The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

S WANTED n, a comOrtable SIT. BED-14Q0MS, in the D INSURANCE lAN in his e IERCHANTS I til ac att 11. G. SUTTO: es in Bradford, Ydrkshire to his business (thVof a Stuff NCY to buy WoOted Goods, hem to Order/on Commis- as to executcr)r.ders in the xperience and chaatcter are un- STANFIELD, Bookseller, Bradford NA CIGAR DEPO T, CHURCH-STREET, pecti . ty to inform nds, d the Public, CORNER OF PARKER-STREET RCUS and CO. t Watchma DAYS. ses, laity in the occu- er, wich they intend of CIGAR, will not be sur- Kingdom, they having first Matinfactur- It supply of the very finest deserip- spectlon, early in the week, a f the following Cigars : viz., rF.S_ TALES REGALIAS GRANDES. REGALIAS AGUDAS. R REYNAS I DAMAS UCOS I TABACOS PINTADOS ‘.R COMUN VEGUEROS 'APEL I ( I TOBACCO great ( 'COS 1) RSCHAUMS Ind exact] &NCY GOODS NUFI '-BOXES e best and ne 4ARROS. c has also . HOOK. COTCH 'est designs, and beg leave to intimate to those Friends nely promised their support to this Es- he above Premises are situated at the cor t, on the left handleading from St. Peter's ly opposite to Messrs. Willmer & Smith's, TO MARINERS HARBOUR LIGHT-HOUSE, WEST COAST OF IRELAND. DUBLI ERVING AND IMPROVING HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, en built on the North East a fixed White / Light ning of the Ist of Februarj, 1841, IGHT-HOUSE has rentia Island, from whi Sun-set to SuVrise :on of the Tow'lF, B(c., by for of Light:hous e is ereeted within the‘oV building of rn the Western side of i*# principal en- drolaan Pui J S. F E. by E. distant I. 1 nautic miles. f S.S.W. W. dis 1. taut 1/ naut. miles. -vallig, (sunken fW.by S. distant cables length. I be a fixed White Light, open to Seaward, 3 S.S.i E., and elevated Bove the level of high water springs, , the mean level of the sea. - ept open, will lead clear of Reenadrolaan of the Harbour Rock within the entrance. Cks, partly covered at high water, extend )f a cable's length from Cromwell's Fort. inn given are magnetic. Var. 28 4 W. By order, H. VEREKER, Sec. 2th November, 1840 S SEIDLITZ POWDERS ST, Lord- Itention -street, Liverpool, begs of his Friends and the 'reparation of the very justly cele .7, POWDERS, to kiln the SEID- iearer thin anything yet ers of iGermany. The POWDERS is r mbines scie title kill with great ac cabers of p 1 unacquainted with have of late ars attempted irrita bly been foun to be spurious com ig the agreeab e flavour nor the me- Seidlitz Waters. ining twenty-four Powders, sses, and in Tin Cases, 10s. a very eligible form for ex- put up p any length of time Ind sold only bi JOHN PRlEST where also may be had Seidlitz IMPROVED SODA POWDERS oda Water, when kept in hat carriage of it to a dis- sable expense has been con r environs To obviate pf this agreeable and making it are offered ❑ Boxes, at ls. 6d. each RACT OF SARSAPARILLA. 11 the Medicinal Pro- ly imposi therefore, who Teat inconl faience , ible to prepare the m, the Fluid Extract, which possesses ntability and of keeping in any climate, desirable mode of employing this much le Fluid Extract, put into a wine s a preparation,equal in strength to . formerly prescribed beneficial are :h as Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive mptoms, &c., arising from a diseased arge. For removing Blotches, Pim :, ibis Medicine has no superior. high reputation of this preparation :guised by the 'name of ;cc. The whole medicinal virtues of the it in its extractive matter, and it possesses n the form of essence, while the Syrup is :estive organs by causing acid fermentation. LEY'S FLUID MAGNESIA. a which all the virtues of centrated. As an Antacid licine are c n persons or children it can early tasteless, children will injunction with the Syrup of ig draught I to water, makes delicious Le drink in summer nothing can S STOMACHIC OR DINNER PILES. e purely Vegetable, and to those troubled with sensation of fulness at the stomach after meals sole.—ln Boxes at ls. and 2s. Gd. each. VEGETABLE HAIR OIL an excellent discovery for invigorating and man Hair. It eradicates the Scurf, non events its falling off, produces a most beau md gives to artificial Hair a peculiar soft d luxuriant appearance. Sold in Bottles ral curl CHEMICAL MARKING INK Writin9 on Linen with a Common Pen. ve7y suporior to the generality of what are called t inks. h gives a most brilliant black, which can [toyed by adds or any other causes, without at the destroying the linen. Families may be accommo -12 the Improved Permanent Ink and Preparation , if required.---Sold in Cases, is. 6d. and 3s. VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER. ant Tonic Tooth Powder, which simply removes all incrustations from the enamel ; and by its peculiar —Sold in Boxes, preserves that necessary covering lESTLEY'S FURNITURE PASTE. • ling and Polishing Furniture without labour or his paste is used for cleaning and polishing every of furniture, whatever preparation may have been ii.Pd for that purpose , it adds a hi g h l ustre t o )1d in Pots at Is. each, or 3 pots for 2s. 6d. FU RN IT URE OIL, Pint Bottles I 5.9 d.. Quart Bottles 3s. METALLIC LUSTRE. recommended to Housekeeper s for cleaning old and Silver Plate, Metal Teapots, Pewter s Fenders, Candlesticks, Stair Ruds, Brass )rs, .Tin Covers, &c. &c.: with half the usual is generally required with other preparations itre leaves a beautiful polish on the Metal. It and useful in the Stable department, for clean mted Carriage, Gig, or Coach Harness..—Sold 6d. and is. each. SENTIAL SAI ENUIN T OF LEMONS. on Moulds, Ink Spots, and other Stains, out and for many other useful pur- me Boxes for 2s. 6d. SSENCE OF PEPPERMINT. 1, which is uniformly held in high .1 Practitio nt preparation most fully concen ity of administering large doses, as . . s simple fOrm, is avoided.' ADMIRED ALMOND FLAVOUR. ur added to Custards, Puddings, s most delicious Directions, is. Gd TRADE tT Q. N./ at the BAOKERS ith year, [NSUR- , and can y to the cominunicat I in Bottles, w tATED ESSENCE OF JAMAICA GINGER ral may be taken for a dose three times a day is' Prescriptions carefully prepared. Genuine Drugs and ttcd up for sea t, a fellow named Gibbon, took his wife, a man, to Stonrbridge, to sell her, hut for It in vain for a purchaser ; however, he at er to a countryman, for 2s.—Hereford The question of the reduction of t the exist a lively excitement ir ned by t only evidence I 1 to tie that of M s constantl an in Lon tonally by the lee in the qunlity, not evident sily account ft cl to be suspic ,t in the reduction of dut aria oe desirous of extracting possible for France out of the trade with any concessio!: in the shape of reciprocity. bat no examination has yet taken place. glish manufacturers or importers of the I they adduce the tact, w hi c h , i f true, would fle the question, that there are numerous which have ceased to be im- Bch gl sst four or five years on account nit Tie lose sorts having been driven from the kinds answering to them. This fact is _ c ,__ent that smuggling is not so prevalent as would lower the duty would cause to be believed, e contraband trade were so general, these kinds their way into the market. A reduction of the would, on the other hand, it is contended, Lt the market with such articles as are at present uded, and seriously damage the English manufacturer. find ) one 3 glue FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE LATEST NEWS FROM THE EAST. (From the Morning Herald of Yesterday. FAL3IOUTiI, DEC. 11.— The Oriental steam-ship, Capt. )y, arrived this afternoon from the Mediterranean. Her Ltes of sailing arc, Alexandria, Nov. 26 ; Malta, Dec. 1; and Gibraltar, Dec. 6. The ft of the dist) t stater he Prin Hazard by the prey wing may be received as a ion of her Majesty's ships It Bey rout, Charlotte, Belerophon, Edinbu Zebra, and Vesuvius, steamer Powerful, Vanguard Dido. Med t Alexan- Daphne, , Ariadne (Mr at M'alt Revenge,, _ knderson, her master, at Lazaretto, in Malta); , Hastings, Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, Confian,- steam•tender ; the Implacable was on her way to Syria and Malta. At Sidon, the Thunderer ; at Scandaroon, the Ma gicienne and Benbow ; at Acre, the Pique and Wasp ; the Castor on her voyage to Malta, and the Calcutta, bound to Beyrout ; the Scorpion was passed off Cape de Gatt for the coast of Spain. the Asia The Jasseur having been refitted had left Gibraltar on a cruise, on the 7th instant. The Chapman, a Swedish frigate, was refitting at Gibral- Passengers per Oriental:—From Alexandria (originally Bombay) to England, Messrs. R. Manley, R. Taynton, Gibbard, Allan, Pugh, and Varnham ; Captain Tolland, Dr. and Mrs. Stokes, Major Macneil, Mrs. Bettington, Mrs. Ogle, Mrs. Freeman, Mrs. Forbes, with some servants and children. From Alexandria to Malta; Count Walewsky, Mrs. and Miss Mariotti, Messrs. Valbuzane and Langlais (origin ally from Bombay), Mr. Unwin. From Malta to England, Lady Wallace, Mrs. and two Misses Dunlop, Dr. Bowe, Baron Capellen, Mr. J. and Mrs. Strachan, Maudsley, and Meesrs. Locke and Green. The Oriental encountered a gale of contrary wind 60 miles S.W. of Ushant, when she proved her wonderful power, speed, and liveliness, to the astonishment of every nautical person on board. It is already known that this steamer was detained to bring from Alexandria the despatches of Commodore Napier, of a treaty of peace having been signed between Great Britain and Egypt. The negotiation commenced on the 2-ith. Our in formant states "that after two or three puts off," the affair was finally settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately drawn out. On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the 18th, Lieutenant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails) proceeded into the harbour with a flag'of truce, to ascertain whether Mehemet Ali would permit him to land the mails, and guarantee their safe conveyance across the country. The reply is known, and what attention the Pacha paid to their disembarkation, by sending one of his officers of state to expedite the steamer's entering the harbour, to secure the mails from molestation, and to promote their speedy trans mission. The steamer having taken a pilot on board, passed up and anchored inside the lines of Turkish and Egyptian fleets. On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son, with a considerable number of the chief officers of state, ad mirals, and others, paid visits on board the Orientai, and ex pressed themselves delighted with her capabilities. It was the impression, from letters received at Bombay from China, that the admiral purposed an immediate advance on or towards Pekin. There is nothing new from Persia. The accounts of the crops all over India are represented as favourable. (From the Private Correspondence of the Malta Times, December 1) ALEXANDRIA Nov. 16.