The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

Eibiipoot TUESD4Y MORNING, DEC. 6, 1853. - - TER PORT OF LIVERPOOL. No. VI. my , FROE the description which we have given of the world already completed, and now in course of con struction in Birkenhead, it will be seen that the means of extending the accommodation for the increasing trade of the Port . of Liverpool are of the most ample kind — enough to gratify the most sanguine anticipations. Rapid as the increase has been for several years past, it maY Progress in an equal ratio for iii pny years to come, and still there will be room enough, if Liverpool mer chants have the good sense to see the importance of making both sides of the Mersey available for the pur poses of trade. But, beyond all this, the natural facilities for shipping purposes, owing to the peculiar formation of that side of the estuary, are almost illimitable, and the whole capable of being converted at far less cost than has been bestowed :upon the Liverpool Docks, the extremes of which afford very inefficient accommodation. A very valuable little work on " The Commerce of Liverpool," by Mr. BIIIITIEWAITE POOLE, has just been published by Mr. BAINES, of Castle-street, and we are indebted to its pages for the following statistics of the trade of the port. It appears that during the year 1852 the total amount of exports was 2,132,097 tons, of the value of £53,000,000, and the total imports 2,370,082 tons, of the value of £57,000,000. Without giving the lengthened tables in Mr. PooLE's book, we briefly classify them as under : Tons. Cotton. ... ...—... ... 365,000 Corn ... 520,000 Timber ... 365,000 Cattle.. ... ... 70,000 Oils and Tallow ... 69,480 Copper and other Metals... ... 39,953 Provisions, Butter, &c. ... 49,810 Foreign Fruit ... 28,090 "Tea, Coffee, Spices, &c. 20,261 Rice, Seeds, &c... ... 41,578 Bricks, Stone, &c. ... 144,700 Wine, Spirits, Beer, &c.... ... 54,410 Hemp, Flax, Hides, &c.... ... 60,061 Drugs, Dyes, &c. 73,679 • Sulphur, Saltpetre, &c. 112,672 Fish and Potatoes ... 50,000 Sundries ... 10,575 Total... ... ...2,370,082 If we only take into account the bulky goods, such as timber, iron, stone, &c., amounting to 710,348 tons, for how large a proportion ample room might be found on the Cheshire side, and the docks on this side rendered thereby better available for the more valuable commo dities. Even in the article of cotton, of which last year nearly 600,000 bales were sent inland by railway, a great proportion might with much greater facility have been landed at Birkenhead, and thence forwarded by railway direct from the ship's side. If we take the rate of in crease in trade during the last few years, we shall find that the progress has been very rapid ; and bearing in mind the numerous sources of improvement which are visible in every direction, there is a fair right to presume that it will continue at least for some time to come, and therefore require those facilities which we have endeavoured to point out, as being so much more accessible at the western shore of the Mersey than can by any possibility be obtained on this side. Birkenhead, unfortunately, has been suffering a long night of depression, owing to the over-zeal with which its promoters a few years since aimed at too much, and were consequently unable to carry out their large designs. Great gaps exist in many of the principal streets; buildings have been standing long in an unfinished state, and it bears the appearance of a large city of which the builders were suddenly arrested in their progress towards com pletion. It has, however, an advantage, which Liverpool does not possess, of the streets being straight, broad, well laid and drained ; and now that a hope of revival is afforded by the re - commencement of the dock works, it is resuming its former appearance of activity, the finished houses being occupied, the unfinished ones being com pleted, and preparations made for building more, as it is confidently expected that all will be required for its fast increasing population. Its magnificent square is now fully inhabited, and all the blank spaces in the vicinity would be rapidly filled up with houses, were it not for the eitt - x—qe-ant prices which holders venture to ask for eligible plots of land. 'anus worn the much larger receipts at Woodside Ferry, which is in the hands of the Commissioners, and this body, from their rapidly accruing funds, will soon be able to place them selves in a solvent position with their numerous creditors, who have long suffered from hope deferred. As a place of residence, Birkenhead is fully equal to the suburbs of Liverpool on the Lancashire side, while the neighbourhood of the park and the dis tricts of Oxton and Claughton are far superior in pic turesqueness of situation and general elegance of resi dences. The park is indeed a feature of Birkenhead which is unrivalled in the kingdom, and a memorial of the skill of the celebrated Sir JOSEPIIPAXTON as a landscape gardener, and the luxuriance of vegetation which it exhibits is an encouragement to the promotion of horticulture in the neighbourhood. The impetus which is required for the completion of the main streets has already commenced; a few years may realise all the anticipations which were once indulged, and, in that case, Birkenhead may fairly challenge rivalry with any town in the kingdom for all the qualities which a town should possess as a place of business and of comfortable residence. By the act which was obtained for the paving, lighting, draining, and general management of the township, mane factories, or, at least, those which required tall chimneys , were prohibited, but many others of a smaller kind are actively carried on, and there is ample space for an im mense extent of business on a large scale. From the dock warehouses, along the margin of the Great Float, there is room for several large factories, with accommodations such as are nowhere else to be met with. There the raw ma terial might be landed at the factory doors, and the manu factured goods placed at once on board the vessels which are to convey, them to distant parts. A cotton factory might compete with Manchester upon the mere saving in carriage, while a soap factory would have peculiar advan tages, owing to the steamers between Birkenhead and the West Coast of Africa, which would bring the palm oil • direct from port to port. All these trades might be carried on without the slightest injury or annoyance to the locali ties for dwelling-houses, and thus a two-fold advantage be afforded to the Port of Liverpool. One of the wants of Birkenhead is a commodious cattle market, which might be located near one of the railway stations. It will not do, however, simply to appoint a space for the purpose, and trust to chance for buyers and sellers. The market should be properly inclosed and paved, furnished with water, pens for sheep and pigs, and posts and rails for larger cattle. There should also be accommodation in the neighbourhood for the housing of live stock, and days should be appointed either once or twice a month for holding the market. The commissioners should also give annually two silver cups to encourage the trade, one to the purchaser of the greatest amount of stock during the year, and the other to the owner of the best beast exhibited for sale on the market day preceding • Christmas. Another work to be performed is the inclosure and pave ment of the space in Hamilton-street adjoining the mar ket, and which would be well adapted for the sale of hay and straw. It should, however, be better lighted than it is at present; and, when the new Town-hall is 'erected in Hamilton-square, the removal of the present structure will give abundant room for a large amount of business In agricultural produce. Almost all the shops in the vicinity are now occupied, but the tradesmen would find their business considerably improved if their prices were not quite so much in advance of those which prevail in Liverpool. The passage across the Mersey is so easily Performed, that many of the inhabitants of Birkenhead Prefer shopping on this side instead of paying about ten Per cent. extra for dealing with tradesmen nearer home. From Woodside Ferry along the quays towards the docks an active business is carried on by boat-builders, mast and block-makers, ship-chandlers, plumbers, and other trades connected with the supply of shipping, and there is available space for a much larger extent of business with out in any way interfering with the dwelling-houses. Liverpool has already occupied every portion of its large area, and has been obliged to stretch out north, south, and east, to a considerable distance. Birkenhead, however, 'P r esents facilities of which the full advantage has not yet been taken, although they are in reality far easier of ae ce%, and far more desirable than most of the Lancashire 4 1 11 mtb e . h tun e Presents a means of expansion w hi c h will in riv a l t u- Liverpool, with its magnificent estuary, to not easy ( Teat metropolis, with its narrow river Thames, bY the aittf i ee sB 3 and only approached from the Atlantic :treat o b ata r navigation of the English Channel. The e "`fnie th ,e to extension has been the futile attempt to but if I nlsiness of the port to one side of the Mersey, foundation ithsna jealousy of rivalry which has no , unite in (1' 0 ;1 "ercome, and Lancashir'e and Cheshire trade, it we b :Vine the resources of an ever-increasing the extendi ng ' 5 " Pleasing duty year by year to chronicle t ce of rrll2 -- PoRT O 8 LITEurooL, !MON OF SCOTTISH RIGHTS. " Tax Scotch Lion is a mere imposter—a begging-letter writer, as one might say." With this phrase the' Times of Wednesday last opened a leading column. In the same number of that journal, appeared an adiertisement, setting forth the fact, that one of its patrons is desirous of impart ing to the world "the art of forming designs." How far the professor of this noble art may have profited by, or communicated the science which guides the policy of the Times, it would be no easy task to determine, nor shall we at present attempt a solution of the riddle ; neither shall we tarry to inquire whether, as regards the practice of the Times, it might not be expressed by the almost equivalent phrase, "the