The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS Lpelled at t TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 18, 1 45. 1 of our most re The position of Sir Robert Peel, at the present , is perhaps one of the most trying which 'ed upon to encounter, of our v than we have correctness the partial and it is as u s embarassin I perilous Not a year gratulation. We had The enterprise of the ning out fresh sources ndof social comfor spensa tions of Provi- I of nations, graph : We say with Goc n which hang our destiny I n is one of present ualifie , Mr. Rorke entered Into a con of the city prisor The con of the first c , our I ston deliver from tic of Go( orious c me cas to WE —Where is t ioubtful remi )tent to O Der e ports f rohibit exportation of cry of tion ind it is—and we ad erated—clear that we k at c I has been one of unusual abundance ; _and, although perhaps considerably reduced by the disease in tit next week, variousdistricts, it is not at all established yet that the crop will prove less than an average one. We have ourselves all along maintained that the anne has been very greatly exaggerated, for - 1, we need not more than glance at ; '-en the evidence . f iectable contemporaries, in support We have this week greater confidence ever yet ventured to entertain in the From Ireland. in particular, where ` l, e crop would fall more heavily purposes whipt, and we have, from time to time, gIvL than upon this country, tie late accounts are most cheering. The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednes day last, stated that the panic in Ireland had passed over; and his report of Friday is still more conti- dent, as may be gau ticipated o from the following pra- there will ere will b r apprehen no " famine to judge of Ircity, no Let us de farmer near Lucan, has the grand jury for the suppl h two hundred tons of potatoes td ap Le potatoes id th . at thO 9 required, and that ti mornen -our COI terprise, lately so confidant . And all this the effect of ch man, in his boasted wisdom not an iota of control. I with all the nations of ing for us. We for- ne withheld—have I ns of statesmen We man-worshippers poor dependent creatures, tion of ourselve ought to id the information s that we are approaching a re than ordinary severity, during which hall have to encounter a partial loss of that ), upon the security of v 4 winter of 1 ch the poorer classes d, in England principally, -- 'or subsistence. It is I.lhrle nnrselvps nir popule and in Ireland nost wholly -Ility sease affecting that root 3 trust it will not do, philosoph he day can preserve for us upply of our potatoe Theorists may tell us Of Modes preventing pread of the ev and destruction going on. es ,it is too late to put in r sound: and in iisposition to use e not a n Irish cottier to rub of potatoes—to strew them hem -wit i bog -water—to lay or to perform any of the agrieul itions recommended by the Savans em report upon the condition of the crop and of the disease with which it is affected, with the very pertinent question aey to come from, which such ill cost? Ask an English farmer, lere prejudice, and hopelessness to Till be found to st id in th way. Ignorant men, o ignorant, after all, or only themselves to bear what —are ,they anprsuming ,'em a. visitation from above, the cause or the` cure of which is asttheir finding out ; and, ,e resu hold back everywhere from an pts to I Ives in the etnerl is asked to arises the eliffi n which Sir Rober i t and at the present crisi gn grain for Ireland ! " is nose the ports of Ireland, 'bread-stuffs to England !" Neither, however, care to e occupants of the mud le hogs of that impover- ) purchase the foreign ?c1 - to offer the ation from grain f)lin. "Where," replies E.. the customer, whose ew matters in what our positionia t about the Iv to t ie question, that we must set about }ractical men. Crude theories have no bearing n such an emergency as that in which we find Neither must we allow our fears to over and exaggeration of the - extent - of the top the re diffict ity to be met to fright us into despondence et it. On one or s to our ability to y, with some degree of e, interfere to set right the ultra-alarmists, selfish seekers of their own interests, who two points, we t neno .vounr. g, out of our present position of to the accomplishment of difficulty, to pave the s their own dele Iterious projec Amongst these, the Anti Corn-law League are vehemently urging the opening of the ports for the admission of foreign :orn by an order in Council ; and one of their Sir Oracles, Mr. Cobden, does not scruple to tell us, that their object is not only to open the door to the admission of the overwhelming supplies which, in ordinary years, foreign countries can afford us, but to "place their backs against the door an-'. keep it open.".. They tell U 4 that continent has no grain e can tell them—and our Customs es - bear us out in the assertion—that at this mo , is rapidly pouring into Liverpool ind that, so far as our supply of cerned, we need be under no fears e already in the country far ireign whea and other:Ports; tuffs is c more sound marketable wheat than it suits the pur poses of these gentlemen, or of the speculators who belong to their unholy league, to admit ; and the probality of any real scarcity is very very remote. Moreover we can assure them that, if required, we have abundance of foreign resources still to fall back upon. The imports, now coming in daily, are almost entirely in fulfilment of orders already given. The foreign holders, however, are fully aware of the exertions now making here to proeure the opening )f t' a ports. Once let these efforts be conceded to Government, and we shall have our granaries But the foreign holders themselves, not of the starving Englishmen Or Irishmen, will pocket the duty, which we thus throw to them out of the tional exchequer. Our difficulty, however—When has it been other .se ?—is Ireland. What is to be done with that fortunate country, in the impending dearth of principal esculent of its impoverished peasantry - we confess we can see nothing e and prompt application of spital—to the promotion 'Melt her superabundant 1, and thus enabled tc asons have denied British capital— of great public sv( be emplo, e that f( u, ana pernaps inuiviuutu drawn upon; but here, as consideration intervenes — In which distracts Ireland, tern the sores in her social system, allow of ents being applied. We have seen, two lays ago, the bloated incubus, who drains the life blood of Ireland, dragging his wretched hoard from her famine-threatened population, without a scruple We have heard the spouters of Conci eating over the prospect of our national and urging the very distress which s over their wretched fellow-countrymen, :lust be taxed to remove, as Such a feeling, a all Irish questions h email humil round of hatred to the Sc mduc ,—diabolical as they are—we must d alone impel us to enter hen we are convinced that good providence 1 things for the best, his weak- exertion, and sdom, might n Goa', from what man, in o anticipate only evil ness and pride, is Vesterda of ou y morning, we dare say to the surprise Dw townsmen, the streets of Liverpool .ded with large posting bills, announcing would be left for signature, at the ces and other that a emoria )laces, requesting his to " call a public meeting of e borougl3., at the earliest con ss and determine what steps viate and, as far as possible, which threatens to overtake a ortion of our fellow subjects, urn the failure of the potatne crop." At npression