The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-18 00:00:00

,THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, is engaged fora Fortnight, and will make his second appearance here these two years, this Evening. Last Night but Four of Mr. MACKAY, of the Theatre- Royal, Edinburgh. THIS present TUESDAY, Sept. 18th, 1838, will be per formed the Tragedy of PIZARRO. Rolla Mr. Cooper. I Las Casas .....Mr. Chaplin. Orozembo Mr. Mackay. Pizarro Mr. Gray. Elvira Miss Cleaver. Alonzo Mr. W. Howard. I Cora Miss Faucit. To conclude with the Melo-Dratna of MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Sandie (his original character) Mr. Mackay. Lord George Douglas.. Mr. W. Howard. Lord Lindsay Mr. Gray. Roland.. Mr. W. H. Bland. Dryfesdale..Mr. Chaplin. Marv, Queen of Scots Miss Faucit Lady Douglas Miss Cleaver. Catherine Seytun 11rs. Baker. On WEDNESDAY, will be repeated the Musical Play of R 0 B R 0 Y, being the only night on which it can be acted during Mr. Mackay's engagement. Rob Roy, Mr. Cooper, as originally performed by hint at this Theatre; Bailie Nichol Jarvie, 111 r. Mackay; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. G. Horncastle ; liashleigh, Mr. Gray; Owen, Mr. Baker. Helen M•Gregor, Miss Cleaver; Diana Vernon, Miss Grant. To conclude with the Mclo-Drama of THE BRIGAND. Alessandro Massaroni, Mr. Cooper; Nicol°, Mr. Baker; Maria, Miss Cleaver; Oltavia, Mrs. Baker. Eig Eibtrpool *tanbarti. TUESDAY MORNING, SEP7'. 18, 1838. <1 1 '" The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 5 o'clock. _ EGypr.—We have been favoured with the follow ing intelligence from Alexandria, up to the 16th of August:— The Pasha has at last fixed the price for the cotton of the new crop at 16 dollars per cantaro, and for the remainder of last year at 14 dollars. Speculators and exporters haring, however, been unwilling to submit to these high pretensions, the Pasha has come to the determination of shipp'qw- 35,000 to 40,000 bales, beine About one-third .44 k s;;; - - whole crop to Trieste on his own account, to the R.onsignment of Mr. Pietro Jussuff, the brother of Boghos-Bey, minister of com merce: and with the view to exclude all competition there, a decree has been issued by him, prohibiting all shipments on private account to that quarter, or if made, only to the address of Mr. P. Jussuff. The report is current, that Mr. P. J.'s instructions are not to sell under 91c1 per lb. English. About 3,700 bales have already been shipped to Trieste, and about 10,000 bales will soon follow, as the Pasha is straining every nerve to dispatch them as soon as possible. The total arrivals from the interior of the new crop are estimated at about 100,000 bales, and the stock of the old crop at 8,000 bales. Three vessels were loading for Liverpool. Whilst the cotton market here is monopolized and coatrelled by the agents of the United States Banks, and its future course entirely left at their mercy, the above accounts bring us the important information that the Pasha of Egypt has adopted the same plan of monopolizing (a system he ever was fond of) the cot ton market in the East : and by his despotic prohibition of private shipments to that quarter to which he is sending his cotton, his speculations (if they may be properly so termed) may prove successful, and his ob ject to obtain the highest possible prices be accom plished. What Mr. N. Biddle is in the west, Meherned Ali is now in the east. The future will decide who will be the more successful in accomplishing his views. JAMAICA.—By the Royal Mint, which arrived here en Saturday evening, we have advices from Jamaica to the 31st of July, inclusive. At that period the island was perfectly tranquil, and it was anticipated that the following day would pass over peaceably. It • was expected that the emancipated apprentices would be permitted a free indulgent g in their rejoicings for a week or fortnight. We look with some degree of anxiety for the arrival of the next packet from the West Indies, which will probably bring news from Ja melee to the 2d or 3d of August. The exports of the island promise to be abundant for the present Year. TRINIDAD.—We have advices from Trinidad to the lit of August. A private letter, dated on that day, Mates that the all-important day had passed away as a Sunday—that the people had been to church, and had behaved themselves in the most orderly manner The following extract is from the Trinidad Standard of the previous day : "THE FIRST OF AUGUST, 1833—THE NEW ERA.— "Before our paper of to-day can meet the eyes of any of our readers, the most important event, political or social, that has ever occurred in the Western World— one compared with which all other changes in these Colonies sink into insignificance—will have come to pass : upwards of half a million of men, on whom this day's sun has set as bondsmen, will ere to-morrow's light hare become by the laws of the respective Colo nies in which they live, discharged from all further servitude, and have acquired all the rights and immu- bities of free men—the last vestige of slavery w' base disappeared from the British West India Colonies. "An investigation into the various causes which, Working together, have brought about this remarkable event two years prior to the period originally fixed by the British Parliament for its fulfilment, is rather the Work of the Historian than of the daily Journalist. It Will be (or the former, collating facts and comparing results, to decide how far this measure was accelerated by the breach of faith on the part of the British Government, in substituting for laws originally framed to secure the duration of tl►e Apprenticeship for tl►e term fixed on, other laws under which it became im possible to carry on the system with any advantage either to the master or the apprentice ;--next, how far this event has resulted from the injud►cious distinc tion of Prwdials and non-Przedials—how much it is attributable to the noise and confusion arising out of the extraordinary obscurity in which the distinguish ing features of these two classes were, it would now seem, purposely left—requiring after what was consi dered a• definite conclusion, a general reopening of the Classification question ;—how much of this mea sure may be attributed to generosity on the part of the Planters; and finally, how much to the conduct of the Negro daring the trying period of Apprenticeship, awakening in his employers a gradually increasing Slonfidenee that he might be relied on when free, to Perform, for a reasonable reward, the labour hitherto Obtained by compulsion. For us, it is our more fitting task, standing on the present, to direct our earnest each anxious attention to the future, and to point out such measures as, in our humble opinion, are best qualified to ensure the future peace and prosperity of all classes in this section of the West India community. "The first of these measures should be a Rural Police Bill, upon which we understand the Council is now occupied. This Bill should provide for the pre servation of public order—for the discouragement of i dle and dissolute habits—for the suppression of va traney—and for the protection and encouragement of the well disposed and industrious labourers ; but the .*Council should at the same time be cat eful, that the liberty of those for whom* they legislate should not, either in fact or in appearance, lie infringed upon ; and above all things, let the duties of all parties sub ject to the enactments of the Police Bill, be clearly and distinctly defined. The next Bill should be one to regulate contracts between master and servant, and to provide a summary remedy to both patties; petty trespassers upon property, and assaults upon the per son, should' also be brought within some summary jurisdiction; a new Road Act, and also a Militia Bill, have likewise become absolutely necessary; a Bill to prevent squatting, upon th e Cr o wn Lands, and such restrictioas on the sub-division of private property into small portions, as will prevent that kind of cultivation which yields no assistance to the state, and bears no part of the burthen of the country, should be brought forward without delay; and last, but not least in im portance, some legislative provision should be made for the encouragement of Immigration. "Ther e is yet another subject requiring the imme diate consideration of the Council, (although under the circumstance of the same' matter having sttracted the attention of the Home Government, we should deprecate any attempt here to produce a permanent effect), We mean the want of a sufficient circulation of small silver money. This will be felt severely within a month from this date, and we should hope that the Council will turn their attention to devising some expedient for obtaining an immediate temporary supply. We should suppose that some assistance might be obtained from the Commissariat at Barba dam "To-day we have merely space sufficient to point out the measures which seem necessary to the Colony generally, but in future numbers we shall treat on these subjects at more length, and it will remain for the inhabitants themselves to suggest such other re gulations as are peculiarly applicable, or• required in particular districts. Al communications on such mat ters will obtain our immediate attention; and as we understand that it. is the intention of the Legislative Council to sit daily until those measures which are most urgent have been disposed of, any communica tions on these subjects should be sent to us at once. "Returning to a more general view of this im portant event, we trust that to-morrow will be marked, throughout the West Indies, as a day of sober re joicing on the part of the liberated Apprentices, and of good will and harmony among all classes of society. By a most rematkable coincidence, it is the Anniver sary of the discovery of America by Christopher Co lumbus—a discovery from which emanated the Slave Trade, and the introduction into the West India Islands of the system of Slavery. It is likewise the Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery by the British Parliament; and now, of the Abolition of the last vestige of Slavery—Apprenticeship—by the almost simultaneous resolution of the Planters of the respec tive Colonies. Let us hope that it will likewise prove the commencement of an era more auspicious to the olonies generally, and to this Island in particular, than has been known since the first interference of the British Parliament in the question of the abolition of Slavery, under the resolutions - brought forward by Mr. Canning in the year 1823." The following is an account of the passing of the act for the termination of the term of apprentice ship:— ABROGATION OR THE APPRENTICESHIP ON THE FIRST OF AUGUST NEXT. Trinidad Ssandard Vice, July 25, 6 o'clock, p.m. This highly-important measure has just been carried Ihrntlgh tho ccoutacil by a majority of vuLes ; and we hasten to lay before the readers of the Standard the earliest intelli gence of this event. At a full meeting of the council, specially summoned for this day, the following message from his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, on the subject of the immediate ter mination of the apprenticeship, was