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Tobacco. ;e, B.P, ral Form f r all other Goods ZIVAL JOCKEYS.—A celebrated facetiously expressed his opinion of the comparative these "first-rate performers" over a course:—" As ohinson, his talent is not to be questioned ; he will igh a church-door, however awkward and refrac nimal may be on which he is mounted ; but, as to fney, only let him get tight hold of the horse's head, rush slap through the key-hole."—Whyte's His . tory of the Turf —The light horseman ho lays himself out to become a useful member of his pro ssion is sure to succeed. He will first of all devote himself his horse ; and then his horse, as if grateful for the kind !ss shown, will do for him in return innumerable services. bus, during a night march, when the dragoon, overcome by tigue, drops asleep, the faithful animal will slacken his pace, sway from side to side, in order to sa v e hi s mas t er f rom 11:- T DRAGOON AND Ins HORS ..„. In like manner, if they be passing in the dark through broken and dangerou s ground. the horse will often 'efuse to obey either spur or rein ; his superior instinct di eting him to avoid the perils into which the ignorance or r-anxiety of his master was about to hurry them. More the horse knows his master's voice—it eats oat of his lowers its head for the well-known caress, and licks his ke a dog in acknowledgment. And when it comes to not the light dragoon be afraid to trust his charger `fling. If they be the attacking party his horse will a bravely on—if it be necessary to fly, there is no ‘h he will refuse, or which unless it actually exceed powers to surmount, he will not by some means !ap or scramble through.—United Service Journal "LE VALUED WHEN UNCERTAIN.—In countries notically, life is not so much valued as it is in wry knowledge that it may be taken in a reo ill of the rulers, renders even the cowardly adifferent. Having, been accustomed from to anticipate an event, when it actually ar with composure and indifference. The lad a brought up to thieving, and who is conti by his parents that he must be hung before to the gallows, when his turn comes, with 1. So it is in a despotic country, where the the heads of their companions roll on the arnaise, how soon their own turn will come. I one evidence of this at Burmah. In one in led to obtain information from a prisoner, but ract any. He had been sitting between the car seek for 24 hours, and some of the men or offi en him a bowl of grog and a couple of cigars, he was busy when I interrogated him. As he gnorance,l told hi m th at if h e would not g i ve me I information, I should take his head off, and sent •gearit of marines, who appeared with two of his 1 a drawn sword. We called him out from between ; but he begged, through the interpreter, to be al finish his grog —to w hi c h I consented. When that he was again orde re d out ; but requested leave to a)ut an inch of cigar, which remained in his mouth— a I also acceded, not being in a pa r ti cu l ar h urry to which I never intended to do. During all this the vas perfectly composed, and did not show the least at his approaching fate. As soon as the cigar was .ed, he bound his long hair up afresh, and made prepa ,n. I again asked him if he would tell; but he pleaded rance, and stepped forward, went down on his knees, took off the cloth from about his loins, which he spread the deck to receive his head, and then putting hi s h ands the deck, held it in the position to be cut off. Not a muscle trembled, for I watched the man carefully. li e was, of course, rema n d e d, an d t h e sa il or s were so pleas e d w i th him, that he went on shore with more grog and more to bacco than he had probably ever seen in his Etc.—Captain Earryatt. IOTJRI qATs OP THE MONEY MARKET r L T ESDAy EVENING —The general teneur of the intelli gence in the overland mail received to-day by extraordinary express in the Herald from India and China, as well as that from Alexandria, combined with the favourable issue, in a large majority, on the debates in the French Chamber of Deputies involving in reality the question of peace or war, altogether contributed to impart an upward impulse to stocks. Consols advanced to Sn to -. 2 - for the opening. Bank Stock was 1561 to 74. Exchequer Bills 2s to 4s. premium. • • - WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The business has been niore than commonly dull in the Funds to-day, and the prices of yesterday were not supported. Consols for the opening de clined to 391 to 1. Bank Stock improved to 1571 to 81. Exchequer Bills were 2s to 4s premium. The Foreign Market remai ns muc h i n t h e same sort o f way. Spanis Active with the Coupons were 24/- to A. Por tuguese Two-and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Fives) 34 to 1, the One and-a-Half per Cents (falsely called Threes) 211 to 21. Brazilian were 70 to 2. Mexican 294 to 30. Colombian 251 to 6. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 tol, the Five per Cents 98 to 1. Belgian 97 to 9. Railway Shares were rather better. London and Bir mingham 78 to 80. Great Western 24 to 5, the Half Shares 10/ to 11. Gosport 31 to 41 premium. South Western 53/ to 4/ per share. North Midland 27 to 5, the New Shares 3/ to 21, Eastern Counties 14/ to 134, Brighton 84 to -a, Blackwall 41 to 4 discount. COURT CIRCULAR.-WEDNESDAY Her Majesty held a Privy Council. at three o'clock yester day afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Chief Com missioner of the Woods and Forests, and the Lord Steward. At the council Parliament was ordered to be further pro rogued from Thursday next, the 10th inst., until the 26th of January ; and a proclamati.n was ordered to be issued sum moning the Parliament to meet on the 26th January for the despatch of business. THURSDAY.—The Duchess of Kent dined with her Ma jesty and Prince Albert, on Tuesday evening, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Cambridge visited Prince Albert, yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir Ed ward Bowater and Captain Seymour, rode out on horseback, yesterday. . Viscoiint Melbourne and Lord Hill had audiences, yester day, of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION, ?TIRE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXH I B IT I ON of the _IL LIVERPOOL ACADEM of WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY, the 19fh instant. The Academy is open from Nine until Busk. Admisson, Is. Catalogues, lscr' Also, every Evening, i BRILLIANTLY IIitUMINATED BY GAS, from Seven o'clock until TentrAdmission, Is. SAMUEL EGLFNGTON, Secretary to the Academy. Exhibition Rooms, Postojfice-place, 10th December, 1840. THE THREE CARACCI, (FROM THE SCHOOL OF BOULOGNE.) THE celebrated PAINTINGS of Subjec from Religious History, by ANNIBAL, AGOSTIN and Lunovico CARACCI, are NOW ON VIEW at th NION GALLERY, Slater-street, (out of Bold-street,) from Ten till Four o'clock by daylight, and from Four till Ten o'clock in the Evening, brilliantly illuminated with gas. ADMITTANCE—ONE SHILLING. JOHN BENTLEY, Keeper. STATE OF TRADE MANCfitSTER.-A large amount of business has been done during the last ten days, especially in yarns for India and in goods suitable for the Mediterranean markets ; but the feeling yesterday was not quite so buoyant as on the pre ceding Tuesday, and the demand was generally on a more limited scale, but without any change in prices. Some little flatness was, no doubt, caused by two failures reported in Glasgow, by which some loss will be sustained in Manches ter ; as well as one in Liverpool and another in Belfast, which, though not materially connected with the trade of this dis trict, have still a tendency to diminish confidence. The pri vate accounts received from London are decidedly more fa vourable than for some days past. Saturday last was con sidered to have passed over more quietly than any fourth of the month ever recollected at this season of the year, and money was, consequently, abundant ; the bill-brokers being glad to lend money, for short periods, on the stock exchange, at four per cent. _ _ _ _ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 6. The market to-day has been worse than that of the preceding Monday ; there have been fewer pieces sold, and, in some cases, lower prices have been given. In the wool market, therel has been little doing:; but prices have u n d ergone no change. _ _ HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DECEMBER B.—This market was not s , ) animated as last week ; but, generally speaking, a fair winter trade is doing. The fact that the operatives are mostly employed, and the mills continue working full time, is certain evidence of a fair amount of orders in hand. Stocks 'are by no means heavy, and prices remain firm. In the warehouses a slight improvement is observable. On the whole, the woollen trade is as good as usual at this season.