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SECOND EDITION. Staudt 1-office, Vico o'clo IVERPOOL CORN M arrivals here. un to and si -Tins D a for ti on, we have had ~' I n and N story, with no Devil," House and ti 1 find a VARII 1 thing better than one elf ! Putt, iity into the of su_ ground v, into the flowers, of hope in youth in ate, and of comfort into the eyes that look i ink how large and longin pared with his frail virtues a what mornings of light and I , Pless, for the whol itevert ripen f oh ! shall they be the e out of the very love n, a te. )n, to bound to Proclaim to Nih love of t: tend to a religious zeal an the lie is to be turned against them- those who care nothing first to p: regulations for the management of the docks, the dues, the lading and un lading, the warehousing, the railway transit,—all seem to be framed in a liberal spirit, and to be capable of adaption to any requirements of commerce. Of the shipping of Birkenhead it is not yet time to speak. Two months_only selves ? BIRK AD DOCKS ;lapsed opened; and the entries have as yet nece: The future bale of cotton for must ma the Lanc !s, the indigo and dye from India and Italy, be tea from the east, and t the rice. ti have (if we may so say it) which tells them with won- they will find the most fitting vool or Birkenhead, Fleetwood or Holyhead =Commerce will find out her own best path: show what men of each place to ar they will proceed, i: future, too, must sa inviting her to their what will be the do porta. Here the 'di „nhead in respect to ex will be quite as much on North Staffordshire .d. it will place the Pottery towns in ith the route to London by the Chester and Birkenhead by the at Birt railways as on doc in an ad ,rt for t Then again it follow worthily Liver- rteps of its great neighbou: riot in hie time gazed .e lying, in some holi- t there wen up to the two unthink- fabulou of flarn nd 'lady walked just Lf dropped from the ez cause out of th, the watchful ar You at day a ing and g still in t utterma much v " A 7 Leaves from th d a most impor the conference of tt previous to u lOnarchy of ti Song of the I. of Outlin including Lords I m and the Whig 3n for ti r foreign Portuguese Question Est month he had month he hag a tale r result. " Lathos %SOS us so well, the of it ay f truth ! believer in !Hever even in or d such as are far r of security into the heart, e tread upon, of loveliness to the stars ! Retainer of ty ! Bringer of se im - perfe g - the mind of man is, corn- I his transitory power. And undance thou hast in store, human race, preparing to belief in its pos- with the n work f fight guilty of deserting thee, A truth they feel themselves [tent it does not exist—be- 1 they not su: upon t incredit ou Id t. which is tering 1 that makes t ;h all it ,-defended green sacrifice thou ari'ealled s to offer up upon the deep to t god of war ! May it avail to keep thy homes for ever u cvuehed by the invader :—Blackwood's Magazine. connexion—not only .7 line to Cre and Birkenk Ettera NOTI urt. C ES ghost ; TIES. LATHOM HOUSE, AND THE STANLEY FAMILY. I (From Frasei .'s Magazine.) Latbom House, seated on a flat, boggy tract of land, bvs,_ wnit of two yards in thickness, was, I c fortress as any armed in silent despair. On mied w nch side court, t, in rich ig trea Ind having en- to Isabel. the iley family profit by all this How comported .s of their greatness ❑tagenet times by the appellation ; the younger branch took the min a Moorland Manor in the lists, the love of the heiress of . Thus passed the wide domains of as a wo: ,Ith, and fame. One aed in the dark re y A Holt Castle, ( lost hii he&l t wealth that moved th hard-headed n usy of ys Lor :anley larch ; foi iir V a, in his_ Life _of 1 ;ry VII., and 'for his revenue in land and fee 'e, and I am apt to hat Perkin War throughout the caused them at - Paul's C lofty-mix says Lord Bacon, to be so- o order to des troy any that ed men were honeurea Stanley, the first earl of Derby, was a the brother-in-law great times, beir gmaker, and th t Of Edward IV., hE it and ill-starred b(:. period shadowed in the —that of the fifth ed of Richard 111. -Stanley encoun the tragedy of h Who, indeed, can forget it that of Miss O'Neill?, that powerful, passionate, acting, which gave even to the irresolute Hastings' tats ~erect. The night before the death of Has ,m visited the slumbers of his friend Stanley. liar to every one emembers the Jane Shot fiuishe so deep an in• tines, a d Heinst lgs was impra )llowing y he wa I of the Tower, and his head struck off; whil! Stanley ulty . escaped the blow of 3at him. n )rtentous dream was mournfully for "a hoar" (I quote from the authority of - Sir Thomas More), " with his tusks had " (in Stanley's dream) "so razedthem bi )od ran about their should ped with a short imprisonment, and married Is the justly celebrated Margaret Beaufort, and the foundress of T of Henr Christ's and St. John's Colleges in the University of Cambridge ; and it became Stanley's fate to pluck the crown from the brow of the usurper Richard, as he lay dead on the field of Bosworth, and to place it on the head of another usurper, namely, his own step-son, of pious and avaricious memory. Whereupon," writes Arthur Collins, with solemn . emphasis, " he was advanced to the dignity of an earl, by the title of Earl of Derby; " and he went on flourishing and accumulating dignities and wealth until the year raved A cou. 3Y Hes' imbered c T. I abs It Con; House great man in. 1504, when he was buried _in to Lathom, lurscough Priory, adjacent ing provided his tomb—the fashion in ?etnal remembrance to be Of this Sir Thomas there is still a memento at Knowsley in a portrait of a stern man in black, wearing a George. He left a goodly baud of sons and daughters, of whom the former maintained the valiant character of the house. I pass over a track of smaller stars, just here and there noting down s , way of instance one other of peculiar