The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

MAy 5, 1835• VilEil'll:B:izoYAt,"tftgaPOoL. Second Week of MadameVESTRIS. The new Comedy of Rural Felicity, which has been nightly teceived with greatest approbation, will be repeated, for the seventh time this evening and to-morrow.—Second night of the . Welsh Girl.—Third night of the Loan of a . Lover, in both of which Madame Vestris will-appear. THIS present TUESDAY, the sth instant, will be per formed the new Comedy of RURAL FELICITY. To be followed by the new Farce of THE WELSH GIRL. Julia (with sows) Madame Vestris, After which a Ballet Dance, called THE MILLINERS. To conclude with a Petit Drama, called THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Gertrude.... (with songs)....Madame Vestris. TD -MORROW; RURAL FELICITY.—After wkisb, the new M4sicat Farce of WHY DON'T SHE MA Y? Lisette, Madame Vestris.—A Variety of DANCIN To conclude wittv THE BEULAH SPA. Caroline rantley, Madame Vestris. On THURSDAY, Madame Vestris wil appear in two of her popular Characters. On FRIDAY, MADAME VESTR I S BENEFIT, and the last night of her ettgageinent., when he will perform the Cha- , racters of Titrany,:in the tie* drama of BEAUTIES; and Mrs. Long Singleton, in THE ELEVENTH DAY. A. new Comic Pantomime, with .new Scenery, Mi chinery; Tricks, &c., called THE MAN IN THE MOON, is in pre paration, and will be produced on MONDAY next. Harlequin, Clown; Pantaloon; and Columbine, by Messrs. J. and T. Ridg way, Mr. JOnas, Arid MadeMoiSelle Marie. Lower Boxes 45.; Upper Boxes 3s. 6d ; Pit 2s. 6d.; Gallery Is. Places may be taken of Mr. Parker, at the Box-office, from Ten till Three o'clock. No Places can be secured unless Tickets are taken. . . be iLiberpool *taiOartt. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1835. We have Montreal papers to the 2d April, but their contents are of an unimportant character. We take the following from the Montreal Herald : " The Quebec Mercury - of Thursday contains the minutes of a confidential convetsatiun between Mr.'Spring Rice on the one band, and Messrs. Rdebtollt, Viger, and Morin on the other. We shall publish thein to-morrow.; and in the meantime we suojoin the brief, but appropriate, remarks of our friend of the iliercary. " In another part of - tmr-nsrmber will be found the minutes 'of a confidential conversation which took place between Mr. Secretary Rice and Messrs. ,Roebuck, Viger, and Norin : the two last-named have without 'shame violated the pledge of se crecy under which the minister commantesited his views. The conduct is discreditable to them; but we have nevertheless no pity fur Mr. Rice : he had no business to receive and hold inter course with the unauthorized delegates from Canada, and the exposure they have made is a punishment his temporizing folly richly deserves. • " The Gazette of Friday records the speeches at the general meeting of the Quebec ConstitOtional Association on the nomi nation of an agent.. We are glad to see that Mr. Clapham's unaccountable conduct in regard to the appointment of Mr. Roebuck had not been forgotten by themeeting. Mr. Clapham, in short, was received with hisses and groans. " Mr. Neilsou.was appointed unanimously with enthusiastic ; ;sheering. " Mr. Neilson's instructions are simply to support the Quebec , anti such other petitions as may be entrusted to the asso ciation, and to co-operate with the agents, if any be appointed, of the Montreal Constitutional Society and the North American Colonial Association." We are glad to find t h at there is some prospect of Mr. MURRAY, the lord advbcate fur SCotland, 'being defeated in Leith by Sir DAVID MILNE, a good conservative. The nomination tOok plaCe on Saturday.• In the West Riding of Yorkshire Mr. 'WORTLEY, if he do not beat,- as we trust he will; Lord MORPETII, will at least give his secretaryship. a hard run. The nomination takes place . to-morrow at Wakefield. At Penryn, Mr. Solicitor ROLFE has been returned by majority of only twenty-two. Had Lord TULLAMORE been Personally prpsent during the .contest, he Would, most undoubtedly, have beeu successful. For what reasons he absented himself we have yet to learn. Mr. RoLrE's return, however, igluit a questionable one, and . on the score of bribery. Of the most open kind we trust • be will be unseated.. • Every thing loc;lis well in Devonshire. Sir - TnomAs AcLAND.has declared himself in the most decided terms ip favour of Mr. PARKER. Treasury money is in abun iance..doing what-money can do for Lord JOHN RUSSELL. it will be a hard struggle. The election began yester day, and will finish today. - - The truth is beginning to . ooze out sooner than we et . pected. It will be :recollected that Lord MELBOURNE declared in the House of . Lords, when questioned by Lord ALVANLEY,- that he "'did' not know whether or not by iliould 41avik-tite -aupport. of Mr. -0' Co ti NELL:" The noble lord solemnly declared that he had made no terms with the demagogue—that he had received no proposals troin and had offered none to him, Lord JoTIN RUSSELL, at the castle of Exeter,. on .Friday last; states. that 6! Lord MELBOURNE and the cabinet' had made' no terms kith O.CoNNELL." What says O'CoNNEtx hiniself? In a letter addressed to his constituents, dated 'Dublin. 28th_April (Tuesday last) he states ikhatfotlows " I come now before the people to -avow myself THE 'IRV °TED SUPPORTER 'OF THE ADMINISTRATION. To the Ring'sministers I havP 'TEN"DERED my .unbought, tmpurchaseable, unconditional suppori." • •• . The people of Englnd . are a straightforward, blunt, honest, truth-loving people,. We ask them, then, upon their honour and conscience, whether the: can believe one single word that O'CoNNELLor•Lord JOHN RUSSELL 1111sSpO4I1 , . Lord JOHN asserts that no terms have been made with, O'CONNELL. O'CONNELL says, that, he has tendered to .' the government all his interest,' and that he -is now " • devoted supporter of administration • • Reader! ponder on these facts, and call to mind re • cent occurrences. Contrast .what has happened with *hat is denied, and contrast both with the acts and deeds f the MELBOURNE adMinistration when in power this time twelve months. Lord MELBOURNE, as prime minister in 1834, had for the King's viceroy in Iceland, Lord WELLESLEY—for lord high cliance4lor; Lor d t B!tOtrbttAlt—for Irish attor ney.general, Mr. - 131.actinunNE-L-for Irish secretary, .Mr. LITTLETON"—for privatesebretary, Sir WILLIAM GOSSET., 4c., &c Why happens it that. these men are.now dis carded ? 'How hap Pens it'ihat. the particular and private friends of O'CONNELL are attorney and solicitor-general for Ireland . ? The very. Castle cirDitblin 'is purged . .ac- ! cording to his dictation. - Sir WILLIAM COSSET is re titoved. Mr. Q'FERRALL, a joint of the jail, is made 'fine of the lords . of the treasury. tOrd MULGRAVE, with the approbation of O'Co: , iyELL, is Lord Lieutenant of IrehncJ. Lord-MORPETII is substituted for Mr. LITTLE ' TON. Papists supplant protestants, and Mr. O'Cotv satisfied,,. gives . his;;. devoted support to the new administration! These are facts; and, with these facts staring him in the face, will any honest Englishman believe one word of the deeratations made by,tord JOHN RUSSELL or Lord ItiELBOURNEI` It .is.-impossible. Here we have the proof that some terms hac;e been made—not made per haps by the premier—not made by Lord JOHN—but en tered into, agreed upon, ratified and confirmed, by some nlember, or accredited agent of the administration. There is a"c"OrnpaCt written;r,underitood between the par . ties. The evidence is • circumstantial, but, at tile same tirne,,perfect and convincing. We have as yet no in former to swear to the deed, but we have ample proof, as jurymen, that England has .been sold, and that the pro . testants•of England are made the sport, the contempt, the dupes, and : the' victims of the popish faction in Ire land. The organs" of the mass faction openly boast of it, Every little 'dirty sprinkler of •holy water makeS it a.matter.of triumph. In our Own locality we see the li terary drudge;.,Who rings a small bell at the. tail of the priest, for so many shillings per week, cutting his silly capers in derision at our debasement. Every thing, in that quarter, is considered to be a triumph which is cal culated to degrade the protestants of England, and give • power to the popish priest's of Irellnd. Great is the joy caused by the victory gained by the "landless beg gars" of that country, and loud is the shout in favour of the idolatries which our fathers spurned and vainly ima gined they had effectually extinguished in these king , doors. Every scribe and kitchen-maid in the pay of the priestS isias "gay as.my lady on a birth-day, and as happy . as abridewith her first ring. They imagine that the re .- .formation is repealed—that the Church of England is in • the agonies of death—that popery is" to be restored, the dark ages revived, our lights extinguished, and a long reig n •of priesteraft, minnowy, intolerance, and imposi tion about to_cornmence; Not. an fast;if you plea% good Saint Anthony ! The people of. England may yet be . arrumsed. They have • , beep ; ,irupot:ed upon. too Jong. We place b efo t them the declarations of the partiei who live no othhr bond of union than that which is supplied by the - charms of poker and. We adMit • that• the asceridancr of popery in Ireland is the secret and, the real object of the confederacy:* In.short it comes .to .this—Englishmen,, think of it l—is -England to be governed by English men, by prOtestants, or by O'CoNrtum, and the popish priests of Ireland ? . We submit this question to our countrymen. -Are they willing that E ngland should be an Irish question? Are they content that the voice of our people should be controlled and overruled by a band of factious papists, who hate the King because he is, a protestant, antsi who never will be satisfied until they see in England a mo narch who shall- restore to them, by his own fiat, all the supreme absurdities of an idolatrous religion ? If there be persons in this community of these islands who dream of sUch.,ail-insult to our feelings and our princi ples, they dream . under the morbid influence of wild infatuation. They may entice, but they cannot com mand. : They-mar-delude for the moment, but they will fail in convincing the .judgment . when brought to the conflict. They may' make sinners,. but not conVerts. They may betray the multitude to the verge of 4estruc-. tion, but the multitUde will . turn. round and destroy, them. This catastrophe may happen sooner than some men contemplate. • The people Of . England have hitherto been too generous towards the Roman catholics of Ireland ; and they will perhaps begin to see, and that before long, that they have given power to a particular class of per-. sons who use it solely to injure their benefactors. ,They have no desire to. withhold 'from Roman - ,catholics the fullist enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, or take from them any of the privileges they have conferred ;, but if they perceive that the Roman catholics, not content with equal rights, aspire to supreme power, and become dictatorS in the government or in either house of parlia ment* tiroy will timiollsobably perceive tbe in:comity of curtailing their pretensions, and of breaking the chain which connects them with the institutions of England. Mr. O'CoNNELL..stiiieS that for the present, and provided the RUSSELL cabinet will act upon his suggestions, he' will not demand the" repeal of the union: But-is Mr. O'CoNNELL quite sure that he' can preveni a repeal of the union ? That may, sooner than he dreams of, becoMe more an English than an Irish question. If all the power of the 'British government is to be confided to O!CoN NELL, so far as Ireland is concerned, and the demagogue is. to nominate the members of the executive, in that island, appoint the chancellor and the judges; remodel the corporations, and extend the franchise, so that instead of having some fOrty or fifty, we shoUld have an hundred popish, members in the House of Commons—when all this is done, it will be beyond the power of O'CONNELL, beyond the ptisver of his whole tail, beyond the power of the priests and th 4 4ix 'millions of, paupers to prevent a repeal of theunion. .The people of England Would de tnafi'd it, insist, uponfit, piFoick IT ! What then ? - 4146 we t o go back to the mockery and the profound absUidity of . having a Roman catholic par-. liament in Dublin,-and a protestant one in London ? *NO, no; Ireland must qien be governed as his Majesty go verns at the Cape•Uf Gond Hope ; turbulence put down. by the sword, tite""priests kept •in subjection by stout English yeomen, and the politiCal agitators taught to till the. land anct - eultil'ate cum and . potatoes. If Ireland could but enjoy five years of the repoSe which this s o r t of government weril4hecure to lier,.she would double her present wealth, and ,rise considerably in the scale of nations; for all that she requires is subjection, whole some - restraint, and peace,. to make her one of the most prosperous countries in the world. Her resources are inexhaustible;:. she has a Superabundance of all the ne cessaries of her boys and rivers abound with fish ; her soil is not half cultivated, and yet, the people are indolent, and "consequently poor. Why are they poor and destitute ?,•:;)3ecause they are under the influence of a set' of profligate - wretches, ,political . lawyers;-and ty rannical priests; - who live by-turbulence, fraud, and extor tion. We therefore, as the friends. of Ireland, piay fur the REPEAL -OR THE UNION 1 We congratulate Mr. POULETT THOMSON on the suc cessful result of bii frinds' exertions, and we sympathise with Manchester on the degradatiOn into which its electors have been led. The town stands now quite as low as the Tower HaniletS,'.which return Dr. LnsipNoToN, or Fins bury,which inVeSts Mr. Surgeon WAKLEY With the ho• Hours of a. setiatoi. . The Iliqncith*ter IChronicle boldly states. that Mr. THONSON:S: .reftirn..baS been.'" obtaibed by 'gold." It observes • •; 1 . Unless the current anticipation be widely incorrect, the practices to Ivhich rec o u rse h as b ee n had during the past we e k are of so abominable. a nature, and of such general notoriety, that they clinnafbe - allowed to escape a very rigid investigation. Ater attempting jii vain to effect a coalition with the radicals, (the mare respectable of whom, however, either held wholly aloof or gavea conscientious vote for Mr. Braidley,) the Thorn sonites perceivt,lthe necessity of adopting some other decisive mean§ of averting defeat or swelling their majority, and thereby exciting through the country a false confidence in the new ministry. The hatltnied weapons of bribery and intimidation were consequently resorted to, and of the latter mode of obtain ing votes ire have 'heard more than one very strong instance. AMong the radicals 1t has been practised with shameless bold ness, and even tradesmen of extensive business. (not of the radical or the Whig school) have so far been influenced as to abstain ftonk voting; in fear of the consequences with which they were indireetly threatened. Of the grosser, but not more abo minable or iuninarily; system of bribery, the instances are infi nitely more'numerous and flagrant. In the township of 1 - lutine, we are told thactliere were brought up to poll for Mr. Thomson, in a state of beastly intoxication, men whose votes had been solemnly pledged to Mr. Braidley. In Chorlton-upon-Medlock, refreshment trekets were distributed in considerable abundance, and with the desired success. In other districts of the town numbers of voters expressed and indulged their disinclination to vote in consequence of intimations which had been held out to them.of future consequences, whilst others were deterred from the less excusable %native, that as by extreme activity Mr. Thom son had on the first day gained a considerable majority, their individual •suffrages could not turn the scale, and under the circumstances they - thought it prudent not to poll. One other potent engine also was brought into operation, by means of which Mr. `Thomson gained alurtlier augmentation athis num hers. The father of the ministry, Daniel O'Connell, was soli cited to write on behalf of Mr. Thomson to the catholic priests of the town ; he did so, and every nerve was consequently strained by his miserable tools here to further Mr. Thomson's election. The mandate was communicated to every priest in the town—but we believe and hope that it was not in every in stance obeyed: Its effect, however, was very great, not merely in ',reducing votes, but in bringing down to St. Ann's-square a mob of Irish non-electors, who hallooed lustily in favor of the right hon. wliig, and overawed his opponents." Can disgrace go further than this ? Setting aside the bribery and the drunkenness, the treachery and the inti midation; we Oine at once to the fact that O'CONNELL, ',through the pii . Oish priests, has hart the insolence to dic tate to the electors' of Manchester. He has commanded the priests, fund the priests have commanded their slaves to vote for • CvCONpIELL'S nominee. This, too, in an `English tov;nl Can there be an Englishman in it who does not feel the insult offered to his class and country ? We mistake, however, if the lesson will be lost on the people of England. It will teach, them what they may expect when popery has gained the vantage ground to which it aspires. They will not only be eommanded to vote fur the supporter of idolatry, but they will he com pelled to kneel in the dust before .the mock miracle of a false God,' borne aloft - by the priest in a funereal pro .cession. ft is not come to this yet; but it has done so in the United States of America, and will, unless we are . on the alert, be speedily introduced to England. What next? The'tone of some of our local coniemporaries.has been rather . ' doleful . during the past week, and. no wonder, seeing -that sixteen petty patriots, called commissioners Of the_watch, all prime favourites in their day, and im mense-liberals withal, have been turned out. of office, without die slightest compassion being shown towards them, and nobody: disposed to give them a character. It would'have made a milestone weep, could a milestone have seen the treatment which these worthy ex-officials experienced on Wednesday last, at the annual meeting of the .rate payers. Turned off!—kicked out !—sent adrift ! unmercifully and thanklessly, after serving the public so long and so faithfully ! It was a painful sight. ft is somewhere said, " Thou shalt ndt muzzle the ox that treaded' out the corn." Did not the late commis *oilers:act upon this truly charitable maxim? They mot actually live upon the rates as the fat commissioner did who is. made luinourable mention of in Gil Bias ; they only played a small game into each others hands..l No dpubt they::did so for the benefit of the inhabitants. Mrceonaliiisioner BUTTON supplfedludoriSl :Mr. Corn emissiOner FEATHER supplied beds ; Mr : . GomMissioner TYPE - '`iitppliad 'printing) . .:111t..' Qoromissioner....VENDill, supplied ironmongery ; and , so, on, each, -.little dealing .despot contributing something to the general stock, 'vot ing and auditing'the payment of his own' account,'order- . ing goods and paying him Self, in a way which must have given entire satisfaction to the whole board. The only commissioner whose merits seem to have been neglected is Dr. COLLINS. We nowhere find that he was called upon to supply bleeding, and -it does 'not appear that any of the commissioners required physie. The worthy doctor, we regret to say, was at .no one time required to act professionally. He is the only'pa triot who did not save the public money by selling some thing 'cheap to his brother commissioners; and . yet, strange to say, he' was dismissed like the °tilos. . It is quite lamentable! Our contemporaries tell us that the catastrophe which deprived the town of so many honest and zealons servants was brought about by the STANDARD' and a " knot of tories." This is quite shameful,. if true. What right have the stupid; corrupt, and jobbing tories to inquire how liberal and respe c tabl e gentlemen manage public trust? TJii breath of suspicion never lighted on such men. Can any corrupt motive be attributed to the sirn: ple act of an independent commissioner selling to himself and colleagues so: many watchmen's lanterns, so much leather for hose, so many Birmingham buttons for coats, so many gallons of good ale for refreshment, or so many excellent bats at the low price of ten shillings each ? None but a tory, or a " knot of tories," could imagine any thing so mean or wicked. Would it not have been absurd if a commissioner, having bats to buy and bats . to' sell, had gone to any other batter than himself? -.He was the best judge of the article, and, as he had - the . re- gulation of the price, he knew better than any other man what profit ought to be charged consistently with the true principles cifTarish economy. He would have been an unwise commissioner and a faithless steward; if' he had exposed,..the public to the risk of being cheated by some exorbitant tradesman, who could not be supposed to have the interest of the rate-payers so much at heart as himself.. . . Be this, however, as it may, the "knot of tories" have succeeded in dismissing the old and electing anew set of commissioners; and we sincerely trust that they will investigate the old accounts, and see that "no mistakes" have been committed. They will also, we trust, take care that the time of the board is not wasted in senseless talk. We hope there is no orator among them—no' speech-maker who can harangue them on any other sub ject than the one under discussion. They have much to do, and many reforms to complete. : It is expected that they will form a committee to inquire how the public lionses are conducted and kept open through the night, and ascertain whether those who bave the protection of our lives and property are trustworthy, and' can be Oe . pended upon in any emergency. LONDON NEWS. City, Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock. Money continues scarce with us, and the consot market closed this afternoon at 921 for the account. Exchequer bills are at 34 to 35 prem., and India 16 prem. In the foreign market there is no material alteration from our last quotations. The settlement of the account passed over on Thursday without any defalcation, notwithstanding the extra ordinary fluctuations during the account. Columbian bonds have been as high as 55k, and as low as 411, and closed thisvf , ternoon at 50. Chilian were as high during the account - as 59, and as low as 51, and left off this afternoon at 57. In Spanish bonds. also the fluctuation has been great. At the commenci , meat of the account they were 67, from which they advanced so -72 k, and closed this afternoon at 711 i. Porttiguese bonds have gradually advanced, and are 1014 10'2. In the other stocks the variations are not :material. The dividend on Belgian stock' is now iu course of, payment, and the price islo2-1- 103 ex dividend. Our-advises from Bombay furnish some important intelli gence from Peshawur. It appears that the army of the Sie,ks which, during the mutest between Shah Saja and Dost hommed, bad takenpossession of that province had, by order of Runjeet Singh, Advanced towards Caubal with a view of also seizing on that district. The forces were under the command of Now Nahel Singh, the grandson and heir prestimptive of Run jeet Singh, whose conduct at the capture of Peshawur presumed a brilliant military career, The Seik army was, hot:ever, met by the Afghetri, under pi ahommed in person, and by hitn were completely detertied. — TEree thousand of the Sheiks felt in the field, among whom was the young chief. By accounts from Penang it appears that hostilities still con tinued between the King of Siam and the government of Cochin china, and that the latter had gained many advantages. There was a complete stagnation of trade throughout Siam in conse quence of the king levying large contributions on his subja c ta , to support the expenses of the war. By the accounts to-day from Ceylon we are informed that a very destructive flood had occurred in the western part of the province. The Kaleny river had risen ten feet three • inches beyond its ordinary height at low water, leteing,one foot,higher than at the inundation in.lB2S, which was the highest ever known up to that period. It had overflown its banks on both sides up to Silwch, a distance of thirty miles, and spread over the country, right and left, to a distance of ten miles, over6tv ing the fields to the depth - of - from ten to thirteen feet. The crop of the approaching Meba harvest had been entirely.dp atroyedi as well as the different vegetables cultivated by the : inhabitants. Supplies of provisions,had been sent off from Co. lombo in boats, and a subscription had been set on foot, the Lieutenant-Governor, Wihnot Horton, advancing, on behalf of the government, £5OO, and fur himself and lady . £6O. Many. houses had been destroyed, the bridge at Jayelle had been car ried away, and that at Dehewell injured. Tho low grounds of the Chelar and Sever Korles were under water. The rain hail . been excessive, and the communication between, Cplumbo 'and Candy had been interrupted for one day. Our accounts from Canada to-day state that Mr. Joseph, the collector of the customs at Quebec, whose imprisonment,by the provincial assembly has been already noticed, had been liberated on the 18th of March, the instant the legislature had been pro- . rogued. It appears that the amount of the claims on the House of Assembly of Lower Canada was £14,855 19s. 6d., which they had no means of 'discharging. Among them is that of Mr. Vigor to the extent of £3,777 15s. 6d., voted for two years " ne cessary and unavoidable expenses in, England." The printers, Messrs. Neilson and Cowan, are claimants for £3,188'155., Bd., and the other printers, Messrs. Freehette and C 0.,: for £2,114 Is. 4d. All the clerks, writers, and-poor servants'of the house, even to the women that cleaned out the house, were un paid. The clerk of the house had advanced £770 Ils. 1 . 0 d., hut finding. little hope of an early repayment he had declineo fur ther advances. We have a file of the India Gazette to the 13th of January. They furnish the particulars of the commencement of hostilities against the Shekawattess. Colonel Kennedy, with the 6th di vision; left the force under Brigadier-General Stevenson at Seekur on the 10th of the preceding month and advan ce d upon Keeron, where he arrived on the Ilth, aud ordered the bastions Of that tort to.be destroyed, which was done without opposition, large'village at the foot of the hill being deserto. The fort of Kalmttut was also destroyed. The force aitivbd at IsTorulghurh on the 13th, which is described as a large town walled round, with a strong citadel, which they took possession of without resistance, and from which place the despaidies Pre dated. The cholera prevailed at Delhi, but the mortality had not been great. A court martial bad been held on :Major Henry "Dighy Coxe, of the 26th native infantry, for highly un military conduct and insubordination to his superior authorities. The court found him guilty on the l et, 3d, and 4th charges, and sentenced him to be suspended from his rank, pay, tte . ., for twelve calendar months. The advices from Lucknow; in these papers, state that previous to the resident's departure hp had received a visit from the king for the purpose of ascertaining the real intentions of the British government regarding the trans fer of the Oude territory as rumoured, and entreating the resi dent's interference on his majeity's behalf, THE ENGLISH CHURCH CONIMISSION.—The public will re collect the very remarkable report presented by the church commissioners a short time behre the • disselution of the late administration. and the approbation with which ik wasgenerally received throughout the country, The report recommended the approximation of bishoprics to each other, iii extent .of ter ritorial jurisdiction, and of annual value, and so the diminution of the motives to translation. It further recommended the abo lition of commendams with Iristioplics, whether ,vith or without the'care of souls. There certainly was no- iatticatien in a report of this nature of any indisposition on the part of the heads of the church to introduce reform. We verily believe that no whig administration would have dared to originate changes of So decided a character into the church. The nation will; there fore, naturally feel an anxiety about the existence of such a commission Lindell the new administration. We hope it will not be dissolved. The highest praise of it is, indeed, a wish on the part of Lord' Melbourne to the same effect as our own, that the right rev. prelates who made up the clerical part of that com mission would continue their labours. Whom they may have offered to them as lay colleagues in the places of Sir H. Peel, 'Lord Lyndhurst, and Mr. Goulburn, we know not; bat we trust that the new associates will be respectable, and actuated by the same spirit as their predecessdrs. There is still much to du. The deans and chapters are to be dealt with ; and whoever considers how much the revenues . of those bodies are connected and intertwined with every tecies of property throughout the realm, must acknowledge that the subject is indeed a very de licate one, and requirts the utmositemper and judgment. The prelateswho are members of the• commission are, we believe, the two archbishops, and the bishops of . Loudon, Lincoln, and Petetburough.—The 17mee. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD LO.VDON LATEST NEWS. • .5 A o clock, Mr. Cpnne 1 . 1 has at length' put forth in the Dublin papers his expectations from the revolutionary cabinet now misruling old England. He echoes Lord Melbourne's " I have made no terms," which may be true in one sense but grossly false in another: It is with him "" no compulsion, only you must." First,—says the agitator, "The power and the insolence of the orange faction must instantly cease." Second.—" The country must cease to be governed by its un relenting.euemies ;" i. e. the protestants. Third.—" The administration of justice in Ireland must be purified ;" which means it must be given up to Mr. Daniel, O'Connell. Fourth.—" The highest offices must cease to be abused by the dull and merciless foes of Ireland;" which means ditto. Fifth.—" The first principle to be worked out is the appro ; priatioia of the surplus of the revenues of the establishment;' which means that the plunder of the protestant church is to pre cede that of the protestant people. Sixth.—" The great question of the final extinction of tithes will be in the hands of a Ministry pledged and determined to do justice to the catholic population of the country." This is plunder the second. Seventh.—" The present ministry are publicly and most un equivocally for a thorough reform of all corporate abuses." Plunder the third. Ap.l . here the honourable (!) member winds up with stating, that many other bene4ts must be derived from the present ministry from the principle upon which they have taken office, viz., that of doing justice to Ireland, so that in this comprehen sive phrase the rest of Mr. O'Connell's " expectations" are buried. The banquet about to be given here to Sir Robert Peel will be upon a scale of magnificence never excelled in this metro polis. All our leading merchants are at the head of it. COMMISSIONERS Ok: THE WATCH. The newly-elected Commissioners of the Watch held their first weekly meeting on Friday. 'Of - the eighteen members of which the Board consists, there were sixteen present. Imme diately on assetnbling, they sent to the Mayor a request that he would come and preside on the occasion. His Wership promptly complied with the request, and on taking the Chair, observed gutt the first business of the Board was to elect a permanent qhairman. Mr. W. A. Saturn then moved that Mr. Thornhill should be. elected Chairman for the ensoing . year. • Mr. JOSErii Coomt moved an amendment. The last Board bad appointed Mr. Wales their perpetual Uhairatan and Trea surer, and by thus unitin both offices, theY gave power. to the Chairman to involve the Board. .( Hear.) He pi'oposed, there-, fore, that they should elect a fresh Chafrinatt at each meeting,,' in the absence of the Maybr or Aldermen, who, if present, were' authorised by the act to preside. This was the plan adopted by, the Select Vestry and the Highway Board. The Mayott thought the suggestion *a very good one. The plan answered very well at the other Bonds. The proposal appearing to meet with general approbation, Mr. SMITH withdrew his motion, and Mr. Cooper's amend ment was declared to be carried. _ _ Mr. TIIOI2NHILL was then unanimously appointed Treasurer, on. the motion of Mr. Smith. The different officers, clerks, collectors,,Szc. in the service of the trust. wet e then re-appointed with the same duties and salaries as last y'ear.—The Comtnissioners next chose their re spective districts of the town, for surveys, &e. during the year. Mr. Coorta inquired if any part of the funds of the trust had been expended in opposing the Day Police Bill. theiead clerk, being sent for, answered in the negative._ charge was brought against Captain Marshall, for being drunk on duty-on Friday and Thursday nights, and being par tially .drunk during the whole week. The "character book" being referred to, it was found that he had been repeatedly be fore the,Board for the same offence. Marshall being called in, said that Mr. Whitty had brought the charge because he had an antipathy against him. The .Mayott. 7 —But you know the. Magistrates have fre quewly complained of you on the, same ground. • - Marshall.—Nti, sir, I ant not aware of any thing of the sort, The.M avort.,--I believe I am a magistrate, and I myself have repeatettly.complained of your conduct to Mr. Whiny. 111 r. WHITTy said that so far from having any antipathy to Marshall, it was at his intercession that the late Board agreed to give him another trial, instead of discharging him the last time he brought before them. Marshall having withdrawn, the,Board, on the motion of Mr. Cooper, unanimously agreed to discharge him. Marshall having been called for, that he might . be informed of the decision of the Board, it was found that he had gone away. Mr. Wita.ta NIS said that the late Board, of which he was a member, had been in the frequent habit of discharging men and afterwards restoring them. This system ho strongly con demned. Mr. ThoRNIIIL I. said that he himself, two years ago, moved a resolution, whiCh would be found on the books, declaring that no man. who was once dismissed should ever be restored. This resolution had never been rescinded, and it was very improper in the late board to transgress so salutary a rule. John Sands, watchman, was ordered to be suspended three days for being drunk. Another watchman, named Parkes, was charged with the same offence. The MAYOR said he could state the facts of this case. The Watchman was drunk, and he took to Bridewell five people who were sober, (A laugh.) They went very peaceably, and, on the Bridewell-keeper observing that the prisoners were sober and the watchman drunk, the latter knocked him down with his stick and cut his head. Another watchman, named Collins, was called in to speak to the state in which Parkes was but• he could riht'undertake to stry-that-he was positively drunk, nar yet ,coutd Aksay that . he was sober. The MAYOR quoted a saying of Sheridan, that if a man could lie in the channel and cry " Watch," it was it clear proof that he was sober. (Laughter.) The hoard, however, did not altogf'ther agree with so high an authority on the subject of drunkenness, for they suspended the watchman for a week. • Oneor two other unimportant cases were then disposed of. The subject of the appointment of auditors having been brought forward, A..O9NIMISSIONER proposed that Mr. Thornhill should be au ditun.; - 1. . • It wAis-objected, however, that Mr. Thoinhill bad just been appointed treasurer, and it would be rather singular to depute a to,audit his otynaccounts. Messrs. Smith and Clay were then appointed auditors for the next three months. Mr. BiaxErr proposed that a committee shouldbe appointed to curtail the expenditure, as he had been told at the annual meeting that the trust would be £2,000 in debt at the expiration of the financial year in September next. Mi. WILLIAMS said that if they found themselves hi debt in Sepfembei,.he apprehended that the only remedy would be to increase the rate. They could not decrease the expenditure of the Watch department without reducing the number of men, and thereby lessening its efficiency ; and if they' began to in quire into the scavenging department, they would very soon find that if they meant.to put it into a creditable state, instead of de creasing the expenditure they would have to increase it very considerably. • Mr:Bit:tom said that as to the scavenging, he believed that bw adopting a different system to that which had been hitherto pull - sired, they could greatly improve it without any additional. .expense. Mr WILLIAMS said that a committee' bf' the last board, no niinated'by Mr. Hartley, had investigated the scavengink , de partment. They had prepared a report the very week before they went out of office, in which the result of their inquiries was embodied. -By referring to that report they would find an ac count of the whole establishment and learn, in fact, alt tbat could be ktiowil on the- subject ; and the new commissioners would find themselves greatly mistaken if they entertained any . hope of bein - g able 16 reduce the expenditure. Mr. BIRKETT said he understood the establishment was at present on a very extravagant scale, but if it turned out that there was no unnecessary expenditure, the appointment of a committee would at all events do no harm. Mr.. TtioaN ti ILL said that Mr. Birkett had alluded to the trust being in debt. This was a mistake—there was no debt. On the contrary, there was £5OO in hand, and a considerable portion of the last rate was still uncollected. Nobody could pre dictwhether they would be in debt or not by next September, The committee, consisting of Messrs. Cooper, Thornhill, Williams, Benson, Brown, and Santley, was then appointed, with instructions, "to look into the establishment, and see if any reduction could be effected." The board then broke up. LIVERPOOL POLICE. • .(Before Mr. Alderman Hoitssva..L.) • .ROBBING A SAlLOR.—Catherine Duff; one of that unfortu nate class of females with which this.town so much abounds, was placed at the bar, charged witty having robbed a simple looking mariner, who had been paid off but the day before, of four sovereigns. From the statement of Mr.. Fitzpatrick, the landlord of the publit-houSe in which'ihe seaman was in 'com pany with the prisoner, it appeared that he cause into his house in the early part of the afternoon in A state of intoxication, and asked for some liquor, which he refused to supply him with, at the same time telling him, he had had' enough. He allowed him, however, to sit down, and shortly afterwards he fell asleep, and continued in that situation until nearly eight o'clock. On the se'aman's awaking he appeared to have somewhat recovered from the effects of the liquor he had taken, and previously to leaning the house was cautioned by Fitzpatrick to take care of his money, which he took the trouble of wrapping up fur him in a handkerchief, and then safely deposited it in his side coat pocket. The sailor had not left his house more than five minutes before he returned again with the female pritoner, and they had some drink together. After being again cautioned by latrick, who informed him he was in bad company, the sailor eft the house accompanied by the prisoner. It was not long, hoWever, before he returned to his house, and gave an account of his having been robbed of the sum in question; on hearing this, and having a knowledge of the female, he immediately went in Pursuit, and succeeded in taking ber into custody. It was proved in evidence that a short time subsequent to the rob bery, the pi isouer had gone to a public-house in the ueighh'ours hood, and asked for change for a sovereign, and was observed to have two or three more in the palm of her hand. None 6f the money was found upon her when she was apprehended. She was fully committed to the sessions. The ,owner of a car, named Simpson, was summoned for endeavouring to extort from a gentleman who had hired his vehicle more than the ordinary rate of charge. The fare was from St. George's church to South John-street, for which. the car driver made a demand df-ls. 6d., he only being'allowed by the act to charge Is. The car owner attempted to prove that. the distance he had gone was more than that prescribed by the act, but he failed to do so. He was fined 10s. and costs. YESTERDAY.—(Before the Marcia and Mr. Ald. SANDBACII.) SDP - PO:SRO ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDF..—A stupid looking fellow, whose formation of countenance appears to have been a sort of compromise between humanity and the monkey part of the creation, was placed at the bar on suspicion of having broken open the box of Mrs. Judy Entwisle, the middle aged spouse of Patrick of the same name, who deals in pigs, potatoes, and other trilling refreshments, at his house in Scotland-place, where lodgings are let to the clean and decent of Patrick's countrymen, and as it turned out to the dishonest culprit in this cage. The 'second count in the charge for which the prisoner had to account, was for attempting (as the nocturnal guardian expressed it) to cut his trizzett. It was stated by the watch man that Mistress Judy Entu isle a few days ago, had the dale box in which she kept her jewels and sundry other affairs, consisting of thimbles, rings for the pigs' noses, a silk dress, Stc., broken open. Nobody the was continued could have dyne the wicked act but the prisoner, as nobody was seen near the house in the shape of a lodger but him, and she intimated the same thing to Bomfield, who, happening to be of the same opinion ; .loak•him illiaCUS2o6,,4l). being seized by the powerful hand 'Of the law, the prisenersauffhatlia`V.Allfkitketirrattecreo4 - orrti sooner than he would go to quell he.woulOirfeit his life, at the, same time, uiting the ;lotion to the .word,tit:aking 'froni iris pocket a large clasp knife, with which, as the Watchman said, he would certainly have cut • his wizten, hadnot he (the watch man) reasoned with hitn,• showing him the absurdity of depriv ing himself of a few. years longer life, and probably the hang man of his fees. The fact of the suicide freak was proved; but although Mrs. Entwisle was morally certain that the prisoner was guilty, she could not produce any proof of it, and he was consequently "honourably acquitted." STREET ROBBERY.--T hree men were placed at the bar, two on suspicion of having robbed the third, a seaman, on the pre vious night in Highfield-street. From the evidence of Captain Bradford, of the watch, it appeared that the seaman, whose name is M`Kenna, was, when quite drunk, in Highfield-street, knocked down and robbed of six shillings. • The two prisoners were seen running away in the same neighbourhood imnie diately after the occurrence, and suspicion fell upon them. The seaman, who said that he was a right tough old tar, who had fought at the battle of Navarino, could net tell whether the pri soners were the parties who robbed 'hiin or not ; but if they 'were he did not care a quid of tobacco, and the magistrates consequently discharged all three. PICKING PocKETs.---Itichard Dickson, a; young coveter of other men's goods, was charged with: abstracting a-silk hand kerchief from the pocket of a gentleman named Kenny. The complainant stated that. uu Sunday night he was passing through Pitt-street, when he felt a tug athis pocket. He turned round and saw the prisoner quietly walking past him as if no thing had happened. Finding, however, that the handkerchief was missing, heseized him, and found, it safely deposited in his breast. Butler, the officer, said that.;the prisoner w as a well trained pickpocket, and the unteisfrates committed him fur three months as a 'rogue and vaeau 9 ond. A WeIECKED MAItINEII.—A n hardY.looking, seafaring man named John Halley was charged with being drunk in the streets ou Sunday night. The constable who made the charge said that the prisoner had been picked up off the coast of Scotland from the wreck of the ship Melia ,e of New York, which had , gone to pieces there. He came to Liverpool on Saturday, and had been strolling through the streets since that time, and hav ing no where. to go to on Sunday night.he .was recommended to. the Night Asylum; but instead. - of .going to that place he went and got drunk, and. in that.state be . was subsequenly found and taken to,Bridewell., In Answer to. a, question from . the magis trate, the , prisoner said that nothing to urge in. his de fence. He was a native of NeW York; and had come from .Greenoek with a letter from. the consul there to the consul in Liverpool to procure him a passage to his native country. Papers coniirtning this statement being found upon the prisoner the magistrates discharged him without exacting the usual fine of five shillings for getting drunk. PLATE ItaßßEßT.—Three ill-looking fellows, well-known to the police, were placed St the hart' on - suspicion cif huvirrg stoleit• a quantity of plate; consisting of table spoons; tea spoons,silver castors, and other articles frotn No 30; Ashttopstreet; Pembroke- . place. It appeared frcint the evidence that on Wednesday last the above prctnises were entered by thieves ascending the yard wall, and ,the,articles alluded to stolen. Captain heir, of the watch, having obtained sonic information leading to the dis covery of the Offenders, repaired to liarrison-street, Scotland road, and apprehend'ed the three prisaners, one. - of whom it is supposed can be distinctly identified.' D ir. Whitty intimated to the magistrates that the case was not ready, and the prisoners were remanded until sufficient evidence Can be procured. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND-IRD. Stu,—l had thought that, amidst all the hue and cry against the church of England at this present time one's atteution should nut have been so suddenly withdrawn from the bespat tered venom of dissent thrown with the fury of fiendish malice around her sacred altars as so soon to have witnessed, with in creased and unexpected success, the. evil spirit writhing under the agonies of its own deadly poison. Oh, Calvin ! lithe potent spell . of divination could Live summoned thee from the silent grave, thou would'st have stood atr,hast, and trembled at the scene. What! is it possible? Yea, no idle fancy haunts me now—too true it is, that for some time long past the dissenting chapel in Churlev.• not independent either of error or -uproar, has afforded to different ministers the opportunity for display ing their powers of oratory , with the ultimate view of selecting the best preacher, and accordingly the trustees, in whom the power really is vested, ventured on the step, and choice was made; but, as if dissent was fed and stimulated solely . by dissent, a few of the congregation; • in their spirit of purity, made an in dependent choice of another, and on Sunday, the 20 h instant, occurred a scene disgraceful to any christian community. That Sunday was not to them the day of .charity, of lnounity, of meekness. of brotherly love. In sorrow it was not. The minister elected by the trustees entered the chapel at the usual hour, hut found the pulpit already occupied, and a small con gregation proceeding in thei r devotional s er vices. The occu pant was requested to give place, but possession to him was law —denial after denial succeeded, angry words and threats quickly followed each other, the'scene became unfit for females, a re gular stir then eon:Me/iced, and a Magistrate was sent for, came, and ens obliged to read the RIOT ALT. - Oh England, was it for this that thy forefathers bled, or bast thou disregarded their dying iVunctions, not to turn either to th e r i g ht h an d or t o th e left / ours, &e. ' -A CONVERTk.:I) CHURCHMAN. 30th April, 1835. . • . . . , THE WEST RIDING .HERALD.—U n de r this title on Friday last the first number of a new journal . - to 'be 'continued weekly, was published ,at Wakefield,. the largeSC town in England, We believe, which, up to that day, did uot.:PiOs;;ess a newspaper of its, own. It is with no sinall.degree of satisfaction that we have to add that the politics of the first paper established in Wake field are in unison with our own. The.Conductiirs of this paper state in their prospectus that they intend "to advocate with all the energy of which they are Capable,' the interests of the con stitution in church and state; the great prerogatives of the King, and the welfare and integrity of . the protestant church." That these principles predominate in .the district from which the Herald will. we hope, be for a long time successfully de spatched, may be argued .from the fact that it has beep esta blished on ground previously unoccupied by any other publica tion, and that if a paper of opposite principles could have been supported it would have been called tutu existence long since.. Commencing under these circumstances, we hope that " The IVest Riding Herald" will be a successful auxiliary iu the de fence of the good old cause-" Church and King." THE OF THE HERO STEAMER.—A case, about 2() feet long, containing factory machinery, was pickedup on Fri . - day last, on. the Denbigh. coast, near Abergele, supposed to be part of the cargo of -the above unfortunate vessel. 'the package . is now in the custody of Mr. W. James, of Abergele. CHANGE or PotaTtcs.—An American paper in announcing its change of politics says :—" Experience has folk , satisfied us that a political paper which relies upon its neutrality fOr cu lation and support, leans upon a broken reed, and will soon find, like the man int heTable, that Tie who makes it his aim to' please everybody, will soon please nobody.!' CHESTER Rees.—These popular and interesting races com menced yesterday, and the Weather being tine there was a large. assemblage of persons, and the chow of sportsmen who pa tronized the Grand Stand was greater than has been seen for Some yeari: The sport was good, although the ginning °lam favourite, Birdlime, would of course give much dissatisfaction to some portion of the spectators. The Produce Stakes were won by Jacob Faithful, Hiroadelle' being a good second; five started. The Trades' Cup, the . principal stake of the day, was won by Birdlime, the favourite horse , against whom 21 to I was bet upon the field; :Red Rover came in second, and eleven started. • Extremely cold Wirids.haie prevailed .in this .neighbourhood during the last feW days; and nu, Sunday afternoon,. after a heavy shower of bail,.rain, - and snow, the. Blagclon hills ap peared'completely covered v.ith the latter, - in which state they still remain. The late severe frost,. a.n4. still Prevailing sharp cold winds ; have inflicted very getieralAnistliiet an the. blossoMs of all descriptions Of,fruit trees. Grape vines , .gooseberries, and every sort of garden produce , baVe:li,een prostrated .by the sharpness of the, ai r . ,T.he orchards 04y, et.. in a great degree recover, but the.,more tender fruiti ate wlolly - lust.- - Tauuton Coureel • LAVA ROA DWA comtiaissioners of. the Surrey and Sussex roads, _held a meetingitif • the Horns ,Tavern. Kenning ton, on Saturday, the 25th of April,. when Mr. Cassell delivered* his estimate for laying one mile -.of •patent'.bituminous. road. -roil . . the statements there given, it appears that a piece of patent road has alr ea dy been: laid for about,tour months on the Kenniugton-road, near the Horns. It is quite impervious to water,' it neither grinds nor pulverizes; and, .consequently, is free from mud and dust. The first outlay is, of course, much inure than repairing a - road, in the corturon way. Mr. Cassell, however, offers to cover any road with his patent lava, and keep it in repair fur any term of years, at Live percent. less than the road has hitherto cost for the same period.—Sunday Times. THE . EFFECTt OF RENT ON BartAp.-,A correspondent of a Cornish paper says—" As fa: as the interest of the eons-tinier is. involved, if the English landlords- were at once to say.—we will relinquish all our rents from corn lands, all shall be freely cultivated, and we arc content' to he ruined,—it would not re lieve..the consumer to the - atnounf orone penny rtloaf,!' _ _ _ At his late visit to Devonpoif Mr. Dawson was presented with a beautiful gold snuff bok • by the ladies of that borough, - with the foibiwing instription:-. 7 !` Presented to the Eight' Hon.' George R. Dawson, by the - LadieS . Of Devonport'aud Stone .. house, in testimony of the it admiration of this able 'ad Vocacy of true CoaservatiVe We are much gratified to hear that Mr. Chantry•is engaged, by the command of his Majesty, on a bust of Sit. Robert to be placed in the corridor•of Windsor Castle, among those.of. the' eminent statesmen' which already adorn that celebrated gallery.—Berkshire OtroniCle. - • A ROYAL HORSE-STEALER.—A gipsey, saki to be a nephew and successor to the late Kiug toswel), and who was to have undergone the august ceremony of being crowned last week, was on Monday week apprehenlcd at his royal encampment on Sherwood Forest, and committed to the county gaol, Notting ,ham, nu the charge of stealing a horse front Newark. A panic seized the royal. followers ut the loss of their chief—the cawp was struck, and a retreat, which, for its - secresy and quickness, inight have been conducted by the celebrated Spanish chieftain Zumalacerregai, took place.,-Hull Packet. A great dinner was given by the conservatives to Mr. Dan.- son; at Elliott's Hotel, Devoeport, on Friday, .when a large :array of conservatives aSsembled', the_ attendance being far mote numerous than "could have been expected. Mr. Parker,' the candidate for South , Devon, was present, and addressed the meeting, the whole olthose present having pl e d ge d th emse l ves. to support htnr, and to use the utmost exertions to secure his' . returitliir the south of Devon,: The gteatest enthusiasm pre- Nailed, and the dinner Of in admirable style., . , To TkI.K Ei.ECTO.ItS '()F 0 11Til . " - DliV(,N.—What will . the electors 'of Devenshire'Sa*y . When the . vicarti that the .lending whip Of .Edirihnigh, anticipating the deleat of Lurd John Russell in 'their county; hOtl a meeting on Saturday last to : consider of 'the .proprietytif . : Offering tri..returu .him imsteall ,of Sir John Campbell, for the itMtkin Athens, which has become a city of refuge for rejected Vihigs? - . Under . t.he'se cit ininstauces, we understand.that. Sir Jrihneampbell 'has not - left London. as he intended, thinking it imprudent. to do su.—Standard, Wed nesday. BOROUGH ELECTIONS It( OLDEN Ttsitis. 7 ---The following i s a copy of a letter from the Earl of Leicester, H igh Steward Of Andover, in IsBl, And is taken from-Sergeant Merewether's recent " History of Boroughs." " After my heartie commen dations. Whereas it has pleased her Majestie to appoint a par liament to be presently called, being steward of your towne, I make bould heartily to pray you that you would give me the nomination of one of your burgesses for the same ; and yf mynding to avoid the charges of allowance for the oter bin gesse, you mean to name anie that is not of your towne, if you will bestow the nomination of the other burgesse also on me, I will thanke you for it ,• and will both appoint a sufficient man, and see you discharged of alt the charges in that behalfe. And so praying your speedy answer herein, I thus bid you right heartily farewell.—From the courte, the 13 October, Your loving friend, It. Leycester.—lf you will send me your election -will) a blank. I frill put in,the names. To ray very l oving friends, the Lai! f'ssn4 the rest of the towne of Andover.' -- _, _~ . PRICE OF Pootsu Assottrriort.—A Canadian, Ironed Peet Allard, committal snicide on Tuesday morning hilt, by throw; ing himself into (Moil Rivet 16Wer falls. The 11 - 0 . 7 hvv not been found. He was an industrious honest mttrti end fhuch esteemed by • his. , neighboars. This act was larltked by thci representation of his pricit ; that his sins had Veit e int ab 'faur. moos they could not -be pardoned Without the payment of * large su:n of toopey, which would at once sweep ultay the little accumulations of years of industry.-- , Barlingion Free Press. N wan of the middle class of society at Berlin latch , tank it into his head to abandon his ordinary occupations mid stet up for a fortune-teller ; and attracted crowds of crechtlooa periods to listen to his prognostications. Among the rest tvas a ieniale servant, to whom he predicted that she should die on a stutfold. The Firl became so depressed with the apprehension of her Ltd that it was marked by her mistress, Who, having extracted the secret from her, recommended het to try her fortune again, going to the soothsayer disguised as a lady of rank and wealth. This second time the former prediction wasrepeated, The poor girl now was conscience stricken, and confessed she had been guilty of infanticide. Upon this the pretended prophet, as welt as herself, was taken into custody, he being suspected of having been privy to the crime. STAMMERING ANI3 ITS CURE.—There is a paper on this sub. , ject in the Medical Quarterly Review, translated from a foreign journal, which is, we presume, thought by our contemporary • to be worth attention. The method of cure was, it appears, brought to Europe from America by Mrs. Leigb. She entered into partnership with a Doctor MalbOuche, at Brussels, from whom the secret was bought by the Belgian government. '('ha system has likewise met with approbation in Prussia. The whole'art consists in the following rules :—The stammerer is to press the tip of his tongue as hard as he can _against the upper row of teeth—is to draw a deep breath every six minutes, and is to keep perfect *silence for three days,, during which 'this pressing of the tongue and the deep inspirations are to be con. trnued without intermission. During night small rolls of linen are placed under the tongue, in order to. give it the required direction even during sleep. When the tbree days have ex pired the patient is to read aloud slowly to his physician for as hour. During this exercise care is to be taken that the stare : merer is never .in...want of breath, and he most therefore l.e made to stop frequently and inspire deeply. The patient is to be admonished to keep the tip of the tongue floating when he speaks, and never to allow it to sink into .the anterior cavity of the lower jaw. PIECE OP PLATE TO Mr. GbLLY, M.P.—Mr. Golly bad- ing recently, in c ompliance with the good (I) old custom established in the borough of Pontefract, paid the usual " Head Money" of £2 per man to such of his supporters as chose to call for it at the office of his agent, the gratitude of this electors of this " ancient and loyal Borough" has been strongly wrought upon, and a subscription has been opened for the purr. pose of presenting the hon. member with some token of, thrill' esteem ; and - tho grateful , sense they entertain of his Trait seli vices to them individually. By 'hawking the subscription fiat from door to door the sum of £2'J has at length been rutsed,anrl on Wednesday evening a meeting was convened try cireolari in the " Town liall," of " those who had entered and those Who intended to enter into the subscription," for , . the purpose, of promoting . the object in view.. The terms.rif the circular ex cited considerable amusement, and had it not bore the signature of a sober-minded and respectable quaker, the "independent burgesses" of Pontefract would have imagined that its object was to promote the Sports at the next races. It had, however, the effect of inaking the attendance larger than it otherwise would have'beernahough at best only small. About a. hundred persons were present, chiefly scot and lot voters, Mr. Lionel John Brooke, surgeon, presided, and he addressed the meeting in a fluent speech, setting forth the numerous claims which their hon. member, Mr: Gully, had upon the gratitude of the elec. , tors,•and in conclusion proposing the presentation of a pieCenf Plate. Several other propositions were made and Withdrawn, and the chairman's suggestion was adopted. A committee 'was appointed to carry into effect the resolves of the meeting, con sisting of Mr. George Green, treasurer, Mr. Charles Elcock, Mr. Dodsworth, Mr. Francis Barker, Mr. Thomas Lee Tay lor, Mr. Wm. Moorhouse, and the Chairman. it was resolved that the subscription lists should remain open till this evening, and that, in order to immortalize the subscribers as far as possi ble, a parchment scroll, containing a list of their names, should accompany the plate, to be deposited in' the achi eve s at Ack- , worth Park. Mr.. Lee Taylor, watchmaker, a member of the committee, has undertaken to procure the plate without fee or extra charge. One of our correspondents says that it was not determined whether the plate should be a tankard or a waiter, but if the latter, it is expected that the Hon. and Gallant mem ber's feats on the turf and in the ring will be fully emblazoned. —Leeds Intelligencer. _ _ DRUNK EN HUSBAND. —The wife of a lime-burner at Bayetx, in France, was a few days ago bringing home en a hafid harrow her husband, whom she found dead drunk at a public house outside the town, when she was stepped by the entrance , duties officers at the - gate, who. asked what she. had got. there ? " A hog !" replied the indignant wife. How much does it weigh r' " Two hundred weiOt 1 ." The declaration was duly entered in the book, and the woman and her burden al lowed to pass. On the following day one of the.officers pre. stinted himself at the residence of the lime-bunter with a note in due form, demanding the entrance 'duty upon 2ciit. o f b a .6 on , At first the good woman imagined that it wa r s a Continuation of the joke of the day before, but she very coon found idiot it was no joke at all, for, notwithstanding all her protestatiens that the bacon was nothing more than the drunken earcassof her pig of a husband. she was compelled to pay the stipulated charge.—French Paper. HaNs Ho LBEIN .—A nobleman, on some provocation (Taber' having threatened the celebrated Hans Holbein (painter to Henry VIII.) with death, the painter iinniediatery went ; arid complained of him to the King, who sent for the nobleman, and charged him at the peril of his life not to meddle with Holbein. On this the nobleman desired his Majesty to 'consider the dif ference between a peer and a painter. "The difference; my lord, (replied the King,) is can easily of seven plough men make seven nobles,. but out of seven times seieh noblemen I 'cannot make one Holbein." , Two travellers having been robbed in 'a wood, and tied to trees ht some distance from each other, one of them iu despair, exclaimed, " Oh t I'm undone !" - " Are you I" said the other, " then I wish you'd come and undo me." Hooker, in his " Ecclesiastical Polity," says—"' The, time will come when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than 306Q:volumea written with disdainful sharpness of sit." The Academy of Sciences, at Lyons, 'has" bfferedlt',‘gold medal, of the value of 6430 francs, for the best essay on the fol lowing question:—" What is the hest system of education'and public instruction in a constitutional monarchy ?" STEAM ENGINES IN GLASGOW.—There ale o)kt...en thins in Glasgow wile make steam-engines or mill machinery. , -.2:tiree houses alone employ upwards of 100 person, in this branch of trade. There are 31 different kinds of manufactures in which steam-engines are used, reckonitgthose eropl o y e 4.i t guar. ies, and steam-boats, there ate:::3!) steam-engines, equal to the power of 7,366 'horses. • CHINESE ING.si.itirY..;---The Chinese are Often comp:Med to make their dwellings. in large lA+als - on 'the rivers. Atr`officer in the navy tells rite he observed one of these; who kelit chicks fur a living, practice au. odd piece of . ingenuity. In 'the day time the ducks were permitted to float about, but iu ire-night time they were carefully collected. - - The keeper,' Wiien the night c.t iii, gave a whistle, when the (lilacs hlways him with.violein speed, so that they were all intrariabifkatbered ilia minute. How.do you suppose he hod educatcrd hit-flock so effectually? nO Always beat. the last LONDON EXEMPT FROM E A R 1.119 1, A K Geological Map of _British Strata... London . appears 1w Occupy the only spot in Britain, (and pciltaps the world) that tinay he deemed quite secure flora the pal tial workings of galvanic principles, to the operation of which is attributtd the produc tion ofearthquakes. IRISH TASTE LANDS.—A bill to " incetpriratp a company for the drainage and improvement of watt lands in , lieland,' has been read a first time in the House of Commons.' .• Of cith'HeE'l'KemNplGletisTustils'trultPiaLll;:.u—ry'li'vhiengont%Yitiitireat.n..r.o rorfedtilien;',P-4'ocr"'tut7- gal,. though for this eud -it sacrificed its peculiar ii,u4Ancient n a me., . Denys, prince of that country,•avcrse.to theAeatruction of an order vZilith he had taken under his special-prut,fction., adroitly avoided the fate • which {in eommon order everywhere else in the time of Pope Clement V..) threatened it by die nominal. fiction of concerting its, title • to iliat:iof th e , Order of Christ," the suprcniary.of which •he declare 4 front thenceforth vestvd in the crown. Nor was the change ol(natne a violent onc;or even new, as we. frequently find the soldiery o f the Temple, indiscriminately and sometimes coujoiotly:fstiled in ancient documents Militir.Temple . and Militia Christi: This politic substitution, however, greatly offended the see of 'Rome, w hi c h lefused to sanction the society; but in the succeeding pontificate of John XXII. the Order of Christ was fornitilly re cognized. All their former property, was.secured to Ilion : under the new name, and they have continued to flourish undisturbed down to tho present day, with the exception'of the eilect ,which the different political contests in that country mustliave hart _upon them. During the last century the ems); of the order was rather prostituted an being. besto we d by th e • gu v e r ntu pot of .Portugal as a- reward for certain ,Transatlautic adventurers and commercial .speculatots. Freemason+ . Qpiarlri ly lie clew. • -- - • - . . . A USEFtiI; 11.119*.t4t took the catholica more than ene hun dred years to . acquire the franchise ; thirty proeuied• thetn. emancipation ; Coil Six has Carried for theta a - resolution which. destines the'prOperty of the protestant. church to be'p ropottioned to the wants of its members. The increasing rapidrty of the progress is the itnportant fact which it 'betnanei statesnien to attend to.—Courier. •• We -learn that at a meeting held at the Regent Hotel , :ton; on Friday•eyening last, and' over which Sir David• Scott, Bart.. presided, a.societv was formed, and denominated.," The Brighton Conservative Club," and that several persousernolled • their names as members.j--Bri9fitun Guardian. nt nc E.—ar the many \ radical publications labial have at different times iF i ed tuna the Bristol press the_nnest cete bratiid is "The Watrimian," a weekly newsliaper that was edited by the poet Coleridge;' and• even this is,ouly preserve.i from oblivion by the circiiinstance of haying soi great a name connected with it. ; The first number made its. iiPPe.arFuce iu March, l'i96—a ainall Svo.. pamphlet, : containing about thirty pages almost exclusively devoted to two .stillectS, politics and poetry, Coleridge was at this time a Leah:U.B unitarifin, and a most disinterested enthusiast in the schO6l - cf "New ltifOrality" which Canning : held up to ridietile ill' the 4iiti-jtieob.in. iris principles .were. so .freely urged, that au essay on Fasts, which appeared in the second paper, is said to hie Nisi hint half his subsetibers. The work - ceased altogether with the. :tenth number, and the editor was near being east into. prison by an ill-natured printer, aho refused to wait a Manthfor the arrears due unto him. 'lie principal cOhlributcirs besides himself were lit. Beddoes, who then liked at the Itotwells. Thomas Poale, Esq., of Nether Stowey, in Somersettli•ite, and Robert LoYell, the author of a satire on Bristol, long sice for gotten. Abgilt nine months before this - time Coleridge, Southey, .and Lovell (not Wordsworth, as it Catinnonly beireied) mat . ried•three sisters, ladies of this citv,naMed Frieker,.an event ,which gave rise to some coarse pleasantry on the part bf Lord .;Byron. Dr. Southey, a little whil e a ft e r hi s marria ge, barked for Portugal; and Caleride, when the Watehriine ceasedto exist, retired to a cottege it Stowey: neither he,or:Southey 'ever after this made our citv,i4faCe of m peranent residence. Coleridge Was as little please'! to Le'r.roincted Qt: his iValcbman in after life, as D r . S out h ey wou ld n o w b e to error, coleridg e h as b een he ar d . t o.say , Tyler." . Both w ere written .un de r t he i n fluen c e' of:4outlitul. hear of Itt .. 'W at, When any one twitted, hug about his ear l y d em oc ratic etrusitins, that "they Were writ, ten before he had 'broken his peen) trumpet' of sedition."' — °lrons a Correspondelit of the Blirtoriouri4o.' EXTRAOIt bIN Alt Y RECOVER, 'or' -SPLECO.—About sixteen years ago the daughter'of t banshee:9qm (many: years permit writer at the Siiuthimpton Cashiru-hoitsof caught • an exceedingly severe cold, which eaused•the entire less of her Speech from that time inn il Sunday morning•last, not Wit listand- . ipg the continued exec (kris of different mediCal gentlemen for her relief or cure. ()n Sunday morning last. felt a - dreadful' deprOsion on the chest, urtid an bcession of sickness at the' stomach, and while walking in - the garden witictseized with a vio lent paroxysm, and dischargedirtim•hersteinich a substance of considerable size and weight. • She instantly felt bet self relieved. and, to the delight and astonishment cif ber aged father, imme-, diarely recovered her long-lost poivetr of spei!ch.—Hairip4ii(e . Advertiser. TL -1t... ~.,