The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-06 00:00:00

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She has on of his family and 115 Of nearly the whole JD COLONIAL MISCELLANY _, eat astronomer, Cope'' , cted in his native place, Thorn, n Tr.-" Do you publish Tu bers to your pier? . said a Ang into; our Office the other ' Well. then, I'll go and get getting my name ye objected to my poetical effu- other way of nnah Paper 6000, he says, would•steal your A a box of a theatre ; 3000 would ,ese, 2000 would enter houses to id from 1000 to 1200 of them would and 600, at least, would not hesi so to ld of tt tion if it were necessary to do . 22.—1 t seems as if the states of south. ly intended to adopt in concert severs; on account of the extraordinary arms• ments (not quite in harmony with a peaceful neighbourhood) which France is making along the whole left bank of the Rhine, in Alsace, from Basle to Rhenish Bavaria, with a de gree of eclat that looks like a challenge. Since Baden and Wirtemberg have forbidden the exportation of horses, it is confidently affirmed by well-informed persons that the eight corps of the army (of the confederation) will be speedily as sembled, to protect the banks of the Rhine. It is resolved to be prepared against every contingency. THE COURT WINDSOR —Her Majesty and Prince Albert albers of the royal household, drove ended by tb The following took their departure from the castle this morning :—Viscount Melbourne, Dr. Short, and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Brand. The only addition to the royal dinner party, this evening, will be the Earl of Uxbridge. Her Majesty has subsc4ed the sum of 200 guineas towards the erection of the new church in this town. Prince Albert has subscribed the sum of 100 guineas, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager £5O. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—This morning his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. Wylde and Capt. Seymour, enjoyed several hours' shooting in the Home Park. In the afternoon Prince Albert drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton. The following personages accompanied her Majesty :—The Countess of Sandwich, Earl Listowell, Lord A. Paget, Hon. Misses Paget and Anson, and Sir Frederick Stoven. _ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Lady C. Dundas, took her accustomed airing. The following person the royal dinn the Duch Count s will have the honour of joining party this evening :—Her Royal Highness Kent, Lady C. Dundas, Earl Listowell, wich, Lord A. Paget, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir F. Stoven, Capt. Seymour, non. Misses Anson and Paget, Col. Wylde, and Baroness Lehzen. WINDSOR, Albert proceed highness was ti WEDNESDAY royal hour her Majest -His Royal Highness Prince 1 this morning to the Great Park. His royal re met by Lord Kinnaird and several of the , for the purpose of privately hunting with _ . His royal highness was attended by Colonel Wylde, Capt. Seymour, and Lord Alfred Paget. and Prince Albert promenaded and in the shrubberies. for a short time, on The Countess of Erroll, the Hon. Misses Paget and Anson, Lady Ida Hay, and several of the ladies attached to the royal household, drove out this afternoon in pony phae- tons and four The Earl of Erroll is expected to arrive at the castle to morrow. JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET. MONDAY EVENING.—This has been a quiet day in the funds. Consols left off 871 to / for money and 88 buyers for account. Bank Stock 160 to 2. Exchequer Bills 2 dis- In Foreign Securities but little was doing. Spanish Ac tive with the Coupons were 21a to -4. Portuguese Five per Cents 33 to 4, the Three per Cents 214 to 2. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents 501 to 1, the Five per Cents 96} to 74. Belgian 94 to 64. Brazilian 73 to 5. Mexican 27 to 4. Colombian 234 to 4. London and Birmingham railways were 66 to 8, Great Western 14k to 151 premium. South Western 50k to lk per share, North Midland Old Shares 26 to 4, the New sto 3, Brighton 13k to 13, Blackwallsk to 41 discount. TUESDAY EVENING.—SODIe purchases of Consols to-day for Chancery account, combined with what was considered the favourable news from Syria, created a stir in the market, and led to an advance in prices. Consols were 88k to kat the close for money, and for account 881 to I. Bank Stock declined to 159 to 160 ; India Stock to 240 to 2. Exchequer Bills 3s to is discount. Foreign Securities remain much as before. Spanish Ac tive with the Coupons 2ia to 1 . Portuguese Five per Cents 331 to I, the Three per Cents 211 to 2. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents 50i to the Five pct. Cents 96i to 73. Bel gian 96 to 8. Brazilian 73 to 5. Mexican 27 to Colom bian 23+ to 4. London and Birmingham Railways were 69 to 71, Great Western 16 to 17 premium. North Midland Old Shares 26 to 24, the New 4 to 2, Brighton 134 to 124, Blackwall 5 to 44 discount. Southampton 51 to 2 per share. WEDNESDAY.—Cocsiderable fluctuations took place in the value of the English funds during the day. At the first open ing of the market Consols for money rose to 884 to I, and for the account to 884 ; but as some of the speculators shortly after sold some stock, quotations were depressed to 881 to for the account, and 884 to 4 for money. About a quarter of an hour before the close of business there was a sudden movement for the rise, and several bargains were done in Consols for the account at 884. The last quoted money price was 884 to 4. After four o'clock time business is said to have been done at 884. India Stock shut at 241 to 243 ; bank stock, 159 to 160 ; and Exchequer bills 2s. dis. to par. The operations in the foreign stocks were inconsiderable. Dutch again have made a slight advance, but other stocks re main at yesterday's prices. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. were last quoted at 51, and the Five per Cents., 97 to 98 • Sdanish Actives, 214 to I; Portuguese Fi ve p er Ce n ts., 33-; to f ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 214 to 22 ; Mexican, 27; to 4 ; and Colombian, 234 to 4. Russian bonds are 113. Shares were rather flat, without business. South-Western were marked 51 to 52 per share ; Brighton, 134 to 4 dis.; Blackwell, 54 to 44 dis.; and Great Western, 16 to 17 pm. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS UNICIPAL ELECTIONS STAFFORD. RETIRING COUNCILLOT natives ESENT C 2, It-,10 NSTITUTION OF I'll r. COL Conservatives STOCKPORT. RETIRING COUNCILLORS Conservatives Reformers ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840, Conservatives Reformers (one ward uncontested)...: 4 PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF TILE COUNCIL (AFTER THIS ELECTION.) (Nynservative Reformers . CONGLETON. RETIRING COUNCILLOR. Conservatives Reformers ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840 Conservatives Reformers PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL AETER THE ELECTION Conservatives Reformers No contest in any ward SHREWSBURY. Number of Town Councillors Number of Aldermen RETIRING COUNCILLORS. Conservatives Whig-Radicals ELECTED NOVEMBER 2D, 1840. Conservatives Whig-Radicals.... PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL (AFTER TIIIS ELECTION.) Conservatives Whig-Radicals.. LANCASTER. RETIRING COUNCILLORS. Conservative 1 Reformers 5 ELECTED Nov. 2, 1840. Conservatives Reformers 2 PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL, (AFTER THIS ELECTION.) Conservatives Reformers... CHESTER. Conservatives returned Radicals PRESTON No opposition to any of the candidates for the municipal representation of this town. All the councilmen elected were conservatives. LEEDS. Conservatives returned Radicals returned. 6 PRESENT CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL. Conservative Councillors Radical Councillors 32 Radical Aldermen After the first election, the conservatives had only six in the council. SOUTHAMPTON MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The numbers of the council remain as they were before ; seven conserva tives and three radicals were returned. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.— The election of town-councillors to supply the place of those who retired by rotation, took place upon N'ewcastle•upon- Tyne on Monday last. There was considerable excitement throughout the borough, and the result of the appeal to the electors is highly satisfactory to the rapidly advancing cause of conservatism, the gain to the constitutional party upon the returns being THREE, which will count SIX upon divi sions. The whig-radical faction feel that the ground is sliding from under them, and the fair and moderate men of all parties hail the circumstance with §atisfaction, inasmuch as the declaimers for freedom and liberty, with which the town has been oppressed since the passing of the municipal reform bill, have falsified every pledge which they made, and have exercised an unmitigated system of tyranny, exclu siveness, and intolerance in all the affairs of the borough. MANCHESTER MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—There was no contest in any of the wards, in consequence of the dispute relative to the charter being unsettled. All the members are of course radicals. _ . BOLTON.—There was no opposition here in consequence of the validity of the charter being questioned. The council, therefore, is entirely composed of liberals, and a precious set they are. Should the legality of the charter be established, there can be no doubt that the character of the council will soon be changed. OXFORD TOWN COUNCIL.—Number of town-councillors 30, aldermen 10. Retiring councillors—conservatives (all churchmen), 6 ; radicals, two churchmen, two dissenters, 4. Elected Nov. 2nd, 1840—conservatives (all churchmen), 7 ; radicals (all churchmen), 3. Present constitution of the council—conservatives (all churchmen), 29 ; radicals (nine churchmen, two dissenters), 11. OSWESTRY TOWIsT-COUNCIL.—The council consist of 24, of whom 6 are aldermen. Six conservatives went out of office, and, at the election on Monday, 6 conservatives were returned. The council is " all right," the councillors being 16 conservatives to two whig-radicals. WELSHPOOL TOWN-COUNCIL.