The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-27 00:00:00

TUE .TOWV.IIi. MIN &GER The spirit of - political °canon)) , has at last found its • n-aY idto ilia Tower of London. The reformers have determined.to sup press the royal establishment so long provided for, the king of beasts. All the mighty lions and• ferocious monsters irhich so long constituted one of the grand exhibitions of the metropolis have been tried and cot:Lc:mined to suffer secondary punishnieut or transportation, The dens and the-apparatus for muziling the bears "and taming tEe genus fells are to be sold ferthWith to the best bidder; iu short the tower Menagerie is abOliihed. The Myers of zoology and many of our country gentlemen -lament That Leo senius confeetus and his amiable family have been eject ed from their ancient domains, and they think the menagerie .might have been retained as a cage fur certain dangerous ani mals now roving at large 'over his Majesty's 'dominions. We hay describe one of :he class in the words of Otway—. " One who has rais'd his fortunes by the jars And discords of the country; like a fly O'er flesh, he hoozes about itching ears, Till he has vented his infectious there, • To fester into rancour and sedition - l'hat talking knave Oonsmnes his time in speeches to the rabble, And sows sedition up and down the city, Picking up discontented fools, belying - • = The Senators and,'Government—destroying Faith among behest men, and praising knaves." ASTRONOMY.. ". AN MONDAY next, . the 2d, .TUFr the 3 d, and N./ WEDNESDAY, .the 4th N ov.ex Ir. HOLDEN will deliver a Course of ASTRONOMIC. LECT UR ES, in the LIVER THEATRE, Liverpool; nd repeat - th em on THURSDAY, the sth, FRIDAY, la, and SATURDAY,. the 7th; illustrated with beautif 'ransParcnt Orrery, 24 feel in diameter ; also, a great quantity. of splendid Bceuery, Telescopic .Viewp of the Sun, Moon, 'Planets. Comets, Stars, Nebulae,-&e., shining as in nature, enlightening all the-place: — F - 0r particulars, order, &c., see the Syllabus. - Tickets may be had at the - Courier and Mercury Offices; of Mr..Cannell, Bookseller, Castle street; Mr.. Widmer Church street; Mr. Bywater, and Mr. .Walker , Opticians, • Yool-lane ; Mr. Penn, Corporation Baths; and of the Lecturer, Mr. Kilt 1er7.8 42, Russell-stre et. - Tee Lecture begins at Seven o'clock each Evening. . \ tr ~ .L _ v:; . -; .. r .. TO' CORRESPONDENTS. We have to apologise for the omission of several communica tions and lettei-s which it was intended should Save appeared to-day. The press of advertisements has - alioObliged us to • omit•our report of the trials at,the Borough Quarter Sessions, which commenced yesterday. Tbe Eiberpoot Stantarb, :TUESDAY MOThVING, OCTOBER 27. 1833. By the Mari,'EPaptain NELSON; which sailed on the 12th of September, and arrived here on Friday last, we have Demerara papers to that date. Some differences of opinion had arisen relative to the "rate of compensation for thiremancipated labourers, but they do not appear to us to be of much importance. The colony was healthy and tranquil. • • We . have also rP.ceived Canada papers to the sth in , stant. They at'e - uninteresting. The New York packet of the Bth instant arrived in the Mersey yesterday, having made the passage in eighteeen days. The papers she has brought contain . very little intelligence of any moment. e That the cry of certain writers against O'Coeteieetiarid in-defence of, the House of Lords was premeditated, and that Mr. BAINES of Leeds acted upon instructions which he feared to disobey, are facts, is now so obvious, that it would. be silly to cfeestiori them. ln the Edinburgh Re view, just published, there is an article in which the sen timents of the Leeds Mercury arefollowed - up in rather a dis Mal tone, but:with admirable candour and sound rea soning: The old whig . propensity to overrate their claims upon the people, and cherish hope in the lest hour of despair, is ConsPicuous enough ; but still sufficient is confessed to satisfy the most incredulous that the Irish demagogue has touched a sore -subject; insulted tbe.Whig aristocracy, raised against himself and his hollow and de ceitful ministerial allies a new hest . eneinies; and ef fectually_ruiried the . Meebenue*:aci reinistretioe. . After what has occurred it is impossible that the pre sent cabinet:can survieei if:if .survive .so long, the first ten days of the next sesSiorirof parliament. They . ;must make up their minds either to repudiatd their alliance with O'Ciisteiee, and denounce the 'ilanderOus and tree.- eonable invectives lie has uttered, or, by, remaining si lent or by defending him, provoke the concentrated op position of the leaders of their-party, thereby causing suAi a desertion from their ranks as mustleave ministers, in a minority even in the House Of Commons. It is de feat and disgrace whichever way they turn. If they should attempt to justify, or even offer any. apology foe the atrocious conduct of DANIEL, they will . be signally beaten. They are in the situation of men who have bound themselves by some secret oath to.COriunit a foul crime. The unhallowed project of the party has been di vulged, and the victims are on their guard. They know that the accomplishment of the- villanous design is the basis of their union, and that its failure must create dis tentent and lead to defection on the part of certain of their confederates. To persevere would be hopeless mad ness, ending in suicide Tostay proceedings would be equally - dee - peer - ons, - for thee - Keounetrels - wirtreeholif they have unfortunately contracted would in that case peach, the meditated crime - eyeuld :be •expoSed; and the rest of the gang either execntednr transported . Such is the wretched dilemma of- the whigs iu this:the 1 last year of their reign of fraud, and we cry them mercy f But some will say- 7 why should not ministers break . with O'CONNELL at once,' depiecate his blackguard attacks upon the peerage, holdiffm . up to public scorn, end ; throw themselves on the charity and sympathy of the public ? Stop a bit, good christian ; this is easier said than clone. When honourable men unite for honourable or legitimate purposes, no harm can arise from their separation in case of failure. But can any :alliance" formed by the'King's ministers, who and the professed guardianS of the crown, and who have sworn to protect and maintain-the protes tant religion in•these realms, with such a manias DANIEL O'CONNELL, a treaelleC6US papist, and the avowed and einrelenting. enemy of our nobles, our church, and our religion, be deemed or held to be, an honourable, a legi timate, or justifiable . ' alliance? . man blessed with a particle of seneee candour, or discrimination, would as sert anything of the kind. It is a base and polluted con federacy, formed in -the necessity of a gnilty moment,' to gratify insatiable - rancour 'and dirty pride, to obtain a temporary triumph at a sacrifice of truth and principle, and to regain place, power, and pelf, no matter by what feel means. How then can Lord MF.LBOU RYE or Lord JouN Rus sea. breakevitletrCoNNit.l.?. They are but bares in the fangs of a tiger. He has them hard and fast in his .merciless grasp. If it snit his purpose to preserve them he will ; if he can be allowed to gorge upon his favourite meal they will be tolerably safe for a while; but if they wince, or complain, or attempt to desert, he will tear them to pieces with all the.filry and delight of his brutal and savage nature. Do not therefore talk to us Of the whigs turning upon DANIEL. They dare not. We do -not deny that there is more than one way ef escaping from-his clutches. They might bribe him—give him mo ney instead of blood, and titles to correspond—they might make him still more illustrious by courtesy though not less infamous in character ; and by this means, and on these-Oonditiens, it is more than probable he would con sent to deny all that he knows, swear black is white, like Joseen HUME, and, With well assumed gravity and so lemnity, protest before IleavEef• that he uttered,' in the excitement of galled and disappointed feelings, senti ments of which in ; a calmer meod . lie .heartily repents. There is another way. Ministers may avoid disgrace by quietly resigning before the meeting of parliament. This will be the easiest and safest way of surmounting a very serious difficulty. 1;‘64, or no explanations will be demanded. They have only to equivocate a little, as Lord MELBOURNE 'did after his first resignation, and throw the blame upon what the Edinburgh Review ealh the "court party." They could allege that the seals re maining so long in commission—the want of a lord chan cellor—and the hostility .of a ",certain personage" to one of his most familiar correspondents—had created ob stacles in the way of a compact and united administration which they deemed "altogethee incompatible with their retention of office. The nation Would probably laugh • most heartily at this ingeniooe subterfuge; but nothing hut good nature would prevail ; a new cabinet would be formed, and O'CONNELL-Would have quite enough to do in meeting his constituents at a new election. To this we think it will come, and sooner perhaps than some peo ple imagine. Having said thus much we beg to call attention to the opinions of the Edinburgh Review, to.which we have alluded. They have lost much of their force after What • we have given from the L eeds Mercury. In fact it is manifest that tile writer in the Leeds paper, whoever he is, the writer in the Oxford Herald, and the writer in the Edinburgh Rei , ietc, have drawn their drgurnents and ideas frOni the same source The reluctance derived from compulsion marks them all. There is melancholy if not despondency in their composition. A ne . * light is produced, evidently by reflection ; for some adthoritatite person has said,—`. 