The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-14 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. HE LAST NIGHT BUT SIX OF THE SEASON_ FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. LLOYDS, (PROMPTER.) Fir HIS present FRIDAY, December 14, 1838, when will .I. be performed Mr. J. S. Knowles' play of the WRECKER'S DAUGHTER. Robert Mr. Stuart. Black Norris. ....Mr. W. H Bland.,- Wolf Mr. Gray. Edward.... Mr. W. Howard. Marian Miss pOcit. At the end of the Play, the favourite 'Song of THE BANNERS OF BLUE, BY MISS LAND. After which, the historical Diima of CHARLES XII Charles XII Mr. Baker. Adam Brock ..M r. Slaiter. Col. Reichel.. M r.W.H. Blared. Gustavus de Mervelt Major Vanberg Ulrica Miss Cleaver. Eudiga Mrs. Tenet. At the end of Charles X[ I, the popular Song of the The Bavarian Broom Girl, iit Chalater, by kiss Grant- To conclude with a Ballet Pantomine called the BANDITTI OF THE FOREST. Mr. Knowles' last new play of the MAID OF MARIEN DORPT, as now performing nightly with the greatest success, at the Theatre-Royal, Haymarket, and the last new drama of NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, as now performing with unprecedented success at the Adelphi Theatre London, are in preparation, and will be produced, previous to the close of the present season. TO THE LADIES OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS VICINITY. MRS. NICHOLAS GEAItY, 61, St. James's -street, London, STAY and CORSET MAKER to Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen Dowager, Her Imperial Highness the Princess of Orange, and Royal Fainily r begs respectfully to announce to the Nobility of Liverpool stud its Environs, that she has APPOINTED Mrs. CUTTER, Milliner, &c. &c., No. 11, Clarence-street, Rodney-street, HER SOLE AGENT FOR LIVERPOOL, where they can be suited with her elegant newly-invented Anatomical Stays, which are also patronised and recommended by all the most distin guished Members of the Medical Profession in the Metro polis. In consequence of the late Post-office regulations, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD is now dispatched by the Mail which leaves at half-past Two o'clock in the morning for London, Birmingham, Manchester,LS-c. This arrangement renders it .nar.assary that Adver tisements should be sent to the 'Office before Eight o'clock on Monday and Thursday evenings. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The favour of " R. D." came too late to be available for our present publication. In our next we shall make some extracts from the papers with which he has kindly fur nished us. Iliberpoot g:,tanZlarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 14, 1838. DEMERARA.—Advices have been received from De merara to the Ist ultimo. The labourers still remained unsettled. No dependence could be placed upon them. They would perhaps work for one day, and then remain two or three days idle, just as it suited their own convenience. Not one half of the canes for this year's crop will be taken off the ground. 1 n the export of sugar for the quarter ending October sth there is a deficiency, compared with that of the corre sponding quarter in the last year, of fully 5000 lards. This deficiency cannot fail to influence the market most materially. Letters had been received at Demerara from Ber bice, stating that the labourers were doing very little work; and that, instead of mending, matters were getting worse in that colony. Altogether, the news from our West Indian colo nies is of the most gloomy character; and we fear that there is very little prospect of an improvement. Thanks to our Whig legislators and governors, our colonial possessions are on the very verge of ruin. Rto JANEIRO.—We have adv ices from Rio Janeiro to the 16th of October. Accounts had been that day received from Buenos Ayres; stating that the French had declared war against the latter government on the Ist of October, and had taken possession of the small island of Martin Garcia, which lies at the mouth of the Uruguay. From Rio Grande there was no news of importance. PLAGIARISM.—The Worcester Journal of yesterday states, that an article which we copied from the Black burn Standard of the 28th ult., and which we inserted under the head of " Contemporary Press," appeared originally in the Worcester Journal of the 25th of October. On referring to a copy of the Worcester Journal of that date, which the editor has forwarded to us, we find the same article in the shape of a leader. We h Ice no explanation to offer on the subject fur ther than this—that we have hitherto had no opportu nity of seeing the Worcester Journal, and that the article in question was correctly quoted from the Blackburn Standard, in which paper it appeared as a leader. POPERY IN IRELAND. — "Semper eadem" is the acknowledged motto of the Church of Rome. She has always been a persecuting church ; but in no age or country has her intolerant genius been more con spicuously manifested, than it is, at the present day, in Ireland. Scarcely a day elapses that does not bring with it some fresh tale of oppression from that ill-fated, because priest-ridden country. We now lay before our readers another authenticated narrative, in addition to the many that we have already adduced, illustrating the working of "modern" Popery. The facts de tailed in the following letter will speak for them selves : TO THE EDITOR OF THE ACHILL HERALD " That no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, of the number of his name." Rev. viii. 17. DEAR SIR,—An illustration of the fulfilment of prophecy from palpable facts is always interesting. The following narrative of a circumstance that occurred here lately, will show how exactly the Romish priests fulfil to the letter the persecuting principles of their system, as predicted in the above passage of Scripture. A Roman Catholic farmer named James Greven, living in the neighbourhood of Newport, sold some hay to the Pro testant clergyman. A Roman Catholic gentleman, Mr. Hillas, had been pre viously looking at the hay, and offered for it a smaller sum than the owner was willing to sell it for. The day after the farmer sold his hay, and before it was drawn by the purchaser, a priest, one of Mr. Hughes' coad jusurs, went to him. 'Phis priest is, as I have been informed, from the town of 'Foam, where his education in polite litera ture and the mysteries of Dens has just received its finishing polish under the eye of Dr. M`Hale himself. Having introduced to your readers the dramatis persona', I now proceed to the dialogue which took place between this worthy disciple of Dens and the honest farmer, as it has been related by an ear-witness, premising that the priest could not have required the hay for himself, but was evi dently intent on obtaining the bargain for some one else of " the faithful." Priest—Will you sell this hay; what will you take for it? Farmer—Please your Reverence it is sold already. Priest—But you must sell it to me now, come tell me what you want for it? Farmer—l cannot sell it, I have in my pocket the earnest of the purchaser, it is impossible for me now to sell what is not my own. Priest—Yon must sell me the hay, tell me Sirra, to whom did you sell it ? The farmer fearing the priest's anger if be admitted that he sold it to the Protestant Minister, replied, I sold it to that man yonder, pointing to the house of one M'Cann, who bought the hay for the clergyman. The Priest's man, who stood by, observed—The hay has been sold to Stoney. The fanner was obliged to admit this, asseverated by a horrid imprecation by the man who usually accompanies the Irish priest when he goes out in the harvest on a foraging expedition, amongst the corn fields of the poor farmers, he had to acknowledge that the hay was bought by the Protestant Clergyman. Priest—So you sold the bay to Stoney, did you! the rob ber, the villain, (here the gentle pastor broke out into a volley of abuse and imprecations upon the absent object of his ire,) I tell you he shall never get it, you must now sell it to me, will you prefer that villain to me ? Fanner—l have received the gentleman's earnest for the hay, and it is out of my power now to sell it to you. Priest-1 will give you ten shillings more than that villain Stoney gave you for the hay. Farmer-1 will not sell it now, it is sold already. Priest—l tell you Stoney's money is unlucky, it will never do you any good, it will melt away with you, and the money will, if you take it, melt away all your substance. Farmer—Please your Reverence, sure enough the money will soon melt from me, for the moment I get it, it will go to my Landlord to pay my rent. Priest—Well, wherever it goes it will be unlucky and melt away. But come, sir, will you sell me the hay? Will you give Stoney, that robber and villain, a preference to me? Tdl me, sir, were you ever a Protestant? you must have been a Protestant before now, or you would not refuse me and give your bay to that villain. Farmer—l was never a Protestant, (here the poor man took a little courage.) Let me tell your reverence that I pay you your dues whenever they are called for, and let me tell you that Mr. Stoney is not a robber or villain, I always found him honest, he often served me and my family, and I would give him my hay in preference to any man, whoever he may be. The priest perceiving that it was useless to at tempt any further display of his tyranny over the poor but honest farmer, foiled in his object of putting into practical operation the principle he had been so lately instructed in out of Dens"lheology, that no faith is to be kept with here tics, took his departure in great anger, and consoled himself by immediately going into the adjoining farm of a poor man named Spelman, and in the absence of its owner helped him self to twenty good sheaves of oats out of the stack which contained the fruits of the poor man's labour for the year. Hoping that our unhappy countrymen may be speedily delivered from the cruel bondage in a hich the Rornish priests keep them, I am, dear Sir, yours, &c., W. B. STONEY. TORCH-LIGHT• AGITATION.—In our paper of Friday last we remarked that government had done nothing with a view to arrest the dangerous career of the torch-light agitators, " beyond issuing a few inopera. Live instructions to the magistracy." Subsequent re. 