The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-28 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard•ofce, Three o'clock LIVERPOOL. CORN EXCHANGE,—Tms DAY The supplies into this port since Tuesday last are on the whole rather limited, as will be seen on reference to the sub•_ joined list of arrivals. With the exception of a little rain this morning, but clear ing tip tine as the day advanced, the weather since the close of last week, has been in all respects exceedingly favourable, indicating the approach of harvest; which, combined with the prospect of the stock of bonded Wheat and Flour being released in a few weeks for consumption, caused a limited sale to-day for both these. articles, already free, and the par tial amendment of Friday not being maintained, each re verted to the rates of this day se'nnight. Of Bonded Wheat several parcels have changed hands since Friday at our last quotations ; but of Flour under lock, such being held at the advance above stated, very few sales have been made. Barley, upon a moderate demand for grinding, supported late prices. —Malt dull, and rather lower.—Beans and Pease continuing in tolerable request, obtained a small improve ment in value.--Oats and Oatmeal were difficult of sale, but not cheaper. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 21st to the 27th July, 1840, inclusive, UNITE', vo- WISE. STATICS REIGN. TOTA 3049 67 391 I 4. 250 l - 98 3485 5495 8 0 4 0 I 785428 4 14200 j 15, 1882 i Is; 75 qrs. ; Rye, our, 357 191 qrs.; Incli - Sack s. —Cow qrs. ; Oats. ;e, 150 qrs. ; 01 July 17, 1830. 2d. Rye.. 363.0 id. I Rye.. 36s 3d. DESCRIPTION Wheat. Qrs. 457 1921 Barley Qrs. 40 Malt Oats Rye Qrs. Beans Pease . Qrs. Shelled Barley . Qrs. Indian Corn . Rapeseed Oatmeal .... Loads Flour . Sacks 33a Ditto EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, qrs. ; Oats. • qrs. ; Pease, 1 qr. ; Indian Con., qrs. ; Ireland. Wheat, 1428 qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Rye Corn, 36 qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads; Flour, wise. Wheat, 11:16 qrs.; Barley, 841 qrs.; Malt, qrs. ; Rye, qrs.; Beans. qrs. ; Peas; meal, 231 loads ; Flour, 679 sacks, 2062 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Wheat 695. 6d. I Barley.. 335. I Id. I Oats.. 28s. Beans.. 465. Id. Pease, 465. Aggregate average of the six wc wheat.. Us. Id. Barley.. 355. 3d. Oats.. 28s. 0 Beans .. 455. sd. Pease Duty on Foreign Grain, tke. this week. Wheat I6s. Bd. I Barley ps. 4d. Oats .. as. 9th I Rye .. 15s. Bea ns, 2s. Oti. I Pease 3s. Cid. I Indian Corn 9s. 4d. FlouilOs. • Liverpool Averages, week ending 21st July, 1840. Qrs.... I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bea ns . I Pease Prices. • 72 1282 43 118 s. Id. Os. Od. ^^ sd. I 48s. 9d. I 455. Od SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE TUESDAY, JULY 28.—Wind W.N.W. Antes ARRI VRD--1 ) 11CelliX, Witt, from Pillau—Atl as , Mi c h e l son, f ron i .erpClipper, from Odessa—Duchess or Portl an d Cousins. fiom N ewfoundland—Freuneschaft, Kopper, from Danzi( Wicklow —Eliza from Plymouth—S even B ro th ers , D av i es, from Johanna, Christian, from Donaghadee—Pr ov i • Bence, from Belfast. SklLED,—Superior, Fisher, for New York—Sea, Fisher, for VII, Inia — lady Rowley, Wright, for Gibraltar—and Medora, Turner, tor Charleston, ----- Mary Jones, Fishley, from Monte Video, at this port ; sailed 16th Ma y . The Maid of Mona was to sail on the 18th for London Earl Grey, Bell, rrom Caleutta, at this port ; sailed from the Sand Heads 6th March, and from St. Helena 6th June Cheshire, Witch, Davidson, and Lucinda Jane, son L eghorn Ellis, hence at Campion, Cubbin 'tides , and Emanuel Bo u t c h er , D oc k re l , h ence a t St . St. Hilda, Crosman, hence at St. Petersburg Robert Finnie, Downie, hence to Rio Janeiro, was spoken 22nd hisrant, in lat. 48, long. 9 30 Pickwick, Splato, from flambro' for Rio Janeiro, at the Downes Sir James Kemp, Frith -, hence for St. Petersburg, at Pentland Sir John Beresford. - ___ -, from Bahia, at ITambro' We have heard .it stated that P. J. Miles, Esq., of this City, has become the purchaser of the Pembrokeshire estates of Sir J. Owen, at the sum of £loo,ooo.—Bristol Gazette. A miller, a little to the north of Hexham, who had lift) Pigs a week or two ago, has lost fifteen of them, by disease, and fears losing the whole. The disease is pronounced cholera by some persons who have examined them. The animals turn black after death.—Neweastle Journal. DEATH OF THE MOTHER OF THE LATE REv. EDWARD InvixG.—Mrs. Irving, relict of the late Gavin Irving, Esq., and mother of the late Rev. Edward Irving, died at the resi dence of her son-in-law, Robert Dickson, Esq., at Coplaw Hill, near Glasgow, on the 9th July, at the advanced age of s eventy-six. Her remains were conveyed to the family vault at Annan, Dundriesshire.—Scottish Standard. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.—OH Wednesday last, Mr. William Rhodes, cooper, of this town, was married at our parish church, to Hannah Frankland, to whom he had been " united by act of parliament," at one of the dissenting places of worship, about two years ago. Finding there were one or two loop-holes in this urion, they could no longer trust to the legality of such an act, and therefore went to the old church and were married, " and no inistake."—Hali/ax Guardian. Mr. W. F. GE.sen.—This person, the notorious Frost's son-in-law, formerly of Pontypool, was apprehended in Lon don a few days since on some serious charges of forgery. Ile was conveyed to Newport, where an examination of great length took place on Thursday. The bank of Williams and Co., of Newport, with whom Geach used to keep an account, appear to have been sufferers to the extent of nearly £5,000. The prisoner was remanded until Monday. CATHOLIC PRIEST AT COURT.—The address to the Queen from the Catholics at Windsor and its vicinity, was presented at the levee on Wednesday week, by the Rev. J. F. Wilkin son in person, and was most graciously acknowledged by her Alajesty. The appearance of the rev. gentleman at court, in the costume of a Roman Prelate, excited general interest, but more especially amongst the clergy of the establishment who were present. Since the reformation this is the first instance on record of a Catholic priest having been introduced to the English court.—Halifax Guardian. PRESENT TO PRINCE ALBERT.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert has lately received a present of a very singular and beautiful description. It consists of a very small glass beehive, filled with delicately-white combs, so curiously wrought, and stored' so fully with the purest chrystal honey, as to excite admiration and astonishment. It is a natural curiosity in its kind, perhaps never before met with ; the combs, which are of a very unusual thickness, being worked so curiously together, in some parts circular, others perpen dicular, and in other parts even in a horizontal direction, that whilst occupying all the available space within the glass shade, with here and there a waxen pillar prudently thrown out to support the weight of the sweet treasure contained, it still preserves and presents a uniform and very elegant ap pearance. This singular glass of honey was worked in the apiary of Mr. J. Bathem, a gentleman residing near Kidder minster, by whom it was presented to his royal highness. The illustrious prince was much pleased with this specimen of insect ingenuity.—Worcester Chronicle. DARING ROBBERY.—One of the most daring robberies which we have had for some time to record was committed at Bredbury, near Stockport, on Monday morning last, by a desperate gang of villains, under the following circumstances : -- About half-past one o'clock in the morning, a person gal loped up to the Bredbury toll-bar on a horse, which had been taken from a field in Newbridge-lanc. and, on the bar -keeper, William Wilkinson, coming to open the gate, he was attacked by five men who were lying in ambush, and who beat him in a h severe manner ; after which they went into th e to l l-bar ouse, and broke open every desk and drawer in the place, and stole therefrom forty sovereigns, two guineas, ten pounds in S ilver, and a rifle, with which they decamped. It would appear that the robbery had been premeditated, as the person who rode up to the gate proved to be one of the gang ; and the plan was adopted to get an entrance more easily, by in ducing the bar-keeper to turn out to open the gate. It is feared there will be some difficulty in bringing the parties to justice, as neither the bar-keeper nor his family were able to see any of their faces, they being covered by masks or crape. A reward of £2O is offered for the apprehension and convic tion of the offenders ; and, it is to be hoped, they will not long escape justice.—Manchester Courier. TANI E HARES AT GLASGOW. —On the afternoon of Satur day last, we were pleased by being shown, in the shop of Mr. Andrew Bell, 55, King-street, Tradeston, a pair of tame hares, the female - being affectionately engaged in nurturing a leveret, which was dropped o n T ues d ay l ast, and is already stron g and frisky. In August 1830, Mr. Bell procured the male hare, then only a few weeks old ; and in July, 1839, he gave him the female as a companion, then a leveret, no big ger than one's hand. From the outset they were on the very best terms, and romped in pure diversion through their little domain, extending to four feet 10 inches in length, 12 inches wide, and one foot 11 inches high. During winter they are fed principally on oats and potatoes, and they will eat biscuit from the hand as readily as a favourite dog; in summer their food is more congenial to their taste, and they reject every thing else so long as they can get clover and lettuce. Their box is erected on a shelf in a well-frequented shop, and they are not at all put about by the inspections of those who visit them. Mr. Bell has a little dog, which is on perfectly good terms with the pair; and he occasionally gets on the top of a barrel, " thrusts his n ose th rough the wires, and gives a " bow bow,by way of greeting, which the male hare returns by drumming good-naturedly on the little cur's face. Of the taming of leverets and hares we have often heard; and Cow per's delight in domesticating Puss, Tiney, and Bess, has almost made the employment a classic one ; but we are not aware of having heard of the animal breeding in bondage. At all events, the family is a very interesting one in its way ; and the leveret appeals to be as strong and frisky as though it had seen the light amid daisies and butter-cups, instead of in a box in a shop within a crowded city.—Glasgow Herald. SUSPECTED MURDERER.