The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

the su z hi two ain the SECOND EDITION. Standarcl-qffice, Eleven o'clock Visit of Prince Albert TO LXVERPOOL. COUNCIL MEETING THIS MORNING. Appointment of a Committee to do Honor to Royalty. neeting of the Cou Id this day, in the Council -ch , rnbcr, Town Mayor took the chair et eleven o'clock Lich hour there were twenty-five members present the first subject which was expected Tne MAYOR S to be br from himself. They v ugit before the Coupe 1, was a communication recollect that at the last meet- ing he had stated that it had been asce Highness visit, if properly invit tamed that his Royal Albert would honour the town with a Th matter was immediately ppy to be able to ir.form them s had graciously signified his in- a 4 the t .wn wilt a visit, and that he 111 and 31st of July as the time. He that his Royal Iliz,hr tentinn of hon. ur :would fix or. the 3 'tad no d uht the council would take the necessary -measures to receive him in a manner suitable to his high station, and in accordance with the well-known character of the borough for loyalty. (" near, heir," and cheers.) His worship cent on to state, that he had visited London, and, in company with Lord Santlon and Sir Howard D,,uglas, had cotnrnunicatt'd with Colonel Anson, who t Buckingham Palace, on Satur day morning last. They proceeded to Buckingham Palace, the Town-clerk being obliged to excuse him- appointed an intercie self in cons a consultation with Mr, nce of bac the Impro Austin r nt Bill, and after a brief cnversi with Cnl Bence of hi. I' son, were ushered into the pre e,s, ~Ito received them with all the urbanity of the :nost polished gentleman. His Royal !Highness then fixed on the days he bad named for the visit. (Fiefir, h ) Sume i I-nation had been given in the 111, , je.,ty would also honor royal highness. He begged rapers hat it was likely the town in company with to st. to most distmetly that t re was no foundation n. Her Majesty bad whatever for s h a st given the least hint of her intention to do If. howev , T, she should, he had no doubt show thPir r ss to receive her as loyal suhj ct ,er commensurate with the in a n ,h dignity of h.r (tirar, hear.) But there was no reason to ex ent moment. (Hear.) Mr. Xtd,ra.an TURNER said perhaps his worship had o the Council on the subject. some su The AlAvon said he should be very happy to receive s of the Council as to what ought to be done. He was, of tours be done suitable !o the ( s chat every thing should I in the absence of the Town-Clerk. he had drawn up a ststetnent which he would read to t could alter or sidp ►h "Tne 111,1% or His Ro‘ai Hight! Cepted an invn to I3y the four Horne, and has fixrd on ii purpose liP Niav to add ti, ►heir a eommi tee, wiit firrangements null r high ilunour of rrc with the w,-;1-141,owl and liberality to move the Mr. Alder ( ear, ,Iwv thought proper they liou,ht proper. His wor- to the Council that graciously ac- th, !own with a visit, and s building fir a Sailors' Uth and 31st July for the and Aldermen, with liberty Ipnointed nurate with the e hereb nguished a guest, he borough for loyalty should be very happy ti. , n of the resolution in SANDS seconded the motion PARKER Said he ) make any objec- supposed would be required, nor aid he wish to oppose a suitable preparation lion to 'thy sum Of r. ,o ri-ceive his Royal fig less. His feelings strong as any man's, but he elected as the committee Idermen bein maintain the dignity of es of the burgesses at r course was to select the Mr. H. HORNBY and ng tt e Aldermen was :on, and because he thought produce unanimity on to be desired. He there- I withdraw his opposition ct was to maim done that he would in furiher. (Hear, hear.) on, and it was nnani- of loyalty were as object. d to th for that purpos, the Council as the repres committee from among After some obs Mr. tIORSFALL, The MAYO to prevent i such a proposit ort most 1 the sahket tyre trus Mr. P laut press The MAYOR thrn put the II nou•ly adopt e 1.041NG THti Kev. — Mrs. IDlingeon, the Queen of all F wg o e b came one night to Drury-lane Theatre to r eit,ru, Mmnd..oe . 11 Artaxerxes. so hoarse as to render it a civlrleion as to whethei it would be possible for het to ap pear before the audience. To add to her perplexity, her plaid 'had mislAil the 10-y of her jewel-box, but persisted that her mi-lrepa uso-t have got. it with her. " What can 1 have duns, with ?" suiti the vyren, "I suppose I must have bwillowed it without know , ng it." "And a lucky thug W.:twit:ler, "it imy perhaps serve to open tour ch. 81." THE BURNING OF THE CAROLINF the 1 üblic N rrt gulird by the Fdlls iii a aN4 of thrse btopendon , rapid r r slAn —lt is curious how in's of the Caroline going over nes ; every oue who has seen which the great body of it g tr. In Lake Elie is broke up, and which hr Falls norrxi+t, mould ne one of the grandest i r that nothing, let it be t the impetuosity of this r. a huge un-brig was launched ffect ot its going over; it was Alights ill the vv , irld, must be av ever •o strnugly built, euuld (tamingfl Ind A fier tt in the strean o rre t dar.ll..d o a thous4nd pleura he m•iment it entered these lrArlds. and never wan tern to go over at all : a piece or Iwo of picked up in he whirlpool some three miles 'below the Fall was The ooly ve.tige ever found of her. So ft was with the. C.r 1 i.e. She was moored with iron _chains to the jetty •lt : the. party under the com mand of Caw to thew rowed across, on a dark night, in boats. just chore a itrn- the commence. A most Inns-mu.h as the Ic ast deviation in their yr iii , olvrd tern in the stream. Tbey The patiiots (self-styled) who pon them in Ihe teeth of which lii her acr run moorings, and at s to their own side, but, their s fie to and let go. They ;.rol'ne, burnt to Ihe water's lin the rapids. No one was generally believed in Eng particulms by Captain Usher, a .1 ell' t got hack in salt) ; edge, was otmt leer On board, thoneh tl Imnd. I wa. told t 6 e fellow, vrh, .picumis part in the affair , rpnit of r r _tiro. that , one iiijg itgr did Vies,. pitriots harbour against bail.; knocked at the door of f r i+ hon:r. Hud wish a light they shot him de d tiirnu l h a vane of glass at the side of it.—New MaHthly Mflgazinp. Rom ANlsid THE CAUSE OF THE FALL OF POLAND, — Como K. asiri-kt demons raced unanswerrbly that the Overthrow of it,oie-taiiti-m was .11- ruin of Poland, and that both a ere effected by the din et agency of the Jesuits itnd the. R roan c l e rgy. tie n ight have added, by the baneful influence winch Ronianisin universally exerts over tie minds and morals of the people, by keeping the lower the higher orders to in -:se the cone• rt of the three spolia- Id have been unavailing, and Poland might -mango nitions, to which her vast e alent and valour of her chil and far different might have been the politival, of Northern Europe ;. Polish power and chivalry,: , stint principle, might have de. pp- ti the invading hordes of of Mahometan infidels. The on. proclaimed by Polish elo ch ed a complete triumph amongst i e s The house of Austria might m. a broken oath, and many a cod, 2. still cries to heaven for sin to -peculate on the past •, and tk of the future. The polish lan remnant ut the Bohemian church, r a nti.m (Calvinism and Luther , and in the province of Prussia, he only independent portion of set. Konigsburg, Thorn, and mate'h connected with the his t"-, ; and Posen was, and is, if t ertioguished one of the last 'ierniati brethren, the seat of a an. Toe school of Lissa still a.soeiations and genuine Polish ,11 he made the centre of religions Wiie . her the pious monarch of 3 his relations to his Slavonian does to Germany—whether he may the Polish Protestant church, and restori , g its independence, lay a fresh foundation for the i , dependnece of the nation—arid whether, if he did so, the Poles theres.lves would understand their duty, it is impossible to conj eture. But a rtain it is, that nothing to.t the .ieour arid fi illness of Christian principle, which -lorms the mnt spicuow tea•nre of I'rotestantism, can ev.r contribute tiff vtualty to the r storation and mainte nance of national existence.