The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-20 00:00:00

• iey 8p ondt Abond, tc :ent.—Prices f ionf.. ROBERTS COMPANY TOP RPRO 0 FERFIELDS, X' STYLES OF TLEMEN CAT .1 ORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL. ' ?A SHIO/ S COATS.,, FATTERSALIITAGIA- 1 D'ORSAYS & MANY 1 TOP ATS FOR 1 A VAILS I SI Fr D. MYERS assure the M 'rom "STABL4HMEN 7 72, LORD-STRI DANIEL MYERS. SERS ;Palk, th at he:l - - - MEN'S TAILORING, A: D ARMY OUTFITTING, 3T, LIVERPOOL AND TAILOR ND NA e present Seaso men's first-class Dress, consisting and lAlbertTu Black and Dou l for Ge Makers in td. importa ion ; and t eeds,Constitutionals plendid i Blue K nen's Trous ent fo 31 5 1,........,2 rt of Gentlemen's Dress Gentlemen who have not n fit, style, an“ „. submitting the following riefids at 4 most respectable CL .trials at bilEstabitslinv es in Englead and e tolerated, and that the o Silk Lined goof . 10t, TWf ne CI Great Coats, with Silk v civet. Cu Facings, &c., beautifully made Top . with Cape -ne 1 ess Coats, in Black, Blue, lI3VI t of prices, begs are selected from tne hat no Job or. defective -.,,,fArtnred entirely 1 0 3 18 3 10 ( 3 0 0 0 15 0 0 18 0 1 4 0 1 6 0 1 10 0 1 10 0 .titmere V Rich F for any cpmpleted Fashionable Doeskins ther colou: ,nstitutional Do ra Plaids, Albert rproot led C Newest Pattern rrnn.prs f Mixtures, and at can be p ro duced, in . re Fine Cas lly to d Drab, Devons 1 beau ,et Waistcoats, of the autiful designs.. £1 16 0 to k. s, most Fashionable Patterns, 3d French Fabrics £0 16 0 to 1 8 0 ench Figured Vel and most be Shawl Vest 2 2 0 er at this Establishmen t modem-' 11 prove that it saeetable Hot .e in prices than any res, .nat it i o s a t h e mostlso conductednoted with poringrecisioEsta n and at to any s f of the West End of London. NAVAL AND•MILITARY UNIFORMS, To the latest regulation. iety of Top Coats, Macintoshes, and Waterproof g, kept ready CONTRACTS. any Colour £ll 14 0 15 4 0 18 10 0 21 0 0 Ditto... Ditto. ........ Ditto.. ..... . ........ Large Sizes Extra. The old Suits to be returned. Merchants and C a p tains supplied w ith Clothing suitable climate, at prices unprecedented, owing to She now • depression of Trade in the Manufacturing Dis- r Ditto, Ditto, Ditto, tricts. OBSERVE, ". LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL STOPPAGE OF TIIE ANK OF PARKER, SHORE, AND C0.,8 OF SHEFFIELD. The Sheffield Independent of Saturday says, "It is our 3eeply afflictive duty to announce the worst piece of local sews that ever was published in Sheffield—the stoppage of ;he Old Bank of Messrs. Parker, Shore, and Co., that highly ted firm, who have earned and maintained, until this gree of public confidence such as no country bank .ceeded. The disastrous intelligence is conveyed ers have lowing notice : ,t regret that Messrs with thi ieepes e to their much valued connection Shore, and Co., _ and the public tbat, owing to the I°llg-continued commercia depression and the heavy losses which their banking-house • years, they are under the neces- stained ir ,uspending payment ; and they have also to announce creditors of the house that immediate steps will be ) bring their affairs to a close. heffield Bank, January 14th, 1843.' " _ Sheffield Indep en dent, published on Tuesday morn ing, contains the report of a meeting held at the Cutlers' Hall, and convened by the Master Cutler, to express the unabated confidence of the merchants, manufacturers, and inhabitants in the stability of the other banks of the town. The meeting was held no Monday afternoon, and was at tended by the representatives of all the principal houses in chair, ex- Cutter ha instances under which the meeting :aid that resolutions bad been pre- 4 trusted would be con- pared ,f, ssionatel siaered calmly and dispa..._ James Montgomery, Esq., then rose to propose the first resolution—" That this meeting deeply regrets the circum - -nmpelled the Sheffield Old Bank of to suspend payment." • stances which have c Messrs. Par Montgo ir conswerea Sheffield gh reputa- and Co., I the chara I, the 1 e partners in the firm, and d conducted their bi ben th, Ldest in this establishment, tnc Lion of the individuals who monrable manner in ieved that there he bei. as not an individual of the 100,000 inhabitants of the town . but would cordially join in the expression of regret at the circumstance which had hap pened. It was a public calamity, and it was their duty to take such steps as would be likely to prevent its being aggra vated by greater calamities that might follow. The resolution was seconded by Samuel Hadfield, Esq. Thomas Dunn, Esq., in giving his cordial support to the motion, passed a high ealogium on the honourable character of the partners of the bank, and the irreproachable manner in which they had conducted the concern. When the cir cumstances of Messrs. Parker, Shore, and Co. came to be laid before the public, it will be found that in no instance had they deviated from a legitimate course of banking, and that their stoppage l was not attributable to imprudence in any of the partners in their own expenditure. It would be found that during the last ten or twelve years, Mr. Parker and Mr. Shore had advanced large sums to th e bank, and it would also be found that during the whole of that time they had not taken out one penny either of capital or interest. He be lieved the stoppage had arisen, not from speculation or ex travagance on their part, but from the too groat ',leniency they had at all times shown to the merchants and manufac turers of the town, and from not having put on the screw tighter than they had done. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. It was afterwards resolved, on the motion of" T William Fisher, Esq., seconded by Alfred Sorby, Esq., h order to obviate any aggravation of this great calamity, unnecessary distrust, we, the undersigned, hereby e our entire and unabated confidence in all the banks at existing in Sheffield, viz. :—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Messrs. Rimington and Younge's Bank, the Sheffield Banking Company, the Yorkshire Di strict Bank, the Sheffield and Hallamshi re Banking Company, and the Sheffield and Retford Banking C om pany • and we pledge ourselves to take their no t es n • f thanks Was present 3 to the Master Cut udgment and promptitu r de he had shown in call A very general feeling of sillinPatbY am owards Messrs. Parker and Shore, fo ch had befallen them in common with a large fellow -townsmen. Notwithstanding the ex educed on the frrst announcement of th ablishment ratifying to find cation of a pressure on the other banks it a exceeded by y nds upon them not havinb andred pounds the usual amount were signed in the cour by upwards of 400 of the principal rner- A correspondent, _ .eading firms of the town. ._ ng from Sheffield on Tuesday evening, says, ca ous affair will be very severely felt at the present time m y persons both in and out of business. Messrs. Par ,d Shore's being the oldest bank in Sheffield, they had the greatest number of private accounts, such as the of old servants, trust affairs, and others of a similar commission in bankruptcy will be opened in a few en further particulars will be made known." lnchesier Guardian states that the claims upon the __went amount to 4600,009 f and the present assets to about X 725,000• The i 1 —Keep your store of smiles and your kindest • b orn e ; give to the world only those which are Prism of Thought. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Wednesday last, at Bing r, Messrs. Seed and Co. of Addingham cotton spinners, ere summoned before the magistrates charged with having on December 22nd employed Betty Greenwood on the night -f +T,,. day, for having employed Ann Brayshaw on the night 23rd, for employing Mary Brear on Christmas day ploying Sarah Smith more than 12 hours on the same having false entries in their time book on the gave up at half-past seven in the evening -"- -aroved on enquiry t h at Betty 1 from Thursday morning , ye at noon, and then went out and till twelve at midnight, then on Friday Morning, a n d aut till 7 p.m, and worked all whole of the night until Sunday f Alice Moorville, the same hour. 24th: It was °ls rood, aged I E. had worker gain at breakfast fig t was show as Betty Greer a her to go hou ---,I also by Jich col:lye.