The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-18 00:00:00

~_• inspect their pre -- tiOODS, which have re the first Manufacturers both in vvrest of England. This WOOLLEN WAREHOUSE_ .4rnished with an extensive assortment of Patent Water proof Beavers and Tweeds for Top Coats, Blue, Black, and Medley Cloths in great variety, Fancy and Mixed Doeskins, the newest patterns in double-milled Tweeds (for Trowsers,) rich Shawl Vestings, Velvets, and Satins, which for quality and style cannot fail to be universally admired. One visit to 62, HANOVER-STREET _ . will convince the moat experienced that it is not only the best but the CHEAPEST IN LIVERPOOL. 62, Hanover-street, is corner of Wood-street, near Bold-street. AUTUMN GOODS, IN MATERIALS EXPRESSLY FOR CHILDREN'S DRESSES. • JFERGUSON, having returned from LONDON , now • offers to the inspection of his Customers a variety of NEW MATERIALS, suited for CHILDREN'S DRES SES, which he will warrant to wash and wear well. The following are respectfully recommended : FRENCH MERINOS. ANGOLA AND CASHMERE PLAIDS. CLAN TARTANS. PRINTED AND PLAIN VELVETS. PRINTED MERINOS AND FLANNELS. GAMBROON AND CHALLY MIXTURES. FANCY CLOAKINGS. These (taking into consideration the quality of each) at Prices exceedingly low, and in any length that may be re quired. 4, Bold-street, Ist October, 1842. re W - IN• 1 5 9 g 9 :5? w T, I s P W . ~.,, . .r.... c. 0.. 0 . 0 , G. 0.. 00 Z , -3 7i 5 a c 0 P 5 4.. cc . ~. 0 c, a. p co 3 cc, S ? t,4 I . c,9 ... p g CC CD 0 0 =" W la r" cn rt,tl g "° E. - - NI NI \ A \ tl 1 TEitMINATION OF TtiE4A'lF,GliAkaWillt; (From yesterday's Herald.) We hasten to lay before the public the substance of an important communication on the subject of the Affghan war, which has been received from a most respectable quarter. By a letter from Jellalabad, by the last mail, it would ippear that the Affghan war is, in all probability. by this 'me, at an end. The negotiations which Akhbar Khan had ened with General Pollock would, there was every reason believe, be immediately brought to a successful termination.. hbar bad proposed to surrender his captives at once on iving an assurance that Dost Mahomed would be relea q the Indian Government, and that Affghanistan would acuated by the British army. These terms had been so favourably received by Generals Pollock and Sale. that they were about to be accepted by those gallant officers. The writer of this letter adds that the release of the British captives might be expected shortly, and that the war in Affghanistan was in reality terminated. The writer was himself a party to the negotiations, and his letter is addres sed to a near relative in this country, deeply interested in the happiness and comfort of one of the captives. The silence of the Indian press, and of the correspondents of the English journals, on this point, cannot be allowed to militate against this intelligence ; such a negociation would necessarily be perfectly secret, and the utmost care would be taken that no hint of it should escape in India. The very fact of its existence being thus transmitted to this country is the best assurance we can have of the likelihood of As suc cessful termination. We do not undertake to reconcile all the news received by the last mail with this piece of interesting intelligence; and though the advance of General Mott from Candabar towards Cahoot has certainly the appearance of hostility, that move ment, it will not escape observation, must have been directed before this negociation had commenced, or at least before it had advanced to the lengths stated. At all events, that there was such a negociation in progress, and likely to terminate as we have indicated, there need be no doubt. It is with the utmost satisfaction that we make this an • nouncement, which involves, in all human probability, the conclusion of the Affglian war. In a war commenced alike against reason and morality—without the forms required by constituted governments or civilised people—and without even the knowledge of the nation in whose name it was made, and by whose strength it was executed—it will be significant if we thus find in its conclusion a corresponding absence of such results as usually flow from hostilities which have justi fiable or intelligible objects. The Affghan war has—if this intelligence be confirmed— concluded not by satisfaction granted—for there was none to demand ; not by danger averted—for there was none to repel ; not by rights secured—for there were none infringed ; not by righteous ends proposed—for there were none but wicked ones in view ; and not by pretensions withdrawn—for there were none advanced. An.unjust assault, lawlessly made, though temporarily . successful, has ultimately recoiled on ourselves, and punishment and discredit have been inflicted on us for our future instruction. Lawful war is made„that peace may be secured ; we made war in Affghanistan to dis turb peace ; no friendship can then be anticipated to arise from the cessation of hostilities. Termination of the contest leaves the crime perpetrated by the originators of the war undetected at home, as it establishes the evidence of our na tional guilt abroad. +=swm.wmeefrterlDlCOOlSMlElMASlilliMM THE LIVERPOOL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. PREMIUMS ON MERCANTILE RISKS IN LIVERPOOL. til el 0 o o o C t:1 C ? ? 9 4, • cn r Ca 0 O o o owzo 74 CO = — F., 0 9, 3 CD Ci 7,4 F - . ) • z-1 Si CD • 94 cr e 7; et• ce , cr CD = . 0 . to `•C m- 0.. n o F 1: 0 0 2 6.• „ ;.; , 0 0 c• D c co .4" co , en w ° c, E . ? ▪ S ua CO 5 . 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Tne Directors, in consequence of the recent heavy losses snstsined by the Insurance Companies, have considered it expedient to revise the tariff of Mercantile Premiums in Li verpool, and to fix the foregoing scale as suitable to existing circumstances. In making this announcement, the Board are desirous of expressing their hope that the present serious addition to the previous high rates for such Insurances, will, by the intro duction of improvements in the construction and manage ment of Warehouses, be rendered temporary only ; and they beg to csure the community that they will be prepared to reconsider them, so soon as the requisite alterations shall have been accomplished. With a view to encourage in individuals the adoption of measures for the better security against Fire of the Ware house Property, the Directors have determined to act upon the following resolutions : All Warehouses in the Northern and Central Districts which shall conform to certain requirements of the Corn aly, will be rated at a premium of 2s. per cent. per annum. less than those specified above ; and those in the Southern District at Is. per cent. less. All Warehouses which, on the principal of the London Dock Warehouse, shall be worked by porters in the em ployment and under the control of the Tenant of the Ware house only, whether the property deposited in them belong to ope Firm or more, will be rated as in single occupation. In thus enunciating new principles by which to regulate the Mercantile Premiums in Liverpool, the Directors rely with confidence on a continuance of that support of which the Company hitherto has enjoyed so lar a share. SWINTON BOU ge LT, Secretary. Water -street lith October, 1842. GARDENING AND AGRICULTURE. GENERA L RE M ARK S .—The month of October has set in with delightful weather, and it appears highly probable that a fine Octobe r w i ll crown one of the most splendid seasons with which for many vears we have been favoured. When, however, we speak of - a splendid season, we must not be un derstood to mean a floricultural season ; we allude simply to the genial warmth and brightness of the weather, the very perfection of which has had, in many instances, a very inju r ious effect upon veget a b le life. Fine weather dur i ng the month of ctober is of e ssential imp or t anc e to the gardener : it affords a O favourable opportunity for getting up and storing the later vegetable crops, as Potatoes, carrots, beet, tk.c. It also enables him to gather in good condition the orchard fruits, of which alarge o pr t o i p le nqi en are now ripe, while, at the kinds, and gives them a same time, it ripens ff which in damp capacity for keepihn. at tain in nearly so keeping, which a degree. 8 Zi" S they of the flower garde n : do not at etil)ctober also pro verbenas, fuch sias, the beauty 0 . m g, blue salvias, heliotrope; penstemons, sias, scarlet other half phloxes, lobegleiatas,aalantirrbin.ums, with ms ny , 4e with scarcely (Jinni hardy perennia still bloom away l plants, the beautiful dahlias, indeed, the unless,indeed nished splendour, while . r are quite in their p r i me. The the frost is a little too sharp, present delightful weathera contrastsi very pleasantly with the atter part . wet, cold, dreary weather exp erienced during the i of the past year, the very recoll ec tion of which causes a k ind till looks lovely, scarcely a of chilly shudder. The country still leaf 'has vet fallen, and when looking over a wooded cou n t ry, the eye i• gratified by the harmonious blending of almo s t every conceivable colour and shade in the foliage of the trees, and h while the clearness of the atmosphere,sharp bracing air for which a fine October day is so remarkable,te render a walk amidst the beauties of nature, thus matured.. and ripened at the close of the season, peculiarly agreeabl d department are THE GREENHOUSE.—If the plants of this not already snugly housed in their winter quarters, should be permitted yet further to delay this very the necessarynothiiig proceeding. Already on two or three occasions - ther mometer has stood at 31 Fahrenheit, or just onedegree.be low the freezing point—a sufficient degree of cold to injure some plants very seriously, although it is probable that; . the e . injury might not be immediately apparent. After nine o Cla K t in the morning the houses should be freely ventilated, bu t may be shut up again about four in the afternoon. THE FLOWER -GARDEN.