The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-28 00:00:00

We have heard it stated that P, 3. Mlles, Egp• of Oita city, has become the purchaser of the Pembrokeshire estates of Sir J. Owen, at the sum of £4oo,ooo.—Bristol Gazette. A miller, a little to the north of Hexham, who had fifty pigs a week or two ago, has lost fifteen of them, by disease, and fears losing the whole. The disease is pronounced cholera by some persons who have examined them. The animals turn black after death.—Newcastle Journal. DEATH OF THE MOTHER OF THE LATE Rev. EDWARD IRVING.—Mrs. Irving, relict of the late Gavin Irving, Esq., and mother of the late Rev. Edward Irving, died at the resi dence of her son-in-law, Robert Dickson, Esq., at Coplaw Hill, near Glasgow, on the 9th July, at the advanced age of seventy-six. Her remains were conveyed to the family vault at Annan, Dumfriesshire.—Scottish Standard. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. — On Wednesday last, Mr. William Rhodes, cooper, of this town, was married at our parish church, to Hannah Frankland, to whom he had been " united by act of parliament," at one of the dissenting places of worship, about two years ago. Finding there were one or two loop-holes in this union, they could no longer trust to the legality of such an act, and therefore went to the old church and were married, " and no mistake."—Halifax Guardian. Mr. W. F. GEACII.—This person, the notorious Frost's son-in-law, formerly of Pontypool, was apprehended in Lon don a few days since on some serious charges of forgery. He was conveyed to Newport, where an examination of great length took place on Thursday. The bank of Williams and Co., of Newport, with whom Geach used to keep an account, appear to have been sufferers to the extent of nearly £5,000. The prisoner was remanded until Monday. CATHOLIC PRIEST AT COURT.—The address to the Queen from the Catholics at Windsor and its vicinity, was presented at the levee on Wednesday week, by the Rev. J. F. Wilkin son in person, and was most graciously acknowledged by her Majesty. The appearance of the rev. gentleman at court, in the costume of a Roman Prelate, excited general interest, but more especially amongst the clergy of the establishment who were present. Since the reformation this is the first instance on record of a Catholic priest having been introduced to the English court.—Halifax Guardian. On Tuesday last a gentleman, a passenger on board the Courrier French steam-packet, leaped from the deck of the vessel when she was about half-way across the channel, on the passage from Dover to Calais, and was (*owned. Pre vious to jumping overboard, deceased attempted to shoot himself with a pistol, but, being frustrated in this attempt to take away his life, he had recourse to the one just stated, in which,,w3fortunately, he was but too su ccess f u l. H e i s supposed to have been an Englishman, but nothing has yet transpired, as far as we can learn, of his name or connexions. —Dover, July 23. A KITTEN WITH EIGHT LEGS.—We saw, a few days ago, in the possession of Mr. Graham, stocking-framer, re- Siding near the head of King-street, a kitten of very peculiar conformation. Its head and neck were regular, but from the commencement of the shoulder t o th e l ower r ib, it seemed as if two bodies had grown into one, two legs projecting from what we may term the upper part of the shoulders, not very unlike the early formation of the wings of a fowl. From the lower rib to the tip of the tail there was a double formation of equal size, and every way complete. The creature, we were informed, was dropped dead. The dam had two others, both dropped alive, and both regularly formed.—Dm v pfries Herald. PRESENT TO PRINCE ALBERT.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately received a present of a very singular and beautiful description. It consists of a very small glass beehive, filled with delicately-white combs, so curiously wrought, and stored so fully with the purest chrystal honey, as to excite admiration and astonishment. It is a natural curiosity in its kind, perhaps never before met with ; the combs, which are of a very unusual thickness, being worked so curiously together, in some parts circular, others perpen dicular, and in other parts even in a horizontal direction, that whilst occupying all the available space within the glass shade, with here and there a waxen pillar prudently thrown out to support the weight of the sweet treasure contained, it still preserves and presents a uniform and very elegant ap pearance. This singular glass of honey was worked in the apiary of Mr. J. Bathem, a gentleman residing near Kidder minster, by whom it was presented to his royal highness. The illustrious prince was much pleased with this specimen of insect ingenuity.—Worcester Chronicle. DARING ROBBERY.—One of the most daring robberies which we have had for some time to record was committed at l3redbury, near Stockport, on Monday morning last, by a desperate gang of villains, under the following circumstances : — About half-past one o'clock in the morning, a person gal loped up to the Bredbury toll-bar on a horse, which had been taken from a field in Newbridge-lane. and, on the bar-keeper, William Wilkinson, coming to open the gate, he was attacked by five men who were lying in ambush, and who beat him in a severe manner ; after which they went into the toll-bar house, and broke open every desk and drawer in the place, and stole therefrom forty sovereigns, two guineas, ten pounds in silver, and a rifle, with which they decamped. It would appear that the robbery had been premeditated, as the person who rode up to the gate proved to be one of the gang; and the plan was adopted to get an entrance more easily, by in ducing the bar-keeper to turn out to open the gate. It is feared th ere w ill b e some difficulty in bringing th parties to justice, as neither the bar-keeper nor his family were able to see any of their faces, they being covered by masks or crape. A reward of £2O is ffered for the apprehension and convic tion of the offenders ; and, it is to be hoped, they will not long escape justice.—Manchester Courier. • TAME HARES AT GLASGOW.—On the afternoon of Satur day last, we were pleased by being shown, in the shop of Mr. Andrew Bell, 55, King-street, Tradeston, a pair of tame hares, the female being affectionately engaged in nurturing a leveret, which was dropped on Tuesday last, and is already strong and frisky. In August 18 3 0 , Mr. Bell procured the male hare, then only a few weeks old; and in July, 1839, he gave him the female as a companion, then a leveret, no big ger than one's hand. From the outset they were on the very best terms, and romped in pure diversion through their little domain, extending to four feet 10 inches in length, 12 inches wide, and one foot -11 inches high. During winter they are fed principally on oats and potatoes, and they will eat biscuit from the hand as readily as a favourite dog; in summer their food is more congenial to their taste, and they reject every thing else so long as they can get clover and lettuce. Their box is erected on a shelf in a well-frequented shop, and they are not at all put about by the inspection of those who visit them. Mr. Bell has a little dog, which is on perfectly good terms with the pair; and he occasionally gets on the top of a barrel, thrusts his nose through the wires, and gives a " bow bow," by way of greeting, which the male hare returns by drumming good-naturedly on the little cur's face. Of the taming of leverets and hares we have often heard ; and Cow per's delight in domesticating Puss, Tilley, and Bess, has almost made the employment a classic one ; but we are not aware of having heard of the animal breeding in bondage. At all events, the family is a very interesting one in its way ; and the leveret appears to be as strong and frisky as though it had seen the light amid daisies and butter-cups, instead of in a box in a shop within a crowded city.—Glasgow Herald. SUSPECTED MURDERER.—A man named Michael Riley was, on Wednesday, brought up at the borough court, on the following singular charge :—lnspector Green stated that Mr. Sleigh, the chief superintendent of police, had received a letter, containing information retative to a murder which was committed in Ireland, in 1832, by a man named Michael Riley, who was now residing in the neighbourhood of Man chester. He (Green) was sent out yesterday to make inqui ries respecting him, and he apprehended the priso ner a t th e bar, who h e had no doubt was the same man as was men tioned in the letter. They hed written over to the place where the murder was committed, but did not expect an an swer until Sunday or Monday. He therefore had to ask that the prisoner should be remanded until that time.—Mr. Maude expressed surprise that an answer could not be ob tained sooner.—lnspector Green said the letter was posted the preceding night, but would probably not go till that morn ing. The place where the murder was committed was in the county of Longford.—Mr. Maude (to the prisoner:) What are you ?—Prisoner : A labourer.—Mr. Maude : How long have you been in this country ?—Prisoner :—Fourteen years. In answer to further questions, he stated the places where he had lived in Manchester, during the last three years and four months, and said that he had been in Liverpool five years before that. He came from the county of Longford, parish of Castle Pollard. —Th e officer said that was the very neigh bourhood in which the murder had taken place ; it was at Floates, in the parish of Castle Pollard. The information stated that he had been pursued to Scotland, and from thence to Liverpool, but that they had never been able to hear of after.—Mr. Maude made some inquiries as to the nature of the information which had been received, and expressed an unwillingness to detain the man except something more definite could be alleged against him.—He was ultimately ordered to stand down, and the officer was sent to obtain further particuiars from Mr. Sleigh. On his return, it was ascertained that the letter was nothing more than an anony mous letter, writen by some one in Manchester. On hearing this, Mr. Maude refused to remand the man, but directed him to be taken to Sir Charles Shaw.—Manchester Courier. ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—SiDCe the commence ment of our editorial labours it has not unfrequently been our duty to record the premature departures of various stranger residents, who have felt the extreme difficulty of paying 20s. in the pound. In some cases these records have been given by us under peculiarly poignant feelings, which if not so poetical as wounded sensibility, at least afforded a very tangible ground for grievance. No affairs du cor—no amorous fugitives, borne on Cupid's pinions, with their backs to society and their faces to the deuce knows where, have, till this moment, demanded a line from us commemorative of their erratic course. The unpleasant—nay the repulsive lot however has now fallen to us to narrate the departure of William Horan, Esq., of Mount Pleasant, who has chosen for the companion of his travels, Miss Mary Curry, a name familiar, we doubt not, to the bachelor part of the population of Douglas, and no doubt equally well known as the little white-faced fat girl who attended Mr. William Baines' tap, on the Quay. A more extraordinary proceeding than the above, cannot be conceived. The gentleman was of that age when we should have thought the blood " is cool and waits upon the judgment." He has left a young and amiable wife and three promising children for the guilty society of an im pure and ignorant girl. Such conduct is perfectly irrecon cilable with any principle, save that of sheer madness—nor can any other plea be adduced in extenuation.' The dead poet of nature, Shakspear, has made the Ghost of Hamlet's father say— " Lost, though to a radiant angel link'd, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garba ge 7, The immortal bard might have been writing from this very instance. If the frail one had been possessed of the allure ments of wit, grace, talent, or even personal attraction, while the )vorld condemned the act, it might have commiser rted the man, as every age and every country, from the days of Mark Antony, downwards, affords instances in which even the greatest have had " their wits turned the seamy side without," by female art and blandishment. We are in formed the above pair left this on the 13th instant, for Li verpool where they are at present sojourning.—.2lfaux Liberal. EXTRAORDINARY PONY. — There is at this moment, in the possession of Mr. Martin Colnaghi, of Cockspur-street, one of the most extraordinary ponies that ever was heard of. He is now over six and thirty years of age, was bought by Mr. Colnaghi when he was eleven years of age ; and during the twenty-five years he has been i n th a t gentleman ' s pos session, he has travelledin harness and saddle upwards of two hundred thousand miles, or more than eight times the circumference of the globe. He has repeatedly performed 75 miles in a day, and frequently did the distance between London and Worthing, with a gig behind him, in seven hours. His original colour was grey—it is now nearly white. His shape exhibits the true Arab character and form; small head, intelligent countenance, eyes bright as a colt's, legs clean and faultless, and a mane and tail as springy and fresh as those of a five year old. This remarkable horse was bred by Lord Heathfield, his sire being Young Arabian. He was never a feeder, and his manger was never without salt. After hard work he has invariably been fed with a mash, for which tepid water was used, and great attention has always been paid to his feet. He requires continual petting, without which he will not take his " grub." He will face any crowd, and even tire-works. His attachment to hunting is so great, that not longer ago than March last, while the Queen's hounds were out in Hertfordshire, he leaped the fences of his paddock, and, following the dogs, took the lead of the huntsmen, and was first in at the death. While in training as a racing pony he was known as " Little Treadaway ;" but, in 1815, he was re -named Delphini. On Sunday last he was careering in harness through the parks, to the utter astonishment of many who recollected him a quarter of a century ago ; and from the sound ness o f hi s t ee th, wind, and limbs and his invincible " bottom," there is no knowing when he will cease to be what he is. Large sums have been the red for this pony, which have invariably been refu se d, • family having determined that he shall die "comfortably" in their service.—Preston Pilot. SPLENDID PICTURE OF THE "PRESIDENT" STEAM SHIP. The readers of the STANDARD, and the public generally, are respectfully informed, that on Friday, the 31st of July instant, will be presented gratuitously to subscri bers and purchasers of the paper of that day a beau tiful Picture of the PRESIDENT, the largest Steam ship in the world, to be lithographed by a first-rate Artist, from a splendid painting by Mr. S. Walters, a gentleman of the highest celebrity as a Marine Painter. This Picture will be accompanied by a full and authentic description of the vessel, her construc tion, engines, and equipments. The production of this work of art will be attended with very considerable cost ; but the liberal patronage with which the STANDARD has been honoured, in duces us to make this sacrifice, in testimony of our gratitude, and in the hope that to a commercial and nautical community such a present may be found acceptable. As we anticipate a large sale on the day in question, a more favourable opportunity could not be presented for the wide circulation of advertisements, which we respectfully solicit. To parties desirous of obtaining Pictures, we suggest an early application at the office, where a book will be kept for the insertion of names, in order that the earliest and best impressions may be secured. Standard-office; July 13th, 1840. step out of their accustomed path, and to reply to a supposed call from the constitution to liberalize and and remodel its form, are anxiously weighing the results of their temporary enthusiasm. The clintist move ments of last year were not observed by these men without serious alarm. The stagnation of commerce during the last two years, the anti-corn-law agitation, the increased expenditure and diminished revenue of the country, the " heavy blows and great discourage ments" offered to Protestantism, the sudden and manifest spread of catholicism, and the prominent position taken by its votaries amongst the ranks of the reform party, have excited, and are calculated to excite, serious mis givings in the minds of such men, and have already induced in a great portion of them a determined hostility to any further movement in advance of the constitution, In the counties especially of England and Wales this feeling is strongly manifesting itself; and in the event of an election during the ensuing spring, it is not too much to expect a considerable accession of sound con servatism as the result. In many of the smaller bo roughs the present Whig or radical members only suc ceeded at the last election by small majorities, which are already overbalanced by new voters admitted, or by conversions which have since taken place. In the large boroughs alone, and especially in those which can be affected by the late simultaneous movement of the Irish catholic inhabitants, the ministerial party can depend for support; and even in these the result of a new elec tion will, we venture to say, afford evidence that the Whigs, with all their exertions, have not materially im proved their position. The registry, we have no doubt, will shew a considerable increase of their numbers ; but they are little aware of the falling off which the voting returns will shew from the effect of conversions ; and wherever the attempt has been made to foist upon any large borough a new Whig-radical corporation—as in Manchester, Birmingham, Bolton, &c.—we are con fident that the result will be, if not a victory for the conservative cause, at the least such a bare majority against it, as, compared with the return of former elec tions, will afford strong and undeniable evidence of the declining popularity and influence of modern liberalism. With these convictions strongly impressed upon our mind, we are little disposed to give much heed to the braggart assertions of our contemporaries as to the result of a general election upon the present register. It is easy to win a victory upon paper; it is more easy upon the presumption that the opinions of mankind are unchangeable, to count upon support which they have always hitherto afforded than to insure its conti nuance. The government of Lord Melbourne is no longer that government in whose favour the last general election returned a majority of between thirty and forty votes. It has lost caste. It has deserted principle, and stooped to meanness and dissimulation ; and can no longer, by the mere connexion of its name with that of the sovereign, mislead the unthinking loyalty of the people. It has no great popular principle—it has no great popular measure—upon which to take its stand for support ; and we have little expectation that the unworthy alliance by which it is alone maintained in the present House of Commons, will be one in whose favour the sound portion of the people of England will hurry to the poll to record their approval and confidence. No, no ! The Melbourne administration is a doomed thing. For a few short months it may drag on a miserable and flickering existence ; but its ultimate fate is beyond retrievement. It will die of sheer ina nition, and its memory be handed down to posterity, as one of those unaccountable phases in the history of party, whose unprecedented baseness mankind will regard with wonder rather than with reprobation — with contempt and utter scorn, rather than with the nobler feeling of indignation. Could we bring our selves to entertain the opinion that its leader has any higher views than those of a hanger-on at court—any more manly principles than those of an epicurean—we might be disposed to believe that Lord Melbourne has played, in behalf of the constitution, a game whose policy is far beyond the detection of his imbecile com panions ; that he has held his lofty station in the public eye only until the shafts of ridicule and contempt should have irretrievably ruined his party and saved the constitution. We cannot, however, entertain this opinion, yet it is beyond dispute, that every month, every week, which is added to the existence of Lord Melbourne's administration, is placing years between the period of its approaching dissolution, and the form ation of any ministry out of the same materials and advocating the same principles ! THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL, Mr, G. VANDENFIOFF, of the Theatre-Royal, Cogent. Garden, is engaged for Ten Nights, and will make his second appearance this Evening. Mr. ANDERSON, Principal Tragedian of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, is also engaged for a limited pe riod, and will also make his appearance this Evening. present TUESDAY, July 28, 1840, will be per formed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET./ Romeo Mr. Anderson, Mercutio Mr. G. Vandenhoff, As performed by them at theTheatre-Royal, Covent-garden. Apothecary Mr. Baker. Lady Capulet ;:`. Miss Cleaver. Juliet To conclude with the Dramatic Romance of THE BOTTLE IMP. Albert.. Mr. G. Horncastle. Nicolo Mr. Gray. Willibald . Marcella.... Miss Grant. Lucretia.... Mrs. P. Crowe. Philippa Mrs. Tellet. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), Shakspeare's Play of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Ingo, Mr. Anderson ; Desdemona, Mrs. W. H. Bland • Emelia, Miss Cleaver.