfac torily, how they would improve on Radical manage ment ; and we shall only remark in a general way, that as we can conceive of no management which would be worse, (than the Radical, of course we mean,) the diffi culty of improving it would not be so great. But while the Liberals thus ask what the Tories would do, is it not fair, in return, to ask of those who have been so long in the plenitude of power, what, during their term of office, THEY have DONE ? Will our contemporary have the kindness to point out to us any one memorial of their achievements ? They promised a vast deal, but what have the performed, either in the management of the police, the dock estate, or the finances of the town ? Where are the monu ments of their improvements ? We cannot find one. The warehouses do not yet exist; the police and the schools may stand surety for each other; and as to the dock estate and the finances, both say—look else where; it is not in us. Such are the claims of Radicalism to a renewal of the trust which it has so long abused—and mark, it does not now dare even to talk of any thing better for the future ! It has learned so much wisdom ; it has become conscious of its own dulness, deficiency, and entire inaptitude to rule ; nay, it candidly allows that it can do no better than it has hitherto done, and that even a thought of improvement is quite beyond the range of its opaque and limited capacity ! Men of Liverpool, up, and cast this dull goddess— Daughter of Chaos, and eternal Night-- this leaden idol—out of your temple ! Shake off this tyranny, and let not your noble, splendid town sink for ever under her malignant influence ! Our contemporary is evidently driven to his last shift when he calls upon his friends to support the Radicals, not for any good that Radicals can do, but that they may act as stop-gaps, and keep out the Tories. For, says he, if the Tories come in, they will obstruct the new warehouses, probably defeat their construction altogether, or separate, or " expel from the public schools the children whose parents do not choose to kave o:ern educated in thcir tligious dogmas." But the Tories can afford to laugh at so ridiculous, or, if you please, calumnious an hypothesis. The Tories have iust as much interest in these matters as the Liberals, f not a great deal more; and they will do with regard o them what will most conduce to the benefit of the own and the people. They stand forward on the ;round of character, of confidence, and of principle, ind on these grounds they look for the support of their 'chow -townsmen, aye, and—will obtain it. On the subject of Education, there is an admirable passage in the address of Mr. ROBERTSON GLAD.. STONE, to the Electors of Abercromby Ward, to which we would direct the attention of our too-apprehensive contemporary ; it is as follows : " It has been the practice," he says, " with some of those whose best 'security has been in the majority they could command in the Council-room, to taunt the party with whom, on most occasions, I have the pleasure to act, with illibe rality—with feelings of hostility towards others--and with being unfriendly to the education of the industrious classes. That the present system adopted in the Corporation Schools has appeared to most of us to be objectionable, there can be no question ; but that we are illiberal, or unkindly disposed towards any class of the community, is an assertion without proof, and, therefore, valueless ; and with respect to our being opposed to the advancement of Education, there are fortunately numerous institutions in Liverpool for Religious and Moral instruction, more than sufficient to satisfy every honest mind that the charge is wholly unfounded, and the object in making it a questionable one ; examples of libera lity, in this respect, which it is no idle boast to say, the party complaining would do well to imitate." Mr. GLADSTONE may safely make this appeal, not only for his friends, but for himself. His readiness to support, and his liberality in supporting, every useful or benevolent institution, is well known to the inhabi tants of Liverpool. It is his good fortune to belong to a family in which this virtue seems to be hereditary. Did we not believe that to enter into proofs would be as little acceptable to the Gladstone family as it is certainly unnecessary for the satisfaction of the public, it would be an easy and a pleasing task to us. It is indeed delightful to meet with instances where the stewardship of wealth is directed to purposes of phi lanthrophy and usefulness with an unsparing hand, and riches, instead of exciting envy, become the in strument of calling forth only the voice of kindly acknowledgment. or glowing gratitude to their posses-: sors ; and it would be most agreeable to us to dwell