The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-20 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 20, 1 535 ra, inons. We hope, and indeed it is expected, that Sir ROBERT PEEL will, on the first ley of the next session, give notice of a motion on the subject. This, we say, is Cleaily the duty of Sir ROBERT PEEL, and in his . hands ire are content to leave it for the present. Every body asks, " When is the war about the dollars to begin ?" We wish we could answer the question, be ing4articillarly interested in whatever may have a ten dency to make the liberals of - France and the'republi tans of North America better acquainted with each other. We perceive that the Charge 4'.ljraires of the United States has left, or is about to leave, Paris. He demand ed his passports mote than a week ago, and obtained them on the day he demanded thetn. His French coun terpart, resident at Washington, has been ordered by the french government to scrape his shoes at the door of 'General JACKSON for the last time, and return to the cen tre of civilization with all convenient speed. What can tali this mean ? • Mean! Why it means the dollars, to be sure—the four or five millions of dollars which France confesses 'she owes to the United States, but which the French Chambers refuse to pay until General JACKSON shall make an apology for having demanded payment in a rude and ungentlemanlike manner. The general refuses to apologise—he does not know what the word apology means—like a bear as he is, he has not been taught that civility costs nothing ; for he seems determined to send all the imperishable oak of the republic to the bottom of the sea, swallow his own weight of cold iron, and ride on an aligator all the -way from the Mississippi to Havre, rather than abate one single cent of his claim, or utter a soft word to obtain the stipulated full sack of dollars! • It is, we confess, a very entertaining sort of a quarrel, and is worth any sum of money in these dull times. But how is it to end ? France, having been menaced in the first instance, tried.hard to extricate herself from a dif ficulty, which wounded the national pride, in the easiest manner possible. She exacted no humiliating terms from JONATHAN ; but the latter is resolved not to be conciliated. On the contrary the menacing and bullying System is continued. The dun presses for his money, and exhibits a large pistol buttoned under his coat. First the ambassador. is ordered home, and a 'smart frigate, with the striped bunting flying, dashes into the peaceful waters of the Seine to carry hial away. This having had no effect upon the well-secured treasufy chest of Paris,. the charge d'affaires is recalled; so that at this moment the United States have actually no diplomatic represen tativeln France. In other countries this mutual interchange of ostenta tious incivility is considered a prognostic of war. If General JACKSON stood alone. in the matter, the affair would soon be ended. But it cannot be denied that the general is extremely popular in his own country. He is the idol of the most numerous, and, consequently, the most savage portion of the . deniocraey ; and, in any rash act he may venture upon, he is sure to be supported by the preponderance of voices in a free country, where all Alen have equal rights—ovith this difference, that the " respectable citizen" who has money is allowed to buy, sell, and hang the citizen who has no money. In this state of things we have no doubt but that. Mr. JACKSON will be enabled to prevail upon congress, in the spring of nextyear, to pass a non-intercourse act, and thereby put.a stop to all direct trade and traffic between France and the United States. We see enough to con vince us that France will.not now pay the money without receiving a very full, ample, and humiliating apology. A few simple words, of little or no meaning; might have sufficed before the recall of the Arnerican minister and deptiq% The threat, however, haS been followed up in an insulting manner—,in a bullying manner—in so haughty and marked a manner that no man can mistake 4, and no Frenchman avoid feeling it most acutely.% The dollars, therefore,- will not be paid- 7 7-a non-intercourse act must follow. New what is a non-intercourse act? Let us - talk over this coolly. It is, as we, have said above, d - itispension of trade between the two nations. Frena ships will not. ber:iillowed to enter the ports of the United States, and the ships of the United States will not be permitted to eriterthe ports of France. • All this. is-plairx,sailing,ruiti no act of hostility committed. But suppose an)imerican vessel---a re&pine liner, for instance- 7 -by stress of Rea titer or by accident, should be_ driven rather suspiciously Oar the coast of France : the chances are, she would be captured. It is easy to condemn a ship under the_ pre, tett of being engaged in. some contraband trade. Pa pers proving the reverse are of little avail in sucherner gancies when the one party is anxious to pick a serious quarrel with the other. In the same way a French ves sel might be foUnd invitingly near the American coast— she would he taken to a dead . certainty. In 'Other of these cases war would be inevitable. But there are other ways of corning into hostile colli sion. 4 non-intercourse act would not be worth a piece of wastepaper unless the respective governments are prepared to maintain it by force of arms. On the sea boards of France, and the. United States there will have to be ships-of war upon the look-out, and cruising along shore in all direotions. -Suppose then the Chippawow, o(Bekton, NOAH Shoo s, commander, a' hero who has whipped his seventeen hundred brace of tiger cats, is bound to -Liverpool- with ai valuable cargo of long sass. The current and a terrific-down-setting wester sends him smashing slick into the Pay...Of Biscay. In that bay is kicking about the Celeste- French frigate, of sixtytuns, commanded-by M.-IEOI'OI.D DR TONANT, an immense fire-eater, fond of glwry, and, although half sea-sick, burning for - fame. What then ? 'He signalises the Cha'ppawato to lay to. NoeRS-Nooxs minds it not. He firs a 'gun. The C7appau2aw. runs up, additional canvas, and tries tolOntsail the Ce/este. It won't do. A thirty two pounder strikes her amidships, kills the-second mate, two pigs in -the long boat, wounds a " respectable citi zen" who is a Oasseager,:arid.veiy nearly demolishes Cap taib SNOOKS hirnSelf.— He - goes on nevertheless. A third shot carties away his main-topmast, and a fourth - disables his Helder. In short Captain SNOOKS is compelled to lay to, tint mightily offended, and in a tremendously bad humour. M, TONANT sends his heat with is lieutenant to board the ChTpliaicaw, which having done, he demands her papers, professes to read and understand them, throws them upon the floor, and arrogantly demands to know what right an American ship had to come so near to the coast of France. SNOOKS answers like a free citizen. The lieutenant ad vises him to. talk less and be more respectful, and inti mates to him that, for..the sake of the well known be nignity of France, he forgives him for this 'his first of fendF, bid warns him that if he should dare to repeat such-insolence and impertinence, be will most assuredly Send him and his fir planks to sing Yankee doodle" in the coral caves of the ocean. Captain NOAH SNOOKS, as the reader may imagine, Would be unutterably and niagarationally incensed at thislieatment. He comesi to Liverpool boiling. He discharges his cargo—takes in some rotten muslins, some sorted notions hi the shape of Birmingham' pots, a few cases of rnothveaten woollens, a mile of cast iron for the Alleghany.railway, - and is off to. New York, speechless, because wired like a bottle of soda water. He has a•ra pid Passage—crosses the Atlantic in " no titne"—and run; full sail, fearless of pilot or newspaper boats, slick up to 17th slip, bottom of Nostrum-street, quay 57t1), • In the 'city of New York. Next day fifteen despatches are sent off express to Washington. SNOOKS is closeted with the initthorities for nixie hours. The Whole city 'knows of the insult—the grotis and unpardonable insult offered to the national flag in the person of the commander of the Chippatraw. But we stop here, and simply aSk, would not.xetaliation be the 'emit ?--would not reprisals be in stantly made ?