The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-15 00:00:00

-- NINv lb, 1535. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Under the patronage of the Hon. E. M. L. MOSTYN, M.P., and Sir JAS:-BOSWE - LL, Bart., Stewards of the Races. For the BENEFIT IV Mr. HOOPER, and_ the Last Night of his Engayetnent, and,.the last appearance this season of Madame VESTRIS. THIS present FRIDAY, the 15 th instant , will be per formed, for the last time, the new Comedy of RURAL FELICITY. After which, for the last time, the popular Dranra of COURT BEAUTIES. ,„„7 • King Charles Mr. Ho . Tiffany Mada ~ 6 Vestris. A variety of DAN 'l ► To conclude with the fay , to Farce of PERFECTI e Charles Paragon Mr. Hooper. Kate O'Brien Madame Vestris. (In which she will introduce the Songs of "Why did I love?" and "The gay Tournament.") TO-MORROW the Tragedy , of GEORGE BARNWELL. —After which FORTUNWS FROLIC.—To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. {3l- On account of the Races, the Performances will-not commence until Eight o'clock this evening. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. POSTPONEMENT OF THE FA NC FAIR. NIR. ATKINS, Proprietor of the above rdens, begs leave most respectfully to announce e Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Liverpool, that, in onsequence of the un favourable state of the weather this week, he has been induced to POSTPONE the BAZAAR and FANCY FAIR to MON DAY, the IBth, and TUESDAY, the 19th instant, on the Evenings of which the Gardens and Principal Buildings will be SPLEN DIDLY ILLUMINATED. There will also he a MONT GOLFIER BALOON, and a GRAND EXHIBITION of F I RE-WOR KS, under the superintendence of Mr. L. Gyngeil, of Vauxhall. TO CORRESPONDENTS. In reply to an "ORANGEMAN," we have to state that the three are each entitled to a vote. They must, however, take care to have their names placed on the register. 'VIe Eiberpool Atanbart. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1835. Parliament re-assembled at the appointed time on Tuesday. Nothing particular occurred in the upper house, save and except a few rather painful and personal attacks made by Lord BROUGHAM upon Lord AUCKLAND and Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the latter of whom was treated in rather a contemptuous manner. It is evident that the noble and learned ex-chancellor feels that he is awk wardly situated. An administration has been formed composed of his old colleagues, he being,the only man who has not been consulted or restored to office. At this neglect, if not insult, Lord BROUGHAM is extremely sore. He knows that the world will form an opinion on the sub ject, and that the opinion is not likely to be very flatter ing to himself. To be deemed incompetent is galling enough, but to be thought untrustworthy, capricious and personally obnoxious, is sufficient to drive a man mad. His friends, however, are doing all they can to foist him upon the new ministry. The worthy Mr. JOSEPH HUME has given notice of a motion for a return of ex-chancel lors, and the amount of their pensions, evidently for the purpose of inquiring ." why is Lord BROUGHAM not em ployed ?" Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, another equally respectable friend of his lordship, has given notice of his intention to submit a motion relative to the duration of the commission at present entrusted with the great seal. If these motions do not comptl Lord MEL BOURNE or Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL to accept the ser vices of Lord BROUGHAM, his lordship is a doomed man, bagged and bundled away for ever from official life. The Commons met, and as usual indulged themselves with a plentiful exchange of speeches about nothing at all—an indulgence which must have been extremely gra tifying• after so protracted a fast. New writs were moved Cr Staffordshire, Poole and Stroud: This last place was iepresented by Colonel Fox, the, son of Lord HOLLAND, and the son-in-law of the King, who has condescended to retire, in order to make room for Lord JOHN, the rejected of Devonshire. Stroud, then, is to be the place, and a most convenient place it unquestionably is. The electors must be docile to excess when they can gulp down a new member at the word of command, and change their representative with as much facility as a 13,?ggar changes his coat. What claims Colonel Fox. had upon them or any body else we have no means of knowing ; but that Colonel Fox entertained the greatest contempt for them and their suffrages, is proved, by the, fact that he has jobbed his seat. In the buSiness of humble life it is. no uncommon oc currence for two costermongers to exchange donkeys, but it very rarely happens that the two donkeys are of equal value. There is something given to boot. If they were of equal value there would be no necessity for the exchange; but being unequal in value something equi valent is given with that which is supposed to be the most useless. Now, in this case, Stroud has exchanged Colonex Fox for Lord JOHN RUSSELL, but does Stroud give or receive any thing to boot v If the colonel be the better animal Stroud is entitled to the difference; if on the contrary Lord Jour; is the most valuable, the Colonel is entitled to compensation. We leave the worthy elec • tors to settle the matter between them._ They must be proud of their independence when they suffer themselves to be transferred so easily—made a sort of foot ball to the'whigs, to be played with and kicked at pleasure. Pool and Staffordshire will both be contested, the latter with every chance of disappointing the ministerial can e dida t te. . . We areconfident that our readers, that the public ge nerally, that all classes of men, will read with intense in terest the speech delivered by Sir ROBERT PEEL at the entertainment given to hien in the city of London on Monday. The sentiments then and there expressed re flect great credit on both parties— on the eloquent and en lightened statesman who delivered them, and on the wealthy, numerous, intelligent, and upright body who listenedto them with deep attention, and gave to them all the force of their cordial, unanimous, and enthusiastic approbation. The position of the respective actors in this grand scene of spontaneous' patriotism, of conservative and na tional princ;ples, is both singular and instructive. The one had, after being in power for a brief space, been de feated by a factious majority in the House of Co:2=ons, and driven from the councils of his sovereign, greatly to the regret of the King, as confessed by the Duke of WELLING ox; the f other,•who listened to his speech and applauded his sentiments, 'although the real representa tives and actual possessors of nine-tenths of the wealth of the metropolis, have no voice whatever in the repre sentation of this country. • The anomaly does not consist in the fact that Sir RO BERT PEEL is not prime minister of England; but it is painfully obvious, in this other still more important fact, that the merchants, bankers, fundholders, annuitants, rich traders, and all the wealthy and independent inhabi tants of the city of London, are not represented in the preseat . commons house of parliament. Was this con . templated by the reform bill ?, Lord JOAN RUSSELL has, since the passing of that measure, and when alluding to the borough wealth, the misused 'church wealth, of the house of BEDFORD, talked of the " legitimate influence of property." The house of BEDFORD has its Tavistock— the house of HOWARD its Morpeth—the house of FITZ- WILLIAM its Malton—the hoae of PETTY its Caine; and . these properties are those which Lord Jowl describes as • enjoying a " legitimate influence ;" but he acknowledges no such influence arising - from property in the city of London. All the wealth, all the property, all the influ ence, is on one side ; all the representation, all the mem bers, all the votes, all the power, is on the other. Was this what the framers of the reform bill intended or con templated ? INTe hope not for their own sakes; if we could believe the . contrary,' we