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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TO CORRESPONDENTS. to the rd.verti , ement of the Licensed Victuallers' Ball, in our last publication, the price of the tickets was stated to be 13s. instead of 10s. . . The gentleman alluded to by" Fair Play" is certainly deservng of the honour, by birth, dignity, and princely liberality; and wer.l we assured that he desired the office, we sh :Md to the first to enforce his claims to the utmost of our power. We were compelled at a late hour to withdraw several letters and paragraphs. Cbt Ktbrrpool iTtanbari). TUESDAY MORAING, 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 pubic 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 he 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 he 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 wh3 had previously de • clared by letter that lie "must decline, in the most explicit manner, the honour" of b-ing proposed; and enumerated such 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 am writing 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 wishes, 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 insolende 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 hal 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 each 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 GrandJ unc tion, " to he 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 bulk 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 their 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. panics into concessions to the convenience of the public; and there are many schemes sanctioned last session, which tend to prove that the weapon, in which their greatest reliance is placed, is encourage ment to competing Lines. We cannot, therefore, assure the proprietors of the Grand Juncti • on Line, of immunity from legislatorial reprisal for the past. Their fancied exclusive ("property in the country through which their Line runs will, we are confident, be strongly and successfully attacked ; and, although we rely, with as great a confidence as Mr. Moss himself, in the elasticity and resources of the con cern over whose interests he so ably,and honestly presides, we fear that, for a time, the shareh o ld ers must prepare for some sac rifices of interest upon their investments 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, will, 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 Iluyton 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 town, the expense of a separate station and tunnel ought not to be an object of consideration, with a Compariy 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 be 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 waive their claim to such an honour, rather than undergo the searching ordeal necessary to clear them from the imputations brought against 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 probity and honesty, not sallied in the slightest degree by the attempt made to do it injury. Entering upon such an office under such circutn 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 even the 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 be 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 WPS dictated from motives the most pure of what he was led to believe was his duty ; and we:readily forbear 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, although 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 been 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 were not munificently 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 readiness 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 whose 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, however, 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 be elected to the office of aldermen, we are assured that not only has no such arrangement—no such "compromise"— been entered into, upon the terms 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. busi ness having been limited, and the market closing early. Con sols for money left off this afternoon 993 to 8 ; an d f or the account, 991 to par. Bank Stock closed 203 to 205 ; India Stock, 287 to 289; India Bonds, 89s. to 91s. pre_ mium ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 99 to 3 ; New Three and-a-quarter per Cents., 1013 to 101; and Long Annui ties, 12. Exchequer-bills continue to feel the influenc e of the increased demand for money , leaving off to-day at 655. to 675. 