'malty lioe fully confirmed our impressions on the subject. It is true that Lord John Russell pronounces the illegality of these radical assemblages, and that he suggests the propriety of narrowly watching their proceedings; but if he has any expectation that the chartist agitators will be deterred from their incendiary course by such pusillanimous expedients, we beg to assure him that he is profoundly ignorant of the men with whom he has to deal. They have already set Lord John Russell and his instructions at defiance. We find from the Manchester Guardian that the ma gistrates of Bury, acting in obedience to the directions of the Home Secretary, issued a placard to the follow ing effect, warning the people against attending a torch-light meeting which was announced to take place there last week : The magistrates of this district having received instruc tions from the secretary of state, that all the late meetings by torch light were illegal, and observing by a placard that it is intended to hold one in Bury on the evening of Saturday the Bth instant, do, in conformity with their instructions, give this public notice of the illegality of such meetings, and do advise all persons not to attend them By order of the magistrates, W. P. WOODCOCK. Bury, 6th December, 1838. The chartists, of course, care little about this brutum [Omen. Their meetings are certainly pronounced to be illegal ; but what does that signify, so long as no actual measures are taken to suppress these torch-light assemblages ? The meeting announced to take place at Bury took place, in spite of the "caution" of the magistrates. The chartist agitators, Mr. Feargus O'Connor, the Rev. Mr. Stephens, Mr. Fletcher, of Bury, Mr. Taylor, of Spotland, and several others, were present on the occasion, and addressed the as semblage, which consisted of several thousands of people, in langaage the most violent and inflamma tory. They treated the " advice" of the magistrates with sovereign contempt, ridiculing the idea that they were to be put down by such harmless missiles. They had their usual accompaniments, bands of music, play ing martial airs; flags and banners, bearing the most atrocious inscriptions; and an immense number of torch lights. We have the authority of the Manchester Guardian for the statement " that many of them are believed to have been armed—as a large number of pistols were discharged about the outskirts- of the meeting !" Has it really come to this ? Are armed assemblages of seditious vagabonds to be allowed to throw defiance in the face of the constituted authorities with perfect impunity ? Are they to be permitted to display their significant emblems of sedition, incendiarism, rebel lion, and murder, without any molestation ? We may well demand "what are ministers doing?"—when we find even the liberal Guardian using such strong lan guage as the following :—" The magistrates and the government have, therefore, been fairly defied; and, unless they are willing to sit down under that defi ance,—unless they choose to have it go forth to the world, that in this neighbourhood there is to be no protection for persons or property,—that the inciters to incendiarism and murder are to pass unquestioned, and that the law of the land is to become a byeword and a mockery,—both the government and the magis trates are bound to take some step to prove that their warnings were not mere idle words, but were issued after a due consideration of the circumstances which might ensue, and of the measures which such circum stances would require at their hands. What those measures may be, we must, of course, leave to the proper parties to determine." We will venture a little further titan our liberal contemporary. We would at once suggest the propriety, nay, the absolute neces sity, of putting an effectual stop to the chartist agita tion by calling in the aid of the military and police, Wherever circumstances may arise to justify their pre sence or interference. It is of no use whatever to re sort to half measures with such desperate characters as the chartist agitators and their followers. They must be coerced into obedience to the law. They must be taught, by acts of no equivocal construction, that treason is not to be connived at—that instigations o violence and murder are not to be passed by unno .iced or unpunished. Our advice is, let the chartist conspiracy be crushed in its infancy, before any further mischief is done. The interference of the Military is indispensably ne cessary in order to accomplish this : let the military, therefore, be employed in every instance in which an attempt may be made to set the laws of the country at defiance. Further, in order to show that the govern ment is in earnest on the subject, and to prove to the agitators the futility of seeking to brave the law, let the military be supplied with ball cartridge. We do not advise this for the purpose of wanton massacre, but for the sake of effectual intimidation. Is this advice called for ? Let the inflammatory language employed by the chartist agitators furnish the answer. On a recent occasion Mr. Feargus O'Connor said, "He had spent seven years in the cause of the people ; three in parliament, three out of parliament, and one at the press ;—but he did not in tend to spend another six years, or even one year, be- fore he obtained for the people their just rights—uni versal suffrage, annual parliaments, &c. &c. The black slaves had obtained their emancipation on the Ist of August, 1838; and he appointed September 29th, 1839, for the manumission of the white slaves. If the Whigs did not concede their liberty on the 29th, the people should take it by force on the 30th. They would have their Michaelmas goose on the 29th, and on the 30th their opponents should have the gander. He had preached peace all his life, but at the same time he was always prepared for war. One of those . torches (pointing at one near at hand) was worth a thousand speeches : it spoke a language so intelligi ble that no one could misunderstand. Those who were not within the hearing of his voice would com prehend the meaning of that silent monitor." What is " the meaning of that silent monitor," which speaks so intelligibly ? Does it not speak of midnight violence? Does it not show that the chartist agitation has ulterior views which will only bear to be indistinctly symbolised by the lighted torch and the warlike banner ? That there is no doubt whatever that such was the real purport of the allusion of O'Connor to the torches we have additional evidence in the language employed by Mr. Stephens at the very same meeting. He re marked " that they would be justified in taking those torches, and burning down the inhuman bastiles." Now, we are far from entering into the feelings of those who think that the poor-law bastiles constitute the very quintessence of humane legi elation ; but we must nevertheless enter our solemn protest against the employment of such means as those suggested by Mr. Stephens for abolishing this delectable specimen of Whig cruelty. The poor•law, whatever Mr. Ste phens may allege to the contrary, is part and parcel of our statute law, and as such must be conformed to, until it is repealed. Nor should the repeal of this ty rannical law, however obnoxious may be its enact ments, be sought for by any other than legal and con• stitutional means. Such are not the means employed by the chartist agitators. They openly proclaim that the law ought not to be obeyed, nay, that it ought to be resisted by force of arms. If we allow the princi ple for which Mr. Stephens contends, what is to pre• vent other parties from resorting to the same means for procuring the abolition of such laws as they may deem obnoxious and contrary to the spirit of the con stitution ? What, for instance, would be thought of an appeal to arms for the purpose of procuring the repeal of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act ? Much more cogent reasons might be adduced in justi fication of such a course than any which have been paraded by Mr. Stephens in his incendiary addresses to the revolutionists. We are not libelling Mr. Stephens by attributing to him a wish to set aside the laws of the land by resort ing to physical force. The following language, em ployed by this reverend by courtesy agitator, at the Bury meeting, affords the most unequivocal evi dence of the real designs of the chartists. He said —"I have been denounced as a devil, by the Bir mingham political council, because I have recom mended the people to arm—by law—under law —and for law—according to the principle of the con stitution. I have given that advice—l give that ad vice again—l repeat it to-night. You know that I never flinch—you know that I never shrink; and I am not come here to shrink or to flinch before you to- night. It is my opinion —my deliberate and decided opinion—that there is no chance for you—no hope for you—no freedom for you, until, in all things, you keep the law, and as the law is kept by others, unless you have weapons of offence or defence, safe and se cure in your individual and in your collective posses sion. * * * * I say that the new poor law is no low at all—no law of God.—no law of man— no law of Chriotian England —no law of Christian Englishmen. I say, that whoever he be—be he what he may—great or small, high or low—in red or in blue—no man has any right to attempt to carry the law into execution. If he attempt it morally, he must be morally resisted. If he attempt it physi cally, he may be, and ought to be, physically resisted. * * * * * I am sure that you have acted on what I have told you from time to time, and what I have told you is right, just, and good; and know you, that we may be ever ready to fight it out, and fight it out we will; for you shall have peace and plenty yourselves, or they shall have nothing but war, war, war, till they be exterminated from the face of the earth." It is a singular and rather ominous coincidence that, at the very moment that Mr. Stephens was ad dressing the Bury Chartists, the factory of Mr. Jowett, who had been denounced by Stephens, was blazing at Ashton-under-Lyne! Here is an evidence of the "intelligible language" of the torches. Having thus briefly pointed out the language and objects of the chartist agitators, we may well exclaim once more, "what are ministers doing ?" Is it not, indeed, high time that O'Connor, Stephens, and Co. should be brought to account? Are they to continue their incendiary agitation until the whole kingdom is in a flame ? What will Lord John Russell, the imbe cile Secretary of State, ..say, when he is told that the following language was employed by Stephens, while addressing his audien , 7e at Charles Town :—" He had heard a few days before of an incendiary having de stroyed six stacks of corn ; after having read the ac count, he thanked God, for that, as it might be ex tended to Lancashire into the halls, aye, and into the cotton factories also, and not to six, but six hundred stacks !" Well may it be said that this country now, more than ever, requires a strong government. We want a ministry that will dare to avenge the insulted majesty of the laws—that will not suffer such incendiaries as Stephens to pursue their destructive career unchecked. We cannot expect to have such a ministry without turn ing out the whig radicals. CONCERT AT TEMPLARS' HALL.