—With the Farce of THE EVIL EYE. On THURSDAY, JULIUS CALSAR. Brutus, Mr. .Anderson ; Mark Antony, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Cassius, Mr. Stuart.—With the Burletta of MIDAS. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION EXHIBITION. LAST WEEK. THE EXHIBITION will positively CLOSE on SATUR DAY next, the Ist of August ; and on MONDAY, the 3d, the Lower and High Day Schools and the Evening Schools will be Re-opened after the Midsummer Holydays. Numerous additions have been made to the Collection of Paintings, &c.; and a Cast from the head ocCOURVOISIER, the Murderer of Lord \%ILLIAM RUVELL, has just been placed in the Anatomical Room. - LECTURES & PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS every day in the Lecture Room, at 1 and 8. On Tuesday and Friday, at 1 and 8, Mr. JOHN SMITH will exhibit his celebrated GEOGRAPHICAL & DISSOLVING VIEWS. The FIRE CLOUD is exhibited, GRATUITOUSLY, every evening immediately after the Lecture. Admission :—Before Four, One Shilling; after Four, Six pence; Children, Sixpence at all hours. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the following is the necessary qualification, namely : " The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, within the borough, for which the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon, except those becoming due within six months before the 31st, have been paid before that date." The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe riod, (say two years and nine months) have been an in habitant householder within seven miles of the borough. The day on which claimants' qualifications must be completed, and the last day for payment of rates, is the 31st of August. The sth of September is the day on which the overseers are required to make out the burgess lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to fix a copy of them on the Town-hall, during the week preceding the 15th of September. A person succeeding to the occupation of ouse, by descent, marriage, demise, 4-c., is entitled to reckon as•his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or through whom he succeeds. Ely. tiberpool &tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1840 By the packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, which arrived here yesterday, we have received New York papers to the Sth instant. They are extremely barren of news. We have given, in another column, all that is worth extracting from them. Great excite ment prevailed throughout the union in reference to the approaching election of President. General Harri son appears to he the popular favourite. There was every promise of an abundant harvest, both in the United States and Canada. In trade and commerce, however, there were no indications of im provement. As the session of 1840 draws towards its close, people arc beginning to enquire what have been its results. Beyond the mere routine business of the House of Commons, the exposition of our financial prospects, voting the usual supplies and passing a few private or unimportant public bills,—the business of legislation has been at a stand still; and the only boast which the ministerial members can carry home to their constitu ents is, that they have succeeded in staving off for a few months their final lealle-taking of Downing-street, and secured for their patrons at least an additional two quarters of pay and patronage. This " Most lame and impotent conclusion" is all which has resulted from the interminable debates of the present session. The reform ministry of Lord Mel bourne—a ministry which, upon his lordship's own shewing, holds office whilst deprived of the confidence of the people, as expressed through the voices of their representatives in the House of Commons—has proved its utter inefficiency as a movement administration, and its unworthiness and instability as an engine of defence against the encroachments of democracy. Substantial power it possesses none. It can carry nothing which it originates, except in a state so miserably mauled that it is difficult even for its parents to recognise it ; and it originates nothing with a bona fide intention to carry it into a law. Its measures are mere demonstrations, produced and shelved as best suits the purpose of that tyrant influence by which it is coerced; and when it has a serious object in view—when some blunder of a former session calls imperatively for correction, or some accidental circumstance creates a necessity for legisla tion, it can only effect that object by a lachrymose ap peal to the humanity of the house, or by throwing the functions of government, pro tempore, into the hands of Sir Robert Peel and the conservative party. In the House of Commons, then, it is past dispute that the ministerial faction have lost ground during the present session ; and to a serious extent. They can no longer depend upon the thick and thin support of the great bulk of their party; and we are firmly convinced that there exists a large and important section of the pseudo reformers who are prepared to fall away from them on the first occasion which offers a colourable pretence. During the present session even, it has re quired all the tact of Lord John Russell, and all the energy of the ministerial subs, to preserve an unbroken front and prevent desertion. The ur. blushing avowal of the alliance with the member for Dublin—the open coquetting with the all but republican section of the house, and that fast and loose policy with respect to the interests of protestantism, by which ministers seek to become " all things to all men"—have startled not a few of the hitherto staunch friends of reform, who are at the same time the friends of order and of the consti tution ; and it is not improbable, that should the present parliament (contrary to general expectation) endure another session, this party will return from their con stituents with views so materially modified by their observation of public opinion during the recess, that government will no longer be able to drag its members through the same impure and dangerous paths which they have done during the present session. Without the walls of parliament the prospects of the ministerial party are, if possible, still more disheartening. A vast and important change has been gradually taking place throughout the country. Sober and reflecting men, who during the reform mania were induced to Our Whig-radical contemporaries are in extacies with the success of their attack upon the register. Our grandam of the Mercury, in particular, has contrived, by some extraordinary effort, to shake the dust from her eyes—we were about to say her wings—and to raise a chuckle of triumph loud enough to lead the uninitiated to suppose that her silly noddle had some share in the direction of this last struggle of the faction in Liverpool. It won't do, however. Our Mercury is a very respectable old lady, but a little too much dis posed to indulge in tittle-tattle to be entrusted with the secret movements of the Protector Society, or allowed a voice at the conclave which holds its sittings in Clay ton-square. Go to sleep, old lady ! You will be roused in time to mingle your howl in the "wake" which will be duly held, before the Protestant voters of Liverpool consign finally to the earth this political Frankenstein which " one John Rosson" has created out of very sorry materials, and over whose cradle you are just now sounding your fivepenny trumpet. We did venture, some week or two ago, to hint to our conservative friends that his worship, Sir Joshua, possessed one essential qualification as a candidate for the " most sweet voices" of the liberal party in Li verpool. We thought that he would " bleed well." Either he or some one else has already bled very freely, as the denizens of Orange-street, Bachelor-street, and other equally respectable and savoury localities can tes tify. There is scarcely an Irish Catholic or an Irish pig in Liverpool, this blessed moment, that cannot turn up the tip of his nose with perfect contempt at the ap proach of the tax collector. No fear of driving, either the biped or the brute, for rent or rates. The knight and his " proctectors" have lifted many a porker out of a shaking fever; and, as nothing promotes feeding so much as fresh air and a quiet mind, it is fully anti cipated that this year's bacon will be fatter and firmer than has been known for the last generation. It will be admitted then that Sir Joshua—how euphonious that name !—has fully answered our' ex pectations in the matter of bleeding. But though ready and willing with Brutus, to " coin his heart for drachmas," in order to obtain the object of his am bition—a seat in the house of Commons—we are afraid that the worthy knight will be compelled to chew the bitter cud of disappointment. 'We have heard, within the last few days, very ominous hints of a dis inclination on the part of sundry good Whigs, who hap pen at the same time to have good coats, to herd with the new levies. It is not, on this occasion, the knight himself who refuses to march through Coventry with his ragged regiment, but the regiment which refuses to walk with the knight—the grenadier with the light companies—the light companies with the awkward squad. It is not on this occasion the knight who has sworn to " leave off sack, to purge and live cleanly"— but the very drummer-boys shrink from the pollution of bad habits and worse company; and we do greatly doubt whether Sir Joshua, aided even by the Jesuitical tact of his Protectors, will ever be able to introduce anything like unanimity amongst the ranks of an army co mposed of such incongruous materials. In the meantime, however, and before the truly liberal candidate has time to get his eyes opened, we are told that his Irish friends are to be put in imme diate requisition. The parish office is to be " swept out" —or, in other words, the present efficient servants of the town are to be discharged, in order that their place may be supplied by incompetent and inexperienced persons, who happen to be either Irish catholics or English republicans, passing under the various deno minations beneath which such characters now-a-days contrive to hide themselves. The Church too—the fabric of our Protestant Church—is to be handed over at the next Easter vestries to the safe keeping of an Irish mob. Mr. Sturges Bourne's act is to be shelved, in order that numbers may carry the sway over pro perty—in order that an alien population, which in a year or two will be found burdening our poor•rates, may dictate terms to the resident gentry, merchantS, and tradesmen of Liverpool, by whose enterprise arid capital they are alone enabled to earn the potatoes and the oatmeal Ivan which they and their children are fed. We are not displeased that these insolent threats are held out by the faction during its temporary_ hour of They will serve to shew to the lukewarm triumph fleeting amongst our fellow-townsmen the true character of modern liberalikn, which, with liberty ever on its lips, has tyranny and despotism