The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN IN7'ELLIGENCE. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. EST IDIES. There was a meeting o A f merchants, shipowners, and others in Bombay, September tith, for the purpose of receiving the report of a committee previously appointed to institute in quiries regarding " the inaccuracy of the scale by which the tonnage of the principal articles of export (from Bombay) was computed." it having been long a subject of complaint, and the cause of frequent misunderstandings ; and to devise remedies for the sante. Eleven resolutions were then propounded, and eventually adopted, the meeting agreeing to "the revised scale of tonnage exhibited to the meeting, and that it be considered the scale to regulate all engagements to tonnage, at and from Bombay to the United Kingdom, from and after April 1, 1837, is the absence of special agreement to the contrary." The re s..lutions and tonnage scale were directed to be issued as a cir cular ; the tea to be reckoned 50 cubic feet. Goods always to I.e measured if the form of the packlge will admit of it; and, when the tonnage is computed by weight, the gross weight is to be taken. The Colombo (Ceylon) papers, which have been received to Aug. 24, submit, that if it were worth the attendant expense to send commissioners of inquiry from England to that colony, it would be equally just and useful if their recommendation, when their correctness could not be disputed, were adopted. They particularly refer to Colonel Colebrook's advice to abolish the "salt monopoly;" and add, that his opiniens on Indian affairs generally were indisputable, and on this subject undisputed, "and yet the cruel system is still persevered - in." It appears that so impressed was that gentleman both with the inhumanity and in:policy of the system, that in a letter to the Secretary of S:ate for toe Colonies he had again urged its immediate aboli contendiag that it was as •• adverse to sound government us it was cruei." This article is followed by another, arguing with considerable force the necessity of improvement in the ad ministration of colonial government, both at the office in Down ing -street and by the local authorities; and among other urgent reasons adduced the iuictention to the representations of those commissioners of inviny ivho, from time co time, bad been sent to the colonies. According to the Ccecutra Price Carrent last received, the ac counts regarding the indigo clops were of a very indefinite cha racter; and as to prices, they in consequence were not quotable. A scarcity of tonnage for London, particularly for saltpetre, was complained of, and hence there was a slight reduction in the quotation of that article. There was no alteration in the price of silk ; but the price of cotton had advanced very slightly; the sales, - however, are few. The rates of exchange remained much the same. Credit bills at six months 2s. 31. to 2s. 31d., or 2s. lid. to 2s. 11 , 1. per Company's rupee. Bank Bengal rates discount on Government and salary paper, 4 per cent. ; on private bills, 7 per cent.; interest upon luau ou Go vernment paper, 5 per cent. 'GLASGOW CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVE ADDRESS TO SIR ROBERT PEEL. ()Peesllya A DDRLS3 TO Silt ROBEHT PEEL.—A meeting of operatives of Glasgow, holding constitutional sentiments, was 'held-on Friday evening, in the 'lion Church Session-house, agreeably to the appointment of a preliminary meeting on Wednesday' evening, at which it had been resolved to present Sir Robert Peel with an address, on occasion of his centena pleted visit to this city. On the motion of Mr. J. Brown, wright, Mr. Hamilton, cloth-lapper, was called to preside. The chairman introduced the business with-a pithy and well expressed speech on the rapid progress of constitutional opinions among the higher. the middling, and the wm king classes of society, which, he remarked, would, by and by, give " a heavy blow and great discouragement" to the ascendancy of popish and whig-railiietl principles in the government of the country. Mr. Keddie, the secretary, afterwards read the draught of an address to Sir Robert, congratulatiug him on his election to the Lord Rectorship of the University, and on his distinguished career as a statesman; and expressing the attachment of the operatives to the British constitution, and their approbation of salutary reforms in our institutions—their affection for the Church of Scotland, and their gratitude to Sir Robert for his exertions to extend it. The address wasunanimously approved of, and the secretary was Instructed tiimake the necessary com munication to Sir 'Robert Peel. The meeting unanimously resolved to form an operative conservative association, and that the committee be empowered to prepare regulations - for the society. It would be too much to expect overwhelming numbers yet; but a good time is coming. The intelligence and enthusiasm manifested by the meeting was full of hope and consolation in these degenerate times. The political icfluence even of so many individuals—haeed, may we not hope, upon higher priociples still ?—in their various spheres as fathers, and brothers, and companions, must be very great. This, so tar as we are aware, is the first combined movement of the constitu tional operatives which has taken place in Scotland:and we have no fear for a most respectable result; but, should it even prove premature, they will at least have the proud gratification of being able to say with the French monarch, " All is lost but our honour!"—S'cottish Grtardian. THE WEATHER. Ilcavr GALES AND SNow-szonu.—The metropolis and its environs have been visited at. intervals, since Saturday after noon, with tr.loendons gales of wind, accompanied by , heavy fall. of snow, so as to render the various approaches to London this morning a !natter of very great difficulty. In consequence 44 the alluo,i imp issable state of the roads, the short stages were half-an-hour and an hour behind their usual time; while very many of tho mails had not arrived when we went to press, which has necessarily, precluded us from receiving our usual supply of papers and letters, both foreign and domestic. Those, however, which leached the Postoffice, (though at a late hour) have brought us our correspondenc e from Southampton, Read ing, Bristol, Liverpool, Leeds, Edinburgh, Inverness, and Dublin ; but the remainder is still wanting. Twelve inland mails are now due, besides those from France, Holland, and Hamburgh. This occurrence has caused a great stagnation in business.—London Standard of Atemiay Evening. SHREWSBURY, ONR O'CLOCK, WEDNESDAY MORNING.-- Owing to an immense fall of snow in the midland counties on Sunday night and Monday last, the ma il to t hi s town, which left London on Monday evening, has not yet arrived, nor had any coach arrived from London in Birmiiighatin yesterday af ternoon that left the metropolis on Monday. The whole of the coaches downwards from London were, it is slated, detained at upwards w ere detained at Dun- Towcester, while those going church, between which places the roads were blocked up with snow many feet deep. The same stoppage has also occurred on the more western roads. The Bristol mail to this town, which should have arrived in Shrewsbury yesterday morning at six o'clock. did not arrive here until seven o'clock yesterday ovenio g . —Salopion Journal. Since our last, the weather has been of the most intense se verity, with a cold bleak wind from N.N.E., accompanied with a heavy fall of snow, which continued with but slight intermis sion up to last night. In consequence of the heavy falls of snow south of Carlisle, the London mail on Saturday was nearly tsvo hours behind her time—the proper time of arrival being a little lidera tIVO P.M. On Sund4y, the mail did not arrive till about Itil_f-past seven, and last night . it had cot arrived up to the hour of Not g to press.,:-. Glasgow rrourkr. Enitsuna • and tmocHo•-..nubThe weather for some time past had been calm. mild for the winter season. On Wed. the thermometer was at 50. and sometimes and. s2. T . h i l til ;l Z lT las k r..t.a.ze.rold and frosty on Friday, and on Saturday morui n ..tx u p t !clock, a violent gale egan to blow frocmoldt.heTnhoertbst.oereast... froimlathheeavy snow showers, and ex tremely quannorth-east still continues, and the snow haifallen in great ; the temperature be airtilett: b i y the violence of the jog low, the snow has been blown wind, and accumulated to a great s an day night, the thermometer varied from 2r n j k l ;'"e's• On sequence of this state of the weather, the London Y corriele The other ma , mails were. Also )ate iu their arrival. ci;l;ttit. as y . Courier- •I BUENO 3 A YRES. Ruepoc-Ayres, papers to the 12th of October, have been re , ceivel. They state tgat - tfie accounts from Monte Video Men tion the defeat of General Rivera on the 19th of September, at Carpeatetia; and estimate that he had lost in killed, wounded, prisoners, awl dispersed, 1.