The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

`~ ~s r ~' FEBRUM Y 2, 1 833. wIS.A,V,r,CV.fir. The ship was named " THE TORY," and it was during the administration of tories that ships, colonies, and com- Inerce prospered, the people were contented and happy, and the power of England was respected from sea to - shore, and from continent to isle, over the whole earth. The speech of the Rev. Rector is, however, the most .interesting of the two at this peculiar juncture. It is in defence of that church which is now assailed by the idle `scoffer, the disaffected leveller, and the daring infidel. The reverend gentleman called the attention of the meet ing to the meek, fat•giving, and tolerant spirit of the 'ministers of our national church, and happily contrasted 'their conduct with that of the besotted, tyrannical, and unprincipled priests of popery, in Ireland. In short, we have no doubt that it will command the earnest attention and approbation of all our readers. LONDON LATEST NEWS. City, Hall-past Seven o'clock Saturday Evening. One of the first results of whig misrule, or, we may say, the first foreign result has been made manifest from China to-day, by the s topp age o f th e t ra d e w ith E ng l an d on the part of the authoritie s of Canton, and the order of the viceroy to Lord Napier to'quit 'that city. For the particulars of this affair we refer to the journals ot this evening. The loss of our West India colonies, the annihilation of oar East India trade, the impelling of the mobocracy upon the throne and attar by level ling bills and democratic enactments will, beyond doubt, stand on record as monuments of the most inefficient ministry Eng land ever was cursed-with, a ministry which, by its concerted ignorance, - has caused more injury to the country in three brief years, than can he repaired in the course of a century.. Our consol market was extremely buoyant Yesterday, and toe p r i ce f or t h e accoun t was as hi g h as 92 g . Tile China affair has, however, produced some heaviness this morning, and con sols for the account at one time were 92f i; rallying, however, to 92j at the close of business. Exchequer bills remain at 42 to 43. Yesterday was the settling day in the foreign market, and it produ ce d o ne d e f a l ca ti o n, th e a mo unt o f which•is, how ever, small. The market was more buoyant yesterday than it has been• fur some time past, particularly in the transatlantic bonds. Brazilian were done at 87, being an advance of 6 per cent, since the last settlement; Chilian touched upon 45, an ad vance of 10 per cent. since the last account day (16th inst.);. Colombian touched upon 361, an advance of 31 per .cent. during 'the sasneperiod; Mexica:i.k . rose to 451, an improvement of 4 r iper cent.; and Portuguese bonds advanced to 921, a rise of lleirr:s per cent. All the•hor.thern stocks also patitook of the 'lmprovement. Id none ofkhese securities, however, has the . 4 tilvance been maintained, as will be seen by the blowing 'closing prices of this afternoon °Bank Stock ... 224 Brazilian -....854 :3 per Cent. Red • 921 1 f - 43 42 431 43 -3 per Cent.•Consols 92 1 ,. Columbian 35 311 351. -31 per Cent. Red . 1001 ,- Danish 771 6 Ist ew 31 p er C en t ....100i 99i Dutch 5 per Cents lOll Long Ann u iti es 7-16 21 per Cent. .........51 5h 41 India Stock 2591 1 9 Mexican 43 1 2 1 3 Indi a Bonds . 22 20. Peruvian - 1 - 28 1 t: X chequer Bills 42 43 i Portuguese,........ - ..921 If 2 1 Bank for Act '223 1- I Russian ..... 9 India. for Act 260 259 . Spanish 554 41 51 Consol s f or ACcOun't..92l h Spanish Scrip 2f '2l Belgian Bonds ..t.91 100 991 • . The following was received at Lloyd's late this afternoon:— "Royal Swedish Norwegian General Consulate, 17, Great St. Helen's, Jan. 31, 1835. "Sin,--Permit me, fur the ; information of all whom it may - *concern, to give notice that I am officially commanded to make known that the cholera morbus has ceased to exist in the king- Alum of Sw -den and itiorway. (Signed) "To .W.,Dobsou, Esq., U. TOTTIE. Secretary at Lloyd's." According to the accounts from Naples, reaching to the' 14th January, the sanatory precaution against the cholera, which had been suspended several weeks, :had been 'again enforced ill consequence of the malady having simultaneously shown itself at Gette and Marseilles. Much dissatisfaction had been expressed by the merchants at the excessive fears of the govern ment, which had caused them serious injury, in consequence of the retaliatory system adopted by the French government in requi r i ng thi rty .d ays quarant i ne on vesse l s f rom Naples. There had been a considerable fall in oil, and severe losses had been sustairicd from the extensive speculations in this article. General Sebostrani is too iii to accept. the embassy to London. The truth being, that the general is aware At is one thing to have to cajole that protocolliug specimen of -foppery,'Lord Palmerston, and another to face the straightforward and strong-minded mea sures of the Duke of Wellington. According to our accounts from Stockholm to-day, the ex penses of the State conaUued to increase,' notwithstanding all the efforts of the government, and the personal sacrifices of the King. The paper money had become greatly depreciated, and The , expenses of tke budget had been quadrupled. Great dis .coutent prevailed throughout the kingdom, the literary men, It he Manufacturers, and all not belonging to the clergy, de manding to form part of the assembly of the states. The order vt' peasauts vim) had demanded a diminution of charges, and , a reform of the national representation. 'The national debt was daily augmenting, and every thing wore a decidedly bad' -appearance. - We are enabled positively to affirm that the reports of Lord Titzrey Somerset going out to Madrid on a mission, having for its object the putting an end to the civil war iu Spain, are cur eect, .and that he wilt forthwith set ont for that capital. . . _ It will be seen that the destructives, in the last agonies of desperation, have resolved to knock their heads against the wall, and have started Mr. Abercromby (!) against Sir Chas. Manners Sutton. "Look upon this picture and then on that." Mr. Abercromby, pour innocent; most cuquetishl y refuses to be made a to o l. of, u p o n w hi c h -Lord John Russell drags the poor man, d la Cincinnatus, from his plough, and, bv - playing upon the h onoura bl e mem b er ' s van it y , cajoles him to be the cat's paw' upon the approaching occasion. If - Mr. Abercromby is successful, we will engage to credit "honest Joseph's" next two " tottles of the whole," to consider Daniel O'Connella disinterested maw and to- believe that • Major Beauclerk is realty sorry that he headed his late colleague, Mr. Briscoe, at the late East Surrey election. We think no one in common conscience would wish us to swallow more than this.' ISLE OF MAN NEWS. (From . the Mona's Herald.) DouGLAs LIGHTED BY GAs.:—We feel much satisfaction in stating, that the tong-discussed plan for lighting this town with gas is now in a fair way of being .carried into execution. This application of one of the greatest discoveries of the present iuventive age to the most useful purpose of illuminating our public thoroughfares and shops must be highly gratifying to all Who take pleasure in the improvement of, the island. The streets Of this prosperous little 'metropolis win the❑ present .a pleasing contrast, front a state .of almost primeval darkness to one of refulgent light, rendering a passage through them by night a Pleasure instead of peril. We sincerely wish success to the spirited undertaking, being fully persuaded that it only requires a commencement to• meet with general support, and to ensure a fortunate termination. Tux WEATNER.—January, in which the greatest degree of t Old is usually felt in our northerly climate, has nearly passed away with only one transient snow storm, awl more sunshine than has been often witnessed in the mouth of April. During the past week, in particular, the atmosphere, though generally overcast, was so. calm and temperate that on Monday the black birds, and other early songsters, induced by the mildness of the season, renewed then*. charming melody, giving a pleasing anticipation of the approaching return of spring. During the heavy fall of rain on. the 15th instant, the flood in Ballasalla river rose to so unusual a height as to threaten serious conse quences to the dwellers in its vicinage, particularly to those in south Abbey cottage and another cattage near the bridge: So sudden and rapid was the fresh in the river, that the factory dam-head which had withstood the current for the last 50 years, was levelled to its foundation, and stones some tons weight tumbled to a considerable distance from their berths. Mr. Jef ferson, the spirited occupier of the said factory premises, and the 'neighbourhood in general, are greatly inconvenienced by the disaster, as most part of the corn thrashing and liax clean ing of this place was performed there. MR. ABERCROMBY, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The following is the correspondence on this subject _to which we refer in our leading article:— " Woburn Abbey, fan. 27, 1835. " My dear Abercromby,—l was very sorry to find from the different communications which I have had with you that you were so unwilling to comply with the desire of many members of the House of Commons, that you should he proposed for the chai r at the meeting of the new parliament. " After you had declined, however;-1 should- have been my self reluctant to press on you a proposition which 1 found per sonally unacceptable. But when I tell you that I have been Urged from various quarters; and -in the strongest terms, to - Place before