The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

L tARPOO THE VHIBITII of LORKS of MONT UY NEXT, M:. JOH 1 !IE OFFI ADM For the coil (Sy the Pietu eight till Ter MECILI To-MOR Seven o' a Course of jec,_EXERCIS Shilling thrown TERIAL I how. Arra► Six Lectures on EL] MURRAY; Four Mr. M'CONNELI resting subjc LIBRAR which now con the various receives r cals. Eai GUINE dmits also to th A Class for ( THURSDAY IN IGI Terms to Member A Class for P EVENIN( Members, Five Shill at Sevc A Class for PRACTICAL RHETORIC and DEBATING meets every alternate 'FRIDAY EVENING, at Seven, under Mr. HUME. Terms to Members, 10s. Gd. per Annum. The DANCING CLASS, under Mr. St. Albin, now meets on MONDAY EVENINGS at Seven, instead of Two. Terms as before, lOs A Dona contributor nea per annu it was taken c and Apprentice of Non-Membe TITHE :CC COMMISS GIVE NOTICI MARGARE the Lands at Titt That, purs Meeting will bt jections to the inten interested as aforesaii at the Queen's Arn SATURDAY, the 18th day o'clock in the forenoon. Signed by order of the Board. J. E. HOVENDEN, 9, Somer yset House, London TITHE COMMISSIOI*--NOTICE.--The TITHE COMMISSIONERS for England and Wales HERE BY GIVE NOTICE, that a Copy of the Draft of Appor tionment of the Rent Charge agreed to be paid in lieu of Tithes, in the Township of Poulton-cum-Seacombe, in the Parish of Wallasey, in the County of Chester, has been de posited at Seacombe Hotel, in the said Township, for the inspection of all Persons interested in the Latt4eor Tithes of the said Township. _ _ . .. 1 And the 'Commissioners further givie lice, That, pursuant to the Act for CommutaYo of Tithes, a Meeting will be holden for the purpose of hear g any objec tions to the intended Appointment, by any Persons interested as aforesaid ; and that such Meeting will be held at Seacombe Hotel, in the said Township, on YRIDAY. the 17th day of September, 1841, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. Signed by order of the Board, J. E. HOVENDEN, Secretary. t House, London. 9, Son NOVELTY AND UTILITY WM. lIOPLEY, Agent to the VENTILATING WATER PROOF COMPANY, respectfully informs the Public that they can be supplied with Outer Garments of all descriptions, WATERPROOF, without IMPEDING;;, PERSPIRA TION, made to measure, and cut in the first style of fashion, at the Establishment. where Specinc Liverpool, FURNISHING 41, BOLD-S' THOMAS WII to acknowle(L is or upwards constitutes the Annual Members, One Gui- -Guinea card, i aid township, for the inspection of all Pi s from the day on which Five Shillings ; Apprentices W. B. 110DGSON, Secretary OTICE.—The TITHE ..I;ngland and Wales HEREBY opy of the Draft of Apportion agreed to he paid in lieu of Tithes, the parish of Wallasey, in the .s been deposited at the house of Mrs. AN, the Queen's Arms Hotel, in the rsonsinterested in 'he Commissioners farther giveMptice, nt to the Act for Commutathni \of Tithes, a n for the uurpose orhejiring any ob led Appoitionment, by 'any Persons I and that such Meeting will be held Hotel, in the said Township, on September. 1841, at Eleven Secretary OUTE! CASTLE-STREET, of the Waterproof Cloth may be examined ' 1811. 9 tember 3, AMILY• LINEN WARUIOUSE, ET, OPPOSITE SLATER-STREET. N begs to avail himself of this medium tt i upon the patronage so liberal y bestowed him since he opened the above Premises; d wou ld respect fully remind his numerous Friends and th 'Odic in general, that he continues to keep a well-assorted Stock of Lama Cloth, Chen 6, Royal, Mouseline de Laine, and other Fashionable Materials suitable for Dresses ; Silks, Shawls, &e., together with an extensive assortment of Family Linen. THOMAS WILSON particularly solicits the attention of the Public to his long-established branch of business, comprising FAMILY MOURNING and superintendence of FUNE RALS, which will have his personal attention; and be begs to urge t in which he has for so many years and favour lucated YOUTH as an once knowledge of the APPRENTICE. One Trade would be preferred PRICE'S PATENT COMPOSITE, or IMITATION SPERM CANDLES.. They give a brilliant and steady light, without requiring to be snuffed, and are ' equally appli cable for family or counting-house use, andd i ere now much used in the Metropolis for Lighting Churc h / s and Chapels, and Public Buildings generally. _ I. At One Shilling per lbly vhich, compared with the light given, cheaper than the :ommonest Tallow Candle. These Candles are now supplied by most of the Chandlers throughout the Country, but where they cannot otherwise be had, on remitting £5 to EDWD. PRICE and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, Surrey- .ny Private Customer may be supplied with 1001bs.. _.d no will be made for the box, the value of wt - corer the expense of , d for any smaller quantity. and no charge will, in most cast will be chart, Any - Person wishing to try these Candles, has only to send E. P. and Co. a Postotfice Order for Ten Shillings, and a box containing 9k-lbs. shall be immediately sent down ; the odd Bd. beingfol: . the box The hon. Mrs. Norton 1 s denied the truth of the report that she is about to ad tap as a profession rive men eng; I in the herring fishery at Berwick, were of the boat in drowned on Friday last, b which t were tishu The appointment of Lord Elliot as secretary for Ireland !ems to have given offence to that portion of the press of hich the -- -- Dublin 'vening Mail is the organ A young la it Dumfries having got entangled with a re was in the course of being enlisted, but ss, consulted with his brother as to repenting of his rnslin tt )est means of escape, and at length it was decided to cut off the fore-finger of the right or trigger hand, which was ac complished by a chisel almost in an instant. This was thought better than being sent to Canton., and perhaps get a bullet through his body whilst fighting with the Chinese. WET GRAM—The writer of a letter in an Oxford paper recommends that any grain which may at the present time be found to be wet, should be secured in the straw, placed in roomy barns, upon shelves constructed of laths or cords, and by frequent removing, or the application of a little heat by means of a stove, kept there until it is dry. In this manner, he says, that an acre of wheat might be placed horizontally along the walls with every sheaf open, and by the introduction of an artificial current of air might be rendered in eight hours fit for housing. The writer states that he has himself successfully adopted the plan with some barley. NUMBER OF COUNTRY AND TOWN FIATS IN BANK RUPTCY FOR TIIE LAST NINE YEARS.— Year endi Railway, which i Town slip in the newly-formed embankment, displaced and shifted outward. On the and train, the joint of the line flew up a to go off the line at full speed into which it became embedded to a consi, sudden stoppage of the train caused a between the carriages, two of which w( and the guards and engineers were thro able violence. As soon as the confusi Country 1,408 781 1,040 1,413 1,700 1,283 1,379 1,294 1,207 1,239 1,087 1,'185 1,879 , n the Great Western !d with very serious wing . to an extensive one of the rails got arrival of the angine nd caused the former the embankment, in lerable extent. The :remendous collision re literally smashed, en off with consider on occasioned by the ided, inquiries were Ind it was ascertained dislocated, and were pct met with several s severely cut with as were also other were also cut and iingular to relate the occurrence had iu some ...- made as to the state of the passenger, that two gentlemen had got their ancle otherwise seriously injured ; a third bruises about the body, and a fourth wa the glass of the windows, in the face, passengers more or less. The guards scratched about the face and hands, but engineers escaped without any injury. THE DESERTED INFIDEr..—When Paine's infidel com panions said to him, " You have lived like a man—we hope you will die like one"—he observed to one near him. " You see, sir, what miserable comforters I have." He declared on one occasion, " that if ever the devil had an agent upon earth, he had been one." " There was," says Dr. Manley, his physician, " something remarkable in his conduct about this period, (which c omprises about t wo wee k s i mmed i ately preceding his death,) particularly when we reflect that Thos. Paine was the author of ' The Age of Reason.' He would call out during his paroxysms of distress, without inter -0 Lord, help me! God, help me! Jesus Christ, 0 Lord, help me V —repeating the same ex the least variation, in a tone of voice ex ruse. This conduct induced me to med his former opinions; and I was when I understood from his and, I believe, pious woman, ien he saw her engaged with it book, _lag answered, and at the same time, read aloud, he assented, and would est o a ttention." But when his physi c i an re _ pressed him to conress his guilt and err ors , and .ed " Do you believe , s or s , let me is qualify do you wish to believe that Je u C ist ghe th e • Sonot u. G od After a pause of some minutes, J , have no wish to believe on that sulble sullenly answered, " led! Dr. Manley, re marks, "for my own part, he would have left Paine been such a distinguished infidel,behevethat had not Thomas less 'equivocal evidences of a change of op inion. The woman and. children in whom he had sedu ce d f rom h er husb a nd " France, lamented to a friend who v isited Paine in his de parting moments—" For this m a n I h a ve giv e n up my family cfre, n hen, of my t and friends, my prop er ty an d my re li g i on ; .iu , a distress, when he t e ll s me th at t h e pr i nc i p l es he 3 taught me will not bear me out." pressions, without an that would alarm the think that I more inclined to that that he would inyuir what she was readin; tinptriatj eit'llc ii 1, HOUSE OF LOitDS.