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'TrnNISHiN( W. J. 1 , tenti4 NISHEN Having ious Mai PRINTED FUP MP T.ininoa 94,1 WORSTED C ) IVI OR WALITY DITT( for 100 &MASK, for C of OIL BAIZES lASSOCKS. TON HOUST Sid. to 2 tment of TABLE COVERS 3RPOOL H I ( LOAT LACES, GIMPS oi/fiction, 124 d I RUGS GES, ORRIS 72, LORD-STREET, LI NT E R TOI A.TERPROOF 1 ESTERFIELDS NFW ST CIVET a F A S COA PATENT ONIS, ( FOR G NTLEMEN'S ' AND ARMY A VAILS , him FrienC his Purchase for the pri Pilots, Devon Kerseys Mixed T 72, LORD-STREE.. ERSAI D'ORSAY S T Chest( ISHMEIN with Silk Velvet Col- tll 14 0 18 10 0 21 0 0 & MANY ND NAVY Autionals, uassimeres, nt for tai 1 1 0 1 14 0 3 0 01 0 18 0 1 6 Of TAILORING, OUTFITTING, V. LIVERPOOL DANIEL MYERS, ROUSERS MAKER AND TAILOR f of this opportunity of informing ;h every first-class Dres, rid lAlber and Doub England Broad Cloths! for Gentlemen's Trou ifirst Makers in I warranted to Englanri engaged at this Estat n's Dreas entiemen who have not already experienced this benefit of D. MYERS'S Tailoring, will immediately upon the first trial acknowledge this great Breeches, has prope 3is very import attention ; and improvement, to assure all the Ma, )gland and Paris Goods are tolerated, and that the 3 from first Houses Pilot Wrapper Coats Waterproof Pilot, Ta Superfine Cloth Great Cc lars, Cuffs, and Facings, &c. Livery Top Coats, with C. Superfine Cloth Dress Coats, in Black, Blot-, Invi sible, or any other colour.. Cassimere Vests Stout Water Double-millec Splendid Qua proof Tweed Trousers all the Newest Patterns The very best Trousers that can be produced, in Black, Blue, Milled Drab, Devonshire Fine Cas simeres, double-stitched, and fitted beautifully to the boot, in French or English Styles . Real Genoa Silk Velvet Vests Rich French Figured Velvet Waistcoats, of the newest and most beautiful designs.. £1 16 0 to 2 2 0 Figured Shawl Vests, most Fashionable Patterns, both in English and French Fabrics £0 16 oto 1 8 0 The first order at this Establishment will prove that it i not only more moderate in prices than any respectable How in Liverpool, but that it is also conducted attention equal to any of the most note blishments of the West End of London Tailoring Esta- NAVAL AND MILITARY UNIFORM To the latest regulation A variety of Top Coats, M Clothing, kept ready made. CONTRACTS Three Suits, any Colour cintost Five Ditto; Six Ditto, Large Sizes Extra. The old Suits to be returned. Merchants and Captains supplied with Clothing suitable for any climate, at prices unprecedented, owing to the now prevailing depression of Trade in the Manufacturing Dis- tricts. OBSERVE, 72, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL,-7 Just put .fished, the 12th edition of a Postofficii Order for ss. THE SILENT FRIEND; a Medical \V Debility, and Disorders arising from an deleterious effects of Mercury on the Ski the Head, Face, and Body; followed to Marriage. By R. L. PERRY and CO LONDON and BIRMINGHAM. Co and country 'ler-office, II The CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is a gentle itimnlant and renovator of the impaired functions of life 'ore, calculated to afford decided relief 3 a state of chronic debil nerally defective, an persons mind and energy of co cious weakness, partly rrom - exces'sive apl able to sink despondently into a premat Messrs. PERRY and ( I their CORDIAL BALA: partly from c hen is, ar It is to Surgeons, particularly d SYRIACUM. Whatever enriches the blood, without inflaming Lrnportan r resolve obstruc thiows off vis nours ; wba gthens to every 1 of Syriac )r its rea deca natiog powers ex papers whole corn ith Lloyd's has super First-ct repair and efficianc " Secc 1 found for carryn.r, to and from 4 parts of the:world of cargoes tter E Third-cl )ut of Euro damage ; and il ley are designated by the letter I timulating too violently the nervo, ns, and !general rect attack upon the many-hea, ly indirectly the debility the blood- 1 -and, above all, the complete inv, whereby the whole faculties ill, ere .ill *bed' Wefere g to the r conciusi I lowing 3d a of complete I t To Wil organ of Christchu ,der the su argest in Engl 3 pipes )n, NI iole cot sold by Strang Soho; Jackso Buckton, 50, B Purkin, C ns, equ though the Cord gorator of the r become restored to their proper power and functions, and the fallen fabric of life is raised up .to beauty, consistency, and duration, upon the ruins of an emaciated and premature decay, to sound and pristine health. As nothing can be better adapted to help and nourish the constitution, so there is nothing more generally acknow. ledged to be peculiarly efficacious in all inward wastings, loss of appetite, indigestion, depression of spirits, trembling or shaking of the hands or limbs, obstinate coug of breath, or consumptive habits. It possess efficacy in all_ cases ofsyphilis, fits, head-act heaviness and lowness of spirits, dimness of sight, co thoughts, wanderings of the mind, vapours, and mei t in, and all kinds of hysteric complaints are gradually re by its use. Constitutions relaxed, weak, or decayed, in men or w are under and constur is immediate inliti Old cough Don relieved cured. Poverty of I nd emaciated fimt From t ht. Second Edition of Grimsione' B fnr thp Year IR4 9_ ilozised ae first ly eradic is sold' in Cane« 15s. 6 ;on', 39, Br Long Acre Bowl Yard A Lihert Tpool, Vl . l ster, Drug! by J. For Maker, Chan Lord-street; eet ; I charlotte-s street Shepher , with C in ever shortest noti, A. FEW OF le globe, THE MANY TI This extraordinary cur Vottina, Foreign Snuff and Cigar M 'o Mr. W. Grimstone my cas , and_ a na therefore u I pure roceede :o tollow my truth. Agent, recommendation of a fr use of 3 suffering, yc Mr. 'Wl'cue m, sir, your ob Abstract of a Letter from " To M-r. Sir,-I terrace, Kensingi 3rimstone, Inver To Wm to any respi he happiest change; the chill, watery fini_ _ and balsamic, and the limbs be covered with rm and healthy Sold in Bottles, price Ils. each, or the quantity of four in one Bottle for 335., by which one Ils. Bottle is saved. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual fee of one pound, without which no notice whatever can he taken of the communication (postage pre-paid.) PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIPIC PILLS, Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lls. per box, Warranted not to contain Copaiba, Cubebs. or Mercury. Are of the utmost importance to those afflicted with Scor butic Affections, Eruptions in any part of the body, Ulcera tions or Scrofulous Taint. Pimp, &c., being justly calculated to cleanse the blood from all foulness, counteract every morbid affection, and restore weak and emaciated constitutions to Pristine health and vigour. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted, as usual, at No. 9, Berners-street, Oxford -street, London, and 4, Great Cha r l e s-street, (four doors fro m E as y-row,) Bir mingham, punctually from Eleven in the Morning until en till One. y patient, Eight in the Evens., Only one personal visit . to enable Messrs. Perry and Lk,. be the means of effecting a permanent and effectual curb, after all other means have proved ineffectual. N.B.—Country Druggists, Booksellers, Patent Medicine char Vendors, and every other shopkeeper can be supplied with wh i r any quantity o f P erry ' s P ur if y i ng S pec i f i c Pi lls, and C or di al !al.' Balm of Syriacum, with the Trade, by most of the principal Wholes London. countr: th advil isnal allowai,„ Patent Medicine Houses in Sold, Wholesale, by Messrs Lord -street, Liverpool. ANS and Co., Druggists, LLOYD'S.