The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-07 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, STnd Night o f M a d ame VESTRIS and M r. CHARLES `THEWS, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden, who are forenvvred a LIMITED NUMBER OF sicwrs, and of Mr. JAMES VINING , o f t h e same Th ea tre, who is likewise engage d f or a li m i te d period. The Engagement of Mr. GILBERT and Miss BALLIN, Principal Dancers of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, and their Pupils, Master and Miss MARSHALL, and Miss TAYLOR, of the same Theatre, having been re newed, the Grand Ballet of the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE, which has been received on each Evening with the most enthusiastic plaudits, will, in consequence, be repeated every Night of Performance this week. THIS present TUESDAY, July 7, 1840 , the Entertain ments will commence with the petit Comedy of LOVE 'AT COTTAGE. LOV Charles Mulgrave Mr. James Vining. • Mrs. Charles Mulgrave.. Madame Vestris. In the course of the Drama, Madame Vestris will sing the highly popular Song of " be no Submissive Wife," and, in the character of an Irishwoman, " Rory O'More." After which, the favourite Drama, written by Mr. Charles Mathews, called PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. Captain Patter Mr. Charles Mathews. Incidental to the Piece, Mr. Mathews will sing " When a Man Travels ; or, a Guide to Paris," " I once fell i n L ove ," and " Reminiscences, or Things that were not." To be followed by the favourite Drama, called A HANDSOME HUSBAND. Mr. Wyndham Mr. Charles Mathews. Henry Fitzherbert.. Mr James Vining. Laura To conclude with, for the sixth time here, a new Grand Bal let, called the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. The Fire Fiend.. Master Marshall. Rudolph.. Mr. Gilbert. Fleur des Champs Miss Bailin. Bertha and Gertrude Miss Taylor and Miss Marshall. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), the Comedy of KNOW YOUR OWN MIND. Dashwood, Mr. Charles Mathews; Millamour, Mr. James Vining ; Lady Bell, Madame Ves tris.—After which, the favourite Drama of ONE HOUR ; OR THE CARNIVAL BALL. Mr. Charles Swiftly, Mr. C. Mathews ; Julia, Madame Vestris.—To conclude with the DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. EXHIBITION, CAPTAIN SIBORN'S MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. THE celebrated MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WA TERLOO is NOW OPEN for EXHIBITION at the GALLERY OF THE UNION ROOMS, Slater street, Bold-street. Open from Ten in the Morning till Ten at Night. Ad mission, One Shilling each. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, MOUNT-STREET. MUSICAL TREAT. ON SATURDAY next. the 11th July instant, a t Half pastV.l Seven, p. m., Mr. VINCENT NOVELL° will commence a Course of Four Lectures on CII URC MUSIC, to be continued, at the same hour, on the suc ceeding 'WEDNESDAY, the 15th, SATURDAY, the 18th, and WEDNESDAY, the 22d instant. The Lectures will be illustrated with very numerous and varied selections from the works of the greatest Musical Composers ; and, for this purpose, the services of the Misses PLOWER, of the London Concerts, Mr. ALFRED NovELLo, Mr. WALTON, of Manchester, and an extensive Chorus have been obtained, at very great expanse. Mr. VINCENT NOVELLO will preside at the Piano-forte. At Half-past Six o'clock, on each Evening of Lecture, the doors of the Institution will be closed ; and, at a Quarter. before Seven, they will be re-opened for the admission of the public. At the conclusion of the Lecture, the whole suite of rooms, constituting the Exhibition, will be thrown open, _ Admission to each Lecture, ONE SHILLING. W. H. HODGSON, Secretary NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. EARLY DELIVERY OF THE TIMES (LONDON) IN LIVERPOOL, &c. SEVERAL complaints having been made, that the copies of the TIMES, supplied by News Venders, are delivered at a late hour in the evening, in Liverpool, W arr i ng t on , Wigan, Chester, &c., &c., subscribers are informed that their orders should be given to the Agent for the Times, 45, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, and not to the News Venders, and they will then • be SUPPLIED WITH THE TIMES BY FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, AND WITH THE LATEST EDITIONS. To ensure the arrival of the Morning papers in Liverpool, &c. by Four in the Afternoon, they must be dispatched by Six o'Clock in the Morning, from Euston-square ; and, as the Agent for the Times is unconnected with the distribution of any other paper, his Subscribers' copies are forwarded BY EXPRESS FROM THE TIMES OFFICE TO THE RAILWAY STATION, AS SOON AS THEY ARE PUBLISHED. News Venders frequently lose the first train from London, by the delay consequent upon the collection of their papers from the various offices, at a distance from each other; therefore the cause of irregularity in their supply of The Times is obvious. The proprietors of the Public News rooms should forward their orders to L. T. GASKILL, Sole Agent for the Times. 45, Lord-street, Liverpool_ N.B. The first morning paper supplied in Liverpool or Lancashire, by four in the afternoon of the same day of its publication in London, was the Times, through the Agency of L. I'. Gaskill. THE ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF HER MAJESTY. —TRIAL op EDWARD OXFORD. TN consequence of the interest manifested in Liverpool, 1 with respect to the Trial of the man for shooting at her Majesty, L. T. Gaskilt has been induced to order an extra number of copies of The Times. Early orders should be given. 45, Lord-street, July 5,1840. tI; Zibrrpoot tailbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1840, We have received a copy of the Guiana Times of the 18th of May. Its contents have been anticipated by a previous arrival We have received a file of the St. John's, (N. 8.) Weekly Chronicle to the 29th of May, inclusive. They contain very little news of impOrtance. The Queen's nuptials had been celebrated with great echlt through out the province. We have received a file of the Halifax (U.S.) Jour nal to the Bth of June, incluive. We regret to learn from these papers that the dryness of the season and the heat of the weather had materially injured the grass and potato crops. The weather in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island appears to have been of the same description, and it is said that much damage had been done by the fires in the woods, which were still spreading. The Lieutenant Governor of the province had re ceived a despatch from Lord John Russell, intimating his regret that it had not been in his power to submit to her Majesty the recent address of the House of As sembly, forwarded for that purpose by the Speaker— the same having been transmitted without the inter vention of his Excellency, and the proceeding being unusual. irregular, and inconvenient. His Lordship considered it to be his duty to assent, on behalf of her Majesty's representative in the province, the strict ad herence to those observances to which his station gave him an indisputable claim, and which could not be dis regarded without derogating from the respect due to his power and authority. The Journal adds that her Majesty's government approved of his Excellency's determination not to assent to the address of the House of Assembly, for the change of the members of the Executive Council collectively, without the previous sanction of her Majesty. We learn from an extract in the Halifax Journal, that the city of St. Domingo had been visited, on the 28th of May, by a great flood, owing to the immense quantity of rain which had fallen—more than had been known for 30 years. The current in the river ran at the rate of 8 or 9 knots an hour, and swept several vessels from their anchorage. A very large quantity of mahogany and other woods had been lost by this sudden rise of the waters, having been swept by the current out to sea, The Quarterly abstract of the Revenue has just been published. It appears that on the quarter ending July 5, 1840, as compared with the corresponding quarter last year, there has been an increase, in the Customs, of £ 2 66,601, in the Excise, of £141,640, in the Stamps, of £82,228, in the Taxes, of £8,436, and i n the Crown Land Revenue, of £2,500. The decrease on the quarter, in the Postoffice depart men t, h as b een £269,000, and in the Miscellaneous Estimates, £10,495. The general increase on the quarter is £211,699, and on the year £147,433. The P os t o ffi ce d epartment exhibits a startling falling off, which can only be in part accounted for by the increase in the stamp returns. The income from the Postoflice for the last quarter is only £lOO,OOO. For the quarter ending July 5, 1839, it was £369,000. The country must look forward to the imposition of new taxes, unless the other sources of revenue arc found sufficient to make up for this deficiency. Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Bill was on Thurs day night " obstructed" by O'Connell and his mi- ni strY, on the motion for going into committee, and, although the principle of the measure was confirmed by a majority of 149, the object of the radical party — postponement —was attained. The committee was fixed again for Thursday next, when we have no doubt the same cours e of harassing and .disgraceful oppo sition will be Pursued, and the progress of the bill again delayed. With respect to the future prospects of the measure we cannot do better than quote the conclusion of the admirable and cutting address of Sir Robert Peel The obstruction which had been offered to this bill might, perhaps, effect its object, and prevent the bill passing nto a law during the present session. He confessed he hardly regretted it, because he was sure that the cause of ight and justice must ultimately prevail. (Hear, hear.) It was not in the cause of right and justice that when a pro posal was made to consider the details of any measure, the opposite party raised every possible obstruction to their con sideration but he firmly believed that the course adopted would conciliate, not in England, not in Scotland, but among the sound-thinking portion of the people of Ireland, (hear,) so much of favour and confidence towards this bill, that the temporary success of the obstruction now offered would only lay the foundation for an ultimate and lasting triumph."