—A man named Michael Riley was, on Wednesday, brought up at th e b orough court, on the following singular charge :—lnspector Green stated that Mr. Sleigh, the chief superintendent of police, had received a letter, containing information retative to a murder which was committed in Ireland, in 1832, by a man named Michael Ri ley, who was now residing in the neighbourhood of Man- Chester. He (Green) was sent out yesterday to make inqui ries respecting him, and he apprehended the prisoner at the e b ,ar, who he had no doubt was the same man as was men "(3/led in the letter. They had written over to the place Where the murder was committed, but did not expect an an awer until Sunday or Monday. He therefore had to ask th at the prisoner should be remanded until that time.—Mr. ""aude expressed surprise that au answer could not be ob. tained s ooner.—lnspector Green said the letter was posted he preceding night, but would probably not go till that morn nig. The place where the murder was committed was in the county of are you )—P Longford. —Mr. Maude (to the prisoner:) What have v • Prisoner : A labourer.—Mr. Maude : How long I ' nil bee forth this country ?—Prisoner :—Fourteen years. livedliteianswer toer questions, he stated the places where he in Manchester, during the last three years and four itiotith S b d . and said th a t h e h a d b een i n Li verpoo l fi ve years °I ore re that. He came from the c o un ty o f L ong ford, pari s h Castle Pollard. —The officer said that was the very neigh bourhood in which the mu r d er h a d ta k en p l ace ; it was at Plo ates, in the parish of C ast l e Pollard. The information tBttl.te.d that he had been pursued t o S cot l an d , an d f rom t h ence „oi Liv erpool, but that they h a d never been able to hear of a in after —Mr. Maude made some inquiries as to the nature aeof the i nformation which had been received, and expressed ~unnwillingness to detains the man except something more 'eh ire could be alleged against him .—He o rdered to stand - e was ultimately further partieaiar down, and the officer was sent to obtain s from Mr. Sleigh. On his return, it was ascertained that the letter was nothing more than an anony trehoizsiktteziwriten by some in Manchester. On hearing aude refused to g emand the man, but directed h ien to be . taken to Sir Charles Shaw.—Manchester Courier. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL Mr. G. VANDENHOPF, of the Theatre-Royal, Covent. Garden, is engaged for Ten Nights, and will make hi: second appearance this Evening. Mr. ANDERSON, Principal Tragedian of the Theatre- Royal, Covent-Garden, is also engaged for a limited pe riod, and will also make his appearance this Evening. rrIIIS present TUESDAY, July 28, 1840, will be per -1 formed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo Mr. Anderson, Mercutio Mr. G. Vandenhoff, As performed by them at theTheatre-Royal, Covent-garden Apothecary Mr. Baker Lady Capulet Miss Cleaver Juliet To conclude with the Dramatic Romance of THE BOTTLE IMP. Albert.. Mr. G. Horncastle. Nicolo.. Willibald ..... Mr. Baker. Marcelia.... Miss Grant. Lucretia.... Mrs. P. Crowe Philippa Mrs. Tellet. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), Shakspeare's Play of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; lago, Mr. Anderson • Desdemona, M rs . W. H. Bl an d ; Emelia, Miss Cleaver.—With the Farce of THE EVIL On THURSDAY, JULIUS CIESAR. Brutus, Mr. Anderson ; Mark Antony, Mr. G. Vandenhoff; Cassius, Mr. Stuart. —With the Burletta of MIDAS Mr. Gray MECHANICS' INSTITUTION EXHIBITION. LAST WEEK. Fr HE EXHIBITION w ill p os iti ve l y CLOSE on SATUII 1. DAY next, the Ist of August ; and on MONDAY, the 3d, the Lower and High Day Schools and the Evening Schools will be Re-opened after the Midsummer Holydays. Numerous additions have been made to the Collection of Paintings. &c.; and a Cast from the head of COURVOISIE R, the Murderer of Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, has just been placed in the Anatomical Room. LECTURES & PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIMENTS every day in the Lecture Room, at 1 and 8. On Tuesday and Friday, at 1 and 8, Mr. JOHN SMITH will exhibit his celebrated GEOGRAPHICAL & DISSOLVING VIEWS. The FIRE CLOUD is exhibited, GRATUITOUSLY, every evening immediately after the Lecture. Admission :—Before Four, One Shilling; after Four, Six pence ; Children, Sixpence at all hours. W. B. HODGSON, Secretary. SPLENDID PICTURE OF THE "PRESIDENT"' STEAM SHIP, The readers of the STANDARD, and the public generally, ' are respectfully informed, that on Friday, the :31st of July instant, will be presented gratuitously to subscri bers and purchasers of the paper of that day a . beau tiful Picture of the PRESIDENT, the largest Steam ship in the world, to be lithographed by a first-rate Artist, from a splendid painting by Mr. S. Walters, a gentleman of the highest celebrity as a Marine Painter. This Picture will be accompanied by a full and authentic description of the vessel, her construc tion, engines, and equipments. The production of this work of art will be attended with very considerable cost ; but the liberal patronage with which the STANDARD has been honoured, in duces us to make this sacrifice, in testimony of our gratitude, and in the hope that to a commercial and nautical community such a present may be found acceptable. As we have already received an immense number of sub scribers, a more favourable opportunity could not be presented for the wide circulation of advertisements, which we respectfully solicit. To parties desirous of obtaining Pictures, we suggest an early application at the office, where a book is de posited for the insertion of names, in order that the earliest and best impressions may be secured. Standard-office, July 13th, 1840. IMPORTANT TO MUNICIPAL VOTERS. To secure a vote at the next municipal election, the following is the necessary qualffication, namely : " The occupation on the ensuing 31st August, and during the two preceding years, of a house, warehouse, counting-house, or shop, within the borough, for which the occupier is rated, and on which all rates due thereon, except those becoming due within six months before the 31st, have been paid before that date." The occupier must also, during the whole of that pe od, (say two years and nine months) have been an in- iabitant householder within seven miles of the borough. The day on which claimants' qualifications must be .ompleted, and the last day for payment of rates, is the list of August. The sth of September is the day on , :hich the overseers are required to make out the burgess lists, and to deliver them to the Town-clerk, who is to fix a copy of them on the Town-hall, during the week preceding the 15th of September. A person succeeding to the occupation of ouse, by descent, marriage, demise, is entitled to reckon as his own the occupancy and rating of the person by or through whom he succeeds. EIR Eiberpool Alanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1840 , By the packet-ship Patrick Henry, Captain Delano, which arrived here yesterday, we have received New York papers to the Bth instant. They are extremely barren of news. We have given, in another column, all that is worth extracting from them. Great excite ment prevailed throughout the union in reference to the approaching election of President. General Harri son appears to he the popular favourite. . . There was every promise of an abundant harvest, both in the United Siates and Canada. In trade and commerce, however, there were no indications of im- Tovement As the session of 1840 draws towards its close, people are beginning to enquire what have been its results. Beyond the mere routine business of the House of Commons,—the exposition of our financial prospects, voting the usual supplies and passing a few private or unimportant public bills,—the business of legislation has been at a stand still; and the only boast which the ministerial members can carry home to their constitu ents is, that they have succeeded in staving off for a few months their final leave-taking of Downing-street, and secured for their patrons at least an additional two quarters of pay and patronage. This " most lame and impotent conclusion" is all which has resulted from the interminable debates of the present session. The reform ministry of Lord Mel bourne—a ministry which, upon his lordship's own sheaving, holds office whilst deprived of the confidence of the people, as expressed through the voices of their representatives in the House of Commons—has proved its utter inefficiency as a movement administration, and its unworthiness and instability as an engine of defence against the encroachments of democracy. Substantial power it possesses none. It can carry nothing which it originates, except in a state so miserably mauled that it is difficult even for its parents to recognise it; and it originates nothing with a bona fide intention to carry it into a law. Its measures are mere demonstrations, produced and shelved as best suits the purpose of that tyrant influence by which it is coerced; and when it has a serious object in view—when some blunder of a former session calls imperatively for correction, or some accidental circumstance creates a necessity for legisla tion, it can only effect that object by a lachrymose ap peal to the humanity of the house, or by throwing the functions of government, pro tcmpore, into the hands of Sir Robert Peel and the conservative party. In the House of Commons, then, it is past dispute that the ministerial faction have lost ground during the present session ; and to a serious extent. They can no longer depend upon the thick and thin support of the great bulk of their party; and we are firmly convinced that there exists a large and important section of the pseudo reformers who are prepared to fall away from them on the first occasion which offers a colourable pretence. During the present session even, it has re quired all the tact of Lord John Russell, and all the energy of the ministerial subs, to preserve an unbroken front and prevent desertion. The ur.blushing avowal of the alliance with the member for Dublin—the open coquetting with the all but republican section of the house, and that fast and loose policy with respect to the interests of prot-tstantism, by which ministers seek to become "all things to all men"—have startled not a few of the hitherto staunch friends of reform, who are at the same time the friends of order and of the consti tution ; and it is not improbable, that should the present parliament (contrary to general expectation) endure another session, this party will return from their con stituents with views so materially modified by their observation of public opinion during the recess, that government will no longer be able to drag its members through the same impure and dangerous paths which they have done during the present session. Without the walls of parliament the prospects of the ministerial party are, if possible, still more disheartening. A vast and important change has been gradually taking place throughout the country. Sober and reflecting men, who (luring the reform mania, were induced to In the counties especially of England and Wales this feeling is strongly manifesting itself; and in the event • of an election during the ensuing spring, it is not too much to expect a considerable accession of sound con servatism as the result. In many of the smaller bo roughs the present whig or radical members only suc ceeded at the last election by small majorities, which are already overbalanced by new voters admitted, or by conversions which have since taken place. In the large boroughs alone, and especially in those which can be affected by the late simultaneous movement of the Irish catholic inhabitants, the ministerial party can depend for support; and even in these th result of a new elec tion will, we venture to say, affbrd evidence that the Whigs, with all their exertions, ha've not materially im proved their position. The registry, we have no doubt, will shew a considerable increase of their numbers ; but they are little aware of the falling off which the voting returns will shew from the effect of conversions ; and wherever the attempt has been made to foist upon any large borough a new whig-radical corporation —as in Manchester, Birmingham, Bolton, &c.