--" Lloyd's" is a te. commercial language, but at the few people are ac quainted . Th e following notice respectin, it is to be found i n Waterson's CycloEedia of Commerce ! ~ Lloyds, the name of a subscription coffee-house-in London " e l e b r ated on account of its b e i„- - , ffice o f rrnaprwriters. Few or nor el of very comro n use in 1 bY th which le time _ of g the , ,e comme of Britain have excited in a h i nte lli ge .r fnreizners. 'T' Lloyd's , ey! . lgree t establishment of hist, . Baron Dunin, ' has rendered signal servic,_ le British empire and to that of las agent s in most of the principal üblic the events, both commercial s through their means : these ac with a confidence which tierce of a both to the c other s' parts of 0- and maritiir counts are received Lloyd's, —of the existence and f —reports from consuls Lo destroy.' •At in col 3 the dial w hi ch tells the ehargc N . e, which tells the di- thins i with the weathercock it is 01 \IS and dep artures of indeed of the t h e pa ~dent i n rests orn every perfect and reviewer le corrl:ler- anYthirq to me to 1 manhir ation of I include 18 +bees at will be 112 Inventor's treet ; t“ 2, Cros ; and the vera es.—John But n survey unf ,t in their znated by yages (not Aberneth Eye Snt A ncoai Globe. CAI Herbs, 1 can with without with tru Paternoster:row 0., 130, New Bond-street Oldham:s Bookseller; Sir, I should no lo justic My E . am enabled to read small print wt uontinue to enjoy God's greatest h I have reason to auff to all I know The following i my extraordinary inc through the S at the court o Snuff with all 1 Cabaliero Havannc Rey de los la Sociendad de Con ERVE a rs, 15s reather rllri skipped Nottinghan it the s vouch f M. HALF had the first ' E. Ro my reli and fr 1., Nottingham gust, 184 time yoi ever, fro 3ur del Iro Ortiz de Zu G. LOBE. ;eneral de S D sul ( de Cut Agente Is, Chittiadel, 1., and of the Red, died on lty of Cork, Ireland. illion of led no very s struck oir than .. been so tt, Esq., and 13 pipes 16 eact pipes to each not ; and if we the grand total The Musical bum' a strange rial all formati ed by a using ence of mes of n fact, the Quarterly which was not pre le, the Anti-Bread- .cted by ) collect -- s7; t tively t so et Globe, &c.--Slandar d to t sing—Sig Lod do rec ns of t on Gravel Pits The Itoyal ao arrived at Famo .0 slip the cers of the Army—A —Embargo on Fire- KINGSTON 0 245. 6d. per 1001bs nic Majest burden, bui •eason I toa, on t he mounts. rp, aria tF loyal for Engi s Imaum and Magnificen ,hip Mu! of the C trious, Adtnir .quence of stror •on steamer, was 3dwinds The Twee of nth of the subject will :vidently de ,o busin sembly, and the present Vicc-cl as arneraber of the council of t gislature had been ft.) act, which into requisition, and nd brought her to B ,uda in .lipal topic of interest appeared to be ency the Governor on the opening of lowing extract from a colo- of Elgin opened the Un- in a most admirable si y very important sal* in the cours 'as immigration s; one His re- His wise and read with much interest. :o pursue a decessor, Sir Charles Met h] Jamaica will be equally by some of the papers that, of generally entertained ant feature of local intelli g ence has been his r! Pi lonev the Par! nf PlrAn n attack of fever, which, though not of a nature, did not fail considerably to him so as .for some days to prevent His lordship had recovered from , anyt was, we are happy to state, con- ellor) hail been sworn in land. eks in session, hut with turd bills, little had been peen passed and sent to the council _ Several va of absen- The followir -1 rl'n n —Gunpowder anu 1, 'nal Subsistence to Oh- s Bill—Rules and Articles of Cattle Duty Tay expressed should be erected to perpetu :enied Governor i ARKET e that a sui the memory of the Sir C. T. Metcalfe;" one of the Lould be a new We are infor- THE CAPTAIN GENERAL AT HAVANA med that an order has been is !ci by this functionary. pro. ie coa s Firma being landed in Cuba. Due notice of this order was made to the Tweed, at St. Jago, on the 12th inst. The following is an extract from a letter dated Vera Cruz, is Government. of iron, 780 tons burden, and mount aixhan gun Is, and is manned ad officered by tricers in ng actually halt-pay o It of wood nd 16th. Several vessel other steamer, of s to leave England on nd consequently must be here I believe, ten Paixbau guns of have been detained, for what orm at Galves- 'ere driven on were more or less injured. The following par given by a correspondent of one of the papers be- tore us wo or t even days to repair, and blew high and dry Is, among them the brig Atlantic, laden with cotton, for New Orleans. She will probably be a very vio►ent gale, which has done It commenced on Sunday the MO), and about to delay h several ves episcor ores and blown down , which cost 6000 or 7000 dollars, is a perfect water rose mall Catholic chur lollars ), Mexican ed on the 11th Sep 53 of the m which we quote, were headed " The Enemy .1 rthwith of the militia of 'Br Victo] , and th 'he proc Loon 01 rs the s, Austin, Fort gorda counth the Upper B t San Antonio ; and the calm sold themselvs i we had issued orders to the effl evacuation of San Antonio by the Mexicans, he pursued beyond the Rio Grande, an d elms • COMMUNICATION WITH Formal I them in cl: wing letter on the or the West Ind WEST INDIES lent state of our communi- has been writte❑ by a party who nversant with t have been pm ly withheld till tin; 15th of December f hose of the Ist of Decer Aiced ; for it is a fact t Is of the Ist (except those for Corunna, Madeira, howas) will remain at St. Thomas till the Bth of 1813, and thereafter will only rea ny with the next succeeding, mails. that the contractors had no large class steam t Southampton, to proceed with its pas he Ist for Falmouth, there to evening o nd go at once to sea. As if to give the appearance of implementing their contract, however, they despatched from the former place on the 6th, and froth the latter place on the 9th, the smaller class steamer, City of Glasgow, long known to many on the route from the river Clyde to Liverpool; and which vessel, according to their own calculation of 194 days, will not.reach St. Thomas till six days too late for the further immediate forwarding of the mails and passengers. " It would have been more manly and more straight forward, to have openly declared to the public, that as the Atlantic outward steamer had not started at her appointed time, British merchants and others ought to be on their guard, that their halt-monthly letters of the 15th of Decem ber, and, in ye her mail some cases, their monthly ones of the Ist of January, would reach their destination as quickly as those Ist of December; and that duplicates of all these had better be retained till the Ist of is the case may be—unless 1 duplicates to proceed from 1; and it might perhar have been added, that the only object of despatching the City of Glasgow on the 9 h was to give the latest news to the risti port of Corunna, the Portuguese island of Madeira, the Danish island of St. Thomas. ro explain,—it is necessary to remember, that by the new contract, the Atlantic outward-bound steamer should depart on the 3rd Ad lith of every mouth from Falmouth ; and if any one of these ' does not reach St. Thomas before midnight on ,the 22nd day from the appointed day of depar ture from Falmouth, the four collected steamers at SL Thomas proceed, with the inter-colonial mails, on their respective routes ; the outer-mails, in such case, being con raiis,,io remain after their arrival: et St. -mails from Europe arrive and are till the ne dispersed.' The four steamers alluded. to, viz., the Western grand branch steamer for Jamaica, Havannah, &c. ; the Western minor branch steamer for Porto, Rico, Hayti,- ; the Southern branch steamer for Antigua, I.3arbadOes,•Demerara, &c. ; and the Northern branch steamer for Bermuda, must all, therefore, leave St. Thomas at: midnight on the 25th of December, on their routes, without their European ht of December mails and passengers; these four vessels, not only circulating in their own route the tidings of a missing ) the flex to the La Guayra bra Leh schooner, and ti; the Hon ,ssengers for Tampico anciNera'Craz, Martha; be a damaged ship. lc won't do to say that the 10.g9 ;dine and the Isis deranged their plans, or that the could not finish the Severn or repair the Avon. Their c commumic ated trade, s. He had ied, wh )ing on a nount of t kels stron but it y, and 3 been a looking with great e severely eras br r Honduras ; for Chagres, Carthagena, and San r.Porto Cabello, and La Guayra, are only. carried forward ice a month; and those from Europe of the Ist Deceniber )t arriving in their proper time at the stations from .which tey respectively deploy will likely lose a whole month in he City of Glasgow cannot herself, in any way, remedy atter, for she cannot proceed one i nc h b eyon d S t . 