—MONDAY. The House of Lo-ds met to-day pursuant to the adjourn mt.. The Dnke of Weinnatn. table, took his seat at the treasury bench about five o'clock, and was soon joined by Lords Wharncliffe, Ellenborough, Eladdington, &c. • while the opp os iti on b enc h was occu pied by Lords Melbourne., Minto, Lansdowne, Campbell, Brougham, &c. The house was extremely crowded at a quarter-past five, when Lord LYNDHURST took his seat, as Chancellor, upon the woolsack. The Administration of Justice Bill went through coin mittee. The Earl of WICKLOW said that the noble marquis (Nor manby) had pledged himself that a bill for the abolition of capital punishments, similar to that which had passed for this country, should this session be introduced for Ireland. Ile wished to know if the present Government would introduce such a bill? The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he would consult his right hon. friend the Home Secretary upon the subject. The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. 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Terms to HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. The House of Commons to-night presented rather a singu lar appearance. The members seemed quite at a loss where to take their places ; but soon after four o'clock the difficul ties appeared to have ceased, and though all the honourable members, with two exceptions, had changed sides of the house, they yet found themselves opposed to the same old faces as before. The exceptions were Mr. Wakley, the mem ber for Finsbury, and Mr. Williams, M.P., for Coventry. The former gentleman retained his usual seat, and chatted gaily with those around him. Mr. Williams appeared to have taken a place near the hon. member for the purpose of conversing with him, and did not, perhaps, think it necessary subsequently to change it. The opposition benches were by no means so well filled as those on the ministerial side. A considerable number of election petitions was presented after which Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice, that whenever the house should go into committee on the new Poor Law Bill, he would move the abolition of the board of commissioners, and that their duties should be transferred to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. _ _ _ The Queen's answer to the address of the Commons hav ing been read, On the motion of Sir G. CLERK it was resolved that to morrow the house should resolve itself into committee to consider of the supply to be granted to her Majesty. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY Lord Blum Guam took the opportunity, on the presenta tion of a petition, to call the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the case of some persons who had been recently convicted for refusing to go to church on the Sabbath, when ordered to do so by the parish authorities, and expressed a hope that the noble and learned lord would turn his attention to those unrepealed laws which, though obsolete, might yet at any time be enforced. Lord WHARNCLIFFE moved the erasure of the name of the Bishop of Derry from the rolls of their lordships' house, he having taken his seat as one of the Irish bishops, when in fact he was not one of the bishops in rotation.—The motion was agreed to. On the motion of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Bill for Consecrating Bishops Abroad was read a third time, and passed. The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition complaining of some fraudulent alterations in the rating books of Dublin. The object of the alterations was to enable persons to get upon the burgess roll who were not entitled to he upon it, and who would be enabled, in consequence, to exercise an influence on the coporation elections. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that this was not a ques tion tor the House of Lords in any way whatever. It was a matter between the poor law guardians and the church-war dens, but could not be entered upon by parliament. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. A considerable nnmber of election petitions were pre sented, it being the last day appointed by the house for re ceiving them. _ The house, having resolved itself into committee, a reso lution was agreed to that a supply be granted to her majesty, after which the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.-WEDNESD A Y The House of Lords sat for a short time, and the royal assent was given, by commission, to Lord Scarborough's Indemnity Bill, after which their lordships adjourned until Monday week. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY New writs were moved for by Sir T. FREMANTLE, in the room of all those honourable members who have accepted office in the present administration. A good deal of amuse ment was occasioned by Sir T. Fremantle's moving, at the close of the new ministerial writs, for a new writ for the borough of Bridport, in the room of Henry Warburton, Esq., who had accepted the o f fice of steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ New writs were also moved for in the room of Lord Fever sham, for the North Riding of Yorkshire ; for Bradford, in the room of William C. Lister, Esq., deceased; for Sunder land, in the room of Mr. Alderman Thompson ; and for Lichfield, in the room of Sir G. Anson, who has accepted the office of Steward of the manor of Poyning in the county of Sussex. Mr. ROEBUCK complained of a " breach of privilege" which appeared in the Times newspaper, representing him as a person who was honourable only by dint of becoming a member of that house, and was sprung from the humbler orders of society. The hon. member contended that this paragraph went on to say that he was unable, and was, in deed, an improper person to suggest *ay improvement in the new poor law. He would defy the anonymous scribbler of the Times to bring forward any one act of his life which could deprive him of the title of honourable ; and even if he had sprung from the humbler orders of society, and if his ancestors had not been, as they were, distinguished in the walks of literature and science, that was no reason why he should be held up as unfit to act as a member of that house. The hon. member said he would not move that the printer be called to the bar ; indeed, it would be useless ; for he was presumed to be in prison, as any man must be who was re sponsible for a paper so libellous as the Times. He would, under these circumstances, recommend all persons, who might be more sensitive than himself, when libelled by the Times, as it was impossible to get at the writer, to horsewhip the proprietor ! Sir R. INGLIS complained of the irregularity of the hon. member in thus occupying the time of the house without con cluding with a motion. • Mr. ROEBUCK attempted to prove he was in order, but the Speaker decided in the negative, upon which the honourable member moved that the printer be called to the bar. No hon. member could be found to second the motion, which, to the evident mortification of the hon. member, fell to the ground._ - - - _ . . . . _ Lord PALMERSTON asked whether it was the intention of the Goirernment, when the house met again, to proceed to business without any further adjournment? Sir G. CLERK said that the right hon. baronet at the head of the Government would state the course he meant to pur sue when he took his seat next week. The Administration of Justice Bill was read a first time. The report of the committee of the whole house on the supply to be granted - to her Majesty was tlum brought up, and the house, on the motion of Sir G. CLERK, adjourned until Thursday next. MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE WEDNESDAY EVENING. — There is no particular altera tion to notice in the funds, which however are generally heavy with somewhat of a downward tendency, in the Foreign Market more especially. Consols were 891 to for money and 89/ sellers for account ; little business however doing. India Stock 346 to 7. Exchequer Bills lls to 13s premium. In the Foreign House Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents declined to 511 to j, the Five per Cents 104 to t. Belgian 102 to 3. Danish 79 to 80. Spanish Active with the Cou pons were down to 21/ to 22. Portuguese Five per Cents 301 to I, the Three per Cents 18 to 1. Brazilian 661 to 71. Mexican 251 to j. Colombian 20-1 to 14. CLAREMONT.