—Last evening, Mons. A. de St. Maurice gave a concert at Templars' Hall. We were unable ourselves to attend it, but heard that the singing of Miss Leach and Mr. Walton gave great satisfaction, and that the performances generally were loudly applauded. We understand the concert was well attended. BURGLARY.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, four noto rious had characters named John Leyland, John Young, Woodyer, and James Scholefield, were examined be fore the magistrates on a charge of having, on Wednesday night week, entered the house of a Mrs. Cooper, living in Hart-street, by breaking through the back parlour window, and carrying away therefrom £l3 in gold, and a gold watch and chain, which they found in a drawer in the room. They were apprehended the night before, by constable Ainsworth, on suspicion. Witnesses were examined, who deposed to seeing them lurking about•on the night of the robbery, but there being no further evidence against them, Mr. Hall ordered them to be discharged, after severely animadverting on their known bad conduct. AI as. GEARY'S STAYS.—It is with infinite pleasure that we learn, there is an invention by Mrs. Geary, of St. James's street, London, which promises great advantage to the ladies, especially the rising generation, and when we refer to the royal and distinguished patronage this stay and corset has received, and the high testimonials of their merits from the most eminent medical gentlemen in the metropolis, we feel ourselves justified in congratulating the inventress, Mrs. Geary, upon the success of her invention, which we feel satisfied, from its construction, cannot fail to benefit the female community at large, and we are happy to know that our fair townswomen have the advantage of this lady's in vention; as per advertisement in our columns, she has ap. pointed Mrs. Cutter, of Clarence-street, Rodney-street, the sole agent for Liverpool. • THE ROYAL WILLIAM.—This fine steam-ship will sail to morrow for New York, with passengers only. Lord Holland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has appointed Charles Birch, Esq., of Litherland-house, a Jus tice of the Peace for this county. A resident magistrate has long been wanted in the neighbourhood of Bootle, Litherland, &c-; and the present appointment, whilst it supplies a press ing want, is extremely judicious on the part of his lordship. The packet-ship Siddons, which sailed hence the 21st of October, arrived at New York ou the 22d ult. Among the passengers by the Siddons were William Brown, Esq. and his lady, who were in the best health after their voyage. The new and splendid packet-ship Roscius was to leave New York on the 26th ult., and may therefore be expected here daily. Notwithstanding the crowd of passengers in the Great Western, every berth in ,the Roscius was, it is stated, en gaged. ANCHOR-FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Saturday last, the weather being extremely foggy, the Cleveland, Wood side, steam-boat, in crossing the river, ran close alongside the Garrick, tAmerican packet-ship, which was riding at anchor, but fortunately without doing any mischief. Grazing along, however, she passed under the Garrick's bows, where hung the spare anchor, and this she made free to hit upon her own bulwarks, and bore it bodily away, the chain cable, strange to relate, to which it was attached having snapped asunder,—seemingly as willing to let go the anchor as the Cleveland appeared to get hold of it. The whole was but the work of a moment; but had any amount of human power been employed to execute the service, it could not have been effected with greater nicety. The Cleveland immediately shot clear or the Garlick, and, with the unexpected addition of a "best bowel" to her equipments for the perilous voyage across the Mersey, proceeded to her destination. Thus, what might have been attended with incalculable misfortune under other circumstances—the breaking of the chain cable—was here the means of averting consequences which might have been attended with a frightful amount of damage, if not loss of life. Such an occurrence is unprecedented, andin all pro bability, will remain unparalleled. On the steamer's return, a glass of grog was the only salvage required from the owners of the anchor, for the restoration of so valuable a prize. PROPOSED NEw CHURCH.—On Monday evening an ad. journed meeting, on the subject of the new church proposed to be built by the congregation of St. Jude's, was held in that church, the Rev. 1-1. M'Neile in the chair. About 500 per sons were present. The subscriptions were stated to amount to £2,500 Two sites were named, one in Gill-street, the other a small field adjoining a house at the corner of Anson street, Pembroke-place. The latter, it was stated, could be procured at 20s. per yard, 2s. below the price asked for the former. It was decided that the choice should be left to the trustees. The church will contain about 1300 persons, the greater portion to be let off in sittings at from Is. to ss. each, and marked into sittings, so that each person may call the place he occupies his own. The trustees, being likewise those of St. Jude's, are Mr. W. Jones, Mr. Robert Bickersteth, Mr. C. S. Parker, Mr. Adam Hodgson, and Mr. T. B. Hors fall. The estimated cost of the building is £5OOO, less by £lOOO than that of St. Jude's. Operations will be com menced with the first settled weather in spring, probably about the middle of March. The church is to be dedicated to St. Barnabas. A proposition was made at the meeting, anti warmly adopted, that the ladies of the congregatton, as well as gentlemen, should have books for receiving donations. " Hannay and Dietrichsen's Almanack, ' Astronomical Ephemeris, and Book of General Information for 1839. —We are positively at a loss for words to express our astonishment at the unparelleled comprehensiveness of the Almanack just ( Published by Messrs. Hannay and Dietrichsen, f the ensu ing year. There is scarcely a subject in the us al routine of events to which we do not find reference in t s book of 100 pages, at the insignificant cost of 6d.; a sum / ich positively t can little more than cover the price of th e p per. The bio graphical and chronological tables are exceedingly interest ing, particularly those for the present yar. The titles, eclipses, &c. are duly noticed, and the pr gress of Encke's comet during the remainder of the pre t year, and Gam bart's in 1839, are traced by diagrams the heavens. We have the list of the royal households; t e House of Lords, giving the titles oithe Peers, the fami , S , name, the motto of the Peers, and date of creation; the ; House of Commons is given twice, firs'. alphabetically, secondly arranged by the places the members represent; the whole of the army list, giving the officers' names aphabetically arranged, (a desidera tum long wanted) with the dates of commission, and the ap pointment theofficer holds; the navy list is given in like man ner; the bankers, the provincial and metropolitan; the cor poration dignities; ambassadors and consuls; universities; the list of fairs throughout the kingdom is by far the best ever printed ; and in shoat, as we have before observed, in formation upon every possible topic of interest is afforded to the public in this most useful pamphlet. Messrs. Hannay and Dietrichsen have certainly put all competition out of the field, for, we should say, it would be impossible for any other firm to produce a similar compilation at five times the cost." —Morning Chronicle, Oct. 28. .... _ _ _ Published by the Proprietors, and sold at their warehouse, 63, Oxford-street, London • and by all Booksellers and Sta tioners in the kingdom. In Liverpool, by Smith, 24, Scot and-place. MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—The second meeting for the present session was held on the 28th of November, Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. ' in the chair. The first communi cation announced was by Mr. Everett, accompanying a large parcel of barks and seeds sent over by Dr. Hebble from Bom bay. A communication was next read from Captain Pidding, stating that, contrary to the opinion expressed on the last meeting, the Loong-tsing Hyson Pekoe, although not an article of commerce, had been introduced into this country; in proof of which, he presented a dock warrant for and a chest of Loong-tsing, to the Society. This far-famed tea, the beverage of the Emperor, realises a very high price, and is principally sent in China as present from one Mandarin to another. At the recent sales of Teas, as much as one guinea per pound was offered for it by the Tea Brokers. He also expressed his opinion, supported by the authority of Sir George Staunton, Mr. Davis, F.R.S., Dr. Clarke Abel, and other equally eminent authorities, that the green and black teas were the produce of plants of the same species; and stated some curious facts respecting the exemption of the Chinese from the epidemic diseases incident to Europeans, and par ticularly influenza and cholera. Dr. Sigmond then entered at length into the dietetic and medicinal properties of tea, first giving an account of its introduction into England about 1660; with the opposition which it met with from enthusiastic persons who predicted that even our national ruin would be the result from its influence upon the nerves. Dr. Cheyne, the celebrated physician, was amongst the foremost in this outcry, but he gives such particulars of the nervous complaints of t hose days, which make those of the present quite insignifi cant. It was not unusual for nervous complaints then to last for twenty years; and it was a fact that, since that period, nervous complaints had decreased, and probably from the change of beverage at the introduction of tea, that this was to be ascribed. He mentioned some complaints to which per sons who handle tea are subject; amongst other cases to which he alluded was one stated to him by Dr. Clendenning, the Professor of Texicology, of a cutaneous disease on the hands of a tea-dealer's assistant, brought on by the frequent finger ing of tea. He then announced that his next lecture would be directed to the adulterations of this article.—St. James's Chronicle, John Bull, Courier, Sic. 4-e. The London line-of-packet ship, President, Captain Chad wick, which sailed with the Great Western steamer on the 23d ult. from New York, arrived off Plymouth, after a fine passage, on Saturday the Bth instant. She, of course, brings nothing later from that quarter. KENMELL PARK, ST. ASA PH'S.—Grpat gaiety prevails at the hospitable seat of Lord Dinorben. Among the visitants already arrived are—Lord Sandes, Lord and Lady Gardner, Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley, Lieut. Wellesley Williams, 10th hussars, Col. Hughes. brother to Lord Dinorben, Pyrse Pyrse, Esq., M,P., Miss Williams, Hon. Mts. Rowley, Co lonel, Mrs., and Miss Grey, Richard Croft, Esq. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lady Celilia Underwood, and Lord John Churchill, are expected at Kenmell on Monday next, for the Christmas recess, from Col Wildman's, New stead Abbey, the sports of the field occupying the lilmirigs, cattle and music tbe amino, CORRESPONDENCE. PRESENT MISERABLLE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. 7'O THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Ste,—lt was with much astonishment I read an article in a radical newspaper concerning the United States navy— praising its prowess, discipline, and ships. Now, having resided in the United States several years; having visited and resided in some of its chief naval stations, and been through a great part of its principal vessels of war, I think I have had a good opportunity of knowing the condition of the American navy. It is my intention to bring forward no thing but well-known facts—the observations, not of Eng lish, but American writers. Ist. As to Power.—The American navy is smaller than the least of the European navies. An American paper says, "With all our bragging, we are inferior in naval strength to the smallest power in Europe that pretends to be maratime. In number and force of ships, we are inferior to the Turks, the Pacha of Egypt, and even the little semi -barbarian, Sultan of Muscat on the Red Sea. Whilst boasting of our navy, our shipless, seamanless navy, pirates or privateers come into our very harbours and run away with our richest vessels. And when this naval force comes to be tried, we cannot mus ter small arms enough in a dock-yard to man a cutter to catch a pirate. We are kicked and buffetted by a handful of Indians and negroes."—Philadelphia Public Ledger, Oct. 24th, 1837. "Our navy is a rotten, contemptible, imbecile concern."—Same Paper, Nov. Bth, 1837. A member of Con gress said, while speaking of the Canadian rebellion, and cutting out of the pirate steamer Caroline, by the gallant Captain Drew, R.N., and in reference to the American army and navy, "The army is lost, scattered, bogged, scalped, i❑ the fens of Florida. The navy is a sheer hulk."—Reported in the United States Gazette. Jan. 17th, 1838. "We are a case, certainly a case, in the contingency of a sudden war."— Globe, Jarman'. 1838. 2nd. As to Ships.—The Philadelphia Transcript, June 25th, 18.38, whose editor is a major in the United States army, says, "We have about 50 vessels of war, one-third of which are worthless, and another third of which are not fit for sea." "To protect our commerce what have we got? A dozen crazy ships of the line, most of which were rotten before they could be rigged, and scarcely one of which can be kept upright in the water, or outsail . a timber raft : some half dozen frigates, too large for what they are named, and too small for ships of the line, and thus unfit for anything. A dozen sloops so clumsily constructed after the whims of igno rant and self-sufficient pretenders, as to be exceeded in speed by almost any mud scow. The Columbus° and Ohio cannot go to sea for fear of sinking, or from danger of oversetting—so clumsily constructed. Independence, ship of the line, can not use her armament for fear of sinking; the Delaware and North Carolina cannot get out of. Gosport without running ashore, &c. Three or four navy yards, not one of which contains a rope-walk, scarcely one a timber-shed, not one with sufficient materials for fitting out two ships of the line, and one, our own, not materials for the armament of a reve nue cutter, or cutlasses and pistols enough to arm a steam boat ! Yes, listen, ye boasters about our mighty navy, and hide your heads in shame at the disgraceful fact ! England has only seven dock-yards, the least of which is greater than all ours united: fifty times more military means in a single dock-yard than the whole union can muster, and these not a fifth part of what that nation posse sses !!" H ere i s a picture of the "wonder/lel" American navy ! 3rd. As to Discipline.—The discipline is the most miserable and tyrannical. As to officers, they are a host of "ignorant pretenders;" their American paper says so. Ledger, Oct. 18.37.—" Our naval officers : a compound of ignorance, im pudence, and vanity." "We have no other navy department than three post-captains, a majority of whom have never been fit for their stations, and in the plenitude of their igno rance and arrogance, have carried ruin everywhere they have interfered." So much for their officers—so much for their navy ! The American navy consists of 50 vessels of war—"a third of which are worthless—another third not fit for sea!" divided into-12 ships of the ling , most of which "are rotten ;" " scarcely one of which can keep upright in the water!"- 6 frigates, "not worth anything!"-12 sloops, "so clumsily constructed" as to be "exceeded in speed by any mud scow!" —2O gun-boats, carrying 4 to 6 guns, " not lit for action, being half rotten."'—making a total of 50 vessels. H ere is the naval power that is to " make England shake." Four of our 74-men-of-war could sweep all this "wonderful navy ;" truly we ought to be afraid to enter such a mighty sea struggle! Our present position, as regards the United States, is war like—England must demand reparation for the murders and butcheries of her Canadian subjects. The British lion has been dormant too long, but our flag must be protected. The brightest jewel in the British kingdom must not be snatched from us. These things render it necessary that the English nation should know what force the Americans could bring forth in case of war. For the benefit of our radical American friends, I will show a little of our force at sea and land. Woolwich, at this mo ment, after a'period of twenty-two years' peace, contains 24,000 pieces of ordnance, of which 3000 are of gun metal, commonly called brass, the remainder of iron; and the whole divided into 20'2 classes, according to their calibre and length. Assuming 120 pieces for a first-rate ship of the line, 60 for a frigate of the first class, 50 for one of the second class, and 20 for a sloop,—here are enough to arm 200 first-rate ships of the line, 400 frigates of the first class, 480 of the second class, and 1200 sloops. But this is a small portion of our naval resources; for in our six other great dock yards are large numbers of cannon, and in the whole seven are pro portionate quantities of timber, cordage, anchors, ammuni tion, and stores. In Woolwich alone are 3,000,000 of can non balls and shells, enough for 25,000 broadsides of a first rate ship, 80,000 of a first-rate frigate, 60,000 of a second-rate frigate, and 150,000 of a sloop. Allow ten minutes to a broad side, 348 days, of 12 hours to each, would be consumed in dis charging this amount of shot from a first-rate ship of the line. And yet this is not a tenth part of what is possessed by us. Deptford dock yard covers 31 acres, has two wet docks cover ing four.acres, three building slips, a basin, two mast ponds, twenty forges for anchors, mast houses, tinabersheds ; and em ploys 1000 artificers. That of Woolwich is a mile long; em ploys in time of peace 1800 workmen. Chatham dock yard is a mile long; store houies 640 feet long. Sheerness covers 60 acres; cost 14,400,000 dollars. Besides there are Pembroke, Plymouth, and Portsmouth. These docks produce, in time of peace, a navy of at least 100 ships of the line, 200 frigates, 300 sloops arid schooners, &c. " This navy is sustained by an amount of wealth, productive energy,. administrative skill, and public spirit, which may challenge the world for a parallel." —Philadelphia Ledger. When the allied covereigus visited England, just after the peace of 1815, they were struck with astonishment in behold ing the immense amount of military means at Woolwich, and at first imagined that modern imitation of cannon had been made to deceive them ! This, I think, is better than the American dock yard, that could not get pistols and swords enough to man a cutter ! The well-informed AmeriCans know our power and dread it. Last winter, when a war was threatened with us, they acknowledged they could not pre tend to meet us at sea. 'The Philadalphian, March, 1838, says—" If war be intended (by England), we are in iso con dition to meet it on the ocean. The French navy would be a powerful auxiliary. The duty of our government is to cultivate the most friendly relations with France. It is mortifying to be obliged to rely upon another nation for protect ion." " I guess" the French have had enough of glory at our hands to wish for more in a hurry. Apologizing for taking up so inl:ch of your valuable time and paper, I shall conclude by saying—that England once embarked in a war with America, can never retire from the contest "till her military rabble be taught to respect the difference between physical force and military science; till ocean s h a ll war again with the echoes of that struggle, which sweeping her fleets, like so many Lilliputian prows within its depths, shall leave the standard of England broad unfurled athwart the watery expanse in undisputed attestation of her naval strength and maritime supremacy." I have the honour to remain yours, &e. S. W. B. December 12, 1838. EASTERN COUNTIES' ItAILWAY.-IMPUDENT FALSEHOOD, TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD London, December 14th, 1838. SIR,—A contradiction having been given in the Eastern Counties' engineer and secretary's paper to a statement in the last number of the Railway Magazine, relative to the state of the works on this line, I have, in company with a gentle- man, since walked over more than one mile and a half of this end of it; and I beg to observe, that a more barefaced and impudent fraud on the public was never promulgated than that contradiction. As the object is evidently a clap trap for the Lancashire shareholders, 1 trust you will permit me to state the facts and e xpose the fraud. . The writer—who from his amusing ignorance in not know ing the difference between square and lineal measure, 1 sup pose, can be no other than the secretary —says, "there is not a single noon (rod ?) of the mile and a half at this end sin touched ; the whole has been fenced in and contracted for, AND MUCH OF IT IS ALREADY EXECUTED." Now, sir, the following are the facts, three days after the publication of this paragraph, when so much more, not less, work ought to have been "executed." Until we got into Phcenix-street, about one-eighth of a mile from the terminus, not a thing is touched. Here are about four small old houses pulled down, and a little higher up in the street about the same number more, the materials of which are removed, and no doubt sold and paid for to the company. This, we under stand, has been done about eight or ten weeks. From this point until we reach Dog-row, now called by the secretary Cambridge-row, one mile from the terminus by their own plan, not a thing is touched or a brick to this day, December 4th, begun to be removed, or a single inch fenced in, even in the open ground. Nay, the earliest