The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-09 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. In consequence of the unprecedented attraction 'of the popu lar. Drama of JACK SHEPPARD, the engagement of Mr. YATES, Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY, and Mr. PAUL BEDFORD, is extended for Five Nights in the ensuing week. JACK SHEPPARD will be repeated every Even ing. The engagement of the above Performers will posi tively terminate on FRIDAY, June 22nd. The popular Dramas of THE DEVIL 1N LONDON, and H. 8., will be repeated during the week. Mr. YATES' TABLE ACT and IMITATIONS on THURSDAY next. THIS present TUESDAY, June 9, 1840, will be per formed, for the seventh time at this Theatre, an entirely New Romantic and Historical Drama, in Four Parts, with new Music, Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, called JACK SHEPPARD. Abram Mendez Mr. Yates. Jack Sheppard Mrs. Keeley. Joe Blueskin ...... Mr. Paul Bedford. (As originally performed by them in London.) To conclude with (for the second time here) a new Melo- Drama, called THE DEVIL IN LONDON. * * * * * * * Mr. Yates. Mephistophiles ... Mr. Paul Bedford. Mr. John Mr. Keeley. Peggy Paragon.. Mrs. Keeley. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), JACK SHEPPARD ; and,. tar th e se c o n d ti me at t hi s Theatre, the popular Drama of OLIVER TWIST. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our contemporary of the Mercury, baffled and angry, at the exposures to which we have subjected him, took leave of us on Friday with a most melancholy attempt at the mag nificent. We can readily excuse any little ebullition of soreness in the Mercury, and be amused at the mixture of vanity and inflated silliness which our ancient friend en deavours to palm upon the world for wisdom. But it would be really cruel to allow him to leave us under the delusion which still seems to possess him with regard to ►he identity of the editor of the Standard. Speaking of that individually, the Mercury says " at resent he is safe ; but there are some who know his se cret, and to their contempt we leave him !" From this and former remarks of the same sort, it is evident that the worthy twaddler has sonic very odd notion about us. We Can just conjecture the possibility that some of tne illu minati—some of the " lesser lights," who have been accus tomed to revolve round the orbit of Mercury —may have fallen under the displeasure- of that planet, and be sus pected of irradiating our columns with his borrowed intel ligence. We are perfectly ready to admit, with our con temporary, that nothing could equal the atrocity of such conduct. After having hobnobbed with the Mercury,—, punned with him—quibbled with him ;—for such a man, who for anything we know, may even be a minister and an LL.D.. to turn round and expose him is too bad ! So complete a pagan, however, we assure our contemporary, • does not exist ; and we entreat of him to moderate the ran cour which he at present entertains against the supposed Culprit. Liverpool could not afford to lose two such shin ing lights as - the Mercury and his quondam friend ; and we fear that were they to meet under the present mis aken impression of our contemporary, a tragedy similar to that of the Kilkenny cats might unfortunately be the result ! Ebr 74.tinrpool TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1840. We have received intelligence from China to the 22d of February, inclusive. It appears that Admiral Kwan had determined upon the formation of a navy some what different from that hitherto possessed by China. His engagement with the Volage and Hyacinth must have satisfied him that his miserable junks had no Chance whatever before an English man-of-war. We find him, therefore, determined upon possessing as many large merchantmen as he can lay his hands upon, for the purpose of having them fitted up as ships of war. He is said to have purchased one large English vessel, and to have been in treaty with the owners of several other vessels. He is also said to be anxious to contract for the building of a number of gun-boats after the European models. _ _ The Imperial Government had continued to express its entire confidence in the proceedings of the High Commissioner Lin, who had been invested with ad ditional authority as Governor of the Kwantung and Kwangsee provinces. A letter received at Lloyds' brings accounts that a large body of Chinese soldiers was approaching Macao, to seize Captain Elliot and other English subjects. The only ships of war in China were the Volage and Hya cinth. The ships Syeden and Vansittart had been seized at Whampoa, the Chinese considering the sale of these vessels as fictitious. The ships Danshe Konige and Norden had also been confiscated. The Pekin Gazette states that piracy was carried on extensively on the coast of Shang 'rung and Leaou Tung. In every creek and corner of this coast dan gers await the unwary, and before they can utter a cry for help the whole cargo is gone. The Fokien and Canton junks are accused of committing these depre dations. Strict orders had been issued to the autho rities to discover and punish the mauraders. ' Several opium smugglers had availed themselves of the passage boats and proceeded with the pernicious drug to the provincial city and other places. • In another column we publish several important doc uments relating to the intercourse of the British with China. The overland mail may be • daily expected with much later intelligence. Grey hairs are certainly an honour to the good man ; but when we find them associated with vice in its most loathsome and repulsive shapes—when we find them covering the head of a man who has uniformly devoted all his energies to the prostration of all that is great and virtuous—whose whole career has been marked by unmitigated villany and unparalleled hypocrisy— and whose bloated existence is almost a libel upon hu manity—then " the frost of age" not only ceases to inspire us with any degree of respect or veneration, but serves to augment our disgust, and to swell the vo lume of our indignation. The reader, in perusing the . foregoing remarks, in voluntarily thinks of the hoary, mendicant agitator, who is emphatically the curse of Ireland and the arch enemy of England. He is right. This " bold, bad man" is in " the sere and yellow leaf " of life; but does not that very circumstance tend still more to rouse every feeling of virtuous indignation against the tur bulent miscreant ? How can we feel any regard for a man who, like tile Jesuit O'Connell, has spent his whole life in .plotting against the peace and happiness of his fellow-creatures, and the very pabulum of whose exist ence---.-the loathsome food upon which he has fattened —has been treason of the darkest hue ? The longer O'Connell lives, the more aggravating are his crimes, and the more appalling his guilt. Tottering on the brink of the grave, with all his sins " uncancelled, unannealed, and unconfessed," the aged miscreant seems more inveterately bent upon mischief than ever. He.omits no oppom tunity that offers itself for vilifying and traducing all that is great or good in the land. There is no occasion, however unsuitable for such an unhallowed occupation, that he neglects availing him self of, for the purpose of pouring forth his viperous slander on the heads of his Protestant fellow-subjects. Our radical contemporaries are fond of construing the exposure of Popish abominations into abuse of the Papists ; and loud and long are their denunciations of such men as Mr. M'Neile, Mr. M‘Ghee, &c., for 'this imputed animosity : but they forget the truculent, filthy, cowardly, and murder-inciting language of the man who, through his despicable tools in the cabinet, now rules the destinies of England. Let them look a little more into the addresses of Daniel O'Connell—let them wade through his abominable tirades against England and Englishmen—let them examine the coarse, vulgar, and mendacious epithets which pervade every epistle that emanates from the pen of this great est and "most incomprehensible of all vagabonds"— and then let them learn to moderate a little their viru lent declamations against those who would teach the poor deluded Papists of Ireland the error of their ways, and who would rescue them from the galling oppres sion in which they are held by their priestly tyrants. When we reflect upon the atrocious character of the language and proceedings of Daniel O'Connell, espe cially in reference to the people of England—when we reflect that he has repeatedly designated us as a nation of "alien, Sassenach oppressors"—when we call to mina his foul slanders against the wives and daughters of Englishmen —we need not be surprised that his pre sence in a respectable assemblage of Englishmen and Englishwomen should be regarded as odious as that of the most filthy and repulsive of all the vermin that crawl upon the face of the earth. The presence of suck a man in such an assembly must be felt to be an into lerable nuisance ; and it was so felt at the great anti skvery meeting held last week at Exeter Hall. The obtrusion of his brazen face on a meeting graced by the,presence of so much that was good and lovely, and which was presided over by the youthful and amiable consort of her Majesty, could not be regarded in any other light than as a premeditated and unpardonable insult. The meeting, as our readers are already aware, took care to let O'Connell know that such was the light in which his conduct on the occasion was viewed. He was told, in language and by gestures too plain and unequivocal to he for one moment mistaken, that his company was not wanted. This impatience of his pre sence seems to have stung the old serpent himself to the very quick, as was, indeed, evident from the fright ful contortions of his countenance. Nor was the tor ture inflicted on the mind of the wretched old sinner, by the openly expressed contempt of the audience, a tran sitory pain. His feelings of mortification accompanied him to the seclusion of his closet, where, in the agony of wounded pride and thwarted ambition, he set about devising the best means of revenge. His usual resource, the venal ministerial press, he knew to be at his com mand. Through this medium, therefore, he determined to retaliate upon those who, at the Exeter Hall meeting, had treated him according to his deserts. His letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle, which was repub lished on Saturday in that congenial vehicle of slander, the Liverpool