—The period is now rapidly ap proaching at which the alterations and improvements in this department may ,be most advantageously effected, and we should recommend those who contemplate such proceedings, to mature their. plants, and to set to work while the weather is so favourable. THE KITCHEN -G " D "--- T -Lmse no time in getting rip the late potatos, carrots, parsnips, beet, &e. The crops of win ter spinach should be weeded and thinned if necessary, or the crop will soon be overrun with chickweed, and other running weeds. While the mould is tolerably dry earth up •finall: the crops of brocoli and Brussels sprouts, drawing the mould carefully up round the stems of the plants. • WEST INDIES. The Tay steamer, bringing the West India mail, has made a quick passage, not being a day behind the period allowed for her arrival, a fact worthy of notice, as showing that it was, after all, the want of experience, as much as anything else, which produced those delays hitherto occurring, and which formed such just basis of complaint among the mer cantile interest connected with the various islands. When the revised plan lately submitted and approved of by the body of shareholders in the , company carrying out this im portant undertaking shall have been put in full operation, there is every reason to expect that the voyages will be successfully and punctually performed, and without any of those interruptions which, whether viewed in the spirit of opposition from parties who had other objects in contempla tion, or interference on the part of authorities in some of the islands connected with other powers, were, of course, calcu lated to arrest in some measure the perfect developement of the system. The dates by the Tay came down as late as the 9th of September from Jamaica, the 2d from Trinidad, the 3d from Barbadoes, the Ist from St. Vincent's, the 24th of August from Demerara, the 26th from St. Kitt's, and the 24th from By the advices from Jamaica it appears that the commercial prospects Ul ace ualiy (Jet:wiling more disheartening, tee great causes being the distrust of capitalists and the de ficiency of labour. As some remedy to this discouraging state of things, the merchants contemplate the reduction of the freight of sugar to Is. per cwt. ; and it was expected that a meeting would be called on the subject. The present rate of freight from Jamaica nearly doubles that from Ha vannah, and it is said exceeds that from the East Indies. A lighthouse has been erected on Moran-point, and will be illuminated on the Ist of November, with a revolving light. The tower is painted white, and stands 103 feet above the level of the sea, the centre of the light being 96 feet, and dis tinguishable at the distance of 21 miles in clear weather. The arrival of a native of St. Domingo, who called himself a brother of the late King of Hayti, had afforded much amuse ment at Jamaica. He came with a company of young ne groes, and took up his abode in a most respectable lodging house. A black levee was held every day, and the appearance of royalty was kept up, when at last the landlord applied for payment, and was informed that the prince wished the claim to be deferred till he had received the sum of £40,000 due to him from the British government. The whole affair ended with the mock prince being sent to the House of Correction. The Portuguese are said to be car rying on the slave-trade as assiduously as ever, in spite of all the efforts of this country to restrain them. The Trinidad papers contain the special report of the Agri cultural Association on the result of the crops, which states that throughout the season the weather having been highly favourable, the planters, with few exceptions, had succeeded in advantageously manufacturing their sugars, little of which now remained in the curing houses, and the general conse quence was, that the quantity exported this year up to the 31st of July exceeded by 450 hhds. that exported in the same period last year. The total amount of produce so shipped is stated at 18,394 Mids., 1,173 tierces, and 3,354 barrels of sugar, 6,312 puncheons, and 436 tierces molasses, and 81 puncheons of rum. With respect to the condition of labour in the island, it is remarked that the rate of wages continued high compared with the quantity of work performed, while also great difficulty still existed in obtaining it continuously. Many estates are represented as being in great distress for want of hands. The circulation of counterfeit coin had occa sioned much vigilance among the shopkeepers. The money, from its clumsy manufacture, appears to be easily detected, and the magistrates have made an example by summarily punishing two or three parties who had tendered it in pay ment of goods. In the Barbadoes journals complaints are made of the scar city of cash and provisions, and the middling classes were suffering, not only from the high prices which were asked for the necessaries of lire, such as corn meal, flour, bread stuffs, yarns, and potatoes, but also from the difficulty they experi enced in finding the means wherewith to purchase, in conse quence of the restricted condition of the circulating medium. According to the accounts from St. Lucia, the estates were suffering much from the prolonged drought and excessive heat ; for though occasional showers had visited the island during the month, they were light and partial. FACTORY LABOUR IN AUSTRIA.—The Vienna Gazette announces officially, that the Austrian Government has come to the following regulations with regard to the labour of children in manufactories, which furnish an example worthy of imitation nearer home :-1. The earliest age at which children can be employed is fixed at 12 years. 2. The only exception shall be for children who at 9 years of age have for three years received a religious education and attended school; but as long as these children shall continue at an age which they ought to attend school, the manufacturers shall watch over their education, and call into them ministers of the Gospel, but without interrupting their work. 3. For chil dren between 9 and 12 years old the maximum of the time they are to work is fixed at ten hours, and between 12 and 16 years of age at 12 hours, but they shall be allowed an interval of one hour. 4. Manufacturers shall be bound to prevent all disorder and scandalous conduct among the adults in their establishments, 5. Manufacturers shall keep regis ters, in which shall be entered the names and ages of the children, their residences, and the period at which they en tered the manufactory. This registrar shall be produced before the magistrate and the minister of public worship whenever it may be required. 6. All contravention of these regulations shall be punished with a fine of from 2 to 100 florins; and in case of a repetition of the offence, the offen der may be interdicted from having any children under 12 years of age in his employment. 7. The authorities are char ged with the enforcement of these regulations. FRENCH AND ENGLISH COMMENCE. — The Journal du Havre contains the following interesting statistical report : •• In 1841, the English ports received or despatched 42,719 vessels, measuring 7,525,585 tons. There had been, in 1840, 42,455 vessels, and 7,497,833 tons. This increase is incon siderable; but it roust be stated that, in the preceding year, the augmentation amounted to 882,000 tons. The tonnage of the vessels leaving or entering the ports of France, in 184 U, was 2,896,000 tons. In 1839, the amount was 2,930,000 tons ; showing, it is true, only a small falling off, but still it was a falling off. Up to this point, putting aside the enormous numerical inferiority of our tonnage, the comparison is but ' little importance; but it becomes eminently discouraging when the parts which the shipping of both countries have taken respectively in the general movement are considered. In England, out of 7,525,585 tons, English vessels transported 5,525,429, giving a proportion of 74 to 26, or about three fourths. In France, out of 2,896,000 tons, our vessels took only 1,211,000 tons, or a proportion of 42 to 98, or a little more than two-fifths. Thus, whilst for England the results of the preceding year give the same returns, showing that if the movement of the national navigation has not progressed, it has not at least retrograded. In France, the same exami nation shows, that in the space of a year only. foreign ship ping has taken from us a twenty-fifth part of the carrying trade. In 1841, the coasting trade of. England gave the large total of 22,183,047 tons. In France, in 1840, the quantity was only 1,314,735 tons, not much more than the tenth part, The average burden of vessels employed in the English coast ing trade is about 80 tons, whilst in France it only amounts to 27 tons. The whole of the merchant vessels of England amounted, in 1840, to 28,692, measuring 3,311,528 tons. France, at the same period, possessed 15,600 vessels, the ton nage of which did not exceed 662,600 tons. A remark which these figures sugges:, and which is not without interest, is, that. whilst the number of our vessels is equal to nearly the half of those possessed by Great Britain, the amount of their tonnage scarcely reaches a fifth part." EAsTERN AFFAIRS. — The Univers publishes a letter from Syria, announcing that the inhabitants of one entire village, situate near Bethlehem, and inhabited by Greek Catholics, bad been obliged, in order to save themselves from the per secution they had endured for many years at the hands of schismatic Greeks, who were instigated thereto by Russia, to apostatize and conform to the schismatic creed. After draw ing a frightful picture of the sufferings of the Christian po pulation of Syria, ever since the Four Powers took them un der their p r otection, that journal adds—" Alas ! shall Syria, like Poland, be considered beyond the reach of relief ? Shall we, then, likewise suffer an entire Catholic population to be smothered in cold blood? In Poland we had Catholic bre ' thren and allies to array against the encroachments of Russia in Europe, and in the . East we could oppose our Catholic brethren and allies of Syria to the encroachments of Russia on the Ottoman empire. Who shall now be found to side with us and tight o ur battles at the inevitable hour of the cri swttsie:eirarenfd isihwareedthe perils of the struggle ? We abandoned to fate the Catholics of Spain and Switzerland. We every ruined, and enslavel our brethren and friends, and all whose inte rest it was t o make in our turn left . common cause with us, to be weakened, the penalty of our improvide nce aud when we shall be menaced, sad d against all, we shall undergo te° u 'eure ers m i s d sa w j e l r a i i i fi t e a c tF ie e'r u i n and ap d o ic st e :icy w o e f and cower , should no t shall be b a e , Woe