The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

- ortion of the French rm of service on' the reported that the soldiers •e on the 31st of December charged the moment when shall have passed through mtingents may be estima- brilliant and very warm in EN niff,) marked on Mon- onamitsioners for conducting the between France and Belgium are Eobert Peel continued on Tuesday to be scussion with the Paris press. ICO AND BRAZILS Lieut. James, acting com on Wednesday, from the ) July 8, Bahia 18, Pernambuco g one of two boxes of diamonds. nd Mr. and Mrs. Roscrow. It that the emperor's coronation le day fixed, July 18; it was at Linnet to convey to England le preparations for the interesting our advices as of a magnificent de ; wanted to add splendour to the debates in the senate were princi eating a council of state. Commu red from Rio Grande of a late date s stated to be in the same state as at General Conde de Rio ithout any prospect of im effeciive command of the army. The s that had been sent from Rio de ed. A further addition of 200 men rto Alegre s Southampton, Partridge, Arrow, nd Crescent, were at Rio; the Grecian e coast cruizing. ; stock, 71. At Pernambuco. ex- vendas diminutas aos precosanteriores o consulado 1,283 saccas 1,237 iche da OrdeE 2,520 10,522 2,979 s da alfandega no dia 8 c LA 'Crocker, from the West Indies, i sight when the despatch left Fal- ates of 'era Cr also arrived at Falmouth, fling orthe Mexican packet the 10th, and the Havannah nothing at all interesting by Dner had been sent by the vourable arrangement with ) hostile was the feeling of 19- suffered to land nor to obtain a conducta had arrived at with 700,000 dollars, but the _ountry 175,000 dollars. The Havannah on the 24th ult. from led two days after for Belize. EW SOUTH- WALES. tain M`Leod, which sailed from Sydney, on the 25th of April, arrived at Liverpool The papers brought by this vessel do elligence of general interest. The private nfavourable news as to the state of trade, Am any tendency towards improvement in e,n the date of the previous advises and CHINA lies the 31st of August, arrived at Malta on the 26th, in the an mail. Left Bombay on the 19th of ace from China is down to the 20th of 'emained as before. The Emperor was t, and was concentrating a large force, ided by his brother in person. Ad y Pottinger sailed from Bombay in the Sesostris. e that Admiral Lasusse arrived .st with the Inflexible and Santi p riat parirani at. SE OF LORDS.-MONDAY TION OF MINISTERS :NE rose and said—My lords, in con )me to by the other house of parlia y morning last, and which was pre ms to the vote which your lordships the week, 1, on the part of my col sited on her Majesty, and tendered to :nation of the offices which we hold. Majesty has been graciously pleased to ontinue to hold those offices only until pointed. The noble viscount then re- .OHI CHANCELLOR the bill for )11 of Justice in the Courts of presented by the Lord CHANCELLOR, and For the purpose of getting a noble peer out which he had inadvertently fallen. He as, but having exercised the right of rot a signed the roll, he was subjected to some rich he could be released only by an act of without mrned until Monday next OF COMMONS.-MONDAY lit, presented a scene of great animation, r side being fully occupied in the expee le announcement of the resignation of ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS HER ] Lord MA HILL appeared at the bar, and stated that ion of th e2.d to thi Lddress of " It is v been waited upon, pursuant to the resolu ;e, and he was desired by her Majesty to the following most gracious answer to the .test satisfaction that I hear that the is deeply sensible of the importance of ) which 1 directed their attention to the evenue of the country ; and that, in de : _ _ :ourse it is desirable to pursue, they will st:i of all classes of her subjects,.and the e trade in corn. Her majesty assured the Is ever anxious to listen to the advice of that she would take immediate measures Lord J ,IGNATION OF MINISTERS. .I.r. said, her Majesty's answer to the ad i read, it now became his duty to state to fter the division on Saturday morning mi ed it their duty to advise the terms of the ,municated. (Hear.) They had advised her i a new administration, and consequently he les had tendered their resignations, which her ,t graciously been pleased to accept, and Id office until such time as their successors He then said he trusted the house would .te one or two matters in connection with Jefore the house. The government deemed ,e measures which they deemed essential to o the trade, and commerce of the country. ng defeated on one of those measures, they Majesty to dissolve the late parliament ; that g taken place, and a new parliament having had again advised her Majesty to submit ?,s to the consideration of the house. (Hear.) nd it having been the pleasure of the House lecture their hostility to them, and want of asters ; they had no other part to act than ;nations to her Majesty. (Hear.) He would ments to show why they had for such a length the struggle. (Hear, hear.) But possess :2 of the Sovereign, and from a persuasion of propriety of the policy they had propounded, e belief that their continuance in office was mote the people'sinterest ; all these matters :c1 to induce them to prolong the struggle in y had done. (Hear.) He had already on ns justified the course they had adopted, and dy to justify them on all future occasions. late of their government to hold power for a , and they had resigned at this period because hout power was not calculated to give satis antry, as it wasimpossible for them to carry dal to the country. (Hear.) He did not that particular measure, but he might be - government to which he belonged r by introducing and carrying the by proposing measures calculated to sous to the trade and commerce of a large and important measure deges of the people : the measure connected with the At the government to to belong, Lord Grey and Lord I. Lord Grey enjoyed during the period of the Reform Bill the most unbounded Melbourne, having been minister at the ,se of William IV., became the adviser of er of these noblemen had abused the confi en placed in them either by the sovereign or had shown the greatest desire to preserve all its forms. (Hear.) Having said so much, ie two ministers at the head of the new go sted he might be allowed to say a few words himself. He would not say some other be found to fill his situation in a more effec t this he could say, no consideration of usement ever prevented him from attending es, either as a member of that government that house. (Cheers.) After a few other noble lord said in any position he might in that house, his desire would be to advance 'muse, support the institutions of the ~he advantage and benefit of the peo- Lord concluded by moving that the house, at , urn until Monday next. and his cow Majesty ha, allow him -t the subject : it right to p peak of allowed hat th Avanta ind prig Melbourn of the di: the constit yernment, In referen, 9bservatio: LORD the noble lc Y bore testimony to the talent and ability rd just sat down, and he felt confident ertained any feeling of personal animosity towards that noble lord. (Cheers.) ovrever, approve of the policy suggested by nd his colleagues, a policy which had lost ble lord proceeded and the country at large. pledged itself to to state that the house last supportedhlyratehaossueregsenotfletmheennowbhloe ress was su it support to ministers rs who wer e c ; it was a l so su p por t e d commo n l y o .ddress being carried opposed to ministers; ministers had the confidence not, in itself, ary, that ministers were enuee of the house, pro ores which they had. (Fleas, justified b in ve any topics of discussion likely,ar.) lie did eeing the noble lord had paid t to excite o the house and to the people, every homage e noble lord had given way to the efreyeifeeling and to give the noble lord a n d htinsgs ofi .nr believing that they would not offer can on to the progress of measures which may onour of the parties proposing them,' and to tluence of the country. (Hear.) Lord J. 1 that the speech from the Throne was ad_ lers, and that they were responsible for it. —..:Y took the opportunity of exonerating self from the charge of having made an unfair use of the law amendment bill during the recent election for the West Riding orYorkshire. ....Lord J. RUSSELL said he had only to complain that the boll,. ntleman had given strong opinions on the Poor-law litl 4l i is addresses to his eonStituents, though he did not p. k- }of such importance as - to snake it worth referring to isTweeh proposing the amendment to the address. ' eftmuse soon after adjourned until Monday next. that no )n . had S: \ti of ;) would be ( event are Cockatr Texans Alert pa, Nhich had ad at M July. Tl May. E Viscoun r Majes 31 - 1 cowl THE RESIGNATION (From the Times of Tuesday.) It being generally known yesterday that it was the intention of Lord John Russell to intimate to Parliament the _resigna tion of himself and Lord Melbourne, the House of Commons at an ear' aour, was nearly filled with hon. members. Great excitement prevailed both in and out of the house. Before five o'clock nearly every seat was occupied. The Conserva tives mustered in great strength. On the opposition side of the h- Lord „muse we saw seated together, _ Stanley, Sir J. Gra ham, Sir Edward Sugden, the Hon. S. Wortley, Mr. Goul burn, Lord G. Somerset, Mr. Shaw, Sir R. Inglis, Sir F. Pollock, &c. The benches usually occupied by the Whigs were also nearly crammed. Sir J. C. Hobhouse was the first member of the government who made his appearance. He sat for some time alone on the Treasury bench, apparently in deep contemplation. Shortly afterwards Sir G. Grey entered the house, and seated himself by the right hon. member for Nottingham, with whom he entered into conversation. In vain