The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Royal Agricultural Society with his presence at the meeting held on Saturday. His Royal Highness visited the DuChess of Glocester at Glocester-hone, and in the afternoon re turned to his residence at Kew, attended by Baron Kijese- beck. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipp sthal and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge oil Saturday evening at Kew. The Lord Chancellor and Sir Robert Peel arrived in town early on Saturday morning from a visit to Her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Turkish Charg6 d'Affairs transacted business at the Foreign-office ou Saturday. Lord Wharncliffe returned to town on Friday afternoon, from attending the Privy Council held at Windsor Castle. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from Sir G. Glpps, Governor of New South Wales. • The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday in the Council-chamber. There were present the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judges of the Admiralty Court. Sir A. Johnston and Sir E. East sat as Privy Councillors. After disposing of a motion in an appeal from Canada, " Hutchinson v. Gillespie," the remainder of the sitting was occupied with an appeal from Bengal, " Maharajah Metter jeet Singh v. Haris of Jesureut Singh." Mr. Jackson con cluded his address for the appellant, and Mr. Serjeant Spankie was heard for the respondent. The Court then rose. WINDSOR, Sunday.—This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, her royal highness the Duchess of Kent, and the royal suite and visitors, attended divine service in the private chapel within the castle. The Hon. and Rev. Edward S. Keppell officiated. Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Warwick, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hoe. Miss Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. Murray, attended divine service this evening in the Chapel Royal, St. George's. Yesterday morning her majesty and the Prince walked for some time on the terrace. His royal highness afterwards enjoyed the sport of pheasant shooting, at Cranbourne Lodge, attended by the Earl of Warwick, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. G. E. Anson. In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert took an air ing in a pony phaeton, his royal highness driving, attended by the Countess of Gainsburough, Lady C. Cocks, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, and the Earl of Warwick, in a carriage; and by Col. Arbuthnot, Sir E. Bowater, and the Hon. Sir W. Lumley on horseback. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Jersey, and Sir R. Peel, took their departure. The Earl of Lincoln arrived at the castle. Her royal highness the Duchess of Kent walked for some time, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE SATURDAY EVENING The home stocks were a shade better to-day, Consols closing at 81/ to 1 for the opening. Bank Stock 165 to 6. Exchequer Bills 10s. to 12s. premium. The variations in foreign stocks have been unimportant excepting in Dutch which were heavy at a decline in prices; the Two-and-Half per Cents leaving off only 51% to 24, the Five per Cents 99/. to %. Belgian 1001 to Ik. Spanish Ac tive with the Coupons were 23k to 4. Portuguese Five per Cents 33 to 1, the Three per Cents 19k to 20. Mexican 26 to 1. Colombian 20k to I. The market for Railway Shares was not so good to-day, but prices were little affected. London and Birmingham were 71 to 3, Great Western 19 to 20, the Half Shares 94 to 10, Gosport 51 to 61, Blackwell New 1 to 11 premium. Birmingham and Gloucester 56 to 8, South-Western 55-4 to 71, North Midland 68 to 70, the New 33 to 4, Brighton 361 to I, Blackwall 91 to 10 per share. South Eastern and Dover 25i to 5, Eastern Counties 15k to 14% discount. The Exchequer bill affair, and its extraordinary issue so far, together with the sort of management which it is taken for granted has characterized the proceedings lately taken and ended, has had the natural tendency of generating all manner of strange rumours. To one of these it was not, and would not, have been deemed necessary or advisable to refer, although aware for some days past of its currency in high circles, but for the formal notice of it in the leading depart ment of a morning paper, which broadly states that " two noble lords" are hinted at as implicated somehow or other in these nefarious frauds. It is with infinite pain that the circulation of such a calnronious tale, for calumnious it as stredly is, is referred to here ; but the fact of such a rumour should serve to impress upon the proper quarter the urgent necessity for the most free and full explanation of all the particulars and information arrived at from the disclosures of Smith, and from other sources, relative to these unprece dented malversations at the Exchequer office. One of the noble lords so freely spoken of is by rank a marquis, and the other a viscount, neither of whom were ever before named in connection, either directly or indirectly, with the business. It would be manifestly improper more particularly to desig nate the noble persons alluded to, cruelly and unjustly as they are injured by these vague and unfounded reports. There was no feature in either Tea or Tallow to-day. The former was dull at Is. 9%d. per lb. ca sh for Company's Con gou, and the latter steady at 48s. 6d. for P. Y. C. There has been rather a good business doing in the pro duce markets this week, but the sellers are not, in many instances, satisfied with the prices obtained. EQUAL JUSTICE (From the Examiner.) " What a notion it is that persons can take a sentence in one place and a sentence in another, and apply to them a kind of foot rule, to say here are the circumstances of another, and that therefore there was a gross disparity.—Lord Denman on Lord Waldegrare's Case. The sentences of seven years' transportation for stealing a sovereign from a letter, and transportation for life for stealing a penny, have struck the public as rather irreconcilable with common notions of justice. The penny theft was as bad as the pound theft, and deserved the same punishment, but certainly no more. Chief Justice Denman was, however, the judge in the penny case, and he has signally shown that the indulgence charged against him in the Waltiegrave affair is not always his disposition. In his rigour to the miserable letter-carrier he has amply made up for his leniency to the lord. The sentence of seven , years' transportation for the theft of the sovereign was passed by Mr. Baron Parke, one of the firmest and steadiest administrators of justice. The judicial merits of Lord Denman and Baron Parke are, indeed, pretty fairly represented by the two cases in question, Lord Den man's being to the other as a penny is to a sovereign. For stealing a penny from a letter the carrier is transported for life. For the Exchequer-bill fraud Mr. B. Smith is transported for life. Things that are equal to the same thing are equal to each other ; therefore the Exchequer-bill fraud and the robbery of the penny are, in the eye of the law, equal. Here the foot rule fits both to a hair, but it is quite at fault when applied to the theft of the sovereign with the seven years transportation. The lesson to carriers, according to Lord Denman, seems to be, that if they have set their minds on stealing, they should take care to steal gold at least. A little stealing is a dangerous thing. Steal much, or filch not. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTRE.—The account we must give this week is cheerless and desponding, for trade appears almost at a stand still in every branch but fustians and power-loom printers, for which there is a limited but steady demand, and prices keep firm. Last week a house sold between 100,000 and 200,000 pieces of seven-eighths printers to two houses here, and, considering the quantity, we believe, obtained a very fair price. Go where you will, the topic of conversation is the badness of trade, the consequent distress of the poor, and the probable duration of the present state of things. We are of the number that believe an improvement will take place early the next year, although we are far from supposing that the dark commercial cloud which has hung over us so long will disperse all at once, and that next year will be one of unmixed prosperity. We are sure that parliament will be driven to give us commercial reform in one way or another, and, with the aid of the Bank of England, much may be done to relieve us. Another thing will operate in our favour — much less is making ; and abroad, we hear, stocks are clear ing off, and houses here are too wide awake to consign indis criminately, in the way too many have done for the last three years. The extensive print-house that stopped payment a few days since have not, as we asserted, settled with all their creditors, for some refuse to accept the proffered offer of 13s. in the pound, which offer was received by a part of the cre ditors with marked approbation, although the last instalment was not to be paid for two years. We all appear at a loss to account for the protracted badness of trade; but common sense will tell us that we are on a wrong foundation when houses can commence with only £3OO, and, with the aid of a joint-stock bank, can turn over annually £52,000. This disclosure took place a few .days since at a meeting of credi tors, and it is only one of several of the like character that have occurred within the last two or three years. Cotton, in Liverpool, remains firm in spite of the badness of trade here, and with little probability of any material change. Power loom printers, 27-inch 72's, may be quoted ss. (d. to ss. 10id. ; and 66's ss. to ss. W.—Manchester Advertiser of Saturday. BRADFORD, THLIRSDAY.—WOOI Market : There is no in. dication of any increased activity, but middle and low sorts of full-bred wool continue in good request at late prices. The finer description of combing are dull of sale, and prices are disproportionately reduced.—Yarn Market : There is no altered feature in this branch of trade in either demand or prices.—Piece Market: This being our winter fair we have had a great influx of people attending our market, but few of these have been buyers of manufactured goods, and only a limited business has been done, and that chiefly in merinos, low figures, and lustres, of which there is but a small stock in the market. Prices without alteration. LiercEsTEß.—The demand for hosiery goods is slacker, and we are sorry to hear that large sacrifices have lately been made by some parties to effect sales. A great many stocking frames are unemployed, and had not new branches of manu facture been introduced into the town within the last few years a considerable proportion of the operatives would now have been out of work. The glove and fancy trades continue brisk. The high price of provisions of all kinds has a very injurious effect on trade, and no real and permanent im provement can reasonably be expected until a favourable change takes place in this respect. Prices of wool and yarn remain unaltered. The market firm. NOTTINGTIAII.