to the statesmen who thelics of the East, the Ottoman Empire, in Spasinofastline \:'est, in Russia as in only prove a calamity for religion, but wi a tze c r a land, would not for our national interests ! Should our Government u u o s t e of . weakness h e perse vere much longer in its present policy, negotiation wilt ha a n t ve t t o o :_ a w es i e l d l to out of the question, for no Catholics w will replaced by Russian and English schismatic pro tected in the East ; the Ottoman Em pi re be irretrievable ; conquered, without ever having t h e a c en to e r f s u h l i i p y ;our loss w ill weakening and downfall of our nation aexaidsturredtibeeaeiPpros and conquered, as i n _ West, we shall experience a t s o t t a h s e wellthe nation ality. t in , owing to the chastisement we deserve, by our culpable dereliction of a Catholic protectorship,. which we were in hopour and duty bound to maintain, it being the h g a lo h r a io d u c s an in g h a e e r r i e ta d uc i e t atrt sheans mitted to us by our ance,stpr.s, w price of their blood." , THE NEW POSTAGE ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. We have great pleasure in stating that the propositions for a revision of the post-office tariff between France and Eng= land., submitted to the Er,glish Government on the part of the French authorities, have been received in a spirit which promises the desired results, although there are still, we learn, some difficulties to be surmounted. The most speedy and certain course would seem to be at once to annul the ex isting treaties, and to conclude an entirely new one. This is the wish of the French Government, we understand ; but it appears that it is contrary to the routine of the English Post office, and, consequently, the object is proposed to be at tained by additions made to the convention at present in force. The bases of the respective arrangements are under stood to be as follows :—The French Government consents, as regards all letters to and from England and France, to apply the same tariff as for letters in the interiosof this country ; and the English Government on its part agrees to reduce the uniform charge of 10d. to 3d., so that a letter from Paris to London, or from London to Paris, which now costs 2 francs, would cost only 9d. in London, or 90 centimes (18 sous) in Paris ; and the postage for letters beyond the weight at which the single rate is now charged would experience a reduction on the same scale. In addition, it is offered by the French Government to reduce considera bly the charges for the transit of letters from England through France to the East Indies and other points. In noticing these propositions, the credit of originating which is, we are assured, due to the French Government—although they were met in a spirit of corresponding liberality by the English Cabinet and the Post-office authorities, whose routine, how ever, does not admit of quite so prompt a termination of the formalities as could he wished—we think it right to allude to the exertions made by the French Government in 1836 to effect the improvement in the postage relations which then took place between the two countries, and by which the neces sity of pre-payment of postage was dispensed with, and a re duction made in the rate of postage then charged. The im portance of the changes which took place at that period will be more fully appreciated by the following table, showing the rates of postage before and after that year between England and several of the towns in France, and likewise the reduced rate now proposed to be adopted : Postage pre- Postage Postage vious to 1836. since 1836. proposed. 4 1 ..,..... Names of ,A . •d Towns. "8 r. .....- 73 . r.. • Ta ' ' • = ',-.!„ rs c -,-,i, lii c T o • 74 .). c i; .). c 15 F. c O ..: 44 43 E. 44 P 4 E. GT- 4 41 E. f. c. f. c. f. c. f. c. f. c. f. c.f. c. f. c.\f. c. Calais 0 701 40 1 2 10 1 0 301 01 300 20,0 30.0 50 Boulogne .... 0 901 40,2 30'0 501 01 500 20,0 3010 50 Lille Rouen Paris 60 0 30 0 90 , Nantes 1 601 40 , 3 0 11 101 012 10,0 70,0 30 1 0 Bordeaux Marseilles i I The reform of 1836 was considered a great amelioration, as indeed it was ; but the spirit of progress since that time has been such as to render a larger concession necessary, both as regards the mercantile relations between England and France, and the general international intercourse, which has aug mented considerably, in spite of the pestage barrier that still existed. The new treaty will, therefore, give universal satis faction in England and in France, and we trust that nothing will occur to prevent its being speedily put in force.—Galig nani's Messenger. THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. (From the Nottingham Journal.) A very singular circumstance has occurred, which, at the present momentous period, ought to act as a warning to the official subs, the advisers of Ministers, who are leading them upon the wrong scent. A piece of ornamental bobbin net has been sent to our office from France by way of challenge, to prove that they excel. or at least are upon a par with the work men of England. Tae article is a breadth of lace, taped and pearl-edged, 40 boles wide, having a pattern 55 holes long and 29 holes in breadth. It is made of traversed net, hav ing a linen edge and ornament : this linen work causes the merit of the article; it is most decidedly superior to any thing produced in England, by Draper, by Wright, or by Maltby, from a net that is traversed, but not superior to those made upon the plait principle ; still it is perfect, and does not draw the net out of form where the linen joins the net, which is the great defect of the traversed linen orna mental nets heretofore made in England. To the naked eye the linen work has something of the appearance about three times the fineness of the ground ; but under the microscope this disappears, and it has somewhat the resemblance of a sort of wire ground, the bobbin threads traversing at every passing of the carriages. A piece of Draper's linen, made from the strait bolt machine, lies before us, and it is evi dently the same, the great merit being that the workman has prevented the strait tension of the linen work threads, the great defect of Draper's and Wright's nets. The open works are wretched indeed, being a bad blond ground, an ill-formed thick Grecian hole, a mixture of blond and Grecian irregu larly formed; whilst in another part of the ornament is a series of three and four-hole bullet-hole, which upon close inspection by a workman, is wretched indeed, looking raw, but in the tout ensemble has an imposing relief, and gives some little life to the pattern, which is of the rambling kind, showing little taste. Were the open-works better, it would have the appearance of Buckinghamshire lace, It is gimped, having the thick threads wrought in with the sewing needle. We know not where it is made, but we think it is produced from a double machine, Whatever importance our rivals may attach to this speci men, which is certainly an advance in the march of improve ment, and shows we have every thing to fear from the mad ness of our "liberals ;" still, as we mentioned last week, we had put into our hands a specimen of ornamented lace far exceeding it in appearance. The singularity of this beautiful manufacture is, that while it has all the appearance to the eye of traversed net, and almost to the microscope, yet we are assured, and believe, that it is merely a strait down net. This net is ornamented in the most tasteful manner with linenwork of the neatest description, having a neat appear ance; under the microscope it appears crossed in the same manner as Draper's net, with this remarkable difference, that in that linenwork it is flat, and likc fine net; but in the sample in question the cord of the warp appears twisted, which in our opinion adds at once to its beauty, and the boldness of the figure, making a greater contrast between the net and linenwork. Such is the perfection of the laces made upon this new principle, that, as in the plat nets, they require no gimping or running • they are perfectly orname n t e d w h en got off the machine. We were denied the opportunity of that great trier of aets, the wash tub, but we are assured that it will stand that ordeal. We do not think that it will sapersede the plat nets, but it will most certainly prove a most formi dable rival, as the material, the net being made of two in stead of three or four threads to the pillar, costs scarcely half the money; the pieces can be made of the usual length, and at more than one-half more speed than that of plat nets. We are not aware whether any, or what open works, can be made on the new principle; the plat nets, however, will always, in our opinion, maintain their ground in the market, the only drawback on their beauty being a thickness of appearance, which causes them to look cloudy ; but this is the case with several foreign grounds, especially Mechlin, which has been mistaken by the eye for double press cotton point net. The beauty of some late production of plat net is not to be ex ceeded by cushion nets; the open works which we have seen are exquisite, both in elegance of effect and in technical workmanship. Thus a new era has arisen in the lace trade, which, under a vigilant executive of national trades, mightin some measure reinstate our affairs, and increase the comfort and wealth of the inhabitants ; but this free trade on only one side of the water destroys all hope, and leaves us an un guarded, unprotected prey, to foreigners of every civilized state, and brings nothing but poverty and want of employ ment. We are sorry we cannot report that there is any material amendment in the hosiery trade in any branch—every thing being in much the same lingering, uncertain state, as it has been in since the month of July last : still we do not think, aking the whole together, there has been any retrograde movement. The plain silk hose and the drawer branches seem to be the worst, only affording partial employment to the hands, and that upon hard terms as to the charges made to the workmen, which are exorbitant. These remarks ex tend equally to the villages engaged in the manufacture of cotton hosiery, where, in most instances, employment is but scanty. Were it not for the making of Cashmere gloves, the two needle glove trade would be in a deplorable state indeed: as it is, nearly one-third of the frames are standing for want of employment. But it ought to be remarked, that antece dent to 1835 not more than 500 frames were employed upon silk gloves; but in that and the succeeding years they in creased to near 1100, having full employment. Had not the bobbin-net trade received such heavy blows from the French at that period, the Nottingham trade would have been ex ceedingly brisk, our " free trade" propensities having lost us employment for 6009 hands, and above 100,000 females and children; which has been given to France and Germany, without the slightest advantage or concession in return. It is equally painful to state that there is no improvement in either of those great branches of manufacture, the cotton, warp, and silk blond nets. Some new of the former, upon some new and fancy work, are getting moderate wages ' • but they are very few. The loss of the Belgian, and Lower Ger many and Lombardy markets has been severely felt, they being partially supplied with twist nets. The emigration of the stockingers and others has proved a dead failure, some of the parties having returned, whilst others, who are self-expatriated, are looking with a longing eye to England, " with all its faults ;" but they are unable to find means to pay their passage home. THE BRISTOL CONSPIRACY CASE.