The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-22 00:00:00

M A IT ‘);, i S3S. THEATRE -ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. • trIE LIST NIGHT BUT.TWO OP MRS. NISA ETT, of the Theatres-royal, Drury-laue and Haymarket. • ripEIIS preseiit TUESDAY, May 22, will be peifortuet Goldsmith's C(;niedy of SLIE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Ilardeastla . Mr. Granby. - Young Marlow M r . W . H oward. Tony Lutnpkin Mr. Baker. Miss Ilardrastle Mrs. Nisbett. To conclude with the Musical Drama of ROB ROY. Rob Roy .... Mr. Stuart I Bailie Nicol Jarvie....Mr. Baker. Francis Osbaldiston Mr. Clement White. Rashleigh Oshaldistone Mr. Gray. Major Galb ra i t h G. Horncastle. - Diana Vernon Mrs. W. H. Bland. Helen Macgregor Miss Cleaver. TO-MORROW, (Wednesday) for the . benest of Mrs. NISBETT, on which oc cas i o n s h e w ill p erform three of her Principal Characters. The Entertainments will commence with, positively f or th e l ast trine—Mr. Knowles' last-new Pl a y of th e LO VE-CHASE: Sir WilliamPondlove, Mr. Baker; Master Walter, M r. W . Eloward ; Widow Green ; M rs . Cla r k e; True worth, Mr, Stuart; Wildrake Mr. W. H. Bl an d ; .L y di a , M rs. 13 iker; Constance, Mrs.'Nisb'ett, as . performed by her eighty live nights in Succession at the Haymarket Theatre. After which, for the first time here, a new Farce, in one Act, called the RIFLE BRIGADE! Mr. , Doddleton, Mr. W. Howard; Nugent, Mr. G. llorncastle; P e t er Si m pl e , M r. B a k er; M rs. Doddleton, Mrs. Baker; Parker, Mrs. Teliett ; M rs . M a j or Masterinan, Mrs., Nisbett as originally perform e d by h er i n Lond on . T o conclude with the Farce of a DEAD SHOT: Mr. Timid Mr, Baker; Louisa, Mrs. Nisbett. On THURSDAY, will be repeated f.r the last time, THE LADY OF - LYONS: Pauline, Mrs. Nisbett; with it favou rite Farce, in which Mrs. Nisbett will perform—being the last night'of her Engagement. ITALIAN OPERAS. THEATREROYAL, LIVERPOOL. 1 1 1 - IE Public is 'respectfully informed that an arrangement • has been made with Mr. MITCHELL, Manager. of the ITALIAN OPE BUFFA, London, recently honoured with the disthigttisi,d tronage or Her Most Gracious Majesty, for.a very LiMitecl Ntitnher of Performances, during the present . .7seek and the ,ensuino One, of , the most successful ITALIAN The I:itAS'l3CrFl- 17- Ifely produced. First Performance will take place Wh Oh FRIDAY next, the tith instant, en will Le produCed Donizetti's Opera. in Two Acts, entitled ' E L D' AMORE; (THE' ELIXIR OF LOVE.) Adina llademoiselle Scheroni. Gianetta..MademOiSelle Veinani. cote.. Signor Bellini.—Dulcaina . rra_Sigtwr F. Lablache. Nemorino Signor (atone, Who wilt Sing the admired Romanza, " CNA . FURTIVA LApItIBI 4," WITH HARP ACCOMPANTIgIENT. The Company will consist of MADEMOISELLE SCHERONI, MADLLE. VE'RMANI. AND MISS FANNY WYNDHAM. SIGNOR FRE LABLACH. SIGNOR BELLIN D I, S ERICK IGNOR SANQUIR E ICO, AND SIGNOR, C ATONE. Conductor, Signor NEGRI. Leader, Mr. ALDRIDGE. The Choruses will be under the Direction of Signor RUBBI, irons her Majesty's Theatre. The next Representations will be selected front the Ali . .. fvllowiug Operas:— L'ltalian a In 'Algieri _ Le Nozze de Figaro ifozart. Betty. (Opera in one Act) Donizeiti. Un'AvventUra. di Scarramuccia Elisa e Claudio .- ifereadante. The Band has been considerably_ augmented for these Per fOrmances, and several Celebrated and New Overtures will be Performed during the period. ____ . • LIVER THEATRE., XESSRS. SCHERMAN most respectfully inform the In , 1V.11..• habitants and Visitors of Liverpool, that they •intrnd OPENING- their 'FANCY SALE and ENTERTAIN mENTs, at the LIVER THEATRE. Tots DAY, the 22nd instant. and following days. FOrparticulars see the bills of the day. IDOLATRY. A MEETING of the IN HABITANTS will he held, at the Music HALL. Bold-street, .This DAY. (Tuesday,) the 22d instant, at Twelve o'clock, to adopt a Petition to Par- Ihment against the Forced - Alteudance of British Subjects on Idolatrous Ceremonies in India. The Rev Chancellor RAIKES in the Chair. TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the' very liberal encouragement which we have received from our advertising friends, and for which we beg leave to tender our grateful acknowledgments, We have come to the resotution TO ENLARGE THE LIVERPOOL:STANDARD, TO THE EXTENT OF SIX AD DITIONAL COLUMNS aitherto we have frequently been under the necessity of excluding ,various articles of local interest, and a large proportion of general news, in consequence of the great press of advertisements with which we have been fa voured. We have Often, also, been forced to the alter native of materially curtailing our reports as well qs . cur editorial remarks, on the : same accounL The pro posed enlargement will enable us to embody a greater share of such intelligence as may be generally useful. and to extend our reports -of the various public hied- ings, L c., which may be held in the neighbourhood, as well as to present to our readers a mass of amusing and instructive extracts from modern publications, which latter we intend to make a prominent feature in the STANDARD. It will also afford us great pleasure to avail ourselves of the opportunity which the contemplated enlargement of the'STANDARD will give us for advocating more fully those conservativeprinciples for which we have uni formly contended. The extended patronage which we enjoy -shall operate as a stimulus to increased zeal and energy in defence of that glorious cause to which we feel an ardent attachment—the cause of the Monarchy, the Church, and the constitution of Great Britain. We are happy to announce that arrangements are in progress for considerably increasing the number of agents for the sale of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. When these arrangements are matured, we anticipate a material increase in our circulation, an advantage which we feel confident will be duly appreciated by our advertising friends. We also flatter ourselves that the great increase of matter which the STANDARD will Contain in its enlarged form will procure for us* ad ditional support from the conservative public in L iverpool. The proposed enlargement will take place in THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE, after which the LIVERPOOL STANDARD will contain TWELVE COLUMNS OF ADDITIONAL MAT TER PER WEEK, without any increase of price. TO CORRESPONDENTS, The letter' of " Placidus" Would subject us to au action for libel t• if insetted. The poetry of " illi. K. J." has been received. The request. of "A Liberal Prosestant" shall be complied with, it possible. Zije iiibrrpoot TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 22, 1838. The Publication of the STA N DA It D commenced this morn- ing at 5 o'clock. Tue BUDGET.— —The Chancellor •of the Exchequer brought forward his'iontg deferred budget on Friday last, and a sorry exhibition of himself did he make on the oc casion. Well might Colonel Sibthorpe say that he had !lever seen a Chancellor of the Exchequer rise in the To-use of Commons with such a pallid countenance. ( Well might he say that he looked the very picture of de *''Pair• Instead ,of rambling through a speech of six • or ~,le":11coltnns, as in farmer years, dilating upon the gal ..protill'!°sPects of th e co u n t r y, an d h o ldi ng . out splendid .111 0 4 e 4 of a reduction of taxation, M r . Sp r i ng Ri ce esti y . contented himself on Friday with an ora ti on o f much nl °re moderate dimensions. The exposition which - of the financial condition. of the country wa s atcholy in the extreme. He '113;l no bright Z ia „ Qt which his eye could rest, and in deseri iCl.lg which h e might lavish his eloquent self-gratu '°ll3. All behind was dreary and: confused— all "efore was dark and unpromising. The revenue of • al't,)ar,cOr.Apared with the year heforelast, has declined • to t " (.x;-'it of nearly three millions. The expenditure rtithe last ve e:.. ,, eeds the receipts by nearly half a am (.:,e (h liciency is to be made up by an in 'ere'liged issst; tJ . exchequer bills. Such is the sum and substance of Air. Spring Rice's budget.. He stated the . I'liscaleulation of the year before at £1,422,000.