in its heart. Bow down, Protestants of Liverpool ! bow down your necks to the yoke which is now held over you, and you forfeit for ever that character which it has ever been your boast to bear in the estimation of your countrymen. Resist that yoke—trample upon it —spurn it ; and for that noble example, inestimable at a crisis like the present, you will earn anew the grati tude and admiration of every loyal and true heart. and the unre On Wednesday last the state of our commercial re lations with foreign countries was brought before the House of Commons, by Lord Sandon, in an able ad dress, .evincing, on the part of the noble lord, a com plete acquaintance with the subject . in all its details. The object of Lord Sandon was to procure for the great mercantile bodies throughout the kingdom an expla nation of the policy pursued by the Foreign Office, with respect to the settlement of various questions by which our commerce has for the last few years been interrupted, and to ascertain the probable 'period at which those impediments are likely to be removed. he'l reply of Lord Palmerston—if it could be called a reply —was distinguished by the usual flippancy of, that contemptible personage. With respect to all these questions, her Majesty's government was getting on very satisfactorily. Protocols,' representations, and other instruments of a diplomatic character, were go ing and coming with a most laudable regularity; and although his lordship could not on any one individual matter hold out expectations of immediate arrange ment, yet his lordship " confidently hoped" and "fer vently trusted," and henfd,, and pulled up his cravat, with an energy sufficient to convince all the world that his lordship was very much in earnest. Having got over, for the moment, the awkward part ' of his catechism, by the aid of that dependence upon, chance and the " good sense and enlightened views of foreign governments," for the indulgence of which his lordship has become the laughing stock of every diplo matist in Europe, Asia, and America, the Foreign Se cretary turned, with all the confidence in life, to the official tables of our exports and imports, to prove to Lord Sandon and to the country that, under his foster ing care, the commercial interests of Great Britain are in a state, generally, of great and growing prosperity. True it was, admitted his lordship, that in some parti cular countries impediments to our commerce were offered ; but, upon the whole, the amount of our ex ports and our imports both had . sustained a consider able increase, and for this increase his lordship, with the greatest bon hommie, claimed credit to himself and to her Majesty's government. We are afraid, however, that the country will scarce ly be accommodating enough to place much weight upon the increase of commerce paraded in the official papers of government, and still less to give any credit for that increase to the sagacity or exertion of the Fo• reign Secretary. The increase in question is far from being evidence of increased :prosperity to the trading interests ; and, if even it were so, might with great propriety and truth be used to show that the commer cial energies of Great Britain are of so elastic a nature, that not even the leaden weight of even Lord Palmer ston's incapacity can seriously check their expansion. THE ACADIA STEAM-SHTP.---We noticed in our last paper the arrival of this beautiful vessel from Glasgow on Thurs day evening, and have since taken a cursory view of her hull, cabins, &c. She so closely resembles in almost every point her sister ship the Britannia, (both intended to convey the mails hence to and from Boston and Halifax) of which we gave a detailed account in our paper of the 3d instant, that any lengthened notice of her would be superfluous. She is of the same capacity,—namely, of about 1,200 tons, and was built by Mr. John Wood, of Port Glasgow. As she was high and dry on the grid-iron in the Queen's Dock Basin for a short time, we had an opportunity of seeing her bottom, and must say she is, in our opinion, one of the finest models of a steamer ever yet turned out, being particularly sharp below, yet with ample top bearings. The engines, of 440 horse power, precisely similar to those of the Britannia, are also by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow, and we learn that the vessel on coming round from that city, though under some disad vantages, made good 13 to 13/ knots an hour, a speed which she is expected yet to exceed. The cabins are planned like those of the other ship, and are fitted up in the Elizabethan style, in groined oak, carved and empannelled in a similarly elegant style. The salloon is on the deck, and is lighted by six windows on each side. There are separate staircases to the ladies' and gentleinen's.respective_retiring cabins ) and light, ventilation, and comfort have been especially attended to. We need scarcely add that the furniture is of -corres ponding elegance. The Acadia is commanded by Captain Miller, a gentleman of much experience. She will sail on the 4th of next month, and a considerable number of her passengers have alre a d y " engaged places" by this second Transatlantic " Mail." The other two new vessels, to com plete the four engaged by government on the station between this port and America, are the Caledonia and Columbia. We understand the Acadia will make a short trial trip on the river this day. BILLS OF FARE OF THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—The following transcript of two of the bills of fare of the dinners given on board this vessel—Mr. Hough providore—on her recent trip to Cork and Dublin, (taken at random,) will con vey some idea of the general quality and abundance of the repasts provided :—July 15th. First Course.—Green pea soup, giblet ditto, mock turtle, turbot, salmon, soles, pota toes, &c. Second Course.—Haunch of venison, fore quarter of lamb, boiled fowls, tongues, calves' heads, boiled round of beef, turkey pullets, sweetbreads, cutlets, vol-en-vent, curried chickens. Third Course.—Goslings, ducks, college pud ings, jellies, pyramids, ices, &c. July 18th. First Course. — Gravy, ox tail, and mock turtle soups, salmon, haddock, heike, brill, soles. Second Course.—Roast beef, roast veal, tongues, stewed beef, roast chicken, roast ducks, beans and bacon, peas, stewed veal and lamb's head, mince veal, olives. Third Course.—Bread a n d butter pudding, raspberry tartlets, currant pies, custards, jellies, blanc mange, raspberry cream, c urrant-water ices, &c. Side Table.—Round of beef.—When we add that the wines and other liquors were in proportionate abundance, and of the choicest description, we need not add a word on the good fare on board of the President. THE SWELL MOB AT THE REGATTA. - At the close of our account of the regatta on Friday, we noticed the appre hension of a fashionably dressed young man, and his com mitment to Chester Castle, after an examination before the magistrates at Birkenhead on the following day, for pulling a gentleman's watch from his pocket in the lobby of the Bir kenhead Hotel. We now correct some slight inaccuracies aris ing from mistakes on the part of our informant, and supply some additional particulars. The young man, after being appre hended, gave several names as his own, but finally that of Alfred Easthorpe,—not " Samuel Easthorne." The gentle man from whom the watch was taken, Geo. Foster, Esq., resides at: Toxteth Park, not " Everton." About £ll in sovereigns and silver were found on the defendant, and there appears to be no doubt but he has been connected with a formidable and moneyed gang, a large sum having been of fered to one of the police officers as a bribe for his release. which was of course refused. The case against him was ably conducted by Mr. Swinnerton Cudlipp, who happened to be present when the delinquency took place. At the close of the examinations an enquiry was made whether the prisoner had any friends in court. It was remarked by a gentleman present—" Yes, there is one here who calls himself his con sin," —alluding to another well-dressed young man in the body of the court. Mr. Cudlipp remarked, " Another , of the swell mob, I suppose." The " cousin" thereupon ex claimed from the crowd, with apparent indignation, " Do you mean me ?" but he chose to pocket the affront, if such it were, and finding his way out of court, was not afterwards seen. BEAUTIFUL PLAN OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS ENVIRONS. — We have received a plan of our own town and its vicinity, by Mr. Wyld, geographer, of Charing-cross, who is now exhi biting, in London, a series of maps and plans of the principal operations of the British army in the Peninsular campaign, that have acquired him a high reputation for accuracy and perspicuity. The present production is one of the most beautiful we have yet seen. Within a space of 28 inches by 184 only, we have the whole of Liverpool and its environs, in 'Lancashire and Cheshire, over an extent of nearly 13 miles from north to south, and 84 from east to west. Every street in the town, public building, &C., is beautifully shown : the banks and soundings in the river are all marked, and the townships, roads great and .small, railways, gentlemen's seats—even the very fields, with their boundaries, in the vicinity, are exhibited with great minuteness, and in distin guishing colours. A perfect stranger may by this plan steer his way with facility to any point within the space stated without asking a question ; and a glance at it will suggest many an agreeable walk, ride, or sail, to those who are in search of recreation. AN IRISH " SWITCH."—One of the passenger guests by the steam-ship President, on her recent trial-trip to Ireland, left Cork one morning (during the stay of the vessel at Pas sage) on a pedestrian ramble to the far-famed Blarney Castle. Being in the habit of carrying a walking-stick,—which, how ever, was, on this occasion, like the Dutchman's anchor, left " at horse,"—he felt, when he had got a mile or two along the road (which is called Blarney-lane), the want of his ac customed hazel; and thinking he could accelerate his jour ney if provided with a " shillelah " of some sort, he inquired of a stout, smiling native, who was standing at the door of a cottage, and who wished him " the top o' the morning," if he had such a thing as a walking-stick in the house, that he would sell, as he (the inquirer) was rather in a hurry to " kiss the blarney-stone. " Arrah ! yer honour," quoth Pat, " since it's that same ye re afther, sorry am I that I have nothin' at all at all desarvin' the name iv a walking stick for a gintleman ; but may be I may find you a bit of a sthwitch just !" Saying which, he turned on his heel with that fling peculiar to the " boys " when they are in a hurry to do a favour, and disappeared into the house. In a , short time he returned, with a cudgel as thick in the middle (by which he grasped it) as one's wrist, and withal scorning attenuation at either end. It looked, in deed, like the better half of a flail, and showed sundry wounds and defalcations of skin, the result, doubtless, of honourable service at fairs and forays.