— (Loud cheers from the opposition benches.) Our contemporary the Liverpool Journal, as the organ of the Roman Catholic party in this town, has volunteered a reply to our article of Tuesday lEst, in which we proved the existence of Ribbonism in Liver- pool, from documents produced in court upon the trial of Jones, the Ribbon secretary. That fact is now established beyond dispute, and no casuistry of the Journal can shake it. The hideous features of the monster, whose hands are dripping with the blood of Irish Protestantism, have been welcomed in Liverpool ; the secret poison, whose operation convulses and mad dens Ireland, has invaded our own Protestant town ; and unless extirpated by the hand of justice or operated upon by the powerful action of public opinion, may produce effects the bare imagination of which is re volting to the feelings of humanity. Has our contemporary succeeded in weakening our position ? Has he shown that in any of our assertions, or in the evidence by which we have established their truth, we have been guilty of misstatement or perver sion ? He has not, most assuredly. His feeble attempt ,o wipe away the blot which stains the character of his Roman Catholic fellow-townsmen is from beginning to end a paltry shuffle. He dare not deny that a secret association, composed exclusively of Papists, and cor responding by secret signs, extends throughout Ireland and a great portion of England and Scotland. But, forsooth, this association is not a Ribbon association— is a very " harmless" affair—has "no distinct object or intention, least of all that of systematic murder ;" and as it affects the character of " the very few Irish residents in Liverpool who may have been members of the society," its existence is a matter of very trifling moment, and ought not to be made a charge against them. To prove the innocuous nature of this "harmless" association, for being a member of which an Irish judge has been compelled—we use the word advisedly— to inflict the punishment of transportation, the Journal quotes the charge of Mr. Justice Ball, in which some thing very nearly akin to sympathy with the objects of the society is manifested. But does even this docu ment negative the position which we have taken ? Not at all ; for in despite of the roundabout attempt of the learned judge to soften down the features and hide the dangerous tendency of the association, the truth forces its way from amongst the intricate and elabo rately wrought apologetic tracery in which he has stri ven to conceal it, and he is compelled to acknowledge that this " apparently harmless" society (the Journal will see our reason for inserting the word "apparently" in italics) " is formidable in its adaptation to any pur pose, however criminal, which, through design or acci dent, its leaders might be prompted to undertake." And what are those purposes ? Who are those leaders ? Aye, these are the questions to which we should like to receive a reply. The objects of an as sociation so gigantic in its extent—so perfect in its or ganization —are not revealed to agents so obscure as this Jones—are not revealed to the ignorant serfs of the Irish priesthood, who compose its main body in the sister country, or to the hodmen and lumpers who compose the branches in Liverpool. But that the Ribbon conspiracy has objects of vast and fearful im port there are few men mad or blind enough to deny. Our contemporary indeed would have us to believe that they are of a similar nature to those of trade com binations in England and Scotland; that they are not of a political or treasonable nature. But when we find amongst their documents allusion to armed movements for the purpose of accomplishing political objects; when we find projects for seducing our soldiers to " turn their arms against their paymasters ;" when we find from their passwords that those objects will only be attained . when Ireland's sons "shall he prepared for fights," it is tasking our credulity a little too much to ask us to believe that an association, so extensive, is organised for the " harmless" purposes which its pro- Popish apologist would have us to conclude. No ; there is evidence conclusive enough upon the face of even the few documents produced upon the late trial which have been allowed. to obtain publicity, that Ribbonism is but the machinery of treason and out rage in Ireland. Let any impartial observer examine carefully the state of that distracted land for the series of years during which this conspiracy has been organ izing itself; let him view the wild turmoil of faction, of revenge, of incendiarism, stilled at once, as by a mas ter-hand, and succeeded by a calm, boding and unna tural, like the temporary quiet of a sleeping volcano. Let him contemplate the circumstances attending those mysterious acts of blood which from time to time have horrified the whole empire, and whose perpetrators, " known to hundreds, have never been divulged ;" let him weigh these things and discover, if he can, any other source to which the state of society of which they betray the evidence can be attributed. We never did and we do not now charge any great portion of our Irish Catholic fellow-townsmen with a participation in or a cognizance of these atrocities. No : we trust that it is not in human nature that any body of men, not utterly brutalized, would willingly and knowingly become parties to such a hideous sys tem. We know that the leaders, the fiends in human shape who pull the wires of this engine of blood and death, carefully shroud their designs from the great body of their wretched dupes ; but is their character less dangerous on that account ? Is the system more to be tolerated ? Not at all. In this very secrecy is its greatest terror. The assassin may not know to-day whose blood he is to shed to-morrow; but so long as he is bound by a solemn oath to strike wherever he is bidden, and to strike even to the death, he is a mur derer, although his hand may have never touched blood or his thought meditated the taking away the life of a fellow-creature ! We shall not be deterred by the Jesuitry of our contemporary or the frantic blackguardism of his " Swiss" correspondent from bringing the subject again and again before the public. We do this with no feel ing of enmity to the Irish residents of Liverpool. We would on the contrary snatch them from the fangs of this soul-destroying confederacy of murderers and traitors. We have in evidence, upon the authority of her Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland, that Rib bonism is increasing.; that " there is scarcely a single post which comes from the country (Ireland) without bringing him information of the existence and con tinued operations of the association ;" and we hold it to be our duty, in common with the whole Protestant press of the kingdom, to do our utmost in unmasking the features and betraying the secret workings of this system of Thuggism, which, to the eternal disgrace of our common humanity, is allowed to desolate and brutalize an unhappy country. In conclusion, let us remind our contemporary that this fellow Jones is not the only party upon whom jus tice has to be done. There are still other pasties to be tried, and further disclosures to be made; and, depend upon it, that sooner or later the MURDER WILL , OUT. " contemporary print," in his Saturday's fit of frenzy, has fallen foul of us for having, amongst other offences, reprobated the apparent lukewarmness of cer tain leaders amongst the Conservative party, upon the question of church extension. In alluding in our last to the defeat of Sir Robert Inglis's motion, by a narrow majority of 17, we expressed an opinion to which we still hold, that, with ordinary exertions that motion might have been carried; and. we asked, " Where were Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, and others of their party, when tl us motion was under dis- cussion ?" To this question the Mail replies, that these gentle men were " where they oug ht to be—voting in the ranks of the conservatives—in strict attendance upon their duty," and forthwith he proceeds to treat us with a volley of his peculiarly eleg ant vituperation, and to charge us with insinuatin g that Sir Robert Peel and his brother Conservatives hail fallen back into "the ranks of the assailants of the British church and con- stitution." If our contemporary had been able to read—as he was evidently unable to quote con .ectly—the remarks which we made, be would have found that our com plaint was the absence of these gentlemen "during the discussion." We grieved to see, that, upon a discus sion of such magnitude, they failed, not only to speak, but to give their countenance to the honourable baronet by whom it had been so nobly and perseveringly advo cated. A mere silent vote is not the kind of support which the cause of Protestantism requires at the hands of its "champions;" and if the Mail had troubled him self to read the debate upon the motion he would have found that this want of countenance, of which we were compelled reluctantly to complain, was used as a very effective weapon of offence against Sir Robert Inglis by his opponents on the ministerial side of the house. We wish our contemporary joy of his mare's nest, and without attempting to dispute his peculiar claim to the appellation of " the organ of the Tories of Liver pool," we may venture to hint that the instrument in his hands plays sadly out of tune, and may in time re ceive a more proper designation as " THE MILL" of the Tories of Liverpool. Grind away, good Mill, and keep your temper. TO THE CONSERVATIVES OF LIVERPOOL GENTLEMEN, —In the Mail of Saturday an article appeared containing charges levelled against our character as trades men, which we feel bound, in justice to ourselves and to you, most indignantly to repel. Had the article in question been one of mere general abuse, however scurrilous its language or false its assertions, we should not have come forward per sonally before you ; but the imputations which it conveys being distinctly applied to ourselves, as proprietors of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, we are compelled, however unplea sant may be the task, to repudiate them in our own name, as being utterly false and calumnious. We had never in our columns alluded to the "pecuniary misfortunes" of the proprietor of the Mail. We have no wish to drag his or any man's misfortunes unnecessarily be fore the public. But we are not to sit down and be libelled with impunity. We are not to have our position in the world and our resources represented as on the eve of insol vency, without the privilege of offering any explanation. It was an attack of this nature, most unwarrantably made in his publication of Tuesday last, under the title " A Traitor in the Camp," which called forth the rejoinder which appears to have excited the anger of the Mail. We had not, pre viously to this attack, touched at all upon his present diffi culties, and never meditated doing so. We did, at length, in our Friday's publication, retort upon our assailant—a worm if trodden upon will do the same— and in reply, amongst other gratuitous falsehoods, appeared the libel upon ourselves personally, which we now lay before you. After attempting to depreciate generally the character of the STANDARD ; after insinuating that it was nearly "in the agonies of dissolution," and commenting upon the "anxiety of his (the Editor's) employers to take at any price or no price whatever is rejected by the. Mail," the writer proceeds to assert his knowledge " Of the nature of the statement lately laid by THEM before certain parties whose pecuniary assistance is occasionally deemed serviceable and no doubt highly valued;" and remarks, in conclusion, " Our contem porary once before went out without his friends being aware of his intention. 