—an abtlndant proof of his utter incapacity for the managerni-nt of our financial affairs. But his estimate falls short of ht. R . -. I : e 'mai t rut h , as t he following figures will demonstrate: I. estimated Income for the year end- Attul itv rpincomh April 18.38, Was £ 47,240,000 p 46,090.000 Ttle Defici ency stirn ittea Actual Expenditure endEx Surplus o f E xpe nditure 47,511,000 1,150,000 616,000 g 1,798.000 But. M r. .Rice insists that the deficiency and the surplus or ex penditure were alike unforeseen, and that it was, therefore, ituposti ible for bins to have formed a better es timate than he did. On this point we find the following apposite remar— in the radical /Spectator 4dp.littin g Lis great ilkappoiotuient in the actual results of the last financial year, Mr. Rice referred to the average orthe last two years—he wished, in fact, to be allowed to spread the deficiency of 1837-8 over two years ; and the average excess of income over expenditure would then be £217,000. He attri buted.the excess of the actual over the estimated expenditure for the last year to the payment of £681,000 on account of the Canada war, the necessity of providing for the whole amount of the interest on the West India loan—£750,00(1; the earlier payment of £200,000 for interest on Exchequer bills,•in conse quence of a change made to obviate the inconvenience of a large amount becoming due while parliament was not sitting; and to the general advance•on the interest of Exchequer bills. Of these items, it is plain that the Canada war expenditure alone was unexpected,. The others must. or - might have been foreseen when Mr. Rice made hisfinancial statement last year; but, taken altogether, they do not make up the amount of the deficiency." We see no reason for conceding that the Canada war expenditure was unexpected. To any one that bestowed any attention upon the signs of the times, it was long since evident that the seeds of rebellion had been sown in Canada before Mr. Rice made his estimate of last year's expenditure. The Secretary for the Colonies was at the time in possession of documents which .ought to have put Government upon their guard, and induced them to Make preparations to meet the contingency of an insurrection. To Joseph Hume such an event was by no means unexpected, even while he was endeavour ing to cripple the resources of the executive by still fur ther reductions in the estimated expenditure of the year. In dilating on the causes of the deficiency in the reve nue:during the past year the Chancellor of the Exche quer was equally blundering and unfortunate. The bur den of interest payable on the \Vest Indian loan and the increased outlay occasioned by a high rate of interest on Exchequer bills ought to have been anticipated in his estimate of last year. if Mr. Spring Rice had been a wise and prudent statesman he would have taken these circumstances into his calculation ; but Mr. Spring - Rice happens to be anything but a wise and prudent man, and that- i has caused a very great difference between his es timate and the actual results. 11/. : ,RHces allusion to the fever of speculation which pervaded the country in 1836 is exceedingly, comical. At .the time when that speculative spirit was manifested the yhig ChancellorA : the Excheqvr boasted of it as a proOf, of the presperitY'Of the ectirit7il—as a proof of the superabundance of capital, for , which it It;Tas difficult to provide a - dequate employment. The same whig tinancier now imputes a large'share of 'nth - late depression to that very system----a system to which, for temporary objects, the whig goVernment had affolded every encouragement in their power. Aslo the future Mr. Rice could hold out none of those splendid promises in which it has been his habit to in dulge. He could not promise any reduction of taxation. The improvident and culpable condtct of the govern ment in reference to the affairs of Canada will .eventn allyentail upon the country an extraordinary expendi ture of upwards of one million. All this might have been saved if the whigs had not connived at the prornO te.rs of the rebellion. But as it is impossible for the whigs to carry on their measures without the assistance Of .Hume*and his tail, the whigs are contented to saddle the country a with all this . unnecessary expense in order to purchase the support of the traitorous faction. SERGEANT TALFOURD'S COPYRIGHT BILL.—,AS this is ;a-measure which, in a greater. or less degree, affects every individual in Great Britain, we feel called upon to offer a few remarks upon the subject. In doing so we shall endeavour to abstain as much as possible from any of those coarse personalities in which the radical repre sentati% e of Finsbury recently indulged in the House of Commons. The bill ought to be judged upon its own merits, irrespectively of any isolated instances which might be adduced to show the operation of the present law of copyright. That the Bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd will materially affect the literature of the country is,.of course, obvious . To prevent speculation in the art of bookselling may be legitimate employment for the legislature; but it cannot be injurious to such labours to notice one or two evils which the proposed bill will positi7ely inflict, whether the expected benefits to authors be realised or not. It is a sound maxim in political economy, that no one department of art is independent of some other ;. and the relation between authors, publishers, and printers, is so intimate, that it may well be asserted, that no one of them could exist without the other. In Mr. Talfourd's bill, the book is spoken of as the author's sole property ; but before it can become •a book, a few transforming Processes are necessary ; every man, however remotely, connected in its getting up, could with all propriety lay hisjiand upon it, and say, " this is my work." The first assumption of Mr. Talfourd, therefore, is untrue. There is a second maxim in political economy equally unquestionable, that no one branch of art or manufacture can be unduly advanced, but at the expense of some others. Mr. Talfourd pfoposes to grant by law, what can only accrue by fact, and which no law can prevent, if just,—an additional endowment to authors, at the ex pense of the other parties engaged in the production of books. Mt. Talfourd's purpose is therefore unjust. On this part of the subject, at. least in so far as the printing business is concerned, a few illustrations may not be out of place. By the present law, a book is pro perty for twenty-eight years; and the result is, that many books, which one publisher might print and circu late during that time lie dormant, because the present holder of the copyright either will not, or cannot, do it himself. This evil, sufficiently glaring, is proposed to be increased, by adding sixty years to the term of copy- . right ;:--on the plea, that authors should have a longer personal interest in their own works. No man need de sire that an author should be paid less than he can get, for that is to desire what is impossible. The question is , .has Mr. Talforird proved th at aut h ors w i ll be more highly remunerated under the proposed bill ? The evidence of a few of the leading publishers has already settled this point. It may be supposed, that by the extension . of copy right, if the author does not derive the benefit the pub lisher will. But even this is highly problematical. All -fiscal regulations on trade are injurious, and much more so"in departments where as much depends upon the time and manner, as or. the matter of publication: The pub s are now, to a certain extent, classified, &anti:pub lishing,. in a - more or less degree,-books relating to his own department, But will a • scientific publisher, aril's suceeS'sur, be . of that.class sixty years hence?.' Will his present copyrights be available to his then . connexiOns?' This, also, could be better proved by publishers them. selves titan by Mr. Talfourd. Private interest must give way to public benefit. This third maxim is one on which the members of the printing business have some light to expatiate. By turning from the law of copyright to that on patents, it will at once be seen, that printing is now accomplishetl in a somewhat different manner from what it formerly was, and that to theinjury of .operative printerS generally. By the invention of stereotype, the re-composition of books was rendered unnecessary; and by the introduc tion of Machinery, the duplication of the daily •newspa - - pers fell into disuse, and long numbers were. no longer sent to press. From these inventions, however, the pub lic reaped immediate and much advantage, and the inter est of, the few gave way to that of the many. The judicious and proper publication of any one parti cular book is as much a personal invention as the manu script of the book itself; and if two or more publishers can compete in these inventions, will not the public reap the benefit ? to this case, such inventions will be for the perpetual advantage of tl:e printing business, as those before spoken of were to its temporary injury ; and hence the paramount interest which printers generally have in 11 tight disposal of the question. " Leave well alone," is an excellent remedy for diffi culties Which present no outlet, and, so far as practical skill and individual enterprise are concerned, it would be better if parliament, instead of proffering assistance, would stand aloof, and leave private men to settle their own private matters. But if Mr. Talfourd's purpose is bad, (for the printing busin, , ss,) his manner of effecting it is worse. 'He ad wits, in fact, that hiS plan will not work, and mates a number of exceptions, which, had he consulted practical men, he would never have so far committed himself in making. By the fifth clause of his bill he gives an ex isting copyright to the publisher for twenty-eight years; and if the author has died ih the interim, the copyright is, after the twenty-eight expire, to revert to the author' s heirs for the balance of sixty years, counted from the author's death, which may be any number from 1 to 59. By the se vent!), the publisher can sell, during these sixty years, whatever number of copies lie may have left on hand at the expiration of the twenty-eight. Here the copyright is printed paper, instead of author's manu script. By the eighth .clause, under the same circumstances. if the work has been yereotyped, the publisher can prin from these plates during all the sixty years, provided only that the plates last so long. It is not an - uncommon circumstance, where immunity from taxation or rent is given to a particular building so long as it lasts, that every sort of repair is given beyond the price of a new erection, that the immunity may be retained; and, under such circumstances, the repair of stereotype plates would be its parallel. By this clause the copy right is in plates. The best authors, therefore, whose works are gene rally stereotYped,'.9m• „derive no benefit whatever from the act; the publicliG4ll be compelled to read coarse and ill-printed editions—new types NVill be idle—the art of printing will retrograde. And this is called—" the en couragement of learning." . Mr. Talfourd, it is true, anticipates that the public will not be so satisfied, and attempts to provide against it. I any author or publisher neglect to reprint or republish a work within five years after the author's death, or five years after the twenty-eight from the date of its publica tion, any person who may remember such a hook to be in existence,. (thirty-three years after its publication,) may apply to the Court of Chancery for permission to print it, after having given one or two years notice to the original thirty-five years copyright holder, and the Lord Chancellor may grant such permission, if the origi nal publisher has not then republished it. • Thus one man'S idea, that he could make a certain bocdpay its ex,-' pease of publication, must have entailed upon it a two years' Chancery suit, and the risk added, that the origi nal publisher, who, in all likelihood, had himself forgot it, avail himself of the said idea, republish _the book on another man's hint, and leave him to .digeA the ex pense of his application to the Lord Chancellor as hebest may. Can this be what the legislatOrs of Mr. Talfourd's school call " a healthful 'competition, from which the public derive much benefit." IRISH TITHES.—THE APPROPRIATION' CLAUSE.—After all the trumpeting of 'the whig-radical press about the " glorious majority" obtained by ministers, on Tuesday last, it appears that the conflict upon 1110 subject of Irish 'tithes has issued in a conservative victory. The leading organ of the government thus prematurely rejoices over the " prostrate tories" " After gaining a victory, the next consideration is how to turn it to the best advantage. We have given the tories a heavy fall; and the question is, whether we should not repeat the blow while they are in a position so convenient to receive it. .Let us hope that their defeat upon the Church question will be followed as speedily as possible by another still more humiliating upon that of Municipal Reform: Since beating is to their taste, we advise Ministers to give them enough of the amusement, and allow them as little pause as possible between the strokes." This is certainly bold language; but how has it been followed up by the " gtorioils majority"? - Let us see. The following very pithy conversation took place on the subject in the House of Commons on Friday last : „. Sir Francis Burdett asked Lord John Russell, whether he intended to go into Committee'on the Irish Tithe resolutions on Monday?, Lord Juhn Russell said, he did not, but would proceed with the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill. He did not intend, how ever, to abandon the question of Irish Tithes; but if the Com mittee on the Municipal Corporation Bill had finished its la_ buurs by the Monday following, he would move a simple reso lution for converting the tithe into a rent-charge, on which he should found a bill. Sir Robert Peel but imperfectly understood Lord Jo,lin Rus sell; and it was impossible for him to state at the moment what course he should take in the altered circumstances. Would not Lord John Russell defer his -Committee on the Mu nicipal Corporation Bill till Friday ? ". Lord John Russell assented to this , postponement ; and in further explanation of his tithe plan, repeated that he should call upon the committee to adopt a resolution consisting solely of this—that the tithe composition at present existing should be changed into a rent charge : that would be the only object of his proposition. " Sir Robert Peel.—Aut Ito understand that the noble lord's proposition will be limitted to the conversion of tithe-composi tion into rent-charge ? " Lord John Russell.—Yes. Sir Rohert Peel--I will meet that concession in the same spirit in which it was made. I, however, reserve to myself the right to take an unfettered course. If I decide on taking a course on Friday hostile to the municipal bill, I will give full notice of that intention, to prevent any unfair advantage." From this conversation it would appear that the Tithe Bill Committee is to be postponed to Monday next, and that the Irish Municipal Bill is to be introduced on Fri day. Both measures will, in consequence,.pass under the notice of the House of Commons nearly at the same time, and it is next to imposSible, in the present state of public business, that these bill can reach the House of Lords before the Coronation takes place. Although Lord john: Russell declares that his proposition relative to the Irish church will be limited to the concession of tithe-composition into rent-charge, it is very probable that protracted discussions will take place on several of the details of the bill. Nor is it unlikely that another debate and another division will take place on the prin ciple of the bill. It is now evident that the ministers have thrown the appropriation clause overboard—that very clause upon which they have repeatedly staked their official exist ence. Passing by the inconsistency of their conduct in thus deserting a principle to which they were so strongly pledged, we shall proceed to inquire whether'the present Tithe Bill can be considered a final and satisfactory set ment of the Irish church question. Will it be satisfactory to the protestants of England and Ireland—to those who are sincerely attached to the Established Church and who zealously desire tbe spread of the doctrines of the Reformation ? We answer, no! Every true protestant, views the church of Ireland as a grand instrument for the moral and political ameliora tidn of that benighted and priest-ridden Country ; and that it has already' proved efficient to this' great end is'. abundantly proved by the . CriMinal statistics of the several provinces of Ireland. Those portions of the island in which popery is predominant are charaCterjsed by an accumulation of the deepest crimes; those in which , the civilising influence of protestantisrn . prevails are comparatively'peaceful. In the provinc e of Monster, comprising only six counties, and with a