-MISS Bryers and Mary Ann Morgan, the parties by whom the Bristol timber merchant was lately fooled into a- marriage, were brought up at Union Hall on Wednesday last, when it was stated that Mr. Woolley declined to prosecute them, and they were accordingly discharged from custody. It was stated. how ever, that proceedings had been commenced in the Ecclesi astical Courts to have the marriage annulled. Cli s lNA.—The Univers, Paris paper, of Saturday, has the following :—" We have received from Macao the following news, dated 19th April :—The English are marching upon Pekin. They are at this time at Nankin. The expedition Donsists of 18,000 troops, 40 ships of war, 70 transports, and 20 steamboats. Messrs. Daguin and Privas, the French Missionaries,. have entered the interior of China. They ar rived on the coast in the government faigate L'Erigone." THE AFFGHAN WAR.—The instructions given to Lord Ellenborough by the Home Government were to retire from Affghanistan as soon as possible. provided he could obtain a mere exchange of prisoners ; leaving the contending chiefs, like the Kilkenny cats, to quarrel with and destroy each other. This sort of arrangement will be palatable to such of her Majesty's liege subjects as are represented by the Morn ing Herald. —United Service Journal. CONVICTION S UNDER THE NEW CORN LAW BILL.— CAUTION TO CORN MERCHANTS AND OTHERS.-At South ampton, on Tuesday, before the bench of magistrates, Mr. Le Jeunne, corn-merchant, and Mr. Sheppard, were fined in the mitigated penalty of 15s. and costs, for having neglected making the declaration required by the act; the penalty is £2O for every month. .—There o foundationN t E N e in m i o s s most not T s forN B t hAeN repo;icrt u PIT insertedc-t .• the N t w ligh A te P s P t the newspapers last week, that Mr. Twiss has accepted, or is about to accept. any of these offices. The following gen tlemen have been appointed, and the list will be found to differ materially from that which, without the slightest authority, has ' gone the round of the papers :—Mr. John Balguy, Queens counsel; Mr. Walker Skirrow, Queen's counsel; Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, Mr. Serjeant Stephen, Mr. Serjeant Goulburn, Mr, Nathaniel Ellison, Mr. Martin West, Mr. Edward Panieil, Mr. W. • 1. Jemmett, Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. Montagu Bprp, and Mr. Richard Stevenson. ARREST OF A FOGJTIVE. — EarIy in August last the chief clerk or cashier of the establishment of a great Manchester house at Montevideo absconded from South America with cash and bills to the amount, it is said, of £12,000. It being considered probable he would come to France, the British Ambassador communicated a description of the de linquent, with a request to the French Government that he might be arrested if he entered this country. Thp Prefect of Police issued orders accordingly, and the fugitiye has ben recently secured at Bordeaux, being recognised by the de, scription of the Custom-house within a few minutes after his landing. Ile was in possession of nearly the whole of the property, which was deposited in the hands of the English Consul.— Galignaries Messenger. THE BANK 6P ivfAkCiiksTEß. The annual general meeting of the sharcholderJ in the above company was held, on Friday, to receive the anneal re port, and to elect directors in the place of those retiring. The meeting was appointed to lie-held at - the York Hotel, King street, Manchester, at eleven o'clock, and, accordingly a large number assembled at that hour, in the large room be hind the hotel; but, the room being too small for the pur pose. the meeting was adjourned, after the advertisement con vening it had been read, to Hayward's Hotel, in Bridge street.. The chair was taken by Mr. John Spencer, one of the directors. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, addressed the shareholders in the following terms :—You have been called together to-day to receive an account of the proceedings of the directors during the last twelve months, and to receive a report of the present condition of the bank. The events of the past year havebeen, I am'sorry to say, of a most unsatis factory tature. Many bad debts have occurred, some of a very large amount, by which the bank has sustained great loss, and the present condition of the bank is most disastrous. For this state of things the directors do not claim to be ex empt from blame. One remark, however, may be made on their behalf ; and it is this, that if your money has been lost, our money bas been lost too. After proceeding at some length on the embarrassments of the Bank, the Chairman called upon Mr. N. Earle, the company's new solicitor, to read the directors' report. From this document it appeared that there was a deficiency of £16,248. 7s. ; exclusive of the entire capital, £741,030 ; the reserved surplus fund and profit for the year, amounting in the aggregate to £43,609. Bs. 9 d.; and making in the whole a total loss of 900,887. 15s. 9d. It recommended a call of £2 per share, as a means of preventing a premature sacrifice of property, and that there should be a dissolution of the company. it mentioned also that arrangements have been made with the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank for rendering available such portion of their assets as will promptly liquidate every demand, and for affording all reason able facilities to the customers of the Bank of Manchester. The new directors are stated to be Mr. William Haynes, Mr. William Hill, Mr. William Smith, and Mr. William S. Stell. Mr. John Spencer, Mr. John Hall, and Mr. John Potter, were to be proposed for re-election. The delinquencies of Mr. Burdekin were noticed, and Mr. 011ivant recommended to fill his place. The report further went on to show, that " It must be evi dent that such a state of affairs was quite incompatible with the continuance of the business of the bank, and Mr. Smith, to whom the investigation had been exclusively confined, with a soundness of discretion which the directors feel bound to acknowledge, assumed the entire responsibility of devising a plan whereby the safety of the shareholders, the convenience of the customers, and the general interest of the bank might he most effectually secured. The negociations for this end could only be successfully carried out by the most vigilant caution and absolute reserve, and the directors were for the first time made cognisant of the actual state of affairs on Friday, the 7th instant, when called upon to confirm the arrangements devised by Mr. Smith. " It is, therefore, a source of great satisfaction to the di rectors to be able to state that arrangements have been made with the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank for ren dering available such portion of their assets as will promptly liquidate every demand, and for affording all reasonable facilities to the customers of the Bank of Manchester. As a means of ensuring success in these desirable objects and of preventing the premature sacrifice of property, the directors have felt it their duty to make a call of £2 per siutre, which they hope will, on due consideration, be promptly responded to by the shareholders. " They are sorry to be obliged to report that Mr. Burde kin, who has for many years been connected with the bank, has recently absconded, and has misapplied the endorsement of the bank to his own purposes. It has not been possible to ascertain the extent of those fraudulent transactions, but the directors are in hopes that it will not exceed the amount for which his sureties are liable, and they can only promise that no exertions shall be wanting on their part to bring Mr. Burdekin and his confederates to account. " In submitting so deplorable an exposition of mismanage ment, the directors, at least that portion of the board who were in office previously to the last general meeting, cannot but feel that they have exposed themselves to the several animadversions for having so fatally misplaced their confi dence in a managing committee, and the only argument which they can offer in proof of their having themselves been deceived, and in extenuation of that whc' - i they so liberally regret, is the fact that they have been, and are still, among the largest shareholders, and consequently among the heaviest sufferers." The report concluded with a recommendation for a disso lution of the company, and stated that the necessary steps were in progress for convening a special general meeting for the purpose. Mr. T. Greig thought it was due to the shareholders be fore receiving the report, to enter into a minute examina tion. (Applause.) He came there to charge certain parties with a conspiracy to defraud the shareholders of the bank— (applause)—and if he failed to substantiate the charge, he must throw the blame upon the directors - for not furnishing the matters on which to ground the charge. Mr. Dyer was reported to have said, in reference to the statement of the affairs of the bank, and the condition in which it was viewed by the public—" There must therefore be some misconcep tion, and a very great amount of credulity, existing in the minds of the shareholders concerning the reports which have been circulated of most disastrous losses having beeu sus tained. It is said that we have lost enormous sums, of which we, being directors of this bank, are altogether un ' conscious. The figures that have been read to you are care fully and honestly compiled from the acounts of the bank. What do those figures show ? Those figures show, not cnly that the whole of the paid-up capital, £741,000, is still un touched, but that there is a surplus fund of £19,000." — (Applause.) The half-yearly meeting was called, when a dividend was looked for. What were the shareholders then informed ? That no dividend could be paid. The approach ing half-yearly meeting had now arrived, and they were called together to receive the cool intimation that the whole of the capital was gone. (Hear.) But they must not allow it to go without looking after it. (Applause.) He would read some further extracts from the last report. Seeing that the - whole of the capital remains d, and that there was a sur plus of £19,000, what did the directors pledge themselves through the chairman to do ?