did Sir G. Grey endeavour, good naturedly, to disperse Sir J. C. Hobhouse's sad reflections on the mutability of all official honours. To all that his friend urged he (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) appeared to exclaim, in the language of Lord J. Russell's well-known quotation,-- ” Go ! you may call it madness, folly,— You shall not chase my gloom away ; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay." About five o'clock Lord John ituss - ell and Mr. T. B. Macaulay came into the House of Commons. His lordship was clearly much dejected in spirits, and looked pale. Mr. Macaulay appeared to suffer much. He advanced with a trembling step and quivering lips to his seat on the Treasury bench. Lord J. Russell was nervously agitated as he walked up the house. The following members of the ministry oc cupied their usual places :—Sir 'l'. Wilde, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. C. Buller, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Shell, Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell. They looked a melancholy group. When Lord J. Russell communicated to the House the fact that the ministry had resigned, he was painfully excited. We never heard his lordship speak with greater hesitation. He was, however, listened to with profound attention. After a short, but effective speech from Lord Stanley, and a few ob servations from Lord John Russell in reply, the House ad journed until Monday next. When Lord John Russell en tered his carriage he was cheered by a number of respectable persons who had assembled in the neighbourhood of the Houses of Commons and Lords. Lady Russell was in the carriage with his lordship. The Duke of Wellington, as he entered the House of Lords, was most vehemently cheered. Lord Melbourne's reception was not so flattering ; he was well hissed when he left the house. Sir R. Peel did hot, of course, make his appearance. In fact, it was not until seven o'clock that the right hon. baronet reached town on his re turn from Windsor. THE NEW MINISTRY (From the London Standard of _Monday evening.) Last night, shortly after eight o'clock, a special messenger arrived at the residence of Sir Robert Peel, in Whitehall Gardens, with directions from her Majesty requiring the at tendance of the right hon. bait. at Windsor Castle to-day. This morning, - precisely at half past-twelve o'clock, - Sir Robert left Whitehall Gardens, in an open travelling-carriage and post-horses, for Windsor. The right hon. baronet passed through St. James's Park and up Constitution-hill. He was attended by only one servant. No one accompanied him in in his carriage. Until the return of the right hon. baronet nothing positive can be known of the new administration ; and as only a few hours (in all probability) will elapse before we are able to announce the formation of a new government with certainty, it would be idle to enter into any speculations. In the course of the morning the Earl of Haddington, Lord Eliot, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr. Goulbourn, Lord Stanley, and several other leading conservatives, visited the right hon. baronet in Whitehall Gardens. The resignation of the present ministers will, no doubt, be announced in both houses at five o'clock. Lord Melbourne arrived in town this morning from Wind sor Castle. It is expected a Privy Council will be held at Windsor on Wednesday next, when the ministers will resign their seals of office to their successors. (From the Morning Herald of Wednesday.) At an early hour yesterday morning treasury messengers were despatched with communications from the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel to the Duke of Buckingham, at Stowe-park, near Buckingham, and to the Earl of Liverpool, at Buxted park, near Uckfield. Sussex. The Duke-of Buckingham arrived at Buckingham-house, Pall-mall, late in the afternoon, and immediately proceeded to Sir Robert's residence in hitehall-gardens, to have an interview. _ . . . The Earl of Liverpool arrived at Fife-house, Whitehall, last evening ; the noble earl is now positively named as Lord Steward of the Queen's household. Yesterday the right hon. baronet was busily engaged from an early hour in completing the ministerial arrangements, but there was not a conference yesterday at Sir Robert's mansion, as erroneously stated in an evening paper. The Earl of Aberdeen and Lord Ellenborough had audi ences of Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning, and the follow ing noblemen and gentlemen bad interviews with the right hon. baronet by appointment :—The Earl of Haddington, Earl Ripon, Viscount Castlereagh, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Francis Egerton, Lord Wharncliffe, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Thos. Freemantle, Sir Frederick Pol lock, Sir William Follett, the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, Sir George Cockburn, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Lyndhurst, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, &c. Shortly before five Mr. E. H. Anson, treasurer to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, arrived from Windsor Castle, and had an audience of Sir Robert Peel, and, we understand, was the bearer of a letter from her majesty to the right hon. baronet. The Duke of Wellington received the chief members of the future administration to dinner, last evening, at Apsley house. It was a select circle, and confined to the Right Lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Ripon, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Stanley, Lord Ellenborough, the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., and the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. On retiring from the dinner-table the noble duke and his colleagues held a conference, which lasted several hours. The meeting at Sir R. Peel's, on Monday night, did not break up until nearly one o'clock. We are informed that the right hon. Chas. Arbuthnot will be commissioner of the woods and forests. We have heard, upon what we believe undoubted autho rity, that the Duke of Wellington will be Lord President of the Council. The Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of Jersey are both mentioned as likely to fill the high appointment of master of the horse to her majesty, but it has reached us through a channel deserving implicit reliance, that the Earl of Jersey will, in all probability, be the successor of the Earl of Albe marle. We learned at a late hour last night, from an authentic source, that the right hon. Sir R. Peel will leave town this mornin g for Windsor Castle, when the right hon. baronet will submit to his sovereign the list of his ministerial ap pointments,—appointments, we are confident, that cannot do other than give her majesty the highest satisfaction. It is not in our power to give thus early the list of the new cabinet ; but we can positively assert, that in addition to the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Ripon,,Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Stanley, the right hon. Henry Goulburn, will form the chief members of the cabinet. _ --.—.- The household of his royal highness Prince Albert will undergo but a very trifling change, and we have reason to believe Mr. E. Anson will continue treasurer to his royal highness. (From the third edition of the Times of Wednesday.) In confirmation of the announcement we venture to lay be fore the public this morning, we are now enabled to give the following authentic list of the new Ministry which Sir R. Peel has probably by this time submitted for her Majesty's approbation. It will be observed that in assigning to the Duke of Wel lington the Presidency of the Council we were misinformed. The noble Duke would not, indeed, withhold from his friends the aid of his great name, but with that absence of self-in terest for which he has always been remarkable, he will only occupy a scat in the Cabinet, without office, and of course without emolument. Sir Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treasury. Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Wharncliffe, President of the Council. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor. Duke of Buckingham, Privy Seal. Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary. Lord Stanley, Colonial Secretary. Sir James Graham, Home Secretary. The Duke of Wellington, in the Cabinet without office. Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control. The Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Admiralty. The Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade. Sir F. Pollock, Attorney-General. Sir W. Follett, Solicitor-General. Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General. Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary at War. Sir E. Knatchbull, Paymaster-General. Earl de Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord Bliot, Secretary for Ireland. W. E. Gladstone, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. The remaining appointments are not yet finally arranged, but there is no doubt that the following noblemen and gen tlemen will hold office in the Ministry :—Lord Mahon, Lord Liverpool, Lord G. Somerset, Earl of Chesterfield, Lord F. Egerton, Sir G. Clerk, Sir W. Rae, Sir E. Sugden, bcc. It affords us much gratification to hear that his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in conjunction with her Majesty, manifested an earnest desire to act hi strict accordance with the spirit of the constitution, and to afford to Sir Robert Peel every facility in the formation of his government. The reception which the right hon. baronet met with from her Majesty was most gracious and kind. Her Majesty ex pressed her determinat►on to extend to Sir R. Peel's govern ment her most implicit confidence and support, under the firm belief that no measures would be proposed to parliament that would not tend to maintain the dignity of the Crown, to conserve the institutions of the country, and promote the happiness and prosperity of the people. (From the Times of Thursday.) We have little to add to the lisi . of the new Ministry which we were enabled to lay before the public yesterday, in a third edition, except the appointment of the Earl of Jersey to the Mastership of the Household, and that of Lord Liverpool to the post of Lord Steward. The office of Lord-Chamberlain still remains vacant, but it will probably, indeed almost certain, devolve upon the Duke of Rutland. _ The Master-Generalship of the Ordnance, the Mastership of the Mint, and the Chief-Commissionership of Woods and Forests also remain as yet unappropriated, nor has a successor been appointed to Lord Campbell as Lord-Chan cellor of Ireland. The list of those members of the Administration who form the Cabinet, together with all those whose appointments had been actually decided upon, was submitted to Her Majesty at Windsor yesterday, and was honoured with her gracious and cordial approbation. The Premier himself was admitted to kiss hands upon his elevation to power, but Lord Melbourne and his colleagues will remain in formal possession of their offices until to morrow, when a council will be held at Claremont, at which their resignations will be accepted, and the new Ministers will receive the seals of office. MURDER AT BRlSTOL.—Another appalling instance of the fatal effects of stabbing occurred at Bristol at the close of last week. A young man of the name of Hopper, who is respectably connected, and a carpenter by trade, having had 'a quarrel with an Irishman, of the name of M`Carthy, the latter immediately took out a knife and stabbed Hopper in the belly. The wound penetrated the abdomen and trans fixed one of th e sma ll i n t es ti n es. This took place on Thurs n.night, and on S a t u rday morning the unfortunate man verdict of " wilful murder' was returned against 'rthY at the coroner's inquest. Tux o'clocv wit AT Rzil.—On Sunday morninglast, at about three -, a roiloassthawful thunder-storm visited this neighbour lighting the whe e l: hood, the killed by the electrico/Lizirr of l lightning being vividly brilliant,. and We understand two cows were near the village of Llangendeirne ; no other accident occurred that we have heard of. By a strange freak of nature, a ed h la a s i t l . -sho wer , though very trifling, fell on Monday morning . The we a th er i s now , how ever very close and sultry, with C ar nsarthan Journal. occasional drizeling rains.— THE CABINET (From the Morning Herald of yesterday.) Ministerial Leader of the House of Lords, without office Lord Chancellor President of the Council First Lord of the Treasury .... Secretary of State for Foreign Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord LYNDHURST. Duke of BUCKINGHAM Sir ROBERT PEEL. Affairs Earl of ABERDEI Secretary of State for the Colo- Lord STANLEY ...... • Secretary of State for the H ome •.A.N.5.111 Department First Lord of the Admiralty .. Earl of HADDINGTON. Privy Seal Duke of RICHMOND. President of Board of Trade Earl of It IPON. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster Lord WHARNCLIFFE. Little doubt is entertained as to the three last-mentioned offices being filled by the three peers we have named, but there is some descrepancy in the statements we have heard as to the specific distribution. The stronger current of in formation seems to be in favour of the arrangement as we have given it. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. GOULDURN. Secretary of War • Sir H. HARDINGE. NOT IN THE CABINET. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Earl DE GREY. Irish Secretary Master-General of the Ordnance, Sir GEORGE MURRAY. Sir ROBERT PEEL, Premier, Right lion. H. GOULBURN, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord LYNDHURST, Lord High Chancellor. Duke of WELLINGTON, President of the Council. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Lord Privy Seal. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Secretary of State for the Home Department. LOrd•STANLEY, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Earl of ABERDEEN. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Attorney-General. Sir W. FOLLETT, Solicitor-General. Earl DE GREY, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Sir ROBERT PEEL, First Lord of the Treasury. Right Hon. H. GOULBURN, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, President of the Council. Lord LYNDHURST, Lord High Chancellor. Duke of BUCKINGHAM, Privy Seal. Earl of ABERDEEN, Foreign Secretary. Lord STANLEY, Colonial Secretary. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Home Secretary. The Duke of WELLINGTON, in the Cabinet without office. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, President of the Board of Coutrol. The Earl of H ADDINGTON, First Lord of the Admiralty. The Earl of RIPON, President of the Board of Trade. Sir F. Poi.Locx, Attorney-General. Sir W. FOLLETT, Solicitor-General. Lord LOWTHER, Postmaster-General. Sir H. HARDINGE, Secretary at War. Sir E. KNATCHBULL, Paymaster-General. Earl de GREY, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord ELIOT, Secretary for Ireland. W. E. GLADSTONE, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. The remaining appointments are not yet finally arranged, but there is no doubt that the following noblemen and gen tlemen will hold office in the Ministry :—Lord MAHON, Lord LIVERPOOL, Lord G. SOMERSET, Earl of CHESTER FIELD. Lord F. EGERTON, Sir G. CLERK, Sir W. RAE, Sir E. SUGDEN, &C. COURT CIRCULAR.-TUESDAY Sir Robert Peel left his residence in Whitehall-gardens, at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, for Windsor Castle, to have an audience of the Queen. Before leaving town, the right honourable gentleman visited the Duke of Wellington, at Apsley House, and had a long interview with the noble duke. Sir Robert arrived at Windsor Castle in an open car riage, shortly before four o'clock, and had an audience of her Majesty. The right honourable baronet remained at the castle until five o'clock, and then took his departure for town, arriving in Whitehall-gardens at seven o'clock' last evening. Het' Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal and suite, left town for Sudbury Hall. _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge returned to his residence at Kew, yesterday, from a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester at Bagshot Park. Viscount Melboui - ne arrived at his residence in South street, yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. WINDSOR.-MONDAY This morning her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took their accustomed walking exercise. The Princess Royal has taken an airing. Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Marcus Hill,lord Robert Gros venor, and the Hon. James Howard have taken their depar ture. This afternoon, at twenty minutes before two o'clock, Lord Melbourne left the castle, in his travelling carriage and four, for town ; and for the last time, let us hope, in the character of. Premier. His lordship, as he rode through the town, looked exceed ingly sedate, and apparently resigned to the fate which has so long awaited him. Lord Melbourne's carriage was in waiting at the castle for upwards of an hour before his lordship took his departure, which was delayed during that period by an unusually lengthened audience of her Majesty. Sir Robert Peel arrived at the castle, from town, in an open barouche and pair, at half-past three o'clock, and im mediately afterwards had an interview with her Majesty, which lasted nearly an hour. It is stated, that the right honourable baronet was most graciously and kindly received by his Sovereign. He took his departure for London shortly before five o'clock. Sir Robert was cordially recognised and greeted by several of the inhabitants as he proceeded through the town to and from the castle. A curious " meeting" took place at about half-past two o'clock this afternoon, on Hounslow Heath, between two no less important personages than the premier dismissed (or resigned, if it sounds better") and the premier (then) in prospective. The parties recognised and saluted each other as the carriages passed on. The royal carriages were ordered to be in waiting at the castle at five o'clock, for the purpose of her Majesty taking an airing ; but they were countermanded for an hour, and at six o'clock the Queen and the Prince, attended by several of the household, took an airing, proceeding towards Adelaide Lodge, and returning in about an hour. ___ _ _ • Her Majesty appeared in excellent health, and better spirits than usual. Wednesday next was the last day fixed upon for the court to proceed, for a week or ten days, to Claremont, in order that Prince Albert might enjoy some " sport with his dog and gun" during that period; but it is now uncertain if her Majesty will proceed herself to Claremont, in consequence of late political events. Should the Queen, however, abandon her original intention for a time, it is more than probable that his Royal Highness will not forego his long•anticipated amusements in the field. THE NEW PARLIAMENT, The following brief analysis exhibits the strange variety of character contained in the newly-elected Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is as great a curiosity in its kind as Noah's Ark, or the Tower of Babel. We find in it— MEN OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, viz :-1 Green, 1 Grey, 1 Scarlett, 2 Browne, 1 White, and 1 Sombre. BIRDS AND BEASTS, as will 'be presently seen, and TAYLORS AND BODKINS, &C. &C. —. .. . . The disposition of the electors seems to have been as strangely various : for example, those of Barnstaple, Sligo, New Ross, and North Salop, were most sanguinary, all of them crying out