upon them; but we quit the theme, however reluc tantly, and simply and briefly put this question to the municipal electors,— What think ye ? Will not the management of the Corporation Schools be tolerably safe in the hands of Mr. Robertson Gladstone, or of such as he ? Will they not at least be as much so as in those of Mr. Alderman Sheil, or of Mr. Thomas Bolton ? If so, vote for them as men of consistency and principle — as men whom your fellow-townsmen and your country respect—and as men who will faithfully, efficiently, and honourably acquit themselves of the trust you purpose committing to them. In directing attention to the meeting of the burgesses of Pitt-street Ward on Wednesday night, we congra tulate that portion of the town on the assured prospect that exists of the triumphant return of Mr. Aspinall as a member of the Town Council. Without the slightest disparagement to our other esteemed representatives, we may say the services of such a gentlemen as Mr. Aspinall are invaluable at the present moment and cannot be dispensed with. His liberality is unbounded —his exertions for the advancement of the general in terests of the town unwearied—and his intimate ac quaintance with the commercial pursuits of the bo rough, together with his readiness to redress every. grievance proved to exist amongst the poorest as well as the most exalted of his fellow-townsmen, eminently qualify him for the position which he has been re quested to occupy. We shall rejoice to see such a man at the council board once more, and the electors of Pitt-street Ward will do themselves immortal honour by electing him as their representative. His time and attention will be devoted incessantly for the promotion of their interests, and this is more than can be said of his opponent. LOCAL NEWS, RARE SPORT.—On Monday last, Colonel Stanley, Colone Hornby, and Captain Phipps Hornby, visiters with the Ear of Derby, enjoyed a splendid day's shooting over his lordship estates in Rainford. When the gallant gentlemen retired from the field it was ascartained that they had bagged the extraordinary number of 188 head of game. A curious incident has occurred connected with the arrival of the George Washington from New York which is well worth mentioning, namely, the receipt through that medium of Jamaica papers to the 3d of September inclusive, which are several days later than those received by the last West India mail. The papers so received, however, contain no news. Sickness still prevailed in the island, and, if the same as advised by the previous accounts, must be the yellow fever. —Times. [We believe this incident is not of such rare oc currence as our contemporary intimates. A similar circum stance took place a few weeks since. A requisition to the churchwardens and overseers is in cir culation, and has already received the signatures of mall gentlemen of great influence and intelligence, requesting them to call a public meeting of the town, to consider the desirableness of applying to Parliament in the next session for a local act for the management of the poor, which will , in effect, be an act for exempting this borough from the operation of the New Poor Law bill. CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held on Wednes day, on view of the body of Michael Smith, a lad 14 years of age. About half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon , the deceased was waiting to get into the Old Infirmary yards for the purpose of getting some rubbing -stones out of the foundation which is being made there at present. The de ceased was in the act of peeping through the gate in the Haymarket, when a cart drawn by two horses came up, and the wheel on the right hand-side of the cart caught his head and dragged him across the gate, when he fell. His head was all crushed, and his brains exposed. He died in about twenty minutes after. No blame was attributable to the carter, as he was not in a situation to see the deceased. The cart belonged to Mr. Musker.—A verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. CAUTION TO LICENSED POSTMASTERS.—The following incident may operate as a caution to parties whose business is the letting of horses and gigs for hire. Mr. Thomas Howard, coach builder, &c., of St. Helens, was summoned before the magistrates assembled in petty session at St. Helens on Thursday last, to answer the information of the excise, for having, on the 21st of July lust, let out a horse and gig to a government officer, without including th e duty payable thereon to the revenue in his weekly return to the excise, whereby he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £2O. Mr. Gaskell Taylor appeared for Howard, and pleaded guilty to the charge, but made one remark to the bench in extenuation of the offence, in consequence of which the penalty was reduced to £5. COCHRAN'S INK.