notices to quit that we could hear of, do not terminate before the 4th or Bth of Ja nuary, and in one instance not until the BTH OF JULY NEXT YEAR. Further, it appears from our inquiries doubtful whether even the exact line is yet settled in some places; and of the money paid, all that we heard of was one solitary £lOO, though there might be a little more that we did not hear of. At the east side of Dog-row some carpenters are beginning to pull down a wooden fence. Within one hundred yards farther, a small house, or perhaps two, are taken down, and another, one hundred yards farther; in St. Ann-street they arc beginning to take some down. Some 300 yards from Dog-row they are digging out a foundation or two, that is on the east and west sides of James's-street. On both sides of Globe-lane, near one mile and a quarter from Shoreditch, they have commenced laying in the foundations of some arches; but even the underground part of the works is not near finished. From the best estimate we could make, this beginning of work might extend from 100 to 150 yards. We could scarcely form a very exact calculation, but it appeared to us that'the whole work done towards the railway itself, exclusive of pulling down, &c., might have occupied a week, and cost about £lOO. Here, (Globe-lane,) and where the line comes into De vonshire-street, about 170 •yards, there is a wooden fence at the ends, the sides being old fences or houses. Beyond De vonshire-street, to the east side of the Jews' Burial Ground, about 200 yards, and nearly a mile and a half from the ter minus, all open ground, not one thing is done or a bit of fence erected. Compare this statement, sir, which is attested beneath, and which we call on Mr. Braithwaite, the engineer, to deny if he can, with the daring falsehood contained in the para graph quoted, and let your readers and the Lancashire shareholders say, what measurse of execration is due to the man that could write, or the paper that could publish for the purposeof imposing on them, such an outrage on truth, such a fraud on the publ►c. I believe, sir, there is but one man iu England who could have the daring audacity to write it; for instance, such a man as he who could assert and publish, that "a LIE CURRENT and uncontradicted for a WEEK is as GooD for any matter of PRESENT EFFECT as the BEST TRUTH that EVER was promulgated." As there are many respectable persons in Lancashire who have invested money in this line, and who have no personal means of detecting the falsehoods weekly published to gull them on to further payments, I beg to observe, that I will lend to any gentleman in this neighbourhood, two or more of them may appoint, a plan of the line, that he may exa mine for himself; and if he find one iota of my account of the state of the works, December 4, wrong, I will publicly acknowledge it in your paper and the Railway Magazine. With respect to the certificates case queried in the Railway Magazine, and contradicted by the Secretary, I have myself made enquires into the sources of the report, and I now put it to each and evellj one of the directors publicly to deny with his name, if he can, that there is one, if not more, ceitificates out, having the official signature of the secretary and with a name not to be found in the Company's books. I have my rea son, sir, for requiring the point blank denial of every direetor. More I may say, perhaps, in the next number of the Railway Magazine. • Pormit me to ask you what your Liverpool and Manches ter gentlemen are about, that they do not more deeply look into the management of this concern? Are they asleep 'V Will they go on paying away their money and receive in ex change, with contented credulity, the mountebank puffs weekly manufactured to cajole and bamboozle them? 'I hey are not wont to be so lax. Let them awake. Let them look into the affairs of this concern with one-half the vigilance they have into those of the Great Western, before it be too late, or they will have—and pray do me the justice to remem ber that 1 have said so—dearly to lament it. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, J. HERAPATH. I accompanied Mr. Herapath, having a plan of the line with us, over that part of it from the terminus at Norton Folgate to the Jews' Burial Ground, December 4th, and have compared the above statement with my notes taken on the spot, and do here certify, that every item herein men tioned regarding the state of the works and other inquiries is strictly true. J AMES H-T. London, 10th December, 1838. A FEW FACTS RELATING TO SCOTLAND-ROAD MARKET. GROSE AND TYRER. Mr. Grose is inspector. Mr. Tyrer collector, or deputy collector. For two months before the late election, they were to be met with only at the Travellers Rest. They say the farm-yard is a partnership matter with Grose and Tyrer. They oblige the market constables to go into the neighbour hood for swillings, for'the farm-yard swine, and every morn ing to sweep a part of the yard, that is, to gather the manure together. With the market fire they boil the meat for the pigs. M present, the manure is about a yard deep in the yard. On Sundays, the market constables are obliged to feed the swine. All the manure, with the exception of a few loads, has been weighed at Joseph Pickavance's, Scotland-road, and not exaggerating, comes to about £3O a-year. The oc cupants of the yard are very heterogeneous, viz., goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry of all kinds. The privy seats are nailed down to prevent the loss of poultry, besides, they are so filthy, that they could not be used, being the nightly abode of the farm-yard inmates, but if not so, the yard gates are locked, and no person but Mr. Grose, and Mr. Tyrer can have access. Since the Cumberland Fish Company have taken a stall in the fish part of the market, Mr. Grose has been obliged to resign a cell, which he has been heard bitterly to complain of. Mr. Kirby, tobacconist, occupies one vault, and is obliged to wade through the mire above shoe tops, every time he takes a barrel of tobacco in or out. Farmers are not permitted to take any straw they bring into the mar ket out with them, and when potatoes are unloading, the constables have directions to collect all that fall, and take them into the farm-yard. . - - This yard, if freed from the nuisance with which it is at present encumbered, would he a fine convenience for country people, on market days, to unload their produce. It would improve, too, the neighbourhood, and Maddox-street especi ally. Air. Thomas Sephton, of the Wheat Sheaf Inn, Scotland road, took ten little pigs in his shandry to Great Howard street, and stopped at the door of a public-house, and went across into the market to inquire the price of pigs, and find ing the market low, said, I've ten pigs in my shandry yonder, and if the market had been higher I would have brought them in." Alr. Grose, however, demanded toll, 2d. per head on them, and on Sephton refusing to pay it, lie took a pig, and kept it; he, however, afterwards permitted Sephton to redeem it, on paying Is. Bd. toll, and would keep 2s. 6d. The shandry was not in the market, nor on the market ground, nor near the market, nor could it be seen from the market. Mr. Grose is inspector of Scotland-road Market, Pownall square Market, and the Pig Market, Great Howard-street. Mr. Grose and Mr. Tyrer wrote squibs and circulars for Mr. bacon at the Travellers Rest, and afterwards delivered them with Mr. Lacon's address, to the electors, and can vassed the electors from door to door, instead of minding their market duties. Mr. Grose got his present situation for being secretary for Scotland Ward Reform Association. Mr. Smethurst has succeeded him, but Mr. G. cannot•help but assist. Mr. Sephton voted for Mr. Holmes, and so drew upon himself the vengeance of the disappointed Radical, Mr. G. A butcher, residing at the bottom of Collingwood-street, cannot get a stall in St. Martin's Market, although many are vacant, because he is a conservative, and voted for Mr. Holmes. MORE TO COME, THE WRITINGS, CORRESPONDENCE, &c., OF TITUS O'FLAHERTY, &c. No. 111. THE BALLOT, The friends of the ballot must feel deeply indebted to Dr. M'Hale for a new argument in favour of that system, quite as cogent as any hitherto advanced. According to this wor thy politico-ecclesiastic (vide his speech at the recent pre cursor meeting in Galway), "the ballot is the method adopted at Rome, by the holy cardinals, at the election of the Pope —the sovereign head of the Romish Church !" Surely that is infallible authority for the ballot : henceforth not another syllable need be said for it, or can, with any decency, be said against it. Nobody ever heard of bribes or intrigues among that illustrious body of electors. Of course, not. NOTES FROM LIBERAL SOURCES. (1.) There are two points in my political career which con stitute my crown, and entitle me to the gratitude and affec tion of my country. The first is, the pinching economy which I have successfully enforced upon the ruling powers (espe cially in the department of the navy), which has, I am proud to say, robbed England of her supremacy at sea, and placed her in the third rank of nations, below Russia and trance. The second point is, the equally successful exertions I have made to promote the Canadian rebellion, and annihilate the baleful domination of the mother country. Whatever may be the deserts of Papineau, Nelson, 111‘lienzie, and the rest of my fellow-workers. at the hands of Sir John Colborne (supposing that straight forward gentleman should ever have the opportunity of paying them), I conceive I am richly en titled to the same reward. If not ; if my merits are neglected; if the Sus. per Col. order of knighthood is not conferred upon me, I shall have detected another "monstrous corruption and abuse" in the administration of government, namely, that even hanging goes by favour, like every thing else! JOSEPH HOME. (2.) I have often felt the force of that celebrated observa tiNn of Dr. Johnson,—" Patriotism is the last refuge of a —." Bless me, I forget the last word ! FEARGUS O'CONNOR. (3.) The most abominable heresy in social life that has sprung up in my time is TEETOTALISM. I have always set my face (including my mouth) against that system. The man that would tell me brandy and water is objectionable (no matter whether his beverage be tea or aqua fortis) must be tipsy in his mind, and reeling in his understanding. LORD BROUGHAM. (4.) Some people are pleased to liken me to the ex-actor Liston, others to Pontius Pilate. 1 believe I may claim the credit of resembling both ;—the first in external physiog nomy, the second in mental. VISCOUNT MOIIPETH. (5.) Every Irishman knows that upon this fine head of mine I wear a wig—a barber's wig ;—and a mighty conve nient thing it is, otherwise you may be sure I would throw it aside. 