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iiisuiitkM‘ttcrs' ROCK LIFE vesSITRANCIcompANY. ESTAK4IIH ar5.,3806. Invested Ca upwarda of THREE lONS Sterling. Liverpool Agency: 4, LOWER CASTLE -STREET. The Accounts of this Company will be made np to 31st December instant, and the next Septennial division of the profits is in 1854. N.B.—lntending Insurers are reminded that proposals lodged with us prior to the end of the present month of De cember, will secure One Year's additional Bonus at every future divisipn a'uove propoqals completed at a later Prospectuses, and all further information, can t be pr ocured on application to JOSEPH FRY and SON, Agents WESTMINSTER FIRE OFFICE, STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON (Estal7.) Fire Insurances effected blished at the 17 usual moderate rates of premium. Short period Policies are granted. Rent may be insured. Losses are promptly and liberally settled. AGENTS IN LIVERPOOL: Mr. H. L. SHERLOCK, Customs Agent, Canning-place. Mr. JAMES BURNhT. Commission Agent, 9, Dale-street. Mr. THOMA S MILLER, Drysalter, 22, King-street. AGENTS IN MANCHESTER : Mr. E. W. ROYLANCE, Old Corn Exchange. Mr. W. RABY, 19, Pall-mall. KING WESTMINSTER AND GENERAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, KING -STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON. (Established 1836.) Life Assurance in all its branches effected. Eight -tenths of the profits divided among the Assured. A division of profits every five years. The bonus additions have amounted to ONE-HALF the pre alums paid on the policies. Assurances without profits at reduced rates. Any information respecting Life Assurance, with proposals and forma of application, may be obtained on application to the under-mentioned Agents:— LIVERPOOL: Mr. JAMES BURNET,IN Commission Agent, 9, Dale-street Mr. THOMAS MILLER. Drysalter, 22, King-street. IN MANCHESTER : Mr. E. W. ROYLANCE, Old Corn Exchange. Mr. W. RABY, 19, Pall-mall. WATERLOO LIFE, EDUCATION, CASUALTY, AND SELF-RELIEF ASSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated under Statute 7 and 8 Vic. cap. Subscribed Capital, .e400,0c0. HEAD OFFICE, 355, STRAND, LONDON. LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD: DIRECTORS. Chairman.—Hilton Halhead, Esq., Merchant. Robert Bickersteth, Esq., F.R.C.S. James Bland, Esq., Merchant. Matthew Gregson, Esq., Merchant. William Joseph Horsfall, Esq., Merchant. James Lord, Esq., Merchant. MEDICAL REFEREE. Alfred Stephens, Esq., 4, Upper Parliament-street. MANAGE R.—Mr. Chas. Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings . Clayton-square. FEATURES OF THIS COMPANY. By the appropriation of profits, a Fund will be created for the Education of Children of qualified Assurers upon Volun tary Principles, also for the relief of qualified Assurers and Shareholders, their Widows and O rp h ans, b y prov i d i ng Annuities, and Homes or Asylums. Assurances granted against paralysis, blindness, insanity, accidents. and other afflictions. Annuities granted. Family endowments. No charge to the assured for policy stamps. Medical men always paid for their reports. Loans granted in connexion with Life Assurance. Rates of premium moderate. An unusually liberal commission allowed to Agents. Detailed Prospectuses may he had on application to T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN., ESQ., MANAGER AND SECRETARY. Head Office, 355, Strand, London. THE LANCASHIRE INSURANCE ___ COMPANY. CAPITAL, - TWOiriLLIONS. OFFICE-26, Market-street, Manchester. LONDON OFFICE-2, King-street, Cheapside. LIVERPOoI, OFFICE-3, High-street,&s, Exchange-street East. GLASGOW OFFICES-118, Ingram-street, and 4, Hanover-street. GREENOCK OFFICE—The Mansisn-house. DIRECTORS AT LIVERPOOL. CHAIRMAN—Eyre Evans, ESQ. Benjamin Darbyshire, Esq. I W. F. Hunter, Esq. Thomas Fry, Esq. Frederick Lyon, Esq George Glen, Esq. 1 Daniel Powell, Esq. Charles Holland, Esq. I James Smith, Esq. RESIDENT SECRETARY—John Semple, Esq. LIFE PARTMENT. BONUSES. —EIGHTY P E R CENT. of the Profits appor tioned to the Ass ure d t r i enn i ally, after the first five years, and applicable as may be preferred at the time of each valuation. Age. I 20 I 30 I 40 I 50 I Bonus Rates IRI 17 0 ---- I --- I I i-- R 2 6 0 R 3 0 6 R 4 69 I R 6 7 6 SPECIAL NOTICE.—No Stamp Duty whatever charged. FIR DEPARTMENT. BONUSES.—FIFTYE PER CENT. of the Profits appor tioned to the Assured annually on Policies of three years' standing —an advantage offered by very few Offices. INSURANCES ON FARMING STOCK. The Public are informed that the Rates for the Insurances of Farming Stock with this Company have just been REDUCED from 4s. to 3s. per Cent. without the Average Clause, and from 3s. 6d. to 2s. 6d. with that Clause. NOTICE. —Persons insured with this Office, whose Policies expire at CHRISTMAS, are respectfully reminded that they should be renewed within Fifteen Days from that period; and those who desire to avail themselves of the advantages and security of The Lancashire Insurance Company incur no extra expense by the transfer of their Policies. Influential Gentlemen Wanted as Agents, where the Com pany is not represented. Prospectuses, Mercantile Rates, Forms of Proposal, and all Other information, will be afforded at the Offices and Agencies Of the Mr. WM:I-IE.NDERSON, Agent for Birkenhead; Mr. G. J. ASPINAT.I. Agent for Toxteth-park. • . THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL, £ 2 ,000,000, in moon sHARES of £2O each, HEAD OFFICE, NORTH JOHN -STREET, AND DALE-STREET.: John Shaw Leigh, E TRUSTEES. I R. B. B. H. Blundell , Esq. DIRECTORS. &C., IN LIVERPOOL. Charles Turner, Esq., Chairman. .7. Brainley-Moore, Esq., and Edmund Molyneux, Esq., Deputy-Chairmen. Michael Belcher. Esq. Richard Houghton, Esq. Michael Bona/leld, Esq. Edward Johnston, Esq. Thomas Bouch, Esq. Roger Lyon Jones Esq. Ralph Brocklebank, Esq. James Lawrence, Eaq. David Cannon, Eaq. William J. Marrow, Eaq. Thomas Dover, Esq. I Francis Maxwell, Esq. R. Ellison Harvey, Esq. George Maxwell, Esq. James Holme, Esq. Robert McAndrew, Esq. I'. Dyn Hornby, Esq. William Smith, E sq . George H. Horsfall, Esq. John Torr, Esq. AUDITORS. William Titherington, Esq., and John Dickinson, Esq. PHYSICIAN. SURGEON. Richard Formby, M.D. Hugh Neill, F.R.A.S. SURVEYOR. SOLICITOR. Samuel Holme, Esq. Septimus Booker, Esq. MANAGER AND ACTUARY, Percy M. Dove, Eaq. BIRKENHEAD BRANCH, OFFICE—HAMILTON -BUILDINGS, HAMILTON-STREET. Agent.—Fienry Cole, Esq. Surgeon.—James T. Vale, Esq., Hamilton-square. LIFE BRANCH. SPECIAL NOTICE . — STA MPS ON LIFE POLICIES NOT CHARGED. Attention is directed to the fact that to a defined extent Life Premiums are not subject to Income-tax, and that in certain cases Life Policies are exempt from the New Succession Duties. FIRE BRANCH. FIRE INSURANCES will be effected at moderate rates of Premium. The Company, having the advantage of a Resi dent Directory, will be enabled to distinguish itself by its promptness in the s ettlement of Claims. No Charge made for the Policy. BRANCH. The Corn pany likewise LIFE assure Lives on any of the following contingencies, namely : For the WHOLE CONTINUANCE OF LIFE.—The Premiums to cease after a LIMITED NUMBER OF ANNUAL PAYMENTS. Fora Sum to be payable at Age 60, or at Death. UATIS ON IT. A PORTION PRE OFTHE PREMIUMS CRE MAY REMAIN ON CREDIT, OR ASSURANCES MAY BE EFFECTED IN VARIOUS WAYS, NOT ENUMERATED, TO MEET THE CONVENIENCE OF THE PARTY MAKING THE ASSUR ANCE. The important advantages afforded by the Company in this Branch will include the following. viz.:— GUARANTEE OF AN AMPLE CAPITAL MODERATE PRE MIUMS, LARGE PARTICIPATION OFPROFITS BY THE ASSURED, SMALL CHARGE FOR MANAGEMENT, &c. The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors. Fees to Medical Referees are likewise granted by this Com pan Po y. PER. DOVE, Manaer. licies falling due a t CHRISTCY M. should h e renew ed on or before the 9th of January next. December, 1853. ATLAS FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 92, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. Ectabllched 1808, and Empowered by Act of Parliament of ___ the 54th Giorge 114 - cap. 79 DIRECTORS. JOHN OLIVER HANSON, Esq. Chairman. WILLIAM GEORGE PREscorr, Esq., ' Deputy -Chairman. Sir William Bay nes , Bart. Moses Mocatta, Esq. A. E. Campbell, Esq. Capt. A. L. Montgomery, R.N . T. Chapman, Esq., F.R.S. James William Ogle, Esq. Joseph Grote, Esq. Joseph Pulley, Esq. Samuel Eustace Magan, Esq. Arthur Augustus Ruch, Esq . AUDITORS. Actuary,LChar Benj. Buck Greene Esq., and les Ansell, Es. John Georg,F.R.S. e Maclean, Esq. q Solicitor,—Thomas Browning, Esq. Surveyor,—Thos. Hopper, Esq. In THE LIFE BRANCH.—The essential qualifications of as surance, combining perfect security and the highly-favoured Bonus System, are united, thereby giving immediate benefit to the policy holders, as exemplified in the result of a practice thoroughly developed and established. POLICIES MAY BE EFFECTED for the whole term of life by Payment yearly or half-yearly, also by a limited number of yearly payments, a mode o f A ssurance which originated with this Company in 1816. IN THE FIRE BRANCH.—The rates for every description of assurance will be found to assimilate to those of the most r espectable and best conducted offices, with the periodical division of surplus premiums, and other advantages highly f avourable to the assured. . A DETAILED S TATEMENT OF THE TERMS, &C., on which the business of the Company in its various branches is con ducted, and exhibiting the successful result thereof, lately enlarged and publi s h e d by the Directors, may be b a d a t th e adai Oftice, and of the Agents of th e Compa n y i n G rea t ..rz will be sent by post, on application by letter. rtENzwALs.—Policies due at CHRISTMAS DAY Sh0111(.1 be renewed within Fifteen Days thereafter. HENRY 92 DEG, Cheap s id e, London, December SßOßOU 7th 1,1853. H, Secretary RV Th e Agents f or t h e Company at the undermentioned places + :-.... LIVERPOOL , Messrs. HORNBY and MARSDEN, 10, North John-street. Dirro...llr..T. T. LEYLAND, 27, Exchange -alley North. turro...Messrs. MUSGROVE ? VANCE, and WORTHING - 13, rro As TON, H argraves -buildings, Exchange-street East, Di • •"'"c• W. H. MACLEAN, Tower-buildings. A T ,ro., .Mr. JAMES L. CROSS, 26, Castle-street. - iTieby, it. Winter, pi' n Manchester, R. and C. Harvey, pt,on-undi,r-Lyn, W . Lee and H. B. Green. it: tKb urn, R. VVildin W. * Ormskirk, James Robinson. Bolton C. Brign. g' Oldham, John Duncuft. ThiiatneYma,nrdtoToaniorden, T. E. Preston, W. Lancaster. BuTY, Richa4l rr. T' Lyvoqk i. . e Rochdale, James Hartley. Chorley, J. Ny„e"'". St. Helen's. J. Ansdell. Clitheroe, Stockport, W. Downall, Lancaster, T. Allbri(Rilli Ulverston, W. Postlethwaite. Leigh, T. Whitehead. * Warrington, J. Hall. Maccleslleld, It. Turner. Wigan, J. Fairhurst. ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIAL of the valu able medicinal properties of FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH forwarded to Mr. Thomas Front, 229, Strand, from W. Smith, Esq. :—" 13, St. Al ark's-terrace, West Brompton, London, 10th May, 1852.