-MONDAY EVENING (From a Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) I regret to state that the Princess Royal is sufficiently in disposed to excite some alarm in the minds of the medical attendants. Sir James Clark arrived here yesterday, and shortly after wards, in consequence of the symptoms which manifested themselves, he went back to London to seek the additional aid of Dr. Locock. In the afternoon Dr. Locock returned to Claremont, with Sir James, and, after an hour's consulta tion, Dr. Locock took his departure for town. Sir James Clark remained at Claremont during the night, and left this morning at eight o'clock. At that time the Princess Royal was somewhat better. Sir James Clark, however, posted from London again this morning, and arrived at Claremont at half-past six o'clock. It was expected that Sir James would not have taken his de parture till to-morrow morning; but after preparing some medicine for the royal infant (who was somewhat better) at Mr. Neville's, surgeon, of this village, he l e ft by the last train, per South Western Railway, for town. . . Her Majesty was driven out this afternoon by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, through Oxshot towards Leather head, returning to Claremont over Asbrook-common. Lady Portman and the lion. Misses Paget and Lister fol lowed in a carriage and four. and Lord Listowel, Colonel Wylde, Sir William Lumley, and Colonel Wemyss, were in attendance on horseback. SEATS VACATED BY THE PRESENT AIINISTEEtS, On Wednesday evening, in all probability, writs were moved for in the House of Commons for the election of mem bers for the following counties, cities, and boroughs, in which seats have become vacant in consequence of the ac ceptance of office by thirty-two members of the present ad ministration : ENGLAND AND WALES. Tlllnworth Sir Robert Peel. North Lancashire Dorchester Cambridge University Launceston Cambridge (Borough) Hon. C. M. Sutton. Wenlock Chippenham Captain Boldero. Cardiff Boroughs Dr. Nichol!. Bury St. Edmund's Earl Jerilyn. East Cornwall Lord Eliott. East Kent...... South Wiltshire Westmoreland . Monmouthshire South Nottinghamshire.. Newark Mr. W. E. Gladstone. Buckingham (Borough) Stamford .. .. Weymouth Marlborough Thetford .. SCOTLAND. Selkirkshire . Aberdeenshire. Tyrone (Borough) Lord Claude Hamilton, and Mr. H. T. Corry. . Mr. Jas. Emerson Tenuent. . Colonel Perceval. JT SEATS. ISir George F. Seymou r; Sir William Hall Gage. !ers in the ministry, the house ace ; as already appointed. Belfast Sligo (County) IRELAND WITHOU Sir George Murray Sir George Cockburn There are 21 Conservative pei hold, and the suite of the prin NEPTEMBER IST. -- Partridge shooting commenced on Wednesday lag ; but, owing to the quantity of grain uncut, very little sport was enjoyed in this neighbourhood. Sep tember lst is always too soon for the commencement of this sport in the northern counties ; and, by general consent al most, it is defe rre d till the 12th. The Earl of Lonsdale has advertised that partridge shooting will not be allowed on his grounds till the 1 3th. The envies are nothing represented as about an average — Kenda l Mtn, ry. FESNICTES"AT WYNNSTAY, THE SEAT OF SIR N V. W. WYNN, BART, In return for the compliment paid to Sir W. W. Wynn, throughout the principal parts of ,North W a l es and Shrop- shire, last May, on the occasion of his having then attained his majority, the honourable baronet has set apart the entire of the present week to the reception and entertainment of his friends,. tenantry, and neighbours, at his family seat of Wynnstay, near Ituabon. The entertainments, which are upon the most extensive and liberal scale, commenced on Monday, and will terminate to-morrow evening. The following is a correct programme of the business—pleasure being the business bu this occasion —during the day : MONDAY. A dinner to between fifty and sixty of Sir `c'atkin's near relatives, private friends, and distinguished guests. TUESDAY A dinner on the same scale to about GO. A ball, in the evening, to about 500 of the nobility and gentry from all parts of the country. This ball will take place in the magni ficent ball room at the south end of the mansion. WEDNESDAY. Private dinner party, as before. THURSDAY Dinner to about 500 persons. This entertainment will be given in a temporary room which has been erected for the purpose. FRIDAY. Private dinner party. Ball, in the evening, to about 600 of the resident tenantry, &c. SATURDAY. Grand dinner, in the Pavilion, to upwards of 600 of the tenantry, &c. At ten o'clock, p.m. a magnificent display of fire-works, by Mr. D'Ernst, from London. This display will take place on the side of the lake opposite the Mansion House, and will consist, we believe, of 23 pieces. This ex hibition will form the finale to the festivities of the week. The ball on Tuesday evening was the first public or exten sive part of the festivities, but we cannot gratify our readers with any account of it, Sir Watkin's wish being that the en tire festivities, although given in an unusually extensive and liberal scale, should still be considered as entertainments given by a private gentleman, at his family mansion, to those who had previously united to pay him a compliment for which he felt deeply obliged. The village of Ruabon and the approaches to Winnstay were crowded, early on Monday, with persons determined to make or take a holiday. The Union Jack floated from the summit of the cenotaph, erected in the park, near the southern extremity of the woods, on the eminence overlook ing the ravine called Nant-y-Bele), to the memory of the officers and men of the late Sir Watkin's regiment of An cient Britons, who fell during the Irish rebellion of 1798. Passing forward to ltuabon, we reached the northern en trance to the park. Immediately before the gates a triple triumphal arch had been erected, under the superintendence of Mr. Madeley, the respected master of Ruabon National School. The centre arch was surmounted with a shield, bearing the arms of the house of Winnstay. A flag floated proudly over each of the side arches. The inscription— ` PROSPERITY AND LONG LIFE TO SIR WATKIN WIL LIAMS WYNN AND THE HOUSE OF WYNNSTAY," stood out in bold relief across the triple arch, which was further decorated with laurels, flowers, and ribands. The flag of Saint George was fixed upon the tower of Ruabon Church, and the Union Jack ou the summit of the votive column in the park. The pavilion in which the dinners on Thursday and Saturday will be given is considered one of the largest temporary buildings ever erected without pillars in the interior to sup port the roof. It is 120 feet long by 50 wide. The greatest height within is 23, and the lowest is 15 feet. It is entirely supported from the exterior sides. The whole room has the appearance of a mightyapartment, neatly fitted up, and hav ing light from a variety of windows. It will be lighted at night by one 12-light chandelier, two 8-lights, four 4-lights, and six 2-lights, with a variety of smaller lights for the sides. The arrangements in the pavilion at the two dinners will be in this manner :—Sir Watkin, on each occasion, will pre side, supported on his right by his Grace the Duke of Nor thumberland and the Earl of Powis, his near relatives. He takes his seat at the centre of a table thirty feet long, which stands on a dais one foot above the floor. This table will be placed at the end of the pavilion, and immediately behind Sir Watkin will extend a sideboard, on which will be displayed a variety of gold and silver plate, including a great many racing cups won by the late Sir Watkin, and the sumptuous silver vase presented to him by the County of Denbigh, of which he was Lord-Lieutenant in the year 1815. Every delicacy of the season will, of course, be supplied in abundance ; and, besides the unlimited supply of wines of the choicest quality, there will be a liberal supply of the ale brewed on the occasion of the birth of Sir Watkin. Much of this ale was used at Wynnstay last May, by the different parties assembled there to celebrate the majority of Sir Watkin. On that occasion, besides four hogsheads of this particular tap, as many as thirty hogsheads of fine ale, of more modern age, was given from the Wynnstay cellars. Four hogsheads of the birthday ale will be drunk this week ; and it took two hundred measures of malt to fill the stupen dous vessel in which it has remained undisturbed so many years. A great deal of company are staying at Wynstay, among those are the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, the Earl and Countess of Powis, the Ladies Herbert and two Messrs Herbert, Lord Hill, Lord and Lady Delamere, Sir Rowland and Colonel Hill, Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn and the Misses Williams Wynn, Ladies L. Churchill and C. Stewart, Lady Rendlesham and the Hon. Misses Thelusson, Hon. R. H. Clive and Lady FL Clive, Sir Philip and Lady Egerton and Hon. Miss Forester, Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. H. Glynne, Sir John Williams. J. M. Gaskell, Esq. M. P. and Lady, Hon. Capt. Macdonald, Hon. Mr. Curzon, Hon. Mr. Cholmondely, T. Penson, Esq. Mayor of Oswestry, &c. The Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon are entertaining a large party of distinguished visitors at Brynkynallt, during the present week. Among them are the Marquis mad Marchioness of Londonderry, Lord Castlereagh, the Countess Jersey and Viscountess Villiers, Mr. Gascoyne, Captain F. Hamilton, Mr. St. John, &c. On Tuesday, in all probability, we shall be able to give a report of the proceedings on the three last days of the week. GREAT FESTIVITIES AT BEESTON CASTLI For some days past some of the most influential tenantry on the Beeston and Peekforton Estates, Cheshire, had formed themselves into a ,committee for the purpose of raising subscriptions, and agreeing on a series of festivities, which should enable all classes in the neighbourhood, and especially those residing on the estates, to testify their res pect and esteem for their new, and truly hospitable landlord, Mr. Tollemache, the newly elected member for South Cheshire. The committee having obtained a very spirited subscrip tion for the occasion, in the former part of the week made every necessary arrangement for this demonstration of at tachment, and early on Thursday (the day set apart for these festivities) tw o new large red and blue flags, inscribed " Tolle - mache for ever," were hoisted one at the bottom, and the other at the top, of far-famed Beeston Castle, and which would be seen (as the day was fine) at a distance of many miles by the surrounding inhabitants. Soon after noon the summit of that once formidable fortress presented a most gay appearance, holiday clothes, and pretty bonnets, with glad some eyes and fair faces beneath them, were in abundance. The Tarporley Scotch dressed band was in attendance, and a host of admiring rustics inundated the lower wards of the Castles. The tables. doorways, &c. were decorated with festoons of laurels. flowers, and ribands, red and blue favours were the order of the day. Several fine Southdown wethers had been slaughtered, and roasted the day before, for the occasion. The mutton was served out cold, with ample pieces of bread and strong ale to the male sex, on the lower ward of the Castle. Tea was taken by more than three hundred females, of all ranks, on the higher ward, and there appeared to per vade only one universal feeling and attachment throughout the assemblage. Numerous loyal and patriotic toasts and sentiments were given, and " Tollemache for ever," and " Mrs. Tollemache and family," were repeatedly toasted. and drunk during the day, with long and loud enthusiastic cheers, and the firing of musketry. After tea was over the committee admitted the men into the higher ward, when there was estimated to be present nearly a thousand indi viduals. The merry dance was then introduced, which was kept up several hours in very spirited style. The greatest order and decorum was kept throughout the whole proceedings, to the great credit of the committee, and at about seven o'clock, with the band in front, the whole of the company remaining in a body, retraced their steps to the bottom of the much-ad mired Castle, and there separeing, returned to their res pective homes, highly delighted with the pleasures and en joyments of the day. - We cannot close the account of this gratifying testimo nial to J. Tollemache, Esq. without congratulating the county of Chester on the election of a gentleman standing so high in public estimation ; in all that concerns the welfare of our institutions, and in furtherance of every good work, we find Mr. Tollemache conspicuously engaged ; long may he live to be the instrument of difrusine such benefit to society, and may all who participate appreciate the advantage. To John Tollemache, Esq. and his family we sincerely wish all this world's good. POULTO7O-LE-FYLDE.—The harvest in this neighbourhood has at length become general ; during the past week some excellent crops of wheat have been cut and housed, in prime condition. Oats, which are on the eve of being ripe, are very promising, and likely to prove an excellent crop ; we we may say the same with respect to barley and beans. The potato crop, in general, is likely to be abundant; on the whole there will be much more than an average crop. FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Sunday evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, a fire was discovered to have origi nated in the front attic at the Weavers' Arms public-house, Bradshawgate, Bolton. On the alarm being given, prompt assistance was rendered by the neighbours, who immediately, on being able to get into the room, commenced throwing out the beds which were in flames, arid removing the furniture. In the hurry and bustle, it was forgot that a little boy of five years of age, son of Mr. Richard Read, the landlord, was in an adjoining room, and was first discovered by Macrea, a ser geant of police. The fire had not extended to this room ; but, when the boy was brought out, he appeared to be almost suffocated with the smoke. The usual remedies to restore animation were resorted to, but in vain ; and the poor little sufferer expired in a few minutes. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.—A THEATRE ON FIRE.— " At St. Petersburgh, on the 18th ult.," says the Post And Gazette, " the audience at one of the principal theatres per ceiving a great light behind the curtain, anticipated some grand display of fireworks, and began to express their delight b y c h i pping and shouts of appl ause . Thi s d e l usive joy was only increased, i nstead . of being converted into terror, by the appearance in front of the stage of an actor, vociferating the house was on fire ; for the people believed that this was a trick of the scene, and continued their noisy acclamations. To undeceive them the manager ordered the curtain to be raised, and exposed to them the flames, which soon invaded the whole building. The rush to the door became instantly so violent, that many persons were killed, or dreadfully in jured, before they could make their escape. There was ano ther issue, but it was closed, an d in ordi nary t i mes is not to be opened without the authority of the p o li ce-o f fi cer, who had not yet arrived. A man, seeing the urgency of the oc casion, rushed through the flames, and, at the risk of his life, forced the way open, and thus saved many from destruc tion. We have not learnt the details of the results of the accident, but have learnt that, on the following day, the brave man, to whom so many others owed their li v e s , was invested with an honourable distinction by the Emperor's own hand, and had secured to him a pension for life of 2000 franks." STEAM NAVIGATION IN INDIA : —In l oo ki ng over a fi le of Indian papers it is particularly interesti ng to observe the growing attention which i s paid to steam navigation in India and the expectations which are indulged in as to th ea d vantage ; to be derived from this source. From the monthly packets that are to start from Calciktta, and proceed by Madras and hasgrown stale. ealcatta from Ceylon to Suez, the i nhab itants of India anticipate a large influx of visiters from England, frequent deputations from the East India House to watch the state of affairs. India, it is expected, will become a ne" , r e sort for travellers for plnlea4ssurdes, days, i whom tis c e s v i e c r u y la c t o e u d n ,. t t r i y le l y n w y ll ro r p e ej England, then embark on a river steamer an d visit th e most remarkable places on the banks , proceed to kerozepore, take the Indus steamer down to Kerachee, and thence take Bom bay on their return home. The Indian commercial men, on the other hand, will, it is supposed,. pa.y frequept visits to England, as well as natives, who, tinding the difficulties of travelling removed, will gradually throw o f their restrictions of caste. England will be selected by the officers of the Government when seeking the restora tion p of health i n pre ference to the Cape or Van Dieinan Land. IIIEATRE,ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Under the Management of Mr. CLARKE, Sole Lessee , THE PERFORMANCES DURING THE SUMMER SEASON WILL COMMENCE AT HALF-PAST SEVEN.—DOORS TO RE UPENED AT SEVEN. Fifth Night of Miss ELLEN TREE, of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and the Haymarket, who is engaged for . Ten Nights ; And of Mr. ANDERSON, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, who is also engaged for a limited period. Mr. Knowles' Play of LOVE, having been received on Mon day night with the most enthusiastic plaudits by r es brilliant and crowded auditory, will be repeated This Wvening. THIS present FRIDAY, September 10,180, will be per formed Mr. Knowles' popular Play of / LOVE. 1 The Countess of Eppenstein ' Miss Ellen Tree. Huon . (the Serf) Mr. Anderson. . As originally performed by them, in London. The Duke of Carinthia... Mr. Gray. The Empress.. Catherine.... Miss E. Honner. Incidental to the Play, the following app ro p r i a t e S cener y : Apartment in Catherine's House ' • the Count ess ' B ou doir ; Ruins and Di s t an t Country, with Land Storm, and Tree Struck by Lightning; the Grand Ducal Chamber; the Duke's Gardens ; Grand State Apartment in the Palace of the Empress. At the end of the Play, DANCING, by Master and Miss C. WEBSTER. To conclude with Mr. Buckstone's Comedy of WEAK POINTS ; 'Or, NOTHING LIKE WHEEDLING. Jemmy Wheedle... Mr. Jolly .. Mr. G. Horncastle. Miss Penelope Pump . Sally Pybus Miss E. Honner. On MONDAY next, Shakspeare's Tragedy of HAMLET, in which Mr. Anderson will perform, for the first time here. the character of Hamlet, and Miss Ellen Tree will sustain the character of Ophelia.• The Ghost, Mr. Stuart ; Polo nius, Mr. Baker ; Osrick, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Gertrude, Miss Cleaver.—After which, the petit Comedy of PER FECTION. Kate O'Brien (the Lady of Munster), Miss Ellen Tree ; Charles Paragon, Mr. H. Hull ; Sam, Mr. Baker; Susan, Mrs. Clarke. On TUESDAY, Mr. Knowles' new Play of the BRI DALS OF MESSINA ; or, JOHN OF PROCIDA : the characters of Isoline and Fernando by. Miss Ellen Tree and Mr. Anderson, as originally performed by them ins London. MATINEE MUSICALE. THE PHIS-HARMONICA -PIANO, OR MELODICON. HERR BREUNIG having been requested to repeat his PERFORMANCES on the PHYS-HARMONICA PIANO (introduced by him at the Mechanics' Institution, on Saturday week, for the first time in this Country), begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool that he intends giving, On TUESDAY next, September 14, at tite TEMPLARS' HALL, GREAT GEORGE -STREET, A MORNING CONCERT, When he will have the honour of exhibiting the astonishing powers of this very novel and remarkable Musical Instru ment. Doors open at Two o'clock. Performance to commence at Half-past Two precisely. Admission Five Shillings. A Programme will be published on Monday nest. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS THIS EVENING, (Friday,) the 10th instant, and will be Repeated every MONDAY & FRIDAY, weather permitting, THE STORMING OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE, ARRANGED BY DANVII, _ _ Showing the Position of Ships of W4iiind Group of War Steamers; finishing wi the TERRIFIC EXPLOSION •OF T E MAGAZINE, GRAND ALLEGORICAL TABLEAU OF VICTORY AN EXCELLENT BRASS BAND EVERY DAY. Firing to commence at a Quarter-past Eight precisely ADMITTANCE, ONE SHILLING. AND THE LAST GRAND FASHIONABLE GALA OF THE SEASON WILL TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY NEXT, THE 13th INSTANT, Under the Patronage of THE COMMITTEE OF THE PALATINE CLUB The Public are most respectfully informed, that on this occasion the GARDENS will be SPLENDIDLY ILLU MINATED, surpassing, in variety of devices and magnifi cence, any others yet attempted. The talented Artist, Signor Semoni, will endeavour to present on this, the last occasion, the Grandest Pyrotechnical Display possible, introducing all the Splendid Colours attempted in FIREWORKS. At Four o'clock in the Afternoon, ON THE LAKE, Colonel Pasley's celebrated Experiment of the BLOWING UP of the WRECK of the ROYAL GEORGE, BY VOLTAIC ELECTRICITY. The Professor, during the Evening, will give several Exhi bitions of the BISCENASCOPE, or DISSOLVING SHADOWS, Illuminated by the KONIOPHASTIC LIGHT, giving a complete change of Splendid Views. Each Exhibition to conclude with THE STORMING OF ST. JEAN D'ACRE, TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF THE MAGAZINE, GRAND TABLEAU OF VICTORY. The excellent BRASS BAND will perform during the Evening several Select Pieces. Admittance, Two SHILLINGS; Children, ONE SHILLING The DISSOLVING BISCENA'SCOPE commences at Four o'clock.—FlßlNG at Eight. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET OPENS ON MONDAY NEXT, 13th SEPTEMBER. r HE Great Wizard of the North, Mr. J. H. ANDER ". SON, Father of all the Magi, from the Strand Theatre. London, where he performed 150 Nights before 200,000 Spectators in 1840; at the St. James's Bazaar 50 Nights, before the first of England's Nobility ; from whence he was summoned to Buckingham Palace, where he performed before the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Court! finished on Saturday, September 4th, a season unparalled for success at the Adelphi Theatre, where he has, for Five Months, per formed his Wonders before 300,000 Spectators. - - - • - The Liver Theatre has been transformed by the Metamor phestian Chrysostum of the Great Primordial, into a GOR GEOUS PALACE OF ENCHANTMENT, realising in the Mag nificent Decorations and Dazzling Galaxy of Unparalleled Apparatus all the glories and awe-inspiring splendour of Arabian Romance. Here the nobler metals, joined with the sparkling treasures of the East, have exhausted their stores in producing a coup d' veil hitherto unapproachable in value or effect. This Mysteriachist of the Nineteenth Century, has drawn from the pregnant Tomb of Antiquity all the quintessence of Memphian Cryptology, the Nyclapolsisian Powers of Theban Occultomancy, and Gordian Cabala of Gangeatic Dexterological. Sinistratology, defying the nicest discrimi nation, and puzzling the most subtle Disciple of Metaphysi cal casuistry. The Wizard's Incomprehensible Experiments are performed with a. most Gorgeous and Costly APPARATUS OF SOLID SILVER! The Mysterious and Mechanical Construction of which is upon a secret principle hitherto unknown in Europe. This extraordinary Mechanical Secret has baffled the Scientific — the Philosophers; and defiance is given to all Modern Con jurors to discover or divine the impenetrable Secrets of the PECULIAR ONE of a Peculiar Profession. The surprised Thousands who have witnessed the incredible Wonders per formed by the GREAT WIZARD, one and all exclaim— " You'd think (so far his art transcends) the Dell was in his fingers' ends." _ _ The GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH is the only living Pro fessor of Delusion who can, by ocular demonstration, illus trate the words of Shakspere— '? Mine eyes are made the fools o' othbr senses," which power the WIZARD OF THE NORTH possesses over all his Predecessors. He has brought the Science of AMBIDEXTROUS PRESTIDIGITATION to perfection ; to accomplish which task he has spent ten years of his life, and EXPENDED FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS ! PUFFING IS UNNECESSARY, as the wonderful success that has in every place crowned the exertions of the GREAT 'WI ZARD OF THE NORTH, with the opinions of the London Press (copies of which will be presented), at once proclaim the wonderful nature and superiority, as well as strictly mo ral tendency of this unparalleled Entertainment. The Great Wizard of the North will OPEN his Laboratory of Cabalistic Phenomena, displaying his most extraordinary Powers of Ambidextrous Prestidigitation, On MONDAY NEXT, September 13, 1811. Prices of Admission—Boxe s , 2s. I,d. ; Pit, Is. 6d. ; Gal lery, 6d. Second Price at Nine o'clock—Boxes, Is. 6d• ; Pit, Is. The Box-office will be open daily, from Eleven till Four o'clock, when places can be secured. Doors open at Halt past Seven o'clock, and the Wizard enters his Mystic Circle at Eight o'clock precisely; concluding at Half-past Ten or Eleven o'clock. Carriages in attendance at a Quarter -past Ten o'clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS, We have again to say that we cannot insert advertisements from London, unless they are forwarded to us by one of our agents. The announcement of " The Daily Despatch" cannot appear in the STANDARD unless transmitted through the medium of some regular news-agent in town. The number of licensed victuallers in Liverpool was stated in our last at 382 ; it should have been 1382. One of our country subscribers asks us to enclose the STANDARD in a stronger cover, and write the address on the paper in addition to the usual one on the wrapper, and tie a string around both for greater security. W . c should be glad t o f o ll ow our correspon d e nt's advice it we had only half-a -dozen papers to despatch ; but to send two or three hundred i n suc h a way as he recommends, with fre quently only two or three minutes for the operation,would not only be inconvenient, but absolutely impracticable. We can assure the fair authoress who has addressed us on the subject, that her selection of a radical printer and publisher will not, as she fears, have the slightest influence on any remarks whi c h we may su bmit to the public in no ticing her producti ons . We 'felt almost inclined to be in sulted by such an insinuation. The " Fine Young English Gentleman" shall appear on Tuesday. The Speaker of the House of Commons is not elected by the ministry, but by a majority of the members of the house. The present speaker was first appointed in 1839, on the elevation of Mr. Abercromby to the peerage, and whilst the whigs were in power, Lord Melbourne having suc ceeded on the resignation of Sir Robert Peel, who was driven from office by the Bedchamber Plot. CIA) Llbtrpoai OtanDarb. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1841 A London contemporary describes the. present mi nisterial party as probably the " strangest in moral force" that ever appeared in a British Parliament. It is almost superfluous to say that we concur altogether in the observation ; and such strength is the more re markable from tile contrast in which it stands with that of the exiled company, who were extremely deficient in this particular commodity. Nobody ever spoke of time moral force of the Whigs; it was a sort of thing upon which they seemed to set Very little value—conceiving, probably, that they could get on quite well enough without it. People would only laugh to hear anybody talk of the moral force of Lord Nielbourne, Lord Nor manby, Lord Palmerston, or of Daniel O'Connell, (who, by the way, had more of it than any of the rest); and what was wanting in the individual could not, of course, be found in the aggregate. It was a great blunder of. the party that they did not " assume the virtue if they had it not." Lord Melbourne is a great observer of men and things, and Lord John Russell is unquestionably a clever man ; but it was a great mis take of theirs to suppose that they could get along, in this most thinking country of ours, for any length of time, without the smallest conceivable quantity of " moral force" 'among their stowage. The want of it destroyed them. All their cleverness, all their combi nations, all their many ingenious devices could not compensate for such a deficiency; and they came to the ground, never, never to rise more. To acquire this moral force in all the fullness of its efficacy, men should be what they appear to be ; but the Whigs took no pains at all upon the subject. Men may acquire a certain degree of moral force by affect ing to venerate and regard those institutions which are especially appointed for the preservation of sacred things, and by seeming to uphold principles and prac tices whiCh have a deep hold of the world, notwith standing that they reprove its errors and reproach its vices; a certain degree of moral force is by this means reflected on themselves irrespective of any prestige which may belong, or may be wanting, to their own private character. All this the Whigs rejected. It was hard to tell what particular thing they reverenced. Certainly