The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-17 00:00:00

or in- iclies rthi es' rar.. ; ' he 1' ;. and tall er to de /lace N 0 VEMBER 17, IS5r) Bence, and experience had nn value in their eyes. Th 7 municipal hill was madeli political engine, and none were deemed fit te act as corporate officers who had not proved themselves to he unflinching and " whole-hog" levellers. . In taking this inconsiderate and intemperate course, , we suspect the Whig and,radical factions have committed a serious mistake. They have exasperated all the mo derate men in the town. They have done violence to the feelings of niauv of their own friends. They have overlooked the thostvaluable members of their party, and hoisted up into ill-starred importnnee and unseemly no toriety the least worthy of their choice--men, many of whom it is impossible for respectable burgesses to have any confidence in whatever. The election does not take place till the 26th of De cember, but already.all the radical candidates have been named, and are in the field. Had we been allowed to pick out, for the sake' of ridicule, forty-eight persons to form the common councilmen, we could not have selected more appropriate names in order to answer our purpose and convulse the town with laughter. The trouble of doing so disagreeable a duty has been spared us. For tunately the forty-eight sages whom we are anxious to immortalize are not of our nomination. The subjoined list has appeared in all the liberal papers, and we under stand that it is authentic. Who the opposing candidates are we have no means of knowing, and we are not dis posed to borrow names from our adversaries. But their own list must be taken to be official, and here we, give them numbered, entered, and valued, as under. 1 Thomas Coglan Unitarian 2 Egeston Smith Unitarian • 3 Charles Tayleur Unitarian • 4 Enoch Harvey Unitarian ! 5 William Thornhill Unitarian F. Jordan Unitarian 7 C. Rawdon Unitarian 8 R. V. Yates Unitarian I 9 Wm. Ratbbone Unitarian' 10 W. P. Freme Unitarian I II 11 George Holt Unitarian 12 J. D. Thornely Unitarian I 13 Thomas Bolton Unitarian I I 14 Surgeon Blackburne Unitarian ! I I I • )5 W. R. Preston Unitarian ' I 16 R. Allison Unitarian I►I I I I 17 W. Lassell Unitarian MI II t 18 I'. Holt Unitarian ! ! !!!!..!I . ! ! ! !! 19 Henry Holmes Dissenter ! 20 John Hithnes Dissenter ! 21 W. W. Bulley Dissenter ! ! 22 Dr. Carson Dissenter ! ! ! 23 C. Logan Dissenter ' " 24 William Rushton Baptist ! 25 Samuel Hope Baptist ! ! 26 William Blain Quaker ! 27 George Crosfield Quaker ! ! 28 Edward Cropper Quaker ! ! ! 29 John Cropper Quaker ! ! ! ! 30 James Sharples Roman Catholic ! 31 R. Shiel Roman Catholic ! ! 32 R. Roskell Roman Catholic! ! ! 33 Charles Birch Unknown ! 31 James Aikin Unknown ! ! 35 Evre Evans Unknown I ! ! • 36 T. Brocklebank Unknown ! I ! 37 William Stuart Unknown I 38 Alexander Macgregor Unknown I 1 39 H. Hornby Churchman ! 40 Joseph Hornby Churchman ! 41 W. W. Currie Churchman ! 42 NV. Earle, jun. Churchman ! ! 43 L. Heyworth Churchman''' I 41 James Mellor Churchman I I 45 Woolwright Churchman ' " 46 R. Bright Churchman ! -!1 !! ! 47 W. Maxwell Churchman I 'llll' . 48 J. Walmsley Churchman I " " • These are the wise and worthy burgesses of good re pute whom we are called upon to elect as common coun ,cilmen for the borough of Liverpool—an illustrious and splendid battalion, with THOMAS COGLAN and EGERTON SMITH at its head! If there be not wisdom and indepen dence here, there is no corn in Egypt. Just fancy the mo• desty and the good taste' of placing EIGHTEEN UNITARIANS in the council—men who belong to the meanest, most resentful, most diskonest, and most contemptible sect in all England,--merrwiro in• Liverpool, with its population exceeding 200.000, cannot muster a congregation ofsoo persons of all ages, but who, nevertheless, claim to form the majority, and monopolise the power of this important corporation. In fact, the unitarians, with the quakers and baptists, amount to twenty-four, so that in carrying any point, no matter what, they would !only have to bor row a vote from some Roman catholic or other dissenter, and then they , may do what they please We have no fear that these men will be returned; but their eagerness to possess undeserved power, and the in solent manner in which they put forth their claims, must excite universal disg We ask any honest man, no matter to what party longs, whether the inhabitants of Liverpool would be fairly represented by eighteen unitarians in the new council ? The great majority of rate-payers are churchmen anti Wesleyans, and yet they are to be represented by their deadliest enemies—by a snug family party of chattering and selfish demagogues— by traders in chapels, candle snuffers in philosophy, and fraudulent interpolators of the holy scriptures. The ten candidates who figure as churchmen, and some of ,whom aspire to be exclusives, aping the airs of the aristocracy without the grace, the manners, or the gene rosity of true nobleness, are not much more to be de pended upon than the unitarians. Two of them are the sons of socinians, who for the sake of distinction have followed the fashion in going to church. Among the " unknown" are a few whose ideas of religion are not very settled, and who cannot he accused of labouring under any peculiar predilections. Are these men in whom we can repose confidence as the guardians of property and the protectors of the public peace? We say they are not, and therefore we call upon the burgesses of Liverpool to reject them with disdain. For many years our opponents have complained that . too many persons of the same family connection were members of the corporation. We are not the champions -of the corporation and do not defend them in this respect. Particular families have had too much influence, and en joyed too much of its gifts and patronage, and we regret that the policy of admitting to. the corporate management individuals who had conferred inestimable benefits on the community; did not long ago come under their con sideration and meet their unanimous approval. But what have we here under this precious reform bill ?. Two quaker brothers are nominated at once, without shame, or the slightest recollection of former complaints. Two brothers of the name of HOLMES, who are dissenters, are also booked as candidates, and a large majority of 'the 'whole, all of them stiff reformers, are connected by various sorts of close and comical alliances. We shall 'enter more fully into this subject at a future day, and 'show that whatever was faulty in the old corporation, from family connection, is imitated in a worse form, and endeavoured to be perpetuated by the reformers ! We have spoken of the Unitarians as a mean but am bitious sect who cherish the most unrelenting hatred to wards the Church of England. We see this exemplified in our own community by the injunction applied for and Obtained by Mr. THOMAS BOLTON and a Mr. JEVONS, both, we believe, Unitarians, against the proposed en dowment by the corporation of certain of our town churches. The attorneys for the applicants being also Unitarians—the London one being the famous JOSEPH PARKES, Of.commission notoriety--slicws haw actively these venomous sectaries work into each others hands, and exclude all other professional men from their sinister speculations. The injunction we have-no doubt will be dissolved in a few days—so that delay,.vexatious delay, was all that was contemplated by these pure philanthro pists. BoLToN - and JEVONS, we understand, have stated in an affidavit that they are burgesses of Liverpool—if so we shall have something more to say to them. They have made certain statements, or rather misrepresenta tions, =parte, and the Master of the Rolls, as a matter of course, granted a conditional injunction, which, as we have said before, lie will dissolve when he hears the whole truth. But why was the application not made to Sir LANCELOT SHADWELL, the Vice-Chancellor ? This is a tender question, which we leave the righteous trus tees of Dame HawLEY to answer at their -leisure. The whole proceeding only evinces the inordinate rancour of the Unitarians against the Church of England; They Friend FIT will ut, sfbeD kior, Air. 'ker. .Clarke. of "Le only, a eu by - Nigger ?%lour)- . gduai ut ), a man -, or t 1,6 110, and tan ley. ..