The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-05-27 00:00:00

'JAY 27, Publtr ?Zobit%. - - - -- - THE LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD ROYAL P k RENVER Y. THE Sharehold ers are respectfully informed. that the firs' call of One Pound p er Share is. now pa , able:at the Man chester and Liverpool District Bank, and at the Books all ;main oen until Moda the.th Jud a which date all h " upau p l shares will n be a bsol u tely forfei ed. fter By order of the DirectorS, JAMES BACH, Secretary. Aray 26, 1836, THE CENTRAL BANK OF LIVERPOOL. THE PloviAional Committee announce that the allotment of SHARES will be• made on Thursday, the 2,1 June n ext• and th a t no app li cat i on w ill b e received. after Tuesday, the 31st inshurospectueslol be had at Aleisrs. ASPINA 411(1 8_ 6 / 4 's in Temple-court at Mr. ItNtow'S, Claren L don-buildings, or at the Office of J Asits BACH, Sharebroker, C larentl ,, n-buildings, Liverpool. May 26 , 1836. THE FOREIGN BANKING COMPANY, No. 32, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON. -- Capital £1,000,000, in 10,000 Shares of £lOO each. First Instalment £3 per Share. r A NKERS—Messrs. Seouriz Arrwoons, and Co. Business of this Company will consist chiefly in re ceiving D epos i ts o f C as h an d Bill s for the purpose of effecti n g Payments,-through the Agency of Bankers, ; or respec table Mercantile Houses, at all the Principal Citie aud Corn- Ineicial Towns abroad. • For Nlaki ng P ayments an d T ransact i ng P ect ary B us i ness In E ngland for Forei g n Correspondent s . For the Issue of Circular Notes, payable by he Company's A gents at any place where they may be presented; or by the ake:s of the C.:mpany in London, thus supplying Travellers sul others with a Circulating Medium of unquestionable validity 411 (1 of universal application. Applicatitins for Shares are to be made to the Bankers; to lessrs. BIRKETT and SON, Solicitors, N 0.3, Cloak-Ane; or at t he Offices of the Companv, No. 32, Lombard-street, London, or before Saturday, the 4th June next, after which period no utther applications will be received. OR THE DROGH EDA AND BELFAST, GRAND NORTH ERN TRUNK RAILWAY. WITH TRIBUTARY BRANCHES. CAPITAL,£2,OOO,OOO, IN SHARES OF £5O EACH. Deposit, £1 per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEES. Th e Ri g h t HonourableFoa the Eari nunt.lN of Howtb. Laid Talbot De Malahide, The Honourable Randall Plunket, M.P. for Drogheda The Honourable Thoinab Baruwall Turret, Swords. nail Benjamin, Care-sireet, Dublin. , itrodigan Thomas Pil!town, Drogheda. Cairnes William, Drogheda. Carty Thotrw4, Drogheda. G4ll ju,vav John, 37, Noith Cumberland- reet, Dublin. Greeshain Thomas M., Sackville-street,uhlin. Pamilton James Haus, Sheephill,Cou tv Dublin. , t lamilton George Alex., Hampton Ha ;Balbriggan. doTve Joseph, 47, Harcourt-street, Dublin. Jordan Christopher, Drogheda. I s‘lacartney George, Lisanour Castle, Antrim. M'Can Jatne4, Drogheda. Pepp er George Monsey, Balbriggan. Smith Henry, Drogheda. Tertia n Patrick, Drogheda. FOR BELFAST. William Cairnes, John Harrison, Arbuthnot Emerson, Robert F. Gordon. ND MONAGHAN. Nicholas Kelly. John Thompson, 3a " les hugh 114Caltnont, William Geddar4l, Stein, Ale FOR ARMAGH A Jau es xander Prentice, Gartlan- FOR Denis C aulfield Brady, M.P. N T Ar chibald y Little, EW ft Y. Hugh Boyd. William Handcock, Isaac Glenny. Bi r FOR DUNDALK. 1 at. Bellew, Bart., M.P. James M‘Alister, ,Montesquieu, Bellew, M.P. I Alexander Sheckleton, 4," 11 APClintock, Esq. I Peter MacEvoy Gartian, Chambers. John Patrick kelly. With power to add to their numbers. BANKERS. üblin.-HMessrs. Ball and Co., Henry-street. Bo ndon.-W r i g h t and Co. p Ie he l ßranches of the Bank of Ireland, and Provincial Bank rand. • lie lfast.-Northern Banking Company, Belfast Banking c 'oparly, and Branches. b"Licrrous.-Pierce Mahony and Co., 43, Dame-street, eb°, or 4, Trafalgiir F,. square, London. 111 EP ENGINEER.-J no. Macneill, Esq., F.R A.S., M.R.I.A. -(4I suLTING ENGINHER.-W. Cubits, Esq. FALLS., I%IAL I.A. ENGINEERS.-Thos. and Geo. Woodhouse, Esqrs. . -r avEroa.-Joseph James Byrne. AGENTS. Lielfast.-John Harrison. taurogheda.- Henry Smith, Managing Di rec t or , an d Secre pi to the Drogheda Committee. x a van.-James Giggan. lic-John Dyes. Bal briggan. -John Mee. It erries.-John Johnson. at alahide.-Andrew Ball. mee--Samuel Simpson and Sons. J a nchester.-Kaye and Derbyshire. . . ;;! , erpool.-PRITT, !I,AY, and Swirl . . Ad ft i rtuirgham - J Cme at d : Carter. inburgh.-Sir art Gibson Craig.,,Bart. and Co. Fleming, 47, Queen-street. • Le eds. --Tanner and Young. CONDItIONS. 1.,!•• The Capital of the Company shall be Z 2,000,000, t 3 be *diced in shares of £5O each. - (1 1 4 No I ns t a l ment to excee d 10 per cent.,ltid - no ca/1 without ~r e e months' notice. lb .- A Deposit of .f.:l per Share to be paid into the hands of e Bankers at the time of Subscribing. 1 , 4 ' The fund arising from the deposit shall, in the first in -4tlce, be applicable, under the controut of the Provisional t o alinittee, to the expenses of the undertaking, preliminary 11P ve,ys, and applying fur the Act of Parliament. V. Aet of Parliament will provide, that no person shall responsible beyond the aniount of his respective - Shares. • P ECT US. I;the Provisional Committee beg to inform the public, that it tl i ) ` )o shares in the above line of Railway have been already 411,scribed for in Ireland, and the remaining portion i t ,,, r ated, and the Subscription List finally closed, on the 40th Oa ant; and that the Survey. f Line is now in actual progress B i d e r the direction of Mr. Macneill, for an application to Par .ietit in the next Se&sion. h e Public are also informed, that Mr. Macneill will prove 4,terdetails of his Survey of this Line before the Committee now b e , 1 ,4 on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, which will first section of the great Line from Dublin to Belfast. :Co l - Plications for Shares (post paid) will be recei ve d a t th e TeelliPan cittitniY's Office, 15, North Earl-street, Dublin ;by Cu f , ttees or Agents, or by PIERCE MAHONY and 0., 4, Li v ' e a lgar-squ are , London; or by PIIITT, CLAY, and SWIFT, b •••::Z.Ll_34, 1836. r -4 ENAVON IRON A Capita/ E 400,000, to be 7 a DIRE( ECTUS ,ND COAL COMPANY. :ised in Shares of £5O each. TORS. John stermau, Jun., E sq . ni W. i n s, Esq. Geor Thomas, Esq. Franc s Warden, Esq. 4 „, Ashwell, E;q. ,r o f f St Leger GI enfell, Esq. It " I nas ll I • c'he ' P " 1 1: .rt va vld Lewis,m Kennard, k:sq. Stad E sq ' BANKES. ri-ppes Esdaile and Co., and. 1t i‘lessrs. Alasterman, P e t ers, Loudon; and Messrs. Arthur Heywood, Sons, and Liverpool. soLlClrolts. 1.,04-iessrs. Hall, Thompson. and Sewell, Salter ' s Hall. orks se-, Proprietors of the 131aenavon Iron . ay Co 1 fo r giaving offered their valuable and long-estab hed a Concern 'Ante conditional purchase has been effected for t . he d p_ e u h r : '‘r„„-. forming a Joint Stock Company to carry nn a . n 000 kil l ",` the Works, with a subscribed Capital of £400,000, in 8.. h i. tql; eB 0. £5O each • of which £lO per Share will be forthwith 4iiir f , r ed, and such portion each; of the remainder as the Directors liecessary, by instalments; not exceeding in the whole "ti l ' e r Share. ~04,:e S hareholders will be entitled to the profits from Micl - next, so that a Dividend may be expected at Christmas, h , T he Property will be vested in Trustees , and_t liability of with nd -flageinent regulated by a Deeq, by which the liability of Th'hareholder will be limited to Lat) per Shale. 114„aeTilaenavon Property consists of a Leasehold Estate of t 'ilo -N „ 8 of 19 000 acres, abounding with Iron-stone, Coal, and . t in e e ; n ue; and a Freehold Estate of upwards . of 450 acres, aaPaly and and Pasture Laud, adjoining the Lease-. If containing the same Minerals. I ltf& the Leasehold there are five' Blast Furnaces, and five . P,roa . ' er ies,:blo wn by two powerful Steam Engines, capable- of P e ' n g more than 18,000 Tons of Iron per Annum; tour of Anirnaces are in full blast, and the fifth ready to be blown Mine-kilns, Stoves and Buildings for making Bricks, orkinen and Agents' 'Houses Shop and Warehouses, l' olo . ‘ i f s : and Carpenters' Shops, Stables and Granaries. Also qiruvershot Waier-wheels of large diameter, with the Ma- TOfor taisin n o the Mine and Coal. " t k e „n the Free-hold are Buildings at the Engine Pit, and tlr,;.addttio Freehold Overshot Water-wheels of 40 feet.diameter, for hill and raisingthe Minerals. An extensive .Forge and 10 ( Nrked b ` 4 teatii . Engines, and uroducing upwards "tta pe 3P Weekof the best Bar and Cable Iron; 200 ad s4l9aal Work '. n and Agents' House.. a large Inn, Farm ,o.l4s. and ni a e Mansion House, with Grounds and. Offices. ' :tii ti ; ° 4 Freehold Coal and Lime Wharf. with Kilns and Ma- ' ,and Agents' Houses, situate at the opening of the He ;ad th e ram -road, near Abergavenny, from which to Hereford Aladjacent country, there is a very extensive annual sale a nd Lime. 41• 1 , 8 ' 3 , a Leasehold Wharf and 'Warehouse at Newport (the !Illicia'tPlolntig.Port for the Irera), distant sixteen miles, the commu oeing by a Rail -road direct from the Works, to the "t'rbhielleeladseNhoerdpoErsttaCtaen.al. is . held for . a term of which 33 years L'oot - i ri „ e tl2ired, about one fourth, being under-let to two.nei.h rtelltql4 Iron Works on Lease, at a Rental, which with "the 4111,1 received fit-the Houses and the Surface Lands of the portion, leaves the Blaenavon Property, purchased T h behalf of the Company free of Rent and ROyalty. a , l llaenavon Iron is