'We hope he may not again lead them into error. We really should be sorry for the. circumstance." The attack thus levelled directly against ourselves we must be allowed to characterize as a deliberate and gratuitous falsehood. We have never laid any such statement before any parties whatever, neither has any individual in our be half. We have never asked for the " pecuniary assistance" of any party or individual to enable us to carry on the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. We have fought, and are fighting the Conservative cause in Liverpool, at our own risk, and with our own means; and, with the increasing patronage which we receive, we have no fear of being enabled to conti nue at our post, however much it may suit the proprietor of the Mail, for an object which he best understands, to re present the contrary. We may further state that the " Gen tleman who in a state of intoxication signed the petition in favour of Lord Stanley's Irish Registration Amendment Bill, on the day of the Conservative meeting there, as the Editor of the Crescent Oracle," is not, and was not, the Editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. We should be sorry, Gentlemen, even in self-defence, to be considered as acting in any way prejudicial to the cause of Conservatism in Liverpool. We are aware of the scandal which the appearance of contention amongst our party may excite ; but we appeal to you, as merchants and as tradesmen, whether we are to submit to have our characters maligned to serve a selfish object. We have a portion of our property at stake in the success of your cause ; we are zealously, honestly, and at the same time prudently endeavouring to promote that success. We look to you for protection, and for the reward of our exertions. It may, we are aware, be said of us, that we provoked this quarrel. To a certain extent this may be the case. We did, in common with nine-tenths of the right-minded people of Liverpool, repudiate, in your behalf, the sentiments and lan guage which had unfortunately been permitted to appear in the columns of the Mail; but we abstained from doing this until we found them made a ground of impugning your loyalty and our own—until it had been commented upon throughout the length and breadth of the empire, and used, both by the provincial and the metropolitan press (conservative as well as ministerial), to connect the feelings of the entire Conser vative party with the late atrocious attempt upon the life of the Sovereign. We should certainly have been well disposed to allow the article in question to sink quietly into oblivion ; but when directly charged with entertaining its sentiments, is there one amongst you, Gentlemen, who would not have re pudiated them ? In conclusion, we may remark, that if to draw down upon the Conservatives of Liverpool the reproba tion of the majority of the empire, and the imputation of a sympathy with murder and treason, be to serve the cause of Conservatism, it is, we must say, a mode of proceeding which WC shall never allow the LIVERPOOL STANDARD to adopt. We have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient and obliged Servants, LACE & ADDISON. Liverpool, July 6th, 1810. The address to the Queen, from the inhabitants of Liver pool, was presented to her majesty, by Lord Sandon, at the court levee. The members for the borough have transmitted to the Mayor the following acknowledgment of the address of the inhabitants of Liverpool to his Royal Highness Prince _ _ Albert. " Buckingham Palace, July 3, 1840. "My Lord,—l have this day had the honour to lay before his Royal Highness Prince Albert the congratulatory address from the inhabitants of Liverpool upon her Majesty's and his Royal Highness's recent most proverbial escape. And I am commanded by his Royal Highness to convey to you, and all those who concurred in this address, the expression of his Royal Highness' sincere thanks for the gratifying expressions it contained.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your faithful and obedient servant, " G. AN SON: " The Viscount Sandon, M.P." • BAZAAR IN BEHALF OF THE SCHOOLS AT HALEWOOD, &c.—We, on Friday, furnished an account of this bazaar, which was held at Woolton Hall, so far as it had then taken place. The amount of the receipts (for the two last days) as then stated, amounted to about 1:800. On Friday, which was intended to have been the closing day, the bazaar was also very successful, but the weather having on the whole been rather unpropitious, the committee resolved to have a fourth day, (Saturday), when they again met with liberal support,—the total receipts of the four days being about £1250. Owing, however; to a great variety of beautiful ar ti c l es having still been left unsold, and a considerable accummulation having arisen from additional donations, two more days were determined upon, in a different locality, for the convenience of parties who might be unable to attend at Woolton. Thursday and Friday next are fixed upon, at the Music Hall, Bold-street, in this town ; and as there are a sufficient number of articles, received, and in preparation ; and the object is moreover one of the most worthy of liberal and general support, we doubt not the attendance will be nu merous and fashionable, and the result highly gratifying. PUBLIC PARKS.—We have heard it stated that there is a wealthy and truly patriotic gentleman of Liverpool, who is so peculiarly favourable to the formation of at least one park, for the health and recreation of our " good old town,' that he has expressed a desire, should he find a suitable site, to lay out a sum of £50,000 in the purchase and laying out of the ground, and to dedicate the same gratuitously to the use of the public for ever. The statement of our informant was derived from a gentleman of the first respectability, who, we believe, heard it either from the individual himself or some intimate friend. We sincerely hope that the statement may be verified. Meantime, as so munificent a donation by one individual is so rare in this too mercenary age, as naturally to suggest the possibility of a mistake having arisen ; all we can say is, that if it be the fact, the gentleman alluded to, should lie nobly come forward, will earn for himself while living an enviable reputation amongst his cotemporary fellow subjects, and when he has gone to " that bourne from whence no traveller returns," his name, linked with his benevolence, will be cherished with feelings of gratitude and respect for ages yet to come. DEPARTURE OF THE BRITANNIA STEAM-SHIP.—On Saturday last, this fine vessel, the first of the regular Halifax snail ships, which had gone out of dock on Friday, and an chored in the Sloyne, proc ee d e d on h er first trip 'across the Atlantic. The passengers and a great number of their friends embarked on board one of the steam tugs from the Egremont pier, about eleven o'clock, and proceeded on board of her at her anchorage, where the u sua l an d unavoidable scene of bustle, gratulation, leave-taking, &c, took place. All parties seemed to be much delighted with her accommodations. About a quarter to one o'clock, the tolling of the bell an nounced that the steam-tug was about to return, and the nu morons visitors hastened back to her deck.. When leaving the side of the Britannia, they gave her three hearty cheers, which were as warmly responded to from the passengers and rzew. Shortly afterwards the government steam-tender Redwing carried on board the government dispatches and mail-bags, and at half past one o'clock, the anchor being weighed, she proceeded down the river against a strong tide, the wind blowing rather strong from the S.W. She is ex pected to reach Halifax on the 18th, and Boston on the 20th instant. The following is a list of the passengers —sixty-three in number :—The Bishop of Nova Scotia and family, the Earl of Caledon, Hon. Sam. Cunard, Miss Cunard, Lieut. Col. Monins and lady, Col. Butler and lady, Major Ruxton, lady, and family, Gen. Broughton, Mr. Featherstonh aug h , Mr. Russell, Capt. and Mrs. Winter, Capt. John Hutton, Mr. Ellwood, Mr. J. Ellwood, F. B. Ogden, Esq. American consul at this port, W. Andrews, Esq. American consul a t Malta, Mr. and Mrs. Moore, Mr. John Cunningham, Mr. Swaine, Mr. S. Henshaw, Mr. R. Ross, Mr. T. Palmer, Mr. L. C. Colten, Mr. Morley, Mr. C. F. Kenworthy, Mr. H. T. Jenkins, Mr. Clark, Mr. James Clark, Mr. Ford, Mi ss Haliburton, Miss Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Inglis, and family, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Picquenet and family, Mr. C. Manturn, Mr. T. J. Spence, Mr. Frankland, Mr. A. Mitchell, Mr. M'Queen, Mr. Joseph Lawyer, Mr. C. M. Rosberry, Mr. S. Lean, and Mr. Hart. At 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, the Britannia was spoken off Tuskar, having made a good run considering the quantity of coals, &c, which she had on board. CORRESPONDENCE, TO CORRESPONDENTS. The editor of the Liverpool Mail will find his disgustingl3 scurrilous attack upon us noticed in another column, in e letter from the proprietors of the STANDARD to the Con servatives of Liverpool. A reply to the writer himself would be derogatory to the feelings of any respectable journalist. " HAWKWOOD, a Romance of Italy," in three volumes, has been received. A notice of it is in preparation for Friday's publication. PUBLIC PARKS.--111 further noticing the letter of " Gain - ma," who recommends the St. Domingo estate as a suit able site for a Northern Park, we have to add an objection to that already advanced, of which we were not aware, and which, per se, is fatal to our correspondent's proposition. The whole of the land belonging to St. Domingo does not comprise a tenth part of the surface, in acres, which would be required for the formation of a park, requisite for the health and recreation of so large a population as that which it is sought to gratify. ERRATUM.—In our last it was erroneously stated, in the re port of the proceedings of the Dock Committee, that " Mr. Ripley" proposed that Mr. Pannell should have the print ing and stationery :—it should have been " Mr. Mellor." " A Voice to Socialists," though well meant, does not come up to our standard. We cannot give any satisfactory reply to " A Subscriber." We have not heard that any day has been appointed for the confirmation of young persons in Liverpool. Perhaps some of our clerical readers can furnish the requisite in formation on this subject. Tn Two KNIGHT MAYORS.