The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

TO THE BURGESSES OF LIME•STREET WARD GENT LEMEN, • -‘,17-HEAI,j had the - h o no u r of b e ing named as a CA'sIDI- Y DrE to represent your Ward in the -new'Town 'Council, I stated that I did not come forward on political grounds, and I ventured to observe what in my opinisin should be the great o bj ec t s o f your R e p resen tatives in that-I3ody. The maj o rity of yo)uir Ward decided against cod, and therefore when a vacancy occurred by the Resignation Of Mr. Langton, I declined again to come forward. The ,ortialitv, however, of many friends induced them to prciposrme, ana though your decision was in favour of the gentleman who appeared as a Candidate I have the satisfaction to fi nd that the votes in my favour had considerably increased. For the strenuous and un solicited suppdrt I received 1 beg to return my warmest thanks, and, I would add, my best wishes for the prosperity of your Ward. I am, Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant. Liverpool, 9th January; 1836. AMBROSE LACE. EVENING CONCERT, AT THE MUSIC-HALL, BOLD-STREET, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 183 V iurASTER HUGHES, only eight year of age, who has 11'1 had the honour of appearing twice ore their Majesties, tby command, and been so liberally pat uized by all the prin cipal Nobility. of EnglAnd. Scotland, \Vales, and Ireland; and 3+ION . S. POTHONIER, the celebrated Pianist, who will perform extempore variations o'n any Air which may be pro duced during the evening, beg leave to announce their CON CERT as above, to commence precisely at Eight o'clock. Tickets, 3s. each.—Back Seats, 2s.—Children Half-Price. To be had at the Music Sellers and Booksellers, and of Master HUGHES, 26, Slater-sPreet. FOUND, a LITTLE DOG. Whosoever y have lost the same, and.can satisfactorily descrA7it, will have it restored upon application at the Standard ce, on payment of expenses. ANN CAIG, (Widow-of PETER CAW, Tailor an raper,) grateful for the patronage extended to her I Husband, begs respectfully to inform her Filends, that sh ntends to con tinue the Business, and trusts 6vith the arr ements she has made to be e n a bl e d tr , merit their kind support. 24, Basneat-street, Bth January, 18313. JR. LAwsoN, CO FF IN r AI AKER, and FURNISI4 IN G UNDERTAKER, 26, Brownlow-hill, Liverra J. R. L. having condUcted business in the ab line in Lon don, has, at the suggestions of his Friend erred the above Establishment, for the purpose of taking th whole of the ma nagement of Funerals that may be entrusted to his care, and hopes by respectability and careful attention, together with rea sonable charges, to merit the patronage and support of the in habitants of Liverpool. N.B.—A. variety of Coffins always on hand. JACK'S COFFEE-HOUSE, 17, CLAYTON-SQUARE. THE Proprietor of this Establishment returns thanks for the unprecedented success he has met with du • the short time he has been open, and begs to observe, t it will ever be conducted on the principles of economy d comfort which characterised it from the first. JACK'S COFFEE-HOUSE will be found particularly eligible to Travellers by the Railway, who may have Breakfast at the earliest hours. The Railway Omnibuses call at the usual hours. KID GLOVES, BLONDE SATIN SHOES, &c., &c., CLEANED, to equal New, by LATOUR RATEAU and CO., 139, New BON D-STREET, corner of Grosvenor-street, London; and received for, and sent to, them every Friday Evening, by their only Agent for Liverpool, Mrs. Loss , Tea, Coffee, and Smaliware Dealer, No. 9, Cases-stree L. R. and Co. respectfully inform the Publi at, from their great success, (the articles cleaned by th ing really made to equal new in appearance and value,) any imitations have arisen; it is, therefore, necessary to guard against being en trapped by the insidious representations of persons who pretend to be connected ijth them in these discoveries, of which they are the original and only authors, and request that the parcels be directed for L. Rateau and Co., with the name and exact address of the agent written thereupon. THE LIVERPOOL ENGRAVING AND PRINTING OFFICE, 2, BRUNSWICK-STREET, CASTLE-STREET. THE Business executed at the above Establis nt, com prises every description of Plain and amental EN GRAVING, together with Copper-pl .etter-press, and Lithographic PRINTING, for every tic and Commercial purpose, as Maps, Plans, Charts, Bankers' Notes, Drafts, Mer - chants'iiills of Lading and Exchange, Tradesmens' Bills, Cir culars, Cards, Labels, &c. &c. Heraldry Books kept. Arms, Crests, Ciphers, and Mottos, on Gold, Silver, and Copper. Stone Seals, qounting-house Seals. Brass Door and Window Plates neatly executed. An AP PRENIICE WANTED. CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCH IT URE. TOEIN WEALE, (late Taylor,) ARCHIT URAL Ll t BRA RY. No. 59. High Holborn, anno es for immediate publication, WORKS for the ENGIN , ARCHITECT, STUDENT, and AMATEUR. TRANSACTIONS of the INSTIT lON of CIVIL EN GINEERS, in 4to r with a Portrait of the late President, Thos. Telford, and Twenty elaborate Plates. Price 21s. A PRACTICAL TREATISE on LOCOMOTIVE EN GINES upon RAILWAYS, founded upon a great many new Experiments made during a residence in England for Scientific Purposes, by Chevalier G. PAMBOUIt, in Bvo., with Plates. Price 12s. ORNAMENTS of the MIDDLE AGES, and particularly of the 'limes of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I. To be published in Ten Parts, in 4to, of 4s. each. Part l will appear March 111th. The Work" will consist of uniVie Orna ments, selected on the Continent and in England, of Architec ture, Furniture, Carving, Chasing, Tapestry, and Lace Work, Patterns for Manufacturers of all kinds, &c. &c. No. 2 and following will be published regularly if the Work is encouraged. Communications addressed to Mr. Weale, the editor and pub lisher. MOLLER'S great Work of GERMAN GOTHIC ARC HI - TECTUR E, 2 vols., large folio, 130 Plates, bound in 1 v 31., with German Text complete; and to be accompanied with a Translation of the Ori g ina Text, in a separate Bvo. volume. Price £3 10s. till December 25; the price after which time will be raised. MOLLER'S MEMORIALS of GERMAN GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, with Notes and Illustrations, in Bvo., (sold separate fro the preceding.) Price Bs. cloth and lettered. TO BE HAD:- NICHOLSON'S ARCHITECTURAL and ENGINEER ING DICTIONARY, 2 vols. large 4to. I,tX/0 pages, and 281 fine Plates, (published at £l2 55.,) now offered to the profession at .£ 145., in cloth boards and lettered. WILD'S COTTAGES for the PEASANTRY and for EMIGRANTS, 8vo.; Plates. Price 7s. HAK..EWILL on ELIZABETHAN ARCHITECTURE, 8vo.; 8 Plates. Price 7s. GOODWIN'S RURAL, COTTAGE, and VILLA AR CHITECTURE, with SUPPLEMENT. 2 vols., 2d edition, Jorge 4to, superior Plates, cloth boards and lettered. Price £5 ss. Supplement to Ditto, separate. Price El is. SOPWITH'S TREATISE on ISOMETRICAL DRAW ING. Bvo. ;34 Plates. Price 16s. GRATIS. An extended Catalogue of New and Practical Architectural and Engineering Works on Sale, English and Foreign. BOROUGH OF LIVERP OL. WILLIAM WALLACE CURRIE, !SQ., MAYOR. rrIH E COURT of PASSAGE for t TRIAL of CIVIL Al CAUSES will be held in the URT-ROOM, on the south side of Chapel-street, on Tit spay, the 21st day of January instant, at Ten o'clock in th Morning, of which the Attorneys of the said Court are requested to take notice. RICHARD R4DCLIFFE, Town-clerk and Registrar. BOROUGH AND TOWN OF LIVERPOOL. WILLIAM' WALLACE CURRIE. ESQ., MAYOR. .............. . rilllE GRAND PORT MOOT, COUlit LEET, and 1. GENERAL COURT of QUARTER SESSIONS of the PEACE for the BOROUGH and TOWN of LIVER POOL will be held in the COURT-ROOM, in the Sessions house, on the south side of Chapel-street(on MONDAY next, the it y-, 18th ofJanuary instant, at Ten o'cloc in the Forenoon ; when and where all Persons bound ove o Appear and Prosecute, give'Evidence or Answer, are to at nd on pain of their respec tive Recoguisauces being estreated. FOSTER, Clerk of the Peace. XII Persons are requested to take Notice, that no Tra verses will be tried at these Sessions unless the same be entered for Trial in the said Office of the Clerk of the Peace, in the said Sessions-house, on or before the first day of the Sessions. And all Indictments for Misdemeanours and Assaults found at these Sessions against Persons admitted to Bail must be entered for Trial in the said Office of the Clerk of the Peace 94 ,or before', weave o'clock on the day next after the discharge Of the Orand ury, otherwise the Trial - of the`same will stand over until the Sessions following. TO IRON AND BRASS FOIT H ERS, &c. MHE Corporation for Preserving an Improving the Port I of Dublin, will receive Propoals r Constructing one or more LIGHT-HOUSE LANTERN , agreeably to pattern, which may be viewed on applicatiu their Engineer at Dub lin. The work must be in every res ct of the best description. Proposals, sealed and endorsed, addressed to the Secretary, will be received on or before WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next. Printed forms for the purpose can be had at. this Office, and the Lantern or Lanterns to he completed and dAvered in Dublin within four months from the acceptance of the Proposal. By order, H. VEREKER, Secretary. Ballast-office, Dublin, Jan. 3, 1836. TO CONTRACTORS. WOODSIDE FERRY, CHESHIRE. 