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 had 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 pated to be unfavourable when the market opens on Mon day. Spanish Three per Cents. this afternoon closed at 351 to 3 ; Five per Cents., 233 to 24. The other prices were—Belgian, 101 to 102 ex div. ; Brazilian, 853 to 861; Chilian, 101 to 103; Colombian, 133 to 14; Danish, 883 to 894; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 621 to 8; the Four per Cents, 953- to 1; the Five per Cents., 983 to 99 ; Mexican, 343 to the Deferred, 15 to 3: and Russian, 118} to 1193. . THE WATCH COMMITTEE AND THE LATE HEAD-CONSTABLE. We must say that we have seldom approached a subject with greater difficulty—with greatee regret, that the duty should be imposed upon us,—than we now approach the consideration of the questions tat issue between Mr. Miller, our late Head-constable, and the Watch Corn• enlace. 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 ex p ec t a ti ons o f th a t committee and of the town. Tke event of his retirement, even, we regarded as only attribu , abl e t o a m i s t a k e , on hi s part, of his duties, and a wrong impression as to the extent to which he was subject to the controlling 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 be could not fulfil the expectations, of the body by whom he was appointed. We would wii!insly 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 inclinat'on to provoke a contro versy and a sifting 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, he 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 he 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 ticularly well known to himself, been sitting to inquire into the general conduct of the police, his own conduct included. On the very clay 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 office. The late head con stable therefore is a little disingenuous when he makes use of the Board's kind consideration for his own future pros pects, to raise a charge of undue severity against him. And now, with respect to the circumstances under which Mr. Miller 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 he 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 minutes ; 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 or 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 had been placed under the orders of Mr. Dowling. We tell him moreover that Mr. Lawrence had authority to interfere, being autt orised by the Committee to see their orders carried into effect ; and we tell him, further, that Mr. Lawrence never did so in terfere as he has represented him doing. Mr. Lawrence never sent back a man of the Force. Mr. Dowling, who was in charge of the Force, and to whom it wash-ft 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 misled 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 our— 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 or 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 ycur 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 thecommittee 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 marshal! 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 affence, but that 1 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 bad been on duty the whole of the day at Birkenhead were completely ex— hausted ; and that the crowds of people in the streets, end 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 which they bad 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 opposition 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 of this responsible office. I will add, in conclusion, for the satisfaction of the many influent al gentlemen in this town who took an interest in my election, the - following, coßimunication which I received from Sir James Camp bell since my arrival in Liverpool, tesifying the opinion which he and a large portion of the community of Glas gow entertained 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 IN MISFORTUNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Sia,—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, PEIELAN O'BOT[IEREM. Clarence Dock, Nov. 4, 1844. 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 did you compromise the dignity of the family, by contesting such an out of the nay 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 precinr ts. Don't you see now what a foal 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 gentleman 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 driv e n 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! Depend upon it that you and Bolton, and Rathbone, and Shiel, and Holt, and Dicky Vaughan—what's-his-name ?—are a flock of 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 bad made a 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. 