The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS , YOUNG SUBSCRIBER.—TO the first question, " No," as far as the canon law of England is coucerned. To the second, Several communications we are compelled to hold over Libtrpoot &tanbartt. Yearly 4ubscription In Advance, 15s. ;mg._ On Credit, 17s. TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 21, 1847 ON Friday evening,' an incident occurred in the House of Lords, which is worthy of some observa lion, as prefiguring what may be the tendency of tile Protestant mind of the empire, if outraged be yond endurance by further concessions to the en coaching spirit of Popery. The Earl of Clancarty, on presenting himself to resume his seat in the souse, declined taking the oath of supremacy; and bpplied to be permitted to take in its stead the oath prescribed in the 10th Geo. IV., chap. 7, (the Emancipation Act). This claim was met by the Earl of Shaftesbury, by the question—" Are you a member of the Church of England ?" The answer was, of course, in the affirmative, upon which it w►as decided by Lord Shaftesbury that the Earl •ould not be sworn except in the usual manner. His lordship on the same evening addressed a letter to the Times, explaining the grounds upon which he made this unusual application, from which we extract the following passage, conveying his objections to the taking of the oath of Supremacy : _ "It had always appeared to me that in what is (-RUM the of Su )ng as persons within th mum actinowieugeu a spiritual subjection Lv Some; but, believing that the oath was never intended or understood to express more than that by the laws and constitution of the realm, no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate bath or ought to have any ju- Indiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm,' and that it was originally designed to keep the legislature, m ag i s t ra t es , and officers of state constantly in mind of the separation from the papal authority that had then been recently ef fected, and of the policy that should be thencefor'- adhered to, I did not hesitate as long as that - he see o the maintained, to comply witlithe requirement of the law by t-' ng the oati The provisions of the so-called Catholic Relief Bill, he says, did not appear to him to be in viola tion of the oath, inasmuch as, whilst admitting members of the Church of Rome to increased civil privileges, it was accompanied by the imposition upon them of the most solemn obligation to ab stain from any acts by which the Protestant church might be disturbed, or weakened, and by the re enactment of penalties against the unauthorized assumption of ecclesiastical titles, and by enact ments for the suppression of the Jesuits, and other religious orders of the Church of Rome. " The case, however, h 1844, the Charitable Bequi act the ecclesiastical ranks me very different when, in lions in Ireland of persons in holy order of Rome are distir is them as such I tired f the Church eessors in continued succession, conformably with the usages and discipline of the Church of Rome. It there fore appears to me that it cannot be affirmed as a fact, that no foreign person or prelate hath any authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within the realm : for the eccl iriastical authority Parliament in the course of the tooth Bill in 1845, when I challenged LI - , however, hearing anything in the lake the opinion I had adopted.' " See Hansard's Debates on the 2d and 3d readings of the Xaynooth Bill.) Thenceforward Lord Clanc not only the r actual force of law. fully stated in my ph debates on the Maya contradiction withou -1- These opinions I have reiii—inou; ty could not, with it, however, occurred to his him that he might avail himself of the t that prescribed by the Act 10th Geo. IV. Chap. 7, which, whilst it releases from their disability those who conscientiously objected to take the oath of supremacy, at the same time binds them to the most faithful allegiance to the Sovereign, and prac tically to the conservation of the Protestant religion and Protestant government. The oath of 10th Geo. IV. Chap. 7, however, was designed specially for persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion ; and the question arose with him,—how were the terms Roman Catholic religion to be understood Rome, and belief in tho . se traditions which the Pro testant churches have repudiated as being contrary to Scripture ? The conclusion to which he came was that, the Church of Rome, having by the adop tion of these traditions, become a dissenting church, had no right to the term "Catholic" at all; and the Act of Parliament styling that church " Roman Catholic" could not be held correctly to describe former statutes ref professing t Rome, the p erred to as a Popish Church, )plied to a church v be E 3e religion f the early Christians at 'aith, he remarked, S of whos . . "St. Paul has handed down to us in the undying words of his inspired epistle, and those who hold it, as every member of the church of England must do, may be there fore said to profess the Roman Catholic religion, certainly the only Catholic religion which can with propriety be denominated Roman." _ _ _ There is some little obscurity here, mixed up with much truth. The obscurity is caused by the concession—an unthanked-for one—madeto Popery by our legislators in modern days, in conceding to it any right to the use of the term `• Catholic" at all. The early Christians at Rome had no wish to be )3poken of as a Roman Catholic Church; and the present Romish Church has no right to be styled „Roman Catholic, which is indeed a contradiction in terms, the words "particularly universal" are just as appropriate. Moreover, we can scarcely approve of his Lordship's step in attempting to warp the known and original meaning of the word ing of the act to his own purpose, although we are compelled to admit that his scruples, as to the oath of supremacy, are fully justified. His lordship states that he has written the letter, from which we have quoted, hastily ; and perhaps in seeking to adopt the Act 10th of George IV. he has acted without sufficient consideration of the _subject. It is clear however, and we must thank him for it, that he has started an important ques tion for the consideration of the Protestant public 11,nd Protestant Legislators, who will have to take hereafter an oath, the terms of which they cannot substantiate. THE warehouse owners of Liverpool are really a most unfortunate body. Do what they will, it would seem to be an impossibility for them to do right. Sacrifice what they may, of their own inte -rests, they fail in satisfying those even for whose -advantage they most earnestly strive. For years *bey have been objects of constant abuse to the .Whig Radical portion of the community and to its press. Paying a larger proportion of rates than any other class in the borough, they have, never theless, been accused of selfishness in requiring 'that they should not be sacrificed to advance the interests of parties paying nothing like the same amount towards the public burthens. Their oppo ;salon to the erection of dock warehouses, to be , conducted by a public body, with funds belonging to a public trust, and erected upon property pur chased by that trust at half the price which would have been realized had it been offered to open corn 'petition, was set down as the prompting of avarice -and of a longing for monopoly. The interests of important trades sought to be engrossed by that public body—the rights of coopers, porters, and others, infringed upon by the advocates of dock warehouses, were urged by them with great reason and shew of justice; but the reply was, a reference to their fondness for warehouse rates, and a more than insinuation that self, self, was at the bottom of it all. Within the past week, however, it has been dis covered that there are times in which the most discordant materials may work together. The Dock Committee brought forward a bill, in accor dance with the requirements of their former act of parliament, applying for further powers to erect warehouses on the dock quays, and especially to be enabled to carry out a scheme for the formation of docks in Wapping, and to conclude a purchase of strand on the North Shore, the importance of which has been acknowledged on an hands. In the bill in question, however, it was discovered that there was no clause for the rating of the n ew warehouses proposed to be erected ; and, upon this point arose a temporary amalgamation of interest between the " liberal" tradesmen of the town, and the heretofore much