The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

Arbeeauge thee .were 4tpwn to the maglatwates to lk disorderly charg i ctero p.od he further " disclaims the idea of punishittg men for the sole crime of neglecting public worship." To this the Manchester oracle of the preachers repliers, that the magistrates had no right to punish parties nominally for one offence, whilst another and a different one was the moving cause of their award. Now the Manchester Dissenting oracle is not borne out by the facts in his application of this rule. We admit that if the act of parliament had not been both literally and substantially violated, the magistrates would have done wrong to punish the parties with its penalty for so he other wrong committed ; this nobody can deny; but if the act had been clearly violated, in the first instance, then we see no reason, Mr. Oracle, why the magistrates might not take other crimes and misdemeanours done into consideration, and, treating them as an aggravation of the alleged and proved of fence, make them the moving cause of putting the statute in force. Had there been a mere absenting of the parties from public worship, as Mr. Ashworth inti mates, the magistrates would not have acted upon the statute of Elizabeth at all ; but when they found this delinquency aggravated by other misconduct, then they considered themselves fortunate in having the statute to resort to, and they availed themselves of it. So far as the magistrates or parties adjudicated upon are con cerned, then, we say that it has yet to be shown that there has been any injustice or oppression whatever practised on the one side, or sustained on the other ; or, in other wards, that no case of grievance whatever through the operation of the statute, has been made out. But it is the theoretical much more than the practical part of the question which constitutes the grievance in the eye of Liberals; they cannot endure that there should be a law sanctioning divine worship on the Sabbath ; and although there is an established church, and Christianity is part and parcel of the law of England, they are enraged that a penalty should at tach to any man for so venial an offence (in their esti mation) as disregarding all religious ordinances on that day ; they demand, therefore, that this statute of Eli %abed' shall be repealed as a mere relict of bigotry and barbarism. We have no difficulty in saying that our feelings do not concur with those of such vastly liberal parties on this head. Of course we have no idea of any rigid or general enforcement of the statutes of Elizabeth; but neither, on the other hand, do we see any proved or other necessity for its repeal. Looking at the question in its most abstract form, the bigotry of the act just amounts to this, that in a Christian country a man is expected to attend public worship one day in the week; and the severity of it to this, that the person who does not so attend, and can give no good excuse for absence, may be fined one shilling for the benefit of the poor. How bigoted, how intolerant, how cruel is all this ! Our ancestors, to be sure, were not so liberal as we are. Socialism and blasphemy were not passed over as quite harmless matters in their days; and in the time of our good Queen Bess, they thought it a wise provision to make people attend church on Sundays. Such policy is now regarded as monstrous and intolerable, but whether from the religious improvement and superior enlight enment in our day, or the reverse, is a question on which we do not find it easy to pronounce. The secu kar power was then enjoined to assist the spiritual; but now the spiritual,, is left entirely to its own resources. The church bell m'akring, and the minister may read and preach, but no maitz,,n4 now be called to account for wholly neglecting, mit"'cinly the services of the es tablished church, but those of any licensed house of worship of any sort. Does this laxity proceed from zeal from true religion, or contempt for it ? To us it appears very like the latter, and, therefore, unwise, im politic, and censurable in the extreme. What if every man in the community were strictly sought out and subjected, if without excuse, to the one shilling penalty according to the statute, where would be the bigotry or the hardship ? The fact is, we have not grown too good for the system, but the system has grown too good for us. The Sakne parties who wish to have this .ancient law abolished, would be glad to sweep away every enactment which efists for maintaining a due observance of the Sabbath, and we shall be sorry to see them gratified in any one particular. We love movement ourselves in every case where the movement is in . a right direction; but movements of this sort are deterioration ; and, taking our stand upon the ancient ways in all such instances, we oppose them. The Anti-Corn-Law League is fully determined not to go out with the Whigs. Inventiveness is probably a large development on their pericranium, and until they have brought out the greater number of their .varions resources, and proved their efficacy, or more likely their inefficacy, they cannot endure the idea of withdrawing from public notice. Manchester affords a fide stage for their exercises. There is a favouring Mayor ready on all occasions to patronise them—a favouring populace equally ready to take its cue from the stage-managers — and there are places of rendezvous of sufficient capacity and convenience in abundance; nothing, in short, is wanting to make it a most power ful focus for concentrating all the rays of anti;corn-law light, and giving them out again with extraordinary force and brilliancy. We alluded last week to the coercive system to be put in force against the devoted cotton brokers and merchants of Liverpool, who have unwittingly given offence by voting for our present representatives, con trary to the law of the Leaguers which altereth not, and at the same time we had to admire the bold plan of refusing to pay all taxes till the Parliament submits. Great men are these anti-corn-law gentry, no doubt ; from a Premier to a broker—from a cabinet minister to a cabinet maker—from the peer to the peasant—all must yield to them. It will be in vain for Mr. Goul burn to concoct his budget unless lie takes one of the league into his councils ; they are your only men for an equitable adjustment, and they have a very stringent :sanction to their laws, for they " wont pay" unless they ,he framed to their taste. Yesterday was fixed for the nomination at Tamworth, and a member of the electors having signified to Sir Robert Peel that they would feel happy if he would relieve himself of the trouble of soliciting their votes, the Right Honourable Gentleman, it was understood, -would avail himself of this considerate suggestion, and leave the care of his re-election altogether in the hands of his friends ; but was he aware, when he indulged in in this easy dream that those sworn foes of his ad milnistration, the intractable Leaguers were in the field, and to send down an emissary to dispute the borough - with him ? One really does not know how sufficiently to admire the intrepidity of this project. Mr. Ackland - was the happy man who had undertaken the mission, and doubtless, his employers expect great results from it. W e will shew Sir R. Peel, say they, the absolute necessity of making his salaam to the manufacturing interest ; we will make Tamworth to hot for him ; we will beard the lion in his den. Tha Queen may choose him for her first minister, but we will exclude him from his seat in Parliament, and render her choice null and void. For this purpose Mr. Acland received his commission, and was yesterday to be put in nomination at Tamworth by the League, in opposition to her Majesty's first Minister ! It is true that an inflential member of the Whig party of the borough has declared that " the idea of opposing Sir Robert Peel was per fectly ridiculous, and that Mr. Acland was doing im mense injury to the cause' by thus officiously and impertinently obtruding himself upon the electors" ; but the League is composed of men of stern mould, and we reckon that they will not be so easily devested from their purpose. But they have another still greater affair to come off this week—we allude to the grest meeting convened upon a requsition to his Worship of Manchester for Thursday next, for the pretended purpose of taking into consideration the vast amount and extreme degree of distress prevailing in that locality which threatens to become so afflictive in the ensuing winter, but for an object also in which the requisitionists take a much more real concern, namely for that of " praying her Majesty not to prorogue the Parliament until they have entered upon a full consideration of the corn and pro vision laws, which, in the opinion of the requisitionists, are the main causes of the existing sufferings of the people." . The question then is, what is this meeting for ? Is it for charity or politics—for the relief of poverty, or the promotion of millocrat policy ? But why do we - put such a question ? The requisitionists answer it themselves. Distress is the excuse; foreign-grown corn, or free trails at the agriculturist's oxpense, is Me undisguised object. Cant and hypocrisy 4re beautifully interlaced with selfishness and avarice. The proceed ing is exactly that of the hypocrites recorded in Scrip ture : the trumpet is sounded, and great preparation is made that all the world may observe how anxious the actors are for the relief of the poor—against " the en suing winter." But somehow the almsgiving is done so secretly, or so mystified in the process, that nobody can discover to what extent the masks and mummers contribute, or whether they do not continue to shirk altogether out of the reckoning. They are to pray that parliament may enter upon a full consideration of the " corn and provision laws ;" but is not this putting the cart before the horse ? If they were primarily or at all concerned for the suffer ings of the poor, would they not pray simply that par liament might institute an inquiry into that subject, and leave it to a committee of either house to say to what cause these sufferings were to be attributed. But no ; this Ts not the sort of inquiry which the factory lords and cheap-bread clamourers by any means want : it might re-act upon themselves, and prove extremely inconvenient. 