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 fora year or two upon the surge of the revolutionary wave ; ana 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 tha mastery of your ill-tempers, you must mount the balcony of the Bull Inn, Clayton square, and tell the people that they are plundered by the Tories—that they pay a shilling a bu44el too much for their corn (but don't tell them that, if foreign corn is imported duty free, they will have 6s. a-week 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 tro able of working for it, and that the primeval curse is all nonsense. And then you can say that Annual Parliao.ents, 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 seat 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—be 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, 1844. ** * ** * 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 . . - . James Ainswo th, Manchester I 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 Monttlower. Manchester Wm . . H. Bainbridge, Liverpool J. A. Ransome, Manchester Henry Stubbs. Liverpool Joseph Jordan, Manche,ter Wi ilam Gill, Liverpool Samuel Parton, Manchester James Long, Liverpool John Windsor, Manchester I Abraham Wood, Rochdale . . James Dawson, Liverpool J. Stockdale Harrison, Lane. Robert Bickersteth, Liverpool Samuel Gaskell, Lancaster . • THgATRE-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, nn the several charges stated : A boy named George Hill, charged with stealing, on Saturday, a cheese, value 65., from the shop 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 Rigby of his watch, which she after. ward threw on the ground when the police-officer came up. Charles Turner, on suspicion of entering and robbing the house of William Williams, in Boundary 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 nience 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, for stealing in Bannister-street, on Saturday, a jacket belonging to Joseph Blood. LIVERPOOL JEALOUS OF BIRKENHEAD The exposition which we gave last week of the increasing financial resources of Liverpool, and tle accounts which have since been Oven of the growing prosperity of our noble Dock Estate, 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 R iilway Magazine of last Saturday. BIRKENIIEAD ' SPECHLATIONS. — The following may, I believe, be depended on. One gentleman, in a small way, has cleared £12.000 by land speculations; anothe•*assured me he had cleared ..13,005 in a fortnight ; a third bought some land, several years ei,?o, for £3,000. and thought he did exceedingly well to sell it, some years after, for hut his successor has actually re sold the same land, lately, for £89,000. Now, is not such bra gadocio sufficient to tempt any man, who is not possessed of Jamblike 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 auite 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 LIVERPOOL.—Many will, doubtless, he the lets and hindrances Birkenhead will have to encounter, but it is and must continue to be a rising place. Whether that ris.ng 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 head-quarters. 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 nobl ,st rivers in England, and in the very heart of our manufactures. Birkenhead, therefore, can hardly fail to rise, and rapidly; and it appears to me, that, instead of Liverpool being jealous of its prosperity, it should re joice and foster it, as it will he the means of conceWrating on this spot, more and more of the export and import trade of England. If any parties should feel alarm it is London. Bristol, Hull, &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 Eat India House, Lloyd's Coffee [louse, 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 ! Seriously 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 g , ze 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 THE TOWN-CLERK.—It will be seen from our obituary that Mr. Radcl ffe, whose health had, for some time past, been visibly dec:ining, departed this life on Friday night last, at Leamington. The important offices he held under the Corporation of this town, at a salary of .e2OOO a year. are now vacant, and will probably be filled up on the gth 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 lite —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 eu logiums, confounding all distinctions of the real characteristics of our felow-men, which they have lavished on the memory of Mr. Radcliffe, to intimate, even thus vaguely, our dissent from 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 ge eral welfare of society, we must say that we consider its counterpart, de mortuis nil nisi vsatrM, infinit ly preferable." Upon the charity and amiability of heart (I) which prompted this most uncalled-for 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 he so strenuously " dissents." We do not conceive that it is any part of the duty of the joutnalist to drag from the newly-closed grave, and to holdup to the contemplation of the world, the private frailties.of any man. Ours shall 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 folios 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 fproperty of a butter factor at Liverpool, in whose service he had been as confidential clerk. He had gone up to a pol - ceman, and delivered himself into custody. He was remanded forinquiry. 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 Mancbester,under the names of Friendly Brothers, Hibernian Societies," &c. Perhaps it is not 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, and likely to bring those guilty of it to Norfolk Island or Van Dieman's 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. That 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 shipme: ts were taken in by the selling brokers at £6 ss. The cargo per " Aurora " held by Mr. Vincent Ve'anostrocht, North John-street, is by far the best yet imported from lchaboe. It very much resem bles the Peruvian in colour and dryness and possesses, according to Mr. Huson's analysis 782.5 per cent. of rich, available fertilising matter. The first contract was ef fected from the quay, on Thursday last. at £6 55., 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 greet 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 gnat 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 visitor s, 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 cc/dl. Miss Whitnall, Mr. Ryalls, Mr. Armstrong, and Mr. Crank, kindly contributed their undouLted talents, as vo calists on the occasion ; and the excellent selection of songs, duetts, glees, &c., was only equalled by the taste and precision with which they were accomplished —many 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 the meeting by his presence—having come from Aigburth to countenance 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, dwelling 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. V. Lewis presided at the piano, and favoured the company with a splendid " Fantasia" on that instrument. At the close, thanks were heartily voted to Miss Whitnall—and also, separately to the gentlemen vocalists, who had 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."a Nov. 5, 1841 SPAIN. The following important news has been received by ek press from this quarter. " MADRID, Oct. 27. " A fresh conspiracy has just been discovered. General Narvaez was to have been assassinated at the ; ate of th e French Embassy, wile! e he dined. General Prim icl s , arrested this morning. Other arrests were made 10' night and this morning." " BARCELONA, Oct. 27 "At 8 o'clock this afternoon two assassins were ar s Bar° rested at the moment they were about to attack th e de Meer, who was alighting from his cart iage at the the!., tre. They were rescued from the guard which was eacoralt ing them to the Atarazanas by a mob, consisting of least 500 armed men. 4, BARCELONA, OCT. 28. a " Four or five hundred persons, wearing red caps their heads, proceeded to the Rambla, and seized toe.; Alcadeand'his deputy, who were rescued by the Mosof, P °. the Foreign Legion. Other troops arrived, arid f, rioters were di s p erse d. Th e B aron d e Meer on le avo6 the theatre proceed e d a l ong th e R am bla. Forty P er i were arrested. Two officers and a gendarme were stab with knives." EARLY CLOSING OF ATTORNEYS' O F FICES. at attorneys of Ormskirk commenced closing their ot flos seven o'clock in the evening, on Monday, the 28th 61 ` . MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—We subjoin the return_.,, e f g ia 0 1 7 the Municipal elections of a f e w o f the neibo w- 0 towns.; At Manchester thirteen Radicals and thre e servatives were returned : at Bolton seven conser" s acl and five radicals : at La ncas t er f our con servatives i do two radicals : at Wigan a ll c o nserva ti ves , and on Frivio when the three ra di ca l aldermen go out the coun cil , ~a rl be wholly conse rva ti ve : at Leeds three conservati ve.- eight radicals : at Preston all conservatives. 7 , 0 f GUNPOWDER PLOT.