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4TED nen, a comfortable SIT ) BED-ROOMS, in the N., at the E BROKERS H_ Liverpool to orde DEPOT, supply of the very fir ler, Bradford ally to inform a the Public h they intend ley having the first Maunfactur- ion, ea OF IR) ad of k 1, in yes to art a fellow t ay'into t .erpool, begs ing it are pare tf mon possesses a any climate, to a wine- Eruptive out of the trade wi of reciprocity t taken place arers or importers of the ; fact, which, if true, would hick have ceased to be im s on account of th rig peen driven from the rig to them. This fact is ng is not so prevalent as ould cause to be believed, ) general, these kinds k. reduction of the in the week, a Cigars EGALIAS GRANDES. EGALIAS AGUDAS. REYNAS I DAMAS INTADOS GOODS, HOOK- SCOTCH !signs, and to those Friends their support to this Es- e situated at the cor- from St. Peter's & Smith's, WEST ESERVING AND IMPROVING EREBY GIVE NOTICE, een built on the North East which a fixed White Light ag of the Ist of February, 1841, ited from Sun-set to Sun-rise the Tower, &'c., by I 4d building of ,e principal en- S. E. by E. distant 1 1 nautic miles. W. dis laut. miles. distant 11 t, open to Seaward an levelof the sea r of Reenadrolaan lock within the entrance red at high water, extend 1 from Cromwell's Fort. :tic. Var. 28i H. VEREKER tuber. 18 POWDERS tention of his Friends and the ,n of the very ;tly cele POWDERS, to form the gEID- rer than a TZ POWDERS iS pe- nor the r ?ItIEST- )y JO Y be had Seic expense 'eeable and rered t inconve to pr employing this Affections &c., arising from a diseased 'or removing Blotches, Pim- no superior )utatioa of this preparation sin acid fermentation all the virtues of concentrated. As an Antacid )wn persons or children it can nearly tasteless, children will Syrup of :er, makes delicious Le- nmer nothing can IC OR PILLS troubled with ch after meals very for invigorating and raditmtes theScurtnou- f, produces a most beau- Al Hair a peculiar soft rance. Sold in Bottles SING INK th a Common Pen ;enerality of what are called at brilliant black, which can- without at thc be accommo- Lt Ink_ and Preparation Sold in Cases, is. 6d. and 3;, E TOOTH POWDER. ler, which simply removes all from the enamel ; and by its peculiar ry covering.—SOld in Boxes, LEY'S FURNITURE Polishing Furniture PASTE vithont boor or id polishing every lame whatever preparationmay have been Or that purpose, it adds a high lustre to ;old in Pots at Is. each, or 3 pots for 2s. 6d. FURNITURE OIL, is., Pint Bottle s I 5 .9 d.. Quart Bottles, 3s. INE METALLIC LUSTRE. eepers for cleaning al Teapots, Pewter Stair Ruds, Brass with half the usual ed with other preparations 11l polish on the Metal. It able department, for clean- Stains, on for man RMIN inent Medical Practitioners in th necessity of administering large * dose simple form, i DMIRED A this Flavour AIO NI) FLAVOUR. added to Custards, Puddings, communicate a most delicious ls. Gd les, with Direct C E OF JAMAICA GINGER - - t three times a da' tions carefully prepared Drugs and d Gibbon, took his wife, a ridge, to sell her, hut for r; however, he at For 2s.—Hereford the reduction of a lively excitement in to be that of Mr existing duty is constantly leap in Lon many by the .th year NSTIR engaged trade were marke e-half would, on the other hand, it is contended, it the market with such articles as are at present and seriously damage the EngHeil manufacturer, REIGN INTELLIGENCE LATFR'' WS FROM THE EAST, &ming Herald of Yesterday from p, Capt be Mediterranean. He Tov. 26; Malta, Dec. 1 Oriental steam-, Gibralt tion - of her 3sent advice ,ambur M at Lazaretto, in falbot, , Cyclops, Gorgon, Hecate, Confiance, .ender; the Implacable was on her way to Syria and At Sidon, the Thunderer ; at Scandaroon, the Ma- Asia, Hastin; gicienne and Benbow ; at Acre, the Pique and Wasp ; the Castor on her voyage to Malta, and the Calcutta, bound to Bey rout ; the Scorpion was passed off Cape de Gatt for the coast of vine been re a the 7th i 3, a Swedish f Carysfort, Dal 5: £9662 9 2 2235 19 5 .. 264 9 8 £12,162 IS 3 545 16 7 430 6 1 976 2 El 172 17 £534 12 6 i had left Gibraltar on a rlgate, was refittin g 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. V a lb uzane an d 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 The negotiation commenced on the 24th. Our in tates " that after two or three puts off," the affair y settled, to the commodore's satisfaction, at two o'clock, on the 26th, when the despatches were immediately On the steamer's arrival at Alexandria, on the ant Tancock (who was in charge of the mails) forrnant s was finall drawn out 18th, Liet 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 Ezyptian On the 19th, Said Bey, Mehemet's youngest son, of state, ad- with a considerable number of the chief offic mirals, and others, paidvisits 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 (From the