The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

RTMENTS WANTED .ntlemen, a comfortable SIT TWO BED-ROOMS, in the Cemetery to Q. N., at the .;SU RANCE BROKERS IN In ❑is CHANTS' INSUR- I considerable tter, and can larly to the has been en d H. G. SurroN's Liverpool. TED ►ttaching to his business (that of a Stuff le AGENCY to buy Worsted Goods, them to order, on Commis ite Orders in the experience and character are un- D, Bookseller, Bradford CIGAR DEPOT, '-STRE Ld CO. beg respectfully to inform igars, their Friends, and the Public, above Premises, lately in the occu ,n, Watchmaker, which they intend CIGARS will not be sur Due of t ;IGANTI ingdom, they having first Maunfactur- ry finest descrip- early in the week; a Cigars REGALIAS GRANDES. REGALIAS AGUDAS. tic OR REYNAS DAMAS. OS I TABACOS PINTADOS. LEAR COMUN J VEGUEROS. FABACOS DE PAPEL I CIGARROS. UFF and TOBACCO great care has also ad their Stock of FANCY GOODS, HOOK RSCHAUMS, SNUFF-BOXES, SCOTCH &.!. are all of the best and newest designs, and •sonally selected in London sod ( beg leave to intimate to those Friends ielv promised their support to this Es- fated at the cor- from St. Peter's & Smith's, 0 MARINERS. OUR LIGHT-HOUSI T OP IRELAND. WEST SERVING AND IMPROVING !;REBY GIVE NOTICE, .en built on the North East vhich a fixed White Light )f the Ist of February, 1841, a Sun-set to Sun-rise. n of the Tower, Bcc., by of Light-h 9 old building of W ester side of the principal en- S. E. by E. distant 1* nautic miles. S.S.W. I W. dis 1. taut anaut. miles. sunken f W. by S. distant cables length. s Head White Light, open to Seaward, and elgvated el of Sigh water springs an level of the sea. ;II lead clear of Reenadrolaan it Rock within the entrance. 1 at high water, extend th from Cromwell's Fort. tic. Var. 281 W. H. VEREKER, Sec. 12th November, 1840. e magni S SEIDLITZ POWDERS Lord-stri t, Liverpool, begs i of his Friends and the 'reparation of the very justly cele- POWDERS, to form the SElD approach nearer than anything yet &ate Waters of Germany. The SEIDLITZ POWDERS is pe scientific skill with great ac t people unacquainted with a found to be spurious corn tgreeable flavour nor the me- geidlitz Waters -four Powders, and iii Tin Cases, lOs, )le form for ex- I will keep any length of time sold only by JOHN PRIEST- be had Seidlitz WED SODA POWDERS ved that the Soda Water, w hen kept in To obviate tend the A this SARSAPARILLA. mcentrated all the Medicinal Pro- PICT 0 To persons, therefore, who, would experience great inconvenience, d be utterly impossible to prepare the a, the Fluid Extract, which possesses sful of the Fluid Extract, put into a wine er, makes a preparation equal in strength to e Compound Decoction, formerly prescribed Edinburgh. and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. in which it has proved most beneficial are :in; such as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive clary Symptoms, &c., arising from a diseased em at large. For removing Blotches, Pim the Face, this Medicine has no superior. use and high reputation of this preparation iinitations, disguised by the name of ie whole medicinal virtues of the extractive matter, and it possesses orm of essence, while the Syrup is 1 the f :o the digestive organs by causing acid fermentation. ?RIESTLEY'S FLUID MAGNESIA. t solution, in which all the virtues of cine are concentrated. As an Antacid r children it can !ss, children will In conjunction with the Syrup of fraught. .own persoi 'early tastc :Lout t led to miter, makes delicious Le g drink in summer nothing can OMACHIC OR DINNER PILLS. purely Vegetable, and to those troubled with ition of fulness at the stomach after meals —ln Boxes at Is. and 2s. 6d. each. 31ETABLE HAIR OIL it discovery for invigorating and It eradicates the Scurf, nou 'ailing off, produces a most beau gives to artificial Hair a peculiar soft uxuriant appearance. Sold in Bottles an excelie man Hair vents its CHEMICAL MARKING INK, Y Writing on Linen with a Common Pen. 7e:y_suporior to the generality of what are called it Inks. Iv gives a most brilliant black, which can moved by acids or any other causes, without at the destroying the linen. Families may be accommo th,3 Imprcved Permanent Ink and Preparation if required.- -Sold in Cases, Is. 6d. and 3s. VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER. _ _ ant Tonic Tooth Powder, which simply removes all -4 .tions from the enamel ; and by its peculiar .ry covering.— -Sold in Boxes KIENTI GENUIN I that h, might e :ryes that nece TLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE. and Polishing Furniture without labour or is used for cleaning and polishing every ire, whatever preparation may have been that purpose , it adds a high lustre to in Pots at ls. each, or 3 pots for 2s. 6d. URNITURE OIL, s., Pint Bottles 15.9 d.. quart Bottles, 3s. E METALLIC LUSTRE. mmended to Housekeepers for cleaning nd Silver Plate, Metal Teapots, Pewter ders, Candlesticks, Stair Ruds, Brass a Covers, &c. &c.: with half the usual required with other preparations :-e - leaves a beautiful polish on the Metal. It id useful in the Stable department, for clean kted Carriage, Gig, or Coach Harness..—Sold ILT OF LEMONS ad other Stains, out Box, or three Boxes for 2s. 6d. .1 ESSENCE OF PEPPERMINT. which is uniformly held in high lent Medical Practitioners in the is lerb A preparation most fully concen necessity of administering lar ge d oses , as form, is hereby avoided. ED ALMO ND FLAVOUR. favour added to Custards, Puddings Q-- )1d ill Bottles, with Directions, ls. 6d D ESE ENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER ken for a dose three times a day )ns' Prescriptions carefully prepared. up for sea. Genuine Drugs and 1 Gibbon, took his wife, a idge, to sell her, hut for purchaser; howe 2s.—Herefo r d reduction of a lively excitement in the only evidence he- lorts, in any that of Mr. s constantly )nally by the '3 the not evident action of duty I be desirous of extracting for France out of the trade with ssion in the shape of reciprocity. iamination has yet taken place, ufacturers or importers of the ice the fact, which, if t rue , wou ld iestion, that there are numerous e s which have ceased to be irn• or five years on account of the )rts having been driven from the Is answering to them. This fact is at smuggling is not so prevalent as lower the duty would cause to be believed, raband trade were so general, these kinds .0 the market. A reduction of tfl; on the other hand, it is contended le market with such articles as are at present seriously damage the English manufacturer. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCI LATEST JEWS FROM THE EAST. (From the Mornin_q Herald of Yesterday FALMOUTH, DEC. 11.— - The Oriental steam-ship, Capt. soy, arrived this afternoon from the Mediterranean. Her dates of sailing are, Alexandria, Nov. 26; Malta, Dec. 1 ; and Gibraltar, Dec. 6. The following may be received as a )f the disposition of her Ma, an, by t Beleroi ~..sty's ships ant advices :—at Beyrout, ion, Edinburgh, Talbot, steamer ; at Alexan rnbriclge, 1, Zebra, and Yes the Roduey, Gang,— ,rfui, vangu ai o- e, Carysfort, Daphne, Dido, Medes, her master, at Lazaretto, in Malta); at Malt ~ Asia, Hastings, Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, Confiance, stearn•tender • the Implacable was on her way to Syria and Malta. At Sidon, the Thunderer ; at Scandaroon, the Ma gicienne and Benbow ; at Acre, the Pique and Wasp ; the Castor on her voyage to Malta, and the Calcutta, bound to the Scorpion was passed off Cape de Gatt for the Res Anderson eiriadn BeTrout coast of Spain The Jasseur having been refitted had left Gibraltar on a cruise, on the 7th instant. The Chapman, a Swedish frigate, was refitting at Gibral tar. • Passengers per Oriental :—From Alexandria (originally Bombay) to England, Messrs. R. Manley, R. Taynton, Gibbard, Allan, Pugh, and Varnham ; Captain Tolland, Dr. and Mrs. Stokes, Major Macneil, Mrs. Bettington, Mrs. Ogle, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Forbes, with some servants and children. From Alexandria to Malta; CounWalewsky, Mrs. and Miss Mariotti, Messrs. Valbuzane andbanglais (origin-- ally from Bombay), Mr. Uuwin. From Malta to England, Lady Wallace, Mrs. and two Misses Dunlop, Dr. Bowe, Baron Capellen, Mr. J. and Mrs. Strachan, Maudsley, and Meesrs. Locke and Green. The Oriental encountered a gale of contrary wind 60 miles S.W. of Ushant, when she proved her wonderful power, speed, and liveliness, to the astonishment of every nautical person on board. It is already known that this steamer was detained to bring from Alexandria the despatches of Commodore Napier, of a treaty of peace having been signed between Great Britain and Egypt. The negotiation commenced on the 24th. Our in formant states " that after two or three puts off," the affair was finally settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately drawn out. On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the 18th, Lieutenant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails) proceeded into the harbour with a flag of truce, to ascertain whether Mehemet Ali would permit him to land the mails, and guarantee their safe conveyance across the country. The reply is known, and what attention the Pacha paid to their disembarkation, by sending one of his officers of state to expedite the steamer's entering the harbour, to secure the mails from molestation, and to promote their speedy trans mission. The steamer having taken a pilot on board, passed up and anchored inside the lines of Turkish and Egyptian fleets. On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son, with a considerable number of the chief officers of state, ad mirals, and others, paid visits on board the Orientai, and ex pressed themselves delighted with her capabilities. It was the impression, from letters received at Bombay from China, that the admiral purposed an immediate advance on or towards Pekin. Thee is nothing new from Persia. The accounts of the crops all over India are represented as favourable. (From the Private Correspondence of the Malta Times, Deember 1) ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 16.