vett the earnest wishes and general concurrence of those with whom you have been connected in public life, that you should allow yourself to be-put in nomination for the chair, 1 trust you will re-consider your decision. Above all, I think you will be influenced by the argument I have to state, that they view the present election - of a speaker as a question not solely of individual .preference; . but of public principle; and they are convinced that in order to try this 'question with the utmost advantage, it is of greatiniportance teat you elsuuid not decline this high honour, if the house be willing to confer it Upon you. " f remain, ever yours most faithfully, J. RUSSELL. " The Right lion. J. Abereromby:." " Fenton's Hotel, Jan. 29, 1835. "My dear Lord John,—My earnest desire to decline the honour of being proposed as a candidate for the chair, on the rnretin4' of the new parliament, has been so often and so strongly expressed to you and to others, that I was in hopes that it Would have been acquiesced in. " [however painful it would have been to me to maintain mY own opinion in oposition to that of so many of my friends; I hould hove adhered to it- if the approaching contest had in volved only a question of individual preference ; as I am now aware that tile governing motive of those who wish me to alter my decision is a desire to vindicate a public principle, which they think it is. their duty, as members of the House of Com moms, to maintain, I feel that the indulgence of my own wishes would subject me to the charge of obstinacy, or of selfishness; and therefore, if the choice, fall on me, I shall be ready to per form the duties of the office to the best of my ability. " I remain yours very truly and faithfully, J. ABEHCROMBY. " The Right Hon. Lord John Russell." 'REPRESENTATIVE BISHOPS.—T 6 Irish representative pre lates in the new parliament will be the Lord Archbishop of Timm, and Bishops of Elphin, Droinnre, and Limerick. The order in which the Irish bishops sit in parliament is regulated by a rota which .is completed at the end of every twelve ses sions, by which each archbishop 'sits one in four, and each bishop one in six sessions. ELsortoN ELOQUENCE.—the address of Carew O'Grady to the county of Cork flogs all competition to pieces. He says, " I told the electors cf Limerick that there was a penumbra of i nd . Pendeore in the county of Cork, which was not then able to 11'P freedom on its tongue." "Thiti is an epoch at which men should be steady, when we see our winter fields, irrigated with human blood and top-dressed with human brains." "If you re turn any, except au unconditional repealer, you send a walking tnonument of repeal extincti on , an d carre ' on i t thi s i nscr i p ti on , plea The lovers of fun will grieve to learn that Mr. Carew O'Grady has no chance of a seat in parliament this time. "Ric pcet;" in-other wards, he lies by for the present in Aglia rn arta Castle, a walking monument of neglected' merit and elo quence. ommispg tlffi.lMOMb STEAM COMMUNICATION \VIM INDIA. Mr. WA9HORN, whose 'name has been before the pub lic for several years, aid whose zealous and unabated efforts to establish a nearer mode of communication with India, are, we trust, duly appreciated, has arrived in Liverpool, in order to submit his plans to the mer chants and other enterprising inhabitants of this com munity. These will appear in a day or two, and we shall, perhaps, on Friday, be enabled to give them our best consideration. Meanwhile, from► what We have seen of Mr. WAGHORN, we feel confident that he is per fectly master of his subject, has studied it in all its bear ings, and we know he has received assurances of sup port in such quarters as carry with them the best guarantee of his talents and his honour. • It is of the very first importance to the people of Liver pool, that the communication with India should be direct from this port to Alexandria, and that large and commo, dious steamers should be built here and adapted to the navigation of the Red Sea, from Suez to Bombay, and the waters of the Ganges. If this were done, the corn- Munk...Won would be complete. But,. as we said before, When Mr.lWACtioaN's plans are in,the hands of the pub lic, we shall return to the subject. SHIP LAUNCH AT IHE HERCULANEUM YARD A beautiful and finely proportioned vessel was launched on Friday morning, and, although not"generally known, the sight collected a considerable concourse 'of people, who were freely admitted into the building yard adjoining the Herculaneum Pottery Works, whe re s h e wa s b u ilt. - Shoitly after eleven o'clock. Major-General Sir Howard Douglas, Baronet, accom panied by his son, Captain Donglas, arrived in the yard, and was greeted with the same warmth and cordiality which always marks his reception whenever he appears in public. The gal lant-general was in excellent spirits, but we regret to say is still unable to walk without the support of crutches. Immediately after his arrival be took his station on a platform erected for the occasion, from which he performed the office of sponsor to the new .traveller of the deep. Precisely at half-past eleven o'clock the last blocks were withdrawn, and, as the ship majestically glided off . the stocks,. received, with the usual benediction, the "fame of I t tra `roar ;—with this name she was launched into the element upon winch, under TORY COUNSEL, the British tlag has long been supreme; upon which British valour. has 'gained laurel: which even time can' neither destroy nor tarnish. On her passage from the earth to the ocean she was hailed with a loud shout, as if she had been endowed with a consciousness of the admiration she excited, which was repeated when it was `ascertained that she was fairly and safely afloat. a The Tory . . is a fine piece of naval architecture. Her dimen sions are—length of-decks 140 feet; .breadth of deck 33 feet; depth of hold 22 feet, and will consequently register from 640 to 650 tons. She was built by Mr. James Gordon for Air. Dun can Gibb, a well-known merchant of this town. • She was immediately towed into the Brunswick Deck, where she will be rigged, aud, when ready for sea, receive her first cargo ; all the cordage required for her use will be manufactured from -hemp groWn in British colonies and imported in British bottoms. . It wilt be seen by our advertising columns that the first voy age of THE TORY will be to the great leepublie of America. The English TORY surrounded, or rather lashed alongside the Cin cinatus and the Napoleon, the Hecim: and the Andrew .Jackson, the Andrew .Doria and the Commodore lio:yers, the Spartan and the Nicholas Biddle. the Capitol and the Aantucket, the Liberator and the Virginian Planter, or other ships bearing the equally high sounding names of ancient and modern heroes, and-an cient and modern places, or events of celebrity,' will be in strange company , and may excite something like commercial jealousy in the minds of our transatlantic republican frieuds, whu proba bly may not admire this open and daring attack upon their carrying trade. But we would ask, why have the British ship owners -o long neglected this trade? Why have they suffered their ships and sailors to remain idle with so immense a staple as cotton to be imported. front America to England ? That staple having to be paid for either in English money or English manu factures surely we should secure to our own pe o ple som e p or ti on o f ttie freight. The American shipsexpend but very little, compara tively, in our ports to what is expended by our own ships. A second suit of rigging is, Ave understand, frequently taken out in American vessels to supply their new ships. • -This, however, is done to avoid the duty payable on • the article; the sails are used for a feW days so as to give thern the appearance as well as the name of being nothing but old stores, and, as "old stores," are landed free of duty in America. But this is Mr. Andrew Jackson's affair, not ours_ We hope, hoWever, the trade for which TH. TORY is destined will attract the more general notice of our shipowners and merchants. In this digression we have furgotten the launch. To return to it--4u the moulding loft an excellent cold collation was pre pared by the hospitable owner of the newly-launched ship for the entertainment of his friends: - The tabfe was jaid.for about one hundred, and was covered with a great variety of edibles, both or a light and a substantial character; together with a boon- • tiful supply of excellent wines. About one hundred and fifty ladies and gentlemen were present. Mr. Gibb, as the founder of the feast, took the chair, supported on his right by the Rev. ,A. Campbell, one of the rectors of Liverpool, and on his left by Sir Howard Douglas. The. vice chair was filled .by the Rev. Dr.. Ralph. . The healths of the . King and Queen having been proposed and eordially drank, Mr. Diincan Gibb rose .4nd:said, that he felt the highest gra tification in proposing to them the health of a gentleman pre sent, whose character both politically and socially was so gene rally esteemed. The gentleman whom he had 'the honour to propose was, one who had proved himself the uncompromising friend of the town-of Liverpool, and of his King and country, lie meant his distinguished guest Major-General Sir Howard - Donglas. (Loud cheers.) It is almost needless to add, that this' toast was received with great pleasure, and drank with three times three, and one cheer. More. As-sinin as the cheering had subsided, Sir Howard Douglas - rose and addiesSed the company to the following effect:— It would readily be believed, that he rose under the influence of some. painful recollections,-in agaiii officiating at a ceremo nial such as this, when it was considered how much the •acci dent which betel hint on a similar occasion operated prejudi cially upon '.the great contest in which he was then engaged; but the bright eyes of beauty by which he now saw himself surrounded, and the gratifying acclamations which greeted him, completely erased all sense of personal inconvenience, and sub stituted very plea'Surable for painful impressions. The sight which they had just witnessed was one most interesting, to every Briton, and particularly to ope who was charged with the cere monial. of consigning t,, the ocean another of the foundations of Briton's best bulwarks, and one of the noblest specimens of British industry. lie was very thankful to his worthy and hos pitable host for having selected him to perform this interesting duty, and, as the 'godfather of the great, maritime child, he pronounced his benediction upon it, and earnestly hoped that its.progreSs through the waters of the world might tend to in sure tile prosperity of the owner, whose enterprise as a British merchant so well deserved to be crowned with success. (Loud cheers.) In his several addresses to the electors of Liverpool during the election, he had frequently recommended that all minor, 'party differences and distinctions should be made to merge into- that great conservative party on which;•;at this momentous crisis, the safety of the monarchy depends; and he must say fur himself,' that he would rather that the term Conservative -had been selected for the name of this vessel. It was well known that his worthy and excellent host was a staunch and sterling tory, and had accordingly preferred that term. He (Sir Howard), saw no reason why that term should he abjured, and wall he knew that Ocean would not be ashamed of the. new named child. It was, on the contrary, a most ap propriate name; for, referring to the pages of history, they would find that the most splendid and glorious naval victories that ever were achieveu were woo under tory rule. (Loud cheers.) In his address to the electors and others who were presentat the other launch to which he had alluded,. he had adverted to the fact that the foundation of the maritime and commercial power of Eng land was laid by Elizabeth of great and glorious memory. It would be out of place to review the political history of that period with a view to inquire whether the good Queen may be claimed as a disciple to the Whig or the tory principles, as subsequently claimed and practised; it was sufficient that-we should now reflect, engaged as we were, that the country was indebted to that glorious. reign for the maritime power, the commercial:extension, and ,the colonial establish nwnts which have raised this empire to so pre-eminent a sta tion; and let us not forget, touching on the subject of reform, that that great sovereign was the great reformer to whom we are indebted for restoring the protestant religion in this country, and completing the ,great work of reformation. —He —He might enter into other considerations to show the deep debt of gratitude which this country owed to Eliza beth; but he considered it unnecessary and inappropriate to the present occasion to travel ontof those reflections to which the present ceremonial gave rise. Returning to the ceremonial which they had just witnessed, and, looking at his god-child which had just been put forth,. he, felt much pride at ob serving, on one of the banners with which she was deco rated, his name waving over a to r y vesse l. Alth oug h h e could not claim connexion by the ties of blood with the dis tingnished commander to whom he would, allude in speaking of the defeat of the Armada, yet, considering that Howard was that name he did not feel ashamed that it was now displayed in the colour of his party over the gallant vessel. (Long and loud cheering.) It was net his intention to. trespass upon the time of his audience by 'any . lengthened speech, vet he could not re-' train fiton tucht4;ing, in - 2 . f few more observations. Speaking in this great Cominunity, the m ai n cen t r e of commercial enter prise,industry, intelligence, and wealth, from whence he saw the productions of our industry issuing from this great • mart iu stupendous structures such as these—from these favoured isles to the remotest quarters of the globe, and to vast portions of the universe, her own colonial possessions, and returning re-laden with fresh materials for renewed exertions of British industry— when he, considered the wealth, the influence, and the power to which, by these exertions, Britain had been raised:„ and, speak ing as he did in this great seat of British commerce, the centre of imperial Britain, surrounded by the fair and supported by the able and resolute partizans whom he led, he could not con clude better than in the strain in which all truly British hearts had often warmed : • "Blest isle! with beauty, With matchless beauty crowned, And manly hearts to guard the fair'." • • (Cheers.) It now only remained for him to propose a toast— " Success to the Tory." She need not be ashamed of bearing that name on the element to which they had"consigned her; and he (Sir Howard) was proud in having given a tory again to ocean, for he could hot for g et th at i t was under a tory ad ministration that the revered author of lais existence had most distinguished himself on that element, and it was there that his honours %vete won. It was under tory rule that the great naval heroes of later times, whose names will h e h an d e d d own to t h e remotest posterity, obtained their triumphs; and Whithersuever the Tory might he wafted this would be recognised, that British commerce, British navigation, and British naval supremacy had been more splendidly exhibited-and confirmed under the administration 'of tories than ever they had been un d er th a t o f Whigs; and hatn ce d scarce ly say, that on his own element vic tories have been achieved, and national independence and security insured, by a course of policy to which no - whig minis. ter can lay claim for a single sprig of the civic wreath. Sir flowaao Doucr,As, in an appropriate speech, eulogistic of the character of Mr. Gibb, proposed that gentleman's h ea lth. Mr. Ihricart.-Gina responded to the toast by thanking the company for the honour they had•conferred on him and "The Tory" by their presence, and hoping that as The Tory was not to be the last ship launched oink- his auspices, lie might again see so respectable a company trailer the roof on a similar oc casion. The health of Lady Douglas and family was then drank, and Sir Hows tin acknowledged the honour in ,a brief speech. The Rev. Dr. RALPH then rose, and, luiving obtained permis ion to propose a toast; said that at the present period when the hutch establishment was attacked, with such v►rulence by its ueiniei, it was a matter of great importance that her ministers, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the clergy, shoull be persons whose characters Were of the highest order. He was proud to see present a clergyman so highly respected as the Rev." M r. Campbell, oil° of their rectors, a gentleman wbobe character stood high with his parishi , mers, and who bore his honottis so meekly. (Cheers.) In public as well as social life he was universally respected, and no one in. the town took a greater interest in promoting the object of the charitable institutions than he did. . The Rev. A. CAMPBELL, in return for the compliment which had been so unexpectedly paid to him, said that it could not but be a source of great satisfacth to him to have his health pro posed by so excellent a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, for whose general character, though his personal ac quaintance with him was hut slight, he could not fail to enter tain the highest respect and esteem. Both he and that reverend gentleman were closely allied—each as . a preacher of the re fimined gospel, and each as a minister of an establiihed church at the present period equally the object of rancorous hostility and, as, he cohfidently trusted, of unjust and undeserved reproach. It did not, however, become him on the present occasion merely, to reciprocate compliments with his reverend friend, but to ex press to the company present what he really felt,—a grateful sense of the unexpected honour which had been conferred upon him in drinking his health,—an honour, nevertheless, which his was not presumptuous enough to regard as a personal compli ment pdid to himself, but which he, rather received and more thankfully acknowledged as a tribute of respect and homage to that venerable church, at whose altar he served as an unworthy minister, , and in whose welfare, whatever their particular per suasion' might be, they were all deeply and, as he thought; equally concerned, iii the confident assurance, an assurance grounded on reason and truth, and confirmed by the dear bought experience-of a former age, that its existence was identi fied with the preservation of that mild and tolerant monarchy under which we had enjo y ed so many years of religious liberty and domestic peace, that the so loudly clamoured-for separation of church and state could not fail to be the commencement of a sanguinary revolution, and that the downfal of the altar could not long precede that of the throne. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, (he proceeded,) if I' know your sentiments, it is not merely in this low and secular point of view that you regard the church you do not esteem it merely as a political machine to keep the state-carriage in motion; you do not regard it merely as a prop to the monarchy; you do not contemplate the mitre merely as a glittering appeudag,e to the crown • you rather venerate it as a means for the religious education of the people through the medium of an established .cier,,ey,—an education not calculated to fill their heads with the self-deceiving maxims of a godless political economy, but to instruct them in that. wisdom which alone is calculated to make them wise unto salvation, to acquaint them with their duties as peaceable subjects and honest then, and teach them to fear God and honour the King. (Cheers.) And on this particular, he said, we the establiihed clergy of both churches, wage an unequal contest with our enemies. (Hear.) We cannot stoop to court influence by unworthy means. We cannot flatter the vanity or foster the prejudices of a mob. We cannot, like the 1/T:established clergy of a neighbouring island, blasphemously arm ourselves with the thunderbolts of heaven, and launch the anathemas of our church against the adversaries ' of our political creed, and command our abject votaries, under the. penalty of everlasting fire, to give their suffrages to this or that candidate, or drive them like a flock of sheep tei'jfill the purse or swell the triumph of a traitorous agi tator. (Cheers.) But if I _mistake not, gentlemen, .he con tinued, what we could not do for the people . , the freeholders of South Lancashire have done for themselves. They would not vote for the'open and avowed enemy of their national church. Ile who was lowest on the poll in the late contest, was first and foremost in his assault upon the venerable fences of our establish tnent, and they have rejected him from the great council of the natien. He raised his arm against the ark of the church, and that arm has fallen withered and powerless by his side. (Cheers.) I will not presume, said the rev. gentleman, to trespass any further upon your time by a lengthened cnntinuatiou of these remarks, reluctantly and unexpectedly drawn from me, but conclude in the language of our immortal dramatist, as placed in the mouth of Falconbridge, in the play of King John:— This England never did and never shall ' Lie at the foot of a proud conqueror, But when it first did, help to wound itself. Now these her Princes are conic home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, Aud we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue If England to itself do rest but true. The rev. gentleman sat dowriamidst the plaudits of the ladies and gentlemen present. The company then departed. , SPRING ASSIZES.—NO4TIFERN CIRCUIT.—It is stated, we observe, that the ensuing Spring Circuit I+lll probably begin at Yor, on Saturday, the •iBth of February, and that both Judges will then proceed to Durhani, Newcastle, Carlisle, Appleby and Lancaster, closing the Circuit at Liverpool. This arrangement differs materially - from that hitherto adopted for the Spring Circuit.—Carlisle Patriot.—[This is an error as far as Liverpool 'is concerned. The Assizes will not be held here until the Autumn Circuit.—E. L. S.l SHIP LA UNCH.—On Saturday, a schooner, burthen 190 tons register, named the " Susannah Collings," was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Humble and Milcrest. The com mand of this vessel will be given to Captain'JOhn.Crabb. This fine and substantially built schooner is remarkable for her con struction as a fast sailer, combining with this quality the im portant advantage of being able to stow an unusually large cargo for so small a registry. She is considered to be a'perfect model, and is now lying in No. 5, Graving Dock. 'ANNUAL BALL.—The Annual Ball of Mr. Peter Stubbs, the leader of the Royal Harmonic Band, is to be held at Paris's Rooms, Hardman-street, on the 10th instant.—A numerous and gay attendance is anticipated. THE LIVER THEATRE.—Life in Liverpool still continues to attract good houses at this Theatre. Last. night Miss Hamil ton, from the Nobility's Concerts, London made her first appear ance in Liverpool on these boards. In the masquerade scene she sang " The Rose of Anandale," with great sweetness, and was rapturously encored. Some other novelties have been pro duced which we Ethan take an early opportunity of noticing. LORD STANLEY AND THE. ADMINISTRATION.—It affords us much satisfaction to be enabled to communicate to our readers a fact which places beyond doubt the views and intentions of Lord Stanley regarding the new ministry formed by Sir Robt. Peel. The suppert of the Earl of Derby ,was notoriously accorded to the defeat of the whig candidates, and it may there fore he• presumed, .althesugh the noble earl has in his local politics been influenced mainly by family ambition, that his opinion upon national affairs are opposed to the new ministry. But notwithstanding these countervailing considerations— despite those personal motives which might have operated in a contrary direction—the noble earl's son, Lord Stanley, has, since the close of the county election, expressed his cordial gratification at its result. It is understood that the Honou'rable Bootle Wilbraham passed the evening immediately antecedent to the declaration of the issue of the polling at Knowsley, and that on Friday inoruing, before setting forward to the hustings at Newton, Lord Stanley took occasion to congratulate the honourable gentleman upon the issue of the 'contest. "I am glad (said his lordship) that your cause has triumphed.". Surely this declaration will set at rest the hopes of those who would foretell the accession of the noble lord to the ranks of opposi tien.—Manekester Chronicle, - DINNER TO MR. BRAIDLEY.—On Thursday next, the friends and supporters of Mr. Braidlev will have an opportunity of manifesting their respect for that gentleman at a public dinner. There is every prospect of the entertainment being both nume rously and respectably attended; and though the couservatives of Manchester cannot, like their neighbours of the loyal borOugh of 'Warrington, congratulate themselves on the succe ss of their exertions at their last election, they may with as much enthusiasm express their attachment to the good cause.. FIRE.-41n- Saturday night, a little after eight o'clock, a fire broke out iu the premises of Messrs. Foster and Griffin, iron founders, Beckwith-street, Park-lane. The Norwich Union engine arrived first, and played from suction the water left in the main, but could only obtain a scanty supply. This the foreman of that engine directed upon the premises on fire, and on Mr. Harboard's large warehouse opposite. At one time this was in imminent danger, and on examination it was found that some malting on the fourth floor had actually taken fire. The West of England and those of, the parish obtained their first water, the former from a private tank and the latter from their carts. The supply of water obtained through these chan nels, though it prevented the extension of the fire, did not pre vent it from destroying, before ten o'clock, the building of the pattern-room and workshops, where it originated, and all the valuable stock contained in the same. His Worship the Mayor was early on the spot, and by his presence contributed much to allay the confusion which unavoidably attends these occasions, and did not retire until all apprehension of danger was over. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON IN OFFICE.—It i 8 strongly ru moured, with what truth we are unable to state, that Lord Francis Egerton is about to take office with the present minis try; and that in consequence there will, almost immediately on the meeting of parliament, be a fresh election for South Lan cashire. Should this event take place, it is, we are given to understand, the intention of a large and influential body of the electors to invite Lord Palmerston into the field to contest the representation with Lord Francis Egerton.—Manchester Guar dian.--[Ancient Cupid enter the lists with Lord Francis Eger ton ! What next?] BOLTON, J AN. 30 —SALE OF WIVES.—TWO most disgusting instances of this barbarous practice have taken place within the space of a week; the first occurred on Thursday, the 2'21, when a fellow from the country, named Palmer, led his wife to the gas pillar, in the New Market-place, with a lialtet round her neck, and sold her, after several biddings, to a man who comes from the same neighbourhood, named Clarke; after which the parties went to the One Horse Shoe, Bank-street, where the purchase money was paid, and a stamped receipt was given. The wife, halter and ail, being formally delivered, the parties regaled themselves with beefsteak's and ale.—On Monday, a fellow from Haverside, near this town, also offered his wife for sale in a similhr manner, and She was purchased for 3s. 6d. by her brother-in-law, with whom she had formerly cohabited tor four years. Many hundreds of persons assemfiled to witness this revolting. exhibition. The respectable gentleman for whom they worked has very properly discharged them from his employ. Manchester Courier.—[lf parish officers would do their duty, this scandalous practice would Soon be abolished. A few years since three persons engaged in a similar exhibition, namely, the husband, the wife, and her purchaser, were indicted, tried, and convicted at the Kent sessions for a, misdemeanour. The charge against them was "an attempt to bring the institution of marriage into contempt." The parish officers were the pro secutors.7-E. L. S.l • The Dukes of Kutherland and' Hamilton have sent in their adhesion to the present ministry, that is t o say, th ese no bl emen , looking to the extreme lengths to which the factious opposition have declared their intention of going, and 'considering the very advocacy of sneh principles as tending, not to the reform, but the subversion of all government—have resolved to stand by the present ministry and try them by their measures. Thus perish all the hopes of an nufair opposition to Sir C. M. Sut ton's resuming the Speaker's chair, and the factious threat of stopping the supplies. We understand that Mr. Justice Patteson, who had deter mined upon going the Oxford Curcuit this next spring, has con sented to take the Western, in order to accommodate Mr. Ser geant Coleride, the new judge, who would otherwise, according' to the first arrangement,. have been : compelled t o h ave gone hi s own circuit, where he is necessarily acquainted with many of the causes which are tube tried at the ensuing assizes.—Carlisle Patriot. It was gratifying to notice the enthusiasm with which the names of Sir 1.1. 'Peel and the Duke of W allington were re ceived on Saturday last, by the Undergraduates and Com mencing Bachelors who were then assembled in the Senate house. Since it is from teachers and parents that the political opinions of early life are usually derived, such a demonstration of feeling is valuable, as showcag the confidence placed in his Majesty's government by a numerous and intelligent class of his subjects, who ',lave property to defend and a common church to protect. The disapprobation which wat. .so plentifully be stowed on the names of the members' of the late government proves that whiggish principles have but little weight among the educated youth of this kingdom. We are happy to observe such a spirit so prevalent among those members of the Univer sity who are procceding•on to th degree which gives a vote for the election of members of parliament.. But. vet, in truth, the conservative party in the University stands in little need of fur ther aid. Since the contest which unseated Lord Palineiston and Lord Cavendish, the Whig party have hardly been able to ofTer.the shadow of arr opposition to a conservative candidate. —Cambridge Chronicle. TO Tilt EDITOR OP TILE LWERPOOL ST.INDSRD. Sta,—l have been " pretty considerably amused," as the Yankees say, with the paper war carried on in . the provincials. in the respect of your identity, and am quite sure that your risi ble muscles must be affected by the appearances of surprise and alarm occasioned by the übiquity of your presence, as unlooked for as disliked, in the ranks of the enemy. Who are the editors of the STANDAR'' , ? Ha, ha! Have these Drawcansits no sober moments—always so very pot-valiant that their pereeption and• placing of their antagonist are quintupled instead of doubled? Five of ye! "Bucks, have at ye all!" How Cubbett will laugh when the bellowing of one of his roaring heroes is reported at Normandy, or Bolt-court, along with Bott's fruitless attempts to grub up the STANDARD, as if, as the coach-wheel did for the fly,the . noise and dust of the former vehicle will help insignificance so far. But why five of ye? Why not ten—why not twenty? " Put fate into the lists" and " champion them to the uttermost." Is it that your contemporary opponents, forming that mystic num ber fire, hive so drawn on their imagination and conceit, smarting, as they must have done, under even your gentle cor rection, that they have knocked theit : heads and senses together into' the actual belief that there must 'needs have been an equality of instruments, and that your single hand could not have brushed 6ff these wasps? They have yet only felt the tail of the lion, and, so confused end irritated, return buzzing to the attack. Still be merciful, Mr. Editor; do not let them proioke yon to crioh them. Remember Uncle Toby's treat-1 ment of the bltie bottle,—" Poor devil, there is room enough in the world for thee and me." • i Times are better with us. We are, despite their " politics and, knavish tricks," progressing towards something like peace and stability. With a pleasant prospect before us, let us show that we can bear a little jolting on the road. The two persona have spit . .their venom—let us hope they will play off the toad or toady no more; and hop about in a less objectionable shape. They are known now. What Constable Dogberry, from a want of ability to do for himself, wished done for him, they have most effectually "written themselves Aown.". " Oh," says Dogberry, " that he were here to. write me down an Ass!" I begrudge them not the title, seeing they have earned it; but, for men, of " splendid talents" methinks a less questionable cognomen might have served. " Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." It were well'if tbe ludicrous were the only light in which such work could - be viewed; but it is painful 'to see ministers and stewards of our church so bitter in their opposition to the STANDARD that was so nobly raised and has so proudly floated in our town in her cause and our common constitution's—when our hearts are panting for, er security and " the deinon of'de mocracy is knocking at her door" to distinguish the voices of her sworn servants and defenders, in the clamour of the infidel and destroyer. Rehm the church, indeed! Let them conform —preach and practise her precepts of peace by good-will—be humble, not vaunting of their " splendid talents," which are ill bestowed and employed, indeed, in scattering the .filth and hurling the fire-brand. According to the judgment of the Chro nicle, one of the bunch of radical fires, nothing, since Junius, can compare with the correspondence of your clerical foe. It would have been as well had he adopted the signature, as in either character he was secure from personal consequences, and the well-wishers of our . church been spared the scandal and hu miliation of such an exhibition in the garb of a churchman. Fie, fie upon it! There is another Junius-like effusion in this day's Chronicle, signed Spectator, that may pass off very well as the reverend gentleman's alluded to, and,..though saucy enough. is less outrageous to one's feelings, from the decency of a cloak being thrown over his spiritual shield; the emblem of a true 1 knight of the cross cannot be vaunted in such a contest without stamping the bearer with the name of recreant and.apostate— without such prejudice he will find it easier to " carve out his own renown ;" and, , truly, from the specimens of the cut and slap style, he is ia Captain Bobadil alreadiy. H ow very terrible and sublime is that passage in Spectator' sletter about " the ship going down in action with an expiring faction howling on board, singing paeans of victory, but leaving the palm of conquest to the enemy." How true is the application of this grandiloquent passage to the condition of the expiring wing faction—throWn overboard completely in the contest for the county, and had all our friends (4) been steel, (no trimmers or levellers in our church,) thrown out for the town too, but ter ribly battered, notwithstanding; still they howl out no reaction, still "sing preens," still write fustian ! I would not drown them, though, Mr. Editor; "drown cats and puppies—let gal lows gape for. dog, and man go free," they should have the use of the " patent life-preservers" in such cases, provided at the old " Cockand Trumpet;" such as had not the confidence of the maker in their power of sustenance for a long voyage, and could be conveniently stowed away in the floating tub or the Republic, should have that accommodation; but depart they should, first fair opportunity, from the waters of the Mersey into the seas from which it flows, and into the ocean beyond," thence to Ethiopia or America, or anywhere else where the blessings of our un rivalled constitution are named but to be envied, and where they may have room enough to make models and reformations of their own,—spin-tops and tut ballot papers, without disturbing those who are grateful to an indulgent Providence for having cast their lot; here, and so long preserved us and our country 'spite of her degenerate and ungrateful sons.—Yours, Sze. Liverpool, 31st Jan., 1535. FIDELIS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.INDARD. Sta,—When I replied last week to the observations of a Merchant's Clerk, I did not anticipate any further necessity for my taking up the space in your valuable columns, which might be occupied with- more useful matter. So little indeed did 1 think of having to trouble you again, that !kept no copy of toy reply; and, not having seen Tuesday's paper, I was not aware of my letter having been published, until I observed a further communication in yesterday's from your previous correspondent, as well also one from a. new champion, who signs himself Justus. I will therefore,•with your pernaission, take one at a time, and, as regards the Merchant's Clerk, observe, that being in all things, with the exception of business, au *indolent man, I did not think it necessary to take his letter line by Line. consequently only generally, and in following up his-own admission of the scarcity of huts. stated my opinion --if a sufficient number were provided in every dock there would be no more room for complaint. I now see I am charged with evading the fact—the awkward, stubborn fact of 50 or GO vessels having been kept waiting for landing-waiters. Will your correspondent affirm as a fact, that 60, or even 50 vessels, actually having a quayed or a stage berth, With hut., and weighing apparatus, ready for discharging, have at one time been waiting for landiug-waiters ? If such can be " so readily proved," let the onus probandi lay with him, and when so proved, I shall be most willing to allow the necessity of an augmentation of officers as well as huts, whi;:li latter, I again, assert, are not the property of the crown, neither has any one in the Customs an authority over them ;, and, as the Merchant's Clerk is wilfully blind to my previous hint at the quarter to which the , do actually belong, I at once tell him they arc the property of the Dock Committee, and to that committee alone does