911-1 E Directors of the Woodside, North Birkenhead, and 1 Liverpool Steam Vern- Company hereby give notice, that all Persons willing to CONTRACT for the pe Ihrmance of the . whole or any of the ARTIFICER'S WOR for the EREC TION of certain BUILDINGS on the oodside Slip and Land adjoining thereto, may inspect the laps and Specifica tions at the office of Mr. RAMPLING, chitect, Union-court, Castle -street, on or aft EDNESD ext, the 13th instant I N Tenders for the said Art er's Work re to be sent in, sealed 1:4?„%nil directed to the sai Directors, and delivered on or before !" NEst , sy, the 20th instant, at the Office of Mr. MA LLABi, Clerk co to the said Company, 12, Lower Castle -street, Liverpool. Contractors "Ili he required to find Sureties for the due per fnoortm.ano. of their respective Contracts, and the Directors will be houtad to accept the lowest Tender. - . grill E PUBLISHER. of th e LIVERPOOL 'I i I4,NDARD • • •1 begs to scknowledge in the receipt of the fo wing DONA TIONSaid of the Funds tbr the. Relief oft Irish clergy • Small Sums by the Rer. W. iladuall, Wa rtree, £2 .8 6 •• *Sirs. Roughsedge..... ... . ................ 3 3 0 . Mis 9 Bateson ... .. ....... . . ..... 0 0 • Miss .............. Mrs. Hind,— • .. ....... 1 0. 0 tth-s. 1-loward .. .................... ....... 2 I() 0 •••• Um. Leech............. . .... 8 0 Pearson, Jun •0 5 0 Mr. .11rs. Ward 1 0 0 £l3 4 6 1 lIHE Publics are respectfully informed that, in consequence .1 of the Death of Mr. HUGH GLAnsToNE, the Finn of H. GLADSTONE and OLDHAM is Dissolved, and the SAIL. MAKING BUSINESS will in future be carried on by the WIDOW of Mr. H. Gladstone, in conjunction. with Captain VW JOS. NICKELS and Mr. JOHN EDD ES GLAD STONE, under the Firm of " Gladstone, c kels, and C 0.," on the Premises adjoining those occupied y the late Firm in Beth-street, Prince's Dock. N,B.—GLADSTONE, NICKELS, and Co. are Sole Agents in Liverpool for the LEITH CANVAS. No. 14, Bath-street, Prince's Dock, Ist January, 1836. LIVERPOOL ROYAL INSTITUTION, OLQUITT co/ STREET. itikKß. EDWARD TAYLOR, of Lorin° , will deliver a INT Course of FOUR LECTURES o I NGLISH VO CAL HARMONY, to commence on M DIY, Jan. 4, 1838, at One o'clock, and to he continued ort each succeeding THURSDAY and MONDAY, at the same hour; Repeating them at Half-past Seven each succeeding TUESDAY and FRIDAY. Miss Leach, Miss Hornby, Mr. Bali, VOCAL PERFORMERS. M r. Boothby, Mr. Walton, Mr. E. Taylor. Mr. G. Holden wllljireside at the PianO-f(irte. Subscriptions to the Coule, Half-a-Guinea. Admission to a Single Lecture, Three Shillings; and for Children and Schools, Half-price,—a Teacher being admitted Free when Six Scholars attend. t ilt LIVERPOOL OPHTHALMIC INFI MARY. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the SU CRIBERS will be held in the INFIRMARY, Slater-st et, on MONDAY next, the 18th instant. The Chair to be taken at One c lock. I'. J. RYCROFT, S retary. tki 7 NORTHERN HOSPITAL. ' THE Subscribers to this Institution are res .tfully informed that a PUBLIC MEETING will be Id in the DA rot BUSINESS COURT OF T H E SESSIONS'-HOUSE, hapel-street, (the Mayor having kindly granted the use of it for the purpose,) on MONDAY, the 18th instant, at One o'clock, to receive the Report and Accounts of the CA4mittee for the past year, and to ap point a President and Committee of Management for the present year, agreeably with the Laws of the Hospital. WM. BROWN, President. GEO. •WAINWRIGHT, Treasurer. Hospital, Leeds-street, January 9, 1836. STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY. A T the ANNUAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS, .11._ held at the Charitable Institution House, SI er-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th instant, Mr. WILLIAM COMER in the air • A Report, of the Society's Operations, and t counts for the past year, having been read lutions were passed unanimously : I. That the Report now read be adopted, nd that it be printed and circulated under the direction of the Committee. Treasurer's Ac e following Reso- 11. That the Thanks of this Meeting be presented to the Visitors and to the Officers and Committee for the past year; and that the following be the Officers and Committee for the year ensuing : Mr. Michael Ashton, Treasurer, Gildart-street. Mr. John Radcliffe, Secretary, 30, Slater-street. 11r. John Deane, Steward, North Division. Mr. James Hall, Steward, South Division. Mr. Daniel Mason, Steward, East Division. COMMITTEE. The Worshipful the Mayor, WILLIAM WA I. I. ACE CURRIE, Esq. Mr. William Banning, Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P. William Blain, Mr. Nicholas Hiirry, William Corner, Thomas Kaye, Thomas Crook, C. W. Neuman, John Cropper, jun., Edward Pilcher, .John Eden, William Rathbone, John Forshaw, Thomas Sands, James Freme, Egerton Smith, . C. H. Jones, Octavius Waterhouse. ,LIAM COMER, Chairman. Meeting' be given to the Chair ing on this occasion. I ATION. omer 111. That the Thanks of the man, for his kindness in presidi DON A Friend, per Mr. Wm. Ci LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY. AT the ANNUAL MEETING of the TRUSTEES of the LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY, held in the BOARD ROOM, on MONDAY, the 11th January, 1&36, JOSEPH N. WALKER, Esq., President, i e Chair. it was resolved unanimously, That the Accounts fur the past year, to port, be Printed and presented to the' possible period. That the best thar.ks of this Meeting be presented to JOSEP H N. WALKER, Esq. for his kindness in accepting the office of President for the past year;. for the interest he has evinced in the welfare of the Institution, and for his liberal donatiun of One Hundred Guineas. —ter with the Re ,stees at the earliest That the best thanks of this Meeting be presented to EDMUND B, LYON, Esct., the Treasurer of this Institution, for the unre mitting attention which he has paid to the very important du ties of his office. _ That the best thanks of this Meeting be presented to the Phy. sicians and Surgeons of the Infirmary, Asylum, and Lock Hos pital for their constant and unremitting attention to the impor tant duties which have devolved upon them during the past year; That the best thanks of this Meeting be presented to RICHARD FORSH Aw, Esq., the sionsulting Surgeon, fur his services during the past year. That the best thanks of this Meeting be presented to the Rev. RoBERT DAVIES, M.A., Chaplain, for the zeal and atten tion with which he has discharged his important duties. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to those Clergymen who have been kind enough to advocate the cause of this Institution during the past year. That the Medical (Mims to the Infirmary, Lunatic Asylum, and Lock Hospital be reappointed. That JAMES CLARKE, Esq., Recorder, be the President for the present year. That EDMUND B. LYON, Esq., be appointed Treasurer for the present year. That the Rev. J. B. MONK, R. L. CARR, WM. RUSHTON, and EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esq., who retire by rotation, be re elected Members of the Committee._ That Major BuooKs, Rev. T. G. LEIGH, RICHARD ALISON, Jun., and ALEXANDER SMITH, Jun., Esq., be elected Members of the Committee in the O W of JOHN HUDDLESTON, CHARLES S. PARKER, THOMAS Boor*, and RICHARD DAWSON, Esqrs., who retire. The Chairman having left the chair, Resolved,—That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be pre seuted to the Chairman fur his able and impartial conduct. ON SALE AT FONTENOY DISTILLERY, FONTENOY-STREET, LIVERPOOL. FIOLLANDS—An Article entirely new in the English market, and made at this Distillery only. It is produced from the same materials, aad maeufactured in precisely the same manner as Dutch Schiedam, which it at least equals in quality; and it is sold at prices considerably under the Duty upon Geneva. Families who are in the habit of using Geneva will find this an excellent and economical substitnt a nd it is well worth the attention of Dealers. A trial of it i onfidently recommended to the public. English GlN—of an excellent quality and ft our. Scotch and Irish WHISKEY. Islay, Cambelton and Lowland Malt Di French BRANDY, neat as imported. Jamaica and other RUMS, in Bond or otherwise British BRANDY. GINGER DIN —A liqueur of highly estimable qualities. What is here offered is very superior, being manufactured, with great care from the best materials. RASPBERRY BRANDY, Cinnamon, Cloves, Pepper mint, Anniseed, Wormwood, and other CORDIALS. Ail of the very best qualities and at moderate prices. A liberal allowance made to Dealers.—Orders from the country, with respectable references, addressed to R. M`LA REN, at the Distillery. will be punctnally attended to • At MOODIE'S STORE, Hodson-street (behind the Dis tillery) there is a constant.gupply of ROY'S celebrated Scotch (Alloa) ALES, both for IThrne Consumption and Exportation —the latter made expressly for the purpose. Also, Lortdon and Limerick PORTER—the latter in Barrels and Half Barrels. THE REVENUE-GROSS FRAUD. 