—we are con fident that the result will be, if not a victory for the conservative cause, at the least such a bare majority against it, as, compared with the return of former elec tions, will afford strong and undeniable evidence of the declining popularity and influence of modern liberalism. With these convictions strongly impressed upon our • mind, we are little disposed to give much heed to the braggart assertions of our contemporaries as to the result of a general election. upon the present register. It is easy to win a victory upon paper; it is more easy upon the presumption that the opinions of mankind are unchangeable, to count upon support which they have always hitherto afforded than to insure its conti nuance. The government of Lord Melbourne is no longer that government in whose favour the last general election returned a majority of between thirty and forty votes. It has lost caste. It has deserted principle, and stooped to meanness and dissimulation ; and can no longer, by the mere connexion of its name with that of the sovereign, mislead the unthinking loyalty of the people. It has no great popular principle—it has no great popular measure—upon which to take its stand for support ; and we have little expectation that the unworthy alliance by which it is alone maintained in the present House of Commons, will be one in whose favour the sound portion of the people of England will hurry to the poll to record their approval and confidence. No, no ! The Melbourne administration is a doomed thing. For a few short months it may drag on a miserable and flickering existence ; but its ultimate fate is beyond retrievement. It will (lie of sheer ina nition, and its memory be handed down to posterity, as one of those unaccountable phases in the history of party, whose unprecedented baseness mankind will regard with wonder rather than with reprobation— with contempt and utter scorn, rather than with the nobler feeling of indignation. Could we bring our selves to entertain the opinion that its leader has any higher views than those of a hanger-on at court —any more manly principles than those of an epicurean —we might be disposed to believe that Lord Melbourne has played, in behalf of the constitution, a game whose policy is far beyond the detection of his imbecile com panions ; that he has held his lofty station in the public eye only until the shafts of ridicule and contempt should have irretrievably ruined his party and saved the constitution. We cannot, however, entertain this opinion, yet it is beyond dispute, Ciat every month, every week, which is added to the existence of Lord Melbourne's administration, is placing years between the period of its approaching dissolution, and the form ation of any ministry out of the same materials and advocating the same principles ! Our whig-radical contemporaries arc in extacies with the success of their attack upon the register. Our grandam of the Mercury, in particular, has contrived, by some extraordinary effort, to shake the dust from her eyes—we were about to say her wings —and to raise a chuckle of triumph loud enough to lead the uninitiated to suppose that her silly noddle had some share in the direction of this last struggle of the faction in Liverpool. It won't do, however. Our Mercury is a very respectable old lady, but a little too much dis posed to indulge in tittle-tattle to be entrusted with the secret movements of the Protector Society, or allowed a voice at the conclave which holds its sittings in Clay ton-square. Go to sleep, old lady ! You will be roused in time to mingle your howl in the "wake" which will be duly held, before the Protestant voters of Liverpool consign finally to the earth this political Frankenstein which "one John Rosson" has created out of very sorry materials, and over whose cradle you are just now sounding your fivepenny trumpet. We did venture, some week or two ago, to hint to our conservative friends that his worship;Sir Joshua, possessed one essential qualification as a candidate for the " most sweet voices" of the liberal party in Li verpool. We thought that he would "bleed well." Either he or some one else has already bled very freely, as the denizens of Orange-street, Bachelor-street, and other equally respectable and savoury localities can tes tify. There is scarcely an Irish Catholic or an Irish pig in Liverpool, this blessed moment, that cannot turn up the tip of his nose with perfect contempt at the ap proach of the tax collector. No fear of driving, either the biped or the brute, for rent or rates. The knight and his " proctectors" have lifted many a porker out of a shaking fever; and, as nothing promotes feeding so much as fresh air and a quiet mind, it is fully anti cipated that this year's bacon will be fatter and firmer than has been known for the last generation. It will be admitted then that Sir Joshua—how euphonious that name !—has fully answered our ex pectations in the matter of bleeding. But though ready and willing with Brutus, to " coin his heart for drachmas," in order to obtain the object of his am bition—a seat in the house of Commons—we are afraid that the worthy knight will be compelled to chew the bitter cud of disappointment. We have heard, within the last few days, very ominous hints of a dis inclination on the part of sundry good whigs, who hap pen at the same time to have good coats, to herd with the new levies. It is not, on this occasion, the knight himself who refuses to march through Coventry with his ragged regiment, but the regiment which refuses to walk with the knight—the grenadier with the light companies—the light companies with the awkward squad. It is not on this occasion the knight who has sworn to " leave off sack, to purge and live cleanly"— but the very drummer-boys shrink from the pollution of bad habits and worse company; and we do greatly doubt whether Sir Joshua, aided even by the Jesuitical tact of his Protectors, will ever be able to introduce anything like unanimity amongst the ranks of an army composed of such incongruous materials. In the meantime, however, and before the tr u ly liberal candidate has time to get his eye s o p ene d , we are told that his Irish friends are to be put in imme diate requisition. The parish office is to be " swept out" —or, in other words, the present efficient servants of the town are to be discharged, in order that their place may be supplied by incompetent and inexperienced persons, who happen to be either Irish catholics or English republicans, passing under the various deno minations beneath which such characters now-a-days contrive to hide themselves. The Church too—the fabric of our Protestant Church—is to be handed over at the next Easter vestries to the safe keeping of an Irish mob. Mr. Sturges Bourne's act is to be shelved, in order that numbers may carry the sway over pro perty—in order that an alien population, which in a year or two will be found burdening our poor•rates, may dictate terms to the resident gentry, merchants, and tradesmen of Liverpool, by whose enterprise and capital they are alone enabled to earn the potatoes and step out of their accustomed path, and to reply to a supposed call from the constitution to liberalize and and remodel its form, are anxiously weighing the results of their temporary enthusiasm. The ch2rtist move ments of last year were not observed by these men without serious alarm. The stagnation of commerce during the last two years, the anti-corn-law agitation, the increased expenditure and diminished revenue of the country, the " heavy blows and great d;scourage ments" offered to protestantism, the sudden and manifest spread of catholicism, and the prominent position taken by its votaries amongst the ranks of the reform party, have excited, and are calculated to excite, serious mis givings in the minds of such men, and have already induced in a great portion of them a determined hostility to any further movement in advance of the constitution. the oatmeal upon which they and their children are fed We are not displeased that these insolent threats are held out by the faction during its temporary hour of triumph. They will serve to shew to the lukewarm and the unreflecting amongst our fellow-townsmen the true character of modern liberalism, which, with liberty ever on its lips, has tyranny and despotism in its heart. Bow down, Protestants of Liverpool ! bow down your necks to the yoke which is now held over you, and you forfeit for ever that character which it has ever been your boast to bear in the estimation of your countrymen. Resist that yoke—trample upon it —spurn it; and for that noble example, inestimable at a crisis like the present, you will earn anew the grati tude and admiration of every loyal and true heart. On Wednesday last the state of our commercial re lations with foreign countries was brought before the House of Commons, by Lord Sandon, in an able ad dress, evincing, on the part of the'noble lord, a com plete acquaintance with the subject in all its details. The object of Lord Sandon was to procure for the great mercantile bodies throughout the kingdom an expla nation of the policy pursued by the Foreign Office, with respect to the settlement of various questions by which our