The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

1 4 ;~ ~,. ?.' TO VIRTUOSOS. - To be seen, for a few days, (Gratis,) at H. R. MARCUS & CO.'S ATHENA:UM SNUFF-BOX, 67, CHURCH-STREET, CORNER OF PARKER-ST., AUnique WATCH, set in a FINGER RING, encircled with Diamonds, belonging to his late Majesty George the Third, the diameter being half an inch, and of the most curious workmanship. The original cost was Two Hundred Pound 6. NOTICE. ALL Persons indebted to the late ROWLAND THO MAS, Stone-mason, Walker-street, Low-hill, are hereby re quested to pay the same to Mr. SAMUEL LUNT, Tailor, Low-hill, acting Executor ' • and all debts due by the said Rowland Thomas are to be handed to the said Samuel Lunt. The Widow takes this opportunity of returning her grate ful and heartfelt thanks to the many and kind Friends of her late lamented Husband, for their former favours, and begs to assure them of her intention to carry on the Business of her late Husband in such manner as to meet their approba tion and support. MARY THOMAS. Low-hill, Sept. 26th, 1811. ARTIFICIAL TEETH. H. PARSONS, SU RGEON DENTIST, 16, Parker • street, corner of Clayton-square, (late 94, Bold-street,) wishes to call the attention of the Public to a new description of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, possessing the two important qualities of being Incorruptible and an exact Imitation of Nature. Nothing but the strongest prejudice can hinder any one, who has once worn these Teeth, from prefering them to all others, both as regards appearance and economy. J. H. P.'s system of stopping Teeth with pure Gold will be found to stand the test of years, and be much preferable to all cement fillings, which lever arrest the progress of decay. PARSONS'S TOOTH POWDER for preserving the Teeth and Gums in a sound and healthy state, is sold at Is. 6d. a box, by RAWLE, Chemist. Church-street; TITHER INGTON, Chemist, Oxford-street, Ahercromby-square ; and PARSONS, Perfumer, Bold-street. AN ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM OF THE TEA TRADE COMMENCED on WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, on the Premises , No. 81, CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL, (OPPOSITE THE LIVER THEATRE,) UNDER THE MANAGE MENT OF Messrs. SNOWDON and BROWNLOW. AT a period like the present, when about Ten Thousand Chests of Spurious Leaves, in imitation of Tea, brought from Bombay and Sincapore, and about Four Thousand Bags of Tea that was wrecked off the Skerries, in the vessel Mary Elizabeth, but picked up from the wreck, brought to this town, washed and kiln-dried, and now in the hands of those Tea Dealers and Grocers who profess to supply the inhabi tants with Genuine Teas, nothing can be more desirable than an opportunity being afforded to Families and Respectable Dealers of PURCHASING THEIR TEAS DIRECT FROM THE IM PORTER. The PROPRIETORS of the NEW TEA ESTABLISHMENT, feeling the importance of this truism, as affecting the inter ests of large classes of the community, and knowing that since the Abolition of the East India Company's Charter in 1829 TEA HAS BEEN IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL IN LARGER QUANTITIES than to any other PORT IN THE KINGDOM (London Excepted), without a corresponding advantage to 'the Consumer, an inducement has been held out to open the preient Establish ment, the Proprietors having the fullest confidence that the Patronage of a discerning Public will not be withheld to enable them to carry out their views, when endeavouring TO REFORM THE ABUSES IN THE TEA TRADE, it being their anxious wish and strong determination that ECONOMY SHALL BE COMBINED WITH LUXURY in Supplying the INHABITANTS OF LIVERPOOL AND LANCA SHIRE WITH " REAL" TEA. LIVERPOOL, the second Port in the world, from its advantages of A DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA. and the facilities it affords as a market for purchasing stock, it is natural to infer would have hitherto furnished Teas to the public at something like a reasonable profit, or at any rate at a less price than towns more remote from the place of debarcation. Such, however, not being the fact, the ob ject of this establishment is to supply the public with an article which forms a most essential item in the expenses of almost every family, on THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS, viz., THE SMALLEST PROFIT, from the importer to the con sumer. The Proprietors of the Establishment being intimately connected with one of the first Houses in London, they will be enabled to take advantage of that market as circumstances may require. CAUTIONING THE PUBLIC AGAINST THE SPU • RIOUS MIXTURE OF DRIED LEAVES, which has lately been imported in large quantities, and has found its way into the hands of COUNTRY DEALERS, we beg to inform them our whole time and attention will be devoted to the selection of the two articles Tea and Coffee ; the inferior, and in many instances deleterious, mixtures brought to this country since the abolition of the East India Company's Charter, rendering it highly necessary that all persons engaged in the sale of it should be well experi enced in the tasting and examining of them. THE OVERLAND INDIA MAIL arrived in London on the 4th ultimo, bringing news from China up to May 19th date ; and on reading the private letters, we find that Captain Elliot had effected a truce with the Chinese commissioner, thereby enabling our merchants to get about eleven millions of pounds of Tea (equal to three months' supply for this country) shipped, which has caused quite a panic in London Tea market, attended with a fall of about one shilling per pound on all sorts, within the last three weeks, thus waking them as low in price as those now on their way to this country cost the merchants importing ; for we find the lowest quality of Congou sold in Canton, at 25 to 27 taels, equal to about ls. sd. of our money, to which must be added at least sd. per lb. for the expenses of ship ping them to England—together making a cost of ls. 10d. per lb. for the lowest Congou to the importers. Still we find, that at the London Public Tea Sale of the 7th ultimo, (at which the most of our stock has been purchased,) Congou characterised by the Tea brokers—good middling Tea, blackish leaf, and strong, (which is at least 6d. per lb. better than the lowest quality,) sold at Is. 114 d. to Id. per lb. ; and very fine qualities, bearing a character. Superior Tea, strong and full Pekoe flavour, even wiry black leaf, only fetched 2s. sid. per lb., being, as we before stated, as near as possi ble, the present cost to the importer. To the sale prices add the duty, 2s. 2;(1. per lb., which shows that a really useful family Tea costs us in London 4s. 24-d. per lb., and quality as fine as it is our intention to advise any family to use, 4s. ad. Having been fortunate enough to lay in our stock during the present extraordinary fall in prices, war rants us in saying we can offer an advantage to the public which no other house in the trade ean,•for it is a well known fact, that (prior to the last news from China,) nearly every person connected with the Tea trade, and even private speculators believing the Emperor of China had ordered all the Tea in his dominions to be destroyed, bought to a very great extent, at prices one shilling per pound above what they are at present. In professing to have this great benefit to offer, we do not boast of any foresight or wonderful advantages over our fellow-traders, it arising merely from our arrangements not being so complete as to enable us to lay in our stock earlier than the Ist ult. At the same time we do not feel too con fident that the present very low prices will continue long, as most of the merchants refuse to submit to so alarming a sacrifice, and we also find by the private India letters, that although Captain Elliot had effected this truce it was liable to be cancelled by an edict from the Emperor any minute, — in fact our merchants quite expected such would be the case, as vast troops of Chinese soldiers was encamping near Can ton,—so that the next advices may inform us of an entire stoppage of the British trade ;—therefore it is our duty to advise all families, and large consumers, to purchase freely at the present prices, they being as low (of good qualities) as was ever known, and in giving this advice we wish the public to bear in mind it is solely for their benefit, as the system we shall introduce into our establishment is to to charge a profit of 3il. per lb., so that should the next news from China cause an advance in the value we shall make a corresponding one. We before stated that useful family Congou cost us (duty paid) in London 4s. 21-d. per lb., and really fine qualities 4s. 7d. per lb., add Id. per lb. for the carriage here, thus making the costs 45. 3.1 d. and 4s. Bd., which enables us to offer them at prices lower than has been quoted for many months past, and until a change in the market takes place will be as follow : BLACK. Sound Breakfast Congou Useful Family Ditto, with strength—recommended . Superior Full Strong Pekoe Flavour Ditto, recom mended to all consumers as quite good enough for general use Very Rich Full Flavour Pekoe Souchong, long ciapy leaf. This is the finest Tea in the country 6 0 For the accommodation of connoisseurs we shall keep a supply of the choicest qualities of Flowery and Orange Pe koes, Ning Yong, Ankoi Pouchong, Tetsong, Howqua's Mix ture, and all other rare sorts, but do not recommend them for general use, their peculiar flavours rendering them un palateable to most persons. GREEN. S. d. 4 0 4 6 Useful Twankay Good Middling Ilyson-kind, pale brightish leaf—re- commended.. Full Flavoured llyson, brightish leaf—recommended as quite good enough for family purposes.. Superior Hyson, long twisted and bright leaf li 0 Cowslip Hyson, of very choice quality. This Tea is only fit to be mixed with l'ekoe Souchung, its main quality being flavour Canton-made Young Hyson Ouchain, or Real Young Hyson—recommended Canton-made Gunpowder Ditto Imperial Ditto Fine Ditto Ditto Very choice Gunpowder, bright shotty leaf 7 6 Persons buying an original chest, of 801bs, or a half-chest, gain the merchant's overweights, which vary from 2 to 31bs on a chest, and from 1 to 21bs on a half chest. We must now draw your attention to the other branch of our business, viz., Coffee, which we regret