—" I hope the board will be so roused, by a sense of duty, as will induce us to go, in fu ture, upon a plan which will prevent our incurring such losses as heretofore." Then it was said that all the losses had been ascertained, and written off, and taken into ac count; and this was the history that was given—" It is an act of fairness ; I only wish to explain to you what state we are in with regard to capital, and then we will leave you to sell your shares if yo u like." The shares were then in the market at fifty per cent. discount on the paid-up capital.— " And for myself, although I'm not in the habit of gambling, I will undertake to say that £lOOO will secure the estimate for the pre seat year. Why, if this had all been proved for the purpose of deception, (if he might be allowed the term,) how could it have been more strongly plactd ? they had new come to be told that the whole of the cap to had been lost, after many, himself amongst the number, had been induced to pay into the bank, and the shareloldei s had risen from little more than 200 to 300. " Now," said Mr. Dyer, " with respect to most of the accounts of a dotbtful character. we have obtained security. It is certainly better to take security to ensure 20s. in the pound in such cases, even if we had to wait a few years, than it would be if we were to get 10s. in the pound now." He now passed on to the remarks of Mr. Chappell : he was another whom he en tirely absolved from knowing anything of the accounts of the bank. " There wanted only a cordial support among the pro prietors, to make the Bank of Manchester stand No. 1 among the joint-stock banks of Manchester." That cordial support had been given the directors, in opposition to the motion brought forward by Mr. Norris; had that motion been carried, a considerable amount of property might have been saved out of the wreck.—(Applause.) There never was a greater abuse of a word than of the word " banking ;" therefore, that they might not stamp it entirely with infamy, he hoped they would not apply it to such transactions as those. In this town we had the " Northern and Central" squander, then the " Imperial" squander, then the " Com mercial" squander, then the " Manchester and Liverpool District" squander, and, as though the town had not been sufficiently disgraced, they were called together that day to testify to the " Manchester" squander; and though last, he was sorry to say it was not the least. He bad begun with parties who were entirely free from blame; he would now pass to the parties to whom he attached blame, and serious blame indeed. First, he should remark upon Mr. Roberts; he did not know whether he was present ; if so, he hoped he would particularly attend to the observations he should make on his folly. Mr. Roberts had stated at the last meet ing that it was necessary to the well-being of the bank, that the directors should have the entire confidence of the pro prietors. They had got that confidence, and this day they saw the result. Mr. Roberts also stated, that after deduct ing the total estimated loss up to that time, and having told them that, having proceeded in their usual course, they had £19,000 to their credit, he asked was it for them to be com pared with the bad administration of another bank in its early clays? No doubt he alluded to the Manchester:and Liverpool District Bank ; but according to what was now laid before them, that bank was much better conducted than this. Mr. Roberts said " The proprietors must trust to the directors, especially after presenting such a report as that, to the responsibility to which they were pledged, and upon that responsibility they were prepared to act.' What responsi bility were they prepared to act upon? He wished Mr. Roberts had been there to answer that question. But he should look for a full answer; it must appear publicly, as well as the questions now put. "In the estimate of the value of our stock, there is no possible loss could accrue, if you were to stop the bank to-morrow, that could be pro portionate to the present rate of shares." This gentleman was intimately acquainted with the minutia: of the bank; he was one of the managing committee ; and he came forward to make that statement. They must bear in mind that the shares were that day 50 per cent., he might say 70 per cent. higher than they were now. A system had been folloeved in this bank of calling certain creditors together ; they had thought fit to take Bank of Manchester shares from them at certain value, as security for their accounts ; they had thought fit also to take, certain property at.a higher value 'than it ought to be taken at. Not only so, but they had given a bonus of £lO to keep the thing quiet, and not let the public into it. [Mr. W. Smith : No.] In the ease of Heron,s creditors, had he not said, •` If you will give me £9OOO or £lO,OOO, I'll pay all the small creditors in full." Had the bank any right to give bonuses in that way? Was 'is not a grievance that they should make arrangements of that kind without their coming before the directors, who were prevented examining the accounts, and thus exposed to such an attack as he was now compelled to make upon them. Mr. Greig had been told, whether on proper autho rity remained to be seen, that an immense sum of money had been expended upon a property at Darvven upon which it now appeared the bank had no proper claim. Within h is own knowlege they had lately been laying out thousands of pounds upon coal mines, paper-works, print-works, upon halls, and upon the removal of trees to decorate those halls ; and the day the bank stopped them in those operations, he was creditably informed they had three hundred out-doo labourers employed. Could they pass over in silence such co iduct ? (" No, no.") In many cases the bank had s3.lnded the alarm, creditors had flocked there, and got paid, ani the bank was the sole creditor upon many large estates. W i .t had they done in the case of Hilton, of Damen, two yea -s back, and in the case of Joseph Raleigh? Was it not a wall known fact that reports had been circulated in the tow 1, people flocked in with their paper, and r. urdekin wait from one warehouse to another, saying it M was B A perfect mistake that the bill had not been discounted, for the Raleighs stood well at the bank ? It w a s said by foreigners, that Englishmen were more liable to offend by cool indiffer ence than by bravado ; and he said, the fault of the directors was unpardonable, for they ought long ago to have looked into the affairs of the bank. And if any foreigners were pre. sent they would see that when Englishmen had their pockets picked, and their money squandered. they came together, and received the report with as much coolness as if it was the announcement of a large fortune. (Applause.) He was told that the apeount of Raleigh's with that bank was about £lBO,OOO. Could it be believed that such a sum should have been lent them, in a town where they could not have got credit for £5OO for two years' back ? (" Shame 1" Bear in mind this was the time when they had the whole of their paid up capital, and a surplus fund of £19,000 beside. (Hear, hear.) This was the time when great caution had been superinduced ; their structure had been laid, and they were building up their fabric with better cement, and seeing that their stones were properly polished and well bedded be. fore they were laid ; and now they wer e called together 12 months afterwards, and told that they were £16,000 wor se than nothing. Mr. Norris said he wished to aek what Mr. Roberts owed of the bank a t the ti me th a t h e o pposed the appointment auditors, independently of his shares, which ought to be valued at nothing, for they were worth nothing. Mr. Stith said he thought it wotild be about .t 40,000, bud the bank &t the time held securities. Mr. No - His.—Of what description ? Mr. Smith.—Of twist and other things, which were under, the controul of the managing directors. Mr. Norris.—Take them at their proper value, what amount do you think he owed the bank, and take his shares at their proper value ?. Mr. Smith.—l amid not ,pledge myself to any definite amount ; bscause I have not referred to the state of the account at that time. Mr. Norris.—But he owed a debt of considerable amount? Mr. Smith.—Oh, yes. Mr. Norris.—Did he return it as a good debt due to the bank ? Mr. Smith.—Oh, no doubt of it. Mr. Norris.—Very well ; when he did that, be must have known that lie was not worth one shilling. (Hear, hear.) And he being a managing director at the time, and the bank being minus the whole of its capital, he could not have been ignorant of it, and must have committed a fraud. I have nothing more to say. I think when a man acts as Mr. Roberts has done, he ought to be held up to the contempt of the whole world. (Applause.) A shareholder suggests I Should ask what amount he is owing to the bank at present. Mr. Smith.—The total liabilities, on his own account and in connection with others, amount to £74,os2.