The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS The five per cent. to the im eft duties was added during the by the present Lord Monteagle. Melbourue administration, Cbt Zibrrpool tailbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 12, 1845 The Ses'sion of 1845 has at length concluded; one which, for good or evil, for its sins of omission or commission, is likely to become a landmark in England's history. We refer not, in attaching to it this importance, to any great measure, affecting social interests, which has been carried out or neg lected during its progress. We point to no impor tant class of the community whose welfare has been affected—to no great bulwark of the Throne or of the Constitution which has been thrown down. But we point to the fact, palpably evidenced and distinctly and vauntingly announced by the organs of the Government itself, that as a nation we have commenced our backward progress from the princi ples of the Revolution, and are in full progress towards that state policy, whose offensiveness to the feelings of the majority of the British people lost to the House of Stuart the Throne of these Realms. We overlook, in viewing the events of the Session which has just passed, all minor objections, which affect only the conflicting interests of different bodies of the community. We pass by the con sideration of the Corn Laws and Poor Laws, Tariffs and,Finance ; and rest the overwhelming importance, with which this Session is to he regarded, upon this one fact of the repudiation which it has witnessed, by the present Government and Parliament, of the prin7iples which brought to the throne of Great Britain the House of Hanover. Where, it may be asked, is the evidence of this fact ? We point first to the endowment of May nooth as a permanent institition of the state. We point to the admitted certainty that this measure is but the precursor of the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland, and the re-establishment of the dignitaries of that church in all their ancient splendour and rank. We point to their acknow ledgment, as an independent power, to be consulted by Government in the framing of its measures, as evidenced in the Bequests' Act, and the course adopted in carrying the Academical Education Act. The Reformation barely tolerated Romanism ; and, perhaps wisely, succeeding ages have somewhat re laxed the restrictions imposed upon it by our fore fathers in 1688. We, however, have lifted it up to a station even prouder than it enjoyed in the days of the second James. And we are not going to Who among Us dare say that he may to see the day when the descendant of Liam of Orange will be seen prostrating her power beneath the feet of Rome—purchasing peace by humiliation, which she ought to command in the name of her noble ancestry, whose sceptre she stop here riot live Hear upon this point a Jesuitical advocate of the policy of the ministry, who writes (Proh Pudor !) in the pages of that once staunch Conservative organ, Fra. shag here is no aenying that these proceedings (Sir el's Irish measures) have both alarmed and >le portion of the Conservative party, yes Tories, have all their lives advo cated the principles of 1688, and are now astonished to find that their Tory leader has left both them and the doctrines of the revolution era behind him. But, in truth, Sir Robert Peel is not to blame for this; he has only gone with the spirit of the age, which, whether mo narchical or not (an ominous doubt to suggest in favour of the spirit of the ageY), is opposed to all religious ex clusiveness, and is so far but a copy of the Toryism which cost the unfortunate family of Stuart the throne of these realms. We freely admit, that the principles which brought the house of Hanover to England, are scattered to the wir" Thi Robert P, ded a consider As surely a complete admission, and ought to be a fair warni ng . Th e apo l og i s t o f Si r R o b er t 's prepared to throw the cloak from off his new f Robert is not. We are to go back, to that peculiar kind of ' , .siveness" (!)—say princi spirit of the age, )11 to all religious exc rather, that fondling of the unclean thing, that set ting up of popery, that trafficking with Rome for cardinals' hats—which was so exemplary in James the Second, poor man, and cost him his crown ! As Tories, this ministerial apologist tells us, we have been all along labouring under a grand mistake. We have been using Whig principles—" stealing the Whigs' clothes when bathing"—ever since 1688 ; and Sir Robert Peel has found out this grand trii take, and—ever-consistent statesman (!)—is going back to the principles which properly belong to the not rate rare h; , 1.. ti r o ..11 - taut Rafe6omeil9 n and reasonings, throughout the article from --incl. are too quibbling to be of which we I much value. A fool, however, sometimes speaks the truth, mal-apropos to his employer, perhaps; and there is great semblance of our Frazerian essayist having done so on this occasion. We have . , knee on eiery side that, if the principles which brought the House of Hanover to the throne are not " scattered to the winds" already, we have statesmen and politicians enough who would gladly see them so scattered ; and if we are not going back to the Toryism of the Stuart (Lys, we ask where are we goi ng . W e canno t s t an d s till it is We are going, " with the spirit of the age," somewhere; and if we are neither going back to that " opposition to all exclusiveness" which " cost the unfortunate family of Stuart the throne of these realms" nor abiding by those principles which gained it for the House of Hanover, and which we are told are scattered to the winds, we must be drifting towards some undiscovered shore which neither history nor political philosophy have ever mentioned. Unless, indeed, we are to entertain seriously the doubt, suggested in the above quota tion, that the spirit of the age—our blind leader in this voyage of discovery--is just now a little " anti monarchical" in its views. That would be a subject of rather unpalatable contemplation, which we do not care, at present, to approach. With whatever amount of placid contentment Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues may have exchanged the vicinity of Downing -street for the moors, or the members of both h ouses was h e d t h e i r hands of railway bills, and cleared their heads of gradients, curves, tunnels, and traffic, for more pleasant and healthy avocations, we cannot contemplate the termination of their parliamentary labours with equal satisfaction. They have left in Ireland, untouched, an agrarian conspiracy, which is sprinkling the land with the blind of assassination. They have left there an organised agitation stirring up the passion and misguided enthusiasm of the people to the point of ebullition. This very day will witness in that country a multitudinous gathering of men devoted o the British throne, who meet to proclaim the bitter wrong and insult which they have met with at the hands of the British Government, and to declare that, from henceforth, deserted by that Government and exposed to a system of constant terrorism and outrage, they are prepared to take their lives and property into their own keeping. And in England, even, that country upon whose quietude and loyalty her Majesty has just con gratulated her parliament in the speech from the throne—what is the position of affairs in Eng land ? We will tell Sir Robert Peel what he and his majority will find, without taking any great pains in the search. They will find disgust at his apostacy and theirs, mingled with distrust of the British constitution itself. We wish him and them joy of the pleasant prospect. An important bill, intended to be submitted to Parliament next session, has just been printed, to the provisions of which it is important that the at tentive consideration of the public should be drawn in time, in order that we may be prepared to take any steps which may be necessary to ensure its re jection or modification. The object of the