The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

We understand that the Rev. Brownlow Potchett is about to resign the living of Bremilham, near hlalrnesbury. The Rev. Mr. Watson, curate of Grantham, in Lancashire, will probably be the next incumbent. Her Majesty has been pleased to give her customary an nual order for Irish poplins, as an encouragement to this branch of maeufaeture in Dublin and its vicinity. Hop picking commenced yesterday. The picking will be general next week. The mould has committed excessive ravages, and the crop generally is not of first-rate quality. The duty is backed at £ao,oo(l.—Kenlish Gazette. It is said that the boats of the Steam Navigation Company have recently carried 900 tons of wooden gun-carriages from Dublin, to supply the various towers and batteries on the Shannon. —Ulster Times. One of the most extraordinary sales of stock that ever took place in South Wales was that of yesterday at Taliaris, the property of the late Ros , ert Peel, Esq. Cows of the Here fordshire breed were knocked down at £26 and £27 a-Read, and the one-year -old steers and heifers at £lO. is not this sufficient to excite the Welsh farmers to be more select in the breed of their cattle ? Welshman. BLACKBURN OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. — The quarterly meeting of this constitutional body was held on Monday last. It is pleasing to see these meetings attended by such numbers of artizans, as the conclusion which alone can be drawn from it. shows that the association is in a healthy state. The reading-room still continues to be well attended, and the demand for books, for private perusal by the members, is on the increase.—Blackburn Standard. REMINISCENCES, BY AN OLD FRIEND.—In 1793, Mr. O'Connell, who confessed subsequently that he had been a United Irishman, joined the Lawyers' Corps on the day after intelligence had reached Dublin of the total route of the in surgent forces in the county Wexford. There was no loyalist abused the "rebels" more, or who marched more gaily to the tone of " Croppies lie down." When a general amnesty was proclaimed, Daniel doffed the red coat and laid by his inusket,and thought seriously of joining the Catholic Board. In fact, when danger was over, Daniel turned patriot."— Waller Cox. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN.—The grand dinner to be given at Kettering by this respected nobleman's friends and late constituency, on his return from India, will be on a most im posing scale. There are 164 stewards named, at whose head Is the Duke of Buccleuch. The festive day has been post poned, owing to lord circumstances, to Wednesday, the 3d of October.—Kentish Gazette. Lord Ellenborotigh gave an entertainment on Friday to above 100 of his tenantry and friends at Southam. It was one of those good old English hospitalities so much lauded in song and story, and withal so much neglected in practice, which we admire the more from the unfrequency of their occurrence. A right hospitable supper was followed by dancing, which was entered into with spirit, and kept up until near morning. —Cheltenham Looker-on. If we are to believe an " American paper," a man of Ken tucky has lately laid before an architectural committee a plan for raising a building of such au immense bulk and solidity as to require a stone pavementof remarkable strength to support the shadow only. EXTENSIVE CAPTURE. OF WHALES.—A short time since a Party of whales made their appearance off the shore in the Parish of this, Stornoway, when seven vessels set out in pur suit of the monsters of the deep, and no less than forty-one were captured. One of the boats was upset in the melee and a mars unfortunately drowned. MAST KENT YEOMANItT.—That truly hospitable and inn-' nificent nobleman the Earl of Winchelsea, has issued invita tions to all the members of the fine regiment over which he WC' ' until the last few months, the respected Colonel, to dine at h is princely domain at Bagmen, on Thursday, the 4th day of October next.—Kentish Gazette. The exportation of the precioUs metals from the port of London for the week ending Saturday last, the Silt instant, consisted, according to the official returns, of 1170 ounces of gold, which were forwarded in bars to Haunburgh, and 79,856 ounces of silver, which were disposed of as follows:-60,0',X) ounces to Canada, 18,500 to Canton, and 1356 ounces to the West Indies. The Rev. Edward Whitehead, son of the vicar of Chard, is appointed to the charge of the church at Vepery, near Madras, and the superintendence of the new Missionary College esta blished there, and has just sailed on his interesting and re sponsible mission, in the " Duke of Argyle" East Indiaman, ST. MARY'S CHURCH, RAWTENSTALL, NEAR HASLING "II4.—In the afternoon and evening of Sunday last, two sermons were preached at this church, by the Rev. F. Kirk patrick; A. B. incumbent of Mellor, near Blackburn, in ehalf of the Sunday School. The appeals of the reverend geatlernam produced collections amounting to the handsome sum of £35. The Vicarage of St. Mary, Marlborough, recently vacated by the cession of the Rev. R. H. Tucker, has been presented by the Dean of Sarum, to the Rev. Josiah Bateman, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, formerly chaplain to the late Dr. Wilson Bishop of Calcutta, with whose daughter he formed a matrimonial alliance. TRIBUTE or Respacr.—The Rev. W. B. Marsden, M.A. , tale curate of St. Thomas's, Pendleton, has been presented with a piece of plate, by several of the congregation of that church, es a mark of esteem and approbation of his conduct and ministerial services during the period of his curacy. ISLE OF MAN.—On Wednesday last, the instalment of the Lord Bishop of this diocese took place in St. Mary's Chapel, Castletown, with the usual ceremonies, after which an ad dress front the inhabitants of Castletown was presented to the High Bailiff, to which his Lordship returned a very feel ing reply, replete with sentiments of regard and attachment. And on Thursday, an address of congratulation front King Wiliam's College was presented to the Bishop by the Prin cipal of that Institution, the Rev. H. Phillips. His Lord ship's answer was equally dignified, liberal, and complimen tary; well adapted to secure the esteem, and make a lasting impression upon the gentlemen to whom it was delivered. — Manx Liberal. Tile PRINCE OF OUDE.—On Monday last, great crowds of spectators were attracted opposite the Imperial Hotel, by the navel appearance of some eastern foreigners, who, now and .then, were visible at the windows. From inquiries we ascer tained that the Imperial was the favoured domicile selected by his Highness the Prince of Oude, who arrived that morn ing from Liverpool by the Birmingham steamer. His High ness travels its an extremely unostentatious manner, accom panied by an interpreter, an English gentleman (whose lone residence in India has enabled him to become thoroughly acquainted with the language of the country), also a cook and two attendants. It• is stated that the Prince proposes remaining in Ireland for a month, visiting the principal towns through the North and South. The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the High Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, paid their respects to his Highness, by leaving their cards ' tinmediately after his arrival was made known.---Dublin Evening Mail. STATE OF TnAlag.—The demand for twist was very limit ed yesterday; the market having been injuriously affected by the sale, or offer for sale, on the exchau"e, of a quantity of pan which was understood to have been previously pur chased for Russian account. We have reason to believe that the reports respecting this operation were greatly ex aggerated, both as to the quantity of yarn offered and the eircumstancei under which it teas purchased. We believe it had not been bought for the Russian market, but merely as a speculation. It had, however, th e e ff ec t o f reducing prices about Id. p er pound, for most of the ordinary shipping num bers, For cloth, on the contrary, there was a very good de mand; and most ki n d s o f hand-loom cloths were decidedly scarce. For power-loom calicoes and shirtings the demand, was also good; and the stocks extremely bare, with the slight exception of heavy domestics, for whirh the demand was not quite so active as for moat other descriptions of goods.— Manchester Guardian. The works on the Shoreham branch of the London and Brighton railroad are progressing with much rapidity. The foundations of two new bridges have just been set out, one over the Hove-road and the other over Mr. Chatfield's term. The former will run under the railroad, the latter over it Two bridges are completed, one at Goldstone-bottom, and' the other over Sandford's farm-road, and competent judges hate assured us that Inure substantial work than is used in these bridges they never witnessed. We understand that workmen will be immediately put to work at the shaft, near Lashinar's mill, and commence tunnelling towards New England Farm forthwith.—Brighton Patriot. - REMARKABLE PROOF OF THE TRUTH OF ANIMAL. MAG. Itatism.—Fgost Dn. JOSEPH MILLER, Jt;N., M.D.—lt is Well Itnnwn that about three weeks since Dr. Elliotson, left London on a journey to France, and shortly afterwards Eli zabeth and Jane O'Kay went to Dover for the benefit of hange of air. On the morning of the 3d instant, the two girls were enjoying the. sea breeze on the beach and stooped " 10 dtank salt water as the waves rolled upwards. In an in ' * taut bath were fixed in 'a Mesmeric trance, the cause of , • which was involved in mystery: A correspondence with Dr. El . 'letup took place in consequence, when it was found that at the Instant of their drinking saline fluid thedoctor was bathing eta the. beach at Calais. Need we urge another word in proof of the instantaneous transmission of the Mesmeric power? The doctor had . magnetized the sea, and it produced the usual effect on his susceptible patients.—Times. [Why does nut the doctor try his hand on the man in the moon? E. 