'A reference elsewhere will show, by the tabular returns for the last quarter, that there has been a decrease in the revenue of £613,000, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. This deficit, great as it is, would have been infinitely more but fora trick practised by thinisters amounting to a fraud: and one unheard of in the annals of British government. Every one conversant with public offices knows, that the sth of January is the quarter day, on or before which the public servants were always heretofore in the habit of being paid their salaries. Will it be believed, that on the present occasion this mean and paltry and sinking government, with a view of suppressing a fact, and promulgating a falsehood, have actually witheld pay eat from the persons holding public situations until these re turns had been made . out; thus running the quEtiter's salaries of all clerks; &c., into the current quarter; and making the whole collection appear as received—omitting the deductions. We have not time or space just now to analyze this. It will be sufficient, in proof of our assertion; to state, that in one pub lic department, and Certainly not one of the least important, the Post-office, not a Single clerk has received bis salary, due the sth—every penny cif which has gone to swell the revenue in favour of ministers ; and the same thing has occurred through out the kingdom. If this be not a falsification of a record, and a fraud upon the public, we should like to know what is ?—Dublin Evening Mail. LETTER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM. ( From the Record.) We have been favoured with the following important letter from his Grace the Arattoishop of Tuam, to which it is unneces sary for us to solicit the attention of our readers. The fact stated, and the advice given, are alike deserving of consi deration : TO THE EDITOR OF THE RECORD Sir,—Your letter, containing a bank post bill for £408135. 2d., has just reached, and shall (please God) be duly acknowledged in the Record. It ii , ;es me pleasure to be enabled somewhat to sg ut emy way to better days awaiting my oppressed:and persecuted, resigned, and patient and deserving brothers, the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland. That vdttrerble society, called the " Lay Association for assist inggsuthceceirssif:ii i t t h y e s e u ° s m ta P in ° e s cl iti m " an l Y er s ir u s i ' t ' have during t he-Aate term, the Clem in recovering s against the composition payers, and many conspirators, against this property (fearing 4he heavy costs to which persevering resistance would expose them) have struck, and paid des full demand due to the clergytnan, and this without the most itant hazard of collision with the lower orders. This happy vindica tion of the law will (under God), I confidently hope, relieve the generous English from this heavy draught upon their unbounded liberalitv,and I would hope (and I feel that I speak the sentiments of a large body, and probably the whole 01 the clergy of Ire land) that .the present existing law will be left alone by the powers that be; that they will cease to legislate further upon what is called " the Irish Tithe Question ; and thus the cler g y will in future with little difficulty, without any intercourse with the lower or ders' upon thesubject, peaceably receive their hitherto acknowledged, undatibed property ; and as far as that question isse.concerned, peace may be restored to this unhappy land. • • . ••• . . our faithful , and much obli ed I have the honour to be, Sir, yg, Dec. 7, 1835. Powiza Tuem, &c. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. The merchants who have suffered so extensively by the great fire have applied to the Secretary of the Treasury to renew for the tern of three months all bonds now coming dile. LIBERALITY.—We state, on the authority of Mr. Worth, the cashier of the City Bank, that all rates now due, and falling due at that institution, will be renewed on the saine„securities as now attach to them. So praiseworthy an example ought to be followed, and we have no doubt it will be, by all the other banks in the city. The east river presented a scene almost as gay and lively as a regatta, hundreds of boats skimming over the surface for th 4 purpose of taking up such goods as were found floating. Were not the associations connected with such a scene of a most me lancholy nature, the appearance of the river itself would have been a truly pleasing one. POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENT.—UntiI a more commodious building can be procured, the business of the Postoflice will be conducted at the Custom-house in Pine-street, where letters may be mailed, and will be delivered, as usual. A CrrizeN GUARD.—The mayor issued a proclamation yes terday calling upon such 'of the citizens as had leisure to form themselves into a patrole for the protection and preservation of the large amount of property now strewed about the streets, and which else might be scattered to the four winds of heaven. Public meetings have been held to devise measures for the safety of the city, and a subscription has been set on foot to re lieve the immediate wants of the families who have lost their all by this appalling fire. The Advertiser of the 21st and the New York Times of the same date contain articles, which we subjoin, stating that, the first alarm having subsided, the aspect of affairs was found to be more favourable thari could have been expected under the circumstances. (From the New York Times.) The public mind has experienced much relief during the last two days. We are beginning to recover from the shock. It came on us with such overwhelming force that we were not only prostrated but stupified by it. We are beginning to look around us, to examine coolly and dispassionately into the extent of the calamity—to inquire, with cautiousness and prudence, into the course to be pursued to relieve us from our temporary sufferings —for temporary, we trust, they will be. The elastic spirit of our citizens is beginning to rise from the temporary. pressure that weighed it down. Our energies, checked for a time, have again begun to exert themselves. Sufferers of all classes have determined to put their own shoulders to the wheel, and then, if necessary, to call upon Hercules:—to trust to themselves first, before they trust to others--to ascertain first, whether, in our city and our own state, we have not the means to repair our losses, before we ask aid from other sources. Despondency now is as unwise as it is unmanly. We want within, prompt, immediate, decisive action. Our prosperity may be checked, but it is far from being destroyed. We have that within us— the source of our riches and prosperity—that disaster cannot break down. We have all that has made us what we are— energy, promptness, and enterprise. We need the exertion of thiltee qualities now, and, unless we mistake the character of our citizens, they will be called into prompt and vigorous exercise. In times like these, the minor considerations which ordinarily divide us must be discarded. In relieving each other—in re storing the prosperity of our citizens—there must be but one party. We must act with entire unanimity of feeling, as if but one "heart led, and one hand acted. We have received a check in our prosperity, but it has been after a business year al most unparalleled success. The cala mity, heavy as it is, has fallen at a time when it could be best borne by our commercial community. The stocks of our mer chants are at this season of the year generally very low. Our banks are disposed to act liberally, and relief will and must be obtained, if not from the general, at least from the state govern ment. Our citizens are of good heart. They will do justice to themselves; and we trust that within a brief period we shall be able to state that we alt again in the full tide of successful ex periment, and fast recovering from our recent disasters. The energies of the city of New York cannot be easily repressed or destroyed. " Onward" is the word. (From the New York Daily Advertiser.) The aspect of affairs is decidedly more cheering. Although about fifty-two acres of ground resemble the wins of the old world, yet, on a close inspection of the things, it is discovered that the losses have l‘ot been half as great as was first contem plated. Ten to fifteen millions will probably be the extent. The insurance offices will pay better than was expectod; the North River, Equitable, City, New York, Bowery, Guardian, Fulton, Eagle, and Greenwich, all pay. The confidence that the corporation will issue stock to enable the companies to pay promptly, and the spirit among the banks to be liberal, and a corresponding disposition among all classes to yield to circum stances, has imposed more hope in the public. Not a failure, as we can learn, has yet taken place; no bonds are to be put in suit. The board of brokers commence to-day, and already business begins to assume some appearance of activity. Our columns begin to present a fair share of goods for sale; many of the larger houses have advertised to discount all their notes out. All these conspire to give confidence. Let every sufferer re double his exertions, remembering that industry, integrity, prudence, and economy will soon bring all right again. (From the Morning Courier and New York Inquirer, of Decem ber 21, 1835.) 