The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-14 00:00:00

AUGUST 14, 1535. GRAND CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. • MADEMOISELLE GRIST. SIGNOR LABLACHE, SIGNOR F. LABLACHE, of the King's Theatre. ' ;IG NOR PIT.ZZI, and 'SIGNOR PIO CIANCHETTIN I beg leave to inform the Nobility. Gentry, and Public of Liver- Ronl And its Environs, that they intend to give a GRAND , t , -() NCERT at the Royal Amphitheatre on UTADNESDAY - "NT$:Ill - tin, the 26th instant, when they will perform'some of the r p os i t ir f i zzi t te c !kirs, Duets, &e. Bellini's New/rand Opera, w F p ur therarculars ay b?. known on ication at W. G. 'ls% Mu p sic ti Saloon, m ap Church-street, an future Advertise nients. Boxes, ss. • F ron t Se a t s , or St a ll s o f th e Body, ss. ; Pit, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Tickets to be had at the principal Music Shops. Tfic ilibtrpool e.i..tanbarb. PRMAT MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1835. Ai - the witsons, Captain MILLER, we have received Demerara journals to the 27th June. The colony was tra nquil, and the apprentices, if not more industrious, 'were certainly less insubordinate. The Governor bad left a n a visit to Berbice. • , the A rgen ti na , C a pt a i n KELSO, which sailed from Montevideo on the 3d June, and arrived here on Tueg daY last, we have papers from that place of a late date, and also Buenos Ayres papers to the end of May. They do not contain any political news of importance. On t he 25th of May the inhabitants of Buenos Ayres cele brated by illuminations, fetes, and other modes of re -P.1611g, the anniversary of their emancipation from the dominion of Spain. At Montevideo. a new system of Pilotage has been adopted, which is expected to work l'tter than under the Old company. We have received files of Jamaica papers, reaching f rnra .the middle of May to the 21st June. Their con t"tB verify — • 1' red la all ''t le statements . ty bare appea red tins journal re - lat7tve to tha deficiency of the crops. That has now been ascertained to be fully one-third less than The crop of last year. The following is from the Jamaica Despatch of the 12th June " It will be seen from the extracts which we have given from the Northside papers, that a London ship has taken her de parture from Montego Bay in ballast, and we are afarid many more will be similarly situated befote the end of this year. We beg very p art i cu l ar l y to ca ll t h e attent i on o f t h e M arqu i s o f • Sligo to this very painful circumstance, as well as to the pro ceedings of the St. James's emigration society, his honor the ustos, who is one of the members of assembly for the parish. being in the chair. Such a statement of the non-working of the J 9 s tent is unanswerable, as it exhibits our altered condition in o. vivid Colours. The Marquis of Sligo is a 'whig ; his party first robbed the colonies, and, not satisfied with the peipetration "one wrong,, are now endeavouring, by every means in their • I t ' i ner, to deprive us of the little that is left to us. The stipen ti;"Y magistrates, at least many of them, instead o f encouraging theire:apprentices pets,to the performance of their iuty, make them and coax them to prefer continual complaints against their masters for no purpose that we are aware of, except that towards e ay have an opportunity of exhibiting their philnthropy the blacks, while they disregard the starv a ation so c°llnuon among the lower classes in the mother country, parti 4ularly in Ireland. This sort of humanity is, however, now at a d iseetint as the motive of its exercise is as well understood as the conduct of many who joined in the hue and cry against I lav erY, merely because their interests were promoted by their that Jamaica has ceased to be a valuable appendage to the empire." The subjoined are the extracts referred to by the hsspatch : EMIGRATION SOCIETY OF THE PARISH OF ST JAMES. ,A,,t4 a meeting of the St. James's Emigration Society, held Montego Bay, on Monday the let of June, the following re -1)°, Lt was presented:—, t President—Your committee appointed to inquire, ascer ,a'n, and re p or t the quantity of produce manufactured in the parish oft. James, up to the Ist day of May, in each of the - , ' e ars. 1834 an d 1835, and the preparations made for the crop 1 836, having r*.cle the necessary inquiry. REPORT. That inorder to Olitain the most accurate account the limit time for makinetheir report allowed, had reference to all ir wharfs and shipping . places within the toun. of Montego 1 0Y , whew your committee found recorded the produce of Ir Y - ftve of the principal sugar properties in the parish, to the Periods above stated', by . which it appears there were made up to the SUGA# Molar, a 322 799 r . Is Puns. ICsk:•, let of May, 1331, And up to a correspond ing date in thepreben' year .. 16961 107 273 47 9131 73 • 'Showing a deficiency o Your committee with vans es` tstsuer - drttet envy, prov e to youitCommittee That the crops forthe present year promised abundantly, and ' wl th the ordinary labour and exertions neceßsary fur reaping t `uertl, must have produced, returns surpassing those of the pre ceding year. That the scasnDs for the niannfactuting and carting produce to the - wharfs were as favourable as could he desired—and I That very little preparations have been made fur the crop of 8,36 . • 996 521 421 7831 731 80 view to arrive at if knovsledge of the exterrited their inquiries. -- The resnite our committee, under the foregoing circumstances, have • arrived at the conclusion, that the present great deficiency of produce, and theg!oouiy prospects of increased loss next year, ' are chargeable to the apathy and indisposition to labour by our Present peasantry; and'•;submit, that unless additional labour rt 'll ci n be procurea by • the introduction of agriculturists from nnul, much of the cultivation of the staple articles of the soil Oust be abandoned. (Sig tied JOHN MANDERSoN, Ist June, 183.5. Chairman Committee. A LONDON SHIP GOING HOME IN BALLAST FOR WANT OF FREIGHT. Some of the vessels which have sailed from this port this Year have gone considerably short of their usual cargo of sugar .• and rum ; and several of those now in harbour will do the sa me Disheartening as this circumstance is, we have vet to one still more so. The ship, Janet, Chalmers, left our ~1 1° res yesterday, for London. in ballast, every <fort to procure I?I; her a cask of sugar or rum having proved ineffectual. But this is not all ; the people of England have been so deceived by "e reports of the " successful" working of the new system, Sent home by his excellency and his satellites, to whom he had written flu-favourable accounts under their judicious arrange• Ine lat:" that ne'credit . had been given to gentlemen who have written to their constituents fair and accurate statements of the • 4ituation' of the bland. At all events they have been told : I that the accounts received from Jamaica arc very contradic t4Y;" and many of them, not suspecting the system of inten nnal deception which has been practised on th em, have been — Muted to . place the most faith in the most favourable' reports— ' e specially as they had been informed of the prosperous appear ance of the Island up tO the Ist of August. It was under these " 11 Pressions, no doubt, that the Messrs. Dawsons, of London. ' Wrote OR the 15th April last, to Captain Chalmers, to sai, that " PeY intended to send out the Watertily immediately to take teal 'agar and rum. the Janet nyglit leave." Is it not most repre. , ' iLettsible thus to sacrifice private interest for the sake of de uthog the public for a few short months, and that on a subject of vital importance ? Some of our friends in England will find • their cost, that the declarations of a great personage, whether made in the Carrihean or Mediterranean sea, are entitled to • "ial confidence. The 'whip are now in. Will the Marquis theirligo repeat to theM the asiurance of the fuccessful issue of Projects in *is country.—Montego Bay.Staluiard. The report of the committee of the St. James's Emigration 10 eiety affords another proof of the ill working of the new sys tfern, and if the Marquis of Sligo is at all ilisnoml to listen to the l!ets which tell against his predilections, it must convince bins that any report he may receive, stating that the new system is I lorkin g well, is most erroneous. The enormous deficiency :,"°Wed to exist in the quality of sugar shipped in 1535, as com pared with that corresponding period last year, clearly shows t hat the present crop will not -prove an " average'? one. Murder and liberal principles are doing frightful work 1 11 vario us parts of the world at the present moment. In Pain the government of CEIRISTINE, acting in the name nr ISABELLA, are burning convents and monks as farmers . 4 0 thorns and rats. In the march of intellect and pro fligacy human life is not esteemed more valuable than t hat of vermin. In one town in Spain on the 22d July, some pretext or other, " two convents were given up 10 the flames, and twenty-seven monks lost their lives." Barcelona, on the 25th, several religious houses " Were delivered up to the flames, and the ornaments of . 111 e church and the sacred vestments were burnt. The r nionks who sought to escape were killed by the populace, i.)tlt the greater part of those who perished were the vic (444B of the flames." In Catalonia the whole of the mo nastic edifices are doomed to destruction. The nuns are generally spared, and some of the monks have effected their escape, but the numbers who have perished are al 111°8t incredible, while the destruction or confiscation of t heir property is complete. These outrages and atrocious murders originated with the C I IIOSTINE or liberal party; the constituted authori •l'es, and even the soldiers of the Queen, looking on with 'aint indifference. They were renewed at Barcelona on the sth instant with redoubled fury by the republican party, which is alike opposed to the Queen and Don -;Antos. G enera l B ABA, an o ffi cer o f th e Queen's f orces, at the head of 2,000 men, entered Barcelona on , the 4th. He was next day attacked in the very palace y a rep u bli can mo b , t h rown f rom t h e b a l cony , d ra gged bthrough the streets, and his dead body thrown into the flames This is awful work; but who can tell whether it may not be p ro d uct i ve o f salutary effects, Popery is so iden . tified and intertwined with despotism that it is impossible t ,. ° countenance the one with o ut submitting to the other. • we perceive thnt, despite all the lessons it has received, ft has again begun to incorporate itself with tyranny in France. Since the expulsion of the legitimate branch of the BOURBONS, its bishops and priests have sternly stood aloof frOm recoguis;ng the constitutional government of Louts PHILIPPE. But within the last few. days, seeing that he is resolved to'play the despot in earnest, the arch bishop and the clergy of Paris have made their peace with the Citizen King, freely bestowing upon him as many masses as would be sufficient to fire far more " in fernal machines" than any that have yet exploded. This augurs no good to France ;.it will not, we suspect, serve the purpose of LOUIS PHILIPPE; it cannot even prop the falling fortunes of the Romish hierarchy. Popish arro gance and bigotry—popish fraud and imposition—are now beginning to be understood in most parts of the world. It is only in Ireland that its wretched schemes are overlooked by its victims. It is only the ministers of WILLIAM the FOURTH, a protestant sovereign, who fos ter its power and tolerate its excesses. As to the unprin cipled dissenters, and the starvling hypocrites in fastidi ous habiliments, who in our times are doing the work of hodmen to the monks of Maynooth, and their monster beggar O'CONNELL, we could not wish them a greater evil than that they might be under the iron fangs of a popish government for a single week. The Irishmonks, we know, hate us of the Church of England with an en during hatred; but we are pure in their eyes compared with most of the English and Scotch sectarians. Oh what a night it would be if the baptists, the independ ents, the socinians, the quakers, and the Scotch rogues who call themselves " voluntaries," were in the power and at the mercy of the Irish priests I There would be howling in the tabernacle, and wailing in the meeting house, if the MURPHYS and MAGUIRES; the Father ABRAfIAMS of Waterford and the Father O'FLINNs of Cork, had a night's power or license in England ! Per haps the day and night may come; if so, the sooneuthe better. , We eip4ct some of these days to bear of a-fearful mils ' .sacre is Paris. • Now that the "Citizen King" has placed himself in the power of the popish clergy, and has • extinguiihed the only gleam of liberty in France, the fire of the revolution will spread below, gathering strength by compression, until it burst forth in a torrent of blood. Talk of "infernal machines," indeed ! Here is one of • terrible form fixed by LOUIS PHILIPPE himself. The wretch FIESCHI was only, as it now appears, a despica ble spy in the employ of the police. His machine did some damage ; but that invented by Louts PHILIPPE, and consecrated by the restored priests, will cause an ex plosion which will make France shake to its very centre, and send LOUIS PHILIPPE to the matter where! But change we our position to another quarter of the globe. We see what popery is suffering in Spain, and what it is attempting in France. We see its power wi thering in one place, and its power desperate in another. We see convents burning and monks perishing under the liberal auspices of ISABELLA ; and we see convents ris ing in splendour, monks gathering in legions, and popery flourishing in Ireland. All this speaks meteors and thunderbolts—a shaking of the nations--a dreadful con vulsion—a wholesome reaction, and a more perfect purifi cation. Turn we then to the United States of America. What do we observe there ? We have before us a late number of one of the most ably'conducted journals of New York—the Journal of Commerce. An intelligent correspondent of that paper has been allowed to address a series of letters to the citizens of the United States on the spread, progress, and designs of popery. It will be recollected that re cently serious riots have taken place in New York, Phi ladelphia, and Charleston. These were intimately con nected with, and in point of fact had their origin in po pish insolence and oppression. A poor girl, of good family, had been immured in a convent at Charleston.. She grew tired of the unnatural life she had been con strained to lead. It is said that her eyes were opened to the sinfulness of the institution by the licentious prac tices which came under her observation. In short, it is said she had reason to think that all the nuns were not rigidly virtuous, and that the father confessors were more liberal than moral, and time insolent than meek. Under these impressions she wished to be restored to her family and friends. This, according to the rules of mo-S intomsiblee--- The very - thought was impious. Not purgatory itself, backed by a million masses per day, could tolerate such an infraction of the sacred regulations of monkery and nunnery, . The very idea was enough to raise St. FR ANCISCUS from the dead. The young lady (she must have been of English blood, and a Yankee, to the backbone) thought differently. As her wishes were overruled she took the advantage of a moonlight night and eloped. She reached the home of her relations in safety. She told her tale, was pitied, and received- with open arms. The ferocious banditti of the convent roll Owed herL:the'father confessors were in a state of indescribable trepidation and alarm—tl►e curse, they saw, had come upon the -- order; and by main force, the young lady was dragged baCk to the abomina ble nunnery under the atrocious plea THAT SHE WAS MAD !!'! The story and the abduction soon got wind. A free citizeness had been seized by a set cf filthy fellows, under false pretences, and excluded from liberty and socia ha, , piness for life. The people reflected upon the con sequences and the criminality of the act, as plain unso phisticated men generally do, over a glass of rum and water; and having discussed it for some seventeen nights, as they do in congress, they came to the conclu sion that such conduct on the part of Irish priests, and the women they import as nuns, was equally infamous and unconstitutional. They accordingly went to work as -goad citizens ought always to do. They rose en =wee and burnt the convent.. The pious women ran to the -fields and the sheds of the negroes in rather an awkward plight. The good lads did not even spare the chapel. The red pine flung up in flames its Ave Marias to the cold and careless moon. Not a stick, cross, or bead — not a hair band or hair mattress was saved. There was no holy water, or even profane water, sprinkled upon the conflagration. The confessional chair and the incense pots, the holy thumbs and the holy toe nails, the nose of St. ANTHONY and the scalp of St. DOMINICK, the manger of Bethlehem and the dexter spur of the cock which pro claimed the mendacity of St. PETER, all went up hissing hot as a fire-offering to ZEDEKIAII B. DORKAS, the prin cipal director of the Charleston assurance company. We have not heard whether the assurance company be came insolvent in consequence, but we are rather in clined to the opinion that they did. However, Miss: LYDIA S.' BROWN, or whatever was her name, was again restored to her friends in whose keeping we trust she is at this moment. Since this event the whole of the American Union has been considerably agitated on the question of popery. That it is on the increase, and that its missionaries have become more audacious, in most of the states, is undeni able. The vast numbers of Irish who are annually transported to New York must be continually swelling the aggregate of the popish population. They constitute the most demoralized class in the republic, and they are the promoters of the many riots which disturb the peace of the large towns. The jealousy of the natives, how ever, has been aroused, and hence the frequent broils and outrages which we have recently seen rather reluc tantly noticed in the American journals. The papists have actually formed an O'CONNELL corps under the pre text of defending themselves, hut the real object we un derstand is to forward the designs of the Irish priests. The writer to whom we have alluded recapitulates cer tain facts which he asserts he has proved. The following are among the leading ones: — It is a fact, that Popery is opposed in its very nature to Democratic Republicanism, and it is therefore as a political system, as well as religious, opposed to civil and religious liberty. It is a fact that an unaccountable disposition to riotous con duct has manifested itself within a few years, when exciting topics are publicly discussed, wholly at variation with the former peaceful, deliberate character of our people. It is a fact that a species of police, unknown to our laws, has repeatedly been put in requisition to keep the peace among a certain class of foreigners, who are Roman Catholics, viz., Priest-police. It is a fact that Roman Catholic Priests have interfered to influence our elections. It is a fact that politicians on both sides have prapitiated these priests to obtain the votes of their people; It is a fact that numerous Societies of Roman Catholics, particularly among the Irish foreigners, are organized in various parts of the country under . various names and oste ns ibly f or certain benevolent objects; that these Societies are united to- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ether by correspondence, all which tiny he innocent and praiseworthy, but viewed in connexion with the recent aspect of affairs are at least suspicious. It is a - fict, that an attempt has been made to organite a military corps of Irishmen in New York, to be celled • the O'Connell'Guards, thus commencing a military organization of foreigners. It is a fact, that the greater part of the Roman Catholic population is composed of foreigners. The reasoning upon these facts we regret we cannot make room for ; but we have quoted sufficient from the Journal of Commerce to show that the Americans are awake to the machinations of the "Irish foreigners." It was but the other day that a priest of the name of ENG LAND, formerly of Cork, sailed from Liverpool with a consignment of nuns for Charleston. We never beard whether they arrived in safety; but the avowed object of their mission was to make converts of the protestant po pulation by means of schools for the " edticaticn of.young ladies." The " education" here meant is the gentle art of proselytism, which is conveniently and successfully pursued in a convent, where insidious appeals are made to the passions, where solemn music lulls the power of reason, and *here the mind is imperceptibly influenced by voluptuoos abstractions under the sanction of a false religion. Protestants who have daughters should be on their guard against these delusions. If the American people have penetration enough to foresee the effects of popery on their free institutions, why should Englishmen be so dull to its iniquities ? We have no fault to find on public or moral grounds with the Roman Catholics of England. They are, for the most part, men of sense, education, and of generous feelings. But we call upon our countrymen, if they value the peace and happiness of their children, to draw the line of tbs. tinction, and banish from their domestic hearths the fana- tical barbarians of Ireland. At this critical juncture the whole powers of the state are wielded by the popish party in the House of Commons. The laws are framed to pro mote their views, the minister is their slave, all te pa tronage-of the crown is at their disposal, fines and penal ties are relinquished at their word of command, and a death's head and cross bones are placed over the door of every public man who exposes their perfidies, or endea vours to thwart their ambitious schemes. But this conspiracy against the liberty of nations can not be endured much longer. The priests have rustled on their own destruction in France, and with the tyrant PHILIPPE they stand or fall. In Spain the monkish sys tem totters to its base. The fire of the convents will spread ; it is not in the power of human hands to arrest its progress. Even in Portugal they have been deci mated, and the remainder have but a precarious existence. And shall it be said at this time of day that of all the free nations on the face of the earth, the protestants of Eng land are the least concerned and the least interested in the spread of poplry ? No, the thunder only sleeps in -the cloud ; the hour of awful retribution and severe punish ment will come. . It did not strike us at the time when noticing the fooleries of poor Colonel WILLIAMS and his associates that the petition they adopted was addressed to the House of Commons. Had it been the production of an Irishman, we should certainly have attributed the mistake to the peculiar propensity of his countrymen, and instead of saying it was absurd we should only have said it was a bull. Be this as it may, the petition to the House of Corn mons, now that that house have passed the bill, and have no longer: any control over it, is like a letter to a dead man. It is t rue that the house may or may not accede to the amendments of the lords, supposing it to be amended; but if they refuse, the House of Commons will have the questionable honour of rejecting the bill. If they do that, we shall be infinitely obliged to them. We con- tend that such a bill of mischievous blundering and wholesale spoliation should not be allowed to pass into a law. Now, the reformers of Clayton -square are, without intending it., doing our work, conformably to our wishes. If their petition have any meaning, it prays the house to reject the bill ; and to that prayer we say Amen As to any chance of exciting the people so as to en courage the house to come into angry collision with the lords, that is entirely out of the question. The bugbear afflicts nobody of any higher pretensions than JOE PARREs, of the unfortunate Morning Chronielev--lie r poor man, fumes and foams distressingly enough about it, for his place and pay are both periled by the rejection of the bill. We are convinced that nine-tenths of the people do not care one straw about the municipal corps ration, bill; or, if they (10, it is in the way of amuse ment, to see the spluttering of the Manchester radical; and the coal-porters of Marybone, and the dogs' -meat men of Smithfield -and Finsbury, about a measure with which they are in no way concerned. What do the fac tory labourers of Manchester know about corporations ? Their corporation is the mill; their municipal privileges are eighteen hours' drudgery per day ; their liberty is, truly enough, the,"air they breathe," and the sooner they reform and improve that, the better perhaps for themselves. We do not know which to laugh at. most, the ravin gs o f JOE PARKES and the Morning Chronicle, or the stolid blockheads who stiffer themselves to be duped by them. While we are on this subject, we are reminded that Colonel WILLIAms, in his fustian speech of Monday last, charged the corporation of Liverpool with misappropriat ing the borough funds. He said they had converted these funds to-their own private purposes. Colonel WIL LIAMS should be the last man in the world to bring such unfounded charges against men quite as respectable and certainly of as much integrity as himself. There is a maxim about every dirty dog wishing to mdke others as blackas.himself. The Colonel will understand us. Does he recollect the funds of the 211 regiment of Liverpool Volunteers which was disbanded upwards of twenty years ago ? Those funds were, we believe, entrusted to his care for distribution amongst the public charities. Will he be good enough to tell us what became of these funds? Did they not amount at one time to upwards of £600? How much of that sum, and the interest arising there from, has`COloc►el WILLIAMS given in charity ? Is there any balance in his hands ? Where is that balance, if there be one, and what is the amount of it ? D oes it amount to £5OO, or do £5OO of that fund still stand in his name at a Liverpool bankers ? These are a few, filberts for the gallant Colonel to crack at his leisure. If he chooses to answer them, these columns are open to him. We have, on the principle of fair play, inserted a letter from a Mr. RossoN, who it seems figured at the revolu, tionary meeting. of Monday. If it gratli' this gentle= man to read what he has written in praise of himself in the pages of a newspaper, he is for once quite welcome to a corner. 13nt Mr. RossoN, we fear, dill learn that it would have been more kind in us to have tossed his self-eulogy into the fire. He is a bold man in these -times who can boast of his patriotism. Mr. ROSSON says that he laboured in the cause of the Roman catholic% " without salary, fee, or reward of any kind whatsoever." We deeply sympathise with him ; at the same time we wish a tenth part of this could be said of that gloating vampire who has long lived upon the vitals of thestarving poor of Ireland ; and yet DANIEL O'CONNELL claims to be a patriot too! Mr. ROSSON, however, is a barrister, of what standing we know not, and it is quite possible he may still obtain, and accept too, without seriously wounding his feelings, his " fee and reward." At any rate, he has taken care to remind his friends, " the Duke of NORFOLK, the Earl of SHREWSBURY, the rest of the catholic nobility, baronets, and gentry" of the importance of his services. . As to Mr. ROSSON'S ingenious mode of ascertaining the Roman catholic population of Liverpool, it is too good a joke to be treated seriously✓ on a Friday. As to his opinions on architecture, we have no doubt they are equally valuable. LORD BROUGHAM A Dom tNiE!--ikly Lord Brougham and Vaux having lately appeared to exult prodigiously in the self applied name schoolmaster, and being unable to get rid con vernently of the title lord, which evidently is peculiarly obnoxious to him, could have no great objection, we presume, to substitute for it the humble but honourable, and certainly more appro priate appellation, dornime, by which schoolmasters, in this part of the country at least, are commonly designaled. As the change proposed would be in reality a mere translation of the name into Latin, we think the best way by which Lord Brougham, the schoolmaster, should humble hinself, in order that he may he exalted, would be to assume the name, as he has not only assumed, but appeared in the character of Dominic Brougham. ENTRANCE OF THE JUDGES TOMORROW: The first entrance of the judges to hold an . assize in Liverpool is the subject of general conversation, and will probably, if the day be fine, attract a vast concourse of spectators. The representatives of Majesty on this oc casion will be Lord 'Abinger, the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, and Sir Nicholas Tyndal, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. They are expecte i to reach the environs of the town to-morrow afternoon, between five and six o'clock, where they will be met by the Mayor in his state carriage, and by other municipal functionaries. It is expected that the commission will be opened in the new Court-house about seven o'clock, Wten met by the Mayor, the cortege is expected to en ' ter by Scotland-road, Byrom-street, pass through White chapel, and proceed by Lord-street-and Castle-street to the Town-ball. We are not authorised to state that these arrangements have been decided upon, but we mention them as the most probable. The above route at any rate would be the more agreeable one. As the spectacle will be new to Liverpool, we learn that many of the most respectable tradesmen have resolved to form themselves into a procession to meet their lordships. The windows on both sides of the way will, no doubt, be crowded by all the rank arid fashion of the town. • The Court-houses have been completed by Mr. John Foster, the town surveyor, in a remarkably short space of time, and considering the limited space he bad to work upon, he has acquitted himself with consummate skill. The Nisi Prius court, we venture to say, is one of the most commodious in the kingdom. The arrangements are admirable, and it is well lighted and ventilated. The criminal court, however, is small, and we fear will be found inadequate, although every possible and ingenious contrivance has been resorted to, in order to enlarge it to the utmost. • THE COTTON . TilAlii]. (From a Correspondent of the Journal du Havre.) Two Patis journals, Le Moniteux, da anatnerce and is Journal des Tissue, whose happy knack of treating with au apparent knowledge of the case many commercial questions, upon which. nevertheless, they do not hazard an opinion, have, in certain reflections which they have thrown out lately, marked out a party of merchants of Havre, whom they call speculators, as the cause of the rise which has taken place for the last few years in the sale of cotton wool at this market. The object of these reflections having a tendency to point out this class of our falow citizens to the notice of our manufacturers of cotton cloths, we have thought fit that under this view of the case we should no longer remain strangers to it. But before we proceed further, let us first present, in a few word; a list of the assertions which, in this controversy, serve as a basis for th e argumen t s o f th e t wo j ourna l s i n question. 'These assertions may be classed in the following order : Ist.—lf . the greater part of the commercial houses of Havre were not to speculate in cotton, the rise which this market has undergone for the last few years would not have taken place. 2dly.—The rise in the price of cotton cloths is not in pro portion to that of the raw material. idly.—These two causes together have paralysed the works of our manufacturers upon which depends the existence of millions of workmen ! ! ! Let us consider one after the other these different assump tions, and reply to them successively. REPLY TO THE FIRST ASSERTION If France were the country which consumed the greater proportion of this article, Havre being the largest market in France for cotton wool, one could conceive that up to a certain point an extended speculation io this article at Havre might at first effect an artificial rise in the price of cotton, and finally maintain it. But all the world knows that relatively to Liver pool, the principal market in England and Europe for cotton, Havre is but a secondary market. Besides it is well known that the prices of cotton (notwithstanding the difference in the duty, which is less in England than in France) are always as high at Liverpool as at lluvre, and for the last two months these same prices have been maintained at rates from 5 rii) 7 centimes for the half-kilograinme higher in the former than in the latter of these markets ! In supposing that the rise in the price of cotton is caused by speculation, might it not rather be attributed to the speculators of Liverpool than to those of Havre; to the former of whom the two journals in question ought to attach the blame. But the fact is, that this rise has its source in a cause which the speculators of Liverpool, as well as those of Havre, have been trying to turn to their account. This is the cause—on the 31st December, 1827, a period of great manufacturing pros perity, the stocks of cotton in England, France, and other principal depots of Eu r op e , amoun t e d t o 502,360 bales of all descriptions. Since then the general advancement of cotton in European commerce is explained by the following : Dates. Importations. Consumption. 1,033,530 bales. 1,10,3,807 bales. 1,077,681 1,215,355 1,250,932 1,190,536 1,224,111 1,298,993 1,293.522 1.336,276 1,335,748 1,3.36,215.. 1,328,228 1,392,037 Stocks up to the 31st December. 492,08.3 bales. 353,909 414,365 339,483 296,729 296,262 232,453 1828. 1829. 1830. 1831. 1832. 1833. 1831. It results from these tables that from 1818 to 1834 inclusive, 'tiro- quantity of :aott4 w oL the different countries producing this article have been able to furnish towards the consumption of the European manufactures has been inferior to this con suinp tion, and that the total of the stocks remaining at different European depots at the end of each year has successively di minished, so that in fact the amount of stock on the 3lst Decem ber, 1833, shows a reduction upon that of 31st December, 1827, from 212 100! ! The true cause of the rise of the prices of cotton in Europe is nowhere to be found but in those facts, but, above all, in the last one, particularly since the clay when these circumstances are supposed to have come into operation. But it will be remarked too, - how long do you suppose this rise will last ?—As long, we will reply, as no circumstance exists which will shake the cause which gave birth to it. Upon this point, in the last analysis, it is evident that even a diminution, more or less large, in the consumption of cotton in Europe, with or even without an augmentation in the production of this article, might bring about a fall more or less considerable in the prices of the former, in the same way that an augmenta tion in this consumption, without a corresponding increase, or with a.decrease in the production, might also be susceptible on the other hand, of causing .still farther progress in the actual rise. Now it is precisely in the problematical realization of the one or other of these hypotheses that the cause of the existing strug gle, now stronger than ever, between the li:l3:vs and sellers of cotton in Europe, will lie found. Relati ve t o t h e l atter i t i s we ll i to observe that they are n a certain way but the compulsory substitutes of the producers of this commodity, who, on their side, by a series of inducements which we ha ve b een ex posing, are the first promoters of the rise against which the two Paris journals whom we are answering are arming themselves. Here we see at a glance the sagacity and justice of the two journals in making out the speculators of Havre as the authors of the rise we have alluded to. tEPI.I TO THE SECOND ASSERTION. The descriptions of cotton yarn are so numerous, and their prices, in consequence of the existinc, disparity in the qualities of the same numbers, are so different', that it has been impossi ble for us to draw up tables of a satisfactory exactitude in refer ence to the progression in the prices of this branch of our mann factures so as to compare it with that of the prices of cotton wool. Touching this point, therefore, we do not hesitate to say, that if a fact was ever proved, it is this, that never at any former time have the profits of our cotton-spinners in general been sa great as during the time which has gone by since the rise on cotton 'wool.. But now let us turn our attention to cloths. Respecting these we have been able to procure lists of real sales in one of the principal markets in our environs, from which it results that since 1831, the year when silk and cotton stuff (which we have chosen as a term of comparison, being the sort which our cotton twist manufacturers make the greatest use of) fell to tue lowest possible price at Havre, the common description mixed with different k►nds of cotton having been this year from 88f. to 92E, the 50 kilos up to 1834, when the same description was 119 42f., the "combined sales of calicoes have risen pro gressively in porportion u the rise was felt in the markets of cotton wool. Here is the proof of what we have already ad vanced:— List of the sales of cotton — Georgia, C.S., Mobile, Ala bama, Tenessee, and Lou- isiana—at Havre. List of the sales of calicoes. 1831.... LSB 92 les 50 kilo. i f. 52 08 les • 100 aunes. 1832.... 88 92 .. 57.,3t) 1833.... 113 79 .. I 10 30 1831.... 119 42 .. 75 13 . Summary of the above lists. 88,92 : 119,42 : : 100 : 134 52,t,8 : 75,13 : : 100 : 144 That is to say, that although the rise upon cotton wool at Havre has been but 34, the rise upon calicoes at Bolbee during the sane period has been at 41 per cent. REPLY TO THE THIRD ASSERT:ON. The following tigtiree will be the victorious , reply to the last assumption : _ _ List of the cotton wool in France in 1831 213,813 B. I 1833....4..276,387 B. 1832 272,463 ~ „ 242,843 : 301,652 : : 100 i 124 These calculations, wbidishow a flourishing progression in the consumption of cotton wool in France in the proportion of 120 to 124 from 1831 to 18.34, notwithstanding the rise which took place on this article since the first of these dates, show also equally well that this rise has neither paralysed this blanch of our manufactures, nor taken away the means of existence front millions of workmen employed in these manufactures, as pretends one of the two journals which we have cited. After all we declare that we have not the least intention of making ourselves the chaMpion either of the rise or the fall in the price of cotton, and that in taking the pen under these cir cumstance's our only object has been to re-establish truth with regard to the facts which bare imp perverted through ignorance; we should wish to believe in the publications which have pro voked this refutation on our part. We cannot finish this article without noticing some errors, particularly on the part of the Monigeur du Commerce, in this discussion ; these being too gross to he passed over it) silence. This journal pretends that the freight upon cotton from the United States to Havre is treble that upon the same article from the same place to Liverpool. It must have been profound ignorance not only of the fact itself, hut even of the first principles of commerce, which could have led this journal to advance suai a statement. M. Nicolas Kechlin de Mulhouse, in a reply which he lately addressed to the Chamber of Cotnuierce of this town, has admirably exposed this absurd allegation. We refer the AlAntiteur du Commerce to this reply. This journal has also pretended that the importation of cotton ' into England in the first ;ix months of 1835 exceeds those of 18.34 by 03,000 bales. The following is an exact statement of these importations:- Ist six months of ism 602,560 bales. Ditto 1835 tit 6,320 do. It is noised abroad that the Mon lieu; dei Commerce rkteires pevuuiary aid limn the limird of Commerce. 11 this report be well founded it must be evident that this aid is money well applied. TO MR. WILLIAM RATHBONE,. J.P., (OR, CEING INTERPRETED, " I(%gTICE OF THE PEACE.") SIR,---I was f3rtunate enough, through the kindness of the editor of the Livuttpoot. STANDARD, to procure a place in the columns of that journal for a letter which I took the liberty of addressing, personally, to yourself. Permit me to inform you that it does not do for great men to be silent. I have Watched, but in vain, for your reply to my letter, which I humbly asked for in your magisterial capacity. When I recollect how ready you are to listen to the voice of the people, I am puzzled to think why you should not have ad dressed me. I find none : an effect, I can only conclude, pro duced by the cause of the newsman having left in the wrong quarter your number of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. If such be the case, then it is only fair to give you the benefit of the adage—" ignorance is bliss." I shall, therefore, now re-state to you what I advanced in the letter I had the honour to address to you :—A few years since, prior to a general elec tiou, General Gascovne, the tried and faithful representative in parliament of Liverpool, came to visit his constituents. He happened at the time to be in his carriage, when, in the pre sence of several individuals of high respectability, he was as saulted iu the most disgraceful and ungentlemanlike manner by an individual whose act made him a disgrace to the community he would desire (to make himself respectable) to call his own. There was no doubt about this assault. The man that commit ted it is known, and he is seen daily in the streets unpunished. The .fact is, between you and myself, the very instruments would have been disgraced that might have punished him, and derefore there is an great cause for complaint. The police, at the tine it occurred, were not at hand, or he would have been taken into custody; but let me beg of you to tell me, under these circumstances, what imprisonment or other punishment you, as one of his majesty's justices of the peace, would in- Met lam one of thole who think " The play's the king Wherewith to touch the conscience of the thing." So, I beseech you, favour me with your award; if not, then 1 must give you mine. We have yet to know what "lord in the gutter" made you a magistrate; but, for award, I would keep him on bread and water for three years, give him the treadmill for the same ,period, make him read Lord Broughan.es Penny Magazitie,-*Uti, to save his soul, Permit hr.:. Mar tineau ; but, lost of all, I/would give - him the benefit of his own society, and tone other; and, if be survived that, truly may I say the latter is au infliction that could not be equalled even if I drove over his head. Your obedient servant, ONE HORSE AND FOUR WHEELS, P.S.—I have just heard of Your exhibition iu Clayton-square to-day. Truly, as a magistrate, no one could be so fit for the office ! Liverpool, 10th August, 1835. THE LIVERPOOL PETITION AGAINST THE CORPORATIONS BILL. This petition was despatched to London on Tuesday night for presentation to the lords spiritual and temporal of Great Britain and Ireland, to whom it is addressed. In the course of two days, Monday and Tuesday, it received nearly 6,090 sig natures, spontaneously given —without having recourse to any kind of excitement. and without the aid of fraud or persuasion. 4mong the names were found not only those of the most opu lent. merchants, bankers, and other traders, but those of every grade of society, profession, art, or trade, known Li this place, who, we repeat, have thus recorded their spontaneous opinion of the conduct of the [louse of Lords, and of the merits of the corporations reform bill. We subjoin a copy of the petition and its prayer:— The humble petition of the undersigned clergy, magistrates,. merchants, bankers, and other inhabitants of th e t own a nt neighbourhood of Liverpool, Sheweth, That your petitioners approach your lordships with feelings of admiration at the firm and dignified conduct adopted by your lordships in suspending your judgment upon tne bill for the regulation of municipal corporations in Lngland and Wales, until your lordships had carefully examined into the constitution of those bodies. That your petitioners are of opininn that the present mea sure of municipal reform should have been preceded by a care ful and impartial investigation into the corporations of England and Wales, and clear and indisputable evidence, upon oath, that there do exist in those bodies the abuses which have been alleged by the promoters of the present bill. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, that your lordships will afford to the corporations of England and Wales a full and fair trial, and permit each and every of them to be heard at the bar of your lordship? house, by their recorders, town clerks, counsel, and witnesses, fully satisfied that such investi gation will show to the people of this country the justice of preserving the rights and privileges of a numerous body of his majesty's subjects. And your petitioners respectfully assure your lordships of their fixed and firm determination to support your lordships' house as an independent branch of the legislature of Great Britain.—And your petitioners will ever pray. &c. Of the Saint Monday's petition, agreed to at the meeting in Clayton-square on that day, we have but little to say. A liberal informed us yesterday that he was asked to sign it by one of its zealous promoters; having stated that he had previously done so, the requisitionist replied, " well sign it again, I have signed it bar times myself." The liberal then said, "you base com mitted a positive fraud, and if I could find the sheet on which 1 wrote my name, I would instantly go and erase it." TO T,Bll EDITOR OF TSB irrimPoot ST.4IC.OJIRLIr" your report of the meeting of corporation reformers on Monday last you are pleased to represent rue as having been "an itinerant deputy from the Catholic Association of Ireland, prior to the passing of the emancipation bill." You have been misinformed. During the period of the struggle for the recovery of the constitution a l rights of the Roman catholics I filled the office of secretary to the defence committee, or executiver con ncil of the British Catholic Association. The Duke of Nor olk, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the rest of the catholic nobility, baronets, and gentry of Great Britain, were members of that association. Besides filling the office of secretary in London, 1, periodically, visited Lancashire, Scotland, and Ireland. My labours commenced in July, 1817, and ended in April, 1829—a period of tw e l ve years—wfien the r o yal aSSCU t wa.s given to the relief bill. During the whole of that period I acted with out salary, fee, or reward of any kind whatsoever—paid ley own travelling expenses, and subscribed, annually, to the general emancipation fund. Aare never received, nor will I ever accept, rote farthing of remuneration for my humble services. If patriot ism consists in the immolation of the interests of self for the benefit of others, then have I a distinct claim to that character. I ern surprised that the editor of a journal so respectable as yours should misrepresent my opinion respecting the amount of the catholic population residing in the parliamentary borough of Liverpool. On reference to my evidence before the com missioners you will see the data whereon I found my calcula tions of our probable numbers—data furnished, in parr, by parish returns of the church of England ; and you cannot deny my accuracy without impugning their authority. You are of course aware that the town-clerk, during the in quiry, declared that he had no doubt that the catholic population of this town amounted to 50,000. Your report is again in error in attributing to me an unfa vourable opinion of the architectural excellence of the chapel on the Mount Cemetery. I have, on the contrary, uniformly expressed my unqualified admiration of that building, and of the judgment and taste displayed in erecting it On the platform of living, rock. Would to Heaven I could speak as favourably of another building in the Cemetery to which. I did refrr —a building for whose removal I would gladly subscribe, as b e in g utterly unfitted for the purp ose f or which' it has been raised ; and, in making this observation, I merely echo the opinion of every architect of genius who has inspected it—whether resident here or in the metropolis.—Yours, &c., 10, Beau-street, 13th August, 1835. JOHN ROSSON, AMERICAN OPINION Or ENGLISH POLITTCS.—The O'Connel Radicalism of Great Britain is precisely the same, in feelieg spirit, and principle, as the Jacksonism and the Albany Regen cyisin of this country. In regard to reforms—all salutary chan ges necessary to the general happiness of the people, and for the diffusion and preservation of true liberty, we are in favour of them. But liberty and licentiousness are verydifferent things; and next to the subversion of the Federal Constitution of our own country, should we deplore the overthrow of those glorious institutions of England, which, despite all their faults, have made her one of the noblest nations that ever inhabited the earth. What principle in the code of humanity, of law, of liber ty, of religion, do we enjoy in the United States, that was not derived from the institutions of England ? As to the present struggle there, it is not, as formerly, between svhigs and tories, but between the conservatives and destructives. The real whips of England, and the ablest and most liberal of the aristocracy, are acting in ciihcettlo preserve all that a true Englsh patriot can hold dear—these are .the conservatives; while the dema gogue whips, the trades' unions, and the radicals, are in 'league against them; and most justly are they pronounced destructives. will be the day, not only to England, but to the whole world. when they shall triumph in the destruction of the Bri tish. Constitution.—New Fork Commercial Advertiser. NEW ADMEASUIIEMENT OF HEAT.—We need not inform our Scottish readers that the fuel used in the country schools is turf; and that the mode in which fire assessment isle‘;ied is. that each scholar, whether male or female, bring their quota every morn ing, consisting, as the occasion may require, of one Or two Dominic , of Dykehead, bad got a peuts. •- Andrew Crossmyloof, thermometer for regulating the heat of the apartment he occu pied "in teaching the young idea how to shoot;" it was not an elegant instrument by any means—it had been used ova neigh bouring distillery; but it served Andrew's purpose admirably, and Sir Humphrey Davy himself cou ld not have b een more proud of his safety lamp than the pedagogue of Dykehead was of his thermometer. The neighbouring clergyman, who was a bit of a wag, paid a visit to the school, and noticing the instru ment suspended in the most conspicuous part of the room, asked Andrew how he regulated the heat of the apartment? "As the lire," said the monarch of the taws, "has been lately fed by portion of fresh fuel, and the temperature of the room i s a t present just what I consider proper for the health of my pupils, your reverence will therefore exercise a little of.that patience which Ton SO eloquently recommend to others on the Sabbath; cud I will show you the method we have of lowering the , tem perature." Andrew in the meantime went on squeezing out of Hilton-Jock a portion of the Shorter Catechism,•eyeing at in tervals the column of mercury as it rose above the given poiut in the tube. "Now, John, resume•vour form • but before you sit down, I see the degree of heat indicated is ;Wye the hearth) , point--so subtract from the number in the tire one peat!" • SWINDLING AND ROBBERY. ---A man named Henry Russell, was on Wednesday placed before Aid. P. Bourne, charged by Mr. Gerard, a publican of Crown-court, London-road, with har ing purloined some copper coin from a drawer in his horse. Mary Ann Gerard, deposed, that the prltrner went to b,dge at ber house on the 2nd instant. On Monday morning last. she bail left him sitting in the bar, near the money drawer, which contained about fifteen shillings in loose copper. White she was in the kit ch en. she heard the money rattle in the drawer, is hen she ran to the bar to ascertain the cause - of it. The prisoner she found sit ting where she left hint, but some half-pence lay scattered on the door, and he had some mere in his hand. She accused him of theft, but be denied it and left the house. Police office Sayer was sent for, who examined the prisoner's portmanteau, which was found to cotitain nothing but old rags, though be had du ring the week run on a bill of £5 10s. 9.1. Sayer then went in pursuit of the prisoner, whom he quickly apprehended. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Borough Sessions. LONDON LATEST NETI4:S.-: C Trk..ineqay Evening. II(IV:pail Seven delmi. The state of affairs MVpain - and France are beginning to six. cite greatly the apprehensions of our capitalists that it seriono continental convulsion Will ete lona take place. Ws has ope , rated to some extent upon our funded property, C10n.,.1 4 , tvbich were yesterday at 89; 6, being fallen to 89S 1, and the oantium of the new loan from 21 pr. to 2S j pr. The effect on Portuguese and Spanish Bonds ha. hewn still more important: Spanish Bonds have fallen to 44 54, and the Scrip to 15 dis.. and Portuguese Bonds are for the 5 per Cents. 87k, and for the 2i per Cents. 55k. 411 our R e p u bli can B on d s are flat: 37 is the price of Chilian, :33 that of eolombian,;34 that of Mexican. Our Northern Bonds do not exhibit any marked variation in value, but the market is Oat. Russian Stock is 11/91 I, Dutch 5 per Cents. are 101 i, and the per Cents. 54. LGCAL NEWS. THE NEW SHIP THOMAS LOWRY.—We believe we may say that this is one of the most handsome vessels belonging to Li verpool. Except the John O'Guunt, we have seen none to equal her, particularly in the frigate-like s:yie of her rigging. and the superior taste displayed in her cabin and interior ac commodations. Strangers on visiting Liverpool aro taken - by their friends to see the American packets, and they no doubt are delighted, if not astonished, with the double gilding, the glass rails, the Mirrors, the cur i ous w oo d s, an d a ll t h e remark.; able finery so dear to republican taste. Bot, if they wish to see a truly noble ship, built of British oak, and a perfect model of strength and beauty, let them pay their respects to the Thomas Lowry. Even the Americans themselves admit that she is " pretty considerably smartish," which means, being -traps lated, that she beats the best of the New York packets •‘ all, to sticks." Her improvements we expert to see borrowed by the ship-builders of the United States. We have only to addtbat the Thomas Lowrs was built at Dartmouth by Mr. Wilson, the brother of Mr. Wilson, of Liverpool, who bujit the liophrolt, and the John() Octant. She is to be commanded by Captain Bulley. THE ASSIZES.—The spacious house in St. Anne-street in tended for the accommodation of the judges is now completely furnished, and ready for their lordships' reception. The furni ture is of a superior description, remarkable for its elegance and workmanship, and is highly creditable to the taste •of Messrs. Hand and Sun, the uphiAsterers, to whom the urdei Was given by the corporation of Liverpool. T E COMMON Cousictt..—ln our last notice of the proce.t cl inks of this body it was erroneously stated that an application had been made to the Council for the restoration of Mr. Latham Harimer to the freedott urine:boron:O. The errdra rose from the inadvertent use of Mr. Haniners name instead of that of another person,• Mr. Hamner never possessed and therefore could not be deprived of that freedom. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—th:r readers Will see in our nelvertising columns a notice of the approaching anniversary of the church missionary society. We have been informed that many highly distinguished clergymen, (ruin different parts of the country, have signified their intention of attending the meetings. THE QUEEN'S BIRTH DAY.—Yesterday being the anniver sary- of her Majesty's birth-day, the usual demonstrations of respect were paid to it in this place. The royal standard was hoisted on the Town-hall, and on the different churches ini,the borough. SOUTHPORT RacEs.-,These races will commence on Wed. nesday next, Peter liesketh Fleetwood, Esq., steward. The sports fur the first day will be the hurdle stakes, to be rode by gentlemen ; the hack stakes also rode by gentlemen, and .the Southport stakes. Thursday the hurdle stakes, rode by gentle men ; the North Meols stakes, and the Inkeepers' plate. Fri- , clay a handicap stakes for beaten horses, the first and second day, of all ages. ;Counr OF ReQuEsts.—A .female servant lately summoned her master for the payment of a small stun fur wages. under the following circumstances: —She nas engaged for a certain suns by the year, (tfhich is clea r l y an i mp li ed contract for one year,) and she quitted her service, after having been only a few weeks in her place, without the consent of ber master or mistrez , s. The demand was opposed, on the ground that the plaintiff bad not performed her part of the contract, And could not, under such circumstances, recover her wages. The master said he did not oppose the demand altogether, because he considered the law was in his favour, but to show that a servant was not justified in leaving of her own will whenever she pleased, However, the commissioners decided in favour of the plaintiff. The toaster was not a little surprised At the decision, arid re spectfully told them that he considered it was contrary to law. —[This may be Court of Requests law, but it is directly con - trary to the law of the land. If this practice be georridly adopted, the master's authority over his servant woula soon be at an end.] A BETURN LIST OP THE EVERTON CARNATION MEETING, HELD AT MR. HALLIDAY'S, EVERTON COFFEE-HOUSE, YES. THRDAY.-Ist Pan. Rising Sun, Rainbow, Washington, Lady Grey, Lady Wilton, Cleopatra, and Stukeley, Mr. Tb ornat Rot of Prescot.-241 Pan. Perfection, Bang Europe, Un known, Rivera' Incomparable, Commander, Cleopatra, and Birtles Seedling. Messrs. Whalley`.-S car l e t Bi zarre. 1 , Si r Isaac Newton, - WhitHeys; 2, Rising Sun, 'l'. Roby; 3, Per fection, W. Carter; 4, William IV., T. Roby; 5. Sovereign, Whalless; 6, Ringleader, Ditto.-Pink Bizarre. 1 Wili Cax ton, H. Porter, Esq.; 2, P au l P r y, W. C arter; 3 , R a i n b ow, T. • Roby; 4, Bang Europe, Whallevs; 5, Gregory, T. lioby ; 6, Lord Eldon, Whalleys.-Scarlet - Flake. 1, Washington, T. Roby; 2, Champion, Ditt o; 3 , Madam Mara', W. Carter; 4, Comet, Whalleys; 5, Unknown, Ditto; 6, Blucher, W. Car ter.-,Rose Flake. 1, Lady Grey, T. Roby; 2, Sophia, Ditto; 3, Smiling Beauty, 'l'. Pyke; 4, Devonshire, T. Bob'. ; Maria, Whalleys; 6, Wood's Princess, Ditto.-Purple_Flake. 1, Major Cartwright, Whalleys; 2, Lady Wilton, T. Roby; 3, Bellerophon, I'. Pvke; 4, Commander, W. Carter; (:hat. lotte, T. Pvke. -Pu r pl e Pi co t ee . 1, Vi ctor i a, T. Pye; 2, Un known, W. Carter ;,-3, Seedling, Roby; 4, Cleopatra, W. Car ter.-Red Picotee. 1, Prince George, W. Porter, Esq.; 2, Chilwell, W. Carter; 3, Stuk e l e y, T. Pyke ; 4, Capt. Napier, Whalleys. DEA rti DnowniNG.—On Sunday morning last, between one and two o'clork, doek-police officer Rogers, who was on duty at the northeast corner of the Prince's Duel( Quay, sud denly heard a heavy plunge in the water, immediately succeeded by a cry_ of distress. Supposing that some person had fallen into the dock he instantly seized the graple from the gates, and rau to the epot indicated, where he was joined by two other offi cers, who had also been attracted by the same sounds. By the light of a lautern which one of them carried they discovered r. man struggling in the water, about four yards front the quay wall. - A rope was thrown to him, but, though he stinggled lentley to grasp it, he wa s una bl e to e ff ect h i s purpose, but al most immediately sank. The officers instantly grappled fir him, and-in a few minutes succeeded in dragging. him limn the water. He was carried with all expeditiou to the Nortiten litm• pital, where every effort was made to restore anonatiou, but, we are sory to.sav, without effect. The deceased, whose name was Thomas Clarke, was a mariner belonging to the ship Mary Howland, lying in the Prince's Dock. The deceased had been, during the Saturday night, drinking very freely at a house in Brookes-street, and it is supposed that b?ing, intoxicated, he had, while passing over the stage to go on board his vessel, lost his equilibrium and fallen over into the dock. CORONER'S INQUEST. —On Monday last an inquest was held before James Pownati, Esq., touching the death of Margaret Derbyshire, wife of Thos. Derbvshire, of I'all-Mall. Eleanor Derbyshire, niece to the deceased, deposed that on Saturday night last she was returning into the house from an errand, when, as-she passed through the kitchen, which was dark, she heard the deceased moan. She immediately is formed her father or the circumstance, and he took the light and proceeded to as certain the cause. He found the deceased lying insensible at the bottom of the cellar stairs. She was immediately taken up and put to bed, but on the folloWing morning, as it was found that she was sinking, she was sent ti the Northern Hospital, where, notwithstanding even , attention, she died a b ou t eig h t o'clock in the evening. Mr. Duvies, house-surgeon at the above institution, discovered, on examining :he body, that there was great ex travasation of blood between the memb'rants of the brain and the skull, with displacement of some of the bones of the head, which injuries . ? be gave it as his opinien,. Must have Leen caused by external violence. Mary Ann Derbyshire testified that the deceaeed had left the room where the family were sitting, and had gone down stairs, after which they had heard nothing of her till her sister the first Witness) returned. Verdict, acci det,tat death. • DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBER T.—WedflCSday, aman named named Thomas Johnson, was brought before Alderman P. Bourne, charged with having attempted to rob the warehouse of Messrs. Johnson, Son and Phillips, wholesale tea-dealers, 11, Brunswick-street. The warehouseman of Messrs. Crary and Fletcher, Thomas Kirkman, deposed, that he had attended the premises, at half-past ten o'clock, to let in certain men who were to sleep there. It was his business to lock the outer gate which gave admission also to the premises Of Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Co. While he stood beneath the gateway, lie heard movement of the latch of the upper door. Ile immediately ran up stairs to see what it might be. When he got to the door he heard footsteps in the room, and called out to•know who was there. The prisoner directly rushed past him down the stairs. Witness pursued him, calling " Stop thief!" William Anwyl. warehouseman to ?Messrs. Johnson, Son, and Co., heard the cry, and joined in the pursuit of the culprit, who was stopped by an officer of the nightly watch, N 0.10.5. The prisoner had unlocked two ilnors, by means of,a skeleton key. •At the hack of the premises was picked up a paper containing !shout sissy skeleton keys, of exeelient workmanship, and various sizes,— several luck-locks, two knives, a saw-thee,-.a most compact aparatus for the production of light, and-sem-al other articles, all betraying -the prisoner to be an accomplished thief. Mr. Batchelor produced a piece of black sift wax, which he had taken from the pocket of the pi isoner. 'ibis AvI,X is of the wit used by artisans to carry away exact impressions of any work the pattern of which they may wish to copy. It had been used by the prisoner for the purpose of taking impressions of keys. Ile was committed to take his trial at the borough sessions. INSANITY AND cIIARGE OF STABEING.--•-A seaman, a nativ e of Sweden, named Joseph Rogers, belonging to the ship Wil liam Wallace, was on Wednesday brought up benne Aldtuman P. Bourne, charged by Thomas Hannah, the second mate of the sauce vessel, with having inflicted a wound on his throat, with intent to murder him. The complainant deposed ;h a t t h e vessel was inward bound, and lying_ a t anchor in the river Friday, night. He (witness ) had retitM to his hammock, when at-about half-past ten o'clock be felt the prisoner's hand pass down his face to his throat. He impulsively •raised his own hand and seized that of the prisoner, who instantly drew a knife which he had in his left band over his Irtnninainant's). throat and inflicted a severe wound. He immediately' railed loudly for assistance, when Gifson, a s cant " . 1.811 dr ta an,t dragged the prisoner on deck. He had never quarrelled with the prioner, nor did he know of anything u herein he hart ever siren hint umbrage; unless indeed be had taken °fictive at him F or h av ing taken the beim from him, at the command of the first incite, as the vessel was entering the river. " 'the prisoner had never threatened him in any way. Gibson stated that it was his watch on de c k, an d be MIS about to snake atone tea, when he heard it cry of inurdet proceeding from the vicinity 01' the second mate's berth. He ili.lvrtilattth :lumped titian below and seized hold of lingers, with minim Thee complainvia Wss struggling. They clung so tenac i ously to iseeh rther Hutt ho drew them both.upon clerk together. Seeing that the eompla it • alit was wounded and bleeding . finm the throat, he forced Hu gers away, when the latter I nstantly mi l ted tivon him and stabbed him in his wrist. He was then placed in confinement. The i , risouer,en being asked what be bad to say with respect to the.charge, muttet en that the srchnd mate pas aiwa) giotig to , take his life. Capt. Johnson, the crwntsanderuf the sh p Wallace, - here stepped halyard and stated that the ptisonec had sailed several times with him, aw l hart always couducted himself in a most exemidary manner, but on the last voyage he had frequently man-ifested most un(quivecal 5) alums of intel., lectual derangement. For some time past lie had refused to sleep below, haying become impressed with the idea that some one would murder hint. 't'be prisoner here said that the second mate had sold his life for a sum of money. Captain Johnson said that on the '.6th of July, the prisoner had jumped over 'ward, taking a plank with him, and it was only by the greatest exertions that himself and the-crew had succeeded in pteservin“- his life-on that occasion. The prisoner was remanded, and it le understood that he is to Le sent to the Lunatic Asylum. 7 ' itite La VP at" troth It are Ise of sions id au very her nd xks ex test ipal v be no and nod ivor L he Our the the her ale lm ved !rs, LUd ea the or- Ler , re- ns, are ad For ith no