'rho- aidnight of the Bth of January ;it being expressly ovided by the contract, that the Atlantic outward bound 11, immediately on her arrival at St. Thomas, be cc., and ready to form one of the four steamers assist in the dispersion of the outward mails arriving at end of fifteen days by another steamer from Europe.' " he British merchant residir b , and conducting his busi iss in London does not so readily see the mischief in the esent case as does the British merchant who conducts his isiness abroad ; for the latter is the first to experience the tad with sor known to of the Me Upon one occasion the ale labour rrepared. de- mitcd in the post-office of cne of our _ )stage, of no less than 29 letters, for c Monies, and paid the patch by one of se steamers ; but on the captain of the steamer declaring t he did not intend to take the route prescribed, the let s and postage money were demanded back ; the postmas (though unusual) complied with the demand, and the let s were despatched by the writer in a merchant schooner. another occasion he had fixed to coine to England by one these steamers ; yet, although the steamer was in the he found so much uncertainty in her departure from so unsatisfactory the answers to his questions as to his bable arrival in England, and so unpopular the whole os and regulations on board, that he and another gentle acting on exactly the same principle, paid their £5O mr) wit - a .__ .UW4,14 Lucy slau e Liverpool (singular their was told eight or ten w ee k s - the extent of !ment of these new arrangements he hi larity than all,—an irregularity, not 'eh routes but in the main One, in that which constitutes very foundation of the whole fabric ; in that where it least to be imagined, can certainly least , be tolerated, the port where, Tr from neglect they could not have a .1 of their own, one ought to have been ptovided at any It won't do to tell the public, thardependence was placed, he contractors, on the arrivalof the Clyde in time to take the Ist of December mails; she was on her route home, I chart to receive of exchan tnlfilled. fia ( as those - Aire sy s well tl His engagements have ilit of his correspc dents have been suspected. He finds with amazement that the correspondence between London and Cabul is actually shorter and more regular than it is at times between London the steamer with the mails at ln er appointed time, and the substituting in winter a small for a large-class steamer, are matters for the consideration of Government ; but the public are entitled to insist on more regularity. Government bare laudably fostered a great and arduous undertaking, but leniency may be carried to an imprudent length. Let us uer year in. this hope we shall not experience such anot' ch of our transatla is communicat " WAN COMBO " North and South American Coffee-house, Dec. 17.' THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL MR. and MRS. C. KEAN, for Five Nights only, First Nig ;ht of the NE F.W COMIC PANTOMIME (AN MONDAY next, ‘../ Tragedy of 26th December instant, the THE GAMESTER. Mr. Beverley ....... • Mr. C. Kean. Mrs. Beverley Mrs. C. Kean. After which will he produced, for the first time here, A NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, cAtztin BARON MUNCHAUSEN ; Or, Harlequin and the Wizard of the Green Isle. With new Scenery, Mac4inery, Dresses, and Properties The early arrangements for the ensuing year, include the Engagement of _ _ MAD. ME CELESTE ciTEBSTER, a MR. STRIC .LAND who will make their appearance shortly after the close of the Haymarket Season; in January next. AMERICAN CIRCUS, AMPHITHEATRE, GREAT CHAR ROYAL L OTTE STREET Tq' s POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT. esent FRIDAY EVENING, the 29th instant, BI NEFIT of Mr. SANDS, on which will a being for tt The Company will leave by the London Train on Saturday ylorning. Door; open at Half-past Six, First Music at Seven, Per formance in the Circle at Half-past Seven o'clock precisely. —Pit, ls.--Gallery, 6d. TO CORRESPONDENTS The " Story" of " J. C." will not spoil by being postponed A " Cotton Broker's Apprentice," if we understand him, for his object is not clearly expressed, is too unreasonable. " R. A." has no right to expect us to publish his letter on ay mous au Our correspondent at Newcastle upon Tyne should have for warded to us copies of the papers to which he refers. We have no means of referring to them here. We have a large accumulation of letters on our file, and un less our correspondents see their contributions inserted in the course of a publication or tmo, they may presume that we have been compelled to decline them. " S. K." will perceive that we have availed ourselves of one of his communications—the other we have reserved until Tuesday. The manuscript has unfortunately been mislaid, but we hope to find it in a day or two, and it shall then be forwarded as requested. rlit Riberpooi :ttanDatt FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1842 A large amount of important legislation, having for its object the development of the national industry and commerce, was effected during the last session of Parliament. The revision of our entire commercial mid have con- tariff was, of itself, far more thar tented some administrations to hold up as the work of A session. We must not, however, allow curselves to conclude that all ha been done which may be effected, in this held of legislative exertion ; and that, if our commerce, still languishes—if industry is still pros- trated—there is nothing left, for the statesman, but to enter upon the carrying out of those sweeping changes towards which the voice of agitation would impel him The fact be done. s not so AU has notheen done which may On the contrary, there i i a wide field, oom- paratively untouched, which invites the supervision of the.legislature; and by the exercise of a wise and gorou-3 remea action here, it is within the power of community, without periling the stability or sacrificing the interests of any portion We sh ldeavour to direct the attention of our readers to a few subjects, upon which we trust to see the cabinet of Sir Robert Peel occupied during the session of Parliament which is at hand; and, first, let to the existinr, g duty upon the importation of have, again and again, remarked upon the impolicy of this duty upon the raw material of a staple manufacture; and we are convinced that cotton wool. IV nothing, save the necessities of their position, could have induced its maintenance, by the present govern ment, whilst remodelling our tariff. It is a tax clearly opposed to the principles upon which that tariff was framed—one of the most important of them being to free from impost every article