population of 2,227,152, the snm of £105,366 was req u i re d w i t hi n the last year for the repression of crime; whilst in the pro vince of Ulster, comprising nine counties, and with a population of 2,286,622, the amount required for that purpose was only £68,090. What has caused this great disparity ? Why is crime so rampant in. Munster ? We unhesitatingly attribute the pre-eminence in delin quencv of its population to the malignant, debasing, and brutalising influence of poperp , ---popery, the greatest curse which ever afflicted any nation on the face of the earth. Seeing, then, that the spread of protestantistn in Ireland is the spread of peace, of virtue, of industry, and loyalty—that the eradication of popery is the rooting out of brutality, vice, indolence, and disaffection; it is impossible for any one who wishes well to Ireland, or, in other w or d s , Wh o w i s hes to see protesta n ti smr egnant in that country, to hail with any degree of satisfaction any measure which may emanate from a ministry so ob sequious to the demands of the popish faction asLord John Russell and his associates in office. The English protestants have reason to deprecate the introduction of any such measure as that propounded by the leader of the House of Commons, lest it should afford a precedent for the spoliation of the Established Church in England The bill, therefore, roust be considered as objectionable by every sincerely attached friend of Protestantism: But will it prove satisfactory to the Irish olergy—,the party most deeply implicated in all its enactments ? We LIVERPOOL SiA NDARb. answer, No' They are only anxious to. secure their just. rights, and wish for no legal interference. That the bill will not prove a final settlement as far 'as the Papists; Dissenters, and infidels are concerned we shall prove in a subsequent article. THE " ALBiON."—Ourfacetioris contemporary of yes terday has bestowed nearly a column and a half of his largest type upon the STANDARD, in which an attemptis made to rep)y to our remarks of Tuesday last. We have said that'un attempt is made to answer the article in which we animadVerted upon the "right dolorous ditty" of the Albion of last week ; but really the column and a half of verbiage Which the Albion of yesterday contains is scarcely entitled to the designation of even an attempt at a reply. If it was meant to be such, it is the most abortive attempt that we have ever witnessed. It proves nothing, unless, indeed, it may be said to afford a most conclusive proof of the weakness of that cause which the Albion advoCates—of the utter impotency of the editor in any contest in which theinterests of truth and justice are involved. The .A/bioit displays its consum mate prudence by abstaining altogether from even a show of argument. Instead of reasoning on the subject On which we have joined issue with him * the funny editor prefers enacting the part of Harlequin, and seems to trust that his ludicrous pranks will have the effect of withdrawing the attention of his readers from the sub ject matter of discussion. We must frankly confess that we have been highly amused with the extraordinary ca pers of our merry-making friend in Castle-street; but, though our risibility has been excited, we cannot say that he has convinced us of any thing—his, own exuberant follyexcepted. We feel extremely sorry that we cannot compliment our contemporary upon' his good temper this week. There is a degree of soleness in the article to which we have referred which strongly imPresses . us with the be lief that our remarks of Tuesday last were not quite so pointless as the Albion would insinuate. However, our hands are too full to-day to allow us any opportunity for dandling the slipperkin of the Albion. .0n Friday next we hope to have more leisure for the purpose. It is, perhaps, right to add that we have not yet seen reason to regret the insertion of the other article to which the AlbiOn refers. It has already had its desired effect. INTELLIGENCE. PRI*E FIGHTING.—On Friday at the police-office, Thomas Henry Jones, alias " The Welsh Champion," having been placed at the bar, a gentleman stated to the magistrate, that a prizefight was to take place between the prisoner and ano ther individual, he sent fur Jones and remonstrated with him, telling him that such practices were discreditable to him, he being a publican. Jones, however, said that the affair had gone too far for him then to recede; and the gentleman seeing that his own interposition was unavailing, he had resolved to apply to the magistrate He believed that the fight was to take place two or three miles from Liverpool. Mr. Hall wade a few remarks, expressive of his surprise that a man in the prisoner's situation should connect himself with such a discreditable affair, on which Jones stated that he was agreeable to drop it. Mr. Hall bOund him over to keep the peace, himself in - 1:80. and two sureties in £4O. each—the usual notice to be given of the bail. STRIKING POLICR-OFFICERS.—A respectable looking young man was on Friday brought up at the police-office on a charge of having struck policeman 183. The officer stated that the prisoner and another individual were fighting together on the preceding night in Ruse-place ; he went to separate theem, and the prisoner then struck him, , on which he took him into cus tody- The young man excused himself on the score of intoxi- cation : he was extremely sorry for what had taken place. The magistrate observed that the excuse of drunkenness was too frequently set up for that and other offences; but what did it avail an officer who had to submit to blows that the person who inflicted them was in a state of intoxication? People were ready enough to cry out when a policeman touched them; but they seemed to make little account of striking him, forgetting the number of blows h e was o bli ge d t o en d ure ever y night. The prisoner was fined 20s. and costs—in default of payment to be committed 16 days.—Another person, a master of a vessel, in a row in the Park, had snatched the stick from the hand of one of the officers and struck him with it, and afterwards behaved in a very disorderly manner in Bridewell. He was fined 40s. A JEALOUS WIFE.—On Friday, two girls of ill character bay ing been placed at the bar, a female of very respectable appear once entered the witness-box, and in an angry and excited man tier began to prefer her complaint. She stated that she ha d come from Birmingham in search of her husband, some " d—d kind friend," it appeared, having informed her by letter that - her spouse was taking advantage of his absence from home to conduct himself in a very unwarranted manner—that he had located himself in a certain house in town, occupied by certain females of very uncertain character, &c. On receipt of this kind, well-intentioned, and friendly letter, Mrs. came post ing down to Liverpool on the swift and strong wings of jealousy —(the railway carriages, to her impatient spirit, seemed to travel like snails)—and, having arrived here, did not delay a moment in proceeding to the house which had been described, denouncing, as she went along, the wicked aberrations of her spouse, yet exulting in the idea that she should pounce upon the astonished sinner in the very midst of his iniquities, perhapsde tect him in the very arms of his parambur. She wished, she .I,,,ibpd, a ko foirvcntly hoped tkaut ouvh mi g ht 6. tho Cu,,, 5 CLUJ y et the hare idea was exasperating in the extreme. She felt her blood rising, her cheek warmin g at th e t h oug h t; herstep became quicker and firmer, and in a few moments she stood at the door, knocked, and gaiee I admission. She ran rapidly through the lower apartments of the house, questioning no one, but seeking to come unawares on the faithless man. Her search, however, proving vain, she then paused to enquire hem one of the pri soners whether Mr. was in the house. "How can I tell?" was the reply " I know no titan called Mr. " "Is there a man with dark brown hair ?" &c. asked the lady, giving a rapid sketch of ber beloved. " Dmi't know." " Don't know! Don't exasperate me, woman," exclaimed the handsome little wife, shaking •her umbrella at the tall and lumpish figure she was examining " Tell me, I say, is my husband here?" " Which ?" was the laconic reply, half interroga tory, half exclamatory. " Don't which me: I demand a direct answer." " Don't which you! Not I. You seem be witched already. What is it you want of me?" "My