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6 ... ...- .. ......_ --.-. .......... . _ .._ .., . _ . S LIAIN I) 1.44‘ DITION• THIRD EDITION. :.... - _._=_._ Standard-office, Twelve o'clock. Standard-of Two o'clock. ----t— -— [ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT.] LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, This DAY. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. At 63. to ls. per barrel reduction for Flour, and 4d. to T a large and influential MEETING of ELEC- sd. per b ushe l on W heats, we h ave h a d a l arge b us i ness k_ TORS of the LIVERPOOL DiSTRICT of the SOUTHERN done for consumption at our market to-day. vISION of the County of Lancaster, held at EASTWOOD'S . . ITAL . HOTEL, Liverpool, the 3rd July, 1846. It Arai proposed by V‘'2.l. HATH BONE, Esq., and seconded by ARRIVALS OF CORN, tars i OILIER itAWDON, Esq., that From the 30th June to the 6th July, inclusive It. E. HARVEY, Esq., take the Chair. Proposed by Wsr. RATHBONE, Esq and seconded by T.. i IRE- t COAS !CAN ADA' I TO 'TOTAL. Itsir lloLmE.s, Esq., LAND. i WISE. REIGN. That this meeting pledges itself to use every constitutional 1 - . fans to secure the return °fly% illiam Brown, Esq., as Repre- Wheat .. ... Ors. 528 1695 14425 16613 atative in I arkatnent for the Southern Division of the County Barley Qrs.l 337 30 367 Lancaster. . Malt Qrs. 182 182 Proposed by THOMAS BLACKBURN, Esq. and seconded by Oats .. lAKLES ROLLA:ND, Esq. Rye That the Chairman transmit to William Brown, Esq., on the Beans Qrs. 5 i 1246 1251 rt of this meeting, their cordial thanks for the promptitude peas e Qrs. 1 289 I 63 353 th which he has accepted the invitation of the electors to be- ShelledßarleyQrs. Tie a candidate on the present occasion. Indian Corn. Qrs. 12530 12530 ['hat the followirr; gentlemen be appointed a Committee for Rapeseed Qrs. ; purposes of the election, with power to add to their num- Oatmeal .. Loads 1011 13 1024 rs. Flour. .... Sacks 4379 -12 30 4421 lames Aikin John Mather Ditto Brls. 91 22644 , 29548 02:83 fohn Aikin Daniel Mather los..Appieby hollert Mather EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Pease,. :11ristopher Bentham George Maxwell r qrs. ' • Oats, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Henry limns Wellwood Maxwell sacks ; Flour, 248 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 74 qrs. ; Bar. lamuel Blackburn David M'Clellan ley, qrs.; Beans, —qrs ; Oats, qrs ; Indian Corn, 670 ihonias Blackburn Andrew Melley qrs. ; Oatmeal, —sks ; Flour, 88 scks, 885 brls. -Coastwise. rhomas Blackburn, jun. James Mellor Wheat, 212 qrs. ; Barley, 25 qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 12 Niiliam Blain Samuel M. Mellor . qrs. ; Beans, 50 qrs. ' • Pease, 5 qrs. ; Oatmeal, sacks ; Niiliam Bolderston Francis Mill I ndian Corn . q rs. ; Flour, 292 sacks 3911 bris. ['Minas Bolton James Mill • [Ulnas Booth James Morrish Averag:e prices of Grain, for the week ending June 27. 1446' , rancis Boult, jun. Alexander Morison Wheat 528.24. I Barley 275. 44. I Oats 23i. 6:. ; Rye 323. 7d .tdward Bradley Thomas Morecroft Beans.. 373. 64. j Pease.. 353. Od. lames Brancker J. W. Mulleneux Aggregate average of the six weeks. lohn H. Brancker James Mulleneux Wheat 525.10 d. 1 Barley 275. 9:1. I Oats.. 235. 6d. 1 Rye 338. fld. Eda - ard Bretherton John Mure Beans.. 365. 2d. I Pease.. 345. 4d. lichard Bright O. M'Viccar ;simnel Bnliey Frederick Pennington Duty on Foreign Produce this week. William Cochran John Pennington Wheat 5504 I Barley 4s 04 I Oats .. . 15 64 I 1 Rye.. 49 04 Edward Chaloner James Perrin Beans 4 s Od Pease .. 45 Od 1 Ind. Corn Os od Flour 3s ud Nil t iam Cocli ?.dward Clialc Frederick Penningtor I ohn Pennington lames Perrin William Preston Ratlibone \V illiam Rathbone, jun ichard }tailbone James Rawdon C. E. Rzwlins C. E. I lohn Clow Isaac B. Co( S. C. Corbal G. L. Cox James Cox J. T. Crook Duty on British and Colonial. Wheat.. ts. od. f Barley.: is. od. Oats. 1-. Od. Rye... Beans.. Is. Od. I Pease.. Is. Od. Flour. alft. cwt, Liverpool Averages, week ending June 30, 1846. Wheat, 1778 qrs., price 495 . 7 d ; Barley, 74 qrs., price 26, sd. ; Oats, 507 qrs., price 245. 7d.; Rye, qrs., price Os. cd. , Beans, 156 qrs.. 425. 6d. ; Pease, 0 qrs., price Os. Od. Duties paid in Liverpool, week ending July 2. . James C John Co. xlins, jun. Christopher itandon Henry Da W. H. Da: Joseph Da Joseph Ridgway Ridyard James Ryley . _ Foreign.—Wheat, 270,339 qr s.; Barley, 6952 qrs.; Malt, —; Oats, 1563 qrs. : Rye. 30 qrs.; Beans. 9341 qrs.; Pease, 1307 qrs.; Indian Corn, 14,089 qrs.; Oatmeal. 394 loads; Flour, 093,689 barrels. Coloniat.—Wheat, 5013 qrs.; Pease, 831 qrs g 3 qrs.; Flour, 29,885 barrels. n Rowlinson Richard Rowlinson Charles Robertson Thomas Rodick VARIETIES Thomas H smith Har W. Ronald my Romilly Chateaubriand says, in new colonies the Spaniards begin by building a tavern, and the French a ball room. ! LORD GEORGE BENTINCK AR A POLITICIAN.—Having once accepted the honourable but onerous task, from that hour he devoted himself to it, body and mind. No exerj tion, no application was considered by him too great, if the result of it would be to render him more fit for his task. Had the question in dispute been more of a mere party question— had it, for instance, been such a question as that of E mancipation, where appeals to political honour and denunciations of ministerial treachery would hare formed the staple of the speeches to be delivered, and when the tactics of management would be almost confined to mere resistance, the sudden acceptance of the leader ship would not have involved so much mental responsi bility. But in the case in question, the po'.ition of a new leader was quite different. The combined knowledge of the statesman and the political economist had to be brought to bear on a question abounding in statistics of the most varied kind, statistics varying with almost every week; and this in the face of watchful and able opponents on both sides of the House, as well those who had been ii Rushton les Seddon ies A. Sharp F. Sim niel Simmins lles H. Smith U. Snowball mel Stitt Llliam Stewart W. H. L. Syers Charles Tayleurc moue' Thoniely Thomas Thornely, M.P, William A. C. Jeff 3. R. Jeff Samuel Tomkinson G. G. Unsworth Thomas Urquhart Sir Joshua \Valmsley Wason Richard Jc .Villiam Watson ibiam Walt!) ew P. E. Weber engaged during their public life in assailing the positions to be taken up, as those who, having all along defended them, now suddenly abandon them, and, knowing their. weak points, turned that knowledge to advantage. To fill such a post, then, was no slight undertaking fcr a man like Lord George B , •ntinck, bred, as he says, a soldier, who was an active politician only in what he is pleased to call, in modesty of spirit, the " humblest race which a political man can fill," and who for so many years bad turned almost bis whole attention to other and less digni fied pursuits. His success was signal. The first speech of any importance he made on the corn qu. stion appeared iel Wield Owen Williams A. H. Wylie homas Wylie NI. J. Whitty Gilliam Wobd ';eorze Woods on the (nee of the report to be a failure man of the Meeting, In the ljOuse i was no such l he noble lord had an object in pro tracting his speech, and to accomplish that he sacrificed some of its power and effect. He did not rise till a lath hour, and then continued speaking so long a time that the House grew impatient, and much confusion prevailed to wards the close of his address. But in tbose parts of it which were beard, and which, in fact, contained the real pith of his argument, such a striking acquaintance with the complex and -- ' • fe qnd such a power of P :RTISEMENTd 0 UTH LANCASHIRE CI THE ELI aasten to ac e receipt of a requisition, Thousand Electors of South )me a Candidate for the seat Lord Erancis Egerton to the as cashed by its numbers, 3 by its great influence on extensive Nets, and such a power of ar gument, were exhibited, that the noble lord, prolix as he was, made a very deep impression on the House. His very esteem one of nest speech, made undtr more favourable circumstances, confirmed it ; Lord George displayed so accurate and complete a knowledge of ht. subject, that even detraction was silent— tapponeats were as ready _as