* ,oriden re, fro:' NEFIT 3 which aw, ova BAND Ig, Phil will be )t acted n .,t r eet 'heat re. ads and y o 00 Sbak- reet: at Ce. ter O a Italia" Are, 0 )st cele- )euts.., RANI' d inba he ha 4 vote itt mil the adopt , ve --- =% I 535• h per ninonßath, y sha or ar° nd in. iilCi . ye SaY, ice of inv ll " )blerng ai ini: ;k 1 n es• - 4. nr- 7or to, ling!" over' art of unkeY .!attir e 1 p re-- repo' c rsov, gib" occa- lingY a abic't v are al IV e Neve' . a djs . . in p°' , s al:6l' rtao ) " hopc' 3, al eP e 105 . , •-~+s-,..^.c..+rte=~4r..: 11Te go ve country tiTIWIy in the hands of thepeo ple. (Cheers.) That wag the great olject which be had iu and he did not hesitate to declare that h! . would never rest sa tisfied until they had placed the whole of the political power of the country in the bands of the nation. With respect to the House of Lords, he for one believed that the existence of that assembly, as at present constituted—namely, possessing political power wholly independent of the people, was neither less nor more than a DOWNRIGHT NUISANCE, which, for the public good, it was neeessary should lie abated." ! _ " " He proposed that if they (the lords) should ever again treat a bill as they had treated the municipal reform bill, all that should be required from the House Of Commons should be to re-pass the measure in the shape in which they had formerly agreed to it, and then, without farther ado, IT SHOULD BE COME THE LAW OF THE LAND"! !!! JOSEPH followed p.OEBUCK, but he was obviously either mystified by the rare indulgences of the evening, or he was alarmed at the . unexpected candour of his friends. He deemed it prudent to reprove the impetuosity of his protege ROEBUCK; but with all , his caution and low sub terfuge he did not mend the matter. ge " He (Joseph) was not at all of Mr. Itoehitek's opinion that it was necessary to pull down - the House of `Peen; lie owned that be was for king, lords, and commons, each, of course, being strictly confined within its own legitimate sphere. (What does Joseph mean ?) The King was responsible, the House of Com mons was responsible, why, then, should not the Rouse of Lords be responsible? They had been told by Lord John Russell, that such an " organic change" of the- imposition of, responsibility upon the peers would endanger the stability of the inonarchy. When the noble lord made that assertion he (Mr.- Hume) main tained that he took a‘narrOw and mistaken view of the subject. In the nineteenth century it was impbssible that the lords could long remain an IRRESPONSIBLE BODY." ! !! NoW, reader, you may choose for yourself. You may, if you please, put NAPIER, Routucx, and HUME into the same mortar, and bray them into consistency; and, when the whole ingredients are properly mixed—the greater with the lesser evil—the ranker with the less rank poi son—the putrid limb with the less putrescent of the "organic" parts—toss them, bray them, and mix them as you please, what do you find but treason, regicide, and republicanism, smelling of blood, pervading the whole mass ? The ravings of the despicable idiot called ROEBUCK, would not claim our notice for a single moment if not hashed up with the more cautious prescriptions of his master, JOSEPH, and the pernicious and blasting drugs flung into the cauldron by Colonel NAPIER. This NA PIER prates of a time when we had "no house of Lords," and he hints that such a time may come again ! To what period does he allude ? Unquestionably to that of OLIVER CROMWELL and the Commonwealth, when Eng land, reeking with the blood of her King and steeped in crime and misery to the very lips, had "no -House of Lords. !" Would the colonel like to re-enact the part of a murderer ? Can lie be anxious to commence a new civil war, as HUME has it, in the "nineteenth century ?" If, under any malign influence or popular seduction, be is weak enough to dream with his eyes open of any such convulsion, he is a far greater blockhead than any who has " fought in the wars," or has addressed himself to the . sickly mass of cheats and quacks who live upon dead men's fragments in the nasty place where he dined on Wednesday last. No, Colonel NAPIER, you have only disgraced yourself, and you will feel the effects of it while you live. Do not imagine you can be a second OLIVER CROMWELL. lf it is to come to the last resource, depend upon it you will die in the first ditch, the victim of more' ferocious and more ambitious compatriots. You owe all that you can boast of in name and fame to the King and the Duke of WELLINGTON. In praising the one in con nexion with the expression of your un-English princi ples, you insult the other, and offend both. The Duke of WELLINGTON will not thank you for your laudation; the army will never forget, or forgive you ; the people will appreciate your motives and despise you! Bath, Sir Colonel, is your grave.' We defy all its physic to' restore you to a state of envious existence. You would. " pull down the peers," as your honest Greek friend, the worst friend you ever associated with, is pleased to ex-. press himself; bit you only pull down yourself. The sexton, as be flings his mother earth upon your remains, will deem it desecrated; and we pray GOD that the penny loaf you .purchase, put., of, th.a.roceeds of .your half.pay as a British officer, once of no mean repute, may not, from strong feelings of i emorse, facilitate the catastrophe which we have no desire to hasten. Go down, Colonel NAPIER! You have committed a fatal mistake. Remain where you are in Bath. There are patriots in that city who vend articles to sell which was death in Mantua! But remain !—fit place for such a hero ! We beg pardon for dwelling so long on a subject so little . entitled to our consideration. In that spirit we have, we hope kindly enough, left Colonel NAPIER where we found him. We shall not, therefore, trouble our readers with any observations upon the choice ex pletives and mad politics of the poor drudge ROEBUCK, of whom even JOSEPH HUME was ashamed, because the reader, without our aid can judge for himself. But these foolish emanations of candour, republican ism, and excessive Vanity tell a tale. It is gratifying to observe that Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S " organic changes" are considered to be positive infractions of the treaty which bound the English radicals to the skirts of the O'Cosslrm. administration. Lord JOHN has lost his best " black and white" supporters. DANIEL is divested of the English joints of his tail. 'The whigs,,are now at open war with the radicals. Lord Joni's . can no longer command their servility. He must either accept their conditions or resign. He is bound by declarations which they openly aver they will not recognize. He dares not attack the peerage—they insist upOn its annihilatidn. He holds by the House of Bedford—they proclaim a re public. The whits know that without their hereditary nobles in the upper house they would have no voice in any aristocratic assembly ; but the -HUME faction are for rooting it out stump and branch. The words are spoken, and we wait the issue.- Lord JOHN is assailed, and his principles repudiated and denounced, by his own friends. What is then to be done ? We abide the result of the cabinet meeting advertised to be held this very day in,Downing-street. The approaching municipal election seems to engross the undivided attention of our local readers, and we can not wonder at this, seeing the desperate efforts which have been put forth by the levelling and destructive fac tion to obtain a monopoly of power in the new Town Council. Long before the bill was introduced to the lower horse of parliament, The Whig and radiCal party, through their ministerial friends, and the professional compounders of the measure, were made well acquainted with its various provisions ; and in the same degree be fore it became the law of the land, they were intimately conversant with its altered details, and carefully— we use this word advisedly—carefully instructed hew to turn the knowledge thus confided 'to them to the best advantage. Inflated beyond measure with hopes, the realization of which they never for a single moment questioned, and looking forward only to the possession of uncontrolled power, they flattered themselves with the certainty of ob taining a sure and easy victory. It is now nearly three years since the radical press of Liverpool told us, with all the pomposity of so many aristocratical , sextons, that toryism was dead and buried—that the conservatives were extinct—that the march of intellect had passed over them, and that they were• actually scared into oblivion. Silly twaddlers, themselves with one foot in the grave, sung this song over their cups. The small