The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

FOURTH EDITION. Standard-office, 2 o'clock LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. THIS DAY There has been a very slow sale for all descriptions of Wheat at Friday's prices. Sack Flour in limited demand, at a reduction of Is. Oats ld. to 2d. lower. Oatmeal, no variation. Other articles in slow request, at late rates. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 3d to the gth Feb, inclusive COAST-UNITED FO- LAND. WISE. STATES. REIGN WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal Mail steam-ship Trent arrived at South ampton yesterday, with the West India Mail. Among the passengers is Lieut. Peel, (s , ,n of the premier,) who is the bearer of important despatches from Vera Cruz. JAMAICk —Dublin University Magazine —The Agi- --...d,,....- VARIETIES It was pleasantly said of a man who was unable to sur mount the difficu:ties of the French grammar, that, like Napoleon in Russia, he had been stopped by the elements. THE CONSERVATIVES IN POWER.—In 1835, theparty which had won is new name so gallantly in opposition, we a!1 recollect, somewhat prematurely into wl‘. came, as was the first act of its clue,. against the established constitution of the chore appointment of a commission under th changes in it ! The repr--- power, 1 manifesto h, and the cro7.'n to devise - if the party in both houses of parliacnent threw up their caps. It was a bold measure, but the state of the times required it ; and as not a farthing wa., taken from the church, however widely diverted some portions of church property might be from the uses to which the testators had assigned them, nobody could deny that it was a srictly conservative measure. Accordingly, the commission sat ; extinguished canonries; remodelled sees ; reduced bishops from the dignity of There is no particular news from this island. The weather had been somewhat unsettled, rains and severe storms having been very frequent. Lord E!gin had or - rogued the House of A&:einbly in a very friendly and ex ve it up ? cellent speech on the 31st of December. The Spanish Town Wt r ilway was realising the expectations of every one to the fullest extent. Other lines had been determined upon and swictioned by the legislature, which will, it was confidently anticipated, give increased stimulus to the commerce of the island. Fine weather had prevailed in the Windward Islands. The crops throughout were very favourable, and much good was expected to result from the various railroads in contemplation. MEXICO The Trent brings news from this ill-favoured country down to the Ist of January, being three weeks later than that brought by the Stephen Whitney, via New York. It is still very disturbed, although on the departure of the packet it was expected matters would be arranged with out much blond shed. Some few skirmishes have taken place, and two or three lives had been lost, but not more. landowners to the respectable position of state pensioners; applied tithes and lands, bequeathed by good men in Dur- A PICTURE'S WORTH.—" And yet," responded I, ham for the spiritual benefit of Durhamites, to the relief .. the best artists are always the most admired. Some in of the spiritual necessities of the dwellers in Cornwall ferior ones may, from adventitious circumstances, obtain and Sussex; and boldly transferred a prelate from Bangor patronage in high places, but they do not command, even to Ripon, with all his Welch revenues in his hand. What with this advantage, the popular vo i ce. Whose names was the aristocracy about then? Did they not see that. are most familiar to the public mouth? The names which their own right and privileges were weakened by such a the highest talent has made memorable. Around what blow struck at the rights and privileges of the church? pictures in an exhibition are the largest and most admir- Not a whit. They were consenting and approving parties ing crowds collected ? The pictures which high talent to a measure which we considered at the time, and still has made glorious." " Fashion," returned Sharpson, hold to have been the first step on that ladder of descent, " holds sway more or less in every thing, and crowds be to the very base of which, as they themselves now affirm , ge t cro w ds. B esi des , there are some kinds of power their champion is going to lead them.—Frosee's Mag. which, employed on certain suhjeets, will always interest MISERY OF HAVING TO MAKE AN UNEXPECTED AFTER even the dull herd. But rarely, indeed, save under the DINNER SPEECH.—Some speakers are usually brought influence of fashion and flock-following, do the dull herd upon their lees by some mark of respect, and are there- seek pasturage on the eminences of art. They prefer to fore objects of compassion. As they have been deemed leave the ' fair mountain,' to ' batten on this moor,' where worthy of a tribute of honour one pities them. Theirs is their low spirits are quite at home. Of course they do rather a hard case certainly. They came out to be cons- not go away without getting a glimpse of the pictures, the fortable ; they are unanimou-ly selected as deserving a frames at all events, to which great names are attached ; compliment ; they have the esteem and praises of the whole because they are aware that in the cant of the ' circle' in table, and they are consequently put to the torture- which they move, be it wide or narrow, they are required Watch a modest man of this class undergoing " all the to take part ; and they are alive to the necessity of falling honours," as per order, front the chair. He was in ex- into ecstasies, whether the present performances of those cellent spirits before you drank his health; he never felt leading artists be exquisite or so-so. But it is the corn better in his life than when unconscious of your concern mon-place that in reality enchants them ; the portrait of about him ; he wanted nothing on earth until he found a lady, the kitten with the hall of cotton, the intolerable himself in the possession of your good wishes, but now he hamper of game, the detestable hunch of flowers, and the is miserable to the finger tips. Observe how they trerou. execra bl e b as k et o f f ru i t. " " That such execra bl es are lou s ly touch the table when he has risen to fulfil the yearly exhibited in sundry places is admitted, but you are grateful duty of stretching himself upon the rack. Listen ! not thence to assume that they are admired —" " I No, you can't catch his voice yet, but you may hear his prove it," interposed Sharp Son, " when I prove that they knees knock together. He is a bold, brave fellow, and no are painted. Artists, good ant: bad, work for the market. foot either, is this shivering Incapable. He is a dashing The great painter, indeed, may find a liberal purchaser politician, and thrusts a sharp pen six times a week clean for his work, but the profound incapable is almost sure of through a dozen tolerably eloquent members of Parlia- a customer. Why, what becomes of the hundreds of ment, he has drowned a few oratorical peers in his ink- odious outrages annua ll y set f ort h ! D o you t hi n k th ey stand. But look at him now ! Ile can't say " Bo" to are burned? They are bought. Somewhere shines the the chairman. He hasn't a word to throw at the dog that sun upon their horrible varnish, and some poor wretches' proposed his health. He lacks power to express his grate- eves have daily to endure the sight of them." " Nay, if ful sense of this horrible dilemma you have placed him in. they are bought," cried I, " they cease to he atrocious. His full clear voice is thick and low ; his command of lan- They instantly acquire a moral glow that gives a mellow image is reduced to a few of the most hacknied and corn- ing tone to their flaring ht.'s ; they are wrapped in a mon-place phrases; and even these he used without the peetry of sentiment that redo' ms them from contempt. least pretensions to grace. R hat confusion and havoc The act of purchase seals ilisir pretensions as valuable does this penalty make in a man's mind! One of the works of art, and the ' thine, of beauty is a joy for ever,' most sensible and judicious persons alive, but one of the an heirloom on the walls of its owner." " You substan least " accustomed to public speak'ng," being obliged to tiate the charge with which I started ! " exclaimed Sharp. address a small company, all associates on some Shakspe- son, upsetting his glass. " I said you judged of a picture rian subject ; no less in fact, than " the naeraory of Shaks- by the wall on which it hung."