his_ own 'sup porters to admire his afitilicys. "rhev knew from exPa rience what an amount of application must have been given in order to enable him to obtain so thorough a mastery on so difficult a subject. Lori George 13entincly, as may be supposed, has not attained, or even approximated to, perfection as an orator. He was too much preoccupied with his subject to be able to stritte any new style of oratory for himself; it was enough to be able to aeliver his speech with an average ability. So he trusted to old, time-honoured forms in action, intonation, and delivery— I answer your call, When 31. yoar suffrages. soa .1 of ..t.lash—klcticay,in_thg he strenuous advocate of per that my experience as a tner was a vital question ; that it :rity, and probably the peace of tt freectom Gant best of my ability, constantly avowed, and it will be a conti le to reflect that I have given he free traders of England, by idence the most eminent pub interests of classes, and the overthrown, and one of the rms has 1 I am well - taut measures will shortly Ition which has lately been either House, and which, like cast-off habits, have travel led down through different classes till they now dignify and embellish that kind of eloquence which one hears after dinner at the London Tavern. It is singular to notice how the infusion of the popular and mercantile element into the representative system has affected the oratory as well as the opinions and votes in parliament. Until within the last twenty years or so, gentlemen intended for public life were regularly trained for public speaking ; a course under the elocution master was deemed essential to an aspirant for honours. The consequence was, that the general characteristics of public speakers were very similar. A tediously slow delivery, extreme pomposity. verbosity and monotony, action in what has been termed the " pump handle" stele, marked them all, and may still be found in great perfection in many whose old-fashioned oratory defies and survives innovation. The crowning virtue of this style in the eyes of its professors seems to be to end every sentence intended to be emphatic with a sudden jerk and a twang. Lord George Bentinck fell naturally into this style when he first began his recent opposition ; but conflict and the influence of example have altered his style, even in this brief space of time. But even to that which he gradually abandoned his aristocratic bearing gave a kind of characteristic interest well adapted to the subject matter on which his speeches were delivered. Taken as a whole, blaring in mind the noble descent of the speaker, his whole aspect so essentially aristocratic, his speeches were emphatically a protest from the living representative of a past generation of statesmen, and a code of political morality long since abandoned, against a upon the question of Free cause of much anxiety—lre- ely governed, and we must y the true remedies for the ievanges of wt wit no longer w • has long complained. She 3 the inequality of either her Franchise—in fact, Ireland , our labours will not termi ommerce and industry shall sits are powerful and fertile in ome of them may not be over wresting our progress. Vigi- Ines to be the first duty of the lowever deficient I may be in and 'constantly to advocate ' the country and mankind. mote the intellectual progress the triumphs of industry, as of a sound education. We t no distant period, whilst we pte of England, to set an ex • se of power and wealth in the servation of peace. thug, I lit ul servant, WILLIAM BROWN 1, 1846. 1-hill, L 015TH VERTISEMENT.] [IRE ELECTION: (Inducting the ELECTION , sn., win meet EVERY DAY, at r HE COMM . - new race of statesmen, untried for good, but convicted of evil. But for some time past Lord George Bentinck has adapted his style much more to the modern tastes of the House of Commons. He speaks with more brevity and more to the point, and has got rid of an unpleasant drawl ing tone and a habit of hesitation. Fewer statistics and more argument characterise his politico-economicspeeches, while his purely party or personal speeches exhibit a power and vigour not displayed in his earlier efforts. In his per sonal attacks on Sir Robert Peel he allowed the warmth and sincerity of his feelings to carry him further than has been usual in what Mr. Disraeli called these mealy mouthed" days; but then it should be remembered that lie believes Sir Robert Peel to have acted with, political ,1 unfairness towards one for whom Lord George entertained I the most ardent affection and respect, and that all men i'given ot the , al.ll his "the in which only a kind of sham feeling is to be snowed to intermingle. Apart from the propriety of these attacks, the energy and debating power they exhibited mere game onist. We have spoken of his elevation as be ing an accident of the Anti-Corn-law agitation. Certainly but for the effect of that agitation he would have conti nued a silent member of the Howe of Commons. It took much to arouse him from his indolence and tempt him. from his retirement; but, having been.once stt in mo tion, we should be tempted to predict that he will hereafter take a distinguished position in political rffairs.—Frazer. PERUVIAN CARNIVALS.—" Lima," says the Spanish proverb, "is a heaven to women, a purgatory to hus bands, and a hell to jackas,es." The latter utif,,rtuna'e beasts being infamously used by the negroes, who;"espe cially the liberated ones, are the most cruel and vicious rous an race in Peru. In this latter category must be included the Zambos and Chinos, balf.casts between negroes and mulattos, and negroes and Indians. We turn a few pages and come to the carnival; during which, judging from the account before us, we should imagine that Lima be came a bell not only to ill-treated donkeys, but to man, woman, and child. The chief sport of that festive season consists in sprinkling people with water, concerning the purity of which the sprinklers are by no means fastidious. From nearly every balcony, liquids of the most various and unsavoury description are rained down upon the passers by ; at the street corners stand negroes, who seze upon all who ace not of their own caste, and roll them in the gutter, unless they prefer paying a certain ransom, in which case they get off with a trifling baptism of dirty water. Troops of young men force their way into the houses of their acquaintances, and attack the ladies. First, they sprinkle them with scented water, but when that is expended, the pump, and even worse, is bad recourse to, and the sport becomes brutality. The ladies. with their clothes drip . pingWW,TrecCr;ecf fromroom — tO room, become heated, and are frequently rendered dan gerously ill. Diseases of the lungs, and other rheumatic complaints, are the invariable consequences of the carni val, to whose barbarous celebration many fall victims. Besides this, every year murders occur out of revenge for this brutal treatment. One favourite trick is to fill a sack with fragments of glass and earthenware, and fasten it to the balcony by a cord, the length of which is so calcu lated that, when let down, the sack hangs at about seven feet from the ground. The sack is kept on the balcony till somebody passes, and is then suddenly thrown out, but, thanks to the cord, remains at a sate distance above the heads of those below. Although it is tolerably well known that in most streets there is at least one of these infernal machines, yet the sudden shock and alarm are so great, that persons have been known to fall down senseless on the spot. Horses are thus made to shy violently, and frequently throw their riders. The practice is each year forbidden by the police, but the prohibition is disregarded. —Blackwood. kOYAL HOTEL 11 C. EWART, Chairman oortieids SONG —What various opinions .I:;htingalc's song! I might inn-ical, most melancholy ;" rolls With hicrl 11IE lie our y lac M uleridg, a s, ant otho rs. in proof of this, but my race f,rhills. I.'ne song of toe nightingale is, in fact, full f both joy and sorrow. The words of Milton, and the rrecian .ble of the orian of the nightingale, have im -,td 11:e idea of the melancholy of this n Ale bird's •-- mind of wets. lin , the general character of - , ‘tur , us, and full of an extacy uncon- It is like a mountain stream, heauty and riotous gladness. full rower and spirit. But, s song is j , yous, f rollibte ovr,fl ncl kap on in i hen the rces the he .rt n. exp, c.t ttly, and goes down to the het ic effect. It is just as if s .ong by a sense of resist- 3west c with a r .11, e i f past sorrow, the memory that an never be long altogether wd exults, and seems to feel all mon, and to express it as no ems to exclaim—" Oh, ! but 3 , t I am miserable ! but yet o ul bephtstion, that inextinguish wk !" In another moment it n into the midst of the present, and g woodland, or the moonlight copse, ,n - g with its triumphant inuve.