—Sir,—Ten years ago I was induced to give you my opinion, founded on experience, of the merits of Frampton's Pill of Health. lam pleased at your having published that plain statement, by which I hope others have been induced to try so effective a medicine. Anxious cares and the neglect of my old tried friend during the early part of this year, had produced symptoms of uneasiness which I found it prudent no longer to neglect; and I am delighted to say that a few doses of the pills, under the blessing of Divine Providence, has removed, and I am again as well as I ever was in my life. Please forward me the usual supply of half-a dozen boxes, which I may safely term my medicine chest for self and family; and I hold it a duty to omit no opportunity of thus giving to you proofs of my experience of the valuable properties of this medicine.—WM. SMITH." These Pills are particularly efficacious for Stomach Coughs, Colds, Agues, Shortness of Breath, and all Obstructions of the Urinary Passages; and, if taken after too free an indulgence at table, they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose. Persons of a Full Habit, who are subject to Head ache, Giddiness. Drowsiness, anti Singing in the Ears, arising from too great a flow of Blood to the Head, should never be without them, as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use. For Females, these Pills are most truly excellent, removing all Obstructions, the dis tressinic Headache so very prevalent with the sex ; Depression of Spirits, Dulness of Sight, Nervous Affections, Blotches, Pimples, and Sallowness of the Skin, and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion. To Mothers they are con fidently recommended as the best medicine that can be taken during pregnancy ; and for children of all ages they are un equalled. As a pleasant, safe, and easy Aperient, they unite the recommendation of a mild operation with the most suc cessful effect. By regulating the dose, according to the age and strength of the patient, they become suitable for every case, in either sex, that can be required. Sold by T. PROUT, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. lid., and 2s. 9d. per box; and by the Vendors of Medicines gene rally throughout the Kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of "Thomas Front, 229, strand, Lon don," on the Government Stamp. ONE lIUNMEe POUNDS REWARD.— MISSING, EDWARD LAMB, Esq., of Roston, United States, who _disappeared in Paris about the 10th June last, supposed to be orillis return to the United States via Havre or Boulogne. The above reward will be paid for such infor mation as will lead to his discovery.—Apply to Mr. WILLIAM SCIRENK, 4, Royal Exchange-buildings, London. AI 'S IN THE BACK, GRAVEL, LUMBAGO, RHEUMATISM, GOUT, HEADACHE, N ERVOUSNESS. DEBI LITY, &c.—DR. DE ROOS' CO MPO UND RE N•A PILLS (as their name Renal, or the Kidneys, indicates) have been long established as a most -safe and efficacious remedy for the above dangerous complaints, Discharges of any kind, and Diseases Kid neys, &c., which, if neglected, frequently end in a lingering painful death. For Depression of Spirits, Excitement, Dis like of Society, Incapacity for Study or Business, Loss of Memory, 'Contusion, Giddiness, Blood to the Head, Drowsi ness, -Sleep vrith3ut refreshment, Nervousness, and even In sanity itself, they are .unequalled. Possessing tonic proper ties, they agree with ithe most delicate stomach strengthen the digestive organs, increase the appetite, and improve the general health. They require neither confinement nor change of diet, and, as experience has amply proved, they will effect a pure when mercury,and all other dangerous medicines have failed. One Trial will convince the most sceptical of their surprising properties. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Leiellid, Etruria, Potteries.—" Your Renal Pills have done wonders with , me and others to whom I have recom mended them:" IL C., Post-office, StaTford.—' splendid medicine:" I. Murphy, 70, Upper Sterin-street, Dublin.—" I never met the like of them before; they are really a surprising medicine." T. Webster, Esq., Sealfard, Melton Mowbray.—" Your va►u able Renal Pills have done good to every one I gave them to." Mr_ Thos. Williams, at Mr. Hutchings, baker, King-street, Ciielsea.—" I was persuaded to try your most beautiful Pills, and um happy to inform you I have received 'more benefit from themthan from any of the medical men in London." W. Chartres, Esq., Newport, Mayo.—" I have a degree of mental energy and vigour such as I did not feel these two years. My memory is •wonderfully improved, so that I can ecollect all the events of each day with the greatest degree of clearness. It is astonishing how I got out of such awful suf ferings, but I think I owe it altogether to the use of your Pills." PERSONS 'GOING ABROAD, CAPTAINS and OTHEaS, cannot store more important articles of health than the above, which, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, and tranquil lizing the Nervous System, will prevent those fatal diseases so prevalent abroad, as also Sea Sickness and other complaints incidental to long voyages and irregular living. No Emi grant's Chest can be properly furnished without them, for when far removed from medical aid, they will find in these Pills a never-failing restorative. IMPORTANT.—Some unprincipled Vendors, when asked for Dr. Da Roos' PILLS, haveattempted to foist upon the public other Medicines or trash of their own compounding, from which they obtain a larger profit. The GENUINE have the words, " WALTER DE ROOS, LONDON," in white letters on a red ground, printed in the Stamp affixed to each box ; by special direction of Her Majesty's Honourable Commis sioners, to protect the Public from Fraud, and to imitate which is felony. "Your Renal Pills are a most May be obtained through all Medicine Vendors, at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., Ila., and Gas. per Box, with full directions for use • or by enclosing Peat -office Order or Stamps to Dr. DE ROOS, 35, ELY-PLACE, HOLBORN-HILL, LONDON, they will be sent per return.. At home for consultation daily from II till 4, Sunday excepted. Advice and Medicines Sold by Jones, 5, Paradise-street, and 78, London-road, Mottram, 24, Waterloo-road, and 6, Argyle-street, Birken head; Priestley, 52, Lord-street, Liverpool; Barnes, Fisher gate, Preston ; Marsh, Wallgate, Wigan ; Clarke, Gazette office, Lancaster; Weatmacott, No. 4, Market-street, Manches ter. and all Medicine Vendors. N. 13.—Respectable Persons in Country places, who will be allowed a liberal Commission, may make a handsome addition to their income by selling these Pills, which are very justly becoming a favourite Medicine with the Public. OOLLEYS PECTORAL CANDY.- PATRONISEDBY THE FACULTY. The rapidly-increasing sale of this invaluable Medicine is a convincing proof of its efficacy. The Proprietor can con& dently recommend it in all cases of Coughs, Sore Throats, Hoarseness, Loss of Voice, and Weakness of the Chest and Lungs, as well as for the relief and ultimate cure of long. standing Asthmatic Affections, which have offered resistance to the most approved remedies. Being entirely free from all noxious ingredients, and beneficial to the system generally, it may be taken by persons of all ages with •perfect safety; for whilst powerful to heal and give relief to the chest and throat, and to subdue and eradicate cough, its tendency is to cool and purify the blood. The following are a few of the many thousand cures yearly effected by Woom.sv's PECTORAL CANDY Surprising Cure of a Cough of seven years' duration, after the best medical advice had failed.—Plymouth, Foundry, Plymouth. Devon, March 22, 1850.—T0 Mr. Woolley,— Sir,—l think it a duty I owe to yourself and the public to inform you of the great benefit I have derived from your Pec toral Candy. I have been troubled with a severe cough for the last seven years, and although I have had the hest medical advice, I could obtain no permanent relief, until I fortunately tried your Candy, and after taking two small boxes, I find myself free from cough. You have my permis sion to give publicity to this statement.—l am, sir, yours, B►c., JOHN EDAIOND MARE. Cure of a Cough of four years' standing.—Chatham, April 18th, 1850. —To Mr. Woolley,—llear Sir,—Mrs. Chiseman, of Garden-street, Brompton, has been cured of a cough of four years' standing. by taking one box of your Pectoral Candy, and is desirous of expressing her gratitude, in order that others similarly afflicted may obtain the same benefit. Please send me three dozen of the large boxes for her brother to take out to the Mauritius with him next week. I can also add my testimony that, from the many cases I awe seen of its decided efficacy, I am persuaded it stands aarivalled as a general cough medicine.—Yours truly, HENRY WATTS, Chemist. Chatham. _ _ Extraordinary Cure of a case of Asthma of ten years' duration.—Redditch, Worcestershire, March 17th, 1851. Sir,—l have the pleasure of informing you of the cure of -a sister of mine of Asthma of ten years' duration, by your Pec toral Candy.—l am, yours truly, _ JAMES litia GIN s. Temperance Hotel N. 8.—1 could tell you of another cure, but the person said he should write to you himself. This was the person who recommended it to my sister. The following very flattering recommendation from an M.D., (dated Sept. Bth, 1852.) needs no comment :—I feel a pleasure in recommending Woollev's Pectoral Candy, in pulmonary complaints, influenza, coughs, colds asthma, and affections of the chest.—G. C. KERNOT, Chrisp street, Poplar New Town, London. Prepared by WOOLLLY, Chemist, Maidstone; and sold in boxes, Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each, by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Wholesale Agents in this District :—Liverpool : Messrs. RAIMES and CO; 40, Hanover-street; EVANS, SON, and CO., 52, Hanover-street. Sold Retail in Liverpool by F. G. Jones, Chemist and Whole sale and Retail Patent Medicine Vendor, 5, Paradise-street, and 78, London-road, one door from Seymour-street; G. H. Howell, Chemist, 72, Dale-street; Joel Kirkus, Chemist, 1, Mill. street, corner of Stanhope-street; Charles Bromley, Che mist, I. London-road ; Henry Mottram, Chemist. 24, Water loo-road. Birkenhead: Henry Mottram, Chemist, 6, Argyle street. Chester: E. Roden, Chemist; W. Higgins, Chemist, Manchester : Messrs. Mottershead and Roberta, 1, Market place ; James Woolley, 69, Market-street ; L. F Brown, Chemist, Strangeways and Broughton. Wigan: James Kellett, Chemist, Market-place. UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COUGHS IN TEN MINUTES AFTER USB.—INSTANT RELIEF AND A RAPID CURE OF ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, COLDS, AND ALL DISORDERS OF THE BREATH AND LUNGS ARE INSURED BY DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS. The moat wonderful CURES of ASTHMA and CONSUMPTION, COUGHS, COLDS, and all Disorders of the BREATH and LUNGS, are performed by this extraordinary remedy. ANOTHER CURE OF CONSUMPTIVE COUGH.