brilliancy asty readers, Whilst I on the virtues of Edward, days, one of her privy Landing he had served her that Tudor penetration, tft, and which the dwell for one brief page o: Earl of Derby, in Elizabet council, and so chosen, notwith royal ance iich might well be called kin the liberal selfishness of employ- been engag service of a foe This nobleman ap thet hrrlly virtues. I ` His greatness supported his good His , and his goodness .cat birth put him above all private respect, but his great soul never above public service. Indeed, he repaired, by ways thrifty yet noble, what his family had impaired by neglect." It happened, unluckily for the Stanleys, that they claimed kindred with the blood royal. This was through the Nevilles, the King-maker's family, the Lady Eleanor Neville, or Alianore, having married the first Alianore, ;ed hit The youtl He was, however, tt death if he exposed t to give his corni ice to it horse 11 ur and 11 I tur r- his how di given t THE LIVERPOOL STINIMRD lotto de la Tremouille, countess of Derby, was the daugh ter of Claude de la Tremouille, due de Thouars, and of the Lady Charlotte, daughter of William ' the first prince of Orange, and of Charlotte de Bourbon his wife. Such was the descent of the justly celebrated countess ; and she inherited the valour and judgment of her ancestor of the House of Orange. At a very early age Charlotte de la Tremouille was united to the earl, and their union was truly propitious — congeniality of character, immense tion, were their blessings. To these the felicity of Children, both is and promising. "This marvellous picture," a modern writer, "of almost superhuman 1, in due t was doomed to be torn in pieces and scattered to he accursed demon of faction and rebellion ar as we can judge by the portrait of Va d in the family collection, was not the at istrious Charlotte She is represented b y appeal ►se over h than THE GREEK HUNT, (From the Dublin Unirersity Magazine Had I to minister to a mind diseased—io one that ever stoops so wearily to count the thorns that pierce his feet upon his earthly path, that he forgets to look upon the radiance shining overhead—l would lead him forth on a still, calm summer's night in Greece, and bid him enter into the spirit of that unutterable rest wh very atmospl of the illimit, less into the perva ere ; not on a starry night, when tl ible worlds might allure him to plur darkness of the mystery around us— des its narvel torture to wl :h there is no anguish comparable--bi noon, serene in lonely beauty, walks in h when only tl brightness over that vault of pure blue ether, wi passing cloud between the sunset and the d lest her silvery nath, or obstruct '- beautiful w benic , ” - bering child of remember Id, I am ( F.; tO MO- her ste neath that wonderf dered to s no pang, save that that would not var how those Placid moonbeams f placently, on all that nature can show forth m and all that man 11 the lonely vall city where ping infant, to t s out to his dee s silent lovelii am - mon sits enthroned ; and to-nigh beams are shed without r Corinth, radir.nt al ruins of I lent BE verve on the one upon t fair and fallen great pa ary, brilliant Kyamil Bey.lay at the foot of a tall palm tree within utiful garden ; his couch was a leopard- his cast an skin, and I . - head was pillowed on the knees of a young negro, who sat upright, motionless as a statue of bronze ; before him danced a group of female slaves, gliding with graceful, undulating movement amongst the trees, and singing softly as they flitted by. * * Fehim," said the Bey, " I am sick of this insipid life ! —are my soldiers asleep that they bring me no more pri- soners, no plunder, no slaves !" " Highness ! only yesterday they were out scouring the country, and they brought in some fifty or sixty pairs of " Bah ! what child's play is this heads !" Were there no " But few, great master ! Z could scarce string them into a necklace for your humble slave," said the negro, with a horrible grin. " Mashallah ! these idle slaves will do no good till I ride with them myself; and this is not‘a time to let our 1 hand lie lightly on these Ghiaour dogs. They say the re bel Ipsilanti has dared to land not far from hence. Fehim, $f Ir- "'a means to shew I+ ' -la tin O. as fat and clumsy, smith ordinar , ich, though at first sight it , has - a mine of thought buried beneath inging lashes. Dressed according to the e day, her hair in slender ringlets, a rich air, a single row round her neck, her dress the eye atm, wit' .-hanging slee Is,. and fasten brooch of es trimm a vain for that idant of a Bourbon seems entitled even it must be confessed, more of the ae rrencn 3 of Charlo , expresse bore that impre ;h 'which it is scarcely possible to define His brow wa Lich we feel by daily experience to exist Ldeed low, and his long hair fell over it so as to _ are full of animation, the nose is fine and 11 formed, the mouth surmounted by a slight mous sweetness. He is depicted, armour, over which his long 3ressive of mucl- locks, scarcely curled, flow freely. The earl had been little known until he appeared before the world in his military character. He passed the first intending the various estAlishmeiits of his father in the Isle of Man, and attending to the morals of a population who owned the Earls of Derby as their kings, and honoured them with a filial affection. His leisure from these momentous pursuits were spent in literature and philosophy ; and among other productions, his " Ilistory of the Isle of Man," preserved in the Desiderata Curiosa, is still valued. Not long, however, after his accession to the title, he was called by his duty to his sovereign into the field. The motto, " Sans changer adopted by the elder branch of the Stanleys, was not falsified by this valiant man. He was among the first o ty to raise forces for the king, the first to attend nons of the monarch—never to desert that cause the nobil whilst life remained He