Private Correspondence of the 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 out a fortnight ago Mehemet Ali was going .??1' 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 inculcates has been lost on the 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 complished 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 y were sdmitted. The object of their visit is x oriental alabaster columns which Mehemet Ali is presenting to the Pope for the grand church of St. Paul's extra mura, which was burned down,some years ago. ily.what nobody could have predicted of a Tempora mutantr et nos mutamur ab Malta Times, to throw hi: was known the :o fetch the This is cer 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 Coeur de 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 placing 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 Paella from 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 qf England, and trust, in the first instance, to Sir R. Stopford's suspending hostilities, and then to Lot d Palinerston 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 Merchandise for the Cattl MIDLAND COUNTIES Passengers for the week ending Dec Merchandise for the same MANCHESTER AND BOLTON. [Length of line, 10 miles.] parcels for the week endingDec.lo Passengers and Goods and coals BRIGHTON RAILWAY Ouse Viaduct, on the I keyed by Mr. Maud Thursday, the last arch of the Jondon and Brighton Railway, was e, the resident engineer of the centre in the presence of the parties engaged her 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 Ilayward'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 district of the r on the work, tc -••". 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 used in the structure, indepen et of masonry, in the foundation laid in the middle of The first stone 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 TALKING MACIIINE.-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 aid that on the London and Blackwall line there railway 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. I3y 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 be 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 horn 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 MA RKET. — There was a numerous attendance If merchants and agents at our market here on Thursday, ' the cows lay a considerable amount of busi --,,ted, principally at former rat-- " le of the In the yarn market the transactions were more numerous than of late, and pi ices 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 prices.—Leeds Intethgencer. The MARKET for METALS has remained very d u ll, th e only nominal change being a further decline i n B r i t i sh cop per of ss. per ton. The EXPORTATION of the PRECIOUS METALS has been only to the amount of 35,000 ounces of silver to Hamburgh, and to Ceylon 150 ounces of gold. IMPORTS OF WOOL.—Quantity of Wool entered at Hull for home consumption during the week ending Dec. 8 From Hamburg 512,179 lb s . From Petersburg .. From Odessa ........................ 1,829 lbs. , 514,708 lbs. 1 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 89k for the opening. Bank Stock 1, and it may be here noted that the prices of this stock marked yesterday 1571 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 ls. to 3s. premium. 15Gi to 7 Foreign Sectirities remain much as before, with the market dull. Spanish Active with the Coupons were 244 to 4. Por tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) 34 to A, the One.and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 214 to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the Five per Cents 98 to z. 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 101 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 14-4 to 11, 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 861 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, 1561 to 1571: Exchequer-bills, ls. to 3s. premium ; India Stock, 237 to 239 for the opening ; 3 per Cent. Reduced, 894; and 31 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 ethers 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. C nsols declined to 89k sellers for the opening. Bank Stock 156-1 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 51k- to and Five per Cents 98/. Belgian 97 to 9. Spanish Active with the Coupons 23 to 4. P rtuguese Two and• a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) were 33* to 4, the One-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 21* 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 9-1 to /, Blackwall 41 to 1. South Eastern and Dover 16/ to 16, Eastern Counties 14* to I 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 Biome ' the Danish minister; the Bav ar i an 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, i❑ St. James's Park. His royal highness and the gentlemen in waiting were in military uniform. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (From the Thnes) 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 pollees. 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 am and latitudes, the increase and decrease in different maladies, and the tetidency 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 be traced previous to his own." Since that period Sus,milch, Odier, Heberden, Blane, 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 s ease 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, 170,04-1 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. 31,321 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 the head ; 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 ; ]1,690 males, and 9,488 females died f inflammatory affec tions of the throat, larynx, air -tubes, lungs, and pleura. Con sumption is 8 per cent. more fatal to women than men. The higher mortality of English women 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 iq 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, m or tifi cat i on, &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 fe ma l es . Internal hemorrage is the most common,cause of this cala mity. Out of 10,000 males (i -5 die suddenly, an d 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 whom 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-. tency 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, 36,709 persons died from ordinary, and 85,506 from specific, inflammation ; 19,122 from the terminations of inflammatory affections ; 15,125 from hcemorrage ; 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, N0v.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 embarkation of the troops 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 23i61b, 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 been 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.—Newcastle 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.—Bath Journal. During —urmg the months of August, September, and October, the quantity of coal shipped at Newport, Monmouthshire, exceeded 50,0p0 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.—lrish paper BETTER THAN A DOZEN.--" Well, Pat, how many chil dren have you now . ?" " Why, thi n, i t ' s b e tt er than a do zen 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 meesilf ?" CLERICAL PATRIOTS.—At 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 in commemoration of the happy event of the birth of a " Princess Roy a l." Th e elec tors of Cheltenham should bearmind that this noble col lection has been accomplished without one s i ng l e s hilli ng 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 OF LORDS, THURSDAY, DEC. 10.—Parliament was this day further prorogued until Tuesday, the 26th of January. At half-p ast t wo, t h e L or d Chancellor, the Marquis of Normanby, a n d Vi scount 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, •` to be then here holden." There were a large number of ladies and strangers present to witness the proceedings. THE MURRAIN.—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 Penrith, almost all the dairy cows are affected ; in consequen ce some o f th e 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, but with what degree of authenticity we are unable to assert, that the hares which feed on the fields where sheep affected with the disorder may have f e d, are a l so li a bl e to the complaint, and have taken i t. — Carlisle Patriot. FOREIGN LOANS.—There seems every prospect of having no fewer 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 comm i ss i oners in Eng land to borrow for her improvement. The resources of the money market, here and elsewhere, are likely to, be severely tried.—London Journal of Commerce. A MAGISTRATE CONVICTED OF S WEARING.—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 profane 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; but, 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 GIRAFI,ES.—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 911- culated upon by the z oo l og i st. 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 su ccessful removal from their nati v e plains seemed visionary, have thriven in three several quarters of the globe. The three giraffes, which are novc in perfect health at the mena gerie in the Regent's Park, were caught in the deserts of Dongolah in 1834 and 1835, and have successfully rewarded the exertions of the society, the female again showing signs of soon obtaining a brood. A n ac ti ve mem ber o f th e Zoolo gical Society is sanguine in the attempts which he is making to import a live hippopotamus into this country, which, if successful, will be unprecedented in the annals of natural history. EXTRAORDINARY CASE ON PARENTAL SEVERITY.