—Four conservative coun cillors retired ; four conservatives were elected. This leaves the corporation as it was, viz., 12 councillors and 4 alder men, all of whom are conservatives. MONMOUTH TOWN-COUNCIL.—Here there are 12 coun cillors and 4 aldermen. Four conservative councillors went out of office, and the same number were elected. The coun cil now consists of 14 conservatives and 2 whig-radicals : these last are aldermen. BEWDLEY TOWN-COUNCIL.—The return from this bo rough is extremely favourable. Three Whig-radicals and one conservative retired from the council, and four conservatives were elected. The council now consists of 16 conservatives, and no radicals. WARWICK TOWN-COUNCIL.—Four conservatives and two radicals retired. Six conservatives were returned. The lowest conservative gained 55 more votes than the highest radical. The council of this borough (Mr. Joseph Parke's pet corporation), formerly all radical, now stands in favour of conservative principles—that party having a majority of three. WEYMOUTH TowN-COUNCIL.—Six conservatives re turned. GLASGOW TowN-COUNCIL.—Six radicals retired, and four conservatives. Four conservatives and five radicals re turned, being one in favour of the conservatives. LEOMINSTER TowN-COUNCIL. — Here there are 4 alder men and 12 councillors. The 4 gentlemen who went out of office (2 conservatives and 2 whig-radicals) were re-elected. The council consists of 12 conservatives and 4 whig-radicals. READING TOWN-COUNCIL.—At the first election under the municipal reform act, the return was—conservatives. 5 ; whig-radicals, 18. The result of the election on 'Monday is— conservatives, 4 ; whig-radicals, 2. The present constitution of the council is —conservatives, 14 ; whig-radicals, 10. The mayor, town-clerk, and all the municipal officers of Reading are now conservatives. Of the ten whig-radicals now in office, several remain on sufferance, being moderate men supported by both parties. Three of them, however, are violent and virulent radicals pitchforked as six years' alder men by the first council; they march out, of course, next year. BURY ST. EDMONDS TOWN-COUNCIL.-Sig conservatives elected in place of 5 radicals and 1 conservative, who went out by rotation. CAMBRIDGE TOWN-COUNC IL.—Retiring councillors—con servatives, 1 ; whig-radicals, 9. Now elected—conservatives, 8 ; whig-radicals, 2. Constitution of the council (after this election)—conservatives, 20; whig-radicals, 20. COVENTRY TOWN-COUNCIL.—One more conservative has been elected than retired. The office of town-councillor is at a discount here. The only incident worth mentioning is the defeat of two of Lord John's whig-radical magistrates. LICIITIBLD TOWN-COUNCIL.—Sii town councillors retired, viz., four radicals and two conservatives. Each party returned three in spite of the Lichfield influence. LYMINGTON TOWN-COUNCIL.—SiZ conservatives elected in lieu of six radicals who retire. ST. ALBANS TowN-COUNCIL.—Five conservatives and four radicals. TAMWORTU TowN-couNciL.—Four conservatives re turned in lieu of four radicals. WALLINGFORD TowN-COUNCIL.---Three conservatives, and one moderate whig re-elected without opposition. WALSALL TOWN-COUNCIL.—The municipal election ter minated most gloriously in a conservative triumph. The town-council was formerly exclusively radical. The radicals only ventured one opposition candidate in the Bridge Ward, and the conservatives triumphed by a majority of 450 in 472 votes. WINDSOR MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—At the annual elec tion of town-councillors for this borough, the six who retired, after having served three years, were re-elected. There was no opposition to the return of the conservative town-council lors ; the liberal party in the town having measured their strength, and wisely believing that " discretion is the better part of valour," abstained from opposing their re-election. BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL ELZCTION.—The validity of the charter being still in dispute, the conservatives did not interfere, nor take the slightest interest in the election. BEDFORD MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—The conservative party in Bedford have done their duty. Six councillors went out by rotation, the said six being all whig - radicals; one o f th em i s the agent for Mr. Crawley, the whig member, another is the chairman of a new whig club lately established here. Six conservatives have taken their places, having beaten them hollow. The discomfited party, since their defeat, it has been ascertained, have started an objection, which may possibly render the election void as regards three councillors ; but should they persist, and it is necessary in consequence to ob tain a mandamus for a new election, the Whigs will only be defeated more completely. BRADFORD MUNICIPAL ELECTION.—Six conservatives returned. BRISTOL MUNICIPAL ELECTlON.—Conservative principles never achieved a more signal triumph. The conservative candidates, seven in number, were returned by great majori ties. Mr. Visger, who is generally supposed to be the fac totum of the government in their negotiations with the Bris tol liberals, and Mr. Herapath, the quondam vice-president of the political union, but now, by the courtesy of Lord John Russell, a justice of the peace for the city, were defeated. HEREFORD, Nov. 3.—The annual nuisance, known as the Municipal Reform Bill, did not fail to produce its usual quota of excitement and confusion. This borough has gained an unenviable notoriety for the virulence with which the elec tions of its representatives have been carried on ; and short of annual parliaments, no measure could have been framed so effectually to foster this evil as this precious specimen of whig legislation. On the present occasion four gentlemen were put in nomination, and no other candidate appearing for some tmc t a i o m toui so e ntn , c ltoarslpledeo wit houtmrsaoet,di ut p ooi r p: o pt. b ioal a ss b i f i e o n t h . a t There they is woul d however,be chosenin this,to a thes iin proceedinga c e r t i clique dd no t who ,.of existcou course, s o e n , l s y u y theira agi tation, - views. A fifth candidate, of whig-radical principles, was started, and every ne rve strained to insure his return ; but, with what success, will be seen by the subjoined statement of the close of the poll, thefirst-named being e r v e a h t e i Cheek s 2 o 3 u 3 t ;OTf ten nmraest returned. • the conservative candidates originally put in nomination :—S , a . o 1 r 243 , 23 co 8 ns ; Harris ipsw 2 1 4 c 0 u ; . 2 . 3 E rO i Brown 238 MAIDSTONE. —The elections in this town complete the re action which has been going on f or some t i me past in its mu nicipal politics. The " last of the liberals" popularly elected, who has so often of late been left alone in his glory, has at length followed his rejected associates, and, but for the three liberal aldermen, not elected by the burgesses, but who owe their seats to the self-election principle introduced into their own Municipal Reform Bill by the liberals, the council-room of Maidstone would be swept clean of the liberal lumber which the people placed there by mistake some five years ago. ROCHESTER.—This election has terminated in the defeat of the radical candidate, Mr. Haymen, for St. Nicholas's ward, the vacancy of whose seat in the council is now filled by Mr. C. Bathurst. The struggle was most arduous. Mr. Hubbard, the former colleague of Mr. Haymen, is re-elected. Thailindidat i ss were Mr. Hay in6n and Nir, Hubbard, on the radical side; Messrs, Bathurst and Baleombe, on that of the conservatives. This, it is hoped, will give a decisive answer to the mighty boasting of the self styled liberals. In St. Margaret's ward the three conservatives were re-elected, having been opposed by one on the radical interest, Mr. T. Jackson, for whose return there existed but little chance. WisseAert.---Six conservatives and two whig-radicals are returned. YORK.—The elections for this city have been highly satis factory, having terminated in the return of eight conserva tives and only four radicals. BRIDGEWATER.—The efforts made by the radicals of this borough to regain their former ascendancy have been again defeated by the return of six, conservatives to the town council. BosrciN.—The election of six gentiemen to fill the vacan cies in the town-council of Boston, caused by the retirement of Messrs. Hopkins, T. Smith, and Hubbert, and Messrs. Mountain, J. Smith, and Small, terminated in the triumph ant return of all the conservative candidates. The greatest exertions were used throughout the day in bringing voters up to the poll, but the conservatives never lost the advantage which they obtained at the commencement. Thus have the burgesses shown their opinion of the merits of the radicals. COLCHESTER.-Six conservatives have been returned without opposition.. DovsalL-Six conservatives and six liberals have been returned. FALMOUTH.—The polling here to-day has terminated as every true lover of his country could wish for the councillors ; it stands thus :—Conservatives, Vigors, 90 ; Griffin, 87 ; Tresidder, 86 ; Brougham, K.—Whigs, Reid, 41; Drew, 3G; Palmer, 31 : Hostler, 27 ; Paske, 23; Langan, 14 ; Crogan, 13 ; Lobb, 2. So that you see the lowest conserva tive absolutely doubles the number of votes for the highest whiz. HULL.—The ele ltion of town-councillors for this borough is over, and although the result is not quite so triumphant for the conservatives as was expected, yet they gain an ac cession to the numb e rs i n the council. Of the 14 retiring councillors 13 are liberals and only 1 a conservative; 4 con servatives and 10 liberals have been elected, making a gain of 3 to the former. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—The little increase of demand for ma nufactured goods that appeared last week, arising from the execution of the orders brought by the steamer ftom the United States, appears to have now died away; and the pres sure for money continuing unabated, the market has now re lapsed into its former state of dullness and inactivity. The yarn market was also injuriously affected by unfavourable accounts from Germany, where sales of yarn appear to have been checked by hostile rumours, and several orders for purchases in this country have been countermanded. On the whole, the market was very gloomy, and exhibited little promise of change until an improvement takes place in the state of the money market. Nov. 2 ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY Notwithstanding a tolerably fair attendance of buyers in the market to-clay, there has been less than the usual amount of business done. The general rent-day in Rochdale occurs this month, and the buyers never fail to take advantage of it. Lower prices have been offered, and, in some cases, the needy makers have been obliged to accept it. Considerably more business might have been done, if the manufacturers generally would have submitted to a reduction. The wool market is about the same as that of last Monday. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY.—This was much the same sort of a market as last week,—by no means dis couraging, taking into consideration the time of the year. Heavy woollens, plain and fancy, are still in fair demand : prices remain firm. Business in the warehouse is no worse. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH .-W EDNESDAY .- .. EDNESDAY DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE Sir William Brabazon's title is extinct. His estates descend to his nephew, Hercules Sharpe, Esq., of Blackhstl, county Dublin.—Limerick chronicle. The election of a member of parliament for the county of Carlow, in the room of the late Nicholas Alward Vigors, Esq., is fixed for the 14th inst. THE Doc TRADE.—A great number of dogs, chiefly spaniels, have lately been stolen, and exported to Holland, where they are sold for high prices. The total sum said to be received daily for watercresses in London amounts to £35,000 sterling, a wonderful large sum for so simple an article of luxury. THE QUEEN.—We regret to say that rumours are preva lent to the effect that the anxious expectations of the people of England, relative to her majesty's situation, are likely to be disappointed.—Bath Chronicle. It is Lady Fanny Elliott, the Earl and Countess of Minto's second daughter, who is about to be married to Lord John Russell. Her ladyship is in her 25th year, and the noble lord is in his 49th year. The day is not fixed for their nup tials. SUDBURY.—The venerable Archbishop of York is now visiting her majesty Queen Adelaide at Sudbury Hall, the seat of his ancestors; and on Sunday morning last preached in the parish church: His grace appeared to be in excellent health, and delivered his sermon with considerable strength of voice, and great clearness of enunciation.— Derby Reporter. THE TRACY PEERAGE. — BiIIs have been posted, and advertisements inserted in all the local papers, offering a reward of £5OO for the discovery of the parties who, have recently cut from the Toddington registry of burials, the leaves containing the entries of the burials of Thomas and Henry, the second and fourth sons of Robert, the second Viscount Tracy.— Worcester Chronicle. DEATH OF LADY ROSaMORE. — This noble lady expired suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, at Wilton House, Chelten ham, where she had only arrived on the previous day, accompanied by Lord Rossmore, from Dublin. Her lady shio was Lady Augusta Charteris, fourth daughter of Francis, late Lord Elcho, and was married on the 3d of June, 1819, to the present Lord Rossmore, by whom she had no issue. On Sunday morning, as Mr. Baron Gurney was stepping out of his carriage to attend Divine service at St. Giles's church, lie and his lady by some means slipped down, and the venerable baron appeared to have hurt his head. His lady was so alarmed at the accident that she went into strong hysterics. They were immediately assisted into their car riage and returned home. We are happy, however, to state that his lordship did not sustain the least injury. The learned judge appeared yesterday morning on the bench of the Central Criminal Court, in good health and spirits. It is said that the government of Upper Canada, vacant by the return to England of Major-General Sir George Arthur, has been offered to Major-General Sir James Macdonnell, commanding in Quebec, but at present absent on a tour in the neighbouring provinces and the United States. Expresses had been sent to the point where they are most likely to meet the general, to hasten his return to Canada. In the event of Sir James Macdonnell declining to go to Upper Canada, the government, it is added, will be offered to Major- General Clitherow, who now commands in the Montreal district. It is the Hon. Robert Campbell Scarlett, eldest son of Lord Abinger, who has purchased the Marquis of Huntley's romantic seat of Inverlochy Castle for £75,150. It was ori ginally bought by the marquis, in 1834, for £56,000. We have received one of the gigantic productions of vege tation which sometimes appear to command attention and admiration. There is now at our office a turnip, grown at Laburnum, the seat of Mrs. Porter, actually measuring 36 inches in girth.—Wexford Conservative. The county of Dumfries has been convened for Wednes day, November 18, to adopt the provision, of the " Rogue money act" in Scotland, passed last session. Why not ex tend this law to Ireland ? The rogue-money collection is now going on there to a most infamous extent. They might then capture Dan and the priests. Mii.nrizss OF THE SEASON.—There have just been gathered, growing in the open garden of the Hon. Mrs. Fox, the widow of the late Charles James Fox, St. Ann's Hill, Chertsey, several dishes of raspberries, of peculiar size flavour. The health of the widow of this celebrated states man, who is fast approaching her hundredth year, is exceed ingly good. STAMP DUTIES ON CERTAIN CERTIFICATES. — Extract of Customs' Order, dated the 26th September, 1840. It ap pearing to be the practice at several of the outports to consi der certificates of the payment of the duty on articles re moved from one port to another for shipment on drawback as stores, chargeable with a stamp duty of four shillings—it is ordered, that no stamp duty be charged in future upon such certificates. FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—On the 11th instant, the Hull and Partington mail coach having been for a moment left standing at the door of au inn, in Ottringham, with the reins laid on the horses' backs, they set off; and, before they could be stopped, the coach was overturned, and the passengers thrown on the road : one of them, named Edward Nicholson, was so much injured as to cause his death the same say. The jury who sat on the body next day, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." Mr. Pinder, of Parting ton, was also very much hurt, but not dangerously, and he has since been doing well.—Eastern Counties Herald. ANOTHER SHOCKING COACH ACCIDENT. — On Monday, October 26th, the coach used for the purpose of conveying passengers between Blackpool and the Poulton Railway Station, was upset in consequence of being uncommonly heavily loaded, carrying, at the time, nineteen outside and five inside passengers, besides several large boxes, &c. A man was severely injured, and a Mrs. Leveaux (who was going from Blackpool to the Poulton station) was taken up senseless, having been buried under the luggage. She was conveyed back to Blackpool, seriously bruised ; although no bones were broken, she still lies in a very precarious state s Three children and Miss Richards (who accompanied Mrs. Leveaux) escaped uninjured. —Manchester Guardian. THE ROYAL CRADLE COVER.—On Monday week, a meeting of Spitalfields' weavers took the place in the large room attached to the National Schools, in Abbey-street, Bethnal-green, for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of a committee, appointed on the 21st of July, with a view to the production of a piece of workmanship worthy to be presented to the Queen. The drawings pre pared for the intended specimen were exhibited to the meet ing, and excited much admiration, the dimensions of the piece of silk on which they are to be worked being six feet by four. The design is allegorical, and will, of course, in clude many figures, the minutest account of which would, after all, convey but a very inadequate notion of an under taking that bids fair to be creditable to the skill, and benefi cial to the interests, of those engaged in the manufacture of silk. DISCOVERY IN ELECTRICITY.—A curious, and probably a most important, discovery in this branch of natural philo sophy, was made about a fortnight ago, in a boiler attached to a hauling engine, at Seghill, on the Cramlington railway, near Newcastle. The engineman on attempting to lay hold of the lever of the safety valve, received what he describes as a severe blow, which nearly caused him to fall ; he, a second time, attempted it, and received a similarblow. This having been made known, an examination of the boiler followed, and it was found that the steam which was escaping from a " blower" near to the safety valve, was highly charged with electricity. Our informant states that on himself placing one hand in the steam, sparks upwards of half an inch in length were emitted from the other, and this whilst he stood upon the masonry which was surrounding the boiler ; so that had he been upon a glass stool the effects would have been much greater. We are glad to hear that this discovery is be ing followed up by experiments on other boilers ; when the discovery was made, it was considered by many to be owing to the quality of the water used, which was pumped from the coal mine; subsequently, however, on trying the steam from a locomotive engine on the Newcastle and North Shields railway, a great quantity of electricity was obtained, and the water used in this case was from the River Tyne. The sub ject is highly interesting, and we hope that the discovery may lead to useful results ; the explosion of boilers has hitherto baffled research, and it is not improbable that electricity is intimately connected with it.—Durham Advertiser. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.—A very interesting meeting was held this day at the Royal Hotel, to take into consideration the subject of a railway between this place and Exeter, over Dartmoor. Dr. Cookworthy presided. Mr. Rendell, the engineer, who was engaged six years since in surveying the southern line, stated that he had been engaged during the last two years surveying the Eastmoor line. The great diffi culties here were the two inclined planes (1 in 38), but these he proposed to conquer by the aid of water power ; there being as much water on Dartmoor, as ther e was s t eam -p ower in the whole county of Lancashire. He thus proposed to substitute stationary water power for locomotive-engine power. The Earl of Devon, Sir Ralph Lopez, and Mr. E. St. Aubyn stated, severally, that the lands in which they were interested, should be granted on the most liberal and easy terms, and Mr. Rundle, M.P., stated that the Duke of Bedford would be equally liberal with his land. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at £BOO.OOO, and by a resolution of the meeting, which was numerously attended, subscription lists are to be forthwith - opened. Mr. Collier M.P., Mr. Bewes, M.P., Messrs. T. Gill, T. W. Fox, W. H. Evans, D. Derry, Alderman Johnson, and others addressed the company, Letters of approval were received from the Earls of Morley and Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Eliot, Sir J. Y. Buller, and Mr. Divett, M.P., and other noblemen and gen tlemen, and one from J. T. Coryton Roberts, Esq., recom mending the atmospheric scheme for consideration. ----------- EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FRUSTRATED.—On Sabbath night, a man and a boy, who nightly sleep on the premises of Mr. Donaldson, watch and clockmaker, Glassford-street, Glas gow, on entering the shop, discovered a person concealed beneath the counter, with not fewer than 176 watches, 138 of which were silver and 38 gold, packed u p, and ready to be carried off, besides two dozen gold guard chains, three dozen silver guard chains, and eight watch trays. The shop-breaker, whose name is John M'Nee, an old offender, was conveyed to the police-office. It appears, from M`Nee's own state ment, that in the course of Sabbath morning, he got access to the sunk flat by climbing over an iron gate, which is placed at the head of the stair. By means of an iron instru ment, and with great labour, he then forced his way through two brick walls, into an apartment immediately beneath the shop, and thence found easy access to the latter by a stair. The operation occupied him the whole day ; and, as we have seen, he was detected before he had time to make off with the valuable property he had collected. M`Nee is lame, and walks with a crutch, and is the very last person who would have been suspected by the police of a shop-breaking attended with so Muth tabour.—Scogish Guardian. PREVENTION OF STEAM-PACKET COLLISIONS.—The Trinity House Corporation has deemed it right to frame and promulgate the following rules, " which, on communication with the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the elder brethren find have been already adopted in respect of steam vessels in her Majesty's service." Rule first—" When steam-vessels on different courses must unavoidably or necessarily cross so near that, by continuing their respective courses there would be a risk of coming in collision, each vessel shall put her helm to port, so as always to pass on the larboard side of each other." Rule second—" A steam vessel passing another in a narrow channel, must always leave the vessel she is passing on the larboard hand." This measure ought to have been promulgated long ago ; but it is an old saying and a true one, " better late than never," and it is to be hoped th a t the masters of steam-vessels will speedily make themselves thoroughly acquainted with the regulations issued by the Trinity House Corporation. Had such regula tions been in existence previous to the collision of the Phoenix and Britannia steam -packets, that serious and unfortunate catastrophe would have been averted. ----•-- --- EARTHQUAKE AT COMRIE.—A rather smart shock was felt here on the evening of the 26th, at a quarter to seven o'clock. Reckoning the severest ever felt here, viz. the one on the 23rd October last year, (which, it wiil be recollected, canvulsed Scotland almost throughout,) at 10 deg., this last one would stand on the snme scale about 4 deg. The seis mometers, or earthquake markers, were on this last occasion very sensibly effected. One of them, Mr. Miller's vertical force one, ranged 4 deg. on its scale, which is about three fourths of an inch from its zero, or point of rest. Another, the dip instrument, indicated the shock to have come upon it at an angle of 45 deg. to the horizon, in the direction of W. by N. So that if the hill of Cluan be, as is here generally supposed to be the case, directly over the focus of these shocks, this would give a depth to it under that hill, within the bowels of the earth, of about two miles. The barometer and thermometer were not affected. The former stood at 29 3-8 inches, the other at 48 deg. Fahr. The night was calm and misty—Scotch mist it might be called—for it was accompanied with a gentle drizzle. This is now the third shock that has been sensibly felt within the current month. Scotsman. It is said that short dumpy people are more hureourous than long lank folks, on the ground that brevity is the soul of wit. SUMMIT TUNNEL. —There are now only about seven yards of this great undertaking to excavate. Mr. Hesell, of Dalemain, has been unanimously elected by his brother magistrates, chairmati of the Cumberland court of quarter sessions, in the room of the late Major Aglionby. It is said, that Mr. W. Addams Williams, M.P. for Mon mouthshire, will, on the meeting of parliament, accept of the Chiltern Hundreds on account of his indifferent health. We are sorry to hear, says the 'Leeds Intelliyencer, that our well 7 known and enterprising neighbour, Charles Water ton, Esq., the traveller and naturalist, is labouring under in disposition at Rome. ENGLAND AND SPAIN.—The number of newspapers in England is about 230, and the annual number of convictions for murder is 13 or 14. The number of newspapers in Spain a few years ago was 1, and the annual number of convictions for murder was upwards of 1200. INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. —The installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chan cellor of the University of Cambridge took place on Saturday at Northumberland House. The ceremonial was confined to persons having official connection therewith, neither the pub lic nor the press being admitted. The Railway Times, in noticing the injurious effects of accidents upon railway property, states that the receipts of the London and• South Western (Southampton) Company for the eight days immediately following the occurrence of the late frightful accident upon that line were less by £7OO (or one-seventh part of the whole amount) than the receipts of the eight days immediately preceding it. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—This magnificent un dertaking is approaching to its completion. The massive platform on the Leigh side is now surmounted with a tower, to correspond with the one on the Clifton Rocks, and is ready for the chains, which, after passing over the top of each of these towers, will be sunk a great distance in the rocks, and firmly fastened for security. When finished, we think this noble work will form one of the greatest objects of attraction in this picturesque neighbourhood.—Bristol Standard. SUDDEN DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN MAGINN.—We regret to have to record the sudden death of the Rev. John Maginn, rector of Castletownroche. He was on Saturday preparing his sermon for the next day, and complained of head-ache. Medical assistance was sent for, but he was no more when it arrived. The rev. gentleman, who was brother to Dr. Maginn, of Loudon, was not long since promoted to the living of Castletownroche, and was universally respected both in city and county.—Cork Constitution. SWEET POTATOES.--A pair of mammoth sweet potatoes was presented to us a day or two since, to which we invite the attention of agriculturists. They are of gigantic dimen sions, perfect Brobdignags in comparison with anything of the species we have ever before seen. One of them, well cooked, would fill a considerable space in the stomachs of half a dozen children. We intend making the experiment to-morrow, so that those disposed to see the potatoes will call to-day, as the hungry little urchins will not suffer a further postponement, whatever may be the state of the wea ther.—Charleston Courier. CANINE FIDELITY.—A few days since, a lady with a poodle dog at her feet, entered a flesher's shop in town to pay an account. The transaction over, a few small tit-bits were thrown to the dog, but to the surprise of all, he declined acceptance. On returning home, he laid a sixpence at the feet of his mistress. It appeared that in paying the account, the lady had dropped a sixpence, which the poodle picked up, and he was too faithful to his trust to open his mouth for scraps, and thereby run the risk of losing his mistress's money.—Paisley Advertiser. PETRIFIED TREE.—Some time ago, a large petrified tree was discovered in Cowcaddens Quarry. It was unfortu nately broken a good deal by the workmen ; otherwise, it might have remained a very fine specimen, sixteen or seven teen feet in height. It is now quarried nearly to the root ; but betwixt two or three feet are still standing, while the fangs are seen branching out in all directions. The tree is about six feet in circumference, and the bark is perfectly dis tinct. The surrounding rock is a coarse quartzose sandstone; and the rest of the tree is now composed of precisely the same material, with good large white pebbles intermixed. — Glasgow Argus. EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.-At an inquest held on the body of Mr. Lovesey, who was killed at Cheltenham last week, by a fall from his horse whilst taking a leap. One of the wit nesses said he jumped the mare over a fence, which she cleared, but he fell before she landed on the edge of the se cond ditch. The ground was level, but very hard. Some persons who were there measured the leap in various ways ; in a straight line it 'measured 22 feet, and over the hedge, taking the sweep, it measured 24 feet. It was a tremendous leap, and no one in cold blood, and possessed of a common share of prudence, would have attempted it, and very few horses could have done it ; on the least faltering on the part of the rider he must have come off. Tur LUDLOW TRAGEDY.