in high reput e in the market, and has 1 , 414 4,j r ' . n g known in th.e.'l:rad_e, the . Works having. been conduct.esta ued by the Family of the present Proprietors P r " of Years. !to p] !.ioosly to making the conditional purchase, the directors ` l .q 'f i eti a Mineral Surveyor of eminence, who has surveyed I!laneral Property, and has reported that the Iron-stone, 1r!, titlict Lime -stone, are amply sufficipnt for working four tn." a number of the present Furnaces, and that the preient t eril a r,'s. and that the present Drainage will suffice for the 4 ,"r of the Lease. I.4 ii l 6 tei `YoTlcs and Machinery, and their capabilities, have been Praeti i nvestigated by a Gentleman of much experience, ehgaged in the Iron Trade, wh ose report is highly eitictory. The rots as shown by the Books and Balance therase concern from Midsummer r. 183.3, to Midsummer. Period of extreme depression and difficulty in the Peri aim als o the prices at Newport from 1821 to the present 4 , 14 . I. 4 4 (i ' e h e ; tve been ascertained, - and . the result has been such, as 4 4 p ro , the Directors to offer this undertaking as a legitimate Investment. Iti,:t,;:lications for Shares in Writing (postage paid) will be JA stEt ASH tVELL Esq. at the temporary Offices of t ti n et a s 0 4 0 • 4, • Adatns-cou . rl, Old Br pad-street, Ijandon; by tf, Stock and Share-broker, a Castle -street, and het iL:i.x-11,sult, Stock and Share-broker Exchange -court, tair t "rPool fvo:rs whom additional information may be A 6,1. (8,7 G: , s _ . 1, ROYAL INSTITUTION, COLQUITT•STREET SCiiool, P SassioN, 1836 I)R. BRYCE will deliver a .LECTURE introductory to his course of Lectures on MEDVAL BOTANY, at this Institution,'on Monday, 20th June, St It) ..-. Al. METHODIST DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS. , A NNIVERSARY SERMONSon behaltoltbe SCHOOLS 1i will be preached on SUNDAY, the 29th of lay instant, as follows, viz.: At BRUNSWICK CHAPEL, 1110, -street, by The Rev. - JAMES DIXON, in the orenoon,. The Rev. JOHN ANDERSON, of Leed . , in the Evening. At PITT-STREET CHAPEL, liv The Rev. JOHN ANDERSON, in the Forenoon, The Rev. DAVID M'NICUt.L. in the Evening.,, The Services commence at HALF-OAST TEN and Su O'CLOCK respectively. , . Collections in aid of the Schools will be made after each Service. Upwards of Three Thousand Children are under instruction in these Establishments. THOMAS KAYE, Treasurer, JOHN RADCLIFFE, Secretary, Liverpool, 21st May, 1836. nrillE Subscribers and Friends of the CHURCH MISSION ARY SOCIETY are respectfully. informed, that their ANNIVERSARY MEETING will be held at the Room over the OLD Music-na Li., in Bold-street, (entrance from Concert street,) on MONDAY EVENING, 30th, May instant, at Half-past Six o'clock precisely, when. the Rev. CHARLES HODGSON, M.A., Rector of Barton-le -street, and one of the Secretaries to the Association, and the Rev. CHARLES AUGUSTUS THURLOW, M.A , Rector of Sealbv, with Cher Friends, are expected to atte.nd... . . SERMONS. will be preached at the f wing CHURCHES, and Collections made in behalf Of the F un : On Sanday next, the 29th instant, in the Morning, At ST. A NOll EW'S, Renshaw -street, at Eleven o'clock. At ST. BR IDb:'S. Percy-street, at Eleven o'clock. At ST. M A itTIN'S-IN-THE-FILLDS, at a quarter before Eleven o'clock. At ST. STEPHEN'S, Byrom-street, at a quarter before Eleven o'clock. At ST. MA uy's, Edge-hill, at Half-past Ten o'clock. At the MAPINER'S CHURCH, at a quarter before Eleven o'clock. At SEAFORTH CHURCH, at Half-past Ten o'clock. In the Afternoon. At the MARINER'S CHURCH, at Three o'clock. At ST. DAVID'S, Brownlow-hill, at Three o'clock. Li the Evening. At ST. BRIDE'S, at Half-past Six o'clljk i AI Sr. ANDREW'S at Half-pa s t Six d'e ock. Thefollowing MEETINGS are intended to be held:— On Saturday (to-rwirrow) Evening, 28 th instant, at Half-past Six, at the INSTITUTION -HOUSE, Slater-street, to ask the bless ing of Almighty God on the proceedings of the Anniversary. On Monday Evening, 30th instant, Annual Meeting, in CONCERT-Room, Bold-street, at Half-past Six o'clock. On Tuesdan Evening, 31st instant, at Half-past Six o'clock, at ST. ANDREW'S SCHOOL -ROOM, for Collectors and Friends. On Wednesday Morning, Ist June, at Twelve o'clock, at KIRKOALE. in the SCHOOL RooM, connected with EVERTON. On Wednesday Evening, at WAVERTREE, in the NATIONAL SCHOOL -ROOM, at Half-past Six o'clock, When the Friends of the Society are respectfully invited to attend., There will be a BREAKFAST at the ADELPHI HOTEL, at Hall-past Eight o'clock, on TUESDAY MORNING, the 31st instant, for the Clergy and such Friends of the Society as shall be disposed to attend. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. MR. POWER, Of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden and I)Cury-lane, is en gaged for Ten Nights previous to his dep. lure for America, and will make his fifth appearance thi s s o n thi s E ven i ng . FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. . MATTHEWS. it Of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, and • Royal Olympic Theatre. THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 27th instant, will be performed the Operetta of NO! After which will be produced,fo - r the first time here, with nen and appropriate Scenery. Machinery, Dresses, &c., an en ti►ely new romantic Musical Drama, written by Mr. Power, and performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, with the most distinguished SIICC..SR, called O'FLAYCNIGAN AND THE FAIRIES; OR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (NOT SHAKSPEARE'S.) Phelim O'Flannigan, (sworn against liquor,) Mr. Power, (As originally perforated by him at the Theatre-Royal, Covent garden ) To conclude With (for the first time here) a new Drama, as performed last season at the Royal Olympic Theatre, called THE DAUGLITER. Major Wilson ..Mr. F. Matthews. • Mr. Fitz Faddle Aspen—Mr. Brougham I Peter.. Mr. Collier. (As performed by them in London.) To•mortnow, (Saturday,) THE IRON CHEST. Sir Ed ward Mortimer, Mr. Stuart; Sampson Rawbuld, Mr. Collier; Armstrong, Mr. G, Horncastle; Lady Helen, Mrs. Stanley; Blanch, Miss Stanley; Barbara, Mrs. W. H. Bl an d (l a t e Mi ss Somerville) —To conclude with THE MOUNTAINEERS. Octavian, Mr. Stuart; Kilmallock, Mr. Brougham; Sadi, Mr. Collier; Agnes, Mrs. W. H. Bland (late Miss Somerville.) TO CORRESPONDENTS: WP. cannot notice the drivel of the old woman Who appears on Friday. Its serious subjects are amusing, and We wish we could say as much for its jokes. If we were to insert the letter signed " TOWEL" some liberal persons would say we were attacking and injuring private property. We shall do nothing o f th e kind. N o man i s bound to go to the_place, but if he goes he ought to shut his Mouth ! Tbe itiberpool FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1836. The new corporations created by Lord JOHN'S famous municipal reform act, who have adventured upon the hazardous experiment, have been singularly un fortunate in their appeals to the Court of King's Bench to check the growing inclination entertained by the " pro ' lane vulgar" to laugh at the solemn fopperies of these immaculate bodies. The Leeds Intelligencer was dragged into court for giving a graphic sketch of a scene in which the mayor of a Yorkshire new corporation was described as being ignorant of the rules of military etiquette by commanding a soldier to do that which his Sovereign would not exact from him, namely, to take off his hat. Tills application for, a criminal information was fairly laughed out of court as unworthy of being seriously en tertained. The next case was instituted by the corpora tion of, we believe, Maidstone, whose mayor and other official local representatives of the King waited upon Sir N. TINDALL and Mr. Justice VAUGHAN, the judges of assize, without the usual insignia of office, which, in unreformed times, indicated the presence of those to whom . the authority of his Majesty was delegated. This case of libel the judges of the '4rst criminal court in the land also refused to entertain. The third case occurred nearer home, or at least nearer our own locality. The proprietor of the Stockport Advertiser had to appear be fore their lordships, the judges of the Court of King's Bench, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for permitting the following pa ragraph to appear in his paper : "BETTER TO BE BORN FORTUNATE THAN RICH.-At the election on Saturday last in this Borough, under the Municipal Reform Act, one of the persons elected to supply the place of a councilman elevated to the alderwanic seat, had the misfor tune, a few sessions ago, to take his trial at Salford New Bai ley, charged with having removed from the premises and ap plied to his own use, from the warehouse of which he hail the sole custody, a hogshead of sugar belonging to the assignees of an insolvent grocer of this town. The man was acquitted on his trial, but the circumstances, from the extraordinary nature of the charge, created no little astonishment amongst our townsmen, and inflicted no share of mortification on the accused; but what adds somewhat to the remarkable state 'of the affair at the present moment is, that the parties who pre ferred the charge, and were the principal witnesses, are two brother councillors, and the prosecuting attorney uas the pre sent town-clerk. Influence, itt is said, has lately been indus triously at work, in order that some proud and distinguish ing mark of favour should be awarded to the innocent man, for his sufferings, with this recommendation from the parties Live godly; suffer persecution; for you shalt be exalted in due time.' " ,Success and the changes produced by the march of reform, as well as misery, have brought many a man to an acquaintance with strange bedfellows. That a gen tleman who, at one period of his life, had been indicted o n suspicion and brou g ht t o t r i a l on the vile insinuation of having forgotten the eighth article of the Decalogne, should find himself, after being placed at the bar, asso ciated with his accusers on the seat of justice is not to be wondered at, when the extraordinary liberality of the times we live in are taken into consideration. These are the natural effects of causes upon which, however, it appears to be somewhat unprofitable for a journalist to speculate. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT, as counsel for the defendant, showed cause against the rule, which the court dis charged, the Lord'Chief Justice DENMAN observing that "he thought there must certainly be some scope given for discussing the merits of men for these situations. Persons interested in the matter, as an elector, for in stance, had undoubtedly a right fairly to express their opinions, that persons in situations of trust were not the fittest for them ; and a man might say, moreover, that it' was remarkable a person was elected." tut, unfortunately, in all the cases tve have enume rated, the discharge of the rules olitained did not exon,-- rate the defendants fioin one of the consequences whicl• would have followed a Conviction, ai heavy lawyer's bill. nitherfti the rule ohfterved in the: ~ e lection of men fop publiC offs es; rithetlitt at honour/ trust, or emolumAt, til LIVEIZPOOL .sAiA.&brii.ftb. has been that they should not only be pure, but above suspicion, and without th'e,slighteSt taint of proved or even suspected guilt. Why this salutary estimate of fitness for office has been 'so frecittently forgotten in the election of members of parliament and of town council'S of late we can only account for by the supposition that the con stituent bodies in these instances have adopted the opinion that the men who have risen to opulence or eminence by doing others, are not to be done. This is, in truth, the only conjecture we can hazard on the subject. Our excellent contemporary, the Stockport Advertiser, makes the following sensible observations upon the ter mination of his own case, the KING v. LOMAX : "We have on this occasion escaped the severer penalties, which the malignant passions of certain individuals intended to have inflicted, though it has not been found practicable to mulct us in a heavy fine to the King or to compel us to pass the autumn in one of his Majesty's prisons, the public must not suppose that we go entirely scot-free. The rule having bees dismissed without costs, •the payment of a heavy law-bill is entailed upon us, whilst the supposed prosecutor is either com pletely indemnified by the subscription which it was understood was raised for this pious purpose, or, from the nature of his calling, has his law much cheaper than we are able to procure it. Perhaps the court acted wisely in this instance; but we venture to predict that the next person who brings a trifling case before it will not be so fortunate. If he is lucky enough to obtain a rule in the first instance, which we very much doubt , the court, after the fair warning they have given last term, if no stronger case can be made out than was to be established against us, will certainly, as in duty bound, saddle the thin skinned and waspish applicant with all the costs. Considered in this point of view, the case of the Mayor of Scarborough, and that of the King v. Lomax, will have a salutary influence On the public, and perhaps save many a poor conservative editor from similar expensive prosecutions." The unwashed of Dublin were ordered out to revive agitation in that city on Monday last. The priests struck the gong, and their slaves came forth to hear and obey ; but it does not appear to us that the ,meeting produce'd the effect which was intended. Every man went "armed with a bludgeon or some other missile," - but although a . fight was expected none took place. Perhaps the fear of retaliation preserved the peace, for the agitators well know that if they begin with any such work in earnest the protestants are fully prepared to give them as warm a reception as they have met with since the battle of the Boyne. , The Dublin. Evening 4Vail says— " The only novelty which the scene presents is to find the government itself, through the persons of its law officers, taking an active anti leading part in the concert of agitation. Mr. Sergeant Woulfe, Mr. Ball, Mr. Pigott, Mr. Everybody and Mr. Nobody, all whom the possession or prospect of govern ment patronage could engage, were here united with Mr. Sbeil and Mr. Power, and Mr. Finn, and all the parliamentary sup portets whom the government could influence, set in array against an essential portion of the constitution—against a co equal and co-ordinate branch of the legislature, which it is the bounden duty of the government to uphold in the free use of its prerogatives—against the encroachment of the other branches —yea, against the revolutionary designs of all or any portion of the world. The novelty of the present agitation we say is this —that the government of the country now sets on its officers and friends to agitate and excite the pOpulace against a funda mental institution of the state—against an essential portion of the balance and limited monarchy of the realm. They may succeed for a moment; they may excite that temporary mad ness which will produce a short-lived collision amongst the three estates. But this, with other acts of the same tendency, does but hasten their own ruin. The storm is at hand which will purify the political atmosphere." It is pitiful to see the government of any country in so humiliating a plight. What! reviving the agitation which they themselves, only a few months ago, con demned in the King's speech, and the chief promoter of which they denounced in the same document ! This may be policy, and it may be " justice to Ireland," but he . is a desperate man who resorts to the one. or defends the other. The whigs are fallen indeed when their only chance of holding office depends upon the servility of their adherence to the popish projects of the basest poli tical scamp which this or any nation ever produced, and the willingness with which they abet him in his seditious attacks upon the House of Lords. What do the whig nobility think of this levelling principle ?—where is • Lord GREY and his "order ?"—what is JOHN Duke of BEDFORD dreaming of, and why does not he talk of "stopping the supplies ?"—in short, we cannot conceive'' what the proud and aristocratic Whigs are doing, or say ing, or imagining, while they are menaced with extinc tion by one of themselves. Perhaps a few days will solve the mystery. THE REFORM SYSTEM TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND,IRD. St rt,—At the present time, when every man makes it his busi ness to criticise the public conduct of public men, it will not be deemed nut of order to offer a comment on the doings or de-. cisions of Our new muuicipal governors.' In the Mercury ,of yesterday, (May 20.) a g irl o f the town is reported to have been brought up on a charge of stabbing a policeman in • the breast, and so severely that •t require : !a week for him to recoverso far as tir give evidence against . her. It appeals that previously " she' a swore she would stick knife. into him," and she acted ac cordingly. Is a fine of £5 and costs, or imprisonment for two thouth:3, the highest penalty that the law allowed for such a ctimo? I read also in the STANDARD of yesterday that a fero cious-looking fellow " was charged with stabbing the first and second mate of the ship Virginiao," it states that fie stabbed the first mate in the thigh, and cut the second mate across the face and right hand, and that his conduct was of the most violent .description. The magistrates ordered him to be fined 4)s. or to be imprisoned to hard labour for one month! Are these the highest . perialties that the law allows for offences so daring and violent ? If they are, then the law is extremely defective; if they are not, then such decisions, it they are not rank injustice, ate at least culpable lenity. The three persons had a hair breadth escape for their lives; since they have escaped from death, thanks are due to Providence, not to the assailants. Snchpunishments will never °pet ate in the way of preventing regardless viliams from committing assaults so vibleut and out rageous as those I have mentioned.- The. magistrates presiding, according to the newspapers, were William Earle, jun., Esq., and Edward Cropper, Esq., . • - . - -A word or two about Pownall-square Market, and I shall finish. The former vilified corporation, when they permitted this market to be held, allowed it to be conducted in a proper manner. But what has the present immaculate' corporation done ? They have sent a few plain forms, lit tint), for a school for children; there is nut a single standing for a butcher; 1 have w•a ked through the market on a market-day without seeing an ounce of butcher's meat in the whole market. If a botcher goes there to sell his meat, it must be placed on a form, posed.alike to the .sun and the rain. Verily, the market ciumnitte -are doing, wonders. NNThat objections have they to allow Pownall-square the same liberties and privileges that are conceded to the market in Cleveland-square? Philo sophers say that there is a cause for every thing. Then what is the cause of thiS partial conduct on the part of liberal men? Perhaps Mr. Thornhill and Mr. Francis Jordan, who are on ;he market committee, will be able to solve the quest ion.