'Just in the same way, and for the same sensible rea son, I use the Whigs;—l mane the Whigs that are hung up on the pegs in Downing-street. 'l'hruly they are "squeez able" into any shape, and I can cull them exactly to my iligant taste:—devil take the unmannerly scoundrel that called the like of them " base, bloody, and brutal:" DANIEL O'CONNELL. (6.) The Tories are incorrigibly stupid and perverse, in seeking to repossess the government of the country. If they were not blind as a nest of moles, they would perceive, in the degraded and declining state of England's strength and glory, the seal of their own irrecoverable degradation. Conserva tism is the natural and proper government of a state during the stages of its lusty and ,vigorous youth and prosperous ma turity; but the genius of Whiggism is alone equal, when a nation is demented and doomed to destruction, to carry on the work to a speedy and perfect consummation. Thos. BABINGTON MACAULEY. (7.) The editorial " we" of this and other time-serving Liberal JoUrnals are very awkwardly situated at the present moment, in consequence of the unfortunate quarrel between Lords Melbourne and Durham. Which side to choose, is the poser. Both of these worthy statesmen favour us with their most winning smiles and tenderest caresses. Heigho! what can we do ? " How happy could we be with either, Were the other dear charmer away." MORNING CHRONICLE. (8.) It is often said by the libellers and traducers of the Popish religion, that we Papists entertain an implacable hatred against ProtestantisM. Now, I beg leave to deny the charge, as far as affects such Protestantism as that professed by the enlightened Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his col leagues. So far from nursing any hatred towards them, we Papists respect, admire, and love the Protestants who, like Lord Normanby, exhibit their sincerity of faith, and warm attachment to the Established Church, by dealing out upon it " heavy blows and great diicouragements." Honour to those conscientious Protestants who discountenance and assail their own religion, and favour the Romish-Lthat beautiful and fascinating religion, full of patent inventions, saints and angels, the blessed virgin, the wood of the cross, confessions, penances, masses, pilgrimages, dirges, purgatories, Papal pardons, works of compensation, &c. Oh ! it is a grand re ligion ; the only asy and accommodating religion ; and it is the religion of the Bible, except the hard and unw e l come parts of the Bible : it is like eating a fish with the bones out! ONE OF THE AGITATOR'S TAIL. Manchester, 10th Dec., 1838. The Elbe, as we learn by a letter of the 23d tilt. from Ham burg, was so impeded at that date by blocks of ice, that many vessels ready to sail were detained in port, and others were prevented from entering. The English schooner Crosby, bound for London, made an attempt to get away, but was obliged to put back. The Neptune (steamer) took her de. parture in the morning of the 23d, but it was not known whe ther she would be able to get out of the river. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE—LOSS OF FOURTEEN LIVES. —At Blaenavon, on Wednesday, the 28th ult., after two days' incessant rain, following a heavy snow of the same duration, about mid-day the sky was suddenly darkened by the eccumulation of 'dense clouds uyon Wain Avon, and along the Coity, in the direction of the Varteg, when an immediate discharge occurred, which soon inundated the works, and almost filled the valley, causing a sudden rise in the river (already greatly swollen) of many feet additional, and bursting over an embankment which protected the mouth of an old level leading to the deep coal and iron works of the Blaenavon Company. Messengers were instantly despatched to the different workings, and the miners and colliers, to the extent of many hundreds, immediately came out. Every effort to divert and check the torrent was most energetically made, which, from the numerous workmen in the employ of the company, and the almost immediate cessation of the rain, was accomplished in a few hours, but, melancholy to relate, not before some of the very distant heading (and one which has for years been worked " under level") were filled with water, in consequence of which four teen lives were lost. Welsh paper, Saturday. MORE OF THE GENIUS OF POPERY.-111 our last publica tion but one, we stated a circumstance which came to our knowledge, strongly illustrative of the genius of Popery ; and we have now to record another instance of toleration for Protestants and Protestantism, the facts of which we can vouch for, equally with the former:—On the mountains of Latera, near the borders of this county, there has been for a long time a small settlement of Protestants, amounting to about sixteen persons. As they lay remote from any church, and surrounded by a Roman Catholic population, they soli cited and were in the constant habit of receiving the visits of the Clergyman of the neighbouring parish, (the Rev. John Studdert,) who assiduously afforded them spiritual instruction and consolation for some time past. This, however, could not be endured by the neighbouring Roman Catholics, and, accordingly, they have chased the Rev. Gentleman from the scene of his labours; and, amidst the yells and execrations of these miscreants he was glad to have escaped with his life. The expulsion of the clergyman, however, did not satisfy them, but the ejection of the Protestant inhabitants became their next object; and we are sorry to say that, such was the system of persecution pursued, ten out of the sixteen have been glad to abandon their native land, and seek in a foreign clime that toleration for Protestantism, which Pro testant England could not give them; and the remaining six, in order to escape further persecution, have requested Mr. Studdert, if he values his own and their safety, to dis continue his visits to then.. This is a specimen of what we might expect, if Popery once got fixed in that ascendancy, which, we are sorry to say, it now has in our unfortunate land, and it is but one of many instances. But this must not be. Our patient quiescence hitherto must be discarded, and, with the blessing of God, Irish Protestantism will yet rigb t itself, despite the frowns and oppression of a govern ment, Protestant in name,—Limerick ,Standard, TO MARY. I have seen the young morn, mild and gay, Shed fragrance, the lark chanting high, While dew drops bespangled each spray, As they fell from morn's pensive blue eye. I have seen those pure tears kiss'd away By the sun, amidst rapture supreme, And morn grow in beauty to day, Like confidence succeeding a dream. And rapture swell'd loud through the And jocund and happy all seemed: — No reverses look'd for any swain, Nor of blasts, nor of blights did he dream. I have seen coy day scarce begun, The sun's glorious rays all obscur'd, And confiding young morn seem to shun The display of her beauty, immued. I have seen mist succeeded by storm; Lightnings flash, and heard thunder loud roar; Vapours subtle, destructive seen form, And mar the fair promise mum wore ! And gloom brooded sullen, where late Joy gladden'd the swain's buoyant heart; — But pity for morn's hapless fate No eye but the sun's could impart. Dearest Mary ! in this pictur'd see The fate which too truly is thine:— Oh! could but its page atter'd be, What rapture of bliss would be mine ! Well, well do I remember the hour, Your prospects were bright as the morn:— All hail'd you as love's fairest flower; — Some envied that me you'd adorn. When timid you plighted your vow, • And sincerity's tear died your eye,- 1 feel the soft thrill, as if %were now The "dew-drop" kiss'd fondly had I! And the merry bells gave their rich peal,— The compliment joyous went round : None augur 'd of aught but of weal; — How much the reverse we have found ! Soon the blast of false friendship cut down . The gourds which life's comforts rich bore: — Oh ! so fell, so inhuman a frown, A relative's treachery wore ! HE has "sown to the wind," and "the storm," Which e'en now howls in fury, pent up, " FIE will reap" in retributive form:— Stern Justice bath mingl'd the cup! ' - Though the morn, which so fairly arose, By blast and by storm were deform'd, The sun, ever constant, shall close The day, by his influence warned. He shines, though by murky, dense clouds His splendour be hid from the day ; And soon the base things which love shroud, Shall be wip'd from your vision away All the cares, all the trials and fears, Which so rudely have harass'd your breast, Like a cloud, after weeping its tears, Shall leave a bright sunshine of rest! Liverpool, December, 1838. W. A. H. SOIREE SECUNDUS APUD INSTITUTIONEAI REGALEM LIBERA DESCRIPTIO ET CLASSICA. " Up lads et at 'em" declamavit bravissimus Wellington, Quandoque bloody work intervenunt homines aped Waterloo. Up Signor, et to 'ern," declaroavinaus; the soiree, the soiree, As, post prandiurn, lazily sorbillavimus our coffee. We arrived a Colquit-street ; et prce ostio vehiculi, Erant in long line. Heroinw giggled inside of them Et generosi et ignobiles kicked up a-dust. Policemen cried " make way" sub inspectorem Hatch, et Dowling ducem. Door is open'd per footman qui requiret, " Who are you ?" Dixit Winstanley, " your ticket ?" Exhi hemus id; All right: "that's, the ticket;" ingrediare; walk in. Off goes castor et pallium; et up stairs inter populos We go ; et see large room ornatam cum belles et beaux Plenty. Mediisque ccetus there stood Bean Albii; Bene what of it? Why, mirabile ! illius flunky The Bean stalk non ilium comitat. Requiescat in pace. Ecce circum feminas formosas; matres providw Populi magni ' • et in themselves spes inagnm Britannce. Et among the folks ambulaverunt Yates of the Dingle, Et Barclay non double X, sed double magistratus ; Walmsley et called Joshua, (sed non filius Jacobi) Caput consociationis Reform ; et tall-boy Oxley, Cum uxore novella quoque formosa; et Green Puppis illustris; never mind; et Booth qui, est praetor to be; Et Campbell, (rector;) et all the world and ilium uxor. Huit heur; presto; to the theatre hastily we go Doctorem Reynolds audire lecture on solidum gasis De carbonic acid; oh criky ! the theatre est jam-full Such a crowd! not a seat! disorder, dismay, damnatos hottis Scramblans, squeezans, cramibantis, et sudans multus ; Try ambulacrum; sed like Irishman's uxor, get from Worser to worser. Oh blazes! Oh! hot as Tartarus; Can't stand it, must stand it, pourquoi ? because, non pos. sum sit it. Puff, Puff; oh gelu! oh ventus! where are ye ? Es patientia; Propter doctorem Reynolds begins.