The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

DrecmßEß 4,. 'i.435 r **w.sr_wt.,si..m v,ro: TO CORRESPONDENTS The lines of J. F. possess considerable merit, but they need revision... Ebz I.Liberpoot 4.7-,tanDarb. FRIDAY MORN&G, DECEMBER 4, 1835. The letter of DANIEL ,O'bONNELL about, but not in answer to, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT will be found elsewhere. It is just such a letter 'eA'a convict would write to a fa mily-party of his companions, in which a vast deal would be said about the infamous character of the prosecutor, but not a - word or - hint about the deed itself—about the • crime for which . he Was convicted by a jury, and trans ported for -life. DANIEL, we confess, is not yet transported ; 'but that he has been convicted - of *Mil, deliberate, and malicious falsehood, not once, but repeatedly, is as notorious as the sun in the heavens. In fact, we venture to assert, there .'neyer was a Man in public life; who, by his own reckless , ness, his-open disregard of s truth, his solemn appeals in support - of - that. which he ;knew to be false, and by his treachery,:dnplidity, 'and unblushing venality, has had to sustain such a load. of infamy.. He threatens to write another letter on the -subject, which he proposes to address to the constituents of Sir FRANCIS, viz., the electors of Westminster,.which, we hope,.will be more to the point -and worthier of notice- than the one before us.. The Master of the Rolls, on' Tuesday last, dissolved, as we were confident lie would do, the injunction ob tained,-upon ex parte statements, against the corporation of Liverpool, by Mr. TamaAs BOLTON and a person -named -JE.YOs. The Common Council are cAsequently left unfettered in their original intentions, and will now, we presume, lose no time in carrying them into full effect. la this factious proceeding Mr. Taomxs - BovroN . cuts . a very-pitiable figure. He has piped, and his neighbour JEVONS has 'danced; but the lawyers have leeringly! pocketed his money, while the people, his dear fellow burgesses, either laugh lustily or wink at each other as he bowls along the streets, .holding down his head, and, like most of his class, ashanted to look a gentleman or an honest man in the face. Mr. THOMAS BOLTON has spent at least three hundred; and fifty if not four hundred pounds in thwarting the cor-: poration for the spice of some fifteen days, without gain -1 ing any credit to himself, and, we fear, without becoming a wiser or P better man. We d' not stop to inqpire, whether the wasteful expenditure of such a sum upon. London lawyers is a matter of any pecuniary considera tion to Mr. TnomAs BOLTON j bOt we beg to ask Wile; they the distribution of the money amongst the poor peo ple in the ward which he aspires to represent would not have been .a more charitable and more judicious appro priatimi of it ? We ask the question in the full convic tion that Mr. THOMAS BOLTON knew, when he applied for the injunction, that it could not be sustained. If he (lid not know this, then is he a very unfit person to be intrusted with the management of any public business.' If his lawyer told him that his grounds of objeCtion were well-founded, then we have only to say that we have a yarticithir respect for the legal knowledge and the un 'sunned integrity of the said lawyer. But if, on the other hand, we give credit to Mr. TAWAS BOLTON for any . share of ordinary sagacity, and his lawyer - for any un usual portion of acuteness and legal acumen, we should 'still be driven to ascr;belo virulence and an acescent and troableso,pe d;sposition what it would be deemed un cburteoaS•to attribute to ignorance. He has fluttered in the Rolls - Court for a few days, as a Liverpool bird of bold beak and showy plumage just such a bird as a . _ Chancery-lane hawk lovesto pluck; hut he comes hone -=at length, to his counting-house far do.vn west, relieved _ of his own overflowing cash, or the shillings collec;ed_for him by _cunning satraps from egregious simpletons, only to be saluted on the Exchange of Liverpool and else where by some of those indesclibable smiles which are a satire upon self-esteem and make a man look excessi%ely ridiculous._ We have no wish to carry these coMpliments much farther. It is not our habit to break flies upon the wheel. We believe we have more respect for, M. THOMAS BOL TON than he has for himself; and•we are confident we speak the se.ainteuts of his best friends when we say that he would have stood incomparably better in the es 't:itnittion of the inhabitants or Liverpool if he had ex- pended in charity and for the benefit of the poor the money he has recklessly- and foolishly wasted upon uni , tarian lawyers. We therefore take onr leave of .this.fiv, as STERNE did, of his when he saved it from a death- struggle amid sweatmeats—" Go thy way, poor devil ; . there is enough of room in the world for thee and me !" But to the _real question. We ate not of those who . - think that the corporation of Liverpool are without blame for leaving the endowment of their churches to this the last hour, when long neglected duty forces upon them the performance of an act of justice. It is nut much to their credit that the clergy of this-wealthy and important community should have been for so many years so truly dependent upon the beneficence of the corporation. We take up the very converse of the proposition so tenaci ously insisted upon by BOLTON' and the unitarians. We contend that the clergy of Liverpool have been treated sparingly, narrowly, and illiberally, by the corporation. • Economy has been pressed upon them so incessantly that they have followed it without due reflection. They ha% e unfortunately, lending too ready an ear to the sectarian cry, treated the ministers of the gospel—men of rare ta lents—of acknowledged virtue, learning, and piety — men of -exemplary lives, of mild and unostentatious man . ners, and of indefatigable industry in the discharge of their christian duties—men upon whom a large sum, almost amounting to an embryo fortune, had been expended in their education, and who had devoted years of tedious and anxious labour in completing that education—they, the corpocation, ne say, have treated these ministers, in a pecuniary point of view, not more generously or libe rally than they do their clerks in their counting-houses. These remarks may, perchance, give offence. Be it -so; we wean none. We strictly adhere to oar proposi tion, and, with all submission, we contend, and we mis trike•much if •we do not make the majority of out readers converts to our opinions, that the corporation of Liver pool are chargeable With remissness and dereliction of dpty, almost amounting to a slavish dependence upon the too much-coveted approbation of popular prejudice, in al lowing those who serve at the altars of our national church in Liverpool to be so long, so unnecessarily, and vexatiously- 7 -we had almost said cruelly—dependent upon their eleeinosynary bounty. What are the facts ? It will be admitted that Liver pool is one of the most wealthy towns in Great Britain. Its inhabitants have long been distinguished for, and— setting aside moments of political distraction, fomented by the enemies of all order and religion—they are still the most loyal and devoted community of protestants in these realms. Why then should the liberality of its Corporation be incommensurate with this loyalty and christian zeal ? We have answered the question by asserting that sectarian feelings, or sectarian resent ments, or unitarian, threats, have induced or misled the majority, men of an easy nature, into the victimization of their principles. They have done homage to a noisy opposition without inquiring into their motives. They never took the pains to ascertain the character of the.an tagonist religionists with whom they had to contend. Liverpool did not know that its professed patriots and reformers were of that corrupt and dishonest sect, the robbers of chapels, the usurpers of churches, the fraud ulent trustees of socinianism who traded upon violated wills, and outraged holy injunctions, - turning into schools of infidelity the almshouses of the faithful and orthodox, until we stripped the veil from the faces of the unholy allies; and showed that fashionable deism was the creed of the great mass of Lancashire reformers. We claim, in all humility, some praise for doing this; and we have reason to know that even the orthodox dis senters whom we assisted on that occasion do riot now thank us, simply because what we embraced has proved most unprofitable to their political and party specula tions. The corporation of Liverpool never concerned itself with any of these highly important matters. Their pp-. hey was ; according to the cant of the day, liberal policy. They treated their friends and their enemies- with the same most remarkable but fatal liberality. He who slan dered them, and he who defended them, were hospita bly entreated at the same board, and .equallY mented. All this looks vastly fine oil paper; it *as, as the An7ei icans• say, " extensively liberal;" but, like HumssoN's