'L. S.] PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The following is another of those Cases wherein the band of Providence is manifestly in terposed for the pre:err ,tion of human life. In the after noon of Saturday last, Major Bouverie, the comtnander of of the 86th regiment, now stationed in this town, and his lady were on their was; in a four-wheeled carriage front Read-hall, the seat of J. Fort, Esq., M.P. for Clitheroe, when on arriv ing at the " Judge Walmsley" public-house, situate midway in the brow leading down to Whalley, the maj or p u ll e d up to giv e th e h orse some re f res h men t. He alighted, leaving his lady in the carriage and the horse in care of his servant. Wailat he was in the house the ostler at the inn unbuckled • the horse's headpiece to give him some meal and water, and the horse, finding himself thus at liberty, suddenly sprang f nirsard,".kniscked down the ostler and ran sever him, and pro • seeded down the brow at a fearful rate, with the major's lady alone i n 'the carriage. The occurrence was observed t ~. V.Ysateral people, w ho, in dreadful suspense, watched to see the horse would get through the toll-bar, and take the torn on, the bridge. In an instant all suspense was at an end; for the furious maims], after passing through the bar, dashed headlong against the battlements of the bridge, and threw the lady over the coping into the river below, a distance of nearly fifty feet. Several persons hurried to her assistance, and she was soon got out of the water, but in a state of ex haustion. She was conveyed to a neighbouring cottage, and, medical assistance being speedily obtained, she was so far recovered in the evening • as to admit of her removal to Blackburn. We have since heard that she has well nigh re covered from the accident. The carriage was broken to pieces, but with the fr agmen t s th a t s till stuck to the shafts, the horse proceed up the village of Whalley at full gallop and broke s evera l w i n d ows and committed other damage before he could be secured. The strong battlement of the bridge, we hear, was forced down for a considerable distance with the shock.—Blackburn Stanaard. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE, AND SUNDAY MAILS FROM LONDON.—Various contradictory paragraphs have recently appeared in the London papers, front which they have been generally copied by the provincial press, as to the nature of the changes on the Post-office regulations, recommended in the forthcoming report of the select committee of the House of Commons. The resolutions recommend the immediate adoption of a uniform rate of one penny-of postage for all letters which are not carried more than fifteen miles, and a uniform rate of twopence for all greater distances, for letters not exceeding half an ounce weight. They like wise recommend, that, as soon as the revenue will admit of " risking" a large temporary reduction, all postage* should be farther reduced to the uniform rate of one penny . per half ounce, without regard to distance. The committee recommend that mails should be despatched from London on Sundays, and that letters should likewise be delivered in London during certain hours. They object to the detention of letters in London during twelve hours, to wait the des- Patch of the evening mails, and, consequently, by implica tion, approve of the general adoption of the morning mails. DREADFUL DEATH.—A poor man, named Patrick Kelly, !rho was in the habit of taking care of glaudered horses be (.lnlZing to th e R o y a l C ana l, was b ro ught, some days s i nce, t o the Richmond Hospital, covered with pustules, and wa s im mediately suspected to h a ve caught that dreadful disease front the cattle which he attended. Hots-ever, to ascertain that fact more satisfactorily, the medical gentlemen of the esta hi s hment tried an e xperiment on an ass, by inoculating it w route of the matter which came from the pustules of the loan;sick and, in a few days the disease declared itself most unequivocably in the p oor animal, which it became subseque r otacid After iih y necessary to destroy by prussi c mtvgeedr.inthgefporo eleven days, without any possibility of being This is the - or man died in the most excitonatteg tortures. oc curred in tha tsecrd death, from the same cause, which oc bable that each hospital within a short period ; and it is pro - • al though th cases have been of frequent occurrence, al ow,_g to malady has not been recognised until lately, 1,4 4 13 e.,. & i rt trod-acing the same symptoms in man as in in Freeman. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. KEELEY, And the Last Night of their Engagement. Last Night of Mr. HARLEY and Mr. F. VINING. Fifth Night of Mr. MACKAY. MHIS present FRIDAY EVENING, the 14th instant, 1 will be performed Morton's celebrated Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE. Old Rapid Young Rapid Mr. F. Vining. Frank Oatland Charles Stanley.... Mr. W. Howard. Miss Vortex Mrs. Clarke. Ellen Vortex—Miss Cleaver. Jesse Oatland....Mrs. Keeley. After which, will be revived the popular Farce, called DEAF AS A POST. Tristram Sappy Mr. Harley. Templeton, Mr. Chaplin; Sophy Walton, Miss Grant; Amy Templeton, Mrs. Baker ; Mrs. Plumply, Mrs. Clarke ; Sally Maggs, Mrs. Tellet. To conclude with the Farce of TWICE KILLED. Mr. Euclid Facile Mrs. Facile Miss Cleaver. Miss Julia Flighty Mrs. E. Benwell. Fanny Pepper.. Mrs. Keeley. TO-MORROW, the Petit Comedy of THE RENDEZ VOUS.—After which, the Burletta .of BOMBASTES FURIOSO.—To conclude with the Melo-Drama of THE EVIL EYE. Mr. COOPER, of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, is engaged FOR A FORTNIGHT, and will make his first appear ance here these two years on MONDAY next, in the Musical Play of ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Mr. Cooper. With other ENTERTAINMENTS. Mit Eiberpool *tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 14, 1838. ' The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this morning at 5 o'clock. HORRIBLE INSTANCE OF POPISH BIGOTRY.—There are many persons, even in the town of Liverpool, where we have so many opportunities of witnessing the poisoning influence of Popery on the mind, who, blind to the lessons of experience, and deaf to the warning voice of history, entertain the belief that Po pery is materially altered in its character in the pre sent day. These good-natared souls have taken no account of passing events, or they would perceive the folly of their opinions. They seem to think that, i❑ this age of refinement, when the "march of intellect" is so triumphant, when education has become all but universal, and when the principles of toleration are so generally recognised, it is impossible that Popery should exhibit any of those revolting features by which it was-so uniformly characterised in the dark ages of barbarism and superstition. They believe, or would persuade others that they believe, that Popery is now quite another thing from what it was in former times —that its votaries have become more liberal as they have become more enlightened—that its priesthood consider the baneful and persecuting tenets of Peter Dens as obsolete absurdities—and that the spread of this modified sort of Popery—a species of Popery ac commodated to the "improved spirit of the age!"— may be contemplated without alarm. Blind, infatu- ated, and credulous fools! Little do these simple folks imagine that seMper eadem is the motto of the intole rant Church of Rome. Little do they reflect that the exterminating character and policy of that church are necessarily identified with its claim to infallibility. Little do they know of the actual workings of Popery in those countries where its accursed influence is not neutralised by the ascendancy of Protestantism. We would submit the following extraordinary instance of brutal bigotry to the notice of these people, as an il lustration of the mingled cruelty, inhumanity, and sa vage barbarism, which but too plainly and too fre quently result from the demoralising instructions of the Popish priests. The Carlow Sentinel relates the particulars which we subjoin poor woman, named Gaynor, a native of this county, was married, some time past, by the Rev. Mr. Crotty, of Birr, to a man who resided in that neighbourhood. After he had lived with his lawful wife for some time, the priests of the neighbouring parishes declared the marriage to be null and void, and threatened to excommunicate the husband if he did not abandon his wife ! Whether the fellow acted through fear, or wished to take advantage of the dispensation held out by the priests, we have not heard, but at all events the man left Birr, aban doned his wife, and left the helpless creature a prey to poverty and destitution. Last week she reached her native county, in the last stage of pregnancy, and ob tained a lodging at the house of a relative at Rutland, where she remained a few days. The moment that they discovered by whom she had been married, and that she was on the eve of her confinement, they placed her on a car at twelve o'clock at night! and having re moved her to a considerable distance, they threw her into a ditch, and left her there to perish ! ! The night, that of Wednesday week, was unusually severe, the rain pouring down in torrents without any intermission during the night, and there the barbarians left a fe male relative in her condition to abide " the pelting of the pitiless storm." She crept under a haycock for shelter, but finding the period of her confinement ap proach, she left the haycock, and went into a ditch by the road-side, in the hope that some humane indivi dual passing might afford her relief. Here she was delivered of twins, one of whom perished in a few minutes after the birth ; the other a few hours after. In this melancholy condition, in a land calling itself Christian, the unfortunate woman was found on the morning following, nearly perished with the cold. She was removed by Mr. Mosse's steward to a neighbour ing house, where every attention that humanity could suggest was paid her by Mr. Mosse's family. Dr. Porter visited her on the next day, and we are happy to learn that she is out of danger. She was also visited by the Rev. Mr. Tyrrell, P. P. of Tynriland, who ex pressed his abhorrence of the barbarous treatment this poor woman received from those " savages" in human form, who left her to die on the road during the storm. Both the children were alive, but perished from the cold shortly after their birth. On this atrocious act the Carlow Sentinel remarks : —" Here is an illustration of the fearful operations of Peter Dens on society—the husband separated from the wife, and the wife thrown into a ditch by her own friends because the marriage was not recognized by the ' church.' Yet we hear the cry of justice to Ire land,' and liberty,' as