—There is a considerable improvement in the demand for inferior kinds of hosiery, as many of the master stockingers have disposed of the whole of the hose they had on hand. The warp-tatting hands employed by one of the principal houses have been stopped for a month. The silk blonde trade is still extremely flat, though with con siderable hopes of a good spring trade, especially to France, as the prohibition of that article is abandoned for a duty of 15 per cent. A considerable quantity of point-net is yet made upon the continent, principally black, which is orna mented in Spain in the most exquisite manner, especially in the open works.—Journal, of Friday. BIRMINGHAM. —We are happy to state that the improve ment in trade lately noticed by us has since been fully sus tained. There is a better feeling amongst merchants and manufacturers also, and good hopes are felt of a still further revival. In the iron and coal districts, however, the aspect of affairs is somewhat discouraging.—Ad v e r ti ser . STocKronT.—We are sorry to say that no improvement has taken place in the cotton trade of this borough since our last notice on this subject. Any which may have taken place has been from bad to worse. The extensive establish ment of Messrs. Lane and Sons, and that of Messrs. Carr and Co., which ceased working a few months ago, ar e s till closed. Nearly all th e rest of the . m 3 millsa o 7 working short time—from three to four da y s a week• ntiess an t t i)u tze fourth of the dwellings in the borough are tenantless, of number i n crease every week, by the removal ofs ettlement. The Y board made paupers to their respecti ve p laces the i r meetings by i of guardians are literally besieged at per sons applying for relief , whose numbers increase , every week. On Thursday last applications for relief were made by, an d were' believe the on behalf of, no less than 1,700 persons. inhabitents of Bomber's Brow, principally transpired masse, and applied for relief. It subsequently Irish, rose en that they were induced to adopt this course in to nqu e e ff ri e c c e t of a false report by which they were deluded, h that her Majesty had sent £2,000 to the authorities o f this town to be distributed amongst the poor.—Advertiser. The younger sons of Don Carlos have arrived at Rome. Their royal highnesses are the bearers of an autograph letter from their father to the Pope, and, after remaning there a month, are to proceed to Naples. COPY OF THE PATENT_ CREATING THE DUKE OF CORNWALL PRINCE OF WALES, Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith. To all Archbishops, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons, Baronets, Knights, Justices, Provosts, Ministers, and all other our faithful subjects, greeting, — Know ye, that we have made and created, and by these our letters patent do make and create, our most dear Son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Duke of Saxony, Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland), Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester; and to the same, our most dear Son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have given and granted, and by this our present charter do give, grant, and confirm, the name, style, title, dignity, and ho nour of the same Principality and Earldom, and him, our said most dear Son the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as has been accustomed, we do ennoble and invest with the said Principality and Earldbm, by girting him with a sword, by putting a coronet on his head, and a gold ring on his finger, and also by delivering a gold rod into his hand, that he may preside there, and may direct and defend those parts. To hold to him and his heirs Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for ever, wherefore we will, and strictly command for us, our heirs and successors, that our said most dear Son, the Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland may have the name, style, title, state, dignity, and honour of the Principality of Wales and Earldom of Chester afore said, unto him and his heirs, Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as is above mentioned. In witness whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness ourself at Westminster, this Bth day of December, 1811. • By the QUEEN herself, EDMUNDS. ORDER IN COUNCIL The following proclamation has just been issued by order of her Majesty's Privy Council;— " At the Court at Windsor, the 10th of December, 1841 ; present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council; " Whereas by the late Act of Uuiformity, which establish eth the Liturgy, and enacts that no form or order of common, prayer be openly used other than what is prescribed or ap pointed to be used in and by the said book, it is notwith standing provided, that in all those prayers, litanies, and collects which do anywise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal progeny, the names be altered and changed from time to time, and fitted to the present occasion, according to di rection of lawful authority : her Majesty was pleased this day in Council to declare her Royal will and pleasure, that in all the prayers, litanies, and collects for the Royal Family the words ' The Prince of Wales' be inserted immediately a. ter the words, `The Prince Albert.' " And her Majesty doth strictly charge and command, that no edition of the Common Prayer be from henceforth printed but with this amendment ; and that in the mean time, till copies of such edition may be had, all parsons, vicars, and curates within this realm do (for the prevention of mistakes). with the pen, correct and amend all such prayers in the church books, according to the foregoing directions ; and for the better notice hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several parishes ; and that the right rev. the bishops do take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly " WILLIAM L. BATHURST." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From the Oxford Herald) On Thursday last, the Rev. Edward ithys Jones,* 8.A., of Brasenose College, was elected and admitted a Fellow on Mr. Michel's Foundation at Queen's College. The Rev. Thomas Dowell, 8.A., of Oriel College, has been appointed by the Bishop of Hereford to the Incumbency of the new Chapel on Wellington Heath, in the parish of Ledbury. _ _ _ _ _ _ . The Rev. John Gay Copleston, M.A., late of Oriel Col lege, has been appointed Rector of Offwell, Devonshire, va cant by the death of the Rev. John Gaius Copleston, M.A., of Corpus Christi College. The Rev. C. L. Guyon, M.A., of Wadham College, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Rectory of Lamyat, Somersetshire, void by the cession of the Rev. J. G. Copleston, of Oriel College; patron, the Lord Bishop of Llandaff. The Rev. Francis Plimley Voules, 8.A., of Wadham Col lege, has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Rectory of Middle Chinnock, Somersetshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Digby ; patron, the Earl of Ilehester. PROMOTIONS Rev. James Tillard, M.A., of St. John's College, Cam bridge, to the Rectory of Connington, Cambridgeshire ; pa tron, the Bishop of Ely. Rev. P. Abbot to be Head Master of Queen Mary's School, Clitheroe. Rev. B. Addison to the Ministry of Bedford Chapel, Char lotte-street, Bloomsbury, London. Rev. Philip Anderson, Curate of St. Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, to be a Chaplain to the East India Company at Bombay. Rev. C. U. Burrow, 8.A., of the Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to be Chaplain to the Mayor of Cambridge. Rev. J. C. Barnett to the Vicarage of Berrow, Somerset, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Johnson ; patron, the Archdeacon of Wells. Rev. H. Chevasse to be Incumbent Minister of the new Chapel, Ward End, Ashton, near Birmingham. Rev. H. Dyke to the Curacy of Sudbourne, Suffolk. Rev. J. W. Harden to the Vicarage of Condover, Salop ; patron, E. W. J. Owen, Esq. Rev. Edward Pidsley, to the Curacy of Downham Market, Norfolk. Rev. M. Powell, to the Incumbency of the new Church, Clapton. Rev. H. Valiance, to be the Incumbent Minister of St. John's, London-road. Southwark. Rev. T. Walpole, to the Rectory of Limpsfield, Surrey, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Mayne. Rev. P. Watman, to the Perpetual Curacy of Barnley upon-Don, Yorkshire ; patron, D. Gresham, Esq. Rev. W. Whiting, to be Chaplain of H.M.S. Cambria. Rev. John F. Witty, to the Curacy of Woodbridge, Suffolk. _ Rev. T. G. B. Moore, Curate of Bomsgrove, to be Chap lain to the Bomsgrove Union, in the room of the Rev. Mr. Fessey, resigned. Rev. Henry Wm. Wynne Jones, to the Perpetual Curacy of the new Church at Denbigh; patron, the Rector of Den bigh. Rev. John Mickle, Vicar of South Leverton, to the Per petual Curacy of Apesthorpe. Rev. George Edmonds, Vicar of Madeley, Salop, to the Rectory of Little Wenlock, Salop, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Forester ; patron, Lord Forester. Rev. W. G. Mayne, M.A., to the Curacy of Prestbury, Cheshire. Rev. John Geale Uwins, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Matthew, at Ebley, in the parish of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, void by the cession of the Rev. W. H. Daubenv. The following institutions have been recently made by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells :—The Rev. G. B. Garrow, 8.A., to the Rectory of Chiselborough, with West Chinnock, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Digby ; patron, the Earl of Egremont.—The Rev. Samuel Marindin, M.A., to the Rectory of Penselwood, Somersetshire, vacant by the death the Rev. J. H. Biging ; patron, the Earl of Egremont. —Rev. G. W. Newnham, M.A., to the Rectory of Combe- Down Church, Somersetshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Wm. Hodgson. * This young gentleman is the son of the Rev. J. Jones, of St. Andrew's, in this town.