of produce which enters into the composition of a manufactured article ; and nothing can have stood in the way of its abolition but the fact that it produced a revenue—upwards of six hundred thousand pounds—which could not, in the then state of our financial affairs, be spared by the Exchequer. We trust that the time 1. las come when no such im pediment exists. We may not, as yet, have realised the full advantages which may be expeCted for the revenue of the country from the financial measures of last session of Parliament. The revival of commerce, however, which is gradually taking place, and the termination of two expensive wars, for which we had last year to provide, will, we trust, place the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in that easy position which will enable him to conce , ,le the abolition of this tax to the suffering manufacturing community. We could point to many other parts of our financial system, in which important improvements might be made; but we wish more particularly to draw atten tion to the course of legislation to be pursued to benefit the industrious classes in the manufac turing and mining districts of the country. We feel whilst so doing the great difficulty of treading upon this delicate ground. We appreciate the responsibility incurred by the statesman who attempts, by legisla tion, to regulate the wages of the labourer; but we feel, also, that the time has come when that subject must he approached, and the attempt in question entered upon in earn There are few men, even of the Malthus and M'Culloch school of philosophy, who can contemplate the past and present condition of the labourers and artisans of this country, and say that the prospect is a satisfactory one. Contemporary with the vastly stimulated manufacturing and commercial activity of the past twenty-five years; concurrent with the vast accumulations of manufacturing and commercial wealth ; the remuneration and the social condition of the labouring classes—the producers of that wealth, the hands by which the mighty machine of commerce is moved—have kept steadily deteriorating. Of the extent to which this backward progress in the scale of comfort and independence has proceeded, there is abundant evidence before the world, as well as of the danger with which its further backward progress The statistical details of misery, menaces some which were accumulated, ad nauseant, in the speeches of the Bowrings and Cobdens, during the past session of Parliament, furnish ample proof of the former ; * the recent outrages of the misguided turnouts, in the manufacturing and mining districts, are startling warnings of the latter. And the same progress towards the lowest depth of misery which human frenzied war against the constituted order of society, is till going on, and will continue to go on, even though ye concede to the bo ed philosophy of the day all for the benefit of the suffering classes ; because the same in ducing causes are still at work, and those nostrums do not strike at their continued operation ! The conees- to which we are urged are concessions to CAPITAL—are concessions to a power which is already too great ; which has ground down the labourer to the dust, and is day by day grinding him still lower than the dust ! The working class—if the purpose for which all We care not for the philoso; hy— ggvernmentt exist be tiot' a mockery—Mu tected by kgislation the cold, heartless philosoph )/3 pro- '—which says that you mast not interfere between the labourer and h which t lour ma Ipusselman talks of the 3 the II be fills his Harem with broken-bearted victims of the Gokiven beauty, or the Cuban planter talks if his traffic for men with the markets of Africa. We will not be driven from our position by th parro-.-hke repetition of mere politico-economical slang, f or this son, that we meditate nothing so silly and absurd as the interference which our philosophers denounce. We do not say to parliament, " Fix the of labour by legislative minimum or maximum price enactment talk of we leave such an idiocy to the men•who corn rents and similar trashy conceits : but we say, "Carry out your interference to its legitimate extent, upon the same principles which you have recognised as salutory principles in all your past legislation." And what be these principles ? we may be asked: We shall, in reply, merely glance at them, and enlarge upon them on an early occasion. We say, then, that parliament has admitted its right to require that the, wages-of the labourer should be paid in money. Enforce that principle ; put down the truck system ! Again, parliament has admitted its right to protect infant labour. Give stringency to a measure for that pur pose ! The most important remedial effort, however, we believe is to be made through the instrumentality of the existing poor law ; but upon th a t point we must reserve ourselves. It is far too important to be argued in the little space which we have left ourselves We did purpose, on Tuesday last, saying a few words, in reply to the article addressed to us in the Journal on Saturday. On reconsideration, however, we are compellea to decline following our contem porary into the fresh ground which he has broken. He will himself, we feel assured, acknowledge the reasonableness of our decision ; and allow that the controversy, upon which we first entered, has been fairly fought out. To which of the parties to that controversy victory inclines, we say not. We still maintain our own opinions unchanged ; our contem porary, no doubt, maintains his. But this much, we feel convinced, a candid man would acknowledge that, for the guidance of those who wish to enter upon an examination of the subject, some important truths have been conceded on both sides, and the question stript, as far as possible, of false surmises. The Journal— we give him credit for so doing—has argued the broad question with straightforward honesty and ability, casting aside as unworthy of him, the claptraps with which it is sought to be mystified; and equal honesty at least, our opponent will perhaps concede to our selves. We have never condescended—when arguing with a fair antagonist—to blink one tittle of our sin cere convictions, or to keep any thing in the back ground, with respect to this important question : and we shall never condescend to offer a word in favour of the present or any other system of corn-laws, without the conviction moving us that it is the best for the good of all, which human wisdom can frame under the ex isting circumstances of the country. With these few words, which are due in courtesy to our contemporary, we leave the subject, at least as one peculiarly between him and ourselves. The Manchester Guardian, of Saturday last, comes forward to defend the Anti-corn-law League from the trenchant blows which have recently been dealt upon that body by The Quarterly RevieW ; and, as a con clusive argument, in depreciation of the telling cha racter of the blows in question, remarks upon the facts, real or assumed, that, as yet, they have been visited with ecarcely a word of comment from the Conserva tive press. We do not presume to explain why—if the fact be so—our Conservative brethren have passed by the article in question unnoticed ; but for ourselves we can say, without any disparagement of The Quar terly, that we have not, hitherto, referred to it, for the simple reason that it does not contain a fact or an inference of which we have not long ago been aware, and upon which we have not, at some time, freely remarked. So far as we are concerned, then, the Guardian's defence of his friends is of little effect; and the same may be said of almost the entire Conservative press of this district. That press has