read to the heard:— Government-house, July 25, 1838. His Excellency has summoned a council to meet this day, for the purpose of laying before them the copy of a procla• mation, which his duty required him to issue. His Excellency is anxious, at the same time, to acquaint the council, that he personally visited or held communica tion with most of the estates, pursuant to the intimation of the proclamation, in order to afford to the apprentices every explanation they might seek, and to ascertain how far they were disposed to listen to reason on facts calculated to dis abuse those who erroneously thought, that as matter of right they were to be discharged from apprenticeship on the first of next month. The result has impressed 'his Excellency with the conviction that the apprentices are almost univer sally persuaded that they are to be free, or have a right to be free, on the first of next month, and that a refusal to give ap prentice labour will be general after that day. His Excellency, therefore, once more anxiously invites the council to take into their favourable consideration the mea sure of abrogating the system of prmdial apprentices from the first of August, 1838, which will give contentment to the labouring population throughout the colony, secure peace and tranquillity, and best provide for the permanent inter ests of all classes of the community. The message having been read, a short discussion took place, and the following resolution was proposed by one of the members : " Resolved—That it is the opinion and advice of the coun cil of government, that the system of prtedial apprenticeship shall cease and determine upon and after the first day of August next." This resolution, after some discussion, was carried by a majority of votes. To give effect to this resolution, the following ordinance was brought forward, and carried, and will, we understand, be proclaimed at twelve o'clock to-morrow. TRINIDAD. AN ORDINANCE, Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of Trinidad, with the advice and consent of the Council of Government thereof, for the abolition of the apprenticeship of the prmdial appren ticed labourers in the Island of 'Trinidad and its dependen cies, upon and from and alter the first day of August next. Whereas, by the act passed by his late Majesty King William the Fourth, with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland assembled, "for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies, for promoting the industry of the manumitted slaves, and for compensating the persons hitherto entitled to the services of such slaves," it is plodded that no person who by virtue of the said act, or of any act of assembly, ordinance. or order in council as therein before mentioned, should become a pran dial apprentice labourer, whether attached or not attached to the soil, shall continue in such apprenticeship beyond the first day of August, 18-10. And whereas it is expedient that the apprenticeship of such apprenticed labourers shall cease and determine upon time first day of August, 1838. . . _ _ e it therefore enacted, And it. is lierebv enacted and or. dained by his Excellency the Right Honourable Sir George Fitzgerald Hill. Baronet, Colonel of Londonderry Regiment of Militia, Lieutenant-Governor and Connnauder-in-Chief in and over the said Island and its dependencies, Vice-Ad mind thereof, &c., &c., by and with the advice of lhe Council of Government thereof, and by the authority of the same, that all persons who, on the first day of August, 1838, shall be in a state of apprenticeship, as prmdial apprenticed labour ers, under the said act, within this island and its dependen cies, shall, upon and from and alter the first day of August, 1838, become, and he to all intents and purposes whatsoever, absolutely and for ever manumitted and set free, and the ap prenticeship of such prwdial apprenticed labourers under the said act, shall, upon and from and after the said first day of August, 1838, utterly cease and determine within this island and its dependenies. And be it enacted, That this ordinance shall take effect upon and from and after the first day of August next. Passed in council, this 25th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1838. T. F. JOHNSTON, Clerk of Council. UNITED STATES.—By the Siddons, which arrived here on Friday, we have received New Yo►k papers to the 25th ultimo. The commercial news brought by this packet is deemed generally favourable. The amount of business for the autumn was small, com- pered with former years, but perhaps of a more sub stantial nature. The internal exchanges were fast equalising themselves since the resumption of specie payments, but the banks were rather cautious in dis counting. Mr. Biddle seemed to be in earnest about establishing his new bank in the city of New York, for which purpose he had taken a house, and made other arrangements The new cotton crop had already ap- peared in the market, both at Charleston and Sayan nah, and was of excellent quality; in fact, with the exception of tobacco, which is greatly deficient, and of indifferent quality, nearly all the crops in the Union are a fair average, and the growers are in high spirits. A meeting had been held in Philadelphia, and steps taken to forward the plan for steam communication be tween New York and Europe. The elections were turning almost everywhere against the present admi- nistration. The removal of the Cherokee Indians to their new tract of country was, after many conferences and much anxiety of feeling, quietly going on, under the direction of General Scott; and the termination, or rather temporary cessation of the Indian war in Flo rida, had enabled Government to withdraw a great portion of the troops from that district, and strengthen the force along the northern frontier, where it is much required to repress the patriotic feelings of the Ame ricans themselves, and prevent those marauding de predations which took place last year. . . The news from Canada possesses no great interest. Lord Durham had lieen enjoying his old and favourite amusement of horseracing at Montreal, on which oc casion a most bumble address of confidence was got up and presented to his Excellency, who took occasion in his reply to declare that be would not abandon the task that he had imposed upon himself, until he was ena bled to submit to her Majesty's ministers such a per manent arrangement as would provide for the main tenance of public tranquillity. The boundary ques tion excited much uneasiness in Upper Canada, and, in the opinion of the military, was likely to lead to great embarrassments, if not an open collision. It was reported that Earl Munster was to succeed Sir Colin Campbell'in the Governorship of Nova Scotia, and that the latter was to replace Sir John Colborne in Canada, who would return home. _ . . We have little news respecting the South American Republics. Oribe, the President of Monte Video, had resigned, after his defeat by Fruchuosa Riveiro, and letters from that place of July 13th state that the Chambers had been corrvoked, for the purpose of open ing with that Chief, tvho was daily ex pected to place himself at the head of afThirs. At Buenos Ayres, and also atVera Cruz and the Mexican ports, active preparations were made to repel any attack by the French. These blockades are exciting the greatest interest, not only in the commercial but in the political circles. The Mexicans are reported to be fully prepared to issue letters of marque the mo ment the castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa is attacked, in which case there is no telling where the atiltir might end. W a subjoin the most important extracts. UPPER CANADA.—THE SHORT HILLS CoNvlcTs.—Bea tner, who was engaged in the Short Hills affair, was tried last week at Niagara, U.C. convicted and ordered to be hung. This is the seventeenth convict, and the fourth ordered for ex ecution. Great efforts, we understand, are making by their friends of Chandler and \Vait to obtain a commutation of their sentence. It may possibly prove successful; but M`Leod and Reamer, it was believed, would be executed without doubt.—Alliany Argus. DUTY ON SILKS AND COTTONS.—IMPORTANT CUSTOM HOUSE ORDER. In February last, the then Comptroller of the Treasury, Gov. Wolf, issued a circular, by which a duty of 12 1-2 per cent was to be charged on all silk laces, and per cent on silk hosiery and silk gloves, which, since the pass age of the act of the 2 d of Marc h, 183 i, had been entered as free. Remonstrances were forwarded to the Comptroller against the said duties, when the following letter was re ceived "TREASURY DEPARTMENT. "First Comptroller's Office, April 4th, 1838. "Gentlemen,—Your favour of the sth ultimo WAS duly re ceived, in reference to the duty properly chargeable on silk gloves, hosiery, and laces. B e i ng o f opinion that the Compromise Act of the 2(1 of March, 1133, has released from dut y ' all manufactures of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value,' coming from this side of the Cape of Good Hope, except sew ing silk, until the 30th of June, 1842. I have authorised the collector at New York to revise the entries of such of the ar ticles mentioned, iu a way that I have no doubt will be per fectly satisfactory to every one interested. "For more particular information, I refer you to am, very respectfully, your obedient servant. "J. N. BARKER, Comptroller." Yesterday morning a circular" was received ill which said duties are " revived," and further, a duty of 25 per cent is ordered on all silk ribbons, and on all goods composed of silk and cotton, which, as it will be perceived by the Comptroller's letter, be expressly designates as free. Now, we would ask how the merchants are to know what is and what is not free, so long as such a vacillating course is pursued by our " was tes s" at Washington.—N. Y. Daily Exprtss, August 23. MoNc.y MARKET, THURSDAY, P.M.—There begins to be a considerable demand for money for business purposes. Within the last two weeks, the offerings in bank have in creased, and considerable sums of business paper have been discounted by brokers in Wall-street, at 7 per cent per annum. It is quite a new thing to see business paper again. For the last sear all securities of this description have disappeared. The bulk of the offerings at bank has been renewals of former notes, but even this description of paper has been sensibly di minished. New cotton has already made its appearance in Augusta (Geo.;) the quality uncommonly good. This is un usually early, and should the crop throughout the south turn out to be abundant, it will make an astonishing change in the condition of Southern Funds —N, Y, Daily Express, August 24. FRIDAY, P.lll.