treaties, it, had the.n'ame, and the imposi tion of the name, w4hout the sense or the attractive re• ality of ieciprocity. These are our free opinions. They tray be unpalata ble, but • they are not unadvisedly offered; but, right or wrong, we trust they will have some . effect upon the acts, the duties, and policy of the new council. We rely upon this as their probable, and, we trust; natural effect, when, disarming ourselves of all-partial attachments, and looking forward only to the common weal, we crave leave to demand for the ministers of our national church not any endowment equal to their deserts, or such com pensation as our means should codcede, but such remuneration only as is commensurate with their, duties, and the scale which: the town of Liverpool and its'inhabi tants occupy in society. • If we closely examine the subject we shall find that the established clergy of Liverpool are the most miserably; endowed class o f ministers belonging to any town in England claiming even the one-tenth of the wealth or. the importance of Liverpool. The clergy of Bristol are comparatively richly endowed. Most of the livings in London are worth any two or three of ours. But what makes the comparison more invidious, and should shame' the liberals, is the fact, that the establish ed clergy of Edinburgh and Glasgow are much better provided for in a poorer coudtry, where the necessaries of life are considerably - cheaper, than are the incumbents of the Liverpool corporation' churOhes. Pride has built splendid churches; pride has built splen did ships, and more splendid docks—pride has founded charities; and erected town-halls and news-rooms—all the exterioris grand and noble, and we bestow upon it our hearty admiration ; but misery has presided over the ele ments of life, and stinted the remuneration of those who serve at the altar. Had the corporation done' its duty in this respect, we should have had amongst us the most honoured names of our English divinei—men framed for the coming conflict—orators. of transcendent talents— men not only true to their high trust, but able to com mand amid the jarrings• of popular opinion, and bring . back to the sheepfold the wanderers from the path of duty—the weak, the listless, the simple, and the ignorant. This subject is far from being exhausted—but we are. Mote, therefore, anon. • The revision of the_ burgess list of the borough of Li verpool commenced on Tuesday morning, at . the Sessions house, before Mr. ABRAHALL, one of the barristers ap pointed for this district. It will be seen, by a reference to our report of the pro ceedings of this exceedingly vexatious court, that the learned reviser has decided that a. burgess entitled to vote in respect of property situate in different wards can not be compelled to declare now.in valid) .ward he in tends voting when the election takes place. • The same authority further ruled, that all the burgesses who did not appear; either in person or by deputy, to support their qualifications, when called upon in open:court to do so," should be struck off the list of burgesses.. With these decisions of the learned barrister we. have no fault to find, but we have much fault to find with the conservative "bUrgesses, who, although served with no tices of objections, have failed to be in attendance to sup-' port:their qualifications, and have; by this most culpable and unaccountable negligence, disfranchised themselves. The court Opens this morning at ten o'clock. The list of objections is disposed of up to the•letter K, and the busi ness will, therefore, commence•witlf the name of "John Kaye, No. 982." There are still' nearly nine hundred objections to be heard and decided upon; the greater part of which are raised by. the reform association. We have now earnestly to impress upon the conserva tives. the absolute necessity of being prompt in their at tendance at the SessionS'-house. It is of no use to create a registration association ;—it is of no use to subscribe funds, or employ solicitors and agents to conduct the cause, if the witnesses will not attend in court, and be ready to 'answer when called upon to make their appear ance. It is expected that the list of objections will be gone through on Saturday. ,The court will, on Monday morn ing, proceed with the list . of new LONDON LATLST NEWS. City, Wednesday Everting, •Half-past Seven o'clock. There bas been a considerable pressure, for money to•day in consequence partly of the shutting of the various stocks for the dividend, 'and from the arrangeuients . for the taking up the commercial hills drawn the 4th instant. In consequence of this, consols for money declined to 91, and for the account to 01. The accountant -general - purchased yesterday 170,090 consols, which he took at 94, for the unarranged West India compensation claims. This functionaries purchases have in deed of late been the sole prop of the market, and their dinii• nution has probably bad some effect upon the prices of the various stock, in addition to those causes ne have stated above. The Exchequer bills and India bonds have partaken, although not to any great extent, in the depression existing in the funded seearitie4. The former bear a prern. of 13 to 15, and the latter of 2to 4. Omnium has declined to 32 pm. In Foreign Stock Market,llie intelligence from Portugal of the change of the Portuguese •ministry, the holders of the long list of the liabilities of that 'country, whose love of freedom simply means an enthusiasm for anything likely to bring them 10 per cent., viewing with apprehension , the slight removal of any of those worthies to whom they are indebted for the creation of those bonds, the existence' Of Which, as marketable commo dities, are so dependent on their coneoctors preserving poWer. Out of place, the influence of gulling; Would be, almost evapo. -rated; and we, therefore, can- excite -no -surprise that the - exit of Saldanha and his eolleaoc;:i:hasbeen follovied by a depres! sion of about 5 per cent. in the stock. • • Prior to this intelli gentie, the 5 per .cent. bon4W,Cie'-at, hem which they' fell to 88; the dividends are now in course of payment on this stock, and ex dividend the bonds are quoted at 831 this after noon, the 3 per cents. leaving off at 531. Spanish bonds which, according to the prognostics of the wiseacres holding them, were to have advanced on the receipt 'of the queen regent's speech, have, on the contrary, receded. Before the arrival of that unmeaning document, they were at 491, they closed at 41. The deferred (Heaven save the mark!) are at 22. Those valuable sinks for money, the transatlantic bonds, have also all given way; , and the only wonder is that, in the face of such accounts as we almost daily receive from one or other of the republics, they bear any price Whatever. Colom bian stock is little more than nominal at3l, the Mexican at 36, the Brazilian at 84 In the Northern bonds the price is about per cent. lower than when we last wrote. Belgian stock is 1001, Dutch 5 per cents. are at 'col, the 21 per cents, are at 54 / 1, and the Russian 5 per cents. are . at 1084. Our Railway Shares, which a few weeks ago were sought after with such avidity, are fast approaching a discount, which indeed some of the last engendered have already touched, among which are the Gravesend railway shares, the South ampton, and the Btightou (Gibbs), which all those bearing a premium are on the.decline. The advices from Canada to-day are of same little interest. That diriaterested patriot. Mr. Roebuck, it appears is to be the agent with a salary of £6OO per annum, and £5OO for an outfit. The electors of Bath ought to be Most grateful to the Canadians for this welcome tender, as hitherto their member has cut an appearance, which, although not uncommon in " the re formed house," would, if Beau Nash could have risen from his tomb, have caused him to expire with horror, that Bath could be degraded by such x representative. The papers contain a letter from this honourable M. •P., the style of which shows that he is prepared to " go the whole hog ;" and it is said that it has even startled the revolutionary Party in the" colony. After thanking Mr. Papeneau (to whom •the latter is addressed) for the appointment to the agency, this editor of three halfpenny trash thus fulminates forth :—".I cannot avoid taking advan tage of this opportunity of recording solemnly my opinion as to the demands which, as• guardians of a public people, you are bound to insist on. The object - you have in view is to frame a government in accordance with the wants and feelings of the people. In America no government can unite their conditions but one that is purely democratic. Any. pretence, by which it is sought to saddle you with any species of aristocracy ought by you to be scouted and repressed: The legislative council from the beginning has been a mere pretence ; and your efforts ought never to relax until you haVe thoroughly rooted out that wretched imitation of a baneful and mischievous institution. "All your grievances spring from this purest source, if this source he not damu,:d up the grievance, will; .never cease to exist. "All other objeetg hugh , tbercr ! )ro, tp viel to the paramount 'One 'of extirpating (to coautils !Make it *leCifv . if you will, 'fili','LlVitittio - 01, 'll'lW..)Allis: _ t hat, howeVer, is a clumsy in )le' of Nridding yourselves of the evil. Why, I ask, are not the Assembly and a governor suffi cient fur the government of the country " gxctise me for thuS expressing myself, my anxiety for your natiimal welfare will, I hope, be a sufficient apology. • Believe me, sir, that I have the most perfect Consideration for the high office which you hold, arid felt yourielf personally.