—would the accidental insult, and, the, " mOrdir" of - aatfen not be good grpundsfor going to' ware NciAall levity apart, these are the, unavoidable ten= dencies and natural effects in practise of anon intercourse act. The naval commanders of the United States are quitit as liable to plunge into the rash error which we have only hypothetically ascribed to a Frenchman. Let such_ an act be only passed, the Americans being the ag gressors, and peace it will be impossible to maintain: Pass such an act, citizens, if you please, but . if you do; there is no sensible man' in England whO Woold ;t e your ships for less than fifty" per . cent. Pass such an act: and in three months thereafter you will find a French seventy-four and half a dozen frigates in the Irish chan nel within hail of Holyhead, and exhibiting their colours to the Liverpool floating lights. These are our senti. meets, and now you may pass the act when you please That the French anticipate, and are prepared for this extremity, we see in every page of their ministerial jour nals. These speak the sentiments of the ministry and the nation. JONATHAN, they will not pay you the dollars, simply because you have lied the empty folly to threaten them. On the contrary, they now threaten yea. They are instructed to hint to the people of the United States that they have three millions of black slaves! They say that you are tyrants, making war upon each other—a nation of brokers in human flesh—who laugh at law and justice—who burn, pilfer, and murder without the shadow of law or reason, and that in your boasted land of liberty the men who are hung are not tried, and the men who are tried are not hung ! What a hitter sarcasm, bitter, galling, scarifying, be cause true! -Y on set yourselves up to be enlightened and intelligent people; they tell you in direct terms that you are ignorant and fanatical barbarians—that your liberty is oppression—your philosophy fraud—your libe rality fraud—your judicial system fraud—that your com mercial theories are based in theft—thatyou are a commu nity, as O'CoNNELL would say, of "irresponsible vaga bonds," and that the sooner you are punished and swept from the face of the earth the better it will be for the ag gregate morality of the world. These we confess are hard words, which we only bor row for the benefit of the citizens of the United States. France does not say anything which she does not,mean. She only throws out some intelligible hints. These are addressed to LiNcg 'and slavery, and v a sincerely trust that Judgp LYNCH will take them into his serious con: sideration. Perhaps the sooner the better. Why ? Let their own acts and outrages upon foreigners bear witness. Foreigners are now treated in the United States in a manner - hick is not be borne, and will not be suffered, while there is a drop of unadulterated blood in the veins of an Englishman. In the papers which arrived yesterday we select the following extract from a Boston newspaper, which we here give as we find it:—. From the Boston Gazette. The following notice appeared in the Daily Advertiser of yes. terday The Boston Female Anti-slavery Society have been informed that the proprietor and lessee of Congress Hall, forbids ; that the annual meeting of the said society should be holden at that place, under the apprehension that the building is endangered by the determination of men of property and standing, to put a stop to the meeting, let the consequences be what they may. They therefore notify the members and the public generally, that the meeting will not take place on the anniversary of the formation of the society, as was at first proposed, add has hitherto been their practice, but will be postponed until further notice. By order of the Board, MARY S. PARKER, President. Is it not altogether too bad that our peaceable city should be kept in a state of excitement and commotion by such a foreign vagabond as G e orge Thomp son ? Yesterday upon a mere rumour that he was to lecture before the Female Anti-slavery Society, that part of Washington-street in the neighbourhood of Amory Hall was filled with a crowd of people waiting for his arrival. What their intentions - were we have no means of knowing, but thought we could read judge Lynch quite strongly depicted in most of their countenances. Verily, " the curse never fell upon our nation until now—wo never felt it until now." , After having been forbid'the use of ,rulien Hall, it was publicly announced in one of the morning papers, that the lecture.would.be postponed to another opportunity; - and - yet the impudent scoundrel privately engaged Ritchie Hall for the same aftpraoon, :and at four o'clock, about forty women were col lected in that room, over Mr. Gulliver's store, to listen to an ad dress from him. • But to the credit of our citizens he was not permitted to hold forth, and his weak and deluded followers re tired to their respective hoines.—Mr. Thompson was ,no where . to found. It was reported last evening that, on complaint of the 111ayor. Thompson had been bound over to keep the peace. This; perhaps, is the best disposition that can be made of the scoundrel by the city authorities ; but the " citizens generally" would like to use him up in some other . way. ' ; .What this "respectable citizen" means by the term use him up must be tolerably , ' clear- toall our readers—it means murder. We have no opportunity of.knowing whethet:jhis Englishman, called TUOMPSON., be a "rarouLl7: drel" or a "vagabond," but we have traversed the pages (if the American paperi in vain to find that he has violated the laws of the republic, or the laws of any civilized com munity. He has been " bound over to keep the peace 1" Where has lie invaded even the slumbers of the peaceful? He may be an enthusiast—he may be rabid philanthro pist—he may he a madman-but where has he offended against law? The "respectable citizens" talk of a "foreign vagabond" of a " scoundrel," and an " impudent scoundrel," but we coolly ask them in return, as a set off against their vulgar insolence, and their hideous injus tice, what they would have been but for foreign vaga bonds and scoundrels ? When the colonies of England, now called, by suffrage, the United States, but in reality .the dig-united States, commenced a fraudulent war against the sovereignty of . England did we call LA FA YETTE a " foreign vagabond and a, scoundrel ?" 'They were then glad to receive the feeble aid of a " foreign vagabond;' they were glad for the purposes of fraud to embrace a foreign "scoundrel;" but now that they have availed themselves of such ignominous aid they drink deep of the waters of forgetfulness, and throw their fetid slime and vulgar abuse upon all foreigners who have the courage to assert principles at variance with their con• tracted and sayage.notions of interest and slavery. How often have we seen American merchants, aliens in every sense of the word, taking part with the advocates of anti- Slavery, in the West Indies'. Did we call them vagabonds and .sconndrels? Did the chief magistrate of London ever consider them as disturbers of the 'public peace? This man, THOMPSON, had not infringed any of the laws of America. He was simply an enthusiast, invited to de clare his opinions. The magistrate violated the law and disturbed the peace who held him to bail. He, who ever he is, has proved himself to be a partial and unjust judge—time real 51 . 120 N PURE of "vagabonds and scoun drels." The citizens have some excuse in madness; and in the absolutism of selfishness and brutal ferocity, but they hare none in reason or justice. If foreign " va .gitborlds" were 'permitted to join the ranks of " scoun drels," against the sovereignty of England, surely English "vagabonds" might be tolerated in advocating the doctrines of an expanded freedom, and allowed to declare, according to notions, derived as they pro fess them to be from the word of GOD, the duties of Christians to each other, in illustration of that comMand, equal to a covenant, which bound the Jews to a jubilee of emancipation. LONDON L4TEST NEWS. City, 'Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock. An opinion gains ground 'here, even among those who were hitherto sceptical, that the matter between America and France will not end without hesitation, and some, who possess .doubtless a sort of " second sight," do not hesitate to affirm that the New York packet-ship has been detained for the purpOse of bringing a hoitile Message, a sort of "your money or your life" piece of huSiness. Since our last there has been no colonial arrival of the slight est moment. To-day wehave a tingle Newfoundland paper of -the 2llth ult., but it communicates nothing of importance. It speaks, however, little in favour of the efficiency of the police of that colony that the enthors of the barbarous outrage com mitted on Mr. Winton, , the editor of the Neutfouadland Ledger, bytutting off his ears and otherwise mutilating him, whiclitvas .ilohe in broad daylight, near Harbor Grace, still remained' un 'ffificovered, notwithstanding un less a sum than £l3OO had been offtred by the government and by the 'merchants of various parts - of the island. The French - papers received by the mail to-darstate,that the ,receipts of the customs atrMarseilles during the last month was not equal to that. of the correspondingrperiod of 14.4 t year, which - was ascribed to the deficiency or ari - tvals from the Nevilotind• land coast: • Last month the receipts weie `2,888,191f. while those of October. 