— The British Magazine. S in ignorance, t iling pnwers atilt occupy tha► t. Extent of territory ar t 'Oren entitle her • (a; history, both religious during the last •t, rt' ve merv , -cl and guided by Pr trended Gel. , any, and French . , as Wier tiiry religion of the R,-for quence, might have a l ell the Slid. ni-in 'ace been saved fr im mai., stream 'id innocent blood, wh►t. Vngrance. But it is v.;• ail but hopple,s lo th gunge exi.ig I t, e spark of Pot -h Prot anism are el , -arly ex ni mow a mighty kingdom the Polin.ll nu,nircliv Wry of Ptilislt Protro the Union ,of 1831 Polish filfrOA a metropol txt.ts, pith all its, hi-t„ric pationHlitvl and might rti if not of n.lional hf rtu-sia will undr;stE a4wrll as hi apd ei,couro THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ROMANISM AND THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—We look with considerable apprehension to the objects' which the Alliance may be disposed to take up. Such an We take the following proceedings of a " great meeting organization must Le too vast, and must be constituted of at the Tabernacle, New York, for selecting an indepen elements much too diverse, to be competent to much nent ticket out of the three nominated as delegates for the practical action. There will be sharp war during the state convention," from the New York Herald of the 30th present century, between Romanism and Protestantism ; ult. The secretary having stated the object of the meet and a still hotter conflict, so far as regards the educated ing, a tall, athletic looking personage rose, and in a strong classes, between Revealed Religion and the Literary Pan- nasal accent, moved that Mr. Burns be appointed to act theism which is now everywhere taking hold on the liter- as one of the committee, on the part of the natives. ature of Europe. But the Evangelical Alliance will not Mr. Burns.—No sir—no, sir—l have come here, sir, as be the power to grapple with these evils. Church- a looker•on—as a spectator—and Ido not mean to take men and dissenters are not agreed as to the true grounds part in the proceedings. (Loud cries of " Oh, don't hinch of controversy with the Church of Rome. In both con- Burns," amid much confusion.) Here there were cries nexiong, also, the difference between the educated and the for Tale, Bloss, Burns, Sammons, and much confusion, uneducated is such as must prevent their seeing alike as when _ _ _ YANKEE ORATORY. to what should be conceded, and what. should be denied, n respect to the infidel, or the semi-infidel theories of the age. Such labours may be better left to smaller and less responsible organizations, and best of ail to that spirit of private enterprise which, on questions of this nature, rarely fails of being equal to the demand. On such sub jects as we have mentioned, even the speech-making of the Alliance would be likely, we fear, to do more harm than good ; and to its publications, in relation to such to pics, we should look with a most painful distrust.—Bri tisla Quarterly Review. THE MAHOGANY TRADE OF HONDURAS.—The quan tity of unshipped mahogany of last season's cutting at present in this settlement is said to be less than at the same period last year. whilst the average demand in Eng land is greater, and the stock in hand less than in the month of December, 1841 These facts induce us to in- Mr. Cozzens was called for, and ascended the platform near the chairman. Chairman.—You know, Mr. Cozzens, the gentlemen belonging to the native party who are in attendance; do oblige us by pointing them out to us. A simultaneous shout from the parties named proclaimed their determination not to act. After some considerable parley and ludicrous merriment occasioned by the objec tions of several to act on the committee, eight persons were nominated, amid considerable confusion, some ob jecting to the names, others hissing, and others laughing, amid repeated cries of " no, no—hear, hear." After this scene, some retired to the small room attached to the building, immediately adjoining the vicinity of the chair. Mr. Clinton Roosevelt here rose and said : I think, Mr. Chairman, it would be well if resolutions were drawn up expressive of the sense of the meeting. quire into the prospects of the present season, and ascer tain, as far us practicable, what results may be produced. At no former period have so many gangs (120 to 122) been engaged; but we doubt their proving as effective as when lager gangs, composed of these same men, were employed. The high rate of wages (21 to 24 dollars a month) may have induced some few additional hands to join the mahogany works this season; yet there is no de nying the fact, that the great majority of the gangs are but scantily manned. As an offset to this disadvantage, however, it is said that the gangs are well supplied with Cries of " Hear, hear—oh, oh." - Mr. Matthew L. Davis considered it would be an im possibility to get up such a resolution, in such a meeting as this, composed of such discordant elements. Here were natives, whigs, democrats, and national reformers; and among such a body it would be impossible to adopt resolutions such as would satisfy the meeting. Mr. RoosEvnLT was of opinion, that in such a state of things such a meeting was a ridiculous farce ; if they were not disposed to unite and compromise upon a ticket and resolutions, the meeting would end in mere farce. • _ good•conditioned cattle, and that, in consequence, the deficiency of hands will not be of material importance. We are of the opinion, founded on information derived from various sources, that the cuttings of the present sea son will not exceed those of the past—say 10,000,000 superficial feet.—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine. THE CHURCH AND THE CHURCHES.—Under the Old A tall and meagre looking personage, resembling Irving's " Ichabod Crane," with his veritable birch, that might have descended as an heirloom from this re nowned peuonage, here rose and asked if it would not be in order to move that each party support their ovvn ticket? Here there were loud peals of laughter, amid cries of " hear him—go it"—and much confusion. Testament, " all were not Israel who were of Israel." 'I here were two Israels. The one—national and visible, including subdivisions of Pharisees and Sadducees, who dif fered in many things one from another, but were identical in this, that they were all separated openly and avowedly from the Gentiles by the ordinance of circumcision. The other—individual and spiritual, not certainly distinguish able by men, but seen and known of God, who had in special grace ci►cumcised their hearts, as well as their flesh. Under the New Testament, all are not Christ's who are of Christendom. There are two Churches The one—Collective and visible, including many sub-divisions, who differ In many things one from another, but are iden tical in this ; that they are all separated openly and avow edly from all the rest of mankind, by the ordinance of baptism. These are the Churches of Christ visible and militant here on earth, and the aggregate of them all, at any one time, is the visible Church Catholic. The other —lndividual and spiritual, scattered among the baptized communities, not certainly distinguishable by men, but seen and known of God, who has, in spiritual grace bap tized their hearts, making them ' new creatures' in Christ Jesus. This is the Church of God in Christ ; and the true idea of its catholicity ranges not only throughout the aggregate of visible Churches at any time, but also throughout the history of them all, at all times, from the distinction between Abel and Cain, till the separation be tween believer and unbeliever, at the second coming of the Son of Man. In the spiritual sense here referred to, which I hope has been satisfactorily shown to be one—not the only one, but I think undeniably one—of its true scriptural senses, the Church signifies the especial elec tion of God out of the Churches ; including in one aggre gate, all the men, women, and children, from among all mankind, who have been and who shalt be saved. These Chairman.—Gentlemen, let us preserve order. Ichabod Crane.—l wish to know if there be any national reformers put upon the ticket? (Laughter—heor, hear — and confusion.) Mr. Strahan rose abruptly, and in an exeited tone of voice cried out—Yes, sir—yes, sir ; I did not come here to take part in the proceedings at all, sir; I cannot sit silent, sir, and hear, sir, the industrious working classes, sir, maligned. No, sir. Mr. Fesaenden rose amid much confusion and cries of order. He said he had not maligned the working men— the mechanics ; he denied it. Mr. Strahan.—Yes, sir, I protest. (Confusion and cries of " question, order, order.") I did not come here, sir, to take part in these proceedings ; I was, sir, one of the committee who had been at Tammany Hall, and made the nominations there ; but I did not come here—(cries of " order, order, question," and immense confusion.) Old Gentlemen in specs.—l move, sir, that we take the question on the ticket generally. Ichabod Crane.—l object. sir; there should have been some of the national reformers nominated thereon. (Ques tion, question.) Mr. Strahan.