—Larnen Blanchard's pere," which was the toast he had to propose, actually in Sketches of Life his nervousness and confusion introduced the poet as one WHY PROTESTANTS DISTRUST SIR ROBERT PEEL. — "whose name he was sure must be known to every gentle- We are not insensible to Sir Robert Peel's great merits man present ?" There's fame ! There .ere almost 20 as a finance minister, nor have we been slow to give to persons. and most of them must have been authors." him the cordial weed of our approbation. But no amount —Sketches of Life, by the late Laman Blanchard. of financial prosperity can compensate for any deteriora- A WATERING-PLACE IN NEW ZEALAND.—On our way thin of moral weal ; nor does the hectic flush of fever we visited Wskarecvarewa Hotsprings, by far the finest at d iff er more f rom t h e g l ow o f h ea l t h , t h an a p l e th ory o f bout seven miles front Air. Chapman 's and a- wealth from the only sure. indications of national great- Rotoru varieties of Ngawha (hot-springs). They are mud caul drons, black, blue, grey, green, yellow, and red, the very emblem of laziness; a faint stream rises from them, and ever and anon a solitary bubble of gas disengages itself slowly from the surface, which then returns to its usual dulness. Close by the side of these, and in strong contrast, are the clear pools of boiling water, of great depth, and of bright azure, enclosed in precipitous wills of sulphureous formation; from some of these, hot streams flow down, which are guided by the natives either into artificial baths or into natural hollow. of the rock ; the supply of hot wa ter, being so regulated as to keep the bath at the right temperature. Among these cauldrons and pools, a strong and rapid stream of cold water rushes down, in some places not a yard from the spot at which the natives are sitting up to their breasts in hot water, shelling Tawa ber ries, or peeling potatoes, or failing in these employments, enjoying their never-failing resource of smoking. But by far the most beautiful springs are the boiling jets, which are thrown up to the height of many feet from a narrow ori fice in the top of an irregular cone, formed of the matter held in solution by the water, which is deposited as it cools, and forms a substance of a pinkish white colour, sometimes also tinged with yellow by crystals of sulphur. It is per fectly safe to stand upon the tops of these cones, to the windward of the spout ; acid from that position it is grand, first, to hear the roaring and boiling of the cauldron, and then see the jet spring up into the air, shivered by the force ofits projt-cti n into silvery foam, and accom panied by a volume of white st.am. Tne hot water, in its descent, trickles down the sides or ti,e crater, and falls into several natural baths of most agreeable temperature, formed in the pure and white subst,nce of the cone, and lined with the same matter in its half-formed state, still yielding and elastic. Here the traveller may lie at his ease, and watch the bursting of the boiling fountain above him; but, if the wind should happen to change, he must shift his position, or his place will soon be too hot for him. A small native village is here, with the usual appurtenances of a native steam kitchen at the hot springs. namely, hot plates, made of large slabs of stone, laid es er boiling water to dry the Tawa berry upon, steam hinghiti, or native -ovens, always in readin ess, and holes of boiling water in which fish and po tatoes can be speedi l y coo k ed. A native swing completes the equipment of this fashionable water ing-place, which , together with the game of drafts, relieve the ennui of those who resort to the baths.—Birhop Sel wyn s I isitalion 'f'our. undoubtedly she may be corrupted, by a superabundance of worldly cipmforts, if they he not accompanied by the only knowledge which can make wise unto salvation. It is of little consequence that a e proyide for the life, if we neg lect the life of life. Man was created for higher things than to be a mere instrument of sordid accumulation. And never ran thy minister who limits his activity to the pro viding thins needful for bodily necesities, accomplish the great end for which a nation like Eneland has been raised up, or secure to hia,self a lasting remembrance by the wise beneficence of his regulations. It is in this, Sir Robert Peel is wanting. He had at his command an in stitute by which he micht have effected all that could be desired; a church estWishment, which in its teaching and offices fully met the requirements of the age; which only required to he supported and extended, to do all that could be rin.l , by human instrumentality, for the religious well.} , lug of the people. It. is painful to be obliged to add, that the advantages of such an institute have been neglected. And in Ireland what has been the case? Has it not been rudely shaken, and contemptu ously set aside, while popery, the nurse of darkness and error, has been cherished and exalted; in the hope, no doubt, that some temporal end would be answered by the depression of a true, and the encouragement of a false religion ? We tell the right honourable barcnet, that even in his political calculations he will be disappointed. The allies whom he fain would purchase, will become tyrants whom he cannot control. And the priesthood by whom he would hope to rule and to pacify h distracted country, will belie all calculations which may be made from the past, if they be not the agents and the stimulators of an agitation more violent and more turbulent by far, than any by which a British minister has as yet been " let and hindered." So much for the sacrifices of mcral to poli tical considerations. The moral gnilt is incurred, and the political object is not attained. It is in vain to contend against the devil with the devil's own weapons. In the use of these he will be more than a match even for the adroitness and dexterity of Sir Robert Peel. His new popish friends may nibble off the bait, hut they will not swallow the hook which he designs for them. And this it is—this fatal blindness cr indifference to the value of moral and religious principle—which has shaken the con fidence of the country, and sapped the foundations of his power, and will, if persevered in, render his administra tion as great a curse, as it promised to be a blessing to the British empire .— Dublin! University Magazine. Wheat .. ... Ors Barley Malt. Oats . Rye . 247 i 3 ?6 188 I 172 1032 1 2497 24 i 423 125 I 572 1780 7249 gs 360 5529 Beans Qr Pease Qrs ShelledßarleyQrs Indian Corn. Qrs Rapeseed Qrs Oatmeal .. Sacks 4066 Flour. Sacks 6624 412 Ditto Brls. 2033 1 2638 Into Runcorn.—lreland and Coastwise Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats, sacks; Flour, sacks. 