was, certainly, that the time chosen for this movement was inopportune, and that its announcement was couched in language eminently calculated to produce an undue amount of panic _in the minds of all classes of the com munity. It is not true that we have had any "failure of the potatoe crop," as here stated. On the contrary that crop throughout the country venier ,ts or to to disci prevent that large and I t sigh n to a right to r. • worary adds that the above gentle- Our conte man,—a Roman (; less t.' ,tholie by the bye—farms no in fifteen hundred acres ; , so great was his confi nce in his correctness, as to the !mall extent of injury done to the crop, or to be an- ticipated, compared with the representations which had been circulated—when the offer was made to him by the grand jury, subsequent to the breaking out of the disease, of reconsidering the terms of his contract, before finally committing himself, he pro duced his sureties and signed it with less than half an hour's delay. • • • ' timed one. It ought either to have been made earlier, when there existed more generally entertain ed fear of calamity; or, the tide of public opinion _ _ having turned, its - promoters might have waited for more definite and certain information. A new light, however, broke upon us when we perused the printed copy of the memorial itself. The meeting was to be called to discuss matters connected with " the failure of the potatoe crop." The document itself certain to be signed in most cases without perusal, added, most cunningly, and the injury done to the wheat crop." We have not been able to see why the allusion to the wheat crop is only in troduced here; whilst, in the placards, the "failure" of the potatoe crop is twice mentioned This dis- crepancy in the two documents certainly requires planation We have, of course, no idea of what may he the line of conduct which will be pursued by our res pected chief magistrate, with respect to calling the meeting. He will doubtless be guided, in a great measure by the number, and description,_ of the signatures to the memorial itself. If these skew the movement to be that of " the inhabitants of the borough" he will doubtless not hesitate to comply with the requests of the memorialists. We have already said that we consider the time of holding the meeting an inopportune one' and for the follow ing reason. We know that the whole subject is occupying the unremitting attention of govern ment—that endeavours are everywhere being made to ascertain the precise extent of the evil. When the result of these is. ascertained i will then be for the country to express its wishes, and state the degree of effort and sacrifice which it is prepared to make to enable government to meet the difficulty. sy last was the rind the• faces of the stifferin and. With their wretched oil rotting in the ground ; with their d despairing eyes, frOtn which hunger h 'desolation around their wretched flutterir from their emaciated Din the a tars anc whose eibrtions tance of gaunt fa looks out; y cabins, and . rags were called upon, Is, to snatch the morsels from the lips of themselves and their I children, that Daniel O'Connell and his prolific family may riot for another twelVemonth upon the spoil of ruined millions. To such robbery can the majority of the minsters of an apostate church lend themselves ! The cormorant is to be fed which does the work of Rome. The widow, the orphan, the helpless victims of poverty and of an un housand ch fainishin ropitious season, bread. ,rve and They are called -upon to give the means of luxury to another, and to fast upon an unsubstantial dream of Ireland's nationality. Alas, what fools are the wisest of us ! What knaves are some to whom the weak look up for counsel I Surely, for one year, Daniel O'Connell might have spared this drain upon the resources of his misera ble countrymen. He cannot be so poor a man as to be altogether dependent upon this annual and en forced dole. There is the precursor fund—unac counted for. There is the repeal rent—unaccounted for. There are pickings, which have fallen into his wallet in years gone by, of all imaginable kinds and amounts. Some little hoard might have been found to fall back upon—some resource to prevent this snatching of the diseased potato from the lips of the famishing, whom the charity of those, whom he teaches them to hate and re, ile, will have to preserve from the rigours of the approaching winter and from death. But no. The lust of gain—the inherent propensity of his disposition—is as inseparable a part of this man as his skin is a part of the leper, or its venomous uncleanness a property of the toad or the viper. It may be as well to add, that a letter, in very re spectable imitation of - the O'Connell style, has been published in several of the Irish papers, which pro fesses to issue from the agitator, and relinquishes the tribute for this year, promising a subscription of £5OO for the fund collecting for his starving coun trymen. The letter is merely a playful device, to exhibit what the liberator ought to do in the emer gency, and does not, unfortunately, proceed from himself. Mr. Vincent Higgins, the newly elected of Lime street, appear, to have come into the council in a state' of considerable perspiration. Indeed, it is only surprising to us how a gentleman, so anxious to proceed to business, can have remained so long in inglorious leisure. Imagine the- aitnable and ex cellent Mrs.Caudle afflicted with a sore throat, and, though full to overflowing of sagacious objurgation, deprived of the opportunity of conveying audibly her conjugal lessons to her patient spouse; and you have a sweet picture of what Mr. Vincent Hig- elevation to a councillorship ii - few months more ant of an oppor- and he must have explode - d for tunity of throwing off his excess of st We can readily pardon, in such a man, a certain amount of forgetfulness of his own position, on the first onset of his public career, and can almost look over his unprovoked attack upon one of the most valuable members of the Watch Committee— Mr. Richard Harbord—on the ground of his being a member of an " illegal association," or in other words being an orangeman. It was, never very likely that a man, who must have been in such a fidgetty state for awhile past, could have known very well what constituted an illegal society. Ile he had never read the laws and ordinances of the e association, although they are printed, and might be accessible to him at any hour. Fussy people seldom weigh . their charges before they make them; and Mr. Higgins is not an exception to the general rule. We don't suppose that he is aware that he himself is a member of an " illegal society" — the Anti-Corn Law League—whose avowed object is to tamper with the registries, and, by combination, to carry, in defiance of the constitutionally declared will of the nation, measures destructive of its pros perity, and which have revolution and anarchy as their end. Innocent gentleman ! he was primed for the occasion, and went off, as a matter of course, damaging only himself. We must confess, however, we were a little anoy ed to observe Mr. Higgins sound the note of pre paration for a campaign upon the Education question ! Well might such men as Messrs. Aikin, Evans, Rathbone and others of their party, who for years past have fought this battle of liberalism, coax down the champion who had audaciously stolen their thunder and their armour. We observe, however, that we are threatened with another educational champion in Mr. Chalmers, the