— Manchester Guardian. Our Paris correspondent says that Marshal Vallee is re called from Algiers, and that General Cubieres to be the new Commander in Chief. The Spanish Regency is said to have addressed a note to the French government, complaining of the menacing knot of emigrants collected in Prris around the ex-Regent. WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—The nursery and three adjoining rooms at the castle, for the use of the infant prin cess and her royal highness's attendants, are nearly com pleted. They are very plainly furnished, and are most con veniently situated in the Victoria Tower, over the bed-room which was occupied by her Majesty previous to her marriage. They are a very short distance from her Majesty's chamber, which is over the Augusta Tower. There is now not the least doubt that her Majesty will spend Christmas at the castle. We regret to learn that up to this time no accounts have been received of the Fairy surveying -vessel, Captain Hewett, missing since the 13th ult., when she was last seen off Low estoffe. Had the vessel been wrecked or foundered off the coast, some of the wreck would undoubtedly ere this have come on shore, and we entertain the sanguine hope that she has been driven off the land, and obliged to run for shelter to a port in Norway. Several revenue vessels and the Sala mander steamer have been despatched in search of her, and until these return the relatives of the crew should not despair.—Naval and Military Gazette. In ten years the Whigs have expended upwards of six millions of money in providing for themselves and their retainers by useless and obnoxious commissions, by the creation of new places and the pensioning of numerous members of their own party. We find that the mate of the Cyclops, whose conduct when leading the Turks at the taking of Sidon, obtained such flattering approval, is the son of Lieutenant-General Sir H. J. Cumming, colonel of the 12th royal lancers, and the same officer who, when serving in her Majesty's ship Hastings, saved on two different occasions the lives of two men, by jumping overboard after them, the one the carpenter, the other a seaman of that ship, for which the Royal Humane Society awarded him a medal. TROOPS TO INDIA.—The usual detachments for the three Presidencies in India, are to be embarked in the course of the ensuing month, or early in February. The united strength of these detachments will be about 1500 or 1600 men ; that being the extent of the number of cavalry and infantry soldiers belonging to the depots of regiments sta tioned in the East Indies who are now available for duty there.—United ServieeGazette. THE ROTATION SYSTEM.--The announcement contained in our last Gazette, relative to the 22d Foot being under or ders for India, has been officially confirmed. The regiment is to proceed to Bombay. The ten years' hard service which it recently saw at Jamaica, coupled with its eight years' pre vious service in India—its stay of nine years at the Mauri tius, and its comparatively short tour of home duty, the major part of which has been of a harrassing description in Ireland, would certainly seem to give the 22d a strong claim to a better station than Bombay, and which would, no doubt, have been allotted to it, if the obnoxious farcical and unjust rotation system had not been in existence.—United Service Gazette. CHESS IN THE CAFE DE LA REGENCE.—A certain man was once seen, who spent daily six or seven hours at the Regence for ten years, constantly occupied in poring over the players, but refusing invariably to play himself, and never speaking even a single word. A disputed point arose ; the galirie was thin, and the taciturn veteran was pressed into the service of the umpire. Sorely pushed to decide the ques tion, monsieur owned that, so far from being a player, he did not even know the moves of the pieces ! Astonished at this, the query naturally came, Why, then, waste ten years of life in looking over the board ? The reply was, that "he was a married man, and did not care to go home !"—Fron: Fraser's Magazine for December. A Cow WITH A WOODEN LEG.—About five months ago a cow very heavy in calf, the property of Mr. F. Kearsey, dairyman, of this town, was gallopping down a hill near Ben nall Wood, when she broke the master sinew of her near fore leg. Mr. J. Ballinger, farrier, of Leckampton, being called in to attend her, amputated the foot at the fetlock, and supplied a wooden one. About a month after the first accident her foot caught in the ground, and her legiwqs broken short off at the knee. Mr. Ballinger then supplied her with a wooden leg. She has since calved, and has con tinued to give milk up to the present time. She is now kept in a stable near Mr. Kearsy's house in this town.— Chelteiz ham Free Press. SIR ROBERT STOPFORD.—The recent splendid success of the British navy, so generally interesting to the empire at large, will be doubly so to our readers when we inform them that Sir Robert Stopford—the gallant admiral in first com mand off St. Jean d'Acre—is brother to the Hon. and Rev. R. B. Stopford, of Barton Segrave, in this county, and hence related to several of our noble and most respectable North amptonshire families of good conservative politics. It re mains to be seen whether a peerage will be withheld an officer so distinguished, simply because he is a conservative, and whether the vacant situation at Greenwich will be a second time assigned to a whig without reputation, in defiance of what the whole nation are wishing, and all of England that is worthy of that navy, are demanding—Northampton Herald. EXTRAORDINARY TUMOUR.—One of the most gigantic, flesh, and cartilaginous tumours, which the annals of surgery record, was removed on Sunday last from the back of a poor labouring man, residing at Elmore, by Mr. Charles Clutter buck, surgeon, of this city. Its base extended along the spine from the shoulders to the loins, with a diameter of upwards of seventeen inches, and a circumference of about four feet and a half. Its weight amounted to 261bs. ! The patient, who is a fine strong man, upwards of six feet in height, and about 48 years of age, bore the severe operation most heroically, and is now doing well. This tumour had been only about two years in arriving at the above monstrous dimensions, and its removal was necessary for the safety of life, as the first stage of mortification had commenced. The mere inconvenience to the poor man from carrying such an immense mass about with him which must have been great, and his misery was aggravated by his being unable to lie down except upon his face. The operation was very skilfully performed.— Gloucester Journal. Upon unquestionably authority we now state, that imme diately after the birth of the Princess Royal it was decided by the Government that there should not be a brevet, even on the most limited scale. Whenever a brevet is in contempla tion estimates are required from the departments, but up to this hour not a single calculation of expense has been made, either at the Horse Guards or the Admiralty. Thus, unfor tunately, is verified to the very letter the statement we put forth many months since, that a brevet depended on the birth of a Prinee of Wales. It will be borne in mind that no ac tual promotion has taken place since the accession of Queen Victoria. At the coronation merely death vacancies were filled up. This fact, of no general promotion having been granted in a space of time during which a coronation, a roya marriage, and a birth have transpired, is, we believe, without a parallel in the history of this country, and as such it de- serves to be recorded. We are well aware that the authori ties have endeavoured to fortify themselves by precedents and have in their researches gone back even so far as the birth of George IV., when no brevet was granted, but we assert that there is no case equal in hardship to the present Naval and Military Gazette. THE BENCH.—It has been some time known, if not to all the world, at least to that very large part of it, the legal body, that it is the intention of one of the highest function aries of that profession, Mr. Justice Littledale, to retire from the bench at the close of his labours for the present term. This retirement indeed has been long expected, and would, in all probability, have occurred ere this, had not the devotion of the learned judge in question to his office—a de votion carried well nigh t to be tabis a doas it mtingpaayss,iounn—lesksetpbte hisre re solve in suspense. But expec tations of the whig section of the bar are destined to be wofully cheated, the retirement of Mr. Justice Littledale at by he ad vancement Christmas may be considered certain. Of all th e supporters of the Melbourne a d m i n i s tration among the legal p ro f ession Mr. un. destinedhiy.f! . to asto nish ' mem ber fo cMourntEs,rith t me r ou tb r e c w ity er , m is, all ac , by of his brilliant array of talent to the bench. Others, we are aware, have been named, (the seats of all a s slippery we trust as his,) but we hear from the very best authority that Mr. Erle is to be the fortunate man. This elevation will, of course, occasion a vacancy for this city...