•90 men. '['hey also describe that was not aide to keep together more than 3(X) or 400 men; but that with them he foul contrived to evade the Government troops, and to make an appearance at Duranzuo, for the pur pose, if po,,ii,L3, of gettin , a supply of horses. The v r ecaution of the Government forces had prevented the realization of that object. It is tlivn stated till: on the 30th September, Rivera elandoneii Duranzim, and marched towards Parangas.— In the mean time, the papers announce perfect tranquility pre vailed at Mon'. Video. Treasury bills in circulation at Monte Video, October 1, 5,559,400 dollars. Exchange on England, premium. NEWFOUNDLAND. The Newfoundland Public. Ledger, .1 . the With ult., contains accounts of outrages committed at the general election for the district, which remind us must disagreeably of the state of af fairs in Ireland The respectable candidates, (mint , to the violence that was offered to themselves and their friends, were - ohliged to resign the contest (under protest.) and to leave the field to a ferocious mob, who, instigated by the Roman Catholic priests, had belciveil in such a manner that it became necessary to call out the military to protect tliE inhabitants. On the Sa turday prece•ling the election, the conservative electors walked in procession, and the following (lay the Rev. Father Troy de livered the following Oration. which i 3 quite enough to show that the Roman Catholic priesthood is the same all over the world. Father Tr.w, lrl should think, must have been a fellow pupil with Father Keogh at Maynooth. "Do you know, yes terdiiv I went down and saw the mad dogs corning out of their kenuel, and a pretty set they were —not one respectable man among then--nn, not one of the lowest of ve there would take as a eomp.tnion throezh the streets. I ran home, fearing they woul,i pass without seing them in procession, and who should I see at the tail of them tint the schooner masters. The curse W . God will pursue them both upon sea and land, and I hope it wi:: feliew them or any one who goes with them. Sure none of ye will go with them to the ice." LTroy then made a pause, upon which many of the congregation in the chapel exclaimed No, no, no.] " Let the mad 'loge get mad dog crews, and let them go, and may the curse of God attend them !" Again— " If any of those mail dogs that rose out of that kennel, that walkedin that procession yesterday, are in the chapel—and particularly two I saw myself coining here—that is -- and (two respectable men,) let them leave the chapel, as I cannot say mass whiic they are present !" The congregation then became aeitated, but Mr. retained his seat; upon perceiving which Troy violently exclaimed, " Is that man gone?" Upon this the •stscne 'individual was tapped on the shoulder by the son of thq chapel-clerk, when he rose and audi bly requested Troy to state to the congregation what harm be ha - d done. No answer having been given, the question was re peated, when the ambassador of grace threw off his vestments, and the congregation thereupon exclaimed. "Turn him out ?" "'The mad dog !" "No. no!" " Yes, yes !'' and such a scene ensued as cannot he accurately described. Mr. left the chapel, and was brutally flashed down, while his wife and daugh ter were wantonly insulted! On the following Tuesday, Fa ther Troy observed in the course of his harangue, that he had placed spies on the houses of the mad dogs, and that he would mark those who should be found to enter them! CANADA. Qaebec papers, which have been received to November 2.1, in speaking of Sir C. Grey's departure, say that it might hence be inferred that the Royal Commissioners had made a final re port. as the published instructions required it to be terminated to the province by the Commissioners; adding, the report will probably be laid before Parliament 'soon after its meeting, and no doubt acted upon without much delay. The question is held by them to be reduced to a very narrow compass, —namely, "shall England give up the Gtiverninent of the country, or find means of governing. it? I'll° Upper Canada papers of November 19, say, that " seve ral members of the Anti constitutional party seem to have with drawn;" and repeat the undeistanding that the independence of their judges will be secured this session the same as in Eng land, adding, a disinterested and useful session of the Legisla ture, u inspirin confidence and secur i ty f or the future, would make Upper ' Canada one of the most thriving countries in North America. LONDON POLICE REPORT. -U , -- On Saturday, a' great deaIMA NSIO o N f laug HO hte SE. r was caused by the de tails in the following case:— An elderly man of respectable appearance, named Poole, was summoned by a Mr. Bailey, to answer for the misappro priation of two separate sums of £5 each. Mr. Bailey stated, that in the beginning of the last month be gave to Mr. P.aile a check upon the Bank of England for £5, and soon afterwards another check for a similar sum, with directions to him to purchase, as an agent, some articles at Robin's Auction -rooms. Mr. Poole appointed the 17th of November, for the settlement at the Auction Mart, when he was either to produce the goods or to return the money. The meeting took place, and Mr. Poole exhibited a book in which some articles were marked down as purchased, but not an ar ticle, nor a farthing of money was offered. Witness afterwards inquired at Robin's, but found that Mr. Poole had made no purchase there, and he found some difficulty in obtaining another interview with th e gent l eman until aided by the Lord -Mayor's authority. Mr. Poole, having adjusted his spectacles, stated that he had for some time wished that this unfortunate matter had been brought before the Lord Mayor for an equitable adjustment; but tie feared Isis Lordship's was not exactly the tribunal at which it was capable of being arranged. His connexion with Mr. Bailey, arose from an advertisement in "The Times," stating that a person was wanted to conduct business for an in dividual possessed of capital, and that the former was to have the sole management of the affairs of the concern, and would not be required to advance a farthing. The situation appeared to him to be exactly the thing for him, and an interview took place, at which Mr. Bailey declared himself to be the advertiser, that he was a man of property out of business, was ready to put his money down against his (Mr. Poole's) judg tnent in a sort of general trade, and that there should be a division of profits. The proposition was quite agreeable, and Mr. Bailey stated that he could command from one to five or six hundred pounds, and if more was required, his acceptances were good to a considerable amount, and could be inane avail able to the purposes of their commercial enterprise. His (Mr. Poole's) advice was, that they should purchase goods at auctions, as he perfectly well understood that sort of trade, and he went to look out accordingly. The first purchase he made was at a sale under the Sheriff, where he bought sonic bargains; but, upon writing to Mr. Bailey, be found that no money was to be had until dividend day, but the gentleman proposed that this bill should be discounted. He (Mr. Poole,) took the bill to several discounters, but every one declined to touch it, although it was only for £3O. Mr. Bailey.—That was because your name was to it, which I was enough to damn any bill. Mr. Poole.—Very good, very good. At last Mr. Bailey said that he had a friend who could discount the bill, and he after wards told me that he got it done, and put it in the bank, but if I had had £l5O at the time, I could have made £lO or 5(1 by the sale. • Mr: Bailey.teiell false. Mr. Poole.—Very good. Well, he gave me a check for £5 to pay the deposits on the goods I purchased, and he said to me, "Now, Mr. Poole, you know the amount of our capital, and don't go beyond it." The Lord Mayor.