to say is as se riously adulterated as Tea, and, if possible, to a more alarm ing extent, which is easily shown by the fact that the con sumption of Chiccory has within the last three years increased fully fifty fold; and about a twelvemonth since several retail tea dealers and grocers were summoned by the excise officers for having large quantities on their premises. Since which (we suppose upon the same principle that duty was allowed to be paid to government upon the four thousand chests of tea that had deen wrecked, then brought to Liverpool, washed, and dried on kilns) government has allowed the free use of it upon payment of a small duty, therefore it is now used with impunity • and the value of it, duty paid, not being more than 5d per lb, offers too great a temptation for the generality of dealers to resist it ; consequently, we advise Families to purchase their Coffee in the berry, thereby en suring a genuine article, assuring them the small outlay of buying a coffee-mill will soon be repaid. We shall roast our Coffees twice a week, viz., Tuesdays and Fridays. Our present prices (which, like our Teas, will vary as the market value changes) are as follows : COFFEES, Whether ground or in the Berry, will be genuine. s. d. Good Ceylon ..... . ....... . Strong Berbice Good Jamaica (A very useful Family Coffee, and recommended for genera] purposes.) Very choice full-flavoured Jamaica ......... (As tine a Coffee as need be used.) Mocha, the finest parce l im p orted for some time.. 2 4 (Chi e fly used by Connoisseurs.) Relying upon the judgme nt of the Public for th at support and patronage which is necessary to the maintenanc e of an Establishment upon the principles on which its foundation is based, we are Your faithful and obedient servants, SNOWDON and BROWNLOW. P.S.—Our Vans will deliver all Goods, within three miles of the Liverpool Exchange, free of charge ; but to insure de livery the same day, the order must be given not later than four o'clock, as the Vans will start their rounds at five. Fa milies and Shopkeepers, resident in the adjacent towns, may rely upon punctual attention to their orders per Post; but as our terms are Cash only, it will be necessary to enclose about the amount - of the Goods, or an order upon some person in Liverpool for payment. . 5 6 . 5 0 ~. 2 2 MEDICAL SCHOOL, ROYAL INSTITUTION. MR. LONG will deliver the INTRODUCTORY AD -1 DRESS on FRIDAY next, October Ist, at Two P.M. GAS! GAS!! GAS!!! GAS CONSUMERS SAVE 2, PER CENT. IN BURNERS, CHANDELIERS, and WA7'ER SLIDES, AT GLASGOW HOUSE. NTOTICE.—The Stock of the above Establishment is 1.1 made by tirst-rate Chandelier Makers in Birmingham, whose goods are sold in London for Town-made. Observe,—No Articles kept made by mere Gas-fitters, nor is the recommendation sought of the Gas-fitters, or the Clerks of the Gas Companies. The Public are guarded against the interested opinions of such persons, who have no knowledge of the Chandelier. Trade whatever. The Proprietor of Glasgow House assures the Public that he can save them 25 per Cent. in Glasses, Burners, and the Water Slides, of which he now keeps none but solid-cast patterns, and sells them for less than others charge for stamped or even the common-cast Chandeliers made by mere Gas-fitters. Water Slides at 2os. to 28s. Elegant do. Water Slides. 3Bs. to 48s. GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. VANDERGUCHT AND TURTILL, TAILORS AND D RA PERS, HAVE the honour of informing their Patrons, Strangers, and Visitors of Liverpool, that they have received their Autumn supply of Fashionable GOODS, which are of the first class for Durability, Taste, and Elegance. Their importation of FOREIGN VELVETS, SATINS, LA MARENES, DIOMEDE PLUSH, and CASHMERES, for VEST INGS, form a combination of Native and Foreign Talent, unequalled for effect and purity of design. ALnERTINI and FLORENTINE BEAVERS for ITAGLIONI, CHESTERFIELD, and PROMENADE TOP COATS, with every variety of New and Fashionable TROUSERING, of superior Style and Quality. American Captains and Gentlemen Passengers will derive great advantages by Purchasing at this Establishment, as every Article is warranted of the very best description, and offered on such terms as defy competition. The Proprietors also beg to state, that they have formed a Continental connexion, through the medium of which they will receive every novelty in Dress, as produced in succes sion. First-rate London Talent is secured in the Cutting De partment to guarantee an elegant and perfect fit. 56, CASTLE-STREET, (Late DAVIS and CO.) A N Assortment of upwards of 100 PIANO-FORTES, C 1 from 7to 100 Guineas, on Sale and Hire, at W. P. DItEAPER'S PIANO-FORTE and MUSIC WARE. HOUSE, 49, BOLD -STREET, (Six Doors above Newington.; Excellent second-hand Square Piano-fortes, in perfect order By Broadwood and other makers, from .... 7 Guineas. Cabinet Piano-fortes, Ditto ... 15 „ 28 Six-octave Cottage Ditto Six-and-a-half Horizontal Grand, Ditto .. Patent Semi-Grand, Ditto 56 „ W. P. D REAPER, begs leave to state, that he has just returned from London, and his suite of Show-rooms are now replete with all the novelties in the above line, forming an elegant and extensive Assortment of. New and Second hand PIANO-FORTES, from the Manufactories of Messrs. COLLARD and COLLARD, BROADWOOD, TOMKISON, and other esteemed London Makers, at the lowest possible prices. Piano-fortes taken in exchange, Lent on Hire, Repaired, and Tuned, Singly or by the Year. A superior -Double-action Harp, by ERARD, of London, to be sold at half its original cost. W. P. D. will warrant any Piano-forte sold by him, and will exchange the same within twelve months, if not approved of. N.B.—A large Assortment of NEW and POPULAR MUSIC at HALF PRICE. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee. THE PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON WILL. COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO RE OPENED AT SEVEN. The Last Week of MR. FRAZER, MR. PAUL BEDFORD, And MR. MACKAY. THIS present TUESDAY, the 23th instant, will he per il_ formed Shakspeare's Tracedy of MACBETH. Hecate Mr. Paul Bedford. First Witcn Mr. Mackay. Macbeth Mr. Stuart. Macduff Mr. H. Second Witch Lady Macbeth Miss Cleaver. At the end of the Play, A PAS DE DEUX, by Master and Miss C. Webster. To conclude with the Romantic Drama of the BOTTLE IMP. Mr. Frazer. Mr. Gra.Y. Mr. Baker. Mrs. Barton. Miss E. Bonner. Albert.... Nicolo ... Willibald.. Marcella .. Phillippa . On WEDNESDAY, for the BENEFIT of Mr. FRAZER, and the Last Night but Two of his Engagement, the Grand Musical Drama of GUSTAVUS THE THIRD ; oR, THE MASKED BALL. Colonel Lillienhorn, Mr. Frazer; Chris tian Engleheart, Mr. Paul Bedford, (as originally performed by him in London ;) Gustavus, Mr. Chaplin ; Oscar, Miss E. Honner ; Madame Ankerstrom, Mrs. Barton ; Arvedson, Miss Cleaver. To conclude with the popular Drama of JACK SHEPPARD. Blueskin, Mr. Paul Bedford; Abram Mendez, Mr. Mackay. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE STREET, LIVERPOOL. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 28th, and TO-MORROW, (Wednesday.) the 29th instant, the Performances will commence with the grand serious Panto mime of OBI; OR, THREE-FINGERED JACK! Quashee.. Mr. T. Matthews. I Jack Mr. T. Howell. SCENES IN THE ARENA : The Trained Horse of Industry.—Pablo Fanque as Zaos, the Greek Dumb Slave.—The Young Hibernian, in his Nautical Scene of the Life of a Sailor.—Master Pablo Fanque on the Tight Rope.—Conductor of the Arena, Mr. Pablo Fanque.—Clown, the celebrated Nicholo. An exact representation of the CARNIVAL OF VENICE, Embracing the whole Extent of the Stage. To conclude with the Pantomime of RED AND WHITE HOLLYOKE ; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE MAGIC NEEDLE ! Harlequin Mr. Howell I C10wn.... Mr. T. Matthews. Columbine Miss Gilbert. On THURSDAY EVENING next, a Performance for the BENEFIT of the WIDOWS and RELATIVES of the CREW of the PRESIDENT. Doors to be opened at Seven, and the curtain to rise pre cisely at Half-past. The Box Office open daily from Eleven till Three, when places may be secured on application to Mr. F. CARMAN. Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Second price at Nine o'clock, Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; no second price to the Gallery. Private Boxes for Families may be obtained nightly. A limited number of Season Tiekets. UNITED STATES. We have received by the packet-ship Cambridge, New York papers to the Ist instant, being one day later than those brought down by the last Halifax teamer. The Cambridge, which left New York on the Ist instant, arrived here on Sun day morning. The Land Bill having passed the house of representative, the Senate only awaited the signature of the President to become law. The other great financial schemes of the session were incomplete. A debate had taken place in the Senate on the Revenue Bill, and the question recurred on the amendment submitted by Mr. Buchanan in relation to The act of 1832, whereby railroad iron was admitted free of duty. The proposition was to increase the duty to twenty per cent. It was opposed by Mr. Clay, but the amendment was not put. The Bank Bill was expected to pass the Senate the first week in September, and then, as was contemplated, would be vetoed by Mr. Tyrer, who, in consequence of the previous veto is represented as the most popular man of the day. The Herald, in a late edition on the forenoon of the packet's sailing, gives the following news from Texas, which it styles highly important :" " We have received some very important intelligence from Texas. There appears to be a strong war feeeling breathing through that country against Mexico, which, in connexion with the following order, may bring on a rupture in a very short time ? " War Department, July 14, 1841. TO MESSRS. ROMAM, PRICE, M DONALD, CUNNINGHAM, O'RILEY, AND NEWCOMBE. •'' GENTLEMEN, — Your communication by express has been this moment received. I regret that the President, in the discharge of his public duties, has been called to Galves ton, and cannot, therefore, take the prompt action necessary to the emergency that has arisen. The Cabinet have, how ever, been assembled, and unanimously agree, that no time should be lost in repelling the invaders of our soil and vio laters of the rights of our citizens. We, therefore, au thorize you to assemble such force as you can command, for the expulsion of the enemy, regarding the war as fairly opened by this late outrage by the Mexican forces. Volun teers, to any number necessary for the accomplishment of this object, we authorize you to call out. You will, of course, use due discretion in distinguishing between traders and soldiers of the enemy, taking care, however, to possess yourselves of traders and their effects as an indemnity for the loss of our citizens, and treat soldiers as the rules of war direct. " I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obe dient servant, " R. T. ARCHER, " Secretary of War and Navy.' " This was issued in consequence of the acquittal of Kin ney and Aubrey, charged with having been the means of the capture of Captain Demitt, and the proof, therefore, that the Mexicans alone are responsible for that high-banded mea sure." The exchange on London remained at 109 to 1091. In the shares of the Bank of the United States an improvement had taken place, the closing price at the second board on the 31st ult., having been 131. CORN TRADE.—FIour in this market ranges from 5 dols. 50 cents to 6 dols. 75 cents a barrel. In the last day or two the demand has decreased, and the supplies increased a little. As the time is at hand for operating on the new crop, it becomes necessary for us to ascertain about what the price of flour will be in this city during the fall. Conclu sions deduced from good authority would warrant perhaps a small advance over last fall's prices, provided no great de mand for foreign supply interrupt the usual course of the trade. _ . COTTON TRADE.—The market has been very heavy since the arrival of the last packet. The whole decline may be put at cent in this city. In the southern markets there is, as is usually the case at this season of the year, but little doing. The accounts of the growing crops are contradictory, but there is nothing to lead to the conclusion that the yield will be otherwise than large. THE COTTON CROPS.—COLUMBUS, MISS., AUGUST 9. The Cotton crop, in this section of the country, bids fair to be good, and, from all the information we can get, we give it as our opinion, the crop will exceed the last, although there are many planters in this vicinity who say their crops will be cut off; others say their crop will equal that of '39. The sandy lands generally will make light crops, owing to the drought, but on the prairies there will be full returns. In conversation with an intelligent gentleman, a few days since, he stated it was his belief, that the receipts at Mobile, the coming season, would be about 400,000 bales ; our own opi nion is, 375,000. There can, however, be no certain ellen lation made at this time, as the numerous enemies, in the shape of cut worm, army worm, &C., which the plant has yet to contend with, may prove more disastrous than can now be foreseen. (From the Natchez Courier.) SHORT CROPS.—We regret to learn the certainty that many fine prospects of good crops have been blasted. We have been allowed to publish the following extract of a letter, describing the prospects of the crops on three plantations in Adams county. " I am now satisfied that three places will not tie more than 775 bales, against 1,451 bales last year; and, in making this estimate, I calculate largely on the product from the bottom lands ; which, as yet, have not suffered to anything like the extent the hills have. On 9-10ths of the upland, there is neither forms nor blossoms, and we will get nearly all the bolls the first time going over. We- oust make some thing from the second growth to give us 775 bales, and, un less we have rain soon, we will have no second growth to do any good. Our prospect is truly gloomy, but not much, if any, more than our neighbours. In 1839 we had, at this time, an abundance of forms arid blossoms. Now, you may ride over 100 acres without seeing a single form or blossom." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. (From Me Oxford Herald.) On Saturday, Mr. Sidney G. Selwyn was admitted an ac tual fellow of New College. The Rev. Edward J. Wilcocks, 8.A., late of Lincoln Col lege, chaplain of the Scilly islands, has been appointed head master of the free grammar school, Berkhampstead, one of the best endowed schools in England. The Rev. Simeon James Etty, M.A., late of New Coll., has been instituted to the vicarage of Wanborough, Wilts, void by the cession of the Rev. W. Vaux ; patrons, the dean and chapter of Winchester. His grace the Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev. E. Churton, M.A., of Christ Church, and Rector of Crayke, Durham, to a canonry in York Cathedral. Rev T. Pitman, vicar of Eastbourne, to the prebend of Wisborough, in Chichester Cathedral, Dr. Vignolles, the dean of the Chapel Royal, has been ap pointed first chaplain to the lord lieutenant of Ireland. J. P. Beard, 8.A., scholar of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to be second master of the grammar school, Ded ham. Rev. R. Stainforth, M.A., late of Queen's College, Cam bridge, to the vicarage of Pontefract, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. H. Marshall; patron, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Rev. Charles Frederick Bryan Wood, M.A., to the vicar age of Barnwood, near Gloucester, void by the death of the Rev. A. B. Evans ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester. Rev. William Pollock, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of St. Helen's, Lancashire, void by the cession of the Rev. James Furnival; patrons, the Trustees. Rev. John Sandford, vicar of Dunchurch, and chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to a canonry in Worcester Cathedral. _ _ . Rev. S. Satchwill, curate of Godalming, to the rectory of Covenham St. Mary, Lincoln, vacant by the death of the Hey. I'. Meyrick ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. Rev. C. J. Vaughan, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of St. Martin's, Leicester. Rev. John Finley, M.A., vicar of Studley, to be domestic chaplain to the Earl of Gainsborough. Rev. Charles Tookey, M.A., to the vicarage of Upton Snodsbury, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Green. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENGE. —On Thursday evening, about six o'clock, while a young girl, about seven years of age, the - daughter of a respectable family in Bristo-street, Edinburgh, was amusing herself, along with an elder sister, in drying baby clothes on the outside, she overbalanced ht r self, and MI to the g r o un d f rom a hei g ht o f th r e e s tori e s. The girl's head un f ortunately came against a stone wh i ch was lying in the back green, and she was killed on the spot. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH STREET. MR. J. H. ANDERSON, THE GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH'S intellectual and scientific Performances are Nightly honoured by Crowded Audiences, the elite of this town. His mighty wonders are the theme of discussion in the fashionable circles of Liverpool. He is proclaimed, by all who have witnessed his extraordinary performances, to be the Mysteriachist—the Great Delusionist of the Nineteenth Century. "He is en dowed with more than mortal power" (Middleton), and truly does he prove that he has the power to illustrate S hakspeare in every sense of the immortal bard's conception—" are mine eves made the fools of the other senses ?" With his Scientific Apparatus, Impenetrable Arcana, Incalculable Combinations, Inconceivable Delusions, with his extraordinary power of Ambidexterous Prestidigitation, " You'd think (so far his art transcends) The dei'l was in his fingers ends." The Great Wizard will continue every evening "To wave his mystic wand around, - And critics think it is enchanted ground." " The Wizard much has done—much more remains to do ; He has astonished London, and will this town too." He will nightly continue to display his wonders, and demon strate that " there are more strange things in Heaven and Earth than are dream't of in your philosophy." Remember the Wizard's present stay in Liverpool can be but of short duration, as the Theatre will open almost immediately for its theatrical season. One word more to those who seek amusement. If you visit the Great Wizard of the North's Temple of Magic you will find that it has overwhelming advantages over all public exhibitions :—First, cheapness ; second, its truly scientific na ture; third, you are not kept till after midnight; last, its total divestment of immorality. The celebrated and the ONLY Lancashire Bell Ringers, who caused the great sensation (with the Wizard) at the Adelphi Theatre-Royal, London, and Vauxhall Gardens, will appear each Evening. In justice to the Lancashire Bell Ringers, who are natives of this County, he wishes the Public to understand that they are The Original and only Bell Ringers who havp ever appeared in London, and whose talent has been appreciated and ap plauded by the Landon Press. M. Saqui, the celebrated Pianist, from the Nobility's Concerts, with Mr. Thomp son's celebrated Quadrille Band, will during the Evening perform a variety of the most fashionable Overtures, Qua drilles, Waltzes, &c. Doors open at Half-past Seven. The Wizard enters his Mystic Circle at Eight o'clock precisely, concluding at Half past Ten or Eleven o'clock. Carriages in attendance at Half-past Ten precisely. Prices of admission :—Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d ; Gal lerv, 6d. Children (not above Ten years of age), Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. Second price (after the conclusion of the first part), Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, Is. No second price to the Gallery. From the present crowded state of the Theatre, Mr. J, H. A. begs those parties who wish to secure places in the Dress Circle to apply at the Box-office between the hours of Eleven and Four o'clock. Programme of the Wizard's performances, with the opinions of the London press, humourously illustrated, price 2d., may be had at the door. The Public Of Manchester are most respectfully informed that the Wizard will shortly make his mystic appearance in that Town. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We again repeat that the STANDARD is regularly forwarded to the Operative Conservative News Room, Preston ; no blame for its want of delivery can be attributable to our office. If those parties who are so anxious to read the STANDARD as to pilfer it, will only openly inform us of their wishes, we shall be happy to forward a copy of it re gularly, rather than receive such numerous complaints from our subscribers. Elie Etbrrpool cttanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 184 Lord Clifford has stirred up an inquiry the prosecu tion of which may lead to some good. What his lord ship's precise object in provoking the investigation may have been, it is difficult lo make out ; we allude to the questions which he put on Thursday to the President of the Board of Control relative to the treatment which certain Jesuits sent out from this country to India, re ceived from the authorities of the country upon the occasion of a dispute between them and the Portuguese priesthood at Goa. His lordship seems to have es poused the cause of our native emissary Jesuits, and complains of their having been maltreated by the func tionaries of India, one of whom he accuses of having used the torture to his clients ; he disclaimed any in tention of endeavouring - to embarrass the government by calling attention to the transaction.—ln reply to this attack upon the Indian authorities, Lord Ellenborough demanded the particulars as to the charge of torture, which he peremptorily denied having ever taken place; but Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, the great organ of the English Romanists, and a Roman Catholic himself, on being pressed upon this point, faltered extremely, acknowledged that he did not believe the charge him self, and that he only mentioned it as a rumour. Hav ing got rid of so much of the Papist lord's attack, and reprimanded him as he deserved for bringing forward such an accusation against one of the judges of the Supreme Court of India without having the smallest means to support it, Lord Ellenborough next observed that as to the Government here, " nothing which the noble lord had said—nothing that he was likely to say — could embarrass it ; but if by the course he took he should create exasperation more than already existed amongst the religious bodies in Madras, he would, with out doubt, increase the difficulties of the Government there, while he would fail in doing good service to those to whom he was desirous of rendering assistance." From this it may be collected that the emissary Je suits at Madras have been already the source of some trouble to the Government of that Presidency. But there is nothing surprising in this. Where have the Jesuits ever found their way that they have not caused trouble ? The party to whom we impute the blame, however, is the Government which permitted these Je suits to make a lodgment in India under their very nose ; nay, that actually encouraged them to do so. Lord Clifford alluded to the origin of the mission, which was exactly similar to that which brought one out to Gibraltar, and produced like results more re cently in that quarter—namely, a got-up requisition for Irish Roman Catholic priests, under the pretext that there were Irish regiments frequently stationed in In dia requiring the spiritual aid of their countrymen. The Melbourne O'Connell Ministry, of course, gladly availed themselves of the opportunity to gratify the requisitionists, and the Irish priesthood at the same time, and a certain Dr. O'Connor was sent out from Ireland with ten or twelve Jesuits in his train, bearing the title of Vicar Apostolic, and recognised under that title by the British Government. The emissary doctor and his tail were not long in the country till they got into disputes de temporalibus with their Portuguese brethren who were in actual possession, and what Lord Clifford now in fact complains of is, that the English Government did not take the part of the missionaries. " Was it expedient," he says, "after havng autho- rised a British Roman Catholic subject to proceed as the Superior of the British Roman Cath.lic Mission Hindostan—after that individual had been recog - nised by the British Government—after he iad declared that such and such persons did not belorg to the Ro- man Catholic community"—to do so aid so. You should have " hacked your men," says his lordship, throughout, as you went so far; but it strikes us that he is rather late with his complaint. H 3 should have .old his story to the late ministry, who sent the Popish vicar and his Jesuits out; he cannot sy that Sir Ro bert Peel did. The Whigs favoured the emigration of these Jesuits, and had them welcorred and loCated abroad, for the purpose, one would thick, of giving the benefit of a little Irish agitation and Priestly meddling to our Indian territories, as well as to most other parts of our possessions. Our government acknowledged the spiritual authority of the vicar; but the vicar had no idea of resting satisfied with any such airy append age; a barren sceptre of that sort was not what he had travelled so many miles to obtain. '"l'he vicar," says Lord Ellenborough, " having this conceded to him, proceeded to lay claim to the tekiporalities of the church; and hence arose all the disputes. The British Government in India vas not sufficiently 0' Connellised to support the Irish missionaries in their palpably unjust and presumptuous demands, and they were baffled and disappointed in moot of their iniquit ous schemes. For two centuries, says a London con- temporary, " the priests of Goa had served the soldiers of the Romish faith in India. They properly and most naturally resented the interference of the British mis sionaries, and the British Government most wisely supported them in their resistance. In this it acted justly only, and not in a persecuting spirit." The same journal (Herald of Friday) thus moralises the matter : " A useful lesson may be drawn from this display of Lord Clifford. The affair affords another poof of the determina tion of the Papish priesthood of Ireland to spread their mis chievous politico-religious creed throughout every depend ency of the British crown—no matter at what cost. Like a noxious vapour the Rotnish faith is covering the entire colo nial empire of Britain ; in Canada its fatal effects have long been felt ; in New South Wales it is creating discord and strife (as an extract from a Sydney journal in another column will testify) ; and now we have it advancing into the most hazardous yet most glorious of all our dependencies." We have nothing to add to the moral so concisely yet so well summed up by our talented contemporary. It was an incident of the evening that the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, of Dublin, presented a petition by the hands of Lord Brougham, complaining of the exist ence of the order of Jesuits in Ireland, and praying for their expulsion; that Lord Clifford denied they existed there, and took some trouble to show, from evi dence given by Mr. O'Connell and other Roman Ca tholics before a committee of the House of Lords in 1825, that " there was no such thing as a body of Je suits there as an ecclesiastical body," which was about as true as many other things they there and then swore; and that Lord Ellenborough undertook to lay on the table of the house several papers of high authority, which would show, amongst other things, " that the priests to whom allusion had been made were, notwith standing what the noble lord had said, distinctly de scribed as Jesuits." We would leave these several matters to be duly weighed by our readers; but, apropos des bottes, as we are on the subject of Roman Catholic priests, we can not take our leave without expressing our regret that the Roman Catholic College of elaynooth has again obtained its usual annual grant ; and, we will add, our surprise, as well as regret, to find a London contem porary and namesake, on whose staunch advocacy of Protestantism under all circumstances we have firmly relied, declining from that high ground which we had always understood him to have taken on this question. Sir R. Peel, it is true, supports the grant. He has voted for it, he says, for the last thirty years, without feeling any violation of religious scruples, and would do so on this occasion; but does this circumstance afford any sufficient reason why a Conservative journal which had opposed it totis viribus should turn round, and exhort us to petition modestly and meekly indeed for inquiry, but by no means to attempt anything so ultra, or so rash, as the withdrawal of parliamentary support altogether from the institution ? Now this is what we call a very false move, and one not at all likely to serve the Right Hon. Premier. If it was wrong to support such a seminary of error before Sir Robert Peel came into power, it must be wrong to do so after; if it was wrong in principle, no change of times or circumstances can render it expedient; but if it would be more expedient at any one season than another, that at which it would seem to us to be most so, is, when a Conservative party is in power. Our London contemporary looks as if he had a mind to " Jim Crow" it ; he begins to think the Devil is not so black as he is painted ; that Popery has the " grand elements of truth, though a little shrouded by vain traditions ;" and that there was no vital and original error in endowing a Popish seminary. Well, we have heard all this a thousand times ; but we had no idea before that it was doctrine in which our esteemed namesake by any means coincided, and we have been pretty long and rather constant readers of his various able commentaries on men and things. For our part, we have simply to say that we entirely protest against any such philosophy called Liberalism, Puseyism, or what you will. When a Committee of the House of Commons cam• to the resolution of recommending Dartmouth as the most eligible station for the West India packets, it struck us, as no doubt it struck others of far superior discernment, that that committee had not made suffi ciently diligent inquiry into the important matter sub mitted to their consideration. The House ultimately declared itself dissatisfied with their recommendation, and referred the question to another committee. At this time little had been said about Liverpool, or less at all events than one, having any acquaintance with the numerous recommendations and vast advantages pos sessed by this port, might fairly have expected. We were favoured opportunely with some able letters, in which attention was forcibly drawn to these particulars, and being strongly impressed with the truth and value of the observations which they contained ; we took leave to urge it upon the Town-council as a duty which it would be unpardonable of them any longer to neglect, and which we regretted to say they had neglected too much and too long—to put forward the claims of Liverpool in a strenuous and efficient way, before the Commons' Committee. The -Council, we do them the justice to say, took our advice, or at least made a demonstration, as if they thought it not alto gether unworthy of their attention ; we are not pre pared to say that they have followed the matter up with all the energy and diligence they might have done ; nor on the other hand do we mean absolutely to arraign them for remissness and insufficiency on this score : we are not in possession of all the information that we could wish for in order to form a correct judgment. This, however, we will say, that had the Council taken up the matter at an earlier period, had they then collected all the evidence which they might have done, and had that evidence been duly laid before parliament, the " contest of the ports" would, pro bably at this time be at an end—the " birth-place of honour" would be determined, and Liverpool, as we humbly think, would be in quiet possession of the prize. The evidence given by Mr. Aikin, and Mr. Lord, goes a great way to establish our case—and the more the facts to which they bear witness, are considered, the more complete and irresistible will it be found to be. As a Post-office station—as a central point for the general dispersion of correspondence, it cannot be con tended for a moment that any other port has such ad vantages. Falmouth and Dartmouth are surely not to be named in the comparison. Liverpool may claim a superiority even to London on this account, if on every other they were equal—claim it as the great out -port of the manufacturing districts--the entrepot of the the northern commerce of the kingdom—and as a com mon centre of communication to the capital cities of Scotland and Ireland. As the place of etnbareatiork or debarcation for passengers, its advantages are coin cident. In this respect, Falmouth and Dartmouth are positively most inconvenient, and need nut be spoken of, except for the purpose of condemnation. In every other particular, Liverpool offers the most unquestion able and manifest superiority. In the erecting of steam marine machinery, she has an established reputation ; her docks are celebrated all over the world. She offers a cheap market for coal, and unrivalled - markets for the supply of marine stores of every description ; but, we should have to report .details familiar to our readers, did we dwell on the subject. The fact is, that as a Post-office or a Packet Station, Liverpool possesses every conceivable advantage—so much so that the only question really remaining is, whether the computed distance from Falmouth to a port in the West Indies, being somewhat less than from Liverpool, this solitary circumstance ought to, or should outweigh all others ? We submit that the bare possibility of a vessel arriving at an inconvenient port (inconvenient in all other re spects) a few hours sooner than at a most convenient and central one, ought not to produce this result. If the interest of the many and the most interested, he fairly taken into account, we conceive that Liverpool is every way entitled to a preference as the station of the intended packets. We claim it not as a favour merely to the port, but as a measure of equal justice to the commerce and interests of the entire kingdom. It is true we regard it as an adjudication which would be creditable and advantageous to the town—but we rest our claims simply and soberly upon our deserts. If it be given to us, we think we have fairly earned it. The immense capital which Liverpool has invested in docks, canals, and rail-ways—in river-navigation, and harbour improvements ; the enterprize of her merchants, the skill of her engineers, her ship-builders, and her artisans—the industry of her population in every variety of useful form ; these are the circumstances which make us feel that we have fully paid the price of the reward, and which will prevent us feeling elated by it to any excess, although we shall certainly rejoice at the event. We have no wish to prolong the controversy—which we did not commence—with our local contemporary the Journal, especially as he distinctly admits nearly all that we had ever ventured to maintain. He grants that the observations which we quoted regarding the police and morals of the town, in certain respects, were no over-statements, but rather the reverse : he allows that there is a lamentable extent of coarse profligacy, and unredeemed vice of the lowest kind palpably to be seen and notorious to the authorities : he has aban doned his own allegation that things were werse under the " old regime ;" and he leaves his unfortunate clients of the "new" to sink or swim, as best they may, under the general observation that in some coun tries the governMents find it convenient to " connive" at licentiousness. The gentlemen of the new regime, we suspect, will not thank him much for the sort of aegis he has thrown over them, and will be apt to say, "save us from our friends." Our contemporary talks of our misrepresenting him, and proceeds, in his last number, very exactly to show that we did not in the least misrepresent him. The spirit of his reasoning is, that it is judicious on the part of the magistrate sometimes to he a little blind, and he leaves it to be inferred, that what we complain of as supineness or neglect, is only a proof of singular wisdom and pru dence : he argues, in a word, in favour of a modified connivance ; and it is of course by such a process of argumentation that we conclude he means to justify the Cato's of the Watch Committee or our local government at large. Now, we regard such a defence as, in itself, indefensible. We condemn all " con nivance," and hold all bargains, of whatever kind, made with iniquity, to be in themselves iniquitous. This is the French system ; it is practised in Paris on a large scale at the present moment. There the magistrate abundantly " connives ;" for houses of infamous resort are publicly licensed. Our contempo rary will not say that there is any " officious inter ference with private morals" in that city. Well, is public morality improved by that indulgent and con niving system ? Let the following sketch, made by a few strokes of the pencil, but done by a master hand, answer the question : " In Paris, eight hundred thousand human beings know religion only by name, or as P. picturesque rem nant of the olden time, singularly effective in stage effect. The theatres every night teem with licentious ness and obscenity. The illegitimate births are rapidly approaching to the legitimate,* and two or three dead bodies are every morning fished out of the Seine, the victims of disordered passion and unrestrained licen- tiousness." Such is Puris—where the magistrate connives ; and . if such be the fruits of the system, all we say is, defend our good town from it ! Our contemporary refers us to the times of the Puritans; the laws against licentiousness, he says, were then rigidly enforced, hut "it is very questionable that they made the people more virtuous; they pro duced hypocrisy—made-the name of religion odious — and, in short, only worked out the demonstration that interference with private morals is injudicious." Now, if our Watch Committee or the Council act upon the principles thus set forth by their advocate in the Liverpool Journal, we do not wonder that he has run away from his position that " things were worse under the old regime ;" it would be strange indeed if they were. Suppress vice by connivance ! Why; the thing is monstrous. We really cannot understand such Machiavelism—such Jesuit morals. We did not imagine that any thing so paradoxical had obtained within the Council : lint if such really be the case, and from the line of defence taken by their advocate, we are justified in concluding that such is the case — then we appeal to all the respectable inhabitants of the town, and especially to the municipal electors, that it is high time to turn out all such Machiavelian Councillors. Out with them, we say; there will be neither luck nor grace about us till we get them out. But the Journal asks what reason we have for ex pecting results more favourable from a conservative council—being, himself, quite at a loss to conjecture. We answer, because in the first place we shall have men in who repudiate this connivance system as utterly as we do. What could we do with a party holding such a doctrine ? How should we appeal to them ? Did we point out some atrocious case, or grevious nuisance, they would turn round upon us perhaps, and say they must not interfere with " private morals," that such " meddling" was injudicious, and- that we were mere " Prynnes and Puritans" to whom no liberal man would pay the smallest attention. Having to deal with such parties, we must despair of all improvement; we must inevitably go on from bad to worse ; there is no common standard of principle between us to which TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES. we can appeal. With a Conservative Council, the case will be different; the subject will be anxiously considered ; religious instruction, the want of which lies at the root of the evil, will be cared for; the great evil of multi tudinous beer and girl shops will be at least mitigated— and from men avowing, and we trust sincerely main taining church principles, we shall look for all such conduct as may serve to improve this great town in this and every other respect, in which improvement is wanting. Of a liberal council, we can make nothing ; it is neither fish, nor flesh; their very best advocates can say nothing for them—but what, in our humble opinion, should doubly damn them. We wish to see Liverpool great in all respects—as distinguished for the excellence of its police and public as well as private decorum, as it is for its docks, its industry, its vast wealth, and commerce; and for this purpose we repeat that a Conservative local government, acting with some boldness in Conservative principles, is essentially necessary. * They are now as 12 to 19 in Paris. In London, as 1 to 3S. SlR,—Having read some excellent observations in this day's Times on the subject of the tinance and paper cur rency bankinc , system, &c., and your quotation from Lord Stanley's able picture of the working of a paper currency during the last seven years, in his late speech at Lancaster, I beg leave to inform you, that as I have thought and read much on the subject, and being anxious to support the pre sent conservative ministers as far as any man not an M.P. can do, as well as from the anxiety I always feel for the pros perity of our still great country, I lately submitted to Sir R. Peel a mode by which I am convinced he could raise 30,000,000 or more without loan, or having one shilling of interest to pay. This may startle you; and when I tell you that my pro fession is military, you may possibly laugh at me, and say, "Ne sutor ultra crepidam." To expect that, at such a mo ment, Sir Robert could possibly give the plan the required consideration, would be unreasonable ; and, though not un der any promise of secrecy, I think myself bound " not to divulge the details of my plan" at present; and should he hereafter adopt it, or any part, all I ask is the credit of the suggestion ; but should he reject it, which may be probable, then 1 shall think myself at liberty to lay it before the public. But I think I cannot be blamed for thus publicly stating, that on reading these words in your observations, viz.,—" It is unquestionably a growing feeling that the Queen's govern ment ought to keep the sole power of coining money, whe ther in gold .or in paper, in its own hands, subject to the constant inspection of parliament," I cannot, I repeat it, be blamed for telling you that on those very words my plan is based, I have the honour to be your most obedient servant, G. COCKBURN, Geperal. Senior United Service Club, Sept. 24. LOCAL NEWS. The opening of St. Silas Church is postponed until Friday next, when, as will be seen from an advertisement, the arrangements are otherwise as stated in our last. Great George -street Chapel, ( Dr. Raffies's,) will be opened For divine service on Thursday, 21st October next, by the Rev. Mr. Parsons, - of York, and the Rev. Dr. Fletcher, of London. STEALING TooLs.—William Hughes was, on Saturday, committed for trial for having stolen a basket of tools from the work-yard of Mr. Cowley, joiner and builder, Great Charlottee-street. The prisoner was apprehended in the yard by Mr. Cowley. SMALLWOOD'S MAGAZINE, for September. Smallwood, London.—This magazine stands its ground. It contains many clever articles. It has, however, come so late in the month that we think an ample notice of it hardly worth receiving. THEATRE-ROYAL, MANCHESTER.—Sheridan Knowles play of " The Bridals of Messina" was performed for the first time here on Saturday. The house. was overflowing. The play was received with vehement applause throughout. Miss Tree, who played Isoline, Mr. Anderson Fernando, Mr. Stuart John of Procida, were each called for at the fall of the curtain, and were enthusiastically cheered by the audience, ASSAULT BY A PARISH-OFFlCElt.—Edward Felton, one of the parish officers, was accused, before Mr. Rushton, on Friday last, of having pushed a poor sickly-looking female with so much violence, from the parish office that she fell and sustained much' injury. The case was proved, and the de fendant, but for' his excellent character, would have been severely punished. He was reprimanded. FATAL ACCIDENT AT ST. HELEN'S.—On Tuesday last a young lad, named Enoch Bromilow, in the employ of the Pocket Nook Plate Glass Company, was killed by the ma chinery in the polishing room, where he was accustomed to work. He was engaged in cleaning the axles of some cog wheels, when his hand became entangled in them, and by their active revolution his body was drawn in amongst the machinery, and such injuries inflicted that he died shortly after he was extracted from his calamitous situation. An inquest was held the next day, at the Elephant and Castle, Sutton, before J. Heyes, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of " accidental death" was returned, with a deodand of ss. on the machinery. TAE ALPACA.—Captain Bottomley, of the Highlander, arrived last week from Valparaiso, is the first to claim the premium for bringing these live animals from Peru : he has nine of them now on board his vessel, in the Prince's Dock, in excellent health. Through his care and scientific skill he he has only lost one. He shows the lucurn, or coarse grass, that he has fed them on during the voyage, a specimen of which has been deposited at the Shipmasters' Association. Numbers have died by other ships, and we believe it isby his great care, and even washing the mouths of the animals be fore eating and drinking, that Captain Bottomley has suc ceeded in bringing so many at one time. No doubt many parties interested in natural history will inspect them before removal to their destination. THE TORY JOLRNALS.—We have for some time been looking with rather a curious eye to see which of the tory journals of Liverpool it is that is in the confidence of the heads of its party. A change in the distribution of political power we knew would bring a change in the distribution of ministerial patronage, particularly in the very obvious and significant one of advertisements. The board of stamps and taxes, and the ordnance board, are patrons of the newspa pers, and the way the annual advertisement of the game list is disposed of shows pretty unequivocally which way the wind blows. The custom for many years of tory rule was to give the game list to one paper in each county, which was, de ft:eto, considered the party organ ; but some few years ago the whigs. embarrassed by the novitas regni, and the multitude of conflicting claims, extended it so as to favour two or three papers in each considerable county. but, out of London, not more than one in each town. We have now the satisfaction to announce that the Standard is the official organ of the tory party in Liverpool, and we congratulate our contemporary on the signal honour of the position. On Tuesday it was favoured with this distinctive and valuable advertisement. —Journal. CHARGE Ol' THEFT FROM THE MILITARY HOSPITAL. — At the Police-court, on Friday, a female, with a child in her arms, was placed at the bar on suspicion of having stolen from the Military Hospital, a number of blankets and sheets, the property of the government. Several pawnbrokers pro duced blankets, &c., which they stated had been pledged by a female, but none of them could swear that the prisoner was the person. The articles were nearly all marked with a crown and the letters G.R., and Mr. Rushton remarked that it was exceedingly careless in them to receive them with out examining them, for had they done so they would have seen the marks. It appeared, that a soldier of the Rifle corps now in town, and who had ascertained that the articles were missing, had gone round amongst the pawnbrokers, and had identified the blankets, &c., he had also told one of them. Mr. Smith, Richmond-terrace, that lie would get him into trouble for receiving them, and Mr. S. being alarmed gave him up the articles, and paid him a sovereign in addition, to avert any future consequences, which he received. Mr. Bond, pawnbroker, had been called upon by a sergeant and some other parties from the hospital, and who identified the blankets he produced as stolen from that establishment ; and after this the prisoner, in whose name they were pledged, called upon him, and said her pocket had been picked of the tickets, and she wanted to stop them.—The soldier, who had received the sovereign from the pewnbroker, was ordered to he taken into custody, and the examinations to be taken, to be transmitted to the War Office, who will decide upon what steps are to be taken against the prisoners. PRESCOT UNION.—The guardians for this union, com prising the townships for several miles round, have, at a recent meeting, declared to adopt the recommendation of an assistant poor-law commissioner, for the erection of a new central workhouse, upon the scale laid down by government, and sites of land are now being advertiScd for to suit that purpose. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt in many dis tricts of the union at this untoward promptitude upon the part of the guardians to increase the burdens of the rate payers, while there is sufficient accommodation for the pau pers of the union in the present poor-houses. The liabilLies of the rate-payers even now, all through the union, are felt to be oppressive enough in these days of adversity, but par ticularly at Prescot, where the overseers are enolphed in debt, and have the prospect of additional incumbrance from the further impolitic expenditure which is now impending. The feeling of the people of St. Helen's is very strong upon -the subject, and as there is yet another meeting of the guar dians antecedent to a final decision upon this subject, some steps will, we believe, be taken by the rate-payers, on the St. Helen's side, to intercept a measure which will be so precarious in its consequences. THE MERCURY AND THE REPEAL OF TILE PENNY POSTAGE ACT.—The condition of our whig contemporaries is sufficiently annoying. The ministry of Sir Robert Peel per sists in refusing to stultify itself by hasty legislation, and is disinclined even to announce its future measures in such a tangible , form as will enable its opponents to gnaw them. The prospect of an utter dearth of subjects upon which to exhaust their ink bottles during the approaching winter, overhangs the whole tribe of revolutionary scribblers ; and imagination will, in consequence, have to be largely called in aid to erect political windmills for whig Quixotry to tilt at. Our ingenious friend of the Mercury has already commenced, practice upon these erections, and is about to eclipse alto gether the fame of his prototype—the veritable Don. The " airy nothings" to which he has just given " a local habita tion", and the form which fired the chivalrous soul of La Mancha's knight, is a repeal of the penny postage —a " chi mera dire" enough to rouse the impatient valour of every whig scribbler from the Land's End to John O'Groat's, and the paternity of which he attributes to Sir Robert Peel's mi nistry. " Repeal the penny postage act ! Enormous, in tolerable, dreadful"—ejaculates our contemporary, and vaults forthwith upon the back of his Rosinante, resolved to do battle a routrance in the face of an admiring 'people. " Re peal that admirable enactment in whose laudation I—the Mercury—have twaddled through so many columns of weary small print, and in whose very being I may fairly say that I am intimately interwoven ! Shocking, infamous, blasphe mous! Dare only to touch one feature of the precious bantling, and I—the Mercury—and the women of Great Britain will smother Sir Robert Peel and the whole brood of the tories beneath the weight of our petitions !" Really and seriously, we cannot allow our contemporary to put himself, or herself, and " the women" of Great Britain into all this bellicose and alarming pucker, which might produce indi gestion, hysterics, and a host of other evils, which the female " flesh is heir to," but which we have not space to enumerate. Sir Robert Peel will not repeal the penny postage act ; and the Mercury may therefore doff his armour and " go sleep," and his fellow agitators, the ladies, resume their household tasks ; for neither mercurial correspondence nor " billets doux" are in the slightest jeopardy. The latter, especially, we are satisfied that no conservative would be so ungallant or so void of taste as to discharge; and we should not wonder if, on the contrary, the laudable ingenuity displayed by fair correspondents in general, to confine the weight of their communications, by crossing and re-crossing the endearing lines which they address to the male sex or to each other, should be rewarded at the hands of a conservative ministry by a halfpenny postage act, to embrace peculiarly three cornered notes, written with ruby pens upon tinted paper, or by a regulation to enable any quantity of postcripts which may occur to the minds of the fair writers within a week after the dispatch of the original letter, to be forwarded without additional charge. WHIG DEMAND FOR POST-HASTE LEGISLATION.—Ano ther debate on the corn laws ! Another rechauffe of the " Thousand and one Tales " of the Cobdens, Smiths, and Aclands ! Verily, we should imagine that even whiggery must shortly be tired of the " iteration " of this sole topic upon which it has left itself the opportunity of being elo quent ; and that we, who are unfortunately condemned to record its sayings and doings, may shortly be enabled to ex claim with the poet— " T o-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new ". After the years of agreeable holiday navigation from quarter day to quarter day—ten years in which the vessel of state has been steered pleasantly before the gale,—piping regularly to meals, whether it blew high or low, whether in mid channel or amongst breakers,—the portion of the crew have on a sud den become struck with an inordinate desire to work double tides, to set a double watch, to wash and scrub decks, to caulk and to paint. After ten years, during which the dis cussion of corn laws, tariffs, currency and all similar fatigu ing topics have been sedulously avoided—postponed from session to session—taken up as the mere pretext for a perio dical demonstration and quietly shelved again—we are now told that we must rush " in hot haste " to their settlement— that we must take up at once and determine all that whig indolence or incapacity, or worse, has kept hitherto in abey ance :—that a short parliament must not be prorogued, even in the month of September, until it has not only settled the corn laws, hilt provided a legislative remedy for the distresses and evils which have accumulated during the ten years of whig misrule ! Such is the modest demand with which, night after night, the Cobdens and other similar illuminati are exercising their most " sweet voices" in the House of Commons—" Provide us, before you prorogue parliament, with a measure to relieve manufacturing distress "—is the cry of the whig mocking birds, one and all. "Do 'n't tell us of the cause of our distress, but give us the remedy "—is the sensible requirement of these sensible legislators. " Sit till October, November, or December, but do not prorogue until you have devised some means of keeping us upon our feet,—or upon our stilts, it may be,—until spring." Now, in our poor judgments there are just two reasons why this modest demand should not be acceded to. In the first place we doubt strongly the propriety of prescribing a remedy with out first ascertaining the seat of the disease and its inducing cause ; and these we take to be at present disputed points ; and in the second we doubt, as strongly, the power of parlia ment to prescribe any legislative remedy at all! We are not by any means disposed to underrate the "collective wisdom" of parliament, especially as reinforced of late by the introduc tion of such shining lights as the Cobdens, Bowrings, and Roebucks ; but for all that, we think that these gentlemen assume for it a power which we in common with the majority of mankind have never given it credit for. Shew us by what magic influence a discussion upon the corn laws or any other laws can at once arrest the progress of distress,—can still agitation, and promote in the minds of the suffering classes a patient endurance until the remedy prescribed can operate, and we shall be quite prepared to maintain, not only that it ought not to be adjourned now, but that it ought never to be adjourned at all —not only that it ought to sit and legislate and debate the year round without intermission, but that relays of legislators and debaters should be provided to en able it to work night and day ! We are afraid that perils .ment possesses nosuch magic power, and that working double time is just as prejudicial in legislation as it has been found to be in cotton spinning. In ordinary life we do no find that hasty judgments are invariably wise ones ; and whig expe• rience in law making, would lead to the coucluSiOn that hasty measures are not always wise and good measures. MRS. TELLET.—We find by the Elinburgli papers that this little favourite is playing Burnaby Budge at the Adelphi, and winning " golden opinions." Her mode of doing it is highly spoken of by the critics of Modern Athens. - - - PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—It will be seen by the ad vertisement in this day's Standard, that this new mode of handing a copy of the " human face divine " to posterity is now in operation. We hope, before our next publication, to be able to give some account of this curious and interest ingyroeess. Many of the first gentlemen in town visited the building yesterday. REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT. —Yesterday, the court for the revision of the parliamentary lists was again opened. In the first instance all the names of parties who had not before attended were called over, and those who did not appear by themselves or agents were struck off the list. There was scarcely a dozen persons in the court at a time during the day, and the proceedings were wholly without interest to the public. DEATH BY BURNING.—An inquest was held yesterday, before Mr. Statham, deputy coroner, on view of the body of Ellen Jones, a child of 8 years old, daughter of Edward Jones, sawyer, London-road. The deceased bad, it ap peared, been left in a room, on Saturday afternoon, for about a minute, and while sitting at the fire, a cinder fell out and ignited her clothes. Assistance was immediately procured, but she was so much burnt about the face, r.eck, and arms, that she died on the following day.—Verdict. Death." ":Accidental FORTUNATE ESCAPE.--Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, as Mr. Dixon, surgeon, of Birkenhead, accompanied by a friend, was driving his gig from the house of Mr.-Sharpe, of Holt-hill, where he had been to visit a patient, the horse suddenly-sprung round, and with such velocity as to throw out Mr. Dixon and his friend ; the horse then started off at a most fearful rate down Holt-hill and Hinderton-lane, and, strange to say, although the road was filled with crowds of children at the time, not a single accident occurred. The horse was stopped by the shutting of the turnpike-gate, with out injury to itself or the gig. Mr. - Dixon escaped without a bruise, and his friend, Mr. Holt, with only a slight scratch on the face. DEATH FROM DRlNKlNG.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before Mr. Statham, deputy coroner, on view of the body of James Wells. The deceased, who was 50 years old, had a stand in St. James!s Market, and used to attend St. John's Market also. On Saturday he complained of a bowel complaint, and went home and lay on a sofa for some time. He afterwards went to the market, but returned and went to bed, complaining of being very ill. He was found dead in bed on the same night. It appeared that he had latterly been in the habit of drinking freely. Mr. Atcherley, surgeon, ex amined the body, and found violent inflammation of the stomach combined with ulceration. The vessels of the brain were also much congested, and the heart much enlarged — sufficient to account for sudden death. lie was of opinion that excessive drinking had hastened death.. The jury re turned a verdict to the effect, that deceased died from inflam mation of the stomach, caused by excessive drinking. NATIONAL DISTRESS—RADICAL HYPOCRISY. —We have elsewhere exposed the hypocrisy of the Whig demand for post-haste legislation. We perceive from placards posted at the radical newspaper offices, that a requisition is now in couse of signature, calling upon the mayor to convene a pub lic meeting in this town, to take into consideration the lamentable destitution at present existing through the country. Has this distress arisen since the wlug radical government were driven from office ? assuredly not. The evils under which we now suffer have been accumulating during the last ten years whilst the radicals were in power, and instead of attempting any amelioration of our condi tion, they have only by their bungling increased our dis tresses. What new light then has broken in upon their minds to cause such a theatrical display of sympathy with the poor—simply a desire (though a vain one), to cause some slight embarrassment to the government of Sir R. Peel. But all will not do—their hypocrisy is transparent—their humbug visible. Their present scheme will, we promise them, prove even more disastrous than their recent clamour for free trade. The whips at present seem beside themselves, or they would not make use of such effectual weapons for self-destruction. DEATH IN THE POLICE VAN.—An inquest was held yes terday, before H. 11. Statham, Esq., deputy coroner, on view of the body of William Margeson, who died in the po lice van, while being conveyed from the Hotham-street sta tion to the main bridewell, on Saturday morning last. It ap peared from the evidence that the deceased had on Friday evening called on Mr. Sampson, publican, Murray-street, who had known him for some years, but had not seen him much for the last ten months. He was supported into the house from St. John's market, and said he was poorly. He had been complaining of illness for twelve months, and latterly of rheumatic pains in his knees. He sat down in a small room, and remained for some time, and afterwards went of his own accord into the kitchen. Mr. Sampson was in the habit of giving him his tea and dinner without charge, when he happened to call at the time of those meals, as he consi dered aim a poor man. About seven o'clock he expressed a wish to go to his lodgings, but could not tell where they were, though he said he could show any one who went with him. He was sober, but rambled in his speech, and it was thought best to call in a police officer, who being also unable to learn where he lodged, assisted him to Hotham-street bridewell, and there booked him for safety. He was placed in a cell where there was a fire, with five other prisoners, and was spoken to in the night. He said he suffered from rheumatic pains ; that he was forty-six years of age ; had come from Blackburn, and having no residence in the town, wished to remain there. Early in the morning he was brought up from the cell much in the same state, and was put into the van; and conveyed to the main bridewell. On the van arriving there, the other prisoners first got out, and the deceased was found to be dead ! Mr. J. H. Littler, surgeon, was immediately sent for, and was soon in attendance. H e pronounced the deceased to he quite dead. He afterwards made an examination of the body. There was very exten sive ulceration of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and other appearances, - which confirmed his opinion that the deceased had died from dysentery consequent thereon. The jury returned a verdict accordingly of " natural death." The deceased was, we learn, for many years, in the employ of a respectable brewing establishment in this town. FIRE AT BIRKENHEAD.—On the morning of Saturday , an alarming fire broke out in the Argyle Brewery of Mr. Robert Hiscocks, Birkenhead. The men, it appears, w ere very luckily on the premises preparing for brewing, when they discovered a part of th e ma lt- room to b e on fire; im mediate alarm was given to the police, and , a very short time after the only engine in the township was on the spot, and began to play with effect on the fire; fortunately there was not a breath of air, or the whole must have been destroyed; as it was, through the united efforts of the populace and the police, under the able guidance of Boughey, the active and intelligent superintendent of the night police, the destructive element was confined to the warehouse, and was finally ex tinguished, without communicating or injuring any part of the brewing utensils, consequently Mr. Hiscocks will be en abled to go on with his business with little or no inconveni ence. The probable loss will be about £7OO, for which he is insured in the Phcenix. We wish to call the attention of the commissioners to the very great want of a fire bell, and also the necessity of having more engines than one in so large and populous a neighbourhood. WEST KIRBY BENEFIT SOCIETY.—The anniversary of this most excellent club was held, as usual, on Wednesday, the 15th instant. . The members, preceded by a band of music, walked in procession, with their elegant colours flying, to West Kirby Church, where a most excellent and appropriate discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mark Coxon, the rector of Heswall. On their return they sat down to a most excel lent and substantial dinner. William Davies, Esq., Of Frankby, the president of the society for the past year, took the chair, supported on his right by the Rev. Mark Coxon, and on his left by the Rev. William Armistead, the worthy curate of West Kirby. Among the company we observed the following truly benevolent gentlemen :—Thomas Guile, Esq., Henry Brown, Esq., John Barton, Esq., Benjamin Sherwood, Esq., William hurton, Esq., Peter Lowe, Esq., Hugh Williams, Esq., John Eastwood, Esq., Thomas Parr, Esq., William Hodson, Esq., William Strong, Esq., .and, though last, not least, the venerable Mr. Richardson, of Hoylake. On the removal of the cloth, the following toasts were given The Queen." Three times three, the com pany singing the National Anthem, accompanied by the band. " Prince Albert and the remainder of the Royal Fa mily." Three times three. " The Duke of Wellington." Three times three. " The Bishop and Clergy of the Dio cese." Three times three. '"Fhe West Kirby Club, and success to its Funds." " The Rev. William Armistead, the gratuitous Secretary, and sincere thanks for his exertions in promoting its prosperity." Three times three. • At this mo ment a considerable excitement prevailed, by John Barton, Esq., being ohserved to approach the chair. with a splendid silver coffee biggin and cream ewer in his hand, which he, after a neat and appropriate speech, presented to the rev. secretary, stating that it was the gift of the members of the club and a few friends, as a small token of gratitude towards him for his gratuitous services as secretary to the club for the last five years, and for his perseverance in aid of the same, whereby they now had to boast of possessing a fund of between £6OO and £7OO. The rev. gentleman, in returning thanks, used such feeling and beautiful language as to draw tears from many ; but they were truly tears of delight, every individual appearing to consider him in the light of a parent. CONCLUSIONS DEDUCIBLE FROM THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CORN MARKET.—We beg the attention of our readers to a few facts, from which, we venture to say, more valuable and instructive conclusious may be drawn, with re spect to the probable operation of a free trade in corn, than from all the pamphlets which have been written, or the speeches which have been spoken, upon the subject for the last quarter of a century. A quantity of Foreign grain, amounting to nearly 1,500,000 quarters, has, during the past ten days, been entered for home consumption at the lowest rate of duty—ls. per quarter. In addition to this immense importation, the native grower has been enabled, by the be nificent influence of an unusually favourable reaping time, to secure, in good average condition, a more than average her vest,—we repeat it,.in despite of the croakers of Mark-lane and Brunswick-streeta more than average harvest ! What, then, we ask, has been the effect produced upon our corn markets by this conjunction of large Foreign supply and abundant home-growth f Are the prices of wheat now re turning to that point froth which speculation—based upon an alarm which has proved groundless—raised them ? is bread placed once more within the reach of the poor man and his family ? No. None of thr se results, which were confidently reckoned upon by the public, have yet been realised. The corn market has borne the weight of this large Foreign sup ply ; and, though yielding beneath it for a few days, has re covered and is again firm. It has contemplated the certainty of a large home growth, and is unmoved. Prices are not yet declining to their natural level ; but, on the contrary, the exclusive organs of Mark-lane inform us that they are ad uancing sufficiently to secure a further introduction of Fo reign grain, at the low rate of duty, in the very teeth of our abundant crops at home ! Now what is the conclusion to be drawn from this apparent anomalous state of things? How is it that the price of corn is not at this moment accommoda- ting itself to the supply ? Obviously, because the importers of Foreign corn are strong enough to hold back their commo dity from the market. We have a million and a half of quar ters of Foreign grain in the country, duty paid, and read,' for consumption ; but what then ? The speculator has it fast f re p e ri l c y e, b u y ni t e h s e s as yet, and will only dole it i o t ut up at fa a r am more famine f he is compelled to y ield pressure into the markets of British grain, when thrashed out by the farmer. True, there is little doubt that in a few weeks this will be the case, and that a considerable reduction from present prices may be expected ; but the twofold conclusion which we draw from the existing state of things is not altered. That conclusion is, in belief, that the free trade in corn is loth able and willing to become the monopolist ; and that from the prosperity of the hoof growth alone we can look for that important boon to the poor man—a cheap loaf! Weigh this conclusion, reader , again and again. Examine, yourself, the circumstances 01 1 of which it arises. Trace them, Watch them carefully a nd perseveringly : and we question riot fora moment the result at which you must arrive —(and which we will once more place conspicuously before you)—THAT THE BRITISH FARMER ALONE IS THE CHEAPENER OF THE Pool; M A N'S BREAD. It is pot necessary, however, to run away w ith the idea that no red uct i on of pr i ces would, i n the firs' instance, arise from the establishment of a free trade in corn,: Such reduction would take place, as would a reduction el wages, profits and rents; and would be permanen t until the corn lands of England were thrown out of tillage, and th e ie c ne o e m te p hte e ed t i i t l i aa o nn n dd o st f ho t e h f British s e tuhpep l from the path of the capitalist. But those objects once b y a o n f d f e o d od sp to ec t u h l e at ß or r s iti o sh f p m eo a p r l k e .i v an ut e ua l , 17_ 1 Y ! should at once exerience—co vincinl and painfrilly—the fact, which error now is discernible, n that a foreign loaf, not,necessa rily, a cheap loaf; that free trade and jamil'_ may exist to ; and that a uation is only certain to be fed which is Hosts-FED and SALI,-DEFENPENT