The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. OVERLAND MAIL Accounts from Bombay to the 17th ultimo, and from China to the 22d November, were received in London on Saturday tuy express in advance of the Overland Mail. INDIA. Chatter Siugh and his sons, and the rest of the trea cherous Seikh Sirdars, are to be 'sent out of Punjaub; and it is rumoured that Calcutta has been selected as the fittest place for their abode. There has been another plot at Lahore. The seizure and removal of Dhuleep Singh were the objects of the conspirators; and Ranee Clumda has, of course, the credit of having been their instigator and supporter. According to the Delhi Gazette, some of her emissaries were discovered to have been tampering with the men of the Prewdergast's Irregular Corps. These men, however, proved true to their salt; and, having given notice to their commanding officer of what was going on, nine of the intriguers were fortunately captured and consigned to "durance vile." I suppose there will be some startling revelations on their trial, and the British authorities will receive fresh proof of the power and shrewdness of the Mather-Queen, who, though a fugitive, and remote from the scene of her former intrigues, still contrives to be every now and then a " thorn in the side" of every Government she abhors, _ _ _ _ Perfect tranquillity reigned in the Punjaub, with one trifling Exception. The tribe called the Ydosoofgaies, inhabiting the wild districts on one of the routes to Cabool, having refused to pay their taxes and committed some acts of violence on those more peaceably disposed than themselves, Colonel Lawrence, with a force consist ing of 500 of her Majesty's 60th and 61st. with details of artillery, native infantry, irregular cavalry, and pioneers were, it was understood, preparing to proceed against on had received orders not to follow the malcontents into the hills, and, by last accounts, were waiting at the entrance of the pass for orders from Government A difficulty had arisen on the north-western frontier, the Rajah of Sikkim, a petty mountain chief, hawing seized and imprisoned Dr. Campbell. superintendent of the Sanitarium at Darceiing, and Dr. Hooker, the natu ralist, who had proceeded to the Himalayas on a scientific tour. _ _ _ _ . Rumours were prevalent of certain of the Bengal regi ments refusing to cross the Sutlej unless promised extra allowances, and Sir C. Napier is said to be prepared to put down mutiny at once by the strong hand should it Make its appearance, The Maliarajah Ghola.b Singh is said to be carrying on a system of the cruelest oppression against his Cashme- rian subjects The I;ealth -of the Governor-General is described as materially improved. By last accounts he was at Lahore. The Marchioness of Dalhousie will, it is understood, re turn home immediately. It now appears that his Excellency Sir Charles Napier never had the slightest intention to return to Europe till his term of service expires Major Edwardes was on the eve of embarking at Bom bay for England, bearing the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, intended as a present to her Majesty. At Madras a famine was apprehended : the rains, which usually set in in October, bad not begun to fall till the end of November, and were then excessively scanty Thorrias Metcalfe had been driven on shore at and wrecked. CHINA The brig Madr s from China two days later than those '9ninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer Pekin, which arrived there on the 22nd ult. The intelligence is confined to an account of the destruction by the Columbine, Fury, and Phlegethon of the major part of the piratical fleet under Shap.'ng-tzai at the entrance of the Tonquin River. The Pekin, it will be recollected, brought us news of the demolition, near Hongkong, of a squadron of piratical vessels, supposed to form part of the grand fleet under this redoubtable buc caneer. The intelligence now received apprizes us of the We have reeeived tidin, brought by the P completion of the work of retribution. The pirate chief has himself been fallen in with, and 58 of his vessels, mounting 1,200 guns, and manned by 3,000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire. Shap-'ng-tzai escaped with six vessels and about 400 men. From Canton we have nothing new beyond a fresh at tempt on the part of the Chinese authorities to support monopoly for the sale of produce with the view of extort ing money ostensibly for the payment of the old Hong debt. ssels missing, the Sylph, Greyhound, Coquette, and Anna Eliza, have not been heard of. Forty-five of the French insurgents of June, imprisoned at Cherbourg, have been pardoned; only fifty remain. It was decided, in the United States Senate, the other -day, that the Rev. Father. Mathew should be allowed a Beat within the bar of the house. The division was thir ly-three for, and eighteen against. It is stated in Paris that Cardinal Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges, has left for Italy, on an extraordinary mission 4n the name of the whole of the French episcopacy, to accompany the pope on his return to Rome. The notorious American fanatic, generally known as ' 4 ' Father Miller," who predicted the destruction of the world and the second coming of Christ in the year 1843, and formed a sect of some 40,000 disciples, died on the 20th of December, at the age of 68. The German papers state, that a few days since a young man who was living with his father, a servant in the Tu bingen hospital, stabbed his father, mother, and one of ..his sisters so dreadfully, that all three have since died. Several of the nurses were also wounded, and it was with difficulty that another of his sisters escaped from the seems to have committed these horrible monst crimes in co scouence of a quarrel with his rattle Goon SPECULATION.—A: gentleman some time ego .purchased £5OOO worth of American flour, so as to ship it at a cost of 223. per barrel. He sent it to California, and as it reached San Francisco at a favourable juncture, it sold there readily: at 86s. per barrel ; thus realising a gross amount of £15,000. and a profit of about £lOOO to the lucky speculator, who has provedithat there are easier me thods of obtaining gold than by grubbing for it in the -Californian ravines, REMARKABLE CASE OF LONGEVITY.—At this mo ment there exists at Strasburgh a woman named Barbe E--, a native of Wurzburg, who was born on the first of January, 1749, and has consequently entered her 102 d year. She married at the age of 22, and became a widow at 59. She is the grandmother of 37 children, and great grandmother of 20, all living. This wonderful woman enjoys robust health ; she reads wiL,-- possesses all her intellectual faculties. PERVERT TO ROME.—Letters from Rome of the sth inst., announce, that on the previous day, Cardinal Pa trizi, Vicar-General of the Pope, repaired to the church of the Noviciate of the Holy Heart, at the foot of Mount Janiculum, to receive the abjuration of Mrs. Helen Ca vendish, a relative of the Duke of Devonshire, who em. braced the Romish faith. After the -ceremony the Car -dinel administered to her the sacrament of confirmation. Princess Borgeese acted as godmother to the new convert. THE POPE AND THE FRENCH BlSHOPS.—Cardinal Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges, has left for Italy, on an extraordinary mission in the name of the whole French Episcopacy, to accompany the Pope on his return to Rome. It is farther stated that the Archbishop has been autho rised by the French Government to assure the Pope that the difficulties arising from want of money, which have hitherto retarded his return to Rome, will be removed by the advance of the necessary sums. BOLD SCHEME TO ROB THE BANK OF FRANCE.—Ac counts from Paris state that a most audacious attempt to rob the Bank of France was made on Thursday afternoon, about one o'clock. A number of individuals, some dressed as labourers and others having the appearance of gentle men, entered the cash-office and made a rush at the piles of gold and silver. Quickly as the attack was made, an alarm was raised and the guard arrived. Three of the robbers were arrested and conveyed to the Prefecture of Police. , ectacles, an d GREAT SNOW STORM ON THE CONTINENT.