successfully for Gore, while those of Shore ham were for Goring. On the other hand, the voice of the Tories for Middlesex and Brecknockshire, and of the Liber als of London, Southwark, Halifax, and Kendal, is peacea hly echoed through the Woods. The wishes of the Dorset shire people repose quietly on Bankes; those of the Ferma nagh Burghers float upon a Brook; those of the Wick Burghers are reflected in a Lock ; and the inhabitants of Evesham and North Salop look pleasantly towards the Hills. The Elgin Burghers are delighted to have got in their Hay this season, as they had lost it for several years. The elec tors of Frome are very appropriately under the guidance of a Sheppard. The good citizens of Waterford trust some to a Reade, whilst others look confidently to Christmas for the accom plishment of their wishes. The people of West Norfolk have put their interests in a Bagge—those of Stamford trust them to their Clerk—those of Bridgewater to their Forman—those of Cirencester to their Master. The votes of Newark and North Leicester were caught by winning Manners. The electors of Radnor have their Price. Hertfordshire employs a Ryder, Bury a Walker, and West Surrey a Trotter. The Member for Cashel remains Stock still. North and West Worcester return really Knights of the shire. Winchester looks vigilantly to the East, Dublin to the West, and South Durham watches the Vane. Cambridge refers its matters to LAW. Carrickfergus confides in its KIRK. The Tories of South Northumberland were summoned by a Bell, and have agreed to concentrate their voice in its clapper. _ _ Yorke sends forth its new member, Mr. Yorke, with the premonitory counsel, " Remember, I am York too. North Devon, Bath, and Newcastle, are respectively re presented by a Buck, a Roebuck, and a Hinde. A Bear (Bruen) dances in front of Carlow, a Hogg bristles up for Beverley, and a 1%0.c• has stolen into the Tower Ham lets. Tewkesbury, Galway, and Newport have chosen Martins to twitter in their behalf. The electors of Dudley have sent up Hawkes to pounce upon their opponents. Peterborough has chosen from its swamps a long-necked Heron, and the amphibious folks of Dartmouth a Seale. The sportsmen of South Leicestershire let loose again their Pack in the Purlieus of St. Stephen. Tipperary has shut up her interest in a Cave, and the tem perance men of Kilkenny have not yet discharged their Butler. Foreign influence would seem to have intrigued itself into some parts of the e m pi re ; e l se, why should a Fleming sit for Hants—why should Roscommon throw herself under French protection, or Hastings under that of Holland ? The men of Carnarvonshire have raised their Pennant, Westminster has chose a Leader, and Wexford, though weak in numbers, displays Power. . _ Scarborough has guarded itself with a Trench. Gateshead takes shelter beneath a Hutt, Guildford beneath a Wall. Linlithgowshire, Maidstone, arid Weymouth each trusts to a Hope. North Wilts (of green-cheese celebrity) and Maldon have been guided in their choice by the dimensions of their repre sentatives, quality being of minor consideration, so they have selected one Long, the other Round. Christchurch is proud of having sent the only flower to parliament—a blushing Rose. The imprudent constituents of Wigan, Bradford, and Wor cester must have a care to the disposition of their members. The first is Crosse, the second Ha r d y, and the third Wilde. None of these qualities are suitable to the steady purpose of legislation. The Lord Chancellor, on Monday ni g ht, j ust b e f ore t h e House of Peers adjourned, presented a bill to relieve " a noble lord " (the name was not menti oned at the time) from the disabilities and penalties he had incurred in consequence of having taken his seat and voted befo re ta ki ng the oat h s and going through the o ther prescribed and requisite forms. It now appears that the noble lord th en alluded to was the Earl of Scarborough , and the bill in que s ti on b ears this title; —" A bill to relieve the right honourable John Savile Lumley Savile, Earl of Scarborough, from certain disabili t i es , i n con sequence of his having sat and voted in the H ouse of P eers without being duly qualified by taking the oaths and making the declaration preset ibed by law, and subscribing the same respectively." It was presented by the Lord Chancellor, by her majesty's command, and read the first time. The stand ing orders, Nos. 26 and 155, (that bill s s hould not be read twice in a day, &c.,) a re to be taken into consideratio n on Monday next, with a view t o this bill going through all its stages on that day ; and the lords have been summoned to attend on that occasion. The disabilities incurred (according to the 30th Charles 11., stat. 2, cap. 1) are very numerous and serious; and the accidental omission to comply with that statute in the present case has brought the noble earl into a curious position in relation to the severe enactments of that act. LONDON- COMMERCIAL REPORT. WEDNESDAY EVENING The continuance of the demand for money has the effect of keeping the funds rather flat, but without alteration in prices. Consols were 8911 to for money, and 90k sellers for the Account. - Bank Stock 1684 to 91. India Stock 2-161 to 71. Exchequer Bills 14s. to 16s. premium. In the Foreign house Spanish Active with the Coupons were pushed up to nearly 22, but the why or wherefore did not appear, and it would seem to be a flash of speculation consequent on the late improvement in the home funds. At the close of business the Active Bonds had receded to 211 to , Portuguese Five per Cents. were 304 to 1, the Three per Cents. 18} to Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51 to 2, the Five per Cents. 102 to 3. Belgian 102 to 3. Bra zilian 661 to 74. Mexican 26k to Colombian 211 The express, published early in the day, giving the con tents of the telegraphic despatch, in anticipation of the overland mail, caused some excitement in the tea market ; but parties were generally indisposed to operate until further details shall be received, and prices did not vary much. Company's Congou was 2s. 31d. per lb. cash, closing at that rate on 'Change, sellers. There was not a single auction of colonial produce. It is said that the rapid progress made within the last few days in the growth of the Hop bines has not been equalled since the year 1818. Three pockets of new Hops have arrived, the first grown by Timothy St an d e n, Tenterden, Kent, have been sold at £9 per cwt., and one at Burling, also in Kent, at £9 2s. The estimated duty for Kent is £104,000; Sussex, £43,000; Worcester, £20,000 ; Farnham, £9,000 ; the Kingdom, £5,000, —total, £lBl,OOO. It was backed yesterday by one individual for £lO 10s. v at £185,000. The market is heaVy. _ _ In the AmsterdaM market, during the week ending Tues day, the general business in Coffee had been very trivial, and prices were almost nominal. Tea was in brisk demand, for exportation. and dearer. There had been sales to a fair extent in Tobacco. Cotton was firm, but not a great deal doing ; Surinam had realised 431 c. Raw Sugar was not flat, but the transactions were somewhat limited ; Suri nam brought 20 to 24f. Rice was in less demand ; split Java at 21 to 111, and Carolina at 13 to 14f. American Pot Ashes still sold well. Hides were very calm. Indigo was rather scarce, and went off readily when offered. Geneva, Amster dam proof, was at 20/ to 181, and American at 211 to 181 f. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE The contract of Messrs. Webb, for the foundation of the new Royal Exchange, was finished on Thursday evening, and the Gresham committee met yesterday, at one o'clock, to receive tenders for the second contract, which is for the com pletion of the whole of the edifice: , Fourteen of the principal builders of London had, as we formerly stated, been applied to, and it was also determined that each tender should contain two prices ; the one being for executing the mason's work with the best Portland stone; the other the additional price for using magnesian limestone, similar to that introduced at the Houses of Lords and Com mons. The amounts of the several tenders were as follow September, 1841 Tenders. Thomas Jackson Baker and Sons Henry and John Lee Samuel Grimsdall Grissell and Peto Piper and Co John Jay.. John and Joseph Little Webb and Co. Joseph Bennett Bridger and Co William Cubitt Nicholas Winsland H. Ward and Co. Portland. Mag. Limest £115,900 £124,700 122,765 127,300 126,390 131,900 126,762 133,348 127,400 132,000 128,700 131,100 129,602 134,905 129,800 184,300 130,150 134,450 131,500 133,500 131,519 138,660 132,200 135,700 134,219 136,620 135,500 138,500 The tender of Mr. Thomas Jackson was, of course, ac cepted. The whole of the works arc to be completed by Midsummer, 1844.