commerce has for the last few years been interrupted, and to ascertain the probable period at which those impediments are likely to be removed. The reply of Lord Palmerston—if it could be called a reply —was distinguished by the usual flippancy of that contemptible personage. With respect to all these questions, her Majesty's government was getting on very satisfactorily. Protocols, representations, and other instruments .of a diplomatic character, were go ing and coming with a most laudable regularity; and although his lordship could not on any one individual matter hold out expeCtations of immediate arrange ment, yet his lordship " confidently hoped" and "fer vently trusted," and heed, and pulled up his cravat, with an energy sufficient to convince all the world that his lordship was very much in earnest. Haying got over for the moment, the awkward part of his catechism, by the aid of that dependence upon chance and the good sense and enlightened views of foreign governments," for the indulgence of which his' lordship has become the laughing stock of every diplo matist in Europe, Asia. and America, the Foreign Se cretary turned, with all the confidence in life, to the official tables of our exports and imports, to prove to, Lord Sandon and to the country that, under his foster ing care, the commercial interests of Great Britain are in a state, generally, of great and growing prosperity. True it was, admitted his lordship, that in some parti cular countries impediments to our commerce were offered; but, upon the whole, the amount of our ex ports and our imports both had sustained a consider able increase, and for this increase his lordship, with the greatest boa hommie, claimed credit to himself and to her Majesty's government. `We are afraid, however, that the country will scarce ly be accommodating enough to place much weight upon the increase of commerce paraded in the official papers of government, and still less to give any credit for that increase to the sagacity or exertion of the Fo reign Secretary. The increase in question is far from being evidence of increased prosperity to the trading interests; and, if even it were so, might with great propriety and truth be used to show that the commer cial energies of Great Britain are of so elastic a nature, that not even the leaden weight of even Lord Palmer ston's incapacity can seriously check their expansion. THE Ac ADIA STEAM-SHIP.—We noticed in our last paper the arrival of this beautiful vessel from Glasgow on Thurs day evening, and have since taken a cursory view of her hull, cabins, &c. She so closely resembles in almost every point her sister ship the Britannia, (both intended to convey the mails hence to and from Boston and Halifax) of which we gave a detailed account in our paper of the 3d instant, that any lengthened notice of her would be superfluous. She is of the same capacity,—namely, of about 1,200 tons, and •was built by Mr. John Wood, of Port Glasgow. As she was high and dry on the grid-iron in the Queen's Dock Basin for a short time, we had an opportunity of seein g h er b ottom, and must say he is, in our opinion, one of the finest models of a steamer ever yet turned out, being particularly sharp below, yet with ample top bearings. The engines, of 440 h orse power, precisely similar to those of the ritannia, are also by Mr. Robert Napier, of Glasgow, and we learn that the vessel on coming round from that city, though under some disad vantages, made good 13 to 131 knots an hour, a speed which she is expected yet to exceed. The cabins are planned like those of the other ship, and are fitted up in the Elizabethan style, in groined oak, carved and empannelled in a similarly elegant style. The salloon is on the deck, and i, lighted by six windows on each side. There are separate staircases to the ladies' and gentlemen's respective retiring cabins, and light, ventillation, and comfort have been especially attended to. We need scarcely add that the furniture is of corres ponding elegance. The Acadia is commanded by Captain Miller, a gentleman of much experience. She will sail on the 4th of next month, and a considerable number of her passengers have already " engage d p l aces " by thi s secon d Transatlantic " Mail." The other two new vessels, to com plete the four engaged by government on the station between this port and America, are the Caledonia and Columbia. We understand the Acadia will make a short trial trip on the river this day. BILLS OF FARE OF THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—The following transcript of two of the bills of fare of the dinners given on board this vessel—Mr. Hough providore—on her recent trip to Cork and Dublin, (taken at random,) will con vey some idea of the general quality and abundance of the repasts provided :—July 15th. First Course.—Green pea soup, giblet ditto, mock turtle, turbot, salmon, soles, pota toes, &c. Second Course.—H aunc h of venison, fore quarter of lamb, boiled fowls, tongues, calves' heads, boiled round of beef, turkey pullets, sweetbreads, cutlets, vol-en-vent, curried chickens. Third Course.—Goslings, ducks, college pud ings, jellies, pyramids, ices, &c. July 18th. First Course.— Gravy, ox tail, and mock turtle soups, salmon, haddock, heike, brill, soles. Second Course.—Roast beef, roast veal, tongues, stewed beef, roast chicken, roast ducks, beans and bacon, pea s , stewed veal and lamb's head, mince veal, olives. Third Course.—Bread and butter pudding, raspberry tartlets, currant pies, custards, jellies, blanc mange, raspberry cream, currant-water ices, &c. Side Table.—Round of beef.—When we add that the wines and other liquors were in proportionate abundance, and of the choicest description, we need not add a word on the good fare on board of the President. THE SWELL MOB AT THE REGATTA.—At the close of our account of the regatta on Friday, we noticed the appre hension of a fashionably dressed young man, and his com mitment to Chester Castle, after an examination before the magistrates at Birkenhead on the following day, for pulling a gentleman's watch from his pocket in the lobby of the Bir kenhead Hotel. We now correct some slight inaccuracies aris ing from mistakes on the part of our informant, and supply some additional particulars. The young man, after being appre hended, gave several names as his own, but finally that of Alfred Easthorpe,—not " Samuel Easthorne." The gentle man from whom the watch was taken, Geo. Foster, Esq„, resides at Toxteth Park, not " E ver t on ." About £ll in sovereigns and silver were found on the defendant, and there appears to be no doubt but he has been connected with a formidable and moneyed gang, a large sum having been of fered to one of the police officers as a bribe for his release, which was of course refused. The case against him was ably conducted by Mr. Swinnerton Cudlipp, who happened to be present when the delinquency took place. At the close of the examinations an enquiry was made whether the prisoner had any friends in court. It was remarked by a gentleman present—" Yes, there is one here who calls himself his con sin,"—alluding to another well-dressed young man in the body of the court. Mr. Cudlipp remarked, " Another of the swell mob, I suppose. The " cousin" thereupon ex claimed from the crowd, with apparent indignation, " Do you mean me? but he chose to pocket the affront, if such it were, and finding his way out of court, was not afterwards seen. BEAUTIFUL PLAN OF LIVERPOOL AND ITS ENVIRONS.-- We have received a plan of our own town and its vicinity, by Mr. Wyld, geographer, of Charing-cross, who is now exhi biting, in London, a series of maps and plans of the principal operations of the British army in the Peninsular campaign , th 4 have acquired him a high reputation for accuracy an d perspicuity. The present production is one of the most beautiful we have yet seen. Within a space of 28 inches by 184 only, we have the whole of Liverpool and its environs, in Lancashire and Cheshire, over an extent of nearly 13 miles from north to south, and 84 from east to west. Every street in the town, public building, &c., is beautifully shown : the banks and soundings in the river are all marked, and the townships, roads great and small, railways, gentlemen's seats—even the very fields, with their boundaries, in the vicinity, are exhibited with great minuteness, and in distin guishing colours. A perfect stranger may by this plan steer his way with facility to any point within the space stated without asking a question ; and a ghince at it will suggest many an agreeable walk, ride, or sail, to those who are in search of recreation. Ax Inisn " SWITCII."—One of the passenger guests by the steam-ship President, on her recent trial-trip to Ireland, left Cork one morning (during the stay of the vessel at Pas sage) ou a pedestrian ramble to the far-famed Blarney Castle. Being in the habit of carrying a walking-stick,—which, how ever, was, on this occasion, like the Dutchman's anchor, left "at home,"—he felt, when he had got a mil e or two along the road (which is called Blarney-lane), the want of his ac customed hazel; and thinking he could accelerat e hi s jour ney if provided with a " shillelah " of some sort, he inquired of a stout, smiling native, who was standing at the door of a cottage, and who wished him " the top o' the morning," if he had such a thing as a walking-stick in the house, that he would sell, as he (the inquirer) was rather i n a hurry to •• kiss the blarney-stone." " Arrah ! yer honour," quoth Pat, " since it's that same ye're afther, sorry am I that I have nothin at all at all desarvin' the name iv a walking stick for a gintleman ; but may be I may find you a bit of a ~ sthwitch just !" Saying which, he turned on hi s h eel w i th that fling peculiar to the " boys when they are i n a hurry to do a favo ur , a nd disappeared into the house. In a short time he returned, with a cudgel as t hi ck in the middle (by which lie grasped it) as on e ' s wr i st, and withal scorning atte n uation at e ither end. It looked, in deed, like the better half of a flail, and showed sundry wounds and defalcations of skin, the result, doubtless, of honourable service at fairs and forays.--" Here it is, yer honour!" cri e d P a t ; " h ere ' s the sthwitch, gintale, light, and slinder enough in all conscience ! and yer wilcum to id, w ith all my h ear t !" g i v i ng i t at t h e sam e time a twirl over his head, and then setting it with one end on the ground, to show that it "could" be walked with. Our fri en d had much to do to keep his gravity. Had he looked or said anything in disparagement, he would have given mortal offence to p oor Pat ; s o h e too k the proferred timber (which, indeed, felt as ponderous as lignumvitte), and offered the man a small sum by way of return; but he stoutly refused to accept of anything, exclaiming, as if in some degree a ffronted--" Bad luck to th e d a y I'd not g i ve a gintleman a bit of a s th w i tc h , to help hi m a l ong the roa d . " Our friend could th ere f ore b ut thank hi m , an d went on hi s wa y, with the log in his hand; but finding that it made his wrist ache, he was soon fain to dispose of it over a fence, otherwise he would certainly have brought it home in the President, and deposited it in the exhibiti on o f the Mechani cs ' I ns tit u ti on , n o open in Liverpool, as a ge nuine specimen of " an Irish gmtleman's Bthwitch." THE REGISTRY.-RADICAL EXULTATION TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-Our radical friends, and their popish allies Thank God our countrymen are still, nationally, as loyal to their God and their church as ever, hence (mark the con sequence) none but the taxe s o f th e Irish subjects of Rome are arranged ; and I glory in my name as Briton, that the enemies of our institutions were compelled to find baser ma terials for their execrable purpose than my countrymen could afford. With such an honourable attestation as to the character of our country, let us meet the enemy with determination in the revising courts ; and seeing that the affections of the people still entwine themselves round the altar and the throne, we may rest satisfied that " Na tight shall make England rue, If Britons to their God prove true I am, sir, yours, &c. Liverpool, 25th July, 1840. R. G. J LIVERPOOL WOOL SALES.-FKIDAT Tile first importation of the new Wools from New South Wales was brought forward to-day, by auction, and the whole were sold at fully as high prices as could have been expected from the extreme depression which has prevailed in our Wool market for three months past. We should quote the reduc tion at fully 2d. per lb. on clothing Wools, and 3d. per lb. on combing descriptions since last sales in March; but, at the same time, we consider them inferior both in quality and condition. In Germanized Odessas, Spanish, and Portugal Wools we quote the reduction at fully 3d. per lb. East India Wools maintained full previous rates. The small quantity brought forward on this occasion, and the large amount of Australian and other Wools advertised for sale in London, during next month, have prevented the customary attendance of many influential buyers, and had a material in fluence on the result of our sale. PRICES CURRENT. — Australian and Tasmanian, 934 bales : —Fair combing Is. 6d. to Is. Bd., low ditto Is. sd. to Is. 6d ; fine clothing ls. 54d. to Is. 74d., low ditto ls. 4d. to Is. sd. ; lambs ls. sd. to Is. ; scoured Is. 4d. to 2s. ; skin lid. to Is. 3d. • locks and unwashed 94d. l s . Id . ; S panish, 184 gales, R. is. 4d. to Is. 7id., F. 11d. to Is. 3d., S. Is. Old. to Is. 2id. ' A. Is. ld. to Is. 3d. ; Portugal, 137 b a l es , R. Is. ld. to Is. lid., F. 10d. to 11d., S. 10d. to lOid., A. 11d. to llid. ; Odessa, 134 bales, (Germanized) Is. 44d. to Is. 6d. ; Austrian, 177 bales, Is. to Is. lid. ; East India, 182 bales, white 84d. to 8/d., y e ll ow 6jd . to 7*d., gray 3d. to 43-d., black 41d. to sd. ; Smyrna, 145 bales, withdrawn , Mohair, 37 bales, is. Id. ; Sundry 89 bales, Os. Od. ; t0ta12,019 bales. DAWSON and HANCE, Wool-brokers. DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF A LARGE COTTON FACTORY. AT HEATON MERSEY. (Horn our Private Co7reepondent.) MANCHESTER, JUL v 27.—Last night the extensive factory of Messrs. Samuel Stocks and Son, situate at Heaton Mer sey, six miles from Manchester, on the north bank of the River Mersey, was totally destroyed by fire. It appears that the fire was first discovered about nine o'clock iu the even ing; at that time it had made considerable progress in the interior of the building, and shortly after burst out in the most vivid flames. Stockport, which is distant about a mile and a half, being the nearest place at which engines could be procured, an express was sent there. Four engines were speedily on the spot, but from some cause, certainly not the want of water, a very considerable delay took place before they could be got to work. The flames had by that time obtained so completely the ascendancy, any attempt to save the building in which they had originated would have been perfectly chimerical. All the firemen could do was to protect the engine -houses and the bleach-works, which arc only separated from the mill, and from each other by a party wall. In this they were successful, so far as regards the bleach-works, but the engine -houses, which immediately adjoin the mill itself, s u ff ere d considerably. Vast quantities of goods were removed from the bleach-works and the finishing rooms, but the whole of the goods in the mill, and of course the machinery, were totally destroyed, the fire having made such progress before it was discovered, as to preclude any attempt at saving this property. The building destroyed is a very extensive one : it is up wards of 40 yards in length, about 12 or 14 yards wide, and seven stories high. The next building, the engine-house, is considerablylower, beingonly four or five stories high, and has materially facilitated the exertions of the firemen in cutting off the progress of the flames. The next building, which is wholly free from injury, is six stories in height. Of course nothing like an accurate estimate of the loss can yet he formed ; I have heard it variously stated at from £15,000 to £36,000. The insurance on the whole of the works amounts to about £20,000, and is divided among the six following offices :—the Sun, the Manchester, the Guardian, the Phoenix, the Royal Exchange, and the Atlas. The origin or the fire is wholly unaccounted for. It is true that some of the hands employed in the weaving depart ment had joined in the strike which recently took place at Stockport, but beyond this simple fact nothing whatever has transpired to lead to the conclusion that the origin of this destructive conflagration has been any other than accidental. Still its occurrence on Sunday night renders it difficult to understand how it could be produced by any of the causes to which accidents of this kind are usually attributed. An intelligent manufacturer from Stockport, with whom I have this morning conversed, inclines to the supposition that it may have arisen from a spontaneous combustion of waste, which would smoulder for a length of time before bursting into flames. If so, it seems odd that the watchman employed on the premises did not discover it at an earlier period of the fire. So strong was the illumination of the atmosphere caused by the flames, that the red light was distinctly visible nearly all over Manchester, and for miles beyond it, up towards the hills. Many people in the north of Manchester, and in Sal ford, imagined the flames to be at a comparatively short dis tance,—in Greenheys or Victoria Park,—and set out to walk thither; but, after proceeding a mile or two, without appa rently approaching it, they gave up the task. The flickering of the flames continued to increase until near twelve o'clock, when it suddenly disappeared, owing to the roof, &c., of the building having fallen in. A little before eleven, an alarm was given at the Manches ter Fire-police Station, by one of the night-police, and soon after an express was sent for the Manchester engines. Had this been done two hours earlier great part of the building might have been saved; but from the account brought to Mr. Rose, the conductor, of the progress of the fire, he saw at once that it would be perfectly useless to take an engine to the spot. He therefore rode over and, by his great expe rience in these matters, an d the judicious directions which he gave to the firemen, contributed materially to the pre servation of the adjoining buildings. It was not until between five and six o'clock this morning that the fire was so far subdued that the adjoining premises could be considered out of danger; and the engines are still playing, at intervals, on the smouldering embers. At Stockport the utmost consternation was excited by the fire, and crowds ran to the place to witness it. This was a source of great inconvenience to the firemen, and, with the delay noticed above, rendered their exertions less available than they otherwise might have been—the police not being sufficiently numerous or active to keep off the crowd. Messrs. Stocks are what is called general manufacturers of cotton goods, all the processes being crrried on in the diffe rent parts of the premises. The finishing-rooms are in the building which is saved, and it is therefore hoped that the more valuable portion of the goods will have been preserved. It is matter of deep regret to know that between 600 and 700 hands will necessarily be thrown out of employ for a con siderable time. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Friday night was the last appearance of Madame Vestris, Mr. Charles Mathews, and Mr. James Vining. Amidst the no ve lti es introduced during their en gagement none have been more remarkable than the Duenna and the Merry Wives of Windsor, both of which we have already briefly noticed. The music of the latter was delight fully executed by all the vocalists, especially the celebrated duet, " I know a bank whereon the wild flowers dwell," by Madame Vestris and Miss Grant. The exqusite harmony of the voices, and their faultless execution, elicited a rapturous encore from a crowded house. Last evening Mr. J. G. Vandenhoff made his first appearance this season in the ar duous character of " Hamlet." He acquitted himself very creditably. This evening he plays " Mcrcutio," in Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Anderson, who is also engaged, will repre sent " Romeo." THE Scorrisu UNION SOCIETY.