Chronicle, was the result of this determi nation. In that precious epistle, O'Connell has " out heroded Herod himself," or to express the same thing more classically, " banged Banagher hollow." It is an ebullition of concentrated spleen and malice to which O'Connell- himself has never furnished a parallel. While writing it we can readily imagine that his blood was careering with tremendous velocity through his veins, and that he was almost choked with rage and fury. At first, however, he appears to have struggled. for the mastery over his feelings. He commences by de nying the " soft impeachment " that he had attempted to address the meeting, and proceeds to allege that his sole object in going to the meeting was "to testify by his presence" and his "ready co-operation, if required, his participation in (what at least appeared to be) a great movement in favour of humanity and religion." After thus insinuating that the ostensible object of the meet ing was not the real one, he prates about " partisan trick or dexterity," and the " paltry underwOrking of national, religious, and personal malignity," and says that it was not well " to treat Prince Albert in such a manner as to make him appear a party to such culpable feelings." Here is the rub. What has evidently gra velled O'Connell more than anything else is, the cer tainty that the Queen would, for once, be made acquainted with the real estimate of the mendicant's character, formed by the people of England... The idea that THE TRUTH should at length, penetrate into the recesses of the Royal closet, caused him to writhe again in the agony of despair. O'Connell asserts that he attended the meeting "that Ireland might be represented, at least by silent acquiescence, in the great work of annihilating slavery;" and yet this self-constituted " representative of all Ireland," is but the mouthpiece of the Popish priests of Ireland, who keep the miserable peasantry of that country in the most galling, abject bondage that ever could befal humanity. Truly, the tool of these priestly tyrants was a very fit deputation to an anti-slavery meeting. His cant about freedom is just as tolerable as the same language would be if addressed by a Virginian planter to his writhing and lacerated slaves, while under the torture of the whip. After complaining, in a mawkish, puling, and whining tone, about the exclusion of Ireland from participating, in his person, in the proceedings of the meeting at Exeter Hall, O'Connell gives vent to his feelings in the following exclamation :—" We do live in a strange world, in which benevolence and hypocrisy, tuft-hunting and ingratitude, mix so well together, that the anti slavery prelate cannot distinguish the ingredients one from the other; bat swallows the whole dose with heaven-turned eyes and earthly alacrity' of the earth, earthy.' " if we rightly comprehend this strange emanation from a bemuddled brain, we must apply the charge of tuft-hunting and ingratitude to Mr. Fowell Buxton and his friends, and the charge of hypocrisy to the distinguished prelates, noblemen, and gentlemen who took a conspicuous part in the pro ceedings at the meeting. We leave Mr. Fowell Bux ton to answer the former charge for himself. As to the latter, we fling it in the face of the mendacious scoundrel who has had the audacity to bring it forward. We defy O'Connell to instance a single individual among those who surrounded Prince Albert at Exeter Hall to whom such a charge is applicable. Hypocrisy, indeed ! Never was there hypocrisy more barefaced than that of him who would rivet the chains of Papal tyranny on the whole population of Great Britain while he cants most glibly alsout annihilating negro slavery. We have neither space nor inclination to wade through the whole of the nauseating compound of cant and hypocrisy, slander and abuse, which is presented in this letter. We look upon it as the malignant effusion of a man who has been taught a salutary lesson, from which he refuses to profit, and which has mortified him to the very core. He has been taught his proper position in society, and he accuses his teachers of giving way to the "low, grovelling, paltry littleness of sectarian, national, and personal malignity." He has been told, in a manner that must have flashed conviction to his inmost soul, that Englishmen can as little tolerate his cant as they can brook his bloated insolence ; and he forthwith yells out a mad shout of defiance, and calls them " knaves." Does he apply this epithet to Prince Albert ? The House of Commons resolved itself into a com mittee on the Colonial Passengers Bill, on Thursday evening last. In the course of the discussion which took place on the subject Lord John Russell explained his views at some length with respect to the introduction of the Hill Coolies into the Mauritius. He gave it as his opinion that it would be absolutely unnecessary to maintain the principle of the order in council as far as the Mauritius was concerned ; 'but lie disapproved entirely of the policy of permitting their emigration to the - West Indies. On the whole question, however, he professed himself to be favourable to the freedom of labour. How he can reconcile this avowal with his positive refusal to confer on the West Indies the priVi lege which he is disposed to accord to the Mauritius, appears to us a complete enigma. If there were any' material difference in the climate—if the West Indies were proved to be more fatal than the Mauritius, or than Hindoostan itself, to the constitution of the Hill Cooly—if the treatment which the few immigrants of this class who have reached British Guiana have met with had been worse than that which they have expe rienced at the Mauritius—if, in short, the experiment, quoud British Guiana, had proved a failure—there would then have been some show of reason for making the distinction. We quite agree with Lord John Russell when he says that " it would be a strange thing to say to a man almost starving, you must not quit your own country, in which you can get neither employment nor food, to go to another, in which your services are needed, and in which they are likely to be so amply rewarded as that you might soon expect to return to your home in improved circumstances." But we maintain that it would be an equally strange thing to say to this starving man, "you shall not go where you like to procure that remunerative employment. It is true that your labour is needed in the West Indies, and that it would be better rewarded there than in any other part of the world; but the only market we shall permit you to take it to is the Mauritius." The one restric tion must be as unreasonable as the other, as must be evident to every one but a purblind. Whig legislator. But, then, "look at the distance," says the clear sighted and consistent Secretary for the Colonies. If two months difference in the length of the voyage is to be considered an adequate reason for excluding the Hill Coolies from the West Indies, what shall we say of the emigration of the natives of Great Britain and Ireland to the Cape of Good Hope, to Van Dieman's Land to New South Wales, to South or West Australia, and to New Zealand, the whole of which places, with the exception of the Cape, are far more distant from this country than the West Indies arc from Hindoostan ? If the reason is good for any thing, it ought to put a complete stop to the colonisa tion of the Australasian territories. Lord John Rus sell, like many other shallow reasoners, has, in this case, spoiled his argument by proving too much. The most plausible plea which Lord John Russell has introduced, as an excuse for denying to the West Indies the advantage of a supply of Indian labourers, is, the objection to the introduction of a third race of inhabitants. Unfortunately, however, the same objec tion holds good in reference to the Mauritius. It must therefore fall to the ground. It is a silly distinction without a difference. The Colonial Secretary then alleges " the extreme difficulty of the Hill Coolies returning to their own country" from the West Indies. This objection, like the rest, is the most futile imaginable. Lord John Russell well knows that the planters of British Guiana have pledged themselves to obviate this fancied diffi culty, We should like to be informed of the names of the parties to whom Lord John Russell alluded, when he said that " he had lately had a conference with some very considerable West India proprietOrs," and tha t " they stated to him very strongly their objections with respect to any introduction of a new race." We hap pen -to know something about the sentiments of the West India proprietary in this town, as 'well as in the metropolis; but we have never heard - any of them start such an objection. We suspect that the " very consi derable" personages referred to are the maggots in the Colonial Secretary's own brain. We might search in vain through our files of the colonial newspapers for such a preposterous objection. The absurdity of this plea was amusingly exposed by Mr. Hobhouse, when he asked " where could there be a more mixed race than in the House of Commons ? They were descend ed from Saxons, Normans, Celts, Flemings, French men," and, he might have added, Irishmen (who claim to . be descended from the Phoenicians), Dutchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Danes, and even from the African negroes ; " and yet the result was (might be, we should say) advantageous." Mr. Ewart, jealous no doubt of his reputation as an adept in the classical art of blundering, availed himself of the earliest opportunity that presented itself, on Thursday evening, for eclipsing the Colonial Secretary in absurdity. He said that "he did not object to emigration to any place, but to that sort of emigration where the emigrants know nothing of the place they were going to." This objection would put an extin- guisher on almost every " sort of emigration." What do the poor, shepherds of the Highlands of Scotland, or the starving bogtrotters of Ireland know of Canada, the United States, or Australia ? Just as much as the Hill Cooly does of the West Indies, that is, what he is told. We must enter our solemn protest against the assumption of Mr. Warburton, when he says that " the object of the parties who sought these emigrants was to make good the deficiency of labour, occasioned by the immense mortality in the colonies." Where has this immense mortality taken place ? We look in vain for any evidence of this alleged fact in the statistical tables of the West