The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

I the S kND DEPUTIES of tip g; Clg 4on the questions which tude have reached their ?.mneror of Austria, the a„ the Emperor on which consecrates to maintain t of the Otton►an empire aeon the country have al It Would have alance should have been iromedi- ire and revenues of must now prepare, ithout weakening our military rring the execution of those ational prosperity v will be presented to you for constructing f a great system of railroads calculated to easy communications with all parts of ill prove a source of force and riches to same time, by r 'gociations tend our commercial relations actions of our soil, and nd render it stable and I have reason to reckon that it ng from all the Powers the most asures to prevent_any external compli- the security of our African posses iers are pursuing on that land, hence tch, the course of their noble labours, 'at my sons have had the honour of severance shall complete the work . ageous army, and France will intro 3ivilization as the consequence of her and others, having for their object to cements in the public administration, ) you immediately he burdens of our situation, France bout difficulty if faction did not un course of her powerful activity. I hues and crimes of the factious, entlernen, that it is that which debars enjoxing all the blessings which Pro- i it, and which retards the (leve -1 and pacific liberty which France has at which I make it my glory to ensure her ) this task, gentlemen. My govern- It will maintain everywhere and con- d to its true e • journalists mentioned in our last excitement out of doors as might be ex appear to take very little interest in the irisen between the newspaper press and the effect arising from the declaration in felt in the Chamber of Deputies, where them to be re- Your loyal support le country with persevering erest, we shallstrengthen- nion keep entire, the sacred de- liberties which the charter has con lerations will reap the fruit of our titude of our country will be our of tl. r the lit not joined in the protest are the fol- Messager, the Presse, ien, the Globe, the Universe, the Dix e Conslitutionnel, the Revue de Paris, les DAats, tt kine excited very little attention in Paris The aspect of the chamber on Mon- not more than one o: sing went off in an unusually sombre Bayed on the part of the king, nor on SPAIN d state that serious difficulties have tnish ministry and the French ambas r the presentation, by the latter, of his )ish government pretend to the right Salvandy (the French ambassador) ntials to the regent only, and the in- At. cie balvantly are positive to present them ueen, but leaving to her majesty the discretion ate them to the regent (Espartero) who will be is proposition (our correspondent observes) is formity with the usages, ancient and modern. Inounces that the English Levant packet .tar in so damaged a condition that she don her journey. There were upwards !ngers on board, and the Fenico steamer ....„. the purpose of conveying the m and rhere were then four ships of the line had sailed for Lisbon, and two more 'rom Turke state that a total change had ST INDIES s from the West Indies red in the STANDARD of Tuesday, but 3e it to make room for the Presi lengthy report ved inform us of considera ng fallen there, and of its h av i ng _ _ The alteration :al of injury West Ir ies to England, in 1., the same as that to the thought most unfair 1 to consider the appropriation üblic charities. A very impor the Import Duty Bill, when it house that the announcement ;sage, connected with that sub- nt upon the principles of the and, moreover, that of a irnals did not appear to question simply being, :ei, the :les of British importation answer the views ties : 3 " The debate, on the application he premium of £5O, tendered in the last session on the cultivation of cot- actory one towards the applicant just laid before the house, we observe agar from the various ports of this lding 30th September last, amount to rces, and 2,206 barrels, against 31,554 ,d 1,483 barrels for the year preceding. fill was under discussion. A public d in connection with this subject. It e duty of this meeting to make common ter parishes, and to present a memorial to )uncil, setting forth fully the grievances en ne difficulties experienced by her faithful !cts, the planters of Jamaica;- stating also .ssity of government making the most ,o promote and ensure an extensive immi island. That a committee be appointed to I be presented to the Lords Commis 3ty's Treasury, setting forth the injury evils arising to, the British West India e importation through the Cape of Good and manufactured by slave labour, and ito the home market ; and that a cona o piepare the same." 1 from the Council and Assembly remission of the island debts, had 'aer Majesty's ministers did not Inces " attending the loan which mcatiori for remission, either on the or of the government. We find that the td liberally granted that Aligator Pond rt, provided the colonial funds paid £420 vo salaried offisers. We find that the has already paid off, in gold, the whole of a Island-office to the Colonial Bank, .and in his hands a surplus of Colonial Bank ntly both establishments are on an equal y prospect of the former continuing to with the country. Trinidad we learn that there had been exports of £ll,BOO, and in imports of f the preceding year. In the article of nincrease of £28,000 seizure of British subjects in Central a late paper, we understand that her a, which sailed from Jamaica for Hon 4, conveyed despatches from his ex to the superintendent at Belize, auth advance into the Guatemalian territory, nanding the liberation of the prisoners g compliance therewith, the application e considered necessary. The only diffi i be in finding out the offending party. , Sl7 , Wat■=l.lll....iri OHN BRATTY WEST, ESQ., 'ALP Evening Mail of December 27.) Dublin ncement. It will be afflicting in will be heard with regret even enemies he had none. The city i at large—will deplore the death The melancholy event took y hour, at his villa at Mount been for some days labouring under cold and influenza ; but it was not esterday that any danger was appre e most distinguished medical talent ng—but in vain : fever and inflam iiting the most alarming symptoms. • tuis morning he eipired, IL esting family to bewail their 9 , to lament the loss of ied .7 . ,--atid to his country with sorrow a patriot as pure, she had ever given birth to. Hod to enter on a biographical gentleman. The hand is yet ,ortrait of his character. Were it a might dwell upon the sweetness and dom ruffled ; upon mplished member tections pure, lent ; upon manners simple, unaffected, i the accomplishments and acquirements learning, talents, and eloquence of the amour, and conversational powers of the -the sincerity of the friend, the fidelity of blandness of parental love, the purity and timan—the zeal of the patriot—and the Ile man —all of which, in a rare combina al:ties of head and heart, distinguished lamented gentleman. Few men were ao man ever freer from enemies lurtuEtt.—On Monday last, John s before C. J. . 6 S r . no. Walker, eswmual:eid:, E ys s e y a .n, night,a a l t ed with havinw the. Duke of the employ ° i ' l of the tte watchna vv a i n ite it r i , th s of Bridge 'e o'clock, he overheard t4 t, one of the Merchant Compay men nal at the back o f Mr. Hargreanve'ss )g the place, he heard the prisoner other man overboard, and after d into execution. When.the man d, he called for assistance several he boat, who was then in bed, i deck in his shirt. and inquired t no information from the Ic could n was ; and the cry he was unable to _lso stated. that before e prisoner swore he would not ....,; man out of the water. The cabin to put on his clothes, and in L was procured, and Chadwick was __as stated that he was not sober at tided until. the result of the inquest - - anchester Guardian. witnes OV THI The subject of the Weaver churches has cuffed so rnriph interest, and given rise to so much discussion in the county, that a short report of the first consecration cannot fail to be interesting to all who love our National Establishment, and feel sympathy for those who have hitherto been destitute of its means of grace and ordinances. The important and in teresting ceremony of the consecration of the first Church, at Weston Point, took place on Friday last ; and we are happy in recording the event, not merely because it places the watermen in that vicinity under the spiritual super vision of a minister of the Church of England, and affords them the opportunity of bearing and learning those things which are able to "make them wise unto salvation," but .her because by the Weaver Church Measure the priuci ple was announced—maintained—and nobly vindicated, that employers, if they have it in their power, are under the obli gation of interesting themselves in, a n d providing for the immortal interests of their dependents. That such a prin ciple should have been disputed in a christian country, may at first sight appear rather remarkable ; but perhaps the op position may be productive of good results on the whole ; and whatever may have been the reasons which induced some of our county gentlemen to throw every obstacle in the way of the progress of the measure, it has given its supporters a better opportunity of demonstrating before the Weaver trus tees, the Court of Quarter Sessions, and the two principal branches of the legislature, the Houses of Lords and Com mons, that the measure itself was just in principle, and christian in practice. The object of the bill is simply this : —to provide church accommodation and religious instruction for the watermen and haulers employed upon the navigation, by setting apart out of the surplus funds, £7,000, to build, and £450 per annum to endow three churches, for the be nefit of those whose labours have been mainly instrumental in creating the surplus revenue. The positions fixed upon for their erection were Weston Point, Northwich, and Over ; the one at the former place is now completed and conse crated, the second is in progress of building, and