watched the doings of the Anti-corn-law League for itself; and has therefore not to travel to the pages of The Quarterly Review to be amazed, or alarmed, at their dishonesty or their dangerous character. But we might reasonably—did we not know . the man—be amazed, though we should certainly not be alarmed, to find, in the Manchester Guardian, the apologist of the doings of the League. It is certainly not so long ago as to have escaped the memory of the public, that our contemporary denounced the proceed ings of that body, quite as bitterly as we, or any other member of the Conservative press, have ever done. We admit that he has crept round, from the position of an opponent to that of a thick-and-thin advocate, with the cleverness which he ordinarily displays in similar Jim Crow movements. The fact, however, of the change wrought upon the sensitive mind of our contemporary is an ample excuse for the changed views with which he twits us with regarding the power and influence of the League, coupled as it is with some facts which the article of The Qaarterly has again dragged into prominent notice. By their own showing, the Anti-corn-law League has expended in agitation, during the twelve or fourteen months com mencing in August, 1841, up to a month or two from the present time, a sum of about NINETY THOUSAND POUNDS ! It is now raising the further sum of FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS; and boasts that it will succeed in raising double that sum ! Are we not, then, we ask, justified in changing our opinion of a body which has made and is making such gigantic efforts—which wields such vast sums, and squanders them so lavishly ? May we not estimate somewhat differently its powers of conversion to its own opinions, when we contemplate the changed tone, with respect to it, of such an oracle as the Manchester Guardian ? We will not ask our contemporary to refer back to his own file, and compare his present opinions of the League agitation with those which he held a very brief There must be gall and wormwood suffi cient—more than we would wish to our bitterest enemy—in the conviction, which must " sit heavy" upon his pen, daily and hourly, that the world is not so oblivious of the past as apostacy such as his own would fain have it be ! while ago The London Times of Saturday last has, with a corn mendable spirit, called the attention of the public to a case—which came before Barons Alderson and Gur ney, in the Central Criminal Court, on the 15th inst.— in which five seamen of the barque Clydesdale, of this port, were tried on a charge of causing the death of a shipmate (a black, named Keel), by hauling him out of his sick bed below, with, in the first instance, a rope round his neck, and afterwards exposing him on deck, (on the Ist instant, while off Holyhead,) in a state of almost nudity, and with, as one of the witnesses said, "no appearance of life in him"—the result of which cruel treatment, added to his previous illness, was, that he never again spoke, and died in a few minutes. The prisoners were brought up, in the first instance, at our police-court, and we reported the entire evidence at the time. We also supplied in our last publication the principal facts adduced at the Criminal Court, so that, as they must be fresh in the recollection of our readers, we need not here recapitulate them. On both occa sions, the evidence was precisely similar, with this exception—that the surgeon (Mr. Woods, of thiS town), who made the post moitem examination, and here attributed the death of the deceased to "suffoca tion," admitted (most strangely) on cross-examination in the higher court, that it might possibly, though not probably, have been produced from the exposure to cold—the deceased being a native of, and just arrived from, Bombay, and consequently more liable than a European to be affected by the inclemency of the wea ther. Although there could be no doubt of the guilt of the parties charged, the death being !aid in the in- dictment as having arisen from " strangulation or suffocation," without any alternative count whatever— to meet on other grounds either the charge made or a minor one of gross assault—and the surgeon having thus admitted an alternative possible cause (though that cause equally involved the manslaughter), 'the learned judges were under the necessity of declaring that the allegations in the indictment were not (from its being so exclusively framed) sustained by the evidence, and Chat the prisonerTnust be acquitted The catele 3 and slovenly manner in which the case had been before .hem did no, however, escape the stro. madversions of ther lordship rotight ron A marked. It was lot r the ends of justiceshould be f , o defeated. Guilty per- sons ought not to he thus suffered to escape u;lm a It deserved the attention of the mere point of fort) highest authorities in the state, and, in pat ticuldr, of the attorney and odic or-general The learned baron made these sU tenents with much earnest learned brother rev arked— "'These r ers were much better managed in the time of the advocate for the Ad miralty. Great cue m then taken in bringir ward those cases and they were properly managed The same care ought to be observed now." We have not been able to ascertain with whom the blame rests of the blundering here properly complained of—whether it is attachable to any of our law-officers here, or to parties in the crown-office above. We pre sume, however, with the latter, to whom copies of the depositions taken before Mr. Rushton (if not the ori ginals, which it'iv, we believe, usual to retain on the spot) were surely sent. The only remaining conjecture is, that in the absence of all depositions, the case was hurried into court, in London, • without any previous examination of the witnesses at the crown-office, the indictment being framed merely from the brief. This appears probable, fidm the remarks made by Mr. Bodkin, one of the counsel for the crown. But, be this as it may, the Times introduces his remarks, by instancing a recent and somewhat similar case, in which a Captain Partridge—also charged with murder on the high seas, under the same pretence of maintaining dis cipline, and in which the victim was also a foreigner— as the Times remarks, "from the unintelligible le niency of the judge, and the disgraceful fatuity of the jury, escaped with but three months' imprisonment, while the present parties got clear off from a technical variance between the evidence and the indictment"— and, after diving the principal facts in the latter case, makes the following eloquent appeal in behalf of all classes of seamen employed in British ships : " Cases of crime upon the high seas should, as Baron Alderson remarked, be regarded with especial care by English tribunals. Deriving as we do our wealth from our extended .commerce, and our security from our powerful fleet, and re lying for the efficiency of our mighty marine upon the uni versal and unhesitating enforcement of the sternest discipline, we are bound to see that every member of those 10,000 floating commonwealths which issue annually from our ports, dependent only on their own internal order and resources, to carry the name, and influence, and products of Great Britain thousands of miles from the presence of any English authority, and divided perhaps for months together from all human communication or assistance,—we are bound to see that each one of these, in her longest and most distant separ ation from the shores of her mother country, shall ever feel the presence within her of English law, shall never lose the sense that time and space do not effectually divide her from that centre of authority which has committed to the com= mander his almost despotic power, but which will unfailingly visit upon him and his subordinates any abuse of their great but necessary responsibility. We above all nations are eminently bound to the protection of the seamen. On us, above all nations, it is incumbent to provide that these frag ments of our country shall bear with them the protection-of English law, that a safe and certain appeal shall ever and everywhere be secured against that dangerous authority which our interests oblige us to surround with far more than the ordinary terrors of British justice. 