The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

MONETARY REFORM THE'TITAL CONSIDERA TION FOR HOLDERS OF COMMODITIES AND STOCKS, WHILE IT IS THE GREAT MEANS OF PROTECTION TO BRITISH LABOUR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Liverpool, 26th May, 1851. SIR, —Agreeing entirely with Mr. Duncan's principle of paper or emblematic money, I am also persuaded that a day will suddenly arrive when almost every man in Li verpool will be anxious to join a monetary ex} ostulation with Government and the Legislature. I think ,however, that any sort of paper money, properly-securt d, will be found as good for the purpose of preventing wercantile fame as any other, (although the plan of Mr. Duncan, the issue of government notes, would of cow se reduce taxation to the extent of the interest on the circulation of the government paper) ; and my object is now to shew how small a change in our monetary legislation is required to lave the holders of commodities and stocks. THE TRUE PROTECTION TO BRITISH LABOUR, AND THE ONLY POSSIBILITY OF CARRYING OUT FREE TRADE, MUST ARISE FROM OUR GIVING THE FOREIGNER IN OUR MARKETS DEPRECIATED POUNDS, SEEING THAT NNE MUST GIVE HIM THE SAME NUMBER tal, THESE POUNDS AS WE GIVE TO OUR OWN AND OUR COLONIAL PRODUCERS WHOM WE PAY IN GOODS DEPRECIATED* BY TAXATION; for in stance, the American and Englishman get the same nomi. nal price for the same quality of wheat in the Liverpool market, but the latter is paid in British goods, whose prices include the heavy taxation of this empire, as well as our enormous local burdens, while the American, instead of getting paper money, which will buy gold at a Blitish, or enhanced, price of £5 per ounce, gets paper uoney which he can convert into gold at the foreign or untaxed price of £4 per ounce, so that instead of selling his bill in New York (for the proceeds of his wheat) for 25 per cent. discount, or for £75, he sells it at £lOOl - ; and thus he can bring back 25 per cent. more wheat, to oppose the British agriculturist, than the latter got in British commodities in exchange for Ms wheat. It is thus clear that though they got the same nominal amount in money, they did not get the same quantity of commodities for the wheat sold in the Liverpool market-T. I, however. think it best to throw my views into the shape of a memorial, as this is the form in which they may come to be wanted ; and reflection has shown me that a monetary movement will be more effec tually and quickly made by us as a community than as an association or league, while this would also have the ad vantage of preventing, for the present, any rencounter of particular men's former antipathies on other questions, such as Freetrade and Protection, if not of disarming such hostilities, about mere nominal differences of opi nion, in the future, among all men who have no interest in party or faction. We may be divided into two great classes : there is, first, the men who have hitherto had their character mainly as a means of supporting their families; second, the men who have large realized capital. The former class cannot (now that there is a perpetual cheapening going forward) be expected to stand the losses which are common ; and they cannot hereafter be trusted by the Bankers, who have therefore to give their money cheap, althoueh it is not plentiful. to the diminished number of bidders for their discounts (comprised in the second class). The second class, to xhom I have alluded, of our mer chants, see too that their ruin is only delayed—the same class, or the capitalists, among the manufacturers being al ready anxious to throw their capital out of co-operation with labour seeing that " wages cf labour" cannot in their downward course be made to keep pace with the decline in prices, so that there are now no " wages of capital." All these men of capital must in the mean time continue to reduce their means, and in their turn will be overthrown when the Bankers come to lose their credit (which is the chief thing Bankers lend to the public)—A THING INEVI TABLE under our present money law, whenever gold comes into demand for exportation, as from gold not being allowed to rise in price even when, being scarce, it has risen in value, money has to he made scarce and dear by the Bank of England, as in 1847, this being the only means of crushing down prices of commodities to the point that will express the difference between the value and the price of gold. The foreigner then gets more money for his gold, by the poor man being thus driven to give more of his time and labour for the same money; and till this point is reached it is (under our unpatriotic money law) the foreigner's interest to take our gold, leaving our manufactures, causing in this way commercial panic and universal bankruptcy. The present cheapness is that self-same curse to the community which Mr. Hus kisson pointed out in the great speech which he made in the House of Commons, on the 18th of April, 1826, against a reduction of prices arising, not from increased abundance, but from decreased ability to consume manu factures ; § but, nevertleless, and althoueh I am a pro tectionist (except where I can get two-sided free trade), I would not recommend the poor man to submit to pro tection through the Custom-house at present, or ever again to allow his interests to be tossed about as the mere foot-ball of contending political parties. Having got the cheap loaf," our population should stick to it till it is gradually raised in price simultaneously with their wages, and with the prices of all other commodities, in the only legitimate and permanent way—viz.: by means of free trade in money; and it seems to me that it is clear, from the late report of the London Association for Protection to British Industry, that the protectionists having come to see that " free trade in money" is virtually " protection to commodities and wages," will now be willing to con fine their present movement to the attainment of " the reform of the currency"—raising no questions about in creased customs duties, or about the navigation laws, till it is seen how far monetary reform will go to carry out their patriotic view of preventing our national employ ment being given away to foreigners. Mr. Duncan's principle of money is no doubt correct, and the public are infinitely indebted to him for his gigan tic and self-sacrificing efforts to popularise a great princi ple; we may even admit that had we to originate a sys tem in a new country, his plan, or details, might be what we would adopt ; but surrounded as we are by circum stances and prejudices in favour of gold as the security of the circulation (if not as the standard of value), the mer cantile community must tell Mr. Duncan plainly that we cannot submit to any sudden revolution of our monetary system, especially as we see that we can attain his prin ciple of paper money as well through the present machi nery of the Bank of England, as is shown in the memorial subjoined. We must first secure paper money through our present bank system ; and when this is done most of us will have no objection to see Mr. Duncan's system of bovernment paper money established alongside of it, and gradually supplanting it, to the extent the public get con fidence in taxation notes, or to the extent these displace the circulation of the present banks.—Yours respectfully, A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. ' 8 They get less in quantity to the extent prices have taxation added to them ; and if taxation cannot be added to price, it must become a deduction from wages. Indeed he sells his bill at .109 to £llO when the exchanges between the countries are at par ; but this arises from the Americans having protected their currency, by making the sovereign a legal tender with them at a price which is upwards Of 9 per cent. higher than it is a legal tender at in England. It is a very great mistake to suppose that this hardship to Our home agriculturist would be reduced by our being able to induce the Americans to take manufactured goods to the full amount of the produce they send us. On the contrary, the fact is, that the proceeds of the American wheat sold in Liverpool, to which I have alluded, would in every case be accounted for in pounds sterling worth the same invariable weight of gold; and the American would actually be able to compete more successfully with the British farmer the more goods go to America from Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow, as this would turn the exchanges more in favour of England, and thus give him more money in New York for his bill on Liverpool for £lOO sterling. But even the Manchester men begin to see that the blighting effect upon prices, of our present unpatriotic money law, is no less detrimental to our manufacturing than it is to our agricultural population. Any one can easily see this who is aware that the prices of our manufactures both fot home and foreign trade are dictated, in the long run, by the price which the foreigner is willing to give us for our surplus production ; such a person must, with the least con sideration, have no difficulty in seeing that gold at a fixed foreign price becomes an iniquitously false standard of value, to the extent any taxation or profits are added to the price of British productions. I have often before shown how it is only when things in this country are as depressed as gold at £4 the oz. that the foreigner prefers taking British goods. He then gets, say, 808. for 20 bush. wheat, and his choice of a remit tance is between 80 yards of cloth at is., or one ounce of gold for 80s.; but when a good state of the home trade gives him 100 s. for his wheat, he can get an ounce and a quarter of gold, whilst he finds the cloth also scladvanced in price that he can of it get no more than 80 yards as before (the cloth rises in price, the gold rises in quantity!) The foreigner's taking the gold not only reduces the employment of our arti sans, but throws the home trade into confusion, the export of gold always having the effect of extirpating our currency and bank facilities. Thus it is that we denounce a low fixed price of gold as a gross injustice to British industry, while we would wonder that it should have been allowed to exist since 1819, did we not see that under the old protective system, (up to 1846), our general exports were kept above our general imports, so that foreigners could not actually remove our gold ; they even then, however, had the advantage of us in selling dear to us when things were prosperous here, while they had it in their power to take a draft on their own country at the low exchange of sovereigns at .W 3 17s. 100. the oz.—which in America being a legal tender at 9 per cent. higher, will make our now, low prices 9 per cent. better to the American as compared with the nomi nal price of his commodity in America. And we trace all our industrial evils to Peel's having in 1819 made money a foreign interest in the state—an interest to which the distress of all others is prosperity ("dearness of money I") and Peel's system of free imports, while money remains a foreign commodity, at a low foreign price, we view as equivalent to depressing Eng lishmen to the level in remuneration, and below the level in comfort, of the foreign serf or slave—regardless of the habits of John Bull or of his circumstances, as having to support an ex pensive Government, Church. and National Debt, with local and corporation burdens amounting to about as much more. § The following are Mr. Huskisson's words : am the first to declare my conviction, that if from any circumstances the price of wheat were at this moment to be reduced materially below what it now is, there is nothing which could more contribute to aggravate the existing distress, and to take away the best chance of early relief. Sir, I say this advisedly. I say that the present average price of wheat is one which could not in my opinion be materially lowered without producing more of suffering than of relief to all classes of the community. If the house could suddenly and materially reduce it the price of all necessaries of life, so far from relieving, would only aggravate the general distress. " Cheapnesx, without a demand for lemur. is a symptom of distress. Cheapness always prevails where enterprise is at a stand. ,‘ 1 . admit that if unlimited foreign imports, which the war has suspendel, were now ag a i n allowed, bread might be a little though a very little, cheaper than it now is for a year or two. farmer would be ruined ; But what would follow ? The small f: improvements would everywhere stand inferior lands now producing corn would be given up and returni; demand fo t r ri tt e h d : to a state of waste ; the home consumption and brisk various articles of the retailer (which have so much prosperity of our even during the pressure of war, to the pros towns, and especially of those which are not connected with . manufactures or foreign comm erce) would rapidlydecline; farming servants, and all the trades which d epend on zg culture for employment, wou ld be thrown out of work, anditrii,; necessary result of the want of work would be that wages would fall even more rapidly than bread." SKETCH OF A 31EltIORIAL TO THE QUEEN AND THE OTHER BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE. THE MEMORIAL. OP THE UNDERSIGNED MERCHANTS OF r SHIEWETH,-- That it has become, and is daily becoming more and •—. more, painfully apparent that they, in common with all holders of commodities and stocks, have been disabled by legislation from any control over their own and their families' prospects in life—the position of the Bank of England, instead of the state of British markets, being what now controls prices and wages, and dictates the fate of every merchant and every man connected with business or stocks. That certain and speedy ruin to the Bank of England, .as well as every 'British interest, is inevitable—as these are being erushed between the contradictory principles of British legislation —our money laws basing all our na tional confidence or banking on the presence of gold in the Bank of England, while our system of free imports is perpetually leading to the diminution of that basis, and, as a necessary consequence, of that confidence. That to save this country from general bankruptcy and universal ruin in all its interests, the principles of British legislation must be reconciled, or made uniform, by the monopoly to gold, and the restrictions on the establish ment of new banks, being made to follow the fate of all other monopolies—which can easily be effected as regards the details when once the wisdom of Parliament shall have become alive to the necessity of this ; for the Act. of 1819 has only to be so far altered as to do away with gold as a standard, while retaining it as the security of the circulation ; and the Act of 1844 need not be farther changed than to admit of new banks of issue being established under similar restrictions or securities to the present ones. That the details of the new measure need not be more complicated than as follows :—The act of 1819 has only to be so far changed as to make Bank of England notes a legal tender at its own counter, as they at present are elsewhere, to the extent of the 14 millions owing by the government and the amount of specie in its vaults—the Bank, however, being hound down never to reduce its specie under a certain point, say fourteen-millions ; and the act of 1844 has only to be extended so as to allow of new banks—whose issues might be confined to two-thirds the amount of certain public securities, (to be specified by the Act of Parliament,) lodged with the government—and so as to allow the Bank of England, and all other• banks, to issue one pound notes. Etteraturr. POETRY TRIFLES BY G. LINNIEUS BANKS A cloud may intercept the sun, A web by insect-workers spun Preserve the life within the frame, Or vapours take away the same. A grain of sand upon the sight May rob a giant of his might; Or needle point let out his breath, And make a banquet-meal for Death How often, at a single word, The heart with agony is stirred, And ties, that years could not have riven, Are scattered to the winds of heaven. A glance, that looks what lips would speak, Will speed the pulse and blanch the cheek ; And thoughts, nor looked, nor yet exprest, Create a chaos in the breast. A smile of hope from those we love May be an angel from above; A whispered welcome in our ears Be as the music of the spheres. The pressure of a gentle hand Worth all that glitters in the land; Oh ! trifles are not what they are, But fortune's ruling voice and star. Dublin University Magazine for June. NOTICES. Pullan's Pictorial Plan, with Hand-Book of the Ches ter City Walls, Race Course, &c. Chester : T, Pullan. Perhaps no town in this country is so interesting to the lover of antiquity, and of the picturesque, as the ancient city of Chester. To enable the stranger to form some idea of the sights worth looking at, Mr. Pullan has pro duced an exceedingly neat and useful little work, pointing out all worth observing. The plan shows the route of the ancient walls, which completely surround the city, on quite an original scheme, and so clear as to obviate the necessity of either enquiry or a guide. .... VARIETIES. THE QUAKER AND THE OFFICER.—Mr. Gurney (Mrs. Fry's father) was a strict preserver of his game. Upon one occasion, when walking in his park, he heard a shot fired in a neighbouring wood ; he hurried to the spot, and his naturally placid temper was considerably ruffled on seeing a young officer, with a pheasant at his feet, delibe rately reloading his gun. As the young man, however, replied to his rather warm expressions by a polite apology Mr. Gurney's warmth was somewhat allayed ; but he could not refrain from asking the intruder what he would do if he caught a man trespassing on his premises ? " I would ask him to luncheon," was the reply. The serenity of this impudence was not to be resisted.—Menzoirs of Sir 7'. F. Buxton. THE DIVINING-ROD.