would be bound to call that infamous which we should rather* ascribe to igno rance, and denounce as wilfully unjust what was perpe trated in a moment cf political frenzy, without re flection. From whatever cause it arose, however, we have here the result plainly before us. We see London and its en , virous, as Ireland is, in the hands of landless, lawless, b eggarly, and unprincipled demagogues—represented in Parliament by men who have no one feeling or principle in e cnlnnon with the wealth, intelligence, or the integrity of i ts ►nhabitants—represented by fools, quacks, impostors, 444 political fanatics, who have not, and never can have, because they are unworthy of, the confidence of the higher, the affluent, and the most respectable classes. Sir ROBERT PEEL adverts to this singular and lament able anomally in forcible language. He says— " Gentlemen, I understand that by assembling here to-day you have shown an attachment to the ancient institutions of the country, and a firm resolution to maintain those principles which are interwoven with the safety of those institutions, and the security and prosperity of this empire. (Cheers.) It was incumbent upon you to come forth in this manlier, because you do not happen to have any publicly recognised organ through whom your sentiments could be expressed. (Loud cheers.) When I look round this great meeting, abounding as it does in wealth —abounding in intelligence—abounding in respectability—and reflect there is not one single member out of the eighteen allotted for the metropolitan districts to represent your iipNons, I am aot surprised that you should resolve to speak tit. yourselves. Whatever be the numbers here assembled, theyimight have been almost indefinitely swelled by fresh accessions. The hall has been taxed to the utmost extent of its accommodation, and if there were room for, ten times a &eater number of gentlemen within these walls we should have had thetiiVresent. (Great cheering.) And yet you and your friends had not thf good for tune to secure a single representative to yourselves out of the whole . eighteen, by whom your opinions could be spoken, through whom your just and legitimate influence could be exercised in the publi councils." (Loud cheers.) The right honourable baronet, after describing in the most energetic and soul-stirring terms the injustice com mitted by the reform bill—after pointing out the melan choly condition in to which the country has been plunged, and the fatal ascendancy given to the democratic order by the measure introduced by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and carried under the auspices of Lord GREY, still courage.. ously declares, that formidable though the difficulties be he does not yet despair of his country. Despair! When did an Englishman despair under any circum stances ? With his heart on the right side; his conscience clear, his acts regulated by the maxims of truth and wisdom, and his intentions pure and straight as the path . of duty in which he4noves under the cloud by day anti the fire by night of an overruling PROVIDENCE-Why should he despair ? Go to the nursery, old fool, unfit to guide, unfit to rule; thou lily- livered slave, conservative though you may call yourself, who thinks that England is un done, or that there is any-reason to despair, merely be cause you are in your dotage, nerveless, indolent, or cowardly. Go to your bed, simpleton, we repeat, you are none of us ; you do not breathe the same air, you do not possess any of the vigour of that blood which warmed the heart and the veins of those whom you call your ancestors. • Despair, indeed I who despairs? Englishmen, stand upright! remember your mother! think whence you came ! rub the dust from your eyes, and ask yourselves this question—" Shall we submit —we, the protestants of England, submit—to be drilled, and cowed, and kicked, and trampled upon, by a set of paltry and unprincipled beggars and bigots who are the instruments of the popish priests of Ireland? Murder—suicide—a stab in the dark—a mortal plunge in the last ditch—a glorious death, no matter where, rather than yield the supremacy we conquered, or testify against the truths we avow, and the faith we all acknowledge, at the insolent command of the monks in the garb of Rome, or of the incendiaries from Ireland. Give "despair" to the winds; say we. Give us black popery from its darkest regionsgive us the inquisition—give us the fire-peril and the water peril—bring to us from old Spain your screws, your racks, your wheels—give us the papal absolution which encourages a fanatic of the holy mother to assassinate an heretic—which compounds for crimes in the cause of priestly intolerance and monkish licentiousness—give us all this and more, we shall not despair ! Why should we ? London, it is true, has, in the per sons of her dishonouring representatives, lent a hand to obscure the lights of the reformation. She has played false with the things holy. She has tampered with the betrayer, and exalted a painted deity in the place of the true Gon. She has fallen down to worship the rotten images and the lying augurs of the Romish church at the bidding of certain impostors from Ireland. Let her ! What is London to us ? She is the Tyre of the British nation. She is .a fallen city. Her empty warehouses, her ruined traders, her declining commerce, her deserted marts, her extinguished monopolies, all tell the fate that awaits her. Her wealth is unrepresented—her intelli gence has no voice—her talent is dumb—her power is that of a child's fingers attempting to play upon a harp either above his reach, or whose tension he cannot move. Let her go ! If those, thus unrepresented and dishonoured, are compelled to desert her, she must ine vitably become a city of desolation—a wilderness of ruined houses—a destitute and a desperate, because a ruined and wasted town. Such we predict—and a large portion of the predicted curse has already come—will be the fate of London—a city of the plain —if the present policy pursued by mi nisters, her pretended friends, and by her popular repre sentatives, her worst enemies, is suffered to prevail for a few years longer. But why should London be so ex posed and endangered ? Her wealth and her intelligence have no representative in the House'of Commons. This is true; but why is it so ? Sir ROBERT PEEL did not lay bare as he might have done the muscle to the bone. The " eighteen members for the metropolis" are returned by the gin-house oligarchy-6y the scum, the filth, and the crime of London. Why so ? Because the higher classes have for several years been steeped in apathy, have totally disregarded their obligations to the state, have wilfully neglected their duties as citizens and subjects, and have allowed' ten pound voters to exercise a privilege which they had not the sagacity or the good sense to secure with them in common. Look at the parish of Maryle bone, one of the largest communities' in England. Not one conservative in ten has taken the pains to register his vote. There are at least fifty streets in Marylebone, inhabited by the nobility and gentry, nine-tenths of whom are conservatives, out of which it would be difficult to obtain a single vote for a conservative candidate. Why ? Because they look on and laugh. They fiddle while Rome is burning. They draw their dividends, or receive their rents, reckless of the consequences, and caring little as to the fate of their country. The butclier who is in dalliance with my lord's cook has a vote—my lord has none ! The fellow who cleans my lord's win dows has a vote—my lord has none ! The green-grocer is represented, and• votes against the family whom he weekly cheats, under connivance, in the matter of sa lads, tutinfp-topi, and cabbages. The pothouse lout, as ignorant, and less unlettered than his own polished pint pots, lives upon the thirst of the Honourable Mr. SILLY'S custom, and votes against him ! The baker gives him bread, but, forgetting his own bread, votes agains t him ! The charwoman, who scrubs for a sixpence a day, takes her