—l was once a mechanic myself, sir, and I am now nothing but a poor lawyer. (Roars of laughter and cheers from the democratic benches, intermingled with hisses, groans, and cries of "go it, go it.") Yes, sir, I am proud of being a mechanic, and the attack was unjust and uncalled for upon them. Mr. Fessenden.—l deny, Mr. Chairman, that I have in any way attacked the mechanic. I deny it, sir, and I call the gentleman to order. He must not fasten it upon me in this way. I said—(cries of " Question" renewed, amid much hissing and cheers.) Mr. Strahan.—l do, sir, consider the attack unjustifi were all chosen of God in Christ before the foundation of the wcrld, or as Ignatius expressed it predestinated be fore the words to glory.—The Church and the Churches by the Rev. H. M'Neile. able and uncalled for. The cries of question were here renewed, and a scene of shouting ensued which 13 , filts description, when some four or five in the crowd sprang upon their legs, and demanded INSTINCT OF NEWFOUNDLAND DOGS.—One of them, belonging to a grocer, had observed one of the porters that the question on each name be taken separately, and then put to the meeting. _ _ _ _ . __ __.. . of the house, and who was often in the shop, frequently take money from the till, and which the man was in the habit of concealing in the stable. The dog, having wit nessed these thefts, became restless, pulling persons by the skirts of their coats, and apparently wishing them to follow him. At length, an apprentice had occasion to go to the stable, the dog followed him, and having drawn his attention to the heap of rubbish under which the money was buried. began to scratch till he had brought the booty to view. The apprentice brought it to his master, who marked the money, and restored it to the place where it had been hidden. Some of the marked money was soon afterwards found on the porter, who was taken before a magistrate, and convicted of the theft.—Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs. KING JAMES AND THE AUTHORISED VERSION.-The only revision of any importan , e in the time of Elizabeth was undertaken by Archbishop Parker, assisted by his brother prelates, whence it derived the name of the Bishop's Bible. But evidently it was his own affair, and quite independent of his royal mistress. It is true, that in his letter to Lord Burleigh, Oct. 15th, 1568, he requests Old Gentleman in specks.—I think, Mr. Chairman, at this late hour. that if we proceed to vote on each name, seriatim, that we will be kept here until three o'clock in the morning. I think the better course would be to take the question on the names generally, and get out of this as soon as we can. (Cries of " no, no—separately, sepa rately.") Mr. Strahan.—l am in possession of the floor, sir, and I shall not yield, sir. I could not sit silent and bear the mechanics maligned : but the attack from such a source does not surprise me, sir. The man who in cold blood would not hesitate to slander Andrew Jackson ere he was cold in his grave, was just the sort of person to malign the mechanics. Mr. Fessenden.—l call the gentleman to order again, sir. I deny it. I did not malign the mechanics. I said—(rene wed cries of " Order—question, question.") The Chairman here rose, and said it was repeatedly de nied by the gentleman, Mr. Fessenden, that he had at tacked the mechanics ; and when this was done, it could not be supposed that an attack was intended by the gen tleman. that the book may be licensed and commended for public reading in the church ; but it appears that the request was never granted: and the version was left to stand on its own merits. Parker's Bible never obtained a wide circu lation : though used by, the clergy in public worship, it rarely found its way into private families, with whom the Genevan version was the decided favourite, and remained Old Gentleman in specks.—l have reason to expect, from what I have seen, that there are too many lawyers on the ticket. ( Laugh ter.) I wish to know how the ticket now stands. How many whigs, natives, and demo crats upon it ? The Chairman here announced that there were six de mocrats. four whigs, and six natives. . so for a considerable period after the publiCation of King James's Bible. Of the history of that version, we shall Old Gentleman in specks.—How many lawyers on it? (Laughter.) _ _ .. . say but little, as most of our readers, no doubt, are ac- CCairmaiL—l believe six quainted with it. Though it bears the royal name, it ori ginated in the suggestion of a puritan at the Hampton Court Conference, and was executed at the expense of the Company of Stationers. All that the pedantic monarch did was to approve of the undertaking. and to write a letter to Bancroft, suggesting the general plan of its exe cution, which, in justice to its royal author, must be ac knowledged to be sound and judicious. It is well, per haps that he did not meddle with the matter any further, Here there were renewed cries of " Question, question," and considerable confusion, when Stephen Sammons, who was located near a small clique of the native party, {ose and denounced the ticket. He considered the meeting was a perfect farce—a humbug got up for some ulterior object, and the ticket, with such names as these, would not meet with the sanction of the native party. (Cries of " Question, question," and re newed cheering.) _ as he might have marred it ; but as it was, some consider able abatement should be made from the debt of obliga tion so extravagantly expressed by the translators, in the servile dedication prefixed to our bible, where the High and Mighty James is blazoned forth as the champion of Protestantism and the Word of God, appearing like the sun shining in his strength on the setting of that bright occidental star, Queen Elizabeth. Not one farthing ever came from the royal treasury to defray the expense of the work, nor are there any other proofs of his Majesty's zeal in relation to it than the words he dropped at the Hamp ton Court Conference, and the letter be wrote to Ban croft. It may be added, in the words of Dr. Symmonds, what probably is not known to our readers in general, that the present version appears to have made its way without the interpositon of any authority whatever, for it is not easy to discover any traces of a proclamation, canon, or statute published to enforce the use of it.'—British Quarterly Review. INVENTION AND USE OF THE BOWIE KNIFE.—TO the best of my knowledge, this instrument was devised by Colonel James Bowie, an American, and a man of despe rate valour. He considered, and apparently with justice The Chairm - an here rose again to call order. Old Gentleman in specs.—l move, sir, that the ques tion be taken generally on the ticket. I move a resolu tion to that effect. Here there were further cries to take the question sepa rately. Chairman.—l shall take the question first on the gentle man's motion. As many as are of opinion that the ques tion be taken generally, let them say " Aye." (Vocife rous cries of " Aye, aye," with loud shouting ; from the opposition, " No, no.") Chairman.—The motion is carried. I now put the question on the ticket generally—As many as are of opi nion that the names here presented shall pass this meet ing, let them say " Aye." (Immense cries of " Aye, aye.") As many as are of the contrary opinion will say " No." (Immense cries of " No, no.") I think, gentle men, the question is carried. Here there were several dissentient voices, when, amid much confusion, the meeting separated. A VOICE FROM THE CELLAR too, that in close fighting, a much' shorter weapon than (Prom Punch.) the sword ordinarily in use, but still heavy enough to give The subjoined correspondence has been handed to us. it sufficient force, and, at the same time, contrived to cut With our customary urbanity—has it not become a pro and thrust, would be far preferable, and more advantage verb?