—Herald of Thursday. THE MURDER NEAR STOKESLEY, IN 1830 Thomas Grundy, the man committed as an accessory with Goldsbrough, charged as the principal in this revolting crime, terminated his existence by strangling himself soon after his being received at York Castle. A coroner's inquest was held on the following day (Thursday week), when the jury returned a verdict that the deceased feloniously and wilfully destroyed himself. being at the time in a sound state of mind. The coroner the❑ issued his warrant for the interment of the body between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night, within twenty-four hours after the fiading of the ver dict, in some churchyard or usual place, without Christian burial. The deceased was interred the same night, about ten o'clock, in the cemetery. The murdered man, whose bones were found as before detailed, was aweaver, named Huntley, and resided at Eagle cliff, near Yarm ; in June, 1830, he received about £6O or £7O, bequeated to him, and which he was known to have on his person the day of his mysterious disappearance. The discovery of the remains, and the circumstance of some but tons being found with them, which were recognised as simi lar to those worn by Huntley at the time of his disappear ance, renewed the suspicions formerly entertained of his be ing murdered, and the magistrates in the division immedi ately took measures for unravelling the mystery. Bills were put out, offering a reward of £lOO, with her majesty's free pardon to any person concerned in the murder, except the actual perpetrator, who should give evidence. The police officers used great vigilance in collecting all the facts that were at this distant period to be ascertained, and ultimately, the suicide, Grundy, then living at Hutton Rudby, made some important disclosures, which induced them to appre hend the prisoner, Robert Goldsbrough, who formerly re sided in the neighbourhood, but left about 1832, when lie went to Barnsley, at which place he has been located up to the present time. The substance of the disclosure made by Grundy is under stood to be, that Goldsbrough employed him to go to a wood near Cray thorne, where they found a sack containing a hu man body, which Goldsbrough told him was the body of Huntley, whom he had shot on the preceding day. Grundy became agitated and alarmed at this discovery, and, accord ing to his own account, he ran away, leaving Goldsbrough with the body, within about a yard of the spot where it has so recently been found underground. That Huntley was murdered, and that the skeleton which is found is the remains of the unfortunate man, there can be no doubt ; but the sui cide of Grundy has, if possible, rendered the affair still more mysterious. The prisoner Goldsbrough has made a statement, in which he asserts that on the Thursday previous to the Friday spoken of, Huntley came to him, and they went and sat down in Wearbank Wood. Huntley took out his money, and asked prisoner what was the reason Mr. Garbutt, of Y arm, had not given him the whole of the money which he had belonging to him. Huntley was no scholar, and prisoner told him the reason : he then pressed witness to go to America with him, which he declined doing, as he had two children, whom he thought it was his duty to support. He saw him again on Saturday, and he went tb Stokesley with him. On the Thursday following he saw Huntley again : he pressed pri soner to go to America with him ; but he would not. Hunt ley sold his weaver's loom to George Garneby, and that night prisoner shook hands with Huntley, and never saw him more. The prisoner then declared his innocence, and had nothing more to say than that his life was sold. • WHAT'S IN A NAME I — The New York papers talk of the auccesss of a Dr. Feuchtwanger in destroying vermin, an art which they call scolicotozzieology. A piece of Egyptian antiquity has recently been brought to light. It is a grand tableau, or picture, discovered in the tombs of Beni Hassau, near Cairo, representing the arrival of Joseph's brethren in Egypt. Joseph, in the costume of an officer of State, appears in the act of presenting his brethren to a viceroy of the reigning sovereign, in whose tombs the tableau was found. THE GREAT ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS.—The present Arkwright is the son of Sir Richard. He has an income de rivable from estates worth, perhaps, £lOO,OOO, which he manages himself without any steward or agent. Mr. Strut, the M.P., also is the son of Sir Richard's old partner, who is, I believe, still alive, and of a very advanced age. The good fortune of this gentleman, who was originally brought up in Sir Richard's family, is narrated thus :—The thread wound round the bobbin after its being spun, used to ride over the end of the bobbin or reel and break. It slipt or slided over, and Mr. A. could not readily remedy the defect. Strut was walking one day with him when the latter said to Strut, " If you could but find out the way to make this con cern work better, I would make a man of you. You shall have a share in the bu s i ness. " " H ow muc h ?" instantly inquired Strut of his master. The amount was immediately mentioned, and Strut being satisfied, at the same time rely ing most implicitly upon Arkwright's honour, took out of his pocket a piece of chalk, and proceeded to chalk over tirst one bobbin and then another, and so on to twenty bobbins, so that the thread could not pass or slide over the surface so treated, and kept therefore in its proper place. Arkwright saw this, and admired its simplicity, and desired Strut to do the whole ; w hi c h b e i ng accomplished, Arkwright comp l e t e d IT bargain by giving him a share in the concern, and treating him thenceforward as his partner. On another occasion Strut was asked to remedy another defect in the machinery, connected with the ravelling of the thread or webb. Strut asked for a pair of scissors, cut off a bit of the flap of his own coat, made a small round washer with a hole in the centre, placed it under the wheel, and thus prevented its vibration, by w hi c h th e ravelling of the thread was occasi oned—a glaring and injurious defect in every species of cot ton manufacture. The old gentleman, who is in possession of his faculties, is said to be anxiou s t o di spose o f the whole of his prodigious concern, which affords employment to nearly all the hands in Belper and Milford. He, lam told, will be satisfied with a moderate sum, and leave, as a bonus, £lOO,OOO of the purchase-money to be for use in the con cern for some years, at the smallest rate of interest for it, and without interference on his part. Such are the men who rise from nothing by dint of genius of some sort or another, coupled with skill, assiduity, industry, mechanism, ability, and above all, " honesty."— Granville's Spas of England. IMPROVEMENT IN THE DAGUEREOTYPE.—The urgency with which the artists of Paris have demanded from M. Daguerre information respecting his discovery, announced by us some months ago, appears to have forced a communica tion from hi m ear li er th an h e would, himself, have chosen to make it—his experiments not being complete. M. Arrago, at the sitting of the 28th ult., explained to the academy the new principle of which the discovery consists. The history and description of the discovery is as follows :—Abandoning the search in which so many have been engaged, after some fresh substance more sensitive to the action of light than those hitherto employed, M. Daguerre submitted his plate, merely washed with iodine, in the ordinary manner, to the influence of electricity ; and found that it had attained such an excessive degre e o f sens ibility, that no mechanism exists sufficiently rapid in its action to expose it uniformly to the impression of light—that is, a plate so electrified and placed in the camera obscura undergoes, during the one unappre ciated moment occupied in opening and shutting the dia phragm which covers the objective glass, such varied degrees of impression, that the portion first brought into contact with the light is already too profoundly marked ere it can touch the latter portions. The result is a confused and a clouded image. To meet the difficulty, M. Daguerre states that he has employed a substance (which, however, he does not name) less sensitive than the ordinary combination of iodine with silver; and, in the next, instead of subjecting his plate to the continued action of the electric fluid, h e admits the intervention of this mysterious agen t for a single instant only. In more precise terms, the plate so prepared and dis posed in the camera, may be exposed, without injury : to the action of the light for a certain time; and to communicate to it the exquisite sensibility in question, a single electri c s p ar k suffices, after which, th e plate resuming its inertness, time is afforded to withdraw it from the influence of the . light, an d the operation is comp l ete . It is not easy to imagine the artistic effects which will result from this remarkable disco very ; from the rapid action of the electric spark, vast as assemblages of men, i n the moment of animation and impul se may be caught f or e t ern ity, with the gesture of the moment in the limbs, and its expression on the lips of each. History may be written, by picture, even while its deeds are acting • and nature, in her subtl e st movement, be painted by herself: nt , f t o i r ll h h i e s M. Daguerre, howeve r , i s not satisfied with such results as he has yet obtained ; an d in yielding to the demand secret, has decli n ed con fi rm ing it by his specim ens, has succeeded in making them perfect. Meantime, the im portant part of his communication is the scientific phenome non itself—this wonderf u l effect of electricity on the ch em i ca l combination, exposed to the action of the rays of light.