The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA- The royal mail steam-packet, Caledonia, Captain Lott, arrived off George's Pier at eight o'clock on Friday night, bringing papers from New 1 ork to the 16th, Boston to the 17th, and Halifax to the 19th. The Britannia was seen a few miles off Halifax on the 18th. The intelligence by this arrival is, we are gratified to say, of a much more encouraging and pacific character than that which came to hand by the Great Western. The article from the Washington Union, which we no ticed last week, claiming the whole of the Oregon on be half of the United States, had excited nearly as much astonishment on the other, as it bas done on this side of the water. Its tone and tendency had been severely com mented on and denounced by the Journal of Commerce, the Courier and Enquirer, and other able and influential papers. The official character of the article, too, had been impugned, and altogether, an improved tone of feel ing seems to have prevailed in the interim. Better still, Mi. Daniel Webster, at a public meeting in Boston, in an elaborate speech on the Oregon question, counselled a pacific settlement in the most persuasive and argumenta tive terms, in the course of which he pointed out the folly and the madness of a war between the two countries on such a subject. Mr. Nk ebster's sentiments were warmly cheered by his hearers, and the views which this able and popular statesman had put forth cannot fail to make a great impression upon his countrymen. The Whigs, it is clear, are strongly opposed to a rupture with England, and as they compose the great bulk of the commercial classes in the principal cities, Mr. Polk, whatever may have been his views, will find it difficult to carry matters with the high band which the previous accounts led us to anticipate. The New York Tribune, a paper of consider able influence, had declared itself in favour of the " three P's—peace, prosperity, and progress." The New York Herald says—" Our foreign relations, even with England, are not in so menacing a position as at the last accounts." The Halifax Times states that Lord Metcalf had ten dered his resignation of governor-general of the British provinces, with an urgent request that his successor may be immediately appointed. A rumour of this character was recently contradicted in the Canadian papers. Whe ther this statement is founded on any more recent fact than that which was contradicted we have not the means of judging. The Montreal Herald of the 31st ult., an nounced that the health of his lordship was improving. The colonial papers for some time past have been much occupied with discussions of railroad projects, particularly projects for a railroad from Halifax to Quebec, a distanoe of 530 miles. These projects appear to have originated chiefly in England. The quotations in the New York cotton-market had fallen since the departure of the Great Western, and prices, at the departure of the Caledonia, ranged fully one-half of a cent below those current on the 6th ult. Thy re was rather an active demand for shipment. The receipts at New York since the Ist were 15,160 bales ; exports for the same period, 4,700 bales; taken by spin ners, 9,000 bales ; taken on speculation, 500 bales; stock in city 18.000 bales, and the amount on sale 6,000 bales. Freights for cotton had been very dull during the week, and the quotations to Liverpool were 5-16 to ; Havre, to cents. We annex the quotations ruling on the 15th ult. compared with those current on the 6th, the day on which the Great Western `ailed for Liverpool:— LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION, Nov. 6. Nov. IS Upl. if Fto. Mob. b-N.O. Upl. tf Flo. Mob 4 N.O —a— —a— —a— tf aCf Inferior Ordinary 63 a6l 63 a 7 6} a6l a6l Middling Goad middling Middling fair Fair Fully fair Good fair Fine —a 10 all —a Is 4 all The supply of the lowest and highest qual;ties offered is small, while a fair amount of the medium grades is on sale. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7.—Cotton.—On the receipt of the correspondence per Great Western, an ac tive demand sprung up, and was very freely met by the factors, who appeared generally willing sellers at a decline on our quotations of Wednes;lay morning of c., and in many instances c. was submitted to. The total sales of of the day sum up 13 000 bales, and the market having been relieved of a redundancy of stock, closes with a healthy tone. The bulk of the business has been done for England, and we hear of one cargo for Trieste. Fteights.—Several vessels were taken up yesterday for Liverpool at id. for cotton, and one barque for Trieste at lie. per lb. Flour.—Sales at di dirs. to 5 dirs. for Ohio, St. Louis choice 5 dirs. to 5 dire. 50c., fine 4 dirs. 25c. to 4 dlr , . 50c, The itlonileur Algerien of the 10th states that General Bourjolly had effected two razziaa " in which the enemy lost nearly 200 men, of whom from forty to fifty were combatants." What then were the other hundred and fifty ? Old men and children who could offer no resist ance ! Oh, shame to France! The Americans are rapidly reinforcing their squadron in the Pacific. Adding their vessels in the Chinese seas, they will assemble a force of six frigates (each as large as an English 74-gun ship), five corvettes, one brig, and one schooner. On the English side, Admiral Seymour, at or about this time, is near the coast of Oregon, with one ship of 80, one of 50, one of 18, and one of 16 guns. _ _ A RHINOCEROS KILLED.—A rhinoceros was killed 10 or 11 days ago on the estate of Jawee, in Province Wel lesley. The brute was observed in an isolated piece of brushwood, which was immediately surrounded by about 200 Chinese and Malay labourers, armed with sticks, bricks, stones, &c., to prevent his escape. The proprietor of the sugar-estate, armed with a fowling-piece, went within the circle, and every now and then bad a shot at the rhinoceros as be started from the jungle to endeavour to make an escape. On one occasion the brute made a desperate effort to break the guard, but when be came up a Chinaman struck him with a chankol on the back of his head, which stunned him and made him retire. He received several shots after this, and fell, after which his head was cut off. No sooner was this completed than a general confusion and riot took place among the Chinese, who strived with each other to obtain the blood as it ran out, some of which they drank, and the rest they smeared over their bodies. When blood ceased to flow the animal was cut up into pieces, and the raw flesh was torn from the bones and devoured apparently with the utmost relish. The Chinese have an idea that the blood and flesh of the tiger, rhinoceros, &c., possess some rare virtues with which they endow all who eat of them.—Penang Gazette. Sept. 6. WILFSL WRECKING OF A SHlP.—Lieutenant W. A. J. Heath, R.N., son of the Governor of the Bank of En gland, has written to his friends a curious statement of the capture of several parties who had made an attempt to lose the brig Rosanna, 145 tons, of Newcastle. Lieut. Heath belongs to her Majesty's ship Hyacinth, and his letter is dated Newfoundland, November 9th. He sta►es that they arrived at St. George's Bay at the beginning of October. " Our attention," says he, " was suddenly called by a merchant brig, apparently a wreck, with her masts cut away, and aground close to the beach. Capt. Scott, having an appointment as a magistrate, made enquiry as to her being there in that state, and two men took an oath before him, that they had been bribed to run the vessel ashore, of course with a view to defraud the underwriters. We then held a survey on the vessel and found a hole bored right through her bottom, and there was not the slightest doubt that it was done purposely. Captain Scott immediately sent me, with a party of armed men, to arrest the bodies of the captain and mate of the vessel, the merchant on shore who had offered the bribe, and two other men who were connected. I found them all in a few minutes, and brought them off. You may imagine their astonishment when they were told they were prisoners under a charge of felony, to be conveyed to St. John's for trial. The next job was to put the brig to rights. We hauled her off shore, and got her along side of us, jury-rigged her with our own spars, and put her cargo into her, consisting of nine hundred barrels of flour, and nearly a hundred of pearl ash, beside which she had a great quantity of wheat in bulk." Lieut Heath was put on board to take her to St. John's which he effected after a most boisterous passage. MOBILE MARKETS, Nov. COTTON. — In the second edition of our last price cur rent, dated Wednesday evening, we mentioned that the accounts per Great Western, which came to hand on Tuesday, had considerably depres ,, ed the market, and that a few sales had been made at 4- cent decline. Since then the market has s:iffened somewhat, owing to the low stage of the rivers and the light stock on hand. Buyers, however, have been compelled to come forward to some extent, owing to freight engagements, and to a few orders to northern markets. The sales on Thursday amounted to GOO bales, and yesterday to 12,000 or 13,000 bales. Though the market may be said to be a little stiffer, we do not feel authorised to advance quotations. Fieights.