—This day is the anniversary the happy deliveran c e of ki ng J ames 1., an d the three %. tates of England f rom th e mos t t ra it orous an d bloody 1 0 . tended massacre by gun p ow d er , an d a l so o f the l iaP a f arrival of his majesty Ki n William, for the delivera nee o our church and nation," We understand that in Will fortuity with the requirements of the rubric, th ere and be divine service this morning at St. Jude's Church the t he in the evening at St. Simon' s Gloucester-street. Li ge. latter occasion a sermon will be preached by the t OPe • David James, in aid of the fund s of th e P ro t es tan t rative Association. ' II be IRISH SOCIETY. -- A meeting of this so c iety 'c l t haa held in Liverpool on Monday week, and m ore day ., twenty sermons will be preached in its behalf on 9 , 1 _!, re• the 17th instant. We rejoice that such a society P i :: Otr ceived the promise of such support in Liverpool. y w b acl ject is to instruct the Irish-speaking population of ii e 've in the Scriptures in their own tongue, and already i t „ t o been instrumental in teaching multitudes, man y of "il i a are living witnesses of th e h appy results 'of sea rching rd Scriptures, and making th e sacre d vo l ume the stall" of doctrine and rule of life. boa t, FAST SAILING.—On Tuesday last, the new pilo''',3„ t er George Canning, No. 7, recently laun c h e d b y Mr. Cato, Brunswick Dock, made her trial t r i p t o test ' a6 sailing qualities in competition with No. 12, hitherto the swiftest sailing boat of the fleet. The two boats lef L s i Prince's Pier-head together, the wind blowing strong f o o l S.S.E., and proceeded u p th e M erse y t o R oc k FerrY.s o , from thence back and round the Crosby Light Slii o beating back against the ebb tide and strong wind. 13 % George Caning acquitted hers e lf t o a d m i ra ti on , bee; at No. 12 in every point of sailing; and when she a rriveu,.„ the George's Pier-head, No. 12 was a cons id e rable o't tance behind. The George C a nni ng i s a b eau tiful sP ec ts ' men of naval architecture, well finished, and refi ec el great credit on her builder. Her a pp earan ce ex ci t ed universal admiration ; though a littl e ou t o f t r im, she l, proved herself the fastest boat in the service. • il, THE ROYAL MERSEY YACH T CLUB..—The Sec re t a isi of this flourishing Club has r ece i ve d separate an d sPe c ts warrants for upwards of twenty vessels belonging t o members, authorising them, under the hand and sesl of jet Lords of the Admiralty to carry th e Bl ue E ns i g n of 1 1 ,.. Majesty's Fleet, with the di s ti nc ti ve mar k o f the Clit o f the Crown and Liver. We have now therefore a Cl" b a g our own town, having the honour and privilege of tl f; , he the national flag, irrespective of any other yacht club. ,a promptitude and condescension of the Lords of the miralty in thus attending to the wishes of the Chris. elf veyed through their ho n o rar y secre t ary, a ff or d s a g" ti of ing proof of their desire to encourage the fine scienees.it building and sailing ; and if we ma y j u d ge f rom the se l iei d in which the matter h as b een t a k en up an d patrottll here and elsewhere, we may ven t ure t o say t h a t they " ce a have no cause to repent of th e con fid ence t h ey h a ve ril„, o in the members. The mo n thly meet i ng w ill take P7 a i place this evening, when a large number of addit i° al members have to be ball o tt e d f or , an d a b ou t an 0 1 °- number are to be pioposed. , Esq. , COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—George Godwin, - do n F.R.S. , F.S.A., the Honorary Secretary to the L?' „ r e Art Union, to whose energy and talent the public : e a mainly indebted for the eminent success of that I ' 4 t he and refining scciety, as well as its exemption fro!, V . penalties of the Lottery Act, is now delivering 1 0 g a ,.,, successful course of lectures, upon the History of Are,o, tecture, at this institution. In his lectures o f Tuesday and Friday last, he has traced the progress of architect_ from the earliest record of it in Genesis, to the period i 7 .. ` its most successful application by the ancient Gree k _ s iiful lustrating his remarks by a great number of het„ h i, diagrams, representing the best specimens of the . a r,s.. • lecture of the ancient nations who se ru i ns are n° vi°,7ch Two lectures only rem a i n un d e li vere d, in ' t i n e, Godwin proposes to consider th e R oman , Byes° f and Gothic architecture—summin g up with a revieW the present state of architecture, and especially as it ar pears to exist in our town. We are glad to find W Godwin's audiences to be increasing, a sure sign of al', preciation ; and we' trust that it is not th e l ast t i m e P" will honour us by his presence at this institution.,' Amongst the audience on Friday we n o ti ce d th e B e v. M`Neile and family, and several of our town-councillo rs arid aldermen. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY, Nov arms 4.—Wind N.B. SAlLED.—Henrietta, Pearce, for Vera Cruz—Satisfact l l: Weakner, and Grace, Scorgie, for Ichaboe—Hotspur, 1)1 :5 , burn, for Antigua—and St. Martins, Vaughan, for St. John die St. Helena, Deslendes, from Gold Coast. at Cove in -- fie hence On 28th Oct. in lat. 46, long. 15, spoke the Crown, hen Mobile 0 0 Ann Wise, Smith, from Rio Grande, at Cove, in 68 days; 01- 23rd Oct. in lat. 47, long. 15, spoke the Walton, hence W dad. Randolph, Campbell, from Ichaboe, at Cove Ann, Goudre, from Galatz, ditto wee Selina and Thomas, Davies, from Newfoundland, at ford Mary and Jane, Osborne, from N a pl es , ditt o Mary Worrall, from Valpa r ai so , at Ki ngstown Hawk. ff Bounty from Hall, from Africa, ditto oct. la ° Malaga to Liverpool, was spoken 27th the Smalls. Lydia, Jones, hence to Antigua, 25th 'Oct. ►D 49, long. 7. Emu oil's, Short, from Newfoundland, oT Cape Clear 61 4, John Cock, Stenning, from Ichaboe, at Cove. In la' inu rts• long. 25 W. spoke the F re Queen. (steam er ) h ence to Cai.oo, COVE, Nov. 2 —Ti e head la and of a vessel named Aha was picked up near the lighthouse yesterd a y. Mern.—T lil il"n minga sailed from Liverpool for Boston 27th October. f ifer' WARREN POINT, Nov. 2.—The Schooner Mary, troll , 7 5 ai1 5 • pool to Killybegs, put in here this afternoon, with loss ei o i to and cargo shifted. Nov. 3.—The Orissa, from Liverl 3° , t i er Bombay, struck on Carlingford Bar, yesterday, unshiPr if ia rudder, and drove on share on the Scar, w here she ' s e tt ° badly, with her bottom injured. Assist l uce h a s been s lighten her. frtt l DUBLIN, Nov. 2.—lt has been blowing a heavy gale 01;0 E.S.E. for the last 24 hours. The Kingston, from Liverliiik Africa, is sunk and burnt, and the Capricorn. from St. 0° cruel to Liverpool, is sunk in the Old Kingstown Harbour, , n oel saved. The Sovereign. Rogers, from Liverpool to , ""0; N.S. is on shore at Greystones, with masts cut away, and 0, ther vessel is on shore at the Breaches, broadside o °' 00',; Rosebud, Montgomery, from Quebec to Belfast, drove on ;po i at the Skerries during the gale, but does not appear tvessei: received any damage; crew and passengers saved. Pt ° name unknown, is reported to be lost, with all hands, ° el' o , briggan. Nov. 3.—The William and Isabel, from Arch , '" e re Gloucester, is sunk in the Old H ar b our of KingstowVogef saved. The Shannon, C o lli ns, i s a total wreck at Kinoc".o „ s'; and the Busy, Hugh es , f rom Du b l i n to Liverpool, is rautc, maged, in Kingstown H ar b our. Mem —I n add i t ion j o 11 0 i above casualties, the Iron D u ke, ( s t eamer ) th at arriv- I , te r, verpool thii morning from Dublin, rep or t s t h a t the Jalll,.boari Milford, and Commerce, a l so sun k i n Old Ki ngstow n 1-I 'ofi l l, crews saved : and that the Kish Light-shi broke adrift vete the gale, and put int o Ki ngs t own , b ut was towe d out. • day to her station. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, NOVEMBER 4 . 11 310 ii Wind at Holyhead, East, moderate breeze, in the —, ° ) 0 0 East. strong breeze in the evening. et' Off Point Lynas, inward hound , No. 8953, Nimrod.. ,7 , at 10 a.m., and 3912, Flora, Sc. at 230 p.m has a pilot. / LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, N o v 5 reeei There is not the slightest turn in our Cotton m arket ,se l y 0 during the past week. The tr a d e h ave su ppli e d the je t9 o o very readily, nevertheless, holders have evinced no an` Nig realize in this way. Th e d a il y b us i ness has averag'oo bales, to-day 4,1:00. Speculators have also beer!,, t o ' tapis, and taken se v era l t h ousand b ales of Surats a t 24" The market closes with a quiet feeling Nov' s' o LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, 00 0 „ t r The Butter market is rather quiescent; at the sa'"i O n " fly disposition at all is evinced by holders to lessen fot tions. Fine Kilkenny, Carlow, and select Cork st,',„' ro so'd• high a fiure as 85s to 86s. Belfast 82s to 81s. The n a bleolit Vance Butter is much checked by the recent consid ers co. ; o vance in price. The nominal rate is 815 per cwt. it a rke' o er There is very little good Beef and Pork left in the "i o 71 5 ;pd the former brings 85s to pOs per tierce, the latter 6 8 s car ce, barrel. No change in Bacon. Prime Hams very s worth 56s to 58s. -- - LIVEROPOL LYING-1N HOSPITAL' HORATIO-STREET. [MONTHLY REPORT.] Ic ti IN PATIENTS. OUT PATIENTS .• 5 4 Admited . . '..• • Dis2harged, well 5 Di -charged cured fo •r to ~,g ..., Remaining in Wards. Mothers 4 • Infants year. admission..:.... .. Total admission for the year C onsu lting Surgeon, Thos. Blackburn. E s .?,;i r igg• Treasurer, Samuel Woods, jun. Esq., India.but •• LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, Oa • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED , EVERY TUESDAY MOR I " BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53,Grove-street,to4 LEONARD ADDISON, of 14 , Grea t Orford-str e , c ,:y. INo. 4, Sr. GEORGE'S ORESCZNY,LIVSAry II