—A gentleman who was staying with his lady at the Ram Inn, Cirencester, a fortnight ago, raised an alarm in the house at an early hour of the morning which quickly brought up the attentive landlord, Mr. Adams, and some of the maids in their " robes de twit." The alarm ist expressed his conviction there was a man in the room, but after a diligent search it was found not to be the case, and as soon as the chambermaids could collect their scattered senses, they explained that they had taken a great deal of trouble to catch a little mouse which they had seen that morning, and although they shut the cat up in the room all day mousy was not to be caught, and this was the animal moving about the room in the dark that created the disturbance ! —Bristol Standard. A DISMAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOIL THE WHIGS.—At a repeal meeting in Drogheda. the hitherto efficient supporter, we will not say MASTER, of the whig cabinet, menaced them with his displeasure in the following terms :—" I have sup ported the whigs because they have evinced a disposition to be useful to Ireland • but when the question of repeal and the continuance of the whigs in power are put in competition —I say, then, if it be necessary for the advancement of that great cause, down with the whigs and up with repeal." On the same occasion he repaid the services of whig journalists by designating them " liars." To the editors of the Morn ing Chronicle and Examiner, he was particularly compli mentary in that style. EXCHEQUER RE C 0 RD s.—Another collection of these papers was, on Monday, the 2d inst. disposed of by auction, by Fletcher and Wheatley, of Piccadilly. Among many do cuments of value were, an autograph receipt of Oliver Cromwell to a warrant for payment of his salary as cup bearer to the king, and another showing him to have been in the service of Charles I. when Prince of Wales ; two lists of books delivered in for ye use of the prince his highnesse (Charles II.) and the Duke of Yorke (1641). The autograph of Nell Gwynn to a receit for £1,250, for support of herselfe and the Duke of St. Alban's, for one quarter of a yeare (1683), fetched £1 10s. ; autograph of Sir T. Lucy, the ob ject of Shakspere's well-known epigram, £1 is ; autograph of Sir Isaac Newton, 17s. ; Sir C. Wren, 13s. ; Sir G. Kneller, 13s ; Lord Rochester, the wit and poet, £1 13s. ; Dryden, the poet, £1 9s. ; John Treton, EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE. -- Something more than a fortnight ago a joiner on tramp, whose name we under stand to be Thompson, was relieved by a society at Preston, and proceeded on his journey northward. Nothing more was beard of him until his dead body was found in a small plantation near Broughton-lane-ends, on the Garstang-road, last Sunday. It had evidently been lying there for a consider able period, for the process of decomposition bad commenced. The poor fellow's bundle was by his side, and we understand there is no reason to suppose either that he had been robbed or had come to his death by the instrumentality of a second party.—Blackburn Standard. DEATH BY QUACK PiLLs.—A few days ago, the body of a man who had died in less than two day's illness, was opened to ascertain the cause of death, when it was discovered that the lower part of the bowels was, to a considerable extent, preternaturally thickened, and so contracted in many places as as scarcelly admit the little finger. Above the contraction, the bowel was greatly distended by a collection of hardened faeces, that had been here arrested in its downward pro gress, and which had resisted every means that medi cal skill could devise for the poor man's relief. But the most remarkable circumstance attending this inspection, was the discovery of a number of pills lying embedded in the contractions of this diseased bowel, some separately, and others matted together, affording the most incontestible evi dence of the cause of death. The poor deluded creature had been in the habit of taking quack pills, having great faith in their efficacy, and thus fell a victim to this fatal and too com mon delusion.—Glasgow Argus. DEATH or MAJOR JENKINS, 11th HUSSARS.—Major Jenkins, of the 11th hussars, died at Brighton, on Saturday morning. It is said that the major, from the suddenness of the attack (congestion of the brain) which proved fatal, has been unable to make such arrangements as would secure to his family the value of his commission, about £B,OOO or £9,000. Major Jenkins was in his 53d year, and had been 35 years in the service, 13 of which were in the Peninsula and France. He was at the battle of Waterloo, and after wards served for 20 years in India, a ss i s ti ng a t th e capture o f Bhurtpore. The major was taken ill on Wednesday, and his malady terminated in a fit of apoplexy. We was a widower, and has left a son, aged 19, at the University of Oxford, and four daughters of tender age, and it is feared hi s circum stances were anything but good. His remains will be buried with military honours in Preston Church, near Brighton. A MONSTER or THE THAMES. — Yesterday afternoon, one of the largest River Thames eels ever seen, was caught in the City Canal, Limehouse, under the following circum stances :—The locks of the canal which open into the river had to be opened for the purpose of letting out a large ves sel, when a great body of the water rushed out. A short distance above the place where the vessel had been lying a kind of gut or creek existed, and which was left dry by the receding of the water. Three boys, who were on the spot, seeing a large portion of the mud agitated, went down to discover the cause, when, to their astonishment, they saw what at first they took to be a snake, but which proved to be an enormous eel, of the thickness of a man's thigh, and about fifteen feet long. The boys instantly attempted to secure the extraordinary prize, but for some time they were unsuc cessful, as the monarch of the eel tribe felt no inclination to be removed to terra firma, as, upon being grappled with, he beat the mud about with his tail, and in a short time covered his assailants with the deposit of the river. The boys, how ever, were not to be beaten, and, after a long and arduous struggle, they succeeded in drawing their captive ashore, when some men, who had stood by, att em pt e d to take the monster away from his legal captors. This they resisted, and some gentlemen who were drawn to the spot interfered, and the boys retained possession of their prize, which they subsequently sold for 325. to an i n di v id ua l w h o , i t was said, intended to exhibit it. As a proof of the immense size of the monster, it was weighed, and found to exceed 631 b.— [No doubt this is an off-shoot from the American sea-ser pent.]—Morning Herald. LORD EGREMONT ' S WIL TS ESTATES.--OUT readers will have perceived that his lordship is a b ou t t o a li enate h i s W i lts property, in consequence of the large o u tl ay h e h as encoun tered in Devonshire, and the vast additions he is making to his large territory there. We have been favoured with some preliminary remarks on the subject by our learned friend of the hammer Mr. George Robins, which seem so apt, and, in connection with the corn-laws, so entirely identified with our oft-expressed conviction, that we are not sorry to have the concurrence of one whose practical experience must give great weight to his erudite conclusions :—" The estates that are about to be described will present an opportunity more favourable than any an t ece d ent one of the present season to the capitalist and trustees who have money to employ safely ; there are so many advantages it will be difficult to cull from the whole without omitting many that should not be disre garded ; a very few, however, will be sufficient to arrest at once the serious attention of the moneyed world, as there is no fear that anot h er such opportunity will present itself. The quantity of land, the compactness of each estate, the quality of the soil, the superiority of each and every farm abode, and the extraordinary wealth and respectability of the little flock that compose his lordship's Wiltshire tenantry, present a combination in vain to seek elsewhere. Then, the Great Western Railway station, and the contiguity of the farms to such markets as Chippenham, Marlborough, Devizes, and Swindon, are auxiliaries that complete a picture not a little encouraging to all those who would wisely employ their capi tal on terra f ,firma. The low rental is easily accounted for, as, at the time of granting the leases, agricultural pursuits were in a deplorable state. The sun has subsequently shone upon them, and it is now so resplendent that the position of the agriculturist will not be damaged by th e f o ll y o f those who argued for the revision of the corn-laws. Common sense prevailed, and in a manner so authoritatively in the House of Commons that an extinguisher is now placed upon it. It has become a forlorn hope, even with those who were forward to promote it. The leases or agree men t s are gradually arriving at their termination, when at least three thousand pounds a-year may be oaf* contemplated."