—E. L. S. THE NIGER EXPEDITION, (From a Portsmouth Paper.) The Horatio transport has arrived at Portsmouth, from Ascension, which she left on the 27th of October, with inva lids from the African squadron. She brings sad accounts of the disastrous effects of the climate on the crews compo sing the Niger expedition, no less than one-third of them having invalided, of whom about 22 have died. The Saudon, on quitting the Nun river, with thirty-six invalids on board, fell in with the Dolphin, and transferred them to that ship. Eight of these died on board the Dolphin ; and with the re mainder she proceeded to Ascension, where they were put on board the Horatio, and have returned home. The havoc made by the climate on the crews had greatly disheartened the expedition, and it was considered doubtfnl whether it could proceed. It is somewhat singular that the blacks who went from England with the expedition were the first to fall a prey to sickness on entering the river. The former accounts received from the expedition mentioned that the steamers entered the Nun river on the 13th of August. We now learn that this river is two miles wide, and that it is thought to be the chief of the many mouths of the Niger. The vessels, with the Amelia tender, did not do more than about a dozen miles, until the 20th, on which day they did about thirty; the 21st, thirty miles more ; the 22nd, being Sunday, they rested ; the 23d was wasted in looking after the Wilberforce, which had gone up (without Captain Trotter's knowledge) by a different channel. The 24th, they did twenty miles ; the 25th, twenty-five miles ; and on the evening of the 26th they all four arrived at the island of Ebor, 130 miles up the river, according to its course. The river here is about two hundred yards wide, and of good depth, the banks to the water's edge covered with vegetation, with the cotton, um brella, palm, bamboo, and many other trees, of the kind. The depth of the water varies from thirteen fathoms down to very shallow indeed, the current against them going up about two miles an hour. Thus far up the river its width varies from one hundred yards to a mile and a half. The next thirty or forty miles they saw very few huts indeed. They next thirty or forty miles they paesed several villages, than (for some miles) fewer inhabitants again, and latterly none. The town of Ebor is very large, not on the main river, but up a creek. The king went on board the Albert, dressed like a mountebank, red coat, &c. The natives are quite peaceful towards them ; indeed, they were fearful of them ; they had provided them with vegetables and some bullocks on the day the last letter was dated—viz., the 18th of September. They have very large canoes, carrying forty or fifty men each. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Mount Stir ling, close to the confluence of the Niger and the Tchadda, September 18, 1811, her Majesty's ship Amelia, tender (this point is 300 miles from the sea, and being above the delta of several rivers, is comparatively healthy :) " The pestilence has broken out ; fifty or sixty are ill in the squadron ; ten or twelve have died, and many more will die, 1 fear. The Soudan takes the sick out of the river; the Wilberforce goes up the Tchadda ; the Albert, with Captain Trotter and Captain Bird Allen, goes up the Niger. Mr. Horatio Collman, acting assistant surgeon of the Soudan, is left in the medical charge of the Amelia, and the settlement which is forming on shore here by the society, under Mr. Carr. Mr. Nightingale, assistant surgeon of the Albert, is dead, and also Mr. Marshall, acting surgeon of the Soudan." (Fro•+: the Shipping Gazelle.) Prior to the sailing of the Niger expedition, we expressed an opinion that the adventure would terminate without the attainment of the results that were promised. We have now, however, obtained information which puts an end to all speculation on the subject :—" The expedition is a failure ; and the vessels may be expected home early in spring, if not before." Advices, upon which we can place reliance, inform us, that on the 18th of September, the expedition was at the confluence of the Niger and Tchadda • that up to that period seven individuals had been taken off by fever ; that between seventy and eighty others were under the influ ence of the diseaee ; and that one of the vessels, the Saudan, had been despatched with the sick to Fernando Po and Ascension. The attempt had been made at the wrong season of the year; the boats can make no progress up a falling river; and its banks are loaded with decayed matter, which throws off a malaria that is dreadful to inhale. AMERICAN BREARVASTE.—This morning I again took my place at the breakfast table, to see, with renevied admi ration, the ga ll op i ng sys t em . What I most envied, but in vain attempted to imitate, was the marvellous skill evinced by the natives in swallowing large quantities of iced milk and oatmeal porridge. " Scotia, my own, my native land !" thou are famed in verse and prose for thy breakfasts; but even thou must hide thy diminished head before the accumulated glories of the morning repast at Tremont House ; where, in addition to the aforesaid porrige, are displayed tea, coffee, omelets, beefsteaks, muttonchops, veal cutlets, kippered sal -111011, various kiwis of fresh fish, ham, eggs, cakes, rolls, muffins, toast, &C., &C., ad infinitum !—Cal. Maxwell's Run through the United states. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE BAYONNE, DEC. 3.—There is one ''of the refugees who has at last succeeded in reaching the French territory, the history of %% hose escape is of so romantic a nature, and so well illustrates the superiority of female courage and re solution in the hour of danger, that , I cannot resist the temp tation of making it almost the sole subject of this commun►- cation. His name is Barbero Quintero, and about twenty five years old. He was well known in the city of Vittoria, and was appointed secretary of the junta formed for the pur pose of arming and defending the province of Alva, and was employed by Montes de Oca in drawing up documents con nected with the defence of the city. After the resolution come to by the junta, not to defend the city, Quintero saw that all was over, and resolved to fly. He endured many difficulties, and was at length captured at Goyzueta, and de livered up to the chief, and, after a few days was informed that there was no hope for the life of one who had held such close relation with the chief of the rebels. When the tidings of his danger reached his wife, she at once formed the determination of saving, or of perishing with, one on whom she doated to desperation. The cell in which Quintero was confined was small and narrow. The door was always left open, and a sentinel was placed at the entrance in order to keep the prisoner con stantly in sight ; another was stationed at the outer gate, and a third kept guard at the street door. To reach this dungeon, it was necessary to pass these three doors, one of which was of iron bars. The prisoner had been forbidden to hold communication with any person whatever; and hiS wife's application to see and visit him had been sternly re fused. The poor young woman went to the prison door several times every day with her baby in her arms, and as often returned after vain supplications for admittance, with a heart breaking in anguish. The only person allowed to enter the cell where the prisoner was confined was a young girl, whO brought him his meals, and only twenty minutes was allowed for dinner and supper. The former meal was taken at midday, and the latter in the evening. At seven o'clock in the evening of the 21st Nov., a young female came to the outer door of the prison, with a basket under her arm, which was partially concealed under a large coarse shawl flung across her shoulders ; a red kerchief was bound about her head, in the fashion of an Alva peasant girl, and her dress that of the criadas, or servant girls of Vittoria. She de manded permission, in the usual manner, to enter with the prisoner's supper. The sentinel at the gate referred her to the serjeant of the guard. Fortunately the company which had previously been on duty was changed the same day, and the general orders for their guidance referred only to the ad mission twice a day of the bearer of the prisoner's meals, but did not give any specific description of the personal appear ance of the bearer. After undergoing the coarse jests and brutal allusions of the soldiers of the guard on her selection of so advanced an hour, when night had already commenced, to visit the prisoner, she was allowed to enter, and was suc cessively passed from one sentinel to the other until she reached the cell of the captive. By some awkwardness, or more probably by design, she threw down the small iron lamp which was suspended from the door-frame, and by means of which the soldier stationed at the entrance, which was always left open, might have a partial view of his charge. The moment they were left in darkness, and whilst the sentinel proceeded to the second gate to light the lamp, she addressed the young man—" My beloved Eulogio, lose not a moment, throw off your coat, put on my clothes, whilst I bind this handkerchief about your bead ; take this basket, in which my baby is asleep, and fly, fly, for the love of God ! You will give the child to an old woman whom you will find waiting at the Bilboa gate. Provided that you and my child are out of all danger, I am ready to suffer death in your place. Speak not a word ; every moment is precious. You only lose time by attempting to resist, or refuse, for I have come here with a - determination which neither you nor any one else can change. Farewell ! If I escape unharmed, and I do not think the Regent will shoot me for my love for my husband. we will meet again ; if not, Eulogio, think of the when I shall be in the grave, and love our child—the poor baby is not more than six weeks old. Hush ! Speak not, the sentinel is here with the lamp." Quintero made an effort to change her resolution, but she would listen to no argument. He did as she requested, and in the course of a few minutes he had put on her gown, shawl and handkerchief, and she wrapped herself up in his cloak. In order to prevent any suspicion on the part of the soldiers at the gate, they remained together the usual time allowed for the repast, and Eulogio then took up the basket, covered it with his shawl, and then passed the sentinel. As he was proceeding towards the outer gate the child awoke, and, to prevent its cries from being heard, the father began to sing, in a loud voice, an old Basque ballad. Providence, however, decreed that the interruption should not be noticed, and he at length succeeded in reaching the street. He at once pro ceeded to the gate indicated ; found there the old woman, whom he recognised as having been his wife's nurse; gave the child to her, and, without a moment's delay, made for the mountains. Eight days he remained wandering amongst those tremendous passes, with no clothing but his pantaloons and shirt, and his feet and hands torn by the brushwood in which he was obliged, from time to time, to conceal himself from the parties of military whom he was constantly encoun tering. He had not less than 24 leagues to travel before he could reach the frontier, and his food, during the whole of the painful journey, was a morsel of bread and a draught of water or cider, given him by the poor peasants near whose habitations he found himself, and who, though knowing he was flying from the avenger, never once thought of betraying him. On reaching, in a state of dreadful exhaustion, the Bidas soa, he found that the left bank was occupied in every part by Spanish soldiers, who had even seized the boats to hinder the refugees from crossing. Being in a state of desperation, he plunged into the river, careless whether he was shot or drowned. As if some superior will had decreed that the noble and heroic act, prompted by pare conjugal love, should not pass without