The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE CARPET AND FURNITURE WAREHOUSE. THOMAS I3RA.NCH. Has on Sale. at the HArioviza Roosts, an extensive and valuable Assemblage of Fashionable CABINET FURNITURE, of every description, Including DRAWING ItOONI SUITS, of real and imitation Rose wood, in Card, Loo, Work, Flower, and Sofa Tables, Chairs, Couches, Tea Flom, Cheftmicrs, Canterburies , and Skreens ; Elegant LOUNGING and LIBRARY CHAIRS; FOLDING CHAIR AND SOFA BEDS; MAHOGANY AwrlcLEs, In Bookcases, Secretaires, Sideboards, Chpval Skreens, Ward robes, Chairs, Dining, Card, Library, "Lao, Sufa, Pembroke, Snap, Work, and Skreen Tables, Couches, Sofas, Children's Chairs, Cots, Cribs, Chest of Drawers; Night Commodes, Bedsteps, Bidets, Hat Stands, Boot Racks, Music Stands, Stools, &c. JAPANED, STAINED, AND FANCY CHAIRS, In the greatest variety; FOUR-POST, COTTAGE, CANOI'Y, FRENCH, NURSERY, AND PRESS BEDSTEADS; Feather Beds, Hair and Straw Nlattresses; PAINTED CHANIBER REQUISITES, of all descriptions; CHIMNEY and DRESSING GLASSES; BATH o;doUT CHAIRS; CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. Also, a very diversified Stock of Brussels, Damask, Venetian, and Kidderminster CARPETING, Of the best Manufacture and newest Patterns; DR UGGETTS, HEARTH RUGS,FIGURED FLOOR AND LOBBY CLOTHS, of all dimensions, for cutting to fit Rooms, Halls. Offices, Shops, Shins' Cabins, &c. INDIA FLOOR MATS, TURKEY RUGS, HAIR SEATINGS, London PAPER HANGINGS, &c., &c. STATE OF TRADE. Such is the depression in the market for the sale of printing cloths, that several large manufacturers of calico in Stockport have conamenceed working four days a week, rather than resort to the only other alternative of reducing the wages of the weavers. There is not yet any amendment in the flannel trade at Roch dale. Business remains perfectly dull, both as it regards the manufacturing and the selling of the article. People are afraid to buy ; they know not what to expect from day to day ; there is no confidence in credit transactions, nor enough to speculate upon. The wool-dealer will not purchase for fear of a fall : the piece-buyer will net act for the like reason, and business is at a stand. Throughout the last month matters have been weekly worse and worse, and continue thus fearlessly progressing. The stock of good! in the halls at Leeds is not more than a fair average quantity a this season of the year, and consequently the manufacturers hull more firmly to their prices than might have been expected. cuasidering the dull state of the trade dur ing the last few weeks. At Halifax market list week but few sales wero effected ; the little inquiry was for the finer descriptions of merinos and plain blacks for the home trade. Trade in wool continues quite inac tive, and what business is transacted, at a considerable reduction. Wether wools being scarce, maintain their price h-tfer th-- L-Es wools. (Auer branches of our manufac- In common wade in Saddleworth, also in other districts tat I-tiding of Yorkshire, has been slightly touched by tee state of the money market, and has experienced a check. Prices have declined a little, a ud the sales, whether for home or tbreign cousumptiun, are not so numerous nor so readily effected as they were two months ago. Still there is nothing as yet ap proaching to embarrassment or distress ; manufacturers are merely pullinz in a little, and the wages of operatives (always a sure indicator) have not been disturbed ; there is merely a trifle less work fur them. STATE OP TEAU IN MANCHESTER.—The gloom which hangs over the money market in London, produces, of course, its share of effect upon the business of this town; and mercan tile transactions are generally conducted with great caution. Still, with the exception of silks and printing cloths, which are seldom in demand at this season of the year. no important branch of manufacture can be said to be suffering uudor any serious depression ; and the demand for yarn for export con tinues decidedly good. In fact, during the recent period of ex citement, the staple business of this district was generally, and with very slight exceptions, conducted on sound and legitimate principles; and we trust that the utmost evil which will be ex perienced here will be a temporary diminution of activity.— Manchester Guardian. THE CHURCH. Very seldom has the announcement of the death of a private individual possessed one-tenth part of the interest which will be excited iu every part of England, among the friends of the Church, by the intelligence that on Sunday, in the 77th year of his age, at King's College, Cambridge, departed this life, and entered upon his glorious rest, the Rev. Charles Simeon, Sen. Fellow of that College.—Standard. NEW Cll Relies, Bunr.—The subseriptions towards erecting two new churches at the east and west extremities of the town of Bury amount to £5,150 including £l,OOO front the Earl of Derby; £5OO from Messrs. Walker and Lotnax : £2OO from Mr. Hardman; £l4O from Mr. Norris, Redvales; £lOO each from Sir R. Peel ; Dr. Wood, Dean of Ely • R. Walker, Esq., M.P. ; S. 11. Haslaus, Esq. ; Messrs. G. Walker ; J. Walker; T. Openshaw; and James Openshaw. Nor must we omit to mention the sum of £54 subscribed by the workmen employed by Messrs. Walker and Co., iron-founders. The ready and liberal zeal with which persons of all classes have come forward to give their assistance to this good and necessary work affords a gratifying testimony to the charitable and religious feeling of the inhabitants of Bury. Three new churches were consecrated last week by the new Bishop of Chichester, in Sussex. The Archbishop of Yeik has just consecrated a new church at Upleathem. A handsome church, built by subscription, was a few days since open at Newhaven. The Rev. It. C. Dillon, minister of Charlotte Chapel, Pim lico, and Sunday evening lecturer at St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, has beets admitted by the University of Oxford to the Degree of D.D. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol intends to hold his next general ordination at Gloucester Cathedral, on Sunnay, the 1801 December. The Rev. John Ellis has been appointed to the Vicarage of Ebberston. The Bishop of Oxford will hold a general ordination on De cember 18. DEATH OF LORD FORBES, M.P. We regret to announce the death of Lord Viscount Forbes, eldest son of the 'Earl of Granard. His Lordship was Lord Lieutenant and M.P. for the county of Longford, which he represented since 180 G with a slight interruption, when Messrs. Halpin and Roarke sat for the county, but were turned out on petition. He was also Custos Rotuloruin and Colonel of the Militia. He was in his 521 year, having been burn in May, 1785. He married about five years ago, Fiances, daughter of the late Dr.Territ, formerly Judge of the Admiralty Court at Bermuda, by whom he has left two sons, the eldest of whom, George Arthur, now Viscount Forbes, is in his fourth year. He died at Noel House, Kensington Gore, the residence of his aunt, the Dowager Marchioness of Hastings. The late Lord Forbes, our readers will remember, was found ,insane by an inquisition, a few months since, the determining; cause of which unhappy visitation of Providence was an unfortunate accident that betel him about fifteen mouths ago, when the Noble Lord had an apoplectic attack, which eventuated in aberration of in tellect. From the first attack to the moment of his death he was assiduously attended night and day by his disconsolate widow, on whom the finger of God has been heavily laid within the last few weeks, her father having died in that time. The death of the Noble Lord creates an immediate vacancy in the representation of Longford, and in its Lieutenancy and Colonelcv of Militia. Those who knew the deceased speak highly of his many excellent qualities. He was an early and intimate friend of the poet Moore, who addressed to him one of his American epistles, from which we take the following pas sage, to show the friendship subsisting between them, and the rare and high estimate formed of his character by one who knew him well, and whose praise is beyond all imputation of motive:— " Thou, gently lulled in dreams of classic thought, By bards illumined and by sages taught, Pant'st to be all upon this mortal scene, That bard hath fancied or that sage hath been ! Why should I wake thee? why severely chase The lovely forms of virtue and of grace That dwell before thee like the pictures spread By Spartan matrons round the genial bed, Moulding thy fancy,—and, with gradual art, Brightaing the young conceptions of thy heart ?" ith i ged itt -Api ch a l i e ti s s , paving been examined, it was found water had caused by ' s - ii ti e hand that the brain was also much dis coloured,seized with a fit of apoplexy,-La;i'l'Llies, Lordship met with, when died on Sunday, and it is intended — to ' - ; em l,h e e ~N oble Lord mains fur interment in the family vault, in the county Or w"hi r crli this regretted Nobleman was so long the Representative. His Lordship was a Major-General in the army. Ile entered the service June 21st, 1791, as a Lieutenant in the 108th Foot, and was appointed one of the Aide-de.Carup to George 111. in Fe bruary, 1811.