bill, which is to establish better drainage, sewerage, wa tering, and cleansing, in all large towns, and to re gulate the erecti on an d proper ventilation of build ings,is excellent. Wh et h er i ts mach i nery is the best which could be devised for carrying out that object—whether it is not somewhat too cumbrous, may fairly be questioned . I n p art i cu l ar, i ts appli cability to Liverpool is very doubtful. To render intelligible, however, the few remarks which we have to make, we must first put our readers in possession of the general bearing and a few of the details of the proposed measure. The first step is the abolition of all public boards connected with paving, severing, draining, &c„ whether existing under local acts or forming parts of corporate bodies. The act then proceeds to re place these with a . machinery of its own, presided over by inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, paid from the consolidated fund and re sponsible to the Home-office. Her Majesty, in Privy Council, is authorised to bring the whole towns of England and Wales, containing above 10,000 inhabitants, under its operation. The follow ing will be the constitution of the new body in Li verpool. Eighteen commissioners will be chosen, for life, from amongst the existing bodies (we pre sume those appointed under local acts, as the high way board, &c.) ; twenty-seven commissioners, of whom one-third will go out of office every three years, are to be elected by the rate-payefs, £lO con ferring a vote, £5O and upwards two votes, and an ad ditional vote for every additional £25 of rental. Twenty-two, viz., fourteen councillors, five aldermen, with the Mayor, ex ajicio, are to be chosen by the Town Council, and six magistrates to be elected by the justices. The body will thus consist of 73 ; and are empowered, subject to the control of the go vernment inspector of the Home-office, to pave, sewer, water, and cleanse the streets, provide addi tional supplies of water gratis for the poor, appoint an inspector or inspectors of nuisances, and a medi cal officer to report to them : in fine, to maintain the sanatory condition of the town efficiently and to tax the inhabitants by laying rates for the purpose. The powers of this body, and the duties expected from them, it will thus be seen, are somewhat similar to those comprised amongst the powers and duties of all our local bodies, freed however from their present conflicting state—centralized in fact. They are however of a more sweeping and stringent character; and evidently contemplate placing the town in an effectual and thorough state of sanatory regulation whether we will or no ; and at any cost. The regulation of buildings is to he most strict. New streets are to be of a certain width ; no house is to be built without proper drain !, ash pits, &c. A complete system of sewerage is to be maintained ; unwholesome houses are to be cleansed and white washed, and power is given to increase the supply of water, having respect however to vested rights, to lease the powers vested in existing water com panies, to purchase springs of water, or to take water from public streams, by consent of the Secretary of State. They are also given the complete contr3l of the Fire Police and the Scavengers. From this hasty and necessarily imperfect glance at the provisions of a bill, which contains 353 clauses, the considerations which first strike us are the serious inroad which it makes upon the func tions of the Town Council, the practical negation of the right of self government which it carries with it, and the probable expensive character of its operation. We admit the utility of all which the act appears to contemplate; and we are sorry to admit the neces sity of some little coercion to ensure its being speedily carried out. We dislike, however, these features of it which inflict upon us Government in spectors and the constant interference of the Home Office. This body of 73 members, with all its com plication of election, and the expense which must attend such election, involving a double registra tion of the municipal constituency every year, will after all be a mere shadow without a corresponding substance. It has neither a veto nor a will. The substantial power will he wielded by the Govern ment Inspector and the Home Office, who can dip their hands in our pockets, experijnentalize at our cost, whilst the Council looks on powerless, and with nothing to do, and the Commissioners have only to register their decrees. As a whole, the bill is a patronage-conferring affair throughout ; and, however valuable its principles, we think all the ad vantages which it holds out could have been con ferred at a less sacrifice of our local independence. So far as Liverpool is concerned, we are tolerably assured that it can never operate satisfactorily, and we trust that it will not be forced upon us. We have the materials within ourselves for the erection here of an efficient system. We require little more than the consolidation of the existing bodies to create one efficient for all useful purposes, with perhaps a few additional powers which might be conferred under a local act for the purpose. The tendency of the present measure must inevitably be to irritate and annoy, to receive actual improvement as an intrusion of despotic authority, and to throw amongst us continual discord and heartburning, whilst we might be working by ourselves harmo niously and earnestly in the promotion of a really good work. Another objectionable tendency of the mea.. so far as Liverpool is concerned, arises from the po sition in which it will place our corporate body. They have the revenues of a great and a growing estate at their disposal, which we look forward to see, at no distant date, devoted to some large mea sures of public improvement—to the formation of public parks, and the widening of streets, for the better ventilation and beautifying of the town. This measure however, takes from them all care for tbg lemizmidu 01 sueu onjects. It creates wnat win prove a conflicting authority. If we are to be yearly and immediately taxed by the Home (Vice and 1g —an (1 s virtually it ;ill he so—for their crotchetty improvements, the Town Council is not unlikely to withdraw its hand altogether from works of improvement which another authority has arro gated to itself the right to carry out, or of which they will dictate the execution. We must pause here, however, we shall have an opportunity of returning to the subject when we shall have had more time to give it a fair considera tion. We should state that at the weekly meeting of the highway board on Thursday, Mr. Deane, the law-clerk, said it did not necessarily follow that the new act would he introduced into Liverpool, The town would first be reported by the inspector, and that would be followed by an order in council. We had occasion to comment, a few weeks ago, upon the undue harshness with which the publicans of this town have, for some time past, been treated by the stipendiary magistrate. It appeared to us at the time that there were other and better means of securing improvement in the mode of conducting the business of a tavern-keeper, and advancing the moral improvement of the population, than that of placing the whole body of publicans under an irri tating police espionage, which might be converted into an odious system of exaction, and even perse cution, at the discretion of the members of the police force; and we particularly deprecated the announcement, made by Mr. Rushton from the bench, that against this class of tradesmen he was prepared to administer the law " fiercely." A case has just occurred, which appears to us to justify our previous remarks, the particulars of which we shall now bring before our readers. On Friday last, a publican named John White, of the Globe Hotel, Copperas-hill, corner of Russell street, was charged by Inspector Gregg and Police constables Threlfall and M‘Farlane with having seventeen men, six of whom were drunk, in his house at 20 minutes to 12 o'clock on Wednesday night, the 23rd July. There was also a second in formation. Messrs. Maxwell and Booth (in the absence of the stipendiary) were on the bench. Mr. James, barrister, appeared for the defendant. We may remark that Mr. White is the party who successfully appealed against a previous conviction at the last sessions. To exemplify the mode in which these informations are got up, we give the evidence and cross-examination of the first witness entire from our reporter's notes : Thomas Threlfall, policeman, being called, said that on the evening of the 23rd July, at 20 minutes before 12 o'clock, he visited the defendant's house, along with In spector Gregg, and M`Farlane, and there found seventeen men, all standing up, and six of them drunk.—Cross examined by Mr. James : I have been generally con cerned in informations against publicans, and four times in matters of this kind against Mr. White. I believe there was a supper there that night. Mr. White said so himself. I went into the parlour. I don't call it a room, but a parlour. I " nudged" police-officer 47, for him to see whether there were any drunken persons. I meant that he should look at this man and at that, to see whe ther he was drunk or sober, and I took his opinion. The parties we looked at were very disturbed; they were run ning one amongst the other. I did not go up stairs, but went into the parlour, and the men then all rose. I have given evidence against Mr. White twice before; in one case he was convicted in this court, but that was quashed by the Recorder. I received 18s. for my last week's wages, and the same sum the week before, with 3s. additional for over-time. Two persons, Birkett and Greenwood, were shown to this witness, and he was asked if they were present, but be said he could not swear to their being pre sent. .2\rone of the policemen went up stairs. A man was drunk when he staggered." Now let us just glance at the bearing of this evi dence, and of the system itself. In the first place, the party informed against has just succeeded in quashing a conviction laid, we believe, by the same officers, and thereby, to some extent, damaged their character as persons to be trusted with such busi ness. The officer Threlfall has informed against Mr. White no less than four times. For his acti vity in this informing business, (or, as he styles it, " for overtime,") he received, last week but one, 3s. in addition to his ordinary wages. Then mark his notion of what constitutes the kind of drunkenness which renders a man liable to be fined. "A man is drunk when he staggers "! But proceed to the next witness—the inspector. That person, having corroborated the previous evidence in its main points, admits the fact of having " frequently lis tened under the windows of White's house, and not afterwards gone in." Listened for what ? He says —" I have done this about four times within the last five weeks." No wonder that robberies are committed with impunity, when a police-inspector systematically employs his leisure in listening at publicans' doors ! He concludes his evidence with the following naïve admission of extra-officiousness in laying this very information : " There was not much di s t ur bance in the house on the night in question. A few minutes after we went into the house, all the men left it quietly, and there was no dis turbance in the street—not any. They walked away as if they were drunk. I consider a man drunk when he can not walk, is noisy, and has to be passed home by a police man. We did not apprehend them, or pass them borne. One of them was put out, and the others walked away!" The other officer (one employed in laying the infor mation recently quashed) admits to listening. He says "he had had conversations with Threlfall about this house"; admits that the parties, on the night in question, left the house orderly ; and con cludes by saying—" I visited the house every half hour: I was instructed to look after it " ! Now glance only at the conclusion to be formed from this last admission. This man knew there was a large supper in the house on the night in question ; and he visited the house every half hour. For what purpose ? He " was instructed to look after it." By whom ? He had been talking with Threlfall about it. Threlfall had " had some talk with Inspector Muir about it." Inspector Gregg had listened at the windows four times during the last five weeks—during a part of which time an appeal against an information laid by these very men was pending, which was at length decided in favour of the persecuted publican. What does all this mean ? Very properly, the information against Mr, White was dismissed. But can matters remain here ? Can a system such as this is proved to be, any longer be tolerated ? Let us look at the evidence for the defence, and see what that discloses. Two waiters employed for that evening to wait upon the company—nearly seventy in number, and respecta ble tradesmen and gentlemen we are informed, al though the policemen find it convenient only to call them " men "—gave a flat contradiction to the offi cers on all points. These parties stated that " The officers came into the house and went up stairs, not into the parlour at all ; and that there was no one drunk in the house except one man, who was refused any drink, and who had come in drunk, but was immediately turned out, by the orders of Mr. White. who had strictly enjoined them not to allow any drunken man to remain in the house or to have any drink." Two other most respectable witnesses deposed to the perfect good conduct of the company at White's. The hour itself was comparatively an early one. And yet, upon a charge so trumpery, a respectable tradesman is to be dragged up before a bench, and the very license of his house—his living—put in jeopardy, by what is apparently little short of a conspiracy. We must really see this state of things reformed. Had Mr. White not possessed the means of employing a legal advocate, be might at this moment have been a ruined man. " Defend me from my friends !" is a prayer which few men, who occupy any space in the pub lic eve, have not occasionally to utter. Most espe cially unhappy in this respect is Mr. Eyre Evans. Not a little escapade of temper can he be guilty of ; nor a paper pellet, or other similar weapon of of fence, can he let fly at the head of colleague or poli tical opponent—and he is not particular in the se lection of those against whom he directs his ire— but the whole Whig press is up in the stirrups, lauding, right or wrong, his amazing talent and transcendant wisdom. And even when it would be kind and charitable to let the particular matter be fore them go to sleep—when, having blown off his steam, the ex-alderman himself is disposed to sit down quietly to his ordinary avocations—one after another, his cruel friends come forward to gibbet him afresh with their injudicious goose-quills, until what might have passed off and been forgotten as an isolated piece of folly, or childish petulancy, is perpetuated into a bore. A more than usually injudicious attempt of this kind appears in the columns of a contemporary of Friday last. The public were flattering themselves that the recent ebullition of Mr. Evans, in the Dock Committee and in print, might be allowed to sink into oblivion without any great disaster occurring to the world, or any great injury to the parties imme diately interested. The question between them was . well understood. The position of the parties them selves correctly enough appreciated. So, apparent -17, v cll toe Mercury; and thus he an nounced his view of the matter:-- " In private conve rsa ti on we h ave h ear d b ut one opi nonno,—itsfroin the 01/o'clik committer:, jettae t o which Radical, or Tory,—respecting cryh w e briefly , —r esp e alluded c the o lo in oui• last, as disgraceful alike to that notty tud Itb stituents. That opinion was in conformity with our own. We met with no attempt to justify the Dick Committee, for the most silly, petty, and childlike suppression of dis cussion that ever was heard of since deliberative t blies were first invented " Very well : here, then, it might have rested. If the opinion, " in private conversation," of the Mercury's Whig-Radical and Tory friends was so unanimous, what need of further discussion ? If Messrs. Aikin and Evans, and the Mercury, are satisfied that " the party to which they belong are not defeated, sunk, annihilated, never to rise again," they didn't need the Mercury's effort to galvanize them into lively vitality. We shall not remark at any length upon the arti cle in question, which is rather too tedious and un meaning to affect the placidity of the gentlemen against whom it is levelled. The following piece of impertinence will afford our readers a sufficient idea of the spirit in which it is written : " Since his elevation to the chair of the Dock Com mittee, Mr. J. B. Moore, or Bromley Moore, as he is fond of styling himself and being styled, has, like all per sons of little minds lifted by fortuitous circumstances above their sphere, been puffed up with an overweening sense of his own importance, and, " the dignity of the chair." Under this feeling he has, on several occasions, assumed an authority which does not belong to him, and he has not scrupled, now and then, both in the Council Chamber and the Dock Committee, to treat with domi neering insalence men, his equals in station and character, and infinitely bis superiors in intellect." Mr. Moo - re has committed the unpardonable of fence of exhibiting his eminent capability of con ducting the affairs of the Dock Committee efficiently, and with enlarged views of the public requirements from that body. He has shewn himself equally above the indulgence of petty crotchets and petty spites. He has no particular wheels in his head, which must go round, whatever becomes of the vast interests connected with the estate under his ma nagement and that of his colleagues ; and for these qualifications—because at once a man of great bu siness capacity, mingled with amenity of manner— ' he has been raised by the votes of the majority of the Dock Committee to the distinguished office ' which he holds, and upon which he bestows so much of his time and his mental and bodily ener gies. It is because he has thus worthily earned the high consideration of his fellow-townsmen, and of the Dock Committee, that he is regarded with feel ings of jealousy and irritation by Mr. Evans, and those who think with him ; and not because he is a "person of little mind, lifted by fortuitous cir cumstances above his sphere." To such a character it is a folly and a libel to suppose that the gentlemen who composed the Dock Committee would for a moment pay deference. We shall not insult our readers by any detailed comment upon an article such as this. We feel, indeed, that an apology is due to the Chairman of the Dock Committee, for having in some measure lowered him by offering a word in his defence against his present antagonist. We are not so "puffed up with an overweening sense of our own importance," as journalists, to imagine for a moment that he could here stand in any real need of our advocacy. We may, however, in all sincerity and kindness, repeat the advice which we cffered in our last to Mr. Evans and Mr. A ikin, to refrain from the manifestation of that contentious disposition in the Dock Committee which so materially impairs their usefulness. Men of business we know they are both, possessing worthily the esteem of their own party and the respect even of those who differ from them in opinion. Why can they not meet such parties, at the board of what is eminently a Business Com mittee, with the same amenity of manners and temper which they extend to those who have private business with them on 'Change or else where ?• FREE SCOTCH SECEDERS.—The Moderator of the " Free Church" in Scotland was last week requested to preach to a congregation in Manchester, but the Court of Chancery ha v i ng made an order to the effect that the building where they meet belongs to the Established Church of Scotland, the Moderator refused to officiate in the place, declaring that he thought the "Free" parties holding the church were doing so illegally and unrighte. ously. 1 LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET. - YESTERDAY. Our market for shares, yesterday, was a little depressed, some anxiety to realise on most stocks being manifested ; and prices took a downward turn. This was particularly the case in the lighter descriptions, which have been re. cently the principal subjects of the inordinate speculation which has been witnessed in our own and other markets. As will be seen by our quotations, a considerable—though generally a forced—business has been done at the reduc tion quoted. This state of the market is attempted to be accounted for from many causes. The state of the wea ther is the leading one, accompanied by a tightness of the discount market. Some difficulty in procuring settlements of the recent large transactions bas also had a share in producing it. In part, too, it may be attributed to the prorogation of parliament, and the cessation of the ex citing business of the committees, which will naturally in duce speculation in the lighter stocks to lie over until the approach of active op era ti ons f or t h e next parliamen tary campaign, whilst the coming meetings of the pro prietors of the established lines will draw speculation to wards their stock. The permanence of the favourable change of weather, which we have this day, it is thought will du much to restore confidence ; but anything like the mania we have just passed is much to be deprecated, and will, probably, not be witnessed, for a time at least, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS For the last ten days, with the exception of yesterday, which was on the whole fine and sunny, we have in this locality experienced some very heavy showers, and some injury to drizzli ng ra i ns , w hi ch have done some to the corn, and especially the wheat, which, being heavy in the plant, has in some parts been lodged, causing se rious apprehensions for the general safety of that " golden" crop. We are happy to say, however, that, so far as we can learn, or have ourselves observed, no very material injury has yet been done, and that if the weather continue dry and warm for three or four weeks an abundant yield may yet be the result. The wheat is yet greenish in this locality, being a fortnight or three weeks later than usual— or in fine summers; and if in addition to sun, we be but soon favoured with some drying winds, all may yet be well. The heavy rain, has, moreover, been but partial over the face of the country at large, and it has assuredly advanced the other crops, The hay has been nearly all gathered, in excellent order, and the crop (as we have before stated) is heavy. The turnips never presented a finer appearance, promising, indeed, a greater return than for some years past. The potatoes are also exceedingly strong and healthy, with a more than ordinary swell. Fine earlies were sold yester day morning here at 7d. a peck, being a reduction of ld. to 2d. upon the prices of Saturday last, our principal market day. The usual complaints of their missing in various ways are scarcely heard, and as they constitute a main article of food in lieu of bread, their abundance and general excellence will go tar to make up for any de ficiency in the corn harvest, should such unhappily arise. Reverting to grass, it may be stated, that the eddish never looked more beautiful, the season having been remarkably feeding for this and all other fodder crops. Fruit, particularly apples and pears, will be plentiful. The Irish reapers are beginning to come over in daily throngs, and make their way to th e sout h , but though they may find something to do in the southern counties as soon as they reach them, they may take their time in tramping northward, as little will be done in the way of cutting until the beginning of next month. We learn, on the authority of parties who have just re turned from the north, that a considerable quantity of rain fell during yesterday in Manchester and the neigh bourhood ; and on the road from Kendal towards Liver pool it was raining heavily. A sharp thunder shower fell about four miles from this town, but passed eway from Liverpool to the south. These, however, we trust, are only the parting regrets of the unkindly weather which is leaving us. THE BISEIOP OF FREDERICTON. The friends of the missionary cause who contributed to the erection of a Cathedral Church at Fredericton, on the occasion of Bishop Medley's sailing from this port a few weeks ago, will be rejoiced to hear that their benevolent exertions have been well appreciated in the colony, and have called forth a corresponding exertion of Christian liberality on the part of the colonists there. The follow ing is an extract from a letter lately received from that Bishop, dated 26th June, 1845 : " All hitherto, I bless God, has been most favourable. The addresses from St. John's were very gratifying, but at Fredericton the state of things is perfectly astonishing. In a population of 4,000, I had an address presented to me signed by 1,000 persons,-300 of them Roman Catho lics, and some Wesleyans and Bapti-ts and Presbyterians, —in short, by every respectable householder. Not only this, but the Dissenters are full of my Cathedral, and some of them have given £5O each towards it. At the first meeting -C3,1C0 was subscribed in Fredericton, and to-night brings me news of £I,OOO more. If you ask how or why this is, I answer I cannot tell—it is God's doing, not mine. " Wherever I go, kindness and blessing await me. Of course troubles will come in due season ; but let us bless God for the sunshine, and enjoy it while we can." The Great Britain steam-ship was spoken in lat. 54, long. n, by the Symmetry, which arrived in the Downs on Saturday, but no date is given. SUPPOSED MURDER.—A journeyman basket-maker, at Rcading, named Spicer, is in custody on a charge of having murdered his wife. Mr. Barnard Gregory, who was suffering imprisonment, in the Queen's Winch Prison, for a libel on the Duke of Brunswick, was on Fridiiy discharged from custody under an order from Mr. Justice Wightman, by virtue of an act which received the royal assent on the 31st ult., and which enacts "that in every case o f judgment whether given before or after the passing of this act for a mis clenie.n,,,,e, where the defendant shall have 0ht,;,,,,i writ of error .ileh judgment, execution thereupon shall be stayed until such writ or error a hail be finally determined." The defendant entered into sureties to prosecute the writ of error, and to undergo the sen'ence recorded, if the Queen's Bench judgment be affirmed. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN IRELAND. -^Ac counts from Dublin state, that from Tuesday to Thursday night last the rain fell in continuous torrents. At mid day on Thursday a shower of large hailstones fell, which, it is feared, will have damaged the standing crops. The accounts from the country, however, are by no means so disheartening as those about the neighbourhood of Dub lin. Thus a report from the extensive county of Cork says—" A good deal of rain has fallen, and there has not been any of that genial heat that would ripen or bring to maturity the rich produce of the corn-fields. It is, how ever, satisfactory to know that nothing materially to de teriorate the quantity or quality of the crops has up to this time occurred, and a few days of sunshine would, under the blessing of Providence, crown the farmer's hopes with the certainty of a luxuriant harvest." In the north, too, according to a Belfast paper, " Potatoes are more abundant this year than they have been for many seasons previous. All the fields in the vicinity of the town look well, there being scarcely anything like a miss' observ able anywhere. The oat crop appears to be ripening very fast; but in general it will be later this season than it was the last. Spring wheat will be ready for the sickle, in some places, in the course of a very few weeks. Flax is nearly all pulled and in steep ; of this there will not be as much first-rate quality as there was last year. Turnips are growing rapidly, and promise well to repay the cost and troulila of labouring them." THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUE.—We are glad to state, that since writing our brief account of the monthly meeting of thii flourishing nautical association, the secre tary has received a most polite note from His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, allowing his name to be added to the list of members, and that of his noble schooner yacht, the " Wyvern," to the list of the vessels of the club. This is a gratifying acquisition, his grace being a devoted yachtman, and his " craft" of such dimensions and ap pointment as almost to challenge the world in seamanship. She has been the admiration of nautical men, and even of "landlubbers," since her anchorage in the Mersey. She is, in fact, (as our Yankee brethren would say) one of the " slickest" vessels we have yet seen. May we express a hope that others of our noblemen, in place of squandering their money in betting upon horse-racing, would betake themselves to the manly recreation of yacht-sailing ! In a vessel such as that of his grace, a most delightful sum mer party might be made up, to visit " the Isles of Greece," or any part of Europe or Africa, associated with ancient lore, biblical or classical. HOYLAKE RACES.--II will be seen by an advertisement that Mr. Gleave, of the Woodside Hotel, is going to erect a spacious marquee at these races, where he will provide the usual "good things" of the season. PORTRAIT PAlNTlNG.—Monsieur F. Salabert, of the Royal Academy of Paris, an artist of great merit, is now in Liverpool, and may be consulted at 38, Bold-street, for a short time. We have seen some of his pictures, amongst the rest portraits of the two well-known Chinese youths, and consider th a t th ey re fl ect i nfinite credit on his genius and talent. In the style there is very great freedom and they are so exceedingly soft and delicate in colouring as more to resemble a coloured lithographic Crayon draw ing than a water colour painting. ['Aix WAKES.—The village of Hale, perhaps the fore most in rural attraction and quiet in the county, will, on Sunday next, b e en li vene d b y t h e annua l " wakes ;" and, as the distance from this busy town is but short, and omnibuses and steam-packets will be provided for the conveyance of visitors, in ample time in the morning, an interesting " gathering" is fully anticipated. One of the not least inducements, will be an ordinary at the Childe of Hale Inn, at one o'clock, after the morning service at the village church, in the yard of which may be seen the tomb of the veritable " Childe," or rather " Giant," of the locality in olden time. CONCERT. —We are glad to hear that a concert, at which the leading local talent of our town, is announced to appear, will take place al the Nelson Assembly Rooms, on Thursday week next. Out of the proceeds of this concert, five guineas will be presented to Mrs. Salmon, whose distress, we are glad to see, is arrousing the sym pathy of the musical world. This, in itself will, we feel satisfied, secure a numerous as well as a fashionable audi ence. Amongst the parties announced to appear, we may name Mrs. Harvey Pardy, a pupil of Mr. Molyneux, whose recent deNt in Yorkshire has been so triumphantly successful, as to call down the most enthusiastic encomi ums from the local, as well as the metropolitan press, and Miss Rose Joseph, whose recent appearance at Miss Weller's concert in London, has placed her high in the es timation of the profession. Mr. Ryals ? as also Mr. Smith, whose talent is well known, will assist . The pro gralmme comprises a diversified selection of the most popular pieces of the day, su ffi c iently attractive to secure a numerous audience—but when an object so laudable, as to assist in relieving a talented musical lady from pecuni ary difficulties is announced, we trust, it will be crowded to excess. ORANGE DEMONSTRATION. It is now nearly decided that the Protestant demon stration at Enniskillen, on the .12th inst., (to -day,) will not be for the pu r p ose of! discussing political subjects, and that a short resolution or two, if even so much, will be the extent to which the proceedings in a deliberative character will be confined on the present occasion. The preparations for the forthcoming display are stated by the local papers to be on a very extensive scale : " From all that we can learn (says the Fermanagh Re porter) the procession on the 12th instant will be numer ous, grand, and imposing, but not exclusively Orange. The Roman Catholics have entered into the spirit of the thing with zeal,- and are determined to combine the orange and the green on that occasion, in great good fellowship. Extremes are approximating." The Erne Packet adds " that the attendance is ex pected to be immense, and will include bodies from several of the surrounding counties. A number of flags and other decorations are ready here. The demonstration will, it is thought, be the greatest that has taken place for many years. Had we space we would say much in re commending great caution and watchful care on the part of those who may be placed at the head of the movement, that nothing contrary to the strictest propriety and in fluenciveness should occur. Indeed our conviction is, that the proceedings will be marked by the most orderly bearing." 'rhe's'e papers likewise publish a lengthened programme of the order of procession, by which it appears that 183 lodges will march on the occasion. Allowing but 120 members for each lodge, and many of them comprise tre ble that number, near 20,000 Orangemen will take part in the proceeding. Each lodge will be distinguished by its own flag, and every precaution is to be taken to preserve order and tranquility. It is also arranged that Protestants, not members of the Orange institution, shall take their places at a given point, so that the above-mentioned num bers will be augmented by many thousands. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Baretto Junior transport, which accompanied the discovery ships Erebus and Terror on their departure from England (under command of Captain Sir John Franklin), having proceeded with them as far as Wale fish Island, Disco, parted company with them on the 12th ult., and passed Spithead on her way to the Downs on Wednesday. The following is an extract of a letter re ceived from her : " The Downs, August 7. " I hasten to tell you of our arrival, not sorry to turn our backs upon the frigid zone. We had a boisterous passage out though not a long one, rounding Cape Fare well on the 23d and 24th of June, in a heavy gale of wind from the S.E., in lat. 52 10 N., long. 46 47 W. The discovery ships behaved gloriously ; there was no small sea on, for, high out of the water as we are, we had one of our dead-lights stove in. Two days after we entered Davis's Straits the weather became very fine, and we saw the stupendous mountains of West Greenland, covered with ice and snow, also three large icebergs, which in a few days thickened on us, but fortunately we had gener ally leading winds, which enabled us to thread them with out danger. We left our excellent and good friends of the discovery ships at Walefish Island, Disco, on the 12th, all in good health, and high spirits as to their future enterprise, full of hope as to their ultimate success. They are famously strong ships, well manned, and impos sible to be better officered. We left them complete in full three years provisions, stores, and fuel, besides five bullocks, which we killed there for them. Our passage home has been a short one ; the first week we passed in Davis's St ra it s , i n a heavy gale of wind and thick weather right up. We had both the land and the ice to keep clear of : however, we got out untouched. The rest of the pas sage was fine for a northern climate. The wind being fair from the N.E., we have come home by the English Channel, instead of as usual north about." Letters have been received at Woolwich, dated her Majesty's ship Erebus, Walefish Islands, Davis's Straits, July 8, 1845, from one of which the following is an ex tract : " We are discharging the transport as quickly as pos sible, for the season is far advanced and we are in a great hurry to get up th e country ; but we have plenty of time )et if the weather keeps fine. We calculate on being ab sent two year s an d a h alf, unless we get through into the Southern Ocean, when it may be three or four years before we return. We are all well, and lam very happy. We have the best treatment, and one of the best of Cap tains, and a good set of officers throughout. The Baretto Junior, the transport ship, sails the day after to-morrow (July 10) on her return. "The natives here are civilized, and as shrewd at making a bargain as you or I would be in any transactions at home." Mr. McKenna, Queen's Counsel and a Roman Catholic, has been offered the Chief-Clerkship in the Irish Secre tary's Office at Dublin. OPENING or ST. GEORGE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. We are gratified to hear that the collections in aid of the building fund of the above church at the opening services amount to the very handsome sum of £384 2s. 3d. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—Mr. Charles Lawrence electedctiairm of an dle and Mr. raulnicotbieorntsßon Railway deputy chairman pany, at a a mee ti ng o f t h e Di rectors, held yesterday at the station in Li me - s t ree t . G a l y ad C s ot! CHURCH or SCOTLAND. —The Bev. Robert Story, minister of the parish of Roseneath, preached in the Scotch Church, Oldham-street, on Sunday last. The Rev. gentleman is on his way to London, on in vitation from the Marquis of Lorn, to baptise his i n f an t son, Earl C a mpb e ll, h e i r to the Dukedom of Argyll. This selection of the Scottish parish minister to perform this interesting service evinces on the part of the illustrious House of Argyll a strong attachment to the Church of their fathers, in whose affairs the Noble Marquis takes a deep interest. CHARGE OF STEALING MONEY.—A young woman named Margaret Gray, was charged by a youth named Johnson, clerk to Mr. - William Jones, attorney, with lobbie s him of £ll. which he said was his master's pro perty. It appeared that Johnson and the prisoner had been living together as man and wife for the last two years ; that they had quarrelled ; that Johnson had struck and maltreated the prisoner on several recent occasions, and that she, knowing he had some money in the house, and finding she could no longer live with him, had taken some of it for her support and left the house. Mr. Jones claimed the money, as it had been received by Johnson in his absence, but the court on hearing the whole case re fused to admit this cl a i m , an d di scharged the prisoner. ANNUAL REVENUE OF CORPORATIONS.—An abstract of the accounts of the various municipal boroughs in England and Wales, from the Ist September, 1843, to the 31st August, 1844, has just been presented to parlia ment, from which we select the following as interesting in this district :—Chester, £7,881 ; Lancaster, £2,316 ; Liverpool, £395,799 ; Manchester, £59,876 • Preston, £9,189; St oc k port, £1,952. In the cases .of Chester, Lancaster, and Preston, the balance is on the wrong side of the account. The principal incorporated seaports stand thus :—Bristol, £48,431; Hull, £31,391 ; Newcas tle-on-Tyne, £56,157; Plymouth, £12,290 ; Portsmouth, £7,543; Southampton, £5,808; Stockton, £1,999; Sun der6land, £2,414 ; Swansea, £28,270 ; Great Yarmouth, :C 262. Of these Stockton, Southampton, Portsmouth, Newcastle, and Bristol, shew a balance on the wrong side. ANTICIPATED ARRIVALS FROM AMERICA.