its due reward, Quintero succeeded in gain ing the opposite bank, the part he had selected being ford able, the water reaching only to his middle ; neither was he seen by the Spaniards. On arriving on the French territory he knelt down, and, in the enthusiastic fervour of his gratitude, returned thanks to Heaven for his safety. He arrived in Bayonne the day before yesterday. Up to two o'clock yesterday he had received no account of his wife, and he continues, as yet, in a state of indescribable anxiety as to her fate. There can be no doubt, however, of her ultimate safety, and of her speedy reunion with the ob ject of her love. Martin Zurbano himself could not find it in his heart to do otherwise than reward such an act of noble fidelity. The young lady who has thus distinguished herself belongs to an ancient and respectable family in Guipuscoa. She is young, beautiful, as are the greater part of the females of her native province, of the middle size, slight, and exquisitely formed in her person. She has been married something more than a year, and her child is not more than two months old. THE MYSTERY OF MESMERISM AND SOM NAMBULISM EXPLAINED. Animal magnetism has for some years amused and bewil dered the lovers of the marvellous. Ridiculed as a mere illusion or delusion, it has nevertheless perplexed the scien tific ; its effects are too palpable to be denied ; but any rational solution of the cause or causes in which they have originated nas hitherto eluded detection. The honour of unveiling this mystery was reserved for Mr. James Braid, an eminent surgeon in Manchester, who, having witnessed the recent experiments of Monsieur Lafontaine, in the Athe naeum of that town, determined, if possible, to bring the system to the test of physiological and anatomical principles. This gentleman, having satisfied his own mind that he could produce the phenomena without personal contact, and even induce sleep when i❑ a different room from the person to be thrown into a state of somnolency, announced a public lec ture on the subject, which he delivered at the Manchester Athenaeum on Saturday last, before several hundred persons. Mr. Braid first placed on a table a common black wine bottle, in the mouth of which was a cork having a plated top. The individual on whom the experiment was to be performed was seated on a chair, and directed to gaze intently at the cork without winking or averting the eyes. The cork was about two feet from the person operated upon, whose head was inclined backwards, forming with the object an angle of about forty-five degrees. In this position he remained for about five minutes, when profound sleep was produced. The second experiment was completed in the same time. In the third case a bandage was placed round the head, for the purpose of retaining in an immovable position a common bottle cork, a little above the root of the nose, as the object to be gazed at, and in about four minutes a complete state of somnolency ensued. In this case was proved the inability of the patient to open the eyelids, although consciousness was in no respect suspended, as he was able to reply distinctly to any question. The fourth experiment failed, either through the noise that prevailed, or owing to the person not fixing his gaze continuously on the object. The fifth was success ful, and although the party made a desperate effort to open his eyes, so much as to agitate his whole frame, they re mained as though hermetically sealed; when Mr. Brand took from his pocket a wooden ruler, and drew the end of it gently over the eyelid of both eyes, when the spell was bro ken, and the sense of sight restored with perfect ease. These experiments fully demonstrated that the phenomena were perfectly independent of animal magnetism, as in no one in stance was there the least approach to personal contact or any manipulation. Having thus convinced the audience that sleep could be produced without pressure of the thumbs or waving of the hands, as employed by Monsieur Lafontaine, Mr. Braid pro ceeded to explain the rationale of his discovery. The artificial mode of producing sleep is to fatigue the rec tus and levator muscle of the eye, which is effected by a con tinuously strained and intent gaze at an object viewed under an acute angle. Under such circumstances, the irritability of those muscles becomes exhausted, as well as the irritability of the optic nerve; giddiness ensues, a mist rises up before the eye, and sleep ensues. Congestion is induced in the eyes, and carried from them to the optic and muscular nerves of the eye, and owing to their proximity to the origin of the nerves of respiration and circulation, affect them through sympathy, and enfeeble the action of the heart and lungs. The heart thus acting feebly, is unable to propel the blood with sufficient force to the extremities, and hence their cold ness. The blood consequently is accumulated in the region of the heart, and it is thus stimulated ; and in order to remove the inordinate load, it is compelled to increase the frequency of its contractions, in order to compensate for the feebleness of its efforts. The brain, head, and face now become con gested in consequence, and varied phenomena, resulting from irregularity in the circulation of that important organ, the brain, follow. The inability to raise the upper eyelid Mr. Braid accounts for on the principle of temporary paralysis of the levator muscles, owing to excessive and long-continued exertion at the commencement of the operation. ROYAL RECEIPT FOR GAINING THE AFFECTIONS OF SUBJECTS.—" The king (Frederick William I.) wished every one who spoke to him to look him plump in the face, as he was sure that he could read in a person's eyes whether he was speaking the truth. Hence, he was very angr y w h en an y one who saw him coming got out of his way. A dancing master, to avoid meeting him one day, scampered off as fast as his legs would carry him, and ran into a h ouse . Th e ki ng sent a page to call him back, inquired minutely who and what he was, and, to make sure that he was what he represented himself to be, he made him dance a sarabande on the spot. Another French dancing-master fared rather worse. Riding along Broad-street on horseback,. he met the king, a n d gal lopped away without heeding his majesty's call. The king sent his page after him; he overtook him at l as t, an d f oun d him in a hay-loft, outside the Copenick gate. Wh en t a k en before the king, he gave himself out to be a t rave ll er f or a commercial house at Marseilles; and, as this was ascertained to be a falsehood, his majesty sent him to wh ee l ru bbi s h f or a month at St. Peter's church , which was then building. A Jew pedler, who expected no good from a meeting in a narrow street, tried to get out of the way. The ki ng over t oo k him. ' Why do you run away!' he asked. Because I was afraid,' replied the trembling _Jew. You ought not to fear me ; you ought to love me; replied the ki ng , a t th e time giving him a taste of his Spanish cane. Sometimes, for a change, his majesty carried long knotty s ti c k s o f w hi te thorn, two of which sceptres of his own growi ng are pre served in the Museum of Berlin. Others, who h a d th e courage to face the king, sometimes in their fortune. O n e day he stopped a candidate of divinity n the street, and, on learning that he was a native of Berlin, told him that the Berlin people were good for nothing. ' That is the rule, to be sure,' replied the candidate, 'but I know two Berlin boys who are exceptions.' And who are they ? Your majesty and myself,' replied the candidate. Ihe king desired hi m to call the following day at the pa lace, a nd, having reason, on further examination, to be satis fied with him, he immedi ately gave him a living."—Canspbell's Frederick the Great and his Times. TRADE WITH THE BRITISH COLONIES (Prom the Journal of Commerce.) Every day's experience points to the perilous nature of attempting to establish free trade with foreign countries, be fore that principle has been carried out ; the instance of our own colonies ; and even when that consummation shall have been effected, it is probable, highly probable, that the altered circumstances of foreign countries, the immense advances which they shall have made in the intermediate pe riod, will render - tile adoption of the principle itself of very equivocal value to either England or her rivals. Without pretending to see so far and so distinctly down the long vista of prospective history, we are yet enabled to perceive, that circumstances are daily occurring in our commercial in tercourse with foreign countries that give a sudden check to our theories, that stop, like the sparring pugilist, our play ful tentative efforts to conciliate, and seduce the adversary into the experiment of fair play and reciprocity. And while these repulsive inovements are the only indications of atten tion to our liberal doctrines, does it not appear premature to preach or to press them ? Ve shall presently mention a re cent instance, on the part of France, in which her hostility to free trade with- England is so strongly marked, that it must unavoidably either call for explanation, or be set down to the account of French antipathy to equal international barter. However, we shall previously state a few important facts, which we believe to be incontrovertible, for the purpose of showing, that whether free trade with foreign countries be requisite, primarily or remotely—whether the principle be sound in policy, or even absolutely practicable—at present it is not probable that almost any nation in Europe or in Ame rica, will entertain it. Whence it follows, that England would act a more wise part, pursue a policy more likely to be attended with a proximate benefit to her drooping and dis pirited manufacturers, by pushing her colonial trade and commerce, by fostering, cherishing, protecting her colonies, by employing their produce in preference to that raised by the hand of the stranger—perhaps the enemy—by extending true parental affection to her children, whom she is bound, exclusive of the bonds of kindred, to maintain in their ap prenticeship, if she expects that a sincere friendship shall continue when they shall acquire independence. The sun never wholly sets on the broad realms of Queen Victoria : she pos sesses within her rule every latitude and longitude, front the frigid region of the polar seas to the burning soil where lati tude is not counted. Let her extend, then, in the first in stance, these millions of subjects the commercial advantages which the parent state enjoys ; let the enactments of each colonial council be mere echoes of those of the senate of the empire ; let all mercantile restrictions by which our isles iu the west, our provinces in the east, are bound and fettered, be got rid of, like the chains from slavery ; let no commercial distinction exist between England and her colonies, but let the system be at (ince reduced to that of a coasting trade. It is vain, as we shall presently point out, to look for reci procal