— , clock. It was provu. that he bad a girl working at the mill o r of Saturday, but finding she did not come hoar ay m or med Cu v food i quarters of a ml ad went to the mill to enq i ui the staid q nthev annex, who told hi if 1 ht hay of Addingham, th linme at Mr had there 01 WV iu.., Mr. T. inquired w h a t business threate ted father of ti stairs alone, co went the other s ates, after heani case they had ever )rse from the fact of the ker away at eig ow mu, —•___ Nishing to go to the bot ant in return, ana iy him also. The , it was the worst —as made still 'sf - r; TO raving sent the and IL on Saturday evenms, o'clock on Sunday morn- g their duty to the public , if —nalties of X2O each, Do you fear Mr. Wales's that a be and took the oath o informed Mr. Wale Ltly elm )articul by Spencer of the crew bad Joined greed to murder the officers, capture the brig, her into a pirat e the intention to can ne of his (Spencer's) the captured yes :o select such of the female r useful, and aft 1 ect from V Vales if ed the following day a: of paper,oc for his crava to destroy every v d that he had a full and minut After this in rrible threat oject was so monstr bad been joking. matters, and I direr that Spencer was t own overlooker till three log, and they should they did not convict him in six to and £5. for working on Christmas da fine of one hundred and twenty Jive pot Guardian REDUCTI( cost of Tea s. per lb, ral fap EXTRAORD an of his intended procedure t had passed. On rec the latter had jc he had fashioned a ring n inquiring respecting orders jaw. On some occasions the Somers with blasphemo the same time th, :ted the hand of cumstances led me to regard the information I received from at Gans 'oort in a much d to my mind pencer. W 11( I 1 have of the I York, I at once gave him id and a courteous wel, dismissed from til azil squadron on account of drunken- ness and other improper conduct, and tt desirous that he should be smissed from the br count of the young men who wer ci with r blood, two of them by alliance, and all f placed under my immediate car The circumstance of his being th :overnment enhanced his t more d t rid of hire and mad heard that he would be willing to join the Grampus, I desired Lieutenant Gansevoort to state to Mr. Spencer that, if he would apply to Commodore Perry to detach him from the Somers, I would second his application. The application was accordingly made and I seconded it, earnestly urging that it might be granted in order to secure the comfort of the young officers. Commodore Perry, how ever, declined to detach Midshipman Spencer. I observed that Spencer was in the habit of associating little with the other officers, but that he was continually intimate with the crew. He was often in the habit of joking with them, and smiling whenever he met them with a smile never known but on such occasions; and I had frequently observed in him a strange flashing of the eye. In the evening 1 gave orders to Mr. Perry, my clerk, to have all the officers to come aft upon the quarter-deck. When they were brought up I approached Spencer and addressed him thus :—" I understand, Sir, that you aspire to the command of the Somers." With a defe rential air he replied, " Oh, no, Sir !" " Did you not," said I, " tell Mr. Wales that you had a mutinous project on foot —that you intended to kill the commander and the officers of the Somers, and such of the crew as you could not seduce to your plans, and to enter • upon a course of piracy ?" " I may have told him something like it," he replied, " but it was only in joke." " You admit, then, that ou told him of such a plan ?" " Yes, Sir." " This, Sir," I continued, • • " you must know is joking upon a forbidden subject. This joke, Sir, may cost you your life. Be pleased, Sir, to re move your neckerchief." He did so. I took it and opened it, but there was nothing in it. I asked him what he had One with the paper that was in it ? " The paper," he said, " which had been in it contained my day's work; and I destroyed it." "It is_a strange place, Sir," said I,_`• to keep :your accounts." He acqUiesced with an air of the greatest deference and blandness. I said to him, " Your design was to make yourself commander of this vessel. You must have been aware that you could compass it only by passing over my dead body, and over the dead bodies of all the officers of the Somers._ You had laid out for yourself, Sir, a great deal to do. It is my duty to confine you." Turning to Lieutenant Gansevoort, I said, " Arrest Mr, Spencer, and place him in double irons." Lieutenant Ganse voort stepped forward, and received from Mr. Spencer his sword. Mr. Spencer was then ordered to sit down; he did so. Double irons were then put upon him, as were also handcuffs, for the sake of greater security. I directed voort to place a watch over Mr. Spencer, a tion with told to M y of tt fr. Spencer. In t f characters in Gi •oved to contain st of til of the crew, some of whom were marked certain and others doubtful; some were marked to be kept at all events, and others to be destroyed. Those were des arious department ACCIDENT AN IL" (Cromwell was the tallest man ( id Small th Small being lso ironed. The next a Cromwell was thus accused by an .h of The effect of my address em seemed delighted at nd others seemed struc curred in to see icipation of rder of Suspicic nTAL ACCIDENTS.—The following loss of life took place at Grangemouth one evening last week. A sailor who had been on shore, ka going along a plank to return to the vessel. lying in the canal, accompanied by a young 4iel man, happened to lose his balance, and, catching hold of tb locker of lirl h - -Ater , uoth unfortunately fell into the v., An old woman ho was near the spot at the time of the accident gave the llama, and, it is reported, rushed into the water to lend her feeble aid to save the drowning couple. The captain of the vessel also plumed into the water for the same humane pur pose, but perished. Exertions were now made by several ople to remove the bodies from the water. The captain was taken out lifeless. The bodies of the. girl and sailor were taken out clasped in each other's arms. Thu poor old woman was taken out alive, but is not expected to survive.— had had with I Caledonian Mercury : ROW ESCAPE.—On Saturday even- ing two coke trains, on the Midland Company Railway, came in collision, near Derby, and one of the engines and several carriages were smashed. It appears, that the first coke en gine, owing to some defect, could not get along : the conse quence was, that a second coke train overtook it, and, not anding the guard of the first train exhibited the signals, cond train ran into them, and a fearful collision oc . The guard of the first train sprang off just as the nd came upon them. The engine was smashed and now on the line. On Friday, as a Nottingham train was - - getting away from the station, a North Alidlind luggage train came up from the north, and nothing but the extraordinary presence of the points' man prevented a frightful calamity. Seeing the danger, he reversed the point, and sent the passen ger train on to another line just as the luggage train came up to the junction. Had a collision taken place, the passenger train must have gone over the embankment, perhaps into the DESPERATE ASSAULT.—On Tuesday evening' the turn key of Kirkaldy gaol entered a cell in Which were confined two prisoners—one for sheepstealing and another for some other theft—for the purpose of giving them supper. As is usual, he locked the door, and instantly one of them seized him by the throat and bore him backwards. Recovering himself, he struck the fellow a blow on the head with the key which knocked him senseless on the floor.. Immediately the other prisoner seized him in the same manner. A severe struggle ensued, when the noise the combatants made reach ing the gaoler, he came running to the door, and the turn key having got his knee upon his opponent's breast, while he held him down by the throat with his left hand, opened the door with the other and admitted the gaoler. The prisoners were then secured and laid in irons. There can be no doubt that the object they had in view was to effect their escape, and certainly the turnkey deserves great praise for the in trepid manner in which he resisted them.—Caledonian Mer- - - DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Friday night, the 6th instant, the butler of Sir Benj. Hall, Bart., hearing the report of a gun in the preserves, summoned the keepers and assistants, and went in pursuit of the parties. On arriving within a field or two of the place whence the sound was heard, they met two men on the turnpike-road, whom they accused of having been shooting. On attempti n g to take them into custody a fearful conflict took place, the men using the butts of their guns, knocking about them right and left. The head keeper and an assistant were both knocked down and much bruised. One of the men made his escape, -and the other, Joseph Bailey, was eventually captured. after resisting until he had been repeatedly knocked down. The prisoner was examined before Mr. E. H. Phil lipiand the Rev. Dr. Jones, but, being too much injured to be brought to the station-house, the magistrates kindly went to the White Lion, Pontypool, where the prisoner was in bed, and, after hearing the evidence, fully committed him to Monmouth gaol to take his trial for a misdemeanour. The prisoner gave his name " Joseph Bailey," but he is also known as " Joseph Jones." lie is a powerful man, and evidently possesses considerable courage.—Monmouth Mer lin. MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.— Edward Jones, of Knockroghery, had been out on some night last week, and when he came home he found his wife in bed. He called her, and though awake, she did not answer him, as she saw a hatchet in his hand, and they had not been for some days before on good terms. When she did not answer he struck her with the hatchet on the arm, which he broke ; gave her another blow on the head, and fractured her skull, and a third on the shoulder, with the sharp part of the hatchet, and cut through the shoulder blade. He then went to the police barrack, and gave himself up to the guard, whom he told he was after killing his wife. There was no man in the barrack at the time but the guard, and, after staying a short time, he thought to get away—whether it was he got sorry for having given himself up, or that he wanted, as he alleged, to kill her outright, as he did not think he finished her. The policeman would not permit him to de part, a scuffle ensued, but the policeman, after a severe struggle, succeeded in retaining him. He was next morning brought before a magistrate, who committed him to Ros common jail. The poor woman lingered till yesterday, when she died in great torture. Jealousy is said to be the cause which urged Jones to commit this fearful crime. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against the wretched man, who has been committed for trial. He had a property of £lOO per year in the town of Galway.—Athlone Sentinel. lURDER OF Two INFANTS.—APPREHENSION OF THE ESS.—A young woman of the name of Margaret ged about 20, has been committed to our county ed with being accessory to twin illegitimate children idow named nd has re- ret Hughes, and is about 46 years of agt been delivered of two unfortunate babes, for the mur whom she is now, with her daughter, in custody ther of the children is supposed tc i the neighbourhood, a married man, hiving a ily, and the horrid deed was perpetrated by throwing the Jeep pit, in which place they were found quite attaching to both prisoners, a surgeon ex , and declared that they were born alive, inc healthy children. The parties were therefore d before the magistrates, and committed to take their _Jr wilful murder. The bodies were discovered by a wring man who was hedging near the pit, and whose icions were excited by the extreme anxiety which the hter entertained that he should hedge in the mouth of pit. After she had left the spot he examined the pit, found the dead bodies. Happily the crime of child ma s rare in Wales, and in this instance the perpetrators for some time past bonne very questionable characters. elder prisoner is in custody, but as yet she is too ill to e removed to the gaol.—The Welshman. ,ed who were to do the wor and the stations of all wer was Sunday well. I ast ed. The following day fined to arrest Cron He denied that r; it wa botird the ye. immediately put is November, on them was various their narrow delivery at the thought of t onle seemed overwhel them ; c • that await ig home, and wept r ghts of _retur tion 7 of the friends t : Spencer's tobacco was stopped his spirits p would sit for a long time with his face buried and when he raised his head his face was bai _ - - overcon He was toad He told bim that lie was not then in a state to speak of an thing, but that he would the next day tell him all—wou answer any question that might be put to him. On Tuesday there was reason to fear, that on that very night a rescue would be attempted. I considered tke imminent peril which hung over the lives of the officers and crew. I thought of the seas traversed in every direction _byinerchantmen, un- 11 of Mr. Gans, armed and interests of comme upon the deep, to the s to 4he safety anctity of th oericar ag intrusted sel with the to my care, and to my own first lieutenant and all my he first lieute officers )n the Ist of December 1 which the mg state S to the !it presented me with a lette s it will be it:nos& to carry the prison d States We ihin. r our lives honour to the flag entrusted to our charge requires that the prisoners be put to death, as the course best cal culated to make a salutary impression upon the rest of the crew." In the necessity of my position I found my law. I judged of the characters whom I could trust, and determined to arm them. I ordered preparations also to be made for the execution of the three. .illl and the petty officers were directed to cut down every one who should let go his whip or fail to haul when ordered. I put on my full uniform, came on deck, and proceeded to ex ecute the most painful duty that ever devolved upon an ~ .n e officer in the American navy—the F , '" I one prisoners of the fate that awaited Spencer and said to Mr, Spencer You were about to t night, while I was buried in sleep, with gle moment to send one wo prayer to God for her welfare ion to my wi and the necessity of the c now forfeited, I do not intend, how Is me to take it . pitate you in the mode c in your breast one feeli the sacrifice. It there , nature, you will be grateful for the premmm. your horrible designs. You surely ought to be thankful t.. yott have been prevented from the terrible deeds you medi tated. If you have any word to send to your father, any satisfaction to express to him that you were not allowed to become a pirate, as you ought to do, you will have ten mi nutes granted in which to write it." Spencer seemed over come with emotion. He burst into a flood of tears, sank on his knees, and said he was not fit to die. I repeated to him the catechism, and begged him to offer sincere prayers for the Divine forgiveness. I recommended to him the English Prayerbook, assuring him that he would find in it something suited to all his necessities. Cromwell fell upon his knees, protesting his innocence, and invoking the name of his wife. Spencer declared that Cromwell was innocent, and begged that this might be believed. This, I confess, staggered me; but the evidence of his guilt was conclusive. 1 told Spelt• cer, Cromwell had said of him and another person, that there was a " fool on one side, and a knave on the other," and told him that Cromwell would have allowed him live only so long as he could have made him useful to himself. This roused him, and from that time he said no more of Cromwell's innocence. Subsequently circum stances induced me to believe that Spencer wished to save him, probably from the hope that he would yet get possession of the vessel, carry out his original design, and effect his rescue. He wished, at the same time, to persuade me that Small was only an alias for some one else on his list — though this was proved to be false. Small alone was the one we bad set down as the poltroon of the three ; yet he re ceived the announcement of his fate with great composure. He was asked who. wished to make! Itber sbe should not I dto Spencer. He •ould have b ]ded, I ae him home and be s woul he Potoma, of exaggerate in board the John A successful. He aske Ittempts to core hat I knew of t now how c the danger? I A the crew had 6 ver, but do I cal] that Gc led to his mint od's mercies w( that he 1 down ) w idel but did not a Bible and t I wO t my repentance will t .om the F s repentanc -t. I told , ~...... __ ye him. I told . him I did most s in- all about it." S not die without i y my examr •ould do it, Guineamati bro go into a Guineaman it v C rOMIN c nervation of the Sou orthy of it a piece c ty's brig I on Thur nd had bir the commander of ituperation He on one oc- t of that, tell easily captur paid to an ambassador nd that w 1 en the arm ceraly and cordially, and asked if r had done anything which made him seek - life, or whether his hatred was un founded? lie said, he thought it was only fancy. " Perhaps," he 'added, " there was something in' your manner whicl offended me." Spencer asked to see Mr. Wales. lie said s, 1 hope you will forgive me for tampering with you: delity." Wales replied, overcome with emotion,'" Ido )rgive you from the bottom of my heart, an d I h ope G o d • s weeping, and Spencer, in issing, met Small at the gangway. He extended his hand id said, " Small, forgive me, for having brought you into trouble." Small answered, " No, by -, Spencer, I cann request. after having,brou ght oe before God, and shall there know )enter said, " You must forgive me, I can- At." I went to Small and asked him not to cnensti any resentments at such a time, and to forgive him. He relented, held out his hand to Spencer, and said, " I do forgive you, and may God forgive you also." S mall addres 'ng the crew, said, " Shipmates and topmates, take warning )le. I never killed a man, but only said that I Ind for that lam about to die. Going into a 'ht me to this. Take warning, and never " Turning to Spencer, he said, " I m ready to die, are you ?" Cromwell's last words were— ' Tell my wife that I die innocent ; 1 die an innocent man." From the appearance of this man in assuming to be innocent, -- , ould seem that Spencer took all risk of the affair, and ' 1 intented to profit by it. I placed myself where 1 could take in the whole deck with my eye. Spencer had leave to give the word ; but no word was given by him. He v said he could not give the word, and wished me to do rhe word was accordingly given, and the execution took If it be deemed that I have bad any merit for the pre -...1.s from the treacherous toils by which Small sai d she was surrounded, both since and before her departure from the United States, I respectfully beg that it may accrue without reserve to my nephew, Mr. Perry, and that he be placed in the situation left vacant by the death of Mr. Spen cer. I pledge myself for the entire faithfulness and zeal with which he will discharge its duties. For myself, I only ask that whatever may be thought of the services rendered to the flag of my country, which should be the first considered, my own honour may also meet with due consideration, I only ask that I may not be deprived of my command until I am found to be u XANDER SLIDELL M KENZIE his is an extreme and erroneous opinion, and no but I am merely stating facts which passed on the occasion. THE BRAZILS press, Lieut. Herrick, commander, shed Falmouth on Sunday night with mails from the Bra after having encountered the full violence of the hurricane sday and Friday last. It is describedas having been The Express left Rio de Janeiro on the 27th of November, and has come home direct, having on freight gold and other treasure valued at £4'0,000. The arrival at Rio of the Right Hon. Henry Ellis, by the Salamander steam-frigate, on a special mission to the Emperor upon his marriage, had caused a good deal of speculation in the mercantile circles as to what concessions it was contemplated to make to induce the Bra zils to conclude a treaty with us. • The presentation of