—Mr. J. R. Malone, of Fit zwilliam-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 h av i ng a sufficiency of food. She never had a fire, got no dinner, and only a meagre breakfast. The servant had frequently given her food, by 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 convey a drink to the wretched captive, the servant used to fold a sheet of paper, tube-shape, and thus give the water through the key-bole. The witness 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. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Twelve o' Clock By the Britannia, which left Boston on the Ist in- scant, we are put in possession of papers to that date from Boston, to the 3d instant from Halifax, and to the 30th of November from New York. The Great Western arrived at New York on the morning of the 24th ult., having left on the 7th of the same month. The British Queen reached the same place on Satur- The log book shows that she experi d of weather during the voyage. Captain Roberts, of the British Queen, nobly rescued five men from an untimely grave in the middle of the Atlantic. The sufferers were the master and the four survivors of the crew of the brig Margaret, of Severn, bound from the Bay of Chaleur to Leith, and found totally wrecked on the 6th November. The men had been 52 hours exposed to the tempestuous elements without food or raiment. day, the 21st enced the worst 1 The Caledonia, Capt. Cleland, arrived at Halifax on the 17th November, at 3 P.M., and sailed at 9 P.M. for Boston, which she reached at one o'clock P.M. of the 20th. General Harrison would have 234 votes as Presi dent, and Van Buren 60. Eight persons were killed and many wounded by the explosion of a steam-boat near Mobile. The following are the most important extracts from the papers we have received : (From the New York Herald, Nov. 30) STATE OF THE COUNTRY. This country is in a very interesting condition, as " ladies are who love their lords." General Harrison, the new Pre sident, does not take office till the 4th of March. His cabi net ministers, and his chief appointments, are the principal topics of discussion among 500,000 politicians, the rest of the population, nearly 15,000,000, looking on or attending to their own business. According to the best sources of information the Clay in fluence in the cabinet will prevail over Webster or any other. If so, John Sargeant will be Secretary of State, John Davis Secretary of the Treasury, and three friends of Clay will till the other cabinet posts. The Collector of New York is the next important appoint ment, and for that the Clay influence has selected R. C. Wetmore, and the Webster influence named Edward Curtis. But a great many changes may take place before next March. These are the probabilities now. Next Monday Congress meets. Mr. Van Buren delivers his last message on Tuesday, and the leading topic will un doubtedly be the embarrassed state of the finances. A bankrupt law will again be attempted, and in the absence of political excitement, it may pass—but what kind of a one no one can tell. A revision and increase of the tariff imposts will probably be postponed to the new congress, which does not meet till December 1841, unless General Harrison should call an extra session. If he does, he cannot get one together sooner than September next. There is some anxiety in regard to the probable action of the legislature of Illinois, in regard to means necessary to meet the January interest on the debt of that state, and also in regard to the case brought befOre the Court of Errors of this state, against certain holders of Illinois stock. The mere fact of the institution of this suit caused many con tracts for the stock qf Illinois, about being closed i n th e Lnt don market, to be cAcelled, and the credit of the state has suffered severely. She has now but a few weeks to appro priate means and raise money to pay an instalment on her debt. Last year she was in the same predicament, and was saved only by the interference of those interested in the preservation of her credit. She is now again in the same position, with a far less chance of being pre served by the same means. Pennsylvania, last spring, was similarly situated, and was compelled to pass a tax bill to raise her credit. The only course open to Illinois, if she expects to be able to borrow the money requisite to the finishing of her state works, and thereby rendering her past outlay available, will be to appoint a special commissioner to settle the pending lawsuits. She must select one who will not be disposed to compromise the interests of the state, in order to show half the proceeds. Having done this, she must pass a tax bill sufficient, at least, to place the prompt payment of the interest beyond a shadow of a doubt. She may then, with some chance of success, make application, in the market, for means to pay the arrears due to her con tractors, and to finish the public works. In commercial and business affairs the country is improv ing every day. There is some doubt about the resumption of the United States Bank in January next, and if she does resume, there is more doubt about its permanency. But in spite of these untoward events, the nation was never richer in produce and manufactures, and we must do well. MONEY MARKET. SUNDAY, Nov. 29, 6 p.m.