art of stating a case as it does not exist." In the meantime we shall content ourselves with the simpler inquiry—whether is the Scotch Lion or the Times the mere imposter ? For many years past, Scotland has been made severely to feel the progress and evil effects of that system of cen tralisation which, locating all public boards and business in London, (and of which we of the English provinces, as well as our Scottish brethren, are made to feel the disadvan tages,) subjected her to numerous national privations, and entailed upon her inhabitants many individual inconveni ences and hardships. Complaints of these, from time to time, found public utterance, :which, gathering strength from accumulated number, and - attaining weight by their aggregate importance, an association was recently formed, whose object and whose voluntary duty it was to mar shal the various incidents of which national complaint had been made, and, bringing these into a concentrated form, place them before the nation, and appeal to British justice for the restitution of rights alleged to be withdrawn, and the protection of institutions threatened with extinction. The thorough catholicity of such a movement secured for it ready sympathy and many adherents. In a body so numerously constituted, it is little to be wondered if some individuals were found more sensitive to theoretical indig nities than alive to the influence of practical grievances. Among the contumelies, real or imaginary, which afflicted this class, a supposed degradation of the Scottish arms assumed the magnitude of a national grievance. The ease of dealing with trivial, as compared with im portant matters, was manifested in the celerity with which this armorial dispute was stated and discussed, even before the association was called into existence. To those in favour of the centralising system, of which the Times has ever been a more consistent than a disinterested supporter, it was more in accordance with their general policy to seize upon and expose the weakness of extraneous matters, than grapple with the questions at issue. Hence, the opponents of the Scottish movement, headed by the .Times, have confined their arguments, and directed the shafts of their ridicule towards the armorial portion of the dispute, secure in the knowledge that, among busied practical men, that branch of the complaint would meet with but small favour and little study. A highly respect able Scottish contemporary, the Edinburgh Courant, from some occult cause, probably not very difficult to unravel by the hangers-on in the Edinburgh Parliament-- house, has deemed it prudent to play the same game. It has accordingly put forth a well-written article, demon strating that the alleged armorial grievance is, in reality, no grievance at all; at the same time, however, with characteristic Scottish caution, averring that its argu ments are directed to confute the assertion of a new London weekly journal, that the "National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights" derives " its birth from the affair about the lion." While its hand is in, the Courant likewise demolishes another heraldic grievance, of which, for our own parts, we had not previously- heard, namely, that of " uncrowning the Scottish unicorn ;" which crowning our northern brother assures us is a modern invention, dating no further back than the acces sion of JAMES IV to the English throne; he very curi ously, however, does not condescend to inform us how much earlier it could have appeared, at all' events, in connexion with the royal arms of England'; a singular omission, no doubt, on the part of so erudite' a herald, so painstaking an antiquary, and so communicative an in structor. On the armorial point, trivial as it unquestion ably is, it may be worth while stating as a fact r tliat from a period antecedent to the commencement of the present century, to within comparatively a few years, the Scottish contingent of the imperial arms was quartered ant the royal standard, habitually displayed above the battlements of Edinburgh Castle, as claimed by those whom. the Courant represents as being in error : nay, further, that on the Scottish Privy Seal, executed at the accession•of Her present NIA.-Tzsry, and daily used by her appointed officers, the device is the effigy of Queen VICTORIA on the one side; on the other, the dexter or CHIEF SUPPORTER, is the unicorn with the crown ON : on the shield the lion' of Scotland occupies the first and fourth quarters, the emblematic ensigns of England and Ireland being placed' in the second and third. So much for past and present practice, as opposed to newly promulgated theory. Rejoicing in the heraldic learning of the Courant, and' partially aware of the value attached to bold assertion, whether true or false, ;the Times gives utterance to the sally which we have quoted at the commencement of" these observations ; and waxing audacious on the strength of his northern affiance, our friend the thunderer adven tures a flash of his theatrical lightning, wherewith to , scathe the Scottish claims,—with over-weening arrogance he launches his leaden bolt,—a ribbald sneer at BANNOCK BURN, and triumphantly assumes that he has laid the agitation and the agitators for ever in the dust. The bad taste of such an escapade is not more conspicuous than is its divergence from the usual caution which regulates the movements of the Times. On many a blood-stained field—on many an ensanguined deck, since the day on which the Scottish Marathon was fought, have our Cale donian brethren proved how sensitively, how devotedly they are alive to the sentiment of national honour—side. by side with Albion's sons, in many a fray they have proudly sustained the glory of the British arms ; and; every true-hearted Englishman will join in indignant condemnation of so unworthy an allusion to that field, on which Scottish men wrote in our country's bravest blood an interpretation of their national motto, !IRMO MK: IMPUNE LA.CESSIT, in characters which the sunshine and the showers of nearly six centuries have been unablb to efface. Whether the subject of heraldic precedency of the Scottish arms in Scotland is to be looked on as a question of courtesy, or maintained as a matter of right,—whether such claim shall be gracefully conceded or churlishly withheld, the quartering of the Scottish contingent upon the imperial shield is not the point, nor one even of the chief points at issue in this controversy. The grievances complained of by the Scottish National Association,.besides the heraldic one, are of an eminently practical and easily understood character. It complains that Scottish national business is neglected in the imperial legislature. chiefly because there is no public officer connected with govern ment, whose peculiar province it shall be to attend exclu sively to Scottish affairs ; and partly because Scotland has too few representatives in the legislature. The Associa tion, likewise, complains that the Scottish crown revenues are applied to imperial uses, while Scotland is not allowed her fair share inAhe expenditure of the imperial revenue ; it complains of the general neglect of Scottish public ' institutions, as compared with those of the other two por tions of the United Kingdom. To remove these grounds of complaint, the Association, backed by nine-tenths of the Scottish people, demands the appointment of a chief secretary for Scotland, whose business it shall be to attend to the peculiarities of Scottish affairs ; and it asks for such an augmentation in the number of Scotland's parliamen tary representatives as shall place her on terms of rela tive equality with England and with Ireland. These, the real points at issue, the Times, after having ridiculed the heraldic, which it represents as the only view of the case, contrives to smother ander the following surly growl:— " As for others" (grievances) " which may have more foun dation, we have our own grievances to attend to, as well as our Scottish fellow-subjects, and so must leave them to conduct their own business in their own way." If this is not the conclusion of " a mere impostor"—the paltry sub terfuge of " a begging letter-writer"--we confess our utter ignorance of what should be so construed. Why not have left them to conduct all their business in their own way ? Above all, why first distort and misrepresent their case, and then sneak out of the contention with all the gruff ness of a detected cut-purse ? Why quit the arena of its own selection, with the mien and aspect of a baffled bully ? It is curious to note how smaller wits jump in a wrong direction after greater; the chief disparity between the performers being the wider divergenz.y erom the question at issue and the comparative punt of stride. Thus, our contemporary the Courier, aeavouring to mystify the subject, as the Times has tried, falls into a shallow pit of its own scooping out. The Courier, in this mission, has discovered that a certain gentleman, whom it desig nates JOHN STEILL, of Glasgow, has perpetrated a ridicu lous pamphlet, in which he advocates a severance of the Union between England and Scotland. Who our neigh bour's Mr. JOHN STEILL may be, we know not ; some knowledge, indeed, we do possess of a gentleman whose surname is akin to that given, but his Christian patro nymic is of a weightier calibre—a man whose flow of social glory would warm the cold blood of our torpid brother, and set its tide dancing in so genial a current, as would shake his sides and make his ears tingle THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMEIRCIAL ADVERTISER English miles towards Krajova, and formed an entrenched camp for 8,000 men. The whole of the Polish army is ordered to the Princi palities. Advices from Bucharest, of Nov. 19th, inform us that the Turks have maintained their position at the con fluence of the Salonitza and 'the Danube, near Hirsova, in spite of the most strenuous efforts to dislodge them. The 4th and sth Russian corps have, it is said, received orders to proceed to Wallachia. It is not thought that winter will interrupt the move ments of the Tukish troops on the Danube. Great pre parations for the spring campaign are being made by the Russians. :Marshal Paskiewitsch has announced that he means then to