—My previous accounts of the misgiving of Mehemet Ali, and the proceedings of the French agents here, have in some degrre prepared you for the disclosures this letter contains. The whole of the blood shed in Syria is owing to the malignant vanity and Satan ambition of M. Thiers. I can state as a positive fact that Mehemet Aii rejected the terms of the treaty of July at the express desire of M. Cochelet, acting under instructions from the foreign minister of France. lam also po s iti ve l y . . assured that about a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was goin g to throw himself on the four powers, when M. Cochelet, in a two hours' conversation, dissuaded him from this step. On the 14th, 10th, and 11th instant additional and strong manifestations of the same tendency took place in public. I entirely exonerate M. Cochelet personally from anything like imprudence or double treaty. He has been in a most false position, and the antagonist principles personated at Paris by the King and M. Thiers, find their analogous re presentatives at Alexandria, in M. Cochelet and Count Walewsky. The former gentleman has all the chivalric pride of an ancien efficier de l'ordonnance de I'Empereur, but he has by far too much perspicuity of judgment to be carried away by the seductive unreal dreams of the republic and the empire. M. Cochelet has seen that the historian of the re volution has read and wrote history to no purpose. That he has dashed off with the vigour and brilliancy of a Paul Veronese the most vivid scenes of that awful tragedy, but that the moral it inculcates has been lost on the delineator ; the internal violence and foreign aggression go hand in hand ; and that all the misfortunes of France have arisen from the delusion that she could dictate to Europe. M. Thiers, aware of M. Cochelet's moderation of charac ter )axed him with honours and dignities, and sent his friend M. de Walewsky, ex-proprietor of the Messager des Chambres, to keep him up to the scratch. Count Walewsky talks much, writes mighty fine despatches, and has, upon the whole, more sense than his cousin Louis Napoleon at Bou logne. It is certainly a safer speculation to deal in dead goose quills than in live eagles. Wisdom is the better part of valour, talk breaks no bones, and if talk could have ac complished the ends of his Excellency the Count Walewsky, Sir Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier would have been sent to Davy's locker long ago. On the 7th inst. three peculiarly-shaped vessels belonging to the Pope approached the port. The look-out men took them for fire-ships, and sent a warning shot which compelled them to take a position at some distance ; when the truth was known they were sdmitted. The object of their visit is to fetch the six oriental alabaster columns which Mehemet Ali is presenting to the Pope for the grand church of St. Paul's extra mura, which was burned down some years ago. This is certainly what nobody could have predicted of a Mussulman. Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur ab Amusingly enough, we are crusading in Syria for the legiti mate chief of Mussulunans ; and the successor of St. Peter is adorning the church of St. Paul with gifts from an aspirant to the Klalifat Shades of Saladin and Richard Coeur de Lion. What say you to this? The officers were presented on the Bth by M.Cochelet, and when the audience terminated Mehemet Ali told him, in the presence of all there assembled, that France w is the cause of the present disastrous state of his affairs. M. Cochelet attempted to soothe him, but without effect ; and Mehemet Ali said aloud, while playing trick-track with Moharrew Bey, " I wanted either all war or all peace. To please France I kept in my fleet, and I have had neither the fair chances of war nor the certain benefits of peace." On the 9th the Euphrate arrived with the news of the fall of Acre, and the Pacha's disappointment knew no bounds. He immediately despatched a courier overland to recall Ibra him Pacha from Syria, as well as the 6,000 men he had sent from Cairo with the Druse Sheiks. Count Walewsky immediately considered it his duty to visit the old man twice a day to keep others away. On the 11th Mehemet Ali told one of his most intimate and devoted Frank friends that he had fully made up his mind, in spite of the French, to throw himself into the arms of England, and trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending hostilities, and then to Lord Palmerston arranging with the other three powers. This having come to Walewsky's ears. he went to Artim Bey, and asked angrily if this was the case. Artim Bey, like an expert Levantine dragoman, shuffled out an excuse, and next day the French party here positively denied the circumstance. You may, however, depend on the currently-rumoured report, that M. Walewsky said to Mehe met Ali that this would cause a European war; on which Mehemet Ali said, " I am old and must think of my chil dren." The fleet have been disarmed of stores and even sails, booms, and spars, and 60 of the crew are sent to the fortifi cations. Colonel Gulisse goes on with his preparations of defence with furnaces for red hot shots, which, in the present state of affairs, is quite ridiculous. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. The gross amount for conveyance of passengers, parcels, mails, &c. for the week ending Dec.s. £9662 9 2 Merchandise for the same Cattle 2235 19 5 264 9 8 £12,162 18 3 MIDLAND COUNTIES Passengers for the week ending Dec. 5 Merchandise for the same 545 16 7 430 6 1 MANCHESTER AND BOLTON. [Length of line, 10 miles.] Passengers and parcelsfor the week endingDec.lo 361 15 1 Goods and coals 172 17 5 £534 12 6 BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—On Thursday, the last arch of the Ouse Viaduct, on the London and Brighton Railway, was keyed by Mr. Maude, the resident engineer of the centre district of the railway, in the presence of the parties engaged on the work, together with a considerable number of visitors from Brighton and Lewes. The viaduct is built for the pur pose of carrying the railway over the valley through which flows the river Ouse, and near the spot where that river becomes navigable. It is about two miles and a half from Hayward's Heath, and twenty from Brighton. The viaduct consists of two abutments and 37 semicircular arches, of a 40 feet span, and varying in height from 48 t o 96 f ee t. Th e entire length of the viaduct is 1475 feet, or rather more than a quarter of a mile, and the width of the railway is 28 feet. Upwards of 11,000,000 bricks, made from the soil of the neighbourhood, have been used in the structure, indepen dently of about 400,000 feet of masonry, in the foundation and elsewhere. The first stone was laid in the middle of May last year, so that this stupendous undertaking has been completed in about 18 months. Most satisfactory accounts continue to reach us`of the progress of the works throughout the line.—Brighton Gazette. RAILWAY TALKING MACHINE.—At the meeting held at Blackburn last week, Mr. George Stephenson, the father of railways, was present; and, in a speech in support of the railway, said that on the London and Blackwall line there was a talking machine, constructed with galvanic wires, by means of which conversation could be carried on between London and Blackwall with the greatest ease and precision. By way of illustrating the efficiency of this talking machine, Mr. Stephenson said that he went to the station in London one day to inquire for one of his assistants. He was not there, but the attendant said he would inquire if he were at the other end of the line ; he did so" in a few seconds the answer was, that he was not there. But about five minutes afterwards:the talking machine informed him in London that his assistant had arrived at the Blackwall terminus; upon which he instructed the attendant to say, by the same agency, " Tell him to dome here directly." In ten minutes from that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven miles. (Hear, hear.) If thi distance were 100 miles, the conversation could be carried on just as readily ; for the com munication travelled at the rate of twenty miles a second. — Blackburn Standard. STATE OF UtADE. LEEDS. —Two foggy market days have prevented an ex tensive business being done in the Cloth Halls since our last, but we are glad to learn, notwithstanding, that the ma nufacturers are doing a fair trade, and that the dressers are fully as busy as is usual at this season of the year. BRADFORD MARKET. —There was a numerous attendance of merchants and agents at our market here on Thursday, and in the course of the day a considerable amount of busi ness was transacted, principally at former rates. In the yarn market the transactions were more numerous than of late, and pi ices steady. The wool market participated in the improvement that was perceptible in the other branches of the trade. More sales were effected, but, as the stocks in the staplers' bands have increased there was no augmenta tion of prices.