-. Oxford Herald. Ebt Eiberpool tanbarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECKNIBER 11, 1840 , By the overland mail, which arrived in London on Monday, we have received intelligence from the island of Chusan, to the 21st of July; from Macao, to the 4th of August ; from Calcutta, to the loth of October ; and from Bombay, to the 21st of October. The same mail has also brought news of importance from Egypt to the 25th of November. The news from China will be read with great inter est. It will be seen that the city and island of Chusan were captured, on the sth of July, by Brigadier-General Burrell, who forthwith assumed the command of the island. This conquest was made without the loss of a single individual belonging to the British forces en gaged on the occasion. The expedition, under the command of Sir J. G. Bremer, arrived off the island on the 2d of July, and the necessary soundings having been:taken, anchored in the harbour on the 4th. The governor was immediately commanded to surrender, and, upon his refusal, operations were commenced against the place on the sth. After a short resistance, from some war junks on the beach, which was soon cleared, the troops landed, and began the attack on Ting-hae-heen, the capital of Chusan, which was de fended till a late hour, but on the following morning, was found to have been evacuated during the night. The British troops immediately took possession. They found the city abandoned by the inhabitants, with the exception of one man, who was holding up a board with this inscription upon it :—" Save us for the sake of our wives and children." A great number of guns were captured, together with numerous stores and a large quantity of ammunition. The troops are said to have committed great excesses after their entrance into the city, having freely partaken of a spirit distilled from rice, which was found in large quantities. The loss of the Chinese was estimated at about 30 killed, among whom was the governor. In sailing along the coast, the Blonde, sent into Amoy with a flag of truce, was fired into. The Blonde, in return, battered down the fort and de stroyed the junks there. Lord Palmerston's letter had been refused to be re ceived by all the local authorities to whom it was pre sented for conveyance to the Emperor. At Ningpo the letter was returned opened to Capt. Elliot, who eventually declared Ningpo, Shanglae, and all the in termediate ports to Nankin, in a state of blockade. It is stated that Admiral Elliot intended to proceed to Pee-thee-lee, in the neighbourhood of Pekin, with a part of his force. The accounts from Canton state that Commissioner Lin was vainly endeavouring to raise volunteers to de stroy our ships of war, by the promise of high re wards. Nothing had been done against the Bogue forts ; and a large fleet of war junks, which, towards the end of July, once ventured outside, and were at• tacked by the blockading squadron, fled over the flats, and took refuge in the shallow water. Several junks, laden with salt and grain, had been captured under the forts by the blockading squadron, which consisted of the Druid, Volage, Hyacinth, and Larne, subsequently reinforced by the Nimrod and Columbine. The capture of Chusan, and the action at Amoy, appear to have caused a great sensation in that part of China. Great secrecy was still observed respecting the further objects of the expedition. The news from India is more satisfactory than that which was brought by the previous mail. From Aff ghanistan we learn that Brigadier-General Dennie had obtained a decisive victory over Dost Mahomed and the Walee of Khoolum, whose combined army of 8000 men had been totally routed by a body of 5000 men of the 35th native infantry, and the Goorkha corps, with two guns and some cavalry. Dost Mahomed, who was wounded, lost all his tents, baggage, &c., with 500 killed, and about 1500 wounded. Scinde was tranquil, and the powerful force assem bled round Lukkur was not likely to be called into action before February, when some important expedi tion is expected to be set on foot. The Ameers of Scinde were much dissatisfied at having to pay tribute. The troops under Major-General Nott were advancing on Khelut. Captain Brown had evacuated the fort of Kahun, by treaty with the Murrees. He succeeded in reach ing Shikarpoor in safety, with all his baggage and artillery. It appears that Sir R. Gale experienced a repulse at a small fort in Kohistan, near Cabul, with the loss of several killed and wounded. His aide-de-camp, Capt. Conolly, was killed by his side. The fort was subse quently taken. Aden had not been again attacked. The European garrison was in good health, but the sepoys had suffered severely. The Arabs having remained perfectly quiet since the last repulse. The Oriental has brought letters from Alexandria to the 26th of November. Commodore Napier arrived there in the Powerful, on the 21st, and immediately opened communications with Boghos Bey. Captain Maunsel landed with a flag of truce, and a letter from the Commodore to the Pasha, informing him that the Sultan heel been prevailed upon ti; restore to him the hereditary possession of the Pashalic of Egypt, if he immediately removed his troops from Syria, and restored the Turkish fleet, the latter to remain till the necessary guarantees were furnished. Commodore Napier had made every preparation for the bombardment of Alex andria, in case his terms had been refused. The result of his negociations with the Pasha is said to be a con vention, by which the Pasha promises to evacuate Syria, recal Ibrahim, and deliver up the Turkish fleet. The official papers have not yet been forwarded, but no doubt existed as to the fact of a convention. The following ships were lying at Alexandria when the Oriental sailed :—the Powerful, Rodney, Revenge, Cambridge, Ganges, Vanguard, and Carysfoot, and the Medea, and Vesuvius steamer. 'The Oriental accom plished the voyage from Falmouth to Alexandria in 15 days and 16 hours. The net time occupied in steam ing was 318 hours,—less by 111 than on the first trip, and less by 37 hours than the time allowed by con tract. Our readers will perceive, from the Gazette of Tues day evening, that both houses of Parliament are to meet on the 26th of January, " for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs." What be they ?—we ask. What be these "divers urgent and important affairs," which her Majesty's ministers are incapable of performing, without calling Parliament together a fort night before its usual time ? The Foreign-office, under such a profound states man as Lord Palmerston; the Home-office under Lord Nornsanby ; the Colonial-office under Lord John Rus sell ; and the [Board of Trade under —Mr. Shiel (!) can want no direction from the people of Great Britain and Ireland. But they want money occasionally. Mas terstrokes of policy in Syria, buccaneering wars in India, and "little wars" in China, cannot be carried on, even under the admirable management of a whig government, without money ; and that money even Whig financiers cannot get without rotes of Parliament ! Hence the unfortunate necessity of breaking up so soon the elysium of a vacation, and plunging, before the ac customed period, into the discomforts and annoyances of the session. We are afraid, however, "the monies" will be very grudgingly spared just now by those liberal and econo mical gentlemen in whom ministers have hitherto found supporters, both within the walls of Parliament and out of doors. That national glory, of which Whig-radical ism has become so suddenly enamoured, is an expensive plaything. Fortresses like St. Jean d'Acre are not bat tered down for nothing. Chinese islands are not taken and kept without cost. The demand for a few millions to be voted by the House of Commons, within a week or so of the 26th of January next, will be anything, we fear, but a pleasant foretaste of similar votes to follow during the session. 