the third, we understand, has not yet been commenced. The church at Weston Point will contain about 380 persons, all the seats, except the minister's, being unappropriated. The patronage of the churches is in the hands of the lord bishop of the diocese, and the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Bush, to Wes ton Point, cannot but give the greatest satisfaction. We sincerely hope, and have every reason to believe, that the fruits of the godly zeal of the Weaver trustees, will be seen in the improved moral and spiritual condition of the water men, and in the increase and spreading of piety and peace around. On Friday morning, Weston Point presented a very ani mated appearance. Crowds of people, chiefly watermen and the, poorer classes, were to be seen on the ba n k s o f th e Wea ver, waiting the arrival of the lord bishop and the trustees, in order that they might be present at the interesting cere mony, and thus manifest their thankfulness to their bene factors. The vessels in the basin hoisted the Union Jack ; and where practicable, we presume the crews attended the ceremony. The gentry and clergy of the surrounding neigh , bourhood had been invited to attend, to assist in the cere mony, and to meet the bishop at Sutton Bridge, in order to convey him to Weston Point. For this purpose the river Weaver barge had been tastefully fitted up ; and at eight in the morning it started from Acton Bridge, and shortly be ten, reached Sutton Bridge, where the lord bishop and his secretary, and the rev. the chancellor of the diocese were ta ken on board, and the barge immediately proceeded to Wes ton Point, where his lordship arrived about eleven o'clock. Amongst the gentry and clergy who attended the consecra tion were—Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., John Tollemache, Esq., M.P.. Warburton, Esq., Henry Brooke, Esq., Ed win Corbett, Esq., James Royds, Esq., Rev. Chancellor Raikes, Rev. John Armitage. Rev. C. S. Stanhope, Rev. Richard Greenall, Rev. F. Masters, &c. &c. The church was well filled, including about sixty ladies, and one hundred watermen. The Rev. Mr. Vaudrey was prevented attending the ceremony through indisposition ; and the same cause will explain the absence of Mr. Tomkinson, the gentleman who, though a dissenter, so handsomely gave the stoke, value £6OO. His lordship, on arrival, proceeded to the church, and having been received at the door, with the usual form, was conducted to the Vestry Room. Having proceeded in his robes to the front of the communion table, the sentence of consecration was read aloud by the Chancellor; after which the bishop, with his chaplains and clergy, walked down the main aisle of the church and back again, repeating alter nately the 24th Psalm. On their return his lordship proceeed with the usual service of consecration; which having been completed, the daily service was commenced by the Rev. Mr. Bush giving out a very beautiful and appropriate hymn. The remainder of the service for the day was then read by the Rev. Mr. Bush, after which the sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. His lordship based his discourse on the latter clause of the 30th verse in the second chapter of the Second of Samuel—" For them that honour me I will honour ; but they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION OF •GUNPOWDER, AND LOSS OF LIFE, ON THE LINE OF THE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY. BRISTOL, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—OIIe of those -frightful accidents, attended with the sacrifice of human life, conse quent on the careless use of gunpowder, and which, since the commencement of the various great railway and other under takings, have been of too frequent occurrence in this king dom, took place yesterday (Monday), on the line of the Gloucester and Bristol Railway (now in course of construc tion), in the neighbourhood of the small town of Wickwar, Gloucestershire. The accident was of the most serious description ; three of the unfortunate labourers employed on the line were killed upon the spot, their bodies being frightfully mutilated by the force of the explosion, and five others were so seriously injured as to render it necessary that they should be immediately conveyed to the Infirmary In this this city, where they now lie, one or two of them in a dan gerous state. This afternoon one of them, John Hodges, is sufficiently revived to admit of his conversing on the subject of the melancholy and fatal occurrence, and I have had an interview with him. He does not seem capable of giving a ♦ery clear account of the matter, but his statement is as fol lows :—The labourers in the employ of one of the contractors were engaged in excavating some earth-work in the neigh bourhood of Wickar, for the purpose of making a tunnel, and, on their leaving off work at the close of the last week, they placed a barrel, containing about half a cwt. of gun powder, in the mouth of the excavation, thinking that by so doing they should secure it at once from depredation and from the action of the weather. On Monday morn, ing, one of the men, named Henry Williams, and who is a blacksmith, was directs:l to point and sharpen some of the tools used in excavating. Whether he was aware - or not of the presence of the gunpowder does not seem very clear, but he went on working in the usual manner, by heating the iron and beating it on the anvil, until at length a spark cams in contact with the powder, and a tre mendous explosion ensued. At the time of the accident there were eight men in the tunnel and its immediate neigh bourhood. Three of them were killed immediately, their bodies being blown to a considerable distance, where they were afterwards found dreadfully scorched and mutilated : one of them was without his head, which was forced to a great distance from the trunk. Hodges states that two of the dead men were named Matthew Stephens and James Bennet ; the name of the third he does not re►nember having heard, but he says he is quite sure that three were killed. The names of the five men at present in the Infirmary are, Thomas White, who has lost one eye, and the other is dread fully injured, and whose body is burnt and bruised in every part ; George Collins, much burnt, and has received an ex tensive wound of the leg ; John Hodges, much burnt on the face and legs ; Lewis Crew, much burnt and bruised ; Henry Williams, ditto, ditto. The explosion blew the blacksmith's shop and a mill-pound on the works to atoms, and scattered the stones, &c., in all directions. It may be readily imagined that the utmost consternation and alarm was produced in Wickwar and the neighbourhood, the inhabitants being for some time at a loss to account for the very violent shock. A working man who came here this afternoon, and who says he was in Wickwar at the time, gives a somewhat different version of the matter. He says the workmen were lowering the powder into a shaft, and let a spark fall into it. Hodges' account, however, is generally received as being the most correct. The force of the explosion was felt to within five or six miles of this city. At the villages of Almondsbury, Tockington, &c., the houses were shaken in such a manner as to greatly alarm the inhabitants, who imagined for some time that they had been visited by an earthquake, Almonds- , bury is seven miles distant from the scene of the explosion. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY Yesterday week a meeting was held at the Penrhyn Arms, Bangor, to take into consideration the propriety of giving parliamentary notices upon Messrs. Stephenson and Giles's railway between Chester and Holyhead. The meeting was attended by many of the neighbouring gentry, and J. Wyatt, Esq., was unanimously called to the chair Mr. Giles then detailed the plan of be projected railway, and placed before the meeting the apparent merits of the line of railway to Dublin via Chester to Holyhead. The line had been surveyed by Mr. Stephenson, and this gentleman was strongly in favour of it. It had been allowed, on all hands, that Holyhead was the most fitting t e r m i nus . Wi t h respect to Porthdynllaen, he did not feel called upon to make any remark, having pointed out its inferiority in his report of 1838.. It was always diflieult In estimate the expenses in such large undertakings; but he was prepared to say that the ex penses of the proposed line would not exceed three millions. and most probably not two millions and a half. One thou sand pounds was all that was necessary to place them in a condition to apply to government fora loan. This sum might be raised by subscriptions, or otherwise. Mr. Giles then, wishing the meeting to bear in mind that this sum was esti mated upon the least and barest expense of making the ne cessary surveys, left the matter in the hands of the chairman and meeting. The chairman then suggested that circulars should be sent round to the gentry and others, to solicit their subscriptions. Mr. Grenville, hanker, Cheater, entirely agreed, as the local interests of Chester were so deeply involved. Mr. Bulkeley Hughes thought that similar meetings ought to be held in Flintshire, Denbighshire, and the other coun ties, in order to stimulate emulation and prevent jealousy. For his own part, he preferred Porthdynllaen, and, as the representative of the six contributory boroughs pf Carnar vonshire, he would suggest that the surveys spoken of by Mr. Giles ought to include one of the line of road between the Menai Bridge, or Bangor, and Porthdynllaen, in order that the publip might have fair means of testing the compa rative merit of the two lines from Bangor to the railway terminus. After several other speeches, resolutions were agreed to for furthering the proposed object, and the meeting separated. AN INDIAN ESTADLISHWINT.—The nnnaber or servants and people attached to one person, surprises those who Wye never been in the east. My own allowance consisted of an elephant, four horses, eight camels, and twenty domestics ; a pretty handsome quantity formic individual.—Captain Fane's Five Years in India. AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN.—Left Meerut on our way towards Kurnaul, and marched towards Sadanah, the former place of residence of the Begum Sombre. This celebrated woman, who died about two years ago, was a half-caste, and originally married to Colonel Dyce, a German, who obtained, during the civil wars of India, and after the downfall of the Great Mogul, and before our taking possession of the country, one of the many small principalities into which the whole empire was subdivided. Aware of her husband's love for her, she pretended, on a threatened invasion of his territories by the Mahrattas, to destroy .herself, and caused a pistol to be fired near her palanquin. The plot succeeded. Her _ ;aid he would not survive her, and shot himself through the head, when she immediately seized the govern ment, soon became one of our closest allies, and was con. timed in her usurpation, which she retained till her death, when, according to treaty, it lapsed to our government. She seems to have been a strange mixture of good and evil. On the side of the former she is said to have been kind to her people, and a good mother to her adopted children. On the tiriics other it is argued that she was arbitrary, avaricious, and at cruel. The worst story told of her is her having been jealous of a Nautch girl, to whom her husband had paid rather too much attention, having buried her alive, and seat ing herself above the place, smoking her hookah. The Europeans about her, however, deny the story, and say that, except to culprits, she was never cruel. She built and en dowetl a theßo.T.r; catholic chapel, w hi c h i s very b eaut i ful, in laid lik e the whole of the interior being of white Marble. She is said to have died worth nearly X 500,000, which is all left to Mr. Dyce Sombre, her son-in-law, who took it with him to England.—Five years in India. spouse RBWWS RUSTING NARII4TM Wp have been fayeured by an eminent yuprcantile tlpin with a copy of the following letter from one pf their corresPon dents. The writer's sufferings will be read with inuch in terest ; but the statement in which he represents the British consul at the Havana as refusing to his shipwrecked country men the assistance they had a right to expect from him is one which demands inquiry. _ " Mansion House, Havana de Cuba. • In my last letter I informed you that I had taken my passage by the American ship John Taylor, bound to New Orleans. Accordingly we set sail from Liverpool on the sth of September, and got clear of the Channel about the Bth, after which we had fair sailing till we cleared the Azores, which was about the 20th. It then fell calm until the 30th, during which time we made nothing on our course; but beat up a few degrees to the south, and got into the trade,' which carried us on rapidly to Antigua, which we made arid cleared to the south on Monday, 18th October. 'We made the Grand Cayman on Sunday, the 17th, where we lay to about two hours to take in fresh provisions ; after which we continued our course with a fair breeze till 12 o'clock a.m., of the Bth, when (by observation) we were 37 miles south of Cape Antonio. About this time it commenced blowing hard, which caused• the captain to order in the. topgallants and double reef the topsails. The gale continued increasing until about four o'clock, when the jib went to rags ; the reefed foresail, in the act of taking in, followed its example. We were now riding under a close-reefed maintopsail, with the wind increasing to a hurricane, and the ship evidently carried by the current. Though so near land, the thick state of the weather prevented our discerning any object 50 yards from the ship, whilst night was fast approaching, with the most dreadful lightning right over our heads that I ever beheld ; the obscurity increased to almost material darkness,' for at each instant, compared with the vivid flashes, we could scarcely conceive it to be the mere absence of light. About half-past eight p.m. our maintopsail reef flew into a thousand atoms ; the maintop gallant mast was blown away as a rotten branch is carried from an aged tree by the March winds of the north, the tiller ropes snapped, and our ship drifted at the mercy of the tempest. At nine p.m. she struck, our fore and mainmasts went ;by the board, and our beautiful ship lay a groaning wreck. The sea swept fast over her, which caused the captain to order a portion of the bulwarks to be cut away in order to clear the main deck. which was at times knee-deep in water ; nothing further could be done. " The steerage and second cabin passengers had rushed (many of them naked) to the chief cabin, and clung about us in their agony, for in all human calculation few were the moments of our existence. In the moment of anguish and tribulation the weak borrow strength from those who from nature or habit can look with a serene countenance on the danger that unmans themselves, and thus did the pre sence of two or three persons inured to hard scenes and dan ger impart an inexplicable confidence to roost of the others. Those by whom I was most annoyed were three or four methodists, who, instead of comforting others, knelt down in the midst of the rest, and roared out at the top of their voices—' Do spare us this once,' and such like rant. I was almost obliged to swear at them to make them a little silent, for I was afraid they would drive the poor females into fits. A gentleman connected with a commercial house in Liverpool, who was passenger in the first cabin, lent a hand as long as the deck could be kept, and in the moment of most imminent danger was one of the coolest men I ever saw, doing all that a man could do to console the unhappy without seeming to devote one thought to himself. " What an eternity-like night! -It seemed to most of us as though the earth had forgotten to revolve, and that morn was destined never to dawn again. Nothing could be dis cerned beyond the ship's side but the white waves that were beating around and over her; and though it was well known that we were on a bed of coral rocks, yet we could not tell how far we might be from the main land. 'Morning broke at last amid loud exclamations of thanksgiving from the weak, and even the strong did not forget to breathe the silent prayer of heartfelt gratitude to the Supreme Author of light. I should have observed, that soon after 12 o'clock the tempest in some degree abated, and some hope was en tertained that she might ride it out till the morning ; the well was sounded, and it was found that she had made but little water; all took a turn at the pumps, and she was soon laid dry. At four the hurricane had • abated con siderably, the pumps were again manned, and in five minutes she was dry ; we therefore no longer doubted that she would ride it out in safety. As soon as it was day, the longboat was got out, and the passengers were landed with some difficulty ; for though we found the ship within 100 yards front the land, lying in a sandy bottom, sur rounded by coral rock, yet the sea continued to run high. At length a rope was made fast to a tree on the shore, and so it was managed to ferry the longboat across, the captain's gig having been stove in on the first attempt to land. One poor young fellow, a native of Sheffield, who has an uncle and aunt abroad, in exerting himself to aid in landing the women and children, was carried out by a wave and drowned. He was got out almost directly, and every exertion made to restore animation, but in vain. On the 20th (the day after), a few of us volunteered to go in search of inhabitants and the authorities, in order to obtain the necessary succours. Luckily just before we started, a mountaineer from a consi- derable distance made his appearance, who served us for a guide, and so we, set. out.well armed, for I expected nothing less than wreckers, robbers, or pirates. The spot where we were wrecked is called Lapunta del Olandes, on the south side of Cape St. Antonio, so we proceeded along the sea coast towards Cape Corrientes. It was about eleven o'clock when we set out, and we had not proceeded far when we found it impossible to go on ; the heat was intense, and, increased by the reflection f rom th e sea, roc k s, and sand,: soon became insupportable; for my own part I felt suffocated, and groaned with the difficulty of respiration. Our pulses. were at 120. We now crept under some palm bushes, and lay until we felt relieved, when we continued our march until dark. Not being able to proceed we supped upon those birds we shot on our way, with some cheese and biscuit we had carried from the ship, and then stretched ourselves upon some palm leaves and slept till break of day, when we again put ourselves en route. As we ware walking along the beach we observed a number of fishes playing on the surface of the sea. I singled out one and fired ; the ball passed through the spine just be low the head ; the fish floundered for a short time, when I jumped in and caught him by the gills. I fond it to be a fine red fish, something like the besago of Biscay, weighing about 121bs. In about an hour we reached the first backwoods man's cot, called the Mashora.' Here we were received with a most hearty welcome by two whites and two blacks ; one of the latter spoke English. Our fish was cooked ; they gave us Maintains roasted upon the embers, coffee made of maize sweetened with honey, and an abundance of limes, of which we drank the juice. Again we start ed, continuing our course through trackless woods, our guide cutting his way with a long hanger which he wore. For a long distance we had nothing under foot but coral rock as sharp as needles; then commenced the lagoons, for we were just at the end of the rainy season, and of the most dreadful hurricane that has been known for 40 years. In some parts trees, plantations, houses, end every thing else have been blown down, and the country, in some parts, laid 30 feet under water. We were flue day, for two hours at a time, up to our middles in water, and for three days we were at least six hours out of the twelve in water, and the rest on coral rocks, or amongst roots and brambles, On the second day, at night, we reached a cottage called the ' Aula,' where we were well received by a numerous family of young and old, of all colours but milk-white, and were most gene rously treated, and like the first we met with, would not hear of being paid for anything. On the third day, having shot about a dozen pigeons on our way, we reached an estate called the Arreta,' where we were quite feasted, over whelmed with kindness, and our pigeons cooked for us to carry away with us the next morning. On this, the fourth day of our absence from the wreck, we reached the first authority—' Don Francisco Lugo Hacienda de Lo Re mote.' We were exhausted by the fatigue we had under gone ; my legs were covered with wounds, and swollen to nearly the thickness of my thighs, whilst those of my com panions were little better. In all my marches I never encountered anything half so dreadful as the country we bad come through ; certainly, although you well know I can endure much, all the gold in Cuba would not induce me to' make another such march. Don Francisco Lugo is an excellent man ; he treated its with parental kindness, lent us three ounces' of gold to proceed with (for our English money would not pass), and furnished us with horses and a guide to proceed to the village (Pueblo) of Guarres, where we were met by Dr. Don :lose Escovedo, a physician of the place, who invited us to his house, gave me dressing for my legs, and offered us money and everything else we needed. The following morning we proceeded to Final del Rio.' Here we found the lieutenant-governor, Don ,Jose Callaba, who immediately brought us to his house, treating us with the utmost kindness. He further took upon himself to re turn the three ' ounces' we had borrowed from Don F. Lugo, paid our guides four and a half . ponces,' obliging us to take two more to continue our journey, for which he lent us his own horses, to take us to ' Colonia,' where we saw the steamer Serena, commanded by Captain Don Antonia Espinosa, who received, among other things, a splendid sword from her Majesty Queen Victoria, for saving the lives of some British subjects. This gentleman received us with open arms, and told us that if the steamer were his own he would, proceed to the wreck forthwith, hut as he was not the owner ha could. not do it on his own responsibility; he gave me a letter to one of the owners, soliciting leave to go to the wreck. We reached here (Calla de la Ovra) by the railway from San Felipe, and immediately proceeded to the American consul's, whom, as it was Sunday, we did not find in the way. As the case was urgent, for we had been 11 days on our way, and had left 205 fellow-creatures on a desert coast without any visible means of subsistence, and my mind was very uneasy, I resolved not to sleep till I had got the affair in a right channel. " We drove to the house of the priti s h consul, who, after many verbal civilities, when I put the question home as to how we were to proceed in order to relieve the wreck, kindly toadme that ' As a man lie commiserated th e i r unhappy con dition, but a$ 4 Aousul he could have nothing at all to do with them, as they were deserting their country and flag' After the treatment we had met with here, was in despair; but at last thought of the American viee.aonsul there. To our great pleasure we met the American consul himself, who told us that as a consul he could only serve the American crew and cargo, but that he would take upon himself to succour all, and carry the passengers to their destination. He has also set on foot a subscription to pay our expenses, &c. This morning the Captain General Valdez, our old opponent in Catalonia, sent for the American consul (Mr. Irish), and told him that he should give him 300 dollars from his own pocket towards the subscription. I trust this may be appre ciated, and contrasted with the apathy of our own consul. The American ship Clarion is chartered to go to the wreck, and I am pow on board, ready to sail in five minutes." JONATHANISMS Dr. B. informs us that he has a patient so dreadfully irri. table on the subject of water, that he wo' n't wear his watch because there is a wring in it. From the Brownsville. Pa. Galaxv—verbatim et literatum. —[Advertisement.]—" Whereas Fanny Marton, alias Kerr, has without cause left my habitation, and is floating on the ocean of tyrannical extravagance, prone to prodigality, taking a wild goose chase, and kindling her pipe with the coal of curiosity, to abscond and abash such insiduous, clandestine, noxious, pernicious, diabolical and notorious deportment, JE therefore caution all persons from harbouring pr trusting her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting from this date, unless compelled by Iaw.—JAMES KERR. RATHER CUTTING.—At the ladies' celebration at Barre, Massachusets, there were nine hundred of the fairest por. tions of creation present. Among the toasts were—" Old bachelors ! may they lie alone in a bed of nettles, sit alone on a wooden stool, eat alone On a wooden trencher, and be their ow❑ kitchen maids !" LAST CASE.—A bill sticker pasted a , board, an d stuc k him self on instead of the bill. He didn t discover his mistake until the rain washed him off. " A Yankee paper s a ys—" Our glass went clear f or t y d egrees below nothing; and would have gone much l ower, b ut it wasn't long enough." Another paper says, W e h ave no thermometer in this town, so it gets as cold as it pleases." QUEER STORY.—The " Planters' Banner "—in the editor of which paper we have entire confidence, as he has pro . mised us, per mail, a barrel of sugar, and other delicacies— relates the following. How the alligator fed in the time we are unable to guess t—" A gentleman of Lafayette parish, some time since, harpooned a large alligator in the Teche, which had committed depredation on his plantation, and w4s cruel enough to nail up his jaws i He drove large spike nails through his jaws, and clinched them so that there was no possibility of his opening his mouth. He, was then set at liberty, and eighteen months afterwards he was shot, with his jaws still closed, and the nails rusted. He was identified as the same alligator by the mark of the harpoon and the manner in which the jaws were nailed ! We are assured it is a positive fact."—Brother Jonathan—New York Paper. T1*6.1-46's 144 ye recovered the tiepression of yesterday, anti cl go 4 ilea I of 4tts4tess has been transacted at the 'betl:o prices, 1. 1 13 e euefqf ring of the President's Message, and the sati§faiticory teppur of the Speech of the King of France, caused this reaction. Consols for the account closed 82k; Three per Cents. Reduced,.S9l- to 2- ; Three and a Half per Cents. Reduced, 99 to k ; Exchequer-bills, 12s to lie pre mium ; Long Annuities (expiring- Jan. 5, 1860), 121; and Bank Stock, 165 to 166. Just before the close of the foreign market several buyers of Mexican stock appeared, and the consequence was an ad vance of nearly one per cent. ;won the former price of the day, it closing 27/ to 28. The other stocks were steady, but few bargains were made in them. Spanish Actives left off 211 to ; Portuguese Fi ve p er C ents., 32/ to 33k ; Di tto, Three per Cents., 191- to 20; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 51i to 52k ; Brazilian, 63 to 65 ; and Belgian, 100 i to 1011. The. Tea and Tallow markets are without material viten tionto-day. 'The commercial' accounts from New York, dated Dec. 3, state there is-an increased quantity of produce going forward, , and the rates of freights are a little i m p rove d. F or C ot t on to Liverpool 5-16ths and 7-16ths is asked, though hardly ob tained; as yet the engagements for Flour have been chiefly at 2s brl; London 2s 6d brl for Flour. Ashes—the sales were 250 brls, Pots closing at 6 dols, and 100 brls Pearls closing heavy at 5 dais 60c. The stock has increased to 5,152 brls— viz., 2,757 brls Pots and 2.305 brls Pearls. The receipts of the season are 32,143 brls. Coffee is dull and heavy, the stock is not a large one. Sales, 1,000 bags Brazil at 94c a 10}c; 500 Laguayra at 91c a 104 c ; 400 Java at 11c a 12e ; 75 Sumatra at 9,c, all four months; 500 St. Domingo at 81e a Sic cash; 200 bags Laguayra sold by auction at gic a 9ic, three months. Molasses—the sales are small and at very low rates. Porto Rico sold in lots at 23c a 25c, and Trinidad at 20 cents, four months. Naval Stores—Tar is dull and sells only in small parcels at 1 dol 75c. Washington soft Turpentine sold at 3 dols, and small-sized brls at 2 dols 874 c ; Southern Spirits of Turpentine sold at 37c. Oils—Whale is very scarce; 100 brls sold for export at 36c. some sales were made for home• use at 374 c, and for a small lot handsome 39c was given. There has been a fair demand for Linseed, and at the close of the week sales were made at 95c cash, and 974 c time. Cotton—the transactions of the week have been very moderate, scarcely 2,000 bales, at price 4c to 4c 16wer—viz., 9c to 11/c. Flour has a tendency to decline. Prices range from 6 dols to 37c to 6 dols 624 c. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS From the Times At a late hour on Monday night last, two gamekeepers in the employ of Mr. Wilton Harlingstone. of Fellwood-hall, near Strunfield, were returning to their homes from the hall, where they had been partaking of their worthy master's hos pitality, on arriving at a secluded lot of plantations called the " Dells," they came suddenly upon a party of four men, three of whoni had guns, whilst the fourth carried a large and apparently well-filled sack. On perceiving the game keepers the three men presented their guns, and warned the others to keep off, at the same time calling to the man who carried the sack to run, upon which he immediately made off with his burden. One of the keePers then called out, as though they had assistance at hand, " Here they are, come on, my lads," when the poachers, thinking, doubtless, that a strong party was upon them, turned and retreated with all possible expedition, closely followed by the keepers, who being strong active fellows, and moreover somewhat elevated by the libe ral quantity of old Christmas ale they had been imbibing, dashed after the poachers, shouting at the top of their voices, and having no other weapons save a couple of stout cudgels. After a chase of several hundred yards the keepers succeeded its overtaking the man who carried the sack, whom they seized, upon which the man shouted to his companions for assistance, calling out that there were but two of them, meaning the keepers, and one of the poachers returned to the spot, and presenting his gun swore that he would blow the keepers' brains out if they did not instantly quit their hold of the captured man, but the keepers thrusting the fellow they held before them so as to cover themselves from the effects of the poacher's fire, told him to fire away and shoot his con federate. The man then dropped the muzzle of his piece, and clubbing the firearm, dealt the keeper nearest him a heavy blow with the but-end, which lighting on the back of the other's'neck, brought him to the ground. Upon this the other keeper quitted the grasp on the man he held, and springing on the poacher with the gun,. seized him round the waist whilst in the act of aiming a blow at him (the keeper), and threw him down. The gun exploded in the fall, and part of the contents lodged in the poacher's back, upon which the wounded man calling out that he was shot, his companion immediately took to flight. The keeper who bad been struck down recovered, and as no further attempt at attack or rescue was made, the two keepers carried the wounded man between them to the nearest habitation, and sent off for medical ad vice, the man complaining of great pain from his wound. It was nearly two hours before a surgeon could be pro cured, and it was then ascertained that the spine was severely shattered by the shot. He remains in a very precarious state. The poachers were probably aware of the " merry making " at the hall, and calculated on the absence of the keepers. Upwards of thirty head of game were found in the sack. liteiVA. I% A M FiiITHEATRE, fiRk,lT 0/14-11i fe 0 PIBvS I 7761231', 4trznroot, UNDLII Till AIANAGEMENT oe MR. gc;citToN MR. EGERTON begs leave most respectfully to intimate to the Nobility . and Gentry of Liverpool, that he has entered into an arranvement with MR. DUCROW, for a limited number of Representations, with the whole of his splendid and talented London Establish►nent (being on its last provincial tour), including his peerless and pre-emi nent Stud of Beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, British and Foreign Riders, Acrobat Professors, &c. kYc., forming an extensive treble company—Dramatic and Gymnastic. THIS present FRIDAY, the 31st instant:and TO-MOR 1. (Saturday,) the Ist January, Air. Ducrow's London Grand Equestrian Romance, founded upon the Crimean War of Independence, entitled the CONQUEROR'S STEED KARABAGII ; OR, THE PROPHET OF THE CATICASOS. The Circle will present an extraordinary routine of novel ties and Grand Union of Equestrian Talent, with unequalled feats of Horsemanship by Ducrow's extensive Foreign and . British Establishment, commencing with, first time in Li verpool, one of the most varied, splendid, and effective Equestrian Pageants of the olden time, executed by Twenty seven Horses„ Dames, and Cavaliers, called the . , SUMMER'S MORN OF 1686; OR, THE WHITE WREATH AND THE FLITCH OF BACON. With Minuet, Gavotte, and the old Country Dance of ROGER DE COVERLY. Sir Roger De Cover Mr. Hillier. • First appearance in Liverpool of Sig. ALLARD as the VENETIAN RIDER. Madame ALLARD, the great French Fem a l e E ques t r i an from Franconi' s , P ar i s , will make her first appearance. Likewise, for the first time in Liverpool, Mr. Ducrow's highly trained Cream Horse Palfrey, tutored by Sig. Hillier, called THE HORSE OF THE SUN ; OR, THE STEED OF MEXICO. Mr. STICKNEY, tile American Rider, as the Youth of Olympus. To he succeeded by the Equestrian Prodigy Le Petit Ducitow. Mr. HICKEN. the celebrated British Horseman, whose performances excel all other competitors in the art, will make his appearance. For the first time in Liverpool, Mr. Ducrow's Classical and Mythological Delineation, executed by him and the Equestrian Prodigy, Le Petit Ducrow, entitled the EVENING STAR ; OR, CUPID AND THE MISCHIEVOUS SPRITE. Zephyr Mr. Hicken. Cupid.. Mischievous Sprite Le Petit Ducrow. The Scenes in the Circle will conclude with the unequalled act of Horsemanship, executed on two fleet steeds, by Signor Hillier and Mr. Allard, as the TWO lIERCULESES. The peculiar and extraordinary exercises of this scene pre sents an entire new style of Equestrianism. THE ANTIPODEAN PROFESSOR Will occupy the intervals with his wonderful exercises of flexibility, assisted by the drolleries of the grotesque Bufion and Acrobats, Messrs. Cotrill, Bullock, and Frazer. Riding Masters—Signor HILLIER, J.W W. WIDDICOMB, and Mr. CHAPMAN. To conclude with a New Melo Drama, entitled. SELF-ACCUSATION. Principal characters by Messrs. Beverly, Howard, &c., &c., and Mesdames Nunn, Emery, F. Carman, &c. On TUESDAY next,—A GRAND EQUESTRIAN SPECTACLE. DUCROW'S SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, by the Artistes, including Signor Hillier, Mr. Hicken, (the _first British Horseman,) Mr. Stickney, (the great American Rider,) Signor Allard, (the Venetian Eider,) Madame Allard, (the great French Female Equestrian,) and Le Petite Ducrow, (the Equestrian Prodigy.) —To conclude with TURTLE HUNTING, in which will appear the whole strength of the Comic Department of this extensive and talented Establishment, by desire and under the patronage of THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SEFTON, who has kindly signified his intention of honouring the Am phitheatre with his presence on the occasion. Tickets and places to be had of Mr. CARMAN, at the Box office, from Elev en till Th ree. —B oxes, 3s. ; Side Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, ls. 6d: ; Gallery, is. ; Upper Gallery, Gd. Second Price, at Nine o'clock : Boxes, 2s. ; Side Boxes, ls. Gd. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 6d.—For particulars., see future The Manager has great pleasure in announcing to the No bility and Gentry, that he has, at a great expense, secured the services of MONS. JULLIEN and the whole of his celebrated and unrivalled Band of Mu sicians, for the purpose of giving THREE GRAND MORNING CONCERTS 1 at the Royal Amphitheatre. The Second of which wil take place on WEDNESDAY next, the sth of January, 1842; the Third and Last Morning Concert, on WEDNESDAY,• the 12th January. To commence at One o'clock. Notwithstanding the great expense attendant on the en gagement of Mons. JULLIEN and his numerous Band, the prices of Admission will bO—Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gal lery, ls. REPRESENTATION OF DUBLIN (From the Dublin Evening Mail of December 29.) Some of our liberal contemporaries are talking of starting Lord Morpeth for the representation vacant by the demise of the late lamented Mr. West. We consider this as mere va pouring. In the first place, Lord Morpeth is in America, and cannot be consulted upon the subject. In the nest place, therc is no reason to suppose—certainly there is .no one au thorised to state such to be the case—that his Lordship has changed the determination so solemnly announced by him on the 10th day of July last, at the close of the election for the. West Riding of Yorkshire, when he declared " that, for the present, he could not bring himself to any other determina tion, that his feelings would not allo w hi m t o accep t o f any. other constituency. ' We think this should be a sufficient answer to any officious person who might put Lord Morpeth in nomination without his consent; aod would certainly, b e an e ff ectua l estopel to any demands' xnade for the expenses attendant upon an un successful electioo. ju fact, if the government be disposed to do its duty to itself and towards the conservative party—. to exercise with energy and effect the legitimate influence it possessesto evince by " deeds," not " words," its fixed determination to protect and sustain its friends, . and not to promote and advance its enemies . : -iii fine, to re-establish, in the minds of the middle orders (by the way, the most useful and honest class of electors) that confidence which—under malign advice, 'end upon a principle of ruinous expediency— has been nearly destroyed by bad appointments, and other acts of the executive, not too nicely to be scanned at present if, we say, a manifestation of the description be made—but we are bound in candour to state, not otherwiSe—a Radical, a Whig, or a Liberal would not have the shadow,of a chance at the hustings ' • and the city would, i n our op i n i on ; b e car ried triumphantly, and without a contest. While upon this subject we may as well correct two fla grant errors into which Mr. O'Connell, in his capacity of Lord Mayor, fell in his speeph at the repeal meeting_held yesterday. He declared "he would not take any part in thp ensuing election, because he had the honour of being return ing officer, the new act having vested the office in the Lord Mayor, and not in the Sh er iff ;" and lie further announced his readiness " to resign his office of Lord Mayor, if the citizens sho u ld ca ll upon hi m t o d o so, and then he could appear amongst them as a political partisan." The latter portion of this, as we take it, refers to his ap pearing in the capacity of a candidate. Now, we beg to apprise hi s lo r d s hi p —fi rst, t h at the Copo rate Reform Act does not constitute the Loid Mayor of Dub lin the returning officer to a writ of election—the High Sheriff being still the person to whom the writ is directed ; and se condly, Mr. O'C onne ll i s i n a pos i t i on that legally incapaci tates him from being elected —or, we believe, put in nomi nation. VALVE OF BRITISH TROOPS. — After a cosiderable parley the Emir thus gave his decision—" If you will get the general to send me 3,000 Turkish troops in addition to my own, apd twenty pieces of cannon, 1 will make the attack ; but," he continued, "if you can get the commodore with 1,000 of his ship-soldiers, I would like it better." —Hunter's Expe dition to Syria. DEATH oy MONEY MOSES.