member for Vauxhall ward, and are to name, as Mr. Aikin promised us, a " grand field day " soon. Be it so: Mr. Chalmers is,just the man to place in THE LIVERPOOL STAND 111. the van on such an occasion, if it is wished, to draw down ridicule upon the effort and its authors. A penny candle-dip, borne at the head of a procession, would not convey the impression that anything very resplendent was to come at the rear. A third gentleman too, we rather fancy, somewhat forgot past occurrences, which the public do not so. soon forget. Mr. William Rathbone talked, in large, phrase, of " the moral power of the police force ' being injured by Mr. Harbord's presence at the Watch Board; and said something as to the election of Mr. Hodgson to the Mayoralty being calculated to endanger the peace of the town during the ensu ing winter. One thing, however, we are assured of, as not likely to occur so long as Mr. Hodgson holds the office of Chief Magistrate. He will not entertain Mr. Daniel O'Connell at his table, or countenance any other man, entertaining designs whic. a minister of the day, of Mr. Rathbone's own party, declared to be fraught with danger to the integrity and the peace of the empire, and which ought to be resisted "even at the hazard of a civil A contemporary informs its readers that 'the Highway Commissioners have of late been "over leaping some legal barriers," inasmuch as they have been applying some funds levied under a paving rate to purposes of sewerage, where was more ur gently needed. "The last rate levies for paving," our contemporary states, "was sevenpence in the pound, and the paving rate, be it remembered, is paid by occupiers. The rate for sewerage is eight pence in the pence, one half of which is paid by occupiers." Out of this he makes a serious griev ance, to redress which, we presume, will be directed the efforts of the Radical party, at the meeting for the election of a portion of the Board on Thursday next. A very few words of explanation, will extenuate the commissioners from any impropriety, in making use of the funds complained of. In carrying out their endeavours this year to supply the want of ef sewerage, which is the cause of so much nongst our working population, and has ficient brought down upon the town so much obloquy and discredit, the board discovered that their works must be suspended and left incomplete, through the insufficiency of funds to carry them out. At the same time, there was a balance of nearly 10,000 remaining of the paving rate, not required for the purposes of the year. In this emergency they were informed by their legal adviser, Mr. Deane, that the one fund was as much at their disposal—as legally applicable to the improvement of the sewer age of the town—as the other; and, as they were warranted in doing, they adopted the opinion of such legal adviser, in the full confidence that it was correct. _ Nor do we think that any but the very factions amongst their fellow townsmen will blame them for so doing. It may be said,—Why not have col lected another sewerage rate? But the ready an swer to this is that they had already levied the amount under this head to which they are re stricted by their Act of Parliament; and, more over, there is little expectation that Parliament, if increased powers were applied for, would sanction a greater rate for sewerage to be col lected then the present. It is well known that the bulk of that portion of the prope*y of the town, most needing sewerage, is in the hands of men upon whose limited resources the present rate presses very hardly ; and since the liw permits the paving rate to be applied to this purpose, why should men, whose daily outcry is against the insalubrity of the town, mainly created by the want of sewers and proper drainage, complain of the application to so useful a purpose of a sum so paltry, even if called upon to pay for it a little more than their exact pro portion. Fever has walked up the hill from the cellars and wretched hovels and streets Mary bone and Vauxhall to Everton and to Low-Hill before now; and it will have ample opportunities to do so again, if these favoured localities wait till the owners of he v wretched property in question can sustain the levy of an increased sewera Whilst upon this subject, and presuming that our remarks may come into the hands of many of our townsmen, who, will attend the meeting called for Thursday: at which it will form a prominent matter for discussion, we may again take an opportunity of urging the necessity of concentrating the powers of the various boards, of which the Highway Commis sioners form one, so far at least as the duties of taking measures for improving the sanatory condi tion of the town is concerned, into the hands of one powerful body—the Council. We feel perfectly sa tisfied that unless this is the case, and, especially if any unseemly contentions arise ,-amongst us, the infliction upon the town of Lord Lincoln's Bill, and the consequent removal from the rate:payers of all control over the management of their own funds, will assuredly follow. We understand that at a meeting, yesterday, of the Health Committee of the Council, Mr. Am brose Lace was appointed chairman. Mr. Tinne, a gentleman whose exertions to improve the sana tory condition of the town have been beyond all praise, was proposed as deputy-chairman, when an objection was raised against him, on the ground that he is a member and secretary of another body, not chosen by the Council ;—viz., the Health of the Town's Association—whose duties were said to clash in some way with those of the Health Com mittee ; and, in consequence, Mr. Alderman Houghton was elected deputy-chairman, by a majority of seven to six. We really cannot see the pertinence of the objection raised against Mr. Tinne, or how the two bodies can injuriously clash in the performance of their several duties. The Health Committee has it in charge to carry out the regulations of Acts of Parliament for the improve ment of the sanatory regulation of the town. The Health Association has more immediately in view the collection of health statistics, and the diffusion of them amongst the public, in such a shape as may most tend to enable the, people to benefit from the sanatory regulations adopted. We conceive that, instead of clashing in their proceedings, they might be of mutual benefit, and, especially, that their operating harmoniously together would conduce materially to the good of the town. The Great Britain steam-ship, which was eight miles west of the Light-Ship at four o'clock yesterday after noon, bad not re.ched the river when we were obliged to send our papers to the post, but we shall no doubt receive our despatches in time for the town edition. . THE BAR.