The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

ELLIGENOR which left Boston o he evening of the 3d 31st ult., Ad instant. ork papers to tr inercial point of view•. vetoed'the Bank Bill. ass.ed the senate. The sired the passing tigated abuse had what was considered a mob surrounded his re of insult that the most The opponents of the mea . The President was lauded nd the protector of the rights its. Mr. Tyler, in giving his measure, states that, with the I on the subject, having hi the bill, he could not sanction us obligation and self-respect. timate purposes to which any can be turned, are the collect- )urselnent"of the public revenue. ae believes, has Congress any right ractices should the fiscal agent be iscount he objects, as being unne le power of discount possessed by have been useless and mischiev deal in exchange was beneficial. nferring on a government bank any ,e commerce. He would confine it 'n specific duty, in the performance iade to operate as advantageously as ;s of the community most intimately )mmerce and exchange of the coun position construing the silence of a he establishment of a branch, and e measure but a subterfuge. He n of branches, and points out the Ated power would create the federal government. He does rticular scheme for a national bank on, but he is evidently opposed to ag a greater extent of faculties than tute it a sort of national treasurer. tly modified form, had passed both 11 had, however, been brought for bad been conceded in deference to dent, this second measure retained features of the former bill, that `-st confidence that Mr. Tyler Lbly_ dispu. principles that induced him to card Everitt was nominated as rt, but a warm opposition was raised as expected he wouh' ,e . cting slavery be rejected on unswick a very destructive lire had taken place About one o'clock in the morning, a large ons burthen, which was on the stocks in the of Messrs. Owens and Duncan, Portland Vil covered to be on tire. The tide was low, and id be procured. The flames, having once got ith uncontrollable fury, and immediately corn the buildings in the vicinity, which were soon blazing materials. The fire extended rapidly, iolc street was in flames. At length two houses own, and their further progress was arrested. dwelling-houses, a number of small houses, )dist chapel, were consumed. None of the nsured. and great distress was likely to result ade its appearance in New Orleans. ad occurred at Syracuse. A fire vhich there was gunpowder. The er exploded, and killed 25 men who - sh the flames. _ ... . . . the municipal bill had passed majority of 12. Mr. Baldwin amendment, " That it be read at the amendment was ~;eneral had sent to the ig for the consideration of the at improvement. The total cost .__ the message would involve an 170,000 provincial sterling, to be ernor- . . e years necessary for their com o funds, in hand wherewith to de vernor•general proposes that the the provincial parliament make sr, between £BO,OOO and £90,000 per Up proposes to accomplish in part by ;overnment bank. iful. The demand continued limited, prime securities were effected with was done in foreign bills for the mewhat advanced since the preced e on London stood at 9 to 91. 'lied slightly on the but uad r ik Shares were greatl_ of in a few days. Th 6 million of dollars has been nego- .;otia were about to petition her Scotia with New Brunswick. land taken out by the Colombia nd raised the flour market. Cot per pound, whilst flour had ad the country. SSENGERS BY THE COLUMBIA. —IL Semple and friend, Mr. Sheling, C. W. ttrell, Gerard Ralston, Mr. Thorn and lady, lariatagni, Henry Sebor, John L. Lincoln, iett, P. Godett, J. Welsh, Samuel Jandon, liman, Mr. H. Delessert, —. Clark, JaMes handier, Isaac Higgins. Mr. Campbell, Miss , Joseph de Betzens, L. Dutremes, James Pegg, John M`Main, Lieutenant Law, W. ~ S. Palmer, Sampson Fresh, J . B. Hawkes, ady, and child, Frederick Grininger, Henry son, (B. army,) Henry S. Chambers, Mr. a Grundy, J. Day, J. C. Kemkelman. Mr. Broad, Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mrs, .fY children. Miss Muir and servant, 0..1-1, Mrs. G. 0. Stewart thociAmorton, A.. CT OF THE LOG. ,oston at 30Lo. past °lie o'clock, p.m x, N.S .S., 6 o'clock, a.m. ; sailed again 9 o'clock, p.m. Sambro Light, bore which we took our departure. 6 ,- . 59 59, course N. 81 E., wind W., ) noon light airs and fine weather. 5-1 40, course N. 78 E., wind N. E., g breezes and cloudy weather. g. 50 6, course N. 78 E., wind E. S. E., ng winds and cloudy weather, with a the brig Casaza (No. 1,583 Marriat's). !n, of Poole, out 37 days for Quebac. n 4. 44 51, course N. 81 E.. wind N. E., ► breezes, with a heavy N.E. swell. g. 38 50, course N. 81 E., wind N., a gales, with hard squalls and a high sea. lg. 33 3, course N. 80 E., wind N.N.E., ug gales, with heavy sqalls and a high sea. ,ng. 36 52, course N. 80 E., wind N.N.E., breezes, with rain at times. Passed the Spoke the barque Cato, of Lynn, out 15 mline. from Quebec to Glasgow, 35 days ) 14, course N. 80 E., wind S.E., reezes and cloudy weather. 14 30, course N. 72 E., wind S.S.E., les and cloudy weather, with a heavy Cape Clear bore N.E. by N.IN el. At four o'clock a.m. Tuskar krrived in the river Mersey at six OVEMENTS OF THE NEW MINISTRY a the 3forning Herald of Yesterday.) ison to know that one of the first acts of the :ive ministry has been to come to a good un ith the French government, for the purpose of aTtiendly intelligence between both coun future, but continued peace and good-will be ;reat powers of Europe. so reason to believe that the ministry of M. let Sir R. Peel's administration in the same en to bring the affair of Tunis, which fliculty, to a satisfactory conclusion ; in the rights of the Porte over its r, relieving France from the appre , interference with its African con- down the basis of a commercial ht to a conclusion contempora r discusbion between France and .at, at the pressing request of ambassador charged with full now present in London, orders iediate departure of M. de St. sending us this information, inti reilension that the state of public resents every concession made to is to France, may have some effect sue of these negotiations. 4SSASSINATE THE DUKE D'AUMALE. (n attempt has been made to assassi • le to-day. Ile was at the head of his dong the faubourg St. Antoine to banquet was prepared by the King I his comrades in arms, when a man ted from a cabaret and discharged a is said that the shot was directed at cause he was a little in advance of his Dukes of Orleans, Nemours, and I him, and the assassin might have 11. leans as the heir to the throne. For ,t take effect, but the horse of a Gene , and it is said that the general was to knee. The assassin was about 30 ht a member of the secret societies ating disturbances in Paris, but as anspired respecting him. slay the march of the regiment was along the Boulevards, the Princes Lees at its head, and cheered by the Neuilly, and, up to the hour of of any other disagreeable occurrence has lts have taken place at Clermont, in resi.ted the officers in the taking of fired on the military who supported Ling seventeen soldiers. At one mo very serious, but additional troops jot was put down. is paraded the place d e Ch atelet Paris, uttering seditious cries on " A has Louis Phillip, were heard. No other people but the serjeans de b were dispersed Without Cries of arid a serious dis. take plane this evening, but prepared, and consequently 'carat. ordered top roceed to Lon- Papart Mußncr. AT BAN GOR.—A man has been killed in a street uarrel at Bangoe, and two persons have been committed fo athr rial on a charge of having beaten and kicked him to de• lie name of the vietiat is Thomas Thomas, a farm lobourer, lecasionallY working - in the quarry, residing at Pant-y-Cytr, Lad brother to l rs. ThOwas, of the Waterloo Inn. The iarti - es charged with the crime are ilugh Davies and Joseph 3avjes, the former boot-boy at' the Albion;the other car ,ther at tlie Pearbyrt Arms, hotels. ITED 61 nitsuisLi4eiNLOLTS few days ago an excavator, named Baker, living at Sands-end, Fulham, nearly murdered his daughter, a girl fourteen years of age, by striking her on the head with a poker, because his dinner did not happen to be ready the moment he entered the house. CALAMITOUS OCCURRENCE.—On Friday evening last, although the sky was overcast, the weather was yet so tine that it was scarcely possible to anticipate the slightest danger to the boats engaged in the herring fishing, and all of them at the various stations on this part of the coast put out to sea as usual. while some were encouraged by the apparently settled calmness of the night to risk their floats nearer to the rocks than is their practice. The aspect of the weather continued unchanged till about twelve o'clock, when a tre mendous gale sprung up from the north-east, placing the lives of the boats' crews in the greatest jeopardy. Most of them hauled their nets, many of which, being full of herring, were lost in the hurry and confusion consequent upon the exertions of the fishermen to escape the danger. One of them, however, the Jebus. of Eynemouth, had unfortunately taken up a perilous position near the shore at Marshall Meadows, from which the crew were unable to extricate themselves, and the consequence was, that the whole on lye in number, perished.—Berwick Warder. TIIEATRE.ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, Under tho Manage nt of CLARKE Sole Le:. THE PERFORMANCES DURING . THE SUMMERR. SEASON WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO BE uPENED AT SEVE FOR THIS MR. MACREADY POSITIVELY NIGHT ONLY. FOR TIIE BENEFIT OF MR. ANDERSON, On which occasion Mr. Macready has, in the kindest man ner, volunteered the aid of his valuable services, and will, tor the first tune here, perform the character of Lord Townly, in the Comedy of The Provoked Husband; in which Miss ELLEN TREE will sustain the character of Lady Towuly. Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. Anderson will appear on the same Evening in the characters of Violante and Don Felix, in the Comedy of The Wonder. THIS present FRIDAY, Sept. 17, 1841, will be performed the Comedy of TJA PROVOKED HUSBAND; Or, A Journey to London. Lord Townly Mr. Macready. Lady Towuly Miss Ellen Tree. Squire Richard.. Mr. Baker. Lady Grace.. Miss Cleaver. Lady Wronghead. Mrs. Clarke. Miss Jenny Miss E. Honner. At the end of the Play, a PAS STYRIENNE, by Master and Miss C. Webster. To conclude with the Comedy of THE WONDER, A WOMAN KEEPS A SECRET. Donna Violante Miss Ellen Tree. Don Felix Colonel Briton.. Mr. H. Holl. Lissardo .... Mr. Baker. Donna Isabella.. Miss Cleaver. Flora.. Mrs. Clarke. On MONDAY, September 20th, Miss ELLEN TREE and Mr. ANDERSON will appear in their highly popular characters of Rosalind and Jacques, being the Last Night but Four of their Engagement. Mr. FRAZER, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent Gardeu and Drury-lane, and formerly of this Theatre, is engaged for a Fortnight, and will make his first appearance here since his London Engagement, on the same occasion. _ Mr. MACIZAY, of the Theatre-Royal, Edinburgh, is also engaged for a Fortnight, and will make his first appearance this season, in his celebrated character of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, in the Drama of ROB ROY. Mr. PAUL BEDFORD, of the Drury-lane, Covent Garden, and Adelphi Theatres, who is engaged for a limited number of Nights, will perform the character of Major Galbraith. On MONDAY next will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Rosalind, Miss Ellen Tree ; Jacques, Mr. Anderson, (the last night but four of their ap pearance) ; Amiens, (with Songs,) Mr. Frazer, (his first ap pearance here since his London Engagement) ; Orlando, Mr. H. Holl ; Touchstone, Mr. Baker; Celia, Miss Cleaver; Audrey, Mrs. Clarke. To conclude with the Musical Drama of ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Mr. Anderson ; Francis Osbal diston, Mr. Frazer ; Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Mr. Mackay ; Major Galbraith, Mr. Paul Bedford. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET, IS NIGHTLY CROWDED TO THE CEILING THE GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH Is MORE THAN MORTALS He now waves invisibly his Mystic Wand over the " good old Town", and Thousands of Sci ence, Literature, and Beauty rush to behold the incredible feats of this supposed supernatural being. His wonders are truly astounding, and he will continue THIS EVENING, (Friday,) and TO-MORROW EVENING, (Saturday,) to delight and enchant all who may appear within his MYSTIC TEMPLE IVlr. J. H. ANDERSON begs to announce to the Musical Public, and the Inhabitants generally, thathbas engaged THE CELEBRATED BELL RINGERS ! From Me Concerts d'Ete, and the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. They will make their Second Appearance Tins EVENING, tae 17th instant, and pour forth their " merrie peals" in the Costume of the Ancient Lancashire Bell Ringers. Remember that the Wizard commences every Evening at Eight o'clock, concluding at Half-past Ten or Eleven. The Second Price commences at the conclusion of the first part of the Wizard's Feats " a la Magique". Prices—Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. Half-price—Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit, ls. No half-price to the Gallery. *** - A Programme and Pamphlet (comprising opinions of the London Press, with humourous illustrations, price 2d.) may be had at the Doors. board, f The petition against the return of the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P. for Flintshire, was presented a few days since, and will come on in March next. It is certainly a long period to look forward to, but there is little doubt of the present members being unseated, and making way for Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., to the infinite satisfaction of the electors of the county of Flint. Conservatism is spreading now so fast in all parts, that the election of the real repre sentative, Sir S. Glynne, Bart., will be hailed as a most fortunate event for Flintshire. HEARTS OF FLINT.-A poor woman having been convicted of some infraction of the forest laws, in the counts y near Rouen, she was fined 25f. Being unable to pay the money, she, though herself enceinte, and having already five small children to support, was sent on Tuesday last, with all her progeny at her heels, to expiate her offence in person, by a month's durance in the prison of Bicetre, at Rouen. Her deplorable appearance, as she passed through the streets, in charge of two gendarmes, with their numerous train, excited general pity, but no one thought of assisting her, until, on her arrival at the prison, the gaolors were so struck with her distress that they immediately made a collection, paid her fine, and sent her and her children home rejoicing. A lad of only twelve or thirteen years of age was return- ing, a few evenings ago, from Rheims to Nieux, with a cart, and carrying a good sum of money in a belt round his per son ; he was stopped by' three robbers, who demanded his money, and, on his refusing to give it, threatened to put him under the wheel of his cart. " Do," said the boy, "but you shall not have my money." They proceeded to carry their threat into execution, the boy in the meantime calling in vain upon his dog to assist him. The robbers, alarmed least whilst the boy resisted they should be discovered, at length left. On his return home with his money the boy gave it to his father, and then taking his gun shot the dog, which had returned before him, observing to his father that the animal was a coward and a traitor. HER MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD.—The ladies most con spicuously attached to her majesty's court by the late ministry have been succeeded by the Duchess of Buccleugh and the Marchioness of Camden; a few other ladies of her majesty's household being continued in their former situa tions, and particularly three of them, Lady Barham, Lady Portman, and Lady Littleton ; we believe we may say all of them personally in great favour with her majesty. The Duchess of Sutherland, in a domestic point of view, was un doubtedly a great loss ;—a woman of the greatest personal beauty and elegance in the kingdom, and against whom even party itself has never breathed a word. With royal person ages, the mere circumstance of the rank of their attendants is perhaps of the least possible weight ; whether the queen's mistress of the robes were a duchess or a marchioness, must be to her majesty a point of utter indifference ; but it was certainly a thing to be desired that the new appointment should be such as to replace, if possible, the same grace and female accomplishments which were withdrawn in the person of the Duchess of Sutherland. We believe that this was the motive of Sir Robert Peel in so anxiously soliciting the Duchess of Buccleugh to accept the honour which was offered to her. She is nearly the youngest of our duchesses, and has, without contradiction, all those graces and accom plishments which belong to her high rank. The same may be said of the Marchioness of Camden, a young woman of great personal beauty as well as high rank, being the niece of the Duke of Athol, and married only about three or four years since. Both of these appointments, therefore, are probably such as will fully satisfy her majesty's feelings, and preserve unimpaired the elegance, splendour, and dignity of her court. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PICCADILLY, LONDON, AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday evening, shortly before nine o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the house of Messrs. Levi and Salmon ; the well known fruiterers, opposite the Green-park, iu Piccadilly. The house will be recollected by most persons familiar with that part of the metropolis from its unique ap pearance, each floor being fitted up with an ornamental wooden balcony of peculiar construction, and from the fact of its being next door to the noble mansion of the Duke of Grafton, at the corner of Clarges-street. The rapid progress of the flames from the inflammable nature of the building prevented from the first all hope of saving any portion of it from destruction, and considerable delay having arisen in the arrival of the fire engines, the greatest fears were for some time entertained that the ravages of the devouring element would extend to the noble duke's mansion, next door. Be fore ten o'clock the flames had attained their greatest height. Several engines were by this time in full play, and lengths of hose having been hauled up to the roof of the next house, an immense volume of water was poured on the burning ruins. By half-past ten the house of Messrs. Levi and Salmon was completely gutted, but all fears for the surrounding property were fortunately at the end. The family inhabiting the house were absent, having been spending the day at Graves end. The greatest consternation prevailed at the western end of the metropolis, and the fire originating at so early an hour brought immense crowds to the immediate neighbour hood. The upper part of the Duke of Grafton'e house is vary much injured. The family were absent from town. The great delay in the arrival of a good supply of engines was attributable to the fact of another fire having broke out shortly previous in Kennington-lane, opposite the Licenced Victualler? School, which was fortunately soon got under. We are sorry to add, that the above fire proved, in its conse quences, more disastrous than was at first anticipated. After the flames were got under, two firemen, named West and Weaver, were examining the back of the premises, when the roof fell in, carrying with it the floorings, and they were buried in the smouldering ruins. West expired almost in stantly. Weaver was extricated alive, after five hours' ex ertion.—London Paper. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A very melancholy acci dent occurred in the neighbourhood of Inverness on Monday, which has carried distress into a wide circle of friends and relatives, and caused a deep and mournful feeling among all classes of the community. About six o'clock in the after noon, Dr. Basil Tytler, son of the late Alexander Fraser Tytler, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Service (who had been on a visit to his uncle, the sheriff of this county), was in a boat in the river Ness, in company with a young gentleman, Mr. William Fraser, son of Mr. Fraser of Culduthel. They were opposite Lady Saltoun's cottage where the river is deep and strong, besides being at present much swollen by the late rains. The boat had got into a strong current, and the younger of the party, feeling that lie could not hold on, called on Dr. Tytler to come to his assist ance. On the latter repairing to the same part of the boat, his additional weight brought it to the level of the water, and when they began to pull it immediately filled. Mr. William Fraser contrived to swim or scramble ashore, but Dr. Tytler, struggled to regain his place in the boat, being encumbered with a large and heavy pair of water boots, used in angling. On making a third attempt the boat upset, and the unfortu nate gentleman lost his hold, whilst the frail vessel floated with great rapidity down the stream. An alarm was g i ven , and the boat was 'found, keel uppermost, a little lower down the river. At the Woollen mill the body of Dr. Tytler was seen in the midst of the water, turning round near the sur face, and a man put out in a boat to recover it, but the strength and rapidity of the stream frustrated every effort. Intelligence of the fatal accident soon reached Inverness, and hundreds of the people repaired to the old bridge, while seve ral expert swimmers entered the river in various directions in their anxiety to recover the body. All attempts proved unavailing, and there is every reason to suppose that the body was carried out to the sea. The scene on the banks of the liver was strikingly impressive. Crowds of anxious specta tors watched the progress of the stream, while the swimmers braved its deep and rapid current, and several men in a boat dragged the waters in fruitless expectation. The deceased was about twenty-six years of age, of accomplished talents and amiable disposition. He had studied medicine under Sir Charles Bell, and was distinguished for his knowledge and proficiency. He was the last of his family, the hope of his widowed mother, and many anxious eyes were turned towards his future career, which had opened under such bright and favourable auspices, and promised a long life of honour and usefulness. The sad reality has quenched those anticipations, and is well calculated to remind us of the uncertain tenure by which all human hopes and happiness must ever be possessed. —lnverness Courier. An accident of a distressing nature occurred on the 28th ult., in Sturminster Marshall, by which two respectable families have been plunged into great distress. It appears that Frederick Joseph Belcher, Esq., a tine young man 20 years of age, an ensign of her Majesty's 60th regiment of foot, who was staying for a short time on a visit at the house of his uncle, Charles Parke, Esq., of Lower Henbury, was induced by the fineness of the weather, on the day above mentioned, to bathe, in company with Frederick Fane, Esq., a relative of the late General Fane, in the river Stonr. After being in the water some time he was observed to sink, No _ . assistance could be immediately rendered him, and a consi derable time elapsed before the body was taken out of the water, when notwithstanding every exertion was made by the medical gentlemen of Wimborne, who were quickly on the spot, life was found to be quite extinct. An inquest was held on the following Monday before Henry Castleman, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.—Sherborne Journal.. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Our recent letters from Malta mention an affair of honour which had just taken place in that island, and which appears to have excited a great sensation in Valetta. The brother of a noble Duke (Lord Sussex Lennox) arrived in the Great Liverpool, under an assumed name, at Malta, and having immediately waited on Major S. IL, of the 19th Regiment, and all preliminaries having been arranged, proceeded to fight a duel with another military gentlemen, holding a situation in the staff of that garrison, (Captain Norcote, of the Rifle Brigade, Military Secretary.) Lord Sussex Lennox fired without effect, and his adversary having discharged his pistol in the air, his lordship was, with difficulty, induced to listen to an accom modation, the terms of which are said to be of a somewhat singular description. This done, Lord Sussex Lennox left the next day for England. During the time the parties were on the ground they did not exchange a syllable. The cir cumstances in which the dispute originated, together with the correspondence, will, it is further affirmed, in all proba bility, be published. The affair was the one topic of con versation at Malta when the mail came away.—United Ser vice Gazette. SUSPENSION OF PAYMENT BY A JOINT-STOCK BANK.— Intelligence of an unsatisfactory character transpired yester day, (Monday,) regarding the position of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Joint Stock Banking Company, whose drafts on Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co., their London agents, were refused on Saturday. The head quarters of this establishment are in the town of Nottingham, and their branches and places of issue are at Newark, Mansfield, Worksop, East Redford, Tuxford, and Loughborough. The nominal capital is £500,000, and the paid-up capital some thing about one fifth of the amount. The shareholders are about 350 in number ; several of them said to be wealthy. A committee of the directors and managers, however, have ar rived in town, with the view of making arrangements to carry on the business 01 the concern.—Chronicle. TIT FOR T AT.—A gentleman o f S toc k ton, on W e d nes d ay night last, was roused from s leep by a thundering knock at the door, and on window, to Popping his night-capped head out of the business wal e i zuire the nature of his untimely visitor's " Indeed!" He found that it wa e saia nzed thet Mr. R. had sent an "objection." gentleman, and looked at his watch. , r t i r t i e n d a few minutes to twelve o'clock ; and, therefore, prep he despatched a messenger to " objection" to Mr. R.'s vote, his house, and had it served before the expiration of the t allowed by the act of par liament. Mr. R., when arousedtme s in his turn, and rewarded in his own cOin, was not nearly grateful r as might have in having ivi acted upon the good . P. will have the been anticipated. But his friend deserves another."— approbation of his own ‘gn h e ea o r o t o , d turn old principle that o 0 Gateshead Observer. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHARLOTTE STREET, LIVERPOOL. THE PUBLIC are respectfully informed, that this splen did Establishment will be OPENED the Race Week, and for a short Season, UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. EGERTON, LESSEE. Duriucr the Season a succession of the most splendid Specta cles, Serious and Comic Pantomimes, Ballets, and brilliant Equestrian Performances, will be produced, represented by the first London Talent, aided by that accomplished Artist, Mr. BEVERLY. On TUESDAY, the 21st instant, and during the Week, The Entertainments will commence with a grand nautical Spectacle, with entirely new Scenery , Machinery, Dresses, Properties, and Decorations ; the Scenery by Messrs. Lenox, from the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, and Mathews, and As sistants ; the Machinery by Mr. Atkins and Assistants ; the Dresses by Mr. Job Taylor and Assistants ; the Properties by Mr. Lightfoot and Assistants, entitled BLACK BEARD; OR THE PIRATE OF THE SPANISH MAIN 1 1 Black Beard Mr. Howell, from the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane. Black Caesar Mr. T. Mathews, from the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden. Black Beard's Wife Miss Gilbert, from the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden SCENES IN THE ARENg. AND ON - THE STAGE Amongst the numerous Artistes that are engaged, the following will appear the first night : Mr. Pablo Fanque, Equestrian, Rope Vaulter, and Leaper, Master Pablo Fanque, Monsieur Nicholi, the Young Hiber nian, and the Brothers Le Sage, Le Trois Acrebats, and the unrivalled Clown in the Ring, Mr. WALLET. An exact representation of the CARNIVAL OF VENICE, embracing the whole extent of the stage, painted expressly for the occasion, by the celebrated Artist, Mr. W. BEVERLY. The realization of this magnificent scene will be accomplished by Posturing, Singing, Rope Dancing, Masquing, &c., by Artists of the first celebrity. The whole to conclude with A COMIC PANTOMIME, In which will appear Mr. Mathews, Mr. Howell, and Miss Gilbert Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. H. BEVERLEY, from the Theatre-Royal, Adelphi, London. Doors to be opened at Seven, and the curtain to rise pre cisely at Half-past. The Box Office open daily from Eleven till Three, when places may be secured on application to Mr. F. CARMAN. Centre Dress Boxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gallery, Gd. Second price at Nine o'clock, Centre Dress Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, Is. Gd. ; Pit, ls. ; no second price to the Gallery. Private Boxes for Families may be obtained nightly. A limited number of Season Tickets. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS POSITIVELY THE LAST TWO FETES THIS SEASON. THIS DAY, (Friday,) the 17th, and MONDAY next, the 20th instant, at Five o'clock. ON THE LAKE, Colonel Pasley's celebrated Experiment of the BLOWING UP of the WRECK of the ROYAL GEORGE by Voltaic Electricity, will be performed. The Professor, during the Evening, will give several Ex hibitions of the BISCENASCOPE, or DISSOLVING SHADOWS, Illuminated by the KOUIOPHASTIC LIGHT, giving a complete change of Splendid Views. Each Exhibition to conclude with THE STORMING OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE, TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF THE MAGAZINE, AND GRAND TABLEAU OF VICTORY. The excellent BRASS BAND will perform during the Evening several Select Pieces. ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. The DISSOLVING BISCENASCOPE commences at Six o'clock FIRING at Halt-past Seven. TO CORRESPONDENTS We are compelled to defer our notice of the Postoffice Gallery till Tuesday next. In reply to " Justus's" last very silly and impertinent letter we beg to state, that two gentlemen of our establishment were present on the occasion of the " Legend of Florence" being played. We prefer relying on their opinion and evi dence to the assertions of an anonymous scribbler, who does not advance the cause of those he tries to battle for, by wishing to keep the matter before the public. Ettirrpool klanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1841 From a private letter, received yesterday by one of the principal firms in this town, from Valparaiso, we learn that, on the 3d June last, the Chili steamer, which belongs to the Pacific Steam Navigation Com pany, of London, and runs between Callao and Valpa raiso, with passengers only, ran on a reef of rocks, about 30 miles south of Valparaiso, and, during the confusion that took place in consequence, three of the passengers (natives) lowered a boat, without the know ledge of the captain, and were drowned by its upset ting. The Chili was afterwards got off, and arrived at Valparaiso, where a survey took place, and she would have to be hove down and repaired. Every thing was quiet. The revolution in Peru, under Viranco, had been put down, and that chief had fled. It was reported that Santa Cruz had entered Peru, at the head of 200 men. Freight 3 dollars 10 cents to 3 dollars 15 cents Your free-trade manufacturer is a personage of amazing ingenuity, and has usually a method for effect ing any given object totally different from that which would be practised by ordinary individuals. Just now it is notorious that the stocks of manufactured goods in the cotton districts are ruinously heavy; and for some time past, in order to prevent further accumula tion, the large spinners and power-loom manufactu rers have resorted to the common-sense step of work ing their machinery only t h re e or four days in the week. Such a process, however, it is w e ll k nown to all who are practically conversant with thes e matters, whilst it limits production, at the same time enhances a little the cost of the product. 1 1he iron mac hi ne, un like the human machine, eats whilst it sleeps. mill_ machinery, when not working, is still deteriorating. Interest of capital is accruing although wages have not to be paid. The spinning-mule or the power-loom cannot be turned off, in slack times, with the same fa cility as the bread-eating spinner or weaver; and henc e it is that the millowner is so fidgetty when he cannot get full work out of his iron men. It is a (set, we believe, that working " short time" does inert in some degree the cost of the article ma. nufactured ; and it is not, therefore, surprising that we find Lancashire cotton-spinners any:iously looking about for some means of remedying, in their eyes, so vast an evil. The public, however, may be a little surprised, considering the profession of regard for the condition of the working clasFes which have of late emnnated from the cottonocracy of the manufacturing districts, that the remedy is to be effected at the expense of the working man. " Reduction of wages !" the reader ex claims ; " can such a thing be possible ?" No. A re duction of wages would be a clumsy expedient, and one which it would be peculiarly unadvisable for the " li beral" manufacturer at the present moment to be de tected practising. But if one operative spinner could be made to do the work of two, and by this plan the same quantity of work could be procured at half the cost in wages, the reader will at once perceive that a great portion of the difficulty will be got over. " Work ing short hotirs",.will, by this ingenious process, be come a profitable operation, and the spinner who adopts it will be able to give our languid markets another im pulse downwards by the production of goods "cheaper than ever." Such a scheme, we find, has, during the past week, been in active progress in the neighbourhood of Bol ton. The spinners of that enlightened locality, we learn, have discovered that one operative can manage two mules at once; that instead of attending to twelve hundred spindles, he can attend to twice twelve hundred at one tune; that, in short, he can do two men's work for one man's wages ! and, as a matter of course, one half of the operative cotton-spinners of Bolton are to be forthwith unemployed. This is no mere supposi tion, reader, as to what manufacturerS will do under certain circumstances, but it is what they actually are doing at this moment. The adult cotton-spinner is leaving his mule, not because it is unworked—not be cause its twelve hundred spindles have ceased to re volve—but because the reckless cupidity of his em ployer insists that one epe and not a pair shall in future be paid for watching its revolutions ! And these are the men who clamour for cheap food— for the poor man's sake ! Out upon the hypocrites ! The French society of assassins would seem to have changed their object of attack ; having tried their wea pons so often in vain against the father, they now turn them against the sons; but the charm, or rather that Providence which has hitherto protected the one, ex tends to the others, and they escape unhurt. Such crimes evince a deplorable state of things. Arrest and punishment appear to produce no effect in restraining them. Fresh victims are ready to offer themselves the next moment, as if they felt that dying by the hands of the executioner for such an offence were a glorious sa crifice for the good of their.country. Well mu Louis Philippe commit himself and his descendants to the care of a merciful Providence; for when so perverted a state of opinion prevails—when men think that their destruction would be virtue, and only long for an op portunity of performing the act—and when rivals for the distinction are so numerous, it must be manifestly vain for him to suppose that by any prudence or cir cumspection on their own part, they can preserve their lives. What compensation can the honours of a throne offer for such a threatened and worried existence as the royal family of France at present enjoy, or rather suf fer ? There is but one solid consolation for them, and that is, that they are in the path of duty, and living rather for others than for their own sakes. If Louis Philippe be what we would willingly suppose, he may derive much satisfaction from this reflection ; for, we would ask, if he cannot govern the French, who can ? —or if the system on which he acts fail to keep the state machinery together, what will be able to do so ? The attempted assassination of last Monday we at tribute to the social disorganization of the country. All the attempts of this nature have sprung, directly or indirectly, from the same cause, and they are doubly alarming as the indices of a deep-rooted political dis ease. It is very unlikely that the crime originated in any mere feeling of jealousy towards the 17th regiment of Light Infantry, of which the Duke d'Aumale is colonel, as conjectured by the correspondent of a Lon don journal; it is unlikely, we say, that Nicholas Pa pard, the sawyer, of Paris, would have devoted himself as a national victim merely for the sake of gratifying a jealous or revengeful feeling of this sort; it is much more probable that he was the member of some secret political society—of which there are many at the pre sent moment, and all in a high state of excitement and activity—and that like others who have gone before him, he was possessed with the enthusiasm or mono mania of serving his country by destroying the off spring, as they had attempted to destroy the person, of him who is esteemed a tyrant by all the rebellious. France is described as ripe for movement in all her de partments, and as prevented from breaking forth into open rebellion and anarchy solely by that effective military despotism which her prudent Sovereign has established in the country. Eineutes are of frequent occurrence, and usually attended with serious loss of life; her present dynasty has little root in the affections of the people—and, as a popular commotion created, a popular commotion would very quickly, and without the least remorse, overturn it. We ought to wish for the stability of the Orleans branch of the Bourbons on the throne of France, for we can hope for nothing better to succeed them ; they ought to have the sympathy of the other royal families of Europe. Meanwhile, with what lively feeling of satisfaction and gratitude may we not compare our own beloved country in every conceivable relation with that of our restless and ambitious neighbours. With the cry of liberty, liberty, ever on thei r lips, and, after having sought it through bloody revolutions and changes without number, they have never found it; it has ever eluded their grasp—vanishing from before them like a phantom—whilst we have been long familiar with the practical perception of its blessings—the most ample and universal enjoyment of its fruits. On the throne we have a Sovereign who needs no army to protect her; she has a willing soldiery for that purpose in all her subjects. Nor is devotion to her hereditary rights less strongly implanted in the mind of all her people, than a tender and sympathising regard for her personal happiness. We enjoy the blessing of a settled monarchy, and of a Sovereign worthy of our attach ment, and now surrounded by advisers chosen from the wisest, gravest, most experienced, and best among her people. Nor is this all ; the nation is sensible of these great blessings, and, consequently, tranquil, peaceable, contented. We are not without our diffi culties, true; but how light, how trifling, how insigni ficant are they compared with those which - agitate the French, and shake their country to its very centre ? Under any other government, under an administration of a different order, we might feel even alarm ; but under a ministry composed as the present is, we can look forward to nothing but the removal of difficulties, the disentanglement of embarrassing circumstances, and the increase of the nation in every incident and accompaniment, as well as essential of prosperity and good. Nor do we forget what the foundation of this happiness is ; if we were disposed to forget it, we are happy to perceive that there are other and more influ- ... _ ential journals ready to remind the nation of it ;—it IS CHRlSTlANlTY—Christianity nationally received, adopted, taught, promulgated. This is the foundation of all our liberty, happiness, and prosperity. It is the want of it—a want for which nothing of human in vention can compensate—that renders France what she is ; possessed, as it were, with a troubled spirit, vexed, tossed, tormented; seeking rest perpetually, and find ing none. Mr. Acland, the anti-corn law agitator, has not been elected for Tai riworth. This will be a serious disap pointment to the Manchestrians, and Tart.worth will, of course, be entered in their books as a stupid, bigoted, intolerant, and intolerable monopolist rotten borough. But; Tamworth does not stand alone in this re-electing pro cess. There have been nearly thirty seats vacated by• members both in and out of the cabi• net, and Mr. Acland is likely to stand alone in his glory as the o pponent of ministers at the hustings; prodigious hon our is this Mr. Ac— or Lack-land likely to acquire for himself. The Tories will all be re-elected without any further opposition. Thus far fortune favours them out of doors ; but what shall we say if the Irish demagogue's story be true, that there will be no on losition within—none at least, save that exclusively Irish'. Repeal party, of which lie has consti tuted himself th e head ? As to the Chartists he de- flounces them; and, as to Lord John Rosati!, he will not recognise him ttkl leader of the opposition in Par. liament—unless he declare himself a Repealer, so that the late ministerial party, held together by nothing but a common attachment to place, is now shivered to atoms, and will present no mark to the enemy. But there is another circumstance favourable to the longevity of Sir Robert Peel's administration ; the dif ficulty of governing Ireland, which appeared so terri ble, when seen only through the joist of Repeal agi tation, begins to look much less formidable on a nearer approach ;. it is now thought not only that Ireland may be governed without the Repealer's assistance, but that it may be much better, and more effectually governed independently of it. Sir Robert Peel seems determined to give to that country an honest, in:par tial, constitutional government—such . as it has long wanted—and with such a government what may we not hope for that splendid country, and its lively, sensitive people ? There are thousands, and tens of thousands of Roman Catholics who long to see the tyranny of O'Connellism, of Priestism, and Ribbon ism completely put down; and the Protestants ask for nothing more than a government that will really give the people the benefit of British law—promote those only who are entitled to reward, and bear not the sword in vain towards the seditious, the turbulent, and evil-doers; We are persuaded that the Conservative cabinet of Sir Robert Peel will act strictly and thoroughly on these views; their legal appointments give an especial earnest to this effect. Sir Edward Sugden is already most favourably known in Ireland, and his appointment as Lord Chancellor affords the utmost satisfaction. The new Attorney and Solicitor- General—Mr. Blackburn and Mr. Pennefather—have both also given proofs of their ability in their previous discharge of the duties of their respective important offices—especially important in such a country as Ireland. With such a market as England for all her agricul tural produce, or so much, at least, as she chooses to sell, and a splendid navy of steamers ready at all times to transport it speedily, Ireland has nothing to com plain of, if she is not rich and flourishing, but the faults of her own children. We should not be drawing on the continent so largely as we are at this moment for our supplies of corn if Ireland had but done com mon justice to herself. Her resources are not half developed. Why will she free us from our sliding scale and give a triumph to the league, when she might, with a common. spade, " her own quietus make" ? Let her remember that she has a Conserva tive government now, and that there will be no more excuse for her. It may answer the purpose of the Manchester Guar dian to evade a reply to our arguments, by asserting that there is no novelty in the facts which we adduced on Tuesday, relative to the enormous increase of the consumption of raw cotton since 1831 ; but such a sneer only tells against himself. We have established, by the most irrefragable statements, that Lord Sandon was fully borne out in the declaration that the con sumption of cotton has sustained the enormous in crease of 82 per cent. within the last ten years. If our contemporary thinks he can disprove this, let him make the attempt. The London Times of yesterday reiterates what we have repeatedly brought forward, and says, " Lord Sandon recently sheaved in the House of Commons, that the quantity of raw cotton wrought up in our factories in 1831 was nearly doubled in the year 1840." If the Guardian consider the Liverpool Standard an opponent of too insignificant a calibre, we recommend him to measure weapons with our metropolitan con temporary. OUR PORTFOLIO.—No. 1 Under this head we purpose preserving, for the good of mankind, such stray thoughts and floating notions as might otherwise run the risk of being lost for ever. We shall throw them together as they come, and not feel over and above soli citous as to the order in which they are arranged, or the style in which they may be dressed up ; in short, we shall here keep a sort of undressed levee, and shall receive our visitants; and p-ass - them onward, courteously, indeed, and civilly, but with the least possible amount of form or cere- It was with a view to the construction of this department of our journal that we, the other day, were induced to medi tate a little on the subject of " style ;" and we were led into the inquiry, whether a man can choose a style, or mode of expressing himself, as he would choose a pen? It has been often remarked, that one man does not differ more completely from another than the same does himself at different sea sons ; and therefore we may infer that there may be a great difference in the style of one and the same individual. Men of great genius are known to excel in the most opposite kinds of writing, and, from " grave to gay, from witty to severe," to be masters alike in all. Some can imitate the style of others so artfully and ingeniously, that the original authors would find a difficulty in knowing themselves. There is no thing which requires a nicer discernment than to discover an author by his style ;—witness all the in-vain attempts to trace out Junius by this process ;—and one reason for it is that every man's style must vary with the subject matter on which he writes. Swift was, we believe, the author of the Tale of a Tub ; but who would undertake positively to say this from his having written the Travels of Gulliver or the Letters to ' Stelle ? In these and all other such cases, however, it is the artificial style adopted by the author which causes the diffi culty, or perhaps the impossibility of his detection. Had we not good authority, otherwise, for knowing that the same mind and pen produced the Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth, the Midsummer Night's Dream and Lear, we should never have been led to suspect the fact from any simi larity we could find in the style of these very different com positions. But in such productions, it is the object and bu siness of the author to forget himself, and to adopt the thoughts and the language of others. The style he uses is artificial, and we are permitted to see but little of himself : it is, therefore, not that which we are concerned about in our present inquiry. Our question relates to that mode of ex pression, and flow of language, which a man would use who was quietly expressing his own thoughts without constraint, and without artifice—and it asks whether a gentleman of a certain age, whose habits and ways of thinking are pretty well formed, is not so far the creature of education and ha bit, or, we might say, of existence, as to have a certain style peculiar to himself, which belongs to him as part of his own being, and of which he could no more divest himself than he could of his personal identity. We are inclined to think that such is the case, and that the renowned Dogberry was not so much out when he said, that " to be a well favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to read—and write comes by nature." There are many things to distinguish each individual from all the rest of his species. There is the outward appearance and the voice ; there is what physicians call idiosyncracy of bodily constitution ; there is the hand-writing—and, we may add, style in writing also. We are pretty sure that there is an idiosyncracy in this respect belonging to every individual, and for this reason, in the abstract, that style is so much of the essence of thought, that you. can scarcely separate the one from the other ; and, as every man who thinks at all, must think for himself, his language or style must necessa rily be affected by the peculiarity of his modes of thinking. Language is an essential part of thought. We have some times heard that " words are things ", and we do know as suredly that in many instances they possess a marvellous power ; but we add that they are a part even -of mind, Locke says that words are the " signs of ideas " ; but though it may be thought presumptous in us to hazard an opinion different from the theory of that great man, we can not help saying that words are, in our poor judgment, something more than the mere signs of ideas. We would put this question—what is an idea or a thought before it is expressed ? We do not speak of our ideas of outward objects, or of those thoughts which come to us by sensation—but rather of thoughts, or trains of thought which enter the mind by reflection ; now with regard to such thoughts we are of opinion that words are an essential part of their being, and that until they are arrested, fixed, and moulded by language, they can scarcely be said to have any definite existence at all. The thought is at first but a shape. less embryo ; it is in the mind confused, imperfect ; the owner scarcly knows what it is, till language has developed, and defined it ; it is exactly as Shakspear has beautifully de scribed it, and the phenomenon is literally true in the case of any ordinary individual, as well as that of the poet— The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. This circumstance affords another and we may say a snore profound reason for concluding that every individual who performs that office with the stylus which we are now doing, must have a peculiarity—more or less marked—in his mode of expressing himself. Every man who is not the mere reci pient of the ideas of others, must have his own thoughts, and as language is, according to our theory, necessary to thought, and absolutely a part of it, it follows that every man must have a style, which must be as much his own as his very thoughts. Having thus solved our problem, we proceed to say that in preparing the materials for this our portfolio, we have de termined to commit ourselves in point of style to the guid ance of Dame Nature, and by no means to do violence to her dictates ; and in this respect we do in fact only follow the lights and improvements of the age, which has long since voted all stiffness, affectation, and mannerism in writ- Ing to be borisb, and pedantic. The stilts of Solinsonianiorn have beau long shies out of use, and remain upon our shelves like the crutches of patients in the hail of the famous sham pooing doctor at Brighton, as memorials of what we have escaped ; not that we are of those who would speak lightly of that great man—far from it; but we would certainly leave the club of Hercules to Hercules himself, and think the age deals prudently in using weapons more easily managed; and more suitable perhaps to its strength. We are in more danger however at the present day of fall ing into the abandon of our transatlantic brother Jonathan, than of encumbering ourselves ambitiously in the armour of giants of the olden time, or of being over-strait-laced in our movements. We have been already not a little infected by his example; but the fashion of the thing is not likely to last. John Bull may for a while be amused by the slap-dash, off handed, out-with-it sort of style in which free-going Jona than indulges himself, but Mr. Bull is by no means a fami liar personage ; modesty and reserve are still our national characteristics, and democratic vulgarism will never harmo nise thoroughly with the genius of our constitution ; there fore in all probability Americanism will continue to be an exotic. If the style of our public journal, and periodical li terature be susceptible of improvement, by imitation, we are inclined to think that it is more likely to come from some slight adoption of that which is common in the French capi tal, and which is rarely to be met with in any other quarter —a style free without being familiar, easy without being vul gar—and nut less adapted for the discussion of the most pro found, than of the most trifling inquiries. If modern France retain anything of her ancient politesse, it is to be found in the style of the higher order of her periodical literature ; but . we do not speak witkany enthusiasm on the subject, for we are loth to recommend,cordially to imitation any thing that is French. AN ANALYSIS OF OUR EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS, VIEWED IN RELATION TO THE PRO POSED FREE-TRADE MEASURES OF LORD MELBOURNE'S GOVERNMENT.—No. 3. We can discover no way in which the promised benefit to the manufacturer from the reduction of the corn, timber, and sugar duties can arise, if it is not by lowering the wages of the manufacturing operative to the continental standard, and thus cheapening the production of those goods in which he has to compete in foreign markets with the manufacturers of other countries. This course, however, the organs of the free traders distinctly repudiate. They have entirely dis claimed before parliament the wish to cheapen production ; and require only markets for their goods—the markets of the foreign grower of corn and timber, and of the foreign culti vator of sugar by slave labour. Now let the reader mark the consequences of this dis claimer. In the first place, we get rid entirely of the plea that the British manufacturer cannot compete even-handed with the foreign manufacturer in neutral markets. For yea' a past we have been accustomed to hear that it was labour which was taxed by these laws ; and that, until they were repealed, we could not compete with the " untaxed labour" of the foreign artizan. We are now told, however, that it is not untaxed labour—i.e., cheap labour—which the manu facturer requires, but only " markets" ; and if this is the case—if the privilege to trade upon an equal footing with the manufacturers of other countries is all that is wanted — we do possess already that privilege in all the great markets of the world (except as against the native manufacturer in each); and, more than that, we possess an advantage in some of those, viz., in our own colonial markets. The re duction of the corn and timber duties will not assist us one iota in competing with the foreign manufacturer in any neu tral market; and if we are undersold at present in these markets by the Swiss, the Belgian, or the French calico printer, the Saxon hosier, the Russian or the German linen manufacturer, we can derive no aid from any legislative measures which do not embrace a reduction of the cost of production, because manifestly our inability to compete with the foreigner can be traced to no other source except to the circumstance of his being in possession of cheap labour. In the next place, the disclaimer of any connection between cheap food and reduction of wages, whilst it limits the de mand of the manufacturer to " markets," defines precisely which those markets are to be. The magnificent dream of a prosperity extending itself over our operations in every market of the globe, is at once dispelled ; and we have left only a miserable figment of just so much prosperity as an increased intercourse with the markets of a few corn and timber-groWing countries will afford us—just so much as we can wring from a few of the governments of Europe by ne gociation—just so much, and that of so valueless a charac ter, as a slight reduction of their duties upon our yarns or our power-loom cloths can give us. By this disclaimer, we virtually abandon all hopes of improving our position in neutral markets—in the great entrepats of commerce—from the proposed measures of free trade, and restrict, them to what we can derive from reciprocity in the markets of the corn and timber countries alone. But a still more important disclosure on the part of thi manufacturer is made, when we arc told by him that he ad vocates the cheapening of food, by foreign importation, with out the intention of availing himself of the facilities whicl will he thus afforded him of procuring cheaper labour. The most discouraging featuie of our existing import trade is the comparatively small portion of it which consists of the export of goods partaking largely of the labour of the artisan. The commodity whose profitable sale in foreign markets legisla tion ought to direct its efforts to effect, is a commodity of which labour is the staple. We want employment for our working classes; and any increase of our export trade must be comparatively valueless which does not afford this em ployment. Nose, why is it, we ask, that the increase i❑ our exports of cotton goods of late has been almost exclusively confined to articles half manufactured—to cotton yarns, to prints and dyed goods of low quality, and to the products of machinery rather than of human skill and labour ? The free-trader has told us again and again that it is because we cannot afford to sell in foreign markets an article into which the dear labour of British artisans enters more largely. And when we are assured that, in the reduction of the corn laws, he never contemplates the removal of this alleged ob stacle to a really valuable export trade, the conclusion is ir resistible that the free-trade manufacturer looks not to any material increase in the export of finished goods—of valuable printed and dyed fabrics; not to any largely increased em ployment of the labouring classes, but only to an inci eased export of those fabrics which he can produce with his exist ing machinery, and into the cost of which the price of food, and consequently of labour, scarcely enters. The conclu sion, we repeat, is irresistible that the millowner, and not the working man, is the object of the free-trader's care ; that machinery is to be stimulated by the reduction of the corn-laws, and not that any greater portion of labour is to be infused into our export trade. We are not imposed upon, of course, by this flimsy pre tence that no reduction of wages is contemplated by the manufacturer as inseparable from the adoption of those mea sures for which he is now clamouring, although we might be a little startled at the dishonesty which it manifests. A re duction of wages would follow a reduction in the price of food, by legislative means,—such a reduction, mark, does not ne cessarily, attend upon cheapness, when produced by the dis pensations of a bountiful Providence—as certainly as the night follows the day. It would not perhaps suit the purposes of the manufacturers to declare it ; it would not, either, advance the popularity of the mob—courting faction to obtrude it upon the world—to mingle the cry of " l ow wanes"with that of " cheap bread ;" but the fact is clear as the noonday that cheap labour is the concealed object of nine-tenths of those who know what it really is for which they are contending. The large spinner and manufacturer looks for a reduction of the cost of working his machinery, and for a reduction of the cost of his machinery itself; the large export merchant looks for a cheaper commodity, and expects beside to be able to assume a more commanding position in the British market, holding in his hand, as he will do under the operation of the free-trade system, the power of coercing to his own terms the industrial interests of the whole community. Cheap labour, cheap goods, and a predominant influence over the commer cial and the social system of the empire are, depend upon it, the true objects sought for by the manufacturing capitalists in their proposed withdrawal of protection from the home and the colonial producer. We are no advocates for a reduction of the price of manu facturing labour. God forbid that we should be ! And yet we regard it as an incontrovertible fact, that no material — no valuable increase in our export trade can be derived from a reduction in the price of food except through the medium of reduced wages; and, more than all, that no signal benefit can result to the working classes themselves from the pro posed measures, which is not accompanied with decreased remuneration for their labour. So far as the export trade is concerned, we are satisfied that it is quite possible, even with reduced wages, to make that trade more profitable to the working men. It is possible that, at a reduced price, the foreigner may be able to emplGy more of his labour, or, in other words, that he may for a time be more constantly em ployed, and proportionally as well paid, though receiving a less nominal sum for his labour. But how materially does this alter the whole case as between the corn law repealer and the advocate of protection ! What becomes of the vast boon which cheap bread is to confer upon the poor man ? Why, so far as the benefit does accrue to him, in the increased em ployment offered to the export trade, it is at'once intercepted by the manufacturer and merchant and swept into " profit ;" and the certainty is before his eyes that, when the slightest check takes place, his wages must be pressed down even lower comparatively than they are at present, whilst an eager multitude, thrown out of employment by the ruin of our native agriculture and by the declining demand in the home markets, are pressing forward to snatch from his lips the cheap loaf which be has reduced the standard of his labour, and stooped from his present position, to purchase. We have no confidence, however, in the disposition of the manufacturer to direct his attention to the acquisition of a really valuable export trade. We entertain no such opinion of his anxiety to improve the permanent position of the work man by whose industry he lives. His object is, primarily, to relieve the glut under the influence of which he now la bours ; to draw off the stocks which have accumulated in his warehouses, and to embark anew in the same mad race of over-production which has led to his present embarrass , ments. We shall still see manufactured the same deceptive and ;parlous goods for which already he possesses a " tisd eminence" throughout the world I and if we can gain at all by being able to produce cheaper, it will be the reputation of producing the cheapest and at the same time the moat avorth less fabrics in every market. It is still possible for the Bri tish manufacturer, by wise and prudent steps, to retrieve his name in foreign markets and to provide employment, at re munerative wages, for the population which circumstances have rendered dependent noon hiri The measures, how- ever, for which he now clamours are not the legitimate path towards the achievement of such a result; and the readiness with which he contemplates the rein of the home and the colonial markets, which must be the certain consequence of these measures, is sufficient to satisfy us that no such object is in view Let us see, then, the conclusion to which we have arrived. By the reduction of the corn and timber duties, we secure only the consumption of the least valuab'e of our foreign markets, viz., those which take from us almost exclusively cotton yarn. By the proposed equalization of the sugar du ties, we exchange the consnmption of our own free colonies for that of the slave colonies of foreign states—a market for valuable fabrics for one requiring only those of the lowest and least valuable quality. We stimulate only the moat un profitable portion of our export trade ; and where we do sen sibly increase the demand for our finished productions, we _only-arrive at that result through a large reduction of the wages of the manufacturing community ! We have omitted altogether, in this " analysis," any consideration of the ef fect of the proposed measures—of this much vaunted free trade policy—upon the condition of our large agricultural community, upon the home consumption of our manufac tured goods, upon our colonies, our shipping, or upon the revenue. We have not inquired whether a people, dependent entirely upon the bare remuneration derived by the export trade, can afford to consume imported commodities as here tofore—to endure taxation as heretofore ; but, confining our selves to their effect upon the export trade alone, we have shewn that even that trade will not be largely benefitted by the measures in question. Are we then, it behoves us seriously to ask, about to em bark upon an experiment of so vast a nature as the transfer of our agricultural prosperity to foreign shores—an experi ment involving the stability of our entire social fabric, and threatening certain and heavy injury to our internal trade, in order merely to enable the large manufacturer and cotton spinner to deluge the markets of Europe with the produce of his machinery—with his power-loom cloths and his cotton yarn? Is it to increase the profits of a comparatively small class, and to stimulate the most worthless portion of our ex ports, that Great Britain is to cease to be a home fed nation? —that a valuable home demand for her manufactures is to be destroyed, and that the labourer is to be deluded by the prospect before his eyes of a cheap loaf, which he is cut off from the opportunity of purchasing ? We trust not. We trust that the parliament of Great Britain will listen to no such proposition, and that the people of Great Britain will pause before they permit their judgments to be led astray by the seducing terms in which it is offered - . The cry for " cheap bread" is not a cry fin- the poor man, for the shop keeper, or for the middle classes even. It is the cry exclu sively of the millowner, of the capitalist, of the trading ad venturer ; and its true meaning is " cheap labour," a scram ble for the trade of the world, periodical bankruptcy and ruin, in the midst of which the manufacturing democrat, directing the passions of a hunger-maddened multitude against the institutions of their country, hopes to climb, with his ill-got paid, into the seals of England's aristo- LOCAL NEWS Lieutenant Tudor, R.N., has been appointed to the com mand of the Pluto, armed steamer, and sets sail from Ports mouth for China in the course of the ensuing week. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—The last 'gala of the season at these pleasant gardens took place on Monday. Signor Si moni's fireworks went off with great eclat. He has esta blished himself as an artist of great merit, and no doubt will be the means of his being re-engaged in the ensuing season. The Bicenascope is a most diverting and ingenious exhibi tion : it is about to be removed to Chester. The gala on Monday last, under the patronage of the members of the Palatine, was more fashionably attended than any other this season. Two grand fetes are advertised for this evening and Monday. UNUSUAL OCCUIIIIENCL.—During the last two or three days the Cheshire shore, from Seacmnbe to Hoylake, has been completely covered with the creatures commonly known on this coast by the name of sea-stars, or fallen stars, and in the more northernly districts by the expressive denomina tion of slobs. They are, we believe, of the genus est erias, of the order of verrnes mollusca. They lie upon the shore in countless numbers. SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY.—We are exceedingly gratified to state, that Sir Joshua Wahnsley is gradually recovering from the effects of the accident which betel him when alight ing from one of the railway carriages on Friday week. It was stated in the paragraphs which went the round of the papers, that the accident occurred on Sunday se'nnight. This was an error which we take the present opportunity of correcting. With the exception of his lameness, Sir Joshua, we are happy to say, is in excellent health. He is, we are informed, about to become the occupier of Banton Abbey, near Stafford. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY.—The funds of this institution are, we regret to hear, in a lamentably depresed_c9nrlition, and we are glad, therefore, to perceive that a sermon will be preached, on Sunday next, in St. John the Evangelist's Church, Hope-street, by the Rev. D. James, in aid such a valuable charity. The eloquence of the advocate, and the pressing necessities of the institution, will, we hope, produce a liberal contribution. THEATRE-ROY AL.—" John of Procida" was played on Tuesday night. Stuart's John of Procida was cleverly acted throughout : we have seldom seen him play to more advan tage. Miss Tree's Isoline was a beautiful piece of acting. Anderson's Fernando we did not like so well as George Vandenhoff 's : he is too boisterous. In the afterpiece of " A Roland for an Oliver," Mr. Anderson played Alfred Hiyhflyer most admirably. Miss I._;llen Tree's Maria Dar lington was the most delicious bit of comedy we have seen for a long time. Her Juliet was also exquisite on Wednes day. Mr. Anderson takes his benefit to-night, when Mr. Macready will perform. A good house may be expected. Saturday evenir , the 4th, was a memorable evening for St. Bees. On it was held the first meeting of the Missionary Association ; an association, conducted by the Rev. and be loved Principal and Theological Lecturer, and as members of which, the large majority of the students have enrolled them selves. The Bishop of Chester has kindly consented to be I;atron. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev. • R. P. Buddicom, w►►o afterwards delivered an interesting opening address, in which he discussed the motive for mis sionary zeal, and the discouragernents and encouragements of the work. He also referred to the labours of that emi nent missionary, Henry Martyn, with whom he had, in early years, the privilege of being acquainted. The rev. gentle man was then followed by several of the students, some of whom, from personal knowledge, gave interesting details of the progress of missions, and the state of Heathen and Mahometan countries. A considerable degree of interest was excited, and the utmost unanimity prevailed. The meeting closed at half-past nine, with singing the Doxology, and the delivery of the blessing by the rev. president of the association. These meetings are to be continued on the lust Saturday evening of each month during term. EMBARKATION ("1"mi; NEW LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.-011 Tuesday evening, Earl de Gray, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, arrived in this town, from Lon don, by the seven o'clock mail train, which reached the railway station thirteen minutes before its time. His lord ship and suite immediately drove down to George's Pierhead, where they found the Redwing, government tender, in readi ness alongside the wall. They embarked without a moment's delay, and were received by Commander Bevis, who was in attendance for the purpose of seeing every attention paid to his lordship and his suite. The stea►ner Medina had been set apart for the purpose of conveying his lordship to the seat of his government, and she had been in ►eadinesa moored at the buoy during the whole afternoon. The Red wing having been placed alongside, the Medina received the new Lord Lieutenant and his followers, and immediately set her paddles in motion and proceeded on her voyage to Kings town. She took her departure at half-past nine o'clock, firing a salute and exhibiting blue lights as she went away. A crowd of people had assembled on the pier to witness the departure of his excellency. ALARMING FIRE AT CRUSTETH• -On Wednesday morning, about fire o'clock, a fire was discovered in one of the lofts of an extensive farm belonging to the Earl of Sefton, in the occupation of Mrs. Molding, about a mile beyond Croxteth. The whole produce of the land had been housed, so that there were, in the loft which was on fire and that adjoining, upwards of a hundred tons of hay, and in the other adjacent buildings a very large quantity of corn. As the fire was amongst the hay, which it is supposed had spon taneously ignited, great apprehensions were entertained that the whole stock and buildings would be destroyed. A horse man was instantly despatched to Liverpool, where, informa tion having been given at the Fire-police Station, Mr. Hewitt, with three engines, to each of which four horses were at tached, set off, full gallop, for the scene of the disaster. There was a plentiful supply of water on the spot, and a competent force of firemen having been carried on the engines, such was the expedition used, that in twenty-five minutes from the time when the alarm was given in Liverpool, the engines were in play. We are assured that the residents at the farm and their neighbours were astonished at the expedi tion used, and at the success which attended the efforts of the police. The labours of the latter, however, did not end with the subjugation of the flames : it was necessary that they should leave the buildings in perfect safety. They had, therefore, to remove all the hay, a work of great toil. The damage done was not very great, Mr. Hewitt having suc ceeded in confining the fire to the lofts where it originated. Both the buildings and stock were insured. The firemen exerted themselves with the most praiseworthy zeal and energy. COUNTY IlEyisioN.—On Wednesday Mr. Gray, the re vising barrister for the southern division of the county, pro ceeded to examine the list of voters in the election of knights of the shire. Mr. G. F. Fairclough, solicitor, appeared on the part of the conservatives. and Mr. Snowball on that of the radicals. The number of objections lodged by the latter were unusually great, while the number lodged by t h e con servatives were, comparatively speaking, few in amount. It e justice h o a frid which j o e n h the h e y them selves present was manifest, from the co mmencement of the proceedings, that the radicals had been th trying e cn occasion at a trick, against are vehement in their complaints, when it seems to be adopted by their political opponents, namely, that of lodging an overwhelming number of objections against parties duly qualified to have their names upon the register, in the hope that such parties would not be at the trouble of giving their attendance in court, and that, by the mere fact of the notice of objection being proved to have been served upon them, their names would be struck off ; and it is much to be re gretted that, in nine cases out of ten, the trick succeeded to their heart's content; for, in the vast majority of instances, the conservatives objected against did not appear in court, and the consequence was, that the services of the notices of objection upon o h c e i a til t i o w i , and was quickly their a n provedm names wereythea underlingsersefromd the the Reform list. All the conser va ti ve voters objected against i n fl, Association, t Toxteth-park were struck off by reason of their non-attend ance, and the same may be said of all, or nearly all, those objected against in Childwall, Allerton, Wavertree. Walton on-the-hill„Edge-hill, & c . W e believe, but are not quite certain of the fact, that if any of those whose names have been erased, attend previous to the termination of the pre sent sitting, and that there be sufficient spare time for them to establish thei r r i g h t to the franchise, they will be replaced; but, as we have intimated, even this is doubtful, because, though the barrister may be willing to afford them a second opportunity of having their right sifted and ascertained, the probability is that he will not be able, owing to the formid able list of objections lodged by the radicals, which he has t o wa d e . an d through