The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 15th inst. contains the following alarming paragraph :-- " Viii.NN.4, Sept. 11.—Very important news has arrived here from the East. It appears that region is likely, before all others, to become the theatre of the contest of European interests in a short time, and this struggle may be serious (sanglante.) War between England and Persia is declared; the causes of this recent event are well known." Accounts from Prague of the 12th instant sta)e, that the march of troops to the proposed camp of 2-1,000 men, to be formed at Branders, was incessant. The manoeuvres were to be directed by Field Marshals the Prince de Reuss and Count Ceclopiere. - The object of the assembling of this army ap pears to have defied all attempts to ascertain it. The Zurich Gazette slates that the Swiss patriots on the French frontier have established a regular system of corres pondence among Ibemselves, in order that any attack on the part of France may not take them uuawares. (Private Correspondence of the Morning Herald.) BA YONN E, Sept. 17.-1 shall to day confine myself to send ing you the following cotnmunicat ion :.=- "Royal Head-quarters, Ellorio, Sept. 15. " Yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, his MajestY quitted Bergara, dined at Nlontdragon, and reached here the same evening, where his :Majesty intends to remain during the present highly-interesting military opexations. " General Marotto had a long conleince with his Majesty and the Minister of War this morning, and then returned to Durango. " Eight battalions, composed of two of Guipnscoa, two of Alava, two of Biscar, and two of Castile, reached Durango yesterday, by forced marches from Estella. Each battalion is 800 strong. Marotto has wi h him, independent of these 6400 men, the troops blockading Bilboa, about '2500 men, Castor Andechaga, with his owixist of nearly 301)0 men, and Balmaseda and Romales, and General Sopelana, with MX/ men, are advanced on the high road ,trom Vittoria to Bilboa. " Several pieces of artillery have been ordered to he trans ported with all possible despatch from Onate to Durango. " The following is the postscript of an intercepted letter, written by a national guard of Bilboa " Balboa, Sept:Y.3: " 'I have just learned, hut not officially, that the Christinos have evacuated Fort Las Banderas, and other forts exterior of Bilboa.' " . it. appears that General Pardinas is about to retire from the Queen's service. Narvaez has been in nomination for the captaincy-general of Old Castile, vice Baron Carondelet, who recently abandoned Valladolid, on hearing that the Car lists were in its neighbourhood. The Correo has a letter from Villacastria, of the 10th, stat ing Merino to have entered Burgo de Osma on the 7th, with 2000 infantry and 300 cavalry, and to have since moved to winds Valladolid. SWEDEN The German papers continue to afford some further dis tressing reports of i he agitated state of the capital of Sweden. There would appear to he still a great excitement and a de termined hostility manifested by the lower orders of the peo ple of Stockholm. The very aged King, almost weighed down by the weight of years, and distressed by the unhappy relations with his son, the Crown Prince, has, in addition to these misfortunes, to struggle with an alienation of the affec tion of the people. RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia appears to meet with many diffi culties in finding fitting husbands for his daughters. The Crown Prince of Bavaria, who is a fitful and capricious lover, and has been playing at hide-and-seek with the imperial princess, appears now to have been prevailed upon to meet her and - her Russian party in Prussia. The Empress and her daughters are going to Berlin, whilst he is expected at Pots dam, within 16 miles of it. Negociations will, of course, be resumed at Berlin. It is reported that the Czar had made up his mind to bestow the second daughter upon the prince of Leuchteuberg, a respectable but obscure prince. EGYPT, Letters have been received from Alexandria by way of Trieste to the 31 instant. It is stated in them that the great Powers appeared to be agreed in the determination to pre serve to the Porte the supremacy over Egypt, but to obtain in favour of the Pasha the hereditary right of succession sub ject to a tribute, which would be a step towards independence, and if guaranteed would no doubt be accepted by the latter. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. From the Gazette of last night it appears that the quantity of bullion in the Bank is only decreased to the amount of £131,000. An opinion had previously prevailed that there would have been a much more considerable deficiency, from the ascertained fact that £2,500,000 bad been transmitted to the United States during the American panic, as also £1,000,000 to the various parts of Europe for the payment of foreign corn, purchased in anticipation of our own harvest being a failure. There has been but little business transacted as yet, but the advance of yesterday is maintained. HALF-PAST ONE Consols have continued steady during the morning at 94 buyers for the Account, and for money 93; 94. Exchequer Bills, 69; India Bond! 69 71; Bank Stock, for opening, - 2t;tl - 2'39; India Stock, 264 265. In the Foreign Market there is zcarcelv a bargain doing. Spanish Active, 18% %; Por tuguse, 3-1% 5 4 ; Three per Cents. 22% 3; Brazilian, 84 If :)..f,; Mexican, 221 31; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per. Cents, 534; Five per Cents, nothing doing. A fair business is doing in Shares at the improved prices of yesterday. Great 'Western are 18 pm. Birmingham, 88 pm.; and Brighton, 1 % discount. FOUR O'C LOCK. Consols for Account, 9-18. Spanish Bonds, 189 g I. Por tuguese Five per Cent. New Bonds, 34i. (From the official list, containing the business actually transacted.) BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock, 3 per Ct. Red., 3 per Ct. Con., 93; 4 31 per Ct. Anus. 1818, 33i per Ct. Red., New 3% per Cents. 101% Long Ans. 1860, Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, SHA. (The quotations give the actu premium or Cobre Copper, 37 8 Birmingham and Gloucester, 18 Cheltenham, and Great Wes tern, lg Great Western, 84 3 21 London & Brighton, 91 London and Blackwell, 58 London and Birmingham, 177 176 178 London and Southampton, 48 London and Croydon Trunk, 16 4 Eastern Counties, 51 India Stock, India Bonds, 69 7 pm. Bank Stock for Acct. Consols for Acct., 94 1:1000 Ex. Bills, 71 69 pm. £5OO do. 69 71 p.m Small do. 69 72 pm. Ditto Commercial, 2d., 7 R ES. al price, without reference to discount.) 'London and Croydon New Scrip, 91 Xanchester and Birmingham, 114 Northern and Eastern, 6j 6 Colonial Bank, 274 Colonial Scrip, 27% London Joint Stock Bank, 12 National Provincial Bank of England, 35 Manchester and Leeds, South Midland, Bristol and Exeter, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES.-WEDNESDA Y. The list tor this afternoon promised four races; two, how ever, turned out to be " walks over," and had it not been for some excellent racing for the plate, the sport would have been as short as it was unimportant. The weather was beau tiful, and the company about on a par with the average of attendance on Wednesday, which, owing to the settling and the sales, has always been the worst day of the five. The following are all the details required. The Foal Stakes of 100 soya. each, h ft for three-years old : colts and fillies. One mile and a half. Three subs. Mr. Bowes's The Jagger Walked over. The Doncaster Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Corporation, for three-year-olds and upwards. Two miles. Four subs. Mr. Bowes's Epirus Walked over. The Selling Stakes of 10 soya each, with 30 added by the Corporation ; three years, 6st 121 h; four, Bst ; five, Bst 7lb ; six, and aged, Bst 101 b. The winner to be sold fur 200 suvs. &c. Leger Course. Seven subs. Sir W. Scott's b h The Count, by Figaro, aged (Cartwright) 1 Mr S. King's b g Redinant, 5 yrs Mr. Cook's br f The Wonder, 3 - yrs 3 Mr. Pettit's b f Anne Boleyn, 3 yrs Mr. Greenwood's b f Victoria, 3 yrs Mr. Blakelock's bl f Yarico, 4 yrs Betting--5 to 4 agst the Count; 4to 1 agst Yarico (tkn); 4to 1 agst Anne Boleyn; and 6to 1 agst Remnant. The Count made all the running, with the others clustered to gether at his heels, and won by a length after a pretty race. The Corporation Plate of £5O; for three-years-olds, 6st 71b; four, sst 91b; five, Bst 31b : six and aged, Bst 10lb; mares allowed albs; the second to receive 24 guineas. Heats, two miles. Mr. S. King's b c Vernal, by Actaeon, 4 yrs (Lye) 3 1 1 Mr. Wormald's ch c Fieschi, 4 yrs ... Mr. Bell's br "c Humphrey, Byes 4 3 4 Mr. Osbaldeston's br c Allerston, 3 yrs The jockey weighed for the Count, who did not run; the announcement, however, was not made until after money had been laid out on Fieschi at odds, which would not have been betted bad it been known that the Count was not to go. First heat—Even on Fieschi, and 3 to 1 agst Humphrey. The favourite took the lead followed by Allerston, kept it to the end, and won by a length. Second heat-5 to 4 against Fieschi ; 7 to 4 agst Humphrey; and 3to 1 agst Vernal. Humphrey cut out the work with the others at his stern till within two distances of the chair, where Vernal and Fieschi went alor , side; a splendid race home terminated to favour of Vernal by a head. Third heat 5t04 on Vernal, and 6to 4 against Fieschi (taken). Another magnificent race be tween Vernal and Fieschi, the former, alter waiting till the last, winning by a bead only. It is to be hoped that the managers of this meeting will, on all future occasions, continue their recently adopted plan of sending to the betting ring a list of the horses to start. It will increase the interest and prevent trickery. Au incident occurred before the first race, which would have been attended with serious consequences, but for an ex traordinary instance of self-possession. A horse took fright, and ran away with in this case, a very awkward appurtenance, in the shape of a gig, in which, besides the driver, was a Miss Brooke. The driver was soon thrown to the ground, middle lady's prospect was bad enough; however, she retained, not only her seat, but her nerves; and with admirable coolness, guidel the horse with the whip, and keeping him clear of the hillocks and ditches, by au occasional cut on the proper side, and suffering him to "go on" till be tired, stooped him with out any mishap. Nine men out of ten would - have jumped out and left horse and chaise to their fate. The St. Leger—We hasten to correct an inaccuracy in our description of this race. lon and Laaercost did not lie second and third throughout. On the contrary, Alzira headed lon from the first gravel round to the bill, and again in descend ing it; he followed Don John till round the Red House, where he gave up, and the other two resumed their positions. Cobham headed Lanercost at the distance, but broke dow❑ the instant after. The settling took place this morning, at the betting rooms, and went off remarkably well. Money seemed to be more plentiful than usual, and we did not hear of a single defaulter. The Derby—ln the course of the day brother to Bay Mid dleton was backed at 12 to 1 ; Gulnare at 1000 to 60; Bul wark and Epidaurus at 20 to 1 each ; and Autler, Flambeau, Vat, 'Pros, and several others, at five points more. Some large sums were laid out at evens, between 12 and the field. THURSDAY. The cup at Doncaster is a race of so much interest, not only to the sporting men but to the middling clases, that it rarely fails to attract a large company. It produced its ac customed effect this afternoon, the anxiety to witness the contest fur it having been increased in no inconsiderable de gree by the belief that the fat,ourite north-country mare, Bee's-wing, would have a worthy competitor in the terror of the Curragh Harkaway, and that an equally formidable rival would enter the lists, in the person of the St. Leger winner, Don John. Part of this anticipated pleasure was realised; but fur some ( not very creaditable, we fear) reason Harkaway, although in the best condition, was not suffered to show. (Mr. Ferguson's conduct in the affair was discussed in language which, it it reached his ears, must have proved rather dis agreeable.) Fortunately for the sport, the weather was fa vourably in the extreme, and some excellent racing made amends for previous deficiencies. The following is a full return : The Three Year Old Stakes, of 200 sovs each, h ft; colts, fist 61b fillies Bst 3ib St. Leger Course. Eleven subs. Lord Westminster's b c Albenarle. Scott 1 Duke of Cleveland's b c Alzira, by Voltaire Nine paid. Bettina-5 to 2on Albemarle. Alzira made steady running to the distance post, where Albemarle chal lenged, and, atter a severe struggle home, won by a head. The Gold Cup, value 450 guineas, given by the Stewards , with 50 added by the Corporation ; three years, ist.; four► Bst 31b; five, Set 10ib ; six and aged, 9st. The winner of the St. Leger to carry 31b extra. About two miles and five furlongs. Lord Chesterfield's Don John, 31b extra. (Nat) 1 31r. Ord's Bee's-king, 5 yrs. . 2 Mr. S. L. Fox's The Doctor, 4 yrs.. Mr. Robinson's Melbourne, 4 yrs . 4 Betting-5 to 2on Don John (taken); 7to 2 agst Bee's wing ; 10 to 1 agst The Doctor; and 20 to 1 agst Melbourne. Bee's-wing took the lead at a' capital pace, followed by Don John., The Doctor lying third, and Melbourne last. The pace and the positions continued the same till within half a distance of the chair, when Don John took up the running and won easy by nearly two lengths. The Doctor ran a moderate third, but Melbourne was beaten a long way from home. This race from beginning to end was run with great truth. The Two Year Old Slakes, of 20 sous each, for two year old _ colts, Bst 51b, T.Y.C. Fifteen subs. , . Mr. Wormald's gr c Bolus, by Physician.. Heseltine 0 1 Duke of Cleveland's b f Eliza, by Physician 0 2 Colonel Anson's br c Zimmerman, by Starch 3 Mr. J. Clarke's ch f Imogene, by Langar Mr. Osbaldeston's br r Alexandrina, by The Saddler 5 Mr. H. Coombe's ch c by Actaeon—Frederica Niue paid. Betting-2 to 1 against Zimmerman; sto 2 agst Imogene ; 4 to 1 against Eliza; 5 to 1 agast Frederica. (taken); and 7to 1 agst Bolus (taken) At the commence ment Imogene was backed at 6 and 7 to 4, and was first fa vourite. Bolus took the lead, followed by Imogene and Eliza, Zimmerman lying in the rear with waiting orders; they ran in this oruer half-way up the distance, where Zimmer man and the first. mentioned three joined issue; a magnifi cent race ensued, the finish being so fine that the judge pro nounced it a dead heat between Bolus and Eliza, from whom Zimmernum was beaten about a neck. Imogene was well up with them, hut Alexandrina was beaten several lengths, and the Acton colt shut up soon after he got round the turn. Second Heat-5 and 6t04 on Eliza, who made play at a good pace to the stand, where Bolus took the lead from her, and kept it, and won cleverly. The Gascoigne Stakes, of 100 sovs each, 30 ft, for three year old colts, Sit 71b, fillies, Bst 21h. The winner of the St. Leger Stakes to carry 41b extra. St. Leger Course. Lord Chesterfield's hr c Don Joh❑ walked over, FRIDAY. The Filly Stakes of 20 sous each. St. Leger - Course. Mr. St. Paul's Creeping Molly.. (Lye) .1 Mr. Oshalcleston's Fairy Queen 2 Duke of Cleveland's Virginia... 3 Won easy. The Hornby Castle Stakes of 20 sots each, with 50 added . Two miles. Mr. S. L. Fox's The Doctor (Temp!eman) 1 Mr. Bowes's Epirus. Won cleverly. The Scarborough Stakes of 30 soya each, 10 ft. One mile. Mr. Pdl kin's Lanercost (H. Edwards) 1 Alr. Bowes's Appleton .. 2 Won cleverly. The Victoria Handicap, of 5 sovs each, and 25 added. One mile. Mr. Dennison's Percy. (Templeman 1 Mr. Hobinson's Melbourne Seven started. Won cleverly. A draft, consisting of one captain, one lieutenant, two e nsigns, one surgeon, and 150 rank and file, has be en ordered to be in readiness for embar kation to join the service compa nies of the 36th Regiment in New Brunswick.—Moming Chronicle. • . . A bet who should eat the most oysters was put to the proof by seven Parisians most capable in this respect. The seven ate 388 dozen of oysters; and the winner 77 dozen. ENCKE'S COMET. —Observatory, Kensington, Friday, three o'clock, a.m.—Right ascension about two hours 33 minutes— north declination about 3-1 degrees 57 minutes—in the field of the large achromatic telescope, is a nebuloid body hitherto undiscoved, or Encke's comet. It is extremely taint. Its motion, somewhat more than suspected since I detected it, will, I doubt not, enable me'very shortly to communicate fur ther of the subject. JAMES SQUTH. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCR, Advices have been received from Demerara, to the sth of August, which are of a very gratifying character, inasmuch as all apprehension respecting the general conduct of the negroes on their emancipation on the Ist ult., may now be considered to be removed. The private letters state that, in most instances, the freed negroes had freely entered into ar rangement with their masters respecting the rates of wages, which do not much differ, with respect to the customary-es tate allowances, from the bargains made iu the island of Ja maica, the wages accepted being about 10 dollars per month, or is 3d to Is 4d per diem. Most of the estates were in full work, and, to speak in general terms, the negroes of British Guiana had behaved with the greatest order. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape of Good Hope papers have been received to the 22d of July, from which we copy the following:— " Cape Town, July 22. " Our letters from the eastern frontier and from Caffreland represent the whole country as politically quiet; few depre dations or thefts have been committed, and the only circum stance of moment is the murder of a trader resident in Patas county. The Governor has left none of the chiefs in doubt as to what course he means to pursue in defending his own side of the border, maintaining order, and chastising injus tice. With regard to the emigrant Boors, the account given in our last has been confirmed. They are retreating from Dingaan, and are, we regret to hear, suffering dreadfully in their persons from want and the inclemency of the weather." " In the Eastern Province Government Gazette (the first number of which reached us by post) we find a minute from his Excellency, addressee to those misguided people, highly creditable to his feelings as a man, and to his judgment. and sense of propriety as the representative of her Majesty. We transfer it with much satisfaction to our columns; and the measure it announces has been adopted : " And let all men know that henceforth, or as soon as the necessary arrangements can be completed, the governakeut of this colony, in all its departments, will be conducted with due regard to the dignity of the Sovereign and the sacred ness of the laws. Without this the local government can never be respected; and where there is no respect, authority dies of course." The Eastesn Province Government Gazette, dated Graham's Town, May 21, states that it having bee❑ represented to his Excellency the Governor that great misfortunes have be fallen many of her Majesty's subjects who have emigrated beyond the boundaries of the colony into the interior of Africa—that they are reduced to great distress—and that a great portion of them are desirous of returning within the limits of her Majesty's South African dominions, his Ex cellency says—" 1 am anxious to act upon the prineipts of mercy and benevolence, and to preserve from further mis fortune and total destruction so many of her Majesty's sub jects. I hereby assure them that it shall be fully and freely allowed to all the said emigrants, or all such portions thereof as shall be desirous of returning to the colony, to do so, and to resume their domiciles and avocations, as also their rights as British subjects, without hindrance or molestation in con sequence of the said emigration, and I also promise to remit all pains and penalties which may have been incurred by them by the transgressions of the said laws against the cross ing of the said land boundaries of the colony." - His Excellency also warns those who have already emi grated, or may still be disposed to emigrate. as a duty he owes to bis Sovereign, and to them as her subjects, that the emigration into the interior cannot absolve them from their allegiance as British subjects, and their responsibility as such to the government in the colony. His Excellency moreover assures them that when the pre. servation of the peace and prosperity of the colony and of the bordering tribes shall appear to him to require that mili tary possession be taken of the seaport called Natal, he shall be prepared to do so, in her Majesty's name. STATE' OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—Friday evening, Sept 21.—There has been less doing in goods during the present week, but there is no alteration in prices. The demand for printing calicoes has been limited, but it has been quite equal to the supply, and the manufacturers are not disposed to make any concessions in prices; the best 27-inch 72's are worth 7s. 6d. to 7s. 71d. per piece, inferior sorts 7s. 3d. to 7s. Ad.; 66 reed 6s. 9d. to 7s. a piece. The twist market continues flat.—Saterday evening, Sept. 22.—There has been little if any alteration in the price of power-loom cloth this week. The same may be said of band-looms. Yarns are lower; why they are so, no one can tell. At this season of the year, the latter end of September, there ought to be a really good trade doing; but things are flat, and a great many young men are out of em ployment. The wiseacre Whigs ought to explain this. LEEDS.—There is still a tar demand for manufactured goods, though the markets since our last can scarcely be said to have been so brisk as they were a month ago. Probably more would be sold if there were a better assortment in the market; as the Cloth Halls were scarcely ever known to be so scantily supplied with bale goods as at present. HALIFAX.—There is still no life in the market, and though business is limited in amount, it does not affect prices at present; but this can hardly be expected to continue without an improved demand for most goods. There is nothing fresh to notice either in yarns or wool. BRADFORD MARKET, SEPT. 20.—Wed.—There has cer tainly been less business done in wools to-day, and through out the week, than for some time back, but we do not hear that prices are at all easier. Yarn.—We can note no altera tion in this market; the demand is steady, without any variation in price. Piece.—The general aspect of the market to-day is pretty much the same as stated in our last report. In some quarters we hear of slackness; and it is evident that merchants exercise the greatest caution in making purchases. No alteration as respects prices. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, SEPT. 21.—There has been another active week for the sale of the middle and ordinary descriptions of combing wools. There is no feature in the trade for short wool; prices are steady, with a fair demand. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 18.—The very animated briskness which we noticed last week for all kinds of goods bas, it any thing, been exceeded to-day. A brisker market was scarcely ever known for light fancy articles. Coarse cloths for winter are readily sold. The makers anticipate an excellent trade this winter. LEICESTER.—The demand for goods continues much the same as it has been for the last few weeks. There is a fair amount of busiuess.doin g , but the buyers do not purchase so freely as usual at this season of the tear. So large a number of the workmen are employ e d i n ass i st i ng to secure the har vest, that comparatively few goods are being made, and the demand for yarns is consequeutly rather slack. The aspect of the wool market has decidedly i m p lore d dur i ng the last ten days. The impression seems to be general that it has been at the lowest, and there is a much greater disposition to purchase, and considerable sales have been effected, but without any advance in price.— Leicester Ceronicte. Viscount Deerhurst, we regret to state, is lying in a hope less condition. His lordship is surrounded by aiarge circle of relatives. A " JERI: v Lorin" AND His SPOUSE.—A few days ago the wife of a " jerry lord" in Manchester eloped with a rival in trade, taking with her in money and goods about X.lOO, the property of her liege lord and master, who immediately took post horses and set off for Liverpool in order to ascertain the retreat of the runaways. Fancying he was on the wrong scent he was induced to take the mail to Lancaster, where he arrivived on Tuesday night. After a little inquiry he found that a gentleman and lady answering the description of his wife and the gallant, were staying at a public 7 house in the town, to which he repaired early next morning. His suspicions were converted into certainty on seeing his spaniel dog, while Fido manifested his joy on seeing his master after the usual fashion of his race. Having procured the assist ance of superintendent Wright, the injured husband broke open the door of the bed-room in which the guilty pair were, and obtained restitution of the goods and wearing apparal, and £75 of the money of which his wife had robbed him. The misguided woman was deaf to all entreaties to return to her home and her child, and her husband returned to Man chester without her. She is about 30 years of age, we under stand, and good looking. Her companion is a married man of about the same ace, and leaves a wife and family at Man '!.4.bi4ar. The following day they set out for Newcastle loge- Rir--Lancaster G'uardiart. _ • ••:: • CRIMINAL COURT, LONDON.--THURSDAY. THE TRIAL. OF MYERS The trial of Myers being specially appointed to take place the first this morning, the court was crowded at an early hour. Immediately after the learned judges' taking their seats, Myers was placed at the bar—he bowed respectfully to the court, and appeared perfectly composed. He is a rather good-looking man, with light golden hair. The pri soner pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with the wilful murder of Mr. Pow i❑ a firm voice. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Duane appeared for the prose cution; and Mr. Phillips and Mr. Bodkin were counsel for the prisoner. Mr. Prendergast stated the case to the jury on behalf of the prosecution. The case he was about to lay before the jury was one which involved the question of the manner in which Mr. Pow came to his death. The charge was one of great importance to the prisoner and the public at large. Mr. Pow had been for some time previous to the facts taking place which formed the subject of the present enquiry an Minute of the Westin:raster hospital, in consequence of his being afflicted with delirium tremens, arising from excessive drinking. The treatment he had received there was success ful, and be left the hospital, accompanied by his wife and the prisoner. The prisoner was upon terms of intimacy with Mr. Pow and his wife—indeed, with the latter, he should show that the most improper intimacy existed. Du ring the time Mr. Pow was in the Westminster hospital, it would seem that the prisoner had expressed a desire to have the controul of the property of Mr. Pow, and one witness who would be called would prove that he bad been asked to witness a power of attorney, but that he had refused to do so upon the prisoner stating to him that the person whose pro perty it was to affect was a madman, and in a lunatic asylum. That the prisoner had complete controul over Mr. Pow, there was no doubt. He had taken apartments for him, and was constantly with him. When those apartments were taken Mr. Po‘i was in a tolerable state of health, but shortly afterwards he was taken ill, and a nurse was engaged to attend him. He was seized with convulsions, and died in a few days. He should snow to the jury that during the ill ness of Mr. Pow very little was given to him except gin. It would also be shown that the nurse had directions from the prisoner to give the deceased that liquor. It was the prac tice he believed among medical men in cases of delirium tremens to give stimulants, but not to the extent that had been given in the present case. He would be able to show that on some occasions Mr. Pow had taken more than a pint of gin in a day, and in addition to that the prisoner had ad ministered to Mr. Pow hyosciamus. There could be no doubt that some of the medicines given by Myers to the deceased were of an extremely proper description; but other medicines had been given, especially a composing draught, which had Iliad the worst effect. What that draught was composed of they could not tell, as the bottle which contained it could not be found. Mr. Justice Vaughan asked whether hyoseiamus was not an extremely proper remedy to administer in a case of deli rium tremens? Mr. Prendergast admitted that it was; but the question would be the quantity administered, and, from the medical man he should call, he thought he should be able to show that the quantities administered were excessive. After Mr. Pow had taken that medicine, ho was seized with convul sions, and what was the course that was then adopted by the prisoner? Why, then Mr. Pow was almost at the point of death, he took upwards of a pint of blood lions him, although a brother medical man advised him not to do so, as Mr. Pow was dying. Mr. Justice Vaughan enquired how soon Mr. Pow died after another medical man was called in ? Mr. Prendergast said that he was called in on the Tuesday, and Mr. Pow died on the Wednesday. Mr. Justice Vaughan could not but think that every medi cal man would shake in his bed if, in a case like the present, he was to be subject to a charge of murder. Mr. Prendergast submitted that where death was caused by the improper treatment of a medical man, he was guilty of murder. According to the statement of the prisoner hiriiself, the death of Mr. Pow was to be beneficial to him, for he had been repeatedly heard to say that it would be a thousand pounds in his pocket. It would be shown that the prisoner had encouraged Mr. Pow in his habits of drunkenness. On the Sunday previous to Mr. Pow's death, the prisoner drew up a will for him, by Is hich he gave the prisoner £l,OOO, and appointed him trustee and executor. That the prisoner was on terms of extreme intimacy with Mrs. Pow would be clearly shown, and he should also be able to prove that he and Mrs. Pow were seen to enter a brothel on the day on which Mr. Pow expired. Mr. Justice Vaughan enquired whether it did not appear that Mr. Pow had been subject to delirium tremens before he knew the prisoner. Mr. Phillips.—Yes, for years. Mr. Prendergast said that was no excuse for the course adopted by the prisoner, who had done all in his power to cause Mr. Pow to'recur to his old habit of drinking, in order to accelerate his death. It would be for the jury to say whe ther or not the prisoner had been the cause of the death of Mr. Pow, and if they were of opinion that through the means adopted by him the death of Mr. Pow had accrued, they would be bound to hod the prisoner guilty of the whole offence; but if they should feel inclined to look with a more favourable eye upon the matter—if they should be of opinion that he had acted unskilfully and through ignorance —then they would find him guilty of manslaughter. Mr. Baron Alderson.—What are the specific acts you charge against the prisoner as the cause of death ? Do you say it is the administration of the hyosciamus, which you cannot wove, or the giving of the gin ? If you say it is the latter, then you must 'move that be placed no restriction upon the nurse in ►ts administration. It seems to me you are act ing upon conjecture, and upon that you cannot accuse a man of murder. _ Air. Prendergast observed that they attributed the cause of death to all the acts of the prisoner. He should prove that the prisoner had given directions to the nurse to givegin in unlimited quantities. Mr. Baron Alderson.—You don't prove one specific act that has been the cause of death. There is, to be sure, that bleed ing, after another medical man had said that it would be of no use, as Mr. Pow was dying. Mr. Justice Vaughan.—There is no doubt that the adoption of that course was injudicious, but, when a man was actually dying, surely a medical man would he justified in making such an experiment, in order, if he could, to save his life. Mr. Baron Alderson.—At the - utmost, the case you put, Mr. Prendergast, would only amount to manslaughter. Air. Prendergast said . he had st►ted, be believed, all the facts of the case, and he must leave the court and jury to deal with it as they thought right. Mr. Justice Vaughan said that the only difficulty he felt wrs whether he ought not, in justice to the prisoner, to allow evidence to be given. In his opinion the charge either of murder or manslaughter was entirely out or the question. ' The jnry, under the direction of the learned judge, imme diately acquitted the prisoner. Mr. Phillips felt bound in justice to the prisoner to say that all the property of the unfortunate deceased was £6O a year, which he was prepared to prove went to his orphan daughter. Myers on leaving the dock received the congratulations of his friends. The Sun says, bad the trial proceeded, we have the autho rity of Mr. Hughes, the solicitor for the defence, to say, that he had several witnesses to prove that at the time (the origin ation of this charge) it was stated Myers was at a brothrel with Mrs. Pow, he was quite in a different quarter, and in the com pany of highly respectable persons, so that his moral character would have been cleared as fully as his professional one has already been. " We have seen also the list of above twelve first-rate phy sicians and surgeons, who were present to prove that the treatment by Dr. Myers of Mr. Pow was correct in every particular, and there were above fifty of his patients and per sons of respectability to give their approbation of his treat ment and moral character.. Thus has fallen to the ground this event, which has occupied 'the public mind for the last two months, and on which an innocent man, from the exparte evidence given at a coroner's inquest by the man on whose own showing he had been the real paramour of Mrs. Pow, has been hunted like a beast of prey, and incarcerated in Newgate for a week, all owing to his having not been allowed to make any defence, or to disprove the charge at the inquest." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-FRIDAY THE LATE FATAL. DUEL. On Friday, John Young and Henry Webber surrendered to take their trial upon an indictment charging them with aiding and assisting one Francis Lionel Eliot to kill and murder Charles Flower Alirtin. The prisoners were young men of fashionable appearance. 11r. Broughton, the other person charged, did not surren der, on account, as it was stated, of the indisposition of Mr. Clarkson, who was to defend him. _ _ _ Mr. Chambers addressed the Jury. He said that be ap peared before the jury to state (he circumstances that led to the present solemu and important inquiry. He begged them to dismiss from their minds all the rumours they had heard upon the subject out of doors. They were all aware that the deceased met his death in an affray called a duel. It would be unnecessary for him to enter into details upon the subject of duelling. The law of England did not enter into the nice punctilios of the code of honour, but it was clearly laid down that if two persons went out together deliberately, armed with deadly weapons, and one of them was killed, the survivor, and those who aided and abetted him in the act, were guilty of murder. They were aware from the indictment, that Mr. Eliot was charged to be the person who actually caused the death of the deceased, and the offence charged against the prisoners was that they acted as seconds, and were feloniously present when the act was committed. The learned counsel then proceeded to enter into a brief detail of the circumstances under which the deceased met his death, and said there could he no doubt that death was occasioned by the shot fired by Mr. Eliot. It would he for them to state their opinions upon the facts of the case as they would he laid before them, and he was sure they would do so without any reference to the legal consequences of their decision. lie then called wit nesses. The following were examined, and gave testimony similar to that given before the Coroner's Jury :—Mr. Thomas Goto bed, Robert Matthews (waiter at the saloon,) Mr. Henry Hunt, R. Cowling (the post-boy who drove some of the par, tics from the Colonnade-hotel,) and Mi . . Edmund Scott, the sur ih e ro . nly important part of Mr. Scott's testimony, not al ready before the public, was that which related to the second, the fatal shut. At first he did not perceive that either was hit The deceased walked towards him—about six paces. He bad his left hand on his right side; and witness thinks he had the pistol in his hand. He said to witness, "1 sin wounded." He looked towards witness, and pointed to the spot, but did not speak. Witness told • him he was exceed ing!y sorry for it, and added, " God bless you." The deceased said, "Good bye, old fellow." Witness then assisted to lay the deceased upon the grass. The seconds and Mr. Eliot then walked up, and asked if the wound was serious, and he told them it was a fatal wound. Mr. Broughton also asked him what he bad better do, and witness told him be had bet ter leave the ground as soon as he could. The deceased died in about ten minutes. Nothing could be done for him. The wound was a small one, about the size of nu inch, and was such as would be occasioned by a pistol bullet. He had no doubt that wound was the cause of his death. I3y Mr. Justice Vaughan.—He had no doubt that the ob ject of the conference with the parties was to effect a reconci liation. Examination continued.—Mr. Mirfin would not hear of a reconciliation, but insisted upon having a second shot. The court.—Did you hear anything — about an apology?— Witness: I did not hear positively what occurred, but I have no doubt that Mr. Eliot offered to make an apology. This was communicated to the deceased, and he said he would ac cept of no•apology but a written one, and this being refused he insisted upon a second shot. The pistols were then again handed to them. . . . Mr. Baron Vaughan said it was a pity the seconds did not interfere and prevent Mr. Mirtin from proceeding fur ther, and have either withdrawn themselves or the principals. Examination continued.—The pistols were fetched after Mr. Mirfin said he would have a second shot. Witness told the deceased that his hat had been shot through, and he took it off and looked at it but made no remark. Another pistol was then delivere'd to each of them—those were the pistols belonging to the deceased—and they again fired upon the same signal. Eliot's pistol appeared to go off first. He dis tinctly heard the report of two pistols, the second following apnea: 11 , l r. tto Phillips b e con t sked duet e d th w e the first almost im me di a t e ly. t w h i t y n a e w s • s h c a t n h d e r r e t g h u e l adr andity, di did not he said that it did. Mr. Justice Alderson.—l believe you state that the unfor tunate deceased met his death from one of his own pistols ? Witness: He did. Mr. Baron Vaughan then addressed Mr. Chambers, and said that there had not been any proof that the prisoners were aiding and abetting.—Mr. Chambers submitted he had proved that they were sanctioning the proceeding by their presence. The court said they must be proved to be present, aiding and assisting, at the moment the shot was fired. The court did not wish to stop the case, but merely to direct the atten tion of the counsel to the material point to be proved. Henry Lee, the groom to Eliot, eroved that he saw the prisoners at the spot before the duel took place, but his evidence was not material.—Two other witnesses were called, but their evidence did not go to show that the prisoners were actually present aiding and abetting the commission of the offence.—This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Adolphus appeared to ask the court whether there was a necessity for him to address the jury ?—The court said that it thought it ought to be a question for the jury, whether or not the prisoners were present under such circumstances as to give a countenance to the act which had been committed. Mr. Adolphus then addressed the jury, and said that he was not young or rash enough to contend that the proceeding of duelling was legal, but he hoped the jury would look dispas sionately at all the circumstances of the case. He knew it was not enough to make the proceeding legal to say that great personages, both legal and others, had resorted to it, but still that would show the feeling of society, and that persons of great legal knowledge, who it might be supposed would be the first to uphold the laws of the country, had very frequently resorted to that proceeding. He begged the jury to recollect that the prisoners were charged with the crime of murder for merely being present. .The learned counsel then proceeded to mention several cases of a similar kind, and one of Captain McNamara, in which he had killed his antagonist, but the jury, believing that he had received such provocation as no man of honour could bear, tbougnt he was justified in adopting the course he did, and they acquitted him. He then proceeded to contend that there was no evidence to show that his client Webber, had any guilty knowledge of what was going M. C. Phillips then proceeded to address the Jury in a powerful speech on the part of the prisoner Young. He said that when he ca me i n t o C ou rt that m o rnin g h e did so with fear and trembling, from what he had seen published in the newspapers in respect to the unfortunate transaction with which the prisoners at the bar were identified. It had been stated—and the calumny had been most industriously circu lated through the medium of the press—that some one said to Eliot, the principal, " You have nothing to fear, it's all right," and the inference drawn from this was, that there lied been something unfair in the duel; but had anything of lhe kind been proved? On the contrary, had it not been clearly established in evidencethat everything that had taken place - had been according to the nicest rules of what was called the code of honour? The Learned Gentleman then adverted in a strain of indignation to the permission given by parties in authority to the existence of such disgraceful places as the Saloon, where the unfortunate broil which led to the fatal transaction, which all deplored, took place. The learned gentleman having closed an able and eloquent ad dress, concluded by calling witnesses. Several highly respectable persons then came forward and gave both prisoners excellent characters for mildness and general kindness. It appeared from the testimony of these witnesses that the prisoner Webber is the son of a wine merchant at the west end of the' town, and that the prisoner Young is the son of a gentleman living on his private pro perty. - . _ _ Mr. Justice Vaughan then proceeded to sum up the evi dence, in doing which he observed, that there were some peculiarities in this case which made it differ from others that had come under his notice. One of these was the num ber of persons engaged in it. The prisoners at the bar, al though present, were not called upon, it would appear, to officiate as seconds, as there were other persons present who seemed to have acted in that capacity, for they measured the ground, loaded the pistols, and gave the necessary signals; but the question for the consideration of the Jury was not whether the prisoners were seconds at the duel—for if the Jury believed that they went down to the place of meeting with the parties engaged in the melancholy transaction to further it, then, although :hey might nut have acted as seconds, by loading the pistols, or doing any act usually per formed by seconds, still they would be guilty of "aiding and abetting," and liable to all the consequences of such a posi tion. If, however, they had any doubt that either of the prisoners were present on the occasion, then they ought to give them the benefit of such doubt, and acquit them. The Jury then retired, and in about twenty minutes re turned, finding both prisoners "Guilty." The Foreman then said that he was requested by his brother jurors to say, that they were not influenced in the decision they had come to by any paragraph which had appeared in the newspapers. He was also instructed to state to the Court, that the Jury felt great abhorrence at the conduct of Mr. Scott in the en tire transaction, and their great regret that he had not been placed at the bar with the other prisoners. Mr. Justice Vaughan said he perfectly concurred in this last observation of the Jury. Mr. Chambers begged, before the Learned Judges pro ceeded to pass sentence on the prisoners, to say that the prosecutor, the brother of the deceased, recommended them to the merciful consideration of the Court. Mr. Justice Vaughan.—We intend that the verdict shall be recorded, by which the prisoners lives will be spated. The Learned Judge, then addressing the prisoners, observed, "It is our intention to recommend that you should be sub jected to a term of imprisonment. You are now in the hands of the Execttive, and any application for a mitigation of the sentence to be pronounced upon you must be directed to the Secretary . for the Home Department." The prisoners were then taken from the bar. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY..—The King and Queen of the Bel gians took leave of her 'Majesty and the Duchess of Kent this morning, and at a few minutes after ten left the castle, at tended by their suite and Viscount Torrington. Their Ma jesties proceeded to Ramsgate, whence it is expected they will embark to-morrow morning for Ostend, and thence proceed to the palace of Lacken, near Brussels. This afternoon the Queen, attended by her usuallsuite, rode in the Great Park for upwards of two hours. The dinner party at the castle this evening will be small, there being no fresh arrivals. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen took her usual equestrian exercise at four o'clock this afternoon in the park, accom panied by her august mother, and attended by Lady Port man, the Hon. Miss Paget, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. Some of the royal Carriages followed, containing the Baroness Lehzen, and other ladies of her Majesty's suite. The Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household, is ex pected at the castle this afternoon. Prince George and the Princess Augusta cf Cambridge came to town on Thursday, from Kew, attended by Baroness Ahlefekit, Colonel Cornwall, and Baron Knesebeek. Their royal highnesses returned to Kew in the afternoon. ___ Prince George of Carobridge was expected to leave Kew on Friday night, attended by Colonel Cornwall, for Falmouth, to embark on board the Braga nza. steam-packet for Gibraltar. After his stay at Gibraltar his royal highness will make a continental tour, and will travel under the title of Lord Cul loden. • ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS, &c. The Rev. Frederick Burton, B.D. to be Officiating Mi nister of the new Church, in the Old Kent-road, Loudon. Patron, the Trustees. _ The Rev. John Henry Pratt, M.A., Fellow of Caius Col lege, Cambridge, has been appointed Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Calcutta. _ _ The de.v. Richard Kempthorne, M.A. ' of St. John's Col lege Cambridge, has been appointed by Lord Glenelg to the Civil Chaplaincy of St. Helena. The Rev. Edward Holmes, of Farrington. to the Rectory of Thornbury, Devon, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Edgcombe, on the presentation of Mrs. Jane Edgcombe, of 'rhornhury, widow, the true Patron for this turn. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has appointed the Rev. Archdeacon Thorp, Chancellor of the old Diocese of Bristol, in place of the Rev. J. W. Baugh, deceased. The Rev. Thomas George James, M.A., of Brasenose College. Oxford, Perpetual Curate of Trinity Church, Burn ley, to the Incumbency of Openshaw, within the parish of Manchester. Tim Rev. W. F. Bayley, one of the Prebendaries of Can terbury Cathedral, and Vicar of St. John's, Margate, is ap pointed Domestic Chaplain to the Queen Dowager. The Rev. Gentleman, we understand, will accompany her Ma jesty on her projected trip to Malta. The Rev. Elwin Biron, A.M., Curate of Hythe, to the Living of Stodinarsh, Kent, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Charles Fielding. Patron, the Archdeacon of Canter bury. The Lord Bishop of Ripon has appointed the Rey. Wm. Clere Burges, M.A., late Curate of Northallerton. but now of Hinckley, Leicestershire, to the Vic arage o f O smot h er l ey, in the Peculiar of Northallerton and Ahertonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Brown. The Rev. E. B. Bagshawe, Rector of Eyam, Derbyshire, and of. Banner Cross, near Sheffield, is appointed a:Rural Dean for the former district. The Rev. Thomas Harvey, M.A. has been appointed Her Majesty's Resident Chaplain at Frankfort, in the room of the Rev. Samuel Lindsey, appointed to the Chaplaincy of Genoa. . _ The Rev. 3. Beavor Webb, to the Rectory of Ternpletrine, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Meade, Patron, J. C. Kearney, Esq. On Saturday last the Rev. John Little, Curate of St. Se pulchre's, Northampton, was, on the motion of Lord South ampton, seconded by the Earl of Euston, elected Chaplain to the Lunatic'lnstitution. OBITUARY. At Amsterdam, where be had been for3l years the Minister of the Scottish Church, the Rev. Alexander Macintosh. D.D. in the 55th year of his age. .. The Rev..llobert Hallifax, Vicar of Standish, Gloucester shire. At the Vicarage, Alysham, Norfolk, the Rev. Philip Hunt, D.C.L., Prebendary of Canterbury, and Vicar of Atyshain. At the Rectory House, Deal, in his 73d year, the Rey. J. B. Backhouse, M.A., Rector of that parish, and of Little Chart, Kent, and one of Her Majesty's J ustices of the Peace for Kent and the Cinque Ports. At Frickley Hall, Yorkshire, aged 76, the Rev. T. C. Bud stun Redd, Rector of Full Sutton, Yorkshire. At Eton College, Chas. Wilder, Esq. M.A„ a Lay Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, aged 30. ORDINATION. At a general ordination held on Sunday, the 9th inst. in the Chapel of St. David's •College, by the Lord Bishop of St. David's, the following gentlemen were admitted to holy orders :—Deacons : J. Cumberlege, E. D. Evans, D. F. G. Mytton, J. Lewis, T. Jones, L. H. St. George , NV. Meredith, and I. Bickerstaff, all of St. David's coll. Priests : C. D. Rees, 8.A., Jesus coll., Oxford ; W. Meyler, 8.A., Pem broke coll., Oxford; J. P Jones, W. M. D. Berrington, E. Itees, M. R. Morgan, and T. Parry, of St. David's cull. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. H. W. Wilberforce, to whom the prize of 200 guineas was awarded for an essay on the " parochial system," has generously made over the whole amount to the treasurer of the Winchester Diocesan Church Building Society. TESTIMONIALS OF RESPECT PRESENTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMEN.—We have great, pleasure in an nouncing to our readers that testimonials of respect have been presented to clergymen of the Church of England, be cause we are then able to refute the assertions of the radicals, that the ministers of the church are in nine cases in ten not on good terms with their parishioners. A correspondent has sent us the names of a few clergymen who have received tokens of regard from their congregations within the course of a short time. Let the radicals read the subjoined list, and let them blush deeply for the many falsehoods they have fre quently uttered in the most daring and barefaced manner :-- Rev. E. Auriol, from the parishioners of St. Clements and All Saints, Hastings; Rev. E. N. Carter, from the parish ioners of Ninlield ; Rev. J. K. Field, from the parishioaers of St. John's, Taunton : Rev. J. C. Orman, from the parish ioners of Brandon, Norfolk; Rev. S. A. Walker, from the •parishioniers St. Mark's ' Dublin. Remember, a cl er gy man of the much vilified Church of Ireland. Rev. E. Wilson, Master aDd Student of King's College, Isle of Man; Rev. W. 11. Hannagan, from the parishioners of Houghton-le- Spring; Rev. D. Evans, from the parishioners Dwvnnock ; Rev. J. W. Dundee, from the ladies of All Saints, and the parishioners of Portsea ; Very Rev. W. Routledge, from the congregation of St. Andrew's Episcopal Chapel, Glas gow ; Rev. E. Postle. curate of Baulburgh ; Rev. C G. 'l'. Driffield, vicar of Prescott; Rev. C. S. Wasse, from the teachers of Wayfield Sunday School; Rev. G. Hall, from the congregation of St. Matthew's Manchester; 11ev. H. Paddon, from the parishioners of Alderstoke • Rev. E. Selwyn, from the parishioners of Ruddington, Nottingham shire. After reading the preceding, are we to believe that the people of England are estranged from their national church and their national clergy ?—Morning Post. • A pension has been granted to Mrs. James. the widow of the author of "The Naval History of Great Dritaiu," and other works, MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Logan. gardener to Earl Spencer, cut a pine this week of the extraordinary weight of 941 b Herald. Elizabeth Gordon, residing in Castle-street, in this town, who had been blind for upwards of 25 years with cataract, has been restored to sight by an operation performed by Mr. Mash, House Surgeon to the General Infirmary.----North ampton Herald. NOTICE GIVEN BY A PARISH CLERK.—In consequence of the numerous burials that have taken place on the Sabbath Day, I hereby give notice, that for the future any person wishing to be buried on the Sugday must give notice on the Saturday previous.—American apex. CHELTENBANI, SEPT. 20.—Lord Segrave has presented the noblemen and gentlemen hunting with the Cheltenham staghounds, with twelve fine deer, worth at least £250. That capital pack resume their sport early in the ensuing month. Earl Sefton continues iu a delicate state of health. A pedestrian match of great interest is to take place at Lord's Ground on Monday. It is between Drinkwater and Mountjoy, the former being backed to pick up '2OO stones, one yard apart, while the latter is picking up 150 stones, the 50 nearest the basket being given to him. The contest is for £2oo.—Standard. The reigning Prince of Hohenzollern, Hechingen, who was born 22d of July, 1776, died at Hechinger) on the 12th instant of an attack of apoplexy. He is succeeded by his son Frederick William, who was born on the 16th of Febru ary, IE , OI, and who, on account of the infirm state of his father's health, has held the reigns of government for several years. It is in contemplation to hold a grand Eisteddvod, and music meeting at Abmystwith, next year, immediately before or after the festival at Worcester. The proposed meeting is to be under the patronage of the Duke of Newcastle. and Mr. Powell of Nanteos, the worthy represe'ntative and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Cardigan. . The Countess of Westmoreland, accompanied by Miss Chamberlain, the daughter of Sir Henry Chamberlai❑ Bart., embarked with her secretary and suite on board the Presi dent, at Portsmouth, for New York, on her way to Prince Edward's Isi.ind, to inspect her hereditary estates in that islaud.—Standard. The contemplated marriage between Viscount Duncan and Miss Phillips, daughter of Sir George Phillips, one of the newly-created baronets, is fixed to take place the second week after Christmas. The noble lord has been on a visit to the hon, baronet at his seat, Weston Llouse, near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.