—And what did you consider to be the amount of the capital ? Mr. Poole.—Something less than the £3O was the whole ca pital, although he described himself as able to put his money against my judgment. (A laugh.) The Lord Mayor.-41e was certainly wrong. There was much more brains in the transaction than cash. (Laughter.) Mr. Poole.— Very good. I went, upon the faith of our capi tal, to Robins's sale-rooms, and purchased to the amount of £l7. 3s. Id.; and I afterwards went to Oxendon's sale-rooms, and bought more goods, so that the whole amount of the pur chases reached £25 or £26; and then I wrote to Mr. Bailey, calling upon him to clear the lots, but I found myself deceived again, for he stated that he had not a farthing, as he had been obliged to pay his rent. (A laugh.) Mr. Bailey.—What a pack of lies! Why should I give you more money when I had found you out? Mr. Poole.—Very good. Well, I thought this very bad treat ment from a man who pretended to be possessed of property. The Lord Mayor.—Certainly; he had made a more correct estimate of your orains than you made of his money. You paid the deposit for the goods you purchased, I suppose? Mr. Podle.—The deposits? Why no, my lord, I understand business too well for that. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor.—He gave you the £lO though to make purchases ? Mr. Poole.—Oh, dear, yes; and a great deal of trouble I had to turn it to advantage to the partnership account. Mr. Bailey.—Partnership! He was my agent, and has em bezzled the money. Mr. Poole.—There is nothing I wish for so much as an equi table adjustment of this very disagreeable affair between me and my partner. (Laughter.) It has now too long remained unsettled, arrd I' assure you it is very discouraging to a man who understands business. (Great laughter.) Mr. Bailey.—Such a rascally liar I never met. His wife offered me his bill at two mouths for the amount. Mr. Nobler. —Hadn't you better take it? Perhaps, if his name were on a bill without yours, it would be discounted. (Great laughter.) Mr. Bailey.—Laake his bill ! I'd see him hanged first. Mr. Poole.—Very good. I very much fear, my lord, as I said before, that you cannot settle the unhappy difference be tween me and my partner. (Laughter.) The Lord Mayor.—l am sorry I can do nothing for you, Mr. Bailey. This appears to me to he a regular joint stock affair. You and Mr. Poole formed a company, to carry on which you found £lO, and he found a much larger proportion of brains and showed that he well understood business. (Laughter.) AV?. HARWOOD respectfully informs his Friends the. 111 SIXTH WALTZ and QUADRILLE BALL will take place at his Rooms, Nelson-street, Great George-square, 011 - TrESDA Y next, the 3d of January, Tickets to be had at the Chronicle-office, Lgrd-street, of M r . Ilsitwoon, at the Room s , an d a t hi s R es idl6ace, 16, Chester street. •,* The JUVENILE ACADEMY will RE-OPEN on SATCRDAY, 7th January, 1837. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Fifth appearance of the celebrated Tragedian, Mr. EDWIN FORREST, Of the Theatre-royal, Drury-lane, and of the American Theatres, who is engaged for Ten Nights. THIS present FRIDAY, the 30th instant, will be re peated Shakspeare's Tragedy of OTil ELIO. Othello (In which character he was received on Monday Evening with the most rapturous applause.) lago Mr. Stua rt. I Cassio....Mr. W. Howard. Desdemona Miss Faucit. I Emilia After which, thr CELEBRATED GALLOP, from the Grand Ballet of Beniowskv, by Miss Adelaide O'Brvan and Signor Saxoni, principal Dancers of the King's Theatre, London. To conclude with the Farce of BLUE DEVILS. Megrim.... Mr. Stanley. James.... Mr. Baker. Annette Miss Faucit. On MONDAY next, a favourite TRAGEDY, in which Mr. Forrest will sustain a principal character. With a variety of other ENTERTAINMENTS. wouldlng' tome satisfaction t o men ' s b osoms ; a man would only have occasion to put his hand into his pocket for an ar gument, to convince himself of the reality of all he heard; he would only have to look abroad in the retired lanes and dark alleys of his town, to find abundant proofs of the truths of these facts—his day-book, or his "till," or his bank -book, or his iron chest, would furnish demon stration enough of his happy state; whilst every news paper into which he looked would tell him of manufac turing production labouring after insatiable demand—of parishes rejecting the poor-law amendment bill, as if they had no poor. Hold ! we do not mean that these evidences justly quadrate with present times. We have spoken, as the radicals do, by way of anticipation—of a millenary or two of years to come ; and for such "always to be" expectations deluded multitudes are content to deprive themselves of the blessings they might enjoy, under institutions which have raised their country to its proud pre-eminence. But why, we iterate, why does I my Lord Spencer beat about the bush of refoim without starting any game ? Mr. Smith touched, with very gentle hand, the rugged topics of reform, and, finding them rather scanty, gave us the same sort of tete et queue advance, which Earl Spencer seems to have thought best suited to the zig-zag minds of Northampton reformers. He said he believed "if they looked at the conduct of flie administration since they came into office, there would be no reason to be dissatisfied. Parliamentary reform had been carried, and then —and what then ?—why, face about, says Mr. Smith, and "look still farther back."— " Catholic emancipation passed—the test and corporation :lets repealed—slavery abolished—corporation reform— the liberty of the press." Why these radical reformers must themselves be a corporation, endowed with the ad junct of royalty—it never dies—and, as in royalty all power and dominion acquired by ancestral virtue descend to and belong to the reigning monarch„ so the whigs in the ascendant shine with all the glory off' their predeces sors. Well we are content to receive these radical re formers placarded round with all these BILLS, and we then ask, do they not cut a most ridiculous figure ? If these be all the services they can boast for two or three generations of men. we can extinguish the lustre of their fame as easily as Quinbus Flestrin put out the flames of the palace of Laputa. We do not deny that the aboli tion of slavery is a positive good —no, we heartily re joice in it; but that triumph became a garland to the whigs by one of the most dishonourable artifices that parliamentary craftiness ever employed. Charles James Fox, the leader of the whigs, robbed the indefatigable advocate of the negro, Wilberforce, of a wreath which his unwearied zeal had so justly entitled him to wear— aye, and which he will wear; for history will snatch it from the brow of the spoliator Charles James Fox, and place it upon the temples of William Wilberforce, the conscientious champion of insulted and injured man—the Aft ican slave. We concede that the repeal of the test and corporation acts was a positive good ; but neither of these measures has afforded that good after which radi cals are seeking. The first was a vindication of the rights of- humanity—the second a removal of politica barriers to power; and radicals want plenty of money— like Lovegold, they must "touch something real." But what good has the Catholic emancipation act effected? It has rendered every one of the " qualified" in Ireland eligible to Parliament, and every one of the wretches of that priest-ridden land, equally eligible, when he can ac quire the qualification—and soon, perhaps, if their Go- Halt shoUld prevail, they will, with no qualification at all, be acceptable members for parliamentary honours. Happy privilege ! The starving Irish peasantry may be mem bers of Parliament. Catholic emancipation for ever ! But to be serious. Does not the present condition of Ireland give the lie direct to all this vaunting declama tion about the blessings of Catholic emancipation ? Oh that we had power to open the eyes of the radicals ! They are as blind as moles. Why do they not perceive, that all the reform measures that have been passed, and all those which are in posse, germinating in the hot-bed brains of their agitators, are every one calculated to be nefit not the poor radical, but the wealthy radical ; not to give the wretched artizan employment, but to get the rich radical Roman Catholic or the radical dissenter an office or a title; not to relieve the unfortunate poor —no, for them more rigorous measures are prepared in Eng. lend, and All belP refused for Ireland. What has reform, with Catholic emancipation on its forehead, done for the starving Irish—the hundreds of thousands of destitute of that faction-oppressed country ? It has brought into Parliament some fifty men, whom, before, you " would have disdained to have set with the dogs of your flock." Add, if you please, the Irish municipal reform bill, and who will be benefited ?