—l a,n , Sze., INQUIRER. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, tVednesday Evening. halipast Seven o'clock. The following has been received at Lloyd's this afternoon : " Admiralty, May 23. 1836. "'Sot,-1 am commanded by my Lords Coannissioners of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the lamination of the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, a copy of a despatch received from his Majest)'s nsul at . E!s;nore, stating that the Danish government have stationed a pilot ,stablish went at the entrance of the channel, iol toed by au eruption of the sea, on the north coast of Jutland, with a view of facilitat ing the navigation. _ _ (Signed) " To the Secretary at Lloyd's." ".7 BARROW. " Elsinore, May 14, 1836. " Sta,—With reference to my despatc•h. No. 16, dated the 2d Mardi, relative to the navioation of the Agga Channel, I have the honour of further communicating the tollowiug particulats on the subject._ "With a view of facilitating the navigation through that channel, the Danish Admiralty, by an outer dated the 7th of April,.have sanctioned the erection of a pilot establishment at its entrance from the north sea: In consequence, to the .south of that entrance, on a sandy eminence, and near a temporary watchouse, has been placed a signal -post, the flags of which, hoisted at the top, signifies that the vessel has been observed, and that the assistance or a pilot is offered. The said flag being lowered once, it denotes I foot of water; twice, 2 feet; thrice, 3 feet; and so forth. After this the pilots go out towards the vessel to make the custornatv signals. The rate of pilotage, bayable according to the tarift exhibited in• the pilot-office, has een fixed for the present at two fix bank dobars, silver, equal to four shillings and sixpence sterling per foot of the ship's draught of water; and in the winter season at one-third more, which rate will eventually be reduced, should the navigation of the channel increase. Ships entering horn the north sea may obtain pilots for the several ports and places interested in the Sinefiord. "According to the soundings which have been taken at differ ent periods the depth of the western entrance varies from five to seven feet, and at the eastern entrance from five and a half to six feet. In the channel itself, which affords good anchor age. the depth, both from the frith and the sea, dect eases to eighteen feet, which depth, however, is subject to continual changes. he mouth of the channel, towards the sea, is about half a Danish mile wider, but further up, towards the friths, it declines from 25(1 to 50 fathoms; its length from the sea, to the commencement of the frith, is supposed to he three .fourths of a 'Danish mile. " Any alterations in the course or depth of this channel, as well as the names of the vessels frequenting it, will, from time to time, be communicated in the Danish payers. (Signed) "FRANCIS C. APGRtdOR. " To the Hon. W. Fox Straugways." This has been the settling day in the Consol Market, and if passed over without defalcation. The rinsing quotation for the New Account was 91g, and for Mone 911 4. Exchequer Bills are 11 to 14 preni„ and India Bonds are par to 1 prem. In the Foreign Market, the Spanish Bonds are lower, the closing price being 404 41 for the active stuck, 19 3 , for the de ferred bonds, and 121 for the passive stock. in Portuguese securities there is, also a dud market, the 5 per Cents leaving off at 834 81, and the 3 per Cents. are 521- In the transatlantic bonds there is also a considerable depression, Chile,' are 45 to 47; Co:umbian• are 30% ; and Mexican ate at al 34. The northern bonds afford little meter for comment, ltussian are 1091 110; Dutch 5 per Cents. are 1011; the 21 per Cents. are 561; and Belgian are 102. Our Share Market is nearly deserted. Great Western are 4G I ; Birmingham and Derby 10, and Birmingham and Glou cester 61 per share ; Calcutta and Saugur are z prem.; Steven son's Brighton are 131 per share; Hennie's Brighton are ; London and Birmingham are 135 per share; North Midland are PI per share; South Eastern 5 per share; Canadian 384 • Coloni a l Bank 13; and Bolivar. Coppar Minin g Company 111: • Yesterday the club of Royal Forresters held their niversary. The members of the club, with a band of music ags, and the insignia of the club, paraded the streets dnrin he day, and in the afternoon dined together at the Shootit Gallery, Tarlton street. We arc authorised to state, that ane STEAM-PACKET Cord- PANY is in progress of formation fp the conveyance of cattle and merchandise between Dtiar.t d LIVER pooL, a prospectus of which will, in a few days, appear before the public. Da. JOHN ROG ERSON'S LECTURES ON CH EMIST RY.-The second of a course of lectures on chemistry, now being given at the Royal Institution by Dr. J. Rogerson, Was delivered on the evening of the 23d instant. After adverting to the general utility of chemistry, the lecturer proceeded . to trace the history of the science from its origin to its condition during the labonrs' of the visionaries in search of the " philosopher's stone." The relations of this science to the philosophy of Mechanics—the meanings severally of the terms gravitation, cohesion, repulsion, "chemical affinity," &c —were then pointed - out; and other subjects of interest were illustrated by well selected experiments.. l'he second lecture was devoted :o a review of the literature of the laws of combinati-n. The lecturer particularized a hat be •onceived to he the degrees of merit. individually and collet - , ively due to the nriainators of the theoretical opinions enter ained from Wenzel and Richter, respecting the laws rf.combi— iations. Berthollers and Gay Lossac's views were next taro. oinently noticed, and the unquestionable merit or Dalton's ( Vlanchester) rationale thereafter inquired into, with coosid.ra ie minuteness or derail. 'The atonic theory in No, as 119 y; cknowledged by all the leading- chemists of the day, may be nsid&red as the achievement of Dr Dalton alone AMERICAN A DVERTISING. —the New lurk Courier and En pater, of the 4th c.artins tin le, than ;rine. hundrvil triui !..rryty At th , .. ,91,1 or an auction sale the somewhat intimation of "Sate positive,- rain or shine." TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STA✓YDARD. Sot,—You would confer considerable obligation on your :readers, if you would publish the names of all the proprietors in the new joint stock banks. I hardly know:anything that would be inure interesting to the commercial Wiirld, such immense. sums of money having been made by them: Its positive coin ing, if shares don't fall. ALPHA. LIVERPOOL POLICE. DANPERQUS INTERFERING BETWEEN MAN AND WIPE.-6O TOES d .y, at the Police Office, the truth of the adage of " interfere between • man and wife and they will both take against you" was fully exem plified. William Sewell, a mechanic, and his wife, were placed at the bar, charged with violently assaulting Thompson the policeman, Thompson said that the•night before, hearing a great noise in Caven dish-street, h e wen t t h ere , and tiara the female prisoner quarreiling with her husband and assaulting him, before a public-house; they were both drunk. Not being able to quiet the woman, he took her into custody, and was taking her to " duranee vile," when the male prison - r came up behind him and knocked him senseless. Both pri soners were taken into custody afterwards by another policeman. The male prisoner said all he knew about it was that he was intoxi cated, and that either the policeman or " sombody else" hail struck him twiete and cut him on the head.— The magistrates ordered him .to pay 10s. and costs ; the woman was discharged. . ROBBERY BY A CARMAN.—On Tuesday, at the Police Office, a car liriver, named John Johnson, who is pretty well known by the po lice, was charged with having robbed a gentleman on Friday night last, whilst taking him home in his car in a state of intoxication. — Martin, the car-inspector, stated that a gentleman gave him infornia tion that he had been robbed in a car on- Friday night, and from his description he apprehended the prisoner. On searching him he found a pawn-ticket upon him fora gentleman's cloak, which the prisoner I:said had been left in the car, and he had pawned it. The cloak seas a handsome blue cloth cloak, worth £5 or £6, and it had been pawned for 12s. The gentleman on whose charge the carman had been taken, said he had been in a public-house on Friday night, where he had re mained for about three hours, and, feeling rather tipsy he had sent for a car to take him ho me . H e h a d, to t h e b est of h is belief, his purse, containing £.3 odd, in his pocket when he left the public house. On arriving at home his purse was empty ; he hail the purse out several times during the night. He could not positively swear that he had it when he entered the car. The cloak was not his pro perty. The landlord was called, who deposed to the prisoner being like the car-man he sent for. but he could not swear to him. There were several parties sitting drinking in the room along with the com plainant. The gentleman's daughter appeared, and said, when the earman drove her father to the door, he said her father had been asleep, but he was awake then. Her father was tipsey, and his dress was much disordered.