— Atltenceum. Elbe Etinrpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1841 The official career of the Whigs being now at an end, we are under small temptation to say anything of them but what truth and justice may require at our hands. We can speak of them as of the departed ; and the maxim in this case is not de mortuis nil nisi bonum, but nil nisi VERUM. This is the more incum bent upon us, as Lord John Russell declared on Friday night, that they died the " victims of misrepresenta tion !" Of no crime had they been guilty ; no faults had they ever committed ; on the contrary, they had done nothing but good in their day and generation ; and they were then about to depart unsung, unwept, the purest patriots, the wisest, best, most virtuous of men, victimised,—aye, the victims of misrepresentation alone. Lord John Russell is a bold man ; and, in deed, to utter such a speech as this, in the presence of the assembled representatives of the people, must pos sess a power of face beyond the lot of ordinary mor tals. This misrepresentation he prudently charged, not upon the leaders of the opposition, who were in the House to defend themselves —no, he exonerated them from any such imputation—but upon those who were absent, and could have no opportunity of replying in the quarter where the attack was made. " While the " conduct of the leaders in this house," said his lord ship, " has been such as became an opposition in Par " liament, their followers in the country AND IN TIIE " PRESS had resorted to misrepresentations and calum " nies never before equalled. Such means (said the " noble lord) have been the principal causes of the suc " cess of the party opposite. (Cries of Oh, oh !' from " the opposition, and cheers from the ministerial " benches.)" No wonder that a noble lord who can keep his face clean, (as they say in China,) after this fashion, is a man of great importance to his party. But quis tulerit Gracchos—who can endure a Whig complaining of misrepresentation ? It is a fact ac knowledged by one well acquainted with the secrets of the party, that the Catholic Emancipation Act—a mea sure which, notwithstanding the decisive turn given to the affair by the Duke'and Sir Robert Peel, the Whigs claim as their own—that that great act, we say, which opened the door to all that important series of changes which followed, was carried by "enormous lying"—by the unceasing figments of Whig journals, Whig agi tators, and Whiggery at large, both in high and low situations, in town and country. Such misrepresenta tion, we can truly say, in the words of my Lord John Russell, was " never before equalled." Now we do not presume to say that so vile an example would afford any excuse for a similar practice, or anything at all re sembling it, by Conservatives ; but as the fact itself is perfectly notorious, we should like just to know when the Whigs began to leave off a habit which they found on many occasions so helpful to them ? With regard to the victimising misrepresentation now charged on the Conservative press, we would observe that whether the attack be well or ill founded, the Whigs have been thrust out of office by no misrepresentation at all, but by truths, broad, open, and acknowledged. The Lich field-House compact was the sorest of all the Whig decayers and destroyers. It infected their government with dry rot in every department ; it was a plague-spot, a leprosy, which tainted them from head to foot. Well ; was this connection a mere fiction—a misrepre sentation--a calumny ;or was it a reality and a truth ? Had the " victims" no tongue in their heads—were they such dumb dogs that they could neither deny nor disprove the charge if it were unfounded ? Only to think of that silent sufferer—that injured innocence, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, dying the death of a criminal, and losing his enormous patronage through misrepre sentation—misrepresentation, too, which he was too meek and modest to stand up and refute, while justice and truth were altogether at his side ! That Daniel O'Connell should lose his cause through modesty ! Oh, it is incredible ! Is Whig mismanagement of the public revenue also, we would ask, a misrepresentation ? Surely the two millions-and-half minus in the present year, and the accumulated deficiencies of former years—constantly increasing under the financeering of Whig Chancel lors—cannot be all a mere romance. It has not been known till lately that the ex-Premier acted in the double capacity of first lord of the treasury and private tutor to her Majesty, and that her Majesty conceives herself under great obligations to the noble lord for the pains he took in instructing her; and on this head there was certainly neither representation nor misrepresentation by the Conservative press ; but something was known of his lordship's facility of temper—of his constant visits to the palace, and his everlasting presence at the royal table, and there was no mistake as to his having particularly introduced to the royal presence the founder of that obscene and abominable sect—the Socialists ; there was no misrepresentation here ; and the ex-Pre mier is condemned so far as concerns this matter—not for a false accusation, but for a true and admitted one. We believe it is a perfectly pure invention that the Whig budget was ever thought of, until after the party were beaten on their Irish Registration bill ; but the budget itself had surely an existence—had arrived at least at an embryo state—and no misrepresentation or calumny did or could exist with regard to it ; but we cannot go through all the counts of the indictment. Suffice it to say that we are satisfied to abandon everything that is in the slightest degree apocryphal, and do rest our general charge against the discharged upon positive, certain, and definite allegations, which can be proved by the most unexceptionable testimony. But it is too ridiculous to talk seriously of the bluster ing Whigs, with all their stage orators, partisan agita tors, and cheap information for the people—being the victims of misrepresentation or calumny. The thing, in its literal sense, is too absurd to be gravely dis cussed ; but there is a sense in which we can perfectly understand the ex-Colonial Secretary, and in. which we quite agree with him. His lordship perhaps only meant to say that the Conservative press did great da mage to the Whig cause, and particularly that portion of it, which, like ourselves, labours obscurely in the provinces. If this were his meaning, his lordship was perfectly right ; there can be no doubt that the pro vincial Conservative press has played upon Whiggery with tremendous effect, and that it has been a princi pal cause of that splendid success with which Conser vatism is at length crowned. But the weapons made use of were not "misrepresentation and calumny," but simple unsophisticated truth. What need of the former when truth itself supplied an infinitely more powerful armoury ? Let Conservatives, then, remem ber the saying of this noble lord in the sense in which we interpret it, and learn to set a proper value on a press which has rendered them such essential service. True, it is our own common cause; but it is for the interest of that cause we speak much more than for any advantage we expect to derive to ourselves from adverting to the subject. It has been remarked a thousand times, but it will bear re-marking again, that the tendencies of Liberal ism are any thing but patriotic ; that there is no heart in the system, and that it never does, and never can generate any thing resembling a warm, or generous emotion. Under the affectation of caring for a great many, it really cares for nobody ; under the pretence of making the whole human family the objects of its expansive solicitude, it only finds a greater facility of applying with undivided attention to the definite and limited concerns of " number one." A Conservative prides himself on being an Englishman ; a Liberal can see no just reason for his entertaining any such feel ing. A Conservative looks to the interest and advan tage of his own country in preference to those of any other; a Liberal takes the world at large for his coun try, and regards any more circumscribed patriotism as a prejudice. The Duke of Wellington, in his speech on the Ad dress, piqued himself on belonging to a country in which the way to wealth was open to every man—and it was, we think, a legitimate subject of self-congratu lation ; for it proves two things in a very striking manner; first, the perfect liberty enjoyed by the people, and secondly, the prodigious advantage which they may and practically do derive from it. His Grace's words are worth remembering, and we repeat them here : " He had in the course of his life," he said, " been in various countries in different parts of the world, and had op - portunities of knowing the circumstances of the various classes of their inhabitants, but in his whole experience England was the only country in which he ever found that the poor man, if possessed of honesty and industry, would be quite certain of acquiring a competence. Instances of the truth of this offered themselves-every day to everybody's ob servation, and it was only last week that a signal illustration occurred. In the very lowest ranks of life, not only could a competence be acquired, but immense riches might be accu mulated. This was a state of things which he had never seen in any other country, and it was a fact which he would entreat of their lordships never to lose sight of. He had seen the happy results which followed from giving encouragement to the cultivation of the soil, and he hoped every measure would be cautiously avoided which would tend to decrease that cultivation. (Cheers.)" Many will think his grace rather a respectable witness to the fact he speaks of, and will agree with hiin in saying, that although every industrious man does not turn out a Jamie Wood of Gloucester, yet that, so far as, the laws and constitution of the country are con cerned, there is nothing absolutely to prevent him. In other countries the possession of wealth is either un attainable or insecure—insecure from the despotism of their government, or the mutability of their institutions, and unattainable perhaps as well from the latter cause as from their general circumstances. His Grace states what is a mere fact scarcely to be questioned ; but he states it as one who felt that it speaks volumes for Old England, her free institutions, and peculiar blessings, and he mentions it evidently with the view to enforce the lesson that we should be slow to make changes in a case where so much and so rare practical good, is al ready experienced. This is the Conservative mode of looking at things ; but it only excites the indignation of your Liberal, who has no notion of any man survey ing his own country with so much complacency. Mr. COBDEN, it appears, was quite enraged by the Duke's observation, and extremely smart upon his Grace for making it. His commentary, in the speech which he made on the 25th ult., ran thus : " If he (Mr. Cobden) turned to a declaration made else where—in a place which, in conformity with the rules of the house, he would not particularize, when he found an illus trious duke stating that the condition of the labouring popu lation in this country was enviable compared with that of any other population in Europe, and that every labouring man in this country, who had industry and sobriety to re ; commend him, could attain to a competence—what, he asked. avoteld be the feelings of the country at large upon hearing such a declaration ! 