—My Previous accounts of the misgiving of Mehemet Ali, and the proceedings of the French agents here, have in some degrre prepared you for the disclosures this letter contains. The whole of the blood shed in Syria is owing to the malignant vanity and Satan ambition of. M. Thiers. I can state as a positive fact that Mehemet Ali rejected the terms of the treaty of July at the express desire of M. Cochelet, acting under instructions from the foreign minister of France. lam also positively assured that about a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was going to throw himself on the four powers, when M. Cochelet, in a two hours' conversation, dissuaded him from this step. On the Bth, 10th, and 11th instant additional and strong manifestations of the same tendency took place in public. I entirely exonerate M. Cochelet personally from anything like imprudence or double treaty. He has been in a most false position, and the antagonist principles personated at Paris by the King and M. Thiers, find their analogous re presentatives at Alexandria, in M. Cochelet and Count Walewsky. The former gentleman has all the chivalric pride of an ancien officier de l'ordonnance de l'Empereur, but he has by far too much perspicuity of judgment to be carried away by the seductive unreal dreams of the republic and the empire. M. Cochelet has seen that the historian of the re volution has read and wrote history to no purpose. That he has dashed off with the vigour and brilliancy of a Paul Veronese the most vivid scenes of that awful tragedy, but that the moral it i ncu l ca t es h as b een l os t on th e delineator; the internal violence and foreign aggression go hand in hand ; and that all the misfortunes of France have arisen from the delusion that she could dictate to Europe. M. Thiers, aware of M. Cochelet's moderation of charac ter, coaxed him with honours and dignities, and sent his friend M. de Walewsky, ex-proprietor of the Messager des Chambres, to keep him up to the scratch. Count Walewsky talks much, writes mighty fine despatches, and-has, upon the whole, more sense than his cousin Louis Napoleon at Bou logne. It is certainly a safer speculation to deal in dead goose quills than in live eagles. Wisdom is the better part of valour, talk breaks no bones, and if talk could have ac cotnplished the ends of his Excellency the Count Walewsky, Sir Robert Stopford and Commodore Napier would have been sent to Davy's locker long ago. On the 7th inst. three peculiarly-shaped vessels belonging to the Pope approached the port. The look-out men took them for fire-ships, and sent a warning shot which compelled them to take a position at some distance ; when the truth was known they were sdmitted. The object of their visit is to fetch the six oriental alabaster columns which Mehemet Ali is presenting to the Pope for the grand church of St. Paul's extra ?nitro, which was burned down some years ago. This is certainly what nobody could have predicted of a Mussulman. 7'empora mutantur et nos mutanntr ab Amusingly enough, we are crusading in Syria for the legiti mate chief of Mussulmans ; and the successor of St. Peter is adorning the church of St. Paul with gifts from an aspirant to the Klalifat Shades of Saladin and Richard Cceur de Lion. What say you to this? The officers were presented on the Bth by M. Cochelet, and when the audience terminated Mehemet Ali told him, in the presence of all there assembled, that France was the cause of the present disastrous state of his affairs. M. Cochelet attempted to soothe him, but without effect; and Mehemet Ali said aloud, while playing trick-track with Moharrew Bey, "I wanted either all war or all peace. To please France I kept in my fleet, and I have had neither the fair chances of war nor the certain benefits of peace." On the 9th the Euphrate arrived with the news of the fall of Acre, and the Pacha's disappointment knew no bounds. He immediately despatched a courier overland to recall Ibra him Pacha fron4 Syria, as well as the 6,000 men he had sent from Cairo with the Druse Sheiks. Count Walewsky immediately considered it his duty to visit the old man twice a day to keep others away. On the 11th Mehemet Ali told one of his most intimate and devoted Frank friends that he had fully made up his mind, in spite of the French, to throw himself into the arms of England, and trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending hostilities, and then to Lord Palmerston arranging with the other three powers. This having come to Walewsky's ears. he went to Artim Bey, and asked angrily if this was the case. Artim Bey, like an expert Levantine dragoman, shuffled out an excuse, and next day the French party here positively denied the circumstance. You may, however, depend on the currently-rumoured report, that M. Walewsky said to Mehe met Ali that this would cause a European war ; on which Mehemet Ali said, " I am old and must think of my chil dren." The fleet have been disarmed of stores and even sails, booms, and spars, and 60 of the crew are sent to the fortifi cations. Colonel Gulisse goes on with his preparations of defence with furnaces for red hot shots, which, in the present state of affairs, is quite ridiculous. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. The gross amount for conveyance of passengers, parcels, mails, &c. for the week ending Dec.s. £9662 9 2 Merchandise for the same Cattle MIDLAND COUNTIES Passengers for the week ending Dec. 5 Merchandise for the same £12,162 18 3 545 16 7 430 6 1 MANCHESTER AND BOLTON. [Length of line, 10 miles.] Passengers and parcels for the week endingllec.lo 361 15 1 Goods and coals 172 17 5 £534 12 6 BRIGUTON RAILWAY.—On Thursday, the last arch of the Ouse Viaduct, on the London and Brighton Railway, was keyed by Mr. Maude, the resident engineer of the centre district of the railway, in the presence of the parties engaged on the work, together with a considerable number of visitors from Brighton and Lewes. The viaduct is built for the pur pose of carrying the railway over the valley through which flows the river Ouse, and near the spot where that river becomes navigable. It is about two miles and a half from Hayward's Heath, and twenty from Brighton. The viaduct consists of two abutments and 37 semicircular arches, of a 40 feet span, and varying in height from 48 to 96 feet. The entire length of the viaduct is 1475 feet, or rather more than a quarter of a mile, and the width of the railway is 28 feet. Upwards of 11,000,000 bricks, made from the soil of the neighbourhood, have been used in the structure, indepen-. dently of about 400,000 feet of masonry, in the foundation and elsewhere. The first stone was laid in the middle of May last year, so that this stupendous undertaking has been completed in about 18 months. Most satisfactory accounts continue to reach us of the progress of the works throughout the line.—Brighton Gazette. RAILWAY TALKINGMACIIINE.-=At the meeting held at Blackburn last week, Mr. George Stephenson, the father of railways, was present ; and, in a speech in support of the railway, said that on the London and Blackwall line there was a talking machine, constructed with galvanic wires, by means of which conversation could be carried on between London and Blackwall with the greatest ease and precision. By way of illustrating the efficiency of this talking machine, Mr. Stephenson said that he went to the station in London one day to inquire for one of his assistants. He was not there, but the attendant said he would inquire if he were at the other end of the line ; he did so ; in a few seconds the answer was, that he was not there. But about five minutes afterwards, the talking machine informed him in London that his assistant had arrived at the Blackwall terminus; upon which he instructed the attendant to say, by the same agency, " Tell him to come here directly." In ten minutes from that time he arrived, the distance being nearly seven miles. (Hear, hear.) If the distance were 100 miles, the conversation could be carried on just as readily ; for the com munication travelled at the rate of twenty miles a second. — Blackburn Standard. STATE OF TRADE LEEDS.—Tw o foggy market days have prevented an ex tensive business being done in the Cloth Halls since our last, but we are glad to learn, notwithstanding, that the ma nufacturers are doing a fair trade, and that the dressers are fully as busy as is usual at this season of the year. BRADFORD MARKET. —There was a numerous attendance of merchants and agents at our market here on Thursday, and in the course of the day a considerable amount of busi ness was transacted, principally at f ormer rates. In the yarn market the transactions were more numerous than of late, and prices steady. The wool market participated in the improvement that was perceptible in the other branches of the trade. More sales were effected, but, as the stocks in the staplers' hands have increased there was no augmenta tion of M ARKET Intelligencer. The MARKET for METALS has remained very dull, the only nominal change being a further decline in British cop per of ss. per ton. The EXPORTATION of the PR E CIOUS METALS has been only to the amount of 35,000 ounces of silver to Hamburgh, and to Ceylon 150 ounces of gold. IMPORTS OF Woot.