'Where and how the money is to be raised is not our affair. Certain it is, however, that something urgent requires the meeting of Parliament. But we are really at a loss to know what urgent necessity could require her Ma jesty's presence at a privy council for the purpose of summoning it—or the holding of a council at all, if her Majesty's presence is indispensable—within little more than a fortnight after her accouchement ! Inde pendent of all considerations as to her Majesty's health, there are other considerations which ought to have in duced ministers to recommend to the royal mother a little more seclusion from the eyes, even of her privy council, for a few days longer. It may be that the manners of court life are different from those of ordi nary life—that the former are regulated by a foreign standard, whilst the other are regulated by a more old fashioned pattern, of which external decency is an in gredient. It must he gratifying to her subjects to be assured, by this early assumption of the cares of her station, that her Majesty, after her late trial, is so per fectly recovered; but it would furnish additional gratifi cation if her Majesty on similar occasions—of which we hope to witness many—would be guided a little more in this respect by the practice of respectable English mothers ; and at any rate refrain from mingling unne cessarily in the affairs of government, until she has first publicly returned thanks to the Supreme Being for her recovery, in the mode prescribed by that church of which she is the national head, and practised by the matrons of her country, to whom her conduct ought to furnish the example. We have not heard as yet that her Majesty has performed this duty. It may, by some persons, be thought trifling to notice this circumstance. The enlightened and reformed of this brilliant age, we know, have thrown aside, with the old-fashioned opinions and institutions of their fore fathers, much of that decency and propriety of manners by which they were distinguished. But we doubt if it is good policy for a youthful, and especially a female, Sovereign, to take the lead in this display of contempt for prejudices—if they be such—which have still so strong a hold upon the public feeling. Her Majesty has subjects who could advise her better ; but the " friends of her youth" appear not to be amongst the number of those advisers. The news from China has given rise to much dis cussion in the public journals, and has naturally excited a powerful degree of interest among all classes of the community. The war with China we have already denounced as impolitic in the extreme: its impolicy is only made the more apparent by the plan of operations which has been adopted in carrying it on. It has been remarked by the greatest hero of the age, that " Eng land cannot have a little war." The tr u th o f thi s ob nervation has been strikingly exhibited i n our a tt ac k upon China, The only way in which we can hope to make any impression upon the ruli ng authorities in that country is by an overwhelming display of our forces, such as would enable us, at once, to strike terror into the very centre of that vast empire. This cannot evidently be accomplished by the inadequate and divided forces which have accompanied our expedition. The partial advantages which we have already obtained may be followed up by others equally as great. We may succeed in destroying the ill-manned junks of the Chinese, and in battering down their badly-defended forts ; we may level the towns on their coasts with the dust ; we may compel their timorous inhabitants to fly before our thunder into the interior; but it is next to impossible that our present inadequate forces can garrison the deserted forts, and it is utterly impracti cable that they should be enabled to produce any ge neral impression upon a population so vast and multi tudinous as that of the Celestial Empire. The war, so far as it has yet been carried on, appears to be likely to issue in a series of interminable skirmishes. From such a course we certainly cannot entertain any rational expectation that the obstinacy of the Chinese will be subdued. Our desultory assaults, so far from inspir ing the government with any degree of awe, will only lead to exasperate its hostility and to strengthen its prejudices. But even if we should succeed in overcoming the whole military force of China, we should only be in creasing the difficulty of our position in reference to that empire. It is plain that we cannot compel the Chinese to enter into amicable relations with us. It is utterly out of the question that we could force upon three hundred millions of people habits which are utterly repugnant to their natures. The only rational alternative by which we could expect to secure these ends, would be the retention of the empire under our own government. Then, indeed, if we possessed forces sufficient for such a purpose, we might expect to esta blish our own commercial regulations with the people; but what would America, and the other powers, whose merchants are engaged in the Chinese trade, say of such a proceeding. Would they rest satisfied with our conquest ? Would they not claim a share of the spoil ? In whatever light we view the subject, we are com pelled to acknowledge that we cannot divine the end which our present government has in view in its expen sive operations against China. The Liverpool Times is sadly vexed at the publica tion of the Poll Book, which it characterises as " some thing altogether new in the history of municipal elec tions in this town." If we are not grievously in error a similar list was published immediately after the first municipal contest which took place in Liverpool : at all events a poll-book is far from being the novelty which the Times seems to imagine, even since the pass ing of the reform act. On two occasions after . that event a poll-book was published, without exciting any remark from the Times as to its obnoxious nature.. It is really laughable to find our contemporary declai, wing with such vehemence as he does against the publiee• tion of a list which, even on his own acknowledgment, must be perfectly well known to the several ward com mittees. It is absurd to suppose that "intimidation and corruption" cannot be practised without the aid of such a list. The recent proceedings of the liberal fac tion prove the fallacy of such a supposition. Our contemporary should remember that the poll-book is not composed exclusively of a list of voters on one side only. It does not give the conservative voters any sort of protection. If this had been done there might have been some reason for complaining. We are tempted to recur again to the embarrassments under which the commerce of the country is at present languishing, by an article from the city correspondent of the London Times of last Friday It appears by a statement, furnished from Manch es t er , and quoted by the Times, that the average prices of two descriptions of printing calico, viz., 64's and 72's, a staple in the Manchester cotton trade, were as follows, viz. :—ln 1835...... Bs. 9d. per piece. 1838 Bs. 4d. per piece. 1836 Bs. 71d. „ 1839 6s. 4d. „ 1837 7s. 9d. ~ 1840 ss. 10d.' the extreme depression in the five years from 1835 to 1840 being 2s. 11d. per piece, or 331 per cent. A similar calculation, with respect to two descrip tions of export yarns, shows a like result. A gradual depreciation in this article has been going on for the same period, attended, however, with one very impor tant circumstance, viz., that whilst cloth, the manufac tured article, has been dull of sale, and has accumulat ed in the hands of the manufacturers, an increased quantity of the yarn has been taken off by the demand for exportation. Were it a fact that the raw material—cotton—had sustained an equal reduction in . price, we should regard the circumstance as of less importance in a national view. Our Liverpool readers, however, are aware that such has not been the case. The descriptions of cotton from which these fabrics are manufactured, have not sustained any thing like the same depreciation. It cannot be said either that any improvements in machi nery have materially contributed to reduce the cost of manufacture, or that any deterioration of quality has taken place. The conclusion, then—the obvious con clusion—must be, that this great staple manufacture of the country has been, year by year, sinking in the scale of profit ; and we believe we are not far wrong in stating, that, for the last two years, it has been car ried on at a positive and a heavy loss to the parties whose capital is embarked in it. This, however, we fear—bad as it is—is not the worst. A mere reduction of the value of the article, even to a point below the cost of production, might have been caused by circumstances temporary in their effect. What we regard as the most dangerous fea ture which these statements display, is the fact that the article, in which alone we have an increased