if the brutes who could wreak their vengeance on a hapless creature are capable of appreciating the blessings of rational freedom or social order ! We are informed that the owner of the house in which she lodged, declares that he left her to perish at the instigation of the female portion of the family. If so, the crime is magnified in a tenfold degree, and the women who instigated him to the committal of the deed are a disgrace to human nature." It is, indeed, melancholy to contemplate such an utter prostration of intellect as is exhibited among the peasantry of deluded and priest-ridden Ireland, and to witness such callousness of feeling as is indicated by the abominable transaction which we have just related. What an awful system that must be which instils such merciless principles into the minds of the populace, and what an awful responsibility rests upon the shoul ders of ,those who defend, uphold, and encourage this system ! Popery seems to root out of the heart some of the strongest instincts of humanity, and to supply their place with feelings and motives of the most dia bolical character. How different is the mild, and mer ciful, and peaceable influence of Protestantism. What part of England, Scotland, or Wales can be pointed out, where even the most abandoned female would re• fuse aid and shelter to a fellow creature " in the hour of her extremity ?" It is not improbable that our radical and pro-Popish contemporaries will endeavour to turn the painful nar rative, upon which we have been commenting, into ridicule. Let them do so. The time may yet arrive (we pray it may not) when such scenes may be enacted in this country. The time may perhaps come, when the liberal journalists will feel, and know by bitter experience, the baneful, heart-searing influence of Popery. They are doing all they can to encourage the perpetration of such hellish deeds as are every clay witnessed in Ireland, while they point the finger of scorn at all who seek to emancipate the infatuated dupes of the Romish priesthood from their galling bon dage. LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY.—From the report of this society, for the past year, just published, we find that it includes within the range of its operations in Ireland 1,143 day schools and 1,279 Sunday and adult day schools, which together comprise a total of 139,091 scholars receiving the benefits of religious instruction Of these no fewer than 31,285 are stated to be Roman Catholic children. Under the head of the circulation of the holy scrip tures by this society, the report, after stating that 23,320 copies have been put into circulation during the past year, goes on to remark—" The whole number of Bibles and Testaments put into circulation by the in strumentality of the society, since the commencement of its operations, amounts to four hundred and nine teen thousand six hundred and fifty-nine. "Nearly the whole of this vast number has been granted at various times by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and at present it is to that noble insti tution alone that your committee are indebted for that munificent supply of the sacred volume which enables them, year by year, to place the New Testament in the hands of all those pupils in the schools capable of reading its contents, and also to distribute a very large number of Bibles, as well to adult applicants in all parts of the country, as by way of reward to those children in the schools who obtain distinction for pro ficiency and general good conduct." The society comprehends in its numerous list of vice-presidents the Archbishop of Tuam, several of the Irish and English bishops, and a number of Irish and English noblemen. THE ALBlON.—According to our decree, passed on Tuesday last, we to-day bring up this convicted cri minal again for punishment. In doing so, however, let us not be misunderstood. The public, in a mis taken compassion, prompted by the severity of the pe nalty, and, perhaps, shrinking from the miserable spec tacle presented by the writhings and contortions of the chastised culprit, may imagine that we are actuated by a wanton and relentless spirit of cruelty, in the terrible nature of the punishment which we have been compelled to inflict. But it is no such thing. We abhor, quite as • much as the most sensitive amongst them, the disagreeable office which the stern ness of our duty imposes upon us, and feel full as strong an unwillingness to contemplate the wrigglings and twistings of the unhappy wretch, beneath the fear ful effects of our excoriating lash. But we ate forced to it. There is a snarling insolence—a spirit of mon grel obstin-.cy and perverseness in the hound, which sends him maliciously growling and yelping at our heels, and compels us, for the sake of decency and de corum, to whip his mangy hide back to his kennel. We had hoped that, at least for a season, our chas tisement of Friday last would have had the effect of quelling this moral nuisance, and that we should not have again, for some time, the disgusting task, of turn ing from questions of interest and import to the low level of noticing the ,ribaldry of the Albion. But it seems we " reckoned without our host." We were not aware of the brazen-visaged effrontery which lite rary prostitution entails upon its victim, nor could we believe that any association with even habitual infamy and crime, could superinduce such an open, scoffing defiance of shame, and truth, and every moral principle which ought to influence society, as that exhibited by this profligate print on Monday last. The farrago of helpless absurdity which the writer put forth in his reply to our detection and denunciation of his unprin cipled conduct, is one of the most pitiable compositions that ever blotted the broad sheet of a public journal. Deficient in argument and common-sense, he seeks in it to conceal his poverty of mind and beggary of ideas, by a ragged veil of sophistry and cant, and then at tempts to give a piquancy or effect to his vapid and unmeaning phraseology, by a kind of Jeremy Diddler sort of jocularity, which shews too plainly that it came from a hungry stomach. We never had the misfortune of perusing anything half so " stale and unprofitable." Without the aptitude for reply, or the energy for re tort, the wretched author, in a desire to imitate, only contrived to parody the example we set him, and was so possessed of the spirit of plagiarism, that he actually set about stealing from himself; thus repeating usque ad nauseant, every coarse and vulgar attempt at wit ticism with which he has been outraging public taste for this month Fast. But the strangest thing of all is the bull-fror, vanity which seems to possess the man. Why, he is a very Bobadil in the spirit of boasting and exaggeration. He can do anything and everything; as his proteges in the Sister Isle would say, " nothing is too hot or too heavy for him." He is in imagination the leader of the Liverpool press. Psha ! if the abilities of every writer connected with it were concentrated into one focus, they could not outshine the imaginary brilliancy of le conducteur de l'Albion ! No itinerant mounte bank upon stilts ever paraded himself - in a rickety ele vation, above the gaping vulgar, with more self-satis fied impudence, than does this miserable pigmy affect an ascendancy which neither God nor nature intended he should occupy. And this has always been the case where ignorance and egotistical assurance are com bined. A conceited, presumptuous fool, who is defi cient in natural or acquired accomplishments, is one of the most arrogant and offensive creatures breathing; for nu individual, no matter what his class or condition in society may be, is safe from the scurrilous exagge ration of his insolent pretensions. When such is the case, who can wonder to find a character like the writer for the Albion, indulging in his hebdomadal tirades of rant and bombast, and thrusting himself into situations of notoriety and prominence, where he can earn the commendation of swaggerers like himself, while his empty braggadocios and quixotism render him despi cable and offensive in the eyes of every one who can see through the mendacity and the shallowness of his rabble presumption. We might, with every possible satisfaction to our selves, here pause, and lay down the scourge of chas tisement. But we cannot do so. There is a peculia rity in the criminal doings of the Albion that admit of nn lenity. It is this. In our last article we branded the Albion as the special-pleader, the extenuator of the blood-guiltiness of the Monk-murderer. Did he gainsay or refute the charge ? Did he even attempt to palliate or soften down the weight of degradation that we heaped thick and heavy upon his neck ? No; he dare not ! But what did he do ? He made a joke of the crime he before defended. He was base enough to extenuate it on one occasion: he was heartless and brutal enough to scoff at it on another. He laboured first to give a garbled and lying representation of it to the public; but when he found that we uncloaked his perfidy and hypocrisy, he next sought to jeer, and laugh, and bandy idle sarcasms on the matter. Thus he was false, designing, and perfidious before he was detected ; he was cold-blooded, reviling and a mocker when exposed to public scrutiny and scorn. We may sum up his estimate in this respect in a sentence, by saying—that there is no act of human iniquity he would net seek to extenuate, to pleass his party. There is no human obligation he would not despise and laugh at, to save himself. This may be under stood by the allusion (for in truth we cannot transfer his gross absurdities to our columns) which he makes, in his reply to us, about our losing the equilibrium of our senses, and being affected by an over-wrought ap prehension, and such like meagre and abortive at tempts at satire ;—while there he stood, at the same time, as we stamped him, with a seared back and a burning brow, the convicted apologist for blood, and the scofferat its effusion. We envy him not his feelings. But we have reserved to the la'st the point to which we would especially direct the attention of our readers. There was one observation which we made use of in our reply which seemed peculiarly to tickle the fancy of our irascible contemporary. IVe accused him of "voluntarily shaking hands with a branded felon across the channel, and becoming, in his own proper person, the gratuitous, unpaid, and