—Accounts from the French and Swiss departments continue to speak of the severity of the weather, and the immense quantity of snow that has fallen, and which has occasioned several disasters. Travellers lost their way, and a rural letter carrier was found dead in the snow. In many cantons of the department of the Ariege the snow has risen to the coping of the houses. Many persons have perished in the avalanches, which are frequent, and whole flocks of sheep have been swept away. In the Jura the communication is completely interrupted, and many persons have fallen a prey to the wolves. In the streets of several towns the snow is more than three metres in depth. In the Saone and Loire the wolves, impelled by cold and hunger, boldly entered the villages ; and in one a woman was devoured by these animals, almost at the door of her house. In other places the hells had to be pealed during the day and night in order to serve as a guide to the traveller and to the field labourers. At Luchon, in the Pyrenees, more snow has fallen than has been known within the memory of man. Much snow has fallen in Italy. CRIME IN FRANCE. — At Mormant, neur Melun, a woman named Pachant, on Friday, murdered her hus band. For many years the couple had lived together on bad terms, and for years the woman had refused to share her husband's bed. On Friday evening they supped to zetlier with their two children, and the man retired to rest. The woman then made her little boy read to her, and she told him when he went to bed to his father to lie as far from him as possible. The child answered that he would not go to bed for the present; whereupon she went softly to the bedside to see if her husband was asleep, and, ~nn seeing that he was, exclaimed, "Oh God ! give me courage to execute my design !" She - then went and took a h e avy stick from behind the door, and advanced to the bed, as if about to strike. She, however, paused, retired a f ew steps, and then returned. Again she raised her arm, hut at; she paused, and retired from the bed, At length s urn olonino - up all her resol u ti on , s h e re t urne d hastily, and sti-uck ' her husband three violent blows on the head. The ,man, who was dreadfully injured, gasped out, " Arsene, Ars;.ne, come to me !" and his little boy climbed on the bed. The woman still continued to strike her husband on the head, and the little boy threw him self over his father to pr otect him. She, however, flung the child violently aside, saving, " Let me alone, or I will do the same to you !" and 'l l ,l continued to strike. The little boy seized a knife and exci,2itned, " Mother, mbther ! if you do not leave off I w ill kill Lnyself!" but the boy's sister, having that moment entered the room, took the knife from him. The woman contina - ed to beat her hus band until sho was quite sure he was dead. She then went to the house of his brother, and said , I • 0 her nephew, Celyi see how I have settled your uncl e and at the `78 .. _ tuggment the little boy came up weeping and said, - "yoaliFr has killed my father !" Information having been - given to the authorities, the woman was arrs.'sted• 'She doernot attempt to deny her guilt, but encteavouo to excuse herself by saying that she committed the crime un . a moment of passion cmecl.l by the unjust reproacLes of the decease 4. • It appeared, however, that, she had long I entertained the intention of committing the crime, having frequently been heard to declare that it was impossible to live with her husband, that either she or he must be put out of the way, &c. It further appeared that on the morning of the murder she had caretully selected the heavy stick with which the crime was committed, and that her daughter, having a presentiment of what she intended, endeavoured to take it from her, saying, " Ah ! I know what you mean to do !"—Galignani's Messenger. EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. — The papers announce that the collossal equestrian bronze statue of the great Frederick, the marvellous production of M. Rauch, will be raised and uncovered, on the 15th of October, next, the birthday of his present Majesty. The whole, taken from its base to the summit of the mighty soldier's hat, will exceed forty-seven feet in height, of which the crowning equestrian statue will occupy nearly eighteen feet. ‘ 7 .JENNY LIND.—We are informed by a letter from Ham burg that Jenny Lind has signed an agreement at Lubeck to go to America and the Havana in August or Septem ber. Her stay will be about a year and a half there, to sing only in concerts and oratorios ; £30,000 to be placed in the hands of Baring Brothers, before she starts from England, or guaranteed with them ; equipage, servants' expenses of every kind, paid for her ; and after a certain number of nights she gets besides one-fifth of the profits ; making fully £70,000 for the time. Besides this she has reserved to herself the right of singing for charities as often as she chooses.—Morning Chronicle. . ASSASSINATION IN CORSICA.—A notorious Corsican bandit - II named Tancredi, was few days ago tried before the Court of Assizes of Corsica, on the charge of murder ing, at different times, a man named Morelli, a man named Andre Natelli, a man named Dominique Martini, and, finally, for attempting, on the 24th of March, 1849, to murder some gendarmes. The several cases of murder were clearly proved against the prisoner; and it was shown that for a long time he had been accustomed to carry off young girls to caves and forests and there commit - violence on them, that he had levied contributions on the peaceable inhabitants of the villages, that he bad committed so many excesses of all kinds, and had exercised such a system of terror, that in some places the villagers had left their fields uncultivated, and had abandoned their flocks and herds. No one, in fact, ventured to resist the audacious bandit • and tha people did not even dare to assist or give hospitality to the gendarmes sent to arrest him. When be murdered Natalli, the son of the latter was present, and in an agony of despair cried, "Oh ! when will your turn come ?" " Not until after your's," calmly replied the bandit, as he reloaded his gun by the side of the corpse. Notwithstanding the monstrous guilt of the pri soner, the jury in convicting him declared there were ex tenuating circumstances, and he was only condemned to hard labour at the hulks for life. IRELAND. The steward of Mr. Falkner in the county of Tippe rary, was shot dead on the night of Friday week, near his own house On Saturday the Sub-sheriff of Galway sold off the property, consisting of clothing, furniture, &c., of the Tuarn workhouse, under an execution for £250, at the suit of some Dublin and Galway merchants. On Tuesday night, as the mail was proceeding from Nenagh to Templemore, having on it four passengers, a body of men came forth from behind a ditch and at tacked it. The party threw stones at the passengers, whom they struck, and they fired two shots. TIPPERARY BARBARISM.—A poor starving man was detected by a farmer named Hogan eating a turnip which he had taken from a field on the farm, wren Hogan said he was his prisoner, and he should send him to Bridewell. Another farmer here came up and urged the humanity of letting him go, and as he was quitting the field Hogan presented his gun and shot the unfortunate man, who now lies without hope of recovery. Hogan was appre hended and stands committed for trial at Nenagh. DREADFUL MURDER.—On Thursday night la - st a farmer named Edward Brien, of Duntryleague, near Kilfinan, county of Limerick, was returning borne from Michels town, and was waylaid on the road and struck on the side of the head with some sharp weapon, which fractured his skull. He then got into a small cabin on the roadside, but was totally unable to give any account of his assail ants, being quite speechless. He died early on the fol lowing day. Brien was a very inoffensive man, and has left a wile and four children to mourn his loss. Df EADFUL CATASTROPHE.—The Cork Examiner con tains an account of an awful disaster in Killarney, by which a workhouse has been destroyed by fire, and twenty seven girls and two women killed. On Tuesday the fire broke out about eleven o'clock, when the cries of the wretched inmates from the windows, for assistance to save them from the most terrible of all deaths, was most ap palling. After ladders had been procured the work of rescue commenced most nobly. Every man vied with his neighbour in his efforts to save life. Protestant and Romanist clergymen, magistrates, physicians, police, and people—all did their duty. But the result was a reported loss of three lives. The dreadful part of the business, however, remains to be told. The cry of " fire," and the livid glare of the flames, which forced its way into the brewery (branch house), awoke the sleeping children. Alarm for parents, friends, relations, in the other house, made distraction and confusion. They beheld the burn ing pile from the windows. In their eagerness to go forth, they rushed madly to the doors and windows, but they were locked or fastened. They then sought an unused loft for the purpose of egress; but the rotten planks gave way—twenty-eight persons were instantly killed, and as many more frightfully mutilated. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE, DIOCESE OF CHESTER, PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort, to the rectory of the second medietv:of Lymm, with the chapelry of War burton. Patron, R. E. E. Warburton, Esq. Value, be tween £3OO and. £4OO, with residence. The Rev. T. Crossland, to the perpetual curacy of the district of St. Thomas, Hyde, Stockport. Value, £l3O. Patron, the bishop for this turn. Rev:Howard St. George, to the stipendiary curacy of Wizen. The Rev. L. W. Sampson, vicar of Prescot, has been appointed, by the Rev. Henry Raikes, Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester, one of the surrogates for granting marriage licences, &c. The - Rev. appointment J. Tobin, Liscard, has received a shr.ilar LICENSES OF NON-RESIDENTS. The Bishop has granted licenses of non-residence, in conformity with the act of parliament, to the Rev. J. B. Monk, of St. George's, Liverpool, and the Rev. F. Hop. wood, of Knowsley. PUBLIC WORSHIP The Bishop has licensed a room in Kirkdalo for divine service, under the pastoral superintendence of the Rev. D. James Lord Stamford is about to erect a new church at Bowdon. An exercise for the degree of bachelor of music, com posed by Charles Danvers Hackett, of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, organist of the parish church of Liverpool, will be performed in the Music School, Oxford, on Wednes day, (to - morrow.) The Rev. J. M. Jephson, formerly a curate in Leeds, who caused some excitement a year or two ago, by se ceding from our Church and formally attaching himself to the Church of Rome, has, together with Mrs. Jephson, recently received the communion in Gorleston church, having regularly attended that church for some months past. We are also informed that he has resumed the title of Reverend, which after his secession from the Church of England he had laid aside. The Bristol Times has announced that proceedings have been commenced, in the Arches Court, against the Rev. J. Seton Kerr, a " fox-hunting parson," at the instigation of the rural dean, for hrbitual cursing and swearing, lewd behaviour, and other charges of a like and worse character. The reverend gentleman is vicar of Berkeley, a parish containing 4,000 inhabitants; and Earl Fitzhardinge has taken up his case, and made an appeal to the bishop to suspend proceedings, who has re plied in a letter, which contains a dignified rebuke to the earl for his uncalled-for interference. ARCHDEACON THORPE AND THE BISHOP OF GLOU CESTER AND BRlSTOL. — Exaggerated reports of an al leged " rebuke," given by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to Archdeacon Thorpe, after the ordination at Stapleton on Sunday fortnight, being in circulation, we have inquired into the matter, and find there is no further ground for it than this. The archdeacon, who preached, went direct from the communion table to the pulpit, and commenced the sermon without the collect, as it is now done in some churches, and of which it ap pears his lordship did not approve, as he afterwards said in the vestry to those who had just been ordained, and in the presence of the archdeacon, " Gentlemen, I do not wish you to take example by what you have seen to day," alluding to the circumstance we have jult stated.—Chel tenham Journal. TIIF POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER.—The language in which he assails these societies and the sacred volume which, under God, they have been the means of dissemi nating, is itself such an exposure, that we shall simply reprint it without criticism :—" With unheard-of audacity (writes Pius IX.) and under a false pretext of religion, they recommend the reading of them to the faithful. You, in your wisdom, perfectly understand, venerable brothers, with what vigilance and solicitude you ought to labour, that the faithful may fly with horror from this poisonous reading, and that they may remember that no man, supported by his own prudence, can arrogate to himself the right, and have the presumption, to interpret the Scriptures otherwise than as our holy mother the church interprets them, to whom alone our Lord has con fided the guardianship of faith, judgment upon the true sense, and interpretation of the divine books." A correspondent of the Record states that at a meeting of the British Reformation Society held at Brighton, a pupil of St. Marks' rose in the body of the meeting, and demanded " whether the Society held that the Pope was the Man of Sin, and Popery the apostacy"— (both of which propositions he denied, as was understood) ; and he proceeded to reprobate the practice of the Society in seeking to draw away members from the Church of Rome on the Continent (whilst he admitted the propriety of doing so in Ireland, because she was there a schism) ; but that they ought rather to recommend them to remain at their posts in the Church of Rome and to endeavour to reform her, and to save their consciences in joining her worship by withholding an amen to what was erroneous in it ; that the contrary system—vie., that pursued by the Society, was in violation of the apostolic precept, Rom. xvi. 17, " Mark them which cause divisions," &c., and to wind up all (though he said much more than I have room to relafe,) he stated his belief that Christ's promise to his apostles " to be with them," &c." was independent of their teaching all things, &c. ; and that Christ was as n , lilt with the Church of Rome as with the Church of EriOrvid. THE LIVERPOeL STANI)AkD. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—MONDAY. (Sittings in Banco.) lIILLCOAT V. THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY This was an action by the Rev. Dr. Hillcoat, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, Liverpool, against the defend. ants, for not properly exercising the discretion vested in them by act of parliament, to award sufficient compensa tion to the plaintiff in respect of his interest in St. Mat thew's Church and the adjacent ground and buildings, which had been taken for the purposes of their act by the Liverpool and Bury Railway Company. The action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at the sittings after last term, in London, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, on the second count of the declaration, with £1,541 damages. Sir F. Thessiger, Q.C., now moved, pursuant to leave reserved at the trial, to enter a verdict for the defendants, on the plea of not guilty to the second count of the declaration, or to arrest the judgment, or for a new trial, on the grounds of the improper reception of evidence, that the verdict was against the evidence, and for misdirection. The facts of the case were stated in a recent notice of the trial. After some deliberation, the court granted a rule nisi on the ground of misdirection. In the Court of Common Pleas, the other day, Edward Garbett, an attorney, was struck off the rolls for a frau dulent represesentation as to the amount of his costs. An application was made to the Vice-Chancellor, on Friday, for the appointment of a guardian of the infant daughter of the late Mr. Jermy, Recorder of Norwich... In the Bail Court leave was asked on behalf of Mr. William Daggett Ingledew to change the entry of his name on the roll of attorneys to that of William Dag gett—Daggett being the surname of his mother's family. The Court quoted Lord Tenterden to the effect that " when there is no fraud, and a man meant bona fide to change his name, he may do so without royal license"— " the voluntary assumption of the name of a testator is a legal assumption." Leave was given. A LEGAL ABSURDITY.—A person dies, holding shares in the South Devon Railway—t he York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway—the North British Raihvay—and the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. The first is within the province of Canterbury, the second within the province of York, the third within the jurisdiction of the Court at Edinburgh, and the fourth within that of Dublin. Four probates must be obtained of the deceased person's will, and great cost incurred, before these shares can become the property of others. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction Railway was opened for traffic on Monday last. A man named Rodder, a smith, in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway Company was run over by an engine near the Bow Station. The deceased was walking along the line. On Monday night, a collision occurred at the Liverpool junction of the Bolton and Preston Railway ; and a stoker named Alfred Sheffield, aged twenty-one, had one of his legs severed in the crush. He subsequently died. The Admiralty and the Holyhead Railway Company have come to an open rupture. The company, - it is said, purpose to withdraw their own boats, and discontinue a passenger train. This will occasion great inconvenience to passengers. According to Herapalles Journal forty engines of the Eastern Counties Railway are " laid up" in consequence of the reduction of the number of trains on the main line. It is stated, also, that "an effort will be made to pay a three-shilling dividend." The negociations for a proposed amalgamation, which have been for some time pending between the East Lan cashire and the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway Companies, have been broken off by the latter c )mpany, and an agreement entered into with the Lancashire and Yorkshire. Company instead. In the Bail Court, on Tuesday, a rule was applied for, calling on two magistrates at Bath, to show cause why they, should not issue a distress warrant against a railway por ter, to enforce a penalty for removing certain trucks on Sunday, contrary to the Lord's Day Act. Mr. Justice Erie said the best way of enforcing the penalty was by action, and refused the rule. An entertainment was given at Manchester, on Tuesday se'ennight, within one of the arches of the London and North-western Railway, to the men employed in the goods department of the line, by Mr. Samuel Salt, the general manager. The arch, which is upwards of two hundred feet in length, and proportionably wide, was lighted with gas, and decorated with evergreens and artificial flowers. The number of persons present was nearly seven hundred. MR. HUDSON AGAIN.—A quondam friend of his late iron majesty, seeing Mr. Hudson walking up and down the new station at Leeds, scarcely noticed, a few days ago, was curious to know the opinion of the fallen man as to the present state of railways, and screwed up courage to ask him the question, to which Mr. Hudson replied,— " Why, it is ill this free-trade, this free-trade i" His friend was highly tickled with the reply, as he was con vinced it was his majesty's free-trade in railways that had depressed them.—Darlington Times. MIDLAND RAILWAY.—It appears that the Live"pool shareholders in this company are endeavouring to bring about a revision of the terms of the existing leases and guarantees, which at present amount to an annual charge on this railway of £224,000. They also intend to enforce their privilege of electing new directors in the room of those who retire by rotation, and thus take the first legi timate step towards effecting a change in the " policy" of the board, and an improvement in the management of the company's affairs. It is believed that a similar course will be adopted at the ensuing ordinary meetings by shareholders in the Caledonian and other companies. RAILWAY AUDIT.—At a meeting of railway directors, held at the King's Arms Hotel, Palace-yard, on Wednes day, the Earl of Lonsdale in the chair, it was resolved to withdraw the bill prepared in accordance with the resolu tions of the directors, passed in November last, in conse quence of so few shareholders having expressed an opinion on the question, and to leave the matter for the considera tion of the shareholders of the different companies at the next half-yearly meetings. A universal opinion was, how ever, expressed against the interference of the government in the matter, and Mr. Glyn, M.P., the chairman of the London and North-western Railway Company, stated that a number of the shareholders of that company had formed themselves into a committee, and were preparing a bill, which it was hoped, as emanating from railway share holders only, irrespective of the interference of any body of directors, would prove generally acceptable to the whole body of railway proprietors. CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—Your admirable exposure of the increase of parish burthens, of the way in which that increase is expended, amounting, as it does, to double the sum extracted from the ratepayers under the old system, or could be under any system of local management, in which their interests are regarded, or, in other words, the means of payment were considered, deserved the thanks of every one, who, in these hard times, has had the truth of its arithmetical illustration brought home to his straightened means in a way that leaves their argument beyond cavil, namely, by the parish collector, and, as it has been proved, by the bailiff. Believe me, sir, the question thus considered is not to be hoodwinked by the plausibilities of such writers, no doubt reformers, as that in last Monday's Albion, not withstanding that paper's finical attempt at endorsement of the stamp, in very questionable criticism on the taste and humanity of your talented exposure. Political eco nomist and financial reformer ! Save the mark ! as it is— his and its humanity specialities, regardless of expense to a community, will go for what they are worth with the most obtuse amongst its members. Such a spirit, in such quarters—when local—aggravates, if :t does not exceed, national taxation, is more severe in the manner of its in fliction, and is utterly out of proportion even with the burthen of the latter, considering the area in which it is expended, is, to say the least, and not to offend so delicate a critic, a plain proof of convenient application of princi ple to serve clients interests, or a noble instance of self oblivion for the sake of one-sided sentiment or philan thropy running the gauntlet, in love with taxation, what you will, anything but consistency. It shows, however, names are not worth pinning faith to, or are, if anything, to be taken contrary to their evident and undisguised meaning : that action alone determines their value, and that in this light the people's friends are found, on com parison or on balance of equivalents, very like enemies to the people, and are—as examples plentifully furnish—sel dom or never obedient to their own principles, or rather professions, as they turn out when crotchets, hobbies, commissions and that ilk are to be considered. Had the ratepayers—the resident people here—not trusted to such friends, they would not now be saddled with double the amount of rates levied when they managed without a cen tral commission, or determined to attend to their own business.. They now can see the difference : they have the consequence at present to deplore : they have the remedy in their own hands. Whether they will continue to submit to such an authority, directly at variance with the good old spirit of local government, they must decide, when they know and feel their degradation, and how much they deserve to suffer for having allowed any govern. ment, under any pretence, to filch from them this their birthright. A RATEPAYER. Water-street, Jan. 10, 1850. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—Can you inform me the reason why the books of the new rate of fares are not yet delivered to the carmen ? Having frequently had occasion to take a car since the new rates were published, I am constantly annoyed by the drivers standing out for the old rates, on the ground that the books of the new rates of fare are not delivered to them. VIATOR. _....__. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT MAGHULL TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-It was not until the evening of the 14th instant that I saw your paper of the Bth, and was much surprised to find that, in your report of the proceedings at the late inquest, I am charged with having been intoxicated. Now, sir, I beg leave to say such was not the case. What possible motive the party could have in malting such an assertion I cannot tell ; but I can truly say, if I had been in such a condition, I should most assuredly have shared the same fate as the three unfortunlie iadti viduals. I have been at the Maghull station evet since the opening of the line; and I can conscientiously say, no person has seen me the worse for liquor during that time. By giving this a piece in your valuable:miscellany, you will oblige . _ Yours truly, J. GARSIDE. Has hull, January 18, 100. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. -.- Sir James Duke will second the address. Mr. O'Brien, the member for Limerick, is about to re sign, and join the Protectionists. It is said that a reduction of a quarter of a million will be made in the navy estimates. In the House of Lords, Lord Essex will propose, and Lord Methuen second, the address in reply to the Queen's speech. Mr. D'lsraeli has been charged by the free-trade jour nals with advancing his rents, but the hon. gentleman has emphatically denied the statement. Mr. James L. O'Ferrall, brother of the governor of Malta, has been appointed the second salaried commis sioner of the National Board of Education. The salary is £lOOO per annum. Mr. Serjeant Byles is the author of " Sophisms of Free Trade." A requisition has been presented to the learned gentleman to allow himself to be nominated as candidate for one of the divisions of Sussex. The protectionist members of parliament will assemble at Lord Stanley's residence, on the 31st instant—the day on which parliament is summoned to meet—when the propriety of moving an amendment to the address will be taken into consideration. The Morning Herald exposes with great effect the in consistency of the " Liberal" press, in extolling the " practical good sense" of the American democracy, and at the same time refusing to accept Protectionist doctrines which it takes for its guidance. Mr. Cobden, of course, has at once raised the cry of blood-money in regard to the proposed Russian loan " The Cossack hOrdes have fulfilled their mission in Hungary : witness her wasted fields, her smoking villages, and her scaffolds flowing with the blood of her noblest patriots ; and now the savage instruments of all this de vastation and slaughter are clamorous for their wages." This " unholy and infamous transaction" is not, how ever, likely to be impeded by the ravings of Richard Cob den and the peace congress. The solvency of Russia is all that will be looked to, and, notwithstanding Califor nia, her gold mines offer very fair security. The object of raising the money is to make a railroad from St. Peters burgh to Moscow, and the Times says that the loan was completed within a few hours of its announcement, and that the contractors received applications for at least twice the amount of tLe loan they had to dispose of. _ THE REAL AUTHORS OF THE NATIONAL DEBT.