—we print it. The first letter is from the Martyr ous to sword, t or knife, he weare r which has s i n c e He accord in gone under his name. It invented the short of the Cellar, Mr. Smith O'Brien, to Madame Tussaud. is made of various sizes ; but the best, I may say, is about The second is that distinguished lady's answer. the length of a carving-knife—cast perfectly straight in the " The Cellar, May 11, 1846. first instance, but greatly rounded at the end on the edge " Dearest Madam,—At the present moment, when Ire side : the upper edge at the end, for the length of about land is wringing with my wrongs ; when millions of two inches, is ground into the small segment of a circle hearts, the property of the finest peasantry of the earth, and rendered sharp ; thus leaving an apparent curve of the are beating with sympathy towards their martyr; when, knife, although in reality the upturned point is not higher at least, the same number of swords are ready (on being than the line of the back. The back itself gradually in- drawn) to flash from their scabbards for my liberation,— creases in weight of metal as it approaches the hilt, on it bas been suggested to me by, possibly a partial friend, which a small guard is placed. The bowie-knife, there- that the figure of Smith O'Brien, the martyr, would fore, has a curved, keen point ; is double-edged for the make a most attractive addition to your collection of dis space of about a couple of inches of its length ; and, tinguisbed characters. I am not particular where you when in use, falls with the weight of a billhook. I have put me, so I get in. You've had O'Connell for some heard it stated, that a blow from one well wielded is suf- time, and (but quite between ourselves) the people have ficient to break a man's arm. Certain it is, that I have had enough of him. All Ireland (including myself) look myself seen skulls of Mexicans brought from the battle- up to me as the sort of Prince of Wales to King Dan. ground of San Jacinto, on which Texas gained her incle- You may, therefore (if you are over-crowded) turn him pendence, that were cleft nearly through the thickest part out to make room for me. of the bone behind, evidently at one blow, and with suf- " Yours, Dearest Madam, with every feeling of ficient force to throw out extensive cracks, like those of a respect, " SMITH O'BRIEN." starred glass. This is more more true to fact, than com- " P.S. I shall be happy to give you the earliest day for Alimentary to Mexican valour. At the same time, it sitting; and that the thing may be more complete, propose proves that old adages may occasionally be mistaken. to present you with the identical suit of clothes worn by "He that fights and runs away," does not always " live me when taken to the cellar." to fight another day." Bowie went to Texas during the troubles which preceded theindependence of that country," Baker-street, Portman-square, May 11. and was lying sick in bed at the fortress of the Alamo, "Sir,—Permit me to thank you for your very polite when, on the 6th of March, 184 G, it was stormed by Santa offer; but as I contemplate the immediate addition of T Anna and taken. Bowie was murdered there upon his Torn Thumb to my collection, 1 fear I shall be too much f . pillcw. The hand that formed the dreadful knife could crowded to give you even a corner. Besides, Mart y rs Ino longer wield it. Although the act of carrying arms in are, at the best, heavy subjects. I don't think people secret is held to be illegal, yet it is quite general, I be- would lay out sixpence upon 'em. O'Connell has done heve ; unless, perhaps, with the immediate inhabitants of pretty well for me, but I should hardly like to risk an a tolerably well populated town. They are generally at O'Brien ;in the like way that people are very fond of band in the majority of stores; in liquor-shops, either mushrooms, are most particular to avoid toadstools. placed under the counter, or, more usually, behind the " I remain, your obedient servant, " M. TASSACID.?' bar upon the wall, within reach of the individual attend ing, and immediately before the eyes of the customer. " P.S. I know a man who travels with a van of wax- When openly carried, the knife is in a sheath attached to work. Perhaps he may accept your offer. Shall I send a body-belt; when secretly, either in a narrow pocket, him to the Cellar ?" purposely---ese— made, down the straight part of the trousers' thigh, so that the bending of the body is not incommoded The gardener at Kew Palace complained to George 11., nor the weapon discovered ; or in a similar casing down that the people admitted to the gardens during Sundays the back, between the shoulders. It is hence considered constantly plucked the flowers. " They are fond of flowers, then?" replied the king. " Don't let them want by some individuals as sufficiently indicative of evil inten tions on the part of an opponent, if, in the event of a warm them. Plant them !" THE APPEARANCE OF BUREE.—Burke then rose. dispute, or of presumed offence given, you see him pre- Strong interest was directed to him. not merely from his tend to scratch the back of his head, or make any other eminent name, but from the public curiosity to hear his equally genteel and polite attempt to conduce to his own explanation of that estrangement which had been for some personal comfort and private satisfaction in that significant time spreading, under his auspices , thro u g h the leadi ng and'suspicious region of a loafer's earthly te nemen t o f personages of the Opposition. Like most m en who h a v e clay. The ruder orders of people farther south—for made themselves familiar with the works of a g reat writ e r, there, no more than in Eng land, are the " ruder" orders "lower" I bad formed a portraiture of him L y a ntici p ation. I to be considered as merely sy non y mous with th e never was more disappointed. Instead of the expressive orders—have a custom, I am informed, of occasionally countenance and commanding figure , whic h I had ima deciding desperate wagers of battle b y hookin g themselves o rs , to enshrine the soul of the most splendid of all ora together by the bands they wear , an d thus fi ghting with tors, I saw a form of the middle size and of a homely ap. the knife. since neither can get away, until one falls or pearance, a heavy physionomy. and the whole finished by both are killed.—Hoolon's Sketches in Texas. two appurtenances, which would have been fatal to the Why is a beehive like a bad potatoe ? Because one's divinity of the Apollo Belvidere, spectacles, and a wig. a bee-holder and the other a spec-tator. His voice and manner were scarcely less prepossessing; A FRENCH LEGEND.—A French theatre is being built the one was as abrupt and clamorous as the other war at Algiers. The first piece will be a popular story, which rustic and ungraceful. He had the general look of a far has been making a great noise for years in the French mer of the better order, and seemed, at best, made to papers, called "La Prise d'Abd-el-Kader." Rumour at- figure on a grand jury. —Dr. Croly's Soldier and Stales tributes the invention to Marshal Bugeaud.—Punch. man. SPIRIT OF FRIDAY NIGHT'S DEBATE POPKINS, NOT SIR ROBERT PEEL, THE AUTHOR OF THE MINISTERIAL MEASURE " The right hon. gentleman tells us that he does not feel humiliated. It is impossible for any one to know what are the feelings of another ; feeling depends in a great mea sure upon temperament ; it depends upon the idiosyn cracy of the individual ; it depends upon the organization of the animal that reels. (Laughter.) But I tell the right hon. gentleman, that although he may not feel humiliated, the country ought to feel humiliated. (Loud cheers.) In place of the self-complacency of a great nation—in place of the justifiable pride of Englishmen in one who from his position has contrived to occupy the highest rank amongst his fellow-citizens, it is felt, as Dean Swift said of another Minister, that he is a gentleman who has the perpetual misfortune to be mistaken ; and even now in this, the last scene of the drama, when the party whom he unintentionally betrayed and unintentionally annihi lated—even now at the last scene, the right lion. gentle man, faithful to the law of his being, is going to pass a project which I believe it is matter of notoriety is not of his own invention ; one which may have been somewhat modified, but which, I believe, was in substance offered to another Government, and by that Government wisely rejected. (Hear, hear.) The first day after the right hon. gentleman made his exposition to this house, a gentleman well known to the house. and learned in all the political secrets behind the scenes. met me, and said, "What do you think of your chief's plan ?" I said I did not exactly know what to say about it, but, to use the phrase of the hour, I supposed it was a great and comprehensive plan. (Laughter.) " Oh," he replied, "we know all about it ; it is not his plan at all, it is Popkins's plan." (Roars of laughter.) And, Sir, is England to be governed and con vulsed for Popkins's plan ? Will he go to the country with it ? Will he appeal to the people upon such a plan ? Will he appeal to that ancient and famous England which was once governed by statesmen such as Burleigh and Walsingham, Bolingbroke and Walpole, Chatham and Canning,—will he appeal to England on a fantastic scheme of some presumptuous pedant ? I will not believe it. (Cheers.) I have that confidence in the common sense and common spirit of my countrymen to believe that they will no longer endure the huckstering tyranny of the Treasury bench, or of the political pedlar who bought his party in the cheapest market and sold them in the dearest. (Laughter and cheers.) I know that there are men who tell me that the time is gone by when we may appeal to the high and honourable impulses that were once the mainstay and main element of the English character. I know that we appeal to a people who have been de bauched by public gambling, and who have been stimu lated and encouraged by an inefficient and shortsighted Ministry. 