husband." "Is he little?" "Yes, rather." " Would he go into my pocket you like." hin 1c y o A u ?" blow I with ain't the got umbrella ut answeryo iicau toh lootki this fy) w you cism; the wife then made a rush up stairs, with the determina tionher ascent, however, by the descent of the other prisoner, who told her that no person should either go up or down those stairs till her mis tress returned. A battle royal then cotnutenced; in the words of the complainant, " a flock of four or live of them" were round_ her in a minnte; and, though the young lady seems not to have lacked courage, the superiority of numbers opposed to her, im pressed her with the idea that discretion was the better partof valour," and she accordingly sounded a parley. "Do tell me, then," she said, "if my husband he up stairs." "There's a man there, " was the answer. " There is ! And has he a fe- Male with hint?" " No." "Not one ! Are you sure! Let site go up and see hint ; —let me upbraid him; let me tear his eyes' out: let me—", "Stine) a little, ma'am," said a lisping syren; "how does you know it's your own lawful husband ?" "Because I have but one husband, and that is, must be him. Lawful ! No, lam not like you." " No, nor he like you. He takes it as cool as snow Ina m. "The wretch! let me see him." " But who are you, ma'am ?" " You know— you know; lam his wife—the wife of him whom you are secreting " " Bleth ine ! have you the second sight, tna'atn, that you can see through • m ig ht too wa • r its It dit be Billy Thompson for what y ou k now, or No, no : it cannot be. Is he a Scotchman ?" "Then it is bim ! 1 knew it was! Andrew ! Andrew !" A voice through a keyhole was here heard to ex claim, "It's jist me, lassie; gang a wn ' haute again; I cann a co me the non. They've steekit the door." The sound of that well-known voice was a confirmation of all the poor wife's sus picions; she became maddened, and made ano th er effort to reach the apartment; but her antagonists were too powerful, and succeeded in forcibly ejecting her. This was the laity's complaint, and she wished: to have the prisoners punished. The magistrate thought that, even though some foolish and officious person had endeavoured to destroy her peace of mind and her ilornestic happiness by sending that letter, she should have had more good sense thins to follow her husband hither, least of all to seek him in such a house as she had described. She had in a great degree to thank herself for the usage she had received. The prisoners were then asked what they had to say for having assaulted the complainant. One replied that she was the first -assaulted; aue theseeond declsred that she was not only struck, but insulted. "She (complainant) called me very bad expres sions; and. I •says ; 'Thank you, ma'ain,' says I, vou'are a lady.' I'his was all I said; and then she struck me."-The pH ' setters were discharged. MUGG ING.—Yesteiday, a the Police-office, a gentleman, nanied Thomas May. an attorney of London, was placed at the bar of the Police-office, charged with attempting to smuggle two aut.' a half gallons of whiskey on shore. It appeared, that the prisoner had just come over front Ireland, and had the whiskey concealed in jars, in his portmanteau. On landing, he ordered hi s p ortmanteau to be taken to the Custom-house, perhaps, e x p ec ti ng i t wou l d passed through w i thout any searc h , but in th e trans i t, one of the jars got broken, and the officer discovered the whiskey running out of the portmanteau bottom. Mr. Hall, after hearing the case, fined him in the mitigated penalty of £25, or to be imprisoned two mouths. The prisoner said, he could not. pay the fine, and did not know a soul in the town, and it was o f the highest importance t h at h e s h ou ld go to London with somepapers that he had;. but he would willingly give up all the money he had in his possession, about £l2, add leave his watch for bail, till he could remit the balance. Mr. Hall told him, that as a professional man, he ought to know better than to make such art application, for it was one which could not be granted. Mr. Hall subsequently said, he should suspend the judgement till this morning, as he was of opinion, the case was a more serious one than at the first view he had thought it: He would consult the act of Parliament about it, and:decide this morning. The prisoner was, therefore, much against his will put down again till this morning. DERBY HOTEL._ The opening dinner of this new establish. ment takes place on Thursday next. A most excellent ban quet will no dout , t be provided, as Mr. Leonard will be desi rous to give his friends a taste of his quality." There will be a very full muster of friends. We have great pleasure in stating, that Mr. Benjamin Ellis, one of the Magistrates' Clerks, who visited Madeira for the benefit of his health, has returned with his health completely restored. CoNTaoyEastAL LECTURES.—We understand that the last of a series Of Lectures on the Errors of. Popery, will be de livered this eve n i ng , Tuesday, Mae 22, at St. Mary's Church, yt lo rl i d h a e l t e ie . ai by doom e.oirt the Papacy. eir. HuigliAPN e e. The subj e ct i s the LAuricuEs.—On Wednesday, (to-morrow,) about eleven o'clock, there will be two launches: one from the building-yard of Messrs. Burmister and Simpson, the other from the building yard of Messrs. Clover and Co., both in Trentham-street. NEW Cuuticu.—A new church has recently been erected at Patigate, about two miles from Warrington, which will be opened on the 20th instant, by the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, rector, and the Rev. T. V. Bayne, head-master of the GraniMar School) BIBLE SOCIETY. NIF.ETING OF THE LADIK,' AUXILIARY BRANCH SOCIETY The 27th anneal meeting of this society was held on Friday evening, at half-past six o'clock, in the Music-hall, Bold-street, which was crowded in every part by a most respectable autli 7 ence, a large proportion of whom were feniales. A number id local clergymen and gentlemen, together with a deputation from the Parent Society, occupied the platform. 'Finnuas Sands, Esq., was in the chair. 'I he CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings in a brief ad dress, in which he expressed the great pleasure that he felt in promoting the cause for which they we're assembled, The 11ev. R. Daviits read the report, which stated, that _in detailing the operations of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible So ciety, the committee bad to report, that although there was no very material increase in its funds and its operations, : they yet felt themselves called on to be thankful that they had not retro graded. The annual subscriptions during the last year amount ed to £-102 Bs. In the donations there was a diminution, as they only amounted to £3O Ils. whilst in the preceding year. they were £6l 15s. 3d. lu consequence of an inadequate supply of collectors, the ladies' subscriptions fell short of the preceding years' by the sum of £73 14s. 6d. The suns total .collected was £3ll 15s. 1011. By the sale of books £421 17s. 21. had been received by the society, which, although less than had been re ceived in the year before, was yet quite equal to the average of former years. The contributions from country societies, ajid from associations connected with the Liverpool Auxiliary So ciety, amounted to £l5O 10s. 10d. The total receipts for the past year were £2129 9s 9d., being about £26 more than iu the preceding one. [ln the treasurer's annual account, read after wards by Mr. James Cropper, it was stated that of the total re ceipts £1340 had been remitted to the parent society, the inci, dental expenses amounted to £153 9s. 9d„ leaving a balance on" hand, to be carried to next year's account, of £6361 The re port went on to state that the distribution had nut been quite equal to that of the former year, though it was equal to the av,r age. There had been distributed 3357 Bibles and 2899 Testa ments, making a total of 6256 copies of the Holy Scriptures. An association had been originated for Toxteth-park and Aig burth, which protnised to. do great good. There was g'round to believe that the Ladies' Bible Society had been the originator of all the visiting societies at present in existence in the town, and it was painful to think that it should languish for want of distributors. The committee acknowledged their obligations to Lieutenant Lowe for the kind aid which he had afforded them in. supplying the poor emigrants from this port with the Bible. They had also to express their great and sincere regret at the loss of their late secretary, Samuel Hope, 'Esq., who had held the situation upwards of 26 years, and on whom a very high eulogium was passed. Dr. Raffles, they were happy to say, had accepted the office which had become vacant by the lament ed death of Mr. Hope. . . The Rev. J. CAR RuntErts moved the adoption of the report. Little, he remarked, needed to he said in reference to the report itself, The principles it recognised, the spirit it breathed, and the facts it recorded, were such as to render it worthy of una nimous adoption. The rev. gentleman, after referring to the death of Mr. Hope, proceeded to point out, at some length, the effect which such instances of mortality ought to produce on the members of the society in attaching them more firmly to the wordlof God, which endured for ever, while all flesh was as grass. The Rev. EDWIN SYDNEY, one of the deputation from the parent society, seconded the resolution. Nothing, he said, could be more grateful to him than to see such a large assem blage of the friends of the society. When he considered the standing of the society, and the character of its supporters, he might consider himself a superfluous charat:ter amongst them but he deprecated the spirit of proxyisin, and he should there fore divide - with his respected friend, Mr. Dudley, the labour of bringing forward interesting facts. He agieed with Mr. Daly, whom he heard lately in London, that one fact was worth a cart-load of arguments. It was said of Lord Bacon, that the only fear of those who heard him was, that he should make an end of his discourse; but the case was very different with them; for it was the fear. of every one who heard a deputation of the Bible society that they would never make an end. (A laugh.) He then called the attention of the meeting to the state of France, where, notwithstanding the attempts made to hinder the operations of the society, it was going on progressing. He did not mean to say that appearances were such as they ought to be satisfied with, but they Were encouraging. Meia of the highest station listened to the plain preachingolthe gospel, and prosperous schools were connected with an establishment he did not need then to refer to. [The rev. gentleman alluded to the continental society.] The spirit of the Roman Catholics was naturally excited, and they knew not what to do. But iu order to overturn what the Protestants were doing, they would give out in some of their towns—though they had not a town like Liverpool, and never would—they gave out that they were going to have a public disputation. Now they would all expect that in a public disputation, living men would appear to engage in the contest; but in a disputation iu France they were ushered into a large room, in which were placed on a table the busts of Luther, Melaut hon_, or Calvin. H ere the p r i es t d eman d s o f t h e bust—" Now, Mr. Luther, what have you got to say for your self?" He then proceeds to detail what he supposes would be Luther's arguments, which he next answers in his own person ; after which he says. "Now, Luther, you are regularly done," and he forthwith takes a club and knocks the unfortunate bust into fuel. (Loud laughter.) The speaker next referred to Russia, and lamented that the circulation of the Scriptures were so small in that country; but they had no conception of the difficulties to be encouotered there. The speaker here related some interesting anecdotes relative to the manner in which the Scriptures were put into the hands of the military, and to the devout character of Prince Gallitzin. He next referred to Belgium, India, Madagascar, Spain, &c. With respect to the latter country, he stated the curious fact, that though there was a law to prohibit the introduction of Bibles into Spain, there was none to prevent the printing of them there, and this had been taken advantage of by the Society. The rev. gentleman made a number of additional observations, and concluded by expressing his wonder that any one should fall away from the society on account of peculiarity of creed, and called on them to redouble their exertions iu the cause of that excellent associ. ation. The adoption of the report was carried unanimously. The Rev. H. CARPENTER moved the second resolution, which stated that ten millions of copies of the Holy Scriptures, in 160 different languages and dialects, had been distributed by the Bible Society since its formation. The rev. gentleman said that he had recently read an estimated statement of the number of Bibles iu the whole world: it was calculated to be thirty millions, so that that society had distributed one-third of the avareirate number on the face of the earth. It was a startling annunciation, however, that 8)0,000,000 of souls, the supposed amount of the population of the globe, had only 30,000.000 of Bibles to meet their wants ; and it was a fact calculated to make them strain every nerve. till every man should have the opportunity of perusing the word of God, They had, he said, to lament the opposition which was made to the circu lation of the scriptures, not only in foreign countries, but in a land very near to their own doors. In Ireland, the Bible was hunted after and burnt in the same manner as in Belgium. He was a native of the sister island, and he knew such to be the fact. It was extraordinary, when a priest had got hold of a Bible, with what facility he would run it down! The priest could smell a Bible half a mile off, so that, if a peasant ob tained possession of one, it was absolutely impossible that he should preserve it ; and when detected, he was certain to be punished for having haaboured it, • The Rev. THEOpHILUS some said, th oug h h e h a d be en resident in Liverpo o l for some years, he had never before been present at any meetings of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible Society This did not arise from want of interest in its welfare, but from the circumstance of his being engaged its travelling. After alludiug to the character of the late Mr Hope and of Dr. Raffles, he said, theirs was a cause which derived honour from no man, bat conferred honour on all who were engaged iu it. Changes, he remarked, had taken place within a few years, which it formerly required ages to effect. To whatever part of the world they directed their attention, they found it no longer in a state of torpitude—the strong man armed could no longer keep his palace in peace. Old institutions could no longer keep possession of the public mind. Satin was come down amongst men, having great wrath, because he knew that he had but a very short time. He would not touch on politics, or disturb the sweet harmony of that as sem bl y. T he speaker went.on to de nounce the principles of infidelity, which, he sairL were now scattered among the body of the people. These principles had entered the abodes of the poor, and saread desolation among those who were the basis of society. The glittering Ornaments on the top would forth no security for them, if the basis was destroyed. Ile next contrasted the condition of England, in the present day, with that which existed during ancient times, when our ancestors were distinguished by a savage ferocity, and ascribed all our advantages and safety to the influence of Chris tianity. He concluded by appealing to the meeting for their liberal support in behalf of the society. The resolution was carried unanimously. The Rev. J. LisTEit moved the third resolution, expressive of the obligations - which the society owed to the Ladies' Branch Society. Of their zeal, ability, and patience, he could' not speak too, highly. But there was still much left undone, and none hut those who had visited the habitations of the poor were aware how deeply that valuable portion of society estimated the attentions of the collectors. Facts were better than argu ment, and he might mention a circumstance which occurred in a court near his own chapel, which he had visited recently With a friend; In the court were a number of houses, few of which possessed a Bible. One woman to whom the question was put, expressed bow delighted she would feel, and her neigh- hours also, if they were visited regularly by the collectors at tached to the Bible Societe. There was a wide field for the exercise of the collectors iii the district between Mary bone mid Vauxhall-road, whi c h m i ght be considered