—We hear that C. Wilkins, Esq., of the northern circuit, will shortly receive the honour of the coif, on being elevated to the position of serjeant at law. —Yorkshire Gazette. Captain and Lady Adela Ibbottson arrived in Dublin on Friday evening, the gallant officer's leave from his regiment (the 11th Hussars) having expired on that day. The headquarters of the 11th are at New bridge, a poor , about 22 miles from the metropo !dare. INDIAN CORN A DESIRABLE ARTL:LE OF FREE IMPORT. Same time ago, the admission of Indian corn into this country at a reduced duty—it is now classed with barley— or free, was advocated' by an eminent agriculturist, Mr. B. Escott, on the ground that it was more desirable that the English farmer should, by the aid of this valua le grain, be enabled to fatten his stock " on the premises," than that we should have an increased importation of fo rk:lip fatted cattle. The London Times of Thursday has an article, in which are contained a number of statistical details bearing upon the value and application of this species of grain, which we shall here endeavour to com press tor the information of our agricultural readers. In setting out, our contemporary maintains that the supposition is incorrect that America has at any time a la , ge stock of superfluous wheat on hand for exportation to this and other European markets. The consumption of wheat in the Union increases in an equal ratio with its cultivation; and in good years the entire quantity availa ble for exportation will not exceed a minion and a half of Whether such would be the case, however, quarters were the markets of England opened to the American farmer, remains to be seen. We suspect that America could send us much more than that quantity ; and our contemporary's statistics as to the quantity and value of Indian corn as human food, bear us out in that suspicion. Mr. Elsworth, now the American minister at Stock - - holm, states that " Throughout every part of the United States, Indian corn is raised. It is used both green and ripe, is easily prepared as food, and is fully as nutritious as wheat. Its usual cost in th 3 interior is one-tbir'd Vat of wheat, and for human nutriment one bushel of Indian corn is perhaps equal to one bushel and three-fourths of barley, or three bushels of oats." Here, then, is a nutritious food, upon which a large por tion of the people of the United States would willingly fall back, if Great Britain would receive their wheat at a duty which would be remunerating,—without calculating, upon the extended cultivation which would certainly fol low any legislation in the direction of free trade. But to our more immediate subject—the introduction of Indian corn as an article of consumption in this country. Ame rica grows of this description of grain between four and five hundred millions of bushels per annum. In 1843 the crop was estimated at 494,618,306 bushels ; in 1844 at 421,953,000 bushels—a supply of grain sufficient to feed four times the population of the United States, and to supply a large portion of Europe besides. Little more than one hundredth part, however, is exported, and this principally to our West Indian colonies and North Ame rica. The bulk is consumed in America itself, in the feeding and fattening of pork. The following statistics, as to the extent of this trade in the United States, may be interesting to a portion of our readers :-- " The district in the West which is principally engaged in raising pork as an article of commerce includes Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, lowa, and part of Tennessee. It forms a circle 300 miles in diameter, of which the city of Cin cinnati is the centre. It will be observed, that this is precisely the country in which the lai"gest crops of Indian corn are grown, and the hog-population is exactly proportioned to the produce of this species of grain in each state. The numbers of swine in the Union are stated to have been, in 1840, 2,926,607 in Ten nessee; 2,310,533 in Kentucky; 2,599,746 in Ohio; 1,992,155 in Virginia; 1,623,668 in Indiana; 1,495,234 in Illinois; 1,423,873 in Alab:ima ; 1,4 - .7,755 in Georgia ; 1,271,161 in Missouri ; 1,503,964 in Pennsylvania; and in the whole Union no less than 26,301,293 All these hogs are fed on Indian corn exclusively, and the trade in pork is immense. At Cincinnati alone about 500,080 are 'cut and packed' in one season, for different parts of the Union, besides the vast amount detained for domestic consumption. Pork-packing is in Cincinnati a profession : the hog-butchers are a nation. Twenty-six pork-houses are exclu sively engaged in the trade in that city, with a capital of 2,0 Iva° dollars; and latterly a very extensive manufacture of lard, oil, and stearine for candles, has been introduced into the Union." Of this vast amount of the porcine population of the Union—which is in the proportion of a pig and a quarter for every human being—Pie export is comparatively small. From 1821 to 1841 it was nearly stationary, at a value of a million and a half to two million of dollars; and in 1844, when admitted into the English markets at a re duced rate of duty, only reached 3,236,479 dollars. The advantage to be derived from the introduction, at a cheap rate, of a grain possessed of such valuable pro perties, is too obvious to need remark. The boon con ferred upon Ireland, in particular, would be incalculable. The potato crops required to be raised, fully one-half of which may be estimated as being consumed for fattening purposes, would be materially decreased, and the land applied to more use; whilst turnip cultivation might also be lessened. In addition, (re might yearly become less dependent upon importation for our supply of butchers' meat, instead of, as at present, becoming yearly more dependent upon extraneous resources. THE MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL AND HIS DE FAM. It must, by this time, appear perfectly clear to the pub lic that his worship, the present mayor, is to be perse cuted and maligned, during his year of office, by the Radical portion of the Press of the town ' who take his appointment in high dudgeon. Several false statements have been already put forth, which we hope are not inten tional misstatements, though it would have been more creditable to the writers had they paused to inqukre before propagating them to the world as facts. A statement, however, appeared in the Albien of yes terday's .date, which we cannot deal with so leniently.— The writer says, of Mr. Ilodgson's contribution to the usual collection for the Blue Coat School, on the occa• sion of the annual sermon preached at St. Peter's church, on Sunday last, that "The Mayor contributed a £lO n,te, being exactly the half of what was contributed this time twelve months by his predecessor in office, Mr. James Lawrence." Thy object of the comparison made is very obvious. — We do not, hbwever, hesitate to denounce the statement as a pure invention, or at least a guess of the writer, which is the more iniquitous as, if incorrect, it is one which his worship cannot, with propriety, come forward to set right, and we must, in justice to him and ourselves as well, state that we write with no information whatever of the amount of his contribution. Any one will admit, however, that the Editor, or the Reporter of the Albion could have no opportunity himself of seeing the amount of the note said to be put into the box by his worship— which, by the bye, it is usual to enclose, and is therefore unknown even to the collector, and . we have the fullest authority for saying that no information was supplied to him from the authorities of the Blue Coat School. Thia kind of bushfighting is really what any respectably con ducted paper ought to be above. MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—On Saturday afternoon last, in Smithfield Market, iViancliester, as Mr. Jackson, butcher, who conducted the business of his widowed mother, was in the act of cutting a piece of meat, to do which required much strength, the knife suddenly cut through and entered his bowels, the injury from which, shortly afterwards, occasioned his death. The deceased was the only stay of an aged parent. NOVEL. APPLICATION OF 1RON• IN GOTHIC ARCM TECTURE.