'What they seek is the abolition of the agricultural protecting duties, and the " sufferings of the poor" are but the sham, under cover of which they hope to find a safe and plausible way to that object. Some of the requisitionists for this meeting must very well know what share they have had themselves in causing that distress, which they now attribute to the " corn and protecting duties," and to them the cry for their abolition would seem to afford a convenient di version of the public mind ; but with as much reason does the ostrich, when he buries his head in the sand, suppose that his whole body is concealed, as may these millowners"imagine that an enlightened public can be deceived on this point. The object of Thursday's meeting then is a double deception; it is a deception both as to the cause of the suffering of the people and the remedy for it; its beginning is hypocrisy—its end would be the grossest delusion. But the Leaguers are wise in their generation ; they know where the popular indignation would fall, if the people were permitted to think calmly for themselves ; and they endeavour pru dently to remove it far as possible from the direction in which it is due. As to any deliberative consultation, rational discussion, by or with such parties, it is al- together out of the question. They are now seeking to effect their designs by sheer agitation, by popular commotion, or by brute force, without a particle of in telligent argument on their side, and they are to be treated only as a set of vulgar demagogues whom the ext►:aordinary lenity of British law permits to disturb the state with impunity so long as they have the grace to abstain from the grosser forms of outrage. But in the same proportion that their violence increases, their estimate in generrl opinion descends. Out of their own immediate sphere of influence, they now excite no other feeling but that of contempt ; and, with all their rabies, we are clearly of opinion_ that millocracy agita tion is at this moment in its last agonies. All the leading ministerial appointments being now mpleted, we must remark, that the government of its great country has passed into the hands of the lonservatives with a facility and business-like pro riety quite characteristic of Conservatism itself. One 'ould think that this grand act of the political drama I been for some time in rehearsal—with such promptitude, such exactness, and such precision did each performer fall into his place. Nothing was want ing--there was nothing out of place—all was gone through with the regularity of a Court ceremony; the spirit of the constitution seemed suddenly to revive on the occasion, and to animate all the high contracting parties. At the appointments generally the country seems to be well pleased, and, in fact, could scarcely be otherwise, for nearly all the new officials are well known and tried men, and superior to all exception, either in respect to talents, and station, and capacity for public business, or to private and personal charac ter—a most important circumstance. From one quarter only has there been the slightest murmur of dissatisfaction, and even this has now subsided : we allude to the complaint preferred by the Dublin Evening Mail, with regard to the exclusion of Irishmen from the higher offices ; (there is no Irishman, saving the Duke of Wellington, in the cabinet;) and the selection of Lord Eliot as the Irish Secretary. With regard to the first head of grievance, it is not to be expected that we should sympathise very deeply with our Dublin contemporary, especially as we are of those who think the appointments good in themselves —good not for one part of the united kingdom, or of the empire only, but for each and for all ; with regard to the other, we consider his ground of objection a fair and legitimate one, if not one which we can esteem permanently valid or insuperable. The objection was, that Lord Eliot had been, for a Conservative, a vast deal too forward in promoting the objects of the Romanists with regard to the Irish Municipal Bill, and had, in fact, been the means of breaking up the Conservative party in Parliament, when, but for him, they would have stood together for the simple aboli tion of the Irish corporation without restoration. When reminded of this fact by the Dublin Mail, we were, we confess, a good deal amazed and alarmed, and inclined to coincide with him as to the unfitness of such a personage to conduct the affairs of Ireland, in a constitutional and Conservative spirit; but other considerations have since supervened, and we feel that we hare in the cabinet of Sir Robert Peel a sufficient guarantee for a faithful and Conservative government of Ireland superior to any apprehension of lapse or of error which might arise from prying too curiously into the parliamentary votes of the new Secretary on a particular, a difficult, and much agitated question. We deprecate, however, the attempt which has been made by some of our metropolitan broad sheets to run down the Dublin Mail for the freedom iiich he has used on this subject; we admire his in dependence, and we applaud him for it ; the part which he has acted is highly honourable and creditable to him, and we trust he will persevere in the same in dependent course throughout ; but we deprecate, and we dare say in common with him, any division among the Irish Conservatives, and especially one created merely by the reminiscence and unnecessary revival of by-gone transactions. By-goner of this kind, must, indeed, be " by-Bones ;"' let nothing of the kind be now imperiously remembered against Lord Eliot. The burly Repealer, notwithstanding all his old threats of fire and faggot, if a Conservative government should ever again attempt to rule his country, has already begun to sing small, and to the united Protestants of Ireland, the dawn of a new era already begins to appear. It is impossible for us to impart to the Albion the power of a reasonable belief : we can give him facts ; we cannot give him faith. He doubts that Lord San don voluntarily declined office ; he canuot conceive such a thing possible. "We are sceptical," he says ; "it is only sour grapes." Alas ! every bunch of grapes will soon appear sour to our contemporary, for all are equally out of his reach. Tempora mutantur. ' The grapes have got sour to the poor, ejected Whigs—et nos mutamur cum illis—and their temper has got sour along with them. But the Albion attempts to reason the matter. He says our statement cannot be true for certain causes assigned; and, as these may be thought material, we shall suffer our contemporary to speak for himself. He argues as follows : There is self-contradiction stamped on the very face of this denial. It comes in contact with the very chief and leading reasons which the tories have always alleged in favour of Lord Sandon. They have been perpetually dinning in our ears, that Liverpool ought to be represented by an influential public man, such as Huskisson or .Canning, who being in office, could like them, uphold her interests against every assailant; and they have invariably clenched this style of argument by addin g , "When our party comes into power, we shall have such a man in as Lord Sandon. He will take some high official situation, and then our interests will be safe." And now, to and behold, their party is in power, but Lord Sandon is not in office : And why? " For the inte rests of his constituents," the Standard informs us. " Whatever is i s r i g h t " w i t h hi s l or dship's obsequious followers. He was to take office " for the interests of his constituents," and he abstains from office " for the interests of his constituents." We can only explain this blowing hot and cold on the same subject, as we said before, upon the principle that "the grapes are sour." —• • - The ratiocination in this - passage may be very clear to our contemporary, but we confess it is not so to us. Lord Sandon has not declined office, he contends, because—the Tories expected otherwise of hi m ! Now how does that ap pear, Mr. Albion ? When th e T or i es fi rs t c hose Lord Sandon, he was neither in office, nor had he any expecta tion of being so. Why , then, did the Tories elect him, if t h e y were influenced in their choice solely by the prospect of what he would do for them in official. situa tion ? They elected him a second time, in opposition too to a high and influential placeman. Does this show anything like an interested and selfish calculation, founded on the advantages to he gained by choosing an official personage as their representative ? .We guess not ; we reckon not. It is certainly very provoking to an organ of the beaten party that the Tories will not quarrel with their representatives, nor with each other, and that they are determined to be pleased with their choice, whether the member be in office or out of it. This is most annoying to the poor extruded fellow, and nothing can he think, or dream of, or cry, but " sour grapes, sour grapes." Alf ! how acid must be the wa ter that runs between his teeth ; how intolerable to his aching sight those clusters of good things which hang so temptingly on the walls, but which he may never hope to taste. Hit high, or hit low, there is no pleas ing him. Lord Sandon has, or he has not declined office : we will give him his choice. He has not de clined it. Oh very well. Then, upon your own sheaving, we have no reason to quarrel with him ; all 1 n good time. But, say he has declined it, and declined it for our sakes ;—then a fortiori, Mr. .4/bion Liberal we will not be angry with him ; nay, he has a higher claim than ever to our attachment. You see, then, what a delightful thing it is to dwell in unity. We only smile at those who attempt to divide us. THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN AND THE IN CREASE OF OUR COTTON MANUFACTURE. We were prevented at the time, from the pressure of assize intelligence, from replying to the Manchester Guardian's last article upon this subject, in which he still affects to doubt that the consumption of cotton in Great Britain has sustained the large increase of 82 per cent. within the last ten years ; and we recur to the subject now, not so much to satisfy our contemporary (who, if it suited his purpose, could readily find the means of satisfying himself) of the correct ness of Lord Sandon's statement, as to be afforded the opportunity of offering a few remarks upon it, for which the present moment appears to us particularly seasonable. The question which the Guardian requires us to solve is simply this,—the Liverpool brokers' circular for 1831 gives the weekly consumption of cotton at 16,496 bags, (we take the Guardian's own figures,) and the same document gives the consumption in 1840 at 2-1,721. Lord Sandon's state ment gives the consumption in 1831 at 16,513 bags of 300 lbs. each, and in 1840 at 30,089 similar bags. " What authority," asks our contemporary, " had Lord Sandon for assuming any such difference in weight, between the bags of 1831 and 1840," as would make this large discrepancy between the consumption in 1810, as shown by the brokers' circular, computed in "the ordinary bags known in the trade," and the consumption in bags reduced to a uniform weight? And, having made this query, he endeavours to lead his readers to the inference that the question is