—This notorious character. who, it will be recollected, was concerned , in the gold-dust robbery, and was sentenced to transportation, died at Hobart Town, in the month of June last. His family mourned ac cording to the most approved form of the Jewish religion. His wife and two daughters were in the colony at the time of Money's arrival. He was placed on the public works, and became a turnkey. His death is attributed to a white swelling on his knee, which rendered amputation necessary, under which he sunk. THE ESCAPE OF RAPALLO.—Ve understand that this individual was originally under the impression that after his release from Newgate no other steps could be taken against him with regard to the forged exchequer-bills. Having, however, some doubt of his security from the risk of further molestation, and feeling desirous to be upon the safe side, he hastened, on the very evening of his discharge, to the private residence of a certain eminent counsel ; and, after a consulta tion, he lost no time in getting on board a Boulogne steam boat. Had he been tried and acquitted he could not, of course, have been again indicted for the same offence ; but as the proceedings went no further than an examination be fore the police magistrates, the opportunity of clearing his character (if he can) by a trial at the Old Bailey is still open to him, should he feel disposed to return to take advantage of it : --7.Evenino paper. Tge q ß CASSlANS. — lntelligence has been received at Constantinople, by way of Trebizond, of a victory gained by the Cireassians over the Russians ; the most signal and deci siye, it is said, that has openrred since the beginning of the war. A large expedition, consisting of thirty thousand men bad been disembarked on the coast, with a view of destroying the grain, which had been collected by the Circassians after the harvest, when a stotm having suddenly arisen dro ve th e ships from thei r anc h orage; the Circassians availing them selves of the opportunity assailed them fiercely on every side, and the Russians, separated from their stores, which had been carried out to sea, were compelled to commence a disastrous retreat through a country consisting entirely of mountain, forest, and defile. With the exception of two thousand who escaped to Anapa, the whole of the thirty thousand were killed or made prisoners ; such are the accounts received from Tre bizond. Further details of this tremendous disaster of the Russians are eagerly expected here.—Mprning Post. THE LATE EARL OF WESTMORLAND.—A curious in stance of Lord Westmorlands presence of mind is on record. His lordship was twice married, and his first union was a runaway match. He had paid his addresses to the only daughter of the rich banker of Temple-bar, Mr. Child. This gentleman being averse to the marriage, the suitor, possessing the lady's affections, determined to run away with his bride. In consequence, a postchaise and four, un beau matin, car ried away the confident pair ; but the affair having reached the papa's ears, another pair of postiliOns and two pair of fleet horses were soon in request. Stimulated by the lavish promises of the rich banker, lost time was compensated for by the postilions, and the gay Lothario soon had the disespoir of beholding Mr. Child's equipage nepk and neck with his own, In this crisis of fate, however, his presence of mind did not forsake him, and, drawi ng a pi s t o l, h e s h ot d ea d one of the lead e r s of the pursuing postchaise. Before the horse could be detached from the harness and a substitute pro cured, it was too late to pursue the fugitives, who were quickly married by the grimy high priest of Gretna.—Morn iv Herald. FORCE or IMAGINATION,—A court fool, named Jackel, is related to have come to a very melancholy end. He assured the King (Frederick William) that he 'knew a certain remedy for the gout, if he were only permitted to employ it. The King, professed his readiness to give it a trial. Accord ingly, in one of his walks, the fool, coming unawares upon his master, pushed him from a very narrow path into a deep piece of water. The King, who thought that the joke was carried rather too far, determined to repay it with another. He ordered the fool to be put under arrest, and a court martial to be held upon him. The sentence was that' he should be beheaded, and that the execution should take place on the following day. Jackel was conducted, amidst solemn preparations, to the spot where the offence was committed. He hoped for pardon, but in vain. The executioner stood ready. Jackel was required to kneel down ; he was blind folded, and his neck bared. At a sign from the King, one of his retinue drew forth a fresh-made sausage, and struck the culprit with it on the neck. The fool, not prepared for any joke, dropped dead upon the ground : all endeavours to revive him proved unavailing. —Campbell's Frederick the Great and his Times. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1841 Another year is about to pass from before us, and to be added, with its varied burthen of joy and sorrow, sunshine and gloom, to the sum of past centuries. A few brief hours are all that are left us of 18 ; and before we step upon the threshold of the year which is approaching, let us turn back our gaze for awhile, and glance over the occurrences of that to which we are about to say " Fare well ! " We entered upon the passing year with high anticipations of the coming prosperity of our country. A contemptible faction still occupied the seats of government, depressing, by the leaden weight of its mingled imbecility and disho nesty, the wonted energetic industry of the nation,—still basked in the sunshine of Royal favour, instilling its dark poison into the ear of our beloved Sovereign, contamina ting with the presence of its unprincipled followers the avenues of her Court, and obscuring her native virtues and purity from the eyes of her affectionate people. The hand was still armed which had threatened, with " a heavy blow and great discouragement," the hallowed fabric of our National Religion. The restless spirit was still un subdued, though stunned, which had striven to undermine the buttresses of the Constitution and to overwhelm our established institutions beneath the feet of a fierce Popish democracy. But a voice had gone abroad, and " sounded the depths and shoals "of the popular mind. The warn ing cry of Conservatism had echoed from city to city, from hill to valley throughout the land. The Protestant heart of the people was stirred to watchfulness and ap proaching action ; and the feeble and contemptible thing " Liberalism " lay powerless upon its surface, like a fea ther upon a heaving sea—a vapoury cloud above the mouth of a labouring volcano. 'The hour of struggle came on. " Liberalism," goaded by the consciousness of its innate weakness —driven reckless by despair—clutching at every aid, however base and abandoned, which could contribute to retard its coming overthrow,—burst wildly through the tics of past pro fessions and principles, and committed itself, as a last hope, to a struggle for the overthrow of the Colonial greatness and the native Agriculture of the empire. Foiled in that attempt, by the national and patriotic spirit of a majority of the House of Commons, it was yet unwilling to relinquish its hold of official power and pay. Upon the specious question of " Free Trade," which it had raised tit this, the last hour of its probation,—under the cloak of a loudly-professed regard for the suffering interests of that people whom it had disgusted and insulted by its manifold delinquencies, it dared—yes, " Liberalism' dared—to rush upon the certain destruction which awaited it from the result of an appeal to the constituencies of Great Britain. To the success of this last movement 01 despair, every energy was bent. - For its promotion, inti midation and coaxing, threats and professions, were alter nately and unsparingly used. The wealth of the Treasury was lavished, and the name even of the Sovereign herself was unblushingly offered up, to bias the constitutionally expressed wishes of her people ; but that people stood firm and unmoved. The nation, by one mighty effort, shook off from its back the incubus which for years past had pressed down its energies ; and the lately insolent and tyrant faction lay prostrate upon kindred earth, with the advanced foot of an indignant and abused people upon its abased and writhing body. A Conservative Ministry, formed under the auspices of those statesmen to whose wisdom and patriotism alone we owe the preservation of our established institutions from the destroying hands of their predecessors, succeeded to power; and was invested with the unreserved confi• deuce of the Sovereign herself, and of the vast majority of her loving subjects. By the accession of that ministry, the hopes of faction were crushed ; and under the pro mise, which the known talent and virtue of its members affords, of honest, wise, and paternal legislation, the na tion, though still pressed down with suffering, though still vibrating with the expiring throes of the convulsion which it has recently endured, looks forward with patient and assured hope for the return of national prosperity and peace In her Foreign relations, in the integrity of her dominions— thanks to PROVIDENCE and the majesty of her name amongst the nations of the world !