—Sun. PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17, 18.36. Per Share Alanebegter.Rolton, & Bury Canal and Railway £4B paid GI 0 e Liverpool & Manchester Railway (Ex. i Shares) 100 .... 22.0 0 0 Quarter Shares New Half Shares •. . . 47 10 0 B o lton and Leigh ditto London and Birmingham Railway 7 'l .... 132 0 0 Grand Junction ditto Warrington And Newton ditto . lOO .... 180 0 0 Kenyon and Leigh Junction ditto Wigan 3raneh ditto. North Union, late Preston and Wigan Railway . • 70 •• • • 60 0 0 St. Helens afol Rnvoqiin (lap ditto . 100 .. • • 33 0 0 Leicester and Swanninzton ditto .... . lco .... .0 0 0 Manchester and Leeds ditto :, •• • • l'i 9 6 London and Bright on Ditto (Stephenson's) 5 • • • 7 0 0 Ditto Ditto (Rennie's) 2 .... 110 0 Eistern Counties Midland Counties ditto North Midland ditto Birmingham and Gloucester ditto (heat Western ditto 30 ... • Leeds and Selby Railway too ... • Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto London and Gravesend ditto 3 12 E 0 0 0 5 0 3 2 6 Dublin and Drogheda., Ulster . . 2 10s.. BANKS. Bank of Minch, to Bank of Liverp?ol i 10 . .... 23 15 0 Liverpool Union Bank lO .... 15 10 0 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 .... 21 10 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool lO .... 20 0 0 Commercial Bank of England 5 •••• 6 2 0 Northern and Central Bankof England lO •• • • )2 10 0 Borough South Lancashire North and South Wales Bank £s Os.. 412 6 Ulster United Trades' Rank Tradesinens Bank £s Os.. 413 6 GAS AND WS. O ldham Gas Light and WaterworksATEß WORK .ClO ... , 00 0 0 Al. Helen's Gas Works 1:1!!:rt.001Coal Gan .055 0 0 "' , Pool New (las and Coke Company .....£100 New sh, '"l . . Li v , pow, , I. 3, p r emi um £7o Bootle 4ittar,nd Harrington Water Works Exchange _ . .. ..................................... . 326 0 0 ' "uildin ga Liverpool Marina A4aBaB,,UZAceNeCoEmpCaO4I.PANIES. Ocean Assurance E 0 £2s .... 15 12 6 mPany Woodside, Birkenhead, T ER/ur ' s • Ferry Company ......• r- Liverpool Steam 1103'arRock n rry 'Monk's (Woodside) Fe,-....., ................... Egremont -, ................... 5.0 .. 5 0 0 ' ....... MINES, ".. 10 0 .. 12 10 0 Kellewerris Consolidated Mines...... West Tresavean Tin and Copper ditto ~ British Silver, Lead, and Copper ditto .... 1 iverpool and Manchester Coal NEW COMPANIES .......... 9 2 2 0 0 2 5 0 1 10 0 1 12 C Liverpool Steam Towing Liverpool Fish li7elTool Theber.. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. (From the correspondernce of the Standard.) " Madrid, Nov. 3. " On the 31st of October the general-in-chief of the army of the north was with the greatest part of his forces at Villalaras, and had the intention of constraining the factions to raise the seige at Bilboa. " The faction of Gomez was, on the let of November, at Truxillo. The Marquis de Rodil had, the same day, his head quarters at Peralada de Mata; and the General Alaix, who was at Almodovar, was about to undertake his march on Estrama dura. " The faction of Sanz, after having been beaten, has return ed into the Asturias, passing by the defile of Vegarada." A letter from Bayonne, dated Nov. 7, says—" The siege of Bilboa was not raised on the 3d of November, although the fact has been inferred from the arrival of a letter from that town ; it being thence concluded that the river was free. This letter may have been brought from Bilboa to Portugalette by land, the bearer having contrived to elude the vigilance of the Carlists." The There de Bayonne of the Bth instant says that " on the 1 1 28th ult. the Carlists raised the siege, and, the navigation being open, 1,500 men arrived as a reinforcement from Santander. 'I he Carlists of Catalonia, commanded by lies d'Erolles and Borges, to the amount of 1,200 or 1,500 men, entered the valley of Aran in the night of the '2sth ult., and surprised 50 Christine.' at Esterry. Six of them only escaped; the rest were either shot or burnt to death in a barn, which the rebels set on fire. On the following day a battle took place at 'Nein', another village in the valley, and the Christinos were obliged to retire into the fort of La Vielle, where taey are blockaded by the rebels." Letters of the 2d, from Saragosa, state that the Carlists, hav ing evacuated Cantavieja, carrying their arms and baggage with them, the revolutionary general, Evariste San Miguel, took possession on the 31st at eleven o'clock in the morning. The revolutionists found the General Lopez, forty officers, and some hundreds of soldiers, all prisoners made by Gomez in the action cf J.sdraea. Villareal is occupied in observing Espartero in the Intercaciones, AINHOA, Nov. 10.—It is astonishing that, notwithstanding the infamously false intelligence given by the Paris telegraph, faith should still be placed in its reports. Thus we find, be cause this vehicle chooses to promulgate "that the Carlists have raised the siege of Bilboa," a large portion of the public ac tually believe that the Carlists have renounced getting posses sion of that place, and that the inhabitants are once more in safety ! The reverse is, however, the fact, and, or lam greatly mistaken, Bilboa ere long will belong to the Carlists. It is true that Villareal mismanaged the attack—it is equally true that the garrison has been reinforced by 1000 men, but the command is now in the hanck. of Count de Casa Eguia, and that general has declared that Bilboa must fall coute qui coute By letters from the royal head-quarters, and dated the Bth, the most active preparations were being made for continuing the siege; fresh batteries had been erected, parapets thrown up, and an immense quantity of ammunition and bombs collected. It ‘-ae aa-oeeted that the fire would be opened against " La Ban deros" the same afternoon or the neat morning. Espartero finding it impossible to force the Cellists line has returned to the valley of Mena. Colonel Wylde. who was sent by Espartero to General Evans, with orders for 2,000 of the legion to march instanter to the re• lief of Bilboa, has returned to the head-quarters of the Christino commander-in-chief, greatly dissatisfied—Evans having refused to send a singe man. The French Foreign Legion is all but disbanded. ( From the Correspondence of the Morning Herald.) BAYONNE, Nov. 10.—On the 4th inst. Don F. Garcia ad vanced upon Lodosa with four battalions of Navarre, and two squadrons of cavalry, to destroy the fort of that town. He ordered the garrison to surrender on pain of being attacked by him, and with the more success, as ho had positive information that General Iriburren had advanced with his cavalry on the valley of Mena, in Biscay, to join the head-quarters of Espar tero. The Captain-General, ad interim, of Pampe:una having been informed of this movement, ordered 3,01)0 infantry and 100 cavalry, ,:onitnanded by General I.ebeau and Don Leon Iriarte, to march from Parapeluna for I.odosa. On arriving at a short distance beyond the bridge of Obano, this column was divided into three corps, which advanced by different roads on the fortified hermitage of Santa Barbara, situate on the heights by which Maneru is crowned, and which were defended by four battalions of the Carlists, who commenced their fire on the ap proach of the Christinos. The efforts of the two enemies were nearly balanced, but General Garcia having received a rein. forcement of two battalions, the Christinos were obliged to re treat upon Puente la Reyna. Nothing is known as to the losses sustained by them. Ou the 7th a quantity of plate, from the churches of Navarre, arrived at St. Jean Pied de Port, escorted by some companies of Chapelgorris. This and some other plate, which may arrive in France, will be sold there, and the produce sent to the king dom whence it may have been sent. According to the journals, the siege of Bilboa has been raised more than mice, but the contrary is the fact, as the Carlists still surrsiund the place, and are more than ever disposed to carry it. Ou the 7th inst., a quantity of projectiles were sent to them, and that circumstance compelled the Governor to write to General Espartero that unless he cause to the relief of the place it would be unable to hold out. The bearer of the letter was arrested by the Carlists, and though it produced no effect—as Espartero had been ordered, in the apprehension of a catas trophe, not to measure his strength with Villareal—the Carlists were, nevertheless, satisfied to learn that if the place could still hold out for a few days, it must, in the end, infallibly fall into their power. To expedite the moment of the surrender, they have just opened some covered ways round the town and under its walls, and have commenced battering the only gate which can resist them; so that, in a few days, the town will fall into the power of Don Carlos. SAN SEBASTIAN, Nov. C.