—We are informed that on the morning of Wednesday last, memorable as being the day upon, which the honour of knighthood was conferred upon the mayors of Liverpool and Manchester, the figure of Britannia upon the Town-hall was observed by several " lads of the Flags" to rod very perceptibly , _ as much as to say, " Co rn b ea t s C otton, you see ;" whilst in Man chester the water of the Infirmary-pond rose suddenly several feet in a mass, and a crocodile which emerged from the muddy wave, overwhelmed in tears, was recognised by several of the Jarveys on the coach-stand, and a few High street hookers-in, as bearing a strong likeness to " Mes thur Potter weeping for his weavers." • The coincidence is certainly very singular. Our contemporary of the Mercury has lately been setting up for a Chancellor of the Exchequer in a small way, by in venting a new description of paper-money. The Mercury' had proposed, as a convenient remittance for odd coppers, the sticking-plaister labels • but unfortunately it has been at length found out that the party making, and the party receiving and afterwards disposing of, the remittance as money, would have to take out a—license to sell stamps! What a pity that this excellent device should be spoiled ! Could it have been legally adopted, it would have saved no less than three of our contemporaries the necessity of enlarging their sheets, as the extra circulation, required to be made up,.could have been effected by simply converting the stamped dies into threehalfpenny tokens, and printing posters on the waste paper. We are requested to correct a misstatement which appeared in the Albion of yesterday, " that a master butcher in Price's-street had shot himself on Saturday last." The fact is, that a young man in the employ of Mr. Etches attempted, in the delirium of a fever under which he was labouring, to commit suicide. THE MERCURY'S CARICATURE.—We learn that a deputa tion of picture-frame makers waited a few days ago upon the publishers of the Mercury, to request that, previous to the promised reissue of their caricature of her Majesty's Curtain Lecture to Prince Albert, the artist would endea vour to curtail the proportions of the Sovereign, as it has been feared by many ignorant persons that, should her Majesty attempt to erect herself, she might incur the risk of damaging her crown by a rude contact with the frame. It was suggested, in reply, that an inch or two more in height might be given to the frame, but that " curtailing the proportions of the Sovereign" was an indictable offence. MODEL OF WATERLOG TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,---In consequence of observations lately appearing in a London paper, casting discredit upon the motives which urged us, as a nation, to continue the late war upon the Continent, and ridiculing our celebration of the victories there obtained, especially the victory of Waterloo, I have been requested to make a few remarks upon the mode in which that war was conducted, and upon the amount of ta lent displayed by the two contending generals. If the fol lowing hasty sketch should not be too voluminous, I beg the favour of your inserting it in your valuable columns. In the early part of the present century, there was an opinion prevalent throughout the Continent, harboured in the mind and acknowledged in the speeches of the ambitious Emperor of the French, that, although England curbed his power upon the seas, and rode " the mistress of the waves," it was there alone her prowess could be felt, or her strength was formidable. In contempt of her military spirit and experience, he me ditated a descent upon her shores with that vast armament which had already given kings and laws to the greater por tion of the Continent ; and so often was it advanced, and so confidently did he point to England's yet slumbering mili tary energies, that, I verily believe, even we ourselves began at last to be persuaded that our genius for war was only ma ritime, and that the splendid services of Nelson, Duncan, Collingwood, and Howe, would find no counterpart when England's standard was unfurled, and when her sons went forth to meet her foes on shore. It was at this time—when this opinion, combined with the aspiring spirit and the plundering propensities of the French, had given birth to a host of military geniuses, all held, and spell-bound, and wielded by the transcendent martial quali ties of the master-spirit of the Continent, around whom, as bright and splendid satellites, they for a while revolved— that a series of valuable services, and the astounding charac ter of the victory of Assaye, gained upon the plains of India, drew the attention of the world to the calm and determined valour of General Wellesley (now the Duke of Wellington), as the man whose skill should place a limit to the ravrges of lawless despotism, and who, opposing the sweeping tide of usurpation and its contingent miseries, should say to the restless chieftain and his rapacious host, " Hitherto shall e advance, Lut no farther ; and kere shall the proud waves Of thy ambitious reign be stayed." • _ In 'deeply scrutinising the 'victories of Napoleon, as com pared with those obtained over him and over his generals by the Duke of Wellington, we cannot avoid being struck with the remarkable difference of the means employed, as well' as the end sought, by these different powers. In Napoleon's career we observe a series of splendid ex periments, made at a cost of life and means which could only be supported and supplied by the harsh laws of con script, and by the merciless plundering of both friend and foe to feed and glut the myrmidons of war. We see, in Napoleon's tactics, the utmost prodigality of life ; whole armies cast upon experiments which could bear no satisfac tory calculation, but were dependent upon chance, upon the astounding effect of his rapidity and daring, and upon the good fortune which was universally ascribed to, and which often followed, his most reckless acts. We see the French nation wrought up, by that good fortune, to the very phrenzy of ambition, lending itself to the wild views of European sovereignty fostered by the successes of the spoiled child of those turbulent and troubled times ;—we see the people of that nation even hailing, with pride, the arrival to their capital of the cherished works of antiquity, which they well knew their emissaries had stolen from the walls of those countries whose boundaries their armies had passed with the delusive protestations of a friendly and protective power ! In following the -Duke of Wellington through a long chain of Continental victories, I glory in the ability to ascribe, without the fear of contradiction, a different motive, and a more consistent mean. The victories of Wellington were not gained for the purpose of plundering and devastating the private dwellings and the public sanctuaries of a weaker and defenceless foe, but his battles were fought upon the broad principles of humanity, in support of that liberty which yet remains the Briton's boast, and is the birthright of all man kind. We see him draw his sword in the cause of the oppressed ; laying down a most honourable and a most consistent course, which he, through good report and through evil report, most steadily pursued ;—we see him in the midst of an enemy's country, and in the midst of allies (often faithlessly with holding from the distressed soldiers those supplies for which English gold had already paid), enforcing a respect for life, and property, and innocence, hitherto unknown within the range of a victorious or hostile force ;—we see him toiling to produce patriotism and unanimity in the councils of a coun try lying at the merciless feet of an invader, who had availed himself of their internal dissensions to create suspicion and distrust, and who had thereby bound them in the chains of slavery ; —we see him endea v ourin g , by the candid exposi tion of is hopes and views, to lead them to a wise co-opera tion with the British nation, which alone was found to strike a blow in their behalf, or to extend the shield of succour above their then defenceless heads ;—we see, and wonder at, and deplore, the envy and the jealousy which, for a while, baffled his best resolves, and cast into the hands of the enemy the advantages which he had taught and urged them to se cure ;—we see him at length sorrowfully, but dispassionately, bidding adieu to every hope of aid from the rulers of the people whom lie had drawn his sword to save, and who, but that they were blinded by treachery and distrust, might have seen, and could have appreciated, the workings of his great and mighty plan for the ejection of that destructive host which swarmed through all their provinces, and pillaged and devoured the best of all their land ;—we see him, at one and the same time, nipping in the bud the designs of those who were traitors to the cause abroad—calming the fears of vacil lating friends at home—watching the movements of an ene my numerically his superior —and ever and anon striking a blow, and inflicting a chastisement, which taught them that the British leader, although he vapoured not in vain display, yet slept not always when most he seemed at rest. Cahn, calculating, and unostentatious in his disposition, the Duke of Wellington made no needless display of power. Prudent and humane, he cast no lives away on mere experi ment ; but he ever had a care, and he ever took the neces sary precautions, that the repose of his army should be un broken by harassing surprise, andundisturbed by hostile and uncontemplated movements ; but, when the 'fitting season had arrived to unaheathe his sword, numbers or position could not avail to stay his progress, nor was he known to lay that weapon by except in victory. This is no servile flattery of the Irian, nor is it unsupported boasting of the British arms. Even a meagre recital of the incidents of the struggle for national liberty, which occupied our armies on the soil of Spain and Portugal, and terminated on the field of Waterloo, will fully justify all that I could possibly advance as creditable to the discipline and bravery of our troops, or to the skill and genius of their leader. At the time of which I treat the cause of freedom had well-nigh ex pired ; further opposition to the ambitious projects of Napo leon had begun to be looked upon as hopeless, and calculated only to draw down the dreaded vengeance of his arm ; even a portion of England's statesmen seemed d es i rous of urging a withdrawal of our assistance from the fated countries of Spain and Portugal, and of leaving the wide shores of the continent to the ambitious tread of the invader ; whilst they urged the necessity of husbanding our resources and our strength for the protection of our own shores and soil. But, fortunately, the country decided otherwise. One ef fort more was to be made; and the carrying out of that deci