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To TIIE ) TOXTETH HOSPITAI Sil GENTLENIEN, voif as a CANDIDATE for the ,Y SURGEON to the SOUTH )SPITA L, the Election to Which ,he 2d November next, between o'Clock, P.m., at the Clarendon- met with amogst the Sub .st of my persjial friends, I in, of the election resulting a sanguine Amy. o those who may not yet have determined claims of the various Candidates, besides fitness put forward in my circular of the 'iermitted to adduce my long residence y arduous services as Honorary th-park Cholera Hospital, through ntial epidemic of 1832, for their fa n making the present appointment I am so I have to assure you that I utmost of my abilities, faithfully discharge the and Gentlemen Your c edient bumble servant. J. PETRIE 1841. ezt. I6th Oct HIVE ESTABLISHMENT, 17, PARADISE-STREE2 LTA, hers to apprise his Friend ,s and the Public -e metropolitan and provincial n enabled to protmre, FOR CASH rraordinary BARGAINS in Silks ~ erials for Dresses, of which he mild variety of the Chine Tout de Royal, at ls. 2d. Chine de Laines, at 81 per yard ; French Garai ms, of the richest and newest patterns, at ls. ) Chine Mat, rd ; together with an immense )CK OF BLANKETS, FLANNELS, LINENS, 1;Y WOOL CLOAKINGS, FUR BOAS, CAPES, and SHAWLS, of all descriptions. ELL respectfully invites purchasers to an inspection Stock of Goods, and feels assured they I as regards quality and cheapness. not be disappoints rANLEY AND THE BISHOP OF ROME (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) kivanley's proposal that we should have an accredited Vatican, comes at a singularly inauspicious time It was but the other day that the ted and disturbed by the interfe heir marriage law. His preten ity in Brazil have kept that state The recent J. •• .v. • nish ... nation in converting the estates of their f ecclesiastics into public property, have been nd void by his authority ; and there can be no 11 the bloodshed which has taken place in that during the Carlist rebellion, and all that place during the present attempt of and solely chargeable, to the inter potentate in the civil affairs of the f which they alone have the right to were as independent as we would uld suffer no other authority on own sovereign and national fere except the ~nction is idle between a spiritual and a temporal .ion. The authority that pretends to decree the ca d a marriage, pretends also to fix the succession to authority that assumes to prohibit the sale of --.‘ a temporal jurisdiction, in respect of . „hts of all the rest of the world. —3 it upon him to say whether a war is as he declared the Carlist war to be, or unjust he impiously declared the cause of Christina to himself an authority which, in our view ly incompatible with the least notion of -,once. It is idle, we repeat, to draw a me .3tinction between the exercise of a spiritual a which reaches life and land through the con ,nd a temporal authority, reaching life and land he arm of flesh. It amounts to precisely the same the end. The estates are claimed as imperatively in way as the other : the lives of the poor wretches who spiritual claim, are lost just as miserably —caller opponents ; and he would be a more .wogist than science yet can boast of, who would on the field of battle, the blood that had been the spiritual instigation of Gregory, from that which wed at the secular command of Espartero. le Spaniards were a wise nation they would prohibit aterference in future; and if the Pope persisted in his isions, they should treat him as a temporal sovereign. , would the world say if the Queen of England were to a proclamation in her capacity of head of the Angell ::hurch, to prohibit the King and Parliament of France t disposing as they please of the revenues now paid in country to the Protestant clergy ? They would be in ed, we suspect, to declare that Queen Victoria's pro ding savoured somewhat more of her secular than of her ritual authority, and would hardly blame the French na n if they declared war against us, for our presumption, t to the rig asserting t of thei is not singular at the presegt moment in itions of external authority. The powerful and ire of Austria has to put up with her share also terference. It is no later than the month of May e Court of Rome issued a modest decree, by übjects of the Emperor of Austria are prohibited tracting mixed marriages, and the issue of such are bastardised. in effect en, Prot taut and Roman Catholic subjects of who, under the happy freedom of your _ recognition of this pernicious authority, to intermarry and to educate your children, )anise of your religious principles on either same freedom is denied to your fellow t every country of Europe, which offi: s througl v recognises the authority of Rome. Will Gregory send ailar decree tons ? He dare not. Familiarity with Bri freedom has made even the Roman Catholic subjects of Queen too independent to brook such interference. ut, let British freedom stoop to recognise the official ex ice of the Papal see, as Spain and Austria and France done, and Lord Alvanley will soon have the satisfaction eeing the decree of the Vatican outrunning the Queen's in every county of England. A more pernicious propo ould not have been made at the present moment. We satisfied the pamphlet has not the sanction of any single iber of her Majesty's government. It is the production clever man, unquestionably, but of one who, it is equally sin, has read and written for the purpose of finding a ssity for a preconceived scheme—not for die purpose of sing a scheme to meet any existing necessity. EL AND THE FACTORY SYSTEM (From Mr. °miler's Fleet Papers.) ler letter 1 told you that I feared Sir Robert Peel quainted with the real character of the working d that I was apprehensive_ his ignorance on that Ant would be the ruin of his administration, as it was ,at of the Whigs. I informed you, also, that it had 3erto been Sir Robert Peel's habit not to receive the de ations of working men, when they waited upon him, but t his custom was to require them to state their views in I am now delighted to have the opportunity of stating to I jou, that Sir Robert Peel has received a deputation of work ng men from the Short-time Committees of Lancashire ; .hat he has patiently listened to them, whilst they rehearsed o him the miserable condition of the factory workers, whilst they explained the causes of their misery, and whilst they 'minted out the remedies. The Premier received them with great courtesy. listened to them with marked attention, and expressed to those working men his approval of the very pro per and able manner in which they had described the suffer ings of their clients, and pointed out their causes and reme dies. Sir Robert Peel assured the deputation that "he was deeply impressed with the very great importance of their mission, and of the facts which they bad laid before him, and that he and his colleagues would devote their most seri ous attention to the question, with a view to the happiness and well-being of those concerned." The deputation did not forget to impress upon the Premier the close connexion which there is between the factory system and the new poor -' how the latter was calculated to oppress and add to who are engaged in the former. ,ss it should be. The government and the work are no longer strangers. The truth has been told rig men to her majesty's ministers. There was no Chadwick, no Muggeridge, intervening to mar their or to suppress their evidence. I know what effect has produced on the minds of the working men by that in 'w—l guess what impression has been made upon that premier.• No man can come into close contact with -king men of England without loving them. It is the 'die cormorants of commissioners, their assistants, , tvies, who have lived upon traducing the working ' who have ruined their patrons, the Whig govern stened to their lies, and acted upon their sugges "lose despicable hangers-on, who have, by de overnment, caused all the misery under which Now, th ngs cf th, and groan r, the fact that the premier will now corn ; men raises my hopes more than I can .ough it may seem strange to you, it is true, Acuities of the government have arisen out of —a perfect ignorance of the character of the work- The truth is, that commissioners have found it interest to make the government believe that the asses were idle, turbulent, vicious, profligate, and at what. Hence every measure which has been ay the lecislature is of a coercive character, being d for a different class of beings than the working ;ngland; and consequently it has increased the misery t was intended to remove—forced the complaints of )ple to become louder; and then it required another . ilers, in the shape of commissioners, assistants, inspectors, clerks, and all sorts of idle drones, to ;t industrious, reasonable, virtuous, and loyal urn rebellion. Now, however, that the premier working classes have had a meeting, I anticipate the ath of Job-Commission-Leoislation ; and, amongst other ,00d measures, I think that ?foresee the speedy enactment of a simple, plain, efficient Ten Hours' Factories' Regulation k ct, without one single hanger-on. "‘an Sir Robert Peel has received a few more deputations I am confident that he will see how , people have been libelled by the Poor _..,stoners ; and when he has discovered that, there no doubt that he will at once repeal the accursed New Poor Law Act, which was passed under the assumption and -;tive declaration that the working classes were idle, lazy, - nt, and profligate ! The truth is, and it is impossible e working to lay too much stress upon this one fact, the philosophers are a race of men who are eveidreaming of a state of exist ence without restraint, which they call "liberty," but which we, of the Christian school, know to mean libertinism. To pave the way for the consummation of their hopes, they want to get rid of the aristocracy on the one hand, and of the poor on the other. It mars their peace to see a race of men, who, from their station, are so much their superiors. The re straint which homage imposes makes them miserable; and then, the poor are so burdensome," that, in order to gratify Ile selfishness of our philosophers, and to ease them of the :traiiit required by the support of the poor, a dogma was 'ushingly propounded, th a t " the poor have no right to that nature never provided a seat for them at her " Upon that doctrine, so contrary to the divine law, , e w poor law founded ; and this philosophy sue ,ndermining the Christianity of the constitution, ued got rid of the claims of the poor. To accom 'ish desires of these philosophers, (the destruc ocraey and the poor,) they have pictured the as mo nsters, and have succe e d e d i n setting The result has been that th e d e l uded Sri ...ve been beguile d Ice. by the sophistries of th e p h ilo- anbelieving in s the great d that the poor were in reality lemon which they were depicted, rui see Lord Brougham ' he fables of s speech on proposing the • ew poor law), a law that has been passed, on the principle let the poor have no rights. 1 at var schoolmaster DUTIES.--1n the morning, think what thou hest to do ; and at night ask thyself what thou hast done. We learn from Corfu that the harvest of Corinth grapes has been very good this year both in quality and quantity. Cephalonia has produced nearly 12,000,000 of pounds, arid Zatite about. 7,000,000. A fall in the price is therefore . loolc.ed far. It was expected that a very large quantity of exceltent olive oil would be made , as the trees were loade d with fruit in fine condition. UNITED The followintj d i )peaeed in a 'third Edition o f Tuesdab The South America, which arrived in the river this after- loon a litti ,fter four o'clock, brings intelligence from UTHI America to the Ist instant, being four days later than the advices previously received Owing, in all probability, to the expectation that the Cale- donia would reach this port before the South America, very The anxiety few papers were brought by the latter vessel to obtain the intelligence was intense : the piers were crowded the whole day. THE M'LEOD CASE UTICA, WEDNESDAY, Late last night, and during the whole of this morning, witnesses arrived here in great numbers, both for the prose cution and the prisoner. The survivors of the Patriot army, which was in possession of Navy Island when the Caroline was destroyed, have come, with all the officers of that short lived provisional government of which M'Kenzie was Presi dent pro tem. From Buffalo, Canada, and for a great extent along the frontier, the cry is " still they come." Mr. Bradley and Mr. Gardener, Mr. Spencer's associate counsel for the prisoner, have arrived from Canada with vo lumious testimony, taken under commission, and many wit nesses to sustain his defence, and all parties are now ready to go to trial. It is now, however, well understood that the trial will not commence until Monday next, and, in the mean time, Judge Grindly will clear the calendars, both civil and criminal. It is not at all improbable that the case will occupy twelve or fourteen days. The evidence of those upon the boat, says the Herald, in relation to the identity of Nl`Leod, is much less conclu sive than of those who swear they saw him go and return with the expedition from the Canada shore. For the defence an alibi, probably unsuccessful, (says the Herald) will be attempted to be proved. Some have en tirely refused to testify. They swear they did not see M'Leod with the expedition. We judge, continues the Herald, that though a strong case will be made against M'Leod, the jury will not agree upon a verdict : but that the trial will show that the destruction of the Caroline was wholly indetens The Herald thus concludes :—The grounds of difference between the two great countries are daily and hourly growing broader and better defined ; the atrocious kidnapping of Col. Grogan has stirred the whole northern frontier to a deed of mutiny, and there is the strongest necessity for prompt and energetic action, either to maintain peace or to prepare for The New York Herald of the Ist contains an account of an interview with Mr. Wells, the owner of the Caroline, and one of the witnesses on the trial of M`Leod. He says the Navy Island expedition was a failure, that the boat was unarmed, and that no moan will swear that he saw Al'Leod shoot Durfee. An alibi, by oral testimony, S will be one branch of the de fence; the next will be the examination recently taken in Canada to negative the positive evidence that M`Leod took part in the affair of the Caroline. Another branch of the defence will be, the general character of the transaction, the circumstances of the times; in short, impunity will be claimed on the ground that the Caroline was engaged in an open war on the British Province, and that she was cut off by the order of the proper authorities. The sales at the Stock Board had been large on the day previous to the vessel sailing, and prices had generally de clined. The M`Leod affair and the outrages on the border had had a great influence in the monetary circles. CASE OF COLONEL GROGAN The citizens of St. Alban's held meetings on the 21 and 22d ult., for collecting the testimony in regard to the seizure of Colonel Grogan. It appears from one of the affidavits, that on the 19th ult• there were present at the tavern of J. M. Sowles, at Alburgh , a short distance from the line, sundry persons from Canada, in company with James W. Grogan, and among the rest a dragoon who urged Grogan to drink, and was particu larly attentive to him, so much so that his extraordinary courtesies became suspicious. These suspicions were im mediately communicated to Grogan, and he was advised that a plan was on foot to kidnap him and to transport him to Canada. Grogan finally following the friendly advice given him, went to Alburgh city, so called, and afterwards went to pass the night at the house of Mr. William Brown, his bro ther-in-law, who resides about three miles within the boundary line. Another affidavit states that a gang of armed men entered the house of Mr. Brown on the 20th ult., and they were in the uniform of British soldiers, and fully armed. This affi davit then goes on to state that Grogan was seized and dragged from his bed apparently strangled. From another affidavit it appeared that a gentleman over took a waggon, at the bottom of which, Grogan was placed badly wounded and bruised. He was taken to Missisquoi Bay, and from thence to Montreal. The outrage on Mr. Grogan has caused a great excitement all along the frontier. A call for a public meeting (to take place on the evening of the 27th in relation to the affair was issued at Burlington on the 24th, signed by a large number of the citizens. LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA We have received, through the " Boston Mail," advice. from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo to the 6th ult. There had been a severe and important naval engagemen between the squadrons of Buenos Ayres, under:Commodon Brown, and Montevideo, under Commodore Coe. Victor) crowned the efforts of the latter, and the blockade o Montevideo has been raised in consequence. The above intelligence, brought by the South America, we were enabled to give in a third edition of Tuesday's STA2iDARD. About eight o'clock in the evening of that day the Caledonia arrived in the river. She departed from Bos ton on the day appointed—namely, Saturday, the 2d instant. On the following day she encountered a heavy sea, and, on Sunday, the 4th, the weather was so tempestuous that she was compelled to lie to, having lost one of her quarter boats, and several of her crew having sustained serious injury. After braving most severe weather, she at length arrived at Halifax, at six o'clock on the evening of the 7th instant. At a quarter past six o'clock on the evening of the Bth, she set steam for Liverpool. Notwithstanding that she had boisterous weather nearly all the way home, she has performed the voyage in eleven days. She has brought home 53 passengers, a list of whom, with an abstract of her log, we have subjoined. The Acadia arrived out on the 2d instant. She also appears to have experienced much tempestuous weather. The additional information brought by the Cale donia is not important. With reference to the case of Col. Grogan, the Boston Morning Post, in the following para graph, throws some new light upon the affair : " The dragoons who kidnapped Colonel Grogan do not belong to what is considered the regular British army. The regular soldiers, when placed on the frontier, have deserted to such an extent, that the government has been compelled to raise a force in the province for frontier service • and to this force the dragoons belonged. The men and officers are chosen from those who are the loudest in their profession of loyalty to the Queen, and most bitter in their prejudices against the republicans of the States. They draw their pay and rations from the British government ; and although they cannot be considered the most fit men to preserve peace on the frontiers, they are the most unscrupulous tools of tyranny, and those who would naturally be chosen to do the work that they were lately engaged in." The natural consequence of the unsettled state of affairs relative to great Britain, and of the increasing difficulties, is great pressure on the money market, inactivity of business, and a general depreciation of stock. The complaints of the inanimate state of business were general. There was but little current money in circulation, and the exchange brokers were entirely without occupation. United States Bank shares were at 5.1. At Philadelphia, on the 29th ult., United States Bank notes, to the amount of 3,000 dollars, had sold at the board of brokers at 66 cents on the dollar. Exchange on England. for the packet of the Ist and for the steamer, was at% to 10 per cent. premium. Bills were very scarce and in great demand. The cotton market was still inactive. Great fears had been entertained that, owing to the small demand for cotton in this country, and the probability of a large crop, the dealers would be distressed, and the planters unable to obtain anything like a saving price. It is stated, however, . that the prospects of a large crop is extremely doubtful. The Macon (Georgia) Messenger of the 213 t ult. has the follow ing, from which it appears that a failure in that district wag apprehended : "A few weeks since, the prospect of a large crop was never more favourable. But for the last three weeks there has been more or less rain evefy day. (except three or four,) which has greatly changed the prospect. Great injury is now daily taking place from the rot, worms, and other causes incidental to a wet season. We can now say, without a doubt, that the crop must be short of an average one ; and if the rains continue, that it will be almost a total failure." The news from Canada is scanty and unimportant. The death of the Governor-General seems to have thrown a gloom over the society of the colony. The funeral of his