one of conflicting opinion, merely, between Lord Sandon and ourselves, on the one hand, and the Liverpool cotton brokers' circular, on the other. Now, with all due deference to the Guardian, neither Lord Sandon, nor ourselves in making use of his statement, are in any way at issue with the brokers' circular ; and more over we cannot find that we ever " sneered at the authority " of that document as we are said to have done. The brokers who yearly issue it are possibly quite correct in confining themselves to a statement of the number of bags consumed ; and yet the statesman who desires to know the actual quantity of cotton consumed, may, without the charge of presumption, carry his inquiries a little further than " the trade " thinks it necessary to do. It is well known that no accurate com parative statement, as to either importation or consumption, can be found without first reducing the bags of each year to a uniform weight. Lord Sandon, therefore, reduced the bags of each year to bags of 300 lbs., and the result, as we have already placed it before the public, is that the weekly consumption of cotton in Great Britain has increased 82 per cent. within the ten years! The data upon which the calculation was made can be no great mystery. We presume any leading cotton broker in Liverpool, of sufficient standing, could supply from his books and invoices the necessary information, derived from an undoubted source, Lord Sandon's statement was carefully and accurately drawn up; and, however startling to our contemporary may be the extent of increased consumption which it discloses, we can assure him that it is strictly and impartially correct. The Guardian admits that " there may have been some increase in the average weight of bags of cotton between 1831 and 1840, because the proportion of American cotton consumed was larger in the latter than in the former year :" and our contemporary might well have said that the propor- ion was very much larger, when he considered that the ,inerican crop of 1839-40 was just double that of 1830-31 actual ordinary bags, and that the importation was pro- The growth of other descriptions, too, which are imported in lighter package's, was short in 1840, and has been on the decline for some seasons. It is not, however, only because of the increased proportion of American, that the average bag of the present day is heavier than was a bag ten years ago ; but 'because bags of all descriptions have been made heavier every year, as any importer or spinner ,ortionate an satisfy him ; and perhaps a little reflection will suffice to inform our contemporary why they are so. We are not at all certain whether our explanation will be satisfactory to the Guardian; but we can assure him that here, in Liverpool, where " parties ought to know something of the cotton trade," . it will be deemed almost superfluous. The fact we regard as quite established, that our consump- tion of cotton has sustained this outrageously large increase of 82 per cent. within the brief period of ten years; and we are not singular in our opinion that, with a fact before our eyes so strongly illustrating the recklessness of consequences which has of late actuated the conduct of the manufacturing body, we are quite justified in withholding from them our, credence when they point to other circumstances—to the existence of the corn-laws for instance—as the sole, or even the main, cause of their present suffering. Our contempo rary and his fellow-townsmen may depend upon it that, rave and threaten as they will—hold borough meetings to address the Throne as they willno ministry will be held justified by the British nation in pulling down one branch of our pro tective system, merely to appease the demands of a body who have shown that if these demands were conceded to morrow, and increased prosperity should be the result of their concession, the lapse of another year would be suffi cient to enable them to overrun that prosperity, and to plunge themselves, and the country along with them, into a crisis similar to that whose pressure they are now enduring. We trust that the measures of a Conservative ministry, and time and patience, will do much to relieve the manufacturing body ; but it will be scarcely safe to adopt the nostrums of the manufacturers themselves for this object—(or rather of the pert and noisy clique who assume to speak in their name) —until we have better assurance than we possess at present of their perfect sanity, evinced in the prudent conducting of their own affairs. AWFUL IMPENDING CATASTROPHE! It will really be surprising if, near as we are to that very combustible place Manchester, we are not some of these days blown up,—town. docks, shipping, river, and all,—or demo lished in some other equally marvellous and appalling man- ner. We are not naturally deficient in courage; but really the consciousness that we live and breathe in the immediate neighbourhood of a volcano, and that we enjoy the pleasure of walking about only by virtue of its forbearance, is enough to unbrace the strongest nerves, and to visit with qualms the stoutest heart. What a whole host of frights we have had during the past year even ! First, we were within an ace of seeing our good old town conveyed away from the mouth of the Mersey, or the Mersey conveyed away from the town—we could never rightly determine which. Certain it is, however, that, by some necromancy or other, Manchester was to become the great western port—an honour which is now enjoyed by Li verpool ; whilst Liverpool was to become once more a little fishing hamlet, which the great Manchestrian and his lady, with their little progeny, might occasionally honour with a visit, for the sake of its soles and shrimps, or to enjoy the contemplation of its picturesque ruins. Again, this dread doom averted, we were threatened with the loss of our bond ing warehouses, merchants, brokers, carters, porters, and all the rest, which were to be transported forthwith to Man chester ; and again we were saved by a miracle. At this moment we are threatened with the loss of our law courts, judges, javelin-men, and all, to , satisfy the inordinate craving of our cotton-spinning neighbours ; and what will be next we are at a loss to guess. Perhaps our friends would like to appropriate a few of our public buildings, our Exchange, the Town-hall, a slice of our corporate estate—(we could spare them a portion of the corporation itself)—or, in this broiling weather, they might fancy the Baths from our Pierhead ; but we really do trust that they will not bring upon us any such overwhelming deprivation as we have but too just rea son to dread from their present inflammable mood. Our readers may have observed that some dark and omi- nous threats have been levelled within the last week against our conservative merchants and brokers, who are to be made the victims of au exclusive dealing system. At this, however, we are not seriously alarmed. But we muss confess we do not with equal stoicism contemplate the ap. proaching martyrdom to which the dissenting, ministers of Manchester arc about to submit their mahogany tables and chairs, in their virtuous and patriotic refusal—for the sake of the poor—to pay taxes ; for we do seriously fear that "if ministers of religion, whose hearts bleed for the oppresbion of their brethren," and who are of course dissenting minis ters only, should allow themselves to be " dragged to prison, or their property confiscated for the maintenance of an un righteous system," without having in view an ample reward in person and in purse, for so much Christian yielding ups of furniture and crockery, that the Mersey itself might per haps flow back to its source, or some other equally astound. ing and dangerous miracle take place, which would far exceed in its disastrous effects any previous calamity with which we have been threatened. Spare us, do spare us, in mercy's name—at least until we have time to remove ourselves from so dangerous a neighbourhood ! LOCAL NEWS CHAIRMEN OF ELECTION COMMITTEES NOMINATED BY TILE SPEAKER'.—Lord Sandon, Sidney Herbert, Wilson Patten, R. M. O'Ferrall, J. Loch, Sir G. Grey. Tun CONY-CT GIROLAMO CAPELLA.—This unfortunate man, who was at the recent assizes found guilty of the mur der of Antonio Tuscano at Liverpool, and on whom sentence of death was passed by Lord Chief Justice Denman, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure. Lord Morpeth arrived from London at the Adelphi Hotel, at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, and sailed in the mail steamer for Dublin at seven.—On Thursday the Marquis and MarchioneSs of Londonderry arrived at the Adelphi from Chirk, and set off on Friday morning for Yorkshire. We are informed that the Rev. Mr. Cordeaux, of Sheffield, has been presented to the incumbency of St. Silas' Church, Pembroke-place. The piety. zeal, and talents of the rev. gentleman are very highly spoken of. LAUNCHES.—TWO beautiful steam-ships, one the property of the Peninsular and Oriental C 0.,. for the Lisbon mail; the other for the British and Irish Steam-packet Company, will he launched on Thursday, the 16th instant, from Mr. Wilson's yard, Clarence Dock. PRESTON CONSERVATIVES.—Our conservative friends in Preston have done themselves honour in remembering their two unsuccessful candidates at the late election, by a hand some present of plate to each. The present to Mr. Parker consists of a magnificent silver vase, of 300 guineas value; and that to Mr. Charles Swainson an elegant branched pe destal for lights, of 100 guineas value. SHIP LAUNCH.—We hear that a splendid new ship, of 600 tons burthen, to be called the " John M'Vicar," built for Messrs. Bold and Starkie, by Messrs. Humble and Mil crest, will be launched from their yard in Trentham-street, on Thursday next, at eleven o'clock. She is intended for the East India trade, and will be committed to the charge of Captain M`Leod, an able and experienced commander in that trade. For beauty of model, strength combined with neatness of fastenings, interior finishing, &c., she cannot be surpassed. CONSECRATION OF LEEDS PARISH CHURCH.—The fol lowing munificent sums were collected at the different ser vices on the occasion of consecrating and re-opening Leeds Parish Church, the week before last : X. s. d. Thursday morning, the Bishop of New Jersey .. 620 14 3 Thursday evening, Rev. W. Dodsworth, Incum bent of Christ Church, Regent-park, London . Friday morning, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Vicar.. Friday evening, the Rev. Wm. Gresley, Preben- 86 1 1 159 16 10 dary of Lichfield Sunday morning, the Ven. Chas. Musgrave, D.D., 57.16 11 Archdeacon of Craven . Sunday afternoon, the Rev. John Jebb, Preben _ . 166 18 8 dary of Limericik Sunday evening, the Yen Robert Isaac Wilber force, M.A., Archdeacon of the East-Riding.. Donations .. 11 16 0 87 1 0 75 10 0 £1265 14 9 EXTRAORDINARY FLY-FISHING.—A correspondent of a contemporary,..in . noticingthe fact of the good fishing ex- ploits of Mr. J. W. Lassells, recently noticed in the Stan dard, states that the most extraordinary feature in this suc cess is, that in one of the days Mr. L. landed 36 salmon, weighing 356 lbs., and which feat he affirms was never before performed by any man with a fly. A MAN SHOT BY A GAMEKEEPER.-011 Saturday after noon, Thomas. Gudgeon, under gamekeeper to Joseph Fiel den, Esq., of Witton House, was out upon Billinge, about half-past four o'clock, shooting rabbits, when two men passed him. On seeing the keeper, they ran off. lie immediately called to them to stop, telling them that if they did not do so he would fire. They took no notice of him however, but continued to run, when the keeper fired, and hit one of them in the back : The man was enabled to get over the park wail; and to reach his own house in the neighbourhood, where he was discovered to have been very seriously injured. His ie is Thomas Ainsworth, though better linow - n by that of Information was given to the police, and Oudgeon was soon after taken into custody*by Mr. M'Cabe, inspector of police. Gudgeon was taken before John Lister, Esq., on Monday, and remanded. Ainsworth, we are happy to hear, is recovering. —Blackburn Gazelle. ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NORTH UNION RAILWAY —On Tuesday night, a collision took place at the Farrington Station, on the North Union Railway. It appears that the train leaving Manchester and Liverpool for Preston, at five o'clock in the evening, was rather later than usual. The train stopped at Farrington Station, to put down passengers and to attach the red signal lamp to the hind carriage. While this was being done, the London train came up, and running into the train on the rails, smashed a horse-box, loaded with sporting dog s, to atoms. Mr. Threlfall, malster, of Preston, had a thigh broken, and all the other passengers were more or less injured. The most singular thing was, that the engi neer of the first train, seeing the danger, put his steam on, and then jumped off the engine. The suddenness of start caused the engine to break away from the carriages composing the train, and it ran at a tremendous pace through Preston Station, on to the Lancaster line, and was at last stopped without doing any injury.—[The collision which took place on the same line a few days before this, resulted in thedeath of one gentleman, a baptist minister, and the serious injury of nine others.] MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A determined act of self-de struction took place in Bath on Friday week. The name of the deceased was William Henry Todd, and he had been for the last three years engaged as a draughtsman, &c., for the Great Western Railway. His connexions are highly respec table. He had been lodging fora long time at No. 5, Henry street, but had been on a visit to Mr. Thorley's, No. 11, Prior Park-place, in whose house he nearly severed his head from his body with a razor. So determined was the act that the cut extended from ear to ear, and so frightfully had the )at been severed that the spine could be distinctly seen The British Queen steamer arrived at Antwerp on Thurs day morning, at 8 o'clock. This magnificent vessel excited the admiration of the spectators who crowded the quays. The few persons admitted on board immediately after its arrival are lavish in their praises of the elegance with which it is furnished, and the good arrangements of the chambers and saloons. The British Queen carried the Belgian, English, and American flags. PROVIDENTIAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A 1.3 w days ago, a poor man in Leith was most agreeably surprised in receiving a letter from his sou in Canada, whom he considered for some time had been no more, and for whom he had gone into : mourning. The particulars of the case are briefly these : —The young man in question had gone out, in the capacity )f baker, in the ill-fated vessel the President ; however, a ew days before she sailed from New York, having had some misunderstanding with the captain, he signified his deter . mination not to return in her; but the C , aptain not being able to supply his pla ce t o hi s m i n d, ex p r e sse d hi s determina tion to compel him, and to avoid which the young man, only two days before she sailed, left the vessel clandestinely, and thus saved himself from the melancholy fate which, other wise, would have awaited him. THE HARVEST. —WHIG HORRORS I—Another week of comfort and encouragement has occurred to the country ! Another week of discouragement and dismay to the whig faction ! The sun has been shining, the breezes have been blowing. every sickle and scythe h a s been at work, ever y team has been in activity, every labourer has been employed, and all the poor have profited by a dry and cheering time for gleaning up the scattered corn. In a word, the harvest has been proceeding rapidly, and, we verily believe, with every prospect of a satisfactory result, and thus the whigs are dis appointed in their hopes of seeing a people made miserable and discontented by a bad harvest. Never, we should think, in the history of human wickedness, did such a wish as this prevail before. And never shall it be forgotten by others. or cease to be quoted by us, so long as our minds retain a clear recollection of what has occurred in the year 1841. Whenever hereafter the whigs profess their anxiety for the poor, they must be reminded of th e i r w i s h f or a b a d h arves t. hen ever they declare their party hopes for cheap bread, they must be taunted with their desire to see it made scarce and dear by a bad harvest. Whenever in discussions about the poor-law, or an extended franchise, or any other public sub ject of debate, the whigs make a parade of their sympathy for the working classes and the labouring man, there will be an easy method of proving their professions insincere and hollow, by simply reminding them how in 1841 it was a sub ject with them of congratulation and joy that there was every prospect of a bad harvest RUNCORN. — WATERMEN'S CHURCH AT WESTON POINT. —We understand that the Lord Bishop of the diocese has conferred the appointment to this beautiful and interesting little church upon the Rev. Christopher Bush, A. 8., of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, and at present incumbent of Lower Peover. From the character for piety and zeal which Mr. Bush sustains, and his affectionate attachment to the church at whose altar he ministers, we congratulate the poor watermen of the Weaver navigation upon their having been appointed to the spiritual charge of one who will, we are sure, diligently labour to bring them, according to his ordi nation vow, " unto that agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no place left among them, either for error in religion, or for viciousness in life." • THE NEW ELECTIONS.—On Wednesday evening, the new writs were movedfor, and i n h ow many places, think ou r r eaders, is opposition threatened after all the bombastic and turgid menacings of the Radi ca l s ? Why i n not one For weeks faction has been most desperately busy:llin endeavouring to get up the show of opposition against Sir Wm. Follett in Exeter; but after exhausting all its shifts and resources ; after applying in the most importunate way, to this man, and to that ; after hawkin g a b ou t requ i s iti on a f ter requisition, no one could be found fool-hardy or un scrupulous enough to face certain inevitable defeat, or embark in so disrepntable and desperate an enterprize. Well, Sir Wm. Follett is safe—so is Lord Stanley—so i s Sir James Graham—so is Sir Edward Knatchball—so is Sir Henry Hardings—so is Lord Eliot, and so, in fact, is every member of the Cabino. BUILDING SOCIETIES. — The utility of these institutions is now becoming fully known and appreciated. We observe that another society to be called the Second Liverpool Build ing Society, is about to be established, under the auspices of Mr. Evans, who is favourably known in connection with associations of this kind ; .and of Mr. James Reay, with whom the tradesmen of Liverpool a re we ll acqua i nted. In them we have a su ffi cient guarantee for the efficient manage ment and ultimate success. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.--On Friday morning last, through the careles s ness of the nurs e , a most fr i ghtful ac cident occurred, wh ich we much wond er did not prove fatal. Mrs. St. Albin's fami l y being in lod g i ngs i n Woodside, the youngest child, about two years of age, fell out of a window down into the area, a distance . of five-a n d-t wenty f eet. Sh e was picked up - for dead , but a f ter an ho ur h a d elapsed, b egan to recover. Happily Mr. Vale, the s urgeon, f ound no bones broken, but very much bruised. What is a most extraor dinary instance of accumulated trouble is that, that very morning, at the same time that the accident occurred, Mr. SL Albin heard in Liverpool of the death of his eldest son, who was lost on his passage to Bombay, in Messrs Chapman and Willis's vessel, the Bangalore. CHARGE OF F E LONY. - 7 11 w0 young men, named Mercer and Green, both carters, in the employ of James Eaton, of this town, were pla c ed before 111 r. Rushton, o n F r id a y, charged by Mr. Dowling, with having abstracted from Mr. Stokes' warehouse, in . Lancelot's -hey, two chest s o f sugar , and a considerable portion of a third. Mr. Dowling called several witnesses to P rove that the sugar was placed in the warehouse mentioned. From the evidence of a boy, name d M'Stravick, who had the char g e of a sixpenny cart, it ap peared that the prisoners had called him from the quay on Tuesday last, about twelve o'clock, and told him to go up to Aikin's stables, in Union -street. He d i d so, and both pri soners met him there. They brought with th em two b ags o f sugar, and placed them in his cart,—telling him to drive down to the Old Ropery. When he arrived there, both pri soners met him and took the bags, b u t w h ere he could not say. They gave him . l ive shillings for the job,—four of a which he was to keep himself, and the o th er sh il l i ng was to be given to his master. Inspector Cotham stated, that on passing along Oldhall-street, on Tuesday night, lie was told by a gentleman that there was something going on not quite right at a warehouse at the bottom of Union-street. He went there, and found that the bars of a window in a ware house had been removed. He sent for an o ther o ffi cer to assist him. The officer went into the warehouse while he remained outside upon the steps. While there, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching. H e s t oo d st ill , an d on e of the prisoners at the bar (Mercer) came up, and called out in a low voice, " Jew, Jem. lie took him immediately into custody. Inspector Randle apprehended the prisoner Green at ,George's Dock. One of the prisoners, in his defence, stated that he had been employed by the other, and knew nothing further of the transaction. They were both com mitted. ANOTHER CHILD OVERLAlN.—Yesterday an Inquest wi held on view of the body of an infant child, named Thorns son, which it appeared had been suffocated by being overlain Verdict accordingly. Mr. DUCROW.—We are'happy to state that this popular artiste, though still tinder restraint, is gradually recoverim, the use of his faculties ; but it is considered that it will bC long ere he will be enabled to resume his professional duties. HALIFAX ROYAL MAIL STEAM SHIPS.—We understand that Messrs. S. Cunard and Co., of Halifax, George Burns, of Glasgow, and David Mac Iver, of Liverpool, the con tractors with the government for carrying the North American mails, have had the allowance raised from £56,000 tc £BO,OOO per annum, the mails now running twice a month each way ; but, as soon as they shall run every week, they are to have £160,000 per annum. This addition has, we believe, been made on condition of the contractors doing, at the require ment of the government, certain extra services in the convey ance of the mails. Last year only one mail was despatched in the month of November : this year, there will be two. But in the month of March next, instead of two mails beino despatched, there will be only one mail forwarded. In March': few passengers offer, and the voyage is rendered rather dan gerous from the ice which usually, at that period, floats in the track of the steamers. CHESTER RACES.—An excellent painting of the race for the Tradesmen's Cup, run for at the last Chester races by 21 horses, is now at Mr. Parry's. Bridge -street Row ; it is painted for Lord Milltown, (whose horse Cruiskeen, rode by Stag, won at that celebrated race) by our talented townsman Mr. Bowden, who has bestowed a combination of taste and knowl-dge in his beautiful art, and given to the life the horses and riders in this animated scene. These figures are of course in the foreground • but Mr. Bowden has not been unmindful of the splendid Welsh scenery in the distance, which forms a grand outline in the picture, of the mountain chains in Flintshire. The spectators are numerous, the whole forming a characteristic view of the race course, and reflects infinite credit on Mr. Bowden ; it is a painting of decided merit, and we hope the citizens of Chester will avail themselves of the opportunity of examining it in detail. It may be seen at Mr. Parry's, during the next week, previous to its being sent to Lord Milltown's.—Chester Courant. CLITHEEO ELECTION.—We have already stated that a pe tition has been presented to the House of Commons against the return of Matthew Wilson, Jun., Esq., of Eshton Hall, who, at the last election for the Borough of Clithero, had a majority of four votes only over Edward Cardwell, Esq., barrister at law, the Conservative candidate, and we have also recorded that true bills of indictments have been found against several electors who voted for Mr. Wilson, for having given false answers to the questions put to them as to the continuance of their qualifications, and also against a re lative of the new member for alleged bribery. As an addi tional instance of the Whig mode of winning elections, a correspondent informs us that an elector of Clithero, of the name of John Whittaker, of Wilkie Heys, in that Borough, was conveyed away from Clitheroe some days before the election, when in a state of intoxication, and was kept from house until after the election, in such a beastly state of inebriety, that he was unable to give his family any account of where he had been during any part of the time. A trifling incident has, however, served to supply the deficiency of Whitaker's recollection. It was observed that when he re turned he wore a hat with a broader brim than was his wont, and on examining it, the name of Matthew Wilson, Sen. was found written within it ! With such evidence as this, no body can have much doubt as to the " whereabout" of Mr. Whitaker during the Clitheroe election. THE PADGATE BURGLARIES.—WiIIiam Wollaston, alias Cockney Will, who was committed for trial at Liverpool, with Parkinson and four others, of the Padgate gang, for bur glary, but acquitted, and ordered to be detained, has been charged before the magistrates at Warrington, with commit ting a burglary in the house of Ralph Arden, Esq., at Ul kinton, in Cheshire, on the Ist March last. Elisabeth Wal ton, the prosecutor's servant, deposed that about twelve o'clock on the night in question, her master's house was bro ken into. She looked through the window of her room, and saw a man standing in a lane by the side of the house ; she screamed, and the man threw a stone at her. She then en deavoured to go to her master's room, and on passing the top of the stairs, saw a man there, standing over her mother in a threatening attitude • she begged of him not to take her ' mother's life, and he desired her to hush and nobody would be hurt. She then perceived that there were two men in the house, and they proceeded first to her master's room,. from which they took a purse with thirty severeigns, they afterwards went to the room of her master's sister, and pre senting something at her head, demanded her keys and mo ney ; they took her gold watch from the drawers ; they also took five shillings from her mother's pocket. Soon after she heard a whistle, and the men went away ; one of them very much resembled the prisoner.—Mr. Edward Jones, constable of Tarporley, deposed that on the morning after the robbery he went to Mr. Arden's house, and found the back' door burst open ; there were some footmarks about the doer ; he took a sketch of one of them, which was nailed in the shape of a diamond. A few days afterwards he saw the prisoner in custody at Warrington, and on comparing the shoes he then had on with the sketch, he found they corre sponded exactly.—Several other witnesses confirmed the foregoing evidence, and identified the prisoner as being seen in the neighbourhood of Mr. Arden's house early on the morning of the 2d March.—The prisoner was fully con victed, and committed for trial at the next Cheshire Assizes, and the witnesses bound over to appear and give their evi dence. DEATH BY FALLING OVERBOARD FROM A STEAMER. — An inquest was yesterday held before P. F. Curry, Esq., touching the death of a young man named William Bradford. Charles Maybrick, a bookkeeper, said he knew the deceased, who lived in Hunte r - square . O n Tuesday, the 31st August, witness was going with the deceased in one of the river steam-packets to Seacombe. Deceased was sober. They had got half way across the river, and witness was sitting behind the paddle-box, and the deceased on the top of the bulwark forward. He (deceased) had been sitting there some time, and witness looked at him several times to see that he was sate. He happened to take his eyes off him, when 1-e heard a cry of " a man overboard." and a rush was made to the side of the vessel. He found it was the deceased. He looked for him in the water, but could not see him. The vessel was stopped, and a boat was lowered with two men, but they could see nothing of the deceased except his hat floating, which was picked up, and recognized by witness as that of the deceased. The witness identified the body. Joim Dutton, mate of the Tower steamer, trading to Runcorn, said that yesterday morning, (Sunday,) as the vessel was proceeding up to Runcorn, they found the body of the de ceased floating opposite to Rock Frrry. It was taken on board, and brought back with the vessel to Liverpool yester day morning. The body was identified by a brother, though his features were disfigured. The deceased was at first sup posed to have been a pilot, named Bainbridge, but this was a mistake. The brother of the deceased identified the body as that of his brother, also the clothes which he wore. The jury, as no one saw the deceased fall into the water so as to be certain that he had not wilfully thrown himself in, or been pushed by another person, returned a verdict of " found drowned." PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.—The St. Mi chael's branch of the above useful, active, and important society, was held it, the Parr-street School-room, on Friday evening last. The president of the branch, the Rev. H. Carpenter, having to attend a missionary meeting at Birken head, opened the meeting with prayer, and then left the oc cupancy of the chair to Mr. Joseph Crisp. The chairman briefly alluded to the present important crisis in the history of Protestant Associations, as the conservatives, he was thank ful to say, were now in power, and, he doubted not, the working of the Operative Protestant Associations throughout the country had greatly helped to place them there, by spreading sound Protestant information amongst the people. But they must not forget that the same watchful duty of pro tecting the Protestant Institutions of our country still con tinued. The duty of Protestant Associations was not altered by a change of party, but it became still more imperative upon them to be on the watch. He also reminded them of the duty devolving upon them on the Ist of November, in electing conservative town councillors. The Rev. Mr. Nolan, of St. Barnabas', addressed the meeting in a long, eloquent, and truly Christian-like speech. Mr. Lord, Secretary of the London Association, also addressed the meeting at length, and laid before them much highly useful and important information relative to the general workings of popery. This gentleman, during his visit to Liverpool, has delivered some of the soundest and most important lectures we ever remember to have heard on the subject of Protestantism and Popery. Thanks were voted to the Rev. Mr. Nolan and Mr. Lord for kindly attending, and to the chairman for presiding over the meeting, which separated at 10 o'clock. We are informed that there were quite as many outside the room as within, who could not gain admittance 'from its being so crowded, and much useful discussion went ors amongst them. TirEATRII RovAL-Sheridan Knowles's play of " Love" was repeated on Friday night, and again honoured with enthusiastic applause ;—Miss Ellen Tree was called for at the close to re ceive the compliments of the audience. The play of " Love" has been excellently got up : several new scenes have been introduced and new dresses provided on the occasion. Miss Tree's Countess is replete with beauty, pathos, and feeling. Now exhibiting " pride and haughtiness of soul," and now displaying that tenderness and warmth which require con summate art in the actress properly and naturally to express. The scene with Huon in the chamber was extremely fine : the interview with him when desiring him to sign the con tract of marriage was also beautifully acted, as was the inter view after he had entered the service of the Empress. The Countess is another laurel in Miss Tree's most verdant coronet of fame. Mr. Anderson's Huon is an excellent conception,—one scene detracts, however, from the merit of it—we allude to that stormy soliloquy delivered while the Duke of Carinthia is dictating the marriage contract. We -fancy it would be difficult to write while a man is shouting in a room at the top of his voice,—with this exception the character is well done. It would be an improvement if the Duke were to write the contract in an adjoining chamber. Mr. Chaplin played Count Ulric very carefully and judiciously. Miss Honnor as Catherine acted with much archness and vivacity. Mr. Lynne made the most of the. Prince. Mr. Gray tried to make a few tellinr points in the Duke of Carinthia but failed therein. This play abounds with noble passages full of vigourous thought and poetic beauty. The Countess of Ephenstein is a bright creation. She is a rare and magnificent creature. Many passages in the play were warmly applauded, showing that the audience fully appreciated the fine poet's brilliant thoughts. The farce of " Weak Points" is a very capital piece of fun,—Baker's Jemmy Weedle is rich and original. Mr. George Horncastle as Jolly created immense laughter. Mrs. Clarke's Miss Pump is most naturally done, it is drawn from the life with those happy touches which heighten the picture. To-night, the " Bridals of Messina" will be performed, and a very full house is an ticipated. The fine acting of the Vandenhoff's will be remembered and put Mr. Anderson and Mr. Stuart on the vine. Miss Ellen Tree's Isoline, we believe, is a beauti ful impersonation. On Wednesday, " Romeo and Juliet;" on Thursday, " Love" will again be played. In reply to a letter signed " Justus," touching the " original interpo lations" in Leigh Hunt's play by the Liverpool company — we will not retract one word, or the shadow of a word : we had a book also. Those who were with us can bear ample testimony to the truth of our remarks ;—some of these "inter. potations" were really most lauahable,—shall we mention a few of them ? We doubt the assertion of " Justus " that he is " unconnected with the theatre." DISMISSAL OF AN INSPECTOR AND AN OFFICER OF POLICE.—At the Police Court yesterday, Inspector Wharton, and police-officer Watt (No. 201), were brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having sanctioned, if not partaken in, a gross assault on an individual named Hilton, a flour dealer. It appeared from the evidence that Watt had fallen in with Henry Burns, a baker, at a late hour on Saturday night, in Netherfield-road ; and considering his character to be suspicious, had taken him to the Bee Hive, a public house in King-street, Kirkdale, with the ostensible view of having him identified. They go t th er e shortly before mid night, and found within the inspector and the complainant. Three of them had three pints of ale each at the house, and left it, would appear, after one o'clock. They in a few mi nutes returned, and had each a glass at the bar. Police officer Park (No. 298), happened soon after to come within a short distance of the house, and hearing a cry of murder, went up and found that the baker had grossly assaulted the complainant, and it appeared that both the officers had stood by and witnessed the violence, w i t h ou t interfering to prot ec t the party compl a i n i ng . A pr i n cipal witness against the officers was a Mr- Wood, schoolmaster of Walton, who had been attending to the house in the absence of the landlord. Mr. Rushton strongly commented on the direlection of duty of the two officers complained of, remarking that he could not place reliance on the testimony of men who, called upon to give evidence against publicans for breaches of the law, themselves infringed the law by drinking in public houses, and being accessory to breaches of the peace long after the legal hours. He accordingly dismissed them both from the service—stating that they should not be replaced, while he had power to prevent it. The other sitting magistrate in this case was, we learn, Mr. Hodgson. PHICE - HARIONICA-PIANO.---Herr Itreurtipc Wink Musicale will take place this afternoon, at two o clock, at the Templars'-hall. A very great treat may be expected. We believe that a fashionable attendance may be expected. ' The Melodicon is to be removed immediately to London ; there fore, those who wish to hear it must avail themselves of the opportunity offered this day. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—A paragraph under this head appeared in the Chronicle of Saturday last, relative to an accident which had happened to Mr. Burland and his family a few days before, and which would lead many to suppose that. Mr. Burland was so inconsiderate as to drive his phaeton over the bridge, which crosses the St. Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, whilst the traiin was passing underneath. The phaeton, on the contrary, was drawn up at a considerable distance from the bridge, but the horse took fright at a dis charge of steam from the engine, and backed the vehicle down the embankment, which is about twenty yards deep, and, unfortunately, Mr. Berland had his right arm severely crushed and has not been able to attend to business since, whilst his son and two daughter were also seriously injured. The directors of the railway will probably place a more secure protection on the sides of the road to prevent in future a recurrence of such a melancholy accident. A child could push down the railing which is at present plated there. In the advertisement of Mr. Williams, in another page, our readers will see a collection of property which, for ex tent and eligibility, seldom presents itself to public notice. Parties wishing either to purchase or to build will be fasti dious indeed if it is not in Mr. Williams's power to suit them. In point of situation he can accommodate them in any part of the town, and in some parts out of the town ; while the class of property, and the amount, will be entirely at their own option. It is altogether a temptation to investment such as George Robins would delight to expatiate upon. Members of building societies, in particular, we think, should direct their attention to the opportunity thus offered to them. From his extensive connexion, persons having property to dispose of, or to let, as well as those who may aesire to pur chase or to occupy, will find their advantage in dealing with Mr. Williams. MR. ANDERSON, THE GREAT DECEIVER AND WIZARD OF THE NORTH.—We dropped into the Liver last evening, en passant, to see Mr. Anderson perform his feats of decep tion. We must declare, although we have witnessed con jurers of high and low degree, this wizard outshines all others. He performs his tricks so skilfully, so gracefully, and with such celerity, that it is next to impossible to discover the modus operandi. We shall devote a space in our next publication to this entertaining person. The stage has been fitted up in a most tasteful style. The splendid silver appa rat gives great effect to the scene, as well as brilliancy. Mr. Anderson is, if anything, improved since he was here last. • 'GALLERY OF ARTS—EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.—The gallery of arts opened yesterday. We were invited to a pri vate view on Saturday, but could not attend. From our many engagements yesterday, we were unable to devote any space of time to examining the pictures, but we have been able to fora. something of an opinion of the whole. Without entering into details,—the pictures this year are for the most part small. The subjects are in a great variety. There are a few very capital first-rate works, many mediocre, and a decent sprinkling of very bad ones, being, we should sup pose, as foils to the others .of greater merit. Amongst the exhibitors we find the names of Ansdell (Liverpool), Barber (Liverpool), Buss, Crowley, Clater, T. Sydney Cooper, Miss Fanny Corbeaux, Miss L. Corbeaux, Crowe, Drum mond, .Daniels (Liverpool), Etty, WA., Howard, R.A., George Hargreaves (Liverpool), N. Haven, Herdman (Li verpool), Inskep, Lee, R.A., Lance, the Misses Nasmyth, George Patten, R.A., Pickering (Chester), Rippeogille (Liverpool), Stephanoff, Witherington, R.A., Webster, R.A., Walters. The pictures, drawings, busts, &c., number 671. FIRES.—On Sunday evening, at about 20 minutes before 8 o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the farm-yard of Mrs. Vase, about a mile on the north side of Walton village, on the Ormskirk road. The alarm speedily reached the town, and in a short time from 25 to 30 of the fire police with two engines were on the ground headed by Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, of the fire department. Three stacks of hay were on fire, and one of them had to be pulled down and scattered abroad before the flames could be effec tually subdued, the whole operation occupying a space of about four hours. The alarm in the northern part of the town was great, the general rumour being that the fine old church of Walton (the original parish church of the parish), was on fire—and the report was the more accredited as it was generally known that that place of worship was under repair, and was consequently more liable'to combustion from the state of the wood-work. Much praise is, we learn, due tto Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt for their management on this occasion in suppressing the flames. Two engines were on the ground, and the water was supplied from a neighbour ing brook.—Yesterday afternoon, at about 20 minutes be fore one o'clock, a fire broke out in Pine-court, Crosbie street, inhabited by persons in humble life. Before the fire police could get up, which they did very speedily, again under the superintendence of Mr. Whitty and Mr. Hewitt, the conflagration had reached a great head, the flames issuing from the windows above, and the furniture, as well as a great part of the floors, were consequently destroyed. The house was of three stories in height. An alarm was given that a female was in the upper story. Mr. Hewitt mounted a ladder and entered the blazing apartments, but found no one, the person alluded to having made her escape by the stairs. So rapid was the progress of the flames that some bed-stocks, prepared to be launched from the upper win dows, were necessarily left, by the parties who had removed them, a prey to the devouring element. This fire was also extinguished without any accident affecting life or limb. The property belongs to,Mrs. Hargreaves ' of Bridgewater-street. The tenants were two persons named Kenny and M'Connell. EXPENSES OF CONSECRATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD As much misconception is believed to exist respecting the fees for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, and as a report has been spread that not only the amount is very large but that the diocesan has a direct interest therein, and derives a considerable emolument therefrom, which accounts for his readiness to promote the building of churches, you will, I am sure. readily lend your assistance, by means of your widely-circulated paper, to dispel this illusion. The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery, situate at New-grove, Mile-end, was consecrated by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, on Saturday, the 4th inst.. and the whole of the expenses paid to the registrar of the Consis tory Court amounts to the sum of £33185. 4d., being rather more than nsual from the length of the conveyance deeds ; and not a single penny of the money is payable to his lordship. The directors of the company deem it, therefore, incumbent upon them to give the most public contradiction to so in jurious a rumour.—l have the honour to remain, sir, your most obedient servant, J. F. SHEARMAN, Clerk Cemetery-office, 80, Fenchurch-street, Sept. 10, 1841. Liverpool, Sept. 13. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Can you or any of your readers inform me what are the precise objects of the Jewish Institution in this town ? whether it is in connexion with the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews? and what is the mode of ob taining admission ?—I beg to remain, Sir, Your most obedient servant, [No doubt some person officially connected with the Institution will furnish our correspondent with the informa tion he requires.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—You will particularly oblige a constant reader by the insertion of the accompanying letter in your forthcoming publication.—Yours, &c., ANGLICANUS. TO THE REV. J. BAYLEE - • Ray. SIR,—It will not, I trust, be regarded in the light of an impertinent and unwarrantable intrusion on your at tention,' if, as a member of our Liverpool Protestant Asso ciation, I take tl 'herty of addressing to you a few friendly observations. In common, I am sure, with every one belonging to the respectable and useful body I have named, I have warmly admired your zealous advocacy of the Scriptural principles of our revered and beloved establishment, and the honest boldness with which you recently stood forward to vindicate those principles from objection and assault. I now address you, sir, chiefly with the design of recalling your attention, and that of the publics at large, to the disin genuous and evasive, but truly Popish line of policy pursued by Dr. Butler with reference to the discussion in which you recently proposed to engage with him. To do so the more effectually, it will be advisable to enter slightly into details. The vaunted champion, then of his infallible church, in the course of one of his' earliest controversial lectures at St. Anthony's, announced his readiness to meet any Church of England clergyman in a public discussion, on the principles professed by the members of the respective churches ; inti mating, at the same time, his certainty that no one would venture to respond to the challenge thus given. You, sir, however, with promptitude stepped forward, thus at once to put the doctor's sincerity and prowess to the test, which he, throughout the correspondence which subsequently took place between you with marvellous dexterity, contrived to evade the point at issue. On the publication, however, of the correspondence referred to, your opponent, aware that if the matter remained as it then stood, he must appear in a somewhat awkward position before a discerning public, an nounced that his so-called " Scriptural lectures" must be re plied to, ere lie could consent to make arrangements for any controversial warfare. You, accordingly, with all wil lingness complied with this condition—in my views an unreasonable one, inasmuch as it was not specified in the doctor's challenge—and afterwards gave renewed expression to your readiness to meet him. A few weeks afterwards the following intimation appeared, in answer to the inquiries of a correspondent, in the columns of the Mercury:—" We beg to inform A Constant Reader' that Dr. Butler is still giving lectures at St. Anthony's, and will notice Mr. Baylee's second challenge as soon as the excitement of the election is over." Having waited about a month beyond the period specified for the manifestation of this promised condescen sion on the part of his reverence, I addressed two successive notes to the Mercury, requesting to be made acquainted with the reason of so unbecoming a delay. A sagacious silence was observed by the journal in question with reference to the contents of both the notes despatched by me; and I have little doubt, therefore, of your concurrence in the conclusion which, I think, the circumstances of the case have fully war ranted nie in coming to, viz., that the conduct of your oppo nent, in reference to this matter, was, even by the tacit con fession of his own friends, so utterly disingenuous and con temptible, that the utmost stretch of sophistry must prove wholly unequal to the invention of a plausible defence of it. Under these circumstances, 1 beg respectfully to throw out the suggestion that you, sir, should publicly address a letter to Dr. Butler, exposing (as you would no doubt with all that ability which has characterised your previous productions) those " ingenious devices," on the part of his Romish reverence, to which I have now taken the liberty of recalling your attention ; practised, as they are, in exact imitation of those resorted to by his friend the renowned and ingenious Tom Maguire, with reference to the mock challenge given by that gentleman, about four years ago, to that truly indefatigable opponent of every species of Romish error, the Rev. H. M'Neile. The fact is, sir, every chal lenge to discussion emanating from those gentry, the priests of Maynooth manufacture, ought only to be regarded as an artifice deliberately planned for purposes of their own ; th e i r legerde ma i n s kill too frequently enabling them successfully to practise their plausible deceptions on the minds of the unwary ; while their celerity in shifting their position when the weapons of scriptural truth are prepared and in readiness for the contest, serves to exhibit but too thorough an ac quaintance, on their part, with the principles of their craft. I have the honour to be, rev. sir, With much respect, your obedient servant, ANGLICANUS. THE BRADFORD ELECTION.--The nomination takes place to-dav, and the polling to-morrow. The election for North Lancashire takes place this day week. Vauxhall Gardens. which cost the late proprietors about X 60,000, have been sold by auction for £20,200. The pur chaser is W. Fowler, Esq., a gentleman wholly unknown in the theatrical world. It has not been ascertained whether it is his intention to devote the gardens to their original . upe; or to break them up i n t o b u ildi ng groun d. The latter opinion is most prevalent. MISCELLANEOUS WESLEYAN CONFERENCE versus TEETOTALLERS.—The Wesleyan Conference at its-late sitting resolved—" 1. That no unfermented wines be used in the administration of the sacrai.lent throughout the connexion. 2. That no Wesleyan chapels be lent for the meetings of the Temperance Society ; and 3. That no preacher shall go into another circuit to ad- vocate teetotalism, without the — consent of the superinten- dent of the circuit to which he may be invited." We understand that Mr. Wolverly Attwood will be the conservative candidate for Sunderland, and we congratulate the constituency of that borough on the opportunity thus afforded them of manifesting their attachment to the con- servative cause by the election of a representative who has already proved himself a most dffigent . and efficient membet of the House of Commons It is expected that the nominatioq at Sunderland will take place on Monday or Tuesday, and the polling on the subse- quent day Mr. Wolverley - Attwood is the constitutional candidate, and Lord HowiclC, the rejected of North Northam- berland, the nominee of the Lannbton Faction, with the permission of Mr. David Jonassohn What next? NEW LOCOMOTIVE ENGlNE.—Messrs. Coulthard, of Gateshead, engineers, have just completed a powerful Loco motive Engine, including all the modern improvementss, with also, in one respect,_ a novelty in construction of great' . . . practical advantage. This consists in the rejection of what may be called the "cinder chamber," so that the bars are exposed to the external atmosphere, and ashes fall directly upon the ground. Thus, the b ars being presented to the cold air on tha outside, they do not waste away with that rapidity which is consequent upon the ordinary construction, and considerable economy is the result. The engine being built more for power than for speed, the works are placed, chiefly, on the outside, and are of peculiarly easy access for puiposes of repair. Mr. Nicholas Wood, under whose superintendence she was built, is so much pleased with her construction, that he has adopted her as his own, and she has been honoured with the name of " the Nicholas Wood." Trial was made of her powers on Thursday week, in the pre sence of Mr. Wood and other gentlemen, who were_ much gratified by her performances ; and, after remaining for ex periment on the Brandling Junction Railway a few days, she will be removed to the Clarence line to commence her labours in good earnest. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S APPOINTMENTS.—In filling up the numerous offices which usually become vacant upon a com plete change of ministry, Sir IL Peel has had the good fortune, not merely to occasion no whisper of offence, either among friends or foes, but to give a degree of general satis faction, rather uncommon, we should think, in his peculiar circumstances. We say this, to the credit of all parties, without exception. As far as regards the right hon. baronet himself, the invidiousness almost inseperable from the necessity of giving a preferance where numerous ,claims ap peara to be nearly equal has been successfully got rid of by the perfect rectitude arid single-mindedne s s which have governed him throughout; while, with reference to the itn-. mense body of able men from among whom a selection was to be made, we give them no ordinary praise when we say, that without the slightest disparagement having been felt by any one of them, their competing pretensions have been placed at Sir Robert's disposal with precisely the generous devotedness most conducive to the public service, and least likely to embarass him in completing his official arrange ments. Nor must we omit to acknowledge what is really due to our political opponents. Powerless though they be, for any effective resistence to the conservative premier, the impotent and factious hostility which their loss of office is so apt to engender against their successors has, in the present case, been voluntarily restrained, or very partially exhibited. Never, perhaps, was less discontent shown on any similar occasion. The allegation that any particular office has beau filled up with an incompetent or unmeritorious person has never once been made. To suppose that there are no 'Tr dictive and rankling resentments among the discarded wht&s were to expect too much from human infirmity; yet, though we are far from imputing to them any watchful querulous ness that might not equally have attached to their supplanters in similar circumstances, not a public murmur have they ventured to utter. If a conservative government must needs be formed, the universal conviction seems to be that the appointments of Sir Robert Peel are upon the whole, invulnerable. TREMENDOUS STORM AT SOUTHAMPTON.