was at Lathom when intelligence was brought to was formed to take the Tsle of Mani he 'hrowing I few soldiers, and collecting such arms and ammunition as he could, he left it for ever. His countess and her children remained behind ; and scarcely had Lord Derby reached the Isle of Man, when she heard that her house would be attacked—•she feared, by a sudden assault. Her soldiers were raw, inexpe rienced countrymen, but they were faithful ; and among her garrison there was a Captain Farmer, a veteran officer, trained to war in that famous school, the Low Countries. Lady Derby having discerned his merit, made him major of the house ; and placed under his command six captains, chosen from among the gentlemen of her house hold. Under these, again, were the common soldiers listed, trained by them and instructed. These prepara tions were skilfully concealed, and such was the fidelity of her household, that when the enemy approached they had no idea of any other forces than her own servants on o ibit r being within the house Bth of February, 1644. Sir Thomas Fairfax, willing, perhaps, to spare the countess the horrors of a siege, desired a conference. She consented. He was re ceived in the great hall of Lathom. As he entered the )n the 21 first court, the wary general was'struck by the appearance of what seemed a considerable force. Not only the main guard occupied the first court, but men were ranged in open fugi. ne top of the walls, and on the towers, in such a manner as to appear more numerous than they A, on t really we This was done by the advice of Captain Farmer, not only to prevent a surprise, but to intimidate the enemy by appearance of strength, for the army which besieged Lathom amounted to 4,01 men. Sir Thomas, and a gentleman of quality who accompanied him, were received with a lofty courtesy. But when he offered terms, the lady required a month's delay to consider of them. " Not a day's," was the reply, and Fairfax departed. He was still uncertain whether to commence a regular siege, or to attempt to take the place by storm ; but he was deceived by a mean negotiation between one of his officers and the chaplain of the house, into the belief that the countess had no store of provisions. He therefore decided on a siege : for fourteen days hostilities were de layed—then, supposing that her supplies were exhausted, he summoned the countess to surrender. The answer, sent by a trumpeter, was worthy the heroine who penned it. It was this :—" That, as she had not lost her regard for the Church of England, nor her allegiance to her prince, nor her faith to her lord, she could not, therefore, as yet, give up the house ; that they must never hope to gain it till she had either lost all of these, or her life, in defence of them." And this reply came after a torturing continuance of suspense of fourteen days. The Beige now began in earnest, and it continued with out let or intermission during a space of three months. Many were the gallant feats of arms which distinguished the sorties made by the garrison ; and well was the spirit men sustained by the heroic courage of their mis ,. She feared neither shot nor shell. More than once a cannon-ball passed through the chamber, and much was she annoyed by the fire of a mortar—a new engine of war in those days—at least to the troops which held Lathom House. But she made light of every peril which threatened her own person, and taught her people, by the example which she set, to prefer death to dishonour. These things have occurred elsewhere, therefore we need not dwell upon them. But possibly the following little anecdote may interest, though that, too, might be paralleled, had we leisure, at this moment, to look about fr its f .or its tac-simile. It happened, during the progress of the siege, that a dog, belonging to some gentleman in the house, proved himself a friend to man in a very remarkable manner. Me chap lain, who managed all correspondence carried on by the garrison with their friends without, by means of ciphers, was in great want of some means of conveying his de spatches out of the house, surrounded on every side, as it was, by enemies ; till, observing that a dog was in the habit of going to and fro from his master in the house t his mistress, who lived a short distance from it, he deter mined to make the animal his messenger. Having tied his despatch, tightly rolled, by a thin string, to the neck of the animal, he managed to convey intelligence of it to the gentlewoman, wife of the dog's master, and directed her to forward all she received, as she best could, to his majesty. She did so ; and having kept the trusty crea ture by her for a day or so without food, she then turned him out of doors, and he invariably returned to his mas ter in Lathom House. By this means the poor besieged inhabitants sent intelligence of their condition to the king and his friends, and received in their turn news back from them. For many months the faithful animal discharged this important office, bringing encouragement to the gar rison, enabling them to know on what they might de pend ; so that, having accurate information of the state of the king's affairs, they were never excited by false hope, nor too much cast down by the disappointment of ill-founded expectations. But the fate of the faithful dog was melancholy. One day, when returning to the house, laden with tidings as usual, an idle soldier discharged his musket at the poor creature. The dog, true to his trust, managed to drag himself near the gate with his_pr s es e ici a u ti s , cargo, and then laid himself down and died. His deprived the garrison of a most sure and trusty . friend, and of the greatest comf ort and solace of which their con dition was susceptible—the means of communication with the outer world. During three months the contest was protracted, but Charlotte de la Tremouille prevailed. The parliamentary general, on the 27th of May, withdrew his forces to 80l- s of Lathom, two thousand alone marched away, such been the slaughter ; and the 'Eagle Tower still rose ?riot's in its untouched strength, the banner of the Lleys - waving proudly over it. A short interval of less was there in the halls of Lathom, and a brief season of repose to the noble Charlotte, before another host appeared before the gates. No longer were the cropped locks and demure faces of the parliamentarians No, a gallant band, headed by one of the hand hers of his time, came riding gaily and tri be voice of Prince Rupert, nig the last and the preceding year, country members had been more occupied with watching the attitude and the proceedings of the ministry, and less with the conflicting statements of rival companies and engineers. Had they been attending to the Currency and the Corn-laws, we ought to have escaped from a commercial crisis, in which even the railway shareholder, as I imagine, has been to thorn House. lerably severely pinched. And really, Ido not think that Rupert was, at this period, in the full perfection of his we ar e co mpensated in the sight of Heaven, by our five auth, being twenty-five years of age. His portrait, and guineas a-day, for the enormous immoralities which we hat of his less distinguished brother, Prince Maurice, con tract in this overgrown and seductive city. There are afford specimens of the noblest style of manly beauty. some thousands of us here, all living like plethoric game- As you gaze upon them, in the hall of Warwick Castle, cocks ; and, so far as I can gather, going, in plain lan limned by Vandyke, you feel how much such persons, guage, as fast as possible to the devil. I wish you saw the such countenances, a bearing so aristocratic, yet so free, scramble which takes place in the lobby of the committee must have influenced the affections even' of the rudest rooms at twelve. A perfect torrent of engineers, sur oldiery. Perhaps of the two, the handsomer is Maurice; veyors, solicitors, agents, and witnesses—in the middle of but his is the more subdued countenance—the more which, every here and there, appears the cauliflower head effeminate expression, if such a term can be applied to of a counsel—pours up the stairs. The refreshment table somest c umni-arant m:eign accents, was heard saluting the lady of apert, the hero alone appears. And below is blocked up with thirsty demons, all clamorous for .uyish words of his, uttered when hunt- soda-water, their matutinal tea having failed to quench the n some English park in 1633 : old hereditary drought. You wrestle your way • I wish I could break my neck, for then I should committee-room, and before the members meet, you bk. • '" - ---'and !" come the edified auditor of such scraps of information as the following :—" Whaur d'ye think Jimsc -- 4 tae last nicht after The VEsuvius.—The cone surmounted, we I dinna ken : some deil's ouckie's errand, I'se be boun, -e edge of a dark crater some two miles in cir- —" Gosh, man ! we gaed tae the Puckadully Saloon ; at, id of no great depth. We experienced new sensa- Jimsey there took twa turns wi' an opera dancer in thF ng the fissured crust which covers it. Polka. Eh, man ! she was a grand yin."—" Was -- s were crackling ar ound us; at every other feared, Jimsey ?"—" Me feared ? Deil a bit. )ugh partial rents the red-hot lava flowing I was unto like Count Dorsy."=" And of the sea, and momentary explosions after ?"—" I dinna mind : I was awful ton. Is the subterranean gas escaped. The wasna muckle better mysel'. Me and Watts `hat of the bed of some vast furnace, gaed down to Greenitch, and we foregathered wi' twa 'red the cooling masses with orange Paisley lads in the steam-hnnt • sted the into th leave my bones in (The conclusion next week.) Lnd me gae —" I'm sup Judge and Jury ?' CRATER. OF whaur did ye g of smoke which d'ye find yoursel' this morning, Watt and bottom. I I ava. I vv( %t eleven with my boots on, I somebody cl. with ash helped theirsel' to my watci I dinna mouth of the funnel. It was a lake of I pinchb smoke whirled up from it; occasional' ame with fumes of brinrtoi Geordie Wha That's mair nor c He's an awtu then made i WC cot ly our cou I then f would seem c the obl which we did not like ; there v But still, v look for a Government those who will form i t When inpower t they will do . then: various events. en, m , no longer hesitation doubts to the winds The time was con md• then we rem( painful 1, and in vice and the injunctions of Sir D the midst of difficulty and discourag ourselves with the confidence which his assuram we remembered the reliance which he placed on t Protestant feelino , of England ; we cheered ourselvea, above all, on that highest support to which his words and his example pointed • we felt that if our cause was good, He that guides a good cause would not fail us. ..`Vg did, therefore, under the pressure of strong circumstances, its your Grace well. remeinbers' (the Duke of Ilfanchester), with von at our head, form the National Club." Thus we a: fly indebted to thi nent, we cheered fldential Associaiion, which will for ever upl preeminence c ition and in We hop of our country ; in despite of all thf trigues of a dissatisfied and apostatical few the Protestant electors of Liverpool will besti] and each resolve to do his duty in returning Sir Digby and thus show to the country at large, that they are sti] true and honest to their principles. LIVERPOOL JULY Poynton Lolhario... Chanticleer Inheritres Brocardo.... The Conjuror Yardley ... . Roweda Inglewood Cossack... Gwalior. Picnic . , Conspiracy ACCEPTANC yrs. st.lb . 6.. 8 MEETIN S FOR THE CUP 5 1 Sheraton 4. . 8 4 I Plaudit aged.. 8 4 I Comet 4.. 8 4 I Hydrometer Fitzallen Crown Prince, Don John... aged.. 8 3 Woodpecker .. ... 4.. 7 12 Flahowlah ... 4.. 7 12 Romance aged.. 7 8 Punch 6..7 8 Wanota 5 Camera Obscura 5 I Wiseacre 4 The Lamb 2 Geraldine 5:: 7 2 hiss Castling, 4.. 7 2 Queen Mary , 4 7 1 5..7 0 4. . 6 12 5.. 6 11 4.. 6 11 5..6 6 4.. 6 6 4..6 6 THE CROPS AND THE FOOD MARKETS Potatoes are looking most promising, not the slightest of disease being visible.—Kilkenny Journal. _ _ _ LIMERIcx.--:The reports hence'are most cheering. Po tatoes have been dug in several districts, and found to be of the best quality. HARVEST PROSPECTS.—AII our provincial contempo raries concur in bearing testimony to the luxuriant and healthy appearance of the crops in their respective dis tricts. WATERFORD.—In the memory of man never was there such a magnificent appearance of a great harvest. All crops are in a gloridus state of progress. No blight here! No prospect of more causes of disease, famine, and death in this neighbourhood ! Waterford Chronicle. The bug-bear of the potato blight seems to have en tirely disappeared, and we hear nothing either of Mr. Smee's vastator or Mr. Cooper's electricity.—Unhappily. we cannot yet be sure that disease will not attack the po tato ; but it is well to know that it has not.—Pilot. PROSPECTIVE CHEAPNESS OF POTATOES.—SO confi dent are the growers of the healthiness of the potato crop this year, that we were told on Thursday, by a highly respectable gentleman, of . a farmer who had engaged to deliver five hundred loads in October, at five shillings per load!—Manchester Threes. We have been favoured by Mr. Robert Jackson, Bally saxe, county Meath, with an ordinary specimen of white wheat the stalk of which measures four feet in length, and the ear is full and weighty. He assures us that the con dition of the oat and potato crops warrants the most san guine anticipations of an abundant produce.—Dublin Evening Herald. We have been requsted by a subscriber to state the latest periods at which the different varieties of turnips should be sown this season (Swedes not included)—Aber deens till the 10th of July ; Dales hybrid till the 31st of July ; but the sooner now that either of the above are sown the better. Norfolks and Globes at any time in July ; stone and Dutch turnips to the middle of August ; but, except on good land, and on well sheltered stations, this is a late period at which to sow any kind of turnip. — Irish Farmers' Gazette, CHEAPNESS OF VEGETABLES.—The supply of vegeta bles to the London markets is very abundant. At Co vent-garden, good new potatoes, not the least diseased, have been selling as low as Bs. per hundred weight, with a good supply. Lettuces were selling at 3d. per score'; cab bage plants, from 2s. to 2s. 6d. per dozen bunches ; cab bages, from 9d. to ls. 6d. per dozen, and other commodi ties equally cheap. So great has been the supply of haut boys and strawberries, that the hawkers of the metropolis were selling them about the streets at the low price of 2d. per pound. ARRIVALS OF GRAlN.—Upwards of 8,000 quarters of grain arrived at this port last week at two successive tides. One beautiful brig, the Warrior, of Montrose, has 2,000 quarters. Those cargoes are all from foreign ports, and we hear that much more is on the way, From the pre-occupied state of our numerous granaries no stowage could be obtained, and in the meantime the vessels in which freights came had to be detained for want of better accommodation. This does not bear out the assertion of famine abroad with which interested parties alarmed us so much throughout the winter and spring. —Perth Con stitutional. THE FOOD CROPS IN AMERICA.--According to the New York Morning Herald, the prospects of the grain crop are highly promising in these countries. There are no blighted spots in the wide fields of the states. Some of the wheats were injured in the spring by the drought and the cold winds, but where they partially failed, fine crops of maize sown in their place had sprung up. The weather latterly had been very fine and feeding. Where tobacco, too, was unpromising, it has been superseded by spring wheat and other grain. From the eastern states the accounts are most cheering, and a greater quantity of -4 , thiffs is expected than was ever before produced in . A Much greater breadth of potatoes has also been sown than formerly. In New Jersey alone the surface sown with corn exceeds that of last year by 100,000 acres, which at a low estimate ought to yield four millions of bushels ! Pennsylvania will yield more than Michigan can this year spare 500,000 one season barrels of flour. The blight reached the southern portor of Racine and Walworth counties, but all through tbc northern, middle, and western sections, the standinf grain presents a luxuriant appearance ; and it is confi. dently expected that the surplus for export will greatl 1 exceed that of any form ear. Last the territory was someti The Wisconsin Sentin doubt ea for the prese c know 1 Smith; was o very lOw degree pain, as well a the Limerick 1 shadow of a doubt but tha ,ntsitnes are very much di, d assuredly the pap Sligo, Clare. Westr received in abo' I,cotch and Ei tained rottenn whether of wheat ivation c July 6, 1841. THE APPROACHING GENEfiAL ELECTION. Mr. Macgregor, of the Board of Trade, has put up for Glasgow. If elected, he is to resign his official situation. A Currency Reform Association has been formed at Paisley. The intention of Mr. Ewart f to solicit again the repre- sentation of Dumfries has been announced. He will by returned - without opposition. - The Hull Packet says there is a likelihood of Mr. Ser geant Wilkins becoming a candidate for the representation of a borough in Yorkshire at the forthcoming election. OLDHAM.—The friends of Messrs. Fielden and Cobbett are vigorously prosecuting their canvass and speak i n con -1 CARNARVONSIII 3r our coup nd rage and every I Geordi na been seen thae twa days. body when he gets upon the batter. He e a feet distance the heat, even to. 1.-lc n-11 liae ye'been to I z, and my feet were,n that I it's ower dear war Jeanie Lind yet I dinna care for thae skirlinc , foreigners Ye should gang though._ Wi ilcohol. I thrust a keeping the committee ?"