—Mr. J. Daltamie writes as fol lows in the Mining Journal, of Saturday, under date "Scotland, May 16. I remember being in company some years ago with two professed dowsers'. I candidly told them that I had no confidence whatever that lodes could be discovered with any such a despicable instrument as the ' dowsing rod.' This avowal was met with a positive affirmation that they could discover lodes with positive certainty. The result of our disputations was a dowsing excursion. accompanied by two miners with picks and shovels; and the dowsers, being furnished with rods, went forth majestically, but slowly, with rods erect, until they came to a point where the rods bent towards the earth. The operators then exclaimed, We will soon convince you that dowsing is not a delusion, but a reality.' The miners were set to work to sink a pit, and soon laid bare the back of a large lode ; and, even after this demonstra tion, I argued on, in doubtful disputation, against placing any reliance in the dowsing-rod as an indicant for the dis covery of lodes. This experiment had the effect of awa kening my curiosity to practise with the rod myself ; and I assure you that I have discovered veins, with the rod, that have yielded many thousand pounds worth of mine ral. lam satisfied in my own mind that the rod may be relied upon ; though by what laws of nature may still re main problematical and incomprehensible." A HUNT IN THUNDER.—I resolved to make for home, as the darkening sky and distant thunder to the southward threatened a heavy storm. 1 had not long, however, de termined on returning when the wind, which had been out of the north, suddenly veered round, and blew hard from the south. In less than half-an-hour the rain descended in torrents, the wind blew extremely cold, and the rain beat right in my face. The peals of thunder were most appalling, the most fearful, I think, I ever heard ; the forked lightning dancing above and around me with such vividness as to pain my eyes : I thought every moment would be my last. We were entering a thicket of thorny bushes, when a very large gray-looking antelope stood up under one of them. I could not see his head, but I at once knew that it was the long-sought-for roan antelope, or bastard gemsbok. The noble buck now bounded forth, a superb old male, carryings pair of grand scymitar-shaped horns. He stood nearly five feet high at the shoulder. " The Cow" knew well what he had to do, and set off after him with right good will over a most impracticable country. It was a succession of masses of adamantine rock and stone, and dense bushes, with thorns on the boat-hook principle. In a few minutes my legs below the knee were a mass of blood, and my shirt, my only covering, was flying in streamers from my waist. The old buck at first got a little a-head, but, presently, the ground improving, I gained upon him, and, after a sharp burs,4 of about two miles, we commenced ascending a slight acclivity, when he suddenly faced about and stood at bay, eyeing me with glowing eyes and a look of defiance. This was to me a joyful moment. The buck I had for many years heard of and longed to meet now stood at bay within forty yards of me. I dismounted, and, drawing my rifle from its holster, sent a bullet through his shoul der, upon which he cantered a short distance and lay down in a bush. On my approach he endeavoured to charge, but his strength failed him. I then gave him a shot in the neck, just where I always cut off the head. On receiving it he rolled over, and, stretching his limbs, closed his eyes on the storm, which all this time raged with increasing severity.—A Hunter's Life in South Africa. SHAKSPEARE'S CLASSICAL ATTAINMENTS.—BeII Jon son, who was a learned man, with a sufficient contempt (after the manner of collegians in general) for all who cannot boast of academic honours, happened to say of Shakspeare, his contemporary, familiar associate, and ta vern companion, that he had " small Latin and less Greek." In due time this was aggravated into " very little Latin and no Greek." And so the tale came down to later times, assisted by Milton, who spoke of Shak speare as " fancy's child, warbling his native wood-notes wild." This, the advocates of Shaksneare's want of learning, by a happy latitude of reasoning, declared was strongcorroborative evidence that his scholarship extended not beyond his own language. Dr. Farmer, in 1767, was supposed to have clenched the question for ever by his well-known " Essay," which competent authority pro nounced, ex cathedra, to be "unanswerable," and thence. forth it became incorporated with all the variorum edi tions, as an indispensable illustration. 89 it was decreed that Shakspeare knew not even the rudiments of any lan guage but English ; that all his multiplied allusions to the ancient classics, with speeches almost verbatim from Plutarch and others, were drawn from English transla tions; and that the Latin, French, Italian, and even Spa nish sentences and phrases, scattered through his plays, had got in some how or other, nobody could tell how, why, or wherefore, except that it was quite certain he wrote them not, because he was •quite incapable of so do ing from utter ignorance. But as people began to direct more attention to Shakspeare, and look closely into his works, they also discovered that a vast proportion of the critical learning of the last age was flimsy and superficial ; that of the two deductions stated above, the latter was ridiculous, if not impossible, and that Shakspeare, al though not a profound scholar, like Jonson, had never theless, a goodly smattering of the humanities ; and that his " little Latin and less Greek," lightly prized and lightly spoken of by his erudite associate and rival poet, had, nevertheless, carried him some way on the road to learning, and a tolerable distance from the starting post of ignorance. There are not many students of Shakspeare in the present age who wilt be inclined to follow the opi nion, that Dr. Farmer's Essay is unanswerable. There can be no doubt, says he, that Shakspeare used transla tions freely, which were ready to his hand. We can easily believe he did. In the beginning of his career he wrote for bread rather than for fame, and was obliged to work quickly to answer to current demand, as his reputation rose and the attraction of his plays increased. His me mory was most retentive, and he naturally supplied it from the readiest and the easiest sources ; but he could not copy from translations which were not in existence when lie wrote.—/Milin L'nfiersity Magazine. A NEAR AND FRIENDLY NEIGIIEGUR.--=My nearest neighbour dwelt at the station called Wambo, on a creek ten or twelve miles down the river; I could, therefore, have no society, even if he had been inclined to be social. But the fact was, that, like most other squatters, though at such a distance from him, he thought I had encroached on his run by coming so near. This, of course, I,d to a rupture, and finally to adjustment of our differences by the Commissioners of Crown Lands.—Excursions in New South Wales. SIR HENRY BULWER IN NEW YORK.-At the celebra tion of the Ancient Society of St: George, in New York, the chief speaker was her Majesty's minister, Sir Henry Bulwer. Sir Henry was most successful in a sketch of the national character of his countrymen:—" John Bull is a very queer individual to understand—variable as his own climate, stiff and reserved to foreigners—shy and distrust. ful even to himself : nobody can understand him but those v who speak hi , n language. An American friend, who came from Eu pe the other day, said to me, ' John Bull is a downrigh i an'.' This gentleman described the whole English character at one stroke. Now, :J thi-ok there may be smarter men than John Bull. His motto is, ' Hand. some is that handsome does ;' but he never promises what he does not perform. I am the last man in the world to say there are not faster men than John Bull, but every one who knows him even by sight, knows what he lacks in speed he makes up in bottom. (Cheers and laughter.) If you want to try his qualities you must try him in a long race. Of course he desires not to be slow, but he is anxious to be sure. He desires to 'go a head,' as we all do, but not to go head-over-heels. (Laughter.) • Others have surpassed him in measuring the mountains of the moon, and building machines to ride in the air : he is not so high-soaring : he will tell you that the-first honours of the world are the railroad and the steam-boat. There is downright solidity in what he does, and steadiness in all his movements : in fact, he is the type of the downright. When he holds out his hand, whether open or shut, he does it in such a downright way that you say, ' That's the man I want for a friend ; the man '1 would have for an honest enemy." (Cheers.) _ _ . ... _ A MILLIONAIRE'S DINNER.—Baron Rothschild re cently gave a select dinner in honour of Narvaez. There were but twenty-eight guests, but these were of the very flower of aristocracy, picked for the occasion. A Paris writer says, "This time the most ostentatious luxury was displayed, and one of the guests, the wife of an ambassa dor, told me herself that when they seated themselves at table they were frightened at the magnificence set out before them :it was something almost incredible. In the first place there was the splendid -service of Sevres porcelaine, which belonged to the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, which was bought by Rothschild for 150,000 francs. Besides this enormous price he still pays an annuity of /0,000 francs to the person who consented to give it up to him. During the repast the whole service of the table was changed four times, the last being of silver and gold, worked by the most celebrated artists of Europe. It was almost impossible to tell by what end, by what side to take hold of the things, the use of which almost disappeared beneath the material and the work manship, both so precious as to make of most ordinary articles veritable works of art. The knives, for instance, were so ornamented, so carved that it was quite difficult to handle them. All these riches were sent off to Lon don the day after the revolution of February, and were the wonder of the nobility of England when displayed al a grand dinner given to the Duke of Wellington. As to the eatables of the dinner I am describing, they con sisted, says a reporter, of all the impossibilities of the season, sought out from the most celebrated hothouses, and hunted from the most noted hunting-grounds in France. Peaches, cherries, and strawberries appeared in the greatest abundance at the dessert, by the side of pine apples, which, says the same reporter, blushed at having cost only one hundred francs a-piece. Besides these were various rare fruits from tropical climates,—in short, the luxury was of the most unheard-of-character, and the guests did not rise from table until after ten o'clock." - MORE AMERICAN BOMBAST.—The following extract, from the New York Herald of the 10th instant, may probably amuse our readers; who will, doubtless, recol lect that the Herald lately favoured us with the news that a great number of red republicans and others from the United States were to revolutionise England during the Great Exhibition :—" As soon as the news and the New York Herald reached London, it appears to have excited extraordinary apprehensions. The prime minister sent off a note instanter for the Duke of Wellington—the ministers tendered their resignations—Lord Stanley tried to form a new government in vain, and the politicians, so conservative, so grave, so self-confident in the yeomanry and in the business population, did not dare to venture even on a general election, to form a new and reliable government. England trembles from top to toe, and even the Queen, who has considerable nerve, was so much frightened, that Prince Albert regretted that an American newspaper, containing such alarming sugges tions, should have reached the shores of ' happy Albion.' Apprehensions of this character soon begat worse fears, and with the speed which an emergency only can create, thirty thousand brilliant bayonets bristled in the neigh bourhood of Hyde-park ; besides we know not how many park's of artillery were ready at a moment's call. In the meantime, to fill up the space between the hour of alarm and the probable waste of a good deal of villainous salt petre,' the English press brought its batteries to bear on the New York Herald, abusing it in the most magnifi. cent language. The Times, the thunderer among the small artillery, treated the menacing intelligence with a terrible anxiety to be cool, and devoted its serried columns, day after day, to explanations, affecting to laugh, and ap pearing very much like a traveller in some great, dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up, while looking backward and forward to see some frightful spectre at every turn. These things are very amusing in one point of view, but trifles, in such cases, have a more important significance than even great actions or great events. There is something weak and feeble in the government of England, or never could such alarm be raised by a few paragraphs in an American newspaper." CANADIAN PACING HORSES.—OD starting with our new team of horses, my attention was arrested by the peculiar goit of the off leader. It slipped and waddled along, alternately lifting and resting upon the fore and hind feet of the same side, a pace I had never seen before. It proved to he a Canadian horse, trained, as they fre quently are in that province, to this peculiar pace. It is a sort of shuffling, awkward-looking gait, but is very easy for riding. It is said that a person may ride a whole day at this pace without any fatigue. I hoped to have been able. during my subsequent visit to Canada, to make a trial of this alleged easiness to the rider, but the oppor tunity did not fall in my way. Horses so trained are known as pacing horses, and the practice has probably been introduced by the French settlers. I have never myself seen it in France, and should suppose it to be an uncommon pace even there, and that it has most likely been introduced from the shores of the Mediterranean. I find a notice of it in a work upon Sardinia, lately pub lished by Mr. Warre Tyndale. " Much attention," he says, "is paid to giving the better class of horse a peculiar step, called portante, for which we have neither a corres ponding word or pace, being something between an amble and a trot, and taught in the following manner :—The fore and hind legs are attached to each other by two cords, supported by others fastened to the saddle so as to prevent their dragging on to the ground ; and, thus fettered, the horse is put in action, the trainer pulling the right and left side of the bit, alternately, and giving a corresponding pressure with his leg, which forces the animal to move either the two off or the two near legs simultaneously, producing thereby an easy glissade step. It has been compared to the Turkish amble; but, judging from per. sonal experience, it is as dissimilar as it is to our cavalry or farmer's trot. The movement is delightfully easy, especially easy where one has to be on horseback for many consecutive hours; and, as Cetti says, II viaggiare in Sardegna e perch's) la piu dolce cosa del monde : l'anti pongo all' andare in barca col vento in poppa.' The travelling in Sardinia is, on this account, the most agreeable thing in the world ; I prefer it to going in a boat with the wind astern." I do not know how the training is effected in Canada, but it is very interesting to find this pace prevailing in two countries so removed from each other. May it not have been introduced into Canada by some of the Romish clergy from the islands or borders of the Mediterranean ?—Johnston's Notes on North America. SiR ROBERT WALPOLE, father of Horace, was much vilified during his life, and for nearly a century after mis represented and misunderstood. To him, as in the case of greater men, including one of the greatest of all, Crom well, posterity is at length rendering tardy justice. Sir Robert was a true Englishman, who loved his country, and served two monarchs faithfully for many years. His opponent, the plain-spoken Shippen, said of him,—" Ro bert and I are honest men ; he is for King George and I for King James ; but as for those fellows with long cra vats (Sandys, Sir John Rushout, and others), they only desire places under one king or the other." Often sus pected as a corruptionist and time-server, an embezzler of public money and self-aggrandiser, it now appears that all these accusations were the mere outpourings of party gall, which fell to the ground when brought to the test of in quiry. Time, the purifier, exhibits the character freed from the dross and alloy which has b een un j ust l y m i xe d up with it. A strenous advocate of peace and opposer of expensive wars, he held his steady course, relying on his own resources, and surrounded generally by colleagues of third-rate talent, and less than fourth-rate integrity ; men ready to be bought and sold according to the amount of the purchase-money. As minister of two weak, capri cious, self-willed monarchs, who knew nothing of Eng land, could scarcely speak her language, and neither un derstood nor valued her institutions, he maintained his post, and upheld the national honour, despite the efforts of parliamentary opposition and camarilla conspiracies. When at length uprooted by the force of a long-organising cabal, he gave way before the storm, and presented him self to tender his resignation to his sovereign, , that aged master, instead of holding out his hand to be kissedin the cold ceremonial of etiquette, for once gave way to natural feeling, and flung himself upon the neck of his faithful servant, embracing him in an agony of tears. One of the vulgar arguments against Sir Robert Walpole's integrity has been constantly repeated, and rests on words put into his mouth which he never used. " All men have their price," including of course himself, is said to have been his publicly-declared opinion of public virtue. But he never said anything so universally comprehensive. Isis sentence was, "All those men have their price." The in sertion or omission of a single word makes all the differ ence.. By those men (many of whom in the sequel justi fied his observation), he meant the loud-tongued orators who were as numerous in his day as ours, raving of their country's wrongs, threatening hourly impeachment of every measure and every ministry, opposing everything they did not suggest themselves, until they bullied their way by sheer dint of mouth into some comfortable sine cure, and then suddenly became as quiescent as the ocean after a tempest. Your demagogue of 1840-51 1 , is lineally descended from his ancestor of 1730-40, with all the fa.. mil)! features clearly identified, each being a true type of the genus which Pope characterises in the line. " He foams* patriot, to nilidne.a peer." —Dublin University Magazine. TV Alt D. eentral Batsrellany. M. Thiers arrived in London on Thursday. Two men have been committed, at Newport, for the wilful murder of a shoemaker, named Emberton. The Durham Advertiser states that the potato disease has again made its appear,.nce. -Some horned cattle and fifty calves, the first ever im ported from Sweden, have arrived in London. The eightieth birthday of Robert Owen, the founder of Socialism, was celebrated in London, last week, by a public dinner. Dr. Cumming delivered his lecture, at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday last, but Father Ignatius did not make his ap pearance. A young man, at Bristol, has died in consequence of injuries received from a fall, through treading on a piece of orange peel. An American packet-ship, which has arrived in Lon don, from New York, has brought 30 boxes of oysters as part of her cargo. A shoemaker, living in Glasgow, has been committed to prison for thirty days, for docking the tails of several cows, and stealing the hair. Two milkwhite leverets, about ten days old, were caught, a short time since, by some labourers in a wheat field, near Horton, Northamptonshire Two colliers, named Strange. and Lewis, were killed, on the 22d instant, by a fail from•the roof of the workings of a colliery at Gellygare,. Glamorganshire. A solar eclipse, which will take place on the 28th of July, 1851, will be partial in , Great Britain, but total over a large portion of the European continent. A sparrow's nest, containing an egg, was found last week in the rigging of a vessel named the Richard Cob den, which was lying in the dock at Dundee. A little girl, three years old, who had accidentally swallowed a farthing, died in London, last week, from mortification of the bowels by metallic poison. The Messrs. Clowes employ at the present time upwards of 600 compositors; a large array of pressmen ; and they keep in continual motion 26 machines, day and night. On Wednesday the Countess of Arundel and Surrey laid the first stone of some Roman Catholic almshouses, at Brook-green, Hammersmith. The East Cumberland Agricultural Society have se lected Sir James Graham, Bart., M.P., as their President for their ensuing annual dinner. Miss Sellon and the Sisters of Mercy have not aban doned their convent at Falmouth. The house taken by the sisterhood at Bristol is to be a branch of the Plymouth establishment. The distress which has been so much felt by the weavers warners, and other workers in the manufacturing line in Carlisle, is as great as it was in the worst period in winter ; many families are literally starving from hunger. A young man died in London, a few days since, from the effects of a solution of corrosive sublimate, which is used in his father's trade, and which he had swallowed by mistake for a gargle that he was using for a sore throat. FATHER GAVAZZI'S ORATIONS.—The Daily News, by whose talented exertions the speeches of this gifted orator were presented to the public in an English dress, has dis continued to report them further. A CURIOUS CHANGE.—It is said that the Nisi Prius Assize Court, at Wells, is to be used as a theatre. The bench will be converted into a stage, and the rest of the arrangement remain unaltered. At Walsall, last week, public notice was given of the intention of strictly enforcing the dog-tax, the conse quence of which was that 90 to 100 dogs were at once destroyed. At karylebone police-office, on Thursday, a school master, named Dawes, was fined 20s. and costs for cruelly flogging with a leather strap a little girl two years' old, because she cried to go home !. Mr. James Bristow, a gentleman very respectably con nected, destroyed himself, on Saturday morning, at the Saracen's Head Hotel, Skinner-street, Snow-hill,London, by shattering his head with a loaded pistol. He discharged the contents into his mouth. While a man named Miller was attending the hoisting of a large metal box, at the Hyde Park Foundry, Glas gow, on Tuesday week, the chain of the crane broke, and the box fell upon him, crushing him so severely that he died on the spot. The bullion in both departments of the Bank of En gland has increased from £13,356,420 to £13,568,049, being a difference of £211,629. The paper in actual cir culation has decreased from £20,203,243 to £20,199,891, being a difference of £83,352. A number of persons, who had been guilty of the dis graceful practice of throwing flour into carriages on the Derby day, whereby the costly dresses of ladies might be totally destroyed, were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. _ _ The mysterious disappearance of the Archdeacon of London's charge at the Church of St. Sepulchre's, has been accounted for. On his return home the Archdeacon found it in his pocket, where it had got mixed up with letters and other papers. The match at cricket between eleven of All England and twenty-two of Thirsk, was brought to a close on Saturday last, the eleven winning by nine runs. The final score stood thus :—The eleven, first innings, 96 ; second ditto, 103; total, 199. Thirsk, first innings, HO; second ditto, 90 ; total, 190. INCENDIARISM NEAR WINDSOR.—On Tuesday night, an oat rick on the Burnham Estate, belonging to Mr. Aldridge, of Chippenham-court, near Salt-hill, was dis covered to be on fire, and before the flames could be subdued, a quantity of ricks and other property to the value, it is believed, of nearly £l,OOO were destroyed. Lord Elcho is stated to have announced his intention of sending, in the beginning of June, all the young men on his estate of Amisfield, to see the Industrial Exhibi tion, and to have offered not only to defray the cost of their conveyance, but to give them accommodation, while in London, in his residence. A few days ago a gentleman paid into the Commercial Bank of London. Lothbury, under the assumed name of Charles Inglis, the sum of seven hundred pounds, direct ing that it should be applied to the purposes of the Metro politan Convalescent Institution. The board of manage ment possess no clue for discovering the person. Since the verdict of wilful murder was returned by the jury on the coroner's inquest against some person or per sons unknown, for the murder of Charles White,who was found in the river Tees, at Barnard Castle, a reward of £lOO has been offered by her Majesty's government to any person who will give such information as will lead to the discovery and conviction of the murderer. FATAL ACCIDENT.—One of the soldiers of the 4th Light Dragoons, quartered at Uxbridge, placed his carbine against the wall of a cottage on Uxbridge-moor, which was tak€n up by a boy in passing, who pointed it at another in play, and shot him dead. His body was removed in a cart to his mother's to await the coroner's inquest. While a glazier named ?Jordan was cleaning the win dows of a law stationer's house in London, on Saturday, he slipped from the sill of the first floor window and fell on the area spikes beneath. One of the spikes pierced his heart, and he was found to be quite dead when the inmates of the house, two minutes afterwards, succeeded in disentangling him. On Friday, as the Cromarty fishing yawls were return ing from the fishing on the south side of the Moray Frith, one of their number, when opposite the Sand-hills of Culbin, was caught on the lee side by a sudden gust and upset. The crew, consisting of four men, were precipi tated into the water, and three of them sunk to rise no more. MR. Fox's SECULAR EDUCATION SCHEME.—The Watchman suggests that the schools which Mr. Fox, and the National Secular Education Association, would estab lish, " Should hang up for their motto, and inscribe over their porch—Amos, chap. vi., v. 10, ' Hold thy tongue, for we may not (here) make mention of the name of the Lord.' " There recently appeared a paragraph in the papers pro fessing to record a conversation between Lord Robertson and Lord Jeffrey, at the time of the great secession from the Scotch Church in 1843. We have authority to state, that Lord Robertson did not witness the departure of the seceders, made no such remark as that ascribed to him, and that the whole reported incident is pure fable from beginning to end. LORD AND LADY FEILDING.—A correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Naples, under date May 14, says—" Lord and Lady Feilding have gained golden opinions for their devotion, by `assisting' at the miracle of St. Januarias, when they devoutedly kissed the magic bottle containing the saints' blood. Such an example of faith from the distinguished converts staggers even the bigots of Naples, who hesitate themselves to do public homage to this silly imposture." Lord Ellenborough, on Monday, in the House of Lords, set up a claim on behalf of the Punjaub army, which would include the Koh-i-Noor as past of the prize money. What does his lordship wish to be done with it ? Is it to be broken into little bits and divided in that way ; or is it to be put to auction for what it will fetch ? Valued at two millions, according to jewellers' estimation by carats, it would, if sold, probably not fetch twenty thou sand pounds. As atrophy of the war it is inestimable. On Saturday week, three little girls were playing in the garden of Sir Astley Cooper, at Gadesbridge, Herts, where there is a well about nine feet deep, which had not been used for many years ; it was covered over with boards, and upon these were placed a quantity of plants, which it seems attracted the attention of the children. Whilst amusing themselves with the flowers, a portion of the boards gave way, and Melicent Anne, aged 6 years, daugh. ter of the Rev. L. Cooper, fell into the well and was drowned. A BLIND POSTMAN.—In the village of Baslow, near Chatsworth, a man named John Heathcote, who for a number of years has been quite blind, is regularly em ployed not only in meeting the gig mail, but also in delivering the letters. The plan usually adopted is as follows,—having received the bag from the mail-driver, it is duly handed to the postmistress, by whom the letters are sorted and deposited on different parts of his person, and,, aided by a blind man's memory, they are duly de livered to the proper persons.—Sheffield Times.___ THE REV. DR . . BEAUMONT IN TROUBLE.—We learn from the Watchman that in consequence of the Rev. Dr. Beaumont having failed to fulfil certain pledges which he gave to the last conference, at the meeting of the London Wesleyan District Committee, held last week, it was resolved, with only a single dissentient, " that the meet ing felt it to be its duty to recommend to the conference that Dr. Beaumont be not again, for the pfesent, ap pointed to the office of superintendent, or to fulfil any other office implying a special designation to administer the discipline of Methodism." SCREW-STEAMER FOR THE CAPE.—A fine screw, of large size, the Harbinger, intended to be placed on the line between London, Plymouth, and the Cape, was launched on Thursday in the Thames. The Harbinger was originally her Majesty's sloop Recruit, but she has been almost entirely reconstructed by Mr. Mare, the eminelit builder of Bleckwall. Her route will probably extend as far as Australia, and she will carry the mails. passengers, and cargo. Her dimensions are 190 feet between the ferpendiculars. extreme breadth 31 feet, depth 20 feet,.and burthen 920. CAPTAIN SOMERSET, OPTHE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. — This gentleman, who has obtained for himself a most unfortunate degree of notoriety, is nephew to Lord Fitz roy Somerset, the military secretary to the Commander in -Chief, and cousin to the Duke of Beaufort. His father, Lord Charles Somerset, now deceased, was for many years governor at the Cape of Good Hope. His wife was daughter to the celebrated John Mytton, Esq., of sporting celebrity. WEALTHY PAUPERS.—Two female paupers, a mother and daughter, aged respectively 80 and 50, who had re ceived out-door relief from the parish of Chatton, in Northumberland, for upwards of 30 years, were lately found to have in their possession notes and cash to the amount of £125 17s. Old. On searching their chests they were found to possess no less a quantity than 362 raps, 39 handkerchiefs, 32 pockets, 37 a p rons , 32 s hift s , 12 bed gowns, 13 gowns, 6 petticoats, 5 shawls, &c. REMARKABLE BIRD-NEST.--A water-wagtail built its nest this spring in a chink of the outer wall of the saw mill, at Carron village. The large water-wheel is conti nually revolving during the day, within four inches of the nest in which the parent bird sat with the most perfelt unconcern, the " dizzying millwheel" having, to all ap pearance, no effect upon its little brain. More curious still, owing to the close proximity of the wall and the wheel, the bird could not fly betwixt them, and actually, on entering or leaving her nest, flew right through between the revolving spokes, at whatever rate the huge circle was revolving.—Dumfries Courier. A VERY PROPER EXAMPLE.—We find, in the report of the proceedings at the Surrey sessions, on Thursday, that a young man, named James Crawford, who is stated to be well connected, was indicted for removing and throw ing away two danger-signals attached to the tail of the train on the Epsom line, on the night of the Oaks. It appears that the prisoner was in the open carriage to which the lamps were attached, and that he put his hand over the carriage and detached the lamps, and threw one down an embankment, and the other over the parapet near the Greenwich Junction. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the bench sentenced him to nine months' im prisonment to the Brixton House of Correction, with hard labour. THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.—W. Pamplin, the person charged with being concerned in the gold dust robbery on the South 'Western Railway, was again brought up before the Winchester magistrates on Friday for re-examination, and after hearing the evidence of Mr. Eldred, a coffee house keeper at Shoreditch, who declared his belief that the prisoner was the man who arrived at his house the morning after the robbery with two heavy packages, and a cabman, who likewise stated his belief that the prisoner was the man whom he had taken to the Shoreditch coffee house from the Waterloo Station the morning after the robbery, the prisoner was fully committed for trial. SWALLOWS AND THEIR YOUNG.—On Saturday last, a swallow's nest, containing four young ones, was found in a coal waggon, which was brought from Coundon colliery to the West Dock at Hartlepool. The pit at Coundon, it appears, has not been worked for a short time, and, of course, the waggons have been unused; but during the interim, the swallows had been most active, for they had built their nest in a corner of the waggon, laid their eggs, hatched them, and the young ones were nearly feathered by the time the coals arrived at West Hartlepool for ship ment. The old birds followed the train, a distance of about 30 miles by railway, and fed their young during the journey. On their arrival at the dock, the nest was re moved to a place of safety, the old birds following, where, we trust, the young ones will remain unmolested until they can take care of themselves.—Durham Chronicle. SINGULAR ANNOUNCEMENT.—A London paper relates the following :—" A few days ago the inhabitants of one of the principal cities in the west of England were filled with conjecture at the following notice, painted in large capitals, on the front of a house recently fitted up and repaired Mrs. M—, from London, deals in all sorts of ladies.' All was consternation. Tnquiry was instantly set on foot as to what this Mrs. M— might be. No one could tell: she was a stranger, from London. Great anxiety prevailed as to this proclamation of the new esta blishment. For two whole days all was surprise and consultation. On the third morning, behold, the mystery was unravelled. The house-painter, who had, it seems, been suddenly attacked by a severe fit of the gout, re turned to finish his work, and concluded by adding—' and gentlemen's wearing apparel.' " A NEW WAY TO OBTAIN A SUIT OF CLOTHES.—A re markable instance of roguery occurred at Bridgetown on Saturday last. An apparently decent boy ran into the house of a respectable family and informed the guid wife that he bad just come from the place where her husband wrought, to get some fresh clothes for him, as he had fallen into a large water-box, and bad been drenched to the skin. The poor woman, who had been foreboding some evil, having had a bad dream the night previous, without eoubting the honesty of the pretended messenger, flew to her drawers, and took out a variety of Sunday apparel, in cluding a pair of new trousers, black cloth vest, linen shirt, silk cravat, &c., all of which she tied up in a hand kerchief and despatched with the boy, enjoining him to tarry on the road. He accordingly disappeared, and no more was known of the occurrence till the evening, when the safe arrival of the husband, and his ignorance of any of the circumstances narrated, aroused his partner to a sense of the imposition practised on her.—Glasg.Courier. THE EPSOM BETTING RING.—The man, who looks like a coffee-shop waiter, out for the day, is Davis, the " Le viathan book-maker." He'll lay odds against anything, and to any amount. Observe the coolness with which he pockets a bundle of notes, and walks off, roaring out, " 11l lay against Prime Minister." A very few years since, he was a journeyman in Cubitt's workshop, but having a clear bead, and most extraordinary luck, he has risen to his present position, and is looked upon, by the betting men, as "safe as the Bank of England." He h a s p a id £20,000 in notes on a settling day at Newmarket, losses upon one day's racing, and laughed the while. At the last Chester races, he laid £50,000 to £250 azainst Black Doctor winning the Cup and the Derby. The horse ran second for the Cup, thus giving him a very narrow squeak. He knows no more about a horse, than a lamp-post, and cares as little. He lays the odds all round, and will take half-a-sovereign from a butcher-boy, or a thousand from a duke with the same indifference.—Correspondent of Gloucester Journal. THE ARCIIC EXPEDITION.—The Prince Albert, again despatched by the heroic Lady Franklin from Aberdeen, in search of Sir John Franklin, who has now been absent six years, to proceed direct to Griffith's Island, which is the appointed rendezvous, and the place where Captain Austin is likely to have deposited any important informa tion of which he may be possessed. Should no such intel ligence be found, the Prince Albert will proceed to winter ground, as far down Prince Regent's inlet as can be reached for ice, possibly to Brentford, or Creswell Bay, from which the boat parties will be despatched, in the hopes that the missing expedition will have directed their steps to Fury Beach, where alone they could expect to find provisions. If the Prince Albert should not accomplish the object of her search in the course of this year, it is the intention to remain two years, or till the autumn of 1852. It is of course a possible contingency that, though some measure of success be attained, the vessel may be prevented by the ice from returning this season, so that in either of these cases, namely detention in the ice, or want of success the first year, we shall have to wait for the return of the Ken nedy expedition till the autumn of next year. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A meeting took place on Wed nesday afternoon in the neighbourhood of Osterley-park, between Mr. V—n and Mr. G—y, in which Sir R. P-1 acted as one of the seconds. The quarrel arose, it is understood, from some disagreement at cards some weeks since at the Turf Club. One of the gentlemen having received his opponent's fire without effect, discharged his own pistol in the air, and so the matter terminated. The United Service Gazette says that the principals in the affray were" the Hon. Geo. Vaughan and W. H. Gregory, Esq., late M.P. for Dublin. The cause of quarrel arose at the Turf Club, in Arlington-street, from some dispute relative to cutting in,' at which sharp words were ex changed, and Mr. Gregory, unable to control his temper, knocked his assailant down. Sir Robert Peel, it is officiated as the friend of one of the parties, and Captain Campbell, i G received late of hisadversary's the 32d, assis tedfire, re, and h the otherten dischargedgentleman. i‘r his pistol in the air, after which the parties left the ground. It was known for some days that the duel was to take place, but in consequence of the Derby settlement it was postponed until after its completion. The committee of the club have taken the matter in hand, and we hear both gentlemen will be called upon to resign." GOOD STORY.—It is related that one very wet evening last week an Islington omnibus drew up at the Angel inn, London. A well-dressed female, who had charge of a trunk and several bandboxes, inquired blandly but anxi ously, "is there room inside ?" No," growled a gruff voice from the interior, "we're full." " Dear me, I shall be ruined," ejaculated the female. A wealthy stockbroker who was inside, either compassionating the young woman's condition, or noticing that she was pretty, said, "Conduc tor, tell the lady that if she'll do me the honour to sit on my knee I shall be happy to accommodate her." The fair one acquiesceed at once, declaring she was pledged to punctuality. The bus rolled on, the gentleman placed his arms round the young woman's waist, and held a con versation with her in an under tone, till the omnibus stop ped at Tollington-park. " Who's for Tollington-park ?" exclaimed the conductor. " I am," said the lady ; please let me out." The gentleman got out also, and the trunk and bandboxes of the young woman were duly deposited. " Can you tell me sir," said the latter, " where Mr. lives in this neighbourhood ?" Ah !" exclaimed the gen tleman, " I am he ; what can you want with him ?" " Oh dear!" said the girl, "I am engaged by your lady as cook, and promised to enter on ray place punctually at this hour." The young woman had actually ridden home in the omnibus on her master's knee. How the matter ended has not transpired: A YOUTH'S ATTEMPT TO REACH THE GREAT EXHI BITION.—A respectable youth, about fifteen years of age, left Hull (his home) on Monday the fifth instant, with the intention of paying a visit to the Great Exhibition. He had :is. 6d., in cash to start with, and proposed takin g th e steamer from Hull to London, but being just too late, he crossed the Humber and got to Louth, where he slept. On Tuesday he walked to Spilsby, and on W e d nes d ay reac hed Boston ; his money being now all gone, he took up his lodging for the night under one of the stalls i n th e fair, where about midnight the superintendent of police found him. He was aroused and taken to the lock-up, where nh i h mfi e nf g do a ir v n e tgh t he b ee was a b above night. v a e a c e o w u a n st respectableno of e xht lad,i m m s o rt elf. no r took morning m. taken Ha h home n m e f wb o li r et°t e h the Mayor, to whom he had repeated the account of himself, and further stated that it was his intention to have proceeded on his journey, and a ft er h av i ng v i ewe d t h e Great Exhibition, to have returned home immediately. There being no reason to d ou bt t h e yout h' s story , h e was advised to go home at onus. Mr. Hambleton accompanied him to the station and got him booked as a parcel for Hull. On his arrival there, his parents, who had no idea where he had gone t o , rece i ve d th e i r t ruan t son an d p a id hi s car riage by the railway, A day or two after the superinten dent of the police received a note from the lad's father thanking him for the kindness be bad shown to his 501 1 , b led* Inielligenter. June 1 1 the fi SIR J. BRO OEE .—The banquet came off 1 be' mongers'-hall, London, on Wednesday evenint:ftertbo nour of the opening of the Exhibition of 1851. .a the c- Sit customary toasts, and the one of the OCCasiOD,r_ kr man, 'Sir John Easthope, proposed Sir J. B tbre g 01 9 t. li fro tel io lr l i J y e . a ß r s r o a o g k o e , returned thanks. Could told you t then, have wb now, that I claim for my equntry, and I elint e i s tsa members of this guild, tINI you should aPP"' e lf 1 1 ' motives on which I acted. (Cheers.) For mYs_,,,,,POr persuaded that no clamour excited in this cogue r 4 i any other earthly power whatever, will move °c od , high resolve I have taken, that 1 will suppress p _ or e .i r that in defiance of the men who say that tber: o etit pthireatpeeso.ple(Cuhnedeerrs.) my You care w wo er u e ld g m oo a d ke en p o ro ug g h re t 4 f lo o ' o o ol :o o zation. I say that we have progressed ; and I r ieli one man in this country—one man in this doubts it, let him come o v e r an d judge for Masse tlied of talking on the o th er tge of the globe of v 11 ' 8 00 1 ;1 not understand—aye, 11"' Heaven, even it was t he gentleman who sat there t o -ri g ht, —(pointing which Mr. Hume had shortly before vacated) be 9 0 1 come over ; he shall receive a hearty welectueb't bmd be received as a Ch r i s ti an man , w ith the rig fellowship, and he shall have full opportunities for himself. And though these are fearful tits °, l of, have thrown down my glove on behalf of the tcra;eo. justices of my cause, and I challenge any man to co me tbd judge for himself. But if he be a mere slan c lb ' e° ll l; let him take up the glove I have thrown down: 3 00 How FOREIGNERS TREAT SIMPLE JOH N re„neop large ship with a numerous crew arrived in the ding time ago from Holland to load for the Indies, an riot; of benefiting th e t ra d esmen o f t h e harbour. 70 0 0 1, ,,, detention in the river, she had b roug ht from ." ° defe i y' r v i O a y is ag fo e r — t a h r e ti v n e g ss o e n l d th ur e in p g rin h c e i r p is computed, about £4OO worth of stores of eve r b r ing i ,‘ tion that possibly could be required here or t ett' not one penny should be laid out for provisie s j i I s e ta t ; this ( ttl ship visiting Holland under the circumstance s he r 61° 0 1 has come to Shields, would immediately have PLO sealed up, and the master would be obliged to Pa Rh o gold for everything his crew might consume one ()„ o°4 in port, although the foreigner is allowed to ; 0 00 stores in British ports. The case adverted to is " at i0 . 0,,, extreme one th,.t has vet come under obsetl;o4i Shields; it is common for foreigners to act 93 ,1 1 :piet9 but in this case some few artizans who freune°' f o al . 0 , some little matters by such ships found nothing en tioo minute, down to the most trifling article, to P rf eo ro o pie John (while giving the said vessel the priyillo own ships) from touching or profiting by w ha l t k i bise A r/ f ll the reciprocity system! How long will E n g" - tiernii deluded ? Why expect shipowners to submit Psdoi tio ; such wrong ? We are becoming the laughing" se t world, and justly so, because foreigners feel an d oor'? iannEe England g tr ia e na: worm ; under the name of reciprocity they are dailY on the privileges of our mercantile marine, w"l e oei 9 in lieu nothing beyond th e assurance t h a t we ar s of an example of "liberality" t o th e o th e r patio' world.—Netccastle Journal. ' 810 1 SHREWSBURY ORANGE LODGES.—A me etly ef . 0 members of No. 53 Lodge was held on Mon is relit last for the purpose of making some arrangem en ,: e - Twwgt important rs t a. were f ht 6 e eoi a nl o ,ddc p wmr e oea n inatts i otsntoeehgdp theoe f o ns u f enoodbur a j,dume sixth ewcbrTth e. ouersfneTsi Tuesday a o eecsyv d 3soe g anerL e mavf , eolee i rdn n efegi rnnv : oceg o t n; Conference ani nn e osg o n3Ln u elso e is:lt n noti; ' l eoo fe T toj i,, ,01,0 f! many true and loyal men were initiated. , w itto7 for the good old cause, when from the Ist 0f et the 27th of May, namely five months, six lolg" 0), sive of the District Lodge, have been opened I n n eo_,Fri . bury. We hope to go on progressing in ga irb 74 ' ilq to our order, as men become more and more with the real objects of the institution. Eve r ' lrf loves his " native land" her laws, her religioo and a monarchial form of gov ernmen t, mist aP %e our principles. If society and the brethren 'I? es would strictly act up to the obli ga t ions o f OrangdsV should see better men in every relation of lifel i td 11 ° 1 4 sible decrease of that bitterness and strife "To v b , the every day life of the great human familY: de" tain religious liberty we are opposed, to the the 1 needful, to the ascendancy of Popery, a religi ° „"dast intolerant, bloodthirsty, superstitious, idola, o iiik, d s blasphemous, —a religion that would enslave tr, s siOt well as the bodies of mankind, whose God 19 ,ostirjf i and whose life is a mummery and mockery of c"„ 0 14,V To maintain civil freedom we support the men' ts ti'Llf the just division of power between the repres ent car the people and the aristocracy.—Shrewsb ur y votive. r ider ti f o A DUMFRIESSHIRE GHOST STORY".- - Con s. —0 s,h. citement has prevailed in a parish not far from.' - '` - '00, 1 4 1° for the last week, from a report that sornethillsri canny had been playing some mysterious ca n" Y Oig e' -^r sequestered farmstead. On Sunday, the 18th , usual began to be distinctly heard, to the no s ui d ad/ ance of the respected tenant and his family, an sde Y' boldened by familiarity, each friendly visit t u f o olo t ote fresh inroad, in the shape of setting some Pat"diciiiii; cal of furniture in motion. Sometimes Pet, e r,:tell o iOu heard to begin at the window sash, and imraeurooe, 4 " , were heard to move to and fro; tables also, as 1 5 tb ij r pN to the call, joined in the magic dance ; nor ''v' d the De, the bedclothes were taken off the children, 0 %01 0 10 tains, neatly folded up, were thrown to the bac k; { toy Nor were the meal sacks and their contents r 'fi' 1 0 idle spectators, for, as if by dint of the cooin'",horoso i they passed from one side of the room to the 0' di deed, it would be hendless to repeat all the - et if movements attributed to this strange pbantoa''. o o 7 ,o, it to say that on Wednesday evening, public ca h r e t . r f°ol came so great, that many were seen wending five the haunted spot, where a company of twenty" „„oe e, fellows waited anxiously till morning for the ( 1 3'0_ of the supposed ghost—but no ghost came. ~, for, lowing evening the number would have treblebubis (04 with navvies at the water works, and a new b° 10 0 1 0 ,1 established here, such a force could not sfonl9., mustered for a long time back for such an occaeooo, as the number on the preceding night bad bee n ", (PTO more than enough, it was thought advisable, n tisl: f I I with all their services save two or three coon! 09; bours, who undertook to keep watch while th e beA family got their much-needed sound reP s c i; ere r 1 which they had been for several nights ; to b o o°, thing remained tranquil, it was pronounc e h taPoe o ) hoax. Yet the imagination had been brong,,l o g, ( 051 a pitch, that it was not till the Sunday rO r m - le..nolu tf person in the house who had been strictly "" s o l e d confessed to the whole affair, that the OP e tlir' e tero made believe it was anything else but se loos solemn. What the pretended ghost's intenleoo is mains a mystery unsolved as yet. There se n t' as! 9, been no ill-will on either side, and whether ar,oo.of was got from other parties cannot as yet ,e P n irith l 011 thing is certain—since Wednesday the evil 6. '" 0 0 ;111 —Dumfries Standard. „gof,„r„ f itr o lf FREE-TRADE RIOTING.—The maintains,- be o f industry of the country held a banquet att i o of „ o S Tamworth, on Wednesday, in conserin e h T e of 5 1) 9 1 two innkeepers of the town, who were caParaen Ifoo, l i 9r such an entertainment, having been forlo pjr• r efil Peel from having anything to do with it• w e, r stone, a landed proprietor of great ja i° yoo and was supported by Lord Lewisharr.'6,F•oo) Spooner, M.P., Mr. Newdegate, I , o o,t,, be o ;ultribl &c. Throughout the day, but especiallY; o f the company assembled, the exciternes:',,, 0 ba eo assumed an alarming aspect. At ° 1- b,"" evening, amidst shouts and tumult, the nr 0/ 4 1 0 4 breaking the windows. In less than a qua. r _ s ow . v k every pane, and all the c handeliers, we P, . 0 0 0 : 0 4 atoms. Large stones descended hap* foe sembled in large numbers without the to 0 1 '4 J / in the the company, who beat a speedy retreat. As bad armed with every weapon with which they possessed themselves, sallied f rom t h e hall' J ° 9 tered the mob. A band-to-hand fight te ° 40 0 : 0 4,9 the Protectionists took r e f uge i n t h e King few minutes every wi n d ow t h ere was d a shed excited populace surro un d e d t h e p l ace . °`..ger°' took place between th e b es i ege d an d the ber b e ; o teT o clif least twenty persons were led into the hotel 0 °fe l ? most serious manner. From nine to ele ve h o . 1 00 0, town remained in pos3ession of the mob,' w he y cl o o 4r ment perpetrated new acts of violence. 1 , v olt h e person whoa pproached, and at length t 000: the inn yard, and threw them into the rive e r t 'isig i br o i became momentarilymorealarming. All th • Teti than one or two policemen had been l e is r/b• f ill i ti, threatened to take possession of the hoteh e taphous some hundred and fifty people, unable to g ,co Ir in peril of their lives. In this position Ott , 1 0 01)° Mayor being absent from town, Captain . o v6ani„af s ttals o ,l d i magistrate, wrote a hasty despatch to fins_ o l .„ 0 0_,V, the military, but a difficulty presented it' ' t Ss; r message dispatched from the hotel, and a n te noti.,"o message arrived that the borough magist r " o . the CO" 1 military aid. Towards one next morning apatdfir, came quieter, and the aid of the railita l lbe OW' VI / mended. The pavement was torn up ii" ro ssil ° o l l ?, the farmers captured about twelve of t h forX ° o were placed in confinement. At eight oc o or ti o ti ji 0 day morning, when some of the were form e ba ° , o opgl' 4 , Tamworth, a mob had assembled, and : n on " ( 00 Air on their departure. The state of the " - v te. 10 , 4 much excited that it was deemed necess ary J3ll O f I telegraphic communication for troops til os and by a special train a troop of dragoonsnolor „ero eiv i w t u o pe r T oe a na m Tp w phr o ue r rh t s h edu , ady b e, u da t nh i t dy wtshooeumsl some were ewe a ei p ar p el e e a du r ins cs t i s a nbr t Igo : 1p r i to t seriously disturbed during the day. T he s w e 'd e 4 remanded. A• . 4 1) '0 1/ 1/ A SUFFERER FROM SEVERE DEBILITY .il/ti Mr. Reintzes van Veerssen, a TERED CONSTITUTION CURED BY ter trftp mere''' . f o r 00 100 1 1 1, Nyrnegen, in Holland, had bee suffering , 00 1 ,1 0 it of a general debility, his stren had bec °rll to ' 1 1,19 1 that be was quite incapab of attending:oak,' el, business ; his constitu was rapidly P o ochl o ll° ) 1 withstanding the eff sof the cleverest_,A.og r ,,, arrest it, at this e is he commenced tti t :ikt'l e Pills, and by their use his health and %job we e fectly re-established, in gratitude for ot her° th, desires that publicity be given to it, the luf , o to relief by the same means. e litlf r ee p o ri 4 . :thstan .4 INTERESTING TO LADIES.—NOIW.• _„d r 1 merous preparations for the restoration for e thdi of the human hair which are daily Pu t f fib ie k% and all professed to be infallible, but e w s ol e d 4 r o / are much to be questioned, we / leave °° ,,,tah lll o 4; o / ; SI of vouching for the virtues of Wet len i t'obP poi e „,/ Rowland's Macassar Oil. Mrs. is Ken f fic,le 1 N. ing a restoration of hair, terrace, Great Dover-roid, becam e : ;Or e ' b o was perst" o f 1 0 0 1 '0 although not possesst'rnuch faith I ri Ad lands' Oil a fair trial; and, after the s b_ (V t y she quite recovered it, and now of hair, of considerable length. The t ir;,/pri," . gratified to withhold the justice due .ry ge far Ibis invaluable preparation.—Con bil possess lad y tro_A! THE ;LIVERPOOL h t b, Nt4.' tliqt!) kil sot -1.,1114:4 kiZt h °l oh! 110 , 11tk,i, ki i !: ii i to st i bkkt