—Quantity of INroolenteredB s. at Hull for home consumption during the week endingsl2Dec., ....... 179 From Hamburg 700 l lb bs. From Petersburg From Odessa. ....................... 1,829 lbs. , 514,708 lb:" JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET THURSDAY EVENING.—The Funds exhibit no particular variation to-day, but there was little disposition for specula tion. Consols left off at 59,1 for the opening. Bank Stock 1561 to 72, and it may be here noted that the prices of this stock marked yesterday 157 i to 81, were the prices for time and not for money. Exchequer Bills, in consequence of some rather considerable sales towards the close of business, declined to Is. to 3s. premium. Foreign Securities remain much as before, with the market dull. Spanish. Active with the Coupons were 2-la to 4. Por tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) 34 to I, the One-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 21i- to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the Five per Cents 98 to 4. Belgian 97 to 9. Brazilian 71 to 3. Mexican 29 to 4. Colombian 254 to 6. London and Birmingham Railways were 79 to 81, Great Western 23 to 4, the Half Shares 104 to 11 premium. South Western 534 to 44 per share. Gosport 34 to 44 premium. North Midland 27 to 5, the New Shares 3 to 2, Manchester and Birmingham 14 to 12, Eastern Counties 144 to 14, Blackwall 44 to 4, Brighton 9 to 84 discount. • FRIDAY EVENING.—The foreign papers received yester day state that a new Russian loan is about to be brought for ward, and the letters of this morning from Amsterdam fur nish some particulars of the terms on which the contract for it has been made, in which the house of Hope and Co. of that city appear to be largely concerned. These letters state that the loan is for 25,000,000 silver rubles, at a price of 864 per cent. Payment is to take place as follows :-- One-tenth on January 5, with an addition of 3 per cent. interest. Four-tenths on January 31, with an addition of 4 per cent. • , . interest. Five tenths on February 28, with an addition of 5 per cent, • interest The interest is to run from the Ist of last August, and will therefore leave a small profit of two months' interest. Cal culating at the present rate of 38 stivers per ruble (whereas 40 stivers per ruble are to be paid), the new Four per Cent. stock will stand the subscribers in 90 per cent. The English stocks have been nearly stationary all day, and the only variation in the prices was that of buyer or seller. Consols for the account leave off 891 ; Bank Stock, 156} to 1571 : Exchequer-bills, ls. to 3s. premium ; India Stock, 237 to 239 for the opening; 3 per Cent. Reduced, 891; and 3k per Cent. Reduced, 98. SATURDAY EVENING.—The , funds have been heavy all day, and although very little business was doing yet the ten dency of prices was evidently downwards, which may be at tributed to the loans actually contracted and the reports of others about to be, the pressure of which upon a money mar ket before and now in a state of suffering may not be lightly estimated. Consols declined to 89/ sellers for the opening. Bank Stock 1561 to 7*. Exchequer Bills is to 3s premium. Foreign securities generally were affected by the same cause which operated on the home stocks. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents left off at 51* to 8, and Five per Cents 984. Belgian 97 to 9. Spanish Active with the Coupons 231 to 4. 1 3, Ttugnese Two and. a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) were 33i to 4, the One-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 211 to 2. Brazilian 71 to 2. London and Birmingham Railways were 80 to 2, Great Western 22 to 3, the Half Shares 9 to 10, Gosport 3 to 4 premium. South Western 53 to 4 per share. North Midland 24 to 2, the New 2 to 1, Brighton 9/ to I, Blackwell 41 to +. South Eastern and Dover 161- to 16, Eastern Counties 141 to discount. COURT CIRCULAR.—FRIDAY. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of his Royal High ness Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Sussex called, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the riding school, near the royal mews, yesterday. Among the visiters al Buckingham Palace, yesterday, were—Baron Blome, the Danish minister; the Bavarian mi nister and Baroness de Cetto, the Saxon minister, Earl of Pembroke, _Lord and Lady Kinnaird, Lady Langdale, Lord and Lady Sherborne, Lady Montgomery, Sir John Seale, M.P., Sir John and Lady Brooke Pechell, General Sir R. and Lady A. M. Dawson, and Mr. and Mrs. Petre. SATURDAY. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Albert on Thursday evening at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty yes terday. His Lordship had also an audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. MONDAY Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia visited her Majesty, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Major- General Sir Edward Bowater, equerry in waiting, and Cap tain Seymour, groom in waiting, attended Divine service, yesterday morning, in the military chapel, near the Welling ton Barracks, in St. James's Park. Ells royal highness and the gentlemen in waiting were in military uniform. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (From the Times) Medical statistics appear to have occupied much attention of late years. Few will question the great importance of the subject whether viewed in relation to politics. physiology, or practical medicine. It contributes, as Dr. Hawkins justly observes, the key of several sciences, showing in a convincing, simple, and summary manner, their gradual progress, their actual condition, their relations to each other, the success which has resulted from their observation, or the deficiencies that remain to be supplied. Statistical data, illustrative of the state of health and dis ease in any particular county, district, or locality, is of essen tial value in the study of the philosophy of medicine. It points out to the physician the comparative merits of various modes of practice, the history of disease in different ge ; and latitudes, the increase and decrease in different maladies, and the tendency of certain situations in life, temperament, at mospherical vicissitudes, &c., in multiplying the character of those multifarious diseases to which flesh is heir. Medical statistics is, comparatively speaking, a science of modern date. It is a singular fact that the first writer on this subject should have been unconnected with the medical pro fession. As far back as 1662, Captain John Gaunt, " citizen of London," published a work on the comparative births and deaths of different cities, years, seasons, and sexes, and com parative mortality of disease. Dr. Hawkins observes that this writer "displays a singular genius for observation, in a field where no footsteps could beiraced previous to his own." Since that period Sussmilch, Odier, Heberden, Blanc, Rich man, Finlayson, Villerme, Tutelet, Casper, Orsini, Gordini, Balbi, Marsnall, Hawkins, Far, &c., have contributed most largely to the advancementof this branch of knowledge. The first weekly bills of mortality extant appear to have com menced on the 29th of December, 1603, in the first year of the reign of King James. An account of the number of burials was, it is true, published as far back as the year 1594, but this was only in consequence of the plague that pre vailed the year previously. In 1597 the publication of the bills was discontinued, the plague having ceased. The first bills of mortality related only to the number of deaths with out specifying the particular diseases, excepting the pesti lence that then raged. In 1611 the worshipful Company of Parish Clerks was incorporated. whose especial province it was to prepare the bills of mortality. These clerks were also empowered to appoint in each parish two searchers, all of whom were old women. Their duties are thus pointed out by Gaunt :—" When any one dies, then either by tolling or ringing of a bell, or by bespeaking a grave of the sexton, the same is known to the searchers corresponding to the same sexton. The searchers hereupon repair to the place where the dead corpse lies, and by view of the same, and by other inquiries, examine by what di sea se or casualty the corpse died. Hereupon they make their report to the parish-clerk. It is not, however, until of late years that the bills of mor tality have assumed a scientific or useful character. The valuable documents annually issued from Somerset-house, and prepared under the eye of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages, have thrown much light on patholo gical medicine. It is to the second annual report relating to the mortality in the metropolis and provinces during the year 1838 that we are desirous of directing public attention. To this report the registrar-general has appended a valuable letter from Mr. Far, embracing a comprehensive view of the tabular statement it contains. The author states, that during 1838, 342,529 deaths were registered, out of which 330,559 were traced to an assignable cause. The rate of mortality in 1838 was higher than in the latter half of the year preceding. This circumstance Mr. Far attributes to the rigorous weather which set early in January, which exercised a baneful influ ence over pulmonary affections and the diseases incident to old age. It appears that in 1838 the number of deaths re corded was, males, 170,044 females, females, 167,485. In the middle of the year the population was, males 7,668,245, females 7,885,615, total 15,533,860. The usual rate of mor tality was consequently, males, 2-28, or 1 in 44, females, 2-12, or lin47 ; mean of the two sexes 2-20 per cent-1 in 45. In the cases of 6465 males, and 5505 females, the causes of death were not specified. It is clearly established that the duration of life in men is less than in women. In 1838 the mortality of the former was 7 per cent. higher than the latter. This discrepancy is attributed to difference of organization, dissimilarity of habits, and occupations involving different degrees of exposure to the accidents, hardships, and dangers of life. During the year 1838, 2811 women died in child birth, while 8359 men and only 3368 women died violent deaths. _ Epidemic diseases appear to have proved very fatal. 