—People's Journal. SAND. 4 OF PERU.— Ihe wt.ole extent of the Peruvian oast, from Os oorihern t, it+ southern extremity, pre- me tra,ie cv tten. While can exprtss It, it tat old hotmr. t ale grivf, will co ents neatly the st ty fruitful valley?. , valid wort town% tiler uroged iht ir tour here 1 ....ges and plantations; . ure or commerce has en ...on ; mate insupportable heat arcity of Int 11 ; crumbling monuments In the sandy plains travellers to love their way at fervent and unhealthy Lives way before want of nd gr• alum. 1823, a transport, carrying hundred and twenty strong, '.sco. The soldiers got on ,ed for thirty-six hours through the wh'ch !he) were unable to find their )f that tiny, they were met by a DUM iti, water arid food, who had been sent I water. in the y bore, and wit and-waste, ou er of horern:ro ut front t _ e k thew, but already one hundred f rbe tmforturintr is had died of thirst and weari- I fif y er,pir d upon the fellowing day. !tit hour's %and, rir ff in those arid deserts, de- drink, is certain death to the strongest scarce. and even where the bf d of a r.s tr , is in many instances dry during the riced of rued a non. R,vers a rater part of t!ie year. The traveller's danger is in• eased ,by the shifting DIV ure f the sand, which the wind tars in r, , ,,, moos c l ou d s , Hied in columns eighty to one undred fet high. The meilanoa are another strange bennmenno of these (141. g rous wilds. They are sand tills in the foto, of a crereet.i • ten or twenty feet high, tnd aid) a Sha qi cies , . Their base is moveable, and vben impelled by A 1010 rat h strong wind, they wander 4 dly ovt r the d. Bert ; the smaller ones, more easily , i,d , preceding the loge. The latter, however, after gee nt the cursent of air from reaching the for ter—take the w.nd 011 f of their sails, it may be said— nd then run over and crab them, themselves breaking 1p at the tanse time. In a few hours, what was p rev i ously level, ;It o'ien covered wit h ranges of hillocks, hindering view of the Itorir.n, and bewildering the most expe. 61)00 wenderers tliroagh these perilous regions. —von rchudi's Travels in Per ts. THE LIVtRPOOL STANDARD. PERUVIAN MODE OF APPLYING GUANO.—Opposite to the ports of Pisco and Chincha, lie a number of small islands, noted for their large deposits of guano, or huanu, as Dr. Tschudi corrects the orthography of the wt'rd. The doctor gives some very interesting particulars con cerning this efficac.ous manure, which, although hut re cently adopted in Europe,! appears to have been used in Peru as tar back as the time of the first . Incas. The Peruvians use it chiefly for the mai_e and potato fields; their manner of employing it is peculiar, and but Ii tle known in Europe. A few weeks after the seeds have be gun to germinate, a small hole is made beside each plant, filled with huanu, and covered up with earth. Twelve or fifteen hours lever, the whole field is laid under water, and left so for a few hours. The effect of the process is incredibly rapid. In a very few days, the plants attain double their previous height. When the operation is repeated, but with a smaller quantity of the huanu. the farmer may reckon upon a crop at least threefold that which he would obtain from an unnianured soil. Of the white huanu, which is much stronger than the dark coloured, less must be used, and the field must be watered sooner. and for a longer time, or the roots will be destroy ed. When the land is tolerably good, seven hundred and fifty to nine hundred pounds of huanu are reckoned suffi cient for a surface of fourteen thousand square feet; with poor soil, a thousand to twelve hundred pounds are re quired.— VonTschudi's Travels in Peru. FEMALE LIFE IN GERMANY.—The only recreation in which she ever indulges is an occasional drive or ball for the latter amusement there is at Heidelberg every fa cility. There are three species of balls—the " Burger Venrein," or the association of citizens ; the " Harmo nie," so called, we presume, from the harmonizing effect of its society—and the Museum," which is a spacious building, containing several fine hall and concert rooms and an excellent table d'bote. This establishment pos sesses, also, the additional advantage of a capital news room, where all the 'caging continental as well as Engli-h journals are taken, and amongst the latter, is our friend Mr. Punch. For a very trifling annual subscription, any one may become a member if this society, and besides access to the balls, concerts, news-room, &e., he has the "entre" to a magnificent library, which is stored with authors in all languages, and amongst the collection, strange to say, is a capital selection of some of our best English law hoolts. There is a ball or a conccrt given at these rooms at least once a month, and the society fre quenting them is considered the most aristocratic of the town. To the Harmonie, however, all sorts and Condi tions of men and women repair; we have seen a grafine or countess and a laundry maid dancing in the same set ; a crown prince and ahe waiter vis-a-vis—hut in Ger many this is thought nothing of, and the people who thus attain a temporary elevation, never venture to presume en it—but the instant the ball or festivity is over, return to their respective positions, the waiter and the laundry maid resolve themselves into their original elements, and the next day you will see him whom you met on the previous night, arrayed in all the gorgeousness of blue coat and snowy vest, attired in his accustomed jacket and trousers. of that extraordinary cut by which the German " kelner" is distinguished, waiting with meekness beside some so litary guest who is eating his breakfast in the coffee room of the hotel: or the lady whom you beheld in all the maiden simplicity of white muslin, and "aperient" dia monds, carrying away a huge pail of water upon her head, which she has with much labour just extracted from the adjoining pump.—Sketches of Burschen Life. EARTHQUAKES IN LIMA.—"The city of earthquakes," would be a far more appropriate name for Lima thsn the city of the kings. On an average of years, five-ant-forty shocks are annually fel►, most of which occur in the latter half of October, in November, December, January, May, an,'• June. January is the worst month, during which, in many years, scarcely a day passes without convulsions of this kind. The terrible earthquakes that play such havoc with the city come at intervals of forty to sixty years. Since the west coast of South America was known to Eu ropeans, the following are the dates :-1586, 1630, 1 6 87, 1713, 1746, 1806; always two in a century. It is greatly to be feared that ten more years will not elapse without Lima being visited by another of those awful calamities. Dr. Tschudi gives a brief account of the earthquake of 1746. It was on the 28th of October, St. Simon and St. Jude's day, that at 31 minutes past 10 p.m., the earth shook with a fearful bellowing noise, and, in an instant, the whole of Lima was a heap of ruins. Noise, earth quake, and destruction were all the affair of one moment. The few buildings whose strength resisted the first shock were thrown down by a regular horizontal motion of the earth, which succeeded it and lasted four minutes. Out of more than three thousand houses, only twenty-one re 'arly all the public buildings were ort of Callao the destruction was for scarcely was the earthquake over, when the sea arose with a mighty rushing sound, and swallowed up both town and inhabitants. in an instant, five thousand human beings became the prey of the waters. The Spanish corvette San Fermin, which lay at anchor in the harbour, was hurled far over the walls of the fortress, and stranded at more than five hundred yards from the shore. A cross marks the place where she struck. Three heavily-laden merchantmen met the same fate, and nineteen other vessels foundered. The town had disappeared, and travellers have related how, even now, when the sky is bright and the sea still, the houses and churches may be dimly seen through the transparent waters. Such a tale as this is scarce worth refuting, seeing that the houses wet e overturned by the earthquake before they were overwhelrned..hy the_ sea. whose action ;unsure lot . g sluice 6s.wo alet.troved t6eis••eve.y vestige. Rut the old sailors along that coast lose to tell how, on certain days, the people are seen sitting at the doors of their houses, and standing about in the streets, and how, in the silent watches of the night, a cock has been heard to crow from out the depths of the sea.— Von Tschudi's Travels in Peru. even mere cow AN INCIDENT OF THE WARS OF WILLIAM AND JAMES.—WhiIe Jeremiah Tisdel thus railed and cursed in hoarse accents, as he burrowed with his crooked fin gers among the upturned earth, he might not inappositely have presented to the fancy of the spectator the image of a famished ghoul cowering over some open grave, and searching for the fragments of his unclean feast. " Gone, gone, gone," he cried, in a voice of almost childish rage and grief, as he sat down upon the cold earth beside the spot, and smote his clenched hands sometimes upon his breast and sometimes upon the dull soil, until gradually this frantic energy of woe subsided into a sullen, black moroseness, from which, however, after the lapse of some ten minutes, he on a sudden started up. " Aye, aye," be exclaimed, with a new and fierce interest, " let's see how Deveril has fared." With this exclamation, he hurried toward the ruined walls; the lower windows had all been secured with iron bars, which had of course survived the flames, and now showed in sharp black lines against the grey light of morning which streamed through the build ing. Passing the c)rner of the still reeking ruin, Tisdal stopped short, with a shuddering ejaculation which had a strange mixture of joy and horror in its intonation. "Then it is done !—ha, ha !—the hunter caught in his own toils, the robber bereft of his spoil, the murderer of his precious life." The spectacle which elicited these words was one of sufficient horror. Through the bars of a window, within a few yards of which the speaker stood, were thrust the knee and the head of a figure, whose es cape had been rendered impracticable by two transverse bars which, deeply sunk in the side walls, secured the rest. The Lead, and one arm and shoulder, as well as one knee, were thrust through the iron stanchions, and all was black and shrunk, the clothes burned entirely away, and the body roasted and shrivelled to a horrible tenuity ; the lips dried up and drawn. so that the white teeth grinned and glittered in hideous mockery, and thus the whole form, arrested in the very attitude of frenzied and desperate exertion, showed more like the hideous, blackened effigy of some grinning ape, than anything hu man. With a horrible and icy fascination, old Tisdal gazed upon this appalling spectacle, till it almost seemed, to his distempered fancy, that the fiendish grinning thing was greeting him " with mop and mow," as the coal black, shrunken mask, with its shining white Tows of teeth, set off by the hideous grotesqueness of its attitude, met, and appeared to return his fixed and thrilling gaze. " Deveril ! Deveril! muttered the puritan, scarce dating to speak above his breath, as be drew back a little; for though he knew it was but fancy, the light curling smoke rising between him and that fearful object, gave to it an appearance of motion, which enhanced the horrible effect of the spectacle upon his imagination. " Deveril ! De veril-s—this is horrible! Who could have thought he'd have struggled so hard ? Why did they not pike him ? How could they let him roast there? It was frightful 1" With a violent cffurt Tisdal turned, and two steps placed the corner of the building between him and that terrible object. A strange feeling, sometimes almost bordering upon a gush of tenderness, came upon him as he conti nued—" Deveril! Deveril ! poor Deveril! it was dread ful ! it was frightful !—he was my staunch companion in evil days. Oh, Deveril ! Deveril !—he saved my life once —why did I forget Blackheath? Oh, Deveril, was it for this you saved it ? Oh, my God ! that I could call him back !—or—or at least that he had died elsewhere, and an easier death! He was my clmrade—wy comrade—when no one else would consort with me! Is he dead ?—is he quite—quite dead ? If he had but life enough left to for give me !—oh, that be had but life enough to forgive me!" Thus speaking, with a strange hysterical revulsion of feel ing, Tiadal distra^tedly returned to the spot where first the dreadful apparition had met his eye. There, fixed as the bars themselves, stood still the awful, monkey-like figure, black and grinning as ever. "Deveril! Deveril ! —old boy, Deveril!" cried his former associate, almost frantically ; but the sounds echoed unheeoied through the empty walls, and the thin vapour curled, undisturbed by breath or movement, like the smoke of his torment for ever ascending about and above the sooty, grinning effigy , " Deveril! Deveril! is there any life in you? Old fellow, it's I—it's Tisdal—burnt brandy ! Oh, God ! Deveril ! Deveril ! won't you answer Captain Gordon ? It's I-1 —it's brother Snap ! Oh, Deveril, my boy, you saved me—you saved me—l know it—l remember that night. Speak, old boy, one word. I think you moved I —you did move !" Tisdal distractedly snatched up a long charred joist, which lay among the smouldering rubbish, and, stretching across the smoking embers and ashes, he, with the end of it, pushed the ghastly figure. The effect was horrible; for though the pressure was but light, the grinning bead separated from the body, and rolled, amid a cloud of dust, towards .Tisdal's feet, while the body dropped back into the ashes and rubbish within the walls, leaving but the blackened aim still clinging and sticking to the bars. If the frightful apparition had spontaneously sprung from its position, and leaping at the throat of its betrayer, Tisdal could hardly have felt a pang of terror wilder than the paroxysm which froze him, as he saw the head of his victim thus rolling and plunging through the ashes, towards his feet. At length, relieved by some thin,/ between a sigh and a shudder, and trembling so vi olently that his legs could scarcely bear him, ne managed to withdraw as far as the low fence which enclosed the little paddock, within which had stood the mansion of Drurngunidol, now but a scorched and smoking ruin, and seating himself upon the low grassy bank, he strove to re collect his scattered wits, and to quiet his terrible agita tion.—Fortunes of Turlogh O'Brien. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, THE WEST INDIA► AND MEXICAN MAILS. The royal mail steam-ship Tee, Captain Sharp, arrived on Saturday evening, after a fine run of 13i days from Bermuda, her last port of communication. She was not due until to-day, and her early arrival is, therefore, another practical illustration of the continued improve ment in sailing of the various powerful steam-ships be longing to the Royal Mail Ccmpany. Her latest dates are, I I onduras. May 20th; Tampico, 26th ; Chagres, 26th ; Carthagcria, 29th ; Vera Cruz, June 2d ; Demerara, 4th ; La Guavra, 5.h ; Trinidod, Gth ; Barbadoe , z, Bth ; Ja maica, Bth; Grenada, 10th ; Havannah, llth ; St. Thomas, 16th ; and Bermuda. 20th. She brings 2,000,000 dollars on merchants account, but none on account of the Mexican dividends. I,BBooz. of gold dust, 5201 b. of platina, 32 serons of jalap, 93 serons of cochineal, 100 bales of tobacco, 26 cases of cigars, 55 packages of pines, 5 cases of tortoiseshell, 13 cases of tur tle, and 80 packages of sundries; the value of the whole freight may be estimated at 3.000,000 dollars. The gradual increase in the goods on freight by these ships is a strong proof of the wisdom of tie company in carrying cargo, only a recent arrangement, and which is now forming a con siderable addition to the Southampton imports. The Tay also brings the large number of 93 passengers. 