vilified warehouse owners. They discovered that they were fellow sufferers in this question of dock warehouse rating; and an agitation was commenced to enforce the insertion of . a clause in the bill by which the new warehouses to be erected upon the dock quays would be made rateable to the local burthens equably with ware houses otherwise situated, shops, dwellings, and other species of property. In the agitation to effect this object there were *lle . more earnest and active than the Liverpool Mercury, and the Liberal portion of the Select Vestry. It was joined in by a large majority of the shopkeepers and rate-payers generally, the ware house owners only appearing as those most largely affected in the question. Meetings were held to influence public opinion ; members of the council were canvassed by their constituencies ; memorials were poured in to the Mayor. praying the Council to insist upon the insertion of a clause in the dock bill, if that could be legally done; or, as the alter native, to suspend all further proceedings until next session of parliament. The decision of the council, under the circumstances, and with the strong public feeling existing upon the subject be fore their eyes, is known to most of our readers. As such clause could not now originate with them, as dock trustees, they adopted the alternative prayed for, of withdrawing the bill, at least so far as regards the conferring of new powers, rather than incur the risk of trusting to the committee of parliament to insert the clause. With the wisdom of this decision of the Council we have nothing here to do, although it really seems to us a rather unnecessary proceeding, and quite beside the question of rating, to tie the hands of the Dock Committee with respect to the com pletion of the north shore purchase. But it does strike us as most unfair and utterly inconsistent that, in their effort to procure a rating clause, hav ing lost the warehouses themselves, our contempo rary, the Mercury, and the party with which he or dinarily acts, should turn round at once upon the astounded world, and point to the unfortunate warehouse owners, whom they were hugging in their arms but yesterday, and proclaim " it was all heir doing fake our contemporary's version of ,he story, and never were a set of innocents so tho roughly bamboozled as they have been in this busi . They attempted to use the warehouse owners, and they complain now that the warehouse owners have used them. They borrowed the case of these gentlemen, in order to get up a feeling of sym pathy towards them, which was to aid the progress of the agitation ; and they intended to part company 'in as they had, by such aid, carried —4-.l v the feeling created has with them as carried them further than they wished to go showing the injustice of a body of private - ind duals, who contribute one-third, or perhaps half of the sum required for the payment of our local bur thens, being required to compete with a public body which contributes nothing, they raised the ques tion, which has slept for the last few years, whe ther there is any immediate necessity for such com petition on any terms. How absurd, then, is such language as the following, which appeared in the Mercury of Friday gh t more " Strong as the warehouse-owners' interest. was known to be in the Town Council, we doubted its power and daring to set at naug which, promoted at tt ause o ct of Parliament, chants Of this town, wa: a,Kuu u. buc .ustare ro Oulict on the quays of its own docks warehouses, admitted by all else to be necessary to ld of the country at large those of prii r ate individuals Will be tolerated by the mer chants of Liverpool, by the executive government of the . . .. country, or by parliament, remains to be seen _ NotWithsta - nciing the gloom which pervades the com mercial world,_the mercantile spirit is surely still too nuoyant to sutler, unopposed, this subjection of public right and advantages to the unjust and wasteful support of individual interests. It is probable, moreover, that a question will arise, in the highest quarters, as to the propriety of withdrawing the management of the docks from those who, as Trustees, when debating upon mea sures for rendering those docks more beneficial to the trade of the country, talk of " protecting" their " own property" in contradistinction to the public good. " The extraordinary, almost mysterious omission in the Dock Bill of the rating clause, to which the Albert Dock warehouses are subjected, and the excitement 'out of doors which this omission occasioned, gave the opening which the warehouse-owning party availed themselves of to destroy the Dock Bill in its most essential point. For the rating clause there were special reasons, which good policy, if not justice, required should not, for a moment, have been disputed. _ _ We are not aware that Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Danson, Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Bradley, and other gentlemen who took part in the meeting at the Clarendon-rooms, on Monday last, and have done so much to rouse the tradesmen of the town to a movement which should influence the Council in f 4;, - ravour of a rating clause, are connected at all with warehouse property; yet we doubt whether any one of them would have hesitated to throw out the bill rather than that it should pass the Council without such a clause. As to the threat "that a question will arise, in the highest quarters, as to the pro priety of withdrawing the management of the docks from those who, as trustees. when debating upon measures for rendering those docks m ore beneficial to the trade of the country, talk of 'protecting' their own property in contradistinction to the ` public good,' " we know of nothing so strongly confirma tory of the propriety of the course taken by the Dock Committee as the admission which it infers. If the docks of Liverpool are so far public property, or designed for the " public good," in contradis tinction to the good of the inhabitants of Liverpool, that they can be taken possession of by government, what right have we to talk of raising £45,000 per annum from warehouses upon their quays to relieve ourselves from our own local . burthens ? A Go vernment Board, managing our Dock Estate for the interest of the country at large, would no more allow any portion of its revenues to be appropriated to the payment of the hurthens of the parish of Liverpool than of those of Manchester, Bristol, or any other town. SUSPENSION IN LIVERPOOL. We deeply regret to state that in consequence of the very severe pressure of the times, and the serious dete rioration of the value of property, the old-established and highly-esteemed American house of Messrs. Thomas and Joseph Sands and Co. has been compelled to suspend Pect that all the creditors will be ultimately paid in full. It is only justice to the house of Sands, Turner, and Co., with which Mr. Thomas Sands is also connected, to say that that firm will not be affected by the suspension of the American house. LIVERPOOL DECEMBER SESSIONS The sessions for the trial of prisoners in the Borough Gaol commenced yesterday, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the Recorder. The calendar contained the names of 132 prisoners for felony, and 15 for misdemeanours. Of these, 67 could read and write imperfectly, 20 could read imperfectly, 8 could read and write well, and 52 could neither read nor write. The following gentlemen were sworn in to constitute THE GRAND JURY. Charles Ellis Ashton, stock and share broker, Liver-chambers, Tithebarn-street. Edward Pellew Arthur, merchant, New Quay. John Beckwith, broker, Virginia-buildings, South Chapel-st. Thomas Brancker, jun., commission agent, Rumford-place. Robert Lewin Bolton, merchant, Brunswick-street. Richard Bevan, wine -merchant, Virginia-buildings, South Chapel-street. Charles Cusack, corn-merchant, Brunswick-street. Charles Frederick Came, merchant, Water-street. James Currie Duncan, merchant, Exchange-chambers, Tithe barn-street. William Joseph Myers, broker, Exchan Ye-alley North. John Marriott, cotton,broker, Exchange-buildings. James Hardy Macrae, cotton-broker, Tithebarn-street. Duncan M`Viccar, cotton-broker, Fhaw-street. Daniel Powell, commission merchant, Matthew-street. Thos. Rowlandson Robinson, wine -merchant, Hatton-garden. Thomas Rees, corn-merchant, Shaw-street. Henry Romilly, merchant, 7, Water-street. Thomas Jevons, iron-merchant, New Quay. The proclamation against vice and immorality having been read, The learned RECORDER, addressing the Grand Jury, said :—I regret, gentlemen, that you have a very heavy calendar to dispose of. It is not, however, my intention to make any observations upon it, on the present occa sion ; and I shall dismiss you at once to those duties which you so well know how to discharge. Some true bills having been found, the trials proceeded, but presented no feature of peculiar interest. It is understood that the amount of bills falling due on the 24th, 25th, and 26th instant is extremely heavy. It may therefore be desirable to remind parties in the coun try that the two latter days being Christmas day and Sunday, the whole must be provided for on Friday, the 24th. From the county of Longford there is the sickening intelligence of a brutal murder fully accomplished, and an attempt in the adjacent county of Leitrim to assassi nate a man in his own house, and in the presence of his servants, who, almost as a matter of course, looked on without making the slightest effort to save the life of their master or stay the hands of the murderers. NARROW ESCAPE OF WM. RATRBONE, ESQ.