1 know that the public mind has been filled to intoxication with schemes by which the people might be come rich, without the interference of industry and toil. I know, too, that all confidence in public men is lost. ( Hear, hear.),:-But I:have faititri;the primitive enduring element of English character. (Cheers.) It may be that now, in the midnight of their intoxication, they will not heed me, but I tell them that there will be an awakening, and in the spring-tide of their frenzy I warn them of the end of trouble. That dark and inevitable hour will ar rive, and perhaps they will then recur to those principles which made England great, and which, in my opinion, alone can keep England great ; and it may chance that they will remember, not with unkindness those who, be trayed and deserted themselves, were neither ashamed nor afraid to struggle for the good old cause ; the cause asso ciated with principles the most pannier, sentiments the most entirely national ; the cause of labour, the cause of the people, the cause of England. (The hon. member re sumed his seat amidst applause which lasted fully two minutes.)"—.Mr. D'lsraeli's speech. PROBABLE PRICE OF WHEAT UNDER THE OPERATION OF FREE TRADE I have had returns sent me of the quantity of grain grown in Hungary the year before last ; and I may men tion that in Croatia there were raised a million and a-half of quarters. Then, it maybe said, how are we to get corn from Hungary ? Why. Sir, I received a letter, not long ago, from one of the greatest corn merchants at Sissek, the first corn market in I-:' ungary, and he says, that on an average of the last five years, the price of the finest Hun garian corn, which I must remind you, is the finest in the world, which in the Dantzic market ranks with the finest Dantzic wheat, was 18s. 6d., and that you may send it from this town of Sissek to Carlstadt, by the river Save, at a cost of 4d. the English quarter, and from Carlstadt to the port of Fiume for ls. Bd. a quarter. The person who gives me this information is a practical man at Sis sek, and he is ready to prove the accuracy of his opinions by acting upon them. Ile says, " Only give me a regular trade with England, and I wi ll send you. from Sissek, 500,000 quarters the first year." That is the report of a merchant of Hungary. But do you mean to say that that would not exercise the greatest influence on your market ? When the demand is steady the market is steady ; but I can show you what the effect would he with an increased demand and an increased supply. Now, I would take the markets of the Danube. The corn might be sent from the two chief ports of the Danube, and here I might observe that it is a very curious circumstance that in the year 1842, as appears by a return I hold in my hand, there were 1,350 vessels laden in those two ports with the prodace of the Danubian provinces, but only eight of them were English. It is a remarkable fact that while commerce was thriving and free trade was advocated. this, the greatest commercial country in the world, had only eight vessels laden at those ports. But a gentleman writing to a house in England,—l will give his name to the right hon. gentleman, and I think it will astound him, for it is Mr. Sioders, of Liverpool (hear), says,—" I will undertake, by my correspondents, to se cure wheat from Hungary, at the price of 18s. a-quarter, free on board ; and I will lay down this year, in an English port, 200,000 quarters, at from 28s. to 30s. : and if you will secure me a certain, a sure market, I will double that quantity next year." That same gentleman, that same Mr. Sanders, who has given in his adhesion to the right hon. baronet, to-night, in the manuscript letter which I have read—but which I trust the right hon. baro net has not read, because, immediately after he gives in his adhesion to the agricultural policy of the right hon. baronet, I find be says that the banking bill of last year must ruin the country (hear, hear),—that same Mr. San ders then offers to enter into a contract to supply 1,000,000 quarters of wheat at 18s. a quarter, and if the measures of the Government pass, he will undertake at the end of this year that that 1,000,000 of quarters shall be doubled and sent to England at reduced prices. (Hear.)—Mr. D' speech. MR. D'ISRAELI AND SIR ROBERT PEEL The hon. member for Shrewsbury is undoubtedly the evil genius of Sir Robert Peel, and the one member of the house who appears to possess the power to disturb his complacency. In the concluding debate on Friday night upon the Corn Bill, Mr. D'lsraeli inflicted the following severe castigation upon the premier, which called forth from him very unusual symptoms of irritation : " And now I must say a word in vindication of the right hon. baronet. (Laughter.) I think that great injustice has been dpne to him throughout the debate; that a jus tifiable misconception has universally prevailed respecting the right hon. gentleman. He has been accused of a long meditated deception, of a desire worthy of a great states man—even of an unprincipled one—to give up all the opi nions by which he rose to power. I acquit the right hon. gentleman of any such intention, and I do for this reason, that when I examine the career of the minister who now fills a great space in the parliamentary history of this country, I see that between 30 and 40 years, from the days of Horner down to the days of the hon. member for Stock port, the right hon. gentleman has traded on the ideas and intellects of others. (Cheers.) His life has been a great appropriation clause. (Renewed cheers and laughter.) He has been the burglar of others' intellects. Open the index of Beatson, and from the days of the Conqueror down to the termination of the last reign you will find no statesman who has committed petty larceny on so great a scale. (Cheers.) I believe, therefore, that when the right hon. gentlemen undertook our cause on either side of the house he was perfectly sincere in his advocacy. But as in the course of the discussion the conventionalities he had imbibed crumbled away from his grasp, feeling no creative power to sustain him with new arguments—feel ing no spontaneous sentiment to force upon him convic tion ; the right hon. gentleman was reduced at last to de fending the noblest cause, based on the highest princi ples, the right hon. gentleman, faithful to the law of his nature, embraced the new doctrines, the more vigorous, life-like, popular doctrines of free-trade, just as he had embraced the doctrines of Horner; just as he had em braced the doctrine of every leading man in this country for the last 30 or 40 years, with the exception of the doc trine of Parliamentary reform, which the Whigs wisely kept as their own, and did not allow it to grow to sufficient maturity to, fall into the mouth of the right hon. gentle man. Mond cheers.) THE PREMIER ' S ANNOUNCEMENT AND ITS EFFECT I remember when the whig budget was rejected, and the right hon. gentleman installed into office, the changes which he pronosed at the time created some suspicion ; but all suspicion was hushed at the moment because the right hon. gentleman was looked upon as the man who could make the best bargain for the party. I want to know what gentlemen think of their best bargain now. (Laughter and cheers.) At last, sir, it was announced that the first minister meditated another change. And bow was that announcement made ? Were hon. gentle men called together, or had the influential members of the house any intimation given to them of the nature of it ? (Hear.) No, sir. It was announced through the columns of a journal—(cries of " hear")—which is always careful never to insert important information except on the high est authority. (Renewed cries of "hear.") And see the effect which the announcement had on foreign ministers and on foreign courts. I can bear witness to it. I know one great potentate who sent for the English ambassador and demanded an explanation of the announcement ; and Ik- E- I ;sh .mbar lor who called on a great po ..now an Engl►. a... tentate and assured him that there %- truth in the announcement. (Hear, and lauehter.) And all this time members of the government—l have some of them in my eye—were calling on other newspapers devo ted to the government, and instructing them to declare that the announcement was an infamous fabrication. And how ingenious was the conduct of the ministers—or of that minister who formed the omnipotent minerity of the cabinet. (Loud and ironical cheers.) After so much agitation, after so much manoeuvring, and after the cabi net had been reformed, was it not somewhat strange that the right honourable baronet should have talked and acted as if we bad deserted him, and not as if he had deserted us? (Great cheering.) Who can forget those tones ? Who can forget that an indignant glance ? . . " Vectabor humeris tune ego inimicis equc Meaeque terra cedet insolentite ;" which means to say, " I, a protectionist minister, mean to govern England with the aid of the Anti-Corn-Law League. (Cheers.) And, as for the country gentlemen. why, I snap my fingers at them." (Continued cheers.) Yet it appeared to me that even then the right hon. gen tleman had no cause to complain of his party. It is very true that, on a subsequent occasion ; VO gentlemen re corded their sense of his conduct. (Hear, hear.) But then he might have remembered the considerable section of converts that he obtained, even in the last hour. (Loud laughter.) Why, what a compliment to a minister—not only to vote for him, but to vote for him against your opi nions —(much cheering)—and in favour of opinions which he had always drilled you to distrust. That was a scene I believe unprecedented in the House of Commons. Indeed, I recollect nothing equal to it, unless it be the conversion of the Saxons by Charlemagne, which is the only histori . cal incident that bears anyypaiallel to that illustrious oc casion. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Then, the Saxons, trained from the banks of the Rhine, determined to resist any more movements on the part of the Great Caesar; but when the Emperor appeared, instead of conquering he converted them. How were they converted ? In batta lions—converted in battalions and baptized in platoons. (Roars of laughter.) It was utterly impossible to bring this nation from a state of reprobation to a state of grace with a celerity sufficiently quick. (Laughter.) When I saw the hundred and twelve fall into rank and file—(con tinued laughter)—l was irresistibly reminded of that me morable incident on the banks of the Rhine. (Cheers.) — Mr. D'lsrueli's speech. SIR ROBERT'S DEFENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES. My first consideration was, what was the best means for averting a great calamity ; and, secondly, to relieve the people, I was hound to protect from the temptation of famine and misery. I cannot charge myself or my colleagues with having been unfaithful to the trust I have undertaken. Ido not believe that the great institutions of the country have suffered from this administration. The noble lord who has just spoken has expressed a hope that the discussions which have threatened the main tenance of amicable relations between this country and the United States would be brought to a happy conclusion. I think I can appeal to the course which we have pursued as evidence that we have not abandoned the honour of this country ; and I can appeal to past experience as showing au earnest desire, by any effort consistent with my honour, to maintain friendly relations with every country on the face of the globe. (Hear, hear.) These principles will ever continue to influence me so long as I have a share in the management of the affairs of this country. If I look to the prerogatives of the crown—if 1 look to the position of the church—if I look to true in fluence of the aristocracy, I cannot charge myself with having taken any course inconsistent with Conservative principles, or calculated to interfere with the high prin ciples of any branch of the legislature, or any institutions established in the country. My earnest wish has ever been to impress the people with the feeling that the legis lature is animated by a desire of carrying on their im portant proceedings on the principle of justice. I have a strong belief that the great object we all contemplate is to alleviate the social condition of that class of the people with whom we are brought into no direct relations by the exercise of the legislative franchise. (Hear, hear.) I wish to convince them that our object is to apportion taxation in such a way as to relieve industry and labour from any undue burden,—(hear, hear)—and transfer it, as far as is consistent with the public safety, to those who are better able to bear it. I look at the abs.ence of any commitment for sedition—l look at the calm that prevails in the public mind—l look at the increased and growing confidence on account of the course which you have taken in relieving trade from restrictions and industry from un just burdens—l see that where there was dissatisfaction there is contentment—where there was turbulence I see there is peace—where there was disloyalty I see there is loyalty—l see a disposition to confide in you, and not to agitate questions that are at the foundation of your con stitution. Deprive me of power to-morrow, you can never deprive me of the consciousness that I have exercised the powers committed to me from no corrupt or interested motives,—(cheers)—from no view to the gratification of personal ambition or any personal enmity ; that I have laboured to maintain peace abroad consistently witb the national honour, and defending every just institution to increase the confidence of the great body of the people in the justice of your decisions, and by the means of equal law to dispense with all coercive powers,—(" hear, hear," from the Irish members)—and to maintain attachment to the throne, and loyalty to the constitution, from a con viction of the benefit that would accrue to the great body of the people. (Cie rs.)—Sir Robert Peel's speech, May Ig, 1 R4G. RAILWAY INTELLIUENCE. It appear': from a return ordered on' the motion of Colonel Sibtholp',• that the total cost of the' gauge com mis; ion has been only £571 10s. The directors of the Newcastle and Carlisle Ita;lway have commenced running cheap trains to all the stations along their lines, on Sundays, at the luw rate of one half penny per mile. At a meeting or shareholders in the Northumberland and Lancashire Railway, held at Eastwood's hotel, on Thursday, Eyre Evans, Esq., in the chair, a motion was passed authorising the directors to wind up the concern. The keeper of a boarding-house in London lately sent in a bill of 13s. 6d. against the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company, for soup and claret, consumed by one of its promoters ! _ . disputes between the engineers and provisional committee of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railway, have been arranged, and the amount in hand, after paying expenses, is to be divided amoo4st the share holders. The electric telegraph has again been the means of se curing s delinquent. A pay-sergeant of a regiment at Portsmouth, after robbing his captain, absconded, but was secured at the London terminus of the South Western Railway, information of his flight having been sent for ward by the telegraph. HUDSONIAN RAILWAYS.—On cross-examination before the committee on the South Midland Railway Bill, Mr. Hudson said he had never cast up the capital of the lines with which he was connected, but it might amount to £35,000,000 and the distance they traversed might be 2,000 miles, but he had never counted it. One of Stephenson's new six-wheeled engines ran from Birmingham to Wolverton last week, with a load of 100 tons, in an hour and ten minutes. The distance is fifty two and a half-miles, which makes precisely forty-five miles and a half an hour—a splendid performance with% heavy train. NOT DONE YET.-A prospectus of" The Direct Bombay and Madras Railway" appeared in the Times of Thurs day. Capital, £4,500,000, in 90,000 shares of £5O each. The plans of the line have been submitted to Prince Albert, Earls Auckland, Ripon, and Dalhousie, Lord Metcalfe. Sir Howard Douglas, &c., and have been highly approved. LIABILITIES OF COMMITTEE-MEN.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, Mr. Hooper, the highly respectable advertising-agent, recovered from Mr. Mac donald, one of the provisional committee-men of the de funct Cape of Good Hope Great Western Railway, the amount of his bill (£420) for advertising the prospectus of the scheme. RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1,800 miles of railway, was £138,532► thus accounted for :—.£74,990 for the conveyance of pas sengers only, £35,581 for the carriage of goods, and a re mainder of £27,961 for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned ; being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of £24,885. The South-Eastern Company have obtained the con sent of the Admiralty to tunnel under Greenwich Park. This permission will give the company as direct a line as possible into the districts to which they have so long de sired to afford railway accommodation. This route will enable them to carry the passengers to Wools ich in 12 or 15 minutes; to Gravesend within half an hour; and to Stroud, Rochester, and Chatham within the hour. An important case was decided in the Vice-Chancellor's Court on Thursday—Fernihough v. Leader and others. This was an indirect attempt to obtain £lOO from a pro visional committeeman for expenses in the Great Grimsby, Sheffield, Potteries and Grand Junction Railway, there being funds in hand ; and an injunction was granted to stay the actions of Leader and others, creditors of the company. COMPENSATION FOR A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Mr. Feargrieve, formerly of Gateshead, tailor, has recovered £420 from the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Rail way Company, for the injury sustained by his wile about twelve months ago, near the Belmont station, by the train getting off the line and overturning the carriage, by means of which her right band was so severely injured that she has nearly lost the use of it. PEAT SUBSTITUTED FOR COAL AS RAILWAY FUEL• —On the line frcm Milan to Monza, an experiment has been tried which is of consequence for the future of loco motion. At some points, where fossil could not easily be obtained, peat turf has been substituted with success, and with a saving of thirty to forty per cent. on the c ost of fuel. In Sardinia, where coal is rare, railways will find resources in the frequent bogs. Beech, a pointarnan on the Northampton aid Peter borough Railway, has been committed to prison for two months, with hard labour, for neglect of duty : he should have turned some points at Bilsworth, but employed him self instead in making a mousetrap; whereby a n eng i n e of a luggage train was overturned, and the whole train, with the people attending it, might have been dashed down an embankment. _ FRACAS.—On Saturday evening, being the night after Rutherglen fair, some of the " Navies," as they are called, persons employed in the construction of the rail way in the neighbourhood of Rutherglen, commenced melee, and being interfered with by the very small force of police or town officers by which that burgh is pro tected, several of them were very roughly treated, and a considerable number of windows damaged. Renfrew paper. _ THE C:.UBT 4- FASHIONABLE WORLD. On Tuesday forenoon, the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace for the old palace at Kew, whence they returned the following day. The Court is now at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty gave a concert on Thursday at Bucking ham Palace. All the singers engaged were German or Italian. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, honoured Sir Robert Peel with a visit on Thurs day. On Monday afternoon Prince Albert laid the foundation stone of the church for the seamen of the port of London. In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Duchess of Kent had a concert. The Queen Dowager will leave Marlborough-house for Bushy on Wednesday ; and, according to present arrange ments, her Majesty will take her departure from England for Germany on the 19th proximo. Cashiobury, the seat of the Earl of Essex, has been refurnished, and is now ready for her Majesty's occupancy. _ _ PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE-MEN.—Donald Maclean, Esq., M. P. for Oxford, whose name figured in so many prospectuses during the late mania, appeared in the Bank ruptcy Court on Monday. The fiat was issued against him as a brick-maker„ but it appeared the bricks were made out of the soil upon his own estate. He was sun ported by Mr. Lawrence ; and Mr. Brarriiiell, iOidrsi, ob served that brick-makers were ea. nomine traders, and the fiat must be sustained.—Judgment deferred.--Railwajl Record. BOSTON, NEWARK, AND SHEFFIELD.—This companY has entered into an arrangement with the Midland Rail way,THrhee likely agree to eo pay provethe Midland eo a m d• vanta o g n eou te s r t m o s ic th w e h m. h pany £50,000 in cash, for which they are to receive £50,000 in stock on the Midland Railway ; and they agree to forego all opposition to the Midland schemes, and to render them all the aid in their power. The money to be paid and the stock received on the passing of the Midland Company's Bill from Clay Cross to Newark. FORGED RAILWAY SCRIP.—On Wednesday, John 13 ' Faulkner and Bertha Fabian were brought up at the Man sion House, having been remanded from Friday, on 3 charge of having disposed of forged scrip of the Bucking' hamshire and Oxford and Bletchley Junction Rail Company. Evidence was given tracing the sale of fiftl shares to the prisoners, who were remanded till Saturday It is reported that in the above company alone there ar e 18,000 shares in the market. STATE OF TRADE. C HESTER AND B I R KENH EA D RAILWA Y.— At a meet MANCHESTER.—Since Tuesday, little has been doing; the 3 ing of the board of directors, on W e d nes d ay, it was de i ; failure of the East India house, mentioned in the London . _, cided to cover the whole of the area at Monk's Ferry wi t ,' t papers, both of which affect some of the principal houses in an iron roof, and to build a good and handsotne Stati on _, this town, having had the e ff ect of somewhat checking con fi - that terminus. There is also to be a depot at the Gran g e " dence. First-rate " printers" are, however, in fair demand; lane station in Birkenhead, for 6,000 tons of coals, I,uv : but in other descriptions the demand is limited, owing to the tons of lime, and a yard for stone, fire-bricks, tiles. ele te : t e causes assigned in our last week's report. ROCHDALE. —We had rather snore buyers in the market on & c. This latter arrangement is to be completed by t i `;'", Monday, and the demand was better than last week. Rather /St of October next, so as to be ready for the North NN a' better prices were, in some instances, obtained. Wont was mineral traffic from Wrexham. fully as last week, with an u pw ar d t en dency. Oils much the ti ons same as our last. at Limekiln-lane, Rock-lane , Tl2 borough, will be opened on the Ist of June. LEEDS.—Rather less business has been done both in the Cloth Halls and the warehouses this week than was transacted last \ an d week. LEITH, AND GRANTOIST RAILWAIr' a week. The goods in chief de man d ha v e be en the fine and This railway will open to - morrow (Wednesday„, . The p n i e t w tle r , road-side i d ß e s re t; °' middle qualities, and principally for the home trade . Though carry passengers and goods from Scotland-street st 0 1 /0 , some orders for the American export houses were given out last to Granton, Trinity, and Leith, including the eo c , week, the unsettled Oregon ( l ocation operates to c he c k even The L e ith Dock C emm i ss i o ners are no w engaged in I ,.e r , le g itimate speculations in w oo ll en goo d s f or th e t ransa tl an ti c i ng d own ra il s a ll roun d t h e i r d oc k s, an d t h ey h av e u tc; world. The supply of goi , ds not being larger than the general sides obtained the necessary grants to enable then' r i e an demd prices continue with ut alt era ti on . to the whole way eastward BRADFORD.—There was a tol era bl e amoun t of b us i n e ss d one carry forward the ra il s tb6C in our Piece Hall on Thursday, though scarcely so much as w a s outer harbour at the back of the Custom-house, so 4 done last market day. The merchants rather hung off b u yi ng , vesse ls lying in the harbour, both a t th e b ac k a n d east el c ji. as they were in expectation o f l e tt ers , p er s t eamer , f rom Ame. of that building, will be able to discharge and hle d .-,,e rica. Both the Wool and Yarn departments continue Upon uch the same languid condition as at our last report. the racily to and from the waggons of the railway, the ee l 'ic her whole there is some improvement in the demand for Yarns, but as in the docks. The Edinburgh and Leith AtmosP. e ig the spinners comp:ain that the prices realised are not remnnera- Railway being thrown out, all opposition to this Iwo. ting, the price of Wool still i•eeping ye' y high. thus annihilated. Three splendid engines are nowb u el HUDDERSFIELD.—The report of last week, as to the state of ing at Messrs. Bu ry, Curtis, and Kennedy's foundtY' fo r• the staple trade of this town and neighbourhood, might be again this town, and will be ready in three weeks, to be repeated for the present week, for we have no alteration of con- warded for the use of this railway. r , ase lf sequence to notice. A tolerable amount of business was done ta MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT RI- if in our public market on Tuesday, but both manufacturers and ' merchants act with great caution; and as stocks of desirable RAILWAY.