—The use of iron is still greatly.extending in Manchester, where the principles of its application are well understood, and all the casting establishments are in active operation. The most novel t.pplication of this ma terial is in the Independent chapel erecting in Salford, near' the Broughton Bridge, from the designs of Mr. Richard Lane. The roof is framed of cast-iron princi pals, curved, and meeting at the top in a Gothic arch. Each half is in two pieces, firmly bolted together, and the principals are connected by tie-rods. The feet of the principals are spread out, and rest on blocks of stone, but are further supported by iron columns, built into the wall, which stand upon stone corbels at the ground level. There are shoes, cast on the principals, to receive the pur lins. There will be a school-room underneath. There are two heights of iron columns, the upper supporting the iron girders for the galleries. These girders are curved in form, so as to approach nearer to the section of the steps for the galleries. The roof may be made a very effective feature; and that a similar treatment of iron work in Gothic architecture is desirable, has been pointed out in a former number of this journal.—The Builder. LIVERPOOL LYING-IN HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY. —This Institution deserves the extended support of the public—it has for the last four years worked its way steadily towards accomplishing the object its founders had in view ; and now it must be classed amongst the truly valuable charities of the town. The objects are of a sound moral tendency, and have been already responded to in other places to an extent not paralleled here. Although Liverpool boasts of its Charities, it is a strange fact that whilst latterly its commercial population have been minting money in many departments, yet the Public Charities have been falling off during the same time. How is this ? Where are those who respond as they ought to the divine injunction—" Free!) , ye have re ceived, freely give,"—we hope that the free gifts are forth coming not only to this meritorious charity, but also to the Dispensaries and others in need. The accumulated wealth can only be justified by integrity in business, and by liberal tithing thereof for benevolent purposes, else will it canker in the garner of the holder, and burden its possessor like Simonds of old. Rich in well-doing— bountiful in alms,—is the title more to be coveted than all empty honours, and is the smoothest pillow for the weary head and heart of declining years. Let it be more extensively done, and there will be less repentance over misspent stevrard.ships.—The Annual Meeting of the above Institution is advertised in our columns, and thereby an opportunity afforded for those who wish to testify their willingness to do good. MISS WIIITNALL'S CONCERT.—We earnestly call at tention to the announcement of a grand concert to be given on the evening- of to-morrow week, in the Theatre- Royal, Williamson-square, for the benefit of our highly talented and accomplished townswoman, Miss Whitnall. The musical capacity of this lady has for years been am p!), tested, and it must be gratifying to her to have re ceived the suffrages of so many cities and towns where she has received engagements. The press of all those places have been unanimous in an expression of admiration of her taste and ability, but in Liverpool her character in hese respects has rung been established. The concerts She has given, at which an immense ainount of native and 7oreign talent has been engaged, have been sufficient to show'the estimation in which she is held by the first mu sical performers in the world, whilst they are significant .of a desire to please her numerous patrons. The present concert, we ought to impress upon the public, is given by the fair ber.eficiare as a eet off for the pecuniary loss she sustained by the last expensive series in the Amphitheatre. It will be recollected that on those occasions all the leaders of the Italian Opera were here, and that .those concerts were given on a most magnificent scale. The performers gave universal satisfaction : every body was pleased, but the result exhibited a serious loss to Miss Whitnall. Un der these cirdiimstances she has a strong claim upon the public; and we shall b e ex t reme ly disappointed if, after their knowledge of the c i rcu mstances, the loss formerly sustained on their account is not now amply compensated for. The pr: gramme is exceedingly rich and copious; the selections have been made in the very spirit of refine ment and taste, and the performers are all of great and deserved eminence. We shall recur to this part of the subject in our next. tp I I is. in the cour THE PUBLICAN'S DEPUTATION AND WM. RATHBONE. —Our Contemporaries, the Mercury and the Journal, say they have authority for declaring the paragraph in , tinder tnis head, to be " an entire falsehood." 't know precisely where either of them can have their authority for applying to us such polite lan guage. Our own we give—the three members who formed potation inquestiou. _ DINNER TO T. LITTLEDALE, JUN'. 4 ESQ.—EXCHANGE WARD.—We understand that a public dinner will be given on Thursday evening next, at the George Hotel, Dale street, to celebrate the return of this gentleman for Ex change Ward as one of the representative Common Coun cilmen. We feel gratified at the introduction of a gentle man of Mr. Little :ale's standing and ability amongst the public friends of our good old constitution in church and state, and hope he may long continue to represent the important ward which now has the benefit of his services. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CORN LAWS.—In reply to a memorial from Ireland, signed by. Lord Cloncurry and others, suggesting several measures for aleviating the distress they anticipate in consequence of the disease amongst the potatoes, Sir Robert concludes his com munication as follows :—" Although considerations of public policy and of public duty prevent me from entering, in this acknowledgement of your lordship's communica tion, into a discussion in respect to the advantage of the particular measures recommended for immediate adoption; yet I beg to assure your lordship that the whole subject is cccupying the unremitting attention of her Majesty's confidential advisers. CONCERT LAST NIGHT —The Concert at the Concert Hall last night went off with great eclat. .Mr. H. Deval, a pupil of Signor Crevelli, sang Donnizetti's " Cherish Life" with great spirit. The Scena " Softly sighs" (Weber) was sung with great taste by Mrs. H. Pardy. who was evidently well versed in the music of the piece. She has an exceedingly sweet voice, and when the diffi dence of appearing before the public has been removed, we doubt not that she will become a universal favourite. Her " I dreamt I was a fairy" was loudly encored, and the applause she received throughout was unbounded. — Miss Kelly, (a pupil of Miss Whitnall,) was loudly en cored in Benedict's " Sad Sea Wave," " When the Bee Sucks," &c., and displayed an ability that reflects no or dinary credit on the instructor. Miss George (an infant of six years of age) astounded the audience on the accor deon, and the continuous bursts of applause demanded a repetition of every tune. We must not, however, neglect to notice Mr. J. Thomas, the harpist—we never heard his equal. Nov. 18, ISIS. ILAST NIGHT'S MA ---- MARK LANE CORN MARKET—YEsTE'D d The supply of wheat this morning from Essex, Tent,. fal . Suffolk, was small, and was held firmly for last week's Pr a l i ees 2, old is in request, and the tarn dearer : the same may b e 4- _,..in u ; free foreign; in bonded there was little doing. Fine rea_...,: barley has declined Is, inferior qualities Is to 23 per quar a l l Beans are 2s lower than on this day se'nnight. Pea s e d o kinds maintain the rates of last week. The oat trade is and is to 2s cheaper than on Monday last. DAY. SMITHFIELD. MARKET--YESTER boo, Fresh up from our own grazing districts, were, even the time of year considered, very limited, a a dva nc., - quality, owing to which the beef trade was brisk, at an a ons an d at the quotations obtained on Monday last, of quite 4d. per which a good clearance was effected. fresh From the northern counties, about 1400 short horn s sots to hand; while, from the eastern districts, ?ece . l , s n l es, 40 0 ?