—It is a memorable fact that from the very first the Tory part opposed themselves strenuously to the creation and pro gress of the national debt, the nucleus of which was formed when the Whigs were in power. It is well that those who in our times bitterly denounce the system which has landed us in such inextricable difficulties, and which has had the effect of rearing up class interests, irre concileably opposed to each other, in once-united Eng land, should remember that for this legacy we are specially indebted to the Whigs. Except by Tory ministers, and in one case by Walpole, no attempt has been made to stem the progress of the current ; and this consideration is doubly valuable at this• moment, when it is proposed, by a vigorous effort. to make head against the monster grievance, and, .by the establishment of an inviolable sinking-fund, to commence that work which liberal and juggling politicians have hitherto shamefully evaded. THE TEA DUTIES.—DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS. — A deputation to ministers, from Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh, on the subject of the reduction of the duty on tea, had an interview with the premier on Wednesday. On a question where the arguments are en irely upon the one side, it was not expected that ministers wouldsay any thing discouraging to so influential a deputation. Lord John Russell assured them that " the subject should re ceive the best consideration of himself and his right hon. colleague, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ;" but further than this the premier would not venture to utter a sylla ble. "On a question involving so many points of impor tance, the government could not be expected to give a definite answer ;" and so we must remain in suspense till Sir Charles Wood brings forward his annual budget, when, we trust, he will be bold enough, and wise enough, to employ a portion of the surplus revenue at his disposal in effecting a large reduction of that tno3t oppressive of all taxes on consumption, the duty on tea. CHARTIST MEETINGS.—The , first of a series of Char tist meetings was held at the London Tavern on Monday evening. Feargus O'Connor was the " head and frcnt" of this assembly ; and he, of course, exulted over the " conversion" of Sir Joshua Walmslcy and Mr. Cobden, and animated his audience by spouting verses which he said were of his own composition : an intimation akin to that of an old blind ballad singer in the streets, who used to wind up his performance with the Homeric assurance, "I am the author of every word I sing." The orators were the old familiar talkers ; and Julian Harney, who is employed on the Northern Star, scared a soberer Char tist of the name of Clark, by his denunciation of the mid dle classes, and his hints that when the next revolution occurs, in France or England, the people may find it necessary to perpetuate their power, by handling the heads of their opponents. Another speaker said, " The last revolution bad given the people power to turn Louis Napoleon off the throne, if he dared to raise himself to it, and to establish the. Red Republic triumphantly. In thht case the triumph of the people would not be followed by the like events which had occurred in February—they would .show the rascals what mercy they deserved. Vice la guillotine .1" REASONS WHY THE PRICES OF GRAIN ARE NOT LOWER.—The prices of grain, low as they are, have been upheld by circumstances beyond the control of our free trade statesmen. The disturbances on tbs, ocmtioeut basc no doubt greatly impeded the pursuits of the European agriculturist, and restricted their productions ; whilst it is notorious that the last crop of wheat in the United States was far below the average. We have now before us a letter from an intelligent farmer in the States of Ohio, who emigrated some years ago from Melton, in this county. He states, in reference to the late American harvest, " The wheat this season has been so injured by a kind of fly, that thousands, I may say tens of thousands, of farmers here have not reaped as much as they sowed." Of course this deficiency in the hariest must have limited the quantity of grain available for export to this country, and as prices are ruled by the relative proportion of supply and demand, so must these circumstances have tended to keep up the prices at a higher figure than they would have ranged, had peace prevailed throughout Europe, and had the labours of the .American farmer been blessed with a fruitful harvest. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the quantity of corn thrown on our markets has been immense ; what then may we expect under altered circumstances.—Yorkshire Gazette. THE MARKET GARDENERS.—There is, perhaps, scarce any class of persons which has suffered so severely from the abolition of protective duties as the market gardeners. The high rental of the fertile lands that they cultivate, especially in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, the high wages of their numerous labourers, the immense ex tent of walls and of glass, and the quantity of coals and of expensive manure that they require, render them utterly unable to compete with the untaxed productions of more genial climates. The high prices that were formerly paid for very early specimens of forced fruits and vegeta bles, in order that they might appear at the public ban quets and private parties in London, can no longer be obtained. The market gardener has been deprived of them by the natural productions of France. Spain, and Portugal, which are sold at Covent-garden for one-tenth of the price for which they can be cultivated in England at the same season. And thus, in order to gratify the vanity or epicurism of the wealthy Londoner, at a cheap rare, the industry and skill and capital by which many thousands of persons have been accustomed to be sup ported during the inclemency of winter, is rendered utterly unproductive, and unless there be an immediate return to protection must cease to be employed. This is but a single instance out of many that might be adduced of the ruinous effects of free trade upon the market gar deners. . THE PEACE SOCIETY.—A meeting of this association was held on Friday at London, to consider the propo,§al recently issued for negociating a loan for fhe Russian go vernment in this country. Among those on the platform were Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. C. Gilpin, the Rev. Mr. Burnet, and the Rev. Mr. Richards. Mr. Charles Gil pin, of the Peace Society, was unanimously elected to take the chair. A letter was read from Mr. Dudley C. Stuart, expressive of regret that he was not able to attend, through indisposition,----Mr. Cobden addressed the meet ing at great length. He congratulated the Peace Society, and the friends of peace in this country, that the Emperor of Russia had been obliged to affix his name to a docu ment which is not true, in order to obtain a loan of two millions and a half in this country. He was in St. Pe tersburgh two years since, when the railway was all com pleted with the exception of an embankment, and looking at the martial disposition of the Emperor, he did not think the railroad will be completed for ten years to come. (llear, hear.) He would spend money like a great over grown colossal baby on his soldiers rather than on those substantial improvements which could really alone add to the power, the happiness, and the civilisation of his country. It was evident the loan was required to pay the expense of the late war in Hungary. He concluded by moving a resolution—" That to lend money to the Em peror of Russia for such an object would virtually be to sanction the deeds of violence and blood committed by him in Hungary, and to furnish him with the temptation and the means for carrying on future schemes of aggres sion and conquest." GREAT PROTECTIONIST MEETING IN DUBLIN.