—lt will be seen that stocks are a little firmer to-day. There is, however, no reason to assign for the change. This is packet day, and the sales of exchange were very large. On London it commenced at 109 k, but closed at 1091—the state bank drew at the latter rate. On Paris they were firm at 5 22. The operations of the day unusually large. The conduct of the collector in this port of exacting duties on goods that have for years been free, is causing great excitement. The law did not seem to be very difficult to be understood, till, in the want of money to replenish the trea sury, a difficulty has been created; but if there was difficulty, the construction of the former comptroller of the treasury seemed to have, and certainly ought to have, settled it. Under this construction of the law, no duties have been charged on silks since 1833, until January last, when Ex- Governor Wolfe, then comptroller, made a new reading of the law, and directed duties to be imposed, his instructions were followed until April, when remonstrances came in so formidable, and. it V 1 ,03 30 manifeet that the tiepin Ltu.,nt were conducting in violation of all law, that the practice was dis continued, and the sums that had been paid were refunded. Mr. Barker, the present comptroller, has now directed that the duties should be imposed. or if he has not, the collector now exacts fifty per cent. This vacillating conduct is not only disreputable to those who enforce the law, but highly injurious to the merchant. If the merchant one month can import his goods free, and the next is compelled to pay fifty per cent duty, none can carry on business. We are glad to learn that the board of trade have taken the subject up, and have sent on their remonstrance to Washington. This body are the bone and sinew of trade; they watch with vigilance the rights of the merchants, and with fearlessness protect them.—N. Y. Daily Express, Aug. 25. New COTTON.—One bale of the new cotton was yesterday brought to this city, from the plantation of the Rev. J. Har ris, of Burke county, and sold at 13 cents: quality good.— Another bale of new cotton was received yesterday, from the plantation of Turner Clanton, Esq.. Columbia county; staple and colour good. It weighed 4291b5., and sold for 14 cent per lb.—Augusta Sentinel, Aug. 16. COMPARATIVE RECEIPTS. 18.33 Aug 14 bale 1 1834 Aug. 12 3 1835 Au1;.13 1 1836 Aug. 17 . 3 1837 Aug. 23 2 1838 Aug. 15 COTTON.—The cotton market since our last has again ex hibited an increased degree of animation, some concession submitted to on all descriptions coming below strictly fair, having induced shippers to resume operations in the article to some extent. The purchases at present making for home use are exceedingly limited, the recent drought having caused in many instances an entire suspension of manufac tuting at the eastern establishments. The sa le s i nclude 650 bales Upland, at 9d to 1231; 110 Florida, 10d to 12Id; 250 New Orleans, 9d to 12d, with some fine at 14d ' • and 150 ditto Mobile, 9 to 131 cents, forming a tota l f o r the week of fully 2,000 bales.—The arrivals have been—from New Orleans North Carolina Baltimore llO Total 2.32 bales. Total import, since Ist instant 11,614 bales. Export, from Ist to 23d August Export from the United States, since Ist October last 1 540,544 Same time last year 1 111,428 Same time year before 1,085,299 CHA It LESTO N, AEG. 9.—The first bale Of new cotton reached here on Saturday, by the railroad cars from Ham burg. It is from the plantatio❑ of Turner Clanton, Es q ., Columbia Co. (Ga.) and consigned to Messrs. La litte and Brother. The quality is said to be excellent. We under stand 13 cents was offered fur it and refused. MOBILE COTTON MA ItKET, AUG. 17.—The transactions are without interest, and comprise about the receipts at 91- a 11 cents for qualities below fair. The weather continues very favourable for the new crop. ATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION FROM PIIILADEt PULA.— The Philadelphians are pushing ahead with the project for a steam ship. A meetin t z has been held, over which Nicholas Biddle presided, and at which residuiions were passed and measures adopted, which lead to the establishment of a company. . Nev. s has just reached us, that Thomas P. Moore, notori ous as " Free Torn Moore," attacked the senior editor of this paper in the yard of Ihe Harrodsburg Springs. Mr. Moore advanced ("pun Mr. Prentice with . a drawn pistol, and fired at him; Mr. Prentice then fired, neither shut taking effect. Mr. Prentice drew a second pistol, when Mr. Moor quailed, and said he had no other arms; whet eupon Mr. Prentice, from superabundant magnanimity, spared the mis creant's life.— Louisville Journal. (From the N'etz , York Enquirer. Aug. 24.) BEsumertoN.—We learn that the Vicksburg Bank has arranged for a loan 0ri,200.000 dollars, and the Planters' Bank of Mis. for a loan of 1,500.000 dollars, and that the Mississippi State Stock of live millions, issued for the esta blishment of the,Uttion Bank, has been so far negotiated as that the parties are authorized to draw immediately for two millions. These sums, making about five millions in all, will enable Mississippi to resume at once. (From the same, Aug. 25.) MONEY MARKET, &'..C;, AUG. 25. The Stock market yesterday was more firm, a very heavy business was transacted, and prices in some instances show a small advance on Thursday's sales. United States Bank closed at 123. A considerable improvement in the rates of discount on uncurrent money, generally has been established during the last week or two. Domestic exchanges also have proportionably improved, and still further reduction in the rate of discounts, will, no doubt, continue to take place, as the banks of the (now few) non-specie paying states approx imate a resumption. The amount of bills on England and France, offering for the packet ships, leaving yesterday and this morning, for Havre and Liverpool, has been again rather limited and in adequate to meet the demand. The previously advanced rates, say 9 to 91 per cent. premium on England, sf. 24c. on France, and with some facilities in payment-sf. 20c. were consequently maintained. On other places there was not much done, and no change occurred in previous rates. The Natchez Courier gives a statement of the affairs of the Brandon Bank, from which it appears that its liabilities are : Dollars. 7,371,182 To meet which it has notes and bills of planters of the State 7,165,408 Due from other Banks, chiefly out of the State. 396,726 Due from theircottun and cotton agency 610,255 Gold and silver.. 38,292 Premium on these two items preceding the las' 150,000 8,350,7 5 Leaving a balance in favour of the Bank of 998,569 If the assets of the Bank as enumerated above can be con sidered available, the condition of the institution is materially better than has been generally supposed; the last item, how ever, of 150,000 dollars, appears at least doubtful. FOREIGN EXCHANGE.—BiIIs 011 London, 9 21; Ditto France, 5 25; Dftto Holland, 50; Ditto Hamburg, 35i 351; Ditto Bremen, 79; Sovereigns, -184 (From the New York Price Current, Aug. 25.) EXCHANGE.—The transactions in the European Bills from the Havre packet of yesterday, and that for Liverpool today, were more extensive than for some time previously, and the demand exceeding the amount offered, which was but moderate on all places, an advance ensued in the rates throughout on England. The opening rates were 9 to 91, closieg at 9,1 per cent. premium. (From the Rochester Democrat.) It affords us great pleasure to be able to communicate the release of sixteen state prisoners from the gaol at Toronto. Several of them were condemned to death—among the rest Charles Durand, a relative of Dr. Duncomb. It is supposed that the order for their release was received by the Great Western. The following is copied from the Toronto Commercial Herald of Thursday;— " His Excellency Sir George Arthur has been please to extend to the following prisoners her Majesty's pardon, viz., Seymour W. H. Stockdell, John M'Cormick, John Gilling ham, Daniel Snell, and William Delang, on condition of their giving:•security to keep the peace and be of good be haviour for three years. "Abraham Haling, Jesse Cleaver, Silas Bardneil, John Brown, John Haling, Joseph Milbourn, Asa Wixon, Joel Wixon, John Hill, Daniel Shephard, and Charles Durand, on condition that they banish themselves within three days from the time of their liberation from prison, from this pro vince, and that they remain absent for and during their na tural lives." We understand that Sir John Colborne leaves for England in the course of the ensuing month, but that his successor had not been appointed up to the date of the last despatches. Amongst the officers rumoured as likely to succeed Sir John, the ❑ames of Lieutenant-Generals the Right Hon. Sir Fre derick Adam and Sir Benjamin D'Urhan are mentioned. — Quebec Gazette, Wednesday. (From the Montreal Herald of Aug. 21.) We have reason to believe that the rumour with respect to Mr. Thom's appointment in the Hudson's Bay Company's service is coriect. Mr. Thorn has been selected as Recorder of Rupert's Land awl resident counsel, with a salary and allowances amounting to upwards of £9OO currency. ( From the Montreal Gazette of Aug. 21.) The followiniz is the reply of Lord Durham to the address from the inhabitants of Sorrel:— _ . " Gentlemen,—l return you my best thanks for your kind congratulations, and for this flattering testimony of your esteem and confidence. " I have not undertaken the fulfilment of the arduous du ties to which you refer, without a full knowledge of the diffi culties which would beset me in every quarter. I am pre pared to encounter them all without flinching, nor will I voluntarily relinquish the task I have imposed upon myself, ,uutil I have had an opportunity of proposing to her Majesty's ministers and the Imperial Parliament, such a permanent arrangement, as will provide for the maintenance of public tranquillity, and for the due protection of the just rights and interests of all classes of her Majesty's subjects in the North American colonies." LATE FROM MONTE VIDEO.-THE NATIONAL ARMY NEARLY DE ST ho y ED. (Front the Philadelphia Gazette.) Captain Bering, of the brig Carroll, has favoured the Philadephia Exchange with the following, under date of " Monte Video, June, 23, 1838. " It is now a matter of certainty that the national army has been almost destroyed, and Frutus, I think, will show himself in all next week. Government is making every effort for a last struggle, which will probably be in or near the city. Men and boys are being impressed, the streets closed up by brick walls, and every other demonstration of an expected attack. General Curando ciomeit, the third in command of the national army, reached town the night before last, ac companied by a small escort. ""l'is said about 600 men escaped in small parties and are now seeking their homes. As near as I can learn, the govern ment general was outwitted and led into an ambuscade. The battle was fought on the other side of the Rio Negro, the strong hold of Don Froths. The forces on either side may linve been 2500 . men—perbaps the national army 2000 men: . . The general officers, in a council two days before the com bat, determined that Don Frutus should not expose himself by entering the field. The command was consequently given to General Lavalle, a Buenos Ayrean. At four r. at. they met, Lavalle opposing or showing a front of 1200 men, while on either flank he had 600 in ambush. General Oribe, sup posing he had the whole army before, made rapid, and as appeared to him, successful charges, they fighting and re tieating sluwly and in good order, till the national army, confident of victory, had passed the ambuscade, when they wheeled in upon both flanks in the rear, while the main body stood their ground. Thus placed between two fires, the na tional army was cut to pieces. There is no prospect of the blockade coming off at Buenos Ayres." I%IEXICO (From the New York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 21.). The Banner mentions a report, which has been confirmed, of the seizure and imprisonment, by the Mexicans, of Mr. Brennan, the member of the House of Representatives from San Partricio. Mr. Brennan, says the Banner, participated in some of our hardest fought battles for Independence, and our government should lose no time in concerting measures for his release from the treacherous hands into which he has fallen. ANOTHER MEXICAN OUTRAGE.