Indies. As far as British Guiana is concerned, we have the conclusive testimony of Mr. Schomburgk in favour of its extreme salubrity. It is no mean argument in favour of the scheme of immigration into the West Indies, for which we have so long contended, to find such an ultra-liberal as Mr Buller confessing his astonishment at the conduct of some of the eager advocates of the abolition of slavery, and asserting that they could only " put down the curse of slavery and the slave trade over the world, by raising produce by free labour, and coming forward to support any expedient to introduce free labour into the colonies." We perfectly agree with him that " the friends of abolition ought to evince the utmost readiness to bring free labour into competition with slavery," and "to drive slave labour out of the market by the introduc tion of free labour." This is a concise expression Of all our arguments against Mr. Scoble, Mr. Sturge, an d the rest of the anti-slavery agitators. Equally valuable is the testimony of Mr. Macaulay (whose father was a principal coadjutor with Wilber force and Clarkson in seeking the abolitionof slavery) in favour of immigration to the West Indies. He confessed that ht. was now so far from looking upon those who had been proprietors of slaves with any un friendly feeling, that there was no interest in which he felt a deeper concern ; " for he felt," he said, " that upon it depended the fate of an experiment of the deepest importance to the whole civilised world." " If," continued Mr. Macaulay, " our colonies sank into obvious inferiority as regarded arts and agriculture to countries where slavery continued—if it were in the power of countries in which slavery existed to point out colonies in which it was abolished, as countries where agriculture was abandoned, and where the sugar cultivation was at an end, and those engaged in it earned hardly enough for a bare subsistence, we might have re moved from England the pest of slavery, but it would _Le questionable whether we had -lessened the extent of calamity." From these emphatic words—to which we beg the earnest attention of our readers—we derive fresh encouragement to go on in our agitation for JUSTICE TO THE WEST INDIES. We shall stoutly maintain our ground on this subject until the last slave on the face of the earth is en franchised. The arrangement entered into by the Council and the Dock Committee, with the opponents of the proposed bill for the erection of warehouses on the dock quays, is one of the most glaring instances of party dishonesty which it has ever been our misfortune to notice. Of course we ourselves never expected any great amount of patriotism, or care for the true interests of the town of Liverpool, from the mem bers of its reformed corporation. We knew the ingrained corruptness of the Whig character too well to look for any other result, than that the long courted possession of muni cipal power would be used for party and corrupt purposes, and for these alone. We must confess, however, that we never even dreamed that, in the pursuit of those objects, a body of men responsible to public opinion, and professing to re present the interests of the people of Liverpool, would have dared so far to outrage decency and honesty. We never dreamed that even these men, politically worthless as we know them to be, would have ventured calmly and deliberately to propose to their fellow-townsmen a sacrifice, the result and the extent of which must be so disastrous to the future pros perity of the town. The price at which these modest and patriotic gentlemen propose to secure to themselves the patronage and political influence, which will accrue to them in their new character of warehouse ,owners, is, in effect, the transfer from Liver pool, as a town, of the benefits to be derived from any future increase of its commercial and maritime importance. Give this corrupt Corporation faction the privilege of trading with the dock funds,—of competing against private enterprise and capital with the public money. Give them the power of tyrannizing over the trades of the town—of monopolizing the employment of the porters, coopers, carpenters, weighers, and labourers, required by our immense commerce, and they are perfectly willing to sell their constituents, and to betray the interests committed to their keeping• Runcorn, War rington, and Manchester, are to be exempted from their present liability to dock-rates. The right to construct docks is to be conceded to the owners of the strand on both sides of the Mersey ; and the privilege of bonding foreign pro duce, to be extended to such inland towns as are able or willing to erect warehouses for the purpose. Liverpool, in short, is, for the future, to be allowed to stagnate in her present position, whilst new capital and enterprise are creating the means of dstroying, by competition of every description, the commercial supremacy which she at present enjoys. We are told by the apologists of the corporation, that the concessions, which they have been obliged to make, are such as would, under any circumstances, have been insisted upon by the legislature. We are confident, however, that our townsmen will not be misled by such a preposterous fiction. Where were the evidences of a disposition to invade the privileges of Liverpool, previously to the barefaced attempt of her corporation to encroach upon the business and property of individuals? Our local faction went before the legisla ture to ask for its sanction to as corrupt a job as ever was at tempted by any public body, and the attempted aggression upon the privileges and prosperity of Liverpool, sprung out of the flagitious nature of their demand. They invited aggression. They were too weak to repel it, and too no toriously and avowedly dishonest to allow their dissent to have any influence in retarding it, even had they possessed the inclination. ' Let the electors of Liverpool watch the proceedings of these gentlemen—these pure and patriotic liberals ! The in habitants of Manchester, Warrington, and Runcorn,—the owners of land upon the shores of the Mersey—will laugh, we dare say, and wonder at the readiness with which a con cession so important to their interests has been submitted to by the people of Liverpool. But our townsmen have no laughing matter in hand. To them the sacrifice meditated by the council is pregnant with results more important than any which they have hitherto had to consider; and we are afraid that it will be consummated—so indecent is the haste with which the proceedings of the faction are distinguished— before the public have had an opportunity of manifesting their opinion. The day of reckoning will, however, arrive, and the electors, we trust, be prepared to visit upon the advocates of jobbing and corruption their proper reward. CHEAP TRIP TO WALES.—Such is the almost unexampled competition at present existing between the rival companies which have established steamers on the line between this port and Menai Bridge, that the public are now informed they can visit the principality at the expense of others, a notifi cation having positively been given that the -deck passage is " free," whilst the comforts of a cabin are afforded for the ridiculously low charge of one shilling. The celebrated Abernethy gave the following as his opinion of the merits of Robins's Royal Filters :—" I consider these Filters a valuable invention ; and when patients, whose general beverage is water, finish their catalogue of the horrors of indigestion, I say, "Go to Robins's and get a Royal Filter."—See advt. MANCHESTER AND BOLTON RAILWAY. Last evening a meeting of the proprietors and shareholders in the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, was held in the Clarendon-rooms, South John street, for the purpose of receiving the report of the commit tee appointed at a former meeting, to enquire into the ma nagement and expenditure of the establishment. JOHN HORE, Esq:, was called to the chair. The CHAIRNIAN, after having mentioned the circumstances under which the committee was appointed, stated that three of its members were selected to proceed to Manchester to examine the books, provided the permission of the directors could be obtained A letter was addressed to the chairman of the directors to that effect, and he wrote a note to Mr. RitSon, desiring him to spew them the books. All the books were examined, and Mr. Radcliff, secretary to the committee, would be good enough to read the report. Mr. RADCLIFF then re , il the following report : REPORT Your committee, having been appointed at a meeting of the.shareholders of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, held on Monday, the 4th of May last, for the purpose of obtaining information relative to the Management and expenditure of that establishment, with a view of devising some means of reducing the expenditure, so as to afford a fair return to . the shareholders for the capital which they have invested in the undertaking, Your committee held its first meeting on Tuesday, the sth of May, and having elected John Hore, Esq., chairman of the committee, they addressed a letter to the directors, in forming them of the appointment of the committee, and re.; questing to be informed what mode of proceeding, in obtain ing the information they were appointed to seek for, would be most convenient to the officers of the establishment, and most agreeable to the directors. Upon the 22d of May your committee received the follow ing letter from the directors, through the treasurer, Mr. :son : " Clarendon-rooms ' John-street, Liverpool, 20th May, 1840. • " Sir,—l am instructed to transmit you the inclosed copy of a resolution passed at the meeting of our committee of anagement, held this day ; and remain, your obedient ser ___.. " JAMES RITSON. vant, To John Hore, Esq., Liverpool. " (COPY.) Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, 20th May, 1840. " At a meeting of the committee of management, held this day at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Liver pool,—James liraneker, Esq., in the chair, — It printed and sent to each proprietor, one week previous to the adjourned general meeting, and the notification of this resolution be sent to John Bore, Esq., as chairman of a committee of shareholders, appointed at a meeting of share holders, held at Liverpool on the sth of May, 18-10.' " Your committec ; having ,considered that this communica tion from the directors, from its inapplicability to the ques tion asked, could only be intended to evade and put off the giving of a plain and direct reply to their enquiry, and there fore that any further correspondence would be of no avail in procuring their friendly co-operation, and could be at tended with no satisfactory results, determined to avail them selves of the powers conferred upon them as shareholders in the company, by the act of incorporation, and they addressed the following requisition to the directors. " We, the undersigned having been appointed at a meeting of the proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, to investigate into, and ob tain information relative to the .management and expendi ture of the various departments. of the establishment, and holding in our. own right the, number of shares required by the act of incorporation, hereby request that you will direct that we or any of us, shall have tree access to all the books of the company,--.. (Signed) JOHN HOSE, SOLOMON GIBSON, JOHN JOHNSON, P. ROBINSON, JOHN HODGSON, JOHN S. RADCLIFF." This legal application being irresistible, the directors offer ed no opposition ; and the treasurer having informed your committee that the books were open for their inspection, your committee proceeded to Manchester, and examined into the expenditure of the various departments into which the establishment is divided, the results of which examination they now desire to lay before you. Ist The law clerk's department. Since the commencement of the undertaking, there has been paid to Messrs. Peel, Miller, Radcliffe, and Duncan the sum of £3961 17 11 To Messrs. Miller and Peel, up to the 30th Sept., 1839, the sum of To which there is to be added Miller and Peel's account, from 20th Sept. to Ist of April, 1840, not yet pail 6697 8 8 Making the sum paid for law expenses 10,816 15 8 Your committee, whilst it avoids making any lengthened comment on the expenditure in the law clerk's department, would, nevertheless, call the attention of the proprietors to the startling fact, that upwards of 2 per cent. of the entire paid up capital of the company has been swallowed up by this department alone. The treasurer's department costs the proprietors £GOO per annum for the salary of the treasurer, and £250 per annum for the salaries of the clerks attached to the department. The duties which devolve upon this important office are so varied, and require so much accuracy and punctuality in the discharge of them, that your committee do not think this department susceptible of any change, save that proposed by the directors, viz., the amalgamation of this department with that of the engineer's department, by which a considerable saving will be effected. The engineer's department appears to your committee to be overloaded with superfluous expenditure, and more fitted for the most extensive railway in the kingdom than for so short a line as the Bolton and Bury. The Engineer's salary is six hundred pounds per annum. There is the sum of £570 per annum paid in addition to clerks and overlookers alone. A large body of expensive workmen is kept up, many of whom, notwithstanding their number, are paid for overtime to the extent of two or three days each per week. The general traffic on the line gives employment to two engines, and on particular occasions a third engine may be required, yet there are actually TEN engines kept on the establishment, which cost the company from £1,200 to £1,500 each, which must be kept in repair, and attended to as carefully as if they were required on the line. The expense of such management is ruinous to the funds of the company, and the reasons for so acting ate by no means apparent to your committee. In the carrying department, the canal appears to be paying much more than its own expenditure, and would (if it stood alone) afford a handsome dividend upon the capital invested in it. Your committee perceive, that the directors meditate a reduction in the rates of toll on the canals, for which, however, they must obtain the approbation of the pro prietors. Your committee recommend that this matter should be closely investigated, and that serious discussion and deliberation should precede the sanction of the proprietors to the important change which is contemplated, in the only part of the concern that has the least appearance of affording an adequate return to the shareholders. The carriage of merchandise connected with the railway traffic is in a most miserable state, not on the whole averaging 90 tons per day, with but little prospect of profitable increase. The directors have for the next three years fixed so low a rate per ton, that it appears scarcely possible that it should pay under the most economical management; and yet, strange to say, a most reckless expenditure both of manual labour and mechanical power is permitted in this department, al though it must be evident to the most casual observer that the merchandise traffic does not flow naturally towards the line, and that a very small and cheaply conducted accommo dation for this department is all that it demands or can ever be made to pay with. Your committee would now call your attention to the carriage of passengers on the line. The average number of passengers is about 4000 per week, or GOO per day ; th e trains which convey them carry also the 90 tons of mer chandise above alluded to ; and trifling as the whole traffic is, there are no less than 32 porters employed in the conducting of it, exclusive of guards, carters, watchmen, and office clerks the consequences are, what might be expected, the receipts of the railway for the last four months fall short of paying the expenditure, and its proportion of interest on the bonded debt, to the extent of £549 ss. 9d. Your committee entreat your attention to a curious fact connected with the conveyance of passengers'. It s appears that from the 29th of July, 1838, to the 29th of Nov. 1838, the fares charged were 25., ls. 6d., and is., for Ist, 2nd, and 3rd class passengers, and the total number of persons carried during that period was 145,450. Soon after the period alluded to, the directors abolished the third class trains, and raised the rate of the first class from 2s. to 2s. 6d. ; and if we take a corresponding period in the following year under the new system, say from 29th July, 1839, to 29th November, 1839, we find the total number car ried was 98,208, being a decrease of 47,152 passengers ; by this change the revenue of the company was diminished. No apparent reduction took place in the expenditure, whilst in the short space of four months, nearly 50,000 persons were de prived of an important accommodation, a whole class in society were obliged to resume their old habit of walking to market, &c., or of finding cheaper modes of conveyance than the railway now affords them, and the concern became less popular than it would otherwise have been. This numerous c l ass being rejected as customers, and a corresponding in crease not taking place in either the second or first class pas sengers, it appears highly probable that the district does not afford the means of increasing (under the present system) the passenger traffic to any great extent, 'and renders it a matter for grave consideration, whether it would not be wise to re-adopt the more liberal mode of treating the humbler classes of the public, by resuming the third class trains, the carriages for which are still in the possession of the company. Atter a ,eareful review of the facts which have become known to your committee in the course of their investigation, they are of opinion that it is in the power of the directors, by judicious management and economy, to reduce the expendi ture and increase the income of the company to the extent of £3,000 per annum and upwards. Your committee would call your attention to several valuable lots of land in the possession of the company, which from being suffered to remain unemployed, have become a heavy drain on the limited income of the company —say to the extent of about £22 . 00 per ann um. Th ese lands do not a ppear to be improving _in value, a n d t h erefore the annual c hief rent becomes , under p rese nt circumstances, a n irre coverable loss. If thes e lots of land were judiciously disposed of, they might be made the means of increasing the surplus rev enue, instead of b ein g , as at p r esent, 4 source of pecuni ar y loss. Y our committee, having pointed ou t to you the evils which o ught to be eradicated, and the savi ngs t h at may be effected by economy and judicious management, feel it their: duty openly and candidly to state their opinion, that a board of di rectors living in, and holding almo s t a ll t h e i r meetings in apparently but slightly acquainted with the Liverpool, — ho reside Liverpool, —being habits of the people w along the line,—and having, slight knowledge as it is but reasonable to seeeose, a very indeed of the trade of Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, do not appear well calculated for the profitable management of a concern at 30 miles distance from their place of meeting, and of such magnitude, that it involves a capital paid up of about £515,000, and liable to a debt of £257,000—in all, of up wards of threequarters of a million. Your committee would, therefore to the proprieto rs th at, in the appoint ment of the next b oa rd of directors, men sh ou ld b e c h osen having influence amongst the suggest people upo n w h om the esta blishments must depend for su p port and possessed of sufficient local knowledge to appreciate valuable suggestions when offered to them, and to reject foolish ones, and who by their daily presence on some part or other of the line would stimulate the officers of the establishment to increased exertion and ena desire to be economical even in the minutest part of the expditure. Y our co mmittee canno t conceal from you their opinion that the day of prosperity is still distant, that both the pa tience and the purse of the proprietors will yet be tried to a considerable extent before this great but most expensive undertaking can be made to afford them even a molerate return for their investment. Your committee fears that nothing can insure permanent prosperity to this establishment, but a junction on fair and honourable terms with the great railway companies in the neighbourhood of this line. Could this be effected the cost of management would be reduced to (comparatively) a mere trifle, and an ample return to both parties wonld be the immediate consequence of such an arrangement. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had now heard the re port. It was honestly given. The committee had hidden nothing. A SHAREHOLDen.—Do I unde rs t an d t h at the office of treasurer is to be done away with ? The CHAIRMAN replied that this meeting had nothing to do with that. The directors themselies had a notion of amalgamating the treasurer's and the engineer's departments. A SH AREHOLDER asked wheelie the' report seemed to sanction the idea of discharging Mr.Ritson? The CHAIRMAN.—We can say nothing about the discharge of any individual. A SHAREHOLDER said the greatest evil that had befallen the line was the infliction of a theoretical engineer. Another SHAREHOLDER.—We have to thank the present engineer for having ten engines too many. Mr. KYNASTER was sure that every one who had heard the report would acknowledge that much care and trouble had been taken in its preparation. Mr. K. then proceeded to read a tabular statement of the successive decrease in the Sunday and weekly receipts of the company, from the Bth of July, 1838, to the month of April last, and stated that he had suggested certain alterations to the directors, but no no tice was taken of them, except a mere acknowledgement. The directors consequently must have had suffic ent evidence before them to convince them of the disastrous effect of the alterations they had made in the fares. He did not know by whom those alterations were recommended ; he was certain, however, it was not by Mr. Ritson. He would not take upon himself to say it was the engineer, but his doubts were very strong as to that gentleman. He would not, however, undertake to say there had been a reckless expenditure of money, but he would express his belief that, although he was no engineer, if he had been called upon to construct the rail way, he could have done it for less than it had cost. It ap peared to him as if either the engineer or directors were afraid the line might pay 10 per cent., and the fares come under the revision of parliament, according to the Duke of Wellington's clause. Concerning the carriage of goods he had made several recommendations to the directors (which he detailed) but they were notadopted. By the last statement he had seen it appeared that the charges of the company for conveying goods averaged 3s. per ton, and they had now reduced it to 2s. 6d. to bleachers ; but any body who knew the circumstances would say at once that bleachers goods could not be carried for less than 3s. 6d. It appeared to him that in making this calculation, 'the directors or the engineer looked only to the expense of the locomotive power, and that the cost of the road had not been taken into consideration. The fact was, that the company were carrying goods at a serious loss. The small dividend paid to the shareholders came out of the canal ; and including passengers and luggage, he was convinced the company was losing by the line .00 a week. He hoped, therefore, the next general meeting would not sanction any further reduction of rates upon the canal, or sanction the present rate of 2s. 6d. for carrying bleachers' goods. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting were obliged to Mr.' Kynaster for the information lie had given; but it would depend on a general meeting whether the two-and-sixpenny rate were sanctioned. If the directors promised that rate to the bleachers, he apprehended they must have had good grounds for it. Mr. KYN ASTER said the meeting would perceive that before the directors increased the tolls the traffic on the line wag in creasing. _ _ _ The bIAIRMAN replied that the committee had no discre tion—they had been appointed merely to examine into the expenditure, and having made their report, it remained for the shareholders to act as they pleased at the general meeting. The SECRETARY said the object of the meeting was to de vise means to give effect to the sentiments of the shareholders at the general meeting. Mr. KYNASTER considered the system of voting by proxy at the general meeting a decided evil, unless those who brought proxies came with an unprejudiced mind. Mr. S. GIBSON, in an able speech, contended that expe rience had shewn that the traffic on the Bolton line could be performed by four engines, using two for contingencies. Four engines might then be sold for £5OOO, a proportion of carriages equallo £2OOO, and this would produce a sum of £7OOO. By the reductions in the treasurer's and engineer's offices and their appendages, there would be a saving of £lOOO per annum. Mr. KYNASTER felt bound to say that Mr. Ritson had offered to meet the company, upon the score of economy, as far as his salary was concerned. The CHAIRMAN.—I must say that Mr. Hawkshaw (the engineer) has done the same. A long conversation followed, upon a variety of topics con nected with the railway, and on the question whither the re port of the committee should be published. Ultimately it was unanimously resolved that the report should be published. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated. CORRESPONDENCE. CROSSING OF THE RAILWAY AT WAVERTREE- LANE TO I'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Siu,—lt has long been to me a matter of surprise, that no steps have been taken by the owners of the land on the road to Wavertree which is crossed by railway, or by those in authority, to insist on the Liverpool and Manchester. Rail way Company immediately constructing a bridge or viaduct over their railway at Plumbe's Hall. Ever since the opening of the railway, passengers (whether on foot or riding) on the Wavertree road, which is a great thoroughfare, are exposed to delay and danger by the frequent passing of railway trains at a rapid rate across the lane, and on a level with it. True, the company have built a lodge or gate-house at each side, and a bell is rung to give warning to riders or pedestrians to keep off; but this, though the cost must be considerable, does not abate the inconvenience, and but in a partial degree the danger. Suppose the horse or horses ina carriage or vehicle of any description, or a horse which is ridden, should take fright and become unmanageable, the tinkling of a bell would be of no avail, the only chance of escape from injury being generally in the exhaustion produced by a run of some distance, in place of which it might happen that the terrified animal would, in furiously gallopping along, come in contact with the still more furiously rushing-in train, in which case both rider and horse would be irremediably dashed to pieces ! Such fatalities might be averted, and the inconvenience no ticed be effectually removed, by the building of a bridge over the railway. In 1838 such a step was, it appears, in contem plation by the company, for I then noticed poles erected of various heights on the south side of the road, with cross pieces at the top marking out the gradual rise of the inclined planes to rise to the bridge, and the elevation of the bridge itself ; but these were soon afterwards removed, so that it is to be assumed that they have abandoned the intention they then entertained. The public, however, have a right to de mand the erection of a bridge, at a point so near the town, so much frequented, and so much exposed ; and I hope some individual or individuals will take up the question, and bring it to a safe and successful issue. Indeed, lam willing to hope that the Railway Company have only to have their serious attention directed to the necessity of the proposed protective structure, to net about accomplishing- it without further delay. The cost would not be very great, but, what ever it would be, that ought not be a consideration in oppo sition to the public safety. When it is done, I would sug gest that the embankment on the west side of the bridge should commence on the rise of the lane considerably nearer to Edge-hill, and that the inclined plane should on the east side be eased by extension towards Wavertree. By this means the road would be very little, if at all, affected as to its level. As I notice that you occasionally devote a portion of your columns to the suggestion and advocacy of public improve ments, I need not, I trust, apologise for expressing, through your useful paper, an opinion in which I feel confident I shall meet with the concurrence of thousands of my fellow-towns men.—l am, sir, yours, respectfully, W. IMMIGRATION INTO-THE WEST INDIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Aide toi et la ciel t'aidera," was the maxim adopted by that party which overturned monarchy in France, and the same, says a Radical writer of no second-rate abili ties, ought to be that of the West India interest ; and it seems to have been adopted by the Cernian descendants of those fierce republicans. Now see the result. The late Go vernor of the Mauritius found it necessary to sanction the importation of labourers from Madagascar, and a bill has been passed through a committee of the House of Commons, allowing an unbounded supply from India, whilst the West Indies are limited to their present sources. And what are the reasons assigned for this most partial legislation ? That emigration from India has been tried and succeeded in the Mauritius ? So it has also in Demerara, though on a smaller scale, and it has equally succeeded. The danger of mixing races in the West? There is much more in the Mau ritius, for the same elements exist there as in Canada. The distance? It is not more than half that which exists between this and New Zealand. The ignorance of the locality? What knowledge do many thousands who leave our own shores pos sess of America or the Australian colonies ? But is there no remedy for the West Indies ? Sir J. Hobhouse says, " there is no prohibition now" to the exportation of labourers from territories which do not belong, to the British Crown; and it has been attempted to shew (see LIVERPOOL STANDARD, 28th April) that labourers accustomed to the cultivation of West Indian produce may be obtained from Java and else whore. The voyage from thence to Demerara has been per formed in 84 days, and the facilities of transport are consi derable. Let therefore the West Innians follow out the maxim which the Cernians seem to have done to such ad vantage, and, if they do not finally succeed in obtaining la bourers from British India, they may at least obtain a class equal, if not superior to them, and without any of the preju dices of the Hindoos.