—" Here it is, yer honour!" cried Pat; " here's the sthwitch,gintale, light, and sunder enough in all conscience ! and yer wilcum to id, with it at the same t i me a tw i r l over hi s all my heart !" giving head, and then setting it with one end on the ground, to show that it "could" be walked with. Our friend had much to do to keep his gravity. Had he looked or said anything in disparagement, he would have given mortal offence to poor Pat ; so he took the proferred timber (which, indeed, felt as ponderous as lignumvitte), and offered the man a small sum by way of return; but he stoutly refused to accept of anything, exclaiming, as if in some degree affronted—" Bad luck to the day I'd not give a gintlernan a bit of a sthwitch, to help him along the road." One friend could therefore but .thank him, and went on his way, with the log in his hand; but finding that it made his wrist ache, he was soon fain to dispose of it over a fence, otherwise be would certainty, have brought it home in the President, and deposited it in the exhibition of the Mechanics' Institution, now open in Liverpool, as a ge nuine specimen of "an Irish gintleman's sthwitch." THE REGISTRY. , ---RADICAL EXULTATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD SlR,—Our radical friends, and their popish allies, seem once more to be waxing courageous. Like spoiled children, one moment they are seen brooding in sulky depression, and next they are in senseless raptures. Strange, that the bare prospect of possessing a cake or two should make so great an alteration. But the registry is now to contain 1200 Irish papists, whose taxes have been paid up. by our modern purity men ; and no wonder they are in extacies. The moral so cinian, the sleek quaker, the sanctimonious political dissenter, can form an alliance to subscribe and place papists on the registry to crush the church, and to hurt their orthodox brethren, who are her friends. " Oh, shame ! where is thy blush ?" It is true they admit that, as their shirtless allies have now gained a settlement, our parish must find funds to keep them in winter, and but then this will only double the parish rates, and what is that if the pride or ambition of a "liberal' is interested? Nay, more, we should be bound, according to the modern sense of the word " reform," to thank our local patriots, who place men on the registry to nullify our votes, and then, by way of recompense, ask us to keep them. Men of Liverpool ! mark such base proceedings with vir tuous disgust. What, are we quietly to pay an intolerable parish rate, because, forsooth, one'vain individual possesses measureless assumption, and another matchless impudence ? And are our voices, as independent electors, to be overborne by the influence of a hireling mob of retainers ? You will not, you cannot, submit to this degradation. Come forward, then, unanimously, and with firm resolve ; read the lists which will be exhibited upon your church and chapel doors, mark the names, reflect upon the character of the streets the parties reside in, and say whether the garbage which it is attempted, next election, to foist upon our town shall be left without molestation. Purge the registry. Give notice of any who have not proper qualifications as householders, or who have lately, by themselves or families, received parochial relief, and watch the removals. Shame on the recreant sons of the early puritans ! Would their fathers have joined Rome against their maternal church ? - Thank God our countrymen are still, nationally, as loyal to their God and their church as ever, hence (mark the con sequence) none but the taxes of the Irish subjects of Rome are arranged ; and I glory in my name as Briton, that the enemies of our institutions were compelled to find baser ma terials for their execrable purpose than my countrymen could afford. With such an honourable attestation as to the character of our country, let us meet the enemy with determination in the revising courts ; and seeing that the affections of the people still entwine themselves round the altar and the throne, we may rest satisfied that " Naught shall make England rue, If Briton to their God prove true I am, sir, yours, &c. Liverpool, 25th julp,,lB4(r. R. G. .1 LIVERPOOL WOOL SALES.—FRznAy The first importation of the new "Wools from New South Wales was brought forward to-day, by auction, and the whole were sold at fully as high prices as could have been expected from the extreme depression which has prevailed in our Wool market for three months - past. We should quote the redue- . tion at fully 2d.• per lb. o n c l o thi ng W oo l s, an d 3d. per lb. on combing descriptions since last sales in March; but, at the same time, we consider them inferior both in quality and condition. In Germanized Odessas, Spanish, and Portugal Wools we quote the reduction at fully 3d. per lb. East India Wools maintained full previous rates. The small quantity brought forward on this occasion, and the large amount of Australian and other Wools advertised for sale in London, during next month, have prevented the customary attendance of many influential buyers, and had a material in fluence on the result of our sale. PRICES CURRENT.—Australian and Tasmanian, 934 bales : —Fair combing Is. 6d. to Is. Bd., low ditto Is. sd. to Is. 6d ; fine clothing is. 51d. to Is. 71-d., low ditto Is. 4d. to ls. sd. ; lambs is. sd. to ls. 8111. ; scoured Is. 4d. to 2s. ; skin 11d. to ls. 3d. ; locks and unwashed 91d. Is. Id. ; Spanish, 184 (tales, R. Is. 4d. to ls. 7id., F. 11d. to Is. 3d., S. Is. Old. to Is. 21d., A. Is. 11d. to Is. 31d. ; Portugal, 137 bales, R. Is. Id. to Is. lad., F. 10d. to Ild., S. 10d. to 101-d., A. 11d. to 111 d. ; Odessa, 134 bales, (Germanized) Is. 41d. to Is. 6d. ; Austrian, 177 bales, Is. to Is. 1 d. ; East India, 182 bales, white 84d. to Btd., yellow 61d. to ad., gray 3111. to 44-d., black 41d. to sd. ; Smyrna, 145 bales, withdrawn , Mohair, 37 bales, Is. Id. ; Sundry 89 bales, Os. Od. ; t0ta12,019 bales. DAWSON and HANCE, Wool-brokers. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF A LARGE COTTON FACTORY AT HEATON MERSEY. (From our Private co? respondent.) MANCHESTER, JULY 27.—Last night the extensive factory of Messrs. Samuel Stocks and Son, situate at Heaton Mer sey, six miles from Manchester, on the north bank of the River Mersey, was totally destroyed by fire. It appears that the fire was first discovered about nine o'clock in the even ing; at that time it had made considerable progress in the interior of the building, and shortly after burst out in the most vivid flames. Stockport, which is distant about a mile and a half, being the nearest place at which engines could be procured, an express was sent there. Four engines were speedily on the spot, but from some cause, certainly not the want of water, a very considerable delay took place before they could be got to work. The flames had by that time obtained so completely the ascendancy, any attempt to save the building in which they had originated would have been perfectly chimerical. All the firemen could do was to protect the engine -houses and the bleach-works, which are only separated from the mill, and from each other by a party wall. In this they were successful, so far as regards the bleach-works, but the engine -houses, which immediately adjoin the mill itself, suffered considerably. Vast quantities of goods were removed from the bleach-works and the finishing rooms, but the whole of the goods in the mill, and of course the machinery, were totally destroyed, the fire having made such progress before it was discovered, as to preclude any attempt at saving this property. The building destroyed is a very extensive one : it is up wards of 40 yards in length, about 12 or 14 yards wide, and seven stories high. The next building, the engine -house, is considerably lower, being only four or five stories high, and has materially facilitated the exertions of the firemen in cutting off the progress of the flames. The next building, which is wholly free from - injury, is six stories in height. Of course nothing like an accurate estimate of the loss can yet be formed; I have heard it variously stated at from £15,000 to £36,000. The insurance on the whole of the works amounts to about £20,000, and is divided among the six following offices :—the Sun, the Manchester, the Guardian, the Phoenix, the Royal Exchange, and the Atlas. . . The origin the fire is wholly unaccounted for. It is true that some of the hands employed in the weaving depart ment had joined in the strike which recently took place at Stockport, but beyond this simple fact nothing whatever has transpired to lead to the conclusion that the origin of this destructive conflagration has been any other than accidental. Still its occurrence on Sunday night renders it difficult to understand how it could be produced by any of the causes to which accidents of this kind are usually attributed. An intelligent manufacturer from Stockport, with whom I have this morning conversed, inclines to the supposition that it may have arisen from a spontaneous combustion of waste, which would smoulder for a length of time before bursting into flames. If so, it seems odd that the watchman employed on the premises did not discover it at an earlier period of the fire. So strong was the illumination of the atmosphere caused by the flames, that the red light was distinctly visible nearly all over Manchester, and for miles beyond it, up towards the hills. Many people in the north of Manchester, and in Sal ford, imagined the flames to be at a comparatively short dis tance,—in Greenheys or Victoria Park,—and set out to walk thither ; but, after proceeding a mile or two, without appa rently approaching it, they gave up the task. The flickering of the flames continued to increase until near twelve o'clock, when it suddenly disappeared, owing to the roof, &c., of the building having fallen in. A. little before eleven, an alarm was given at the Manches ter Fire-police Station, by one of the night-police, and soon after an express was sent for the Manchester engines. Had this been done two hours earlier great part of the building might have been saved; but from the account brought to Mr. Rose, the conductor, of the progress of the fire, he saw at once that it would be perfectly useless to take an engine to the spot. He therefore rode over and, by his great expe rience in these matters, and the judicious directions which he gave to the firemen, contributed materially to the pre servation of the adjoining buildings. It was not until between five and six o'clock this morning that the fire was so far subdued that the adjoining premiies could be considered out of danger; and the engines are still playing, at intervals, on the smouldering embers. At Stockport the utmost