—(Hisses, and cries of " shame !") Mr. Norris said he exonerated all but the managing di rectors ; but he thought the constitution of the bank was wrong. Mr. J. W. Fraser asked what transactions the Bank of Manchester had had with the Bank of Charleston, and also whether a shipment of specie recently made to that. bank by Mr. Burdekin, had been clandestinely conveyed to his use. Mr. Smith said that the transaction was quite safe and satisfactory, and that Mr. Burdekin could not, on his arrival in America, possess himself of the money. Mr. J. . Dyer said, in Hiltons' case, where a lamentable amount was staked, he had been told by Mr. Roberts and Mr. Burdekin that that amount was amply and fully secured by mortgages on good and substantial property, and that they had only to wait five years to get in the balance, accord ing to an agreement entered into with the parties. They told him he need not trouble himself about that account; the consequence was he did not attend to it. . With regard to the two firms of Potters, he bad been told that there were secu rities which would save the bank from any serious loss on those two firms. He saw Raleigh's account with great as tonishment and alarm, and asked how sane men could have allowed them to get nearly fifty thousand pounds into the debt of a bank. The answer was—" You may depend upon it he'll turn up a trump after all; we shall lose nothing by him." (Laughter.) He doubted it, and wished the account to be brought to a close ; but being shown a list of an enor mous amount of out-standing paper received from that firm, which the bank was liable to take up, over and above the balance, and that paper being actually used then to raise funds for the daily transactions of the bank, to stop him then would have been to stop the bank. He resisted an ad vance of £l5OO to him ; but it being the deliberate opinion of Mr. Brown, Mr. Burdekin, and Mr. Roberts, that if it was not given the bank would be stopped that week, he (Mr. D.) gave way. Several other gentlemen spoke, and resolutions for the purpose of appointing Mr. Olivant a director in the place of Mr. Burdekin, of preventing further transfers of shares, and of raising a call of X 2 per share, were adopted. The meeting separated about a quarter before three o'clock. - • THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL; Fr present TUESDAY EVENING, the 18th insiant, the Comedy of JOHN BULL. To conclude with the favourite new Fairy Extravaganza of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. With its splendid and new Scenery, extensive Machinery, Tricks, Src. — On WEDNESDAY—The KNIGHT OF SNOWDOUN, with BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Air R. W. J. HAMMOND respectfully acquaints his I.WI Friends and the Public that his BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY next, the 24th instant, when will be presented Morton's Comedy of SPEED THE PLOUGH. A VARIETY OF SINGING AND DANCING. To conclude with the Nautical Drama, called THE PILOT; A TALE OF THE SEA. VARIETIES. The following gallant toast was lately given at a dinner to General Dudley, in North Caroline :—" The Ladies—Our arms their protection—Their arms our reward." 'I HE MOREA.—Dionysius, the geographer, compared the form of the Morea, or ancient Peloponnesus, to the leaf ol the plane-tree, making the footstalk to be the isthmus by which it is joined to Greece. Pliny also says, the Pelopor, nesus is shaped. by the number of its bays, like a plane-leaf. Professor Martyn, in his notes to the Georgics of observes of this similitude, that it is as just as we can expect in anything of this nature ; and to illustrate it, he has given a figure of the Peloponnesus, and of the leaf of the plane-tree on the same page in his pictorial embellishments. A DUTCH WITNESS.—The following rich scene recently occurred in one of our courts of justice, between the judge and a Dutch witness all the way from Rotterdam :—Judge— `• What's your native language ?" Witness—" I pe no native; I's a Dootchman." Judge—" What is your mother tongue?" Witness—" 0, fader say she pa all tong ne." Judge (in an irritable tone)—" What language did you first learn ; what language did you speak in the cradle ?" Wit ness—" I tid not speak no language in to cradle at , all ; I only cried in Dootch." Then there was a general lau.g,h, in which the judge, jury, and audience joined. The witness was interrogated no further about his native language. —New Orleans Picayune. GOD'S PATIENCE.—Let us imitate God's patience in our own to others. He is unlike God that is hurried with an un ruly impetus to punish others for wronging him. The con sideration of Divine patience should make us squa re our selves according to that pattern. God hath exercised a long suffering from the fall of Adam to this minute on innumerable subjects, and shall we be transported with desire of revenge upon a single injury ? If God were not slow to wratls, a sin ful world had been long ago torn up from the fou adation. And if revenge should be exercised by all men agaii ist their enemies, what man should have been alive, since there is not a man without an enemy ? If every man were like Saul, breathing out threatenings, the world would not o my be an Aceldama, but a desert. How distant are they from the na ture of God, who are in a flame upon every sligh t provoca• tion from a sense of some feeble and imaginary honour, that must bloody their sword for a trifle, and write their revenge in wounds and death ! When God hath his glory every day bespattered, vet he keeps his sword in his sheath : what a woe would it be to the world if he drew it upon every affront ! This is to be like brutes, dogs, or tigers, that snarl, bite, and devour upon every slight occasion : but to be patient is to be divine, and to show ourselves acquainted with the disposition of God. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."—Charnock. THE GOOD AND THE BAD LANDLORD.—The following is an extract from a speech of Lord Wodehouse, ak a public dinner in Norfolk last week :—" Some persons imagine that a good landlord is he who takes a low rent. I say no. A good landlord is he who takes a fair remunerative rent, and considers himself as well as his tenant. A gentleman may have a good steward ; but a good landlord does not rely on any steward ; he looks around among his tenants for himself, to see if they are farming well, and informs himself upon everything that relates to his owo property and the welfare of his tenants. A good landlord generally resides on his own property. He is not to be found three-parts of the year in St. James's -street, but will be looking after his own interests, as well as those of his tenantry. On the contrary, a bad landlord is the worst weed a soil produces. He lives princi pally in London—is seen at Newmarket, Melton Mowbray, and, in their turn, Paris and Baden-Baden. The gentleman I mean employs an agent in Chancery-lane, Mr. Gammon. This Mr. Gammon, never sees the estate himself, but employs clerks, who write an excellent hand and send in neatly-writ ten accounts. He knows nothing about the estate, whether it be arable or pasture, only the rent. He employs some person who deceives him, and informs him the land is worth forty shillings, while it is really worth only thirty shillings per acre. The agreements are made and the unfortunate tenants receive them. Rent-day arrives, and the tenant in forms Mr. Gammon that he cannot make up his rent; to which Mr. Gammon replies, I cannot give you a moment; his lordship has lost money at Crockford's Newmarket; meeting_ is coming, and he must have the money. Now, what is a good landlord ? He wishes to live himself, but he also desires that all around him should live. The rent-day comes, and the tenant says, I am in real distress; it is diffi. cult for me to make up the rent. The landlord, from living on his estate, knows what the farmer has done to the land; he sees that he has been marling, and manuring, and done much, but that his capital is not sufficient to carry it on. What does the landlord say ? What money do you want? The tenant replies, I do not want a great deal ; a hundred pounds would make it all right. The landlord lends it him, and tells him to go on improving. You are doing both me and yourself advantage. This is what a good landlord is. ASTONISHING CREDULlTY.—Yorkshirernen have been for ages renowned for their acuteness ; but some exceptions from the general rule will occasionally be found, of which the fol lowing facts furnish a pretty sample :—An elderly man, a retailer of beer, not a hundred miles from Holmfirth, and still nearer to a place called Chopperds in Wooldale, on the evening of the 16th of September last, had the misfortune to fall in with a gang of gypsies on their march. Small persua sion induced the old simpleton to have his " fortune told." The old sibyl, who was provided with charms for all exigen ciencies, told her dupe he must get a sum of money not less than £3OO. Strange as it may appear, he actually provided £3lO in bank of England and the Halifax and Huddersfield Union Bank notes, with £5O more in gold,—in all £360. This the crafty Egyptian persuaded him to let her tie up safe in a bag, which she produced for the purpose ; and, while she was telling him his fortune, she dexterously exchanged it for another bag exactly similar ; and, giving it to him, told him to lock it up in a drawer or cupboard, and to give her the key, and not to touch or open it till the expiration of three days. All this the old fellow punctually complied with. But on Sunday, beginning to feel rather uneasy, he found means to open the drawer, and took out the charmed paper. Upen opening it, words are deficient to depict his horror and dismay at finding his notes and gold mysteriously transformed into bits of blotting paper and small round pieces of lead. tie now for the first time broke the gvpsey's enjoined silence, by informing a friend of the case, who, supposing the police at Huddersfield were gifted with second sight, advised the hapless dupe to go to them, as they would most infallibly set off in pursuit and recover his money. Accordingly, early on Monday morning, he proceeded to the chief of the Hud dersfield police, and laid his case before him, but was miser ably disappointed on being informed that, without some clue to the route the rogues had taken, it was totally impossible to attempt to follow them. A printer was, however, set to work to produce some handbills, with a full description of their persons ; but, from the well-known craft of the Egyp tian tribe, it is net very likely he will ever succeed in either capturing the thieves or obtaining the restitution of his money ; so that, in the words of the Irishman, if he wishes to overtake them he must wait till they come back. It is really most amazing that an elderly man on the verge of sixty at least, a Yorkshireman too, should suffer himself to be so egregiously duped by so stale a trick. But there is an old proverb about " Fools and their money." MORAL INFLUENCE ON Tag RURAL LABOURER'S CHA RACTER, BY INCREASING HIS SELF-RESPECT.