consump tion, is that in which the smallest proportion of human labour is employed. The home market and the foreign markets have alike decreased, in their consumption of our cloths, whilst the latter continues to increase—and that only at a miserable price—in the consumption of the lowest quality of our yarns ; and the deduction which we are compelled to draw is, that manufacturing industry is decreasing at home and increasing abroad. This, we are well aware, is a sore and a dispiriting confession; yet how can we escape it? The utter in efficiency of the present government to regulate the commercial affairs of the nation has, we doubt not, been instrumental in destroying the profitable nature of our manufactures. Two successive deficient har vests have seriously injured our home market ; and our various embroilments with foreign states have put a stop to a large portion of our most valuable export trade. But not even these causes are sufficient to ac count for the fact that the trade which we do possess is precisely that from which the country derives the smallest advantage ; and that that trade is increasing whilst every other is declining. On no other ground can we account for these circumstances, than by con ceding that the foreign consumer is becoming daily more capable of manufacturing for himself; and that if supplied with our yarns, in which at present we pos sess a superiority over him, he can dispense with our cloths. We know well what will be the whig retort to this statement of facts. We shall be told that it is the corn law, and the corn law alone, which renders us unable to compete in manufacturing with our foreign rivals. But, we ask, have we not here sufficient evi dence of the mode in which the repeal of the corn law would operate ? We dare say that such a measure would give a temporary stimulus to the export demand. But that demand would not be a demand for our ma nufactured goods. It would not be a demand for our calicoes, our prints, our fustians, or our cambrics ; but for yarns, to be wrought into these commodities by foreign hands and by foreign machinery, paid for by the gold iniquitously and dishonestly wrung from the property and the labour of the British agriculturist. The foreign manufacturer wants only capital to enable him to compete with us in every market of the globe. Such a measure would supply him with that capital. He wants a home market,—by which, primarily and chiefly, all manufacturing industry is supported,—and the prosperity thus conferred upon foreign agriculture would furnish him with such a market. Admitting then that an increased foreign trade would result from the abolition of the protection afforded to the English grower by the present corn laws, can such an increase, when its object is an article into which so small a portion of labour enters, be weighed for one moment against the diminished consumption of our finished fabrics at home by the British agriculturist ? We imagine not. Such a trade might enable the spin dles of some few of our overgrown manufacturing ca pitalists to run more merrily. It might furnish more freights to some few of our trading vessels; it might replenish the exchequer of a few continental states and elevate a few petty foreign landowners to the possession of a decent menage to match their absurd pretensions and preposterous titles ; but upon the great body of the English people it would be a gross fraud. To the agricultural interest it would bring utter ruin, and to the manufacturers themselves certain disappointment and injury. It is a mere folly to suppose that the manufacturing states of Europe can be induced by any concessions on our part to abandon those pursuits by which they have witnessed England's growing, and, we may add, en vied greatness, maintained in past time. We may flatter ourselves with a millenium of reciprocity to arise from our abandonment of the interest, call it selfish if you will, of our agricultural population. We may lay the "flattering unction to our souls" that by throwing our population upon the mercy of Europe for food, we shall be their specially retained purveyor of manufactures in return ; but we shall deceive our selves. So long as human nature is, what it ever has been, interested and selfish, we shall deceive ourselves if we expect any preference as a commercial nation, except that which we can fairly command by the supe rior cheapness of the wares which we furnish. And here at length we come to the gist of the anti corn-law argument. Will the reduction of the import duty on foreign corn enable us to undersell our foreign rivals in their own markets ? It may, we reply, for a time. And how? The Times, which has furnished us the text upon which we are commenting, gives us at the same time a solution to our question. We must lower our wages to the continental standard. The ave rage wages of continental factory labourers, we are told by the limes—and although a conservative jour nal, the Times is an advocate for the repeal of the corn laws—is six-and-ninepence per week, whilst that in England is ten-and-sixpence. Let the corn-law re pealers tell their poor deluded dupes in the manufac turing districts what is the fate which they are prepar ing for them. But when was dishonesty so frank ? The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday has an article on the subject of the supply and price of sugar which calls for a few observations. It is a singular fact that those journals in which the repeal of the corn laws is most strenuously advocated are uniformly cha racterised by their bitter hostility to the West India colonies. These advocates of free trade would seem to take a sort of malignant delight in the ruin and de struction of the British colonies, while, with that pa trioti3m which is always a distinguishing mark of your modern liberal, they are indefatigable in. promoting the interests of foreigners. This is precisely the policy which the Guardian has consistently pursued. The conductors of that journal little reck what direful con sequences may befal the West Indies, so long as our foreign trade is proinoteii—a trade which is the least profitable of any to this country. The Guardian remarks that " the average of brown or Muscovado sugar, in the two years between October 1838 and October 1840, rose from 31s. sd. to 575. 6d. per cwt. in bond, or upwards of 80 per cent. The present duty on British plantation sugar is 245. per cwt; and on Brazil and other foreign sugars, it is no less than 635." With this discriminating duty it fol lows that, under ordinary circumstances, foreign sugar must be excluded from the home market. The Guar dian laments this exclusion, or, in other words, it ex presses its regret that the slave-grown produce of foreign countries should not be allowed to supersede the free-labour produce of our own colonies. If we are not much deceived, we venture to say that nineteen out of every twenty of our fellow-countrymen do not share in this regret. After the noble sacrifices which have been made by the people of England, for the pur pose of extinguishing the very name of slavery in our own colonies, it is by no means likely that any atten tion will be paid to the representations of those political economists who are desirous of perpetuating the bonds of slavery in foreign states. Nay, we feel convinced that the people of England will submit to any priva tions rather than undo what has been so nobly done in the cause of abolition. The Guardian exclaims, " will the people of Great Britain long submit to be thus fleeced, for no advan tage to the public revenue, nor for any object to the government, but simply for the private profit of a few West India proprietors ?" We emphatically deny that the discriminating duties are unprofitable to the reve nue. The contrary is notoriously the fact. What ! does not the government derive between three and four millions per annum from the importation of colonial sugar alone ? Is this no source of advantage ? Does the Guardian mean to insinuate •that it is " no object to the government" to preserve our colonial possessions? It is obvious that those colonies cannot be preserved without protecting duties. We cannot, under existing circumstances, contend with foreign states in which slave-labour is devoted to the cultivation of sugar. But if the people of England will only have a little patience, and devote their energies to the promotion of free immigration into the West Indies, we have no doubt that the day is not distant when we shall be able to procure a cheaper supply of sugar from the West Indies than can now be procured from the Brazils. We pass by the sneering allusion to the " private pro fits of a few West India proprietors." Those proprie tors have