the right hon. gentleman took place on he 19th, when his Excellency was received with the honours His Excellency addressed His Imperial Majesty, in French to ,the following effect : , —The most urgent duty with which I am intrusted, ch I conceive to be the most important, is to ex guage befitting the occasion, the unvarying sen iments of friendship and esteem which animate my august Sovereign towards your Imperial Majesty. My royal mis on at — tress continues to entertain the most sincere wishes for the happiness of your Imperial Majesty, and for the prosperity of the empire of Brazil. Actuated by these sentiments, my august Sovereign has deigned to honour me with an extra ordinary and a special mission to your Imperial Majesty, and I have the honour to present my credentials to your Imperial Majesty. "I venture to hope that your Imperial Majesty will find in this mission an additional and a most powerful assurance of the friendship of my royal mistress, and a proof of the im portance which she attaches to the maintenance of those friendly and reciprocally advantageous relations which have for so many years subsisted between the two countries. " I am further intrusted by my royal mistress with a letter of congratulation to your Imperial Majesty upon the occasion of the marriage which your imperial Majesty has recently contracted with her Royal Highness the Princess Theresa of Sicily, and I venture to solicit your Imperial Majesty to grant me a private audience, that I may have the honour of pre senting the letter from my royal mistress. " Permit me, Sire, to assure your Imperial Majesty of my profound respect, and that my efforts will be constantly di rected to obtain the satisfaction and approval of your Imperial Majesty." The reply of His Imperial Majesty was as follows : " You may assure your august Sovereign, that this addi tional proof of her friendship is very gratifying, and is hiehly esteemed by me 'I xcellency is, we private audience solicited by his E understand, appointed for the 2d proximo. The exchange at Rio was 26k, on the packet sailing, and she left there Commodore Purvis in the Alfred frigate. Advices from Tunis of the 20th uli., published by the Journal des Debate, announce that the Bey had, of his own free will, proclaimed the freedom of the children of slaves hereafter born in the regency. A fortuitous circumstance led to the adoption of that measure. A black family, doomed to be sold separately, had taken refuge in the..douse of M. de Lagau, the Consul-General of France, and claimed his protection. The next morning M. de Lagau waited, on the Bey, and his highness was so moved by the painfurpicture which the consul drew of the wretched fate which awaited that family that', after interrogating the father and mother, he ordered his minister to purchase them and treat them with the greatest kindness, and then, turning to their child, he told him that he was free, and solemnly declared that all the children who should hereafter be horn in the regency should be free. This decision was immediately promulgated, and was to be strictly executed. nto a piratical v cl communi ;ked him on too s s then preparations " Nobody cai uch greats s I at firs plot to iut, with ad Spence contained sh with h Crom- one of the cre f his c HE LATE HURRICANE DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE (From Monday's London Standard he kindness of Captain King, of the General Steam ation Company's packet Harlequin, which arrived )gne late last night, we are in receipt of the fol lowing melancholy intelligence :—The ship Conqueror, of 800 tons, from Calcutta, Captain Gibbon, got stranded near Etaplesobout ten o'clock on Friday, and during the night she went to pieces; captain, crew, and passengers (said to be 69), all perished, with the exception of one midshipman. Near the same place, and at the same time, a Swedish ship was wrecked, and all hands drowned. Also an English fruit-vessel (name not known) was lost near Boulogne ; all perished. Also a schooner;from Wisbeach to Dieppe, loaded with linseed and oats ; ship a total wreck ; crew saved. in Bout FURTHER PARTICULARS The Conqueror, a fine vessel of 600 tons, belonging to Mr. Richard Greefl of the firm of Wigram and Green, bound from Calcutta to London, and commanded by Capt. Duggan, l after beating ala t in the channel during the heavy gale on Friday night, w driven on shore, off Lorel, a small town on the French co st, only six miles distant from Mirlemont (where the Reliance struck), at about half-past ten o'clock p.m., and almost immediately went to pieces, every soul on board being lost, with the exception of a boy named Henry Abchurch, one of the caddy servants. The crew consisted of about 45 seamen, exclusive of officers, and the vessel had no less than 18-passengers on board, including Mrs. Thomp son (the wife Of an East India captain), and Mrs. Jenkins, both of whom w'bre accompanied by a family of four children, and three officers of the united services. The ship was freighted with a valuable cargo of silk and general mer chandise: and it is supposed that she must have suffered severely from the late hurricanes, and become unmanageable as she neared the channel. No authentic statement of the circumstances has vet been received from the poor boy, who is the only one saved. He is under the care of Mr. Hamil ton, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Boulogne, and will remain for the melancholy purpose of identifying any bodies that may come ashore. _ _ A letter announcing the wreck was received yesterday morning by Mr. W. Dobson, secretary to Lloyd's, from Mr. A. Adam, the agent at Boulogne. Of the entire cargo only a few puncheons of rum have as yet been recovered. The wreck is entirely gone to pieces. Mr. G reen , th e owner , de spatched his ag en t l as t evening to Lorel, f or th e purpose o f protecting his p ro p er ty, and Captai n Th ompson, t h e brother in-law of Mr s . Th o mpson, and oth er connex i ons o f the deceased passengers, a ccompanied Mr. H am ilt on ha s b ee n unceasingly engaged on the s p o t. The Conqueror w as built at Newcastle, and purchased only last year by Mr, Green. Captain Duggan was an ex perienced officer, forinerly in the company's service, and had made several voyages to _lndia. The first officer's name is Mr. Harvey. The foll Owing is a correct list of the passengers :—Mrs. Thdmpson and fair children, Mrs. J. Jenki ns an d f our chil dren, Mrs. Major Johnson, M rs. Turton, Major Johnston, Mr. Marshall, Lieutenant Marshall, Captain Milner, Master Blake, and Master Reeves. A private letter dated Boulogne, Janua r y 14 , g i ves the following particulars :—" I b eg to inform you, that an East Indiaman, of GOO tons, came ashore, near Etaples, this morn ing. It is reported that eighty persons were aboard, of whom some where soldiers, their wives and childre n; on ly one person has been save d ; b u t h e is in such a deplorable state as not to be able to afford, any information. A Nor wegian, laden with salt and oranges, from St. Übes, become a total wreck within four miles of this port ; the crew is lost. When this vessel came ashore at low water assistance was offered from theihore, but the crew would not abandon the vessel ; when it was impossible to receive any, as the tide was coming up, they requested assistance ; it was then too late to render them any. A collier is also a total wreck in this neighbourhood." About the same period a Swedish vessel was wrecked near the same spot, and all hands perished ; and also an English fruit vessel with the whole of her crew. Three other vessels were also wrecked, and The crew of one of them drowned. AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE—EIGHTY MEN DROWNED. (From the Dublin Evening Mail of Monday.) It has seldom fallen to our lot to record so melancholy a catastrophe as that which will be found detailed in the follow ing statement, being an extract from a letter this morning received from a private correspondent at Dundrum, in the county of Down. Eighty poor fishermen have fallen victims to the snow-storm of Friday, many of them leaving widows and helpless families to deplore their loss, and mourn over the untimely fate of brothers, fathers, husbands, and other relatives : " DUNDRUM, 15TH JANUARY, 1843—THREE O'CLOCK, P.m.—Friday morning was so very fine that almost all the boats from Newcastle to Analong went out to their fishing in the bay, where they had quite an uncommon take of fish. About noon it came on to blow, with snow. Up to this hour there are, I believe, seven boats from Newcastle and four from Analong missing. They were skiffs, manned with about six hands each. Some of them were seen to go down by the crews of the boats which got in. One made Killough, and sold five or six and twenty shillings' worth of fish there; in fact, I believe they were all heavily loaded. One boat drifted in with two dead men in it. I think they reckon on a loss of 48 souls at Newcastle, and about 30 at Analong, or SO altogether; but I do not pretend to give you an official or authentic account of the numbers, only what appears to be the best and least exaggerated. You can easily picture the state of the unfortunate widows and children along the coast. It is the most afflicting event that has ever occurred in this quarter. __ The Ulster Times, published at Belfast, gives the follow ing further particulars of this distressing calamity : Ten of the yawls or row boats, belonging to Newcastle, and it is believed six to Analong, proceeded to their usual employment of fishing, the morning being beautifully fine, indeed, so much so, that they went many miles out to sea, their crews little suspecting the awful doom that awaited them, the weather indicating, to the most experienced in nautical affairs, the most favourable day. Alas ! how treacherous and deceptive such prognostics; for the wind veered in an incredibly short time from due S. to N.W. and W., accompanied by a tremendous snow storm, blowing terrifically, and piercingly cold. The consternation and anxiety which soon followed, may in some degree be imagined ; but to convey an idea of the m i sery and affliction which was depicted in nearly every countenance, defies all power of description. The shriek s an d cr i es o f wives, parents, brother s , an d sisters, runnin g t o an d f ro, abso lutely frantic w ith d espa ir, for the d rea d e d f ate o f those so nearly' and dearly connected with them, was truly heart rending. Reckless of the inclement weather, they sought in every sea -ward direction for the consoling return o f th e i r re hlaatpivpeisoesasndwafs afforded:—for ,riends out of the t en b oats which left, but bow few the nu m b er to w h om this Newcastle harbour on that morning, but three returned, the crews of which having had the most miraculous escape, are left to mourn over the fate of forty-seven of their unfortu nate companions, that being the number belonging to this small village alone, which have by this disaster met a watery grave. It is computed that from twelve to twenty of those are married, and all, or nearly so, leaving families, and many of them large, to not only deplore their untimely death, but to encounter the additional calamity of inevitable poverty. And to this catalogue of suffering and woe may be added, that many a son that day perished who was the sole support and comfort of an aged and helpless parent. Nearly every cottage of the humble classes presents a scene of the most painful and distressing sorrow. Between Analong and Newcastle, twenty-seven other lives have been lost in the same way ; and, what renders it the more pitiable is, that some of the persons on shore, perceiving the exertions of th e ir friends at sea unavailing to ma k e b ea d against th e s t orm, the poor brave fellows manned a boat, with ten picked able men, and launched her amidst every danger, in the hope of saving their fellow creatures' lives; but, shocking to relate, they never returned, having perished in the laudable and perilous attempt to render assistance to their perishing neighbours. Such daring efforts deserved a better fate. The crews of some of the boats being unable to row any longer, it is conjectured, owing to, excessive cold and exhaustion, cast anchor ; but many were soon washed over board : one was found quite dead, having foundered ; and two others shared the same fate, from a similar cause, a short time after being brought ashore. Thus, in one day, and within a distance of six miles, seventy-four fellow-ereatures have met a watery-grave,— forty-seven belonging to Newcastle, and twenty-seven to An nalong and its vicinity. There is a coincidence in many respects, of a very melan choly and remarkable nature attached to this unhappy cir tcwuemosttya.nncien,ewyheiacrlsl is, ,that, thafot,rtoy fisherm en b elonging to then the 10th o f t hi s very month, same places were drowned -- thirteen to Newcastle, and twenty-seven to Annalong—being the same number lost now of the late, and by a snow-storm also, there being but three days difference in the day of the month; so that, the snow storm, the month, and the amount of lives lost in one of the n bear the m os t p er fect similit u d e. places, Among the numerous casualities and accidents resulting from the awful snow storm of Friday night last, the fc,flowing melancholy case occurred :—A respectable old farmer, named Isaac Macfarlane, and his wife, aged respectively, 63 and 60 years, were returning from the market of this town, with their horse and cart, on the above evening, to their place of residence in the neighbourhood of Collin mountain, about six or seven miles from Belfast. As the did not reach home at the usual time, their eldest daughter, who managed the household affairs, supposed they had stopped at their son-in law's house, a few miles from the town, and she and the re mainder of the family, consisting in all of thirteen children went to bed. The daughter had some warrant for coming to this conclusion, as one of her brothers, who had gone to school the same evening, did not come back—the teacher having kept him at his own house, on account of the storm. Next morning, the young woman alluded to, went out to see about the lad, and at some distance f rom the house, she saw her father's horse standing. beside th e cart, out of which the animal had struggled during the night, and disengaged itself ; and a little farther on, the poor girl discovered her father and mother lying on the ground, locked in each other's arms and quite dead! , From all we have heard of this truly lamentable affair, it would appear that the old couple had been riding in the cart, and that such was the intensity of the cold, and the severity of the storm, that the horse could not brave it, and they had both got out of the cart to endeavour to make their way to their own house, when they were overpowere d b y f at i gue and the numbness and stupor w hi ch usua ll y accompany severe cold her ; e tand,hey unhappilyin this s tateit is probable they had lain d own w perished. During that night, and the succeeding morning, the snow iu many places was six to eight feet deep, but where the bodies were found it might have been perhaps about three deep. The affectionate, but unfortunate, couple had succeeded in getting into their own farm, and were within about 200 yards of the dwelling-house, when death overtook them. The old man held about one hundred acres of land, and resided beyond Collin, in one of the bleakeit parts of that mountainous district. LIMERICK We have to add to the total loss of the. Pladda, hence to Gleason-dock, on the coast of Donegal. Her cargo was 1,091 barrels of wheat, 431 barrels of oats, and 294 barrels of beans, F. Spaight ; and what will be learned with much re gret is the loss of the Lansdowne, a new and handsome model of a schooner, built at Mr. Russell's Patent Slip, in this port, and returning from Liverpool, when driven on the Scottish coast, where she went to pieces. Several pieces of timber were seen off the Kilkee coast in the last week, but the weather was so boisterous it could not be ascertained if they constituted part of a wreck.—Limerick Chronicle. SLIGO - - - The schooner Tampico, Gregg, of Workington, laden with wheat. oats, and beans, from Limerick, and bound for Glassondock, after having been on her beam ends, and lost binnacle, with compasses, &c„ was running for this harbour on the night of the sth instant, in a thick shower, struck on Harbowling, near Roughley Point, and became a total wreck. The master and two of the crew were saved by a boat which put off from the Roughley pilot station. Four of the sailors were drowned. Two of th e b odies were washed ashore at Roughley, and an inquest, held b y Al exan d er Burrows, Esq., on them. The following evidence was given :—Thomas Curry, sailor, who, being duly sworn, saith. that he was foremast man on board the schooner Tampico, bound from Limerick to Glassondock, from which port (Tarbet Roads) he sailed in said vessel, on Tuesday, the 2d January instant, with a cargo of wheat, oats, an d b eans , an d .that on the second day after leaving Tarbet Roads the v esse l sust ained some damage in a gale, which obliged the captain to hear up for the harbour of Sligo, near which, off Roughley, the vessel struck, at about 10 p.m., on the sth instant, in a fog, upon Harbowling rock, upon which she remained for some hours, and went to pieces; three of the crew, consisting of seven persons, namely, the captain, William Gregg, the above named Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been saved ; the remaining four, namely, William Cohne, the mate, Simon Flanagan, James Curry, and James Walker, were washed off the wreck and drowned ; the deceased, Simon Flanagan, was washed overboard about 5 o'clock a.m., on the 6th ; the remaining three, namely, William Gregg, Thomas Curry, and Charles Jay, having been rescued by Thomas Carway and his crew in a boat. He states further, that they were so exhausted by fatigue and exposure to cold and wet, that they could not possibly have survived much longer. Charles Jay sworn—ls one of the survivors who was on board of the Tampico schooner, and corroborates the above statement.—Sligo Journal. (From the Cork Constitution.) The mischief caused by the late storm has been very great. Trees, to the amount of from four to five hundred, and up wards of two hundred years old, consisting of oak, ash, beech, and elm, were levelled to the ground, in a park in this neighbourhood. It appears that during Thursday night or early on Friday morning, the hurricane broke over a bill to the rear of the demesne house, on which a cabin was erected. The inmates were in bed at the southern side of the house, and the storm which came in a south westerly direction, carried away the northern portion of the house from the centre, and to this circumstance is owing the safety of its inhabitants. It then entered the demesne of Pembroke, and swept the timber on the slope of the hill be fore it like straws. Following the slope it rushed along the valley with fearful violence, and tore up every tree that im peded its progress. In the valley it diverged slightly, but still might be said to have kept almost in a straight line from the south-west. It passed through the orchard tearing up the fruit trees, and strewing th em a b ou t i n al l di rections as if they were small bushes. It raged through the demesne, keeping a straight line, in its onward course. Such trees as withstood the blast had the branches blown off and scattered in all directions. At length it made its exit at Tourin, which adjoins Pem broke, passed the row of cottages on Tourin without doing any material injury, crossed the river, and entered the de mesne of Merino, the seat of T. G. French, Esq. Here its violence was abated, but not until some injury was done, se veral hundred panes of glass having been broken in the green-house, conservatories, &c. With the exception of Pembroke and Merino, no other place suffered injury in the neighbourhood of Passage. The singular and fantastic man ner in which immense trunks of trees are thrown about at Pembroke is really surprising. Some are torn frcm the place they grew, about 30 yards ; others are chopped at the base as if some handy woodman had been at work on them. Others may be seen actually turned upside down, and many which were not blown down, are bereft of branches, which were hurled off to the distance of several yards. In fact, not a tree for half a mile of the demesne over which the tornado passed but bears some indelible marks of the pitiless storm. The - most singular thing to notice is, that, during the destructive ravages of the hurricane, it made a regular passage for itself through the demesne, clearing a space of about forty feet wide, while the trees, on either side have escaped the slightest injury ! The trees that have been blown down are of little value, owing to the trunks being riven in several places by the violence of the concussion when coming in contact with the ground. We regret that there has been a loss of life in some degree attributable to the effects of the storm. During the night of Thursday, the house of a farmer, named Robert Hourahan, residing in the parish of Ahabollogue, about ten miles from the city, was unroofed, and one end blown down. In con sequence of the dilapidated state of the building, the family were compelled to seek shelter in the house of a neighbour, while three fa rm l a b ourers went to sleep in the barn. Not having taken anv rest on Thursday night, they lay down in the straw in the barn, about nine o'clock on Friday evening, having taken a small bit of lighted candle in with them, which, it is supposed, they neglected to put out. However, about eleven o'clock, flames were perceived to issue from the house, and, before any assistance could be rendered, it was burned to the ground, and with it the three unfortunate men. Saturday their frames, for almost all the flesh was consumed, were dug from the ruins. LOSS OF ANOTHER EAST INDIAMAN. Yesterday, information was received in the city that another East India trader had been added to the melancholy catalogue of losses occasioned by the late violent gales. The vessel is named the Jessie Logan, the prop er ty o f C. L ogan, Esq., a merchant at Liverpool, from which p or t s h e tra d e d to and from Calcutta ; she was 850 tons burden, and com manded by Captain Major. On Monday last, the vessel being on her homeward voyage, was beatify , up channel, a n d apparently makin g f or Ti n t aze ll or Bude Bay, b on the Cornish coast, for which the north-west wind would have been favour able but for its extreme violence, and at length she became unmanageable, and was driven aground off Boscastle, formerly Bottereau Castle, about seventeen miles from Launceston. Blue lights and other signals of distress were made, but such was the fury of the gale and the violence of the surf, that none would venture to her assistance, and at length she drifted on the rocks and soon became a total wreck. She had evi dently been abandoned by the crew and passengers, but from the long-boat having been washed on shore, it is feared they have all perished, as up to the time of writing this account no information had been obtained respecting these ill-fated persons, and from the fact of the Jessie Logan not being a London trader, no account of the number of her crew or passengers could be procured. She was a North American built vessel, termed in commercial parlance a " Quebecker." Her cargo, consistin g o f rum, sugar, spices, and general East India produce, was being hourly washed ashore • but no despatches or p a p ers o f any kind have, it is presumed, been recovered, as none have as yet reached the East India House, the Jerusalem Coffee-house, or Lloyd's. It is :lot at present known whether she was uninsured, or whether underwritten at Liverpool or London, nor till further accounts arrive can any clue be given as to the value of the cargo.—Morning Herald of yesterday. The losses reported in the books at Lloyd's to-day present a less formidable appearance in numbers, but still some of them are of a serious description, involving the underwriters and insurance companies to a great amount. The wreck of the Jessie Logan, from Calcutta to Liverpool, at Boscastle, will, it is stated, affect Lloyd's and the insurance offices to the extent of about £IO,OOO. No accounts having vet been received of the crew or passengers, it is feared the awful catalogue of the sacrifice of life in the late disasters will have to be increased by the addition of these to the numbers who have perished.— Times of yesterday. During the storm on Friday morning the new mill belong ing to Mr. Ashby, on Warlingharn-commo n , was struck by the lightning, and severely injured. The electric fluid en tered at the top of the mill, and passed completely down the building, conducted by the chain which is used to lift the grain and flour from the bottom to the top. The chain, which is of considerable substance, was broken into between thirty and forty pieces, and exhibited the appearance as though it had been subjected to the action of a very fierce fire. One of the sails of the mill was also shattered to pieces and thrown a considerable distance, and the main beams of the building were likewise very much shaken, but fortunately they did not ignite. The whole of the men employed had only a few minutes before left to get their breakfasts. THE COTTON TRADE AND MANUFACTURES From " Burn's Commercial Glance" for 1842, just pub lished, which may be viewed in the light of a quasi-official review of the cotton trade and manufacture annually in all its branches, the following facts, or figures, are collected il lustrative of the operations of the past year, and as compared in general results with several former years. Of raw cotton the total quantity taken for consumption or burnt, during the Bags. year 1842 is given at 1,221,693 Deduct — 1 • educt, destroyed in the great fire at Liverpool 42,000 bags, less salvage 12,000 30,000 Real amount entering into consump tion 1 ,191,693 In 1811 the quantity taken for consumption was.. 1,118,717 1840.... 1839 id 1,043,511 1838 id 1837 id. 1,061,931 In 1830 th e quan tit y was on l y To 1836 the increase gradually was to. 1,031,904 For the last year, 1842, it must be observed that in con sequence of the commotions in Lancashire arising out of the strike and the Anti-Corn-Law League, there was a loss of four weeks in the consumption, or only 48 weeks' mill work ing instead of 52. The quantities here enumerated comprise all that was purchased, forwarded, and taken for consumption' in London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, during the year. The weekly average of cotton delivered from Liverpool to the manufacturers in the Lancashire and neighbouring districts for consumption is stated at 21,635 bags ; but this estimate is made upon the 52 weeks, without allowance for the four weeks when most of the factories were at a stand. Assum ing for those four weeks a corresponding rate of consump tion, or of 20,000 bags weekly only, the amount for 1842 should stand thus : Bags. Quantity actually delivered for consumption..... 1,191,693 Four weeks lost at 20,000 per week BO,OOO 1,271, So that, but for the machi na ti ons o f t h e anti -corn-law peo -693 ple, the consumption of raw cotton in the manufactories would have exceeded that of any former year, 1840 excepted, a year of extraordinary over-production. The total weight of cotton yarn exported in the year -1812 is stated at In 1811 115,665,483 Excess in 1842 . The increase was chiefly to the following countries :- 1842. 1811. To Russia Holland 22,041,247 16,376,618 Hanse Towns India and China Turkey and Levant 8,987,786 6,467,694 Hanover 2,325,689 1,069,117 The total weight of yarn in manufactured goods exported during the past year is stated at 1 129,842,680 14 Add cotton yarn exported 136,537,162 cotton thread id 1,972,632 rota! export measured by weight of yarn 268,252,474 n 1811 the total export was equal to 258,871,745 lbs 1810 to 229,779,422 n the following flourishing years -1836 the export was 1837 id ' 207,576,839 1838 id 236,900,809 The total values of the goods and yarn exported were— For 1842 £15,068,586 1841 1810...... 1838 1837... 16,153,859 1836 20,656,408 QUANTITY Or's. CORN PAID DUTY SINCE THE NEW LAW.—London, from Ist May to 30th December, 1842,-- Wheat, 853,230 quarters ; barley, 8,023 quarters ; oats, 185,301 quarters; rye, 893 quarters; beaus, 12,314' quarters; pease, 16,639 quarters; flour, 255,866 cwt. United Kingdom, from Ist May to sth December,—Wheat, 2,632,574 quarters ; barley, 45,271, quarters ; oats, 281,612 quarters ; rye, 35,222 quarters; beans, 39,075 quarters; pease, 72,353 quarters; flour, 978,310 cwt. Istox TRADE.—The usual quarterly meetings of the iron masters were held during the last week. The anticipations that a considerable demand would have arisen from the settlement of affairs in the east and the comm erc i a l treaty with China, were not realised, having been checked by the delay in the completion of the arrangements with Spain an d Portugal, which caused hesitation on the part of pur c h asers of iron, while the expectation of their being speedily and favourably concluded induced the irontnasters and holders to he firm, and but few sales were effected and no very large contracts made. A confident expectation exists, how ever , that as spring advances, and the arrangements alluded to are completed, there will be an increased demand, with a f u ll maintenance of present prices, if not a considerable advance. The sales made by needy individuals, under such suspense, cannot be considered to form a criterion of the market prices. Birmingham Gazette. ROYAL LIVER THEATRE. THIS present FRIDAY EVENING, th e 20th i ns t an t, 1. the Evening's Entertainments will commence with THE BEG( Captain Macheath • A R.' S OPERA After which, HUNTING A TURTLE. To be followed by A LOAN OF A IdcWER. Mrs. Honey Gertrude The whole to conclude with THE SPIRIT OF THE RHINE Irma.... Mr , . Honey. In the course of the Evening Mrs. Honey will Sing several of her popular and admired Songs. TO MERCHANTS, BROKERS, &c, The largely increased and most respectable circulation which the Tuesday's Edition of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD has now obtained amongst the mercantile body in Manchester a f fords its proprietors the gratify ing power of urging this, amongst the other undeniable claims which it possesSes, upon the favor of that portion of the mercantile community of Liverpool who desire to bring their advertisements before the notice of buyers in the neighbouring manufacturing districts. In most of the surrounding towns of Lancashire the circulation of the STANDARD is steadily increasing. In Manchester, however, the centre of the manufacturing district, our publication of Tuesday —occurring upon the most im portant market day of the Colton Trade, when its Exchange and hotels arc thronged with country manu facturers, spinners, and calico printers—is firmly established in circulation, and is perused with increased and increasing interest. Under these encouraging circumstances, we trust to receive an increased measure of support from the mer chants and brokers of the town generally ; and it affords us great pleasure to assure those of our friends amongst those classes, who have hitherto bestowed their adver tising favours liberally upon us, of our increased ability to do justice to the interests committed to their care. We are quite aware, it may he urged, as a reason fur the superior liberality of our ance:;tors in the devo tion of their means to God, that with theih'the erection of a church was a fancied passport to Heaven. But there is little in this argument. Our most beautiful cathedrals were erected at a time when the Anglican church was comparatively free from the defilements with which Popery subsequently sought to darken the national faith ; and with respect to the existing churches of the city of London—many of them such rare specimens of beautiful architecture and finish-- these were built subsequent to the great fire which, in the time of the second Charles, laid that city in ashes. And upon this hint we may, not inappropriately, re mark that if, in such a day of calamity—with such ruin and suffering around them—the citizens and the government of the day could resolve, not only upon the re-erection of the great mart of commerce itself, but of its religious edifices, as well, as a part, and an all-important 'part of that haunt of busy life and in dustry—what a lesson does the fact teach to us, and to our own government ! Can Sir Robert Peel look round him, in whatever quarter of populated England he . may stand, and see the awful destitution of the means of religious instruction which prevails, and say, with such an example before him, that because that commercial greatness—which has never, in prosperity, done its duty to its country or its God—is just now temporarily obscured, any Government is justified in holding back from at least the effort to supply, at the national cost, those religious wants wnich he and every virtuous man must deplore ? It is too late, now, to tell us of the voluntary prin ciple, as that to be relied upon to supply such wants. The experience of a hundred years, and more, has proved the utter insufficiency of that principle! The wealthy will not: the poor man cannot, thus dedicate to God. Upon the Government, then, we rely ; and we trust that we shall not be. disappointed. If, how ever, we are so disappointed, we must rely upon the sound religious feeling of the Conservative consti- tuencies, acting, as it ultimately must act, even upon an unwilling legislature. We really thought that the wretched quality and amount of the accommodation afforded by the wealthy corporation of Liverpool to the vast mass of human beings who cross daily from shore to shore of the Mersey, was so indelibly fixed upon the mind of every man, woman, and child belonging to that community, and felt by them as a disgrace and a shame, that it needed no startling array of figures, such as that brought before the last council meeting by Mr. S. Holme, to impel at least the Conservative members of the council, to a prompt effort to repair past omissions. " ACCOMMODATION", indeed ! Why the very term is a mockery, when applied to a system by which TWO MILLION AND THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND HUMAN BEINGS in a year —many of them persons of feeble age —many of them timid females, or giddy or helpless children—are made to land from or embark on board our packets, in glimmering lamplight, fog, or hurri cane, across a single frail or slippery plank. Yet such is the state of things at present, at our principal land ing and embarking place, George's Pier. At that place, it is calculated by Mr. Holme, 6,112,700 persons annually embark or land from the various Cheshire and other packet boats ; and that as it is low water at least one-third of the day, one-third of the gross num ber, or as we have stated above, 2,038,000 persons must submit to be jostled, to the imminent danger of life, putting nerves out of the question, upon a plank ! Yet the majority of the council, upon narrow consi derations of pounds, shillings, and pence, refuse the appointment of a committee to examine into - the steps to be taken to repair an evil so frightful. And what, let us ask, is the plea which is urged by the majority which refuses the appointment of such a committee ? Let us take it from the amendment pro posed by Mr. Birkett. It is, then, that it is expedient to wait " until the council shall have ascertained how far the landing-stage, now in course of erection and nearly completed at the Seacombe slip, will be effici ent." Mr. G. H. Lawrence, the seconder of th 6 mo- lion, opposes a committee, " on the ground that it was unnecessary. The motion implied that the subject had not been considered, but it had been considered ma turely. It had been amply reported upon by Mr. Aiken and himself in 1841." We see nothing very conclusive in the argument or Mr. Birkett's amend- ment; and even less in Mr. Geo. Hall Lawrence's support of it. Surely, in this advanced age of engi neering science, we have not to grope our way to the construction of such simple works as would be required to supply the desideratum of a safe landing stage, at low water, at any of our piers ! And as to Mr. G. H. Lawrence's plea that the subject has been "considered maturely," and " reported upon in 1841," we ask—cui bono ?—when not a step has been taken to base upon that mature consideration and that report any practical measure. Mr. Alderman Evans still more forcibly illustrated the fact that consideration and even convic tion have nothing to do, in deliberative assemblies, with action. He never knew the day when the council was not impressed with the importance of this sub ject C) ; and yet—strange inconsistency of the collec tive wisdom of that body !