34,321 males and 33,555 females died of small pox, measles, croup, thrush, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, hooping-cough, and influenza. Of diseases of the nervous system, 49,704 died 26,047, of convulsions ; 7,672 of water in th e h ea d ; and 2,178 of inflammation of the brain—three common diseases of children. Convulsions and water in the head are exceedingly fatal affections in ill-ventilated dirty neighbourhoods, where the inhabitants are poor, and the mothers are illfed. Nervous diseases are 23 per cent. more fatal to males than females. Of diseases of the organs of respiration, 90,823 died ; 11,690 males, and 9,488 females died iif inflammatory affec tions of the throat, larynx, air -tubes, lungs, and pleura. Con sumption is 8 pex cent, more fatal to women than men. The higher mortality of English wome n by consumption is as cribed to the in-door life which they lead, and partly to their tight-lacing and clothes compressing and preventing the healthy expansion of the chest and exercise of the lungs. In this way they are deprived of free draughts of vital air, and the altered blood deposits tuberculous matter, with a fatal and unnatural facility. It is computed that 31,000 English women died in one year of pulmonary consumption ! In alluding to the prevalence of this opprobrium medicorum, Mr. Far justly observes, " Will not this impressive fact in duce persons of rank and influence to set their country women right in the article of dress, and lead them to aban don a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous and other disorders, and has an unques tionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic malady in the frame ? Girls have no more need of artificial bones and bandages than boys." Diseases of the heart and large blood-vessels appear to have been a common cause of death. Men are more liable to these fatal maladies than women : out of the cases re gistered, 2032 occurred among the former, and only 1530 among the latter. Diseases of the digestive organs were less fatal than in 1837. Diseases of uncertain seat, affections which implicate a variety of organs in which the distinction of parts is quite subordinate to the distinction in the essential nature of the morbid products include dropsy, which is but a symptom of a disease, inflammation, hemorrhage, mortification, &c. All cases on which a coroner's inquest is held is classified under the term sudden death. In 1838, 3012 cases of this character were registered ; 1840 males, and 1172 females. Internal hemorrage is the most common cause of this cala mity. Out of 10,000 males 6-5 die suddenly, and 5-1 out of 10,000 females. Women have less chance of dying suddenly than men, in the proportion of 10 to 18. Intemperance is proved to be a prolific cause of disease and death. Intoxicating liquors can never be taken for any length of time without deteriorating the health. The con stant stimulus produces chronic affections of the brain, spinal cord, stomach, and intensities, and by unnaturally in creasing the action of the heart and circulation of the blood, lays the foundation for incurable cardiac diseases. Indul gence in spirits takes away the appetite, wastes the limited means ;of the artisan, deprives his family of food, firing, clothing, and clean ventilated lodgings—leads to dissolute ness of every kind, and must therefore be considered one of the indirect but certain causes of epidemics, fevers, and other diseases. 63 cases were ascribed to starvation, 24 infants died for want of maternal nourishment, 12 of inani tion, 2 from exposure to cold, and 15 from want of the com mon necessaries of life. Violent deaths are divided into voluntary and involuntary. They were very numerous in 1838. In the aggregate 11,727 persons died violent deaths, of w hops 8,359 were males, and 3,368 females. The number of suicides registered amounted to 1,058 (males 751, females 307). It is found that the ten teticy to suicide increases up to the age of 60. The rate of increase is nearly 50 per cent. in every ten years. As a general summary, it may be stated, that during the year 1838,,36,799 persons died from ordinary, and 85,506 from specific, inflammation ; 19,122 from the terminations of inflammatory affections ; 15,125 from heemorrage ; 2,821 from careinomatous disease ; 60,861 from tuberculous mala dies ; 2,256 from disordered secretions ; 2,512 from depraved nutrition ; 47,773 from diseases of the nervous system ; 5,564 from old age; and 11,727 from violent deaths. To be continued.) OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE PACIFICA- TION OF THE EAST, The annexed letter has been received at the office of the Oriental Steam Company from their agent in Alexandria, and would seem to remove all doubt, if any yet existed, of the submission of the Pasha of Egypt to the requisitions of the allied powers : " To the Managing Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London. " Alexandria, Nov. 26, Noon. " Gentlemen,—We have only one instant to inform you, that the Eastern question is at length brought to an amicable conclusion. " The pasha has consented to evacuate Syria, and to give up the Turkish fleet, which, however, Commodore Napier allows him to retain until the treaty be ratified in London. " The commodore is at this moment with his highness, arranging, we believe, the port of embark a ti on o f th e t roops from Syria, which is the only point remaining to be settled. In haste, we remain, gentlemen, your obedient servants, " BRIGGS & Co." FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY A letter published in the Commerce, of Tuesday, from Frankfort, confirms our announcement of some days since, relative to the organisation of a military force by the Ger manic powers as a measure of precaution against the formi dable levies made in France. ST. JEAN D'ACRE AND ALGIERS.—The weight of shot thrown at a broadside by Sir Robert Stopford's squadron amounted to 12,4341 b ; by Lord Exmouth's 10,0581 b ; being a difference of 23761 b, or equal to the armament of two line of battle ships. With the exception of the Talbot's three quarter-deck guns, none of the shot fired at St. Jean d'Acre were less than 32-pounders, whilst at Algiers more than two fifths were under that weight—a most essential consideration in firing at stone walls. A letter from Cherbourg states that since last Wednesday evening cannon have becn fired there every quarter of an hour.—The Phare de la Manche says, " Ever since Thurs day the Belle Poule has been crowded with people anxious to view the coffin of Napoleon. It fills nearly the whole of the chapelle ardente, but the splendid sarcophagus made at Paris is not exposed, being still inclosed in the case of oak made to preserve it from injury on being carried on board, and in its subsequent removals. The whole of the coffins form a mass weighing 4,4001b5. They remain covered with a pall of violet velvet. At the head is placed an imperial crown with a crape veil, and at the foot is suspended a gilt lamp. The whole of the roof and sides of the chapel are hung with velvet sprinkled with silver stars, and ornamented with silver cords, fringes, and tassels. The chamber is lighted with six lanterns, one at each corner of the coffin, and one on the two sides of the altar, which is placed behind against the bulk-head of the officer's berth. It is supported by two large gilt eagles. The whole produces a rich and imposing effect. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE It is admitted that the present season has, thus far, been highly favourable to farming operations in the north. In all directions the winter wheats present the most promising ap pearance.—Nezvcastle Journal. CURIOUS TRANSMISSIONS THROUGH THE POST.--011 Friday, a quantity of game passed through the Bath post office ; and on Saturday morning, a halter was sent to ayoung man in this city, ready for his convenience, if ever he should want to hang himself .--Bat h Journal. During the months of August, September, and October, the quantity of coal shipped at Newport, Monmouthshire, exceeded 50,000 tons per month. The shipping price is now lOs 6d per ton ; but an alteration was to take place on the Ist December, and it is expected to be lower. There has been a run on Mr. O'Connell's National Bank at Sligo last week, which, however, ceased after some days. The effect had to bring down the market in that neighbour hood. The Sligo Champion asserts that the tory landlords and agents refused the notes of the bank before the run be came general, and urged the people to hasten to the bank and get gold.for their notes. This, it is said, they did from spite to O'Connell. — Irish paper BETTER THAN A DOZEN.—" Well, Pat, how many chil dren have you now . ?" " Why, t hi n , i t ' s b e tter than a doze n I've got, any how." " Better than a dozen ! Six months since you'd only ten." " That's thrue—and I've only jist one more now. But sure, yer hanor, isn't eleven better than a dozen for a poor boy like rneesilf ?" CLERICAL PATRIOTS.—AI the late Carlow election three Protestant clergymen espoused the cause of Father Maher, and voted for Mr. Ponsonby. They are the Rev. Messrs. Spray, of Carlow ; Thomas (we believe), of Galway ; and Durden, of Oldcastle, in the county of Meath. Having spotted themselves for preferment, we wish them joy of their new alliances, no less than their prospects of reward. — Dublin Evening Mail. THE SCOTT MONIIMENT.—We understand that Mr. Dick has received £lOO from Liverpool, in aid of the auxiliary subscription for the completion of the monument in Edin burgh to the memory of Sir Walter Scott. 'We shall hail this as an earnest of the interest felt by our countrymen generally in this national tribute; and we are happy to learn that something about £l,OOO only is now wanted to complete Kemp's original design.