—l am, your obedient servant, (Signed) " J. A. ROEBUCK." "To the Speaker of the H ouse of Assembly." Alfihis is very good if not very grammatical. "The "high , consideration" doubtless alludes to the £6OO per annu►n drawn from the pockets of the "public people," Aile the fling at the House of Lords, so judiciously and deliesgely introduced, is in the happiest Roebuck vein. llow long , v, - 111 common sense, or even common nonsense, be gulled, seditionized, and juggled in this way? Whether it be Greek Scrip, Canadian agencies, or " lint," it is evident that the "liberals," from the Irish beggar man to the Middlesex booby, will do nothing for their fellow patriots without "a consideration." REVISION Ui THE •BLTIWESS-ROLL- Tuesday being the day appointed for the rerision of the kir gess-list under the umuicipal corporation au, one of the revising barristers, took his -seat in this Sessions court, at ten o'clock. Hii learned colleague, Mr. Heywood, was unavoidably absent, owing to alate afflictin , - , event which has occurred in his family. We allude to the 'death of that gentleman's father. Thu court was excessively crowded, in consequence of the forthcoming discussion as to whether the Choice olselectin ,, the ward in which a burgess must vote, when he pOSsessed qualifying property in more than one ward, must. be made at that time, in that court, or lett to his own ulti mate discretion. The point at issue was raised by the heads of the reform association, who served with notices of objection all of the opposite party who were possessed of this plural qualifica tion. .The conservatives, iu self defence, followed their ex ample. The result of the discussion was, therefore, highly in teresting, as, in the event of the cmiservatives establishingtheir opinion, viz., that the revising, barristers did not possess any 'punier under the act to require 'a person to fix the particular ward in which he would vote, the immediate result would be thewithdrawal of an immense number of Objections. . The argument was raised upon an objection taken to Mr. James Byrne, who, it appears by the burgess-list, claims quali fication upon a house in F'alkner-street, and a warehouse in the Goree. . _ Mr. ATHERTON stood forWarct on the part of the objectors, and commenced by directing the attention of the court to the court to the twenty-second section of the act, wherein it is or dered that the burgess-list, having been revised, is to be - kept by the town-clerk, and fairly copied into boOkS;the names being numbered, " beginning the numbers from the first name and continuing them in a regular series to' the' last name," such book to be the roll of the burgesses entitled to vote. This regu lar series of numbering was greatly at variance with the idea of names being repealed on the list. It was diatinctly stated in the act, that a person shouldDbe entitled to vote in one ward and no' more. Supposing then, that the name of the party objected to, should 'continue as it was at present, it would then appear upon: the list as if he were entitled to vote for two wards; whiCh was directly at variance with the spirit of the forty-fourth sec-. tion, which set tbrth that "if any burgess shall be rated inre spect of distinct premises in two 'or more wards, then he shall 'be entitled to be enrolled, and to vote in such one of the said wards as he shall select, but not in more than one." It was evident that some time must have been contemplated in which a person must . make his selection, or these words would have' been suiierfleous o -‘-and that time must be that of the 'revision of the lists, inasmuch as the words, " he shall be entitled to be en rolled and to vote," had a clear reference to that point and to the dependence of the one the other. The whole spirit of this seetiongAit more especially the concluding words, shOweat that on the revision of the list the revising barrister bad the. power to put the person to his selection. It appeared that ac cording to the .ninth section, Mr. Byrne, he being directly within the qualification clause, was entided.to remelt, on the list, being, '• ditty enrolled in that year according to the-pro visions of the act." Mr. Atherton .explained to the effect that he conceived the words " duly enrolled" to wean enrolled ac cording, to the ultimate revision. tie aimed at the consideration that a man must some time ur other"be put to make his selec-• Lieu, and it ..was now the revising barrister's duty to put Mr. Byrne ,to sash selection according to the obvious intention of, the legislature, as expressed in the forty-fourth section. - He (the revising barrister,) was bound to put him to such selection in order to revise his list,—in order to make a correct but gess roll. Mr. PETRI: WRIGHT, one of the solicitors to the Conserva tive Association, said that he should be under the necessity of commencing his reply by reading over the fort v-fourth clause of the act, from which clause his antagonist had mainly drawn his arguments. [Mr. Wright here deliberately read .over the whole of.the forty4ourth sectiou•of the act.] He admitted that, under that section, a person was bound to vote in one ward, and no more; but he defied any man to show _that any time was fixed as to when such selection should be made. It seemed to. hint very clear that no such intention had existed on the part of the legislature as that which had been stated. There was a di- . rect oath prescribed it the third question to be asked of a per son about to vote, which was at variance with such an idea. That pestion.was,—" Have you already voted at the present election ?" Of what use was that question or that oath if the person had previously been deprived of the power of making his selection, or of presenting himself to vote for any other ward? If they now compelled persons to make their selection of the ward in which they must be hound to vote at a future period, they might compel them to vote for a person whom they never had the slightest intention of supporting ; for, though it-was true that, at present, the candidates for the representation of the : respective wards appealed to be fixed upon, yet they were not by any means immutably so; they. might every individual of teem be changed, and then, he would ask, of what value would the choice be, supposing it to be made at present ? Mr. Wright concluded by submitting that the revising barrister had not the power of calling upon any party, qualified for more than one ward, to select: that in which he would give his vote. , Mr. ATHERTON, in reply, said it wasperfectly* clear that the legislature in this act had intended that there should be no difference between the landlord and the tenant—between the rich and the poor man. It was not intended, as had seemed to be supposed, that one individual should be confined by circum stances to one ward, while another, because he happened to have a qualification in several, *hould therefore have a choice - . Such an interpretation was contrary to the whole spirit of the act, which gave each party qualified, according to its provisions, an equal right. It was therefore, then, the duty of the revising barrister to place Mr, Byrne upon the same footing as any other man. Mr. A LIR AHALL said that ,the duties of the revising barrister appeared to him to be as clearly defined as those required in any other court. Ile conceived that the act had made theM exceedingly strict and binding, and that it gave him no power but to expunge or insert. It was not stated anywhere that he should call upon persons to select their wards before him. I-1e; therefore, gave it as his opinion that he had no power to do so. Mr. \\Taint-yr stated that a great number of individuals were present who had been served with notices of objection on the above ground; it might therefore be well to go through the list, and inform those parties that such uround of objection had been removed by the decision: This was agreed to. In the course of iii*Oatterlstotagedinig . , howev-4441.,wras_suggested. that there-ti is at - tether-disputed point which, had better be settled, iu which case the Whole of the subsequent buSiness, whatever the decision might be, would preceed,more:snitruthly.. The point in dispute arose - I'6M the. use of the word " build in,," by the overseas in deScribiug the . qualifications of seve ral of the voters in the list. :These parties had been objected to on the ground that this word was nut used in the act, the only words used being "house, warehouse. countinghouse, or shop." It was agreed that the question whether the barrister had toe power to amend the qualification should be argued on the case of Mr. Hottert.Ainseough, who stood on the list as follows: " Robert,Ainscough—building—Banastre-street." It was ad initted-th4the building, though newly designated by that ge neral terth, did, iu fact, include a "house." Mr. Carson contended that the qualification of the voter was sufficient; and that the barrister should amend the descript ion in the list. It was admitted that the party before the court had, in fact, occupied a house for the requisite period—that the • house, though included with other premises under this word, building had been rated, and had - contributed in proportion to the rate, and this.beirw merely a mistake in the description of the pro perty, eepieetrom the rate-book, could•be rectified by the cunt under the 18th section. If the court considered the question doubtful, he was of opinion - that the art should be construed' li berally, and in favour of the voter, and it it were oast), it would be iu the power of any overseer to disfranchise as many persons as he thought prpper by using the word "building," instead of .. accurately describing the property.