—the work remains undone ; and our fellow townsmen and townswomen are left to this hour unproviderl with that ordinary protection to life and health, which would have been conceded in a moment had it been demanded for the protection of Irish or Cheshire cattle, calves, or pigs. Mr. Evans, however, lets us a little into the heart of the mystery, and enables us to place this otherwise unaccountable decision of the council to the proper debit in our ledger. "He never knew a new corn- mittee which did not cut out2zew works; and he never knew new work which was not expensive." Oh, Mr. Alderman, did you never know old works which were expensive too,—works, designed in a hurry, and cor rected and botched into shape at leisure—which might have been rendered infinitely less expensive and infi nitely more perfect by the supervision of such a com mittee as that moved for by Mr. S. Holme, aided by the practical skill and sound judgment of such a prac tical man ? But we will not press you on your weak side. Your plea of economy is the thing with which we have now to do. The question distinctly at issue now, between the supporters of Mr. S. Holrne's pro position and the supporters of the successful amend ment,—.and which we venture to say will be very differently decided out of doors—is this : are we daily to permit the lives and safety of some thousands of our fellow-townsmen to be perished, when, by the outlay of a few thousand pounds, ample security and convenience might be afforded to all, and vast advan tages at the same time be conferred upon the port ? Economy in the management of such an estate as that of the corporation of Liverpool, we regard quite as much as Mr. G. H. Lawrence, or all the Finance Comte mittee put together ;—infinitely more, we suspect, than Mr. Alderman Evans. It would have been an econo mical achievement, in our opinion, if the town could , some six or seven years ago, have pensioned off the latter gentleman " In some far island of the Hebrides," ivhere he could have schemed docks and dock war e " louses, and indulged his luxuriant fancy in shaping . .hem in the yellow sands, or in the clouds, with—a s pis reward—the power of exclaiming, at the termina" ion of his arduous task, in the words of poor Crusoe) "I atriTionarch of all I survey !" wno can say to what proud station his genius of de sign, or that quality which phrenologists term " con structiveness," m i g h t not have raised such an island' Economy, we repeat, we regard as a thing essential 01 the ho nest management of the corporate estate , Liverpool; but there is an economy of human life and wil human comfo r t w hi c h we regard infinitely above tha t l mere economy o f pounds, shillings, and pence, le seems to have guided the council in this matter of the . Cheshire f err i es. Such economy would say " urns: t once this d rea df u l trifling and paltering with ai ?.knowled ge d ev il by which life is daily perilled ; an d would not stop in its efforts until the work was done, at whatever pecuniary sacrifice. But why pre-suppose any such sacrifice, as the ne cessary result of the appointment of a committee t° inquire into the subject ? We can discover no irr e ; sistible connexion between a committee of p r actica l men —and yet we h ave a f ew such i n the counc il—and lavish expenditure of the funds of the c o r poratio . ° ; Such a c omm i ttee wou l d be formed to inquire into the efficiency, or rather non-efficiency of the existing 11; pliances in use at th e var i ous piers. Before i t Nu; act it must r e po r t t o t h e council; and its views Inu TO CORRESPONDENTS, The remarks of " Observator" are well merited, but they have not sufficient point. " A. B." is perfectly correct ; but the insertion of the Ad vertisement to which he alludes was inside. We are sorry that it is not in our power to give a satisfac tory answer to "S. H.." but we will not forget his pro posal, and only regret it is not in our power to make use of his intelligence and information. " S. S." suggests that the debt still hanging over the In firmary should be liquidated by the proceeds of a fancy ball, which he thinks would be numerously attended, as we have not had such an attractive amusement for three years. We are unable to afford " Enquirer" the information he seeks for. The directors of the Mechanics' Institution have certainly shown more than usual activity within the last few weeks, and probably the committee of the Colle giate Institution will shortly be in a position of bringing its claims more prominently before the public. In our leading article on the coming Sessions of Parliament, last Tuesday, we attributed, in the haste of composition, the celebrated character of Lord John Russell to Lord Brougham, instead of the Rev. Sydney Smith. The error is of no great consequence, but there may be certain cap tious spirits who will think a good deal of it. Riberpoot &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1843. The zeal of the present age in matters of religion, so far at least as it is evidenced by the liberality of individuals or of the nation in the erection of places of divine worship, is, we fear, immeasurably below that of our fathers, centuries ago. Enter any of the an cient cities or towns of the United Kingdom ; and there you will almost infallibly meet with some noble specimen of architecture —some lavish expenditure of baronial wealth—devoted to the furtherance of the religious instruction and comfort of the people. Visit our cathedral towns; and what stately erections arrest the gaze ! erections many of which must have occu pied in their progress more than the space of an or dinary life; of which few of their pious founders could have hoped to witness the completion, and which must have swallowed up the value of a dozen estates of no contemptible worth. And then what finished art ! what elaborate execution, carried out into the most minute feature, into the most hidden corner, as if the builder grudged no expense of time or cost in a fabric to be dedicated to the Most High! how different is this from the nakedness of finish displayed in some of our modern erections! 'What vastness, too, of design! and —may it not also be said ?—what consummate taste displayed in the selection of localities, from which these sacred temples might display their beautiful pro portions to the admiration and reverence of admiring worshippers ! Durham and Lichfield, 'Wi nc h ester and S a li s b ury —could nobler sites have been chosen for any one of these noble piles ? Enter the metropolis. Ascend St. Paul's, and look eastward and immediately below you. Within the walls of the ancient city, pile beside pile arises, from the light and graceful pillared spire to the more unadorned and ungraceful steeple, until the eye is absolutely wearied, and you might imagine that you stood in the centre of a city of churches. Listen to the sabbath bells as they ring out from the lisart of that cr ow d e d hive of busy commerce; and tough you may doubt the temper of the generation, which now inhabits it, to obey the sacred call, you cannot doubt the deep conviction of past generations of its wealthy citizens, that the pursuits of commerce are not less prosperous, though a portion of its accumulations are occasionally devoted to rear temples to the name of Him who gives the increase. But, alas ! look beyond these very restricted limits, which' held the forefathers of the present mighty and overgrown metropolis. Let your eye stretch towards Kensington, Walworth, and the Dover road to the south; turn westward and northward, and glance over the magnificent squares— the residences of the nobility, the leadin g gentry, t h e leadi ng members of the learned profe ss i ons, the w ealthy mercha n t, an d of that vast Population which may be said, in . worldly position, to hang upon the skirts of gentility —a wretched class, by the way, more numerous in the metropolis of England than in any other city in the world. Upon what a blank does the eye fall ! Here at least —side by side with those magnificent pala ces —i n t h ose stately streets, the resort of fashion and high birth and wealth—here the eye is not wearied with the multitude of churches, or with their gorgeous architecture. On the co n t rary, we believe we are co rrect i n stating that ther is not church a ccommodation, or accommodation e for any kind of religious worship —s o little does voluntaryism effect !—for one fortieth part of the population ! We have dwelt upon the particular instance of the metropolis, because it most strongly and strikingly illustrates our position. We have, in a portion of that mighty city, a locality distinctively ancient; and we find in it the marks of a profuseness almost unexam pled, and which modern utilitarianism would term wasteful, displayed in the provision of " decent and convenient places" for the performance of religious worship. We have another portion, as distinctively new, the resort of fashion, wealth, talent, distinguished character, and noble blood ; and there we see the marks of a niggardliness, both in the number and architecture of its places of worship, which is dis graceful to the religious character and taste of the nation. But we need not dwell upon the example of London; for the same contrast there seen may be found existing, between the ancient towns of England and those which have been created by the giant accu mulations, with which commercial and manufacturing activity has been rewarded, during the past century. Where are the deodands, if we may so term them, of the great bulk of the millionaires, who have been made within the past two or three generations ? 'Where the temples reared by those hands ? Where the noble appreciation of the example set them by our more humble-minded and religious forefathers ? Few, in deed, are the evidenceS to which we can point in reply ; and those few—how miserably poor, in design, in architecture, and in adornment —how strongly illus trative of the narrow spirit, with which an avaricious and utilitarian generation gives to God and to religion, whilst it lavishes, without measure or bound, to pro vide objects of worldly pleasure or luxury ! Those few evidences, too, which the past twenty years have pro duced, of care f or t h e sp i r i tual wants of the increasing population of the resorts of commerce, can we award credit for them to the spontaneous liberality of the wealthy ? In a few cases we can. Our own town bears evidence of such a feeling—of a remembrance, in prosperity, of that God whose goodness had accorded it. But in the great majority of such towns, the aid has come from without; and has been seconded by the exertions of the local clergy, and the benevolence of individuals, who have not given " of their abun dance "