the most degraded part of the town. But however low,or humble the inhabitants were, the visitors were always treated with iespect. That ex cellent institution, the Provident Society, bad been of essential service in the district to which be alluded. Many of the streets contributed regularly to that - society, and its visitors always ex perienced the most respectful reception. The services of the Bible Society were much wanted in that neighbourhood, and he could guarantee to the ladies who might act as visitors the most courteous treatment. The reverend gentleman concluded by expressing his hope that the exertions of the ladies would not be wanting in the good work. Mr. C. S. DUDLEY, in seconding the resolution, filled up, as far as time permitted, the outline which had been sketched by his friend and fellow-labourer, the Rev. Mr. Sidney. He said that the income of the society for the ensuing year amounted to upwards of £97,000, which, although less than that of the pre ceding one, was £8,200 above the average income of the last ten years. The issue of the Scriptures at house, within the last twelve months, had been less than in the former year; but he was one who looked upon that. as a matter rather of rejoicing than lamentation; it indicated that the country was becoming, as it were, saturated with the Bible. And strange it would have been, if the issue of 7,250,000 copies of the Scriptures had not in a great measure supplied the wants of the people. The issue, both at home and abroad, during the past year, amounted to 600,000, which, he might state, for the aid of those who foam" it difficult to form a true conception of such vast numbers, was at the rate of one Bibles pe r m i nu t e f or t h e w h o l e, year . The_ aggregate number which the s oc iety h a d b een th e ineans.. o_ . f putting into circulation, both at hOrne and abr oa d, was 18,000. UP, and they had translated th e H o ly Scriptu res i n t o 86 l a nguages in which they had never before existed. He himself held in his hand a cony of the first translation of them which had ever been . --• seen in the Catalan language. Only 34 years ago, there was not a single society in existence fnr the circulation of the word _ . of God; 'now there were 2334. He referred to the groatly in creasing distribution which was yearly taking place in France, and mentioned that in Spain—a country loin with internal dissensiocs—the printing of the bible bad been established and was carried on, and 4000 copies had been already sold. But British India, containing 135,000,000 of inhabitants, and the empire of China, whose ventilation was estimated by Morrison at 250,000,000, but s tated in th e i m p er i a l c e ns us to b e TA,000,000, formed a boundless field for their exertions—a field in which something, yet comparatively little, had hitherto been done. The prospect in China, however, was a gladdening one ; for Gutzlaf had est a blish e d the fact, that, though in different pro vinces there were somewhat differing dialeets . spoken, the whol6 of the population which can read (and every parent deemed it essential to give his male children an education, though the fertales were neglected) can read the same hook. Their written language was intelligible, therefore, to 175,000,000 of men—from:Et true end of the empire to another : it was like a sheet of music, which, though written in England, could be read in Italy, or vice verse. The society had aiso assisted in printing bibles fur the use of the blind/ a specimen of which in raised letters, and which is deciphered with facility by the touch, was exhibited by the speaker. The extreme delicacy of feeling pes3eSsed by persons deprived of sight was one of the wonderful and beuevokut provisions by which the Almighty compensated their loss; when deprived of one sense, the other became more active. Many persons would perhaps be suprised at the rapidity witsii which blind persons could be taught to read; a gentleman. in Edinburgh, e,tigaged iii the instruction of the blind, bad told him that he would engage to teach blind people to teed by the touch in one-half the time that would be occupied by those Who could see, and this because their attention was never taken away by extraneous objects, as Must necessarily happen in the other case. Ile.hiinSelf had seen a blind boy at Bristol who bad learned to• read in only eleven days; and never had he heard a chapter in the Nett Testathent read more beautifully, or with better emphasis, than by that boy, standing amidst 20X10 persons, and deciphering the words by the touch only. The resolutions w er e t h an put and carried without opposition : JOHN. -VaortiEß, Esq.,, mowed, and the Rev. CHAR LES LAWRENCE seconded, the fourtii 4 'reSolutiot, whith was passed unanimously. On the !notion of the Rev. RD. DAvias, seconded by Whf. KAY, Esq., a vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting seliarated at ten o'clock. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Last evening, the annitersary meeting of this society was held at the Music llalt , Bold•stree,t;—the 'Lev. Chancellor ftaikes in the chair. The Music Ilill was crowded to excess by a highly respectable Auditory, chiefly consisting of ladies, and on the platfortn were moat of the clergy of the town and neighbourhood. , . . . . ...:4.fter the meeting had been operied by the Rev. Chancellor lies, the report was read by the Secretary, the Rev. Richard DaVies, which spoke in most pleasing terms of the progr ess an d success of the Missionary labours of the society, and stated the increase *: the Society's fu n ds f o r th e p resen t y e ar, to b e £11,700. The meeting' was then addressed by the Re 4 i. John Jones; of St. Andrews; the Rev. John Woodward, one or the Secreta ries from the Parent Society ; the Rev. Thomas Byrth, Rector of Wallasey; the Rev. Juhu William Cunningham, hector of Harrow; the Rev. H e nry Carpenter, Minister of St. Michael's; the Rev. Winderi Madden; the Rev. John White, of Oswestry; and the Rev. Hugh M'Neile ; and resolutions were propose(' and passed, lamenting the removal of the late Bishop Currie from the East Indies, and pledging the society ton - let - eased- mis sionary efforts in New Zealand and other stations of the society's missions. The Rev. HUGH M'NEtit, in speaking to one of the resolu tions, took occasion to advert to the disgraceful character of some of the orders of the British government in India, whereby the civil and military otlicers of the government were fre quently obliged to attend at, and contribute to, the idolatrous worship and ceremonies of the heathen natives, or incur the displeasure of the government. He was enthitsiaStically re= spouded to in a proposal that another meeting should be called to petition the government to put an end to this disgrace to Christian rulers, and a meeting for this purpose (ai will be seen from an advertisement in another column,) is to be held this day at 12 o'clock. The meeting continued till a quarter to eleven o'clock. Break ing up at so late an hour, of course it is totally out of the question to do any thing like justice to the various eloquent speeches delivered, and we shall, therefore, postpone our report until Friday next, when we shall give a' full and accurate ac count of the proceedings. So intense was the heat of the crowded room, that four or five ladies fainted, and were obliged to be carried out. So crowded a meeting speaks well for the progress of the church missionary cause. VICISSITUDES OF A VOYAGE. On the ilth of January last, the ship. Acadia.; left' this port fur New York, with a heavy cargo end thirty-fi've steer age passengers. She had been but a few days at sea when she turned out to be in a leaky condition ; and, to add to the distress of those on board, it Was discovered that she had not taken in a sufficiency of fresh water, the conse quence of which was that each person was put on allowance of two quarts per day. During the first ten days, the weather was favourable, but, the wind having become contrary, the vessel, which was too heavily laden, was beaten about till the Ist of March, when she encountered a violent storm from the west, in Ist: 35 uurth, ton. 43 west, according .to the calculation of the officers. The hurricane is described as baying been most terrific, and the ship was expected every moment to go down. Both the passengers and (be crew worked, at the pumps incessantly, while the captain, seeing their danger, steered the vessel