- PO the. arrivals .o of 1,09 r and short horn refords, JJevons, runts, arm. ; from otner pane rious breeds; from Scotland, 90 Scots; and from WO S°tl'e' The The number of sheep being small, the mutton trauu - what active and full prices were obtained' in every i nstance- n 9 veal tradewas somewhat c active at Friday's improved urre rem, , In pigs a small average amount of business was doing at late PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.-- Y - FsTFP l ‘ ir r . The market for public securities has been tranq uil this mornjct and prices are very decidedly firmer. Consols ha ve been lastviree. for Money at 94, the Three per Cents. Reduced 95i, t he B o nd, and-a-Quarter New at 874, Exchequer-bills 24 27, and India ---maratneiL f 010 , and the settlement of the share account d has week having been better adjusted than was expecte , . - more confidence, at the same time with an a degree of transactions in Foreign Bonds have been ver„Y - u ese Brazil Bonds have been done last at 82, Mexican, 302, "7291. Four per Cents., 57, Spanish Five per Cents r for Accoun Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.. 64 and Four per Cents. Ceram LONDON SHARE MARKET—YEsTE RD % , The Share Market was tolerably well suported, and in s °n ' e G in 51.7.111/ Linea. priguivua ca.+ -- t 0, ,• 1. Midlands, 145 7s. 5d.; South Wes- e r 1 to 21s , astern and Dover,*36i; Eastern Counties, 201 Ed Berwick, 14 to 13" dons, 211 to 22A ; Sout MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET—YEsTsapO; Newcastl , Goole, Doncaster and Sheffield, 625. pi field and Sheffield, £2Ol, £2O, pm. ; L North Yorkshire, 473., 495. 6d., 525. pm.; Tamworth, 425.; Manchester and Bury Au North Staffordshire, £5 17s. pm.; Oxtori. Cheltenham, 14 pm. ; Oxford, Worcester hampton, 47i, pin. ; Sheffield and Lincolnsl Riding Union, £7 2s. t 7 dderS n.; "tt- Anca.shire aurvi Leicest er L'ai:l7-eVt,ll.4"N';VeYONisrVacel39r; MARKET, Nov. 17• LIVERPOOL COTTON The demand for Cotton to-day has been only on big, derate scale, and the sales reach 4,000 bales, a few ia dreds of them on speculation. The Great Britain be f tO off the port, with much later dates, has caused 11 181 %d, suspend their operations, and to wait the result of her' vices, which are looked for with considerable anxiety' THE RIVER PLATE We have been favoured with the following extract frog a letter dated Monte Video, 10th September, 1845 n a " The French and English Admirals in the Fu ltea loo Firebrand steamers, with two brigs of war, con veying eh() marines and 500 seamen to land, sailed for Colonia ne, 28th ult., Captain Garebaldi, with the national sciliaa,rre Y conveying troops, g havin sailed the da revions. P d with Fulton got aground, and the French brig remaine• her to render assistance. In the meantime Admiral Ingle field with his own, and the national vessels, a ttac li , Colonia and took it after two hours firing, having only had four men wounded. The enemy evacuated the I.°- after having completely sacked every store and he°,4 and forcing all the inhabitants to leave the town. , :: Fulton returned on the 6th inst., with the brig see, 6.1.0 men, and the Firebrand is expected down wi th marines. 26th We have no letters from Buenos Ayres since the ult., but accounts are in town that all communicatiaa d with the French and Englishto vessels of war is st o p Pea' except the conveyance of tot and then the officer is accompanied there and back to t boat by two officers; in this way we hope the mails n l9/ be landed, if not, our friends will be entirely cut off (root all communication, except, perhaps, through neutral leg" the Lega . . . sels of war. The brig Catherine, Captain Coffey, from this Port bound to Rio Janeiro, was totally lost 26th July. 'lea r n ; St. Teresa, on the frontiers of this republic and I" Grande. The men were all saved, but by accounts fro' Iti) Grande are detained as prisoners of war by Oribe• We have to get all our fresh beef from Rio Grande, tit ° for many days were without any. Colonia has also to u supplied in the same way. - The communication between this republic and Grande is closed by orders of Baron Caxias, and in c ° , 7 " sequence of this, trade is quite at a stand at Rio Gr ande ' It is fully expected that Buenos Ayres will b e blocka de immediately." LATEST FROM RIO JANEIRO nc g N i vh V et e di nb h y a o v tu e hre tfri just ivgeart i e p i c ro e cn, received, e a r p l t , ue rr p dn e aa r ym. C b habadtntvsgi, advises e a so r n r f i r v o e ra d f l a i s t t . tot 0.6...Arcr, 111 - itatci t ban d B og lan ° was at 211 to 262. The Swift, packet, and the COo2o' (lore had arrived from Liverpool. The following is b e most important news which she brings, for which we li b indebted to a copy of the Rio Mercantile Journal, W which we have been kindly furnished : " Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2 6 . k " Business has been extremely dull during the Nce the attention of all classes of the commercial comet unit; having been directed to a consideration of the conse: quences likely to result from a conference, held on tn: 23d instant, between the Minister of Finance and son' of the principal merchants and capitalists. " The object of the meeting was declared by his gl; th cellency to be, to ascertain if any pressure existed ill money market, and if it did exist, the cause of such Fires' sure and the best means to remedy it. p 1 " In the course of the discussion, it was made aPPar.„ae that the principal cause of the tightness whichee xited,i s t ed, was the large amount of the floating debt, and the cool,: quent wants of the Treasury to meet its engagements 10'1 the Bank. Some of the gentlemen present recommendr; an issue of paper, but this was, generally, reproba te to and his Excellency likewise expressed himself opPes e ,bat any such issue, but gave the meeting to understand % ; he considered himself authorised to emit 1,600,00 0 d ° ' e d and that if, from circumstances, he should be com Pete e te to issue more than that amount, he should not hes° but would ask from the Chambers a bill of indemnity* s s " His Excellency concluded by stating his willingo e e , to accept any reasonable offers for stock, which be P r o t ferred to an issue of paper, provided such offers were 13 extreme)) , prejudicial to the national interests. " The meeting may be said to have produced no a i l; lute result, but some proposals will be probably madefoir I his Excellency, and we trust that these may be of a v and equitable nature, and that his Excellency may be „ duced to accede to them; for we have the innate c on/I n6 tion, that to supply the wants of the Treasury by an ig the of paper would be another, perhaps a fatal, blow to honour and integrity of the country." My initials are feigned (for the sanctity of private corres pondence is no more respected by