thankless extenuator of as dark a crime as ever outraged the laws of God or man." The editor of the Albion sneered deridingly at this. He talked about "a long arm" and "a long bow," and seemed, while he contemplated the idea, to hug some secret satisfaction to his own breast. There was evidently something in the notion of " the brand ed felon" being "across the channel" and the exten sion of his associate's helping hand to him, at such a distance, which seemed to please the latter mightily. We saw 'the laughing devil in his sneer," but for the life of us could not tell, what brought him there. But now the mystery is unravelled. Carrick was in Liver pool at the time. Perhaps at the very moment when the ingenious and honest(?) apologist was penning the exculpatory at title, the wretched outcast was being hunted through the streets of Liverpool to his den. Now we can plainly see why the editor of the Albion chuckled with such inward satisfaction at our supposi tion of Carrick's remote position from him, and why, at the fancied success of the imposition, he gave such ill-timed and unbecoming expression to his mirth. Let a discerning public appreciate the fact : the very morning (Monday) on which appeared the unseasona ble mockery of the Albion, was that on which the monk Carrick was brought before the magistrates of Liverpool. " Which is the villain ? Let me see his eyes, . . That when I note another man like him, I may avoid him." But we cannot pause here ; we have a more serious question to investigate than even the implied privity of the writer of the Albion with the biding place of the hunted. murderer. Why came Carrick at all to Liverpool?. Why come into this strange and suspici ous land, - where his singular garb and demeanour were sure to excite inquiry and distrust? Why not the ra ther seek, in the wild districts of Tipperary or Con nemara, the protection and association of spirits as guilty and as outlawed as himself ? The answer to these questions is at hand. With the craft and know ledge peculiar to his profession, Carrick must have known the fatal and pernicious spread of Popery and priestcraft in England. He must have been informed how perilously—we might almost add, resistlessly— the fatal influence of an anti-English church and creed, religious and political, is erecting itself in the midst of our\time-hallowed and venerable institutions, and how arrogantly and imperiously the ascendancy and supremacy of the Autocrat of Rome are again establishing themselves in the core and marrow of Protestant ascendancy. Yes, they were convictions such as these, rest assured, men of Liverpool, which caused the hunted monk to forsake the wilds of his own country, and seek an asylum and a shelter in the very centre of your wealty and populous community. But upon whose threshold do we affix the guilt and the re proach of this ? Fearlessly do we assert, upon those of the base sacrificers of this country's name and cha racter, like the Albion, who, for the vile purpose of pandering to the depraved appetites of their employ ers, care not to what mischievous and demoralising opinions they give both sanction and circulation—who, for the sake of the miserable hire they earn by the performance of the most discreditable and reprehensi ble offices, care not how they become aliens to their God and renegades to their country, and who would barter their fidelity to the one and their allegiance to the other, for the wages of one hour's infamy. And in this class of political apostates do we rank the edi tor of the Albion, and to his whole conduct in the affair of the miserable Carmelite, as well as to the subse quent detection and arrest of that wretch in the midst of this community, do we point as a fearful illustration of the execrable results attending the spread of the doctrines of which he and his Papal and Radical com peers throughout the nation are the authors and pro mulgators. It is as yet but an isolated case we have recorded, but it is a fearfully prominent and startling one! Unbind the Albion! Let the wretch to his ken nel! I THE CORN AVERAGES.—This day, and during the following week till Friday next, nearly a million of quarters of foreign corn will be released out of bond, of which a great proportion will issue from the gra naries of this port. We have no doubt that the rise of the averages will bring the rate of duty on wheat to-day, at 12 o'clock, to one shilling per quarter only; and the officers and clerks at the Custom-house will have a busy time of it for several days to come; and much anxiety will be felt by those merchants who have vessels at sea, and who expect to receivetheir cargoes before the duty rises again. We shall have some ob servations to offer on Tuesday on the subject of the recent rise in the averages. THE TOWN COUNCIL —THE FREEMEN—AND THE FRANCHISE.—In our last we indulged in some animad versions on the speech of Alderman Evans on the question of the freemen's admission. We now pro ceed to examine the remaining orations, made at the same meeting of the Town Council. The worthy that next got up to illuminate his fellow councillors with the brilliant corruscations of his wit, was the redoubtable Mr. Bolton—the personage who has so little music in his soul, albeit an orator of the first water, as to wish to dispose of the organs in our churches. This gentleman informed the council that he was " opposed to exclusive privileges, whether in matters of opinion as to religion or politics;" and yet he would, if he could, prevent a single conservative from sitting at the council board, and would wish to see the great mass of the property and intelligence of the country unrepresented in the House of Commons. He could not see " why one party in the country should be prejudiced, to the benefit of another ;" and yet, with true radical consistency, he would have the householders benefitted, to the prejudice of the free men. It was reserved to this great genius to discover that the inchoate freemen were the " accidental sons and apprentices of freemen"—a discovery which merits introduction at one of the sectional lucubrations of the peripatetic philosophers of the British Association, when next they meet together for the amicable inter change of their absurdities. How conferring the fran chise upon the " accidental sons and apprentices of freemen" would " lead to universal suffrage," it is somewhat difficult to comprehend, unless this profound philosopher has made the still further discovery that all men are accidentally born—a theory scarcely re concileable with the experience of mankind for nearly six thousand years. Mr. Bolton says, that those who " advocate the ex clusive privileges" of the freemen, (how can they be exclusive when shared by the householders ?) would " sell the electors like cattle in the market." This is something new. We have before heard of bribing the electors, but we never knew of an instance in which they " were sold like cattle" by a third party. On what grounds does Mr. Bolton hazard the assertion that the freemen unjustly possess their privileges? Have they not been in possession of those privileges for centuries before the householders were admitted to participate in them ? Have not the same privileges —chartered to them from time immemorial—been so lemnly ratified by the reform bill, for which Mr. Bol ton and his compeers clamoured so long and so voci ferously ? Where, then, is the injustice of the case? " The sting of the scorpion is in its tail," or rather, we should say, the sting of the wasp, which insect affords a better comparison, on account of its insigni ficance; so the sting of Mr. Bolton's speech makes its appearance at the caudal extremity. He said that " he was a householder," and that " he would stick to his order, conceiving it to be the order which ought to have all the privileges !" Yes, all the privileges. And yet this ingenuous advocate for the superiority of his order set out with the declaration, that " he was opposed to exclusive privileges." Here is consistency with a vengeance. By which of these declarations does Mr. Bolton mean to abide ? Were . they both de liberately and consciously uttered, or did they drop " accidentally" from his lips? The next speaker who followed in the same track as Mr. Bolton and Mr. Evans had traversed, was the classical Mr. Coglan, who resisted the measure, " on the broad and extended basis r and on the principle of of correct reform." What this "broad and extended basis," and this " correct reform" were, we are not informed ; neither are we told what they had to do With the matter under discussion. It is a favourite practice with the liberals to deal in grandiloquent terms, to which they cannot attach any definite mean ing, for the purpose of concealing the barrenness of their intellects, and deluding " the people" into the belief that they are wonderfully clever fellows. The vulgar and uneducated are apt to be easily led astray by high-sounding language, of which they cannot fa thom the meaning; and the reforming agitators have largely resorted to this sort of trickery with their gap ing audiences. We detest this practice, and should have preferred hearing in plain English what Mr. Coglan meant by his " extended basis," and his "cor rect principle of reform," Mr. Coglan remarked that " lie could not for a mo ment recognise the claims of a body of men, who had been absolutely foisted on the reformers of this coun try, as the price paid for the reform bill." From this language it might be inferred that " the reformers" were originally in exclusive possession of the fran chise, and that the new-fledged freemen were a species of intruders, who had no business to interfere with the single-minded liberal gentry, and no claim to exercise the electoral franchise. Whatever Mr. Cog lan may choose to " recognise" or to repudiate, the freemen's rights have, as we have before said, been recognised long before his great.grandfather ran breechless and barefooted over the bogs of Ireland. We have rarely met with a more splendid specimen of blundering (excepting in some of Mr. Spring Rice's notable attempts at legislation) than we find exhibited in the argument by which Mr. Coglan seeks to prove that the freemen " have no just claim to the rights and privileges they now enjoy," and to justify his avowed intention of depriving them of those privi leges, should he ever have the opportunity. He first states that the retention