found the cultivation of sugar, within the last two years, even at the great advance which has taken place in the British market, any thing but pro fitable. They are disposing of their estates in every direction, and frequently at a ruinous depreciation in value. The diminution in the quantity of sugar culti vated, and the great increase in the cost of production, have rendered the sugar properties in the 'West Indies hardly worth retention. This is a fact too well known to need any further remark necessary on this head. The Guardian assumes, on the authority of Mr. M`Gregor, that " the duty reduced on British planta tion sugar to 15s per cwt., and on foreign to 30s, would produce a revenue exceeding the proceeds of the present duties by no less than £3,000,000 per annum." This estimate is a monstrous absurdity. At present there is scarcely any foreign sugar admitted for home consumption. Indeed, the quantity is so small that we may safely leave it out of our calculations. Taking the quantity of colonial sugar entered for home con sumption at 3,200,000 cwts. per annum, and the duty at 245, as at present, the revenue from this source would be £3,840,000. Supposing the duty to be reduced to 15s per cwt., it would require a consumption of 9,120,000 cwts. of colonial sugar to produce a revenue of £6,B4o,ooo—that is, an increase of £3,000,000 in the revenue. It would be manifestly absurd to expect such an increase in the consumption of colonial sugar at a reduction in price of only 9s per cwt. It is true that a considerable increase might be expected to take place in the consumption of foreign sugar ; but if the whole £3,000,000 of increased revenue could be de rived from that increased consumption, it would still require stronger reasons than any advanced by the Guardian to prove that such an increase of taxation would be of any advantage to the people of Great Britain. It is useless to argue that slave-holding coun tries would consume a much larger proportion of our manufactures. Whatever increase might take place in our exports to those countries, it would be more than counterbalanced by the diminution in our exports to our own colonies, which are now compelled to take our manufactures in exchange for their produce. It is evident, from the whole tenour of the remarks which the Guardian has offered on this subject, that one of the grand objects sought for by the anti corn law agitators is the introduction of slave-grown sugar for home consumption in Great Britain. This, we con scientiously believe, the people of this country will never tolerate. Such a measure can only meet with countenance from tyrannical wing cotton-lords, who have done all in their power to reduce the operatives of England to the condition of slaves. What care these men whether their fellow-creatures be consigned to perpetual and hopeless bondage, so long as they can aggrandize themselves ? It is perfectly disgusting to hear men prate about humanity who, for filthy lucre, would thus offer a premium upon the continuance of the slave-trade. If the people of England want cheap sugar, let them encourage free labour in our own colonies. This will be a sure means of permanently benefiting the revenue, and of giving an unparalleled stimulus to our manu facturing prosperity. The recent election in the county of Carlow is, per haps, one of the most important which has taken place during the last three years. The triumphant return of Colonel Bruen, by the overwhelming majority of 167 votes, has afforded a demonstrative proof that the domination of the popish priests in Ireland is rapidly declining. Every possible exertion was made by Father Maher and his coadjutors to cajole and intimidate the electors ; but all to no purpose. Their feelings of attachment towards their natural protectors, the land lords, proved stronger than their superstitious fears of the power of the priesthood. The radical journals are resorting to every species of ingenious device in order to account for the triumph.. ant majority obtained by Colonel Bruen. They have the hardihood to assert that " the people" have been disfranchised, and that the tenantry have been exter minated, in the county of Carlow. A simple reference to figures will soon set this matter at rest. We find from our able contemporary, the Dublin Evening Mail, that the numbers polled at the present election were 1,277. Besides these, there were 50 struck off for want of being re-registered in time. These, added to the numbers polled, make a total of 1,327. In the last contest for Carlow, when every man in the county was polled, the gross number amounted only to 1,373. What, then, becomes of the ab surd plea of disfranchisement ? Tbe truth is, that the success of 'Colonel Bruenimust be attributed to a healthy reaction among the electors—a reaction which will cause O'Connell to tremble in the seclusion of Derrynane, and which will cause grievous misgivings among the tenacious occupants of the Treasury benches in the House of Commons. The people of Ireland begin to find out that they have been warring against their own interests by listening to the insidious and mischievous advice of the meddling priesthood, and to the deceitful persuasions of the arch-demagogue. The result of the Carlow election must be considered as a formal "notice to quit" to our townsman, Air. John Ashton Yates, the other member. The electors of Carlow have shown their determination not to be sold, as they were to Mr. Raphael, for " a thousand pounds —say a thousand pounds." They will no longer submit to be made subservient to the agitator's selfish purposes, by replenishing his exhausted ex chequer. We may now look forward to the event of a general election in Ireland with feelings of confidence in the strength of the conservative cause. The partial ex purgation of the registry has made a serious difference in the amount of O'Connell's forces. His influence vanishes in proportion to the return of the people to their senses. His days are now numbered, and he will soon be consigned to the execrations of an insulted nation. TO CORRESPONDENTS In our description of St. Saviour's, in the last STANDARD, we were incorrect in naming Mr. Crawford the senior minister of the church : Mr. Stokes and he are on a per fect equality in every respect. Enough has been already said on the subject to which " An Impartial Observer" alludes. " The Parting" has been received. We have received a letter from the Rev. John Clark, of Hunslet, which contains some severe and, in our opinion, uncalled-for animadversions upon the letter of the Rev. C. W. Lawrence, in defence of the Pastoral Aid Society. We have already announced our intention to exclude all fur ther communications on the subject, excepting those of an official character. This alone would have caused us to abstain from inserting Mr. Clark's letter, even were the contents of that letter less objectionable than they are ; but we have a stronger reason for adopting our present course, when we reflect upon the strange use which Mr. Clark has made of the name of the Rev. Charles Simeon— one of the brightest ornaments of which the Church of England could ever boast. Mr. Clark has insulted the memory of that great and good man by the frequent use of the words " Simeonitish Heresy" in his letter. Such language, from a clergyman of the Church of England, must strike " nine out of ten of the church-going people of Liverpool" as exceedingly strange. It would have been almost as proper to associate the term " heresy" with the name of St. Paul as with that of the venerable Simeon. Just Published, Price 45., A POLL BOOK FOR THE LAST MUNICIPAL ELECTION; Skewing the Duplicate Qualifications of (li‘ VOTERS, and the WARDS in which they pg&d. The Lists have been examined with the Poqing Papers in the possession of the Mayor. Thii 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- zng year. Printed and sold by LACE and ADDISON, Standard office; and sold also by other Booksellers. MEETING OF THE WHITCHURCH PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, The second annual meeting of the Whitchurch Protes tant Association was held, in that town, on Wednes day last. The meeting was numerously and respecta bly attended. Lord Kenyon occupied the chair, and the proceedings were characterised by the greatest enthusiasm. The noble chairman and the Rev. R. J. IVP Ghee spoke at considerable length, and with much eloquence, on this interesting occasion. On Tuesday next we shall give a full report of the proceedings, which, we have no doubt, will prove a source of rich gratification to our Protestant readers in Liverpool. The length of the important documents read by Mr. 111‘ Ghee obliges us to defer our report. LOCAL NEWS, LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. —At the annual meeting of the members of this association, Mr. Daniel Ledson was unanimously elected chairman for the ensuing year. SUDDEN DEATII.