The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

-FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE —The Emperor and of Fontainebleau, where tha ate-da held on Tnesday. s are at the Palace f her Majesty was thl Tuesday, Vely Pacha purchased, in Paris, forty thou sand new muskets and carabines de Vincennes, for which he at once paid two millions of francs. by Le The police have seized an infl a -- dru Rollir iatory circular signed wid extensively di s t r ib u t e d i n th e a t e li ers of Paris. A great number of persons have bee n arres t e d in the departments, and more especially at Dijon. The verdict in the trial of the conspirators against Napoleon was pronounced on Wednesday. It is no; guilty" in the case twenty-two were foun of imprisonment var Bth pra led to the palm upon ti iusua ll Danub, of Oltenitza by the Turks, and their retrograde move ment to the right bank of the Danube. This manoeuvre was not preceded by any fresh collision of the two armies. The passage of the Danube was effected with order, and the Turks were not interrupted in making it. At the same time the Turks evacuated Kalarache and Oiurgevo. The outposts of Osten Sacken's army had passed through Jassy. On the left bank of the Danube the Turks still hold Kalafat, and the villages around it, with 25,000 men; and this corps was receiving reinforcements from Width]; and Sophia." • AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. Br the British and North American Royal Mail steam ship Niagara, Capt. Leitch, we have intelligence from New York to the 10th inst. The Niagara sailed from Boston at 1 35, p.m., on the 9th, and at 4 26, a.m., on the 11th, arrived at Halifax. At 7 30, a.m., she passed the steamer America, hence, going into Halifax. She was abreast Cape Clear at 7 30, a.m., on the 19th, arrived at the Bar at 6 46, a.m., on Sa+- -day, and - - Rock T ' ' tur saluted the _ Light at 10 50, a.m. The Niagara has brought sixty-one passengers, and $104,000 in specie on freight. The steam-ship Africa, Capt. Harrison, from this port, arrived at New York on the 4th inst. The steamer St. Gammen had arrived at New Orleans from srazo Santiago, with 4106,372 in specie on freight. The steam-ships El Dorado and Daniel Webster had arrived at New Orleans, with advices from San Francisco to the 16th ult., and $50,000 in gold dust. The steam-ships Sierra Nevada and Golden Gate sailed from San Francisco ou n the 16th, the former with $1,200,000 and the latter illth $1,135,000 in gold dust, en route for New York. The steam-ship George 'Law, which left Aspinwall on 31st ult., for New York, with_sl,ooo,ooo in gold dust, has arrived. The New York papers state that it was the intention of Captain Joseph Comstock, of the Collins steamer Baltic, to resign the command of that steam-ship on her arrival at New York, to superintend the construction, and after wards take command of, the mammoth steamer building for the Pall River trade. Captain Eldridge, well known in the New York and Liverpool trades, is announced to succeed Captain Comstock. New Orleans papers of the 3d announce that the first mate and four of the crew of the British ship Liverpool had arrived at New Orleans. They report that the ship, which was bound from Shields for New York, foundered at sea, carrying down with her the captain, Williams, his wife, a lady passenger, and thirteen of the crew. The redemption of Government Stock, at the United States Treasury, Washington, for the week ending the sth inst., amounted to $1,341,000. The following are the descriptions and amount of each stock redeemed:—Loan of 1842, $156,300 ; Ditto 1843, $44,300 ; Ditto 1846, $66,000; Ditto 1847, $271,200; Ditto 1848, $97,300. Holland Loan, $696,000. Total, $1,341,100. The result of the New York State election was a victory to the Whigs, and the Democrats had carried New Jersey. The Neapolitan Minister, Signor Marticelli, had died at his official residence. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, writing on the 7th, says,—" It is understood the President, in his message, will cons e . out pretty definitely subject of the Pacific railroad, and in such a .s to satisfy the strictest constructionist. He has _.cared that the project, as pressed in the last Congress, (Senator Gwinn's bill,) never could have his•sanction; and he has intimated pretty clearly that if suck a bill is passed by Congress during his presidency, it will have to over come a veto before it becomes the law of the land. The President's feeling upon the subject of internal improve ments by the general government may be gathered from the fact that he declares he sees no reason , now to change the views he formerly held on that question, and that his• votes in Congress at the time show truly his present posi tion. The Garay and Tehuantepec grant will beendorsed, by the administration, and the treaty negotiated by Judge Conkling, recognising the Sloe grant, will , not be noticed in any way, on the ground that therevas no authority given to Conkling to negotiate a treaty,,and that the Sloo grant is a diplomatic fraud to get rid of the Garay grant. The President will recommend a . general system of reciprocal trade with the British provinces, of all articles the growth and product of each country, and the admission of fish, duty' free, upon our fishermen being permitted to fish unrestrictedly on the coasts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The .proposition of the English• G overnment to permit colonial, vessels to obtain American registers will not be opposed, but the suggestion to throw open the coasting trade of California will be rejected. as unconstitutional. A complete. revision of the tariff will, it is confidently stated, be suggested ; and with this view- • the Secretary of the Treasury is busily engaged in pie , paring voluminous data, to show , the consumption of the: ' several articles of trade, and will , suggest important modi fications in all such articles as come under the head of necessaries. It is yet doubtful whether any material, modifications will be made in the duty do iron ; but, not withstanding the most urgent remonstrances of the manufacturers of railroad iron in the United States, it is, believed a repeal of the duty on that particular article will be recommended. The Secretary of the Navy will recom mend an entire revision of the personnel and materiel of the navy, being fully impressed with the worthlessness of the existing system. A retired list and increase of pay to the sailors will form a prominent feature in his report. Perhaps the most important feature of the message will be its allusion to the position of the Sandwich Islands, and the bold avowal of the importance of their being annexed to the United States. Depend upon it the President will take this ground, and it will, probably, be the immediate cause of parties resolving themselves back.to their original elements. The Secessionists and Abolitionists flying off Mr. M`Kay's monster ship Great Republic- was about to leave Boston for New York to load for Liverpool ; it being the intention, on her arrival here, either to sell her or place her on the berth for Australia. The town of Green Bay, Wisconsin, had been visited by a very destructive fire. Property to the amount of £lOO,OOO was destroyed. The suspension of Patchin's Bank, Buffalo, had been announced, with very large liabilities. The powder-mill of Mr. Bean, situate at Spencer, Massachusetts, had exploded, killing five persons. It is stated that about sixty kegs of powder exploded. The news from California is meagre. The city of Sonora had been destroyed by fire, and the loss of property will amount to about $300,000 dollars. The mining news is encouraging. The Supreme Court of California has made an important decision, declaring valid all grants- made in accordance with the Mexican law. The effect of this will be to oust hundreds from the lots held by them for years, and restore them to the original grantees.. It is considered a death blow to the squatters, and will cause millions of property to change hands, by the mere operation of law. The magnetic telegraph is working from. San. Jose to San Francisco. Murders and outrages are occurring through out the State, to an alarming extent. John Mitchell, the Irish rebel, who recently escaped from Australia, arrived safely with his family at San Francisco, on the. 12th of October. The San Francisco markets are still depressed, owing to the high price of money, as well as the heavy imports. Flour, however, has recovered from the extreme depression. The sales of the fortnight amounted t 0 ,11,00 0, barrels, at $l3 to $l5 for Gallego and Haxall brands. Clear pork, $2B; mess, $26 ; bacon hams, 160. • lard dull, at 14c. for ke g s ; w hi s ky, 55c. ; c h e e s e, 17c...; ;damantino candles, 25c. From Hayti we have accounts to the 23rd ult. The• yellow fever was prevailing on the island to an alarming extent, particularly at Port-au-Prince. Almost all the ships in the harbours had lost portions of their crews by the epidemic. From Havana the accounts are to the sth instant. The demand for sugar was principally for Cucuruchos, brown and yellow, whilst, with a few exceptions, whites had been neglected. Molasses in good demand, at slightly advanced prices. Freights had declined, and closed as follow :—To London and the Clyde, 6554 Falmouth and a market, 70s. Exchange on London, 11 to , 114 per cent. premium ; Paris, 2 to 24 per cent. discount. Advices from Hamilton (Bermuda), of the Ist instant, report the yellow fever as still prevailing with virulence. The men belonging to the 56th Regiment had, suffered. severely. The wife of Receiver-General Smith had died of the disease. From the Sandwich Islands the news is important. Dr. Judd had been removed from the office of Minister of Finance, and Elisha H. Allen, late U.S. consul, appointed in his place. A decided step had been taken. towards an nexation to the United States. The French and British consuls had protested to the King against such an act, and the American commissioners had replied in a firm but dignified manner. This movement had caused the greatest excitement in the islands. The British steamer Lima arrived at Panama on the 16th ult. with 5360,000 dollars, and advices from Valparaiso to the Ist inst., and Callao to the 10th. At Valparaiso business was brisk, with flour selling at nine dollars and a half per barrel. Freights to England ranged from £4 to £4 ss, and to California $l9. Several vessels had arrived from England. The Chilian mining operations were pros perous, and the country tranquil. The prospects of the wheat crop in the south were excellent. In Peru all was quiet, and there was no prospect of a war with Brazil. Late accounts from Yucatan state that the cholera was raging there to a fearful extent. At Moyda the deaths averaged one hundred per day. Thousands of railroad hands and workmen had been discharged, and works sus pended in the Western States, in consequence of the strin gency of the money markets. The yellow fever had ceased its terrible ravages in nearly all the cities and towns of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and the frightened people were fast returning to their homes and avocations. Governor Lane, of Oregon, at the head of some United States troops and a company of volunteers, is reported to have had a terrific battle with the Indians in the Umpqua Valley, in which the red men were defeated and compelled to sue for peace. The governor was severely but not clan.. gerously wounded COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Nnw Yous, Nov. 10, MONEY AID STOCKS.—The stock market has been more buoyant, and prices have had rather an improving tendency. Quotations generally, however, are not abso lutely higher. There has been very little business done in foreign exchange, and the quotations on London stand at 1091. Money is easier, but the demand continuing active there is no change in the rate of interest. v Corrorf.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular, Nov. 8.) The stock of unsold cotton in this market is small, and composed chiefly of grades below middling ; our domestic the past two weeks, purchased rather freely up to i'Vedne day last, since when their operations have been limited. There are few, if any, orders, executable, at present, on hand for foreign account ; and shipments on American account are prevented by the large margin required, or by difficulty in negotiating during the present monetary pres sure. The total sales since the Ist instant to last evening have been 6,140 bales ; of which 2,267 bales were for export, chiefly for Liverpool ; 2,945 bales for home use, and 928 bales on speculation. Prices ore slightly advanced on some grades. The export, during same time has been, to Liverpool, 2,550 bales ; Glasgow, 60 ; Hamburgh, 297 ; Antwerp, 276. Total, 3,183 bales. The Charleston and Savannah markets have advanced, owing to the upward movement here and the better prices in Liverpool advised per Niagara and Arctic. In New Orleans and Mobile, however, the market has continued to droop under , a . _ six of t wan extenuating cir- I have been sentenced to ars' exile, and the rest to trom live to ten years. in Madrid, and z has arri' tae Queen. The audience was very short. The mar shal thanked the Queen for her kindness in allowing him to return to _el_ • . . Queen. is said to have replied to pleasure that your health is ill. Had T 1 im—" I perceive with rood. _ I thought you were 3U youi g to Vienna, )f her Majesty, and left ----- on the 9th f or Araniui , AUSTRIA. —Report says that Austria has established a corps of observation on the Lower Save. The Gazette deg Pastes of Frankfort, under date of Vienna the 12th, says that the conference of the Ambassadors of the Four Powers had ceased to hold its sittings. GIBRALTAR. —The disputes between the Governor of Gibraltar and the inhabitants of the city have reached such a crisis that a deputation has been sent home to lay the facts of the case before the Colonial-office. It appears that the Governor has, on one or two occasions, absolutely prohibited public meetings from being held, and has refused to forward to the home authorities memorials on subject, signed by many of the most respectable British ~ who have therefore determined to seek direct reparation from the Duke of Newcastle. SOUTH ASIERICA.—By the Severn, from the Brazils, we learn that an outrage had been committed upon two Tnolishmen at Pin ft- Lac residents ...cy were DOth impressed while walking in the streets, on the 21st September, and sent on board the Cariacua, Brazilian Government transport. As the sailor was disabled by an abscess, and the labourer was found useless, they were landed, without a word of explanation or a shilling of wages, at Pernambuco on the 7th October. The sailor's name is Thomas Willis. He went to Rio as second mate of the Midas. The other, Thomas , lad l a t e l y arr i ved from Australia. he Government Stephens of Buenos Ayres h a d not i f i ed to the other provinces that it - gs,ready to co-operate in the work of national organiza. non, but not on the I nor with General Ur, Provinm. A of San Nicolas, of the Thirteen ) Lion, Capt. Kruger, arrived from St. Petersburgh, later than the Helen itelligence of a very in an fleet had been dis inter ou ;or. B ft thn s, although season, there I the contrary it warm. Three war-steamers were despatched r, to Sweabargh, wher e ti to winter, but m ess ve ' , Tice if it should be found e necessary readin to make r use of There are at present in St. Petersburgh " n%nie of " The Guard. trops in-f—la'n the e,apit of al of th These are like the household or, indeed, out of unless circumstances of a very •__ cnaracter should arise to remit Lively necessary. On Monday week viewed this body of troops, and was their stat e o f die,h,i;.- such a step posi he Emperor re lighly satisfied with whole body.=4;Wnan 7 :-: into the Principalities in me general in command to the Emperor, who seemed required ilea an answer in Russian, of e are assured the following is a literal transla- I am very much obliged to you, but my earnest good God is that your services may not be TURKEY AND RUSSIA. The news from Constantinople direct, dates to the 3d instant. On the previous Monday (the 31st ult.) the com bined squadrons had been first seen advancing towards the Bosphorus. The usual salutes were exchanged as the vessels Passed the Seraglio Point. Four line-of-battle ships and eight frigates have entered and taken up their station in the Bosphorus, at Beycos, beneath the Giant's Mount, opposite Therapia. Admiral Dundas, command ing the British squadron, has taken up his quar t ers a t th e Hotel d'A ngleterra, at Therapia. The Albion and Ven geance are the two British men-of-war stationed in the Bosphorus; the Jupiter and Henry IV., the French. The French squadron stands under the orders of Counter- Admiral Barbier le Titian. The rest of the combined squadrons have anchored in different parts of the Dar danelles and the Sea of Marmora. The Bosphorus is now literally crowded with men-of-war, frigates and steamers. The amount of artillery afloat is therefore very great. The British and French squadrons carry together nearly a,OOO wane ; the Turkish and Egyptian fleets upwards of 2,000. The Sultan has declared his intention of heading his army in person. On the 31st ult., a Grand Council was held at the Porte, and the session was declared to be `-• nye to Redschid Pacha an Imperial Adressed to Mustapha Pacha, the icument wac , '-"id by Redschid -ng +- .:voted enthusiasm nas , the Sultan observes no 4 doubt that all will be '-- "As the real openeu. His Majest Hat, or declaration Grand Vizier. The I re Pacha. After paying tante to the a d d of his troops and subjt,_ that war has begun, and he more eager than ever to do their duty cause of this war," continues the only in the laudable resolve to presery and the independence of my empirt omnipotence of the Creator of all thing holy spirit of our Pronb^4 leclaratiot, " consists in the king the have determi ne d t o be present .xonipusnment of a patriotic duty at the commencement of spring." The declaration concludes with a fervent prayer that the Omnipotent may see fit to bless the cause of Turkey ; and that all who contribute to the success of the Sultan may obtain happiness in this world and the next. After the reading of the document, his Majesty quitted the Porte, and returned to the imperial palace of Tcheragan. Edhem Effendi arrived from Trebizond, at Constantino ple, on the 2d, with despatches from Selim Pacha, Com mander of the Forces at Battun to the Minister of W ar . They state th a t on the 14th ult., Major Masser Bey, hav ing been sent forward with a company to reconnoitre the fortifications that the Russians were making at the other side of the Tchotzouk-son, was received by a fire of mus ket ry, which he immediately returned; and, on sending for a reinforcement, also Selim Pacha despatched sever a l bat talions to his aid. The Russians having in the meantime • ensued, which 'won Decame general. Selim Pach - a crossed the Tchourouk- Sou at several points, and drove the Russians back, after .....w.uering a very serious resistance. The Russians were obliged to retreat, pursued as far as Orelli by the Turkish General, Hassan Pacha. The bulk of the Russian forces receded to Chevkedy. In the first action the Turks took two pieces of artillery from the Russians, and made 144 Prisoners —the Russians losing 600 men, between dead and wounded. At Chevkedy a most determined fight has, however, taken place. The Russians had received re inforcements there, and then made a stout resistance. Se lim Paella took - the town by storm, being obliged to attack the town twice. The Russians gave way at last, leaving a great number dead, three- eannon, and upwards of 100 pri soners, among whom was Colonel Kiatt, a chief of the Cossacks. The T ur k s captured 3,000 sacks of flour, a great deal of ammunition and 1,600 muskets. Five of the Rus sian P ri soners were brought to Constantinople by Edhem Effendi ; the rest are shortly expected, a steamer having been sent to Datum expressly to fetch them. A despatch from Vienna, dated Thesday night, states that on the 11th the Turks attacked the Russian intrench ments at Oltenitza, but were repulsed. On the other hand a telegraphic message was received by the Ottoman Ambassador in Paris from the Ottoman Ambassador at Vienna, containing a statement that down to the above named date nothing decisive had occurred at Bucharest. Another, and indeed the most startling rumour of all, Turks had passed Bucharest, leaving it in while the Russians were retreating on Cronatadt. The despatch containing this statement was published in the Times, with an addendum that 15,000 Turks had been despatched to intercept the retreating foe through the Principality of Servia, which would have been much 6.8 if we were to intercept an invader, marching from the coast of Ireland into the centre of that country, by send ing troops to the Isle of Wight. On the heels of this rumour comes a despatch from Vienna, dated Wednesday : "fifty thousand Russian troops, under General Osten crossed the Pruth. The report of a great -rnres to be without was that t foundati IV 4,11 DI Dates from Bucharest to the 14th r - The moderatin" ceived in Paris wit 4.eszroyans an air of tratt e statement carries le Turks, aft a, have re-crossed ;ed near Giurgevo, get possession of rest ; that shots were continual] the Turks and Russians both t' the island of Mokanon, and tin, advancing from Brailow on Gow brigade of the sth corps. The Russia round Oltenitza amounted to 45,000 in Accounts from St. Petersburg, of the Bth, state that 4 ^'Ad been given for the commissariat department, ound that capital, to be Lielhardt was ready to r Letters from Constantino ! , concentration of troops on th The Turkish squadron had s...ivu A despatch from Vienna, of Thr Jalomnitza with a force concentrated mention a great ieir positions on Kalafat, without evening, confi rm i ng an l arks had att empted a thein at island opposite Gitul both es with VizszTA SantaDAy I grabhin • - he star )n and d advices from 13uchar( have had re t urned. It is trittevacuated Lesser Walla vj ai lrted at Kalafat. H ~I SA: MI:WAN NIGI quit Bel M. Muc - sians repulsed it of the lath, Prince Gods aid that the Russian troops .hia. The Turks are still v. that 7.—Pr u 1011 the P r :1 d assy e ussir ate_tat_essarable„°l"llof 4Ettero On the 14th the Servian the Russian Consul, to from th General Prince Urusoff arrived Isunient at - T a .;" Prince "(fruSoffha; o;derea v llle uesTar- combination of local influences, high freights, tight y market , dificulty in negotiation , &c. The following The followin SY of a hospital fit to contain 6,000 patients. ton it eur :—<, ,y,h:Ppears in the non-of f icial part of the Imne tatementof the movement in cotton since the Ist of 1 4 4 te s mber last, as compared with the previous three years : ?to the 1 8th i no Ztegraphic news received from Vienna 1833 1852 1851 1850. c o 4l arni3 thc fact of the evacuation Receipts at the ports.. 226,000 421,000 305,000 257,000 Which Dorf Ram mantled THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. Experts to Great Britain 71,000 117,000 81,000 121,000 C URIOUS CASE. „ France 9,u00 17,000 33,000 32,000 „ other for. ports 17,000 21,000 9,000 25.000 Total exports 97,000 155,000 128,000 178 000 AT the Lambeth Police-office, London, on Wednesday, Mr. Stock on hand BREAnsrupEs.-On the arrival of the Africa, with ante to obtain possession of his daughter, 19 years of age. Liverpool dates to the 22d ult., an advance of 374 c. per It appeared that a fortnight ago the young lady, while barrel for flour was demanded, but only very partially on a visit with her sister, had left the house at three acceded to. The transactions have been only to a mode- o'clock, saying she should be back in a short time, but had rate extent, the sales in quantity cannot be readily made not returned from that day, and her family were in a state at our quotations, which already show a decline of 124 c. of great suspense and anxiety as to what had become of per barrel from Saturday's rates. Wheat has advanced her. In the course of the inquiries made about her, it 10c. to 13c. per bushel. Indian corn has regained the transpired that she had been in the habit, unknown to her decline of last week. Corn meal, $4,181- to $4,50. Rye p a rents and friends, of attendi ng th e serv i ces a t t h e flonr, $4,75 to $5,50 per barrel. Romish Cathedral in St. George's-fields, and had ulti- PBOVISIONS.-Beef rather inactive. Moderate sales mately embraced the Romish faith. Her fate remained a of pork were made at $15,75 lb $lB for mess and prime, mystery until Monday, when information had reached her Lard in fair request. Ohio butter arrives freely, sales are father that she was locked up in a nunnery at Clapham, made at 111 c. to 15c.; State dairies bring 17c. to 21c. ; which was under the supervision and -authority of Dr. cheese, 84c. to 10c. j Grant, the Romanist Bishop of Southwark, and the object NAVAL STORES.-Spirits of turpentine steady at 69c, of his (Mr. Boddy's) application was to request the magic to 70c., with moderate sales ; crude turpentine is held at trate's authority to enable him to recover possession of his $4,871 to $5. Tar, $2 to $3.50. Common rosin, $1,75 to daughter, who was still a minor. $1,90; five ditto, $2,50 to $5. 4 Mr. Elliott observed, that he had no jurisdiction in such FREIGHTS.-To Europe Freights are firm. To Liver cases, and therefore could not give the applicant any as pool : Tobacco, hhds., 425. 6d. • Cotton, square bales, per sistance. His (Mr. Boddy' s ) on l y l egal course was to lb., 7-32 d. to id.; Flour, per barrel, 3s. 9d. ; Rosin, Is. 6d.; apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a habeas corpus Heavy Goods, per ton, 40s. ; Grain, in bulk, per bush., against the persons detaining her, and this would at - once 121 d. to 131 d. London : Tobacco, per hhd., 60s. • Flour, compel them to produce the young lady b e f ore th e cour t . ' per barrel, 4s. 6d. to Ss. • Turpentine, per 280 As., 6s. ; He (Mr. Elliott), howeve r, h a d no objection to send an Measurement Goods, per ton, 30s. to 35s ; Heavy Goods, officer with Mr. Boddy to Dr. Grant. Accordingly Oil, &c., 455. to 605.; Beef, per tierce, 7s. ; Oil Cake, per Lockyer, one of the summoning officers, was directed to barrel, ss. 6d.; Grain, per bush., 16d. to 161 d. To Havre : . accompany the applicant to the residence of Dr. Grant, Cotton, square bales, per lb., lc. ; Rice, 12d.; Whalebone, who admitted that he had some recollection of a young &c., per lb., ic.; Flour, perbarrel,_9oc. to 95c. ; Grain, per lady answering the description of Miss Boddy asking him bush., 24c. to 25c. some questions; but assured them he did not know where ' NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7.-The sales of Cotton to-day she was. He, however, added, that if she was in the were 3500 bales, at steady prices. Strict middling is nunnery at Clapham, as had been conjectured, or at the quoted at 9c. Molasses • 1500 hhds. sold at 22ic. to 23c, Servants' Home, a Romish institution in the same vicinity, 4000 bags of Rio Coffee sold at 101 c. to 11c. Rice dull, at there could not be the slightest difficulty in getting her sc. to bit. Flour is declining. out, as there could be no desire to detain her from her CHARLESTON, Nov. 6.-The sales of Cotton on Satur- father and friends. day were 700 bales, ranging from Bc. to 10 c. Lockyer, the officer, here remarked, that it was gene- ALBANY, Nov. 7.-The transactions in Flour were rally represented that no ordinary person applying to a limited to 1000 barrels, at previous rates. In Wheat' no nunnery would be allowed to see any of its inmates, upon sales have been reported. Corn has been in good request, which Dr. Grant remarked, that it was not so, and, lest at better prices. , there should be any difficulty or doubt in the matter, he I should give Mr. Boddy a no t e t o th e pr i nc i pal at the IRELA4VD nunnery THE WATEEPORD AND LimERICIG RArLWAT directors have purchased two beautiful glass domes in the late Exhibition, to cover their new terminus at Waterford. FIRE IN Dnni.rx.— On Monday morning, a fire broke out in a dwelling-house in Upper Dominick-street, Dublin, by which a large amount of property was destroyed,. Neither the premves nor the furniture was Insured. Dinnric Eximmvios.—The pictures and other objects of art which Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert contributed to the Dublin Exhibition were delivered at Windgar Castle, on Thursday last, by Mn John- C. Deane, the assistant-secretary. ftiANOTHEB. CHOLEVA. Snip.—Another alarm was can-- sed at Cork on. Friday, by - fig. arrival of a Prussian vessel with emigrants at Queenstown, on board of which cholera• was reported to be raging. This is the third ship having the malady on. board. which has arrived in that harbour. GRAND OKANGE LODGE OW IRELAND,—This body assembled in Dablin on Tuesday,. and closed its sittings on Thursday. The, attendance was large. The Earls of Enniskillen presided: Hislordsap was assisted by Lord. Dungannon. A spirited address, applicable to the cir: cumstances of the Protestants of the empire, was adopte& Mr. Roddy expressed himself satisfied' With the candour, courtesy, and kindness of Dr. Grant, and• it was arranged that in the course of the afternoon Mrs. Boddy should accompany the officer to the nunnery to• identify her daughter, in the event of her going by any ether than her real name. Lockyer, accompanied by Mrs. Boddy, first went to the nunnery, where he saw the lady principal—Sister Maria Theresa—who assured them that neither Mrs. Roddy nor any person resembling her had entered the nunnery for three weeks preceding ;. but, at the same time,, recom mended them to go to the " Servants' Home," where, perhaps, she might be. They accordingly went there, ands on inquiring from a Miss Rushworth, the lady who had, charge of the place, if Miss Boddy was there, she at once and without hesitation] admitted that she was, and said she had been brought there about a fortnight berm* by a woman. She also said she was merely kept there until a situation suited to he, age, and capacity could be! obtained, The young lady was here brought to her mother, when she at once declaNd that she was kept at the place at her own particular request, and that she had not been- restrained in any way whatever. She cried bitterly, and seemed to leave the place with much re luctance, saying she was afraid she would not be allowed to attend the church of her adoption, but she was taken away in a cab to the residence of her sister. PROSPECTS OP TAE SEASON. —The Whole of last week was dry and cold, with' a sharp frost at nights, and the wind from W.N.W. The accounts • fi.om the country are generally favourable, said the farmers;, taking advantage of the open weather, me buisily engaged. iu the sowing of wheat. &REA'CH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE, AMUSING CASE. Tun EXTENSIVE ESVATES of the Earl of' Mornington, in( King's and Queen's counties, and counties of Meath Dublin, Cavan, aid Westmeath, were sold in the encumbered estates court on Tuesday. The' annual ren- I the Bail Court, on Thursday, the case of Chalfont v. Hard was tried before: Justice Crompton. The plaintiff was the widow of a small' jeweller; the defendant was a retired. sergeant in the ariy, having a pension and some small houseproperty ; his wife. had died at the - beginning of the- year, and in August last the defendant offered to marry the plaintiff, and was-accepted. He visittd her daily; talked of settling £250 on-her, and purchased • the wedding-ring, - „and gave it her. He called several times • upon her father, and obtained hie consent. He fixed Monday, the 19th of September, to be married, but went and• married another person. Timothy Stafford.—l am the: father of the plaintiff; and am a jeweller at Chelsea. My daughter is in the same line of business at Chelsea; sholas been a widow seven or eight yew.%) I know the defendant; he is someltinc in the army—a sergeant, I believe: We have known)him many years, Baring at Chelsea. He had some property at Chelsea, but sold .it to a tailor fueilbout £260. The-first time I knew of his 'being acquainted with my daughter was on the 6th- of August : dtuing:the life of his former wife his family and mine were on terms of the strictest friendship. His wife died in this- year. On the 6th of August I saw the- defendant in the evening, —he went into/ the subject of my daughter. He told.: me he had seen my , daughter some time previously, and had got her consent. as a• suitor, and lie "axed" me if I would be willing te give my consent:- I told him I was gt.ite surprised, and could not think how he could think of such a thing, as' there was a greatAlfs - parity in their ages ) , but he persisted in; getting my consent. I told him kshould like to see my daughter first. He went on proceeding about it till he was out of patience. At last he saittit Aid not signify whether I consented or not, as he would make her his wife, otherwise heewould not marry any - one else. I then gave in to him tal is £,683, and the gross , sum realised by the sale was £204,866; equal to twenty-two and a half years•' purchase. THE' Dr HY OF BEDFOiD has "become an Irishlandlord. Heharpurchased a part of Mt Kirwan's property in Gal way for 540,000. The total' sum realised by the estate was £88,850, equal to 17j year*.purchase. It is said that, a few days -, before the sale took-place, a sutra of 5107,000 was'offeredl for this estate on the part of the Duke of Bedford.- DREAMY - M:1 ACCIDENT. - COtOONEV, Nov. tr. A dreadfill accident, attended with loss of life, occurred: here last night. Asl omnibus, belonging to Mr. Morris, of the Eagle Hotel, Westport, was conveying 34 poor creatures who eseaped. from the wreck of the ill-fated Californian packet to Sligo, and when turning - out of this >town, five miles from. Sligo, the two off-side wheels went to pieces; the vehicle of course was upset in a moment, and the un fortunate driver (O'Brien) was killed).- Seven others were more or less dangerously injured; some of them have' been 'conveyed to tie Sligo infirmary. - THE E;ITIBITION BUILDING}.—It' appears that this great favourite of the Dublin public wilt not be lost to them for sometime- yet. Mr. Darganis generosity has not been exhausted, and during the winter months, after the goods shall have been removed, the.building will be converted into a promenade, with military.bakds perform ing. k moderate- price of admission will be charged. Both Mr. Dargan- and the Dublin Society co-operate in the..project, which may seem rather strange at this cold season of the year, but those who know the excessive fondness of the Dublin people for military music, and promenades of this sort, wil have no doubt -of its success. ATTEMPT AT MURDEB. - --011 Wednesday morning, between. 1 and 2 o'clock, as the Rev. M 2 r. Graham, of Amery partsn, was sitting at tile Kitchen lire o residence, a party of men 'came to the rear of 'the house andlired through the kitchen window. The rev. gentle man,was on a very low seat, and this circumstance saved his life, for some fragments of a ramrod with which the gun was charged passed through his hat, struck the wall opposite, and entered the floor. The miscreants then effected their escape. The scene of this outrage is in the county of Armagh, and within about 200 yards of the residence of Mr. Chambre, who narrowly eseaped with his life•from the hands of:assassins last year: Tun Exonus.—Harvest operations being completed, the "rush from Ireland" has. set in with renewed vigour. The Limerick Reporter says The cry is still, they go. Nothing can arrest their progress. Fate drives them on ward, and they. are determined to obey its impnlses,heed less of unheard-of catastrophes at sea—of sickness—of dangers such as are unparalleled in history—of love of country, which has well-nigh been extinguished—of every one tie or affection which should keep people in. the .land of their birth. It was exceedingly, painful to witness this morning, before six o'clock, crowds at the Limerick terminus; these crowds, composed'of emigrants and their friends, parting, never perhaps to meet more—no less than forty-seven of the number bound for Melbourne; in Aus. trali* the others for America ; . all of a comfortable class, which, under other circumstances, might do well at home, but which now flies from home 'as if it never possessed an attraction for them. A hale countryman joined the train at Boher station, and, being asked where he was going, replied, with the greatest possible indiffereneeland non chalance, ' Only over to New York.' This. may afford some idea of the callousness with which the. separation. from Ireland is regarded by the • great majority of emi grants. At the junction there was a great augmentation to the numbers, and as the train ,passed Dandrum, Goold's Cross, and Thurles, there were additional emigrants booked for Australia or Amerita.. Efforts are making in several districts to keep the people at home; but until landlords learn wisdom it is vain, to expect they will not leave Ireland, no matter what the horrors they must face in doing so. Among those who , went this morning was Mr. Fitzgibbon, late master of the. Boherbuoy auxiliary workhouse?' The following is a retgrn of the number of emigrants from Cork through. English ports for each month of this year, contrasta with the corresponding weeks of 1852 : I - The Judge.—Youlfound him so very. warm that you gave in ?—I told him,- at last, that I w:.B. quite agreeable to it. He stated he-would settle upon her - all his personal property. except his pension. He mentioned £250 at another time. Some days after this the- defendant and my daughter came ta -my, house together* He was very uneasy for.-marriage; and-wished to be married. I said, " May I understand Mr. H ar d w i s h es t o marry you ? Do you think you can love 'Mr. Hard, and make him a good wife ?" She said, " - I can, father." He-sprang forward and put out his right hand, and my daughter runs up and puts her hand smackinto his. I presses 'em together like that, as hard as I could- squeeze them both together. I said, "I see you are now both happy and Pleased, and I hope you will remain so; .and, vartually awaking, I con sider you are now really married?' I saw-. there was a little move • made, and a . bottle produced, and .some wine and water was made. I took a little drop. neat. He urged very much for Monday, this being Friday. I was the only person who overruled it, for he was, so, very obsti nate. He told me he had bought a license,-,and it would be carried • out on • Monday. I told him there was not time to draw the deed up—the marriage covenant: The. Th urs d a y following was then fixed for the marriage. They remained about two hours, and then went away together: I saw the- defendant the next day at night, and I was not aware there was anything wrong . till very late ; he- muttered something about her not coming to meet him.as he expected. On the 17th O September I freely and co m f or t a bl y, and..entreated us to drink, accepted.hwhat which. went to the defendant's hou se w ith my daughter. He us ch. we.did. I ask e d hi m for an.explanation as t was the matter. Th e d e f endant, said he had not tow been well, and did not come out much. He. seemed to be quite amus ed, drinking a little wine and bnandy. He.-' rose up an d, began humming. He pulled out a ring from hi s poc ket. He called me and showed me an income- tax paper. He-then put a ring in my hand, .and asked me if I thought it a good one. I took it to the.light and saw the hall-mark.. I said it was very heavy, and, gave it him, again. He- said, " God bless you, Mary ; keep up . your, little heart—here's the ring." She advanced to him, and he pl ac ed it on her finger, and asked. her whether it was jeweller. she could take a little bit out, and make it the not too large, and she said it was. I, said as. she . was,a right went and looked a t some houses, and ;the size. He then said, " W e 'll be married on Monday morning My daughter, the d e f en d an t, an d . I l e ft th e , house, an d: de fendant said one of those was for them to live in, as,he was about to,purchase two of them. We then went to my (laugh ter's house to tea. He was frierdly till ten or, twelve at n i g ht. ; „ very merry, and singing songs. About tena'clock , he went out, and returned with a lady in about half an hour.. He said that was the lady the ring-belonged to, and if may daughter liked to return that ringhe would buy her a keeper, and she should, have it when they went to ,1 church to be married on Monday. My daughter said she would not part with the ring. The lady afterwards left with the defendant. The defendant afterwards came back and remained some hours, saying it was hie. own house, and he should remain as long as he liked.. He became angry and troublesome. He, did not marry my daughter on the Monday, but he married some one. else. I asked him that night who the lady was, and he said it was " Cookey Darling," his intended wife. I said I would not take that at all, for I knew it was not true. He turned round to me with a bit. of a snarl, and, said her name was Mrs. Bailey. I said, "-You have not acted as an upright man ; you are going- to, be married, to another person." He was very abusive, and said it would not cost above £5O to compromise the- matter. My daughter is under 34, and the defendantis 50 or 60. January 1853. 1852'. 1853. 1852. 1,067 1,214 July ......._ 3,776 3,477 2,183 1,706. August 3,521 2,572 3,378 2,902: September 3,167 3,065 6,140 2,525- October 3,076 2,961 5,742 4 037 . _ 2 .... February March April May June 3,245 3,199 1 Total 33,265 22,667 THE CASE OF THE TRACT DISTRI BUTOR- IN DUBLIN. IN reference to this case, the John Bull, of Saturday,. says :—The issue whkh has been raised, and which re mains to be tried, is. neither more nor less than this, — Whether the freedom of discussion, on religious as well as: on political topics, which, British law has hitherto guaran teed, is to be upheld, or whether it is to be suppressed' at the bidding of the papacy, and in furtherance of its de signs upon this country. The principle has been set up by O'Brennan, affirmed by Justice O'Callaghan, and not contradicted by the Earl of St. Germans, that the an nouncement of public discussions upon the points in. con troversy between the true Church and the Church of. Rome,—even in. the form of sermons preached in a, Pro testant church,—is an offence punishable by the. civil magistrate. This is, in fact, the identical principle on which the. recent law of the Grand Duke of Tuscany against the distribution of any writings impugning the Popish system, is founded ; and if Mr. O'Callaghan's de cision is allowed to stand, and to become a precedent, we shall• soon be in a condition similar to that of Prussia and other- Protestant countries of the continent, where the handling of questions affecting the controversy with Rome, in the pulpit, is made a misdemeanour, on the ground of its. being an offence against a religion recognized by the State, and having a tendency to excite, the minds of the citizens against one another. That this is the consummation which the Papists are driving at, cannot be doubted. Even in England, as is shown by the recent occurrence at Walsall, where Dr. Armstrong was prevented by the interference of a Popish magistrate from giving a lecture on the Romish contro versy in the school-room attached to St. Peter's Church, the Popish Priests are invoking the arm of the civil power, for the purpose of preventing the exposure of their system of spiritual fraud and corruption. In Ire land, while the distribution of a handbill by Protestants is made penal, Protestant missionaries are knocked down and beaten within an inch of their lives with perfect im punity. The grand jury of the county of Galway, con sisting, with one exception, of Papists, refused the other day to find a true bill against two Papists, charged with a murderous assault upon a Scripture reader in the employ ment of the Irish Church Missions. And from the same county we have in the Galway Express the account of a similar assault, committed with the avowed sanction of the priest. In this case one Pat Coneely felled the Scrip ture reader to the ground with a blow from a spade, kicked him while prostrate, and broke three of his ribs, put his hand in his mouth with the intention of tearing the flesh off his face, knocked out one of his teeth, and would, to all appearance, have murdered him, but for the timely interference of a convert. The ruffian who com mitted this outrage, declared that "he defied the law, for his priest had told him the law was broken when any of the preachers came on his land, or entered his house, and that he might beat them till within an inch of their lives with impunity." Cross-examinelr-The defenda.4 is a Chelsea pensioner. My daughter has_ one child by her former marriage. The defendant sang two or three little nice songs. They were not exactly " Let us Haste to, the. Wedding," or " The Sol , dier Tired of War's Alarms," bid something between the4l.. Other witnesses we re called as to the promise. and breach of it. The writ was served on the evening of I)is marriage. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5O damages. CURB P°R' CANoRR.—The Augsburg Zeitung states that Dr. Landolfi, physician to the King of Naples, has discovered a method for the cure of cancer, when not in its worst and last stage. Dr. Landolfi had , been sum moned to Munich about three months ago to attend a lady of rank, whose cure he has effected;, as well as that of many others, during his visit to that city. It is ex pected that he will sp ee dil y of his discovery. publish a work on the subject Lola ilo?..anF is still at San Francisco, where she has been again married, and in regu l ar categor i ca l or d er again applied for a divorce. The Debate gives the following journal manners. and customs, from an American an inexhaustible mine of eccentricities, other, makes everybody talk about her. a a account o o n f ; h e Niveeor other in ay In the capital . of. California she is in the habit of playing at bowls, which instruments are of very large dimensions, an d give the lady an opportunity of showing the specta tors that she has a strong grasp and a steady eye. She con tends against the most intrepid amateurs, and as they assemble in a. public place or main thoroughfare, the entire population has an opportun i ty of admiring her v i g our and pirouettes. The countess has in the mean time invented a new means of obt a i n i ng money . Sh e has hit upon the idea of a series of conversations. Per sons solicit an audienc e of half an hour or an hour a t a time, and in consideration of a stated price, fixed, as at the door of a theatre, they have the right of seeing and with her on thi ngs in general. She answers language they please, and never iflag, lets the conversaton The notion seems to have met with great success. In spit e o f the attacks of the countess upon rsinqguestions in any journalists and me n o f letters, two Californian vau da conversing nv theirvi ie sts have ventured to compose a very diverting little piece, entitled Ce que c'est qu'une Comtesse.' Without being mentioned in the piece, Lola is cruelly treated, but she has taken it very well, and appeared charmed, indeed, that it procures for her some addition to that celebrity which she runs after with so deplerablo a perseverance." AMERICAN RAILWAYS.—In spite of high wages and high rate of interest in the United States, railway travel ling is much cheaper there than it is in England. The fare from Montreal to New York, 410 miles, by express, is only 16s. Bd. From London to Edinburgh, about the same distance, it is twice that sum by second classl HR. BRADLEY AND HR. HODSON. 1 THE following correspondence has passed between these two gentlemen : " Falkner-square, Tuesday Evening. " Sir,—Your statement in Council on Wednesday last, in reference to certain charges, was as follows: " There were, he (Mr. Hodson) was sorry to say, two or three more instances, not only in that Council, but in another public body with whom he (Mr. Bradley) Was connected, in which he had used the influence of his position to carry an election.' " I have to request from you— " Firstly,—What other public body, besides the Council, do you refer to that ' I am connected with ?' ----- .. ---- - "Secondly,—The nature of the charges which you thus prefer against me. - " Thii;lly.—When you will be prepared to substantiat such alleged offences.—Yours, "E. BRADLEY. "Mr. Hodson." " 19 Great Nelson-street North, 17th Nov. " Sir,—l decline to haVal7yCoinmunication with you on any subject ; at all events until the inquiry at present going on by the committee at the Town-hall be finished. " E. Bradley, Esq." " THOMAS L. HODSON. " Falkner-square, Thursday Evening. "Sir,--As you profess in your remarks in Council upon the charges preferred against me by yourself, that your only object was the public good, I cannot now understand (excepting as an evasion of the question and shrinking from the responsibility of your charge) that you now decline to answer the subject of my note, as the decision of the committee appointed by the Council can in no way affect the charge you prefer against me relative to another public body ; and therefore consider it due to the public and myself to give publicity to this short correspondence, that the public may form its own conclusion.—Yours, &c. " Mr. Hodson." " ED. BRADLEY. A CRY FOR " QUARTER" FROM THE ROIII2IIVISTS. Ma. CAPE.3 I , the well-known Salisbury pervert, has written a letter to the Times suggesting!' that, if less acrimony were observed in religious controversy, religion itself might be all the better for it. Mr:. Capes assumes that his own side hue all the charity and all the truth ; and he concludes by asserting that a goinaniat does not believe that a Protestant is beyond the pale of salvation, if the said Protestant conscientiously reject - the Popish system, after due examiiration. This last assertion shows how much, or father how little, Mr. Capes himself follows of the system itito`whiCh he 111 stumbled. As for charity, it was a Vapiahzsur pficed ruffian who gloated over the " glorious idea" of a Protestant massacre ' • and we believe that the minder of Piotestant landlords and clergymen in Ireland may be traced to the fiendish epithets , applied to them by l'opi,sh dignitaries at public meetings:. Only the night 'before; last we' arir told : "'As the Rev. Mr. Graham, of Killevy parish, was sitting' at the kitchen fire of his residence, a party of menl cametolhe rear of the house and fired through the kit-- chen window. The rev. gentleman , was on a very low seat, and the tircumstance saved his life; for some frag ment's of a rarnrod with which the gun was charged passed througis his hat, struck at wall opposite, and entered the . floor, The miscreants then effected their escape: The'scene of this outrage ik in the county of Armagh, and' within about two hundrettyards of the resi dence' of Mr. Charebre, who narrowly escaped with life fromthe'handS of 'assassins last year." Not one of these miscreants will be aislovered. They ill reSott to a priest, get absolution, atf will account iemsdves as innOeent men There' are' two points in the letter of 11 , 1" k Capes which have been so well answered by Dr. Cumming;. that we feel authorized to quote the latter gentleman'svords. Mr. Capes has; asserted the' correctness of the ICYmanist ver sion of Sci4pture. Dr...ea - naming says that " St. Bonatentute's • Psalter, accepted by the latest authorities of the church} consists of the Psalins•of David, the Te Deuna, and . the 'Litany, all weeded of tlxe name of Deity, and prayed and sung to the Virgin, and is , really nothing short; of blisphany." The doctor them adds— " Mr. Capes seems •to repudiate 'exclusive salvation.' Surely he cannot have forgotten that almost every canon of the council he' obeys concludes with anathema; and surely he does net forget that in the creed he repeated on his joining the Roman Catholic Church, after asserting transubstantiation,' the supremacy of the Pope, purgatory, and invocation ofdeparted•artints, he himself closed with these words, ' This • is' the taw Catholic faith, witho ut which no one can be saved.' " We would renitallMr: - Capes—who is, by the way,.. far too amiable, honest. / .and * sincere. a man to be a Papist - of the assassin school/ of , the Ultramontanists—that, when his party cries out itirdess hard blows, they should refrain from aggression. Let look at tle ease of Miss Roddy, recorded intour: columns. A female -Jesuit takes this young girl to a theatrical mass-house; subdues her judgment by its gew gaws, and then shutsclier up, nothing lothe, in a " Ser vants' Home !" The-parents•of this poor girl, who is , a minor, would never bare heard', of er again had they not bestirred themselves. Wiien- they did, Dr. Grant, the Pbpish superintendent' it* Southwark, thought he cif& remember that there was - some.sttelt person as Miss Bocid'y at some place of Romial,refugte i . amid. that it would be tb:o ~easiest thing in the world-for her distracted father to recover her if he desiredlt.. Of course it would—the law would protect him. in the- meantime, the Popish authorities never thought it. worth their while to inform the father where his child might be: found, nor cared tar ask if they might keep her with his; sanction. They were only retaining her, it seems,. until she was fitted for 801R67 situation. AIL!. what situation would "she be fitted for after leaving tba"Servant's Home ?" We remember what advice a • Ibpish priest gave to all, Popish. servants in Protestant fstnulies—namely, to report.all• that passed therein to the priests, and to do their test to steal the children from the church of their parents. We, of course, cannot say that Miss Soddy was qualifying .for a. nnusery-governess in a Yibtestant household ; limb, when we think what the Popish system is, againsttw , bich Mr. Capes asks us merely to roar like sucking doves" we. can only say that, if she were, we should in no. degree , whatever have been srx prised at it.—Church MEP St ate , Gazette. MADAME D'ANTERNVE_CONCERT was given on Tues. day,..in the Music-halt, add-street, before a large and' fashionable audience. 'Thaperformers were Miss J. Ham mond, Madame D'Anterny, _Mons. D'Anterny, Mr. E. L. Hime, the popular composer. ; anti the youthful pianist Arthur Napoleon, Mr. H,, , V.. Lewis conducting. The pieces were warmly applauded,. and most of them encored., LIVERPOOL CIISTOM9%STAIPP.-3/1". Thomas F. Fuller has .been promoted ftom .second-taass landing-waiter to, the• , first-class ; Mr. .Lseph T. Barton has been promoted from third-class to be -second-class landing-waiter ; Mt. John Hargreaves has, howl- promoted from fourth to third elass landing-waiter ~- and-Mr. Thomas Gale has been pro meted from fifth to, fourth class landing-waiter. IMPORTANT TO PAWNBR.OICRES.—On Thursday, Mr. B. Rowland, pawnbroker, of Vauxhall-road, was sum- , monad for the value-of kshawi,. &c. The woman whched pledged the articles. paid the money to redeem them,,and. ,the goods were placed o n: th e coun t er b e f ore h er, but taken up and run off with.by another person. The magistrate held there had besna negligent delivery, and held the de fendant responsible for the boss, ordering him also toopa,v the costs. COLLEGIATE Irlsriziersox.—The Rev. St. Vibsent Beechey is continuing his lectures at this institution, on the " Moon and,th9, Tides." Last Friday he went fully into the theory of the-tides, examining the various. opi nions which have -.been• held upon the subject fram, the time of Pliny to the -present day, and proving, by *variety of arguments , and illustrations, the superiority of the wave theory over others. Some remarkable local peculiarities, and other titled phenomena, were satisfactorily explained, and a large amount of useful information conveyed in a very agreeable manner. F1CT1T10145, 4 CLAIMS IN BANKRUPTCY.—Atthe Bank ruptcy Coart, on Monday, last week, in re •Beverelle, Mr. Pemberton; complained that one of the creditors, Louis Peverelle ? , uucle of the bankrupt, had, made fictitious claims op, the_ estate, a fact which was _proved. by Mr. Peverell'es himself., who said that, on being applied to by Mr. Ceeeneve i the official assignee, for his claim against the estate, he.,sent in nine invoices, or accounts of goods, purporting to have been delivered to. the bankrupt, the grossamount being 2412. lls. 24d.; but henow admitted that these .accoants were manufactured'. for the purpose of increasing ; hid; claim against the estate ‘ the real debt due to him being somewhere about 2100. He said he fabri catea__ those invoices at the request of, the bankrupt, and that he brought the amount up tan the sum of £4OO by increasing the price and the original items, and adding ethers which were fictitious. He altered his day-book, but. not the ledger, to correspond ; with this fabricated account ; and he observed that, if his.books were produced, they would prove the fraud which he now admitted. On Thursday Louis Peverelle, a witness in the case, was sum moned before Mr. Commissioner Perry, to produce his books and some letters having reference to the bankrupt's,. affairs. He submitted his books and four letters written.. to him by the bankrupt, dated August 21st, 23rd, ausb 24th, and September 16th, 1853. The letters were written, in Italian, but translations of them had been obtainedi. They all had referenee.to the witness increasing his claim, on the bankrupt's estate from £lOO to £412, a fact whiali. he• (witness) confessed to, at the former examination. The witness also produced, his books, and pointed out the,alte rations he had, made, in order to give an appearance of genuineness to the claim of £412 made on the estate. The books were signed by the commissioner, and. late letters were given up, to the court. Sricine : OR A, HPIISEBREAKER. — On Thursday, the house of Mr. Edwin Stott, farmer, Westttelree, was en tered and robbed about noon. Suspicion fell upon a man named Mills,. who was believed to hove committed many depredations in the neighbourhood, and he was apprehended. He was brought. to Oldham, and, along with a man named Caughall,remanded.till Monday. They were, placed in separate cells, and, the regulations of the chief-constable are, that all prisoners he visited every half-hour, night and day. Sergeant Parker visited Mills' cell about 20 minutes to five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and was relieved at five o'clock by another officer, whose duty it was to see that all was right when he received charge. This officer went down at five o'clock, and found Mills suspended by his braces from a bar in the window of his cell. He was instantly cut down, and he after wards groaned once, and seemed to breathe twice. An inquest was held, when the father of the deceased stated that - no symptoms of insanity, weakness, or despondency, had ever been observed in his son or any of the family. I The jury returned a verdict of febe de se. The coroner explained that the law required that the body should be interred within twenty-four hours after the verdict, and between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night. The verdict having been delivered before nine o'clock, it became imperative that the interment should take place that night. He, therefore, issued his warrant to the police authorities, requiring them to see to its fulfil ment. The body was interred in the lower part of the church-yard, about a quarter to twelve o'clock, without any ceremony or observance whatever. The excitement of some of the crowd at the time seemed to great that it was feared that an attempt would be made to take the body up again : but shortly after twelve o'clock the crowd had dispersed, and ne dititarbaece whatever occurred, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1853' LIBEL ON A LADY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 17. (Before Chief Justice CAMPBELL, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN, and Mr. Justice EARLE.) CRIMINAL INFORMATION. THE QUEEN (ON THE PROSECUTION OF FRANK) v. WILL3IER AND ANOTHER.— Sir F. Thesiger said he took the earliest possible oppor tunity to apply to the court, on the part of the prosecution, for .a rule calling upon the defendants, Edward Willmer and David Smith, printers, publishers and sole proprietors of the Liverpool Chronicle, to show causes why a criminal information should not be filed against them for a most cruel and scandalous libel upon the honour of a lady, by which the peace and happiness of a most respectable family had been shamefully invaded. The gentleman, on whose behalf he was compelled to make the application, resided at Aigburth, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. In 1847, he married the only daughter of Sir John Bent, a gentleman residing at Edge-hill, also in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs. Frank lived together on the most affectionate terms, and Mrs. Frank's conduct h a d b een a l ways most correct. Until Saturday last, Mr. Frank had never heard an impu tation to the contrary, and on that day when he called upon his mother-in-law, Lady Bent, he was startled to hear that there were scandalous rumours current in the neighbourhood, that his wife had been guilty of infidelity with a servant formerly in his establishment ; and he was referred to Mr. Mould, at Liverpool, for further informa tion on the subject. He immediately proceeded to, and saw that gentleman, who put into his hands the newspa . per containing the paragraph imputing infidelity to his wife. The paragraph stated that " gossip " had been making free with two cases of conjugal infidelity, one of them relating to parties who resided in the neighbourhood of St. Bride's Church, and the other to a family residing at Aigburth. The paragraph having entered somewhat Into descriptive particulars of the first case, then drew attention to the alleged case at Aigburth, which it spoke of as still more distressing from the position of the un fortunate lady, a position which rendered it hardly likely that an action could be brought, from the fact that the defendant was a servant, "not worth powder and shot." The paragraph, in further commentary upon the scan dalous report,' added that the event had Oren great pain to the husband of that lady,' who possessed large fortune, " troops of friends," and all that could make life desirable. Mrs. Frank,. who was thus cruelly maligned, had been obliged to submit to the degradation—for so , he must designate it —of utterly denying that there was the slightest truth in the scandalous imputation upon her honour. He wodtdprove the publication of the paragraph. Lord Campbell—Do.your affidavits show that the com plainants are the parties referred to in the paragraph. Sir F. Thesiger said that the affidavits on that point were complete. Thormention of the father of the laity as a gentleman bearing a title' was itself sufficient, for that description did not apply to the father of 'any other married lady living at that spot. There were, besides, affidavits of third persons; declaring that they had no doubt as to the parties to whom that libel related. He.' ought to mention that the paper against which this appli-• cation was made was pedlished every Saturday. The learned counsel then went on.to say that he would have made the application before;.• but that the parties had thought proper to publish awadvertisement in the Liver pool Standard of Tuesday last,. headed "Scandalous Reports." The advertisement set forth that the Liverpool Albion of that day had alluded4o , the paragraph which appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle of the previous Saturday, and explained that the. , slanderous imputation contained in the paragraph had itenrigirt in the malignity of aidischarged servant ; and that theLivrerpool Chronicle had merely inserted the rumour amongst the " gossip of the week," The advertisement revs etted the suffering that harbbeen inflicted on a respectable family, and volun tarily pledged that a strict retraction of the entire state ment, meting imputations on the lad+'s , honour, should appear in +the. next number of the Liverpool Chronicle. It did not , appear to him (Sir F. Thesiger) that this was sufficient in , a case of such seriousness, and. he therefore deemed that he. would not be discharging, his duty if he did not appeahto this Court for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be fled against the parties who published the slander. Lord Campbell was of opinion - that the ednrse proposed by theparties did. not disentitle the learned. counsel to take a rule, whatever might be the result of , it hereafter. Rule nisi granted. AE THE REV. DR. 31-6.IIrEILE AND - EDINBURGH REVIEW tsrl , Ti following is the reply of the Rev. Can on 31`- to the letter of the Very Rev. Dean CONEYBEASA W SO. Albany-house, Liverpool, n o AP' "Dear Sir,—The greater part of your letter has 014 plication to mine, and I am sorry to say your letter_tv,e, Editor of The Times contains a misrepresentation. of;e, " That church parties ' form a very fit object for .01101 tigation' I never denied. That 'a general classin o the the several prominent schools' may be necessarY D o. purpose, I did not question. Bad your son confiiteeiritil self to this I would never have noticed his article. ,Ter,l the justice, or otherwise, of his delineation of these‘s,et,`, ee schools, I have no concern. With the applica b ,T otherwise, of his remarks in the special case of thef,eani I have no concern. I distinctly said so in my legi t i t limited my enquiry to the single point, on what e ,rll he brought me forward by name as the leader 01 3 ITO described as he describes the Recordites--a Part/ teach by inference the worthlessness of morality „ the " To this point y ou a t l as t address yourself, 'lllOO, evidence you adduce is not from any one of four or above twenty separ a te serm ons and speech es ' v' e ' spre have published, but from your recollection of a il sion which you say I made use of in some speech c a ; h id! platform in London some 18 or L'o years, age, a n , l ybic li you yourself acknowledge you took up in a s ells you are well persuaded was not my real raeaning, deb; "I put it to your own sense of propriety and t V o ur.ie ) ing whether this is sufficient • evidence to Jutiv 4 or your son ? " Surely, if I deserve to be held up to r eprobat ie . ll : e o t ;' ft is nothing else—ac the leader of a party dt4s i tDe antinomian, my authenticated publications, and rot i v 0 general recollection of my accusers, ought' to 0E1;100 adduced,evicice ni F y aili ace n us g e t rs o fi m n u d st b , etter evidence than Y_ , l to out of court. viction that 1 have of my own existencf,, that I "I have only to add, that in hanavefaiti:eessistm' beesoliret:ef!ecile; used, or could have used, unless to condemn,. the esi', : d sion you attributed to me the soul-destreit'? doctrine of repentance.' It is abhorrent to , my l it O It is as morally impossible that I could have. I.leisitite, my own, as it is that I could ha v e said that black is or that two and two make five. "To the Very Re " remain, Sir, s n i re;b i ena joutr.,, fillitishifu,sllpru• appeared in our lad SCRIPTURE JEADERS' SOCIETY , e ty, Ox Tuesday, a meetingef the friends of this s J oe! , dent in Rodney-street Ward 4 was held at the T ein iag li , School-room, St. James's-read, Mr. Councillor F' ntleoe the chair. The Rev. Wnx. Pollock and other ge o f 0 1 society for f i o n r t t o h a e d p e as ta t il y ed ea s r ta , t s em how en in t g of th the e the'con yts which had resulted from then; anti appeal i ng to A c or: pathies of the audience in support of the soeietP o giag t ; mittee was appointed for the purpose of 11,,rendltri. effective canvass of this ward, and to aid e' u hsc,..„ry - t bf operations of the institution by procuring ne s __ v ii s i r e st A. meeting of the friends of this uocietY, Ward; was held in St. Jude's Boys' School -.-- atiel la gri• hill;. on Thursday. There was s. numerous' - .or ' and amongst those present were Mr. C alu ' e t3 e 13 1 . 0 Clintl(in. the chair), the Rev. J. 8... L0We.,. , .,, e 1 onus, Barketi the Rev. J. Bardsley, the Bevs, Rev. Ji Butler; Messrs. Henderson; Char Hilton' Flathead, William Rowett, R. M• ° AV The chairman briefly addressed the meeting ° ll e j a ceo - 0 0 for which. they had been convened, and - spalj e oi goopoderatio,,eseeo Rev. F. Barker, of St. Mary's, Edge-hillf IvP",,a A d the importance of the objects of the seetq: o ' pgire,`. intended to-assist th e c l erg y i n carrying,:otkl"' ministrations, and he argued that, from the t u g, c is duties of titer clergy, particularly in I.ive r P ° d pu t t v~ impossible for them to perform their duties as ter; larly the visitation of the poor, without the T- 4 ' 1 ,1 1 -,.l l e''ti; operation by. this. society. He pressed ne.„ . l ,!` on otet&tif the necessity of contributing to support "6hrist l ,„'g 0 object being to diffuse the principles 4:0 , r eas:tis. amongst the mAtses of the people, who were .i power and in intelligence without any correSan e j crease in the knowledge or fear of God.---311%catnaetilj to Henderson was the- next speaker, and strongly co), l ef to his hearers the duty of doing what' theYvold! forward the objects of the society.—The Bec .l is eet iP o t moved the following resolution That being deeply sensible of the great spiritual de'37l/230'; large masses of the population in this town; confidence in the system of lay agency as enip%!. S° , .. of Liverpool Church of England Scripture Ral ue. 00 ) 710 hereby resolve to appoint a committee for the air arranging an effective canvass of the ward, all" 1 0. a et 4 " s ge ir important and valuable institution by proeucitt refi, t ot scriptions." In speaking to the . resolution , th e the rof tlemau entered into/ some statistics to show spiritual destitution of the town. The Alf co 0 001 Canterbury had stated. that no clergyman, if a" o f. s, diir his duty, ought to have more than a ponal a -nfl the and the Bishop off inehester stated that in ec a ' o d.iteto tricts the church ght to be able to accotoradt be accommodate fiv half of the populat on,. and in large towns they itfio a very fair estimate-of what ought to be, of ost between it and the existing state of things ia b ich i ces' would show the vastamonnt of destitution, w, tet t e-eths. A s thi s might be t exist in the town. Tha-population of the par ° ooa s of pool by the last census, Including 12,006 sailors, 0 ,0 9,i 0 to about 270,000, and. the• num b er of church es bia_do 51, giving an average Ropulation to each of E l L )°° , as ctt several districts there was a, population of 1 ,1,, e or two of 16,000, to a sifiglethurch; and in these 091. the people were so poor th a t, eve n if they'v e r t he f tie they could scarcely afrordtto pay for sitting's a l , ro stial'the . in which there were orlp 9b. free sittings. Cet,, s iorioc number of clergymen with-men of other Pre" - the iii rev. gentleman, foundibg his calculations on , eia l to f basis on which a similar- statement had hee l tione, London, stated that for -every clergyman of tb e ,„ se; ( fost England there were seven, or- eight medical 'ov a jyter eight missionaries, seven or eight policeraeo , s or g,„ was still worse, twenty-eight or thirty publial' „I'll' 40' houses, Liverpool being„i ni thi s res pect, consideriner than London. H e nex t spoke of the gr eat . 11' iii a th e population in Liverpool, without a correspoudi?, of church accommodction ;- and after eel the great advantages which. the active workhig t" was likely to produce, he• concluded by reilun oa ir,: ) ,/ extracts from the journals- of the Scripture,:ip .t O lt show the good results...which flowed from t" - ,rb/i i . etti The Rev. J. B. Lowe seconded the resolutionl,r. $ o 0 ,4 carried unanimously ;- and. on the motion of al, o n-k-S - g ia seconded by the Rev....F. Barker, a vote of passed to the chairman.. Aninfluential conaioa been named, the proceedings terminated. fy GE O.R PROGRESS OF ST. is i S n T . s u G c e O h r a g ~,je 4111. ieleciiiig ef'osrHwaratil:ltsistaterecenthatlty:mdea;n:est 1 1 1;.bui iii , towards completion., and we understand that ts et o Ow °P ro t. or al tended, with a musical festival, in Septeinh e ,„ r wUA,,,e Oi aas in an th ti e ci gre pste at d British Association,will pay a visit to this ri e if '',. o lS' afterwards, and they may probably hold, their 'e ,clef anticipated,. the the p 1 meetinge t e completion as will take 0. 00 , the presidency of the: resent chief magistr ate -rail . _., e 5,,; opening p Should the bin' ocktildi Esq.. who, as chairman of the St. George' S " ----, j , ti'l t Pi r tee, has for several: years t devoted ironiclllalti„,o3` attention to the . building, with a view "" s .ni "'- render it wortbt of the town. It is hoPe', r ,it, Lic e pected in the town;. that Her . Majesty will ?I''' a i ,g' 10 Two i ag m e g a f r . l t y he a ) . petan. le, and at, the fi,.scijw,„6,o4, _ A - 13 tlie 0 04 o years. ago, the biding was place' ~, the t o ,1• Mr. Cockerelli and he f urn ished designs - ": u rse.4.oe_ d u' ion of the kali,, which designs are now i ev vst lP tatAll carried out.. It will be recollected that the,,edie ntar' ing is of briek , .;.and the architect has s ue arch ,relineJA fifteen it with the .most elaborate and eleg m % tho „ o r 0", mouldings . and: decorations. 'There sre 'in 3•74eeti be • , ,rh a earcole ide. o te bearings, carved in high relief. ~„te tile ~ r ite, the royal arms, the arms of the Plat";' ilic elf r a ,k , arms, andthe patron saint, St. Ge° 1e e ' ot hlein,*' - b,;ing e f e l , panellingjS filled in with a varlet)" ° ~; wlici e. The l' P111144'4 compartments, each oonts l ._„„ r eir - tv eo , meats. and. enrichments in low relief , ".` t i ldiog.. itt abe i ; propriato.to the general design of the . 1 i) to t e n in o ; r ece t y ing of the side recesses, which aln° ll l le. I r ' e 'ebe a are itaiehed in the same elaborates S fi i rt her e'l l ii yill CL 11 are introduced lunettes, which sre,jer of the . . Ailed 1, , arehitecturat sculptures, after the,_...-g`ta-aie areu. ,vie Ailed nag. The spandrell panels of Art, in' t ' i lk handsl. with,genii, representing Scien4eohandeliers' -win bet!tod Tbniperance, and Prudence; w , nt ionsn 6 ' we rch e ' titsh e l ° , a t a. 4 andr appropriate design ano , " r- ro heS• '- tv e le s' -If pended from each of the sitle the.. ° Th saes te e'''' WO tie walls, &c., are to be executed l a , • tient/0 has t r ots t ,a the main building. Considerable °,„l wbic , , ed, esai„ stowed on the side galleries of the la, enlP l° Y., oo l.e o,f;red beauty of the design and the nia ter _ o , even in - asiu . " iS anything of the kind ordinerilY she work ' e t C° igerit finest buildings in thie,countli• f the gre a & ,reri c . s , very similar to that found in many ° The .le iyi Italy and other parts f .the continent. s plaC ed „ ill ii ll . „1 • to be still further earl ° ched be' „,,,, j u tranc, - g 's 2',, e ii appropriated to their reception- The ai dor s, lisY - e t !;4,, filled with highly-ornamented brass n ot Y. t iov; f ..,,,- has ,,. it )3' forested ormohl panels. The. 11W — d g for laY la ' a I' , " e f' laid, but preparations are being raa e tatu f ae tare ol l, is. r e It will be forined. of tesseiated tile s ' ra t of the ig ti. l el ° Minton, of Staffordshire, mad this Par , a f e ct s 5 ,0 4° 0 pected, when completed, to he a most , P au d the ge rate work of art. The organ g allerY the 00 ° 0 0 0 other structural works for containinigthe b e ll ii 4 o 0 .0 1 rapid progress; in fact, this P art e 'he t eil)( 1 completed. The organ, which is to be p. ~,n, sin o f } l it end,, will project a short distance into tne. c 7_,,irt.l l3 . A the opers'w 1 ole " ir.', organ are nearly complete, an- , ~,;,,, 0 i ~A g I , the case will be shortly commenceu. t tl s .l) '; - ei lPg ' upon, polished granite columns. The various fi j I The coloured decorations of the ceiliug ', i. , eel ol f, windows of the hall are to be fdled wl 11 ., es ivttlil)o +o the h e '''i 0 ° calculated to give an apparent increase - _ on ce A l ie illA i o chaste and elegant, and their general ere ct ' i , lit building-a point of considerable in l P?' in 1 iii 'A edifices of this kind. The armorial bearing s those let .l other parts of the hall. When the whole lie coil Po ceiling are rather more highly coloured 011 0 ;1 eoll i P4o! ‘ i and the coloured floor brought into agr ee f r e ct ' It., doubt be even more chaste than it is at P,, r i t os io ' e tl",, with the other decorations, 'the general pres ent.,„ ‘..h; worthy of remark that the whole of the . t‘y eice n i pi .); cribed has been executed within the last. t w . ~ wiP e ile" bu ,oo-6 li te and it'is confidently expected that the , . 1 5 i , na l . 1 4 such a forward state that it may be oPe is P 1 ,1 with a musical festival, in September next..i_ i t all 1 iS The concert-room at the north end of tv oe pro , o : , gressing satisfactorily. It is of the horse-siltheetre4etti, will be fitted up in the style of a handsonive ~,r col .. . c er , to afford ample space and accommodatio , i ' l , o . ce e P e iS . ',' lectures, and other public proceeding s .: _ be nt T ot ti'l l , room, it is expected, will be completed . I e othe r r '.. l time as the hall. The courts of law and ti i co ca ov elit i l of the building, excepting the hall an ti _ 0 , 110 00 l''',,f appear to be nearly in the same condition r un to totlo in December, 1851. Visitors are adnut rp CO daily, between twelve and one o'clock, on an order from a member of the councils DHE THEATRES. TICE TIIRATRE-ROYALhaS continued musical neongbout the week, Mr. Jarrett's operatic corps having only con cluded their series , of operatic performances on. Friday evening. Tuesday evening saw the last performance of "Les Huguenots" en-our boards, when it was apinfairly, indeed capitally performed. On each succeeding represen tation, this very elalorate and difficult production received more and more justice at the hands of the different artistes, particularly at those of 'the subordinates, of the choristers, and of the orchestra, many of the choruses and orchestral accompaniments being^given in a style of great power,. and most creditable efficiency.. On Thursday Madame 'Cara demi took her benefit, the. opera selected for the occasion being " Lucrezia Borgia,:' that lady sustaining the charac ter from which the opera derives its name. As a whole the performance was in' aft respects admirable, most of the parts being quite within the reach of the respective singers.; awl the general music not being too formidable far the extraneous aides to be suet with in a town of maim:tin portance and musical cepacity as Liverpool. The house was filled in all quarters, the boxes exhibiting an array of beauty, fashion and elegance seldom to be met with.4in provincialtheatres. The audience were in high good humour, and as the opera-proceeded their admirationavas, excited to enthusiasm, and' their applauses were at once lead and gratifying, as welli as happily applied. Friday wAs the concluding nigh of these performances, when brilliant and crowded audienceogain assembled, and by their plaudits manifested a high-appreciation of the treat pre, pared for them. On this occasion Herr Formes took. his. benefit, the opera being theCerman version of Beethoven:. Fidelio," in which the character of Rocco was most ably sustained by Herr Formes.. The part of Leonora,,or. delio, met with great justice at the hands of Madame : Caradori, who san g the music and acted the character• charmingly ; whileMareeilina found an interresting presentative in Mad'lle rffiunerman, whose dulcet notes, accorded happily with her histrionic efforts. Of Herr Reichardt's Fernando Florestern, it is but bare justice to . say, it displayed fine musicalculture, engrafted on natural. gifts of no ordinary excellence. The less prominent chap raeters of the opera were -competently filled ; and, in general the music and acting were excellent and appro priate. In many of the solos the artistes acquitted ' themselves with great ability and appropriate power the lengthened scene by Madame Caradori, near the end of the first act, being given :with telling beauty and ef fect. It would be injustice-to withhold a similar compli ment from the fine quartette sung by Madame Caradari,. Mad'lle Zimmerman, HernFormes, and Herr Le Brun,. ins the same act. It was sung:with admirable effect, and- re- , ceived a hearty, though,,we think, misplaced encore: These operas being now concluded, it affords reasonable opportunity of remark onlhe general style in which they have been got up, and On the collective merits of the wm pany by which they were sustained. As a pecaniary speculation, it seems no. more than reasonable to suppose it was a good one, unless• the capabilities of the theatre were inadequate to sustain the expense incurred; as, the houses, although not invariably crowded, were alwayarfair, and mostly full, while;-,on several occasions, they . were genuine bumpers. The operatic powers of MadameCara dori are of a high order, including great energy, „much histrionic talent, and' passionate expression suela,as few can rival ; in pathos she is somewhat laboured, and-where she would captivate hehardly winning; in her hands the fierce glow of burning, indignation is displayed with mar vellous truth as welLas power. Mad'lle Zimmerman and Miss F. Huddart partake more of the dulcet softness of the evening breeze, and find their strongest attractions in that winmng sweetness which gilds and beautifies the loveliness of fenciaine refinement. Both of.: them are charming singers,and give token of artistic culture. Hen Formes is in himself a host ; to au admirablY modulated organ of great compass, and no stinted power, he adds correct and severely disciplined taste, ready execution, and exquisite tact. The easy and equable flow of his acting is hardly surpassed by the charming naturalness of his sing ing, and the two combined render him an artist of " rare mark." Herr. Reiehardt's vocalization is steady and effec tive, rather than startling or captivating,:,he is an artist whose style and capabilities gain on his audience with an extended familiarity, and we confess tolfking him better at the conchision than at the commencement of our acquaintance with his performances. The. other members of the company deserve credit for excellent- intentions, in no smaltdegree carried into effect; and, all things con siderekthe• choruses, as well as the. orchestral perform ances,, were- entitled to much praise, A more indefati gable, and, on the whole, successful conductor than M. M. AnseUnec it would be difficult to,meet with. His assi duity knew no relaxation, and it was rewarded by a smoothness and steadiness of execution. we were scarcely prepared to look for. In his efforts he was seconded with ranch- alacrity, and no little ability, by Mr. Allwood,, whose leading deserves much commendation. The getting up of these operas was a bold undertaking, and, from the : gratification afforded a large portion of the elite of Liver, pool society, public gratitude, is, due to all coneerned. their production. _ -------. MISS ELLEN FA.ucir.7--We are glad to perceive that this eminently favourite , tragedienne is engaged to appear next week at our Theatre, Royal, the engagement com mencing on Monday next. We have not as yet learned by whom she is to, be. supported, as a leading actor, but the list of pieces in, which Miss Faucit is to appear in cludes several of her.best characters. AT THE 11 4 :1E.A44 AMPIIITHEATEE, Mr. G. Brooke has continued during the past week as the " - bright par ticular star," round which the minor consellations of this theatre revolved, The pieces have been chiefly the " stock" mos, on his performances of most of which we have already remarked. On Friday night he took his benefit,eppearing in the triste character of The Stranger in the very questionable play of the same name ; he also, the same evening, performed William in "Black-eyed Susan." On Saturday night he made his farewell bow, as Richard 111. He was twice called before the curtain, and at the close of the piece he came forward, and de livered the following address, from which it seems that, he contemplates again appearing before a Liverpool audience previous to his departure for America Ladies and gentlemen,—Fatigued as you see I now am, .I cannot forego this opportunity of expressing my heartfelt grati tude at the very liberal patrdnage my engagement in this town has met with. Before I sail for other lands, I hope, ere long, again to have the honour of appearing before my Liverpool friends. In the meantime I now respe.ict fully and gratefully say farewell." (Loud cheers.) During the current week the benefits are " on" at this house, when the public will, no doubt, mark their partiality for their respective favourites. LIVERPOOL POULTRY SHOW.—This interesting exhibi tion will take place on the 18th and 19th of January, and promises to be most successful. The committee have granted £l3O to be distributed in prizes, and, to judge from the subscriptions already reeeived, the exhibition will far exceed anythmg of the kind ever seen in the north of England. The large carriage repository of Messrs. Lucas and Co, will be newly coloured and decorated for the occa sion, and some idea may be formed of the extensive nature of the exhibition when it is known that 1,409 head of pouf• try are expected to compete for the.,rigus prim, e t -0 f 0 1 1; Sq]