—The best ink that can be used is that made by Mr. Cochran, who was for many years Mr. Morri son's 'manufacturer, and, to a great extent, gained the popu larity of his ink. MR. OASTLER AND THE MERCURY.--It would appear from the following extract from Mr. Oastler's Fleet papers, that the Mercury has been palming some of his falsehoods respecting Mr. Oastler on the credulity of his readers. But the fellow is treated as he deserves :—" Mr. Oastler is obliged to the friend who sent him the Liverpool Mercury of Oct. 15, 1841. It is evident that the editor of that paper is to tally ignorant of Mr. Oastler's opinions, principles, speeches , and writings. When a writer is disposed to quarrel with a political opponent, and invents tales which never had exist ence in fact, it is natural that he should assert opinions, re specting that individual, at variance with the truth. Such an antagonist may make a great noise, but be can do no harm. Mr. Oastler is happy to find that a supporter of the whigs, of the new poor law, and of the factory system, is disposed to attack him. When he does so, and asserts that which is truth, Mr. Oastler will deem hint worthy of reply, b u t not till then."—We may take this opportunity of again recom mending these constitutional publications of Mr. Oastler to the notice of our friends. Not only will their circulation tend to promote the cause of Protestantism and the true in terests of the working classes, but it will also advance the pecuniary circumstances of Mr: Oastler. They ought to be circulated in every town by thousands, and the price is rea sonable enough surely. LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY.—This society gave their thirteenth public performance on Tuesday, at the Music-hall , Bold-street ; Handers sublime oratorio of " Jephtha." The thanks of the public are due to the society for presenting this splendid composition to them, as it never before has been performed here. It would be waste of time for us to say more of the oratorio itself, than that it is like all Handers music, full of sublime and heavenly passages. The room was filled by one of the most respectable audiences it has been our good fate to meet, and they seemed duly to appreciate the soul-stirring beauties of the composition, and to be not unwilling to give the meed of their applause to the performers . The band, consisting of about fifty instruments, was well led by Mr. G. Eyton. Mr. John Richardson presided at the organ. The number of singers, on this occasion, were about eighty, of whom, from twenty to thirty, were females ; thus it will be seen there was full strength to give effect to the beautiful oratorio chosen. Many of the airs were well sung by Messrs. Stott, Davies, Earnshaw, and Lunt ; and by Mrs. Morrow and Miss Stott. The choruses were well executed , but the recitatives were, for the most part, given in a very indifferent, we had almost said careless, style—the only ex ception we noticed was in Mr. Earnshaw, who seemed to have paid some little attention to the dialogue, so to s peak, of the oratorio. The first chorus, "No more to Arnmon's God," electrified the audience, following, as it did, the re citative and air " Pour forth no more," sung in a very low tone and in a monotonous manner by Mr. Davis. Mrs. Morrow, who we were sorry to observe, laboured under a very feelingsevere cough, and d th l e o looked o dl i •e!..y e gentle murmers," an d ',. sung in a very correc t acrd also in a very favourable and pleasing style the " Scenes of horror"—she again pleased us much in " Let other creature s die," which she sung sweetly, and again in the beautiful quartet, with Messrs. Stott, Earnshaw, &c., of " 0 spar e your Daughter"—this lady is deserving of great praise for the manner in which she exerted herself, though evidently suffering from severe indisposition. Miss Stott, as usual: sang sweetly, and we fancied she has, in a measure, profited by our advice, for her enunciation was certainly more distinct than usual—she gave, in a very touching and chaste manner, the beautiful air of "The smiling dawn," and was loudly encored ; in the recitative and air of " Tune the soft melodious lute" she was not quite so happy, owing, in some measure, to the defective flute accompaniment, but she made up for in " Open thy marble jaws," and in the " Happy they. Our space will not p erm i t us t o no ti ce th e remainder of th e solo singers, further than to say that in some of the airs, Messrs. Earnshaw. Lunt, and Stott, received deserved e.ap plause. Our favourite choruses, if we may presume to a choice in this magnificent oratorio, are " When His an d voice," and " How dark, 0 Lord." but all is be autiful, it is difficult to say which is most so.