—Here we are, the most miserable wretches in the shape of soldiers in existence, penned in on all sides by the Carlists, and, like school boys unable to go one foot beyond bounds.. It would seem as if we had taken up our quar ters here for life, for as to our moving in any direction it is quite out of the question ; unless, indeed, we would wish, as in the Fontarabia affair, to return discomfited. Winter is fast ap proaching, and it is more than probable we shall experience once more the same privations, the same hardships, disease, and starvation, to which the legion were exposed, (and they bore it without a murmu►) at Vittoria, where no house afforded to the poor soldier a blanket, or a covering, and where the cold coo vents alone, and alike, contained the living and the dead. What are we to do ? If we look back we can only trace all the treachery•, all the heartlessness of the authorities, to the want of spirit amongst ourselves. From the very outset this was perceptible, and I fearlessly state that the whole loss sus tained by us from fever at Vittoria, and around it, may be laid at the sliur of those who were mean enough in the beginning to permit Englishmen to be degraded to a level with brutes. Did General Bernelle allow his legion to be so treated? No! he forgot not their characters as soldiers,—nor his own,—neither did he forget the honour of his country. General Le Merchant (Adjutaut-General,) left, a few days since, in the Ithadaman thus, to talk over at home the prospects we enjoy; and General Godfrey is about going to Madrid to complain and to remon strate once more with the Government as to our arrears of pay - " Oh, that we may get it." Bilboa has beers nearly destroyed by Villareal and Eguia, the Bishop of Leon planning, 'tis said, the operations. You have no doubt heard that the factions, as they ure courteously term ed here, were beaten from thence wills considerable loss. Now the fact is quite the reverse, for by the official statement of the Governor, Aaroz, to the Minister of War, liodil, the town was li'erally a heap of ruins, scarcely a house escaped damage, and one whole street was completely demolished. The truth is, that Villareal, having gained his object, which was the destruction of the place, withdrew his force after, I am free to admit, souse hard fighting ois both sides, and he is now with his staff at Her nani. The move of Villareal was both a wise and judicious one ; fur learning thatiEspartero was on his route to succour Bilboa, and Out ehoosing to run any risk after having succeeded in his attack, acted the part of a good General, and his army retired. It is a little laughable to hear of the total annihilation, about once a-week (wheu bonfires prevail, and music parades the streets iw all night,) o f th e re b e ls, and yet Villareal is at Bilboa, a Gomez travelling through Andalusia, his followers and booty increased at every town he passes. 'There seems to be no scarcity of money or cannon among the C , !rlists, as they brought into play 16 guns and two mortars at Bithou, and still offer rewards to deserters from our ranks. The James \Vatt steamer arrived here yesterday from San tander. She brings intelligence from Portugalete that the com munication with Bilboa by the river is cut off ; that the whole of the right bank and the country, including Zurossa, is in the possession of the Cartists ; and that the crew of his Majesty's frigate Castor, and others of our vessels of war, are busily em ployed fortify lug the opposite shore. Thus, so far as matters are concerued in other parts of Spain : and now for a few words as to the spot in which the "British" legion " move, live, and have being." We are still at our lines, es, every man at his loop-hole, or on fatigue, and there is chance of our being able to do any tatis. s the skeleton of the legion against the force now be. fore us. With mseff,etion in our ranks—a disaffection justifiable and warranted, from the treatment we have received—faith broken with us on the one side, our wattle unheeded, and unat tended to on the other, promises made by the Spanish Govern ment only to be violated, the positive antipathy to the English by the inhabitants of this filthy town, are circumstances so strong and so convincing, that it ••••,..,,, la- a matter of especial wonder if aught else save that feeling could be found in either officers or men. if the gov , e r u n ti m h e i n s Ugh hire, the s officer o weaklf o e u r r a w u a w n i t e s k st e i d l a g s o to u n d r e e sepdrrievsd, the labourer deprive wounded ocer of his pension, and theso h ld a i v e e r a s wwaidrdmevdthatgra tuity which justice and humanity should them— if they should continue to do so, the ih consequences vicdithe m ci u r s e t um be that the legion will adopt an alternati ve . • stances sanction—namely, that of taking from solicitation people that which should have been given without u or threat. Those who love good order, and we hope in all denominations of Englishmen, would not was to be pursued : but if it should happen, what will b e t hou g ht of the British Government giving their countenance and consent thisl such cla r course come to men being entrapped into such a service, and leaving tlreni to the tender mercies of the intriguing ministers of the Spanish nation—men without hearts, and, it is too well proved, P. without. honesty. TURKEY. CoNsTaNziNoPtE, OCT. 19.—The Porte, in its efforts to hu mour the Sultan (who has set his mind upon having a quaran tine, so as to drive the plague before him, as the Albanians, Tripolitans ' and Kurds have been d r i ve n before his victorious arms,) has been frightening us all to death by its reports of the appalling effects of the malady. The Seraskier gave it out that last week the number of cleat& which occurred in all quarters amounted to upwards of 5,600! Nearly every one believed it, and it was quite amusing to see even the boldest tucking up his coat tails, and steering through the thinly-peopled streets with as much caution as if he were visiting a 300 horse power steam engine, and was fearful of being caught up by the fly-wheel. They who are in the habit of asking for news, got only one uni versal answer—plague, plague, and snore plague ! A poor newspaper correspondent may be seen here and there— " Seeking the jewel information Even in the plague's fanged mouth;" and, like the soldier who seeks the t• bubble reputation" in that of the cannon, it is about ten to one if he finds it, or anything half so agreeable. I may be wrong, but I strongly suspect that the exaggeration embraces the whole of the 5,000; and that the 600 and odd alone represent, not the deaths of last week, but the cases. During that pet iod 153 patient s were a ll th a t were admitted into the Greek hospital; and last Monday, I happen to know that the attacks in all Constantinople and its environs amounted to 43 and no more ! It is hoped that ere long the precautions adopted, and the advanced season, will have their effect in diminishing the malady. In the mean time the wea ther continues pluguy fine, and we cannot get a drop of rain. The Sultan ordered lazarets to be constructed, and a quarantine en re,* to be commenced; but the ministers first objected to the plan, as repugnant to their religion, and that argument hav ing been overturn:A, they said they could not do such a thing without first obtaining the consent of the foro7n powers, which means Russia, who will certainly oppose the plan, from motives of personal interest. The Sultan has offered 1.:200,000 towards •t out of his private treasury. J. H. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. was summoned to meet on the 9th of November. Sir Charles Grey, Sir IL Gipps, and Mr. Secretary Elliot were about to return to England, it was presumed, with a report. The wea formation. The House of Assembly of the Upper Province ther had been very unfavourable, not only fur the closing of the harvest season, but for bringing down the backward rafts of timber, as will appear by the following extract from a private letter dated : "Quebec, Oct. 9, 1836. "About 300,0(X) feet of timber have been broken up and blown adrift from the violence of the winds out of the coves. 'There is au immense loss of property. Messrs.• Gilmour, Atkinson, Price, Baird, Farline, Wood, and Gray, and others are sufferers." _ _ The following is a comparative statement of arrivals, &c., at the port of Quebec, to the 13th of October, 1835 and 1836 : Vessels. Tonnage. Settlers. 