the blame attach for the disgraceful state of a very con siderable number of them, as also for the necessity of the officers bcig compelled, to the scandal of the flourishinl port of Liver pool to sit on a box, with a barrel fora table, under a sail spread over spars lashed together, to land a cargo ! ! ! There is another fact which your correspondent may possibly be able to contro vert, namely, getting landing-waiters appointed to ships reported to be ready for work, though at the same time they may lay far out and two days have passed over before they are played. I do hope the Merchant .1' Clerk will he now satisfied, and, as I have pointed out distinctly, and not again by inucudo, where the want of huts should be remedied, be will adopt the proper course, and not throw all.the blame on the Customs, for he might with equal propriety charge them with not bringing vessels into their berths—instead of the dock master. Having given him all the information necessary to effect a remedy for his griev ance, and being, as observed before, an indolent man, (shall not trouble myself again on this subject. Your friend Justus does me the favour to invest me with a little brief authority, and also a want of experience in this port. Does lie mean to honour me, by the inference, of having had much experience in some other ? Possibly he, like the Mer chant's Clerk, can equally.prove these facts? lam astonished, sir, that Justus, after finding the Tony, loud, and deep complaints of the merchants, so useless when made through the STAN OA RD, did not lay his grievance before the Committee of Commis sioners of Custonis;when . here a short time since? He might, with his superior talents and extraordinary experience of this port, have effected much more than tie is likely to do by his present mode. Justus complains of a vessel having waited four days for a landing-waiter, who was only obtained after "very strong measui es were about to be adopted." Justus was wrong in this case; lie should have availed himself of this solitary in stance of a:shin, waiting so long, and pushed his strong measures at' once to tbe:fountain bead, when, no doubt, the remonstrance of so experienced a per Son would have been attended to at the instant,. and another regiment of landing-waiters appointed forthwith. What en oppdrtunity was lost ! Is it not astonishing, Mr. Editor, that Justus, with his won 'derful experience of this port, should have been so misled res pecting the property of the huts ? I almost question whether the Dock Committee will thank him for transferring their right and title to the." chief officers."—Yours, &c., Liverpool, Jan. 31st, 1535. FAIR PLAY. P.S.—The time of attendance at this period of the year at the Customs is half-past eight, not eight, which is, I suppose, an emir of the printer. IRREGUtAR TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS.—The Morning Herald is frequently irregular—the Morning Post of Saturday did not arrive—the same paper was a defauiter last week also— the London Satirist has, fur the first time, not arrived. The Court Journal, too,.sometimes forgets to visit us... Such irregu larity in the transmission of English newspapers must needs be injurious to them and to us: Ile will thank them to have it re medied."—Dublin Freeman's Journal of ff'ednesday. [The irregularity does not proceed from any neglect on our part. We have fiequent occasions of complaint in the non-delivery of our-Irish and provincial journals. The system of purloining newspapers transmitted through the postoffice is carried on to a most disgraceful extent; but no blame can be attributed to the authorities of that department, for the utmost anxiety is inva riably evinced to secure a safe and prompt delivery.—London Paper.] I'he Marquis of Bute was the first nobleman who, for a cen tury, proposed to'builtitand endow a new parish church in Scot land. Her Grace the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, we learn from the following quotation from a cotemporary, is the second noble person who has resolved on a similar act of patri otism and piety. "We learn from a correspondent, that her' Grace—the Duchess Countess of Sutherland, with that noble spirit of benevolence and liberality by which- her grace is so distinguishad amongst her numerous tenantry, has proposed, not only to-build, but also to endow a church in the village of Helmsdale, for the accommodation of her numerous tenantry in that part of the parish of Loth. The inhabitants of that part of Sutherland cannot feel too grateful to her grace for this mu nificent gift. When in Sutherland, last autumn, her grace, in presence of the Duke of Bedford, pointed out a spot on which she proposed to erect the church, and on the following day a 'number of the most respectable inhabitants of Helinsdale went to the spot, and erected a "cairn" of stones, which will remain until, by her. grace's liberality, they will be removed to make way for the more lasting memorial of her munificence. We ate happy to add, that the proposed building will be commenced in spring first.—Caledonian . Mercury. LIVERPOOL POLICE. Before the MAYOR, Ald. LEYLAND, and Ald. WRIGHT. RtoT.—On Sunday morning, between the hours of two and three o'clock, the neighbourhood of Stockdale-street, Marybone, was thrown into a state of confusion in consequence of a num ber of disorderly Irishmen creating a disturbance by fighting and rioting. It appears that this street is chiefly infested with bad characters, who frequent the numerous houses of a low deseriptibn there situated, and the dispute originated in one of these sinks of iniquity. The brawlers divided themselves into two factious, who turned into the street to decide their diffar enees by battle. Here each party met with an accession of strength, and a regular riot commenced; stones were thrown, shillelaghs were broken about the heads of the people congre gated, and many were seriously injured. The nightly watch endeavoured to quell the disturbance, but they were beaten from the field. They returned, however, in g - reater numbers, and succeeded in.capturing fifteen of the ringleaders, who were this day placed before the magistrates, and those who could be iden tified were held to bail to answer the charge at the sessions. SINGU LA R RousEßY.—Alice Bird, Sarah Keaton, and a boy about fourteen years of age, the latter employed by Messrs. Hazledean, Pierson, and Co., shipwrights of Salthouse Dock, were placed at the bar on suspicion of stealing twenty-five pounds, the property of Messrs. Hazledean and Co., under the folliming rather singular circumstances. A gentleman con nected with the firm stated that the 'bov, who had been in their employment for some time, and they had had no reason to sus pect his honesty, was, on Saturday, sent to get change for a £2O and a £5 note. He went into two shops to get change without succeeding, and in the last, a hair-dressers in Paradise street, he saw the female prisoners, who, seeing the notes in his hand, followed him out, and Keaton said that she could get him change at her sister's. The lad was foolish enough td give the girl the note, and she, after taking him through several streets, entered a house, telling him to wait at the door. He did wait, but to itO purpose, as the prisoners entered at the front door and went out at the back. It appears that both the prisoners then went to a shop kept by a Mr. Butler and requested change for a£s note, but he not having change they left. The lad haying by some means heard that the prisoners had been to Mr. But ler's to get change, went there to see for them, and told Mr. Butler that they had got a £2"..) and £5 note. Mr. Butler, sus ,pecting that all was not right, gave the boy into custody, and informed the police of the circumstance, who, subsequently, took the female prisoners into custody, but on neither of them was found the money. Mr. Butler now identified the girls who came to ask change, and said that Keaton appeared to have two notes in her hands. The female prisoners denied having ever seen the boy in their lives before, and said that they went to Mr. Butler's for' change for a five shilling piece. This was, how ever, denied by Mr. Butler and the boy, and the magistrates remanded the two females for further examination, discharging the boy on the assurance of his master that he did not believe !dm to be a participator in the robbery.- Gnoss ASSAULT BY. A CARTER.—Mr. Whitley, surgeon, of Islington, appeared against a ruffianly carter for having grossly assaulted bins on Saturday afternoon last. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Whitley, that on Saturday, between five and six o'clock, as he and his brother were proceeding along Moortields in a gig, he observed the prisoner riding on the shafts of his cal t, heedless whether anyt hing, could pass him or not. Having many times been subject to inconvenience from the negligence of carters. he desired the prisoner to alight from the shafts and take his own side of the road, which instead of doing, he used the inuSt Ausive language. Mt. Whitley then alighted from his gig to take the number of the cart, and in order to do so attempted to stop the horses, but had no sooner laid his hand upon them than the prisoner struck him a blow on the eye. Mr. Davis, a surgeon, and Mr. Jones, an attorney, who were passing, seeing the ruffian's conduct, went up to the assistance of Mr. Whitley, and endeavoured to take the prisoner into custody, but being a poweiftil man he extricated himself from them and escaped. - Mr. ' Whitley and Mr. Davis followed him to the street in which he lived for the purpose of obtaining his name, when the prisoner again attacked them and threw Mr. Davis into a cellar. Mr. Venables, the barrister, appeared for the defendant, and endeavoured to show that Mr. Whitley had given the carter provocation, but failed. Witnesses were also called for the defence, but their evidence was so contradictory and vague that the 'magistrates said they could not believe them. Mr. Whitley, in mitigation of punishment, said that as he was given to understand the man's character was generally good he did not wish to. urn=e the case with severity. The Mayor and M r. Alderman Leyland observed that the pri.mer's conduct was gross in the extreme, and were it not for Mr. Wnitley's recom tnendation, they should have inflicted a heav y fine upon him. He was then fined in the penalty,:of 10s., whic h with the costs amounted to 16s. DINNER TO TILE MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY. (Abridged from the. Newcastle Journal.) The conservatives of the county of Durham gave a dinner to the Marquess of Londonderry, at the Waterloo - Inn,Durham, on Wednesday last, on his appointment to the important mis sion to the Court of St. Petersburgh, on which he Will shortly leave England. The chair was tilled by the Hon. Henry Thos. Lyddell. In thanking the company fhr the honour done him on the occasion, the - Marquess.of Londonderry said, that the point in which the public will feel most deeply interested was his refutation of the scandalous attacks of the press, in re ference to his recent appointment by the , government, to the , embassy of St. Petersburgh. He declared that, so far from those insinuations and assertions that had appeared in the ra dical newspapers, on this subject, being correct, they had no foundation whatever. The fact was, that a very few days after the accession to office of Sir Robert Peel, the right bon. baronet did him the honour to send to him (the Marquess) a King's Messenger, soliciting his confidence in, and support of, the new government. Accompanied with that letter of the premier, was a letter from the Duke of Wellington—that great commander whom he (the Marquess) had followed, and whom he looked up to during so many years of his early life—to state that the important embassy to St. Petersburgh was one that the Duke of Wellingtoin'as Foreign Secretor..., wcs very anxious should be confided to his care. The noble Warquess then went on to say, that, considering the domestic position in which he stood, he felt that, after a life of considerable activity, difficulty, and hardship, that he might at least be permitted to enjoy those advantages which, under providence, he possessed. The noble marquess next adverted to the great works in which he has em barked, and the consequent inconvenience of a protracted absence from home; but added, he at length, resolved—as the situation was not of his seeking, and as he had been called upon by - the ministry of the country and the King—he would sacra lice every personal consideration and obey that call, if she whose welfare he had at heart above all other earthly things would accompany him. The noble marquess then said that he might be called upon to leave this country in a few weeks, and, after adverting to several other topics of a snore general nature, declared that the testimony of respect that day paid him would live fu his memory when far away from the shores of England, and might God be his judge if ever he was ungrate ful for it. (Reiterated cheers.) In the course of the evening, JOHN WRIGHT, Esq., proposed the health of Lord Seaham, the eldest sun of the Marquess by the present Marchioness of Londonderry. Viscount SEAHAM (a handsome and noble-looking youth of about-fourteen,) said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I will nut trespass further on your time than by cordially thanking von for the coinpliment you have paid to me. I shall not fail b bear in grateful remembrance the kind reception I have received from you on this, the first occasion of my appearing in intWie life. (Tremendous cheers.) This shOrCaddress was extremely well delivered. The Rev: GEORGE ToWNSENP urged upon the meeting the propriety of commencing at once to secure and register votes for the nest election, whenever it may take place. TO THE MOON. Shine on, shine on, thou beautiful moon! With an undiminished ray, As a beacon light, through the ,stormy night • For the mariner on his way. Shine on, shi:e on, in thy midnight course, Thy beams on the waters play; Dear a whispering prayer, "0, tarry there" • ' For the mariner on his nay. Shine on, shine on. thou majestic orb, Lest gathering clouds betray, With the light God gave illumine the wave For the mariner on his way. Shine on, shine on, till the morning breaks In the golden light of day,' As a heavenly guide, over the ocean wide, For the mariner on his way. Shine on, shine on, for he lookvon thee Wherever his bark may stay; For those afar, who are watching each star, For the mariner on his nay. Shine on, shine on, in careering high, While lonely I trace thy way, With a heating heart, lest thy light depart From the 'mariner on his way THR ARGtMENTUM An HOMINEM.—A lawyer pleadi►ig a cause against a lady, indulged in a multitude of digressions, which overcame the passion of the lady, who interrupted him. " My Lord," said she, ." here is the case in a single word—l engaged to pay to the opposite party a certain sum, for a piece of tapestry of Planders, w►th figures as hauds,m►e as your Lord ship; lie attempts to palm on me a wretched daub, with figures as ugly as the counsel opposed to me ; am I not released from my ba:gain?" This comparison, which flattered the vanity of the judge, completely disconcerted the opponent, who had no reply to make, and the lady gai►►ed her cause. SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON, M.P. AND COLONEL ABERNE THY, It-M.—The affair between Sir Edward Codringtou and the Commandant of,the Marine corps in this garrison, has ex cited a considerable sensation, as it involves the authority of military officers over their men, while acting in their civil capa city. The gallant Admiral has expressed more than once his determination to bring the case before the House of Commons, as one affecting the freedom of election. It is well known that on the approach of a contested election, the troops are by law compelled to retire at least two miles from the hustings. All soldiers who are electors, can demand leave of absence to go to the poll, but they appear at elections as civilians.—Some of the Marine band, who were electors, and supporters of. Sir Edward Codrington, wished to play their instruments in his processions, but an order was issued from. the Marine barracks forbidding the men to play for either party at the election. This the gal lant Admiral considered an infringement upon the liberty cf the subject; and in his speech at the l'own Hall he gave vent to his feelings in warm language, applying an expression to Colonel Abernethy which gave great offence to that gallant officer. A correspondence ensued—and subsequently Colonel Abernethy mote an account of th e corres p on d ence to the Admi ralty, demanding an inquiry; and we understand a reply has been received from their lordships, expressing their approba tion of hi 3 conduct throughout.—Corriubian. Ma. FITZJAMES, R.N., OF THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION. — On Sunday afternoon this gallant ‘oung officer performed suc cessfully, at the imminent risk of his life, a most herMc act, of which, including ourselv e s, th ere were man y w itnesses. The barque George Cannin g , having on board the Euphrates expe dition, lay at anchor in the river opposite Birkenhead, and as . it wus expected she might get outto sea next tide,.a steamer went to her with the last of the stores. While these were being transhipped a tidewaiter of the name of James Dickenson, who could not swim, iu passin , from one vessel to the other fell into the river. At this time it blew a gale of wind, and there was a high sea in the Mersey, and greatly were we surprised when Mi. Fitzjames, in hoots, coat, hat, Szc., instantly sprang from' the George Canning 6t - er the drowning man. - He succeeded in reaching him ere li tag - and in supporting him by the hair while he floated on his oack. They had drifted down a con sidetabie way before the steamer overtook them, but at length they were rescued from their. perilous situation and brought back to the George Canning, where Mr. Fitzjames received the congrattilations of his brother officers and their friends who had gone on board to take leave. On inquiring we found that Mr. Fitzjames served lately on board of his Majesty's ship Winchester. .._„~.-. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'Clock. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE.-MONDAY, FF.B. 2, Is 3 . The supplies for the week from Ireland have again been moderate. The Wheat trade has been dull, and the sales, although to a small . extent, have been on lower terms than at Tuesday's market.—Flour has also con tinued to move off slowly; the supplies of this article from the interior to our neighbouring markets have been large.—Throughout the week there has been an active demand for Oats, several cargoes have been sold at,an advance of Id per bushel; the best samples of west of Ireland realizing 3s 2d per 45 rbs.—Oatmeal has been 6d e 9d per load higher.—Good Malting Barley has been in demand at Id per 60 Ibs advance.—Beans Is per quarter higher. 'ft ESDAY, Two O'CLOCK. This day's market was thinly attended by country dealers.—Wheat was dull, and a shade lower.—Flour nominally as last week, with a very limited demand. —Oats were not plentiful ; the finest samples readily obtained the abovb prices. —For small parcels of Oat meal 27s per load was obtained, but the dealers would not give more than 2Gs Gd per load. The imports of Butter are 3,335 firkins; the demand is entirely confined to fresh imported and prime parcels, which support full market rates.—Bacon, Hams, and Lard are dull. AV ERIG] PRICES. WITEAT, 41" 70 mi, s d s d BEANS, imp. men. s d s d Irish dried red.. 5 5 e 5 10 Irish . Do. dried white, 510 .. 6 6 FLOUR, 4P 280 ths Do. undried.... 53 .. 510 Eng.& Irish sup 35 0..38 0 English ...... .. 5 10 .. 6 10 Do. fines 3O 0 .. 34 0 Canada .... . .. 6 6.. 7 2 Du. seconds Osrs, d' 4s 1 Is . s .. . Do. thirds; li ieh B. IZLRY; If 60 tbs Do. new Ir;sh grinding... 3 6.. 4 0 BRAN, If 1 lbs 1 1.. 1 2 AVERAGE PRICE SD SD Waterford, 64 0 0 89 0 Colerain ' 66 0 .. 70 0 Carlow 64 0 .. 82 0 Limerick 66 0.. 68 0 Belrast 74 . 0 .. 7M 0 Derry 6B 0 .. 70 0 Cork, ads, dry OF BUTTER, &e. •8D SD Bacon, ae cwt.... 29 Ora 31 0 Hams, dry 4 ► 0 .. 42 0 Do. wet 0 0 Firkin Lard, Pdaddered do. 5O 0 .. 5.5 0 Grease Butter REPORTED ARRIVALS OF CORN. From the 27th to the 24 Feb. inclusive. i IRE- COAST- FU- BI<ITISfI TOTAL. DESCRIPTIONS. I LAND. WISE. REIGN AMER. NV HE AT Qrs 2753 299 3052 BARLEY— Q.TS 1490 1490 OATS. FLOUR Sacks, 7244 640 7884 Do.. Barrelsj BRAN.. 3ATMEAL Load' 1858 ~ I 1858 w MALT rs: 2471 2471 BEANS Qrs' PEAS • •• • CIES: RYE. . Qrsj SHELLED BARLEY....CWti RAPRSEED.........BarreIsi INDIAN CORN Qrsi . COTTON MAliliET.—T WO o'CLocx. There is a fair demand fur Cotton to-day, and the sales will amount to about 2,000 bales, at steady prices. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Day, Huelin , Monte Video. James. Pentengal, St. John's, N.B. Lativ of the Lake, Harris, Figuira. • British King, Adams, Savannah. • Eliza Scotland, Seotland, Trieste. A r thusa, Turner, Manilla. Gleaner, -. Blakeney. ruT BACK. George, for Marantiam. Corinthian, for New Orleans. FREE Tn&ne.—lt cannot be forgotten that, late in the last session of parliament, inquiry was more than once made rela tive to the iniquitous system of smuggling foreign wheat into this country, into Liverpool in particular, from the Isle of Man, and other of the Channel islands; and the connivance of the government at this wholesale robbery of the British farmer was more than suspected by their refusal to put the law in force when injured patties broueht the most flagrant cases before their notice. Mr. Pouletthomsou, of fructifying .notoriety, may yet, we trust, be called upon to explain the extent to which this smuggling has been carried. " Thanks to our patriotic King," says the Cambridge Chronicle, " we have at length got rid of the whole clan of free trade philosophers as rulers of this great commercial nation; and one of the first acts of th e i r suc cessors has been to protect the British farmer fimn the injustice inflicted upon him try the wholesale smuggler." M r . B ar i ng , the newly appointed President of the Board of Trade, in re turning thanks to the freeholders of North Essex for the .honour of being elected as their represent a ti ve , d ec l are d i n th e most positive terms that, " if ever there was a government friendly to the interests of agriculture, it was the present, not only from the connexion of its members with agriculture, but because, in truth, it was to that quarter it looked for its main support and protection." And, as a proof that he did not speak vaguely and at random, we are further assured from his own mouth, that "his very first act, os President of t4e Board of Trade, was to detect an abuse of importing foreign , eorn without d u ty th roug h th e Isle of Man, and to put a stop to ' Mr. Baring is a cabinet minister, and we have quoted his words as given by the Standard. If after this the agrietiltural body should doubt as to the good in tentions of the present government with regard t o th em , we have no hope whatever of being able to convince them of the fact.—Felix Farley. CULTIVATION OF THE TEA PLANT.—Now that the' China trade is lost to the Company, and that the European public will be exposed without. cnntrol to all the consequences of Chine& fraud add ,mercantile ignorance, it has become a matter of the utmost importance, in a financial point of view, to introduce the cultivation of the tea plant into the Upper Provinces of India. Many districts are admirably adapted to the purpose; labour is cheap, and there can be no doubt that in no great number of years the East India Company may export their own teas once more, if they will only set about the establishment of their plantations upon proper principles, and with a due consi deration for the effects of climate upon the quality of the leaves.—Asiatic Journal. THE New UNOER-SECRRTARY OF STATE FOR THE COLO NIES.—As we have taken the liberty to censure some of the ap pointments Trade by Sir Robert Peel in the formation of his administration, it is only fair to record our unqualified appro bation of the recent nomination of Mr. W. E. Gladstone to be under-secretary of state for the colonies, in which post he will prove a most able assistant to that honourable and accom plished statesman, the Earl of Aberdeen. The nomination cannot but be grateful to the great commercial and manufac turing interests' of the country, since Mr. Gladstone is of th e i r own order, and of a family the most distinguished even amongst the princely merchants with which Liverpool abounds. His hereditary experience moreover in colonial affairs is an incal culable advantage.—Merthyr Guardian. OCR WHIG REPRESENTATIVES.—Sir John Campbell left Edinburgh the moment he was assured of his return. Mr. AbercrotnbV had the decency to remain till the day of declara tion. The learned knight is pursuing his professional avocations in the courts of Westminster, and of course devotes much of his time to the affairs of his constituents. We have not heard what has become of Mr. Aheicromby. Doubtless, he is off to Harrowgate! Certainly, we have a pair of most attentive re presentatives. The joke is, that not one of their so called con stituents knows where to address a letter to them, even for the purpose of begging a frank. What a tine thing is the reform bill ! —Edinburgh Evening Mail. DINNER TO THE DCKE of BITE LEVCI-I.—The Duke of Buccleuch is about to receive the most sp:endid testimony of attachment and esteem trent the agriculturists that has ever, perhaps, been witnessed in Scotland. The tenantty of this . Three Lothians have invited his grace to a ripe dinner, which is to take place in Edinburgh on the 13th of February. Consi dering the vast influence of the Duke of Miceleech in these counties, his unwearied attention to the interests of the farmers, his patronage of agicultural meetings, his uniform indulgences to his own tenants, his public services as a lauded proprietor, and his numerous private charities such a mark of respect is at once worthy of the noble guest and of his kind-hearted entertainers. No man in the three kingdoms has done more for the prosperity of agriculture than his grace, and there is not ive believe a landlord in the empire more generally or more deservedly popular.—Glavote Courier. A RADICAL ROTTEN Boum:nth—There is not a more rotten or thoroughly close borough than Dundee, the very seat of Scot tish radicalism. • Sir Henry Parnell was accidentally taken into the representation when he was rejected everywhere else. Since he wa, elected, he has not deigned to look near his con stituents, or favour them with the slightest opportunity ofobtain ing from hint personally an explanation of his conduct. The • whole air:air is managed in the snuggest manner imaginable. A few radicals meet over a glass of whiskey-toddy, and, in the name of the electors, who are never consulted in the matter, they resolve that Sir ffeurv's presence is unnecessary. lie, of course, - takes the hint, and stays away. And yet this is the ra dical substitute ter the old close system I Why, even though the majority were disposed to dispense with {tits presence of a can didate, he is still bound to give the minority an opportunity of ascertaining his sentiments, and questioning him upon his con duct. But in Dundee, no such opinion op e rat es . ''he electors have no voiee in the matter; and the result is, that their repre sentation is as rotten as ever was that of Gatton or Old Sarum. —Edinburgh, _Evening Post. Ti; GREAT SNOIIING COMMITTES.—It is usual to designate parliamentary committees by the names of the bills which they sit to consider. A few years ago a bill was introduced into the House of Lords for enclosing lands in the parish of Great Snoring, in the county of Norfolk and was in regular course committed to a select committee. It is sometimes a practice to Move that on a select committee all the lords who attend it shall have voice s; and Lord Eldon, then Lord Chancellor, one day . rose with the greatest gravity and said, " I request your Lord ships' serious attention to the motion I am Omit to rut; it is, that all the Lords who attend the Great Snorit:g Committee shall have voices." Pao.rucTrin ALTERATION IN TtiE LfrENSING consequence of a recent order* hem the treasury, the commis—;; sioners of excise have employed several of their officers in the work of ascertaining the amount of rate of each licensed vier tualler's premises in the metropolis; and directions have also' been issued, requiring that an account should be given of thro various permits made out, specifying the quantity of spirits sent to each individual during the last twelve .months, from which proceeding it is inferred that the intention of the government Is to regulate the sum to he charged for licenses in future he the annual consumption of the house. The Maryhone district has been visited, and the probability of the ahoy alteration taking place is spoken of by the trade in terms of tho , greatest satis faction. •