—Mr. Hall said that there was no evidence to bring the robbery home to the prisoner, and he must discharge him ; but if an owner could be found fur the cloak he would be brought up on that charge. DOUBLE DUTCII—On Tuesday last, at the Police-office, two Dutch sailors, named Abram D .rnino and Koweif Dowedo. and two disor derly women, named Jackson and Miller. were placed before the ma gistrat s, cha' ged with havinz created a disturbance the night before on being turned out of a public-house in the neighbourhood of the docks. A pollee constable stated that all four were very noisy, but one of the women, (Jackson.) was very abusive, and one of the butch sailors, (Dornno,) particularlyoffi•nsive, as he could not make him un derstand at all that he was to lie quiet, he only laughed at him and told him to '• Gi tell de King." The other prisoners, (Miller and Dowedo,) w' re quiet and civil after thoy were taken into custody. On Mr. Hall sViig Domino what he had to say for himself. (notwithstanding the information of the Bridewell- keeper,.who said that the night be fore he c 0.1 1 ,1 not an .ak a word of English, and talked nothing but d a ble Dutch,,hetn.deayoured, in broken English, to give an ex plana film of the why and wherefore he made the noise. Domino, giving his inexpressibles an extra haul, said " We were in der hos to dhrink, a d zit dere long time, and a man did play de fidler ; and de women corn in and zit down ; and a man did call us and tell us ‘• pas hors, we mus go out," and as soon we go out a man coin avid big stick and knock twice, and den men corn run and took us to de coal-bile. And wen I say what for you take me dere, sunder man say I bit his finger off, and the conshtoble say It's wrong ting to bit a man's finger off, and dat why he take inn coal-hole. Me knows noting alma tuan!tfirger," - Mr. Hall saidhe should fine him arid Jackson five shillings each fur being drunk, as they were unruly with the constable, the other two he should discharge. CAUTION TO BEER SELLERS.—On Tuesday, at the Police Office, an information was laid by inspector Cottrell against Mrs. Wilson, who keeps a beer-house in Vauxhall-road, charging her with havitrit had her house open at a quarter past eleven o'clock on Sunday night last, and having persons drinking in it at the time. He knocked at the door, and was refused admittance. The defendant pleaded that she was not aware of the consequence of refusing to admit 'the police men. The magistrates tined her 40s. and rusts. • Several other simi lar charges were mde, and the parties fined. - Excise INEoRmATioN—ILLICIT STILL. —On Wednesday, an in formation was laid by the officers of excise against John Dentith and Thomas Hawley L rcon. under tha 39h section of the 6th George-Ith, e. 80, charging them with having worked an illicit still on the 9th of January last, in Greenfield-street. Queen -street, Edge. hill, whereby they were liable to the penalty of 1:,:00. Mr. Henry Lawrence con ducted the prosecution on behalf of Vie excise ; Mr. Du wan defended Laron and M''. Murray defended Dentin. Mr. Lawrence, in opening the case, said that on the 9th of January last, the officers, from in formation they hail received, proceeded to the dwelling-house of a p, rson named Thomas Sinelehurst, and in the cellar found a large still in full work and a quantity of whiskey, and iu his house a small quantity of whiskey of the same I Ind. The opening into the cellar from the house was built itp. An information was laid against Single burst. and under that information he had been convicted in the pe 13had paid. O n hi s t r i a l h e at t empte d t o s h ow that he under-let derl'ilci he elthecellar to a person of the name of Smith, which was not believed, but he should prove to the magistrates that he did under-let the premises to the two defendants, and that they were all - three parties in defrauding the revenue, Mr. Lawrence then called Thomas Howland, supervisor of excise, who proved mitering the house of Singlehurst on the 9th of January last, and finding in the cellar six and a half gallons of whiskey, a number of tubs, and a large still eapable of making eighty gallons of wash, per day. Mrs. Single hurst had tendered to lihn abook to prove that the cellar was let to a man named Smith, and they had nothing to do with it. and in the book a number of entries were made, crediting a man of that name with having•pairl five shillings a-week rent. William Aliburton, an officer of the excise, corroborated this statement. Thomr , s single , hurst deposed to being a dealer in poultry, and to the excise having entered his house on the 9th of January last, and that he was taken into custody and convicted for havine an illicit still on the premises. This witness then went on to depose that lie let the cellar to Dentith and Lacon, the two defendants, who were to make the rent of his house cost him no more than a smaller one he had left. for allowing them the use of the cellar; that he was to have a third of the profits if any were made, and that the cellar was partitioned off in order to seenre him from the consequences of being found out ; and that the ok was provided for the same reason, and that the name of Smith was a fictitious one. lie also deposed that a person of the name of Larmer was hired by the two clef mdants to tench them the art of dis tilling, and that they paid him twenty shillings a-week. He had Semi Larmer and Dentith working at tie still, and Lacuna present. On being mined on the part of Dentith, h e s a id h e h a d not tiny quara:l7v s i s til e t x tie defendants. Several other witnesses were examined, who proved the purchasing of sweet wort by Laeon, and other corro borative circumstances. Mr. Murray. on hi -half of Dentith, endea voured to invalidate .the testimony of Sieglehnrst as a person un worthy of credit, and that on his trial he had called Dental . ' to swear that he let the cellar to Smith, and that he himself hail nothing what ever to do with it. He also took several objections which were over ruled as of nn weight. Mr. Duncan, on behalf of ',aeon, eonteaded that the testimony of such a man As Sintdelturst should be received with the greatest caution, and that on his testimony alone did the evi dence against Mr. Lacon depend, and that it ought to require-stronger evidence than what had liven given to convict a respec t a bl e man o f so serious an offence. Mr. tlall said he could not say that the evidence of Singlehurat was totally unworthy of credit; the utmost the magis trates could do was to receive his evidence with caution. They were of opinion that the ease wins fully established against both. Mr. Duncan applied fora mitigation of the penalty. Mr. Laeon had un fietunately lodged with Dentith and had thus obtained a knowledge of what he was donut, and the extent of his offending had been to lend Dentith Money to assist him, though he certainly had the knowledge Imlr it was to be applied. Mr. Murray also applied for mitigation. Mr. Mill said that in this case he and the mag i s t rates on the bench were of opinion that they could not listen t o th e anplieation. The defendants were then each fined in the full penalty of £2OO. SELLING BEER wrruour A LICENCE.—A n i n f ormation was laid on . Wednesday by the excise officers, against Edward Davis, of New B r idge-street, for having, on. the 13th of Febru ar y l as i, so ld b eer, he not haying a licence, wh ere b y h e was liable tothe penalty of £2O _The ease was fully proved. The defendant pleaded in defence that it was a beer-house when he took it, and he thought the licence had been transferable. He was fined in the mitigated penalty of £5. - SELLING SPIRITS WITHOUT A LICENCE.—On Wednesday an in formation was laid by the excise officer's, • against John Stephens, of lie not having a spirit lie enee, whereby he was liable to the pe noarlet y Vernon-street, for having s o ld a g l ass of whisky on the Thursday be ef £no. Mr, Cr ewe d e f ended .the prisoner —Several witnesses wer e called who pr ove d th e case, and - the magistrates fined.him in the pen alty of £l2 10s. It was urge d i n f urther mitieation that the parties were very ivior. The magistrates. said they should consider whether they should recommend th e b oar d of excise furthe to mitigate it.— There were several o th er cases of a similar description. True BITER BlT.—Y esterday, at the police-office, a female of disre putable charact er , named Alice Gouldep, was placed at the bar, f, c harged by anoth er f emale of equal respectability, named glary Nl r eel'. with having stolen a shaWl and brindle from her the night before. in Tithebare-street. The accuser. had also the ill-luck to stand along side the accused i n th e p r i soners ' dock, charged by another female With having stolen the same shawl and bundle from her. Mr. Han said he would hear Mercer's charge first. The prisoner, Mercer, then proceeded to say that she was passing down Titheharn-street, the night befbre, when the other prisoner came behind her and pulling off her eloak, and seizing herliundle, ran a way with both. She was .topped by so ner in defe nce said elf. was following the prisoner. Mereer, who policeman with the bundle i n her poss e ssion. The pri was drunk, she d ro pp e d t h e b un dl e , an d s h e pi c k e d it u p an d walked off with it, an d t h e constable took her i n t o custo d y. Bat eheldor said s h e h a d been frequently committed before. She War, sent fOr one month t o th e b orough house of correct i on. Th e pr i soner, Mercer. then t oo k h er turn and was accused by another female with whom she lod ge d , w i t h having. stolen the same Shawl and bundle on the same night out of h e r room .- P r i soner —" Oh what a false aro " m- nl My character is above such - vulgar aspersions.