take the command of the army in the 111oldo- Wallachian provinces ; but before doing so he hopes that it will be composed of at least 200,000 men ready to take the field, and a reserve of 100,000 men. Letters from the theatre of war in Asia state that such a large quantity of snow has fallen that military operations are becoming impossible. The Presse says that the Czar has addressed a new manifesto to the European Powers; and further, that Count Nesselrode has forwarded another note to the Russian Ambassadors in France and England, respecting the continuance of international relations between the three countries. The greatest excitement prevails in Affghanistan. Dost Mahomed has declared to the Schah of Persia that the Affghans are at war with the Russians, that he means to attack them iu the direction of Chirvan, and that he is resolved to march through the Persian territories, with or without the Schah's consent. The lihan,of Bokhara has been killed by a band of rioters, mostly Affghans. His place is taken by his late Grand Vizier, au Affghan Prince, called Ildhirim the Thunderbolt. The Press of Saturday says :—" We have authority to state, that the Court of St. Petersburg has addressed a brief and conclusive note to the Governments of England and France, announcing that no further negotiations, with respect to the affairs of the East, will be listened to—that the part of Russia is definitively taken—and that that part is La Gueare.'" The Times states that no communication from the Emperor of Russia to the French and English Govern ments, -cutting short all further negotiations, and refer ring the decision of the. Eastern Question to the fortune of war, has been received. BUCIIIREST, 29th Nov. The Russian war-steamer Wladimir has returned to Sebastopol, from a cruise in. the Black Sea. She brought in a 'Turkish vessel, with a cargo of pepper, and the Egyptian war steamer, of 10 guns. This last-named vessel was captured after a spirited engagement. The Russians had two men killed and two wounded. VIENNA, Nov. 28. Letters from Bucharest state that large masses of Russian troops were expected, and that the military pre parations decreed by Prince Gortschakoff were being executed on a large scale. The Russian army was ex pected to be soon in a condition to take the offensive, ORsovA, Nov. The water in the Danube is lower than ever. The heavy rains which have lately fallen caused some hopes of the river becoming navigable near the Iron Gates, and that the vessels loaded with corn at Giurna Severin might be able to continue their voyage: This hope has been frus trated by the weather, which at present is cold and dry. at the mirthful roar ; him we cannot believe the author of the trash alluded to by our meek friend. But be he who he may—" be his intents wicked or charitable"—the senti ments attributed to him are not those promulgated or countenanced by those who advocate the Scottish Rights. Their demand is justice, that the usrrox MAY BE CLOSER ; so that the pamphleteer and his antagonistic ally may be safely left to work out their own conceits. Our sapient neighbour, like his oracle the Times, whines out, if Scotland has practical grievances to complain of, so have we : but, quoth he, behold ! has not Mr. CAIRD, of Baldoon, received an appointment under the Com missioners of Works ? Surely that should " con vince the gentlemen forming the new association for the vindication of Scottish Rights, of the folly of the course they are pursuing." Having got so far, we must pause ; that last capriole has all but taken our breath away ! Let us whisper in our brother's ear; the gentle men have not been guilty of the " folly" of agitating Scotland to place Mr. CA.IRD, not of Baldoon, beneath the Board of Works, or any other board. The brazen glitter of that gentleman's sham-sunshine may, indeed, have been mistaken by our sagacious contemporary for the golden glory of the genuine APOLLO ; but in the north Mr. CAIRD'S radiance is known to be that of a " mock sun." It is, indeed, true that the theoretical farming of that luminary of the Times was deemed by the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, and after him by the Times, sufficiently instructive to warrant the hero of Baldoon in setting himself forward to teach the science of agriculture to the English farmer ; but the efforts of both would be as in adequate to make his advancement a matter for national rejoicing, as his own. endeavours were eminently unsuc cessful in rendering the farm of Baldoon a profitable con cern. Nay, further, the combined assurances—we had almost written assurance—of all three, added to the peace ful sighs of our insinuating neighbour, would not be equal to the task of fanning Mr. CAIRD'S pretensions into such a flame as would kindle a national quarrel. His vast agricultural requirements are reckoned by very small coin in Scotland, as he was distinctly and practically given to understand by his neighbours of Wigtown, at the last general election. He has, according to this new oracle, it seems, at last attained the object of his toil and cajolery ; but, his failure in doing so, the Courier may rest assured, would not have sent a troop of foraging borderers to levy black-mail on the town of Liverpool. But, to make the matter, if possible, worse for our contemporary's logic, the Ayr Observer informs us that Mr. CAIRD has received no new appointment ; but, as he has been for the last three years, is merely consulted on matters relating to the Crown estates. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE', FRANCE.—The Emperor and Empress returned to P'arfs from Fontainebleau on Thursday. Letters from Vienna of the 27th ult. inform us that the Duke and Duchess of' Nemours and the Duke of Cobourg dined with the Comte de Chambord on the' previous day. The cholera gains ground in Paris. At present the eases amount to about fifteen a day. Bevaure.—The Pavarian Chambers were opened on the 26th ult. by Prince lAitpold. A letter from Munich states that on the 23d, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Krieg s birthday, a new order was created under the title of the Order of Maximilian. It is intended for the arts an& sciences, and already 30 savants and. artists of Ger many have received it. Pozuvoe.L.—Disastrous news, if true; has been re ceive& from Galicia. It states that a rssing has taken place at Oporto against the' Regency of the' Kiw-Consort. The Clamor Publico has, Besides, a letter Kum Badajoz, dated the 21st inst., statin a ,( ,. .that the 13th Regiment of infantry had risen, in the threction of the Douro, and proclaimedlDon Miguel; and that Miguelites of note had already brought many recruits4o their ranks; It may be proper to add, that although the letter • containing the alleged fact was received in Madrid on the 24th alt., the Madrid journals of the 25th, and the . telegraphic des patches of the: 27th, make no allusion to the rumour in question. SWEDEN.—The following intelligence as to the speech of the King a Sweden shows that' the concentration of troops in Russian Finland and the naval squadrowsta tioned at Helsingfors, have excited the anxiety and appre hension of the Swedes :—Stockholim-Nov. 24.• The king opened the Diet to-day in person. His Majesty's speech contained the follbwing passage :—" Agreeably to the de; mends of my royal-duty and the present political aspect of Europe, I will cause to be laid before you a statement of a complete system of defence. Suciva system is • impe , natively called for in-order to place therountry in a posi,- tion to preserve its independence." CHINA.—The Neal York Commercial Advertiser gives , the following as a letter from Dr. Parker, -Secretary to the. United States Legation I hear what lam assured is* contained in a private letter from Peking, . that Heen Fang, the present Emperor, on the 2nd of August fled to- Gehul, in Tartary, ana that Prince Wei Chin, fifth brother of Taou Kwairfc.. was left in charpenf the empire, and that the inaurgeuli troops were within • sit days of Peking at that date. This news bears marks of probabi lity, and the sonrce of niformation is as reliable as any we can ordinarly get in China. In speaking with the British Consul, this evening, lie informed me that he •heard the same news two or three days since, which corresponds with the time my informant states the intelligence reached this city. Mr. Robertson-seemed to receive the.intelligence with some doubt. I can only say that L think it very likely to prove true, and` that Prince Wei Chin is the man of all others who would 3e-raost likely to be called upon to take the reins of government. He is the man who is said to have written Taou Kwang's answer to the President's letter, delivered in 1844, hy Mr. Cushing." Dr. Parker's letter is dated on the 3r&ofSeptember. CAPE OF GOOD Hors.—The South African. Commer cial Advertiser of the 24fh. of Septemben - states that:— "The colonial estimates presented to the• Legislative Council exhibit for 1854 i a. serious probable decrease of revenue and increase of expenditure. The revenue ;is estimated at £228,811 15s, and the expenditure at £275,091 9s. 6d. Difference against the revenue, £46,279 14s. 6d. In former years-- the revenue received has gene rally greatly exceeded the • estimated revenue. In 1852, the revenue received amounted to £281,146165. 3d ex ceeding the estimates by about a fourth, of the whole. But that year, and some others, brought into action many temporary sources of revenue, on which it would be im prudent to calculate for 1.854. 'l'here is,. therefore, every chance of a deficient revenue for • next year—a deficiency not likely to fall short of £40,000 or £50,000. In the course of the last 20 yeara-,the revenue and expenditure have risen from about £130,000 to £280,000, without any considerable augmentation o€ existing taxes, while some have been reduced or abolished. The increase has arisen mainly from the growth. of the colony, and augmented. consumption of articles taxed. The chief augmentations was in the Customs in 1847. In. 1846 the revenue from, the Customs was £100,759 s in 1852 it was £143,946; in, 1841 it was only £48,058.. It is probatile, therefore, that.. financiers will look to this; source, in, the first instance, to make up the apprehended: deficiency far 1854. With the exception of coffee, sugarv, tea, rice,. tobacco, and a fear, other articles, the present duty is—on British goods £5,.. and on foreign £l2, for eyery £lOO. 3a value. Supposing the imports that pay thity, to be. £1,200,000, an aveiage rise of about 4 per cent. on, the whale would be required, to meet the deficiency. " Aaarea.—The African Steam-ship Company's packet Charity, Captain Atkins, reached Plymouth on Thureday. Her dates are—Lagos, Oct. 31; Accra, Nov. 3 ; Cape Coast, 4th ; Liberia, 7th ; Sierra Leone, 9th ; Bathurst, 15th ; Goree, 16th ; Meneriffe, 22d ; and Madeirr a . 24th. She made the voyage•out and home complete in 67, days. By the last accounts,the West Coast squadron was-gather-_ ing round Lagos ; 11.1 IL frigate Ferret was off Lagos ; the Polyphemus was four hours from Lagos, bound', in ; the Penelope was at Accra ; , bound to Lagos ; the Plumper was off Cape Palmer;- the. Volcano, at Monrovia ; and the Philomel was spoken ot Sierra Leone ; the Britomart, which had been on a cruise with Governor Kennedy, for the benefit of his health, had returned with his.excellency to Sierra Leone. The outward mail-packet Forerunner, Captain Barnwell, was entering Sierra Leona; on. the 9th November. The Charity has a large cargo. of cochineal,. palm oil, palm nuts, ivory teeth, bees'-wax,. ginger, &c., and 1500 ounces of gold dust.—Akatoi, King of Lagos, died on the 3rd September, and was succeeded by his son Docemo. On hearing of his conusin's death, Kosaks sent a message to, the chief people of Lagos. and,the British Consul, to, the effect that he was preparing to resume the throne from which he had been driven. On, this the con sul claimed the interference of the British. Sovereign, and an expedition, in conjunction with the Docemos people, ascended the river with boats, burnt some deserted vil lages, but could not bring the enemy to effectual action, and, returned, having sustained a loss of two men and three wounded. The British squadron were collecting off Lagos, for the purpose of preparing an expedition on a more formidable scale. THE WAR IN TURKEY. The letters from Constantinople, of the 15th, declare that the report of an armistice between the Turks and Russians, often repeated, and as often contradicted, has no foundation. Orders, on the contrary, have been for warded to Abdi Pacha, the commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces in Asia, to advance as actively as possible. A combined Turkish and Egyptian squadron is to cruise on the coast of Asia to support his operations. A report that the Turkish government is about to issue paper money is also denied. M. de la Conr, having left Constantinople in the Solon, arrived at Trieste on the 30th. It is again asserted that the first regiment of Osten Sacken's corps passed through Jassy on the 12th ult. But the German papers publish letters to the 17th, in which it is positively affirmed that to that date nothing had been seen of the Russian reinforcements on any point of the Pruth. Letters from Trieste announce that the Turks have ob tained further advantages in Asia. They not only defended successfully Fort St. Nicholas, but captured the fortresses of Usurgheti and Souchoum Kaleh. It is added that the 3eorgian people are favourable to the Turks. The Rus sians, in attempting to land 1,500 men at Batoum, met with a severe repulse. It blew a rather heavy gale at the time, and a well-directed fire from the battery almost im mediately sunk the large transport steamer with the troops, and all perished excepting 27, who were conveyed, per steamer, to Constantinople. The Russians have as sailed Shefkatil five times, hoping to regain their lost laurels, but hitherto in vain. A despatch from Vienna, of the 29th lilt, says the Turks are still at Kalafat. They have evacuated the island of Moknan, opposite Routchouk, for the very good reason that it is overflowed by the river, which has risen to a great height. Kalafat is strongly fortified and gar risoned, Another despatch, dated Vienna the Ist instant, states that the Turks, on the 26th, had constructed a bridge between Routchuok and the island of Moknan, having on the previous clai Ativaueed from Kainfat twelve WEST INDIES. By the steamer Orinoco we' have intelligence from Jamaica to the 11th ult. The business of the legislature had propessed far more harmoniously than was expected. No reliable opinion could yet, however, be Rained with regard to the intentions of the House of Assembly." In the matter of the Import Duties. Act thereAvasb a: talk of a reduction e the daties levied under the recent scale, litit opinions were said to be divided:in the house as. to the expediency of the measure. Business operations were at a staid-still, pending; the action of the leglature. Produce continued, quiet. Rum hail. advanced. St - Aair was. unaltered.• In coffee and pimento• no important operations. The . health of the island was better,. and the yellow fevertad disappeared, The House of Assembly have deferred' the passing a the bill- until the committee appointed to , consider the. propoiitlon of the Colonial Secretary with regard• to' a responsible' government shall have made their report ; but, in themeantime, and: in order to preveatithe further loss of revenue; the honso•lias adopted a resolution similar to one aded.upou in 1841);-declaring that the-duties •to be levied inalerthe import bill, when passed, shalhave effect on and fram'the 3d of Nemnber last, in accordante with the last exiiting tariff. Bnaluess matters, as may be anti cipated, have . not improved( under these circumstances ; indeed, so little confidence is' placed in the permaneney of fiscal legislation in the colon,/ .and especially at this junc ture, that purchases on specalation or to any exlent can not be effected.. The mattest . of the contempk.ted excise on spiritsis-con sidered impracticable, and will: he abandoned. Supplies - of imported good.; as g-eneTallTampler. The articles most in demand, and tlie- stocks which mi it be increased witlicart largely affecting the present 'mine, are pickled fish, codfish in boxes, batter, lard, rice, corny and candles. _ Exchange ow London, 90 daysv.Colonial Bank, tper cent.; Jamaica Bank, 4 per cent. premium. St. Lucia leUers of the 11th utft.: date that the island had been inundated with rain. The island was entirely out of flour, owing-to supplies not having arrived, and on the 11th no bread, • was to be purchased. La Plata, with mils of the 2mDalt. arrived out atSt. Thomas's on .FIT.NIERAV. OF TILE - (117.E.EN OF" PORTUGAL ME funeral of - Donna Maria, the-Tate Queen of Put. fugal, took place cci Saturday week. In consequence -of therapid decomposition of the body,. such of the cereals).- Dial used on such occasions had to be-dispensed with, and, , among other thimpti- , ,tlp kissing of the royal hand ma substituted by obeisances performed before the closed tof fin. At ten o'clock,. on Saturday morning,. the Mistressuf the Robes, having: locked the outer coffutand delivered the ; key to the " Modomo Mor," took a lighted candle in. candlestick (the established etiquette) and went before the bearers of the coffin,. as far as the palace gate, where she stood until the hearse in which it was deposited beganto move away. The following was the order of the proces- 1 sion:—A squadron. of Lancers, the officers of the =mini, polity on horseback, in long black cloaks and cocked hats., with crape bands—twelong lines of citizens (among them many of the British residents) all in ~ leep -mourning ank. bearing wax torchee—the carriages tOithe.-ministers, the nobility, and the corps diplomatique—the.state carriages conveying the great officers of the household—a splendid carriage conveying the crown and sceptre upon a large cushion of crimsoa.velvet—an empty.- mourning coachr, the hearse, surrounded by the archersue the Royal Guard ha their showy dress of scarlet and.? gold, . and walking bareheaded—another squadron of eayalry—and, the troops that lined the streets, andfell into platoons ,as the procession passed them. On the whole, there was nothing grand,in the furzcral; but the voluntary attendance of the-'citizens, whose num bers must have amounted to some tame or three thousand, was an unexpected novelty which greatly heightened its effect. The Amaral service at the church was long_ and solemn ; and, at . its termination, the crowds diw:ed were ...extinguish e d, th e 'l oom were clos4„. and , Mighty Princess Da me M ar i a d a , the lights ter and Algarv a , was left to pass her the vault where lie the r e ma i ns o f h ir - . R oya l t cl ilf e et e l i nn g go h hf tp a io n ur ancestors. On• the 23d ult., after, having, according to the custom of.the Portuguese Court, passed eight:days in close retiremaat, the King Regeot, held a levee at the palace of Necessidades. On the 26th, an address, of con dolence on the part of the Britislunerchants waspresented to His Majesty by a deputation from that.body,,composed by Mr. Vice-Consul Meagher, and Messrs. Slaw, Rough ton, Ellerton, Knowles, Wilby, Turner, Hancock, and Carruthers. After having rellied,to. the address in the P f ,e e language, he spok e t o , the severat.members of the rtu drputation in English, and found something affable and courteous to say to each. FO-REIGN MiriSC_ELL42(I. "SI/IBIT RAPPINGS."—The.Paris correspondent of the Literary Gazette writes, "An d such is. the terrible effect has created, that it has. altogether weaned some from their ordinary avocations, has bewildered Pt foo l: L ot i ts women, and has, actually sent an eminent Paris banker, a departmental prefect, and, two or three high. functionaries, stark staring. mad." THE GERMAN GOV4R,NMENT.S A THE PAPAL HlLar- ARCHY.—The conflict hetw.eenithe Archbishop of Friebnm and the government of Baden is assuming an aggravated. character. Riots have. taken place, bi Baden for the rescue of the priests arrested by the order of the governmenkund a number of ecclesiasties have been placed under arrest. The Romish Bishopsin other parts of Germany are canning pastorals in suppc'rkof the efaDsns of the papacy, and in opposition to the civil , power to be read from the pulpits.. The Archbishop of Posen, the Bishops of Mayenve, Lim burg, and Rothenburg, and all the Austrian Bishops have declared themselves. The government of Baden has issued a decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits within ten days. AN AMERICAN. LOVE TRAGE D Y.—A melancholy affair occurred in this county about eight miles from the city,on the Bardstown: turnpike, on Saturday morning. A man named Christian G. Martin had been teaching school there, and engaged. himself to Miss Emily Shaw, also a teacher, whose parents resided. there. Martin had, in, fact, obtained the marriage license. Afterwards he concluded not to marry her, and to screen himself from the consequences presented a paper to her for signature, in which she was charged with having exercised the grossest improprieties. She, of course, refused to sign it. Martin and a brother of Miss Shaw then got into a fight on the road. Shaw d re w a pistol, which Martin attempted to wrench from him, and it went off, accidentall,y,the ball entering in front near the shoulder, and lodging in the back. Miss Shaw, unconscious that Martin was wounded, then jumped the fence, walked up to Martin, and shot him in the side. He died in about fifteen minutes, though it was thought that the first wound would have caused his death.—Louis ville Journal. STRANGE SIIP ERSTITIoN.—The following incident is reported from Lower Bavaria :—A peasant died, and was laid out for burial. His niece, who lived in the house, watched an omrtupity when she believed no one saw her, and then stealthily pinned a letter to the graveclothes. That letter was addressed to her mother, who died 14 years ago, and it was the poor woman's belief that her uncle would find means to deliver it in the land of the dead. It is to the following purpose Dear Mother,—As there is now such a good opportunity, I send you this little letter, with the request that you will cau se me t o d ream th ree num b ers in the lottery, for I suppose you are aware that I am very badly off. Mayl?e that this paper gets rotten, but, as i s impossible with God, ple as e to entreat our Lord (Hergott), and give me ne ws o f th e th ree num b ers n wdG o ahiodu thi gehh n t g er._mAßlA. are sure to and so, I remain, your faithful The direction was, " To my dead Mother in Eternity.' —Kolner Zeitung. TILE BOYS DUEL.--Two boys, named Dubignon and Males, one of them 14 years of age, an d the other only 11, w ere tried by .the tribunal of corre c tional police, on a charge of stealing a brace of pistols from a stall on the qua y. It was shown by the evidence an d the confession of the prisoners that they had q uarre ll e d a t mar bl es , an d had resolved, in. imitation of older but not wiser persons, to Oglit bd. Being witholit arms, hQwcycr, they could only obtain them by theft. Provided with pistols, they obtained by similar means a small quantity of powder and a little lead, which they cast into balls, but they were arrested at the moment when they were about to resort to the ordeal of honour. Males, when asked by the presi dent why he stole the pistols, replied, " Because I have a big brother, who is a corporal in the line, and who has always said to me, Moutard, you must never allow your self to be insulted, but fight like a trooper; when you are insulted, fight like a man, and do not be afraid."' The mother of the younger boy, Dubignon, having promised that if he was discharged she would take greater care of him, the court complied with her wish; but Males was sentenced to be sent for three years to a house of correc tion.—Galignani. ROMANTIC WEDDING.—A marriage took place in Bos ton, last week, under the following romantic circum stances :—A young clergyman, resident in Canada, was engaged to a lady in England. Circumstances not favour ing his undertaking the voyage to his native : country, in order to meet his lady-love, she took passage on board the Canada, to come to her future home, alone and unattended. Arrangements had been made to have the marriage cere mony performed in a church in this city upon the arrival of the bride, and the rector was ready to have the church opened at an hour's notice. The steamer reached East Boston about eleven o'clock on Friday night. The bride groom was upon the wharf, anxiously awaiting the ap pearance of his betrothed, whom he had not seen for three years. The parties soon met, and a friend was despatched to have the church opened and the clergyman in attend ance. The arrangements were made after a short delay, as the bishop and the priest who were to officiate had retired for the night. The bridal party drove from the steamer to the church. The candles gave but a dim light, and the scene was quite peculiar. During the marriage ceremony the clock in the church struck the midnight hazer, so that some confusion arose respecting the proper date to give the marriage certificate. The party in the church consisted of but five persons—the bride and bride groom, the two clergymen, and one witness. The married clergyman took part in the. religious services of two churches in this vicinity on Sunday, and left for his place of residence in the early train yesterday.—Boston Traveller. A LONE WOMAN.—The Placer Times, a Californian newspaper, contains an extraordinary story of an Indian woman who has lived alone for eighteen years on the island of San Nicholas, one of a cluster in the Pacific, some leagues off Santa Barbara :—"About the year 1824 or 1825, nearly all the men of this island were murdered by a Russian ship's crew. Ten years afterwards the remainder of the inhabitants, being desirous of deserting the island, were taken on board a small schooner for that purpose. After they had all got on board, one of the Indian women discovered that her child was missing, and asked permission to go on shore and look for it. A gale sprung up and the schooner was driven away. Abort three months afterwards, it is said, the schooner agaiiv touched at the island to bring her away ; but she could not be found. Since that time, her foot-prints have been occasionally seen on the shore, and other indications met with showing, that she still existed: Recently, an Ameri can resident of Santa Barbara, engaged in Otter-hunting off the coast, touched at San Nicholas. While travelling along the beach, to his great astonishment, he suddenly came upon this woman. She was engaged in cleaning or curing birds' siting, which she sewed tether to serve as a covering, and in a garment of wilach she was then dressed, She did not manifest much surprise at seeing him, and readily assented to his proposition to leave the isiank of . which she had been the sole inhabitant since 1834. Among the articles she brought along with her from , the island were several needles, with which she sewed the birds' skins together. These needles are beau tifully made of fifth-bones, and shew a surior degree of ingenuity. Thelhreadi which she used vas , as thin fibre of the sinews- of a whalk She had also several fishing hooks, made of oldnaile , that she probably found in some boards piekedup on the. shore. These nails , were well bent and sharpened, and attached to a line =db• of fibres of whale sinews - beautifully twisted together. She had a knife also, about an inch /Ong, which seems to have been a piece of iron hoop, set in. aiwooden handle. Shehrought with her soute•seal-meat, and a quantity of roots-;" THE STIeUGGLE . BETWEEN 2KE CHURCH AND ST. iTE IN 8ADE21,5.- THE2E has barn some talk of the archbishop's flying:for refuge from the perseention into the Principality of Holien villern, which no belongs to the'liing of Prussia, whose "'elevated wisdonu'l in his treatm eut. of the Roman Catholic Crierch in his don ions, the archilshop holds out to the Grand Duke of Baden as an example-to be followed by him It re, believed, however, that his gram will not meet with any encouragement - in 'his refractory proceedings at tie hant's of Friedrich.: Wilhelm IV. On the other handlu Austria has offered her mediation bettveen the conflicting. - partiis, and it appears- to have been accepted. To which' side weeh an imparter }umpire, or daysman, is likely to , lead,• may be inferred from the circumstances that the- official Wiener Zeitzeng 'has already repressed itself in: favour of the episcopal party while Vie conflict was only the preliminary stages, and that Austria cultivates an influence in the Protestant States of thesouth of Germany,, and even in Prussia, by putting herself forward as the tector and champion of the Romish Church. At the lire Vienna Ctonference of thevarious Roman Catholic Societies in Austria, it was a stifle& of the GranckDuke of Baden, • Professor:Zell of Heidelberg, the president of the confer ence, who closed his address-with the words—" Salvum fac imperatorein nos-train Franciscgen Josephuna," alluding - ttothe Emperors of Austria as thirreal defenders of the faith. The lasicstep taken in,this struggle, which reminds one of the times of Illblebrand, is the or ' a pastoral' letter from tie archbishop, which contains, in addition , to a somewhat - one-sided historical state ment of the , subject matter ef the conflict, a few axioms which may be interesting - to the governmcnt of any land in which the'Romish Church has any fixed hierarchy—for instance, that Christianity teaches us to render obedience to the autLeritiew only in things permitted ;:brit that it is not permitted to infringer the rights oP . the Roman Catholic Church—that it is a sin not to cloy the arch bishop in thiii matter. Oratlao part of the government an edict has been published for the expulsion of - ithe Jesuits from the country, giving them only ten days' notice to quit. As may he- 'expected, the .feeling among the people, and even among,thC clergy, iii ;divided. Among:the latter, the elder priests are, for the most part, averse to the agi tation, but the younger are impelled by zeal :for their church and a- desire of prefekment for themselves : it is they, at the-instigation' oftlae Vatican, who' are making use of the Atchbishop of Freiburg, an aged, feeble man of eighty add, as their too/. One ordinance recently enacted by this aged pectoris, however, calculated to do the church some service. . _ With reference •to the house keepers of Roman Catholic: priests in his.diocese, it is enacted thatixt fttture no.priest shall have tore than one woman servant, and she le required to have attained the shady side, of 'thinty-five,,,looked on as a canonical age.. There are to lie no more ma'amselles---a species of young: lady corresponding to thapriest's " niece"' in Ireland.. SCHAMTSL;,THE:CIBCASSIAX - CHIEFe. TILE French .Constilaaionnel gives thfiefollowing inter esting account of Schamyl, the celebrated:Circassian chief, whose recent appearance in the plains, of Georgia, and. victory over the Russians, we mentionedlast week :-- " Schamyl has. been, often compared to Abd-el-Kader, and there- is, in. fact, some analogy between. the two leaders. Both arrived at the chief command by the prestige of their religious inspiration, more even thai - aby their courage and, personal ability. Both have had; for object the enfranchisament of their intee,..and the fasion of the, tribes which, compose it, under the authority of their sole chief. But Abd-el-Kader was only a hacla4 and he waa,obliged: to, borrow from civiiisatien, a part of his rosoimees to maintain himself so long.. Schamyl., aimed higher; he set himself up as a second:prophet of.lslamism ; he (telexed himself sent by God to. complete the work of Mehemet, aud•praticularly to fuse into one the two great divisions., of. Omar aud Ali : he persuaded his flallowers that Allah ,dictated to him his wilLib periodiealviaions, and in, that way he succeeded in creating, round him an indo mitable,and. deeoted body of troops, whose blind, obedience does not give, way before any danger, and, whose, religious enthusiasm is, capable of the greatest efforts. Schamyl present fifty-six years of age. He is a man of middle size, but of a determined appearance. His private life resembles that of Abd-el-Kader. ; being, sober- and austere, and. divided between prayer and. action. His career as a warrior began in 1834. His predecessors in the war were, first, Scheick-Mausour, then Khaei Mollah, and then Ilameal Bey. The death, of this last gave him, at the age of thirty-seven, the supreme authority over the Mussulrean tribes of the Caucasus ; and then began that struggle of twenty years, which has already cost Russia more than the subjugation of Poland,. It would be wrong, however, to look on Schamyl, as. the uneontested leader of all the tribes of the Cauaasne. That chain of mountains. separating Europe from Asia, between the Black Sea and, the Caspian Sea, is itself out into two parts by the narrow pass of Darien, through. Which winds the military road ftom Musdok to Tiflis. To the right of that pass, coming from Russia to the Caspian Sea, extends the real empire of Schamyl, inhabited by Tehetchens. On the left, to the Black Sea, the , tribes known by the generic name of Tcherkesses (Circessians) do not recognise his antiority„ and are not even at' open war with Russia. Only,, as the national hatred and the religions creeds of these, two fac tions of the Caucasus are nearly the same, it is easy to comprehend that, if circumstances favoured a general rising, the Sultan and the Prophet of the Daghestan would soon become the Sultan and Prophet of all the Circassian districts, and in that case the fine provinces of Georgia and of Inertia, left without communication. with Europe, might very easily pay Turkey the cost of the impious war now stirred up against her. As to the incidents of the war between Schamyl and the Russians,, they are but little known.. The Muscovite policy is to conceal its internal wounds, and to allow Europe to hear only the bulletins of victory, often without foundation. But there are certain details and. certain results which always in the end come to light. The war of the Caucasus has lasted for fifty three years, and has worn out the ablest generals of Rus sia—Zizianod, Yermoloff, Grablee, Sass, Neidharf, Rosen, and Paskiewich ; it has destroyed her best troops, and has become a complete object of dread for the regiments sent in that direction.- It has cost immense sums to the Russian empire ; and notwithstanding all the efforts made, it is at present so little advanced that the General-in-Chief, PrincelVoronzoff does not consider himself safe in hispalace at Tiflis, and asks for 120,000 men from his Government to maintain himself in Georgia.. The Prince, still Gover nor-General of the Caucasus, if caught between the horse men of Schamyl and the regular troops of Turkey, would find himself in a very critical position. The Otto man Empire has three fleets on the Black Sea, to keep in check the two squadrons of Russia. It is known already that amunition and officers have been sent by the Porte to Schamyl. Should hostilities commence, the Tcherkesses could not resist following in the wakp of their co-religionists, and yielding to the prestige of their leader, and in that case there would, perhaps, commence for the Government of St. Petersburgh, one of those expiationof Providence which avenge the public feeling. The Caucasus, besides, has nothing to gain in civilization by its connexion with Russia. There will always be more true liberty, more justice, and more enlightened reforms on the side of the young sovereign who protects equally all religious, and who carries out the promises of Gulhand, than on the side of the a utocrat, who has never respected the independence and nationality of the nations in the vicinity of his vast empires" IRELAND. Sir EDWARD WDONNELL, Chairman of the Great Southern and Western Railway, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin for the ensuing year. TIIE EXODUS. —A Louth paper states that some of the best and most efficient members of the constabulary force located in that quarter are leaving every week for either America or Australia. The causes assigned are the scan tiness of the pay and the severity of the duty. M-Gen. MAC D ON ALI), who took a conspicuous part during the insurrection of '4B, met with an accident on Friday, whilst out with the Kilkenny hounds, which threatens to result fatally. His leg has been broken in two places, and being very much advanced in years, it is hardly expected that he will recover. A WOMAN named Hayes, at Kailbritain, near Bandon, has been committed for trial, charged with manslaughter, she having inoculated four children with smallpox, two of which subsequently died. It was reported that nu merous other deaths had previously resulted in her practice. IRISH PROPRIETORS.—Lord Charles Pelham Clinton, brother of the Duke of Newcastle, was the purchaser of the whole of the Bere estates of the Earl of Bantry; and as his lordship had previously become the owner of other property in the county of Cork, Lord Charles may be fairly classed among the new Irish landlords. RUN UPON TIM SAVINGS' BANKS.—The trustees of the banks have received a communication from the Com missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt directing the Bank of Ireland to pay the trustees' draughts to any amount they may require, without wait ing for the usual period of four days, so long as the present run upon the banks continues. ASSAULT ON SCRIPTURE READERS.—Last week two Scripture readers, residing in Borris, having occasion to pass a couple of times through the village of Graiguena mana, were on each occasion assailed and followed where ever they went by a large crowd of furious women and children, who hooted and pelted them with mud and filth to their heart's content. The men did nothing whatever to call forth any popular demonstration, having merely walked quietly down the street; but their calling was known to some of the inhabitants, and that was quite sufficient to procure their being immediately denounced for insult and outrage. ELECTErt TELEaBAPIC COMPAICY OF Inus...tron..—We are informed that this company have succeeded - in laying down, from Ballycopeland Bay, upwards of three miles of submarine wire, which is securely " buoyed," and the Al bert, with her Majesty's steamer Asp, under the command of Lieutenant Aldridge, R.N., (both now lying at Donag hadee Pier) intend to connect this line with the 28 miles of iron wire on board the Albert, and run across to Port o'-Spital the first favourable opportunity. It is gratifying to learn that so great was• the perfection of the coiling, that the entire distance was actually payed out from the hold of the Albert without even the assistance of .a single iaclividual.—Belfast Chroniele. KELLY v. BIECIL—EKBEZZAEMENT. — This case came to'a rather untimely conclusion in the Queen's Bench, on Friday. Counsel for the plaintiff requested to have the case postponed, on account of Mr..Mnrphy, a material wit nessl• being absent in London. He• had gone there to se cure• the• attendance of some others- also, as soon as the prosecutrix knew that the trial was fixed for that day. The Chief Justice refused the application, unless the ap plicant would pay the costs of the• day. On this being declined,. the Court said it was evident that it was all a sham, eat insisted that the trial should beproceeded with. No evidencewas then offered against the traverser, and he was acprlted. In the Chancery proceedings Birch has filed an ail:davit, in which he says that he•believes himself to be the son of Mrs. Kelly. The whole affair is now in course of compromise. . EXTRAOIVDIN.ART CASE.— About two• years ago, a woman nainfeMadden, residing in the May,. a short dis tance from this-town, while taking a brealifast, of atirabout, felt something stick in the side of her throat. She suffered great pain foraeveral days, and, owing to the swelling of her throat, shewas.unable to swallow anything but fluids. Several attemptfrhad been made to relieve her„ hut with out effect. After some time the pain and softness left the throat, and proceeded gradually upwards, and for the last few months she suffered from constant racking.psine across her forehead, jnnt; over her eyes. On Suntlaty morning, the 13th instant, after repeated fits of sneezing, she felt something move in)her nostril: she became alarmed, and told her husband, who, together with her father) accompa nied her to the Medierd-hall, in this town. Ow examining the left nostril, Dr. Coogan perceived a foreign. body situated high up, andiafter considerable troublesueceeded in extracting a briarlivamble, 11 inch in lengthy better than a of an inch imeircurnference, and armed with three strong, sharp, . and slightly curved thorns on each-side, nearly of an inch Ibug each :it was quite covered.: with matter. From her protracted suffering the WOMILIV wan very much spent, hut she is now rapidly recoTeriag..— Ballyshannon Hera d 1 ' OITTRA.GES IN TM:NOS - EH OF IRELAND.-011:Friday, 35 persons, principallk farmers residing in the lOcality, were sworn in as special constables for the district of 'Neigh. No circumstance has yet transpired tending to ~lead to the detection ofthe perpetrator of the murderous outrage on the Rev. MrrGraham. It is ascertained that ,:the fellow spent a portion of the day previous lraking "about the place, where tlin.must have been seen. Mean while, the commissiom of some fresh outrages maaksathe ' unchecked progress of the: riband conspiracy. Forin istanee, "As Patrick 315.1ahoxt, a tenant on the Tipping, estate, was returning home; after paying rent, abort: ten lo'clock on Friday nklit, he was waylaid by a party of :.rnen, on the townland‘ of Maxine, within two miles of Croesmaglen, and brutally beaten. There are several :1 - monuds on his head. anal:tie face is badly bruised. From. the =hire of the wouadale cannot survive long. During Mlle latter end of last week no fewer than three of rages. accurred near Newry, district of Upper Fatham. night, Peter Kin„, , P..m4abourer employed on the Newry 'and Enniskillen Railivan while proceeding from Newry, was, assailed by three or.ifour men, who fell upon him ww 'xpectedly, and several ] injured him. James Irvine :a gauger or steward on thew Newry and Enniskillen Rail way, while on his way home experienced similar, thongh. somewhat rougher, treatment. On Saturday night, a. 'Rouse in the same district, the roof of which was some ;what dilapidated, was., razed, to the round."—Ne . tary, Tklegraph. THE PATRIOT AT Hibatn—The character of patriots ) 'like that of other peoplb;-is best judged by their conduct .at home. Tried by this standard, one of the mink 'iassertors of " the rigita-of the tenantry," Captain Megan, cuts but a sorry figurer: The gallant member for West incuth, it seems, oweLhie.-sueee at the last election in no `.small measure to the.j*lioious expenditure of money. and. ';refreshments by his retainer& Among those who stood : forward to fight " dm-constitutional battle" for the, dis '.iinguished champioraof the" maid Church," and " thefirst `gem of the sea," was, one• Peter Kelly, a tenant of the Captain's, who, after. the election was over presented to him a bill of £74 for:expenses incurred on his The Captain, being by titie • time warm in his seat, either.,was :'simply unable to discernthe necessity of paying 0(.40, or, perhaps, had "conscientious scruples" as to the pro priety of refunding,raoneys expended under what he had a right to consider-suspicious circumstances. Be-this, as it may, Peter Kelly: thought he hada good elaim„audsued the Captain. In doing this, Peter unfortunately lost sight of the fact that he'was a few days behind hand,with his rent, payable on the Ist of November last ; a.circum stance of which ther•eloquent advocate of a tenant-right " took advantage, and ,distraixted upon his importunate cre ditor and. unready tenant. A sale of Kelly's: farming , stock took place -accordinaly, and Captain 'Napa, himself became a purchaser.. Bat if Peter Kelly had been unwary in invoking thcaidof the law to enforce his eleetioneenng claim against the Captain, the Captain was no Jess unwary in the stowing-away othis purchase. He conveyed it to a barn on the same estate, in the possession of a man named Green, an under-touant of Kelly, who was; in: arrears to Kelly, even, as Kelly had been to ' Captain Magan. Under these. circumstances Kelly, judelag that what was sauce for .the goose was sauce for the, gander also, distrained, forthwith upon Green, and se-seized his own corn placed, on: Green's premises by Captain Magan. Not relishing this counter-move the Captain resorted to a course stillanore• extraordinary. He, a Member of Parlia ment, a JlLstice.of the Peace, and a tenant:leasaier, collected a band of his bo/s," snd attempted forcibly7to rescue the twice-seized corn from the hands of Kelly. Following the examplaof his superior and landlord,, Kelly called together his " boys" likewise, and a pitched battle ensued, in which the reliant Captain was routed, mat one of his followers left dead one the field. This was succeeded by an appeal to that force,—so detestable in the eyeaof honourable mem 'hers of Captain Magan's kidney,—the British Military,— the.very type and instrument of Irelansrs bondage, and of thuhateful tyranny of the Saxon, With this aid,—behind which. Irish as well as Manchester patriots never hesitate toskulk at a pinch,—Captain Mogan. had the satisfaction of recovering his corn, and handing his vanquished foe , over ton* civil power on a charge of assault and murder. What the result of a judicial ; investigation into this tho roughly Irish and patriotic. affair may be, it is impossible to say; nor have we the least wish to prejudge the ques tion. We give the story, asoVetlnd it in the Irish journals ) , as a remarkable illustration: of the character of " the Irish. Patriot at home," a farce-which:,--however melancholy Is deilauement in Ireland,—might, if reproduced on a minor theatre, next season, have no indifferent success, and would, we should think, prove particularly attractive. as well as instructive, toonembers of Parliament.—John THE DEARNESS OF BREAD.—A political baker attri butes this to the war in Turkey, for he says,, " i,t is all owing to the rise in the (y) East. NEW MASS-ROUSE AT CAMBRIDGE.—The foundation stone of a new Mass-house, to be dedicated to " Our Lady() and St. Charles," has been laid at Cambridge by the Pseudo Bishop of Northampton. In spite of advertise ments, there were scarcely 100 spectators attracted by the display of Popish ceremonies on the occasion. PADDX IN YANICEELAND.—ThC runaway Irish convict, O'Donoghue, was so violent in his abuse of England in a recent lecture before the Irish Social Association in Balti more, that he was not permitted to proceed with his discourse, which was too highly flavoured even for Yankee palates. PERSECUTION IN RO3IISR COUNTRIES.—A public meeting of the members and friends of the Protestant Alliance took place at Freemasons' Hall, London, on Tuesday, for the purpose of memorialising the Government on the aspect of Popery abroad ; especially with reference to the persecution of Protestant British subjects in Tus cany, Spain, Portugal, and other Romanist countries of Europe. The chair was taken by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who addressed the meeting at considerable length, in the course of which he adverted to the burial question at Madrid, the cases of the Madiai and Miss Cunninghame, and the course generally pursued by the Grand Duke of Tuscany with respect to Protestants. Sir Culling Eardley moved a resolution declaring that the unceasing encroach ments of the Romish priesthood, in procuring the enact ment of new, and the revival of obsolete laws, against the peaceable profession of Protestant Christianity, in countries under their influence, calls for decided action on the part of British Protestants, in order to the security .of them selves and their fellow-subjects, while residing in, or tra velling through, countries where the religion of Rome is dominant. The Rev. W. Miller, of Birmingham, seconded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation.. A memorial to the Earl of Clarendon, founded on the fore, going resolution, was moved by the Rev. GH• Dads, an of Bristol, and seconded by the Rev. w . •Arthur, also adopted. The proceedings closed w ith a vote of trAnliii to the noble ettairum. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1853. THE CHARGES AGAINST MR. COO' GILL OR BRADLEY. n a the THE committee met on Tuesday last, to agree d u r",,,01f report which they are to present to the Council t-nl. (Wednesday), of the recent investigation into the cut 1 , 1 , 6 1; brought against Mr. Bradley by Mr. Hodson. It 0- 4 0 , recollected that the councillor for Vauxhall War d or charged with promising to use his influence to endealrerit to get one of his constituents relieved from the Img l ai, of his water rate, provided he would vote for the date that Mr. Bradley supported at the last inumeic; election. After three or four meetings, extendiog 03 many hours, and the hearing of a number of witnesses rt. each side, the committee have agreed to their. re: The document is at present sealed, and under loa,,ree key ; while it has however transpired that the eonuulLi have unanimously agreed to a report, it is also und er rtie they were equally unanimous in regretting ti l l A c or weight of evidence compelled them to comet 'P . '„ O 3). elusion that the allegations had been proved. Th e ,.. 61: mittee consists of the following members of the Council s, Mr. J. B. Moore, (chairman,) Mr. Hugh liornbY, Holme, Mr. George" Holt, Mr. C. Turne r, Mr. d M'Guffie, and Mr. T. Dover. a cog It will be seen, by the following communication, e t he be of which has be en forwarded to each member .o,,,bej Council, that more than ordinary importan ce is ag' to the report of the committee : 18 0 ' Town•hall, Liverpool, Ist Dee., DEAR Stn,—The special committee appointed to cn o ea into charges preferred against Mr. Bradley, have agre, e `Viice , a report, which will be deposited in Mr. ToPPing' s ,cil, 011 Town-hall, for the inspection of members of the Co,,l r k tie sdef Saturday morning next, and during Monday, and next, o' In order that members of the Council may haveiducd , portnuity of perusing and considering the-evidence adds I am directed by the committee to inform yen i'Ld3lo transcript of the short-hand writer's notes of the prof'; a reir. will be deposited in Mr. Topping's office, f or their 0 ), 411 tion, to-morrow, (Friday,) and wilt remain the Tuesday evening next.--I um, yours faithfully, own WM. SHUTTLEWORTH, T to t y It is rumoured that the case will now be taken Court of Queen's Bench. • THE STRIKES. idse: id tte , rers' Association, held at the ni ßul l PnEsrox.—The adjourned eeting °f the Mall was looked forward to by ma ny with the antinP ea d woult t that some measure might beadopted wh ich at l e ast Or. a termination of this protracted dispute, or k g: , should have the effect of bringing the contendingrrihe nearer together. They were, however, a ppointo.:,, o f terms propounded being - those agreed to on the *Ltuive November, with only this addition„—that tliose oPefi s ter who are disposed to accept employment might from the their names on and after yesterday. Judg i . l4 ,,i by t be Hotel, °a u rs . at o tone of the weekly reports and the spirit evinc .elisod operatives at their meetings, there seems little li'ditio_ne, at present of a resumption or work on those ; e le T t icie The receipts this week for the unemploye d "`', l oo fr 74 from the amalgamated society of' engineers; mato" the shipwrights of Liverpool; £2O from the of that port ; and £2O from the London cora-;;rio00 But while contributions are pouring in from of t lis k trades , in all parts of the kingdom, the resour ce :lo NO ' factory-workers in the manufacturing' districts , ',:beiag hitherto Seen the mainstay of this rsove t nent, o pol l considerably crippled by many of them being P e short time:. lot, On Saturday afternoon there was an lamer &lot, of the unemployed in the Orchard ; it )icing o ff ^ v l .; that Mr. George Cowell, who returned front L It previous elity,. would address the assembly. Oita the (of Stockport) presided. Mr. Cowell obsat- 10 ° for ' had fought fOr their union, and now wo uld , figi . ' bait' 10 per cent,- and they might depend upon' it th :Abl t l was theirs. He moved a vote of thanks tot he'l l e viler manufacturers. "for the noble spirit they bY a . during this agitation." The motion was carsw' 0 1 ,5 mation. Gowen said Monday morning lyr e ; - re when the great ' doors are to be opened ; and P l a s at that when the zusters get as many hands as j their machinery agoing they will resume worU. . ite e, you who are detorminied to stand by your conl't t 'llatn:i have an unconditional 10 per cent., hold up 3 . '"'L, 0 1 , '„ G An immense array of hands responded to this aP it reiterating cheering - followed. The vast asseel _,-- • (1i ,4 " then dismissed. -- th is _the, WIGAN.-011 ritlrsday, the coal proprieto ,, trict met by adjouriment at the Royal Hotel. loans extremely good muster; many members of jog present. After two hours' deliberation, the solutions were passed unanimously :—" hears with satisfaction: that the men at BiaP P : ee Eery, and also a portion of the Walth v-htu have resumed work at the old rate of wager l ; l3lll.-4-t a b :; ; O : rest of the miners:employed at the Waltheiv-liV-0,..i :3 liery, and those at Mrs, Darlington's, Coppul e ° , on strike, have expressed their willingness '' ) ;:io"ta„,`"y„ work."—" That in con s equence of this importa ll .,, o " e ' of, o l of the willingness of the - bulk of the men to rea" - er'" this meeting pledges limif to support Messrs. l3rell Rylands in terminating the partial strike which 5 e ists, by supplying then* with, coals and cannel• f l oe' tift the meeting be adjourned for a fortnight , to l!' i t • t i e al; men still on strike to resume. work." There jai' 0 .0 to report in connexicrtwith the strikes in this er' neighbourhood. Scarcely two hundred colli A ta", about that number of" drawers, are now on strike ; a t rest of the mining operatives, about 1 7,5 00 , he ieg , of v- h v work. Most of the men, still out b e long to one ~,c01", collieries of Messrs. W. IT..Branclier and Co., I‘ll°;rt?' the name of Walthew:abuseraild s ituated at P enay i Independent of the questi on o f wages, colliers do o ,c!. ),0 01 '; labouring at it. One feu.cni. is. said to be, that i , %;,'!„1 as it does a rich seam oetoal ; it gives off a great a b r - e - off fire-damp, and is also diefdeepest pit in Lancashi r h e l e ctia ttfr 500 yards below the sarfice: But the principal oid„, 01 10 apart from wages, is, that a rigid observance o f ta0,,0 6 (which prohibit the taking: off the tops of safetyi;:el; and the smoking of tobacco-pipes in the mine) is eu 0 I °' and for a breach of them,• which may have led tofore plosion, more than one_.nsa - ir has been brough t he „ at I S ,?; magistrates and committed to prison. But e'r e- i ; ag' e lt thew-house the men are, gradually going to wor 1 , notwithstanding that the turn-outs are tolera h irt supported by the genes.' body of miners in til, e ia Oftr, t district. There is every probability that the Par b i r a,celj. of the men, principal' aimed. against Messrs. 05 1) 1 , ,, and Co., will soon be overcome; for that firlii,l re tbe „ A rid to stand out against their miners even w"" s oca'ci sent great demand for.coal:. by several of the as ii titi colliery owners supplying them with the (I° o , : e r r coal and cannel they require for their custAg e ftill the mills of the associated cotton-spinnera„' i ds # tinue closed, and whenthe- strike of factory '1,71.3.k, tB terminate is a mystery. A meeting of the Dias elation was held yesterday.. They say they w open their mills and start their machinerY t he rot sufficient number of hands p res ent themselves a`eels, off but until then they will. do nothing. Itoqncf refused a request made , by the overlookers „„I„„ hands to assemble imthe mill yards to hear the te t t ; 05 0 ,4 which their respecti7emacters would allow then' peO t .,,it' work, and their reason -for refusing was that thelleji. might interpret it acaasign of giving waY °ll , e at. l ,: ve! The distress of thesvorkpeople is exceedingly or , they struck, some of them were promised 46 •,;ttli e ',,, week ; but last week,they only received support a t of a halfpenny perm-heael, and this week 1 -I ( `' 'Os; 00 Beggars abound by, hundreds, almost thou . ti er claim sympathy ow the ground that they ar c 1 -2 7.t0 involuntarily, the-fact being that the strike of (-:43.4, hands brought all those engaged at the other 10.`" a stand. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY A3lOO. h cl o er m l s N t e a_ ni nd a ag n ril t u ha f :t i or ii t V it' diatnoswatrinsreetliews,egoaousr‘e.egrnferneeededrallobmyy 4ta_lgosieoreij: r ,f kip tbi s °e l ,lP5 owners, being. : the . scene of all violations --,.„. so pa 1 1 ' 0 , , 1'. law. But,this.is by no means true, as we win. B ri er ' I appear. The tyrannical landed proprietor nioioB ham has . found a sympathetic tyrant ni a Flo bort_lio, Lancashire. , A labouring family in Burn ma de de arri'llo ago, found; themselves out of employ, . 911 1,0 d mnriioA hal,it tion to amanufacturing firm in the neigh- 4 it,. the iiall, membem.of this family, however, have bel . t heia a ster of attending Church service, and several ° r or 1°- tbFc bered among the Sunday scholars. The niastie)iit a pal l ' oe c* applied to made them offers of employ-rael't'f t his l l° ivi l° base:oondition.. Listen to it, inhabitants- 3....5p0per590e9 liberty—give ear, ye readers of Liberal' ' 3° h ;rts - !, 1 00 3 ; lova. large principles, but have nai•r° w d by hava hee l ; might have opportunity to earn their brel, they lig ot til if they would forsake the church whi c ,l i ihire 3 c f „e r° ll , t 5 accustomed to attend, withdraw the', '„ g ht true tent home—agricultural 0 wiv..Eie a Sunday.sehoo/ where they had been taught i' - ` - ', eonteilit ward of God,. and go to the canting cer l 'U o t i bet u ri, 13 ! s , b w y it t h his ha p rd ros ia ely b t o i ur sin strike for the souls of his oric; tcPP +.l r e i n to ganedniphlmoydeerq,u IP,. ow ner° harga ll ' 1-1111 ss ej o 't r - C . It sounds well in this w f b 3s ' s ' k los . n for f season o c a t i. as , f a mily A does it not?—that the master sivi ) :7„if anti earl"' men to sell the convictions of bi-- botitiallY bu t ld beggarly pittance to be also far more sti g atier ls e tieg .. the a vert ea gre . ...... i ne If Dissenters cannot keep up weir e. eo se. l means so unholy, the sooner ihey b e for t he • t t h e houses into stables the better W ill it be its °W r 1 fter h i that religious toleration which leas I ' 3 crea tor 3 1A r1... allowance of every man to worship his'„ __ ll t heir g ... - t t ag own fashion, and which it has hitherto 19e.7 r . Hev e tnr I advocate and support. But we will not ;..._ giro . t oe abominable act will find any vas meant 0 ?tneresse , foo whose power and influence it was meant t „1 1 ; t -l ito te I v will indignantly repudiate what would 1 c° their 0 11 1" 8 a blot on their banner, and denounce from ° 5 _ : ,,., op. „pi_ e nlifi ti ll i n et , and pulpits so degrading an attempt t ~__lfe , 'i the y , honour their escutcheon. We have meati c t' AV 6 _ Dolt of no parties, nor is it our intention to do s l o:„. 11 t he . t o_ been induced to, publish the circumstance,.:_,""r thoivoctl: and conviction that so vile an action MO' 11 : ° ` . f ,e villanous attempts to cheat the poo think ras,,liel his only birthright—the liberty tothin versal execration which is the merited rex% 0 3 1.1 S; tl j e,.'rf oil, that which affects himself and himself only • Mentor‘ ' I": , AP'l_-111P ---- ArrExpTED SuiciDE.—On Saturday, Olen her _1 aged thirty-six, having had " a few words ' wit 11 Leedsp to commit suicide by throwiug o ole 10 4 the Canal. She was rescued, however, hY s,i i a .'' 0 by Whool lei °A. sons who were passing at the time, conveyed to the Northern Hospital, which shee,cor 11"' convalescent state on Sunday, in the corapallY ° I a , i' l ,, _ l t band. TILE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 5C0F11,,14141;e1,,,•0 Commissioners of Supply for the County ef "',Ja v elle their meeting on 22nd ult., passed resolutions,' b y 'd and . approving of the whole resolutions 1 341 • 5 ,,5• ' i d public meeting held on the 2ud ult. The Con 1,10„ d till who has expressed his o! Suply for all the other counties in SConotil`d, shortlyby be called upon to follow the exampled ve%gildtl those of Orkney. At the request of d e , city like Glas • o p inion , . of its bow gow, it would be proper that 0/ 10 e s i) trates, or a gentleman connected with coniraere , c 4., 1? 0 ,, preside at the public meeting to be held tbe re alleg'il l inst., Bailie West "Watson, seni or' of - 10 . . magistrates e ar ~ V has that in a great con , . 11 A consented to occupy the chair. The rk,;001,`,,,p, address the meeting, and move one of the re5T 11 ..,1,0 11 ,."0 adopted. A committee will shortly be. tbrtue", ..., i ''' fi g 02 1 the chairman of which will be a Scoktisil A4blel"- lagikeet rauk.—Caledonian litecourle