The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.—The advised by the Thames, steamer, which arrived at Southampton, on Wednesday, from the West Indies, are of a satisfactory character. The weather in Jamaica and most of the other islands was very favour able for the crops, and it is expected that the yield in 1846-7 will show an important increase over that of 1845.6. The heaviness of the rains, however, bad at the same occasioned some damage in Morant Bay and other parts of Jamaica, but the most fearful havoc among the ship ping, &cc., appears to have been occasioned at the Havana. In Trinidad there bad been one or two slight shocks of earthquake. The papers are almost entirely filled with accounts of public meetings on the sugar duties, and cor respondence and editorial remarks thereon. The subject appears to be taken up warmly and with much spirit, and, considering all things, with considerable temper. There appears to be a st rong feeling in favour of an alteration of the navigation laws, and also reduction of taxation. A disrosition is evidently evinced to make exertion to meet the altered state of things, to cultivate on the best prin ciples, and effect such a change by a reduction of local charges, freedom of shipping laws, and improved agricul ture, as to enable the colonist to compete with slave grown produce. _ _ _ HURRICANE AT THE HAVANNAH.— On Sunday, the 11th of October, Havannah was visited by the mos violent hurricane ever remembered by the oldest inhabi. tant. The damage to the shipping in that beautifully land-locked harbour proved most disastrous—scarcely a vessel escaped—many sunk, and out of at least 120 sail, the Habanero, Spanish brig of war, the royal mail steam ship Thames, the English brig William Rushton, and two or three others, at the termination of the gale, were the only vessels riding in safety. Among the vessels driven on shore were the French frigate Andromede, bearing the flag of Rear admiral Laplace, and corvette Blonde, while the war steamer, Tonnerre lost her masts and funnel. The Spanish men of war wrecked or sunk, were the brigs Laborde; Constitucion, and Trueno; the schooners, Polka, Criolla, Habanera, and Infanta,; and the steam ers Montezuma, Guadalupe, Bazan, and Salitor. The brigs Nervion and Patriots were also damaged. The sheers at the navy-yard were blown down, the wharfs torn up and much injured, and covered with wrecked property. The following may be looked upon as a fair general statement of the merchant vessels sunk, ashore, or useless :—American, 19 t Spanish. 33 ; British, 10 ; Russian, 2; Bremen, 2 ; Danish, 4 ; Belgian. 2 ; Dutch, 1 , French, 4 ; Austrian, 1 ; Brazilian, 1. Many houses, inside and outside the city, have been thrown down, crushing their unfortunate inmates; several churches have been partially injured, and there is scarcely a dwel ling that has not lost part of its roof, windows, balconies, &c. Trees have been levelled to the ground, and even iron posts have been bent by the violence of the elements. The theatre Tacon was much injured, the opera house is in ruins. The city suffered comparatively little, but the suburbs, especially the Cerro, Horcon, Colon, and San LizArdo, very severely. In Regla the damage done was frightful ; from the ruins of one house were dug eleven corpses. The number of lives lost was still unknown, but it was estimated, from lists already given, that no less than one hundred persons had perished by the falling of houses and street accidents, besides those who had been drowned in the harbour. At the height of the gale the barometer was down to 27.70; in the hurricane of 1841 it was 28.42. The amount of injury sustained in the district around Havannab was still unknown ; but the coffee and tobacco crops are said to have severely suffered. The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier slept at Blois on Tuesday night, and arrived at Paris by the Orleans Railroad, at one o'clock on Wednesday. GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY.—Mr. George Russell Clerk will be proposed at the next court for the presidency of Bombay. Mr. Clerk went to India as a writer in 1817. The Rev. J. H. Newman arrived in Rome on the 26th ult., and was most warm , y received by his Holiness the Pope, and several of the most distinguished of the Roman Clergy. Mr. Newman was accompanied by Mr. St. John, and by Mr. Talbot, who is now a priest of the Rcmish Church. The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris for Brussels on Tuesday, by a special train on the Northern Railroad. The departure of their Majesties on the eve of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, excited considerable surprise in Paris, and was construed by some into a protest of King Leopold against their mar- LOSS OF ONE Ht; `DEED LlVES.—Letters received at Vit-nna from Austrian Friuli contain particulars of an unfortunate event that had lately occurred at Goritz. A large number of soldiers and citizens were crossing a bridge of .boats for the purpose of assisting at a military review, when suddenly the bridge, which was inadequate to support the weight with which it was loaded, broke down, and a great many of the persons upon it tell into the river. According to the most credible reports, fifty_ three Chasseurs and about forty citizens have perished in the waters of Isonza. THE C.,URT er FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Royal Family are still at Windsor, and the Queen and the Prince have been taking their accustomed out door exercise during the present fine weather. It is ex pected that her Majesty will go to Arundel Castle in the course of next week. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of the Robes) are among the distinguished visitants invited, it is understood, by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, to meet her Majesty and the Prince Consort on the approaching Royal visit to Arundel Castle. On dit..that it will not be lona before we shall have an opportunity of welcoming another sprig to the Royal Oak, and urging on Mr. Blore, the architect. in his loyallabour of enlarging Buckingham Palace nursery. _ The Rail of Elgin was married on Saturday to Lady Mary Lambton, eldest daughter of the late Earl of Durham. _ The deceased Earl, of Waldegrave's will has amply pro vided for his countess, Braham's daughter, as she is ap pointed sole executrix, and has been left almost every thing which it was in the testator's power to bequeath. The earl's funded property alone amounts to £20,000 The consumption of provisions at Hatfield, during the visit of the queen, amounted to 3 bullocks, 8 sheep, 6 calves, 200 chickens, 50 capons, 150 patridges, 100 phea sants, 50 grouse, 24 turkeys, 80 hares, 21 wild ducks, 200 rabbits, 4 bucks, 24 hams, 24 tongues, and 12 tureens of turtle, besides other accessories to the table in pro portion. FIELD SPORTS.—At the Marquis of Salisbury's Lai tue, Prince Albert killed 150 head of game; the entire list was 318 head, the Prince killing nearly one-half among ten good shots, the party being away only two hours and a half. The Prince had four guns, and four attendants to load them, killing about one head per minute. To be sure, as old Ebony said the other slay, on this un-En glish like butchering, death can only come but once, whether to a prince or a partridge, a pheasant or a pea sant. LAW INTELLIGENCE. No fewer than 21 gentlemen were called to the bar of the Irish Court of Chancery on Monday last. Several of them were the sons of very distinguished men in the country, and one of them was a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Serjeant Talfourd and Mr. Serjeant Manning have been invited to take their seats as Queen's Serjeants, and Mr. Serjeant Murphy and Mr. Serjeant Byles, who have received patents of precedence; and Messrs. Humphrey, Bacon, Rolt, and Walpole, of the Equity Bar, who have been appointed Queen's Counsel, have been called within the bar. A N AGREEABLE ADDITION I —By an index with which we have been favoured, it appears that the legislature in the present year, " being the sixth session of the four teenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland," have passed 402 public and 51 private acts, among the latter of which are no less than seven for divorces and enabling the parties to marry again. A pretty addition to the statute-book all this, and a solid body of law for the people at large, who are regarded as fully cognisant of every act of Parliament that is passed, to diges SPORTING I N TELLIGENCE CHATSWORTH COURSING MEETING. -SOUTH LAN CASH IRE CLUB.—This meeting came off on Tuesday and NVednesdly last, and the company was fashionable and good. The following is a return of the two days' deciding courses :—The Chatsworth Cup, for sixteen all-aged dogs, was divided between Mr. Slater's Sharebroker and Mr. Jepson's Flisker ; the Devonshire Puppy - Cup, beating Mr. Bake's Rosetta; the Burlington Co - p, for sixteen all-aged dogs, was won by Mr. Deakin's Den tist, beating Mr. Stater's Sunflower ; the Cavendish Stakes was won by Mr. King's Eclipse, beating Mr. Barnes's Blucher ; the Edensor Stakes was won by Mr. Slater's Rachel, beating Mr. Williams's Cambridgeshire ; and the Bakewell Stakes was won by Mr. Barnes's Bounty, beating Mr. Bake's Camera. Aurcan. .ConasiNG MEETING. — This meeting took place on Thursday and Friday last. The cup was won by Mr. W. Blundell's Bendigo ; Mr. S. Standish's Semp stress ran up. The Sefton Stakes was won by Mr. Swan's Snapdragon • Mr. Clowes's Cormorant ran up. The Croxteth Stakes was won by Mr. E.G. Hornby's Heresy ; Mr. Swan's Shandy Gaff ran •up. The West Derby Stokes was won by Mr. E. G. Hornby's Hempen Widow ; Mr. Swan's Sovereign ran up. The Ditch-in Stakes was won by Mr. Ridgway's Fairlawn ; Mr. Moore's Missouri ran up. The Hill-house Stakes was won by Mr. Ridg way's Ratoon ; Mr. Swan's Sparks-of-Fire ran up. The Altcar Hall Stakes was won by Mr. Buckley's Bright ; Mr. Buckley's Ballyshannon ran up. THE CHASE. Sir W. M. STANLEY'S HOUNDS wilt meet on Thursday. Nov. 12, at llooton Park Saturday, 14, at Mollington Hall _ _ At Eleven o'clock. The MONTGOMERYSHIRE HOUNDS will meet on Tuesday (this day), Nov. 10, at .......... Brithdir Hall Friday, 13, at Tuesday, 17, at Friday, 20, at Meheithlan At ten o'clock. !lY HOUNDS will meet on Worthenbury Allan Sadlers Nescliffe Gunle Aberinufe The WYNNS Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Thursday, 12, at .. • • Saturday, 14, at .. - - At Half-past Ten o'clock The CHESHIRE HOUND'S will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at .......... Kinderton Guide Post Thursday, 12, at Saturday, 14, at At Half-put Ten o'clock. IRELAND. On Saturday week, two stacks of Wheat at Cieriban. Tipperary, were maliciously set on fire by seven incen diaries, and were destroyed. In September and October, 1844, 2,753 pigs were brought into Cork market ; in the same months of 1845, 3,025 ; whilst in those two months of this year, the enor mous number of 15,559 were brought to that market. EXPORT OF CATTLE.—Within the memory of the old est inhabitant (says the Limerick Chronicle) there has not been so large an export of horned cattle and pigs as this season so far as it has advanced. The " Young Ireland" party held their first public meeting in Dublin, on Tuesday, when Mr. O'Connell was spoken of as a good old man in his dotage, and the people advised by Air. Magee, the new agitator, to " bide their time." THE PRESENTMENT SESSIONS. According to the Freeman's Journal, the Board of Works have already sanctioned presentments under the Labour Rate Act, to the amount of £BOO,OOO, and the number of people em ployed is estimated at over 90,000. The Cork union workhouse, designed to accommodate 2,000 persons, contains 3,200 inmates, while the appli cations increase at the rate of 200 a week. The guar dians have agreed, in consequence, to rent a store for twelve months at £l5O. At their last meeting the clerk stated that he had seen so many as twelve in one bed. Last Sunday evening, the house of the Rev. W. Bun . bury, Charleville, Ireland, was broken into by a Popish mob, at the very time when some gentlemen were discus sing measures for the relief of the destitute people, and some shots were fired, to the great alarm of the family. The mob was beaten off by the male part of the family, their friends, and servants. DEATH FROM STARVATION.—A correspondent of the Cork Examiner, writing from Macroom, states that a poor woman, the mother of several children, who had come into the town on Monday last, for the purpose of participating in some casual relief distributed at the workhouse. died of destitution that evening, after having dragged herself to her miserable home. At the meeting of the repeal association on Monday. Mr. O'Connell delivered a long fulmination against Mr. Smith O'Brien and the Nation party. He had "done justice to the former too long," and so now is preparing to make up by a little abuse. He declared it was not his intention to stand for Dublin at the ensuing election, but true, good repeaters would he found to contest the city. The rent for the week was £57 12s. 4d. PRESFICTMENTS FOR ROMISH CHAPELS.—The Irish Executive has cut off a fruitful source of jobbing, by re- fusing to sanction any presentments for the building of Roman Catholic chapels. This decision was announced in a letter from the Under-secretary, in reply to an appli cation from Wexford, and the local Romanist paper charges the Government with offering " fresh insult" to the Irish, " when their hearts are sorest, and their souls darkest." OUTBREAK. —On Tuesday a formidable outbreak took place in Castletownroche, Cork. A large number of the labouring classes assembled, and in the first instance stop ped some flour conveying from the mills, plundered the carts and carried off the flour; but after some remon strance they were induced to restore it, though in a damaged state. Having given up the flour, they went to seize on the cattle of some of the gentry and farmers, and drove off a large flock. A VOICE FROM CAHIRMOYLE.—Mr. Smith O'Brien has at length put forth a manifesto declaratory of his views with respect to the repeal question, as affected by the quarrel between the champions of moral and physical force. From his letter, addressed to Mr. C. G. Duffy, it appears that Young Ireland is about to set up business for itself, and it is not too much to anticipate that such a re solve will affect the interests of the old and ricketty rival establishment on Burgh Quay. At all events, as the pub lic cannot support both ; one or other must speedily be come insolvent, and of late all the symptoms of bank ruptcy are observable at the senior concern. IRISH ASPIRATIONS FOR PEEL.—THE ANTI-RUSSELL MANIA.—The Rev. Thomas Hardiman, parish priest of Kilmeena, in the archdiocese of Tuam, thus concludes an epistle laudatory of his own exertions in mitigating the poverty of the people:—" Oh! give me the great Tory ch ef. with all his political sins upon his head, to grasp the helm at this dreadful crisis with his master hand, and I will then hope that we shall weather the storm. But I confess that my heart sinks to think that the noblest people on God's earth are at this moment at the mercy of a set of political jugglers, who seem to have no mercy whatever for them." THE MARKETS.—Prices are coming down. Since Friday week wheat has fallen from 353. (currency) to 325. 6d., and oats from 15s. 6d. to 14s. Bd. Barley, per haps from the activity of the distilleries, has more than maintained itself, the price on the former day having been 18s. 6d.—Friday, I9s. Pigs have fallen within the same Period from 365. 6d. per cwt, to 295. The English mar kets also exhibit a decline, and in London there has been a reduction on bread of Id. to lid. in the 41b. loaf. We have had three arrivals of Indian corn at Cove since our last, and 46 vessels laden with it have arrived from France.—Cork Paper, FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.—On Sunday week, the ser• vant maid of Mr. John O'Grady, of Martinstown, Li merick, was attracted by a noise to the bedroom of her master and mistress, when to her horror she found the latter weltering in her gore from a fatal stab in the neck. She screamed and ran down stairs, when she was pursued by Mr. O'Grady into the stable, where, seizing a pitch fork, he stabbed her in several parts of her body until he had killed her. He then left the house, and was soon after taken into custody. He bad only been married about six months to his poor alaultitered wife. It Jarmo. posed that he was labouring under a fit of insanity, brought on by an over excited mind in consequence of his wife's relatives objecting to his three unmarried brothers, to whom he was greatly attached, continuing to live with him. He lately built a fine new house, and purchased an elegant car for his wife. Mr. O'Grady is said to be above fifty years of age, whilst his wife was only seventeen. The unfortunate lady was enceinte of twins. BLANDISHMENTS OF ENGLISH CORRUPTION.—Mr. George Moore, a gentleman in the prime of life, and against whom not the shadow of a complaint has been raised, has been pensioned off from the office of Registrar of Deeds, Dublin, worth £1,5',0. Mr. O'Connell was commissioned by his constituents at Ferrnoy to expel the present ministry from office. and arrived in Dublin for the purpose, on Wednesday week, to take the initiatory step in that expulsion, by lecturing the Lord Lieutenant at the head of an angry deputation. Next day, OT_opnell had an interview of three hours with the Lord L*utenant. The next day, the deputation was not angry at all, O'Con nell giving them the key-note roared gently as a suck ing dove. On Monday, he withdrew at Conciliation Hall all his abuse of the Board of Works, and threw cold water on the proposed meeting at Dublin to coerce the minis try. It has since been announced that Mr. O'Connell's second son, Morgan, has been made registrar of deeds in the place of Mr. Moore. This is a nice chain of circum stances, but other links have no doubt to be added, and when all the little family have been provided tor, the careful parent will withdraw himself into quietude. This finale has already been determined on—when it arrives, let those who will, hurrah for repeal. An extraordinary disclosure has just taken place in Bel fast, where eleven men, mechanics and iron-moulders, were tried for conspiring to injure their employersrMessrs. Coombe and Dunville. The men were convicted, the ring -leader sentenced to four months, and the others to less periods of imprisonment. After the trial, it trans pired that the sub-sheriff had selected certain persons to serve on the jury, and a man named Hill, with a number of blank summonses, had filled in such names as he thought proper. and even placed his own name on the list. Mr. O'Rocrke, the prosecuting counsel, said he had long suspected the existence of such practices, and that it was such a suspicion in this particular case which had led to the course he took in reference to it on Satur day, namely, pushing forward a comparatively trivial case to be tried first. When the jury were deliberating on their decision in this case, which, in point of fact, was one which no man of the slighest pretensionsto common sense could have the least hesitation in arriving at a decision on, he (Mr. O'R ) was desirous to get a second jury em panelled for the other ; but, as soon as the jury then de liberating discovered what was going forward, they threw down the issue paper, without even waiting to be asked if they had agreed, in order that they might get charge of the second case. IRISH DISTRESS, AND SAVINGS' BANKS IN IRE. LAND.—The Times of Friday, publishes an extraordinary official statement—an account of the sums paid in and drawn out of the Irish savings' banks in the year 1846. It would be expected from the superficial examination which has been given to the subject, after the outcry which has been made, that there exist in Ireland no funds to pay rent or to buy food ; that these savings' banks, the reci pients of a surplus, would be closed; and that govern ment would he embarassed by the vast aggregate thus with drawn from its hands. This does not prove to be the case. " The savings' banks there, with one great exception, never were more prosperous thin in this year of unprece dented distress. What increases the marvel is, that their prosperity, in different districts, appears to be exactly in proportion to the extent of the demands on public bene volence. The more the people have wanted, the more they have had. Under increasing distress, there has happily existed a mine of increasing wealth ; and while the trea sury has been lavishing its bounties with the right hand, with the left hand it has received back a current of com fortable deposits. One feels very sure that no other coun try under the sun could ever have presented so remark able an inconsistency between words and deeds." The sums paid in, and the sums drawn out, by the trustees in the province of Connaught, are respectively £9,600, and £4,400. Mayo, where distress was said to be overwhelm ing, drew out only £2,300, and paid in £3,300. Roscom mon paid in £3,300 and drew out nothing. Sligo paid in £l,BOO, and drew out nothing. In the province of Mun ster £80,699 were paid in, and £53,810 were drawn out, the account being thus improved to the extent of £26,899. Limerick beats them all : its trustees have paid in £18,200, only drawing out £3,300. The only exception in this data is one in St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, and has nothing to do with either the potato rot, or the relief measures. As much as £223,800 was drawn out by St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, between October, 25, 1815, and January 3, 1846, in consequence of a rumour that the funds of that bank were not sufficient to meet the demands of the depositors. So large a sum, of course, gives an unfavourable result, as far as the whole of Ireland is concerned ; but taking Connaught and Munster separately, the excess of deposit over the sums withdrawn is £32,099 '' JUSTICE FOR IRELAND." Of Irish ills the chief is gone ; Fur by the letter of Lord John, We're made to understand, Unlike all others of their line, The resent absentees decline " rain" their native la d. UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL, NEWS. The Rev. S. N. Peill, of Queen's College, Cambridge, and late of this town, has been appointed dean of the college. The Church of England possesses nearly as many bishops who are not peers as bishops who are; twenty, we believe, to twenty-six. The Norfolk j ßailway Company have presented the handsome contribution of £3 000 towards the erection of the Thorpe hamlet new church, Norfolk. A contribution of 200 guineas has been anonymously sent to the Pastoral Aid Society, through Messrs. Hoare and Co. The donor merely gave the initials of "C. C." The parishioners of the Rev. C. B. Taylor, late rector of St. Peter's, Chester, have presented him, on leaving that benefice, with a service of plate, valued at £5l, gown and cassock worth £l6, and a purse containing £7O, Miss Burdett's new church, for building, endowing, &c., of which she has given £30,000 toile Bishop of London, is to be built in Rochester-row, Westminster. The munificent donor is to have the first presentation, and the bishop of the diocese afterwards. THE BISHOP OF FREDERICTON.—A letter from Fre dericton says, " Our bishop, Dr. Medley, is building a beautiful little stone church at his own expense, and the cathedral will be commenced next spring. The bishop is universally beloved for his mild deportment and his un ceasing exertions in going about doing good. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN.—We are sorry to have to announce the melancholy death of the Rev. Thomas Bullock, rector of Castle Eaton, and vicar of Chisledon. It appears that about 10 o'clock on Thurs day night last, as he was driving near the Swindon sta tion, the horse suddenly jumped round, by which Mr. Bullock and his servant were both thrown out, and the former gentleman was killed on the spot. The servant escaped with some slight bruises. It is supposed from the denseness of the fog, Mr. Bullock was driving too near the side of the road, and by the horse swerving the wheel went into the ditch, and Mr. Bullock falling under the horse was unable to extricate himself. He was found to be quite dead when the horse and carriage were removed. The rev, gentleman was about forty-six years of age, and bas left a widow and seven children. It is a remarkable fact that the advowson has appertained to the family of Goddard, of Wilts, from the period of the Reformation to the present time. As early as 1550, Johanna Goddard presented Humfridus Golimore. In 1623 Mr. Edward Gopdard presented some clerk to the said rectory ; and again, in 1627, the same Edward Goddard presented Jo-' hannes Hungerford.—Watshire paper. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—A crowded meeting of the Protestant Assrciation was held on Friday exening at Exeter Hall. It was announced that Mr. Plumptre, M.P., would preside, but, owing to the unavoidable absence of that gentleman, the duties of chairman devolved upon Mr. James Hamilton Storey. who opened the business of the evening by expressing a confident hope that the meeting would not attribute his deficiency to a want of zeal in the cause of Protestantism. The attitude which Popery bad recently assumed was of a truly menacing character, and therefore it behoved the friends of Protestantism and truth to come forward and rescue the country from the cloud of darkness in which the Roman Catholics of Ire land were insidiously and irreligiously endeavouring to envelop it. This monition drew down rapturous applause, amid which Mr. Storey resumed his seat.—The Rev. Mr. Birks moved the first resolution, declaratory of their joy at the signal deliverance vouchsafed to their ancestors, and the church and nation, on the memorable sth November, 1605, and recommendatory of increased exertions upon the part of every Protestant for national awakening and national repentance.—The Rev. Hugh Stowell urged on the meeting the necessity for preventing any endowment and encouragement of Popery, which stood opposed to civil freedom and national prosperity; and the duty of electors to secure the return of those men to Parliament who would oppose Popery and support the Protestant institutions of the country.—The meeting was also ad dressed by Dr. Kalley and some other gentlemen. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. train having got off the line. Six trains were stopper; b ; this accident. Another accident occurred at the Chet ford station by a luggage train running into the down se ,. ger train, smashing a horse-box and the carri r :4ge of Mr. R. H. Greg, and inflicting injuries upon th 4 son and ser vantS of that gentleman. Fortunately hi mse lf and h i s daughter bad alighted, and thus eser..,ped. Many of the evere contusions, and passengers in the train received F one or two fractures. They are recovering, ho wever , under the care of the Co ,- .4pany's medical offi c e r f or th e district. Ultimately the trains, now joined together, reached Manche s :Ler about eleven at night, instead of ten minutes to tve. The whole of the accidents are attri buted to. the negligence or incapacity of the drivers of the lurr7sage trains, who are inferior men, and paid a lower ',salary than the passenger drivers. CORRESPONDENCE. ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF SOME PARTS OF LIVERPOOL. LETTER XVIII. To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. " Property has its duties as w ell as its rights." BLUNDERS ABOUT HOUSES.—WATER, CONTAMINATED. A friend of mine took a small villa residence some where about the suburbs of the town. The supply of water was from a spring he understood—not from one of the water companies. The well was located somewhere about the foundations of the cottage, under the scullery kitchen place; the floor of which scullery was always damp. The water for a long time past has been entirely unfit for use, so that they were constrained to avail them selves of rain water, caught for the purpose, or to resort to some extraneous source. The water when pumped up was latterly even ropy, and stunk horridly; so that, so far from being able to make any use of the water what ever, except for garden watering, it was a matter of loathing to work the pump at all, the result was such a stench. The atmosphere of the lower part of the house was always more or less oppressive, and often foetid. Meat could not be kept, and scarcely the appetite for food I The fluid, which my friend Dr. Brett was kind enough to analyze, was clear, but possessed a most offen sive odour, satisfactorily attributable to sulphuretted hy drogen, in most probably a free state. This opinion was confirmed by the fact, that when the ordinary means were used for ascertaining whether ammonia was present in ' combination,, there was no eridence to show that such was the case. When this water was exposed to the atmosphere for some hours, a copious deposit of sulphur took place. This is precisely what is round when water is purposely impregnated with the gas for chemical uses. It was not thought necessary to examine the water for any other noxious gas save sulphuretted hydrogen. This gas was found to amount to not less than l9i cubic inches to the imperial gallon. This is more than half a pint of gas. and consequently more than one-sixteenth of the volume of the water, and double that which the celebrated Harrow gate water contains! (Harrogate Spa does not contain two inches to the pint.) Add the other ingredients only, and it would be perfection! In all cas.% where this water is heated for domestic purposes, doubtless the greater pro portion of this gas would be evolved. That such an evo lution of gas, and in such proportion, would be injurious, there can be little doubt, from the known properties of thi , gas in its effects upon vegetable and animal life. "This gas is found to destroy life, even when it is allowed to , remain in contact with the skin."—Taylor's Medical Jurispru ' dence. " When introduced into the lungs of animals, even in a very diluted state, it has been known to give rise to fatal conse quences."—Tay/or. It appears that the charge of gas which has been borne by an individual with impunity has been 3 per cent. Rats seem, either from habitual exposure in drains, or from other causes, to enjoy freedom from injury when the proportion rises from 2 to 8 per cent., according to French experimenters. " The respiration of an atmosphere, only slightly impregnated with the gas, may, if long continued, seriously affect an indivi dual, and even cause death." — Taylor. Jn discussing the nature of the symptoms, the same authority mentions, in reference to " air but slightly con taminated by the gas," that " sometimes there is a feeling of nausea or sickness, accompanied by pain in the head," and so on. 1 have adduced these authorities on the several points given, in order that the position of parties may be fairly determined by the reader, without one single expression of my own, which might be supposed to be a strained opinion, as grafted on the fact narrated. It will be impossible to suppose that a fluid, capable of giving off such a large quantity of this highly deleterious gas can be accumulated about a house—nay, within its very foundations—without prejudicing the atmosphere of the house, and, thereby, the health of the tenants. As to the using of such water for any domestic purposes of the coarsest kind, comment must be needless. It can be no wonder that, under the most restricted dealing with su..h an inimical nuisance, an amount of ill-health, loss of appetite, and other symptoms of indigestion, should be complained of by the tenants, and correctly referred by them to the above source. The source of contamination proceeded from two cesspools, one upon the premises, a few feet from the well, the other over the Wall adjoining ! A domestic, who had been in the family about five months, came a stout, florid girl, and lett, looking very thin and very pale. A servant girl informed the tenant that, tw years ago, when she lived in one of the houses, the landlord was acquainted with the existence of the nuisance. INJURIOUSNESS OF IDADIP WALLS OR FLOORS Dr Moffat informed me of a case of confinement, which he attended, where the party had imprudently rushed into a new house before it was dry ; so that the walls were running down with water at that very time : the danger of which damp atmosphere would have been only aggra vated by the mistaken expedient of lighting good fires, of course. He preferred the plan of getting the walls well wiped down with dry cloths. Who could wonder that the poor creature suffered from a severe febrile attack, which actually placed ber life in jeopardy. She did recover, however, no thanks to the wet walls, whatever might be due to her doctor. Mr. Ritchie. surgeon, tells me that he had lately some cases of low nervous fever, and rheumatic fever, in some new houses situate upon ground generally under water, previous to being occupied with buildings. The cellar kitchens and cellars are often trickling down with damp at the present time ; and the people, though ill, cannot quit their prison houses, without giving the regular legal no tices. Here is a field for the beneficial duties of a Sana tory Commissioner, whose certificate might thus be the means of saving health from disease, and life from death, in numerous instances. As it is at present, many in stances might be found where the chances are that death might release the victim rather than the landlord's avarice. Mr. R. mentioned a case to me the other day, where 3 or 4 members of a family he was attending were attacked with disorders which he felt satisfied must have sprung from damp being constant in the house. He inquired if such were the case, and was shown down into the cellar, where there was water flooding the whole floor to the ex tent of at least one foot deep. He accused this accident as the undoubted cause. In a short time, on his return ing visits, he found the tenant busy Pumping out the wa ter from the cellar, by a temporary pump, which he had obtained for the purpose. From the nozzle of which a very respectable stream was issuing, whereby the existing evil was remedied for the time. He had advised the party to use no delay in vacating such an unhealthy house. The reply was that there existed a difficulty in complying with this essential part of the medical prescription, be cause a long notice of quitting would be requisite ; de spite of which, however, the party declared his purpose not to sacrifice the health of himself and family even for such a heavy consideration as large forfeit of rent. This is just one of many illustrations of the necessity existing for a legal provision introduced into future sanatory mea sures, whereby the alternative of a tenant's remaining, under certain prejudice to health, or quitting under pro longed legal form of notice, ought to be met. The State has an interest beyond the landlord in saving life, or sa crifice of money. The subjoined case occurred not a week ago :—A poor woman, who bad been confined but four mouths ago, got the present epidemic, low fever, which attack lasted about six weeks, accompanied with rheumatic swellings of the joints of the ex retnities ; she was delirious, and had other symptoms proportionately severe. Under careful treat ment, she rallied into convalescence, and began to sit up in her room for a little while; when she relapsed without obvious cause, such as error in diet, exposure, or other imprudence; her respiration became difficult, and at length cough set in denoting one of the most dangerous affec tions of the vital organs in fever, and its relapsed forms especially. I❑ this state, I was adred by her medical at terilant to sr e her. She proved to be in a sinking state. v v, *, the condition of the house-place struck me as teine itnuse is At my visit oighly prep,. .to health. The one of those recently built on the flat land of Windsor; it is situate in a court, the whole of which is well flagged. This is sa far a great advantage over the former state of such courts ; but then the floor of the house-place was flagged, end the stones were exceedingly damp, so that there was not a square foot of the whole flooring dry ! The digs were evidently laid down simply on the toil it self, without any provision by false flooring for interven ing space ; which, of course, ought always to be adopted for an inhabited ground floor. I bring forward this case as another illustration of the unfavourable combination of exciting and predisposing causes, as they are termed in medical languaoe, of disease. The epidemic constitution of the atmosphere was un doubtedly the pre-disposing cause here ; but the con junction of two natural causes are requisite to the deve lopment of perhaps all diseases. An exciting cause in the shape of casual exposure to cold, fatigue, or wet, might have been the efficient secondary cause of the first attack of fever; but the persistence of this exciting cause, viz., the constantly damp house floor and walls, was adequate to cause the renewal of the attack; and, therefore, in the absence of other obvious cause, most probably did so. I believe that most of my professional brethren would concur in this opinion, although it is possible, I grant, to demur at the extent of my conclusion, upon the ground that parties are prone to relapses in this form of fever es- pecialiv. The other medical attendant took the same view of the subject with myself. For a sceptic, in or out of the profession, the proposition may be undeniably laid down, that a relapse is more likely to occur under these prejudicial circumstances than where such did not exist — and this admission is sufficient for my argument, were the full adequacy of the deleterions agency to produce re lapse excepted against. Therefore such ought to be dwelt upon and suitably remedied. . . Medicine has no fair field in sach cases, and it is hut justice to ourse l ves , Ls we ll as p r i mar il y t o our patients, to point out e m phatic a lly that state of thi ngs , which mili tates so forcibly, an d I ma y a dd, so muc h mor e commonly. than is generally admitted, against all the applied resources of the healing art, and will do, until the hygiene of the case is studied and efficiently carried out. Unless this is investigated and fulfilled, the resort to drugs is but as if a right-handed weapon were wielded by the left hand against the foe. Theiprofession , hus'too.logg suffered itself to remain in this false position, endeavouring to carry on its unequal contest : deceived into the supposition that the elemental processes of nature were in friendly alliance, whereas they irtve in the crowded social state but too fre quently been turned against us—subsidized as it were by that very enemy against whose inroads we relied upon their most important assistance in order to overcome. It has been well observed, " that natural laws are either for or against us,"—they cannot remain neuter in their cease less activities. Yet it will take long years of still further sacrifice of life, before this hard-earned wisdom shall have brought itself into systematic operation amongst the masses of ignorance and prejudice. The machinery of even a pa ternal administration will be like all the great bodies, but slow in its movements. 'The profession must have pa tience ; they cannot undo in a year what a century of folly has been permitted to build up in men, manners, and materials. The philanthropist must even let his entiau siasticdesires cool somewhat—even though his eyes are pain fully open to thestill sustained carnage of preventible disease. I have further facts to bring forward, which I resume for my next letter.—l remain, Sir, Yours faithfully, G. WATSON. Bedford-street North, November 7th, 1846. ANTICIPATION OF LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES AND PADDLE WHEELS, BY EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—In the ancient Irish manuscript, called " The Book of Ballymate," which is very many hundred years old, and is preserved in the library at the Royal Irish Academy, in Grafton-street, Dublin, there is an account given, at folio 93, of a vehicle called the" rowing wheel," constructed by an Irish prince, named " Moga-Roh," in the first century. In " The Book of Fermoy," also, which is a manuscript of the twelfth century, a similar vehicle, and of the same name, is described. The writer of this work states, that this vehicle will be brought into requis.tion, at some future time; that it will travel, both by sea and land, all over the world ; and that it will be used as a means of gathering the Jews together. and con veying them to their own land. The reader may see an account of this matter in the " Abstract" of " The Book of Ballymale," published by Mr. Owen Connellan, who is probably the best Irish scholar, as to ancient Irish, at present in existence; and who was employed for many years, by their late Majesties, the Prince Regent, George the Fourth, and William the Fourth, to make exact copies, for the Royal Library, of " The Book of Leacan" and " The Book of Ballymate," and of other unique Irish MSS. in that and other public libraries ; and who is now employed, with a bookseller in Dublin, to publish, in numbers, a literal translation of these books, which are the most authentic records in existence as to Irish history before the invention of printing, and of the early state of knowledge and literature in that country. The above invention seems to have been an - ingenious anticipation of the use of locomotive carriages and paddle wheels ; but whether as moved by steam or by some other power, I cannot say. It is difficult to say why the inventors of the machines, or perhaps the writers of the books, speak of them in connection with the restoration of the Jews to their own land ; unless it be founded on a translation of Isaiah xviii. 2, similar to that which BiOlop Horsley says is the cor rect one, namely, " vessels of revolution," or " of re volvers," instead of " vessels of bulrushes," as in the common translation; and who also translates the first verse, " Ho! to the land," &c., instead of " Woe to the land," &c., which prophecy has an evident relation to the future and final restoration of the Jews to their own land, and to the assistance then to be given to them, for that purpose, by some great maritime nation, possibly our own. I am. your obedient servant, CHARLES EDWD. HERBERT ORPEN, M.D.. Fellow and Member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and of England, &e. 34, Hamilton square West, Woodside, Birkenhead, 28th Oct., 1846. LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF MODERN ART. [FOURTH NOTICE.] No. 3, Pentven Back, from Llandilas, J. W. Oakes, gives promise of great talent, as do many of the other specimens of the artist in this exhibition. We should like, however, to see Mr. Oakes depend a little more upon his own. He is quite able to exhibit nature to us in her own dress, instead of giving her to us reflected from the pictures of Pvne. No, 6, Portrait of Mrs. Carpenter, by W. Carpenter, is a very well-drawn picture, very naturally painted, although the colours are rather raw. It is altogether very promising if, as we suppose, the author is young. It is moreover interesting. as being a portrait of, perhaps, the best female artist in England. 1. Portrait of Sir Philip Egerton, T. H. Illidge. This picture is an excellent likeness of the honourable member • but, as a painting, it possesses no v e ry s t r iki ng merit. We cannot but express our opinion that the gene ral effect and utility of the exhibition it,elt, as calculated to advance art, is injured by the prominence with which these large and showy portraits are displayed, and the great space which they occupy, to the exclusion sometimes of works of a higher order of talent. No young painter, however clever, gets orders for portraits of such a size at prices which will remunerate him ; and few have the means to venture so much on speculation. d ec become an ad - eh 7. A Morning in Wales, by T. Cresswick, A.R.A. T m h ir i a s t p io ic n t , ur d e i , sp o l f ay w e h m ich or w e e bt a a v u e tie a s lre t a n d e y acquainted with it. It exhibits all the force and vitality m ex o p re res w s of genuine nature, and the character of perhaps one beautiful spot; but it is imbued also with the spirit of loveliness and the poetry which we only dream of. The water is exceedingly transparent and beautiful, especially in the foreground, where it is shallow ; and its rippling over the pebbly bottom is finely monaged. The trees, also, are very fine in form and character ; but, perhaps, are deficient in that freshness and greenness of nature which we see in his contemporary Leo. 324. Contemplation, 7'. H. Illidge. We cannot see why this picture has received such a title. If it had been entitled the shawl, we could have understood it, and ad mired its artistical execution. The painting of the face and figure of the wearer is not worthy of Mr. Illidge. 422. Portrait of Wm. Ravenseroft, Esq., T. Scarrow, is not a good likeness, though very well painted. Mr. Scarrow has also a very good portrait of a lady, No. 425. 434. Portrait of the Rev. B. A. Marshall, by T. C. Thomson, R.FI.A., is good as a likeness, although the artist has not caught the best expression of the reverend gentleman. The colouring is rather raw and hard. 357. Benson : Portrait of J. Bramley Moore, Req. As a painting this is fair, with some considerable deduc tions however. The background, in particular, is faulty. We recognise at once the portrait as that of the Chairman of the Liverpool Dock Committee; and here is the prin cipal fault of the picture. The painter has not caught the intelligence and character of the features of Mr. Bramley Moore, in doing which, to our mind, consists much of the merit of the portrait painter. Flattered likenesses are certainly to he eschewed. Fancy portraits are only tolerable when those of females. This is neither. It is heavy and not at all to our taste. 378. Benson : Portrait of Mrs. Bromley Moore, is a superior picture, the accessories well managed, and the colouring throughout good. 477. Portrait of J. Ashen', Esq., by W. Lovatt, a Liverpool artist, is a faithful likeness, and full of the character of the original. 342. Portrait of Dr. Mc.Naught ; 512, Portrait of a Gentleman ; 528, Portraits of three children; and 530, Portrait of B. J. Simpson, Esq., Everlon, by C. W. Hart, are meritorious pictures, and convey faithful like nesses of the parties. The accessories, flowers, &c., of 528 we do not like. Mr. llart, we believe, has recently taken up his residence in Liverpool. 72. Catherine Douglas, using her arm as a bolt to assist the (scope of James the First of Scotland from his assassins, by R. Redyrave, A.R.A., is a well-painted picture, but rather stiff and incorrect in design. A woman capable of such an effort, to prevent the breaking open of a door, would be more likely to assist it by adding the weight of her body as an opposing force than to stand upright and aloof, depending entirely upon the feeble in• terposition of her wrist as a bolt. 74. A Study from Nature, J. P. Drew, is meritorious 751. The Croppie's Retreat —H. 111. Anthony—is a powerfully-painted savage landscape and figures, very badly placed, however, and rather rough i❑ finish. There is considerable talent in the painting of the little girl. 761. Peter the Hermit preaching the Crusades, by David Scott, R.S.A., deserved a better place. _ _ 599. Competition Desi.on for a Testimonial to the late Earl of Leicester, by S. Huygins, is a very fine archi tectural design. It is a Corinthicn column, elevated on a lofty and massive pedestal, each side ornamented with a subject in bas relief, referring, no doubt, to the philan thropic pursuits (the advancement of agriculture, &c.) to which the late earl was devoted, and or which the sculp tured oxen terminating the basement are fit emblems. The sarcophagus with which the foliated capital is sur mounted (supposed to contain the ashes of the dead) has a classic and solemn effect. 604. J. A. Piclon : Buildings about to be erected in the Old Churchyard and Tower Garden, for Josh. Bailey, Esq. M.P., is a beautiful design, most appropriate for the situation. When erected upon this plan, they will form one of the finest ornaments of the town, rich as it already is in structures devoted to mercantile purposes. The SCULPTURE-ROOM this season is not well filled, and contains few, if any, productions of high art. Mr. M'Bride contributes a fine bust of John Leyland, Es q ., 810, and three other very meritorious works; and Mr. Spence's Portrait Group of the Children of Mr. A. Holaze, architect, is a very pleasing work. We understand that the amount received up to this time for pictures sold is £1,300. The pictures sold are fifty-six in numbr, of which only nine are by Liverpool artists—a fact which does not say much for our patronage of local art. RAIL TVA Y INTELLIGENCE. The Wharfedale railway proprietors have refused to lease the line to the Leeds and Ttirsk company. The directors of the Worcester, Tenbu:y, &c., Railway have passed a resolution expelling Captain Richardson from the office of chairman. The Manchester and Leeds Railway directors have declined to lease the Preston and Wyre line on the terms offered by the latter company, who will hold a special meeting on the subject on the 25th instant. On Saturday week, Mr. Samuel Birchenough, of Sand. bach, was killed on the North-Western line. He was crossing the line at the Nantwich station, and was knocked down by an engine, and run over. The case of Wonteer v. Sharp, the decision of which was by many considered as diametrically opposed to that in the celebrated suit of Woolmer v. Toby, is to be re opened. A special meeting of the Manchester and Lincoln Union and Chesterfield and Gainsborough branch authorised the directors to divide the capital into 43,210 shares of £8 2s. each, and to give notice to the Sheffield snd Lin colnshire that the provisional agreement between them ought to be put into effect. The Great Western held, on Friday, a special meeting to conclude its agreement with the South Wales. The terms were unanimously assented to. Some remarks on 10 per cent. dividends were dropped by Mr. Heyworth. In like manner, the South Wales met, and on their part confirmed the agreement. CHESHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.—We understand that Mr. Joseph Mallaby has resigned the clerkship of the above company, and that Mr. J. B. Lloyd. a solicitor re siding in Liverpool...ix aunninted-in_hissoom. It ist,said that Mr. Mallaby was required by the directors of the Cheshire Junction to resign his appointment as their law clerk, or to give up the clerkship of the Chester and Bir kenhead Company; both of which he has hitherto held, as a friendly alliance was supposed to exist between the promoters of the two railways. Mr. M. as above intima ted, has decided to abide by his "first love." CAUTION TO SPECULATORS.—The directors of the Metropolitan Junction Railways Company have lately is sued a circular advising the dissolution of the company, and asking the shoreholders who have paid, as deposit on each £25 share £2 12s. 6d., to receive back 10s. per share. They say, that " every attempt to raise a contribution from the Provisional Committee has hitherto failed, many of them being absent on the Continent or elsewhere." From the appended statement of accounts, out of £19.897 subscribed, we find that £12,990 has been absorbed by solicitors, engineers, and surveyors, referencing and sa laries ; and this by a company who never even incurred the expense of going before the Standing Orders' Com mittee. SHAREBROKERS AND THEIR PRINCIPALS.—In the Court of Exchequer, on Monday, a somewhat novel case was brought forward. It was that of Briggs v. Hayes. An action had been brought by the plaintiff, who is a stockbroker, for money paid upon differences upon the sale and purchase of railway shares and scrip. The par ticulars fvrnished stated the names of the railway under takings in which the scrip and shares were bought and sold by the plaintiffs, also the time each purchase and sale was effected ; but the defendant submitted that be should be supplied with the names of the sellers and purchasers, and the amendment required was, that they should be set out in the particulars. There was no fraud imputed, but it was contended that it was essential, for the ends of jus tice, that the bill already furnished should be amended in this respect. Within the last few weeks several forged railway ad vertisements have found their way into the newspapers, having evidently been concocted for stock-jobbing pur poses. We were last week made the victims of a similar fraud. Our readers will no doubt have observed an ad vertisement respecting the Chester and Manchester •Di rect Railway, purporting to have been issued from the office of 'Messrs. Higson and Robinson, of Manchester. This is the forgery to which we refer. The person who perpetrated it forged the names of three persons. Thls sort of forgeries must emanate from parties who, from appearance, are of the better class of society ; and the means which such persons have at their command for successfully operating in the way we have described, render it the more eifficult to trace the offenders. In the present case, Messrs. Higson and Robinson have offered a reward of £2O for the apprehension of those concerned. —Railway Times. A TERRIBLE POSITION.—As a train was proceeding through the tunnel on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, on Thursday, in the direction of the latter place, one of the chains which connect the carriages broke, and left a number of the carriages behind. Another train left the Leic , .ster station about a quarter of an hour after that which stopped in the tunnel had started thence, so that the passengers in the latter expected every minute to have a collision with that which was following them. Their agitatio❑ and feeling of approaching danger were heightened by their hearing the noise of an engine draw ing near, while they were unable to judge whether it was in the front or rear of them. In a few minutes their state of awful uncertair,ty gave way to a sense of security, for the engine which had gone on returned to take the train forwards. Had the delay existed five minutes longer, the collision between the following train and the carriages would have been terrible, and the sacrifice of life certain. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD. A special general meeting of the shareholders was held in this town on Wednesday. The chair was occupied by Wm. Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Directors. The Chairman ob served, that at the last meeting a resolution was framed authorising -the directors to carry out certain 'measures, powers being given to a portion of that body to carry them out, and at that time he ( the chairman ) had it in contemplation to take the steps he was about to do. Those measures related to the extension line to the docks, the arrangements with the Cheshire Junction Company, and with the trustees of the Duke of Bridgewater. He considered there were parties rather personally opposed to him who bad the power of carrying out such arrange ments, who represented different interests, and that the welfare of the company would be best consulted by his re tirement. Their interests at present would be best man aged by those parties who had the power to carry out certain measures which be could not do, and which, if carried, would be fur the advantage of the company : A resolution was then submitted by the Chairman, giving sanction to the directors to borrow to the extent of £lO 0,000 on security of the tolls. The motion was car ried unanimously. Mr. J. S. Jackson stated that he should follow the course pursued by his brother, and withdraw from the direction of the company. SINGULAR SUCCESSION OF ACCIDENTS ON THE NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday last, a series of ac cidents occurred upon this line, attended with serious consequences to carriages and passengers. The train which left Birmingham at one o'clock for Manchester, was stopped a few miles fro m Stafford, the rails being found blocked up by a luggage train hexing run into a ballast train. But for the partial clearing•of the fog, ano ther collision must have occurred here. It suss two hours before the line was cleared. Ten miles further on, a de tention ensued of two .boure ..ancto half r frozn a luggage STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Saturday.—We have had another week of in activity. Since 1842, we do not remember a period when the trade of this district was so languid as at present. With scarcely an exception, the leading export krises are doing little or no thing, although the opinion is general that prices of yarns and er..nrlC if tlipc- fin not .nand:!.. ~. uu , pucuny anvad.ce, ecrtainly are not like„ to recede from present rates during the winter. The difficulty of effectirg sales atucad at F. prt6t on shipment.; made when prices here were considerably lower than at present, accounts "--" ' for toe limited extent of the operation\ for ex Port, now that a large advance on former rates is demanded. This falling eff in demand is sensibly f e lt no t only by sp i nners an d manufact.,:rers, . connected with the ' firisbiiig p rocesses. The home-trade houses iire also complaining of the dull and stagnant condition of their market. Drapers appear to be afraid of laying in stock, and confine their purchases to present necessities. As the food panic •ts subsiding, and prices of bread-stuffs are already giving way, .s revival of the domestic 'demand for manufcctures is ex pected speedily to manifest itself. The drooping condition of this market, and the policy of curtailing production by working short time, now in course of adoption by spinnners, do not appear to , have yet deterred capitalists from investing in the , raw - staple. Altkoughse very large amount of stock has been Nov. 10, 1846. transferred to speculators' account during the last two months, which stock must come again into the market; and although the consumption is likely to be reduced during the winter at least one-fourth, still cotton is deemed a good investment, whilst money continues abundant and yields so bare an interest, Yesterday (Friday), the operations in the Liverpool market were on a large scale, amounting from ten to twelve thousand bags, at full rates. All this speculation is going on the chance of a doubtful contingency, and is little better than gambling. Our opinion is already on record. We have sufficient grounds for believing (notwithstanding the estimates of American jobbers) there will be a full average crop of cotton, and that in February or March a good deal of money will be lost by those who are buying at present currency, in the expectation of selling here after at an advance. We are glad to find that at Ashton and Staylybridge the short time movement is being acted up , n. A steady adherence to this policy by the whole trade during the winter, whether demand have a m' mentary stimulus or other wise, is the only safe and sensible method of correcting the markets abroad and at home, and reconciling the balance be. tween supply and demand, on the due estatlishment of which depends a fair return for the labour and capital employed in the staple trades of this district. Prices remain as last week, which we quote :-26 inch, 64 reed printers, at 4S 6d to 4s 9d; 27 inch, 66 reed ditto, at 4s lid to 5s lf d ; 27 inch, 72 reeds, at 58 43d to 6s ; 36 inch shirtings. 66d reed, 7s gd to Ss Ed ; 72 reed ditto, Os 3d to les ; 40 inch G. E. India Longcloths, 56 reed, 6s 9d to 6s loi ; 64 reed, 78 Ind to Ss; 66 reed, 9s lid to gs 3d; 77 reed, 98 gd to 'Os. Yasns are without material change; No. 20's, water twist, good seconds, may be quoted at 84d per lb , and No. 45's, mule, ditto, at M. ROCHDALE, Monday.—We have had another drill market to day, and the demand for Flannels has been very limited. There is very little doing in Wool, and prices tend downward. HUDDERBFIKLD, Tuesday.—The tone of our market is much better to-day ; and although there is not a great deal more doing, there is a better feeling for the future. Prices are firmer. and there is less disposition to press sales. On the whole, there seems to be a better prospect for the spring trade than could have been anticipated not very long ago. LEEDS, Tuesday.—We have no improvement to notice this week of the state of the markets at both Cloth Halls; the quantity of goods sold was about an average of the last few weeks, There still continues to be a complete absence of specu lation. The prices, however, keed steady, and the stocks of winter goods are reduced lower than sight have been expected a few weeks ago. We also hear of a few orders being out for the American spring trade, as well as for Spanish stripes for the eastern markets. Business has bern dull in the warehouses. LEICESTER.—The demand continues dull for the season. Wrought hose are most saleable. The straight-down branch is very flat. The price of provisions is operating seriously in checking the demand for the manufactures of this town. Wool and yarn are stationary. NOTTINGHAM.—The manufacture of both hosiery and lace continues in an inactive state. The wrought hose, as well• as the cut-up branches, are in the same depressed condition. The silk-knotted trade is removing slowly to Mansfield ; but such is the low state of this manufacture, that the change Is scarcely perceivable. The plain silk hose branch has by no means recovered, and it may be considered as half extinct, although these articles mar be bought in London extremely cheap, or at a little more than half the price they fetch in Paris. The fancy bobbin-net trade is in a dull state; there is a little speculation afloat in new manufactures. The plain net trade is in a better condition than the fancy branches, but in that the supply in some measure exceeds the demand. Some of the bob bin and carriage -makers arc constantly at work making "in sides" for Germany. The cotton warp lace trade keeps in about the same position as it has done for sonic weeks past, in rather an improved state. The silk warp lace branch has latterly im proved a shade, and some of the manufacturers have ventured an advance of the wages of twopence per yard, but they state that the journeymen want energy to maintain it. LONDON GAZE? TE.--TuzsDAY, Nov. 3 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and G. Wr gg. Liverp 01, cutlers—E. T. Booth and G. Clarke, Manchester-11. R. Stevenson and J. G. Cooper, Man. chester, manufacturers f fancy trimmings. BANKRUPTS. John King, Buckingham, scrivener. George Knight. Weybridgc, Surrey, dealer In manure. Sarah VVilcke, Fore.street, Cripplegate, whilesale milliner. Lydia Wood and Charles Henry Wood, Willow.walk, Ber mondsey. builders. Daniel Burton and John Burton, Middleton, Lancashire, cot ton . spin tiers. Robert Crow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper. Mary Dent, York, bookseller. Joseph Hall, Carlisle, victualler. Samuel Wellington Roden, Shropshire, brewer. Thomas Thomas, Ibstock. Leicestershire, d:aper. DIVIDENDS Nov. 27, J. Holt, Manchester, banker—Nov. 27, J., J., and W, Cockcroft. Addingnam, Yorkshire, stuff manufacturers—Nov, t'6, J. Park, Leeds, woollen cloth manufactu ,. er. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Edwin Church Everitt. Sidmouth. Devonshire, sharebroker, NKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. John Roland, Manchester, hardwareman. Henry Payne. Gon'den. terrace, White Conduit.tlelds, builder. William Smith, Deptford, potatoe dealer, CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day herein mentioned Nov. 24, M. Jones, Liverpool, saddler—Nov. 24, J. Gill, Li verpool, wine merchant—Nov. 26, S. Hawley, Ashton-under- Lyne, grocer. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED. J. Varney and E. Pledge, Birmingham, wh p manufacturers— C. Marshall and F. J. Stones, Sheffield, edge.tool-manufacta rers. DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS. J. K. Wintethott ,m, Manchester, banker. W. Walker, Manchester, fustian manu,acturer. J. Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed, jun., Leeds, flax manufactu- H. Bone. Durham, grocer. W. G. Taylor an l E. Guy, Liverpool, hosiers. J. R. Wood, Failsworth, Lancashire, varnish maker. BANKRUPTS. James Stout, Liverpool, bootmaker, Nov. 19. Dec. 14 . at. 1 . tors, Mr. Oliver, Old Jewry ; and Messrs . Evat s 1 1 o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of B a nkruptcy. Li verpool. Official assignee, Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. Dec. 18, at 12 John Lessor , Birker head, builder, Nov. 17, o'clock, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Solici tors, Mr. Frampton. Gray's - inn; and Mr. Hilliar, Birkenhead. Official assignee. Mr. Turner, Liverpool. Edward Axford, St. John's Wood-terrace, John Morris. Crown-street. Finsbury. leather seller. William Henry Smith. Edgware-road, linen draper. SoBn°,llcl Robert Weir, Harley-street, Cavendish square, bookseller. William Louis Collins, Wood street, Westminster, brewer. Jonathan George Moon, Fenchurch.street, merchant. James Rule, Saffron Walden, Essex, veterina y surgeon. - John Ring, Kingsland.road, soap maker. Edward Eades, Merton, Surrey, auctioneer. Mary Norgate, Tavistock- square, London, schoolmistre ss. John Brown and lhomas Brown, Newport, Yorkshire, brie*. makers. Joseph Pidwell, Falmouth, general furnishing ironmonger George Flint, Tamworth, paper manufacturer. DIVIDENDS Dec 3, D. Thomas, Manchester, merchant—Dec. I, J. Seaton, Winkhouse, Yorkshire, farmer—Dec. 2, J. Robinson, Beverley, Yorkshire, spirit merchant. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day of meeting, Dec. 1, E. S. Boult, Liverpool, sharebroker—Nov. 27, W. Lancaster, Liverpool, shipowner—Nov. 27, J. Wilkinson, Li verpool, fruiterer—Dec. 2. T. Hanson, Leeds, builder. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. Nov. Hoeft. District lO, William Coulter ( 2 d) Court, 11 to, John Evans (proof) 11, James Gillman (proof and div.). 13, Hewson Dutchman (2d) . .• Ditto, 11 13. William Beamer (2d) Ditto, fi 13, Thomas Broady (Ist) Ditto, 12 17, John Sellick Lyddon (proof) 17, John Leasor, (lst) Ditto, 12 19, Benjamin Mercer Burroughs (proof and div.); Ditto, 11 19, James Stout (Ist) 20, Thomas Crowther, (2nd). .. 20, William Maw, (2nd) Ditto, 11 20, John Burton (2nd) 2., Henry Eyres (2nd 20, Robert Harrison, (2nd) STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, . ON THE IST NOVEMBER, 1846. (From Colburn's United Service Magazine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Windsor. 40th—Winchester. 2nd Ditto—Regent's Park. 41st—Mullingar. Royal H.Guards—Hyde Park 42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight.- Ist Dragn Gds.—Birmingham. _ Reserve batt., Malta _ . 2d—Newbr idge, 3d—Piershill. 4th—Nottingham Rh—York. 6th—Dublin. 46th 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. 47th -Ist Dragoons—Cork. 2d—Newbridge. 3d—Bengal; Maidstone 4th—Dublin. 6111—Longford. 7th Hussars—Athlone 436-Dover. 44th-Belfast. 45th-Cape of Good Hope, LW Reserve batt., C.G.llope -Canada; Guernsey. -Cork. A-Jamaica; _ ,th-Galway. , Uth-Bengal ; Chatham. 51st-Van D. Land ;II Chathan2 526-Quebec ; Brecon. 536-Bengal; Chatham. 54th-Gibraltar ; Kinsale. 9th Lancers-Bengal ; Maidst.lssth-Buttevant. 10th Hussars-Bombay; Maidst.'s6th-Bury, (Lancashire.) 11th Hussars - Coventry. 57th-Canterbury. 12th Lancers- Hout,slow. 58th-N.S.Wales ; Chatham. 13th Lt. Dragoons-Dublin. sgth-Limerick. i4th-Bombay; Maidstone. 6oth(lst batt.)-Bombay ; Chat 15th Hussars-Madras; M'ston (2d batt.)-Canada ; Chatham 16th Lancers-Bengal ,*Maicist 61st-Bengal ; Chatham. 17th Lancers-Dundalk. 62d-Bengal ; Chatham. Gren.Gds. (Ist batt.)-Winch'r. 6:id-Madras ; Chatham. (2d batt.)-St. John's Wood 64th-Kilkenny. (3d batt.)-T(+wer• 65th-N.S.Wales - Coldstream Guards " ' Dublin Chatham st bat.; :66th—Gibilt - a:; - ; 'Ternpletnore St. George's Barr (2d batt.)—Portman•st. Barr. 6sth— seoteh Fusileer G rds— ( Ist batty 69th Wel ington Barr. 70t (2d batt)—Windsor Ist Foot (Ist batt Newbri fie , 67th - Cork. Dublin. -Manchester. . _..—Templemore. 71st—Barbadocs ; I. of Wight Racer's, batt., Canada Trinidad ; 72d—Gibraltar , . ,2d batt.)--Edinburgh. 73d—C. G. Elope ; -( 2(1 Foot—Gosport. 74th—Aberdeen. 3d—Dublin. 75th—Athlone. 4th—Madras; Chatham. 76th—Fort George, N.B. sth—Devonport. 77th—Quebec; Fermoy. 6th—Cape Good Hope. 78th—Bombay; Chatham. Reserve batt , Buttevant. nth—Gibraltar ; Castlebar, 7th—St. Vincent; Newry. 80th—Bengal; Chatham Bth—Bombay, Chatham. 81st—Canada ; Jersey. gth—Bengal ; Chatham. 10th—Bengal; Chatham. 82d—Canada; Spike Island 83d—Dublin. 11th—N. S. Wales, Chatham. 84th—Madras; Chatham. 12th—Mauritius; Isle Wight. 85th—Buttevant %Aare Caste Reserve batt., Mauritius 86th—Bombay ; Chatham. 13th—Port-mouth. 87th —Newport. S. W. 14th—Halifax, N.S; Plymouth 88th—Malta; Birr. 15th—Ceylon ; Waterford. sgth—Halifax, N.S. ; Hull. 16th—Gibraltar; Athlone. goth—CapeG odHope ;Chester. 17th—Bombay ; Chatham. 91 st—Cape of G ood Hope; I .ofW• 18th—China ;t Chatham. Reserve batt., C. G.Hope“ Igth—Barbadoes ; Boyle. g2d—Enniskillen. 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of Wight gad—Canada; Naas. Reserve batt., Bermuda 94th—Aden ; Chatham 21st—Madras ; Chatham. 95th—China Tralee. 22d—Bombay ; Chatham. 96th—N.S.Wales ; Sheerness. 23d—Antigua ; Isle of Wight. 97th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve batt., Canada Reserve batt., Cephalonia. 24th—Bengal ; Chatham. 98th—China ; Chatham. 25th—Madras ; Chatham. 99th—N. S. Wales ; Chatham Y i 26th—Dublin. .4,c‘ 'th—C G. Hope; Portsmouth lb —Bombay ; Chatham. tune B (lstb. -orfn ;**Sheer 2cl batt.)—Halifax.N.S., IsleW Reserve batt., Halifax, N•S —Nassau siah—Ncwcastle-oh-Tyne 31st—Bengal;* Chatham 32d-1 ehgal ; Chatham. 3d—Demerara, Sierra Leone, itC Ceylon Rifles—Ceylon. ounted Riflemen—cay. 34th—Corfu ; Clonrnel of Good Hope. 35th—Mauritius ; Charles Fort R. Canada Rifle Reg.—Canadsl . 36th—Weetion.2 Royal Newfoundland Veteral uuswic 37th—Chatham § Companies—Newfoundla nt 38th—Jamaica; Londoneerry. Royal Malta Feucibles. Malta. 39th—Bengal; Chatham. St. Helena Real.— St. Helena. * 16th Lancers and 31st Fcot ordered home. t ;Bth Foo t crdered to India. 2 36th, under orders for lonian Islands. § 37th. under orders for Ceylon. 0 51st, under orders for Ben gal. ¶ 95th, ordered to Hong Kong. **lst Batt. Rine Brigadi under orders for the Cape of Good Hope.