himself, with the view of easing her as touch as possible front the violent shocks of the waves, that threatened each stant to overwhelm her. Such was the violence of the storm that, though the captain wished to lighten the ship, it was found impossible to do so till the following day: As they had only provisions for two weeks, they determined to run for Ireland. the. storm continued for two days, during which 30(./ tons of goods were consigned to the oc ean ; notwithstanding which, the vessel still leaked. The triad having veered round to the east, the captain decided that he would steer for New York, the ori ginal port of his destination. Ag'aio the wind changed, how:- ever, and by the 7th of March the leakiness Of the vessel had so augmented that she made three feet aitil a half of water peg hour. She was further lightened without ninth eftect being produced, and at length the captain resolved that he would not proceed•to Cork, but endeavour to make the Azores as the nearest land. The passengers and crew were now in the ut; , most distress for want of water, as well as provisions. On the 9th, the wind, it seems, having again changed, the captain once more steered for New York, but the breeze getting round to tpe northwest some hours after, the course was changed for Fayal: On the 11th, a ship hove in sight, which proved to be the Ma nark, a fine Dutch ship, bound to Rotterdam, from Batavia: At first the ship showed symptoms of a hostile description, hay= ing heard at St. Helena that war had been declared between England and 'Holland. Set right oh this subject, the Dutch captain furnished the Acadia with provisions, and gave her longitude 31, 58. 'I he longitude, according to the calculation on board the Acadia, was 29, 10. At one o'clock next day,. land was discov ere d, an d a ll on b oar d were filled with joy, under the notion that it was Fayal. They were w i th i n one or two miles of this land before sunset, but, fearful of rocks, they continued to cruize about till daylight, when they saw a boat approaching them. A rope w as th rown to the individuals in the boat, and they were taken on hoard, They p rove d to be the crew of the En g lish ship Latnns, , rtiieft was wrecked on this spot in December last, on a voyage froM St. Jago da 'Cuba. to Swansea. They reported to the captain of the Acadia, that his was the first ship they had seen since they were cast away, and that the laud they saw was Flores. They were now 130 miles from Fayal, and in the greatest distress for want of water. Fortunately, they reached the bay of Fayel in two days, without further disaster. •In this island the passengers and crew were treated with great hospitality and kindness; not withstanding which, several of the more.indigent amongst them experienced great distress. The Acadia had to be discharged before she could be repaired, and this business went on so slowly , that the money of most of the passengers was exhausted. At length, on the 18th of April, a Danish ship entered the bay minus a rudder. This vessel was quickly repaired, and, as' she wai bound for Liverpool, five of the passengers embarked in her, determined to come to this port rather than await the tedious process of repairing the Acadia. The Danish vessel arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday lait. Thus the live individ ua l s a l = hided to find them se l ves aga i n i n Liverpool, the port at which, more that four months ago, they embarked for New York, to which place they have yet to proceed.A/biert. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE ST. GEORGE'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. STEAM•SHIP SIRIUS. FALMOUTH, MAY 19, 1838, "GENTLEMEN,—The Sirius arrived in this port at 6 p.m. at ter a passage of 18 days, having sailed from New York on the Ist inst. at 2 p.m. We had only three days fair wind, all the rest were with strong winds and gales from S.E. " 1 should have proceeded to Portsmouth, bet wished to land the Halifax ►nail, which I received from her Majesty'S packet Tyrian, seven hundred miles from England, and our New York wail, which is very large. " Five packets sailed same day, vii.:—The Siddons, the North America, and the Hibernia, for Liverpool ; the Si. James, for London ; and the Utica; for Havre. " The Great Western was to leave New York on the 7th insL She arrived the day after us. We arrived on the 22d of April; after having encountered very heavy gales. " You will perceive, by some papers which 1 have sent you; how the citizens received us. " The Sirius is as fine a sea-boat as ever was built, and het' engines walked well nut and home. " I should have arrived in England at least three days earlier; but could not keep up the steatn owink to the inferior quality of the coal. I leave this morning fur London. " The Sirius will ever he remembered in America as the first teatner from England. It was with difficulty I could get away; owing to the great number of persons whO crowded our decks. " I am, gentlemen, "Your most obedient servant, " (Signed) RICHARD ROI3ERTS. " Directors St. George's Company, Liverpool." THE SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL. TO TOE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE INTENbED SOI,+II TOXTETI4 fiOS PITA L. . , GENTLEDIEN,—By advertisements, in many of the Liverpool papers, I perceive you have been induced to subscribe liberally towards the formation and erection of an Hospital in the south end of the town. Such benevOlent feeling is highly conamen& able, and it only show.; another instance of your readiness to respond to the call of charity. But charity, like every thing else, may. be abused, and Your benevolence may be excited, as I presuine, it is in this case, without any occasion for it. There is, already, a Dispensary in Parliament•street„willi unoccupied rooms, which could, at a Moderate expense, be converted into wards forth reception of all urgent accidents occurring in that neighbourhood and about the south docks, and in all remove.'. able cases could easily be sent to the Infirmary, in Brownlow street. '/'he whole of the beds in that noble institution hare not been occupied since the establishment of the Northern Hospital, in Leeds-street ; and, at the present moment, there are upwards of fifty empty beds in that splendid and healthy-situated build.; ing, which is an Ornament to the !Amu. Is it to become useless; and its wards without patients? A FRIEND TO C,HARITY. Liverpool, 11Ia- , 19th, 1838. ~ . . THE WIN DRHSIERE.—The publi c have now,op p ort u n i t y of obtaining a safe and speedy transit to the lake's: The new and beautiful steamer, Windermere, Plies three days during the week bet Ween this port and Ulverston—and those who have never witnessed the d e li g htf u l scenery w hi c h the lakes of Cum berland and Westmoreland preseht, cannot avail themselves of a Conveyance containing the same anmitin of comfort and economy. The advantages of this route to the lakes are be• coming eve,ry (lay more appare n t t o the public. NORTH WALES STRA:iI CoMMUNHATION.—On reference to our adyertising.columna, it will be seen that a new Company has been formed for the purpose of faCilitating the intercourse between Liverpool .and North Wales. The promoters and directors are of the first respectability, and !lie undertaking will be carried on with spirit. To the inhabitants of North Wale 4 this company will prove a great conv e ni enc e . We understand that upwards of 1,I(X) shares have been taken in Wales already,; . and that the greatest interest and zeal ate felt in the matter throughout the principality. . A CtßiosiTy.—Amongst the articles announced for Sale iii one of this week's auctions, we perceive a lot entitled, a Mahogany child's chair.—We COni!eiVe the father of this derful infant must have been of the Wood family. THE GREAT WEsTEaN.—A report was circulated in our commercial-rooms last night, that the Great WeStern steamer had arrived in Kingroad at seven o'clock in the evening, but it was afterwards contradicted. She is, however; daily expect ed, though the long prevalence of easterly winds mitAt neces. sarily have retarded her homeward passage. It appears that} notwithstan.ding the Sirius had the start of the Great Weetera by four days, (which; reckoning twenty hours' Oen' 6). startink . from Cork, may be counted as five days.) both vesseli *era wtthiu twelve noun; o f each. 6ther op the 22d ult., neat the ftUA of New Y k::::/ 3 "01 lap tfindl fdtillitil; SittliddY: