The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-29 00:00:00

t. , . ?".' • :\ s y Of) IS I S S T 4l / N T ) f DrPr()N Standard ()Wee, Three f Clock LIVERPOOL MARKETS CORN EXCHANGE, Tursokr, MAY We are. moderately tomplied with Grain and Flour since this da'f week; durloir that time there has, been an Active demand f"r Wheat from :onstimer% and sneculators at an advancing Price; ant', at to-day's market an advance of sd. per 70Ibs. was firmly est],lished on free Wheats, with a fair retail sale. Oats were Td. per 451hs. higher, with a moderate demand. Oalpw4al.has been taken by speculators and consumers at 9.1 per 2101hs. advance. Vie' hart a glo , l sale for Flour at 2s. rer sack above last ' k . 'a prices, the best samples . rea';zin;.! 558. Bonded Wheat has been purchased freely at Is. per 701bs advance . the impnits of Butter are 4,159 firkins, at a redaction of 4s' per cw t. The week's supplies have been cleared off. ET Z AG PRtCF.S. WIIRAT. 41Fr 70 ~,q. q d s.l BT , ANN, imp. men.. g d 9. p Irish dried re-,1.. 9 I) .., 910 Irish .:.. ....... 41 o'a IR 0 471 4 20..f1ried white, 9 4a 911 Pt.orn. IP' :IRO MS. . . "....o.tlmlrkd near 7 6.. .8 6 Ere. Irish sup. %l (1 .. 55 - 0 Islit'lkh Mitialla • • 0 0.. 0 0 Do. 'seenorls •34 0... 45 0 °Arm ••• 4'• 45 Ms... • Do. Lltirds IR () .. 3(1 0 .IriOt-; -• 3 0 .. 3 2 11Ext,2101bs. new 25 6 ... 27 t nAlatr. 4? 60 l b s . 110. ()Id — 0 .. ,/ ll'ish grinding.. • 4 3. . 5 0 BRAN tr 24 tbs 1 1.. •1 9 AVERAGE PRICE OF -BUTTER, g„e s n R"DI Aeon, R rwt.... 48 0 rd, 53 0 i Banirridge darn, dr ' , 6 0 . 60 0 i kVmterfora, Do. U:ot Y. 0 -- 0 ; Coleraine. Firkin Lard, 'it 0 5.1 0 Carlow 11 addered do: .'; .. CO 0 .. 65 0 :I".rorrit. 0 lt 3 Prune Reiter .... 40 • 0 ..• 42 0 Belfast rrinie Mess Beef; . Derry 1.. • • Vtieree, 98 0...110 Cork, gds nine Mess Pork, Newr y AP barrel. :78 ,0.. SO 0 Dundalk • .. . ' Sligo R:1 0 qr).SC 0 10J 0 —l O O 0 s , , 0 .. 91 0 )'1 0 ..1 2 0 —0 0 0.) 0 93 0 80 0 96 0 -0 - 0 - ti - 0 -0 - 0 - - 0 .22(1.t0 thi Frotn the DESCRY 111 ON. WVPat Qrs Barley - Qrs Oats Qrs Flour. • S:ielis bitto Barrols Malt ' Qrs O atmeal Lowls Bran Bea - ns Qrs Pofts Itre' Qrs ShOlIP(1 liarrey• • • • C'rt 11."1"ee'1 • ••• • . Barrels !Alan Corn Qrs STEPP 2578 :33 6320 4862 440 14 NG INTELLIGENCE. • • TUESDAY, MAY 29.:—Wind S.S.E. Fair. Neverkin, from St. Vincent—Alexander otewart. from Jamaica—Ritsion: from Savanilla—Manchester, from Savannah- r •llilah, Hammond; A rec., Farley, fin Natchez Dream, , from New Orleans—Fatima, Fethers. from Calcutta 7 willinu , e Brandt. from Coenha ,, en—Amalia and Courier, from iianzig—Em' 9 anuel from 'Stettin—Maria, from Wolgast Parker. Risien, hence, at Demerara „..,:Swift, Rogers, hence, at Port-au-Prinee kaurothers, Hutchinson, hence, at ditto Lancashire Lass, Norman, enee, at Smyrna Pli-vra, Temk P. and Nyverh Levens. 14 wo hence, at Flushing Columbine. Brown, frinn St , ningo, at Antwerp Queen of the South. - Gilbert, henee, at Cuxhaven . Cleopatra, Stewart, from Bremen, at London MISCELLANEOUS. Sir Francis Burdett has presented £l,OOO to the W , strninster 'Hospital. RostANTIC INCIDF.NT.—Some time since, an incident occur red. on the river Licking,. in. Ohio, by which a boat, containing four young men, was upset,. and three of them were drowned. The fourth, -Mr. - Jones, a gentleman in the very prime of life, wealthy. and accomplished, was also sinking, when a young woman - and beautiful widow, named Lee, actuated by an im pulse of heroism .and -generosity, plunged into the stream-and saved Overcome-with gratitude, love, and admiration at the-bratery‘of her conduct;. Mr. Jones, after . a few days' accptaintaxtue, made her an -:offer of his hand; it was accepted, ancittiley were married. Happy Mr. Jones! lifilesalary of the Mayor of Doncaster for the current year has-been fixed by the council at £l5O. The taxed expenses of the prosecution of Mr. William for the alleged forgery of.a will, amounted to £839 9i. 9d. Henry Light, Esq., has been appointed Governor and Com mander-in-chief of the colony of Guiana and its dependencies. Crime has increased full 30 per cent. in the hitherto peace abhk:cohnty.of: Dorset, since the introduction of the Whig Maltlitsian poor law. Mr. Oismi , :a.—We arc , glad to hear that, notwithstanding the:severity of resent attack; this gentleman is nuw , con- Aaiescent.— Leeds inteliiaeri•er. The Attorney-General has given an opinion in favour of tlif , old .freemen of Proton to the right o. patronage. on the mow mii-ch bag been inciosed by the corporation. . . 1:121iN OUT OF THE 13 1- HADFORD: JOINERS.—OR IrJonday last, the.operayve ,joiners and carpenters of Bradco:o turned out for an Fuiranee of wages, from 225. to 21s..per week. • The rumour,-of the resignation of Mr. Dunlop, as member for Ayrshire, seems to have been premature, though he has been for knrne time indisposed. • It said of the late Duchess of York that her foot was the 'smallest ever known; and' our present Queen is said to rival hera-oyal aunt itt this respect. The chess club of St. Petersburgh has sent a challenge .to, that Of , Paris, to- play a match by letter for' £10,600. The challenge has beenaccepted, and the stakes deposited. The hay harvest will be Unusually late this year, and unless O. speedy alteration in the weather takes place, the crops are likely to be very scanty. 'Phelate Mr. Thomas Blizard has becpteathed to the London notTital, of which he was formerly surgeon, £5,000, and also 1 :1U0 to the - Samaritan Society: By the B r i g h ton i mprovement act no person can go out i n nis',own pleasure-boat without being accompanied by two water uten, under a penalty of 145., and costs of the information. In Austria there are eight universities, in whi c h th er e a r e 01'nhilosophical formations, with 334 professors, and 7680 Students; 55 •Roman Catholic theological professors, and 4579 students. DeN COLOURED CROW,—A (OW days ago Mr. Joseph Wil kinson, in the neighbourhood of Eam - ont Bridge, shot a crow Which was a perfect _ 6` Denny." Mr. W., we understand, has got it stu&d.—Cailisle Patriot. The mails to thilyhead, Manchester, Liverpool, and Carlisle, 'wet° despatched from London on Tuesday night, for the first ti me, by the London and Birmingham railway. Lord Stanley's cattle show, for the benefit of his tenantry, in Tipperary, will take place at 6 Sulloheacl, in that county, on Mi ehaelinas-ti,iy next. The veteran Captain Morris, well known by his numerous lyrical productions and convivial habits, has entered his 94th Sear, having just recovered from a violent fit of booping-cough, - which he caught from his g ractichildren. , .In th e yar d o f M r. Ed war d S p i n k, co mmon br ewer , P onte. tract, i s an apricot tree, trained• up against the gable-end of the house upon which Mr. Edward Partridge has now gr ow i ng about 2000 apricots, and about 1000 -have been taken from the tree: About 120 weighed a pound. Archdeacon Kennedy, of Waterford,- complains that after Paying his curates' salaries in five parishes, containing 2000 P rotestants, he has only £l5O a year income to support himself and family, without glebe or residence. Mr. Roebuck has addressed a letter to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, in which he charges that person withhaving deserted the cause of the Canada traitors, after that he, Mr. O'Connell, had sworlz to protect,those traitors to the utmost of his power. It is a curious circumstance, that in the British Museum are now to be found nine thiCk volumes entirely composed 'if title pages, the collector of which spoiled thousands .of volumes. to obtain them. By a return to an order of the House of Commons, it apPears lhatihe extra expense of fitting-op the Hastings man of war to - carry Lord Durham and suite to Canada, was £573 2s. sd. h The parliament, or " House of Kings," in the Isle of Man, a nt e made quick work at church reform, having just passed an 4 itici t t , inatiting the whole of the tithes of the island for £5OOO, f~ttlaClling the future income o f the bish o p a t £1(00; the J tur e 4 :^o at £800; and no parochial clergyman to have, in • P A , " income of lees than £l4O per annum. `*het: t i h ti plism —A person entering the "House . Commons are Rump Parliament was sitting, exclaimed, " These lothi,, -4 ,./ gentlemen : I could work for them all my days for alte h ig. ' " What trade are von, my friend ?" said one of the 4„ - e ' 44l ' t! . " A rope-maker, 4 sii," replied the other. tqa. i!ciRnANDIZER.--Last iveek, aldeacherat Barnstes r , tOT a sp;:e wager of ten shillings, to swallow a quart o p ) " al, a haSon Of mustard, and a pound of raw bacon in i the tni e ,`?f half an hour. 1-le accomplished his task in twents-five b e rf'Pß ; drank a bottle ',f gin afterwards, and then retired to Le'h a s 'sinco offered a bet that he will perform the ts 'rig feat in twenty minutes. ~ftxpr,osioN oF FITZE-.13 4 1UP.-.-On Tuesday last, an explosion . 11,4,, te 7,dainp occurr e d i n a Coal-pit now working by hit lanes, nea r this town, which communicated to two adjoining i qtr " ei 'llging to AlessrB Woodcock and Lialliburtonr o B , ; ' • l o st and only one ne , • l• ortimately no lives were turlt°iltt"l,•was slia - htly injured, in consequence of some iuetal frll ~ nvo n'tttn at the pit sh 4— iVigan Gazette. PP Ti' have Cif& TN SiinretNG.—As snnll ", you Nrith r tty 7h o p, :11-'1 have taken' your seat to commence business h rohtiiti s ' tr ad"rnan, a•lea-pot and two or- three little7as arts invitedtheb o ri'hv i an attendant and placed on a counter. Y „,. ioip •in siPtd . rig this pleasant and refreshing av ~' 'lien handed to ynn as a common civility, the same 'Prenchrrian would offer his snuff-box, or in a n Turk his rite .Viin-Oft i'77. China. C ykitit:isC tr i cur ,. 'vas. , to his last , s _:tea t or'st nr ( 1 , 6 4 ° 1 7 .i 1 0 e t r . 1 her nest, Thp i .„ ince with great parade, that the 1,r0ee,..; i,e o f unexamp l e d s pl e nilettr, and t1„. 0 ,r 1. ^ , .ntzhatn-palarte no Constitution-hill, dI • les'.s-street. and to West •osti, •Ti , - nisi) he .a fair for two days held in 4: • • flrf.tv, 11 1, 1 ,other a mu se ments w ill be :if -17,1/4 14741. W ~P h at splendoui ! A fair • • iftligt 'E "P y. 'eTS. found it sitffie:ent to 44 TWil P1ii4p49.1) pi, • i • , ?Amp: on a pt‘tt- i,,:ttsft, in owlet to pro firm, wen - • w'os , aeridle suspended Iva HAW Cwftlt.,,, , Pil • boy, I .r ich acid'isol 'hate. of "Pm"' tilAtiMr4ekles -vet) af-sr..th, lig te;h-.$ iwer t :vitli- °Nl ectric•ity he "a'r, and the. .iiTtid poii.•;.it out, Snail c - t l irrents'of common perceptd.!e to the ear, Ly means o f a wheaten @lrp.w, str uc k upc3 a drum of vePetAble Armor ''cg.--As one of the workmen employed Railway nt the Seotlov station ~ ) Vint? , ne of the .switches on t • underneath the swi The bird -:" 'y seen to go into it.— he line, itch the • " •111.''11111n'T hl5 tint S OF CORN. te.2Bill,ll:ty, COAST.. Fo wisp,. P.rl(3N I'. .1 EATREROYAL .LIVEII'OOI, ITALIAN OPERAS, The Public is respectfully inForuned that an arrangement has been made with Mr. MITCHELL, Manager Of the ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA, London, for Si: Ni g hts only, for the performance of the must successful ITALIAN OPEim BUFFA lately pnaluced. • The Company will consist of MADEMOISELLE SCHERONI, MADLLE. VERMANI- • MISS FANNY WYNDHAM. SIGNOR FREDERICK LABLACHE. SIGNOR BELLINI, SIGNOR SANQUIRICO, AND SIGNOR CATONE. • Conductor, SignorNRGRI. Leader, Mr. ALDRIDGE. The Choruses under the - Direction of - Signor RUBBI, Crum her . Majesty's Theatre. E third performance will take place this present DAY EVENING, the 29th instant, when the entertain ments will commence with the new petite comedy of OUR MARY ANNE. After which will be performed Donizetti's Opera, in Two Acts entitled • .L'ELISIR D'AMORE; (THE ELIXIR OF LOVE.) Adina Gianetta..Mademoiselle Vermani. Belcare..Signor Bellini.--Dulcatnara —Signor F. Lablache. Netnorino ' Signor Catone, To conclude with the Ballet Dance of THE MILLINERS. • TO-MORROW, (Wednesdav,) the entertainments will com mence with the petite comedy of . TH E MAN AND THE TIGER. After whiCh will be'produced by the Italian'company Mozares'opera of LE NOZZE.DE FIGARO. To conclude with the Ballet Dance of TH E SAILOR'S RETURN. On THURSDAY and . FRIDA Y, favourite LTA LIA N OPERAS, being positively the last two nights:of the engage ment of,the Italian company. Mr. FARItEN, of the Theatres royal Drury-lane and Covent-gard;en„isengaged for a limited period, and•will make his first appearance this season on Monday next, The 4,h June. The Box-office for the-Italian t•iperas will be open daily front ten until three o'clock, when 1/laces fOr the Boxes may be taken of Mr. Parker. No places can be secured • unles a correspOnd . - ing number of tickets are taken. Seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved after the first act of the Opera. Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes. ; Pit. 2s. Gd.; Gal lery, Is. to he opened at half-past Six, and the perform ance to eimpirene at Seven o'clock'. • IVOVELTY. Llktr'Efti 'll-1 SATRE, CH Ulte 11-STREEI' SCH ERMAN roost respectfully inform the In .hattittnts : Visitors , of Liverpool, that they have OPENED the FANGY •SALE' anti 'MUSICAL - ENT.- TA IN Al E NTS at the above Theatre. • • - - • The Performances coininence every Evening at Seven o'clock, and close at:Half-past Ten. Adolphus Schema?, Licensed, :179, A. SALE' OF ALL THE VA LU.413 L P HOPEI{ TY OF THE LATE LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN. e 11/113 Exe cu t o r s D -X 0 N :I ,r e p h e e c t i f a u t l e i y L z t i l oi p t to havingt 'Public, that done him t h e honour of confiding to him - the disposal of all the valuable STOCK, HOUSEHOLD - FURNITURE, and other Effects, at the. Palace, at Bishop's-court, near Kirk Michael, in the Isle of Man, the same will take place by Public Auction, on Tuus- DA Y, the sth'of June next, and following days. The LIVE STOCK comprises many beautiful thorough bred, valuable carriage, steady saddle, .and strong draught Horses, several promising Colts, entire Colts and Fillies, Brood Mare -and Foals; by Terrace, Hesperus, Columbus, Abel, Miracle, and Candidate, a number of superior short-horned Cattle, several Cows with Calves, and some very handsome Sticks; also, a pair of twin Oxen, trained to the Plough, about 400 Sheep and Lambs of the Leicester, and Cheviot breed, between-60 and -70 Pigs of different sizes and ages. principally of the short-eared Portuguese sort, and many hundred heads of Poultry. • The whole of the above are in excellent condition, and merit the attention of , Agriculturalists. The DEAD STOCK consists of Carriages of various de scriptions, complete Sets of Harness,. excellent Saddles for Ladies' and • Gentlemen, Carts, Ploughs, Harrows, Rollers, Gears, and useful. Agricultural IMplements of every kind, several bolls of Wheat; a quantity of Malt and Hops, and a l arg , : lot of. Wool. - The FURNITURE is modern and valuable, but too extensive to be described in an advertisement. The whole of the Pro perty will, however, beparticularized in Catalogues, which may be had seven days prio. to the Sale. at Bishop's-cont tz at the principal Inns in the Island : at the Isle of Man Steam Packet Office, Liverpool; at the Black Lioti, Whitehaven; and of Mr. DixoN,'at his Horse and Carriage Bazaar and Repository, Parade, Douglas:- . • . • • Sale to commence each day at Eleven o'clock. Joint Notes, , for three months, on approved security, will be taken- for all purchases shove £5. Douglas, 22nd. May, 18.38. • TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the very liberal encouragement which we have received from our advertising friends, and for which We beg leave to tender our grateful