12.3 houses made returns to us of their losses by this unpa ralleled calamity, the total of which amounts to 3,3.53,000 dol. This exceeds what we anticipated in no small a a number, and vet we adhere to the opinion heretofore expressed, that the entire destruction of property, including buildings does not exceed 12,000,000 dols. s the parties immediately interested this, when subdivided, is a trifling loss. Our merchants, generally, sill rise above it, and under the full conviction that it is but a loss of profits divided among many, enter upon their avocations with more than usual diligence and with unimpaired energies. To theist the loss consists in the derangement of their business far more than in the amount of property; but not so the widow and the orphan whoge all, whether more or less, was invested in fire insurance stock. 4The high premiuins paid by our fire insur ance companies during 40 years of uninterrupted prosperity had made them favourite stocks for the investment of small capitals; and we are sorry to state that a very large portion, if not a ma jority, of insurance stock, was owned by persons whose little all was thus invested where as they thought it was perfectly secure, and yielded them a larger income than many other securities. On them, then, falls the great loss by this calamity, and they it is who require the sympathy of their fellow-citizens. - It would not be prolPr lo give the names of sufferers under such circumstances, but Ina*, very many, cases of the most heart rending nature have been mentioned to us- The great question is—what is to beAone to restore confidence and give immediate relief to the merchants ? The answer is obvious; place the insurance offices in funds by cashing their mortgages, in order that they may pay as far as practicable the amount due for insurance. 'fo accomplish this, various plans have been proposed, and all of them more or less feasible. But in our estimation, to make this really beneficial, a new currency or circulating, medium must be created If the go vernment should do it, or if it should be done by banks, it would not, in fact, increase the amount of money in circulation ' and would only be taking from A to pay B. Not so, however, if the corporation would adopt the following suggestion :—Let the city of New York issue scrip to the amount of 10,000,000 dol. under the direction of commissioners appointed for that pur-. pose. Let this be in sums of from 500 to 5,000 dollars, and let it be stipulated that with it shall be purchased all the mortgages now held by the insurance offices believed to be good; next, let them loan their full value on the lots within the district destroyed, and let the balance, if any, be loaned on bond and mortgage on real estate to any person or persons who may apply for it. This scrip should be redeemable in three, four, and five years, and bear an interest of five per cent., and would, for all the purposes of commence, be equivalent to bank-notes or specie. The benefits of this plan are evident. It would be equivalent to calling into being at once ten millions of gold ; and, con sequently, add that amount to the circulating medium of the country. Being issued on good real estate security, the city could not, or would not, lose a dollar by the operation ; while it would afford instant and immediate relief to our commence, and secure to us the enviable consciousness of haying re lieved ourselves at the very moment when our sister city and state ere willing to come forward to our relief: It would in no way affect our gratitude for their generous sympathy and prompt offer of aid, at the same time that it wonld demonstrate our ability to provide for all our calamites within ourselves. With due deference to our associate members of the committee of 156, we must be permitted to say, that this mode of relief would be far more acceptable to our merchants generally than any other than can be devised; and, taken in connexion with the extension of time on Custom-house bonds and the remission of duties on goods destroyed, which the general government can not refuse, it would be all that they require. The information of our disaster reached Philadelphia on Friday morning, when Mr. Biddle, the President of the Bank of the United States, who had been confined to his house foes some weeks, promptly set off in a private conveyance, and by means of , relays of horses reached this city on Friday night, determined to do all that is in the power of the Bank to accom plish in aid of our wants- A general meeting of the com mittees of all the banks took place a t the branch bank at 2 p.m. on Saturday, but we believe nothing definitive has as yet been determined upon. (From the New York Gazette, Dec. 19.) The most revolting circumstance attending this calamity was the infamous extent of plunder. Nearly 100 scoundrels were seized in the very act of stealing valuable articles, even when the alarm and clanger were at the highest; and yesterday about 200 more were arrested for having articles in their possession, stolen from the scene of the conflagration. Notwithstanding the vigilance exerted to prevent these snoliations, the army of plunderers was so numerous, and they displayed so much bold ness and dexterity, that a large amount of property was carried off. The rooms of the police-office are crowded with goods of almost every conceivable description, taken from thieves who had been detected and brought up: probably , 10,000 dollars worth of goods have in this way been transferred to the custody of the police. The devastated portion of the city was the general resort throughout the whole of yesterday for all the rogues and abandoned characters of the metropolis; they hovered about -like birds of prey, watching their opportunity; for plunder; and we are ashamed to say that among them were numbers of wo men, not less active in this evil-doing than their competitors of the other sex. Many of them were seized, having concealed about their persons valuable silks, shawls, laces, and, other costly articles of convenient bulk for hiding and carrying away. Last night strong bodies of cavalry and vofunteer infantry were patrolling the streets near the fire, and preserved perfect order, and we believe, prevented any further serious depredations. All the fire companies from Brooklyn .came promptly over to our asssistance, as also two engine companies from Newark—for the active exertions of all of which the thanks of our citizens are grate:ully rendered. The passengers descending the Hudson saw the flames from the Highlands, 45 miles distant, and the,light was also distinct ly seen in New Jersey as far as Crauberty. Of the insurance companies, it is believed that the North River, the Greenwich, and the Bowery will stand. The latter, indeed, having but few risks down town, suffers, as we learn, but about 4000 dollars. All the others, we believe, are involved in a common bankruptcy : and even in paying their policies, to the extent of their respective capitals, great einbarrasments, if not positive distress, must ensue, in calling in the bonds and mortgages upon which their funds have been loaned. Another consequence is likely to be a depression of real estate, especially the purchases in the recent speculations FURTHER PARTICULARS. ( From the Daily Advertiser of 21st Dec.) Tux LATE FIRE.—The aspect of affairs is decidedly more cheering, although about fifty-two acres of ground resemble the ruins of the old world. Yet on a close inspection of things it is discovered that the losses have not been half as great as was first contemplated. Ten to fifteen millions will probably be the ex tent. The insurance offices will pay better than was expected, the North River, Equitable, City,' New York, Bowery, Guardian, Fulton, Eagle, and Greenwich all pay. The confi dence that the corporation will issue stock to enable companies to pay promptly—and the spirit among the banks to be liberal — and a corresponding . disposition among all classes, to yield to circumstances, has imposed more hope in the public. Not a failure, as we can learn, has yet taken place; no bonds are to be put in suit. The merchants meet as usual. The board of brokers commence to -day, and already business begins to p p snme appearance of ctivity. Our columns begin to present a fair share of goods for a sale; many of the larger houses have advertised to discount all their notes out. All these con spire to give confidence. Let every sufferer redouble his ex ertions—rememberiug that industry, integrity, prudence, and economy will soon bring all right again. It is supposed that a thousand baskets of champagne were broken and destroyed, the tops being unceremoniously knocked off and the contents drank up by crowds surrounding the fire and working, and who were thus enabled to obtain protectio u against the excessive cold. An immense