our rulers, civil and spi ritual, than the consciences of individuals), and should you refuse this anonymous letter a place in your valuable columns, you will perhaps have the kindness to keep it (as a proof of its date), until a few months hence, when I will convince you, with documents in hand, fur the en lightenment of the public, that the severance of M. Rouge in Germany is but a foreshadow of what will inevitably occur in Italy on a larger scale on the first occasion ; for the mass of the population is now irresistibly travelling to two equally extreme points, viz.,—fanaticism and infi delity,— driven thereto by the excessive corruption of the church, now no longer Catholic, but Roman, from which calamitous condition we hope to behold it ere long raised by skilful an I cur..tive hand,." NORTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAY—MORE AMAL GAMATIONS. The shareholders in the North Wales Mineral Railway held a special general meeting, at the offices in Chester, yesterday, (Monday,)''tor the purpose of considering a proposition to amalgamate with the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway Company, and, if adopted, to authorize the directors to take the necessary measures in relation thereto. A con siderable body of proprietors attended, and Mr. William Wardell, banker, chairman of the company, presided. The ch airman entered, at considerable length, into a statement of the advantages which would attend the amal gamation, and he mentioned that the terms had been unanimously agreed upon, at a joint meeting of the di rectors, held on the 28th ult. These terms were expressed in a series of resolutions, which the chairman proposed for adoption, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Lyon. The first was, that the two companies be amalgamated, and the others detailed the terms, namely,—That the £2O shares of the North Wales Mineral Railway Company, when paid up, shall be held as £26 13s. 4d. of paid up stock of the Amalgamated Company; and the £lO shares of the North \Vales Mineral Railway Company, when paid up, shall be held as £l3 6a. Bd. of the stock of thelAmal gamated Company, and shall draw dividends accordingly. And that the £2O shares of the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway Company, when paid up, shall be held as £2O of the stock of the Amalgamated Company. —That the North Wales Mineral Railway Company shall be entitled to receive the whole of the proceeds and dividends derived from their own lines, un til the Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway shall be opened througbont.—That the capital required for constructing the branch lines to be brought before the ensuing session of parliament, shall be issued to the shareholders of both companies, as an amalgamated stock, in the proportions of one £lO share for every £2O share held in the North Wales Mineral, and in the JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove - LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-stri,;--4 Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, Railway At N 0.4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVE my , " _ ton a ll Companies, respectively ; and one £lO share for every Orders and Advertisementsare received by Messrs.Aeeewt_strtept, a rn . h d ill s ; ou_ F A a v Y l s elb7 ; two £lO shares held in the North Wales Mineral Railway. Co. Warwick-square ; Barker and White, of!r;;; 13 , it By the last resolution, which, with all the rest, was car- B De ir a c c h o i n nli r e ir j o o o s k ep ; h ß T ey h n o e m ll as ,C , h l r Feienrcyh..Tann.eey;c. o n l a n, " ißd i e i d; 11,., ried unanimously, the directors were formally empowered den Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; INlitelell, to take the necessary steps to carry out the amalgams- court, Fleet-street • Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle-. o_L,, „.. 19 of tion. In reply to a question, the chairman stated , hill; at the London Commercial Cohee-house , the new shares would be issued immediately, and that a North deposit of £1 per share would be payable thereon. The f a meeting then separated. The meeting of the Shrewsbury Coffee-house, Threadneedle-street;oParspenna e t e. t n h o e ns J e e , ru p s n a t l e e r m nos C te o r ff . e r e o - w ho i us N e o , and Oswestry Company is appointed for this day, (Tues.. lane, London ; Johnston a and C. Lewis. Wheeler, Exchange-street, C. H. Booth, B° °k day). at EXTENT OF THE ATLANTIC.—So vast is the Atlantic gton, ocean, that it has been said that all the ships in the world Dain, Herald-office, Birmingham, on ere - might be so dispersed over it that none should see another. w Ma a n rri ch n ester .; C fi la a r a k d e ockiilaont-office, n p d re W st . on;and wr ight Terms of Subscription for this paper : _ ai d in The parent that would train up a child in the way he should go, must go in the way that he would, train up his if- ear- it' • child. advance—one year, El la. ;ha . one year, £1 3s. ; half-year, 11s. the T a h John S. Jackson, Esq. has presented a beautiful ,Is; chaste communion service of silver, for the u , c ci f John's church, Birkenhead, now in progress of erection.," The Rev. Charles James Hamilton of Birkenhea d 't been presented by William Jackson, Esq. with an &V I suit of silk robes. o er ta e t i o s e a s ivoetrryovdioseibedleinimtoprtohveeroeandt London o n rathaerkrlro4 ee the last few wks.—Globe of last nd Halifax steamship which left th e mer port on the Ist instant, had not arrived vibe° went to press His Imperial Highness, the Grand Duke Canstanily, second son of the Emperor of Russia, arrived at mouth on Saturday on a visit to this country. nobet - Yesterday (Monday) morning, the Lady Adds fi re son was re-married at St. George's, Hanover - W - 0 s; with Captain Ibbetson, in pursuance of a special lice obtained from the Faculty office A 1 V B Miss F.Nr.. ARRIVAL OF MRS, BUTLER (LATE KEMBLE.)—Mrs. Butlei arrived at Liverpool in a P l3 ,,,„ i i a delphia packet-ship last week, and she intends ar making her appearance on the stage. Mimeo The Yorkshire Gazette says that Mr. Hudson, P's,.ato arrived at Drayton Manor on Wednesday direct Wynyard Park, where the hon. member had been visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of LondondePO Mr. Hudson left Drayton Manor on Friday for 11°r0 Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Leeds. bog COMMITMENTS.—At the Police Cvurt yesterday, -ser named James Welsh was committed for trial at the 3 0a., sions, on a charge of stealing a coat, worth aban : t b be from the shop of Mr. W. Taylor, of Lord-stree t, wille was afterwards pledged.