The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. In the-adverti --rent of the Llcensed Victuallers' Ball, in our iaek:pubtication, the rice of the tickets was stated to be 13s. es. The gentlemair alluded to by " Fair Play" is certainly deservng of he hon:.ur. by birth, dignity, and princely liberality; and wero. we assured that he desired the office, we sh:uld be the first to enforce his claims to the utmost of our power. • We were compelled at a late hour to withdraw seve:al letters and pqragraphs. itibcrporA TUESDAY MO RAING, NOV. 5, 1844 We should imagine that the result of Friday's municipal contests must have convinced all but the stupidly obstinate of the Radical party in this town of their unhappy and hopeless political imbecility. " The friends of justice to all classes, and the welfare of the town at large,"—as our poor Mercury ludi crously styles his faction—have been victorious in one contest ! " A number of persons of a certain description"—as the same oracle styles the Conser vative candidates for municipal honours—have de feated, in fair fight, the " well-connected gentlemen, fit to appear in the public service, and able to com prehend the bearings of questions affecting the general and local policy of this great community ; and— strange to say !—that community itself has had the casting voice in the struggle. Surely in this there must be something Radically wrong. We must want a reform of the Municipal Reform Bill; and we long to know what is to he the specific, by which the Radical faction—the rejected of the people— the despised of the constituencies which themselves created—are to be restored to authority in the local affairs of our borough. Positively, if things go on at the present rate, before long we shall not have a single specimen of the genus to ornament and en lighten the Council chamber—a calamity to be de plored ! We wish we could say that the faction have made their exit from the political arena like gentlemen. They have not. Their proceedings on this occasion have exhibited them in a very different light, as we shall briefly shew. In North Toxteth they carried the contest to a close, with a candidate who had not only declared, by letter to his committee, that he " could not, on any consideration whatever, under take the duties of a common councillor," but had even intimated that, if they persevered, and he was elected ; they must " be prepared to pay the fine of his non-serving of the office." Surely this was wan ton and disgraceful factiousness ! In South Tox teth, again, they fought the contest against the Con servative, with a candidate wh' had previously de clared by letter that he " most decline, in the most explicit manner, the honour" of h ing proposed ; and enumerated suit a list of bodily afflictions to prevent him, as rendered the liberty taken with his name a piece of heartless cruelty. The very letter in which this intimation was conveyed, and which stated that, "whilst I con willing I am writhing with pain," should surely have preserved him from being so indecently trifled with, and from the additional pain of the defeat which has resulted. The nomina tion of Mr. Gladstone for Great George's Ward, in the Radical interest, contrary to his expressed wisbes, is similarly scandalous, whilst the pro ceedings of the faction in Pitt-street are perfectly disreputable to all parties connected with them. The most rotten of the disfranchised rotten boroughs never took more scandalous measures for getting up a contest, or proved themselves less worthy of the franchise, than the parties in question. We are sure that the whole of these proceedings will meet with the reprobation of the respectable members of the Whig-Radical party. No course can be imagined so eminently calculated to prolong their exclusion from the confidence of their fellow townsmen, than a continuance of such practices. We beg pardon : there is one influence almost equally efficacious, viz : the twaddling insolence with which their opponents are continually bespat tered by such scribes as those of the Liverpool Mercury, of which the article from which we have quoted above, affords a few specimens. Whig- Radicalism in Liverpool has indeed cause to ex claim "save me from my friends ! " The announcements conveyed in the address of Mr. Moss, at the meeting of the Grand Junction Company, on Friday last, possess an interest not only to the holders of shares in that Company, but to all who are embarked in Railway undertakings. We are now formally made aware of the fact, which we. had always anticipated, that those two great Railway properties, the Grand Junction, and the London and Birmingham Lines, have ceased to be carried on in concert with e :eh other—have entered indeed upon a course of antagonism; and we have, in the address in question, the opinions of a gentle man, perhaps better and more intimately conversant with Railway management than any other man in the kingdom, as to the effect, upon the interests of the Company over which he presides, of the unfor tunate Split which has taken place. These opinions we purpose examining, having first, however, briefly noticed the proceedings which the Grand Junction Company have resolved upon adopting, with a view of strengthening their position. The course, Mr. Moss states, is for the Grand Jun ction, " to be prepared for any alternative" ; and an nounces that, accordingly, "all needful measures are being taken for putting before parliament their Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, and also their Shrewsbury and Stafford Lines," relying upon the judgement and fair consideration of the Board of Trade, to decide which of the rival schemes offered, are the most likely to be conducive to the public benefit. Mr. Moss cannot think that parliament will allow new lines to be made, running parallel and close to the Line of the Grand Junction Com pany ; but, allowing the worst to happen, and such competition to be directed against them, he believes that, "the lines authorised, or to be authorised, north and south, as well as in Ireland, will, to a great extent, compensate them for any loss of traffic which threatens them"; and, he reminds the share holders that they possess an advantage in the race of competition, arising from the cheapness of con struction of their own Railway. He depends, too, upon the arrangements recently made and contem plated, for promoting the convenience of the public, amongst which, he mentions most prominently, the increased number of second class trains already pro vided; the increased comfort and reduced price of the third class trains, and improvements now mak ing, and hereafter to be made at their stations. From all these considerations, he deduces the con clusion that, -"if parliament would only protect them against unnecessary competing Lines, the public would be vastly benefitted, for the Company have no wish for exclusive advantages, their view being to divide with the public the profit of increased traffic, both in the way of low prices, and increased accommodation." We agree with the hulk of the opinions here ex pressed; and, with Mr. Moss, feel assured that Par liament will not sanction any needless competing Lines, provided the Grand Junction fairly, and in earnest set themselves to the work of providing all the reasonable accommodation within their power . to the various important localities which lie adjacent to 'their Line. We cannot, however, but regard it as an unfortunate circumstance, and one calculated to weigh seriously against them with any Commit tee, before whom their claims to protection may be laid, that they have hitherto done so very, very little in this direction, considering the vast margin of profit at their disposal. A Company, which con cedes to the loudest requirements of the public only upon compulsion, is not usually the object of public sympathy, when attacked in their monopoly ; and we are not, therefore, so certain as we should other wise have been —nor, we suspect, is Mr. Moss him self—that several of the proposed competing Lines, to which, as natural appendages to their own Line, the Grand Junction Company might have fairly laid claim, will not be thrown into the hands of theii present projectors. The legislature, as evidenced . by the Railways Regulation Bill - of last year, appear to have arrived at the conclusion that some strong coercive policy is required to force existing Corn• Fames into concession s to the convenience of the public; and there are many schemes sanctioned last session, which tend to prove th at t h e weapon, i n which their greatest reliance is placed, is encourage ment to competing Lines. We cannot, therefore, assure the proprietors of the Grand Junction Line, of immunity from legislatorial reprisal for the past. Their fancied exclusive property in the country through whiCh their Line runs will, we are confiden t , he srrOngly ar4l-.successfully attacked; and, although we rely, With a . great a confidence as Mr._ Moss thi 'elasticity and resources of the con cern oVer "whose interests he so ably and honestl y presides, wte feat that, for a time, the shareholders must prektu, kit some sacrifices of interest upon their' ifiveslmves and less imposing dividends. The future 'welfare of the concern is, however, still in the hands of the direction, and may be ad vanced, or sacrificed, according to the extent to which they prepare themselves to carry out those improvements of which their important Line is ao capable, and, we may add,'so greatly in need ' • and here we may address to them a few words of advice —of complaint indeed—suggested by that portion of Mr. Moss's speech which points to the proposed future proceedings of the Company. Mr. Moss al ludes to improvements to be made in the Company's stations. We have heard too of projects for short ening the Line from near Warrington to Liverpool, by which, the outrageously large angle, at present seen upon the map of this line, *ill, to some extent, be cut off. But really, and seriously, we must tell the Board that, such alterations as we have heard are in projection will not satisfy, and ought not to satisfy, the public. The Company must do some thing on a more extended scale. They must not hope to be permitted to drag their traffic some miles round to a junction with the Liverpool and Man chester at Huyton or Rainhill, for the sake of saving the cost of an independent station. Both stations of the Liverpool and Manchester Line are already incompetent enough for the accommodation of its own legitimate business; and when so great a dis tance can be saved by the Grand Junction, by a di rect line from near Runcorn Gap to the south end of the tc,wn, the expense of a separate station and tunnel ought not to he an object of consideration, with a Company so wealthy and prosperous as this has ever been, and is at the present moment. In such an effort the public and the legislature would recognize a bona-fide desire on the part of the Com pany to make the best use of the extensive means at their disposal; and without such an effort we are satisfied that the encroachments of rival undertak ings must go on and become, at no distant date, seriously damaging to their interests. We have made these remarks with all good feel ing towards those of our fellow-townsmen, and others who are embarked in this undertaking, and we trust that they will be taken in the same spirit in which they are offered. They may be found worthy of consideration. The retirement of Mr. Sands from the office of Mayor, at the close of the municipal year, affords us an opportunity, which we gladly embrace, of making a few remarks upon the mode in which he has dis charged the important functions of that high office. Mr. Sands, it will he remembered, entered upon the discharge of those functions under circumstances of some difficulty. A charge had been preferred against him, affecting his private character as a mer chant; and some men there are who would have preferred to wave their claim to such an honour, rather than undergo the searching ordeal necessary to clear them from the imputations brought egainst them. Mr. Sands was not such a man. He went boldly to the proof of the perfect purity of his actions. He was absolved from every thing which could savour of even the appearance of dishonoura ble conduct by an impartial tribunal; and he en tered upon his duties, as Mayor of the second town in the empire,. with a character for prohihity and honesty, not sallied in the slightest degree by the attempt made to do it injury. Entering upon such an office under such circum stances, the conduct of Mr. Sands in his official ca pacity has naturally been more strictly subjected to criticism than, otherwise, it might have been; and we rejoice to say that the even tongue of malice can : not bring against it an imputation. We do not affect to say that it has been to our own perfect sa tisfaction. Upon one subject, and upon one alone (which will he sufficiently recognized by those who have been in the habit of perusing our leading columns), we have felt it necessary to object to his proceedings and opinions. We pass this by, how ever. We know that, on that occasion, the conduct of the Mayor was dictated from motives the most pure of what he was led to believe was his duty ; and we readily wave all further notice of the subject. We can well afford to an honourable man the right of private judgement, and esteem him still honest and consistent, < lthough he may differ from us upon any particular point not all-important to the cause of which we are the humble and unworthy advocates. In the hands of Mr. Sands,—and we have watched his career attentively,—the duties of the Mayoralty of Liverpool have been performed with dignity and credit to the town, over which he has had to preside. It has fallen to his lot, during his tenure of office, to dispense the hospitalities of the Town-hall to many distinguished visitors. It has b 213 his privilege to entertain royalty; and none who have attended his entertainments upon any of these occasions can say that the honor and credit of this great town was not municently sustained by him. But better even than this,—because mere vanity and ostentation could not be said to have been the impelling causes of action—we point to the zeadiness shewn by Mr. Sands, on all occasions, to make his high office subserve to the cause of charity and the social amelioration of his fellow-townsmen. In this use of his dignity no man within our memory has excelled the gentleman of whosr merits, as Mayor of Liverpool, we are at present recording our humble opinions. We take leave of the subject. It required not even this length of remark. We may, 11,.mrever, further express our grateful sense of the personal amenity which has ever distinguished Mr. Sands, whilst occupying his high office, and assure him that he will retire into his station as a member of the council with the good wishes of all, with whom his more elevated station has brought him into contact. A paragraph appeared in the Journal of Saturday, and was copied into the .Albion of Monday, contain ing statements respecting the forthcoming election of mayor, and aldermen of this borough, to which we feel bound to give the most decided contradiction. It is asserted—and sneeringly asserted too—that Mr. James Lawrence is to be elevated to the mayoralty, by a species of compromise with other gentlemen, supposed to be aspirants to the office, and agreed to at a preliminary meeting of Conservative members of the Council; and a list of names is given of the parties to be elected aldermen, as a set off to the withdrawal of opposition to Mr. Lawrence. The whole of these details are pure inventions,—as false as they are utterly ridiculous. No such preliminary meeting as is spoken of has been held. Of that we are well assured. And, further, we are perfectly confident that Mr. James Lawrence would never submit to owe his elevation to the mayoralty to such a degrading compromise with other aspirants, as is alleged to have taken place. Mr. Lawrence submits his claims to that honour entirely to the unbiassed and unbought con sideration of the members of the Council; and we believe will be elected by their unanimous voice, although certainly in accordance with no procon certed arrangement by which his honor can be com promised. With respect to the parties to he elected to the office of aldermen, we are assured that not only has no such arrangement—no such " compromise"— been entered into, upon the terrns alleged by the. Journal, and copied by the Albion, but no arrange ment at all has, at this moment, been come to, or, so far as we are aware, attempted. We could not point ; nor do we believe that any other man could ' now point, to the name of a single gentleman whose aspirations to the honor of election to the office of alderman is secure, or, from any other consideration than his merit, likely to be responded to by the majority of the Council. We are unwilling, for reasons which on a former Occasion we have given, to enter more at length into this subject, or to suggest anything to the Council with respect to the course for them to adopt. We leave the elections to be made unreservedly to their good judgment and consideration. THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT. — The funds have scarcely supported the currency of yesterday. business having been limited; and the market closing early. Con sols for money left off this afternoon 991 to -4; and for the account, 994 to par. Bank Stock closed 203 to 205 ; India Stock, 287 to 289; India Bonds, 89s. to 91s. pre dtium '1 bree per Cents. Reduced, 99 to 3 ; New Three- Ind -a-quarter per Cents., 1014 to 101 ; and Long Annui ties, 12. Exchequer-bills continue to feel the influence of the increased demand for money, leaving off to-day at 635. to 575. premium, which within the last fortnight shows a decline of Bs. premium in these securities, the quotation having been previously 735. to 755. premium. In the foreign market business was of the least impor tance. Spanish is quoted rather firmer, but the Stock Exchange Lad closed before The Times was received in the city with the news of the attempt to assassinate Ge neral Narvaez and Baton de Meer. The effect is antici p,tted to be unfavourable when the market opens on Mon day. Spanish Three per Cents. this afternoon closed at were—Belgian, a t n o , 3o} to ; Five p er C en t s . , 23i to 24 . Th e o th er p r ices 11003 ; Itocloolo2mexbiandiv334 to Brazilian, liln i3 :3 a s n i is t h o , B B 6 B 4 4 ; to 894; Dutch Two-and-a-fluff per Cents. , 624 to -4; the Four per Cents, 9G4 to i ; th e Fi ve per Cents., 981 to 99 ; Mexican, 344 to 4 the Deferred, 15 to and Russian, ' 1184 to 1194. We must say that we have seldom approached a subject with greater difficulty —with greater regret,—that the duty should be imposed neon us,—than we now approach the consideration of the questions tat issue between Mr. Miller, our late Head-constable, and the Watch Com mittee. Upon the appointment of this gentleman to his onerous and important office, we imagined that we re cognised, in his character and reputed fitness, abundant motives for his selection by the Watch Committee. We advocated his claims accordingly ; and, up to a very recent period, we have been under the impression that he was fulfilling the expectations of that committee and of the town The event of his retirement, even, we regarded as only attributable to a mistake on his part of his duties, and a wrong impression as to the extent to which he was subject to the controling power of the Committee. Upon this subject we knew that differences had arisen, which we trusted that the good sense of Mr. Miller would ena ble him to reconcile with the perfect performance of his duty. Entertaining these views, we regretted the ne cessity which he felt of resigning his trust, and were pre pared to part with him in the perfect conviction that he had done his utmost to earn the respect, even although he could not fulfil the expectations, of the body by whom he was appointed. We would willingly have been left under these impres sions, as, we are sure, would the Watch Committee. But—oh what a curse it is to have injudicious advisers, or a headstrong temper !—Mr. Miller has not been con tent with the considerate manner in which the reasons for his retirement have been sought to be placed before the public by the Watch Committee, but has rushed into print, with an evident inclination to provoke a contro versy and a siftinc , of the whole subject of his conduct in the office which he held. With the letter from him which has resulted it is now our duty to deal ; and being driven by himself to the performance of that duty, be cannot complain if we do it unreservedly. Mr. Miller wishes it to be understood that the sole ground of his offence is his disobeyal of express orders on the day of the laying of the foundation stone of the docks at Birkenhead. Of the precise degree of his cul pability here more anon. In the meantime we must beg to remind him that, although with the charitable intent to allow his character to go forth to the world with as little damage as possible, his admitted neglect, or viola tion of orders on this occasion was alleged by the Watch Committee as the ground of their dissatisfaction with him, it was not, as be must well know, the only ground. Mr. Miller was not discharged because of his proceedings on that day. A select committee had for a week pre viously, as was well known, through the press, and par t;cularly well known to himself, been sitting to inquire into the general conduct of the police, his own conduct included. On the very day of his admitted delinquency, the general committee had been summoned, by the secre tary's letter, dated four days previously, to receive the report of the special committee. It was received during his absence from the duties prescribed to him on that day; and we state without reservation that, with that re port before it, independent of any thing else, the Board could have had no other alternative than that of enforcing Mr. Miller's removal from his (Ace. The late head con stable therefore is a little disingenious when he makes use of the Board's kind consideration for his own future pros pects, to raise a charge of undue severity against h'm. And now, with respect to the circumstance under which Mr. iller went to Birkenhead, in direct contra riety to the orders of the Watch Committee. We give, at foot, his own statement, and proceed to supply the real facts, which are a little tortured, and such parts of them as it suits h s purpose to conceal, suppressed by him. An application was made to the Watch Committee of Liverpool, by the Birkenhead commissioners, for a num ber of the force to attend on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new docks, in order to prevent , any breaches of the peace which might occur. To this application the Watch Committee acceded, by granting a force of fifty men for the occosion, to be sent under the superintendence of an inspector; and, on a subsequent application from Mr Miller to be permitted to accompany them, he was informed that the arrangements were already made, and that an inspector was sufficient. The subsequent proceedings of Mr. Miller are detailed in his letter sub joined: but some very important circumstances, bearing materially upon the conduct of the chairman of the board, whom Mr. Miller accuses of unauthorised interference, are omitted to be mentioned. Mr. Miller says, correctly, that on his return in the afternoon, he was reproved by the daily board, then sitting. He was, in addition, in formed that ha must for the remainder of the day confine himself to the superveillance of the force in the town ; and that the charge of the police attending at the Pier head and at Birkenhead was to be confided to Mr. Dow ling. A resolution of the daily board to that effect was duly recorded in their minus s ; and yet Mr. Miller's own letter acknowledges his contumacious disregard of its requirements. He deliberately took upon himself to perform Mr. Dowling's duties. He ordered an additional force to be sent over to Birkenhead; and when remon strated with by Mr. Lawrence and reminded of the reso lotion of the Committee he persisted in refusing to with draw that order. He argues in his letter, in defence of such refusal, that he was not subject to the individual orders of the Chairman of the Watch Committee. We say that he was at least bound to obey the resolution of the Board itself, and abstain from interference with that portion of the force which bad been placed under the orders of Mr. Dowling. We tell him moreover that Mr. Laurence had authority to interfere, being authorised by the Committee to see their orders carried into effect; and we tell him, further, that Mr. Laurence never did so in terfere as he has represented him doing. Mr. Laurence never sent back a man of the Force. Mr. Dowling, who was charge of the Force, and to whom it was left to judge of the necessity of their proceeding to Birkenhead, did what Mr. Miller states to have been so officiously done by the Chairman himself. We are sorry that Mr. Miller has compelled us to enter into these particulars, and much suspect that, in the pro ceedings which he has taken in this matter, he has been mislee by evil advisers. We know, and he knows himself too, that the conduct of the board towards him has been most considerate ; they were forbearing to the last. Wilful men however, and he certainly appears a most wilful one— will have their way, and must of course bear the conse quences. If Mr. Miller is not satisfied to do so—if he wishes a public investigation into his case—let him de mand an enquiry into all the circumstances of his conduct since he took charge of the force, and we are confident it will not be refused him. Will he try this issue ? It is a more manly one than the course which he is at present pursuing. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD. SIR,—A report of the Daly Board of the Watch Com mittee having now been published as part of the proceed ings of that committee read at the last Council, wherein I am charged with having " been guilty of a flagrant dis obedience of orders," I feel it necessary to the vindica tion of my character with the public to enter into an ex planation of the circumstances which led to my resigna tion of the office of Head-constable ; and I hope you will allow me the medium of your paper for that purpose. I at once admit that my orders from the Daily Board, with respect to the Birkenhead festival, were, that a force of fifty men, under a superintendent, should be sent to attend there, and, as readily, that I subsequently deviated from those orders. But, under what circumstances, and whether I was justified by them, or, at any rate, that the committee are not justified in using the strong expres sions above quoted, are points on which I confidently appeal to the public. Mr. Laycock had, previously to the festival, invited me to breakfast with him on thatday, which friendly invitation I accepted. On the day before the festival, Mr. Laycock called on me, at my office, and, after a few minutes con versation and renewing his invitation, was leaving the room, when Mr. James Lawrence and one or two other gentlemen entered. A few words then passed between them, Mr. Laycock saying, that he wished Mr. Lawrence had permitted me to take charge of the force, and Mr. Lawrence replying, that the committee had already granted a force of fifty men ; and that he thought that, with a superintendent, would be quite sufficient. It might be inferred, from the report, that an application had been made for my services, and a refusal, '`in the strongest terms possible," had been formally given by the Daily Board. If so, I was not acquainted with it, and only heard the passing conversation above alluded to. In the evening I made what appeared to me sufficient arrangements for preserving the peace in Liverpool ; and the morning of the festival, I crossed over to Mr. Lay cock's, and with no other intention than of accepting his invitation, and returning again to Liverpool about ten o'clock. When the procession was forming, some con fusion occurred from the pressure of the multitude of people, and I was then urged by several influential gen tlemen to marshall the procession. Fearing mischief might ensue if this act were not at once promptly per formed, I consented, and gave my services, and, as the first necessary step, I took the Liverpool force under my own orders, thereby, as I admit, deviating from the di rections of the Daily Board. On my return to Liverpool, I was called before the Daily Board and reproved for this interference. I expressed my regret at having given offence, but that I was not conscious of having acted wrongly. In the evening, between eight and nine o'clock, I re ceived official reports that the men who had been on duty the whole of the day at Birkenhead were completely ex hausted ; and that the crowds of people in' the streets, and about the ferry, rendered a reinforcement indispens able. I, therefore, acting on my own responsibility, ordered an inspector and twenty men to proceed to Bir kenhead. When this additional force was on the point of embarking, Mr. James Lawrence called at the Central Station, and asked by whose authority these men were sent. 1 answered, by my own. He desired me to with draw the order. I declined to do so, stating that I con ceived that I was carrying out the views of the committee by supporting the force wich they had ordered to go to Birkenhead, and that I did not consider be was entitled, in his individual capacity, to interfere. Mr. Lawrence then left me, went down to the Pierhead, and, in direct apposition to me, ordered the men to go back to their beats, with the exception of four or five, whom he di rected to proceed to Birkenhead. Mr. Lawrence shortly afterwards gave instructions for the withdrawal of the whole force from Birkenhead. About midnight I again saw Mr. Lawrence, when he informed me of this inter ference, and I then told him that he had compromised me in the eyes of the whole force, and that I felt it was impossible for me any longer to retain the office of Head constable with advantage to the public or with honour to myself. Had the report of the committee which is published been confined to the result, namely, my resignation, or, having entered into some detail, had it given an impartial narrative of the above circumstances, I should have re mained silent ; but I cannot allow such reflections as it contains to pass unnoticed. It is impossible for me, in this limited space, to enter into any explanation of my general conduct. The committee and I differed as to the extent of power and discretion which ought to be vested in the Head-constable for the due and efficient performance DEAR WILL,—I told you a week ago how it would be ! but you are a pig-headed fellow, and will always have your own way. Why on earth (lid you compromise the dignity of the family, by contesting such an out of the way place—such a compound essence of vulgarity—such an Australia and Caliphornia as St. Anne's Ward. I re collect seeing by the newspapers, that there was indeed such a spot; but it was one, where nothing but savages had been seen, and where it was destruction to a gentle man to have been heard of in its precincts. Don't you see now what a fool you have made of yourself, by putting out such a ridiculous placard on the walls? And how all sober, sensible men laughed at it! The most provoking thing of all is, that notwithstanding the lies put forth by the Radical press, about Parker's beer barrels, and the poor Papists, whom he bribed to sell themselves for a quart of his double X, there were scarcely any of the gentlemen in the ward would condescend to favour you with a vote. I went in a quiet way to look at the fellows who voted for you ; and I am ashamed to say, that striking a fair average, the lowest of the low, the priest driven creatures and the cadaverous homunculusses who registered their votes for you, ought to sicken you for attempting any more to get into Council. Your attenuated dignity is gone for ever. and the best thing you can do, is to quit Liverpool, until your unseemly speeches are forgotten, and until your services are wanted 1 Depend upon it that you and Bolton, and Rathbone, and Shiel, and Holt, and Dicky Vaughan—what's-his-name ?—are a flock cf gone geese. Your cackling has betrayed you, and the whole of you may be politically slaughtered a hundred times over, before any golden eggs can be discovered among the whole batch. You see what your violence' and folly have done. It would not have signified a farthing if you had made ti political suicide of yourself; but you have sunk our party we• are irrevocably and irretrievably ruined. What with your furious and dirty speeches—Walmsley's ambition—Evans' warehouse scheme—Barclay's stories in the Wavertree omnibus—your discharging all the old and tried servants of the Town-hall, and your republican aristocracy, we are done for, for the next twenty years; and those cursed Tories, who seem most unaccountably to have the popular voice with them, will ride rough-shod over us for the rest of our lives ; and they have got the government, the parish, the corporation, the docks, the highway board, and everything else, down to the very news-rooms, under their own thumbs. It is lamentable and abominable; but it cannot be helped, and the best thing we can do is to submit with resignation. We shall have two Tory representatives for the rest of our days, as sure as a gun. I don't think there is the slightest chance for us now, unless we could get up a cry of universal suffrage and annual parliaments, and so come in again for a year or two upon the surge of the revolutionary wave ; and I think it would be a capital move. To be sure Louis Philippe won't fight • O'Connell is going down, and the Anti-Corn-Law League is already gone; the church is too strong; people are sick of the school question, and think that the schools are going on very well as they are; and then there's Brooks and M`Neile among the parsons—(confound them both !) ' • and there's Jim Aspinall amongst the gentlemen ; Sir Thomas amongst the merchants; Sam Holme amongst the trades men ; • and scores of those hard-headed, ignorant ship wrights, and others of the Conservative democracy, who are all ugly fellows to grapple with, and are not easily put down. What fools we were to throw the whole in fluence of the town into the hands of the shopocracy and trading classes! Why, there's dozens of tradesmen who have had the audacity to learn Latin ! and unless we hold the candle to the middle classes, as they call themselves, we have no resource but to budge. But, my dear Will, you must turn over a new leaf : you must not be so very violent; you must not call yourself a " terrier," a " leveller," and such like ugly names ; you must try to be a very " sucking dove," speak coolly, use a little soft sawder, and get your stomach into better condition by swallowing a few grains of blue pill now and then. Ellison will supply you with good ones. And when you have got the mastery of your ill-tempers, you must mount the balcony of the Bull Inn, Claytan squlre, and tell the people that they are plundered by the Tories—that they pay a shilling a bushel too much for ttlieir corn (but don't tell them that, if foreign corn is imported duty free, they will have 6s. a-*eek knocked off their wages)—tell them that the advent of the Whigs to power would be attended with the inestimable blessing of having Billy Ewart again as our representative in parlia ment, and you as member of our Town Council—that they would then have sixpenny loaves for a halfpenny, and that money would tumble in without the trouble of working for it, and that the primeval curse is all nonsense. And then you can say that Annual Parliaments, Uni versal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and all the Yankee nostrums are great blessings : and would speedily lead to the repudiation of the national debt, the extinguish ment of the peerage, (all but Lord Sefton, because you have once or twice dined with him); that a president with £lOOO a year would be cheaper than a monarch ; and that the bishops and clergy should be like M.D.'s, only sent for to physic people when they want it ! This would take with the fools, and they are always the majority ; and so, by a little cajolery, and a good deal of humbug, you may perchance, as you dearly wish, get again into that room, which you once described, in your own elegant phrase ology, as " the most ill ventilated room in the town." You see, my dear Will, I am tendering you good ad vice, if you have only the good sense to follow it. Let me add, however, that the life of a demagogue is any thing but easy ;—he must go forward, or be left behind! The expectation of the " people " travels rather rapidly; and, being easily gulled, they are unfortunately in the habit of believing all that you mob orators say to them. But I shall not moralise, for I know your temper is none of the best, and that a little quiet will be beneficial to you. Perhaps the Conservatives may yet make you an alder man! To be sure a little more cubical space might help you ; but the vast extent of your mind will always be a drawback upon your body, and I rather despair of seeing You look any better. All things considered, you are better out than in. You would be continually saying things that would disturb your repose. David Hodgson, however, is revenged ; and as to poor Thornhill, when he , heard you had. lost St. Anne's Ward, he jumped—he stuttered—he swallowed two pints of half-and-half—he smoked three pipes of shag,—and, after throwing up his shocking bad hat to the top of the ceiling, he shouted out * * * [Here the MS. was so torn that we could not make it out.] I am, dear Will, Your own chum, Aqua-street, Nov. 4, 1814. * * * * * John Paley, Esq. is the mayor elect for Preston, and E. D. Salisbury, Esq. for Lancaster. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Britannia, Captain Hewitt, sails hence with the usual mails for Halifax and Boston to-day. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—Un der the new charter of this college, the following surgeons, resident in Lancashire, have had the honour of fellow ships conferred upon them . 1 James Ainsworth, Manchester Charles Boutflower, Liverpool Robert Thorpe, Manchester John Cooper, Liverpool Wm. Jas. Wilson, Manchester John Prince Halton, Liverpool Thomas Turner, Manchester John Maurice Banner, Liverp. John Houtflower, Manchester Win. H. Bainbridge, Liverpool J. A. Ransome, Manchester Henry Stubbs, Liverpool Joseph Jordan, Manchester William Gill, Liverpool Samuel Barton, Manchester James Long, Liverpool John Windsor, Manchester Abraham Wood, Rochdale James Dawson, Liverpool J. Stockdale Harrison, Lair. Robert Bickersteth, Liverpool Samuel Gaskell, Lancaster . THEATRE- ROYAL—The performances at this theatre during the nights not occupied by the concerts noticed elsewhere, have been principally those dramas in which that excellent representative of Scottish originals and ec centrics, Mackay, has won for himself so many admirers. In one of these, "The Rights of Woman," Miss Mon tague has succeeded in making a decided hit, and shown that she is equally at home in comedy and in tragedy. Her Widow Blandish is a delightful piece of acting. Last night Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean entered upon an en gagement, when the " Gamester" was performed ; and we may look for a series of our best standard tragedies. We are sorry, by the bye, to record the loss of Mr. Comp ton, who appeared for the last time on Saturday night, previous to proceeding to the Princess's Theatre, in Lon don. The high success which his talent deserves attend his steps. COMMITMENTS.—At the Police-court, yesterday, the following persons were committed to take their trials at the sessions, on the several charges stated : A boy named George Hill, charged with stealing, on Saturday, a cheese, value 65., from the shod of Mr. Twineham, in Whitechapel. John Tarleton, for stealing on Saturday, a pair of boots from the shop of Mr. Henry Plimer, Dale street. Mary Watkins, for stealing from the person of Alexander Mc Kinlay, in Brunswick-street, 15s. in mo• ney. Mary Jones, for stealing from the stall of Joseph Birtles, in St. John's Market, 31bs. of mutton—a second offence of the same kind. Anne Green, charged with rob bing James Cawell of 255. in a house of ill fame, in Al bion-street. Eliza Hampson, also an abandoned female, for Robbing William Bibby of his watch, which she after ward threw on the ground when the police-officer came up. Charles Turner, on the suspicion of entering and robbing the house of William Williams, in Bounydra street, during the absence of the family on Sunday. He was seen to come out of a back window, and attempted to escape by a back passage, after passing several yard walls. Several drawers were found to have been opened, and a quantity of wearing apparel, &c., removed for the conve nienca of being carried off. The prisoner was not before known to the police. Sarah Stowman, for robbing a man named Wiliam Neild of a sovereign ; and Joseph Mur phy, ror stealing in Bannister-street, on Saturday, a jacket belonging to Joseph Blood. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WATCH COMMITTEE AND THE LATE HEAD-CONSTABLE. f this responsible office. I will add, in conclusion, for he satisfaction of the many influential gentlemen in this town who took an interest in my election, the following communication which 1 received from Sir James Camp bell since my arrival in Liverpool, testifying the opinion which he and a large portion of the community of Glas cow entcrtained of my services as Superintendent of Po lice there, after a discharge of the duties during eight years. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, H. MILLER. Liverpool. Ist Nov., 1844. [Mr. Miller then gives a letter which enclosed the very handsome subscription of £360 by persons in Glasgow.] LETTER OF CONDOLENCE TO A FRIEND ON MISFORTUNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Slap — The following letter was left at my house on Saturday last, evidently by mistake, and as the direction was torn off, I take the liberty of forwarding it to you, under the impression that by your extensive circulation, it may meet the eye of the gentleman for whom it seems to have been intended. I wish the postmen would be more careful. The seal was unfortunately broken. I am, Sir, Yours obediently, PHELAN O'BOTHEREM. Clarence Dock, Nov. 4, 1844. LIVERPOOL JEALOUS OF BIRKENHEAD ! The exposition which we gave last week of the increasing financial resources of Liverpool, and the accounts which have since been given of the growing prosperity of our noble Dock E,tate, ought really to furnish matter suffi cient, in the minds of all reasoning •men, to absolve us from the trumpery charge of viewing, w'th anything re sembling jealousy or fear, the projects of our neighbours of Birkenhead. For all this, however, we may be excused if we allow ourselves occasionally to smile at the absurd vaunts which reach our ears with respect to these projects, of which we give here a couple of specimens, extracted from a letter of Mr. Herapath, addressed from Liverpool to the Railway Magazine of last Saturday. BIRRRNBILAD - SPECULATIOSS.—The following may, I believe, be depended on. One gentleman, in a small way, has cleared £12,000 by land speculations; another assured me he Lad cleared .e13,00l in a fortnight ; a third bought some land, eeveral years ago, for £3,000, and thought he did exceedingly well to sell it, some years after, for .?,oc , o, but his successor has actually re sold - the same land, lately, for £BO.OOO. Now, is not such bra gadocio sufficient to tempt any man, who is not possessed of lamblike meekness and the gravity of a stoic, to retort upon the boasters or to expire in a fit of laughter ? Might it not tempt one to remind these fortunate speculators of a fact, which we suspect they know already, that " all is not gold which glitters;" that debtor and creditor statements which look surprisingly well, on paper, do not always wind up Quite so well. It would be wisdom in such men to keep their gains secret until they are actually in hand. Puffery of this descrip tion is rarely the accompaniment of bona fide prosperity. But let us proceed to extract No. 2. _ _ _ BIRKENHEAD AND LIVE ['trout. —Many will, doubtless, be the lets and hindrances Birkenhead will have to encounter, but it is and must continue to be a rising place. Whether that rising will be to the prejudice of Liverpool is another matter. Few think it will • but many think that London will suffer by it. I have heard that London merchants have already prepared for making Birkenhead their headCquarters. The Wallasey Pool is a place which nature seems to have formed for docks. It is a long narrow lake, of 150 acres of water, which, besides wharfs and warehouses, requires little to render it one of the finest floating docks upon one of the noblest rivers in England, and in the very heart of our manufactures. Birkenhead, therefore, can hardly fail to rise, and rapidly; and it appears tome, that, instead of Liverpool being jealous of its prosperity, it should re joice and foster it. as it will be the means of concentrating on this spot, more and more of the export and import trade of England. If any parties should feel alarm it is London. Bristol, &c. These places may suffer, but Liverpool hardly can. This is almost too provocative of mirth to be withstood. The London merchants "already prepared for making Birkenhead their head-quarters!' The Trinity House, the new Royal Exchange, the East India House, Lloyd's Coffee House, the Goldsmith's Company, and all the other companies, migrating to Wallasey Pool ! Why the whole peninsula of Wirral will shortly become worth its weight in gold! Setiously this is sad stuff. The parties who have been beguiling Mr. Herapath have much to answer for. THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY v. THE MEMORY OF THE LATE RICHARD RADCLIFFE, ESQ. When, last week, in common with others of our brother journalists, we had imposed upon us the task of paying our humble tribute to the memory of the late town-clerk, we certainly did not conceive that we were in danger of drawing down upon ourselves, or upon them, the censure of one individual in this community. We spoke of Mr. Radcliffe's talents and manly honesty of character in terms which our feelings, as well as our observation, dictated to us as just and well warranted. We had, occasionally, had to express our objections against some of his public acts and opinions ; and we never hesitated to do so freely, but without acerbity. The hand of death, however, had just sunk alike the public officer and the man in the lot of our common humanity ; and we thought we could, at such a moment, afford to sum up the excellencies of both, with out an imputation upon our motives, or being compelled to search with too prying a gaze for frailties by which they might have been obscured. We erred, however, it would seem, in common with our contemporaries, as the following rebuke, administered to us by the editor of the Liverpool Mercury, and to which we beg to direct the attention of our readers, will show : " DEATH OF THU, TOWN-CLERIC-It will be seen from our obituary that Air. Radcl ffe, whose health had, for some time past, been visibly declining, departed this life on Friday night last, at Leamington. The important offices he held under the Corporation of this town, at a salary of £2ooo a year, are now vacant, and will probably be filled up on the 9th of November. The deceased had the reputation, in the minds of many persons, of being a sound and ready lawyer, and is described by some of our contemporaries as being possessed of many excellent quali ties in all the relations of life —indeed, of all the virtues that can adorn a human being. We are sorry that we should have been compelled, by the indiscriminate and somewhat injudicious en logiums, confounding all distinctions of the real characteristics of our fellow-men, which they have lavished on the memory of Mr. Radcliffe, to intimate, even thus vaguely, our dissent fr.sm their opinions. So far as private feelings are concerned, the maxim de mortuis nil nisi bonum may be a good one, but for the public good and the gel eral welfare of society, we must say that we consider its counterpart, de mortuis nil nisi VE RUM, infinit ly preferable." Upon the charity and amiability of heart (.9 which prompted this most uncalled-fur paragraph, we will not trust ourselves to remark. Let it speak for itself. We are bound, however, to say a few words in vindication of our own course in this matter ; and to enable us to do so, we beg of the Mercury to point to that portion of our notice of the deceased against which be so strenuously " dissents." We do not conceive that it is any part of the duty of the journalist to drag from the newly-closed grave, and to hold;up to the contemplation of the world, the private frantic s_of any man. Ours shrill never be the hand thus wantonly and unnecessarily to lacerate the grieving heart and flood the weeping eyes of the widow and the fatherless. The Mercury thinks differently; and, as the question is only one of taste, we leave him to follo.v his path, and shall keep to our own. But, so far as regards the truth and justice of what we have writ ten of Mr. Radcliffe, we challenge him to show' how we have offended, and have little fear of the result. Nearly £26,000 has now been subscribed for the Man chester public walks and parks. EMBEZZLEMENT.—On Tuesday, at one of the Metro politan police-offices, a young man named Whitton was charged, upon his own confession, with having embezzled 'he !property of a butter factor at Liverpool, in whose service he had been as confidential clerk. He had gone up to a policeman, and delivered himself into custody. He was remanded for inquiry. When he was again brought up, a letter from Mr Powell, of this town, (the gentle man whose money the prisoner had embezzled,) was read, in which Mr. P. stated that he declined to prosecute, and the young man was therefore discharged. RIBBONISM IN LIVERPOOL.—At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. M. O'Connell was obliged to confess that ribbonism was " but too prevalent in Liverpool, and Manchester,under the names of Friendly Brothers, Hibernian Societies," 84 c. Perhaps it i s no t out of place to call the attention of the magistracy to this lamentable avowal from one not likely to confess too much as to the existence and spread of this frightful con federacy amongst us, a participation with which, as Mr. O'Connell added,." was criminal and . dangerous, an d likely to bring those guilty of it to Norfolk Isl an d or Van Diemans Land. LIVERPOOL GUANO MARKET.—During the past week, several large parcels of lchaboe on the spot are currently reported to have changed hands at £6. Tbat price has been offered and refused for several cargoes deliverable in January and February next; 100 tons have been taken for export to Hamburg. A new feature in the market is the receipt of orders from France for the vineyards there, at limits, however, a shade below present prices. On Thursday last, the cargo per Sphynx, in the hands of Messrs. Priestley Griffith and Cox, and the cargo per Tantivy, in the hands of Mr. Richardson Part, were both offered at public auction ; £5 15s. being the highest bid for each, both shipments were taken in by the selling brokers at £6 ss. The cargo per " Aurora" held by Mr. Vincent Wanostrocht, North John-street, is by far the best yet imported from Ichaboe. It very much resem bles the Peruvian in colour and dryness and possesses, according to Mr. Huson's analysis 78 2- 5 per cent. of rich, available fertilising matter. The first contract was ef fected from the quay, on Thursday last, at £6 fis., but the bulk has gone into the bonded warehouse, originally the station of a Customs locker, who was immediately compelled to quit his quarters, owing to the noxious efflu via threatening his health. It has just come out that several crops manure d with guano have been utterly de stroyed in Scotland, and on tracing the affair it turns out to have been imported from here, where the article was artificially manufactured last year to a great extent from sea sand, the refuse of hide cargoes, and all sorts of rub bish. From this it is evident how essential it is to have it either out of the bonded stores, from the ship's side, or from parties of the first standing, whose character is a gum antee against all frauds. SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—On Saturday even ing last, the first of the concerts for the winter, (with lite rary and other recreations,) for the working classes took place at the Nelson-street Assambly-rooms, under the patronage of his worship the mayor. The room, which is admirably adapted for the purpose, whether as regards ac commodation for visitors, or facility for hearing, was well, and, we may add, respectably attended, the body being well filled with honest men and bonnie lasses of the indus trial order, and the reserved seats and gallery above, by a concourse of well-dressed persons of both sexes, anxious to partake and contribute to the general enjoyment. The entertainment went off throughout with the greatest eclat. Miss Whitnall, Mr. Ryalis, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Crank, kindly contributed their undoubted talents, as vo calists on the occasion ; and the excellent selection of songs, duette, glees, &c., was only equalled by the taste and precision with which they were accomplished—m an y of them being loudly encored. Where all was so good, we shall not attempt to particularise, especially as we have but little time to spare, and hope to hear the same talented singers again, on a similar occasion. The mayor honoured pre sence —having come f rom Ai g b urth to ohe c ounten ance rneetin gbv his these rational recreations for the mechanic and his wife and children, at the close of their weekly toil. He was enthusiastically received, and more than once addressed the meeting, in a facetious and agreeable manner, d we lling on the advantages of such amusements to all, in preference to the wasteful and demoralizing se ductions and indulgencies of the tavern. Those present were also addressed, at intervals, by Mr. W. Rathbone, Mr. John Smith, and others, to a like effect. Mr. H. y. Lewis presided at the piano, and favoured the company with a splendid " Fantasia" on that instrument. At the c l os e, thanks were heartily voted to Miss Whitnall—and also, separately to the gentlemen vocalists, who bad so handsomely come forward to gratify those present ; the treat closed by " God save the Queen," as a grand finale — and three hearty cheers for the mayor, who enjoyed the concert to the end. The greatest order was preserved throughout, and it is confidently hoped that other musical individuals, as well as literary and scientific gentlemen, will come forward to lend their aid on future occasions, and thus realise for their less fortunate townsmen and their " sweethearts and wives" the delights of " Saturday night a-shore." Nov. 5, 1844. SPAIN. The following important news has been received by ex press from this quarter. " MADRID, Oct. 27. "A fresh conspiracy has just been discovered. General Narvaez was to have been assassinated at the gate of the French Embassy, where he dined. General Prim was arrested this morning. Other a arrests were made last night and thip morning." " BARCELONA, Oct. 27. "At 8 o'clock this afternoon two assassins were ar rested at the moment they were about to attack the Baroa de Meer, who was alighting from his carriage at the thea tre. They were rescued from the guard which was escort ing them to the Atarazanas by a mob, consisting of at least 500 armed men. " BARCELONA, OCT• 28. " Four or five hundred persons, wearing red caps 00 their heads, proceeded to the Rambla, an d seized up on, Alcade and his deputy, w h o were rescu ed by the Moss" of the Foreign Legion. Other troops arrived, and the rioters were dispersed. The Baron de Meer on leaving the theatre proceeded along the Rambla. Forty person! were arrested. Two officers and a gendarme were stbbed with knives." EARLY CLOSING OF ATTORNEYS' O F FICES. —Tbe attorneys of Ormekirk comm ence d c l os i ng th e ir offices at seven o'clock in the evening, on Monday, the 28th ult. MUNICIPAL. ELECTIONS.—We subjoin the r eturn 0 the Municipal elections of a few of the neighbouring towns.: At Manchester thirteen Radicals and three con servatives were returned : at Bolton seven cons ervativ7 and five radicals : a t L ancas t er f our conservatives gin two radicals : at Wigan all conservatives, and on Fridl when the three radical aldermen go out the council val be wholly conservative : a t L ee d s t h ree conserva tives 1 10 " eight radicals : at Preston all conservatives. GUNPOWDER PLOT.—This day i s th e ann i ver sary "Of the happy deliverance of king James 1., and the three es tates of England from the most traitorous and bloody tended massacre by gunpowder, and also of the haP l3 , " 4 arrival of his majesty Ki ng Willi am , f or th e d e li vera nce our church and nation." We understand ':hat in formity with the requiremants from the rubric, there i v an be divine service this morning at St. J u d e ' s C hurc h, s in the evenin g at St. Simon's Gloucester -street. 00 w„, Red' David occasion a sermon will be prea c h e d by the Red' David James, in aid of the funds of the Prot2stant Ope rative Association. IRISH SOCIETY.—A meeting of this society will be held in Liverpool on Monday week, and more OAP twenty sermons will be preached in its behalf on Sunda'', the 17th instant. We rejoice that such a society has IT.: ceived the promise of such support in Liverpool. Its ou, ject is to instruct the Irish-speaking population of Irela n d in the Scriptures in their own tongue, and already it has been instrumental in teaching multitudes, many of whaf i are living witnesses of the happy results of searching Scriptures, and making the sacred volume the standar d of doctrine and rule of life. FAST SAILING.—On Tuesday last, the new pilot-boa t s George Canning, No. 7, recently launched by Mr. Pet er Cato, Brunswick Dock, made her trial trip to test ber sailing qualities in competition with No. 12, hitherto the swiftest sailing boat of the fleet. The two boats left the Prince's Pier-head ty*ether, the wind bl ow i ng s t ron g from S.S.E., and proceeded up the Mersey to Rock Ferry. an d from thence back and round the Crosby Light Ships beating back against the ebb tide and strong w ind. The George Canning acquitted herself to admiration, beating No. 12 in every point of sailing; and when she arrived at the George's Pier-head, N o . 12 was a considerable (Vs' tance behind. The George Canning is a beautiful speci men of naval architecture, well finished, a n d refle cts great credit on her builder. Her appearance excite universal admiration ; though a little out of trim, she in° proved herself the fastest bbat in the service. THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLun.—The S e cretor'' of this flou r i s hi ng Cl u b h as rece i ve d separate and s pecia l warrants for upwards o f t wen t y vesse l s b elong i ng i . O members, authorising them, under the hand and seal o f the Lords of the Admiralty to carry the Blue Ensign of g er Majesty's Fleet, with th e di s ti nct i ve mark of the Club"; the Crown and Liver. We have now therefore a Club ca our own town, having the honour and privilege of flying the national flag, irrespective of any other yach club. Te e , promptitude and condiscen'io n of the Lords of the Au , miralty in thus attending to the wishes of the Club, eee veyed through their honorary secretary, affords a g ratify' , ing proop of their d es i re t o encourage t h e fine sc i ence s 0,l building and sailing ; an d if we may j u d ge from t h e spirit in which the matt e r h as b een t a k en up an d patro nized here and elsewhere, we may venture to say that they V" l l have no cause to repe n t o f th e con fid ence t h ey h a d place d in the members. The monthly meeting will take plac e place this evening, when a large number of additionsl members have to be ballotted for, and about an equal number are to be proposed. COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—George Godwin, Esq. , F.R.S., F.S.A., the Honorary Secretary to the London Art Union, to whose energy and talent the public are mainly indebted for the eminent success of that refined and refining society, as well es its exemption from the penalties of the Lottery Act, is now delivering a highly successful course of lectures, upon the History of Archi tecture, at this institution. in his lectures of Tuesday and Friday last, he has traced the progress of architecture from the earliest record of it in Genesis, to the period of its most successful application by the ancient Greeks, il lustrating his remarks by a great number of beautiful diagrams, representing the best specimens of the arehi•- tecture of the ancient nations whose ruins are now extant. Two lectures only remain undelivered, in which Mr. Godwin proposes to consider the Roman, Byzantine, and Gothic architecture—summing up with a review of the present state of architecture, and especially as it ap pears to exist in our town. We are glad to find Mr. Godwin's audiences to be increasing, a sure sign of ap preciation ; and we trust that it is not the last time he will honour us by his presence at this institution.- - Amongst the audience on Friday we noticed the Rev. 1 1 - M`Neile and family, and several of our town-councillors and aldermen. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, Nova 11113 ER 4. Wind N.E. SAlLED. — Henrietta, Pearce, for Vera Cruz—Satisfaction: Weakner, and Grace, Sco rg i e , f or I c h a b oe— H o t spur , Ditch burn, for Antigua—and St. Martins, Vaughan, for St. Johns. St. Helena, Deslendes, from Gold Coast. at Cove in 68 days. On 28th Oct. in lat. 46, long. 15, spoke the Crown, hence to Mobile Ann Wisa, Smith, from Rio Grande, at Cove, in 68 days Oi - 23rd Oct in lat. 47, long. 15, s p o k e t h e Walton, hence to dad. Randolph. Campbell, from Ichaboe, at Cove Ann, Goudre. from Galatz, ditto e'ina and Thomas, Davies, from Newf oun dl an d , at /Nater ford Mary and Jane, Osborne, from Naples, ditto Mary Worrall, from Valparaiso, at Kingstown Bounty Hall, fsom Africa, ditto Hawk. from Malaga to Li ver p oo l , was spoken 27th Oot• Of f the Smalls. Lydia, Jones, hence to Antigua, 25th Oct. 49, long. 7. Emuotis. Short, from Newfoundland, o`f Cape Clear John Cock, Stenuing, from Ichaboe, at Cove. In lat. 6 , 14 :: h lone. 25 W, spoke the Ei re Q ueen , ( s t eamer) hence to Ca l c u' COVE, Nov. 2.CTee head board of a vessel named Shaming as was picked up near the lighthouse yesterday. Mem.—The Sha minga sailed from Liverpool for Boston 27th October. WARREN POINT, Nov. 2.—The Schooner Mary, from LW' pool to Killybegs, put in here this afternoon, with loss of sails' and cargo shifted. Nov. 3.—The O r i ssa . f rom Liverpool ~. Bombay, struck on Carlingford Bar, yesterday, unsnapped het rudder, and druve on shore on the Scar, where she is IPT; badly, with her bottom injured. Assinstan ce h as b een sent lighten her. DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—lt has been blowing a heavy gale fro. E.S.E. for the last 24 hours. Th e Ki ngs t on, from Li ve rpool o ' o ° Africa, is sunk and burnt, and th e C apr i corn. from St. DoMitto to Liverpool, is sunk in the Old Ki ngstown Harbour: cr e" s •ved, The Sovereign, R ogers, f rom Liverpool to Nori o ' g, N.S. is on shore at Greystones, with masts cut away, and [1 1; they vessel is on shore a t th e B reaches, broadside ou. , Rosebud, Montgomery, from Quebec to Belfast, drove on sh ( t e at the Skerries during th e ga l e, b ut does not appear to ha l received any damage; crew and passengers saved. A vess e l, name unknown, is report e d t o b e l os t , w i t h a ll h an d s, off 010 briggan. Nov. 3.—The William an d I sa b e l , f rom Arc h an gel Gloucester, is sunk in the Old H ar b our o f Ki ngstown ; cf." , saved. The Shannon, Collins, is a total wreck at Kinocking e S„ and the Busy, Hughes, from Dublin to Live 001, is much * be maged, in Kingstown Harbour. M em — l n a dditi on to ';;, above casualties, the Iron Duke, (steam er ) th a t arr i ve d it , j ',,;f verpool this morning from Dublin, reports that the Jupitero, Milford, and Commerce, also sunk in Old Kingstown Harbo_r; crews saved : and twat the Kish Light-shi , broke a arift du s tr i ! the gale, and put into Kingstown, but was towed ou t Yc day to ber station. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, NOVEMBER 4. Wind at Flolyhead, East, moderate b reeze , i n th e Mor—int i East. strong breeze in the evening. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, No. 8953, Nimrod, (stealer) at 10 a.m., and 3912, Flora, Sc. at 2 30 p.m has a pilot. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 5 ' , 0 4 There is not the slightest turn in our C o tt on mar k e t to re,i c es during the past week. The trade have su ppli e d thear` to very readily, nevertheless, holders have evi n c e d no an xie ty pOO realize in this way. The daily business has averaged foie bales, to-day 4,000. Speculators have also been on th e d , tapis, arid taken several thousand bales of Surat s a t lid to The market closes with a quiet feeling. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, Nov. 5. The Butter market is rather quiescent; at the same tira_ota, disposition is at all evinced by holders to lessen our late g t ! t , tions. Fine Kilkenny, Carlow, and select Cork still t oo 7for hiat a figure as 85s to 86s. Belfast 82s to 81s. The dernaP_ ad pickled Butter is much checked by the recent considerabl%ds, vance in price. The nominal rate is 81s per cwt. for se,., c.° There is is very little good Beef and Pork left in the 111 06 : per the former brings 85s to 908 per tierce, the latter 68s to 7 ,, co d barrel. No change in Bacon. Prime Hams very scarce, worth 56s to 5Ss. LIVEROPOL LYING-1N 110SPITAL, HORATIO-STREET. [MONTHLY REPORT.] OUT PATIENTS. 5g g Admitted... .............. 34 5 Discharged. cured ••• • • the 319 Total admission for year. ..... . 5 IN PATIENTS. Admited Dis2harged, we 11.... Remaining in Wards, Mothers Infants Total admission for the year Consulting Surgeon, Treasurer, Samuel Woods. 4 rhos. Blackburn, Esq. jun. Esq.. India -buildings LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1844. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove-street, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street , A 1N0.4, ST. Gsoaos's CRERCENT,LIVERYOOI.• ~'