• . • • • Mr. Atherton contended that the barrister had no .power to amend, and that his powers. were very restricted, namely, to correct mistakes or omissions hi the name or place of abode, or local description of the property of the party, and that this case was not included under any of those words. Mr. Ahrahall said that it was the duty of the court to require the qualification of the party to be substantially proved, and if that was satisfactorily shown as in the pre s ent case he considered that he had the power to amend any mistake in. the description. He would therefore substitute the word "house" for build ing." This case decided many others of the same description, and the court proceeded with the revision of the list. TO THE "REFORMER" IN THE LIVERPOOL CHRONICLE, IF "THE CAP FITS." FRIEND lArtwAst,—So you have at length mustered sual-; . cient 'flora courage to write a letter to that wretched -vehicle the Chronicle of Saturday last, in which you choose to calum niate, in fiercest terms, a very 'worthy and respectable mer chant of this town. You have also deemed h expedient, in stead of the cognomen by which you are generally recognised, to substitute the signature of " A Reformer." In this latter respect I commend your prudebice; for as it has been said of charity, that it "covereth a multitude of-sins," so of the title " Reformer,". it may be with truth averred, , that in Many in stances it Conceals such an accumulation of hypocritical imp& deuce that, .if unmasked, 'or unmantled, would subject the bearer to universal and well merited contempt. The flimsy Mantle, however. (inasmuch as you are discorered,) will not save your devoted shoulders; for although it may not be coin , peten t fora gentleman to-notice you. by a corporeal castigation, it shall not be my part to shrink from a declaration to the world, that so far from being fit to occupy a seat in time council cham ber to which you• aspire, you are not capable of edifying your "bear's paw" associates with a second idea, even on social sub jects. For the sake, therefore, of the character you _Turmeric poisessed of being an easy going, quiet "hog in armour," aban don the practice of bespattering your neighbours with your Chronicled slander, retire from the contest for the representa tion of via*, for which it has beep. showU you are entirely unfitted; return to the good old trade of •flour dealing by which you (or somebody else jirr you) have amassed a consi derable quantity of coins. But if you .persist in your,present disreputable, and downward career, recoiled, ere it: be too late, the words of-the poet:- 7 " ~2tcilis deseensus Arend, SedrecOedlei, yradam, suPerasque eradere ad auras, Ric Lbor: hoc opus ea." For your benefit, - and that of your radical Mends, I will hazard afree translation: — To jump into a gutter And there make a splutter, Is much easier, I Weep, Than to jump' out again clean. . . "Thine respectfully," A SCOTCH TERRIF.R, - West Derby, St. Andrew's Day, 1835. . CALEDONIAN FREE SCHOOL. • Yesterday,. the Mayor visited and examined the Caledonian Free School, Oldham-street, and, in token of his satisfaction with the proficiency of the scholars, added his name to the list of annual subicribers. this visit,' considering the important duties now pressing on the, attention of his worship, must'be considered a very kind act by all who are interested in the charity, and must have a good effect on the minds of the teachers and of the taught. In this school, three hundred poor children, Of Scottish parentage, are receiving an education suited to their sphere in life, with religious instruction, founded on the princi- OA of the Church Of Scotland ; often, but reverently, is placed in their hands that volume which, independently of its divine origin, - contains more true sublimity, more exquisite be,tuty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been composed—it is the only never-failing support amid the trials of this life, the only infallible guide to happiness hereafter, and its glad tidings is peculiarly addressed to the humble and the poor. l ' The applications are so numerous for admission to the school for the boys, which is already crowded, that an enlargement of the premises has, been under consideration; but there are no funds. Last year this charity would .have been in debt, only for the donation 0f.£50 from a gentleman who has no connection with Scotland, but whq reverences her religious institutions.. This year, according to present appearances, the expenditure would have exceeded the receipts but for the legacy of £5O by the late John Roberton, sergeant of the Royal Artillery.. Deep must have been the conviction on the mind of this worthy man of the permanent advantage of the education based on the sacred scriptures, enjoyed by the Scottish poor in their pa rochial schools, and firm his resolution to perform the obligation . he had assumed towards the poor children of Scottish parentage in this town ; for; out of a very limited income, he gave a guinea. annually to the Caledonian Free School for nineteen years; he was an honour to the Scottish peasantry, whence be had sprung.. and a credit to the distinguished corps with which he had served in every clime, and in which his name was enrolled for nearly sixty years. Colonel Jones, of the Ordnance, has certified that throughout his long services in the Royal Artillery he ever main tained an exemplary character and was a brave and good soldier; the veteran lived to eighty, et daleis moriens reminisct tar urges. We,learn with regret that there are many persons connected with Scotland, by birth and by family ties, residing here, not only in comfortable circumstances, hut in affluence, who have not contributed towards the support of the Caledonian Free School, the only Scottish charity in LiverpooL We wish that the friends of the religious education of the poor could perauade these gentlemen to give an annual subscription, Bike the kind hearted Englishman, or a donation, like the generous Irishman, or a legacy, like the humble but high principled scotekinan. The seven o'clock train from-Liverpool to Manchester yes terday mornin g Week, perforMed its journey of thirty •miles, in one hour and four minutes, including the stoppage at New, ton. H A Novae CHAPEL, 1%1 Rev. H. C. 0' Don noghue will comumnets, on Sunday afternoon next, a course of lectures on the principal doctrines of the protestant faith, as distinguished from the Creed of the Roman catholic church. ST. ANDREW'S DAY.s-Moriday last being the anniversary of the,North Britons' Society, a party, consisting of upwards of one hundred of the members and friends of that body; sat down to an excellent dinner, piepared in good style by Mr. \Veins- . ley, Star Ina, Williamson-square. The.evening was spent in barinenyand good fellowship, and the festivities were prolonged' till a late hour. Coaost4a's INQUEST.--On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Northern Hospital . ; on the body of Thomas Guy, labourer, who was squeezed by acart against a wall in Plumbe street on Tuesday morning. Mr. Benj. Movies . deposed.-I am. house-surgeon to the Northern Hospital; at half-past eleven on 'Tuesday morning I adinitted the deceased into the hospital ; he was then moribuinL I was informed that the deceased was. walking on the parapet, when a cart which. was turning round projected over the footpath - stud jai - rained him against the wall no time was lost in feniciving . shlsa tosothe.shcaorkeiviresosrliedrin, about two hours after'admission. The only mark of external' injury,was a fracture of the fight - aria;but upon a. pact, raor4m' examination I found the spleen rupt tired -end blood extrevasated• in the abdomen to a ssreat extent. • Verdiet-sAccidental ds;ath.' Deodand upon the cart £2. . Funtous DRINING.