—CoI. Carnes, the brave fellow who escaped from Metamoras in company with Teal, and who has done so much for that republic as a spy, has again fallen into the hands of the Mexicans, and is probably slain, as will be seen by the following article from the Tele graph of the 6th inst.:— " A gentleman just arrived from Goliad, states that Col. Carnes was killed or taken prisoner by the Mexicans on or about the 20th ult. He was then on his way to Bexar with a quantity of goods, which he had brought from Copano; and was accompanied by several Mexican servants, and one young man from the Uui'ed States. About 20 miles above Goliad they were suddenly intercepted by a party of twenty Mexican smugglers, who fired upon Carnes and shot him down: the servants instantly fled in all directions, and the young American, seeing Carnes fall from his horse, and finding himself alone, opposed to 20 marauders, immediately turned his horse and escaped in safety into Guliad. A num ber of the citizens of Goliad visited the place next day, but only found one or two dead cattle lying on the road, and a hat of one of the Mexicans. No traces were found of Col. Carnes; possibly, therefore, he may have been only wounded and made prisoner." (Translated from the Diario del Gobiervm )—From a cam— munication made to the Minister of War and Marine, by the Commandant-General of the State of Tamaulipas, we learn that the sloop Gualpan, having put off from Tampico to embark some effects on board the British packet, was boarded by three armed boats from the French blockading brig. The British consul, who had hoisted his flag on board the said sloop, and was himself steering her, was removed from the helm, and ordered on board the French brig. He, however, resisted the demand, protested against such hostile proceed ings, and insisted that the vessel should be searched. After a short detention he was suffered to proceed; and, after placing the objects in question on board the packet, the sloop returned without further molestation to Tampico. FATAL STEAM-BOILER EXPLOSION. NEWTON-IN-THE-WILLOWS, MONDAY NIGHT. The Viaduct Foundry on the Manchester and Liverpool line of Railway at this place, the property of Messrs. Jones, Turner, and Evans, was this mornin g th e scene o f a d rea df u l and fatal steam-boiler explosion. Six persons are already dead, and four others are lying without the least hope of re covery. It appears that Messrs. Jones and Co. employ about two hundred men, and in the course of their business use two steam-engines, one of sixteen horse-power to drive the machinery, and one of eight to blow the blast for the smiths' furnaces. Last week a new boiler was attached to the eight-horse engine, and the foreman of the yard, Joseph Dangerfield, who superintended the erection of the boiler, resolved upon setting it in motion himself. It was tried on Saturday last, and was then found to work well. This morn ing he was called by the watchman at five o'clock, and he immediately proceeded to light the fire and get the steam up in the boiler. He accomplished the task by six o'clock. At that hour the men came to work, and about ten or a dozen of them stood at the mouth of the furnace, anxiously waiting to witness the evolutions of the engine which had been stop ped for the purpose of attaching the strap communicating with the machinery of the foundry. This had been in part accomplished, when all of a sudden the , steam and water burst through the flue of the boiler, and carried the contents of the furnace and part of its brick work full forty yards from the building. The explosion was terrific. The bye standers and Dangerfield was carried as if by a gun shot, into a corn field on the opposite side of the foundry palings. The palings were knocked down, and the corn levelled to the ground for full twenty yards distance. Three of the men acre picked up quite dead. Their names are Joseph Dan gerfield, (the foreman,) Samuel Appleton, (striker,) and George Fazakerley. John Dean, a striker, was found on his knees fervently praying to the Lord to have mercy on his soul. He lived until ten o'clock this morning. Thomas Price, another striker, was picked up insensible. John Parker was dreadfully mutilated. Win. Wells, 'a moulder., Geo. Hough, a striker, Wm. Dane, and Wilson, a fitter, were taken up dreadfully scalded and bruised. They were quickly attended by Mr. Barrow, and Dr. Green of Newton, and Mr. Gaskell of St. Helen's. George Hough and Wm. Wells lived for a few hours. Only one of the other sufferers is expected to survive. The foreman, Joseph Dangerfield, has left a wife and seven children; Williein Wells, a wife..(preguant) and one child; Samuel Appleton, a wife and nine children, (his wife is pregnant and a cripple;) John Parker has a wife and several children ; Wilson is also married, and came to work at the foundry this morning, from Stockport. The others are single men. The Rev. John Thomas, curate of Burton Wood, arrived at the foundry soon after the accident, and was present with some of the sufferers in their last moments. The engine boiler is constructed on the high pressure prin ciple, and works at a pressure varying from fifty to sixty pounds to the square inch. At the time of the accident, (according to the index) it was working at thirty-two pounds. The exterior of the boiler remains perfectly sound, the injury done being confined to the flue. Prior to leaving Newton, our reporter was informed that Price had breathed his last at a few minutes after one o'clock. EDUCATION FOR SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. Last evening a meeting was held at the Music Hall, Bold street, for the purpose ot hearing the stafeuients of a native of Syria, with regard to the degraded condition of his coun try, their want of education, and their claims on the assist ance and benevolence of this country. ADAM HODGSON, Esq., occupied the chair; and a number of the clergy of the town were on the platform. The room was densely crowded. chiefly by ladies, and there would be at least 1,000 persons present. Assaad Yacoot• Kayat, the native ot Syria, who was to address the meeting, was on the platform, dressed in the picturesque costume of his country. lie is a man of middle stature, slightly built, and of a pleasing and intelli- gent expression of features. The meeting was opened with an appropriate prayer by the Rev. Richard Davies. After which . The CHAllittlAN opened the business of the meeting liv briefly statiog, that its object was to obtain funds to promote the religious education of the inhabitants of Syria, and the establishing a church in Palestine. If we reflected that it was from that country that we originally borrowed the light of the Gospel, end it we reflected on the injuries which this country had itilllcted on Africet, we ought to endeavour to re pay the debt that we owed to that country ; and we might hope, through the medium of Syria, to christianise •and civilise the continent of Africa. He concluded with intro- ducing to the meeting Assn AD YACOOB lia YA7r, a native of Syria; who was re ceived with loud applause. He proceeded, at considerable length, and in very tolerable English, to express the pleasure he felt at seeing before him so large a meeting. He stated that about 12 years ago be was in England, in the suite of the Persian Princes, and learned English. On that visit he was struck with the happiness, and riches, and power of Eng land, and he was induced to think about it. Afterwards meet ing at Constantinople with an American Presbyterian minis ter, he became converted to Christianty, and was convinced from reading the Bible that to her Christianity alone did England owe her pre-eminence amongst the nations of the earth. The church of Antioch had formerly flourished in spite of persecutions, and from her had England derived her knowledge of Christ. The little church of Antioch, planted by the Lord, had withstood all the persecutions of Caesar, of the Jews, of the Heathen, of the Greeks—all was in vain, and the church had flourished in the land. Whilst they ful filled their Christian duties they flourished. They had then plenty of schools, and plenty of literature. Though they had no press, their fathers wrote volumes in thousands, and homi lies in thousands. They then enjoyed the fruits of the earth and the dews of heaven, as in England these bles.ings were enjoyed; and so they flourished. What was granted to them was not through their own means, but was given to them as our blessed Lord had said, " He would bless those who blessed Him, and honour those who honoured Him." They then had cathedrals, and churches, and chariots, and horses, and sheep, and cotton, and wool, and silk; they never asked any other nation for help, because the Lord Jesus gave them His blessing, and they needed it not. But the moment they began to trust in their riches and to export their pro duce for gold, forgetting the Lord, then did He forsake them, and millions of camels and horses and men under Mahomet overrun their country, turned their churches into mosques, and their fruitful land into a barren desert. Their schools were destroyed, their books were burnt, and but for the kind.; ness of God they could not have existed at that moment. Formerly, " Tyre did build up herself a strong bold, and heaped up silver as the dust;" but it was prophesied in the Bible that where that city stood, there fishermen should spread their nets. He had seen this, with his own eyes, fulfilled. Where once Tyre in all its magnificence had stood, he had seen a few miserable fishermen's huts, and had counted eighteen nets drying on the rocks. Looking, at these things, he was persuaded that if they sought the Lord and served him as they had once done, he would make the earth of his country heaven and every individual happy —be would again bless the land and make it overflow with milk and honey. But all this wanted a beginning; nothing was done without an effort (cheers;) and therefore he had determined to begin the work and devote himself to it. The speaker then gave an instance of the ignorance and supersti tion of his countrymen by relating an anecdote of two officers who were in attendance upon the Persian princes, while passing from Constantinople to Bagdad. It was usual for the second officer to precede them a few hours to prepare for their reception. This man was a most enormous glutton, one who eat things cooked or uncooked, sweet or sour, ripe or unripe; and 'one