1b3:1, were 2,970,0891, 30c. Ont : Consol :Market is very-steady at 91,g,, and the,Acconnt-. ant-General - has hot made any purchases this week. Money hai been easy, and the floating securities have advanved. Ex chequer Bills haying borne a premium . of 16 to 18, and' India Bobds'of 7 ; but they are slightly worse this afternoon, (he for me fr leaving off at 15 to 17, and the latter, at 5 to 6. .14s it. pleases our Stock. Exchange people hereto consider the prospects of the Queen of Spain much improved, the securities haiie, as a matter of course, advanced, which -it will be seen is more than can be said of Colonel Evans and his mercenaries. The bonds (active) left off this afternoon at 49, an advance of 6to 7 per cent. within a few days. MI our transatlantic bonds have in consequence improved Colombian being. at 34i ; Buenos Ayrea at 37; and Mexican at 381 39. Portuguese Bonds are aISW higher, the 5 irer cents. being at 90:4 ; and the 3 per cents: it 58t. In the northern bonde there is little, specula inatket; Belgian are at !()01 a ; Dutch 5 per s E 190.1 1; the 21 per cents. at 55; ' ; end Russian at riq i , ' the haS miith abwed: HE - LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GAGLIARDI'S MECHANICAL MUSEUM Gagliardi, an Italian artiit,,has been'. 'exhibiting for the last fortnight or three weeks at the large room at the back of the King's Arms Hotel, Castle-street, a very interesting col lection of figures, in wax-work,, the size of life, copied from .casts, bust; and portraits of the principal personages they are intended to represent. By the aid of some very ingeniously contrived mechanism, he has given to each figure the varied ex pression of the eye, countenance, and bodily gesticulation of breathing, sentient beings, all of whom are dressed in the Cod tiimes of the countries to which they belong, and of the stations which the originals filled in those countries. The exhibition is divided into four groupes or scenes, arranged with a very considerable degree of taste and judgment, so as to produce a good pictorial effect. The fira i groupe consists of three figures. The front is occu pied by Canons and his brother Miou/is, hitting at a table under the walls of Missoloughi, tracing the plan of an attack on the fleet of Ibrahim Pasha. In the back ground stands, the figure of' the celebrated mountain-chief Coloctroni, who took so ac tive a part in the revolt of his,countzymen. The postures and the occasional movements of these figures, together with the ex- pression of their faces, convey to the spectator an excellent idea of their sense of the perilous enterprise on which they are deli berating. The second groupe represents the death of Zumalatarreguy, the late bold and intrepid commander of the royalist army, who took the field for the purpose of wresting the crown Of Spain from its present possessor and placing it on the head of its rightful and legitimate owner, lion Carlo's. Viewed as a pie ture, the arrangement of the figures, witho'ut reference to the mechanical motion given to them, produces a very bold and striking effect, and is on that account the best part of the exhi , bition. In the foreground is seen a full-length figure of the still breathing chief, stretched on some loose straw; immedi ately behind him, that of his wife, seated on a stone, convul sively grasping in one of her hands the skirt of her husband's cloak.. The general, as the last act of consciousness, turns his head to catch the eye of the female figure, who, as if the sight were too painful for endurance, averts her bead in an apparent agony of grief; while it remains in this position the head of . the :, general gradually returns to its former posture, and 'the 'eyes close in excellent imitation of death. The other figures in the groupe are the son, father, and other relations and followers of the dead commander. The attitudes of each, together with the expression given to their countenances, are all exceedingly good, whether viewed separately as parts, or as completing the whole of a good historical picture. The third section of the museum contains what we aro told is a fac-similio statue of Fieschi, the inventor of the infernal machine, taken a month after his arrest, and as he then appear ed in the prison. Assuming this to be a correct likeness, there is nothing in the appearance of the man indicative of a ferocious or sanguinary disposition. His countenance and eye bespeak great resolution, coupled with what we should call in Eugland a light and merry heart. We leave his head, which, we presume, will some day or other be separated from his body, to the care and inspection of the phrenologists. We come now to the fourth and last scene, the beheading of John the Baptist, which consists of about fifty capital figures, to all of whom an appearance of vitality is given by mechanism. In the composition of this spectacle, the artist has sacrificed his torical accuracy to stage effect. The head of the Baptist is not brought to the court of Herodias " in a charger," but is held up by the executioner, no blood flowing from it, merely to show the closing of the eyes after decapitation. However, as a stage scene, the effect produced is really excellent. The sneer of triumph in the queen and the exultation of her party is finely contrasted with tho horror and dismay of the believing and half-believing followers of the first promulgator of christianity. These emotions are admirably pourtrayed in the countenances and by the gesticulations the drarnatiepersonte of Sig. Gagliarli. They are, indeed, so naturally expressed that it is difficult to speak of theta as unconscious automatons. We have neither time nor space to enter upon a minute description of each of the characters represented in this piece, but we must devote a line or two to the figures of one of John's disciples, in the act of consoling an officer of the guard who holds in his hand a couutermand of the order given by Herod, which he looks on in hopeless despair. The attitudes and continued motion of these figures are in perfect keeping with nature. There are also some very fine costuordmic views in the exhi bition. They consist of the Town-house and market-place of Donai, the entrance to Rome, the bridge of Bourdeaux, the port of Brest and • its citadel, the ruins of the amphitheatre at Naples, view of Rome at a distance, ruins of the Pantheon at Rome, and some other views, taken from different parts of the world. In conclusion, we would remark that we have seen but very pew exhibitions so welt entitled to noticeas"that of Signor Gag lia►di. We have; however, to suggest to him the necessity of employing an English tongue to describe it to his visitors. CORRESPONDENCE. To THE EDITOR or THE I,II 7 EKPOOT, ST.,l.loliinD Litt,—The self-sufficient representative of that diurnal schism unitarianism may have - heard on other occasions a proverb of which I wish to remind him do this—" Those that live in a glass-house should not throw stones." He has applied to that Whig suckling Sir Charles Pepys for an injunction to restrain the Corporation of Liverpool from appropriating any portion of their funds to the endowment of the churches. Why should not the orthodox churchmen apply to the same unhi:issed foun tain of equity for an injunction to restrain the upright and diFi. interested trustees of Renshaw-street Chapel from applying to the support of a socinian minister the smuggled endowment of Benn's-garden, undoubtedly founded for the maintenance of a sincere and unequivocal Trinitarian pastor ?—Yours, . X. N. S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND,IRD. Sin,—ln the Courier of to-day I observed a letter from the attorneys of the Conservative Society respecting the objections which have been so liberally and indiscriminately served out during the last few days by the attorneys for the Reform Asso ciation, and being ono of the individuals so served, although hitherto no party man, I am induced to trouble you with a few lines, which will convince any unprejudiced mind that to give trouble, and, if possible, erase from the register the vote of any person that was likely to be given to a candidate standing on' the conservative interest, is the object of these very, very liberal men. My ease is as follows :—My residence and place of business are both situate in the same ward, and I am not rated or phiced on the burgoss-list far any other. On Saturday last I was warmly canvassed by a friend on behalf of. the liberal candi dates, but gave him no decisive tubswer. Early on Monday morn ing I was again canvassed by the person who had the district, and to whom I was known; and who importuned me so much for an answer, that I at length, to get rid of him, candidly told him it was my intention to vote for one of the conservative' Candi dates, he being a personal friend, but my other two votes I would not promise. • Now, Mr. Editor, mark