—On Friday evening, the 3d instant, a most fearful storm was experienced' in the Southampton Water and the neighbourhood, which is thus described by the Hants Advertiser:—At half-past six a heavy fall of rain came on, and what had just before been a slight breeze, increased in violence with extraordinary ra pidity—the New Forest seemed in fearful agitation, and in a few minutes a most awful tornado ensued, sweeping every thing before it, and by its swiftness producing the most ap palling sounds. It seemed as if the air was occupied with a legion of spirits uttering the most terrific shrieks : in another minute the heavens seemed all one mass of flame, and of all colours, as blue, green, yellow, red, the thunder crashed like fields of artillery tired at once, while everything bent beneath the blast. The sails of vessels were shivered to ribands, boats swamped, houses partially unroofed, trees torn up by their roots, and land and water exhibiting in a few minutes only an extensive scene of desolation. The rain poured down as if, indeed, Heaven's windows were opened—and it was most providential that such was the case, for the light ning poured out—not flashed, but thrust out into wide sheets of flame; and, if it had not been for the deluge of rain, the rigging of vessels, and wooden erections on shore, and stacks in fields, must have been ignited. We have witnessed seve ral heavy storms here, but they all fall into insignificance when compared with this. It lasted just one hour. To de tail a twentieth part of the damage done would occupy a co lumn. The great tree at the deanery and one in Tree:field: lane were torn out of the ground ; the streets are sprinkled with tiles, and the water with wreck. The Ariadne yacht, while her sails were being furled, had two men washed over board, but with enormous exertion they were saved ; the gig was upset ; a brig brought uo, but before the sails could be got in they were shivered to ribands. A vessel is sunk off Chapel-wharf, and we have just received the distressing in telligence of a fisherman's boat having swamped off Calshot, and four lives lost. The whole district is one scene of fright ful devastation not a house has escaped, 4nd all accom plished in less than an hour. We are glad to know that the harvest is nearly got in, so that but little damage will have been sustained by outstanding crops. A statement of the income and expenditure of the turnpike trusts in England and Wales, which has been printed by order of the House of Commons, will show, in reference to those counties which are inure ur less intersected by railroads (for the year 1839), how the income of those trusts has been affected. In Bedfordshire the total income in 1833 amounted to £12,599, and the total expenditure to £12,914, leaving a deficiency of £315. In Berkshire the total income was £18,362, and the expenditure £17,151. In Buckingham shire the income amounted to £14,838, and the expenditure to £16,199, leaving a deficiency of £1,361. In Cambridge shire the total income was £15,123, and the expenditure £14;525. In Cheshire the income amounted to £50,854, and the expenditure to £52,015, leaving a deficiency of £1,161. In Derbyshire the income amounted to £40,997, and the expenditure £12,800, leaving a deficiency of £1.803. In Durham the income amounted to £32,612, and the ex penditure to £32,204, leaving a surplus of only £4OB. In Essex the income amounted to £31,460, and the expenditure to £31,729, leaving a deficiency of £269. In Gloucestershire the income was £78,339, and the expenditure 81,594, leav ing a deficieney of £3,255. In Hampshire the income amounted to £26,957, and the expenditure to £27,978, km , - . ing a deficiency of £1,021. In Kent the income amounted to £61,721, and the expenditure to £60,964. In Lancashire the income amounted to £148,822, and the expenditure to £139,288. In Leicestershire the income and expenditure was respectively £25,2.50 and £23,772, and in Lincolnshire £31,274 and £33,574, leaving a deficiency in the latter county of £2,300. In Middlesex the deficiency amounted to about £2,418. In Northamptonshire the deficiency was no less than £4,443. In Oxfordshire the income was £23,680, and the expenditure £22,006. In Shropshire the deficiency of income was about £2,595. In Sornersetshire there was a surplus of £578. In Staffordshire the income amounted to £58,128, and the expenditure to £59,752. In Surrey the income was £61,000, and the expenditure £63,578, leaving a deficiency of £2,578. In Warwickshire the income was £28,685, and, the expenditure £28,384. In Worcestershire the income amounted to £42,821, and the expenditure to £35,820. In Yorkshire the income amounted to £201,438, and the expenditure to £199,107, leaving a surplus of .12,331. Thus, of the above 24 counties, there are no less than 12 in which the income is exceeded by ex penditure. These statements furnish a curious addition, to the history of railway travelling and its effects in 'this country. _ Dr. CHALMERS ON THE CORN LAWS.—Sir Robert Peel's argument upon the corn law question leaves nothing to be said ; but the opinion of Dr. Chalmers as to the effect of the corn-laws in producing distress is worthy of attention. The extract which we are about to make is taken from a letter addressed to the Manchester Conference, which letter Was suppressed by that candid and very pious body. Dr. Chal mers, it will be remembered, was quoted as an authority against the corn-laws in the course of the debate on Thiirs day week :—" To speak honestly, I must speak in the terms of my own opinion ; and with such an opinion as I have been led to form, I could not tell the people that the corn Jaws were the great causes of their destitution and misery, or that in the removal of these, abundance and prosperity were henceforth and for ever to smile upon them. I could not lend myself to what I believe is a delusion, nor join in hold ing up a fancy picture before the eyes of the working clasies , which, while it dazzled their imagin ation, would, after the brief interval, it may be, of a few months, or at most a +cry few years,- most cruelly disappoint and deceive their hopes. I would not be a party in practising such a decep tion on the minds of any of my, fellow-counteymen,..nor help to lure them from the only path by which they will ever reach that high state of comfort and sufficiency which they are fully entitled, and which, under the aus pices of a wise and righteous, and withal Christian govern ment, they are abundantly capable of making good. It isitot that I impeach the honour or sincerity of those who think differently from myself on this question. Who, for example, can doubt the perfect single-mindedness of the Rev. Baptist Noel, and many others of the Christian ministers who are to assemble in Manchester, and who will plead for the abolition of the corn-laws with all the fervour and heartfelt philan thropy of men bent on the achievement of a great deliverance for the common people of these lands? Nevertheless, 1 mast be permitted to retain my conviction of this measure—that, seemly and full of promise as it looks, it will in the end bring them no deliverance. There might very possibly be a brief interval of cheaper food, but followed up, and with a speed inconceivable, by proportionably reduced wages—after which we shall behold the families of our working classes in the same average condition as before, and borne down by the same weight of toil and pen ur y , when, this ex p edient having been tried theywill be expos e d t o th e renewa l of aggravated by the mo c k er y o f ex pecta theair o nd ld fou nd jlardships, wanting, tions which have not been realized."—Sir Robert Peel pro bably had not seen the letter of Dr. Chalmers, yet his argu ment coincides with wonderful exact ness w ith th a t o f ‘th e foregoing extract. THE FOREIGN SECRETARY.—Lord Aberdeen is a men of clear, calm, and well-informed intellect. Habituallyi' 'ac quainted with foreign politics ; at an early period of his life remarkable for his scholarship, completing it by classical re search throughout Europe ; and consummating his education for public life by long personal intercourse with the most dis tinguished names in the most distinguished era of modern history ; he probably possesses as large a political experience as any living statesman. He was the Ambassador of Eng land to the Allied Cabinets in the field in the memorable year 1814 ; and in conjunction with the late Marquess of Londonderry, he finished, by the vigour of negociation, the mighty overthrow of the French Jacobin Empire, which, in the glorious conflict of Leipsic, was begun by the sword. PARSONAGE HOUSES.—The history of p arsonage houses would offer much scope for antiquarian research. .Wherever priests were to be found a church was consecrated to God. residing in the neighbourhood, now and th e n to solitude, to circumstances. but generally ( for it is not good for. man be al o ne) in pear to have groups of two, three, or more, The terms " monastery " and ce P Intant what we call the parsonage of a at first nothing more than ,ticcopinag • h being served more diligently.' II church or chapel, wh ich, required more tha - churches and chapels 0v. 7 n ' ministers. It was the imperatively the vicinage of the 1 ? heathen m ages that these theory of the thing in lawless an d men should dwell in safety under " the shadow of the Al • ghty, or, fail ing their should surrende r lives without a struggle of that, s , of God to invaders, for the servant must not strive. .This, however, a lthough beautiful in idea, could not b e carr i e d i n to age practice. Perhap s theof miracles was past, and what ever a hero might now and then accomplish,would men shrink from destruction, and provide for their safety. Hence, the original Parsonage was in all probability a tower placed near, or forming part of the temple where its inmates associated.