of the freemen on. the elec toral roll was insisted upon as a condition in the com promise which took place on the reform bill. He then states that, unless the reformers had agreed to that, the bill would never have passed. And then he brings in his ergo—because the reformers paid this price for the reform bill, the price is now to be returned to them unconditionally. A very honest mode of reasoning truly ! We should like to know whether Mr. Coglan would admit its validity in any transaction in which he might have a personal interest. Let us suppose that a person is found who is so bereft of reason as to venture on the purchase of the Floating Bath—that he concludes the purchase for a certain solid consideration —that he pays down the cash, and takes possession of that unshapely washing-tub. What would Mr. Coglan say if that person afterwards came to him on 'Change, and accosted him in some such terms as the following:—" I have got possession of your washing. tub, and, though I am not satisfied with my purchase, I mean to retain it; but I beg leave to inform you, sir, that I do not recognise your right to keep the money which I have paid you as the price of the said tub, and I warn you that I shall seize the first oppor tunity that occurs for dispossessing you of the mo ney ?" What would be Mr. Coglan's answer? Would he not at once pronounce the man dishonest ? De to fabula narrator. Mr. Coglan seems to have imbibed Mr. Bolton's theory respecting the "accidental" origin of the free men. We should like to know whether some men are "by accident" born to make fools of themselves : for the following remark indicates a degree of stolidity which it would be difficult to acquire by study. "He could not consider them but as a portion of the corn munity that had the dangerous privileges of universal sofil•age, with its worst consequences connected with it." How is it possible for a portion of the commu nity, and that confessedly a very small fractional por tion, to enjoy the privilege of universal suffrage ? As a delectable specimen of the significant redupli cation of a favourite term we think the following sen tence in Mr. Coglan's speech is unrivalled :—" If universal suffrage were conceded to the great mass of the community, it would have this good, that the great mass of persons entrusted with the right of voting would be so great that no purse could reach them, so that they might to a great extent cease to be corrupt. But the class of freemen was to a great extent ex posed to much greater temptations." This reasoning is as fallacious as the other arguments of this liberal spouter. Mr. Coglan maintains that the freemen of Liverpool, three thousand in number, are corrupt, venal, and dissolute. Without acknowledging the truth of this' accusation, we would seriously ask whe ther universal suffrage, in its proper sense, would ren der corruption and venality less probable in the hun dred small boroughs which have now the privilege of sending members to parliament than they are at pre sent in the town of Liverpool ? Would it not be just as easy and just as likely for a thousand universal suffrage voters to be bOught up in the village of Mar petit, as for the three thousand freemen of Liverpool to be so purchased ? Yes, and we are confident that universal suffrage, even in Liverpool, would render the constituency ten times more corrupt than it is. We should like to be informed by Mr. Coglan of the reasons why he says that he cannot recognise the freemen of Liverpool "in the state," and how and when he made the notable discovery that "they have no interest in the state." Do they not pay taxes as well as the householders? Have they not "houses over their heads" as well as Mr. Coglan and his clique ? Mr. Coglan concluded his speech as he began it, by asserting that " he would not recognise that body of men." Mark how contemptuously he designates them—that body—as if beneath his notice and unwor thy to breath the same atmosphere with the "Knight of the Washing-Tub." But Mr. Coglan will be forced ere long to recognise "that body" of men—every one of whom, even the meanest, is in every respect his equal—except, indeed, in vulgarity and stupidity. If we mistake not, Mr. Coglan will vacate his seat for St. Ann's Ward this year. Will he not be glad to "recognise" the despised freemen at the polling booth —if they vote for him ? We say i f, because we deem it next to impossible that any freeman should so far degrade himself and " his order" as to vote for a scurvy radical in any ward in the town. The proba bility is that the freemen will refuse " to recognise" Mr. Coglan ! We must again break off. We shall return to this subject on Tuesday next. We like to dwell upon it. Let the freemen and the conservatives generally harp upon it from this till November. It will, indeed, prove a formidable " bugbear" to the trembling radicals in the Town Council. Let them meet the "bugbear" in every society, and at every corner of the street. CORRESPONDENCE'. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SlR,—The following letter was sent to the Editor of the Railway Timea, who has not thought fit to publish it, because it contains a just censure of his dishonest remarks upon the Great Western Railway. You are no doubt aware, Sir, that a very large stake is held in this undertaking by our towns men, and it has been most unfairly cried down by interested parties, who have been sellers for time delivery, and who are endeavouring to realise a profit at the expense of the timid. The known fact of the Editor of the Railway Times having been a large jobber in other railways, in which he has used similar means to serve his purpose, fairly leads to the inference that he has also been speculating in the Great Western shares, and that the whole tendency of his remarks have been made either to serve himself or a party by whom he is paid.—By your insertion of the letter, you will serve the public, and oblige yours, &c. A HEADER. September 12th, 1838. " GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. " TO TIIL•' EDITOR OF THE R. , 111,1V.11 - TIMES'. " have beets a constant reader and subscriber to the Railway Times since its first introduction. I highly approved of the principles upon which you set out of making it the legitimate medium of information and of support to the railway system. and strictly an impartial chronicle and guide for that portion of the public who are interested in the progress of railroads; and whilst I am willing to give you credit for the exertions you use, and the ability with which your journal is conducted, I have to charge you with a most grave and important dereliction of those principles upon which you courted public favour. " I allude more particularly to the bias which you have evidently taken against the Great Western Railway, and its engineer, Mr. Brunel. Now, Sir, it is a known fact that there are journals who front private design signal out popular persons and objects, and endeavour to create for themselves a very unenviable degree of popularity, by directing their remarks undeviatingly to their prejudice, or, in other words, making a settled system of victimising. Such, I regret to think, is the spirit you display in your remarks on the Great Western Railway, and its engineer, Mr. Brunel; as I be lieve, in every number of the Railway Times since its first publication, the Great Western is abused. I take up the paper every week prepared to find Mr. Brunel and his prin ciples decried, and lam never disappointed. It is quite a common question among the railway world, with whom I am in daily contact, to ask on the Monday morning following your publication, Have you seen the Railway Times? What does he say this week against the Great Western ?' Thus, Sir, have you fallen into an error, which, if my surmise of the editorship of your paper be correct, you of all others should have avoided; for I confess that the impression con veyed to my mind is, that your remarks on the Great Wes tern have become as disingenuous, and 1 was going to add unprincipled, as the attacks of the Railway Magazine are upon the Eastern Counties. lam sure you will not consider this desirable popularity, and if you wish to lie freed from the imputation, I hope you will in future adopt the tone of an impartial chronicler, and not of one who, it would appear, has.'preconceived notions, or, more probably, private fetlin gs to gratify. " I have been led more immediately to these remarks by perusing the manner in which you have reported the pro ceedings of the Great Western Railway proprietors, and the tone of your leading article, in which, instead of answering the statements of Mr. Brunel regarding that portion of his system to which he pledges his reputation, and which you have always opposed, you dismiss the subject with some strong remarks upon the excessive cost, which, however un favourable, every body was prepared for,--and a gratuitous assumption that it will even exceed two or three millions over this estimate. I have no personal acquaintance with Mr. Brunel, and although I think much may be said in favour of his system, I am not now prepared to defend it ; but admitting his premises to be correct. I will say that I consider his report a very able one; and all that I . should ask of you is to give him credit for his merits (which if you do not the public will), and argue against his errors in a spirit of honest impartiality. . " I am, Sir, yours, &c., " FAIR PLAY." TEE-TOTALISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST✓III).4RD. SlR,—Your correspondent, Moderation, does not seem to understand the cause of tee-totalism, inasmuch as he has ad dressed a note to Lawrence Hepworth, Esq., requesting hint to reconcile certain texts of scripture with the objects con templated by the Tee-totallers. It is not, so far as I have been able to discover, that tee totalism is founded upon the word of God, but that it is founded upon the proverb " Example is better than precept." We are nowhere in scripture commanded to take wine, but we are advised, and this, as the author of the whole duly o f man observes, when we find our spirits wasting with thought or labour; but when men see that it is an act of Christian philanthrophy to abstain from this, and find themselves none the worse, they sacrifice the pleasure in order to set an ex ample to their fellow-mortals who are in a state of wretch edness. Drunkenness is strongly condemned in scripture, but mo deration, rightly exercised, is encouraged.