—Great Britain has emerged from the rule of the faction which abused he r resources and degraded her name, with power little, if at all, diminished. In the temporary embroilments with foreign states, into which she was hurried by the meddling incapacity of her rulers, the native vigour of her naval and military arms has borne her up ; and, although the charac ter of her diplomacy has with justice been impugned, the fame of her prowess has never been tarnished. The plains of India, the waters of Syria and of China, bear glorious witguz nf ttal unyiald;na yAlour mut CrOrgy of her fi6n; and 4 1 .thougli Choy atfora at tha aaina (Imo lamkntaia an ility of the cot, tri4imt Instances of the liobet,,.. leaders by whom the results of her noble efforts frittered away—bartered for paltry sums, or v thrown aside when won—she has,even in these mis, and ill.sustained achievements, laid, we trust, a foe of respect for her power, and her forbearance toc minds of her enemies, upon which a wise and firm ment may be able to erect a superstructure of permanen external tranquillity and greatness. To our commercial and industrial interests the past year ha been one of almost uninterrupted disaster and gloom ; •an• yet, although bankruptcy and ruin have spread thernselve throughout the land, the steadfast trust of the great mas of the community, even in the depth of their sufferings, ii the ability and wish of a conservative government to buil( up again, upon a stronger and surer basis, the prosperity which its predecessors had erected of merely visionar; materials, and which the first burst of the tempest pros. trated, has remained and remains unimpaired amidst al the efforts of factious agitation to effect its destruction The sound-thinking and reasoning people of England hay( refused. to be hurried into the sanction of rash and un• principled measures of. legislation, even to release then from their existing distress; and prefer to wait the re-pro• duction of a healthy commercial and financial state b) those natural and honest means which alone can be resorted to by a Conservative Government. In our Local affairs, the year which is passing has been pro. ductive of a similar gratifying change to that which we have witnessed in the affairs of the nation. The faction which for the past six years has usurped the administration of our Municipal Government, has been overthrown, we trust, for ever by the strongly-expressed will of the con stituency. We have now a Conservative Mayor and a Conservative majority in the Council; and by the honest exercise of their authority for the advancement of the interests, temporal as well as moral, of the inhabitants of the "good old town," we look forward, in the year which is •to come, to a return of that local prosperity and good order which the pernicious " Liberalism" of the faction, over whose fall all loyal men rejoice, has alone contributed to retard. As a whole, we look back with satisfaction upon the events which have marked the progress of 1841. Remembered as that year must be by too many of our fellow -country men, as oue of disaster and privation, it is destined, we trust and believe, to be regarded in future time as the dark spot from which to date the commencement of a period of national and internal prosperity. As such WE regard it now. We have seen in its progress the gradual breaking of the cloud which has for years impended over the che rished institutions, and depressed the industrial and moral energies of this great community ; and we see now at its close the returning sunshine which, before the passing of many months, will beam down in uninterrupted effulgence upon a happy, a contented, a .flourishing, and a religious people. We may be permitted, in conclusion, a few words upon our OWII position at the termination of the present and the commencement of another year. We have no cause to be dissatisfied with the progress which the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has made in the estimation of the public during 1841. On the contrary this Journal has been placed, by its unceasing efforts to. advance the cause of the Constitution, and the interests of the community in which we live, in a leading rank amongst the Conservative press of our own town and of the kingdom itself; and from being a struggling property (when it came into our hands three years ago), sustained at considerable personal sacri fice, has become a powerful and. efficient public organ. For this gratifying result of our labours, we gladly seize the present opportunity of returning thanks to those friends who have kindly 'afforded us their approval and support. Without arrogating to ourselves any undue share in the promotion of those national and local changes, in the contemplation of which every loyal Conservative feels deep and heartfelt joy—without diminishing, either, our feelings of gratitude to these, our friends —we have, nevertheless, the satisfaction of knowing—and no false modesty shall prevent us from now openly declaring —that we have deserved the support, not only of a portion, bu of the entire body of our Conservative fellow-townsmen And at this season, we are confident that we are not trans• pressing the bounds of propriety in calling the attention o those of our brother Conservatives, our brother burgesses our brother freemen even--for such there are—who, whilst partaking in the results of our labours, have looked coldly upon us, and in too many instances been found conferring their favours and patronage upon the press of the oppo sing faction,—to the just claims which the LIVERPOOL STANDARD possesses upon their confidence, and which, as yet, have not been adequately satisfied. This is not as it ought to he ; and on reflection our friends —the friends of the Conservative cause—will, we are con fident, admit that there is room for amendment in the year which is to come. If we are to be of permanent service to that cause, we must have that measure of support which its friends are so well able to afford, and which we are equally well able to receive, to make use of and to thank them for; and, although for our present position even we have abundant cause for gratification, and are happy to ex press our cordial thanks to the party whose interests are the objects of our care, and to the public at large, we trust at the close of the year which is about to break in upon us, to occupy a still prouder position, and to be able with sin cerity to express a still greater amount of gratitude. In this hope for the future, and with our best and most hearty thanks for the past, we wish to each and all our readers and friends ' A HAPPY NEW YEAR! A brace of royal speeches this week claim priority of notice at our hands. It is the characteristic of such addresses, in general, that they are hard to be under stood—either from the real meaning being purposely obscured, or from there being no distinct impression which it was intended they should convey. In the present instance, however, we cannot say that this fault is very striking either in the Message of Mr. President Tyler, or that of Louis Philippe, Roi des Francais. Of the two, the speech of the Gallic Monarch is both the shorter and the plainer. His Majesty speaks—and we believe it really is his Ma jesty, personally, who does speak—as if lie felt con scious of having obtained a grip of the country, and of being in a position to defy the factious who would disturb his government and dynasty, simply because they have no love of order, and would do the same by any government strong enough to suppress sedition, and extinguish the hopes of anarchy. His language is peaceful towards all, but these perpetual revolution ists ; he acknowledges that France has no longer oc casion to consider herself slighted by any of the great powers, and may reduce her military force, so far as any external necessity is concerned ; but lie does not say that the fortifications around the capital are to be discontinued—he does not intimate by the most re mote insinuation, that he is disposed to make any compromise with those within the borders, towards whom he has any reason to entertain the strongest feelings of jealousy. The position which enables his Majesty to utter such a speech, is eminently owing to his own superior talents ; and when one considers all SA" the tremendous antagonism with which he has had to contend, and this cool, but significant instance of triumph over difficulty, it is impossible not to award to him a genius for government of the very first order. The severe measures which have been unceasingly put in force against the press, are not in accordance with our English notions of liberty, and the recent condemnation of the journalist, M. Dupoty, as an ac cessory before the fact to the murderous conspiracy of Quenisset and others, solely on the ground of his writing a journal read by the conspirators, is revolting' to our feelings; which have happily had no domestic experience of such doings, or of a necessity for them. But French administration should not be judged by what we in this country might deem tyrannical or in tolerable, and without too minutely scrutinising the means, we ought rather turn to admire the effects which the new dynasty of France has, on the whole, been able to produce. His Majesty speaks of Algeria being now and for ever attached to the territory of the kingdom ; and Whatever we may say of the breach of faith which that annexation certainly involves, we can afford to pass over the enunciation—as one not likely to cause any disarrangement of the existing state of general concord. Hitherto France has gained nothing by the possession that we can envy her for. Her military glory, bought so dearly on that field, we willingly spare her; in other respects, the acquisition has added little to her interests, nor have any fair buds of promise presented themselves up to the present moment. Algeria has been little better than the grave of French- men. All the other topics of the speech are redolent alone of peace, and her delightful train of humanising arts. An extensive plan of railway communication has been recognised by the government; and is to be submitted to the Chambers. France will be intersected by this new and extraordinary mode of shortening distances, or we might say, of almost annihilating both time and space ; and the revolution caused by steam will pro gress throughout the whole of Europe ; but why do we say Europe ?