lordship took place at Kingston, on the 23d ult. The day was ob served as one of mourning and solemnity. The shops and places of business were all closed, and trading and mechanical operations were entirely suspended. The flags of the vessels in the harbour, says one of the papers, "drooped mourn- .. . fully at half-mast, „ and the people in the town everywhere put on, along with the garments, ' the spirit of heaviness.' " BRITISH STEAM-SHIPS ON THE LAKES A good deal of solicitude has been produced on the fron tier by the British government building several armed steam ships on the lakes, and the opinion prevails that it has been done in violation of the treaty between Great Britain and this country. The Albany Evening Journal gives the facts in the matter. . . A treaty or arrangement was made in 1817 between the two countries, by which it was stipulated that the naval farces to be maintained upon the American Lakes by the respective parties, should thereafter be confined to the following vessels on each side : " On Lake Ontario, to one vessel not exceeding 100 tons burden, and armed with an 18 pound cannon. " On the Upper Lakes, to one vessel not exceeding a like burden, and armed with like force. " On the waters of Lake Champlain, one vessel not ex ceeding like burden, and armed with like force." It is further agreed, that if either party should thereafter be desirous of annulling the agreement, and should give six months notice to that effect, the agreement should cease to be binding after the expiration of the six months. The Bri tish government gave notice to the President of the United States in November, 1838, that the Government had found it necessary to increase their armament on the lakes. Mr. Van Buren seems to have supposed that it was per fectly proper and safe to let the British government have as I l f a r rg uu e ti a er lefodrecfeenuopeonsa on ourthe lake p s ar a t. s it pleased, and to leave the A. CANDID DOCTOR.—In the course of an inquest held on Wednesday, Mr. Wakley said that a short time since he held an inquest on the body pf a person who had been slightly bitten by a d og , unlike those o f h ydrophobia. and was attended sedulously The de cease d h a d s h own s y m pto ms no t by a surgeon up to the time of his death. Mr. Wakley, ex amining the surgeon, asked him the cause of the death of his patient, and the surgeon, with great naivete - and frankness, answered, " I cannot positively tell. Ido not know whether be died from the effects of the bite or from those of the medi cines I administered to him." lINATIO ND COMMITTAi OF GENERAL WASHER ,GEP WITH COMMITTING MUILPI THREE YEARS AGO LEWES, TUESDAY.--Yesterday General Washer was brought before the Earl of Chichester, Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley, and Mr. Blackman, the sitting magistrates, charged with the wilful murder of Hannah Devonshire, alias Smith. Several witnes the pit, and Briggs having I deposed to the position of the body in also to the rumour of a man of the name of n charged with the murder, after which, Jane SaxtO'n deposed that she exchanged a pair of specta cles with the prisoner about two years ago. The spectacles produced are the pair witness received from him. She has had them in her possession ever since. When the Prisoner exchanged the spectacles he put on a pair belonging to wit ness, and said he could see very well in them, and that he had a pair at home that be thought would suit witness better. The prisoner then brought them, but slid not tell witness where he got them, but that they were too hold for him. Witness never thought about the spectacles until Tuesday last, which made her say when last examined that the spec tacles had only just come up. Witness handed the specta cles to the constable last week. In answer to a question by . the prisoner, the witness posi tively swore that she only received one pair from him. The prisoner said his wife brought the pair of spectacles produced from London, and that he gave the last witness two pairs for her one pair. William Smith, the man who lived with the deceased up to the time of her death, recollected her having a pair of spectacles. Witness said the ones produced were them, and that he could select them from amongst a hundred pairs. They had a glass broken, which was put in, and ears added to prevent them falling off, by Mr. English, of the Cliff, Lewes. Witness added, that the glasses suited him very well ; he tried them on and felt satisfied they were the pair in the deceased's possession when she left home. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, declared he was as innocent of the crime alleged against him as the first day he was born. The Noble Chairman said it was the opinion of himself and brother magistrates. that the prisoner should be com mitted for trial on the serious charge of murder. The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes, and the witnesses were bound over to pro secute. LAST MOMENTS OF LORD SYDENHAM The following account of the death-bed scene of this la mented nobleman is extracted from the letter of an eye witness : " For about a week after the accident (a fall on horseback, by which his leg was broken, and at the same time a deep and painful wound inflicted just above the knee) he appeared to be going on tolerably well, and, although he himself re peatedly expressed doubts as to his recovery, there was no thing to lead us to suppose, nor did the medical men give us to understand, that his presentiment was more than the na tural consequence of the lowness produced by weakness. " On Monday, however, the 13th, spasms came on, first in the leg, and afterwards in the stomach and throat ; yet still we had no idea that a fatal result would ensue. The proro gation had at first been fixed for Wednesday, and subsequent ly, at the request of the assembly, postponed until Friday ; and so little prepared were we then for what was to follow, that during Thursday the Governor-General was employed in giving his decision on the several bills which had been passed, and in revising the draft of the speech which, at his desire, had been prepared for him. " On Friday morning his illness increased so much that he was obliged to put off the prorogation, and after consultation with his medical advisers, he determined to prorogue the parliament by deputation. General Clitherow being the senior military officer at present at Kingston, was selected for the purpose, and prorogued the parliament on Saturday morning, at twelve o'clock, giving, at the same time, the royal assent or reservation to the bills which had all pre viously received Lord Sydenham's decision, and almost all of them his signature. In the night of Friday occurred that great change which made it evident that Lord Sydenham's illness was rapidly approaching to a fatal termination. Every one of his symptoms was fearfully aggravated, and even those who had before hoped most were forced to confess that hope Was now vain. He was perfectly conscious of his own state, and about two o'clock on Saturday_ afternoon he, together with all his establishment, received the sacrament.' He then dictated to Mr. Dowling his will. To all his establishment he left some token of his regard. He desired to be remem bered to Lord J. Russell, to whom he bequeathed a memorial of his friendship, and when that part of his will was read over to him, he exerted himself to say, with emphasis, though in terrupted by violent spasms in the throat, Dowling, Lord John is the noblest man it has ever been my good fortune to know.' He then took leave of us all individually, saying something kind to each. To Mr. Murdoch, civil secretary, he expressed a wish that he should write the history of his administration in Canada. He repeatedly mentioned his continued interest in this country, and his satisfaction that the parliament was prorogued, the great institutional mea sures he had devised and proposed to parliament passed into law, and the purposes of his mission accomplished. To his private secretary he said, ' Good bye, Grey ; you will defend my memory. Mind, Grey, you will defend my memory !' He then spoke kindly to Major Campbell and Mr. Baring, adding, (motioning his hand to all,) ' Now leave me alone with Adamson (his chaplain) to die.' " The rest of that day and the whole night were spent by him in prayer and conversation with his chaplain. During this period he suffered very much, but his mind never for an instant failed, nor appeared to be clouded by his approaching death. Once or twice his spasms were so severe that we were afraid he was gone; but it was not until seven o'clock on Sunday morning that we were summoned into his room to see him breathe his last. At this moment all pain seemed to have ceased ; his countenance had resumed its usual expres sion. He gave one long steady look up on us all around the bed, and expired at five minutes past seven o'clock. " I cannot conclude without adding my confident belief that in Canada Lord Sydenham has not left one personal enemy. and that his death in the service of his Queen and this colony, for whose welfare he died a martyr (since there can be no doubt that the severity of the two winters lie passed here, acting on a constitution not over strong, alone rendered him unequal to bear the effects of an injury, not otherwise of a fatal character), will be hallowed to its good, that over his untimely grave past differences will be forgotten, a spirit of charity grow up and flourish, and all parties unite cordially to carry out the policy and administer the laws which his master-mind devised and his master-hand enacted. " Lord Sydenham had just accomplished his forty-second year a few days only before his death." IMPORTANT INVENTION IN MACHINERY Our attention has been called, by an article in one of the provincial newspapers, to a very important mechanical in vention, for which a patent has recently been granted to two Scotch gentlemen, and which promises to effect a greater and more beneficial change in the working of machinery than has taken place since those most brilliant discoveries of Watt. The two great drawbacks of the steam-engine (besides the large space it occupies) have been the bulk, and the conse quent expense of the fuel which it requires—the latter pre venting its application to many purposes for which it would otherwise have been a most effective agent; and the former impeding its locomotive energy, and confining it, particularly as regards navigation, within comparatively narrow lim ts. Any reduction in either of these respects is thereby obviouisly so much clear gain. The invention to which we allude pro mises to effect a prodigious saving in both, by diminishing the expenditure of fuel to somewhat less than one-fifth of what is now required for an equal degree of power. It has already, we are informed, been put to the test by the con struction of an engine of about 20-horse power, which has far some time been driving all the machinery of an extensive foundry with no larger consumption than we have just men tioned, and with every prospect of a considerably greater reduction being effected by some slight changes in the details. The motive power used is the common atmospheric air; and another great advantage of the new engine arises from a saving of space, equal to what is usually occupied by the fur nace and boilers of a steam-engine. If these things be so, it is impossible to calculate the results to which so important a discovery must lead. The following is a description of the engine referred to : The air-engine now working at the Dundee Foundry, for which a patent was lately taken out, is the joint invention of the Rev. Dr. Stirling, of Galston, and of his brother, Mr. Stirling, engineer, of Dundee. The principle of the inven tion consists in alternately heating and cooling two bodies of air confined in two separate vessels, which are so arranged, that by the strokes of two plungers, worked by the engine, the whole of the air contained in one of the vessels is sent to the lower end immediately over the furnace, and is conse quently made quite hot, while the whole of the air contained in the other vessel is at the same time transmitted to the upper end, which is cut off from any communication with the furnace, and is therefore comparatively cold. The expansion caused by the heat renders the air in the one vessel alter nately much more elastic than that in the other ; and the two ends of the working cylinder, which is fitted with a piston similar to that of a steam-engine, being respectively con nected with the two air vessels, a preponderating pressure is produced, by turns, on each side of the piston, which is thereby pushed to the opposite end of the cylinder, and so, by the alternate action of the plungers in the two air vessels, it continues a reciprocating motion, and is applied to turn a crank in the same way that a steam-engine does. It has been satisfactorily shown that this engine may be worked with very great economy of fuel as compared with a steam engine. The principal means of producing the saving is this—that of the heat which is communicated to the air from the furnaces, only a very small portion is entirely thrown away when it comes again to he cooled ; for. by making the air, in its way from the hot to the cold end of the air-vessel, to pass through a chamber divided into a number of small apertures or passages, the great extent of surface with which it is thereby brought in contact, extracts from it in the first place, but only temporarily, the greater part of the heat, and afterwards restores it to the air on its passage back again from the cold to the hot end of the vessel. The process of cooling is finally completed, by making the air pass through between a number of tubes in which there is a current of cold water, and thus far the heat cannot he made available again ; but the portion which is abstracted in this way is very small. As a sufficient expansive power co u ld not be attained in so small a space without greater alterna tions of temperature from using air of the common density of the atmosphere, the air used is pretty highly compressed, and a much greater power is thereby obtained upon a given area of the piston. A small air-pump, worked by the engine, is therefore necessary to keep up the air to the requisite den sity ; but very little power is expended on this ; all that is re quired of the pump, after the engine has been once charged, be ' ing to supply anyloss of air that may arise from leakage, which is found to be very trifling. The machine has been working oc casionally for above six months, and it has been proved to be capable of performingadvantageously the amount of work which the inventors had anticipated from their calculations and pre vious experiments. It has now for up war d s o f a mont h b een driving all the machinery at the extensiv e eng i neer i ng wor k s of the Dundee Foundry, which a steam-engine of approved construction had hitherto been employed to do ; and it has been ascertained that the expenditure of fuel is, ceteris pa ribus, less than one-fifth part of wh a t was requ i re d f or the s t eam -engine; but as considerable improvements are con templated in some of the details, it i s con fid ent l y expected that a much greater saving will eventually be effected. The whole machine, including its furnaces and heating apparatus, stands in about the same space that a steam-engine of equal power would occupy without its furnaces and boiler. Taking into account the saying of space along with the vast economy of fuel, this inception must necessarily be of immense impor tance for all ordinary purposes requiring motive power. As an instance, it !could reduce the expense of the power em ployed in driving machinery in Dundee alone by at least I:23,000 or -£30,000 a-year. But, vi ewe d i n re f erence t o th e pur poses of navigation, it must lead to results more extraor dinary, and will render a voyage to India round the Cape, by machinery, a matter of perfectly easy accomplishment.— Mining Journal. THE TEA TRADE--LONDON, MO NDAY .—T he mar k et f or tea has been steadier since this day week, and the public sales have gone off much better than could have been antici pated, seeing the heavy supplies that have come in continually, and the still larger quantities daily expected. Great difference of opinioia exists, swayed, no doubt, by interest in many cases, as to the future range of prices ; but as some o f t h e dealers unconnected with speculation have suffered their stocks to get very low, as a matter of prudence in the event of any sudden change in the state of affairs at Canton, they are ohliged to come into the market as purchase rs f or present wants, and this prevents a fall in priees. The deli ver i es l as t week amounted to 463, 550 lbs., being an increase on the previous fortnight. DON MONF.V MARKET AND TRADE REPORT. WEDNEi4DAY EVENING. — The tenour of the intelligence from the Uhired States was regarded in the City and on the - Stock Exchange as of rather a favourable complexion, but why does not so clearly appear, unless it must be taken for granted that people having made up their minds to find M`Leod tried, condemned and hung by the present arrivals, were agreeably disappointed that no one of these grave events had taken place so late as the 2d instant. Upon the strength of this more encouraging aspect of affairs Consols improved s to 87-1 to 8 for money, and 884- to for account. Bank Stock was 162-i to 31.. India Stock 242 2 - to 34. Exchequer Bills 10s. to 12s. premium. In Foreign Stocks as in the Home there was not much bu siness doing. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 51-4. to ' the Five per Cents. 991 to Belgian 102 to 3. Spanish improved to-day, the Active with the Coupons being 20k to I. Portuguese Five per Cents 294- to the Three per Cents 171 to 18. Brazilian 42 to 51. Mexican 23-i to 41,. Co lombian 18i to 191. The markets for colonial produce were firm, with a moderate business doing. _ The public sales of tea were brought to a close to-day. The result is a decline of Id. per lb. on green teas, and about former prices for other sorts. Company's Congou was at Is. 91d. to Is. 9&d. per lb: cash. Tallow was steady to-day. Prime yellow candle, 475. 6d. per cwt. on the spot. In the Hamburgh commercial markets during the week ending the 15th instant, coffee was quiet, owing to the arrival of supplies. Sales 5600 bags Brazil, at 31d. to 5d., and 1100 Domingo, at 4kd. to Cid. sell. The ord and good ord sorts were lower. In raw sugar large transactions; 800 to 9uo boxes white and brown Bahia; 1300 brown and yellow Havana; 6000 bags 'Manilla; 400,000 lbs. molasses. Rice sold for present wants. About 1000 boxes Cassir Lignea sold. English pimento was at 3 1-16 to 34. sch. English pepper, no alteration. Auctions of tobacco were coming on. COMMISSION OF BANKRUPTCT EXTRAORDINARY PROFLIGACY.—IN RE DAUNCEY. BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 20.—Some months ago the papers contained an account of the apprehension and committal of William Dalton Dauncey, ironmaster, a young man aged 22 only, charged with feloniously absconding from his creditors, and taking refuge upon the continent, instead of surrender ajng to his fiat of bankruptcy. It will be recollected that the bankrupt, who for a period of a year and three-quarters oc cupied the Bordesley and Atlas mills, was taken by Superin tendent Stephens at a ball at Cuxhaven, and was afterwards committed to take his trial at the last Warwick Spring As sizes, but owing to an objection, grounded upon the invali dity of the notice served at the late residence of the bank rupt when the fiat was issued, he was, under the direction of Mr. Justice Patteson, acquitted. The creditors, prepared for this result, and determined that he should not escape with impunity, lodged a detainer against him, and Dauncey was transferred from the criminal to the debtor's side of Warwick Gaol. He subsequently petitioned, the Insolvent Debtors Court for his discharge, and the schedule which he was com pelled to ;file for that purpose has exposed a course of reckless profligacy never before exhibited in any bankruptcy case in Birmingham. Dauncey having been remanded by the Com missioner of the last Insolvent Debtors Court held at War wick until the next circuit, the assignees under his fiat have, within these few days, brought him in custody from War wick, and subjected him to a searching examination before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy at the Waterloo-rooms in this town. At Dauncey's examination it appeared he commenced business at the latter • end of the year 1838, and was bankrupt in the summer of 1810. During this period he con tracted debts to the amount of £19,183 Bs., having com menced business with a capital of £lOOO, and realised a profit of £3OOO, amounting together to £23,183 Bs. The assets were estimated at £1,668, leaving a deficiency of £21,515, which was accounted for by the bankrupt as follows — s. d. 1,484 17 8 770 0 0 225 0 0 Amount of debts owing to me, about For rent .. Keep of horses during 1 years, about Discount and interest paid and allowed on bills and accounts during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0 Carriage of goods during this period, about .. 1,500 0 0 Taxes .. • • 175 0 0 Servants' wages, including wages paid to work men, about .. . 4,580 0 0 Other household expenses for years, about 1,000 0 0 Expenditure on the Continent, from Septem ber, 1810, to March, 1841, about .. 400 0 0 Clothes for It years, at £5O a-year, about .. 90 0 0 Law charges during the same period, about .. 100 0 0 Surgeons' bills, about .. .. 20 0 0 Travelling expenses 1,000 0 0 Loss on erecting four new furnaces, and pulling down old ones, at Bordesley, about .. 600 0 0 Loss on erecting guide mill, &c., at Bordesley Ironworks, about .. .. 502 0 0 Loss by paying to millwrights, engineers, black- smiths, bricklayers, labourers, &c., to repair breakages at different times, about .. 600 0 0 Loss by breakages of driving-wheels and engine 300 0 0 Loss by breakage of connecting-rod, about 2OO 0 0 Loss by breakage of crank-pin, standards. cen tres, motions, and other parts of engine, about 100 0 0 Loss by breakage of rolls, pins, & boxes, about 100 0 0 Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £2 per ton .. l,OOO 0 0 Loss on stock of iron at the reduction of £1 per ton, about .. 350 0 0 Loss on dead outlay, as paid Mr. G. Jellico on entering Bordesley works, about .. 650 0 0 Loss on breakages at the Atlas works, about 700 0 0 Loss at Dunkirk at the game of Lasquinette 370 0 0 Loss on a horse race at Wurtzen, in Prussia, about .. .. • . 70 0 0 Loss by damaged iron during this period, about 500 0 0 Difference between my sale and valuation and my estimate of the value, about 1,500 0 0 Money in my possession when I was taken into custody Excepted articles, as by valuation 9 10 0 Difference between valuation and cost price 5 0 0 Deficiency Amount of debts for which I have received no consideration 5,416 10 0 25,845 4 2 The bankrupt was then questioned in a searching manner as to several of the sums mentioned above, and answered in the most loose and vague way ; and being unable to give sa tisfactory answers to many of the questions, the commission ers adjourned the examination. Not more than £4O has as yet been received from the estate of the bankrupt. The family of Dauncey are living in a style of great respectability in the neighbourhood of Warwick. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE (From Tuesday's Morning Herald.) Yesterday afternoon the tide in the River Thames rose to a height which has not been remembered by the oldest in habitant on its banks. _ From Blackwall to a considerable distance above the bridges, it was one continued flood. The water washed the steps of Fishmongers' Hall, on the city side of London-bridge. On the opposite side, at Bank side, the water was at least five or six feet above the wharfs, and Messrs. Barclay's brewhouse, in Park-street, was com pletely afloat, and their extensive cellars filled. It is impossible to calculate the extent of the damage done, but it must be immense. _ The Temple-gardens overflowed, and a boat might be seen rowed over them. On the opposite side of the river was the same. Half an hour before high water the passen gers by the Moonlight steamer had to jump for the steps at Waterloo-bridge, and at Hungerford-market it was necessary to have a boat to convey the passengers on board. The Duke of Buccleuch's garden's was seen wholly under water. The enormous coffer-dam at Westminster-bridge was full of water, and' all labour was suspended. The damage done most serious; At Lambeth, the Bishop's-walk was two feet under water, and the tide flowed into the churchyard. It was necessary to have boats to convey the passengers from the church to the steam-boats. Fore-street, which is the next to the river, was flooded; and up to six o'clock the water was being pumped out of the kitchins and cellars. On Millbank, at Johnson's-wharf, the river found its way into the low ground by the side of the Penitentiary, and en tirely stopped the passage on that side of the river. It was the same at the old Ranelagh-gardens ; but here more seri ous mischief has been done. At Battersea, and especially near the Red House, the destruction was most severe. The gardens at the South end of Chelsea College were under water, and it was necessary, when the steam-boat arrived at Chelsea, to take the passengers in a boat and put them through a granary window, for the garden of the Old Swan was a part of the river. Battersea Bridge appeared nearly under water. A poor woman was drowned in Plough-alley, Wapping. She was bed-ridden, and the inmates of the house where she lived, forgetting her in the confusion which prevailed, the water rushed in, filled the apartment where she was confined, and she was drowned. It was reported that another female and her child were drowned in a house near the same place, but it was impossible to approach the place to ascertain the particulars. The excitement among the poor people in this neighbourhood was extreme, and parents were running about in all directions, seeking for their children who were missing, and who, they were fearful, had been swallowed up by the angry flood : _ _ _ _ . At six o'clock in the afternoon th e t ra i n s discontinued running on the Blackwall railway, in consequence of the rail way being overflowed at the Blackwall end. Yesterday afternoon the spring -tide rose to a most extra ordinary height at Greenwich, Deptford, &e. The extensive rope grounds of Henderby, Esq., at East Greenwich, were flooded and completely under water, which had forced the embankment. The Greenwich marshes, in the occupa tion of Messrs. J. and T. Wheatley, the coach-proprietors, were covered with one sheet of water._ The borough of Greenwich, from Waterman's Pier towards the church, a distance of 400 feet and upwards. presented a stream deep enough to float a large boat, and in the space of half an hour all the cellars, kitchens, and lower premises were filled with water. The market-garden grounds belonging to Joshua Hargrave, Esq., coun t y magistrate, were in alike condition, and many of the arc he s o f t h e Greenwich railway might be passed in boat s . D ept f or d -creek Deptford-bridge, the houses on the south side of Blackheath -road, were all covered with water, and the Flood reached the parlour doors of a vast number of house s . Th e d a mage done to. property situated in the lower part of D e ptf or d a nd Botherluthe is stated to be very considerable. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee The Performances of this Evening will commence at Half. past Seven. Doors to be Opened at Seven. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MRS. '►FOOD, And the Last Night of the Engagement of Mrs. WOOD, Mr. WOOD, Mr. GIUBILEI, Miss POOLE, Mr. BROUGH, and Madame GIUBILEI. THIS present FRIDAY, October 22, 1841, will be per formed, for the last time, a Comic Opera, in three Acts, called the POSTILION OF LONJUMEAU. The whole of the Music by Adolph Adam. Madeline Mrs. Wood. Chapelou Mr. Wood. Marquis de Courcy...Mr. Giubilei. Bijou At the end of the Opera, " A Pas de Deux," by Madame Giubilei and Miss C. Webster. To conclude with the Burletta of MIDAS. _ Apollo Miss Pool?. ... Mr. Baker Midas' Daphne Mrs. P. Crowe Nysa ysis. Madame Simon. On MONDAY next. the 25th inst., the popular favourites, MR. and MISS VAN DEN OFF, will commence an En gagement at this Theatre, for a limited number of nights, when will be performed the Play of RICHELIEU. Cardi nal Richelieu, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Baradas, (on this occasion,) Mr. Stuart; Mauprat, Mr. H. Hull ; Francois, Mr. Pelham, from the Theatre-Royal, Bath, his first appearance here ; Julie de Mortemar, Miss Vandenhoff.—To conclude with the Farce of the IRISH LION. Tom More (the Irish Lion), Mr. T. Lee; Capt. Dixon, Mr. Pelham; Mrs. Fizgig, Mrs. Clarke. On MONDAY next, and for the remainder of the Season after that evening, the performances will commence at SEVEN o'clock. Doors to be opened at HALF-PAST SIN. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Nov. 19.—There was an exceedingly dull I and inanimate m ar k e t y ester d a y, both for yarn and goods, notwithstanding the gradual advance in cotton at Liverpool. There was no alteration in the prices of yarn ; but most de. . scriptions of goods continue to decline. and sales are mac' .e at prices never before heard of. ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, OCTOT , ER 18.—The market has be e n well attended to - day , and the , de mand for flannels quite equal to that of last Monday ; but there has been no alteration in the prices. The wool _mar ket has been rather duller, and prices may be quoted : a s h a d e lower. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCTOBER 19.—T1 . ,i s was a flat market generally, arising mainly from our uncertain relations with America and the unfavou rable as p er tof affairs in many parts of the world. Buyers are at alr iss how to act, and the manufacturers are equally cautious i' c producing, consequently stocks are small and pr ices firm. New choice fabrics in sma ll parce l s were bought freely ; b at the general trade was below an average. Business in the warehouses is f depression, better than expe c t e d am id s t s o many causes o A POPULAR FALLACY.—(BY Hood,) ." When you are eating, leave off hungry." Do no such thing. Supposi ng your appetite to be honest and hearty — ' ) pampered craving for delicacies, but a natural demand fo' : wholesome food— why then no shabby instalments , no . ounce in the p oun d compositions with hu nger —pay in tn , 1. The claim of the stomach is a just one, and let it be , handsomely satisfied. Leave off hungry!—Pshaw !—as well say_ when you are wash ing yourself leave off dirty. There is only one reasonable reason that can b e urge d i n f avo ur o f thus bringing a meal to an " untimely end "—namely, tha' you cannot get enough to eat. In such a case necessiti makes the absolute, and you may . leave off as " hungry • is a hunter " who has not caught his hare. B ut w i t h t h e w bole joint before yo u — ea t your ffll. As for the ru le, the re is only one maxim of th e kind that is worth any thing-1 lamely, when you are dying, leave off alive. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET LAST WEEK of the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH working his Wonders. Last Night of the SONS OF EX TEMPORANEOUS HARMONY. THE LANCASHIRE BELL RINGERS. Last appearance of Mr. C. SLOMAN in Liverpool. All who wish to see the Great Delusionist, or the Miracle of the Nineteenth Century! must visit the Liver during this Week, as it will be the only opportunity the Lovers of the Marvel lous will have of beholdingthis SON of DELUSION, whose extraordinary powers have caused all to wonder, from the throne to the peasant, from the peasant to the philosopher. " COME ONE, COME ALL." The Wizard will be found incomprehensible as he is invul nerable. Hundreds of the best of the Liverpoel Sportsmen have tried in vain to WING him, but he is still on the wing, and will for One Week more be their LIVING TARGET. The Wizard hopes that " Homo invulnerabilis" will still be his motto; and he pledges himself that he will exert all his Powers to please his Patrons, and to fill his Magic Temple to the ceiling. C.:::fr REMEMBER THE LAST WEEK—POZ ! When the WIZARD will VANISH, Mr. C. SLOMAN will DISAPPEAR, and the BELL-RINGERS will EVA PORATE! Prices of admission :—Boxes, 2s. Gd ; Pit, Is. Gd. ; Gallery, 6d. Second price at Half-past Nine o'clock :—Boxes, ls. Gd.; Pit Is. No second price to the Gallery. Doors open at Seven; Wizard commences at Eight. men; we aro competed to adversaries, , Arlto ut it by the conduct of our do only with persons of their own sort ; consequently, unless it be our pleasure to give the ascendancy to the opposite side, we must abide most strictly by their example. This is the necessitus rei ; but we have shown that there is a better reason for the practice, and that if we were quite free to act at our own dis cretion this is the course of conduct we ought to pur- sue for its own intrinsic worth and fitnes To say that a man is neutral on the great questions of general politics, and has his party yet to choose, is simply acknowledging a defect of character ; neutrality is not his virtu?, but his fault; and it is a fault in these times so serious, that it is a duty, perhaps pain fully, but certainly,.and really incumbent upon his fel low citizens, to exclude him on this very account from a post having any sort of political trust connected with After the ample and bitter experience which the country has had of the consequences which follow , . from the ascendency of Radicalism in the national councils, there can be no object more worthy of a good citizen than to use every means in his power to prevent the recurrence of so great a calamity. Now there can not be a doubt that this object will be very powerfully, though indirectly, assisted, by shutting out the princi ple and the party in our municipal, and every other institution, with which an influence is connected. Let us make the Corporation of Liverpool conservative, and we shall, by that act, give a moral support to the administration of Sir Robert Peel, of a value propor- tionate to the importance of so large, populous, and wealthy a town. It will be another leaf added to the crown which our glorious cause has lately achieved ; and the advantage will not be without its reciprocity, for we 'do expect that if the government of Sir Robert Peel would derive any additional weight from Liverpool choosing a council whose political principles should be in harmony with his, so Liverpool would be no loser by affording this additional proof of its political identi- TO CORRESPONDENTS " Pedestrian" says St. George's Clock is again unwell. We cannot procure for our Newry correspondent a copy of the STANDARD containing the Protestant Meeting, and therefore forward him a copy of the publication of to-day. A person in the position represented by " Decency" would certainly not be justified in acting as he suggests, and it very rarely happens that the circulars to which he alludes are sufficiently offensive to warrant magisterial interference, as the law is now constituted. Ebr Etimpoot als , tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1841 When the " old," " corrupt," " self-nominated " Tory Corporation of Liverpool was prostrated by the Municipal Reform Act, and a rampant and conceited " liberal" junto succeeded in scrambling into the pos session of local office, and the powers and dignities thereof, what miracles did an expectant world open wide its eyes to behold, as the result of the long-desi derated change ! Not a patriot strutted upon the floor of the Council Chamber who had not his theory or his crotchet, by the carrying out of which the coming of a local millenium was to be advanced. New docks, new public buildings, magnificent warehouses, parks, baths, all created out of surplus revenue—all achieved by the saving of Whig economy—were dilated upon, " From morn to dewy. eve" ; and delighted Imagination beheld already rising up around us a city of palaces, before whose splendours the fame of Tyre in its day of glory was to be eclipsed for ever. And yet now, at the end of six years of Whig supremacy in the Council, what do we behold of all these confidently predicted benefits ? Where are the evidences of that superlative talent, purity, and ho nesty which the Whig party were to introduce into the administration of our local affairs ? Where be the public walks, which were to outvie the hanging gardens of Tivoli—the " playgroUnds," which were to rival the Olympic or the Champs de Mars—the public wash rubs—the corporation cork jackets, to " teach the young idea how to swim"—the pegtops, hoops, bat tledores,—where be these components of the " rus in, rube" which was to spring up beneath the fostering care of the great Athelto of Vauxhall Ward and Lord street, and to be paid for by the cheeseparing parsi mony of the Whig finance committee ? Where, in deed ! We cannot see a vestige of them. They have " dissolved" surely —" The cloud capt towers — The gorgeous pinnacles—the great Hum himself ; And like the baseless fabric of a vision, Left not a wreck behind" ! Undeniably, so far as the public interests of the com- I munity of Liverpool are concerned, the accession of the Whig party to„power in the corporation has been an utter and dire failure. They have not only failed in securing any positive and permanent benefit for the community and posterity, but they have failed even in protecting efficiently the interests committed to their charge. They have not only neglected important op portunities of advancing the interests of the port of Liverpool, but neglected even the bounden duty of re pelling oppression upon its privileges. Need we call to mind their suicidal policy with regard to the ques tion of Inland Bonding or the concessions wrung from them by the Cheshire landowners, owing to their ano malous position in urging forward, in defiance of pub lic opposition, their pet wharehouse scheme ? We need not. These things are fresh in the memory and rank in the nostrils of the constituencies; and when they are added to the insolence of tone which they have on all occasi ons displayed towards the respectable portion of those- c onstituencies, and especially the Church of Engl and portion—when they are viewed _ . _ together with th e reckless jobbing which they have introduced into every department of our local govern ment—with their• gross mismanagement of the revenue of the town, and_ with the deterioration of its morals which has taken place during their administration of the police and the magistracy—we think we need scarcely urge upon the Conservative burgesses the necessity of prompt and vigorous exertions in every ward to deprive , them of any further power in the mal versation in our• local affairs. In every ward, we repeat, Whiggery must be put down. Notwithstanding the filthy alliance with which it is endeavouring to strengthen itself—notwithstanding all its newly acquired strut and bluster—the thing must be trampled upon to ex tinction. The town is sick, heartily sick, of the whole crew of tricky imbeciles ; and would gladly see them drummed out of every ward, to the tune of “- The Rogue's March," with a poker and tongs accompaniment—or to any other tulle, or with any other music that would befit the accomplish ment of so happy a riddance. Their whole career in office }Las been marked with alternate bombast and in capaNlity, selfishness and insolence, pretension and failrue; and if the interests of the community are to bf . advanced, the first step towards such a con summa lion must be a clear sweep of the Council-room, and the restoration of the power of the corporation to the hands of men of business and Conservatives, wh o have in view higher and nobler ends than the administration of its patronage for party objects. " Liberalism, " in the Council, has had its day ; it has left its mark too wherever it has been able to reach. Conservatism has gagged the monster already; and another week, we trust, will see it kicked out of doors and hooted irr.to obscurity. In our last number we stated a few of the reason s why, in choosing municipal representatives, it would be• a great error on the part of the electors to give their support to any man of doubtful principles, and that Conservatives ought to vote for none but openly avowed and express Conservatives. We did not say but that there may be many very excellent and worthy men who would rather avoid being classed in this or any other great political category—marvellously proper persons in business and in private life, but willing to indulge themselves with a sort of amiable neutrality as to general politics ; but we endeavoured to show that neutrals of this sort would by no means answer at the. present time : Non tali auxilio, nec defensonlus istis, Tempus eget. We are under a stringent necessity to discard such fication The religious question connected with the direction and management of the schools, is a distinct evidence that neutrality is a disqualifying circumstance, or certainly ought to be such, in any man coming for ward as a candidate for municipal preferment. It is not, as we have before intimated, the ques a tion just now, how or in what way the educational course of the schools ought to be conducted; but as there are schools in which a large portion of the children of the humbler classes derive their education, and as the Radical party con tend for a system of an extremely latitudinarian character as to religion, it is necessarily a point of great importance to give a preponderance in the 'council to men of whose attachment to church principles we have the strongest Let the burgesses in their several wards assurance choose good Conservatives, and then we shall be satis fied that the " plan for the management of the schools to be