Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-06 00:00:00

SMITHSONIAN HOTEL,: BILOA , DWAY, Corner of HOUSTON-OTREET;NICW Named in 'honour of the SxtruseristruirtsTrronces. Established at WasnmoToN, by the U. S. Corrastss, With Funds bequeathed by Jelin Sairrizsorr, of Ebt =Asp. Easing the Friendship of the 01 , 110E1LS of the NAT:ONAL Irtsrmvinow Is conducted on the System of HoteLs in Ex GLAND. CHAS. H. smuri. TO THE ELECTORS OE SCOTLAND WARD. GENTLEMEN, —I begto return you my grate ful thanks for the honour which you conferred upon an yesterday in Electing ma as one of your EF.PRES atrATIA7 ES o the Town Coancil; and assure yon that I shall ever use my 'best Sorts to merit the confldeaee yea have repved in me. I am.. Gentlemen, Your obliged and humble gerrpsit, JAMES CREILLIN. lellefield House, West Derby Road, 3rd• Nov., 1857. TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT BURGESSES OF ST. PAUL'S WARD. FELLOW BURGESSES,—I take the earliest opportunity of returning you my sincere thatlks for 'the hononr you have conferred upon, me, by ELECTING me one of the MEMBERi of the MUNICIPAL, COUNCI I. of this 130 ttrOUGH, :and for assuring you that nothing shall be wanting oa my part in the Andopeodent and faithful discharge of the duties which may •develve ;noon me in that capacity.--I have the hoacur to be, Gentlemen yours, ithfally and obliged. W2l. B ASTON. • footle Castle, tad Nov , 1857. FINAL CLOSE OF TUF"?3LL. W. BARTON._ ... a. R. WGCFrIi ... .. 201 ...... 194 MA 00111.T7.. . .. .. 7 AMUSE yIENTS, PUBLIC NIEE CINLI:3, &c. THIS PAY. TlReass RorAL—Professor Anderson-7 p.m. TOTAL AmrntrnrAmE—Dramatis Pe , formance-7 p.m. Korsi.in's CIRQUE VALtirra, Dale-street--7 p.m. LYVKIPOOL ACADEMY'S EYRIBITIO.E, Postoffice-place. Au. ores WAXWORK EEMIRITION.-1.0 B.M. to 10 p.m. aOYAI. CoLoessum—General Entert9.lnrnent-6.30 p.m. car For particulars see advertisements. r4e tv :gartyPrn FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. We may expect further telegraphic despatches - with news from India, by Monday next. The !intelligence by this arrival, is looked for with sense anxiety, and it will he read with the utmost avidity, as it may p:obably bring some details respecting the fall of Delhi. In the-meantime, members of both Houses of Parliament continue to discant upon the subject of the Indian mutinies, with the greatest gusto—and we are sorry to see that several of these gentlemen, and others, have thought fit, in their superior wisdom, to:fling asperations of a not very creditable nature, at the press of the United Kingdom. We would, however, direct the attention of any of these would-be-censors, to - 4 • read, learn, and inwardly digest" the following from a London cotemporary :—" Whatever may occur in the East, nothing has been recommended at home that would not redound to the honour of ' English justice ; but, because they have not im plored pardon for unearthly.erimes, because they have not Facade(' for the ghastly wretch who has -smeared .his hands with infant blood, the public j °tuna's are lashed by every pretender " with three fingers and a smattering of grammar," who desires to raise a philanthropic cheer. But this the . Press has done—it has pointed out the men responsible for our disasters; .ithas left the nation j no excuse fir omitting to call apathetic blunders to j account; it has stimulated the epatriotism of the country; it has unceasingly urged the Government to measures of foresight and energy ; it has sug gested a hundred agencies that might be set at work, and which, after being treated for awhile with scorn,. have at length been adopted ; and it will persevere, until the last blow .is -struck, in sup plying the. place of Parliament during the recess. They wha fear or envy it may .carp or cavil; it possesses the confelenee of the nation ; when it insists upon a - fallacy the fallacy will perish; but if it oondescended more generally to sophisms and Ilippancies, it wculd command the applause of many who now repudiate its influence, while they cannot "Weak the force or Its aitaluLlil. rc sn unit candour and discrimination of our readers whether :the Press of, Great Britain has not been of iuesti amble advantage to the public service.; and whether, n its absence, #here could be any equivalent gua rantee for the parity or vigour of the Administra , Lion. Consegle.n4y. we advise orators, .who have invectives at the tips of their tongues„ to aim more -.accurately, and to be sure, before they strike, .whether their hancle may not be shattered by the blow they deal against a power so much their superior that it disdains to crush them -in detail." The Earl of Salislaury has made an oration on the education of the poor. He says that eociety has reaped more iseaefi7, from the mass of the _neglected children of the metropolis, than it lead fre:n any number of others in a superior position. The good conduct of tho children who had been rescued from infamy .by the Ragged School Society was such, that .people in authority had • gene to their homes delighted with thear ,quiet orderly -behaviour, and .a , , , lvineud that they were worthy of all the pains that had been taken with . them. ,1.1 - is Lordship itiva.r.eel many occasions on' which the poor had conducted themselves sceas to. • bean example to the higher classes, and in noticing. the coneht of the soldiers, who are taken from the' poorest of {.he people, he said that their behaviour ; at the siege and storming of Lelhi was of the most noble nature, and when they were loading' their guns, and the word ran along ale lines, " Now, my boys, remember the women ; remember the babies . " —when their .excitement was at its height, Genere. Wilson issued..a.n order, that though stern justice must be done, yot, for the sake of the religion they 'professed, and the country to whiek they belonged, they must spare.the women and eatialren. Tne -suit of it was, that when they entered the place they took the woman and children under their care, and .not ono was injured Here it wad that this prin ciple was instilled into them, and it had shown its ; effects, to the honour of their country ,and the re ligion they professei. Perhaps the worthy Ear (has received a teiegraphie despatch kiirect from _Delhi, so that he .knot's all that has beZm done Aliee. All we .and tie rest of England'. are in possession in respect to the fall of Delni is, that- the city woe taken on the 28 h September, but whether the ()Mar of General Wilson was obeyed, we cotiriet tell ; let us hoteever hope for the credit of English Soldiers, and the araraeity of the Est.' Shaftesboxy that it wae. The .Black eentbstnan, Pepple, late King of Bonny, on the West Coast of Africa, and who was rescued by one of H.M. Crusera from the fury of Imis soajects • some year or two agr, and brought to England for safety, has written a letter to the Lowden .journals —at least he has had it written forleite, for one rather think, thatheis not acquainted wids caligraphy. The subject upon which the King of the slave tradieg darkies writes is a proposition of his of a -" Christian Mission to . Grand Bonny." His Msj esty states that some time since he applied to his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,aaentreat ing his aid in estabiiehing a Christian mission at Grand Bonny (on important trading place feet palm oil, in West Africa), where there never has been such, although fur twiny years past I have, used al' the means in my power to accomplish my object Also, in 1848 I wrote to the Rev. Andrew Scalar 'ilk, of the Presbyterian Missionary Society, WI with no success. El's Grace the ArehbishoP .01 Canterbury referred me to the Church Misdiorary Society, Salis'may,square,l'icet-street; and on the 6th day of March ultimo, by their appointment, I hgcl interview with the secretaries there; but I regmt to say that pay application was not enter tained thcm " And what think cur readers is the con:tlusion which J'l3g P.pple arrives at? Just merely this—that the results of his codes yours aro not consistent with the objects of Christianity, and the object of Missionary cstab shm en ts, The inauguration of the Liverpocil g.teen's CA.tilege, passed off yesterday with the greatest mkt. Lori Broug!tom took part in the proceed ings, anl made an excellent widress on tbo occasion, was INtelled to with the utrxios attention. %William Brown, Esq , MP , also made a short speenh. The proceedings will be found reportedatlicngth in our columns of this morning. The usual weekly meeting of the Dock Com mittee was held yesterday. A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce attended, and urged upon the committee the desirability of continuing a Liverpool office in London. The various com mercial bodies quite concurred in the necessity of such office not being abolished. Some discussion on the point then took place, and it was intimated that the committee would give the subject their fullest consideration. A report of the sub-com mittee on Dock Accommodation was read. It is recommended that the notices of applying to Parliament in the next session, should include powers to borrow a sum of £8136 ,000 for extensions and irnprovaments of dock and quay accommoda. •tio. on the Liverpool side of the river. In con nection with this report, the Chairman intimated that he had received the resolution adopted at a meeting in Manchester, on Wednesday. (which we have already published); but he said that it was a question that was entirely in the hands of the Liverpool Corporation, and the New Dock Trust, coaseqaently they could not take any action ' upon it. Mr. James Holme, in, strung lan_ guage, condemned the conduct of the gentle. men who attended the Manchester meeting. and refuted several of the statements made there. After some further conversation, the report was adopted, and the solicitor ordered to prepare the necessary documents, the committee aireeing to acknowledge the communication from Manchester, stating that the 'Birkenhead docks were at present in the hands of the Liverpool Cor poration, but that the Dock Committee would be happy to meet the commercial bodies from Man chester if they would come and inspect the works. The meeting of the Toxteth Board of Guardians was held yesterday. A long discussion took place on a letter which had been published in a Liver pool paper, respecting the appointinent.of a Regis trar for Toxteth cli3trict. The memorial from the ratepayers who had, at a public meeting, condemned the erection of a workhouse in the union to accom modate 1,000 persons, was read, but it did not have any effect, as the B•)Rrd came to the determination to carry out the original resolution, and build a house according to the plan sanctioned by the .Government Inspector. The Wallasey Local Baird of Health held their meeting last night, but no business of importance was transacted. Some officers of the Board were appointed. Tee news from abroad this morning is interesting. M De Bronchere has failed in the task of forming a new B Igian Ministry, he being of opinion that a dissolution of the Chambers is necessary to secure stability. The King, however, is averse to such a meatlar and has sent for another member of the left or liberal party, whose name has not yet transpired. The Halstein affair is rapidly progressing. It is said that the Diet has received an o:Th:Yial note from the English Government, indicating its opinion that justice should be done to the Duchies. We do not know what credit is to be given to the asser tion, that Lord Palmerston has sent officials to Holstein to inquire and report on the