—Extract of a letter from Mr. Thomas Dean, 150, Scotland-road, Liver pool.—Gentleinen,—l have great pleasure in communicating to you a case (among many) which came under my own observation. A lady, who I can refer to, in her assiduous attendance upon her husband during a long and fatal illness, caught cold, and not having taken care of herself, it settled upon her lungs. She was troubled with a dreadful cough, and every symptom of consumption. She applied to her medical man, but did not obtain any relief; when, upon the recommendat on of a friend, she tried Dr. Locock's Wafers, whicn, from the commencement, eased her cough, and by continuing them she is perfectly cured. THOMAS DEAN. ANOTHER CURE OF COUGH AND HOARSENESS.—Parlia ment-street, Liverpool.—Sir,—lt is with much pleasure I bear testimony to the extraordinary power of Locock's Wafers. I had been troubled with a cough and hoarseness for nearly two years, without relief, when I was induced to try Locock's Wafers, the effects of which were soon visible, for one large box (2s. 9d.) las quite cured me. I have since recommended them to several of my friends, and they have experienced the greatest relief from them.—Yours, gratefully, J. WILLIAMS. IMPORTANT TO ALL WHO SING.—From S. Pearsall, Esq., Her Majestj's Concerts, and Vicar Choral of Lichfield Cathedral. Lichfield.—Gentlemen,—A lady of distinction, having pointed out to me the qualities of Dr. Locock's Wafers, I was induced to make a trial of a box, and from this trial I am happy to give my testimonial in their favour. I find by allowing a few of the Wafers (taken in the course of the day) to gradually dissolve in the mouth, my voice becomes bright and clear, and the tone full and distinct. They are decidedly the most efficacious of any I have ever used. S. PEARSALL. To SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS they are invaluable, as in a few hours they remove all hoarseness, and increase the power and flexibility of the voice. They have a pleasant taste. Price Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and Ils. per box; or sent by post for Is. 3d., 35., or I ls. 6d., by DA SILVA and Co., 26, Bride lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all Medicine Vendors. NOTE.—FuII directions are given with every box in the English, German, and French Languages. Also may be had, , DR. LOCOCK'S FAMILY APERIENT & ANTIBILIOUS WAFERS A mild and gentle Aperient and Stomachic Medicine, having a most agreeable taste, and of great efficacy for regulating the secretions and correcting the action of the stomach and liver. Sold at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and I Is. per box. Also, DR. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS. The best Medicine for Ladies. Have a pleasant taste. Price ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and Ils. per box, with full directions. All Pills under similar names are counterfeits. DR. LOCOCK'S c OSMETIC. . _ _ A delightfully fragrant preparation, for improving and beautifying the complexion, rendering the akin clear, soft, and transparent, removing all eruptions, freckles, sunburn, tan, pimples, and roughness,—curing gnat bites, and the stings of insects generally. In the PROCESS of SHAVING, it ALLAYS all SMARTING, and renders the skin soft and smooth. Sold in bottles. at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 45. 6d. each. Beware of counterfeits. Observe the name on the government stamp outside the wrapper. Sold by all respectable chemists. WHOLESALE AGENTS :—Raimes and Co., Evans, Son, and Co., Lord-street. Sold in Liverpool, by Roberts, Ranelagh street ; Carter and Clay, Bold-street; Aspinall and Wagstaff, St. James's-street; J. Britten, Old Haymarket; Howell, Dale-street: T. D. Walker, Upper Parliament-street. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PRANCE The political arrests have not entirely ceased but they are now very few in number. It is said that c those which have taker place most recently, some are in connection with a plot for assassinating the Emperor on the occasion of the inauguration of the Rue de Strausburgh. A timely warning prevented the Emperor's attending the ceremony. Placards ' have made their appearance in the streets of Paris, announcing, on the part of the adminis trators of the Royal domains, the sale of the chateau and estate Rainey, belonging to the Orleans' family, in virtue der " tl of -1" -.re confiscation decree of _le 22L January, 1852. The upset price is 1,383,098 f. Major Magnan, who assisted Omer Paella in constructing the immense fortifications erected on the Danube and in the Balkan, has arrived in Paris, and has had an audience with the Emperor. A French Cabinet courier left Paris on Wednesday night with despatches for the ambassador at Constantinople. His orders were to proceed by the shortest route, to em ploy the most -rapid means of conveyance, and to rest neither night -nor day till he arrived at his destination. His despatches are believed to contain instructions suited to the exigency of the moment. SPAIN.- The Official Gazette of the 11th contains several important decrees. Six members of the Council have been sUsrnissed. General Jose de la Concha is de prived of his place of commander-in-chief of the cavalry, and General Ros de Olano is no longer director of the Military Board of Health. PORTIMAL.—A letter from Lisbon, in the Heraldo of Madrid of the :7th, says that the King Regent of Portugal intended to demand from the Cortes the proclamation of the majority of his son, King Pedro V. ; also that it was reported that the young King intended to make a journey in Spain and Portugal. ITALY.—Negotiations are said to be in progress for the simultaneous evacuation of the Romish States by the French and Austrian armies of occupation. It is stated that a secret treaty exists, by which that double occupa tion was to last for five years. The five years being about to expire, the Pope is anxious to get rd of his foreign protectors, and to trust to the safeguard of Italian troops alone. The King of Naples is organising a body of 20,000 men, which he promised Pio Nono, during his residence at Gaeta, that he would place at his disposal. The whole of these troops are to adopt the Pontifical cockade, and to protect the Holy See, along with the 12,000 men whom the Pope has already in his service. _ Governnient of Baden has informed the various German Governments of the quarrel between the Grand Duke's Cabinet and the Archbishop of Freiburg. That prelate still insists on suspending the priests who refuse implicit obedience to his orders, and the Govern ment, in its turn, continues its coercive measures against the priests who obey the orders of the Archbishop. ALISTRIA.—A despatch from Vienna of the 9th states that ever since the collective note was despatched to Con stantinople, the conferences of the ambassadors have been long and frequent. That very day M. de Bourquene had an interview with Baron Meyendorff. The export of arms and ammunition to Bosnia has been prohibited by an order of the Austrian Government. The Christian popula tion of Bosnia is in a state of great excitement. EGYPT.— We have intelligence by Overland mail from Alexandria to the 6th instant. A great number of mer chant vessels arrived during the last fortnight, and are taking in cargoes of grain and pulse. The stocks of grain in Alexandria seem to be greater than was at first sup posed ; and, though the exportation is still limited to the quantities held by the merchants here, the apprehensions of deficiencies to fill the vessels are not yet felt. It is also now known that the stocks in the Viceroy's stores are very great, and the only reasons that can be imagined to induce his Highness to hold these large supplies are either that he meditates a great speculative stroke by selling when prices rise still higher, or that his intention must be to ship off supplies to the Sultan's army. PERSlA.—Persia has declared war against Turkey. Be fore this step was definitely taken, the British Chargé d'Affairs at Teharan had suspended his diplomatic relations with the Persian Government, in consequence of that power having resolved to take part against the Ottoman Porte, and to march an army to the frontier. This move ment on the part of the Schah of Persia had for some time been apprehended, as his relations with Turkey were such as to induce him to take advantage of the increasing difficulties whieh encompass the Ottoman Empire. CANADA.—We have intelligence from Quebec to the Ist instant. The winter season has fairly set in. The British ship Britannia, while at anchor off Quebec, on the 28th ult., was cut through by ice and waterlogged ; she was towed to Wolfe's Cove. The British ship, John Campbell, had to ship her anchor, to escape the ice, and was towed to the Cove. Capt. Howell, of the British bark Elizabeth, which went ashore at Reviere de Loup on the night of the 28th, reports nine British vessels ashore at Hare Island and River Side. One of these barks, the Mount Washington, has since passed Riviere de Loup in safety. Another bark, the British Queen, was surrounded by ice on the 28th, and the crew had abandoned her. Twenty one square-rigged vessels, of upwards of 12,000 tons, some were loaded, would probably have to winter in Quebec. Several had taken up winter berths on the 30th. The ships Wilson, J.K.L., and Waterlily, and brig Sutton, were also ashore at Hare Island. Several ships are reported ashore at Bic. CENTRAL AMERlCA.—Advices have been received by the Steam-ship, La Plata. It was rumoured that the Govern ment of the United States was negotiating with General Cabanas, the President of tie Republic of Honduras, for the purchase of the island of Tigre, on the Pacific coast. This island is situated in Tonsegay Bay, and is considered one of the best anchoring places in the Pacific. Its posses sion would be of considerable value as an intermediate coaling station for the steamers on their route to and from San Francisco, and also a depot for merchandise, which would find a good sale in Central America. A political object was, however, supposed to be concealed in this attempt of the Americans to obtain possession of a colony in the vicinity of Central America. Every effort was being made to complete the Panama Railway as soon as practi cable. 1,700 labourers are now employed upon it, and ad ditions were being made every fortnight by the steamers from Carthagena. Besides this, two shiploads of Irish labourers were daily expected from the Emerald Isle, who would commence work with an equal number of Coolies now on their way to Panama. Sou= AMERICA.