wages, and instructs her husband, who is a costermonger, or dog's-meat-man, to vote againstthe " aristocrats !" The very chimney-sweeper asks his patron to oppose the bill against crying sweep" on the streets, which of course he does ; but the black rascal imagining himself an independent trader, votes against the patron whose custom he begs. All this shows the state of confusion into which society has been plunged by the reform bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S remedy is not only a natural and a necessary, but an in dispensable one. He tells the wealthy citizens of Lon don that they must not rely upon kings or lords. He tells them that they must look to the people, and that the democratic usurpation can only.be counteracted by their activity in those walks where a power, recently abused by their own supineness, might easily be conducive to their best interests. He says : " I say to you then, thereis danger to the institutions of this' country (great cheering), danger to the prized and happily tem pered form of government under which we have lived and pros pered. (Continued cheering.) But it is in your power, and in the power of those who think with you and fill situations in the country corresponding to yours, to avert the danger. (Continued cheering.) It is in your, power, by unremitting activity, and by the exercise of those functions which the constitution has left to you, to mitigate, if not altogether to remove the evil. (Loud cheers.) My opinion is, that the danger can boonly met by your gaining an eff e ctual influence in the popular .kanch of the legislature. (Hear, hear.) We shall only aggravate .the evil if we attempt to deceive ourselves as to the nature of the instru ments we can employ. Let us not indulge in useless lamenta tion. Let us waste no time in regretting that which is beyond our remedy. (Cheers ) This is quite idle. The first step to wards safety is a knowledge of the real source of our strength, a just confidence in it, and a firm resolution to exert it. If we __`l_ 2F: • 7 cease t o take a deSponding view of public affairs, all will be yet well. Though you may not be able to exercise that full share of influence to which you are legitimately entitled, yet hesitate not to strain every nerve to acquire all that can be acquired. (Cheers.) Act like Englishmen, and if- you will do so, I am confident, from the national spirit and its indomitable resolution; that the country will be rescued from the dangers by which it i s at present threa!ened. (Cheers.) I warn yotl that you must not place a firm reliance upon the prerogative of the crown—on the influence or authority of the house of lords. The prerogative of the one, the authority of the. other, are constitutionally potent in occasionally controlling the acts or encroachments of the house of commons, but you must not now-a-days depend upon them as bulwarks which are impassable, and which cannot be committed without apprehension to the storm and struggle of passion and ambition and the loie of change. The government of the country, allow me to tell you, must be mainly conducted with the good will and through the immediate agency of the house of commons. I again say the royal prerogative, the au thority of the house of lords, are most useful, nay, necessary, in our mixed and balanced constitution. But you must not strain those powers. You do not consider that worthy of the name of government, which is nothing but a series of jealousies and hos tile collisions between two branches of the legislature. You wish to tee all branches of the legislature maintaining each its independent authority, but moving, through mutual confi dence, in harmonious concert towards the great end of civil so ciety and civil government—the public good. (Loud cheers.) I ask you, then, not to undervalue the power and authority of the house of commons, not to trust to the controlling checks which may theoretically exist upon that power and authority; but to secure through the legitimate exercise of constitutional pri vileges, that degree of influence fur your principles in the house of commons which will be more powerful for the establishment of what is good, and the resistance of what is evil, than any intrinsic con trol of the crown or the house of lords." In every word of this admirable reasoning we most heartily concur. It is in the House of Commons that the battle of the constitution must be fought, and the salvation of the country achieved. The people alone can be the conservators of their property, of their rights, and the fruits of their industry. We must . not now. sleep as in the old time, and fight only in fair weather : under a bright sun. We must face the storm, and wres tle with the winds and waves. We have begun a new chapter in our political •history, and our efforts must be strained to meet the new difficulties which present them selves. Our adversaries have stolen a march upon us, and have succeeded in seducing the people from those attachments which were once dear to every Englishman whether rich or poor. Falsehood has flung its polluting pitch upon our venerable institutions; slander has assailed our religion; popery has vilified the light of the refor mation, and showered down calumnies upon all that is good and great in the land, thereby making the working man unhappy, increasing discontent and disaffection, and letting in the waters of strife upon a nation, the noblest, the happiest, and the most virtuous in the whole world. It is our duty to counteract the effects of these per nicious slanders by all the means in our power, and give the people of England a fair opportunity, which they have not enjoyed for many years, of choosing for them selves, and deciding between the good and the bad. We have allowed the enemy to walk the course unchal lenged ; we have allowed him to sweep the living seas of our population without question or molestation. It is now time to change our tactics, and come forth from seclusion, where we have reposed too long, and meet the revolutionary party in open field, on every hustings, face to face with the people. There ought to be a conserva tive association in every parish of England. Sir ROBERT PEEL says we must not rely on the royal prerogative or the authority of the House of Lords; but we go further than the right honourable baronet—we say the people of England must place no dependence on the electors of Scotland or Ireland. They • must- seek no aid from without. They can dispense with the reluctant or at least questionable aid of either country, for they have within themselves, if properly recruited, sufficient power to outnumber, defeat, and crush all the enemies of the institutions of England, whether these be the agents of the popish priests in Ireland, or the representatives of the scum of Scotland. Devonshire has proved that the heart of the English yeoman is sound ; Essex has done the same ; Staffordshire we doubt not will follow the ex ' ample ; and although some of the 'manufacturing towns still lalyour under the influence of the poisonous drugs administered to them by quacks, yet..even in these places we do not despair of success. Look at Leeds— she nobly threw off one of the destructives . who had fastened upon her; Bristol rejected two, Dudley one, Gloucester One, Wigan one, Leicester two, Ipswich two, Bolton one, Warrington one, Colchester one, and fifty other places did the same. Let us therefore buckle on our armour, and be prepared for the next election, which, we are confident, will take place before the month of October. But we cannot conclude this article, long though it be, without calling attention to one _point most ad mirahly handled iu the speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL. There is no subject upon which so much falsehood has been expended, or in respect to which so much delusion prevails, as that which holds up the conservatives to the people of England as rapacious place men, haughty aris tocrats, and. trading politicians. This slander has been propagated with indefatigable industry, and there are thousands of unreflecting persons who believe it. Still it is as slanderous a falsehood as ever was uttered. Look at the acts of the Whigs during their four years happy enjoyment of, the sweets of office. It was the most aristocratic government that ever ruled England. It •was, an administration of lords. The premier was a lord, tls . e chancellor of the exchequer a lord, the foreign secre tary a lord, the colonial secretary a lord, the chairman of the woods and forests a lord, and so on; lordly, proud, ignorant, needy, and corrupt were they all. Then, again, they began and persevered in a system of jobbing altogether unexampled in the history of this country. ' In Sir JOHN KEY we saw trickery and jobbing. In Mr. EDWARD ELLICE we saw jobbing by means of treasury money in favour of that very respectable attorney, Mr. DANIEL WHITTLE HER VEY. In Lord DURHAM'S mis sion we saw a noble job—in Doctor BOWRING'S mission a very dirty job; in Colonel TORRENS'S appointment one equally vile ; and in all the numberless roving commis sions, giving bread to hungry, needy and rapacious lawyers, it was jobbing and bribery and corrupt patron age from alpha to omega. Who dares to say that there was any such fondness for the aristocracy manifested by Sir ROBERT PEEL. He, like the best of the apostles, laboured with his own hands. He did net resort to the mean device of gaining power by well-paid commissioners. What he could not do him 'self-he confided to the hands of one able man, not to some twelve or twenty idle barristers who for doing no thing but harm, received large salaries. But Sir RO BERT must speak for himself with whose words we are compelled to conclude : "Gentlemen, what was the charge against myself—that the King had sent for the son of a cotton-spinner to Rome, in order to make him Prime Minister of England. (Cheers.) Did I feel that a reflection ? Did it make me discontented with the state of the . laws and institutions of the country? No; but does it not make me, and ought it not make you, gentlemen, anxious to preserve that order of things under which the same opportunities of distinction may be reserved to other sons of other cotton-spinners, if they can establish a legitimate claim on the confidence of their King and country? (Loud cheers.) We are charged with having some interest in the perpetuation of abuses. Why, can there be any one with a greater inte rest than we have, that the public burdens should be as much lightened as can possibly be consistent with the maintenance of the public engagements? We are represented as fattening on the public income. Looking to this company, and to those associated with it in feeling, is there any one motive, I ask, connected with the increase of the public revenue that can countervail the interest we have in the seduction of the public burdens? (Cheers.) We therefore, I say, have a direct, a ,uperior interest to any other . in the correction of every abuse and the application of every just economical remedy." THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Wednesday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. It is already well known to our Liverpool readers that Canada, under the influence of Mr. Papineau and the French House of Assembly, is almost in a state of open revolt against the mother country, and that to the firmness of Lord Aylmer we are in debted that the English colonists preserve anything like an ap pearance of quietude and safety. Will it be credited that the whig ministry have already resolved to truckle to the French Canadian radicals, and that Lord Aylmer is to be forthwith recalled? Yet such is absolutely the fact, and such was pub licly announced in the House of Commons last night. We learn that on the first hint of this, Lord Amherst declined prd ceeding as commissioner to Canada, and it is not improbable that an idea that this would be the result may have influenced the destructive cabinet in this matter. But there is more in this than meets the eye, and a little dissection makes a " very ugly piece of business" of the matter, and shows that day by day the influence of Mr. Daniel O'Connell and Anglo-lrish faction is stretching over alike our home and our colonial inte rests. Mr. Papineau-is the sworn enemy of Lord Aylmer, and the patron of Mr. Roebuck, one of Mr. O'Connell's English , tail. The assembly over which Mr. Papineau presides, re cently chose the said Mr. Roebuck as their agent in England, and voted him £lOOO per annum, with sundry moneys for an outfit, &c. The vote could not be carried into effect in conse quence of Lord Aylmer and the legislative council refusing assent to any such appropriation. Mr. Papineau and Lord Aylmer are, as we said, enemies in every sense of the word. Lord Aylmer opposes the grant to Mr. Roebuck, ergo, lOrd Aylmer and Mr. Roebuck are little other than opponents — Mr. Roebuck is one of the joints of Mr. O'Connell's English tail—Lord Melbourne and his popish cabinet are the tools of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, for what that Mr. O'Connell asks dare they refuse? and—Lord Aylmer is recalled !! ! As Crom well said of Sir Harry Vane, we may now say of the agitator— the Lord preserve us from Mr. Daniel O'Connell. , Money continues exceedingly scarce with us, and the consol market is very flat. Consols for the account closed this after noon at 92k. Exchequer hills and India Bonds have both re ceded. The former are 27 to 2fl prem., and the latter are 9to 11, a corroborative evidence of the scarcity we have alluded to. The effect of this continues to be felt in our foreign secu rities, which are all flat. Celombian bontle . are 462 4, Mexican 4641, Spanish 671, the Scrip 71 prem., Portuguese 1011 Bra zilian 864, and all these have been considerably under these prices. Colombian since our last having been 44, Spanish 664, and Portuguese 100,1 We have a file of the Bermuda Royal Gazette to the Bth April. The governor had been much indisposed; but, when the accounts left, was convalescent. These papers furnish au aggregate of the value of the imports and exports into and f-om Bermuda in the year ending January 5, 1835. The im ports were to the amount of £106,980 9s. lid. sterling, and the exports to £15,475 3s. sd. The vessels entered inwards were to the number of 135, with a tonnage of 12,589; and those entered outwards 142, with a tonnage of 13,254 tons. The chief article of export was arrow-root, which, during the above period, was exported to the amount of £3OOO. H. M. S. Cham pion had arrived at Bermuda from England; she sustained some damage by running on the rocks at the entrance of the channel near St. George. The legislature was to meet on the Bth April. Our accounts from Paris furnish us with a statement of the present population of the French colonies. At Martinique there were 34,492 free persons, and 79,767 slaves, being a total of 124,849 persons. At Guadaloupe 25,810 free persons, and 99,039 slaves, being a total of 121,849 persons. At Bourbon 30,651 free persons, and 70,458 slaves, being a total of 101,109 persons. In French Guiana 4330 free persons, and 18,201 slaves, being a total of 22,531 persons. In Senegal 2970 free persons, and:11,321 slaves. In India - 152,901 free persons, of which 151,702 are natives, and only 1199 Europeans. At St. Pierre and Miguelon 905 free persons. and no slaves, making a total of 252;060 free persons, and 278; 786 slaves, forming a good total of 530,846. We have reports this afternoon of disturbances having broken out at Paris. We cannot trace them to any authentic source; but it is more than probable the "trials" will not terminate without something of the kind. Notwithstanding the repeated victories of Zumalacarraguy, we have reason to place the greatest faith in the accounts from Spain we gave in our last, which we doubt not will be fully borne out by the next advices, and which have already received some corroboration. LIVERPOOL CRAVEN MEETING. These races, which amongst the sporting world have excited considerable interest, as being the first spring meeting held upon the Aintree course, commenced on Wednesday last, under the auspices of the Hon. E. M. Ll. Mostyn and Sir James Boswell as stewards. The weather, unfortunately, proved unpropitious, 'and the rain fell in torrents during the greater part of the day. Notwithstanding, however, this disadvantage, the attendance was greater than we ever saw at Maghull at a similar meeting, and, from all appearances, the spring races bid fair to be,come equally as popular as those in July. There was a imp concourse of Manchester sportsmen present, who, by their spirited specu lations, afforded considerable interest to the race-loving com munity. • The drinking booths erected about the course were not quite so numerous as at the July races, although abundantly sufficient for refreshing the assembled multitude. The Grand Stand was, as usual, occupied by Mr. Lynn of the Waterloo Hotel, who, in the rooms below, provided a good and substantial collation, which seemed to be partaken of pretty freely " by the most respectable of the hungry." Mr. lowers, of the Angel Hotel, Dale-street, also provided an excellent repast at the neat and commodious erection occupied by him at every races, which was liberally patronized. Owing to the admirable arrangements made by Mr. Parlour, the superintendent of the borough police, under the directions of the Mayor and county magistrates, there was not one of those race-course pests called " thimble-riggers" to be seen either on or in the neighbouyhood of the course. On the high-road from Liverpool several of these gentry pitched their tables, to take iu the unwary yokels as they passed towards the races, but no sooner did the police get wind of the affair than they were quickly routed. A poor Irishman from Belfast was done out of seventeen sovereigns, the produce of the pig market, just as the police pounced upon the swindlers. The table-keeper was secured, taken before a magistrate on the course, and committed to Kirkdale. This was the only prisoner apprehended during the day. which speakswell foi the efficiency of the preventive police. Gaming-tables of every description were effectually suppres,sed, both on the course and iu the borough. The 'Grand Stand was well filled ; there were, however, few ladies who graced it with their presence, which was probably on a ccount of the disagreeable state of the weather. Amongst the most distinguished of the visitors we noticed the Marquis of W es tminster, Lord Stanley, Captain Stanley, Sir Thomas Stanley, Sir James Boswell, the lion. Thos. Stuart Wortley, James Aspinall, Esq., (Mayor of Liverpool,) Peter Bourne, Esq., Charles Lawrence, Esq., William Earle, Esq., William Brown, Esq., the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn, Esq., M.P., the Hon. Mr. Mostyn, Joseph Peel, Esq., Francis Armstrong, Esq., the Chevalier Mosca, E. G. Hornby, Esq., Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., Colonel Hornby, Captain Lynn, Captain Connor. Captain M`Donald, the Rev. Griffiths Loyd, the Rev. Mr. Cotton, S. L. Fox, Esq., Nanney, Esq., Sandys, Esq., Pond, Esq., of New York, &c. Previous to the commencement of the races considerable betting took place touching the various events of the day. The chief attraction was the trades' cup. For this race General Chasse, Touchstone, and Birdlime were the fa vourites, the former having " the call," and Touchstone second., Intriguer, in consequence of his 'defeat by Falconbridge at Chester, was altogether out of the betting, it being determined to start him for the Formby Stakes. At half-past two o'clock the sports of the day commenced with the contest for The Formby Stakes of 15 soya each, 10 ft, with '2O sovs added. One mile and a half. Sir J. Boswell's br c Masetto, 4 yrs (Holmes) I Sir It. W. Bulkeley ns b c Intriguer, 4 yrs.. (Templewan) 2 Mr S. L. Fox's ch f Mrs. Oakley, 4 yrs 3 Hon. E. M. LI. Mostyn's ch f L'Hirondelle, 3 yrs 0 This was decidedly the best race of the day. The four had an excellent start, Intriguer taking . the lead, closely followed by Masetto. They kept their pos►t►on until the turn home, when Hirondelle and Mrs. Oakley fell into the rear. The contest between Intriguer and Masetto then became very severe, the former leading by about half a length. Within twenty yards of the winning-post Masetto, who was well ridden by Holmes, shot out and won by little more than' a neck.—The betting was 6 to 4 agst Intriguer, 2 to 1 agst Masetto, 3 to 1 agst L'Hiron delle, and 5 to 1 agst Mrs. Oakley. The Derby Stakes of 20 sovs each, h ft, with 20 sovs added, for three year olds. One mile and a distance. 3 subs. Lord Derby's ch f Verbena . walked over. , The Walking over for this race excited much dissatisfaction. The next race, the . most important of the day, was for the Tradesmen's Cup, value £lOO, with 100 so's in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakesof 20 cover each, 10 ft. The second horse to receive 50 sovs out of the stakes. Two miles and a distance. 36 subs, six of whom paid 5 soya each. Sir J. Boswell's ch c General Chasse, 4 yrs, Bst 9113 (Holmes) 1 Mr G. Cooke's br c Red Rover, 4 yrs, 7st Illb (Arthur, jun) 2 Mr S. L. Fox's b c The Count, 4 yrs, 7st 121 h (Templeman) 3 Catharina, Touchstone, Speculator, Birdlime, Rust, Miss Golborne, and Aratus were not placed.—The betting was 6 to 4 agst General Chasse, 2 to 1 agst Touchstone, 3 to 1 agst Bird lime, sto 1 agst Rust, and 10 to agst any other. The horses came out amid the pelting of the pitiless storm, and made an excellent start, the whole of them in a 'ruck, Rust taking the lead, Touchstone second, and Chasse third. They remained together for the first half mile, when Red Rover, the Count, and Chasse shot from their places, and became almost abreast. In this state they remained, the rest well up, until the last quarter of a mile, when Catharina, Miss Gtilborne; and Aratus gave up the contest and cantered. Chasse then took the lead by about a length of Red Rover, who ran him well in, and maintained it to the winning-post. The course, from the rain; was rather heavy, hut altogether the race was well contested. A Maiden Plate, value 80 sovs, for all ages that have never won a plate, match, or sweepstakes of the value of £5O before the day of entry. Heats, two miles. The second horse to receive 10 sovs out of the plate. •5 subs. Mr J. Robinson's b g Solon, 5 yrs (Darling) 1 1 Mr Barrow's bc by Langar, out of Alecto, 3 yrs First heat, 5 to 4 on Solon, and the second heat, 3 to 1 on him. He won both heats easily. On the return of the company to Liverpool several " break downs" of coaches, cars, gigs, &c. took place, but we did not hear of any serious accidents. THURsDAY. The Liverpool Spring St. Leger, of 25 sovs each, with 50' sovs added. One mile and three quarters. The second horse to receive bark his stake. 7 subs. Mr Johnson's ch c Jupiter 1 Mr Mostvn's ch f Usury Lord De'rby's ch c Amurath The Maghull Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, with 30 added, for two year olds. T.Y.C. 12 subs. Mr Mostyn's b c Tom Shipman Mr R. Turner's ch f by Peter Le/y 2 A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added. Heats, one mile and a quarter. 5 subs. Mr W. Crompton's b f Mayflower, 4 yrs Mr S. L. Fox's ch f Mrs Ofikley ... 0 1 2 2 Mr Nanney's br c Cymru, 3 yrs - --=---- COCKING. LIVERPOOL. M. B. 1 MA CHE S TER. Itf. B. 5 Tuesday Wedn&day Thursday ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Mr. Atkins, in pursuance of the plan acted upon last year, had made preparations for opening the season at this favourite place of resort with a fancy bazaar and a magnificent display of fireworks. 111onday and Tuesday last were fixed upon for the entertainments. Ilie grounds were iu the finest condition, and some recent alterations, particularly a rustic bridge thrown over one of the walks, added much to the beauty of the landscape. The weather, unfortunately, was so unfavourable as to render a postponement of the fete absolutely necessary. It is accordingly arranged that the display of fireworks, &c. shall take place on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday next. Notwithstanding the enterprising proprietor of the gardens was thus prevented fnlfilling, his intention of gratifying the public by a display of fireworks, we are glad to state that the bazaar was very well patronised, and that many of the leading families of the town and neighbourhood graced the scene by their attendance. * LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT STROUp. On Tuesday Colonel Fox, the gentleman who has so obligingly resigned his seat in parliament, appeared at Stroud, accompanied by Lord John Russell, for the pur pose of introducing that nobleman to his late constituents. The colonel, in his introductory speech, said that "he considered his' lordship's defeat a national calamity,' and wished to show that he was chosen by the people. No where was public opinion more - freely expressed than in the borough of Stroud." The South Devon register con tains about 9000 names of voters ; Stroud, at the last election, 1247; not quite double the majority by which Lord John was rejected in Devonshire. The colonel concluded by hoping that it would not be thought that he was treating the borough disrespectfully, and by saying that he had offered to resign as soon as he understood that his noble friend was not likely to be successful in Devonshire. Lord John Russell, in the course of his speech, said : " Knowing the respectability ,of the borough of Stroud— having had occasion to consider its importance and title to send representatives to parliament prior to the passing of the reform bill—l thought it proper to come and ask, aye or no, whether they would confide in me ? I was met in South Devon by much calumny and misrepresentation, and had but a short time to answer'thern." Resolutions approving the resignation of Colonel Fox, and-of Lord John as a fit and proper person to be his suc cessor, were agreed to. ORKSHIRE ELECTION. The following gether with4he n [s a list of the votes given at each district, to 'tubers registered : Total num- Districts. Morpeth. Wortley. her ofvotes Registered taken. Barnsley Bradford... 1,554 612 2,166 • 2,504 Dent. 59 61 120 126 Doncaster Halifax ii udders field ... Keighlev. 277 171 -44 - t 419 Knaresborough 285 49:3 778 927 Leeds 873 979 1,852 , 2,250 Pateley Bridge 277 261 538 619 Settle. 277 413 ' 690 BU2 Sheffield 723 452 1,175 1,391 Skipton. 417 191 608 738 Snaith.. ,,,, 193 352 545 630 Wakefield 962 681 1,643 2,016 Total 9,080 1 6,238 I 15,318 17,97( Lord Morpeth. 9.080 Mr. Wortley 6,238 111ajority for Lord Nlorpeth.. 2,842 Total number of votes registered.. 17,976 Voted. 15,318 Unpolled voters 2,658 EMIGRATION. The following abstract . of the number of persons who emigrated from the united kingdom in the years 1833 and 1824 is taken from the papers presented to, and printed by order of the House of Commons, March 27, 1835 : Emigrants from England in 1833:—T0 the North American Colonies, 5,785; United States, 22,392; Cape of Good Hope, 516; Australian Colonies, 3,317 ; total, 32,010. In the year 1834 :—To the North American Colonies, 6,520; United States, 25,981 ; Cape of Good Hope, 287 ; Australian Colonies, 2,666; total, 35,4,54. From Scotland in 1833 :—To the Noah Ameri can Colonies, 5,592 ; United States, 1,953; Cape of Good Hope, 1 • Australian Co:onies, 253; total, 7,799. In 1834:—T0 the North American Colonies, 4,954; United States, 2,880; Cape of Good Hope, 1; Australian Colonies, 131; total, 7,969. Front Ireland in 1833:—T0 the North American Colonies, 17,431; United States, 4,764 ; Australi a n C o lonies, 523; total, 22,718. In 183I:—To the North American Colonies, 28,586; United States, 4,213; total, 32799. • Total number of emigrants, 1833. 62,527 1834. 76,222 138,749 The number who sailed from the port of Liverpool were, in the year 1833, for the North American- colonies, 718 ; United States, 13,405 ; Cape of Good Hope, 31; Australian colonies,. 12` 2; total, 15,386. In the year 1834, North American colonies, 1395 ; United States, 18,440; Cape of Good Hope, 3; Australian colonies, 256; total, 20,094. From this statement it appears that nearly one-fourth of all the emigrants from the three kingdoms embarked from this place in 1833, and more. than that number in the following year. And vet, not withstanding the extent of our docks, and the immense disparity in the business to be transacted here, as com pared:with the other places where government agents have been stationed for the protection of emigrants, not the slightest difference is made in the remuneration fo the officers appointed to this crnty. But this;- as con cerns the public, is not the worst part of the case. The government emigrant agent is not invested with any adequate power, so that frauds are committed daily under his eve, or to his knowledge, without it being possible for him to obtain redress for the injured party. A new act of parliament, however, is, we understand. to be brought in, the provisions of which, we trust, will be drawn up with such care that in future it will be in the power of the government agint to give to all per sons emigrating from this country, no matter to what portion of the world they are destined, the most ample protection. MURDF.R. OF DR. WARDELL AT SYDNEY, AND EXECUTION OF HIS MURDERERS. The first direct accounts of the murder of Dr. Wardell, the barrister, at Sydney, New South Wales, to which we alluded some time back, on the authority of Van Diemen's Land pa pers, were received in Londotron Saturday. The Harmony, by which former accounts were sent, and which sailed on the 30th of September, not having yet arrived, fears of her safety are en tertained. By the Sydney Gazette of November 10, we see that the murderers, John Jenkins and Thomas Tattersdale, were tried on the Friday preceding, and found guilty on clear and unquestionable testimony, given by an accomplice named Ema nuel Brace, -a lad only 18 years of age. They were all prisoners of the crown. Brace having fled from .his master to the bush, met with Jenkins, who had escaped from an iron-gang, to which he was condemned for previous outrages; he was armed with a musket and cutlass; they agreed to act together, and committed several robberies for food anti clothing. They afterwards fell in with Tattersdale, who had been a former shipmate of Jenkins, and who they persuaded to join them, which he did, after rob bing his master to whom he was assigned. They then in con cert committed several more robberies, living in bark huts which they erected, and feeding on their spoil. On the morn ing of the murder they were in a hut, w hi c h th e y had erec t e d in the woods on Dr. Wardell's estate. Dr. Wart ell in riding over his lands came upon them, and calling upon them to sur render, Jenkins seized upon a piece of rock and threatened him, directing Tattersdale at the same time to fetch the musket; this Tattersall did, and Jenkins seizing it, went up to Dr. War dell, who exclaimed—" Oh, for God's sake don't do that!" To which Jenkins replied—" By Heaven I will," and going close to him fired the piece into his body. The horse immediately galloped'off with his master on his back. It was supposed the unhappy gentleman afterwards fell from his horse, which went home to the paddock, and the next day his body was found close to an oak tree, to which he had crawled. The pri soners were subsequently apprehended, when Brace turned evidence foe the crown, and detailed all the facts of their association to the moment of the murder, in which he was fully confirmed by other witnesses. All the witnesses for the crown having been examined, the prisoners were found guilty. On being called on to say what they had to offer why they should not receive judgment to die, Jenkins vociferated that he had a good deal to say on the subject; he considered that he had not had a fair trial; in the first place, that old woman (the bar rister) had been shoved in upon them for the purpose of leading them to their destruction ; he could have conducted his own case with a better chance of justice; and to show the manner in which the feeling was against him; the jury were hot out a second when they brought him in guilty ; but he did not care .for either judge or jury, or the whole court, whom he would shoot with the greatest pleasure, if he had his gun there ' - he be came very violent, and struck the dock with his hand, quite infuriated.—The Chief Justice then proceeded to pass the sen tence in the most imposing manner, but had ,scarcely finished the last sentence, when the culprit Jenkins, with a ferocity un paralleled, rushed forward towards his unhappy companion, who stood at some distance froui him in the rlock, and struck him two violent blows, and in all probability would have added another victim to his murderous appetite, but for the police, who rushed into the dock and with much difficulty secured him. When Jenkins was led Out for execution, he addressed the felons in the yard to the following effect:—" Well, good bye, my lads, I have not time to say much to you; I acknowledge I stint the Doctor, but it was not for gain, it was for the sake of my fellow. prisoners, because he was a tyrant; and I have one thing to recommend to you as a friend; it is this, if any.of you take the bush, shoo; every tyrant you come across, and there are several now in the yard who ougiit to be served so. I have done several robberies, and for fear that any innocent man should suffer on my account, I have made a confession to the gaoler, and will give such marks and tokens as will prove it was I that committed the acts. I robbed a man named Mills, at Kissing Point, and also a man on the Liverpool-road named Farrell, and man at Liverpool, whom I stabbed : he may be since dead fur aught 1 know ; I heard that he was missing since thattime, and it is most probably he has been eaten by the native dogs ; 1 have told where the property is, in order to show that I have : told the truth. I have not time to say any snore, lads, but I hope you will all pray fur me." This address being . ended, the rope was se cured round his neck, and the culprits shook hand., but Jen kins turned away from Tattersdale with disdain, and said something like, " let every villain shake hands with himself." At the solicitation of the Rev. Mr. Mac Encroe he consented to shake hands with him, and as he approached his unhappy com panion in crime, who'appeared to be absorbed in prayer, and making pious ejaculations, he said "Come, come, my;lad, none of that crying, its no use crying now; we'll be all right in ten minutes time;" he then gave ir a hearty shake of the hand, and took his stand. The clergyman having retired, and the arrangements being complete,, the platform fell, and the world closed on one of the most ruthless assassins that ever infested the colony. WINDSOR, TUESDAY, MAY 12.—Their Majesties did not ride out yesterday, in consequence of the excessive cold winds. This morning the drove cut in his drotschka , and,iu spected the Norfolk and r Plemish farms. After luncheon his Majesty again drove out in the Great Park. The Queen, attended by a numerous suite, rode on horseback to Virginia Water. Yesterday the Landgravine took her departure for town. LIVERPOOL POLICE.—TuEsnAr. (Before the MAYOR and Mr. Alderman P. tiotaNt.) CAUTION TO PASSI,NGER AGENTS, AND WARNING TO Exits GRANTS.—Mr. John Grinishaw. an American passenger agent, formerly employed by a Mr. Macowbeu, of New -York, but now in the employ of Mr. Cearns, of Chapel-street, Liverpool, was summoned at the instance of Lieutenant Low, R.N., the government emigration a.ent, before the sitting utgistrates, by a woman named Bridget Forel, and thirteen other Irish. emigrants, who had embai ked on board the ship Columbia, Captain Crosby, for New York, td show cause Why he refused to take this poor woman, after having received from them the sum of £29 55., on the faith of her hein,rallowed a passage with than, her name being incifided as one of the fourteen in the ticket, which he gave the one who paid the amount to hint for the party, and which ticket expressly stated that she was entitled to a passage in the steerege of that vessel. It ap peared from the evidence of ' , Lieutenant Low, that in conse quence of this woman having received a remittance through the house of Messrs. Robinson Brothers, after the before-men , tioned. agreement was made, that Mr. GrimshaVr now wished to break through that contract and to charge her £2 55., and that he, on Monday afternoon, went on board the Columbia, lying in the George's dock, and, with the assistance of. the mate of the vessel-, countenanced by dock policeman No. 112, dragged this poor c re a t ure ou t o f th e b er th a llott e d t o h er , an d turned her on shore. The case therefore being clearly proved to the entire satisfaction of the mayor and Mr. Alderman P, Bourne, his worship very properly and promptly directed the defendant to abide by his contract, and to take Ellis woman as agreed upon with her party, which was accordingly done. AN INCORRIGIBLE NEPHEW AND .A QUESTIONABLE UNCLE: —A young Irish lad, apparently not mote than twelve years old, was placed at the bar by a "torturer of hair," charged with having chosen the profession of a thief, in preference to the genteel one of a barber's clerk. From the evidence of the complainant, a neat looking, close cropped friseur of "respect able appearance," saving that lie had a black eye and a cocked up nose, the former the effect of accident and the latter of nature, it appeared?that the young culprit at the bar, having recently been imported from Newry, in the green country, was taken by the complainant as an unbound apprentice to learn the mystery of lathering, shaving head mowing, and wig dress ing. He was employed by the complainant out of pure com passion for his forlorn and destitute situation,and, to render his appearance more cleanly and decent than when the steam-pac ket landed him with the rest of the fresh lumber imported at' the time, he went to the expense of eleven shillings in the pris soner's outfit. The prisoner, however, had not lung received his new rigging before he sighed to luxuriate in his native filth, and accordingly sought for juvenile rascals of his own age and country . , whose home is the canopy of heaven, and whose nightly visiting place is the brick kilns. Disdaining the - trammels of servitude, the young shaver left bis master's shop a few days ago, taking with him the new suit. He was subsequently ap prehended in a - cellar in New Bird-street clothed in his original . . rags, and pawn-tickets of th e ne w c l o th es w ere found upon him. On the constable taking him back to his master, lie said they might do their worst at him, for he didn't care the value of a red herring fir him. The Mayor (to the complainant.)—Did you know the boy be , fore you took hint into your service? Complainant.—l did not know the boy myself. lam son-in , law to his uncle. Tho Mayor.—Has he any other relations in the town ? Complainant. —None but his uncle, who is in court. The uncle of the prisoner was here called out for by . the of ficer of the court, when an elderly Irishman stepped into the witness-box. The Mayor (to the witness.)—Are you this boy's uncle ? Witness (looking at the prisoner.)—llis uncle ! faith I don't know, he says so. (Laughter.) Mr. Alderman Bourne.—What clit you mean by your not knowing whether you are his uncle or not ? Witness.—Sure the lad comes from Newry,.and says that I'm his uncle, but devil the bit do I know who he is. The Mayor.—How is it then that you came forward when his uncle was called for? Witness.—Because my son-in-law there (the complainant) said I was his uncle, and Bill Alurphv brought him to my house and said I was his uncle, but not a bit of it am I his uncle, and I'll have nothing to do wid him. (Laughter.) Mr. Alderman Bourne.—Then you are sure you are not his LUICIC ? Witness.—l can't exactly be sure, for I haven't been in Newry these twenty years. (Laughter ) The Mayor (pointing to the complainant.)—Are you sure that this is your son-in-law ? Witness.—Oh yes, faith. t Laughter.) The Mayor (to the complainant).—Well, *e don't see what can he done for you in this case. Between the uncle, the tie. phew, and the son we don't see what can be done. Will you take the lad again ?. Complainant,-01), no. The Mayer.—Thew we must send him back to Ireland. Complainant.—What will I do then for my Ils. outlay, (Laughter.) The Mavor.—l don't know. You must look to the uncle for it. (Laughter.) The case was then dismissed, and the prisoner ordered to be sent to Ireland. ROBBERY FROM A COACH-OFFICE.--TWO Irishmen, named Kelly and Malone, were placed at the bar on suspicion of having stolen a trunk from the Saddle Inn coach-office, Dale street. It appeared from the evidence that on the - 14th March last, a lady named Williams came from Preston as a passenger in one of the coaches, and left her box in the care of the coach. office keeper. The box was stolen, and Bridge, the captain of the watch, traced some property to the possession of the pi- , soner Kelly, who lodgeci. in Blundell-street with the prisoner Malone. It further appeared that Kelly stole the box, and Malone helped him to carry it. The contents were silk dresses and other wearing apparel. Some of the articles Kelly had pledged, and others he sold to a M rs. Wilson, to whom she had said they had been given her by a sister who died in Scotland. They were both committed. WIGAN. (From our Correspondent.) CHESTER DIOCESE SOCIETY.—On Sunday morning last the Rev. H. O'Neill, M.A., preached a sermon in behalf of the above Society, Irf the parish chtrreh, -- Wigan; after which up wards of £2tl was collected. The rev. gentleman, after giving an account of the great want of church accommodation in the munufacturing districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, described the great increase popery was making throughout the country generally, and the necessity there existed for the laborious ex , ertions of the friends of religion to stem its growth. The hosts of Rome were gathering their armies and spreading their' camps, would they not, then,• come to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The rev. gentleman also in .very thetic and eloquent terms, described the state of protestantism in Ireland, stating, they must be aware that it was proposed in townships where no protestants existed to discharge the mi nister, and,anpropriate the funds of the church establishment to educate the young in that system which was declared to be "damnable idoliitry." THE JEWS.—On the evening of Sunday last, the Rev. C, Snape, curate of St. Paul's Sheffield, preached a very power , ful and learned sermon in behalf of the Society for Promo ting Christianity among the Jes, in the course of which he took occasion to set before his hearers the true character of popery, and the final overthrow it was likely soon to have. BA ZA A 11.—On Wednesday and yesterday, a Bazaaiwas held in the National School, Wigan, the funds of which are to be appropriated towards the Infant Sunday School just erected in the Scholes near that town. It was attended by all the elite of the town and neighbourhood, and on the first day about £l5O was received. We have not heard what was the sum taken yesterdev, but we have no doubt a handsome amount will be realized. LORD STANLEY.—It will be seen by a rercrencc to our pub= arnentary columns that Lard Stanley appeared in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening. About one o'clock on the following day (Wednesday) his lordship was on the Aintree race course. - - • MORE Cosi sitssIONERS !—The whips have such a penchant for issuing " special commissions of inquiry" that we should not be surprised to find a special commission appointed to in quire into and report to his Majesty the hours of the day when Lord Palmerston usually perfumes his whiskers or puts on or takes off his stays. Lord Amherst was appointed by the late g overnment on a mission to Canada, to inquire into the state of that distracted colony. But their successors have dis covered that the thing can only be done by commissioners se lected from one of those rookeries where - tvhig statesmen are usually batched. Lord Amherst has declined the appointment of chief commissioner, but whether be has done so from know ing or not knowing his .associates does not appear. A cheap government and a government existing without patronage is a fine thing to talk about at any rate. THE DORCHESTER UNIONISTS.—Mr. Ewart, one of our ve presentatives, presented a petition to the House of Commons on Wednesday evening praying for a remission of the sentence passed upon the Dorchester unionists, which, the report of the hon. gentleman's speech states, was signed by 15,000 inhabitants of. Liverpool. When, where, and how were these signatures obtained? We protest we never heard of the petitiun until we saw it announced in the proceedings of the hbuse. With fill their efforts, the Liverpool agitators, after raking the catholic chapels on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and scraping the streets for five or six days, could only boast of about ten thou sand signatures, marks and all, to their address to Lord John Russell. We therefore repeat that- we should like to know when and where this petition in favour °Me Dorchester union ists was got. up, and by whom .it , m was ~ signed. If it be true, which we still doubt, that a petition' thus nuereusly'signed was presented by Mr. Ewart from Liverpool, we have no hesitation whatever in saying that it is either a barefaced fraud or a most abominable forgery. SALE OF PART OF LORD DERBY'S STUD.—Yestertlav was offered for sale by Mr. Lucas, at his horse and carriaco Repo sitorx, Charlotte-street , a portion of the thorough-bred stock of' the Laid of Derby. T h e attendance was nume rous , and the p r ic es generally were good. The following were the horses, with the prices at whi ch they were knocked down : — Woodbine , a chesnut mare, £4O; Phcefie, a chesnut m are , £l7 ; L o y a lty, a bay mare, £l4; I.lrganda, a brown .mare £150; Wagtail, a brown mare. £ 170 ; a chesnut y earlin g Colt, £3B ;. a bay year ling Colt, £37; Aeantus, a bay colt, 3 years old, £34; a bay Filly', 2 years old, £2O; ,the bay stallion Felt, £160; Falcon bridge, a grey horse, £145. • AMk:RICAN PACRETS.—'Ihe London line of packet-ship Prer sidentsarriyed at New York in twenty-teo days, discharged hee cargo and took in a fresh, called a gain front New York on th 20th, and arrived at Portsmouth on Sunday morning in nines t e en days, making the extraordinary passage of fifty-five day from Portsmouth and back, THE NEW CuaNcEt.tort.—lt was current's reported in every court in Westminster Hall, on Tuesday winning, that Sir John Campbell either has been, or immediately will be, ap pointed Lord High Chancellor, and his office of Attorney-Ge neral will be given to Mr. Sergeant Wilde.—Mthisterial parer. STAFFORDSHIRE tLECTION.--An actise canvass is now going forward, throughout the 'whole of the Southern Division of Staffordshire, in favour of Sir F. L. Holyoake Goodricke, Bart. ; and his friends are confident of his success.—Salopiart Jormal. We understand from authority, that Robert Farrand, Esq., (formerly M.P. for the borough of Hedon), a conservative, and one of the candidates, at the last election for Stafford, will again offer himself for that borough, in the event of Sir F. L. 11. • Goodricke; Bart., vacating his seat.—lbid. PARLIAMENTARY DUE,.s.—Mr. Morgan O'Connell was brought up to Marlborough-street Police.adlice. London, on Tuesday, and held to bail, himself in £5OO and two sureties in £250 each, for his keeping the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects during the remainder of the year. POST-OFFICE RETURNS.--The following was the revenue of the under-mentioned places during 1834 : London £642,871 Leeds ..£21,331 Liverpool 74 083, Hull 14.583' Manchester. Birmingham 28,812 Lord Palmerston , it is said, will in the most independent and Whig-like manner, take advantage of the vacancy for Poole to try to get into Parliament. We believe that Sir Colcitiohoun Grant will oppose him.—London 1 _ ►tl' ,at 'ho 5t-