—Carbonic acid, Dixit he, amat •`darkness rather than light." Etiam Si you suck it up, you certii will " cock your digiti. Propter gravitatemque illius, it is fond of A rumble-cum-tumble. Miscete vitriolum, et aquam Carbon. sodiumque, et non est erratum gasis will fiss up. Confine this in vase so strong it won't ruptem De pressure de librw quinque centum per inch. You squeeze It so tight incipit a perspire; et pulvis est • tecipitatur ; veritas solidified gasis. De Belo magno; facens pustulas on invading digits. Innumera oblectaus experimenti nobis were shewn. Unus thickheadus thought gelare a candle light. My eyes ! Ventus blew it out; populi riant; no go, poor fellow. Et a brass box tegebatur albus over wi' hoar frost Which Doctor Reynolds absterguit memiui, wi' his vipe. Hot coffee successit ; sed all was a cram et push So iter ad cast room; sed oh! proh pudor ; must cut it Enim viginti clominte Belvidere notahant Nudum apollinem without blush. Oh! shocking, Oh mama! "Prmcise shocking." So cut our stick, et ivimus domum. I'. C. F. A poor woman, aged 102, lately made application for relief to the Truro Union, which was promptly attended to. HosrEas t TRADE.—It is gratifying to state, that the hosiers in Nottingham have advanced the prices of making drawers, pantaloons, and shirts, from 6d, to 9d. per dozen, according to quality. STRAW BONNETS.—In 1817, when straw bonnets first be came general, it was common to trim them with bunches of artificial wheat or barley, in ear, on which the following lines were written : Who now of threatening famine dare complain, When every female forehead teems with grain? See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes, Our barns are now transferred to drawing-rooms, And husbands who indulge in active lives, To fill their granaries may thrash their wives! ' " ' On Saturday last, the first iron steam-boat ever built in Ireland was launched from the Foundry Yard of our ta lented and enterprising fellow-townsmen, Messrs. Coates and Young. About three o'clock, the preliminary pre parations having been finished, the stays by which the vessel was held on the stocks were removed, and she glided majestically into the water, amidst the firing of ordnance and the hearty cheering of a large number of spectators, while she was christened the Countess of Caledon. She is of thirty horses' power, the property of the Ulster Steam Navigation Carrying Company, is intended to ply en Lough Neigh, to be employed as a tow-boat to the lighters navigat ing the lake, and is to be under the command of Mr. John Little, who lately commanded the Lady of the Lake on Lough Strangford.—Belfast News-Letter. OLD HooKEY.—We have often heard persons called "Old Hookey ;" but we were not aware of what gave rise to the cognomen until the other day, when a friend informed us, that an old gentleman used to pass regularly every morning along the Strand, wearing an oldfashioned coat, with gaping pocket holes on the outside. It scarcely need be added, that be frequently found himself minus of his pocket handkerchief, by the time he reached Temple Bar. A thought struck him, which he put into practice. He caused to be fastened inside of his coat pockets several large fish-hooks; and thus pre pared, off he went as usual. When nearly opposite Essex street, he found a sharp tug at his pocket; then turning round sharply, there stood a fellow making horrid faces, and scream ing out, with half a dozen hooks stuck in his hand.—" Ah! (said the old man,) have 1 caught you at last ?" Considering the punishment quite severe enough, he let the fellow go; but ever afterwards, when he passed the place, __a parcel of pick pockets used to cry out. " There goes Old Hookey," POSTOFFICE ROBBERY AT BRISTOL.—An investigation has taken place before the Bristol magistrates, which has re sulted in the committal of a clerk in the postoffice, named John Bodman, on a charge of felony. The circumstances are as follows:—On the 13th of October last, a gentleman, named Stoddart, a carpet manufacturer, of Kidderminster, put a letter into the postoffice at Bath, directed, "Mrs. Mary Stoddart, Bampton, near Penrith, Cumberland," and en closed a £lO Bank of England note, bearing the uumber A—G 99315, and a private memorandum by the writer; this letter was forwarded in due course to Bristol, where it was the duty of the prisoner to sort the bags, and to have sent on the letter posted by Mr. Stoddart by the northern mail. The letter not arriving at the place of its destination, an inquiry was instituted, when the following facts were elicited:—On the 15th of October a sum of £l6O was given to the prisoner, Bodman, to pay into Stuckey's Bank to the 'credit of Mr. Walton, the postmaster, and amongst the money then paid in by him was the £lO note which had been posted by Mr. Stoddart. The clerks of the postoffice clearly proved that, in consequence of the office regulations, the note could not have come legitmately into the hands of the prisoner, who must have substituted it for a . portion of the cash delivered to him by the postmaster : and i t saving been fully , identified by Mr. Stoddart, he was committed on the charge of stealing it.—Bristol paper. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On the morning of Wednesday week, a young woman, named Rachael Hopwood, aged about 23 years, met a sudden and frightful death at the factory of Messrs. James Hacking and Co., of Heady Hill, Heywood, where she was employed as a rover. She was carrying some bobbins, and one or two of them fell; and she stooped with difficulty to take them up, when her skirt was caught by an upright shaft in rapid motion, and which was, at the particu lar place where her clothes came in contact, exposed by an opening in the casing. The poor woman, on finding she was fast, threw up her arms, and seemed to resign herself to her fate. The same instant her head struck against the frame, and the blood flew out in all directions; the next round, her brains were scattered on the floor; and when the engine was stopped, her head was literally beaten off. Both arms and one leg were also broken. It is exceedingly painful to narrate these horrid circumstances; but the frightful consequences of neglect cannot be too vividly described to millowners, and their superintending servants. The coroner's jury laid a deodand of £5 on the shaft. —Manchester Guardian. MR. HILL'S PLAN OF POSTOFFICE IMPROVENENT.— " That stamped covers, or sheets of paper, and small vignette stamps, the latter if used to be gummed on the face of the letter, be supplied to the public from the stamp-office, and sold at such a price as to include the postage. Letters so stamped to be treated in all respects as franks. That, as covers of various prices would be required for various weights, each should have the weight it is entitled to carry printed on the stamp. That, if any packet exceeded the proper weight, it should be sent to the dead-letter-office, opened, and re turned to the writer. That sheets of letter paper of every description should be stamped in the part used for the address. That wrappers such as are used for newspapers should also be stamped, and that every deputy postmaster should be re quired to have them on sale. That the stamp of the receiv ing house should be struck upon the superscription, or duty stamp, to prevent the latter from being used a second time. Among the advantages more immediately to be derived from this plan are-1. That the postoffice would be relieved alto gether from the collection of the revenue, and from all ac counts relating to that collection. 2. The present trouble of receiving money for the letters would be avoided. 3. The revenue would be collected in large sums at the stamp-office, easily and at little cost." Here is a plan, then, as clear and simple as can well be imagined, and which the mind, almost without an efiort, can follow into its minutest details. There would be nothing to do at the postoffice but to sort into towns and places the letters which are to go out, and to distribute those Aid arrive to the postmen of the different districts' LIVERN STA"; D r,1•7:;" WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen held as, • 7tri r cit at one o'clock this afternoon. It was atten e. First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Chancellor, t • :amp, - tary of State for the Colonies, the First Lord of `.6 1 AtiY ,1 :01...1 miralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary at War, the Groom of the Privy Purse, and the Master of the Horse. Mr. Greville was clerk of the council in wait ing; Lord Torrington was the lord in waiting; Hon. Major Keppel groom in waiting; and Colonel Buckley equerry in waiting. The council broke up at two o'clock. Lord Minto immediately left for town. The other members of the council will have the honour of dining with her Majesty this evening. Her Majesty rode in the park on horseback, attended by Lord Glenelg, Lord Howick, Lord Cottenhain, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Greville, Sir Henry Wheatley (all of whom arrived at the castle this morning), Lord Melbourne, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Major Keppel, Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stavin, Mr. Brand, and Hon. C. A. Murray. Lord and Lady Albemarle arrived at the castle this morning, Lady Rivers, his excellency the American mi nister, and his lady, Mrs. Stevenson, will arrive this evening and join the royal dinner party. COURT CIRCULAR. Lord Sandon and Lord Ingestre have accepted invitations to dine with the Operative Conservative Association of this town in January next.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. The late Richard Tuck, Esq., of Strumpshaw, Norfolk, has left the munificent legacy of £lOOO to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In the window of a public-house near Bilston, appears the following singular announcement :—" A Dead Club held here." It is said that the leaders of the metropolitan radicals have received a hint not to attempt to get up a Durham demon stration, lest it should (as it undoubtedly would) turn out a failure. Already does Dunstable and other towns feel the effects of railroads. The decrease of coaches and posting has so altered the business, that the tradesmen are parting with their concerns us fast as they can. It is said that lord Durham, before he left the Inconstant, received a despatch from London, apprising him that he would not be received at court. Hence the it►nerant speeches —hence the countess's resignation of her office in the Queen's household. AN ILL WIND, &c.—The glaziers have reaped a most plen tiful harvest from the effects of the late storm. Upwards of 1200 squares were broken in Portsmouth dockyard alone ; and in Gosport scarcely a house in the upper part of the town escaped damage. It is the duty of all persons who have substitutes at their command to economise in their families during the approach ing winter as far as possible the use of bread corn, by which means they will not only lessen the consumption, but ma terially assist in keeping down the price. The house of Bernard and Co., of Bordeaux, which in 1830 was under the necessity of suspending its payments in consequence of the dishonesty of an agent, has just given a remarkable example of commercial probity by paying all its creditors in full, capital and interest included. MAIL COACH GUARDS.—From the equivocal and very ob scure manner in which the subject has been announced to the public, it is entirely a matter of doubt whether travellers are expected to fee these persons as heretofore, or not. The Duchess of Orleans had some years ago planted an apple-tree with her own hands at the Efferberg, near Wel mar. The tree has now attained a good size, and the Count de la Rochetoucauld, minister to Saxe-Weimar, has sent a branch of it to Paris for the young prince. The young man named Blanche, whom we mentioned a few days ago as having killed an old soldier in a duel, by moonlight, and without seconds, at Noyen ' in the Sarthe, has been tried for the affair by the Court of Assizes of the de partment, and acquitted.—Paris Paper. An entire reparation of the great tower of the cathedral of St. Stephen, at Vienna, has been at length decided on, and all the architectural science of the capital is to be put in re quisition for this purpose. SIR WATK IN WILLIAMS WYNN.—This hospitable baronet is much improved in health; and last week, with his accom plished daughter, arrived on a visit to Mr. Heaten, at his ro mantic seat Plas H eaten, near Denbigh. Much hospitality will prevail at Wynnstay daring the approaching festive season. MISS SHIRREFF IN AMERICA.—The Shirreff, last evening (Oct. 5), arrested a whole audience, and kept them for three hours, and dismissed them on their own recognisances to ap pear again at the National.—New York Star.—This allusion is to the vocalist. She never could have kept the audience thus in duresse had she not given her notes as security.— Philadelphia Gazette.--So decided a hit has the new opera made, that the stage manager at the National has been bound over to keep the piece.—Albany Evening Journal. NOT SO BAD AS EXPECTED.—In the melodrama of the Caravan, a dog named Carlo played a principal character. Dignum, the singer, was also in the same piece. One even ing the latter went up to Sheridan, and, with a grave face, informed him that he had some very bad news to relate. Sheridan eagerly inquired what it was, to which Dignum answered, that he felt himself so hoarse as to be unable to get through the songs. Sheridan, seizing him by the band, re joined, " My friend, you have relieved my mind of a weight, I thought the dog had been taken ill." THE ARMY.—The 37th Regiment is ordered from Jamaica to Halifax, Nova Scotia; and the draft which disembarked in the Barossa transport, at Cork, are to proceed in another vessel as soon as possible for the new station. The drafts which arrived in the Barossa, and which was nearly wrecked in the late gale, consisted of Capt. Harvey, Ensigns Shum and Hamilton, and 62 rank and file. A site has been marked out at Derry for a new military barracks, outside that city. Fifty soldiers' wives have been sent home from the 52d Regi ment in Gibraltar, in consequence of the regiment being ordered to Barbadoes. MIME 'EXPORTATION OP THE PRECIOUS METALS.—The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London to foreign ports for the past week, ending the 11th inst., is as under:—Gold coin to South Australia, 2,280 ounces; Ma dras, 1,780 oz.; Hamburg, 325 oz.; Mauritius, 100 oz.; Bussorah, 20 ez.; bars to Madras 250 oz. Silve r co i n to Swan River, 20,000 oz.; British West Indies, 35,280 oz . ; South Australia, 3,845 oz ; Gibraltar, 8,700 oz.; Bussorah, 8,150 oz. THE LATE SIR ALLAN PARK.—It may be truly said of this eminent judge, and truly good man, that from an early age to the close of a long and honourable life he " set Goo al ways before him," making religion the constant guide and director of all his actions. For this in his passage through life he had occasionally to encounter the sneers of the scoffer; but that never deterred him from persisting itf a duty which he justly considered paramount to all others, and which, in his case, had its temporal reward of soothing the agonies and the bed of death. BARBAROUS MURDER.—As a respectable farmer named Welsh, was returning from the fair of Kildorrery, be was followed by a party of men, and on coming outside the cus tom gap they assailed him in a savage manner, and literally stoned their unconscious victim to death. He has left a wife and six children to deplore his loss. Some of the savages, we are happy to state, are in custody.—Limerick Ssandard. AMAZING PRODUCE.—We frequently have to record in stances of large crops of turnips, but we have not for some years heard of one so productive as that lately gathered by Mr. Weaver, of Tarvin. That gentleman has weighed 687 tbs. of Swede turnips off five and a half yards (one perch) of land, which is an average of more than forty-nine tons per statute acre.—Chester Gazette. Lord Western has published, in the Chelmsford Chronicle, a letter to Earl Spencer, announcing the result, of au experi ment, which his lordship says he has been making for the last four years' "of the possibility of creating a new and distinct breed of sheep." As far as he has gone, the result of the ex periment, Lord Western says, bas encouraged the attempt. His lordship's object was to place the Merino wool upon a Leicester sheep, and he announces that at the next Smithfield show he shall exhibit specimens of the new breed. SCHOONER YACHT ROYALIST—VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. —Yachting, which belongs exclusively to the gentlemen of England, is about to be turned to other purposes than plea. sure alone, by J. Brooke, Esq., who is arrived in Hainoaze, in his schooner yacht Royalist, 142 tons. This gentleman is about to start on what may be truly termed a voyage of discovery—to explore the Indian Archipelago. He proceeds to Borneo, calling on his way at the Cape of Good Hope and Singapoore, where his researches are to commence probably; subsequently examining some of the interesting groups of the Pacific, returning to England by . Cape Horn. It is the first instance of any gentleman devoting his life and fortune to the attainment of geographical knowledge in those distant and dangerous seas, and the voyage of the Royalist yacht will hand the name of her spirited owner down, deservedly, amongst those of our most enterprising circumnavigators. The voyage is expected to occupy about three years. She is armed with six guns, and carries 20 men, and is in every way prepared for the pirates of those seas. Mr. Brooke is a member of the Royal Western Yacht Club; he leaves this port in a few days. — Plymouth Journal. POWER OF ARREST UNDER THE IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT ACT.—A case has been recently argued in the Court of Exchequer relative to the construction to be given to the 3rd section of the act, which invests a judge with discre tionary power to hold a defendant to bail, on an affidavit of his being about to quit England. The question at issue was whether the section applies to those cases in which the in tended departure of the debtor is not shown to be for the express purpose of delaying the creditor, although it may have the effect of so doing. In the case alluded to (Larnhin v. Willan) it appeared that the defendant was an officer of the 22d regiment, now stationed in Ireland, but that having obtained leave of absence for a few days, he had come to this country, and been arrested during his stay here, at the suit of the plaintiff, under an order from Baron Gurney. A rule was immediately obtained by the defendant to set aside the order, on the ground that his leave of absence would expire in a few days, when he would be obliged to return to his mili tary duties, and that his intended departure would be conse quently compulsory, and not with a view of delaying the plaintiff. On this rule, however, coming befor the court for argument, Mr. Baron Parke, with the concurrence of the other judges, said that the order for the arrest was perfectly legal, as it was impossible to say how long the defendant might be detained in Ireland by his duties , and it was the intention of the act to inv es t the judges with' a discretionary power, to be exercised in any case in which the absence of a party would have the effect of delaying a creditor. ANCIENT COIN.—A few days ago, some boys, playing near the River Ikell (Yorkshire), found amongst the stones and gravel on the bank, which had been washed down by the last flood, an ancient coin, about the size of the present current fourpenny-piece, in a good state of preservation ; but the silver, from the length of time it must have laid in the ground, has lost most of its nature. The coin is a silver skeatta of Egbert; King of Kent, and must have been coined about the year 660. Skeatta in general are denoted by their rude figures; the present one bears the impression of a stag, and on the reverse the letters EDJ ERE PT V F. Several ancient coins have at times been found in this vici nity, particularly in digging into "Ellshaw," or, as now commonly called, " Ashley Hill," close adjoining, which is a conical tumulus, composed throughout of sand, gravel, and human bones, supposed by some to be the site of a British fortress—by others, the rubbish or remains of a monastery, destroyed in the wars of the Saxons or the Danes. On or near the tumulus Ella perished with his Bost in the battle with Hinguar the Dane, on the 21st March, 867. Several copper stycas have been found here of Ethelred, Edred, Acbred, Osbert, and Ella, but through carelessness or igno rance most of them have been dispersed or lost. The present coin is now in the possession of H. C. Sharpin, Esq., of Mount Pleasant, near Ripon. IMPROVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE.—In London there is not a house rebuilt, that is not erected in a superior style to what it was before ; and the renovation of all public buildings is, in general, effected in a very superior style. The employ ment, in Regent-street and Bond-street, of the Louis XIV. style in shop fronts, is one of the latest improvements in this department; and, in combination with the immense panes of plate glass now used for shop windows, and accompanied by rich gilding on a pure white ground, it has a striking and most magnificent appearance. The introduction of Roman cement, about thiry years ago, has been the foundation of much of the improvement which bastaken place in the eleva tions of street architecture. During-this year and the pre ceding, a new cement for roofs, terraces, and roads, has been introduced, the basis of which is bitumen ; but, whether this will lead to any great change, either in buildings, by the in troduction of flat roofs, or in streets and roads, by becoming a substitute for either fnot or road pavement, remains to be seen. Our opinion of it is, that it promises well; particu larly for flat roofs, Puklig fotpatbs, and prclea chitectural afa,9atino.