4269 300 1 7036 27443 —Wheat, 1777 qrs. rs.; Oatmeal, 13 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley,— qrs. ; Beans. qrs. ; Oats, 145 qrs.; Indian Corn. qrs.; Oatmeal, 1 load ; Flour, 103 buts. —lreland. Wheat, 10 qrs. ; Bar ley, qrs.; Rye, qrs ; Oat;, qrs ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, 0 Ids ; Flour, 0 sks, 10 brls. —Coastwise Wheat, 42 qrs. ; Barley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats qrs. ; Beans, 80 qrs. ; Pease, 15 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 25 ' Indian Corn, 20 qrs. ; Flour, 326 sacks 222 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Jan 27 Wheatis6a. I d. I Barley 325.. 7d.1 Oats 235. Rye 3 Beans.. 3 - s. 6d. j Pease.. 42s Aggregate average of the six weeks 20 loads Wheat 555. 6a Barley3ls. 1 . 0(1.1 Oats 225.2 d. Rye 34<. id SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Ten o'clock. LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT. The petitions of the Grand Junction Railway, for their seven branches, were yesterday declared proved by the committee. In the House of Lords, Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the county of Lancaster, signed by 12,639 persons in favour of protection to agriculture. HOUSE OF COMMONS Mr. CLIFTON presented a petition, signed by 12,000 of the inhabitants of North Lancashire, praying the House to continue protection to agriculture. Sir R. PEEL explained in relation to his reply to the Noble Lord's question the other night as to his answer on the subject of the reduction of the corn duties, that he could find no precedent for the Treasury sanctioning the reduction of the duty on the receipt of the reports. and that, therefore, be could not consent to any reduction on the corn duties until the proposed alteration should become law ; hut so convinced was he of the necessity of proe,reding with the alteration on the corn laws at once that he proposed to proceed with the measure for the alteration of the corn-laws, in preference to any other public measure, and to every other alteration in the tariff, until it should become law. In reply to Mr. M. Phillips, Sir R. PEEL said that if the debate should be adjourned over Tuesday, there would be no alternative but to re sume the debate on Wednesday at twelve and finish it at six. The right hon. baronet also explained that neces sarily there must be an interval between the first and second reading of the Corn Bill, during which he might bring forward other articles in the tariff, but that he would proceed with the Corn Bill with all the speed that the forms of the house would permit. On the motion that the order of the day for the house resolve itself in committee being read, a host of petitions on the corn laws were presented, after which Mr. PHILIP MILES rose to move the amendment of which he had given notice on Friday last, viz., that the house resolve itself into committee that day six months. He admitted the failure of the potato crop in Ireland, but the oat and wheat crops were above the average, and there was no fear of a famine. If there was danger of that he would open the ports. If the pre miers opinions had undergone a change. he should have followed the example of the member for Dorsetshire. He could not see where these changes were to lead, and if these were agreed to, greater would follow which would shake the public credit. (Hear, hear.) The honourable gentleman then proceeded to take a review of the history of our commercial policy since the accession of Sir It. Peel to office, and contend-d that the prosperity of the industrious classes had been owing not to the free trade measures of the government, but to the immense increase of our railway system, which had created a demand for labour, and in conse quence of which the prices of iron had risen enormously —to the cessation of war in India—and to the succession of good harvests, and he believed that much of that pros perity would have taken place if the noble lord opposite had been in power He denied that the amount of exports afforded a fair indication of commercial pros perity. Foreign markets were glutted with our goods. It was the home trade which afforded the finest ele ments for the calculation of the actual amount of our commercial prosperity. With regard to the corn laws, the law of 1842 had worked well ; it had secured steadiness of price, and he would not conQent to its altera tion. The Right Honourable Baronet had said in 1842 that 56s was a fair price for the farmer. He would like to know what he considered a fair price now. The Right Honou, able Baronet said his proposed measure would not lower the price of wheat, what then became of the argu ment of the cheap loaf. Beans.. 365. Ind. I Pease.. 38s. 3d. Duty on Foreign Produce this week Wheati73 Oct I Ifarley Beans 63 6ci 1 Pease . e'd I Oats .. . 6s Od I Rye.. 8s 6d 4s 6d I Ind. Corn Os od Flour.. 9s7id Duty on Canadian Wheat.. is. Od. I Barley—Os. 6d. I Oats .. Os. 6d. I Rye.. Os od Beans Os. 6d j Pease os.6d. j Ind. Corn ls.Od. I Flour . Os 71d Duty on other British Colonial. Wheat.. 4 s. od. Barley.. Os. 6d. I Oats, is. 6d. I Rye... Beans.. os. 6d. I Pease.. os. 6d. I Flour. Is. girl Liverpool Averages, week ending 27th Jan., 1846 Wheat, 2791 qrs., price 52s 6d ; Barley, 29 qrs., price - Oats, 320 qrs., price 255. Bd. ; Fly Beans, 20 qrs., 403. 6d. ; Pease qrs., Os. Od re r a tu rr. ie. POETRY WE SHALL BE HAPPY YET BY THE LATE MRS. JAMES GRAY Fear not, beloved, though clouds may lour, Whikt rainbow visions melt away, Faith's holy star bath still a power Tnat may the de.pest midnight sway. Fear not ! I take a prophet's tone, Our love can neither wane nor set; My heart grows strong in trust — We shall be happy yet ! .1111de Own What though long anxious years have passed Since this true heart was vowed to thine, There comes for us a light at last Whose beam upon our path shall shine. Ye who have loved 'midst doubts and fears, Yet neve- with one hour's regret, There comes a joy to gild our tears — We shall be happy yet. Ay, by the wandering h rds, that find A home beyond the mountain wave, Though many a wave and storm combined To bow them to an ocean grave— By summer suns that brightly rise Though erst in mournful tears they set By all Love's hopeful prophecies, THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. THIRD EDITION. Standard-office, Half-past Twelve o'clock Through the attention and exertions of Mr. Ayl ward, the news-agent, we were put in possession of the London morning papers immediately on their arrival by the express train. Last Night's Parliament.—Continued. ""'Mr. Mutes concluded by deprecating the stimulus sought to be given to manufacturing enterprise, which had already reached far enough. He then proposed, " that the Chairman leave Lie Chair that day six months." Sir W. HEATUCOTE seconded the amendment. He did not join in imputing dishonest motives to Sir Robert Peel, he merely thought the measure proposed a visionary scheme. That scheme was also partial operation acting for the almost exclusive advantage of those engaged in manufacturing pnrsuits. The peculiar burdens to which the agriculturist was exposed, rendered it difficult to afford him adequate com pensation. T:te colonial corn growing interest was dis regarded by the proposed measure. The duty of sup porting Sir ROBERT PEEL as a Conservative Minister, lie admitted, ought to prevent any factious opposition, but the responsibility of embarrassing the relationship between Government and their supporters, properly lay with him who had varied from his original policy. Mr. LASCELLES denied that the Goverment ; had altered their policy. The speeches which Sir Robert Peel had delivered since his elevation to power had uniformly pointed in the direction of Free-trade. The truth of that theory had been made manifest by the constant results of experience, and Sir Robert Peel had merited the gratitude of the country by the measure he had proposed. Lord NOR,REYS had refrained from condemning Sir Robert Peel until his measures were published to the country •, his 'uprise and disapprobation were, however, equal when he first learned the extent of these proposals. It was incredible that the Minister, who in 1839 avowed an unqualified adherence to the Protective System, shall in 1816 propose an entire repeal of that system. His con duct was unfair to both his supporters and opponents. I Mr. B. COCHRANE denied that there was any compro mise of principle in the course pursued by Sir R. Peel. He agreed to the dictum th it " whoever proposed an un alterable law, was an unalterable fool." Parliament was something superior to an assemblage of delegates. There was real inconsistency in the Duke of Richmond and Lord Stanley, who had co-operated to bring about the Revolu tion of 1830, now opposing the repeal of the corn-laws, as a revolutionary measure. Lord North, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Canning, had successively lent their great names to the support of a free-trade policy. He (Mr. Cochrane) should vote for this measure, because he preferred legislation to agitation, and also because he was favourable to the principle of genuine protection. Mr. DEEDES regarded the measure proposed by Go vernment as an experiment upon native industry, fraught with great injury to the country. It would certainly cause the withdrawal of a large tract of land out of culti vation, and diminish the permanent supply of specie in the national coffers. Upon these grounds he should offer it his opposition. Sir JOHN WALSH denied that the Corn-law question was one of rent merely, though that was of no trifling moment. Th, landowners were but a small class, bold ing in a very few hands large territorial possessions. The landed proprietors amounted in 1845, according to Mr. M'Culloch, to two hundred thousand persons. This very numerous body would be affected by what ever injuries a Free-trade policy might inflict. The protective system had been in existen.:e cotempora neously with a great increase in the population, and a great progress in the commerce of the country. Results, therefore, witnessed in its favour. It was only necessary to guarantee security to agriculture, in order to elicit a perfect development of its resources. He contended that land was liable to peculiar burdens. There was no reason to fear a great importation of corn from many parts which at present contributed nothing to our supplies, and at very low rates. The failure of the crops in Ireland had been advanced as a reason for the present measure ; but why should a temporary calamity prompt so great and perma nent a change? The proposed measure would, if adopted, ruin Irish agriculture, and destroy the Protestant Church in Ireland. It had been brought about by an association which every lover of order ought to oppose. Mr. A. J. B. HOPE considered a preliminary inquiry was, whether the existing parliament were morally as well as legally competent to take cognizance of the question of Free-trade or Protection. They had been returned upon principles very different from those which at present held sway in parliament. A revolution in the commercial po licy of the country was being wrought, and the proper persons to carry it would have been the members of the Anti-Corn-law League. Lord SANDON startled the house by declaring that though he disapproved of the scheme proposed by Her Majesty's government, he had made up his mind to vote in favour of it. After stating his objections to the mea sure at some length, he said that he felt that the country must be governed. He found that when opinions hostile to protection had been pronounced by the great leaders on both sides of the house, and that it was now opposed by all the gentlemen who had ever sat in the government except two, it was no longer a matter for discussion; but the only question was the way of doing it. He looked upon it, as the French said, "un fait accompli"—it was settled. It might be railed against, but the country must be governed; and when the only persons who could go vern the country were of one opinion, the sooner it was settled the better it would be for all parties. Lord J. Rossatr, considered it a very impotent argu ment in favour of protection, to allege that it was sanc tioned by the decisions of parliament in former time. The same might be said of various absurdities. The friends of protection had affirmed that it was extended to all pur suits of native industry. Was this the case? Our woollen and other manufactures competed with foreign fabrics abroad; they could therefore hardly benefit by protection at home. The protective system was for thebenefit of one class alone. If it were admitted that the system was erro neous, the great question was, how were we to abandon it ? The results of past reductions in duties had proved bene ficial both to the revenue and to the producer. As Sir R. Peel's me %sure proceeded upon the principle of non-inter ferencewith the pursuits of industry,he was prepared to give it his cordial support. He then examined that part of the ministerial scheme which ordains the gradual reduction of the Corn duties. The iaclinations of the farmers were in favour of immediate repeal, provided that repeal were inevitable. He believed there would be less inconvenience to the English farmer in the change occurring at present than at a future period. This part of the plan he should prefer altered, but at all events h e wo uld support the measure. He recognised the principle of affording compensation to the agricultural body for special tax ation Party motives had restrained many from sup porting free trade measures when introduced by himself, though they now supported them when pro posed by Sir Robert Peel. Had these influences not pre vailed, much misery throughout the country would have been prevented, and Sir Robert Peel's consistency preserved. He and his party intend to pursue a different course, and by the aid they would render, the success of the measure would be ensured, Sir R. H. INGLIS congratulated Lord John Russell upon the triumph he must have derived from the disunion amongst the Conservative ranks. The great object to be attained by a legislature in the matter of food, were a suf ficiency of supply and equability in price. There had been a remarkable equability in the prices of Corn in England compared with other countries. He then argued that the land was subject to special taxation, and particularly in respect to the item of tithe. Sir R. Peel's conversion h4d, he believed, been perfectly honest, nevertheless the sudpenness of it gave cause to suspect the permanence of even his present convictions. The hon. baronet concluded by expressing his intention to support the amendment. After Sir R. Inglis closed his address, Capt. FITZMAU RICE and Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT addressed the house, the former opposing, and the latter in an able speech sup porting the propositions of Sir R. Peel, after which, on the motion of Mr. Stafford O'Brien, the debate was ad journed. CHILDREN. —To see children as they ought to be, you must see them its numerous cocks. The real child is only to be found in a house where you can't set down a foot heedlessly without trampling on one. There they are so much in the way, that people are not allowed to forget them, and they are so many, that none of them can be spoiled by petting. Besides, children make by far the best keepers and companions for each other. A baby in its bascinet, trying to rest on its feet, while propping its little hands on the rim, or reaching over to catch some- thing, is enough to outwear the patience of the most pat tern nurse-maid ; but i.et a little creature of two or three years old, the quiet and gentle one of the family, to watch the baby, and, proud of the commission, it never tires. The baby, too, is more amenable to its tiny coercion, when seeking to break bounds. Such a group is the only beau tiful emblem of the power that love imparts to human weakness. When the blind is imagined directing the lame, while the lame carries the blind, the picture is pain ful and humiliating; but there is no such alloy in the pic ture of an elf, only half emerged from babyhood, keeping baby from hurting itself while the baby supplies the place of a plaything. Or perhaps it is a gallant unbreeched boy who takes upon him the guardianship of a sister some twelve moons his senior. How soon the lord of the creation" shows himself in the male. There is a mis chievous, laughing self-confidence in an urchin of two years, that girls never attain. If any other class of intel ligent existence have it in their power to contemplate human beings, the most inexperienced among them must at once have a presentiment that in the baby-boy, they behold a creature whose will is to be law to himself and others. A nursery-maid, when children who are verging towards the transition epoch at which the child passes into the bov or girl prove unusually stubborn , _ sometimes threatens to leave the m . Let the experiment b e tried, and it is ten to one that the culprit, if a girl, looks on while t'-e bonnet and shawl are being pinned, balf-incredulous, half. anxious, that her younger sister is dissolved in tears, and that while baby keeps crowing utterly unconscious of what is passing, little master, with a pout on his lip and a frown on his brow, doggedly sets his back against the door to prevent egress, and says nothing. In girl-children, the intellect develops itself more rapidly than in boy-children ; but the character is much earlier pronounced in the male. This may be the reason why we always find in the nursery pairings off, a brother and sister keeping themselves some what apart from the rest. Where there are two, one must go before; either the elder girl has not the talent of lead ing, or the younger feels instinctively that she has no au thority over her by divine right. The boy takes the lead unconsciously, and yet, as in after life, the girl has per haps more influence over him than be over her.—Tait. PHENOMENA OF SOUND. — In the Arctic regions per sons can converse at more than a mile distant when the thermometer is below zero. In air, sound travels from 1130 to 1142 feet per second. In water, sound passes at the rate of 4708 feet per second. Sound travels in air about 900 feet for every pulsation of a healthy person at 75 in a minute. A bell sounded under water may be heard under water at 1200 feet distant. Sounds are dis tinctat twice the distance on water that they are on land. In a balloon, the barking of dogs on the ground may be heard at an elevation of three or four miles. On Table Moun tain, a mile above Cape Town, every noise in it, and even words, may be heard distinctly. The fire of the English on landing in Egypt was plainly heard 130 miles on the sea. Dr. Jameson says, in calm weather he heard every word of a sermon at a distance of two miles. Water is a better conductor of sound than air. Wood is also a powerful conductor of sound, and so is flannel or riband. Sound affects particles of dust in a sunbeam, cobwebs, and water in musical glasses ; it shakes small pieces of paper off a string in concord. Deaf persons may converse through deal rods held between the teeth, or hell to the throat or breast. Echoes are formed by elliptical surfaces combined with surrounding surfaces, or by such of them a; fall into the respective distances of the surface of an ellipse, and are therefore directed to the other focus of the ellipse ; for all the distances from both foci to such surface are equal, and hence there is a concentration of sounds at those points direct from one focus, and reflected back again from the other focus. An echo returns a monosyl lable at 70 feet distance, and another syllable for every 40 feet additional. The echo of artillery is increased or created by a cloud or clouds. Miners distinguish the sub stance bored by the sound ; and physicians distinguish the action of the heart or lungs by a listening tube. Gam blers can distinguish, in tossing money, which side is un dermost, though covered by the hand.—Hogy's Weekly Instructor. PROGRESS OF MUSIC IN ENGLAND.—The prevailing notion that music, as a science and as an art, has now reached a height far beyond that of any former age, is a mischievous error, of which it would be well that the world were disabused. Because music has always been chang ing, it has been taken for granted that it has always been advancing ; but these changes have often been the reverse of progressive —the mere dictates of caprice and fashion, they have often substituted ignorance and frivolity for depth, learning, and earnestness. In this country, doubt less, musical accomplishment as it is called—the smatter ing, that is, which all young ladies, and many young gen tlemen, acquire from fashionable teachers, is more widely diffused than it ever was before. But it is equally certain that there were days, in the olden time, when the educated classes in England were much better instructed in music than they are now. In the days of Queen Bess, know ledge of the principles of the art, and skill in its practice, were so generally diffused among these classes, that any lady or gentleman who betrayed an ignorance of it was re garded as low-bred, and unfit to make a decent figure in good company. * * The books which, " according to custom, were brought to the table" when supper was ended, consisted of the works of the great English and Italian madrigalists of that time—those wonderful speci mens of vocal harmony which (like the sculptures of an cient Greece) modern art has vainly attempted to imitate, and whose performance demands an extent of instruction very different from that which is included in the musical accomplishment of our day. Compare one of those old English suppers with a modern musical party. One young lady, who has had what might be a decent patrimony spent on music masters, sits down to the piano -forte, and boldly attacks the last fantasia of Thalberg ; another fa. yours the company with an entirely new leading of Grisi's favourite bravura in Donizetti's ne v opera. Their efforts are lost am , d the clatter of tongues ; for it generally hap pens that music (and with such music, how can it be otherwise ?) is a signal for conversation, except, peradven ture, to some unfortunate wight, who, constrained by po liteness or some other motive, listens. like Pope, With sad civility, and an aching head, and then loads the fair exhibitor with a profusion of com pliments, extravagant in proportion to their insincerity. It is not among the higher classes only that music is thus abused and converted into an actual social nuisance. Fa shion has a downward tendency : " the toe of the peasant galls the kibe of the courtier ; " and there is hardly any class of society, however humb le, which does not attempt to emulate the modes and amusements which prevail in the gilded saloons of the great.—Daily News. SIR JAMES GRAHAM'S BITTERNESS TOWARDS HIS OPPONENTS.-Sir James Graham has made enemies of almost every parry in the legislature. It has not been because he has opposed them from time to ti oe, for other men who are much more p , pultir have for many years done so more effectually. But it has been on account of the extreme virulence of his opposition. His fighting has always been a l'outrance. lie has been too prone to dis dain the courtesies of political warfare ; fictions though they be, yet agreeable ones and humanising. He has always appeared to import his passions into party con flicts, as thou h he were not merely fighting the battle of opinions, but also maintaining his own personal quarrel: And yet he has never succeeded in impressing one with the idea of his being in earnest. That would have ren dered pardonable. language otherwise too severe. His harangues while in opposition, and indeed all his party speeches, rather seem the elaborate efforts of one having little real sympathy with the themes he is discussing or the views he is urging, but who has worked himself up to a state of fictitious enthusiasm or moral indignation, in order the more effectually to gratify political vindic tiveness, or advance personal ambition, by obtaining the applause of audiences willing to be misled under cover of those high-sounding pretences. But, whether simulated or teal, some of the speeches here more particularly re ferred to—and to .which, it must be added. no one could listen without being struck with admiration at their bold ness, skill, and sustained energy—were scarcely recon cilable with that liberal and charitable interpretation of the motives of opponents. which is one of the first duties of public men to each other. Nor has Sir James Graham, while conducting his combats in this spirit, been at all choice in the weapons he used. Any missive that came to hand was hurled indiscriminately at the foe. No epi thet, however heavy its imputation (always, of course, saving that it is parliamentary) ; no taunt, however bitter or exasperating, whether to individuals, to parties, to opinions, or even to whole nations; no general charge, however grave as against the pol.cy of a party, or however damnatory of the motives of his opponents in their coun cils or their conduct; and, finally, no manoeuvre that could by any stretch of license be accounted not incon sistent with parliamentary honour, even to the extent of partial statements of opponents' opinions, or partial quo tations or withholdings of justificatory matter ; not one such expedient, however little to be approved in fair and free public discussion, by which a temporary triumph could be won, or a rival for the hour put down, was ever rejected by Sir James Graham from any delicacy of tem perament ; or from any high and fastidious sense of ho nour, such as restrains some men from grasping the vic tory which is theirs on such conditions ; or even from that constitutional love of fair play and open, standup fight ing which is the Englishman's boast, and which is covertly the guiding principle in all the debates in parliament.— " Contemporary Orators," in Fraser's Magazine. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF fHE WAR BETWEEN BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE VIDEO.—GeDEfaI Rivera was the first President of the Banda Oriental. He was elected in 1831, after the Orientales had got rid of the Buenos Ayrean and Brazilian armies. His terms of office expired in 1835, and by his influence one of his offi cers, D. M. Orihe, was elected his succe ,, sor. Rivera had been no friend to Rosas, President of Buenos Ayres. He had refused in 1831 to deliver up such of the Unita rians as had sought refuge in Monte Video. Oribe, on the contrary, not only proscribed those men at the re quest of Rosas, but formed a plan for destroying the in dependence of his country by annexing to it the Argen tine Confederation. This was in 1836 The national party took the alarm, and Rivera. whom Oribe had at tempted to deprive of the employment as Commander in -Chief, putting himself at the head at those disaffected to the government, obtained possession of the whole country, except the lower towns of Monte Video and Paysandie, to both of which he laid seige about the months of August and September, 1838 Soon after Orihe made a formal renunciation of his presidency, which being accepted by the congress, he retired into private life in Buenos Ayres. Rivera was elected Pre sident in 1839; Oribe in the meantime having protested formally against the validity of his act of abdication Unhappily, the new President was persuaded by the French, then blockading Buenos, to declare war against Rosas, under pretence that he had abetted the intrigues of Oribe; but in 1840, when that great power adjusted its quarrel, "nothing was done about the auxiliary war declared by against, who was thus left to his own re sources and the effects of the folly which till French hail all but forced him to commit." Oribe thenceforward entered the service of General Rosas, assisting him in all his wars, and styling himself the legal president of the Uraguav republic, although he wears the Buenos Arean badge of servitude, a portrait of General Rosas, stitched on his coat, on a red merino ground, surrounded by a motto, " Death to the savage Unitarianos." This is also inscribed on the flag of the despot; which once, and we hope once only, at the house of a British minister, min gled i s folds with those of the banner of St. George. Without this portrait, and this device no person in the dominions of Rosas may enter a church, establish a school, fill any public office, or serve in the army. Even the Uraguay officers who have joined Otibe must tarnish their honour by wearing it, or pay for the forfeit of their lives. Oribe, then, las Rosa's general, entered the Banda Oriental ; and of the horrors of that warfare General O'Brien enables us to judge. He says, "At the time that Orihe invaded the Banda Oriental with the army and the Masorca commissioners of Rosas, I was then residing on my estate in the country. 1 am aware of wretches being staked into the ground forty•eight hours before their heads were naffed, not cut off; of the lasso being flung over person's necks, and then dragged by a horse at full speed, until life became extinct ; of spikes being driven into the mouths of human beings, and they, whilst living, thus nailed to trees !" After various fortunes of war, Rivera, in 1842, addressed a note to the govern ment of Rosas, requiring him to abstain from marching a fresh army into the Oriental territory. The Monte Videans at this took heart, strengthened their defences, enrolled their citizens, liberated and armed their slaves, and prepared to resist the land and naval forr,es already investing their city. But Rosas paid not the smallest at tention to the requirements of the representatives of Britain. His troops marched on as before, and Mr. Van deville, fearful of having already exceeded his instruc tions, did not even lift up his voice in protest against this insult to his Sovereign. Not so Commotiore Purvis, who, in the Alfred Frigate, had come from Rio Janeiro to support, if need were, the representations of diplo macy, by a show of British guns. Thus have matters re mained up to the present year, when toe British and French governments, undertaking at all risks to restore the blessings of peace to the Banda Oriental, have sent troops to compel the bands of Rosas to retire. This at their bidding he is unwilling to do, preferring to trust to the natural defences of his country in the event of hos tilities with the two great powers.— Union Magazine. DEFECTJVE VENTILATION A CAUSE OF INTEMPE RANCE.