—The annual dinner of this excellent and thriving society took place on Wednesday last, the 22d instant, at Mr. Gildert's, in Ranelagh-street. About forty gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner, pre pared and served in Mr. Gildert's accustomed style. The society, though a benefit association, was instituted chiefly for the purpose of commemorating the union of England and Scotland, on the anniversary of which the annual dinner is held. On this occasion a celebrated piper, belonging to the 79th Highlanders, now lying at Haydock Lodge, was pre sent, by permission of his commanding officer, and enlivened the meeting by playing many appropriate " springs." After dinner, many of the members some of whom were splen didly attired in tartan, as chieftains of various Highland clans, crossed the river, and walked in procession through Woodside and Birkenhead. They presented a very gay and characteristic appearance, and were preceded by the piper, whose strong instrument formed no inconsiderable band of itself. The whole of the members afterwards re-assembled at their club-room, in Ranelagh-street, and passed the even ing in the most lively and agreeable manner. ---• • EXHIBITION AT THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We beg to remind our readers that the present is the last week during which this splendid exhibition will remain open. Sa turday next will be the closing day. Very little time remains, therefore, for a detailed inspection of the numberless curiosi ties which it contains. An early visit is strongly recom mended, as we feel convinced that every one who goes through the rooms once will not rest satisfied without a second visit. We understand that, independentiy of the 16,000 children be longing to the charity schools, and the military and police forces, who have been admitted without charge, upwards of 50,000 persons have visited the institution within the last five weeks. This is an undeniable proof of the popularity of the exhibition. THE TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—TIIC British Queen, which sailed from Portsmouth for New York, on the after noon of the Ist instant, was spoken, on the 11th instant, ten days out, in lat. 46 26, long. 35. The Britannia, which sailed from Liverpool for Halifax and Boston, on the after noon of the 4th instant, was spoken on the forenoon of the 14th, nearly ten days out, in lat 46, long. 48. She would reach Halifax on, probably, the 17th, and Boston on the 19th instant, and make the passage under fifteen days. The British Queen would scarcely, from the longitude she was in on the 11th, reach New York earlier than the 18th instant. Bets have, indeed, been offered, that the arrival of the Bri tannia at Boston would be announced at New York before the British Queen arrives at the latter port.—Albion. once more to be waxing courageous. Like spoiled children one moment they are seen brooding in sulky depression, ant next they are in senseless raptures. Strange, that the bare prospect of possessing a cake or two should make so great an alteration. But the registry is now to contain 1200 Irish papists, whose taxes have been paid up by our modern purity men ; and no wonder they are in extacies. The moral so cinian, the sleek quaker, the sanctimonious political dissenter, can form an alliance to subscribe and place papists on the registry to crush the church. and to hurt their orthodox brethren, who are her f r ie n d s . " Oh, s h ame ! where is thy blush ?" It is true they admit that, as their shirtless allies have now gained a settlement, our parish must find funds to - keep them in winter, and but then this will only double the parish rates, and what is that if the pride or ambition of a "liberal" is interested? Nay, more, we should be bound, according to the modern sense of the word " reform," to thank our local patriots, who place men on the registry to nullify our votes, and then, by way of recompense, ask us to keep them. Men of Liverpool ! mark such base proceedings with vir tuous disgust. What, are we quietly to pay an intolerable parish rate, because, forsooth, one vain individual possesses measureless assumption, and another matchless impudence ? And are our voices, as independent electors, to be overborne by the influence of a hireling mob of retainers ? You will not, you cannot, submit to this degradation. Come forward, then, unanimously, and with firm resolve ; read the lists which will be exhibited upon your church and chapel doors, mark the names, reflect upon the character of the streets the parties reside in, and say whether the garbage which it is attempted, next election, to foist upon our town shall be left without molestation. Purge the registry. Give notice of any who have not proper qualifications as householders, or who have lately, by themselves or families, received parochial relief, and watch the removals. Shame on the recreant sons of the early puritans ! Would their fathers have joined Rome against their maternal church ? SKETCHES OF THE JOLLY CLUB (Written for the Liverpool Standard.) JOE RATTLER'S PLANS FOR PRODUCING EFFECTS EFFECT THE FOURTH " No, upon my honour," said Joe, putting on as good a face as he could, " I think poor mamma and sister have suf fered enough already; no, I shall feel obliged if you will permit Fame (the proper harbinger of all merit) to blazon her records in my parental ear herself, rather than that he should hear of his son's achievements (splendid though they are) through any other medium. In the mean time permit me to ask under what circumstances am I indebted for the honor of this unexpected interview." Mr. Bowling- then informed him that they, together with his son who was then at Liverpool, had been making a tour through Wales, and were returning to their house at N— that their intention was to spend a day or two in Liverpoo before they returned home, and then they should be happy t carry us with them. In the mean time, they would take no de nial as to breakfasting with them at the Angel the next morn ing, where they would introduce us to their brother, who they were sure, would be equally glad to see us. Joe had known the younger Bowling at school, but had no seen him for a considerable period ; and, although six of seven years his junior, was certain that he would not only re• member him, but which give him that welcome that is giver only to old schoolfellows after a long separation. We accordingly breakfasted with the family at the Angel Hotel the next morning, where we were introduced to their eldest and only brother, James Bowling, who was as much surprised as delighted at seeing his old companion in that part of the kinzdona. After mutual manifestations of delight at the meeting, Jim (for so we shall call him) said, " So, my young hero, a few years' sun, eh ? has made a man on thee, and, by mighty Pluto ! not an unseem i ng l y one e i ther—turn round," said he, giving Joe a twist with his iron grasp ; " Ah ! there ; a tidy carcass even for a military snip to cut capers upon—slight, but, by Jupiter, well knit. Well, thou must come and spend a month or two at Bowling Hall, and it shall go hard but we will transform thee from an Hylus to an Achilles ; an extra half stone, or two of muscle, thew and sinew, will enable th ee t o cut capers in other places save a ' lady's drawing -room.' Well, Joe, any practi ce i n th e o ld line now-a-days — any o f the effective, eh ? ha, ha! By Nep tune's prongs, but I once save d thee from as sound a whip ping as ever was received on the triangles at old Thwacker's seminary ; and, by Saturn's belt, thou deservedst it too. Ha, ha, ha! B u t th en I l ove d t h ee, I loved thee ; the love in our families has been hereditary, and so for that reason I loved thee too ; and, by Minerva's night cap, a good reason. Well, I never had occasion to regret it, and I am sure I never shall have. Had I always been so fortunate in my love, my at tachment, I might have been happier now." " Brother !" whispered Miss Bowling, at the same time depressing her eyes. " Thank you, sister, good girl—good girl." " Well, Joe, by Olympus I am glad to see the right wor shipful Joe ! once more thou art welcome—l'll pledge thee in coffee—here's to our old acquaintance. I know my sisters will make thee welcome, if it be only for the love they bare their brother." " Aye, aye !" cried the old gentleman, " but if it be not too much trouble, I should be glad to know on what account your services were of so much use to Mr. Rattler when you were at school ?" " Well," replied Jim, " as it is some years past now, and as it is not likely to give the same terror and alarm: now, as it did then, I think I may venture to tell it you." " Oh, spare my blushes !" exclaimed Joe. " No," replied Jim, " I persuaded old Thwacker to spare your back, and I think that I had less difficulty in effecting that, than I should have in complying with your present re quest." <<-" Oh, I ask y our par d on, b rother !" said Miss Emiline, Mr. Rattler is become quite sentimental and pathetic, I assure you. He has improved in that department most wonderfully." "As the parting dew-drop from the rose bud's embrace, Gives note that young Phoebus is starting his race," sighed the young Eliza, and perhaps it was as well that she did sigh it, or her worthy brother might have desired her to follow the sun's example. " Well," cried Jim, " I do feel a little surprised at what you tell me, for certainly turtle doves and blank verse were not the elements of Joe's constitution at one time. " But now for the story. It happened of all other days in the year to be on a Shrove Tuesday, (on which holiday it bad been the custom time, I suppose, out of mind, at the old grammar school, to have a drawing out for cocks and liens,) that the discourse during dinner hours turned upon the ex traordinary feats that had been performed at different times by scholars who had been educated there; for, as many of them had turned out to be men of prodigious learning and attainments in after time, they must of course have been Faustus's in their youth. One of them in particular, a Francis Smith, was said to have raised his Satanic majesty on that very day, some 20 years before ; and as there were not wanting plenty of corroborators of the horrid story ; so there were plenty to describe the process of the occult spell, which it appears was to be managed by means of inner and outer circles, scribed on the floor. The diviner was to kneel down within the centre one, and then repeat some half dozen of Latin prayers which were pointed out to him ; after which he was to utter ad-libitum as many imprecations as he could within a given time, and then the spell would be ' wound up.' No sooner was the science of devil-raising clearly de monstrated, than our friend Joe very modestly declared that he would attempt it. At this announcement every one was delighted, as was manifest by their all shouting, clapping their hands, and creeping nearer to the door. It was the currish shout of fear, struggling .to look brave. " Some of the older boys professed to be horror-struck at the mere idea of such an attempt, as both they and myself thought it a mere boast on the part of the would-be Faust. But we were soon satisfied to the contrary, for Joe at once began deliberately to scribe, according to direction, the cir cles on the school floor ; and it would have been a funny calculation to have ascertained how many crept out at the formation of each circle. At last all were finished, the inner and the final one ; and as its completion drew nigh, three breathless, ear-stopped, stealthy strides took out the bravest but the last. All were gone save myself, who had been de sired by some of the elder scholars to watch the proceeding, to see if he would have courage enough to proceed. " There was no alternative; he must go on, or suffer the worst of mortifications—to be the butt of his own joke. Joe knew this, and accordingly got a Latin prayer-book, and, kneeling down, commenced the exordium. Seeing this, I rushed out horror-struck, and, in proper time, communi cated my fears to the rest of the scholars, who, together with the whole village, had rushed into a farm-house adjoining ; for all, having the most superstitious fear and awe of the wizard-like attainments of old Thwucker's scholars, were terrified to the very climax of absurdity. Thus they all congregated together in this one house, each trying to lose his fears by attempting to creep, if possible, into the inside of his neighbour. " A more ridiculous sight could not be imagined. By sultry Pluto ! it was superlative to see • every man leave his vocation ;' for -the browmen at the collieries left their bas kets of coals half hoisted, the engineers their engines un stopped, carters their horses, weavers their looms ;—nay, it was said that old Littler, a famous miser in the neighbour hood, left off counting his money, and cursing the hardness of the times—Joe's daring exploit thus producing an effect upon him which the death of his wife had not been able to effect. Still the cry ran, Young Rattler is raising the. devil ;—oh ! he's raising the devil;' every fresh cry of which caused another condensation, until at last the compression was such, that it is a question whether they could have been closer packed with a patent hydraulic press.