—Herald. Elir Ettirrpool &tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1840. The foreign news of the past week has been of a more pacific character than that which has reached us for some time past. The late change of ministry in France has produced its anticipated effects upon the public mind, both in this country and on the continent. It is true that the French press, or at least a portion of it, has been endeavouring to induce the belief that the Soult and Guizot administration is prepared to act upon the same policy as that which was insisted upon by M. Thiers, and which led to his resignation. This at tempt to delude the public is, however, too glaringly absurd to produce any real mischief. If Marshal Soult and M. Guizot are prepared to demand from the allied powers the same concessions as those which M. Thiers required, where was the necessity of any change in the ministry of France ? It is well known that the King of the French was strongly opposed to the warlike po licy of M. Thiers, and that this opposition led to the resignation of the latter. It is not, therefore, likely that the Soult-Guizot ministry will adopt the very po licy which led to the rupture between the King and M. Thiers. We do not believe that there is any fear whatever that the amicable relations which have so long existed between England and France will be, in the slightest degree, interrupted. The repeal agitation in Ireland is beginning to as sume a truly alarming aspect. It is no longer a mat ter of doubt that O'Connell and his reverend coadjutors have ulterior objects in view, beyond the mere dis memberment of the empire. Among those ulterior objects, the restitution of the forfeited estates is une quivocally pointed out in the harangues delivered at the repeal gatherings. The movement is, therefore, not exclusively political in its nature. To treason the repealers have superadded a wholesale system of rob bery and confiscation. This is the real source of O'Connell's popularity among the masses. He dis tinctly holds forth to them promises of future aggran disement, at the expense of the whole landed proprie tary of Ireland. This is the all-powerful bait by which so many hundreds of thousands are enlisted under the banner of repeal. In fact, repeal is only a means for the attainment of the ulterior objects to which we have alluded. So long as the union between Great Britain and Ireland is pre served, the re-forfeiture of the forfeited estates of Ire land can never be accomplished ; but let the connexion be once dissolved, and then there will be little difficulty in making a new distribution of the confiscated estates. That we are not exaggerating the danger to be ap prehended from the progress of the repeal agitation, is abundantly shown by the recent proceedings of the re pealers. Mr. O'Connell, at u meeting recently held at Drogheda, distinctly announced the conditional for feiture of landed property as one of the ulterior objects which he had in view. In addition to this open avowal on the part of the truculent arch-demagogue, Mr. Bar rett, at the last meeting of the nicknamed Loyal Na tional Repeal Association, gave notice of a motion, to the effect ‘‘ that books should be kept, with authenti cated records of the atrocities of landlords, and the amount of the horrors they inflicted." The object in view, in this " collection of facts," is too evident to be for one moment mistaken. It is boldly avowed, that the design is to procure a complete list of those land lords who are eventually to be plundered and reduced to beggary. Confiscation is henceforth to be considered as the watchword of the repealers. But even confiscation will not satisfy these traitorous miscreants. They will never rest satisfied until the Protestant population of Ireland is expatriated, and the Romish system once more asserts its supremacy over the land. This is the great end at which the priests are aiming. They expect to clutch a large proportion of the plunder whenever the forfeited estates are taken from their present possessors. The government must be aware of the schemes of spoliation contemplated by the repealers. The ulterior objects which they have so unequivocally announced, must be perfectly notorious to Lord Ebrington and the Ministry. And yet we hear of no steps being taken in order to arrest the repeal agitation. The reason of this apathy is but too evident. The present degraded administration dare not move a finger in opposition to the behests of O'Connell. They are his slaves and his tools. He moulds them to his purpose, and openly defies their opposition. They could not carry on the government of the country a single day without his support. His tail constitutes their majority, such as it is, in the House of Commons. O'Connell knows and feels the stringent hold he has upon the Ministry. The Ministers also know and dread the power with which O'Connell is invested. This consciousness of his power is quite sufficient to account for the impunity with which the hoary traitor carries on his mischievous agitation. At the meeting at the Corn Exchange, on Monday last, to which we have already alluded, an incident took place which is deserving of notice, in con nection with the subject of these remarks. Mr. J. L. Arabin, one of the speakers, produced a lett er from his father, a dd resse d to t h e A ssoc i a ti on , in which the highest possible tribute is paid to the resident land lords and magistracy of one district of Ireland. They are pronounced by Mr. Arabin to be " men of the strictest honour," of the "most unimpeachable truth," and whose " patriotism" is unquestionable. And yet these are the men whom the repealers intend to plun der. These are the men whose " atrocities" are to be recorded, for future vengeance, in Mr. Barrett's black books. These men, whose kindness and humanity are so conspicuously displayed whenever an appeal is made to them, are to be hunted down, persecuted, and des poiled. Was there ever witnessed such base and hor rible ingratitude ? The pretensions which the repealers make to loyalty are truly laughable. At a meeting recently held at Kilrush, a priest of the name of Comyn boasted that the repealers were " working for the government and the Queen." It is rather an odd way to " work for the Queen," to endeavour to dismember the empire over which she rules. Mr. Steele, one of these " workers for the Queen," declared at the Kilrush meeting, that the late speech of Lord Ebrington was an emanation of imprudence amounting to fatuity." This is rather strange language to be applied to the Queen's vice-regent by one making loud professions of loyalty to her Majesty. The same " worker for the Queen" moved a " solemn declaration to the world, that the accursed thing, by misnomer called the union, is not an act of human legislature, and binding on Irishmen, but a fiendish and fantastic juggle, not only not obligatory on Ireland, but by reason of the baleful and complicated iniquity of the means by which it was perpetrated, it is now and was ab origine utterly void and without obligation." This, again, is very strangely at variance with English notions of loyalty. The present week has furnished the most triumph ant proofs of the progress of that conservative reaction throughout the country, the existence of which has been so pertinaciously denied by the radical press. It is a notorious fact that the greater number of those towns to which the municipal corporations act applies, have been, for the last five years, under the domination of the radical faction. At the first election which took : place after that act was passed the conservatives were almost universally in a minority. This is true of nearly every large town in the kingdom, including Li verpool, Bristol, Leeds, and many other places. But what is the case now ? In almost every -borough in the kingdom the conservatives, at the recent municipal election, have obtained the most signal triumphs. It is not a few isolated cases that we have to refer to in proof of our assertion. Conservatism is in the as cendant in every place where its strength has been pro perly tested. Our columns this day bear abundant evidence of this cheering fact. Whig misrule has been the cause of this universal reaction. The people have been utterly disgusted with the practices of the miserable faction that has so long swayed the destinies of this great country. This is the true secret of the change which has taken place in public opinion, and of which the late municipal elec tions supply us with such an overwhelming mass of evidence. The Whig-radical faction have always been the loud professors of retrenchment and economy. These professions they have completely belied in their practice. Hence the loathing with which they are so generally regarded. In our municipal councils they have been found a set of pettifogging tyrants, and they have, at length, met with the usual reward of tyrants — they have been dragged from the pinnacle of their power, and consigned, amidst the execrations of the people, to that obscurity from which they ought never to have been suffered to emerge. In very few places will they be allowed any longer to play their fantastic tricks, and to tyrannise over the people. Their reign is at an end. They will only figure in future in the pages of history, and there only as examples of politi cal folly and knavery. When her Majesty's prime minister, Lord Mel bourne, made his solemn declaration that the govern ment, of which lie' was the head, possessed no longer the confidence of the country, there were few indeed who doubted the correctness of his lordship's asser tion. In a few days afterwards, however, that govern ment, without having acquired any additional claim to public confidence, once more took possession of the power and emoluments which it had voluntarily relin quished. The personal predilections of the monarch were allowed to outweigh the constitutional expression of feeling on the part of her people; and it was but natural to expect, that the men who could deliberately place her Majesty in this false and dangerous position, had in prospect some great and certain source of strength, the developement of which was to justify the apparent indecency of which they had placed upon her shoulders the onus. The entire proceedings of the session of Parliament which ensued, abundantly proved that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues were not in present possession of any influence to entitle them to the confidence of the country, or which could warrant their resumption of office. Their strength was entirely prospective. Their government was based upon court favour; and unless they could succeed in drawing popular opinion towards the court, its re-establishment was an insulting and an impudent invasion of the principles of the constitu tion. The attempt was made at the commencement of the session, and signally failed, the proposed allowance of £50,000 a year to the consort of her Majesty having been rejected by one of the largest majorities recorded upon any similar occasion. This defeat was submitted to, as were other and daily defeats, in craven silence. The labours of the session were at length shnftled through. The usual slaughter of ministerial measures had taken place. The mountain had produced its " ridiculous mouse ;" and the vapourings of whig-ra dicalism went out in smoke amidst the unextinguisha ble laughter of the people of Great Britain. But a lurking mischief still twinkled in the eyes of the abor tion, and warned us that whig-radicalism was neither dead nor sleeping. " Wait," we were told, " the re" suit of the annual registrations, and the appeal of Lord Melbourne's administration to the constituencies• Wait for the issue of a new election, when whig-radi cal principles