acknowledgments, we have come to the resolution TO ENLARGE THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TO THE EXTENT OF SIX AD DITIoNAL .COLUMNS Ilithertn we - harefrequently been under the necessity of excluding various articles of local interest, and a large prppartion.ottgeneral news, in consequence of the great press of advertisements:with which we have been faL roved. We have often, - also, been forced to the alter native of :materially curtailing our reports as well as our editorial remarks, on the sante 'account. I'he pro posed enlargement will enable us to embody a greater share - olsitch intelligence as may be generally useful, and to extend our reports of the. various Public meet ings, 4^c., which may be held in the neighbourhood, as well as to present to our readers a mass of amusing and instructive extracts from modern publications, which latter we intend to make a prominent feature in the STANDARD. • It will also afford us great pleasure to avail ourselves of the opportunity which the contemplated enlargement of the STANDARD will give us for advocating more fully those conservative principles for which we have uni formly contended. The extended patronage which we enjoy shall operate as a stimulus to increased zeal and energy in defence of that glorious cause to which we feel an ardent attachment—the cause of the Monarchy, the Church, and the constitution of Great Britain. We are happy to announce that arrangements are in progress for considerably increasing the number of agents for the sale of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. When these arrangements are matured, we anticipate a material increase in our circulation, an advantage which we feel confident will be duly appreciated by our advertising frAnds. We also flatter ourselves that the great increase of matter which the STANDARD will contain in its enlarged form will procure for us ad ditional support front the conservative public in Liverpool. The proposed enlargement will take place in THE FIRST •WEEK IN JUNE, after which the LIVERPOOL STANDARD will contain TWELVE COLUMNS OF ADDITIONAL MAT ' TER•PER WEEK, without any increase of price. TO CORRESPONDENTS. " F. H. H.". is thanked for his kind favour, which we shall take .an early opportunity of acknowledging more in detail. The Poetry 'of " C. W." is creditable to the feelings of the author, but not sufficiently correct for insertion. Vbe , , Eibierpool g-taitharb. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1838. The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morn- jug at 5 o'clock Tur,j WEST INDIES.—We have received files of the Royal Gazette, (Jamaica,) the Jamaica DespatCh, and the Jamaica Standard, to the 27th ultimo inclusive. These impels announce the .arrival at Kingston of the Priece de Joinville. He was hospitably entertained by the public authorities. The Despatch of the 27th ult. contains the following remarks on Sir Lionel Smith, the governor, who, it appears, is not so popular as we for-' Overly apprehended : " Decipimar is our confessional. Sir Lionel Smith has dis appointed our expectations,, and it now appears that his Excel lency has been the • principal means of urging parliamentary i nterference. Without abiding the issue of events Sir Lionel Smith, in November last }ear, made an official communication to the Government, reporting that the assembly would not lis ten to, or adopt any recommendations which the Government might suggest! We be to express our conviction, that an open foe is always to be preferred to a secret enemy. Ambush fight ing, except in great emergency, is discreditable to a highwinded soldier." Respecting the present position of the' planters, and the means necessary to be taken for the protection of their interests, the Despatch of the same date remarks— r‘ We are of opinion that a simultaneous'expase shoUld take ilace in the shape of resolutions and protests by the Local Magistracy of every parish in the Island, where special abuses prevail, declaratory of the wrongs and insults to which they have been subjected, and remonstrating against an. abuse of special authority, founded upon prejudiceS, partiality and lob sided justice, by which the proprietary, Local Magistrates, stud apprentice masters are subjected to unmerited contumely, slander, and abuse, and to the 'still greater grievance of por‘slar insubordination, discontent, and loss of labour, tisreatenis . . yerider.estates valueless, and terminating in the' ruin of the ap prentices themselves. Such remonstrances properly signed:and -authenticated, could not fail to open the eyes of the British veople to the impositions practised .upou them, and to awaken the government to 'a - sense of the unjust advantage which Las already been sawlioned by a proll ga! vernment clique !" In reply to the calumnies heaped upon the planters by Lord Brongliam, and his coadjutors in the cause of Mimi.- &ate' enianeipation . from the apprenticeship system, the De.spatch remarks-- " In contradistinction to Ex-Chancellor Brougham, we assert and can prove that the apprentice owners are, in fact, the op pressed, and not' the . oppressors, as any unprejudiced person may judge by the extra-judicial power granted to ignorant, par tial, and-upstart minions of office to trample equal law and justice under their feet. " We have heard of ERA and upwards being the fine im posed upon a manager for tying 'a runaway •apprentice with a rope, and in every case where a Special is called to adjudicate any'complaint of a negro apprentice against his master the fine is sure to he excessive, viz. Five pounds for the most trifling offence, which an English Magistrate adjudicating for a,white servant, would adjudge fairly compensated fora matter of five or ten shillings. It is quite enough that the masters are obliged to endure the over-bearing insolence of office, the impertinent espionage of their hireling servants into domestic concerns, and their vexatious and tampering meddling with the proper management of their plantation work. But to give them.the power to inflict fines ad libitum, which may be misappropriated, for aught we can tell or know, would be lieeniing an' unlimited •power of plunder., In thus denouncing the partial and arbitrary power to oppress whic6 the Colonial Minister seeins.inclined to afford to these for the most part prejudiced and unqualified of ficials, we must acknowledge that there are amongst them a few honourable and upright men, inclined to do their duty fairly, but these few are su badgered by the spies of office, and so be wildered with contradictory instructions that they have no power to act with uniform justice. And the Special Government of this Colony, by Colonial-office misrule, has almost become, as the Loco Focus express it, "a stink in the public nostrils," and a disgrace to any Administration whO can, to secure the aid of any faction, thus compromise.the sights, liberties, and property of her Majesty's free-born subjects !" There is much truth in the following remarks from the same paper, on the comparative condition of the negro apprentices and that of the labourers and artisans of Great Britain. We recommend them to the attentive perusal of every 'unprejudiced reader. . The clamour and outcry which the enemies of. West India trade and commerce have, to servetheir own selfish views, raised against the proprietors of colonial property, on the vague charge of cruelty and injustice, is at last beginning to recoil on their own sinful heads, and the retribution to those who so uncharita bly-,judged their brothers, whilst insensible to their own errors and defects, will be meted out to them with the unsparing measure awarded to those who have been so unmercifully treated. • "The people of Great Britain are becoming sick of the cant cry of negro oppression from persons who few the most heart rending sufferings of their countrymen and fellow-subjects with the most callous indifference and disdain, and who pass by ano ther side, instead of binding up the wounds and relieving the anguish of the miserable victim who perishes at their gate! "It is a notorious fact that there is more real suffering, want, and privation, as well as tyranny and injustice - on the part of local power existing in one street in London, or in any other populous district of Great Britain, than in the whole Island of Jamaica! For, if to laly.tir 40 hours per week be a hardship to stout, able, healthy, well fed negroes, what must it be for poor half-starved, decrepit, manufacturing apprentices to labour for sixteen hours incessantly per day with scarce an interval Wrest ? Instead of murmuring against this hard toil, they are glad to perform it to avert the pangs of hunger and of cold, and as lung 'as they are nut locked up to labour in a prison, or turned out to die of starvation in the street, they cheerfully fulfil their daily task for the mouthful of refreshment it affords.—This is no ex aggerated picture, but true of tens of thousands of our fellow subjects who labour to manufacture clothing fur the luxut iuus natives of this sunny soil, and who have barely rags to cover their own nakedness, whilst our African apprentices are clothed in fine linen, purple, and silk. " We lately adverted to the unmitigated distress of the Spital field weavers, who wereactually perishing by hundreds, of sheer want. We have now to call the attention of the public to the sort of humane discipline under which the miserable pauper children of Great Britain are locked up to labour for their bread, and if it does not afford an ample commentary on the base hypocrisy of a government pretending to ameliorate the: rules of our workhouses and penitentiaries, whilst they suffer such aggravated and heartless inhumanity to prevail in their own, we must think that common sense is run mad, — that evil has become good,—and that the dark hue of prejudice and su perstition has perverted every- principle of religion, humanity, and justice." • • stakew h A e lr feel n e i‘nveti justified reflect present ul4 experiment the thus xhpeeri extending itie hecii. which is tssgse which o n e g x t a r ot a ne c t ia s nt , the West India colonies, and especially when we con sider their:reparable damage•which may be inflicted, not only on the planters and the mercantile community, but also on . the negroes themselveS, on whose behalf the sympathies of the people of England have, of late, been so frequently exhibited. Audi alteram partem is always a sound maxim, and never more so than in such a case as this, where those who are accused of the blackest crimes which can be perpetrated, are living at such a distance from their merciless Prosecutors, and so destitute of the ordinary means of replying to the charges laid against them, and thereby establishing their innocence, and proving the falsehood of the accusations under which their characters are suffering. The British public have an inherent love of fair play, and we are convinced that this commendable feeling will lead them to insist upon having "justice " done to the deeply-maligned planters, as well as to their apprentices. "Justice" to the anti slavery emissaries, who have so grossly imposed upon the amiable feelings of Englishmen, would involve an in fliction which we are not disposed to recommend. It is scarcely necessary for us to repeat that to slavery and the slave-trade, in the abstract, we entertain as strong and unconquerable an aversion as the most zealous of the Exeter Hall agitators: but after .the long period during which the system has been carried on in the Bri tish colonies, under the especial protection of the Bri tish governMent, we deem it right to maintain the rights and to protect the interests of those who have. been seduced, by the encouragement so given by the English people, to iuvest their all in the iniquitous traffic. It is no fault of the planters that slavery has so long existed, and - it would be an act of injustice to accuse them of any general wish to see the system prolonged. The example of Antigua affords au evident proof of the truth of this remark. Nor is it right that the planters, as a body, should be charged with the faults of a few isolated individuals, and be made the subjects of unfounded calumnies of the basest character. This is an act of cowardly injustice against which we shall ever protest, and in doing so, we have no fears of offending the most scrupulous of our readers. We shall, perhaps, give some further. .extracts from the Jamaica papers in our next, as the subject of negro ap prenticeship has recently occupied so much attention. NEW SoUTU `VALES. —Accounts have been received from Sydney to the 9th of January. From their con tents it appears that the colony was proceeding rapidly in the course of prosperity, and that a most enterprising disposition was manifested throughout the settlement. The tide of emigration seems to have set very strongly towards this interesting colony, as very nearly 1,000 emigrants had arrived out within a few days in the ships Sir Charles Forbes, Wellesley, Neptune, and Alfred. On the year the increase in the population had amounted to about 10;000 souls, or nearly one tenth of the ‘vhole— a ratio of increase which would cause the population to be doubled in the short space of ten years. Merchant vessels to the amount of 13,000 tons had arrived at Port Jackson, exclusive of colonial craft of every description. The price of colonial .vheat was ss. to Gs. per bushel, and of , Van Dietnan's Land Gs. to 7s. Fine Flour was 16s. per 100Ibs. It is to be hoped that this rapidly increasing. and pros perous colony may not have any reason to regret the misehievouS influence which is exercised by the home government in the administration of the colonial affairs of Great Btitain—an influence whose baneful character has been already too painfully felt in the Canadas. der a judicious and wise administration we may confi dently anticipate a long career of commercial prosperity in our Australian colonies. They prevrit a large field for British enterprise, and incalculable Opportunities for the profitable employment of capital and industry. In another century the vast continent of New South Wales will, in all Probability, rank among the empites of the world, and, like the United States of America f number its pcptdationby VAN DUMAN'S LAND.—We have received a file - Of . rhe Hobart 7'0u:71 Courier to the 17t1 of . i.NOV - ember. Their contents are . 'itOt.nf material interest. The accounts ate for the most part fa‘ourahle. It is stated that. the low prices of wool in England at the periud of the lasi ad:. T 11 - : Q,TANDAP,i). vices Would not materially affect the balance of imports and - exports. The great success of the fisheries would r'ealise (Or the colony a very large sum. It is said that the fisheries would be conducted the next season on a scale, and carried on with a spirit, which would render them still more productive of benefit to the colonists - of Van Dieman's Land. The reports from the interior; as respects the crops, were highly gratifying, the late rains which had been experienced having been most season able and beneficial. The country never appeared more beautiful nor the crops more promising. • CAPE OF GOoi§ HOPE.—Papers have been received from the Cape of Good Hope to the 25th of March. An attack had been made upon the Trek Boers, a party of Dutch settlers, whO removed from Beaufort, on the east ern frontiers, to Port Natal, by some Caffres, under a chief named Dingoan, and that.27s, including 59 men, under the command of a Dutchman, named Reteif, were killed by them. A party under another Dutchman, called Martiz, had gone in pursuit of the treacherous natives, but the communication, which is dated frodi Colesberg, .near Natal, expresses a fear that it will be a complete blow to that settlement. DANISH CLAINP.