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Isaac Johnson. The deceased, who was nine years of age, lived with his mother and stepfather in Naylor-st ree t, and died on Monday morning last, under circumstances that induced a suspicion that some violence had been employed. This, however, was without foundation. On a most mature examination of the body, it was found that death was caused by peritoneal in flamation, or inflamation of the intestines, arising from na tural causes. The jury returned a verdict to that effect. EARLY CLOSING OF Snors.—lt appears the tradesmen's assistants of this town are determined to extricate themselves from the present state of severe, and in some cases extreme restraint. It will be seen by an advertisement in another column, that a meeting is about to be held for the purpose of adopting measures to procure a gradual and uniform curtail ment of the present injuriously long hours of business. An association, it appears, has already been formed. RADICAL PURITY. —The declamations of the radicals against bribery, intimidation, &c., in election matters, are as well known as their liberal practice of the very offences with which they charge their opponents. It will be remem bered, that just pending th e recent rev i s i on , t h ey i nduced one of the notice-servers for the conservatives to abscond, by which it was rendered impossible for the latter to substan tiate one hundred and eighty objections against the bribed protectors in St. Anne's Ward, and in fact Prevented them from catering upon the inquiry. The man in question was tampered with by a liberal attorney and a reforming hat ma nufacturer, who, having plied him with drink, represented that they were acting by the orders of the Tradesmen's Re form Association, and agreed to give him fifteen pounds in cash, to pay his passage to Dublin, and to allow him is 6d per day during the sitting of the court. The sum of £l2 . lOs was paid t o hi m and £1 10s to his wife, and he was furnished with a ticket for his passage in a fictitious name. The man, we understand, is still in Dublin, in very great distress, and unable to get the £6 12s 6d due to him, tie has made re peated applications for the money, but can get no answer from those who employed him, and the Reform Association decline to pay it on the ground of ignorance that the parties had any authority to act as their agents. This, we trust, will be a warning to future notice-servers how they place reliance in radical promises. We are in possession of the names of all the parties, and can publish them if necessary. PIANO FORTES.--We beg to- refer our readers to Shade's advertisement of piano-fortes. He hag some fin® instruments on hand, well worthy of attention. LIVERPOOL POLYTECHNIC SCCIETY.—.A. meeting of this society was held last evening, in the Medical Institution, at which Mr. R. H. Chilton read an interesting paper on " The Coinage of the Romans." The meeting was numerously and respectably attended. We rejoice to find that the pro ceedings of this excellent society are exciting Ti increased degree of attention among the lovers of science in Liverpool and its neighbourhood. riiE THREE CARRACCI.—We are glad to learn that the notice we gave of the three splendid Scripture Paintings by the Caracci, in our last, has been the means of drawing very general attention to them. The Union Room has been very well attended since, and at times quite crowded. These paintings may be seen over and over again, and at each visit new beauties will be discovered. As they will shortly leave Liverpool we advise every one to see them. Such a treat cannot be obtained every day. ST. BRIDE'S LECTURES RESPECTING THE JEw3.—On Tuesday last, the Rev. Hugh M`Neile delivered a very powerful lecture, to a crowded congregation, upon " The glorious advent of our Lord Jesus Christ." The concluding lecture, with a practical improvement of the whole course, will be delivered, by the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, on Tuesday evening next, the 15th instant. Our readers will observe in our advertising columns this day, that the Rev. Hugh Stowell will preach at St. Michael's this evening. We trust it is unnecessary again to urge ou them the importance of the object for which Mr. Stowell is to preach. The Protestant public, and particularly, our own church, are large debtors to Scriptural Schools and to Mr. Stowell. BRINGING EXCISABLE ARTICLES ON SHORE.—Captaiu Lefer, of the barque Intrepid, was charged by the Solicitor to the Customs with having brought on shore 121bs of sugar and 31bs of tea, the same not having paid duty. Captain Lefer said he pleaded guilty to the charge, but he was not aware that what he had done was illegal. The sugar he was going to send up to a lodging-house keeper as a present ; he did not consider it of much value. The officers having sub stantiated the charge, the captain was fined £1 18s, being three times the amount of the sugar. COMMITTAL OF A FATHER AND HIS SON.—Yesterday, at the Police-office, Geo. Green, a lad aged 15, was charged with robbing his master, Mr. Atkinson, draper, South Cas tle-street, of sundry articles of property ; and Thos. Green, his father, with receiving the same knowing them to be sto len. Mr. Atkinson stated, that having suspected the lad of robbing him, he accused him of doing so, when some of the property produced was restored. On information being given at the Police-office, constable Ainsworth went to the house of the elder prisoner, who gave up several pieces of cloth and three handkerchiefs, which his son had said his master had given him. Mr. Rushton, having commented severely on the flagrancy of the case, committed both pri soners to take their trial. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on Wednesday before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of James Swift. The deceased was a carter in the employ of Mr. Hollinshead Blundell. On the 16th November he and a man named Thomas Smetham were together, taking two loads of coals to Mr. Waterhouse's at Aigburth, and each driving a cart. There were two horses to each cart, and deceased had hold of the shaft horse of his cart. A short distance before they got to Mr. Waterhouse's house, the horse which the de ceased was driving went on the parapet, and, while he was pushing it off into the road, the horse fell against him, shoved him close to the wall, and rested against his legs. Smetham. immediately got the animal drawn from him to get him away; but as s,on as he had done so, the deceased fell down. He was not able to stand, but sat against the wall. Some per- sons came up, a car was sent for, and the deceased was taken to the Northern Hospital. Mr. Arnott, house surgeon of that institution, said, that when the deceased was brought in, he had a compound fracture of the right leg. Everything was done for him that could be done, but he died on Tues day, in consequence of the injuries he had received—Verdict, " Accidental death." DEATH BY BURNING.—On Wednesday, an inquisition was held before P. P. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of Sarah Lipt ro t, a g i r l o f ourteen years of age, who lived as servant to Mrs. M`Kennell, No. 49, Bedford-street, Toxteth-park. On Sunday morning last, a little after 12 o'clock, the deceased ran into her mistress's room all in flames. The latter endeavoured to extinguish the fire with her shawl, but could not, and burnt her hand in the attempt. Another ineffectual attempt was made to extinguish the fire. The deceased was very much burnt about the back and arms. A surgeon was immediately called. She said that she was taking the cover off a saucepan, and while laying it on the floor, the back of her dress caught fire. She died on Tuesday morning in the presence of her father, a nailmaker, in Naylor street. The jury returned a verdict of " Death by burning ; but how the clothes of the deceased caught tire, there was no evidence to prove." SHAMPOOING. — The introduction of shampooing has been found to be very beneficial in many of the disorders inciden tal to the human frame. In cases of rheumatism, gout, &c., it has been found extremely efficacious. Mr. Whalley, (whose advertisement will be found elsewhere,) from his knowledge of anatomy, has been very successful in the cases entrusted to him. His testimonials from many of the nobi lity, the medical profession, and others of his patients, are of the most satisfactory nature, and, on being referred to, will at once show how highly prized have been his endea vours to alleviate, and indeed eradicate, disease. As to the benefits arising from shampooing, Dr. Combe, in his excel lent work on the " Preservation of Health," says of it : " It is from this effect of muscular compression in promo ting the flow of blood through the arteries and veins, that shampooing is so successfully resorted to in the warm cli mates of the East, and among the richer class of invalids in our own country, as a substitute for active exercise. Sham pooing furnishes from without that impulse to the circula tion which the Creator has destined it to receive from active muscular exertion ; and the principle of its action being the same, we cannot wonder that it should prove indisputably useful in promoting circulation, strength, and nutrition, in cases where active exercise cannot be enjoyed. Hence, also, its utility in dispersing indolent swellings, in restoring tone to weakened joints, and in the cure of rheumatism." We strongly recommend Mr. Whalley to the notice of such of our friends as may be afflicted by losing the use of limbs, or feebleness. The best results may be anticipated by applying to Mr. Whalley in time. WILLIAM PERRY'S CASE.