—Yours, &c., 12th September, 1838. J. NV. SMOKE-CONSUMING FURNACE.--We beg to draw the attention of the public to an advertisement which appears in our columns of to-day, respecting an Unproved smoke-con suming furnace, applied to a steam boiler in the yard of Messrs. Page and Grantham, Williams-street, which will be open for inspection on Monday and Tuesday next. We con sider this improvement of very great public importance, as tending to do away with one of the most serious nuisances now existing in this rising port. —From a correspondent. THE GREAT MAGICIAN.—We have formerly noticed the superiority of Mr. Anderson's feats in the " magic art;" — to form, however, a proper conception of the skill, ingenuity, and incomprehensible nature of his deceptions, our readers must go and judge for themselves. With a frankness that never fails to please, the conjuror calls upon the spectators to watch his motions sharply, at the very moment a decep tion is about to practised; every eye is eager to detect the trick; every neck is stretched; and yet, staring you in the face, be will command things the most distant to change places—separate substances apparently chemically com bined—convert an orange into a young lady, and perform fifty other feats equally wonderful, in al! of them setting the most lynx-eyed of his lookers at defiance for a solution of the ways and means by which they were accomplished. .But the most perfect of all is "the gun trick." You see the ball marked with a knife, and ascertained to be bona fide cold lead—you see the ball coolly and deliberately dropped into the muzzle of the piece—you hear it fall plump and solid to to the bottom—you could almost swear to the fact, even though your judgement may tell you the whole is a trick ; the gun is fired, and the apparently invulnerable Magician seems to receive it harmlessly between his teeth, or in the palm of his hand. It is altogether admirably accomplished, and so deeply conviced bare we seen hundreds, as to the bullet being . actually in the gun, that they would not have discharged it for any remuneration in money. In addition to his magical performances, the demeanour of Mr. Anderson is that of gentleman—polite, courteous, and affable. Again we say to all—go and see the great Magician." —Glasgow July 5, 1838. LOCAL NEWS. THE EARL OF DERBY.—We have much pleasure in stating, that since our last there has been a gradual improve ment in the health of the Earl of Derby. The alarming symptoms, we are informed, are giving way to appearances of a more favourable nature. We are not without hope, there fore, that ere long the noble lord will be restored to the en joyment of his wonted mental and bodily vigour. EXTRAORDINARY CASUALTY.—On Monday morning, at nine o'clock, a breach was made in the wall of Mr. Stani forth's garden, at Everton, after a manner that was some what extraordinary. A cart containing a heavy load of ma nure, and drawn by two horses, was going down the very steep avenue leading from the stables of the late Mr. Hope's house, which stands opposite to the wall of Mr. Staniforth's garden, on Everton-terrace. The load, it seems, pressed too heavily on the shaft-horse, and accelerated its speed. The impetus increased, till both the fore-horse and that be hind were compelled, by the weight of the load, to rush down the hill at a great rate. Of course, by the time they arrived at the road the speeed had become furious, and, almost in credible to relate, the fore or chain horse rushed against the opposite wall above mentioned, and darted completely through it into Mr. Staniforth's garden. The cart and shaft-horse were brought up by the curb-stone which bounds the para pet. The wall is exceedingly strong, being three bricks thick. The horse has carried away the bricks and mortar to the breadth of about two yards, leaving the coping stones above, but slightly pressed forward from their places, and about a foot and a half of firm wall below, rising from the foot-walk. The garden is about two yards lower than the road, and though the horse fell this depth upon the soil after he had bounded through the wall, he was but slightly injured . He was a small but strong and compact gray horse. A few bruises about the head, shoulders and haunches, were all the injuries perceptible. The animal, after being released from the chains, was led across the garden to be taken out at ano ther part of the premises, and those who saw the circumstance were astonished to see him walk without the slightest appear ance of lameness. On referring to our advertising columns of this day, it will be noticed that Mr. Washbourne has been honoured with the express permission of Prince George of Cambridge to dedi cate his Boost oe FAMILY CRESTS to His Royal Highness. The object of this work, it will be seen, is to supply the blazonry or heraldic description of the crests borne by every family in the United Kingdom, accompanied by an entire volume of engravings; the bearers names being arranged in alphabetical order, with references to the plate in which the crest of each is illustrated. Such a production must, we doubt not, prove most interesting to a very numerous class of persons—to the nobility and gentry at large, including all who either use, or wish to know their family beating—and invaluable, as we should imagine, to amateurs in the art of Heraldry, and to heraldic and silver plate engravers, &c. We believe that either the work or a specimen of it, may be seen at any respectable booksellers. We beg to apprise our readers that a new Edition of PLAIN GUIDE TO EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATORS—and PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS FOR EVERY PERSON TO MAKE A WILL—i 9 just published, improved and enlarged by a Chapter on the Duties, Trusts, &c. of GUARDIANS—a subject so connected with that of Executors, &c., that we think the addition most judicious, and such as will tend. to increase the interest and usefulness of the work. The price is continued at Four Shillings, as also that of the PLAIN GUIDE TO EXECUTORS, &c., separate, at Half-a-crown, and PLAIN INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING WILLS, at Eighteenpence. A new and im proved edition of PLAIN ADVICE TO LANDLORDS, 'TEN ANTS, &c., is also published by Mr. Washbourne. We are happy to find these useful little works, which we before had occasion to recommend, so extensively in demand. OPENING OF THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. —TIMES AND FARES.—It will be seen by the advertisement, that this great line will be opened to the public throughout, " for the conveyance of passengers and parcels, private car riages and horses," on Monday next, the 17th instant. The fare by first-class carriages, day train, is 305.; night train, 2s. 6d. extra; by second-class caraiages, open sides, day train, 205.; by ditto, enclosed, night train, ss. extra. The times of departure of the first-class and mixed trains respec tively, from each end, and also to and from Wolverton, will be found set forth in the advertisement, in which those trains which run in connection with the grand junction trains are distinguished by an asterisk (*). IMPORTANT TO BACHELORS.—One evening last week, at a village near Saddleworth, it was determined that a dance should take place, to keep up the festivities of the " wakes." When the young couples stood forth, it was found that the ladies had the odds in their favour 16 to 5. We understand that " nice young men" ate at a high premium—in this " de serted village." HEATON PARK.—The Earl and Countess of Wilton will receive a large party at this splendid seat immediately after the Doncaster Races. The circle will assemble on Saturday week, and amongst the guests will be the Marquis and Mar chioness of Westminster, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl of Eglin ton, Sir John Gerard, Lord Howl!), Lord Mil town, Mr. C. B. Sheridan, Hon. Col. and Mrs. An son , & c . Lord and Lady Suffield and Lord Cantilupe are to join the party, being at present in Scotland. Lord Stanley, owing to the illness of the Earl of Derby, it is thought, will not be able to avail himself of the noble earl's invitation. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort cannot be of the party, being absent on the Continent. THE PRINCE OF QUDE.—This scion of oriental royalty who is now visiting the manufacturing and commercial dis tricts of the kingdom, arrived here on Friday last. He was received by his Worship the Mayor—to whom he had intro ductions—with his usual kindness and hospitality, and on that and the following day shown the docks, and all the prin cipal curiosities of the town; and in the evening of Saturday he dined with his worship at Greenbank. During his stay he visited the Herculaneum Pottery, and was shown by one of the proprietors the process of the manufacture of earthenware from the commencement of the article in the raw state zo the perfect completion, and appeared much interested in the va rious processes which it had to undergo, and expressed in strong terms the gratification he bad experienced. Unlike the generality of his countrymen, his Royal Highness is un usually tall and stout. Ile pr o c e eded on Sunday to Dublin. DEATH OF MRS. W. H. BLAND, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL.—We regret to announce that the above-named popular vocalist died in child-birth, at her lodgings, on Mon day last. Mrs. Bland was well-known in London as Miss Somerville, where she acquired considerable popularity at the Surrey Theatre, under the .management of the celebrated Elliston ; she afterwards removed to the English Opera, and added greatly to her reputati on by th e per f ormance o f the " Mountain Sylph, &c.'. , Mrs. 13.1 and has been attached to our Theatre-royal for the last two seasons, during wnichtime her beautiful singing and delicacy of manner has established her as a first-rate favourite with the Liverpool public. Mrs. Bland's voice was a soprano of fine quality, and its deficiency of physical strength was more than atoned for by ex treme sweetness and powers of pathetic expression. This lady's conduct in private life was such as to render her an ornament to her profession, and her early decease is a sub ject of . sincere regret to all who had the pleasure of her ac quaintance. Her infant, we understand, survives her. MESSRS. DISTIN'S AND COLLIN'S CONCERT.