1836 1835 Difference .. 56 27,51 16,081 Two trips, 18.36 Ditto .... 1835 The Exchange on London, for Bank Bills, was 10 per cent., on Private, 91. City Bank Shares had declined to 29; the others continued at 10 premium. Sovereigns were worth 24. 3d to 21. 4d each. LONDON LAW REPORT. COURT OF REQUESTS---KtNGSG ATE-STREET. It was a pleasing sight, on Monday morning, to observe se veral ladies and gentlemen in the inner court, and still more pleasing to record the fact, that ono gentlemen gave his card and address to several of the most wretched of the defendants, at the same time desiring them to come to him in the morning early. Among the three hundred and ten cases heard before Mr. Commissioner Dubois, and a very respectable and intelli gent jury, the following is a hap-hazard selection. Arayriteit DANIEL!—Daniel Flyn, a very knowing-looking (as far as the outline of his features went) blind beggar of the parish of St. Marylebone, was summoned by a depraved•look ing, gin-shortened Irishwoman, for the sum of 335, for thirty three weeks' attendance on the defendant, at the rate of Is, a week, board and lodging included. The cat was sadly let out of the bag in this case, and the profitable mysteries of the art of cadging developed in a manner, hitherto unknown, save and except to the veteran agitator himself, old Dan of Derrynane. Mr. Commissioner Dubois inquired how it happened that de fendant could afford to keep a servant? Plaintiff.—Wisha, me lord (said the complainant) many's the long time he's tould me he finds over £2OO a-year for beg ging; he's got the length of the fut of a mighty number of gen tlemen, and in regard of his being blind and not able to say, (see) and being altogeder no small time thrunk entirely, its them sends him the money, and I wonst tuck in a rale paper note meeself, five pounds weight. (Laughter.) Its meeself that's seen him wid scores of goulden suvreigns in his pockets, and now (less power to him !) he refuses to pay me, bekase he's got sich a world of tin, (money) its nothing he don't know what to be at wid it, except to pay me! (Laughter.) Commissioner.—Really begging appears to be a most profit able speculation! Plenty of brass in the face, it seems, is sure to attract gold to the pocket. What have you to say to this, Flyn ? Defendant (scratching his left ear, and making very curious faces,)—l've heard that bastely woman's tongue,—(laughter,') and sad is the sorrow brought to me own door that I tuck her to my house. Many's the good turn she's done to me,—(laugh ter.) She stole me a flock bed and she tuck away the tick; she stela me a pair of shoes that didn't belong to meeself; she stole a large sheet of linen that without my consint,—(laughter;) she stole me a pair of snuffers, and she stole me two pillows and tuck away the cases,—(roars of laughter;) and she stole me half a dozen of the finest knives and forks that ever was put in to mate; but, me Lord, the most bastely thing she done was leashing for two men without my consint, and wid me own soap and starch,—(laughter;) and last of all she stole, — Commissioner.—For pity's sake stop, Daniel. She must have been • capital jackall to provide so handsomely for such a lion. Do you mean to say she actually stole all these things, and that you received them? Defendant.—Me resave them !—Glad would I be;—but she stole all of 'em from me, and in regard of that I contind I don't owe her a brass fardin. _ . Commissioner.—Oh! oh! the things were taken from your establishment. Pray, sir, how do you get your living ? Defendant.—There is a great number of rale gentlemin as sists me. I make a regular collection,—(laughter.) Commissioner.—A sort of >-? , :t I suppose? Defeir:il:.—Exocrly so, I!,ord,—(laughter.) Commissioner.— ell, sir, .Itist say, begging seems to be an excellent business; and the only way we can decide upon this knotty question is, for you to put a value on the goods you have lost, and we will allow it as a set-off. After a long squabble between Daniel and his ex-handmaid en, it was decided that the rint-seeking " Daniel" of Maryle bone, should hand over 10s, with all costs; and he immediately pulled out a bag of money and was about to pay, but was in formed that it was not required until Wednesday next. " I shall pay it with considerable pleasure, Sir," said Dan, and groped his way out of court, followed by the termagant plaintiff, who, dissatisfied with the amount awarded to her, vow ed vengeance upon Daniel the little; and the beggar man was very efficiently clapper-clawed before he was out of the precints of the court. MEXICO. Despatches, dated the 30th or August and 6th of September last, have been received by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Mr. Pakenham, his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, and Mr. O'Gorman, his Majesty's Consul General in Mexico, con taining decrees, of which the following are translations : " GOVIRNNIENT OF THE DISTRICT. " EDICT. "JOSE GOMEZ DE La CORTINA, CITIZEN, COLONEL OP THE BATTALION OF COMMERCE, AND GOVERNOR OF THE Dis- TnICT. "The following decree has been communicated to me by the Secretary of War and Marine : " His Excellency the President ad interim of the Mexican Republic has been pleased to address to me the following de cree : " The President ad interim of the Mexican Republic, to the inhabitants thereof, know ye, that the General Congress has decreed as follows : " While the uegociations pending with her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain for the recognition of the independence of this country are being definitely arranged, hostilities with that nation are suspended; and the government is hereby em powered to regulate its dispositions with respect to commerce, without exceeding the basis of reciprocity. " MIGUEL VALENTIN, - President. " 1 ATENOGEN ES CASTILLERO, Secretary. "` RAFAEL DE MONTALVO, Secretary. " Wherefore, I command, &c. " Mexico, August 27, 1836. "`JOSE JUSTO COUR°. " To Don Jose Maria Tornel.' " Aud I communicate it to you for your information, &C., " TORNEL. "To the Governor of the Diitrict. " And, that all may know it, I order that it be publabed by edict in this capital and throughout the district, being placarded in the accustomed places, and distributed to those charged with the observance of it. " Given in Mexico, this ',nth day of August, 1836. " JOSE GOMEZ DE LA CORTINA." " DEPART:MO.4T OF FIMANCE.—SECII: , N I. "His Excellency the President ad interim of the Republic has been pleased to address to this department the decree which follows: " The President ad interim of the Mexican Republic to the inhabitants thereof, makes known that the General Congress has decreed the following : " Art. t. The tonnage duty, which the law of the 16th of November, 1527, imposes upon foreig❑ vessels, when once paid by them at the port of delivery, neither ought to be, nor ought to have been, exacted from them in any other port to which they may proceed, and may have proceeded, for any purposes permitted by the laws. " Art. 2. Neither shall said impost be exacted from distressed vessels which may be driven involuntarily into any port of the Republic, provided always that the fact is satisfactorily proved. " 'MIGUEL VALENTIN, President. "'JOSE R. '.HALO, Secretary. "'AT ENUGENES CASTILLERO, Secretary. " Wherefore, I order, &c. " Mexico, Aug. 31, 1836. " JOSE JUSTO CORRO. "And, for the due observance of the preceding law, his Ex cellency the President ad interim orders that, with respect to the vessels which may be circumstanced as mentioned in the first article thereof, the authorities of the respective maritime custom-houses forthwith proceed either to cancel the bonds exacted by them from the parties concerned, fur the payment of the duty in question. or to refund to the said parties what they may have recovered from them, making the proper entries of the same, and informing the Supreme Government ir. the manner pointed out by the superior orders upon the matter. " I communicate the above decree to you fur your information and guidance. " God and liberty. " Mexico, Aug. 31, 1836. "J. DE LA FUENTE." FOREIGN MISCELLANY. COPENHAGEN, OCT. 24.—A royal resolution of the 17. h of this month, has been published to the army, by which-the pu nishment of flogging is abolished in the Danish army, anc im prisonment with bread and water substituted fur it. As thepro posal for the abolition of this punishmeut in the English army has given occasion to so many debates in Parliament, the ex ample set by the Danish Government may be interesting. The same resolution orders that blows with a cane are to be applied only in a few cases, which are stated.—Frankfort paper. CHRISTIANIA, OCT. 31.