dealings with foreigners, while we deny it to our own countrymen, only because they dwell in a different latitude, and are more distant from the seat of government, and find greater difficulty therefore in knocking at the gates of the citadel, in laying their grievances before the throne. Our colonists are increasing in a greater ratio than our domestic population ; they have a two-fold source of rapid growth, immigration, which detracts from England while it adds to the colony, and the natural cause which alone is left to the original parent. This rapidly growing colonial population being of British origin, not only carries along with it a ne cessity, the only real source of demand, for British manufac tures, but what is of paramount value, what confers on colonization an equivalent for the abstraction of strength from the parent state, the language of Britain, by which the channels of commerce are kept more freely open, kindred feelings kept more actively alive, and government and laws introduced with a still greater facility and clearness. The trade which England has so long maintained with America, but which now undoubtedly exhibits symptoms of a very rapid decline, originated in colonial connection, was continued from the similarity of necessities between the colonists and and the parent state, and is mainly indebted for its great age to the permanent establishment of the English language in the United States. But the dependence of America on England has attained its maturity ; having long since rejected parental authority and influence in all legislative affairs, the period has now ar rived when her manufactures so nearly resemble those of the parent state in quality, variety, and extent, that all ancient relationship will soon be forgotten, those ties that kept the recollection alive being so near their severance. The proof of these assertions are before us, in the very elaborate re turns, which the Americans dem - and every ten years, of the progress of population, commerce, and manufactures—in fact, few nations in the world are so fully possessed of au thentic information of their actual physical force, and com mercial prosperity, during every moment of their existence, as our unnatural children of the United States. By these re turns we are assured that the woollen trade has become the most important of the domestic manufactures, and that the improvements in machinery have completely superseded the system of household industry amongst all, save the cottager's families in back settlements, or where amusement and some improvement in pecuniary circumstances are combined; similar success has attended their efforts in the growth and manufacture of silk, so that in those, as it might be shown in others, such as the iron and coal trades, the Americans cannot continue to carry on a trade of the same description and to the same extent as hitherto, much less can she enter into a free unrestricted exchange of commodities with Eng land, having from her customer become her competitor. But whether she will make the attempt or not—and we feel con vinced she will not—the negociation is not likely to be im mediately entered upon, and the conclusion might be ruin ously remote. Let America then be taken as an example, and although one instance is insufficient to allow of a conclusive induction, yet, with few exception, similar reasoning may be applied to our commercial position with respect to the states or cen tral Europe, which are all providing themselves, as the co lumns of this journal weekly demonstrate, with an armour impenetrable to any assaults of British diplomacy, however sharp the weapons of the commission,—and as to France, liberal France, her recent attempt, for we cannot imagine that our government will permit the petty trick to be success ful,—most unequivocally developes her views. Within the last few days much agitation has been created in Paris by a new anti-English regulation : it was the practice, one which has never until now (1841) been objected to, to send English books to France, in what is called cloth bindiny—this week, however, books so hound or covered were seized at Boulogne, deprived of their English manufactured dresses, and sent in this denuded state up to Paris, while the cloth binding was honourably and liberally returned to the English merchant. The bibliopolists in Paris have represented the hardship and meanness to the highest authorities, and, to prove that the conduct did not meet with an indignant reception from the ministers, it is still under discussion ! Is it not extraordinary that France should be guilty of such an hostile proceeding just when we anticipate an interchange of tariff regulations? Is it not passing strange that the occasion seized on for abruptly dissolving friendship was connected with literature, Guizot and Lamartine are ministers of France? We repeat then the suggestion to which the recent unkindness in the French ports has given rise,—that a reciprocal trade—an equivalent traffic—counterbalancing tariffs—commerce unim paired by prohibitions or protections with foreign lands— need not be entertained by England until she is placed in a position to require it, and places herself in an attitude to de mand it; and this can only be accomplished by putting her wide extended colonies on the unlettered footing of a free, home, or coasting trade. THE SUPERSTITIONS OF POPERY (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) We do not seek to raise the cry of "No Popery" against either the persons or the privileges of our fellow subjects who think fit to adhere to the Italian Church ; but, as loudly as the press can speak, we do, and ever shall, exclaim " No Po pery," as against the debasing, enslaving, and brutalising su perstitions which that church fosters and encourages. So far as the Bishop of Rome claims to interfere in our national concerns, we stand upon this ground, and we take up this cry, utterly despising the cant of the day, which stigmatises every expression of Protestant feeling as bigotry and intoler ance. Every freeman ought to be a bigot in his reverence for freedom ; every freeman ought to be intolerant of any inter ference with his liberty ; and every man of common sense ought in an equal degree to be bigoted—if the cant phrase is to be continually rung in our ears—in his love of truth, and as intolerant as ever he can be in his resistance to the impo sition of falsehood. We take up Lord Shrewsbury's pamphlet, and we ask is this Popery, or is it not ? It answers for itself, that it is the Popery of the leading Roman Catholics of England, being in the form of a letter addressed by the head of the ancient and noble house of Talbot, the premier earl of England, to Mr. A. Phillips, the most zealous and conspicuous layman of that persuasion in the country. And what is it that these lead ing Romanists want the world to believe? Why this,—that there are now, in the south of Austria, two female Cavanaghs, one of whom has neither eaten, drunk, nor slept for eight years and a half, and both of whose bodies exhibit the wounds of the Saviour, flowing with blood of such preternatural qua lity, that it neither trickles downward nor stains their linen ; that these wounds duly bleed on Fridays, in sympathy with those inflicted on the body of our blessed Lord eighteen hun dred and forty-one years ago ; and that whenever the conse crated elements are borne past the houses where they reside, they are affected as the needle would be by the magnet, turning towards and following the host, although separated from it by stone walls and closed windows, and not informed of its being carried past, otherwise than by their own supernatural perceptions. Surely, the reader will exclaim, this must be a mistake. It cannot surely be possible that such an affront could be offered to the common sense of the world by men of rank and education. It is but the other day that we received a letter from a correspondent, which we published at the time, asking, nearly in these words, if it could be possible that the world could contain madmen so besotted as to insult the common sense of mankind by these nonsensical and blasphe mous falsehoods ? There is no mistake in the matter ; it is the fact that Lord Shrewsbury and Mr. Ambrose Philips have put forward these statements, of the truth of which they seem perfectly satis fied, and that they boldly rely on them as evidence of the truth of their religion. That human nature should be so stultified is lamentable enough; but it is more lamentable, it is irritating and offensive, to have those desperate absurdi ties offered, as they are, by way of inducement to the people of England to return into the condition of slaves to the Papal see. It is as if Lord Shrewsbury in express terms said— You ought to give up your liberties because you have no right to the exercise of your understanding ; be fools in order that you may become slaves—believe this nonsense, and be recon ciled to your lord the Pope. Such a proposal, made to any one possessing the feelings of a free Englishman, would pro bably be answered by a kick ; but men can say to the public what they would not be suffered to say to individuals, and the insulted public can only show its sense of wrong through the usual organs of opinion. On these organs we think a duty has devolved to resent the insult offered to the sense and spirit of the country—we use the language of our corres pondent, Mr. Gordon—by this attempt to revive among us the worst superstitions of the tenth century. We say " no Popery" to the proposal; and we tell the superstitious peer and commoner that if they were desirous of seeing the " no Popery" spirit of the seventeenth century raised again in all its sternness, they could not take a better method to elicit it than by thus affronting the common sense of the people of England, who, if they are proud and jealous of anything on earth, are so of this very quality which these doating enthusiasts have so flagrantly outraged. But everything has its value, more or less, or in one or other point of view ; and we believe even this monstrous de monstration not without its own use, showing us to what lengths Popery is capable of carrying the mind : it testifies powerfully to the wisdom of the British nation, which does not permit any one professing a creed so full of danger to whatever most dignifies and ennobles the reasonable being, to till the throne of these realms. A sad day indeed it would be for England, and a melancholy epoch in the progress of knowledge and freedom, if it should come to pass that the superstitions of Alton Towers and Grace Dieu Priory—the seats respectively of Lord Shrewsbury and his correspondent —should cast their blighting shadows over the halls of Wind sor. But, before that day comes, twenty millions of thinking Protestants . must have c h ange d t h e i r m i n ds or lost their lives. But, after all, the apologetic spirit of the times may prompt the reader to ask—ls this Popery? Is Popery really charge able with this outrage on reason and the senses ? We put it to any one who has ever been in Austria or Italy to answer. It is Popery—mature Popery—Popery in the very aspect which it invariably has assumed—and till the end of the sys tem, will assume—wherever the sense and spirit of mankind do not keep it down, as fortunately hitherto we have been able to keep It down here. The Cliffs at Freshwater have fallen seaward so much, that the great oblect of curiosity, the celebrated Freshwater Cave, is obliterated.—Hampshire Telegraph. BANK OF ENGLAND The usual average return of the Liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, accordinc , to the old system, and em bracing the period from the 14th of September to the 7th of December, both inclusive, appeared in Friday night's Gazette. This return gives the following results, viz. : That the average of the 13 weeks ending the 7th December, as compared with the averge of the 13 weeks ending the 14th of September, shows ;C. _ • A decrease in the circulation of 509,000 A decease in the deposits of And a decrease in the stock of bullion of 489,000 Wherefore it appears that the decrease in the liabilities is X 1,192,000, and this represents the decrease in the total quantity of money in the 13 weeks ending the 7th of De cember, as compared with the 13 weeks ending the 14th of September, in so far as regards the administration of the currency by the Bank of England. The yearly comparison is as follows :—The average of the 13 weeks ending the 7th of December, 1841, as compared with the average of the 13 weeks ending the Bth of December, 1840, shows X. An increase in the circulation of 526,000 An increase in the deposits of _ An increase in the stock of bullion of 975,000 Wherefore it appears that the increase in the liabilities is £1,558,000, and this represents the increase in the total quan tity of money in the 13 weeks ending the 7th of December, 1841, as compared with the 13 weeks ending the Bth of De cember, 1840, in so far as regards the administration of the currency by the Bank of England. The variations in the stock of bullion have taken place in the following manner and proportions In the four weeks ending the 30th March, 1811, as compared with the four weeks ending the £ 29th of December, 1840, there is an increase of 855,000 In the four weeks ending the 22d of June, as compared with the four weeks ending the 23d of March, there is an increase of In the four weeks ending the 14th of September, as compared with the four weeks ending the 15th of June, there is a decrease of In the four weeks ending the 7th of December, as compared with the four weeks ending the 7th of September, there is a decrease 0f.... The changes and fluctuations in the circulation will ap pear from the following statement : In the four weeks ending March 30,1841, as com pared with the four weeks ending Dec. 29, 1840, £ there is an increase of In the four weeks ending June 22, as compared with the four weeks ending March 23, there is an increase of In the four weeks ending Sept. 14, as compared with the four weeks ending June 15, there is an increase of In the four weeks ending Dec. 7, as compared with the four weeks ending Sept. 7. there is a decrease of 975,000 The following are the changes and fluctuations that have taken place in the deposits : In the four weeks ending March 30,1£41, as com pared with the four weeks ending Dec. 29, 1840, ze there is a decrease of In the four weeks ending June 22, as compared with the four weeks ending March 23, there is a decrease of In the four weeks ending Sept. 14, as compared with the four weeks ending June 15, there is an increase of In the four weeks ending Dec. 7, as compared with the four weeks ending Sept. 7, there is a de crease of The changes and fluctuations in the securities will appear from the following statement : In the four weeks ending March 30, 1841, as com pared with the four weeks ending Dec. 29, 1840, £ there is a decrease of 1,290,000 In the four weeks ending June 22, as compared with the four weeks ending March 23, there is a decrease of In the four weeks ending Sept. 14, as compared with the four weeks ending June 15, there is an increase of In the four weeks ending Dec. 7, ai compared with the four weeks ending Sept. 7, there is a decrease of 1,167,000 As far as the present defective state of the returns will permit of a comparison between the averages of the old and new system, there appears to be a considerable increase in the stock of bullion held by the Bank of England during the last month. 882,000 MEMOIR OF SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY. This greatest of British sculptors was the son of a farmer in Derbyshire, and born at Norton, a village in that county, on the 7th of April, 1782. Early in life he was destined for a lawyer, and it was while his friends were conducting him to Sheffield to be articled for that purpose that his genius accidentally received that bent in which he afterwards became so pre-eminent. He happened to arrive in the city a few hours before them, and, while gazing in the streets, his attention was so arrested by the figures in a carver's window that on their arrival he expressed a resolution to pursue this profession, and was accordingly apprenticed to the proprietor, a Scotchman named Rogers, with whom he remained for nearly three years. Carving on wood, however, was not his forte. Before he had attained the age of seventeen he de voted himself to modelling in clay, and the nocturnal candle burning in his chamber, displayed the young student's devo tion to that art in which he soon became so proficient, that after a short interval he entered on the career of a sculptor. Dublin and Edinburgh were visited by him with this view ; but in the former he received little patronage, and the latter was (hind to his genius. In the year 1808-9 accordingly he arrived a friendless artist in London. The exhibitions of the Royal Academy affords an opportunity for artists which the members of no other profession possess. The abilities of a first-rate lawyer or physician may languish in obscurity, as both are indebted almost exclusively to chance for occasion of display. But with the artist, it is otherwise : he has the opportunity, and if he fortunately possesses ability to substantiate it, his road to fortune is secure. A bust which Chantrey sent to the academy attracted the attention of Nol lekens, who, whatever may have been his foibles, was never blind to kindred art. He instantly said—" That's a splendid work, let the man be known ; remove one of my busts and put it in its place, for it well deserves it." The words proved prophetic; the bust, we believe that of John Raffael Smith, was universally admired ; and Nolleken's admiration was not confined to mere words. He immediately took the artist under his protection, and to the last declared, " If you want a bust Chantrey's the man," when he himself was applied to on this subject. The opportunity once secured, Chantrev's genius did the rest. The busts of Sir Walter Scott, Sir Joseph Banks, Lord St. Vincent, the Duke of Sussex, Sir W. Curtis, Wordsworth, Southey, George HI., George IV., William IV., Canning, Watt, Northcote, Nollekens, and Wellington, with a host of others, evince his excellence.- Of these, those of Scott, Watt, and George 111. and IV., are perhaps the best. His statue to the m emor y o f Lady Louisa Russell is said not to be equalled by anything of the kind done in Bri tain. She is represented as standing on tip-toe, fondling a small bird in her bosom, and the youthful eagerness, yet na tural ease, with which she does it, has long attracted the admiration of visitors to Woburn Abbey. " The Sleeping Children," which formerly so rivetted attention at Somerset house, and now adorn Lichfield Cathedral, are not less cele brated. A mother is said to have wept over the group while surveying this emblem of infant beauty. A durious anecdote is told of Chantrey, from which we may conclude that, although already known to the west end, his fame bad not penetrated the city. When, along with a number of others, he sent in his model for the statue of Geo. 111., proposed to be erected in the Guildhall, the wiseacres there intended to reject it, on the supposition that the artist was a painter ; and it was not until Sir W. Curtis sent for him to be examined on this point, that the preference was given to the superiority of his design ! Chantrey, we may add, was a painter, and of no inconsiderable power; but the splendour of his chisel threw the execution of his brush into the shade. Sir Francis was often unlucky about his works. The statues of General Bowes and Colonel Cadogan, when con veyed to he placed in St. Paul's, experienced an accident by the breaking of a rope, which proved fatal to one, and with difficulty allowed the other to remain an object of repose to the eye, wearied of surveying the absurd allegorical groups in the cathedral. But to another temporary misfortune those who visited his atelier were indebted for one of their choicest pleasures. The beautiful statue of Marianne, only daughter of Johues, of Stafford, the translator of .Proissart, was al lowed to remain in the hands of the artist, in consequence of a calamity which overwhelmed the father. In the year 1819 Sir Francis proceeded to Italy, where he spent several months in examining the productions of the ancient masters. In 1801 and the following year, we be lieve, he visited the Louvre, for the purpose of studying the spoils of art which Napoleon had there collected from all quarters of Europe. What influence these may have had in forming his taste it is needless to say ; but it may be observed that both in his designs and his execution he is eminently British, and he has formed an English school, if we may se term it, which is celebrated all over the continent, and is almost equally esteemed with Thorwaldsen's and Canova's own. V In 1826-7 Sir Francis commenced the formation of his sta tues in bronze. The statue of George the Fourth, at Brigh ton, was the first of his productions ; and it attracted such general admiration that he was engaged to execute one in marble for Windsor, and another of lar ge r di mens i ons i n bronze for Edinburgh. his statue of Pitt in Hanover-square is considered the finest specimen of his productions in this branch ; and it must be owned that nowhere, except perhaps in his sitting figure of Watt, (in marble,) has the inelegant appearance of modern dress been so artistically concealed. In person, Sir Francis Chantrey was under the average height, but possessed a compact form, and a highly intellec tual countenance. His disposition was beneficent, and his conversation eminently engaging. He was possessed of great energy, although in the sixtieth year of his age, and suffering from the disease by which he was so suddenly, removed from the field of his fame. THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL THE CLOSING NIGHT OF THE SEASON, And the last Night of the_ Theatre being open under the•present Management Mr. CLARKE, TN finally retiring from the Lesseeship and Mana g e men t o f I the Theatre, most respectfully announces, that his FAREWELL 'BENEFIT will take place on MONDAY next, the 20th instant, when will be performed Mrs. lnehbald's Comedy, called FIRST VISIT TO BROCKET. (Front the John Bull.) On the oaks of the Brockets the moonlight is dying, And morning's first glimmer is faint on the mead ; O'er the blue lake's cold bosom the day-breeze is sighing, When down from the North comes a courser at speed. So gaunt is her form, that the ribs are in danger Of action for trespass, from saddle and girth ; The visits, if any, of corn to her manger Are much like the visits of angels to earth. Yet on goes her rider, the farther, the faster; His years, though soon numbered, have made him aware, That CHIFNEY'S great self would admit him his master At " coming the pace," on a skeleton mare. In basket before him lie, piled in their beauty, Fair joints of fat mutton ; and, fairer than those, The loin of an ox that, in summer did duty As guard of the meads where the Whissendine flows The curls on his brow, which no beaver is shielding, His trade's cheap pomatum preserves in their form ; But the blue of his jacket is silently yielding To more than one soaping and many a storm. Though lonely his road, yet a whistle may cheer it; That rural elixir was known long ago ; So he kindly breathes out, as the rooks are to hear it, The Handel-lik e mus i c o f " J emmy th e Crow.' But the tune dies away, and he feels some few twinges Of awe, when the door brings a close to his toil ; Yet still must he wait, that the rust on its hinges NSMay yield to the magic of feather and oil. It is done : from the lintel the spiders have started ; For suns h ave gone d own — an d some Ministers too— Since last, in their sight, bolt and stape were parted To welcome the coming of tradesman in blue. It is done : and the basket and bearer admitted : The shade of Achilles might envy the boy To whom, after years of dull leaguer, submitted The bower of a Paris, the gate of a Troy. It is done : and the breast of that young one is swelli ng • For him and his ma s t er bright days are in store ; As the Peer whom they serve, must now victual from Welwyn, And quarter his teeth upon Windsor no more. Why is the heir to the British throne the subject of one of the most useful kings of which our globe can b oast ? —He is Prince of W(h)ales, the herring is king of whales I POSTPONED FROM TUESDAY TO WEDNESDAY (PRIVATE,.) [l!] REFORM ASSOCIATION OFFICE, ORRELL-PLACE, LORD-STREET. December 11th, 1841. Sta,--You are particularly and earnestly requested to at tend a Meeting of tieformers, at Mr. Eastwood's, Royal Hotel, Dale•street, on Wednesday nest, the 15th inst., at twelve o'clock, to receive a report from the Registration Committee, and to consider of the re-appointment of a Reform Committee for the ensuing year, with other matters connected therewith. I am, sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM RATIIBONE, Chairman Eli t Etimpool 'tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1841 We live in an age of universal toleration ; we pique ourselves upon the fact, and, for our part, we should be the last to desire any change in our institutions which would give it a different complexion. Our an cestors, borrowing from their Popish forefathers, seemed to think that mind could be brought into uni son with mind by the intervention of a merely physical machinery, and were very well disposed to apply the screw to thumb or jugular as the occasion might re quire ; but a better condition of feeling and a sounder state of opinion began to exert their influence ; re strictions against thought began gradually to be re laxed; and a penal code against diversity of sentiment on all, even the most sacred subjects, happily no longer exists in this country. It does not follow, however, because toleration has been thus so widely extended, that the things tolerated have altered their nature, or that some of them are less obnoxious or injurious now than when they were the object of the severest prosecution. No such conse quence can be legitimately drawn ; the only fair con clusion is, that the age is less advertent and more liberal. There is another inference, however, and that is, that since the State has relieved itself of the burthen of looking after things which it once regarded as worthy of all its solicitude, individuals in their private capacity, or collectively, have a duty of watchfulness cast upon them of a much more stringent kind than they ever bad before. The civil ruler is now reluctant to put forth his powers against even the filthy and blasphemous sect of the Socialists ; and this proves—what ? Not surely that Socialism is not a hideous monstrosity and satire upon the godlike being, man, which should call for the exposure and denunciation of all good men ; but that toleration is now carried to the very highest pitch, while the things tolerated have in no degree altered their original character. Our mild and tolerant laws now take little or no no tice of the Order of Jesuits—an order once regarded with horror by all Europe, and which continued to disturb every country in which it found a footing, till in 1773 it was suppressed by Pope Clement XIV., who is supposed to have fallen a victim to their vengeance. On the 6th of August, 1762, their institute was con. demned by the parliament of France as contrary to the laws of the state, to the obedience due to the sove reign, and to the welfare of the kingdom. In Spain, where they conceived their establishment to he per fectly secure, they experienced an overthrow equally complete. The example of the King of Spain was . immediately followed by Ferdinand VI. of Naples, and soon after by the Princes of Parma. They had been expelled from England in 1604 ; from Venice in 1606; and from Portu ga l i n 1759 upon the ch arge o f having instigated the families of Tavora and D'Aveiro to assassinate King Joseph I. Frederick the Great of Prussia was the only monarch who showed a disposi tion to afford them protection. No other Order in the Church of Rome increased with so much rapidity to wealth and power, or made such a figure in the world as the Jesuits. When Loyola, in the year 1540, peti tioned the Pope to authorise the institution, he had only ten disciples ; but in the year 1608, sixty-eight years after the first institution, the number of Jesuits had increased to 10,681. In the year 1710, the Order pos sessed 24 professed houses, 59 houses of probation, 340 residences, 612 colleges, 200 missions, 150 semi naries and boarding-schools, and consisted of 19,998 Jesuits. These were actually so many incendiaries sent forth to embroil the nations of the world—to set them, and to keep them fighting with one another. From being the confessors of kings and of their mis tresses, and of ministers of state, they became ac quainted with the secrets of every cabinet. These were communicated to their general at Rome, who was either a tool of the Pope, or had the Pope as a tool of his ; and thus he had the command of a machine by which he could influence, and often guide the measures of every court in Europe, except those who had thrown off the Papal yoke ; and even some of these were more influenced by the Jesuits than the world knew at the time. D'Alembert compared the society to a naked sword, the hilt of which was at Rome. Their influ ence in England was most pernicious, and was unin terrupted from the accession of Elizabeth to the re volution in 1688, for it was their incessant plotting against the life and government of that princess that laid her under the necessity of having recourse to ri gorous measures, which laid the foundation of those discontents which agitated the country in succeeding reigns. In Elizabeth's time, it was the practice of Je suits to assume the character of zealous Protestant preachers with a view to create divisions—a practice Ave are far from sure they have abandoned at the present day. The preaching of the Puseyites is certainly something which bears a very striking resemblance to it. This Order, as our readers are well aware, was re stored by the late Pope, Pius VII., who declared that he should " deem himself guilty of a great crime to wards God, if, amidst the dangers of the Christian Republic, (in other words, the cause of Popery,) he should neglect to employ the aids which the special providence of God had put in his power, and, if placed in the bark of St. Peter, and tossed by conti nual storms, he should refuse to employ the vigorous and experienced rowers who volunteer their services." Such was the token of gratitude which Great Britain received from his holiness for the favour she had shown him, in the days of his humiliation, under the iron yoke of Napoleon. But the society was originally framed for putting down the Reformation, and had proved itself the most important and useful of all the Orders placed in opposition to that great revolt against the Roman usurpation; and could not be dispensed with. Jesuitism, therefore, was restored, and has ta ken root in the very heart of this country. We cannot immediately lay our hand upon the Se creta Monita of this pious fraternity ; but the crooked morals which they hold, and the insidious arts which they practise, are so well known as to have become a proverb in the world. Well, even this order is tole rated among us. They have their colleges at Stony hurst in Lancashire, and at Clongowes in Ireland, and other institutions also in both countries ; and even the provisions of the Catholic emancipation act with re gard to the registry of their names and establish ments in the sister country, have scarcely ever been enforced. Here then is toleration with a witness ; the law allows it ; the parties enjoy it ; and we are not aware of any attempt being made to deprive them of it. But does it follow from this that we have nothing to apprehend from Jesuitry, and no need of any cau tion against the Order ? Certainly not. It is bound by the same ties it ever was to " put down the Refor mation," hopeless as the task may now seem, to un dermine our church and creed, and to advance the in terests of the Papal See. The Society are still, as ever, the devoted Janissaries of the Popedom ; an d without presuming to allege that it is they who have burned the armoury in the Tower, or caused those other great conflagrations which have recently taken place, we have no hesitation in saying that we coincide in sentiment with those who entertain violent suspi cion and jealousy of the Order, generally, and in our mind connect much of the disturbances which hav e taken place in Ireland, and of the successful march of Popery and O'Connellism in this country, with their machinations. The Mercury, we perceive, in its number of Friday' joins in with the miserable yelp of the limes against the Rev. Mr. Ould for his allusion to Guy Fawkes at the Bolton Protestant Meeting, and his inferences from that traitor's designs to the possibility of similar de signs and practices being in operation at the present day. But both journals