day having stuffed himself at a wedding feast while he was ill and was seized with a cholic, the people crowded about him and the princes' phy sician way sent for. When the doctor arrived, he said he could not give him better medicine than the blessed earth from the blessed tomb of Humoola that died some hundred years ago. So the doctor went to the tomb, gut a bag-full of the earth, and brought back with him a sort of a stick with which he opened the poor man's mouth and shoved the mould into it; and so they were digging in the mould when the prince arrived, and drove the crowd away, and gave his officer a dose of jalap instead of the holy mould. He con cluded with detailing his plan of introducing religious in. struction, which was to get instructed a number of females, to teach the females in the Harems, and so gradually intro duce religious edncation into families; to get Syria❑ youths taught in this country, who should be established afterwards as teachers in Syria, and to get schools built In Syria. For the only way to teach the population to value the truths of Christianity was by education, to enable .them to appreciate them. He concluded, after a strenuous appeal on behalf of these objects. The Rev. H. M'NEILK then rose, and was received with much applause. He drew attetifiCm to the, prosperity of Syria being co-existent with her Christianity ; and that when her Christianity was made a secondary thing, her prosperity was seen to decline. He called upon England to take warn ing from this example, that she fell not away from Christi anity, lest her glory, like the glory of Syria, should depart front her. He alluded to an advertisement he bad seen in a newspaper in the East, announcing a system of education which was recommended in the paper to the inhabitants of the eastern parts of England, the peculiar feature of which was this,—" the entire absence of all superstition : the youth ful mind was not to he trained up in the fear of supernatural beings, nor to offer up petitions to an unknown spirit, to alter the course of nature; in order to suit the convenience of the P etitioner." 'flint was, that there was to be no recognition of oa If ever such a system of education as that recorn- ' mended were adopted in this country, and the word of God removed front education, then would the sun of England set indeed, and degradation deep and dreadful, misery that !night be felt, would be her portion, for " God was a jealous God." This appeal came front Syria, and b y her example.was Eng land warned ; for when Syria hod held Christianity secon dary, the Lord had held secondary that country; and so would ' it tie with every laid. If the principle put forward in that newspaper wet e to be checked, it could only he by in culcating the glorious principles of the religion of Jesus, which their brother was a sk in g them to do. It was by teach ing men that the gospel was the only source of morality ; by guarding the population from snpposing that they could be moral from a principle of their own, instead of by the prin ciple of God, as given to them; by guarding the population against supposing that a plan of their own—a text of their own—a society of their own—could obtain a moral character which the word of God had failed to accomplish. This would be leading the population into a course of crime ten times more hostile to God than the poor wretched drunkard it had rescued Let them take care how they elevated a principle of man's formation ; let them take care how they stepped in, between Him who sat on the throne, with a plan that had more effect on a fellow creature than God's own law. God commanded temperance and sobriety ; God gave His holy spirit to make them love it. And was it possible that what the Lord Jesus Christ had failed to do— what the bible had failed to do, what the christian preacher had failed to do, they should be able to accomplish by a se cret amongst themselves—a plan which fostered their own pride rather than a prostration before the living God. He was disgusted with the intemperance that abounded in the land, but he entreated men to beware how they elevated practical power over themselves exercised by themselves, above the practical power of the Lord. He did not believe that it was intended, but he did believe that the effect was produced. He had read a long account of the effects pro duced in early life on one by intemperance—of its dreadful effects upon himself and his family, and all his concerns, and which he told as a boasting narrative of the excesses to which his drunkenness carried him. His wife implored in vain, his minister, his bible, his children implored him in vain, until an act of his own, something he honoured more than his children, his wife, his minister, his bible, and which he had almost said he honoured more than his Gcd, had altered him. What was this? A fresh revelation from heaven? No, but an arrangement with a fellow creature. (Great cheerin g .) He concluded with solemnly hoping that the Bible might be honoured afresh, and that the travels and example of the Syrian who had addressed them might not be a witness against a headstrong nation. A gentleman on the platform here rose and addressed the chair. He stated that the advertisement alluded to was put• forward by the Owenites, and not by the Tee-totallers, who had nothing to do with it. . . Mr. WNEILE rose to order, and said he had not stated that it had any connection with the 'Fee-total Society. A slight confusion resulted, but order was soon restored by the Chairman, and the gentleman sat down. A doxology was then sung, and a collection made at the doors for the objects of the meeting, which we understand amounted to a considerable sum. ST. ANNE'S WARD.—An adjourned meeting of the mem bers of the Conservative Association in this ward was held at the house of Mr. Holden, Richmond-row, yesterday evening. The attendance was highly respectable and a spirit of har mony pervaded their consultations. Arrangements were made for canvassing the ward, which promise at length to reward the exertions of the Conservatives. We are exceed ingly happy to hear that Mr. Davies has consented to be put in nomination for representing the interests of this ward in the Town Council. A better man never stood forward in a good cause, and we heartily wish him success. THE LONDON TIMES.—By the politeness of Mr. Gaskill, we received a copy of the London Times of yesterday, last evening, by a quarter past eight o'clock. We understand none of the other morning papers had made their appearance. FILBERTS.—The crop of filberts this years has been very abundant; . we perceive that Mr. Middlewood the fruiterer announces a further reduction since his last quotation of prices. —(See Adv.) CHURCH OF• ENGLAND TRAC: AND BOOK SOCIETY.— Our readers will perceive that a sermon will be preached on behalf of this excellent society, to-morrow evening , at St. Andrew's Church, by that eloquent minister, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, A.M., of Manchester. TALES AND SKETCHES, BY MRS. D. CLARKE.—GUY fair townswoman, Mrs. Clarke, is about to publish a volume of original tales and sketches, historical and domestic. Mrs. Clarke possesses much vivacity of talent, combined with that delicacy and style which so generally distinguishes female writers. We hope this, her first venture before the public as the authoress ota volume, though not her first essay in print, will realise her expectations. THE. GREAT MaGiciaN.—Mr. Anderson, the great magi cian of the north, is astonishing the natives with his tricks at the Liver Theatre. We have heard much of him, and intend as soon as leisure permits to pay him a visit and judge for ourselves. THE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE POLICE-OFFICE. —We have frequently heard complaints from parties having to take out summonses, being detained three or•four hours at the Police- office before they can obtain them. At present the hours of business terminating vary from twelve to four o'clock. If .a person wanting a summons goes to the office after business is over, he must go again next day. In_order, therefore, to be in time, he is obliged to be there at twelve o'clock. By an arrangement in the court all applications for summonses are deferred till the prisoners are got through with, which is some times not till four o'cloCk, till which time the applicant is de tained, wasting the better part of a day, and .crowding the Police-office. Surely, a better arrangement could be made than this, and some hour fixed for applicants to know when to he in attendance. THE ROYAL Eit3NT.—We have been highly gratified by a view, at Mr. Goadsby's, Bold-street, of Gra - nt's picture of "The Royal Hoot," (which every hotly has heard of,) to. getter with the beautiful engraving from it by Bromley. There is a reality about►he whole thing that is not often met with; hunting pictures we have in plenty, but then they re mind one of third or forth-rate acting in a. provincial theatre —all is exaggerated or unnatural. But the case is different with Mr. Grant's picture ; there is a vraisemblance about the whole scene which forcibly arrests the attention ; we see on canvas as in the field, the Duke of Beaufort and Lord Chesterfield, Lord Wilton and Lord Errol, the Fitzclarences, Cecil Forrester, George Wombwell, (leaving us in doubt which have cost him most study, his curls or his boots,) Horace Seymour, George Anson, Alfred Paget, and D'Orsay, and last, but not in any sense of the word, least—Davis, the royal huntsman. The human portraits are not fewer than two and forty ; then come those of horses and hounds—and of the former of these the most inexperienced eye will at once see that they must be actual likenesses. Ascot Heath, too, is a likeness, which its rich russet tint ; and the beautiful background of plantation is another proof that Cloth is better than fiction, RELIGION IN FRANCE A crowded and highly respectable public meeting, at which a great number of ladies were present, as usual at assemblies for the furtherance of religion or benevolence iu Liverpool, was held at the Music Hall, Bold-street, on Wednesday evening. We noticed upon and in the vicinity of the plat form, the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, M.A., the Rev. Ro bert Davies, M.A., the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, M.A., the Rev. F. Bonaventura Gourier, LL.B., the Rev. John Jones, M.A., the Rev. John Griffiths, the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, M.A., the Rev. Cyrus Morrell, &c. The Rev. H. M'Neile, and other friends, were greeted with warm applause on entering the room. The chair was taken soon after seven o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, on the motion of Mr. Howard. Some of the beautiful prayers from the Church of England formula having been delivered by the Rev. Mr. Davies, The CHAIRMAN said the object for which the meeting had assembled was one of a particularly interesting nature — namely, to assist in building a Protestant place of worship in Paris, where service should be performed according to the liturgy and the articles of the Church of England, in order that, in the French language, French Protestants might have the opportunity of