—The Storthing has granted 12.7,400 dollars species to complete the King's residence and the depen dencies, and authorised the Government to purchase !lateral houses and pieces of ground, in order to make a suitable ap proach to the palace. SWITZERLAND.—BASLE, Nov. s.—This morning, at 7 o'clock precisely, a violent shock of an earthquake was felt here, which was quickly followed by another less severe. It appeared to proceed in a direction from south to north. During the night the barometer fell suddenly, and the wind changing to the south west produced a rise in the thermometer. In the night of the 28th and 29th Oct., a smart shock was felt at Tarnes.—S3me time since, an old man, upwards of eighty years of age, hating inflicted a mortal wound on an individual, suddenly disappear ed. A few days afterwards, he was discovered in a granary, concealed behind a heap of corn. His first impulse on finding himself discovered was to demand something to eat. He had been for five days without tasting any thing but his own water. His strength, which was already impaired by age, soon sunk under the agitation caused by the accident, and he died a few days afterwards in the prison. Downy or THE NEW QUEEN OF NAPLES.—The fortune of the Arch-Duchess Theresa, has been fixed by the Arch-Duke Charles, at six millions of florins, or about £600,000, which will be paid into the King's hands. This large sum comes altoge ther firm the Arch-Duke's private purse, which is estimated at from 20 to 25 millions of florins, or two millions and a-half ster ling. It is stipulated, however, that the King of Naples is to vest nearly one half of this dowry in the purchase of landed pro perty in Naples, which is to he taken in the Queen's name. The Journal du Haut et Bar I?hin states that the Rhine has risen upwards of eight feet within the last two or three days.— The coup d'ceil is magnificent. The French journals announce that the Emperor of Russia has at length positively acknowledged the kingdom of Belgium. BERLIN, Nov. 7.—According to two letters from St. Peters burgh, the pain in the chest which the emperor suffered, and which gave no grounds whatever for uneasiness, was considered to Le only the consequence of his late accident.—Hamburgh paper. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 4.—The Norwegian government proposed to his Majesty on the 13th ult., that in addition to the 120,000 Hamburgh banco marks which are to be employed in loans, for the assistance of merchants to facilitate the supply of the coun try with corn, 500,000 marks more shall be allotted for the same purpose and on the same terms, and that his Majesty's com munication respecting the measures adopted in consequence of the failure of the crops be laid before the extraordinary Star thing. His Majesty has been pleased to assent to this proposal, hut that the consumers, who already suffer from the failure of the crops, may be further burdened as little as possible. His Majesty has ordered that the merchants shall be charged with no higher interest than that usual in Norway, viz., 4 per cent. —Hamburgh paper. The Journal du Frankfort, of the 11th instant, announces that the Sovereign Prince of Reuss Greitz died at half-past eleven in the morning of Oct. 31, after a long and painful illness, in the 47th year of his age. Having no issue male, he is succeeded by his brother Prince Henry XX. PRINCE POLIGNAC.—The Senfinelle. Picarde says that Messrs. de Polignac and Guernon Ran vine will probably quit the for tress of Ham on the let of January at latest. This indulgence, adds the Serttinelle, will be demanded, not by the prisoners themselves, but by their relatives and friends, as appears to have been the case with regard to Messrs. Peyronnet and de Chante lauze. Ressime TRADE.—The number of vessels that arrived at Cronstadt, the port of St. Petersburg, from the Ist of Jan. to the 13th inst., was 1140; departures 1102. • A letter from Lyons states that the inundation came on so sud denly, that the grooms and horses of the circus, on returning from their evening exerrises, could not get into their stables. This scene of desolation appeared to give great uneasiness Wan elephant who formed part of the troop, and which was very dif ferent from its usual mild demeanour. A letter from Havre represents the increase of the commerce of that port to be so great that the formation of a new dock has become indispensable. Sr. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 2.—ln consequence of the violent storm from the north west, on the night of the 28th of October, the water in the Neva and the canals rose six feet eight inches above its usual level. Part of the Isodes bridge and of the Troizky bridge was carried away, so that the communication between tbo two banks of the Neva is now confined to boats. In all the lower parts of the city, even i s the Million, much damage was done. We learn also that some boats were run ashore. Joseph Bonaparte will return to America next spring. He has ordered his house at Borden town to be ready fur him by that time. DEATH OF CHARLES X.—Letters from Goritz, near Prague, in Austria, are said to have reached Paris, by which the death of Charles X. is announced. This event is said to have been herei g he eo by an attack of cholera. In consequence of the late heavy wins, the Rhone, in France, has risen to a height which has not been witnessed since 1812. Very considerable injury has been done to houses and property lying upon some parts of its banks, at Lyons and other places, by the overflow. At. Paris, too, the Seine had overflowed its banks, but by the last accounts the waters were receding in both streams. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. We have received a EtilABl; EastlND l lE nd S ia . pap which the follo e w o 'ing are extracts : A: deputation of the merchants waited on di r d s A to uc t k h by aPpointment July, fioinlean2dls3t,eos.f intro duction of the warehousing syste;n r ' terday morning, respecting the proposed expressed himself as generally not think that it could be indiscriminately into Calcutta. favourable ln tothe but did ported articles at present. Ile proposed b system,lii s t lo a r l d l s i i: r i appliedalo in the first place, tea, coffee, spices, wi -nes, spirits, metals, and woollen goods to be bonded ; and after a fair trial ~f theplan to e xtend it, as may be found useful t o t h e trade of the port. P . The only difficulty at present appears to b e the want of a sufficient number of good and secure warehouses in a convenient position for the inspection of the of f icers. Some of th e gentlemen sug gested that detached warehouses belonging to individuals might he surveyed and approved for bonding warehouses, as in the English outports, but there appear to be objections to this in Calcutta, at least on a first trial of the bonding system. None of the merchants seem to expect that an immediate ef fect of importance will be produced upon any branch of the trade of this port by the facility that bonding will afford to the re-shipment of goods, but they think that it may ultimately lead to a very considerable extension of the general commerce of the port, and that the experiment is at any rate worth trying. It is Pleasant to find that the government are throwing no obstacles in point of form in the way of what may be considered an expe riment on the revenue, and we think the merchants are obliged to the Governor-General in this instance, as well as in that of the new Tariff, for the attention which he has bestowed upon - and the readiness with which be has yielded their suggestions to their wishes.—Bengal Hurkura, July 6. A meeting of the Armenian inhabitants of Calcutta was held on Saturday evening, the 2d instant, at the a p ar t ments o f t h e National Institution. Upwards of 100 Armenians were present on the occasion, when the following resolution was proposed and adopted : : be presented "That a respectful petition . by the Armenian inhabitants of Calcutta to the Right Honourable the Governor- General of India in Council, humbly bringing to their notice the disabilities under which they are labouring. and praying the re cognition of the rights and privileges granted to their ancestors by the East India Company in an agreement of 1688."—Cal curia Courier, July 6. CANADA. The accounts from the Canadas reach down to the 21st October, Politividly do not add mucit to ou:7 previous in. THE CONTEMPLATED RURAL POLICE. A circular, containing the following list of queries, has been issued by the commissioners appointed to inquire into the for mation of a rural police, and transmitted from their office to the magistracy of England and Wales. The return of the an swers must be sent under cover " For the Constabulary Force Commissioners." Where any magistrates of the petty sessions may be desirous of answering any questions individually, those answers should be distinguished by the initials of the magistrate making them. 1. What is the extent and supposed population of the division for which you act?