the result. Late in the afternoon of , the same day I was served at rnydwelliug -house'witti t► - notice cif objection, signed. by one Crooke, simply, I suppose, because I Would not promise my vote to the three reform candidates. The excuge cannot be in my ease "that I should he obliged to make choice in which ward I would vote," because I can. only vote in the one; and what they are to gain by objecting to me in the one place, and allowing me to remain•on the list fur the other, I cannot discover, except it be to give trouble; for say name still is on the register form) , place of Insiness, if 1 d,d not attend and make good my claim for ►ny residence. This clearly shows that the young, hot-headed attorneys of the Reform Asiociation have stood at nothing, which is to me tolerable good evidence of their cause being a bad one, at least in the ward for which I ate entitled to vote. Now, Sir, observe what they have gained by it. One v:Ot1 4 1, had voluntarily promised to a conservative; the other two, it is probable, I should have given to the reform candidates. But now they do not yet one either for the ensuing municipal, or any other election that may follow; and several persons (liberals) resididg in the ward, to whom I have mentioned the circum stance, have declined voting, being so indignant at the mean ness of their party's proceedings. The nature of my business is -such, that, if 1 have to attend either one, two, or three days at the Barristers' Court, it may be a serious pecuniary loss to me; but I am informed that 1 can recover the expenses for my lost time, my case being so exceed ingly frivolous and vexatious; and 1 shall most assuredly try it directly the registration is over. • If you think my case of sufficient interest by giving it a place in your columns, you will confer a favour on one who always was, and still remains, A LOVER OF FAIR PLAY. Lieeipool, 18th November, 1835. BOROUGH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS From the Liverpool Courier. TO' THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL TIMES. Sin,---The following intemperate observations appear in your newspaper of this day. " We wish we could say that welcnew as little of their ob jections, (the Conservative objections,) but thatis'by no means the case. They have this day begun to send them in by hun dreds, and many of them to. persons whose votes are as good as those of any in the:towrn Three separate notices, all sighed by a person of the name of Peter Marrow, hare been sent to one of our friends. Mr. Wales, of this paper, who has beau a householder for thirty-two years, and has paid rates on property of the value of £l9O per annum for the last dozen years has also received two notices, sined by the same person. From these specimens we presume that the - objecting has been indis criminate and universal. If so, we trust that ail persons whom it is thus impudently attempted to defraud of their votes will make a point of attending, if for no other purpose at least for that of inflicting exemplary punishment on the party guilty of this scandalous proceeding. We know not what steps the re- I form association may take to counteract this manoeuvre, but none which they can adopt will need any justification after such a provocation." It would have been as well if you bad-taken the trouble to inquire into the facts upon which you presume that the ob. jection on the part of the conservatives has been indiscriminate and universal. Had you done so, you would have learned that such is not the case, and you would have also learned that the numerous objeotions which have proceeded (only yesterday) from the office of the conservative association have been issued in consequence of the course adopted by .the - solicitor to the re fmln association on Saturday. On Saturday afternoon numerous notices of objections, signed by Mr. George Willian Crook, the solicitor of the Reform As-. sociation, were brought us. When we perceived that two of these (amongst at least a hundred) were addressed to Mr. T. 0. :Cooper, for his office in Rumford -street, occupied by him nearly twenty years, and Mr. Thomas Kaye, for his premises in Cas tie-street, occupied by him for twenty-nine years, we certainly did suppose that the objections on the part of the v'formers were "indireriminate and universal." Upon inquiry, however, we found that they were. served upon pers,ms occupying pre mises in several wards, merely for the purpose of compelling them to elect before the barrister in which ward they wools! be enrolled, it being the opinion of the professional advisers of the' Reform Association that such election should he made at that time. The 44th section of the Act provides, that "if any burgess shalt be rated in respect of distinct premises in two.or .more •warsis, then he shall be entitled to be enrolled and to vote in such one of the. said wards as he shall select, but not in more than ' , one." It will be observed that no 'time is ineutioued when this selection shall be made, and whether before the revising bar rit,ter or the town•clerk after the revision, is a very doubtful We have only to add, that this course (the necessity of which is very questionable) having been adopted by the 'Reform Assco dation, we were necessarily compelled to adopt a similar course in self-defence. _ _ The gentlemen who drew the act, and they only, are the real parties to blame. A little more care in framinx this clause would have prevented that ambiguity and uncertainty in the act which render it impossible to ascertain the real intention of the legislature.—We arc, sir, your obedient servants, PETER WRIGHT. THOMAS CARSON. • .INO. PENINGTON 8, India-buildings, 17th November, 1835. [We were not a little surprised on reading the article from which the above extract is taken.. Our contemporary, we well knew, was betraying it sensitiveness which could not have ex isted had he taken the trouble to inform himself on the subject- When the notice of objection was served on Mr. Kaye, on Se . - turday morning, he was at a loss to account for the proceeding, knowing well that his " votes were as good as those of any In the town," having, like Mr. Wales, a double qualification, one from his premises in Castle-street, which he has occupied for twenty-nine years, and the other from his house in Pembroke place, in which he has resided for twenty vears. Against - the latter qualification a notice was served yesterday, but dated the 13th (Friday.) On inquiring from Mr. Crooke the intent of the :notice, Mr. Kaye was informed that his right to vote was not questioned; and that the objection was only taken with a view to gain a declaration as to the ward which he proposed voting in. Mr. Wales may take comfort from the reflection that he his not to defend himself from an "impudent attempt" of the con servatives, but from an attack suggested by his liberal' friends. We do expect our contemporary will be candid, and tell his readers, in his next publication, that any step which may have been taken by the conservatives "to counteract this mameuvrey will net " need any justification after such provocatiou."l-z-Ek. ConalEß. THE LATE ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER IN TOXTETH-PARK. It will be remembered that the prisoner John Maginnis, was, after several examinations, remanded, until the recover) , or otherwise of James Urch, the victim of his cupidity and bar- should determine the exact complexion of his crime. Notwithstanding the great injuries which the latter received, he is now, we are happy to state, out of danger; and so far re covered, that on Saturday last'he was enabled to attend at the Sessions-house to give evidence. lie is still, however, in so weak a state that he cannot walk without the support of two persons, and the effort attendant on speaking seems to cause his considerable pain. The examination took place in the pri vate room, and his worship the Mayor, observing that the un wonted exertion to which the poor man had been subjec:ed path eauserl considerable ex hausti,,u, sent for reircshments and caused every attention to Ise paid to hint. Tue witness said his name waa James Urch, it 'cabinet-maker. He had' for upwards of twenty years resided at Bristol. Ile had a wife end five Childreu. He came to Liverpool forthe purpose of proceeding to America, but afterwards changed his mind and determined tin remaining Liverpool, wilcie he had been offered work. •He lodged for some time with Mrs. Mackeen, in Redeross. street. Up to this point of the evidence, the witness had n e ver cast his eves towards that part of the room where the prisoner stood. Mr. Shuttleworth, however, now directed his attention to him, and put to him (witness) the question—" Do you know that man?" The witness gazed earnestly in the direction in dicated by Mr. Shuttleworth, but did not seem at once to be conscious of the presence of the prisoner. The latter was led nearer to him. As he approached, witness seemed suddenly to recognize• him, and, tittering a fearful shriek, he exerted what little strength he bad in an endeavour to run from him. He v.as, however, caught by two of the officers in time to prevent him from'falling to the floor. It was some time before his agi tation (solid be subdued. Terror seemed to have absorbed every other faculty, and be continued to shrink from the form of the prisomm and to call upon the attendants to " keep him off," till he f tllc prisoner) was removed to the furthest corner Of the room. fhe wife of the witness having been placed by his side, he went on with his evident:', which was of a nature com pletely to fix the crime upon the prisoner. The slayor was em plo:ied from shortly after eleven until half-past three, and the further consideratiou of the case was adjourned till Moieday at tivelve o'clock. The prisoner was committed for trial at the next assizes to he holden in this town.—Couriei. A S lioliT PA R I,IA MENT.—The shortest parliament on record was that of I:199, which had but one session of u single day, and .during that short space they contrived to upset one King and set up another. THE INJUNCTION. We pereeitesethat -aa . injure:lien lies been ismeaddroin. thee COMA of "Chancery, at the suit of M. Belton anti Mr. Jevons, to stay proceedinge respecting _the _euduwuaent of - the clergy and there can he do - objection to this, we presume. On the con trary, it is highly desirable that a business of such great import ance should be determined in a court of equity,—confirmed if it be legal, and pi ohibited if it be illegal. lint in order to:pre rent misconception in the public mind'here, the real merits of the case should be clearly understood, and the equitable claims of the clergy to an endowment from the corporate estate fully known. It is called a nefarious act to pay one particular body. of christian ministers out of an estate which, as public prepeity, belongs equally to all. To this it may he replied, in the first place, that part of the corporate estate was given for this very purpose. Queen Anue gave the site of the castle, containing above 6,000 yards, "in order the better to enable the corporation to provide for the rectors." This site, thus granted for ecclesi astical purposes, would now„ probably, be worth £60,(X)0; and we do not see that theie is anything.nefarious in :applying a portion of it to the purposes for which it was originallygiven. But again, it should he considered that the clergy in this parish have certain equitable, though not legal, claim's on the public bounty, as &compensation for ancient rights improvidently sur rendered in former times, By the original act, erecting Liver pool into a parisb,.tfrn - rectors were to have houses and gardens near the two parish churches; and if sites for these houses and gardens had been conveyed, as was intended, and were now in possession of the rectors ; they would not, probably, have con tained less than 3,000 'surds, or have been worth less £30,000, inasmuch as land near the Old Church has sold at £l2, £l5, and even £2,0 a squate yard. Again, the rectors,'hy .. ,the original act, were to have all the rectorial and vicarial rights of the ancient parish of• Walton, including mortuaries, which, in such a town as Liverpool, would amount to a large sum. Mortuaries were fees on the personal estate of every person dying worth ten marks in moveable goods, and were fixed by act of .parliament at 3s. 4d, on every personal estate between ten marks and £3O; 6s. Bd. on every such estate , 1 between £3O and £4O; and 10s. on every such estate above 1:40; i and these ' mortuaries with the Easter dues and surplice fees, 1 arid the value of the houses and land, would probably have given each rector an income of £1,500 a-year. .It is true, no doubt; that all snch rights were surrendered for an inadequate money payment, and therefore every thing in the' shape of a legal claim is extinguished; but an equitable claim, , to a certain extent, has always been admitted, and still surely remains. There will, however, be another fund to which the clergy will have a claim on equitable grounds, namely, the sale of the advowsons. An advowson, it must be understood, is the perpetual right of presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice in fee, differing from the next presentation, which is only on tei in; and advowsons are calculated to sell, with immediate possessibn, at about four teen years' purchase, with a return of b per cent., deducting a certain rate, according to the tables, for the lives in possession. Thus an advowson worth £1,440 a-year was calculated, for im mediate possession, at. About . L 21,000: subject to a lite of fifty four years, it solcrfor £lO,OOO. By this ratio the advowsons in Liverpool, if endowed, will sell for above 446,00 Q: but supp ose they are only calculated at £40,000, they will produce £1,600 a-rear;- and if to this £1,600 a-year is added the 600 a-year arising from the seat rents at St. George's, it will be perceived Unit there will be an annual income of £2,200 a-year arising from ecclesiastical sources, and applicable, in common justice, to ecclesiastical purposes; and if, v i we are informed, the endow ments will not exceed £3,600 a-year, it will follow that the ac- . teal burden on the corporate estate will not. exceed £1,400 an nually, of which, as we before observed, £720 will go to the Working curates, and £4OO to the legal endowment of the rec- Oil. Surely, then, all things considered, there is more excite ment on this subject than it deserves, and the Corporation can hardly he accused of injustice in preserving their consistency by confirming those payments which they have always hi therto made, and in relieving the parishioners from a church rate which they have hitherto voluntarily paid, and part of which, if the rectors are not endowed, they must .continue to pay., The only new burden which the corporation lays on the cor porpte estate is designed to relieve dissenters from the vexation of'a church-rate; and that burden does not nearly equal in amount the income which will arise from the sale of church liv ings. We again, therefore, •express a hope that this question will he dispassionately consideredeand amicably settled.—Lioer pool. Ceeriei. _ . To the clear and unanswerable statement of our respectable contemporary we have, to add, that there never was a case in which so much malignant misrepresentation , or such, an _unac countable. misconception es that relating to the endowment of the clergy. The members of the corporation arc held up as knaves and swindlers for attempting to do that which they ought to have done years ago—which the succeeding council cannot do were it ever so much inclined, and which moreover .;....but this appears to be quite forgotten—had THE EXPRESS 'AND FORMAL SANCTION OF HIS MAJESTY'S MINISTERS during the last session of parliament. Lord John Russell pledged himself both_ in writing and publicly in the House of Commons to sup port a bill for saddling the corporate estate with £4oooa-year as' an • endowment for the clergy: lf, then, the present corpora tion be a body of swindlers for attempting to saddle their stic- Lessors with a charge of 1::3,600 new, Lord John is a greater swindler for pledging, himself to suppbrt a bill for saddling it with . £4,000 a-year ihen. The corporation now pay £2,610 ye ar to the-clergy,.and must continue to do so during the lives of the present incumbents;—aud can they be called swindlers because they are willing to secure thine of their churches, in which the pews are ail private property, from bits shut up, and to relieve the parish from the annual it itation of a church rate, they endeavour to secure the - present stipends with only the:additienjl £lOOO a-year, when it is evident that the sale of advowsons will more than cover this additional expense. Hour contemporary, - the Currier, be correct in his statements, the whole charge will only be £7.6(X) a-year, of which .£22C.0 will proceed from ecclesiastical sources,' leaving therefore only £l4OO as apermanent charge; and of this, .E-10') is only a trans fer from the parish rate to the corporate funds. Where, then, we should, like. to know does the charge of swindling rest ?-041 thoie who would endow, or on those who would rot) the clergy of the eitahlished'churA ? SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE RELIEF OF JAS. IJRCII. A subscription has been opened for the relief of the family of Down, Nov. 13.-I'lw City of Lminziderry steamer has jimf .Taines Urch, .the man who was .1.) SRCitgCly attacked and nearly ermined off this h,trbour, being engsg.e I i., enter roil t:;ceive Oft murdered, by Maginnis, on the Bth October, - near akin remains of the late I trl (4 . Uharlevitie . , for Ih. poi pose of coo. square. Urch has a wife and fil=e children who are . now, in - veying them, together tOth the hears,, mottrinn i z . 4 oaChes, car.- consequence of his iiicapwity to e rovide fcr.them, in a state ) Of • riages; and horses, to Dublin; b ut the vessel being two hours comp!ete destitution . The subsCriptien has been commenced in beyond its appointed time, the tide di,l :tot serve co as to enable the hope that a Sufficient stun will be raised to enable the family it to approach near enough, when, after considerable delay, it to earn their subsistence. The folloWing sums have been was deemed advisable for the procession end ship to proceed to handed to Mr. Parlour for that purpose : Rainsgate. The removal of the body from the Marine Parat:c. The Mayor of Liverpool. The Rev. Mr. Monk. 1 0 0 the Duke of Wellington. lord waideulof the Cinque Ports, Lord Mr. Shuttleworth .. lO .0 tF. Somerset, the Earl of Guilford, the lieutenant-governor of „ Mr. Parlour - i Dover Castle, Lady eniteney, . Mr. Feder, M.P., the mayor, A Friend, by Mr. Parlour.: ' 0 I() 0 I Sir J. Brydges, Captain Boxer, and many ortlie most respect- Mr. Brooke. 0 5 0 able inhabitants. .., Mr. Lockwood..... Donations will he received at the Standard-office, and bY Mr. near Charlevillo Castle, in King's Countv, where his lordship Parlour, Superintendent of POriC - e. po ssesse d tra c ts of land, which were gratited from the crown early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth to .hiS ancestor, the cele brated Sir T,homas More, whose brother, Sir Edward, was an cestor of the Marquis of Drogheda. Sir 111ot - has More's heir and descendant, ni the fifth degree, was John More; of Crog, han, Esq., created, in 1715, Eaton More, of Tullamore, whose son Charles was created Earl of Charleville, in 1759. He died without issue, in 1764, and the titles betiiime extinct. On hie monument is the following eipresaive inscription He was descended from the Mores of Croghan, an ancient and an ancient house. He had few faults; not one vice, and many virtues. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. The following gentlemen have been put in nomination for the office of high-sheriff of the following counties:— • Cheshire.—Charles Staulel, of Dennah, Esq.; Charles Peter Shackcrley, of Somerford. Esq.; and Egert on Leigh, of High Leigh, Esq. • - • 1)r - b . yshi . e.—William Pole Thornhill, of Stanton, Esq.; Wil. Liam Tarbutt, of Oystou Hall, Esq.; and George Moore, of Appleby, Esq. - ,S'tctOidshae.—Thomas Howe Parker,' of Park Hall, Esq.; Thomas , Higgins Borne, of Luynton Hall, Esq.; Thomas Silt, of Weeping Cross, Esq. , • Shropshire.—Sir Ferdinand 'Richard Acton, of Aldenlytm, Bart. ; Thomas Beak, of Heath House, Esq.; and Sir Wiltiam Edward Rouse Baughton,of DoWnton, Ba r t. . _ STRONG S 31140 MS OF. TO IS M.-TO Earl of Eldon, at the last audit of his Durham estates, made a return of ten per to his tenants. The following receipt for making the winter pass away quick; we Sad in one dour Ixchange papers :—" Give a note to the bank for ninety days and spring Iva! come before you are pre pared for it." The remedy is worse Wan the disease.--ilmeti caq paper. • Among the new female asioriatiens in Boston is one to be entitled "The Anti - Voung-Men's - standing-at-the-ChUrch-door- Societv."=—Americon paper. A 1 1 .taTteuLA 111ts•rittss—A provint•ial paper contains the following advortisement fora houseMaid:—" A yeang French girl wanted as housemaid; She most lige early in the morning, light the draoing-room hie, but not. eb , an the grate; she milf•it never wear curl-papers, and never presume to give her advice or suggest any thing.." Yorkshhe.—NiehOlas Edmund Yarbarg,of Heslingtnn Esq.; Sir William Fowiestof ingleby Manur, Bart.; and Sir Robert Frankland, of Thirkleby, Bart. DRAn BODY rouNo.—Early on Wednesday morning th body of a man, name unknown, was tOund by-a soldier, in a Heat at the• north cud of the'Clarenee Duck. It was conveyed to the Dead-house, where it now, lie S -to be owned. Ronsitalr.—On Tuesday evening, - abont half-past nine o'c:ock, a man named Wightinau, who is in the employ of the Dock Trustees, was kaucke:l dow❑ and severely beaten by three ruffians, in iL field near the corner of Burton -street, Waterloo road. Ono of the duck-police, hearing the poor fellow's cries fur assistance, repaired ►mmediately to the place, hut was not in time to secure the thieves, who had decaulpegl,takiug with them. Wightman's hat. HISTORY OF Ptt(EN tot A.—A cli,covi?r , of grent historical ira7 portanee has been made at t.)porto. The nine Inwks of "The History of PhMnicia," by Philos de, Bytibiar, - Itave been found in tho convent of Santa Maria de Mermaid , . This work, of which one book only had been preserved in the "Prieparatio Evangelic•a" of Eusehioi, is now complete.—Heried. Cns-r ot'••rr:a HOLY the reign Of Edward. the First, a fairly written copy of the Holy Scrip:9ms cost I:300 of our present money; and a labouring man must have worked thirteen years, including all Sundays and hotidaes, and have spent no part of his earnings, either in food, clothing or lodg ing, before he could have been able to leirchase a Bible. At the present (lay a well printed school Bible can be purchased for half-a-crown. ACCIDENT IN Pittixen's Dock.—Between eight and nine o'clock on Moaday evening the men on tuiaisri the ship Europe 'heard a faint cry of distress proceeding from a space, not inure than three feet wide, between one side of the dock and the above mentioned vessel. Upon examining the place it was discovered that an old woman, wife of one of the hands, had fallen into the water. ,After a little delay, she was taken out in a state of con siderable exhaustion, and conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where, we ore glad to say, she is getting better. Lacruses ON POPERY. —The second of these lectures was delivered un Wednesday eveningislast, at St. Andrew's Church, by the Rev. I. P. Buddicom. Long before the time appointed for the commencement of the service, the doors of the church were besieged by persons of both sexes, desirous to obtain ad mission. The rev. lecturer's discourse was listened to, for up wards of two hours, with deep and serious attention. In the list of preachers who had undertaken a part in the course we omitted, in the STANDARD of the 10th instant, the name o the Rev. Robert Davies, M.A., minister of St. David's Church MILITARY M OVENI ENTS.—Yesterday afternoon, the Twelfth Regiment of Foot arrived in this Loan from Manchester„on their way to Dublin, for which place they embark this morning. FlRE.—Yesterday evening, about seven o'clock, a fire was discovered in the warehouse of Mr. M'Ghie, marine store dealer, Strand-street. The fire-engines were promptly on the spot, and the flames were got under in about two hours from the tune of the commencement of the fire. We understand the property is insured to its full value. MINER A I. MAGNETISM.-4t the meeting of the Westminster Medical Society, on Saturday evening, a paper was read by Dr. Schmidt, a German physician, on the arplication of magnetism as a remedial agent in various nervous and other disorders. The . paper contained a very l engt h ene d account o f h e repute d v i rtues of the ioadstone, from very early ages down to the present time, and of its effects in alleviating affections hitherto considered upprobittm or modiciner•. The whole of the evening being en gaged in the-reading of the paper no opportunity was afforded fur any discussion on the subject, which was adjourned to the next meeting. O'CONNELL FIRST LORD OF THE ADM IR ALTY.—A young gentleman who had not attained his majority, and w ho had just passed at the Coliege of Su rgepns, came from 1 rublin, and called at the Admiralty, with a hitter of recommendation from Daniel O'Connell in his pocket. In less than is Month he was appointed to a ship of the first class, although, as everybody knows, there are hundreds of deservi4 men who haVe already served their country, waiting for appointments, acid waiting in vain. They have no recommendation from Daniel O'Connell.—London Albion. Mr. HORNCASTLE'S BfitßFlT.—Brabam's comic opera of " The English Fleet" and " Quadrupeds" will be performed on Wednesday next for the benefit of Mr. G. Horneastle, who, we understand', is a singer of considerable merit. We are happy to hear that Mr. and Mrs. Baker - had a full house on Monday last. The receipts amounted to £155 15s. Ron Ent' OF A Laanue.—Five .notorious thieves, bearing the names of Thomas Marshall, Samuel Hazlehurst, William Hodson, Peter Nestor, and Evans, were on Monday placed before Sit George Drinkwater, charged by Bonfield, of the nightly watch, under the following , c ircumstances :—Bonfield stated that he had on Satuidav night received information that a gentleman in Comus-street.had been robbed of twenty pounds, of beef, a goose, a hare, five pounds of butter, a quantity of fish, bread, &e. He immediately set about investigating time matter, and succeeded in tracing the prisoner Evans to a house in Cherry-lane, where he apprehendea him. As he was conveying this prisoner to Bridewell, he (the prisoner) said that he would telt him where he would find the other boys who bad been con cerned in the robbery. lie then led him to a cellar in Stock-. dale-street, where he took the prisoners Marshall and Hazle hurst, and subsequently to a beer-shop in Cavendish-street, where he took the other two prisoners, and found a piece of the beef. The keeper of the beer.shop said that he had observed the two prisoners standing at the door of his house for a con siderable time. At ieugtb he asked them what they wanted, when one of them said, " Do you want to buy a piece of beef ?" at the same exhibitinga large cut of that commodity. Witness replied in the negative,.observing that ire was already supplied • with meat. He then retired into his house, and one of the pri soners fellowed him, and called for a glass of ale. Presently afterwards lhe• other soner cause in, saying, "Take care ! here's the simpers." Witness asked them what was meant by the Jr:cullers They told him the constabLs. were coming, and instantly, before he could prevent them, thrust the meat into his cupboard. The watchman entered at the moment, and the prisoners, with the meat, were taken into custody. The gentle man from whom the articles had stolen said, that on Saturday -night some persons host got over irts - bart-yard, - had" broken into the larder, and stolen the articles enumerated by the watchman Bonfield. The prisoners were'remanded. . SPORTING 'AT HOLTON PA I:K.—The following noblemen honoured William Halton, Esq., of Helton Park, with their company during the past week, namely, Hart Wilton, Lord Stanley; and Lord Bingham. G. Hereby, Esq:, was likewise of the party, and on Wednesday they enjoyed a shooting excur sion over Mr. - Hulton's grounds, which proved a - proltie day's sport, as might be expected - from such well kept preServes. The following is a general list of the game bagged • Phea. Hare. Rab. Wood. Thick. Total. Earl Wilton.... 33 26 25 - 1 ' "90 Lord StanleY 31 14 15 I 0 61 Lord Bingham . .. 29 21 9 - 0'" 0 59 Mr. Hornbv.... 37 .15 8 -'1 • • 0 61 Mr. 'l5 12 14 1 0 42 THE IRISH CLERGY.--WOUCESTER, .Nov. 11—The good work of benevolence in aid of the suffering Irish clergy goes nu as we eculd wish. The stun received up to last night was £1,220 145., and we trust that it will yet be greatly augmented. We rejoice to hear that a similar subscription has been opened in Cornwall. — Worcestershire Guardian. RAILROAD TRAVE!.LING.—Does nnv body mean to assert (says the Jahn BuO that decent people - , passengers, who would use their own carriages, and are accustomed to their own com forts, would consent to be harried along through the air upon a railroad, from which, had a lazy schoolboy left a marble, or a wicked one a stone, they would be pitched off their perilous. track into the valley beneath ?—or is it to be imagined that women, who may like the fun of being whirled away upon a party of pleasure for an hour to see a sight, would endure the, fatigue, and reisery, 'and danger, not only to themselves but to ;their children uud families, of being dragged throUgh the air at the rate of twenty miles an hour all their lives, being at the mercy of a tin pipe or copper boiler, or the accidental dropping of a pebble in thedine of way ? Thu Gut LIMTINE.—A curious correspondence has been pub lished in Paris relative to the introduction of this instrument of death in 1792. It is generally known that it was named after a Dr. Guillotin; but, from the documents now published, it ar-, pears that the doctor was not the inventor, but the party wile succeeded, after several fruitless attempts, in carrying a bill through the legislative assembly decreeing that all persons con demned to death should suffer in no other way, but by decapita tion. It further appears, such was the tear of public vengeance, that there was great difficulty in finding any one who would un dertake to construct the requited instrument. The carpenter usually employed by the gevernmert required as conditions, that he should be paid 4,000 francs for each guillotine, and should neither sign agreement or receipt. These terms were declined, and applicatiommas tiome4 Selnyvidt, y..46-emter-, took the job conditionally, that his name should not be made public; and that, as every department would require one of these instruments, the orders should be transmitted direct to by M. Itadesir, the "Procureur-Generalr and by no other person. Paeistoeis roc MER is well known that at the time of Sir Robert Peel's resignation a warrant Was in preparation for conferring a pension upon Professor Faraday, who has more extended the -bounds of science than any Englishman now living. Some time after Lord Metheurne became prime minis ter, a pension was conferred upon the poet, Thomas Moore, alias Themes Little, whit has done More to degrade the litera fere and vitiate the morals of England by ribaldry and virulence - than any writer in the language. Faraday, in the mean time,. was neglected; but his merits being at length forced by some friends of science upon, the minister's attention, a pension was at length offered to bin, LESS in amount than that conferred. upon the poet, and in such terms, aft aCcOmpapied by such exe pressions as his lordship have felt would preclude its RC , • ceptance by any man of a high and honourable mind. We can not but pity even Lord Melbourne for the unhappy position in which he has placed himself ou both neciisions.—Correspondent of the ( Lonthrn) PaNaNce.—John Peckham; Archbishop of Canter bury, about .the close of the nth century, excommunicated Sir Osborne Gifford fur stealing a couple of kilns out of a convent at Wilton. The knight paid rather dearly for his " gallivanting,". inasmuch as the intelelict was only ten - roved en the condition that "he should never come within' any nunnerie, or in the com pany of a mimic; that. three Solt laves together he should be whipped in the parish church of Within, end aS rnanV times in the market and church of Shaftsburie - that he should fast a cm-, tain numher of moneths: that he should not weav e a shirt of three yeares; and lastly, that he should not any More take upon him the habite or title of a knight, but weave apparel! of a rus set colour, until he had spent three }cares in the Holy Land." Posy-oeeice.—By an alteraticin carried iota operation by the Duke of Richmond. late restintieter.Generel, it is generally known that the half-pence eriltectof for new-papers put iuto the post-office after six p.m., that the amount ot which was a per quisite to woof the inspectors are nosf applied to the post-office revenues. To the curious it may be a little interesting to learn the probable amount so collected. The return gives -e-For Tues day, Oct. 27, 1795 papers; amoent received, I , ls. 10d.; Satur dee, Oct. 31, 1.18-.1 papers; amount received, £2 9s. 4d.; Tues day, Nov. 3, 1,837 papers ; amount received, £3 11is. 61d. The inspectors who formerly received the fees for newspapers after time now receive compensation from the Treasury. 148 •88 71. - 5 • 1 313 mrA tt it N GTON OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.— The Warrington operatiie conservatives held their second meeting last Tuesday evening, Wlien about one hundred mem bers were duly enrolled, :And, says our correspondent, at their next met,sting there is good reason to believe that their numbers will be doubled. CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT LEEns.—A dinner was given to the Right Honourable Sir John Beckett, Bart., M.P., by his constituents, in the large room of. the. Music Hail, teed., on Wednesday. About. three hundred. versons were present, •in cluding in that number most of flit:influential gentry and met cantile men iu the extensive county of .York. William Beckett, Esq., was in the chair, and was supported, - right and left, by the right hon. baronet mentioned above, 014 Hon. John Stuart Wortley, eldest son 'of Lord Wharncliffe, the lion. William Sebright Lascelles, second son of the Earl of Harewood, .1. M. Gasket!, Esq., M.P.,• Andrew Lawson,. -Esq. i -141:P:,. Colonel Tempest, G. L. Fox, Esq., Charles Winn, E.sq.,_ Matthew Thompson, Esq., &c. &c. , The whole of . the proceedings went off with unusual spirit and gratification to all present. This constitutional movement, we are glad to observe, is not confined to the wealthier classes alone—the Leeds Operative Conserva tive Society, which is in a very flourishing state, intend to as semble at the festive board on Wednesday- next, the 25th inst. e A IIN A lIVON.--Qu Tuesday evening last, a house in Pepper lane was burnt down, and two old women, upwards of eighty years of age, who lived in the garret, were suff o cat e d, a nd f o und under the ruins. GLASGOW Umvnistrv.---Lord Stinlev was on Monday last re-elected Rector of the UnivertitY of Glasgow. Scarcely any opposition was offers and the election passed over without the usual excitement among the - ittidents. One vote was given in the nation Glottiana, for Dr:B6Wring, and the son of a Se 7 cession clergyman gave another fcr Mr. O'Connell. which ex cited no little merriment among the students. Lord Stanley's re-election may be considered all but unanimous.— Seettith Guardian. CURISTY CfiSIOND AND GKORGIi L'lmondstois, is learned medical practitioner in Shetland, some t weive years ago presented George IV. with a pair of the justly much celebrated Sherlund hose, of so fine a texture that they could with ease be dtawn through a lady's ring,. Previous, however, ty their being sent, the doctor's bookkeeper, Chi isty Odtwond, heving ,occa sinn to appearat one of those assemblies held by fishermen, on extraordinary occasions, and longing to show .tr in those stockings she had seen her master s x hiLiting to his friends, con., trived to get them into her possession. As she was about to re-, place them on the morrow after the hall; to her great horror sho discovered she bad danced a hole in them of considerable size. To remedy this, she set herself to Work, and so ingeniously, wove in the bole, that the blemish, entirely escaped the doctor's notice.. They were accordingly despatched to Stir-Robert Peel (the present Sir Robert's father) to be presented to his Majesty ; and, in the course of a, few weeks, the doctor received a letter acknowledging their receipt, and " his Majesty's•most gracious acceptance of this specimen et' Shetland produce and workman ship." Christy od:wind's old hose, Sir Robert's letter further said, "his Majesty was, pleased to wear." • FosStt. Tuati.—ln the quarry from which stones are at pre sent being taken for the new church erecting at the Miltoon of Balgonie, the quarryman lately discovered a large fossil tree. It is lying nearly horizontally, and is as yet attached by about two-thirds of its circumference to the sandstone. It is about fifteen inches in diameter. and about seven feet of it are at pre sent visible. As it tapers slowly to the outer cod, the portion still undiscovered is probably considerable. wholly corn - posed of white sandstone, similar to that in which it is im bedded, This quarry is reraarkahly- rich in vegetable impres sions. Casts or marks of palm-trees are to be found in great beauty and abundance. The rock it of the coral formation,. and dips at an angle of about 30 W. by N.,. the opposite of the direction of the rocks along the shore. • A bed, of about eight feet thick, of a co u se bluish slate passes through it, in which the casts of one variety are chiefly found.— , :underland Herald. NORTIIAMPTONSHME ELECTION.—The vacancy in the re presentation of North Northamptonshire is, it seems, to be con tested, a'though the canvass of Mr. Mannsoll, the conservative candidate, has hitherto 'proved completely triumphant. The gentleman who is hardy enough to come .forward on the whig radical interest is Mr. flaubury of Ke!marsh, who has been sent'for post haste on the desperate emergency. lie was un successful in 1832 in a similar attempt, and we have little doubt that his essay on this occasion will not be attended with a bet ter result. .The,.elcctors will do their duty, and reject the ad herent and admirer of Mr..o!Connell.—Morning Net. The Duke of Newcastle passed through Whitehurch on Fri day, on his wav to the seat of our gallant countryman, Lord Combermere. His grace was expected nt two o'clock, before which time groups of the inhabitants assembled, end remained till near five o'clock, when the approach of the distinguished nobleman was announced by the cheering of the poPubtce, which continued until the departure of the retinue.— Chester Courant. The appointment of Colonel Sir George Berkeley, K.C.13., to the high office. of Lord Commissioner and Commander-in- Chief of the lonian islands, which was made soon after the accession of the present ministry, has not been cancelled, but it is understood the recal of Major-General Sir Howard Douglas is deferred for the prcoen t, and both officers therefore for the present remain on the - Staff of the Islands, Sir George having appointed the lion. Lieutenant Cadogan to he his aide-de-camp. 6 • THE LONDON ALDEHMA NIC Et.xcptoN.---The region round about Aldgate Pump, exteudieg to lioundsclitch, St. Mary Axe—prononneed by the Aborigines " Situmaree Axe"—Duke place Bevis Marks, Cutler-street : and divers ()thin' (*oink, streets, and alleyc, where dealers in old clothes and slops carry on their gainful traffic, has been in a state of great eXeiternent since the decease of the late Mr. Alderman Thorpe. The can didates for the vacant civic mantle are Mr. Sherd Salomous, gentleman of the Jewish nation, Mr. Humphrevs;the South wark member, of the Hume school, and Mr. La aJones, a con servative.' 'the hitter ; we should observe, would not consent to be put in nomination until the last moment. At the dose of the first day's poll, Tuesday. the numbers were fur Mr: Sheriff Sa lornons, 49. Mr. Humphreys, 3d. Mr. Jones, U. Our Len don correspondentinforms us that at the end of the second day of the contest, Vunricsday,-the candidates had son'teivhut en tered their position ;—Mr. Salomons listing polled 64, Mr. Jones 58, and Mr. Humphreys Si votes;—that the sheriff and the radical had exhausted theirstreugth, and that the adversary of both, Mr. Jones, would probably be returned. Should Mr. Salomons be elected, as the act of Sir John Campbell only ap plies to the oaths to ; be taken by sheritis,lit is doubtful whether he can fill the office without swearing "On the faith of a true A PAIR or HCRAWWAY Co/Lek-Hoe sRs.—A few days 'ago, on the occasion of the anniversaty of the marriage of the Marquis aa d m a rchioness of Abereorn, who mete giving a grand hall at ' Kinrara Cottage, in Inverness shire, a singular necident took place, fortunately Without loss of life. The mutinies carriago, had been sent about four miles to the ford of the Spey at hive reside, to bring Mr. and Mrs. Ellice to the eve'ning's entertain ment. While the carriage was Waiting, the day being very. stormy, the posthoy dismounted to replace one of ate cushions winch had been blown front the box, u hen the hor=es took fright at the storm, and 'started off at full speed, the postilion in vain attempting to overtake them. Continuing their course, they reached the great Highland toad which (bey followed for nearly twelve miles, when they turned off, and after many windings and crossing a narrow bridge, leached the ford at the Donne of Rothiemurchus, which, from the river being flooded, was declared impassible early. in the day-. Here the horses ()60: the property of her grace the duchess of Bedford, and well aerustonied at the ford) had the sagacity to take it at its proper place; and mitiaculously enough, gaineit the opposite side, notwithstanding the strength of the cur rent, where they *ere found, three hours after, a few yards be hos the usual landing-place. They had succeeded in passing the main ford (part of which' they must have swam with the car riage,) and gaining a gravel bank, which intervened between it and a smaller One, and in descending the 111de of this motaitt the carriage had been upset, in which position' it:was found, attached to the holies, entangled l.ti a tree. The horses Were immediately released' without-injory. and the carriage tied to the tree for two days. till the river subsided, when, it was extricated without beim! injured further than being wetted and a little scratched. . The glasses were not even•bro-. ken, and it is now, without repair, being need as hit lotdship'i, travelling carriage. What renders. the holoAnore • surprising, . is, that the accident took place after dark, •audthe horses . were, seen to strike tire with their heels in their heedless Carta alt the road. —Scotsman. • . . THE BAHE:ACK-HATING Witins,—A fortnight since we took occasion to notice the proposed annihilation of the Royal Mili tary. Asylum et Chelsea, and the conversion of the splendid building erected for pious and charitable purposes into bar racki; and we said—NV hat ! "more barracks ?" ye barrack hating Whigs. What has happened since? Why, part of the Penitentiary at Milbank having been, as all the public buildings' are, burnt down, from the over-heating of flues, either by ncei; dent or design, workmen were ordered' to repair the damages, and rebnild the prison. All this has been put a stop to. The convicts are, in future, to he sent to Dartmoor, to benefit the Duke of Bedford's creatures at Tavistock, and the Penitentiary is to be converted into MOH2 RA it RACKS !-Oh ! give us a whit radical nsioistry far ever anti ever.—Jain Ball. THE LATE, EARL (W C}IAULEVILLE ~. _~l~. u i his ta la! , alo s 'avd align ts; 1141' ti p p. part rted; rbole 0 be Lic~ bet a t he 50' A ,tin -10 rgY' r rt r;sb • be tbe l of,