worshipping God according to the re formed religion which we had the happiness to have esta blished in this our native land. Briefly referring to the pre sent state of religion in France, and to the infidel character of that country at a former period, he observed, that at one time the Bible was publicly burned there, the sacraments of of the Saviour were openly dishonoured, and the goddess of reason was elevated as the only object'worthy to be worship ped by human beings. There was too much reason for re gret that at that time many Protestants neglected the faith in which they had lived and been born, and that many alto gether fell away from the religion of their forefathers, and became Socinians. He was once in a Protestant church at Lyons, and witnessed great indecorum in that place of wor ship: But it had pleased God to raise up a little body of Christians in Paris, who met for prayer. (Hear.) They prayed God to assist them in the state of weakness in which they found themselves—(hear, hear) —and out of that meet ing arose the French Bible Society, the Missionary Society, the Religious Tract Society, the Society for the Reformation of Morals, and several other associations for the public good. Still the cause of God was so weak in France, in 1830, that the whole sum collected for the advancement of religion through these societies only amounted to 40,000 francs. In 1836, it had increased to 110,000 francs; and at the last statement, in April of the present year, the collections reached the sum of 361,452 francs, or about £34,418, that is to say, more than triple the amount that bad been raised in the last two years. Now, at this time so evident was the increased liberality of tbe.Protestants, who remained true to the faith of their forefathers, and those who bad been re covered from their fallen. estate that it was considered de sirable, and this sentiment was entertained both by French protestants and French Roman catholics, that a protestant place of worship according to the liturgy of the church of England should be provided in Paris. There was no person for a season willing to take the office, but a clergyman, who was in attendance this evening, was at length ordained by Bishop Luscombe. and took charge of the congregation there. Here was an answer to the prayer made to the Lord, and an instance of His special favour towards His church. Within a few days the people of Liverpool had seen a minis ter from the most papal part of Ireland craving their assist ance for the erection of a protestant church; in the next place they had one from Athens, where an altar had bean erected "To the unknown God," praying for their help to provide a place for pure worship; and now, another request of a similar description, but more important than all, was made to them from the capital of France. When they con sidered that Paris was almost the capital of Europe, and that the French language was generally understood and often spoken throughout the continent, he was sure they would feel a deep sympathy with his beloved brother who now cause before them, and say to him, " We wish you good speed, in the name of the Lord." (Applause.) After mentioning that he had seen strong letters of recommendation, from res ponsible parties, of the reverend gentleman, he introduced i Mons. Gourrier to their notice. . . The Rev. M. GowtRIER stated that it was truly gratifying him and his reverend friends around him io - have - the present opportunity of addressing so highly influential and respectable a meeting as the present. He cordially said he was a petitioner under very peculiar circrmstances He was no " alien," though he might be considered a stranger amongst them. He stood on no vague and undefined pro mise. He had a right to address the assembled audience as a British subject, He bad no disguise on the question. His parents were French, but they had taken refuge here during the terrors of the revolution ; so that, while on the other side, he might be questioned as to his right as an Englishman, he could here stand in the honest consistency of an Englishman. I stand here, said the reverend speaker, under the full and satisfactory belief, under the holy acknowledgment which has been granted to me in the ordinance of God's providence, unto the power and promise of which all are.c•alled. It is a promise unto which I feel myself called for the spread of the holy gospel. The Rev. HUGH M‘NRILE then addressed the meeting in a❑ able and eloquent speech, which we exceedingly regret our limits prevent us from more than thus briefly not►cing. At the close of the meeting a collection was made, which we hope proved profitable to the important object in view. • The lateness of the hour at which the meeting concluded prevents our giving more than a sketch of the proceedings, and doing that justice to the report which would have been done under other circumstances. TUE REV. H unit INI`NEILE. —We are requested to state that the remaining proofs and impressions of the en graving of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile's portrait, by Mr. T. C. Thomson, have arrived, aad are ready for delivery, at No. 8, Rodney-street. The subscribers who have not received their copies are requested to send or call for them as soon as con venient, as the proprietor cannot remain but a short time in Liverpool. THE POLICE COURT.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, no less than 61 persons were placed before the magistrates, charged with felony, and 98 with being disorderly; in all, 159 persons in custody since Saturday night. On Friday morning two boys, who were working among some manure in a field at the back of Westmoreland-place, discovered the body of a new-born infant, which had been buried in the midst of the heap: POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A NICE RAT-CATCHER.—A rat-catcher, named Joseph Kirk, was brought up at the police-office on Friday chargkd with having deliberately cut and wounded a man named M'Guff, under the following circumstances :—The complain ant, along with several other persons, most of whom appear ed to be from the country, were in the Nag's Head, in Cockspur-street, when Kirk came in, and, recognising one of the witnesses as an acquaintance, asked him for a glass of ale. The man refused, but proffered to give him the price of glass ale for a rat. Kirk answered "No, I have not got any rats here, but I have some at home." Al`Gull then said, " He has got some rats in his bag; I will cut it open." Kirk replied, "If you cut my bag, I will cut you." . - The upshot was that Al`Guff took the - oppiirtunity of cutting open the bag of the prisoner, and he, having distovered the fact, went up to him and said, " You have cut my bag, and now I'll cut your flesh;" and thereupon he took a clasp knife and stabbed the prisoner three times in the arm. It was," said one of the witnesses, " one of the savagest things I ever saw in my life." The rat-catcher pleaded that he had acted under the influence of drink, which he seemed to fancy was a complete palliation of his offence, and offered to pay " any doctor's charges they liked." This offer he re- p . eatedonce . - or twice, _and seemed in a great hurry to " pay the fellow his charges" and be gone. Mr. Hall, however, informed him that it was a most abominable thing in a man to draw a knife under any circumstances, but when in the cool and deliberate manner in which he seemed to have acted, the offence became more serious, and he should there fore send him to take his trial." " Very well;" said the prisoner, and diced down with as much alacrity and non chalance as if be had come to catch rats at a shilling a head. DEFRAUDING EMIGRANTS.--Two very decent-looking . . Irishmen appeared at. the Police-office on Friday, to prefer a complaint against a man named Abraham Abrahams. They stated that on the 16th of May, 1837, they applied to the prisoner, who then kept an American emigration office in Dublin, to obtain a passage to America. He told them that his employer, a Mr. Graham, of Liverpool, for whom he was agent, had a vessel which was to sail on the 20th of that month, and that he could let them have a passage in hei. The men consented, paid down their passage money to the prisoner—one paying £8 10s, and the other 14s—and came over immediately to Liverpool, where they found that no such vessel as had been mentioned by the agent was in the port. They were consequently defrauded of their passage, and bad since that time remained in Liverpool. Mr. Daven port, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that Abrahams had been merely an, agent employed by one Mr. Graham to obtain passengers, and that with him, and not with the pri prisoner, rested the culpability of having defrauded the eom plainants. Mr. Jones, of the government emigration-office, stated that he recollected the period and the transaction mentioned by the two men. In consequence of their aplica lion, he had made enquiries whether any such vessel as that described in the complainants' passag e-tickets was about to sail, and he found that there was not . ' An application was then made to the magistrates, and a summons granted against Graham; but when he heard of it, he disappeared.—Mr. Hall said that the case was out of his jurisdiction; but he eventually ordefed That Abrahams should be taken to Dublin by an officer, and Mr. Jones and the complainants agreed to go there and prosecute. A SCENE PAINTER. --A theatrical looking personage, named Dl•Connel, who described himself as a scene painter was on Friday charged by his wife with ill-treating her on the previous evening, at the Liver Theatre. They had been living for some time apart, in consequence of his alleged ill treatment, and on this night he came unprovoked! v to use violence towards ke r. Complainant here exhibited a bonnet, upon which the atrc used had been trying his handiwork, to render it "a thing of shreds and patches." The complainant was a dressmaker, and her husband had done everything to injure her character, along with ill-treating her. Mr. Hall (to Prisoner.)—Well, what have you to say to this charge? Prisoner (gathering himself up for the effort, and looking about him with the air of a man about to say something of importance.)—Why, sir, it is certainly true all that the lady has been pleased to state. I did find her in the Liver Theatre. but then, sir, what a place for her! The last time I looked upon her, she was on the bed of sickness, weak and wan : she had a blister on her back; eleven, yes, I think eleven leeches to her side, and— . Mr. Hall.—You need not be so particular as to the medical treatment towards your wife: come to your own. Prisoner.—L went by chance to the Liver Theatre: I ne ver thought to see my wife there- " 'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'twas pitiful, 'twas wonderous pitiful." I thought_ she was at that moment extended helpless on the couch of illness. Mr. Hall.—Was it her health or her morals you were most anxious about? Prisoner (reflectively.)—Morals, health—health; morals — both, sir. Mr. Hall.—You are a scene painter? Prisoner (extending his hand with dignity.)—l am, sir. Complainant.—He earns about 245. per week, and he ought to pay something out of it to the support of his child. Prisoner (mildly.)-1 beg your's, sir, and the lady's par don. The average amount of my income is roost uncertain. My profession extends over the whole world. I may be here to-day, and off to-morrow. Had I the wings— Mr. Hall.—How much can you afford to give for the sup port of your wife and child ? Come, now, mention something. Prisoner (rubbing his brow thoughtfully).—l think I could give three shillings a week, if my child were surren• dered into my own custody. Mr. Hall.—Unless you can give six shillings a-week to your wife, out of your earnings, you must find bail for your good behaviour. The scene-painter retired.to runlinate, but afterwards made his appearince and agreed to pay five shillings a-week. Having paid the first week's money in advance, he retired. OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE FRETENCES.—An. elderly Man, named Peter Molloy, who it was stated had at one time filled a respectable station in society, was on Friday charged at the Police-office with having, in two instances, obtained property under false pretences from two respectable ironmoneering establishments in this town. Mr. Whittingham, of the firm of Whittingham and Wheel house, Lord-street, stated that early on the afternoon of the 7th July last, the prisoner came to his establishment, and produced a note of request from Messrs. Ainsworth, joiners, of Bootle, for a seven-Inch lock, which was then given to him —that no questions were asked of him at that time. On the -9,h of the same month, in the evening, the prisoner again called with a similar order from the seine parties for a lock of a larger size, which was also without question given to him. That the matter from, thence was taken no further notice of until Mr. Ainsworth called for his pass-book, when finding theta were more lucks charged to him than he had sent fur, the orders were then shown to him, when he denied, that they were his, or that he had given any authority con cerning them. Mr. Pye, of 118, Whitechapel, stated that on Saturday last the Bth instant, the prisoner came to his shop and produced a written order under the firm of Ainsworth Brothers, Bootle, with whom he represented himself as working, requiring a lock and a pair of hinges of the value of ss. 5d., which were given him. He also desired that a bill should be made out of the articles, which was accordingly done, and banded to him. Mr. R, Ainsworth proved that the orders now shown him are not in the handwriting of himself or his brother, and that they keep no clerk. He had never authorised the prisoner, nor any one else to get the articles sworn to as being obtained in his name. The prisoner had never been in his employ ment, but he recognised him having frequently come to seek a job. John Walker, inspector of police, proved having arrested the prisoner on Thursday, who was pointed out to him, and that on being shown the orders, he denied any knowledge of them. The prisoner, in his defence, asked the prosecutors, were they positive in thus swearing as to his identity ? Both parties, in answer, swore positively that he was the person who had obtained the property under the circumstances stated. In formations were taken against him, and he was committed for trial. - - A SC APE-GR ACE.— A well-dressed young man, who has respectable connexions in Chester, was, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Hall, charged with having attempted to rob the money-drawer at a tavern kept by a Mrs. Williams, in Law ton-street. The prisoner was observed, and given into cus tody before he had secured any of the money. The prisoner was before Mr. Hall about a month ago, on a similar charge. On that occasion his relations were written to, and they were under the impression that he was at New York, from which place he had just returned. On his person was found a do cument, dated January, 1838, which showed, that he had committed some crime in America, for which he was ordered to be imprisoned for two years, and had been subsequently pardoned. The friends of the prisoner have been much dis tressed in consequence of his evil courses; and, though they have frequently supplied hint with money, he has always, as was expressed by the officer, " run through it." He was ordered to be imprisoned for one month. A MAN OF BAD TASTE.—On Saturday, at the Police court, a master of one of the vessels now in port charged Ellen Healy, a bloated, dirty female, of dissolute habits, and most forbidding aspect, with having allured him from the paths of duty. The prisoner could not be less than fifty years old. The complainant stated, that he was going to his ship, about one o'clock that morning, when be met the pri- , soner. She asked him to go home with her, and she would show him some beautiful pictures. Thinking it very likely that a female of her indigent appearince possessed fine pic tures, he went with her. He had put his purse, containing twenty-nine sovereigns, into his coat pocket, for safety. He went into a private room with his fascinating companion, and there she contrived to take his purse from him. He dis covered his loss and bawled out lustily for the police. An officer, who heard him, entered the house just as the captain plucked the purse from the bosom of the enchantress. The complainant averred, that he was quite sober when this hap pened. The officer and the bridewell-keeper both swore, that he was drunk. The prisoner was remanded. Sueaoursonso A MAN.—On Saturday, at the Police Office, an elderly looking personage, of portly appearance, named Simmonas, the keeper of a shooting gallery in Cook-street, having the outside of his waistcoat bedizened with a showy silver watchguard, appeared to complain against a disorderly female, for having attempted, as his attorney felicitously des cribed it, to " surround" him. After Mr. Davenport, the complainant's attorney, had explained to the magistrates that the complainant was " a horse," owing to a very had cold, for which Mr. Hall expressed his sorrow, the com plainant preceeded to tell his story. I was in Cook-street, a parsing the door of the public house, and two gemmen parsed me, and one trode on my toes. " Beg your pardon," ses he. " I'm no Pope, but it's granted," ses I, Then that there woman hollowed arter me expressions I don't wish to mention in a respectable com pany like this 'ere. I jist knockered my stick for the perlice. "coin' to get the b— perlice" ses she, "are you, old fogo?" and .knocked me up and down the street, and used the most shockingest names, as we be a shame fur to mention. Mr. Hall.—Well, if she would beg your pardon now, pro bably, though you are no Pope, you would be kind enough to grant it. Prisoner,—Yes, sir, I beg his pardon; but I never spoke to the man afore. Mr. Hall (to Complainant.)—You don't press the case? Complainant.—Not at all. But as 'l've lived in this town now three months, and got Inv bread in it, and as there is other galleries besides mine, they send these people every night to annoy me. 111 r. Hall.-11 I could see that you were annoyed on pur pose,- I would very severely punish them, and give you•pro tection ; hut this seems a chance thtng. But she promises not to do it again. Prisoner.—No, sir, I won't. She was then discharged. WEi.sli STUPIDITY. —Yesterday, at the Police-office, two disorderly girls, named Catherine 'Owens and Jane Robinson, were brought before the magistrate charged with having rob bed a Welshman, named Evan Jones, of The complain ant, a thorough-bred Welshman, exhibited the usual amount of stupidity which generally distinguishes the natives of Cam bria. After just making it intelligible that he had been lob bed, it was next to an impossibility to elicit how, where, or by whom. Mr. Hall.—Which of them robbed you? Coin plainant.—Him in kreen (meaning one of the females.) Mr. Hall.—Did she put her hand in your pocket? Complainant. —eighteen shillings. (Laughter.) Mr. Hall.—Pray, when did you Caine from Wales ? Complainant.—Tont know. Mr. Hall.—Can you tell what happened to you ? Complainant. —He (one of the prisoners) asket hur (complainant) to co up stairs to see his (female prisoner's) bed; ant when bur cot up stairs there wass no ped to see; ant then one come and get holt of hur, and put his (her) bast in bur (his) pocket. Mr. Hall.—Which went up stairs with you? Complainant., after much apparent consideration, gave no answer. Mf. Hall.—Upon my word you ate the . stupidest man I ever saw. Complainant.—lf you. Will hear I will tell te,trute. 1 tid . not like tem; I want to co out. A woman came pehind through the passage, and one of them cot holt of my coat-tail, and then sne came very close—" Oh. my tear, pedder stop wid me tO-hiiiht"—and ten I found I had lost my monies, The pri- A _ IP r" r- . X i, j i . 7 - t . , ,=.' .... •-•• ( I I t : -.?,--......:,...-.; .., a :a f -' p— soners denied that they had robbe hid- 31 tat tfoo com pla in an t.) Have you any friends in - 6*dt tbmPlainant.— Yes sir; I ton't know where. Mr. Hall:- - -Tremand the pri soners; I will see the complainant by and bye by himself, and see if I can understand him. OH MY BEAUTIFUL BLACK DRESS.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, an elderly and respectable-looking female and her son, a boy about twelve years of age, named John and Susan Charnock, were placed at the bar charged with having stolen a quantity of clothes from a lodging-house. Susan Bellis, a lodging-house keeper, stated that the two prisoners lodged at her house and on the 26th of August one of her lodgers missed his shoes. She went to search for them, and then discovered that a number of other things were missing. "Oh dear! said I, some one has taken Inv beautiful black dress I am wearing for my husband." (Laughter.) She immediately suspected the boy Charnock to have taken the things. She missed a green shawl with a reddish border; a blue coat, with plain gilt buttons, and cuffs lined with velvet, belonging to one of her lodgers; a black coat, with silk but tons; aAid a waistcoat, with a rolling collar and black back; in addition io the handsothe merino dress she had lost. The whole of the things had since beenifound at a pawnbroker's, and the coßts were identified by a mechanic, the complainant's lodger. The female was observed leaving the house the day before with a bundle, which was the only evidence against her. The pawnbroker identified the lad as having pawned the clothes with him. Mr. Hall ordered the informations to be taken against the boy, and discharged the woman for want of more distinct evidence. • _ _ ASSAULT.—Y esterday, at the Police-office, a miserable looking young man, named AltNally, was charged by an Irishman with having stabbed' him. The complainant, a real picture of an Irishman, made up of excitement and slo venliness, said, " I wash workin' at Waterloo, an' returnin' home, an' a woman axed me in Garden-lane to come in an' tek a glass ov ale. I said I could not tek ale, bud I would tek a glass ov cidher; an' while i was takin' dhe cidher in came the prisoner, and called me a b—y Irish b—, and said I had no business there filling my ugly skin. I told him I should he sorry to fill myself at the expense ov the likes if 'im, and he swore he would stab me. He made a push at me wid a knife; I stooped, an' the knife stuck me in dhe bead." The female was called in whose house the complainant had been, and she said that a Dir. Callaghan who was there said the complainant was not an Irishman if he could not lick the g— out of AliNalty, and that thereupon the complainant struck the prisoner. It turned out that the female "kept company" with the prisoner. Air. Hall said he must have the evidence of Callaghan ; the female wanted to save the prisoner, and was not unlikely the strumpet of both the pri soner and complainant. The prisoner was accordingly re manded. The complainant's head appeared dreadfully cut. PA R KGATE REGATTA This rich aquatic treat took place on Monday week.—The day proved beautifully fine, and during the forenoon crowds of persons poured into Parkgate from Chester, Liverpool, and various parts of the country. At twenty minutes past two, in consequence - of their being no wind at the time, the four-oared gigs, rowed by gentlemen amateurs, started for the prize of 12 guineas, from a boat moored a little below Mr. Bloor's Stage, coining in at the Committee Boat, moored opposite Mrs. Briscoes Inn. The distance being about one and a half mile, the boats came in in the following order:— Fairy Queen Chester I Isabella Devil Liverpool 3 • Rowed in four minutes by the crew of the "Fairy Queen," namely, Messrs. H. Potts, J. L. Bromfield, T. Mulvey, S. J. Dutton (Stroke,) Mr. Henry Thomas, coxswain. At half-past two, a light breeze having sprung up from the westward, the first-class sailing boats, belonging to Park gate, started from Mr. Briscoe's stage, up the river, round a boat moored off Woodside-lane, outside one moored out in the Colliery Channel, and round one moored below Mr. Bloor's Stage, and bome to the Committee Boat. Five boats started, and came in in the following order:— " Fox"... ....J. - Bedson .. 1 .. £3 0 0 " i liarlequin"..Edw. 2 1 () 0 "Vixen" ....Wm. Dennis 3 .. 010 0 "ArieP" C Brown .. 4 .. 0 7 6 About ten minutes after the first-class started, the second class boats got under way; six in number, and came in in the following order : " Good Intent" " Good Will" "James" "Oak" J.Bushell.. l .. £2 0 0 W.Catherall 2 .. 0 15 0 R. 111 atthews 3 .. 0 7 6 Wm. Kent 4 .. 0 5 0 It was a beautiful sight when all were under way together. The boats were well handled and manoeuvred. About half-past three, the boatmen's race with four-oared gigs were started from the Committee Boat, down the river, round the boat moored below 'Mr. Bloor's, and back. The three started again, and came in as follows: " Fairy Queen" • " Isabella" " Devil" Beautifully rowed, and in an incredible short time. The next race was that of four-oared boats, rowed by women, who were very neatly dressed in white, one crew carrying pink ribbons and rosettes in their caps, and waiv ing flags of the same; the other blue. The boats which con tended were— " Withington"..Saml. Evans..l pink £2 10 " Sarah" Geo. Brierley..2 blue 1 5 Extremely ;vell rowed, and won only by a length. Then came the last and best race of the day; the beaten boats rowed by gentlemen amateurs, for £5 55., the same course as before, which terminated as follows : " Isabella" Chester " Devil" Liverpool Won by half a length. This was a well contested race. The Devil would have won only she unfortunately filled. AR passed off extremely pleasant and peaceably, and every one seemed highly gratified. THE DINNER.--The Regatta Dinner took place at Mr. Williams's, the Ship Inn, and too much praise cannot be given to the excellent landlord for the bountiful supply of every thing good in season—abundance of game, dessert, and wines of the , chnicest quality. About fifty gentlemen sat dlwn to dinner among w limn we observed John Lloyd, Esq., pre sident ; J. Lloyd Joues, Esq., vice; Thos. Brittain, Esq., Geo. Chamberlain, Esq., T. B. Oliver, Esq., H. Potts, jun., Esq., Henry Jones, Esq., Charles Walker, Esq., Ch ar l es Wade, Esq : W. Jenkins, Esq., .1. Lyon, Esq.., W. Lyon, Esq., Jobert Jones, Esq.. E. W. Lloyd, Esq., C. Burns, Esq., George Welch, Esq., .1. Windlf,Esq.. Mr. J ones, Chester; Mr . Ewd. Boden, Mr. 11. Green. Mr. J. Green, Mr. E. Hodkinson, Mr. J. Dutton, Mr. Wm. Jones, Mr. Quay, Mr. J. Mulvey, Mr. W: Meacock, Mr. W. Boden, Mr.l4. Thomas, Mr. .T. Maddock, Mr. J. Crane, Mr. H. Hodkinson, Mr. A. Walker, Mr. C. Walker, Mr. J. Cha loner, &c. &c. Messrs. E. Hedkinson, W. Jones, W. Jen lins, and Olixter, treated the company with some excellent glees and songs. The party separated at a lace hour, highly delighted, and with a determin a ti on on th e part of. the Chester Rowing Club to make the Parkgate Regatta annual, and on amore liberal and extended scale. TO .THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST-4NDARD. ant,—One of the Atbion's cor respon d ents, i n allusion to the awful tagellatiOn which you inflicted On the poor devil's hunkers on Friday last, says that you most decidedly labour limier an attack of hydrophobia. Very possible: but may t hat not be in consequence of the virus conveyed from the fangs of the dirty dog that you have just b een th rash i ng? Your fine conservative constitution will, however, survive the creature's attack. But, alas for the poor ...Mien! he has already given up the ghost. Now— " QUID RIDES ?" THE BIDDLE COTTON SPECULATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Ste,—l have lately remarked many notices in the Liver pool papers respecting the Biddle Cotton Speculation, more especially in the Mail. Many of the statements have doubt less been furnished by persons who understood something of the business; still it appears to me they do not fully com prehend the whole nature of the transactions. I was in the Southern States last and part of the present year, and nad an opportunity of observing some of the operations of Mr. B.'s agents. When Mr. Biddle found he could not renew the charter of the United States Bank, he procured a charter from the State .of Pennsylvania. In the summer of last year, all the banks of the States stopped specie payments. Mr. Biddle put his forefinger to his forehead, and said, " I have it here." Tke old notes of the United States Bank were reissued. Mr. Biddle appointed numerous agents in the cotton-shipping ports, even as far as the territory of Florida. These agents were well supplied wiih the 01a notes, which they issued to an immense extent, selling them at a premium for such notes as would purchase cotton, to parties who were on their way to New York to purchase goods, or who had remittances to make; these bills, from long habit, having obtained a better standing in the country than the bills of any bank in exist ence, especially at the time. Now, Sir, Mr. Biddle accom plished a very great deal by this contrivance: he saved the expense of issuing new notes; he procured a premium on his old paper; be saved interest of money; he partially mo nopolised the cotton trade, and he did all this with pieces of dirty paper—with the notes of a bank not in existence. How good such notes may be is not for me to judge. No doubt they are good, and will be some time redeemed by Mr. Biddle; but in the mean time, while the Americans are holding this paper, Mr. Biddle is holding their cotton, and receiving remittances from England and France (if not in bullion, in quite as good) as an advance on the probable nett proceeds of his cotton, or rather his old notes. I wish all the Jews could be transported to America, to teach Jonathan how to do his business. I am, Sir, you►s to command, Liverpool, Sept. 12th, 1838. . FUMO. MARRIAGE HOAX.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Mr. Ross, of the Liverpool Chronicle, applied after the business. of the police-court was over for a summons against Mr. Wm. Davis, dell: and nephew of Mr. Davis, of the Lyceum Vaults, for having forged the signature of a respectable gen tleman of the town, which was attached to a statement of the marriage of his daughter. This statement had been inserted in the Chronicle, and turned out to be a stupid and ill-natured hoax. The same young lady had had the same trick played on her on a former occasion. The patty of whom he com plained had himself brought the letter, and was thus recog nized. Mr. Hall recommended a civil action as the best mode of punishing the party. Mr. Ross said this would cer tainly be resorted to, as the lady's friends were greatly an noyed at it. The conductors of newspapers generally did all in their power to prevent the insertion of false statements of marriages, but it was impossible sometimes not to be de ceived; and the parties gu►lty of making such false statements richly deserved, when they could be found out, either a sound horsewhipping or an action being brought against them. THE EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.—This exhibition opened yesterday in the Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place. The rooms are crowded with paintings which we shall on future occasions notice in detail, according to their merits. The hasty glance we had yesterday of the numerous paint ings has ►eft but a confused idea of them on our minds. Theie appear to be a greater number of respectable paintings than before, but few which deserve to be ranked in the higher walks of alt. There are a number of Pennington's elabo rate winter scenes; several of Williamson's exquisitely finished fairy landscapes, and a number of Havell's glowing sunsets. All these are pretty patches of landscape and sentiment, but nothing great. The principal 'painting in the large room is taken from Collin's Ode to the Passions, by Mr. George Patten, A.R.A. This is a fine painting, rich in colouring, and well drawn and de signed: we speak, of course, merely from 'a hasty glance. There is one of Cooper's cattle pieces, rather unfi nished, which is however a good painting. There are the usual number of nobodies--" portraits of gentlemen"—stuck there to occupy space which would be better' filled up by something fit to con'ernplate, rather than the unmeaning phizzes of persons valued perhaps in their own family circle, but. whom the world knows not, and feels no interest in. It is too bad that the portrait of every "gentleman" who has twenty guineas to spare to get himself immortalised on can vas, should be stuck up to catch the gaze of people who care not a sneeze about the man, and who never beard Of or saw him before. We can extend an excuse to the portraits of ladies, if the originals are pretty, or if the portraits be flat= tered, because then they do to admire as pretty pictures ; but, faugh! the notion of looking at a than as a'pietty pie 7 ture! Those men who haVe distinguished themselves form an exception, of course; because then we study their portraits to find out. the lineatnents of that ability, which distinguished them. The portrait now of Mr. Fletcher Raincock, as the portrait of a gentleman much respected and the senior of the Northern bar, is a fair exception and enriches an exhibition. There are several very good water colour paintings, and also several good busts; one especiallY of his worship the mayor, which is an excellent likeness. We shall recur to the ex hibition more in detail; and at greater length in otir future publications