have been strengthened by the infusion of Popery into the English registries." W e have waited the result of the registration s. Popery has made her giant effort ; ministerial gold has been showered down amongst the lower classes of . th e electors, and vexatio us o bj ect i ons h ave b een a s ilb e ". rally dispensed amongst the middle and conservati ve classes. What, we ask, has been the result of this ex' piring effort of the faction ? The reply must be, a ll utter and complete prostration of whig-radicalism in every borough and county throughout Great Britain; and the certain prospect that an election upon the pre' sent registries would return at least FIFTY AunrrioNAD CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS TO THE HOUSE OF C 0 1 4: MONS ! Under these circumstances we are afraid Lora Melbourne will not be in a hurry to make his promise d appeal to the constituencies. The source of strength then, upon which the pre sent government calculated, has manifestly failed then'', and an early dissolution of parliament is out of th e question. Have they, we ask, received any addition (), ; moral strength to enable them still to bear up agai nst defeat and disgrace ? Turn, we reply, to the eviden ce of antagonist feeling di s pl a y e d i n th e mun icipal co n , e tests this week throughout G rea t Britain. Thos e schools of normal agitation"—those favoured deP °l i sitories of enlighte ne d lib era li sm — t h e corpora tions England, are fast returning to the ,sound and consti tiz i, tional paths of their forefathers. Our mayors, our ° be dermen, and our t own - c l er k s w ill ev id ent ly no t long . found dancing attendance upon Whig-radical orgl fraternizing with se ditio n , an d h ugg i n g dissent an intolerance. The inhabitants of our boroughs, old and new, ha ve plainly and unequivocally declared their detestation i the party to which Lord Melbourne and his colleagues adhere. Throughout Great Britain whig-radical is° , cannot find one solitary spot in which it would be al lowed to plant the sole of its foot. The present go vernment, with the evidence of public opinion staring them in the face, cannot dissolve parliament, except 111 , order to provide an excuse for resignation; and o f that course—the only honest and manly course which I° left to them—there are few indeed of its members e - pable. Not a week passes which is not signalised by s °ll/ , e proud display of Protestant conservatism, in whicji some portion of our loyal population may not be s een engaged in the noble effort to beat back the advancing waves of Popery and irreligion which threaten t 0 bea r down and overwhelm us; and we doubt not that t"° For thf Receipts GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. L Length of line opened, 73 miles.] e week ending October 25 : YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY [Length of line, 23 miles.] For the week ending October 2i Passengers Receipts .. Passengers LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY [Length of line, 10/ miles. J For the week ending October 29 : Receipts Passengers LIVERPOOL AND MANCIIESTP.R RAILWAY [Length of line, 31 miles.] For the week ending October 23 :—. Receipts BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAY. [Length of line, 38i miles.] For the week ending October 24 : Receipts DRTH MIDLAND RAILWAY [Length of line, 72+ miles.] ti endinz October 24 : £2,732 6 5+ dANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. between Manchester and Stockport.—Goods not yet carried.l Traffic for w 7 2, 1840 £317 11 4 of £63105. 3d. per mile per week D SOUTH -WESTERN RAILWAY endingh g c li to n t l, r 77 L miles.] For the weelZ. Passengers, t l / 4 ( Goods £3,718 4 7 634 14 9 £4,352 19 4 BRISTOL AND EXETER RAIL WAY .—A special general . meeting of company was held on Thursday last, at Bris tol, to determine on the appropriatio n o f t h e forfeited shares James Gibbs, Esq., presided,—The Ch a i rman h aving briefly ' explained the nature of the business to be brought before the meeting, Mr. Gutch rose to propose the first resolution, ob serving, that from the attention which he had p a id to the past proceedings of the company, he confidently hoped that they would now go forward as one united, and, he trusted, suc cessful body.—The resolution was then put to th e meet i ng and passed unanimously.—Mr. Carlisle,in referring to the late meeting of the company, on the subject of the lease, said that a statement had been circulated that it was the determi nation of the directors not to continue to pay 4 per cent. di vidend. As one of the directors at the time when this was discussed, he remembered that it was then strongly urged, as an argument to small shareholders, who could not live upon the air, that this dividend should be fixed. He had given the most direct contradiction to the statement, and he now al luded to it on ly i n or d er t h a t it m i g ht receive the same con tradiction pub,licly from the chairman.—The Chairman said there was not th e s li g ht es t i n t en ti on o n the part of the direc tors to alter the rate of interest, unless the shareholders should order otherwise.—Mr. Carlisle observed that it had also been assert e d th at t h e new shares wou ld n ot receive the same rate of interest as the others; and this he had not less boldly contradicted as absurd. Of the new shares, to be paid for at £2O. by original shareholders, the interest would be at the rate of 12 per cen t.—Th e Chairman bad the sat i s f ac t i o n of stating that the next resolution would meet the question of Mr. Carlisle. —Th e second resolution, moved by Mr. Brown, of Manchester, and seconded by Mr. T. W. Hill, was then put to the meeting and unanimously adopted.—A conversation here ensued, in reference to the appropriation of 151 residuary shares, for which numerous applications bad been already sent in ; but the division could not take place until the 10th January, as the original shareholders had till that time to pay up the calls.—ln reply t o a question as to the necessity for future calls, Mr. C. B. Fripp s a id th a t th ey had now reached the point at which they could borrow. There was little doubt that money would come in rapidly, especi ally on the security the company could offer, backed as it was by the lease to the Great Western Company i and if so, there would be but little occasion for calls. The directors certainly would not make calls if it was not necessary ; at the same time, it was not the interest of the proprietary to let the work stand still.—Thanks were then voted to the chairman and di rectors, and the meeting separated.—Abndged from the Bristol Journal. /1 , LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY [Length of line, n miles.] For th 3 week ending October 29 : £6,061 6 5 £791 8 11 4,7801 9 5 29,660 £530 17 61 6,539 bout to 1 THE QUEEN V. HART The ATTORNEY-GENERAL in this case moved for a rule to show cause why a writ of certiorari should not issue to remove the depositions into this court, and to show cause why the defendant should not be bailed in Liverpool. The defendant had been committed to the gaol of Liverpool on a charge of rape, alleged to have been committed on the per; son of Elizabeth Gordon, on the night of the 21st of August last, in her lodgings, 114, London-road, Liverpool. He (the Attorney-General) held in his hand a number of affida vits as to the respectability and general good conduct of the defendant, who for teu years had carried on the business of a silversmith at Crescent-place, Liverpool, paying £l2O of yearly rent, while hi&stock in trade was worth not less than £5,000. The prosecutrix charged the defendant with hav ing violated her person on the night of the 21st of August, while lying in her bed in 114, London-road. It appeared that the parties became acquainted in the month of July, when Mrs. Gordon wished the defendant to take lodgings in the house where she herself resided. The defendant agreed to do so, and an intimacy then took place between the par ties, with the full consent of the prosecutrix, as was stated in the affidavits, which was carried on in the lodging in the London-road, in the White Bear Hotel, and other places. These facts were corroborated by the testimony of the ser vants. He would now come to what had occurred on the night of the 21st of August, and he thought he should be able to show that the charge was the result of conspiracy. Lord DENMAN did not think it necessary to go into de tails. It would be sufficient to hand up the affidavits. ABSENCE OF MIND.—The New York Sunday Atlas gives, as the last case heard of, that of a journeyman printer emptying his matter on the floor, and getting on the galley himself. He did not discover his mistake until the foreman commenced snaking up. JERSEY, OCT. 30.—The warlike rumours, so long current, seem to have had a prosperous effect on this island, as a great number of English families have come over here from France. Preparations are making for an examination of the veterans living in this island, with a view to ascertain their fitness for service, Should occasion require it. Three hundred and forty aliens, resident in this island, have registered their names and places of abode, pursuant to the recent order of his excellency the lieut.-governor ; but it is supposed that a great many more have not yet come forward.—Jersey paper. ANOTHER LAMENTABLE CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.-- The following particulars of a most distressing and fatal case of hydrophobia have been sent to us by a correspondent at Douglas. This is, we lament to state, the fourth instance of death from this frightful malady which has occurred from the attacks of mad dogs, in this and the neighbouring county of Renfrew, within the last four months. The cases we re fer to, in addition to the present one, are the death of a young woman near Greenock, and the two children who were bit near Airdrie, and died at Kirkaldy, about 10 days ago : " Douglas, Oct. 31.