—A meeting of the shareholders of tili',.ler Rote goods continue low, there appears very little probability of the was held on Friday last, in the Company's O ffi ces, r ote prices receding. ham, to determine, in compliance with the sessional 0 ...,e0‘ HECKAIoNDWIKIC BLANKET MARKET . — The market has been of Parliament, upon the carrying on or the abandonifopal well attended this week by merchants, and the manufacturers of the line. J. Aldred, Esq., chairman of the pro l aii, have obtained. in some instances, a slight advance ; we under stand that stocks are unusually light for the season, particularly committee, presided, and the meeting was influl t e o ti o b e e f the better goods. attended. A report was red by one of the solid d t LEICKSTER.—There is a little better feeling and more confi- the company, stating their past proceedings, aP, e r e dence in the market than there was a month ago. The favourable position which they occupied; and e' OK machinery is generally at work, alth ‘ugh the hosiers coplain full and satisfactory discussion of various pOiot s n t 10 of the di ffi culty in obtaining remunerating prices for goods. nected with the undertaking, the meeting ''''''. 0 0 ' ' t he more Worsted and. woollen yarns are in -better demand. There is more doing in wool, and wether-skin wools are a trifle higher. the vote, when there appeared, for prosecuting a tllt NOTTINGHAM. — The silk glove branch is better than it was at dertaking 9,670 votes, and for winding up 13", oin; the commencement of the present year, but upon the whole it is The result was received by the shareholders presee, :o o °, l rather in a depressed st a te, an d man y o f th e h a nds are pinched great satisfaction. After the meeting, in consider s 1, ~pl' the great stake in the line' held by parties hi Li ve . r sel y for employment. The cotton warp lace hands have scarce half employment. The silk warp lace hands are rather in a more Mr. Richard Harbord, who bad attended as the r A eP t r o .. .p,er, flourishing con ition, but then their nemoers are reduced to less .' , tances, , tative of a large number of' shares, was requestee . A ll y,. mit his name to be added to the list of provision, e l f r i ll )raven, . tors, and to give them his active co-operation , ,_ l. rh V.f i l i , •"i with °net., request he kindly assented, a circumstance wettelti 7 M.—in cons, ' 'gist on, the .... doubtless impart increased confidence in the und er ..., gar' 4 themselves ut.- to the Liverpool shareholders. . ,„A r-- „ hu b - --i countries, am, .... LABOUR ON RAILWAYS.—We have obtam , — tr oci ,- 0 00 - home market, whit, . from about 300 miles of railways now under enn:d 2 9, 0 -hich ought to be in - and we find that on them there are now emploY - „ds ~c , -.sera in this men and 3,00& horses. This amount compreb:ost7oo - " ( Aled fourth part only of the lines now in progress of ''d 12 , a id . , an Pot horses ; therefore, we may assume 120,000 men ..,, a ges, or horses as the total number employed. The " vr eel 4 ,', s l for these men and horses is £500,000 Pe r , rile re £26,000,000 per annum, directly expended ,° f a r.e2 is wages. This amount consists of wages Merl; a ggiP ir p directly employed on the line. Half as Inu e l , clO io lO expended indirectly on labour, preparing ve_ l w ater oe a stock, &c., for the line, and on land and otil,!, - m iles 4 great nourish, and concludes as fellows:—" lam COOfi• as much more. We have stated that on J OO ,iv y dent, sir, should the emergency occur to-morrow, the have returns at 29,000 men and 3,000 horc. he land energy, the alacrity, the means and capacity of the country But this is not the proper quantity required t w r, t ct , so" in to meet it, would be so displayed as to astonish ourselves. We have before us the engineers' returns, bY e ''' sc ar,: o oo Should a war come, sir, in the prosecution of our right, that they require, in order to complete " r t hat , l l 7 o lli 1 believe all parties would cordially unite in carrying it time, an additional supply of nearly 20,00 0, 2 t hat ~i op e on with vigour. There would not be, as in the last war, men and 5,000 horses is the proper numbers a dr i pti' " a peace party," aiding the enemy, preventing capitalists be employed. Moreover, we find that P e a l rea d)f d the, from loaning money to the government to carry it on, men must be bad in order to do the woolc,„ined, and and rejoicing over our defeats. There would be no do- fated. These additional men cannot be ,e'f.,,, e the . t o: mestic traitors. We should all he Americans in deed ; very attempt to obtain them would roerei . u w itkoa* t he_ and heart and hand, in cordial union, really as one man, of enhancing the cost of the present ba n e t r iere eore t t teo ps around our country's standard. A war, sir, will not pro- terially increasing the supply. We see ' t hat any :id el: ceed from us. It must come from the other quarter ; the present supply of hands is deficient — it w o . 0 and if it does come, it will be a war of aggression, unsus- to increase the supply would fail, beaur'ofita. l e 1 "r b il ; tamed by the sense of justice, or the sympathies of other hence prices beyond all possibility of p _ t eng i re ee to nations. We never will, we cannot, become an aggressive ment. We do not believe, as an mine" ~ deer. ' s ore' power; but when an assault is made upon us, sir, the stated, that present prices are 50 per a c t e io n n ..• p rth / bv . eo lo , whole land will rise as the mighty man armed, and with this time last year. That is an exagger a vigorous and united effort, overwhelm the aggres s o r ." h owever , k e pt down only by the wisdom w . hi su e p h pr c ifi e j fi C ill Sir, I have done." The New York Herald, with refe- moderated the demand to the means °,,, and price rence to the hon. gentleman's concluding remark, says, have an injudicious increase of der_eu chro siew expressively, " Reader, thank God." at once become preposterous.—Basmef The venerable Earl of Harrowhy, although still some what infirm from his advanced life, is in improved health, and intends to pass the season in town. A handsome satin dress, surmounted with lace, and in tended as a present to her Majesty for the use of the Priu cess Royal, was exhibited at the Victoria Asylum for the Blind, Newcastle, a few days ago. The dress was worked exclusively by blind persons, inmates of that institution. HER MAJESTY'S ACCOUCH EMENT.—The near ap proach of an interesting event, to which the public look forward with intense interest, may perhaps be inferred from the fact that the messengers of the Home-office have received directions to be in attendance, night and day, on and after to-morrow (Monday), so that the fact of the Queen's indisposition may be communicated without loss of time to the Cabinet Ministers.— Observer. DINNER PARTIES.—A custom has come in, and seems to be gaining ground, instead of sitting at the top and bottom of the table, the host and hostess sit opposite each other at the middle; by which means they are more at ease, more in the centre of their guests, and better able to communicate with each other. George IV. adopted the practice twenty years ago ; it is followed by Queen Vic toria. According to this arrangement, two persons can be accommodated at each end of.the table—not a bad point where there is limited accommodation. than half, and their wages, in many , co one-third. The fancy bobbin net trade had, in some quarters considerably lm- - ' and some houses have had a sort of half clearing out, but still with others the depression is as severe as ever. BIRMINGHAM.—In consequence of the high prices which the iron masters still insist on, the manufacturers of Birmingham and Wolverhampton find themselves unable to compete with Belgium and other continental countries, and are in conse quence throw n almost wholly on the home market, which is in a state of great depression. It is a fact which ought to be in structive to the great combination of iron masters in this country to obtain prices, that Belgium has recently imported iron from the United States, manufactured it, and sent the manufactured article to England, where it has been sold to a profit at less money than the British manufacturer could dis pose of his goods for. A BIT OF BATHOS.—On March 2d, Mr. Breese, of Illinois, delivered in the sena t e o f th e United States a speech on the Oregon question, which occupies twelve papers t is printed A t 1 4 4 A 1 A P!,te 141' 1 I