—At the election yesterday this gentleman had a narrow escape from accident. When the company were about to leave Newton, he stopped for a moment to shake hands with one of his principal supporters for Vauxhall Ward, when the signal was given for the train starting. Away ran the venerable councillor, and jumped on the step of one of the carriages. He then discovered that the train he had attempted to get into was not the special one conveying himself and friends, but it had acquired such velocity that it was impossible for him to l eave w ith s a f e ty. Th e wor thy councillor for a moment appeared confused, but was im mediately seizedfromd perilous position by some kind hisil by the collar and pulled him into the carriage. We have o ft en seen t h e wort h y gen tleman play the harlequin on the platform, but we little dreamt of being eye witness to su c h pran k s i n a ra il way train. He, however, disappeared —not like his prototype, through the door, but head first through the window ; we are happy to add, without the slightest injury, sour"' LANCASHIRE ELECTION, This election took place yesterday at Newton. There being only one candidate, and that the nominee of the League, the affair did not excite the least interest ; and had it not been that the body granted free tickets to Newton and back, to numbers of their minions from this town and Manchester, there is great doubt whether the sheriff's mandate, summoning his special county court, would have drawn together a dozen freeholders. As it was, about eighty persons travelled from this town, and somewhere about the same number from Manchester. The members of the Radical press were also supplied with free tickets, of which the Manchester Guardian, distrusting, we suppose, the talents of any single reporter to do full justice to the proceedings, availed itself of no less than three. We imagine one of our reporters quite capable of affording as comprehensive a report of the affair as the reader will thank us for, premising, however, that the cost is at the expense of the proprietors alone. Shortly after ten o'clock the High-sheriff, Win. Gale, Esq., of Laburnham House, Ulverston, with the Under sheriffs, Mr. F. Yarker, solicitor, of Ulverston, and Mr. Wilson, solicitor, of Preston. arrived in the room ; and also the candidate and his friends, amongst whom we noticed Wm. Earle, Esq., W. Rathbone, Esq., Wm. Brown, ..Esq., of Liverpool ; R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., S. P. Robinson, Esq., George Wilson, Esq., W. Rayner Woods, Egg., Thos. Bazley, Esq., chairman of the cham ber of commerce ; Alderman Hervey, of Manchester ; E. Ashworth, Esq., Bolton ; T. B. Addison, Esq., Pres ton, &c., &c. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, The HIGH SHERIFF rose, and said he certainly little thought that, in his short year of office, he should have had to preside at another election for the county. They were aware that a few months ago they elected two mem bers to represent that division of the county in parliament. One of these having been elected for another place. had chosen Wolverhampton instead of the Southern Division, consequently the power was again placed in their hands, and he (the High Sheriff) trusted they would be more fortunate on the present occasion, by the election of a man who would not Only be willing to represent their in terests, but would also take his seat when elected. He claimed for them all perfect liberty of speech, and for each candidate a fair and impartial hearing. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., then came forward, and was greeted with loud cheers. When it had subsided, he said they had met that day for the purpose of returning to Parlia ment a representative of the Southern Division of Lan caster, in place of the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, who had been well described in her Majesty's w'it just read as " nor well-hplovpd and faitlifill enhinot " ~,.4 been able, for reasons which had been explained to them, to take his seat. Deeply as he (Mr. Cobden) regretted the position in which his hon. friend, Mr. Villiers, was placed, upon public grounds, he for one did not regret that the Southern Division of Lancashire did itgoklf the honour and him (Mr. Villiers) the justice to return the hon. gentleman, because it had enabled them to perform their duty in the face of the country and the world, and to manifest their sense of gratitude towards a faithful servant in a good cause. (Cheers.) They were that day met to find a proper substitute for their friend Mr. Villiers, and he frankly confessed that it was not an easy task. He, however, begged leave to introduce to them the name of a gentleman well known in Manchester, and he (Mr. Cobden) believed also in Liverpool, as one of the most extensive merchants in Manchester, who had contributed more than any other to forward the great principles they pis utmost to give employment le trade of that neighbour vat wealth for the advantage prolessec to those s surrounded. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He was a gentleman amiable in all the re e, but that, he (Mr. Cobden) should not con- Tit if he did not possess other qualifications. (Hear, hear.) The gentleman was well known to all. Who had taken a more prominent part than he had, but who still had felt the strongest sympathy for the political, social, and moral progress of his fellow-countrymen. He had always been ready to give the most substantial proofs of his zeal in the onward movement, and if he had not come forward more publicly he (Mr. Cobden) looked upon it as the greatest proof of his sincerity, for he left to others the eclat of all the public proceedings. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He begged leave to propose Mr. Alexander Henry as a fit and proper person to represent the Southern Division of Lancashire in the Commons House of Parlia ment. (Three times three.) It would be in the recol lection of many present that on a former occasion there was a meeting held in Manchester—not so numerous, however, as that he was then addressing—at which the name of Mr. Henry was proposed and adopted as a candi date for that division of the county. That committee comprised the names of all those who were members of Mr. Villiers's former committee. Circulars were sent to each of them to enable them to assist in the choice of a candidate, and he mentioned that in order that it might not be supposed that Manchester arrogated to itself the right of selecting a candidate. They, however, did think that committee was the very body to nominate a candidate in the place of Mr. Villiers, and he thought it not an invidious selection in any way, for as a colleague to Mr. Brown, who comprised not only the highest qualities with amiability in private life, and the largest experience in mercantile affairs, who so fit as a gentleman equally qualified in all those particulars ? He, (Mr. Cobden) therefore, did say that there was nothing invidous in Manchester and Liverpool sending their two first mer chants to represent South Lancashire. (Loud cheers.) But since he (Mr. Cobden) had the honour of proposing Mr. Henry at the meeting to which he alluded, that gentleman had paid some visits throughout the dis trict. Ile had seen the friends of free trade and liberal opinions, and they had been afforded the opportunity of making themselves acquainted with his principles. (Hear, hear.) But what were the principles he maint ined ? He was the friend of civil and religious liberty, and favourable to vote by ballot. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He (Mr. Cobden) was glad to hear that cheer in favour of the ballot. (Loud cheers.) He never beard any rational objection to the ballot. (Continued cheers.) To be sure, he had heard some people say it was un-English ; but those who called it un-English, were generally such as came down to the house from the Carlton or Conservative clubs, from the East India House or the Bank of England, where they invariably elected their members by ballot. (Loud cheers.) But he believed there were those who said the ballot was a very revolutionary measure. Well, then, the Carlton and Conservative clubs must be very revolu cionary, for they always elected their members by ballot. (Cheers.) A VOICE.—How do you like that Mr. Brown ? (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. COBDEN.—Whv, it was not only in America that they voted by ballot, but almost all over the continent, as he (Mr. Cobden) had seen during his recent tour. (Cheers.) When he was travelling in Spain, he saw the elections going on, and the mode of voting was by ballot. When in Russia, he found in every parish there were municipal bodies elected, and the system there was house hold suffrage and vote by ballot throughout the whole empire of Russia. (Loud and continued cheers.) Something had been said by an honourable elector about Mr. Brown's opinion on the ballot. Now, if he under stood the sentiments of his hon. friend aright, they were these. It was not that he cared how people voted, they might vote as they liked so far as he was concerned, be cause he was the free choice of the whole body of electors, but he had his doubts as to the consequences of the bal lot. Mr. Brown had his doubts whether it would be pro ductive of all the advantages its advocates anticipated. He, (Mr. Cobden) however, said the ballot would remove a great deal of pain and suffering from a large body of electors who at present were subject to improper influ ence. (Applause.) It would enable them to vote as they pleased. It would probably enable a great number to support liberal opinions who at present were comp elled i nc linations. to exercise their franchise contrary to their All he (Mr. Cobden) contended for wast hat vote as they wished without being subject to impro per influence. (Loud cheers.) But Mr. . Henry was also people should j a Church and State Reformer, (loud cheers) and he (Mr. Cobden) believed the best way to support the Church, or any other establishment, was by reforming its abuses, and it was those Mr. Henry would reform. (Applause.) He believed too that was what the friends of the Church themselves would do, as a great many members of it were now doing in Manchester, who had evinced their anxiety to reform the pecuniary affairs of the church in that town. (Cheers.) Well, but Mr. Henry had also de clared that he was a warm advocate for free trade, and he would be able to deal with the subject in all--its vari— ous ramifications because he had that experience not only with this community, but with the world at large, which would enable him to carry out its principles to the fullest extent. (Cheers.) He was also a friend to the abolition of the navigation laws. That was a subject upon which Mr. Henry, as well as Mr. Brown, were quite as competent to judge as any who could be found. During the present session, too, they would have the sugar question under their consideration, and, notwith standing the outcry of the colonists for protection, it was a subject which must undergo revision. The cry of the colonists was for protection to get them out of the diffi culties by which they were surrounded ; but he (Mr. Cobden) asked what it was which had brought the colo nies into those difficulties ? Was it not protection ? They had been the children of protection for the last thirty or forty years, and what was the result ? Look to the condition of their large houses—look at the condition of the planters ; and they would find the utter worthless ness of that rotten prop, protection. (Loud cheers.) But there was another view of the system of protection which' he (Mr. Cobden) was anxious to press upon their consi deration. He wanted free trade not merely in corn, and sugar, and shipping, but what he wanted was to see the spirit of free trade enter into the hearts of the people of this country, and what it necessarily implied when pro perly understood. (Hear, hear, hear.) What was free trade ? They proposed the abolition, or at any rate a great modification of the navigation laws—to admit the ships of all the countries of the world to enter our ports — they proposed not merely to admit corn, cotton, and sugar, but to throw open our ports to all the commodi ties produced on the face of the earth, without regard to any differential duties or protection to native industry — (applause) what did that imply but a growing sympathy between the people of this country and the people of all other countries in the world. Would not that conduct spread abroad the spirit of amity and peace throughout the world. (Loud cheers.) If that be the mere tendency of their principles, and he (Mr. Cobden) should never have given even a year's exertion in their behalf if it were not so,—what was the use of increasing the army and strengthening the defences on our coasts. (Hear, hear.) He found on this subject what he had stated the other day at Stockport had been misunderstood. He ven. tared to state something with reference to the increase of the army and the increase of our fortifications, and he found it had been thought that he proposed to same no less than £17,000,000 a-year by the reduction of our army and navy. He (Mr. Cobden) had not pro Posed anything so good for the country ; what be reallY dui say was this, if they were right in theip free trade principles. ations o they were - wrong to begin to put up fortifications all along the coast ; and, moreover, he had stated that the great item in which they could make any reduction for the advantage of the country, was that horrible expendi ture of £17,000,000 a-year for the support of our army and navy. (Cheers.) If they could not make a reduction there he did not think they would ever make any which would be sensibly felt in the pockets of the people. (Applause.) That, however, must be done by a change in the principles of the people of this country. • (Loud cheers.) Since he came into that room a gentleman had put into his (Mr. Cobden's) hands a paper with reference to the duty on tea. He had not read the paper, but he supposed it was in fa vour of a reduction from 2s. to ls. Suppose that was brought about, some would say, then comes the question how is the revenue to be made up ? (Hear, bear.) He (Mr. Cobden) perfectly concurred with them that it would be of advantage to make the proposed reduction—nay more, if it could be accomplished he was of opinion it would lead to a much greater extension of our trade with China than in sending out two or three ships of war, or taking pos session of some territory in the Indian Archipelago to serve as a half-way house batween this country and China. (Cheers.) But they wanted to raise money to make up for the deficiency, and he (Mr. Cobden) thought that they could not reduce taxation without also reducing the army and navy. They might shift it, but shift it as they would the load would still be upon the shoulders of the people. (Hear and cheers.) If free-trade principles were allowed to prevail he (Mr. Cobden) was of opinion that it would have the effect of doing away with that spirit of jealous rivalry which had long existed against this country, the result of monopoly ; but the moment their ports were opened—the moment you allow the ships of all na tions to enter them—the moment your colonies are open (for at present they claim the right to trade with all the world, though they wish for exclusive privileges for themselves), the moment they did that other countries would be ready to enter into that pacific career of amity as they were now to cultivate the opposite spirit. (Cheers.) This, however, was condemned as im practicable, as utopian. He (Mr. C4bden) contended that they were anything but utopian, for they were the very same as he had always held, and such as he had ad vocated in pamphlets, published twelve years ago. (Loud cheers.) Free-trade with him had only been a labour of loveto carry out the views he had always entertained, and he believed the time was fast approaching when it would be found that it was not by warfare nor hostile tariffs that the interests of this country could prosper. (Loud ap plause.) He did not like to be continually holding out to other nations unfriendly hands or the stinging nettle, but the olive branch of peace and sincerity : and if they did so depend upon it the rest of the world would be glad to fol their example. (Continued cheers.) There was no country in the world growing under an enormous debt, which would not be ready to relieve themselves in such a manner as he had mentioned, namely, a reduction of the arms Take France for example. She had not a larger army than Russia, Prussia, and Austria. They were all armed because they were all equally jealous of each other, but they were all equally burthened—France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria were just the same. He wanted England to take the lead in a partial disarmament of Europe. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Instead of sending diplomatists to the Continent for the purpose of of settling some squabble about the marriage of some boys and girls, or about an invitation to dinner, however he wished them to go and say to France and the other powers of Europe—" We have reduced our army and navy;— instead of increasing yours, let us agree, like human be ings, to a pro rata reduction of our armies and navies. We shall then be all alike, and if we should be plunged in war, all will be the better prepared for it." (Cheers.) Was there anything Utopian in this? (Hear, hear.) It was common sense, and if our government would adopt it, he was satisfied, from personal information and perso nal intercourse with many of the principal persons in fo reign countries, that they would lead the nations of Europe back into that course from which they had only departed to the injury of their people, and the great scan dal of Christianity. (Loud cheers.) He was sorry to have occupied so much of their time ;—(Cries of Go on")—but as what he had stated at Stockport had been misunderstood. he was anxious to set himself right. After some further observations, the hon. member concluded by proposing Alexander Henry, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent the Southern Division of the County, and sat down amid loud cheers. WM. RATHBONE, Esq. came forward to second the nomination, and was received with loud cheers. After some introductory observations he said he rejoiced that so practical a man was going to represent the manufacturing and commercial interests of the county, on which, he ven tured to think, the prosperity of the land depended. After some observations in favour of free trade and economy, the speaker made an attack upon the grand jury at the late assizes, for not taking up the question of education, in the course of which he said he considered it a profana tion of religion to permit all the souls of the young to go down to hell, when those in authority would not take up the subject because of their religious differences, and con cluded by seconding the nomination. ALEXANDER HENRY, Esq., then came forward to ad dress the electors, and was received with loud cheers. He said, in appearing before them as a candidate for their support to send him to parliament as the representative of that large and intelligent division of South Lancashire, he trusted they would permit him, in the first place, to return thanks to the gentleman who had introduced his name to them. He considered it no small honour to have been proposed by that great and distinguished philanthro pist, who had, through evil report and good report, advo cated and established the principles of free trade, upon which he then stood before them. (Hear and cheers.) He was very sensible of the deficiency he laboured under in being elected as their representative, and he by no means possessed those qualifications which they had a right to expect in the person they sent to parliament. (Hear, hear.) No one could hold a more humble opinion of those qualifications than he who then addressed them ; but in him they would find a zealous determination to carry into effect the great principles which he had stated in his address to the electors, and, under such circum stances, he trusted they would be disposed to overlook deficiencies of less importance. He then went on to declare his political principles. He was the friend of civil and religious liberty, in the largest acceptation of the word. He was favourable to the utmost diffusion of edu cation without regard to sect or party. He was an advocate for the utmost extension of commercial freedom, and for the abolition of all monopolies and exclusive privileges. (Cheers.) If they sent him to Parliament his constant efforts would be directed to carry these principles into effect. They necessarily wanted the passing of just and equal laws, the enlightenment and moral improvement of the people, the abolition of unjust monopolies, the culti vation of peace and good order, and the practice of the most rigid economy in the public expenditure. (Cheers.) From the result of his canvass he had a right to conclude that these principles were those of a majority of tho electors of South Lancashire, for when was it known that a candidate professing those principles had been allowed to be elected without the most fierce opposition. (Cheers.) How did it happen that an humble individual like himself, without family connexion in the county, should be al lowed to become the representative of such a com munity without a contest ? (Hear, hear.) The answer was, that they were tired of party politics, and were de termined to give a fair trial to the principles he professed. (Cheers.) After thanking them for the reception he had met with during his canvass, he said he had observed the prevalence of three great points during his canvas. First, the diffusion of education and the instruction of the people ; second, the doing away with all monopolies and exclusive privileges, and the establishment of the princi mpnlieitnysaottflofrnreetoeufrttnrhatdaotepc;:armniimdanet,hreeniirtataiawp.pieoaanbriietfdrasecttaoplbrientelthn:edeprdzel:treccile-i. f themseives—men who, by t he ir o ybe supposed to have some knowledge of the wants may interests of the community he was called upon to represent. (Cheers.) He was authorised to state that Mr. Towneley had written to him to know whether he intended to come forward ; for if he did, he (Mr. Towne ley) would not oppose him. (Cheers.) After apolo gising for his imperfect address, Mr. Henry concluded by again thanking them, and retired amid loud cheers. The Candidate was then catechized by an elector, whose name we could not learn, and also by J. R. Richard son, a chartist, from Manchester, in answer to • whom he stated that he was in favour of a more just imposition of the revenue tax, of laying the probate and legacy duty on real as well as personal property, for the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, shortening the duration of Par liament,. for secular education disconnected with religion, and against Church rates and the Holy Alliance. The High Sheriff having inquired 'whether there was any other Candidate, and no one replying, declared Alexander Henry, Esq., of Woodlands, duly elected. WM. BROWN, Esq., M.P., then came forward to ex plain his sentiments on the Ballot. He said he had not said anything against it, but that from his experience in the United States ht; believed the measure would not be productive of all the good which was expected from it. (Hear, hear.) It was well known there to a man's neigh bours long before he gave his vote how he intended to exercise the franchise. Mr. HENRY then briefly thanked the electors for the honour conferred upon him, and concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff. Mr. BROWN, M.P., seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation, and the proceedings terminated, having lasted about an hour and a half. JEwtsu DISABILITIES BILL. Among those who voted for this bill on Friday were—Sir T. Birch, E. Cardwell, J. Heywood, Lord G. Bentinck, R. Cobden, B. D'lsraeli, W. Ewart, W. E. Gladstone, Lord R. Grosvenor, W. Jackson, Sir J. Jervis, Earl of Lincoln, Sir R. Peel, G. Sandars, and Sir J. Walmsley. We find the following names in the list of the minority who voted against the measure :—Lord Ashley, Lord Brack ley, Marquis of Douro, W. T. Egerton. H. Goulburn, J. W. Patten, Col. Peel, Col. Sibthorp, R. Spooner, J. Tollemache, and Sir R. Inglis. SAVAGE ASSAULT.