—David Evans, the, driver of Parry's cart, 1104, was on Wednesday •lait "summoned before the ma gistrates, on information from police-officer Itostoands, who charged him with having driven his horses at ik Whitechapel and Preston-street ' and with refusing to tell,his name when required to do so by the officers. Fined ss. and costs. AN HONESTAPPRENTICE.—On Thursday last Thou as Elli ot), apprentice to Mr. Thompson, was hrotiglit before the ma-, giStrate, charged with absenting himself from his master's ser vice, and with general misconduct. - Mr; Ihenipsoo having stated his coniplaint, said he had further to observe, that the boy was not quite so honest as he could wish,. having caught him taking away a qimutity vfoil a few days ago. The lad sa.itl that one of the joiners.had got a set of new•tools, staid Wantedlo,giyti them a coating of oil, and he was merely giving him a little for. that purpose.. • Mr: Thompson, "Yes. and you were givitigoliirtt half - a gallon to do it with." • The young gentleman was sent to the House of Correction tbrto months- ; • • , RUBBEP.Y BY A PORTElt.—John I3rookshaw, was on Satlr. day brought.before Alderman Sandbacb;charged with having stolen two hair mattresses, a tea•tray and a waiter, the prope r ty of Mr. ByfOrd, attetioneer, of Clayton-square. The prisoner is a porter of that description who hang about public sales,. for the purpose of conveying home furniture for purchasers. The pri soner at first denied that he had any knowledge of the , trans action, hut,h.e-subsequently confessed that he had,• sold the tray and waiter to Mrs. Howe, marine store dealer in FontenoyS street, for Iss3d., - and that he had left the two. mattresses there also, to see what Mrs. Howe would ise disposed to give for them. The prisoner was committed fur trial at the next borough sessions. KYAN'S PATENT FOR THE PREVENTION OF DRY ROT.-4 The Gazette of Friday last contained a notice of an intended -application to Parliament for an act to prolong the duration of the patent granted to Mr. Ryan for his valuable discovery. THE GARTEM—The Marquis of Lansdowne is the nobleman selected to succeed the late Duke of Beaufort as a Knight of the Garter. -LIFE-BOAT.—A life-boat is now established and will hence forth be maintained at Mostyn Quay, to be employed o as occas sion may require, on the river Dee. CnosToit. Fatti.—The supply of cheese, on 'Wednesday last was very moderate; sales by no means brisk. The average prices of good cheese may be quoted at 455. to 555. per . cwt. In. feriur, a good deal less. Some few dairies went off at 60s. to 635. per cwt. Our friend, John Humphreys, Esq., was, as usual, at top 'oth' tree; " but we have the best authority for stating-, that if his dairy had been riper, and more highiy-colored, it would have fetched shillings more. Nevertheless, it reflected the highest credit on his better half. We will tell him who said so, next time we meet again. The cattle fair, on Thursday, was very badly supplied; and as for the horse fair, there was scarcely one animal worth five shillings among the sorrowful lot. A good many individuals were in search of a good tit, but could find none.—Chester Courant. • We understand that Mr. Wilson Green, brother to the Messrs!. Wile - ons here, and builder of the ship Thomas Lowry, has takerl a term iu a yard at Dartmouth for the purpose of The consideration of a cheaper port than Liverpool for ship building had been suggested to Mr. Green, and, in his opinion, Devpnshire presented the greatest advantages, abounding, as it does, with the best quality of oak and elm in the kingdom, and the - price, as well as that of labour, being about thirteen per cent. below: that of Live: pool. Tim KING'S PERRY.—The new ferry boat, recently con s structed under the direction of Mr. James Boydell, for nevi,- gating the river Dee, at the Lower Ferry is now in constant motion on the wizard stream, realizing in her operations all the favourable results which were predicted of her by the promoters some months ago. We had an opportunity of croSsing in her on Wednesday lust, when both wind and current were remark ably strong, a heavy freshet from the mountains having .pre veiled for some days. At that time the old ferry, or any ordinary boat, would have been perfectly useless in keeping up a,cominti nication with the opposite shores; but the new terry boat not only shipped carts and waggons, heavily ladee, gigs, horses, and passengers with the greatest ease And comfort, but conveyed them across the river, and transhipped them with equal facility in about three minutes' time. 'to prove, that no impediment could be occasioned to the navigation of. the river, several large vessels on their way to sea, passed by the new ferry boat and over the chain which traverses the bed of the stream, without meeting the slightest obstacle whateser. Several trips • were made in our presence, and as many as four -carts and waggous, one gig, twe horses, and several passengers passed over at the same time, and without depressing the boat in the water seem ingly one inch. In fact,. we do not believe any burthen she can accommodate, or the most violent tides and wind will affect her; her beam is too broad. - The conveyance across the Dee, there fore, at this ferry, is now as perfect as any thing short of a bridge can render it ; and we do not scruple to say, that as soon as the strength of: the chain has been properly tested, that tra velling by the King's Ferry will be both safe and certain at all hours of the day and night, and at all periods of the year. It matters not how heavy or cumbrous a load mas• be, the boat is equal to the task. As there are two chains, one for flood, and , the other for ebb tide, the boat invariably arrives at the same spot; but in case of necessity the bridle chain can .be lengthened or shortened in a minute. We are not without hope that this untaxed and untolled rout into Wales, to and from Chester, will ultimately prove of advantage to ourgood old city; though it is not much likely to comfort or benefit the bond-holders of our splendid new bridge. But whatever may be the result, no one can doubt that our Welsh neighbours have, by their pers: , verance and intelligence, secured to themselves a cheap and 01,i:five line of communication with Liverpool and Chester,, which must yield to them incalculable advantages in tang.—Cht.ster Courant. SMUGGLING.—On the morning of Tuesday, the 24th ult. Charles Finglass, Esq., Land Waiter ut this port, seised quantity of tobacco, (about hallo ton manufactuted into Heger head,) on board the schooner Mavis, liehoe,- master, from St. John's, New. Brunswick. The vessel was built for- and con signed to a merchant of this town ; this is her first trip. The c - rew quitted the vessel ors the 'commencement of the t;eettli by the officers of the customs. - 3 7 4,,ribrd Cwirervative. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL ST,INDARD. Sin,—lt has occurred to me . that the conservatives of this county having done themselves and their excellent cause the 'honour of building a hall at Newton, they should turn their attention to making as frequent use of the building as they can; for the 'purposes for which, I presume, it has been intended, viz., for meetings of the friends of conservatism and its prin ciples, and in the next place for the purposes of amusement, when it is not better employed. I would therefore suggest the propriety of holding an annual ball, the Proceeds whereof, after payment of expenses,_ should be applied for the purposes of the South Lancashire Conservative Association, ur in such other manner as should he deemed advisable. The success of the bazaar recently held at Newton, cud a zeal for the cause, have induced me to make this suggestion, and if you think it worth while, you may insert it in your columns.—l um, &c. H. 1. Manchester, November 30, 1835. The London subscription in .behalf of the suffering clergy of Ireland already amounts t0.X53,0tX): - - - Mr. Dykes, M.P. for Cockermouth, has declared his resolu tion of resigning his seat in Parli;nnent on account of ill-health, and business at house requiring all his attention an i time. DunLIN ELECTIQN coMNIISSIoN.WEINESDAY. — T;v 6 cIasties of the objections made by the sitting inemberS—consisting of eighty-six Yotes—were disposed of this day, by the commis siouers, in favour of the petitioners. This sweeping decision wilt in ing the ciDie to ty close in a very few days, and Mr. O'Con nell may address the ejectors of Westminster on his own behalf. at the same time-that tieis tuakitic bis threatened attack upnn their present representative, Sir Francis I.3urtictt.:--Ditb/in Evening Mail: »~~ •~= LIVE) POOL, PoLicE. YESTERDAY.—(Before the MAYOR.) John Green, a lad; an old offender, was committed . to • ;1)4 tread-mill for three months fur picking the pocket of Zs. Wit; son of her pocket handkerchief, pnrse, and twu half-sovereigns, the previous evening, whilst coming over the caual-bridge. Murray William and Benjamin Mulligan were charged by Mrs. Firth, of Cunliffe-street, who " keeps a kind of Jerry louse," with coming. to. her house on the previous night, and refusing to leave it. Prisoners swore they would have the best bed in the house, "bloomed." the candle out "and behaved alto-i {tether in a very indecorous sort of a way, notwithstanding her husband had told them they kept no sich an a kind un a house as Limb!' . This • was the charge. It appeared, however, from the evidence of Davidson, who tookthe prisoners into custody, that on searching them he found a large quantity of base copper coin fo: their possession, on which further charge they were remanded. _ _ . Ann -Davis,' an old offender. who has been twelve times before the magistrates since February last, was charged with being _drunk and disorderly in the streets and "kicking up a row." She was sent for three months to the House of Correc tion, notwithstanding her protestations that it was only the con . stables that had "a spite' against her. Ann -Wallis was charged by Mr. Heaton with having pre sented to hint for payment some bank post bills, which he heard, the night before had been stolen. The prisoner was the.person who had presented the bills'to his vbuug man. Mr. Heaton's clerk ,deposed to prisoner, paying the bills to boon on the previous day: The owner of the bills not appearing, she was remanded. -Mary aed, Ann Trainer, two incorrigible rogues, vere :com mitted to the sessions,, to take their trial, for stealing a blanket, the propertY of -11,1rs,.Xeviley; of No. 3, Spading-street. with whom they had gone to lodge. The blanket had been pawned, and the prisoner• Mary, iu defence; said she had meant to have redeemed it but the constable tound her out:- • - A - blind female, an inmate of the Workhouse, who was in the "classification," a place reserved there for disorderlies, whose name we did not }eau', was.charged by Emma Leifer, another' inmate, Twills violet - 111v assaulting her and swearing "-to wash her hands in her heart's blood." The Assault was fully proved,' and the prisoner committed amonth to the House of Correction; for which, with one of her best curtsies, she thanked the Mayor,. saving, she liked that " tarnation better than the classification." James Bentley, was charged by Mary Jones, who keeps a butcher's - stall in - the market, with breaking her nose in .two places, on F'riday afternoon lust; she also produced a surgeon'4 certificate of the damage which Fed been done to her nasal, organ, and the: cost ef .repoiring the same. The prisoner, in defence, said complainant bad first struck him with a marrow- bone en the shin. Having no evidence; however, to prove this, he sae fined twenty shillings and costs, and in deta_ult to be Cominitted4lir one Month, ExeostNE UNWHOLESOME MEAT.—Elizabeth Bretland and Maria Pritchard were charged by 'Wheeler, the inspector of poultry, with exposing fur sale, in St. John's Market, some fowls and fish unfit fin- use. After a suitable admonition from the Mayor, being a first offence they were discharged. John Paulson, of Bispham-street, was fined 40s. for keeping his beer-house. open after the hours allowed by law. • Earl Grey, following' the exattple of other noble landlords, at his lordship's last audit,' caused' a return of 10 per cent. to some of his'tenants. The trial of Mr, notch is expected to come on before Lord Denman and a special jury at Guildhall, duriug the present sittings after tern:. Many farmers are now feeding their cattle on wheat and oats, as being cheaper than oil cake. The veteran Lord Lynedoch has been visiting. at Holkham, and, we are happy to understand that, notwithstanding his ad- . van Ced age (we believe the venerable general to be in his ( Ad or 93d year), he enjoys the diversion pf shooting, and sees well enough to kill a bare as she runs by him froin'the coverts. Mr.• Coke joins and directs the baltues with the same heslth and energy he has done for many . years.—Nerividi Mercury. Cardinal Wolsey was not a .native of Ipswich, as ail the his torians have erroneously stated. He was born at Long Mel ford, near Ipswich, his father being a butcher at that place. We havebegn,favoured with this erratum fur history by a gen tleman who read the fact in a very curious book in the posses sion of his Grace the Duke of ; Devonshire, intitled "Who was Cardinal Wolsey At the back of the altar of Lincoln Cathedral, lies the body of Michael Honywood, one of 367 persons whom Mary, wife of Robert Honvwood, of Kent, ancestor of the late M.P. for the county, lived to see lawfully descended from her—viz., 16 of bee own body, 114 grand children, 228 great grand children, in al 367 persons, 313 of whom. followed her to her grave.—Ken t Herald. GOOD NEWS FOR THE BuicicsmtTi. —The Globe evening paper says—" A new kind of horse-shoe has been invented by a veterinary surgeon of Taunton. SonierserShire.which is said In succeed most'eoMpletely. having been tried by an extensive coach proprietor previously to the inventor taking oat his patent. They are produced by a machine with steam poner to the number of 34XX) an hour, and can - be- sold at 2d. each— one-fourth of the usual cost." 110 A FumNG (Tr PLATE.—The large sum to which unclaimed dividemts sometimes amount is well known ; the quantity too, of unclaimed plate in London is very great. At Coutts's banking house there is a room filled with chests of plate, deposited there by persons of whom all trace is lost. Soule have been now upwards of twenty years there. LANGUAGE OF THE 'NAO.—If a knight of the whip is asked, while Aiitygink• horses, "How are you?" the flash answer vow is, "Very well on oue side, how are you on Colher?" THE RUNT—CATHOLIC CHAILITY IN IREI. AIN D.-A letter signed `,`. A Vieshvterian," which appears iu the last number of the Lohclutoterry Sentinel, states, that whilst the papists of that district subscribe only £55 Its. for the support of the charitable institutions there, they have contributed £55 to the"rent for the mendacious mendicant O'Connell." The protestauts, it is stated; sith,rribe £1,036 3,6 d. to the charitable institutions, although 19-20ths of those ieceiviug relief belong to the Itoulau catholiccommunion. The writer adds—" I almost regret that ...innucv_and Joy...prqtesti:int febew-cit4erts are not lietler emf;loyjd than in looking 'after the supporting our local charities, when the Roman Catholics, who derive the benefit freM them, will make no etfort except when a political object is to be obtained, or the religion of our fathers to be reviled." . • A new whaling harpoon has just been invented, at the point of which there is a cavity, in which is placed a phial of prussic amt. The harpoon having . been cast, the whale starts back; and by re-acting upon the line, attached to the harpoon, the phial is - crushed, and its fatal contents mingling with hiS very soon destroys his life. The appointment of Sir Peter tlalket, G.C.IL, as the sur cessor of Sir George Cockburn, hi the cumimiud on the West Indies and Halifaxstation, has been this week officially notified to the Gallant who,, it is said, 'will hoist his 'big on board the Melville. Captain P. J. Diiuglas will lvtite . Flag Captain, and James Smith, .Esq., the Secretary. PosTnesiocs Lonnixos.—The newspapers contain an ac• count of a tatal accident near Mezieres, in the Ardennes, where a Lieutenant Pemonstier unfortunately shot Captain, Domenc; "the ball (it says) passed through Captain D.'s head, who fell dead instantly, and then lodged in the body of a shoewaker," who died the next morning, leaving a numerous family unpro viiled littaacit OF MARRIAGE CONTRACT.-At the late term of the Superior. Court, at New Haven, Miss Harriet Potter reel,- vered a -verdict of 3.0 dollars against Mr. Hezekiah Gilbert, •for a. breach of a marriage contract. In reference to the above 'salvo for "love unrequited," the editor of the New England Review thus consnleth: the fair lady :—" Dry up your tears, Harriet; .350 dollars do not grow on every bush ; besides, as Charity Vance said, 'the hide and tallow of an old ox will buy a young steer.' • Ftaacata---Ou his eighteenth examination, Fieschi, urged by the presideutto epeak.bur truih, at length assumed a Lobe of solernuity and said-- Let' all . that I urn about to say Le wi ten without chauging a single word. I swear by the Most High, ,by man .by the lanai of any father, that I have declared' the ,zruth, o one, not even the king, could have &wan it from me during the first forty days; but. when I saw at to bed side Messrs.. Lovocat and , Bouvier, I immediately deteriniued to disclose all, and I hare declared all. There was a moment, ou ,the 28th July, when I saw flora the window the 12th Legion and it! colonel (Lovocat)—those with wheat I had eaten and drank—a moment wheal .heshated At ten o'etock that morning I was on the poiut of going to throw myself at the .feet of .Celenel„ I s ovocat and. avowing the whole. I. even. lire pared to remove the wooden bars which barricaded my door, when a rolling of the drums was heard. The 12th Legion changed its station. That circumstance decided me. Besides, I considered myself engivierl by honour with Morey and Pepin; and. moreover, I was indebted a-balance of. twenty francs to the latter! 1,w,,u1d not pass fora cheat or a coward, and there at' e I performed what I had offered and promised to do." A SBORT LECTURE ON IIEADS.—In one of the lunatic asy luins of France, there is a maniac who is labouring under an in teresting delusion. His serious impresion iv, that he was be-. headed during the revolution, and that another person's bead has been substituted for his own ! Hypochondriacs baveere now fancied themselves hand-argans, articles of howiehold furniture, or steam-engines—to say nothing.of beasts, birds, and reptiles. Some have imagined themselves to be frogs embedded in stone; others that they were sheets of glass, - and •would break to pieces (Leing cracked) it' they attempted to move. These are extreme rases; lint that of the • guillotined' maniac applies, with stone •sruall variation, to a far larger class of persons than may be supposed. To meet a man on the outside of a •tnnatie asylum, who believes that:he has another person's head on his shoulders, is anything but uncommon. Dow many of our ode writers have believed that they were severally possessed of the head of Pinder ? Where is the orator who hesitates to point to his own individual caput as the head of Demosthero Scott's -head is on a dozen pair of shoulders at least ; and there is more than one writer living who can boast of the identical head of Milton... We are daily introduced to illustrious members of the family of the wrongbeads, who have never yet been inside it lunatic asylum. EARTNQUAKE.—The Scupulitan Gazette of the 7th instant has the following accouut of the destruction of Castiglioui by an earthquake, and the burying of more than one huudied of its inhabitants under the ruins. In the middle of the night of the 12th ult., a strong shock of au earthquake was generally, felt in Calabria Citra; this was followed at intervals by ten other shucks; souse also were experienced - on the following days. Jr. the midst of these comm.:ions, Gastiglioni, a district in the commune of Cosenza, mis levelled to the ground, and one hundred, out of a population of one thousand, thus metals tins aitnelvelleetha :Many of the inhabitants who attempted. flight were seriously wounded by the . falling of the houses. The small village of Buyello, with a population of three hundred sod seventy persons, shared the same fate, although with the loss of only two lives and shout thirty wounded. in - Leppano, a family of six individuals was hurled in the ruins of a fallen house.: in Itende, two were killed from the I , atnecanse, and one in Casok. l i Nineteen perished in Santo Pietro a Guanine, where,.als,i, several houses were thrown to the ground. The buildings its Cosenza, the capital of the province, were considerably ciauraei . - ed, although no lives were lost. Calamitous as this event tide proved, it sinks into insignificance when _compared to a disastei of the same kind which befel the other Calabria in 1753, a great part of which, as weli as Sicily, was destroyed by a 11106 t tre mendous earthquake, with the loss of 40,000 persons, who perished in the ruins of towns 4nd villages. In Persia the husbandmen are yearly admitted to the Kings table, who addresses them thus:—" We receive our sustenance from you; by us von are protected; being mutually necessary for each other, let us live like brethren in amity together."-a- Mirror: FAVEuSHAid.—Died lately at Davington, near Faversham, on the 12th instant, Robert Wraight. at the adVanced age dr 89 years. Although the deceased was possessed of £3200 he lived in a miserable and obscure manner, and has allowed for several years jiast, two of hi; own children to be supported by Faver sham parish, one up to the time of Abe wretched old man's death being an invalid inmate of Faversham Workhouse. Be tween four and five hundred sovereigns were discovered in a bag at his lodgings. The board of guardians of the Faversham union have recently charged the expenses for the maintenance of the unfortunate invalid to the executors of the deceased, and of course discharged the other sou from 'the regular parish em ployment, SzNalNG.—Singit,;..t i 5 said to be a preventive nf Consort? , tiou and other dizi rders of the lungs The whO f(1"1 iarely azllicted ;with such di;:e.ises. They kap' the orgiins 'brt,.last; like other Organs, in tone by ex!;. errising them, and the bellows sound by tisr, In English churchei, the preparation for psalui singing, is a coitgli; rn French, the blowing Of the - nose—a wag Once Observed of a re , lebrated French characier—* Voila en neit qui a nye Lille rob," Sin W. Rat.Eio n's SELF ErrrAFa.—There•iS not .extant nn epitaph of a In.,re christian ch :meter than that which llateijklt wrote of hims6lf in the ToWer on the evening before his Murder On Tower Hill; it runs thus:— "Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, - And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the.dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, . Shuts up the glory of our days: But from this earth, this grave, this dust, .My God shall raise me up, I trust." On the 29th of October, 1618, ended the mortal career of SIT Walter Raleigh, who fell beneath the axe of the headsman in Old Palace-yard, Westminster. TurdPoilititi RunnEit.,=The Lords of the Admiralty have presented their thanks for the plan of a temporary- 'udder, con structed by Captain Allen, late of the East Imaa. CoUtpaey'i SeiWice, and noW commanding the " Oriental;" Easandiaman, and their lordships have been pleased to express that they consider it to possess considerable merit." The circumstance which induced the plan being for Warded in the adthiralty arose Own the disaster to the Pique frikate, on 1112 r late perilous boy age, when the plans most generally approved for applying tem porary rudders heinglried td that ship unsuccessfully. Captain Allen's invention in 4s application to the ship "Town ()Moss," under almost overwhelming difficulties to contend with, iii her crossing the Atlantic, was eminently successful—not only in the system of its operation, but conducting that vessel in perfect safety to the port from whence she derives her name. It is a fact worthy of observation; that a sailor was never known to be an infidel..—New Monthly Rale Assembly. THE CHILTERN HUNDttEDS.—A member, when duly elected, is not only compelled to serve in parliament, but he cannot at any futdre period either. resign his seat of be expelled from the house, except by some legal disqualifieation. In order, therefore, to meet the view's of those menthol.; who mav Wish to resign their seats, it ivas4e,en the practice. ever since the year 1759; for such members "to accept of the otiico of Steward of tile Chiltern 1 4 _ un dreds, which being au appointment under the clown, their seatst are of ne6essity'vacated. The.office. however, is a merely rio= mina! one. The stewards who accept it desire neither honour nor emolum,ent from it, the only salary a,ttached to the,.appoitit ment being twenty shillings a-year. The Chiltern Hundreds are district's in "BucEingbanishir , !, belonging to the crown. The; appointment to the office of steward of these hundredS is vested in the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, as a matter of course, grants it to every member who appliei for it.—Rantionz Recol lectlitis of the House (V. The Hon. William Thomas - Spencer .Wentworth, the eldest surviving son of Earl Fitzwilliain, will, it. is understood, not takd the title of Viscount Milton until after the aci'ouchement of Hui young viscountess, who is now staying with her • .sisters, the Ladies . Jeukingon, at • Fife House; Whitehall. The great Irish estates belonging to this noble family came to them by the death of the last Marquis of Rockingham. By the death of the only son of Lord towell, the latter is left without au heir male, and consequently the title will, upon his lordship's decease, becotne e:ainct. STRANGE PROPHECY OF MOTHER SHIPTON.-ArROGgSt the prophecies of Mother Shipton was the following, Which, we be= lieve, has hitherto escaped notice : Godde help Johanes Bulle, • Etween foe§ Mlle and Mulle. This being rendered into the vernacular of the present day strikes uskils being:— _ _ _ God help John BUD, `Twist Mel. and Mul. There is not the slightest doubt that the abbreviated names is the second line apply to the present premier in England; and viceroy in Ireland. if we were Inclined to put taith in the witch's wisdom, we have here a durious lure before KEEPING EGGS.—It is well known that a sitting hen daily turns her eggs: if she • were nut to do this, not only would the heat that is communicated from her body be unequally distribu ted, hut the yolk would becometnisplacid. A laying hen, that has wade her own nest, must do the same; for she could not lay the requisite number for a brood in a shorter space of time than 20 days; and in a quarter of that period .the yolk would have sunk through the white, and come in contactwith the shell, which, being porous, would have admitted the atmospheiie air; the viral principle would have become inert, and the egg would he addled. Eggs intended fur use should never be suffered to re main iu a nest more than one day, because every additional visit of the hens to deposit their eggs induces a warmth, which is inimi cal to keeping, though necessary to hatching them. As early the third day of incubation the nature of the egg is altered, cud is consequently rendered unfit for use. The reader will have dis covered that we . :think the instinct of the midlmr bird; or rather nature, has pointed out the most perfect plan to preserve egg fresh, and entirely equal to those that are new laid. It is indeed effected simply by tui mug them every day.