4 do this, OR l" and it is dobe as a pa= tient under restraint, and against his own conviction; swallows a decoction which is exceedingly nauseous and repulsive. Implicit obedience, however, accordibg to whig rule, liaalse4n the aristocratic order of the day ; and nothing remains for us -hut to observe its effects. We beg an earnest attention to the following extracts : The last time of addressing our readers on the state of public affairs was on the eve of a change of administration. We then expressed our opinion very freely upon the 'character and com position of the present House of Commons—and we did not withhold our apprehensions of still worse mischiefs from the infatuated conduct of a great party in the other house of parlia *meat. .Upon neither subject has the historynf the session in the least tended to change our sentiments. But the change of ministry was an event of great importance. A government so ,weak as to he incapable, of ,carrying any one question iu the lower house has been succeeded by one just strong enough there not to be beaten, and tocofeeble in the upper house to command a vote upon any contested question. Of the composition of this goYerriment, or that of the last, we need not speak. One thing' is quite certain, that from the one the country never obtained anything but by cornpulsion ; -While from the Other almostevery . - thing has been obtained which it had the power to give. This is surely one ground of confidence—one - claiin to support. Ano ther that -our confidence - and support is necessary - to their"' existence. The court, we fear, is against them.' The church is against there, and regards them, most absurdly; most wildly regarde them, as the source of all its perils—whereas we verily believe they stand between the church and destruction. The aristocracy, whether in parliament or in the country, is their 'implacable enemY ; - and, 'hating reform only somewhat less bitterly than it hates them, would-even support a reforming go vernment of tories, if such a course might only relieve them from the whits. Last of all, the Housenf Commons is but by a narrow majority for them; and of that small majority there are many unfriendly in their tenets both to their persons and to their policy, who only support thesis through fear of their con stituents—not having, like others elected by the liberal pasty. broke faith, and gone over to the enemy. Thus circumstanced, 'unless the people support them," is there a chance of their eon tinuing to fill those }decor, from•which, if they be driven, a tory succession, without prospect of end, is the fate that awaits the country ? , The support of the people is, in truth, absolutely necessary, not only to control the court, but to control the commons. The recent conduct of the lords has not unnaturally withdrawn the attention of men from the conduct of our representatives. Yet a very little reflection will remind us of scenes in the lower 'house of parliament far from consolatory to the friend of liberal principles. The Speakersbip carried' by eleven votes—the amendment to the address by sixteen—the resolution on the ,Irish church by about twice as many ;—such it the measure we insist he content to take of the preponderance of liberal repre sentation in the people's house of a reformed parliament. Yet, was it thus at the general election ? Did nearly one-half of the candidates for the people's suffrages avow that they were resolved to support the tories ,? Did little more than one-half of these candidates profess themselves friends to reform ? Far from it.- T The • people were deceived—grossly, scandalously deceived. Men pretending to be liberal in theirsentiruents won their favour, that they might lend it to the enemies of all liberal opinions. Men who had never ,given a vote at all—nay, men who had given many votes, but never a liberal one—were believed when they affected to be reformers • and some were even preferred to known and tried friends' Of the people. Were we to esti mate at five-and-twenty or thirty the persons who played this game, and there are at the least as many more, who, hating reform in their hearts, and desirous of quitting the govern ment, and wishing 'to see that government destroyed, yet have never suinrnorted up the bad courage that has led the others, in open and audacious breath of their faith, to desert. in the face of day, and join the adversary's ranks. On those men—those lukewarm, unwilling friends, or concealed enernies-L-depends even the scanty majority which the government now has. Can it be for an instant doubted, that the least relaxation of support froot•thecountry would at once decide their votes, and throw the ministers into a minority in the House of Commons—seal their dootri with the court, and with the peers, and with the tory leadersgiving the,court the courage to fling them out—giving the teTies, spirit to take their places—and raising the assurance of the peens to.a pitch which, even without any such encourage ment, it had .welinigh attained short time ago ? If any one should think our -apprehensions chimerical, we entreat him to took at the composition of the ministerial majorities during the session: He will find not only how small they were, but how various in their constituent parts—that is to say,. not 'of how many parties composed—of this we are presently to speak—hut how many of the individuals who voted' on any one occasion were absent, and had their places supplied by different persons on another occasion. Where parties run near , nothing can better prove the number ''of persons who are not steady —not to be relied upon in all things. Then.it by no means requires the defection of such members as wo have been supposing hollow friends to turn the scale. When the majorities are twelve or fifteen, eight or ten leaving their ranks, and five or six going over to the tories, at once throws the government into a mi nority—and one such defeat would be-fatal upon a question of any importance. It ought to be very distinctly understood in what:way any coldness on the part of the country must infallibly operate to restore the tory rule. The court is of course anxious, if it dared ventureon the experiment of last year, to repeat it. What gave the courtiers the courage to try it then ? The abusive tone taken by many at public meetings, and by some through the press.. This, and this alone, was the o cause of the change in November, 1831. The tory party instantly raised a cry that the ministry were grown unpopular; and, in proof of their po sition, they appealed to one or two intemperate and thoughtless speeches Ely liberals or pretended liberals, and to one or two scurrilous newspapers, who wore the same liberal colours. The courtiers, prone to believe what they wished were true, thought the whigs had become unpopular, and removed them from power. It was now too late for those to repent, who had, if not done the mischief, yet enabled others to do it. They did what was far better than empty penitence—we mean such of them as had been sincere and honest, though mistaken—they rallied against the tories, and united to support the Whigs as a body ; if not for their own bakes, yet ro preference to their adversaries. This same heedleas.and ruinous course must not again be pursued by the country. - If they only relax in their support of the minis try—if they show any symptoms of declining favourthe court will assuredly turn upon them, and welcome its natural allies, the tory faction. • • The . kirid of 'slackness of Which we speak May Operate in another way to 'destroy the government. "Even if it do not per manently unsettle the majority in the commons, or encourage the court to recall the tories- , =a, sino,ledefeat, a defeat on one question, and not likely to. be repeated on any other, may very possibly make the ministers.throw up the government. They feel that in the lords they can do nothiug—a majority of three to one against them is their fate in that house—in the place too where their principal members sit. This is not a very agreeable state of existence for any men—for any men of spirit it is not even very bearable. But, if it be attended with a defeat, even a single defeat in the_commons, who hasps right to wonder that they retire from so thankless a service ? Especially, if the peo ple should betoken any disinclination towards them—who would have a right to complain of their retirement ? The discomforts of high office—of narrow majorities on test-questions—of slack or unruly support where zealous , aid was justly expected—of opposition, undeserved in quarters where co-operation was claimed as of right —may possibly be the reason why some are now no longer in the service of the_people, whose labours the people would most gladly reward with - their unbounded, because well earned