4 We have letters from Mezico to the 31st May. The Mexican ports on the Atlantic were blockadeJ by the American squadron, and an attack on the castle of San Juan de Ulloa was expected immediately. The port of Mazatlan and city of Guadalaxara had both declared against the government. The republic seemed to he fast verging on anarchy. Arista ' s army in the north is understood to have dis persed in great confusion. About half the members of the new congress had been got together. They elected General Bustamante president of the body. Senor Gorostiza bad retired from the Ministry of Fi nance' and was succeeded by Senor Iturbe, who had seized all the funds in the ports, including the English dividends. The light is removed from the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, during the blockade. The Tay brings our usual files of West India pavers, by which we are glad to find a favourable change of the weather has occurred in many of the islands, too late, however, to repair the great damage the long-continued drought occasioned. The Barbadoes Slanda , d states that they have had several showers. 'J he rain appears to have been general; it continued to the end of the month. The Trinidad Standard estimates the probable amount of sugar likely to reach the home market, as the crop from that island for 1846, at 22.000 hhds., a decrease on the past year of 1,265, and 2,000 hhds. short of what might have been expected from the appearance of the crop at the commencement. The crop of the coming year, it is said, will prove a short one, probably not more than 17,000 hbds., arising from many untoward circumstances, especially the frequency of fires. These fires continue. In Naparima,. the principal sugar district, a severe fire commenced (16th) on Friendship Estate, and swept Espe ranee, Corinth, Concord, Ne Plus Ultra, M r. Navet's Mon Repos, and Mr. Andre's estates, and entered the suburbs of San Fernando; a change of wind saved the town. The fire ravaged an area of ground 5 miles in extent ; a spark from a boiling-house chimney was the cause. A similar eonfl,teration occurred the following day at Cedros, devastating the St. John, Union, Perseverance, and Loch maben estates, on the latter it destroyed canes sufficient to make 150 hogsheads of sugar; the village fell a prey to the flames. Lord Harris, the governor, exerted himself greatly during this severe visitation, in giving directions and using every effort to subdue the fires. Immigration still gees on to British Guiana ; Berb . ce has received 139 Coolies by the Raymond, and 269 by the Britannia, and they have had 235 Portuguese by the Planter, from Madeira, and a late arrival of 351 Coolies by the Sir Robert Peel. The Madeira immigrants are turning their attention to the cultivation of the vine. In Demerara a favourable change has taken place in the weather; constant and heavy showers have fallen. Grind ing has been resumed in several districts. The return, however, expected from the canes is very small ; the crop is variously estimated at 10,000, 15,000, and 20,009, or not more than half th 9 crop of the previous year. The members of the House of Assembly at Tobago continue to refuse to meet to transact any business until the Chief Justice is suspended, on account of that officer not furnishing them with a copy of certain documents which they required. One or two slight showers had fallen in Grenada, but the severe drought in that island for the most part continued, and the estates are in a de plorable state. A smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Jamaica. but was unattended with damage. The Municipal Council of Metz have voted a sum of 60,000.000 f. of the budget of that place, to enable bakers to sell bread to the poor under the assize price. The growth of apples in Normandy, from which the cider is made, is this year so scanty that the measure, which in ordinary years is sold for If. 25c., is now quoted at 4f. and upwards. The German journals contain accounts of several fires in Hungary, which are said to be the work of incendiaries. The towns of Leibiiz and Durant were on fire on the same night. In the former 22 houses were destroyed, and in the latter 101 houses and the Lutheran church. A dreadful accident took place on Friday last on board a steamer plying between Paris and Montereau. The boiler of the engine exploded with great violence, and en g‘seer and two ear..kers were killed, and several passengers danzeroosly wounded. HURRICANE IN RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSDURGFI, JUNE 22.—News has been received to. day from the interior of a tremendous hurricane along the banks of the Wolga, Which destrove'l between 100,000 and 150,000 chetwerts of flour, rye, wheat, linseed, &c., which were destined for thi. place. _ _ _ _ _ VlDocQ's LAST TRIM—Most of the Paris jnnrnals announced some months ago that the celebrated Vidocq was dead. The Democratic , Pacifique, in giving this news, followed it up with certain reflections, which he consi dered to be a libel, and commenced thereupon an action against the responsible editor. The case came yesterday before the Correctional Tribunal, and the editor, not ap pearing, wa3 condemned in default to pay a fine of 50f.— Galignanes Messenger. TREASON IN A DOG.—An amusing story is told of the boys of Heriot's Hospital, in 1682. The Earl of Argyle was in this year convicted of high treason, f,r refusing the test oath without certain qualifications. The Heriot boys ordered their watch-dog to take the test, and offered him the paper. When he refu.ed, they rubbed it over with butter. He then licked off the butter, but spat out the paper. They empannelled a jury, tried him for trea son. and hanged him.—Steven's Menroirsof Geo. Heriot. EARLY DAYS OF HAYDON, THE ARTIST.—Mr. Hay don was born on the 26th January, 1786. at Plymouth where his father was a bookseller of good reputation. Be was educated at Plymouth Grammar School, and after wards removed to Plympton, where his education was completed in the same grammar school in which Sir Joshua Reynolds acquired all the scholastic knowledge he ever received. Haydon, in after life, was fond of referring to this circturstance ; nor unwilling, indeed, to have it said that his father, who drew a little himself, had given him the Scriptural name in the thought that, as Plympton had sent a Sir Joshua into the world, Plymouth might send her Benjamin to follow. The boy evinced a love for art at a very early period, and is said to have exhibited his first fondness for his calling on the occasion of a print which the servant bad given him to keep him quiet. Thus early initiated, he found materials for his purpose in Lis father's house. He drew, read, and resolved; and, Rey nolds' " Discourses" attracting his attention, lie became, before he was eighteen years of age, an enthusiast in high art, whose first word was Raphael, and his second Michael Angelo. Thus irrecoverably a painter, he left fur London on the 14th of May, 1804, and entered his name as a stu dent of the Royal Academy. His skill and attention were soon noticed. Prince lloare introduced him to Fuseli, an introduction which had something to do, perhaps; with the after errors and eccentricities of his character and style. Fuseli was fearless and outsroktn, and Haydon became the same. Fuseli, in painting, was violent in action and exaggerated in expression, and Haydon was, at once, his admiring imitator. Thus injnriomly misted, he never recovered from the false worship of his early faith ; but, through the whole course of a long and active career, mistook Fusell's exaggeration of attitude and drawing for the tranquil grandeur of Michael Angelo and Ra ph3el. —A llaeneurn. AN EGYPTIAN FUNERAL.—Another uncommon fune ral proctssion, that of Kharsiteed Pasha, late governor of Sennar, passed our house a few days after that of the saint ; and as it was the most remarkable of all such spec tacles seen in Cairo since my arrival I am induced to de scribe it to you It was preceded by six camels, each bear ing two bcxrs filled with corn and dates, above and be tween which sat the distributor with'a stick in his hand to drive off the crowd that presssed upon him. making as great a clamour as though they were all starving ; and strange to say, the most decently dressed persons were the most importunate. Then followed three camels with water; and then two buffaloes to be sacrificed at the tomb, and the flesh to be divided among the poor. These practices are al ways observed at the funerals of rich per sons in Egypt, and, I believe, throughout the East. About thirty reciter of the Kur-an followed next, and about tire same number of Sheyks headed a large body of Turks of the middle classes, chiefly wearing the military dress. Then followed a tribe of Chaooshes, two and two, in full uniform ; and after these walked about fifty grandees of all ages. Their dresses were most picturesque, the varieties of colour they dis played rendering the group they formed by far the most striking feature in the proce-sion. There were among them some old men who had doubtless seldom before walked in the streets of Cairo. One, bent with age and apparently blind, was leaning on a 3 outh who seemed to be his son, and many were much exhausted. They had all walked nearly a mile, and had to walk nearly a mile and a half further, the last half mile exposed to the burning sun. But to return to the order of the proces sion. Some bois walked next, each bearing a Kur-an ; and they were immediately followed by a crowd of men bearing incense in silver censors, filling the streets and houses with clouds of frankincense and other perfumes ; while others, carrying sprinkling bottles of silver, showered :heir sweet contents around them on the more distinguished of the spectators. Then passed the bier, the appearance of which was not unusual: it was covered with a red figured Cashmere shawl, and borne by four men. The ladies, female slaves, and friends and at endants of the harem next followed, consisting of about twenty-five or thirty ladies, mounted on high donkeys, and perhaps twenty slaves on ordinary donkeys, and a host en foot. All the last mentioned screamed and wailed so loudly that the noise cannot easily be forgotten by those who have heard as well as seen a grand funeral Procession ; the mingling of voices—the reciters of the Kar-an—the chaunting boys—and the wailing women, oc casioned a deafening yell hardly to be imagined. The led horses of the grandees bore up the rear, and thus con cluded a spectacle as singular as almost any which can have been witnessed in the streets of Cairo.—Corres pondent [of the Times. STANCE OF AFFECTION FOR A CHILD.—I wit din the family of native, named Alligator, an nee of affection for a departed child, which, though hibited itself in this peculiar manner, was extremely touching. The wife had treasured up the bones of the little one, and constantly carried them about with her, not as a memento mori, but as an object whereon to expend her tenderest emotion, whenever they swelled within her breast. At such times she would put together these bones with a rapidity that supposed a wonderful know ledge of osteology, and set them up that she might weep over them. Perhaps in her imagination, as she performed this melancholy rite, the ghastly frame-work before her became imbued with the comely form of infancy; bright eyes once more sparkled in those hollow cells, and a smile of it - Id:fade delight hung where in reality was nought but the hideous grin of death. I exceedingly regret that the mother who could feel so finely was some time afterwards overp-rsuaded to part with the bones of her child.—Cap lain Stokes's "Discoveries in Au,tralia" NEW METHOD OF FINISHING BRONZE STATUES. — The bronze statue of Huskis,on, just completed in the royal brass foundry of the Bavarian capital, deserves an especial notice, on account of a new method of chasing which has been resorted to in this case. It is known that newly-cut brass possesses a strong lustre, which destroys the mellow aspect of the work, on which account artists have resorted to the expedient of producing a sort of arti ficial patina by the use of mineral acids. For the sake of imparting to the above work a uniform mellow appearance without using acids, Inspector Muller has resorted to the method of deed chasing. This has been perfectly success ful ; and the uniform tone which has been obtained in the whole work bids fair that the patina, as it will appear in due course of time, will be also uniform. By the use of d fferent sorts of _files a really different grain of the metal has been cut out, which the artist was able to produce in accordance with the nature of the part thus treated. This method is said to be a real advance in the mechanism of the bronze-founding process.— The Builder. GOVERNESSES.—In Russia the governess is held in such respect that she is led forth as au honoured guest, taking precedence of the pupil whose education she has completed. In England it would be difficult to ascertain her position— charged with the sole care of the " precious jewels" of an illustrious house—considered competent to cultivate their minds—to form their manners—to enlarge their views, that they may keep their position, and become all that is desired in Engl sh gentlewomen—the person who does all this, if admitted into society at all, is thrust, unintroduced, into a corner, and expected to retire when the younger children are sent to bed—slighted by the servants, who consider , her a servant—and looked upon as a person to be dis missed as soon as done with by the mistress ! Fcr one governess who receives a pension for past services—services which can never be repaid—there are, protected and pros perous, a hundred ladies' maids; it is not at all uncom mon to meet with pensioned servants, but a pensioned go verness is a rara aria; we find them in hospitals or work houses, when they are overtaken by ill health, or faded into old age.—Art Union. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE PRESENT CRISIS OF ENGLAND.—In days like ours, which begin to familiarise men with the chances of political convulsion, it may be well worth while to listen to the conceptions of one who better knew the nature of the French Revolution Man perhaps - any among the great actors of the time. Napoleon was sitting by his fireside, in St. Helena, on the 3.1 of September :—" To-day," said he, is the anni versary of a hideous remembrance, the St. Bartholomew of the French Revolu ion—a bloody stain, which was the act of the Commune of Paris, a rival power of the legis lature, which built its strength upon the dieys of the passions of the people. * * * We must acknowledge that there has been no political change without a fit of popular vengeance, as soon as, for any cause whatever, the mass of the people enter into action. * * * Ge neral rule :—No social revolution without terror ! Every revolution is in principle a revolt, which time and success ennoble and render legal; but of which terror has been one of the inevitable phases. How, indeed, can we un derstand that one could say to those who possess fortune and public situations, ' Begone, and leave us your for tunes and your situations,' without first intimidating them, and rendering any defeece impossible? The reign of terror began, in fact, on the night of the 4th of August, when privileges, nobility, tithes, the remains of the feudal system, and the fortunes of the clergy. were done away with, and all those remains of the old monarchy were thrown to the people. Then only did the people under stand the revolution, because they gained something, and wished to keep it, even at the expense of blood." This language is memorable. It ought to be a lesson to Eng land. Napoleon here pronounces that the great stimulant of political revolution is public robbery. Privileges may be the pretence, but the real object is plunder ; and the progress of reason may be alleged as the instrument, but the true weapon is terror. In England we are preparing the way for a total change. 'l'ha groundwork of a revolu tion is laid from hour to hour ; the aristocracy, the church, the landed proprietors, are made objects of popular libel, only preparatory to their being made objects of public assault. The League has not yet taken upon it the office of the Commune of Paris, nor have the nobles, the clergy, and the bankers been massacred in the prisons; but when once the popular passions are kindled by the hopes of na tional plunder, the revolution will have begun, and then farewell to the constitution. The habits of England, we willingly allow, are opposed to public cruelty ; and in the worst excesses, the France of 1793 would probably leave us behind. But the prineiple in every nation is the same —the possessors of property will resist. the pTtinderers of property will fight ; conflicting banners will be raised, and, after desperate struggles, the multitude will be the masters of the. land.—Blackwood. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY. ON THE IST From Colhurn's Unit, which the Depot of the Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. Royal H.Guards—llyde Park Ist Dragn Gds.—Birtniugham 2d—Dublin. 4th—Nottingham sth—York. 6th—Norwich. 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. Ist Dragoons—Ballincothg. 2d-- 21 / 1 1blin 3d—Bengal ; Maidstone 4th—Manchester. iith—Loogtord. 7th Hussars—Hounslow. Bth—Cahir. gth Lancers—Bengal ; Maidst. loth Hussars—Bombay. 11th Husars - Coventry. 12th Lancers— Brighton. 13th Lt. D'goons—zZewbridge. i4th--Bombay ; Maidstone. ,„ 15th Hussars—Madras; M'ston 16th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn 17th Lancers—Dundalk. Grenadier Guards, (Ist batt.) St. George's Barr. (2d batt.)—Wel ington Barr. (3d batt.)—Windsor. Coldstream Guards, (Ist batt. St. John's Wood (2d batt.)-14 inchester. Scotch FusileerGrds—(lstbatt Portman- st. Bair (2d batt)—Tower Ist Foot (Ist bad -Trinidad Dublin. (2d batt.)— Edinburgh. 2d Foot—W inche .ter. ad—G.,sport. 4th—Madras; Chatham. sth—Templemore 6th—Athlone. 7th—Barbadoes ; Naas. Bth—Rombay gth—Bengal; Chatham. 10th—Bengal; Chatham. 11th—N. Wales. ,heerress. 12th—Mauritius; Isle Wight. Reserve batt., Mauritiu: 13th—Port , mout h. Canada; Plymouth Ceylon ; Watertord. 17th-Bombay; Chatham. 18th—China ; Chatham. Igth—Barbadoes ; Boyle. 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wigi 21st—Madras; Chatham. 22d—Bomnay ; Chatham. 23d—Antigua ; Isle of Wight. Reserve hatt.. Canada 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 25th—Matiras"; Chatham. 26th—Enniskillen. 27th—Cape G. Hope ; Guernsey 28th—Bombay ; Chatham. 2gth—Bengal ; Chatham. 30th—Dublin. 31st—Bengal; Chatham. 32d—Hengal ; Chatham. 33d—N. Brunswick ; Cloomel. 34th—Corfu ; Cashel 35th—Mauritius Charles Fort. 36th—Manchester. 37th—Newport. nth—Jamaica; Londotr'erry 39th—Bengal; Chatham. 51st, under ord JULY, 1846 'ed Service Magazine Regiment is stationed.] 30th—Canterbury. 41st—Malliugar. 42d—Malta; Isle of Wight.— Reserve batt., Malta 43d—Dover. 44th—Newry -Cape of Good Hope, Reserve batt., Yl.Video 46th—Canada; Chatham. 47th—Dublin. 48th—Jamaica; Nevi/bridge. 49th—Castlebar. 50th—llengal; Chatham. *5 Ist—V a n D. Land ; Chatham 52d—Quebec; Brecon. 53d—Bengal: Chatham. 54th—Glbraitar ; Vermoy. 55th—Devonport. ,561.h—Buiry, (Lancashire.) 57th—Madras ; Chatham. 58th—N.S.Wales; Chatham. sgth—Dublin. 60th(lst batt.)—Bombay ; Chat (2d batt.)—Canada ; Edinbro' 61st—Bengal; Chatham, 62d—Bengal ; Chatham, 63d—Madras ; Chatham 64th— Dub in. th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham. 6th—Gibraltar ; Clare Castle i7th Cork. 18th— Chester. ipth—Newcastle-upon-Tyne 'oth—Dublin. 'lst—Barbados ; I. of Wight. Reserve bait., Canada. '2d—faraltar ; Nome'. '3d— M on te Video—li uttevant. Atli—Portsmouth. 'sth—At' lone. '6th—Glasgow. 7th—Jamaiea; Fermoy. 'Bth—Bombay; Chatham. '9th—Gibraltar ; Be,terbut loth—Bengal; Chatham Ilst—Canada ; Jersey. . . —Canada; —Limerick Spike island 4th—Madras; Chatham sth Buttevant 6th—Bombay ; Chatham 17th—Aberdeen. ;Rh—Malta; BallinasL;e. ;gth—Canada ; 10th—Ceylont ; Weedon. rye batt., C. G. Hope DM—Belfast la; Carlow , ! Chathaa 85th—Ceylou • Tralee. 96th—N.S.Waes ; Chatham. yyth—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve batt., Cephalonia path—China ; Chatham . [Mil—N. S. Wales ; Chatham. Rifle B (istb.)—Corfu ; Chat'm, (2d batt.)-11alifax,N.S.,IsleW. Reserve batt., Halifax, N.S. ist W. I. Regt.—Jamaica, &c. 2nd—Nassau. 3d—Demerara, SierraLeone.&e Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon. Cape Mounted Ililienacn—Cape of Good Hope. R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canada. Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies—Newfoundland Royal Malta Feucibles. Malta. St. Helena Regt.—St. Helena. ers for Bengal. LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL, May 12 1 Lima _ _ 21 St. Helena May 2, May 24 Maranham „ 21 20 I Mauritius April Mobile • .7 N. Orleans . June 13 New York . April 25 Pernambuco :May 19 Rio Janeiro. •• 29 savannah... June 16, .. 23 Valparaiso ,r 21 Vera Cruz (April -13 Australia. Bahia.. ~. Barbadoes.. Bombay ... B. Ayres Calcutta CI - 6714C Charleston . China ...... Deme, ara.. Havana .... Jamaica.... La Guayra. April iO I June 8 May 7 June 8 May 35 May in June 11 April 1 May 30 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. Pm , . nova .__ 8, Rohertsoi, Alexander and Co. Ditto, 12 9, Robert Bleakley, 2nd 0. William M'Koberts, Ist 9, James Irvine, Ist .. 10, Stephen Venue. proof and div. Ditto, 11 15. Joseph Taylor, proof end uiv. 15, Wilton 1‘ oi,d, Ist 15, William Loner4an, i st. Ditty, 12 15, John - eliiek Liddon, Ist 15, Thomas Dolphin Weaver, let Ditto, 12 15, William Kelly. proof and div. 15, James Colquhoun Kemp. proof and div. Ditto, 12 15, T. Wilson. C. K. Wilson and W. Wilson Ditto, 12 17, Robert ArKim, Ist District Court, Manchester, 12 July 7, 1846. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND MR. LUEDEN. (From the Landon Record.) We cannot but think that Sir Robert Peel might have paid a compliment to Mr. Cobden, without doing it in such a manner as might seem to approve of the c.vnbtitu tion of the League, and of the system of its agitation, as is the reasonable inference from the right hon. baronet's speech of Monday night. When Lord Anglesea was recalled from Ireland, and said in his parting address to the Rounanists, that his ad vice was " Agitate, Agitate, Agitate," every m4n of sense denounced the folly of the exhortation. coming from the lips of a retiring Viceroy. and only palliated his conduct by the recollection that he was fitter to charge at the head of a regiment of hussars than to govern a nation. But Sir Robert Peel must be regarded in a very diferent aspect, and we cannot but feel that his panegyric is fitted to stimulate the ambition of future agitators, and to call into existence a new swarm of would•be Richard Cob dens. It cannot be forgotten that Sir Robert Peel at one time entertained a very different opinion of Mr. Cobden, and thought that he did not always " appeal to reason." No one can overlook the fact that when Mr. Drummond was assassinated by one who designed the bullet for Sir Robert Peel, the premier spoke in such a manner of Mr. Cobden's addresses to the great Anti-Corn-law meetings, as seemed to intimate that Mr. Cobden was morally responsible for the attempted murder. Great was Mr. Cobden's indig nation, but so unsatisfactory was Sir Robert Peet's ex planation of his meaning, that it was not until the pre sent session that Mr. Cobden expressed himself satisfied, that the imputation was withdrawn. But it is not to any private feeling between Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Cobden, that we now look. We look to the fact that Mr. Cobden, not by appeals to reason merely, but by a powerful organization, meant to overawe the le. gislature, has for many years laboured to carry the repeal of the Corn-laws. Could the creation of fictitious votes be styled "an appeal to reason ?" Could the preparati ons on foot for supplanting the county constituencies be regarded as an " appeal to reason ?" We regret that Sir Robert Peel should have used such language in regard to Mr. Cobden, although we are free to admit the great talents, the indefatigable industry, and the comparative moderation of that eminent agitator. We admit that amongst agitators he is entitled to a high place, but still he was an agitator. And it would have been quite as suitable if Sir Robert Peel, as he hes now concluded his labours in favour of the abolition of the Corn-laws with a panegyric on Richard Cobden, had closed his great effort on behalf of Roman Catholic Emancipation with a laboured panegyric on Daniel O'Connell. Richard Cobden and Daniel O'Connell are both unconstitutional agitators, although we freely admit that as between them, the palm of truth, integrity, and principle, must be awarded, net to the selfish, blustering, equivocating mendicant of Ireland, bat to the more self denying and truth-telling Leaguer of Stockport. THE VALUE OF LAND AND SIR ROBERT PEEL'S MEASURES.