—One of the most important meetings (says the Packet) that has assembled for years in this city was held OD Thursday in the round room of the Rotunda. The requisition un der which it was convened has appeared during the past week in our columns, and our readers,therefore,are aware that the objects of this national demonstration were to lay before the Queen and the country the absolute necessity of protection to native industry, of a reform in the present confiscating Poor Law system—in fact, of a thorough change in the ruinous policy of recent legislation for our misgoverned island. We have called this a national de monstration, national, for national it was in every sense of the term, the rank, the wealth, the intellect, the intel ligence of the country beigg fully represented in the per sons of the numerous peers, baronets, members of parlia ment, gentry, magistrates, bankers, merchants, and tenant farmers, who were present. Every grade, in truth, of what may be called society in Ireland, was represented at this great meeting, affording the best answer that could be given to the enemies of their country and kind, the political priests, the place-beggars, the Free Traders, and their unscrupulous press, who have sneeled at this demon stration as a mere landlord and high-rent movement. The Round-room was filled in every part, on and around the platform being cruded to inconvenience, and nothing coul/7 be more gTatifYing than thg, firm tone and enthn siasfiF, yet calm and moderate bealig that distinguished this vast and influential assemblage. Steward', with white wands, from the top of which fluttered white silk stream ers, bearing the word Protection, were pres6nt to preserve order ; but when we left the meeting their services were not required, unless in the allotment of pkices to late comers. The arrival of the Earl Roden was the signal for a burst of enthusiastic cheering, again and again re newed ; and similar demongrations followed continually the enunciation of every national sentiment uttered by the speakers. At a quarter to twelve o'clock, on the motion of Lord Castiemaine, seconded by James Hans Hamilton, M.P.,- the chair was taken by the Marquis of Downshire. The speakers were Lord Glengall, Mr. George Macartney, of Lisnamore Castle ; Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mr. Dillon, Boy lan ; Mr. Butt, Q.C. ; Mr. H, Grattan, the Hon. Mr. Preston, Mr. T. Bell, Col. Vandeleur, Lord Viscount Suirdale, and at five o'clock the meeting was proceeding. Of the meeting, the Dublin Packet observes, that "Nothing could surpass the unanimity that prevailed at this day's assemblage of Irishmen, whose solemn protest against the misrule which has devastated their country was uttered in a tone beseeming men who have not forgotten the glorious memory of 1782, The sentiments uttered this day, and the cordial unity of feeling and singleness of purpose that pervaded the vast meeting, afforded the best answer that could be given to those who have sneered at the divided councils which it was pretended had existence." Of Mr. Butt's speech, the Herald says, " We believe that since the days of Plunket a finer effort of reasoning, sarcasm, and eloquence has not been made ; and not only the en thusiastic plaudits of the entranced and crowded assembly, but the unanimous criticism (at the close of the proceed ings) of every man who was fortunate enough to hear him, attest the brilliant and powerful effect of this almost matchless display." COURT AND FASHION The court still remains at Windsor, the Queen and all the members of the royal family enjoying good health. Prince Albert has frequently enjoyed the amusement of shooting on the waters at Frogmore, the Queen, on several occasions, being a spectator. Edwin Landieer has completed a very pleasing court picture, representing Prince Albert seated on a couch, in a small room at Windsor, after the sports of the day, surrounded by dogs and dead game. The Princess Royal is represented playing with one of the birds, and the Queen is seen entering the room. The Earl of Roden, accompanied by one of his sons, arrived in Edinburgh on Saturday week, from London, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough. The Count and Countess of Rossi, together with a dis tinguished party, have recently been on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, at Raby Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and family are expected to arrive in town on the 30th instant, from Hatfield-house, for the season. A provincial paper gays that an exciseman, a short tim e since, when Prince Albert was shooting in le vicinity of Bagshot, demanded his certificate. The Prince, surprised at the application, referred the official to his secretary, Colonel Phipps, and the result has been that his Royal Highness has since duly qualified himself to sport over the Royal preserves NORWICH - UNION FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE. On Tuesday last the ANNUAL COURT of-PROPRIE TORS was held at the Society's House, in Surrey-street, pursuant to the Deed of Settlement, the Meeting having been called by public advertisement.—At twelve o'clock, the hour appointed for the President, ANTHONY HUDSON, Esq., to take the chair, that gentleman, accompanied by the Vice-President, GEORGE MORSE, Esq., the other Direc, tors, the Auditors, Secretaries, and Solicitors, entered the Board-room. Between 50 and 60 Proprietors had as bled The PRESIDENT stated that, on the present occasion, they were met for a tr,o-fold object. The first to receive the customary annual expose of the state ortheir affairs; and the second, to consider a resolution of the Board of Directors, of which the Proprietors had received notice three weeks since. He should call on the Secretary to open the business in the usual way. The Secretary, Samuel Bignold, Esq., after reading the advertisement calling the j tneeting, proceeded to the ac counts, which were arraiAed under three classes. First.—The annual balance sheet of the cash transac tions of the office: Second.—The ca tal account, and how invested at the 29th Septemb last. Third.—A re rn of the aggregate sum insured in the past year, ounting to sixty millions nine hundred and nine -four thousand one hundred and seventy seven p nds. The Pa IDENT next addressed the meeting on the chief points of nterest in these accounts. First, he remarked that the annual income of the office, from premiums on insurances, now amounted to X 93,590 6s. 10d., being a greater sum than ever before was shown as received in a year. This increase proved that the business of the office had advanced, and, he might add, was still advancing. Next, the sum paid for losses by fire in the past year were below the average, and the general result of the year's transactions left them with a profit of £22,746 13s. 7d„ which, added to a former reserve of £14,006 19s. 7d., gave them a total of £36,753 13s. 2d. now disposable. The Directors, on a careful review of the present state and future prospects of the office, had come to the unanimous resolution of declaring a dividend of 10 per cent. on the paid-up capital. (Hear, hear.) The President next adverted to a circumstance which he doubted not had become known to most, if not to all of them, that the society had, within the last three weeks, sustained a heavy loss in Derbyshire (£20,000). This event, however much to be regretted, might be retrieved by the events of the next eight months ; but even if fortune should not so smile on them, provision was made for this loss, by the ample reserves in hand, amounting to nearly £24,000, He next invited the proprietors to discuss or inquire on any subject connected with the institution ; but no one rising, he requested the secretary to open to the meeting the remaining business for which the proprietors had been convened. This was a renewal of their partnership, which, by the Deed of Settlement, would expire on the 6th of August, 1851. The Secretary then read several clauses of the deed of settlement, and extracts from the minutes of the directors. By these it appeared that the deed of settlement, which bore date the 6th of August, 1821, provided for the sub sistence of the society for a period of thirty years, but enacted that it should be competent for the proprietors to renew the partnership if they thought so fit ; and fixing the time for determining the matter at the present annual general meeting. The PRESIDENT remarked, that the time was now ar rived, when the Directors, who had, from the first institu tion of this Society presided over its affairs, should render their account to their constituents ; and he flattered him self, that the duty thus devolving upon him, as the organ of the board, was not a difficult or distasteful one. The pub licbenefit derived from