consternation was excited by the fire, and crowds ran to the place to witness it. This was a source of great inconvenience to the firemen, and, with the delay noticed above, rendered their exertions less available than they otherwise might have been—the police not being sufficiently numerous or active to keep off the crowd. Messrs. Stocks are what is called general manufacturers of cotton goods, all the processes being crrried on in the diffe rent parts of the prem►ses. . The finishing-rooms are in the building which is saved, and it is therefore hoped that the more valuable portion of the goods will have been preserved. It is matter of deep regret to know that between 600 and 700 hands will necessarily be thrown out of employ for a con siderable time. THEATRE-ROYAL—Friday night was the last appearance of Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. James Vining. Amidst the novelties introduced during their en gagement none have been more remarkable than the Duenna and the llferry Wives of Windsor, both of which we have already briefly noticed. The music of the latter was delight fully executed by all the vocalists, especially the celebrated duet, " I know a bank whereon the wild flowers dwell," by Madame Vestris and Miss Grant. The exqusite harmony of the voices, and their raultleSs execution, elicited a rapturous encore from a crowded house. Last evening Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff made his first appearance this season in the ar duous character of " Hamlet." He acquitted himself very creditably. This evening he plays " Morcutio," in Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Anderson, who is also engaged, will repre sent " Romeo." THE Scorrisa UNION SociEry.—The annual dinner of this excellent and thriving society took place on Wednesday last, the 22d instant; at Mr. Gildert's, in Ranelagh-street. About forty gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner, pre pared and served in Mr. Gildert's accustomed style. The society,' though a benefit association, was instituted chiefly for the purpose of commemorating the union of England and Scotland, on the anniversary of which the annual dinner is held. On this occasion a celebrated piper, belonging to the 19th Highlanders, now lying at Haydock Lodge, was pre sent, by permission of his commanding officer, and - enlivened the meeting by playing many appropriate " springs." After dinner, many of the members, some of whom were splen didly attired in tartan, as chieftains of various Highland clans, crossed the river, and walked in procession through Woodside and Birkenhead. They presented a very gay and characteristic appearance, and were preceded b y th e p i per, whose strong instrument formed no inconsiderable band of itself. The whole of the members afterwards re-assembled at their club-room, in Ranelagh-street, and passed the even ing in the most lively and agreeable manner. EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We beg to remind our readers that the present is the last week during which this splendid exhibition will remain open. Sa turday next will be the closing day. Very little time remains, therefore, for a detailed inspection of the numberless curiosi ties which it contains. An early visit is strongly recom mended, as we feel convinced that every one who goes through the rooms once will not rest satisfied without a second visit. We understand that, independently of the 16,000 children be longing to the charity schools, and the military and police forces, who have been admitted without charge. upwards of 50,000 peisons have visited the institution within the last . five weeks. Thi s i s an un d en i a ble proof of the popularity of the exhibition. THE TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British Queen, which sailed from Portsmouth for New York, on the after noon of the Ist instant, was spoken, on the 11th instant, ten days out, in lat. 46 26, long. 35. The Britannia, which sailed from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston, on the after noon of the 4th instant, was spoken on the forenoon of the 14th, nearly ten days out, in lat 46, long. 48. She would reach Halifax on, probably, the 17th, and Boston on the 19th instant, and make the passage under fifteen days. The British Queen would scarcely, from the longitude she was in on the 11th, reach New York earlier than the 18th instant. Bets have, indeed, been offered, that the arrival of the Bri tannia at Boston would be announced at New York before the British Queen arrives at the latter port.—Albion. SKETCHES OF THE JOLLY CLUE (Written for the Liverpool Standard.) 'OE RATI:LER'S PLANS FOR PRODUCING EFFECTS EFFECT THE FOURTH. the difference between Joe Rattler, the unknown at New Brighton, and Joe Rattler, the detected son of an old and particular acquaintance at Seacombe. The evident mortificatiota which he was labouring under was only heightened by the repeated roars of laughter which the old gentleman indulged in. Joe was completely crest-fallen ; for although he was a youth of great physical courage, and high animal spirits, and one of his favourite maxims was, " What matter, so there is fun enough, who pays the cost ;" and though it has been shown that he was not only ready to pay his own share, but sometimes quite willing to pay that of others, yet it must be confessed that. this time, the reckoning was more than he was able to discharge. It was not the hopeless dread of future insolvency, which thus troubled him ; may be he was satisfied that, should he ever have an opportunity, he could return every obligation, with the most satisfactory interest. It was not future, but present, dis grace that caused Joe's humiliation ; and no wonder, for it must be remembered that, besides the old gentleman's irony, there were the silvery lengths of three young and as beautiful It was curiou creatures as ever gave mirth a spur, or merriment an incen tive. There were three pair of eyes looking on, laughing in their orbs, and saving, as plain as ever eyes could say, " We have you—where be your jibes now, your quips and quiddi ties !—quite chapfallen !" Joe rallied • not, however, befor e th e o ld gen tl eman h a d almost laughed him into a gloryless petrifaction of no effects—and was consoled at last with, " A chip of the old block. Ha, ha, ha! There was something told m e a t th e time when thatl awful adventure was relating, and when that melancholy face was in making—there was something told me that I had seen something verylike it before. Well, give us your hand—am glad to see you ; I shall be writing to your father, and of course shall tell him of the extraordinary circumstances under which we met : no doubt he sill be glad to hear of your great success ; but, as it might make him unhappy for your safety, I had better say nothing of your being left lifeless on a distant shore to perish Ah, ha, ha! oh, oh !" " No, upon my honour," said Joe, putting- on as good a , face as he co u ld, I think poor mamma and sister have suf fered enough already ; • no, I shall feel obliged if you will permit Fame (the proper harbinger of all merit) to blazon her records in my parental ear herself, rather than that he should hear of his son's achievements (splendid though they are) through any other medium. In the mean time permit me to ask under what circumstances am I indebted for the honor of this unexpected interview." Mr. Bowling then informed him that they, together with his son who was then at Liverpool, had been making . a tour through - Wales, and were returning to their house at N—; that their intention was to spend a day or two in Liverpool before they returned home, and then they 'should be happy to carry us with them. In the mean time, they would take no de nial as to breakfasting with them at the Angel the next morn ing, where they would introduce us to their brother, who, they were sure, would be equally glad to see us. Joe had known the younger Bowling at school, but had not seen him for a considerable period ; and, although six or seven years his junior, was certain that he would not only re member him, but which give him that welcome that is given only to old schoolfellows after a long separation. We accordingly breakfasted with the family at the Angel Hotel the next morning, where we were introduced to their eldest and only brother, James Bowling, who was as much surprised as delighted at seeing his old companion in that part of the kingdom. After mutual manifestations of delight at the meeting, Jim (for so we shall call him) said, " So, my young hero, a few years' sun, eh? has made a man on thee, and, by mighty Pluto ! not an unseemingly one either—turn round," said he, giving Joe a twist with his iron grasp; " Ah ! there ; a tidy carcass even for a military snip to cut capers upon—slight, but, by Jupiter, well knit. Well, thou must come and spend a month or two at Bowling Hall, and it shall go hard but we will transform thee from an Hylus to an Achilles ; an extra half stone, or two of muscle, thew and sinew, will enable thee to cut capers in other places save a `lady's drawing-room.' Well, Joe,'any practice in the old line now-a-days—a n y o f the effective, eh ? ha, ha! By Nep tune's prongs, but I once saved thee from as sound a whip ping as ever was received on the triangles at old Thwacker s seminary ; and, by Saturn's belt, thou deservedst it too. Ha, ha; ha! But then I loved thee, I loved thee ; the love in our families has been hereditary, and so for th a t reason I l ove d thee too ; and, •by Minerva's night cap, a good reason. Well, I never had occasion to regret it, and I am sure I never shall have. Had I always been so fortunate in my love, my at tachment, I might have been happier now." " Brother !" whispered Miss Bowling, at the same time depressing her eyes. " Thank you, sister, good girl—good girl." " Well, Joe, by Olympus I am glad to see the right wor shipful Joe ! once more thou art welcome—l'll pledge thee in coffee—here's to our old acquaintance. I know my sisters will make thee welcome, if it be only for the love they bare their brother." " Aye, aye !" cried the old gentleman, "but if it be not too much trouble, I should be glad to know on what account your services were of so much use to Mr. Rattler when you were at school ?" " Well," replied Jim, " as it is some years past now, and as it is not likely to give the same terror and alarm now, as it did then, I think I may venture to tell it you." " Oh, spare my blushes !" exclaimed Joe. " No," replied Jim, " I persuaded old Thwacker to spare your back, and I think that I had less difficulty in effecting that, than I should have in complying with your present re quest." " Oh, I ask you r p ar d on , b ro th er !" sa id Miss Emiline, " Mr. Rattler is become quite sentimental and pathetic, I assure you. He has impro ve d i n th a t d epartment most wonderfully." "As the parting dew-drop from the rose bud's embrace, Gives note that young Phoebus is starting his race," sighed the young Eliza, and perhaps it was as well that she did sigh it, or her worthy brother might have desired her to follow the sun's example. " Well," cried Jim, " I do feel a little surprised at what you tell me, for certainly turtle doves and blank verse were not the elements of Joe's constitution at one time. " But now for the story. It happened of all other days in the year to be on a Shrove Tuesday, (on which holiday it had been the custom time, I suppose, out of mind, at the old grammar school, to have a drawing out for cocks and hens,) that the discourse during dinner hours turned upon the ex traordinary feats that had been performed at different times by scholars who had been educated there; for, as many of them had turned out to be men of prodigious learning and attainments in after time, they must of course have been Faustus's in their youth. One of them in particular, a Francis Smith, was said to have raised his Satanic majesty on that very day, some 20 years before; and as there were not wanting plenty of corroborators of the horrid story ; so there were plenty to describe the process of the occult spell, which it appears was to be managed by means of inner and outer circles, scribed on the floor. The diviner was to kneel down within the centre one, and then repeat some half dozen of Latin prayers which were pointed out to him ; after which he was to utter ad-libitum as many imprecations as he cou.d within a given time, and then the spell would be ' wound up.' " No sooner was the science of devil-raising clearly de monstrated, than our friend Joe very modestly declared that he would attempt it. At this announcement every one was delighted, as was manifest by their all shouting, clapping their hands, and creeping nearer to the door. It was the currish shout of fear, struggling to look brave. " Some of the older boys professed to be horror-struck at the mere idea of such an attempt, as both they and myself thought it a mere boast on the part of the would-be Faust. But we were soon satisfied to the contrary, for Joe at once began deliberately to scribe, according to direction, the cir cles on the school floor ; and it would have been a funny calculation to have ascertained how many crept out at the formation of each circle. At last all were finished, the inner and the final one ; and as its completion drew nigh, three breathless, ear-stopped, stealthy strides took out the bravest but the last. All were gone save myself, who had been de sired by some of the elder scholars to watch the proceeding, to see if he would have courage enough to proceed. " There was no alternative; he must go on, or suffer the worst of mortifications—to be the butt of his own joke. Joe knew this, and accordingly got a Latin prayer-book, and, kneeling down, commenced the exordium. Seeing this, I rushed out horror-struck, and, in proper time, communi cated my fears to the rest of the scholars, who, together with the whole village, had rushed into a farm-house adjoining ; for all, having the most superstitious fear and awe of the wizard-like attainments of old Thwacker's scholars, were terrified to the very climax of absurdity. Thus they all congregated together in this one house, each trying to lose his fears by attempting to creep, if possible, into the inside of his neighbour. " A more ridiculous sight could not be imagined. By sultry Pluto ! it was superlative to see • every man leave his vocation ;' for the browmen at the collieries left their bas kets of coals half hoisted, the engineers their engines un stopped, carters their horses ' weavers their looms ; — na y, it was said that old Littler, a famous miser in the neighbour hood, left off counting his money, and cursing the hardness of the times—Joe's daring exploit thus producing an effect upon him which the death of his wife had not been able to effect. Still the cry ran, ' Young Rattler is raising the devil ;—oh ! he's raising the devil ;' every fresh cry of which caused another condensation, until at last the compression was such, that it is a question whether they could have been closer packed with a patent hydraulic press. The fate of Laocoon and his sons had like to have been a mere fable to this unheard-of catastrophe. " There was a general, vast, and overwhelming scream— parents, in their own danger, forgetting that of their hapless offspring. One unhappy wight—a Master Tommy Allen, the fair-haired, blue-eyed, red-cheeked, adored little darling of two maiden aunts, who, when they first brought him to the school, laid the most implicit injunction on the master not to touch him himself, or allow any of the boys to do so. on pain of his being immediately withdrawn from this redoubt able seminary —and as the ladies were rich, and their patron age great, it was petty treason to look at him, and the most fearful castigation awaited the unhappy playmate that dared even to disarrange one of his fair ringlets. " But fear respects not persons, as even kings and empe rors, it is said, have experienced ; nay, I believe it is on re cord that even a general of unperishable fame is known to have felt something very like it. Well, poor unhappy Master Tommy was making with all his might to the general rendez vous, when another, making the same attempt, jostled the unfortunate squire of the flaxen hair into a nameless recep tacle, head foremost; and there he would have been actually smothered, but for the providential and immediate assistance of the farmer's wife. He was got out, and carried to the watering nit • and while the act of immersion is going on, let us inquire after Joe, for by this time there could be little doubt but that his infernal majesty had shaken hands with Proserpine, to visit o n e ar th so worthy a disciple. ta One the boys, h owever , possess i ng , o r imagining h he did, more courage than the rest, signified his intention, if any one would accompany him, of having a peep through the school window, to see what was going on. `` Hearing this noble declaration from one so young, I (who was nearly double his age) boldly called out, ' I—l will follow, though it should be to death As much app l ause followed as their fears would permit. Some, however, at tempted to dissuade us from the madness of such an attempt, as they considered it better that one should be dragged into the bottomless abyss than three, and For the sake of the Lord take care, was heard from a hundred voices. As we ascended the little hill up to the school, we were looked after with the same breathless anx ie t y as the life-boat is when gal lantly attempting to rescue from th e di stant wreck the hope less and death-awaiting mariner. _ ---.... (To be concluded in our next.) .......________ At the Police-office, yesterday, a lad, named John Pick ering, was committed to prison for seven days, for attempting to yob the garden of Mr. Lawrence, of Dingle Mount, at three o'clock on Sunday morning. NEW OYSTER TRAP.—At the Mechanics' Institution, in the Natural History room, may be seen a mouse which has just been caug h t b etween the shells of an oyster. It is held by the head as tightly as in a common wire trap. Mr. Robert Bevan, of this town, and of Birkenhead, Cheshire, solicitor, has been appointed, by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a perpetual commissioner, under th e Fi nes and Recoveries Abolition Act, in an d f or tne county of Chester. The Great Western sailed from Bristol, at noon, on Saturday, for New York. She carried out about one hundred passengers, amongst whom is Prince Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, and a valuable freight of goods, a large proportion of which is silk. _ _ . At the Police-office, yesterday, Mrs. Jilks,batchet, oiSed don-street, charged a young man with having stolen a watch belonging to her husband. The evidence not being complete, the prisoner was remanded. IS THERE. RIBANDISM IN THE ARMY TO THE EDITOR OF THE L1Mht5.a....... Sir,—l think the following circumstance will warrant in putting the above query :—A fellow, named Cooney, listed at Fermoy some time since in the 74th depot; whicl at present stationed in Youghal. This fellow got a furloni and came to his mother's house in Fermoy, where he remain, until the day previous to the expiration of, the furlough, whe he went and joined the depot in Youghal ; but the'succeed ing evening he arrived privately in Fermoy, bringing witl him his firelock and sixty rounds of ainnitr.' avowed intention of shooting two or three res t . tlemen whom he named. Happily the rumour of i. intentions got abroad, and the villain, to avoid helo t , vered over to the civil law, to be dealt with as he merit, voluntarily surrendered himself as a deserter to the Fermoy gairison. And although he has been seen firing several shot: in Newtown (by way of practice) preparatory to his medi tated deed of blood, yet will none of those who saw him bea witness to the fact, nor will those to whom he communicate his intentions against the lives of respectable magistrates a gentlemen prosecute him. He would be delivered ov.e the civil law if they did so.—Yours, &c.. Fermoy, July 21. IMERICK STANDARD urn snatch between the Manchester club and t Liverpool club, with Adams, one of the best Kent play-el given, will come off to-morrow. with tbt M. M. 1 The ret THE LATE Mn. JOHN LANDER.-It appears by a parlia mentary return just published, that the widow of Mr. John Lander, who accompanied his brother Richard in one or more hazardous expeditions into the interior of Africa, and owed his death, probably, to the injury inflicted on his con stitution by the baneful climate of that country, has obtained a government pension of £75 a year. This, we think, is, under the circumstances, a very inadequate stipend; but of the small sum remaining at the disposal of ministers, when it was granted, a thousand a year was wanted for what is called the Mount Eagle job—a job, by the way, in which the whigs persevere, notwithstanding its positive condemnatior by a lar; House of Commons.—Falmout Express .ge majority of the FRAUDS UPON EMIGRANTS.—We perceive, that a new description of fraud upon emigrants and their friends has re cently been put in practice, and we fear it is beyond the reach of correction, save by extensive exposure. It seems that some parties in New York have hit upon the expedient of persuading emigrants who have arrived there to pur chase from them passage-tickets for such of their friends and acquaintance as wish to follow them from this country to America. The individuals who practice these frauds have picked out, for insertion in their pretended tickets, the name of a respectable house in Liverpool,—Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman, of Atherton-buildings, Dale street,—whom they falsely represent as their agents. A short time since a female, who had one of these documents transmitted to her, came all the way from Ballyshannon to this town, in the confident expecta tion that a passage had been secured for her. She 'had expended all she was worth in her journey to this place, and is now a fit object for the charity of the benevolent. The ticket gives minute directions to the party as to the proceed ings to be taken in order to obtain the due fulfilment of the pretended agreement, thus adding a cruel deception to the original fraud. As Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman never before heard of the names or existence of the parties who .have taken it upon them to represent them as their agents, and as they are not, in fact, emigrant agents for any party whatever, nor in any way connected with the trade, the na ture of the imposition will immediately be perceived. Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman have received, within the last few days, numerous applications respecting passages to New York, which afford proof that the frauds have been very extensively practised in various parts of the country. CHESTER ASSIZES.—Causes for trial must be entered on the 15th August, and the trials will be proceeded upon at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the lith. Lord Denman will pre side in the Nisi Prius Court. There is a man in Bangor whose hair is so red and luminous that his wife frequently starts up at midnight and imagines it is sun rise—such a blazing halo does his head shed around the room.—American paper. By a return just laid before parliament, it appears that the whole expense of the yeomanry in Great Britain in 1839 was £90,786. The number of officers and men embodied was 14,119, making the average cost of each £6 Bs. INCREASE OF POPULATION.—WhiIst the increase of po pulation in England and Wales, in 30 years, from 1801 t o 1831, has been somethi ng more' than 47 per cent., the actual increase in the nu m b er o f i n h a bi tants of five of our most important provincial towns has very nearly doubled that rate, being— Manchester Glasgow.... Liverpool.. Birmingham 109 per cent 108 100 —House of Commons Report CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.-Mr. Peter Turner, of Up perby, has been furnished with a singular exemplification of the paternal affection of the feathered tribe in his turkey cock. The hen turkey was engaged in sitting on her own nest, and master jock, not to be behind hand, sat on one turkey egg and two hen eggs. He brought all the three out, but the juvenile turkey soon after died, and the two chickens are now following their masculine mamma, which may be seen at Mr. Thomas Turner's, Cross Keys, Upperby. It is feared jock will discard the t ur k e y h en , his former lady love, from an idea that he can do without her ; the hen is evidently jealous of her husband's new found powers of incubation.— Carlisle Patriot. The living which the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, the new warden of Manchester college, will hold at Spofforth, in ad dition to his appointment, is of the value of £3,000 a year, which, with his wardenship, will make an income of £6,000 a year, being nearly double many of the bishoprics.—Shef field Patriot. A correspondent of the Alsace, at Baden, states that a few days since a young man, a visiter of the baths, shot himself, in despair at having lost 10,000 f. at the gaming -table. A gentleman from Marseilles had lost 60,000 f. there at the same time. Since Oxford's trial a marked difference is observable in the prisoner's appearance and manners. He appears much more cheerful, and seems as if a considerable weight had been removed from his mind. His manner towards the turnkey who was in attendance on him was also somewhat different to what it had been before the trial ; and he ceased to continue that reserve which had previously marked his conduct. He had been visited by his mother,-sister, and both his uncles, and entered into a long history of the occur rence, and detailed the whole particulars relating to his ex ploits. On Saturday week an order was received by Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, from the home-office, for his immediate removal to Bethlehem Hospital. On receipt of 'it, Mr. Cope proceeded to the cell of Oxford, and told him to prepare for his removal, telling him at the same time where he was going to take him. The prisoner did not betray the slightest emotion on receiving the intimation, and in a short time after, he was taken by Mr. Cope, in a hack ney coach, to St. George's-fields, and handed over to the proper authorities of Bethlehem Hospital.—Times of yester day. GRAVEDIGGERS AND THEIR " MANAGEMENT."—I have, I think, sufficiently explained to my readers the " manage ment" of certain localities ; it is a rule with gravediggers to avoid as much as possible, inhalino the gases given of by the putrefaction of the dead. When bodies are inhumed, and the slower dissipation of the products is interfered with by the pick-axe or the shovel, the grave is left open until the surrounding atmosphere has diluted the poison, or at least the lighter products are driven off ; the heavier gases, those that destroyed the men in Aldgate, are driven off by heat, or absorbents are employed. In some instances they are " laded up in buckets," and poured out on the surface, but in the majority of instances heat is employed.--Gatherings from . Grave Yards, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon. THE QUEEN AND THE WILD BEASTS.—On this lattet evening, pursuant to arrangements which had been made for the purpose, our gracious mistress condescended to cross the stage of the theatre for the purpose of seeing the animals in their more excited and savage state during the operation of feeding them. It is almost unnecessary to observe, that this gratifying scene took place after the departure of the audi ence ; and that every possible caution was adopted for the comparative comfort and seclusion of the royal visitor, which the resources of the theatre permitted, such as enclosing the entrance with crimson draperies, and carrpeting the stairs— not merely to shut out the draught of the night-air, but to exclude the prying gaze of the many stragglers who remained behind in hopes of bearing testimony to so unprecedented a compliment paid to the theatre. The animals had been kep' purposely without food for six-and-thirty hours • symptoms of which had become manifest during Amburgh's performance, by the lion and the panther having simultaneously attacked the lamb on its being placed in their den; and they would have evidently made but a mouthful apiece of it, had not their almost superhuman master lite rally lashed them into the most abject and crouching sub mission. The first portion of food thrown amongst them, seized by the lion as a matter of priority, was enough to con vince any sceptic of the fearful savageness of their nature, when out of the control of the one hand whose power they Acknowledged. The rolling of the tiger's eye, while he was devouring the massive lump of meat and bone, clutched be neath his fore-paws, seemed to possess the brilliancy as well as rapidity of lightning ; and was only diverted by a tremen dous and sudden spring of the lion, who. having demolished his own portion, seized upon what was left of his ferocious neighbour's fare. The dash against the sides of the den sounded like the felling of huge trees, and was enough by its force and fury to shake the strongest nerves ; but it was a positive fact, that while the boldest of the hearts in th e roya l suite speedily retreated at this unexpected plunge of the forest monarch, the youthful queen never moved either face or foot, but with look undiverted, and still more deeply riveted, con tinued to gaze on the novel and moving spectacle.—The Stage, by Mr. Bunn. ; strong Mr. Van A TURKISH JUSTICE.—Tut BET OF an excellent post-house in the village; and the rain coritinunq, through the day, we remained there till the next morning. The postmaster was governor of Kifri, and of seven other villages on the plain. He came in and spent the afternoon with us, and his presence gave me a rare entertainment. Every half-hour some one entered to present a complaint against his neighbour, which was always done in the most vociferous tones : the bey settled their difficulties in the most summary manner, the complainant seldom staying more than five minutes. One case was of a more delicate nature than the others, but it was di s p a t c h e d w i th almost equal cele rity. A man having divorced one wife and married another, wished to take the first one again, and retain the second. The former, having the liberty of refusal, declined the re-union, and the man had urged his suit with unbecoming pertinacity. The offended woman had now come to claim protection from the governor ; and standing without, unseen, screamed forth her complaint. When her story was ended, the bey replied, " The man h as one w if e w h y d oes h e want anot h er , question seemed a strange one to come from a .t Alahommedan r judge ; but in t rut h it was no t so s t rang e as appeared, for everywhere ahnedreniont'arsurp had e beenypolygal a n c y cu i s s t? rare d among v th os e e, .L m a ussul com mon thing.—Southgate's Travels m me Turkey and Persia, just published. We found POISONOUS EXHALATIONS FROM CHURCH VAULTS.—A lady died September ith, 1832, and was buried in the Rector's vault, in St. —'s church, on the 14th. The undertaker had occasion to go down into the vault, near the communion table ; he had done the work of the church nearly thirty years, and was well acquainted with the localities ; the grave digger had neglected to take up the slab which covered the vault ; the undertaker being pressed for time, with the assistance of the son of the deceased, removed the stone. The two descended, taking with them a light, which was almost instantly extinguished ; upon reaching the lower step of the vault, both were simultaneously seized with sickness, giddiness, trembling, and confusion of intellect ; the under taker raised his friend, who had fallen on the floor, and with difficulty dragged him out of the vault ; he himself, although a man previously in excellent health, was seized with vo miting the next day, and for twelve months rejected his food : at the end of this period, after having been under the care of many medical men, he consulted Dr. James Johnson, from whom he derived great benefit,—the Doctor pronounced his case to be one of poisoning, from mephitic gases. The patient is convinced that his health has been completely ruined from this cause ; he is now obliged, after a lapse of seven years, "to live entirely by rule." The young gentle man who was with him, was subsequently under the care of many medical men upwards of two years ; his principal symptoms, those of a slow poison, developed themselves gradually,- 7 but surely ; he was attacked _with obstinate ul cerations of the throat, which were not removed until more than two years had elapsed, although he had frequent change of air, and the best medical assistance that could be obtained. —Mr. Walker in Gatheringsfrom Grave Yards.