The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

COYTEMPORARF PRESS. The reduction of the duty on flint glass will prove highly beneficial to the manufacturers of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. We have reason to believe that the parties who enjoy the benefit will be in no small degree indebted for it to the exertions of Mr. Hawkes. the mem her for Dudley,'who has spared no pains in impressing upon the government the date of ruin with which the glass trade was threatened. This elegant and once flourishing branch of manufac tures was so rapidly declining in the hands of the fair and honest trader, owing, to the nature and amount of the excise duties, that he would soon have been compelled to concede it altogether to the smuggler. It is a* known fact that at the present moment there are no less than from sixty to one hundred illicit glass-blowers' establish ments working in the cellars in LOndon, and others in every large town in the kingdom in the same proportion. It is also equally notorious that from the nature of the manufacture, no considerable duty can be levid on it; 'a fact proved by the frequent detections of the smuggler without any diminution of his general operations. The first evil arising from this state of a fiscal law is the injury which it inflicts upon the honest and the boun ty which it holds out to .the dishonest portion of the com munity. A heavy wrong is•thereby done to individuals, and the standard of public morals is depreciated by act of parliament. The second evil results from its effect upon the national interests in a commercial sense. In the' hands of the illicit artist it is self-evident that so beautiful and delicate an art=for it is 'an art in some of its bran Ches of the very highest order—must of necessity become de teriorated. He cannot exercise his ingenuity in a right direction,and the enterprise which in a lawful calling Would be employed in the extension of this . market is hestoWed upon'his struggle with the law. In the mean time the foreigner, free frOm the burden and restraint of expensive and severe excise regulations, as also from the competition of the smuggler at home, not only rivals us in the general markets of the world, but actually out strips us in our own. It is a fact that the celebrated op ticiuon Mr. Dolland is at this time compelled to obtain his glass for achromatic purposes from abroad. The French, the AmeriCans, and other nations, have been rapidly in creasing their exports' of this important manufacture to markets which Great Britain once exclusively supplied. . It is to cases like this that the, principles of free trade should be applied, where the temporary'sacrifice of reve nue is to foster British interests and ultimately to in crease the stock of British wealth through the channels of British commercial supremacy. Then, indeet4 those principles are the arced of the patriot and the true phi losophy of the wise,— Worcester Guardian. • FEMALE FASHIONS FOR SEPTEMBER.. MORNING DRESSES.—The excessive warmth of last month prevented, during the middle of the day, a full dis-. play of elegance and fashion; in the c oo l t w ili g ht on l y could we catch glimpses of fair forms reclining in their open carriages, or courting the western breeze on horse back. September, therefore, commences with peculiar, attraction; and we can promise to lay before our vota-- ries a seducing assemblage of novelty 'and good taste. The tout envemble of costume, perhaps, has not changed, but in many details we observe a nearer approach to the antique style than has ever been attempted ; truly, how ever, may it be said, that the hoop is worn on the arm; and gives an equal effect of slenderness to the waist, and roundness to the corsage, as before its present promo tions; an inconvenience sometimes arises from the capes or pelerine being injured by this extreme fulness, and several morning dresses have appeared with that appen dage placed like evening drapery across the bust; trim• med very full„ leaving the corsage alone quite plain ; but the Usual mode still prevails, and thetobjection is obvi ated by cutting the pelerine very deep on the shoulders, and throwing the fulness of the sleeve off towards the, arm; flounces are gaining favour ; muslin dresses are frequently ornamented with them, a coloured ribbon being passed through a broad hem at the edge; in fuller dresses, they are worn of lace and blond, and as autumn advances, we doubt not that silk will be trimmed with black lace; wrapping fronts are not so prevalent as they , were last month ; they do not suit the cape or mantilla which this season requires; narrow cuffs are usually seen to long sleeves, but a few are still worn high and pointed. EVENING COSTUME.—The few occasions on which full dress will be required daring the present month are likely to display a Tepetition of the last modes. Variety is sought anl found in those simple fascinating costumes prepared for the social re-unions of the great and fait in their country dwellings. White prevails so generally, that every style of ornament seems adapted to it. The graceful blond mantilla, lined with coloured sarsenet; black lace scarfs and draperies; beautiful and gay French ribbons, all contribute to heighten the charm of a white dress, made, as we have noticed, of extreme fulness; short sleeves (sometimes ruffles) or a full long sleeve over short satin sabots. The corsage half high, and open, a cherni vette ala verge. For dinner dresses, the wrapping cor sage still remains in favour, and is very becoming to a fine shape ; it admits, however, of no mantilla, cape, or any drapery over it; on the shoulders the fulness should be drawn down by narrow bands, and the front part edged with lace. The Sevigne corsage prevails for foulard and satin dresses, a lace drapery crossing from each shoulder, and forming a point in the centre otthe bosom. The Grecian corsage is much in . request; it forms in three divisions in front, widening towards the bust, and again. expands at the girdle; each division is stiffened, and the effect is like armour. A hat should be worn with this style of dress, and short sleeves are most appropriate. Scotch plaid silks will continue to be worn in half dress; the cheques of moderate size, and trimmed with ribbon corresponding in colour to the prevailing tint ;, a lace mantilla, or cape, softens the effect, and is sufficient orna rrwnt. As dinner costumes, these dresses look best with a coiffure en cheveux. GENERAL AGRICULTURAL REPORT. We take the following from "The Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine," a very useful and well conducted publication, devoted exclusively to rural affairs. The wheats in many counties in England have not proved near so productive as was anticipated by the growers; but, as the weather has been favourable for their harvesting, a fair sam ple will be obtained, except where the crops have been laid, and of such there has been a very large extent, especially in fertile soils. This deficiency of crop is attributable to th ree causes - Ist, The constant chill from the continuation of rains during the winter; 2d, the harshness of the spring; and, 3d, from the unfavourable season when the plants were in blossom. In the first instance, many plants perished on the land or were destroyed by slu gs ; an d in c l ov er leys especially this enemy, was very busy. Some f a rmers have sowed such fields with salt at the rate of ten bushels to the acre before ploughing the land, and the peed about a mouth afterwards, and found the destruc tion from the wire-worm and slug much less on those parts salted. It appears, however, on good land, not sown too thick, the straw has be en sufficiently - strong to stand, and in such cases the crops are excellent. Even on light and and soils barley is a fair crop and of good quality, although short of straw ; but oats are thin and light, and likely to tall short of an average produce. The season for beans throughout has been very productive to their growth and podding, and a large return may be expected e v en on land s not o f the best quality. Peas have .podded well, and are well got in, and many hells on which they have grown are now under a crop of turnips. The prices of wheat, notwithstanding the moderate produce that is anticipated, have declined, which is most disheartening to the growers ; and, should•they not advance, serious evils must follow the agricultural interests of the empire. Wheat is the principal remunerating crop cultivated; and not less than six shillings a bushel will pat- the British farmer, and it is now less than five! The crops of clover and -grass may be considered good, generally sown on light soils, or on.lands not shut up too late in the spring for this purpose; and this is an error too ge nerally falten into, esp ec ially i n I re l a nd. I n or d er to secure good mowing grass, the land should be shut tip as soon as the herbage begins to grow, as in the event of a dry spring following. should it be fed too late, the land would not be sufficieirtly co vered to resist drought, nor to be benefited by the dews; be sides,-early cutting will instne good aftergrass, which, if judi diciously fed off by Shilep, will keep the land in good, condition. In Ireland, the crops of every , description are abundant, and are expected to prove of good quality. The crops of potatoes are most lusnriant, but it is apprehended will run too much to stalks in wet soil, which will be likely to diminish their produce and quality; but even if this should be the case, we shall anti cipate an excellent poor- man's harvest. Mantel wurzel is well cultivated, and its vaiue beginning to be more generally appre ciated ; but we regret to say that bwedea and the Norfolk turnip are but partially sown ; where they have been cultivated, how. ever, these crops have succeeded even beyond expec.ation. Cattle and sheep maintain a fair price ; and wool, although somewhat lower than last year, is not likely to fall to a price of which the farmer would have just reason to complain. It is to be regretted that so good prospects cannot be anticipated in the corn trade. Summer fellows are much exploded since the in troduction of red clover crops; and it is now generally admitted, even by the working class of farmers, to be a better and more profitable system. The shameful neglect of allowing the crop to be overgrown with weeds is enough to counteract the benefits to be derived even from the most judicious introduction of green crops. SUBSTITUTE FOR STEAM. The following plan has been addressed by Mr. John Galt to the editor of the Greenock Advertiser : "The fatal explosion of the Earl Grey steamer at the quay has induced me to try if the principle of my pressure syphon, of which you had the goodness to insert some notice, could he applied to propel vessels, arid the result has been so perfectly satisfactory, that 1 find myself actuated by humanity to make it public, that others tray test the experiment, the simplicity of which is not the least of its merits, viz.:— "Take a cylinder and subjoi n to the bottom of it, in commu nication, a pipe—fill the pipe and the cylinder with water—in the cylinder place a piston as in that orthe stea m - eng i ne , an d then with a Bramah's press, and a simple obvious contrivance which the process will suggest, force the Water up the pipe, the pressure of which will raise the piston. This is the demonstra tion of the first motion. "Second—When the piston is raised, open a cock to dis charge the water, and the p;ston will descend. "'Phis is the demonstration of the second motion, and i s as complete as the motion of the piston in the cylinder of the steam-engine, and a power is attained as eaeoually a s seam, Without risk of explosion, without the cost of fuel, capable of being applied to any purpose in which steam is used; and ID an immeasurable extent. The preservation of the water may, iii some cases, be useful, and this may be done by a simple con trivance, viz., by making the cock discharge into a conductor, by which the water may he conveyed back at every stroke of the piston into the pipe, at the end of which the Bramah's press acts. My condition does not allow me to do more than to solicit that the experiment may be tested. Although no mechanic, 1 yet believe mysglf mechanician. eough to see the application of the principle." TtrE MAGAZINES FOR SEPTEMBER (FROM BLACKWOOD.) Never was there so self-conceited an old prig. H ear how he prates away to himself in the preface—'• The MODERN DUN CIA D. VIRGIL IN hIKIIDON, AND THE TIFIES, are again pre sented to the public, wan such revision as the author's most care ful attention could bestow upon them. Their original reception was highly gratifying, They had the good fortune to be ap proved by many of the best judges, and censured by some of the worst. An extensive sale justified the favourable opinion of the Critics, and afforded the author an opportunity, in subsequent editions, of showing the dunces how little he was moved by their abuse, and how much he despised it." And who are the dunces? " With this reply be satisfied at once, While BowLEs exists, can satire want a dance ?" " It would be a work of no small labour and little profit to wade through the various productions of the Rev. William Lisle 'Bowles. Odes, epics, and sonnets innumerable, pass in long review." "We read of oue John Taylor, the water-poet; Mr. Bowles may be christened the sky-blue, or milk-and-water poet." Some twenty years ago, it was the fashion with fools, and• with fools and something more, to affect contempt for the genius of this delightful poet, and the author of the Dunciad yelped like other curs. But all that folly and worse than folly has long been at an end, and the name of William Lisle Bowles is neYer mentioned but with respect and admiration. This the old deaf and blind mongrel knows not, and, last of all the pack, keeps still snapping at what he supposes to be the heels of the excel lent prebendary of Salisbury, tut is merely a phantom of hy drophobia. Who is the next dunce? " F. To SCOTT you'll grant some portion of renown ; The man has pleased, P. And surfeited the town." Dunce third ? The town is pleased when Byron will rehearse, And finds a thousand beauties in his verse; So fixed his fame, that write whate'er he will, The patient public must admire it still; Yes, thou g h bereft of half his force and fire, They still must read, and'diaing must admire; While you and I, who stick to common - sense, To genius, taste, and wit have no pretence. Throughout the whole, we toil to understand; Where'er we tread, 'tis strange, 'tis foreign land ; Nay, half the thoughts and language of the strain Require a glossary to slake them Scott and Byron, however, it is allowed, have their merits. And neither gr. Coleridge nor Mr. WorilsWorth, in Nestor's opinion, are so popular as they deserve to be—for "'it is the singular perverseness of those authors to provoke ridicule when they might command applause." Such judgments, originally del►vered in the year 1815, are republished for the behoof of a new generation in 1835—and it is added, that "the Excursion will hand down Mr. Wordsworth's name with credit to pos, terity." "Mr. Campbell has written sufficient to make its re gret that he does not oftener appear before the public,"—but in sp►te of all that, " this is not the Augustan age of *try." So drivelled "Virgil. in London" twenty years ago—and so drivel's be now in a sixth edition not a'month old. - Bugbear bim on Bloomfield and Burns. So long as nature in her simplest guise, And virtuous sensibility we prize, Of well-earned fame. no poet shall enjoy A purer tribute than the " Farmer's Boy." Irail to departed ►worth ! All Scotland turns, With tardy hands, to raise the tomb of Burns. . Ah ! spare the fame such frail memorials give, Icthis own works enshrined the bard shall live. Of humble birth, but with a taste' refined, An adverse fortune, with a God-like mind, He silent bore, but keenly felt the smart, Till bitter disappointment broke his hoart. Ot► ! when released, his ardent spirit fled, How envy smiled ! how virtue mourned the dead! And Scotland's bills heard every tongue proclaim The minstrel's glory and his country's shame. Then, with the poet's fate inscribe his bust, In life neglected, canonized in dust." • - • Now for the notes to this powerful passage. " Scotland is about erect .a monument to the memory of Burns. Let her not fail to inscribe upon it how nobly she rewarded his talents. She took him from the plough; received the grateful homage of his genius; made him—an exciseman! irritated his mind with indignities and disappointments, and gave him up to an un timely grave! The lively sallies of the Ayrshire bard startled the plodding dulness of his insensible countrymen ; the be sotted bigots of modern Athens beheld, with an evil eye, a poet who exposed their vices, ridiculed their superstitions, and de spised their ignorance. It is true that some kindred spirits stood forward as the friends of genius in distress, but what could the exertions of a few generous individuals do in opposition to the combined malignity of fools in power? Scotland has much to answer for. Avarice bribed her to sell her king. ' I should have died for shame, To see my king before his subjects stand, And at the bar hold up his royal hand.' Fanatical rage compelled her to m,urder her archbishop, and base parsimony (read the hard fate of the author of Douglas, Fergusson, &c.) to starve' her poets. Who was the liberal pa tron of Sir Walter Scott ? England! Who ruined him ? lis kind countrymen, the Scotch." I'he superannuated idiot has here, with a vivacity uncommon in a Cockney with all his four feet in the gra've, contrived to cram into an epitome of the sins of Scotland a greater number Of foolish lies than we should have supposed a memory so enfeebled as his capable of supply ing, as its last food to a heart, in extreme decrepitude, kept half alive by its own malice. We think we see the paralytic wretch, with his rheumy eyes and palsied fingers, and tongue all the while essaying in vain to lick up the slaver that befouls, without refreshing his shrivelled lips, engaged , in composition! "We are reminded throughout of the undaunted bard of Twickenham." We have offended you—gentle reader,--and beg pardon on our knees. Suppose, then, old Virgil in London dead and buried, . . And at his feet a green grass turf, • And at his head a stone." What have you to say against Scotland? Not a syllable. 'Tis well for you that you have not—for Barry Cornwall's back is yet one perfect blister. - Scotland has erected no fewer than three monuments to Burns—one in Dumfries—one near Al loway Kirk—and one in ,Edinburgh. Shakspeare's tomb is dilapidated in Stratford-on-Avon,,and the club soliciting sub scriptions for its repair. So much for England. Scotland did not take Burns from the plough—nor did she make him an ex ciseman—any more than England made Wordsworth a distri butor of stamps. She admired his genius —bought his poems— and he stocked a farm. That he became bankrupt was not the fault of Scotland. She did not make Mossgiel—" God made the country"—and it pleased Him to give her a poor soil—but nobler riches. Burns mismanaged his farm. fie has himself told us so, and he ever spake the truth. Of his. infirmities let no man speak but with awe—" nor draw his frailties from their dread abode"—but let no man sacrifice—even for sake of her greatest poet—the character of his country. His disappoint ments were many, his indignities not few—but 'tis a monstrous lie to say " that Scotland irritated his mind with indignities, and gave him up to an untimely grave." Gently—compassion ately—and with many a salvo " which the poor inhabitant be low" made not fur himself, all men read his epitaph—" because that we have all one human heart." Thousands and tens of thousands, who sinned far inure grievously than he, seemed far less grievously to suffer. But that i s th e m y s t ery never to b e solved beneath the skies—and that will for ever .:arken the whole world. But let us break on', and for relief listen to the old idiot. Hear him " hoastin" over the "plodding dullness of the insensible countrymen" of Robert Barns. Why, Robbie was but the brightest among the bright—" all the people quaked like dew stirred by the breeze" at sound of his lyre—his home was from the first in the nation's heart. Of whom did he sing ? Of his countrymen, and of them only—and his songs—all the world declares—were worthy of the race. So declares, louder than the rest, the noblest land in all the world—England. She loves Scotland better now than it ever could have been in the power even of her generous spirit to love it—believing in the truth of that Scripture written by an inspired peasant—The Cottar's Saturday Night. Ebenezer Elliot, proud of being the poet of' the poor, disdains the praises of those ignorant persons who would represent him as a miracle of genius among the ungifted Sheffield mechanics, toiling as he long toiled for their daily bread. Many of them in all mental powers he rejoices to know are his equals—his su periors—and 'tis a noble creed. That he has done what no one else has done proves not the noble creed to be false--and Burns in his own case would have sworn it true. Such bards are not born—nor are they bred—wherever their lot may have been cast—among "the plodding dulness of their insensible country men," but in the midst of kindred spirits whom they recognise as brethren in all things—and whom they love not and honour not the less, but more dearly and highly far, because it has pleased Heaven that their own souls should have burned within them at the touch of some stronger inspiration, and burst forth in music—the joys and sorrow s , th e t rou bl e an d the peace of their own condition on earth the sacred subject—the hallowed burden of their song. " The besotted bigots of 'modern Athens beheld," qiiod the dotard, " with an evil eye a poet who exposed their vices, ridi culed their superstition, and despised their ignorance.'" Alas ! the worst of their vices'were those to which• poor Burns was him self- but too prone—so far from exposing he partook of them, and enlisted his genius in their service. We speak of his worser hours; but. they were, we believe, few in comparison with the good=and the best society in Edinburgh at that time—to which Burns had welcome access—was equal to any in the world. The old fool maunders about besotted, superstitions,. and igno rant bigots whom Burns exposed, ridiculed, and despised; but Bolus isitnself, in spite of all his disappointments which in after life often •embittered his recollections of Edinburgh,. never ceased to venerate the genius and virtue for which it was illustrious, and would have trodden such libels and such libellers under the dirt. But though there were Cockneys in those days, they had not begun to jargon about Scotland. What have they got for their pains. now that they have taken upon themselves to intermeddle with our home affairs? On an average each mother's son forty stripes. " Sciitland," says Swipes, " has much to answer for." At the great day of judgment—and so has the whole human race. According to the creed of some Christian sects, even Cockneys will be then called to account. We cannot think so,- and there fore they should he cruelly punished in this life. Did we know where to catch him; we would tar and feather the author of the Douriad, and send him to the poultry even in his 104th year. Such punishment is not only defensible but imperiously de manded, on the supposition of there being for the race to which he belongs no future state. " Avarice bribed her to sell her king"— and he clenches the charge with a most apt quotation— " I should have died' for shame To seems , king beff;re his subjects stand, And at the bar hold up his royal hand." Not a creature out of Cockaigne believes now in' that flfty-time's refuted calumny ; .but though Charles was not sold he was mur dered. At his execution a few. women miscarried—but no Cockney " died ofshame"—indeed shame is a passion of which no Cockney has any idea,—.for it is "the sorrow of pride"—and pride being the sin by which angels fell, it would be impious to expect it at Vanity-fair in the very heart of Little Britain. ! That " fanatical rage impelled her to murder her arch bishop" may be partly true; but her archbishop had no busi ness there—would have been much better ethployed in England —and he met, we are disposed to think, not much more than his deserts on Magus Muir. Scotland resOlved to have her own way in religion, and in establiihing it did not s ti c k at tr i f l es. England acted much in the same spirit, and assassinations - of the same sort are found by_no means thi n l y sprinkled on the page of her history—yet the Liiglisi s ar e a maenauimous people,' zealous of good works. In''Scotland the Reformation was ef fected by high hearts and high hands —and completed the Covenanters. First fell the power of the• Papacy roof and branch—and then Episcopacy went to the ground. So willed the people—the people of Scotland—and now, to ! Presbytery spread like a green bay tree. Both nations have had their' will —and both new worship God in spirit and in truth. The slave whom we have been chastising understands nothing of this—has no sympathy with a nation of pious freemen.-- ; but blubbers about an archbishop. . ffear the ratiff! " Down with your sacred altars ! useless blocks! Detested relics ! even vindictive Knox Shall rise from hell'i dark caves with furious joy, And breathe again his spirit to destroy." Pray, who told the author of the Modern Dunciad that John Knox is in hell ? He ought to produce his authority for an as sertion so injurious to the memory . of our great Scottish re -former. Our'Cockney has queer notions of hell. He talks as if it were - as easy "to rise from hell's dark caves" as to go to Tunbridge Well's. Doctor Johnson said more good things than any other man—and a few bad ones. .The few bad ones have been so often quoted by Cockneys that they stink in the nostrils of men. Take for example this fetid note--" Doctor Johnson, hearing the question asked where the cruel fanatic John Knox was buried, exclaimed—' I hope in a cross-road.'" We do *not donbt he said so—his spleen having been disturbed by some im pertinent prater, whom he thus growled into silence by savage nonsense. Our Cockney believes the great English sage was serious; and over a dish of saloop sends the suicide to Old Nick. The ninny. " Base parsimony (read the hard fate of the author of Dongias, Fergusson, &c.) impelled her to starve her poets. Who was the liberal patron of Sir Walter Scott? England. Who ruined him ? His kind countrymen the Scotch." For a country like Scotland, " Where half-starvefl spiders fed on half-starved flies," there was some excuse to be-offered if she did starve her poets. She was compelled to do so—it is pleasant -to know—not by 'base parsimony but sternmecessity—sheer want. But tbatplea will not avail t ngland. It appears too from historical docu ments, as well as the voice of tradition, that Scotland did not starve her poets more than the rest of her population. The people—peets and painters included—lived low. A handful of oatmeal mixed with water from the spring was a dinner for a raw-honed Scotsman who would have thought nothing of taking twenty such Cockneys as the author of the Modern Dunciad, one after the other, by the scruff of the neck, and-cracking them between his thumb-nails like more familiar vermin. This may be starvation—but it is impartial and universal starvation —and the poets of Scotland had no reason to complain that. they alone had no butter to their bruse. We speak of the olden time. But even in these latter days no Scottish poet has died of hunger. Whereas, it is but too true that aborit a third of the English poets have perished of that vacuum which nature most abhors. With all the unclosed eyes df those ghastly corpes staring him in the face, the author of the Dunciad keeps scold. ing away at Scotland fur having starved her poets, not one of whom was ever in want of a sheep's head. He sees the famished Otway choked by the first morsel of that fatal roll—he tells us, that of the life of Philip Messinger little or nothing is known, beyond the melancholy fact. that he was a literary wayfarer, eking out a penurious existence in humble obscurity, and that his transcendent genius, which must command the admiration of the latest posterity, could not save bun from a gaol"—over the fate of Chatterton he sheds many maudlin tears—and of the " Farmer's Buy," he says—" the neglect, suffering, and dis tress that darkened the declining years of Robert Bloomfield, are too mournful to dwell upon. I saw him a few months be fore his death, emaciated by disease, embarrassed in his cir-- cumstances, and heart-broken"—yet from these and many other instances of 'strict starvation, he turns aside, Without one word of reproach to England, and launches the lightning 'of his wrath on Scotland, whom " base parsimony impelled to starve her poets." " Read," wroth he, the hard fate of the author of Douglas." Why, John Home was clothed in fine linen—wore a scarlet coat—inhabited a large house, with a front door, a bell, and a knocker—and fared sumptuously every day—till death overcame him like a summer cloud.when he was upwards of fourscore. Poor Fergusson, again, died verryoung in a madhouse. • Reckless diSsipatiou crazed his brain—and charity enabled his mother to send him to such•sad asylum. No Scottish poet teas ever in ajail. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD (FROM FRASRR.) If there be any use in man making. known his opinions and the result of his expe once to others, we consider thi s c l ass demands public attention hove all others—we mean, of London Society: they are a very numerous body, are very variously connected, occasion more 'distress of mind by their conduct-to. parents than any other body, .and stand in a position to society which fur a timd enables them to effect much moral mischief. The custom of the day allows them to dress after the manner of gen tlemen, while their conceit carries their ideas far above their station, and is the cause bra larger number of individuals in this class falling out of their position every year than from any other. It may be said, that:One-fifth annually are driven out of the class. by bad conduct, the repetition of which disqualifies them for a situation, while others rise up to fill their places; added to which, a change of faces in shops appears to be considered an advantage in the present day. When we reflect that this por tion of one-fifth have no trade upon which, when they are cast upon society in a state of idleness, they can fall back, and ob tain a livelihood, it is natural to ask what becomes of them. We . know, at the smallest caleulation, that there are 60,090 indivi duals in London who do not shew any exterior signs of poverty, but rise of a morning without knowing where to- obtain a meal for the day. It is beyond a doubt, that none of the lower orders put on a fashionable-cut coat, and affect airs of grace; and the mechanic weighs too well his own worth, and supports his place. It is his interest to be, and seem to be, what he really is—a working man; his usefulness is his pride and gives him an in dependence which would make him a loser were he to change it'for anything artificial. All the classes above the mechanic na dobbt do, in a small 'degree, through individual improvidence and misconduct, contribute to add to the one which subsists, as it is said, nobody .knows how - -by casualty; sometimes assisted by the voluntary contributions of their friends, but more fre quently by forced funds from the public, varied in ten thousand ways of exaction. If it be now asked from whence the bulk 'of this body of men come, I answer, front the class of shopmen and clerks. If we suppose the surplusage of this body compelled to remove from London, they will carry more than half the vices of it with them, and nearly the 'whole of our street banarobas; leaving only the coarser and open vicious habits of the labourer and costermonger, who support the spirit-bazaars, for the moral legislator to compete with. That one-half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and just observation : it is not, however, necessary that it should be known : for all useful purposes it will be sufficient if we can ascertain and sepa rate the number that live by regular, from those who subsist by irregular means. In reference to this class, not one moiety are in constant employment; upon an average throughout the year, there are from Sf.NV to 6000 linen-drapers' shopmen loose upon the town, and not many years since they were calculated, by. those who possessed the best means of information, to amount to 8000. Youth, ignorance, and vanity, combine to make these men lovers of pleasure to excess; and such are always lovers of themselves in the same degree. A nation of would-be or imaginary philosophers will be more moral, and in a better state of security, than a country peopled by sensualists and fops. Notwithstanding the conduct of many intellectual individuals is far from being virtuous, yet, dividing society as nearly as we can into two classes, it will always be apparent that the best.' informed approximate the nearest to moral perfection. But we must descend a little more into minutiae regardiug the class we have in hand. In describing this class generally as immoral, superficial ob servers will say that they cannot be so, from the very nature of their employment, and their confinement. to late hours of busi ness. Heretofore these were restraining causes, their character depending upon steadiness of conduct and length of service; but, in the present day, these are qualites of minor importance, provided the party is 'a good salesman, in their own phraseology —one who never suffers a lady, when she once enter 4 the shop to buy a yard of riband, to 'depart until she has made a five pound parcel. Those who possess this harlequin kind of pro perty of turning goods into money, are, as a matter of course,, sought after by all the trade; and spoken of as geniuses in their. way : they may be compared to jugglers, who perform their tricks of legerdemain through the agency of confederacy. When one of these famed hands is engaged at a shop, the whole corps de ballet of the establishment is called up for private re hearsals, which sometimes last during the whole night; at which all the juniors ire taught how to play their part—shift and ex change pieces of goods; to remove one away that has been offered at a low price, and bring it back as a different piece at another charge ;—how to detain and amuse customers, cheat, and make solemn asseverations to matter which is untrue: in'short, to learn by rote a manual of trade that must leave the initiated stripped of every vestige of principle, as bare as deciduous trees at the winter solstice. Some masters, whose shops I could name, take this duty upon themselves ; placing their men behind the counter, and then themselves affecting to come in as troublesome customers, and difficult to please, &c. &c. Where there are many hands an account is kept of the amount of sales daily made by each ; the assistants receiving stages in proportion to the aggregate amount of sales against their names, when cast up at stated periods. In the nocturnal lectures which we have spoken of, it may be imagined that there is little said of honour, honesty, or moral principle of any kind; the master, therefore, is aware he can place but little reliance upon the notions the employed may im bibe of the rights of meum and tuum. Arrangements are made to meet this evil,.which arises out of the.system: no money is allowed to be received by the shopmen; they make their bill, and hand it over to a person appointed fur the receipt of cash. Notwithstanding - this and every other imaginable• caution is adopted, so vitiating is the school for young men which we have attempted to describe, that, confining ourselves to the last thirty years, we will undertake to prove, as far as the available tables of the return of crime will enable us to do so, that, for every mechanic found guilty of felony, there have been upwards of twenty out of this &list, and ten from the drapers alone.. Theg•4' is one house, which we need not name, that for' a very long period never allowed an 01(1 Bailey session to pass without bringing up two or three for trial; six or seven of whom have actually suffered death. At length it was noticed from the bench. One, a Scotchman, who was transported. for fourteen years, in 1829, by the same firm, we examined as to the system which brought so many into crime. He told us, tl‘at the system of trade was such, that it broke down the principles of all who entered the house; and he believed, at that moment, there was not one in it who was not in the habit of robbing the principals of their property. Subsequent events have proved the truth of this statement. A great evil arises out of the practice of shopkeepers taking almost any smart young man upon trial, regardless of general character, in the hopes of selecting in the end a combination of talent and personal appearance ; conceiving, as all of there d o , that where the most handsome young men are, to that place will the females be attracted. Shopmen are now hired upon the principle of the mechanic ; no warning being required, they may be paid up to any hour and discharged forthwith. In the corivalry of the trade it is supposed that upon the tactof the assistants depends the success of the master in contpeting with his neighbours ; hence it is they are ever changing, in the hopes of being better served. The evils of this practice are, Ist, the number which obtain temporary employment induces an injuri ous rush of youth into the market; 2dly, as not more than one half at any time •can meet with employment, a vast body of young persons are thrown loose Upon the town, at the most un favourable age, to become masters of their own time and actions. Lastly, nothing can be more detrimental to society than the existence in it of a half-educated, half-boy-and-man class ; who are constrained -to pick asp a living in a chance manner. After what has been said of retail-shopinen, it is but fair to state the disadvantages under which they labour, and the grievances of which they may reasonably complain. Every householder or head . of a family, a few years anterior to the enlightened days of 1E64, felt himself, by the laws of proscription, responsible for the entire moral conduct of his household; and none would be taken as assistants but !hose who consented to sleep upon the premises and conform to the family rules: one of which, with most regii lar families was morning and evening prayers. No one thought him,self or his property sate with a man upon the premises whose actions and conduct were not known throughout the whole twenty-four hours each day. Now, in every case wherein th e nature of the business will admit of the practice (and sacrifices are made to further the arrangements), masters of families pre fer. in all-trades, outdoor shopmen, servants, and apprentices; being only desirous of relieving themselves, to the greatest ex tent possible, from all responsibility of moral guardianship. Tradesmen are ready enough to avail themselves, as far as their interests are concerned, of the assistance of men, boys, and girls, but are unwilling to spare one half hour in the day from money-making or following pleasure to inform or morally pro tect the youthful classes, from whom they are constrained to draw their assistants. The tradesman's wife, too, who has nevea been brought up to household duties, must not be annoyed in her pianii. practice and ,poonati daubing; she must not he fatigued with the concerns 4.)1 a large faintly. "It is there fore best that all my people should be boarded out; my wife says she kuows it will be a saving: besides, she is so de licate that she is not equal to the competing with and pro viding for a large family." Thus are excuses made for a ne glected duty which our ancestors considered paramount, and prided themselves in the performance of above all others, viz. a good regulation of the household, and exercising a moral sur veillance over all within the range of their control. When the fractions of society did their duty, the whole felt , a beneficial moral effect; but when those relax who are, from their position in society, peculiarly and imperiously called upon to be active, the integer will naturally become corrupted and disorganised. All the Junior members of society are now lightly turned loose, to revel where "riot cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank den of shame." Old and young, male and female, are seen associating with vice, through all the multiform and mul titudinous receptacles with which this Babylon is infested. The master's non-responsibility for the moral education of his ap prentices and young men, has operated more than any other cause to bring about the demoralising nocturnal habits of the young men in London of the present age. The only person who can effectually control the headstrong violence or passions of youth and inexperience, is the one upon whom he depends fur character, fame, and bread. Parents they generally disre gard, relying upon natural affection for forgiveness whenever they think proper to return to virtue. The master, however, if his business be performed, cares not how the leisure hours of any of his household are passed. Until this system be reformed, rice must progress. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Our first extract is taken from "Scenes from the Life of Edward Lagoales, Gent. Chap. 9:— Ten days more, and St. Helena 'hove in sight. But where were now the numerous well-appointed men-of-war that on our former visit cruised round its rocky coast, the cannon that bris tled its batteries, the signal-posts that surmounted its rugged promontories, and gave intelligence of all that passed within and without. The great Napoleon was no more, and with him had vanished all "the pomp and circumstance of war." In stead of the gay troops that formerly . crowded the streets of the' town, and the mounted picquets that traversed'the country, rm-' thing was now to be seen but a few lazy yamstocka .lounging; about the dismantled batteries, awaiting the uncertain arrival, of such Indiamen as either profit or pleasure might induce to visit (heir now deserted island. Like Ferrara, St. Helena de rived its temporary fame from being a great man's prison, and it was now only remembered as being a great man's grave. A gallsip to the tomb of Napoleon, a saunter through Plantation Gardens, a visit to the arbour which I had once considered as the bower of love, a sigh for Sophia, and adieu to " St. Helena's rock-bound shgre." _ • Prosperous winds and bright anticipations accompanCOd us during the rest of our .voyage, which at len g th ra pidly ap proached its termination. One night chanced to , have the middle watch, and Strangway was the officer in . charge of the deck. I was pacing about in silence, thinking, as usual, of. friends at home, when I was startled by the voice of the lOok out at the mast-head. " On the deck there." • "' H Moe." " A light two - c.oints on the lee-how." "Two points ou the lee-bow," cried Strangway. "Then, it must be the Lizard l—and the Lizard accordingly it proved to be. Who cart describe the mingled emotions of delight and hope and impatience which the first announcement of this far-famed beacon predticed. Fain would I have mounted the rigging to get a peep at‘it ; but . duty confined me to my station, and I was obliged to wait with patience until. 4 should become visible from the deck. Captain Morley had been for iotne time retired to his cabin, and Strangway went below to communicate to him the tidings: The night was dark, the sky obscured by dense clouds, and not a star was visible.in the firmament. I kept my eye firmly • fixed in the direction of the land ; and as we were going through the water at a rapid rate, it was not long till I discovered in the extreme distance Something that resembled a solitary planet. "Can yundertiny spaik be the Lizard, sir," Itaid to Strang way, who at the moment returned from below. "Hurrah!" cried the jolly lieutenant,lossing his cap in the air, and grasping one cordially by the hand. "I give you joy! The old. Liza-rd it is, .ancfno other. Come, my boy ! everything is as it should be ; ourreckoning correct to a mile, and a fine rattling.nine-knot breeze - from the south-west carrying us up channel. The captain, God bless him, is snug in his cot, and I don't think he is likely to rouse out to greet his old acquaint ance. So, jump down to my cabin, will you, and fetch up a bottle of champagne, w hi c h you w ill fi n d in the locker. We must drink Success to Old England? Quick! in case the cap tain should conie." Haying received the bearing and distance of the said bottle, I dived below, and presently returned b.taring it triumphantly iu one hand, while some cold junk and biscuit loaded the other. "Should the captain chance to come upon us,".l said, as I placed the eatables ot the deck ; " what will be say to our booz ing champagne upon watch. You know how strict a disciplina rian he is." "I don't care," Cried the lieutenant, "though the whole board, with the first lord at their head, should come upon us. I am determined to drink my toast. 1 have stored up the bottle full six mouths on purpose. Quick, my boy . out with the cork, and no more about it." I accordingly untwisted the wire after the most approved me thod, and was Just proceeding to cut the string, when I'descried a hat not easily mistaken emerging from,the after ladder. "The captain, sir !" I whispered to my companion; as, smug gling the bottle under my jacket, I was about to bolt round the mainmast from the gangway to my proper station on the lee side. Keep all fast youngster," cried the jolly lieutenant, nothing daunted;—" what the d—l are you frightened for ! out with the • cork, I say—quick !" In an instant my knife had done its office; the string was ie vered, and away flew the cork into the waist with a loud exhila rating pop. "Hilloa!" cried the captain, who at this moment stepped up to us—" What's all this, gentlemen ?" "Champagne, sir !" replied Strangway, advancing towards him with the bottle in one hand and a glass in the other; "and I trust you will be inclined to overlook the breach of discipline when you consider the occasion. The Lizard is beaming right ahead, and we were about to drink SUCCESS TO OLD ENG LAND.' " "That is a toast which I shall never refuse to pledge," re plied Morley, taking the creaming glass which the lieutenant proffered in his hand, and draining it to the bottom as he spoke. " But recollect, gentlemen, I do not permit my officers to pass their time during watch in drinking champagne; so, the sooner you finish the bottle and attend to your duty the better." When daypght appeared—for leaving the deck at the expira tion of the watch was impossible—our eyes were greeted by the glad sight of the cliffs of ?ear England. Our impatience ti) be on shore was now redoaoled; and though we were running up channel at a good ratc, before a fine fresh breeze, the Hesperus seemed to linger among the waters. In the course of the morn ing we were hailed by a pilot-boat, and hove to for the purpose of gathering news. A little puny insignificant craft she was ; but we saw her with feelings which under other circumstances the best appointed man-of-war would have failed to produce. To us there was an indescribable sort of fascination in the idea that a few hours before this little boat had actually left an English pts;. that her crew had actually trodden upon English soil, and spoken to English people in the English tongue ; and much did we envy the captain when the pilot was brought on board and sent down to the cabin.* I was leaning:over the gangway ; the boat, with her crew, were lying alongside immediately b eneath me. Anxious to as certain what news there was, and what of good or evil had hap pened in England during the long four years of my absence, I ventured to hail a fine weather-beaten old fellow, who was very quietly chewing his quid in the stern - sheets. " Auy news?" I inquired, in an undertone of voice, almost dreading his reply, r eplie d tidings should be of evil import. "Why, no, the man, with one hand shoving his little tarpaulin hat from his brows, and hitching up his trousers with the other ; "nothing very particular, sir: only pilchard fishing's uncommon slack—very!" " Interesting !" thought I, as I turned away, determined not to risk any farther interrogatories. ' The captain's cabin. —so called par excellence. We find the following observations under the head of THK 'BRITISII ASSOCIATION]. We cannot permit this number of the Dublin University Magazine to . go forth to the public without recording in our pages the visit of the British Association to the metropolis-of Ireland. It had been our intention to have presented our readers with a full report of the proceedings, and we had actually made our arrangements for carrying this intention into effect. Upon consideration, however, we determined that we might occupy our pages with more interest to our readers than by devoting .a large portion to the report of scientific discussions unintelligible to the generality of our readers, and perhaps in the meagre and condensed shape in which we would have been obliged to present them, uninteresting to all. As Irishmen, we cannot but feel proud that this meeting of the AssociatiOn has been distinguished above all others by the excellence of the arrangements made for the reception of, the visitors. The liberality both of the university and other public bodies, as well at'of private individuals,. left nothing undone that hospitality could.suggest to minister to the comfort of those Who seemed to be considered as national guests. We could very easily peiceive that many of the strangers left our shores with :impressions of Ireland very different from those which they brought with them. We ha . ve always believed, that, as respects the general intelligence and inferroatioia of its members, the tone of society is much higher in Dublin than in any other city in the world. We would not even except the metropolis of the empire or the boasted Athens of the north. It was with national pride that we perceived that the strangers who visited us daring the last month felt this. We had a feeling perhaps somewhat more malicious than national pride in the consciousness that the members of the English universities, who came over here with exaggerated notions of the superiority of Oxford and Cam .bridge over our own Alma Mater, were a little humbled during their stay, end were surprised to find the least ostentatious mem bers of our Irish university, certainly their equals, if not their superiors. This much we have written as Irishmen, and here perhaps we should stop. We cannot,bowever, conceal our conviction that for the purposes of the advancement - of science the association is little better than useless. It gives scientific men, or men who call themselves scientific, a week of pleasuring at the expense of three weeks' idleness, but it does nothing more. It has - created scientific, as we have already 'had religious dissipation. Experimental philosophy may, perhaps, be served by it; and yet:even. here it can do nothing which might not be e which has • not been much better done by the more useful scientific bodies - who, content with being stationary, do not roam through the empire in search of celebrity. It is, however, perhaps, a necessary consequence of the spirit of the age; hu: God knows we are no.worshippers of that spirit.. We cannot, however, but feel apprehensive, when we find that even the Still purseits of 'science are, we must say, desecrated by the love of excitement and- the desire of display. ' It is another triuraph of the principle. of the march of intellect, a principle-which retetigit non pullait—mav we not now add nihil non teriyit , -:t6 s peak plainly of verses the dreams of the alclie , mists and turns the fine gold into dress—nihilquod the principle of humbug—th e principle of penny magazines and mechanics institutes—the principl e o f sacrificing what is solid to. what is showy—and spreading.the waters of knowledge over a large sur face without caring how shallow they may be. The association, we prophesy, will somesee its end. Its prin • eiple of existence is excitement arid with the novelty the ex citement will subside. We do not, however, wish to contribute to a consummation which will come without our interference. It needs not "the serpents the reviewers (as we, of the gentle craft, were somewhat unceremoniously named by its worthy secretary) to destroy.it. We rejoice, however, that it has lived long enough to visit Ireland—we rejoice in anything that can confer honor upon." ould Ireland," and so having said enough, perhaps some will think too much upon a subject which we could not pass over in silence—we will leave the "sevens" and the • association to go their ways in Fnce—and we will return with a good heart and an honest purpose to our own labours—lebours that though we may sav„it, "that should n o t s ay it," will do more than fifty thousand British Associatiens to make that same "ould Ireland" " What she oug,ht to be, Great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea." LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, SEPT. 1. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Evans, Castle-street, Leicester-square, London, victualler. Hall Kerr, Woolwich, Kent, tailor. Elias Jones, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, saddler. Thomas Matthews, Bushey, Hertfordshire, carpenter. . William Wakeham, Plymouth, roman cement manufacturer. Andrew Craig, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, cabinet-maker. Henry Dodd. Amhleside, Westmorland, innkeeper. George William Sawyer, Brighton, Suissex, builder. Henry Brittain, Hessle, Kingston-upon-Hell, innkeeper. William Matthews, Staverton, Devonshire, miller. John Power, sen., and John Power, jun.. Atherstone, WarwiCk shire, bat-manufacturers. James Taylor, Cheetwod, Lancashire, bruakmaker. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 22, J. M. 101 l and Co., Feathers'-court, London, Irish linen factors—Sept. `n, T. Courtney and G. Courtney, Old Jewry, London, clothiers—Sept. 24, J. Bulman. Great Tower-street, London, ale merchant—Sept. 24, 11. Iligginson, Finsbury-square, London, mer chant—Sept. 23, J. Lathbury, Burton-upon-Trent, mercer—Oct. 30, R. Jules, Gornall, •Stafforcishire, currier —dept. 28, J. P. Harvey, Bury Saint Edmund's, maltster—Oct. 6, H. Sherrington and Co., llestpy, Lancashire, whitsters—Oct. 17, N. Thomas, Manchester, upholsterer—Sept. 23, B. Musson, Manchester, grocer. CERTIFICATES.-SEPTEMBER 22. J. Barrow, Bristol, merchant—W. B. Mitchell, Sheffield, merchant —A. Bazzoni, High Holborn, wax doll-manufacturer—J. Maynard, Brightelmston, Sussex, draper. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPT BUSINESS. FRIDAY, SEPTE?dBER 4. HOUR GEORGE BENTLEY HIGHFIRLD & JOIIN HIGRFIELD, MOTEba. El meeting; 'at the Commissioners ' Rooms, Man chester, 11 TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. - . EPHRAIM HOBSON, grocer, special meeting, at Messrs. John • and James Brown's, No. 2, Exchange-street, East. at.. 12 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 JOHN SRRIBANT, window-blind-maker, special meeting, at Mr. Gregory's office, Castle-street, at Emporto. IitEST INDIES AND *ADEUL4. Amelia, M`Master, fm Madeira and Jamaica, with (fm Madeira) pps 12 lids 15 yr cks wine, Order-1 hd do, T Wilson-2 has do, J Leigh and•co—e yr cks do, S Hilton—(fm Jamaica) 270 lids 60 tee su gar, 103 pus 9 hds rum, 30 tea 3 cks 2 brls coffee, 96 bgs pimento, 3 eke ginger, 48 hides, 16 t logwood, 300 larlcewood spars, 5 t fustic, A Cliff and Bon--33 lids 2 tes sugar,. 8 ps rum,. W Potter-30 hds sugar, 10 pns rum, H mad .1 Jiornby awl co-10 tcs sugar, 20 cks ginger, 100 hides,. 3 Mulhollitnaandto-2 firls sugar, 6 pns 1 ck rum, 1 ck coffee, 27 pgs presents; Order--;W Dk • Georgina, Wylie, fin Madeira and Antigua, with (fin Madeira) 14 pps 22 lids-I qr csk wine, Order-2 pps 6 hds do, T M'Tear and co— lt pps do, H Jenkins--I pp. 3 lids 3qr cks do, W Barber—l ppe do, 'J Swire-1. do, R Wood-1 do, T Milthorp-1 do, C Logan—l hd do, J Brooks-1 esk do, J Driyer and co-1 lid do', '3 Hilton-1 do, S Needham-1 do, A Banks-1 ppe do, T Gill and Sons-1 hd do, B Platt —2 do, B'llarrison-1 ppe do, L Morsley-1 do, W Smith-1 lid do, R. Wilson-1 do, J Welsh-1 do, J Jones, sen-2 do, Hall &I Themp-. .' son-1 do, Horley and Byre—l do, 2qr cks do, Brough and Gardner —1 , hd do, J Lea—l do, R Clay- 1 do, Bwart , Myers and co—(fm An tigua) 23 Tons 1 hd molasses, 'l' M'Tear and cti7:493.hds 1 tee 135 brla sugar, 5 brls arrowroot, Landedat Belfast.G.Lik - - SOUTH AMMRICA. General Wolfe, Harrison, fiu Rio Grande, with 99 pps 3 hf pps 13, brls tallow, 24 blshorse hair, 1 ble wool , 16261 o and c horns. 4498 dry p ant c hides, .G Law—G Dk Comala, Miller, fm Bahia, with 31 bags cott-011, .7 Prianla-7 ,do„ Robin :tad King-536 do, Stewart Bros-1020 d0,,137 cs sugar, 1 pie patterns, 6cs retd goods, 16 brls tapioca, Order—Q Dk UNITED STATES. - - - Spermaceti, Nash, fm New Orleans, with 103 J bales cottbn, J Hob.; son, and Sons-194 do, Martineau, Smith and co--W Dk Mary Catherine, Oliphant, fm Charleston, with 8.59 bales cotton, Lodge, Pricharil and co-4 do, T Crowder-45 do., Bolton,'Ogden 'and co-5 t logwood, Lodge, Prichard, and co—River Colossus, Wylie, frnSavannah, with 141 bales cotton, Wainwright and co-150 do, Order-28 do, „Isaac, Low_and , co-784 do, T Wilson and co— , lo do, A Taylor and co-166 do, J Hobson and Sons-50 do, J Connor—P Dk Emulous, •Meigs, fm Mobile and New York, with 1000 and 4 bags cotton, Crary, Fletcherand co—P Dk Lyons, Davenport, fm New Orleans, with 1334 bales cotton, Order . —5l do, A Demustoun and co-107 do, W Porde and co-102 do, T Wilson and co—P,,,Pk Pantheon, IfoyTs, fm New York, with 317 'bales cotton, Roskell, Ogden and co-75 do, A Gordon and co-65 do. Shaw, Vance and co -118 do, Phelps, James and co-3 bxs coats unku, S W Cronstock-1 bdle religious tracts, Phelps, James and co--G Dk BRITISH AMERICA. Sir Robert H Dick, Hamm, fm,St John, N B, with 110 ps birch, & 777 ps fir timber, 15 fms lithwood, '9B c staves, rspar, 1 brl fur skins, 25 kgs and 200 salmon, Cannon, Miller and co—River Orleans, Cameron, fin Quebec, with 8•Z21 deals, 35754 staves, 2 sprs J Ridgway and co--3 Ws horns, J ThompSon-5 t lignnm vitae, 2 tons green ebony. Jones, Mann and co—B Dk Reward, Tickle, fm Restigouche, with 604 pa pine timber, 9 fms lathwood t T D Brooke-28 masts or spars, said Master—B Dk Blenheim, Manning, fm Newfoundland, with 705 quintals dry cod fish, 298 brls herrings, s 3 flits _Founds. Landed ,at Waterford-47 e l m train oil, 1865 seal skin, Gran and Taylor--G Dk MEDITERRANEAN. Cora, Lamont, fm Trieste, with 584 bags 1 bx shumac, 26 bales hides, 62 cks olive oil, 3 bales cotton, 78 bales roots, 75 bales wool. 2 , es conts unkn, Order—l bts 16 ertls currants, 14 cks gum gedda, 195 bgs shum., ,40 t Wools, Geller and co-1C Pk Manchester, Raney, fin Trieste, with 20 0 bags shumac, Geller and co-100 bales cotton, and G Benn-100 Hobson-46 bundles hemp, 263 bags cotton, Order-0 Dk --- • - SPAIN AND PORTt 7 GAL. Letitia, Williamson, fm Oporto, with 30 pps 70 hds 30 qr cks wine, R Preston and co-6 Thies do, J Crook-3 hda 14 qr uks 58 es do, H Lu cas-50 chts onions, Duarte and co-50 bxs do, lq Chapman-6 bskts do, It Preston and co-43 chts m'dise coots uokn, J Woods-9 Dk EUROPE. Jane, Hoseason, fm Riga, with 106 bales hemp, 2000 hides, 208 bile linseed 74 c 10 deals, Order-0 Dk Harvest Home, Brown, fm Archangel, with R6O bdls and 3000 mats, 23 eks tallow, 65 bales hemp, 36 bales tax, 394 i qrs linseed, Order -- G Dk Georgina, Hubner, fm Dansic, with 326 brit; flour, 'Order-20 tons spelter, Newton, Lyon and co-84 c 3 deals, 11 fmslathwood, 108 ps fir timber, 2 spars, C W Neuman,. Son and co—Q Dk Priedvrica, Reimers, fro Datum, with 394 bdls mats, 10 c 2 deals, 151 ps Sr timber, 8 fms lathwood, C W Neuman, Son and co-60 casks weed ashes, Order—Q Dk Comet, Pattison, fm St PetefSburg, with 605 cks tallow, 11 and J Hornby and co-1100 ps lathwood, said Master-342 bars iron, Carne and Telo—Q Dk Victoria, Fignth, fm Dansic, with 423 ps timber, 30 deals, 12 fins lathwood, 89 bags linseed, Steart, Bald and co-4080 plates spelter, Newton, Lyon and co—B Dk ' Duke of Clarence, Brown, fm Archangel, with 2308 chetwts lin seed, 10200 mats, Order-4 c 25 deals, 11 c rickets, said Master-4 doz tongues, H Hill—Q Dk :Venus, Andrew, fm Cronstadt, with '76 hdls hemp, Baring, Bros and co-40 tons iron, Carrie and Telo- 1 do, Order—GDk g'..bipping Intelligence. TUESDAY, SEPT. I.—Noon, Wind S.W.—Light breeze. AaiiivED.—Mary Catharine, Oliphant, from Charleston.—Jane Haseasen, from Riga. Smutu—The Britannia, Waite, for New York—Jean de Locqueng han, Petters, for Antwerp—Ardent, Hartgrave, from Havana—John . Troughton, Jordan, for St Andrews—Jane, Cornish, for Alexandretta OFF THE PORT.—Colossus, from Savannah_ Emulous, Meggs, from Mobile and New York—Pacific and Orleans, from Quebec. 3 ships, rbaxque, and 2 snow% off at 1. Mersey—, from Jamaica, off Holyhead, Au,l' 30, Waterville, —, hence for Newfoundland, was spoken in let. 48 17, long 22 30. ilfghfield, —, hence for Dublin. Hereford, Freer, from London for Houduta.s. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, SEPT. 1, 1835. Off Holyhead, inward-bound—No. 1489, The Hero, B B, (no time received in consequence of fog; East of the Floating Light, inward-bound—No. 1219, Confidence, B Schooner, from New York, at 11 10 a.m. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 2.—Noon, Wind S. E.—Fresh breeze. ARRIVED—The John Miller, Champion, from Pictou—British Mer chant, Chantler ; Eliza,--; Sunbury, Orleana, Cameron. and Pacific, Mongpr, from Quebec—Mary Ann, Peters, from Riot& bueto—Sir R. H. Dick, Hamm, from St John, N 13-Iyons, Daven port, froth New . Orleans, sailed from the Bar 14th July—Franklin, Coffin, from Virginia—Matilda, —, from Sicily—Gazelle, Ash bridge, from Trieste—Harvest Home, Brown, from Archangel—Wohl fahrt, Maus, from Danzig—Ellido, Aspe,gren, from New Carleby— Nordstjernam,' Arisen, from Riga—kpollo,'Westlake, from Bridge water—Colossus, Wylie, from Savannah—Tagus, Wade, from Lisbon. ALso Aattvgn—Anua Letitia, Davies, from Cardiff—Jane & Mar garet, Dalrymple, from Dumfries—Kent, Rigby, f rom Lancaster — Nestor, Simpson, from Leith—Henry, Llewellyn, from Portsmouth — Star,' Jones, from Swansea. OPP Powr—The John Bentley, from St John, N B—The Mary Jones. Fiabley, from Smyrna—Lancashire Witch. Grayson, from Trieste. SAILEn-A3ritariia; Andreivs, for Miramiehi—Cyrus, Robinson, for New Brunswick--Rather;Thlmpton, for Quebec—Agenoria, Grey, for St Andwew—Hyria, Lucy, for St AndreNs and Jamaica—Velocity, Fathom, for New oundland—intranda, Colgin, for Malta, &c—Catha rine Carolina, Schlie, for Streisand.' The John Walter, Boult, hence ; and Rajah, —.—, from Whitby, off Bic, St Lawrence, 4th instant. John Welch, Woodhouse, hence for Quebec, off Gaspee, Bth inst. Sir T Burton, ' hence, at Fernando Po. The Packet, Briggs . from Cardiff, at Venice. Eliza. Heard and Venus, Carthew, hence, at Rouen. Colornbe, Orhet, hence, at Antwerp. Eliza, Webster, hence, at St Peterslaprg. _- Inca,. Harrison, from Rio de Janeiro. at Antwerp. Patriot. Law, from Havana, at St Petersburg. Maria Willielmina, Witt, hence, at Wismar. Blessing, —, from Cadiz, at Dublin. Aurora, Watkins, from Maracaibo, at the Cove of Cork. Timandra, Stavely, from St John, N B, at ditto. Tribune, Browse, from Constantinople, at Stand gate Creek. Plutarch. Johnson. from New Orleans, off Cape Clear, 28th ult. Apollo, Grace, from New Orleans, off Holyhead, 30th ult. Kate, Tregarthen, from Alexandria, at Mifford. Tam O'Shanter, Lawrence, from Smyrna, at do. The William Lockerby, Rowe, from Sourabaya, off Torbay. - - - - - ISLE OF MAN, Aug. 31.—The Bee, Allan, from Liverpool for Mira , michi, drifted on shore near Derbyharen, 29th instant, and makes much water—cargo discharging. It is probable the vessel will not be got off before next springs. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3.—Noon, Wind :South.--Light. • - • AmoyEn—Eliza, Fox, from Quebec—Lancashire Witch, Grayson, from Trieste—Mary Ann Peters, Mellor, from Richibucto—Rapid, Vagg, from Alexandria. Siump—The Grafton, Crowell, for City Point—Buoyant, Bell, for Gibraltar—Edinburgh, Lyall, for Sydney. New South Wales—La Jeune Emilie, Cardine, • for Rouen—Jane, James, for Halifax—Mary Ann, Kemp, for Genoa and Leghorn—Haase, Ketelaar, for Groningen —John, Raisheck, for Quebec—Helena, Greevin, for Rotterdam— Louis'Constant, Haugen, for Antwerp--Endeavotir , Di•uglas, for Montreal—Henry Hoyle, Ferguson, for Oporto. The Vulcan, Evans; Robert and Margaret, Thompson ; the Union, Youngson ; Hannah 8r Mary, Tweedie (Expert, Dis on ; Jane Emily Hudson, Carran ; , and George, Summers, hence, at Tarbert. The Sunbury ; and British Merchant. from Quebec, passed Holy head. Ist instant. Cheerful, -, from Venif•e. do. John Bentley, -, from St John, N B, passed Point Lynas at 1. The Mary Jones, from Smyrna; and Matilda, from Sicily, passed Great Ormshead at 2. Aurora, Watkins, from Maracaibo, for this port. Arethosa. Sims, from Leghorn, at Cove. P. I. Timandra, Stickney, from St Johns, N B, do. Lovely, Thomas: and Charles, Jeffrey, hence, at Cove. Astrea, Watson, from Alexandria, at Milford. John and Mary, Stephenson, from Ancona, at do. • The Rose Bud, Joy, at Quebec, July 28th. John Walker, Bouch, was spoke by the Eliza, Fox, off Cape Chat, Au i f i t l ist_3(l . e Union, M*Dougall, from St Anne's, Cape Breton, at Thurso, in 18 days, and sailed for Newcastl e. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, SEPT. :a, Wind at Holyhead, S.S.E.—Moderate breeze. Off flolyhead, 648, Arrow, B Smk, at 12 noon. Off do, outward-bound—No. 1438, Velocity, B B, ai 11 a.m. Off Point Lynns, inward-bound—No.sB4, Harmony. B B, at 4i p.m. (has a ,pilot)—No. 309, Susanna, B B ; and No. 47, Mersey, B 8, a 1 5 a.lll. Off Puffin Island, inward-bound—No. 813, Ann, B B ; No. 243, Alleghany, A 13; at 8 a.m.—and No. 46, ICingston, at 5 p.m. Off Point Lynaa, outward-bound—No. 113, Buoyant, B Schooner, at 3 p.m.—No. 493, Mary Ann, B Schooner, at 2 p.m.—No. 1265, The John, B Bk, at 5 p.m. Off Great Ormshead, inward-bound—No. 1471, British Merchant, Bk, at 2 p.m. SDPT. 4. 1846. Jtflav( tt~. LIVERPOOL CORN XC LUNGE, 9 I OATS, 4, *ill. . Irish, n. kllndrird 2 7 •„ Do. old do. Do. prime, 421 h 'Do. do. old o 0 .• Foreign, free 0 0 .• e 0 Do. it bond . 0 0 .• ,English imp. qr. 44 wlalte Foreign, white BRANS,. flr imp. qr English, new 38 o.•a b. 6 Do. old e o • Foreign, free J 8 U .. *-„ Do. in 0 0 .. I - Irish, new Do. 01d......... 0 0 .• MALT, 4Y imp. qr. a English ....... 54 0 •• INDIAN COW, fill. qr. -Rea • W h 4 .0 e FLorTt, 41 , 28@lb . English, fine triA, 2ds, new 'fi Do. ne . 34 6 .• 36 American. sweet, 0 ° pet: brl. free..,, 0 0 .. a 0 Do. in bond 1. Do. sour, free 0 0 .. a 0 Do. in bond Canadian, free Do. in hon.l 0 0 .. 0 OATMEAL, 47' 24018 a English, new .... 0 0 . . Irish, new Do. old o . , a 9 A • WHEAT, 41 , 70%. a d s , d English, new red, 5 10 0 ,6 3 Do. old 0 0.. 0 0 Do. new white .. 6 4 .. 6 9 Do. old 0 0 .. 0 0 Scotch, white 5 4 .. 6 4 Do. red Isiah, new red Do. old Do. new white Do. ohl 0 0 ~ .0 0 Dantzig, red Do, white Stettin, red Do. white 0 0.. 0 0 COnigsherg, red 0 0 0 0 Do. white Riga & Petersburg 0 0 .. 0 0 Odessa Russian, hard 0 0 .. 0 0 Canada, red ' 5 0 ... 6.0 Do. white Bonded Wbeat Rita, imp. qr.Stignab and Foreign, free 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. in bond BARLEY, 4, imp. qr. English, Malting 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. Grinding,6oth 3 10 .. 4 1 Irish, Malting, do. 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. Grinding, do. 3 9 .. 0 Forelgn, d. p. do. 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. in bond 0 0 .. 0 13 Oa:rs, 4P 451 b. English, new 0 0 .. 0 0 Do. old 0 0.. .0 ,0 Scotch, &c nevi.. 0 0.. * 0 0 Do. old- 0 -0 0 0 LONDON CORN 'EX( Wht. AVRRAOE S d Of the week . . , . 43 6 Of 6 weeks, reFults . ting duty 41 4 Duty qn Foreign . . . . 47 8 HANGE, SEPTEMBER I. 1 Brly. 1 Oats. • Rye. 1 Bni. Fl s d 1 .8 Cl s c1:1 i d A 1 28 5)24 9 1 31 0,1 40 Li II 28 9:1 23 11: 31 5; d 0 3 115 4 1 12 3 132 9 14 0 r IMPORTATION OF CORN FOR TUB lASI` MILK. Wheat 1 Barley Malt Oats Beans Prat Scotch - English s'2o I 2_510 = Irish - ---'- Brit. Colonies - - - -- 1 1540 - LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. SEPT. 3. _Dry Butt9r Is without any matirial alteration, the demand iS 11' 61 . as for pickled is limited.—For both Beef and Pork the demand ' I animated.—Por Bacon, Hams, or Lard there is but little inquiry. BUTTRR..—DPIraRt,TteW 75 0 ad 77 0 per cwt. Banbridge, new 7O o. 72 U --- Coleraln... Sligo, Md. - Derry,old : 7l 0 72 0 --- Waterford, new 7O 0 74 0 Limerick, new OO 0 70 0 -- Cork, new OO 0—72 0 --- Do. pickled 2ds, new 69 0 .70 .0 Do. dry 30s. new - Newry Do. dry . Ist, new OO 0 —OO 0 -- Dundalk OO 0 00 0 Carlow, 74 0 BMW —New Prime Mess . 0 10•2 I pet'tierce. .New .105 0 IJO 0 PORK .... - 60 0 perbarrri - , Do. BACON, new Do. old DRY HAMS 42 0 46 ,0 , WET DO • 3() 0 94 -0 --- -Lauo.—Firkin. . 44 0 48 0 Bladdered 4B 0 50 0 PRICES OF • SHARES. LIV ERPOOL, - Starr. 3, 1835.. ---- 7 Par Shale. Liverpool Coal Gas . Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company. £100 New Shares,premium £SO Liverpool and Harrington Water Works Bootle ditto 'Exchange Buildings Liverpool and Manchester Railway 4,100 paid 209;5• ° Ditto • Old:Quarters 25 --- 49 9 . 0 Ditto New Quarters - ,48 1,5 ,0 'Bolton and Leigh ditto - 80 0 0 " Ditto • . 25 20 0 0 Warrington and Newton ditto Kenyon and Leigh ditto lOO 110 It . 0 Wigan Branch ditto - 90 8 0 'Preston and Wigan North Union Line ditto.. 30 - 24 0 0 Bt. Helens and Runcorn Gap'ditto . 100 - v 5 0 0 Leicester and Swannington ditto - 49 0 0 Stockton and Darlington ditto Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Railwav - .20 .2 and final Leeds and Selby Railway - 100 0 A brand Junction ditto ao - 32 0 l) London and llirmingham.ditto - 35 '0 0 Bank of Liverpool lO -- 17 0 Bank of Manchester 25 --- 32 15 :0 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank.,,, Commercial Bank of Liverpool Liverpool Marine Assurance Company Oldham Gas Light and Waterworks Manchester Fire and Life Assurance C 0..... Ocean Assurance Company 15 20 5 0 10 -- 11 12 6 95 --- 21 0 0 10 - 17 0 0 10 - 10 5 0 10 ••••••••• )0 0 0 Northern and Centralßapk. of England ll 11 0 0 ,RICHARD DAWSON, Share Braker• WHOLESALE PRICES OF BALTIC AND Al LIVERPOOL, S lERICAN TIMBER. :P EMBER 3, -1835. • d. S. S. d. TIMBER, V cubic foot, - - Riga , 0 2 e - o iB' Rantl Dart } .555..4/ load.Pf Net. (10.5.,41 load of 591 4 :is. 4r toad of'6o feet. Memel 0 2 2 0 2 - 3 American Pine 0 1 7 0 2 0 Do. Quebec 0 1 Bi 0 1 9 Red Pine 0 1 9 0 2 0 Quebec Oak Birch PLANKS, Ift foot of 2 inch. Dantzig Deck American Pine -0 .0 21 0 0 31 DEALS, IP . standard hundred. 1 VI 7 120. £2 ss. e 10s. 4t' 120 £l9 ' £22'=.p' 120. Best Petersburg Red l7lO 0 IR 0 0 Do. White 14 10 0 10 0 0 'Memel Red l6 0 0 17 0 0 Dantsic& Swedish Red 14 10 0 15 19 0 AiIVERPOOL AGRICULTI s. d. s. d. 'Jay New Ray 0 0 0 0 Clover Hay— 0 6 0 9 Straw, Wheat 0 6 0 7i Straw, Oat 0 5 0 6 Green Clover 0 0 0 0. 'IIAL MARKET, SEPT. 3. • s, d. s. d. Potatoes 2.10@2 4IF 90t 5 Cattle Potatoes 1 0 1 2 --, Turnips 0 0 0 0 per ton Carrots -- Manglewurzle 0 0 0 0 --- Manure .... . '5 0 8 0 --7 . _ , LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLt. , Days. Mr n. Ern. Ht. Pesttrals. SEPT. H. Sr. H. M. P. 1. Friday 4 855 '9 26 13 3 Nercurysoutha Oh 16113.,E. Saterday 5 955 10 23 14 3 SUNDAY 6 11l 46 11 7 15 5 12th Sunday after Trinity. Monday 7 11 27 11 46 16 1 Enutchus, Tuesday Wednesday 9 021 038 17 4 'Thursday lO -0 55 112 16 9 Man south, -th 45in M. On Thursday, the 20t Itinchant, Esq., of Park Same day, at Copthon a' son. BIRTHS. • th ult., at St. Leonard's, the lady of B. H :-hall, of a son. House, the lady of Thomas Scoots, Esq., of MARRIAGES. At St. Marv's, Mary-le-hone, London. the Hon- Captain Best, R.N. son of Lord VVynford, • to' the Hon. Marianne Kenyon, only daughter of Lord Kenyon. On Wednesday the 26th ult., at St. Philip's Church, slr. John Stringer, of this town, to Ann, second daughter of Mr. Thomas Joreit, late of Shrewsbury. On Thursday the 27th ult., at Parsonstown, King's , Ire land, Mr. Bath, to Miss Julian, Ilaughter . of Richard Jnlian;Zaq., of Parsonstown. On Thursday the 77th lift., 'at Bromley Palace, the Earl of Breck nook, only son of the Marquis Camden, to Miss'Murray,•eldestolszigh ter of the - Bishop of Rochester. On Saturday last, at Christ Church, Mr. Charles Wild, of this town, solicitor, to Eliza, widu.n of the late Edward Rickey. Esq., Dublin. game day, at St. Michael's Church. MT. James Hulks, to, MOO Frances Airey, Drury-lane. • _ ' . - Same day, at Et. Bees, Mr. Willlatritlinith, grocer, of this town. eldest son of Mr. William Smith. - et Braystonet, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Isaac Hutchinson, of the same place. • On Tuesday last, at St. George's Church, Everton, by the Bev. T. S. Bowstead, Mr. L. Littlejohn, to Mary', youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Cross, merchant, of thk town. - Same day, at the parish church of Lancaster. by the. Rev. J.. Huh. James Openshaw, Esq„ of Fern Grove, near Bury, to Sarah. youngeut daughter of the late James Hamilton, Es►l., of ateetriteld, comity. of Armagh, Ireland. On Wednesday last, .at St. Bride's Church, Mr. C. Tinling , of th►s town, to Anne Abernethy, daughter of Capt James:Bisset, DEATHS. On Friday. the 2Rth ult., at Dingwall. Ross-shire. Mary, eldest daughter of the late Provost Robertson, of that place. _ On Monday, the 31st ult., at Pasque, Kincardineshire, the residence of his brother, Robert Gladstone, Esq., of Liverpool. On Sunday, the 23d ult., at his house, Ray-lodge, near •Maidenhead bridge. Berks, attar a few hours' illness, Isaac Pocock, Esq., in 54th year of his age. On Monday, the 24th ult„;to,the inconsolable grief of a most affec tionate 'husband, Marv, the wife of James Stevens, Esq. of Cleobury Mortimer, aged 77. She was sister of the late-Samuel Dowries. Esq.. of Ashford Carbonel. On Wednesday, tht 26th ult. suddenly, at hared House, Ferry Side. Carmarthenshire, the Rev. Edward Pieton, eldestbro.there.the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Piston. On Thursday, the 27th tilt.. at Pymrhyd House, Thomas Randles. Esq., aged 53. As a medical man, his loss will be letrg felt and whilst his cheerfnlness gained him the esteem of MI who knew him, the poor will have lost smarm and constant *lend. ' On Friday, the 28th ult., at his son's , residengc, Stanley-terrace. Preston, very suddenly; agedlo. Mr. Woodford, Pather•or Odpteln Woodford, Adjutant of the.3(l Royal Lancashire 31ilitia. On Sunday, the 30 th ult. , his Excellency William S . -Barry. Minister Plenipotentiary of the United Staten to the Court of Madrid,. 4ged tl. On Monday, the 31st ult., Anna Maria, the 'il‘fant .daughter ..of Mr. James Wilson, Cleveland-square. , Same day, Mr. William liaise], Clarenee-street, aged WI On Tuesday: the Ist instant, Mr. N. T. Phillip*, cOnsluctor of Nor ton-street Academy, in the nth year of his age .deservedly revected by a circle of acquaintance. On Wednesday last, Ann, wife of Edward Griffin., E.A...,llridney spreet. ' • • LIVERPOOL: 'PRINTED AND PUBLISHED SVERY TUESDAY AND' FRIDAY MORNING, BY RIOHARD PATTISSON, At No. 4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTLE-STREET. Orders 'and Advertisements are received by Messrs. 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