sion was entrusted to the Duke of Wellington. And what was the result? England, as a body, had never lost her con fidence, and neither had the Duke. The daring and decisive manner in which, at the passage and the battle of the Douro, he placed his foot upon the ground pre-occupied by the foe, and, following up his advantages, drove them fr om p os iti ons hitherto supposed almost impregnable, rekindled the flame of hope : the character of his subsequent victories ; the surpass ing foresight displayed in the forming of the lines of Torres Vedras ; the masterly retreat thereto; the occupation of a post capable of affording protection to the surrounding pea santry, and of holding at bay the forces of the invading host; could but encourage confidence in his resources, and stimu late the native powers to combination and co-operation ; that confidence obtained, and that co-operation anticipated, we see him again entering the field —treading upon the very heels of the retiring enemy—dealing blow upon blow—gain ing victory upon victory—allowing the enemy no rest, and leaving him no rallying-point upon the Spanish soil, until at length his bugles sounded on the Pyrennees, the trumpet call to all the nations of the continent to assemble on the plains of France and strike for liberty. . The Duke of Wellington, during the Peninsular war, had successfully opposed, and frequently beaten the greatest of Napoleon's generals ; but the two great military leaders had never been personally opposed to each other, and Welling ton's reputation seemed but imperfectly established, whilst yet it could be affirmed, " He has never met Napoleon." The world speculated upon the result of such a meeting. Napoleon himself looked forward, if not with dread, at least with much anxiety ; for when, after his return from Elba, he once more left his capital to oppose the immense armament of the allies, he spoke not of any power but that of England, and his observation, " that he was then going to meet and measure swords with Wellington," proves that he considered him the only obstacle in his path ; and that were 'Wellington conquered, and were England's force disposed of, his pro gress would again be unopposed. It is this which gives a distinct character to the campaign of 1815, and to the battle of Waterloo. Napoleon had col lected an armament of more thau 700,000 troops, for the defence of France, and for the purpose of meeting the vast assemblage of powers bent upon dethroning the man with whom they had then declared they would never again enter into terms of peace. From this army he had selected the best and bravest of his troops ; they, with his most valued and experienced generals, were assembled in one spot ; and Napoleon himself, with all his energies aroused by the emer gencies of the time, had taken the command of that splendid portion of his troops which was destined to oppose the army of the Netherlands, commanded by the Duke of Wellington. There it was he determined to strike his first, and, he hoped, decisive blow ; and had he conquered Wellington, the very bulwark of liberty would have been destroyed, a thrill and a sensation of terror would have been sent along the whole line of the allies, and crowns and sceptres would have been swept away before the restless progress of his splendid arma ment, then flushed with confidence by the defeat of his most stubborn and most determined foe. Every thing depended on the first meeting of these chiefs ! The fate of Europe hung upon the result of the first general engagement in the Netherlands ! Napoleon had stated, but a few days previous, " that the time had arrived when every Frenchman who possessed a heart should go forth to perish or to conquer." _ _ _ The Nice also had calmly weighed the consequences, and was prepared to abide the brunt. He was content to meet Napoleon, and resolved to check him in his wild career, or perish in the attempt. True it is, as a calm and calculating man, he closely scanned the character of his troops ; and true it is, for it on record stands, that when he looked around and missed from out his lines the veteran troops upon whose discipline and bravery he knew he could depend—and when he missed amongst his staff many of the experienced men whom he had trained in his own peculiar school, and saw their places supplied by raw recruits and young officers, the greater part of whom were then for the first time to face the tbe, and that foe the formid a bl e `• Invincible " of France,— that he did express a wish that his own Peninsular veterans were there ; and true it is, that he did say that he had never taken into the field an army so undisciplined, and had never been surrounded by a staff so generally inexperienced. Anxious then, indeed, must he have been when in the face of the best troops of France, commanded by Napoleon and the most celebrated of his generals, with the fate of Europe depending on his skill, he drew his line of battle on the heights of Waterloo, and gave his short instructions to the second in command, " If I should fall, hold Hougomont, and fight to the last man." The words which I have quoted, as regards the want of experience complained of by the Duke, have been tortured into an imputation discreditable to the officers who com manded, and the troops who composed the regiments at Wa terloo. They certainly imply no such thing ! The greater part were strangers to the Duke ; he had never seen them moving under the enemy's fire ; they were unfamiliar wea pons, which he had not proved ;—and he expressed no more. Intently and anxiously he watched the first effects made on his lines by the formidable attacks and the reckless impe tuosity of the French. Many a word of encouragement and praise broke from his lips as he took shelter in their squares, and observed, with pride and satisfaction, their steady bear ing and deliberate fire ; and ere an hour had passed the Duke foresaw that the very youths of England had pith and bravery to withstand the formidable veterans of France, and that too (for I glory in showing their position in its true and creditable light) when overmatched in every thing but their native valour, and their firm determination to acquit themselves like men. They did indeed acquit themselves like men ; and I feel perfectly Pursuaded that none but British soldiers would have stood so many hours beneath such a perpetual and de structive fire. It was indeed " a day of hard knocks" and dogged endurance, and a perfect " gluttony of blows !" But it was also a day of consummate skill on the part of the leader ; and I have no hesitation in declaring the now-esta blished fact, that but for the ability displayed in the choice of the position, and but for the wise disposition of the troops upon that chosen ground, the British soldiers, brave as they were, capable of doing all that men could possibly do, and of enduring all that men could possibly endure—disdaining, as they then did, and as they ever would, to turn their backs in flight—would all, aye every matt of them, have slept in death ere that day's sun had set on 'Waterloo ! Is there any person, therefore, that will stand between us and our national rejoicings, 'hen we declare that the British army owes its preservation on that day to the Duke of Wel lington ; and that the British nation owes its preservation, owes its thanks, and owes it gratitude to both. In my next I will, with your kind permission, describe the nature and the advantages of the Duke's position ; and will also give my opinion of the amount of assistance received from, and the amount of the credit due to the Prussians for their co-operation. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, FREDERICK S. THOMAS. Slater-street, July 4th, 1840. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRIZE.—The enormous expense to which some of our London contemporaries put themselves appears most extraordinary, and the wonder is how the outlay can ever be regained. Here we have The Times expressing from India ! On Friday last Mr. Gaskill, the active agent for The Times, received the second and third editions of the leading journal in Liverpool, containing the India news, the time the merchants of the city were expecting their letters, and the government its despatches ! ! UNIVERSITY HONOURS.—We stated in a recent publica tion that several young gentlemen, who had received their education at Middleton School, had, " at the last term exa minations," received scholastic honours, and that amongst others were. Mr. T. and P. Talbot, sons of Mr. It. Talbot, shipbuilder, of this town. In the paragraph which we quoted it was omitted to be stated that the examination took place in " Trinity College, Dublin," and that therefore the " ho nour in classics," conferred on each of the young gentlemen named, was by that university. Amongst the various articles sold avowedly for the growth of hair, those recommended as stimulants are not only use-. less but injurious in the extreme, they are of a glutinous nature, appear to thicken the hair, but on examination the pores are stopped—the absorbents suspended, and the hair declines gradually—emollients alone will renovate and pro mote a - luxuriant growth, and give the finest lustre to the hair—it preserves the scalp cool, soft, and healthy. In J. Middlewood's treatise on hair will be seen many experiments made with the genuine Botanic Oil ; and whether from a natural decline, fevers, change of climate, the effects of ring worm, &c. it has never been known to fail in producing the finest hair.—See advertisement Botanic Oil. IMPORTANT TO THE HOLDERS OF LOCAL BANK NOTES. —At a meeting of the creditors of the Ramsgate Bank (Austen and Co.), a Mr. L. Daniels, solicitor, raised an ob jection to the proof of notes under the fiat, which had been more than six years in circulation. The objection was ad mitted by the commissioners, but the claims generally stood over for further consideration till the next meeting. THE SHRIEVALTY OF LONDON.—The Court of Aldermen of the city of London have resolved that Alderman Gibbs was duly elected as Sheriff—that the election of Mr. Farn combe was void—that Mr. Galloway was not duly elected — and that the Lord Mayor be requested to issue a precept to the livery for a fresh election. The radicals have thus been defeated in their object, as we have no doubt they will be in the next contest. The friends of Mr. Farncombe are very sanguine of success. We perceive, from the advertisement which appears in another column, that the eminent surgeon-dentist, Mons. Malian, has permanently taken up his residence in Liverpool. TIMES EXTRAORDINARY !—The Times of yesterday had another supplement of eight pages (the same size as the paper), and contained one thousand, one hundred and sixty six advertisements, in addition to a mass of reading equal to a large octavo volume. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Madame Vestris, Mr. C. Mathews, and Mr. J. Vining, commenced an engagement at the Thea tre-Royal last evening. The house was respectably tilled. The pieces were The Belle's Stratage»2 and One Hour,. in which the performance of all the parties elicited universal approbation. Mr. Gilbert and Miss Bailin, and their clever pupils, have been re-engaged, and their dancing in the ballet last evening was much admired. THE EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. As this exhibition continues, its merits become daily more and more appreciated, and the multiplicity, beauty, and value of the articles to b e , we may say , " di sco vered"—for the collection is so great, that a merely cursory visit, though it cannot fail to please, in some degree, dazzles and confuses the visitor, who must return to the change, when he will find fresh objects calculated not only to excite delight but astonishment. We by no means approach the common par lance of newspaper paragraphs relating to ordinary sights and scenes advertised for public inspection, but we speak the universal opinion of all who have seen it, when we say, that whether as a collection of works of art and science, and natural history, of what is curious, remarkable and instruc tive in the philosophical world, whether in its crude state from the hand of nature, or fashioned into countless forms by the skill and perseverance of man, from remote ages up to the present time,—this exhibition has never been equalled in the north-of England, and never, we may venture to add, surpassed, in extent and variety, even in the metropolis itself, if we except in some points the British museum. When we reflect that all this is for the encouragement of science, learning, and the arts—that the numerous splendid rooms are daily visited by delighted hundreds lof townsmen and townswomen : and that the collection, great as it is, receives hourly accessions, we need not add another word to ensure a thronged attendance to the close. But we are bound, nevertheless, to add one word more ; and that not only is there a most interesting novelty exhibited nightly.— the fire cloud apparatus—but that, through the kindness of Lord F. Egerton, the celebrated picture by Landseer—" The Return from Hawking,"—has just been added to the beau tiful collection of paintings, and a sight of which single triumphant effort of genius is itself well worth the full amount of the admission money. There are 157 insolvents in Lancaster Castle to be brought up for hearing at the next sitting of the Insolvent Debtors Court, on the 9th instant. NEW MAGISTRATE.—James Pownall, Esq. of Penning ton Hall, Leigh, of the firm of Messrs. Bickham and Pow nall, silk manufacturers, Manchester, has been placed on the commission of the peace for the county of Lancaster, and, intends to qualify at the next quarter sessions at Kirkdale. RAYTHER SOFT.—A person from Wales was inveigled into the Rope and Anchor public-house, Old Churehyard, Manchester, a few days since, who had upon his person £9O in the notes of the Puellheli Bank, the entire of which were extracted from his pocket whilst in the house. He is sup posed to have been drugged. One of the villains has been apprehended, but none of the missing notes were found upon his person. RECEIVING-BOX FOR LETTERS AT THE EXCHANGE NEWSROOM.—A. box for the reception of letters, passing through the postoffice, will forthwith be placed in the Ex change Newsroom, which cannot fail to be a source of con venience to gentlemen on 'Change and in the vicinity. Would it not be very desirable also to have a bag or a box in the newsroom, appropriated to the use of letters destined for the various liners and steam-ships constantly plying across the Atlantic? Such an arrangement would be a great convenience to all interested in the American trade. The plan is adopted in the Merchants' Exchange, New York, and is found to answer admirably. -, - TRESPASSING ON THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. — On Wednesday, John Gregg was fined 5s and costs for walk ing on the line of the Grand Junction Railway at Winwick; and Isaac Sankey. for leaving a gate unfastened, so as to per mit some cattle to stray on the line, was ordered to pay a similar sum. STATE OF THE STRENGTH OF THE LANCASHIRE CON STABULARY, 25TH JUNE, 1840.-1 chief constable, 2 assist ant ditto, 15 superindents, 10 inspectors, 31 sergeants 270 fitst class, 0 second class, 113 third class—total, 442. Distri bution : North Lonsdale, 13, South Lonsdale, 9, Garstang, 7, Preston, 40, Higher Blackburn, 34, Lower Blackburn, 46, Leyland Hundred, 31, Bolton, 35, Middleton, 42, Ashton under-Lyne, 11, Manchester, 51, Kirkdale, 26, Ormskirk, 9, Prescot, 41, Warrington, 27, and 18 officers—total, 442. ACC [DENT TO COL. WILLIAMS.--A serious accident be fell Col. Williams, at his residence, Little Woolton, on Mon day last. He was entering a shower bath, when his foot slipped, and he fell on his side against a step, breaking one of his ribs by the concussion. He has since suffered much pain, but we are very happy to have it in our power to state that he is now doing well.—Mercury. ADVERTISEMENT DUTY We published, a short time since, a statement of the rela tive circulation of the Liverpool newspapers during the past and present year. We have now great pleasure in laying before our readers a statement of the amount of advertise ment duty paid by each of the same papers, during the last three years, respectively, in doing which we cannot avoid expressing our satisfaction at the position which the LIVER POOL STANDARD occupies, for which we tender our acknow ledgments to our advertising friends : X s. d. _ s. d. ..,., s. d. Mercury 879 6 0 1020 5 6 1099 11 6 Gore's Advertiser 983 2 0 1096 1 0 1013 3 6 Mercantile Garette ----. Albion 497 13 0 600 19 0 614 17 0 Standard • 619 11 6 314 5 0 592 19 0 Mail 452 6 6 566 14 0 537 4 6 Chronicle 490 10 0 524 6 6 535 13 6 Courier 348 10 6 382 13 0 400 16 0 Times 277 7 0 284 3 6 280 17 6 Journal lB5 8 0 160 17 6 175 11 6 BIRKENHEAD CATTLE AND CHEESE FAIR The second Birkenhead fair of the present year took place on Friday last, on the vacant ground south of the Albion Hotel, in the field on the north, and in Chester-street. Owing to a variety of circumstances, some of which could not be controlled, the fair was not quite so numerously attended as was anticipated, though taking all matters into account, there was nothing to discourage the opinion that tbsse fairs. when once properly set on foot; will prove to be highly successful, and highly beneficial, not only to dealers, but to the neighbouring country and to consumers. In the first place, owing to some want of efficient organization in the committee, the fair was by no means sufficiently adver tiseh. Indeed, its advent was not keown to many parties who would have taken an interest in it, even within a circuit of two miles. In the second place, the weather was, up to 12 o'clock, exceedingly unpropitious, the wind blowing almost a gale, and the rain faliing in nearly continuous showers. In the third place, the tide in the morning was out, and there was great difficulty in embarking the cattle and horses, from the Liverpool side. Many dealers, indeed, their cattle as well as themselves, being " beaten by the wind, and battered by the rain," relinquished their intention of attending. In the fourth place, there exists at the present time, amongst horned cattle, a peculiar disease which has prevented many dealers from coming up, has somewhat damped the spirit of purchasers in cows, and, as we learn, will have a detrimental effect on the approaching Ches ter fair. What was brought up, however, was, with scarcely an exception, of good quality ; and, foreseeing that Birkendead must finally, from its situation in the proximity of Liverpool, and its growing population and con venience for such a purpose; become the sites of important marts of this description, we hope and trust that those gentle men who have the power of directing them will, against the next occasion, enter heartily into the spirit of the occasion ; give due previous notice, and lend their individual assistance to an object which must euentually be carried out, if not by the present parties, by those who will succeed them. Amongst the cows brought up was a fine stud by Mr. Sharp, the celebrated dealer, consisting of from twenty-five to thirty prime animals. The greater part were Alderneys and Durhams, for which from £25 to £3O each was asked, and nearly the whole were sold. Mr. DOdson, cattle-dealer, had about fifteen or sixteen cows of the Durham breed, and sold the greater number at £24 and under. Mr. Congreave, of Burton, brought several fine beasts, of such quality that 8d per lb was refused for them, sinking the offal. A small but beautiful Guernsey cow, quite like a pet, with a calf, was sold immediately. Mr. William Beckwith brought four fine calvers and two fine heifers. The farmers' stock in cows and calves was, on the whole, excellent, and fair prices were obtained. In horses the supply was good, particularly of those suited for the cart. Good animals of this description fetched £4O, and that sum was refused for some others. Mr. Bellis, as usual, brought up a fine stud. There were some good hacks, which brought fair prices —also several tidy ponies. In the afternoon the show was exceedingly good—extending in Chester-street almost to the Woodside Ferry House. In cheese there was little doing, the season for this article being aimost out. Little remains of old cheese, and the new is not yet ready for the market. There were, however, three or four small dairies of cheese of good quality suitable for. packing. Some of this make was sold at 61s to 62s—the better quality at 70s. Every cheese was sold by 12 o'clock to the satisfaction of buyer and seller. There was a fair supply of pigs, of which sales at high prices were effected. On the whole, the fair was of a cha racter, giving indubitable proof, that if these " meetings" be in future well ordered and conducted, Birkenhead will be come a first-rate mart for those prime articles of consumption, good beef, good pork and good cheese, as well as for horses. It has been suggested to us by a gentleman who frequently attends fairs and cattle markets, chiefly as a purchaser, that, the permanent establishment of the Birkenhead fair would be greatly facilitated by premiums being given, in the first instance, for the best and second best animals of the respect ive kinds brought. He states that he has known the good effects of this system from experience in other quarters ; and that he thinks there would be no necessity for its continuance beyond three or four fairs. We throw out the suggestion, not trusting but that it will meet with attention in the proper quarter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-MONDAY ROBBBERY IN DUBLIN A middle aged man was placed aTt the bar on a charge of having been conce rne d i n an . extens i ve ro bb ery in Dublin last week. He was apprehended in Liverpool yesterday, and a considerable sum of money found upon him, of his pos session of which he could give no satisfactory explanation. He was remanded till Wednesday, in order to afford time to communicate with the police of Dublin. George Washington pleaded guilty to an information laid by Acting Tide Surveyor Parry, charging him with having smuggled a quantity of manufactured tobacco (about 1301bs) on board that vessel. From the information it appeared that the Tide Surveyor found the tobacco on the Ist inst., when the vessel was in Prince's Dock Basin, and that it was con cealed about the bed place of the defendant, who acknow ledged it was his,'but declared he had bought it for the pur pose of supplying the passengers. The captain of the George Washington gave him an excellent character. Mr. Rushton convicted him in the penalty of £lOO, and intimated, that himself and his brother magistrate would, under the circum stances, sign a memorial to the Board of Excise for a miti gation of it. FRAUD. John Cooper, a porter in the service of Mr. Martindale, soda-water manufacturer, of Bold-street, was charged with having embezzled several small sums of money, the property of his employer. It appeared that the prisoner was sent on two several occasions with packets of soda-water and lemon ade to the Grand Junction Railway Company's office, and to the office of the Liverpool and Manchester Company, to be conveyed to Wolverhampton and to Newton. On these occasions money was given to him to pay the freight ; and he altered the tickets, so as to enable him to charge more than he had actually paid, putting the difference in his pocket. He was committed to the sessions. THE COMMERCIAL BANK (From our Correspondent.) MANCHESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—From what has transpired of the proceedings at the meeting of the share holders of the above bank ? on Friday last, it appears, that in consequence of the proposed arrangements with Messrs. Barnett, Hoare and Co. not having been successful, nor yet those made by the Bank of England, the shareholders re solved on meeting the difficulties in which the establishment was placed by advancing among themselves something like a just proportion to the shares held by each proprietor. One gentleman offered a loan, or whatever else it may be desig nated, of £lO,OOO, and several others £5,000 each ; and, from the temper of the meeting, it is confidently anticipated that a sufficient sum will be raised among themselves, forth with, to place not only the public completely out of danger, but also to carry on the affairs of the bank and its branches as usual. An advertisement has appeared in the Manchester papers, stating that the banks will shortly be able to resume business. Notwithstanding the deputation went to London with the determination not to ask aid of the Bank of England, it (lid, however, seek such aid, after the offers made to Messrs. Barnett and Co. were declined. The conditions, however, which the Bank of England were desirous to im pose, were such as to induce the deputation to decline the proffered advance : and as the meeting yesterday coincided with the views taken by the deputation, an advance by the various shareholders was decided upon. Another meeting of the shareholders took place on Satur day, but nothing of importance transpired. The Manches ter and Salford Advertiser of the 4th inst. contains a list of the proprietors, 588 in number. It is eminently calculated to allay the apprehensions, if any exist, of such a s ma y h ave any claims upon the bank% as there would be no difficulty in selecting one or two individuals from the list, who, in the estimation of the public. could without inconvenience liqui date the notes of the establishment. The following brief statement of the general location of the proprietors may not be uninteresting. There reside in Manchester and Salford about 80 ; Blackburn 54 ; Newport (Salop) 35 ; Chester 30 ; Ludlow 26 ; Leeds 31; Potteries 24 ; Whitchurch 13 ; Bir mingham 13 ; Ashburne 12; Huddersfield 12 ; Skipton 15 ; Shrewsbury, &c. 14 ; Halifax 11 ; Rochdale 9 ; Burnley 8 ; Bury 6 ; London 6 ; Chorley 4 ;. Preston 3 ; Wakefield 3 ; Worcester 3 ; Ashton, &c. 4 ; &c, &c. EXTRAORDINARY MATRIMONIAL ADVEN TURES OF A PRETENDED LORD. On Monday last, at the Durham Sessions, Robert Taylor, one of the most impudent impostors that we ever remember to have heard of, was tried for polygamy.. We extract from the Northern Times the following account of the trial : THE RIGHT HON. LORD KENNEDY ALIAS ROBERT TAYLOR (AN IMPOSTOR) ON A CHARGE OF BIGAMY. On this case being called on much merriment was created in the court, which was much crowded, and great curiosity was manifested to catch a glance of " his lordship," as he took his place in the dock. " His lordship," on appearing, had a very self-complacent grin on his countenance, and seemed greatly amused with the novelty of his situation, and the curiosity that had been excited to behold this singular, vulgar, ignorant, but successful impostor. He gazed round the court, laughed at the spectators, and seemed to relish his " own thoughts " with great satisfaction, occasionally turn ing up his ugly thick red lips, and distorting his ill-shaped nose with the most " lordly contempt." Altogether, his con duct was more disgusting than amusing, and though the laugh was often both loud and general, yet few there were who wit nessed this impudent impostor's grimaces but would have readily assisted in exposing his unmanly, vulgar, and ill-fea tured countenance in the pillory. ~ On being arra i gned and called upon to plead, " his lordship said, in a loud sneering tone, that he was " not guilty.' Mr. Granger then rose and stated the case for the prosecu tion. The learned counsel said that the indictment charged the prisoner at the bar, Robert Taylor, with the crime of bigamy, an offence against society which was j ust l y punishable under he criminal law. The prison er was charged with having married Mary Davidson, at Acklam, near Middles bro', in the county of York, having been previously married to Mary Ann Scudmore, at St. Philip' s Church, Birming hwent am , in July, '3B wife was no w li v i ng. The prisoner to Birmingham,ahnd gave out that he near w the l son of a late Lord Kennedy, of Ashby-hall, Ashbyde natura la o u ch , in the county of Lei cester, and had represented himself as entitled to great wealth, some £60,000 and upwards per annum. To give countenance to these monsterous imposi tions, he had a number of strange documents, which he carried about with him in a tin case, on which was marked " Lord Kennedy, otherwise Robert Taylor." These docu ments purported to be the will of this late Lord Kennedy, copies of the will, certificates of guardianship, and other papers, to assist him in his fraudulent designs. The learned gentleman read short extracts from these papers, and also from the will, which " gave and bequeathed to Robert Taylor, the son of Elizabeth Taylor, the sum of one million and liften thousand pounds and No MORE!! ! three per cent. consols (loud laughter) four coal-pits, some ships, &c." The prisoner had, at Birmingham, become acquainted with a person named John Wood, who would be called be fore the jury, and after inducing this person to believe his representations regarding himself and his great wealth, had expressed himself as very desirous to be married. He offered a reward of ten pounds to any person who would introduce him to a nice, handsome, modest, pious young girl, who was agreeable to marry him, and in consequence lof his statements, John Wood had taken him (Tayk.. the house of Benjamin Scudmore, in Birmingham, for t. Purpose of being affianced to the daughter of Scudmon The object of the visit having been explained to Benjami Scudmore. and the great wealth and titles of the prison( brought under the notice of the said Benjamin, " his lora] ship" was next introduced to Miss Mary Ann, who co sented to become " Lady Kennedy." The money ha been raised by the Scudmore family for the purpr marriage licence and a ring were procured that cl; the parties were married on the next morning, a Philip's Church, Birmingham, in the presence of John and his wife, and some members of the Scudmore fam The learned counsel said he should prove these facts by Jo Wood, whom he should call as a witness. After the ins riage the prisoner lived with his wife, and upon his wife family, for about six weeks, when he finally left her, and the had seen nothing of him since. It was in consequence c his apprehension at Hetton, by Superintendent Ingo, of th rural police, on another charge of bigamy, which had led t( the discovery of this marriage. After leaving Birmingham the prisoner had visited different parts of the country, prac• tising his deceptions, and " his lordship" had become wel known at Hetton, where he had lived for some length 01 time upon the credulity of such persons as believed his in famous misrepresentations- He affected great piety and purity of life—carried about with him hymn-books, teetotal pledges, anti-tobacco pledges, and visited class-meetings and preachings in the Primitive Methodist Connexion. He had, at a class-meeting in Newcastle, last October, become ac quainted with a young female, named Mary Ann Wilson, who was married to him a day or two after, on the 19th of October, at St. John's Church, Newcastle. Like his wife at Birmingham, the unfortunate victim at Newcastle was soon abandoned, and " his lordship" betook himself to the neighbourhood of Hetton again, and thence to the vicinity of Stockton, where his deep piety recommended him to the attention and friendship of a person in the Ranter Connec tion, named Benjamin Fryer. He expressed great anxiety to be married to a pious female of " handsome" appearance, and offered to give his friend, the " Reverend" Fryer, the sum of £lO if lie would procure him an introduction to a female willing to be married. His " reverence" thought the chance a good one, and made the most of it, and accord ingly agreed to introduce " his lordship" to his wife's sister. They went together to Acklam, near Stockton, for that pur pose, and arrived at the house of Thomas Davidson, father in-law to the " reverend" Ranter preacher, about 4 o'clock on the 3rd of April, when he was shown to one of David son's daughters. The young lady was not, however, to his " lordship's" fancy, and he declined this young person, ob serving " that he did not like her looks, and she was too lively for him—not of a serious turn enough !" The other sister was then brought under his notice, and as her consent to be married was obtained during the night, the parties went next day, the 4th of April, to Acklam Church, where they were married by banns, by the Rev. Isaac Benson. Money was advanced for this purpose, and afterwards for means of support, by Benjamin Fryer, the ranter preacher, amounting, together with the £lO. reward offered for obtain ing the wife, to the sum of £22. for which sum " his lord ship" gave his promissory note. He stayed about three weeks at the house of his new father-in-law, and then pro ceeded with his wife, after often trying to get away from her, to Hetton, where he was seen by Superintendent Ingo of the rural police, taken into custody, and from thence he was committed to take his trial for the charge on which he was now placed in the dock. These are the outlines of the nar rative in the learned counsel's speech, after delivering which, with much good humour, he proceeded to call the following witnesses, whose ev id ence we s h a l l not g i ve at great length,' as it contains only a repetition of the statements made by the learned gentleman in the course of his speech. John Wood called.—ls a waggoner, livin g in Birmingham, in which tow n he fi rs t me t th e pr i soner in July, 1838, who represented himself as the son of the late Lord Kennedy, and entitled to receive, on coming of age, a large amount of property. He represented himself as entitl e d to £60,000 a year, and said he had advertised for a wife, and would give witness a reward of £lO if he could take him to a handsome young woman, who would marry him ; and, believing his tales, he took him to the house of Benjamin Scudmore, and after explaining his visit, the prisoner was introduced to Mary Ann Scudmore, the daughter of Benjamin. She was shewn his tin case of parchment documents, the wills, &c. The parties being agreeable to the marriage, the ring and license were procured that day, with money supplied by Benjamin Scudmore, and they were married on the next day, at St: Philip's, Birmingham, in the presence of wit nesses and his wife, and some relations of the bride. The prisoner staid for about six weeks with his wife, living upon her family, and then left her. Witness has not seen him since he left Birmingham, in 1838, hut the prisoner at the bar is the same person. " His lordship" was told by the court, he might ask the witness any questions he thought proper, when he began a long explanatory rigmarole conversation with the witnesses that created laughter, but had no bearing upon the points in the evidence given by the witness Wood. The bench put a stop to it, by desiring his " lordship" to confine himself to the evidence before the court. A woman in the body of the court, elderly in years and meanly attired, squeaked out in a ludicrous tone, Robert ! tell them thou's under age." On hearing which his " lord ship" turned round in a state of great excitement, exclaim ing, " w—i—s—h—t !" and shaking his head and his clenched fist very furiously at this sagacious old dame. The old lady afterwards turned out to be the Dowager " Lady Kennedy." This little incident created the most laughable excitement in the court, which lasted for some moments. The witness Wood cross-examined by " his lordship :" The twills and other papers were shown to Mary Ann Scud more's father, and the nature of them explained. His Lordship.—" You stated what is not true. the will' that was shown, it was the sirtiketer' (cert. cate) you saw." ;LA Mary Davidso n , th e p r i soner ' s l as t w if e ,' was then called She is an interesting, modest-looking young person, and it seems strange how a young female of her appearance could be induced to " tackle to" with such an ignorant, ill-fa voured brute as " his lordship." She was sworn and stated, that she is a daughter of Thomas Davidson, of Acklam, in the county of York. She has a sister married to Benjamin Freyer, a ranter preacher, and that her brother-in-law (Freyer) and the prisoner came to her father's house, at Acklam, on the 3rd of April last, when the prisoner was introduced to her sister, for the purpose of being married. The prisoner did not like the " lively looks" of her sister — she was not " serious " enough for him, and he was after. wards introduced to me. -My brother-in-law represente( him as a very pious young man, the son of Lord Kennedy and entitled to very large property. He said he was t have £2O a year till he was of age, and £7OO on being married I did not then see the parchment will, only the copy on paper Prisoner certainly said he was to have £2O a year till he we of age. I consented that night to be married to him, an next morning, the 4th April, we were married with Beene( at Acklam Church, by the Rev. Isaac Benson. My brother in-law advanced £l2 for the expences, which, with £lO re ward the prisoner was to give him for procuring him making together £22, he is now indebted to my brother-, law, Fryer. We lived upon the £l2, after paying the wed ding expences. We staid the first two nights at Stockton, then went to my father's, and staid three weeks, and from thence to Hetton. During this time the prisoner often tried to get away from me, and when in bed attempted to get the ring off my finger. On passing though Hetton the police officer asked if we were married, and on hearing we were, lie took the prisoner into custody. " His lordship " then examined his" Mary," as he called her, much after the fashion of the previous witness, evincing great hardihood, and the rascality of the most consummate scoundrel, exclaiming, When I came to Acklam, Mary, to your father's house, did I not say, money or no money, Mary ?' Meaning that he had asked the girl to marry him whether he had money or not. This kind of examination was carried on at great length, till at last the Bench put a stop to it. Mr. Ingo, Superintendent of the Rural Police, was next called and sworn, and said that he had known the prisoner since the autumn of last year, when he was at Hetton, and was representing himself to be the natural son of Lord Kennedy, and entitled to very large property. He was then very anxious to get married, and caused much talk about Hetton. On the 28th of April last I saw him going through Hetton with a young woman, to whom I suspected he was married, and having heard of his wife at Newcastle, I en quired of the young female, when she told me she was his wife, and had been married to him. I then took him into custody, much against his will, and on being brought before the Magistrates he was committed to prison on the present charge for trial. The marriage at Birmingham was not then known. I have seen the tin-box and his parchment docu ments before, at Hetton, last year. He imposed upon a great number of people. Mr. Ingo was then cross-examined by the prisoner in the same foolish style as the other witnesses, much to the merriment of the court. This closed the case for the prosecution, and his lord ship' was informed that the time had now arrived for his defence. It was not A scene of the most laughable nature commenceu, lordship put himself into a position of an orator, and vered himself of his thoughts, laughing at his own wit, ar, working hard to get on the tread-mill. He boasted of hi. numerous marriages, justified them upon the plea of his "under age," a nd th at as h e was " a lord, " possessed e one million and fifteen thousand pounds, and no more he could do as he pleased. After ranting in a strain of folly for same half an hour or more, he introduced into tn, witness box the Dowager " Lady Kennedy," to speak his character. Her ladyship said he was not of age, and therefore his marriages were not legal. She had not come to say who was his father, but lie was the son of a gentleman (!)—he was not always right in his head, and was not very clever.' The jury found him guilty. His lordship was afterwards arrainged on another indict ment. for having, in Octoberlast, married Mary Ann Wilson, at Newcastle. This case in all its features resembled the last, and it was shortly proved in all the legal f acts so as to warrant the jury in giving their verdict. On this trial also he was found guilty. The chairman in passing sentence, expressed the disgust the court felt at the conduct of the prisoner, and remarked that they were bound to pass upon him a severe punishment. He was sentenced for the first conviction to he imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months ; and for the second conviction, to 18 months imprisonment, and hard labour making in the whole 24 years, during which time " his lord. s hi p " will reach his twenty-first year. LIVERPOOL PILOTS' ASSOCIATION FOR TB SUPPORT OF DECAYED PILOTS, THEIR W DOWS AND ORPHANS. The annual meeting of that excellent and most praiseworthy society, the Pilots' Association for the Support of Decayed Pilots, their Widows and Orphans, was held yesterday. A statement of the accounts and proceedings for the past year was laid before those present, and unanimously confirmed. We are exceedingly glad to state that the present state and future prospects of the institution are very promising, and that, by the improved system of management recently intro duced, its utility will become general amongst the laborious class,"who are the objects of its exertions. The business of the association having been disposed of, about seventy of its members and friends sat down to a din ner at the house of Mr. Edwards, the Freemason's Arms Inn; St. Paul's-square. We speak the sentiments of all present, in stating that a more sumptuous feast was never prepared, and that the politeness of the worthy host, the at tention of the waiters, and the quality of the viands, were de serving of all praise. We must not omit to mention that the dining-room was elegantly decorated for the occasion. One of the most conspicuous ornaments was the beautifully em blazoned banner presented to the Liverpool pilots in the year 1838, a circumstance that will be in the recollection of our readers. In the aMrn. bsecef Mr. R o b ert Clarke, president of the as sociation, Ht!gh Woodward was called upon to discharge the duties of chairman; and Mr. Rowland Davies those of vice-president. It is only just to them to say that they ful filled their respective offices with much credit to themselves. Amongst the toasts proposed were the usual loyal and pa triotic ones : they were followed by " the pilot that weathered the storm," the healths of Alexander Smith, jun., Esq., and Raymond Haughton, Esq. chairman and deputy c h a i rman ofthepilots' committee, mid many others. Thi s part o f t h e proceedings was interspersed by some excellent singing. The dinner being over, the company retired into another room, also beautifully decorated, and their wives and sweet hearts being introduced, they began to " trip the light fan tastic toe" to the merry measures of an excellent quadrille band. The assembly did not separate till a late hour, and when they did it was with regret. In conclusion we earnestly recommend to the merchants of this opulent town the objects of this institution. There are few associations more deserving of their support. ~~,~ `._ ~. -. i ~',~ ':^" w ~- ~ .~+% kir - tle, \► 4,wv