—Intense interest has been excited here during the last few days regarding the fate of a young man who had been bit by a mad dog on the 2d of September last. The dog by which he was bit was a large yellow-coloured bitch of the setter kind, supposed to have come from the middle or lower ward of the county, as it came in the direc tion of Lismahagow, where it had bit several dogs, which were all destroyed at the time, with the exception of one be longing to Mr. Alexander Gall, Midtown, which has since gone mad, as well as one of his cows. The strange dog was shot upon Mr. Gall's farm, by one of Lord Douglas's game keepers, who at the same time requested leave to destroy his dog, but he thought it could do little harm, being very old ; besides, he thought it doubtful, whether the other dog was in a rabid state. Previous to this, the young man, John Inglis, who died yesterday, was standing in the street of the village, at the time the dog was passing; and having held out his hand to clap it, it suddenly darted forward, seized him by the hand and tore it in a shocking manner. It then seized a boy by the arm, but being through his clothes and the boy still continuing healthy, it is supposed none of the saliva may have entered the wound. Inglis went direct to a surgeon and had his hand under medical treatment in the course of ten minutes. Having got it properly dressed, it soon was to all appearance quite well, and no bad symp toms appeared till Saturday week, when he felt an acute pain in the hand that had been bitten, which gradually ex tended up his arm and across his breast. For about a day, however, the pain abated, but on Tuesday his throat became affected, and he was seized with convulsions which increased in frequency and violence till he expired on Friday, about four o'clock in the afternoon. He never could swallow drink, although he had a great desire to do so, and when it was presented to him it increased the spasms to a dreadful height, so much so that two men could scarcely hold him. He appeared to be quite unconscious when in the convul sions, and at times attempted to bite those about him, but regretted it during the intervals between the spasms. Inglis was a weaver by trade, but was a good deal employed by Lord Douglas in leading dogs at all coursing matches." — Glasgow Chronicle. nu, OF FOYERS. — The late heavy rains have swollen the river Foyers to a great extent, and the celebrated fall is at present well worth travelling 100 miles to see. The spray is seen far up the hills and on the road, completely filling the enormous chasm or mountain-gorge into which the torrent pours its foaming waters. The general moistness of the season, and the absence of frost, have also tended to enrich and preserve the vegetation of the rocks, which is unusually luxuriant, and possess a wild and graceful beauty. Towards the bottom of the fall the trees and verdure are as freshly green and waving as in spring or summer, while in the higher portions of the cavity, and on the upper rocks, the birch, ash, and alder trees present the various hues of autumn. This excess of foliage, and the numerous Alpine plants and shrubs, nursed by the perpetual spray and showers, render the spot a complete botanical collection, as interesting as it is magnificent. —lnverness Courier. ANECDOTE OF DR. ADAM CLARKE.--Dr. A. Clarke himself is the narrator of the following anecdote :—I will tell you a curious circumstance that happened to me some years ago. A friend desired me to take charge of a young lady to Dublin, to which I readily agreed, and she was sent to me at the coach. I soon found from her conversation that she was a Roman Catholic, and I also quickly perceived that she had been led to entertain a very high opinion of me. After we had travelled some distance, talking occasionally on various subjects, the daylight began to sink firstly away, when she took out of her reticule a small catholic book of prayers, and commenced most seriously her evening devotions. While she was reading such thoughts as these occurred to me :—I believe this lady to be sincere in her religious creed, which I think to be a very dangerous one ; she appears to he of an ingenuous temper, and to feel much personal respect for me. Is there not here, then, a good opportunity to exercise my influence, and to deliver her, if possible, from her erroneous creed ? But,' continued lin my thoughts, ` was she not entrusted to my care ? Would her friends have so entrusted her had they even suspected that an attempt at proselyteism would be made? Would not the attempt be a breach of trust ; and should I, even were ultimate good to accrue to Miss —, be a morally honest man ?' I instantly felt that my own honesty must be preserved, though the opportunity of apparent good might be lost. In a short time Miss closed her book with this observation, 'We catholics, Dr. Clarke, think it much better to believe too much than too little.' I replied, Bnt, madam, in our belief we should recollect that we never should yield our assent to what is contradictory i n it se lf, or w h at contrad i cts ot h er ascer tained truths.' This was the only observation I made that looked at all towards Catholicism. In process of time we arrived at our J . o}irney's end, an d I d epos i te d h er sa f e l y i n th e bands of her friends. From that time till about two years ago I never heard of Miss till we met in the following way :—I had been preaching at Chelsea Chapel, and, entering the vestry after the service, a l a dy f o ll owe d me,' shook hands, spoke with much emotion, and said, ' Do you not recollect me, Dr. Clarke ? lam Miss —, whom you kindly took care of to Ireland. I was then a Catholic, now lam a Pro testant, and have suffered mu c h i n consequence of the change.' I inquired how the alterati on i n h er v i ews was effected, and she gave me in detail the account which I will shortly sum up to you. When she heard to whom she was about to be entrusted, she resolved closely to watch and observe this eminent Protestant minister ; sh e was p l ease d with the conversation and the friendliness shown to h er , an d was so struck with thisobservation I had made in the coach, that she said it absolutely haunted her, caused her to examine and think for herself, and at last led her to freedom from her thraldom. But,' said she, I should neve!. have been induced to examine had it not been for the examination I had t p h r e e v c i o o a u c s h l y I m w a a d t e c h o e f d you. From you narrowly the y fi r stthou o g m h e t o u now o y wl have entered a fair opportunity of knowing something of these Protestants, and I will judge if what 1 have heard of them be true. Every word, every motion, every look of yours, sir, was watched with the eye of a lynx. I felt you could not be acting a p ar t, foral all was, yo u couldyour conduct not suspect conciliatedy o u were esteem, observed. and removedT h The result o pre judice.f Your one observation on belief led me to those examinations which the spirit of God has blessed to my con version; and I now stand before on, the conTeq_of your three days' behaviour between Londonand " THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Fifth Night of Mr. CHARLES KEAN, and the Last Six Nights of the Theatre being Open under the present Les see, who finally retires from the Management at the close of the Season. Mills present FRIDAY, N ovem b er 6 , 1 840, w i ll b e 1 performed the Tragedy of O T H E L L O. Othello 1ng0.... Mr. Stuart. Roderigo.. Mr. Ci • plin. Cassio.... Mr. W. Howard Desdemona . Mr: V. 11. Bland. Emilia Mis ' aver. To conclude with the revived Fa , not acted for several seasons, called LODGINGS FOR SINGLE GENTLEMEN. Captain Postlethwaite.. Mr. W. Howard. Trusty.... Mr. Baker. Mrs. Stanmore.. Miss Cleaver. I Mrs. Prattle.. Mrs. Clarke. Mrs. Greville.... Mrs. W. H. Bland. On MONDAY NEXT, for the BENEFIT of Mr. CHARLES KEAN, the Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac beth, Mr. Charles Kean; Macduff, Mr. Stuart; Banquo, Mr. W. Howard ; First Witch, Mr. Baker ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Cleaver. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of the MILLER'S MAID. Giles, Mr. Slaiter ; George, Mr. W. Howard ; Matty Marvellous, Mr. Baker ; Pha2be, Mrs. W. H. Bland. Sir E. L. BuLwer's Play of the LADY OF LYONS, which was received on Tuesday last by a crowded auditory with the most rapturous applause, will be repeated on Tues day, Nov. 10. After which, ROBERT MACAIRE. The Tragedy of HAMLET, in which Mr. KEAN was greeted on Monday evening last with the most enthusiastic plaudits, by a crowded house, will be repeated on Wednesday, Nov. 11. To conclude with TEKELI. On THURSDAY—A Favourite Play, in which. Mr. KEAN will perform. And on Friday, Nov. 13th, the Theatre will finally close for the season. THE LIVERPOOL ANNUAL EXHIBITION. TIIE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITIQN - Cif the el gfr LIVERPOOL ACADEMY of WORKS Ik 7 IODERN ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN fo r th e Seaso rom Nine until Dusk. Admission, Is. C a t a l ogues , 1 eason Ticket, ss. Also, every Evening, BRILLIANT ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until Ten. Admission, Is. SAMUEL EGLINGTON, Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place. THE FINE ARTS THE CELEBRATED PICTURES BY,THE TlaitE CARACCI, o FROM THE GALLERY OF H. R. H. TILE DUKE L UCCA, WILL BE EXHIBITED NEXT.WEEK, AT THE UNION GALLERY ROOM, IN ATER-STREET, Lately occupied by the Waterloo Mode. TT is unnecessary at present to give any ac c ou n t of the s e .I. Splendid Works, whether as regards the subjects thereof, or their previous history ; it is only necessary to say, that they are calculated to promote a more extensive knowledge of Works of Art of the FIRST ORDER, and to diffuse a more refined taste. After the sensation which they created in THE CAPITAL, in the mind of every Admirer of Works of this Class, their general character must already be pretty well known. It may indeed be fairly asked, " Who has not heard of THE THREE CARACCI ?" PANORAMA OF NEW YORK, &c, NEW BUILDING, NEWINGTON, NEAL BOLD-STREET, NICKT TO THE CLARENDON HOTEL. THE Public who are desirous to s e e this E.• tibition, so universally admired, will please to giv their most early attention. Day Exhibition commences punctill at One ; in the Evening at Seven ; and again at Half- ''ast Eight o'clock. Admission.—Boxes, is. 6d., Children, Is. ; Pit, is., Chil dren, 6d. ; Gallery, 6d. for each person. _ _ A Quadrille Band attends. The Building is neatly fitted up, and rendered comfortably warm. Ladies and Gentlemen and Public Schools by Contract. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 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