—At the police court yesterday, five men, Michael M`Laughlan, Patrick Quin, Patrick Kelly, William Kelly, and Michael Kelly, were charged with a violent assault on the person of Bartholomew Monaghan, who appeared with his head bound up, and in an evident state of debility from the injuries he had received. The complainant stated, in effect, that some four years ago, while he was in Ireland, a cock fight took place, out of which arose an affray in which one man lost his life. — Complainant related the savage manner in which the de ceased met with his death on that occasion, and that he, having witnessed it, was afterwards called up as a witness against the aggressors, who were friends .of the parties then in the dock. Some of the party had sworn they would some time or other have their revenge, and having, for the first time since, seen him on Saturday night, in Henry Edward-street, they had kept their word. He was severely struck, and was, moreover, stabbed in two places near the neck, with a knife, by two of the prisoners, who were brothers. On the case being fully gone into. Patrick Kelly, against whom there was no evidence, was dis charged. The other four were committed to take their trial at Ale ne4t wipe, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. The confident assurances which have been hazarded during the past month that the commercial difficulties of the country were surmounted, have as yet received but slight confirmation from actual fact and experience. It is true that money is to be procured at easier rates ; the hoarding which was remarked during the existence of the panic has in a great measure ceased ; the large mercantile firms have gone through their course of purgation, those of them who have stood having had to submit, in order to extricate themselves, to sacrifices of capi tal to an enormous amount. But it is apparent that further sacrifices must be submitted to enable im porters and holders of every description of produce to realize, in the face of a limited consumption, and a disinclination on the part of the trading classes to add to their stocks. The colonial markets during the week have been very dull; and in every case, where sales have been pressed, and a great anxiety to realise has been manifested, low prices have had to be taken. The public sales of the Mauritius and Bengal sugar this week in London have been very heavy ; and transactions have been noted in Penang at extremely depressed rates ; ordi nary quality, or low damp, having been sold at the al most runious price of Bs. per cwt. in bond. Large quan tities of coffee have been brought forward, of which only about two thirds have been sold at a decline of Is. per lb. With respect to cotton, we are assured that for some weeks' past the sales made at this port have been, on the average, at a loss of £50,000 per week to the holders. The disposition to press sales above noticed, and the feeling of anxiety existing amongst a portion of our mer cantile classes, may in part, perhaps, be accounted for by the fears prevailing as to the next advices from India, in reply to the mails which carried out accounts of the com mercial disasters at home. We may expect, in a few days, to have this important question in part solved, as the mail will be due on the 22d (to-morrow), and, on its result will probably depend the occurrence of more suspensions in, this branch of commerce, or a considerable revival of confidence. The following information, as to the extent to which the state of affairs at home would be known at the departure of the coming mail, in India, derived from a correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, may interest our readers : " The wails from hence, of 24th September and 7th October, had reached Bombay prior to the despatch of the Moozuffer with the extra mail of 12th November; but the mail of 24th September, from hence for Calcutta, left Aden on 17tli O. tuber, and arrive at Calcutta hence, arrived ber, and reach Calcutta about the 18th ; the mail of 24th Septem ber took out accounts of the failure of Reid, Irving, and Co., Gower, Nephews, and Co., and Geminell Brothers; and that of the 7th October announced the failures of Cockerell, Larpent, and Co., Lyall, Brothers, and Co., Samuel Phillips and Co., Perkins, Schlusser and Mullens, and Fry, Griffiths, and Co." It is stated, however, that although the failure of Coekerell and Co. was not announced until the day after the sailing of the mail of the 24th September, the fact was telegraphed to Marseilles in time to reach her there, and would consequently be known in India when the mail due to-morrow left Calcutta. Although we have no _ fresh failures of large amount to notice this week, we have sufficient evidence in the Gazette to warrant the correctness of an opinion ex pressed by us a few weeks ago, that the effects of the recent pressure upon the large houses and the banking interest, throughout the country, had yet to be fully felt by the minor mercantile houses and the trading classes. It is to be hoped that, in such a crisis, every possible forbearance will be exercised towards the trading classes, and that no sudden limitation of credit, which can only tend to bring on a general crash amongst them, will be resorted to. The wealthy will do well to act with greater consideration than usual when their various Christmas bills are presented. A little promptitude in payment may save many an honest and industrious family from ruin. The commercial advices received from America, per the Acadia, are, on the whole, of an encouraging character. The distrust with which bills on England were still re garded had been, by forcing up the exchanges for paper of an undoubted character, directing towards this country specie as the cheapest remittance. The certainty, how ever, that by this time, more favourable accounts have been received, warrant us in expecting a speedy com mencement of shipments of cotton, breadstuffs, and other produce, as remittances, of which large stocks are held back at the ports; and the more so, as money in the United States was becoming extremely scarce. The cold weather had at length set in ; but the cotton crop, which is estimated to produce at the lowest 2,250,000 bales, was considered safe. In our own cotton market we have had a quiet week. The business done in the early part was at lower rates. Prices, however, stiffened a little after the arrival of the Acadia. The sales were 21,600 bales, of which 500 bales American, and 250 Surat and Madras were for export. A still further slight improvement is noticed in the manufacturing districts; but although by some parties a good spring trade is anticipated, caution is the order of the day. The corn markets throughout the country are firm, and in some places an advance has been obtained. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 11th of Dec. gives the following results when compared with the previous week : Public deposits Other dcpvaita £430,232 0,M3 On the other side of the account : Government securities,Xlo,946,s94; the same as before. Other securities 17,630,931 Decrease, £439,478 Notes unemployed 6,448,780 Increase, 865,760 The amount of notes in circulatiol is £18,320,905, being a decrease of £462,160; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £11,426,176, showing an increase of £393,577, as compared with the preceding return. The receipts of specie from the continent during the week exceed £50,000. The Acadia brought £BO,OOO, on Thursday, from America, and the packet-ships are bring. ing daily large amounts. The Bank Directors have made no alteration in their terms for the discount of paper. The Lombard-street firms are doing business at a fraction under 6 per cent., and the supply of money in the market leads most per sons to believe that there is every probability of its shortly becoming easier. The market for English Securities has not varied in any great degree this week, and prices up to Friday showed much steadiness. There was then a little flatness in Con sols and Reduced, occasioned by sales partly speculative and partly otherwise, so that at the close of business, quotations stood nearly one quarter per cent. worse than they opened. Exchequer Bills have gradually improved lately, and on Friday were quoted at the better price of 10s. pm. Consols closed on Friday at 85 tow for the January account ; Three per Cents., 841 to ; new Three and-a-Quarter per Cents., 86k to 1. On Saturday Consols were quoted at from 841 to 85, and closed at those prices. POPERY AND SUPERSTITION STILL ALLIED, We gave in our last an extract from the Berne corre spondent of the Times, shewing that in the Swiss quarrel - otositit,iaeheteßoe:opmuitrnhtaiscethhtisectcersasoa:nnifgooeernsstlt:htw:eteeapurpuogrntpehso. ats u the s e :f mf. urafi b l y oeicts t sik h ns : priesthood tmoonrbee sy.,ist iatn we i ea o ,s spied to all who fought in the church's cause. Amongst wa3 an assurance of especial divine protection, vouch .,. were ems: so at aL nail-a-crown each, which were represented as efficacious to turn aside bulleti from the person of the wearer. The purchasers were also presented, along with the medal, with a card hearing a Latin inscription, which is, in English, as follows :—" Oh Mary ! conceived with out sin—pray for us who have recourse to you. Any one carrying a miraculous medal, who recites with pity the above invocation, becomes placed under the immediate protection of the mother of God. This is a promise made by the mother of God herself." (!) The reader will scarcely be prepared to learn that we are so sunk in superstition in this couatry that the same blasphemous amulet can find circulation amongst us. Yet we have one before us at this moment, found lately in an empty house in Birkenhead. One side has a figure of the Virgin, with the inscription round the edge, "Oh! Mary, Mother of God, pray for us who have recourse to you." On the reverse is the cross, with an M. and two hearts. There is a hole at one end for the string or rib bon, by which it is intended to be worn round the neck. The date of the medal is not in the dark ages, but no further back than the year 1830. Of course, this useless bit of brass has been worn as a charm against evil or harm of some sort. ROBBERY IN HOOD-STREET.—On Sunday afternoon , while a man named Lister was walking down Hood-street, with a companion, two youths, James Carleton and Fre derick Parry, went up to him, and while one of them put his hand against his mouth, the other rifled his pockets of seven shillings and three sixpences. BASE COIN.—A woman, named Ann Hughes, was yes terday brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having in her possession a quantity of base shillings, twenty-nine of which were found near the fireplace in the house she inhabited. She was remanded. Mr. Reynoldson delivers the last lecture of his course on mesmeric science applied to the cure of disease, to night, at the Concert. Hall. In the two lectures already given he has presented some startling propositions, and maintains them with an energy that leaves no doubt of his sincerity on the minds of his hearers. STREET ROBBERY.—At the police-court, yesterday, a young man named Dogharty, was charged with picking a man's pocket. Late on Saturday night, complainant was passing along Vauxhall-road, when prisoner thrust him into an entry, and began to rifle his pockets, taking from him 51-d. in copper. He had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment in March last, and was committed for trial. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL. ---Yesterday (Monday), the inmates of the Workhouse, Brownlow-hill, presented their chaplain (the Rev. Wm. Banister, who leaves at Christmas), with a beautiful prayer-book, and bible, bound in one volume, "as a token of respect, for his un wearied zeal, and self-denying labours amongst them." In addition to this, they_ presented him with an address, signed by almost all the inmates , "sincerely offering their best thanks for his very kind attention, and laborious ser vices among them. The address alludes also to the heart.rending scenes of sorrow witnessed by Mr. Ban nister, who for a length of time "had been with them, daily living among the worst cases of fever, and, like a Chris tian warrior, braving the danger ; conducting himself bath as a Christian and a gentleman, never allowing the dignity of his office to prevent his condescending kindly and affectionately to converse with them and answer 1 every inquiry .P) THE MASTER COOPERS AND THE DOCK COMMITTEE. The master coopers of this town have presented the fol lowing memorial to the worshipful the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the borough of Liverpool, in council assembled : " That your petitioners—who occupy, generally, large and centrally-situated premises, contending with an ex isting and legitimate competition—h,ve lately been much injured by a committee of your body having obtained powers, by which the coopering required for the cargoes of vessels discharging in the Albert Dock is conducted under their own superintendence, and is not placed, by contract or otherwise, within the reach of the tradesmen of the town. " That your petitioners would not object to a fair corn' petition; but whilst the Dock Committee ( who now be come their opponents) are paying neither rates nor taxes, and commanding, by act of parliament, a large share of the business, they are labouring not only under rents from which the dock trustees are free, but also under heavy taxes from which you must be aware this borough is now suffering. " That with these few facts, your petitioners pray you will appoint a committee to inquire into the effect on the trade—which ought to be a leading one in a commer cial community—and to hear a deputation from their body prior to your sanctioning a clause in an act for dock warehouse extension, by which they will be de prived in any way of an honest existence from that bu siness to which they have devoted a servitude of maul years. " And your petitioners will ever pray." We understand that another meeting of the master coopers was held yesterday, a t w hi c h t h ose pre sent ap peared determined to fu r th er , by every mea ns in their power, the object of their memor i a l. W e c annot but think that the Dock Committee wou ld ac t w i se ly, in re specting, as far as possible, the int eres t s o f so important a class of the community. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (BY EXPRESS.) LONDON CORN MARKET ,-YESTERDAY The millers bought more freely of English Wheat, and a clearance was effected at an improvement of Is. to 2s. a qr. on the currency of this day week. A similar advance was gener ally demanded on Foreign, which checked business, though buyers displayed more disposition to buy, and were willing to give the full rates of last Monday. Barrel Flour 6d. to Is. dearer. of several We had to-day the largest show of Barley this season, and the late advance was not maintained; buyers had the turn 111 their favour, but some quantity remained unsold. Malt was dull, but not offered lower. The principal supply of Oats continue to arrive from the near foreign ports, and are pressed off quickly to save landing charges, at our previous currency, checking the leastimprove ment in Irish or Scotch, which were only in limited request at former prices. Beans and t r as are again Is. per qr. lower. THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE STEAMERS TYNWALD AND THE PARSBOROUGH.—We are requested by Captain Quayle, of the steamer Tynwald, to contradict the state ment erroneously made in the Mercury of Friday,, that his vessel ran into the Parsborough and occasioned the ( image to that vessel. The Kct, Captain Quayle states, was quite the contrary. The Parsborough ran across the bows of the Tynwald, which vessel at the time had sternway upon her. The Captain and cre w a the Parsborough th e n d eser t e d h er , w i t h the exceP"rl of a boy ; and Captain Quayle immediately on their coming on board his vessel, lowered a boat and sent theta back again. Dr. M'Hale has addressed a letter to Lord John Russell, defending the Roman Catholic clergy from the charged brought against them by both Houses of Parliament. A paragraph appears in one of the American papers, headed " Arrest of P r i me , W ar d , an d C o. " It aPPea " a process has been issued against the firm, and they have been brought before the court under a warrant. A Man named St, John, a small farmer was murdered on Saturday week, near Lisnamroch, south Tipperary His murderers entered his house at night, dragged his wife out of bed, and then seizing on S.. John, ripped WS body open and cut his head off. They proceeded to even more brutal atrocity than this, but we forbear to print it. THREATENING LETTERS.—On Sunday morning, three threatening letters were left at the hall door of BishoPs court, Leinster, the residence of the Earl and Countess of Clonmel ; one addressed to his lordship, one t° Lady Clonmel, and one to the steward. These letters were left on the steps of the hall door, with a stone laid on them to secure them. GRATIFYING DISTI NCTlON.—OnTuesday the d_ire': t° , ra of the East India Company v i s it e d th e i r college at " a!' e Y. - bury, for the purpose of receiving the report of the princi pal (the Rev. Henry Melvill) on the progress of the term, and of distributing to the most successful students the prizes. The directors repaired to the council-room, where they received the Principal's report, and afterwards pro ceeded to the examination-hall, in which the students and professors were already assembled. The chair was taken by Mr. Henry St. George Tucker, Chairman of the Court of Directors, having on his right the Duke of Cambridge , and on his left Major-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.B. The directors present were—Sir J. W. Hogg. Bart, M.P., Mr. John Cotton, Major-General Galloway,C.B., Mr, B. M•Nagliten, Mr. J. C. Whiteman, Mr. W. J. Eastwick, Sir Henry Willick, K.L.S., Major James Oliphant, Mr. W. H. C. Plowden, M.P., and Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. T., th ..a *4", Iti,heet name. on the list is that of Mr. Forsyth, whose family has been long from that document that Mr. Forsyth is about to depart for Bengal, and held, on leaving the college, the first place in the first class. The report mentions him as "highly' distinguished, and entitled to the medal in classics, law, San scrit, Persian, Hindustanee, and prize in Hindee." On Mr. Forsyth presenting himself to read his Oriental transla tions, he met with a generous appreciation of his rare acquirements in the languages of the East from his fellow - - students, in repeated rounds of applause. Mr. Forsyth read a translation of the character of Aurungzebe, from Mr. Forsyth den read a tr an sl a ti on , :by Dow's History of Hindustan, into Hindustanee, by him self. into Persian, of the description of the Toorkoman tribes of Khorasan, from Baillie's Travels in Khorasan. Isir• Forsyth next read a translation, also by himself, int? Sanscrit verse, of the description of Satan, from the first then book of Milton's Paradise Lost. The Chairman delivered the various medals and prizes to the suc cessful competitors. In handing to Mr. Forsyth his five medals, witk the prize in Hindee, the Chairman said-- " I congratulate you, Mr. Forsyth, on your splendid suc cess." (Received with loud cheers.) The Chairman afterwards delivered a long address to the students, which is reported in the Times, from which we extract himself, these particulars. The Duke of Cambridge also addressed them at the dinner, which took place afterwards, and ad verted " to the extraordinary success of Mr. Forsyth, and expressed a hope that he would live to obtain one day seat at that end of the table." _ _ The performances — at the Adelphi are as attractive SS ever. A splendid pantomime is in preparation. Mr. Johnson has imported some beautiful Scotch geese, which he sells by weight. Now that winter is here, ladies should be prepared with the warmest furs, and where can they be procured better than at Mr. Ireland's ? LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET, DECEMBER 18, 1847. s. d. s. d. Hay, old, 2016 New 0 71@ 0 9 'Potatoes 0 7 0 8 Kemps Clover Grass 0 0— 0 0 Cups Straw, Wheat .. 0 3 0 33 Cattle 0 0— 0 0 Oat 0 3 0 4 Manglewurzel .. 0 0— 0 0 0 Barley .. - 18 Carrots.. 27 0 —3O 0 Manure 4 6 6 6 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 20 . -- - The supply of stock at our market to-day was about the sane as last week, which was smaller than for some time, and the quality a fair average, though nothing particularly prime for this season of the year. We had a numerous attendance of customers, and the whole met with brisk sale. Beef, 50. to 62d. per lb. ; Mutton, 6d. to 71d. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, 20th DECEMBER.—Wind E., fresh. SAILED.—Triton, Davies, Trieste—Martha Washington, Stewart, New York—William Edwards, Monro, Naples—Ks tinka, Casely, Azores—Bee, Dunley, and Sigero, Nico'ich, Tri esle—Mary. Muir, Milward, Sincapore—Liverpool, Duffey, New York—Harmony, Jamieson ; William Ward, Scouller,. and Free Trader, Thompson, New Orleans—Clarence, Cox, Lisboa —Barbara, Houston, Lima—Asia, Hannah, Mobile—Princess Charlotte, Corunna—Brenda, Reid, Consta : tinople—Melan ins . Jameson, Beirout—Zilla, M`Dougal, Valparaiso—Caro line, Clyma, Madeira, &c.—Myrtle, Norman, Gijon—Zephar , Ja cobson, Africa—Le Dauphin, Corm, Bordeaux—Ursula, .dleT, Bombay—Aspatria, Little, Oporto—The Duke, Dady, Calla o-- Partenotea, Marescu, RioJaneiro—Adone, Russo, Genoa—Sall Jose, Friedera, Havana. Louisa, Carpenter, from Callao, at this port; sailed 30th Of Aug. From the 19th to the 27th September experienced veil heavy gales from S.S.W. to N.N.W., and lost bulwarks, top: gallantmast, &c. Since the 4th instant encountered dreadful crew wea ther.are di O sa n b t le h d. elsth, off Cork, lost sails, &c. Several of th e The Thomas Battersby, that arrived here yesterday. sailed from Maceio 9th Nov. Left there, the Hopewell, Golding Fleece, and Hyperion. The two former ready for sea. Ann Paley, of and from this port to Lisbon, has been assisted into the Roads, with loss of rudder, and other damage. The schooner Fairplay was totally wrecked 17th instant, near Long Island Channel. Regina, Lamb, hence for Africa, at Belfast Lough. BELFAST, 18th Dec.—The Ganges, that was at anchor inside the South Rock, drove on shore; and is likely to be a total wreck. The European is ne ar ly a ll to p i eces. 'fhe Alexander, of and from Liverpool to Dublin, drove on shore near Carrick fergus. _ BEAUMARIS, 18th Dec.—The smack Wexford Packet, Tre vor, from Wicklow to Liverpool, was driven on shore on this beach, last night, and totally wrecked. 19th instant. — Wa s p' froCmao Quebec, outisv Gibbons, from Live rpoo l to Ambriz, has put in here, with rud der-head twisted, skylight c arried' away, &c., having b een E ia N ' at n a t struck by heavy se as 17 t h i nstan t, w hil e l ying -too between ..- lyhead and Calf of Man, which also filled the cabin. ter-logged, and with loss of mizenmast, in the hurricane of M. 6th instant, in lat. 50, long. 20, but it is feared she will not rso' out the gale. n li ch D o e r c. a — t TthheeeAnmtraaznocne,ooff this harbour, Heys' SKIBBEREEN, 17th Dec.—A timber-laden vessel, ( 80 PP 35441 to be the above,) has been wrecked at Gem Point. _ fr a i l SKULL, 17th Dec.—The Charlotte, of Hull, Haw n 5, --_.... Bombay to Liverpool, has been towed into Long Island wig.' nel, with masts cut away. COVE, 18th Dec.—The Henrietta Mary went to pieces Ye_ gter _ t ; day, and her cargo is strewn over the rocks for about a cltuni— of a mile. ___....e. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, DEC. 21, 1847. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY monNoll , By JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE of 53, Grove street, asp LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At N. 4, ST. GEWIAVOI CIUISOCISNT, LLYSIWOOIia thul 13- Norio be given I FRIDAY, next', the o'clfick; ? rt. HIS I FII Barber of S Auriot —Th Cask Dance ineline Lam Clown's Me 'by Messrs. I 'dames Caro, PART SK( "tero, Siegris Anato.—Th( Ball, by M. ferent chars Comic Seen Young Loise `Company._ The Perfo by the Eccei Arnie!. Prices of . to the Dress Stalls, 2s. 'Second Prici Second Prici Lay be had Boxes is in I CALL Miss THORI kiss PARSC Miss M. B. / HE SE T EVENI Nightly for To the seri lower Gal; ei Concert, Loy The bOors once commel CONCE: E C NG LEN L A IS RT H EAI I fa a COUR TO-MORRO FRIDAY ne: The Enter Comic Medl OVER EUR Smith; Esq., from the Ita li arranged by Admission Reserved Set Dience at Eig CONCE: T HE Pu W VOCAL al CON I On Till From the Pl Viol Concertina a Mr. H. I Tickets—E to be had at Music Warel The Conce CONCE LVI ISS A and VV that EVENING, sirs. HARVI Miss E. I Mr. JOHN Academy, an Body, 6d. Con Cert to CONCE] k. DULL ON WEDN. M ONS. Patror that he ED NEsDAI Accompanied AI. BA Principal N Leader The Progrt Beethoven at rand Selecti tirand Select REGGIMEN tnoiselle JET also, the /sit RIJADRILL Melodies, (m Ranz des Va( M. JULLtEN !lightly attra, In the Theatr Pa!ther pa Prices :—D to be had of Concert come THE EX ARTIS Is NOW OPE Of TWOPEN Twelve Years lh the Mornii TURDAY, the December : \NTH THE ME respecti F I R Preside Vice I Supper Tic it the Bruns p ROG • tron _entry of Li nails, ecc„ 0 Principality, - - EFI Of any nun tontinue to Music from ranged expr( N.8.-Mil REPARAI LAUNCHES_ December 'WHITEN!, R. T" E (Coadu WILL OP The object LIEN, CLEF the rtlaxatio went. ( 4ilty e teen ex LONDO P :' PA - BILLIARD On the sca liar to itself advantages Afrec. NO BEITII The follow ad van tages ( It glance tor relies for Members and addresst after, the Er The •Club from Fleet W. E. W. received, ha: trona that hi In the Resta' AN ORDIN A Diluter LO,ID 0 WARM, PLATES, K THE LIVERPOOL STAND ARD. Dec. 21, 1847.