c onfidence. Better not . try the same thing too often. Better not disgust with the public service those who still cling to-it, and endeavour faithfully- to discharge their duty to the country. . * * * . • , A state of things in which the ministers may, any day. be left iu a miriorityof the commons, is pregnant with mischief to the country yet greater than its annoyance and inconvenience to themselves and their parliamentary supporters. It is a predi cament in which the unfettered exercise of judgment is not left to those whose duty is to consult for the good of the common wealth. It is a crisis in which they are not wasters of their own movements, but must be at ,the mercy of others. Nay, it is . a state of things in which this very worst of mischiefs must oiler - dimes befall us, that small knots of men, or even single individuals, rising into an unnatural and most inauspicious importance, are enabled to dictate to the government what line shall be pursued; -and thus to become the arbiters upon mea sures of the greatest moment. As long as the parties that divide parliament are so equally balanced, every individual—certainly every half dozen of individuals—may exert an influence on the affairs of the country, which no good citizen can really contem plate without feelings of alarm. No one can, therefore, seriously maintain that a vast improvement would not be gained to our present eonditi6n, were the people to regain somewhat of the preponderance which, in the first reformed parliament, they had in some excess; and which at the last election, we believe them, through great mismanagement of various kinds, to have lost in as great a degree of efficiency. It is impossible to deny that the parliament which . met in January 18'33, contained an ina dequate proportion of tory members—fess than one-fifth—of the whole ; but it is equally impossible to doubt that sixteen to seventeen—or at the very least five to six—is far more than the due share of that party in the representative body. We anxiously hope, therefore, that no new parliament will ever, under any circumstances, be returned in which so equal a balance of parties shall be found. The reader will be prepared, from these very obvious remarks, to expect that we should &fres 110 i a little from those excellen: and liberal persons, who, in sees.ing fora solution of all the difficulties which have of late beset the path of the reformers and of the reforming ministers, keep their e)es fixed upon the house of Lords alone; Now, let us not be for one instant misunderstood. Nist a man among all who have attacked that ancient and illus trious assembly is less alive to their conduct, and more deplores their infatuation, than ourselves. We only deem it superfluous to dwell upon points admitted by all but the zealots of the tory faction, and which, to urge upon these zealots, would be alto gether vain. But while the lords have their due share of the blame; and while we amply admit the deep responsibility that they have incurred, let us ask ourselves one question which never seems to strike the partizans to whom we are alluding. Whence conies it to pass that these same lords—for they are the self same with the lords of 18.32, 1833, and 1834—have held a conduct so exceedingly different iu 183,5 ? What reforms did they contrive to throw out in those years? What reform have they suffered to pass this year ? This question, however, is an swered jest as soon and as easily as it is propounded. The lords are the same ; but the cosmos's are different. Herein lies the great Secret of the diversity of conduct pursued by their lord ships in these two eras. In 183,3, for example, all the measures of reform which went up from the lower house were backed by majorities of four or five to one—if indeed there ever had been a division taken upon them. In 1835, the divisions were in the proportian of 220 to 240 or 250—and the lords felt that it was one thing to reject what had been carried by acclamation, or by a preponderating force of numbers • and another to reject what had only the' measuring cast in its favour. It being; therefore, perfectly manifest that a second house, something its the nature of a House of Lords, is necessary for sound and safe legislation, the only question is, how it shall be composed—and first of all, shall it be elective or hereditary ? or if hereditary, shall the members sit by individual right, as they now do, or by election among and by the nobility, as the French nobles did in their statesgeneral ? Let us begin with the last plain and most obvious change. Would it avail us anything in remedy of the present evil ? Certainly it would have the di rectly opposite effectfor if all the members of the House of Lords were chosen by the peers as a body, - or even divided into any conceivable chambers of election, instead of two-thirds, or it maybe three-foUrths, anti-reformers, we should not have a single ,member of the house a informer. The Scottish peers tire an example of this, of when's sixteeu-sixteenths are tortes. Theo, shitirthe .ey6wn select peers ainoug the nobility as in THE LIVERPOOL STANDARb. Prance ? The consequences would be tile same, with this addi tion, that the upper house would be tile mere creature of the crown. The only other course then is id have the house elected, ' but not by the peers—in other Wordii, that the people shall elect. Are they, ao elect by the same qualificaticin by which they choose their owtt representatives? if so—the upper house will be a mere duplicate of the lower; and after all difficulties are over come as to how a local apportionment of the elected shall be made, we shall only' have obtained what would be more easily and just as effectually-obtained by dividiug the House:of Com mons into two, and snaking one half revise the proceedings of the other. But we hold it to be quite clear that more than a mere duplicate chamber is necessary in order to ensure an ef- .. fectual revision. Such a duplicate will, in most cases , only re peat the same erreis which the first has committed. That which secures discussion, and gives the probability of real revision and correction, is the second chamber being differently consti tuted from the first. Therefore many have suggested, what is indeed the American plan, that the elective franchise should be higher; and consequently that the second chamber should re present a class of individuals different from those who choose the first. Suppose, then, that only persons of .£5OO a-year or upwards were to elect among the peers—or there being nu dis tinction in favour of peers, suppose they were to choose among all classes indiscriminately—what would be the result? We are by no means certain that a better chamber than the present House of Lords would not be found; but we are very sure that it would be quite as hostile to liberal principles; indeed it would probably be snore hostile—for the wealthier classes would by no means return as many liberal peers as now sit by right in the upper house. The new and elective house might be in some respects better; it would be more diligent, anti it would lend itself to fewer jobs—because it would be accountable for its votes to a body of constituents. But, as these constituents would assuredly be very generally . adverse to reform, we can have little doubt how. the decisions in general would turn. Then be it borne in mind, that whatever extends the basis on which the house rests, arms the peers with new power, and confirms their courage to resist the propositions of the commons and of the people; so that even the present House of Lords would be far more domineering when It owed its existence to the voice of a large portion of its countrymen than it now is, without any title but that of inheritance or creation. The truth is, that the evil lies a little deeper than many ima gine who discuss this question. It comes from the unhappy but undeniable fact, that a large majority, not only of the peers, but of the property of the country, is alarmed at, if not positively adverse to, reform. This is the state of our case; this the con dition of the problem we have to solve; and shutting our eyes to it is . quite useless and quite childish. There is, however, one thing incomparably more childish, and that is, the fancy that we can effect any radical change of the House of Lords in a Parliament where the people have but a bare majority in the House of Commons, and can only carry the most moderate re forms, and of the most ordinary cast, by the most inconsiderable majorities of their own representatives. But for what we daily teed end hear, we could herdly believe that there existed per sons so heedless of the circumstances of the case they are han dling, as some reformers of the Lords. It is equal to Major Cartwright's philippics against the abominable heresy of Tri ennial parliaments, at a time when there seemed not any very probable chance of the Septennial bill being ever repealed. But we cannot leave this important topic of the lords, with out adverting to the great dangers which an encouragement and extension- of the prevailing sentiments upon the subject must bring upon the present liberal and reforming government. If the cry becomes very loud and somewhat general, nothing will satisfy those who raise it, but the ministers of the crown begin ning next session with some bill to reform the House of Lc.rds. That any minister in his senses should propound such a raea .;ure to the present House of Commons, is quite impossible. The cry, therefore, means dissolution, or it means nothing. Now, suppose the ministers were to propose that measure, and the court to refuse, as infallibly it would, only just consider the consequences. The ministry retires of course, to the no small contentment of the court and the peers; because to the inevit able strengthening of the tory interest in the House of Com mons. We have not the shadow of a doubt that the tory mi nistry would then have a majority in the lower house; for its existence, that is, its continuing to exist for five years, would he bound up with the existence of the tory government. Who ever voted to turn theM out would know that he voted to send himself back to his constituents. Let any one consider this with reference to the construction of the pm esent House of Corn mous, such as we have described it, and . he will be at once con vinced how steady a majority the Tories would have. We throw out the suggestion as one of the most practical kind which can, at the present moment, be presented to the minds of honest and sincere reformers. There is one sentence in the above rather lengthy ex tracts which peculiarly deserves attention as a curiosity. It is that in the fourth paragraph; where the writer speaks of the " discomforts of high office—of narrow majorities on test=questions," &c. which he fancies, " may possibly be the reason why some are now no longer in the service of the people; whose labours the people would Most gladly reward with their unbounded because well earned confidence." This is clearly an allusion to Lord. BROUGHAM, if not also to Lord SPENCER. If Lord BROUGHAM be the author of the article in the Review, as is rumoured, he best knows the reason why he is not in a " high ottiae" under Lord MELBouatiE ; but we should hardly think that the ex-chancellor would complain of the " discomforts" of office, seeing how hard he toiled in the last session of parliament, and exposed himself to unneces sary annoyance and responsibility, without. either praise or emolument. It is true that the noble and learned lord, in one of his fits dill humour, when Lord ALTHORP was dragged back to save a sinking and divided cabinet, declared that he never would sit in any administration of which the then Lord ALTUURP was not a member. Can this foolMh declaration be the , only reason for Lord BRouonAm's peculiar situation—a drudge to the fallen section of his patty without honour—their champion without reward—their advocate without being allowed t o bold a brief, or touch a fee ? It may be so, but we are far from being inclined to believe it. At any rate, what are the excuses for Lord SPENCER'S silence ? Is he too troubled with the "discomforts of high office ?" The noble lord has not even opened his lips since his fathet's death; and he has but rarely favoured the present mi nisters with his vote. All this, perhaps, will be fully ex plained before Candlemas. Yesterday a numerous and respectable meeting of al classes Of 'conservatives, including merchants, Master. tradesmen, shopkeepers, licensed victuallers, and opera• tives, was held. at the Golden . Lion, for the purpose of securing the return of 'efficient, :intelligent, and inde pendent councillors at the ensuing election under the new corporation bill. The utmost unanimity prevailed, and a series of resolutions was passed which will be found in our advertising columns. The reason why this meeting was so exclusively of a conservative cast was the fact which has transpired that the radical or liberal party, as they call themselves, have already set the example of making the municipal election a party question. They have already come to a private decision that no man shall be supported as a candidate for the new town council who is not a leveller. They have circulated lists in which no single conservative is to be found, while the vast majority are ultra radicals, and in thus presuming to dictate to the constituency they have provoked feelings and produced a reaction which cannot fail to disappoint all their secret and invidious calcula tions. The object of yesterday's meeting was to bring toge ther all the various classes of voters, from the wealthy merchant to the industrious and well-disposed operative, and by this means unite the whole in one common cause. It was one of the peculiar featuresof this meeting that every person present seemed determined to merge all minor dif ferences, all subordinate and nominal grievances, and all former classifications in the more important object of securing able and intelligent men to execute the arduous but thankless trust of councilmen under the new bill. Tradesmen and shopkeepers, as well as operatives, were therefore specially invited, and from the considerable number of, those who attended, and took part in the pro ceedings, we have an assurance of a happy result be the struggle what it may. The Tradesmen's Conservative Society is increasing in power and influence every day ; but it is singularly gratifying to learn that an Operative Conservative Association has also been formed in Liver pool, and although onlyin ifs infancy, being in fact but a few days old, it has upwards of a hundred members ready to be enrolled. Taking, then, the moral force of these powerful agen cies,into'consideration, the activity which pervades their committees, and the, deep interest the members take and in fact possess in the welfare of the country, we feel per suaded that the efforts of the radical faction to monopolise all the municipal authority of the town will be frustrated. The meeting appointed a committee to report upon the qualifications of those whom they shall think have the best claims upon the electors, and whom they can recom mend as proper candidates. From the character and in dependence of the gentlemen composing this committee we have no doubt but that all distinctions of class will be carefully avoided—that men of various stations will be selected—that all interests will beifaithful:v represented —and that the members of the new town council will only be distinguished by their fair fame, their talents, and. their strict-integrity. ON THE 111 A NUFACTURE OF `ALT.-At the A nderton Wolks, near Noithwich, a new method of making salt has been covered, and pans have been put up on a small scale to try the effect, which has proved so far most satisfactoi v. A fresh wa ter boiler is placed in the midst of the brine directly over the fire, the brine receiving at once the whole of the heat trove the boiler and the fine; the overplus steam is applied to another pan ; by this means a high temperature is obtained for one thousand six hundred surface feet, which by the old mode r:ould require four tires• immense expense in labour, andwear and tear is saved, Mr. William Garrod is the inventor, he has taken out a patent. It is expected that more than 5 tons of salt will be math: by one ton of coals, by the old meth:Al not more than 2m or 3 can be produced Awn the same quantity of Jouthat: LONDON LATES'7' AVM'S: City, Saturdag Evening, Hallasc . Seven o'clock. • The total amount invested by the C ommissioners for. the'West India CoMpensation Account up to the preSent period, is about £1,000,050 sterling. The adjudged claims of parties holding West India property have been liquidated, or are in course of payment, to the amount of £1,300,000 or £1,400,000. Difficulties have arisen in the payment of adjudged clainis, in consequence of in formalities which have been .Made with powers of attor ney sent over from the colonies, antliorizing individuals here to receive the compensation for those who were en titled to it. Notwithstanding the complaints which have been made agahotthe commissioners for the delay which has been occasioned in adjudicating - claims, we are in formed that, considerihg the difficulties they. have had to contend with, they are proceeding as quickly as might have been expected. Although the slight panic which was produced in the Money Market yesjerday, by an expected collision be tween the French and American governments upon the indemnity question,lims not been wholly recovered, still there is nothing in the advices received to-day frorn'Paris to induCe the opinion that any serious misunderstanding will arise between the two powers. Consols for Account have varied to-day. only between 911 and 91a, the former being the nearest price at the termination of business. For money the quotation advanced to-day from 911 to pu, and left off at 91 : 1 . The omniuni remains very el.eady at 4:1 premium. 'Excheqner bills have not -varied since yesterday, but. India bonds itave dropped from 4s. to 2s. premium. There has been an improvement of full.l per cent. in •Bank. Stock to-day, it having opened at 209 and closed at 210. - - Bank Stock, 210;' Red. Annuities, .90! ; Consols, 911; 3; per Cents. Red., 9 SI; New 3 per Cents., 994;. Lone Annuities, 16: :3-16ths ; °mainly), 4i pm. ; India Stock,—; India Bonds, 2 pm. - ; Exchequer Bills, 16 pm. ; Consuls fur Account 914. Speculation has 'been inactive in foreign bonds to-day., In Spanish 5' .per Cents. the variation has scarcely amounted to per cent., the last price being 44, and of the New Stock 421. An improvement of about A per cent, ha g taken, - place _in.. Purtuguesa..Bundx, the per Cents closing at 88 and the 3 per Cents. at-58. -Dutch Stock nearly maintains the recent improvement. Bel gian Bonds rose froM 1031 to 1031' this afternoon. A. few bargains were made at 32 in Columbian Bunds to day. The quotatiOns of all the other South American securities are merely nominal.'' ..... In the Railway Shares activity has again prevailed to day. The Great Western were sold so high as 9 pm., but closed at 11 pm. North Midland left off at 44 pm., London and Greenwich at 8, the Brighton at 41, and Lon 7 don and Birmingham at £4B pm. per share... Belgian, 1031; Colombian, 32; Portuguese (New) 88; Ditto 3 per Cents., 53; Russian, 107,; Spanish, 44; Ditto (New) 41; Dutch 21 per Cents., 55?.. NEWTON BAZAAR On Thursday and Friday a bazaar was held in the newly erected Conservative-hall, at Newton, for the purpose of aiding the funds for rebuilding the parochial chapel at that place. The patronesses were Lady Eleanor Hopwood, Lady Mosley, the Hon. Mrs. Bootle Wilbraham, Mrs. Hornby, - Miss P. Hornbv, Mrs. James Heath Legh, Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Ridgway, and Mrs. Scarisbrick. The stalls were erected on the previous day, and furnished early ou the morning of sale. At eleven o'clock the hall, entering from the door communicating with the Leigh Arms Hotel, presented a very splendid and animated appearance ; it was decorated as on the day of the gramd festival, viz., with azure and white cotton from top to bottom. The principal entrance was on the left, and above it war a gallery, in which were stationed an excellent band, contributing much to the animation of the scene. On each side of the room were seats for the temporary accommodation of the visitors. At the left of the noble hall (which having been previously described, it is now unnecessary to dwell upon) was a full-length portrait of our late venerable and beloved monarch, George 111.; and on the right was the portrait, of some dimensions, of his son,. his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, in his robes. The stalls or tables for the disposal of articles were six in number; and, commencing front the entrance above alluded to, were at tended as follows, viz.:—The first, or Newton stand, by Mrs. Ladbury and Miss She;irton; the second, Mts. Ridgway, of Ridgemont, and Miss Wettenhall ; the third, Lady Eleeinor Hopwood, 'Mrs. W. Legh, of Briinbow, and Miss Townsend ; the fourth, bssahe Rev. Peter Legh, and James Heath Legh, Esq., High• Sheriff for Cheshire; the fifth, by Mrs. Lyon; and the sixth, or Willwick stand, was attended by Mrs. Chadwick and Miss Berry; and, though last sosticeds not least deserving attention, were two spacious tables set out at the bottom of the room, and covered to proration with substantial refreshments and choice delicacies, at very moderate prices. To attempt an outline, touch more a days:Union, of the articles exhibited for sale on the stalls, were as Stain as unnecessary; our readers may imagine (though we cannot enumerate) the variety of articles set forth; nearly every thing, front the most useful to the least necessary, was there tendered by delicate hands and persuasive lips to the bewildered and wondering visitor; the purse could not he withheld; the money could nut be kept away; (who could withstand a beautiful and eloquent woman, pleading with her tongue and her pure eyes in aid of charity or usefulness?) and so the sales, we believe, were plentiful; " market very brisk," as a tradesman would say, " cottons up to-day," " pro fits fair, ten per cent. at least." Those vitro purchased were satisfied, those who sold were thankful, and - the most venerable institution in the country was benetitted. We cannot, how eversleave.the.mo.rket withisbservations so general as the fore going. Allusions to the personal appearance of the fair yen , der, might he considered indelicate, and therefore offensive; " God above!" said a gentleman from Manchester, " were they • dilly to sell calico and fustian, what a trade we should have I" There, that's quite enough, and a true expression. Sell—why, they'd sell anytbiug they've a mind to sell, as well as fustian and calico ; they sold an old woman with a child on her knee; a lady's work-box brought seven pounds in a raffle; children's dresses were looked after by young wives, and one considerate young husband was observed walking away with a bundle under his arm: " Those are little clothes," said one : " Little or big," said an elderly lady with her fair daughter hung on her arm, " it's just as it sheuld be." " A faint heart never won a fair lady, and a bad•leart never deserved one." The Queen's prizes attracted general attention; they consisted of a number of miniature work-baskets, composed of gold and silver wire, and silk. They were placed on a silver waiter at the head of the room, near the stall of the Itev. Peter Legh, and for them there was a brisk competition in a raffle, and three hundred subscribers at 2s. 6d. each were soon procured. " Lord," said one, " it's no common thing to ha' summut 'at a queen has touched; one likes to ha' been at an' seen great things, but heave mitch better it is to ha' th' things theirser ;'' and in con sequence .of this, or a similar feeling, the Queen's prizes were sought after as choice curiosities. - The first prize, however, fell to the lot of a respectable independent bachelor gentleman, re near Middleton, and, what was rather singular, a conservative of strict principles; rather ominous this; the radicals will smell a rat ! Amongst the most distinguished visitors were the Rev. Frank and Lady , Eleanor Hopwood, Joseph Ridgway, Esq., of Ridgmont; Peter Creenhow, Esq.. bt. Helen's; Mrs. Hornby, Winwick ; Mr. Shearson, Bury; Rev. W. Pigot t St. Helens; Forth Lee, Esq., Belmont; Thomas Kearslev, Esq., Tyldeslev ; the Rev. Mr. Libson, Ashton Makerfield; Thomas Joseph Trafford, Esq., Trafford; T. F. Taylor, Esq., Alkring ten Cottage; John Clare, Esq., Warrington; John Heyes, Esq., Coroner; Mrs. Heves ; Thomas Caldwell, Esq., St. Helens'_ George Bowen, Esq., Stockton 'Lordship; Mrs. and Misses Nichols, of Warrington; Hugh Clare, Esq., Wearing ton; Mrs. Scarisbrick, Golburn Park, who presented to the committee some brandy 100 years old; John Slack, Esq., Lawton; William Hutton; Esq., Hutton, and Mrs. Hultou ; Miss Alsop, Latchford-hall; Miss Scholefield, Middleton; and others, with whose names and residences it were impossible that we should become acquainted. A bust of the venerable Earl of Eldon attracted much attention, and went off in a raffle at fifty shillings. The bazaar (lid not close until Friday evening, and all parties interested in it have been so extremely occupied that we have not been able to ascertain its pecuniary results. Next week, however, a flattering report may be anticipated. WATCH MEETING.—At the meeting of the commissioners of the watch, on Friday, His Worship the Mayor presided. The 1 principal business which occupied the board was, the appoint anent of a successor to the late Mr. Kilshaw, the treasurer to that body, Mr. Capes Ashlin, many years clerk to Mr. Kil shaw, was elected without opposition to fill the vacant office, an appointment which will, we believe, give general satisfaction. THE SILENT SYSTEM IN PKISONS.—Many instances of the good effects of the silent system in prison discipline have been related in the newspapers, and also the defeat of that system by means of the dumb alphabet. Whether the new regulations have made any general progress towards the decrease of crime or not does nut appear; but certain it is, that from many of the metropolitan prisons, to which offenders have been sent from this town, to undergo the punishment awarded to them at the sessions, they have returned at the expiration of the term again to appear on the black bill.. Yesterday, at the sessions, Win. Smith end Mary Owens, who were sentenced to trans portation, by the recorder, have both Suffered under the silent system. Smith was transported from here for seven years, and, after suffering 31- years imprisonment in the Millbank Peni tentiary, comes out with a good character to commit fresh de predations. • Fat - Mites who-are in the habit of giving their Indian friends a treat, a.rticularly those who happen not to have an efficient cook, will do well to use Cooke and Co.'s Currie Paste s , 99, Hatton-garden, London, which are so highly extolled at the 1 hotels and club-houses; by attending hi the printed directions, which are very simple, you will in a few minutes have butte your curcie and rice pi epared in such a style as cannot fail to please, if it does not astonish the greatest epicure of the day, and the Indian will, at his feast, imagine himself in his own country. Curried oysters, lobsters, and turbot, bid fare to become a fashionable dish.—Froni a Member of Cruckford's. I)INNEIi TO SIR WILLIAM FOCI ETT, M.P.—A public dinner was given on Wednesday last, at the Assembly Rooms, Exe• ter, to Sir Win. Follett, 'the distinguished and eloquent tepre sentative of that city, at which about 480 of the principal gentry. of that place, and of the counties of Devon and Somerset, were in attendance. The reception given that highly gifted and emi nent lawyer was of the most flattering and cordial description. , We regret that we cannot make room for his speech, thanking the company for that reception. Foucato STAMPS.--Three persons keeping small Fhnps for the sale of stationery, in Manchester, namely,- J. It. Pickling, of Oxford-road, 11. Hatfield, of Mark:et-street, and Mary Ann Righton, of Hanging-ditch, were, after some previotn:examina fier:, fully committed for trial.on Thursday last, on the charge of uttering forged stamps, knowing them to he forged, arid Eli zabeth Davies was also committed for having forged stamps in her possession, with intent to utter them. in the house of Hat field, the officers found a quantity of paper prepared to receive the impression, some stamped paper, dies, and the materials and necessary implements for stamping.. Under the 57th Geo. 111. the punishment for this offence was death; but a later statute has mitigated its sevelity to transportation for life. If all the engagements to which a forged stamp may be affixed are null and void in the hands of parties inuneeut and ignorant of the fraud, forging stamps becomes an offence of much greater im portance than a mere revenue question. OutoiN of TMIZ TERM', "MECO' ANIMIEW."—Dr. Andrew 13norde lived in the reigns of licory the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary. and was in tli i!onstant habit of fre quenting fairs and maikets, at-which he harangued the popu lace His speeches were extremely humorous, and Occasioned considerable mirth ; his successors in this same line naturally endeavoured to imitate his bright example, and hence this _class of itinerant quacks obtained- the general appellation of " Me'rr y ;Indretcs."— Dr. Paris. - liOTDEN'S 6N'ASTROidNiI- Oii..lllonday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next Mr. Holden will deliver a course of lectures on astronomy, at the Liver Theatre, which wilt be repeated at the Same place on the Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday of the same week. His list of subscribers, we understand, Contains the names of the most distinguished pa trons of science in the town. . . Mr. Holden's talents as an astronomer are vouched for in very flattering testimonials, signed by about thirty professional and other gentlemen of Preston, at the head of whom we find the name of the Rev. Roger Carus Wilson, M.A., vicar of that place. Mr. Holden has also been recommended to the notice of the public by a gentleman connected with the Royal Obser vatory, Greenwich, an extract from whose letter we feel great pleasure in publishing:— " Royal Observatory, Greenwich, May 1, 1833. "When you exhibited your transparent orrery, I was indeed highly delighted : the appearances of the moon and planets were so natural, that I imagined myself looking through a pow erful telescope; also the appearance of solvible and insolvible nebulae through optic tubes, &c. In fact, the whole of your grand exhibitions, with the simple and clear instructions you conveyed by your lectures; left upon my mind sensations which can never forget ; and anugh I saw your scenery and heard your descriptions repeated at Hull, and in other parts of the kingdom where you kitidly invited me to visit you, I was never weary Of tteir repetition; and would deem it an indescribable pleasure, if I were so situated, to visit Preston at the present time, and witness the whole once more."-" Yes, my dear fiiend, although I am every day employed in the first observa tory in the world, and using instruments of the very best kind, and viewing by them the belts of Jupiter, the ring of Sat Urn, the frozen poles of Mars, the horns of Venus, the spots of the Sun, and the Moon's varied disk, rivers and mountains on her spotted globe;' yet, my friend, I should deem it a mental feast; to see and hear your praiseworthy performances. "WILLIAM ROGEftSUN." POLITICAL PAAIPHLETS, * EDITED BY TIMOTHY OLDBUCK, YEOMAN. It has long been, and more especially for the last live years, the foul disgrace of the supporters of conservative principles, that they have silently permitted the disciples of anarchy and confusion to deal out their anathemas against the best institu tions of our country unanswered and unchecked, and to drug and poison the mind of the lower orders with their penny and three-halfpenny trash unregarded and unrebuked, except in the higher class of publications, which, from their price, are beyond the poor man's reach. The bane has belt scattered with a profuse and unsparing hand, while the antidote tits been only doled out to the enlightened few, and virtually withheld from those who most need its counteracting and healing influ ence. - In - this respect the conservatives have been less wary than n their adversaries, and to this circumstance may he attri buted much of the alienation which has taken place between the upper and lower classes of society, and the successful propaga tion of revolutionary principles which at one time assumed so alarming an aspect. To a few gentlemen of Liverpool belongs the honour of em bodying the first conservative association, and to the press of Liverpool belongs the credit of sending forth a twopenny pub lication, under the title prefixed to this article, which, if it con tinue to support the character its first number entitles it to, will counteract, if it du not annihilate, the whole fry of radical writers from Hetherington and Carpenter down to John Arthur Roebuck, Esq., M.P. for Bath. To show what will be the cha racter and objects of Timothy Oldbuck's pamphlets, we copy the two first paragraphs of his introductory address to his readers. " This publication does not start into existenco under any false colours. I wish to intimate, as explicitly as possible ; to my fellow countrymen, that the consistent advocacy of the tri umphant principles of sound conservative reform, will consti tute the leading features of the pamphlets which are thus ushered to the notice of the public." "The radical and republican factions are busily at work. They spare no effort in endeavouring to proselyte the whole mass of the people. They remit no pains in disseminating their dangerous tenets through every corner of the land. They know the great moral power of the press; and, appreciating the in fluence of this mighty engine, they avail themselves of every ex pedient for the purpose of bringing their ruinous doctrines un der the notice of every class of society. Hence arises the mul tiplied variety of cheap political publications, which find their way into every cottage of the land. Of the pestiferous character of these silent missionaries of evil, I shall . hereafter, I trust, have many opportunities of communicating my opinion." Timothy Oldbnck we wish thee all manner of success. A goose quill is thy hand is a formidable weapon; go on as thou hast begun; sharpen thy pen and eradicate the radical vermin which have too long been suffered to nestle and swarm in the cottage, and inflame by their venomous bite the best blood of the people of England. DAVIS' STRAITS ,FISIIERY,,IB3S: Arrived at Aberdeen on the 21st Oct., the Bon Accord, Parker ; left the fishing on the 3d inst.; left the Thomas, of .Dundee, at the Orkneys. HuLt.—Abram, Hibbs, I fish ; Alfred, Brass, I d ; An drew Marvel, Wright, 1 do.; Comet, Martin, 2 do.; Cove, Chadwick, 1 do.; Donlon, Willis, 1 do.; Duueoutnbc, Secan, 1 do.; Ellison, Bennet, 1 do.; Everthorpe, Johnston, 2 do.; Riby Grove, Parish, 3 do.; Sisters, Dallaii, 3 do. • Swan, Dring, 1 do.; Truelove, Manger, 1 3 1 do.; Venerable, 11/41‘Ticu zie, 1 do. ; William Lee, Parker, 1 do.; Zephyr, Ash, 3 do. BIinIVICK.--Norfolk, Harrison, I fish. NEwcsst I.E.—Grenville Bay, Taylor, 3 fish ; Lady Jane, Lisk, 1 do.; Lord Gambier, Warham, Il i do. WWlTBY.—Phamix, Mills, 4 ti-h ; Camden Armstrong, ti do. BURNT'S!, AN M—MajCStie, Smith, 2 fish; Undaunted, Wat son. 3 do. KfAKALDY.—Caledonian, , 3 fish ; Chieftain, Todd, 3 do. • Earl Percy, Stoddart, 3 do.; Hecla, Gray, 1 du. ; Regalia, Phillips, 2 do. LElTlL—Clarendon, Lyall, 5 fish; North Pole, Packwood, 3 do.; Prince of Orange, Guthrie, 2 do.; 12i1Verstone, Straiton, 1 do. ; Willi:lnt and Ann, Listin, 1 do. DUNDEE.—Advice, Deuchars, 3 fish; Alexander, Cameron, 2 do. ; Dorothy, Davidson, 3 do.; Friendship, Davidson, 3 do. ; Horn, Thorns, 2 do.; Heroine, Welch, 2 du. ; Princess Char lotte,Adamson, 1 do.; Thomas, Stevenson, 1 do. AnEaDEEN.—Bon Accord, Parker, 3 fish; Dee, Gamblin, 1 or 2 do; Middleton, Kerr, 1 do.; Neptune, Bruce, 5 do.; St. Andrew, Reed, 2 do. MoNTitosa.—Eliza Swan, Crammond, 2 fish ; Monarch, But n 2 do. PETER lIEA D.—COMMOTCP, Stewart, 8 fish; Eclipse, Souter, 6 do. ; Gleaner, AndersOn, 3 do. ; Hannibal, Millie, I do. ; Joseph them Vollum, 6 do. ; Perseverance. Ogston, 4 do.; Resolution, Hogg, 6 do. ; Superior, Manson, 3 d u .; Traveller, Simpson, 43 do. Guiou Uarduo, 2 do. LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, OCT. 23. INSOLVENT. Oct. 13, William Frederick OirilV3 : , — O;tlord-street, London, grocer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Davis, jan., Little Baddocr, Essex, pig -dealer. BANKRUPTS. John Wallace, Liverpool. provision -merchant, to surrender Nov. 11, Dec. 4, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. Bardswell, Liverpool and Messrs. Blackstonk, Bunce, and Vincent, London. Robert Pease, Leeds, timber-merchant. James Nelson Dennis, Lisle-street, Leicester-square, London, coach maker. Abraham Moore, Wells-row, Islington, London, builder. Thomas Bonner, Horseterry -road, Westminster, cm-keeper. John Totty Mercer, Manchester, plumber. Robert Claxton, Norwich, tailor. DIVIDENDS. _ _ • _ Nov. 16,1 V. Bmthwaite, Grafton-street, London, stationer—Nov. 13, J. Hobbs, Carrington-mew'a, London, livery-stable-keeper—Nov. 13, G. Jones, Leicester-street, London, nuetioneer—Nov. 18, T. Rushy. Sittinghourue, 'Kent, grocer—Nov. is, G. Milne; Broad-street, Lon don, merchant—Nov. 13, H. Bradley, New City Chambers. London, insurance-broker—Nov. 19, 3. Bishop, Sheifiel'l, miller—Nov. 13, J. Cripps, \Vinson, Gloucestershire, blacksmith—Nov. 1:i, J. 0. N. Rut ter, Lymingtott, Hampshire, wine-tnerchaat- , -Nor. t), .1. J. Spurr, Maltby, Yorkshire, paper-maker—Nov. 14, T. Tipton, lh , reford, ykraaller—Nov. 25, 11. Bowel-mom, ben., and G. 11.1wernvitt, ensllitto, Oxfordshire, corn-chandlers—Nor. 26, J. Colbourne, Sturthiuster, Newton Castle, Dorsctshire, merchant. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before the 13th day of November. G. Phillips and J. Whittow, llaverfordwest, a rorers--.1". T. Thomp son, Long-acre, LondOn, upholsterer—W. W. Wadelin, Wolverhamp ton, shoe-manufacturer—G. Rivers, Twickenham, upholsterer-If. Itneson, Tooley-street, Southwark, ironnumger —U. W. Sawyer, Brighton, builder. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. - - ------ The average priee of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, emopote-d from the returns made in the week ending the 2Utli tla . y of October, 1635, is 36s Bid 4rewt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or pay able thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. AN Ana EST.--A F A CT.-111 a county nut a hundred miles off, a small sized man went to the plantation of a certain gentleman, who was light in wit but rather heavy in flesh, with a piece of paper in his hand folded in a legal form, and known by the eh bleviations of "ca, so." Having found the owner of the man sion in the field, he explained his business, when he was re quested to read the capias, which commenced as usual, " Yon are hereby commanded, without delay, to take the body of,"&c. Humph!' said the prisoner, stretching himself upon his back, "I am ready." "0, but don't expect me to carry you in my arms?"—Certainly; you must take my body,' you kuow. I do not resist the process of the law, understand, but submit with much cheerfulness." "Will you wait here until I bring a cart?" "Can't promise, I may recover my fatigue in the meanwhile." " Well, what must I do?" "You must do your duty." And there he lay immoveable until the sheriff left.—Natches Courier. RESTORATION OF THETOMB AND MONVAIENTOF AKSPEAItE AT STRATFOIMON-AVON.—Additional donations have been re cieved during the last week by N. L. Torre, Esq., in aid of this un dertaking, from the Earls of Eldon and Stamford, Lords Ward, Lyndhurst, and Brougham. It. speaks highly in favour of this laudable project that, among other distinguished personages now enrolled iu the list of subscribers, the three exalted individuals w ho have successively filled the high station of Lord Chancellor of England are like Wise of the number; and it is a curious coin cidence that their respective communications should have reach ed Mr. Torre nearly on the same day.— Ldaniington Spa Courier. Leans Itxotsrrovrioti.—Our reallers will see that the Leeds borough revision under the reform act is at last brou&lit to close, after a tedious process of twenty-eig,ht days, twtt courts having been open duffing the greater part of that time The general resole stand thus:-Blue objections allowed, 829; dis allowed. 810. Yellow objections allowed, 599; disallowed, 1035. Blue claims allowed, 47 ; disallowed, 51. Yellow claims allowed, 58; disallowed, 166. From this it appears that the blues substantiated more than one-half of their objections, whereas the yellows failed in nearly three-fourths of their's. The blues also maintained nearly one-half of their claims ; the yellows did not establish a quarter of their's. The distinction is characteristic of the two parties; the one all pretension, flus ter, noise, and trick; the other, silent in its operations, but vi gorous and effective.— Leeds Intelli!jencer. 1 Ld vl3. STATE OF THE COUNTIA".. - • CONDITioN COIYNIfY,..SI , TIPPE4ARY. INHUMAN M pit DER ,— Tilepperhapa,one tit Abk, most wanton, barbarous, and inhuman. murders latt ‘ i hoed, our painful duty to jay before our readers:fel- length' vt,..t low; The, facts connected with the catastrephe ar'e,lammntable and melancholy in the e*trerne-r-therareproof strong and iMsitivO of the innate savagenesS and barbarity so peculi a r A o a certain class-of our peasantry, trent whose insatiable vengeance owl blood-stainq lianas the life of their devoted victim &mart; by , the Most, watchful vigilance; be rendered secure. A tarine4. named Richard Coghlan, a resident of Witolgalt county of Win • Kilkenny, when on his return e, fin Sattirday evening Last, from the market cfcarrick-ou-Su . ir,• accompanied by two boys; was pounced upon, near the slate quarries, about two milrs'dist tant from the police station of Leaugh, by four men armed with pitchforks, who murdered hini in. the most c,inl and deliberate manner. . The boys, on the hostile apprtiacli of the releiaties savages, fled for their own safety. • The body Was found on this road with one of the forks through the neck, and two, others close to it. Perhaps the generality of. our readers Will tremble on hearing the cause assigned for this wanton sacrifice of humati life;, it is this—the deceased was the, only surviving life ilk ,a lease of a considerable portion of the lands of Curraghmore; about 400 acres. held by his friends and resat ices ! Au inquest was held on the body, when Lord Duncanndu illajor Browne attended. Lord Duncannon, addressed ,the assembled peasantry in Sitergetic and feeling language: . he deprecated in the strongest possible terms the inhumanity awl, - barbariti of the black deed; and pledged I:intl.:elf, in the mesa htiMane man ner, to exert all his influence in obtaining a renewal of the lease for the relatives of the deceased, iu order to frustrate the tabd, - ding designs of the assassins. If such deeds were permitted to • pass without the most marked reprobation, and, if possible, ex : tteme punishment, uo man's lire can be secure.—Clomizel Ad . verliser. , - ANoTnna anee.-06 the evening of the 10th inst:, on the road between Mullinahone and Callan, a confidential man of the 'name - of John Shea, in the employment of Matthew Hughes, gsq., of Baliyrichard, was attacked by two unknown ruffiansfrorn inside a ditch, clip inhumanly beat him to a savage degree, having - inflicted seven cuts on the head,.and 4 fracture in the skull, of which he liniiered in tiirturing Pain until Monday night, the 12th inst., when death terminated hi 4 sufferings. An inquisition was held on the b o dy be. Mt. 11111, coroner,and the Rev. Win. Bryan, J. P., awl a . verdict re turned, that the deceased came fiv his death in consequence of having received several cuts on the head,. and his sknil frac tured,- by some malicious persons, as yet unknown. -. Shea was a man of an upright and temperate diameter, and hail been in the.VriPloYaleut of Ma'. , ang'hea for the last tent years. The only cause assigned for this murder is, that by his attentien to his master's business lie made himself obnoxious to some indivi ; duals. Shea is the eighth person who has lost hi s lif e w i t hin these nine years . between Miillinaliore and Callan (a distance, of only four five out of that number having been bar barously muidered- . —/bid. A LEGISLATOR SHOT.—On Thnrsilay night 1a5t,..4 party of armed legislators attacked the dwelling-house of a poor farmer; named Ryan, at Upper Chnrch, and were in the act of breaking in the do:ir with a sledge, when a servant boy, who had been iii bed in the house, neat to the window and gave the quietus to one of thou be lodging the content: of a pistol in his body. if they received such a tee at every house they lienoured with• a professional visit, we rather opine that thoy would shortly feel disposed to abandon their christion callin .—ibid. THE CARDERS.—These wretches have recoiumenced their atrocious practices in the county Roscommon, having dragged a poor farmer out of his bed at night in the parish of KilAmtil last week, and lacerated his naked Leek in a shockingnianner. DEsPEaATE ATTEMPT AT Munoka.—A process-server froni Catriekon-Suir, who had served a man of the name of Quinlan with a process, was attacked on Saturday, near Ballvdine by six ruffians, and narrowly escaped being murdered. On being attacked, he fled to the house of a poor woman, who entered just at the moment the fellows came up, when she asked them what they wanted, and they replied that they, werii going to murder the process-server; the woman threatened that she would prosecute them all if they attempted to put their threat into executiou, and after remaining a short time they departed: Constable Orr, on hearing of the circumstance, hastened to the place, and succeeded in capturing three of the party who are fully identified.— Waterford Mail. SHAMEFUL SACRILEGE.—We have said elsewhere that the winter campaign of agitation had commenced in our county, awl would bring with it its due proportion of concomitant evils, and scarcely had we written the Words when 'we were in formed of a most wanton and shameful outrage, committed at the new church of Taemnshane, in this county. The Rev. Mr. Armstrong, the incumbent, had walls built liitely on each side of the approach to the gate, which were levelled to the ground a few nights ago, by some daring ruffians as yet unknown ; and not contented with the perpetration of this malicious iujiiry they proceeded to add to it the most shameful indignity and insult. ; There is not a more mild, humane, or a inure charitably pHs posed clergyman of any Comtnunion.. than Mr. Armstrong. there fore it cannot be against the indiVidual but the religion, of which, he is au exemplary minister, the eirulente of the bigoted mis creants is directed, in thus defiling and treatiug with indignity. the sacred edifice where be zealously inculcates the doctrines of peace on earth and good will towards all Mankind.—Weaj,rd Conservative. , - The novel application of heating with the flame - of barning gas is coming very extensively into use. A son of Lord Chancellor Plunkett is appointed agent, or receiver, of the revenues of the late dioceSe of Clone, under the ecclesiastical boa rd: NAP(iLEUN'S Ve - tnow.—The Duchess of Parma is said to lie in a delicate state of health, and to haVe manifested the desire, of being relieved from the burden of public affairs. In this case; the government of the Duchy of Parnia would devolie on the Duke of Lucca. all the ruins I have seen In GermairS , (and that is no small number,) I have never discovered the ,east vestige of ity.—Cdle ridge: NOVEL MODE OF DilELLlNG.—Withiti the last week, a coal porter at New floss had a quarrel with a Graigue lighter man, whom he challenged to fight. The boatman ,ephed, will not fight you, but I will do u day'4 work against yob for fifteen pence." - Mr. Kean .terminated a very suereatfut - eugagement at the Manchester Theatre on Saturday evening. The receipts to Richard ilia Third amounted to £'265. A new melodrama by Mr. Plauche, to be called The 751 relliny Carriage, is in rehearsal at. Drury Lane. The aorta; master, Mr. Harris, is daily drilling the choruses it Balfe'i grand opera previous to its iutrodu.tion next week. s.. e H °Gm:Tu.—Sir James Mackint os h rives tie tolloscing ejlli niun of Flogarth, sta stated by his sun in his life, just kablished " I perform my prothise of giving you some account' of what I have been reading in was I do dot think it i s qu it e j us -, tice to say that he was a- great comic genius. It is more true that be was a great master of the tragedy, and comedy of low. life. His pictures have terrific and pathetic circumstances, and even scenes; he was a Litlo as well as a Fielding. His sphere, which was English low lite, was contracted italced, compared to that of Shakspeare, who ranged through huinau nature in all times, couutriaa, ranks, and forms ; but he resetabled Shaft.: speare in the versatility of his talent, which cawd be either tra gic or comic; and in a propensity, natural to such a talent, to blend tragic With cotnie circumstances." ROMAN CATHOLIC NUNNEItt In EntiNeyeati.—This builds ing is a large irregular pile in the Saxon style of arehitectare ; It is entered by a hu g e ga t ewa y s tudd e d with iron bolts like a prison door. It is surmounted by a curd cut iu stone, emblema tical of severity and penance. The chapel is a beautiful place and was opened fur religious purposes on St. Margaret's day, when three young ladies took the veil. The iiuunery contains just now frui ts 30 to 40 imitates.; about two duzen ofthils num her are nuns, and the remainder are huardets. I cannot say that the ladies are remarkable for beauty, although their dr'ess is very striking; it consists of a black gown which !':.ills down to the heels—the head is covered with a cap ur hood of the tame stuff, the hair is parted " a la mailunna"—the veil do g s n o t con ceal the face, it is brought forward Iwo or three ruches, and then falls in graceful frids down the e e wear white---- others of a more strict and confirmed habit adopt the black veil Those who wear the latter tie is cord of a crimson culuur round the waist, and a silver cross is attached to the. breast by means of a cord. The nuns are attended by a Roman Catholic cler gyman, who plays the part of a confessor.—Paisley Adcertizt,. Sir Edward Kerrison is putting in operation the "Allotment System" with the greatest advantages to agricultural labourers, in the parish of Eye, and other parts adjoining his estate, Oak - ley-park, Suffolk. The whole of the labourers, with their wive and children, last week partook of a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum pudding, to the number of abtitit twit hun dred persons. Some weeks agO we gave an outline of a conversation held with an old shipmate of his Majesty, while on board the Prince George: Colonel Wernyss, having observed the paragraph, took an opportunity of directing his Majesty's attention to it; when the King stated that ho recollected the circumstance al luded to as well as Miller, and, as a marl: of respect, graciously sent him £5. Miller, who is on'the bolder of - 80, and who has been rather unwell for smite time, felt highly gratified. When he first heard of his Majesty's attention his exclaimed with pe culiar emphasis. "Well. 1 was sure the King, God bleSs would mind o' Inc."—Fifeshire Journal. Dote Mtuunt..- 7 Letters of the Bth ipstant, from Vienna, id the Nurembarg Correspondent, say—" Don- Itlignei has nut been allowed to enter Austria. Having learned at Venice that his presence in the Austrian Stiites would ou t be agreeable, he set out for Modena: , The Duke of Modena has proinitied to assist him in his financial mobarraisments. The Princess of Beira; and the sous of lion Carlos will remain at Laybach until the . cholera has subsided, and they can return to Italy." PETTY VILXATIONS.—It is of the utmost iitlvituttige, for our own peace, tout we should learn as much au posnible to regard the little vexations which we may, or rather lutist, often meet front the ili humour of others, or frOur the crossings and jar rings of interests opposite to.our own, with the same pltieuee with which we bear the occasional fogs of our changeful sky. The caprices of man are us little at our (ifposal as the varieties o f the se asons. Not to lay our account with these htunit.o vexa tions, is a fully very similar to that of expecting ia winter all the flowers' and sunshine Of spring, and of lamenting that the. snowt and sleet; which have tallen oferNwhere Clan,rnoull 11:.vu fallen on our little garden.—Doctor Mamas Brown', LeduTes. How To DISMISS as A UDIENCE:—A inanager of a snail the atre, not far frquithe banks lathe Litiey,perceividig shortly be-. fore the curtain drew' up that the audience consisted ofonly three persons, found himself under the necessity of putting Off the per turmanee to the following day, So, ailvanciiig to the front of the stage with a theatrical air—" Ladies and Gentlemen,'" said Mr. O'Higgins( fur that was his name), ".1 perceive there is ftubody here. lam forced, therefore, with the i;reaiest regret; to send you ail home, it being understood that the entertainments an pounced by the'bill will not take place tu-night; buts ever, I have the honour, Gentlemen and Ladies, to aliprise you ti .t the 9e7 firrmances of this evening will be repeated to:merruw." EXPEDITION Ti) AFUICA FLOM TIIk.CLYDI.I.- , --0/1 - Thursday afternoon a scene of a very novel and interesting description was exhibited to the people of Greenock. A short time ago we mentioned that our talentrAl townsmen Todd and IVl•Greger, engineers, had built and tinished a neat little iron steamer, and ,that her uvoiearance on the river had excited a great deal of inlerest. lhis beautiful little dandy toy of a steamer has again. and again perforated the voyage up and down the river, to the great satisfaction of every person conuecti d with he., aud to the admiration of ail who have Witnessed the mot-et - Lents of this great curiosity. On Wedneadai' ske took her final departure front the Bromielaw, and arrived at Greenock in the afternoon, where she announced her arrival by a discharge of orduanire. Immediately after her arrival she was taken sato the harbour `and completely dismantled, and was on Thursday atternooti hoieted on board of the brig Mi . sehief, a rafitish-looking ()id slaves., which has been fitted out by rr Glasgow company for the. purpose of trading with the inland parts of Africa. The - sanely of :he scene attracted or greet crowd of people. This little stcuinet. when fully equipped, and in working order, about ten tone weight, and is intended to ,;xplore the I , 4ger and its tributary streams, for the purpose of trafficking with the natives. Her cargo consists of ammunition, stores, toys, and. upwards of a hundred bags of small shells, called notifies, flow, the East In dies, which are to be given fur gold dust, ivory, add oilier valua ble produce of Africa. The Mischief sails for,. the Bight o . Benin, and is well manned. Another vessel sails filial t hi4,. Clyde. Pail of the same expedition, in a Skerrt Chronicle: ~.~.....~. k~.. s ..