—The transactions at the stock board, yesterday, were heavy, and again prices declined. United States Bank 4 per cent ; Stonington per cent ; Can ton + cent ; North American Trust and Banking Co. per cent ; Dry Dock 1 per cent ; Paterson improved l per cent. 2 Sales of bill s on Philadelphia were made atdiscount, which is a decline on Baltimore 1i discount. Sales of state stocks were made as follows : 5,000 dls. Illinois 6 per cents 7O 2,000 dIS. Arkansas bonds 14,000 dls. Massachusetts 5 per cents (at Boston).. 98 a 984- MONDAY, Nov. 30, 6 P.m.—The stock market has pre sented no very material change in its general features to-day. Some descriptions have improved, and others have declined. N. Am. T. and Bk. rose per cent. ; - Delaware and Hudson 2 per cent. ; Canton I s per cent. ; Paterson 1 per cent. ; Har lem declined 4 per cent. ; Stonington 2 per cent.; Dry Dock 1 per cent. There has been some increased demand for foreign bills to go by these packets. The supply of good bills in the market has not been very large, and many purchasers have been hold ing back, waiting larger supplies from the south. The rates, to-day, have been a little more firm, as follows :—On Lon don 8-1- a SI, or d. 4 81 a 4 83 the £ sterling; on France f. 5 17% al. 5 20 ; Amsterdam 401 a 40-} ; Hamburgh 36i ; Bremen 78. At these rates there has been less demand for specie for remittance, and the premium on silver has fallen. IMPORTANT FROM NORTH BEND.-GENERAL HARRISON'S CABINET We have at length received important private despatches from Cincinnati, giving us much information relative to the composition of General Harrison's cabinet, and the policy of his administration. We learn that Mr. Clay, at the suggestion of his friends, declines altogether to form a part of the new cabinet, and that it is expected by them and him that Daniel Webster will, or ought also to decline, should he be offered a place there. It is furthermore stated that General Harrison will select his cabinet from the following names : SECRETARY OF STATE.—John Sergeant, Horace Binney Edward Everett, Wm. H. Seward, John M. Clayton, Wm C. Rivers, William Preston, John J. Crittenden, John Q Adams. TREASURY.—John Davis, Gulian C. Verplanck, John Sergeant. NAVY.—Gulian C. Verplanck, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Samuel Southard, William Gaston, Theodore Frelinghuysen, John L. Pettigru. _ WAR.—William Preston, William P. Mangum, Alexander Porter, John Bell, Thomas Metcalfe. AsTonNEy-GENERAL.—John J. Crittenden, John C. Spencer, William Gaston, John L. V. M‘Mahan, Hugh Legare. POSTDIASTER-GENERAL. — Thomas Ewing, Elisha Whit tlesey, Oliver H. Smith. MEXICO Our advices from the city of Mexico are up to the 20th of October, and from Vera Cruz to the 27th. Congress was then in session. This body had declared, as the will of the nation, that the executive government should not be clothed with the extraordinary powers which they had demanded. This is regarded as a rebuke to the central leaders, Bus tamente and Almonte, and coming from a central junto, it must have great weight. The idle project of prose cuting a war against Texas was entertained at the capital. A law had been passed, authorising the government to con tract a loan of 2,000,000 dollars, pledging for the payment, the 17 per cent. duty, and the President is empowered to issue bonds for the amount, which are to be sold to the high est bidder, within thirty days from the 18th of October. Two thirds of this sum was to be appropriated to carrying on the contemplated war against Texas. TEXAS. Galveston papers of the 15th have been received. The Texan Congress had organized with the lion. Mr. Hull as Speaker pro. tern. of the House, and Vice-President Bur net as President of the Senate. Tne President's Message is long and well written. It gives a flattering account of the growth of this young republic, its resources and population. The government and people have experienced great embar rassments from the derangement of the currency. The loan commissioners had not been able'to effect a sale of bonds. The President deprecates a war with Mexico, and states his reasons in full. The commisssoners to run the boundary line between the United States and Texas, had been compelled to suspend their operations for want of means. LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW AND SUCCESSFUL DRAMA. MR. ELTO RE-ENGAGEMENTof theFRENC ROPE-DANCERS. Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND EVERY EVENING. rii I HIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th instant, I will be presented a new and most successful Drama, en titled, THE CAVALIER; Or, a Tale of Hargrave, Mr. Elton, as originally acted by him at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. The Chiarini Family on the Royc. After which the laughable and successful Farce of CHARLES O'MALLEY, The Irish Dragoon. _ - Charles O'Malley Jenny Jinks Mrs. Raymond. The Chiarini Infant Children will appear in the PAS DU SAVOYARDS. To conclude with a Drama called THE WIFE OF CORNHILL ; 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 ARAM, 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 £1 ls. A limited number of Season Tickets on Sale, at the Box office. Stage Manager, Mr. C. F. MARSHALL. THE CARACCI NOTICE. 1/ER. BENTLEY being desirous that the celebrated Pic -1- VA tures of Scriptural Subjects, by these great Masters, should be seen by all classes, with a view of diffusing a taste for the Fine Arts, has fixed the Terms for the Evening Exhi bition of these Actures at SIX.PENCE, 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. BERMUDA Nov. 7.—Barbadoes has been suffering, up to the 14th of October, from a very severe drought, which created much alarm for the ensuing crop. Our latest papers, however, convey the gratifying intelligence, that a most beneficial change had taken place in the weather. Between the 15th and 19th the island was blessed with abundant and heavy showers, reviving again the prospects of the planters, and diffusing gladness throughout the land. MR. BRINDLEY AND THE SOCIALISTS.—The bold and ac tive exterminator of the vile sophistries lif 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 frnm Glasgow, to enter the lists w i t h M r . rindley. 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 rec e i ve d f r o m th e i n f a t uate 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 had 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 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 tile number that still exist in Macclesfield. At the close of the proceedings, which terminated at eleven o'clock, a vote of thanks was passed t , w 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 the 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. LAST WEEK. FrHE EXHIBITION of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS, Postoffice-placc, WILL CLOSE on SA TURDAY next, the 19th instant. Admission, ls. Catalogues, Is. Also, every Evening, BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven until Ten. Admission. ls. SAMUEL EGLINGTON Exhibition Rooms, Postoffice-place, 14th December, 1840. TO CORRESPONDENTS We shall not forget the hint of " RA," 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; nr 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. Just Published, Price 45., A POLL BOOK FOR THE LAST MUNICIPAL ELECTION ; Skewing the Duplicate Qualifications of the VOTERS, and the WARDS in which they polled. The Lists have been examined with the Polling Papers in the possession of the Mayor. This publication, which has been compiled with the utmost care, will be found of great utility as A BOOK OF REFERENCE, and will be .found of service to the several Ward Committees in carrying on the Canvass for the ensu- mg year. Printed and sold by LACE and ADDISON, Standard eice ; and sold also by other Booksellers. ETA Ithrrpool thifOarb. 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 Shieliks 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—th e 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 whit; 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 was 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 affair—to weary our readers with the vapid impertinences of Mr.. Mark Philips, or the insufferable boobyism of Mr. Milner Gibson, who assured his sym pathizing audience that he "gloried in the appellation of 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 be 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- Wes 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 advan 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 thew 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. tier 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 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 f orma lly announce d th e i r i n t e ntion to forego the use of sugar and cofree altogether rather than admit those articles from slave-holding co untries. On this subject we b eg t o re f er the Guardian to the declaration which Mr. O'Connell made, last session, in his place in Parliament—a declaration which Mr. T. F. Buxton, Gurney, Mr. Sturge, Mr. Scoble, and Sir )t hesitated to reciFoeate 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 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 that encouragement is at present advocated. 'We do not deny that " the differential duties are as: high against foreign free-labour sugar and coffee, art 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 ~,~' >, - ch of lit pu an NO co pla chi the Al] the sPi be du las de: He dis Pri pol dui bes dee anc relz din that of ti