—Leeds Intelligencer. The MARKET for METALS has remained very dull. the only nominal change being a further decline in British cop per_ia of ss. per ton. The EXPORTATION of the PRECIOUS METALS has only to the amount of 35,000 ounces of silver to Hamburgh, and to Ceylon 150 ounces of gold. IMPORTS OF WOOL.—Quantity of Wool ente red for home consumption during the week ending Dec. 8 . From Hamburg 512 , 1 00 0 t Hull een lbss. b From Petersburg 829 l bs. bs. From Odessa l, 514,708 lbs JOURNAL .OF Till MONEY MARKET. TIIURSDAY EVENING.—The Funds exhibit no particular variation to-day, but there was little disposition for specula tion. Consols left off at 89* for the opening. Bank Stock 1561 to 74, and it may be here noted that the prices of this stock marked yesterday 1574 to 84, were the prices for time and not for money. Exchequer Bills, in consequence of some rather considerable sales towards the close of - business, declined to Is. to 3s. premium. Foreign Securities remain much as before, with the market dull. Spanish Active with the Coupons were 240 to 4. Por tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fires) 34 to 4, the One•and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 21a to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the Five per Cents 98 to 4. Belgian 97 to 9. Brazilian 71 to 3. Mexican 29 to 4. Colombian 254 to 6. London and Birmingham Railways were 79 to 81, Great Western 23 to 4, the Half Shares 104 to 11 premium. South Western 534 to 44 per share. Gosport 34 to 44 premium. North Midland 27 to 5, the New Shares 3 to 2, Manchester and Birmingham 14 to 12, Eastern Counties 144 to 14, Blackwall 44 to 4, Brighton 9 to 84 discount. FRIDAY EVENING.—The foreign papers received yester day state that a new Russian loan is about to be brought for ward, and the letters of this morning from Amsterdam fur nish some particulars of the terms on which the contract for it has been made, in which the house of Hope and Co. of that city appear to be largely concerned. These letters state that the loan is for 25,000,000 silver rubles, at a price of 864 per cent. _ Payment is to take place as follows : One- a tenth on January 5, with an addition of 3 per cent • a interest. Four-tenths on January 31, with an addition of 4 per cent interest. Five ` tenths on February 28, with an addition of 5 per cent • interest The interest is to run from the Ist of last August, and will therefore leave a small profit of two months' interest. Cal culating at the present rate of 38 stivers per ruble (whereas 40 stivers per ruble are to be paid), the new Four per Cent. stock will stand the subscribers in 90 per cent. A The English stocks have been nearly stationary all day, and the only variation in the prices was that of buyer or seller. Consols for the account leave off 89/ ; Bank Stock, 156} to 157} : Exchequer-bills, ls. to 3s. premium ; India Stock, 237 to 239 for the opening; 3 per Cent. Reduced, 891; and 3} per Cent. Reduced, 98. SATURDAY EVENING.—The funds have been heavy all day, and although very little business was doing yet the ten dency of prices was evidently downwards, which may be at tributed to the loans actually contracted and the reports of ethers about to be, the pressure of which upon a money mar ket before and now in a state of suffering may not be lightly estimated. C nsols declined to 894 sellers for the opening. Bank Stock 156} to 71. Exchequer Bills Is to 3s premium. Foreign securities generally were affected by the same cause which operated on the home stocks. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents left off at 51} to /, and Five per Cents 98}. Belgian 97 to 9. Spanish Active with the Coupons 234 to 4. P rtuguese Two and. a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) were 331 to 4, the One-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 21/ to 2. Brazilian 71 to 2. London and Birmingham Railways were 80 to 2, Great Western 22 to 3, the Half Shares 9 to 10, Gosport 3 to 4 premium. South Western 53 to 4 per share. North Midland 24 to 2, the New 2 to 1, Brighton 9} to 1, Blackwall 4/ to 4. South Eastern and Dover 16} to 16, Eastern Counties 144 to 4 discount. COURT CIRCULAR.-FRIDAY Viscount Melbourne had an audience of his Rbyal High ness Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Sussex called, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the riding school, near the royal mews, yesterday. Among the visiters a 7 Buckingham Palace, yesterday, were—Baron Biome, the Danish minister; the Bavarian mi nister and Baroness de Cetto, the Saxon minister, Earl of Pembroke, Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Lady Langdale, Lord and Lady Sherborne, Lady Montgomery, Sir John Seale, M.P., Sir John and Lady Brooke Pechell, General Sir R. and Lady A. M. Dawson, and Mr. and Mrs. Petre. SATURDAY, The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert on Thursday evening at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. His Lordship had also an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. MONDAY Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia visited her Majesty, on . Saturday. at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness - Prince Albert, attended by Major- General Sir Edward Bowater, equerry in waiting, and Cap tain SeymoUr, groom in waiting, attended Divine service, yesterday morning, in the military chapel, near the Welling. ton Barracks, in St. James's Park. His royal highness and the gentlemen in waiting were in military uniform. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (From the Times.) Medical statistics appear to have occupied much attention of late years. Few will question the great importance of the subject whether viewed in relation to politics, physiology, or practical medicine. It contributes, as Dr. Hawkins justly observes, the key of several sciences, showing in a convincing, simple, and summary manner, their gradual progress, their actual condition, their relations to each other, the success which has resulted from their observation, or the deficiencies that remain to be supplied. Statistical data, illustrative of the state of health and dis ease in any particular county, district, or locality, is of essen tial value in the study of the philosophy of medicine. It points out to the physician the comparative merits o f var i ous modes of practice, the history of disease in differe n t ages an d latitudes, the increase and decrease in different maladies, and the tendency of certain situations in life, temperament, at mospherical vicissitudes, &c., in multiplying the character of those multifarious diseases to which flesh is heir. Medical statistics is, comparatively speaking, a science of modern date. It is a singular fact that the first writer on this subject should have been unconnected with the medical pro fession. As far back as 1662, Captain John Gaunt, " citizen of London," published a work on the comparative births and deaths of different cities, years, seasons, and sexes, and com parative mortality of disease. Dr. Hawkins observes that this writer " displays a singular genius for observation, in a field where no footsteps could be traced previous to his own." Since that period Sus..milch, Odier, Heberden, Blane, Rich man, Finlayson, Villerme, Tutelet, Casper, Orsini, Gordini, Balbi, Marsnall, Hawkins, Far, &e., have contributed most largely to the advancement of this branch of knowledge. The first weekly bills of mortality extant appear to have com menced on the 29th of December, 1603, in the first year of the reign of King James. An account of the number of burials was, it is true, published as far back as the year 1591, but this was only in consequence of the plague that pre vailed the year previously. In 1597 the publication of the bills was discontinued, the plague having ceased. The first bills of mortality related only to the number of deaths with out specifying the particular diseases, excepting the pesti lence that then raged. In 1611 the worshipful Company of Parish Clerks was incorporated. whose especial province it was to prepare the bills of mortality. These clerks were also empowered to appoint in each parish two searchers, all of whom were old women. Their duties are thus pointed out by Gaunt :—" When any one dies, then either by tolling or ringing of a bell, or by bespeaking a grave of the sexton, the same is known to the searchers corresponding to the same sexton. The searchers hereupon repair to the place where the dead corpse lies, and by view of the same, and by other inquiries, examine by what disease or casualty the corpse died. Hereupon they make their report to the parish-clerk. It is not, however, until of late years that the bills of mor tality have assumed a scientific or useful character. The valuable documents annually issued from Somerset-house, and prepared under the eye of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages, have thrown much light on patholo gical medicine. It is to the second annual report relating to the mortality in the metropolis and provinces during the year 1838 that we are desirous of directing public attention. To this report the registrar-general has appended a valuable letter from Mr. Far, embracing a comprehensive view of-the tabular statement it contains. The author states, that during 1838, 312,529 deaths were registered, out of which 330,559 were traced to an assignable cause. The rate of mortality in 1838 was higher than in the latter half of the year preceding. This circumstance Mr. Far attributes to the rigorous weather which set early in January, which exercised a baneful influ ence over pulmonary affections and the diseases incident to old age. It appears that in 1838 the number of deaths re corded was, males, 170,044 females, females, 167,4185. In the middle of the year the population was, males 7,668,245, females 7,885,615, total 15,533,860. The usual rate of mor tality was consequently, males, 2-28, or 1 in 44, females, 2-12, or lin47 ; mean of the two sexes 2-20 per cent-1 in 45. In the cases of 6465 males, and 5505 females, the causes of death were not specified. It is clearly established that the duration of life in men is less than in women. In 1838 the mortality of the former was 7 per cent. higher than the latter. This discrepancy is attributed to difference of organization, dissimilarity of habits, and occupations involving different degrees of exposure to the accidents, hardships, and dangers of life. During the year 1838, 2811 women died in child birth, while 8359 men and only 3368 women died violent deaths. Epidemic diseases appear to have proved very fatal. 