- The fate of Laocoon and his sons had like to have been a mere fable to this unheard-of catastrophe. " There was a general, vast, and overwhelming scream— parents, in their own danger, forgetting that of their hapless offspring. One unhappy Wight —a Master Tommy Allen, the fair-haired, blue-eyed, red-cheeked, adored little darling of two maiden aunts, who, when they first brought him to the school, laid the most implicit injunction on the master not to touch him himself, or allow any of the boys to do so. on pain of his being immediately withdrawn from this redoubt able seminary —and as the ladies were rich, and their patron age great, it was petty treason to look at him, and the most fearful castigation awaited the unhappy playmate that dared even to disarrange one of his fair ringlets. " But fear respects not persons, as even kings and empe rors, it is said, have experienced ; nay, I believe it is on re cord that even a general of unperishable fame is known to have felt something very like it. Well, poor unhappy Master Tommy was making with 'all his might to the general rendez vous, when another, making the same attempt, jostled the unfortunate squire of the flaxen hair into a nameless recep tacle, head foremost; and there he would have been actually smothered, but for the providential and immediate assistance of the farmer's wife. He was got out, and carried to the watering pit • and while th e ac t o f i mmers i on i s go i ng on, l et us inquire after Joe, for by this time there could be little doubt but that his infernal majesty had shaken hands with Proserpine, to visit on earth so worthy a disciple. One of the boys, however, possessing, or imagining that he did, more courage than the rest, signified his intention, if any one would accompany him, of having a peep through the school window, to see what was going on. " Hearing this noble declaration from one so young, I (who was nearly double his age) boldly called out, ' I—l will follow, though it should be to death I' As much applause followed as their fears would permit. Some, however, at tempted to dissuade us from the madness of such an attempt, as they considered it better that one should be dragged into the bottomless abyss than three, and For the sake of the Lord take care,' was heard from a hundred voices. As we ascended the little hill up to the school, we were looked after with the same breathless anxiety as the life-boat is when gal lantly attempting to rescue from the distant wreck the hope less and death-awaiting mariner. (To be concluded in our next.) _______ named At the Police-office, yesterday, a lad ering, was committed t o pr i son for seven, days, forattempting to ro i, th e garden of Mr. Lawrence, of Din g le Mount, at three o'clock on Sunday morning. NEW OYSTER TRAP. —At the M' the Natural Hi s t ory room, may be seen a mouse it w ution, in hich has just been caug h t between the shells of an oyster. It is held by the head as tightly as in a common wire trap. Mr. Robert Bevan, of this town, and of Birkenhead, Cheshire, solicitor, has been appointed, by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a perpetual commissioner, under the Fines and Recoveries Abolition Act, in and for the county of Chester. The Great Western sailed from Bristol, at noon, on Saturday, f or N ew York. She carried out about one hundred assen gers, amongst w h om is Prince Jerome Napoleon o naparte, and a va l ua bl e fre i ght of goods, of which i s s i lk. a large proportion At the Police-office, yesterday, Mrs. Jilks, butcher, of Sed don-street, charged a young man with having stolen a watch belonging to her husband. The evidence not being complete, the prisoner was remanded. It was curious to see the difference between Joe Rattler, the unknown at New Brighton, and Joe Rattler, the detected son of an old and particular acquaintance at Seacombe. The ' evident mortification which lie was labouring under was only heightened by the repeated roars of laughter which the old gentleman indulged in. Joe was completely crest-fallen; for although he was a youth of great physical courage, and high animal spirits, and one of his favourite maxims was, " What matter, so there is fun enough, who pays the cost ;" and though it has been shown that he was not only ready to pay his own share, but sometimes quite willing to pay that of others, yet it m us t b e con f esse d that, this time, the reckoning was more than he was able to discharge. It was not the hopeless dread of future insolvency, which thus troubled him ; may be he was satisfied that, should he ever have an opportunity, he could return every obligation, with the most satisfactory interest. It was not future, but present, dis grace that caused Joe's humiliation; and no wonder, for it must be remembered that, besides the old gentleman's irony, there were the silvery lengths of three young and as beautiful creatures as ever gave mirth a spur, or merriment an incen tive. . There were three pair of eyes looking on, laughing in their orbs, and saying, as plain as ever eyes could say, " We have you---where be your jibes now, your quips and quiddi ties !—quite chapfallen !" Joe rallied ; not, however, before the old gentleman had almost laughed him into a gloryless petrifaction of no effects—and was consoled at last with, " A chip of the old block. Ha, ha, ha ! There was something told me at the time when that awful adventure was relating, and when that melancholy face was in making—there was something told me that I had seen something very like it before. Well, give us your hand—am glad to see you ; I shall be writing to your father, and of course shall tell him of the extraordinary circumstances under which we met : no doubt lie sill be glad to hear of your great success ; but, as it might make him unhappy for your safety, I had better say nothing of your being left lifeless on a distant shore to perish Ali, ha, ha ! oh, oh !" IS TI;TERE RIBANDISM IN THE ARMY The return match between the Manchester club al Liverpool club, with Adams, one of the best Kent p 1 given, will come off to-morrow. THE LATE MR. JOHN LANDER.—It appears by a parlia mentary return just published, that the widow of Mr. John Lander, who accompanied his brother Richard in one or more hazardous expeditions into the interior of Africa, and owed his death, probably, to the injury inflicted on his con stitution by the baneful climate of that country, has obtained a government pension of £75 a year. This, we think, is, under the circumstances, a very• inadequate stipend ; but of the small sum remaining at the disposal of ministers, when it was granted, a thousand a year was wanted for what is called the Mount Eagle job —a job, by the way, in which the Whigs persevere, notwithstanding its positive condemnation by a large majority of the House of Commons.—Falmouth Express. FRAUDS UPON EMIGRANTS.—We perceive, description of fraud upon emigrants and their friends h. cently been put in practice, and we fear it is beyond reach of correction, save by extensive exposure. It seep that some parties in New York have hit upon the expedien of persuading emigrants who have arrived there to pur chase from them passage-tickets for such of their friend; and acquaintance as wish to follow them from this country to America. The indhiduals who practice these fraud: have picked out, for insertion in their pretended tickets the name of a respectable house in Liverpool,—Messrs, Rintoul and Zimmerman, of Atherton-buildings, Dale street,—whom they falsely represent as their agents. A short time since a female, who had one of these documents transmitted to her, came all the way from Ballyshannon to this town, in the confident expecta tion that a passage had been secured for her. She had expended all she was worth in her journey to this place, and is now a fit object for the charity of the benevolent. The ticket gives minute directions to the party as to the proceed ings to be taken in order to obtain the due fulfilment of the pretended agreement, thus adding a cruel deception to the original fraud. As Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman never before heard of the names or existence of the parties who have taken it upon them to represent them as their agents, and as they are not, in fact, emigrant agents for any party whatever, nor in any way connected with the trade, the na ture of the imposition will immediately be perceived. Messrs. Rintoul and Zimmerman have received, within the last few days, numerous applications respecting passages to New York, which afford proof that the frauds have been very extensively practisectin various parts of the country. CHESTER ASSIZES.—Causes for trial must be entered on the 15th August, and the trials will be proceeded upon at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the lith. Lord Denman will pre side in the Nisi Prius Court. that a r There is a man in Bangor whose hair is so red and luminous lat his wife frequently starts up at midnight and imagines is sun rise—such a blazing halo does his head shed around —American paper. he room By a return just laid before parliament, it appears t whole expense of the yeoma nr y i n G reat B r i ta i n in 18.5 u was £90,786. - The number of officers and men embodied was 14,119, making the average cost of each £6 Bs. • INCREASE OP POPULATION.-15 7 hilst the increase of po pulation in England and Wales, in 30 years, from 1801 to 1831, has been something more than 47 per cent., the actual increase in the numb er o f i n h a bi tants of five of our most important provincial towns has very nearly doubled that rate, being— _ _ Manchester Glasgow.... Liverpool .. Birmingham 109 per cent 108 100 Leeds .- ..House of Commons Report CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.-Mr. Peter Turner, of Up perby, has been furnished with a singular exemplification of the paternal affection of the feathered tribe in his turkey cock. The hen turkey was engaged in sitting on her own nest, and master jock, not to be behind hand, sat on one turkey egg and two hen eggs. He brought all the three out, but the juvenile turkey soon after died, and the two chickens are now following their masculine mamma, which may be seen at Mr. Thomas Turner's, Cross Keys, Upperby. It is feared jock will discard the turkey hen, his former lady love, from an idea that lie can do without her; the hen is evidently jealous of her husband's new found powers of incubation.— Carlisle Patriot. The living which the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, the new warden of Manchester college, will hold at Spofforth, in ad dition to his appointment, is of the value of 43,000 a year. which, with his wardenship, will make an income of .:£6,000 a year, being nearly double many of the bishoprics.—Shef field Patriot. A correspondent of the Alsace, at Baden, states that a fey .ays since a young man, a visiter of the baths, shot himself a despair at having lost 10,000 f. at the gaming• :entleman from Marseilles had lost 60,000 f. the ame time. Since Oxford's trial a marked difference is observable in the prisoner's appearance and manners. He appears much more cheerful, and seems as if a considerable weight had been removed from his mind. His manner towards the turnkey who was in attendance on him was also somewhat different to what it had been before the trial ; and he ceased to continue that reserve which had previously marked his conduct. He had been visited by his mother, sister, and both his un c l es , an d en t ere d i nto a long history of the occur rence, and detailed the whole particulars relating to his ex ploits. On Saturday w.!ek an order was received by Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, from the home-office, for his immediate removal to Bethlehem Hospital. On receipt of it, Mr. Cope proceeded to the cell of Oxford, and told him to prepare for his removal, telling him at the same time where he was going to take him. The prisoner did not betray the slightest emotion on receiving the intimation, and in a short time after, he was taken by Mr. Cope, in a hack ney coach, to St. George's-fields, and handed over to the proper authorities of Bethlehem Hospital.—Times of yester day. GRAVEDIGGERS AND THEIR " MANAGEMENT."—I have, I think, sufficiently explained to my readers the "manage ment" of certain localities ; it is a rule with gravediggers to avoid as much as possible, inhalino the gases given of by the putrefaction (If the dead. When bodies are inhumed, and the slower dissipation of the products is interfered with by the pick-axe or the shovel, the grave is left open until the surrounding atmosphere has diluted the poison, or at least the lighter products are driven off ; the heavier gases, those that destroyed the men in Aldgate, are driven off by heat, or absorbents are employed. In some instances they are " laded up in buckets," and poured out on the surface, but in the majority of instances heat is employed.—Gatherings Ai't Grave Yards, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon. THE UERN AND THE .11 evening, Q pursuant to arrangem WlLD ents B w EASTS hich had -0 been this made latter for the purpose, our gracious mistress condescended to cross the stage of the theatre for the purpose of seeing the animals in their more excited and savage state during the operation of feeding them. It is almost unnecessary to observe, that this gratifying scene took place after the departure of the audi ence ; and that every possible caution was adopted for the comparative comfort and seclusion of the royal visitor, which the resources of the theatre permitted, such as enclosing the entrance with crimson draperies, and carrpeting the stairs— not merely to shut ou t th e d raug h t of the night-air, but to exclude the prying gaze of the many stragglers who remained behind in hopes of bearing testimony to so unprecedented a compliment paid to the theatre. The animals had been kept purposely without food for six -and-thirty hours •, strong symptoms of which had become manifest during Mr. Van Amburgh's performance, by the lion and the panther having simultaneously attacked the lamb on its being placed in their den; and they would have evidently made but a mouthful apiece of it, had not their almost superhuman master lite rally lashed them into the most abject and crouching sub mission. The first portion of food thrown amongst them, seized by the lion as a matter of priority, was enough to con vince any sceptic of the fearful savageness of their nature, when out of the control of the one hand whose power they acknowledged. The rolling of the tiger's eye, while he was devouring the massive lump of meat and bone, clutched be neath his fore-p aws , seemed to possess the brilliancy as well as rapidity of lightning ; and was only diverted by a tremen dous and sudden spring of the lion, who, having demolished his own porti on , se i ze d upon what was left of his ferocious neighbour's fare. The dash against the sides of the den sounded like the felling of huge trees, and was enough be- its force and fury to shake the strongest nerves ; but it was a positive fact, that while the boldest of the hearts in the royal suite speedily retreated at this unexpected plunge of the forest monarch, the youthful queen never moved either face or foot, but with look undiverted, and still more deeply riveted, con- Stage, by Mr. to eon the novel a n d moving spectaele.spectacle.--The . • A TURKISH JUSTICE. —THE BET OF KIEHL—WC fOUIId an excellent post-house in the village; and the rain continuing through the day, we remained th ere t i ll the next morning. The postmaster was governor of Kifri, and of seven other village's on the plain. He came in and spent the afternoon with us, and his presence gave me a rare entertainment. Every half-hour some one entered to present a, complaint against rous tone his neig s hbour, whi c h was always done in the most vo : the bey settled their difficulties in the most summary manner, the complainant seldom staying more than five minutes. One case was of a more delicate nature than the others, but it was dispatched with almost equal cele rity. A man having divorced one wife and married snother, wished to take the first one again, and retain the second. The former, having the liberty of refusal, declined the re-union, and the man had urged his suit with unbecoming pertinacity. The offended woman had now come to claim protection from the governor ; and standing without, unseen, screamed forth her complaint. When her story was ended, the bey replied, " The man has one wife why does he want another " ? The question seemed a strange one to come from a Mahommedan judge ; but in truth it was not so strange as it appeared, for everywhere in Turkey polygamy is rare among the Mussul mans, and not as I had been accustomed to suppose, a com mon thing. — Southgate's Travels in Turkey and Persia, just published. POISONOUS EXHALATIONS FROM CHURCH VAULTS. --A lady died September 7th, 1832, and was buried in the Rector's vault, in St. 's church, on the 14th. The mule.- had occasion to go down into the vault, near the table ; he had done the work of the church nears, years, and was well acquainted with the localities ; the gr.. digger had neglected to take up the slab which covered tE vault ; the undertaker being pressed for time, with th assistance of the son of the deceased, removed the stone Tine two descended, taking with them a li ght, which wa: al tiny extinguished ; upon reaching the step ol the vault, both were simultaneously seized with lower sickness, giddiness, trembling, and confusion of intellect ; the under taker raised his friend, who had fallen on the floor, and with difficulty dragged hie out of th e vault; he himself, although a man previously in excellent health, was seized with vo miting the next day, and for twelve months rejected his food at the end of this period, after having been under the care of many medical men, he consulted Dr. James Johnson, from whom he derived great benefit ,—the Doctor pronounced his case to be one of poisoning, from mephitic gases. The patient is convinced that his health has been completely ruined from this cause ; he is now obliged, after a lapse of seven years, "to live entirely by rule." The young gentle man who was with him, was subsequently under the care of many medical men upwards of two years ; his principal symptom's, those of a slow poison, developed themselves gradually,—but surely ;he was attacked with obstinate ul cerations of the throat, which were not removed until more than two years had elapsed, although he had frequent change of air, and the best medical assistance that could be obtained. —Mr. Walker in Gatheringefrom Grave Yards. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIMERICK STANDARD. Sir,---I think the following circumstance will warrant me in putting the above query :----A fellow, named Cooney,' en listed at Fermoy some. time since in the 74th depot, which is at present stationed in Youghal. This fellow got a furlofigh, and came to his mother's house in Fermov, where be remained until the day previous to the expiration of the furlough, when he went and joined the depot in YOughal ; but the succeed ing evening he arrived privately in Fez-mu, bringing with him his firelock and sixty rounds of ammunition, with the avowed , intention of shooting two or three respectable gen tlemen whom he named. Happily the rumour of his wicked intentions got abroad, and the villain, to avoid being deli vered over to the civil law, to be dealt with as lie ,merit" voluntarily surrendered himself as a deserter to the Fenn garrison. And although he has been seen firing several sh in Newtown (by way of practice) preparatory to his me tated deed of blood, .yet will none of those who saw him 114 witness to the fact, nor will those to whom he communical his intentions against the lives of respectable magistrat gentlemen prosecute him. He would be delivered the civil law if they did so.—lours, Szt Fermoy, July 21