—l am, &c., A. L. Liverpool, 6th June. 1840. THE WRECK OF THE SYLPHIDE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Harbour Master's Office, Bth June, 1840. Slit,--In the Mail of the sth instant, I read a Letter from Messrs. Chapman and Willis, with editorial remarks, that in duces me to reply. On Thursday I was requested to attend the Dock Com mittee, and was desired to give my opinion relative to the wreck of the Sylphide, as the vessel, from report, was not within the limit s o f th e port, I without hes i tat i on said, that I did not consider I had anything to do with her; but if not with their approb a ti on , I would insult the Town Clerk. I did consult the Town Clerk, and it was agreed that I should proceed to ascertain the precise situation of the wreck. A steamer was engaged, and at half-past seven o'clock, a. m., got alongside the wreck. After waiting half-an-hour, Sherlock from one of three steamers, came alongside, and ! enquired what he intended to do ? He said they were go ing to sling her, as it was near low water. I told him no time should be lost in commencing operations. I remained there until the chain was passed under the wreck, and saw the Hero pinned down to her. And although out of the limits, and beyond my jurisdiction, I advised him not to attempt bringing her through the Victoria Channel. If any thing surprized me on my arrival at the wreck, which lay four miles N. N. W. from the Bell Buoy Victoria Channel, it was, that there was no person in authority directing the movement of the three steamers, sent down by Messrs. Chap man and Willis. I must also beg to contradict that part of the Mail's statement, wherein it is said, that the wreck wa, , in one of the narrow Channels at the entrance of the Port.— Your's respectfully, JOHN ASKEW, Water Bailiff. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'. SIR,—In consequence of several misstatements which have been propagated respecting the paragraphs which appeared in the Chronicle and Journal of Saturday last, concerning the three females who appeared before Mr. Rushton on suspicion of taking boots from my pre m i ses , I b eg l eave, th roug h th e medium of your paper, to correct the same. The females are not sisters, as stated in the Chronicle; and the reason why I wished the two eldest to appear was, because they all three had resided at my house, and the eldest was still living with me. I distinctly told the magistrates that I did not in the least suspect the two eldest, viz., Jessie Potts and Maria Linaere ; it was only the youngest I suspected, and if she has taken anything from Inv shop, I firmly believe her 'po ther has not had the least knowledge of it. lam sorry the two eldest should have been in any way implicated, or any i slur thrown on their character, by appearing n the public Papers, as I am perfectly convinced they are both innocent. By your inserting this in your widely-circulated paper, you will much oblige yours, respectfully, 75, London-road. WILLIAM DUTTON. EXTRAORDINARY EAVE.—Mr. William Noble, of the Scaws, near Penrith, a farmer of the Earl of Lonsdale, has a black-faced ewe which, during the last eight years, has produced the most extraordinary number of twenty lambs, all of which have lived and done well. She yeaned in each of the first four successive years three lambs, and two in each of the four last years. Mr. Noble bought the ewe of Mr. Clark, of Shap Abbey.—Carlisle Patriot. STEAM NAVIGATION. ARRIVAL OF THE " ARCHIMEDES " AT LIVERPOOL, AND EXPERIMENTAL TRIAL OF HER POWERS It has long been acknowledged by men who are conversant with mechanical principles, that the common paddle-wheel or rather water-mill wheel which has hitherto been the in strument of propulsion for our steam vessels whether in rivers or on the ocean, is beset with certain disadvantages, which, however the principle might be modified, presented great if not insurmouptable obstacles, either to increased speed beyond a limited rate of velocity ; or •material reduc tion in the power, weight, and size of the engine, consumption of fuel required ; or, consequently, of increased capacity for stowage without ',teat additional cost, and a vast increase of tonnage. The principal disadvantages alluded to we need but briefly to notice. The principle of the paddle-wheel is obviously imperfect as a mode of ship propulsion. If the wheel be proportionately small, its operation is principally to tear up or scratch the water : if large, this defect is partially reme died, but far from wholly. The fact is, the first operation of a revolving paddle-wheel is, to a certain extent, to smash down the water, and its last operation is, to a certain (and a greater) extent, to lift the water—elevating a sort of fountain or cascade abaft the paddle-box, all of which involves an ex penditure of steam power to a considerable extent, without propelling the vessel. The increasing of the size of the wheel, so that at length a small but wide portion or segment of the periphery comes in contact with the water, diminishes this disadvantage, but atthe expense of additional leverage against the engine —that leverage to be overcome being half the dia meter, or the distance from the paddle-shaft to the floats or paddle-bands. There is nothing therefore, for it, but sheer tearing force of steam. Various modifications of the paddle-wheel have been pro duced—some with paddle-boards so contrived that they dipped perpendicularly into the water, and so rose out of it ; others with the boards placed obliquely, and others placed or worked in various ingenious ways, to remedy one or other of the defects already alluded to. These, however, from their complicated structure, and liability to derangement and breakage, have generally been abandoned ; though we must notice the dividing of the original " one" paddle-board into two or three like steps, with interstices between, as a de cided improvement, in the freeing of the wheel from water, the plan of our townsman, Mr. Shaw, of the Dublin Steam-packet Company, a gentleman of much experience in ocean steam navigation. Another objection to the paddle-wheel is its weight and unwieldy bulk, rising over the upperworks of a vessel, and presenting a rather unseemly hump, like that of the drome dary. True, this has in modern large vessels been much re duced ; but it is still a top weight—still does the paddle-box present a large surface to a beam wind, without the possi bility of " taking in a reef"—and still is a vessel, with such an incumbrance, liable so to roll about, or to be thrown so far on one side, that one of the wheels may he thrown for a time out of the water.- to the detriment of the engine and its working. Another, and the final objection to the paddle, is, that the vessels so propelled cannot carry sail to any extent, without an equal derangement of their lateral equilibrium,— in other words, they must be worked so, that the wheels must, as far as possible, have an equal hold of the water on each side,—which cannot be maintained with a lateral pres sure of sail. Great, indeed wonderful, improvements have been made in marine engines ; and steam navigation has, consequently, gone on increasing and extending its ramifica tions and beneficial effects to the remotest quarters of the globe. All that we contend is, that there was room for improvement, of indeed entire novelty, in the " mode of pro pulsion," and that therefore every new and ingenious appli cation of a known mechanical agent, or instrument, or invention of a new one, that may produce increase of speed, with economy in fuel, and consequent saving of stowage, should be fostered by an intelligent public, without any feebly; of jealousy, as an accession of maritime and com mercial power; an additional means of natural wealth, and natural protection : and greater than all, as a means of approximating country to country, and disseminating the blessings of civilization, religion, and good-will amongst the great family of mankind. These remarks have been suggested by the arrival at our port, since our last publication, of the Archimedes, steam yacht, and the pleasure we yesterday experienced in witness ing her performance on our river. It would be presumption in us to assume, from her success hitherto, that her mode of propulsion is so far superior to that now in use, that it must be generally adopted. We will not go so far until further experiments, and, doubtless, further improvements in that mode have become developed. We are bound, however, to state, that so far the superiority of this novel application ap peared to many practical nautical gentlemen, and others versed in steam navigation, to be altogether decisive. There can be no doubt of its superiority, if once fully brought out with those improvements which practical experience will suggest; and even now, as will be found in the sequel, the Archimedes has outrun several crack steamers in our river, and has, moreover, shewn that she is a fast sailer under can vas, and independently of steam. But we must permit our readers to judge for themselves. THE ARCHUIEDES. The application of the " Archirnedean screw" for the pro pulsion of vessels, was first tried by Mr. Francis P. Smith, the present patentee, about four years ago, on a boat 32 ft. in length, and about six tons burthen. The screw was worked by a two-horse engine, and such was the success of the first experiment on this small scale, that the present vessel was finally projected and completed—Mr. Smith, an intelligent poung man, having, by that perseverance which is peculiar to genius, overcome numerous obstacles, opposed by preju dice and opinion, and by constant devotion to his object and a great outlay of capital, achieved what may assuredly be es teemed a triumph of modern science. The Archimedesis rigged as a smart three-masted schooner, with her masts raking. She is of a beautiful model, and having no paddle-boxes, she has the appearance of a pleasure yacht, the flue being comparatively slender. The following are her dimensions.