—Our readers will t emember we ventured a few strong thoughts last week on the subject of h.ir R. Peel's new and decisive measures in respect to the corn laws; and as they may now be accounted as fixed and set tled, it may be a good time to pursue our remarks in re spect to its effect and its consequences. That portion of the community whom Mr. George Robins has designated those " who are more frightened than hurt," will do well to mark, learn, and inwardly digest ;he short commen tary with which we purpose to illumine our sceptical readers. The cry has been, and still continues, that the produce of the soil must now be so deteriorated, and the tenantry everywhere so out of heart, that ruin and the Corn Bill are become synonymous terms a ith the agricul turist. Now let us dispassionately, and with fairness and impartiality, look to the value of this random shot fired off by the Corn-law League to frighten good men out of their reasoning faculties. The consequences about which the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham have alarmed themselves so much, at length seem to have arrived at fever heat. They proclaim, first, the fearful fall in the produce of the soil, indeed, to so low a scale as not to af ford a remunerating price to encourage the honest farmer to toil while he has such a dismal prospect before him ; and then they go on to remark that of necessity all those good men and true must become ha f-ruined, and give up their farm to a bidder class of successors, but nece,sarily at a lamentable discount on the rental. It shall be our business to oppose facts to the suppositions cases—these inventions—these sallies of a disorganised brain. In our recent observations we told the pubic nothing had yet occurred that could guide our reason as to the important If—if land had been or had not been depressed by Sir Robert's measures. We then said, in an addenda, that nothing of much importance had yet been in the market, and that we must wait patiently before we decided for George Robins's long announced sale of the pet estate in Warwickshire, the Willett Hall estate. Before we arrived at a conclusion—we premised that this would be a safe criterion whereon to build our hopes or fears. Well, the eventful day—the long-looked-for 16th of June arrived in due course, and now let us candidly look at the result. The rental of this compact property is exactly £1,550 a year, to a tenantry without leases, and who have paid the rent for ten years without a murmur, or one solitary guinea of arrear. The estate is one of the most compact in Warwickshire, the soil most congenial for money get ting—the dairy farms not surpassable—it is nearly all tithe-free. and with this, the grand rlesidcratum, it is extra-parochial. It may be urged then this is hardly a fair case from which to draw a just result, but we say with the French farmer "toute au contraire." It is the very thing to open our eyes, as.the result w ill s h ow —Mr. Robins, in surveying this estate, in o r d er t o arr i ve at a sound knowledge of its annual value, suggested that it would bear an additional £l5O a-year extra rent. Now to show that they have throughout been giving a fair price, they declined to pay anything in addition, consequently the sale must to viewed as one indicative of its real an t i nual value. Well, then, now is the time to see what was etermination o the tenantry )e remarked that every one asked for a lease, fearing a new landlord would add 10 per cent. to their rent, and this was not conceded. All were willing to pay the same, but no more; but their countenances, •however, showed but too plainly their fear at separation. That,ks to their fortu nate stars, all is right (as will presently be seen), and they continue in their uninterrupted happy state of occupation. And now for the great resu.t —the Auction Mart was filled, and only by considerable capitalists. The rental, it has been stated, is £1,350 a year exactly. And now for the proof of depression; now for visible signs of the ruin brought on the agriculturist by Sir Robert Peel •, now for the uncertain tenure of land. Hear this, " Oh, ye of little faith!" and especially those who delight to find a hole in the system of our talented and highly gifted Mi nister, whereby to cavil. Poor people!—their fate and valueless opinion is fast approaching to become manifest. The first offer made was £40,000., but it is known that Mr. George Robins, ever since his memorable sales of Lord Ormonde, in 1825 (which he sold for 500,000 guineas), has adopted the system of always selling in guineas, so that be was obliged to ask Mr. Whicken, who made this offer (the agent of the Earl of Craven) to increase—his bidding—to guineas. That was cheerfully done, and then commenced the pleasing task of competi tion. Soon it was discovered that Cicesus, the head of all banking establishments, was in the field ; he bid cau tiously, but still like a buyer; then came James Mellor, E'sq. (one of the rich tenants be it known), and bid with much earnestness and spirit, opposing the other rich done, until he reached 48,000 guineas, when he retired from the race, and one more bidding of 100 guineas, ma of Lord Craven, succeeded in possessinz him of this c may u leases in favou r at the iit. present rent, ac cording to their own wishes. Th e j oy prize, at 48,100 guineas, or £50,905. Mr. Whickens, who bid for his lor,l2.hip, then c very opportunely lstetodescribe told all the tenants that his lordship valued them too highly to letanything ra separate iiotnw odui them, ffldusbebe very vo a eo n r yddpi theirffir countenances pro m ised In conclusion, let us see what a f ear f u l rest rse in value is to be laid at Sir Robert's d oor . Th e rental now (and to t h h e a m t a h g is in declara t ion l a but be continued) is £1350 a year, and the price given by Lord Craven is 333 years purchase. When this fact be comes known, as it must do, what will the alarmists stir to this? Facts are exceedingly trcublesome things to dull with ; they are not quite so easily controverted as as sertions are made, In this case facts must prevail ; and if there be a shadow of a principle or liberality among their disappointed army, let them now confess their faults, and ask of Sir Robert to forgive them. It is a proud refutation for him, after the abuse and oc srepre sentation he has been subject to; and 4 without envying him this just tribute to his head as well as to his heart, we him res ul tof h very manyis w years of id and w e l t- d igeste d h n a e pp ioes s oej o y t plan.—The th e wish splendid Sun. 111tH a tradition on the Oxford Circuit, that Sir F. Buller once 11 SHERIFFS, "SIXTY YEARS SlNCE. " —There is met at the first assize town with a very unsophisticated Sheriff. who bluntly demanded of his Lordship, as he was stepping into his carriage, whether he was a bona fide Judee, (the worthy functionary mide but.one syllable of fide) as they hail been so often fobbed off with Sergeants in those parts? When satisfied on this important particular, he took his seat aside of the Judge. A grave severity on the countenance of Mr. Justice Buller occasioned some misgivings in the mind of the Shetiff; who expressed his fear that he had unwittingly done something wrong. " It is certainly,' said his Lordship with a senile, " againft etiquette on these occasions for the sheriff t o take his seat fronting the horses, unless,"—he put his hand on the gentleman, who was starting up—" unless invited by the Judge, as I now invite you." Craddock tells a story oft learned predecessors encounter with another Sheriff, not unamusing. The world was not then so highly refined as at present. After the usual opening of common topics. such as the roads and the weather, the High Sheriff begets to feel himself a little more emboldened, and ventured to ask his Lordship whether, at the last place, be had gone to see the elephant ? The Judge, with great good humour, replied, "Why no. 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