this Society had beentwo-fold : first, to the shareholders : secondly, to the parties insuring. At the date of its Deed of Settlement, in 1821, the aggregate business of the office a little exceeded forty millions—now it exceeded sixty millions : thus showing an increase of one-third. The paid-up capital of the office, in 1821, had been £66,000; now,if divided, therevras in hand £162,000, being nearly £l3O per cent.increase; and during the whole twenty-eight years, the interest pai annually had averaged £8 2s. 9d. per cent, So far as respected the position of things to themselves. Next as to the insurers. They had received, in periodical returns, no less than £217,862 : and there was now in band £49,000, applicable to the re turns commencing at Michaelmas week, and which would be£lopercent, on the annual premiums for the four years ending onthe 29th September, 1849. Looking at these grand results, he thought he might congratulate them on a most successful working of this highly important and valuable Society ; and that it would not require much consideration on their part, whether they should renew their partnership or die a natural death. The point, however, was reserved by the deed specially for the Proprietors' decision, The Direc tors had givenit their best and most anxious consideration ; and the result they all had received notice of, by the cir cular of the Secretaries of the 15th December last. The view thus put before them, was his own idea of tho mat ter, and he had much satisfaction in finding it unanimously concurred in by the whole board. HENRY BROWNE, Esq., as an old proprietor, and the son of a former director and former president, who had taken a deep interest in the prosperity of the society, would submit a resolution for the adoption of his brother proprietors. After what had fallen from the President, he did not think it needful to occupy their time further than to remark, that in the past success of this society the Shareholders had the surest nresage of future advantage ; and he thought they could not do better than act on the advice giver► them by the Directors, and renew the term of partnership without change of any sort. He moved — "That this court, having taken into consideration the re solution come to at an extraordinary Board of Directors, held on the 28th day of November last, that it was advis able to continue this Society for a term of years beyond the original term of 30 years mentioned in the Deed of Settlement, such further term to commence on and from the 6th day of August which will be in the year 1851, when the original term will expire,—doth resolve on the further continuance of th: Society ; and do fix such further term at 30 years, to commence on and from the said 6th day of August, 1851,—and this court doth also resolve, that the said Society shall be continued upon the same laws, regu lations, and conditions, as are expressed i❑ the Society's Deed of Settlement." P. J. MoNEY, Esq., begged to second the resolution. After the luminous expose of the President, and the suc cessful result of the past, every one must be anxious that so important and useful a society as this should be per petuated. C. E. TUCK, Esq., begged permission to address one or two words to the meeting. Whatever difficulties might have been passing in his mind before coming into that room, the President's explanation of the society's affairs removed them all. Whoever might question the recom mendation submitted to them for adoption by the Direct ors, would be a bold man, and not, he should say, a wise man. The PRESIDENT, having taken the sense of the meeting on the resolution thus moved and seconded, declared it to be carried unanimously. ROGER KERRISON, Esq., before the meeting broke up, felt that it was only fitting for the proprietors to place on record their sense of the able superintendence, by the pre sent Board of Directors, of this great and prosperous con cern ; and he moved that the thamis of the Proprietors be given them for such judicious and careful management of the affairs of the society. _ - This motion being seconded, and receiving the unani mous concurrence of the meeting, the President shortly responded for himself and his brother Directors. I. 0. TAYLOR, ESQ., had a motion, which he equally felt was an act of justice to the individual he should indi cate, who was their esteemed Secretary, Samuel Bignold, Esq., who had now so long and ably filled his onerous post. He had much pleasure in moving the warm and cordial thanks of the meeting to Mr. Bignold, whose ser vices, he hoped, they should retain for many years. (" Hear, bear," from all parts of the room.) Mr. BIGNOLD assured the meeting Phat he should never cease to devote his time and services, as he had done for the whole of his past life, to the promotion of the best interests of this impprtant undertaking, which fever was in a more sound and . ptosperous state, as the Auditors' Report-books, and the Directors'•'Finance-books, then on the table, would, if inspected, give evidence. The meeting then broke up. Jan. 22, 1650. -- - TO MAILS IN THE PACIFIC.-DEPUTATIOI,, GOVERNMENT. Locket t ' On Friday, a deputation, consisting of Mr. chairman of the Liverpool Shipowners' Association ; Brownell, Mr. Board m an, an d M r . N a ylor, en bebso u °f the Liverpool merch a nt s i n t eres t e d i n the co mmence d , the the west coast of So u th A mer i ca ; t oge ther with Id es ' Templeman and Davy, representing similar interests„ London, had an int erv i ew w i t h th e Ch an cellor of th er- ' „ chequer, at his offici a l res id ence i n Downing treet the subject of postal intercourse between this country certain ports in the Pacific. duce ( ' Mr. Cardwell, M.P . for Liverpool, having intro de, • the l d t p o u f t a a o t t i s o a b e , a proceeded a t the e c g o n ue s i s te o ra n b . le length ta be. A conversation of consid era bl e l eng th here ensued _ vers i tween the Chancellor of th e E xc h equer and the ,273 th e gentlemen present, the substan ce o f w h os e replies t o interrogatories of the right h on . gen tl em an maY n` briefly epitomised. The British line of mail steamers now run rai 3 7 . Ip' along the west coast of South America between 8 , 1 , 1 1 raiso and Panama in connexion with the Royal Steam Packet Companies' monthly mail line fron 2 ,‘_-; 00 gres to England. The average time occupied betel 9, Chagres and Southampton by this route is about 37 ''.7 i ), g viz., regularly leaving Chagres on the 29th and ar r ',,, on the 3d to the 7th of the second month folic:ol,e i T sst h ao e tn r e e sth h lie a n s seao f m o f r emd s aa o iy m l some to t a im m e ers be r e u n nn i i n ng op tw era io t o io e n ve a ry 1 / 13 1 3 0.. 1 0r ril between Chagres and New York. One of the depart voyage between Chagres and N ew Y or k i s f r om 9 n a s o that nth) . o f Thetheßot Royal West oocup occupied t re d d be ( tahyes days, 29th s say yf 10days. Hitherto the re h ave been 1 10 ,: i i p s each m perly preconcerted arrangeme n t s f or connec ting tins t he i at New York with the depart ures f or E ng land ot remo United States or British mail li ne ; consequen tly the g generally a loss of five or six days at New York. : 01 voyage thence to England, ho wever , occup i es only tro ' s ie 11 to 13, say 12 days ; and all ow i ng f or exc h ang e °I cleat D at New York one day, making 23 d a y s , w hi c h gi v e s chet gain, as compared with th e R oya l M a il St ea m ; th e Company's route of 14 days. Th e correspon d e nce o L, e 4i, mohth by the route of the R o y a l M a il S teamers was ufres vered at Liverpool on the llth, being thus from Chay. 43 days. By the Ne w Y or k route , notw i t h sta ndin o s pet detention of about fou r d a y s a t N ew Y or k (which Preele arrangements could not fail :to obviate) letters were to vered in Liverpool on th e 24th o f D ecem b er , being fIS from Chagres 25 days, g i v i ng a diff erence i n t i m e °V days, to which, a ddi ng l oss a t N ew Y ork 4 days, 'ye, establish a saving in f a vo ur o f th e N ew Y or k rou te o l t, est days. Dupli ca t es o f th e W est I n di a, Mexican, an d / of Coast correspo n d ence are now i nvar i a b lydirected by n'Blo, New York, to the p re j u di ce o f t h e B r i tish pos te, te e venue ; but great i nconven i encean d di sappoin t tn entail ie from th e i rregu l ar rece i pt of these, in consequence 0,1,04 want of an established connexion between the New or and Chagres, andthe New York a n d Li verpoo l Britishi o l the United States and Southampton mail lines. S ect o t, dollarsAtmhveu Averaging sr c a a lg n e iattniodlgei3n;fighoroemtc: the-delay lraeyc priorityde a i ot v e lia4r t os h dfm e a i i y r onsnt a etp d ihei v iirg i y c e e n s c , ande. Underoth e r s exitd 11.00,0 •e O P • arrangements, bullion to the extent of from 2. 