are guilty of a palpable mis representation, inasmuch as they impute to Mr. Ould the making of a general charge involving all Roman Catholics, as if he looked upon all the members of the Church of Rome as joining, or as being likely t° join, in such atrocious proceedings, or as capable of approving of them. Whereas he said nothing of the sort, nor was anything further from his intention, as we are well assured. What he did say was m erely In the way of warning, and had reference to the Possible actualities of a party notoriously unscrupulous in the use of means, and not to those of the Roman Catholic body at large. It would seem, indeed, that the Jesuits have got the comman d o f a ver y powerful press In this town, and that, on the slightest provocation, the quills of their zealous employe's are ready to start on end. The Times, the Mercury, the Journal, and, we believe we may add, the Chronicle, i , re their very obe dient, humble servants. Is there nothing portentous in this circumstance ? We do not say that any one , or all of these clever papers together, would actually set the Mersey on fire; but we say it is a remarkable proof of Jesuitical activity, and adds new force to the impression that Jes u itry is by no means a thing In these days to be overlooked. Lord Alvanley has been unintentionally the autho r of m uc h goo d, i nasmuc h as he has drawn forth from the Earl o f R o d en a s h ort b u t v ery admirable pa m p hlet in reply t o hi s proposa l f or su bsidising the Irish p riests. Of that proj ec t we k now not whether we ar e to hear more, nor if we are, what is to be its ultimate destiny ; but if we felt the need of faithful counsel, and clear de monstration on the subject, we could not . desire any thing beyond what we are favoured with by the noble earl—a most competent adviser, and a witness above all suspicion. His lordship has condescended to meet_ the noble proje c tor on grounds of ordinary policy , and to shew that if principle did not entirely forbid coinci dence with this scheme, yet that every consideration of prudence and common sense would. This we look upon as a very great effort not only of condescen sion ; but of patience, a ff a bilit y , se lf- contro l , se lf-d e nial, a nd much considerateness for the weakness of othetS , on the part of his lordship, w h o f ee l s , we are we ll as sured'" deeply as any othe r , th e u tt er i mposs ibili ty o f entertain ing such a pl an f or a moment, cons i stent ly with t he indispensable req u i rements o f consc i ence an d duty. Tu think of ma ki ng I re l an d h appy an d prosperous by paying th e p r i es t s o f R oman i sm wou ld be a s till greater mistake than that of endowing Maynooth---a greater mistake, inasmuch as it would be a far more costly experiment, and proportionately disappointing in its results. There are a b ou t 4000 priests in Ire land, who, at a moderate computation, receive £l 5O a-year each—without reckoning the bishops —on what they call the voluntary principle ; which, however, is no further " voluntary" than that the sums paid could not be enforced by legal process. Their total income, therefore, is about £600,000 a-year, whilst the income derived from tithe, or tithe-rent, by the established clergy, does not exceed £300,000. To compensate the priests, then, for their present emoluments would re quire a large sum ; but large as it is, it would, as Lord Roden generously observes, be well worth while to pay, if it could be done conscientiously, or if being done, it would purchase all that peace for the country which the favourers of the project seem to expect. But there are two grounds of objection—first, that the govern ment-paid priests would still remain the sworn vassals of a foreign potentate, and essentially unchanged in their disaffection to a Protestant sovereign—pri ests of Rome still, though in the pay of a Protestant state; and secondly, that the purchase up of one body of claimants, would by no means he a satisfac tion to another—the monastic orders, who would soon take the place of the pensioned parties, collect all those fees which their predecessors might have been induced to abandon, and eventually so work their cause, and so make themselves felt, that some future Lord Alvan ley would have to come forward with another budget to still the new agitation, and make a new composition for a little more peace with the Church of Rome. Lord Roden has exhibited this, and many more argu ments in detail, with a view to shew the absolute folly of such a bargain even upon the common-sense prin ciple of seeking an equivalent for one's money—a q uid pro quo in common dealing. But he does not leave the case there : he does not omit to observe, that in point of principle such a bargain would be a base one, and inconsistent with every obligation we owe to our government and religion. We are ourselves induced to notice such a topic as that brou g ht f orwar d by L or d Al van l e y with much reluctance, as it has a tendency to familiarise the mind with a thought which cannot be justly viewed without abhorrence. When we are asked to take Popish pries ts into pay, we presume it is a fair question to ask, in return, what they arc to he paid for. Is it for doing good, or for doing harm ? As for the good—it cannot be. We have sworn that they teach error; our Church has pronounced it, and we have subscribed to it. Nor is their false-teaching of a trifling or unimportant cha racter ; it is vitally, essentially wrong, and it produce s fruits the most bitter, the most injurious—fruits abso lutely poisonous to society. Can we—should we pay them, then, for such labour of mischief ? Away W ith the monstrous proposition ! We put it from us as a n abomination. But it is not for doing good that it is proposed to pay Romish priests; it is that they may abstain, in some degree, from doing harm. Their sala ries would be a sort of black-mail levied upon the state for a certain amount of evil remitted, and the state would thus acknowledge itself their vassal. 'What a , relation t o ex i s t b etween a gov ernment and its subjects . Well has Lord Roden observed on this head— " Our own laws should be obeyed and acknowledged as supreme, and, if faithfully and firmly administered, they are sufficient to repress any disorderly conduct on the part of the priests of the Church of Rome. Deeply, I am convinced , , would it grieve the heart of every true British Protestant, it ever they should witness the day when it became necessary to call in the aid of the Pope of Rome to assist our gracious Queen in the government of her subjects. If such a time should ever arrive, ' the sun of England will indeed be set.' - - - - - - . . Now, we agree with his lordship in depreciating any plan for " calling iu the aid of the Pope of Rome to assist our most gracious Queen in the government of her subjects"; hut, the plan, after all, is not so strange, or new to us, as his lordship seems to think ; what have the Whigs been doing for the last ten years, but calling in the Pope's aid, or that of his priests (which is the same thing) to assist them in governing Ireland, ay, and England too ? We verily believe that Popish priests and Jesuits have had a much larger share in the admi n i f Of th e w hi broken off but, the sy; 4t es• Th; trover s y on habit has, this head, b 81 St not i n I the count;N or a ny of I; connection another ex( " The dill hich stai * . lll be rnat( !1) 1 e. It i s : 111 highly oxeded hope (a to be corn f ullY and iu ' o ught out a erent situat , 411 . d intell e oilshed Chuc to their sacr PPPerty as ti on, full a !ncoaragemi ' l ave no d ou 40 0 a what s' mo rality, an W - n I: e ay( truly lib rein of Ire Can ha ve n oils to our: be the mot 4 °r it is th( WY -Ich can more t o be The my , 1141 fraud, an d prop which ever Or nothing Parties inv to screen, " for our par a slander( gladly see It is to I vealed all 111 6, on fo r curiosi te r, on th 1 4QQ is t -rarisp c Rard to th Part of it t hey were, 8° Powerf Tames mal It; 1 lis,ecitisBiiutfitt:aek,ouvrtte,trle:ietaeterTayhdealb?.l rnaisevxelp:aoihanf,paseunal,egnerhls h ukive‘apogeteti °f. city failu ( a e there will ( p a (s e r e tracking e kitte resti 100 ,000 11 )' obser ? . eer l spent certainly s mith an fem s i on ii *er e , an , i i ` s i red ani 'e say s i eB cape, toe to an 41 tile s e'rripara Dart of I 11 44 dete e?er of transact Riven it this unli breach',. lng inn It appeo ample c V ision would , t° . eBCal gliev oti at least t 0 be a Ow n 8 f eature O N I receive, proaclii bair of IC flown of an c ti er , i Retor t ` h agree D et b to form d en co ,appea l , b efore 'Jod y I liPopli A s , 11, 0 be; liQy s, at the MI titi ltnos theri Mr. ordi, cxelt clai twel EVERY ONE I-IAS 1115 FAULT, The principal characters by Messrs. Stuart, H. !Toll, Baker, W. J. Hammond, Chaplin, Gray, Mrs. Clarke, aliss Cleaver, Madame Siinon, and Mrs. Baker. In the course of the Evening, MR. CLARKE WILL IL4VE THE:iIONOTII? OF ADDRESSING TR E AUDIENCE. After which, the new andpo!ikii:Draina of THE BOARDING' Srlool, The principal characters by Nles:rs. W. J. Hammond, Holl, Barton, Pelham, Chaplin, Mrs. Clarke, Miss Homier, Mrs. Barton, Miss Webster, and Miss Cleaver. With other Entertainments, as will be expressed in the Bills. The Box-office for this night will be opened Tit's DAY, (Tuesday,) and will continue open daily, from Ten until Three. Tickets may be had of Mr. CLAUKE, 1, Houghton-street, Williamson-square ; and of Mr. Minster, at the Box-ottice, of whom places may be taken from ten until three. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. SLAITER PO-MORROW EVENING, the 15th instant, Morton's Comedy of THE SCHOOL OF REFORM. Hobert Tyke Mr. Slait-r After which, the laughabld Burletta of HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS! Tim, (alias Hercules) Mr. W. J. Hammond To conclude with the Melo-drama called THE WANDERING BOYS. Lubin Tickets to be had of Mr. SLAITER, at Mrs. Goss's, Glou cester-street, opposite White Mill-street ; and of Mr. M IN. STEIL. at the Box Office, from Ten until Two. TO CORRESPONDENTS Surely the signature, " John Holland Brownlow Shed," to a letter we have received must be an adopted one ; at all events, we have more respect, for the character of the writer than publish his preposterous recommendation. The Rev. Mr. Urlaw begs thankfully to acknowledge the receipt of two pounds from A Wellwisher," towards the enlargement of St. Barnabas' Church, and wishes also to express his grateful sense of the kind and Christian spirit that breathes through the letter which conveyed them. Let " M. S. It. P." keep quiet until after the first Wed nesday in January, and he will then find, if we are not greatly mistaken, that the question which forms the ground work of his strictures will be answered to his entire satis faction. We may be expected to be more in the secret than he is. He had better attend the meeting of the Operative Protestant Association, at the Music-hall, on Friday evening, when he will probably receive some grati fying information.