-- Caledodian Mercury. MORTALITY AMONGST STOCK.—We regret to announce a serious loss which Mr. J. Monkhouse, of Southfield, has sustained. It appears from the report current that some of his cattle were affected with the disease prevalent in the neighbourhood, but none of them considered dangerously ill until Monday last, when twelve being loosed from their bands, reeled to and fro to all appearnce quite delirious, and continued in great agony four hours, when death terminated their sufferings. There has not been such a case known since 1747, when the murrain was raging. —Carlisle Patriot. CHELTENHAM.—We are proud to be enabled to record that the inhabitants of this loyal borough have subscribed during the past week between £5OO and £6OO towards liqui dating an old debt upon the General Hospital and Dispensary, the whole of which was raised through the individual exer tions of the Rev. Francis Close, in commemoration of the happy event of the birth of a " Princess Royal." The elec tors of Cheltenham should bear in mind that this noble col lection has been accomplished without one single shilling from my Lord Segrave or his " Liberal" brother, the Hon. Craven Berkely, M.P. ! ! !—Cheltenham Chronicle. THE HUXLEY MURDER. —Thomas Brooks, in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the keeper Hensall some time since, was finally examined on the charge at Tarporley, on Friday last, and had the benefit of the atten dance of Mr. Parry, solicitor, of this city, as his legal ad viser. A great variety of depositions were produced, as having been sworn to by the witnesses in the case, and some additional evidence was taken. After a lengthened examina tion, Brooks was committed to Chester Castle, charged with wilful murder, in order to take his trial at the ensuing assizes.—Chester Chronicle. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT—HOUSE OP LORDS, THURSDAY, DEC. 10.—Parliament was this day further prorogued until Tuesday, the 26th of January. At half-past two, the L or d Chancellor, the Marquis of Normanby, and Viscount Dun cannon, took their seats on the woolsack ; and the Usher of the Black Rod having been directed to summon the Com mons to the bar, Mr. Ley, the chief clerk, attended by seve ral of the officers and messengers of the House of Commons, made his appearance. The commission having been read, the Lord Chancellor declared the house prorogued, in the usual form, till Tuesday, the 26th of January next, 6` to be then here holden." There were a large number of ladies and strangers present to witness the proceedings. THE MIIRRAIN.—We are sorry again to announce that this malady is still spreading its infectious influences more widely in this district, and more particularly amongst the milk cows. In the neighbourhood, and at P enr i th, almost . all the dairy cows are affected ; consequence some of the principal milkmen have been obliged to give up carrying the milk to the town to sell, and it is thrown out and wasted. The disease has also broke out amongst the swine, and it is also reported, hut with what degree of authenticity we are unable to assert, that the hares which f ee d on the fields where sheep affected with the disorder may have f e d, are a l so liable i to the complaint, and have taken t.—Carlisle Patriot. FOREIGN LOANS.—There seems every prospect of having no fe‘ier than six foreign loans in the money market shortly. Belgium has led the way, and France is about to follow. The expenses of arming are two much for Austrian ways and means, and, it is generally thought, she must have re course to borrowing. Russia, it is said, has stole a march on France and Prussia ; -a loan to her government has actu ally been contracted by Hope and Co., of Amsterdam, in a four per cent. stock at 90. Brazil is feeling the pulse of the European capitalists ; and Texas has commissioners in Eng land to borrow for her improvement. The resources of the money market, here and elsewhere, are lik e l y to b e severely tried.—London Journal of Commerce. A MA GISTRATE CONVICTED OF SWEARING.—At the Bre con Petty Sessions, held at the Guildhall on Saturday last, William Williams, Esq. a magistrate of the county of Brecon, appeared on an information laid against him for prof ane swearing, while acting in his magisterial capacity on the 21st of November last. Witnesses having been examined in sup port of the charge, the magistrates stated, that they were of opinion the case was clearly proved against Capt. Williams ; hut, as there was some difference of opinion as to whether the oaths and curses were profane or not, they retired for a short time, and - afterwards returned" into court and pro nounced the defendant guilty, and convicted him in the pe nalty of five shillings, the amount fixed by the act of parlia ment, and costs. The case excited intense interest, and the court was crowded.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE GIRAFFES.—The recent importation of two giraffes into this country as a commercial speculation, for the pur pose of sale, is an event which could hardly have been cal culated upon by the zoologist. The two animals in question, which are now reposing near the London Docks to recover from the effects of their voyage, have been brought over from the United States, into which they were imported from Egypt, so that these stately natives of the desert, whose successful removal from their native plains seemed visionary, have thriven in three several quarters of the globe. The three giraffes, which are now in perfect health at the mena gerie in the Regent's Park, were caught in the deserts of Dengolah in 1834 and 1835, and have successfully rewarded the exertions of the society, the female again showing signs of soon obtaining a brood. An active member of the Zoolo gical Society is sanguine in the attempts which he is making to import a hve hippopotamus into this country, which, if successful, will be unprecedented in the annals of natural history. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PARENTAL SEVERITY.—Mr. J. R. 'Malone, of F itzwilliam-street, Dublin, was summoned by an inspector of police, on Friday week, for having cruelly treated his daughter, a young lady about 15 years of age. By the evidence adduced, it appears, that the young lady was confined in her bedroom for upwards of two months, during which period no one was allowed to visit her, het father alone bringing her the scanty meals afforded her. The poor girl frequently complained to the servant, through the key-hole of her door, of her not having a sufficiency of food. She never had a fire, got no dinner, and only a meagre breakfast. The servant had frequently g i ven her f oo d, b y tying it up in a cloth, which she fastened to a string let down the front of the house by Miss Malone from her bedroom, and which was then drawn up again. People passing the streets were in the habit of giving the young lady assistance, in consequence of which she had been imprisoned, for the last month, in a back room. In order to con vey a drink to the wretche d captive, the servant used to fold a sheet of paper, tube-shape, and thus give the water thro ug h t h e k ey -h o l e . Th e witn ess stated, that the girl had not a change of linen for sixty days, and was obliged to make her own bed, &c., &c. One of the witnesses had often received notes from her, and had often sent her money as well as sustenance. The inspector broke open the door of the room, and brought the young lady to the police-office, which Was crowded with people anxious to see the interesting victim. Informations to the above effect were sworn to. The wealth, power, and reputation of the great banking companies of Scotland are notorious, and yet the amount of dividend paid to the proprietors has always been, wisely, very moderate. The British Linen Company's dividend rules at 8 per cent. That of the Commercial Bank of Scot- land, and the Glasgow Union Bank, 7 per cent. The Bank of Scotland, the National Bank, and the Western Bank, 6 per cent.—Newcastle Journal. A knot of whigs and radicals are busily engaged in getting up a subscription to erect a monument to the memory of the late Lord Holland, of whom, it is broadly asserted that he never was in a place of worship in his life, and that in the councils of his sovereign he was the sole abettor of the hostile policy of M. Thiers. Amongst the promoters of the scheme are the Bishop of Durham and Earl Grey. COMMITMENT.—Yesterday, at the police-court, a young woman, named Ellen Willan, was charged with stealing from a shop. Mr. Peter Marsh, linen-draper, Scotland-place, said that on Saturday the prisoner came to the shop to pay 4s 6d towards an article she had purchased the day before. Some stockings were lying on the counter at the time, and he saw her take up two pairs of them, and put them under her cloak. He took them from her, and sent for a police officer who apprehended her. They were worth 3s 4d. The prisoner said she was so drunk at the time that she did not know what she was about. She was committed for trial at the sessions. GYMNASTICS.—In drawing attention to Mr. Huguenin's establishment, we cannot do better than mention, for the in formation of those who are sedentary in their habits and re quire exertion, that the practice of the gymnasium is highly productive of health, and tends to long life. There is no question that exercise tends very materially to the develnpe ment of the mind. Mr. Huguenin, in his work upon "Phy sical Education," justly comments upon this. During the ap proaching holidays, parents and friends cannot do better than place their children under Mr. Huguenin's care. EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT.—An inquest was - held in the Queen's Bench Prison, last week, on the body o f M r . C. M. Ullethorne, a solicitor, late of Red Lion-square. It ap peared that the deceased had a chronic complaint, which was greatly aggravated by his imprisonment, and the severity of his creditors, who refused to come to terms. It was stated by the surgeon of the prison " that going through the Insolvent Court causes great excitement with many ; they call it the schedule fever." The jury returned the following curious verdict :—" That the deceased died a natural death, accelerated by a great and mental anxiety, produced by in carceration in the Queen's Bench Prison for debt ; and that the noisy and fanatical singing of Boatswain Smith, a pri soner on the same staircase with deceased, embittered his last moments ; and the jury cannot separate without ex preing their deep regret at the unchristian and hypocritical conduct of the said Boatswain Smith." DESERTION EXTRAORDINARY!—On Monday last a po liceman belonging to the K division of police, finding the door of one of the large houses in Tredegar-square, Mile end, open, he knocked several times, and not receiving any answer, he entered, and found that though it was furnished in a costly style, with every appearance of domestic comfort, there was not a soul to be fOinicl in it, and that it had been completely deserted. Information of the circumstance was forwarded to the Bow station house, and, by the direction of Mr. Young, the superintendent of the K division of police, it has been since safely guarded by his constables, who re lieve one another. There are various reports in the neigh bourhood as to the cause of the occupier deserting it in so hurried a manner, that even a massive writing-desk, with sundry papers and private memorandums, together with some wine, in decanters and glasses, were left upon the par lour-table, and even the wearing-apparel does not appear to have been disturbed. The rumour which appears to gain most credence is, that the owner has been concerned with the parties who have been recently examined at the Mansion house on a charge of having defrauded various insurance companies by sinking a vessel, and that, fearful of the con sequences, he, with his family, made his escape from the neighbourhood without moving a single article of property from the house. Mr. Hammock, of Mile-end, who is agent to the landlord of the house, states that no rent would be due until after Christmas.—Morning Herald. STATISTICS NORTH KNOWING.—III Great Britain the number of individuals in a state to bear arms, from the age of 16 to 60, is 2,744,847. The number of marriages is about 98,030 yearly ; and it has been reckoned that, in 63 of these unions, there were only 3 which had no issue. The number of deaths is about 332,700 yearly, which makes nearly 25,592 monthly, 6,398 weekly, .914 daily, and 40 hourly. The deaths among the women are, in proportion to the men, as 50 to 54. The married women live longerthan those who continue in celibacy. In the country the mean term of the number of children produced by each marriage is 4; in towns the proportion is 7 for every 2 marriages. The number of married women is, to the general number of individuals of the sex, as 1 to 3 ; and the number of married men to that of, all the individuals of the male sex, as 3to 5. Th e num b er o f f widows is, to that of widowers, as 3 to 1 ; but the number of widows who marry again is, tq, that of widowers in the same case, as 7to 4. The individuals who inhabit elevated situa tions live longer than those who reside in less elevated places. The half of the individuals die before attaining the age of 17 years. The number of twins is, to that of ordinary births, as Ito 95. According to calculations, founded upon the bills of mortality, 1 individual only in 3,126 attains the age of 100 years. The number of births of the male sex is, to that of the femaltk sex, as 96 to 95.—Edinburgh Philosophiea Journal. 1 EDUCATION.--We have transferred to our columns, from a provincial paper, a correspondence between Sir Thomas Phillips, of Newport, and the Committee of Council on Edu cation, which deserves to attract attention. After the late disturbances in South Wales, an inquiry was instituted into the religious and moral condition of that misguided popula tion. The results of that inquiry exhibited in the strongest light the spiritual and mental destitution of the classes which had so readily liste n ed t o th e b a d t eac hi ng o f Ch ar ti s t mission aries, and followed the bad training of Frost and his asso- Fate . . What means had the ironmasters and coalowners of the district taken to prevent i1;;;;;;;;;;IiiZitigthe moral character ~ f the numerous workmen on their estates? Sir T. Phillips answers that throughout the colliery district of Monmouthshire " there is not, as far as he knows, a single school capable of exercising a salutary influence over the youthful members of a population of many thousand per sons." Even since the late occurrences the landoweners seem to have exhibited the utmost supineness, and to have neglected not only the duties of their st•ition and their proper interest in the welfare of the classes whom they employ, but even the natural precautions which they might have learned to take against the violence of that excessive and brutal ig norance. — Tunes. PUBLIC BAPTISM, BY IMMERSION, OF A YOUNG LADY IN A PROTESTANT CHURCH.—A numerous assemblage of the parishioners was attracted to St. Mary's Church, Read ing, a few days since, to witness the novel and (in that town) unprecedented ceremony of a young lady, the daughter of very respectable parents of the Baptist denomination, being re ceived within the pale of the Church of England by public immersion. The ceremony, which was most impressively performed by the Rev. C. J. Goodhart, the vicar, was wit nessed by the numbers who were present with profound at tention. The whole of the service for " the ministration of baptism to such as are of riper years, and able to answer for themselves," was read by the rev. gentleman who officiated. The immersion took place in the coley chantrey of the church, where a large vessel was placed filled with water partially warmed. The ceremony, which took place at three o'clock in the afternoon, occupied nearly an hour. It may be ob served that when adults are thus admitted within the pale of the established church, total immersion is not absolutely ne cessary, the rubric running thus :—" Then shall the priest take each person to be baptised by the right hand, and plac ing him conveniently by the font, according to his discretion, shall ask the godfathers and godmothers the name ; and then dip him in the water, or pour water upon him," &c. The immersion in this case was at the especial desire of the young lady in question. THE CAPABILITY OF RAILWAYS.—The railway has in its nature, such obvious advantag es over every ot h er mo d e o f conveyance, in its rapidity, smoothness, ease, and comfort, and in the extent of its accommodation, as to promise that in a short period it must supersede all other vehicles. From its capability of moving the most extraordinary burthens, it might convert its carriages into splendid saloons, fitted up with every luxury of opulent and princely life—it might be a moving mansion rather than a rapid coach—it might be any thing that the increasing taste of the times could demand—it might be a succession of rich and various apartments, with rooms for refreshment, reading, retirement. If this is to be called fanciful, it is only what has been done already in the steam-boat. It would not be a greater change than has been made in the ordinary American passage, handsome as the packets were. Since the Great Western and Great Liver pool have began to traverse the Atlantic, we have on those vessels, not ships but floating palaces —no narrow and simple nests of beds for forty or fifty cramped and uncomfortable passengers, but flying households of two or three hundred people, surrounded with every enjoyment of life, and rushing through the ocean with the speed of eagles.—The Britannia. ACCIDENT IN THE " MEDEA" STEAM FRIGATE.—Her Majesty's ship Medea, Alexandria, Nov, 25th.—On the morning of the 20th of November, according to the custom of the squadron. at nine went to general quarters. Soon after, the first-lieutenant. Mr. Harvey, the gunner's mate, Mr. Austen, the gunner, Mr. Couzens, bombardier, Mr. Buchannan, went into the steerage passage, an d o p ene d the shell-room for the purpose of examining six shells, and to observe that the cap of the fuse was not corroded in the screw. They had examined five, and were about the sixth and last, when, upon slightly moving the screw, the fuse in the most unaccountable manner ignited and blew the cap off, the fuse being one to burn for ten seconds. Mr. Harvey immediately threw himself down in the captain's cabin, and thereby escaped the explosion. Austen tried to get up the ladder ; but, before he had time, the shell burst, and blew him up through the hatch, which was shut. The gunner went down into the shell-room; but the deck burst in and squeezed him very much ; .and the bombardier, it is sup posed, never moved, for he was found quite dead close to where they were standing. The captain was wounded on deck, and the surgeon-master, who was in the gun-room, and a servant. Those were all that were hurt. All the bulk-heads were blown down, and every thing in the way of fittings and furniture in the cabins were destroyed by the explosion ; one beam broke, and some planks blown out of the deck, and all the after part of the ship very much shaken. The fire was soon extinguished ; the shell-room and magazines drowned. Several shell-boxes burst, but no other shells fortunately ignited; and it is almost a wonder that the magazine was not blown up ; William Martin, the captain's steward, and also Alexander Murray, were in at tendance ; the latter was severely wonnded. MR. BRINDLEY AND THE SOCIALISTS.—The bold and ac tive exterminator of the vile sophistries of Socialism, Mr. Brindley, has been engaged for the last three evenings in a public discussion at the Macclesfield Sunday School. The local advocates of the system having proved incapable of contending with him, it was resolved to summon one of their leading champions, a Mr. Lloyd Jones, we believe from Glasgow, to enter the li s t s w i t h Mr. 