—The Brazilian screw steamer Olinda, Captain Haram, has arrived at Cork, and her mails were received here on Saturday morning. The delay in her arrival has been caused by a slight derangement in her machinery, and a detention of five days in quarantine at Lisbon. She left Monte Video on the 4th, Rio Janerio on the 13th, Bahia the 18th, Pernambuco the 20th, St. Vincent the 29th ultimo, and Lisbon on the Bth instant. She brings dates from Buenos Ayres to the 29th October, forty-three passengers, and £7,726 in specie. On the Bth December the Olinda passed the British squadron of six sail near Lisbon. At Rio, the anxiety relative to European affairs had tended to affect business. Exchange closed at 27/ to 27i. Coffee firm. At Buenos Ayres the Ministry had .not announced any definite programme of policy. Important reforms in the import and export tariff were pending in the Chamber of Representatives. Buenos Ayres remained tranquil, and business was reviving. Obligado had been elected Governor. Judicial proceed ings had been commenced against the perpetrators of the murders committed during Rosas' Government, and some executions had taken place. In Monte Video the only political occurrences of any moment were the death of General Lavallija, the Provisional Government Director, and the departure of Oribe for Spain. The accounts from the departments are satisfactory, as all of them have declared in favour of the existing Government. Govern ment had disposed of one-half of the Customs' revenue to the former contractors. Under a decree of the 10th ult. the navigation of the interior rivers is open to the flags of all nations. In hides and tallow supplies con tinued stinted, with an improved tendency in prices. At Pernambuco business was limited : the sugar crop was very late. Exchange 27 to 27k. Money scarce, at ten per cent. At Bahia exchange was quoted 27d. Freights had advanced. The crops of sugar will be very deficient. At Rio the shares of the New National Bank had been sub scribed for with a feverish excitement, and maintained a premium of 10 per cent. The Emperor had granted a con cession for a railway from Bahia to the River San Francisco. From Chili we learn that the Congress had closed its ses sion, and the extraordinary powers granted to the Exe cutive last year had expired. Congress had empowered the Government to enter into contracts with the company proposing to establish steam communication with Europe by way of the Straits of Magellan, A grant of $50,000 to General Bulness had been sanctioned by the Congress. The intelligence from Peru is important. Don Domingo Elias had raised an insurrection in the north, and seemed determined to upset the present Government. His first attempt at Tumbez failed, but the last accounts left him at the head of a fresh revolt at Chiclayo, near Lambayeque. General Torrico, the Minister of War, had gone with 300 troops to endeavour to put down the revolt. Hostilities have at last commenced between Bolivia and Peru. The Bolivian army in the south, headed by General Belzu, had passed the frontier of Peru. The movement appears to have astonished the Peruvians and roused them into sud den activity. TURKEY, Further details of the disastrous affair at Sinope have been followed by the hasty news of another Turkish defeat. A despatch from Vienna of Thursday, contained the intelligence that the Russian General Andronikoff had defeated the Turks in a battle at Akhalzik, on the borders of Turkish Armenia, leaving 4,000 of their number dead on the field. Although there is nothing of such magnitude to set against this triumph of Russia, the news which reaches Constantinople of Turkish successes, in detail, is very en. couraging to the Ottoman cause. Near Fort St. Nicholas (Chekvetil), the Russians were repulsed in an attempt to land 18,000 men. Their retreat was attended with heavy loss, and was cut off in the direction of Russia. The Mussulman population of Georgia had risen in arms for Turkey. Schamyl and Selim Pacha had taken various fortresses ; and amongst them Redut-Kaleh, on the Black Sea coast, Kislar, Zahkatala, Kahetty, and Djeln. As regards the affair at Sinope, the news of which caused much excitement at Constantinople, it is certainly true that ten Turkish vessels of war and three transports were destroyed ; but it is also true that the immensely superior Russian force, although victorious, came out of the engagement in a scarcely less shattered condition than its opponents. The carnage on both sides was immense. Osman Pacha, who was wounded, fell into the hands of the enemy. Several officers, both English and French, were on board the Turkish fleet. The defeat at Sinope was known at Constantinople on the 3d. A grand Divan was held, of which all the Foreign Ministers were present. The English and French Am bassadors were urged to despatch the combined fleets into the Black Sea ; but they had an audience of the Sultan, at which it was resolved not to send the whole fleet at once, but four frigates, to obtain more precise information, as well as to afford medical assistance to the wounded. Through a Russian source we are informed that Prince Orbehan encountered 30,000 Turks, who had passed the Arpatchai, near Alexandropol, and, after a sharp engage ment, drove them back. They were retreating on the 14th November. _ _ _ It is also said that, in another direction, General Brum mer charged 7,000 Turks with the bayonet, and com pletely routed them, taking a cannon, two standards, and a part of the Turkish train and ammunition. The Lloyd of Vienna states that the Austrian consuls in the Otto man Empire having taken Russian subjects there under their protection, the Porte requested the Austrian Cabinet to take under its protection Turkish subjects in Russia. The application has been complied with, the Emperor of Russia having consented to the arrangement. Several German journals publish atletter from Vienna, which speaks of a very warm engagement on the road from Kalafat to Krajova, between the Turks, commanded by Ismail Pacha, and the Russian troops under the orders of General Kynevitch. After a sanguinary struggle the victory remained indecisive, but the Russians retired within the entrenchments which they have established near Krajova. CoNsTANTniopLE, DEC. :6. - -intelligence has reached this capital of a large corps of Circassians marching upon Souchonm Kaleh ,RONSTADT, DEC. 6.—lt is again asserted that Prince Gortschakoff has been instructed to hold himself in readi ness to pass the Danube. The British consul from Bucharest arrived here on the ard instant. TRIESTE, DEC. 11.—A conspiracy against the Vladika has been discovered in Montenegro. The conspirators are members of the Senate. Petrowitsch is one of them. On the plot being discovered they took to flight, and sought refuge at Cattaro. Intelligence from Constantinople states that the Phoebe, or Hebe, an English merchantman, has been fired into by the Russians and then boarded, in thevicinityof Trebisond. On the demand of M. de Bruck, the delay accorded to Russian merchantmen, before seizing them as prizes, has been prolonged. The Turks have not taken the fortress'of Akalsik : they only occupy the town.. The Pc;r 7 te has prolonged the permission for Russian trading vessels to pass the Black Sea and Mediterranean for forty-five days ; elsewhere for three months. Via Lemberg we have advices at Vienna from Odessa of the sth December. An English merchantman was burnt at Sinope. Osman Pasha was severely wounded. The town of Sinope was wholly destroyed. VIENNA, DEc. 16. —The Turkish embassy has received advices warranting the conclusion that the combined fleets have now entered the Black Sea, to prevent further hostilities. Swami, DEC.L—Official advices, received at Belgrade, state that the Russians have attacked the Turkish entrench ments at Kalafat. The following account of the engagement at Sinope is forwarded by the correspondent of the Times at Malta:— " A bloody action took place on the 30th of November, at Sinope, on the Asiatic side of the Black Sea. An Ottoman division, composed of four frigates, two corvettes, three or four small vessels, and two steamers, was in port, when a Russian force, comprising three line-of-battle ships and several frigates and corvettes, favoured by the wind, en tered, and the fight commenced. The struggle was dread ful, and sustained with heroic courage by the Turks. The batteries of the town were brought into play. The city was burning in two places. The Taif, which brought the news to Constantinople, reports that when she left Sinope the fight was continued with determined obstinacy. They saw on board one Russian liner go down. The Taif was attacked, had several bullets through her, and many men killed and wounded. It is added that the steam-frigates Retribution and Mogador, one from each division, have left to convey assistance to the wounded, whilst a third steamer (English) has been dispatched for precise details of the action. ' CIRCASSIA.—SchamyI is rendering most efficient co-ope ration to the Ottoman forces. As soon as the old Imaum found that serious obstinate war between Russia and Turkey was a certainty, he collected 16,000 men and 20 guns. His lieutenant, Daniel Bey, was intrusted with 3,000 and four guns, the Naib Emir with 5,000 men as a reserve, and Abdnul Ghamar with 2,500. Schamyl him self attacked the fortress of Zahkatala, while Daniel Bey assaulted Khagetty, a strong position commanding an important military road through the mountains. Zahkatala fell after a most sanguinary battle, which lasted 36 hours. The Russians fought most desperately, and when they were unable longer to hold the place, they spiked their guns, broke the spokes of their ammunition carriages, and burnt their barracks. Schamyl next turned his arms against Lignay, where he again was conqueror, and drove the Russians in the direction of Tiflis. At Khagetty Daniel Bey encountered a stout resistance, which he endured for several days, but in the end the place fell into his hands. After this Schamyl took four other fortresses from the Russians, among them Dischten. He then divided his little army into three corps, the strongest of which marched updn Tiflis ; the second, led by Daniel Bey, marched against Skirwan, and the two other leaders remained at the head of the third division, which was appointed a reserve. Prince Woronzow sent off dispatch after dispatch for help. At last General Orlianoff, with great difficulty, got together 15,000 men, with which to come to his superior's aid. We are expecting further par ticulars respecting subsequent operations. Daniel Bey subsequently attacked the second Russian division on the River Mohacz, and took the fortress of Messer by storm. General Dolgoruki marched against him in vain. Schamyl Naib attacked and defeated him. On the shores of the Black Sea another Turkish corps has taken the fortress of Seffo, about five miles from Schefkatil. The Russians lost 400 men, and 200 escaped. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 9.—The English and French steamers returned from Sinope on the 9th, bringing about 400 wounded. No less than 4,000 Turks perished in the battle. They fired first, and are said to have behaved with great bravery. The Russians, who were the real aggressors, acted with great cruelty. The accounts still leave it uncertain what loss was sustained by the Rus sians, and how much their ships suffered. Nor does it appear whether the Turkish squadrons were met at sea and pursued, or whether they were found and attacked in harbour, although the latest supposition is most probable. The movements of the combined fleets, consequent on the return of the steamers, were not known at Constantinople on the 9th, but it was reported that they were immedi ately to enter the Black Sea, and it was further reported that the Turkish fleet would attack Sebastopol. The Times believes that the fleets have left Bercos Bay, and the Chronicle's Vienna correspondent telegraphs that they are said to have entered the Black Sea. A e.espatch in the Post says the whole of the Turkish squadron was sunk at Sinope, and the town and fort nearly destroyed. The Russians continued their fire long after the necessity for it had ceased. The Russian ships sailed for Sebastopol the following day. The attempt at negotiation and paci fication are to be continued at Constantinople, though without hope. In Wallachia the Russians were marching to dislodge the Turks from Kalafat. The last accounts from Asia reduce the reported loss of the Turks at Acalsik to 1,000 killed, 200 prisoners, and thirteen cannon, action lasted eleven hours ; the Russians had nine officers wound ed, among whom was General Treitag, and their loss severe. HERMANSTADT, DEC. 7.—lt has been stated that Gene ral Aurep is marching to dislodge the Turks from Kalafat. This news is confirmed by the latest advices from the Russian camp. ODESSA, DEC. 4.—A great many Russian ships are cruising off Varna. The Turkish vessels find great diffi culties on their passage from Constantinople to Varna. Two Russian steamers are stationed off Galatz, and watch the movements of the Turkish ships. The Russian cruisers advance almost daily to the mouth of the Bosphorus. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA By the British and North American Royal Mail steam ship Canada, Captain Stone, we have intelligence from New York to the 6th, and from Boston to the 7th instant. The Canada sailed from Boston on the 7th, and from Halifax on the 9th instant, and reached the Mersey about one, a.m. on Sunday. She brought 101 passengers, and $700,000 dollars in specie. The screw steamer Andes, hence, put into Halifax, on the sth instant, short of coals. The United States mail steamer Humboldt, which left Cowes on the 23rd ultimo, met with very heavy weather on the passage, and ran short of coals. In making for Halifax, on the morning of the 6th instant, she ran ashore on the Sisters Rocks, at the mouth of the harbour, and remained hard and fast. At latest accounts she was full of water, and was certain to prove a total loss. Crew and passengers were saved. . . . The - American steamer Atlantic, from this port, with advices to the 16th November, reached New York on the morning of the 29th. The Europa arrived off Sandy Hook on the sth instant, at ten o'clock, p.m., but did not enter New York until nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th, in consequence of fog. She made a very long passage, having encountered very bad weather the whole voyage. The emigrant ships that had arrived at New York were more healthy, and but few additional deaths had been reported. Congress assembled on the sth, when there was an un usual expedition in the organisation of the house, and L. Boyd was elected Speaker. The estimates for the army proper are $10,151,000; for the naval establishment, $10,234,000; and for the steam mail service, $1,496,000. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE commences with thanksgiving for the general prosperity of the country. Diplomatic relations with foreign powers are essentially unchanged since last Congress. The pend ing quegtions with some of them are in course of amicable adjustment. The following are some of the chief points touched upon in the message : _ _ _ For some i'ears past Great Britain has so construed the first article of the Convention of the 20th of April, 1818, in regard to the fisheries on the northwestern coast, as to exclude our citizens from some of the fishing grounds, to which they freely resorted for nearly a quarter of a cen tury subsequent to the date of that treaty. The United States have never acquiesced in this construction, but have always claimed for their fishermen all the rights which they have so long enjoyed without molestation. With a view to remove all difficulties on the subject—to extend the rights of onr fishermen beyond the limits fixed by the Convention of 1818, and to regulate trade between the United States and the British North Ameri can provinces, a negotiation has been opened, with a fair prospect of a favourable result. To protect our fisher men in the enjoyment of their rights, and prevent colli sion between them and the British fishermen, I deemed it expedient to station a naval force in that quarter during the fishing season. Embarrassing questions have also arisen between the two Governments in regard to Central America. Great Britain has proposed to settle them by an amicable arrangement, and our minister at London is instructed to enter into negotiations on that subject. A commission for adjusting the claims of our citizens against Great Britain, and those of British subjects against the United States, organised under the Convention of February last, is now sitting in London for the transac tion of business• , It is in many respects desirable that the boundary line between the United States and the British provinces in the northwest, as designated in the Convention of the 15th of June, 184 6 , and especially that part which sepa rates the territory of Washington from the British pos sessions in the north, should be traced and marked. I bons c on ti nue on th e mos t f r i en dl y footing. oh With therefore eF presentrThaneceextensive r th r e el s a ulNect to y our no ti ce . comme rce b e t ween th e U n it e d States and that country might, it is conceived, be released from some unnecessary restrictions, to the mutual advan tage of both parties. With a view to this object, some progress has been made in negotiating a treaty of commerce and navigation. Independently of our valuable trade with Spain, we have important political relations with her, growing out of our neighbourhood to the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. I am happy to announce that since the last Congress no attempts have been made, by unauthorised expeditions within the United States, against either of these colonies. Should any movement be manifested within our limits, all the means at my command will be vigorously exerted to repress it. Several annoying occurrenceslave taken place at Havana, or in the vicinity of the Island of Cuba, between our citizens and the Spanish authorities. Considering the proximity of that island to our shores—lying, as it does, in the track of trade between some of our principal cities— and the suspicious vigilance with whidi foreign intercourse, particularly that with the United - States, is there guarded, a repetition of such occurrences may •well be apprehended. As no diplomatic intercourse is allowed between our Consul at Havana and the Captain General of Cuba, ready expla nations cannot be made, or prompt redress afforded, where injury has resulted. All complaint on the part of our citizens, under the present arrangement, must• be, in the first place, presented to this government, and then referred to Spain. Spain again refers it to her local authori ties in Cuba for investigation, and postpones an answer till she has heard from those authorities. To avoid these irritating and vexatious delays, a proposition has been made to provide a direct appeal for redress to the Captain General by our Consul, in behalf of our injured fellow citizens. Hitherto, the government of Spain has declined to enter into any such arrangement. This course on her part is deeply regretted; for, without some arrangements of this kind, the good understanding between the two countries may be exposed to occasional interruption. Our Minister at Madrid is instructed to renew the proposition, and to press it again upon the consideration of her Catholic Majesty's Government. In 1862, an expedition was sent to Japan, under the command of Commodore Perry, for the purpose of opening commercial intercourse with that island. Intelligence has been received of his arrival there, and of his having made known to the Emperor of Japan the object of his visit; but it is not yet ascertained how far the Emperor will be disposed to abandon his restrictive policy, and open that populous country to a commercial intercourse with the Uuited States. Considering the vast regions of this continent, and the number of States which would be made accessible by the free navigation of the river Amazon, particular attention has been given to this subject. Brazil, through whose territories it passes into the ocean, has hitherto persisted in a policy so restrictive, in regard to the use of this river, as to obstruct, and nearly exclude, foreign commercial intercourse with the States which lie upon its tributaries and upper branches. Our minister to that country is instructed to obtain a relaxation of that policy, and to use his efforts to induce the Brazilian government to open to common use, under proper safeguards, this great natural highway for international trade. * * * I am happy to inform you that the republic of Paraguay and the Argentine Confederation, have yielded to the liberal policy still resisted by Brazil, in regard to the navigable rivers within their respective territories. Treaties embracing this subject among others have been negotiated with these governments, which will be submitted to the senate at the present session. A new branch of commerce, important to the agricul tural interests of the United States, has, within a few years past, been opened with Peru. Notwithstanding the inexhaustible deposits of guano upon the islands of that country, considerable difficulties are experienced in obtain ing the requisite supply. Measures have been taken to remove these difficulties, and to secure a more abundant importation of the article. Unfortunately there has been a serious collision between our citizens, who have resorted to Chinca islands for it, and the Peruvian authorities stationed there. Redress for the outrages committed by the latter was promptly demanded by our minister at Lima. The subject is now under consideration, and there is reason to believe that Peru is disposed to offer adequate indemnity to the aggrieved parties. The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the tax-payer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1852, there remained in the treasury a balance of fourteen million, six hundred and thirty-two thousand, one hundred and thirty-six dollars. The public revenue, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1853, amounted to fifty-eight mil lion nine hundred and thirty-one thousand, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars from customs, and to two million, four hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and eight dollars from public lands and other miscellaneous sources, amounting together to sixty-one million, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred and seventy-four dollars; while the public expenditures for the same period, exclusive of payments on account of the public debt, amounted to forty-three million, five hundred and fifty four thousand, two hundred and sixty-two dollars —leaving a balance of thirty-two million, four hundred and twenty five thousand, four hundred and forty-seven dollars of receipts above expenditures. This fact, of increasing surplus in the Treasury, became the subject of anxious consideration at a very early period of my administration, and the path of duty in regard to it seemed to me obvious and clear—namely, first, to apply the surplus revenue to the discharge of the public debt, so far as it could judiciously be done ; and, secondly, to devise means for the gradual reduction of the revenue to the standard of the public exigencies. Of these objects the first has been in the course of ac complishment in a manner and to a degree highly satis factory. The amount of the public debt of all classes was, on the 4th of March, 1853, sixty-nine millions one hundred and ninety thousand and thirty-seven dollars ; payments on account of which have been made, since that period, to the amount of twelve millions seven hundred and three thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars—leaving unpaid, and in the continuous course of liquidation, the sum of fifty-six millions four hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and eight dollars. Among the objects meriting your attention will be important recommendations from the Secretaries of War and Navy. lam fully satisfied that the navy of the United States is not in a condition of strength and effi ciency commensurate with the magnitude of your com mercial and other interests ; and commend to your especial attention the suggestions on this subject made by the Secretary of the Navy. I respectfully submit that the army, which, under our system, must always be re garded with the highest interest, as a nucleus around which the volunteer forces of the nation gather in the hour of danger, requires augmentation or modification, to adapt it to the present extended limits and frontier re lations of the country, and the conditions of the Indian tribes in the interior of the continent; the necessity of which will appear in the communications of the secretaries of War and the Interior. The Message concludes by briefly alluding to the death of Vice-President King. At New Orleans, on the 6th, there were 214 deaths from cholera. The yellow fever was raging at_Louisiana Advices from Mexico announce that 200 armed men from San Francisco had landed at La Paz, Lower California, taken possession of the town and imprisoned the governor. United States troops were to be sent against them. From Havana we have accounts to the Ist instant. The arrival of the new Captain-General was hourly expected. The Captain-General of Cuba has just issued an important circular to the several Captains of Partidos (sections of country), of a character whieh indicates a new alarm of invasion from the United States. The circular sets out with affirming that the superior authority has been surely informed that the traitors are projecting a fresh invasion of the island, with considerable force • and, at the same time, the supreme authority is convinced of the necessity of repressing the revolutionary tendencies of the native inhabitants with the strong hand, &c. It is, therefore, ordered that, "in the case of an invasion, the said cap tains shall have authority to call upon those persons, who are suspected of partiality to the Americans and to freedom, to cause them to offer their persons and property for the Spanish service." The forthcoming crop of sugar, it was stated, would be a short" one, dry weather and the cholera having caused the death of the negroes, and affected the canes injuriously. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, DEC. 6. MONEY AND STOCKS.—The stock market in the early part of the week had been buoyant, but towards the close it was scarcely so active. The market for foreign ex change is reported as less active than had been anticipated for the Canada. The business was chiefly at 1098 for prime bankers' names, and from this there was a conces sion of f, on nearly all considerable transactions. The rates for money remained without alteration, and the leading stockbrokers were well supplied. A New York paper says : " The increased discounts of the past week by the banks, while both their specie and individual deposits fell off slightly, is an indication that the country bank balances are again improving." COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular of Dec. 6.) There has been great disappointment here during the past week, that no improvement took place in Liverpool on receipt of our frost accounts of 25th October, and prices have daily shown a slight concession on the part of sellers, until at the close a reduction of about per lb. has been established, and to which the quotations annexed conform. The sales since the 29th ult, to last evening have been— for export, 4,437 bales ; home consumption, 3,623; specu lation, 2,550 ; in transitu, 170. Total, 10,780 bales. Holders have been free sellers, yielding very reluctantly, however, to any reduction in price. The late receipts of Cotton here from Savannah and Charleston consist of good middling and above ; the stock now on the market of these grades is better than for some months past ; middling qualities, on the contrary, are difficult to obtain in even running lots, while the lower grades are in abund ance, and comparatively neglected. The export during the past week has been, to Liverpool, 4,908 bales ; Havre, 787 ; Bremen, 72 ; Antwerp, 69 ;_ Total, 5,836 bales. The following is a statement Of the movement in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three years : _ 1853 1852 1851 1850. Receipts at the ports 499,000 864,000 560,000 520,000 Exports to Great Britain 131,000 305,000 177,000 192,000 „ France 27,000 41,000 73,000 73,000 ~ other for. p'ts 33,000 46,000 27,000 42.000 Total exports 191,000 392,000 277,000 307.000 Stock on hand Of which, during the past week, included in the above. 1853. 1852. 1851. 1850. Receipts at the ports 78,000 113.000 83,000 56,000 Exports to Great Britain 19,000 54,000 27,000 15,000 France 10,000 6,000 12,000 5,000 „ other for. ports, 3,000 3,000 4,000 4,600 Total exports From which it will be seen that the decrease in re ceipts now amounts to 365,000 bales ; the decrease in exports to Great Britain, 174,000; France, 14,000; other foreign ports, 13,000. Total decrease in exports, 201,000 bales. BREADSTUFTS—FIour has improved very little either in demand or value. The day's business consists of 8,000 bbls. State, Western, and Southern, at a general rise of 61c. per bbl. in price. Wheat is held with greater firm ness, yet is not in much request at unchanged rates. Among the day's sales were reported a parcel of choice Genessee white, supposed at $1 80c. ; some Michigan ditto at $1 72c. ; and 8,400 bushels Western red, part at $1 53c. A lot of Southern red was said to have been pur chased at $1 56c. Rye is rather inactive at $l. Barley and oats are essentially unchanged. Corn is seemingly depressed. The day's movements do not exceed 18,000 bushels, Western and Southern at 79c. to 82c., the latter price having been realised only for small quantities of choice yellow, needed by the home trade. PROVISIONS.—Pork has continued to favor owners, under the influence of the light stock here and the prevalence of a very animated inquiry. The day's transactions reach 1,200 brls. Western at $l3 311 c. to $l3 50c. for mess, and $ll for prime, per brl.—both kinds evincing an upward tenor towards the close. Cut meat and dressed hogs manifest no essential alteration. Lard is a little more sought after, but does not seem any higher. FRElGHTS. — Business displays considerable activity, though restricted by the scarcity of vessels, and the lack of later European accounts. For Liverpool, there were engaged 700 brls. Flour, to fill up, at 3 s . 6d. • a few lots do. at 3s. 9d. • and 20,000 bushels Wheat, at 124 d. in bulk, and 13d. in ship's bags. For London th ere h ave b een taken 3,000 brls. • Flour, at 4s. 9d. ; 10,000 bushels Wheat, in ship's bags, at 16d. ; some lots Beef at 65.; and 100 brls. Lard, at 455. per ton. HAVANA, DEC. I.—A moderate amount of business had been transacted. The sugar market was inactive : mo lasses, of old crops, very scarce. Rum had advanced ; tobacco active. Exchange had declined ; on London 11i. to 12f. Freight to. Europe unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. s.—The cotton market is with out animation, dealers awaiting the Europa's arrival. _ CHARLESTON, DEC. s.—Our cotton Market to-day has declined lc. to Zc., principally on middling and lower des criptions. The sales were 1,100 bales, at 81c. to 101 c. ; 300 bales fair Georgia brought 102 c. MOBILE, DEC. 3 - .—Receipts for the week 5,000 bales middlings 9c. ; market heavy. Freight to Liverpool id, per lb. AUSTRALIA, By the Overland Mail we have intelligence from Aus tralia three days later than by the Victoria. The Cleopatra steamer was to sail early in October, or simultaneously with the Shanghae, by which the present advices have reached England. The future constitution of Sydney occupies all the public attention in that colony. The widest divergence of opinion, from the perpetuation of the British constitution to the most downright republicanism and demagoguism, is to be found ; but it does not seem likely that the " popular party," as the scheming Democrats are pleased to call themselves, have the shadow of a chance that their plans will be embodied. In Sydney—that is to say, the town— they have the support of a compact body of £lO house holders, who control the elections, and who exhibit a miserable want of sagacity and discrimination in their choice of representatives. But out of Sydney there is no such thing as Radicalism. The nature of colonial pursuits, and the peculiar agrarian circumstances of this colony, render it impossible; and moreover, everybody is so well off, and so busy at money getting, that political grievances, the Radicals' only stock in trade, are not cared for at all. Mr. Wentworth is the impersonation of the aristocratic party,which seems to have the greatest power and influence (From the Melbourne Argus, Sept. 26.) No change of importance has occurred in our market since the publication of our commercial report on Friday last. Gold has remained stationary during the week, the demand for shipment by the Victoria and the Roxburgh Castle having kept the price steady at £3 16s 9d., until Saturday, when it fell to £3 16s. 6d., purchases having been closed. The ringleaders of the daring gang of mounted highway men who stopped the M'lvor gold escort and plundered it of nearly £lO,OOO of treasure, in July last, have been brought to justice. They were notorious London thieves, who had been transported to the colony, and were known by the names of George Melville, George Wilson, and William Atkins. The trial commenced on the 18th of September, and occupied two days. One of their party, named John Francis, had turned approver. The gang had attacked the escort by firing from an ambush, wounding several persons, and killing some of the horses. At the close of the evidence, Mr. Justice Williams summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the whole of the prisoners. —Sentence of death was then re corded, the judge holding out not the least hopes of mercy. The news from Bendigo is, that things are going on well, and general satisfaction is felt at the 40s license-fee. At the Goulburn a rush had taken place to a gully four miles from the principal workings, but had not turned out so rich as had been reported. At M'lvor very little was doing, the Ovens attracting great numbers, both from that field and the Goulburn. From Ballarat's "jewellers' shops" the amount of gold was still great, many diggers realising handsomely, while others were getting none. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1553• LIVERPOOL BOROUGH SESSIONS, THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTIN DISTRIBUTION OF pRIZ_ES. UeR SCHOOL . SPECIAL PRIZES.— PE Senior divinity medaI PRIZES : J. 11; beair 5 000; certificate, W ainwright and Widdowson .. Senior raa• . tical medal : Widdowson. Shaw. icl ae f ; EXTRA SPECIAL PRlZES.—Principal's prize :—a• G . we,' certificate, J. Turner. Head Master's Ist prize : J. A• :' 0 by Head Master's 2nd prize: D. Nott. French prize, IP'„,OA- Mons. Sears : Ist, J. Nicholson, transferred troll:011- Lobley ; 2nd, J. Lobley ; certificates, Ward and l e ' , per Drawing prize : Joseph Lee, transferred to G. Tick having held it before. d, pIC% CERTIFICATES.-ISt, John Lee; 2nd, Malcolm; 3r inson. CLASS PRIZES.—Ist, Molyneux, scholarship t J. Parkinson : 2nd, James Gillison. 2nd class : dleton ; certificate, Wellington, Lobley. 3rd class F. woe Whitham ; certificate, Dickinson. 4th class : prize, car, more; certificate, Lucas. sth class : prize, Lawtl,l6ca':' tificate, Beezley. 6th class: prize, E. J. Jones; H. Jones. 7th class : prize, Nicholson ; certificate, „ burne. Bth class: prize, Thor n th wa i te; cer tificat. , 6. Y Hughes. 9th class : prize, James Shaw ; certificate' Mitchell. CERT I FICAT ES.-ISt class certificate for imp ~hro• e dit writing : Bellis : 2nd ditto, F ort; 3 r d ditt o , Sheriff ;L ) dit!"; Ellis; sth ditto, Taggart;'Staffor 6th ditto, Pinningtoni.L ß tes Day ; Bth ditto, 9th ditto, Holt. Cer" — SOT ornamental penmanship: Alltred, Newall, Turner , loc bc, Hughes. Certificate for mapping :J. Parkinson. , fjoit eh son, Smith, Clarkson, Shaw, Hughes, Tickle, Nott' Alderson, Witham. EVENING SCHOOL PRIZES. cL E Algebra, Geometry, and Mensuration: prize. English Grammar and Composition :C. La , "'"'ceftt" J. Davies certificate. Geography W. HumplireY a i,. ca e. PLficieney in Arithmetic : Galletti, certifiCa t l e ocl; provement in Arithmetic: G. Trimble, prize. Pr 4 i e ng fra l l Penmanship: R. Jones, prize. Ornamental Dravv eor lik r l the round : C!i•herall, prize . Perspective Drawing' i t b, prize. Landscape Drawing :E. Young, prize ; tificate. the TIM Quarter Sessions were opened on Tuesday , at _the Sessions'-house, before GILBERT HEEDERSON, Esq., recorder. The prisoners were fifty-seven in numbel:. fifty-three for felony, and three for misdemeanor. The John Bibby was chosen foreman of the grand jury Recorder, in his address to the grand jury, congratulate 2: them upon the small number of prisoners, which vo.', owing, he thought, not only to the general prosperity the country, but to the vigilance of the police. The easeg to come before them, he said, required no particular cop' ment, but, with reference to stabbing cases and p iek l ° pockets, he thought that they should not be too HOY. dealt with, for thieves, like other people, doubtless speet lated upon the mildness of their punishments, whlef, when light, often emboldened them to commit furult_n crimes. At present the gaol to which they were sent he no solitary places of confinement, and in prisons where the inmates were associated together, and the hard labout almost nominal, the terrors of imprisonment had l a i . he little effect, particularly on hardened offenders. Recorder, in deli ver i ng hi s c h arge , m ade reference t eto, practice of summ ar ily d ea li ng wi th n otorious pichP°e!, and imprisoning them for short periods. The only he said, to deal with them was to send them to a h i g" — tribunal, where they would be dealt with as they him not only in a way to put an end to their career, b effectually to discourage the practice in others. mit.; , c ase, THE LATE EXTENSIVE COTTON ROBBEILY.---"'" the facts of which were recently laid before the Pil l ; was disposed of on Friday. John Wood was indicted big b i g stealing forty-three bales of cotton, the property employers, Messrs James Seddon and Co., and ''' 7 ltc Hindle was indicted for receiving the same with g ul l ; knowledge. Wood was warehouseman to the prosecuto and the allegation against him was, in substance, that _la n, having charge of the cotton as servant of Messrs. Seddo allowed the same to be taken out of his custody on a forge: order for delivery being presented ; he himself having bee l ia were but a party to the forgery. Mrs. Hindle is the wife of Jo,. Hindle, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, in Sir Thoola!!, buildings, and the charge against her was a gu ilt y part,.. pation in the transaction, in receiving and ass isting . to: rs pose of the property. The jury found both Pr °ll l. guilty, and a previous conviction was proved ag ainst A r _r! . Wood was sentenced to si x yea rs ' penal servitude, and Mrs Hindle to nine months' imprisonment to hard lab l Mr. Brett, the counsel who con d uc t e d the prosecution, sal there was also an indi c t m e n t aga i ns t John Hindle, huS• band of the female prisoner, but, as he was a prisoner in Lancaster Castle, the case would not be taken until next sessions. The trials terminated about four o'clock on Sa turday. Of the sixty prisoners tried, eleven were condemned to various terms of penal servitude, three were and the remainder sentenced to b r iefer periods of impr' s onment. acquitteq'' ON Friday, after an examination extending through?: the week, prizes were deli vere d t o th e most deser: l o pupils of the Collegiate Institution, prior to breakii i r p in for the Christmas holiday. Th e di s t r ib u ti o n took P c 'by the large lecture-hall, the body of which was oecuple',,,,d the boys, and the galleries by their parents, friends: !•j relations. The Rev. Rector Campbell presided ; *R T . ; amongst those present were—Mr. J. B. Lloyd, the 3 1 , 3 1 r 9, Mr. Wm. Brown, M.P. ; Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P. ; 3 t es ,o, Adam Hodgson, Josias Booker, J. Rawdon, Dr. Ha l t J. John Campbell, Procter, Wm. Danson, Wm. Etijor, K. Rounthwaite, Alderman Cooper, and C ou ncillors PiL e pr. Halhead, and Tyrer ; with the Rev. Dr. Hume, Be v ' im . .• M`Neile, Went, Barker, and Anderson. The folio was the award of prizes : CLASS PRIZES.-Ist class : J. H. Rawdon ; srs Arthur. 2nd class : G. Rawdon, transferred to Walke r ' sd' class: Classical—Booker and Caw, equal ; certifiat e A s at: wards : Modern—Mitchell ; certificate, Johnson. 4th 501 Classical, Cooper; certificate, Pater: Modern, Tatharg• 6tb class: Rounthwaite ; certificates, Brown and Conr:. class: Went; certificate, Jeffrey. Pr e p ara tory clas s 7th : Tarbet ; certificates, Carpenter, als o E. P. Jo n arithmetic. Bth : T. Lockett ; certificates, Young. ~„'" s ?fin" for writing. Lower Bth : Makin ; certificate, Mintoll• cipal's prize : J. H. Rawdon. Old pupils' prize: Ll.Z.' , , s tof , ISXTNA PRIZES.—Given by Mr. Underwood: "1: Brown, and W. Aked. Given by Mr. Porter: Si" l iiiieY Bartlett, Jeffrey, jun., and Pat e r. Gi ven by Mr. ioo es; Michod. Given by Mr. Saltier: Johnson and B. T OO,: certificate, Mitchell. Given by Mr. Se a rs : Walker; •"„ 00 1 . cater, Pater, Booker, Clough, Jeff r ey, sen ., H. Ravid ° "'sonr Hodson. Given by the principal : Pater ; cer tificates, l l° R. Aked, and F. Jeffrey. MIDDLE SCHOOL PRIZES. Ce. r‘ SPECIAL PRlZES.—Divinity medal : R. Worthing tificate, Winsor. Nominations to upper school : B. "L r tifi• son. Historical and geographical medal: W. Swift k i ,n, op; cate, J. S. Brunn. Mathematical prize : B. W. ''.olltll' certificates, 51 4 Master, Newlands, Johnson, StoreY,. Acs tei W. Eckersley. French medal : E. T. B run n ; M'Master, A. Eckersley. Drawing medal : Boustea r il v — tolh tificates, B. W. Wilson, Bottomley, T. Swift, R. J. y„ — Jol . ' Penmanship medal : Christian ; certificates, W.f 6 ', l noieg: dan, Robinson, 0. P. Clayton, W. Eckersley, Braithwaite. maste r CLASS PRIZES.—Ist class, Potter, scholarship: 0 00 certificate, E. P. Arthur. 2nd class, prize o (books ; ar c 110 14 certificate, M`Master. 3rd class, prize of books ; C. I : 0 W son; certificate, J. Nicholson. 4th class, prize of,,lts; Pearson; certificate, Coughtrey. sth class, books:T Crowe ; certificate, Gatti. 6th class, prize of m ( i re ttr; certificate, W. Eckersley. 7th class, prize of books : An, r . 1). certificate, H. Holmes. Bth class, prize of books'... j .bor Jones; certificate, T. P. Lewis. Principal's prizes: Ay: 0, and Swindon. French master's prize: H. Carter. M, rp' s Cox's prizes : Crowe and Brock. Principal's pras e nun:, 01.1, vv_ LOW ER SCHOOL PRIZES. W IW I " SPRCIAL Pzizcs.---Divinity. prizes G. Tickle; cert. 0 1, Cranage, J. Parkinson. Nomination to middle school A. Lobiey. Historical and geographical prize,: G. Cr:till: 0 certificate, G. Tickle. Arithmetical medal : J. A. 1. 0 4 1e 0 certificate, Ist class, Joseph Lee; ditto 2nd class, E.J. ditto 3rd class, Roberts, Hicks. Penmanship aleg.. l t ioar Parkinson, transferred to John Lee; certificates, IREIA D MRS. LATHAM BLACKER has at length sunk under her sufferings from the injuries which she sustained in the railway collision at Straffan. THE Munster News states that upwards of forty fami lies have recently left the parishes of Lorrha and Durra, in the county Cork, for America. "All that district," adds the News, " will, ere long, be deserted." THE EXTENSIVE ESTATES of Glinsk and Creggs, county Galway, containing nearly 7,600 statute acres, were dis posed of by private contract, under the Encumbered Estates Commission, for £55,000. THE LADY MAYORESS of Dublin is confined with an attack of measles, having taken to her bed the day after her brilliant ball. The attack is a severe one, but her ladyship progresses favourably. SUDDEN DEATIL—AS Mrs. Moran, wife of a solicitor, was proceeding from her residence in Hardwicke-street, Dublin, on Wednesday, she suddenly fell to the ground, and was taken up in an insensible state. She died from disease of the 'heart. THE GREAT EXHIBITION BUILDING was opened for the first time on Friday as a winter garden. The formal cere monial took place at two o'clock before the Lord Lieu tenant and the Countess St. Germans. Six military bands were in attendance. THE IRISH EXODUS.—The Limerick Examiner (Romanist newspaper) commenting upon the flight of the population from Ireland, expresses its opinion that this ex traordinary social revolution "is clearly the work of God," and "is destined to effect a great and mighty end." It is, in fact, a " new era in the history of mankind." FALL 05 A HOUSE IN DUBLIN.—On Wednesday, the house, 27, Bride's-alley, Dublin, fell in, crushing beneath the ruins Bridget Madden, a widow, who was asleep in bed at the time. Her son lay beside her also apparently dead, but he showed some signs of life, and was removed to the hospital, bruised, however, most seriously. THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES Commissioners, on Tiles day, sold portions of the estate of Sir J. C. Carden, Bart., in the county of Tipperary. Of the nine lots set up, but three were sold; the rest were adjourned for want of fair offers. The lots sold fetched 192 years' purchase. An estate in Galway, the property of Daniel M`Nevin, a minor, was sold in several lots, at moderate rates. The produce of the day's sale amounted to £29,093. ASSAULTING. A ROMANIST PRIEST.—In the Dublin Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, the case of Foy v. Collum occupied the Chief Justice and a special jury up to the rising of the Court. It was an action brought by a Romanist priest against a Presbyterian preacher for an assault, which took place on the 12th of July last, in the parish of Shircough, county Cavan. The case was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday, when the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff-250 damages and costs. FIRING INTO THE HOUSE OF A CLERGYMAN.—Some seven or eight miles from the district of Meigh is Rath &Band, county Down. On Tuesday morning, a shot was fired into the residence of the Rev. Mr. Rosborough, of Lessize. He and Mrs. Rosborough had left on the day before for Belfast, and had not returned up to Tuesday night ; they were consequently absent at the time of the outrage. The lord-lieutenant has offered a re ward of £5O, in addition to a sum of £3O offered by th 3 Crime and outrage Reward Fund, privately subscribed fo: information to lead to the apprehension of the perpetrators. PARRICIDE. — One of those awful crimes which arc of rare occurrence, even among Irishmen, the murder of a father by his son, took place on Thursday, near Abbey knockmoy, Galway. An altercation ensued between the deceased, named Nolan, and his son, in consequence of the latter wanting to go to the market of Monivea, contrary to his father's wishes. The younger Nolan struck the father with a spade-tree. The blow proved fatal, death being almost instantaneous. The unhappy parricide im mediately absconded, and the police went in pursuit, but with what success we have not yet learnt.— Galway Packet. Pelt NOBILE FRATRITM.—Two Irish Ecclesiasti2s, one a Popish priest, the other a Presbyterian minister, had a tilt iu the Irish Court of Common Pleas on Monday. " Some day, in July last, the priest set out for the village of Shircough, with a gun, and on his way to the intended scene of his sport, twice discharged his piece close to the cottage of the minister. The latter, who was at the time superintending his haymakers, conceiving the gun to have been levelled at his dwelling, fell upon the priest, and endeavoured to take the gun from him, when an assa u lt ensued, for which the priest eventually recovered £5O damages and costs." MIRING ENTERPRISE IN DONEGAL—The Northern papers give some flattering information with respect to mining operations in progress throughout the county of Donegal. According to these statements one speculation is realizing as much as 100 per cent. ; and a Derry journal is quite confident that silver and lead mines will be found and turned to good account in that part of Ulster. In addition to this bright prospect, there is said to be a mineral production there much more valuable to Derry than the richest loads of the precious metals, and that is coal, which, it is confidently asserted by competent judges may be found in ample quantities within a short distance of the "maiden city." " AFFAIR OF HONOUR."—The Tuam Herald pub lishes copies of a hostile correspondence which has passed between Mr. Peter Reynolds, Romish priest at Claremor ris, and Mr. J. F. Browne, a magistrate of Galway. The cam belli arose out of an expression made use of by the latter at some local meeting to the effect that certain cor porate funds, with the knowledge of Mr. Reynolds, " went in a way that they ought not to go." This insinuation roused the ire of Father Peter, and hence a series of mis sives which resulted in a declaration on the part of the priest, that his honour was satisfied, and that his antago nist had disclaimed, sincerely and promptly, all and every intention of uttering a single word offensive to him. ALLEGED ESCAPE OF SMITH O'BRIEN.—The Limerick Reporter contains the following :—" We have just been handed a letter from a highly respectable Irishman, resi dent in Melbourne, giving full details of the escape of Smith O'Brien from the penal exile to which the British Government doomed him, and from which he has been released by the courage and fidelity of a few Irish friends in the colony, and the sympathizing aid of the commander of an American trading vessel which was in the offing to take him away to the free shores of America. There is no doubt whatever of the fact ; and we need not state that we feel considerable pleasure in being the first medium of announcing it. The writer of this letter was one of those who assisted Smith O'Brien in his escape. We may add that Smith O'Brien was bound by no parole." THE " HIGH CHURCH" PARTY IN IRELAND.--DUB LIN, Saturday Evening.—l am enabled to state, on the very best authority, that the lord primate has just termi nated his connexion with the college of " St. Columba," by the withdrawal of his name as chief patron of that in stitution. Under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Wil liams, a member of Oxford university, and a clergyman of undoubtedly rare scholastic attainments, it was strongly suspected that the religious education afforded to the pupils savoured too much of modern innovations upon the simplicity of the reformed faith to be palatable to the tastes of an overwhelming majority of Irish protestants. This was, perhaps, after all, only matter of suspicion, and as lonc , as his Grace co n ti nue d hi s p a t ronage St . C o l um b a might have flourished as an educational institution with out let or hindrance. A recent circumstance, however, has materially darkened its prospects. Mr. Williams, as " warden" of the college, having added his signature to the celebrated " protest" against Bishop Gobat, the primate at once took the course indicated to mark his sense of the impropriety of an act which no longer left any doubt as to the bias of M r , Willi ams ' s opi n ions upon the leading theological question of the present time.—Times. THE PRESTON STRIKE. IT is now the sixteenth week of the strike, 311 a pre' twelfth of the lock-out, and still it is impossible a n diet when the present contention is likely to be b r it , the to a. close. There seems to be little, if any, increas e ,t th e number of applicants a t th e c l ose d mills ; , n t ' S registration of the names of th ose see king employ , :lue t scarcely ever mentioned. It is said that the conln% c eid the Masters' Association met on Thursday, but the Ole. of their deliberations ha s no t b een made publ i L A se reports show that there has again been a large int'sittees' the number of persons relieved by thevarious conlT, b the The income, however, has more than kept pace :, 1 1 : 6 ,d increased demands on the 'kinds. The sum dish' of th e. the respective committees since the commencerae'„n ilt 3 l strike now amounts to close upon £30,000. As ,„`" r tration of the condition to which some of the llneli n g are reduced, it may be mentioned that, at a wfl o n-art'': spinners, on Friday, an operative, named Giles,, whe re I ; made the following startling announcement frerio- e s suffering in the town of Preston ; and such Don . few have any idea of, who are not familiar with li ly ' ba7 , and haunts of misery. I myself, know a faln il l re d hi s f,r.t visited a slaughter-house regularly, and Preen a d to m - n t and used it, without anything like groats or . .. „ L br" - w ithf ile with it. There is also another man who has e q — , i fro ° food, until he has been seen picking the bits °- wash that was intended for pigs." a Sat e lace The weekly meeting held in the Orchard' Jj take s ten to was as large and enthusiastic as a n y that P — pirnol Mr. since the commencement of the strike; „resew" twelve thousand of the unemployed vre"" Waddington, of Preston, presided. d he The CHAIRMAN, in some opening ob anticipated that the weavers' fund for the e ~.,0 . it odd would be £2,500, and that in the week follonu'v hieb be increased to £3,000. t ting t Mr. BROWN had been present at a In ee Oa of one of the Earl of Wilton's agents attended; reselvro, tleman stated that the earl, having heard ofi l i t had the factory operatives to erect co-o pe rative n oeao' a mised to let them have three acres of land for _ s3r d , ae consideration, say a farthing or a halfpenny Per to lend them £2,000 on approved security- ilieffy . rep i t Mr. CO WELL delivered a lengthy address , e ' which 0) to an article in the Manchester Guardian; awa y was insinuated that the delegates were rull!lL_uti„ ; d . go e £25 out of every £lOO collected. Let us, ile h ;Z e 'huh T ey ward, peaceably, orderly, and quietly, as w ll e the Ini llec 7oty done, and you may rest assured that not a.ning this j in the country can prevent us from obtaining so long stra lv this fair ten per cent., for which we have p ec ri, we had it now in ea. . 0 Bled. It is as surely ours as if to resume e servatniositols, ets. All you who are determined_ never y ban d s until you get the ten per cent. hold up ea.he multitude unanimously responded. . me etings. 0 , ha l d ir at • he sai d ' i re places, tl Padiham, and Burnley, at all of which f the opera tGenßdredmsliduArTnggatvheeawneeeer autlitlfoefy:l, Tedn36-retehe 0 121 / ' ' the ass e le' o p f e m o p p rres le . i w tov e An r l e . Taosivjehalaovusingasteriveeflryonadbderhealfssedo or de , rgoanntesdsaonfdclotfererithne tg.7 r p e er gi c v e e nt. nfor Blackburn, for )rnmenced at half -past two, 6'9'54 - The meeting at four o'clock. Ved STEAM-SnIPTIIE ARGENTINA .—A letter recel flap, Liverpool, on Friday, from the River Plate, statecour the South American and General Steam Navigation to pany's steamer Argentina is plying successfullY Brazilian coasting trade. She has to compete wi tt urif American steamer of the same power, which she reg beats on the ratio of two miles to one, her average SY - 60 being fourteen knots an hour, while her compptitor or, only accomplish seven. The Argentina was built mow er) John Laird, and is of the same power ( 120 hors-w,' and tonnage (400 tons) as the new iron paddr i steamer Collaroy, for the Australian coas ti n g traue.