quantity of baskets of champagne were seen floating in the docks, and cheese and provisions seen scattered there and about tne ships. Several hundred vagrants of all colours, sexes and ages, have been brought up, and dispossessed of their booty, amounting to many thousand dollars, and embracing every species of light valuable articles, a considerable portion of which has been re claimed their owners. The striking advantage of railroads. especially at this season when everything is locked up in the ice, was never more em phatically demonstrated, than in the instance of the late tire engines from Newark, N. J., nine miles distant, where the same locomotive that early on Thursday morning carried out the news of the fire, brought these engines on their platform within an hour afterwards to the city. Their services were eminently useful. It is said that much valuable property may be obtained from the cellars the stores burnt, particularly liquors. Caution is required in exploring. In that unusually large space called Hanover-square, where everybody thought the goods piled there would be perfectly safe, there was accumulated from the stock of all the French stores a mass of silks, satins, laces, cartons of dresses, gloves, capes, Cashmere shawls, and the richest kinds of fancy articles, forming a pile 60 feet wide by 25 feet in height, or nearly 100 feet square. In a few minutes afterwards a gust of flame, like a streak of lightning, came from the N.E. corner building, and shooting across the square, blown by the strong wind, and set fire to the entire mass, which it in a few moments consumed to. cinders, and then communicated to the houses opposite. The weather was so intensely cold that the firemen were compelled to take the fine blankets saved, and cutting a hole through them, convert them into tempOrary cloaks, in which they were seen at day-light dragging home their engines, many of aim so exhausted by fatigue that they were asleep as they were walking home. One entire company, thus accoutred, bad artificial flowers, of the richest kind, in their caps, taken from the wreck of matter, and presenting a very singular contrast with their begritnined faces and jaded appearance. A large quantity of turpentine piled up in barrels caught the flames and burnt with great fury, being, as is well known, one attic must inflammable substances that there is. It tan down in a stream like burning lava into the dock upon the surface, and spread out until it had reached several hundred yards into the river, being lighter than water, and therefore floating upon it, giving the appearance of the river being on tire. (From the New York Daily Advertiser, December 23.) The flames have now entirely subsided, and a - large amount of goods will be saved from the ruins in a damaged state. Messrs. Smith and Town had about 4000 bags of coffee in their store—nearly the whole of it will be got out of the ruins, burnt more or less—a sale was made of this description of coffee by auction yesterday, which brought half price. The saving in goods got in this way will be very considerable. The losses, it is now admitted, are by no ineanta so large as was cal culated. Already the workmen have begun and are clearing away the rubbish to lay the foundation walls of a new building. Much excitement has prevailed to-day in relation to the re moval of the Postollice. The merchants met and unanimously opposed the measure. The course the common council have adopted in relation to the six million bonds ishighlyaproved of. The investigation made yesterday at the police established the fact that the fire took place at the stores of Messrs. Comstock and Andrews. We regret we were not there to have given our testimony. - We were first on the spot, and assisted in breaking in the doors, when the whole interior presented the appearance of a furnace. The second story floor was no doubt burnt through, as the fire was above and below. Whether the tire took place on the first or second story we do not pretend to say, but that it was the first and only store on fire when we reached there is most certain. There is no doubt the fire occurred from accident. We say, unhesitatingly. that the great cause, and in our judgment the only cause, of this great conflagration, has been owing to wooden cornices and gutters, and the want of iron shutters. When the flames first broke out, it burst forth on Merchant-street and Pearl-street almost simultaneously. The fire immediately took the wooden gutters and cornices on the south side of Pearle-street., afier which it could not be arrested. (From the New York Daily Advertiser.) WASHINGTON, DEC.2l.—The present has been an interest ing day in both branches of our National Congress—peculiarly interesting to your city, from the circumstances of your suffer ings at the late conflagration. This morning, in the senate, as soon as the journal of the last day's proceedings had been read, Mr. Webster motioned that the committee on finance be re quested to report immediately what measures congress ought to pursue in regard to the late fire in New York, which motion was carried unanimously. The committee will report as soon as possible, and every thing will be done that can be done to render relief to the sufferers. In the house, Mr. Cambrefeng presented a bill, which was re ferred to a select committee, that all monies due the United States, by the sufferers, for duties, &c., prior to the 17th inst., be cancelled by the debtors giving a note with citify for the sum payable in three, four, or five years, as the Custom-house officers at New York may think expedient.. Another section of the bill provides that the Secretary of the Treasury be instruct ed to loan to the New York banks any amount of money now in the public treasury, which is not wanted for the immediate use of the government. Both resolutions receive a second reading, and were ordered to be printed. As soon as may be, they are to receive the further attention of the house. You may rely from what has thus far been done by Congress, that there is a disposition to do anything that wisdom will dictate. If sympa thy could avail anything, not only Congress, but every citizen in the district would give it. There are many doubts concern ing the power of Congress in this matter So far as cancelling the bonds of mercantile or any class of men, there can be no doubt of her ability to render assistance. Beyond that, how ever, there are doubts in the minds of many. The precedents to the contrary, are the appropriations made. by Congress for the sufferers by fire in Alexandria, money expended for the relief of the Poles, and also at Venezuela. ERARD'S GRAND PIANO-FORTES-NEW PATENT. •Proceedingi on the petition of. Pierre Erard, piano-forte maker, under the recent act for extending patents, before the judicial committee of the privy COUTICI4 on Tuesday, the 15th of December, 18.3.5.—Present, the Right Honourable Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, Baron Parke, and Sir Thomas Erskine. Mr. Cresswell, with whom was Mr. Jonathan Peel, opened the petitioner's case, and stated that this was a petition pre sented by Mr. Pierre Erard, of Great Marlborough-street, harp and piano-fortepanufacturer, for an extension of a patent ob tained by him for improvements on the piano-forte. The learned gentleman referred to the patents obtained by Mr. Sebastian Erard for the invention of the double-actioned harp, which has since entirely superseded the harp of ancient construction; and then stated that the petitioner and his uncle bad also devoted great attention to the piano-forte, and has suc ceeded in inventing an improvement in the action of that in strument, of no- less importance in itself than the improvement in the construction of the harp. The learned gentleman exhi bited the specification and drawings of the patentee; and pro duced models of the action. It appeared that the improvement consisted mainly in a new and Ingenious piece of mechanism for communicating the touch of the linger of player, through the agency of the key and the hammer to the string, by which great lightness of touch was given to the instrument, and a power of modulating and repeating the note entirely unknown to the piano-fortes of ancient construction, and which rendered the new instrument far superior in brilliancy and effect, parti• cularly in the rapid modern music. He stated that Mr. Erard had been at great pains and expense in inventing and applying his patent, and had actually expended on it upwards of £15,000. That, although his instrument was preferred and universally played upon by all the composers and performers of celebrity, am ong whom Moscheles, 'Hummel, Herz, Madame Dulcken, LizscMendelssohn, Pixie, &c., were named, its qualities had, from various circumstances, not become sufficiently known to the public. That report had gone abroad, that the cost of the instrument was greater than that of the old makers, which was not the fact, as Mr. Erard, though at a greater expense in the manufacture of them, sold his instrument at the same price as those of the ancient construction. That a tumour had also gone abroad against the durability of the instrument, but which was entirely unfounded, inasmuch as he (the learned gentle man) was prepared to show that the instruments on the new construction were more durable and less easily put out of order than any other instrument. The learned council then pro ceeded to call witnesses in support of the petition as follows: — Madame Dulcken stated that she had used one of the new insrtuments for seven years—that she greatly preferred it to any other she ever used for lightness of touch, power, and ex pression; and stated that she considered it now in as fine order as when she first had it—that it required very little tuning, and had never broken a string. That she had tauten an instrument to St. Petersburgh, which sustained no injury, though two of the common construction were rendered useless by the effect of cold. This lady's instrument was produced and played upon before their lordship's by Madame Dulcken. Mr. Latour, one of the directors of the Philhariiionic Society, Signor Scappa, from the Opera, Mr. Kiallinark, and numerous other witnesses were called to give their opinion of the superiority of the instrument, and stated that it was used by Moscheles, Hummel, Herz, &c. Mr. John Farey, the well-known engineer, was then called, and spoke in the highest terms of the invention. The celebrated Mr. Brunell was also in attendance, but was not called, in con sequence of their ,lordships. being satisfied with the evidence already given. , Lord Lyndhurst , in giving the judgment of the court, said that in their lordships opinion a sufficient case had been made out to induce their lordships to report .to his majesty in favour of the extension of seven.years of the patent, on the ground of the hardship of the case and the merits of the invention. His lordship-added that a•strong case would always be required to induce their lordships to extend patents beyond the original term of 14 years. HORRIBLE AND ATIOCIOUS . BA RBARITY-A MAN BURIEDALIVE ! The Clare Journal, received this morning, gives the follow ing, being the result of the inquest in this appall g in transaction—the fir s t no ti ce of w hi c h appeared in the Mail of Monday, under th e h ea d o f " Mysterious Occurrence , " copied from the Limerick St ar : coroner ' s, " An inquisition was taken before Thomas Whitestoue Esq., coroner, and a jut), of very respectable gentlemen, at Broad ford, on New Year's Day, on view of the skeleton of a man na med Patrick Barry, who was buried alive about thirteen months since. The circumstances attending this appalling transaction are nearly as follow, and which have been given in evidence by one of the . persons who assisted at the time. The deceased bait been a mill wr ight, for some time in the employment of a man of the name of David Burns, near, BrOadford ; he was old and in a very delicate state of health, and being no longer able to work at his trade, Burns sent him on a car to some friends of his residing in the county of Tipperary, with one of his sons and the informer, who had also been in his service. On their arriv ing there they were refUsed•admittance at two houses, and were obliged to return back; on their returning they communicated the circumstances to old Burns, who asked them why they did not put. him into a hole and throw a ditch on him, and immediately ordered another servant of his to go and make a grave in a small burial place convenient to the house, which he did, and then the younger son and the informer brought him there, having previ ously taken off part of his clothes; they then thrust him into the hole, and when covering him with earth, it is alleged he groaned twice, and stirred one of his arms, upon observing which, the informer called and said, they would all be hanged, that the man tea.' alive. This however, did not prevent them from pursuing their inhuman work, and the unfortunate man was covered in. Previous to the discovery of the body, which had on it at the time some portion of decayed articles of clothing, the infornier described the place where it. was interred, and most accurately the position in which the body was found ; the head raised. the body inclining to the right side, and one leg also raised, as indi cating an effort to rescue himself, or of great suffering when they were, throwing the earth upon him. it is a' remarkable circumstance that over the body a child's coffin was found, of which the informer denies all knowledge. The jury came to the following decision, • that the deceased was buried alive, by James Burns, Michael Burns, and John Connellan, and with the con currence and knowledge of David Burns, the father, all of whom have been committed." JANUARY 12. I 6 THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVE:RPOOL. ITALIAN OPERA;S, • Under the Management of Sign.or DE BEGNIS, Prime Donne, Signora Coutessa.DEGLl ANTONJ. Miss WATERS.—Mademoiselle DE ANGIOLI. Signora OLDERICCI.--S;.gnora MARIAN'. . Signor BERRETTONI, from the Theatre 'Wien, Paris. Signor CURIONI, from the King's Theatre. Mr. BENN ETT, from Cment-garden Theatre. Sig. DE ANGIULL—Sig. GALLE—Sig, PLATONI. AN 0 Signor DE ZEGNIS. , Signor RAVAGLIA, first tenor of the Theatre Italien, ew York, is a'.eo expected. Leader—Mr. J. Z. HERRMANN. Conductor—ll Cellehre Maestro Cavalier GA SSI. MO -MORROW, ( Wednead a y,) th e 13th in s t a nt, w ill b e per formed the Grand Opera of 4 7 LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolph..(6 rich proprietor . ig. Berrettoni. Terese..(mistress Of a mill).. fora Mariani. Anaina..(an orphan, adopted by Tei se, and betrothed to Elvino) —Mademoiselle De Angioli. Elvino..(a youug , wealthy farmer)..Mr. Bennett. Lisa.. ( landlady of au inn, in love with Eiviuo)..Sig. Uldericci. Alessio..(a peasant,:in love with Lisa)..Sig. De Angioli. A Peasant....Signoi Galli. Chorus of peasants and followers of Rodolph. On FRIDAY next, a favourite OPERA. On MONDAY next, the Grand Opera LA DONNA DEL LAGO. The Band arid Chorus will be numerous and complete. The Dresses for. the Operas, on a magnificent scale, are the: property of Signor De Begnis. Notwithstanding the great expense attending this under taking, the Prices of Admission will remain as usual, viz.:— Boxes, 4s.—Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 2s. 6d.Gallery, ls. Doors to he opened at Seven, and the Performance to com mence at Eight o'clock. GREAT FIRE IN NEW YORK. ( From the New York Transcript of Dec. 18.) In mentioning in our paper of yesterday, the breaking out of an awful conflagration in Merchant-street, and its extension front thence to the East River, sweeping everything into wide ruin before it, we expressed our apprehension that it would not be stayed until the devastation was still more extensive, and until it had numbered among the wrecks which it had made nu merous large and splendid edifices, besides those included in the range of buildings which we described as having already been levelled with the ground. Our apprehensions, we lament to say, were too fearfully re alised. To the blocks of buildings and streets which we repre sented as then being in flames, many, very many others were added, the particulars of which, as far as we are able, with the assistance - of some of our contemporaries, to gather them, we now proceed to state. The fire broke out in Merchant-street on the lsth of Decem ber, in the triangular block formed by Wall, William, and Pearl-streets, at about nine o'clock. A fierce wind was blow ing from the N-W., and the weather so intensely cold as to render the efficient working of the engines impossible. The consequence, was that the fire held the mastery through th' night, spreading with great and destructive rapidity. The arm of man was powerless, and many of our fellow-citizens who re tired to their pillow in affluence were bankrupts on awaking. The fact of the powerlessness of the firemen, from the almost instantaneous congelation of the water, and the benumbing in fluence of the cold, incleased the consternation which prevailed among the thousands of the agitated multitude who were wit nesses of the calamity—many of them doomed to stand and see the destruction of their own fortunes, without being able to lift a finger for their rescue. To arrest the flames at one time seemed to us impossible, save by the blowing-up of ranges of building in advance of the fire, that its progress might thus be interrupted. .But the diffi culty was to obta►n powder, none of consequence being allowed in the city. A sufficient supply, therefore, could not be ob tained short of the Navy-yard—whence, also, the mayor was obliged to send for a strong military force, to preserve property from the swarm of robbers who are ever ready on such oc• casions. Such is the confusion that prevailed, and such the difficulty of working one's ifisy among the smoke, and fire, and heated ruins, that it is impossible to detail particulars with any preten sion to accuracy. We give the following as the best result that we could arrive at from personal observations and by consult ing the map:— South side of Wall -street, from William-street to East River, including the Merchants' Exchange, and excepting some three or four buildings between Merchant-street (formerly Hanover) and Pearl. Also from William to Broad, buildings not de stroyed, but injured in the rear. Exchange -street, both sider, from Broad-street, crossing William to Merchant-street; the Garden-stieet church was embraced in this section. Merchant-street (formerly Hanover) both tides, from Wall to Hanover-square. Pearl-street, both sides, from Wall-street to Coenties-slip, including the whole sweep of Hanover-square. Stone-street, from Hanover-square to the lane leading to the end ofCoenties-slip. Exchange-street and part of Beaver-street, from Pearl nearly to Broad. Water-street, both sides, from Coffeehouse-slip to Coenties slip. South-street, from Coffee-house , slip to Coenties-slip. South side of Coffee-house-slip, from Peari-street to the East River. Both sides of Old slip (including the Franklin ; market), from Pearl-street to the East River. North side of Coenties-slip, from Pearl-street to the river. Jones's-lane, Gouverneur's-lane, Cuyler's-alley, and part of Mill-street. Seventeen blocks of buildings, of the largest and most costly description, are totally destroyed; the large block between Wall-street and Exchange-place, bounded on the west by Broad-street, that between Exchange-place and Beaver-street, frtuting on Broad-street, and that between Beaver and Mills street, also fronting on Broad, are greatly injured, and may almost be said to be destroyed—except the single range of stores fronting on Broad-street. The number of buildings it is impossible to ascertain, but it is estimated between 700 and 1,000. The amount of property destroyed is incalculable. Those acquainted with our city will at once perceive that nearly the entire seat of its greatest commercial transactions has been destroyed. It is not probable that the destruction of any given section of any other city in the world, of equal extent, would have involved a greater destruction of capital, or ruined the fortunes of a greater number of men. The destruction of goods of every description that can be enumerated, has been immense; and what yet further magnifies the calamity is the fact, that the portion of the city thus destroyed, is one which has been almost entirely rehuilt within the last five or six years., and was covered on every hand with the most noble and sub stantial ranges of mercantile edifices perhaps in the world. Before the gunpowder was used in blowing up houses, there were many loud reports from occasional explosions of powder and casks of spirits. During the whole night the scene was one of awful terror and indescribable grandeur. The drought of the season had contributed to the combustibility of the matter, and the rapidity with which house after house, and range after range, were wrapped in flames was truly astonishing. The wind being high, largo flakes of fire wee e borne whirling aloft' through the dark vault of heaven with fearfufsplendour. From , the direction of the wind—to which, under Providence, the sa yation of, perhaps, the whole city is owing—the city of Brook lyn was considered in danger, and the flakes of fire were borne along in quantities beyond the Flatbush. The buildings on Exchange-place having become involved in the conflagration, the flames communicated to the Merchants' Exchange itself, the e4cemption of which had been so strongly confided in that a largoaismount of goods was deposited there for safety. Before these could be removed, and the numerous te nants of the edifice could remove their private property, the fire communicated to the roof, and this soon falling in, carried with it the wall at the east end of the building, beneath which seve ral ,persons are said to have been buried alive. The splendid dome of the Exchange, after sending clolums of flame to an im mense height for half an hour, until it was reduced to a body of fire, fell in with a tremendous crash, burying the elegant statue of Hamilton in the ruins. At the time the fire in Pearl-street reached Hanover-square, the large space of ground was filled with piece goods prowls cously piled together, and much of this property was of the most valuable kind. So unexpectedly and rapidly did the flames ex tend on both sides of the square, that an unsuccessful attempt was made to remove it, for much of it was destroyed in the street, and the residue, though deposited at a still greater distance in stores and otherwise, was shortly afterwards consumed. Dr. Matthew's church had been made a depositary for goods in the early part of the fire, which were of course entirely consumed with the building, leaving nothing but the bare walls. With the Exchange, the public has .sustained a loss in the Fine Arts which is greatly to be regretted. We refer to the statue of Hamilton, erected by the munificence of our mer chants during the presept year, in the centre of the rotunda of that building. That, Which was designed to remain for ages, is in eight months precipitated from its pedestal, and is mixed with the ruins of that ill-fated structure it was erected to adorn. The mere amount of pr(4iertY wasted and destroyed, not by the flames, but in the confusion, and hurry, and desperation of the time, is probably equal to the entire loss at ordinary fires. It is lamentable to see the piles of costly furniture—rich ma hogany tables with marble tops, sideboards, sofas, &c. &c., bro ken and heaped up like worthless rubbish; rich merchandises, silks, satins, broadcloths, fine muslins, and every species of fancy goods, trampled under foot; packages half brunt; boxes of cutlery and hardware burst open, and their contents scattered in the mud ; bottles of wine broken; and, in short, thousands upon thousands and tens of thousands of dollars lying wasted around, in the form of ruined merchandise. Carmen and porters were heaping goods upon carts, barrows, in coaches and omnibuses. The Battery and Bowling Green were thickly studded with piles of goods, some in boxes, others just as they were snatched from the shelves. Marines with fixed bayonets patrolling amongst them for protection against marauders, and all eyes fixed upon the volumes of dense black smoke, whirling away before the wind—flames darting and roar ing from the roofs and windows of whole streets—walls tumbling to the ground, and the - firemen worn out with their exertions and almost discouraged from further efforts, vainly striving to make head against the flames, which seemed to mock all human skill and power. Amidst this dreadful destruction, we are happy to announce that the shipping have not sustained any material injury. A vat t many of them were lying at the docks, between Murray's Wharf and Coenties Slip; and at one time we had our fears that the whole would have been destroyed. The water was very low, and they could not for some time get away. The brig Powhatan was on fire, but it was soon extinguished, and all, except one British brig in Coenties Slip, finally got into the stream, where they are now at anchor. In all cases of great public or individual calamities, especially those occasioning loss of property, the first impressions, and first reports, are, of course, greatly exaggerated. And before concluding this hasty and imperfect account, we take leave to caution the public abroad against giving credence to first re ports. The -calamity is indeed a terrible one, and the losses will be immense. But still we are warranted in the belief that the burden will principally fall in such a manner that it will be borne without shaking the credit of the city, checking its pros perity for any length of time. We take it for granted—nay, it is admitted on all hands—that the Fire Insurance Companies are all ruined. Some will not be able to pay fifty cents. on the dollar of their policies, and others, perhaps, not more than twenty-five—while others may be rather more fortunate. But yet the condition of things is not by far so bad as many who are not on the spot imagine, and not by any means as de plorable as will be represented abroad. A number of gentle men, well known as able and cool calculators, estimate the amount of loss to be not more than twenty-five millions of dol lars:— The total "amount lAcapital held - by diet whole of the Fire Insurance Companies in this city does not amount to more than ten millions. The calculation is that about six hundred stores have been consumed, the insurance of which does not average more than six or seven thousand dollars upon each. The loss, thereupon, in real estate, is not by far so great as will at first be supposed, inasmuch as the lots themselves . con stitute the chief value, being often worth three or four times more than the buildings on them. Whatever amount, there fore, the Insurance Companies may be able to pay, the holders of real estate will be able to sustain and bear up under the loss. The losses most severely to be felt and deplored will be those of widows and orphans, whose property has been invested in stocks. Some of our contemporaries are of opinion that the disaster could not have occurred at a more fortunate period, because, as they allege, the autumnal sales will have materially reduced the stock of the different dry good stores. On this subject we differ from them in foto, believing that, in anticipation of a war with France, the importers have made much more extensive purchases of late than they have previously been accustomed to do, and had, consequently, at the breaking out of the fire, a larger amount of goods than usual. During the night, all descriptions of carriages were in the immediate vicinity of the fire, either waiting to remove books, driving, away with merchandise, or in attendance upon those who were watching the progress of the flames. Pearl-street, from 111 ano ver-scivare to Broad-street, was made a depository for piece goods; and piles, valued perhaps at half a million, were burned. Old Slip was also filled with every species of valuable pro perty, which was destroyed. A large number of the militia were ordered ont last evening to protect property th roug h the night; we have not been able to ascertain how many, hut we understand that the orders em braced several regiments ; among them, the Washington Greys, under the command of Colonel George P. Morris. None of the numeions banking houses in Wall-street have received any serious injury. Among the rumours which were afloat yesterday morning, was one that the fire was the work of an incendiary. There was an other, that a fellow was seen early in the morning to set fire to a house in Broad-street. The columns and front of the Exchange, which yet stand present a magnificent but melancholy spectacle. We have heard, as yet, but of one person actually being killed, upon whose body, as will be seen from our report, the coroner held an inquest. The fire'Vas not effectually checked until about three o'clock yesterday afternoon, it having continued to burn up to that lime from its commencement (eighteen hours) with the most fierce and fatal rapidity. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET. COMBINATIO' OF TALENT. The Public is respectfully informed that in consequence of ... 7 the unprecedented success of Mr. T. P. COOKE, - in the various characters he has. performed du • g his recent engagement, together with the undiminish attraction of MY POLL AND MY PART 1 1 JOE, 'Mr. T. P. Cooke has been prevai)ed ui o renew his engage ment for a few evening nger. The Misses SMl' ~., (Nieces of the celebrated Miss. Stephens,) Mr. SMITH, and Mr. I.3YNGE,. . . are also en gaged for a limited period., THIS present TUESDAY, the 12th instant,:. and every Evening during the week, will be kerfortned the Nautical Drama of 1 „. MY POLL AND MY PARTNER JOE. Harry Halyard Mr. T. P. %Doke. With the popular Interlude of PECCADILLOES. In which the Misses Smith and Mr. Bingejwill introduce several admired Airs. - To conclude with , • SQUALLS ASHORE. Principal Character by Mr. T. P. Cooke. Eibcrpool g:tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1836. We received yesterday by the packet ship Virginian, which sailed from,New York on the 24th December, pa pers and other advices to that date inclusive. These contain full accounts of a dreadful fire which desolated the town of New York on the 16th December, the ear liest and most alarming details of which we received through the London journals of. Saturday last. We are happy, however, to say that the amount of loss does not exceed one half of the sum calculated upon. By the first arrivals it was supposed that twenty-five millions of dollars would scarcely cover the damage done ; but these papers tell a different and much more flattering tale. The greatest alarmists do not claim more than fifteen millions, while the more moderate and the best informed estimate the loss at about ten millions of dollars—in other words at two millions of pounds sterling. This, we admit, is a severe calamity, which must in volve many persons in ruin,, and reduce. many more to circumstances of difficulty and embarrassment; but, if New York be a wealthy town, it is impossible that so trifling a loss can affrct the public credit ,of the United States, or even the credit of a single bank or insurance office. If there be in New York any bank or any insu rance office so easily affected the sooner. such ciencern stops payment and winds up its affairs the better for the whole community. The laws of the United States, like its primitive insti tutions, are based upon the purest princiPles of patriot ism, and, consequently, visitations of this frightful na• ture are so well regulated and adjusted, that in most cases the loss sustained falls upon foreigners. We have no doubt but that a large proportion of the goods de stroyed by the ", devouring element" was held on com mission at the risk of Biitish - merchants and manufac turers. Of the fifty-two acres ot houses and warehouses, and of the'places called "stores," destroyed by the con flagration, the most part will have to be rebuilt at the ex pense of the people of this country. Questionless much property was forgotten to be insured, and some of that which was insured runs considerable hazard of not being paid for. The insurers and the agent of the insured.are ge nerally the same persons, and it naturally happens some times that mistakes occur exceedingly unfavourable to those who, living on this side of the Atlantic, have not the honour of being citizens of the republic. From all we can glean from the papers it would ap pear that the fire was accidental. At the first blush we certainly (lid fear that the O'CONNELL fencibles of New York, taking advantage of a hard frost and a strong north . easterly wind, had some hand in the work ; but we are not favoured•with any proof of incendiarism beyond that of a man being caught setting fire to a floor in a particu lar store, being arrested for so doing, and afterwards con triving to make his escape! Perhaps it will turn out after all that arson is not recognised as a crime by the LYNCH code. If free citizens have a right to hang inno cent persons without even the formality of a trial, surely the same citizensliaVe a right to burn stores and British " dry'goods" without consulting the interests of the par ties concerned, or the old- fashioned maxims of ,jurispru dence. The New York Daily Advertiser, of the 24th Decem ber, has the following . paragraph, written under such kindly feelings towards this country, that we cannot' re sist inserting it for the benefit of our uninitiated readers. " INSURANCE.—We now see the folly of driving from our shores the capital of foreigners. By a paltry policy we prohi bited the great London capitals from insuring in this city. Many of the companies, who had a capital of twelve millions of pounds sterling, were doing business here, taking our risks at the lowest rates, and paying their losses with the greatest fide lity. If those companies now existed, it is probable that at least half our immense loss would have fallen on them ; they would have drawn their bills on England, and the whole would have been settled in less than thirty days. It is, however, now too late to repent, but it may teach us a lesson hereafter." Thank you, dear brother JONATHAN, but it is too late ! Tt would have been immensely agreeable for you to have drawn for half, or two-thirds of your lois on England at thirty days, arid probably, in the hurry of business, you would hav'e — craTviii - Tor a still larger proportion ; but as you now insure yourselves, with companies who are little better than insolvents, at rates surprisingly low, we are content that you should receive all the benefit of your national enterprise. To insure any property in America, or any American ship, or any floating property belonging to an American, will, we trust, be Soon . altogether out of the question in England.' A full account of the fire will be found in the proper place, and to later dates than has appeared in any other journal. We have Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales papers to the Ist of August. The latter state that the excesses committed by " bands of ruffians who scour the Country in all directions, so as to render it unsafe to stir abroad," continued unabated. The proceedings of. the " Patriotic Association" in New South Wales, the appointment of Mr. HENRY LYTTON BULWER, M.P., to the office of parliamentary advocate, with a salary of £2,000 per annum, and obtain. ing from the crown the grant of a representative house of assembly, or legislative council, were the chief subjects under discussion in that colony. .Speaking of the corn parative merits •of Mr. ButwEa and Mr. FOWEL BUXTON, as the paid advocates 'of the' colony in the House of Con mons, the Colonist says:— "We happen to know another member of parliament who takes as deep an interest in this colony as Mr. 13uliver, and whose levelling propensities are not only as well known, but have been far more successions' tried. The member we allude to is our countryman, Mr. 'lime, who, as a proprietor of this . Australian Agric u lt ura l C oinpany , h a s a, personal inter es t in promoting the welf are an d pi osperity of. this colony; and we are confident, moreover, that if entrusted with our petitions, he would labour for our welfare as zealously as Mr. Bulwer can possibly do. Why then-should we not transmit o.ur petitions- J I