—The Great Western steam-ship was appointed to leave New York on the 31st ult., and the B r it ann i a, British and North Ameri can Mail steam-ship to leave Boston on the Ist instant, both for this poi t. Some speculation is afloat as to which of the two will arrive first, and a few bets are, we learn, pending on the result. The Britannia had to come via Halifax for the mails, while the other could proceed across the Atlantic without much, if any, deviation. The distance to be run is much the same for both ; and both being fine ships, and of nearly propos tionate steam-pow er , cur i os i ty is on tip -toe as to which shall be the wi nner . The "chances" not of " war," but of "wind " may, however, defeat all attempts to arrive at a fair criterion of their respective general speed. One vessel may fall into a favourable vein, and the other, though not far distant, into an opposing current of air, and a heavy seaway. THEATRE ROYAL —The attraction at this establish ment during the past week has been increased by the engagement —a farewell one—of the inimitable Taglioni, accompanied by Mademoiselle Petit Shephan, and Mons. Sylvain. The house, during each n i g ht o f their perform ances, has been literally crammed with the most fashion able audiences we have witnessed for some seasons. The ballet selected for Tursday and Friday was " La Sylphide," in which Taglioni exhibited all her accustomed grace and force, criticism upon which we feel would be totally out of place. Mademoiselle Petit Stephan is a very pretty dancer, and, with Sylvain, acquitted herself admirably. Last night, Mademoiselle Taglioni took her benefit. which, we need not say, was a bumper one. On Wed nesday we perceive Mrs. Seymour takes her benefit. This lady is gaining favour rapidly with the audience as are several others of the company. On Friday we are promised a visit from Henry Philips, for one night only. BURGLARY.—At the police-court, yesterday, a boy named William Cockrane was charged, before T. Booth, Esq., with this offence. A police-officer stated that about one o'clock that (yesterday) morning he met the prisoner in Circus-street, with a bundle under his arm, and stopped him. The bundle contained copper money, and several ss. papers of copper were afterwards found on the prisoner's person. Inquiry was set on foot, and it was found that the shop of a grocer in Byrom street had been burglariously entered, and the money abstracted. The owner said that he had missed from £5 to £lo,—in copper—he could not precisely tell the amount. The house had been fastened up on Satur day night. A shop -boy identified several of the five shil ling papers found on the prisoner, which he had himself made up. The amount found on the prisoner was £4 16s. 10d. He had been employed at the shop until about a week ago, and knew the premises. A back cellar had been forcibly entered, and two street doors had been found open in the morning. The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes. CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The Helena, 16, Com mander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart., was at the Cape of Good Hope on the 20th of June, from a five months' cruize in the Mozambique Channel. On the 4th of April her pin nace, whilst crui s i ng b e t ween the port of Mozambique and Cape Delgado, under the command of Lieutenant Charles Codrington Forsyth, captured after a short re sistance (one man being severely wounded), an Arab dhow, with 83 slaves on board, and a crew of 14 men, armed with spears, creeses, swords, and double-barreled guns. The slaves were principally small children which had been kidnapped at the Portuguese settlements on the coast by the Moors, and by them sold to the Arabs, who take them to Muscat. The boat, on her way to rejoin the Helena, unfortunately lost seven of her best men from a sort of yellow fever. The dhow was such a wretched craft that she was sunk soon after her capture, not being in a fit state to send to an English colony, and the slaves were put on board the Helena. A tig. 12, 1845 ' LAST NIGHT'SMAI OA oz a MARK LANE CORN MARKET----gr:1,,::( Although the weather has been stormy and We' o ' l f aAb aPpi report, this morning proving fine, and having ° d ne tbis l e°r. ‘17 '148 supplies of English wheat that has approached factors L e trade ruled very dull, and although most of the t l e p ii t z t to submit to a reduction of 2s. per quarter, veil li t tle 11$1 was made in sales. In free foreign and bonded ;Wally 0 rile little passing, we can only report the value nordo,adst ;i s Monday. Barley and Malt in fair consumptive d . e o In Pi late rates. Beans and peas are without alteratiox. sod 19 th i n only a short supply of oats during the past w ee „ n s try rienc ed a steady sale, ch'efly in small parcels to ee" - at our previous currency. ; SMITHFIELD MARKET—YgsI r NO Fresh up to our market this morning, we ren nive disttiC te• I n a ge whichnumber li of gh t beasts o improvement a o t u variousiraqa aliquality grazingyra inni n olio , t.) the prevailing changeable weather, and the an te te, A o of buyers, the beef trade was in a very sluggi sh .'a ten," , Ad some instances the quotations had a dote1 10 " - 4 6 IP '. I However, the pi imest Scots were disposed of at 4' iee yet a total clearace was ot effected. e bir e , , ) e . : From Norfolk, Suffolk, n Essex, and Cambridg s the o , t Lagl e ceived 800 Scots, homebreds, and shorthorns. 11. ,1„;,1110 4 .0 O ll4. districts 400 shorthorns, from the western any , "' n ,"o3 o „ A v t u ., ties 700 of various breeds, from other parts of Eng,': NM" ' on :' LI fords, runts, Devons, &c., and from Scotland 3 *" d ,f, ► ple ` t u s er E polled Scots. ~.„,„D 007 Although we had an increased number of sheep Ole -4 n_ of Or o- „.- , . was by no means large for the present season• i . wee' • , moved off steadily, at full prices ; but all other ' die he li 6d • slow inquiry, at lull rates. ~g, 0 0 .of ''''Oor The arrival of lambs from Leicestershire be l 7., irsitc, ki C O , crease, the lamb trade was dull, at a reduction 1 " O" . 11.,, ' per 81b. For calves wt• had a slow demand, Yet ti t ie wee ali -- g t re, were supported. The pork trade was dull, at Inn k wA rencies. v 4 t 0: .. 0 0.', l io lli - e ark, PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.—Ygs lP D inr ci . o ko ' 0 0 , . ( ~Be] The market for public securities is tranquil this • .• be 40 0 ' s3 TA a pretty general feeling in favour of reducals f ps' Al hasthe bsepeencuhlraotaivgehtbutosianecsiso,sne.owctolhiastoltshearese9s;ifooL I I: -d , h,4 lit MO e e{P l b ,. for Account, Three per Cents. Reduced 99,1 I. "-,• Bio: ' gk Quarter per Cents. 1028, Exchequer-bills 49 '", tarp fBE 210 i ; Mexican Deferred Stock wit, Peruvian Bon d OP th , I. 4 ree 39, Portuguese 64k, Spanish Three per Cents. 3 "; cea tJ ' i(for 274, Passive Bonds S i. Dutch T wo - an d-a-Half P er Vt n -ex and the Certificates 99i 100 f, S oi TH I -tat' 4ted C ~~Thadc ~'nally LONDON SHARE MARKET—Yres;;I 9 O , There is a good deal doing in Railway Shares'lst° ever, being rather variable. Generally there ale e ter d ?IS fair support given to the market. Bristol and Counties, Blackwall, Manchester and Leeds, °l w P/o' l cester, and South East ern are muc h th e same as po o des „ 4 pf 6 :l London and Birmingham -e248, 50; Midland fop to ;ei Cambridge and Lincoln have been rather better , '„d Y0r,04 . , mium. Direct Northern are s t ea dy, b u t London !P ar e or tinue depressed at to 2i premium. Br tortou little, being 23 to 28} premium. Croy - den keep uP boor' South Western. The French lines are tolerably taitte k lii a OP P' Her Majesty is no t ex p ec t e d t o re t u rn fr°.'"" the nen T t for a month. o-morrow is the birthday of Queen Adelalder will then complete her fifty-third year. „a To-morrow is fixed for th e nom ination, 6 , - c l r eas", tO for the polling a t S un d er l an d , W arw i c k, and` - frids'bil A splendid piece of plate was presen ted 0 13 0 for o io David Salomon s , E sq . as a testimony of es tee d i c ier° conduct during the r eceu t con t es t for the 6 11°6 gown of Portsoken Ward. tio o A The Bishop of Calcutta, who, as we have no sest4.s paragraph elsewhere, had been seriously ihat s ta f ° ' on Friday so far recovered as to leave tbst s son's residence at Islin g t on . vo l es The London discount-b ro ke rs distinctlY2 t t a se Psis they are only deterred from raising their rate V to elot of England, as m one y i s i n su ffi c i en t dernan s u lsbel them to demand greater interest than 21 to not so formidable a competitor. lt WURZBURGII.—The musical society of thi,.s el : 1 01 01 .0 by the nam e o f th e Harmonic, will give tur bOv u issts' concerts during the p resen t mon th, a t which 13 of tand 700 instrum en t a li s t s w ilt ass i st . The ria has consented to honour the performancef presence, and it is supposed that her MajestY,korg' s dol with Prince Albert will be present.—/Ifusicl, 003096 It is said that se vera l gentlemen holdingthes.cejeod," of the peace, and li eu t enanc i es o f coun ties in ." . „ o ,i o or e resolved to re s i gn th e i r respec ti ve a ppointee7i n the s e sequence of the step Government had ador n i e 4 fia S l at' of Mr. James Watson, of Brookhill. The -""d l e i, man announces that Mr. James Rose Clelanj,ssqttlO ble gentleman in his 80th year, has resigned in''." o 0 I of the Lord-Lieutenant his offices of .I,u st ,' 0. peace and deputy-lieutenant of the county r 0 ";e1' The Rev. Ambrose Dawson, well known 'oo'o our readers as the faithful minister of Sl'A i efl Church, in this to wn , some y ears s i nc e, Pr e ' - whic9, above church o n S un d ay l ast . Tile sermet 4 „ e age' e rs s scriptural in its m a tt er an d c l ear in its 9- odi al 'sol Y was delivered in th a t earnes t, affectionate, a, s pro 0 sive manner which characterises Mr. Daw son 5 r'.o°‘ kg. His text w as t a k en f rom I. P e ter, 2 el, 1 0 1 understand that the rev. gentleman will Wen . d ot St. Michael's Church, on Sunday morning nett, FLOWERS OF LITERATURE... A Liverpool the n o t/ the 9th instant, under the head of " Scene in d e rs °it?' of the House of Commons,"—informs its rea g, 0 0 0 Friday last, " at three o'clock in the ranrn iji l s ierlf patience of the witnesses increased : • ..... : tbe e oto y nesses in despair searched for soft spots , ,V t T li b e e S ti e: r 11 0 111 1, etairs of an EMPTY committee-room •' b . 9 par a s so il. liner of the same clever paper heads one of .;_, O tv in another column " Man tell into Prince's p o —This in England, where Murray's Gra e3 had for 94.—C orrespon d ent. W ar GOODWOOD RACES.—Daring the week to o sst;; O ss' races took place, no l ess th an 152 diff e rent : P wr e h p ic e b'A n it ' rlit ! 23 of which were the property of Lord GO r Z t iote s ' Nat rode 21 time s , won 5, and ran second " o ce• Bell rode in 7 races won 4, and ran secon4,°,,frie tt,J Ron, of the gross su m the four "Johns J, 5 1)5P £15,910 ; viz., J. Kent, 15 races, £6B7j; races, £4090; J. Forth, 3 races, £343 0 ; 11 ' . 3 races, £1515. f lye 0 0 The arrangements for the festival in lionollrg°o,hichtese ven, at Cologne, the or i g i na l progr amme thr e w already reached the London jo urna ls, are ne'e ieso; with a c'sange, in consequ 'rice of the c9run itte o f be: . ceived information to the effect that the Quee n ,xo ll '„gifl" ' together with the King and Queen of PrussO s e pirto"' o err A Castle on the llth, the day fixed for tt` t " the or' tion of the statue; and. naturally anxious tin Pg i oll' mony should be graced by the presence of 0 ' the his royal visitors, they now propose deferring deft guration of the statu e un til tosday, Tuesd a Y n ', Ss til THE DUKE OF B RUNSWICK AGAIN.--"' ht bi e lto at the Croyden assizes, an action was bront e V o gr e H. W. Valiance, formerly the attorney . e f th ec s/ e 1 Brunswick, against his highness, for h s vinq o ortyl ,„ of a speech made by him at the Sheriff's .. es for Ar dia" c i conducting a writ of inquiry to assess dam °s " 011y s et„l e h s against him, published in the Lanctislerand " charged him with treachery, unfaithfulness. roefleg of duty while he was employed as his a t t t h ° o , c 1 Duke conducted his own case, which, ..day)% i t 7 ,4 1 , the court, was adjourned to yesterday ( 1 ‘ 1 ,,, ° h " gr e- a bi t ' d r , CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.;:i r e o c t e o e n St c riti o e , for the silver sculls, which has, from went in 1831, been most attractive, took P i f te ashe i : day. The competitors were Mr. 13 01 1 11: kr.C,1 til f e A Leander Club, the holder of the prize, and ish e " 1 g 0 of the Neptune, both of whom have disting°, T i ale a fe t selves as first-rate scullers. Mr. Chafl a se r t O ,I O IIT 1842, and 1813, was the holder of the sit 'de P sci as sculls, and the result of Saturday's race hot Of ' l l the fourth time, the possessor of this sY III Ca? tl' o r , superiority. . rt viat UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship s Hackstaff, which left New Y or k on the ad we e d es! rived here yesterday, with one clay at er . ' ll3O O l those received by the steam-ship Mal th e c le ot , ther at New York, and in all parts ° poostes l o continued very hot. The Vera Cruz eorr e the t 0 fo' s t f the New York Herald g i ves th e decree, ° ,r e lolo o or Congress relative t o th e annexa tion ni • t be 0 55 4 ,t1 American Union. The decree characterisgesigenes priation" as an insult to the dignity 0 n ode to the sovereign nation, and a blow at her in ue b r iirtr,e li sf s elo political being ;" and convokes all her e seo en Otwor defence of her national honour, threw...J(o'oe usurpation of the territory of Texas. eac 1 0 10 0 1 had improved a fraction, and the demand ss eti o t remittance by the packet was moderate. ha p pyt V' o r THE SPANISH PIRATES.—These tin tbe l °lo been respited until the 25th of November, o,olrs Michaelmas term, during which the ea se ite OS ( SO' sidered. When the tidings of their resP pee ive4 e s e te li municated to the prisoners, they all r i o rhi w o ° o o l gratitude and delight, except the i m per or 0 05 s et .is This roan (the captain of the Echo. se, ll l, i ° it) e se a aJ only, with 434 slaves stowed and packe", s ' - ond foo' t e alike unmoved by the terrors of this Wor,"with t o 01 to come. For three days, though smittl e al °/ 05'1/1 loathsome disease, h e un d erwen t the nr ne oinjo , 1 0 0 without manifesting the sli g htest sign c' f u t i o rt, received the doom o f d ea th w ithout em ° w ith ' e iftvor since rejected the con s ol a ti on s of religi on e oi er pit/ hitter sneer. He received unmoved t ea sw a bs dim claration of the high sheriff; and turn: a life „.„11 1 much apathy as if the message of prolonsee roo the most ordinary m a tt er w hich a beed leB 11 A part to an indifferent one. !V 4 6 DIED. On the 7th inst., Miss Mary Anne .t..' e l a nd. years, late of Gorey, Cfirty ATfor--11, 1161. (O r co o SHIPPING INTEL LIGEN CE• io 6l o r WO 0 0 00 (0 SAIL "50 ED.—Remittance, Selsby, for B ost0 ! 0 ;40 1 41, fins, for Rio Grande—Ersulous strutt, for pe g' , LadyJamaic a— Young,tir o e r r 0 i n s K, a e v cn a on o o e a pd — e yr C.:hf afore Qm. Halueb L a g rd r ;1 14 :a l !, ,d e : 3 000)63 ? , New York—Samuel, Grindall, for St. John , _ Go o Dm for A T f r E i c L aZ i R g h A t I e PH l: , )11 0 0 i t/ 0 f eP tb e e 0 1 ' • e i t he Wind at Holyhead North, moderate bre!f to in 011. dt l ditto, light ditto at noon—ditto " co rsair' OP I,o l ' Off Holyhead, inward bound, No. 2P Tt iro/ 1 4, 0 0 4 ti a.m. (telegraphed) from Halifax N.S. ; n .rn., l oiceo from Africa; 3745, Rosa!ama, Ship, at 4, tat me, Harrison Chilton, Bk. at 2 p.m. I ": 3 407, 0 00 General Brown, or Pandora, Bk. at 2 Pan' ' 0, Ann, Barque, at 3 30 p.m. d °' Off Great Ormshead, outward boun s o p• Ship, at 3 p.m., and 1276, Britannia, Oil), "' Hunter, Fc E CtjaaPveirr LIVERPOOL: 04 5 ' a , T U E P R S I D N A T E Y D , A A N U D G p U u S B T L i g o 's lk 1 .4 I P I 4 of. CHP.R LACE, of if.QOr[~d _tr. EVERYJOSHUA AutuNA: 4 7 DDISON, of 1 4 . G reat Grea t 1, 11 " / R. LEONARD A ' 444 lk 10)4 it;l tto 1 4 The wi f or ll c, 4 ke ,she, "e In I It • ow, is t 4, Y to AT\ tT, A. `CI th e eE 'e at lieh I'. o h °'easi Ity firs N urth, 41tne‘ ‘ 1 1, 111 4 11( 2g 11 1 - ‘,. t e Fnt ohroo o "UR, (1 %,4 " oj