'Were hon. gentlemen disposed to re spond to that sentiment and accept it as their own ? Let them remember that about ten years since the same illustrious individual stated that the old boroughmongering parliament under which we then suffered was the perfection of human wisdom. (Loud cheers from the ministerial benches.) Yes, and he should not be surprised if this doctrine of yesterday, meeting a similar and still more. remarkable fate, might be the forerunner of a far greater change than that contemplated by her Majesty's ministers. (Renewed cheering from the same quarter.)" This was rather sharp on the part of the oracle of millocracy ; but, though it may seem a little paradoxi cal to say so, we are of opinion that the sharpness of the language was owing in a great degree to the ob tuseness of the man. Cobby did not take--did not catch the spirit of his Grace's observation : indeed we fear, with his desperately bad education, it was quite above his comprehension. Cobby could think only of all the misery that the factory system has introduced into the country ; of the undone handloom weavers— of the pallid, half-fed, or perhaps drunken operatives, whom half-work has reduced to a miserable emblem of mortality ;—his mind, familiar with the reality, re flected only such pictures ; and when a noble peer spoke of England's free institutions, and of the opu lence to which an honest and industrious man might attain under them, poor Cobby rubbed his eyes, and said, "Do I dream ? How is this ? " and for a while the current of his ideas was altogether choked up; but at length he bethought him of his favourite schemes, and the monomania of free trade set him once more at liberty. Thus Liberalism cannot enter into the luxury of love of country; but it is quite as callous and insensi ble in other respects. Your " feelosophers," econo mists, and doctrinaires of the free-trade school will sacrifice anything not their own, or anybody not of their immediate clan, to the favourite theory. Speak to them of the ruin which the withdrawal of protection must produce to the protected classes, and they only laugh. They tell you that the political economist, like the surgeon about to amputate a limb, must be stern ; and as he cuts away to save the patient, so they must use strong medicine for the good of trade. For land owners and farmers they have no more sympathy than if they were a species of bear, or ourang-outang. What matter about them ? say they ; we shall have the more manufactures ;—down with them ! But the ruling passion goes even beyond this : your genuine free-trader has no more consideration for the suffering he may inflict in any case, than Majendie the anatomist when dissecting a live rabbit for' the ad vancement of science. Take as an example the answer of Mr. John M`Gregor, one of the joint secretaries of the Board of Trade, to a question asked him by Mr. `Williams, which the reader will find in the evidence before the Committee on Import Duties : " Mr. Williams.—Take the case of a stocking manufac turer, a branch of manufacture in which the Saxons have particularly excelled, and in which they have taken pretty nearly all the foreign markets from us ; would you say that the principle was a correct one, to admit the importation of stockings manufactured in Saxony into this country free of duty, which would as a matter of course supersede the trade entirely at Leicester, Nottingham, and other parts of Eng land, where stockings are made ? " Mr. Gregor.—l certainly would admit them at 10 per cent duty, whether that would DESTROY THE TRADE AT LEICESTER OR NOTINGIIAM, OR NOT ! ! It would be better to subscribe and support the people, than to continue a higher duty on the article !" Such is the tenderness—the amiable ferocity, we might call it—of your genuine free-trader. He would rather reduce the people to beggary, and then sub scribe for their support in an almshouse, than give up his speculative beau ideal of " free trade." Happily for us, the ministry which so much favoured and en couraged the breed is now displaced, and we trust their heartless, headless, and unpatriotic system along with them. The school has had its day, and a most abominable school it was. May Conservatism never imbibe the taint of its execrable philosophy. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee THE PERFORMANCES DIMING THE SUMMER SEASON WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.---DOOR 'lO BE uPENED AT SEVEN THE FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS TV. H. BLAND, Previous to their engagement at the.Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, London. THIS present FRIDAY, the 3d instant, the entertain ments-1 will commence with, for the second time here, the last new Play, written by Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart., and performed with unprecedented attraction eighty-one successive nights at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, called MONEY. Lord Glossmore .. Mr. H. Holl. Sir F. Blount Stout.... Mr. G. Horneastle. Evelyn (first time) Mr. Stuart. Graves Mr. Baker. Captain Dudley Smooth . Mr. Chaplin Lady Franklin Mrs. Clarke. Georgina Clara A FAREWELL ADDRESS Will be spoken by Mrs. W. H. BLAND, written for the oc- casion by Mr. STUART. SONG—HAPPY LAND—Miss E. HONKER. A PAS DE DEUX, by Master and Miss C. WEBSTER. To conclude with, not acted here for six years, the Scotch Drama of THE FALLS OF CLYDE. Kenmure . Enfield Mr. Lynne. Edward Enfield.. Mr. W. H. Bland. I DOnald—Mr. Slaiter Malcolm.. Mr. Ga:ay. Ellen Enfield.... Mrs. W. H. Bland Miss ELLEN TREE, of the Theatres-Royal, Drury- Lane, . Covent-Garden, and the Haymarket, is engaged for Ten Nights, and will make her appearance on MONDAY next, September 6. Mr. ANDERSON, of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, is also engaged for a limited period, and will appear the same evening, when will be performed Mr. Knowles' Play of LOVE, in which Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. Anderson will sustain their original characters of The Countess and Huon. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. TO CORRESPONDENTS If Mr. R. Arrowsmith, Gloucester -street, London, has any intention of paying for his advertisements he can have them inserted in the STANDARD by communicating with any of our London agents; but without such a step he will not find the provincial press to be gulled by his orders, however ingenious he may be in the wording of them. THE CONSERVATIVE AND RADICAL PRESS When we consider how short the period is since Liverpool first aroused itself to dispute the pass with Liberalism, and to vindicate to itself a good conservative name, we are much more surprised at what has been accomplished within the time, than what has not. That much remains to be done we do not deny, and we admit that it is a strong and legitimate proof of the position, that, as stated by a contemporary, the Liberal press is, on the whole, better circumstanced than the Conservative. He mentions, that in the last three years the Conservative papers circulated, in the aggregate, 1,191,997 copies, and paid advertisement duty £4,123, whilst the libe rals have circulated 2,484,541 copies, and 'paid advertisment duty £8,192. From this it appears, that however influential and respectable the classes are by whom the Conservative journals are supported, there is a large mass, even of the reading population, who are whigs, or liberals, or altogether indifferent about any political parties or principles what soever. There are Papists and Dissenters hostile—but there is a multitude utterly careless about every thing but what relates to their own immediate pursuits and business. These will not support Conservative journals, the one party from hating whatever does not fall in with their own views, and the other from that vis inerlire which invariably leads men of no particular opinions of their own to go with what they be lieve to be " the stream." Our contemporary attributes too much blame to the Conservative party ; the state of things to which he alludes is, in our opinion, not altogether their fault; but we admit they are open to:censure. We will do the :leaders of the Whig party, and the agitators of the Liberals the justice to say that they have ever shown a more correct appreciation of the importance of the public press, and have been more careful to give their best support to that portion of it which supported them and their views. The Conservatives, on the other hand, have been too much in the habit of allowing the press which reflects their sentiments;to shift for itself till the moment arrives when they find them- , selves in urgent need of its services; and then they are per . - haps surprised to find that the journals of the other side have been making much more way than they had any conception' of. Conservatives take in Radical prints, and advertise freely in them ; the Liberals rarely, we might almost say never, confer a similar favour on Conservatives. The Liber als never pass by their own journals for the purpose of giving publicity to any article, advertisement, or communi cation that could be of the least use to them ; the Conserva tives a contrario are far from being so scrupulous in provi ding for their own. We take the liberty of speaking thus candidly of our friends ; but our serious and deliberate opi nion is, that the more favourable state of the Radical press as to circulation and advertisements, is owing mainly, not to the laches of Conservatives, but to the mass of Radicalism which exists in the town, and which must be invaded, stirred up, and leavened, before the statistics of Conservative jour nalism can present a due superiority over, or an equality with, those of Liberalism. We must act upon a system of aggression, and carry off our supporters from the enemy, and not rest satisfied merely with what may be done from our own resources. If Conservatives generally become impressed with the importance of these views, and act energetically upon them, their journals, we doubt not, will soon partici pate in the resulting advantages. AN ANALYSIS OF OUR EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS, VIEWED IN RELATION TO THE PRO POSED FREE-TRADE MEASURES OF LORD INIELBOURNE'S GOVERNMENT.