'Lindley. The con troversy was carried on for the two first evenings without interruption, but last night, driven to desperation, by the ex posure of the wickedness, deception, and fraud inherent in the system, Mr. Jones, in reply to a point urged by Mr. Brindley that no accounts had been published of the large sums of money that had been re ce i ve d f rom t h e i n f atuate d dupes who had joined the "community," asserted that such accounts had been published quarterly in their newspaper. Mr. Jones was challenged to produce proofs of this, but he declined doing so, under the pretext that he bad not the pa pers with him, but pledged himself to produce them hereafter to the chairman. Mr. Brindley, however, quickly produced a set of the newspapers said to contain these quarterly state ments, and handed them over to Mr. Jones, who was then called upon by the audience to go to the proof of his assertion. He manifested no desire to comply with this requirement, and the audience for a long time indignantly opposed his proceeding further with his oration till he had answered the charge of wilful falsehood with which he stood arraigned. This he failed to do, and was allowed at last to wind up his speech amidst the hearty contempt and indignation of the great bulk of the meeting. The large room was crowded to excess ; and a considerable number of chartists were present, collected, it is said, from many of the neighbouring towns, to swell tne number that still exist in Macclesfield. At the close of the proceedings, which terminated at eleven o'clock, a vote of thanks was passed to the Rev. Mr. Burnet, who had undertaken the laborious task of presiding as moderator. The rev. gentleman observed, that not a single argument had been adduced during the discussion that could in the slightest degree weaken the truth of Divine revellation.—During the early part of the week Mr. Brindley lectured at Congleton ; and, as th e chartists did not appear to hold a discussion, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Brindley and several of his friends, proceeded to the rendezvous of the chartists, and challenged them to a discussion. But for the force of argu ment they substituted the argument of force, and assailed the deputation with some violence.—Macelesfield Courier. Etinrpoot &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1840 By an extraordinary express from Toulon, the whole of the correspondence between Commodore Napier and Boghos Bey, relative to the submission of Mehe met Ali, has been received. Commodore Napier's first letter, which is published at length in the Morning Herald of yesterday, conveys a request that Mehemet Ali would send back all the Emirs and Shiebks of Lebanon, who were sent to Alexandria in the month of July, by order of the authorities of Syria, and that he would give up immediately, and without any conditions, the Ottoman fleet, and withdraw his troops from Syria. Commodore Napier enforces these demands by an appeal to what has been done in Syria, where 6,000 Turks and a handful of marines have taken Saida and Beyrout, defeated the Egyptian army in three different actions, taken 10,000 prisoners and deserters, caused all the seaports to be evacuated, taken all the passes of the Taurus, and the mountains of Lebanon, and reduced Acre, after a bombardment of only three hours. He then alludes to the discontent which prevailed in the Egyptian army, and advises his highness to reflect that " Alexandria might be taken as Acre was taken." Boghos Bey, in his reply, assures the Commodore that Mehemet Ali had already anticipated the wishes of the Allies with regard to the liberty of the Druse Chief tains, and expresses the gratitude of the Pacha for the proposition regarding the hereditary government of Egypt. Boghos Bey then states that it had never been the intention of Mehemet Ali to retain the fleet of the Sultan. The whole communication of Boghos Bey is of a deprecatory character. Commodore Napier, in his reply, enforces the necessity for the immediate evacuation' of Syria, and the unconditional surrender of the Ottoman fleet, and, at the same time, states that he would not insist upon the departure of the fleet for Constantinople until the Pacha be guaranteed in the hereditary government of Egypt. On these conditions Commodore Napier consents to suspend hostilities. In a second letter Boghos Bey expresses his satisfaction at the assurances given respecting the hereditary government of Egypt, and promises the immediate restitution of the fleet, on receiving the official notification of the allied powers. He then states that the Viceroy was ready to order his son, Ibrahim Pacha, to concentrate his troops in Syria, in order to their falling back upon Egypt. To the latter proposition Commodore Napier replies, that the troops were already concentrated, and offers to place at the disposal of Mehemet Ali a steam-boat to conduct to Beyrout the officer who might be appointed to carry the despatch to Ibrahim Pacha. The correspondence closes with the formal acceptance of this offer on the part of the Pacha, and with an expression of gratitude for the Commodore's " care and delicacy in the solu tion of the thorny difference" which has given rise to the recent operations in the east. 'We dare say that some of our readers may have heard of the existence, in a neighbouring town, of an individual who, by the grace of her Majesty's ministers, has been enabled to rejoice of late, in the name and title of Sir Thomas Potter, Knight, —the latter, which distinguishes him from other Potters, having been con ferred upon him at the same period, which enabled our own Sir Joshua to take precedence of his fellow reformers in Liverpool. In both cases, we believe, the title has been fairly earned. Sir Joshua has him self done "good service to the state;" as his various contributions of money and counsel to our Protector and Reform Associations, sufficiently evidence. In this respect, however, he has not come up to the ex ample of his compatriot—the knight of Manchester; who may be said to have made himself a kind of Eleemosynary pump, at whose spout needy radicals of every grade, from John Thorogood—the church-rate martyr, to Daniel O'Connell—the great agitator, have drunk and been filled. To this same Sir Thomas Potter, Knight —on the occasion of his retiring from the office of pseudo mayor of Manchester,—the whig faction of that whig ridden town gave, on Thursday last, what we believe they dignify by the name of a dinner, but what might be termed, with greater propriety, a three and sixpenny scramble for cold meat. The said three and sixpenny scramble attended by some six hundred whig patriots, —a sorry number for an occasion of such momentous interest; and amongst the rest by the members for the borough, Mr. Mark Philips, and Mr. Greg ; by Mr. Gisborne, M. P. for North Derbyshire, and by Mr. Milner Gibson, M. P. for no place just now; but an aspirant hereafter to represent the borough of Manchester. We are not going to chronicle the doings at this wretched of weary our readers with the vapid impertinences of Mr. Mark Philips, or the insufferable boobyism of Mr. Milner Gibson, who assured his symt pathizing audience that he " gloried in the appellation ry a Rat !" Our object at present is merely to lay before our readers the candid admission of Mr. Gisborne— and to his hearers at this feed evidently an unpalatable one—that modern liberalism in the House of Commons, and throughout the country, is at its last gasp! "Our friends," said Mr. Gisborne, "have one after another dropped off into the ranks of those who were formerly our masters, and who before long will be so again. (Confusion and cries of ' No, no.') Ay but they will though ! I am not here to flatter you with prospects which will not be realized. This is the truth; and although disagreeable for you to hear it, it is not less disagreeable for me to utter it." We dare say it was disagreeable for Mr. Gisborne to utter it, and for his three and sixpenny audience to listen to so lamentable a confession. For that very reason it gives us pleasure to add circulation to such a truth, amongst the thousands of Whig-radicals in Liverpool who delight in the perusal of our columns. We have ourselves asserted the same fact over and over again. We have asserted the fact of this very re action, accompanied by proof which would have con vinced any thing not absolutely wooden; but we have not been listened to. A delusion is abroad amongst our Whig-radical brethren, which will not allow them to see that their days of political probation have past by, and that they' are about to be laid upon the shelf to moulder for another half century of hopeless exclusion from the sweets of office and the sunshine of patronage. Will they listen to Mr. Gisborne—a member of their own party and an able one ? We trust they will. The Manchester Guardian of Saturday last, in re plying to our remarks on the sugar duties, reiterates the assertion that " the time has come when the Bri tish public ought no longer to he required to pay dou ble prices for their sugars and their coffees, for the'be nefit, not of the revenue, but of a body of colonial monopolists," and insinuates that the West India in terests have had " a sufficient term of experience" to warrant the presumption that they cannot produce those articles on " an adequate scale, and at a reason able price." There would be some show of reason in these assertions if it could be proved that the British planters are alone to blame for the serious defalcation which has arisen in the supply of those staples. The contrary, however, is notoriously the fact. The people of this country are alone to blame in this matter. If the abolition of the Negro apprenticeship had not been precipitated, in compliance with the popular clamour raised in this country, the planters would have been in a very different position to that in which they are at present placed, and the supplies of sugar and coffee would have been fully adequate to meet the increasing