—On Wed nesday evening the members of the extraordinary musical families of Messrs. Distin and Collin's, gave a grand concert at the Amphitheatre. Mr. Distin and his five sons are well known as the first horn players in the kingdom. Mr. Col lins is a violinist of respectable attainments; his lady plays well on the piano -forte; and he has three daughters, one quite a child, who each sing very well; one plays with con siderable execution on the piano -forte, and another, a young lady of about 14 years of age, plays remarkably well on the violin. She has great execution, and produces a very fine tone from her instrument, and is also mistress of several tricks on the violin. She played an overture with great exe cution and taste, and the beautiful melody of " Auld Robin Gtav," with much sweetness. The performances on the horns were very brilliant. The concert will be repeated this evening under the patronage of his worship the Mayor. ENTIRE OPENING OF THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—Upon the completion of the London and Bir mingham Railway, on the 17th of September inst., as officially announced, a very important change . will take place in the transmission of parcels and light packages from Liverpool and Manchester to London. Such parcels and packages may then be booked through to London, without any charge for booking, at the Grand Junction Railway-office, in Liverpool and Manchester, and without the expenses hitherto incurred in forwarding them by coach from Birmingham, since the par tial opening of the London and Birmingham Railway. Seve ral hours will also be saved in the conveyance of parce!s. Arrangements are also in progress between the Grand Junc tion and London and Birmingham Companies for the purpose of enabling passengers from Liverpool and Birmingham to take their places through to London or to stations beyond Birmingham, without any further trouble on arriving► in Bir mingham, and also for the same facilities from London, and what is, probably, of more importance to the comfort of the traveller, without the inconvenience of changing coaches from one end of the journey to the other. lu short, the directors of both these companies appear to have determined, mutually, to give the greatest degree of accommodation to the public upon this line of communication from north to south which it is capable of, and for which, it is hoped, they will be well rewarded. Arrangements are also in progress for affording the same facilities in forwarding goods direct through upon the same waggons by railway to London, and from thence to Liverpool and Manchester. THE REV. GEORGE HOLDEN.—We are gratified to learn, that some of the private friends and members of his congre gation are about to present a testimonial of their respect and admiration to the Rev. George Holden, M.A., perpetual curate of Maghull (near this town), one of the most distin guished theological and Hebrew scholars in this part of the country. This testimonial consists of a half-length portrait, in canonicals, painted by Mr. William Jones, of Chester, which is considered an admirable likeness. The family of Mr. Holden has, for a long period, occupied a high rank in the annals of science and literature, his grandfather, the Rev. George Holden, of Westhouse, Yorkshire, having been the original calculator of the tides of this port, which calculation is still continued by his grandson ; and his father, the Rev. George Holden, LL.D., having been an eminent scholar and teacher at Horton, near Settle. The object of the pre sent mark of esteem has published many and valuable theolo gical works, which are distinguished for profound research and great critical acumen ; and, we understand, that his ex positions of the Old and New Testaments are considered as class-books at the universities. Those to whom Mr. Holden is more intimately known will, we feel assured, agree with us that this compliment is not more justly due to him for his extensive literary attainments, than for his unassuming manners, unostentatious benevolence, and zealous attention to his pastoral duties. MUTINY AND MURDER ON BOARD THE BRAGANZA.—The particulars of the mutiny which broke out on board this brig, and the consequent murder of the captain and his mate, we gave last week. A letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Embden, dated the Ist of September, says :—" In the night of the 24th ultimo, a ship was driven on shore near the Isle of Juist. The 30th ult. five men of the crew arrived here, and, upon our inquiring, reported it to be the Ceres, Captain Wight, bound with a cargo of sugar from New Or leans to Hamburgh, which we established through the news papers of that city, but which afterwards proved to be false. Strong suspicion of barratry and mutiny arising, the said five men were arrested and put to trial, and we can now, from their depositions, give the following authentic account : The coppered brig Braganza, from Philadelphia, captain Jolley, or Tolley [Turley,' left Philadelphia on the Bth July last, with a cargo of sugar and logwood, bound for Genoa. About three weeks afterwards, when the vessel was in the Atlantic, mutiny was raised by part of the crew, being four of the sailors arrived here, viz. Cornelius.Willems (surnamed Wilhelm Hamburger,) fr o m H o l s t e i n , John Adams, (who hanged himself in prison the day on which he was arrested;) Joseph Verbruggen, from Belgium; Hans Kundoeu, from Schleswig; the fifth, James Danveys, from Aberavon, Gla morganshire, a bov of 16 or 18 years, has been inactive, and will, in all probability, prove innocent.,' [Here follow the particulars of the mutiny, &c.] " The mutineers now steered to the North Sea, with the intention of sinking the vessel at a convenient period in the neighbourhood of the Elbe, but were prevented from doing so by running on shore on this coast. The vessel has been unloaded by coasters from seve ral quarters, and part of her cargo has been delivered to the authorities; the remainder has been stolen, together with the stores, &c., of the vessel. Both of the mates were subjects of the United States. The second mate and cook are in Li verpool, detained as witnesses by the American consul." EPISCOPAL VISIT TO THE SCILLY ISLANDS.—The Meteor steamer, Lieutenant Pritchard, has been ordered to attend the Lord Bishop of E xe t er , w h o p ro p ose d to embark for Scilly Islands on Thursday morning. The steamer left the Fal. mouth for Plymouth on Tu es day, to meet his lordship. The right rev, prelate will b e accompanied by his lady, two chap lains, the registrar, and other o ffi cial personages, including the Venerable Archdeacon of Cornwall. The principal ob ject of his lordship's visit is, we understand, the consecration of a church recently built at St. Mary's. His lordship is expected to leave Scilly on Monday.—Cornwall Gazette. POLICE IiVrELLIGENCE. FEMALE BELLIGERENTS.—It is strange that the "gentler sex" should have such a strong propensity for ungentle strife. However it may arise, the organ of "combativeness" must in them have a much more prominent developement than in men. It would be an interesting enquiry, whether the presumed prominence of this organ in women was not caused by the frequent and continued pressure of the strings of bonnets and caps, since the 'phrenologists hold that the formation 01 the scull may be altered, and being altered, its altered form certainly indicates different qualities of mind as belonging . to its possessor, to what he formerly had with his cranium, in its original shape. One man, noted for stupidity and want of memory, tumbles head-foremost down a ladder, fractures his scull by delving in his caput ; and when at last he comes to his senses again, and his cranium is properly soldered, he is. found to have amazin g p owe r s o f memor y and to be a prodigious wit. Why,-therefore, should not the continued pressure of cap and bonnet strings alter the form of female craniums, rendering prominent one part. dubbed "combative," which being raised, according to the phreno lOgiits;indkates an altered and combative disposition? We assert nothing ; but throw it out as a suggestion for the in genious to follow up. Be this as it may, it is beyond all question that the most combative part of the population is `the gentler sex." For one charge, at the Police-office, of two men having squabbled and fought, ten such charges as regards the women are heard. On Wednesday, Alice Blenk horn, apparently an artizan's wife, considerably battered by acpuaintance with the work, appeared at the Police-office to answer the charge of Mistress Deborah Coyle, (one of those extraordinary specimens of Cockneyism, the offspring of the "Great Metropolis," who sometimes astonish us Provincial ists by the odd cotnpound they present of ignorance, self sufficiency, little-mindedness, and conceit) for having vio lently assaulted her and spit in her face. Mr. Shuttleworth.—Who is the complainant? Mistress Coyle.—Hoim the complainont. Mr. Shuttleworth.—State your complaint to the magis trates. Mistress Coyle.—On Satawdey week hoi bawd a boy cwying at the dwo, and her boy was a beeting' of my boy tewably about the heed and hoyes. On the 9th in the even ing, hoi vos standing— Mr. Hall.—Will you tell what happened on Saturday ? Mistress Coyle.—She stwuck me violently on the feece on Satawdey evening. Hoi wos calling of rnoi choild to the dwo and she stwuck me; she then endevowed to pull me down by the skewet of mot dwess, and she spit in my feece. Mr. Hall.—All arising about these two dirty little children quarrelling. Mistress Covle.—No swa; she stwuck me on the hoies and feece. Mr. Hall.—Continually quarrelling about these children; if each of you had taken a whip and given the children a good flogging, you would have acted in a much more sensi ble manner. Mrs. Coyle.—Arter hoi hed bin 'ere on Mondey, she bed bin a beatin' one of my poowa little defenceless childwen ; they can testify what she has done. Hoi hey bin used shamefully by that cweta. (With great heat.) Hoi hem in dwed of my !off fwom her. Mr. Hall.—You see what a display of temper this is? Mistress Coyle.—lt is not honly to me but to her children she does this. (In a great passion and beginning to cry.) Hoi wish hoi bed hed something in moi hawse, hoi would hey cleaved her head. Mr. Hall.—You see what a violent woman you are; how you let your tongue go! Mistress Coyle.—Hoi wos as mute as a man swa. (Laugh ter.) Mr. Hall.