--Maga:ine of Dome's- .:; tic Economy. INDIAN SUPERSTITIONS Or TICRYIN'd A ravE.-It is the ens.; tom, when a woman of the weaver caste sacrifices herself to the manes of her husband, to descend with his body alive into thb ,grave, which is dug near sonic sacred river; hut if the patties dwell at a distance from any holy stream, then the grave is prepared near the most sacred spot in the vicinity. It is dug very. deep and large; and, after a number or initiatory rites,' at; unintelligible as they are fantastical, the widow takes a formal leave of her friends, who are always present upon these melan= eholy occasions; and descends mid the chamber of death. It frequently happens that she is so stupified nit h opium as to be scarcely conscious of what she is about, hot goes through the necessary forms with mere mechanical insensibility. As sotiri as she reaches the bottom of the pit, to which she descends by a rude ladder, the latter is withdrawn, and she is left alone with the body of her deceased husband, generally in a rekeilting state of decay; this she embraces, clasping it to her bosom without t heed ielitest ex pression :of Ai/torte-ewe at. the.. effluvia Havin g finished herdisgnsting caresses, she places it upon her lap, and gives the sigual'fer the lait all. of this shot:l:Mg scene to' commence, which' is even' more dreadful than imniolatioti upon the funeral' pile. The earth is now' deliberately thrown upon her, while two:perenne descend into-the . graee to trample it tightly round the ;self-devoted eat:lit - knit. During thi.i tardy but terrible procesS, the doomed woman sits en unconcerned spectator, oecasiomilly caressing the corpse, and looking with 'an expression of almoSt Sublime trinnell, as the earth em= braces her body, at the anticipated leamers ehich.await her in the paradise of her god. The hands of her oWn children are perhaps at that very moment heaping around her the cold dust into which s h e i s seen t o be resolved. At length, ell 'but her head is covered, when the pit is hurriedly filled in, and heruear•' est . 'relatives dance over her in hunted hody with these fraelic ges tures which, whether they betoken eestacy or madness, it is difficult, on witnessing - them; - to decide.-01.:ZIntalAnnuel. . . Tits P.--They have capacities . for improvement. Of this . the:proofs are .alitindant :cud conclusive. Their physic a l powers nikty,be brouelit out. Their hiteliecis and-affections tray hell e are of tine sense bereft, it but retires he developed. into the rese' The loss of sight tends to sharpen the otherseuses e and consequently, welled the smell, and touch, and hearing of the blind, estwitsitiogly acute: Nicholas SaunderScu, blind Crete infancy, detected spuricins rieelels which the eyes of the connoisseurs had declared to be eyueine saltines. A very ex celleut likeness ief the Austrian Ltee,eor wait tinseled by a blind men. Peter ilureng repaired al; hinds eftratchee, discovering their defects by:the sense of •Feelieg. The touch of the blind enables thetoto distineuish diffeic in odours. By the great de; licacy of this rtense e thee e peeceimekhen a cloud is passing across the sun. A blind man. was iiont . th:tiees over the Rechesteraeue e duct upon the - side unprotected hy - ii ntiliege end When asked if he was not afiaid to venture in 'se dareeerous a place, replied in the 'negative; and added, as he slipped ene ilia over the side, that it was a sotnee hat pekerish-lueliitte place.' Others deter; . thine the breadth of. streets. end 'height of buildings. -by dices .sound of their footsteps uS t hey.ev all: between On, Jobe Met-. calf of Scotland, - was a projector end suivt:yer.. With the aid of a stall . , he travelled roads,escended precipices, eXplered Yalleis; and ascertained their form and extent. ft - levees Walked fearlessly; seeming, to see with his eats, and to ha."o `landruarlil ire the air.' The blind assign to individuals their ace and size, by attending eo the sound of their toiceie They hear the riimb= ling of carriage wheels, long befere it is audintit to () th e y. When their senses are thus •edueeteil, they fiecome enasteis in the mechanic arts; in weaving, spintrieg, bookbinding, shoe - making, joinery, atid ropetwisting ; es well as in the inanufae , tureof baskets, rugs, Mattresses, and a thousand other useful artieleS. :Here may a world be opened lie their iudinstry and their skill, wherein they rosy gain a livelihotA and render them.: selves efledtive . membei s of the down:unity.= Western, aliinild,# Magazine. SCRAPS, 511051 A Noee-nooe.-eSpartaeus was ri gladiato - r. —Charlemagne could neither:read nor write---The palace of Scone Was :pUI . III by the rabble about . the eemmeueemeut cif the eetormation.—Buchanan occupied `4) vears iu writing his history of Scotland.—Geneva was a.cousikferable town in the time cif „Julies Cxsar.-e-r-But foi the victory of Charles Martel, neat Tours, all Euroee, as well as Asia and Africa must have be come lelahomedan — e Shakespeare's first play' was liurc:et, his secutid ft...zpeo. and Juliet.---- 7 1'ythaguras,„the earliest Greek pltilesopher, taught the'systent erastionemy adopted at thistlq. Prussia was a proviure of Poland till. the year Ma-- . The invention of • the game of chess is attributed to Pyrrhus, kint of IP,intitte_-eAristotle is ceiledelee 6tagyrite, beetkose lie wa,-1 , ..in at st:igtto,o small city in Marcdoe.--There are distitiet muscles in the human h01y..--e-At Naples, a coffin i'or the dyad is never provided, exceet ellen particularly request ed.--The house of Sallust is still to • be seen at Porepeh."--- Padua is the birth piece Livy, Petard).- aed Belzoni. N enoenoN AND SCH ie t .—Major Scbill, the celebrated Prilk= Sian tit'ealty''hllioer, in 1807, took from the Emperor seven beautiful Arabian horses, prc e ented to thin by the Gland Seignor. Enraged. at :his loss, the'Etufteror set Upon Schilles head cafe price if one hundrhil Napoleons. Sehill gave hitiSelflftile'Concern about the menaces the French emperor, on whose "Bead be, in his torte, eat a price, and, to show hint how he valued hine.he offered but a very smell situ, Napoleon who was eery fond of hiA herses, sent to &limed them of Schilli proud sing to pity him 4,e'Ott crowns in gold, or whatever thtev might be worth: - He sent a letter to him on the subject e addresseil = " e tteei.rreiNg nes IIeiGANI* . SCIIII,L." nnsiter to his letter was -7 - - " Dear -Brotber.-1. ant the mute pleated 'et haring taken seven of emir horses, as I see - by emir letter that vnii pet se greatek value upon them; but I cannot eeeefirthe 4,610 crow us 'fir gold, as I aneinotat . all in wantof tnbut"e ; dill, should I occasion ter any, 1 shall eie aks fled . stiftieient in the militiley chests of the French array which 1 ate stife of taking. If, how- I ever, instead of this, you will replace thelbur horses whiclnyott stole from the Breedenbureh 'gate at you shill hate those I have taken veithoot further payment." • This letter toThe Emperor he addressed ;IS follews "AC COLONEL DE Tors LES MON LONOtAiDiE FIZERP. NAPOLEON." We arc gratificA to learn that ! i ce aivkWard riair respectir4 the pension of lqr.'Farradity has alert' settled iieu Manner qoite . agreeable to the feelings of that e gentleemie, and he is now to receive the 'same minima uutiukilly as Mr, Professor Airey, of Cambridge University.-i/biee. We ate told that, at the oartieular. request of his.Mejesty. there is to be an oritamental eta alms matte Mei Buckingham; gardens, in a hue With the Klee's-road. The Pahren being, in every respect ready for the reception of theiteldelet.ties,_ come surprise has been eetpiessed that the Cotemiesioners of Woe t eds, and Forests have not given instructions thr the vetting up of the splendid gates at the principal entriente, they having been completed long agte-Aherning Paper, . • ' Peoviueeetee ESCAPE.— Leshireet flee Earl of Coventiy; attended by ohe'of his gamekeei , eis, ktemiing on the elltp. 1 tic arch lately raised to form a bridge et Knight's Pool, on hie lordship's demesne - at Earl's Crootite, when the top us the arch t fell in, carrying with it about nine or ten lona-et' brickwork.; IThe eittl, with great . presenee ht Gsinct, chine to the parapet near which he was standing, and was nitbuit; the gamekeeper kept his tooting on the gioutti on which he Stood, which tie.: Ik:ending in ore mass, he escaped without injury: Several workmen .had been employed during the day below. the arch; but fortunately the last of 'there had quitted it a quail& a ad I Lout better the crash.-- - -Iforcesier Guardieut;