—" The chairman o't wiu nat ney's side; it took been fou tae. Hech me, I've got a sair held ! Jimsey .ee of heat—Fran- quae down to the lobby, and we'll hae a glass of soddy with a wee thing o' brandy intil it."—Blackwood's May en after in the must fine L. ',nese wily infidel:, At they not draw their necks from beneath my feet so easily. " What say you to a Greek hunt the Nubian, laughing low. ness has been at the chase " , noble master," said It is long since your High- " True ! and by the beard of my father it is good sport; but I have hunted over these provinces so often, that now the lazy rebels will not run ; they lie down beneath the horses' feet at once ; it is wearisome to slaughter them without a chase." " But if your Highness would condescend to ride to wards the mountains, we might have noble sport. I know a certain village, where they scarcely know the taste of Turkish steel." " Good ! good ! we should find 'them fresh and full of fire then : 1 long for some such sport. Fehim, let all be renfiv fnr n distant hunt at the hrpalc of .11,11 Galan guide us to the spot, and I myself will_start the game.' It - wa:s the feast of St. Nichola Singing and dancing, tossing their red caps in the air, and waking up the long-slumbering echoes with their joyous voices, the peasant troop had already descended from the cliff, and proceeded in all safety to traverse the flat table land on which their village stood. But it suffices of one single moment, when it springs from the infinite, freighted by destiny, to change the voice of gladness for the shriek of terror, the tranquil happiness for deepest misery, and the dream-haunted slumber for the cold lethargy of death! Suddenly, from that gay, peaceful band, there rises one spontaneous cry— • " The Turks ! the Turks !—amaun ! amaun !" It was no false alarm. Sweeping on towards them, with their sabres glittering in the sun, appears a warlike troop of stately Moslems. Side by side with the Bey of Corinth, rides the terrible negro, Fehim, mounted on one of the horses of Arnaout, so famed for their size and strength, and holding in leash a number of those fierce Macedonian hounds, whose incredible swiftness and cou rage, and savage fury when provoked, render thenra dan gerous and deadly foe to man. It may seem, that thus to describe a " Greek hunt," or even to give so horrible a title to the causeless and needless massacre it is intended to express, can only be an unwarrantable exaggeration, or a most unnecessary attempt to render still more striking the miseries endured by the Hellenic people under the Mos lem rule. But such is by no means the case ; the name is not an invention, but was currently in use among the Turks, as defining most clearly an amusement to which they were greatly addicted, whether from motives of re venge at any symptom of rebellion, as in the present case, or from the mere craving for excitement and unnatural thirst for blood. It consisted simply in going up with their dogs and their horses to some quiet village, and giv ing chase to the wretched inhabitants as they fled before them, till they had fairly run them down, and could mas sacre them at their leisure. But at least, we may hurry over the recital, for it can profit little that we should dwell on the details of a scene so revolting as to seem indeed but the production of a diseased imagination, if ever one single imagination could have conceived that human beings could be systematically hunted down by their own fellow creatures. Shrieking and imploring mercy, over the rocks the vic tims fled, whilst Kyamil Bey, his eye glaring with excite ment, led on the terrible band that followed them, shout ing in their unhallowed mirth. The women were for the most part torn down by the dogs and speedily dispatched ; the men afforded a more exciting sport, as, striving with their peculiar swiftness of foot to outstrip the horses that were thundering after them, they strained every nerve in one wild effort to escape—au effort perfectly unavailing, for, when they were not cut to pieces by, the sword, the Moslems, all admirable marksmen, took aim at them with their long tupheks, and brought them down at once. None escaped; for although some, favoured by the quickly deepening twilight, hid themselves amongst the rocks and bushes, their fate was perhaps still more terrible than that of the easier victims. who already lay stiff in their blood, beyond the power of man to make them suffer more—for, with the first dawn of light, they knew their enemies would be astir, to track out with the bloodhounds every lingering victim, and even if by a miracle they escaped them, they must infallibly perish at last of h Inger and thirst. A RAILWAY WITNESS ON RAILWAY COMMITTEES.— The question which I once put to you before, and which I certainly would put to tat plucky little fellow Lord John Russell, if I happened to have the honour of his acquaintance, is simply this—Would it not be better that the evidence which is now taken before committees of the House of Commons on railway and other bills should be given in SCotland, Ireland, and the provinces, before a paid commission and on oath ? Certain lam that the work would be far better done. Results would be more accurately brought out, the truth would be better sifted, and there would be an end to that profligate system of demoralisation which is doing no good to London, and is rapidly corrupting such of us as are necessarily drawn within its influence. Honorable members would be re lieved from a harassing, tedious, and laborious duty ; and their legislative functions need not be interfered leisurel y and the printed evidence would fall to be roughly sifted. At present a member of e Housema of Commons is far less a leg i s lator than a mere .t s of the vast railway pclidileic. He has not time to stu d y the merits ques tions which ought above every thing to claim hi s a ttention ; for his whole day is occupied with a dreary detail of curves, gradients and sections ; and by being compelled to do too much, he is crippled in the exercise and discharge of by . far his most important functions. And further, the railway interest is already too widely spread in the House of Commons. Almost every member has an interest, direct or indirect, in some particular line or company ; and it is impossible to expect that in every cae . there shall_ not be a particular sway or bias in the [gilt nor decent The leading quality which is required of a - judge in every department is a strict and thorough impartiality, and an absolute renunciation of every interested motive ;—and no sacrifice on the part of the publiC can be too great to at tain so desirable an end. It would be well for us if, dur- SIR DIGBY MACWORTH, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE NATIONAL CLUB (From a Correspondent.) affords us extreme pleasure in transferring to our columns the following extract from the speech of Mr. Colquhoun, M.P., which was delivered at the opening dinner of the National Club House, on the 12th May last. When referring to the desertion of Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, from their true Protestant princi ples, the hon. member s a id :—" We could no longer re it I ma i nmembers of a party, which had abandoned the This seems the oc tribute to services little w task should ago—l tell upon us to London, and had an inter several other ,nt - unibia, based up - on distin of end u t the export of •eaL will reach fields in Canada also look most en than parliament or elec pondent, whose name avouches to us h ;ss an authority th, lnlogy - between t opinion that plants had sensation, in but still -• •• - of he-' _ . susceptibility of pleasure or ( Ith and disease. This we have of Massey's gardener, says in a lette miner, " there is not the 1 seased." Similar accounts of disease manifestations of coming disease, have I s ome parts of England • -- vfis to be ex This, argues our co: be in th with rot ,ess her lould 1 are th oats, rye, or barley ; while in Ireland a much gi portion of land has been devoted to the cull grain than in any former year.—London paper 11 peace and lection strife furiously Chronicle. ress to the ig a " dist as libert mel and Meyer de No commit t io meetings held—no addres own on the subject is the fact ti )e put in nomination as one of the candi sell issued a brief address to the electors idon, on Monday, soliciting a renewal station. On Saturday the• Morning 1 that two new Conservative candidates f high commercial standing would shortly be brought )rward. With these there will be no less than nixie can idates before the electors. MOVEMENT ON BEHALF OF FREE EDVCATION.—WQ are authorised to state, that two private meetings have been held, with the view of considering the propriety of taking early measures for the formation of a society for the promotion of popular education, exclusively on the voluntary principle. In order to receive the freest expres sion of opinion, and the most enlarged co-operation, it is intended, we are informed, to convene a conference of the friends of voluntary education throughout the country as soon as practicable after the ensuing election. The ar rangements will be formally announced in due course.— Manchester Examiner. It is now generally supposed that the dissolution of Par liament will take place on the 20th instant. Some think that the elections will be postponed until after the harvest; but there appears to be no reasonable ground for the sup position. An election now-a-days, lasts only over one day; and if the preliminaries, in canvassing, and in speech making, and carousing at parties be considered as involv ing a task of exertion amongst the people, who by their votes are to sway the legislative influence of the country,— then, we say, the sooner the election is fi xe d the b etter, so that the .fatigue may be over, and leave "the labourers in the vineyard" recruiting for the perhaps more profit able, and certainly more salutary occupation of gathering in the fruits of the earth. Besides, thp candidates are all already selected and pitted, and the constituency may, by delay " go further and fare worse." CORRESPONDENCE, PRINCE CONSTANTINE ON SNOWDON MOUNTAIN TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, MY DEAR Sin,—On the morning of the 27th, in company witn four gentlemen whom I met the evening before near Llanberris, (one German, two Spanish, the other a fellow townsman,) I started for the summit of Snowdon. We had heard at that most comfortable hotel, the Dolbadern, that it was likely we should meet with nis Imperial Highness Prince Constantine of Russia on the mountain, as he was that morn - expected at Llanberris from Beddgelert, en route for fhe ascent from Llanberris, as many of your readers are though in all conscience bad enough, is still much lan we had expected. After scaling the pile of stones on the extreme summit, and refreshing ourselves at the hut, our continental friends commenced singing " God save the Queen," and very well they sang it too. The mist at this time was so very dense, that we could not see more than a few years around ; and we concluded that his Imperial Highness, discouraged by this, would, with his suite, make his way to Llanberris by the pass. We had, however, scarcely finished singing the first stanza of the national anthem, and were com mencing the descent to Beddgelert, when a wild hallo was heard immediately beneath us. Our guide assured us, on hearing this, that it was the party of the Prince. I suggested to our German companion, as a good and somewhat striking way of greeting the young Prince, or at any rate of attracting his particular attention, the singing of some well-known Ger man song (the Empress of Russia being a German princess born)—a song as well known and as popular there as "Auld lang syne" is here. On the instant he commenced one of the national songs of Prussia, the country of the Prince's mother, and his own beloved " Fatherland." In a second or two the misty veil before us opened, and, apparently as if rising out of the rocks at our feet, the cavalcade came in sight. They were twelve in number, mounted on the hardy ponies used on the mountain. The song of " Fatherland had produced the desired effect : the Prince immediately rode up to us, and most heartily and goodhumouredly addressed our German companion in his native tongue. aware, I better tl While they were conversing, we had ample time to scrutinise the party. It was a singularly picturesque sight. The Prince,. a well-made handsome fellow, though not very tall, with a broad Kilmarnock blue bonnet on his head, and his chest en veloped in the warmth-giving folds of a large Royal Stuart tartan plaid,--and the others, Count Ormoloff, Baron BrunoW, old Admiral Lutka, our countryman the Hon. Col. Grey, &c., all most picturesquely attired.—had to my mind much the appearance of a party of moss-troopers, or the ancient "children of the mist" setting out on some wild foray. By the way, our own general appearance, I think,. must have had more of the pictorial than the elegant about it. The German, a very tall, fine young man, with the lower parts of his inexpressibles tucked up and put inside of his remarkably high boots, had a good deal of the cut of one of Wallenstem's heroes, booted and all but ready to vault into the saddle. The Spaniards, with their large, earnest, black eyes, handsome feat ur e s , and , touring costume ; my fellow-townsman, with his cloak half fastened around him, half flying in the wind ; and your most obedient servant, with bonnet and Highland plaid,—the wild ness of the place, and the singularity of the meeting,—formed a picture which my dear old friend Ansdeil would have de lighted to have embodied on canvas, had he been with us. The Prince goodhumouredly assured our German companion that he more than half envied us our mode of travelling, as the ascent from Beddgelert on the back of a pony was no joke. After a conversation of a few minutes, carried on principally in German, relative to the road on the Llanberns side of Snowdon, the chance of the mist clearing off, and other topics interesting to the tourist, we wished the Prince and his party a pleasant journey, which was most courteously returned, and we separated,—they descending to Llanberris, we to.Beddge- I remain, my dear sir, very truly yours, J. A. P. M‘B-. Liverpool, 29th June, 1847 [We have been informed, since the receipt of the above pleasant sketch, that the Prince visited Carnarvon, and made some drawings in his portfolio of the ancient castle of Edward the First, which is the pride and ornament of the " Queen of Wales," and afterwards proceeded to Bangor, and from thence to Penrhyn Castle, and after wards examined the slate quarries- From this he pro ceeded to the sweet little town of Conway, and visited the frowning castle and suspension bridge. After staying there for some time, he crossed into the island of Anglesey, and visited all parts of that island interesting to the tourist.] PROPOSED FEVER-HOUSE AT HILBRE ISLAND_. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Siu,—l observe in the Albion of Monday last a letter sig ned " Nauticus," sugge s ti ng Hilb re Island as the most desirable spot for the reception of the fever patients. Will you permit me to suggest, that it would, perhaps, be as well if" Nauticus,"- and any others who may take an interest in this benevolent ob ject, would first consult the pleasure of His Majesty the King of Hilbre before they venture to proceed further in the matter. — Yours, &c., NAVICULATOR. Fore Anrie, Douglas, Ist July, 1847. _...0.,__ THE REGISTERED PALETOT CASE TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD., SIR,—In your report of the proceedings before the Vice- Chancellor of England on Saturday, June 12th, you describe ourselves as receiving the protection of the Court in respect to, an infringement of our patented right to an invention, and .by an assumption of the title by which it has been publicly known. From the great popularity we have attained by the sale of the subject of the injunction, a garment styled the Registered. Paletot„ of Llama Cloth, it may he assumed that the public will be somewhat interested with the precise facts of the case. It has already been described, that, when first introducing our invention, we with much care selected a name hitherto un known in this country; as, tracing the origin of the word pa letot, it was shown that it was derived from the Greek, adopted. by the Romati,'and afterWartis by the 'French linguists: "Cir cumjicitur corpori pallium habitus Grwcorum"; by Bayley, thus, paletoque, or pallescote t a coat with sleeves. That we exercised due caution in selecting an unusual name by the result of these recent proceedings in the Court of been fully proved. For such, unfortunately, is the rnpetition of trade; or the envy of individuals engaged in it, that, should eminent patronage and success attend any member in-particular, he is immediately subjected to the like injury of which we have had cause to complain. Now, had we Chancer adveitised our, invention situp than probable 'that, ere this, w with the many advertisers that overcoat, it is more Te been confounded lice our appearance before the similar description to that , d by us. hould hay •om the fi, im to the originality (as of the title Registered Lula Cloth; but Yet tieing unwillin who may have unguardedly used a to proceed imi al' title respect vita made iiicot authorized, title to that of 11. It may be judicious I have been seriously iced pat r ent this turn tc The Jour `T. David .pt from all agit; the enc rnan Ca e on the ap; and anticipate Hebrew re Dthschild and —Blackburn is per subject of the ap- till that is Tri by is going This is tint they if. J. an TT ( —) . NICO. 'l, London, I fully b I now to we nave 114, RE by the