—No. I. It is unfortunate that few of those public documents, which are usually quoted by statesmen and politicians, are to be depended upon, as furnishing accurate data for legis lating upon commercial questions. This is especially the case at the present moment, when the question before the public is, essentially, " How are the working classes of Great Britain to be employed ?" We are not concerned to know now what foreign markets consume the greatest " de clared" or " official" value of our manufactures. We do not wish to inquire to what country we export the greatest quantity of manufactured cottons, woollens, or hardwares : but, emphatically, we require to know what markets they are, whose consumption of British goods furnishes profitable employment to the greatest number of British ailizans. In this information all official documents are (perhaps of neces sity) deficient ; and hence it is that the most flourishing statements of exports and imports are quite compatible with the existence of distress amongst the operative manufactu ring classes, and therefore do not afford a correct index of the true worth, to the country, of its existing commerce. We have before us just now a table of this description, (which appeared at length in our publication of the 10th August,) professing to be a table of the exports of manufac tured cotton during the year 1810. We shall not remark at present upon any of it's details, becauss we are fully con vinced that no correct conclusion can be drawn from them, bearing upon the important question which is now before the legislature, viz., the employment of the working classes ; but we mat for a moment invite the attention of our readers to their general result, which is given as follows : TOTAL AMOUNT OF EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURED COTTON White or plain cottons 433,114,375 yards.. £7,803,772 Printed or dyed cottons 357,517,624 do. .. 8,498,448 Hosiery and swallwares .. 1,265,090 Twist and yarn £24,668,618 To the unreflecting reader, we have no doubt that it would afford ground of considerable gratulation if this total of 24 millions and upwards should next year be increased by a couple of millions ; yet that increase would be far from being, in itself, a proof of such an improvement of our ex port trade as would benefit materially the condition of the working classes or of the country. Nearly one-third of the money amount of our cotton manufacture, it will be seen from the above statement, is at present exported as " twist and yarn," having sustained the smallest possible quantum of labour, and being in fact but a grade removed from the state of raw material. An increase, therefore, of our yearly exports—if that increase was principally in this article of cotton yarn—would benefit only a mere fraction of the ma nufacturing community, and would be anything rather than an evidence of increased manufacturing prosperity. Already it is a rirmlnistance which excites considerable uneasiness in the unmis of those who wish to see, in the developement of our manufacturing system, the sources of permanent sup port and comfort to the masses of population which it is drawing together into the large towns, that so great a por tion—in fact considerably above one-half—of the cotton ex ported from this country receives from us only the small amount of labour required to convert it into yarn for the purposes of the foreign manufacturer ; and yet it is an es tablished fact—established by the statements published by government, and admitted by manufacturers themselves — that it is in this very article of cotton yarn that the increase of our exports, of late years, has principally consisted. Undoubtedly, to the legislator or to the political econo mist, the leading object of interest must be to encourage the export of those more finished descriptions of cotton goods, which require for their production the greatest amount of labour and skill to be applied to them; and those foreign markets are of the greatest value to us, as a manufacturing people, which consume the largest quantity of those goods, or possess the means of so doing. Hence the superior value to us of the trade with our North American colonies—of the East and West India trades—of our Mediterranean and South American trades—which afford us a profitable demand for the finished productions of the manufacturer, when com pared with the trade which we at present carry on with some of the nations of Northern Europe, bordering upon the Bal tic. With the former, which consume our calicoes and cam brics, our printed and dyed goods, the trade is second only in importance and value to the home trade, as furnishing a large source of employment to the artizan• of every grade. With the latter, which take chiefly cotton yarn to supply their own manufacturers, the trade is comparatively value less to the labourer and to the country :—to the labourer, as furnishing employment chiefly for machinery, or, where it does employ human labour for its production, -requiring principally the labour of children ; whilst, so far as the country at large is concerned, it is much if its extension ought not to be regarded rather as a calamity than as a be nefit. Let us examine, then, how the measures recently pro pounded by Lord Melbourne's ministry—the opening of the trade in timber and corn, and the reduction of . the sugar duties in favour of the Brazilian cultivator—are calculated to operate upon our export trade in cotton goods. We are told by the advocates of these measures, that' it is the pro tective system of Great Britain, in favour of her colonists and the home producers, which is at the root of all the em barrassments now experienced by the mercantile, the menu facting, and especially the working classes ; that it is the existence of this system alone which places bounds to the extension of our export trade ; and that upon its removal markets will be found at once to draw off the stocks of goods which now lie unsaleable in our warehouses. We are told, by the organs of the manufacturing body in parliament and throughout the country—and the assertion is eagerly repeat ed by the hired itinerants of that body, with every inflam matory comment that the most ingenious mendacity can supply, to mislead the reason and excite the passions of the suffering operative—that millions of the people of the corn and timber-producing countries are now praying us to allow 'them to exchange their surplus produce for our manufac tured goods. Admit, then, for the sake of argument, that such is the case ; yet still, before we conclude that the ex change proposed is one which we ought to accept, we are bound to inquire, " What are the goods which these millions propose to take from us, if we accede to the sacrifice of our colonial and native industry in their favour ?" The countries which urge us to take their timber, and vir tually to discourage the timber trade with our North Ameri- can colonies, are exclusively those situated upon the borders • of the Baltic. The countries which offer us their corn in ex change for our goods—(or are said so to do, which is not the same thing)—are also the countries of Northern Europe, with the addition perhaps of the United States. With these coun tries our trade is at present comparatively insignificant in amount, and valueless in its character. Russia, we find from the document to which we have referred, takes from us ma nufactured cotton to the amount of £1,151,798 annually ; Sweden £66,350 ; Norway £28,000 ; Denmark only £6,338 ; and nearly the whole of these amounts consist of the article of cotton yarn. Yet the trade with these countries chiefly it is, which is to be increased by the opening of our markets for their timber and their grain. For the increase of this trade in cotton yarn we are to inflict a heavy discouragement upon our own colonies, which supply us with timber, and consume large quantities of our goods fully manufactured; for the increase of this trade, which is carried on almost wholly In foreign bottoms, we are to inflict a heavy blow upon one carried on exclusively by British shipping, and em ploying thousands of British sailors ; and, more than all, for this worthless and unprofitable trade we are to throw out of cultivation thousands of acres of British corn lands, and to limit the means of millions of our best customers—who are our own f el low - countrymen. We are not about to give the labour of our industrious population, or a •commodity of which the principal ingredient is labour, for .the timber and corn of the foreigner ; but only the raw material of cotton — a foreign product—combined with a minimum portion of la bour ; and that, even, not the labour of the suffering manu facturing operative, who is assumed to be benetitted thereby, but of the machinery of the large millowner, who i 3 . the only real party to be advantaged by the.change. • • Whatever may be the value of our export trade—however