—the destitute Irisii ? No; those selfish wretches who are above want, and only ask for power—the poor Irish do not covet the honours of town-councillors, aldermen, or mayors —they cry for food, and, in return, O'Connell promises to get for them, if he can, a reform in the corporations. Ask the unemployed weavers in the manufacturing districts what they want, and they will tell you work ; and against what do the radical leaders, with whom Earl Spencer here identifies himself, direct their complaints ?—Church rates, to which they do not contribute, but of which a few political dissenters wish to get rid, as a stepping stone to further spoliation. It is clear to demonstration that every one of these radicals is looking " for his gain from his quarter." My Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell pledge the glory and the security of England for office ; Mr. O'Connell sacrifices his country for tribute ; Corporate Towns prostitute and ruin public peace to be the municipal pageants of an hour; Dissenters violate the charities of life and degrade the character of' Christi anity for secular rivalry ;—and what do you think the poor radicals want ? Will they be content to be num bered in the field on the day of action, and be satisfied without any of the spoil of vietory ? Are the poor radicals clamorous for nothing but the glory of their leaders ? Oh, no ! We will tell Earl Spencer what they expect, and we will further tell him how they will obtain all they expect—they want no partition of your empty honours—they care not a straw how the Irish tithe ques tion is settled—it concerns them not who are English councillors or Irish mayors. No; disguise it as you will, or even hidden as it may be from many of them selves, all they want is money, or money's worth. When they make the welkin ring with their cries for reform, it is only because they think it is a golden deity which will " scatter plenty o'er a smiling land"—when they join in the chorus of universal suffrage and vote by ballot, it is because they expect their representatives will carry a bill through parliament that shall order a weekly pay- . Meta' ttrbt paid to each of them, commensurate with his Wants—and vet how. true the words of the poet— " How small, of all that hurnanlearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure !" But let us pursue this reasoning to its natural con clusion. We will suppose, through intimidation created by an array of the physical force o f th e country , t h at the House of Lords is reformed, or aboli s h e d, if you please —that universal suffrage and vote by ballot are parts of the law of the land—that Ireland sees the Roman Catholic Church erected upon the ruins of Protestantism, and all the former revenues drawn off into Papal chan nels —every corporation Papal—what then ? Perhaps the greedy stomach of ambitious radicalism may be satiated, and reform may stop her hand from the want of objects of destruction; but where are the poor deluded millions of radicals by whose threatening aspect we have supposed the constitution to be overthrown, all order de stroyed, religion made a bye-word—where are they ? Their leaders and orators have provided for themselves; but what advantage has been gained for the poor ? Will they join in the 10-paian of victory which brings them nothing but the remembrance of wasted hours, misdi rected rage, and painful disappointment? We beg to tell Earl Spencer, and we tell every. one who is madly putting on the armour of reforn-4 that he is. preparing to conduct a power to combat, which, Leviathan-like, is incapable of contrenl, and which may, like a troop of elephants of old, " laden with war," . turn and spend its fury upon its leaders ; all the animating harangues and ample promises made whilst the war of reform Was undetermined will be remembered when its end is ac complished ; and if Eat! Spencer, or any of his colleagues, thinks that the physical force of England is mere muscle and bone, we tell him he errs greatly, for there is united with them a discerning mind; in days of the grossest ignorance, a victorious people have always known how to extend their strength; it is a question of sense, not of mental deduction ; and, whenever this country shall arrive at such a crisis, the baronial demesne of Earl Spencer will not be worth seven days purchase—England may perhaps be lighted up with a few conflagrations such as those of Nottingham Castle and Bristol Cathedral, as demonstrations of victory; but the needy multitude of reform will soon find that, howeversu c h exhibitions might gratify their revenge, they did not satisfy their wants, and, under whatever character they have worshipped the demon of reform, they expected ease and plenty to be returned for their services. But with what ease or plenty does Earl Spencer propose to repay the numerous followers of radicalism ? Will he wipe off the national debt? Why that, though it might prove ruinous to thousands in the land, would not meet the greedy ex pectations of starving reformers—they will, on the day of settlement, demand prompt payment, and leave no arrears ; but the national debt is not hard cash, and to tell them that the abolition of taxes will make them easy would only provoke a smile of contempt, since they know that after the remission of twenty millions a year, in taxes—to which amount they have been reduced since the peace—they are in more distress than when they paid those twenty millions. No, no; the mad-blind non calculating leaders of reform, deceive themselves as they may, will assuredly find that when they have accomplish ed all their impolitic designs —rased our noble and venable constitution from its base, extinguished the light of the Protestant religion, and annihilated the chartered institutions of learning—the people, who have given them the power to effect all these things, will have one design more. We once heard the speculative mur mur spreading in this kingdom of unalienable natural rightl—of the world being a common inheritance—of which the doctrine of and dominicum were the usurped innovations of tyranny and oppression. Men will not require much persuasion to induce them to be lieve this; and, infuriated as they now are with false hopes of illusive blessings to be derived from reform, ex pectation will only stimulate a keener appetite to de mand unlimited spoliation to satiate their wants. This will prove the inevitable terminus of radical reform. Whether ministers, as Earl Spencer denies, are proceed ing to this extremity " too fast" or have advanced " too far," it much more concerns his lordship to determine than us; that they have gone " far" towards it, is be yond all question—that they have not gone further, we must thank the House of Lords—that they may go no further, we now ask of our countrymen for a firm de claration of public sentiment, vindicatory of British rights from the reckless hands of an oppressive government. If such consequences be, as the noble earl affirms, the necessary results of " carrying out their principles into effect," then we demand of the good sense and patriot feeling of England to check the career of destruction, under the mis-called title of reform, and, by the most un equivocal expression of their sentiments (especially at the next election) to convince his lordship and his colleagues, in his own language, adding a slight ad verbial negative, " that the enlightened state of the country will never enable them to carry them." We close our observations upon the sentiments contained in the speech of Earl Spencer, delivered at Northampton, and the strife-perpetuating harangues of Earl Fitz william and Mr. Smith, in the sound and penetrating words of Sallust alia mens est, quum res atque pericula nostra considero, et quum sententias non nallorum mecum ipse reperto.li milli disseruisse vi dentur de pcena eorum, QUI PATRI/E, PARENTIBUS, /IRIS ATQUE POCIS BELLUM PARAVEHE: res autem monet cavere ab illis magis, quam, quid in illos st3tnatnus, consultare. Nam cetera, turn persequare, übi facta sunt ; HOC, NISI PHOVIDERIs, NE ACCIDAT, HAI EVENIT, FIZUSTRA JUDICIA :IVtPLORES." TO CORRESPONDENTS: We regret that we have no room in our present number for the letter of "An Eye-witness." It shall appear on Tuesday. Standard Office, Friday Morning, 2 o'clock. Owing to the obstructions on the roads we have not re ceived the London papers of 7'uesday . and Wednes day, and are, consequently, unable: to furnixh our readers with our usual amount ,of Foreign and other intelligence. For the same reason we are short of the Gazette and other commercial information. The latest London papers that have reached us up to the hour of going to press are the morning and evening papers.of Monday last. We understand Mitt our Manchester neighbours have had more recent arrivals. In our next we shall be enabled, we trust, to give some account of the unusual state of the roads produced by the recent extraordinary falls of snow: The particulars that have reached us as yet are very contradietory. of iLiberpool FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 30, 783 F, It indicates but little knowledge of the credulity of human nature, and less acquaintance with the craftiness of designing men, to suffer a hundred-times-confuted po sition to be put forth by one whose name gives it fresh authority, and not to meet it with renewed exposure. If " the last word," as regards the final judgment of time, be " the word which lasts longest" —yet, as respects cur rent policy, that argument carries the point to which no reply is made. We, therefore, think it would be a dere liction of duty, as public censors, to suffer the factious, or self-deluded leaders of radical reforin, to trumpet forth their specious declarations without adding a commentary to them which may serve to rectify error, and to give ,a correct interpretation to their meaning, . To this task we are now called by some speeches delivered—as a:radical paper blazons it forth—at ti,!" - grand reform dinner at Northampton." The triple star which dimly tWinkled on that occasion in the Boeotian atmosphere of Northamp. ton, was composed of Mr, Smithi M.P.; tutelary,deitybf the place, Earl Spencer, and 'Earl Fitzwilliam—of which Earl Spencer was evidently the nucleus. , We say no thing of Mr. Peach, to whom th e dinner was given, as he was only Mayor of Northampton. A leading metro politan journal tells us, that it is in vain to reason with Earl Spencer. We never intended it; but although Mr. Smith, as well as Earl Fitzwilliam, uttered absurdities enow to serve for comments for a dozen successive jour nals, we shall consider them as the minor feet in this po litical amphibrach, and endeavour to exhibit the folly dis played in the noble earl's speech ; and, by such exhibi tion to reason, if not with his lordship, at least with the country, a large portion of which is too apt to regard the dicta of such men with something little short of venera tion ; indeed, whilst it is worth while for radicals to pro mulgate pernicious errors; it must be the interest of con servative truth to expose them. Lord Chesterfield says, a graceful entrance into a room almost infallibly stamps a man's character in the estimation ()film company present, and Cicero, we know, considers the greatest embarrass ment to belong to the exordium of a speech; but my Lord Spencer gets over the threshold of his address ac cording to an artifice peculiarly his own—by thrusting the posteriors of his oration forwards, and making his prefatory bow after he has fairly wriggled himself into the subject. He said, "I think it would be best, before I preface that toast, to tell what it is I intend to propose." Well, then, now for his lordship's pre prefatory observa tions—things so out of course may well be expected to have something extraordinary in them. His lordship declared, that he thinks ministers are neither "going too far" nor " too fast"—that they are only carrying out our (whig-radical) principles into effect"—that they are pro- posing measures which he thinks beneficial to the coun try, and he believes the enlightened state of the country will enable them to carry them." These, and such like general expressions, uncoupled, and unincumbered with a single argument, came from the lips of "second child ishness" of my Lord Spencer. Whether ministers are going too far, or too fast, in the career of constitutional destruction, we will not now dis pute—indeed it is with arguments, and not assertions, that dispwations should be conducted—but these radical orators know nothing of logical reasoning beyond the major proposition—they entrench themselves behind ge neral declarations, which, however absurd, like all other general declarations, are difficult of disproof. Three words may affirm, that Caesar or Alexander never lived, whilst a volume would be required to confute that affir mation. So theie .whig-radicals said, the reform bill would prove a panacea for every political ill, which, though calm, sober reason ridiculed, yet was one of those things that ignorance or prejudice could . always vaunt, fearless of detection.. But now the reform bill has passed— it has had a fair trial--and we have a right to ask these wholesale declaimers of reform why, instead of cheating their deluded followers with " hopes deferred"—golden days to come—they do not point to some single substan tial blessing, which every one confessedly enjoys, and say, this is the fruit of reform. Let us suppose that my Lord Spencer, instead of the unmeaning, and, therefore, more pernicious verbiage, which he uttered on this Occa sion, had addressed his After-dinner auditory—the erect ears of radical dissenters—in some such terms as follow, there would have been sense at least in the riptiekl'i— "My Friends —we meet here, this day, to express, with unfeigned gratitude, our thanks to the leaders of reform for the many great benefits they have conferred upon us. It is to the reform bill that we are indebted for that uni versal superabundant activity of trade in every part of the kingdom, but especially here in. Northampton, and that immense diminution of taxation which, this day, oc casions the pockets of every one of us to be full —you know, you feel, and can well appreciate that measure, which has given every one present, and even the un grateful conservatives also—though they will nut acknow ledge now sits it—that east independence w e a ll now enjoy ; every man under his own fig tree—there is ' no f complaining heard h e i p ao our vv streets ' --poverty e r f where finds full employment, and an ample reward for his labour—his ' children are olive branches round his table'—' corner stones'—polished, as one said, with hap. pv conceit, by our radical veteran Lord Brougham's rub stone—our manufacturers are flourishing beyoud all ex ample—not a mill standing idle—like bee-hives, ma ki ng golden honey—and all gathered from the flowers and fruits of the reform bill ;—and although, my friends, there has been an amendment of the poor-law act, yet you all know eery well it is quite a dead letter—a sort of cure for leprosy, a disease which has ceased to exist— for our workhouses are without inmates, parish officers without duty, and the buildings themselves will soon be turned into theatres for public diversion. All these, and more, much "more titan I have power to tell," are the genuine, well authenticated, consequences of the reform bill. You yourselves know, by happy experience, that I speak the truth." Something after this fashion of speech would be bring. STATE OF IRELAND. SACRILEGIOUS OUTRAGE.—On Sunday night, the 18th in stant, the church of Goresbridge was entered by breaking the belfry windows, and a surplice and a pew carpet taken away by some ruffians, who covered the communion table with filth, and before they departed, in order to show their abhorrence for the Bible, they kicked it about the church. What a deplorable picture does the above present of the bigotry and demoralized contiition of the peasantry who are driven to the committal of those outrages ou Protestant chuff hes by the harangues of that ferocious priesthood who openly denounce the ministers of the Established Church, and declare that nothing will Satisfy them hut the extirpation of Protestantism in Ireland !—Carlow sen tinel. THE REIGN OF TERROR.—On Monday last, in consequence of printed placards having been extensively circulated contain ing the names of certain farmers of the parish of Wells who had paid their tithes, Joseph Greene, Esq., R.M., and Mr. Cameron, C.C. of Gowran, with a large body of police, attended I the fair of Goresbridge—we presume for the purpose of protect ing the lives of those who, by the paym en t of tithes, obeyed the law, and evaded th e payment of costs. There can be little doubt but for the presence of the police some of the proscribed farmers would have been immolated by the mob. Will the government offer a reward for the incendiary printers and cir culators of those placards ? We shall see.—lbid. FREEDOM OF ELECTION.—As a specimen of the freedom of election in Longford, we will just add the following, which reached us as we were going to press:—" On Tuesday night last a number of armed ruffians attacked the houses of several Roman Catholic freeholders near Carrickglass, within about three miles of Longford, broke in their doors, and swore them to vote for Mr. White, or they would murder them; and, on retiring from the houses, dug oblong holes, and told the free holders that these would he their graves, If they did not obey their oaths. The priests and agitators, it seems , have not la boured i n va i n t h roug h the country.— W estmeath,Guardian. IiRWA RD.-A reward of £241) is offered by the landed pro prietors and landholders in the neighbourhood of Ballyhealy to any person who will give information of the perpetrators of the diabolical outrages which have been committed on the tenants of Mr. Batty.' About a dozen of their rows have been inhu manly houghed by the monsters. A deep laid conspiracy seems to be laid for the destruction of the persons and property of these industrious, unoffending men, for no reason, we under stand, but their having taken laud from Mr. Batty. It is to be hoped, from the inducement held out, that such information will Ibe given as shall lead to the detection and punishment of the persons concerned in these outrages.—lbid. LONGFORD ELECTION. ---- (From the Dublin Ereniny Mail.) Owing to the'state of the roads —they being in many instances covered many feet deep in snow —the Longford bags (forwarded by horse) did not reach the Post -office until five o'clock yester day evening, and not until after two this afternoon. Notwithstanding all the advantages deriveable from an ad. verse sheriff, an excited rabble, and the exercise of priestly in fluence—notwithstanding the state of the weather, which pre vented the gentlemen froin travelling yesterday in their car riages, and did DM pres ent the sa me o b stacle to the lower or ders, who are Mr. White 's voters, Mr. Fox has maintained his own position, an" is sure of his election. At the close of the poll last evening, the numbers atoml— For Mr. Fox 195 • For Mr. White 196 anything we could hav e ant i c i pated on the first surpa sses.,and such circumstances, an d a ff ords an as surance as to the ultimate result. The following are FRoxt OVR OWN CORRESPONDENTS, " THE HVSTINGs. " Longford, Monday Evening. " Our election commenced this day under circumstances of excitement such as were never before witnessed in this county. To describe the scene in and about the Court-house is im possible. " When order wits in some - measure restofed the proceedings commenced. " Mr. White was proposed by Mr. Achmutv—late a member of the Brunswick clubs, and seconded by H. B. Sleator. " Mr. Fox was put in nomination by Lovell Edgeworth, Esq., in a speech of great force and ability, and seconded by Samuel Blackball, Esq. The yells of the rabble, set on by the priests, nearly rendered these gentlemen inaudible. " The candidates then briefly addressed the electors, and Mr, Grattan relieved himself of an oration. " Tuesday.—The polling c ommence d b r i s kl y t hi s morn i ng, but intimidation to an extent unknown and unheard of has been resorted to, anti some of the electors have been actually carried off by force. Still, depend upon it we shall win. " At one time the mob bad full possession of the street, but in consequence of their extreme violence and pressure on our friends and freeholders going up to vote, the high sheriff turned out a patrol of cavalry this afternoon, to keep the street clear in frontof the Court-house. Several rows took place in the Court house and booths to-day, one so serious that the red-coats were obliged to be brought in, and a sergeant and file of men placed on the table of the Gratiard and Moydon booth. Three violent attacks were made last night on one of Mr. Fox's houses, which was borne with great forbearance until the third attack, when some of the inmates turned out ; a shot was fired, which took effect on the thigh-bone of one of the assailants." Tuesday night. —The poll at its close was in point of fact even, though it is announced— For Fox ~. 195 For White 196 Majority They have polled man for man—the apparent majority in favour of White being occasioned by the insertion of en aildi• tional name ou one of the sli. l'Half.past Nine. —The to wn is perfectly tranquil. White's people never expected that we could have - held on so evenly with them, considering all the opposition given to our voters coming up. g• To-morrow the country gentlemen will be in and we shall give the priests the go-by.' ; , DUULlN.—Orring to the dreadful state of the weather, the ground being covered with' snow, scarcely any of the country mails arrived at the Postoffice this morning, and the London mail of Monday remained due when the were going to press.— Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday. _ - - It should be generally known that the oversee's of the poor, in every parish or union, are made liable for all payments in their accounts paid out of the poor-rates that are not strictly w►thin the inteuti-u and meaning of the pour law. act. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD Dec. :3 18136. • admit of a more extended application to other animals—stimu• lating their adipose glands—without the mischievous cense quencPs that attended the fatal benevolence of Basil Valentine, we must leave to be decided by trial. We add our caution to that of Mr. El. respecting the prepa rationof "fulminating mercury," especially by young chemists — they may expose the►nselves to irrc parable accidents. T 1 Ib.: THEATRE ROYAL. • • y i Mr. Edwin Forrest, who has attained for himself considerabie celebrity in his short sojourn in England. has during the week been performing at the Theatre-royal, to overflowing houses. Our contemporaries speak highly of his personation of Othello on Monday evening, and also of the other characters which he has represented during the week. We have not had the oppor tunity of witnessing him before last evening in the latter part of Sheridan Knowles's fine play of " Virginius," in which be played the part of Virginias. Criticism on so short an acquaint ance it would be hardly fair to expect, and, if given, it could ant certainly on that account be of great value. Fiom a hasty judgment, however, we find our criticism almost wholly become panegyric. He appears to us to possess united in his person all the requisites of a great actor; a beautiful, athletic, and fine figure, a deep and sonorous voice capable of much sweetness , and pathos, as of terrific power in the whirlwind of passion, a dignified and calm deportment, perfect knowledge of all the workings of the passions, and a force and truth in their depiction which we have never seen surpassed. His read ing of the character of Virginius is quite original, and no less so than true to nature. Passages were occasionally given with a beauty and strength of expression which at once delighted and electrified the audience. We involuntarily ex claimed when we left the theatre, "We never saw Virginias' before." At the conclusion of the play, the clapping of hands and applause was continued till Mr. Forrest made his appear ance, walked across the front of the stage, bowed, and retired. The audience, so great was the enthusiasm, simultaneously row and gave him three distinct cheers. The house was crowsied. LATEST COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. FATAL AFFRAY IN SIR THOMAS'S BUILDINGS. A Coroner's jury was on Tuesday afternoon sworn before Philip Finch Currie, Esq., to inquire into the circumstance, touching the death of Thomas Molyneux. John hlolyneux, eon of the deceased, stated that his father was a pipe-maker, and worked for Mrs. Morgan, in Sir Tbomas's-buittllngs. Ocs; Sunday morning last, at about two o'clock, his father was at work there. He (witness,) was standing at the end of an entry which led to the kiln, smoking his pipe and waiting for hie father to go home with him. The prisoner Michael Grant, with whom was the prisoner Moreland and another man, came up to him and asked him if he was one of Steel's men. He said "No,'" he knew nothing about Steel and had never worked for him.— The prisoner had at this time placed his hand in his (witness's) pocket, and was taking his tobacco box from him. 'Witness raised his hand and threw away the prisoner's arm, upon which the latter immediately knocked him down. He got up again, they had a short struggle, and both fell. His father hearing the noise came out. The prisoner, the moment the father appeared, knocked him down also. The prisoner did not again touch the deceased, nor did his companion Moreland strike at all. The latter helped him to pick up his father and to carry him into the kiln. His (witness's) father was a little in liquor, but not much. Witness went home to his mother and sister, and sent them to his father. He did not himselfgo back, because he was afraid. He did not think the blow was struck maliciously, but through intoxication. Elizabeth Molyneux deposed, that c' Sunday tnorning her brother came home and told her and her mother to go to the kiln to their father as he was lying dead there. They went to him and found him lying there nearly in sensible. Witness raised him up. He requested her to tak* off his shoes. He then became quite insensible, and never spoke more. Ile died at a quaiter before one o'clock on Mon day. The prisoners were at the kiln when she got there. She asked the prison-7 Grant if he had struck her father. He said he would not tell, but if he had, it was not with the intention or doing him any injury. The prisoner Moreland was qu es ti one d by the C or o ner as to hi s share i n the tran saction. He said he was not with Grant in the first instance. He came out of an adjacent public house and saw the first witness and Grant fight ing. Grant had his coat off, hut he did know whether the tiyeu or not. Tney were, however, engaged in a regu lar combat. T h e old man came out of the entry and advanced towards Grant who struck him a blow which caused him to fall heavily on the parapet. The Coroner expressed his regret that be was not in a situation in which he could make the evidence of Moreland available, as he could not discharge him till he had received the verdict of the jury. (It had become pretty evident that Moreland had no share Mahe matter.) William Owens, an Officer of Excise, stated that he was on duty at Mr. Steel's soapery, on Sunday morning last. At about two he heard a noise in the street, which induced him to go enii open the wicket gate to see what was the matter. He saw seve ral persons in the street. He had known both the prisoners by sight from attending the places where they worked. He saw Grant and the first witness squaring at each other and engaged in a regular combat. The son of the deceased knocked Grant down. The latter immediately pulled off his coat and waist coat, and the combat was renewed as before. Both parties entered upon the contest willingly. Grant knocked his oppo nent down twice. The deceased came out of the entry. Wit ness thought he appeared as though he wanted to }mails' them. Grant asked him what business it was of his, and struck him. He (the deceased,) fell heavily to the ground. It was a dread ful fall. One of the jurors, who appeared to have sacrified too freely at the shrine of Bacchus, had for some time annoyed the ; witness w i th a num b er of irrelevant questions. The witness being now under examination by the Coroner did not imme diately answer the juror. The latter appealed rather vocife rously to the Coroner. The Coroner quietly requested, - that at '' r that moment he 'Digit not he interrupted. The juror, whose name is Daniel Wells, persisted; upon which the Coro ner said, addressing the beadle, " I adjourn this inquest till to. „ morrow, and perh a p s b y t h at t i me you can furnish me with a sober j ury. " T he i nquest was accordingly adjourned till half past ten o'clock. Before the. Court broke up, Mrs. Morgan, in whose employ the deceased had been, was questioned with the view of ascertaining how far her evidence would bear upon the case. She stated that when the deceased came out of the entry, he had exclaimed three or four times to bis son, who was then. fighting with Grant,—" Strike high, Jack !" The deceased, and his sbn, she stated, were both intoxicated, and had caused' her considerable annoNance during the day. These points will tell considerably in favour of the prisoners, as they give the affray the aspect of a drunken brawl, though it was supposed at first to have been of a more serious nature. The prisoners were remanded.—The inquest was resumed on Wednesday, when , the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Michael Grant. Moreland was acquitted. From the commencement of our comments upon the admira ble lectures of Mr. Hemming, we have never wished ourselves to be understood as chemical Stagyrites, or infallible Popes, correcting that gentleman in any one of the many important truths he brought before his enlightened audience at Liverpool. We are aware that all we have written, by way of corrigenda, was within the compass of his own mind, and our only aim has been to nerfore s the hunahic,. ~.....t. -r ~i iriot4, ui aiming a comma here and there; or, where it would have been imprac ticable for Mr. H., to give the demonstration ourselves, to take the opportunity of displaying the profound depth of our scien tific learning, by letting our readers know that we can manage a proposition of Euclid. Speaking of the sulphuret of mercury, Mr. H. says, that " the sulphur, at a high heat, leaves the mer cnrv, and combines with the brae," which, in the sense Mr. H. intended, is a chemical truth, but, as we are disposed to think a similar form of expression once gave a practical (though not a very scientific) chemist a great deal of trouble, and occasioned some expense, we think it right to draw the attention of our operative friends to it. It had been said, that the chlorine of the chloride of sodium, (common salt,' at a considerable heat, quitted the sodium to unite with lead --and he thought it pos sible, that mcee heat itself might expel it, as there seemed, ac cording to the phraseology used, to be a state of transit from the sodium to the lead—his attempts failed, and would never have been made, had it been stated, that the chlorine, at a high tem perature, has a greater affinity only for lead than it has for so dium. So here, it is the superior affinity of the lime for the sulphur, which sets the mercury free. We have, in our pre cedin7 comments, noticed the fact, that mercury is not blackened by a solution of sulphuretted hydrogen—indeed, if we wished to procure a hydrosulphuret from a hydroguretted sulphuret, it would only be necessary to agitate the latter with mercury, whicli wourd take away the excess of sulphur, and leave a co lourless hydrosulphuret. It is a trivial mistake, after stating that "mercury is 14 times heavier than water," that " one pint of mercury will weigh nearly as much as a gallon of water "—there are no gallons that weigh 131 tbs—in fact it weighs more than a gallon and a half of the old wine measure. Mercury, Mr. H. states, to "evaporate spontaneously at all ' ordinary temperatures above 32°. If this be true, and Dr. Fa raday is quoted as an authority—it is a most remarkable coin cidence, for as regards the mercurial scale, there is nothing in what we call : 32 0 of Fahrenheit which is connected with any apparent change in the habitudes of mercury. It congeals at .„, n . Kirkdale G ao l 28 pr i soners for al ih at z., 2.3 mal es an d 5 females. about 71 0 below the f reez i ng po i nt of water, aryl at no step tri ere L re s i l l a o r w cil 'onfi vi n assizes , confin ed i from congelation to v a p or i za ti on d o we see any other abrupt NEW CHAPEL—In mar ads columns will be found an assumption of new prop er ti es . I t a l so clashes with the analogy announcement of the opening o ti f in g a new methodist ebapel its: of water, which in the state of ice and snow (as we frequently Chester -street, Toxteth-park, on Wednesday next, built by thee experience upon a la rge sca l e ) rap id ly evaporate. natives of th e p r i nc ip a lity, i n connection with the Wesleyan, bod wose nubers have of late been ray increasin g It is sometime since w e looked in B o yl e, b ut we do not for a this to w n .n The m services of Wednesday will pidl be in English, and, three highly-popular m i n i s t ers are expected to preach. On the, moment question the a ccuracy o f Mr. tel.'s s t atement t h at that follow philosopher Sunday sermons will be del iv e re d i n the Welsh lan philosopher ave rre d, "th a t h e f ound metallic mercury in the head of a water gilder." We are perplexed to know where it gu;gITAT, AccilleNT.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before was lodged, except in some of the sinuses of the brain. This Mr. Curry "water-gilder" would h ave proved a puzzling subject to the m , on view o f th e b o d y o f I saac Eden, a rigger, who et with his death w hil e engaged in his occupation, at the disciples of Gall and Spurzheim, for in whatever cavity it was wPerirnecoan's;?noclrfa. Char i les ei V e il n est a at r e d dg e ha_t_ nee he d the deceased . lodged, frontal, p ar i e t a l , or occipital, he most have been an in- Prince's Don j ti an ck. y i e o p u o t y three o'clock in the lia afternoL in , g the de tellectual, a moral, or a physical Mercury. ceased went tip to the top of the mast-head, and witness, who on dek, saw him s nld—e fell head-n We know n o t o f any ease where metallic mercury is taken up he a d eck. c He was carried to hi th e Infirmar h y, where foremest e he died in by the absorbents —anti it seems equally incapable of being re- about a minute after his arrival. The jury returned a verdict of ceived in that state by the lacteal,; if, therefore, it_ be inhaled „ Accidental Death." LONDON lien Considerable in by the lungs, we may suppose it enters the circulation through yen' jeotzelewesivseseapuerr.ve i L i ed during the latter part of the past some of the capillaries of the pulmonic artery, but then, most week by the late arrival of the London mail. During severalt probably, in the state of an oxide, from the circumstance of its nights it did not arrive for four, five, and eve n six hours after extreme division in the form of vapour, and its exposure to the the usual time . s t The eh reason ed n t for this n t ti g was, t tha t a heav y drift o a f • Chalk-hill io oxygen of the inspired air. How it becomes disoxygenised is s pas age had to be cleared by the use of spadee and shovele be difficult to explain, and, if any where, it must be in the brain Yore the coach could proceed. On Tnesday night the mail did itself, for m e t a lli c mercury could not continue suspended in the not. arrive at all. Yesterday morning the guar d o f the Bir blood, mingham mail brought intelligence that th e communication between Birmingham and London was cut off at Dunchurch, The experiment of Dr. Priestley with th e peroxide of mercu- where four mails and sev h eralcoaches were snowed up. Anseingst' ' ry, not only furnishes the chemist with oxygen gas, but also those it half-past s r 1 o'clock aed was oon Liverpool 4,nesdarmail from London, due at over epsoiwidtn,ertiser. serves to demonstrate the existence of the disoxygenizing rays Witscies.—On Saturdas y e . li g, the auperin in solar light, althou g h that philosopher did not draw that con- tendent of the Dock Police. went to Cheshire, with art in elusion f rom it. Th ere h eat would only have driven o ff one - lector i,e tw en o ss s t e f rj rn elannzsowe ,ea Castl e t o H oy l ake. The sand makes menti on a f terwar d s. and twenty men. A guard was placed: -. atom of the p erox id e —l eav i ng t h e protoeide, of which Mr. H. ; t ia ° c n h ir t is aground clos e t o s h ore, between Leasowe Castle and the Lighthouse. A number of riggers have been employed to The peroxide of mercury, Mr. 11. observes, is sometimes r h e e t hernias cargo, a s h an d h j r s re a rg v i aulguanlillt, and carts are engaged to discharge y hard and ast in th.e sand, anl one, upon s tlAe lle b:n a k it . h S si h a e te is r. st , gk e mixed with " red lead," and that " this we can easily detect b heating a portion of it, when the peroxid e o f mercury will be Heyes is de ePlY_imbesided in the sand about four miles trent the dissipated, and the lead, if any, left behind as a yellow oxide.'' I crew. main West 11_ ! °Y Ile. Ittedife-boat gol off her passengers and Plicebe, was knadocaeado te a v . alnah in le irgie k An I l tal l i t an brig, the s We apprehend some little error here ; it is, as we know, from rd many experiments, very di ffi cult to obtain the yellow oxide of 1 floating about. During S P 2turd a y and the fo e llo a w m in g t n e ik, c srit r , go rni w ich of it was on shore, and placed under a guard. Several other lead free from the red oxide, and, in the present case, there is 1 no reason why it s h ou ld pass from the state of red to yellow I vessels wer e aground in different parts of the river. oxide. The Rev. Alfred Armstrong Rector of the parish of Men liffe in the County Tipperary, • . hi' , dto atten d th e duties of • Analagous to the case mentioned by Mr. H., of Basil Valen- his ' pa ~ , . is o I,.ze . rish church with loaded pistols in his pocket having gieea tine, is that of a patient on his voyage to India, as related by 1 offence to his parishioners by committing one of them to gaol Dr. Johnson, the erudite e.,;• ..r of the Medico-Chirurg cal i for some trilling misdemeanour. , • , Review, •,vho was order e d to t a k e so m e pills couiaining calomel. , PoPtstt CR um, Trus,,--Lit is stat e d by President Edwards, that • ' The patient, howeve r , f ee li ng ver y m uch disinclined to physic Istilati the reign ,) r Charles IX. of Prance, 70,000 Protestants were i • the pills every morning 1571, n i t i i i i e a r f e e w weredays; in and ti that ki o in the do ()f Francepersecution which no fea b a e r g n a than of any kind, amused himself by throwing into the chicken coop, which the unsuspecting birds picked u qf I ), - )() ,()00 Protestants who fella ra sacrifice to Popish cruelty. mistaking them for peas. In a short time all the feathers came Wi..hin the shorts pa're of thirty . years, there were martyred in off thee ] , t o the surprise of every one on board ; but, as there France for the Protestant religion, 39 prim. 03, 148 counts, 231 were preserved from the !f'ahm"' 147,518 gentlemen, and 760,0(X) of the j coin j ill i o e u r p e ,i g ot c e ,i. seemed no disease among them, they knife. They scion became fatter and finer fowls than had ever Charles esa in e o n f it n n , t bi a n n , t l ho o r b s o a v y e s t 2 i. 00 COO I : r e o l t a e l s i ( t an i ts were ma bBa• been seen at sea, and then, we t hi n k, th e patient mentioned the ere(' in a few day - s, the Papists, by a secret agreement, haying' medical treatment they bad undergone. Whether this fact be risen all over rhe kingdom intendieg bf . ene united act of , li c o os r: . rid cruelty, i 0 fall to deatt:OVCiy gUiViV:II 4 .: Protestant. 7 worth k ae , ing to oar poulliy farityrs, or whether it av 7U'd ri, h Goa-rdian- Latvia Freights to E.rellange date:. England, ere. cn England. Bombay....l2th Sept £4 tf? ton 2s lld IP' rupee. Calcutta..... ltit Sept..E6 lOs to £7 if ton for dead weight; £7 51 to lOs for light freight; to £9 for silk and indigo. Produce abundant. China 4th July__ N o freight offering...4s 94 IP dollar- Singapore 2sth Ang..E4 lOs to £6 lf'ton..4B 6d to 4s id ty Very light freight has paid £7 to £7 10s.; only one vessel loading for England, Rio Janeiro.2sth 0ct...E2 15s to £3 lOs ton..3s to 3. Ojd milrea. Bahia 3d Nov... %d per lb. 28d. Tied 35d.iff'milrea, N. Orleans 24th Nov ...Ad per lb. 10 4f' cent. prem. Ships in good demand ; seamen very scarce ; ships are o bli ge d to give 50 t o 60 d o ll ars per month for the run home. Mobile 2•4 th Nov...Nd per lb. 10 clp'cent. prem. Mobile river very low, and the arrivals of cotton light in consequence. Savannah 25th N0v...11-16d to %d per l9i. BV' cent. prem. Charleston 26th Nov... yid per lb. 9i to 911 P cent. prem American vessels refu.e id. per lb. freight. New York IstDec...... dto 7-16 d per lb. 91 W cent. prem, N.B.—A vessel from Mauritius has arrived off Penzance. which sailed 9th October. We shall endeavour to give parti.. rulers in our next. elan. the I nne :30th PApe. it ha