— Length over all between perpendiculars Extreme breadth Depth of hold Draft of water (average) Capacity Power of engines 125 feet 107 264 10 240 tons. 89 horse. The mode of propulsion is by, it might be said, a portion only of the Archimedean screw. When the vessel was first tried, a full turn of that species of screw (like a patent cork screw, on a central straight spindle) was employed. The in ventor afterwards, for the sake ofcompactness, introduced the doubar th reacted ewer or hair - •cm o co eau z,- .. _ applicable to this vessel, although he rather prefers the other. This is of iron, and is fixed in the run of the vessel, in the dead wood in front of the stern post, andiworks transversely with the keel, radiating the water in every direction. The diameter of the screw, (which is on the principle of the skull,) is 5 feet 9 inches, and its length 5 feet. It would almost ap pear impossible, that so small a portion of machinery could propel a vessel of such length, but the hold it takes of the water, and the velocity with which it turns gives its great advantages. It is quite under the surface, and is therefore invisible by spectators either on board or on shore. It is worked by a spindle, forming its axle, running fore and aft, and its velocity is acquired by spur wheels and pinions. Each revolution of the larger wheel, turned by the cranks of the engines, gives, by the multiplied power, five and one-third revolutions of the screw. The hole or aperture required for the screw is square, and the operation of the propeller does not appear to interfere with the steering, which is managed with the facility of a small boat. The shafts of the engine work, fire and aft,—the cranks working transversely, so as to communicate the power directly by cog wheels to the screw. The larger wheel is toothed or coggedswith horn beam (timber.) The engines are compact, but of short stroke, and not, we think, equal to what we could accomplish in our "good old town," if we were "put to the screw!! Th• whole aparatus, indeed, is necessarily as a new application capable of improvement, which will gain both compactness and speed, and are already obvious to the inventor and his friends,—though even now the " Archimides " is a crack steamer. The vessel has given origin to " the Ship Pro peller Company." TIIE TRIP YESTERDAY. By special invitation, a number of gentlemen and their friends, including ladies, went on board about noon. The vessel was lying moored to the buoy off George's-pier, and " set screw " about twenty minutes afterwards. Captain Chappel, R. N. who has accompanied the vessel by direction of the Admiralty, from London and other inter mediate ports, including Bristol and Plymouth, to report upon her capabilities, was on board, and was unremitting in his polite attention to all on board—explaining to them, in conjunction with Mr. Smith, the inventor, the whole princi ple of the propelling mechanism. The day was delightfully fine; the deck and cabin of the vessel roomy and comfort able, and the whole trip highly pleasant and exhilarating. There were from fifty to sixty ladies and gentlemen on board, and all appeared highly to enjoy the experimental trip. There were on board representatives of the first com mercial, steam navigation, and engine and ship-building houses, in the town. We noticed amongst those present, — the Mayor, Captain Bevis, R.N., Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Wilt wick, Mr. Samuel Turner, Mr. H. Littledale, Mr. Brockle bank, Mr. Jno. Pollock, Captain Fayrer, Captain Engledue, Mr. Aspinall, Mr. Byron,. Mr. Gusrew (of Scotland), Mr. Wilson. Mr. Smyth, and many other gentlemen. Amongst the ladies were several of Captain Bevis's family. The vessel first steamed up to Birkenhead, at a good speed, and afterwards ran back to opposite the George's Pier, and thence down the river and North Channel, and round the Formby Light Ship. Her utmost speed was about 91 knots. She was looked upon with astonishment by hundreds on; the quays, and others on shipboard who had not before seen her. On returning up the river, the guests were invited to the spacious cabin, and partook of a sumptuous cold collation, with wine, &c. The mayor proposed " Success to the Archimedes, and to the spirited company who had sent her out," which was drunk with enthusiasm. A second set of guests afterwards sat down, and numerous toasts were drunk. . _ .... _ on running down, the Archimedes beat the swiftest of the Egrernont boats, and on going up to the Sloyne, she passed her ,Maiesty's tender the Red Wing. Indeed, no boat on the river had any chance with her. She turned in a very short space of room. After another run past the piers and down to the Rock, the steam was entirely put.off, and she beat up under sail—back to the Sloyne in good style, showing good sailing qualities, though cramped for sea-room. She then returned to her moorings off the pier and landed her passengers —all highly delighted with the trip and the success of the experiment. The only disagreeable sensation is a rumbling noise made by the cog-wheels, which, however, engineers state may be overcome or greatly reduced. We had purposed to be much more minute, but must for the present confine ourselves to a few additional particulars. The screw on the same principle may be applied to sharp sailing vessels with advantage. The propelling power is n o t affected by the vessel leaning to leeward. The screw may be thrown out of gear in two minutes, so that the vessel may be put under sail alone. The screw is theia.turned by themotion of the vessel ; but the drag is not more than a mile in 10. The Archimedes has steamed 10i knots, has gone under sail & steam conjointly 11l knots, and has gone 9 under sail. There are several vessels in London,. to which the principl e i s a b ou t to be applied ; many naval officers have highly approved of it ; and we learn that Admiral Sir E. Codrington has expressed an opinion to the Admiralty that a frigate ou g ht t o b e imme diately fitted out with the '! screw." i We understand that t is probable the Archimedes may make another trip before leaving this port, for the gratifica tion of parties interested in steam navigation—probably to morrow. MESSRS. PERKINS AND BACON.—These distinguished engravers are conceived to have attained the very acme of their art, and the varied, tasteful, and perfect designs which are continually published by them, exhibit the most complete triumphs of the artist's skill. Nor is the merit of their pro ductions confined to their mere beauty alone, their utility is equally obvious and important, and they afford a protection against fraud and counterfeit, which would doubtless be unattainable by any other means. Our advertising columns contain the account of a most perfect and costly label which they have executed, at the suggestion of the proprietors, for the protection of ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL ; respecting which we shall only extract from the advertisement the fact, that the abo ve wo rds ar e re p ea t e d i n a s tyl e o f microscopic engraving nearly 1500 times, comprising nearly 30,000 letters —so minutely, yet so perfectly executed, as to set all fraud and imitation at defiance. THE SEASON.—We are happy to state that the reports of the weather from all parts of the country are most favourable, more or less so. There appears to have fallen a great deal more rain in Ireland, as well as throughout Scotland, than we have had in England, but the accounts from every quarter of the kingdom are uniformly satisfactory, as to the prospects of a year of great plenty of all the fruits of the earth.— Preston Pilot. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-FRI ID A Y DISCOVERY OF A STOLEN WATCH.—CURIOUS CASE. A person named M'Kenna was placed at the bar, on a charge of having in his possession a stolen watch, knowing it to be stolen. The prisoner, who is a tide-waiter in the cus toms, was tried at the last assizes for a rape on a child who lined with him, and was acquitted. It appeared that the prisoner had parted with the watch in order to defray the expenses arising out of his prosecution at the assizes, and a person into whose hands it ultimately fell, offered it for pledge at a pawnbroker's, who, knowing front the description given at the time of the robbery that the watch had been stolen, detained it and the person who presented it. The , latter immediately gave up the name of the prisoner as the party from whom he had received it. The owner of the watch, who lives at No. 5, Pitt-street, informed the bench that he was the owner of a vessel called the Yeoman, and the watch now produced, which was his property, was stolen front that ship in 1838, when the prisoner had her in charge as tidewaiter. The prisOner, who was asked by the magistrate what he had to say in answer to the charge, said that about five months ago, when he had the keeping of a ship in the Prince's Dock, one of the sailors came to him and asked him whether he could keep a secret. Ile (the prisoner) replied that he could; and the man showing him the watch, said that it was stolen, but that he should have it if he would advance £2 or ;C3 on it. He advanced the required amount, and the man front whom he received it having gone to sea, the watch had remained in his posession ever since. This explanation not being deemed satisfactory to the magistrates, the prisoner was remanded. SUSPECTED ROBBERY BY THREE FEMALES Three females were brought before Mr. Rushton, on suspi cion of having stolen, and then pawned, a quantity Of ladies' boots from the shop of Mr. Dutton, London-road. They were respectable, intelligent looking girls, the eldest appa rently about eighteen years of age, the next about fourteen, and the youngest not more than e e IA or twelve. A pawnbroker stated that the girls had been in the habit of pawning articles with him during the last twelve monthi; and when one of them came yesterday with a pair of new boots, suspecting that they had been stolen, he caused her to be de tained until his scruples were satisfied. lle traced the boots to Mr. Dutton, to whom he believed they belonged, as ah-o several other pairs w hi c h h e h a d i n p l e d ge. Mr. Dutton stated th a t h e b e li eve d t h e b oots pro d uc ed be longed to him ; they bore his private mark ; but he felt un willing to press the charge against them. Each of the girls had lived in his house, and one of them, the eldest, w as at present lodging with him. Hi s susp i c i ons were di rec ted against one of the prisoners only— t h e ot h er two h e b e li ev ed to be innocent of any fraud; but s till, as h e cou ld not posi tively swear that the property had been purloined from his shop, he must decline to prosecute. Mr. Rushton complimented Mr. Dutton on his forbear ance and caution • and after reading a suitable le c t ure t o the three prisoners, they left the court. '.. [A letter appears in another column correcting one or two of these statements.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER-FRIDAY EVENING. The general opinion mentioned on Tuesday evening, that Launcelot would win, was only falsified by the performance of the admirably-named horse, " Little Wonder," for he stands only fourteen hands two or three inches ; and the sur prise here was " prodigious." lie has often been talked about, but seldom backed. Some 200 to 5 were laid against Forth's two, and 25 to 1, to a small sum, laid very late on Wednesday night against him and the Gift colt. As a public winner, he will be very bad for the Manchester market, but a splendil one for many of the fieldsmen, who have laid against so many horses, and had Little Wonder without a friend to take the copious odds which they would have laid against him. Two or three gentlemen " throw in" for up . - wards of ten thousand pounds at all events—such is the rumour. Betting flat, at the following prices : THE MANCHESTER CUP. 4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Bellona (offered) 6to 1 „ Mr. Ileseltine's The Shadow (offered) 61 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's The Cripple (take 7to 1) 7to 1 „ Mr. Collett's The Dean (take Bto 1) Bto 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor (tk) 10 to 1 „ Mr. Bell's LaSage Femme _ _ • 10 to 1. „ Mr. Haworth's Fair Louisa 11 to 1 „ Mr. Loy's Arrarat 11 to 1 , Lord Stanley's Imogene. This cup, which, we' elieve, is the only piece of plate to be run for at our races, next week, is to be furnished by Mr. Thelwell, silversmith, St. Ann's-square. It is not quite finished ; but is expected on Monday, and will doubtless be displayed, as has been customary, in Mr. Thelwell's shop, on that and following days. We understand that it is a very handsome silver vase, the stern supporting the cup being composed of a group of wild horses. It is about 20 inches in height ; is capable of containing about four quarts ; weighs 150 oz. ; and will cost about £l2O. On opposite sides of the vase are two shields, one of which is inscribed "Manchester Meeting, 1840 ;" the other is to receive the names of the stewards of these races. This piece of plate will be contended for on Friday next, the third day of the races. The Queen Mab has brought a full carp of 540 tons, con sisting chiefly of tea, and realising a freight of £3,400. She sailed in company with the John, for London. The Thames, for London, sailed on the 20th February, and passed her on the 29th, in Java. The Royal Saxon had discharged the carzo taken in at Whampoi, and was reloading at Tonkoo for England. The Penang would sail about the middle of March, for Liverpool. The Heroine, the Eliza Stewart, the Earl of Balcarras, the Abercrombie, and the Robertson, were loading for London. The Manilla and the Countess of Huntley for Manila. The Earl of Clare, the Caledonia, and the Charles Forbes, for Singapore and Calcutta.. Liberator, for Calcutta. BRANDY AND SALT.—WC have just been informed of a striking instance of the curative effects of this simple remedy. Mr. Simpson, a respectable tradesman, residing at Great Yarmouth, was seized, about a month since, with a paralytic stroke, which deprived him of the use of one side. His son, who resides in Liverpool, on hearing the afflicting news, sent home one of the pamphlets on " Brandy and Salt." The remedy was applied externally, and taken inwardly, at the son's suggestion; and Mr. Simpson, whose life was despaired of three weeks ago, is so far recovered as to be able to attend to his business with his accustomed punctuality. THE BOTANIC GA RDEN.—The Committee having decided me ura, btlimita -- itotisiy on two days of the week, it was yesterday opened for that purpose, for the first time. The attendance was numerous, and, we may add, very respectable. There passed through the grounds about 3000 persons, all of whom ap peared to be highly gratified. Amongst them were some of our wealthier citizens and their families. The public days are Monday and Friday, from one o'clock to eight. DEAFNESS CURED.—Our readers, hays no doubt, observed several notices of cures performed by Mr. Swift, aurist and surgeon ; one has been communicated to us, which having occurred in York, gives it a greater degree of interest. Mr. Ward, of the Turk's Head, in the Shambles, having long laboured under that unpleasant malady, a confirmed deafness, for which he had tried the best advice but in vain, at length put himself under the care of Mr. Swift, who, in the course of five weeks, restored him to the full enjoyment of the sense of hearing. and he is now capable of answering the slightest whisper.—See Advertisement. FARMER'S FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE INSTITUTION. — The Bill for establishing this Institution was read a third time in the House of Commons on Friday night, and passed. FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—It will be in the recollection . of such of our readers as are acquainted with the localities of Toxteth-park, that in the grounds belonging to Park Cottage, near the top of Mill-street, the residence of Francis Jordan, Esq., there was for many years a pretty large pond, railed in, and well stocked with fish. A portion of this ground, includ ing the greater part of the pond, was recently sold for build ing upon, the town in that direction being on the increase. That portion of the pond and the land which were retained by Mr. Jordan were fenced in with boards, leaving that sold accessible to the public. In the progress of building, quan tities of rubbish and broken sandstone were thrown down from carts into the pond, so that it became gradually dimi nished in size. On Wednesday last it appeared to be only about forty feet long, and was narrowed to from twelve to fifteen feet. On the afternoon of that day some workmen and boys in the neighbourhood discovered, for the first time, that the little that remained of it was swarming with fish of various kinds, and they set to work to catch them as they best could. Much of the water in the pond had been drained off; but it was still too deep to admit of wading through it. Long sticks, canes, and fishing-rods, with large hooks tied to the end, were put in requisition—also plasterers' rakes and other instruments. The success of some of the parties in duced others to join in the sport, and the banks soon became lined with fishers and spectators, young and old. At the bottom and sides of the pit there was a considerable depth of black silt, the accumulation of years, and the commotion made soon turned the water to an inky blackness, which pro bably sickened the fish, and rendered them an easier prey. A vast number of eels were hauled out, some of them about 11 lb. in weight. Carp, some weighing from 4to 6 lb., were also landed, amidst the shouts and cheers of the friends of the successful anglers. The enthusiasm at length became general, and many boys, who bad no rods or sticks, pulled up their trowsers, or took them off, and wading in a little way, watched every movement of the water and silt, and caught eels, dace, &c., with their hands, or shuffled them out upon the banks, amongst loads of mud. These adventurers occasionally stuck up to the knees in the black deposit, and there remained, unahle to extricate themselves, and exposed to roars of laughter, till some, more good-natured than the rest, held out sticks to them, and forked them on shore. It was laughable to see these urchins take the water with clean white legs, and come out as if in Hessian or Napoleon boots, that rivalled in blackness and gloss any thing that has ever been achieved on leather by the redoubtable Day and Mar tin. One female caught, in the part of the pond yet enclosed, five large carp and a number of dace. A boy, with a rod and hook, took as many in the other part, and the quantity of eels secured was immense, probably not short of a hundred weight and a half. At length the shades of evening put a stop to the sport, and the successful and delighted " mud larks" retired to their respective abodes, in full anticipation of feasting abundantly on snig pies. Sunuunr ELECTION.—This election took place on Friday last, when George Tomline, Esq., of Riby, Lincolnshire, a staunch conservative, was nominated as a tit and proper per son to represent this borough in parliament. The mayor having inquired if the electors had any other gentleman to propose, and receiving no answer, after waiting the customary reasonable period, declared Mr. Tomline duly elected. MR. WALKER'S LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY.—We had last night the gratification of listening to the first of the course of three lectures now delivering in the Liver Theatre on this interesting subject. The lecturer, by means of the concave orrery, which is his own invention, and which lie exhibited at the close of his address, and by his familiar mode of expla nation, contrived to render this sublime science intelligible to those who never before considered the subject. The two concluding lectures will be delivered this and to-morrow evenings, and the course will be: repeated on the three last night's of this week. We were sorry to see so little interest excited in this ennobling and heart-stirring subject. The house was almost empty. DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN LONDON. — On Saturday morning, about half-past one o'ciock. the metropolis was visited with another awful and calamitous tire, again attended with appalling loss of human life. The scene of this melancholy catastrophe is Ivy-lane, Newgate street, but a short distance from the ruins occasioned by the late conflagration of Messrs. Johnson's printing establish ment, in Paternoster-row, which took place a few months since. This fire broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Price, bookbinder, situated in Ivy-lane, adjacent to the eastern entrance of Newgate-market, consisted of a three story brick building, the property of Mr. Barnes, of Pater noster-row. The whole of the building was destroyed, and some of the adjoining premises injured. The wife of Mr. Price and four of his children perished in the flames. An apprentice boy almost miraculously escaped, and Mr. Price's youngest child an infant, was also saved. We shall probably find room for further particulars in our next, as the inquest was held yesterday. BRISTOL. SUGAR MARKET.—Our sugar market has again become rather bare of samples, and former rates have beel; . firmly supported for all descriptions. Two vesse ls from toh West Indies, with about 1000 casks, have arrived sin ce m. last.--Bristol Standard. voyage t'rO from m e s r t a . p jidoihtyn,,sa!Ntleiew BAnirnenrsiwCaierik,Stteaterlt'S,s4, now made in sixty hours. • paid £l,OOO in Col. M'Gregor's office, Dublin, are ~-- k , -.~ ,~~ 1