-Mr. Cresswell brought forward his promised motion on this subject on Thursday last, and gained a victory over the ministry which must be hailed With satisfaction by the shipping and mercantile inte rests generally. The purport of Mr. Cresswell's mo tion was, that an address be presented to the Queen praying her Majesty to direct the commissioners em ployed to examine the claims of persons for losses on account of "book debts" and "goods ashore" in 1807, to examine also the claims of persons who suffered losses by the seizure of ships and cargoes by the Danish go vernment in the same year, and to report on such claims to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury. The majority obtained on this Motion amounts to a par liamentary recognition of the rights of the claimants. The house decided in favour of the claims by a majority of 113 to 81. This affords another proof that the pre sent ministry have any thing but a " good working ma jority" in the House of Commons, as has been ostenta tiously boasted of by the whig-radical press of the country. By this decision a tardy act of justice has been done at length to a large body of British merchants, who have suffered from the reprisals of the Danish government, in retaliation for our attack upon the fleet and capital of Denmark. In consequence of the decision to which the house has thus arrived measures will probably be taken for an early liquidation of those claims. The little waspish being, who is dignified with the title of Chan cellor of the Exchequer, took occasion to stale "that he should take no further responsibility on the question" — a remark which naturally excited a smile on the counte nances of the gentlemen on the opposition benches. If he is prepared to " take no further responsibility" on this. question, the public will demand why he is ent rusted with any " responsibility" whatever connected with the expenditure of the public money. As the Spectator for cibly remarks, " if he refuses to take responsibility on such questions, it is high time that he were discharged for neglect of duty.'! NRGRO APPRENTICES.—Never was a ministry placed in a more contemptible position than are the present cabinet in reference to the question of the termination of negro apprenticeship; never I,sas their absolute depen dance for official existence on the conservative opposition made more manifest than during the past week. On Tuesday last, Sir Eardley Wilmot introduced his motion for the immediate termination of negro apprenticeship in British colonies. Several speeches were made in sup port of the motion as well as in opposition to it; but ministers preserved a sullen silence on the occasion. They were afraid of acting manfully on their own con victions. They were forced to look imploringly to the opposition benches for support ; and when it was found that the majority had gone against them, they were forced to a deelaration of the course 'which they intended to pursue, and Lord John Russell accordingly announced that it was the intention of government strenuously to oppose any attempt to make the resolution of the house effective. As Sir Eardley Wilmot was not prepared to state the preeise course which he intended to adopt, the matter was allowed to rest until Friday, when Lord John Russell stated that on Monday or Tuesday Sir G. Grey would move resolutions to the following effect :- " My honourable friend will propose, in the first place, that the resolution proposed by the hon. member for 'Yorkshire (Sir Geo. Strieklaild) and the decision of the house on that occasion, shall be read, and likewise tfie resolution of the hon. hart. oppo site (Sir . E. \Vilmot.) Then he will propose, in order to prevent the injurious -consequences which may follow from the intentions of parliament being left in doubt, and in order to maintain the peace and welfare o f the colonies, that it is necessary to declare, that in the opinion of this house it is not advisable to adopt any proceedings for the purpose of giving effect to the resolution of May 22; and, secondly, that this house declares its opinion that every measure which can tend to secure the negro population the privileges secured to them under the act for the a6olilion of slavery ought to be adopted and, further, that the most anxious attention of this house shall be directed to strengthen the , con dition of the negro population, when the expiration of the term of apprenticeship shall have entitled them to the full enjoyment of freedom." Though there is no doubt that. Sir George Grey will obtain a majority on the introduction of these resolutions, it cannot be denied that much harm has been done by the vote of Tuesday evening. The effect of that vote will be setn, we fear, in the insubordinate conduct of the negro apprentices during the remainder of the term of their servitude. There will not be wanting those who will take care to inform them that " a British House of Commons has deliberately pronounced their unconditional freedom on the first of August next." Nor will there be wanting parties IV will endeavour to make that im prudent decision a 'handle for exciting feelings of dis affection among the negro population. It is not, there fore, difficult to foresee the consequences which may re sult from the imbecility and the cowardice of the govern • ment, as manifested in their treatment of this question. The end of the agitators out of doors is fully answered. They have now a further plea for perambulating the country to get up " a demonstration" on the subject of negro slavery. They will take care to render the vole of Tuesday last an effectual means for annoying the planters in the West Indies and for instigating the ne exact--a rightin England groes to refuse that labour which the former have a right x 'jns tas over gre h ' i ' s t apprentices.astiatof any master tradesman While treating!olthis subject we cannot refrain from offering a passing, remark on a charge contained in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last, against those among the conservative party who are advocates for the immediate cessation 'of the period of apprenticeship. The Guardian accuses these gentlemen of entertaining sinister motives, and avers that they pursue the line of conduct which they have adopted for the single purpose of embarrassing the ministry. Much as we are opposed to the object for which these persons are contending with such earnest and unremitting zeal, we still believe them to be sincere in their opinions, and that they act in opposition to the great bulk of the conservative party in ' obedience 'on v to their honest convictions: and, greatly as we despise the party in whose behalf the Guardian pleads so earnestly, and heartily as we repudiate the prin ciples which the Guardian so perseveringly advocates, we are nevertheless glad of its aid in resisting a measure which would be fraught with the greatest injustice to the planters, as well as certain misery to the apprentices. Our contemporary will sorely perceive the folly of his supposition if he will only take the trouble to reflect that the conservatives, as a party, can gain nothing by the successful agitation of the question. BRITISH PROTECTION• OF IDOLATRY IN INDIA.—AII religious ()pinions, however erroneous, superstitious, or even enromous in their own character, have a right of toleration, whether in colonies, or in territories acquired by conquest. Man is accountable for his sentiments and conscience, not to his fellow-creatures, but to the Great LOrd of all, to whom, as his Master in Heaven, lie stand eth or failed). The practical workings of those principles must be repressed when they attempt an inroad upon the peace of society, or the order of established government; but beyond thiv necessary control, the right ofinterfer. once does not extend. But the colonists who settle, or the functionaries, whether civil o 5 military, who protect and administer lands won by the swo►d in war, according to the faith of existing treaties, have a right to equal pro tection; and may claim examly the game non-interference with their own consciences, and sense of religion, in the duties which they are called upon to perform in cou►itries so circumstanced. Upon these principles, the Christianity of areat Bri tain hash() authority to make any other ag,ki-eSSive move ment upon the debasing superstitions of Hindu India be yond that of bringing to bear upon it the light of truth and life in the everlasting gospel of the blessed God, by missionaries, scriptural translations, education, public worship, and other similar means of grace. Any thing short of such attempts would be treasonable apathy against the solemn command of the great Head of the Church, " Go ye into all the world, and preach the gos pel to every creature." But it is no pas t of toleration rightly understood, to adopt measures tending either directly or indirectly to promote the spread, and fortify the power of paganism. There is a wide difference, as it has been well observed, between offering a man violence in his way to an idol temple, and attending hint thither, giving him facilities for conveyance, and inviting him to this guilty worship. Real toleration lies between the two extremes. The offspring of Christian love, it would save the deluded heathen, "plucking him out of the fire," by the preaching of Christ crucified ; accompanying the proclamation of redeeming mercy with the prayer of wrestling, faith. But to take part in such besotted wor ship; to compel a Chfistian not only to be present, but assisting at its rites of unutterable impurity, cruelty, and falsehood ; to demand that the magistracy and the soldiery should be compelled to promote and regulate the abominations of Heathen India, is a kind of liberality utterly spurious, dishonourable to God, subversive of the distinctions between right and wrong. It is most fearfully perilous to the souls of men who know truth as it is in Jesus, whether theoretically or practically. It serves to impress the darkened mind of the pagan with a pectmasion, that as his governors see no difference be tween the gospels and the Vedas, between the Triune God of the Bib;e, and the monstrous fables of Indian su perstition, so none does really and practically exist so as to require an absolute renunciation of the one, and a sin cere reception of the other, by that faith whiCh is the gift of God. This mawkish and miserable latitudinarianism so in geniously disguised under the name of Toleration, has long subjected those parts of India, whither idolatrous pilgrimages are made, to a cruelty the most appalling. It is a heinous breach of liberality and tenderness to re ligious feeling, however mistaken, to put forth a finger, and touch, no matter with what tenderness, an idol cere monial of worship. But it has escaped these acutely sympathising philanthropists, that the conscience of a Christian believer is trodden and trampled under foot the while, when he is obliged to attend to aid and assist, and honour these pagan ceremonies, equally dishonouring by such acts that Gud and Saviour, whose he is, and whom he is bound to serve. The alternative is resignation of his post, dismissal from it, or punishment for an act of mutiny. In this position, multitudes of British functionaries professing the gospel of Jesus Christ have been long placed in India ; and beneath this intolerable tyranny many are at this instant groaning; and from this galling oppression vast numbers are appealing. The subject has been again and again brought before the Court of East India Directors in all the enormity of its injustice. Remonstratice has followed remonstrance, until at length they have closed the door against receiving more to the same effect. A,despatch of Lord Glenelg to the local government of India has been treated with equal disre gard. It seems as if they who could . at once and with entire safety, correct the abuses, had resolved, in defiance of that supreme allegiance which is due to God, that they should he perpetuated. Dr. Frederick Maitland, Corn• mander of the Forces in the Presidency of Madras, has felt the degradation and oppression so heavily—hi sense of duty towards God, and the souls of men, his been so deeply wounded by.it, that he has tendered his resignation if the present regulations should be regarded like the laws of tile Medes and Persians to• be unalter_ able. A representation of the evils and wickedness of this system was made by the late excellent Bishop Corrie, in a memorial signed by himself and very many influ ential persons. Unfortunately it was received in a very different spirit by Sir Frederick Adam, to whom it was sent. The question then remains, whether this state of things must continue ; whether British Christians who honour God, and would not hang a yoke of bitter bondage upon the souls of their fellow believers, are not called upon, as with one heart, to make such a representation to the legis lature of this country by the constitutional medium of petitions to both Houses of Parliament, as may call upon the government with the loud effectual voice of public opinion to alter this sordid and most guilty attitude of our Indian administration, which abets idolatry with one hand, and strikes a deep and cruel blow upon the consci ences, peace, and religion of so many of our fellow Chris• tians in India with the other? A movement has been already made with this view in Liverpool, to which all who name the name of Christ as their hope, and profess allegiance to Him as their Head * should wish God speed. A public meeting of a prelimi 'nary character was held in the Music Hail, on Tuesday morning last, and a petition read for the abolition of this compulsory attendance upon idol worship. The particu lars of the meeting were detailed in the pages of this journal. They were well calculated to commend them selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God, and to come home to every man's business and bosom. It has since been -determined, that a public meeting o members of the Church of England, upon the same must important subject, should be held in the Amphitheatre, upon an early day, of which due notice will be given. The committee, to whom the matter was entrusted, cor dially and earnestly hope, that the other Christian deno minations of the town Hill take up the matter in a spirit of zeal for God, and for the honour of our common Lord, and by a simultaneous movement of mind expressed in petitions to both Hotises of the Legislature, which may extend itself f ar an d w id e thrOu g hout the empire, endea vour to emancipate ,our fellow Christians in India from the intolerable and degrading .thraldom, by which they are now injured, insulted, and Oppressed: TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION • - Last evening, the monthly meeting of this Association was held in the large room of the York Hotel, Tarleton-street, Alexander Smith, jun., in the chair. The meeting, was very fully attended; and was addressed by Mr, Carson, Mr. Cooper, a gentleman from Bristol, whose name we could not ascertain, and others. Amongst other topics, the general increase of Cons.rvative principle thoughout the country was alluded to, and the satis factory prospects which it afforded. The meetin g was reminded, that the time for the registration of votes was approaching, and the members of the association were urged to make every exertion in seeing that no conserva tiVe votes remained unregistered, and to obtain information re specting illegal radical votes, that the late splendid triumph of the conservative cause in this town may not be lust but secured. A question was asked of the chairman, if there had been any intelligence received as to the state of the Earl of liarrowby's health, it being rumoured, that he was dangerously ill. The chairman stated, that he had made inquiry, and so far as he had been able to learn, it was only a rumour. Lord Sandon's friends in Liverpool•had received no communication respecting it. A resolution was.passed, that if no steps be taken by the cor poration to have some public manifestation of loyalty on the day of the coronation of the Queen, (28th of June,) that a special meeting of the Conservative Tradesmen's Association should be called, to determine on some mode of publicly expressing the loyalty and attachment to her Majesty of the members of the association. _ . _ Several new members were proposed and admitted, and the proceedings terminated before ten o'clock. WOOL TRADE.—The London trade is described as somewhat firmer, probably owiug to a demand for foreign consumption. Three or four thousand bales will be offered for sale at Liver pool on Thursday next, and on the same day, a small parcel of Scotch wool saved from a wreck is announced for sale at Hull. DONCASTEIt Woo'. M A RKET.—It appears that the first wool market of the season appointed to he held in this borough for the sale of long wools, will take place on Saturday next, the 2d of June. YORK WOOL MARKET, MAY 24.—Our new markets for the season have opened this day, but in consequence of the late cold weather sheep shearing has not become general, conse quently but a very small quantity of new wool has been pitched. The attendance of buyers from the manufacturing districts is favourable to the impression that wools are wanted. In the absence of so ea- bone fide transactions, it wi uld be absurd to give any quotation of prices. 7i,t r 74 , t ' ' dr , • .- 0 ,„ 6 ! s PGLICE LVTELLIG ROfIRING AN IMMIGRANT.—At the Police-office, on Friday; two men were charged by an American immigrant with having robbed him of his clothes-chest on the preceding day. He stated that, after lauding from the vessel, he employed the pri soners at the tsar, together with another loan, to carry his lug gage. Uri the ur4y to his temporary domicile, one of the men named Higgins, invited him into a 11~11bi ie-hOUCk to take a glass of ale, to which he consented; bitt Cu leaving the house he dis covered that his luggage, together with two persons whom he had employer, had gmie. The prisoners declar,et . that the coin plainant h a d s o ld th e box t o one o f t h e par t y, "Tamed Browth not then in custigly, fdr 6s. Complainant—" Six Shillings! It's morally impossible, your worship." The prisoners again declared that it was not only possible, but true: the box con=. tamed only two or three poundS of biscuit and a small piece of ham. The imuligrant, however, asserted that it contained a great quantity of provisions, the temaiuder of his stores, bssides some wearing apparel. The prisoners were each sentenced to three month's imprisonment. THEFT By a CLERE.—Joseph Brace was, on Satur day, placed before Mr. Hall, charged with having robbed his employer, Mr. Benjamin Boulton. The latter is an .auctioneer, whose • sale-rooms are in Marvhone. Mr; Boulton said, the pristiner t ntered his service in November last, and remained till the 6th April, when be absconded. This gave him some suspicion,auil he examined his office and premises in consequence. From a drawer he missed a pistol, and from other parts of the rooms a quantity of apparel and a pair of brass candlestickss. The pri soner had left a box behind him : witness examined it, and found that it contained a number of pawn-tickets. Constable Flockhart was sent for, and the tickets were taken to the various pawnbrokers' shops; where the missing articles were found. Flockhart took the prisoner into custody at a house in Leigh street. The articles were produced by the several pawn-brokers with whom they had been pledged; and they were identified by prosecutor. The prisoner bad nothing to say, and he was com mitted for trial. CHARGE OF ROBBERY:—Yest e rday, at the police-o ffi ce, a man and his wife named John Floyd and Ellen Floyd, were placed at the bar, charged with having robbed an old man named James Batton, living in Iloratio-street, in whose house they lodged, of 25 sovereigns. The complainant, an exceedingly old man, was unable to make himself intelligible, and his daugh ter was then examined, and stated that she charged the female with robbing her father of 25 sots. The money was safe in her father's trunk on Priday afternotin. On Saturday noon she went out, and on her return found her father's trunk broken. open and the money gone. The female prisoner had not a penny on her person before, and afterwards three shillings and a penny were found upon her; Mr. Hall:—Then lam to take it for granted, that because she had three shillings and a penny in her pocket she stole the sovereigns? There being no other evidence against either of the prisoners, Mr. Hall said he must .discharge them. PASSING BASE COlN.—Yesterday, at the police-office, seve ral parties were charged before the magistrates with attempting to pass counterfeit shillings, in St. John's market and other places. An old Irishwoman was charged with attempting to pass a bad shilling and a bad sixpence in payment for some meat at a butcher's stall in St, John's market. In defence she said she had taken them in change. She was discharged after re ceiving a reprimand,—An Irishman named Gleanan, was charged by Mr. Webster, Druggist, in Bridgewater-street, with having attempted to pass a bad shilling at his shop on Satur • day night: His young man sent for hint into the shop, and sail that the prisoner was the same man who had paid him a bad shilling on the 13th instant. As soon us the prisoner heard what the young man said, he snatched up the shitling from the counter and ran out of the shop. He (Mr. Webster) followed him, and after a long chase, succeeded in taking him into cul.. tody. Mr. Hall said he should remand him fur further enquiry. STEALING FLOWERS.—Yesterday, at the police-office, two raggamulfin looking fellows wete placed before the magistrate's on a charge of stealing some flowers from the garden of a gen tleman residing in Rescoininon-street. Police-officer, No. 5, steed, that on Sutiaay morning, about four o'clock, he was in the rear of Roscommon-street, when he beard a noise, and found the two prisoners running away. He stopped them and asked them what they ware running for ? and they replied they were running a race. When be went mound to Roscommon-street, a gentleinii`n thiew up a window and asked hint if he had seen two men running away ? and said that they had been stealing some &wets out of the next garden. He then followed the men and took them iuto custody. A gentleman named Moore, said that he heard a noise in a garden adjoining, belonging to Mr. 'Fletcher, and saw the two prisoners in custody stealing the flowers. The men, when he opened the window, ran away. The flowers were continually Leing stolen from the gardens there. Mr, Hall wished to know what the value of the flowers taken would be. The witness said he did not know; he should think Mr. Fletcher would not take 53. fur them. Mr. Hall said he must not have the fanciful value, be must have the real value, otherwise he must discharge them. No one being able to speak to the value of the flowers, the men wets discharged with an admonition. BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the police•ofce, a lad named Clay was placed before the magistrates, on a charge of entering' a house on SUnday night, during divine service, and in the ab sence of its inmates, stripping it of a large quantity of articles. Mrs. Elizabeth Shaw stated that she resided in Great Howard StreCt, and on Sunday night went to St. Paul's church, locking up her house. tin her return, as she was about to enter, the prisoner rushed out with a bundle and almost knocked her down, and then ran away. She called to the police to stop him, and he was eventually taken into custody. On his pet sou were found four silver table spoons, and some silk hand kirchiefs, and in the butrile a large quantity of articles of cloth ing, which he had packed up, all belonging to the coMplainant. She fund her house completely ransacked. It was stated that the prisoner, though quite a young boy, had been five tunes committed for felony. The iufor►nationS for his trial at the sessions, were ordered to be taken against him. EVERTON AND KitikriAte. Floßat AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—It Will be seen, by au advertisement in our paper of this day, that the show of flowers,_ &c., by this society, will take place on Thursday next, at the Derby Arma, Kirkdale. . . - We understand that the late Mr. °ramrod, of Brunswick road, bas generously bequOathed to his medical attendant, Mr. Ortt, the sum of five hundred pounds. The general rate of , travelling of the first-class coaches on the Liverpool and Manchester railway is now thi r ty mil es an h our; and within the last fortnight the whole thirty miles have been performed in forty-Bdt'en minutes. ROBBING THE DEA D.—lsaac Kirkham and John Williamson have been committed for trial, on the charge of stealing the con= tents of a watch-fob from the body of a drowned sailor found in the river Mersey, at Walton, near the railway bridge. The de- , ceased is supposed to be one of the crew of the American vessel wrecked some short time ago, at Liverpool. The Earl of Derby has left Grosvenor-square to superintend the improvements goi ng on at Knowsley Hall. We regret to learn that the noble earl has been lately suffering from a severe attack of deafness. The Hon. Captain and Mrs. Charles Stanley are occupying the family mansion in Grosvenorlsquare. STREET ROBBERY.—Uri Monday night, a commercial traz yeller, while walking the streets of Warrington, had his pocket book stolen. Amongst the Contents was a branch bank orEn gland note for £lOO, a £2O note 3 and several smaller ones of diffetent local banks. BUSINESS OF THE PoucEscobiti'.—Yesterday, at the Polices court, there was ho less than 55 persons brought up es ous characters, sod charged with petty felonies; 20 were booked for assaults on policeofficers, &c., and 86 for disorderly con , duct—in all 161 cases to be heard! About four-fifths of the parties chargt..ci were Irish. _ _ FIDDLER'S FEHR Y ItA ILWAY BILL.—The Grand Junction Railway Company, who were the promoters of this bill, have suffered a parliamentary defeat. Au adverse division took place in committee, on Tuesday last, the majority 24 and the minority 20, and which has led to its abandonment, and under circum stances which, we apprehend, will preclude it from being again brought forward. DESPATCH or BUSINESS.—The barque Royal Mint, belong ing to Messrs. Joseph Brooks Yates and Co., arrived in our river, 111)m Jamaica, on Tuesday night last, discharged her car go of 616 hogsheads, tierces, and puncheons of sugar, coffee, and rum, besides a large quantity of dyewood, pimento, &e.,in about 24 hours, took in her outward cargo of plantation stores, and sailed again on Saturday morning. We do not recollect ever hearing of such an instance of despatch before, in this ur any other port. THE 1 HEATRE ROY A L.—Last evening, the Theatre was crowded by a must fashionable auditory; the grand attraction being the Italian Opera, Buffa: Liverpool evinces a detidedly musical taste ; for whenever there is any musical attraction, in the acknowledged platies of public amusement, it is generally well patronized Last evening, iticci's Opera, Buffa, " Adveutura di Scaramticcia" was performed. The choruses were occasionally very striking ; the bass voices were, perhaps ; too powerful, drawing the voices of the female singers. Signor Bellini, and Mademoiselle Vermani, each acquitted themselves exceedingly well. Their acting was sometimes very ludicrous.. The engagement of this lialian Company promises to be 3. lucrative one for the management, LIVER TitasTaE.—Messrs: Schermanns have opened this theatre as a Fancy Bazaar. The pit is boarded_gyer, and forms an agreable promenitoe. The company are elffertained at in- terva:s during the evening, with music and singing. There is a good disdlay of fancy work, in desks, porcelain, boxes, &c. The attendance last week was prett y good. ZOOLOGICA L GsitnEtss.—The p icture of Vesuvius at these gardens is in a forward state, and it is expected to be completed by Monday next. Mr. Danson, the artist, has been actively engaged upon it for some time past, and it promises to be one of the most singular and interesting' exhibitions in Liverpool; In its unfinished state, with the canvass barely covered over, the effect is most extraordinary. In the back ground, towering on high, is the volcano, the town of Naples at its foot, and the bay, studded with fishing-boats, fills up the foreground of the picture. It will, doubtless, attract crowds to see it. We untlei-' stand, that at night, during the erruption, the effect wilt be grand in the extreme. HOPE SHA LI, WHISPER HAPPY DAYS"—Et Ballad, 'by James Stonehouse, author of the Prize Glue " Smiling Mirth,' " King and Fatherland," &c., the music by William Shephard. Palmer, Bold-street. Our correspondent who assumed the loyal and gallant signature of " Vice la Reine," has just pub lished a new Ballad under (he above title; we trust he will be equally fortunate with this publication, as with those he has hitherto launched upon the troubled sea of public opinion. The music is very pretty, and the accompaniments exceedingly harmonious and well arranged. GuNt.oWDEn ON BOARD A VESSEL.—Tito inspectors of police, having received information that there was a quantity of gunpovrder on board the• George Cabot, an American ship, lying in the Queen's Dock, proceeded on board On Thursday afternoon, and enquired from the captain whether the informa tion was true. • lie admitted that it was, and consented that the powder should be brought on shore, which *as accordingly dune. The, powder, weighing above 2 cwts. was in two large copper boxes; there was also a small keg, holding six orsevett pounds. An information ; we believe ; will be laid. STRam.—An advotisentent appears in our columns this day, headed "the original Liverpool and New York Steam-packtt Company." To this project justice comtnands us to call public attention and patronage; because, on a reperusal of its pros pectus. now before the public for a period of nearly two years, it will be perceived that all the advantages therein stated is likely to be derived from a communication by steam between Liverpool and New York, have been realized in the successful termination of the voyages of the Sirius and Great Western. The company's claim to originali!y is therefore well supported, and as we ate informed that the direction will be occupied by gentlemen of practical and efficient ability, we cannot for a moment entertain a doubt of its being carried yomptly into successful operation. TRADE OF OLDta A st. —The commissioners for investigating the condition of hand-lonin weavers are expected to visit Oid ham shortly, but their labours here will probably be sexy light, for there ts scarcely a tON n in the county where there are so few of this class of distressed operatives; though not many yeata ago a large proportion nt the population were employed on the hand-loom. The state of the cotton manufacttire is not alto-' gether highly favourable, arising from the large quantifieS t‘t goods on hand ; still the machinery of all the cotton mills is in operation full time. The batting branch is active at this mo-' men(; but it may suddenly become dull, in a short period, from went of steadiueas in the derria,44.