—A man named William Clarooo - for trial on a charge of having assaulte d a g i' a ted tieman of the name of Thomas Sidebottom, wh o a" h 1 that the prisoner had, on Sunday morning, knocke oio d down, pursued him over several fences in g arden g r near Bevington Bush, and finally robbed him of a c rotil &table sum of money. The money was not 'also H ot after the prosecutor had left the bridessell after 1b had information. When the prisoner was apprehend ed only Id. upon his person. LIVERPOOL : ESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, IS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IMPORTANT PROJECT. The London Times, of Friday last, contained a notice of application to parliament, in the ensuing session, for its sanction to one of the most comprehensive and im portant projects recently brought before the public. The project in question, for the carrying out of which a company is formed, of which Messrs. Mallaby, Towns end, and Newall, of Birkenhead and a London firm, . . are the solicitors, is styled the National Gas Association, and proposes to take powers to supply the entire metro politan district, including the towns and villages round for a distance of seven to ten miles. To enable them to do this, they propose the erection of gasometers, the laying down of pipes, &c., in and through such parishes and places as may be found necessary ; and to take power to contract with the existing incorporated gas companies, to supply them with gas, or for the entire purchase of their works and rights and privileges. The most important and novel feature of the unut. the proNsal to take powers and lay pipes from the me tropolis northwards, taking apparently the direction of the London and and Birmingham Railway, through the counties of Hereford, Bedford, Buckingham, and North ampton, from which county it pursues the route of the Midland Railway, through the counties of Leicester and Derby, terminating at Normanton, in the latter county, a place two miles west of Derby, which is intersected by the Birmingham and Derby Railway. By a paragraph in another part of our paper, it will be seen that reparts kinz is are in circulation that Companies are being formed (of which this is perhaps one) for the manufacture of gas at the pit-mouths, and its conveyance by pipes laid down along the lines of railway to the various large towns ; and that water, both fresh and salt, is to he similarly transported. We have heard, but cannot vouch for the lact,that the projector and head of the scheme of which we have given the outline from the parliamentary notice, is Mr. Wm. Jackson, our enterprising neighbour of Bir kenhead. Perhaps this may throw . some light upon _ _ SERMON IN AID OF THE BLUE COAT HOSPITAL. On Sunday forenoon, David Hodgson, Esq., the new mayor for this borough, and his friends, atrended (in ac cordance with annual custom) divine service at St. Pe ter's Church, the collection being in aid of the funds of that excellent and long-established charity, the Blue- Coat School. The company began to assemble at the Town-hall soon after ten o'clock, and shortly before eleven walked in procession to the place of worship, preceded by the interesting children of the establishment, and the mu nicipal officers having the regalia. About a hundred gen tlemen followed the Mayor, amongst whom we noticed the following members of the corporation, and others : Aldermen Horsfall, Bramley-Moore, Crooke, Bushby, Sands, Brancker, Leigh, Molyneux, and Griffith. Mr. F. Shand, Mr. Holt, Mr. Glazebrook, Captain Gregg, (of the staff department,) Mr. Barton, Mr. Reid, Mr. Wm. Birkett, Mr. Robt. Horsfall, Mr. P. Wright, (Clerk of the Peace,) Mr. Plumpton, Mr. Boyden, Mr. Jno. Law rence, Mr. Webster, Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. Benn, Mr. S. Staniforth, Mr. Brooke, (Excise Solicitor,) Mr. R. B. Hill, Mr. J. Buck Lloyd, Mr. Parker, Mr. Aspinall, the Rev. Rectors Brooks and Campbell, Mr. Jas. Law rence, the Rev. Mr. Monk, Mr. Tinne, Mr. Csp-rie, the Rev. Mr. Hornby, Mr. Littledale, Mr. T. Bold, and others. Although the day was somewhat unfavourable, it being wet underfoot, a large concourse of people surrounded and accompanied the procession, in the route to and in Church-street, where others also joined it. Prayers were impressively read by the Rev. Mr. Hal ton, the curate; and before the communion and the ser mon, appropriate hymns were affectingly sung by the children of the schuol, joined by the congregation, to whom printed copies were distributed. An appropriate discourse was preached by the Rev. Rector Brooks, founded on the 35th verse of 20th chap. of the Acts. " I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring, ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ' It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" The preacher dwelt on the meek, generous, forgiving, and ever alleviating character of the Saviour towards the human race (whose semblance he bad taken) in their va rious sufferings and afflictions ; and drew a strong paral lel of the conduct which the community who professed to follow him, so far as their imperfect nature would allow, ought to pursue—in not aiding the less fortunate in their physical wants, but in instructing and teaching them the way unto the salvation of their immortal souls. At the close be made a more direct and affecting appeal in behalf of the children whose benefit he was teat day the advo cate. The institution was the oldest in the town, having been established 137 years ago, and during that period thousands had been instructed to become not only useful members of society, but, from the Christian education they received, to inherit hopes of a glorious immortality. He also stated that, out of 350 children now brought up in the school, the whole, with the exception of four, were more or less orphans; and, after stating that the funds had latterly decreased, he concluded by impressing upon his hearers the words of the text, " It is more blessed to give than to receive." - A collection was then made, and the sum of £65 4s. 4id was raised in b,ehalf of this noble charity. This sum in cludes a donation from the Mayor, which, we are informed upon good authority, was equal to, if not greater than the auto usually contributed by his predecessors. THE IRISH SOCIETY.—The anniversary meeting of the Bristol Auxiliary of this excellent, and at the present eventful period,. invaluable society was held last week. The deputation consisted of Dr. M'Caul, the Revds. W. Herbert, F. C. Ewald,. and T. Nolan, The barrow used by Sir Robert Peel, on the occasion of turning over the first sod of the Trent Valley Railway, was designed by Mr. Arthur Hill Holme, of this town. It was a very beautiful, indeed magnificent, piece of workmanship, richly and elaborately carved, and cost, it is said, considerably upwards of forty pounds. After the interesting ceremony, for which the barrow was " built," was performed, Sir Robert caused it to be placed amongst his collection of valuable curiosities at Drayton Manor. The barrow was made of mahogany by Messrs. S. and J. Holme, of this town. THE PAPAL STATES.—Extract of a letter dated An cona, 18th September : —" The church festivals having just terminated in commemoration of the pretended racle performed by a painting of the Madonna in the ca thedral church of this town, in opening and moving its eyes, I send you for publication, if you think proper, with the Cardinal's pastoral invitation to this diocese on this wonderful miracle. My object in addressing you on this subject, though an Italian and a Catholic, is to show that we are not all blinded by the superstition with which our priests would overwhelm our people. With much morti fication, I shall see this subject discussed by the free and enlightened press of Europe tthrough many channels), to the disgrace and degradation of my own country ; but pray allow this letter to appear, as the protest of one, in the name of many nurturing the same sentiments, which must for the present remain buried in our own bosoms, or other wise expose ourselves to persecution,—sentiments agree able to the true first faith of our fathers, and opposed to the present superstitious veneration of images with its accompaniment of debasing credulity and tendency to ignorance and tyranny. My handwriting is disguised and THE Under Mit p, V. triter Ha ns M►nnie TD con 15. 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