-2. What number of acting magistrates re side generally within your division?-3. State as nearly as you can the number of felonies and misdemeanours committed dur ing the last twelve months within your divisiod.-4. What pro portion of the offenders has been apprehended ?-5. Do the constables apprehend offenders without being specially applied to fur that purpose ?-6. To what causes do you ascribe the failure to bring the offenders to justice, and how such failure has been ascribable in any cases to the inefficiency of the con stables ?-7. Are there any, and what, peculiar facilities or in ducements to the commission of crime within your division?- 8. By what means, as you conceive, may they be removed ?- 9. In case of depredation, in your division, is escape with the property easy, and is such property easily disposed of?-10. Is there reason to believe that the depredations committed within your division have been committed by persons who do not re side in it; if so, what place or direction are they supposed to come from?-11. Are there within your division any lodging- , houses for tramper!, vagrants, or mendicants, of any peculiar inducements to vagrancy or mendicancy?-12. Are these lodg ing -houses frequently inspected, and by what officers ?-13. Are offenders frequently apprehended there ?-14. Are there within your division any persons who have no visible or known means of obtaining their livelihood honestly, and who are believed to live by habitual depredation, or by illegal means ? Will you state the numbers and supposed habits of such persons ?-15. Are the beer-shops or public-houses within your division the subject of complaint, and are they, in point of fact, ill-con ducted?--16. Since the year 1829, have there been any riots or tumults within your division ; if any, describe them and their supposed objects?-17. Since the year 1829, have there been any firee within your division; if so, specify their natuie, and whether they were suspected to have been wilfully caused, and what were the effects, so far as relates to the loss of life or pro perty ?-18. Was any efficient assistance rendered by the con stables in arresting the progress of the fires, or in apprehending the offenders ur suspected persons P-19. Since the earns period, have there seen any malicious injuries committed on cattle, or other property ; and if so, what number ?-20. Is there reason to believe that offences of any description within your division are much more frequent than any official information would give reason to suppose ?-21. What is the number of constables in your division, and how are they appointed?-22. From what class of persons are they usually selected, and are they per mitted to provide substitutes?- ° l3. What description of per sons usually sworn as substitutes?-24. What is usually paid them by the principal ?-20. Have the persons serving as sub stitutes any other emoluments or inducements to serve the office ?-26. Have constables or other substitutes a competent knowledge of the law with relation to the duties of their office ? --27. Are their connections or interests such as might tempt them to connive at illegal practices, or cause them to be less active than they ought to be in the performance of their duty ? -28. Can you ascertain by examining competent persons who have served the office of constable, what is the annual cost on the average to the public and the individual of the services of a constable during the year?-29. Does any nightly patrol ap pear to be requisite within your division?-30. Do the high roads within your division require patrolling ?-31. In the case of the commission of any offence, are there any public means of promptly spreading information or of pursuing the offender ? -Describe the means and specify the extent of district over which such information can be carried, in what time, and at what cost?-32. In case of the occurrence of any riots, or tu mults, what means are available for their suppression and the apprehension of the offenders ? and do you find any difficulty in securing the prompt attendance of a sufficient number of per sons to act efficiently as special constables for the protection of your division ?-33..1n case of need, are there any, and what, means of co-operation between your division and other divisions in the same or different counties?-31. Are there within your division any, and what class of persons, such as army pension ers or others who may be relied upon for trust-worthy service as special constables ?-35. Is any difficulty or delay experi enced in the service of warrants, or the execution of processes, or in the performance of their duties, civil and penal, by con stables as at present appointed within your division ? If so, specify the difficulties and their consequences.-36. Do any delays or obstructions arise from constables being restricted from acting beyond their immediate district ?-37. Are there within your division any and what number of officers paid to keep the peace, or give their whole time to their duties as con stables.? If so, state what is the whole expense of maintaining t h em , including their salaries and equipments, the authority under which they are appointed, and the fund out of which they are paid?-38. On the apprehension of any offender, to what distance is it requisite to take him to a magistrates?-39. hn case a prisoner is remanded for further examination, in what place and manner is he secured ; and to what distance is it necessary to send him to a place of legal confinement ?-40. I a case he is committed for trial, what is the distance of the prison to which he must be sent, and what is the expense of his being sent thither, including his maintenance ?-41. Is any, a nd what part of the procedure before trial the subject of com plaint on account of trouble, delay, and expense ? If so, specify their effect in inducing persons to withheld information or otherwise ?-42. Supposing it desirable to appoint paid consta bles to give their whole time to the performance of their duties, what other useful functions might be assigned to them ?-43. How many - paid constables do you consider would be requisite in your division ?-44. Are there any voluntary associations for the protection of property, or the prosecution of offenders, in your division ? If so, describe them, and state their effects in preventing crime. Is there within your division any voluntary association for the suppression of vagrancy and mendicity ? If so, state its effects.-46. What proportion of the expenses now i n curred by the public in the appreh ens i on an d p rosecu ti on o f offenders do you conceive might be saved by the establishment of a more efficient preventive force ?-47. Do any, and what additional means appear to you to be desirable in sour division for incieasing the actual security, and the sense of security, to persons and property ?-48. Have you any further information to give, or suggestions to offer in furtherance of the objects of this commission? THE PoTTICII!S.—We regret to learn that there is not the slightest probability of the differences between the manufactu rers and their w•orkpeople being adjusted. On the contrary, there exists a most determined spirit on both sides; the one will not yield, the other will not retract. The turn-out is now become almost general, and nothing but complete victory will satisfy either the masters or their wo►kpeople. It is lamentable to contemplate the privations that must ensue to thousands, thus directly or indirectly deprived of the ordinary means of subsistence, and at this season of the year most especially.— illaccile , field Courier. Zbt Eiberpool et4tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18,1836. FRANciz.—The conflicting information received from this country respecting the organization of the late plot —its resources—who are, and who may be, implicated in it; and how far it evinces the instability of the present government, leaves us every thing to conjecture. One paper says that all which is asked of Napoleon is self expatriation, whilst another declares that judicial investi gations are daily going on, as if law and not mercy was intended. We think that they evince great political short sightedness, who mistake the imposing mildness of the government for gentle forbearance. It is a bait that may lure the rebel from his obscurity, and enable the hand of justice to reach the delinquent that would otherwise escape. We are assured, that all things are not right in France. Another Fieschi has been seized, named Emile Chaperon ; and in his lodgings was found " an infernal machine," constructed for the same purpose as that lately levelled at the King. If " one swallow does not make a summer," yet, when we see them quickly succeeding each other, we know that genial season is at hand. Let the proverb admit of a moral and political application. TURKEY.—The uncomprorni sing firmness of the British government, which demanded the dismissal of the Reis Effendi of the Grand Porte, for his violation of the law of nations, in the case of Mr. Churchill, has, we think, stopped short of that full retribution we had a right to expect. The honour of tile British Ambassador is fully recognized, but the rights of a British subject are still infringed. We think, if there was policy to demand such a visitation upon the guilty agent, there was a louder voice pleading for recompense to him who had suffered wrong. But, it appears from statements made by a resi dent at Constantinople, that the latter was frustrated, if ever attempted, by the machinations of Russia. SPAlN.—There are few authenticated documents from this country, and we cannot attach great confidence to " private intelligence "—men may tell what they see, or repeat what they hear; but, what a man sees is little, and what he hears is doubtful, and neither are worth the record of a public journal. For information of this kind we must refer our readers to our extracts from the press. From private information, we learn, that a project is in gestation for the establishment of a Joint Stock Bank ing Society in London, the parties to which are required to be holders of £2,000 shares, and those shares not transferrable at the absolute will of the holder, but sub ject to the sanction of a committee, as to the eligibility of the transferree. The express object of this company is to unite men of real capital and character together, and to obviate what they complain of as a commercial evil, the "deposit system," which occasions the stagnation of many millions, (at least ag regards the mercantile in• terest) in order to secure a facility in negotiating paper. Whether such a fettered investment will readily be made. and whether personal responsibility will be found an ade quate guarantee in such transactions, we do not feel our selves called upon to determine. But it does seem to us, that beside the pecuniary security offered under the pre sent system to the bank proprietors, the deposits are also a source, and a chief source, of their profits. A company of merchants thus united, who look for no gain from banking, may, perhaps, be willing to dispense with these profits. The project will, probably, soon be before the public, and bankers will feel a deep interest in its issue. After a short interval parliament will again be assem bled, and it will be well for the country if its delibera tions, when assembled, be directed and confined to questions of national import. For a very considerable time the public mind seems to have lost sight of those great and paramount objects which are of positive inter est to its welfare, and to have entered, with almost inexplicable zeal and fatal enthusiasm, into angry con tentions respecting points of mere speculation, which, however exciting in the pursuit, like most other game, is worthless in the acquisition. For some years the country has rung to dissonance with the vague cry of reform. They who felt evil of any kind abandoned every other hope of alleviation but that which was to be af forded by reform. Was a man embarrassed in trade, reform was to supply custom and bring back prosperity; —did the artisan find his labour of less value than for merly, or his employment less regular than heretofore, it all arose from the want of reform ;—and the merchant, who saw his vessels losing winds and tides without a freight, or freights without profit—reform was the charm to add wings to commerce, and to restore all to activity again. In tine, reform was that wished-for panacea which was expected to remove every cause of complaint, and to bring about a political millenturn. when nothing could be refused that was asked ; and hope could not riot in expectations too extravagant for gratification. The sun of reform has risen upon us—has reached its meridian—paned the tropic of effulgence, and seems likely, as long as it continues to shine, to shine with a purer and ' m ilder equinoctial light. And what bene ficial change has it effected ? What exotic principle transplanted from the soil of revolutionary France has it caused to germinate, to grow, to fructify among ua ?- A Nov. 18, 1836. plant of gigantic stature was promised ; but England is not yet a Libanus of infidelity and misgovernment suf ficiently fertile to sustain the cedar of rebellion. Per haps among those who have most zealously promoted innovation under the guise and habit of reform, there are some who have been prompted by the best intentions; as infidelity itself has had partisans that were sincere. But the disease of the country was not understood by its political physicians ; and hence they have been applying remedies that have only occasioned violent exacerbations, but no relief—have added to the fever of discontent without quieting one symptom of the disorder. To the bloated carcass of dropsied radicalism they have freely ministered potations, in order to abate its raging thirst; under which treatment the disease has become more ag gravated, and now presents any thing but a favourable prognosis, except it be committed to time and rest under the kind care of conservatism. Look at the writhings of Sir John Campbell and Mr. Gisborne—two desperate paroxysms which, like physical diseases pre. ceding dissolution, were marked by extreme fatuity of mind. Surely reform has had a trial beyond the Appro bation of prudence, and in the meantime the main gues s tions of public policy have been forgotten. What has been done respecting our commerce ;—our complicated international compact with other countries ? What re gard has been paid to the policy pursued, and now pursuing, by Russia ? What of our opening and ex panding views in Turkey ? What even with regard to France—a country capable of being seen from our shores, though neglected in our councils ? All, all are lost, or absorbed in the party cry of reform! The tnetchant, whose eye should range over the whole habitable world— who should study the peculiar wants of all nations—be conversant with the manufactures and prod4ctions of every section of the earth—intimately acquainted with the manners of all people—with the fiscal laws and com mercial customs of every island and every port into which his vessel can enter—now runs from shop to shop to im portune a vote for a town councillor, or, quitting his counting-house and his ledger, runs to make a speech at a municipal committee, where, after all, like the Ghost in Hamlet, " he speaks, but says nothing ;" or, perhaps, instead of corresponding with the four quarters of the globe, he pens a " motion" about the scite of a spot to receive the gatherings of a scavenger. We do not wish to throw constitutional questions into the back ground, nor to narrow the exercise of legitimate rights. But we do not want to see the political picture daubed all over with reform, and then be told that all good policy lies concealed beneath it; as the painter, desired to represent the destruction of Pharoah and his host, covered the canvas red, and added that the Egyptians were all buried under it. We do most ardently desire that this enlight ened town may speedily return from its political aberra tions, and assume that high mercantile and intelligent character it once sustained—a town whose " habitans sont les plus fameux marchanda qu it y ait dans l'nni vera," in which " tons les eitoyens s'appliquent au corn melee, et leurs grandes richesses ne les degoutent jamais du travail necessaire pour les augmenter ;" and would that we could add with truth that high and honourable commendation given to the citizens of Tyre—" Nous n'y voicons point comme dans les villes de la Grece des homilies orsif et curieux qui vont chercher des nouvelles." Though we differ, politically, even upon fundamental questions, from many of the most respecta ble members of our town, and in this point we re cede from each like similar poles of the magnet, yet, in the more delicate and personal questions of social and commercial interest, we hope to resemble those poles which ever seek each other, and adhere together by a law of nature, never to be broken by the clamour or the zeal of party. We, therefore, call upon the intelligence of Liverpool, and, if our voice should be heard further, we call upon every one connected with the prosperity of trade (using that term in its most comprehensive accepta tion) to unite their energies to promote the common in terests of commercial Britain. And, no longer to imitate the madman, who first set his house on tire, and then rushed into tire midst of the flames, not to secure his. parchments or his plate, but to save some fantastic article of furniture that decorated his rooms. Let a vigilant eye be cast on the proceedings of Russia. Whilst we are tearing out the very entrails of England with civil . discord, she is coolly prosecuting the means of national', aggrandisement. She watches the moments of our po litical slumbers, and, craftily, adds to her " tariff" the expressive word " prohibited " against articles of British manufacture—and when we wake, after the disturbed dream of reform, not refreshed but exhausted, we find. that we have been neglecting our best interests—that we have been pursuing a political phantom at home, un til we have lost onr commercial influence abroad. There is nothing of which we can complain in this policy of Russia. She is guided by that principle which govern& the world—self-interest—and if we are negligent of our own, " the fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." There seems to be, at this moment, an extraordinary comprehensiveness of view in the coun cils of this northern aspirant. She evinces that pene trating sagacity which accompanies the exercise of " a large discourse, looking before ; " and by well-arranged provisions and accurately calculated anticipations, lays the foundation of her future greatness; whilst every day adds consummation to some part of her plan. Turkey is just without her grasp. The Russian eagle has more than once opened her talons to seize the prey—but the fit season is not arrived. She will first, either plume her self with a stronger pinion, or cut off the supply of some nourishment from her victim, before she ventures to pounce upon it. On all this we look in unimpassioned unconcernedness. What medical men affirm of physical disease, seems equally true of mental excitement—two violent actions cannot simultaneously exist in the body —and we are labouring under the paroxysm of reform— we behold these designs of Russia with as much indiffer ence as if there were no involution of our interests in them. " What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba ? " is the language of silent commercial Britain. We, we are occupied about questions, which demonstration itself can prove (and, if spared, we will shortly undertake the de monstration) to be incapable, however solved, to me liorate, in any sensible degree, the condition of England —aye, even if all that is asked by the maddest reformer, and that ten times multiplied, were granted to him. It is a most unhappy circumstance, as repugnant to common sense, as it is opposed to just principle, that political zeal should be converted into a kind of leaven to throw the whole of the social, the commercial, and the political mass of society into a destructive fermentation, which, if continued, threatens to evolve a spirit that will prove the cause of the common ruin of all. It has already greatly paralyzed the energies of our country—converted the ex change and rialtos of our land into arense of civil discord,. We know, experimentally, what were the first accompani ments of this pernicious rage for reform, for we have heard the note of expectation sounding at its highest pitch, whilst the bill proclaiming the fate of England was in its progress through Parliament. We hare seen con gregated multitudes waiting with anxiety the arrival of the mail, as if to hear the announcement of renewed " saturnia regni;" golden days, unknown to toil ; and plenty, ample as their wants, about to return—whilst one, with stronger lungs than his fellows, has climbed the lamp-post, at night, to proclaim the latest piece of intel ligence. We have seen the insolence of unbridled hopes, and the reckless profligacy of anticipated independence, which flattering, delusive reform inspired. And we have seen, too, this restless multitude " embrace the cloud" —have observed the violence of political intoxication succeeded by sober reason—and the same men, who were mad before the birth of reform, become gradually more calm, when they beheld the first movements of that " nron strum horrendum," the distorted changling of their dis turbed imagination. We now, happily, see, in the just words of a correct and elegant writer, "what a change in public feeling have supervened in five short years.. Then it was almost rashness to avow conserva tive princi ples • now we are surprised when we meet a man of edu. cation who disputes them. Then, and forfime imme rnorial, young men were almost universally liberal; they are zealously conservative. Theis tire Churci seeme d at the mercy o f h er enem i es; no w they tremble to attack her. Then the Church in Ireland, upon which, God, we must chiefly rel y to extirpate popery, was Noi ignoratt to destrc ruins, n cha ll chars tutor s w an d we v crimes 0 to Speak 'lnd by 1 is uncha fusion o coroititu ling to to One AoP.ry, tion vd, indecisi she rnui are of a pier Sti' the att men in THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, The Public is respectfully informed that an arrangement has been made for Foul: NIGHTS ONLY, with the celebrated Miss KELLY, late of the Theatres Royal Drury-lane, Covent-garden, and English Opera House, who will make her appearance here This EVENING, (Friday,) the 18th instant, being her FIRST and Fa nawaLL VISIT to Liverpool, as Miss Kelly's performances, after her engagement here, are intended to be confined to the boards of her own Theatre in the Metropolis. THIS present FRIDAY Evening, the 18th instant, MISS KELLYJL will present au entirely Original Entertainment, arranged by herself, entitled DRAMATIC RECOLLECTIONS, WITH STUDIES OP CHARACTER, which has been received with unparalleled success in London, and in all the principal Theatres of the sister kingdom. PART I. Introduction—difficulties in going alone—Stars. STARS ! Feminine Advice—Lady Savage, het Dogs and Daughters— Mrs. Parthian : obliviscent eminiscences—Biographical Glances—Early Patronage—John Kemble—Pincushion and Crown Piece—Girlhood and Womanhood—Debateable Land— Macadamized Music—A Receipe. BRAVURA. Discomposed by Mr. T. Cooke. Mr. M‘Credit : a sweet expression --Hints and Compli ments—A Theory—Mrs. Siddons—Constance's Tears—Sally Simpkins, in Service, but out of Place—Country Engage meuts—Costume—Yarico's Skin—The Spinning Wheel—One good turn deserves another—Orchestral Absentees.—Song — Hope told a flattering," in D. With a disbanded Flageolet Accompaniment. P•RT 11. Journeying—Welsh Harper—Modern Plagiarism. Song—Welsh Air. First introduction to Irish Character—Scotch Woman — Terence and no Classic—Car's Tour—Dublin—The Peggy ! Nell's Laugh—lrish Kindness—O'Donnell's Farewell. " Getting up a Benefit." Mrs. M iffy's Piano-forte, and Mr. M iffy's Letter-forte—Coach Pathos and Minute Interview—Public Characters—Mr. and Mrs. Drake of the Profession—Comparative Anatomy. PART To consist of a Mono-DraMaticEntertaininent, displaying Sketches of Character, in Colours, entitled MRS. PARTRIAN AT 1-10M11. The Music selected from the Compositions of Mr. T. Cooke. Sally Simpkiu (with snatches of Ballads and a very original Kit-Cat Song)—Miss KELLy Parthian, (as well as her memory servos her) Miss KELLY !! Miss Betsey Rattle, (a desirable inmate for unfurnished apartments) Miss KELLY ! !! Mademoiselle Jeieuue, (a Governess and Actress elect) Miss KELLY ! ! ! " The Blind Boy" Miss KaL►,Y I The Dumb Girl Miss KuLty Miss Kelly by The Box Plan for Miss KELLY's Nights is now open, when places in the Boxes may be taken of Mr. Parker, from Ten till Three. No places can be secured unless Tickets are taken. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The letter of "An Old Publican " is rather out of date. But if we catch our Magistrates tripping in like manner again, they shall have the benefit of our correction. The letter to "The Licensed Victuallers" will not spoil by keeping. We really cannot inform "P. 0." whether "William Rath bone, Esq., of Cornhill. ever professed to be a Tory." Perhaps some of our correspondents cau furnish us with an answer. The letter of " Spectator " does not possess sufficient local interest for publication in the Standard. Our friend at Eccles shall be remembered in our next. We entirely disapprove of the suggestion of " A Churchman." Our motto is " no compromise--no surrender." The letter of "J. L." stands over until Tuesday. We have great doubts, however, as to the propriety of publishing it. We have no room to .day fur the letter respecting the " Old School in School Lane." eco nom Prosp er tial ove subtle, iti wli, "accur public ahips r ladin g . to cou No, lit Liver F for yo Set at c,onuni to CO/ emulai triotisi hann not be At I Wed', cnotio the b t in the Madvi of the Clea n • hid e d comae exerc the 3 , deuce then in teint Liv e sion %aid, the Cou annt