—Within the last two days there has been some little movement in freights; but, in order to effect engagements, rather lower terms have ben accepted than were demanded early in the week. Ships Fredonia and Sh tnnon have been taken up for Liverpool, at id. Ship IVlithigan, for Glasgow. at 13-32 d., the Hanover, for Havre, at 11-16 c., and the Hermitage, for Baltimore, id. LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston: Miss Francis Jason, Mr. and Mrs. Deligrave, Messrs. Mac. Lachlan, William Lowry, R. Gillispie, W. H. Brehant, T. Kelly, Baldrock, Edward Maitland, Patton, J. Marchant, T. L. Brown, A. Ritchie, N. S. Osgood, Nelson and ser vant, Wilson, Seckie, A. Smith, 'F. G. Grotgan, Dhomas Burton, John Howarth, and T. Dubois. From Halifax: Messr, , . Paul, Dirk, and Edwards; Miss Fanning, Cap tain Cumberland ' • Messrs. Shannon, Clementscn, W. H. Davis. Geo. Watt, and P. Murphy. ..... FACTION FIGFIT.—A fearful faction fight took place an the evening of the 19th instant, at a place called Cloon dora, between the Caseys and Carraghroes ; there was a large party assembled, armed with boys, swords, pitch forks, &c., and three men have been left for dead, one with his skull fractured. The police have arrested seve- NEW ZEALAND.—Everything has at length been fi- ral of the principal assailants. — Longford Jou rnal. pally settled between Lord Stanley and the committee MR. O'CONNELL AS A LANDLORD.—At the meeting acting in England for the New Zealand Company. The of the Repeal Association , on Monday last , M r. O'Con nell took up the statements of the Times' Commissioner, main demand of the Company was to be allowed the full r property of 1,200,000 acres; Lord Stanley has assented to respec ting his property, seriatim; and asserted that they this claim, and orders were to be sent out to the governor w ere false every one. The demagogue appears to have to permit the company to make such further purchases of had the best of the argument so far ; and it is pl a in t hat the Commissioner allowed feelings of personal animosity the n dives as, together with the lands which the company to warp his judgment,. and to lead him to misrepresent already possesses, may make up this quantity. But the . the actual condition of Mr . O'Connell's property. government retains for itself the full and exclusive power is It is stated, upon what is called " competent authority," of nominating all the offices of the colony from the gover- that the amount of tribute money received by O'Connell nor downwards; in a word, the same extent of authority last year was £25,000, minus a per tentage of five per which the government possesses and exercises over our cent , for collecting, &c.. ; and that this year it will be West Indian and other colonies. two or three thousand beyond that sum. Add to this ATROCITIES.—During the attack by the British troops nearly £llB,OOO for Repeal rent, from Sept. 1841 to Nov. on the fortification of the chief Heki, in New Zealand, the gallant leader of the brave Grenadiers of the 58th Regi- 1845, and we haves total of about £200,000, assuming the ment, Captain Grant, was killed, and afterwards roasted " Tribute" during that period to have averaged the collec alive, his cries being distinctly heard in the camp. [Thi s tions for 1844 and 1845, of which Daniel has the fingering. horrible story is not confirmed in the original account, and THE PROTESTANT ALLIANCE.—This movement among is entirely at variance with the humane character Heki the Irish Protestants is progressing most satisfactorily. has hitherto manifested.] Lieut. Philpotts, of the Hazard, A highly influential and numerously attended meeting of was killed in endeavouring to force the inner works of the the committee took place last week, when the funda pall, and scalped by the natives ; his body was, however, mental principles of the institution were agreed on. obtained afterwards by Archdeacon Williams, an eye-glass These principles are just what can alone combine Irish and a small portion of his hair were the only relics that Protestants for united action in the present alarming crisis could be found of him. Lieut. Beattie, who led the for- of their interests. There is no intention of superseding lorn hope, had died of the wounds he had received. The or discouraging existing associations of Protestants. chief N opera, or Noble, of the Rarauwa tribe, who had The Hon. Somerset Maxwell has been appointed hon. joined the stanch ally of the British, Waka, had had his secretary. A general meeting will be held in a few days, when wl wife surprised and taken prisoner by some of Heki's party, of the a e eha l be able to report the further development lliance and then most barbarously murdered by them, and her body cut in pieces. The repeal rent last week was £l5B. Mr. O'Connell, Previous to the late fatal affray Lieut. Phillpotts, R.N., at the meeting of the Repeal Association, was the trum of the Hazard, at New Zealand, exchanged two shuts peter of his own munificence, and proclaimed that he had with the editor of the Auckland Times, for some public given orders for the purchase of two tons of rice and one animadversions on the former, and perforated the gentle. ton of meal, to he " stored " until the time of scarcity man's coat skirt.—Cork Paper. should arrive. There is a story extant which records an affecting anecdote of the generosity of some liberal old The Queen of Spain and her mother took part in a con- gentleman. who " killed a ram at Christmas, and gave cert at the Royal Palace of Madrid, on the 16 th instant. the horns to the poor." We have not time at this mo- Single plants of the common daisy frequently fetch one ment to consult the authorities, so as to be able to refer shilling each in New South Wales. our readers to the precise page of the book in which it is There are 620,000 girls at this moment receiving their set forth—we think it is in the Percy Relics; but the case education in French convents. is what the lawyers call—one in "pint." We hear from the Cape of Good Hope that the guano NOBLE INTREPIDITY.—About the middle of October trade had caused 215 ships, of 60,583 tons in the aggre- last, the bark Helen, Captain Clayton, of this port, left gate, to enter the port. Quebec on her homeward voyage, with a cargo of timber. A new and splendid theatre was opened at Lisbon, on Early on the 31st, a violent gale arose, but the vessel, the 29th October. It occupies the whole of one side of under double-reefed topsails, rode gallantly on. About the handsome square of the Rocio, and is built on the half-past 8 o'clock, while off the east end of one of the site of the former inquisition. Newfoundland banks, they discovered a vessel less for- RELIGION BY RAILWAY.—The projectors of railways tunately situated; and Captain Clayton hailed the vessel, in India, depend for a great share of their anticipated and asked whether they had any boat which might bear profits upon the native pilgrims, who it is expected, will them on board the Helen. The answer returned was adopt the new mode of travelling to reach their shrines. in the negative, accompanied with an earnest prayer that he SCARCITY IN PRUSSIA.—The dearness of all sorts of would do his best to save them. Captain Clayton hesitated provisions in Prussia has already provoked numerous pe- for a little what to do. The vessel was waterlogged, titions to the government. The bakers of Breslau have without a rudder, and her mizenmast and foremast car entreated the president of the province to prohibit, or at ned away, and if he abandoned her to her fate she must all events to restrict , the export ation of corn. soon be buried with her crew beneath the billows• ' on The thirty-sixth anniversary of the Kin g and Queen of the other band, if he ordered some of his own men to the French, which was solemnized at Naples on the 25th push off in a boat and attempt their rescue, they might Novrmber, 1809, was celebrated on Tuesday last, at St. perish, and his own vessel would be left with too few Cloud, as a day of rejoicing to the royal family and the hands to work her with efficiency. In this dilemma he household. placed a boat at the disposal of any of his crew who In consequence of the opening of the Belgian ports, the would volunteer as a forlorn hope to the ill-fated vessel. number of vessels bringing corn, grain, potatoes, and other Three men, without hesitation, offered themselves, articles of f o od, which arrived at Antwerp from the Ist Daniel Mearns, second mate, James M'Kenna, the ear- October to the 17th November, was 212.—Radicalpaper. penter, and John Martin. Without much loss of time (Nothing i s sa id here about the number of arrivals during they entered a small two-oared boat, the only one they any corresponding period. Neither is there a whisper of could command, and rowed on to the wreck, which they any comparison in latices. Why not ?] reached after encountering a host of dangers. " The The Emperor of Russia, according to the latest accounts ship hung heaving on the verge of death," and the crew, from Palermo, was t o q u it that city on the 21st ult., to in number twenty-two, were standing on the poop, their pass four days with th e Ki ng an d R o y a l Family at Naples, voices rising loud above the roar of the tempest, entreat from whence his Imperial Majesty intended to proceed to ing deliverance. Seven of them were got without acci- Rome. The Pope, in order to testify the utmost mark of dent into the boat, and the captain of the vessel, which di- tinction on the occasion of the Emperor's visit to the proved to be the Harrison, o London, told the boatmen Holy City, has ordered the cu p o l a of St. Peter's to be to return fir the others and he would reward them. But illuminated. they did not require pecuniary inducement to stimulate The Jamaica Times, as the po wer of th e a t m ospheric them in their mission of mercy. Again and again they railway in traversing acclivities is HOW put beyond a doubt, returned to the Harrison, and at length every individual hhhad calls on the West India Interests and the Directors of the was placed in comparative safet y on board the Helen. A Royal Mail Steam Company to consider the expediency poor cat, too , it is wel l worth mentioning, which of running a railway constructed on that principle across shared the fate of the crew, also participated in the the Isthmus of Darien, thus connecting the two oceans, deliverance. The storm raged with increasing violence the transit between which may, be made, it says, in an all the day and during the following night, and there was hour! no doubt in the minds of any that the Harrison must CHILD LABOUR IN FACTORIES.—The Journal des have sunk very soon after her crew ha.l been rescued. Dtbats p u bh,h e , a p r i v ate letter from Moscow, which The Harrison had been in a disabled state for neatly a states that th e Emperor of Russia had lately issued an week previous to the 31st, and the storm of that day made order forbidding the masters of establishments in which the wreck complete. The crew had been on short al work is carried on n i g ht an d day from employing children lowance for some time. Their joy at being saved was, under the age of twelve years between midnight and six it may be conceived, extreme. The Helen reached Bel o'clock A.M., seeing that it is too severe a trial for that fast on Monday, when the captain of the lost vessel pre tender age. Any infringement of this order is to be visit- rented each of the three brave men with a handsome ed with severe punishment. gift.—Banner of Ulster. MYSTERIES OF AN IRISH POTATO PANIC..--The panic on account of this valuable esculent was cried up for special purposes. Mr. O'Connell's tribute was, as a matter of course, to be collected before the landlord's rent ; and the Christian preachings of many of the Roman Catholic clergymen were more directed against the pay ment of the landlord's rent than to the practice of either religious or moral duties.—Nenagh Guardian. IRISH ZEAL DESTRUCTIVE.—SO ignorant were the people employed, that in working a copper mine some years ago large quantities of cobalt were found near Kil larney and they actually mended the roads with it, till an English miner saw it, and knowing its value, procured a vessel-load of it, under some pretence, which be sold for £6,000. As soon as the people found out its value, as they manage everything in this country, they became so stupidly greedy after it, that they worked the mine, though repeatedly warned of the consequences, into one of the lakes of Killarney, and of course drowned it.— Times. THE POTATOE DISEASE IN IRELAND.—The follow ing is an extract from the circular of Messrs. James O'Hea and Sons, merchants, Cork, dated November 22nd, addressed to a firm in Hull :—" The great excite ment concerning the potato disease appears to be gradu ally subsiding, and from our advices from the interior of the country—which we should say come much more cheering—and all the information we have been able to collect on the subject, we have no hesitation in stating that we are strengthened in our opinion, as put forward in our previous circular, that they are not only not worse, but that the injury sustained will prove to be much less extensive than was generally anticipated, and the outcry raised and so industriously circulated, considerably exag gerated." IRISH APATHY Runcous.—The sea around the coast teems with fish. lam assured that in Scull-bay and Crookhaven the mackerel are often seen over the whole surface jostling one another, and absolutely running on shore to escape the porpoises, which follow them into the bays, and prey upon them. The people often knock them on the head with the oars of their boats, and yet will not exert themselves to net them. Tell the men, " Why don't you get out your nets, and exert yourselves to take the fish, or you deserve to starve ?"—and you get an an swer, " Och, the nets want mending;" or '` Sure we haven't got the nets ready ;" or, as one man thus occu pied answered a gentleman who asked this question, " Och, musha, by dad, Sir, berme we could get the nets out, they would be off;" and these poor exertionless, goodnatured, apathetic men, do in reality almost starve, whilst the men of St. Ives, and from the coast of Corn wall, cross the Channel, live and labour in their boats, realise large sums, and obtain employment and comforts for themselves and families, by catching the fish which swarm on the very shores of these bays—those who dwell on the shores meantime starving. —Times. IRELAND. Even the Dublin Post, which, up to a day or two since, delighted to repre.ent the accounts about the potato crop a most " frightful" and " disastrous" has been at length compelled to admit that the disease has been checked. MURDER.—James Catney, a labouring man, was found murdered on Wednesday week, on the road near Hillsbo rough A monstrous club, stained with blood, was found near him. A meeting was held last week, for the purpose of making arrangements for collecting the " national tri bute," and then for taking into consideration the defi ciency of the potato crop. First see how much they can give to the Liberator, and then how much assistance they will require from the " abhorred Saxons." The Dublin Gazette of Friday night extends to 137 pages. It is usually published in four, and rarely amounts to eight pages. Its price on Friday was Bs. 9d. The usual price has hitherto been 3d. The cause of this monster publication was the notices to parliament of the new Irish lines of railway. It contains 74 of these documents NEVER SATISFIED.—The Maynooth College Board have had the unparalleled impudence to apply to the Treasury for an increase to the sum of £30,000 granted by the bill of last session, for repairing the college buildings. Sir Robert has justly given an unqualified refusal to grant the request, but they may yet " squeeze" him into compliance. AWFUL CATASTROPHE —A packet-boat from Dublin to Longford, having been left to the care of a boy, was run on the bank near Clareville, and upset, In the con fusion sixteen persons were drowned. A verdict of man slaughter has been returned against the steersman who gave the helm to the boy, and a deodand of £lOO was laid on the boat. POTATOES IN lIIELAND.—Tbe accounts from Ireland last week were even more cheering than those of the previous week. All alarm has subsided, and the most accurate representation is, that the crop will be sufficient for the people's wants. Maurice O'Connell, a son of the Agitator, says that not one.tenth of the crop has been affected by the disease in his district. Last week Messrs. Williams and Sons, notaries, Dublin, stopped payment. Their liabilities amount to £150,000, but it is said the firm possess ample means to meet every liability. On Tuesday another stoppage took place—that of the respectable firm of Labertouche and Stafford, stockbrokers, in Dublin, and there are most dis tressing rumours of other establishments in the same town. _ . THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. CAMBRIDGE.—On Thursday the following degrees were conferred :—Bachelors in Physic.—A. H. Novelli, 8.A., Trinity College; F. W. Wheatley, Downing Col- lege.—Masters of Arts.—W. C. Osborn, St. John's College; R. Firmin, Clare Hall; J. J. Ramsay, Pem broke College ; C. Badham, Emmanuel College.—Bnche lors of Arts.—J. Jones, Queen's College ; T. D. Dove, Emmanuel College ; G. S. Gamble, Downing College,— Incorporate Bachelor of Arts.—G. M. Peacocke, New Inn Hall, Oxford. Mr. R obt. Hake, of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, has been elected to the Sanscrit Scholarship. The total amount of the collections made at the various services connec•ed with the consecration and opening of St. Saviour's Church, Leeds, was £1,160. The Earl of Harrowby has sent the sum of fifty guineas to the Church Pastoral Aid Society ; Lord Newark has subscribed the sum of £lOO to the same society. Lord Primate Beresford has declared his intention of bestowing £l,OOO on each of the three provincial colleges, towards the foundation of divinity schools for students of the established church. CLERICAL ELF VATIONS.—The Gazette, of Friday, notifies that the Queen has appointed W. It. Lyall, M.A., Dean of Canterbury ; the Rev. W. Buckland, D.D , Dean of Westminster ; and T. Walpole, M.A., Rector of Alverstoke, in the county of Hants. MORE SECEDERS.—Me Oxford secession list is thus increasing —Rev. W. U. Richards, M.A.. Exeter College; John James Calman, 8.A., Worcester College ; E. Earl Welby, Esq., M.A., fellow of Magdalene College. These make thirty-four seceders to Rome from this university. On Tuesday (to-day) at the monthly meeting of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, Mr. Blunt will bring forward his motion that the Bibles published by the society, shall henceforward contain the Ayocrypha. This motion is expected to be sharply contested. Miss Jane Cook, of Cheltenham, has transferred to the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, the sum of £2.600 Three per Cent. Consols, for the pur pose of enabling the committee to complete the building of the church on Mount Zion. She has also transmitted to the Society's Episcopal Library at Jerusalem a set of the works of the late Rev. C. Simeon. LIABILITY OF RAILWAY PROMOTERS (From the London Times.) Among " promoters " there are, we cannot doubt, a very considerable number who at present hug themselves in the fancied security of having " realized," and being likely to be " out of the mess," as soon as the 30th inst. has past, and the certainty that thcy cautsvt r j v bcfuic parliament in the next session is ascertained. So many projected lines will not survive the Ist of December, that , our remarks will probably apply to the great majority of provisional committeemen. Now, we will put a case which, like some novels, may be taken as " founded on fact." Last summer a new railway was projected, with a capital of £500,000, divided into 25,000 shares of £2O, each, and a deposit of £2 was required to he paid on each share. There were 25 provisional committeemen, and each of them was secured 100 shares, if he chose to take them up. Applications came in for more than 100,000 shares, and therefore it seemed safe to rely on the scrip being at a premium as soon as it was brought into the market. The provisional committeemen took up their 2,500 shares, and judiciously disposed of them in small lots, taking care not to glut the market. While this was going on, allotments were made of 15,000 shares to the general applicants ; but, as the premium was steadily rising, the odd 7,500 were " reserved " from the public and allotted to the provisional committeemen in various proportions, according to their influence with the com mittee of management. Most of these shares were like wise ,1 disposed of by their holders, who only retained a small lot each by way of qualification. It will probably be admitted that we have imagined a case which comes pretty near the truth of many instances. Now, let us look at the position of any one of those provisional committeemen. He shall be a gal ant admi ral, who, before the luckless day on which be was tempted to figure in a railway prospectus, was living an agreeable life of retirement in a seaport town, as ignorant of busi ness, acts of parliament, and legal or commercial respon sibilities, as a sea-shark. The brilliant accounts he heard of prize money made by railway bucaniering tempted him to adventure with letters of allotment, as far more remu nerating than letters of marque, and he jumped at the offer of a kind friend to nominate him on A provisional committee—what provisional committee was almost in different to him, for he knew little enough about land travelling. Having disposed of his first 100 shares at £2 10s. premium, he gladly took a second 100, and dis posed of them at £3 10s. premium. He thus was repaid the £4OO which he paid by way of deposit, and " realized" a clear profit on his venture of £6OO. We will suppose' him to have been content with this, and not, as so fre quently has happened, to have frittered away his £6OO by buying scrip in other lines at a premium and selling it at a loss. He knows that £50,000 were paid by way of de posit on the shares, and that there is, consequently , a handsome fund to be exhausted before he can be called on for any contribution towards the preliminary expenses. What those expenses amount to he knows not, except that one of the committee of management has assured him, confidentially, that though they have been unusually heavy, they cannot, inclusive of a large sum paid for the abandonment of a rival line, exceed 10s. a share. His £6OO seeming so secure, he indulges in some extraordi. nary expenditure, and soon locks it all up more or less profitably. The 30th instant passes, and in a few days he receives an intimation from the secretary to his line that it had been found impossible to give the notices re quired by the standing orders, and that the affairs of the company will be wound up. In the course of weeks, or months, he sees an advettisement that the subscribers to his line may, on application at the offices of the company, receive back their deposits minus the expenses, at the rate of £1 10s. a share. His mind is at rest, for he no longer owns any scrip ; and he chuckles at being out of the mess. In a few days, however, he is storming at the " land-sharks." An attorney has written to him a per emptory letter, stating that his client, Mr. A B, who purchased from him, through Mr. C D, the well-known broker, 200 shares in the has instructed the writer to demand the repayment of the £l,OOO paid for those shares, and, in case of non-pay ment, to bring an action against the gallant admiral for the amount. " What can the rascal mean?" In reply to an indignant answer, the attorney refers him to the case of " Kempson a. Saunders," Bingham's Reports' volume 4, page 5, a concise statement of which may serve as a conclusion and moral to our tale : This was an action brought by Kempson against Satin• class for the amount paid to him for twenty shares, at £3 ss. premium each, in the then projected railway from Birmingham to Bristol, which shares Saunders had pur chased from the original subscriber. The promoters had agreed that nothing should be done—by which we under stand nothing towards the formation of the railway beyond the necessary preliminaries for an act—till an act incor porating the railway should be obtained. The scheme failed, whereupon the action was brought, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court as to whether the whole transaction had not been illt gal. Chief Justice Best, with the concurrence of the rest of the court, held that the verdict must stand, and said,—" The defendant, who was not an original subscri ber, but had purchased these shares (which, in fact, were not saleable till the company was formed), sold them to the plaintiff : but, he sold a nothing—an alleged title, of no value. If he bought of another, he may sue the seller, and the seller the party from whom he purchased, till, at last, we come to THE ORIGINAL PROJECTORS, AND, IN GETTING AT THEM, A GREAT SERVICE WILL BE DONE." [Considerable sensation has been caused by this article and much discussion produced. It is asserted by many that no buyer of scrip could recover against the seller, because the purchase was an illegal one and the scrip holder would thereore be out of court. The Times, how ever, persists in its original statement, though we confess that in our opinion our contemporary appears to have the worst side of the argument.] RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The different lines uniting at Leeds have agreed to contribute £lOO,OOO each towards the establishment of a central station. The Liverpool and Bury Railway Company have given notice to the tenants of several shops in Byrom-street to quit, it being their intention to construct a passenger station in that street, opposite the Baptist Chapel. The Northern and Eastern Railway Company accept the modified terms proposed by the Eastern Counties Company, for the future management and regulation of the accounts of the joint proprietary. The Brighton and Cheltenham, and the Notttngham and Gainsborough Railway Companies it is proposed shall be wound up, and the remnant of the deposit re paid to the shareholders. A man was found, the other day, asleep across the rails in one of the tunnels in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. He was drunk, and had to pay £5 for his dan gerous bed. The Brighton and Chichester Railway was opened on Monday, as far as Worthing, General Pasley having cer tified that the line, although only one set of rails is yet laid between Shoreham and Worthing, was fit for traffic. The East Lancashire have unanimously agreed to amalgamate with the Blackburn and Preston. And in the event of the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston obtaining a bill for a line from Liverpool to Preston, that line is also to be amalgated with the East Lancashire. Mr. Hudson has intimated to the shipwrecked seamen and Mariners' Society his intention to grant a free pas sage in the third-class trains for all shipwrecked seamen passing to the north, over the lines with which he is con nected. A few days since, a special train on the Great Western Railway, conveying several of the Directors from Exeter to London, accomplished the distance, it is said, 194 miles in four hours and nine minutes, including the usual stoppages. and an additional stoppage of twenty minutes between Exeter and Bristol, the average speed being about 60 miles. FRENCH RAILWAYS.—The Paris and Strasburg line has been adjudged by the Minister of Commerce to the united companies represented by General Cubieres on a lease of 43 years 286 days. The Tours and Nantes line has also been adjudged to the company represented by Count de la Finsonniere, Messrs. Mackenzie, O'Neill, and Co., on a lease of 34 years and 15 days. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—At Chester two bridges are in progress—the one across the Dee, and the other across the canal. About 300 men are employed near Chester ; about 200 more are engaged at Mostyn ; near Conway the same number, chiefly in making the tunnel through the rock; and about as many in the neighbour hood of Bangor. As yet, nothing has been done in Anglesea. A NOBLE FEMALE MINER.—The example set by Sir Robert Peel, of raising the first sod on the Trent Valley Railway, appears likely to have imitators among the fair sex. The first blasting of the rock for the tunnel on the line of the Derry and Coleraine Railway was performed by Lady Bruce on the 13th instant. We are told, in an Irish paper, that her ladyship applied the match in a " scientific and workman. like manner," and that the ex plosion which followed was hailed with loud bursts of enthusiastic applause ; truly, the Irish are an enthusiastic nation ! SURVEYOR'S DIFFICULTIES. —The town-crier of Swansea, on Thursday last, was busily offering 5s reward for the recovery of " a railway surveyor of large size," supposed to have stolen or strayed from his colleagues, who could not conveniently without him proceed on their route to Brecon. At Lincoln, a ruse was resorted to for getting surveys across the property of a refractory landowner. A surveyor held him in parley whilst his assistants performed their work, and then coolly told him his refusal was of no consequence, as the necessary survey was completed. WINNOWING.—Out of the twelve hundred and odd projects which, for the most part, germinated in the hot bed of speculation during the last four months, only half of them have complied with the first injunction of the Standing Orders, (insertion in the Gazette). About six hundred and fifty have done so. This number exc eds by four hundred the projects announced in the Gazelle of last year. Another sweep into Limbo of these six hun dred would take place on Sunday night, up to which time the Board of Trade would receive plans. Who will say that more than half this number would then have depo sited their plans ? FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT—On Monday, a post boy named Wm. Hushcroft, in the service of Mr Shilleto, innkeeper, of Bolton Percy, was engaged in removing some luggage from a truck attached to a train on the York and North Midland line, whilst the train was in motion, and in endeavouring to leave the truck, his foot slipped, and he was thrown between the truck and a pas senger carriage, with his back laid across the rails : a pas senger carriage and three empty trucks passed over him, and the injuries inflicted were so serious as to produce death in about two hours. The directors of the North Union announce to their proprietors, that they have arranged with the directors of the Grand Junction and the Manchester and Leeds for the transfer of the North Union to these companies, on the following terms :—To transfer to these two last-men tioned companies all the works, property, &c., of the North Union, subject to all its engagements, &c., in con sideration of a perpetual annuity of £lO for every £lOO of North Union stock A, and £7 for every £lOO of North Union stock B,—such annuities to commence at the ex piration of the present year, and to be paid in perpetuity in half-yearly payments, free from all deductions, save income or any government tax of that description. The meeting to cuunrm this conaitional agreement is to ne held at Preston, on the 11th December. _ _ RAILWAY RlOTS.—There has been a threatening of very serious riots between parties of the workmen em ployed at different points of the Caledonian line of rail way in Dumfriesshire. There occurred last week a series of the most brutal and revolting fights among the men, which were kept up during the whole night of Saturday and morning of Sabbath, and again renewed on Monday. But the chief apprehensions were excited by the march of a body of 300 English and Scotch labourers, engaged near Ecclefechan, to attack a party of 200 Irish employed six miles off at Locherby. The collision, which must have been attended with very serious consequences, was only averted by the most strenuous exertions of the magistrates and gentlemen in the neighbourhood, and by the aid of a military force obtained from Carlisle. It is added that " without a small military force permanently stationed in the district, there will be no peace for the next three years." Disturbances of a similar kind have proceeded to still greater lengths in East Lothian, and in Berwickshire, on the North British line.—Glusgow Guardian. RAILWAY SPECULATION.—At the Birmingham Dis trict Bankruptcy Court, last week, a bankrupt named Suckling applied for his certificate, when the commis sioner, after announcing his determination to postpone his decision, said, that the bankrupt in the present case com menced business in 1813 with no other capital than £lOO of his own, and a further sum of £3OO, which he had borrowed from his father. In this state of things the bankrupt thought fit, in the spring of 1845, to embark those means in speculation which he ought to have re tained in his own hands for the legitimate purposes of trade. Now I must say that any one in the situation of a trader who acts in this manner greatly misconducts him self. Perhaps, however, this palliation might be pleaded for the bankrupt—that he was but following the example of those whom he might reasonably look upon as his su periors. Wealth is power, and a power which most of us are anxious to possess : but it must be sought and acquired by honest and honourable means—by the display of talents —by the exr rtion of industry. The mania that has so long prevailed could furnish cases which, morally speak ing, deserve the greatest punishment, and might probably be made the subject of criminal prosecution. Whether the deluded and plundered victims who had been thus in jured will have spirit and energy enough to expose the frauds by which they have suffered, or to bring the per petrators to that punishment they so well deserve, I know not. That the time will come when we shall see these frauds exposed. I do most heartily hope. I should be gratified if anything I have said would serve to reclaim one adventurer, or deter others from plunging into trans actions which present the chance of such fearful conse quences. The case before me, though it is not upon a great scale, furnishes a perfect and striking illustration. If the bankrupt had abstained from these speculations he would not have been called upon by his father to repay him that money which he had advanced for the purposes of trade. The bankrupt might have progressed slowly but surely, and at this moment he might have been not only a solvent but a prosperous man. THE COURT. Her Majesty and Prince Albert have left Windsor Cas tle for Osborne House, Cowes. According to the arrange ments the Queen does not intend to prolong her stay at the Isle of Wight beyond ten days. THE CHASE SIR W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 2d, (this day,) at Saturday, Dec. 6th, at At eleven o'clock. SIR W. W. WYNN'S FOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 3d, at Friday, Dec. sth, at.... Saturday, Dec. 6th, at .... . At half-past ten. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 3d, at ......... Thursday, Dec. 4th, at Saturday, Dec. 6th, at .. Walgherton-lodge, Doddington At half-peat ten. CAPITAL RlM—The meet of the Royal back bounds on Friday last at Maidenhead, was attended by a field of upwards of two hundred. A young stag, which had been once hunted, at nearly the end of the last season, upon being uncarted at Maidenhead thicket, went away in beautiful style to Bisbam, crossing the Thames, at Mar low, into Bucks. The hounds were taken over Marlow bridge, and upon being again laid on, the stag made away through Sir W. Clayton's park. at Harleyford, and thence, almost in a straight line through Hamhleton, to Lane End, in Oxfordshire The run, which was over be tween eighteen and twenty miles of country, was accom plished in an hour and forty minutes, at a racing pace throughout. Not more than twenty out of the large field at the meet were up at the finish, which was between twenty and thirty miles from the Kenne l .—The celebrated deer, Highlander, afforded a large field a tolerably good run (the first portion in the midst of a pelting rain) on Wednesday week. The deer, which was turned at Icken ham common, after making for Harrow-on-the-Hill, go ing direct through the village. and crossing the Birming ham Railway to Uxendon Farm, was taken at Wimbley park, near Kingsbury, upwards of twenty-six miles from the Kennel, at Ascot. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ADMIRALTY COURT, TUESDAY, Nov. 25 THE LORD SEATON.—COLLISION. The Lord Seaton, a ship of about 700 tons, and a small French brig, called the Marie Therese, came in collision on the morning of the 13th of April in the river Mersey, at the entrance of the Victoria Channel (near the red buoy), whereby the brig was so injured that she almost immediately sank. The Marie Therese was proceeding out of the port of Liverpool, the Lord Seaton was enter ing into that port, each vessel being in charge of a duly licensed Liverpool pilot. The course of the brig was N. W. and by W.: that of the ship was S.E. and by E.; and the wind was fresh from the W.S W. The brig was close-hauled on the larboard tack ; the ship had the wind free, and was on the starboard tac k. The defence of the Lord Seaton was, that either no blame at all was imputable to those on board that vessel, or, if blame was imputable to her, the pilot (Scott) was solely in fault. The case of the other vessel was, that the man at the helm of the Lord Seaton had mistaken the order of the pilot and put the helm down (or to port), instead of starboarding and keeping the ship away. Cross actions had been brought, but the other action awaited the decision in this case, which was conducted by plea and proof. The Court was assisted by Trinity Masters, who were clearly of opinion, that it was the bounden duty of the Lord Seaton to have avoided the brig, which might easily have been done by going to leeward ; that the pilot in tended to go to leeward, but his orders were not obeyed, and that the fault rested with the crew of the Lord Seaton. Dr. LUSHINGTON concurred in this finding, and pro nounced for the damage, with costs. BANKRUPTCY COUR,T, LONDON, THURSDAY. IN RE HENRY PARKER • IMPORTANT CASE. An application was made by the solicitor to the insol vent, whose petition stood adjourned sine die for leave to come up for re-hearing, on the ground, that the insolvent had since petitioned the Insolvent Court, and Mr. Com missioner Law had most distinctly said, that he consi dered the insolvent entitled, on the facts, to his discharge, but could not make any order whilst the petition was pending in this court. The dismissal of the petition, therefore, would even be preferable. The Commissioner asked the grounds on which the cause had been adjourned. The Solicitor said that the insolvent had assigned his property to a pressing creditor. _ _ _ . . The learned Commissioner said, that it was a good ground to reject the petition. The object of the Legisla ture was to protect those persons who were unfortunate enough to become insolvent without any fraud. The Solicitor said the case had been gone into much more fully before Mr. Commissioner Law than before Mr. Commissioner Fane, and, unfortunately, unless the commissioners of the court interfered, there was no remedy by habeas or otherwise ; and the Vice-Chancellor Bruce had decided that the Court of Chancery could not interfere to compel a re-hearing or revision of judgment under this act (5 and 6 Victoria.) The learned Commissioner said he could not take upon himself to re-hear a case already decided by another com missioner; but, if the applicant would obtain an affidavit of the fact that the case had been before Mr. Commis sioner Law, who was willing to let the insolvent pass, he (the learned commissioner) would give an order for the defendant ►o come up again, but it must be before Mr. Commissioner Fane. The SOLICITOR said that there was one very special circumstance i❑ the case, and that was, that Mr. Tnr quand, the official-assignee, Mr. Cooke, the barrister en gaged in the case, and he (the applicant) all understood that the petition was dismissed, but on the record of the court it appeared that the case was adjourned. Mr. TURQUAND, the official-assignee, who was present, said his impression, was, that the petition was dismissed. The learned COMMISSIONER said, that he could not in terfere in the case further than, on the affidavit being sworn, making an order for the insolvent to be again brought up. The Lord Chancellor has filled up the vacant commis sionership in lunacy, by the appointment of Mr. W. G. Campbell, of the Northern Circuit. . ACCESSION TO THE BAR.—At the commencement of last term the bar consisted of nearly 3000 individuals—the senior of whom had been called 55 years, the junior a few months. During the term the unprecedented number of 61 more candidates for legal distinction received their diploma and became " barristers-at-law." In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, an ac tion was tried, brought by the Duke of Brunswick against the present proprietor of the Satirist, for a libel con tained in the following paragraph :—CONGENIALITY.— The Duke of Brunswick, the papers tell us, was accom modated with a seat on the bench at Marylebone Police office. on the examination of the alleged murderer, Rocker. The journals do not add whether his Serenity took a pinch of snuff with the prisoner, who, it is stated, handed his box about in the most affable manner imagina ble." The Puy returned a verdict of a farthing damages. BREACH OF PROMISE.— In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, Miss Wright, Me daughter of a law-stationer, sought to recover damages from Mr. Walker, a medical student, for a breach of promise to marry her. "1 he plaintiff stated that she first became acquainted with the defendant about the beginning of 1842. The young lady was stated to be very accomplished and to possess great musical abilities. Her " majestic voice," to use his own expression, soon produced an ef fect on the defendant, who was also addicted to musical purouilo la,. upp...u. °ism,. mud 1/14,111L,113 tJcliag agreea ble to him, his sensibility soon led him from the chords of harmony to the chains of love. Letters were pro duced and read in court, which went to prove that an offer had been made by Mr. Walker: The first began " Dear Miss," and proceeded in a business-like way to inquire whether her hand and heart were disengaged, and stating that she had produced such an effect upon him as to induce him to offer her protection through life. Up wards of fifty other letters were written, a large portion of which were read in court. The only thing worthy of notice in them was the way in which his affection seemed to increase from letter number one to letter number fifty two. His first mode of address, it may be observed, was respectful, " Dear Miss." In a short time " Dear Jane" was substituted. Then came "My dear Jane," and ul timately, "My dearest Jane." The signature of the first billet doux was merely the " name in full," till, by various gradations, he arrived at " Your ardent lover." The evidence for the plaintiff went to prove that Miss Wr'ght was a young lady of " considerable personal at tractions," that she was highly accomplished, and that she was governess in a ladies' school, an office which she was in every way qualified to fill. The evidence fully proved the case. The counsel for the defence. who in the outset declared that no promise had been made, said af terwards his client had declined to marry the young lady because he was unable to support a wife. The jury re turned a verdict of £2O damages and 40s. costs. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LYTHAM COURSING MEETING A very capital meeting 'has been held during the past week, over the grounds of T. Clifton, Esq. The cours ing commenced on Tuesday, and the stakes were only run up on Friday. The hares have been plentiful, and in excellent order for running the sport has, therefore, been of the very first style. We subjoin a list of the running of the up courses or. Friday :- Ihe Great St. Leger Stakes—Xs 10s. each. Up course. Mr. O'Grady's Oliver Twist beat Mr. Woodburn's Pel ter. and won the stakes. The Greet Clifton Cup—Xs 10s. each. Up course.— Mr. B. B. Robinson's Blue beat Mr. Williams's Lanca shire, and won the stakes. The Talbot Stakes—.£s 10s. each. Up course.—Mr. Standish's Spree beat Mr. Thomas's Tiny, and won the stakes. The Ribble Puppy Cup. Up course.—Mr. B. B. Ro binson's Sam beat Mr. R. Williams's Kate, and won the cup. The Fylde Cup. Up course.—Mr. King's The Baron beat Mr. Ardern's Matchless, and won the cup. The Lytham Stakes. Up course.—Mr. Chew's Blakely Lass beat Mr. P. Taylor's Tearaway, and won the stakes. The Clifton Stakes. Up course.—Mr. Ardern's Cas sius beat Mr. Unsworth's Unicula. THE GREAT SKIFF RACE.—The great skiff race be tween Harry Clasper, of Derwenthaugh. and Pocock, of London, for £lOO aside, came off on Tuesday, on the Tyne. and resulted, after the boats had twice fouled, in favour of Clasper, who won by a distance of several hun dred yards. From £3OOO to £4OOO changed hands on the occasion. THE LATE Qtyt TAM ACTIONS.—The action com menced by Charles H. Russell against Mr. H. Hill, to recover £40.000, and £20,000, won on the turf, has been stopped on the payment of costs, taxed at £lO 14s. 10d. The above-named qui tam informer has since been cap tured, and lodged in Whitecross-street Gaol, for the cost of an action brought by him against Lord G. Bentinck, and tried at Guildford Assizes. _ EXTRAORDINARY FEAT. — The long-expected match made by Mr. Bragg, the proprietor of the North Star Inn, at Slough, with a sporting character at Windsor, for a considerable amount, to produce a man, within the pre sent year, whn would run eleven miles within an hour, came off on Wednesday, on the turnpike-road, near the King's Head, at Bedfont, between Staines and Hounslow. The person who was named by Mr. Bragg to perform this extraordinary feat was a celebrated runner named Max field, known as the " North Star," who in May last ac complished twenty miles in one hour, fifty-eight minutes, and thirty seconds. On Wednesday the match was per formed over one mile of ground, in which, of course, there were no less than ten turns. This was considered to be rather to the disadvantage of the runner. The start took place between three and four o'clock. The result was that the " North Star " gallantly won the match, but with only seventeen seconds to spare. OPTICAL, MATHEMATICAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION.—We know of no optician in our town who devotes more anxious attention to the hill finish and excellence of his extensive stock of instruments than Mr. C. H. Chadburn, of Lord-street. who has himself a large manufactory in Sheffield. The articles comprise spectacles of the first make, and in great variety, having the best picked and worked glass, or pebbles ; reading glasses, telescopes, microscopes, magic lanterns, theo dalites, globes, sextants, and quadrants, electrical and pneumatic apparatus, barometers, thermometers, working models of engines, &c. &c.,—all embracing every im provement in principle and construction which modern science and experience can suggest. Mr. C. also supplies instruments by celebrated town makers, at the London prices. We have read, with much interest, big treatise entitled " Spectacles : their Use and Abuse," which, together with priced catalogues of his stock, may be had, gratis, at his establishment. Dee. 2, Sirtbg, Olarria4to anb Atatbo• BIRTHS. On the 18th ultimo, at Pitt-street, Glasgow,mr s. captain Main of a son. oB 0 ,14 On the 28th ultimo, at Hightleld, sock Ferry, M rs.!". of a son. MARRIED. Lately, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square , the Rev. J. Bevil). T. Wines Ilemin, Esq., of Binstead , Cow ?_ dore of the Royal Victoria Yacht Squalron, to Caroline, n i l daughter of J. Hunter, Esq., of Abele-grove, Epsom. Jobs Lately, at St. Audrie's Chureh, Somerset, by the Rev. Llewellyn, M.A., Edward Freeman, Esq., of Rose Grove.rr.. Manchester, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. Cherie ford, Rector of St. Audrie's, Somerset. Lately, at West Wycombe Church. Bucks. John y OXford - Fane, Esq., eldest son of John Fane, Esq., of Worms e „est shire, formerly M.P. for that county, to Charlotte, Yon7 o f daughter of the late Theodore Henry Broadhead, Esq. , Lendollni,b/ Berkeley-square. Gresni On the 24th of September. at Colombo, Ceylon, Wiiliarn Esq., youngest son of Mr. Joseph Green, of this town , t° beth, only daughter of the Rev. D. J. Gogeriy. 0 n Robertson the I na E 7 s t q h a f n o l u y n , t e a t ,: t S o y f d t n h e e y U . i e o w n B S a o n u k t h o W f Austral e s t s r , a C io Z r second son of Charles Robertson, Esq., of Edinbu r g h, t, " mace.' Caroline Cook, third daughter of Mr. William Cook, . 4-- London. Fr ? nnc es, e 2 l e d t d ultimo,a uda u ghter t a e t r Wigan, la j t . e L C o wood House. ( florin , On the 21st ultimo, at Oswestry, Mr. John Little, 0 - . m w a a x msie Esq., y , o E f near Holywell, to Miss Ann Richards, of the former town. • Same day, Mr. J. Martin, H M.d., to Eliza Anne, tides , daughter of Mr. Pringle, H.M.C. nranvili e On the 22nd ultimo, at St. James's Church, London, of H. Vernon, Esq.. M.P., to Payne Jessie Cotterell, drug the Hon. Colonel Trevor. Same day, at St. George's Church, Stonehouse, South DW I !" by the Rev. H. A. Greaves. Richard Snow, Esq., of Ballinaharf ney, county of Wicklow, son of the late John Snow, Be c k', 0 ,,f Larkfield, county of Kilkenny, to Eliza Maria, only daughter . Lieutenant-Colonel ac'senson, late Royal Marines. On the 23rd ultimo, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. David YotrOgo mariner, to Miss Eleanor Nelson. builder, Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. John George, , to Ellen, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Newton, Copperas-hill, 0 Same day, at St. Paul's Churn, Mr. Robert Oakes, baker, t . Miss Elizabeth Walmsley, confectioner, 13,,th of Great Georg street. On the 24th ultimo, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. BIG Townsend, Mr. William Newsham to Miss Priscilla Furber. James On the 2sth ultimo, at St. Thomas's Church, Mr. •, s A ci l . s . p o ri f ne,: s tO te. Walley, to Miss Eliza Evans. Same day, at Nottingham, Sir Charles Fellows, of Rheee li n i street, London, to Eliza, only daughter or Francis Hart, Eetlo - Nottingham. Same day, at St. Patrick's Church, by the Rev. R. Gray sot? , Mr. Joseph Morgan Garnett to Miss Ann Lloyd, both of town. thl. Same day, in St. John's Episcopal Church, in FONVCS, by the Rev. Edward Campbell, Alexander Penrose Gordon Cumming' eldest son of Sfr William Gordon Cumming, Bart., of Altyre and Gordonstone, to Anne, only daughter of the Rev. Augusta, Campbell, Rector of Liverpool. On the tfith ultimo. at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Re". J. Stack, Richard Young, Esq., of Dublin, to Elizabeth. mil/ daughter of the late F. Piers. Esq., and sister to Sir H. S. Pie"' Baronet, of Tristernagh Abbey, county of Westmeath. On the 2;th ultimo, at St Patrick's Church, by the Rev. Wm - Parker, Mr. Thomas Threlfall, grocer, Preston, to Miss Cattle' rine, third daughter of P. lloulgrave, Esq., Toxteth park, Liver pool. Same day, at the Scotch Secession Church, Mount.pleasan t, by the Rev. Joseph R. Welsh, Mr. Andrew M'Laren, of Her Majesty's Customs, at this port, to Mary Ann, youngest daughter of the late Mr. S. Blogg, of her Majesty's Excise. Same day, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. D. D. Stova ll ' A.M., Mr. Christopher Jones, of Highfield-street, watch-case maker. to Airs. Mary Taylor, of Russell-street. Same day, Ilenry E. Goldsmid, Esq., second son of E. Gold smid, Esq., to Jessy Sarah, only daughter of L. Goldsmid, ES(I. Same day, the Rev. John Gylby Lonsdale, second son of the Bishop of Lichfield, to Sarah, only surviving child of D. Jardine, Esq., of Regent's-park, London. Same day, by special licens^, at the ancient Church of Dares bury, Cheshire, by the Rev. Mr Shirley, Mr. Thomas Horslall, of Lymn, to Miss Charlotte Crompt 'n, of Warrington. On the Ist instant, at Paradise-street Chapel, b) the Rev James Martineau, Charles John English to Margaret Abrahani, DIED Lately, at Duffryn Park, the seat of Bruce Pryce, in Glener ganshire, Major-General Sir Burges Camae. On the 2nd August, in Bonny, Captain Miller, of the shiP Ki..gston, of this port. On the 16th August, on board the barque Ranger, from Bata via, aged 23, Mr. James Dixon, seaman, of Ulverstone, hightl respected by all who knew him. Lately, thee weeks' sail from Batavia, Mr. Williun MiGhie steward of the barque Ranger, of this port, a native of Dumfries• On the 23rd of August, off the N. E. coast of Borneo, in the 21st year of his age, Augu tus Henry Clayton. Bart., R.N. , acting-mate on hoard her Majesty's ship Agincdurt, second son of Sir East Clayton East, Bart., of Hall-place, Berks. On the 9th October, at Dubuque. lowa Territory, U.S., Joh n Plumhe, Esq., M.D , formerly of Warrington, in this county. On the 2th October, on his passage to Cey'on from the Mau ritius, in his 501, year, Sir William Reid. Bart., of Barra. On the 11th ultimo, at Guilane, near Haddington, at an ad vanced age, Mr. G. Dawson, the celebrated trainer. On the 15th ult.. at his residence, in Carmarthen, aged 7 5 years, the Hon. William Graham. youngest son of the late RiguS Hon. Lord Viscount Preston, of Scotland. Same day, at his residence, in Park-lane, aged 33, Mr. Edward Thomas, butcher. Same day, at Florence, in her 94th year, the Dowager Lady Bowyer. On the 16th ultimo, Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis, relict of the late Mr. G. Ellis. Same day, in her 91st year. Ellen, widow of the late Mr. it• Wignall, of Hutton. She died in the same house in which she was born, and had never lived in any other. Same day, at Hutton, in his 81st year, Mr. Alexander Dymock, rat-catcher Like the preceding person, his neighbour, he was born and died unt-er the sane roof. Same day, the wedding-day of his daughter, suddenly. aged, 64 Mr. Wm. Rothwell, of West Derby. Same day, in his 76th year, Thomas Kershaw, Esq., of OMB kirk. On the 17th ultimo, at Stranraer, in her 9oth year, Mrs. Pene lope Douglas, relict of Mr. J. Coats. Same day, at Birmingham, aged 13, William, eldest son of Mr• J. Hughes, late of this town. Same day, aged 33, Maria, wife of Mr. T. Edmondson, of Scotland-road. On the 18th ultimo, Miss Needham, of Houghton, in this county. On the 19th ult., at the residence of J. R. Kay. Esq., Basslan• House, the Rev. Joseph Taylor, Wesleyan Minister, late of Manchester. Same day, after four days' illness of scarlet fever, aged 2i years, Joseph, eldest son of Mr. Joseph D. Carter. St. James's place. Also, on the 22d ult., after three days' illness, of scarlet fever, aged 12 years, Henry Wilfred, infant son of the above ' amed Mr. Carter. _ On the 20th ultimo, at London, in the 75th year of his age, John Parke, Esq., formerly her Majesty's Consul for the Roman States. Same day, at Brighton. in his 49th year. James Williamson• Esq., M.D., of St•etton Hall, Cheshire, a .d many years physi cian at Leeds. On the tilst ult , at Abbottshall Maunse, N. 8., the residence of het son, Manie, widow of the Rev. Robert Giltan, late minis ter of Hawick. _ _ Same day, aged 40 years, Henry Willoughby Legard. Escl , only brother of Sir Thomas Digby Legard, Bart., of Ganton, is the county of York. Same day, in Hinde-street, Manchester-square. London. in her 84th year, Catherine Gillies, widow of the h,lstorian John LLD. Same day, at Chester, aged 28 years, Mr. George Dutton, dram per, son of Mr. Dutton, formerly of Thornton Hall, Cheshire. Same day, in his 42d year, J. G. H. Bourne, Esq., late Chief Justice of Newfoundland. Same day, at her residence, in Seel-street, Miss Matthews, 11l her 72d year. On the 22d ult., aged 75 years, Mr. James Foff, cooper. Same clay, at Ravensworth Castle, in the 73d year of her age, the Right Hon. Lady Ravensworth. On the 23d ultimo., Thomas Andrew, Esq., coal merchant, of Manchester. Same day, aged 80 years, Rachel, the wife of John 011ivant, Esq., th.• Crescent, Salford Same day, at his residence, at Turnham-green, in the 7 9 t h year of his age, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Daniel, of her Majesty's 63d Regiment. Same day, at his house, at Upper Clapton, from a violent at tack of small-pox, Dr. Henry Iltid Nichol'. Same day, at his daughter's residence, 75, Grove-street, aged 73 years. Mr Benjamin Jasper Wood, optician. Same day, at his residence, Moilinburn, Scotland, aged 8:1, Mr. John Moffet. On the 24th ult., in Lower Bedford-place, London, Robert Williams, Esq., M.D., Fellow of the Royal Corege of Physicians. and senior physician of St. Thomas's Hospital. Same day, aged 50 years, Mr. James Carmichael Perrin, San key-street. Warrington. Same day, aged 45 years, after a long illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude, Sarah, the beloved wife of Mr. Henri Adams, of Thurlow-stree , , late of Shinan House, County Ca van, Ireland. Same day, at an advanced age, Mrs. J. Bowker, Friargate. Preston. - Same day, at Stony Crag, near Ulverston, of apoplexy, aged 70, Mr. William Atkinson. On the 15th ultimo, aged 84 years, Mr. Edward Sepliton, Seel' street. Same day, at Hollywood, near Stockport, Mlss Mary Gee, daughter of the late K. Gee, Esq. Same day, at Bootle, Elizabeth Cowley Irlam, eldest daughter of the late George Irlam, Esq. On the 26th ult., aged 7 month., James Broadhurst, eighth son of K. Brodhurst Hill, Esq. Same day, at carnarvon, at the house of his brother.in - la w ' Mr. John Tarleton, banker, aged 52, formerly of this town. Same day, at Conway, aged 41 years , Thomas Parry. Esq'' surgeon. Same day, at Dover, Francis Peter Leicester, youngest child of Lord and Lady De Tab ey, eged 3 years. On the 27th ultimo. in Bryanston street, London, aged 7 4 years, Edward Tegart, Esq., Inspector-Ganeral of Army 11050 - . tals. Same day, at Shirdley, near St. Helens, after a very short ill ness, aged 18, Edward Hawarth, youngest son of Mr. Job° Hawarth of the same place. On the 28th ultimo, at the re .idence of her father, Evertor'. crescent, aged 27 years, Sarah Bennett, daughter of George OW nett, Esq., wine-merchant, of this town. Same day, of apoplexy, in her 53rd year, Ellen, wife of 51r " Thomas Hughes, of Brownlow-hill. On the 2gth nitimo, at the residence of his grandm other, sya ney-terrace, Tranmere, John Lawson, aged 2 years. On the 3.th ultimo, aged 70, at the residence of her son. IN law, Mr. Thomas Martin, Holland-terrace, Edgebill, Ann, .IN of the late Lieutenant Anthony Jacques, R.N. Same day, Mary, wife of John Read, aged 35 years. • 0S d' Same day, after giving birth to a daughter. Chr.stans worth, wife of Mr. Henry Glynn, Duke-street, Edgehill. Same day. aged 3 years and 4 months, Jane, daughter o f Samuel Ball, drug-ist, Knotty Ash. On the Ist instant, at Sou'hport , Elizabeth Livesey, daughte° of the ate Joseph Eccles, Esq , of Lower Darwen. F-- MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL' Ho es DECBMHER. 2, John Breaker.-'*r 0, 2 gcl 2, Henry '" ', 2nd .... s, •Tr , ' .. ea, special Distric D t f i c o, Court, !, 1 : P. l Ditto, Ii; 5. Peter Leices. .. 1 riot and div Ditto, 1 5, ThomA .)..,.4 . ne, proof and div. 8, W.,,...in B , .rns, 2nd g, James Docker, 2nd 10, Jesse Banning', audit 10, Robert Edwards, proof and div. !! 10, Worrall and Williamson, audit Ditto, !! 10, Meyer and Wilckens, audit 38, John Backhouse is 10, John Milne, proof and div. Ditto, l' 12, John Smith, Ind . 11. 12, Thomas Oxton, 2nd Ditto, —........... TELEGRAPII OFFICE, DECEMIIBR I • Wind at Holyhead, West, moderate gale, morning. W.N.W., fresh gale. evening• Put into Holyhead, at 3 p.m., No. 4695, Green Isle, steal"...