chapmen of literature joined rapturously in the Chorus. The turn coats and turnspits of every shade and colour harked joy ously in honour of the. event. The . mere pelf calculators of the press imagined they,saw in it a more abundant and profitable harvest; and from the papist to the unitarian, from the quaker to the thrice•dipped anabaptist, and from the jumper to the philosopher, we heardnoother elcla mation than—" THE TORIES ARE DEFUNCT!" In this feeling of frantic triumph, where madness and silliness were blended together,, the radical factions rushed in to decide the municipal election. They did not look round for honest and independent men, not par ticularly warped by party POW* to discharge impar tially the duties of ConiniVfl tletifibilmen. Without the slightest consideratiOn; dig; thii€tinined at once that no man was a proper cdritlldaid *as not also a furious and Alestructive OpulenCej integrity, . sutf,q- a stone in any of Bur sacred temples to remain. , if they had the power to injure them. They woUld to-morrow shut up thirteen Chtirchei in Liverpool, and'send the ministers of GOD to beg their bread, as the papists do in Ireland, if they were permitted ; :And are eighteen such men—such narrow-minded men—to be elected town councillors of Liverpool ? Bah ! 171-I g. LIVF;APOOL i sTAxpOv. C 0 11 ES POND if 21 7 C E TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL .52'.4.VDARD. Strt,—Haring seen a paragraph taking the round of the e papers to this effect—" By an act passed in the last session, introduced by Lord Lyndhurst, marriages between the widower or widow, or a sister or brother of the deceased wife or husband, are not merely void, but absolutely void," I am in good hopes there is some punishment attached to it, if not, I cannot see thatit is any more void than formerly. Now, I have to sui gest that a 'clause (if not already) should be introduced into the act of this kind—any clergyman, when parties apply for a license or for the banns to be published, should ask the ques tion, on vath, whethei they are so related ; if so, to refuse granting a license or to publish the banns of marriage, and any clergyman acting contrary should be liable to a very serious penalty, I would say, his gown stripped. This is the only way to. prevent such unlawful and infamous connexions. Your insertion of the above in your valuable paper, or any remarks you may make more to the purpose, will oblige yours, &c. Friday,. Nov. 13, 1835. DI ANA. SPOTS ON THE SUN TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAXD4RD. k. Siß,—To-day, at noon, I saw the greatest number of spots I ever saw at one time on the sun's disc. I counted no less than seventy in two ranges across the face of the'sun, and a number of them were of considerable size. Those near the west edge will go off in a day or two. Those that have telescopes may have a fine view.---Yours, &c., M. FIOLD4Iti. Rossell-street, Monday, IGth Nor., 1835. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, Half -past Seven o'clock. The affairs of Spain have been inuch - talked of on 'Change to-day in consequence of the communications received from Paris, stating that Louis Philippe has been requested to act as mediator between the belligerent parties. King Louis Philippe, it is said, is not quite satisfied with the progress of liberal opi nions in Spain.' Since the establishment of the present Spa nish ministry four newspapers have been commenced, two of which are published in the French language, and contain some severe strictures on the French government in reference to its management of the press. Although but little apprehension is entertained among the mercantile interests in the city that the differences which exist between the governments of France and America will lead to active hostilities, still war-risks upon French vessels from the Pacific to France have been effected to-day at Lloyd'S, at the rate of 10s. per cent. in addition to common insurance. The determination of the underwriters of Paris to deniand higher rates of insurance upon vessels, has no doubt induced similar transactions here, brit the belief is still very strong among com mercial men, particularly those connected with America, that the congress will not resort to any measures which may lead to hostilities. The course which it is considered most likely Ge neral Jackson will recommend to be adopted will be that of es tablishing a non-intercourse, and in this way crippling the pros perous trade which is carried on between France and America, the effects of which will soon be so severely felt by the French manufacturers as to induce them to solicit the government to adopt any means to re-open the intercourse. There have been a few commercial speculations entered into in the city, in anti cipation of the suspension of the trade between France and America. It is considered next to impossible for the differences to be arranged before the opening of the American Congress in December next, and least of all is it anticipated that Gene_ ral Jackson will make the apology demanded by France, for the expressions used by him derogatory to the honour of the French government, in his message last year. The investments mado by the commissioners for the litigated West India claims on Thursday last, amounted to £528,000 stock. The total sums previously purchased by the commis sioners on the same account, amounted to about £1,900,000, so that up to the present time, the stock held by the commissioners purchased by them out of the instalments on the West India loan, is not very far short of £2,430,000. The investments on account of the bankruptcy court this week were about £llO,OOO, and one for parties having received their compensations, to nearly an equal amount. Under these circumstances it is con sidered somewhat remarkable that the advance in the public se curities has not improved in a greater proportion than has ac tually taken place. Money has, however, been in demand for commercial purposes. The third instalment upon the West India compensation loan also became payable yesterday, amounting to 7 per cent. In consequence, however, of the large sum which has been already paid up, in order to obtain the advantages held out for prompt payment by the allowance of discount, the amount required to make good the advances was not considerable. The omnium of the West India loan has only fluctuated during the week between 3 and 4 per cent.. • premium. The public securities' have somewhat improved to-day. Con sols for account opened at 91 3 / 4 sellers, and closed firmly at 91a,' and for the opening in January at 92. Consols for money left off at 91 3 / 4 . Money has been more plentiful to-day, and in con sequence the value of Exchequer Bills had advanced to 16, and' India Bonds to' 6 premium. Otunium is nominally 'quoted a 4h premium. The 3 3 / 4 per cents. reduced at 984. New 3 3 / 4 per cents. 99g. Long Annuities 16i. Owing to the advises from Paris, the demand for Spanish Bonds has been animated in the Foreign Stock Market. The opening quotation of the new stuck was 46L and after several fluctuations they left off this afternoon at 47 3 / 4 . The old bonds closed at 51, the deferred stock at a rise from 23 3 / 4 to 241, and the passive at an advance from ln to 141. Portuguese Bonds have been eavourably influenced by the condition of Spanish Bonds, the 5 per Cents. closing at 901, and the 3 per Cents. at 58i 1. French 5 per Cents. are very steady at ,108 f. 50c., a prdof that the capitalists of the city do not apprehend any war between France and America. The South American Bonds are higher to-day. Chilian have risen from 43 to 44;.Colombian from 32 to 321, and Peruvian to 25. Aexitan closed firmly at 38. The Railway Shares have been in better demand to-day, and most of them at improved prices. The Great Western Railway touched 11 remit= ; Brighton, 4; London and Grzwichj. London and Blackwall, Grarid Sanction, 1 • and Hull and Selby, 21 premium per share. Tl•e Danube and Maine Shares still wear a heavy aspect, and, after touching 3 premium in the morning, closed this afternoon at 2z to 21 premium. Austrian, 103 Peruvian, 25 Belgian, 1001 Portuguese, (New,) 901 Brazilian, 85 Portuguese 3 per Cents., 581 Buenos Ayres, 35 Spanish, 51 Chilian, 44 Spanish, (New,) 471 Colombian, 321 I French 5 per Cents., 1081 Mexican, 38 I Dutch 21 per Cents.,_ 55&- SHARES.