—Standard. Viscount Villiers, eldest son of the Earl of Jersey, is to be united early in the spring to the beautiful and accomplished Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox, eldest daughter of the Duke of Richmond, and grand-daughter of the gallant Marquis of Anglesea. Lord and Lady Jersey, %Om are now travelling in Italy, will return to England to be present at the auspici ous ceremony. Under the will of the late Duke of Gordon, the young lady will be entitled to a handsome dowry.— Morning Herald. LONGSHAWE LonGe.—The Doke of Rutland and his brother, Lord Manners, M.P., made several murderous di versions on the well-stocked preserves of this shooting box, the following being an account of the game killed by his Grace and Lord Manners since the 13th ult. to the early part of the week before last :—grouse, 1505; partridges, 103 brace; black game, 73. The-crop of potatoes was never known to be so abundant as it is this vear. Soap has risen a penny per pound in Edinburgh, in con sequence of the rise in tallow. " Your heel must be something better, I think," said a gentleman to a buxom lass, who had a hole in the heel of her stocking. " Why so?" she asked. " Because, Miss," re plied the gentleman, "I perceive it is getting out." A company is now forming to connect Chester with the Ormshead by railway, which will preclude the necessity of government doing any thing towards the conveyance of the mails for Ireland through Wales. The appointment of a successor to Capt. Sir William Elliott is not in the gift of Lord Minto. Lord Aurelius ileauclerk will select his own 'captain, and will write for his appointment, which cannot he refused. It is a singular circumstance that of 27 children born in the Belper district, Derbyshire, from the 20th of June to the 11th of August, 1838, there are 23 girls, and only four boys. The dispute among the committee for erecting the Wel lington national memorial continues; and Lord Melbourne, as Minister, has determined not to sanction any plan until the sense of the subscriberkat large has been taken. EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE.—A stalk of oats was pulled a few days ago, on a field belonging to the Rev. Dr. Grierson, minister of the parish of Cockpen, which measured six feet in height, and near the root one inch in circumference. Tl . )e head contained '259 grains. —Scottish Guardian. On Thursday last, a respectable tradesman of Exeter, killed in afield in the parish of Exminster, belonging to Mr. J. Wills, of St. Thomas, a viper of an unusual size; it mea sures more than two feet in length, and four inches round. There were two near the same spot, but the other made its escape.—l'llimooh Journal. EXTRAORDINARY STEAM SPEED.--The General Steam Navigation Company's superb new steam ship Rainbow ar rived at Blackwall at bait-past five o'clock on Friday morn ing from Antwerp—which city she left at a quarter past twelve on the preceding day; and of course she performed the voyage, including stoppages, waiting for pilots, &c., in seventeen hours and a quarter.—Morning Herald. METAL TuAnE..—We have pleasure in having to report an improvement in the metal trade, as connected with our manufacturing interests. Copper is now from £B7, £B9, and £9l, for the respective qualities. 'fin blocks are £B5; bars, £B7 ; and refined £9o.—Spelter is steady at £22.—Birming• ham Advertiser. CAUTION.—We understand that a number of East India rupees are in circulation, which have in many instances been passed as half-crowns. They resemble the half-crown piece, butare rather smaller, and have on the reverse "one rupee," They are worth only Is. Bd,—Maidstone Journal Hop-picking, which was last year general throughout the Worcester and Herefordshire district by the 13th of. Se ptember, has only just partially commenced. The crops are little more than half an average in many places, and the duties of the 49 persons appointed to collect the excise this year will be extremely light. Mr. Jacob Smith, draper, of Evesham, whilst out shooting on Saturday, most imprudently attempted to knock some apples off a tree in a friend's garden, holding the muzzle of his loaded gun in his band, when the trigger catching a twig, the piece went off, and lodged the contents in his left side, from which he soon expired. PROGRESS OF Ex AGGEnATIoN.—The Dublin papers have wnnderfully augmented on Monday at the meeting in Palace yard. Twenty or thirty thousand, as souse people had it on this side of the Channel, was an estimate sufficiently exag gerated; but the Dublin folk believe that they amounted to no less than 300,000. Some lies are said to be like snowballs, which increase as they roll. This lie is more like an avalan che.—Moi nb7u Chronicle. BAD NEWS FOR AGITATORS.-At a friendly meeting of the Tradesmen's and Oto Copservative Association, held at Mr. Searle's, the Peacock Inn, Kidderminster, on Monday last, 13 overatives enrolled themselves as members of the as sociation, declaring that they were prompted so to do from feelings of disgust and indignation excited by the conduct of the Unionists. Several other operatives, we understand, are also about to follow the-same example, and enrol themselves as members of the Constitutional Association.—Ten Towns Messenger. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—DUEHIV the present week much interest has been excited on the Great Western Railway by the running of two experimental trains, for the purpose of trying the strength and security of the " perma nent way," and the powers of the locomotive engines. On Illonday and Tuesday the /Eolus engine run with a train of nine carriages filled with stones and iron to the weight of up wards of 60 tons, and on Thursday the North Star commenced running with 12 carriages and 10 trucks similarly loaded, to the extent, it is calculated, of upwards of 180 tons, exclusive of the weight of the engines, which is 18 tons, The North Star accomplished the distance from London to Maidenhead in 5-1 minutes. ALBERTAZZI, MORI, AND THE GLOUCESTER FESTIVAL.— The on dit amongst the professionals touching the absence of Albertazzi from the Gloucester festival is curious. We give the story as it reached us. Mori engaged Albertazzi for two months on a provincial tour at 50 guineas per week, and therefore claimed her services for the festival, as a part of the agreement. The cantatrice was of a different Opinion ; but, as the covenant was in writing, was seized with "sudden in disposition," prior to the beginning of the meeting. The question now arises, whether she can claim her salary from Mr. Mori, As Mr. Bunn requires her services for the open ing of Drury-lane Theatre, for which she is engaged for 300 guineas per month, the violinist may perhaps be without her services for the remainder of his tour.—Musical World. Two PEOPLE POISONED.—The wife of William Chirgwin, of Breage, labourer, and her brother, were taken alarmingly ill a few days since; and on calling in a medical man, it was ascertained that poison had been largely administered to thein in their tea. Suspicion instantly fell on the woman's husband, from his having refused to partake of the tea, and from his having absconded as soon as the fact was discovered. Ile has since been taken, and has undergone an exhrnination be fore the county magistrates, but for want of sufficient proof to warrant his detention, he has been discharged. The wife, to whom he had only been married about three months, is dead; but we are happy to learn that her brother is in a fair way of reccovery. Rumours are still afloat, which we refrain from giving; but it is hoped that the perpetrator of this dia bolical act will soon be brought tojustice.—Cornwall Gazette. ANECDOTES OF PopEny.—Mr. Canning mentioned, at a meeting of the Reformation Society, held at Cheltenham, on August 10, the following facts, in order to show the necessity for operations against the Roman idolatry:—" Of late years a new town council has been appointed for Glasgow, of more enlightened and liberal principles than the old. To them the Roman Catholics said, that the bells pealed forth on the sth of. November, and that they thought it ill became these enlightened town-councillors to permit such an exhibition of old-fashioned opinions and feelings, and the town-councillors accordingly decided that the bells should not be rung on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot. The clergy said, that without disputim 4 who had the authority over the church bells, they felt it right to submit to the authorities of the town; but at the same time they met together, and resolved to have a sermon that day, on the errors of the Bowan church, and the bells rung forth a tremendous peal, to summon the people to religious worship ; and thus, while they obeyed the mandate of the civil authorities, they asserted . their own in herent. right to have a sermon on that day. 1 hope that the bells will ever ring out their peals on the sth of November, and that these little mementos of what Popery did, and is prepared to do again, will not be swept away in the liberality of the tunes, but remain us nuclei, round which our children and our children's children may rally, and which may engage them to, protest 'against the doctrines of Popery, and seek to brine its deluded followers to the power of God.—ln Paisley, the Roman Catholic priest, finding that at first things went very much against him, resolved to have a sort of contro versy : he therefore got six Roman Catholic young men, and made three of them advocate the Romish, and the other three the cause of the Protestant church. They stood up for seve ral Sundays before a very large congregation, and it always turned out that the three Protestant advocates were over come. An inquiry was set on foot, and it was discovered that it was a regular scheme of the priest; that all six were Roman Catholics, and that it was agreed that at a pre-con oerted signal the three pretended Protestant champions were to be vanquished.--I might mention another incident which occurred at Dundee, which illustrates the fact that the Ito man Catholics care not for the means by which they attain their ends. Finding that they could not obtain sufficient funds, with which to erect a chapel. they induced the man a ger of a theatre to give them a benetit.—l might mention other instances. I will name one which happened to me in Dumfermline:—l went there to preach on behalf of this so ciety, and it was announced that a Roman Catholic would stand up and oppose me. Several disturbances were made during the service; and after retiring into vestry, we were told that a man, supposed to be a Jesuit in disguise, had been haranguing the people from a tomb-stone against the sermon which had been preached, but that a Pr o t es t ant weaver h a d stood up ou another tomb-stone, and so nobly and admirably replied to him, as obliged him to scamp,,r off with all his might. This teaches us the importance of trying to provide the labouring classes with able arguments wherewith to meet the subtleties of the Roman Catholic advocates."—Mr. Can ning then mentioned an anecdote of a lady at Bath, who, by hearing one of his sermons in that city, had been converted from the errors of Romamsm to the Protestant faith. "This is an instance," continued the speaker, " of the success of what is called the controversial mode of preaching, and meets the objection, that this mode tends to exasperate the minds of the Roman Catholics, is than concili a t e t h em f or th e truth reception of the as it s in Jesus." THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Second Appearance this Season of Mr. MORRIS BAR NETT, of the St. James's Theatre, London, who is engaged for Five Nights. Last Night but Three of Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre- Royal, Drury-lane. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 25th instant, will be performed the Play of THE FOUNDLING OF THE FOREST. Count de Valmont Mr. Cooper. Baron Longueville Air. Gray. Florian Mr. \V. Howard. I Bertrand Mr. Chaplin. L'Eclair .. Eugenia.. Miss Cleaver. I Geraidinn..Mrs. Baker. Rosabelle Mrs. Tellet. After which, will be produced, for the first time here, a new Drains, expressly written for Mr. MORRIS BARNETT, and performed with distinguished success, at the St. James's Theatre, called THE FRENCH REFUGEE. Monsieur St. Pierre.. (his original character)..Mr. Barnett. Gerard Hamilton Mr. J. Ridgway. Jacob Mr. Slaiter. Lady Alice Madge Mrs. Tellet. Louise Miss Faucit. To conclude with the Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN IN SICILY. TO-MORROW, for the BENEFIT OF MR. W. H. BLAND, Lord Byron's celebrated Tragedy of WERNER. Gabor, (first time here,) Mr. Cooper, as originally performed by him in London; Werner, (first time,) Mr. Stuart; Ulric, Mr. W. H. Bland; Idenstein, Mr. Baker; Josephine, Miss Cleaver ; Ida, Miss Faucit.—After which, a variety of SONGS and DANCES.—To conclude with a new Farce, never acted here, called THE STATION HOUSE. Mil lefleur, (a Frenchman,) Mr. Morris Barnett, as originally performed by him i n L on d on ; V a l en ti ne Q u ill, M r . W; Howard ; Wheatly, Mr. Granby ; Fanny ' , addle, Mrs. Tellet; Miss Buckram, Mr. Baker. On THURSDAY, VENICE PRESERVED, MON SIEUR JACQUES, and HARLEQUIN IN SICILY. On FRIDAY, Mr. BA RN Errs BENEFIT and the Last . Night of his Engagement. Elje iitberpooi g:tanDarb. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1838. The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 5 o'clock. THE PRECURSOR AGITATION.—The arch-agitator has addressed a third lengthy epistle to the " heredi , Lary bondsmen" of Ireland, in which he deals as largely as ever in lying abuse, hypocritical professions, and gross exaggerations. After the example of his pre %lons objurgations, he deprecates the ascendancy of the Conservatives, and lavishes the most profuse com mendations upon his Whig allies. In this he displays at once his prudence and his gratitude. He hasevery reason to dread the advent of the Conservatives to power, as with that event would terminate his power and his career of successful agitation : on the other hand he has every reason to feel grateful to the Whigs, who have showered benefits innumerable upon himself and his family connexions—gratified, as far as lay in their power, his most ambitious expectations—and sig nalised their own disgrace by consolidating the autho rity of the rabid factions who acknowledge O'Connell as their leader and dictator. The "compact alliance" has been of the utmost service to the Popish party, as it has placed at their disposal all the patronage of the Irish government, and enabled them to insult over and to trample upon the Protestant interest. O'Connell, therefore, strives with might and main to support the tottering administration of Lord Melbourne and his pliable associates. It is amusing to witness the soli citude which O'Connell and the Popish priests conti nue to evince for the perpetuity of Lord Normanby's "paternal sway" over the destinies of Ireland. Pa ternal it has been with a .vengeance in reference to the Popish party. But have the persecuted Protestants of that country any reason for congratulating themselves upon the continuance of this partial paternity, which, while it hugs the plotting and rebellious to its bosom, repels the loyal and obedient from its embraces ? We think not ; and we believe the time is not far distant when the pseudo-Protestants of England—those who have basely aided O'Connell in his triumphs over their brethren—who have committed actual treason against their Sovereign—will be compelled to acknowledge that they pave been led into the most grievous error. It is to the supineness of English professing Protes tants, to their connivance at the traitorous objects of O'Connell and his rabble and priet-ridden crew, and to their support of that ministry over whom O'Connell exerts the most despotic sway, that the present tri umph of Popery in Ireland is to be mainly attributed. There is no element in the composition of the Irish agitation which could secure for it the slightest degree of success. The parties who are attached to O'Con nell are destitute of every species of influence except that which is derived from preponderating physical power They are poor, ignorant, and besotted in the highest degree. They do not consist numerically of one half of.the bona fide constituency of Ireland ; and were it not for the brutal intimidation of the ferocious priests, and for the base and multiplied acts of perjury committed by the pauper voters of that country, the "Precursors" of Ireland would not be able to return a moiety of the members for its cities and counties. How then do we account for the ascendancy which O'Connell has obtained over the destinies of Ireland? How do we account for the subjection of the Cabinet to his will ? Is it not palpably owing to the treacher ous alliance which English nominal Protestants have entered into with this blatant demagogue? Is it not owing to the yielding temerity of those members of the Established Church of England who have sacri ficed their consistency at the shrine of false liberality —of those who, dreading to be stigmatised as bigots, have not hesitated to become traitors to the best in terests of their country ? It is to these individuals that we wish to recommend the attentive perusal of O'Connell's letters "to the People of Ireland." In these epistles they will see developed, in language the purport of which cannot be mistaken, the real designs, the " ulterior" objects, of the Popish party in Ireland, and to the advancement and attainment of which the present agitation is literally "precursory." In his Third letter O'Connell states that "the time for action is come"—and that " the period for acqui escence is past." What do these terms mean in plain English ? Do they not amount to an incitement to rebellion ? Do they not point significantly to the ne cessity for physical exertion ? Is not this made more evident still by the following terms :—" At all events the time is come when we must either bow to Orange domination, or rouse ourselves into salutary exer tion Y" It is a well-known fact—a fact loudly trum peted by the Popish press of Ireland —that the " Orange factions," as the Protestants of Ireland are denominated, are already sufficiently humbled. They have no influence over the government—they are ex cluded from all share in the patronage of the adminis tration—they are treated with the utmost contumely by the very menials of the Castle—they are persecuted with impunity—they are marked out as the victims of every species of obloquy and misrepresentation—their gentry and clergy have been superseded in the com mission of the peace by the most zealous of the Popish bigots of the country. What, then, does Mr. O'Con nell want further ? What is the "salutary exertion" on which be so strongly insists? Has it not reference to the general confiscation of the property of Protest ants Does it not imply a demand for the total de struction of the Established Church of Ireland ? It is obvious that O'Connell cannot simply allude to the necessity of acquiring a party ascendancy in Ireland. He has obtained that object already. His aim roust be at something ulterior—something not yet attained. We have already indicated what that object is : we shall presently have an opportunity of demonstrating the correctness of our suspicions. The word "action," or some equivalent term, is emphatically reiterated throughout the whole of this letter of O'Connell's. He says, "Ireland once before, and only once since the Union, roused herself simul taneously into action." Again, "One thing is clear, that at present the man is an 'enemy to Ireland, who suggests to the Irish people apathy or acquiescence." Again, " We should make our enemies strong if we were torpid." All these terms plainly indicate the necessity for a physical organisation of the " people of Ireland." As to O'Connell's hypocritical dissuasives from "any criminal course," we can only say that we can best appreciate their value by .looking to the effects which have resulted from the whole course of his agitation. On all occasions he has deprecated the shedding of blood, and ostensibly advised his hearers to desist from actual violence. Is it not singular, in the face of all this parade of his aversion to any cri minal course, that crimes of the blackest dye have kept pace with the progress of his agitation ? is as clear as day-light that the advice of O'Connell is intended to be construed per contra. if it were not so, we should not have had so many murderous attacks upon the persons of ❑nofl'ending Protestants recorded in the bloody page of Irish agitation. O'Connell's definition of the best " mode of agita tion" at the present time is somewhat novel and laugh able. After stating that "patriotic, men may diffw as to the best mode of agitation," he thus proceeds to de tail his own views on the subject:— '" The manner in which our agitation should be conducted is a question open to discussion, and which may create a di versity of opinion amongst men sincerely devoted to the good of Ireland. For example, the enlightened and liberal citizens of the city of York did not agree with me as to the postpone ment for another year of the direct agitation of the repeal. They were fur instantly casting away all expectation of re lief from the British parliament, au I for organising without delay the people of Ireland in their moral strength to call for the repeal of the statute which destroyed our dornettic legis lature. I succeeded, however, in convincing or influencing them to believe that the best way to achieve the repeal :- was to bring the strength of Ireland to bear upon the British •:: parliament, with demands so obviously just and rational as to ' leave no doubt on the mind of any sensible and honest man in either country, that the refusal to accede to such reasonable , demands could be attributed only to a principle of bigoted- - hostility to Ireland and Irishmen—a principle-so inveterate as to leave no hope for justice to our native country from the British parliament—nor from any source save from a domestie! legislature. "In fact I produced in many that thorough conviction' which is strongly impressed on my own mind, that instead of postp , ning I was and am advancing the repeal by demonstra ting that, after making the most strenuous and combined ef fort which Ireland can at present make to obtain an equali sation of rights and privileges with England, all prospect of redress from that quarter is vain and hopeless. After such a demonstration not/tiny will be left for us save the repeal. " But to complete my plan strenuous and universal exer tion is necessary—combined and concentrated exertion is ne cessary. The familiar "long pull—strong pull—and pull al- • together" is necessary. My experiment cannot be complete without an exhibition of a national will for equalisation of franchises and identification of rights between the two ' • countries." Now, here we have some intimation of the real de- ' signs of O'Connell and the Popish party. The ulti mate end is REPEAL; and though he despairs of achieving this end by an appeal to the British legisla ture—though he positively asserts that the "bigoted... hostility" of the British Parliament leaves " no .hope for justice to his native country"—though he plainly intimates beforehand that leis present experiment must inevitably fail—and though he looks to " . a domestic legislature" as the only source from which he expects "justice to Ireland"—yet he strangely advises his • countrymen to agitate—to agitate for an object of which he pronounces the attainment an impossibility ! "The British Parliament will never accede to your wishes"—he says—" they , will.never consent to do jus. Lice to Ireland; but never mind that—continuetdagi tate—do not demand a domestic legislature—tdo . not take refuge in the only hope which you have befoie you." This is the puiport of his.language.• It sounds strangely we confess. It certainly appeari arty Irish sort of agitation. But perhaps the follow- , ing will convey some explanation : 7 - " In this struggle there ought to be a combination of effort. between those who deem the British parliament competent and willing to afford us justice without the necessity for re, peal, and those who deem it impossible to .obtain justice for Ireland without th e r e p ea l. The anti-repeaters o u yht to join: in our present effort in order to have the best possible chance of proving the value of the onion. The repeaters ought to. join us in order to demonstrate to England and to the world that the union is valueless, or rather, in its nature, product-,; tive of the contemptuous oppression of Ireland." Here we have the cunning of the Jesuit at work. The Precursor agitation is set on foot in order that O'Connell may compromise the anti-repealers. He now solicits their assistance in furtherance of his schemes that he may prevail upon them to commit themselves so far as to be unable to retreat, iicrn the, infatuated career to which they are urged. , He invites them to make an appeal which he pronothiC:OsW ; 6 : utterly useless, in order that, upon its failure s its may;. turn round upon them, and claim theirsuffcagcsjojii r ,,,. your of REPEAL. But it is time that we should direct our ~ttent ' rtiri to the alleged objects of the P recursor agitation.. :T.o:ust the language of the truculent demagogue hini.Self r '.. " For what shall that appeal be made ? This is u subject. on which we should understand each other. ,What for, are-: we to appeal to the British parliament ?" . - • What is his answer to this question? Listen: • , " My answer is, for the re d ress o f grea t and anendurabll grievances. Of grievances which cannot be rediedsed save by the legislature. ." Again, I say, let us understand one another—l say this . the rather, because, in the selected grievances which 1 have stated in my two former letters, there were some, I mean tho,e relative to party spirit and to the mal-administlatiOo of justice, for which redress may be given, as much redrits has been already afforded by the executive government. - 11; : therefore do not propose to include these in our liiiitilfaiie ous demand for legislative relief. Indeed, if we obtain that„ relief, the completion of the other will follow of inevitable necessity." These "great and unendurable grievances" aresul)-- sequently enumerated and dilated upon. Otir..'Spe' will not at present permit us to follow' the ~iiifitor, through all these points. We must therefore•iipt!!ir, the subject. In the meantime we would strennousik;. urge upon our Protestant fellow-countrymen, tlie;tie"' cessity of using the most persevering exetirctn:s4ol frustrate the diabolical machinations . of O'Connell.an& his " Precursors." Every victory obtained in Wand over Radical dissent, Popery, and Whiggery, is a tri umph in favour of Protestantism in Ireland. The Church in Ireland is rendered more and more secure by every advantage which the conservatives may ob tain in the registration courts. Let not this be forgot. In fighting for their own rights, the Conservatives of England are facilitating the final triumph of Protest antism in Ireland, and contributing to exterminate .the direst curse which afflicts that distracted country—rthe baneful tyranny of Popery. • - • THEATRE-ROYAL. • It is by mere chance that wo ever read any of theatriCal_. critiques of our contemporaries, for, generally speaking; it would be a sad loss of time, and, when it would not'be ge,Ove had rather form and express our own opinion of actors and. plays as they are than, by reading a good criticism, hazard of adoptin g th e tho ug ht s o f an d plagiarising 4 Conlein" • porary. Casting our eye over the columns of the Chroniclea f Smut day last, we observed the title of the Standa; d, and Were thereby induced to read the rubbish which usually aiip4r+. in the theatrical notices of that paper, and we found .that a great part of that which professed to be a critique of the per formances at the Theatre-royal was a criticism of our theatri cal notice of Friday last, wherein we thought fit to find fault., with Mr. Co o p er ' s p er f ormance o f M ac b et h . It drat el: for Us to say what consideration induced the learned critic of critics, who " does" (to use the elegant phraseology of this critic! ). the theatrical puffs of the Chronicle to bespatter its with the filth of his wrath, and apply to us the hard words'" stupid." "malignant," &e., for saying that Coopee was - ‘.'''d'rriere - re-• hearse,. of sentences." After saying that I "Chiiper' could not compass the great characters of ShakSpeare"ift'6 , were " evidently beyond his grasp," and that "•it was no woniM4 seeing that for the last twenty years be had bet:6 . '6161 secondary characters" th a t h e • could not perfertictteira . principal—after thu s com f orta bl y knocking lidOT , Th 4 OP,:E down, he attempt s to •help •hitn' up again' . 7 qfrii , r us for saying th a t h e cou ld not play Macbeth,:an 14144 " the wonde r i s th at h e i s so good, consideritigliii.:prevlOP, career!" And yet th e man w h o wr o te this chn'acdiseaitother of " giving expression to trash"! What have lei- do WO. Cooper's 'previous career? He takes upon himself, as star; to play Macbeth, and by his p e rf ormance o f th at c h arac ter . must be judged, not by a round of secondary characters , which he can play well. If any Jack Sweep, by accident , should be allowed to play Othello at the Theatre-royal, and were, as in all probability he would, to do more than murder. Desdemona—murder the whole part---be a " mere rehearser of sentences"—" like a steam•engine piston, work away without variation of expression, feeling, or'paSsion,"•ate - We therefore to puff Jack Sweep's Othello because " the wonder is that he is so good considering his previous career"— . -" se e " lug that, for the last twenty years, he has been wOrking..in totally different element And yet this is prettiSely this " genius" says—who " does" the puffing for the Chronicl e i —we are to do with regard to Co o p er ! IS it dot 'rich', the fellow who wrote such rubbish as this'iVl d ld call our critique of Friday last " trash," " m a li gnan t," ." stuldd", If it were "trash," it is indeed the "'pan' callingket l„ kettle black." But enough of our contemporaries?' It is rat .the first time we hare heard they have been peCtititiartg„:,- However, the poet's distich shall co m f or t weighty infliction— " Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,- • But, like the shadow, proes the substance-time. , e itted Our business in our the a t r i ca l notices' IS . with sik and not with o u r con t emporar i es , add hencekoith'rie leave unnoticed such " trash" at adorns the "pfag - es or Chronicle. So long as the critical editorshiplsTentruitek us, we shall give our opinions freely and 'fairly; " fear, favour, affection, or reward"—of men as ther - iii•e'4, o of actors as they perfom, without " considering thethire o . ( !e . career." This week Mr. Morris Barnett, the atithorYric,r4 is engaged, and plays in several of hi s - f avour i te piedei. visitors of the theatre will net yet have forgotten his thrilituf.. representation' of Mons. Jacques, in his drama of that nam e ' when twelve months ago he visited Liverpool. Mn. BLAND'S BENEFIL—The managers of the Theatre" Royal have consid era t e l y a ll owe d M r. B land to t ake hi s hen . q .. tit before the us ua l ti me on account of his recent berea, , ,T s meet in the tnelancho!y death of Mrs. W. IL Bland• benefit is announced for Wednesday, with the trage d Y " Werner," foll o w e d by th e d rama of "The Station 11 " use ' in which M r . M orr i s B arnett p l ays. W e heart il y w ish h ial a full house. ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, a man fell from the fig i ° ,„ "l L A of a ship in the Waterl oo D oc k, carr yi ng w ith biro weighing 32tbs„ between which and the deck hisleg crushed, the bones protruding through the skin: ii:t;eet taken by the Police to the No r the r n H osp it a l, Leeds' „.„,„ DREADFUL that ACCIDENTS.—We understand 8 the dents occurring on board steamers, were received intr . be Northern Hospital, Le e ds-str ee t, on S un d ay mo rning.- ° I. to one ease, ato the leg and thigh were literally brol l o th pices; in the other, the hand suffered a like fate. • • underwent amputation and are likely to Jo well. •41 p ri : 1 1 s t o t i n ls I , ) , o er i. e ic b E ro C u o g u h a t T u . p — c Y ha e r s g te e r d d l a v y „ , h a t t eh t ) h tl e y !T rl pal fi ti c e e r 4g , with being diso.erly ; in all 1 9 5 persons taken into cust° in one day ! • 0 1 THE . LATE EXPLOSION AT NEWTON.—We retr,f t he that since our last two other persons have died irn—ono effects of the late melancholy accident at the Viadu.ct dry, at Newton, making nine in all; and another PO! o f ltes without hope of rec o very. The f o ll ow i ng are t he name s the sufferers, and the particulars o f th e ir families: -- • DEAD. • r e. Joseph Dange r field—wife and s even c hildren ; one a cr I P • Samuel Appleton—wife and se ven c hildren; wife a criPP James Parker—wife and one child. William Wells—wife and One child. John Dean, William Dean, G eorge razakerley ! and Thomas Price—all sin g l e . HURT—NOT EXPECTED-TO RECOVER. John Wilson—wife and two children. otal< We are glad to learn that a subscriptioii- has need „rifir foot for the relief of the families of 'the itiffereis•by.ol%; estrous affair, and shall be exceedingly glad -to forwAryrim, any means in our power. Any Innis' -entrusted 0' bu,,l e p shall be handed o v er t o Messr s . -Junes, , Ewing; the employer s of th e tinforittnatelueo Athii hitile 15.61.1601