'With every temptation to tyranny, and every opportunity for evading the proof of its exercise on the one side, and on'the other the continual alternative of absolute submission or absolute mutiny, it is a wonder that we find in British ships so much of forbearance and steadiness as exists. But the ground of wonder will rapidly cease if we allow outrages committed under a power of our own creation and maintenance thus to slip through the fingers of justice. It matters not who is the delinquent,— captain, mate, or their rough and unruly instruments,—it matters little whether the escape is effected by the stupidity of a jury, the leniency of a judge, the blunder of an attorney, or the ignorance of a deck of assize. One thing is certain, that every single example of impunity is at once an encourage ment to tyranny and a provocation to mutiny. And the ex- amples which have hitherto occurred, if not wore mischievous, have at least a more disgraceful appearance from the fact, that they are not English sufferers whose fate we have allowed to pass unavenged." The sentiments thus .forcibly expressed we have en tertained for some time ; and we purpose in a series of articles to draw attention to the subject of maritime legislation, not only as affecting all seamen on board of British ships, and embracing the operations Merchant Seamen's Act, but with reference to the ge neral management of nautical cases involving insurance and mercantile questions, in which, from the ignorance in nautical matters of the advocates and other funs tionaries employed in investigating them, justice is often jeopardised, and not unfrequently subverted. We have been led to this opinion by a consideration of the numerous cases which have, from time to time, come before our local courts, both sessions and assizes, in which, this being the second port in the kingdom, they are of frequent occurrence, and the result in nand• in- stances such that (having seme personal knowledge of sea-faring matters) we have, on occasions not few and far between, left the respective tribunals with, reluc tantly, no very high feelings of respect for the laws in that respect, and, on many more, for their loose, inde finite, and even oppressive administration. We rejoice that the subject has been taken up by our talented and influential cotemporary ; and we shall, in the articles alluded to, submit some remarkable facts, which have recently fallen within our own observance. LOCAL NEWS, At a meeting of the Board of Guardians of the West Derby Union, on Tuesday last, very numerously attended, Mr. Thomas Augustus Granville Dolling, overseer, &c. of West Derby, was elected by a large majority to the office of registrar of births and deaths for the West Derby district. THE WEATHER.—We are still favoured with unst un usually mild weather for the seasou. We perceive from a London Paper of yesterday, that on Tuesday the thermome ter, in front of the superintendent's office in the London Docks, at noon, stood at 57 degrees, a height unprecedented in December. TREATY WITH BRAZIL.—TiIe London Times of yesterday announces, in its City article, that, by letters received from Brazil on Tuesday, it appears that the treaty with this coun try is continued to the 10th of November next. We have not received any intimation of this, and indeed are without any information on the subject. THE WNEILE TESTIMONIAL.—This subject is warmly taken up in many of the provincial papers which we bare received. A number of our Irish contemporaries also have exerted their influence to forward the matter; and they, one and all, express a fervent hope that it will be of a general character, and that the memorial will be worthy of the man and the cause. HOLIDAY ON THE 26TH INSTANT.—A requisition, most respectably signed, was presented to his Worship the Mayor, yesterday, praying him to cause Monday next to be observed throughout the town as a general holiday, owing to Christ mas day falling on the Sunday. We have not heard, from authority, the nature of the Mayor's reply ; but we have been informed indirectly that he declined to comply with the re quest. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Wednesday evening last as Mr. Simcox, of Arrow, near Birkenhead, was driving home along with his brother in his chaise, he was stopped on the highway, near Arrow Hall, by nine men, who pulled the party out of the vehicle, and robbed them of between £9 and £lO, and a small gold Genoa watch. The police were imme- diately afterwards informed of the circumstance, but the thieves have not yet been discovered. EVERGREENS FOR CHRISTMAS.—Nutnerous complaints are generally made about this season of the year, of the an noying depredations which are committed in our suburban gardens by a class of mischievous persons who, in their de. sire to decorate their houses, or perhaps to replenish their pockets for Christmas, forget the respect which is due to the property of their neighbours. The bushes of holly, &c., are frequently torn to pieces in a most shameful manner, and plants on which a high value is set are irretrievably dis figured or injured. We beg to call the attention of the police to the subject. THE HINDOSFAN STEAM-SHlP.—Letters from the com mander and some of the passengers of this steamer have been received in town, dated October 22, off the island of Ascen sion, advising their arrival there all well. Th e Hi n d os tan, after replenishing her stock of fuel there, by taking on board a quantity of patent fuel from the government stores, would proceed to her next stage, the Cape of Good Ilope, and thence to Mauritius, Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta, steam ino• the whole distance from England to India, vid the Cape of Good Hope. She is expected at Suez, from Calcutta, &c., on the 10th of February. Tits CORPORATION ScHoots.—We trust that, although the hands of the Government may be bound, the public will most earnestly maintain the right of the State to instruct the people in the truths of the Gospel, not diluted or frittered away in unmeaning or distorted " extracts," but in its per fect integrity. " The Bible—the whole Bible," should be their motto, in the crusade which is urged against a Scrip tural educatron by the various sects of Papists, Socinians, and Infidels, who desire to baniSh the Divine Word from the national schools. This determination, we have no doubt, is uppermost in the minds of British Protestants, who are not misled or corrupted by a fOse liberality; and we rejoice to say, that in the only instance of a departure from it on this side of the Channel, the cause of religion has, after a short period, come triumphant out of the struggle. We allude to the conduct of the Reformed Corporation of Liverpool, which, immediately after the passing of the municipal act, had the temerity to exclude the use of the Bible from the schools un der their charge. That pernicious measure, however, has now been formally reversed, and the Corporation has again restored the Scriptures to the Schools. This is a most in teresting and gratifying result, and is really of national im portance. The Liverpool Corporation deserve the gratitude of the whole country for their inestimable conduct ; but they have the far higher reward of knowing that they have acted in accordance with the duty they owe to the eternal interests of their fellow-men.—Edinburgh Standard.—[Our contem porary is slightly in error. The effort to restore the Scrip tures to the schools was successful t we l ve mon th s ago; an d the triumph to which the Edinburgh Standard alludes was the rejection of a motion which had for its object the giving a merely secular education to Roman Catholic children.] ilatexe.Fti REAP BUTCHE retail butcher found in another column are desi rot find them in e advertisement and can confide a refer cur readers to It. )N.---Any persons svi!oi s ought-for articles, 0111 ?cut's, Islington; whose e have ourselves tasted, Tie THEATRE ROYAL.--THE NEW PA NTOMIM Theatre Royal will open on Monday for the winter seas ll p• Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean arc'emaged, and will appear 1 , the Gamester. Mrs. Charles Kean will no doubt be wartr4 welcomed by her many admirers here. The new pantotniale is said to be admirably got up. the scenery is t nagpific en The co-mie businesS is full of life and bustle. and will be tb unu to be remarkable for its ingenuity and drollery. Numerous. political and local hits are interspersed through the Piece,; rm and many of the novelties of the day will be broug ht for l:a in burlesque styli - - ....n t Lt.E. - CLosE TIIE SEASON The cle!e American equestrian company, which has been ,deligh t t th t those fond of the sports of the arena, takes its leave °L his Liverpool public this evenin , , when r. Sands makes t appeal to his friends. Mr. 'Sands is a graceful and exPe_ r rider, as well as a vaulter of remarkable agility, (we saw btu' turn 37 somersets last evening,) and deserves to be well sur e ported on this occasion. The American , company bar greatly exerted themselves to give satisfaction. The v ' e excellent houses they have drawn is a proof thkt they succeeded. If they revisit Liverpool they m ay always , frru p. their excellent conduct and varied talent, received a WTelce el ' SUDDEN DEATH.—Mi inquisition was held on Wearies' g the death of J ohn Williams, a porter and a PI: il smer, aged 74. On Tuesday afternoon the deceased sc icke 'd denly fell down in Chapel.street, and was immediately Pr, up in a state of insensidility, and carried to the bride%•q!. where he died before medical assistance could be b rougb` He was laid on a mattress in brideweli, and paid every a t ter: tion. He died in about twenty minutes after being freer. His wife appeared to be a comparatively young wornan• Deane, surgeon, said that when he reached the bridewell, being called he found that the deceased was dead. lie readd a post mortem examination, and found that death was nails!, by a disease of fete heart, under which he had laboured !e'ti some time. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of " di e from natural causes." WINE AND SPIRIT ASSOCIATION.—We noticed in a former paper the meeting that took place, at the Cotton Sales-roora, of the gentlemen engaged in the wine and spirit trade. whennf a provisional committee was appointed for the purlies e f ie preparing rules and regulations for the re-formation of the Wine and Spirit Association. At a subsequent general gle e , ing of the trade, held at the Clarendon-rooms, Mr. Chrisopild, Bushell in the chair, a committee of management was form e and the rules and regulations agreed to ; a nd on Wedn esday last a meeting of the committee was held at the offic rated :` R. W. Preston, when the following officers were Mr. Wm. Dixon, chairman ; Mr. Wm. Brandreth, depuq. chairman; Mr. R. W. Preston, treasurer; Mr. aristoplie:i Bushell, secretary; and from the known experience en appo .-- capability of the gentlemen thus associated, it may be ee b e ; fidently expected that the several important interests of tr trade will be effectually promoted under their vigilant suPe'' Amplim clay, touchir intendence. DEATH MOM INTE.AIPERATE HABITS.—On Wednes d l e ' at the inquest court, an investigation took place touching' te death of John Lings, a ship's cook. who lodged at Jen': d boarding-house, 3U, Queen-street. Mrs. Jones said de cea-e c sonic was about 46 years old. On Monday night last, he we nt °u and brought some whiskey, and had of it made war.,ra! d He complained of being weak. He was a heavy drinker, n'id had taken a good quantity during that day. He said he vitt not go to bed, as he would be troubled with the horrors' de e that he would stop by the fire in the kitchen. She nni ,. he bed for him there, and he fell asleep. In about an lie u ' at awoke and said it was dark. There was a candle huril b - e the time. He looked very wild, and lay down agaia• became alarmed and sent for a doctor. As the deceased le peared to be ill she sat up with him. About 12 o'clock:, appeared to be in a fit, and opened and shut his eyes re, peatedly. He remained in that state until a little before p-e, that night when he died. lie appeared to be consumP tiv ne , but complained that night only of weakness. Mr- D ea - ( 1 surgeon. bad made a post modem examination, and fe..unnj, that the cause of death was disease cif the liver, and infih e illation of the stomach, the result of intemperate habits• jury returned a verdict accordingly. PETTY THEFTS.—CAUTION TO SHOPKEEPERS.- - on . the police-court, yesterday, a boy of bad character. named old Kendal, was charged with having stolen a p a i r o f boots, Os., from the shop of Messrs. Lloyd and Dain, in the • Haymarket. The theft was very coolly effected, in the ler ; noon of yesterday, but the operations of the thief being .se e ,,'! he was followed and run down in Dale -street, where he s n v e - ; apprehended. Mr. Rushton having ,informed the Pri s %v that he should send him to the sessions, the following Colleqd ensued :—Prisoner.—Will you be so kind as to let me 't' this time for three months ? Mr. Rushton.—No, I w°'„ I'd you have been here too often for that. Prisoner.—" r o if you will I'll never come ag , in. Mr. Rushton.—N e t commit you: you are committee. Prisoner.—Then sent me to trial for nothing! He was then removeuthe Another boy, of equally bad character, was placed in re , dock, on a charge of having stolen a p a ir of moleskin trouse r. value 75., from the shop of Mr. Thos. Fell, tailor and drBl3,eo; in Paradise-street. The trousers were han g i n g up in thesuore on Wednesday evening, when the pr is oner rushed in , t ac t them down, and ran off with his booty. He was Pu rs c i iy along King-street into South John- s t ree t, w h er e, uni u t o e for him, he fell into the hands of a Philistine, in the of a police-officer. He was committed for trial. THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS AND MR. c MoTioN.—What an edifying spectacle the schools "'So have presented had Mr. Lawrence's plan been adopted' • D e protestant children were to have come to school at 111 0 o'clock ; prayers were to h ave b een rea d, an d a lesso n b l o Scripture taught. The Roman catholi c c hild r en were t •- e es to have been admitted, but not until all religious exer cP„, had ended; and if the morning was wet, the little cree t T; must have waited in the school ya r d ex p ose d to the wee he until the proper hour for their admittance had arrived, or protestant reading must have been abridged for their accenif inodation. What is more calculated to bring religion Wet into contempt? Imagine the shoal admitted at a differ ei c t hour, and think what a scene of confusion would be creat e kt The whole were then to have wheeled into line to he ta ng ;', to read and write. The same confusion must again b 0 5 5 taken place at half-past four. The Roman catholie„r re a take up their hats and, depart, leaving the protestant clnLy.,'l,l to their devotions; and the natural inference a child wor draw must be, that there is something wrong in. the relied o of James Smith, because Patrick Mulvaney is not pertnltes by the priest to join in it. Adverse and discordant fe,ets would have been engendered, and the separation of relig'''o and secular instruction have ended in disappointment to confusion. But from all this the vote of Wednesday - saved us.—Courier. ALLEGED FRAUD.—Yesterday, police-officer AinSW o red jun., brought up at the police-court a young man , D rge William Jones, whom he apprehended, he said, on a The of having robbed the Rev. Thomas Bibby'of a£s note• but prisoner, he added, had admitted having taken the not e, he alleged it had been given to him by th e re verend gei? b ` 13b y man for wages which were due t o hi m . Th e R ev . Mr. 1 er was then sworn, and he said, that i n A ugus t l as t the prise° came to him requesting employment, st a ti ng that he had bee . o in the habit of teaching boys at different Sunday schools the town, but that he had given up that avocation, an d :1a now engaged in giving instruction in music. He produce r „, number of testimonials which appeared hi g hly satisfae; some of which were from the t rus t ees o f th e Welsh ael? () %er in consequence of these testimonial s h e engage d the prilbe to teach singing to the b o ys i n H un t er - s t ree t sc h o ol, ail be was to have £5 for six months. A short time afterwarasdis, gave the prisoner £1 in advance ; but afterwards beief a t satisfied with his method of teaching he dismissed ht fir, which time there was a balance due to him of 30s. .. 4 90 Rushton.—When did you discharge hi m ? M r . Bibby ea the 27th November. Mr. R us ht on .—H ow l ong had be ',l ,3 be been in your service? Mr. Bibby.—Three months. o g reverend gentleman in continuati on sa id, th a t not ba s ", tea , sufficient change at that time he gave the p r i son er a X 51 1", , out of which he was to bri ng hi m £3 10 s ., th e differe, l3 l ; a t but he never made his appeara nce . M r . R us ht o n said 'l under these circumstances he cou ld no t i n t er f ere . The P 1 soner was consequently discharged. - • LIEUTENANT PARSONS, R.N.—ln glancing over the P„ pers brought by the Acadia, we observe that o u r townsn' ti i; Lieutenant Parsons, who is! deservedly a great f a vourite the other side of the Atlantic, figures conspicuously in t oy columns. On the outward trip of the Acadia, the,l, t i o g lieutenant rose and gave the he a lth o f th e Q uee n, Prelagr• the sentiment with the following remarks :—" Ladies , the President, and Gentlemen,—l deem it my duty, "ose senior officer present under the B r iti s h crown , to Prop ~- ( 1 1 thus early the health of our most grac i ous Sovereigncot' 'Victoria the First, the beauteous rul e r o f th e sea - g irt is' & o o Great Britain. If received as I expect, it will, I doubt, draw forth the thanks of a gallant brother in 3 ' . 01 3, now present. Our American brothers, with the Ge t c t i li pot French, and Spnaish gentlemen, wh o f orm a p a rt, an e ar the least agreeable part, of our s o c i e ty, f rom th e ir $ tlemanly demeanour, will do honour to the toast; b q ea' further inducement is wanting, I can venture to assure _ 0 ( that it will give pleasure to the ladies prssent, to bear ono their sweet sex drank with enthusiasm. The brilliant grad from their sunny eyes say yes, and, like that glorious lunn il ito breaking through November's gloom, invigorating I .fdiog warmth, cheering us by its gladdenin g p resenc e, and gl the the saloon with a flood of joy. Ladies and gentlemen, r id Queen of merry England ; there i s some thi ng heart- 50 ,40 in the sound ; and may the omnip o t en t p ower that clris% v d in virtue shield, bless, and protect her through a long till " prosperous reign, and enable her gloriou s d esc endants I n $ the throne of England till time s h a ll b e no m ore. to letter to the Boston Post, we see that our townsman n as it ' s .--. his other acquirements, added th a t of au th ors hip. He s a y $ "Through Messrs. Little and Brow n , I am publisbl-ar small work, entitled Nelsonian Reminiscences, having n ared sonally: sailed with that distinguished hero of a 8 0' battles,' for nearly three years. Do me the favour ° say flouncing (by publishing this note) to this I will not onlYsol (according to Box) ' bright,' but beautiful, hospitable'„ jo kind city of Boston, whose commercial prosperity is„" timately blended with the good old town of Liverpool Je A CURIOUS STORY.—A somewhat st r a ng e story ; ; s f ., the now occupying the attention of the lover s of gossip ' - areet neighbourhood of Walnut-street. There d we ll s in thet,ibirs a person named Parkes, whose busine ss - avoca tions lea d o 0 frequently into the country. M rs . P ar k es , w h o is close - alitt the period of her accouchement, keeps no servant , s ° , a re when her husband is absent, sh e , w ith h er t wo childr et ,.llo4, the sole occupants of the hou s e. O n F r id a y last, se e°. 0 0 0 to Mrs. Parkes' account, a man ca ll e d a t her r esideo ce dech requested permission to speak with lee. This being a cc ,. e tbav the stranger inquired if her husband were in L i ver pool to be time. She repli e d i n th e affirmative. He then begg e " ma d. informed when M r . P ar k es wou ld set out on hi s ne xt .lo, ° l - o ve Mrs. Parkes i n f orme d hi m th a t h er h us b an d rvot&la' - her , home on the following day. Th e s t ranger thanke d 0 0 apologised for the trouble he had given, and departe d ; 10 1 ' the folloWing day Mr. Parkes se t ou t on hi s journey 1- ho ot filment of his arrangements. On Sunday morning las t ' from two o'clock, Mrs. Parkes states, th a t s h e was arouse' a nd her sleep by a noise in her bed-chamber. She looked lb " oh' saw a man with a light in his hand, and, on attentivewo serving him, she saw that he was the s a m e individ ual . e d $ called upon her on Friday. Filled with alarm, she utted,side, cry of terror, upon which the fellow advanced to the b e , o olt l and told her, that, if she uttered another sound, he ;fret, put her to death. He immediately tied her hands a ni : n the and putting a rope about her neck, f as tened her firmly! ' - w ere bed-post. She had in the bed he r two children, is° ge• awakened by these proceedings, and the elder of whoe0400• ing a man binding his mother with ropes, began to s 0 other Mrs. Parkes now became conscious that there were out villains below stairs, for she heard one or two voice' aloe. to their companions above that he was to silence the a nd The man by threats induced the boy to cease his cries,,.bila he forthwith proceeded to bind him also and a younger ,'OO about three years old. The party then searched the nverty for money, and succeeded in finding about £B, the pro they of Mr. Parkes's employers. Having obtained this bo oty, still quitted the house, leaving Mrs. Parkes and her c hildrel tha t bound on the bed. Mrs. Parkes, when she was assured,' hilt villains had left the house, screamed for a s sistanc e ' though the next cottage is only divided from her dwellll2:st, a thin partition, she could not succeed in getting a n y as and ance. Strange to say, the whole of Sunday passed ovtlY, u still she and her children remained in the same 'po sition ;_o s able to extricate themselves, or to make any of the pe ti ll outside aware of their situation. Thus they rernsie f e u e : e h i g Monday morning, when the little boy succeede d in r himself from the fetters, when he went to the window,_aer's, gave the alarm. The party at the next door, it al'ff, j o r never, during the whole time, heard the slightest sotto" disturbance.