—it will pervade the globe. France, as well as Manchester, Stockport, Leeds, and other celebrated places, stands in need of markets any of the French Savans, that it is only necessary, ill order to effect this important object, to import largely from the great corn-growing countries, and to render food cheap. They seem to us to need a deputation from our great Anti-Corn-Law League to enlighten them on this subject. The difference of language is certainly a trifling difficulty in the way ; but as the schoolmaster has been so long abroad, perhaps a brace of patriots a mong th em cou ld b e f txm d w ith a little smattering of F renc h. A s yet t h e F renc h p hilosophers —(and the le ague may ta k e onr wor d f or i t , that there are some . smart c h aps among t h em )—h ave failed to perceive that i n ti ma t e connect i o n , w hi c h t he league' people speak of, between cheap imported provisions, and new, or greatly improved markets for manufactu red goods—whether English or French ; nor have the itinerant lecturers been able to prove its existence t° our satisfaction. On the contrary, we are convinced that the proposition broadly stated as they give i t, with all their boring upon the subject, a gross delu sion. But to pass from the King of the French to the President of the Republicans, we might, were we dis posed to be captious, find several points to except to in this manifesto; but, taking it as a whole, we hold it to be a production which is rather creditable to Mr. John Tyler. Peace, peace, is a great blessing, an d worth having at a great sacrifice ; but Mr. Tyler lays ❑othing upon our shoulders, which amounts to a 83' crifice at all, for this object. We like the expression of humble acknowledgment to the Supreme Being' and of national dependence upon his providence, with which he opens his message. He says well,—" If we find ourselves increasing, beyond example, in num bers, in str eng th, i n wea l t h , i n knowle d ge, in evert thing which promotes human and social happiness'ilet the us ever rem em b er our d epen d ence, for all thes e, on '— protection and merciful dispensations of Divin e Pr° vidence." He speaks as the organ of the government, or rather of the constitution, and these terms are of importance as connecting the country with the light of divine rev' lotion, and an ascription of praise to the God whom Christians worship. On the subject of the abominable slave traffic, the language which he uses is abundantly strong, and over and over again are the ears of the slave-holders mad e to tingle—(if they have any feeling)—with his down' ciations. This, also, is extremely well on the part °I Mr. Tyler, and we might add to it several other iIP I9 entitled to be included under our laudatory notice; ut we do not mean to travel over a su bj e ct to Which Eye attention of our readers has been already, and per saps sufficiently, directed. The doctrine which he ad- vances upon international law in such a case as that which gave rise to the seizure of the Caroline, lan our part, whilst she lay within the American territory, i° manifestly unsound; I,tut of what importance to us is it that Mr. John Tyler, or the whole Republic, think ° so and so upon the point ? We shall make them no atonement for what we have done; nor will they ingiS upon it; and, therefore, whatever their inoperative theory of international justice may be, they are wel come to the enjoyment of it ; it can give us no con cern. Should a new case arise hereafter, we sh all know how to deal with it, and .it will then be time enough to discuss the question at length. With reference to the right of search, the President talks in quite a lofty strain; but if he be really go great an enemy to the abominable slave traffic as his words in another place would lead us to suppose, we cannot understand why America should not willingly join the European compact of mutual searchright ? If her government be honest and sincere, as we really _ _ think it is, why does not the Republic immediately ac cede to the holy alliance of Europe ? There is cer tainly something mysterious on this head; but the obvious ground of su sp i c i on i s, t h at t h e A tner i cans do trade largely in slaves, and that the slaveholders are a party too powerful for the government to overcome, however well it may be disposed to put an effectual stop to their nefarious proceedings. On the whole, ie two important addresses adverted to augur well for Le permanence of peace, and, in this point of view, are extremely satisfactory We called the attention of our readers on TacedaY to a splendid sophism put forward by one of oar file' ral contemporaries on the subject of the schools; and, to show our willingness to keep up the controversy , even while we know to a certainty that the award Will be on our side, we would now pay our respects, short ly, to a "point of law" happily discovered by ano ther, and calculated, according to the inventor's arith- metic at least, to influence the waverers, if any such there still be in the Council. The statement of this valuable " point " we sh a ll g i ve i n t h e wor d s o f the . _ journal which suggests it : " By the ninety-second section of the Municipal Act, an surplus fund can only be applied for the public benefit of the inhabitants and improvement of the borough. Under the pres ent system the corporation schools are open to all classes of the inhabitants, and consequently, the appropriation of a portion of the surplus fund is in strict conformity with the act of parliament; but if another system,.excluding any consider able portion of the inhabitants from the schools be introduced , an application to the Court of Queen's Bench to ascertain how far the maintenance of such a system is in accordance with the ninety-second section, will be both reo sona ble and proper, and we h o p e th a t i t will be made." It is evident that the propounder of this important suggestion designed to hang it up in terrorem, and to arrest the movement about to be carried into execution by an anticipation of certain legal consequences 10 which it might give rise. But such a suggestion, go far from operating as a drag upon the movement, ought, in our humble opinion, to accelerate it very much. Gentlemen who have hitherto assisted it with .some degree of hesitation, under the supposition that once their judgment was pronounced there was no ap peal against it, may now dismiss their doubts and fears ; they have laboured under a mistake; their sen tence is not final; there is a 'higher court to which an application may be made ; and if they should have committed any error, no permanent harm will be done : the Court of Queen's Bench will set all to rights. If there be any substantiality then in this ob ection, we claim the benefit of it for the Conservative side, and beg of our Conservative friends in the Coun cil to bear in mind, that if they commit an injustice or wrong of any sort against the community, it is not a wrong without a remedy, and the Liberals may, if they please, and as they allege they have the power, e upon it in her Majesty's superior court of coin- mon Jaw, For our part, so soon as the old Christian sYstent is •estored to the schools, (which will now shortly be the case,) we do most earnestly hope that such a motion as that advised may really be made. It would be a sa tisfaction to have such a question mooted by gentlemen, learned in the law, pondered upon by the gravity and wis dom which adorns the judicial bench, and sent back con firMed to us one way or the other upon strictly legal grounds. Such a confirmation as we should confi dently look for, would be a great boon conferred upon the public at large in these liberal times, in which it happens that what is strictly clever and ecclesiastical no longer bears the mark of intolerance, but struggles for bare toleration itself. The whole question would be fairly open to bench and bar, and would be, simply, whether the establish ment of the schools upon the new footing was or was not in accordance with the, ninety-second section of the Municipal Act ? The argument of the Mercury on the negative side is as follows : " It is undeniable, says the Editor, " that the existing schools were built out of the public funds of the corporation. They are consequently part and parcel of that property which, according to the M un i c i pa l Act, is to be appropriated for the mutual bnefit of all the inhabit a nt s , so long as the corporation possesses a surpl us revenue. Should the corporation be necessitated to levy a borough rate, then the schools,—their maintenance not being an obligatory charge on the corporate funds,—must be given up ; but whilst there is a surplus with out a rate, the public generally have a right to participate in the advantages arising from the sum expended for educational purposes ; and any system which shall practically exclude any , ortion of the public, much more the children of a class lumbering at least a fourth, and probably a third of the ropulati.rn, will be in direct opposition both to th e l etter and ipirit of th e act o f par li ament . It will be perceived that the full amount of this ar- ument is, that the new system of education not being cited to the dogmas of the Church of Rome and the ctatorial authority of Romish Priests, is, therefore, )t conducive to the benefit of the inhabitants of Li- erpool at large, nor in harmo ny w i t h the spirit of the linety-second section of the Municipal Act. Now if his argument be possessed of any force, it would ;eem that the Church of Rome must be the arbitress If the whole question, and public utility will depend Rogether on what she may be pleased to decide con erning it. It is not what equity or truth should de- for heir proilutiona; but it it r 4 not soerti to have O' currod to Lot or hie vabinei, or, loam], te THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. At this period we suggest respectfully to such of our Conservative friends as are not already subscribers to the STANDARD, the favourable opportunity which is presented, at the opening of another year, of giving us their countenance and support. We have else where alluded to the many gratifying occurrences which have taken place during the year which is now about to close, and we need scarcely say that the Constitutional Press has been no mean instrument in bringing about those events ; and we only ask, in turn, the patronage of those whose interests we advo cate. Our list of subscribers has received during the past week a goodly addition of names, and, ere our next impression makes its appearance, we hope to find it still further increased. ebt Eiberpool gsitanban.