—We have something else to do here than to occupy our time with hearing such absurd nonsense. Mistress Coyle (in a paroxysm of passion.)—She up with a yowling pin and siwuck me ovwa the hawin. (To the de fendant)—Oh you monstwa ! (Loud laughter.) Defendant.—Her son, on Sunday, struck my child, and spit in his face. Mr. Hall.—The only way to make you both keep quiet is to make both of you find bail. Mistress Coyle.—She is a weglaw boxwa. (Much laughter.) It is a vevy hawd case a wespectable woman cawnt be pwo tected in her hown ouse. Mr. Hall.—You are two most violent women; two perfect fiends; you are now eager for a contest. Mistress Coyle.—Hoi hem not in the habit of no such work. Hoi hem not in the habit of gassiping or hoidling with no such folks. Her husband testitoies that my husband hes two woives— Mr. Hall.—The only way to put a stop to this is, you must both find bail. The two viragoes were then taken into custody, and sat in the dock looking pitchforks and snap-dragons at each other, till their unfortunate husbands were sent for from their work to get them bail." EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—On Wednesday, at the Police office, Morgan OTlalierty and William Gray were sum moned to the Police-office on the information of Gibson, the excise -officer, charged with having an illicit still and other apparatus for the illegal manufacture of whiskey. Gibson stated that having received information that there was a pri vate manufacture of whiskey carried on in Crosshall-street, on the 4th of May he proceeded to the premises of Morgan O'Flaherty, in Crosshall.street, and there, and in the ad joining premises occupied by William Gray, found a copper still head and worm, three gallocs of spirits, a drying malt machine, a quantity of wash, four barrels and a half of porter and ale, two pipes of cider, and a quantity of malt. The still was at work running spirits. There was a communica tion from the cellar to a house in Bothwell-court, where the distillation was carried on. The house in Bothwell -court was locked up and unoccupied. O'Flaherty and Gray were both there. On being cross-examined by Mr. Crewe on be half of the defendants, he could not tell whether the pro perty found was the joint property of O'Flaherty and Gray or not. Mr. Crewe submitted that the case was not made out that the whole of the property belonged to the two de fendants. He submitted that there was not sufficient evidence to fix the parties as joint owners. Mr. Hall thought the case d very clear one; there was sufficient evidence to lead to the conclusion that both were concerned together. Goods for feited. Michael Cavannah was summoned to appear b e f ore th e ma gistrates fur having in his hou se a quan ti ty o f ill egal spi rits. Rowlands, the excise officer, stated, that from infor mation he received he searched the defendant's house, and found him endeavouring to secrete a bottle containing a quart of Irish whiskey. He was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 1;25. Michael Carrington was convicted in the penalty of £5 for having five gallons of spirits in his house more than the excise permitted him to have. John Hill, of Hurst-street, was fined £ll 12s, treble the value, for having a quantity of tobacco found in his house without a permit. It was alleged he had taken it in payment from a.sailor who lodged with him. The tobacco was valued at 8d a pound and the duty 9s. INFORMATION UNDER THE SMALL, TENEMENTS ACT FOR THE DETERMINATION OF TENANCY.—On Wednesday, at the Police-office, Eliza Gooding was summoned before the magistrates, under the new act for the determination of sms'l tenements, for refusing to give up possession of a cellar, in Cooper's-row, for which she could pay no rent. Mr. Kenyon, solicitor, appeared for the complainant. Mr. Hornby s t ate d , that Mr. Shakeshaft had a house in Cooper's-row, and Eliza Gooding occupied the cellar under the shop, as tenant. He bad applied to her for rent, and she said she could not afford it, and had never paid any. He was not present when the place was let. Mr. Hall said, this was not the way to prove a tenant; it must be proved in the same way as in a court of law. This was the first case which had come before him un der the new act, and he wished it to be understood, that he should require the strictest proof of tenancy. He would not abate the smallest degree of evidence. It was giving a ma gistrate considerable power to turn a man out of his house; and, although, when the case Was proved, he must give effect to the law, still he would have very clear evidence on the point. Mr. Kenyon.—"'Then you think, you cannot do with out giving the evidence of some person who heard the agree ment of tenancy ?" Mr. Hall.—" It is not for me to say what evidenceyou shall give." M r . Kenyon.._" Would you hear the landlord, I have him here?" Mr. Hall.—" Thre is no clause in the act which empowers to examine the land lord." " Mr. Kenyon said, he had no other proof of tenancy." Mr. Hall.—"'Phis is not sufficient proof." Case dismissed. Another case was similarly dismissed on the same grounds, for want of evidence of tenancy. INFORMATION AGAINST ALKALI WORKS.—On Wednes day, at the Police-office, Jane Lee, of Byrom-street, manu facturing chemist, was summoned before the magistrates, for creating a nuisance, by generating' muriatic acid gas, at an alkali manufactory. Mr s . L ee ' s manager appeared, and pleaded guilty. He said, he merely had to state, that Mrs. Lee had left off the making of the s a lt ca k e f or some time, and she would not attempt to make it any more. At the same time the firm consisted of widows, and orphans, and he hoped the magistrates would be as lenient as they could. Mr. Hall said they had no power ; they had only one course, to act as the law directed. file Manager.—" Can't you miti gate?" Mr. Hall.—" No." The Manager.—" You have mitigated some cases in my hearing this morning ?" 111 r. Hall.—" You are a very great lawyer ! Some acts of par liament give us certain powers which others do not." He had pleaded guilty, and was convicted in the penalty of £5. There was a second information against the defendant, which the the deputy Town-clerk withdrew, on the understanding that the nuisance should cease. SUMMONS FOR A SEAMAN'S WAGES.—Captain Johnson, of the barque Hector, was on 'Wednesday, summoned to show 1 cause why he refused to pay to Thos. Dellawynes the sum of £9 18s. 7d., claimed by the latter as the balance of wages • due to him. The complainant stated, that he shipped on the '; 15th August, 1837, at Liverpool, to proceed to Bombay and • back at the wages of £2 15s. per month. He was discharged by the captain at Bombay, on the '23d February, 1838, and he claimed wages up to that time. Mr. Hall, finding the entries in the articles very incorrect and irregular, the dates being wrong, and the captain's signature wanting, threatened to have an information laid: in which case he said he should certainly. inflict a heavy penalty. The captain said the com plainant was shipped as steward. When at Bombay, he left him, and shipped himself on board the Abbotsford. The complainant interrupted the captain, and said he shipped in the Abbotsford by his (the captain's) consent. In reply to this, the captain said the complainant said to him one day while they were at Bombay, " I don't seem to give you satis faction; 1 think 1 had better leave your ship." He (the captain replied, " 'Wel!, you may leave, of course; but I must provide myself first." In an hour afterwards he (the captain) wrote to the mate, telling him by no means not to let the steward leave the ship. He, however, took a boat and went to the Abbotsford. The captain hart him before a ma gistrate, who ordered him to return on board the Hector, but he again deserted; and was taken before the magistrate three several times. At last the magistrate told the captain that he would not be able to do any good with the man. Mr. Hall.—" And you agreed to let hi m go; y ou gave hi m l eave ?" Captain.—" I did."ihe captain proceeded to say that it was au agreement in the articles that the steward should not drink any intoxicating liquors, and that he was to he answer able for all bottles and stores that were missing. There were sixteen dozen of bottles missing, and the steward had not only drunk a large quantity of liquor himself, but he had carried it forward to the men. Of this, however, the captain had no proof, as his first mate was shot at Bombay, and his ' second mate was drowned as they came into port. Some charges that the captain made were allowed, knd it appeared when these were deducted that the balance due was £1 9s. 2d., which was ordered to be paid. YOUTHFUL DErnaviTY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, a lad named William Morgan, scarcely 14 years of age, was placed before Mr. Hall ‘ charged with having committed a burglary. Policeman 238, stated, that between two and three o'clock that morning he heard a cry of Police in Nor folk-street. and on going there, bad the prisoner given into his custody. Mr. John Blythe. a respectable inhabitant of Norfolk-street, stated that about two o'clock that morning, he was awoke by a noise in his house, and saw a light in the room. H e got up and found a lighted candle stuck against the bed-post of an adjoining bed-room. He immediately set about rummaging to find the cause of this, and under his own bed, where he and his wife had been asleep, he discovered the prisoner concealed. He immediately seized him and gave him into the custody of a policeman. He bad effected i his entrance into li t y ake b n reaking a window, On and h the h ha house beenuse g etting through the broken pane. out obfe his i g wife's pocket e searched, k e a t bunch of keys, which hanging beside the bed, was found upon him, and with these be bad rummaged a number of drawers which they opened, and taken from them a quantity of trinkets and articles of little value, and these and a tea-caddy were also found in his possession, and a box of lucifer matches, when he was taken into custody. M r. P arkinson said the 'boy was known, and was a very bad lad. He had been placed by his parents in the workhouse, from which he had made his escape. While the different trinkets were being produced which had been . found upon him, the prisoner was laughing with the greates assurance. Mr. Hall ordered the informations for his coma mitment to be taken.