—Th s e care taken of their cottages and gardens (writes a benevolent land holder of Berkshire, who has bestowed much care on the cottages upon his own estate) affords an excellent criterion of the character of the labourers. I have paid especial at tention to those labourers who have displayed cleanliness and order ; and I pay the most respect to those who have achieved a situation of the greatest comfort, and keep themselves and their houses cleanly, and their children tidy. Formerly the cottages were in bad order, their pavements and windows broken ; I had them all paved, and their windows glazed. I told the cottagers, that I did not like to see shabby broken windows, with patches of paper and things stuffed in, or broken pavements, which ,bey could not clean, and that I disliked Irish' filth :Aud Irish habits of 4 living. I engaged, after the cottages were thoroughly repaired, to pay £1 a year for repairing them. I undertook to make the repairs myself.. 'and deduct the expenses from this ; but, if they %vented+ no repairs, they were to hare the whole £1 for themselves. This course has, I find, formed habits of care,; and their cot tages are now so well taken care of, that very little deduc tion is made annually from the la, Formerly they used to chop wood carelessly on their pavements, and broke them ; now they abstain from thepractiee, or do it in a careful man ner, to avoid losing the ,honey. In, the winter I give them two score of fagots towards their fuel. I have found that by this means I save my hedges and fences, and am pecuniarily no loser, whilst pilfering habits are repressed. Since toe eo closures have been made, I think some place Omelet be pro. vided for th e exerc i se a nd recreation of the \%:ogling classes, and especially for their children. Ihm set opt four acres at Oldworth, as a play-ground for the children, or whoever likes to play. The: have c s ow their cricket m a tches, their quoit playing, and t leir revels there. Sheep and cows feed on it, so that lt is no great loss to me. I let it for £4 a year to a wan, en condition that be cuts the hedges, and keeps it clean, I have surrounded it with a double avenue of trees. The sheep and cows do good to the ground, as they keep the grass under, which allows the ball to run. I give prizes to, the boys at the school, which is maintained by the cottagers themselves, and to which I contribute nothing but the prizes for reading, writing, and knitting. Many per s. wy s ac cuse the Poo , of ingratitude, but I find them I,he most grateful peo ple alive for these little attentions;, and what do they all cost me? Why, not more altogether than the keep of one fat coach-horse. Elie Etbrrpool tatibarb. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1842. We have never attempted to conceal from the readers of this journal our conviction, that to the disgracefully reckless management of their joint stock banks was to be attributed a great amount of the commercial derangement which has recently visited the neighbouring manufacturing districts. By the instrumentality of these ill-conducted establishments, men who but yesterday were moving in subordinate stations—striving perhaps honestly to elevate them selves to competence or even affluence, husbanding their hard-earned gains, and content to progress to wards their cherished object by the sure and steady path trod by their fathers-have been suddenly lifted up to the possession of almost boundless means, encouraged to embark in every description of hazardous investments, and have attained, by a short path, the possession of apparent wealth and fictitious station. Here was the secret of the inflated prosperity which visited us six years ago—which covered the land with mills, with railways, with mining and other specula tions of every degree of outrageous folly—which inun dated every foreign market with British merchandise, and puffed up petty shopkeepers, spinners, and weavers, into the substance of merchants—bubble merchants, fungi, men of paper rags and spurious credit—who jostled at every turn the steady and well informed possessor of that very capital from whose putrescence they had sprung. Here was the fertile cause of that giant increase of manufacturing produc tion and demand, from the cessation of which the whole industrial community is at this moment steeped in distress and suffering. Pre-eminent amongst these overgrown and viciously directed establishments stood the Bank of Manchester —in its working, and in the effects produced by that working, AN ENIGMA, a marvel to all those who, like ourselves, watched it from its first rising—an inex haustible producer of those wings with which beggars fly—a giant bubble, covering the land with its frothy spawn ! Unlike other similar concerns, this had, in addition to its inherent rottenness, the vice of a poli• tical bias in its management. The Bank of Man chester was WFIIG in every pore. It bled only to feed whiggery; it blew only whig bubbles; it was, from the chairman of its board of directors down to the scullion who dusted its counter, a brawling local whig faction ! 'Was there a crawling and subservient poli tical drudge in the community, that man kept an account with the Bank of Manchester, became fami liar with clean linen, exchanged his gossamer for a beaver, and was observed to outstrip all his less sub servient competitors on the road to greatness. Was there another, the obsequious follower of a Usurer's steps, basking in his smile, toadying him, dining with him, drinking with him, sitting with him in the con venticle, and huzzaing when he spluttered his specious "liberalism" or his rabid radicalism from the platforni: —all at once you saw him become, no one knew how, a merchant or a millowner; feed at his own table; sit in his own carriage, and even open his lips to speechify where before he durst only applaud ! Strange trans formations the world witnessed hourly ;—the worm of yesterday fluttering in the sun, a gaudy butterfly to day, in mockery of the sober and prudent tradesmen, into whose composition entered that noblest possession of man, an independent spirit ! But the bubble itself was outgrowing its strength. Its creatures were drawing from it its very vitals. The capital, of which it boasted the nominal possession, was absorbed in mills and machinery, for whose productions there was no longer a demand ; was scattered in foreign markets; was sunk in profitless speculations at home. The inflated prosperity which it had aided to create had passed away; the fictitious value, at which it had enabled and tempted its crea tures to invest, was no more. Their mills, their man sions, their stocks of goods had sustained a depreciation which threatened to sweep away the whole of the imaginary profits of past years ; and the remedy was to be sought in the reproduction—no matter by what means—of that fickle and baseless prosperity out of which their past greatneis had ripened,—the repro duction of a commercial frenzy—a manufacturing madness. To bring about that consummation arose— THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE ! The working of that seditious conspiracy is before the world. Its reckless and mendacious agitation-- its ferocious attacks upon property and rank—its exciting appeals to the brute force of the mob : these were the despairing efforts of sinking men—the ex piring throes of a rotten system about to burst in ruin over the heads of the brawlers. Its last stake was hazarded when the vain attempt was made to drive the working classes to a demonstration in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, or to an insurrection which might be converted into such. It was a gambler's throw in his desperation, and was lost; and, as its result, the wretched dupes of the League crowd our prisons, or are on their way to linger out the remains of a weary life in our penal settlements ; whilst the Bank of Manchester, the fertile fountain of the dis organisation of society, out of which the stream of sedition flowed in its desolating course, presents to the world a spectacle of bankruptcy, superadded to cor ruption, such as can scarcely be paralleled in the com mercial history of any nation ! Let us glance at a few of the items which compose the balance-sheet of this precious bank; or, as a share holder appropriately terms it, this " MANCHESTER SQUANDER !" The assets, consisting of current accounts, bills on hand, overdue hills, and similar trumpery securities, amount to £2,595,105 ; of this, no less than £800,887 is the amount set down as " bad," and how much more will turn out equally so time only can determine. The directors have to realise, to meet outstanding difficulties, no less than £1,810,462, which, deducting the estimated nett amount of the assets, shews a deficiency, to be provided for by a call upon the already impoverished share ' holders, of £16,248 ! The ENTIRE CAPITAL, there fore, of £741,030 is IRRETRIEVABLY GONE, in addi tion to a reserved surplus fund and " profit for the year"—(how can there be said to be any profit for the year ?)—amounting to £43,609, with the deficiency above mentioned, as still to be provided for by the shareholders ! That such a state of things could he produced in any well-regulated concern, or that it could result from legitimate banking, no sane man can believe ; and the report of the proceedings at; the recent general meeting, which we give in another column, will abun dantly chew that there has never been in the Bank of Manchester, either good regulation cur legitimate bank ing t A managing director, now a bankrupt, it will be seen, has been permitted to help hims,.?lf and his friends, notwithstanding the control of audi,:ors, co-directors, &c., to the large sum of £75,000. A firm in Man chester, who, a shareholder informed the meeting, " could not have borrowed on their own security the sum of £5,00 for two years," have been allowed to over draw to the extent of €lBO,OOO ! A concern in a neigh lapuring town has been allowed to overdraw to an almost equally ruinous extent,—to carry on their legi timate business ? No ! To improve their property — to build mansions and mills, to paint and to decorate. "It is within my knowledge," said a shareholder at the meeting on Friday, " that they have been recently lay. ing out thousands of pounds on coal mines, On paiiet works, on print works, on HALLS, on the removal of TREES TO DECORATE THOSE HALLS AND PALACES; and the day the bank stopped them in their proceed- ings, I am credibly informed that they had three hun dred out-door labourers employed." And how has this state of things grown up? Listen to the evidence of Mr. J.. C. Dyer—himself a di rector : "As regards Raleigh's account," says Mr. Dyer, " viewed it with great astonishment. I asked how it could be. that men of sane judgment, and intrusted with the care of other people's property, should allow this man to obtain nearly £50,000 from the bank.