the National Church—the first, the most sa cred, and most important of all our institutions, owes them little on this score. If religion of any kind re ceived any honour from them, it wis not that religion which the peopl e o f thi s coun t ry cold in estimation, and what they did in this way consequently tended much more to detract from, than to 'add to, any little moral force they ever possessed. It was just the same story with every other institution in the country; the Gallios of the Whig ministerial party cared for none of these things ; anything and everything was plainly in the mart for auction ; only apply an adequate pres sure from without, and they would surrender every fragment of all that Englishmen once were proud of— yea every particle, old timbers, old bricks, and all, of their ancient constitution. Such men could have no moral force individually or collectively. The self-inte rested and unprincipled might laud and magnify them ; a wretched rabble might cheer them; but the judicious of every grade and order could only feel grief at their doings, and heartily despise them. The ministry of Sir Robert Peel succeeds, and it comes to power with that double moral force of which we have spoken—the moral force which is derived from defending and upholding those things which command the respect of mankind, and from weight of personal character, or that additional influence which men gain by being esteemed sincere, earnest, unaffect ed, and pure in their designs and actions. To have such a ministry at the head of affairs is a subject which we cannot contemplate without deep acknowledgments of thankfulness, and offering to our readers our warmest congratulations. Its influence will be felt in the re motest corner of the empire. It reaches toAts whilst we write, because the accession of such men to power inspires us with a confidence which' we could not otherwise feel, that their actions will be right, and that the affairs of the country will be administered wisely and well in their hands. That which is " moral force" on their part becomes "confidence" in its operation upon others; and such confidence is one of the most powerful agents in pro moting social happiness. People no longer perplexed with fear of change, cease from the agitating pursuit of party politics; they place trust in their rulers, and without ceasing altogether to be observers of their conduct, they enjoy repose from the conviction that their affairs are in good hands. Confidence and repose of this kind are favourable in the highest degree to commerce, the arts, and peaceful industry in every form. There is but one thing more which civil go vernment can do—one other effect which it can aim at producing—and that is the religious enlightenment and moral happiness of the people. We expect that such an aim will be kept in view by the administration of Sir Robert Peel, and that such an effect will be pro duced by it, Sir Robert Peel comes in as a Conservative minis ter, and, as such, has nothing to do with Liberalism— that thing which has to look for its religion—its political creed—its everything. Ile must know well that this country owes everything -to that pure faith which it professes, or, rather, to that gracious dispensation of divine Providence which attests the purity of the na tional worship by the signal prosperity and great ho nour to which it has permitted the people to attain ; and therefore he will spare no pains to uphold and ex tend the National Church, and spread the faith and practice taught by its ministers widely through the land. The Whigs pretended a mighty zeal for the welfare of the people ; but they did not show it in any one way that could contribute to their moral elevation or solid happiness. They ministered to their lust of power, or their love of change; they indulged them with a liberty of opinion, and a choice of instructors, which amounted to licentiousness ; they abandoned the flock to thieves and robbers, and sent out none to guide or direct them ; they, in fact, did nothing for the peo ple which could subserve their moral interests ; on the contrary, their influence was in quite an opposite di rection. A Conservative ministry cannot do so ;it cannot remain neutral on such a subject ; to remain neutral would be to betray its cause ; it would indeed be treason to their own interests. We agree then with our London contemporary in esteeming the present ministerial party, as eminently strong in moral force, and we add our own agreeable anticipation that such a ministry will, for its , own sake, and consistently with its known principles, go on to add to its strength in every essential and honourable way, and cause the em pire to rejoice and prosper under its authority. Who is to be our next Mayor? The scales are at this moment nearly standing beam ; Liberalism trem bles in the balance, and so, of course, does Conserva t ism; a very trifling weight will settle the preponderance. We have already shown that our next municipal elec tion may make the Council Conservative, without necessarily giving us a Conservative Chief Magistrate; because the retiring Aldermen have a right to vote in this election before they are finally !Linea officio ; but we have shown, at the same time, that the return of twelve Conservative Councillors would dispose of the Aldermen and their last retiring shot. The point which we have to aim at, then, is the securing of this round dozen—just a respectable jury ; and we cannot apprehend that there will be any great difficulty about it. At the last general election our candidates had a majority in every ward save one, and the surplus aggregate of votes recorded in their favour penetrated, like a deep wound, into the very vitals of Whiggery ; how can we suppose, then, that in the Council we shall fail to obtain that trifling accession of strength which we need to give us, next year, a Conservative Mayor, and to make the Council out and out, and altogether Conservative ? That a change of some sort is most desirable, we call Alderman Evans, one of the astutest of the present dominant party, as a witness. The Alderman feels deeply, and laments bitterly, that the present Corporation has little or no weight in the community—that it is good for nothing, and that if it were swept off to-morrow, scarcely any body would miss it, or be at the trouble to inquire, when did it die ? 'We grant that this is a blank, a blot, a sort of hiatus maxime deflendus over our town, which ought to be filled up, and which might be so, in a very ad vantageous way. But we and the Alderman differ in our mode of cure : he demands for the sick body more authority by law—more influence by act of parliament; whereas, we only ask a little change in its constitution —a removal of its rotten branches and unhealthy members, and the restoration of a Conservative energy to its vital functions. This would give it, what nothing else can, a power within itself—something that would render it inherently respectable and, consequently, influential, and be of more essential use to it than all the powers that any mere act of the legislature could confer. We have been speaking elsewhere of " moral force," and what we have there said is applicable in all respects to our local government : it wants, we say, what Con servatism alone can give it—moral power and influ ence; and as the municipal electors will soon have an opportunity of exercising their privileges, we have only to remind them that our fate is in their hands. You have seen how inefficient, how insignificant, how absolut e ly contem ptible government, or ad m i n i strat i on of any sort is in Whig or Radical hands; that they feel it as a hurthca themselves, and are painfully con scious of their deficiencies. Do, then, electors, we say, relieve them of their municipal offices ; set them at liberty from cares of state, and you will do them and your fellow -townsmen, at the same time, an infinite service. Strangers have frequently remarked to us the im mense amount of demoralisation which presents itself to view even in our most public streets ; and we find it difficult to offer any apolog►y on the subject. Every body is aware that there is a large Police force con stantly on duty through the town, i. e., doing nothing, and each man helping his companion diligently at the same laudable work : also that her Majesty's proclama tion against vice and immorality is duly read twice in the year, at the commencement of each assizes ; and also that Mr. Rushton, the Stipendiary Magistrate, duly admonishes, as well as fines, all the disorderlies that come before him in the course of his daily sittings in the Police-court If and :yet, with all this, the town, as we hear, presents to the eye of the stranger much that offends, in the way we refer to, and is, in fact, reproachable in this respect beyond other towns. Now, is not this a disgrace to our local government? Where is their " moral force," if they have any, whilst these things exist in a degree so glaringly apparent and so offensively visible to the eye of a visiter? Does the Chief Magistrate, or the Council, assist in any degree in carrying out the royal proclamation, whilst they wink at these things, and take no pains to remove or restrain exhibitions so extremely disgusting ? Why, we might as well have no such authorities at All, for any thing they do to keep such nuisances out of sight; and when we refer to the outward demonstration, of course we would be understood to complain of the still more unpardonable laxity and liberalism which must exist in a proportionate degree towards the resorts of infamy, and the vices themselves which lead to the exhibition. Change, then, in its personal composition, we say a local government which exerts no wholesome intlit ence in the abatement of gross immorality--whicl shows no paternal care for the moral well-being of thi lower orders—and which knows no better creed to ac upon in the education or government of the people in religion or politics, than indiscriminate licence. Every man who feels the most ordinary degree of regard for the locality in which he dwells, ought to feel a deep interest in this subject—we care not whether he be Whig or Tory for this purpose. If he be any thing of a fair or moderate Whig, we would seriously put it to him that liberals have been tried long enough in municipal administration, and that they have failed most miserably; and that he ought, therefore, as a good citizen, and a good townsman, to assist in turn ing them out of a position for which they have no talent—no fitness. The party in power do themselves acknowledge their own littleness, and total .want of consideration, and all the town echoes their voice—the whole world responds to the truth told them by their internal monitor. They are, unquestionably, a most miserable crew—ludicrously incapable, and wholly un profitabel to the community in any one way. A moderate Whig would necessarily wish for a change, and our expectation therefore is, that at the next elec tion all moderate Whigs will vote for conservative councillors. But there is a further reason which onght to influ ence him, and it is this, that since our new municipal corporation was formed, it has ever been in the hands of one party, and of one only; now, before we con demn the act of parliament altogether, which has given us so inefficient a local government, another party ought to have a trial ; this. is only fair towards your own act; wherefore on this ground we would expect that a reasonable Whig would vote for conser vative candidates. Let us ascertain what could be done under the act with a conservative council. We never admired that piece of legislation much, but we should like much to see it worked conservatively. We have frequently made our acknowledgments to the parliamentary reform bill ; we should be OM to turn so far Whig, as to say so much fin• their municipal We alluded last week to the preparations making, and the attempts likely to he made, for the purpose of swamping the friends of order in the registries, with a view principally to the municipal elections ; and we repeat that, on this head, the Conservatives cannot be too much upon their guard, judging from what we know the Liberal party, as they call themselves, have done here, and, we are informed, they do in other places. In Dublin they have lately carried on their fraudulent proceedings with such a shameless defiance of all decency, as, happily for the Conservative cause, is likely to re-act with unexpected mischief on their own heads. The Municipal Act has not yet been put in force in Ireland, and the process of carrying it into effect, is now for the first time in motion. To the churchwardens of the several parishes was entrusted the important duty of preparing the burgess rolls, which, when completed, they were required to return to the Lord Lieutenant ; but conceive what must have been the handywork of the Papist party, when the churchwardens of the several parishes of Dublin de clared, that such were the alterations, interlineattons, and, of course, falsifications made in the rating-books of the Poor Law Guardians (from which the lists were to be taken), that they could not perform the task as signed them in any satisfactory manner ! Lord For tescue, however, peremptorily commanded that they should make their returns—threatening them with im mediate law proceedings and heavy penalties if they disobeyed. By these means returns were extracted from them, but they were made under protest, and we perceive that petitions have been presented to both houses of parliament representing the entire transac tion, and complaining of such outrageous proceedings. Earl de Grey arrives in Dublin this day, and it is con fidently expected that seeing it to be impossible to do justice to Protestant Ireland, if the Dublin municipal election were to go on upon pretended burgess roll lists, made up from forged or falsified entries purposely inserted in order to give a preponderance to the Radi cals., his lordship will, as he has the power, in his capacity of Lord Lieutenant, postpone the election, or, in other words, continue the old Corporation for another year. Thus the vaulting ambition of the O'Connellites would have over-leapt itself—their frau dulent rapacity defeat its own ends. We refer to the business to show our readers what the party are capable of doing to attain their objects. Will the Conservatives of Liverpool, then, we ask submit to having a municipal Council chosen by sue} persons, or by persons who fraternise with them, an not only sympathise with their views, but would prac tise the same devices to carry them out if they might i If not, let them be wise and alert in time. AN ANALYSIS OF OUR EXPORTS OF COTTON GOODS, VIEWED IN RELATION TO THE PRO POSED FREE-TRADE MEASURES OF LORD MELBOURNE'S GOVERNMENT.—No. 11. It is urged that if we take the timber and the corn of Eu ropean nations, who now only purchase from us our cotton yarns, they will then be enabled to purchase more largely our perfect manufactures. It is urged also that the native consumer, paying less for his food, will be able fully to main tain his present consumption of manufactured goods. Ma nifestly, however, the latter assumption is dependent upon the realization of the former. The British labourer, when agricultural pursuits become unproductive and the demand for his labour in those pursuits is decreased, cannot afford to consume at all, unless increased employment is found, sufficlent to compensate him for the want of that which has been destroyed ; and that increased employment, we have seen, cannot be afforded by any increase in our trade. with those countries, unless that increase is in finished fabrics, into which labour largely enters. Have we. then, any sure ground for the supposition that the countries of Northern Europe, from which our supplies of corn and timber must be principally derived, will become, through the influence of the proposed abandonment of our present protective policy, large consumers of our manufactured cotton cloths ? A very brief examination of the condition and the habits of the people of these countries, and of their climate as well, will suflice to shew that no measures of ours can ever make them consumers of our lighter and more expensive fabrics. Our coarse, heavy materials might, indeed, by possibility, be brought into consumption ; but those goods which afford the greatest amount of manufacturing employment fer their production we can scarcely hope to induce the agricultural labourers of Russia or Poland, of Norway, Denmark or Sweden, to exchange for their present covering of coarse woollen, even if we could succeed in so far raising their con dition as to enable them to make the exchange. Perhaps some impulse might be given to our goods trade with the markets of Germany; but it must be borne in mind that the people of that country are not themselves likely to become large exporters of grain to England, and that whatever in crease of trade we create from thence by our proposed policy can only be to the extent to which the traders of the German cities are benefitted by the prosperity which we have con ferred upon the landowners and agricultural labourers of the neighbouring states. And even whilst deriving, ourselves, a present advantage from the increased demand in the German markets for those fabrics, in which their manufacturers are as yet unable to compete with us, it is much to be doubted whether we shall not be so far stimulating the demand for the coarser fabrics of their own manufacture, for the con sumption of those agricultural labourers, as to enable them eventually to rival us in materials requiring more advanced skill in their manufacture. The entire arguments in favour of free trade in corn and timber proceed upon the supposition that the foreigner is driven, by our restrictions, to manufacture for his own con sumption; and that upon a change of policy on our part he will be induced to abandon entirely or to neglect the pursuit in question. But is such a supposition, we ask, at all war ranted? Have we any bona fide assurance that the tariffs of the European States will be reduced in our favour? Vire have no such assurance from any foreign government; and the assumption that the people themselves of those countries will voluntarily abandon their present manufactures to be come dependent upon us solely for their clothing, is mani festly improbable. There is no possible system of corn-laws which can ensure to the countrie,s of Europe the regular sup plying of our markets with corn ; and surely it would be an insane policy, on the part either of the people or the govern ments of those countries, to give up an already flourishing manufacturing systeM—one which, at the least, is capable of meeting the wants of the mass of their population—for the prospect of a precarious supply from Great Britain. if we are blind enough to allow ourselves to .become dependant upon them for a supply of food, which they may not always have it in their power to afford us, they are not likely to throw themselves upon us for a supply of clothing., which they may not always have it in their power to purchase from us. The foreigner who now takes from us the yarn which he requires for the supply of his own looms, we may rest as sured, is too well acquainted with the value, to him, of a prosperous manufacture to be lightly tempted into abandon ing its pursuit ; and, when he asks us to take his surplus corn, is not disposed to push the principle of reciprocity so far as our manufacturers would have us imagine. The con cession from us, - which is sought for, we have no doubt would be gratefully accepted ; and we have as little doubt that, so far from inducing the foreigner to abandon that sys tem of manufactures which for the last 25 years he has been so sedulously engaged in erecting, it will be used by him only as a means of increasing his powers of manufacturing. We give prosperity to the foreign corn and timber grower, not, we are assured, to enable him to extend the growth of the manufactures of his own country ; and the only result, therefore, which we shall derive from opening to him our markets, will be an increase of the least valuable portion a our export trade. The manufacture of cotton yarn will re ceive an impulse, whiCh will be co-extensive with the in creased prosperity which we shall have conferred upon the foreign manufacturer ; but here the direct effect of our change of policy must stop. So far as the great corn and timber-producing countries are concerned, the remaining branches of our cotton exports will be little affected ; and any increase which the free-trade measures of Lord Mel bourne and his colleagues are to afford to these branches, can only be looked for from the cheapening of food at home, and the means thus afforded to the manufacturer o6cheapen ing production, by reducing the price of labour to the bread standard. Before proceeding to this part of the subject, however, let us examine the nature of the question between the Brazilian and the West Indian cultivator, the latter of whom we are urged, upon the principles of free trade, to sacrifice to the former. Our exports of cotton goods to Brazil are large— amounting last year, as the table before us states, to £2,525,037—whi15t those to Cuba, and the other fiireign West Indian colonies which are included in this question, were £401,382 ; and we are assured that, without a reduc tion of our discriminating duties upon sugar and other Brazilian produce, we shall be excluded, upon the expiration of the present commercial treaty, from the markets of that country, or at the least be driven to enter them upon less favourable terms than at present. We will not now insist upon the fact that no such dreadful deprivation is before us ; that, by the market which Great Britain affords for its cot ton, coffee, and other produce, she is in a position'to ensure a renewal of that treaty upon favourable terms. We will put aside, too, the question of slavery entirely ; and, viewing the trade with Brazil upon its own merits, we are prepared to maintain that the proposed reduction of the discriminating duties upon foreign and British colonial sugars would not be productive of that substantial benefit to our manufacturing community which is insisted upon by its advocates ; that — independent of the loathing entertained by the people of this country towards that traffic in human flesh, which such a measure would so fearfully stimulate—the export trade to our own free colonies, which would be destroyed by it, is infinitely more valuable to us as a manufacturing community than thlt which we shall gain. In amount the present cotton exports of Great Britian to her sugar-producing colonies are fully equal to her exports to Brazil. Last year, we find frOinthe document before quoted, our West Indian islands took from us manufactured cotton goods to the amount of £1,234,687 ; and when we know that it was a year of short crops, and consider, besides, the mise rably inefficient supply of labour under which those colonies are suffering, we may safely look forward to a large increase of consumption in the ordinary course of events. When we add, however, to this amount the exports to the Mauritius— and such a portion• of the present amount of four millions and upwards of our exports of cotton goods to the .East Indies as may fairly be said to be at stake upon the decision of the sugar dutieS—we shall have, at the least, a nominal equality of exports of cotton goods taken by British sugar producing colonies and by the foreign slave-owning states. Upon the principle, however, which we have before laid down, with respect to the comparative value of our export trade to different markets, we believe that the value to Great Britain, as a manufacturing country. of the trade to her own colonies is, although nominally and apparently equal, far greater in reality than that which is attempted to be weighed in the scale against it, inasmuch as it affords employment to a greater quantity of manufacturing labour. To both these great markets we export finished goods alone; but to our West India colonies even at present these goods are of a much better class—more remunerative to the British manu facturer and more nearly approaching in description to the fabrics of home consumption—tha n the markets of the Brazils can take from us : and as the free population of the West Indies advance in the scale of civilization and pros perity, and imbibe more and snore a taste for the habits Of European life, we may anticipate from those colonies a stilt larger and more valuable demand. The trade with Brazil is almost exclusively a trade in those articles which are suited for the consumption of a slave population ; and we believe that there can scarcely be a doubt as to the superior value, to the trader or the manufacturer, of the consumption of a free population, when compared with that of one in which the slave class largely predominates. With the effect of such a measure as the reduction of the sugar duties upon the condition of our home population, we have in this enquiry nothing to do. That measure might temporarily reduce the cost of sugar to the English consumer; but we are quite sa tisfied that it would never promote largely, by its action upon our export trade, the increased employment required by the manufacturing labourer. A NEW ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE The illustrious O,Cobden, we learn from the :Morning Chronicle of Wednesday last, has just laid down for the itinerants of the league a new course of agitation against the corn-laws. The attempt to cram the nostrums of this cotton quack and his fellow-illuminati down the throats of thinking- and sane MEN has failed. Amongst the mercantile classes it has signally Ailed. The attempt is now, however,, to be made upon the rising generation —upon our juvenile. mer chants. We are to have forthwith established in the metro polis, and no doubt eventually throughout the provinces as well, a "Young Men's Anti-Corn-Law League," in whose ranks are to be enrolled all the sucking talent which is now occupied ingloriously in copying letters, snaking out invoices, or labelling samples; and from henceforth the councils Of the nation and the experience of " bearded men" are to be turned aside by the sage vapoutiings of crotchetty boys, who have devoted their unfledged wits to the pursuit of political economy, when they might have been more usefully employed in fathoming the mysteries of the multiplication table or en deavouring to master the intricacies of a custom-house entry. The youths at present in our mercantile offices, argues O'Cobden, will compose the merchants of a future day ; ergo : , the importance of inoculating them in time with the anti corn-law virus. The matured intellects of the existing race are impenetrable to all our attempts upon their cre d u li ty ; ergo, we must direct our free trade artillery against the im mature embryo and train him up to our purposes. We can not move the oak, but we may bensi the growing twig, and thus work into distortion the future tree. A hopeful scheme, truly—worthy alike of its projectors and their philosophy ! But there is just one little drawback, which M r . O'Cob den his fellow h s a e:• e iouy loslt sight of, and whi c h Ne retard their efforts o ' f e n o al cantile c l ass. The rising t i n plotters au generation of Great Britain is strongly conservative; and the youth's who occupy the junior stool s i n our large mercan tile establishments are especially so. Here and there, perhaps, may be found the leaven of which the agitators are in search -young men more deeply read in politics and philosophy than in morals or arithmeti c ;--u ho entertain a profound con t e mpt for the " ancient way s " of prudent and ploddi ng industry by which their fathers rose above the mass, and who would g l a dly discover in the doctrines of free trade, or any other set of doctrines, a royal road to wealth and independent station ; but these, unfortunately for the leaguers, are pre cisely the young men who are the least likely to form the future race of British merchants. The world has certainly witnessed strange things in this age of joint-stock banking and kite-flying ; and comets, such as Mr. Cobden and his class, have become somewhat more numerous than of old. But after all, we imagine, it will be discovered, that the qualities most surely to be depended upon, to enable their possessors to rise to eminence in a mercantile sphere, are of