500 T can remittances) is conveyed by the royal mail stesinAer p annualer annum, lo loss in which, interest at theof aboutrate o f ac te 4 ( l w o e p ee m e st r th o : c . o e ga n is t t v r t . e b as e s ill h d6 v oB. : .,o l : : :: l:ll ,4: l il amasta S eondn t emdv a dr ertciaerui-i it is ieli g oidosy o rintan v otitn e oorh r nn, el i n yoona m oui flrnn e i detnc n efheeex t tadrai h teokt bannhjoyvneefeegn withtti le n heoen o et taipoest i raat n hi IcEneatc o hedno p i gvpuap e ilann r real a etedn t operati o n .tdech o n, ot n eahmttst oa a t fttos s cer t e anoem t n drr am.t - aew n ss commence atnic e " : 0, ,eeit s eis line of mail -steamers between:San Francisco and Pena i n l about to be established between Panama and ValPa re i l e Chagres and New York line, and with the United St e March or April next. Thus, under the advantages' 'l's is by far the most desirable route, whether viewed C ( 10 willfeneahamar egabdreetsb carriedheata snnpdeeaerbdlyyi the a all sut theestablished United ies e dh s t esdt c ,a o ta a e coast t dm a at n ihl d e Mexicantime steamers, b e t ut r o a semi-monthly E m no a g i at hned servicebetweenrroendtuectcontemplated att eo Valparaiso a 2 l t4r p e twoe is e o k2s a l and 'i d r ; e : ard f twl e sosa t e oorthg n el hyemoceeooetdfaeßrnstit British iwpt o haiie u esnneh n ideko c mEin e yb d xeutarchlgrlh i ar iie n eotnvqncanu t ,yl l oes i t, e roao,s nurot n dor e thr oi w dtt hin i s ess p eephe a caa p rursse e t urtuce e ere e raetie , mphsi the tesesorrssfit i ii aperp s W e e saau r vn e v es t auu i h ent e nlicu e aore r i , tnee e British mail lines, necessarily on irregular and car ) c e days of the month, could not - be satisfactorily °i r e known, and would fail in competition with the m ore I , c l quent and regularly fixed hi-monthly departures ac re arrivals of the United States mail steamers. Even such a mode of conducting the service to prove otherttbe than successful, the time (18 months) for bringing: 4 ; tri-weekly scheme i n t o operat i on i s of itself a ste" of objection. A continuance for such a length of time i , the present mode of p er f orm i ng t h e serv i ce would iq`,to tably lead to the transfer of the whole traffic to Arne,r l ; steamers. Should the government o bj ect, on the P'ej expense, to sanction a bi- mon thl y ma il serv i ce thro"o te w. . the present rout es o f t h e R oya l M a i l Steam Packet Coe' . l pany, the deputati on cons id ere d t h at this objection wo ol ' 4 be removed ; and th e a d van t ages i n regard to t'w secured to the p u bli c b y an ear l y arrangement for svii interehanee of mail 6..1 "^ •>•••• between the steamers of the Royal Mail Steam p e c. Company and the more powerful steamers of the Livl pool and New York line. It was strongly urged in cod elusion by the deputation, that whatever the number o the sailings, in order properly to accommodate the pub i the departures and arrivals should be on fixed and inra r able days of each month. E ou x n e t he o q f u i e n r fo h nn av a i t n i g on e i x oi p p r a e s r e bs eci e J gro T a h t e gr C at l i l fi an ca c t e i l o l n or at o to hire in the statement of th e d epu t a ti on — o f w elch n$ tfbe the amount foregoing is a mere outline— a sk e d some f urt h er q uest as to the present cost of conveyance of bullion, s ' c '' reply to which v er Mr. Brownell said the cost a moun t e d to a b ou t e cent. He then - proceeded to sho w th e i mportance of 11 ' s t steamers calling at the several bye-ports on the soutle g f e coast, which were avoided at present. It was his con: h o tion and that of many oth ers equa ll y experienced, no unless the arrangements p ropose d were soon carr i e d t o , effect, this country would forfeit all the exclusive aci l d tages now derived from our treaty with the governni.ty of Chili. The deputation had no wish whatever to Pl e d dice the Royal West I n di a M a il packets, but contenor that it would be for the interest of that company i ll ' s it diately to put on st eamers f or N ew Y ork and Chargetbe connexion with Cunard' s li ne , ra th er t h an to a llor c ` t o passengers and treasu re t o b e t rans f erre d to the Arneriort line already in operation, an d d o i ng t h e serv i c e , quickly. f Mr. Lockett impressed upo n th e Ch ance ll o r e . t be Exchequer the extreme desi ra bility o f mee tly, „ t he threatened American competition in th e wa ters or et o Pacific by the adoption of a meas ure th a t wou ld seen; el Great Britain the advantages she already possesseitia that quarter, and enable her to participat e i n the greeo commerce now fast springing up in that region, e lt 0' data in support of his views, which were further str e t ie thened by Mr. Boardman, as well as by Mr. DevY: g ei latter gentleman dwelling particularly on the advar2t, j , conferred upon us by existing arrangements with cpl o lo, The Chancellor of the Exchequer having raise r rt, c , one objection on the score of the assumed non-se v' a few of the West India Islands (and being satisfee ta t iot met on that point), said he had not the least doubr, th e the route proposed would be the preferable one, sn_` l 4 ,4 4 deputation might rely that the question in all its be should receive his best and most earnest consideratTd The deputation then withdrew, highly gratified their reception. gree d ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—O n M on d a y a ne" Eastern spectacle, entitled " The Arab and his Stec. ; 05 e, the Pearl of the Euphrates," was produced at this under the immediate sup er i n t en d ence o f M r . D. Je r r e foot, the well-known stage manager to the late Dee 5e5, As usual, no expense was sp are d as t o scene ry, dr s e ,iO O , properties, &c. The d rama a b oun d s i n even t s and I—'o' peculiar to Eastern life and manners. The proceslbet of horse and foot are on a most liberal scale, and, tog e el with the scenic and other stage effects, produce 1111 , 4 - tfr on the beholder quite charming and captivating,' `," 0 0: senses. Scenes in the arena folrow, in which everY." - R, ber of the company, under Alr. Pablo Fanque, vi e TV each other to win the good opinions of the audience' ' tie ll week a grand new spe c t ac l e w ill b e presen t e d, in e a to the other numerous attractions. How seldom do w e f ee l, perce i ve , or thi n k of the 1611 0 0 beginnings of dise ase w hi c h surroun d an d operat e us in our enjoyments and intercourse with the world' " The young disease, which must subdue at _length, at kind Grows with our growth, and streng9te-nS With our su,' An d An improper regimen acting Atpon a particular Al st 4 0 constitution, and late hours ; both of retiring to r e . o l rising in the morning, -- lay the foundation of intesti fop well as skin diseases. To all such we would reclul 1 ?; first a chanmef system, and, secondly, as a power v o r lii sistant forthe recovery of health, that efficacious l oco e Medicine, Frampton's Pill of Health, w hich has P.r tf , the approbation of persons in every station in s r e rit.V o A CURE FOR RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY certified by Mr. James Rochford, of Port Plii"rifee;,o states that his wife, Mrs. Lydia Rochford, Ras ItboOld with rheumatism in the head for 15 months, Oa t ° col l o attended by the best medic a l p rac titioners. su' 0 0 11 ," obtain no relief ;it also affected-the p a late of her to P to that degree that she could n o t p ro p er ly artiC v l;ils words. She was„adtised to try Holloway's by their efficacy,sbe has been restored to her 1151 pub state of health. Thi s won d er f u l cure i s now reeu e .,ffer l in the patlirs of Po r t Philip, f or th e sake of in humanity. Holloways Pills are equally efficacious cases of gout. lgisle QUACKS AND THEIR QUACKERIES.— The t i e - 0 ir li f o f having left the public much at the mercy of 111° ,00 rant compounders of useless or dangerous nostfroes, Of which their authors claim such astonishing vi rc ion t o altogether from becomes a duty of the press, the natural g 113 .... 0 fr society, to sift the tares from the wheat, and war: i f 0 010 udonwnaortythose in d v e i c t e e pt t i o ve de a s p t p r e o a y ra , e n are ces,,,wbr e ' w hat e consequences may be, so long as they dispose e tb dia i dities made only "to sell!" Were we to .i ll4 .. e ' r oe 0 0 merely by pretensions, hood` infallible o ' tur o fe e should we have to stigmatise as barefaced irl l P ° the public. But amidst this host of frauds , 'yogi, to the wary ago Rik they have been proved to be 40$ in fact—still there are some wholesosne and Aoo7# dicines, which accomplish all they pretend• c o cPr these —the' rara avis" of patent medicines — e 7 . t is bile lol) tittle cor0 0„ Pam': what they promise they perform. 11 ' e ter 1.1 tain that they are a safe medicine ; a chare_ o ooo cannot be accorded to nine-tenths of the COD perform so many astounding miracles—in Pr'' Bull. • - !...