demands of the British population. It would require more ingenuity than the editor of the Guardian can lay claim to, to prove that the planters of the West In dies have evinced any "indisposition to supply the Bri tish market with those articles. They have not been guilty of retaining any portion of their stock in order to produce a rise of prices. They have anxiously for warded home their annual crops for immediate sale. They have found it necessary to do this that they might be enabled to carry on the cultivation of their estates. The real cause of the deficiency in the supplies of su gar and coffee, and of the consequent advance in prices, has been the general indisposition of the Ne groes to labour. The planters have not had fair play ; neither have they had such a term of experience as would justify us in consigning them to immediate and irretrievable ruin. The government, urged on by a set of unreasonable agitators, in this country as well as in the colonies, has interposed every obstacle in its power to prevent the British planters from obtaining an adequate supply of labour on their estates. Let the restrictions on free immigration be removed for a few years, and we feel confident that the West Indies will yet recover from their depression, and that they will speedily furnish both sugar and coffee as cheaply as the Brazils. It remains yet. to be proved that free labour cannot, under any circumstances, compete with slave labour. The advocates of emancipation have always maintained that free labour ought to be more productive than compulsory labour. We do not deny the position. But let the experiment be carried out. Let the planters have a fair chance of testing the com parative merits of the two systems. Until this is fully and fairly conceded, it would be an act of gross cruelty as well as injustice to consign the West Indies to a state resembling that of their primitive barbarity. The Manchester Guardian asserts that it is not true that it has ever proposed, suddenly and at once, to de prive the colonial products of all preference in the home markets. It should, however, be remembered that even the partial abolition of the discriminating duties would have the immediate effect of giving a preference to foreigners in the British market. Even with the present scale of duties the British planters find great difficulty in competing with slave-holding foreign states. The position of the West India proprietors is eminently critical at the present moment. They have, as yet, found it impossible to prevail upon the Negroes to set tle down to continuous labour, without which the cul tivation of sugar especially can never be carried on with any degree of success. It would, therefore, be highly ungenerous to take advantage of this precarious and trying situation, in order to " deal heavy blows and great discouragements" to the suffering planters. They ought to have a little breathing time afforded them, that they may endeavour to realise the promised advc.a tages of the free labour system. In demanding this respite on their behalf we are merely insisting upon having the principles of the abolitionists tested in the rigid school of experience. We can well afford to smile at the imputation that the Liverpool Standard " almost lives and moves, and has his being as the organ of the West India interests." We really must disclaim the honour which the Guardian appears so anxious to confer upon us. A reference to our advertising columns will, we trust, convince our contemporary that the amount of support which we derive from the West India interest is exceedingly limited. With some half dozen exceptions, the West India merchants very rarely favour us with any of their advertisements, notwithstanding our persevering and consistent advocacy of their claims. We trust that the Guardian will take this as a proof of our disinterestedness in taking up the gauntlet in defence of the British plantations. We are glad to find that the Guardian has ventured to speak its mind freely on the subject of the impor tation of slave-grown sugar and coffee, for home consumption in this country. Our contemporary boldly avers that " Great Britain does not and dare not profess so to set herself up as a censor of other nations, as to refuse to trade with them on equal terms, avowedly because their forms of government permit the existence of slavery." Does she not, at the present moment, our contemporary asks, permit the importation of American cotton and tobacco, which are the products of slave labour? True; but she does so in virtue of treaties of commerce which were in existence before slavery was abolished in our own colonies. Her adherence to, those treaties is no reason why she should extend her countenance to slavery in other countries, and especially those countries by which the slave trade is still carried on in all its pristine atrocity. The people of England are not prepared thus to stultify their own exertions in the cause of negro freedom. The strongest opponents of the free 1 trade in slave-grown produce, for which the Guardian appears to contend with so much earnestness, Will be found among the ranks of the abolitionists, many Of whom have formally announced their intention to forego the use of sugar and coffee altogether rather than admit those articles from slave-holding countries. On this subject we beg to refer the Guardian to the declaration which Mr. O'Connell made, last session, in his place in Parliament—a declaration which Mr. Gurney, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Scohle, and Sir T. F. Buxton, have not hesitated to reciprocate at several public meetings held subsequently. We happen to know that this feeling of repugnance to the direct encourage ment of slavery and the slave trade is daily gaining 1 ground in all parts of the country, and that it Will eventually prove too powerful to be successfully op- - posed by the band of heartless political economists by whom that encouragement is at present advocated. We do not deny that " the differential duties are as high against foreign free-labour sugar and coffee, as against foreign slave-grown sugar and coffee." The reason of this is well known to every one who is, in the least, familiar with commercial affairs, Our existing LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET FIRST NIGHT OF ANEW AND SUCCESSFUL DRAMA. MR. ELTO?T, RE-ENGAGEMENToftheFRENCII ROPE-DANCERS. Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND EVERY EVENING. THIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th i ns t an t, will be presented a new and most successful Drama, en titled, THE CAVALIER; Or, a Tale of Trials. Hargrave, Mr. Elton, as originally acted by him at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The Chiarini Family on the Rope. After which the laughable and successful Farce of CHARLES O'MALLEY, The Irish Dragoon. Charles O'Malley - - Mr. Raymond. Jenny jinks. Mrs. Raymond The Chiarini Infant Children will appear in the-Pis nu SAVOYARDS. To conclude with a Drama called THE WIFE OF coRN' ; Or, The Fatal Secret. Robert Laidlow (with a Song), Mr. Chas. Bland. On WEDNESDAY Evening, the 16th, and THURS DAY, the 17th instant, the admired Drama of EUGENE ARAI‘I, in which Mr. Elton will sustain the principal cha racter, as originally acted by him in London. With other Entertainments. To conclude with, for the first time in Liverpool, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, the Old Curiosity Shop. With Illustrations by Mr. Parker, from the original work. On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 18th and 19th inst. THERESE or, the Orphan of Geneva. The part of Car. win by Mr. Elton. With other Entertainments. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. FoGG, at the Box office, from Eleven to Three. Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price, Half past Eight, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, is. ; no Second Price to the Gallery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Perform ance to commence at Seven precisely. Private Boxes, to contain'Seven,'to be had on application at the Theatre, Price Xlls. . A limited number of Season Tickets on Sale, at the Box office. Stage Manager, Mr. C. F. MARSHALL. THE CARACCI ____ NOTICE. AT R. BENTLEY being desirous that the celebrated Pic- IV-I. tures of Scriptural Subjects, by these grearlklasters, should be seen by all classes, with a view of , diffusing a taste for the Fine Arts has fixed the TermAjof the Evening Exhi bition of these Pictures at SIXPENCE, that rate to com mence at Five o'clock. The Union Room is brilliantly lighted by Gas whenever the daylight begins to decline. Slater-street Union Gallery. LAST WEEK. rPHE EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN I ARTISTS, Postoffice-place, WILL CLOSE on SA TURDAY next, the 19th instant. Admission, is. Catalogues, Is. Also, every Evening, BRILLIArty ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven until Ten. Admission, Is. SAMUEL EGLINGTON. Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, 14th December, 1840. TO CORRESPONDENTS We shall not forget the hint of " Pat," who advises us to " show up" the reformed system of granting licenses. We have already expressed our opinion on this subject with some degree of freedom. We cannot pledge ourselves to the immediate insertion of poetical favours ; nor must our acknowledgment of their receipt be construed into a promise that they shall appear. The letter of "J. Duckett" has been received. 'We have not yet had time to examine the enclosures. We have once more to request our correspondents to write on one side only of their paper. The neglect of this hint has frequently caused us to reject communications which might otherwise have been accepted. " The Dream of the Lonely One" has been received. We shall avail ourselves of the hints contained in the letter of " L," on " Railway Accidents." We do not profess to answer questions on the solution of which bets are pending. 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