foundation of the' complaints of the Holsteiners. The ma jority s•f the German States have already privately informed the Prussian Government that they coincide with its views in this affair, The impression that the new Austrian newspaper tax would prove injurious to the cheap press of Vienna is confirmed by letters from that city, which describe it as a c3tnplete death-blow to the • sprightly little journals, which form a charac teristie feature of the Vienna, as well as the Berlin press. But the high-priced newspapers in Vienna, with great discernment, do not separate their cause from that of their cheap cotemporaries they also .complain. The measure embraces besides the re-establishment of the stamp, an increase of the advertisement duty. Letters from Constantinople state that the French ambassador M. De Thouvenel, refuses to have diplomatic intercourse with Roschi,l Pacha. This is rather strong, but not unexpected. It is to he hoped that the Imperil Government will' bring their representative to reason. Advices from Sydney, New South Wales, to the 141.11 ot AuE. , ,usr, suppaes us wan tua speech of tne Govern.)r of the Colony, at the opening of the S. , cond Session of the present Parliiment. The speech is rather, long, but interesting. He inti tures that several bills will be introduced into the House shortly —among them, one to increase the number of the members of the Assembly, to remove certain disabilities of voters, to introduce the ballot, also to regulate the proceedings at elections, diminishing the expenses of can didates, and provide against bribery and coy rup,ion. Bills for the regulation of the sale of land, to facilitate the administration of juitiee measures for the extension of education, to taeili, tett) the introduction of emigrants from the United King lom, and to increase the efficiency of railways Several other important subj, , cts are alluded to including the Electric Telegraph, and if • the Colonial Parliament gets throu.4li one-third of the work cut out for them, then all we can say is, that it would be well to transplant a number of the members into the Imperial Parliament. The Bank of England yesterday raised is rate of discount to 9 per cent. 'CONFIDENCE ` g at Liverpool, Manchester, and in the adjoining districts generally, is still upheld in a manner to excite surprise." This was the designing announcement recently conveyed by the .London Times to the commercial world. By it, friends and foes were given to understand that the stabilty of our banks, and the power of our merchants to nrzet their engagements, arc maatters to " excite surprise." This dastardly insinuation, which was evidently meant to cause the widest spread alarm. coupled with the corn meroi4l treason,of that journal, which caused the run upon the Borough Bank, and the immediate suspension of its business, are newspaper out rages whtich eannat be tolerated with safety in a mercantile :country. The reporters of the Lon don Times, by some species of nepotism, were informed that th . .-.!l3oronh Bank had applied to the Bank of England for assis'ance, and without waiting to know, as they were in honour bound to do, the result of that application, they an nounee the fact; and a run upon the Borough Bank ensued before the Directors had time to close even their preliminary arrangements for the aid which possibly might have carried them through all their difficulties. The other Liver pool B asks have withstood the 8 per cent. shock, as we fearlessly asserted they would. And this is the trade .sus wining and gratifying fact which the .g leading journal" states to the world is a matter to " ezeite surprise." ]Does the London Times possess th a t n i ce corn prehension and erl:ic 11 knowledge by which the trade and banking business of this great com mercial country ca 1 be prostrated, as if by a galvanic shock, whenever it suits a particular clique of money dealers? HAI. it arrived at such proficiency in counting the turns of the bank screw so as to be able to tell the point of de pression at which the failure of all the banks "at Liverpool, Manchester, and in the manufacturing districts generally," should close their doors ? That some such terrible result was Anticipated at 1, Printing-house-square, is sufficiently proved by 1 the "surprise" expressed at the country's s having escaped so frightful a calamity. Providentially, this national disaster has not come to pass. The Banks contracted their business sometime before the crisis came, and were prepared with gold to meet even the unseasonable demand forced upon them. The Bank of England's reserve of bullion was materially reduced by the drain caused for the supply of .specie required to uphold the provincial Banks, and thus increased intensity was given to the London monetary panic; but, notwithstanding all this, and the "surprise" expressed by our cotemporary, the Banks of the North were never stronger. The dead weight of the crisis has not fallen upon them, as the subtle writers of the London Times are well aware. The contraction of business, by which they rescue their character and substance from the fangs of the panic-mongers, has, how ever, left the merchant without the commercial accommodation to which he is entitled, and has cut off from the labour market the means of paying wages. The importer, exporter, manu facturer, and other employers of labpur, are the men who are doomed to suffer in such cases. The masses who live by daily employment, if we may venture to mention such a proscribed element in modern economic science, have to bear the accumulative injury done to our social fabric by these sudden and unwarrantable inter ruptions of the trade and commerce of the realm. The London Times, knowing all this, will not allow its " surprise" to he excited, when we find the most respectable firms in the North of England suspending payment, and that there are already multitudes of men out of employment " at Liverpool, Manchester, and in the manufac turing districts generally." It is in these two latter directions that the full vengeance of these monetary storms developes . itself. Trade of itself knows no sudden depressions in the value of every product to which commercial experience fixes a price. Nature itself does not more cordially abhor a vacuum than commerce dreads a collapse. Such things would not occur if the tinkering of legislation was not suffered to interfere with the natural ebbs and flows of its tides. Industry can also overcome all the natural obeructions to employment. But where one is made to dance like a bear, and the other ira sent out to work in chains, invented by those who have no sympathy with either, there can be no steady progress, safety, or rational development of their incalculable fructifying powers We denounce the doctrine of barter. Sanctify the paltry false pretence of cash payments, and give a nation of twenty-eight millions of people, 20,000,0001 of legal tender money to carry on wars, and producion to the extent of 300,000,0001. and upwards annually ! This is simply i mprac nrael ennv < he•••••-. 1 , •,,es 200,000,000/. of Bills of Exchange afloat clay by clay. Now, to depreciate the value of this com mercial paper—that is, to buy it at the lowest and sell it at the highest price, his become the leading business of the day, to which all others must give place. The process by which the desired depreciation in the value of our commercial bills is effected is, by applying the Bank of England screw, and forcing all the other Banks to contract their ac commodation, regardless of the consequences to themselves, and the character and stability of their customers. Surely, such a system as this can require nothing more than its exposure to secure its explosion. It may be all very well for the few who gain largely by the working of such a device, but the commerce of England must come day release itself from its trammels. Usury we have always denounced as a sin which, while it debases and impoverishes the nation, cannot fail to demolish the usurer. The political immorality and social depravity which it exhibits in England .at this hour more than justify our as sertion. It has filled the whole public mind with consternation, and every man in trade is made to suspect his neighbour as though he were a footpad, or a being lost to all sense of honesty and shame. Monetary matters, however, have assumed such an aspect, that the Government must either give some instant relief to trade, or Parliament must be celled together to take the whole subject into its consideration. The present banking rate of interest of nine per cent. for commercial accom modation., must be meant to demolish the whole commerce of England, and render the employ ment of labour, even for another week, wholly out of the question. The millionaires of Glas gow have already taken steps to secure relief, and we wait anxiously to see what the mer chants of Liverpool will attempt for their own deliverance. NEXT to the appointment of Mayor. on Mon day, the object on which the public fed the deepest interest is the material from which the Water Committee is to be re -constructed. After the unanimous condemnation of the Pike, even by those who were its most ardent supporter; and the unmistakeable opinions expressed by the whole town on the question, it would amount almost to an insult to the good sense and right feeling of the Council ,to suppose, for a moment, that they would dream of forcing back the old Water Committee into office. Such a proceeding, if resorted to, would not only► be an outrage on popular feeling, but it would be a positive act of cruelly and injustice to the Committee them selves, who must recently have felt their position at once irksome and painful. We have never denied to the Committee purity of motives in THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1857 their proceedings in regard to the water supply, but their whole career has been characterised by a total want of discernment, combined with a blind confidence in those, whom we much fear, were bent upon misleading them. They have shown, on all occa- sions, a profound ignorance on every, even the most important, details connected with the Works. Take the introduction of the Pike Water into Liverpool, on the third of January last. Why, the Chairman himself was totally unaware of that most important event, until he learned it through the medium of the press ; even more than this, although the Committee had passed a resolution that the water was not to be supplied without their sanction, yet, in defiance of that order, and even without their cognisance, it was so supplied,—a pretty convincing proof of the respect entertained by their subordinates for the Committee's instruc- tions. Again, a question was mooted in council as to what portion of the town was constantly supplied, and what districts were not, when the Chairman admitted his inability to give the required information, although this was a matter of vital importance. The fact being that, notwithstanding all the fuss and balderdash spouted about a constant supply of water at high pressure, Liverpool never has enjoyed, never will enjoy, any such boon. Since the introduction of the Pike Water many districts of the town have been left, for days' together, without a drop of water ; and, as no provision was made for such contingencies, the inhabitants experienced greater privations than they ever did, even under the old interrnittant system. The leading mains can, as they always have been, be kept constantly charged for extinguishing fires without difficulty; not so the branch services, where there are, sometimes, nearly a hundred faults to repair in one day, and these repairs cannot be executed without turning the water off the entire district where they occur ; constant supply, under such circumstances, is sheer fudge—a delusion. At the Council Meeting, on the 19th ultimo, Mr. JEFFERY inquired of the Chairman of the Water Committee whether there existed any plan delineating the Pipeage throughout the borough; he was answered in the affirmative, and promised the document in twenty minutes. A messenger was despatched express to Hotham Street, but after the elapse of nearly two hours it was not forthcoming, nor was it produced during the entire sitting of the Council ; in fact, the map was not in a state to be produced. But Mr. JEFFERY had taken care to fortify himself with facts, acquired independently of the Water Committee, or their officials, and the production of these took all parties by surprise, and none, more so, than the Chairman of the Water Committee, who learned more of the pipeage from Mr. JEFFERY'S clear and intelligible speech. and the statistics he furnished. than he . had done during his whole tenor of office. In short, the Water Committee have been studiously kept in the dark on every point of importance which they ought to have been fully informed upon. They have been a mere body of record to sanction the payment of their * servants' stipends and other dem an d s , an d legalise the proceedings of those who profitted by their credulity and supineness. But all these illusions must be brought to an end. The Water Committee, as at present constituted, are not the men to dispel' them. , Routine—that curse of public bodies, has ever been upon them. They have seen with other men's eyes, heard with other men's ears, and spoken with other men's tongues; hence, the absolute necessity of others being appointed on that important committee pledged to pursue a totally different line of policy,—nten, who will insist on tearing asunder that veil of mystery and secrecy which has enshrouded the whole of the doings of those connected with our Water supply. Such men, the Council count amongst their numbers, and, we trust they will do their duty to their constituents by sending the " right mea to the right place " on this occasion, at all events. DEPARTURE OF LORD 13ROUGDLIM Lordship left fir home by the train departing from Lime-street at 3 30 p.rn , having been called away by letters which he had received during the day. LORD BROUGHAM'S VDIT T,J THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM—Before proceeding to the Liverpool Institute yesterday, Lord Brougham visited the Free Pubdc Library and Museum, in Duke-street. His.Lerdship was accompanied by Mr. William Brown, M.P., and ws received at the door of the Museum by the chairman oc the Library Committee, Mr. Picton, and several members, including Messrs.: Steains. Woodruff, Bennett, Aikin, Hodson, and Stitt ; Dr. Hume and several other gentlemen were also present. His Lordship went though the Museum, in which In evinced much interest, and then entered the Library, where he received details as to the number of volumes it contains and the average of readers daily attending. His Lordship expressed the deepest interest and gratifi nation in the extent and arrangements of the library and museum. TrIE NE,DITERRANEAN TELEGRAPIL—A telegraphic c ‘ronaunication, dated Cagliari, from Mr. Newall, the manufacturer of the cable, has already announced the success of the operation of laying down the telegraphic line to Spartivento, in Sardinia, and that communication with Algeria was complete. The p'omoters of this important enterprise may be congratulated on the fact that, after more than one failure in the attempt to lay down their line, they have obtained the reward of their perseverance. By this means the French Governmen t have a direct telegraphic communication with their African possessions in Algiers. The cable on leaving Spezz'a is carried under the sea to the northernmost part of the Island of Corsica which island is crossed overland. From the south of Corsica a submarine cable crosses the straits of Ben;faeio, and is landed on the north of the island of Sardinia. The telegraph crosses the island, and is submerged at Cagliari, or Cape Spartivento, the most soathern part of Sardinia, and then passes under the sea to Bons, on the Algenine territory. The difficulties in laying the line across this latter portion have been very great, owing to the inequalities of the bed artd great depth of.the waters of the. Meditenaue4n. At Cone prtjithe depth to which the cable is lowered is not more than ninety fathoms, and the water deepens immediately to over 2,000 fathoms, or nearly two miles and a half. This company has a paid-up capital of £300,000. Of this sum 5 per cent• is guaranteed by the French Government for fifty years, on a sum of £lBO,OOO. France receiving by the line certain privileges connected with the transmis sion of Government despatches to the island of Corsica and its colony of Algiers. The Government of Sardinia gives a guarantee of 5 per cent. on the remaining £120,000 of the capital, having the use and 'control of the line over the island of Sardinia, as well as the communication with Turin. DEATH OF LORD CIIIRLES BUTLER.—The Kilkenny papers announce the ',sudden demise of Lord Charles Wandesforde Butler, which took place on Friday last, at the residence of his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Ormonde. Marley, Rathfarnham• Immediately After breakfast on Friday morning last, his lordship com - plained of feeling faint, and retired to his bedroom; the servant hearing him call at once went up, and found him lying on the floor, suffering from an apopletie seizure. Medisal aid was immediately procured, and his lordship rallied a little, but in the course of the afternoon he had a second seizure, which terminated life. Lord Charles Butler was fourth son of James, Marquis ;of Ormonde, brother of the late lamented Marquis, and uncle of the present.llle was in his 38th year. BRITISH GUIANA..—By resolution of the Birmingham Ladies Negro's Friend Society, at a recent meeting, the following considerations were directed to be laid before Mr. Labouchere, the Secretary for the Colonies :—That the secretary has laid before the meeting some recent correspondence and information received from the colony of British Guiana, showing that the poll tax, which is maintained by the local government, is producing all those sufferings and evils which its opponents foretold, aggravated by the cruelties with which its penalties are enforced. That an urrq lel and unrighteous an impost, found so absurd and impracticable in England, in a barbarous period of our history, should have received the sanction of the Colonial Office is a matter of the deepest astonishment. That such measures are calculated to sap those feelings of loyalty which have so long pervaded the Negroes of oar West Indian colonies can admit of no (bah , . That among the records of this society is preserved the copy of a despatch from Lord John Russell, when Colonial Minister, addressed to the Governor of British Guiana, in 1840, in which is the following paragraph : " But in whatever degree I might be disposed to yield to the representations of the merchants and proprietors, whether in this country or the colonies, I must enjoin upon you to bear in mind that the happiness of the inhabitants of the Colony you are appointed to govern is the; chief object. Eucourage religious instruction ; let them partake of the blessings of Christianity ; preserve order and eternal peace ; induce the African race to feel that wherever the British flag flies they have a friend and protector. Check all oppression, and watch over the impartial administration of the law. By such means our colonies in the West Indies will be made to fl )urish though in a different fora and a different tense from that in which the term has been hitherto used. The Queen, whose command I now convey to you, looks for her reward in the faithful attachment of a million of her people, whom it has been her care to render worthy of the boon which it has been the happiness of her predecessor to be enabled to grant by the liberal assistance of his parlia ment, and amid the joy of his subjects." That this society deeply regrets that an enactment so repugnant to these sentiments should have received the sanction of the present Colonial Secretary, and would thereiore urge upon his attention a careful and earnest re-consideration of the subject, with a view to the speedy repeal of this oppressive impost.—(Signed), MARY (SAMUEL) LLOYD, Treasurer ; LYDIA (EDMUND) STURGE, Secretary. THE COURT. WINDSOR, Wednesday.—There was - no addition to the Royal dinner party yesterday. The Queen rode in the riding house this morning. The Quee❑ held a privy council at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Present—The Prince rau vitt e, trio uora chancellor, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Ernest Bruce. At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from Friday next, tke 6t" inst., until Thursday, the 17th December- The Queen having been pleased to appoint Earl Duck to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester, his Lordship was sworn into office. The Queen gave audience to the Earl of Clarendon and Earl Granville. Lord Cremorno and the Hon. M. Sackville West were the Lord and Groom in waiting. Lord Granville remains on a visit. MARRIAGE OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL-0011ra Lavrado, in addition to the formal demand made to the bride elect, on Monday last personally demanded from the King or Prussia the hand of the Princess of llohenzollern for the King of Portugal. AMUSEMENTS, &c. Ma. BASI L BAKER'S BENEFIT.—It may not b 3 out of place to remind our readers that Mr. Baker's benefit takes place at the Amphitheatre this evening. Three pieces will be performed—" Mind Your Own Business," " The Spitfire," and " The Man aad the Tiger," in each of which Mr. Baker will appear. The programme thus announced is in itself attractive enough to invite a❑ audience ; but we hope an additional inducement, will be found in the fact that the gathering of a large audience together is one of the only mo les by which the public of Liverpool can evince the estimation in which they hold the talents of one of the most genuine gad gifte 1 comedians any stage now possesses. DEATH OP THE ORIGINAL " BAILIE NICOL JARVIE." —" The public," says an Edinburgh journal, " will learn with regret the death of Mr. Mackay, our only great Scottish actor, which took place about noon on Mon d ty, at his residence here. Mr. Mackay was in his seventy-first year, having been born in the High-street of Edinburgh, in October, 1787. He left that city for Glasgow when only nine years of age, and finally returned about the end of 1815, when he took the leading Scotch parts in the series of plays from the Waverley Novels, on which his fame chiefly rests. Some years ago, while fulfilling an engagement at the Adelphi Theatre, he had a shock of paralysis, and from that time to his lamented decease, though still able to go about, he could not trust himself upon the stage." The fame which \lr. Mackay achieved by his embodiment of the principal characters delineated by the pen of Sir Walter Scott, gave its first signal in his representation or Dominic Sampson. This was followed shortly after by his representation of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, at the Edinburgh theatre, then under the management of Mr. Murray, and which called forth— not only in the Scottish metropolis, but throughout the whole country —au enthusiasm rarely evinced by our northern neighbours. Lockhart, in his " Life of Scott,'' remarks that " the great and unrivalled attraction was t'ie personification of B tale Jar ie by Charles Mackay, who entered into the minutest peculiarities of the cha racter with high gusto, and gave the a est country dialect in its most racy perfection. It was extremely diverting to watch the play of Scott's features during this admirable realisation of his conception." The delight with which the great novelist saw his unrivalled creations clothed with life and vigour by the admirable skill of the actor, was expressed at various times with grateful ardour. On this subject Mr. Mackay relates :—" Oa the first night that Rob Roy' was performed on this stage, the Great unknown (for though great, he was then un known) was one of the audience. At this moment, as Ha inlet says, I see him in my mind's eye, as he sat leaning on his staff on the back seat of one of the boxes. Never shall I forget the sparkle of his eye, and the good humoured smile on his face, on that, to me, momentous night. It is to the pen of the mighty dead I owe my theatrical reputation. Had he never written, I never should have been noticed as an actor. The kindness of Sir Walter Scott was only equalled by his genius —and on the night when he declared himself to be the author of the novels, you may ju lge of my surprise, when he was Pleased to say before the then assembled hundreds, 'that the skeleton he had drawn had been so faithfully clothed that he was grat e f u l.' by his friend Paitie 'My conscience I' grateful to me. There was a ° te ll' ment, and from such a man. No . wonder, then , I "...,,, always been proud of the cognoman of Bailie Nicol ar" ; Sir Walter himself, on the memorable night en . so avowed the authorship of the Waverley N° vels ' b' pr alludes to the actor :—" I would fain dedicates bu°3l%. to the health of one who has represented s everal or e th ol e e characters of which I had endeavoured to e tell skeleton, with a truth and liveliness for which I of be . grateful; I beg leave to propose the friend Bailie Nicol I -arvie ; and I am sure, that whe ll f o r author i. of ' Waverley' and 'Rob Roy' drinks t ° ` l4 . c il to a' b h i o arNe, it will be received with the just applau se that gentleman has always been accustomed—nal' th-sil you will take care that on the present occasiou i t . 5 ,, rep lied be PRO - DI-Gt - OUS ;" to which Mr. Mackay My conscience I My worthy father the d e acoa c 11 , health 0 , the never have believed that his son would hae sic a 31) ment made to him by the Great Unknown !" o THE NEW LIVERPOOL PHILTIB3I°SI° SOCIETY. „ p p ( A. new Choral Society, under the name ° f eh ' Liverpool lie Philharmonic Society," will be ushered iLiTjele notice on: Monday night, by the performanc e °f P o l- fie ta oratorio " Judus:Nlaccalyeus," at th e Concert-hst;t De Nelson-street. We are ' given to unders tand n • tf of pretence is made by the designation of th is s-i rrn e ert iet being a rival to the original Liverpool rhithea',,-borsi' but that preoccupation in the of the games4)l Loo and harmonics, it was thought best to Mori. the sef don example, and call the society by the namebear philha Philharmonic." It is not, we b e li eve , intended the direction any other than sacred music, and is tt p—r .oecl of Mr. D. C. Browne, who has tlis r ti biriP e ' himself b s r i at the Rev. Mr. t Burton's Church , S t ' lusl i , the manner in which he has conducted he Pe w services there. We hear he has engaged a g°°d P etelis and he has secured the able services of f r. 11 0 as leader. Miss Hiles and Miss Clara F lll l, ll O l 14°r ; the principal female parts, and Mr. hlao o, "" ° t 0 1°- a w t ich Cathedral, ' who attracted Jenny 11-te A tbe. B one of the festivals there by singing da °f very finely, will be the tenor, and p .u.`" Tb Cuz l n ijah," _ er, of Chester Cathedral, will take the °4 Ote r chorus number one hundred performers (1 ,1 : l e lej o ; , an stand, are very well balanced, and veil o or Thoy will no doubt do their best as the''' ar the many rivals they have in the field already FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. JOlO. -5 • ,„( Yesterday the mortal remains of the late — ,, s o t. 'os Finch, whose death we referred to in our fifer d f ll 7, the preceding day, were deposited in their las t : f I t resting place at the ancient chapel, in the 10 011 : 1 o o f ir Dingle, at the south end of the town. The bol of fie deceased was brought from the Rockferry e n. of I V boats, being accompanied by the nearot relo,tiv6so tto deceased gentleman, and his immediate friends. io cote, Landing-stage stage the funeral cortege ive glance of the issuing of a circular, met by l a te nli c iete; gentlemen, who were sincere admirers of the lat e 0 o; gentleman, and regretted that he had baal l ; : o of 1 ; 1 1 . snatched from them, while in the full esse llt- c ,{ usefulness for the good of the public at large, ° l o g °. those of the poorer classes. The following le /1 the circular : Pi" THE LATE JOHN FINCH E'Cl• ate: i f ? A few of the private and friends of t" ,„ ~ ',,ltoolsce Finch, E-A are desirous of paying respect h ig 'the P'elf following his remains from the Landing Stage t°,.g, org of interment, at the Ancient Chapel, Toxtet ll-11 ; - he P AY the Dingle. For this purpose they will roo t Ferry steamer, at the Landinr, Stage, oa 41 '- morning, the sth inst., at 10 a.m.' - 0 Amongst the gentlemen present, and who eforci...cti deeply deplored being deprived of the v 8,10114 OW; of Mr. John Finch, we observed—The Rev. 157%/;:gootw' fling, J. C. Ewart, Esq , M P., ; Messrs. Thomas Geo rY 4 J. Corls.lly, R. Shell, C. E Rawlins, sen. and itz t P ' r 0,; . Melly, T. Jevons, C. H. Hall, J. R. Jeffery, Heath, Thomas Urquhart J. Hobbs, Josef ,""yO: 4 Harvey, J. B. Jackson, Francis Boult Jamesßil4l:l g, Rathbone, R. W. Ronald, J. Whitey, C. T. 1 3391 ,,, -° o, F. J B. Aspiaall, C. Howson, J. Proctor , if ' s . 4 4# hill, A Long, J. Jonas, W. Brumfit, D , ll , 10 1 f There were many other gentlemen who were un 6l- vr ifo te absent, but testified their respect by sending ti lei r j r ; a dillg . carriages to attend the funeral cortege frog t he -ro tOt e stage to the place of interment. The funeral _Acvof oa having been most solemnly disposed of, the b 7 :bere o f deceased was deposited in its final resting Pl * o r ;b0 ,1 1 earth, amidst the sorrow an d gr i e f o f a 11 1 ° 'o f 'ends, many of whom will deeply d e pl ore ilig o f go d tbo d THE WEATHER has compl e t e l y b ro k en u p, t" „ ot; days hare been miserable, dell, foggy, a nd re e l /30 1 4 there is no sign of a chatipTe for the pres , ents „pa did LEWIS AND C , AMPANY'S N EW E STABL :SITIO I4- A C . ' Or' CLOTHING.—Number of boys clothed fur e ill• 16t1 Saturday, October 31st, 533 ; corres p on ding v ile (10 326, increase, 212 boys. 'Oa lit, io HISTORIC SOCI , CTY.—The logical gi, e ' ct f for S y held its first meetin g f or th e se ssioae i ; t oti e- otl the Grand Jury Room, Sr. George's Hail. the evening was rea d by Mr. D ivid tinx•no• 0 0 0 " Our Mother Tongue, in our Fetherlan.is'' 01 1, (1 ' 0 59' SUIPICIOU3 DEATIL— On Wednesday attAliu v named William Evans, 67 ye a r s o ld, who resid e Be es. 1 bit h ill-street, died under the f o ll ow i n , e ireutn 9t3 ae d b 1 e Saturday, it appears that he was out dtinking,,' ar ea 141 return home he complained that h e h a l been 5 ", - 0 0/ woman, named Gallagher. Il e rema i ne d in be' b ig an i Monday, and on Tuesday his scn 3) 1 /' whisky and laudanem, an d h e di e d on We'n-s 9./i inqu?st will be held onSO the hilly this day. 1 0 , e 0 , GREAT HOMER-STREET WESLEYAN SUND`' 0 2. P ! A The annual tea-meeting o f th e t eac he.s a 3A 118 r e; 110 e sehoel, was held in •he school-roon i t 4 ° eel t i t ; r ile day evening la s t. Th e c h a i r was ver y ably " fo il watt/ Rev. Geerge Sc ,tt. Ti e r , -port having he ti ' i dteif, o te secretary, Mr. J. H. Evans, the meeting wa g r a r e.y e tle r , te It yds. Ilarwo - o I, T ank:haw, and kte s i ;,,it o ' o o f Pennell, Kennedy, and J. A. Turner. Tq c the direction of Mr. T. S. Fisher, performe d ? ',.01/ 1 1• 0 1 4. anthems and choruses at intervals, during a u ' „ l el op LIVERPOOL CHEMISTS' AssactemoN.--T he i ;10' 4 nightly meeting of this association was held at the Royal Ilistitution. M , . H. S. Evans, i i , je t ro occupied the chair. The folloeing now ,n 1 olo r tb b propos.d and elected .—Mees.re. T. Britten, W. Rayner, W. Dintee, and J. fi r ' f bool i : c irr secretary, announced several donations, drugs. He als exhibited an ingenious l y magnetic m ac hi ne , They, C lurch-street. Dr. I. B. E livar'ds ther1„133143 f med i c.! purposes belay. „ re ce,' , to give the first of a c el-se of three lee'ures s ava its relation to pharmacy." A vote of then h eft - to him before the separation of the meeting' p iing ANNIVERSARY DINNE t —Oll VirELIDeSdaY the loyal Ea.' of Chester Loge, oof ° d ` ifei t held their anniversary dinner at His', Corawa h ':ttra 019 Office H itel, Chtreti S rent, B rkenhea 4 . T h h e it was numerous and hiehly respec`able. C ' t - be SI) th e occupied by brother G.•itley, P.G , treasurenotoetsett, r fi ec i e 4et f ol and brother Davies, N.G., of the Angel • C 3. The dinner which was of the vii ° ,„ description, geva the utmost satis'action t"" OP guests, as did the wines and other berel43lB" 0, the yal to were given and duly responded Vit o aath oe o Press, The aingieg of Mos. Dron e ,' ote 'tril 0 1 inimitable performance, of M. Esvart, th e nenseDie lib B added largely to the harmony the' be t° til l conil rt 9. crirgee:ll; company, wh-, after drinking a bunter to erivi the wo.tby host and hostess, and wishing P 031 )„ delig Old Post Office Hatel, parted after spending At, evening. Vst te 4 0 e ee ATTEMPTED LAUNCH OP THE GREAT g it corres e tondent writes th a t the account Fi_erf et a rile accident at the launch of the Great E iste rn j 5 re d 1 : 00 0 in some of it s f ea t ures , to that whic h "' at the! 0 0 ' neighlemeho id some f our or cave years si . li k e e ' r ' be Lev! A t ice r : of the Tilbury Reilway Pontoon whicb,ll tnu was an iron hug, and launched broadside al es the w", 1 4 0 There were steam tugs to tow her dota l o ars- , e windlass oa b)ard at either end to chock her ea e ct t 00 6 soon as she began to move, the m otion a coo ec p more rapid than the motion at the other. TI? „, s eeri l ' o ete too th r , t oo .oi lr were that the windlass at one end becatna the men stationed at it to manage it, ari d gying i ppi; thro.vn from it, but fortunately witliont ve c _, m ost i ll and the ways at the end where the motion Was Ater tll. p d a o r W . i n allY At g t a e v m e pt w s awYeraendthenthimsagi'laielril .11;„ruestc1:15,ebeue°111.111'°' Leviathan, to pull the o'her end to a P:, at iona'J attempts failed, !Ind the launch becatni al about a fortnight. halm zE i ANOT The di meetin g Ileprecec t hat the eeeditiot S heet f ez fs veltrab measure; relieve ti ye lieeb' 'ere, Pre va i ls tn lde to , i 1,0 pei peter pa yment t i th the "ireetor lu escia3 ' ZEE Yestez tile i nn I/4 app, Proc eed , irg e th e°llThaer The u eears. *their e 114 (1 it i s full, and ered all eged 7g !tlbarre tonf 1411 i I enaerge, ( Prep At il l 557 , pl ' 4 °out r,. bguea full ° f Dec The aate Q t poli ERB El New Provi s elan g ( The thi s m Cho Co mm POr Ccfj Frei il The " l e 2( N o Th E We eit t i 0 A tl Itr eeli bt • Pe