—(Hear, hear.) I said, Let him be stopped ;' and the answer I got was—' Why, he may be stopped, but he will turn up a trump after all, and we shall lose nothing by him." I resisted that, and I endeavoured to have that account brought to a close ; but it was said that taking into account the enormous amount of outstanding paper, received from Raleigh, and which the bank was bound to take up, over and above that amount, and used to raise funds for their daily transactions, to stop him then would stop the bank. That was the deliberate opinion of the board, and that if I did not give way, the bank would be stopped. I did give way ; and whatever amount the bank has lost from Raleigh, over and above what he was indebted at that time, must he attributed to the necessities of the case, or, in other words, to fear of stopping the bank t" In this way have its affairs progressed from bad to worse, until its present extinction. The Albion of yesterday, in his usual gibing way, finds fault with the address put forth by the candidate for Exchange Ward, Mr- North, for the profession which it contains of his religious opinions. The sneers 'of such a writer as our contemporary are scarcely, we must confess, a sufficient ground for our entering upon a serious defence of the tone of the address in ques tion. The-world knows well the kind of opinions upon the subject of religion which would . most surely win for a candidate for municipal or any other honours the support of the Albion. The possession of any feelings of reverence for the religion of the Established Church, or of any serious views of religion at all, appears, in the eyes of the dissenting and utilitarian party, to be a disqualification rather than otherwise for a seat in the council chamber. Men of serious religious convictions are " saints," are "in the odour of sanctity"; and are thereby incapacitated, it would seem, from con ducting. efficiently "the temporal affairs" of the tows or the state. We are really happy, however, to know that such is not the opinion of the majority of the town of Liver pool; and we much question whether it is that of the majority of the burgesses of Exchange Ward. The " earnest high-churehtnanship" of Mr. North has never, we believe, been considered to shake the confi dence entertained in him by those who, in his capacity as an eminent member of the legal profession, entrust him with the management of their temporal affairs. Most people, on the contrary, imagine that such an "earnest feeling on the subject of religion" increases his trustworthiness. And if this be the case in our private matters—if we readily entrust to a gentleman of the high character of Mr. North or any other of the " saints," the management of our property, why should we withdraw our confidence just at that point when such a character ought to be deemed by us, as rational men, a recommendation ? The duties of a member of the council are not restricted to a consideration for the mere bricks and stones of the borough. He has, or ought to have, to care for higher interests—for the moral improvement and the protection of life and health of the community ; and for the promotion of these we would most certainly depend more implicitly upon the serious religionist than unon the utilitarian sectarist or the man of no religion. The burgesses of Castle -street, we believe, will not . be driven from their purposes by the sneers of a clique to whom, perhaps as the able solicitor to the Ware house Association during a recent struggle, their candidate is particularly obnoxious. They w!ll not esteem it a disqualification in that gentleman for a seat in the council that he professes the "old-fashioned Toryism of bygone days"—that he reveres the doctrines and practices of the Established Church in all their integrity, and that he has the manly honesty thus pub licly to declare " the faith that is in him." Mr. Robinson, of Great George's Ward, has issued, we perceive, a second address to his constituents. As the document is not long, we give him the benefit of its insertion here, in return for which kindness on our part he Ivill permit us to offer upon it a few remarks. But, first, let Mr. Robinson speak : " Gentlemen,—Since I addressed you last week, I have learned with regret, that my opinions upon the system of education in the Corporation Schools are at variance with some of those Conservative friends who supported me in the last election. " I am not ambitious of a seat in the council, but I consider that my retirement at this time would imply a desertion of duty, and involve a principle of right, which it is the interest of all parties to vindicate and uphold. " On these grounds, and in justice to those friends who think with me, I feel imperatively called upon to stand forth again as a candidate for your suffrages and support, and remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, " THOMAS ROBINSON: " Bootle, 17th October, 1842." Mr. Robinson has discovered that his "opinions upon the system of education in the corporation schools are at variance with" (the opinions of) " some of those Conservative friends who supported him in the last election." (He will excuse us for putting this passage into decent English.) May we ask Mr. Ro binson where he has been, that this discovery has not sooner burst upon his mind ? Some of those Con servative Friends! rather say the bulk of them ; for we venture to say, that, let him speak out upon this edu cation question, instead of clothing his opinions upon it in vague generalities, and he will find nine-tenths of the Conservatives of the ward utterly indisposed to. tolerate his pretensions to represent them in the . Council. TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY.-Our report of the proceed ings of the monthly meeting of this society is unavoidably postponed until Friday. If the postmaster at a village not a hundred miles from Milnthorpe will hereafter refrain from opening any of our subscribers' . copies, we will gratuitously forward him a copy of the STANDARD; we have not yet decided whether or not we shall bring this affair before the Postmaster- General. Admitting, however, that Mr. Robinson is not in-. formed. of the extent of distaste existing towards him,• on the part of the Conservatives, as the representative . of this ward ; and what should be the course of a true Conservative candidate ? Distaste does exist. He ac knowledges it; and he knows that he can never, with. the opinions which he holds, sit as the choice of the con servative Burgesses of Great George's. If returned at all for that ward, he will be returned by the aid of Radical ism ! He must forfeit all claim to be considered as the: representative of Conservatism; and surely he is bound to wave his own opinions upon this one point rather than condescend to be sent into the Council as a mere . missile, which Whig-Radicalism, in its hopelessness of returning a candidate of its own, selects to throw in; the face of its otherwise triumphant opponent. There can be no " principle of right" in a man, professing Conservative opinions, persisting in his claim to the representation of a constituency of which, even if returned, he cannot for a moment maintain , that he expresses fully the sentiments of the majority. LOCAL NEWS. An account of the unfortunate loss of the Brigand fraui steamer, on her passage to London, given in a letter to us' from her commander, appears in another column. Tke par ticulars furnish another instance of the excellent demeanour of English commanders and English sailors in trying and dangerous situations, and demonstrate also that the perils of the ocean are of such a varied character, as at times to baffle all human prudence and calculation. FOREIGN SALTED MEAT.—Large quantities of foreign salted meat, imported under the new tariff, were on sale, on Saturday last, in the markets, as well as the shops in differ ent parts of the town. The demand was extensive, and the sales quick. Salt beef sold retail at fourpence and salt pork at twopence halfpenny the pound. Should the meat now on the market eat well, the consumption will be great and in creasing. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF CLOTHES.—A coloured man, who stated his name to be John Peters, was stopped on Tuesday night, in Water-street, by Inspector Andrews, and detained in Bridewell, because he was unable to explain satisfactorily his possession of certain articles of wearing ap parel. He was then wearing a new blue cloth coat, three pair of new trousers under an old pair, and two cotton shirts ; besides which he had in a bundle three silk vests, quite new, three pair of shoes, a cloth cap, and two silk handkerchiefs. The following day, (Friday,) the prisoner was examined at the police court; but, as no owner could be found for the clothes, and he protested they were his own, he was dis charged. About half-past two o'clock on Saturday morning , he was in Wapping, when he was seen and stopped by police officer No. 481. He had then upon his person two pairs of of new trousers, arid a pair of new drawers under his old trousers, a jacket, a new top-coat, and two new shirts. hi the pocket of the topcoat were found a pair of shoes quite new. He was examined at the Police Court on Saturday , and remanded for further inquiry. Yesterday (Monday) the prisoner was again brought up, when the whole of the property was identified as belonging to Mr. Marks, outfitter, of Wapping, from whose shop it was stolen in the course of last week. The value of it was stated to be upwards of £14.- The prisoner who made no defence, was committed to the sessions.