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CONTRACTS FOR PANTALOONS AND BOOTS. BOROUGH of LIVERPOOL. THE WATCH COMMITTEE hereby give NOTICE, 1. that they will be ready, on SATURDAY, the 18th instant, to receiv FENDERS for supplying by Contract the follow ing Articles for the Constabulary Force; namely -600 Pairs of Wool-dyed Blue Cloth PANTALOONS --'d 540 Pairs of Leather BOOTS. Sample pat hours of One of the Head C The Parties enter into the due fulfil be inspected any day tween the )'clock in the afterno ,at the Office ntil the 16th in . lers shall be dotrepted will have to act with the Watch Committee for and also engage to complete arid deliver the Goods on or before the First day of November next ; to be paid for, on approval, in cash, at the expiration of one month from the delivery. The Committee will not pay for any sample patterns sent for inspection, except those approved of by them for the Contracts Sealed Tenders, separate from the Sample Patterns, must be left at the SECRETARY'S Office not later than FRIDAY, the 17th instant, addressed to the Chairman of the Watch Committee, and marked " Tender for Clothing." Wacch-o By order CAPES ASHLIN, Secretary , No. 1, Fenwick-street, eptember, 1841. 49. r laubltrations, MUSIC. .d. Price Is. 6d., Cg Li RIGHii . _:ST AND BEST OF THE S OF THE MORNING." BISHOP HE 'S HYMN for EPIPHANY. Composed, and arranged Four Voices, by JESSE BANNING, Organist of St. Jud Church. May be had of the Author, Teacher of tusk, and Piano forte Tuner, 18, Russell-street, Liverpool. Just Pul in Foolscap Bvo, cloth boards, I ' A ' price 78.-6 d., D OTHER PO , *(S By MIRA M. RADCLIFFE. " Simple, wild flowers, I give them to the winds, yet crush the not, them kindl Liverpool : JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Church-street. ;t otit. vp H ..NATURA T I.IBI"S LIBRARY; I. BEING VOLUME XXXI. OF TIIE SERIES, (which is to consist of Forty Volumes,) Price Six Shillings each. • Conducting by Sir WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart., F.R.S.E., &c. Containing the Natural History of the MARSUPIALIA, or Pouched Animals. By G. R. WATERHOUSE, EMI., Con servator of the Museums of the Zoological Society of London. Illustrated by Thirty-six Coloured Plates, numerous W Cuts, with Memoir and Portrait of Dr. BARCLAY. *** Any of the back Volumes may be had separ ely, Cs. each. -- LIST OF VOLUMES OF THE NATUR IST'S LI BRARY ALREADY PUBLISH D : ORNITHOLOGY. I. HUMMING BIRDS, Vol. 1., Thirty-six Coloured Plates, with Portrait and Memoir of LINN2EUS. 2. HUMMING BIRDS, Vol. 11., Thirty-two Coloured Plates; with Portrait and Memoir of PENNANT. 3. 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A LFRED WEBB (late of Church.street respectfully in -111. forms his Friends and the Pnhlic that ehas OPENED extensive Rooms, (entrance No. 6,) in S TER-STREET, (Bold-street,) for the Sale of CARPE S of every make, FLOOR CLOTHS, MOREENS, DAMASKS, FRINGES, and every description of UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS. It is his determination to sell the very best quality of --P him the preference for 20 years,) and at -, will give entire satisfaction. Goods, (which such prices as he CLARENDON HOTEL. NEWINGTON-BRIDGE, BOLD-STREET, IVERPOOI FEAVIOUR having entered upon the above •Esta • blishment, (lately occupied by Mr. HEPPE he has fitted it up with every convenience and comfort or a first rate Hotel; and hethg in the immediate v . pity of the Railway, it is well adapted for Private Fam s visiting the town. As every exertion on the part of the Proprietor will hopes to merit a share of that )st respectfully solicits. LIAR OF WINES. be used to give sa patronage and sup THOMAS DIS I TO THE QUEI Visitors to L PATTERN with prompt' with Me SPooN ILVERSMITH AND JEWELLER etfully informs Wangers and nice STOCK o;6e NEWEST )ISMOR, or ffrders eau )eing in d/Jy communication xpOrtation from this Port, at the same prices A RTH I JOSEPH DAVENI OFFICE, begs to intic his Predecessor. that the same Pr his Boot having purchased from Mr. entire Stock of his its Friends and the Fri s of D continue the bless on d Statio Businesses„ A eet, in cony6tion with vXusiness, No. N. feels great :ere thankarfor the very liberal since he succeeded Mr. Davenport in nd respectfully solicits a continuance support he has the Booksellint_ of the same kind patronage Having had practical experience in the Printing Business, he flatters himself that where neatness and eiegance in exe cution are considered a desideratum, he will be enabled to give satisfaction to rho may favour him with their , that the Office is now complete commands ; and t s to add with an extensive vide phlets, Circnlars, Po ti of Type suitable for Books, Pam and frHand Bills, Cards of Address, Bill Heads, Cheque description of Printi; 31, Ranelagh-stre s of Lading, and every other BY HER MAJEST BROMWICH'S RE (Patronised by I Y'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. VOLVING SAFETY STIRRUP, Royal Highness Prince Alberl")/ MAN JAMES H THESE Stirrup notice of Nob, ACTUAED BY LEY AND SONS BIRMINGHAM. o‘ e confidently rec ended to the Sportsmen, and Equestrians as a very essential quality desirable in rocured, both in Steel and German ctable Saddlers and Ironmongers in complete combination of 'e a Stirrup. _They may be 1 Silver, Of the most NAVIGATION FROM THE TRENT TO THE MERSEY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that from and after th e ninth day of October next, the RATE, TOLL, or DUTY, authorised to be demanded and taken by the Com pany of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, (by virtue of an Act passed in the first e ar o f th e ~,,,, reign of King William the Fourth, cap. 5' n FLOUR, will be Reduced to the sum of three far gs p er t on per but this Reduction is not to extend o o the Rate, Toll, by the said Act to be demanded and lour which shall be conveyed through or t or Canal from Wardle Green to Mid pass, or be brought into, or from, the Trent to the Mersey, or which 1 or along that part of the Maccles- or Ditty, authori taken in respect of along the Branch C dlewich, and which the said Navigation shall be conveyed field Canal made the said Company. HENRY MOORE, Principal Agent to the said Company Stone, Ist September, 1841. Navigation Q Lately ROlished,_price 215., cloth, THE PIL GRIM'S PROGRE S, by JOHN BUNYAN, with Original Notes by the late Rev. THOMAS S , Illus trated with Seventeen Engravings from the r . nal designs by the late T. Stothard, Esq., R.A., and T nty Woodcuts by S. Williams. Copies, with Proofs o India Paper, £1 Ils. 6d. iu cloth, or £1 16s. half-bound in Morocco, gilt top. NOTICES We could not have believed it possible to add to the -estimation in which we have always held the most grace- Yet this series has en- ful artist of our ag ld country hanced it, and s venture to affirm it will be with all who The prints are so full of beauty ; so natural, and yet so abundant in grace; so freely conceived, and so examine it Jrnirably composed ; the figures being so faultlessly grouped, tad every detail so applicable and so fitting, that we must class the collection far above any book-illustrations of our --, The volume of cld John Bunyan, so embellished. is -!ore of guadily-dressed quartos, that seem dwindled by a sense of their own worthlessness. The drawings, more engraved as they ought to have been ; it is fling in these days of stipple-poverty to find itchell, Goodall, R. Graves, Sangster, Watt, wing book-plates, and reminding ns of the pencil was so eloquent, whose concep iration, and who has left us a store of in extent as they are wonderful for worth a s absolutely refl.( such men as ik Teat old man s'li tions were akin to insp: wisdom. Mr. Seeley has entitled himself to the gratitude of all who love art, by raking up these hidden treasures and placing them where tens of thousands may learn from them." —Art Union, December, 1839. " The lamented Stothard's charming and characteristic designs from Bunyan's immortal work." —Literary Gazette, December 28111, 1839. " This is one of the most elegant volumes which have met our eye for a long time. It is beautifully printed, and the illustrations, which are numerous, comprising engravings on copper (steel) and wood, are of the very first excellence. The forme r are from the designs of Stothard, and they are, in our opinion, his chefs d'altrra."—Asiatic Journal, Jan., 1840. " This is, without exception, the most beautifully-illus trated edition of any standard work with which we arelic quainted ; and when we mention that it is embellished by an admirably engraved series of no fewer than seventeen of the noblest productions of the pencil of our British Itatiaelle, the late lamented Mr. Stothard, and is printed and edited in a style worthy alike the name of John Bunyan, and the exquisite engravings with which the work is embellished, our readers will not consider praise so unqualified as hyperbolical. As a set of book illustrations, executed in the hey day of the painter's power, they are unrivalled by any series of engravings which have lately fallen under our notice."—United Service Ga zette, January 4, 1840. " Stothard ' never touched a subject without investing it with some new grace of beauty pecular to himself.' Were this not sufficiently evident from any of his antecedent works,' it would be amply proved. by the present, wherein he seems thoroughly to have caught the spirit of the author ; and lent an additional charm to pages replete with interest before."— Parthenon, Jan. 25, 1840. of Bunyan's , nd all comparison, the most beautiful edition 'at enchanter than h as yet seen the light. paper, and pictorial illustrations, are equal :imens of this improving, age, and, to our ttions are inure happy and less disfigured by iti an y we have ever had the opportunity of vanyelical Magazine, February, 1810. ;option, the best and most beautiful edition tes are from Stothard's designs, and this is :eefur their e!egance and beauty."—arfor4 la ample g• 'Jerald, Ja which con. f Bunyan, a, us-NJ on , ILLUSTI the mos Also GR.ES e THOMAS unets by ti n of this edition are the illustration s ' lithe best designs we ever saw from as that artist was—we must g this edition to every admireti me time, the most splendidand zinent Packet. 'IONS OF THE PILGRIM'S PRO teen Engravings from Designs by the ARD, Esq., R.A. With Descriptive G. Townsend, M.A., Prebendary of Durham. Price 155., hound. Published by L. and G. SEELEY, 169, Fleet-street, Lon don, and sold by all Booksellers. TRAVELLING MAPS. s. England, Two Sheets, co loured, with all the MAPS ON ROLLERS. S. d. Europe, in Four Sheets, coloured, handsomely Railroads, very hand- mounted in cloth, with some, in embossed roan 5 0 roll and ledge, highly... T.-- Ireland, do. do._ —frit r varnished 15 0 Scotland, do. d 0... 5 0 Asia, do do.. l5 0 Eight Tours in Scotland, Africa do do 15 0 containing correct Iti- i America, do do 15 0 neraries, and Notices Any of the above, mount of the Towns, Villages, ed plain Noblemen and Gentle- Eastern and Western He men's Seats, Scenery, mispheres, in Two Remarkable Places,&r. 0 6 Sheets, coloured, hand- Australia, coloured, in somely mounted in cloth 3 0 cloth, with roll and Canada, do do 3 0 ledge ' highly varnished 7 6 The World, on Merca tor's Projection,in Two Sheets, coloured, do., _ ~. W. H. LIZA RS, Edinburgh; S. HIGHLEY , Loudon; CURRY and Co., Dublin; and all Booksellers. IMPORT OF CogN.—On the 25th, dock dues were paid on 40 vessels arriving at Hull, being, we are inform ed largest number known on one day. They were principal 1' laden with grain.—Eastern Counties Herald. The Great Western sailed this (Wednesday) mornir'g, with 133 passengers, the largest number, we believe, she has ever had ; of these there are not less than 45 ladies. G. C Cambreliug, the United States ambassador, at the court of Russia, is among the passengers. She likewise takes ou 6650 letters and newspapers, and a full cargo of manufactured goods, principally silks, worsted and cottons, and was obliged to refuse several tons, being already full.—Bristol Gazette. SIIOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening, a boy named George Wright, the son of a milkman in Earl -street, Borough road, got up on the back part of a four-wheeled street crib, which was at that time proceeding along the Borough-road at a moderate pace. He seated himself on one of the springs, and shortly afterwards his blouse became entangled in the spokes of one of the hind wheels, between which and the body of the cab his head was drawn. The loud screams of females who were passing and witnessed the perilous situation ti p? boy, arrested the attention of the driver, who imme to St. T h ' 0,,7 was a task °_, c y pulled up, and thereby saved him from instant death. He was , however . jammed betty i er, very seriously injured, and was cOors. ye 1 r 8 Hospital, arteriaving been extracated, 'ivhioa she difficulty, his head being so tightly necessary e rig t thigh to,procure.ia wrench and remove the wheel before 11 b y ut co i ll n use a . 'Y e "! the wheel and the panel as to render it shrieked dreadfull a y se ou be could be l e i - le appeared to suffer much, and . h his way to the hospital, where it was discovered that th was fractured, and the head ti c t e l c y k dr e sensible,ad t ii The poor child continues very precarious state.—Times. perfectly S E so' D OY/ SDAY LNTLES AND CLOAKS. t. CRIPPS & SCURFIELD submitting to the Public the NTLES and CLOAKS, being. Li, of their own bona fide IVlanre, acient piece of Tapestry fonn n tha YORKSHI4,t. ble labour,Aceeeded in ;pecimen of the Pro Actions of the , n, in which is embodied the exquisite F STEPHEN. Grey" is assumed in honour of I liberal relative of the present ks for crossing the water and BOLD-STREET. AND HIGHER HARROGATE NCING T WLIN MAPS, H 0 I , POREIG V IiVTIELLIGENCE, CHINA, INDIA AND EGYPT (From the Times of Saturday.) By our ordinary monthly express from Marseilles, in anticipation of the overland mail fron► India, we have received letters from our correspondents in China, India, and the shores of the Mediterranean, as well as files of all the news pape►s published in the British possessions throughout the East. 'rc.nr Canton May 19, Macao Our latest dates are— Calcutta J uly 5, Bombay 19, AL May 20 August 20, arid Matta August The news from China, which comes down to the 20th of May, is the great matter of interest which we have received by this mail. The accounts from Canton describe the Chinese mandarins as most decidedly hostile to the British, and states that the truce allowed to Captain Elliot, during which a large export of tea had been effected, had in reality no other object than to enable them to take measures for expelling the bar barians. The Empgror continues to fulminate proclamations; not only against the invaders of his country, but also against such of the mandarins and officers as he conceives do not do their duty most efficiently. A large army was collecting in the neighbourhood of Canton, which city was, notwithstand ing its great trade, deserted by great numbers of the in habitants, who appear to dread their own soldiery as much as they do the foreigners. Captain Elliot, whose great object appears hitherto to have been to secure the annual export of tea, was still temporizing with the Chinese authorities, and had succeeded in having 11,000,0001 b, shipped before the 18th of May; and there were hopes that an equal or greater quantity would be on board before the end of that month. Hong Kong was again occupied by the British, and the Chief Commissioner busied himself during some time in laying out plans for a city ; but on the 18th of May, at the time when it was said he and several ships were about to proceed anew to Pechelee, and there to demi. nd a settlement from the very Court of Pekin, he went in the Nemesis steamer up the Canton river, as if apprehensions were entertained of an attack by the Chinese on the foreign factories, or on the Algerien and Modeste, stationed near them. tis therefore feared that ere this a conflict has occured, in which the city of Canton may have been subjected to a conflagration, in order to give the Chinese a lasting exanple. The Emperor, it is said, was so indignant at the capture of the forts of the Bocca Tigris by the British forces, that he had ordered Keshen, the late imperial commissioner, to be put to death, and had even extended his vengeance to the relatives and followers of the unfortunate negotiator. Ke shen's sole crime seems to have been his implicit obedience to the orders of his superiors, but as their execution had been unsuccessful, the misfortune of course was visited upon his bead. Lin, of whom we have not lately heard much, is said to have been the chief instrument in the fall of Keshen, whom he hoped to succeed in command of the Chinese army. In the mean time the preparations for carrying on the war fare with the Chinese continue in India. The new plenipo tentiary, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the Admiral, Sir Wm. Parker, arrived at Bombay on the morning of the 7th July, and set out for their ultimate destination on the 17th, in the steam frigate Sesostris. The admiral examined the arsenal and dockyard of Bombay in order to know their capabilities, for, as he said, " the Chinese dispute may be settled in a few months, or it may last for years." ' It is understood that the policy to be pursued by Sir Henry Pottinger, the new Plenipotentiary, and Admiral Sir W. Parker, the commandant of the forces, is, as nearly as possible, the reverse of that which has been hitherto acted upon, and with such signal ill success. A strict blockade of the whole of the southern and western coast is immediately to be put in force ; the mouth of the great river is to be effectually guarded, and the utmost care is to taken to avoid unnecessarily irritating the natives, who, from the first, have appeared to be favouraly disposed. The island of Amoy, of which a very promising description is given, will, it is said, be occupied, as soon as the dispositions for the blockade are completed ; and from its position, deeply embayed in the mainland, and nearly opposite to the island of Formosa, it is expected that it will be an excellent exchange for the pes tilential Chusan. The monsoon, which has been attended with an unusual fall, continued to paralyse all movements on this (Bombay) side of India. The Bombay army west of the Indus has suffered much from sickness, particularly at Kotra. The news from the Persian Gulf is, that the Vizier of Shah Kamran had made terms with Persia, and that he had given up Ghorian, the key for the entrance of the northern invaders into India, to the Persian Monarch, and that he had con sented to make himself a vassal of Persia and of the Czar, rather than of Shah Soajah and England. This is calculated to excite alarm, but the campaigns of the last two years have already smoothed much of the difficulties on this point. It is highly probable that an expedition will be soon despatched against the Shah of Herat, who will be soon obliged to yield homage to his liege the Monarch of Affghauistan. The oc cupation of the great passes by the British will then settle the question, and contribute much to the stability of Shah Soojah's dynasty, while it will neutralize the plots of the Russian Cabinet at the Court of Teheran. A brilliant affair had taken place between Colonel Wymer, of the Bengal Armin' , and a portion of the Affghan tribe of Ghilzies, who are disaffected towards the actual King of Affghanistan. From the Punjaub the intelligence is that Shere Singh has succeeded in bringing his troops into some order, and that comparative tranquility prevailed. There was a report that Earl Auckland had demanded 10,000 men as a reinforcement froni the Siekh Chieftan, but it requires confirmation. The disturbance at Berdamee having been quelled by its capture, the soldiers engaged in the attack on that fort have obtained booty to the amount, as it is stated, of £lO,OOO. Her majesty's ship Endymion, which, in 'consecience of some damage done to her keel by a coral rock in the Red Sea, had gone to Bombay for . repairs, had not as yet been able to get into dock. Several merchant ships have been lost by fire. Their names are—the Mauritius, the David Scott, and the American Republic ; and the Arab brig Regia, off Ceylon. The captain and a part of the crew of the whaler Risk, lost on the 2d of February last, have arrived at Ceylon. Much curiosity has been excited at the Criminal Sessions here by the trial for murder of the captain of a Scotch mer chant ship, which left Greenock last November. There was on board a half-witted Irish sailor, named Carey, upon whom the most unheard-of outrages were perpetrated ; he died from ill-treatment. The jury found the captain guilty of the as saults, and he has been sentenced to two years' imprison ment with hard labour in the House of Correction. WEST INDIES Her majesty's packet Tyrian, arrived at Falmouth, has brought papers from the different West India Islands to a late date ; those from Jamaica are to the 29th of July, those from Barbadoes to the 21st of July, and those from Trinidad to the 16th of July. The Jamaica papers are barren of inte resting news as regards that locality, but they contain accounts from Carthagena to the 23d of July, by the Hornet, which had arrived there. Cvrmona, the federal chief of Santa Martha, had marched from Carthagena, with a levied force of some 700 men, calling upon the villages in his way to disown the constitutional government, and declare in favour of fede ralism. In Carthagena there was every disposition to sup port the government to the last, but it was feared that they would not be able from the want of provisions to hold out till assistance arrived at Bogota. In the mean time the govern ment of Carthagena had issued a decree allowing all provi sions to enter duty free. The Hornet brought remittances to the amount of 48,000 dollars. The crops at Jamaica had as yet a favourable appearance, but the soil was not sufficiently irrigated to form a positive opinion ; there was in some districts a great want of rain. In Demerara and ,Barbadoes business matters were pro ceeding much as they usually did, and in the latter island there had been seasonable showers. The planters in the various islands were endeavouring, according to all accounts, to increase their crops of produce, and the peasantry evinced a disposition to co-operate with their employers. In some of the districts the African emigrants were still discontented, and would not work on the same terms as the native free labourer. From the Trinidad papers it appears that a committee has been formed for the purpose of inquiring into the agricultu ral resources and general capabilities of the island. The body of the evidence produced would tend to establish a high degree of fertility in the soil, the greater portion of which is represented as peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of sugar, while the remainder would be found fitted to produce cotton, cocoa, cocoa, &c., &c., in abundance. It offers also, by the nature of the country, and the quality of timber in which it abounds, great facilities for the formation of railways, with which advantages, and a proper supply and judicious system of labour, the island might be raised to the highest importance and prosperity. THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT SIVIYRNA. THREE THOUSAND HOUSES AND EIGHT SYNAGOGUES DESTROYED This lamentable catastrophe, in addition to their late per secution in the east, has placed the Jews in a most deplor able situation ; they are deprived of their homes and reduced to the greatest misery and privation, and many who moved in a respectable sphere of life are now unhappy wanderers. A letter, describing the appalling visitation, has been received by Sir Moses Montifiore, from Messrs. Isaac Poncheries and Co., dated Smyrna, July 30, and has been widely dis tributed among the several congregations in London, calling on the benevolent to afford relief to the unfortunate suffer ers. We believe contributions are being received with a spirit worthy of example in cases of affliction : EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED AUG. 18, 1841. " Respected Sir,—With unfeigned grief we are called upon to impart to you one of the most painfully afflicting events that can possibly fall to the lot of suffering humanity. On the night of the 28th ult., a terrible fire broke out in this city, which continued to rage with great fury up to the middle of last night. " The tire made the most frightful progress, and its ra vages were such as it is impossible to describe ; but those who suffered most from the awful calamity are our own un. happy brethren. The whole of the Hebrew quarter is re duced to ashes, about 3,000 houses and eight synagogues' have been burnt to the ground, and the J ews have lost their houses, their property, and their clothes. The Turks suffered very much, but not so much as our poor brethren, and persons of the most respectable stations in life are wandering houseless in the streets, begging for bread, with shame and despair de picted in their countenances Yesterday a pious soul co-operated with us in endea vouring to collect a sum of money, wherewith to buy bread for distribution, indiscriminately, to Jews and Turks, who are in the mountains in a state of the utmost despair, without having a shelter for their heads. We have succeded in col lecting a certain sum, and contributed ourselves 1,000 pias tres, a sum which is beyond our means, inasmuch as we are constantly obliged to bestow money, being daily spectators of their extreme misery, and having no one to aid us in the relief we extend. " We have had the satisfaction to succeed in carrying through the midst of the fire some food to our poor brethren, who, with heart-rending shrieks, were invoking the God of mercy for succour. In the midst of this dire catastrophe many lost their lives, and many families are in the most de solate and bereaved condition, severed from each other and scattered here and there." On Tuesday last Charles Webb, charged with having in his possession bank notes and other bills, to the amount of £5Bl 8s 11d, the property of Messrs. Sinicox and Birmingham,Pember ton, and whi c h were stolen n Nov em b er, 18 28, was D. s toffi b rou ght before Ledman, Esq., at th e P u b lic Office, for fromton , brass-founders, s Birmingham-founlers, of po e e, exam i na tion, and committed to the assizes for trial. EXPORTATION OF MACIIINERY.—The select committee of the House of Commons, lately appointed to inquire into the operation of the existing laws affectinq, the exuortation of machinery, have just published their second report to the house. The report is much to long to allow of any detailed reference to it, but we subjoin the final recommendation of the committee on the subject, which is to the following effect, viz. :—" That, considering that machinery is the only product of British industry upon the export of which restraints are placed, the committee recommend that the law prohibiting the export of machinery should be repealed, and the trade Of machine making should be placed upon the same footing as other departments of British industry." The above com mittee was composed of the following hon. members, some of whom have lost their seats, viz. :—Mr. M. Phillips Sir R. Peel, Mr. Labouchere, Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. ' Hume, Viscount Sandon, Sir G. Stric kland, Mr. E. Tennent,M. Morrison, Mr. Bolling, Mr. Villiers, Mr. T. Parker, M r. . r T . Heathcoat, Mr. Colquhoun, and Mr. Oswald. Mr—Stans field, Mr. J. Parker, Sir J. R. G. Graham, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Easthope, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Grimsditch, were sub sequently added to the committee. THE NEW MINISTRY • (Prom Saturday's Morning Herald.) esterday, at Claremont, saw the principal officers of her Majesty's government installed in the respective posts to which the royal pleasure had called them. This ceremonial followed immediately after her Majesty's reception of the seals of office and the resignations of her late ministers. The members of the conservative cabinet and government appear to have been received with every demonstration which could bespeak the cordiality and confidence of their royal mistress, or could confer honour on the servants of a gra cious Sovereign. Sir Robert Peel, on his appointment as First Lord of the Treasury,—the Earl of Liverpool, on re ceiving his wand as Lord Steward of her Majesty's House hold,—and the Earl of Jersey and Lord Ernest Bruce on their respective appointments, had the honour of kissing hands. The commission for executing' the office of Lord High Treasurer not being yet complete, was, we apprehend, the cause of the appointments of the Premier, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, arid other of the leading members of the , new government, not being published i n th e L on d on G a zette of last night. The only zetted appointments appear to be. these : Lord Wharncliffe, to be Lord President of the Council. Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Privy Seal. Earl of Aberdeen, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Principal Secretary for the Colo nies. Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Principal Home Secretary The Earl De Grey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Earl of Ripon, President of the Board Of Trade. Mr. W. Ewart Gladstone, Vice-President of the Board of Trade. (Ile will also hold the office of Master of the Mint, but without salary.) Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan caster. And thus the vessel of conservative government, after a long " laying up" of many years, is launched once more upon the waters. She carries a noble crew ; she is steered by an experienced pilot. She has veteran commanders and rising officers, all animated by the same spirit of devotion to the honour of the flag they carry, the glory of the crown they serve, and the prosperous completion of that political voyage on which they have embarked with the " G o d s p ee d " of millions of their countrymen. (From the Times of Saturday.) CLAREMONT, FRIDAY.—This being the day appointed by her majesty for the holding of the Privy Council, at which Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues were to b,; formally in ducted into office, the members of her majesty's most hon. council repaired in great numbers to Claremont for the pur pose of witnessing or participating in this high act of state. The public having been made pretty generally acquainted with the circumstance by the daily newspapers, the railway trains in the forenoon felt, like the whigs, the " pressure from without," and several.groups of pleasuring, yet ap• parently most anxious, spectators were to be met on various points of the road which passes from Kingston-upon-Rail way through the romantic village of Eshr to Claremont. The pretty lane (for it is little else) which leads from Esher to Oxshott, passing theentrance to Claremont-park, was the principal resort of the non-official 'metropolitan quidnuncs, and as the dashing equipages of the outgoing and incoming ministers of the crown whirled up the narrow defile—for the whigs upon this occasion plucked up a spirit, resolved to die game, and put their best horses' best legs foremost—many a neck was strtched to the imminent risk of entailing upon it self a crick for life, and not a few smartly trimmed bonnets were festooned with an extra wreath of mud as the tax for their fair wearers' overweening curiosity. One o'clock being the hour announced for the holding of the council, her Majesty's well-known punctuality induced a corresponding degree of exactitude in point of time on the part of noble lords and hon. gentleman. Accordingly, by one o'clock the last of the numerous official visitants' car riages had driven through the park gates. The late whig ministers were those who first arrived, with the exception of Lord Palmerston, who was the last of all the privy coun cillors, whig or Tory, who made their appearance at this grand denouement. His lordship was universally remarked to hold down his head, and to wear an air so observably sombre and doleful, as could rot fill to suggest to the most casual ob server the reflection, that it was with mortal reluctance he repaired to the trysting-place to give back the seals and other tokens so long and signally abused. Perhaps his lordship was of opinion that, like Fabius, he might, cunctando, be in some shape enabled restituer, rem, or possibly to tack him self to the fag-end of the new adMinistration. However this he, it was somewhat strange that one who has so long been accustomed to the rapidity of the movements of foreign mes sengers should, in this instance, have been so much more like a messenger of death. Shortly after twelve o'clock the carriages of Lord Mel bourne, Lord John Russell, the Marquises of Lansdowne and Normanby, the Earl of Minto, and the rest of the late cabinet ministers reached Claremont, whereupon a court of privy council was immediately held, at which Lord John Russell and the other Secretaries of State, the Lord Chan cellor, Lord Privy Seal, &c. delivered up their seals of office into the hands of their Royal Mistress. At the conclusion of this painful ceremony, the ex-minis ters and members . of the now defunct Melbourne cabinet, thus summarily and satisfactorily broken up, took their leave and their departure for London with all possible expedition and despatch. The whig noblemen and gentlemen having made their exit, which they did not only without any flourish of trumpets, but without even a single cheer from one solitary adherent, all the cheering (as far as we could observe) having been reserved for Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, her majesty was graciously pleased to declare the right hon. Lord W harn cliffe lord president of her majesty's most hon. Privy Coun cil, and his lordship took his place at the council-board ac cordingly. The council chamber was now occupied solely by the several lords and gentlemen connected with the new administration : Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl de Grey, the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Stanley, Lord Eliot, Lord Lincoln, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Gladstone, &c. The Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Eliot, Lord E. Bruce, and Mr. W. E. Gladstone were sworn in Privy Councillors, and took their seats at the board. The great seal was then handed over' by her Majesty to Lord Lynd hurst, and the oath of Chancellor administered to his Lord ship. The Privy seal was with the same forms delivered to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and the seals of the three principal Secretaries of State to the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham. The proceedings of the Council were wound up by her Majesty declaring Earl, de Grey Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Ripon Presi dent, and Mr. Gladstone Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; and handing to Lord Granville Somerset the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Council having thus terminated, about half-past two o'clock the new Ministry took their departure for town. The Duke of Wellington was the first to quit Claremont. His Grace was in an open barouche and pair, and was accompanied by Sir George Murray. The air being a little sharp, the illustrious Duke threw a white Mackintosh over the Windsor uniform, in which, like the rest of his Ministerial colleagues, he was arrayed. The instant his Grace's remarkable profile was caught, as his barouche drove through the gates, by an eager group of spectators which crowded the centre of the road fronting the entrance to Claremont, his approach was saluted by loud and enthusiastic cheers. His Grace's carriage was followed in rapid succession by those of the Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Aberdeen, Ripon, and De Grey, Lords Lyndhurst, Hill, and Stanley, Sir James Graham, &c. ; Sir Robert Peel's carriage was the last but one which left the Royal residence. The same tribute of heartfelt applause which had previously saluted the avata r o f " th e D u ke" was now sent forth by the same crowd to bail the adyent of the new Premier ; and as Sir Robert Peel responded to these salutations with a dignified courtesy, his countenance was radiant with the triumph of an honourable ambition. We never saw Sir Robert look to greater advantage. He was slightly flushed with the necessary elevation of his new position, and the evident sympathy of the crowd, and looked extremely well in the Windsor uniform. The outgoing Whig officials all wore plain clothes, and looked very plain in them, if we are to credit the testimony of numerous fair spectators of the scene. Undoubtedly, in ladies' eyes at least, the Con servative leaders had greatly the advantage of their competi tors, not alone in point of elegance of attire (as wearing the official costume), but still more by the superiority which good temper and triumphant success gave them over sour looks and sadly disappointed ambition. At precisely a quarter before 3 o'clock the gates of Clare mont closed upon the carriage of Lord Granville Somerset, which was the last in the new Ministerial procession. (From the Times of Saturday.) THE CABINET. First Lord of the Treasury, 1 Sir Robert Peel. (Premier) . Leader of the House of Lords, }The Duke of Wellington. without office Lord Chancellor President of the Council Lord Wharncliffe. Lord Privy Seal The Duke of Buckingham First Lord of the Admiralty. Principal Secretary of State for Sir James Graham. the Home Dep ar t ment Principal Secretary, of State for 1 The Earl of Aberdeen. Foreign Affairs .. Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. President of the Board of Trade The Earl of Ripon. President of the Board of Con }Lord Ellenborough. trol for the Aff a i rs o f I n di a Chancellor of the Exchequer Secretary at War Treasurer of the Navy and Pay- 1 Sir Edward Knatchbull. master of the Forces NOT OF THE CABINET. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.. - The Earl de Grey. Irish Secretary . w Lord Eliot. Master General of the Ordnance Sir. George Murray. Chief Secretary of the Treasury Sir Thomas Fremantle. Vice-President of the Board of 11l W. E. Gladstone, Esq. Trade and Master of th e Mint Secretary of the Admiralty.... The Hon. Sidney Herbert. Joint Secretaries of the Trea- 1 Sir T. Fremantle, Bart., sure . An Under-secretary of State for} Viscount Canning. the Foreig n Dep ar t men t .... Under-secretary of State for the } The Hon. Bingham Baring. Home D e p artment . .. Secretary of the Board of Con- The Hon. John Stuart trol { Sir G. Cockburn and the Lords of the A m i ra l ty Corby. First Commissioner of Land } and Revenue. The Earl of Lincoln. Chancellor ofthe Duchy of Lan- 1 caster Postmaster-General Lord Lowther. THE HOUSEHOLD. Master of the Horse.... Lord Chamberlain The Duke of Rutland. Lord Steward Vice-Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce. Viscount Powerscourt, the Lords in Waiting Earl of Moreton, and Lord Sidney. f Captain Maynell and Mr. Grooms in Waiting COURT CIRCULAR—MONDAY. —The Bishop of Norwich, clerk of the closet, performed divine service before the Queen and his royal highness Prince Albert, yesterday at twelve o'clock ; the service was attended by the officers of the royal household. The rev. prelate had the honour of dining with her majesty in the evening. On Saturday afternoon her majesty and Prince Albert took an airing in a carriage, followed by the royal suite in ano ther carriage. The royal party returned from their drive a little before seven o'clock to Claremont. At the Privy Council held at Claremont on Friday after noon, the right hon. Henry Goulburn received from the Queen his seal of office, and the honour of kissing hands on being appointed chancellor of the exchequer. The first cabinet council of the new ministry was held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the foreign office. The following were the ministers present :—Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stan ley, Sir James Graham, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Ellenborough, the right hon. H. Goulburn, anti Sir Henry Hardinge. The Council broke up soon after five o'clock. The Earl of Ripon and the right hon. W. E. Gladstone at tended on Saturday at the office of the Board of Trade. Lord Stanley attended on Saturday at the Colonial -office Downing-street. Lord Clifford and the right rev. Dr. Pohl ing had an interview with his lordship - in the afternoon. Mr. George William Hope, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the room of the right hon. R. Vernon Smith also attended on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Sir Edward Knatchbull and Lord Eliot visited Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. Sir George Cockburn had also an interview with the right honourable baronet. The Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Villiers, Sir William Rae, and Mr. Leman, had interviews with Sir James Graham at the Home office on S-turday. The right hon. H. Goulburn attended on Saturday at the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing -street. Viscount Melbourne had a dinner party on Saturday at his residence in South-street. The right hon. Henry Labouchere has left town for Germany. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TWELFTH GENERAL HALF-YEARLY MEETING The general half-yearly meeting of this company took place on Thursday, in the large room of the newly-erected station, Temple Meads, Bristol. Considerable interest was excited on the occasion from a report that the directors intended to ask for the loan of half a million on this undertaking, which has already cost nearly 0,000,000 of money, and also from the circumstance that the dividend about to be declared was the first since the opening of the line throughout. At one o'clock the chairman, Charles Russell, Esq., opened the business of the day, and called on the secretary to read the report, which was rather long. The principal matters referred to were as follow : The total amount of receipts for the half year ending the 30th of June last was £187,780 16s 2d, and the expenses were for the same period £84,380 Os 7d, being nearly 45 per cent. on the receipts. The number of passengers conveyed was 659,537 for an aggregate number of 15.587,798 miles. The result is a net income on the half year of £103,400 15s 7d, and £1,177 14s 8d from the coaching department, arising out of the agreement with the coach proprietors, and this, added to the undivided profits of the last year, gives a total profit of £110,330 14s 6d, £63,590 16s ld of which had to be applied to the payment of interest, and the remainder to be applied as a dividend. The directors had therefore declared a divi dend of £3 per cent. per annum. The receipts since the opening of the line throughout (on the Ist of July) showed an average on four successive weeks of £14,844 lls per week. The total amount of capital required i's 6,150,600, indepen dent of a plant to work the lines (Great Western Union and Bristol and Exeter), which was estimated at £150,000 more. After expressing their regret that their expenditure should have exceeded their estimates, the directors recommend an issue of loan notes to the amount of £550,000. It is then announced that, in compliance with the provisions of the act of parliament, the board had determined to reduce their num ber from 24 to 18, and the report concludes by stating that the usual accounts are furnished. Then followed a report from the engineer, in which there was nothing of sufficient public interest to extract ; and lastly followed the accounts themselves, the principal items of which are given above. After reading the reports a very extended and desultory conversation took place, but the principal point was the de sire of a large number of shareholders to get some pledge from the directors that no further sums, or at all events not more than say £50,000 would be required, and the meeting was eventually satisfied on this head. Another matter was to know the proportion contributed to the revenue by the two branch lines of Cirencester and Bridgewater. The directors at first declined to furnish this information, but, on being pressed, the chairman said the average receipts of the branch lines, for the first two months, was £1,601 9s 2d per week, and the average for the last four weeks was £1,839 16s 2d. The several resolutions adopting the report authorising the issue of loan notes, and sanctioning the reduction of the board of directors, ere subsequently passed, and the meeting, which was very fully attended, separated. MISCELLANEOUS In the village of Whaplode, near Spalding, the vicar is ninety-three years of age, the curate eighty-six, arid the verger seventy. The curate has resided in the parish for upwards of fifty years, and still discharges the duties of his office. Considerable curiosity was excited by seeing a lady of dis tinction walking through the markets, dressed with an old quilt for a tnantelet. On inquiry, we learned she had made the extraordinary exhibition to win a wager of one pound.— Tuam Herald. The Duke of Portland, the Duke of Richmond, the Mar quess Wellesley, the Marquess of Hastings, Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, and other " liberal" Peers, who have hitherto sup ported Lord Melbourne, abandoned their co-operation with the Whigs last week, and voted for the amendment upon the address to the throne. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night, the 26th ult., a child belonging to a man named Hetherington, having died in the Port of this town, the neighbours gathered to the wake. In the upper part of the house, where the corpse lay, the rooms were crowded by persons who were amusing them selves with the usual games practised on such o ccas i ons , when the lofts fell, carrying with it the corpse and sorrowing visitors; a large beam which supported the loft came down on the mother of the corpse, who sat in the room on the ground floor, and fractured her skull ; a young man was so severely injured that he died on the following day ; and 15 other persons were seriously injured, who still remain in a very precarious state.—Balluskannon Herald. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—Some very remarkable or ganic remains of those gigantic Saurian reptiles, which cha racterise the Wealden formation ; have recently been dis covered in the cutting forming the entrance to the Bletching,- ley Tunnel, on the South Eastern Railway. They are chiefly vertebrae of Megalosauri and Iguanodods, with some of smaller reptiles of the same class. They are in the possession of Mr. Simms, the resident engineer of the company, at Bletchingley. The cutting from which these relics of a for mer world were taken, discloses a magnificent section of the Weald strata. The huge primeval lizards, whose skeletons are thus brought to light, must have sported in the waters, or roamed all along the bank of the great lake or estuary, formerly covering the districts of the Wealds of Kent and Surrey ; the bottom of which lake now forms the extensive level through which the Dover Railway is carried. The cuttings on this line, near its junction with the Brighton Railway, at Reigate, are also highly interesting to the geolo gical inquirer. At this point, the green sand passes into the Weald clay, and the alternations of the two are strongly de veloped. The work here must, however, have been conside rably less amusing to the contractor than it is to the naturalist ; for, however curious the alternations of green sand and clay may he to those who look on theta as time-marks in the his tory of our globe, it must be confessed that they make but a sorry compound for a railroad embankment. The excavation through this material extends only for a few yards, and i s not ,deep ; and its contents have been thrown aside by th e rude hands to whom geological phenomena are of little im_ portance, if the '• dirt" will not stand at a slope of two to one. STEAM TRAVELLING ON THE COMMON ROADS.—One of the General Steam Coach Company's coaches started from the York and Albany Hotel, near the Regent's-park, at 25 minutes past four, on Thursday afternoon, and performed the journey to the Manor-house at Tottenham, and back again, in 25 or 26 minutes, a distance of from seven to nine miles, as estimated by two several parties. This would give on a rough calculation about fifteen miles in the hour. But from the obstructions which were encountered on the road, in the shape of flocks of sheep, carts, horses, and vehicles of every description, we are convinced this is not a fair estimate, and that twenty miles an hour would be the more correct computation. One fact, however, seemed to be established, namely—that the new steam-coach is capable of running on ordinary roads with speed, economy, and safety. The noise of the engines is scarcely perceptible ; there is neither smoke nor a visible escape of steam, and the boiler is constructed of numerous pipes, so that if one or even two should burst, the boiler is relieved, and all danger avoided. To enter into any description of the carriage would be foreign to our pur pose, but we cannot avoid noticing the extremely ingenious contrivance which blows and keeps the fire alive. The facility, too, with which the engine is managed is truly remarkable, an instance of which appeared in the descent from the Cam den Villas. A cow suddenly rushed across the road when the coach was at full speed, and had the vehicle been drawn by horses, a collision must have taken place, and no doubt serious consequences would have resulted ; whereas the engineer, with a precision which must be seen to be duly ap preciated, steered, we cannot say drove, the coach clear of the animal. We may also mention, that though several flocks of sheep were met or passed, yet without signally checking the speed, the engineer drove through them. To describe the carriage we have only to say that the wheels are very broad, and that in the portion allotted to passengers it resembles the open carriages on the railroads. The stokers sit behind, and the whole complement of passengers was sixteen. Several members of parliament were passengers, and one lady. The coach is shortly to make a trip to Windsor for the inspection of her Majesty and Prince Albert. RELEASE OF FEARGUS O ' CONNOR.--It was stated that Mr. Feargus O'Connor would be liberated from York Castle on Monday, and that there would be a public demonstration of the chartists on the occasion . Owing, howeve r , t o a second peremptory application on the part of the visiting magistrates that he should leave the castle before. that time, he consented to do so, and was taken in a cab to Etridge's Hotel, on Thursday evening, he having previously entered into Ws own recognizance of £3OO to keep the peace for three years. On Sunday last, a number of chartists from Leeds, &c., with banners, arrived by the railways, and a few also arrived in York on Monday morning, and at one o'clock a procession was formed near the castle gates. A car was brought up, which was drawn by six horses, with three pos tilions dressed in green jackets and caps, and on which was a very handsome chair, formed like a shell, and covered on the outside with green velvet. After Mr. O'Connor had taken hi 4 seat in the chair, he addressed some observations to the assembled chartists on the necessity of their preserv ing peace and conducting themselves in an orderly manner. The procession, in which were a great number of flags and banners. and a band of music, and about 400 chartists, pro ceeded through the principal streets to the grand stand on Knavesmire, in front of which between 1,000 and 2,000 per sons had assembled, many of whom were females, who had been prompted by curiosity and the fineness of the day to witness the proceedings. Mr. O'Connor proceeded to the balcony in front of the grand stand, and he was received with loud applause by his friends. About three o'clock Mr. Cordukes, a joiner, was called to the chair. Some resolu tions, expressive of the delight of the chartists a t th e re l ease of Mr. O'Connor, were passed, after which Mr. O'Connor addressed the audience at considerable length, and was fol lowed by several others of the chartist leaders, the business concluding with three cheers for Frost, Williams, and Jones, Feargus O'Connor, and the charter. At six o'clock a tea meeting was held in the large room of the grand stand, when addresses of congratulation were presented to Mr. O'Connor by a great number of chartist delegates. Several toasts were drunk, and the whole of the proceedings terminated about mid nigh t.—Doncaster Gazette. SIR ROBERT PEEL.-With respect to his abilities for action, as much is saicras need be, when his career as a minis ter, and as thr leader of the opposition in the midst of the greatest disadvantages, is indicated. But the great and per vading misapprehension is, that we expect Sir Robert to be come a Liberal. We expect no such thing. He is not a Liberal but a Conservative. Men of his age, when prudent and honest, do not change their principles with their seats. Men of average understanding settle their principles by which they will be guided early in life, and that question is then closed. The question of maturer years is action according to the principles thus settled. Bad or good, the principles by which Sir Robert is guided are Conservative ; and their is neither hope of a change, nor could there be advantage in it. The consideration that remains therefore for those whom he is to serve must be, what can a Conservative possessing the qualities ascribed to this man do ? We have seen that out of office he has been enabled to swell the party with which he entered an adverse Parliament from 150 to 360 ; while his opponents have sunk their 500 to 290. This is not an age of greatness ,• but among a smaller race it is well to find a man that can do something. If we have aided in ejecting the Whig Ministers, who have shown that they are come to that pass when they can do nothing, we have only perfo rme d w h at many of our friend's party now say they desired to see done ; though they did not dare openly to avow the wish or to do the work. If our sincere endeavours have had any influence, we have aid e d i n s topping the progress of a plague—in putting an end to a course of corruption and pretence, with all their immoral incidents, which for a time had all but ruined the Liberal cause. In assuming that Sir Robert Peel had a task before him, we only assumed an obvious fact. In showing what a Conservative might do, we only carried out the philo sophy of extracting good out of everything. Our reprover says that Sir Robert brings prudence, patience, and honesty to his task.—Spectator. The income of the English railway lines now average! £lOO,OOO a-week. The harvest in France is proceeding most favourably, and prices are declining. It is stated by the Staffordshire Exa;niner that the iron masters in that county have reduced the price of iron Ms. per toti The new openly avowed conservative Duke of Richmond is honoured with the proxy vote of Earl Grey in the House of Lords. Is not this a significant hint for those who, profess ing the opinions of the noble lord, give their support to the Viscount Howick ? BRITISH IRON COMPANY.-At a recent meeting of the shareholders of this company the motion for a dissolution of the company was rejected by a considerable majority, when it was intimated that a dissolution would be sought for by proceedings in Chancery. BRADFORD ELECTION.--The cause of Mr. Wilberforce is progressing gloriously. The probability is that the writ will be moved for on Wednesday next. . The nomination is ex pected to take place on Monday or Tuesday week. Conser vatives to your posts ! All the arrangements are complete, and Mr. Wilberforce has issued a second address, in 'which he announces his " determination to poll to the last minute and to the last man." • TUE Hox. Mits. NORTON.—WhiIe giving currency to these gossiping rumours, it is only echoing report to allude to the whispers that are afloat respecting the intention of the Honourable Mrs. Norton to adopt the stage as a profession, and make her debut at Covent Garden ; the talent of her family, dramatic by descent, is favourable to the supposition, coupled with other and more powerful causes ; and we have heard'that the lady has qualifications for success of a higher kind than personal beauty. Now that acting is raised to so high a rank in public estimation as an intellectual profession, there can be nothing derogatory in such a step, whatever the pride of station may deem to the contrary.—Spectator. Those enemies of the church, who are accustomed to speak of " the workin4 clergy," as if the curates who receive a small pittance of £7O per annum were the only persons wile really laboured in' their vocation, would do well to notice what is really going on around them. In the diocese of St. David's, for example, the bishop, during his late confirma tion tour, has held separate services in Welsh and English, wherever the candidates were not familiar with the latter language ; and his lordship's charges to each party in their native tongue have been delivered in the most affectionate and truly Christian manner. Last Sunday, moreover, he preached at thrce places Carew, Lamphey, and Pembroke dock, in behalf of the schools for the poor, and the weight of his arguments, made more impressive by his unassuming yet earnest manner, had a very strong effect on the crowded congregations that assembled to hear him. AWFUL CIRCUMSTANCE.—A gentleman who resides in a village near Ulverston, having been away from home fora few weeks, upon returning late one evening, in his joy to see all his family, ran Up stairs, and, with more loudness than pru dence, took up a little girl, four years old, in his arms, that was fast asleep, and spoke to it. The child opened its eyes, and not recognising its over-joyed parent, it uttered a shrill cry and seemed dreadfully agitated; and, truly awful to say, the little creature became bereft of reason, and now appears little less than a confirmed idiot. ANTICIPATED TURN-OUT OF FACTORY HANDS AT STOCK PORT.—We regret to learn that, in consequence of a contem plated reduction in prices, on the part of two or three large manufacturing establishments in this town, a very extensive turn-out of factory hands, principally spinners, is anticipated. Judging from the representations which have been made to us, the reduction will amount to nearly one-half the earnings of many spinners, and, if they should be, compelled to cease woi king, the misery of their present condition will, of course, be greatly aggravated.—Stockport Chronicle. NEW STEAM-BOAT PROPELLER.—We had ap opportunity yesterday of going from Blackfriars-bridge to Putney, in the Fire Fly, a model steam-boat, propelled on the principle first introduced by Captain Ericsson. The inventor and engineer, who is also the proprietor, Mr. Warriner, a pupil of Messrs. Braithwaite and Milner, of the New-road, was on board, and afforded us the following information :—The engine, boiler, &c., have been made entirely with his own hands. The boat is 22 feet long, and 4 feet 9 inches broad; the propeller is placed in the stern of the boat, and is horizontal. It is 22 inches in diameter, consists of 6 floats s inches broad, form ing a section of a six-threaded screw, and makes 200 revo lutions in a minute. Beyond it is a false stern-post to which the rudder is attached. There are two engines of nearly two-horse power. The cylinders are oscillating, 3 inches each in diameter, and 6 inches long. The contrivance for forcing the steam into the cylinders and the slide motion are new and ingenious. The boiler sustains a pressure of 601 b. lbs. to the square inch. The weight of the engine and boiler, filled with 21 gallons of water, are about 964 lbs., and the tonnage of the boat nearly 200 cwt. It has been running ex perimental trips on an average of four times a week since March last, and has travelled during that period over a space of 2,000 miles without requiring repairs. The advantages which this description of propeller possesses over the coin mon steam-boat paddles are—first, its being under water, and therefore, in case of vessels of war fitted up with it, and going into action, the enemy's shot cannot affect it. It is cheaper and less cumbersome than the common paddle, anti does not spoil the symmetry of a vessel. Captain Ericsson, who, as we understand, invented this propeller, offered his invention to,the late government, but it was refused. The consequence was that he went to America, where be is now superintending the building of a frigate of 1,000 horse-power, to be fitted up with this propeller. We omitted to say that the speed of the Fire Fly was from eight to nine miles the hour.—London A BRIDAL BLUNDER.—At Walcot, last week,"a dashing carriage drove up to the church from Box, and a bride, at tended by her bridesmaid, was handed out by her papa. The parson and the whole party were soon in readiness for the important ceremony, with the exception that a chief per former in the drama was unaccountably absent. The bride trembled as the minutes moved away, and " He cometh not, she said, she said; he cometh not, she said." Her father waxed wroth at the bridegroom's unpardonable non-appear ance, and, taking horse, galloped in search of his intended son-in-law. On arriving at the sinner's house, hs found him quietly pursuing his wonted avocations, unconscious of the presence of his Dulcinea at Hymen's altar. An ,explanation ensued. He had let;; the lady and her bridesmaid to fix the day—the important day—and they had sent him a note—a sort of warrant—announcing to him his loss .of bachelor-life on the 10th of August, 1841 ; but, unfortunately, they com mitted the blunder of neglecting to ascertain if the intimation was received as well as sent. The fact was, it was not re ceived—and hence the disappointment. The bride thanked her tars it was no worse, and the wedding took place on the following day. CONVERSIONS FROM HINDOOISM. The Circulator of Wednesday contained the annexed account of two young Hindoos, recently educated at the General Assembly's Mis sion School, having announced their determination to em brace Christianity :—" We have just heard of an occurrence that took place at the police-office on Monday, and which we fear, owing to the grossness of native superstition, will have some influence in the educational prospect of the Hindoo youths of this presidency, unless some of their more respect able members will disabuse the minds of their ignorant coun trymen on the subject. The case appears to be the following : Two young men, aged 19 and 20 respectively, have been for some time pursuing their studies in English literature and science under the auspices of the society with which the Rey. Mr. Anderson and other Scotch missionaries are connected. Their minds being thus cultivated and enlightened by the ex cellent course of instruction pursued at that establishment, it became apparent to them at once, when they bad brought themselves to reflect on the subject, that Pagan worship was an abomination ; and accordingly expressed their determina tion to Mr. Anderson to embrace Christianity. Having made up their minds to renounce idolatry, and aware of the op position and treatment which awaited them in the bosom of their family, they would not return home, but for several days past took up their domicile in the school premises. Their parents being made acquainted with the circumstance, applied for and obtained a warrant to bring up the youths to the police-office, where the matter was investigated. As the young men stated that their absence was not compulsory, but in fact what they had themselves resolved on, and that they had no desire to return to their parents, and were of that age as to be free to act for themselves, the case was dismissed. The young men, on leaving the police-office to return with Mr. Anderson to the institution, were forcibly seized on by their parents arid friends, and a regular row took place in the compound under the nose of the magistrates, who were obliged to interfere to prevent more serious consequences. The young men and Mr. Anderson, with some difficulty, got' away from the infuriated concourse of the friends of the two families."—United Service Gazette, Calcutta, June 25. INGENIOUS FORGERY.—A few days ago a man, dressed as a waggoner, having a whip 41 his hand, applied to a money-changer in the Cloitre St. Honored, for change of a 500 f. note of the Bank of France. The money-changer, per ceiving that although the note was genuine the vignettes had been removed and repasted on other paper, requested the man to go with him to the bank to have the note examined, to which he consented with apparent cheerfulness. At the bank he was interrogated by Count d'Argout, the governor, and stated that he had received the note from a person ho had it from a discounter in the Rue Godot Mauroy. As this was found to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot, the man being in custody all the time, and it was soon as certained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a bookbinder in Paris, who had lately disappeared from Arpajon and Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors. With some difficulty his lodging was discovered to be in the Rue des Cannes, and and h ere were found convincing proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been carry ing on. It appears that, after long study as to the mecha nism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had conceived the idea of splitting them in two, and transferring by means of ink, essences, acids, a press, &c., the impression of the vig nettes from the front of the note to the divided paper, thus making two notes out of one. Although Adelaine, when de tected, wore the dress of a waggoner, as we said above, a rich and elegant wardrobe was found at his lodging, as also many articles of jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a curious correspondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden, with a drawing, on large paper, of gaming -tables, and the cylinder of the roulette, on which he was apparently study ing some combinations, as was done by M. de Labourdon naye, in his games of chess with England, Germany, and India. After these discoveries, Adelaine was handed over to the Procureur du Roi.—Galignani's Messenger. SINGULAR CASE OF SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—Be tween the hours of eight and nine on Wednesday evening last, a fire, which, at first, assumed an alarming character, was discovered in the basement of the premises belonging to Mr. Archbutt, pawnbroker and silversmith, No. 110, Blackfriars road, near the Magdalen Hospital. The fire commenced in the cellars, which., were fitted up as store-rooms for the re ception of beds, carpets, &c. An alarm was raised by the inmates, who, on opening the doors leading to the store rooms in question, were met by a body of smoke and flames, which almost deprived them of their senses. The police on duty in the street lost no time in sending for the engines, and in about a quarter of an hour two arrived on the spot, from the station in 'Waterloo -road, and soon afterwards those be longing to the Southwark Bridge-road, arrived, followed by Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent of the brigade force, and a posse of other engines. By great exertion, the ravages of the fire were confined to the cellars, and in half an hour it was wholly subdued; but the loss of property is stated to be very considerable, nearly the whole of the beds, carpets, &c. that the cellars contained, being all but consumed. There is every reason to believe that the fire is the effect of spontaneous combustion, from the circumstance of their having been no light admitted into the cellars for some days before, and on that occasion they were enclosed in glass lanterns, and it was impossible for a spark to tall into any of the bedding. It is supposed that one of the beds contained rags mixed with flock, which, by some means, became damp, and berhg closely piled became heated, and ultimately burst into flames. Un fortunately, Mr. Archbutt was severely burned about the hands and face in extinguishing the flames, and, according to the statement of the fireman, had it not been for his intre pidity at the commencement, the premises would have been destroyed. JUVENILE WIT.—" Oh dear!" blubbered an urchin, who had just been suffering from an application of the birch, :` Oh my ! they tell me about forty rods make a furlong, but I can tell a bigger story than that. Let 'em get such a plaguey licken as I've had, and they'll find that one rod make an acher. REAL SPORTING.—The country round Berlaimont, in the Nord, having been much infested by wolves, the inhabitants had a grand batlue on the 29th ult., at which there were one hundred sportsmen, and twice as many scouts to beat up the ga me. Five wolves were roused, but only two killed. These were declared to be larger and more ferocious than any be fore seen in that country. The ravageS these animals bad committed were extensive, and within a few days they had devoured eighteen calves.—Galignani's Messenger. TH EATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL 'rider the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Leleee rim PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.-DOORS TO BE OPENED AT SEVEN. Miss ELLEN TREE, of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden, and the Haymarket, who is engaged for Ten Nights. le Mr. ANDERSON, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. who is also engaged for a 'united period, rill appear This Evening in the characters of ROSALIND and JACQU ES, in Shakspear's Comedy of As You LINE T. rrIIIS present TUESDAY. Septem r 7, 1841, will he performed Shakspeare's Play of A•S YOU LIK IT. Jaques. . Mr. demon. Rosalind. isa Ellen Tree, In which charactel she will sing " e Cuckoo Song, speak the Original 2pilogue. Orlandp llr. Baker. Touchston Celia s Cleaver. Audrey Mrs. Clarke. At the end of the Play, DANMNG, by Master and Miss C WEBSTER. To conclude with the Romantic Drama of the FORTY THIEVES. Alibaba.. Mr. Slaiter, Ganem.. Mr. G. Horncastle. Mustapha, the Cohler.. Mr. Baker. Morgiuna.. Miss E. loaner. On WEDNESDAY, the new Play, written by Leigh Hunt, Esq., called A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Genevra, Miss Ellen Tree; and Antonio Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson, as originally perforiked by them in London ; Agolanti, Mr. Stuart; Colonna, Mr. H. loll; Da Riva, Mr. Chaplin ; Olimpia, Miss Cleaver ; Diana, Mrs. Baker.—DANCING, by Master and Miss C. Webster.—To conclude with the Comedy, in Two Acts, called CHARLES THE SECOND. King Chailes, Mr. Anderson ; RoChester, Mr. Chaplin ; Captain Copp, Mr. Baker ; Edward, Mrs. Barton ; Lady Clara, Mrs. Baker; Mary Copp, Miss E. Homier. Mr. Knowles' new Play of THE BRIDALS OF MES SINA, or JOHN OF PROCIDA, will he performed durimr the engagement of Miss Ellen Tree and M. Anderson, in which they will sustain their original Charactera . of Isoline and Fernando. TO CORRESPONDENTS No. 2 of the " Analysis ofour Exports on Friday The lines of " C. B. G." were received too late. We cannot find that the "suicide" referred to by our Lon don correspondent was ever inserted in the- Standard. Our attention is again called to the illuminated clock of St. George's Church. When last we noticed it, the defect was remedied for a night or two ; but the light. might as well be taken away altogether unless some effectual means be devised to render it of some use. No complaint is ever made of St. Peter's ; and it is evidently a sheer piece of neglect that the former is allowed to remain as it is. It is a complete eyesore. and worse than useless. We anticipate the radicals will " gain a loss" by the con tinued agitation of Mr. Quayle's unnecessary litigation. A summary of the facts connected with the case appeared in the Standard of the 31st ult., which could not fail to impress the public mind with the strong conviction that the opposition, on the part of Mr. Quayle, to the just demands of Mr. Shand has been, from the commencement, trivial and vexatious. A letter from Mr. Hodgson, one of the members for Everton Ward, appears in another column, and will, we doubt not, be read with interest. It treats the whole affair in a common-sense, business-like way; and if the Council to-morrow agree to Mr. Aikin's proposal, they will add another proof of their incapacity for their offices. We should have been glad to have inserted the report of the Protestant meeting had we received it earlier. The,Albion of yesterday has the following :—" It becomes our melancholy duty, as the penny-a-liners say, this week to inform our readers, that Lord Sandon is not President of the Board of Trade." His lordship, we have reason to know, was strongly solicited to render his valuable services as a member of the present efficient administration, but the interests of his constituents are dearer to him than place and pay, and induced him to abandon the offers which were made to him. Had Sir Joshua Walinsley, whom our contemporary is so fond of extolling, been similarly situated, no doubt his worship would have turned his back upon those whose sweet voices he is now so de sirous of winning. i~rathriticol TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1841 Whilst engaged in examining our latest files of West India and Demerara papers, we perceive that, in addition to the common topics of Immigration and the Sugar Duties, in which all are alike interested, those of the latter country frequently recur, in a tone of dissatisfaction and complaint, to the state of the law in the colony—a mixed code, half Dutch, half English—which they describe as extremely perplexing to every one who is forced to consult its provisions ; and also to the very constitution of their local govern ment itself. In these complaints we find two very ably conducted journals concurring—the Guiana Chronicle and the Guiana 'Tines; and if we take them to be, as they unquestion'ably must be, the organs of the more prevalent opinion in the colony, it cannot be disputed that there Must exist some serious grievance which calls for redress. " Look to tlie manner in which things are done at present," says the Chronicle, " both in the Combined Court and in the Court of Policy. One-sided taxes, one-sided laws, one sided feeling—contracted ,- views, and contempt of .public opinion. Say, could such things exist were all classes of the community properly represented ? No, they could not; en lightened legislators would rise and expose the hollowhearted ness of such measures; would explain the views of the mo ther country with regard to the colonies ; chew that the great object was to raise up a free intelligent producing people, able to look after their own affairs, and to influence those of the state towards the general good. This can never be effected so long as a few men are allowed to have everything their own way. In this country things are by hocus pocus reversed, and one hundred thousand people are made to believe that the opinionS of two or three individuals are the only opinions worth attending to. This state of affairs is the offspring of legion—alias slavery, and must . hide its di m i n i s h e d h ea d along with the rest of the brood — in Erebus." At a time like the present, when the prosperity of the colonies is to us a matter of the deepest interest, it is a reproach to the home government, that reitera ted complaints of this nature, on whatever foundation they may rest, should not have been inquired into, We cannot expect our colonies to flourish, and to sup ply us with such markets as we require for our manu factures, unless the laws by which they are governed, and the executive authority within them, be such as are calculated to call forth the energies of the people, and afford them contentment. Two circumstances of recent occurrence have caused much excitement in the colony. One was the selection by the Governor of a Mr. Arrindell, a barrister, as a Colonial Legislator, who was most reluctant to accept the appointment, and his selection in preference to Mr. ROSE, who had given the utmost satisfaction in that capacity, and whose appointment was eagerly desired by the people. On this contingency the Chronicle of the 9th July observes :--- " If there is any one circumstance wanting to place in a more conspicuous point of view, the utter rottenness of our present legislative government, it is that which occurred yes terday in the Court of Policy. Our readers will perceive by our proceedings of the Court of Policy, that Mr. Arrindell has been elected in the room of Mr. Rose, and that the learned gentleman is not wishful of serving the colony in the capacity of legislator. By thus declining, he subjects himself to a fine of 1,1)00 dollars ; so that in this country, instead of a candidate offering himself to the constituency, and craving the honour of representing them, we have a colleg e o f elec tors, lugging two gentlemen into .the legislative hall, one of whom is struggling and kicking to getaway. Th en we h ave the court making choice of this unwilling gentl eman; an d mark you, legislators selecting a i legislator! a n d th at aga i nst his will ! These are effects arising from th e d rea df u ll y in verted order of affairs existing n this colony, and on which, we shall take every opportunity to bring the public mind to bear." It is unnecessary to dwell upon this subject ; suffi cient appears to justify the remark, that causts of dis satisfaction do exist, and that they are deeply felt by the inhabitants. The other topic which we find affording much dis cussion, is the conduct of Mr. Justice Norton, whose extravagancies, however they might seem to us, who are far removed from the theatre of his exploits, ridi culous and amusing, afford occas!on for anything but matter of pleasurable contemplation in George Town, Demerara, and Guiana. This functionary, it seems, conceiving himself to have been libelled by an inhabi tant, issued a citation against the individual of his own motion, and upon his own authority, for a large amount of ,damage. returnable before himself as judge. The defendant's counsel, the two most eminent members of the bar, advised the defendant to petition the Queen in council to interdict the judge from proceeding in this manner. " Thereupon," says the Guiana Times (20th July), " with a hu n d re d circumstances of gross aggra vation, the Plaintiff-JuncE, acting in concert with his brethren on the bench, who, however, were not per sonally implicated (the suit being his not theirs), sus pended each of the barristers from practice at the bar for the space of six months." The same paper proceeds to say : " The public were thunderstruck at the boldness of the bad; act. The barristers, of course, appealed to the judicial com mittee' in England. The judg es took care to interpose as. possible, and, at l ast, sent home such an an... sTeny delays as r t o th e appeal as their own counsel in London were fain: 'to ask leave to amend. Meanwhil e the judge chiefly impli cated, (Norton is the name doomed by a succession of reck less and indecent acts to a painful and lasting notoriety,) shows symptom of a ch as t ened temper, or a sobered judg ment. " The bar, almost to a man, complain of his ill-hu moured and unmannerly interruptions, and a certain piece of private history, just evolved by a published correspondence with the„ Secretary of State, exhibits as peculiarly unbe coming. If we are not mistaken, we know something ourselves of this Mr. Justice Norton, who owes hiS appointment to the patronage of Lord Normanby, and to services performed in Dublin —not in the way of his profession —during his lordship's mal-administration and mal versation of the affairs of Ireland. But anything was good enough to send out to the colonies, and a man whose knowledge of law was as profound a secret in