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our colonies. Mr. Groom concluded by moving the adoption of the following petition : To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in parliament assembled. The humble petition of the major, aldermen, and coup cillors of the borough of Northampton, SHEIVETH, That your petitioners have learnt with regret that since the abolition of slavery a sufficient quantity of labour cannot be obtained from the emancipated slaves to cultivate successfully and profitably the British colonies in the West Indies. That the princpal productions of the West Indios, consist ing of sugar, coffee, and molasses, being necessaries of life, this country cannot dispense with them. That if these articles cannot be produced from our own free colonies, recourse must be had to the tropical estates of South America, in all of which sugar, coffee, and molasses are cultivated by slaves. That it would be inconsistent to admit slave-made sugar, or other articles, into this country, inasmuch as this country has expended a vast amount of money in emancipating her own West Indian slaves. That the fears of your petitioners are fully justified by the fact of the immense decrease in the importation of West In dian produce since the year 1834, and the consequent loss to the revenue since that year of upwards of five millions of our money, and a still greater loss to private parties, and to the country at large, _ That the settlements of Demerara and Berbice, on the American continent, commonly called British Guiana, are capable, with adequate labour, to produce not only the above mentioned articles of West Indian produce, but also the in valuable products of cotton, tea, tobacco, rice, and spices, and being of immense extent, could fully supply all that this country can require. That it appears there is a great and increasing demand for labourers in Guiana, and that the supply is utterly in adequate to the wants of the colony, it being estimated that 500 la bourers could be profitably employed for every one now in the colony. That it appears to your petitioners, that the interest of the manufacturers of this country is greatly concerned in the prosperity of her colonies, inasmuch as they afford a market for the manufacturers of this country, in exchange for the productions of the colonies. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, That your honourable house will take into consideration these important facts, and that your honourable house will adopt measures to encourage the emigration of free labourers to the West Indies and British Guiana, and thus obviate the necessity of resorting to those countries in which slavery still continues, for supplying the necessaries of life, and also secure thereby a sure and increased demand for British manufac tures. The petition having been seconded was carried nem. con. In a brief conversation which followed, Mr. Groom stated that the high price of sugar had greatly injured the fruit trade. Scarcely half the usual quantity had been preserved this year. The example thus nobly set by the Town Council of Northampton, will, it is to be hoped, be soon followed in every town and city in the United Kingdom. As we know of no place which is more deeply interested in this subject than Liverpool, we feel ashamed that our townsmen have not taken the initiative in the matter. It is not, however, too late for Liverpool to take a prominent part in influencing the legislature in favour of the prayer of the preceding petition. Once more we call upon the mercantile classes to prepare a petition in favour of free immigration into our own colonies ; and we call upon all other classes to unite in so praiseworthy and philanthropic an object. On all sides we hear great complaints respecting the high price of sugar. The best refined sugar cannot be obtained for less than thirteen or fourteen pence per pound. Common brown is selling at nine pence and ten pence per pound. This important necessary of life (for such it has become among all classes of society, from the peer to the peasant) is still on the rise. There is reason to fear that it will soon be numbered among those luxuries which are so expensive as to be out of the reach of the hard working artisan. The middle and lower classes of society are already stinting their families in their allowance of sugar. The grocers are, consequently, complaining of diminished sales and injury done to their business. The farmers and mar ket gardeners—among the latter of whom we may class the great bulk of the agricultural labourers and the peasantry of England, Wales, and, Ireland—are beginning to complain that there is very little sale for their fruit, and that the price which they are able to command will scarcely defray the expense of carriage to the market. How are we to remove the ground of these com plaints ? It is obvious that something must be done, and that speedily, to obtain a cheaper supply, that is a more abundant supply of sugar. What, then, shall we do? Some parties have suggested that the attention of government and of capitalists ought to be directed to the cultivation of beet-root in this country, for the purpose of manufacturing sugar. This alternative has been recommended by those who are utterly ignorant of the subject. In the first place, the extraction of sugar from beet-root is too expensive an operation to offer the prospect of any adequate remuneration for the outlay of capital. In the second place, the cultivation of sugar in Great Britain, if it could be rendered re munerative, would only tend still more to depress and ruin the West India Colonies—to destroy the com merce which we have so long enjoyed with those colo nies—and to throw out of employment the shipping and the sailors now employed in that commerce. Others, again, have advocated the equalization of the duties on East India sugar as a means of remedying the existing evil. On this subject there is great diver sity of opinion, even among the West India Merchants: but we think that the able author of the pamphlet which we have transferred to our last page —to which we beg the earnest attention of our readers and of our brethren of the press—has set the matter in its proper light. He has proved that the West Indies and British Guiana are entitled to the privilege of a protective or differential duty, inasmuch as those colonies are en tirely importing countries, whilst the East Indies is, in part, a manufacturing country. As long as we compel the planters to consume our manufactures they have a right to a counterbalancing monopoly. Another party would recommend the introduction of free-labour foreign sugar for home consumption on payment of a moderate duty. This, again, would be an act of gross injustice to the West India interest. It would, at one fell stroke, annihilate all hopes of re trieving their prospects. It would also afford facilities for the importation, by fraudulent means, of slave grown sugar. We need not specify what those means are. They will he readily recognised by all who are initiated into the secrets of commercial transactions. There is, also, another expedient which has its ad vocates even among the pretended friends of universal freedom, but which every true philanthropist must scout and repudiate as a vile attempt to perpetuate the horrors of slavery. We allude to the introduction of .slave-grown sugar from the Brazils, Cuba, Porto Rico, &c. We feel confident that the great bulk of the people of England would prefer remaining with out sugar for their whole lives to partaking in the pro duce of slave-holding countries. So utterly inconsist ent, and so repugnant to every feeling of humanity is this proposition, that we need not notice the scheme any further. What, then, is to be done: The reply is at hand. This nation has only to act upon the advice which we have re iterated, from week to week, in the columns of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. If we want free labour sugar exclusively, and at a low price, let us by all means encourage free immigration into British Guiana and the West Indies. That is our proposition. The plan is, at once, reasonable, practicable, and certain in its results. It is reasonable, because we have dis abled the planters of the West Indies from compet ing with other countries, and plunged them into a state of depression verging upon absolute ruin, whilst we still compel them to submit to a monopoly of their markets on the part of the British mauufacturers. It is practicable, because there are plenty of labourers to be found ready and willing to emigrate to those colo- The certainty of its results has been demon strated by the success of the limited experiments which 'have already been made at Trinidad, Jamaica, and British Guiana. The question of free immigration to the West Indies is one of great urgency. The colonies are going to ruin. The capital of the planters is being rapidly frittered away. The commerce between them and the mother country is fearfully diminishing. Slavery and the slave-trade is increasing in a corres ponding ratio. The people of this country are sub jected to privations in consequence of the decreased imports from the West Indies. Every motive of sound policy, humanity, justice, and self interest, strongly and emphatically urges us to adopt some instant plan of relief. We need not hesitate as to the plan or the means for carrying it into effect. Both are at hand. Let us, then, unite in petitioning the legislature to encourage free labou r in our own colonies. There is no time to be lost. Let us grant to the planters the boon of free immigration while yet a remnant of their capital re mains, and befor e they are reduced to that desperate condition which will finally and effectually preclude them from availing themselves of the privilege for which they are now contending. Oh what a crying shame it will be if this country, after settin g so noble an example in the cause of emancipation—after making such enormous sacrifices to annihilate slavery in her own colonies—should pertinaciously disregard the only scheme by which slavery may be abolished in every other region of the world. Before we conclude these remarks we would earnestly call upon our contemporaries to join us in agitating this question. With the exception of our Liverpool contemporaries, the Scottish Guardian, the Glasgow papers, the Inverness Herald, the Bolton Chronicle, the British Standard, and Felix Farley's British Journal, we are not aware that any of the papers with which we are in the habit of exchanging have bestowed any thing more than a passing notice on this important subject. The metropolitan press, of all shades of politics, with very few exceptions, have taken an interest in its agitation. We feel assured that if our con temporaries will only investigate the documentary and other evidence brought forward by the West India planters, we shall have the powerful influence of their advocacy. Amidst the general rejoicing which pervades the ministerial press at the events of the past week, it is not difficult to discover that the pretended victories of their patrons are not regarded with unalloyed satisfac tion. The withdrawal of Lord Stanley's bill—the defeat of Lord Wynford's amendment upon the Mu nicipal Corporations Bill, and of Lord Hardwicke's motion with respect to the Canada Bill—have, to a certain extent, smoothed the way of ministers; but the seat of office is by no means rendered thereby a bed of roses. They have secured a temporary lull. The breakers of the political ocean have become still ; but there is a ground swell working beneath them, which they regard with even darker foreboding than the shriek of the tempest in its wildest fury. For what is it that Lord Melbourne's administration have gained by these assumed victories ? They have barely preserved a contemptible existence ! In the House of Commons they have been allowed a breath ing tim4 to lick their sores—to wipe away the " filthy witness" of defeat—to brood over fresh schemes of corruption, which they will never be suffered to carry into execution. In the House of Lords, they exist upon the contempt of their opponents only until the abyss of infamy which they have dug for themselves is deep enough to hide them for ever from public execra tion. They are a government only in name—a sha dow without a substance—a thing whose very loath someness alone prevents its being trundled out of the presence of honourable natures into the nearest kennel which can be found foul enough to receive it. That this temporary forbearance on the part of the conservative party is wise and prudent, may reasonably be doubted. To some extent, however, we are inclined to coincide in the views of those at whose urging it is adopted. The Whig-radical, or liberal party, as they choose to term themselves, are hourly retrograding in influence and in numbers. Incapable, venal, and dis honest in power, they are fast losing the confidence of great masses of the community, who, lured by their specious professions whilst out of power, have held fast their faith until hope itself has become a bitter mock ery. The industrious classes—the shopkeeper, the tradesman, and the operative—upon whose shoulders they were borne into office, are beginning to distrust and despise them. The gentry and the aristocracy have long repudiated them ; and even the mere quacks of political life, the hangers-on of office and hungerers after patronage and corruption, are discontented and dissatisfied with their prospects. Under such circum stances, a resignation at the present moment, accom panied with its certain concomitant, a dissolution, might possibly tend to recruit and revivify them as a party; whilst by allowing them to drag on a few more months of official life, they are daily adding to the depth of that scorn which awaits their ultimate fall. Admitting these views, however, to be to some ex tent correct, we are scarcely satisfied that they are those which ought to actuate the proceedings of a high-principled party. We cannot bring ourselves to admire stratagem in politics, and should prefer on all occasions to observe straightforward honesty of pur pose, and an open and determinate course, substituted for this ambiguous and unintelligible policy. We cannot distrust the motives which have led to the strange proceedings of some of the leading members of the conservative party upon late occasions, but we are not convinced of the wisdom of those proceedings, and lament the impression which they are calculated to produce in the public mind. Few statesmen can afford to risk the confidence of their party, and none should risk it upon slight grounds. It has certainly been argued that Lord Melbourne's government is unable to inflict any serious injury upon the constitution by its continuance in office ; but we must take leave to deny that position. Openly, we admit, they cannot effect much; but are the acts of such a government as his open ? Is it no injury to a country to promote amongst its people disaffection, to encourage irreligion, to foster treasonable associa tions to resist the laws, and to shake the affectionate loyalty of the subject towards the person and the throne of the sovereign ? And yet all this is done, in sidiously and wickedly, by the partizans of this power less administration. Is it no injury to degrade the name of England throughout the world—to sacrifice her commerce, and to bring ruin upon her colonies ? Yet all this, too, is done ; and the contemptible fribble, by whose gross incapacity—if not something worse— it is effected, is allowed to shroud his actions in official mystery, and to laugh at and deride the hand which strives to drag him from behind the screen of his de linquencies. Whatever, however, may be our views as to the policy of the conservative leaders in parliament, our own particular duty is plain and straightforward. We must strengthen their position by an infusion of new conservative blood into their ranks. It is obvious, that, in the present balanced state of parties, the battle must be fought by the electors. To them alone can the country look for a strong conservative government, and our watchword must therefore be, REGISTER, REGISTER, REGISTER! The crisis to which we have now arrived demands all the energies which we can put forth; and we must bear in mind, that, upon the success of our exertions, depends the fate not only of this administration but the very existence of the con stitution of our country. Look around you, conservatives of Great Britain ! On every side you are beset with enemies. The unclean spirit of Popery is upon the threshold of the constitu tion ; the demon of infidelity is spurting his venom against your altars. A false and spurious liberalism is deluging the land with heresies and polluting the air with its noxious impurities. To arrest the progress of these enemies of your moral and social welfare you require a staunch, Protestant, conservative govern ment ; and the formation of such a one can only be secured by the zeal and energy which you are called upon to put forth at the approaching registration. Again then, and earnestly, let us impress upon you the warning—ATTEND TO YOUR REGISTRATION ! We insert below the Resolutions of the Committee on the Liverpool Dock Warehouse Bill, in which we fancy that our eminently virtuous Corporation will not find much matter of congratulation. It is, indeed, provided that " the Dock Trustees be empowered to erect Warehouses on the Dock Quays ;" but, alas ! they are at the same time required to abstain in doing this from putting their hands into the purse of the Dock Trust, but must raise "the money required for the erection of the Warehouses (and the purchase of the land) on the security of that property alone." There are some very cunning gentlemen amongst the Dock Trustees, we are well aware ; but it may be difficult, with all their cunning, for these gentlemen to realize their magnificent scheme with so little materi als. We dare say that warehouse property may be, generally speaking, a fair security for money; but it is not one upon which prudent men will lend more than a proportion of its cost; and, unless this can be achieved, the permission to erect warehouses must be a dead letter. We wonder what may have been the cost of this ridiculous effort—in money we mean—for the amount of sacrifice of the interests of Liverpool, it would be difficult even to guess at. Time will, no doubt, enable us to arrive at the solution of our question. In the mean time we beg to congratulate the clique upon their wonderful success in an attempt as impudent as it is dishonest. DECISION OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE ON THE DOCK WAREHOUSES BILL Resolved, I.—That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this Committee that it is highly desirable that additional dock room should be provided for vessels frequenting the port of Liver pool. 2.—That it is not expedient that the Trustees of the Liver pool Docks should be authorised to build and manage out of the funds raised on the securitsof the dock rates, Warehouses for the storing of goods upon the Quays of the Docks. 3.—That the Dock Trustees be empowered to erect Ware houses on the Dock Quays, the money required for the erection of Warehouses (and the purchase of the land) being raised on the security of that property alone. 4.—That the chairman and deputy chairman shall be chosen by ballot, the deputy chairman to succeed the chairman. Election to be annual, and the chairman not to have a double, but only a casting vote. The Liverpool Journal is pleased to discover in our remarks of Tuesday last, on the subject of Ribbonism, a retractation of the charges which we latelylbrought and substantiated against certain of the Irish Catholic resi dents of this town. Our contemporary can find nothing in our remarks but " a repetition of assertions unsupported by a shadow of proof"—which is possible enough; but the public we imagine are not so preversely blind as the Journal himself affects to be. The charge which we brought forward we supported by documen tary evidence, the genuineness of which neither the Journal nor his correspondent have attempted to ques tion ; and until that evidence is impeached we hold that we are fully justified in persisting in the charge which we founded upon it. Our contemporary congratulates himself on the fact of our not having attempted to reply to the long and abusive letter in which 'we were attacked in his columns, and asserts:that from the experience of former conflicts with its writer, we have only "discovered that he is beneath our notice when we found him above our strength." We are really at a loss to know on what occasion the writer in question has shewn himself above our strength ; but shall always consider him beneath our notice until he learns to write in the tone and to use the language of a gentleman. The rabid style of his last Epistle was enough to lead to the supposi tion ,that its writer was personally touched by our charge—a contingency for which, we must confess, we were not altogether unprepared. Mn. VINCENT NOVELLO.—On Saturday last a genteel and delighted audience greeted this veteran and sterling mu sician, who is now fulfilling an engagement at th e Mechanics' Institution on a subject of historical and practical interest, namely, Ancient Church Music. The father of the talented and much-respected family of the Novello's presided at the piano. The illustrations of the masses of the early ages of the Roman Pontificate gave the highest satisfaction. The Misses Flower are accomplished musicians ; one of them is gifted with a voice of remarkable power and purity of tone. The bass voice is one of the finest we have heard for some time, and we regret we could not catch the gentle man's name when it was mentioned with those of the assist ing artists. The lecture was read, as we were informed in the room, by the assistant elocutionist of the insitution, whose want of physical power coupled with a thin sharpness of voice rendered him inaudible to parties who sat near the doors and in the back seats of the gallery. This partially interfered with the effect of the verbally descriptive part of the lecture. The judiciously selected illustrations, however, spoke significantly for themselves. ' WOOITLEN AND LINEN DRAPERY, &c.—We refer to an advertisement in another column, announcing that a portion of the business of Mr. Claypole and Son has.been disposed of to Mr. John Krebs, to whom, as their successor, they so licit a continuance of the favours with which they have been honoured. We are requested to notice an error which ap peared in the same advertisement in the Chronicle of Satur day. It is stated in that paper that " the ready-made linen department will not be continued as usual in Richmond street," whereas it will be so continued. FARMERS' FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE INSTITUTION.— The act for establishing this institution has received the royal assent. His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Sir George Sinclair, Bart., M.P., and the Hon. Charles Hope, M.P., have given permission to have their names added to the list of honorary directors. - - . VIEW OF WII ITE II AV EN.—We extract the following paragraph, complimentary of our townsman, Mr. Walters, from a recent Whitehaven paper :—" Mr. Samuel Walters, of Liverpool, the celebrated painter of marine subject was some time ago engaged by Mr. J. P. Younghusband, of this town, to execute for him a picture of the port and harbour of Whitehaven. This week, Mr. Walters has completed his engagement, and the picture has since Tuesday been exhibited daily, at the shop of Messrs. Crossthwaite and Co., book sellers, and has commanded a large share of attention of the upper ranks of our town. The view is taken from the sea, and includes a vivid representation of the harbour, with the Ganga,' (East Indianian), entering in glorious style. Two or thee other portraits, (which are introduced without stiffness),—a steamer—the west pier—the lighthouse, and other objects of local interest,—and the green hills form a pleasing back ground. The picture is executed with cr at skill, judgement and ability, and has commanded the ad miration of all amatures and connoiseurs who have inspeted it. [We are glad to find that Mr. Walters has consented to a generai wish expressed in Whitehaven, that a fine en graving should be taken from the picture, —an announcement which cannot fail to be gratifying to natives of Whitehaven residing in Liverpool, who may obtain, at a moderate price, a beautiful view of their native town.] DEATHS BY BURNING.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, on view of the body of Mary Doherty, a child of six years of age. The deceased lived with her parents in Fisher-street, Toxteth-park. On Wednesday morning, her mother went out with her husband's breakfast, leaving the deceased and three other children in the house. Soon afterwards a neighbour heard the deceased call out, and on entering the room found her in flames. Before the fire could be extinguished, the deceased was so much burned, that she died on Thursday in the Infirmary.—Verdict, " Acci dental death."—An inquest was held on Saturday, touching a similar case. The deceased, Peter Trainer, whO . was three years and a half old, was also left with three other children, at his parent's house, in a court in Collingwood-street, and his clothes taking tire, he was much burnt, and died on Friday.—Verdict accordingly. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday, an inquest was held before Mr. Curry, touching the death of a carter, named Richard Molyneuv. On Friday evening the deceased was standing in his cart, drivitig in Hood-street, when the wheel got into a hole, and the deceased was thrown out. In falling, the reins caught the deceased by the wrist, and the near wheels went over his neck. He was immediately carried to a sur geon's in Queen-square, but was quite dead when lie got there. • The deceased was 29 years of age, and the cart and horse belonged to him.—Verdict, " Accidental death." GRAND PROTESTANT CONFEDERATION.--The annual grand lodge meeting of this association was held at Warring ton on Wednesday, the Ist of July instant, and was numer ously attended by members from all parts of the United Kingdom. The accounts were of the most flattering de scription ; the appointment of a secretary resident in Man chester gave general satisfaction ; and the number of fresh enrolments, combined with the applications for new warrants, strongly indicates the prosperity and welware of the insti tution. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday an inquisition was held before P. F. Curry, Esq. coroner, on view of the body of Mr. Edward Jackson, a young man, thirty-one years of age, son of Mr. Jackson, of Mill-street, Toxteth-park. The deceased, who resided with his father, had risen from his bed on Saturday morning, between six and seven o'clock, and after dressing himself, and taking his hat, as if ready to go out, had gone into the front parlour, where in a few mo ments afterwards, he was found lying on the floor in a state of insensibiliry. Mr. Scott, surgeon, was immediately called in, but found the deceased quite dead, in consequence, he had no doubt, of a fit of apoplexy. The jury returned a verdict to that effect. TIIE WARDENSHIP OF MANCIIESTER.—The present mi nisters whether honestly or otherwise—into their motives we need not inquire—have always assumed the character of church reformers. They have, too, in most instances, tolera bly acted up to that character. Can it be true, then, that a job is in contemplation in the case of the vacant wardenship of Manchester? This important appointment places a cler gyman, as warden or chief rector, at the head of the 300,000 inhabitants of that great town. The revenues are variously stated, from £l3OO to £3OOO a-year ; but no one disputes the fact that they are sueient. The post, therefore, requires the whole of one man's energies, and the income is equal to such a man's maintenance. Yet it is currently reported that this post is assigned to a gentleman who holds a living of £l5OO a-year, at a distance of fifty miles from Manchester; and the new warden is to retain this living! Two thousand persons at Spofford', near Wetherby, are to be handed over to a curate, while their rector removes to Manchester, there to spend his time, due to their service, and his income, de rived from their labours ! I can hardly credit this report, except, indeed, that an immediate prorogation of parliament is expected, and the jobbers thus hope to escape being asked any inconvenient questions.—Correspondent of the Times. NEW " NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK."—The new building for the North and South Wales Bank, at the top of James's-street, and opposite the north side of St. George's Church, is now drawing towards completion, ex teriorly, and already forms a fine object, from Lord-street, and more particularly from the upper part of James's-street and Preeson's-row. It is one of the most elaborate and costly, though by no means one of the largest, of what are termed our " public buildings," and a brief notice of it may, therefore, be acceptable. It is founded on a portion of the site of the Old Castle of Liverpool, part of the circular moat or fosse of which was discovered in excavating for the cel lars, and led, in order to obtain a firmer and uniformly level foundation on the red free-stone rock, to the formation of two underground stories or tiers of vaults, all of which are arched, and also covered with thick blocks of Welsh lime stone. The mortar employed in this part of the buildings was solely Roman cement, and for dryness, and security from other casualties, these vaults are second to none in the kingdom. The cost of these alone would have built a large range of ordinary warehouse s . Th e b u ildi ng i s o f three stories in height from the ground, and of Grecian design, with a cornice richer and more massy than that of any other erection in Liverpool. The principal front is to the south, at one end, and though wh en seen f rom t h at direction it has a commanding effect, the spectator experiences a regret that the architect was confined to so narrow a space; for with the cornicing and the depth of the pli n th, i t appears to be per se somewhat disproportionately tall ; and the idea immediately suggested itself to us that it wo u ld f orm an elegant wing to a building extending eastward to Castle-street, with a central colonnade. Be this as it may, (a ri d it i s merely a matter of taste,) the architect has assuredly made the most of his ground, and has produced a superb s p ec i men of stone work. The front noticed, has two fluted columns with enriched capitals of the Corinthian order, i n th e centre, and two cor responding pilasters—one at each corner. These are 34 feet in height exclusive of the capitals. The walls of the bottom story are rusticated ; the upper stories of polished stone, and the whole of a good colour. This front is surmounted by a pediment, and the cornice, which projects four feet eight inches, is enriched by foliated medilions, patras, dentils, and other ornaments. The length of the upper tier of stones on the pediment is no less than eight f eet. The plinth all round is of Welsh lime stone. The larger front is on the south, in Penwick-street. The basement story has three round topped windows in the middle, and on ea c h s id e is a door with a pedimented top. There are five square topped windows with mounted architraves in each story above ; and between these, and at each end, are Corinthian pillasters, with elaborate capitals. The cornice on this side is similar to that on the south, and the whole presents a very beautiful appearance. The north and east sides of the building being in narrow streets are plainer, but are not with out architectnral ornament. The interior will be fitted up for the bank, and also for offices above, in a corresponding style of elegance. The architect is Mr. Edward Corbett, of Manchester, who also furnished the designs for the new " Union Bank," in Brunswick-street. The contractor for the work is Mr. Wylie. lIAWKWOOD, A ROMANCE OP ITALY, IN 3 voLs There is a class of novel and romance writing in which the Germans of the present day are excelling all other con , tributors to light literature throughout Europe. We allude to • what is called the Art-Novel, a title of admission which one would suppose, on the face of fiction itself, would cheat it of friendly readers, and provoke inspection only from that irritable tribe of criticlings who thrive most on that which they sneer at, as knaves grow fat and look most happy on the strength of what they choose to style " poor stuff." But it is otherwise in. Germany. In their literature, and in their reviewing, our cousin -Germans are a profound people. Every writer of any kind of power is sure of an audience of competent appreciators. Not an artist among them, whether he works with pen or pencil, is discouraged. Whoever pos sesses talent is stimulated to exercise and make it known by the assurance that he has the opportunity of acting on the mind of a congenial class of readers, who in turn, though they do not notice all th e a b ort i ons of their PRESS, yet read everything with a determination to sustain their rights as a national jury competent to try the matter at issue. To those only who have not thought for themselves will these remarks appear other than what inquiry will prove them to be. Hence, without tracing the causation, tediously by links, of the action and reaction of writers and readers upon each other, be it remarked, that in the department of Fictitious Writing the Germans have their art-novels, or works in which the skill of the artist is exhibited, or his deficiency as a literary artificer exposed and judged of, as anxiously on the part of author, reader, and reviewer, as though it were gra vity itself out of bed appealing to them at midnight. In the art-novels of that scholarly people, and which are alluded to for reasons which shall presently appear, the inci dents may be indifferent in themselves, but not so their time and place and manner of introduction. The art specially bestowed upon each of these points, and on matters appa rently of trivial detail, is as surprising as it is happily exer cised : it pervades—imbues every page of their really clever works. So great, indeed, is the thought bestowed upon German light literature, that it does not stick or remain be hind in the sieve of catchpenny, gossipy, wire-spun transla tion. The second-hand deeds in literary burglary yearly and monthly " done into French" prove this. The finish and polish may be somewhat tawdry—perhaps ragged and gewgawish ; but that applies only to the shell of the nut : enough of the kernel of fine thought remains and speaks in vitingly for itself, even when hashed and served up by a mouthing transmogrifying process peculiar to all kinds of French cookery as done in France. These remarks have been suggested by the perusal of a work named " Hawkwood"—a perusal which at least has had fidelity to recommend it, and which justifies the allusion to that first and often-slurred duty of a reviewer. We con ceive the romance in question to be a work indicative rather of promise of what its author may yet do, than of what he has already done. There is much of the German mind but not anything of the German mode in him, as reflected in the pages of this work. To those who look under the surface there is an evident German patience—a German disposition for minute and sustained inquiry —with a strong tendency to diverge on every occasion in pursuit of what is historical in fact or association. The author frequently pulls up in mid career of flights of fancy, and lingers descantingly by the way on the more sterling, but to the million the less alluring points of genuine history. In these respects the merit of what in " Hawkwood " is subordinate and accessary, is as decided, and the author's powers, under proper direction, as fall of promise and indicative of latent ability, as his romance, as such, is deficient in artistical skill—faulty in construction, and imperfect according to the rules of the art in which it comes before the world as an adventurous one of many. What the author of " Hawkwood" is without in 1840, he may have enough of, and to spare, in 1845. It is in the want of art in disposing of his materials, that present deficiency chiefly appears. Against all such unprovidedness there is but one lion's provider —PRACTICE. Practice alone turns apprentices into journeymen, and middlemen in turn into competent masters of their craft ; and novel-writing is as much an art as pie-making and millinery. It is also a sci ence, and to be cultivated with success it must be thought of and massively surveyed according to its own principles, as a science ; and the materials on which it works, systematically pieced out and reduced to shape, conformably to the finesse of art. Having said the worst that is justifiable of the demerits of "Hawkwood," it is but fair to notice some, and by no means all, of its numerous traits of talent. There is no unrewarding trash in any of its chapters. All that the author aimed at we cannot tell ; acquaintance, however, with what he has produced, will tend to improve the tone and elevate the taste of all but the hopeless gin-bibbers of mawk ish twaddle, supplied from the spruce shelves of circulating libraries. The writer of " Hawkwood "is no silky creature. of pomatumed notions, fragrant with puerilities akin to skin paste and Macassar. There is less of down than feather about him. The calibre of his thought is manly, and of the proper broad-backed school, which sooner or later finds most favour with men and women of sense. Whoever, as a word led creature, takes up the volumes as a romance, in the cir culating-library sense of the term, will be disappointed. In stead of abounding in the blue fire and hysterics of boarding school writing, the book is replete with historical allusions, which attest its author as a man of study and observation ; and, if not endowed with a rapid or vivid perception, yet manifests his possession of the humbler but more sterling qualities of a sensible and deliberative understanding. He could not have penned his descriptions until after having seen and felt the influence of Italian scenery, which he places be fore the mind's eye of the reader with that life-like verisimili tude, blended with allusions to the past history of a great country and impressions of the instant, which rise, by force of contrast, to the consciousness of educated travellers when treading on classic ground, peopled no longer by the free and the brave, but by an inglorious race of three-halfpenny aris tocracy, peasants, and cits, incapable of discussing the merits of little else than music and maccaroni. Though but an episode—indeed the work is a recueil of chapters, encumbered with incidents beyond the author's present tact to dispose of them to advantage—yet the description of Venice and its motley life may challenge comparison, and rise by juxta position, with the pen-and-ink sketches of any actual tra veller in flesh and blood with which we are acquainted. Se veral scenes are powerfully thrown off : the provoking thing is, that more attention has not been paid to concentration, and to the indispensable demands of unity. Alter the first volume, chapter on chapter should have been made to sub serve the crisis, as by an ascending series of sentences in a rhetorical climax, and should have closely conduced to the swelling progress of the onward action. In thought, manage ment, composition, and everything, the introduction is the best part of this three-volume production, which, though uneven and unequal, is often much above the average of works of its class. Chapter 6 narrates a boar hunt, i n which two princi pal characters figure in a foreground of stirring interest. The eager sportsmen are benighted, and their subsequent entrance and dangers, and successive escapes from a haunt of banditti near the lake of Como, are worth unmutilated extract. The scenes with a mysterious fellow named Ilderiin, and with Louise—a retiring sweet wifey creature, who interests chiefly by implication —are well conducted. But the descrip tions of scenery are the most happy . ; that for instance at p. 145, of the spot where Alfred is joined by Mortimer, and the reflections (163) on the soothing effect of fine landscapes on the feelings of the careworn. The manners, customs, and bearings of the age are well given. At page 195, there is a picture of John Galleazzo in little. But by far the best matter of the book, is the chapters devoted to Venice. The second volume ends with the death, by poison, of Bernabo Visconti ; and in the third, Ilderim again adds to the interest of an escape of the ladylove, from a convent. The state of Italy generally, is not forgotten. The time at which the narrative opens is at the close of the fourteenth century (1387), when Lombardy was shared between the elder and younger Visconti, and with the year in which a scheming nephew dethroned his old adder of an uncle. In noticing, instead of subserviently overlooking, the defi ciencies of Hawkwood, we have been unceremonious, per haps, but not unconscientious. There is that within the author, which we hope soon to see come tellingly out. He is worth a fling at, not being one of those scribes who, like flavourless crows, are not worth powder and shot. No dull ass, as friend William says, ever mends his pace with beat ing ; and we dislike any labour of love—except our respect for the Pope and O'Connell—to be thrown away unheeded. The book has its excellences to which we have pointed with unfeigned satisfaction; but as it is irregular in execution, and its plot fairly weighed down by an overlaying or mismanage ment of incident, we entertain the divided opinion of it which is here unswervingly recorded. Some authors thank friends for suggesting subjects ; others growl at the implied presumption. But as we have the for bearance of an Indian, for mere displays of temperament, we ask—as the author of Harkwood has shown such conver sance with Italian scenery, and the stirring history of its denizens, what an Historical Romance of the Brigand* might he not turn out ? Verb. sap : A word to the wise. We are glad to perceive that the very able Report on Deaf ness, by our townsman, Mr. Neill, has reached a third edition. THE EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.— The exhibition at this institution continues to attract thou sands of visitors from week to week. Strangers who may have come to town to attend the races will find this splendid exhibition an agreeable lounge. LIVERPOOL REGATTA.—This regatta will take place on Tuesday, the 21st instant. The distinguished patronage which it has obtained, the valuable nature of the prizes, and the excellent craft entered for the several races, give promise of a treat which has never been equalled on the Mersey. Mr. Warde the tragedian, a ma n w ith o ne o f the. finest speaking voices ever heard upon the stage of any country, died last Thursday in London. THEATRE ROYAL.—This evening Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews ; and Mr. James Vining appear in a new drama called " Faint Heart never won Fair Lady," and the operetta of " The Loan of a Lady." Their engagement has attracted full houses every night, and, with the novelties that are in preparation, it is not probable that their popula rity will diminish. The dancing of Mr. Gilbert, Miss Ballin, and their pupils, continues to call forth great ap plause. We must not neglect to remind our friends that on the evenings of the race days the performances will not commence till eight o'clock. MR. DUNN AGAIN.—This gentleman, who has rendered himself so notorious as the suitor of Miss Burdett Coutts, has been committed to Clerkenwell prison on account of his annoying conduct. TOTAL ABSTINENCE FESTIVAL.--It will be seen by our advertising columns that the total abstinence societies of this town are holding their festival this week. To-morrow they walk in procession ; and on Thursday and Friday meetings will be held in the Royal . Amp h itheatre, on which o c c as i ons great display of talent is anticipated. THE STEAM-SHIP " PRESIDEN T . " — On Saturday last, the engines of this fine vessel were set in motion for the first time. She proceeded as far as the Formby Light Ship, and returned to her moorings in the Sloyne. The object in this instance was merely to ascertain whether all was right and tight with the engines, without any attempt to put the vessel to her speed. Every thing worked to the satisfaction of all on board ; and, notwithstanding the great length of the vessel, she was steered with the greatest facility th roug h t h e numerous craft on the river. Wednes d ay next is the day fixed for the experimental or trial trip, when the President will proceed to Cork, with several of the directors and their friends. This voyage to the sister isle will doubtless prove a treat to those on board. THE WEATHER.—For several weeks past, the weather has been usually cold and cloudy for the season, with frequent showers, and, indeed, continued rains. The hay harvest has consequently been much retarded, and in some backward districts is not yet completed. No great injury has, however, been done to the grass, and the crops have been generally heavy. Sun and warmth are now much re quired, particularly for the ripening of the early potatoes. The grain crops are heavy, and there will be a great yield of wheat and oats, if the farmer is favour e d w ith a fi ne b ac k end. Prices, however, continue very high as yet ; and a good deal of indifferent stuff is worked up by the bakers in household bread. In consequence of the long prevalence of strong westerly breezes, almost amo unt i ng to gales, much of our outward bound shipping has been detained, but on Sun day and yesterday the wind varied more to the north east ward, and northward, and the sailings were considerable. During the night of Sunday we experienced some violent squalls, accompanied with heavy hail showers ; but now, when we write, (Monday evening) the sky has again become cloudless, and there IS every appearance of a favourable change. NEW BANK.—Several gentlemen, at the head of whom is Donald Maclean, Esq. M. P.,are endeavouring to establish a Joint Stock Banking Company in Reading.--G/oucester Chronicle. THE LAW OF STORMS Mr. Espy of Philadelphia, whose investigations into the causes of storms have attracted considerable attention in this country, delivered the first of a course.of four lectures on this subject in the Music Hall, Bold-street, on Friday even ing. The lectures were given on behalf of the Shipmasters' Association, whose formation and progress have been repeat edly noticed in this journal. The attendance, we regret to say, was not so numerous as the interesting nature of the subject deserved. On the motion of Mr. J. B. YATES, seconded by Mr. ROWETT, Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY, Mayor, was called to the chair, and the lecturer was introduced in a suitable speech from his worship. The LECTURER commenced by stating, that the magnitude of the subject he had undertaken to discuss, and the limits by which he was bound, would absolutely preclude the pos sibility of giving a formal introduction ; therefore, he would at once proceed to give the auditory a theory or the law of storms. It was necessary, however, in the first instance, to call their attention to a few elementary principles which he found demonstrated by philosophers, when he commenced the study of this subject. It was a mathematical subject, and in its study he went upon the principle of the inductive philosophy ; he began with facts, and concluded with facts. The first principle in it was laid down by Dr. Dalton of Manchester, who had done more than any man living for chemistry, and more for meteorology, and it was that we were able to ascertain the exact quantity of aqueous vapour in the atmosphere. The plan he recommended was acknowledged to be correct by all philosophers, and it was the corner-stone of the science he (Mr. Espy) was about to explain. The lecturer then exhibited the condensation of aqueous vapour on the outside of a tumbler of water, in which was inserted a lump of ice, from which it appeared that the quantity of vapour in the air corresponded exactly to the temperature. The point at which this vapour condensed, was called the dew point, or the condensing point of vapour in the at mosphere, which meant the highest temperature at which the moisture in the air would condense upon any body. The lecturer then explained that it never could rain more than nine inches deep, and the cause. If, he continued, the dew point was taken immediately after a great rain, we found it much lower; and if it was taken from day to day afterwards, it would rise a little, because the heat of the sun increased the temperatikre. The moment this principle came from England to Atherica, he saw it was a mighty lever placed in the hands of the meteorologist, by which he might move the world. He, therefore, studied meteorology and all its phe nomena for several years, before he discovered the laws which would be fully developed in these lectures. The next law he found demonstrated upon this subject was this : if atmospheric air was condensed in a smaller space, it was in creased in temperature ; and if it was rarified in a wider space, it was cooled. Mr. E. here exhibited an instru ment of his own invention, by which he demonstrated this law. Nothing but heat could change water into vapour, and nothing but cold could change it back into water. The clouds we saw were not vapour, but small particles of water ; and they were distinctly of the same nature as the clouds formed within the tube of the instrument. Now, if he could shew that nature, provided a contrivance to rarity the air in the course of a few moments, whereby a great degree of cold was produced, his theory was ma d e ou t. It was th e nature of air, that as we diminished the pressure it would expand. The auditory were aware that the atmosphere around the earth was only about 45 miles high, and that as it went higher it became thinner and thinner in consequence of the dimi nished pressure. If then a portion of the air, whether large or small, should ascend 100 yards it would expand, through the diminished pressure little more than one degree, if 200 yards, two degress, if 300 yards, three degrees, and so on. It should be one of the principal objects of the first and se cond lectures, to demonstrate that nature did cause large masses of air to go from the surface of the.earth upwards, till it was condensed, at least a large portion of it, into va pour, and so formed large clouds. In other words he should demonstrate how a cloud was formed—a fact never discovered before. In thinking over these matters it occurred to him that currents of air might possibly be formed, and rise to a great height in this way. When the sun rose, and shed his rays through a transparent atmosphere, we knew that his heat passed through that atmosphere without much heating it, in conseqnence of its transparency. When, however, his rays came in contactwith the surface of the earth they heated it. The air in contact with this surface necessarily became heated by the contact; and it then expanded 1,448 th of its bulk at zero. Now it was the nature of all fluid, that it would not lie still under a heavier one. Now if there was hot air underneath it would gather itself into masses above the surface of the earth and rise up ; thus, then, clouds began to form and to rise by the up-moving current of air underneath. If therefore the air that went up under all forming clouds became one degree colder for every 100 yards in consequense of diminished pressure, we could ascertain precisely how high a column of air would have to ascend before it would begin to form a cloud. Suppose the dew point to be fifty, and to re main at sixty degrees as it was to-day, as soon as the air rose 1,000 yards high, it began to form clouds ; if it went up fur ther it became colder, and formed more clouds,; and as soon as it was 20 degrees below dew poiut the tops of the clouds could be measured, by the instruments before him. To wards evening, especially in his country, as the air be came cold at the surface of the earth, it increased its radiation, throwing out the caloric of the earth into free space; the supply thus cut off, the air became thinner, and the clouds disappeared. But another question occurred immediately. Suppose we imagined clouds to be formed in this way, that there was this moving of the clouds, increasing the heat of the atmosphere at the surface of the earth, the moment the cloud became of less bulk, what effect could that have upon the up-moving current ? He should shew that the principle that caused the clouds to begin to fall, caused an expansion of air, independent of diminished pressure, which also caused an expansion. This principle—which he should shew more fully hereafter—was what chemists knew well as latent caloric. It could be accurately measured, and its ef fects in expanding the air were also known, as might be seen in the works of Gay Lussac, Humboldt, and others. This being understood, we could ascertain how much lighter a column of air might be than the surrounding columns, and how much the barometer would fall under one of these clouds. If we could tell the increased levity of a cloud, we could tell also with what velocity the air would run in upon all sides, in consequence of the diminished pressure indicated by the barometer. By the laws of dynamics we knew that air would rush 240 feet in a second. So that this subject was actually under the power of mathematics. Having shewn that phi losophers were enabled to astertain the temperature of a cloud, to the top of it, he mentioned that the barometer under one of these great clouds would fall just as much as it was known to fall in the midst of storms, and the air would rush in from all sides of the circumference to the centre. On this principle he should show how some distant storms had reached this island. When the subject had proceeded thus far he communicated the result of his observations to a few of the most distinguished philosophers in Philadelphia, and it appeared so important to them, that communications were made with the American Philosophical Society, and with the Franklin Institute. Those learned bodies formed a joint committee, which was instructed to examine the subject, and to ascertain if it were true, in fact, that the air did rush in upon all sides towards the centre of storms. The com mittee did not say a word about any theory till on the occa sion of the ninth storm, when they used these remarkable words, " This is the ninth storm the committee have inves tigated, in all of which it has been found that the wind blows from the outside towards a centre." It might be oblong and more sideways, so as to scatter water over a vast extent of country. A series of interesting experiments with kites also confirmed his views respecting the uprising current of air under clouds of no great density or magnitude, but merely such as are formed every day in North America. The works of nature were regulated by such fixed laws, Mr. Epsy said, that the mariner might foresee the storm ; lie might be able to see the direction from which it would come and the course which it would take, and he might hover on its verge and sail round it. In conclusion, Mr. Espy said, he had not come to this country merely to teach but to learn, and he should feel deeply grateful to those who would give him in formation. He wished particularly to have all the informa tion he could collect relative to the great storm of the 6th and 7th January, 1839. In reply to a gentleman who expressed a wish to communi cate with the lecturer, he stated, that his address was at Misses Perkins', 70, Duke-street. The MAYOR, after speaking in warm terms of the interest ing nature of the lecture, hoped to see a more worthy attend ance on_the next evening. The lecture lasted from a quarter past seven till nearly nine o'clock. The second lecture was delivered on Saturday night, when the auditory was rather more numerous than on the preceding evening ; still, the attendance was not by any means so great as the talented lecturer had a right to expect, considering his eminence as a philosopher, and the interesting nature of the subject which he undertook to elucidate. The Mayor was not present; and, after waiting some time for his arrival, Mr. Espy proceeded to business without a chairman, whose services, however, were not required. The lecture was ex ceedingly interesting, and it elicited much applause. The remaining lecture of the course will be d e li vere d thi s even i ng (Tuesday) and to. morrow. IRREGULARITY IN FORWARDING AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR-OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-1 observe in your paper of yesterday, a paragraph respecting the irregularity with which a part of the American correspondence is now torwarded by the New York Post office. I believe I can explain the cause of the disappointments which are thus so frequently occurring, and think benefit may arise from its being more generally known than it ap pears now to be. - When the steam-ships commenced running between this and the United States, their agents found that there was no law there (such as I believe exists in England) to prevent their making a charge for the receipts of letters, and they accordingly refused to carry any but on payment of a tax of 25 cents per single letter, or one dollar an ounce ; the Post offices throughout the country collect this for the ship along with their own inland rate. The sailing packets, which bad previously received letters free, soon followed the example, but charge only one-half the rate taken by the steamers. The New York postmaster is under these circumstances obliged to forward by any transient vessel that will bring them, such letters as reach him without the ship tax being paid, and I presume those of the delay of which we now have such complaints, have been so situated. I am, sir, your obedient servant, AN AMERICAN MERCHANT. Liverpool, 11th July, 1840. LIVERPOOL DOCK AND WAREHOUSE BILL TO THE EDITOR OF THE ALBION SlR,—Observing, in the Morning Chronicle, of this morning, a statement which appears to me to convey a very erroneous impression of the decision of the Parliamentary Committee yesterday on this bill, I take the liberty of en closing yon a copy of the Resolutions then adopted, not doubting that correct information upon such a subject will be interesting to your readers. Differing as we, probably, do in our views of this contest, I will not presume to make any comment thereon, but, without either impugning yours, or betraying my own opinion, I may be allowed to whisper in your ear, let those laugh who win. I am, sir, your obedient servant, London, Saturd ay , 11 t h J u l y. JOHN NORTH. PRESERVATION OF THE HAIR.—In order that the pub lic may avoid the disappointments so frequently complained of in the use of oils sold avowedly for promoting the growth of hair, we beg to submit the following statements to those desirous of preserving the hair:—From 1820 to 1830 J. Mid dlewood's genuine Botanic Oil was interdicted by govern ment on the ground that it possessed properties, and per formed such cures of baldness, as brought it within the mean ing of the patent medicine act, and not until its great utility in preserving the hair was submitted to parliament, could a legal sale be effected. The petition presented met with the kindest attention, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ex empted it from the medicine duty, to be sold under the de nomination of hair oil. The petition was presented by the late Right Hon. W. Huskisson, on the 10th April, 1830, while Mr. Goulburn was Chancellor of the Exchequer.-- See Advt. The railway companies haVe offered to convey passenge rs from Leeds, York, Sheffield, &c, to London, for £2 7 s i n first class, and for £1 11s 6d in second class carriages. As there are no fees allowed to guards, the terms must be ad mitted to be very moderate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-MONDAY. Twc) women named Mary Fynn and Letitia Duffer, were placed at the bar under the following circumstances. On Wednesday last, Mrs. Nicholson, wife of Mr. Nicholson, hatter, of Church -street, in crossing Clayton-square, dropped her gold watch, and nothing was heard of it although it was extensively advertised. It appeared that the son of Fynn found the watch the same day, and gave it to his mother. She exhibited it to a number of persons, and among others, to Mr. Fell, publican, in Gloucester-street, who took the number of it, and by that means it was identified. After that, Fynn got drunk, and when she arrived at her lodgings, she was stripped and put to bed by Duffer, who was seen by another female to take the watch from her bosom. Since that time nothing had been heard of it. Mrs. Nicholson being in ill health was unable to appear. Mr. Rushton ordered Fynn to be discharged ; and the other prisoner to be remanded for further enquiry. BREAKING OPEN A WORKSHOP. Elijah Stanely, a well known character, was charged with having broken open the workshop of Joseph Priest, a carpenter, in Mill-lane, and stealing therefrom four joiners' planes. The prisoner is the man who in humble imitation of Jack Shepperd, broke out of Rose-hill Bridewell about a month ago. From the evidence, it appeared that about a quarter past three o'cloc) this morning (Monday), the prisoner was met by an officer in Scotland-road, with the planes in his possession. He was taken into custody, and on the way to Bridewell, the fourth plane was found under his clothes. The prosecutor stated that his workshop had been broken open some time betwe e n S a t ur d ay n i g h t an d M onday morning. Mr. itusHToN, after reminding the prisoner that it was only a short time since he was before the court, asked him what he had to say. He replied " nothing." He was com mitted for trial at the next sessions. DISTURBING A CONGREGATION. William Sutherland, a sailor, was charged with having disturbed the congregation of St. Nicholas's Church during divine service on Sunday morning. The police-officer on duty, stated that the paisoner was drunk, and that on entering the doors of the church, he commenced singing " Hearts of Oak." He was ordered to pay a penalty of 55., or in de fault to be committed for three days. THE REGISTRATION. COUNTY VOTERS.—Any person having a qualification for a county vote, whose name is noton the present register, must, on or bilorethe2OthdayofJuly, deliver or send to one of the over , seers of the parish or township where the property which gives ' him the qualification is situated, a claim to have his name put on the overseers' list of voters, and with the claim there must be given is. This claim must be in the proper form, and he must take care that his qualification is correctly stated. If the name is on the register, but he has parted with the pro perty for which he was registered, -then he must make a new claim for any property which now gives him a qualification. If his name is on the register, but he has changed the place of his residence, he must make a •new claim, stating the place where he now resides. These claims must be given to the overseer of the parish or township where- the property which gives him the qualification is situated, and his name must be on the list of that parish or township. He must, therefore, ascertain whether his name is on the list of the proper parish or township. For this purpose he should examine the list, which will be placed on the church doors on the two first Sundays in August, and which may also be seen every day in the two first weeks of August, by applying to any one of the overseers of the proper parish or township ; such overseer is bound to show the list, and allow it to be read, without being paid anything. If he finds that his name is not on the list, or that it is on the list, but has the word objected placed against it, or if he finds that there is some mistake as to his name, or his place of residence, or descrip tion of the property, or if any person gives him a notice of objection to his vote, the voter, or some one for him, must attend the revising barrister to prove his right, and have any mistake corrected. If he knows of any bad votes on any overseer's list, he should take care that these bad votes be objected to, and this must be done on or before the 25th of August. The 20114 of July is the last day on which a claim can be received by the overseers. The 25th of August is the last day on which objections can be made. BOROUGH VOTERS.—If any one is qualified to have a vote for a borough as an occupier of premises of the yearly value of ten pounds, he must pay, on or before the 20th of July, all his poor's rates and assessed taxes payable for those premises previously to the Gth of April last, or he will not be entitled to have a vote. It wail ne no excuse for him, that the collector of taxes or parish officer has not de manded payment. He must examine the list of voters of the parish or township where his premises are situated, which list will be placed on the church doors in that parish or township, on the two first Sundays in August, and which may also be seen any day in the two first weeks of August, by applying to one of the overseers of that parish or town- ship. Such overseer is bound to show the list, and allow it to be read, without being paid anything. If the voter finds that his name is not on the list, he must, on or before the 25th of August, deliver or 'send to one of the overseers of the proper parish or township, a' claim to have his name put on the list. That claim must be in the proper form, and the voter, or some one for him, must attend the revising ba rr i s t er to prove his right. It he finds that his name is on the list, but that there is some mistake as to the name, or as to the description of the premises, in that case also he must attend before the revising barrister, to have the mistake corrected. If any voter knows of any bad votes on any overseer's list, he should take care that these bad votes be objected to, and this must be done on or before the 25th of August. He should examine also the li s t o f o bj ect i ons , whic will be placed on the doors of the church of the parish or township where his premises are situate, on the two first Sundays in September, and which may also be seen on application to any one of the overseers of that parish or township, on_ any day after the 4th of September, and before the 15th of Sep tember. Such overseer is bound to show the list, and allow it to be read, without being paid any thing. If the voter finds his name in this list of objections, he or some one for him must attend before the revising barrister, to prove his right. The 20th of July is the last day for payment of poor rates and assessed taxes. The 25th of August is the last day to claim for a borough vote, if omitted from the list, or to object to any bad vote. ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE . (From the Oxford Herald.) The Rev. F. Maurice, who is appointed to the Professor ship of English Literature and Modern History in King's College, London, is of Exeter College, in this University. The Rev. Charles Stroud Green, M.A., of Christ Church, Assistant Master of Leicester Commercial School, has been appointed to the Head Mastership of Milton Abbas Grammar School, Blandford, Dorset, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Wise. The Rev. Henry Tuffnell Young, 8.A., of Balliol College, has been presented to the Vicarage of Wormingford, Essex, on the resignation of the Rev. Geo. Tuffnell; patron, John Jolliffe Tuffnell, Esq. PROMOTIONS The Rev. W. D. B. Buttes, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Mount Cashel, to the evening Lectureship at Milrerton ; patrons, the Trus tees of the late Mrs. Morgan The Rev. C. Tower, B bridge, late Curate of Loughton ol at. Jonn• s uollege, Cam- Morton, Essex, to the Curacy of The Rev. William Jackson, of Stockport, to St. John's Chapel, Workington. • , The Rev. Thomas Garde Durdin, son of Robert Durdin, Esq., of Cranemore House, in the county of Carlow, to the Living of Oldcastle, in the Diocese of Meath, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Henry H. J. Westby ; patron, Lord Dunsaney. The Rev. D. Moore, 8.A., of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, to the Curacy of St. Bride's Fleet-street. The Rev. Wentworth Bird to the Free Grammar School of Bolton, void by the resignation of the Rev. A. Hadfield. The Rev. E. T. Alder, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cam bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Metfield, Suffolk, void by the resignation of the Rev. A. Stead. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) The Rev. Thomas Parkins Dodson, 8.A., of St. John's College, in this university, has been presented to the vicarage of Wysall Notts ; patron, Sir R. H. Bromley, Bart. The Rev. Algernon Feachem, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, in this university, has been elected Head Mathe matical Master of Grosvenor College, near Bath. The Rev. Patrick Charles Nicholson, of Trinity College, in this university, Assistant Curate of St. James's Church, Leeds, has been appointed by the Rev. Dr. Hook, incum bent of the new church of St. Luke's, now building at Sheepscar, in the north end of the town. The Lord Bishop of Worcester has presented the Rev. James Henry Wilding, M.A., of Trinity College, in this university, to the Rectory of St. Helen's and St. Alban's, Worcester, void by the resignation of the Rev. Donald Cameron, on his appointment to the Vicarage of Snitterfield, in the county of Warwick. (From the_ Durham Advertiser.) At an Ordination held on Sunday last, by the Lord Bishop of Durham, in the parish church of St. George, Hanover square, in the county of Middlesex ; the following gentlemen were ordained : DEACONS J. G. Pearson, Student of University college, Durham. J. F. Bigge, 8.A., Student of University college, Durham. W. Norval, M.A., of the University of Glasgow, and Student of Theology in the Universiy of Durh M. Thompson, 8.A., University college, Durham.am. T. Dalton, 8.A., University college, Durham. E. Elder, M.A., Balliol college, Oxford. J. Stewart, B. A., Trinity college, Cambridge. H. Barrett, M.A., Pembroke college, Cambridge. W. Sisson, University college, Durham. C. Forbes, a literate person. T. C. Cook, 8.A., Trinity co ll ege, D u b l i n. G. Hariot, 8.A., University college, Durham. E. Edmunds, 8.A., Trinity college, Dublin. E. W. Milner, Pembroke college, Cambridge. Letters dim. from Archbishop of Canterbury. PRIESTS. R. B. Tower, 8.A., University college, Durham. J. A. Burrough, 8.A., Emmanuel college, Cambridge. W. T. Shields, University college, Durham. C. Bird, 8.A., Trinity college, Cambridge. W. Bennett, University college, Durham. J. B. P. Dennis, 8.A., Queen's college, Oxford. The Earl of Durham has purchased Mr J. L. Gower's splendid yawl-yacht " Albatross," of 75 tons. We learn from Athens that a violent shock of earthquake was felt in that city about midnight on the 11th ult. The government has resolved to establish a chair of civil engineering and mechanics in the University of Glas with a salary of £275 FINE SALMON.—On Tuesday morning last, a salmon was caught by Mr. J. Mc Gowen, fishmonger, in our river, which weighed 3311bs.—Preston Pilot. Mr. 'William Burgess, architect, has been declared by the Shannon Commissioners contractor for the building of the Bascule bridge and piers of Shannon harbour. The conservatives of the City of Loudon held their annual dinner in Covent Garden Theatre on Wednesday last. There were upwards of 1600 present. A very great advance has recently taken place in the. of sugar, amounting, durin g th e last four weeks, to nearly 20 per cent., and making a difference of 2d per lb. to the consumer. On Thursday last, Mr. Farncomb was unanimously re elected sheriff of London, he having taking up his freedom, the want of which had made him ineligible when he was first elected. ALEXANDRIA, JUNE G.---It is rumoured that the Israelites of Damascus are about to be transferred to Alexandria, in order to be questioned in the presence of the European consuls. The Hon. Thomas Kenyon is now quite recovered from the serious effects of his accident last month, and is, w e are happy to hear, able to take an active part in the local affairs of his neighbourhood. THE DERBYSHIRE MOORS.We have been informed that the young broods of grouse on these moors —especially in what is t erme d t h e Devonshire and Rutland district—are L plentiful. Th ey are said to be large and strong. —Le eds , Intelligeneer. An enormous organ is now being erected in the abbey of St. Denis. It contains about 6000 pipes, amongst which are some measuring 52 feet, and weighing 12,0001b5. This magni.." ficent instrument is nearly completed. STATE OF TRADE LEEDS. —The business in the cloth-hall continues ex tremely dull ; and we are sorry to add that matters are quit as cheerless in the warehouses, Until the existing monetarl derangements and pressure are in some degree got over, will be in vain to expect any material improvement. WE believe we may say that the depression of the staple trades of this district is unexampled. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—The demand for bulk goods in the Cloth Halls during the week has been principally for domestic consumption, in execution of orders for the summer and autumn trade. For the export trade the purchases have been very limited, the amount of business doing in that branch being much less than usual at this season of the year. BRADFORD. —The demand for manufactured goods at this market on Thursd a y was extremely limited, and those sold scarcely realised former rates. There was, however, a fair demand for yarns, but the spinners complain of non remunerative prices, and several of them in consequence refrain from running their mills full time. The supply of wool was larger, particularly the new clip, but from the dulness of the demand for manufactured goods, the transac tions were very few, and late prices were scarcely maintained. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET.—We have still to report a continued depression in the demand for all descriptions of wool, both combing and clothing ;—the very limited sales that have been effected are at a further slight reduction in prices. YORK WOOL MARKET, July 9.---We have had a fair supply of wool, and a good attendance of buyers at this day's market. Still, however, prices have again receded from the last week's quotations, and many lots were left over to the next week, unsold. DONCATER WOOL FAIR, July 6.—This market was again well supplied with wool, and there was also a good attendance of buyers. Throughout the day business was flat, and a further reduction of 4d. per lb. was submitted to, a large quantity being left in the hands of the sellers. LEICESTER WOOL. FAIR, July 3.—The annual meeting for the exhibition of the sale of Wool was held this day. It was well attended, and the quantity pitched was about 22,000 Fleeces, being less by 6000 than last year. The prices averaged from 28s. to 30. The Hon Wilson, the president of the Society, presented Mr. Henry Robinson with a cup as being the largest buyer, he having bought 900 tod. LEICESTER.—The demand for goods does not improve, the season for the home trade not having arrived, and the American trade being almost nothing. Yarns are without alteration,.and wool remains firm at from 28s. to 31s. per tod. Worsted yarn, we understand, is now 2d. per lb. lower than it was this time last year.—Leicester Chronicle. IMPORTS OF Woot.—Quantity of Wool entered at Hull for home consumption during the week ending July 2 : From Hamburg.... .... MISCELLANEOUS. • EXTRAORDINARY CATCH OF SALMON.—On Monday morning no fewer than 663 salmon were brought up from the nets at Culmore, the take of two tides. This is the largest catch that is within the recollection of those engaged in the Culmore fishery.—Derry Sentinel. The Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which numbers upwards of 1,200 members, proposes to hold its eighth anniversary meeting at Southampton, on Wednesday tha 22d, and Thursday the 23d, of July next. A Lit.—" A great lie," says the poet Crabbe, " is like a great fish on dry land ; it may fret and fling, and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself." RATHER FAT ! — There is a man in Shrewsbury so stout, that when his physician ordered him to take exercise, he had only to run round himself! PRICE of A WIFE !—On Sunday week, James Hatton, residing in what is called the bottom building, New Radford, disposed of his wife to his neighbour, Banjamin Hickton, for Is. and a gallon of ale ! the amiable fair one appearing quite delighted with the transfer. We presume she was war ranted, one of the conditions of sale being, that if the pur chaser did not approve of his bargain, she should be returned.—Nottingham Review. SIMPLE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM.—BoII a small pot full of potatoes, and bathe the parts affected with the water in which the potatoes were boiled, as hot as it can be applied, immediately before getting into bed. The pains will be re moved, or at least greatly alleviated, by the next morning. Some of the most obstinate rheumatic pains have lately been cured by one application of this novel and simple remedy. Those who are subject to this really distressing complaint, such as travellers, and all persons exposed to the weather, will, it is hoped, experience the above to be an invaluable specific.—Courier. MASONRY.—A very important regulation is announced as having been adopted by the three Grand Lodges of Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland, the abolition of " refresh ments" upon all ordinary lodge nights. The only occasir in whicY ,n the brethren are to meet at such a table, are the anniversary festivals of St. John. KEAN'S STUDY.-.-Kean sat up all night in a room oppo site the Debtors' Door, in the Old Bailey, to catch a full view of the deaths of the Cato-street conspirators ; and as he was going on the stage in the evening, he said to me, " I mean to die like Thistlewood to-night : I'll imitate every muscle of that man's countenance."—Bunn's the Stage. It is curious to investigate the effect of vegetables on dif ferent animals. Horses have so great a repugnance to cruci ferous plants that they will not touch them, but will f ee d on reed grasses, among an abu n d ance o f which goats have been known to starve, though they often feed on other vegetables, and will even become fat on water hemlock, which is rank poison to other quadrupeds. In like manner swine will de vour henbane, while they are destroyed by common pepper: an the horse which avoids the mild turnip will get into flesh by feeding on rhubarb. It is a curious fact, that man if he takes the scrapings of the rind of alder, scraped one way, it will act as a purgative ; but scraped the contrary way, it will act as an emetic. AN ACTOR AND A PAGE.—On the occasion of this visit, Mr. Liston and myself were conversing in the ante-room of the royal box, with a nobleman attached to the household, when one of the pages, passing by and not seeing his lord ship, slapped the comedian on the back, ejaculating, " D'ye think you'll make him laugh to-night ?he was horribly stupid at dinner." I cannot now determine which tacurea greatest roar, the face of Mr. Liston or that of the lacquey on perceiving the noble lord before whom he had so com mitted himself respecting his illustrious master. If the reader never saw the face of a dignified performer, when re minded than he was nothing more than a performer, he has a treat to come.—The Stage, by Mr. Bunn.. STRATAGEM OF THE CAPTAIN OF A SLAVER.—Coming over from the African coast with hi s usua l cargo, (slaves) a British man-of-war bore down on him, till darkness inter vened, which he took the benefit of, by putting a water cask over the side, and attaching a weight to the bottom, to keep it from rolling over. He then placed a signal lanthorn on the top, partly obscured, so as to make the light appear ac cidental. After setting this decoy adrift, he up helm, and off in a different direction, finding next day that the ruse de guerre had taken, leaving him to work his passage with a little more comfort than that of the previous day, when his intended acquaintance had sent him five shots by way of in troducing himself. THE SNUFF-TAKING STATUE.—We have often heard of persons mistaking the shadow for the substance ; in the pre sent instance we have to describe the case inverted_ An •••• s.a • Ul 1 . .11. English officer in Venice, walking one day from the Doge's Palace, thought he observed one of th e fi gures on the clock tower of St. Mark's stoop down and take up something ! He looked again, and he positively saw the figure take a pinch of snuff! The officer confessed that he was apprehensive he was losing his senses, or that his vision wma . • - w.. uerangea ; when an old woman, observing his consternation, soon explained the seeming miracle, by telling him that one of the figures that struck the hour being out of repair, her nephew, Jacopo, was engaged as a substitute till the machinery was put into order.—Bentley's Miscellany. RAVAGES OF THE PLAGUE IN CONSTANTINOPLE.—Its fatality is greater at some seasons than at others. Generally, both at its commencement and its decline, the proportion of deaths is less than when it is at its height • no accurate esti mate, therefore, can b e ma d e o f the number of deaths in a hundred cases. Certain it is, however, there are times when hardly any who are seized recover. About the middle of October, 1836, the number of deaths during one week, as given in an official report, was about 1200. In November the disease was its height. There were currently reported to be nearly 2000 deaths daily ; and the whole number of victims which fell, during the autumn and winter, was believed by many to be not less than 100,000. For the truth of these popular estimates I cannot vouch. The scenes which daily met my eyes proved, however, that the havock was immense. Cemeteries of several acres in extent were SO completely turned up, to receive new dead in the very graves where thousands were before reposing, as to assume the appearance of freshly-ploughed fields. I have seen, in one of the bury ing-grounds, a body of men engaged in digging graves, while the confined dead were accumulating around them faster than they could inter them. I have watched by the gate of Selyvria, which opens upon the great road to Adrianople, for many minutes together, and have seen an almost unbroken procession of coffins, borne upon the shoulders of porters, pass out to the cemetery on that side of the city ; and so it continued from morning till night, and day after day.—South gales Travels in Turkey and Persia, just published. THE PLAGUE. — PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT INFECTION. —Among the respectable classes of the Franks, it seldom if ever becomes prevalent. For safety's sake, they subject themselves to the most annoying precautions. A wooden structure, in form resembling a sentry-box, and sufficiently capacious to admit one person standing upright, is placed close by the entrance to the house. Elevated a few inches from the bottom is a wooden grate. Before any one is admitted to the house, he must enter the box, and take his stand upon the grate. A pan of coals, with a few sprigs of cypress or some other odoriferous wood, is placed beneath. The door is shut, and the sufferer, to save himself from suffocation, thrusts his head through a hole made in the door for the purpose. For half a minute be undergoes the fumi gation of the smoking cypress, and is then admitted into the house. ut still he is not supposed to be free from suspicion of f r i t e h n e d i he finds he u, e it a i r t p h e e t st windows taken upo,f their divested wont to meet him with a cordial shake of the har te T d he coverings, • o w i n a g s s aisndbotwalekds o w o i t th io h t him sameabo u t c t e h r e e in plague s / mann rece ives him at a cold di stance, points to a chair in the mi P hof e e r rt h eh a te p ir s reo , so k inh a e' n intimate friend, he is invited to dine. These is no cloth upon the table, or, if there be, the part b w e i f t o h re hi h n i l m is carefully r o ll e d b ack. No one sits in' contact no napkin is l a id b e f ore him; and he is saved from the ne•;- cessity of serving himself with his fingers,only because steel, silver, and crockery, are not supposed to be contagious. A friend once called upon me, and, during our coniersation, drew from his pocket a newspaper, which he wished me to read. For this purpose he spread it upon a table, where I might read without touching it. Unfortunately, however, I forgot myself so far as to turn one of the leaves with my thumb and forefinger. The paper was instantly mine ;it was suspicious ; my friend would not receive it again. —South gate's Travels in Turkey and Persia. PERSIAN IDEA OF DOMESTIC COMFORT.—we came out from among the hills upon an extensive slope, passed seve ral villages, and entered one, whose orthography, according to its inhabitants, is Rahvarran, and its orthoepy Novarran. A. villager met us at the entrance, and, informing us that there was no house for us on that side of the village, offered to conduct us to one where we could obtain lodgings. It proved, when we reached it, to be his own habitation. The room which he opened for us having no hole for the egress of smoke, we went in search of another, while our host had gone out to bring water. On opening a door we came sud denly into tbefamily apartment, where two or three women and six children in the full enjoyment of domestic comfort. In order to understand what domestic comfort means in P ers i a , a little explanation is necessary. The most common fire-place in _a Persian ap ar t ment is a circular hole in the ground, two or three feet deep, called a tandour. A fire is lighted at the bottom, and when this has burned out, a fine glow of heat remains. A low wooden frame, somewhat re sembling a t a bl e w i th its legs reduced to the length of a foot, i s placed over the tandour, and upon this is spread a large coverlet, which extends several feet beyond the table on every side ng bodies formi centre. Thus disposed they d raw th e cover let up t o th e i r the radii fro m th e t an d our , whi c h i s t h e chins, and the beholder sees nothing but a circle of heads emerging from beneath it. Our sudden entrance produced some confusion among the inmates, and the master appear ing at that moment ordered the family to retire to another apartment, and invited us to take their places under the coverlet. We had had so many lessons, however, upon the imprudence of occupying family quarters in a Persian village, that we were content to spread our carpets in the farthest corners of the room, and repose upon them.—Soviligatfe's Trawls in Turkey and Perna, just published. , , .--,- - - ‘ 4 ,dp IV -h: , 7 Uti,,e.zl4o - . 7-: 'o f .4., " 4rAiltit