—On Wednesday, William Perry was brought up again for examination at the Police office, when William Rutherford stated that he was a clerk, in the employ of Mr. Brebner. The prisoner had been in Mr. Brebner's employment about twelve months; during the time he was there he had frequently suspected him of robbing the place, and had accused him on one or two occasions. Prisoner was discharged for bad conduct. Witness had missed, in July last, £3 6s. and a gold watch from his desk, when the office was found broken open.—J. Breeze, is a clerk in Mr. Brebner's office, remembers the counting-house being broken open. The prisoner had, previously, made many in quiries as to the times of opening and closing the counting house. The keys of the office were always deposited in one place.—John Parker, is a clerk in Mr. Brebner's employ, had seen the keys in the usual place the evening before the robbery took place.—Ainsworth stated that the keys were found in prisoner's coat pocket. On information being given him of the robbery, he had proceeded to the prisoner's lodg ings, where he found the property produced.—W. Farrer identified the coat as being the prisoner's.-11411 Thompson is in the employ of Messrs. M`Lean and Brodie, Glasgow; identified several pieces of gingham which he had packed, and despatched to Liverpool by the steamers. The cases had been returned as being short of quantity. The cases had been packed before the principals of the house.—Wm. Gow, a porter in the last employ, proved that he had delivered the cases safely at the Broinielaw.—Wm. Farrer identified one of the desks as his property, which he had lent to the prisoner, who had lodged with witness two years ; had never heard a word against his character.—Committed for trial. DESERTION OF INFANT CHILDREN.—For some weeks past the desertion of infants by their mothers, by leaving them at the lodging-houses of poor persons and absconding, has, we lament to say, been very prevalent in this town, and, we learn, also in Manchester. On Monday evening last, about six o'clock, a boy went into the shop of Mrs. Barton, bread baker, Chapel-street, with a basket in his hand. He said Mrs. Oakum had sent him with it, and that she would call for it in a short time. Mrs. Barton, not knowing a person of that name, expressed some reluctance to receive it, and finally took the precaution to lift the lid, when she saw some thing move. On removing a small piece of flannel, she dis covered a tine female infant, of apparently about five days old. It had on a lace cap, with a net border, and white cotton frock, and was altogether clean and com fortable. A small quantity of clothing formed its bed. Mrs. Barton very properly detained the boy, and called in a police-officer. He stated that a female at the bottom of the street had given him sixpence on his promising to take the basket to the baker's shop above, and that he did not know what it contained. The child was sent to the Work house, and no clue has yet been obtained to the parents. — On Wednesday, at the police-office, two decent females, keepers of lodging-houses, appeared before the magistrates, one of them with an infant in her arms, which had been left by her mother, a lodger, who had gone away and left it; the other stated that a child of about a month old had been left with her by its mother, apparently a lady, but scantily pro vided with clothing, and who, she had reason to suspect, had gone off to Manchester by the railway.. Mr. Rushton strongly animadverted on the disgraceful conduct of the mo thers, and directed inquiry to be made after them. The parties were referred for assistance towards the suppo the little ones, in the meantime, to Mr. Evans, the o very ANIPHITHEATRE.—This evening the performances will be under the patronage of the Earl of Seftcn, who will, we be lieve, occupy a box, to witness the performances of Mr. Carter and (to use the language of the bills) his " forest of wild animals." A very full house may be expected. On Wednesday evening, just before the animals were fed, a most extraordinary scene took place—a scene which few of the number present would have missed for more than their price of admission. The circumstance to which we allude was a fight between the lion and the tiger. Mr. Carter having gone through his performances, left the den, as usual, accom panied by one of the leopards. He had hardly been off the stage a minute when the lion and tiger commenced a terrific fight. The scene was most extraordinary—the whole of the company assembled on the stage prepared to take flight, and the audience were in a moment in the greatest excitement. Mr. Carter hearing something unusual, rushed on the stage, and in an instant was in the cage, and threw himself between the combatants, felling the lion on one side, and hurling the tiger to the other. A wild burst of applause rewarded this daring feat, and was loudly continued when the excited ani• mals were seen to cower into the corners of the den in the most abject state of subserviency. The effect of this was re markable in the extreme. In a cage, hardly 10 feet square, stood a man, unarmed and alone, so perfect a master of the wildest and most savage creatures of the forest, that they forgot their animosity to each other, and actually trembled with fear at his presence ! The attitude of th e " li on tamer and the position of the animals immediately after they were parted, formed one of the finest and most interesting groups we ever beheld. Had it not been for Mr. Carter's strength , energy, and presence of mind, the consequences perhaps might have been unple asan t. Th e f arce o f " Th e L a dy ,", Lions" never fails t o d raw f or th great l aug h ter. Mi ss pal has wonderful spirits, and she enters into the fun of her cha racter con more. She is the best actress in burlesque on the stage. THE NEW OPERATION FOR THE CURE OF SQUINTING• —Great and striking has been the development of science in all its branches during the last half-century, and in none more than in the healing art ; the rapid and Im provement of which, in both its grand divisions, medicine an d w surgery, is equally certain and satisfactory. This general commendation e now more particularly material a pply to a newly invented_ operation for the cure of squinting, first practised, and lately published to the medical world, by Dr. Dieffenbach, of Berlin. whereby the most extreme degrees of obliquity of vision are, with trifling pain, inconsiderable confinement and treatment, radically and permanently cured. This is no overcharged statement, but a true and 'faithful matter of fact, to which we ourselves are witness, having been surprised and gratified by the re-appearance of a friend at onr office, whose decided squint had been a source of much inconvenience to himself, and regret to his family, in a very altered and pre ferable condition, his disagreeable obliquity of vision being perfectly restored—a cure lie had obtained under the hands of Mr. Bainbrigge, of this town. Our unqualified admira tion, of the success of this operation, so exceedingly ; san ple, in no case warranting apprehension for ultimate results, causing during its performance, as our friend observes, "rather inconvenience than pain," compels us, as it were, to bring forward and recommend it to the notice of those afflicted with this unfortunate disfigurement ; confident they will, in sub mitting to the operation for the removal thereof, have no cause to regret, but on the contrary, will heartily acknow ledge a debt of gratitude due for our well-meant intimation and advice. res of thi wri thi / stuff tiet the rile; the: