The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-04 00:00:00

, and Its the pal -1 him for 'or pecu ss which arnestly, ;Bard in !fendant. makes of illy corn he plain- hit speech, t expressed and Mrs. the servant -, so for eight viside, who , nember the lout Christ- . He came s sometimes lot. When ' red into tire times at the ch he was a the family. Ind I never Defendant the house, present. I the 11th of 13th. I re ten o'clock, was about ' D said it was to her room in case she I the toilet cions, and I and he went consequence 's to inquire d to be gone aviside, who aw him first, - I said to him .1 : became in- i Jien went to ." night. His i i a note in the Heaviside. t read it. I [ did not see I most corn er. One of ey had three —Dr. Lard-' le occasion I . I mean at )RNF.-I am ridge. I re there on the red for them was a bed ley occupied ext morning. icket. ht years. de r. and Mrs. e effect. of Carhamp igney, Lady !nee. cer and Miss ias settled on picer on their 0 was settled side after his n put in, and he course of ress the jury ne that much the reporters file anxiety as the defendant id not receive inquiry into the defendant admitted also en described, s protection. their verdict, ition for the nd wounded. ightest degree n his conduct e for damages ;dings of Mr. before them. very different Ixtensive clia s impassioned ention of the stiinate their The plaintiff e enjoyed the were blessed n lost ; it had at ; but it was the lady was t, that they ike into con the evidence. lady neither a married for fitly abroad in sy of the first e, and merit ; justly, paid was courted ig the facts of at she could ils of a deli d friend im ent. When, ide—when he society—when months with when he re intiff 's house, the evidence at was at the dinner, and -was he not from their been created learned friend ll the circum osition—Mrs. ' the arts of a :ed ; and that 3 the cause of a ought not to thrown upon state of bliss the period of ) them by his n borne testi tnesses. He es of the case fendant ought lamages. He ring that they ation in which be careful that uld not on the air minds s o as anner towards to sum up his !ngth of tiwe • acquaintance ah the defend his pecuniary It imputed to ous character hat the heavy o the offence, ircumstancels• Int the wife of 1 the jury, un ach a verdict As would for ever crush alike the defendant and the unhappy lady, and consign both to hopeless penury. That there must !)e a verdict against his client, he admitted, but he hoped the July would be co n t en t w i t h g i v i ng suc h mo d erate d amages ( my as the justice of the case and the circumstances re quired. Mr. Baron GURNEY then proceeded to sum up as follows: --Gentlemen of the jury, this case has now arrived at the Period when it becomes my duty to lay before you the evi dence in support of the case on which the plaintiff grounds his claim for damages for the wrong which he alleges, and which the defendant admits he has done. It is a case in which it becomes especially necessary for you calmly and dis passionately to take the whole circumstances into your con sideration and judgment, in order that due justice may be done between the- parties. It is for you to say, upon a view of all the circumstances of this-case, what is the extent of the injury sustained by the plaintiff ; for by the extent of the in jury you must be guided in awarding the amount of compen sation. It appears on the evidence that the plaintiff was married to his lady in the year 1824—that he has three children, two of them daughters—one daughter having at tained the age of fourteen years. It appears further that the lady is entitled under the marriage settlement of her father and mother to a reversionary interest in £13,000. It al so aPpears that, at the period of the marriage, the plaintiff settled the sum of £ 9 0,000, the interest of which was settled upon the lady in case of her surviving him, with Power to her to apportion the principal amongst their chil dren ;- and in case of her surviving him, and the children dying under 21, then to herself. This settlement is cer tainly evidence of very strong affection on the part of the mthhuoessbtaind at the time of the marriage, and by it he placed 'ally, as far as circumstances are concerned, in a respectable situation. It appears that for the last eight or nine years the plaintiff and his wife resided in Brighton, and that they moved in a most respectable circle of society. Indeed, one of the witnesses mentioned a strong and most remarkable circumstance—viz., that during Hthe whole period of their intercourse he never knew Mrs. eaviside to be out in the evening unaccompanied by her husband, but on one occasion. It is certainly very rarely in society that husband and wife can so invariably be found in society together. As to the terms on which they lived, you have the evidence.of four ladies and two gentlemen.who have. known them intimately, and they have all declared that they lived together on terms of the greatest possible affection. [After carefully recapitulating the evidence, his lordship concluded by stating, that the jury had only to take the amount of damages into consideration, and to weigh all the circumstances of the case.] The jury then retired. Shortly after the jury retired they again came into court, and asked, if Mrs. Heaviside were divorced and were married to Dr. Larduer, would any children of the second marriage partake of the benefit of the interest of the £20,000 in case of the death of the plaintiff and Mrs. Heaviside. Mr. Baron GURNEY said, 'that they were not, under the settlement, entitled to it, the settlement being only on the children of the plaintiff by Mrs. Heaviside. It was then asked, would Mrs. Heaviside, if divorced, be entitled to the interest of the £20,000 on the death of Mr. Heaviside ? Mr. Baron GURNEY said that she would, Unless the legis lature in a divorce act provided otherwise. • . It was again asked, if Dr. Lardner married Mrs. Heavi side divorced from her present husband, and were com pelled to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act, would he be compelled to give Mrs. Heaviside the benefit of the 433 ;000 settled on her by settlement of her father and mo.ther? L e e that GURNEY said the jury had not any right to t b ue that point into consideration, but they might, as had l ien suggested to him, consider the loss which Mr. d.eaviside might sustain in reference to the £13,000, if a it took place. The learned judge remarked also, that 1 4 Was evident froin the letters which had been read, that further correspondence had taken place between defendant an d Mrs. Heaviside, although the witnesses were unable to S peak to it. „The j ury, a f ter two h ours ' deliberation, returned a ver dict for the plaintiff. Damages EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS. • • „ Such i s t h e un i versa l l ove o f th e D u k e o f W e lli ng t o n, and the fear of his death, that there are people who go to the l ength of wishing there could be an act of parliament passed c ompelling the duke " to care of himself. KING OF THE FRENCH.—I regret ex ceedinglyiNs OF THE to state, that a rumour is prevalent, in the best Fircles, that the Ki ng i s suffering under an affection of the heart, which inspi res uneasiness in the minds of his friends. As there is no external symptom in this malady, the public genera generally, who see nothing in his appearance to indicate dis ease, imagine that he is quite well. We know, however, that taffections of the heart frequently exist without external syrup unts. A man may live with such a malady to a very old age ; but, on the other hand, he may go off quite suddenly. God grant that the rumour to which I have alluded may be utterly unfounded ! for never has France had a better, I may say so good a King: never could society exhibit in so elevated a position a better man. I shall rejoice to see the rumourcon tradletcd . from authority, although I have felt it right to no tice it. —Evening paper. THE SANCTITY OF THE TOMB.—It is well known, that formerly, considerable alarm was manifested that the grave w ould be robb e d o f its deposits by the intrusion of the " r esurrectionist." An act of the legislature had the effect of destroying the temptation to purloin the dead, but the grave is still insecure. Grounds, accustomed to be held sa cred, are unceremoniously cleared under official superin tendence; and that too with such ruthless indifference and wanton publicity, that even passers-by complain of the in decent profanation.—Gatherings from Grave Yards. IMPOSTURES OF THE TURKISH DERVISHES. — The per for:fiances of a sect of these pretended devotees I witnessed at Bagdad. They assembled on Fridays, in a small open square, which was overlooked by the terraces of the Resi dency A little circle of spectators was formed, and the ser vice began with a prayer by an Imam, standing in the centre. This ended, a row of players beat their small drums, and the exercises commenced. First there stepped into the circle a man, bareheaded, and naked from the waist upward. He carried in his bands two irons, in the shape of cows' horns. Another followed, with the upper part of his person exposed like the first, but carrying a sword in his right hand. A third bore two rods of iron, sharpened, like the horns, at one end, and terminated, at the other, by wooden balls. These re volved upon the rods, and, as they revolved, little bits of iron which hung about them, swung out, and bristled on every side. As the music played, these devotees became ex cited, or, as they would say, inspired. They began to dance. The first struck the sharp ends of the horns with great ap - parent violence into his side. The second seized the blade of his sword with his left hand, holding the handle in the right, and beat the edge with all his might against his stomach. The third brandished his rods, made the balls revolve, and then struck the projecting irons with great violence against his temples and eyes. He would then thrust the pointed extremities of the rods into his cheeks, and walk about with the balls elevated in the air. After the man with the sword had beat himself for a few minutes, he pressed the weapon upon his stomach with great force, and, at the same time, stooping forward, the flesh closed over it, so that he appeared, as he pretended to be, half cut in two. In this posture he advanced to an Imam seated in the circle, who laid hold of it by the two extremi ties and carefully drew it out, the worshipper, at the same time, gradually straightening himself, and presenting, when he was again erect, a body entirely uninjured, while, all the time, the people stared and gazed and wondered. During the performance of these juggleries, they cried out with each blow, " Allah," while the officiating Imam, ever and anon, called, at the top of his voice, to the people, to pray to the prophet. The solution of the whole was that these preten ders professed to be inspired with divine fury, whilst their sanctity rendered them invulnerable. God and the prophet were invoked to save them from harm, of which, in truth, there was no danger, as the sword had no edge, and the other instruments no points, and they took care, in using them, that the force of the blow should be arrested just as it reached the body.—Southgate's Travels in Turkey and Persia. VIOLATION OF THE GRAVE.—Decently to dispose of the dead, and vigilantly to secure their remains from violation, are among the first duties of society; our domestic endear ments, our social attachments, our national prepossessions, respect and sanctify the resting-places of our forefathers ; the most barbarous of mankind would burn with indignation at beholding the last remains of a beloved relative exposed, maugled, or mutilated ; and yet among us, in a moral and christian country, the abode of the dead is openly violated, its deposits are sacrilegeously disturbed and ejected, the tender solicitudes of survivors are cruelly sported with, and the identity of relationship is destroyed ; so eager, indeed, is the haste to dispossess previous occupants, that time is not even allowed for the gradual dissipation of decaying human putrescence ; this is eliminated in gaseous profusion, con taminating, as it circulates. the habitations of the living. Whence this rude invasion of the tomb ? How can we re concile the previous anxieties of survivors to secure a respect able interment with the subsequent unconcern, neglect, or abandonment of the localities of the dead ? I shall not pre sume to solve these questions ; however, I cannot help thinking that the depredations of the " grave yard" are com paratively disregarded, from a feeling and a desire common to every man, a feeling of unwillingness to believe that his own friends have been disturbed, and a natural desire to avoid the renewal of melancholy reminiscences. " All men think all men mortal but themselves." This self-delusion is carried yet further, for while every man readily sympa thises with others at the disturbance of their dead, he believes his own depository secure, and his future repose inviolable. — Gatherings from Grave Yards. TURKISH TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANS.-011 the morn ing of the paschal procession, after the public prayer was ended, it belonged to the soldiers to carry back the mats which had served them in their devotions, to the place whence they were taken. Instead, however, of performing the labour themselves, they dispersed through the crowds, and singling out the rayalis (subjects of the Sultan not Mussulmans) who happened to be there, compelled them to take the mats upon their shoulders, and bear them fo r th em . Th e G ree k s , w h ose buoyancy of spirit nothing can repress, made sport of it. The timorous and cringing Jews tamely submitted to the in dignity in silence. A soldier. followed each one to keep him from deserting his burden, now and then administering a kick when he halted or ventured to remonstrate. I saw only one Armenian seized. He was a young man of respectable appearance, and refused, when arrested, to perform the scan dalous task. Immediately some twenty soldiers set upon him, and attempted to beat him into submission. He resisted manfully for a few minutes, while they, standing like a foot ball. He offered to hire a porter to carry the burden, but they persisted in imposing the contumely upon him. Some Ar menians sitting in a caf6 near at hand, looked npon the scen e in evident consternation, and soon began to slip off in another direction. At this moment I approached thnoldiers with an American friend, who had been with me through all the scenes of the morning. As we came up they desisted, and, had we been able to expostulate with them in their own tongue, the Armenian might easily have been rescued. But when they found that we had no power to interpose, they re commenced their assault, and succeeded at length in imposing the ignominy on the young man, who walked away under his burden, sobbing with shame and vexation. We knew that the insult was forced upon him because he was a christian. I witnessed other scenes of a similar kind during the following days of the festival. They filled me with the deepest indig nation, but the oppression of rayah became afterwards so familiar a sight to me, that the first effects grad ua lly cea s e d. It is only now, when looking back upon those scenes from the favoured home of christianity, that I feel a return of the first glow of indignation, and mourn, as I then sincerely mour ne d, o v er the desolate heritage of Zion, in the lands where she held her earliest and broadest sway.—Southyate's Travels in Turkey and Persia. NECESSITY OF SUPERINTENDING BURIAL GROUNDS. — I am fully convinced, after the most mature reflection, that all:the evils apprehended by the French executive, from the then prevailing custom of interment throughout France, may, in an increased ratio, be anticipated in this country,—for until very lately the burial places of t he metro p olis and of the provinces have been under no superintendence. Public bodies or private individuals have been at liberty to allot grounds or to choose depositories for the reception of the dead, without limitation as to number, without controul as to locality, or the disposition of the charge with which they were entrusted ; and it is proved that private individuals have availed themselves to an alarming and most injurious extent of the ignorance or poverty of survivors. I have shown that in many places more bodies have been received than could possibly be interred without a brutal and indecent dispossession of previous occupants, and that the surround. m g neighbourhoods must necessarily be endangered from the continutatious ous emanations given off from vaults and grave yards, m which piles of bodies, confined within their slender habi are in some instances methodically, and in others 13 " 41 MOniQubly, arrangedo-Gatherings from Grave Yards, Ibt tiberpoot tanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1840. It is impossible to rise from the perusal of a single newspaper of the day, whether metropolitan or provin cial, without a painful conviction of the awfully in creasing prevalence of crime, in its darkest and most malignant forms. The reports of the proceedings at the various assize courts in the country are rife with the harrowing details of deeds of violence and blood. 'l' hese sad details are no less calculated to impress the mind of the patriotic statesman with feelings of alarm and apprehension for the welfare and peace of society, than they are to affect the heart of the Christian with the mournful truth that we have not amongst us that " righteousness which exalteth a nation." No truly philanthropic mind can seriously conte►n plate the present aspect of society, especially in refe rence to the increase of crimes of the deepest charac ter, as evidenced by the records of our courts of jus tice, without an endeavour to trace out the sources of our national iniquities, and an effort to apply some adequate remedy for their removal. It is a matter of notoriety that the press, the palladium of our civil li berties, has been long abused and prostituted by being made the vehicle for the dissemination of the vilest and most abominable principles. For many years past it has teemed with publications in which Christianity has been ridiculed—the Bible set forth as a cunningly de vised fable—in which the ministers of the gospel have been represented as designing impostors—the princi ples of morality scoffed at—the restraints of law de scribed as the instruments of tyranny—and private virtue and public decency outraged in every imaginable shape. To this impure source—a prostituted press—are we compelled to attribute, in great part, the alarming de moralisation of our population. The poison which has been so sedulously administered to the morbid tastes of a reading but ignorant public has gradually spread its deadly influence through the body politic. The bitter seeds of ribald Atheism and reckless sedition have al ready brought forth their congenial fruits. The press has been mainly instrumental in organising the Char tist agitation, which has already led to incendiarism, violence, and bloodshed. The press has been made subservient to the spread [of Socialism, a system than which none more atrociously filthy and blasphemous has ever been propounded for the acceptance of man kind. The press, and, let us add, the stage, have been the means of familiarising our youth with the charac ters and achievements of some of the most desperate villains that have ever disgraced humanity by their crimes, or suffered the penalty of death for . their viola tions of the laws of their country. We need scarcely explain that we allude to such criminals as Jonathan Wilde, Jack Sheppard, and others of the like stamp, whose exploits as robbers and murderers have been in vested with all the charms of fiction, artistical illustra tion, and scenic effect, and whose examples, as in the case of Courvoisier, have already proved a stimulus to the perpetration of the most fearful crimes. No man of reflection can, we feel convinced, with hold his assent from the preceding truths. No man, who has the slightest regard for the happiness of his fellow-creatures, the peace of society, the preservation of public liberty, or his own personal safety, can re flect upon these truths without feelings of anxiety and apprehension. Rut, while evil-disposed men have been indefatigable in their endeOdurs to encourage vice, to vilify reli gion, and to bring the restraints of the law and of mo rality into disrepute, much, it must be confessed, has been done to counteract their diabolical machinations. Much more, however, remains to be done. Crime cannot be prevented by police regulations, though these may, and are, instrumental in leading to its detection and punishment. Our towns are strictly watched by livened policemen, and our rural districts are traversed by the county constabulary; and yet thefts, assaults, midnight assassinations, and murders in the open day, are increasingly prevalent. The imposing processes and awe-inspiring paraphernalia of our courts of jus tice, are found 'comparatively inoperative in deterring froth these crimes. We must not trust to any of •these things for any amelioration of the national character. We cannot put down crime by legislation, however salutary and necessary may be its restraints. What, then, must be done ? Shall we invoke the aid of the press to assist in the suppression of crime ? Much good, no doubt, may be effected by the dis semination of right principles through the medium of the press; but all its appliances will bell:mud inadequate to meet the increasing evil. We may inundate the land with volumes of " Useful Knowledge"—we may spread abroad our " Penny Magazines" by millions — we may have our public lectures on the arts and sciences in every village—we may have our mechanics' institutions rearing their domes, in all the pride of architectural decoration, in every town—we may have our public exhibitions, fraught with everything dazzling to the eye or pleasing to the imagination, and accessible to every class in the community—we may have our suburban parks, our botanical gardens, and our zoological . repertoires : but all these things will have little or no efficacy in the repression of crime, or in the inculcation of a higher tone of morality. We do not declaim against any of them. They are useful in their places, and may be rendered subsidiary to the most ennobling ends. The experience of ages, and facts of every day occur rence, justify the conclusion that it is to the spread of sound religious principles—of true christianity—that we must look "for a remedy against the prevalence of crime. Mere secular instruction will be found of no avail in arresting the torrent of immorality : religious education, under the Divine blessing, will be found omnipotent in staying its desolating progress. Convinced of this, we cannot avoid once more agitating the great questions of CHURCH EXTENSION and NATIONAL EDUCATION on RELIGIOUS PRIN CIPLES. Build more churches, and there will be need of fewer prisons. Increase the numbers of our labour ing clergy, and we can soon dispense with our expen sive police establishments. Multiply schools in which our children shall be carefully trained " in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," and we shall soon see the haunt§ of vice and the nurseries of crime, one after another, disappearing froth the land. _ _ Having thus pointed out the bane and its antidote — the evils which afflict our nation and remedies by which they may be removed—we must express our cordial hopes that the great questions of religious education and church extension may continue to be kept promi nently before the eyes of the public. Let not the re fusal of the present Parliament to entertain these ques tions be any reason for giving up their agitation. If this agitation be persevered in, it will assuredly wove successful in the end. Magna est veritas et pnvvalebit. We understand from good authority, that the usual notice required by Parliament, has been given and the plans lodged, for obtaining a bill next session, for per mission to make an extensive dock, on the Chesire side of the river, at Wallasey Pool, where vessels will, as in the case of the Harrington and Herculaneum Docks (should the bills now in the House of Lords pass, as they are expected to,) be exempt from dock dues; so that, ere long, we may anticipate seeing both shores of the Mersey lined with shipping. To such an extent has the progress of building and location advanced on the Cheshire side, that we cannot con ceive a more appropriate name for the district com mencing with Birkenhead, and terminating with New Brighton, than " New Liverpool." We have great pleasure in promoting the desire of several of our most esteemed fellow-citizens, by direct ing attention to the necessity for an immediate expres sion of public feeling on the subject of threatened hos tilities with France. The grounds on which severa gentlemen of various shades of party'opinion unite in deploring the prospect of a rupture with our neighbours across the Channel, are precisely those we ourselves adopt, and are independent of the immediate question which has roused the French nation, and will, we fear, render war inevitable, even with so cordial and en lightened an advocate of the English alliance as Mon sieur 'Tiers. All must consider it unfortunate that it should be during the ministry of one so devoted to England, and so long the object of Russian hostility, that the two powers, whose friendship might be such a blessing to mankind, are doomed to exhaust them selves in Mortal struggle. We think it most desirable that every effort, con sistent with our interests and honour, should be made to avert such a calamity ; and an expression of such a desire on the part of this great and enlightened com munity would, no doubt, have some effect. A requi sition should be instantly signed by those who value the blessing of peace, imploring her Majesty to use every becoming effort to maintain terms of amity with France. The existing ministry in that country noto riously desire to cultivate our friendship, as their readiness long ago to sign the commercial treaty nego tiated by Mr. Porter distinctly shews ; and a little prudence and conciliation on our part will not be un willingly attended to. In the mean time, the ultra press of Paris, whether republican or Carlist, halloo us on to war ; and among the foremost are those well known as latourets in the Russian interest. We respectfully suggest the following as the sub stance of an address to her Majesty : " That the undersigned, valuing peace as one of the great est of human blessings, and its preservation recognized by all as a solemn duty, except in cases of overwhelming necessity, view with alarm and sorrow the prospect of a termination of that amity between France and England so long and so anx- iously maintained. " That without doubting the energies and resources of Great Britain, we cannot view without uneasiness the ex treme want of preparation for hostilities on our part, espe cially considering the position of our affairs in China and Affghanistan, with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the United States. " The undersigned also consider peace as more desirable with France than with any other of the great powers, from considerations of proximity, commercial and intellectual in tercommunication, and from respect for the place which she holds among the civilized nations of the world. " But we chiefly regret the possibility of collision with France, because one result will be to render us by necessity submissive to the encroachments of a great power, whose hostile designs in the East we have not now to discover, who are at this moment maturing, and which will without doubt be carried into effect the moment that we are occupied in contest with a great and well-prepared antagonist. We fore see, whatever party be successful, England or France, that during the struggle the great prizes of the world will be seized by a third party, and that Russia will be the only gainer by an event so full of calamity to mankind. We perceive, that whatever progress Russia may make in Central Asia, what ever her intrigues in India, and her attitude as possesSor of the Dardanells, we shall be humble and silent witnesses of her acts provided she abstain from joining in the European warfare against us. Since writing the above, we have been informed that an address to her Majesty and a petition to the Legis lature, setting forth the sentiments we have expressed, has been prepared, and will be placed this day before our merchants for signature at the Exchange Rooms. TILE MARQuIs OF DOURO.—The eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Douro, has been paying Liver pool a visit during the present week. On Friday he inspected the model of the Battle of Waterloo, now exhibiting in the large room over the Union News Room, Duke-street, al though he had seen it more than once in London. Ile sub sequently visited the Custom-house, Town-hall, shipping, and other objects of attractio n in the town, with all of which he expressed his delight. THE £5O NOTE.—On Thursday last, Wm. Chapman was again brought up at the Borough Court; and Mr. Sawley stated, that he had written to Mr. Whitty, inspector of the Liverpool police, requestinT him to inquire whether any man named Chapman lived at No. 2, Albion Mill Place, Liver pool. Mr. Whitty's reply was to the effect, that most care ful inquiry had been made, and no person named Chapman lived in any Albion-place, in Liverpool ; but a thief named Chapman, who came to the recent races, lodged two or three nights in Albion-street, and left on Friday last. It appeared that the place the prisoner professed to live in was an Albion Mill Place, Ben Jonson-street, in the neighbourhood of Scotland-road, a place of great resort for thieves ; and, on the application of Mr. Sawley, the prisoner was remanded to Monday next, and further inquiry to be made in the mean time at Liverpool.—Manchester . Guardian. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. Sixth Night of Mr. ANDERSON, Principal Tragedian of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, is engaged for a Limited Period. Seventh Night of Mr. J. G. VANDENHOFF, of the same Theatre, who is engaged for Ten Nights. HIS present TUESDAY, the 4th instant, will be per formed Shakspeare's Tragedy of JULIUS CIESAR. Mr. nderson. Mark Antony Mr. G. Vandenhoff. Julius Czesar.. Mr. Chaplin. Cassius ... Mr. Stuart. I Casca.... Mr. Baker. Portia.. Mi Cleaver. To conclude with the Opere of ROSINA. Captain Belville Mr. G.I orneastle. Mr. Belville.... Mr. Barker. Willia Mr. Baker Rosins .... Miss Grant. `Phoebe.. Mrs. P Crowe. TO-MORROW, will be repeated, the new Play, written by Leigh Hunt, Esq., called A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson ; Colonna, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; (as originally performed by them in London ;) Agolanti, Mr. Stuart; Da Riva, Mr. Chaplin; Giulio, Mrs. Tellet ; Ge nevra, Mrs. W. H. 121 and ; Olimpia, Miss Cleaver; Diana, Mrs. Baker.—To conclude with the Musical Drama of ROB ROY. Rob Roy, Mr. Stuart; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. Barker; Rashleigh, Mr. Gray •, The Bailie, Mr. Baker ; Dougal. Mr. Slaiter ; Major Galbraith, Mr. G. Horncastle ; Diana Vernon, Miss Grant; Helen Macgregor, Miss Cleaver. On THURSDAY, KING JOHN. King John, Mr. An derson ; Falccnhridge, Mr. G. Vandenhoff ; Hubert, (on this occasion,) Mr. Stuart.—To conclude with THE VAMPIRE. On FRIDAY, for the BENEFIT of Mr. VANDEN HOFF, and the last night of his engagement, the Play of THE LADY OF LYONS, with RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE. Mr. W. FARREN, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, will commence an engagement, for a Limited Period, at this Theatre, on Monday next, the 10th instant, being his first appearance here these two years. Brutus THEATRE ROYAL. For the BENEFIT of Mr. G. VANDENHOFF, and the Last Night of hi: appearance. (IN FRIDAY next, the 7th August instant, will be acted ll Sir E. L. Bulwer's favourite Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte.... Mri G4Vandenhoff. (First time in Liverpool.) After which, a Variety of SINGING and DANCING. To conclude with Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedy (altered by Mr. G. Vandenhoff to three acts, expressly for himself) of RULE A WIFE AND HAVE A WIFE. Leon . Mr. G. Vandenhoff. Tickets may be had of Mr. G. VANDENHOFF, 39, Great Charlotte-street, and had at the Box-office, where places may be taken. PICTURE OF THE STEAM-SHIP PRESIDENT. In consequence of the unexampled demand for copies of the STANDARD of Friday last, we were unable to provide the necessary number of the Prints to accom pany the Paper ; and we have, therefore, determined to present each Purchaser of the STANDARD of FRIDAY NEXT with a Picture of the PRESI DENT, equal in all respects to the one previously issued. Any parties desirous of procuring copies, will be kind enough to make early application on Friday. IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS. To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the following is the necessary qualification, namely : " The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, within the borough, for which the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon, except those becoming due within six months before the 31st, have been paid before that date." The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe riod, (say two years and nine months) have been an in . - habitant householder within seven miles of the borough. The day on which claimants' qualifications must be completed, and the last day for payment of rates, is the 31st of August. The sth of September is the day on which the overseers are required to make out the burgess lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to fix a copy of them on the Town-hall, during the week preceding the 15th of September. A person succeeding to the occupation of a house, 4-c., by descent, marriage, demise, 4c., is entthed to reckon as his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or through whom he succeeds. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The old lady of the Mercury was amazingly witty on Friday, upon the discovery of an error in one of our leaders, which any man of common comprehension would have discovered at once to be a mere typographical blunder. The words " Romish France," should have been " Romish fraud." We used too, it seems, the word " blooded," as applied to the fangs of a wolf ; and our captious, and, in this case, ignorant contemporary, would have us use the word " bled," as more grammatical. The Mercury, we dare say, has never ridden at the tail of a pack of foxhounds, or he would know that, as a sporting expression, the word " blooded" is in common acceptation. We should ima gine, however, that a man of his extensive reading, might, by chance, have noticed its application to beasts of prey, who, when allowed to taste blood, are said to be " blooded. We had prepared a short notice of one or two other in stances of our contemporary's segacity, but more impor tant matter has induced us to postpone it until Friday. " An Enemy to Sabliath Desecration;" in very itrongterms urges us to remonstrate with the directors of the Mecha nics' Institution, for devotapg the hours of Sunday last to clear away the mass of artiNes which have been on view for the few last weeks. He states, that as the exhibition was closed late on Saturday evening, and the schools opened yesterday morning, the rooms could not have been cleared without infringing on the hours of the Sabbath. We be lieve the fear of our correspondent to be groundless. Since the above was written, we have been informed, on good authority, that the whole of the rooms immediately wanted in the Mechanics' Institution were cleared after twelve o'clock on Sunday night. The circumstance that Dr. Raffles's congregation had their religious services in the building on the Sabbath, ought to remove any doubt on the subject. Several original articles (including some remarks in reply to Mr. Scoble's speech at Manchester, last week,) are una voidably postponed, to make room tor the r e p ort of Dr. Lardner , s trial. TO THE REV. CONNOP THIRLWALL, A.M., THE INTENDED BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S. REV. Sta,--Your name has appeared in the London Ga zette as the person recommended by her Majesty to .the Precentor and Chapter of St. David's, to be by them elected Bishop of that see ; but, before you accept the honour in tended for you in connexion with the principality of Wales, permit me to submit to your serious consideration some of the reasons for which you ought, as an honest man and a Christian, to decline it. You are probably aware, that, ex cept in a small section of the county of Pembroke, the ver nacular language of the diocese of St. David is Welsh ; and that the Bishop, in order to discharge the various duties of his high and responsible office with efficiency, and to the satisfaction of the inhabitants, must possess, in addition to his other acquirements, a thorough knowledge of that lan guage. When the Great Head of the Christian Church commissioned his apostles to " go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature," a difficulty presented itself in the great variety of languages and dialects spoken by different nations. This was not overlooked by the Sa viour, but a prompt and an adequate provision was made to meet it. He commanded his apostles not to depart from Jerusalem on the high behests of their commission, but wait for the promise of the Father—the gift of the Spirit ; which they received' on the day of Pentecost, " for they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." Thus endowed with the gift of tongues, the apostles went forth preaching the Gospel of God to every nation in its own vernacular lan guage. They began at Jerusalem, and gave a full proof of their ability in this respect, in the hearing of strangers who had come from distant countries to keep the feast, and who " were confounded, because every man heard them speak in his own language the wonderful works of God." It is con tended that the bishops of the present day are successors of the apostles, but whether you concur in that opinion or not is a matter of little importance; you must admit that it was the will of God, of Christ, and of the Spirit, that the highest order of ministers in the Christian church should officiate in the language of the people—" in their own tongue wherein they were born." And though most of our. British bishops in modern times, to the great detriment of religion and scandal of the church, have almost entirely laid aside this part of the apostolic office—the preaching of the Gospel ; and you, sir, probably intend to follow their baneful exam ple, with the view of coneealing as much as possible from public notice the glaring inconsistency of your being the. bishop and chief minister of a church the language of which you do not understand ; yet, as Bishop of St. David's, the following important duties will necessarily devolve upon you, for the faithful disc4ro of which a thorough knowledge of the Welsh language is indispensable :- 1. To decide as to the fitness of candidates for holy orders to be entrusted with the cure of souls. The examination in Greek and Latin, in the evidences of Christianity, and in general biblical knowledge, through the medium of the Eng lish language, is soon gone through ; and if a chaplain be employed to assist in it, you will be able to judge how far that chaplain does ,hja duty, . and he, to consult you in every case of difficulty ; lint the most important qualification remains to be ascertained, viz., How far these candidates are competent to discharge the duties of the sacred office in the vernacular language of the parishes about to be placed under their spiritual superintendence: for the inhabitants of the Principality know the difference between gibberish and pure Welsh, and when they cannot get the latter in the churches, they leave the clergy to gibber away 1 to the empty forms, and go in a body to dissenting chapels, where they seldom fail to hear their strong and beautiful him guage spoken in its purity, accompanied by some of the finest specimens of Welsh eloquence. Finding yourself at this stage of the proceeding, in rather an awkward and humiliating posi tion for a hi:hop, you will, I doubt not, resort to the old practice of doing your work by proxy, and entrust the entire management of the Welsh examination to a Welsh chaplain. But of that Welsh chaplain's fitness to undertake the work you can form no opinion, nor judge of his fidelity in conduct ing it. And when it is remembered that a chaplain neither feels the responsibility of a bishop nor possesses his indepen dence, it is not to be expected that he should exercise the same unbiassed discrimination amidst the pressing claims of powerful and influential parties, as a bishop himself would do. Experience declares that it cannot be done. But supposing this irresponsible chaplain to be both able and disposed to do his duty faithfully, will not the fact of his being employed in that capacity involve the admission that your chaplain is bet ter qualified to fill the office of a bishop than yourself ? and if so, I ask in the name of common sense, of justice, of equity, and of Christian fairness, how comes it to pass, that in a free country like this, you, the inadmissible, because incompetent to discharge the duties of the office, 'should be invested with it, and he who is in every respect qualified to sustain it with dignity, efficiency, and devoted attachment to the inhabitants. is for ever kept out of it? Does not this, Sir, appear to you in the light of something worse than a mere political job—an abuse of the gravest character in the administration of holy things, where the spiritual interests of a whole nation are de liberately sacrificed to the promotion of a personal friend or ministerial supporter? And need you be told, Sir, that the practice conveys to the Welsh people, who feel the wrong done to their church and their country, a lamentable proof of the mercenary spirit of those English clergy who, under such circumstances, consent to accept a bishopric in Wales ? 2. It will be your duty and privilege, as bishop, to give away a large number of livings, and in so doing to decide on the various merits of the respective candidates, but more especially as to their proficiency in the native tongue ; and also to inquire into the competency of all persons presented to livings by the Crown to officiate in the same language. And here the difficulties already enumerated will be increased four fold. Curates, when found unable to do their duties efficiently in Welsh, may be removed, and driven to seek employment in the English parts of the British empire ; but beneficed clergy become fixtures, and a mistake in the ap pointment, or collation, .is not easily remedied. Not to say anything at present f Englishmen, persons highly con nected in the Principality, having received their education principally in England, are found to have paid very little attention to the cultivation of the Welsh language, and though they may have entered the church in England, yet they invariably become candidates for preferment in Wales, in order to live near their friends, and often succeed in obtaining some of the best crown livings. To see that no person incapable of preaching the Word and administering the sacraments in the language of the people be appointed to a benefice, is the grave and solemn duty of the bishop, and one of no ordinary difficulty ; but, from your utter ignorance of that language yourself, you will be again obliged to act by proxy, and call in the aid of your chaplain; and to expect a *chaplain, on his own responsibility, to reject a successful candidate, that can, after a few weeks study, contrive to read a few Welsh sentences like a schoolboy, and wade in any shape through a borrowed Welsh sermon, is unreasona ble: it would deprive the•eandidate of the living already presented to him, and call forth the hatred and persecution of his friends and connexions ; and this done in two or three instances, the faithful chaplain would find it necessary to quit the principality, if not for safety, certainly for peace, which constitutes one of the most essential; ingredients of. human happiness. This division of the duties of the episcopal office in Wales ought never to be handed over to an individual, who, though wishing to do right, has neither the autho rity nor the rank of a bishop to support him in the discharge of his painful deliberations. The bishop alone can, in the midst of so many embarrassing considerations, steer a true and independent course ; and as there arc native clergy, who, to their vast and varied acquirements in general lite rature and theology, add this distinguished qualification, that they can compose, speak, and converse freely in the native tongue, it is deeply to be regretted that not one of these, but an alien in language, is destined to be the new Bishop of St. David's. With a different appointment, due attention would be paid to the spiritual interests of the Welsh-speaking population ; the machinery of the Welsh church would be repaired ; the working of it would be placed in skilful hands ; and the country would hail these things as the dawn of a glorious reform. That you, sir, who profess reforming principles, should, by your acceptance of a Welsh bishopric, contribute to perpetuate one of the grossest and most deadly abuses that ever a country endured, is an event which requires explanation : for that explanation the Welsh people will continue to look, until, as it is to be hoped will be the case, you fling back with high and dignified disdain the poor bishopric of St. David, and demand a better in England, where you may enjoy the emoluments of the see without inflicting present and eternal injury on the inhabitants. 3. Another solemn duty of the episcopal office is the cele bration of the rite of confirmation. This rite will place you in a dilemma from which you cannot escape by aid of a proxy. With the exception of the introductory passage ex plaining the object of confirmation, the whole of the ser vice must be performed by the bishop, in accordence with the precedent of the apostles, who alone laid hands on such as believed and were baptized, without being introduced into the ministerial office. Nine-tenths of the children or young people presented for confirmation in the diocese of St. David will know nothing of English beyond a few monosyllables, occasionally employed in common conversation. "To the end," therefore, " that confirmation may be ministered to the more edifying of such as shall receive it, it is necessary that it be ministered in the Welsh language ; " for he that speaketh in an unknown tongue,.speaketh not unto men, but unto God, for no man understandeth him." Now, sir, "if you come to those children speaking in the (English) tongue, what will you profit them ? Even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped . ? So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for you shall speak unto the air." Therefore if the candidates for confirmation " know not the meaning of the voice, they will be unto you that speak barbarians, and you that speak, will be a barbarian unto them." I have adopted the language of St. Paul in reference to this point, with as few alterations as possible. It shows in very explicit terms, not only the utter useless ness, but ridiculous absurdity of performing any religious service in a language not understood by the congregation. And the Welsh people who know more of the Bible than of any other book, poor and illiterate as they are often repre sented to be, are shrewd enough to bring the practice of a Christian bishop to the test of Holy Scripture, and point out to merited scorn the glaring inconsistency : adding with a snear and sarcasm most afflictive to the feelings of the clergy,—" The rich dowry is he cause of all this." But for the emoluments we should have bishops that could speak to, pray for, and bless our children in their mother's tongue ;" and they turn away in disgust from the church which allows of such mockery in holy things. But the 24th article of the church ought to prevent the farce. To it every bishop has solemnly subscribed, thereby expressing his full consent to, and approbation of the doctrine it contains, and it declares that " it is a thing, plainly repugnant to the word of God, and the custom of the primitive church, to have pub lic prayer in the church, or to minister the sacraments in a tongue not u nderstanded of the people." A n d you, s i r, if you accept the bishopric of St. David, w ill, i n ce l e b rat i ng the rite of confirmation, deliberately contradict in practice your subscription to this article, and do in the church of God a thing plainly repugnant to the wor d of God. Si r , the s e thi ngs ought not to be. And the Welsh nation, roused at length to a sense of the wrong, is beginning to declare in a voice of thunder that it shall not be. Read the pages of the Carnarvon Herald, the Carmarthen Journli, the Merthyr Guardian, the Cambrian of Swansea, the Silurian of Brecon, thel Haul of Llandovery, the Gwladgarwr of Chester, and then, sir, consider well whether you ought to allow yourself to be thrust into the vacant see am ids t the execrations of a brave and loyal but long injured people. It will be the climax of inconsistency if you do. But I PraY God to aver t the evil from my country. I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant, Liverpool, Aug. 3, 1840. :D. JAMES. PROCESSION OF TIIE DRUIDS AND OTIIER SOCIETIES.- 7 Yesterday, the several societi▪ es o f ancient and modern druids and others held their annivers a ry holyd a y. Th ey atten d e d divine worship, and walked in procession through the prin cipal streets, in neat attire, with sashes a n d o th er h an d some decorations, and were attended by two good bands of music. They looked remarkably well. TuE SOCIALISTS AGAIN.—The unhappy victims to the sensualities of Owenisin have advertised a grand gala and ball to take place on Monday week, at th e i r t em ple of iniquity, in Lord Nelson-street. . Like needy tradesmen; who always have an eye to " the main point," cert a i n c harges of Is. Gd. and Is. are to be paid previou s t o a d m i ss i on ; an d those who cannot trip the light fantastic toe in the true social style are requested to loin a c l ass f or that purpose, the con-si-de-ra-tion for whi▪ ch is " very reasonable." The money thus obtained is to be devoted . to the maintenance of the preachers. of infidelity, who go ab out sprea di ng false hoods in all directions, a circu mstance of itself sufficient to deter any sensible per Son from being a dupe to the artifice, and towards paying the expenses of congregating the young and thoughtless together upon this occasion. Were it not for the excitement of these frequent displays, socialism would soon expire. LIVERPOOL INSOLVENT-DEBTORS' COURT., The court for the relief of insolvent debtors, within the borough of Liverpool, commenced yesterday in the sessions house, before J. G. Harris, Esq., commissioner. The list contained the names of thirty-one parties seeking to take the benefit of the act. Thomas Walton, whose debts were inconsiderable, was ordered to be discharged. Richard Ortt, stied as Richard Hortt, was heard on his petition. He was unopposed. He debts were of no great amount ; the only feature of interest in the case related to an assignment of the insolvent's property, under which a dividend of 3s 5d had been paid. The commissioner said he should require this assignment to be produced. Mr. PLUMBE, the attorney for the insolvent, said he had subpoenaed the party who had it, but he was not in court. The COMMISSIONER inquired when the subpoena was served ? Mr. PLUMBE replied at nine o'clock this morning. The CommissioNEn said it should have been served earlier. Mr. PLUM BE said this was the first court of the kind he had practised in, and that must be his excuse. _ _ _ _ _ The COMMIS TONER had no doubt Mr. Plumbe had been in practice some years; he ought, therefore, to have known that by act of parliament there was no difference between the processes of this and other courts. The necessity of pro ducing the assignment was obvious. The creditors might have taken 3s 5d in the pound, but he had frequently known assignments made in which there was no release. If there were none in this, every one of those creditors must appear in the insolvent's schedule. He recommended Mr. Plumbe, as a rule of practice, not to propound a schedule at all where there was an assignment. without having a copy of the assign ment along with it. It never could be save. The case was then postponed. Bernard Murphy and Michael Riley were unopposed. These parties had had dealings together in pigs, and their debts were inconsiderable. A person in Blackburn was named in Riley's schedule as owing him £5O for bacon, pigs, &c., but on being questioned, the insolvent stated that this person had written him a letter offering a composition of ss. in the pound. _ . . The . COMMISSIONER asked whtre this letter was. Had it been filed with the schedule? Mr. PLUMBE (the insolvent's attorney), said his clerk, who could answer the question, was out of court serving a subpoena, but he would be back presently. The COMMISSIONER directed all Mr. Plumbe's cases to stand over till Wednesday, morning. JonaS Ainley, tailor, was opposed by Mr. JAMES, for Messrs. Morris and Co. After a short hearing the insolvent was declared entitled to his discharge. _ _ _ Charles Hawkesworth was opposed by Mr. JAMES, and supported - by Mr. VENABLES. The insolvents' debts amounted to £lllB. It appeared that he had been engaged in bUilding and other transactions, in the course of which certain deeds were made relative to a houSe, furniture, and other property at Seaforth. These deeds were mentioned in the insolvent's achedule, but, in answer to the Commissioner, Mr. Pr.rmsz stated that no one had been Subpoenaed - to prove them except an accountant. The COMMISSIONER ordered the insolvent to be committed until the case could come properly before the court. Not a single person had been subpamaed in a case where at least three or four witnesses would be necessary. Win. Ashton was opposed by Mr. VENABLES, on the part of a number of creditors. The insolvent in this case was re manded for judgment for making away with property, unless the £lOO should be paid into court, or the property given up. —Mr. Hickson was appointed assignee. The following were unopposed, and they were ordered to be discharged :—Thomas Walton, Ebenezer Irwin, Richard Wilding, Charles Nicholls, John Neale, John Wreford Hunt,' James Downham, Win. John Scollay. Edward Fox, who was opposed, was remanded till Wednes day morning, to produce Mrs. Kelly and the detaining cre ditor.—Joseph Salisbury was remanded till this morning (Tuesday) to produce Mr. Ansdale. The Commissioner having been taken unwell about one o'clock, Mr. Venables presided for him from that hour. The court adjourned about four o'clock. THE LATE MR. JOHN BIBBY. We copy the following from the Albion of yesterday : The relatives of this lamented gentleman have, in common with many other persons, imbibed a strong opinion that he was murdered ; and they have, in consequence, offered a reward of 1.:500 to any individual, not the actual murderer, who will give such information as will lead to the conviction of any party or parties who may have been active participators in the dreadful deed. The family of the deceased have, also, obtained authority from the Secretary of State to announce, that her Majesty's free pardon will be given to any person, not the actual perpetrator of the crime, who will give such information as above mentioned. It has been broadly stated that little or no investigation has been instituted for the pur pose, of throwing light on this mysterious event. The fact is directly otherwise. John Formby, Esq., Charles Birch, Esq., and the Rev. Miles Formby, all magistrates of the district, have never, for an instant, relaxed in their exertions to discover the true circumstances connected with Mr. Bibby's death. They have been most anxious on the sub ject; and the police, both of the county and the borough, have been actively and unremittingly employed in seconding their wishes and those of the family of the deceased. The Liverpool Mail, of Tuesday last, with an uncalled-for sneer, tells his readers, that we had expressed an opinion that Mr. Bibby had committed suicide. This is a mistate ment. We never either surmised or hinted such• a thing. We find no fault with those who entertain different opinions from ourselves as to the cause of this melancholy event ; and, if our contemporary sincerely believes, that Mr. Bibby was murdered, as lie says he does, we trust we have too much delicacy and good taste to enter into a controversy with him on such a subject. Meanwhile, the affair is in volved in as much mystery as ever. The few available ma terials that offered themselves •for the investigation of the police have been sifted to the uttermost. The watch which the deceased is supposed to have worn when he was last seen alive has not yet been found. The pond iu which Mr. Bibby's body was discovered has been emptied, and the mud closely examined, whereby it has been ascertained, that the watch is not there. The statements of the coachman, respecting the time when he set Mr. Bibby down and his own return to Liverpool, have been fully corroborated : so that the princi pal circumstance which gives a colouring of suspicion to the case is the continued absence of the watch. The Journal, of Saturday last, gives the following additional evidence, some portions of which we do not clearly understand :—" A. policeman, residing at Litherland, had left his coat at Aintree, returned for it at night, and swears positively that he passed through the gates in the lane between the pond where the body of the deceased was found and his residence, and closed them all himself. This confirms the evidence of the lad re lative to his closing them the evening before, on which some doubt has been thrown. It therctbre follows clearly that, either dead or alive, the deceased must have passed through the gates between the hours of four o'clock, when, evidence has since been adduced to show, they were open, and five, when the policeman closed them ; and the presumption is very strong that he could not have been at that time in the lane, otherwise he would have been seen by the policeman. One of the gates, as was stated, was found propped open by a slate ; and this gate, it appears, was one which would not stand open itself, and would require to be propped for any thing bulky to be dragged through it." The same paper also says :—" It is not correct, we under stand, as inserted in a contemporary, (the Mail,) that the boots of the deceased had an appearance as if the body had been dragged with the toes depending. The only mark of dirt or clay was on the hands of the deceased, and a little on his boots, but not what might have been expected in the case of a person who had waded through such deep miry lanes. The only marks on his person, of apparent importance, were marks on each arm, as if he had been seized violently, and which, in the view of some parties who have looked carefully into the case, it is difficult to attribute to anything else." MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY. A most diabolical murder has been committed on a respec table man named John Coulton, of Haigh, near Wigan, an underlooker at the collieries of the Earl of Balcarres. The unfortunate victim resided at Red Rock-bridge, in Haigh. He had been to Wigan, and was rather intoxicated, on Saturday afternoon. At twelve o'clock at night he passed through the toll-gate on his way home. The wife of the collector, after she had let the deceased through the gate, retired up stairs to bed, when she distinctly heard the firing of a pistol or gun, but she took no further notice of it, as it is not unusual to hear similar noises at all times of the night in that neighbour hood, in consequence of its contiguity to Haigh Foundry and Brock Mill. At about five o'clock in the morning, as a man was going from Wigan in the direction of Standish, he discovered poor Conßon:lying on the right-hand side of the road, about 160 yards from the turnpike, and between it and the railway bridge. He was still bleeding from a wound under the ear, and quite insensible. He had been shot, and some slugs were extracted. He languished until Wednesday night, about 7 o'clock, when he died. The horse on which poor Coulton was riding at the time he was shot, it is supposed, had galloped off in a fright when it lost its master from its back, as it was found in Standish on the morning of the murder. There can be no doubt but that the man was pulled from his horse, robbed of his money and watch, and in order to effect their purpose the midnight assassin shot at and other wise abused him. A reward of £2O was yesterday offered for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty parties ; but notwithstanding all the assistance of Mr. Whittle, the chief constable, and two of his officers, Heath and Smith, who have been actively engaged in making enquiries, no one has yet been taken into custody, although we anticipate from the enterprising exertions of our police that the bloodthirsty villains will be brought to justice.— Wigan Gazette. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY-.EXTRAORDI NARY DESPATCH. On Wednesday last, on the occasion of the return of the Queen Dowager from Lancaster, a special train was provided for the conveyance of her Majesty and suite, from Lancaster to Parkaide, by the Lancaster and Preston and North Union Railway Companies, and thence to Stafford (being the nearest point to Alton Towers, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, which was her Majesty's destination), by the Grand Junction Railway Company. The train, consisting of three railway carriages, one of which had been handsomely fitted up . by the London and Birmingham Company for her Majesty's use, and five private carriages on trucks, making eight in all. Started from Lancaster at . Arrived at Preston Station llh. 15m. Stopped there And on the Viaduct over the I Ribble Valley . Time at Preston . Arrived at Parkside where it was attached to an engine of the Grand Junction Railway. The latter part of the journey, viz., from Newton Junction to Stafford, a distance of fifly-four miles, was performed, exclusive of a stoppage of five minutes, at Crewe, for water, in one hour and thirty-one minutes, or at the rate of upwards of thirty-five-and-a-half miles per hour. Her Majesty, on her arrival at Stafford, personally expressed to Captain Cleather, the manager of the Grand Junction Company, who was in attendance, her satisfaction at the rapidity of the pas sage and the uncommon smoothness of the line. The engine, the Vandal, on its return, brought back from Birmingham a train occupied by the directors and chief officers of the company, who had been inspecting the line, and holding a board at Birmingham on that day. It left Birmingham at 630 p.m., and arrived at Edgehill at 9'2 p.m., having made three stoppages of five, four, and three minutes thus running the distance in two hours and thirty-two minutes, or at' the rate of thirty-eight miles an hour, inclu ding stoppages, or forty-one miles an hour, exclusive of them. This is believed to be the most remarkable performance, for a continued distance of this extent, that has yet taken place in this or on any other railway in the kingdom. This en gine, in both its trips, was under the direction of Mr. Buddicom, th e super i nten d en t o f the locomotive department of the company. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.—The increase in the circula tion of London newspapers, since the reduction of the stamp duty, has been annually 9,885,943, or 47 per cent. on the previous circulation. The increase in the English provincials has been 11,370,452, or 137 per cent.; Scotch, 1,320,006, or 49 per cent.; and Irish, 364,452, or 7 per cent. on former circulation: , THE MERCURY'S GRAMMAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Your Lord-street contemporary has, for a long time, laboured to convince the public that he possesses a most extensive and accurate acquaintance with the ortho graphy, etymology, syntax, and prosody of his native tongue. In fact, Sir, I am frequently inclined to suppose that he is a hypochondriac, and singularly enough imagines himself to be a.walking edition of Murray's English Grammar. What can have implanted so extraordinary ri notion in his brain box, of course lamat a loss to determine. No sooner does any slight error appear in the columns of a contemporary print, than Egerton pounces upon him with all the ferocity of a merciless pedagogue, and publishes it as a speCimen of what he very elegantly and correctly styles "wretched gram mar." Nay, he goes further than this—sometimes he mani fests his ability by pointing out inaccuracies where none exist ! No one who is in the habit of reading his weekly (weakly, indeed !) composition, can have forgotten the pro digious dust which he kicked up, a short time since, by filing ; into his columns, for several successive Fridays, a whole regi ment of "thats." The reason that these "thats" were. made use of, was that that grammarian that published them might display, to all due advantage, that learning that he thought he possessed. The very luminous explanation with which he wound up matters might have been furnished by the .veriest dabbler in the A B C of Grammar—this, ton, albeit Mr. Hypochondriac very profundly declared that the subject was sufficient to puzzle not only scholars but teachers ! What a pink of modesty ! These remarks have been induced, Sir, by noticing an at tack made by the Mercury, in his last Friday's number, upon a sentence extracted from your paper. Possibly it might be as well for your contemporary to avoid 'breaches of grammar hlinself, as to.attempt to dust the breeches of other persons for slight errors which he frequently commits. This I can truly say—in no Liverpool paper do Iso commonly meet with sentences inelegantly and incorrectly worded as in the Mercury. I cannot help thinking that this should deter, him from assuming the office of public censor. If you will allow me a small portion of your space occa sionally, I shall do myself the pleasure of placing upon record a few of the Mercury's ornamental blunders. Perhaps this may serve as a warning—" verbum sat sapienti." I am, Sir, your obedient Serva n t, A LOVER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Liverpool, August Ist, 1840. A contemporary re-printing the lines of Robert Story; the Craven poet, entitled, " I'll suffer as becomes a man," has made them read rather ludicrously, by a slight mistake, viz., " I'll supper as becomes a man." There are few poets who can do this. FINE OATS.—There was exhibited, on Saturday last, in the Exchange Newsroom, a specimen of very fine oats grown on Mr. Atherton's estate, at New Brighton. The specimen speaks well for the soil in the vicinity of that delightful wa tering-place. LAUNCH.--On Thursday, a Buenosayrian, a beautiful new barque of 320 tons burden, -was launched from the building yard of Mr. Joseph Steel, Baffin-street. The Buenosayrian dashed into her native element in gallant style, amidst the shouts of hundreds of delighted spectators. DEATH IN THE33OIIOI7GH GAOL.—On Friday an inquest was held on the body of Thomas Mason. The deceased had been sentenced in October last to twelve months' imprison ment. In the early part of the last month he complained of being ill, and was put on the sick list, and continued to get worse until the 30th ult., when he died. A verdict, in ac cordance with the evidence, was returned. • TIIEFT BY A CARTER.—John Taylor, a carter, was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Saturday, charged with having stolen nine pounds of copper bolts, value nine shillings, the property of Messrs. Roscoe, Grentell, and Sons. The prisoner was employed to carry a cask of copper bolts to the Brunswick Dock. On his way, it appears, he opened the cask and took out a dozen bolts. He was committed for trial. THEFT F 13014 AN EEPLOYER.—George Maxwell, a joiner, was, on Saturday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having stolen two coach springs and some knives and forks from his employer, Mr. John Andrews, coach proprietor, Richmond-row. The prisoner had, it appeared, taken the property from Mr.:Andrew's stables, and had sold the coach springs to a marine store dealer. He was committed for trial. MECII ANICS' INSTITUTION .—The exhibition closed at ten o'clock on Saturday night. During the six weeks .and two days that it has been open, <in all, 38 days,) nearly, 100,000 persons have visited it, and the gross receipts are, we believe, about £3,300. After Mr. John Smith's lecture, on Satur day night, the president of the institution, John Leyland, Esq., and the Alayor, Sir Joshua Walmsley, addressed a few remarks to the auditory, and congratulated them on the suc cesssful conclusion of the exhibition. THE Riven DANE VIADUCT.—WC are happy to say that the contract for the Viaduct over the River Dane, near Holmes Chapel, has been let to Messrs. Holmes and Tom kinson, of Liverpool, the gentlemen who are erecting the splendid viaduct over the valley and the River Mersey, in this town. The contracts for the Dane is, we understand, between £50,000 and £60,000, and is to be completed in 18 months. THE STANDISH-HALL ROBBERY.—The whole of the pro perty stolen at the late robbery of Standish-hall has at length been found. The plate was all broken up, and no doubt in tended for sale, only the conviction and punishment of Edge, who it will be recollected was tried at the last Kirkdale ses sions and got two years imprisonment, seems to have oper ated as an intimidation to the other parties concerned.— Wigan Gazette. REVIVAL IN THE EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO THE UNITED STATES.—The quantity of manufactured goods exported to the United States was remarkably small during the first six months of the present year. Within the last few weeks, however, the quantity has increased, and now there is a fair export to the States. The President, steam ship, although she charged five guineas per ton, got not less than 1300 packages of manufactured good s on erefght. The packet-ships as well as the transient vessels also get a fair share of goods. We trust, therefore, that we may hail the present revival of export as a symptom of returning confi dence in, the United States' market t and that the consumption of British goods by our transatlantic brethren will speedily become as extensive as it was before the season of distress. — Albion. ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON IN ISLINGTON MARKET.— Ann Newman and Ann Roberts, two meanly attired women, were, on Saturday, placed at the bar of the Police-court, charged with having stolen a gold watch and appendages from Miss Mary Rigg. Miss Rigg stated, that she was standing at a 'stall ill_ Islington Market purchasing some peas. She felt a great pressure upon her from three or four women, whom she believed to be pushing forward to inspect the com modities offered for sale. Suddenly there was a slight bustle, and a lady asked her if she had lost anything. As her purse was in her hand she was about to reply in the negative, but feeling at her side for her watch she found that it had been cut away. She made known her loss, and a man who stood near pointed to the two prisoners, saying, that he had seen the woman in the shawl (Newman) hand something to the woman in the brown cloak (Reynolds). A gentleman who was at hand called a policeman, who took the prisoners to the Market-office. On the way thither, the overlooker of the market and another person saw Reynolds drop the watch from under her cloak. Both prisoners were committed for trial. • FORTUNE TELLING.—An old woman, named Catharine Duffy, and a little girl, were on Friday placed at the bar of the Police-court, on a charge of stealing a purse, containing 3s. Gd. The complainant, a rather elderly female, said she had gone with the person who was beside her (another el derly lady), to have their fortunes told, for which, it appear ed, they were to pay the sum of threepence each. While in the house her purse was stolen, and, as she believed, was taken from her by the little girl. It was afterwards, on a disturbance being made, delivered to her by the elder pri soner. A very old withered beldame appeared in court—the grandmother of the child. This person had been the original fortune-teller of the establishment, but, as Mr. Rushton afterwards remarked, had " resigned" in behalf of the other. Mr. R. expressed his surprise that persons, such as the com plainant, had not more sense than to go to such places to their fortunes told by parties who could not tell their own. He read that part of the act of parliament against for tune-telling, by palmistry or other device, and sentenced the elder prisoner to three months' imprisonment. The child was discharged. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—At the Police-court, on Friday, Mr. Strettan, a respectable-looking gentleman, was placed at the bar, under the following circumstances :—Mr. Balfour, of the coroner's office, stated that, on the evening of Thursday, he had heard that a woman named Gray, who resided in Henry Edmund-street, had died, after taking some medicine received from those who attended her from the North Dispensary. As it appeared there was something wrong, the prisoner was taken into custody. A bottle con taining a solution was produced in court, which the prisoner, who appeared to be much distressed, immediately acknow ledged to be that which he dispensed. It appeared, by the further evidence, that the deceased person had procured a note for the - dispensary, and that Mr. Dean, one of the sur geons, had made out a prescription for her, with an order to bprocure the medicine from the apothecary's shop of the esta lishment. A little girl was . sent for it, and, by some mis take, a solution was given, which was of a poisonous nature. The directions were that three table-spoonsful should be taken every two hours ; and a professional gentleman stated that in his opinion one large table-spoonful would produce death. The liquid was, as we heard it, " tincture of monks hood." Mr. Rushton stated that, as the prisoner had ac knowledged dispensing the drug, and as an inquest would be held 'on the body on Saturday, it was his duty to remand him. He then instructed Mr. Parkinson, keeper of bride well, to attend to an y or d er th at h e m i ght receive for the prisoner to appear at the inquest. DEATH OF LADY ROSSMORE.—This noble lady expired suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, at Wilton House, Chelten ham, where she had only arrived on the previous day, accom panied by Lord Rossmore, from Dublin. Her ladyship was Lady Augusta Charteris, fourth daughter of Francis, late Lord Elcho, and was married on the 3d of June, 1819, to the present Lord Rossmore, by whom she had no issue. SINGULAR ENTRY OF TIIE JUDGES. INTO BEDFORD. These assizes commenced on Saturday. In the afternoon, the high sheriff, W. F. Brown, Esq., proceeded in an elegant little carriage, drawn by four ponies, guided by two little postilions in striped jackets, along the Bronham road to the Biddenham turn, where he met the judges, the Hon. Sir E. H. Alderson and the Hon. Sir John Matteson, who were handed into the sheriff's carriage. Here a difficulty arose — the carriage was so small that it would only contain two persons, and the sheriff had only expected one judge to open the commission. However, as the inside was full of judges, the high sheriff took his seat on the box by the side of one of the footmen ! and the other John Smanker rode on the springs (for there was no dickey or footboard) behind. In this singular style, to the glee of all persons assembled (the judges themselves being unable to preserve their gravity), the procession'was ordered off at a smart trot ; and the mo ment the trumpet blew, up reared two of the horses bearing javelin men on their backs, snap went two stirrup leathers, and down rolled one of the armed officials from his lofty seat. Away scampered the sheriff's officers' and bailiffs' horses, as if the hounds were in full cry; and some who were taken a little by surprise were obliged .to spur their steeds to keep up in the line .of procession .at all. It is not every livery stable horse that feels attached to spurs. So in this case ; some of the nags danced, reared, and kicked, until those who happened to be near had great difficulty in avoiding a kick from the horse, as well as a prick from the javelin. Upon the whole, it was one of the most singular judicial proces. Sions ever witnessed, and it appeared very lik e a second edi tion of the Queen's visit to the city. We hardly know which showed the greatest skill, the L on d on citizens, or the Bed ford javelin men ; certainly the latter did " witch the world . with feats of noble horsemanship." However, at last the judges arrived in the town, and opened the commission at the County Hall, after which they were conducted to their lodgings.—Hertford Reformer. FORBIDDING OF THE BANNS IN HIGH LIFE —The ro mantic attachment of an elderly lady of high rank to a very distinguished artist has long been the subject of conversa tion among the haute class. Recent circumstances having enabled the lady to follow the bent of her inclination, we un derstand a marriage with the artist was not only in contem plation, but actually all but solemnised, when it became ac cidentally k nown to the numerous relatives of the two noble houses to whom the lady is immediately related—a confer ence took place, and such formidable reasons were urged against the proposed union, backed by a declaration of future eStrangement from the family if 'the event took place, that the lad} , was very reluctantly compelled to relinquish her de sign. The effect upon the artist was a very severe shock, fol lowed by an alarming inisposition that has placed him in itn nsinent danger.—Argua. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We can state from the best authority, that the line will be opened from hence to Bath in about three weeks from the present time. Every thing progresses most satisfactorily in regard to the prepara tory arrangements. Mr. Brunnell is now on the spot, and is pushing the work forward with great rapidity, and the utmost activity prevails in every department. One locomotive is at present being tried on this part of the line ; and in the course of next week, we understand, four other engines will be placed on the rail for the same purpose.—Bristol Standard. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—From the appearance presented by the first few miles *of this line, we should say thatthere is a probability of its being shortly opened to the public. The permanent way is laid a considerable distance and is ready for the rails, and the bridges and masonry are nearly finished. We went some miles clown the line a few days since, and we were much pleased with the forward state of the works.—lbid. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAI LWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the London Tavern, John Harman, Esq., in the chair, when the report of the directors and engineer was laid before the share holders. The former document .contained the following paragraph as to the present state of the works :—ln their last report the directors stated they had not pressed on the works with the view of opening the railway between Croy don and Merstham, under the impression that the line would have been completed, within seventeen miles of Brighton, in the course of the present autumn ; this would have been accomplished• had not the works in the tunnel at Merstham been greatly impeded by an extraor dinary rise of water, to get rid of which required great exertion and perseverance, and caused considerable delay ; but, notwithstanding these impediments, this important part of the line will be finished by the early part of March, ac cording to the report of their engineer. It is proposed, how - kever, under• these circumstances, to open the line in October as far as the Star, at Hooky-lane—upwards of 16 miles from London ; and further from a point to the southward of Mers tham, to the Three Bridges, near Crawley—a distance of 11 miles; so that the journey between London Bridge and Brighton may easily be accomplished in four hours, as more than half the distance will be traversed upon the railroad. The directors have been in communication with some of the. most influential coach-proPrietOrs, both on the Brighton and other roads, who have expressed their determination to avail . themselves of these advantages. The whole of the works are progressing very satisfactorily, and the directors confidently. anticipate they shall be able to open as far as Heyward's Heath, a distance of 37 miles from London, by midsummer next, and, throughout, to Brighton in the early part of next autumn." It was farther stated that the total cost of the. line would not exceed £1,800,000, in raising which the direc tors would have recourse to another call. The Shoreham branch, already opened, bids fair to be profitable, and every thing attached to the undertaking is in a prosperous and sa tisfactory condition. NORTH MIDLAND RAI LWA Y.-011 Monday last the directors of the North Midland Railway placed upon this line third class carriages. To the humble portion of the community it will, undoubtedly; e a great accommodation, as the rate of charge is only one penny per mile.—Doncaster Gazette. DANrstr RAILWAY.—It is • not generally known that a railway from Altona, two miles from Hamburgh, to Kiel, in . the Duchy of Holstein, has been projected, and is about to be constructed, under the auspices of the King of Denmark, with a view of effecting a communication between the North Sea and the Baltic. Mr. George Watson Buck, engineer-in chief to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company has been selected as the engineer to the undertaking. ROBBERY BY A BIRD.—A respectable sheep farmer, near Fort Augustus, luis sent to us a communication, of which the following is the substance:—After a walk over his farm, at the beginning of this year's lambing season, and on a very warm morning, he had fallen asleep on a high hill. On wakening, he found that his broad blue bonnet, and a yellow silk handkerchief, which he had placed beside him, were both amissing. At first he suspected they had been taken away in sport by some person on the farm ; but, on inquiry, every individual on the farm and neighbourhood, who could pos sibly have approached the spot, denied all knowledge of the missing articles. Some weeks thereafter, our correspondent and a party were ascending a very steep and dangerous rock on the farm, to destroy the nest of a glede (kite). Great was his amazement when the first article taken out of the nest was the missing yellow silk ,iandkerchief ; then the broad blue bonnet, with three eggs most comfortably en sconced in it; next appeared an old tartan waistcoat, with tobacco in one pocket, and Orr's Almanac for 1839 in the other, (the Almanac having the words, scarcely legible, " J. Fraser" written upon it); then came a flannel nightcap, marked with red worsted " D. C. J.;" a pair of old white mittens ; a piece of a letter with green wax, and the Inver verness post-mark ; an old red and white cravat ; and a miscellaneous assortment of remnants of cotton, paper, cope, &c. This bird must have been carrying on its larce nies on a large and miscellaneous scale.—lnrenzess Courier. CONSUMPTION.-Dr. Latour, of Paris, has published the following rules for preventing the advent of consumption in thbse who are predisposed to it :—A consumptive patient should inhabit a dry, airy locality, well exposed to the influ ence of the solar rays. Residence in a large city predisposes to consumption. A. temperate climate should be chosen, where the variations of the •temperatnre are neithet sudden nor frequent. Travelling, and particularly sea voyages, is attended with decided advantage in the early stage of con sumption. The patient should be warmly clothed, and covered with flannel from head to foot. He should take habitually some moderate exercise, as walking, exposure to the open air and sun's rays are absolutely necessary. He should exercise the mind in a moderate de gree, but avoid all strong moral emotions. He must renounce any profession which requires strong muscular exertion, a bent position of the body, residence in a damp, moist place, &c., and finally, the food should be rich and nourishing. THE SHREWSBURY PEERAGE.—By an act of parliament procured by the great Duke of Shrewsbury (a protestant, whose heir was a papist), it was settled that the heir in all cases should at the age of twenty-one be called upon to declare his religion : if it were protestant, he was to take the estates in fee, that is, discharged of all entails; if popish, he was to take them for his life only without any power of disposing of them. The present Earl of Shrews bury is a papist, and has no son. Ilis brother, the late Mr. Talbot, who lived separate from his wife, a very amiable pro testant lady, (now Mrs. Berkeley), died. leaving a son and daughter, and these he left to the guardianship of a popish priest named Doyle ! So the young heir by Mr. Doyle was taken off to Rome, and Mr. Doyle procured an order from the Court of ChanCery to take from Mrs. Beiltelei her daugh ter also. Young Talbot (now about ten we believe) has lately returned to England, and Mrs. Berkeley being naturally de sirous to sec him, asked leave for him to stay with her for a month. This was refused by Mr. Doyle, who consented however to allow the mother an interview in his presence. Whereupon Mrs. Berkeley has applied to the Court of Chan cery, praying for an order to compel Mr. Doyle to give her the liberty she requires. How the Lord Chaneellor will de cide we know not ; but this we know, that a more flagrant specimen of popery's real spirit never was developed than in this case. Here is a popish priest who has induced poor Mr. Talbot on his deathbed to deprive a mother of her children, and give them with the prospect also of the guardianship of a great prbperty to him ; and then this priest proceeds to keep the son so completely under his own eye, that he will not allow that mother (because she is a protestant) liberty to speak with him, save in his presence ; what an awful but in-. structive story ! Who now will say that popery, whose priest can thus act, whose magazines and papers and public advo cates can defend such conduct, is changed into a tolerant and enlightened system ? Alas those who do so, must, to use scriptural language, be under "strong delusion that they should believe a lie."—Protestant Magazine for July. WESLETAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.---The 97th an nual conference of this religious community commenced on Wednesday in Brunswick-place Chapel, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. It was expected that the Rev. Robt. Newton would be elected president for the ensuing year. During last week the stationing committee, consisting of ministers elected by the several districts in England, Vales, and Scotland, met for the purpose of preparing a rough draught of the preach ers' appointments for the next year. The Rev. Thos. Jack son officiated in the absence of the president, the Rev. Theo philus Lessey, who has been incapacitated by ill health for discharging the duties of his office. On Sunday morning at seven o'clock, the Rev. Daniel Walton preached from Ist John, c. iv., part of the 18th verse.—" Perfect lo v e cas t e th out fear." At half-past ten the Rev. R. Reece, the oldest travelling preacher in the connexion, delivered an impressive and highly edifying discourse from Hebrews, c. vi. part of the Ist verse,—" Therefore leaving the principles of the doc trine of Christ let us go on unto perfection." In the after noon another service was conducted by the Rev. J. H. Adams; and in the evening Dr. llannah, Theological Tutor of the Wesleyan Theological Institution,. delivered an admirable discourse to a crowded congregation from John, c. vi., v. 68,—" Then Simon Pet er answere d h i m, Lord to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life." Similar services were held in the various chapels of the town and the surround ing villages, and in Gateshead, Sunderland, North and South Shields, &c. On Monday morning, at five o'clock, Mr. W. R. Williams, one of the young men intended for examination previous to being admitted into full connexion, preached in Brunswick-place Chapel. Other religious services are held daily. Next Sabbath day the newly-elected president will preach in Brunswick-place Chapel, at half-past ten in the morning, and Dr. Bunting at six in the evening, on which day collections will be made in all the chapels towards de fraying the expenses of the Conference. The examination of the young preachers who have completed their terns of pro bation will take place in Brunswick-place Chapel on Monday and Tuesday evenings, the 3rd and 4th of August; the ordi nation will be on the following evening, and the charge will be delivered by Dr. Hannah on the evening of Thursday the Gth. Out-door services are also to be held, and the's?. is every reason to hope that the proceedings connected with the Con ference will be attended with great moral arid spiritual bene fit.—Halifax Guardian. AN IRON EXPRESS COACH, FOR CROSSING. SANDY DoSERTS. — The want of a vehicle of this description has lang been considered a desideratuni by European travellers, in their toilsome journeyings across the arid-and scorching deserts of Egypt and Arabia, through which tracts commerce is carried on and travellers must pass, to keep up the valuable c ommercial relations between many eastern nations. The importance of this intercourse becomes daily more evident to England. Hitherto . the means of conveying travellers or merchandise over these extensive and barren sands has been, as our readers are aware, by camels and dromedaries, for Wooden carriages of any description were utterly useless, as it was found impossible to discover any species of timber that could resist the intense heat of those districts, which soon splits and rends the best seasoned timber, so as to render it useless after a few days' travelling. But travellers and com mercial activity have increased so much of late years that it was evident something must be done to facilitate these great objects, and Brstish ingenuity has found out a mode of over coming the difficulty by substituting iron for wood. In fact a 'carriage has been constructed, under the direction of Mr. Waghorn, by Messrs. Theodore, Jones, and Co., of Spital fields (the patent iron wheel manufacturers.) This vehicle will hold six persons, their stores, water, &c., and has not the smallest portion of wood in its construction. The frame work, the wheels, shafts, flooring, benches, &c., are all of wrought iron bars, either flat or round according to purpose required ; as, for instance, the floor is composed of light flat bars in two rows, one row .runs parallel with the sides of the machine, and another row lies across them at right angles, the bars are set at two inches asunder, which leaves the but tons open like a net-work, this is done to allow the temperate air to come up freely, to drive out the hot air as it generates through the top valves. The whole of the body and roof are covered with the best sort of storrnstay-sail canvass ; instead of wooden or leather panelling, the roof frame is simply that of the tilted waggon. There are two strong iron shafts for one horse, but are so constructed, that two other horses may be yoked to the machine, all three abreast; one horse will, it appears, be quite sufficient for the ordinary work. There are hair cushions placed on the benches which form seats quite as comfortable as those of any other coach. The machine is hung on the centrical spring principle, which dis charges the weight from the horse, and throws it on the wheels—this is another great advantage in a hot country. 'ln fact, the excellence of this new machine may be summed up in a few words—viz. strength, lightness, durability, cheap ness, and ventilation. It will thus afford, when brought fully into operation, a safe and comfortable conveyance for travellers, despatches, and the lighter articles of commerce and is likely to be the means of opening extensively tha t easy intercourse between Palestine, Persia, Arabia, and Egypt, which is greatly wanted, and would vastly extend the bounds of human knowledge, Commerce, and civilization. — Morning Herald. ~~ 1