34,321 males and 33,555 females died of small pox, measles, croup, thrush, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, hooping-cough, and influenza. Of diseases of the nervous system, 49,704 died; 26,047, of convulsions ; 7,672 of water in the head ; and 2,178 of inflammation of the brain —three common diseases of children. Convulsions and water in the head are exceedingly fatal affections in ill-ventilated dirty neighbourhoods, where the inhabitants are poor, and the mothers are illfed. Nervous diseases are 23 per cent, more fatal to males than females. Of diseases of the organs of respiration, 90,823 died; 11,690 males, find 9,488 females died f inflammatory affec tions of the throat, larynx, air• tubes, lungs, and pleura. Con sumption is 8 per cent. more fatal to women than men. The higher mortality of English women by consumption is as cribed to the in-door life which they lead, and partly to their tight-lacing and clothes compressing and preventing the healthy expansion of the chest and exercise of the lungs. In this way they are deprived of free draughts of vital air, and the altered blood deposits tuberculous matter, with a fatal and unnatural facility. It is computed that 31,000 English women died in one year of pulmonary consumption ! in alluding to the prevalence of this opprobrium medicorum, Mr. Far justly observes, " Will not this impressive fact in duce persons of rank and influence to set their country women right in the article of dress, and lead them to aban don a practic e w hi c h di s fi gures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous and other disorders, and has an unques tionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic malady in the frame ? Girls have no more need of artificial bones and bandages than boys." Diseases of the heart and large blood-vessels appear to have been *common cause of death. Men are more liable to these fatal maladies than women : out of the cases re gistered, 2032 occurred among the former, and only 1530 among the latter. Diseases of the digestive organs were less fatal than in 1837. Diseases of uncertain seat, affections which implicate a variety of organs in which the distinction of parts is quite subordinate to the distinction in the essential nature of the morbid products include dropsy, which is but a symptom of a disease, inflammation, hemorrhage, mo r tifi ca ti on , & c. All cases on which a coroner's inquest is held is classified under the term sudden death. In 1838, 3012 cases of this character were registered ; 1840 males, and 1172 females. Internal hemorrage is the most common cause of this cala mity. Out of 10,000 males 6-5 die suddenly, and 5-1 out of 10,000 females. Women have less chance of dying suddenly than men, in the proportion of 10 to 18. Intemperance is proved to be a prolific cause of disease and death. Intoxicating liquors can never be taken for any length of time without deteriorating the health. The con stant stimulus produces chronic affections of the brain, spinal cord, stomach, and intensities, and by unnaturally in creasing the action of the heart and circulation of the blood, lays the foundation for incurable cardiac diseases. Indul gence in spirits takes away the appetite, wastes the limited means of the artisan, deprives his family of food, firing, clothing, and clean ventilated lodgings—leads to dissolute ness of every kind, and must therefore be considered one of the indirect but certain causes of epidemics, fevers, and other diseases. 63 cases were ascribed to starvation, 24 infants died for want of maternal nourishment, 12 of inani tion, 2 from exposure to cold, and 15 from want of the com mon necessaries of life. Violent deaths ,are divided into voluntary and luyoluntary. They were very numerous in 1838. In the agkregate 11,727 persons died violent deaths, of whom 8,359 were males, and 3,368 females. The number of suicides registered amounted to 1,058 (males 751, females 307). It is found that the ten tency to suicide increases up to the age of 60. The rate of increase is nearly 50 per cent. in every ten years. As a general summary, it may be stated, that during the year 1838, 36,799 persons died from ordinary, and 85,506 from specific, inflammation ; 19,122 from the terminations of inflammatory affections ; 15,125 from heemorrage ; 2,821 from carcinomatous disease ; 60,861 from tuberculous mala dies : 2,256 from disordered secretions ; 2,512 from depraved nutrition ; 47,773 from diseases of the nervous system ; 5,564 from old age; and 11,727 from violent deaths. ;"To be continued,) THIRD EDITION. Standard-qffice, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,,-THIS DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN 8( SONS' Circular.) The wind being still unfavourable for arrivals, we have again to report very limited supplies of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal, Coastwise and from Ireland. Those from abroad are also comparatively light, being chiefly confined to a few parcels of colonial produce, as stated underneath. Slllll5 improvement in the Wheat trade in the leading mar kets of this district towards the close of last week, and a further advance in London yesterday, produced a corre sponding effect here this morning upon the value of most descriptions of English and Foreign Wheats, which realized 2d. to 3d. per 70 lbs. over the rates of Tuesday last ; and at this amendment a moderately fair, but not a lively or exten sive business, was transacted : in Irish samples, however, we have little variation to note. Flour, continuing to meet a tolerable demand, the advance of Friday was fully confirmed for good barrels, both free and in bond. Malting Barley, although scarce, commanded little notice at late prices ; and grinding qualities hardly supported our last quotations. Malt and Beans remained in very limited request on the terms last noted. Pease, on the contrary, were taken off more freely, but were not dearer. Oats being extremely scarce, were the turn higher in value, but the dealers preferring to, wait „arrivals, continued to buy sparingly. Oatmeal, upon a moderate demand, maintained former prices. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the Bth to the 14th December, 1840, inclusive IRE- COAST LAND. I WISE. RI 4W N. ITOTAL DESCRIPTION Wheat Qrs. 262 1278 1365 2905 Barley Qrs. 62 1134 1196 Malt Oats Rye Qrs. 8 8 Beans Qrs. 183 183 Pease. Qrs. 54 j 88 142 Shelled Barley . Qrs. Indian Corn . . . Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal .. . . Loads 1060 15 100 1175 Flour. Sacks 236 20 1025 1 1282 Ditto . Brls. 3400 3400 Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Oats, 1015 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 1256 loads ; Flour, 172 sacks. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, 0 qrs. ; Oats, 167 qrs. ; Pease, 28 qrs. Indian Corn. 0 qrs. ; Flour, 1097 barrels.... Ireland. Wheat, 1370 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 90 lds. ; Flour, 11 sacks 0 barrels. — Coastwise. Wheat, 213 qrs. ; Barley, 390 qre. ; Malt, 24 qrs. ; Oats, 0 qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 15 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 10 Ids. ; Flour, 311 sacks, BDB barrels. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Dec. 4, 1840. Wheat.. 595. 7d. I Barley 325. 7d. Oats.. 225. id. ; Rye.. 348.11 d I Beans.. 425. 4d. Pease.. 413. I Id. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. 613. 2d. I Barley.. 345. 3d. I Oats.. 225. 2d. I Rye.. 355. 10d Beans.. 435. 7d. I Pease.. 425. gd. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheat 255.8 d. I Barley 105. 10d. I O a t s 13s. 9d. I Rye.. 16s. ga Beans, ss. od. Pease.. 6s. 6d. I I n d . C orn 105.10 d Flourls-5.5id Liverpool Averages, week ending Bth December. 1840. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Deans. Pease. Qrs.... • I 491 I 228 1146 Prices.. 535. Od. I 40s. ud. 21s. 2d. I Os. Ou• Os. Od. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15.—Wind E.N.E ARRIVED .—Monarch, from Bombay off this port—Suviah, —, from Mobile—Victory, Jarvis, from Newfoundland—Pallas, Newton, from Oporto Acadia, (steamer,) hence for Halifax, was spoken 7th instant, in lat 51, 1.0n;.14 Britannia (steamer), Judkins, from Boston, at this port: left Ist Nov., and Halifax at 5 p.m. on the 3d. On the 13th. off Cape Clear, saw a ship, supposed to be the Roscius, from New York Caledonia, (steamer,) hence at Halifax, in 12 days British Queen, (steamer,? from London at New York 21st Nov., in 19 days from Portsmouth Great Western, (steamer,) from Bristol at ditto, 23th Nov., in 18 days Globe, Oliver; Agnes, -; and Sisters, hence at St. Thomas Regulus, , Powhattan, M'Cerren ; Fanny, Glover ; and Harkaway, Norman, hence at New Orleans Wellington, M'lntyre, hence at Mobile Margaret Johnson, White, hence at Charleston Andes, Brockleban'k, hence at Virginia Caledonia, from Quebec for this port, was totally wrecked near Arichat 13th Nov.: crew all saved, but Capt. Huxtable severely hurt Montrose, from Quebec for this port was wrecked at Point Ebert 12th Nov.: crew and cargo saved, two pas-engers drowned St. Cloud, rrncrEon, hence at Philadelpnia Charlotte, Gorham ; Galen, Snow ; and Claudius, Scobie, hence at Boston Sr. Jonx, N. 8., Nov. 14.—The Symmetry, Taylor, from Liverpool to IVliramichi got on shore on Point Escumaniac 25th Oct., and has been abandoned HoNnuaAs, OCT. 15.—.Palinurus, Simpson, from Omoa to this port, was on shore near Town Owens Channel (Sappodilla Keys), yesterday. H.M.S. Comus has gone to her assistance Hector, Johnson, sailed froM 'augor for this port Oct. 14 Ben Nevis, Burns, from Hull, at St. John's, N.B. Mersey, Hamilton, sailed from Quebec for this port Nov. 22 Alexander, Courier, and Erin go Bragh, all for this port, were at Montreal Nov. iy Camilla, -, hence at Halifax Leander, Phelan ; and Branches, Petrie, hence at St John's, N.B. Chester, -, hence for Savannah, was spoken 12th instant off Castletownsend, with loss of foretop and topmast, and maincap and maintopmast sprung, bearing up for Cork OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE PACIFICA TION OF THE EAST. The annexed letter has been received at the office of the Oriental Steam Company from their agent in Alexandria, and would seem to remove all doubt, if any yet existed, of the submission of the Pasha of Egypt to the requisitions of the allied powers : " To the Managing Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, L on d on. " Alexandria, Nov. 26,- Noon. " Gentlemen;—We have only one instant to inform you, that the Eastern question is at length brought to an amicable conclusion. " The pasha has consented to evacuate Syria, and to give up the Turkish fleet, which, however, Commodore Napier allows him to retain until the treaty be ratified in London. " The commodore is at this moment with his highness, arranging, we believe, the port of embarkation of the troops from Syria, which is the only point remaining to be settled. In haste, we remain, gentlemen, your obedient servants, " BRIGGS & CO." FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY A letter published in the Commerce, of Tuesday, from Frankfort, confirms our announcement of some days since, relative to the organisation of a military force by the Ger manic powers as a measure of precaution against the formi dable levies made in France. ST. JEAN D'ACRE AND ALGIERS. —The weight of shot thrown at a broadside by Sir Robert Stopford's squadron amounted to 12,4341 b ; by Lord Exmouth's 10,0581 b ; being a difference of 23761 b, or equal to the armament of two line of battle ships. With the exception of the Talbot's three quarter-deck guns, none of the shot fired at St. Jean d'Acre were less than 32-pounders, whilst at Algiers more than two fifths were under that weight—a most essential consideration in firing at stone walls. A letter from Cherbourg states that since last Wednesday evening cannon have been fired there every quarter of an hour.—The Phare de la. Manche says, " Ever since Thurs day the Belle Poule has been crowded with people anxious to view the coffin of Napoleon. It fills nearly the whole of the chapelle ardente, but the splendid sarcophagus made at Paris is not exposed, being still Inclosed i n the case of oak made to preserve it fro:n injury on being carried on board, and in its subsequent removals. The whole of the coffins form a mass weighing 4,4001b5. They remain covered with a pall of violet velvet. At the head is placed an imperial crown with a crape veil, and at the foot is suspended a gilt lamp. The whole of the roof and sides of the chapel are hung with velvet sprinkled with silver stars, and ornamented with silver cords, fringes, and tassels. The chamber is lighted with six lanterns, one at each corner of the coffin, and one on the two sides of the altar, which is placed behind against the bulk-head of the officer's berth. It is supported by two large gilt eagles. The whole produces a rich and imposing effect. It is admitted that the present season has, thus far, been highly favourable to farming operations in the north. In all directions the winter wheats present the most promising ap pearance.—Newcastle Journal. CURIOUS TRANSMISSIONS THROUGH THE POST.—On Friday, a quantity of game passed through the Bath post office ; and on Saturday morning, a halter was sent to a young man in this city, ready for his convenience, if ever he should want to hang himself. —Bath Journal. There has been a run on Mr. O'Connell's National Bank at Sligo last week, which, however, ceased after some days. The effect had to bring down the market in that neighbour hood. The Sligo Champion asserts that the tory landlords and agents refused the notes of the bank before the run be came general, and urged the people to hasten to the bank and get gold for their notes. This, it is said, they did from spite to O'Connell. —Irish paper BETTER THAN A DOZEN.—" Well, Pat, how many chil dren have you now ?" " Why, thin, it's better than a dozen I've got, any how." " Better than a dozen ! Six months since you'd only ten." " That's thrue—and I've only jist one more now. But sure, yer hanor, isn't eleven better than a dozen for a poor boy like meesilf ?" CLERICAL PA TRIOTS.—At the late Carlow election three Protestant clergymen espoused the cause of Father Maher, and voted for Mr. Ponsonby. They are the Rev. Messrs. Spray, of Carlow ; Thomas (we believe), of Galway ; .and Durden, of Oldcastle, in the county of Meath. Having spotted themselves for preferment, we wish them joy of their new alliances, no less than their prospects of reward.— Dublin Evening Mail. THE SCOTT MON UMENT.—We understand that Mr. Dick has received £lOO from Liverpool, in aid of the auxiliary subscription for the completion of the monument in Edin burgh to the memory of Sir Walter Scott. We shall hail this as an earnest of the interest felt by our countrymen generally in this national tribute A • and we are happy to uu . learn that something a b out £l,O only is now wanted to complete Kemp's original design.—Caledodian. Mercury. AMAGISTRATE CONVICTED OF SWEARING. — At the Bre con Petty Sessions, held at the Guildhall on Saturday last, William Williams, Esq. a magistrate of the county of Brecon, appeared on an information laid against him for profane swearing, while acting in his magisterial capacity on the 21st of November last. Witnesses having been examined in sup port of the charge, the magistrates stated, that they were of opinion the case was clearly proved against Capt. Williams ; but, as there was some difference of opinion as to whether the oaths and curses were profane or not, they retired for a short time, and afterw ar d s returne d i nto court and pre: nounced the defendant guilty, and convicted him in the pc nalty of five shillings, the amount fixed by the act of parlia ment, and costs. The case excited intense interest, and the o art was crowded.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Twelve o'Clock By the Britannia, which left Boston on the Ist in- stant, we are put in pOssession of papers to that date from Boston, to the 3d instant from Halifax, and to the 30th of November from New York. The Great Western arrived at New York on the morning of the 24th ult., having left on the 7th of the same month The British. Queen reached the same place on Satur day, the 21st. The log book shows that she experi enced the worst kind of weather during the voyage. Captain Roberts, of the British Queen, nobly rescued five men from an untimely grave in the middle of the Atlantic. The sufferers were the master and the four survivors of the crew of the brig Margaret, of Severn, bound from the Bay of Chaleur to Leith, and found totally wrecked on the 6th November. The men had been 52 hours exposed to the tempestuous elements without food or raiment. The Caledonia, Capt. Cleland, arrived at Halifax on the 17th November, at 3 P.M., and sailed at 9 P.M. for Boston, which she reached at one o'clock P.M. of the 20th. General Harrison would have 234 votes as Presi dent, and Van Buren 60. Eight persons were killed and many wounded by the explosion of a steam-boat near Mobile. The following are the most important extracts from the papers we have received : (From the New York Herald, Nov. 30) STATE OF THE COUNTRY. This country is in a very interesting condition, as "ladies are who love their lords." General Harrison, the new Pre sident, does not take office till the 4th of March. His cabi net ministers, and his chief appointments, are the principal topics of discussion among 500,000 politicians, the rest of the population, nearly 15,000,000, looking on or attending to their own business. According to the best sources of information the Clay in fluence in the cabinet will prevail over Webster or any other. If so, John Sargeant will be Secretary of State, John Davis Secretary of the Treasury, and three friends of Clay will fill the other cabinet_posts. The Collector of New York is the next important appoint ment, and for that the Clay influence has selected R. C. Wetmore, and the Webster influence named Edward Curtis. But a great matey changes may take place before next March. These are the probabilities now. Next Monday Congress meets. Mr. Van Buren delivers his last message on Tuesday, and the leading topic will un doubtedly be the embarrassed state of the finances. A bankrupt law will again be attempted, and in. the absence of political excitement, it may pass—but what kind of a one no one can tell. A revision and increase of the tariff imposts will probably be postponed to the new congress, which does not meet till December 1841, unless General Harrison should call an extra session. If he does, he cannot get one together sooner than September next. There is some anxiety in regard to the probable action of the legislature of Illinois, in regard to means necessary to meet the January interest on the debt of that state, and also in regard to the case brought befor e th e C our t o f Errors of this state, against certain holders of Illinois stock. The mere fact of the institution of this suit caused many con tracts for the stock of Illinois, about being closed in the Lon don market, to be cancelled, and the credit of the state has suffered severely. She has now but a few weeks to appro priate means and raise money to pay an instalment on her debt. Last year she was in the same predicament, and was saved only by the interference of those interested in the preservation of her credit. She is now again in the same position, with a far less chance of being pre. served by the same means. Pennsylvania, last spring, was similarly situated, and was compelled to pass a tax bill to raise her credit. The only course open to Illinois, if she expects to he able to borrow the money requisite to the finishing of her state works, and thereby rendering her past outlay available, will be to appoint a special commissioner to settle the pending lawsuits. She must select one who will not be disposed to compromise the interests of the state, in order to show half the proceeds. Having done this, she must pass a tax bill sufficient, at least, to place the prompt payment of the interest beyond a shadow of a doubt. She may then, with some chance of success, make application, in the market, for means to pay the arrears due to her con tractors, and to finish the public works. In commercial and business affairs the country is improv ing every day. There is some doubt about the resumption of the United States Bank in January next, and if she does resume, there is more doubt about its permanency. But in spite of these untoward events, the nation was never richer in produce and manufactures, and we must do well. MONEY MARKET, SUNDAY, Nov. 2 1 5,6 p.m.—The transactions at the stock board, yesterday, were heavy, and again prices declined. United States Bank + per cent ; Stonington per cent ; Can ton cent ; North American Trust and Banking Co. per cent ; Dry Dock 1 per cent ; Paterson improved per cent. 2 Sales of bills on Phil a d e lphi a were made atdiscount, which is a decline on Baltimore 1a discount. Sales of state stocks were made as follows : 5,000 dls. Illinois 6 per cents 7O 2,000 dls. Arkansas bonds 81 14,000 dls. Massachusetts 5 per cents (at Boston) 98 a 981 MONDAY, Nov. 30, 6 P.M.—The stock market has pre sented no very material change in its general features to-day. Some descriptions have improved, and others have declined. N. Am. T. and Bk. rose per cent. ; Delaware and Hudson 2 per cent. ; Canton I per cent. ; Paterson 1 per cent. ; Har lem declined 4- per cent. ; Stonington 2 per cent.; Dry Dock 1 per cent. There has been some increased demand for foreign bills to go by these packets. The supply of good bills in the market has not been very large, and many purchasers have been hold ing back, waiting larger supplies from the south. The rates, to-day, have been a little more firm, as follows :—On Lon don 81 a 81, or d. 4 81 a 4 83 the £ sterling; on France f. 5 171 af. 5 20; Amsterdam 404- a 401; Hamburgh 364; Bremen 78. At these rates there has been less demand for specie for remittance, and the premium on silver has fallen. IMPORTANT FROM NORTH BEND. - GENERAL HARRISON'S CABINET We have at length received important private despatches from Cincinnati, giving us much information relative to the composition of General Harrison's cabinet, and the policy of his administration. We learn that Mr. Clay, at the suggestion of his friends, declines altogether to form a part of the new cabinet, and that it is expected by them and him that Daniel Webster will, or ought also to decline, should he be offered a place there. It is furthermore stated that General Harrison will select his cabinet from the following names:— SECRETARY OF STATE.—John Sergeant, Horace Binney, Edward Everett, Wm. H. Seward, John M. Clayton, Wm. C. Rivers, William Preston, John J. Crittenden, John Q. Adams. TREASURY.—John Davis, Gulian C. Verplanck, John Sergeant. NAVY.—Gulian C. Verplanck, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Samuel Southard, William Gaston, Theodore Frelinghuysen, John L. Pettigru. WAR.—William Preston, William P. Mangum, Alexander Porter, John Bell, Thomas Metcalfe. ASTORNEY-GENERAL. — JOhII J. Crittenden, . John C. Spencer, William Gaston, John L. V. M‘Mahan, Hugh Legare. POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—Thomas Ewing, Elisha Whit tlesey, Oliver H. Smith. MEXICO Our advices from the city of Mexico are up to the 20th of October, and from Vera Cruz to the 27th. Congress was then in session. This body had declared, as the will of the nation, that the executive government should not be clothed with the extraordinary powers which they had demanded. This is regarded as a rebuke to the central leaders, Bus tamente and Almonte, and coming from a central junto, it must have great weight. The idle project of prose cuting a war against Texas Was entertained at the capital. A law had been passed, authorising the government to con tract a loan of 2,000,000 dollars, pledging for the payment, the 17 per cent. duty, and the President is empowered to issue bonds for the amount, which are to be sold to the high est bidder, within thirty days from the 18th of October. Two thirds of this sum was to be appropriated to carrying on the contemplated war against Texas. TEXAS. Galveston papers of the 15th have been received. The Texan Congress had organized with the Hon. Mr. Hull as Speaker pro. tern. of the House, and Vice-President Bur net as President of the Senate. Tne President's Message is long and well written. It gives a flattering account of the growth of this young republic, its resources and population. The government and people have experienced great embar rassments from the derangement of the currency. The loan commissioners had not been able to effect a sale of bonds. The President deprecates a war with Mexico, and states his reasons in full. The commisssoners to run the boundary line between the United States and Texas, bad been compelled to suspend their operations for want of means. BERMUDA _.„.. Nov. 7.—Barbadoes has been suffering, up to the 14th of October, from a very severe drought, which created much alarm for the ensuing crop. Our latest papers, however, convey the gratifying intelligence, that a most beneficial change had taken place in the weather. Between the 15th and 19th the island was blessed with abundant and heavy showers, reviving again the prospects of the planters, and diffusing gladness throughout the land. MR. BEINDLEY AND THE SOCIALISTS.—The bold and ac tive exterminator of the vile sophistries of Socialism, Mr. Brindley, has been engaged for the last three evenings in a public discussion at the Macclesfield Sunday School. The local advocates of the system having proved incapable of contending with him, it was resolved to summon one of their leading champions, a Mr. Lloyd Jones, we believe from Glasgow, to ent er th e li s t s w i t h Mr. rindley. The con troversy was carried on for the two first evenings without interruption, but last night, driven to desperation, by the ex posure of the wickedness, deception, and fraud inherent in the system, Mr. Jones, in reply to a point urged by Mr. Brindley that no accounts had been published of the large sums of money that had been received from the infatuated dupes who had joined the "community," asserted that such accounts had been published quarterly in their newspaper. Mr. Jones was challenged to produce proofs of this, but he declined doing so, under the pretext that he had not the pa pers with him, but pledged himself to produce them hereafter to the chairman. Mr. Brindley, however, quickly produced a set of the newspapers said to contain these quarterly state ments, and handed them over to Mr. Jones, who was then called upon by the audience to gu to the proof of his assertion. He manifested no desire to comply with this requirement, and the audience for a long time indignantly opposed his proceeding further with his oration till he had answered the charge of wilful falsehood with which he stood arraigned. This he failed to do, and was allowed at last to wind up his speech amidst the hearty contempt and indignation of the great bulk of the meeting. The large room was crowded to excess ; and a considerable number of chartists were present, collected, it is said, from many of the neighbouring towns, to swell tne number that still exist in Macclesfield. At the close of the proceedings, which terminated at eleven o'clock, a vote of thanks was passed t.. the Rev. Mr. Burnet, who had undertaken the laborious task of presiding as moderator. The rev. gentleman observed, that not a single argument had been adduced during the discussion that could in the slightest degree weaken the truth of Divine revellation.—During the early part of the week Mr. Brindley lectured at Congleton ; and, as the chartists did not appear to hold a discussion, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Brindley and several of his friends, proceeded to the rendezvous of the chartists, and challenged them to a discussion. But for the force of argu ment they substituted the argument of force, and assailed the deputation with Pine yi9lcuce.---2 1 facclesfield Courier. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW AND SUCCESSFUL DRAMA. MR. E L 77 0 Ar , RE-ENGAGE MENTof theFRENC II ROPE-DANCERS. Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND EVERY EVENING. PHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th instant, will be presented a new and most successful Drama, en titled, THE CAVALIER; Or, a Tale of Trials. Hargrave, Mr. Elton, as originally acted by him at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The Chiarini Family on the Rope. After which the laughable and successful Farce of CHARLES O'MALLEY, The Irish Dragoon. Charles O'Malley Jenny Jinks Mrs. Raymond The Chiarini Infant Children will appear in the PAS DU SAVOYARDS. To conclude with a Drama called THE WIFE OF CORNHILL ; Or, The Fatal Secret. Robert Laidlow (with a Song), Mr. Chas. Bland. O❑ WEDNESDAY Evening, the 16th, and THURS DAY, the 17th instant, the admired Drama of EUGENE ARAM, in which Mr. Elton will sustain the principal cha racter, as originally acted by him in London. With other Entertainments. To conclude with, for the first time in Liverpool, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, the Old Curiosity Shop. With Illustrations by Mr. Parker, from the original work. On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 18th and 19th inst., THERESE ; or, the Orphan of Geneva. The part of Car win by Mr. Elton. With other Entertainments. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. Foon, at the Box office, from Eleven to Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price, Half past Eight, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; no Second Price to the Gallery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Perform ance to commence at Seven precisely. Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be bad on application at the Theatre, Price £1 ls. A limited number of Season Tickets on Sale, at the Box office. Stage Manager, Mr. C. F. MARSHALL. THE CARACCI. NOTICE. AIR. BENTLEY being desirous that the celebrated Pic "Vl tures of Scriptural Subjects, by these great Masters, should be seen by all classes, with a view of diffusing a taste for the Fine Arts, has fixed the Terms for the Evening Exhi bition of these Pictures at SIXPENCE, that rate to com mence at Five o'clock. The Union Room is brilliantly lighted by Gas whenever the daylight begins to decline. Slater-street Union Gallery. LAST WEEK THE EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS, Postoffice-place, WILL CLOSE on SA TURDAY next, the 19th instant. Admission, Is. Catalogues, Is. Also, every Evening, BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven until Ten. Admission. Is. SAMUEL EGLINGTON. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, 14th December, 1840. TO CORRESPONDENTS We shall not forget the hint of " Pat," who advises us to " show up" the reformed system of granting licenses. We have already expressed our opinion on this subject with some degree of freedom. We cannot pledge outselvss to the immediate insertion of poetical favours ; nor must our acknowledgment of their receipt be construed into a promise that they shall appear. The letter of "J. Duckett" has been received. We have not yet had time to examine the enclosures. We have once more to request our correspondents to write on one side only of their paper. The neglect of this hint has frequently caused us to reject communications which might otherwise have been accepted. " The Dream of the Lonely One" has been received. We shall avail ourselves of the hints contained in the letter of " L," on " Railway Accidents." We do not profess to answer questions on the solution of which bets are pending. Just Published, Price 45., A POLL BOOK FOR THE LAST MUNICIPAL ELECTION ; Shewing the Duplicate Qualifications of the VOTERS, and the WARDS in which they polled. The Lists have been examined with the Polling Papers in the possession of the Mayor. This publication, which has been compiled with the utmost care, will be found of great utility as A BOOK OF REFERENCE, and will be found of service to the several Ward Committees in carrying on the Canvass for the ensu- tag year. Printed and sold by LACE and ADDISON, Standard offce ; and sold also by other Booksellers. Ebt 'ibrrpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1840. By an extraordinary express from Toulon, the whole of the correspondence between Commodore Napier and Boghos Bey, relative to the submission of Mehe met Ali, has been received. Commodore Napier's first letter, which is published at length in the Morning Herald of yesterday, conveys a request that Mehemet Ali would send back all the Emirs and Shiehks of •..air • Lebanon, who were sent to Alexandria in the month of July, by order of the authorities of Syria, and that he would give up immediately, and without any conditions, the Ottoman fleet, and withdraw his troops from Syria. Commodore Napier enforces these demands by an appeal to what has been done in Syria, where 6,000 Turks and a handful of marines have taken Saida and Beyrout, defeated the Egyptian army in three different actions, taken 10,000 prisoners and deserters, caused all the seaports to be evacuated, taken all the passes of the Taurus, and the mountains of Lebanon, and rcduced Acre, after a bombardment of only three hours. Fte then alludes to the discontent which prevailed in the Egyptian army, and advises his highness to reflect that " Alexandria might be taken as Acre was taken." Boghos Bey, in his reply, assures the Commodore that NlehemerAli had already anticipated the wishes of the Allies with regard to the liberty of the Druse Chief tains, and expresses the gratitude of the Pacha for the propOsition regarding the hereditary government of Egypt. Boghos Bey then states that it had never been the intention of Mehemet Ali to retain the fleet of the Sultan. The whole communication of Boghos Bey is of a deprecatory character. Commodore Napier, in his reply, enforces the necessity for the immediate evacuation of Syria, and the unconditional surrender of the Ottoman fleet, and, at the same time, states that he would not insist upon the departure of the fleet for Constantinople until the Pacha be guaranteed in the hereditary government of Egypt. On these conditions Commodore Napier consents to suspend hostilities. In a second letter Boghos Bey expresses his satisfaction at the assurances given respecting the hereditary government of Egypt, and promises the immediate restitution of the fleet, on receiving the official notification of the allied powers. He then states that the Viceroy was ready to order his son, Ibrahim Pacha, to concentrate his troops in Syria, in order to their falling back upon Egypt. To the latter proposition Commodore Napier replies, that the troops were already concentrated, and offers to place at the disposal of Mehemet Ali a steam-boat to conduct to Beyrout the officer who might be appointed to carry the despatch to Ibrahim Pacha. The correspondence closes with the formal acceptance of this offer on the part of the Pacha, and with an expression of gratitude for the Commodore's " care and delicacy in the solu tion of the thorny difference" which has given rise to the recent operations in the east. We dare say that some of our readers may have heard of the existence, in a neighbouring town, of an individual who, by the grace of her Majesty's ministers, has been enabled to rejoice of late, in the name and title of Sir Thomas Potter, Knight, —the latter, which distinguishes him from other Potters, having been con ferred upon him at the same period, which enabled our own Sir Joshua to take precedence of his fellow reformers in Liverpool. In both cases, we believe, the title has been fairly earned. Sir Joshua has him self done "good service to the state;" as his various contributions of money and counsel to our Protector and Reform Associations, sufficiently evidence. In this respect, however, he has not come up to the ex ample of his compatriot—the knight of Manchester; who may be said to have made himself a kind of Eleemosynary pump, at whose spout needy radicals of every grade, from John Thorogood—the church-rate martyr, to Daniel O'Connell—the great agitator, have drunk and been filled. To this same Sir Thomas Potter, Knight—on the occasion of his retiring from the office of pseudo mayor of Manchester,—the whig faction of that whig ridden town gave, on Thursday last, what we believe they dignify by the name of a dinner, but what might be termed, with greater propriety, a three and sixpenny scramble for cold meat. The said three and sixpenny scramble was attended by some six hundred whig patriots, —a sorry number for an occasion of such momentous interest ; and amongst the rest by the members for the borough, Mr. Mark Philips, and Mr. Greg; by Mr. Gisborne, M. P. for North Derbyshire, and by Mr. Milner Gibson, M. P. for no place just now ; but an aspirant hereafter to represent the borough of Manchester. We are not going to chronicle the doings at this wretched, affair—to weary our readers with the vapid impertinences of Mr. Mark Philips, or the insufferable boobyism of Mr. Milner Gibson, who assured his sym pathizing audience that he "gloried in the appellation of a Rat !" Our object at present is merely to lay before our readers the candid admission of Mr. Gisborne— and to his hearers at this feed evidently an unpalatable one—that modern liberalism in the House of Commons, and throughout the country, is at its last gasp ! "Our friends," said Mr. Gisborne, "have one after another dropped off into the ranks of those who were formerly our masters, and who before long will be so again. (Confusion and cries of 'No, no.') Ay but they will. though ! I am not here to flatter yon with prospects which will not be realized. This is the truth; and although disagreeable for you to hear it, it is not less disagreeable for me to utter it." We dare say it was disagreeable for Mr. Gisborne to utter it, and for his three and sixpenny audience to listen to so lamentable a confession. For that very reason it gives us pleasure to add circulation to such a truth, amongst the thousands of Whig-radicals in Liverpool who delight in the perusal of our columns. We have ourselves asserted the same fact over and over again. We have asserted the fact of this very re action, accompanied by proof which would have con vinced any thing not absolutely wooden; but we have not been listened to. A delusion is abroad amongst our Whig-radical brethren, which will not allow them to see that their days of political probation have past by, and that they are about to be laid upon the shelf to moulder for another half century of hopeless exclusion from the sweets of offite and the sunshine of patronage. Will they listen to Mr. Gisborne—a member of their own party and an able one ? We trust they will. The Manchester Guardian of Saturday last, in re plying to our remarks on the sugar duties, reiterates the assertion that " the time has come when the Bri tish public ought no longer to be required to pay dou ble prices for their sugars and their coffees, for the be nefit, not of the revenue, but of a body of colonial monopolists," and insinuates that the West India in terests have had " a sufficient term of experience" to warrant the presumption that they cannot produce those articles on " an adequate scale, and at a reason able price." There would be some show of reason in these assertions if it could be proved that the British planters are alone to blame for the serious defalcation which has arisen in the supply of those staples. The contrary, however, is notoriously the fact. The people of this country are alone to blame in this matter. If the abolition of the Negro apprenticeship had not been precipitated, in compliance with the popular clamour raised in this country, the planters would have been in a very different position to that in which they are at present placed, and the supplies of sugar and coffee would have been fully adequate to meet the increasing demands of the British population. It would require more ingenuity than the editor of the Guardian can lay claim to, to prove that the planters of the West In d;es have evinced any indisposition to supply the Bri tish market with those articles. They have not been guilty of retaining any portion of their stock in order to produce a rise of prices. They have anxiously for warded home their annual crops for immediate sale. They have found it necessary to do this that they might be enabled to carry on the cultivation of their estates. The real cause of the deficiency in the supplies of su gar and coffee, and of the consequent advance in prices, has been the general indisposition of the Ne groes to labour. The planters have not had fair play ; neither have they had such a term of experience as would justify us in consigning them to immediate and irretrievable ruin. The government, urged on by a set of unreasonable agitators, in this country as well as in the colonies, haS interposed every obstacle in its power to prevent the British planters from obtaining an adequate supply of labour on their estates. Let the restrictions on free immigration be removed for a few years, and we feel confident that the West Indies will yet recover from their depression, and that they will speedily furnish both sugar and coffee as cheaply as the Brazils. It remains yet to be proved that free labour cannot, under any circumstances, compete with slave labour. The advocates of emancipation have always maintained that free labour ought to be more productive than compulsory labour. We do not deny the position. But let the experiment be carried out. Let the planters have a fair chance of testing the com parative merits of the two systems. Until this is fully and fairly conceded, it would be an act of gross cruelty as well as injustice to consign the West Indies to a state resembling that of their primitive barbarity. The Manchester Guardian asserts that it is not true that it has ever proposed, suddenly and at once, to de prive the colonial products of all preference in the home markets. It should, however, be remembered that even the partial abolition of the discriminating duties would have the immediate effect of giving a preference to foreigners in the British market. Even with the present scale of duties the British planters find great difficulty in competing with slave-holdingforeign states. The position of the West India proprietors is eminently critical at the present moment. They have, as yet, found it impossible to prevail upon the Negroes to set tle down to continuous labour, without which the cul tivation of sugar especially can never be carried on with any degree of success. It would, therefore, be highly ungenerous to take advantage of this precarious and trying situation, in order to " deal heavy blows and great discouragements" to the suffering planters. They ought to have a little breathing time afforded them, that they may endeavour to realise the promised advan tages of the free labour system. In demanding this respite on their behalf we are merely insisting upon having the principles of the abolitionists tested in the rigid school of experience. We can well aflbrd to smile at the imputation that the Liverpool Standard " almost lives and moves, and has his being as the organ of the West India interests." We really must disclaim the honour which the Guardian appears so anxious to confer upon us. A reference to our advertising columns will, we trust, convince our contemporary that the amount of support which we derive from the West India interest is exceedingly limited. With some half dozen exceptions, the West India merchants very rarely favour us with any of their advertisements, notwithstanding our persevering and consistent advocacy of their claims. We trust that the Guardian will take this as a proof of our disinterestedness in taking up the gauntlet in defence of the British plantations. We are glad to find that the Guardian has ventured to speak its mind freely on the subject of the impor tation of slave-grown sugar and coffee, for home consumption in this country. Our contemporary boldly avers that " Great Britain does not and dare not profess so to set herself up as a . censor of other nations, as to refuse to trade with them on equal terms, avowedly because their forms of government permit the existence of slavery." Does she not, at the present moment, our contemporary asks, permit the importation of American cotton and tobacco, which are the products of slave labour? True; but she does so in virtue of treaties of commerce which were in existence before slavery was abolished in our own colonies. Her adherence to those treaties is no reason why she should extend her countenance to slavery in other countries, and especially those countries by which the slave trade is still carried on in all its pristine atrocity. The people of England are not prepared thus to stultify their own exertions in the cause of negro freedom. The strongest opponents of the free trade in slave-grown produce, for which the Guardian appears to contend with so much earnestness, will be found among the ranks of the abolitionists, many of whorn have formally announced their intention to forego the use of sugar and coffee altogether rather than admit those articles from slave -bolding countries. On this subject we beg to refer the Guardian to the declaration which Mr. O'Connell made, last session, in his place in Parliament—a declaration which Mr. Gurney, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Scoble, and Sir T. F. Buxton, have not hesitated to reciprocate at several public meetings held subsequently. We happen to know that this feeling of repugnance to the direct encourage ment of slavery and the slave trade is daily gaining ground in all parts of the country, and that it will eventually prove too powerful to be successfully op posed by the band of heartless political economists by whom that encouragement is at present advocated. We do not deny that "the differential duties are as high against foreign free-labour sugar and coffee, as against foreign slave-grown sugar and coffee." Th e reason of this is well known to every o n e w ho is, • the least, familiar with commercial affairs, Our exietig