proposed early in the ensuing year by the rectors and clergy of the town," as mentioned by the gentle man who attended at the Toxteth Wards meeting, on Friday last, or whatever other plan - may be deemed ad visable, Will be fairly considered. A Conservative council, it must be presumed, will act consistently with its own principles on this point as well as upon every other, whatever those principles be. Our Liberal mayor [locus a non lucendo] may deem it " imperti nent" for a councillor to make any inquiry concerning the religious' profession of the master or mistress of a school endowed or supported out of the civic funds; but a Conservative mayor or council will think differ ently. What we would expect of a Conservative coun cil would be the establishment in the schools of the religious ascendancy of the national church, but not in such a way as to beintolerant of religious liberty in ' such as may conscientiously, though erroneously, dis sent from it. This is the principle which has been adopted by the Presbyterians in Ireland, and upon which they now receive aid from the National Board of Education in that country. The rule of their schools is Scriptural education, and the Catechism of the General Assembly—that is to say, in other words, Presbyterian Education ; this is their rule, but it is not a rule to which they make no exception ; it is the rule, but they relax it in behalf of Roman Catholic children whose parents come forward and record their disapprobation. By this means Roman Catholic and other children are ziot debarred the general education conveyed in their schools. Less than this we could not expect from any body of men who were sincere in their own religious profession, more, we do not know, that we should require. This is the principle on which New York to. morro season. Ler last outward voyage. this A.FPOINTNI ~....erstand that the Rev. R. T. Wheeler, curate of St. Anne's Church, Lancaster, has been ?pointed by the vicar'of Blackburn to the benefice of St ,john's' o .vangelist, in Blackburn, vacant by the resir Nation of the R Jackson Porter. John's th APPOINTMg.ST. — The Bev. Thomas G. XX aim) has open appointed by the vicar of Blackburn to the benefice of Im manuel Church, eniscowles, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George Ediunndson, now vicar of Sainttield, in the diocese of Diiwn and Connor Our renders will observe an advertisement in another column, informing them of the intention of Mrs. Gardner to prolong her Stay till the 10th November. As this ladv has been very successful in the cure of deafness, we should conceive the opportunity will be embraced by all who impor tunately require her aid. THE . HALIFAX STEAMEILS. — According to the terms of contract the Mail Steam-packet Company of proprietors is bound to wait the pleasure or orders of government at home, or British authorities abroad, to the extent of a detention be yond the appointed day of sailing of 48, or at the most GO hours it is believed. STEALING A WATCH.—Charles Houghton was charged at the Police-office, on Wednesday, with having stolen a gold • watch, worth about twelve guineas, the property of William Thomas, Esq., of London. The prisoner seeing the com plainant in a state of intoxication, in the Old Haymarket, on Sunday evening, went up to him and asked him what time it was, and seeing the watch, immediately seized it and ran off. A cry of " stop thief" was raised, and the prisoner secured. He was committed for trial. PURCHASE or WOODSIDE FERRY —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Birkenhead was held on Monday evening last, in the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking into consi deration the propriety of the commissioners purchasing the Woodside Ferry, on behalf of the township, and of autho rising the commissioners to take the necessary steps for that purpose. It was very numerously and respectably attended. The chair was occupied by John Deane Case, Esq. The chairman detailed the objects of the meeting, laying before the assembly the proceedings of the commissioners, touch ing the proposition of the railway company to form a tunnel and to sell the ferry. He then alluded to the offer of Mr. Jackson to purchase the ferry and the subsequent tender of the Ferry by Mr. Jackson to the commissioners. On the 15th October it was resolved by the commissioners that it would be beneficial to accede to the terms of Mr. Jackson's contract, that an act of parliament should be obtained for embodying the necessary provisions for insuring the prospe rity of the township, that the surplus of the profits of the ferry should go towards a reduction of the rates on the inha bitants ; that a committee should be appointed for settling the contracts and reporting to a general meeting of the commis sioners ; that the commissioners were not to .be made per sonally liable ; and that the railway company should have the power to construct a tunnel. The committee so appointed had very minutely investigated the books of the Woodside Ferry, and, in consequence of the report they had made to the commissioners that very evening ; the commissioners were most warmly prepared to tell the meeting to authorise them to go on with the purchase of the terry. The resolution to be proposed was as follows :—The commissioners having ma turely considered the advantages which the township would derive from the purchase of the Woodside Ferry from the Railway Company and F. R. Price, Esq., recommend such purchase to this meeting, resolved, that this meeting autho rise the commissioners to make the purchase on such terms as they may think proper, and that authority being given to apply to parliament for an act for regulating the said ferry, and for obtaining the funds required for the purchase, and • • • r that so soon as the draft of the act is prepared, and before it . is introduced to parliament, the commissioners do lay the same before a general meeting of the inhabitants." The re solution was put and carried unanimously. In reply to a question, Mr. Mallaby, the clerk to the commissioners, said they had the power of compelling the Corporation of Liver pool to provide suitable landing places for the ferry steamers, and he had no doubt for cattle and merchandise. They could by mandamus compel the Dock Trustees to do all that they wished free from any check or control. The ferry would be of great advantage in reducing the rates, but Mr. Mallaby thought it would be injudicious to enter too widely into the question, for by so doing they would make too apparent the advantages they possessed. CAUTION TO DRIVERS OF COACHES AND CARS.-011 Thursday the 14th instant, about 12 o'clock, a very serious accident occurred at the corner of Leece-street and Berry street, in consequence of the very quick driving of a car. An elderly lady, who had only just stepped of the footpath, was knocked down, and the wheels of the car went over both her legs, fracturing one, and most severely lacerating the other. The driver of the car, after turning his head and seeing the lady laying in the street, drove rapidly down Bold-street. On Wednesday last the man was summoned to appear before Mr. Rushton, who exacted the full penalty of forty shillings and costs for so driving, connected with the unfeeling con duct exhibited after the accident. The decision of the magis trate does not prevent the relatives of the lady (who only arrived in town the last Tuesday evening), obtaining that redress which the law provides for in such cases. Every day witnesses the danger to which foot passengers are exposed, by the improper manner in which both coaches and cars are driven down Leece-street and Bold-street, but it is hoped that the present melancholy circumstance, and the decision of the magistrate, will serve as a timely warning for the future. The driver of the car is considered by his master as the most steady man he has in his employ, but this circumstance was not deemed sufficient to justify any mitigation of the penalty. Tnz Wnic POLLUTION.—If the end of the world itself is not drawing near, surely the end of the whig portion of it, in Liverpool, at least, must be at hand. The kid glove has shaken fists with the brawny wielder of the three-pronged fork. The " broad-cloth" of whiggery is shoulder to shoul der with the serge and fustian. The new calf-skin is under the same alehouse bench with the new vamped ; and the Rat hbones and Earles are "hail fellows, well met" with the Casey* and the Gallaghers. Tom Brown smokes his black stump in the same atmosphere with the Havannah of his aristocrat acquaintance; and the dingy fingers of Mr. Mickey Dermot are obtruded without hindrance amongst the rappee, wherewith the scion of an ex-councillor titillates his olfactory nerve. Omens these, we think, of a fallen state, if not of the end of all things ; symptoms of running into disreputable courses, if not also of approaching ruin. " C a ll y o u this backing your friends," Mr. John Rosson ? Sad backing — cruel kindness—destructive protectorship A few more weeks of this hobnobbing in back streets, between whiggery and its sweet-scented allies, and we wouldn't give five shil lings each for the coats or the characters of the whole whig fraternity. We meet already, as we cross " the flags," some visitations, which resemble the lingering effluvia of tobacco and beer, from the overnight's conversazione, far more than the scents of " distilled essences ;" and what then must be the result of that constant association with rank smelling, greasy companions, towards which whiggery, under demoral izing and dangerous protectorship, is rapidly verging ? a taint, we fear, which an ocean of lavender water, or hogs head of eau de cologne would not be sufficient to wash away ; and which it may even require some years of rigorous exposure to the open air to get entirely rid of, at least so far as to be rendered presentable either in a drawing-room or in the council. And yet, notwithstanding the gulf which is before them, it is perfectly lamentable to observe how lightly some of the infatuated amble almig, hugging the conscious ness of their borrowed sweetness, and luxuriating in the " verdant mud," with which they are bespattered. We never meet the candidate of Great George's Ward, in particular, without a sigh for his misguided and pitiable condition. He has evidently no misgivings with respect either to his com pany or the road he is upon ; but is evidently ready to " go the whole hog," and roll in the " verdant" commodity before mentioned. He is ready to drink the circean cup to the dregs, and "Grace is in all his steps, fire in his eye,". as he whisks past us, rejoicing in the growth of his bristles and tusks—those "Sad marks of his unhappy state" to those who have not, like him, subMitted to the wiles of the enchantress. We could weep, John ,Rosson, for the consequences of your doings ! Tun MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The following is, we be lieve, a correct list of the candidates at the approaching mu nicipal election : W argils. Conservatives. .Reformers. Everton . Thomas Shaw M. Ashcroft Scotland lsaac Holmes George Quayle Vauxhall St. Paul's Joshua Edwards Chris. Rawdon Exchange — Ridgway Henry Holmes Castle-street St. Peter's . Ebenezer Rae J. Woolright Pitt-street James Aspinall Hugh Hornby Great George James Lawrence W. Rathborie Rodney-street H. Lawrence C. Holland Abereromby R. Gladstone John Cooper Lime-street St. Anne's James Parker Thos. Chalmer West Derby ...... J. Shaw Leigh South Toxteth .... Simon L. Trotman Wm. H. Tayleur North Toxteth .... Alexander Smith W. Lockerby. ROBBERY OF TEN GUINEAS.