—(Laughter.; I'm as innocent as the babe unborn." Complainant—'raisin;; her hand and fore finger with an air of astonishment.) " Oh ! g"° (1 g ood You false-sworn wanton." Another witness also deposed that the cloak which th e pr i son e r had stolen from her, ,he herself had stolen. Mr. mill said she had stolen the cloak and the shawl. and now charged another woman with stealing them front ben Prisoner—"M 1 no. sir; i never stole a thing in my life.—l'm quite innocent I assure you " was remanded till to -) lay to give an opportunity for th e attendance of anoth er w i tness having a further charge. ILLICIT Steppe.--Yesterday, at the police-offiee, Thomas Howland, eavinflffie' v, appeared t o lay an i n f ormat i on aga i ns t a ruffianly look.. lug fellow, 'Allbrooeks, for having an illicit 5ti11...- Howland d -posed, that the night before from information he had re. ceivorl hi' WPnt . to a house In a court in Eaton-street, and found the prisoner et tip' bar there with a private still, fourteen tuba; thritY • ga llons err o tail copper worn. They had never been in lore, h e r the man was then in the act of setting them mi. This was th e secon d tune' fie had t ikon' Vii' prisoner, and it was the fourth time he had been brought fo justi6e - for - sintilar offences. The prisoner said, ell he hat' to sly as, ht' was ?hilly thiSlime_but he was not the last. The offi cer had stated theaarae as .it really Was. He '.vas brought then , vera simply to set up the still, tint as he - ail been tatcen prisoner, he Wa. wills to Underg,) the pa ei.rshuent of course. Mr. Hall tiai'l he must pay ,or is default go to the borough jail for (lire& Calendar Months. ' ti.,w , e~~... MANCHESTER RACES. These races commenced on \Vednesday. The weiihet was beautiful, and. as was to be expected, Manchester turned mit its thousands on to the course. The crowd was extremely great. There was also a goodly sprinkling of fashionables. WE 1)5 KS OA ir. The Wilton Stakes of 10 sous. each and 50 says. added. One mile and a quarter. • - Mr. Brestow's ch c Abercrombie, 3 yrs ' 1 Mr. Buckley's br c James, 4 yrs 2 Captain Lamb's hr c Count d'OrSay, 3 yrs. ' 3 Two others started.—Two paid. The Produce Stakes of 5U sovs. each, h ft. One mile and a quarter. - Lord Westminster's b f Sarcasm, by Teniers - • 1 Mi- R. Turner's b fby Olympus 2 Sir Thomas Stanley's b f by Villid da l'utaii. 3 Four paid. A Free Handicap Stakes of 10 sues. each, with 30 sons. added, for four-year olds. One mile and a quarter. Mr. Wyatt's b e Fidelio, by Stumps Mr. Nanney's hr c Cymru, by Banker 2 Mr. VI . Lousdale's b I Gipsy, by Tramp Four pail. His Ma.kity's Plate for 100 guineas, for three-year olds and upwards. Three miles and a distance. Mr. Barrdw'sb in Catharina, 6 yrs Sir R. Bulkeley's gr g [sot!, 5 yrs 2 Mr. Richardson's b m Lady le Gros, 5 yrs. . Six drawn. REGENT'S FRIENDLY SOCIETY, TRANMERE. The 23 , 1 instant being Whit Monday, the Regent's Friendly Society had their annual meeting at the King's Arms, 'Fran mere; it is a day of festivity, and therefore lung and anxiously looked forward to by the young and old good folks of the town ship. The members, consisting of nearly 200, headed by Mr. Stubbs's scientific hand. proceeded through Birkenhead, Wood side, and up to Traomere Church, where the service was read and a sermon preached to the club by the Rev. W. Clemenson,. afterwards the society returned through Upper Tianmere to the King's Arms, where the jolly host provided a mos t exce ll ent dinner, to. Wh i ch th e mem b ers did ample justice. The chair was most ably filled by the Rev. W. Fielding, rector of the parish and one of the magistrates of the county. Several gentlemen of the vicinity WhO had enrolled their names as honorary members, also sNt down to (linger, thus very pro perly giving their countenance and support to a society. (not org(nishl for any political purposes,) but to carry out a great principle, as old as chi istianity itself—" To relieve the sick and bury the dead." The children -01 . the Trantrtere National School were -no't forgotten. but also-,came. in for their share of the clay's festivity. After walking:. in the.processiati,jhey partook of a plentiful re freshment 01 bons, Sze. which had been provided for them by the members of the club; several ladies attended this gratify. ing distribution. Early in the afternoon of the 9th instant there fell, in the val ley of Osse,.in the Pyrenees, a great quantity of rain, mixed with a large portion of .matter bearing the colour and appear ance of sulphur. The fall lasted till seven in the evening. and in the morning- the roads and other places, where water had a free current, were covered with this extraordinary substance. EXAMINATION OF ATTORNEY.—The following notice has been placed up in all the Common Law Courts, and at the Judges' chambers: —" The articles of clerk-hip and answers to questions touching the due service and good conduct of pbrsons applying to be admitted attorneys, are to be left with the Secretary of the Incorporated Law Society, at the hall in Chancery-lane. within the first seven days of term (namely, between the 2.34 and 30th of May inclusive.) The first exami• nation will take place in the hall of the Incorporated Law So ciety on Saturday, the 4th of June, and commence at It) o'cl,ek .• in the forenoon. The applicants are required to attend in the hall at half-past nine on the day of examination. Application fur ftirther information may be made to the secretary." FAI.MOOTIi, MAY 21.-llis Majesty's steamer, Spitfire, Licat. Kennedy, arrived here to-day hum the Mediterranean. She left Corfu on the 30th of April, Patras lit May Malta sth, and Gibriiltar 14th, with mails, and brings 45 passengers, amongst whom are three Princes from Persia, (his Royal High ness Shah Zadi Roda Kali Koli Mirza-Ni.ib-el-Muolk, his Royal Highness Shah Zadi Taymoor Mirza Hassan-el-Dawle, his Royal highness Shah Zadi Najaf Kati Mirza-Odde,) cousins of the preSent reigning Shah; and Assaad Yacoob Nayat, secretary and interpreter, abd three Persian servants. '1 he real object of their mission to this country has not transpired. They landed from the steainei under a salute from his Majesty's frigate Astrma, and have proceeded to London. The accounts from Greece by this arrival make mention of the disturbances, which had long existed in Roumelia, as being brought to a close; after several defeats the insurgents had been forced to cross the frontiers. General Church was on the eve of making a tour through the province, with a view of providing effective means for rendering it inure perm meetly tranquil. King oho wai about leaving the country for Munich; the intention was said to be formed on accouut of his health, which required some slight renovation that change would accompiish; but the cause of hie departure which obtained most credence was that con nected vVith his marriage, and trout that tact being influenced by a desire to see his intended future consort. Whatever his motives might be, applehensious existed that his absence would be fraught with tioubles, as neither Count d'Armen,perg nor the Ministry were viewed in a favourable light by the Greeks. The Spitfire has brought on freight £2 S')0; she left. Cadiz on the 15th, at that time rejoicings were going on for the victory (so termed) gained by the legion in the late affsir before St, Sebastian Over the Carlists. Ike English squadron continued to cruise off Malta. MARRIAGE:OF THE PRINCE OF CAPUA.—His Royal High ness Pt ince Charles Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies was united yesterdayY morning, at St. George's Church . t o Mi ss P ene l ope Smyth, now Princess Chutes of the Two Sicilies and Capita. The ceremony was perforMed by the Very Rev. the Deau of Carlisle, the rector of the parish. The congregation of St. George's chat eh were asked on Sunday for the thud time whe ther any (tither]] kneli -any 'just rause-1r impediment why a marriage should not be stilemnized between Charles Ferdinand tie Bourbon and Penelope Sinyth? The inaudiele response was "no;" but the bang on the Sunday preceding were, we are informed, actually forbid by the Neapolitan minister, Count 'Adolf. attended by his secret a ry, the Duke Regina. who ad vanced to the pulpit and said " yes." A communication._ it is understood, took place in th e Vestry room between the Count and the Rector. at which the fthmer said it was the will of the king of Naples that the marriage should not take place. but the rev. gentleman refmed to entertain the objection. A ludicrous circumstance occurred dui big the ceremon) ; the prince's valet, nn who haTheen intrusted with the ring, was accidentally shut out by th e be a dl es , an d 3 r i ng was therefore borr owe d on th e s p o t from a bystander. The " happY couple" were congratulated after the celebration of the sailed rites, by a numerous party of friends who were present, and then returned to Mivart's hotel, where they gave a handsome de:jenner. The Marquis o f A nglesea, Lnrd Dunsany. Lord Com bermere, and Colonel - . Caiogan, paid their congratulatory visits. REPRESENTATION 0F SoUTH Essex.—(Ftnrn a correspond. ant).