—Mexican, 6; Great . Western Railway, 15; Lon don and Brighton. (Stevenson's, ) 9; Loudon and Blackwall, 51; London and Birmingham, 891; London and Greenwich, 271; North Midland, Si; Commercial, 1 pin.; London Grand 1 Junction, pm. • Hull and Selby, 21 pm.; Danube and Maine, 2 THE SPANISH MERCENARIES We noticed some time since in a Cork police report, the de sertion of several privates of the 6Jth Rifles, and their captain, after a desperate resistance on the part of the ragamuffins whom they intended to join on board the Royal Tar steamer, the vessel in which they had embarked for Spain and glory. On Friday last, Patrick Sweeny, Timothy Donovan, Thomas Murphy, Edward Ward, Patrick Ryan, James Reardon, and Michael Davoran, recruits in the Spanish service, were tried at the Cork city sessions, on a charge of riotously assaulting Lieutenant Townsend and seven men of the 60th Rifles, who had proceeded to the Royal Tar at Cove, to search for the de serters found on board that ship. Another man named Donne gan, was also charged with assaulting William P. White, Esq., Harbout Master. The jury found a verdict of guilty against Ward, Sweetly, Davoran, Reardon and Donovan, and acquitted Murphy and Ryan. The Deputy Recordex, in passing sentence, addressed the prisoners at length, remarking strongly on the brutality they evinced on the occasien, when, but for the providence of the Almighty, Adjutant Townsend and his small party might have fallen victims to their ferocity. They were further guilty of a very serious offence—that of rescuing the deserters from the custody of their officer, and for which, under circumstances, they and others—either for sedticing them from the service and allegiance of his majesty, or concealing them in their flight, might under a penal statute, have forfeited their lives. The prisoners ; with &number of other recruits who were on board, seemed de termined to shed the blood of Mr. Townsend and his party, who were in the performance of a legal duty—a duty which they were bound to execute; and they (the prisoners) acted in that outrageous manuer, heedless of the commands of their officers, but for whose strenuous interference they might have been placed at the bar on a charge of murder, for which they would . in all probability have suffered the extreme penalty of the law, His Worship concluded, by sentencing them to 12 months' im prisonment, with labour on the tread-mill. The address and appearance of Murphy impressed the Court very much in his favour, and his acquittal afforded very general satisfaction. As soon as he was liberated, he inquired for Col. Ellis, expressed his gratitude for the interest manifested for him by the Colonel end the other officers of the Rifles, and said he .should never forget their kindness. The Colonel and his brother officers, iu return, declared their gratification at the issue of the trial, and their conviction not only that Murphy had had nothing whatever to do with the assault, but that he had to the .utmost exerted himself for its prevention. Murphy, we understand, was "designed for a very different mode of life from that which lie is now pursuing, and we have heard that to a gentleman who expressed his regret that so line a young fellow should have embarked in so " forlorn a hope" as the Spanish expedition, he replied, " What could I do ?—I was intended for the church, but my father died before my edu cation was completed. Mv prospects were blighted. 1 had nothing else to turn to, and 1 was glad of the opportunity of embarking as a cadet." THE BERWICK AND KELSO WARDER, Like conservative associations new conservative journals pre rapidly starting into existence in every part of the united king dom. We need not waste much time in searching for the cause of this extraordinary change which has come over the people, or in inquiring how that change has been wrought, the reason for it being plain and palpable enough, namely, the people are tired of political agitation, sick of Whig government, disgusted with the insane ravings of the radical faction, anti quite out of conceit with thejouruals which have hitherto promulgated their doctrines. The Berwick Warder will be conducted by a gentleman of great talent and celebrity as a political writer, who is not likely to sleep upOn his poSt. We take the following extract from his address to his readers:— " Among our national privileges, there is none more valuable than the liberty of the press; and at no period haVe the people of Great Britain had a fuller enjoyment of that liberty than at the present naornent. We may even adopt the language of Ta citus, in which he describes the reign of Trajau, and say— ' Rare temporum felicitate, übi entire qua cells, et qua sentias dicere licet'—' Such being the happiness of the times; that .you may think as von would wish, and speak as you would think.' But this liberty is every day most shamefully abused. Its in fluence is constantly directed by evil-minded men to create dis; affection and discord in society ; and thus a blessing is con verte,,), into a very curse. It snail be our earnest endeavour, not merely to avoid the offence, but to counteract the effects of it. The people at large should ever bear in mind, that though they hold separate positions in society, and possess different rights, that' are still but links of one grand chain, which is ne cessary to bind together the social structure, as well as to con nect and consolidate the elements , of our mixed constitution. . Upon the industry, morality, and welfare of the warking clas ses, the prosperity of the empire must mainly depend; ther arc worthy, therefore, of the highest regard of all who occupy a more exalted rank in life ; While these, again, deserve respect as their superiors, and benefactors. Upon these subjects, then, it will be the especial duty of Tri a WARDER to bestow all the care, all the vigilance which its name imports. We have Hearts resoived, and hands prepared, The blessings we enjoy to gitaril! Anil never, we trust, will the one he found faithless, or the other idle; in the cause Ive have espouretV TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST4NDARD. Sut,--I beg to call the attention of the public to the very low and pitiful insults which the radicals are offerintr to their op ponents by pasting their placards of ward meetings, &c.. on premises not yet defaced by any public notices. I allude snore particularly to a handbill poSted on Dr. Brandreth's premises, Rodney-street: The reformers knew that Dr. B. was proposed by the conservatives as a councillor fur Rodney-street ward, and thought it as well to annoy him by daubing his premises with a radical annoucement of a meeting in the same ward. I.Ook around the town- and see the .many improper places where the radical placards are to be found. I can name Mr. Foster's, llodueystreet ; a warehouse next to the Mayor's, i❑ Duke-street; and several other places where handbills were never before posted. I write this in hopes that the conserva tives will take notice of it by instructing their bill-stickers not to follow so bad an example.—Yours, &c., • A CONSERVATIVE. TO THOMAS BOLTON, ESQ. linoTnrit Buenass,—l greet you with the hug of fraterniza tion, a species of salutation to which you, the urea major of our municipal hemisphere, can have no possible objection. You owe the present address.to the great skill as a genealogist which you displayed before the corporation commissioners. I now call upon ybu to enlighten the public upon souse points connected with the great unknown candidates for seats in council. This will be no difficult task to you as these inquiries principally relate to your own intimate acquaintances, while your former researches must have been laborious, from your slight knowledge of the parties to whom they referred. You can probably state whether relationship between the members of the new town council will not lead to the same abuse of family influence which was your subject of complaint against the old corporation; and when you have settled this point to your own satisfaction, you can proceed to investigate the fol lowing problems : '" First,—The degree of connexion between Mr. Earle and the two Messrs. Hornby, and whether a near relation of the latter was not a disappointed candidate for church promotion, and whether that promotion was not refused at the instance of hi congregation, and for neglect of duty, and what effect the pre.o sence of his three relations in the council is likely to have upon his prospects. " Second,—The precise degree of relationship (including your favourite cousinship-in-law) which exists in that pestilent knot of sociniaus nominated by yourself and others as candi dates, and whether one of them (Mr. Enoch Harvey) is not the uncle of the youth you intend to force into the office of town clerk." Should your modesty lead you to decline the task of thus chronicling the illustrious obscure, I may probably be tempted to supply the deficiency, notwithstanding the small assistance I can derive in my researches from the herald's office. It will indeed be a curious inquiry why you, who denounced as a crime one common councilman having married the sister of another, should lend your support to a list containing the names of a brace each of Horubys, of Holmes, and of Croppers; and why a sect, (that is the word,) scarcely numbering in this town a thousand followers should attempt to gain an actual majority in the new council, fOr of so many rank socinians does your list of candidates consist. . :=-, --- Nor will it be uninstructive to follow this inquiry further, and view the effect of a snug little farnily party of aldermep—how wonderfully your ideas will expand under such circumstances — you will soon confess you were in the wrong—human nature, my dear sir, is everywhere and always the same, and I have no doubt that, when you get the power, you will do all the good you can to your ow❑ relations and friends; Your actions already prove yaur good intentions. Let me give you one hint at parting. I have no doubt that we shall have much pleaSant colloquy together, andl should be sorry to offend you by differing in opinion with you, for tha t I am told is a thing you cannot bear; but do you not think it is a little too strong to try three of them in one ward ? You know what I mean. Mix theirs by all means. Your friend Dr, thickburn will tell you too strong a dose is as bad as none at all, and perhaps the patient may reject it altogether. Ilelieve.me, Yours very respectfully, Lori-street, Yin. 14. HENRY SNOOKS. TO Ski'WEL liOPE, ESQ. Stu,—Time was, and that not long since, when I and others used to look to you and Mr. Blackburn as our leaders in every good cause which had for its object the glory Of our Redeemer; but now, alas! " how is the gold become dim !—how is the tine gold changed!" Mr. B. has becotne a leader of poii tical agitators, and yourself a supporter of a certain scandalous newspaper. These are . signs which seem to justify the present general opinion ; that your religion is much akin to that of the monster Cromwell, and that you and your party are not unaptly denominated Cromwelites. Will you deign me an answer when I ask it your subscription of two pounds towards propping up a journal, which by the remaining morality of the English people has been doomed to immediate annihilation, be an avowal of your approval of its principles? or do you suppose that £2 will purchaSe for your sect an immunity from its scurrility and libellous calumnies? Have not all the christian churches (except the baptists) in their turn been the objects of its fury ? Think not, sir, that they (the baptists) will escape its vengeance if, by your aid, the £I,OOO should be sent to his help, without which he owns - that his slander must cease. It is too absurd a►r idea to suppose that your subscription to this vile thing was intended to conciliate the churchmen, the ►methodists, and the quakers, who each in their turn have been the objects of its libels, with a view to become their representative in the coun::il for the— EVERTON WARD. WEST DERBY WARD. On Wednesday last a public meetingof the burgesses of West Derby was held at the Workhouse, Low-hill, on the summons of the overseers, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course most proper to be adopted at the ensuing municipal election. Mr. John Smith, wine-merchant, was called to the. chair, and delivered an eloquent and luminous address on the importaru of the subject. and the necessity of electing fit and proper persons to represent the interests of the ward in the town council. Mr. Homer moved a resolution pledging the meeting to elect as councillors only such men as were intimately ac quainted with the business and affairs of the township, the ob ject of which resolution was, we are told, to favour the tory cause, as the said township has long beers under the management of men of that party. There was, however. a pretty strong muster of reformers present, and an admendment, adjourning the meeting for six months, moved by Mr. Homer and seconded by Mr. Blain, was carried by a majority of three to one. Thanks. were then voted to the chairman fur his able and impartial con duct in the chair, and the meeting separated.—Mercury. On this subject we have received the following errata from a correspondent :—" Mr. 1-lomer moved a resolution pledging the meeting to elect as common councillors only such men as were intimately acquainted with the business and tali; s of the tows ship; the object of which resolution was, we are told, (by disturbing political officers who ought to attend exclusively to their local duties,) not to favour the tory cause, us time sale township has been long under the good management (admitted even by reformers themselves) of gentlemen of that party." The Mercury ought not to lend a willing ear and publish state- Merits from paid servants, hurting the independent feelings of the township, and most unfairly applying everything to party purposes, and this is not the first time. Be good enough to insert this in your useful paper, and you will oblige, , PAM. PLAY AND NC) PARTY MAN. Liverliool,l6th November, 1835. LOYALIST SONG. (Fdr the Liverpool Standard.) Britannia now calls all her warriors around her; Let true-hearted Britons the summons attend; The foemen arc banded in hopes to confound her, And rule o'er the land with democracy's sway. Her king and her nobles, her pride and her glory, Which they would n'erthrow, let us swear to defend; Let the arm that is strong and the head that is hoary, Together conibiu'd with the traitors contend. All good men and true, quickly rouse ye and rally, And join hand and heart in defence of the cause ; Our war cry shall he, as resistless we sally. " iluzza for our king, constitution, and laws !" The bright star of Brunswick shall ever reign o'er us, With loyalty's shouts tmo the welkin shall ring, As the crest-fallen foemen with shame fly befute us, We'll give them three cheers for the church and the king: BENEFITS ivy THE TIIk4TRE-ROYAL Mr. Leer.—This gentletnaxt takes his benefit, and at the asanae time takes leave o►f the stage as a profession; to=morrow evening, beingrabont to engage in some other occupation. In speaking of Mr. Lacy's. talents as an actor, we must draw upon our youthful recollections, in other words, we can only say what -we thought of him two yea'rs agO, when we were in the habit of occasionally attending the perforniances at the Theatre-Royal. At that time we considered him a young man who would rise to a respectable rank on the stage by his industry end talents, and we have good reason to believe that our prediction has been verified. During the last two seasons he has, we understand, become a general favourite in the following range of characters, namely, the P vii;ce of Wales, in Henry the Fourth; Mercutio ; Ftzulconbridy ; Michael Casio; Gristiano ;Wellborn; Dori court; HurVy ThiVnan ; Captain Absolute; Bob Handy; and other parts of this class. Mr. Lacy, we are informed, quits the stage at the request of his friends, who move in a highly res pectable sphere of life. He has our best wishes for his success in his net' undertaking whatever it may be. We refer our readers to his advertisement for the particulars of the enter tainment which be has provided for to-morrow night. Miss Ctiart.m.--The benefit of this lady will talc place on Friday night, the 20th instant. As we have never had the plea sure of seeing any one of Miss Chaplin's performances, and as we do not chance to have a volume of play bills we can only speak of her claims on the attention of the public from public rumour, which assures us that she is an actress of very considerable merit. She will, appear on Friday in the Charac ters of Donna Olivia, in Mrs. Cowley's comedy of " A Bold Stroke for a Husband," and. Oscar, in " Gustavus the Third." Mr. STUART announces the play of " Hamlet" and the "Bri gand" as the performances for his benefit on Monday neNt, the 23d instant. Here, again, we find ourselves in the self-same pre dicament with respect to thisgentleman as we found ourselves in the case of MisS Chaplin, never having seen Mr. Stuart on the stage, and having no other knowledge of him than that he is the successor of Mr. Vandenhofr, who, at the close of the last season, was transplanted from the Liverpool to the London boards, and that since he joined the Theatre-Royal he has had what is called the leading business of the stage. We have, however, heard Mr. Stuart very highly spoken of as a gentleman, as a scholar, and as a tragedian, who has acquired a considerable degree of professional reputation here and elsewhere in the higher walks of the drama. On these grounds, and believing that a correct estimate has been formed of his abilities, we venture to express a hope that, in addition to the applause he has gained, he will also be honoured with something more substantial as a reward for his,past exertions on his benefit night. FIRE ON THE lt it.w a Y.—We understand legal. proceedings have been commenced against the directors or the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Company, to recover the value of the goods destroyed at the late tire on the railway, the directors des ny ing the liability of the company.- CANTEnurny DINNERS.—TWO dinners were given at Can terbury on Tuesday last, the first by the conservatives to the Right Hon. Stephen itumbold - Lushington, the member re turned for that city by the church, King, and constitutional party, the second to Lord Albert Convnghani,`his popular or whig-radical colleague. The opposition dinner given to his lordship appears to have been a very sorry affair. DEVIZES anczioN.—rThe election of a member for this bo rough will take place this day.. The Loudon papers speak with .crreat confidence of the return of Mr. Estcourt, the conservative 'Candidate. Who is oppoSed by Mr. Dundas. a radical. The va cancy was occasioned by the death of Wadhain Lock, Esq., the late whit; member for that borough. THE LATE FIRE AT LEvENsHULME.—The coroner's jury which sat on the body of \V. Worth, the man who lost his life by an explosion of gas iu these works, returned a verdict of man slaughter against John Wheeldon, the manager of the works, who was immediately committed to Kirkdale House of Correc tion for trial at the next county assizes. This verdict was founded upon the evidence of John Richmond, who stated • that Wheeldon ordered Morris to take off the lid of the retort in consequence of which the explosion took place, which caused the death of Worth, and the destruction of the premises. Tim ITALIAN OPET:A.—The Theatre•royal, Manchester, will be opened on Saturday next, for the performance of a se ries of Italian operas, under the management of Signor Ma rani. The list of engagements comprises the names of several foreign singers from the Italian theatres of London and Paris, and also from the theatres of Naples and Milan. Signor de Val is likewise engaged as prime tenore. COURAGEOUS CoNnum—On Wednesday last, about nine o'clock in the evening, Mr. Henry Abram. of the Canal-Office, heard a splash in the water, and seeing something like a• hand reaching out, he humanely plunged in and succeeded in draw ing out a roan who appeared lifeless; he was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, and by active means restored. Intoxica tion was the cause of the accident. A WIGAN JURY.—Some months ago a manufacturer in Wigan and his son were tried at the Borough Sessions ou a charge of receiving embezzled Materials, and so clear was the case against them, that, calculating of nothing short of trans portation, they converted all their property into cash before trial, with the intention of making it available in the colony to which they expected to be sent. To the great surprise of the whole court, however, and not lees to their own, they were de clared no:guilty. A few•days :lifer this unlooked-for event a gentleman of our acquaintance met two.of the jury in company, and asked them what were their motives for giving a verdict so contrary to the evidence. The first, who was a thorough-bred 'Llitieasbire man, replied, 'in the rich dialect of the county, Seen the lail:aia'rni - rviin't schoo rgither, and it wad - ha' bin a hard ease wr 't'a suit an owd scitoofililo cross reveyier." The other,-a:canov scot, had ano less ehatacteris tie reason to assign for-his conduct. 'Ala troth, soon," said he, "the wild fellow owed me tan pawl, and, gin lee ha' bin convicted, srte'd ne'er ha' seen a bawbee on'tl" . SUFFOCATION IIY BUIINING.CIiAIICOAL. — Last Friday ercn ing, three men who were employed to destroy the rats in the brig George Gordon went into the hold for the purpose of renewing the charcoal fires, which had been burning all the day; the first man, in the act of stooping to the tire-grate, inhaled a sufficient ,portion of carbonic acid to cause hint to fall, in a state of insen sibility, into the heavy atmosphere ofgas; a eiecubd and a third, in an attempt to rescue the first, shared e similar fate. An alarm was given, and is a few minutes they were got out of the ship without further accident, and conveyed in an inanimate state to the Northern Hospital. Immediate assistance was rendered by Mr. Blower, house-surgeon to that useful institu tion, and we are happy to state that all of them were next day sufficiently recovered to leave the hospital. • DOCK PoucE.—Mr. Charles 'Trill, late acting inspector in this establishment has been promoted to the rank of inspector, vice Mr. Foster. Mr. Rohert Craven, late clerk, has succeeded Mr: Charles Tvrill as actin,* inspector. . FORTUN PIir.SERV4TION.—Last Sutitlay afternoon the body of a young woman,. apparently in a lifeless state, was observed by one of the dock police floating with thetide, near the north end of the Prince's dock. The policeman, in a very praiseworthy manner promptly desired a boatman who was near the spot when the body was seen, to take it into his boat s when it was discovered that life' was not quite extinct. Medical aid was immediately procured, and we are glad to say the young woman is fast recovering. _ We have not been able to ascertain how she got into this perilous situation. , COLONEL Nartna.—We understand that the Colonel Napier who delivered the incendiary speech at Bath last week, is au uld infirm creature scarce able to crawl, with one foot in the grave. This vain body is ambitious of representing Bath in.the House of Commons, without the hope-of a chance. Hifi frantic appeals to the rabble are therefore fruitless. 11 is brother, the Portuguese mercenary, who made some money by pirating the Miguel fleet was rejected at Portsmouth last election by an immense majority: A QUAKER CANDIDATE.—We have a question or two to ask the liberal quaker candidate for the West Derby ward. Do von not know that the author of the letter in the' Chronicle of Satur day last called himself a dissenter, and signed himself a Rate payer? Were you not privy to the letter? Did you not know it contained a falsehood, that the mover was not a churchman but a Roman catholic, and the seconder a nondescript? Have you not been trying every means in. your power to succeed fur the ward although with a modest face (tor modesty is surely there depicted j-abd oily tongue you declared von did not wish to sit? Have you not had the tax collector for West Derby closeted with you to ascertain how you would stand ? Has he not flattered you that you would succeed, because Mr. W. P..Freme went too far? "Do you not entertain precisely the same sentiments as W. P. Freme on all questions of government ? Have you not over and over again said you would do away with the church? Forsooth, modest William Blain, we know . you well, almost as well as the dealers in grain do. We would recommend the rate payers to inquire about you, and what are, youi pretensions.— From a Correspolidem. FIRE IN A VEssra, IN 'HIE PRINCE'S DOCK.—Last Friday evening, about half-past seven o'clock, a fire was discovered by three r i gjers in the hold of the brig George Gordon, lying on the gridiron in Prince's dock basin. It appears that a quantity of sulphur had been put into the hold of the vessel to clear it from vermin, which by some means not ascertained, had ignited. By the prompt assistance of the fire-engines the flames were got under in about an hours' time. We understand the damage done to brig is inconsiderable. FEMALE RIGUTS.-A traveller, who has just visiteathe Pome ranian island of linen, speaking of the people of Monchgut, says, " Females choose their husbands, the proposal of mar riage proceeding from - the woman and • not from the mail, a with ns." The personal estate of the late Mr. Farquhar, of Foothill Abbey, value £700,000, is now besieged in the Court of Chan cery by a host of nephews, nieces cud inure distant relations, each seeking for admmistratiou. • Sir John Rennie has presented a second report to the Com missioners of the Piers, on the subject. of the extension of the harbour of Scarborough. Sir John recommends the formation of another pier much further to the south, and the shortening of the old pier so as to form a much more commodious harbour, acid render it easier of access during the prevalence of the east erly gales Which have hitherto been so destructive both to life and property. The completion of this important woik is ex pected to facilitate the formation of a railroad from that place to the West Riding. The expense of piers is estimated at 1:-18,000 only. Scarborough will then present one of the most valuable asylum harbours on the eastern coast.—Roil paper. BURYING IN Cnoss ROADS.—The British Magazine gives the following explanation of the origin of this custom :•—" It was usual to erect crosses at the junction of four cross-roads, as a place self-consecrated, according to the piety of the age ; and it was tiotwith a notion of indignity, but in a spit it of charity, that those excluded from holy rites were buried at the crossing cads, as places next in sanctity to consecrated ground." Towards the close of the reign of the late Emperor Kea-King; the son of a rich widow named Chun, of the district Tae-yucn coo, rendered himself: notorious by the lengths to which he car ried his extravagance. Among his amusements that of chess was a favourite; but, not content with playing :t upon a piece of board or paper, as is customary with the Chinese, he caused a large room to be painted as a chess-board, with seats at either side for himself and friend. For chess-men he purchased a set of beautiful female slaves, who were clad in various colours, and went through the evolutions of knights, pawns, castles, &c., as the game required, and at a given signal. When a piece was lost, its representative immediately left the apartment. When the Emperor heard of these proceedings, he could scarcely con tain his chagrin on finding himself outdone in luxury, acid af fected the highest displeasure that slaves should be purchased 'for such a questionable purpose. Chun was hued 3;000,0U0 of taels, and banished to the Black Dragon River for life, beirr told to congratulate himself that his " brain-cup" was not separated from his lihOPlCieffi..--HOirtatet Voyage Round the ht orb,/, Va. • Louis Philippe is thericliest private Europe, The is stipposefl, eniii , l at a week's tintieet realite four millions' but the Citizen King could cokttlittlad eleven ruillion.4: DR. ABER.NIiTH '1 AND THE COM who was of a scorbutic habit, was, for a c,insiderable time, the patient of Abernethy; the guineas followed one another into 'the pocket of the doctor, and the actor got nti better. At length, in no pleasant humour, he presented himself. No better, doctor!' " Urn," said Abernethy, "I,'m afraid y - oti dua't strictly adhere to your regimen—vegetable diet." " Sir," said the enraged actor, "I've taken as much green stuff as a jackass; and yet I'm no-better;" and flounced out of the house. Abernethy, who was toe eccentric himself to be offended by eccentricity in others, had a prescription made up, and sent it with hii red pills to Mr. with this direction :—" Let the jackass take one of these per night; and go oh with his hut mdsh y* green btoff as usual." —New Monthly Magazine. SNUFF TA 15JNG.—Louis XIV. was a bit ter discourager of this habit. valets were obliged to tenoiince it wheti they were appointed to their office ; and the Duke of 'Harcourt was sup posed to have died of apopleXy. in ccal,,equente of having, to please his Majesty, left off a habit which he had Carried to excess, ORIGIN or STEAM POWER.-It appears front a letter written to the Marquess de Cinq Mars, in the reign of Louis XIII., by the celebrated Marion de Lonny, that a man confined in the Bicetre by Cardinal Richelieu as a monomaniac had discovered, in the application of the steam of boiling water, a substitute for the power of man, and the force of water in directing various operations. Marion de Lortne saw this pretended madman during a visit she paid to the Bicetre in company with the Mar quess of \Votcester, who is considered in England the first discoverer of the power of steam. Irish PnEss.—There were, until within a late period, five daily newspapers printed in Dubin), but two of them have sunk after a three years' struggle, although the stamp duty is in Ire land only oue-half of its amount in Great Britain. There are yet. five three-daily and six weekiy papers in Dublin. No daily paper exists. iu Scotland. MR INFALLIBLE REFORM Bir.t...—We believe we were the first to direct public attention to the eiceeding fallibility of the present tribunals of registration. We trust we shall soon have to announce measures fur the reform of their futictions.—Globe. (An organ of the government.) ELEGANT FLATTERY.—When the ambassador of Henry the Fetirth of France was in England, he was at court on a birth night, and Qaeen Elizabeth asking him has htr liked her ladies, he replied, knowing her majesty h:id no dislike for flattery, "It is hard to judge of the Stars in the presence of the sun." - - - Lord Denman continues so tin well'as to he unable to take his seat in the Court of King's Bench. His lordship's complaint is said to be erysipelas. A report was very prevalent in Westminster Hall yesterday that sir. Justice,Vau;'::- r i his seat on the bench of the Court of Commou Ni.e believe there is no truth in the teport- ut-presoot r ..the c, he Icil robe were not long in naming two or three genlioinyil, one tit whom is a singly gown, as the learned judge's sticceisor. To the last inquiries after the learned judge'S health, we are i.appy to state much more favourable answers have been received. The preliminaries of a Mail iage are understood to be arranged between the II on. Thomas Liddell, second son of Lord Ravens worth, and brother of the Countess of Mulgrave, and Miss Cecil Wellesley, daughter of the Hon. and l.ev. Dr. Wellesley, and niece to the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Liddell is one of the com missioners for examining and deciding ou the architectural plans for building the Houses of-Parliament. The ceremony will take place at Ravensworth Caetlealierthumberfand. TRUE PATEroTism.—To love ourcountry with elevated feel ing, we ought to begin by supplying it, in ourselves, With citizens of whom that country need not be ashamed. The bare idea of being scoffers of religion and of good manners, a'td yet loving our country worthily, is a thing wholly incompatible, as much so as that of forming a just appreciation of some beloved object, and yet imagining that we are not bound tie be constant to her. If any man revile religion, conjugal faith, decency and probity, and still exclaims, " My couutry, my country !" ;to not believe him to be sincere. He is a hypocrite of patriotism; be is one of the worst of bad citizens. No man can be a good patriot who is not a virtuous man—who does not feel and tote the whole of his duties, and use every exertion to diechage them. ANNUAL CONsUMPTION OF FOOD IN LONDON.—SOTIIe idea of the traffic of the vast metropolis may be gained from the follow ing account of the annual consumption of fund :—Of the qnan tity of cattle soldin Smithfield market, we have the most ac curate returns, and find that during the last twelve months the numbers' were 156;000 beasts, 21,000 calves,. 1,5004X)0 sheep, land 20,000 pigs. This does not, however, by any means form ' the total consumed in London, as large quantities of meat in carcasses, particularly pork, are daily brought from the coun ties round the metropolis. The total value of the cattle sold iu Smithfield annually, is calculated at £8,500,000. It is sup posed_ that a million a Year is expended in fruits and vegetables. The consumption of wheat ad - mums to a million of quarters an nually, of this four-fifths are supposed to be made into bread, being a consnmption of sixty-four millions of quartern loaves, every year, in the metropolis atone. The annual consumption of butter in London, amounts to about 11,000, and that of cheese to 13,(Y00 tons. The money paid annually for milk is supposed to amount to £1,250,000. The quantity of poultry annually consumed in London, is supposed to cost between VO,OOO and £80,000; that of gaMe depends upon the plentifulness of the season. There is nothing, however, more surprising than the sale ef rabbits; one salesman in Leadenhallonarket, during a considerable portion of the year, is said to have sold 14,000 rab bits weekly. WARSAW, Oct. 20.—Potosit CONFISCATED ESTATES.—By an ordinance of the 16th October, the Emperor Nicholas has apportioned a number of estates its the kingdom of Poland, the property of Polish patriots, among sixteen Russian generals, whose tenure of those lands will be as their hereditary property in perpetuity. The individuals thus endowed ere bound to bear the same charges and obligations which no set on the rest of landed property in that country. The estates shall, however, on no account whatever be parcelled in portions by succession; or be charged with any new übligations, or mortgaged, or aliens ated in any way. The right of inheritance is confined to all legitimate descendants professing the religion of the Greek Church; and in_pueticular it titian always eleseenel on thilieldeet cEild—on the sons in preference to the aitkOiters. In default o f a lineal heir, the inheritance is under the same conditions to descend on the nearest collateral branch of that family. In case .or the. extinction of it, the estate shall return to the treasury. This is likewise to take place iu case no successor of that family of the Russian nobility and of the Russo-Greek Church should remain alive. The endowed' have to bear all the costs arising from the circumstance of the grant. The French have at Algiers an establishment called the Gar= den of Experiment and Naturalization; its object is great and useful, timely, to try among almost ail horticultural produc e tioos what kinds will best succeed in this country. On a space • of eighty acres there are twenty-five thousand trees, bushes, and plants. All this tells interestingly and honourably for France. The experiment seems magnificent, but, like a French compli.• went, it is mere showy than stile:tumid. linquired of the bead gardener how many labourers he bail in the Piipinire. Twenty he told me. I ton ene great judge of the subject, but it struck me that twenty pail; of hands were too ~few for eighty acres of nursery ground and 2.5,000 trees and plants. " For that matter," lie replied, " . if I had but twenty active fellows, and thee were weihpahl, I should have no tear; but 1 have only miserable na tives, or Europeans that are the scum of the earth, and even these are ill paid." " And what is your own salary, may I ask ?" " Why, sir, 1,500 francs aevear, but they are not regu larly forthcoming. lu short, the e er'hole concern is starved by the French government; and though it would cost no great matter to get abundanoe of aster, I: have not more than a third part of what• would suffice ,tor ereigation."—Letters from. the South, ix Nett , Non filly Aloomeate. einca Idtaw of 144)“11 JoaN RUSSELL'S SPEECH AT Buis - Pito—The speech of Lord John Russel; at the Bristol dinner constitutes a fair defence of the conduct of ministers during the last session. The outdo loid appears to us rather sensitive on the subject of Mr. O'Connell',; adhesion to the ministry. It would be more honest and more independent in Lord John ltiissell and his lolleog,ues to despise tory slanders; and acknowledge the übliganotis of giatitude which ministers owe to O'Connell. Instead of this trank and honourable act , mission, we are treated to a string of jesuitical sophistries, which affect to show• that ministets are iodependent of the agitator. This we deny. O'Connell's defection from the whig party would precipitate thedissolution of the preseut cabinet and restore the tories to power. The hopes of Sir It. Peel to protract the exise tence of his a.dunuistration reseed on li_ie chance of a dissension between O'Conuelland the present ministry. The learned mem ber for Dublin is the main prop of the ministry, though we must admit his services ate treated rather contemptuously at the after dinner orations of Lord John Russell and others of his colleagpes: It is absurd in the extreme to deny that ministers have been in fluenced iu their policy towards Ireland by Mr. O'Connell. The reverse is the case, and the hon. and it...aided gentieman's powere ful support is given in return fur the ministerial adoption of his views with respect to Ireland. The wings are ton prone to MD promise with their enemies, end to conciliate the favour of an ad-: verse faction, at the expense of devoted friends. With the ex ception of the cold and aristocratic meaner in tehich O'Connell'i influence was treated, we have nuthing else to censure in the speech.-7'ette Sitio Darer:Aloe Betitea AND POI.ITICAL DIFFERENCES OF THE QUEEN of FORTEGAI..—Li4uIi, uv..s.— : lier imperial Majesty the Duchess of Bragauza is on the eve of removin g to the palace of Bemposta, from whence the Infanta Donna Isabel Maria moved yesterday to the small palace near Ajuda, in order to leave it for her illustrious relative. The _change from the Neces sidades must be an agreeable one, because I know from most unquestionable authority that her imperial mejesty and the queen are hardly upon speaking terms, and often do not exchange a word during forty-eight hours, her must faithful majesty having been worked upon by the Camat illa until she has conceived a very great dislike, bordering on hatred, towards her lamented father's most exemplary widow,, The ,said Cm:patina is now reported to base received the _uceeesion of the Archbishop of Lacedaemonia, generally known in England as Padre Marcos. They are now doing their hest to induce the queen to change her ministers, that is to say, all but Marshal litildaOha and Captain Jervis, which would have been done yesterday had a proper subs stitute foe N. Silva Carvalho been found. Count Lavradio was painted out to replace the Duke of Painiella, M. Trigoso instead ' of Rodrigo da Fonseca Megalhaes, lac. 1 must du the gallant marshal the credit to say that he has no hand in the intrigues in question; and that he stands firm by his colleagues ; a pretended insult, said by the Archbishop of Laeedeemonia to have been given to him by the dean of the cathetlial, a brother of M. Silva ! Carvalhu, was the pretext seized _upon in order to irritate bet majesty's mind against her ministers.. Very hard words were used by her to two of then - I.—Letter of a Contemporary. FREDERICK WILLIAM 1., KING OF Pausste.--The King ex pected every one who spoke to. him to look him full in _the face, for lie thought that he could read iu. every one's eves whether the story he told was true or not. He was therefore very angry when persons olio saw him cooling endeaeoured to .avoid hinn A poor dancing-master one day tiled to escape the usual com pliments by scampering as fast as possible into a neighbouring house. The King perceived him, and sent one of his pages to fetch him back; and, it, order to be quite sure that be was what be represented himself to lea the King obliged him on the spot to, dance a sarabande. A still harder sentence was passed on another French dancing-master, who met the King on horse back on the public road, anti set -off at a gallop without paying any attention to the King's desire that be should. stop. The King despatched a page after him. Whe at length found him se creted in a hay-hilt. V; ben brought before the King, he passed him Sell off as a travelling agent of a commercial honse at Mar seillet; hut this story hawing turned out to be false, the King sentenced him to care rubbish for one month at the rebuilding of St. Peter's Church. A Jew boy ii Ito, in order to avoid meet ing him in a very narrow street, endeavoured to get away as fast as possible, was overtaken be the King. "Wby do vou run away?" said he to hint. " because lam afraid," replied the tree bliug Jew. "You should not be afraid of me, eott ought to love me," iejoined the King, at the same time letting him feel the weight of his cane. Peesous, however, who knew how to return au answer, often made their fertene. The King • one day stopped in the street a young student in theology, and finding that he was a native of Berlin, said, " Ah o the bean people are good for nothing!" "That may be trite in the main," answered the student, 'but I know two natives of Bere lin who are exceptions to the rule." "And who ate they ? " asked the King. "Your majesty and myself," replied the sdi dent. Th'e King desired him to call at the palate next day, and, having 'passed a very favourable ,examination; he was immesli: etely appointed to a vacant living_—Foreign Quartet -1y fuss ou hous e ,pie at