—Three females, of aban doned character, were put forward on Wednesday before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of having robbed Mr. William Rafferty, American shipping agent and provision dealer, Waterloo road, of a pnrse containing the sum of .£lO in sovereigns and lOs in silver. The complainant deposed that between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock, on Saturday night last, he was passing through Garden-lane, and observed a number of girls standing outside the door of the house in which the pri soners resided, one of whom laid hold of him by the arm, while another gave him a shove, and a third whipped the hat off his head and ran with it into the house. H e imme diately pursued her up stairs, where lie found six women in a room. One of them threw the hat to the upper end of the apartment, and then the whole six flocked round him and made a tremendous uproar in the place. He asked for the mistress of the house, when a female came up and said she was the person. He asked her for his hat, whereupon she told him to give the girls something to drink, and that his " beaver" would be safely returned. Hearing the noises of several other women in the kitchen underneath, it struck him that he had no other remedy but to give them money to drink, and lie accordingly banded them a shilling, but had no sooner done so than the three prisoners, assisted by two others, threw him against the jam of the window, and held him so fast that lie could only make a couple of kicks at them with his feet. They succeeded, while holding him in this position, in lightening him of his purse, containing the ten guineas. Ile called for a policeman several times. but no of f icer appeared to be within hearing; and he was induced to sit quietly down in the house, and abide the result, in con sequence of having been informed by a man that it would be better for him to make no noise, and that if he kept q uiet the woman who had stolen his money would return and re store it to him. Believing this advice to be well meant, he acted upon it to the letter, and made no further noise what ever, and remained in the house until between six and seven o'clock the followiag morning. About that time a boy en tered the place, and said that if the complainant followed him he would procure the money. He did so. The boy took him to a place where a person would have to crawl upon his hands and knees to effect an entrance. As the complainant wa . s, preparing to enter, a woman came up t o h im and said that it he went in his brains would be dashed out by the wretches inside, and that the boy was absolutely leading him there for the purpose of having an end put to him for euer. Of course , after receiving this friendly intimation, he refused to proceed further. The complainant concluded by stating that he took, two or three of his comp anions to the h ouse with a view of trying whether he could obtain any tidings of his money, bu t it was all to no purpose : the purse as well as the money had vanished. The prisoners were committ e d f or t r i a l on the charge of having aided and assisted in the commission of the robbery. MEETING OF THE DOCK COMNIITTEE.—The weekly meeting of the Dock Committee was held yesterday, but th e business done was of a mere routine description. The N fol lowing members w e re present : — Messrs. Benn, (chair man,/ Horsfall, Hornby, Mellor, Holmes, Evans, G. Holt, Aiken' T. Holt, Smith, Tobin, Chapman, Ripley, and Middleton. The tender of Messrs. Bibby and Sons, to supply a quantitY, of pozzolano was accepted. John Probert was appointFil keeper of the store at the Queen's Graving Dock • and the sum of £lO was ordered to be given to Benjamin , Ba mbe . rt whose furniture was partially destroyed by the late fireni..lo Watkinson-strect, in consideration of his having been service of the estate for a period of fifty years. The ‘ l `, L veyor was directed to report upon the propriety of placing - lamp at the head of Clarence Graving Deck. and also as, t o c i the fixing of an additional mooring buoy at the south en" Queen's Dock. Fifty copies of the chart of the Welsh CnsF' - .3 Oa° by Rear-Admiral Carden, were Ordered to be taken. g ri d I meeting separated. all men who would be consistent must act We are no friends to any intolerant, persecuting, or exclusive system ; we wish men first to act consistently, and then with a proper feeling towards the weakness and errors of others, and a due allowance for the exercise of a con scientious liberty. All this will be observed in the course which we suggest ; we should then have a Conservative council establishing a system of education in conformity with its own religious principles, just as it should do ; but, at the same time, not rendering that system exclusive, nor insisting that all the children who attend the schools shall partake of its benefits to their full extent, if the parents of any come forward, as in the Presbyterian schools alluded to, and state their objection thereto. To accomplish an object so important, there is now the strongest appeal made to the municipal electors of Li verpool. It rests with them ; they have the power ; and if they have the will also, they cannot but find the way. At the numerous meeting of the electors of North and South Toxteth Wards on Friday evening, Mr. Alexander Smith, jun., the Conservative candidate for North Toxteth, in vivid terms presented us with a re view of Radical administration in the Council, and its results : " He would ask the electors," he said, " whether it was in the power of the conservatives, evenif they became the dominant party, to do worse than those men had done who had been in power for the last few years ? He should like to know what they had done for the town? (" Nothing," from a hundred voices.) Really nothing. He believed there were more people out of employment at present than was the case for the last century ; and to what was this owing ? Why, every improvement had been put a stop to ; not a single thing was doing ; and, until lately, when they commenced to build the new courts of law, there had been no expenditure of money. There would, indeed, be an expenditure of £lOO,OOO for the building of the courts, and £30,000 more for another erection ; but those sums had been wrung from the radicals as if the conservatives had been squeezing from them their hearts' blood. (Hear, hear, and cheers;) The truth was that the dominant party in the council had set their faces against everything like improvement, or the promotion of public works, unless the hobby of the aldermen, that of erecting docks with warehouses around them, were to be con sidered as such. But this circumstance of the docks and warehouses had been the means of preventing a very large sale of land near the docks; and the consequence was that the treasury of the corporation had been drained to the last dregs, so that nothing could be done in the shape of improve ments, the widening of streets, or a thousand other things, which, in so large a town as Liverpool, were constantly re quired." We may add to this, that all they have done by their cosmopolitan system of education, seems to have been a produce of just such fruits as one might a priori have reasonably expected from it. In the Sixth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons under sth and 6th Will. IV., recently published, the inspector of the northern district states it as his belief, and gives his data for the conclusion, that the amount of juvenile criminality in Liverpool is proportionably greater than in the metro polis, or any of the most populous manufacturing and commercial districts in Great Britain ; and that, judg ing from the description of the offences, and the num ber and frequency of the recommittals in this class of prisoners, the character of juvenile delinquency is ge nerally, and in Liverpool in particular, more desperate than that of the adult class of criminals. May we not fairly trace this melancholy and 'disgraceful state of things to the want of sound religious instruction, and education for the poorer classes; or, in other words, to the non-religious system patronised by the domi nant Liberals of our Corporation ? The fruits are indeed most deplorable, and leave every man who pre tends to the smallest feeling of benevolence, without excuse, if he neglect to use whatever influence or pri vilege he may possess for the purpose of putting an end, we hope for ever, to so ruinous a domination. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE ST. HELEN'S AND RUNCORN GAP RAILWAY. —On Tuesday last, pre v i ous to the departure of the first afternoon train from the St. Helen's station, a porter, named John Baxter, in the employ of the company, was killed by . some waggons which had just been detached A - om the engine running up to some other wazgons which were being discharged of their loads, and against which he vas standing, in the centre of the line. It appears that the eleceased saw the waggon coming, but was unable to get out of the way, as a horse which had been employed in drawn?: was standing close to the line, and he could not get past it. He was very much crushed, and lingered after it only a very short time, although every attention was shown him by Wolfenden, the company's agent, in procuring him medical assistance. An inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict of " accidental death" was returned, with a deodand of ss. on the waggon.