—A new w r it having been moved for on Friday ni g h t last for a successor to the late much-lamented and highly-esteem e d representative for the southern division or the county of Essex, R. W. Hall Dare, Esq., the High Sties ill, has appoi n t e d t h e third of next month as the nomination day of the c•anlidatcs. and the 6111 and 7th fur the polling, should any contest take place. This, however, is not likely, as the whig and ra di cal leaders of the constituency are so crest=fallen from th e s t ate of the late registration that they cannot find one am ong t i t em fool hardy enough to enter the (littlest. Tiro or thre e gent l emen of tamservative principles are spoken of as candid a t es, b ut there is •cawely any doubt but that George Palm er , E sq., of Nazeirg, Park, it aentlemen of large fortune a nd considerable ittitin - mews, will be returned without opposition. It i s not at all likely that the conservatives would start a second cand i date, of their own party and of similar principles; and, theref ore , M r. P a i nter having the support of the ptincipal A r i s t ocracy and persons of influence in this part of the country, th ere i s not the slightest doubt of his being selected, and ele c t e d to serve with Mr. Bram ston the present respected member. I n or d er, however, to make "assurance doubly sure," the friendsof Mr. Palmer have formed themselves into committees, and y ester d ay a committee room principal towns in th e county . —M orning Herald. 't' HE opened at the Crown and Magpie, Aldgate, as i n the differ ent Hli HEIR OF BElvolß.—The festiviti es w hi ch took place n Monday last amongst the t e n a nt s o f t h e Duke of Rutland, t ) ti of the coming of age of his grace's eldest son, the Marquis of GrOby, were on a scale Of the utmost liberality. In DerhYshire excellent dinners were prov i ded at Baslow, ' Ilkeston, 'llakevi.dl, &c., to which the tenants on the several estates were invited. The great attraction of the day, however, Centred in the far-famed Haddon Hall, where a ball and enter tainment were given to the families of the tenantry, many of whom came front a considerable distance to participate in the joyous doings; a few of the neighbouring gentry were also in vited. The ball was held in the long gallery. The party as sembled at Haddon could not be less titan 400. CURIOUS CHINESE SUPRRST , TIONS.—Among the principal are " tnnney-swords," consisting of a'numher of ancient copper coins, each with a square hole in the midlle, fastened toglher on a piece of iron shaped like a sword, with a cross hilt. 'These are suspended at the heals of sleeping couches and beds, that the supposed guardianship of the Sovereigns in whose reigns the coins were issued may keep away ghosts and evil spirits. .'hey are chiefly used in housos or rooms where persons have com mitted suicide, or suffered a violent death; and sick people smoe times resort to them in the hope of hastening their recovery;-- The Chinese, by J. F. Davis. - . . NEWseseEtes.—So much has been said, and is still said, by the metropolitan prints, concerning the proposed reduction of the newspaper stamp duty, that we may again ventuie to re vert to the subject without making a fer•inal apology to our readers. In a previous number we stated our couvietton that this event would be the signal for the establishment of W rt num- b thought one mil. h or t r t e, t ( ). bers of additional papers; it has , ho w ev e r , gone further th an we expected. That new papers would be started individuals in various towns of the kingdem , vie sortable opposition enough, but we fin d we must go ' still • fu ther. The rage for j o int-stock companies at the point of exhaustion must, it ,appeals , find a resting place in th e press its of the country; aco oi,i g t:i., we find pr ospectuses of joint-stack newspapers in London, 'Liverpool, and Manchester, in shares friitu ten /shillings to ten L d ijo ...it -s, t he amount r f ' ) capital being fixed from ten to twen t y a n ti forty thousand pound s . This may, at first sight, appear all very r, a. t I - etaif ‘• look a littl e c l os e r into ifie matter, it will be kind that e without some alterations ale made with regard to the registration of the names of news paper proprietors at the Stamp ofm.-e, the establi s h men t o f these jot-stock concerns will b ee otne a great evil. For in stance, suppose a joint-stock pa tal of glO,OOO, in shares of doper be establi s h e d w ith a capi each, and that, upon an aver age, each shareholder was o • make the number of . proprietors five hundred. Now. if a libel were published against stn Individual in di' • • . bring his action against is paper, he would the person r eg i stered at the Stamp Office, who, merel y barn;; the printer or publi s h er o f th e paper in question, mid the salaried servant of the company, would not be able to sustainan action, so that the party libelled about from pithai • to post between the five hundred proprietors, and inthe end gain no redress It is therefore our ()Pi nion, in common with a great majority of the provincial proprietors of ne pars, that a clause should be inserted in the new Act, compelling ." ,I . east . tw?-thirde . of the proprietors of papers established a upon this wi 1 new e. or in fact any other, to register their names at the Stamp - OA - b " ce; ot e wisv they may Issue their libels to the world with impunity, and evidently enjoy an advantage over those papers row estab lished and duly registered. We were unwilling to be the first to bring this matter before the public, , but we cannot forbear doing so, when we consider that it is of so much imFortance to the country at large.- -Stockport .44vertiser. • • • " N o,:\I AN IS A FlEuo To HIS VALLT;OR A PHILOSOPHER To Its MISTRESS."—Th e nwa eing of this adage applies most truly, we understand, to a c orrespondmice. urore ciiturninous than brillioht, which has , recently come under the profanation of ,wvers' inspection. In all ages. love-letters have been pro verhially silly. the hero and the statesman being reduced to the sine ;eve! Rs the common herd. When will ladies be cautious . uoug h , o deStroe these "cireuinstanty evidence "s, . or when will fond and favoured admirers have thicr , :r ' 1 v,n enoug 1 nut tu 1 u-rite them ? .__~ _. ..... .+ FOREIGN' INTELLIGEXCe. SPAIN. ( i h o e n new Spanish n S e p adneii I: , O; i iti n t is be try kSys i o s izda et r i • l d i; ) l,trd, with the ex. I rtment. M:lSturit is named minis ter of foreign affairs and temporaq president of the council ; Geneial Seoane is minister of war ; M. Aguerre Solarte, minister of finance ; M. Alcala Galiano, minister of marine; and the Duke de Rivas, Minister of the in terior. The department of justice remains to be filled up. • Our news froiri Madrid is to the 18th instant. The cabinet was left in so small a minority as twelve against ninety-six in the estate of Procuradores on the 16th inst.,. the very day tliey took their places as Ministers. • The question on which they wer e th us s i gna ll y out - vote d w a s. of great importance to their ministerial existence. It was moved that the vote of confidence to the late minis ters should not be continued to the pfsent—that no taxes should be raised, if none were voted before the chambers were dissolved--and that the sanction of the cortes should be obtained before a loan sva Contracted. These resolutions, supported by so overwhelniing a ma jority, prove that the lower estate is decidedly, Unfavour able to the new premier, and, as there is on; Money in the exchequer, a dissolution can hardly be ientured upon after such a vote, which deprives the braless ministers of the resources of taxes or loans. In the streets we are told that they were hissed, and that turittilt. in Madrid are kept down only by strong bodies of the military.. As we hate akays maintained, the true reason of the, resig nation of the Mendizabal administration is- not •to be f oun d i n the paltry pretexts assigned for it.. The Times of this morning confirms our frequently eipressed opi nion : " But the most serious difficulty in which the new Ministers had found themselves was the total want or money itithe public treasury. Al Mendizahal hful foreseen this difliculty,.Upd had taken measures to provide against its occurrence in...negotiat ing a temporary loan of reds (1:120,0(x) With the house of Arcon, of r . (loin had sent an oider•to his agent in Madlid to pay that Sum to N. Mendizahal. ,The or der arrived on the 15:h, the , very day on which M. ,111.endizabal resigned. N. Isturitz. who. fudds the iiminee department will the return of M Agnerre from - Patis, claimed of At doin's agent in Madrid an immediate advance or 10,000,01) reals (£40,0.x) whith was refUsed,.on the plea. that the order was pa) able to Al. Men(hiatyal. :rho matter was alluded to in the Chandler of Procuradore.i," and did not tend to heighten the cre dit of the new in;nisters., Desperate, i n d ee d , int st he their con dition if they stand in need of such a sum as £40,000, and know not where to turn in order to procure it." The Christinos garrison of Billma made a sortie on the 15th, which tvav repulsed with great loss. On 'the 17th the Carlists the French General Bernelle's line between Valcarios and Pampeluna. In other quar ters skirmishing is actively going forward. Tetedo is besieged by a large hody of insurgents, and in the pre sent state of Madrid it is impossible to send assistance. As for the reported intervention of Gen. Harispe, we have no confirmation of Sr Very,improbable a rumonq on the contrary, every thing. leads us to-believe that it has no foundation except in the fertile invention of the, specnlatots on th e St oc k E xc h an g e. O f C o l onel Evans ' and and his victorious ar m y we h ave no inte lligence, though our ads ices fr ont Bi scay are a f o r tn i ght. Later than the date •of the illustrious exploit which refiectS so much credit upon his military science. Since the above was written, a city correspondent in forms us, that 64 Pri% ate letters from Madrid to a late hour on the 17th instant state, that the ferment in the capital was 'aging to a great height, and great fears were: entertained of some alarming • events. M. Ist ur i tz h a d been for a consid era bl e time Closeted i h the Queen, and it was reported, amongst the lien informed circles,. and credited, that the decree for the dissolution of th e Cortes had been Signed; From the provinces no certain, news had arrived but the courier, the hearer of the letters above mentioned; noticed during his progress i to the frontier great ;11010ms of disturbances. Accounts from the army were 14keil for with the greatest anxiety, in consequence of the stoppage of all supplies by the M. Arduuin tc that (palter at the present critical mo ment." LATEST FROM THE EAST INDIES. Accounts hale heeti'reeeVed, by mar of Egypt, from Calcutta: to the al March'. anif . ./Itria t ic to the lSth. It appears that th e , overland despatch riached Alexandria a clay or two after the: steamboat sailed, fei. Malta,' conseq uen tly t h e l etters (n i t h t h e; exception of a few that were tOrwaided from Alexandria by way, of Italy) will not tie received till the arrival afhe next :I,diter itinean mail. Freights had fallen at Calcutta since the last, accounts, but the rates were still very fair, averaging from ia to £5 10s. for heavy goods, and for tine goods. Several vessels bad arrived at C a l cu tt a f ro m Sydney, N for wheat for that colony, the governo r h av i ng f eare d a scarcity in consequenc e of a eon' intied drought for several month s , b u t we are ba l my t o learn the anticipations were not realised, fer tilizing rains hating fallen since th e vesse l s l e f t S ydney. Some ' Of them had cnm pleted their cargoes at Calcutta, and sailed on their return previous to 3 , 1 March. The receipts of eOtion at Bombay had been light. it was ex pected that We' semi would ectual what was anticipated in Ja nuary, hut would he late in getting down. Freights were £6' per ton, - and, in some instances,) ad - real bed as high as £7. UE FIRST L ES SON IN Alustc.—An Irish gentleman called on an eminent singing master to inquire his terms; the maestro ; said that he charged two guineas for the fast lesson, but only one guinea for as many as he pleased afterwards. " Och boiher the fist lesson (said the app:icant,) let us commence with the second." INsccr Ut;tioLsrEaY.—Some loiterers in the farm yard of W. wete aft, acted, on a fine summer's afternoon, by seeing an insect of a biilliact Scarlet, in turn with a dazzling white one, both being of unusual tr.agnitude, fving repeatedly across a 'wall to the sloping tliatch of 4statle which .faced th e sou th. B y the aid of a ladder, anil with some little difficulty, a scarlet in-, sect, which glanced vividly in the sun, was knocked down, and. secured, and proved, on closer examination, to be neither more nor less than one of the ingenious unholstery . he es bearing on its wings a sect io n o f t h e red geranium. The nest ' having been sought and 'lulled otil, was found to consist of layers of red and white geranium leaves, neatly cut from the plajits at a distance from the yard, and tastefolly'fitted into a funnel-shaped perfora tion in th e th atc h ; eac h d iv i s i on being cautiously overlaid by the edge of its successor; so as to form a soft and very efficient lining to the nest..----Mirror. DISCOVEGY of A CASH 130 X.—On Saturday morning forty or tiny persons were vi,dilinsin the mud of that ' , art of the Regent's -canal near the Tutin4l,, Islington, London, to catch eels, nearly all' the water having been drained off that some repairs might take place, and a rood deal of merriment was occasioned by the scrambles which occurred when a fine "con ger" was in sight. A lad, named however, "fished" to some purpose, he being fortunate enough to pick up a cash box, which contained an immense sum of money. When it was opened a regular scuffle took place, and it is supposed that upwarcs of £2,000 in 13ank of England notes was snatched out out of it and taken away before protectit n was afforded tthe lad and his prize by Mr. Wm. Bridgwater, of the Arms, Macclesfield -street, Cif)-road, and Mr. Miiier, inspectot of the N division . Al! that now remains in the box (a loch is detained that some inquiries may be made respecting it) is £lO Bank of England note, dated 31st Aug. 1833, an d No. 9,827, and Annuity Bonds, bearing the indorsement of " Isaac Maurice; Surgeon, Westbro' Green, near Petworth, Sussex.", • It is supposed that the properly had been stolen, and threu there to avoid detection. 'I'HE Wonits OF JOHN KNOX'S WATCII.—FOr the followinv,r, curious but Ciutheniic statement, which will be perused with uni versal interest, tee c Neufs Letter) are indebted to a re spectable correspondept woikS of a watch which actu-• ally belonged to John Knox (the hero of the reformation in Scotland) was purchased aflllr. Richa r d Mitchell's auction, in Monaghan, (In the sth instant,,hy Dr. M'Dowell..in whose mu seum it is now Placed. It wi:l, brought f rom Edinburgh about sixty years ago , by a man of the name of Finl e y, w h o . sold the cases and kept the t . vorks; afterwards he sold th - e works to Mr. Mi tc h e ll. "John Knox" is engraved on the works, A.D. 1515, and also the maker's Itatne , "l. Rousseau, Geneva. ." It appears from the history of KnUx's Life, that he was in Geneva, at that period, but returned. to Edinburgh, where he died. Frorn that date, the_ work is 311 tears old; notwithstanding. it • is in good order, and re g ular in its movements, though curious, strong, and sin gular in censtructitan. A gentleman who saw the cases says,' they were curiously and beautifully chased the outside one connected together by a h a sp a n d stap l e. , ".FOlt AN OLD SONG."—'Phis is a savini.t frequently made use of, when any commodity is considered to have been sold very cheap. 'We think that a song will nut be deemed such a trifling affair by our evaders, when they are infoimed that Marione Malibran De Beriot receives twenty guineas for, singing a sin gle one at a concert, and twenty-five guineas ins attending pri vate parties; besides a cheque firs three hundred and seventy pound;, front the lessee of Drury lane Theatre. every Monday Morning, pro , vectirely—that is, for %yolk tai be done three, nights only during the week ! It calculated t hut Maltbran te c•eives about six hundred pounds a week; what lots of resin for- De Beriet's bow !—Musical . ENGLIsH PUGII.IsNI 'A Au op n.-7 The Mossy( er de Marseille s of the 12th instant . states . l ha t the line Francois of that town served on the eve as an arena for two English li,xei a front Bristol. Great was the affluence of spectators. and the tali combatants. displayed to the astonished crowd all the 111 V steries of the scielcd. du boxement. One of then' wits carried to the hi spital in come-. quence of this athletic display. and the police sent to prison two other representat ives of john Lull, who had assist ed at the. spectacle, and who will now hate. an opportunity of I eileoitiit upon the danger of not knowing the laws of the Count)). tilt.). visit. . . AlonEntst PliftASEOLoGY.—Young J•,iin .bines was a "Jewel case maker"—yes, a "jewel-case inal:er,", an' l s" were lii' fathers before him, alt hough they called it stay-making, but the modern refinement in i phraseology softened it dow n to a jewel case, which, in some nstances , when we reflect upon the worth, and beauty of the wearer and possessor, m ay be considered as literally correct, hut must not be supposed of universal a pplica there is scarcely a sitcom. y, there but has been christened t ion. 8 peaking ooltfirri i a , S . r e ol o ol . . - stance, situation, . - afresh to meet the } wishes of the times. • A match - vender is now invisible a timber Merchant; halfpenny tracts are purchased front living beer comes f r om stationers ; and a hod and mortar Man is a bricklayer's a ss i s t_ ant. A tailor conliines a fashionable faliricator, am r Ii• • renovator, and m etamorphoser m ofes.sieurs lc IT 4 1 1 ments. Old r are sent to an emporium; and small a' gip and . b u tl -n 4 s T v w e Y oZ t d ll. • ba ß t l 74 " n h4 "I' s 'u; d dwhey • - tucked B. depot. Curds an are hull) aV • f . went; and tripe is met with at a • . Lc orta. establish. swa y standard,. a. twopenny ball _ a d . S the road, side, "dining posed and, placarded as a ant: , n- suPPor t...and. a potato havemigltt come under itit,iidaeii.itibtliieC' hsiarielaimsn:rco: . - o a f s .. our ~,f ;i r ;s e h n t d o ol o l t o : o d„ . whip is a tormentor, . •t... Also .t/Lines inanimat, persuader,:ev.e. ~ t 0..• r anic 6 spur a for tea and prayers (t) ate ' dubbed T aud P ,i o i r e es , A . farmer is an agr i eu l tur 1 tst, a gardener an hortieulturalist, and. a younic lass watering A child's day-school her poppies w o uld b e cuns id ere g -a florist; (bless their little hearts', Is a seminary. A C hair man, and hi, wife, • his d eputy, anti a visito r , fo rm a rOlkijei a Malt (of roguery).4 CcrpB.ny; John and Jack. Jones , a committed One phisi,:ian„ one surgean, and nue drurgist, a board of health— , . ‘• For when any diffieu!t work's to be (lone. .4' Three beads can dispatch it much butter than opt... . . A sailor (a jack tat ) is a nautical character;' a soldier (a aria selgeant) a military gentleman:" a kieg4itr. is a special pleadei Etud fetitioner r and a bla c k. woutani one of tb fair sezotte; .., ~; _- • , ow-- - ----- ----- ",,.......,...7."'''.74-' :='- _''^': .-. -1111_'''___I ' .i,-- '''''' ' ' '-' ' 7 -_-:"7-V-1Ww"7 . 7.,'.--_, .- -, - -r . ....\__ - _ . . .....,... . .. ._ . .... ........ . _ s._ ,