—Dr. D. B. Reid, who has turned his attention to this topic, informs us that " defective ventilation re ducing the power of oxygenating the blood and sustaining the temperature, produces a morbid condition, which di minishes the relish for, and power of digesting plain food: unnatural stimuli, such as ardent spirits, are required to excite the languid circulation." In consonance with this opinion, we find many lamentable facts. A visit to some of the larger workshops in London and some of the ma nufacturing towns, would instantly lessen our wonder at the dissipated habits of the men, and explain the reason why certain classes of operatives are more intemperate than others. The pent up and polluted air, exhausted of all moisture, or floating with particles of dust, has a de pressing effect on the nervous energies of the men, and proves an almost irresistible provocative to the use of ar dent spirits and other strong drinks. At the risk of being somewhat personal, and that we may not be suspected of dealing in vague generalities, we condescend on two classes of tradesmen, who, on inquiry, were found to be more dissipated than others from this very cause—we mean flax dressers and tailors. Of the former we can testify from our own observation, that, while there are many honour able exceptions, as a class Viey are the most addicted to intemperance of any in those districts where flax-spinning is prevalent. Yet they have no worse example and no greater temptations before them than other operatives ; but then they live in an atmosphere both dry and dusty— literally loaded with particles of flax. Let this evil be re medied or removed, and we are persuaded the craving for stimulants would be greatly diminished. With respect to tailors as a class,' we submit the following extracts from the Report on the Sanatory Condition of the Labouring Population :—Thomas Brownlow worked eight years at Messrs. Allen's, Old Bond-street, London. There were from eighty to a hundred men in a room sixteen yards long and eight yards wide, close together, nearly knee to knee. The heat was twenty degrees higher than outside. The heat and smell were intolerable. I have known young men faint away. It had a very depressing effect on the energies. Many could not stay out the hours. The na tural effect of the depression was that we had recourse to drink as a stimu!ant. Gin was the first thing used in the morning at seven o'clock, an hour after beginning work. Gin and beer at eleven o'clock! Beer and gin at three o'clock ; and gin and beer at five o'clock !—five times in one day ! In answer to the query—" After work was there any drinking ?" the same person says, " Yes ; nearly all the young men went to the public-house, and some of the others." Here, then, was literally a hot-house for rearing drunkards! Other facts and statistics in abun dance are at 'hand to prove that the same tradesmen in rural districts working by themselves, or only two or three together, in cooler places, are not specially addicted to drinking.—Hogg's Weekly Instructor. SUMMARY OF THE CHARACTER OF LORD BACON.— _ Patted on the head by Queen Elizabeth—mocking the worshippers of Aristotle at Cambridge—catching the first glimpses of his great discoveries, and yet uncertain whe ther the light was from heaven—associating with the learned and gay at the Court of France—devoting himself to Bracton and the Year Books in Gray's-inn—throwing aside the musty folios of the law to write a moral essay, to make an experiment in natural philosophy, or to detect the fallacies which had hitherto obstructed the progress of useful truth—contented for a time with taking " all knowledge for his province"—roused from these specula tions by the stings of vulgar ambition—playing all the arts of flattery to gain official advancement by Royal and Courtly favour—entering the House of Commons, and displaying powers of oratory of which he had been un conscious—being seduced by the-love of popular applause, for a brief space becoming a patriot—making amends by defending all the worst excesses of prerogative—publish ing to the world lucubrations on morals which show the nicest perception of what is honourable and beautiful, as well as prudent, in the conduct of life—yet, the son of a Lord Keeper, the nephew of the Prime Minister, a Queen's counsel, with the first practice at the bar, arrest ed for debt, and languishing in a sponging -house—tired with vain solicitations to his own kindred for promotion, joining the party of their opponent, and, after experien cing the most generous kindness from the young and chivalrous head of it, assisting to bring h'm to the scaf fold, and to blacken his memory—seeking, by a merce nary marriage, to repair his broken fortunes—on the ac cession of a new Sovereign offering up the most servile adulation to a pedant whom he Jtterly despised—infinitely gratified by being permitted to kneel, pith 230 others, to receive tire honour of knighthood—truckling to a worth less favourite with the most slavish subserviency, that he might be appointed a law officer of the Crown—then giving the most admirable advice for the compila:ion and emendation of the laws of England, and helping to inflict torture on a poor parson, whom he wished to hang as a traitor for writing an unpublished and unpreached sermon —attracting the notice of all Europe by his philosophical works, which established a new era in the mode of inves ii;ating the phenomena both of matter and mind—basely intriguing in the meanwhile for further promotion, and writing secret letters to his Sovereign to disparage his rivals—riding proudly between the Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal, preceded by his mace-bearer and purse-hearer, and followed by a long line of nobles and judges, to be instal'ed in the office of Lord High Chan cellor—by-and-by, settling with his servants the account of the bribes they had received for him—a little embar rassed by being obliged out of decency, the case being so clear, to decide against the party whose money he had pocketed, but stifling the misgivings of conscience by the splendour awl flattery which he now commanded—struck to the earth by ►he discovery of his corruption—taking to his bed arid refusing sustenance—confessing the truth of the charges brought against him, and abjectly imploring mercv—nobly rallying from his disgrace, and engaging in .new literary undertakings, which have added to the splen dour of his name—still exhibiting a touch of his ancient vanity, and, in the midst of pecuniary einbarras-rnent=, refusing to he " stripped of his featbers."—Campbell's Lives of Chancellors. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE IST FEBRUARY, 184 "From Cothurn's United Service Mugazin [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist LifeGuards—Hyde Park 140 th —Bengal; Dover. 2nd Ditto—Windsor. 41st—Dublin. Royal H.Guards—lignt's Park. 42d—Malta ; Isle of Wight. Ist Dragn Gds.—Exeter. Reserve batt., Malta 2d—Dublin 43d—Halifax ; Dover. 3d—Ballincollig 44th—Dublin. 4th—Edinburgh. 45th--Cape of Good Hope, I.W sth—Nottingham. Reserve batt.. M.Video 6th—Manchester. 46th—Canada ; Armagh 7th—C. G. Hope, Maidstone. 47th—Chester. Ist Dragoons—Dundalk. 48th—Jamaica; Kilkenny. 2d—Dublin 49th—Athlone. 3d—Bengal ; Maidstone 50th—Bengal ; Chatham. 4th—Hounslow. 51st—Van D. Land ;* Chatham oth—Birmingham. 52d—Quebec ; Brecon. 7th Hussars—lpswich 53d—Bengal; Chatham. Sth—Longford 54th—Gibraltar—Fermoy 9th Lancers—Bengal ; !Midst. 55th—Devonport. 10th Hussars—York. 56th—Bury, (Lancashire.) 11th Hus-ars —Dublin. 57th—Madras ; Chatham. 12th Lancers— Coventry.. 58th —N.S. Wales; Chatham. 13th Light D'goons—Cahir. 59th—Leeds. :4th—Bombay ; Maidstone. 60th(lst batt.)—Bombay; Chat 15th Hussars—Madras; M'ston (24 batt.)—Canada ; Paisley. 16th Lan&rs—Bengal, Maidstn (list—Bengal; Chatham. 17th Lancers—Brighton 624—Bengal ; Chatham. Grenadier Guards, , Ist batt.) 63d—Madras ; Chatham. Wel ington Barr. 64th—Dublin. (2d batt.)—Windsor. 65th—Chatliam.4 (3d batt.)—St. George's Barr. 66th—Gibraltar ; Clare Castle Coldstream Guards, (I st batt.) 67th Templemore. Portman.st. Barr. 68th— Weedon. (24 batt)—Tower. 69th—Weedon. Scotch FusileerGrds—(lst batt) 70th—Durham. f W St. J ohn's Wood (2d batt.)—Winchester. Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar, Nenneh. (2dbatt.)Barbados; Glasgow. 2d Foot—Bombay ; Chiche ter 3d—Winchester. 4th—Madras; Chatham. sth—Enniskillen. 6th—Mulliogar. 7th—Batbadoes ; Naas. Bthe—Port mouth. gth—Bengal; Chatham. N. Wales. Chatham. Mauritius; Isle Wight. Reserve bait., Mauritius 13th—Walmer. lath—Canada; Plymouth. 15th—Ceylon ; Waterford. 16th—Gibraltar; Buttevant. 17th —Bombay ; Chatham. Nth—China ; Chatham. 19th—Barbadoes ; Carlow. Antigua Reserve batt.. Canada 72d —Gibraltar ; Templemore. 73d —Cape of Good Hope. lath —Gosport. 75th—Birr. 76th— M a Chester. 77th—Jamaica Templemore. 78th —Bombay ; Chatham. 7gth—Gibraltar ; Be.terbut. BUth—Bengal ; Chatham 81st—Canada ; Jersey. 82d—Canada; Kinsale 'B4th—Madras; Chatham. 85th*— St. Vincent Newry 86th—Bombay ; Chatham 87th—Aberdeen. 88th—Malta ; Boyle. syth—Canada ; 90th—Ceylon ; 91st—Cape otGood Hope; I.ofW Re'serve batt., C. G.llov )2(l —Edinburgh. . .. 20th—Bermuda ; Isle of W4IR Reserve batt.. Bermuda 21st—Madras; Chatham. 22d—Itunmay ; Chatham. 23d—Trinidad ; Isle of Wight Reserve batt., Cauadal 24th—Cork 25th—Madras ; Chatham. 26th—Belfast. 27th—CapeG Hope ; Guernsey 28th-13omhay ; Chatham. 29th—Bengal ; Chatham. 30th—Castlebar. 31st—Bengal; Chatham. 32d—Athlone. 33d-14. Brunswick ; Clonmel. 34th—Corfu ; Cashel 351h—Mauritius : Charles Fort, 36th—Newcastle-upon-Tyne 37th—Newport. 38th—Jamaica; London !erry. 39th—Bengal ; Chatham. * On passage to England. Embarking for 93d—Canada; New 94th—Aden ; Chatham 95th—Ceylon ; Tratee. 86th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham. g7th—Corfu ; Isle of Wight. Reserve ',att.. Cephalonia. gsth—China ; Chatham. ggth—N. S. Wales ; Chatham. Rifle B (istb.)—Corfo ; tui batt.)-11alifax,N.S.,IsleW Reserve batt., H alifax, N. S Ist W. I. Regt.—Jamaica. 2nd—Nassau. 13d—Dernera. Sierra Leone, &c Ceylon Rifle Regt.—Ceylon. day, aged 31 t Under orders for Bengal New South Wales. THEATRE-ROYAL, WILLIAMSON - SQUARE.—We had three splendidly-filled houses a! this theatre on Thursday, Friday, and last night; the attraction being the acting of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. To-niyht, it will be seen, the latter takes her benefit. EVANS'S RESTORATIVE BALSAM.—By reference to our first rage, it will be seen that Mr. Coupland, of Parker-street; is now sole manufacturer of this excellent article. 'Those who suffer from loss or insufficiency of hair should try this restorative, as within cur own obser vance we have known more than one case where its effects were most efficacious TH EATftE-R OY A L , CHURCH-STREET.—The perfor mances continue to he of a varied and attractive character. The benefit of Mr. Shuttleworth, the box-keeper, whose affability and anxiety to accommodate the public must by this time be duly appreciated, is fixed for Thursday even• ing• Mr. Holloway, whose acting as clown in the panto mime will he remembered, takes his benefit this evening. DESTRUCTION OF VERMIN.—As the dwelling-houses of Liverpool —as in most seaport town.--are nearly all in fested with cockroaches, and other vermin, it will be gratifying to the occupants to learn that they may be re moved for a charge of threepence. Mr. Purnell, of Liver court, advertises in our paper to-day, a preparation which is strongly recommended by printed testimonials—and which instantly destroys these abominable nuisances. ars, Ralph, eldest son c lii” ladlall.P. 1•111,V .A.U6 . --, aLutua. cam, 'Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape Ell i s, Warrington. 90 I of Good Hope. tit" Companies—Newfoundland On the 2nd instant, aged Sti years, Harriet, secon d _ . ,4 ,Royal Newfoundland Veteran Ed Royal Malta Fencibles, Malta. of Mr. Joseph Tollitt. Warrington. years,Sam e jo d h a n y, ‘N a ,a t it h c : n s L re e , a i f d , c E n s c q e . , near 1.3 mm, Cheshire, .110 St. Helena Reg-t.—St. Helena. Wigg, Wavertree. Same day, in her 21st year, Mary Ann, wife of Mr' Same dly. at Runcorn, a m fOlnr . SOD rl ged 23 years Ravenscroft, chain-cable and anch.Or-smith, Runcorn' Same day, at her residence, Vine-street, relict of the late Thomas Roberts, of BrownloW-h u .„, s . On the 3rd instant, Betsey, the wife of T11 0 "' Vii marble-mason, Finch-street. 44, 0 , same day, aged A yenrs, Captain John Bowden , o i road, deeply regretted. rrO, f e :4 .l Same day, at Paris, aged 55, Senor Maximo L..a 1 00/ 0 Minister Plenipotentiary to Franc'. lie Was for ber e attached to the Mexican embassy in London , - So e much respected. the Same day at Dublin, Joshua Abel, a member of Friends aged. es l'e°4l Ali On the 4th instant. James, youngest son of Mr. Ja ill- 4 bu Same day, Mr. John Craig, l a t e co lour-sergean t - ie lf reg s i a n in ie e nt d . ay. in Great Newton-street, aged 1 7 r°°° ~,tWb ° tePt of tV son ut Mr. T. R. J ac k son. On Same day, in his 73rd year, Mr. W. Barnard, ac c ; B os. q.,0, Globe Insurance Offic e f rom it s csta bli s hment. i, n .,iell,g'" On the sth insta n t , Th omas, only son o f A. M"""i t ed u" - tIA Same day, aged 55, M r. J o h n V ena bl e s, of tne to, Christlet:m, near Chester. late S a mni m r e e. day dway,r, .a i n . ri Harrison, her i. i68 7 70 0 ,n t h oft year, h isM Elizabeth,t Mrs. Agnes relictnA town. ne o s te# 4 0 te M r ' I ge' , ~ of lst e roci Morgan. Of t e li eer h es, 0.- On the 7th instant, aged 56, Mr. Edward Hug__,., co str O ee n t t . he 6th instant, aged 79, Mr. John Fasakene, ' e - t o way Castle, Hackin's-hey, for twenty five Y.' servant to John Bent, Esq., brewer. ;t a t rieril:3l3' o°l°' Feb. 10, 1846•- /flarriages aiib Brad's. BIRTHS. On the 4th ultimo, at N o . 3 . St . M ary ' s-place, Ed g e' h ill , 11 $' David Thom, of a daughter. On the 28th ultimo, at M ar k e t -s t reet, Ulverstone, the W ife Mr. William Nowlan, of a son. On the Ist instant, at Curzon-street, London, the HOD. g ee ' George Hope, of a son. tre l. • Same day, at the noble ma rqu i s ' s res id ence, i n Wilton cent, London, the Marchinness of Bradford. of a son. On the 2nd instant, at Burwash, Sussex, the wife of the P l ' John Turner, of a son. On the 3rd instant, at 11, Sh aw - s t ree t , t h e w ir e of G. 5 - Bsi leras, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th instant, at Oxford street, the wife of the Be crt C. Griffith, of a son. Same day, in Duke-street. Mrs. N. Shannon, of a son. On the sth instant, at Belle Vue House, Wavertree, the : of J. J. Hand. Esq. of a son; since dead. Same day, in Park.street, ( , rosvenor square, London, IN tr Graham, of a (laughter. On the Bth inst. at Claughton Firs, Mrs. Cole of a son- MARRIED I ately, at Leeds, Mr. Thomas Redfern, of the Butchers' M D* to Miss Charlotte Blake, both of Douglas, Isle of Man. e are On the 31st ultimo. at St. Ge orge ' s ch urc h . H .nov er-scl r London, Robert, youngest son of the late Mr. Heinrich Dn mann. of Chelsea. to M ar y J ane , e ld est daughter o f the ' ll.- John E. Brand, Esq., of Westbourne, Harrow-road. J Iron Same day, at St. Pa , eras New Church, London, James Syer. EECI of New Bridge street, Blackfriars, to Etheler' — Sophia. daughter of the late William He,ry Chambers, gs q' et, Same day, at St. Catharine C ree Ch urc h , Leadenhall-stre— London, by the Rev. I. J. G e lli ng , C apta i n E. Tay l or , of: E.Z. ship Similah, to Hannah G eorg i ana, daughter o f Mr. w Messam, Aldgate. Same day, at Great George street Chapel. Mr. Arthur Je nl6 Stephens. Penryn, Cornwall, to Saab Georgians, third dam ter of Mr. Charles Morris. 0/1 Same day, at the Parish Chu rc h, L y th am, Ri c h a rd I 0 Livesey, Esq.. Crabtree House, B r i n dl e, to Mary, clang llter John Lodge, Esq.. Ea, e. near Lancaster. On the Ist insta t, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Edwin Salt _l Miss Sarah, second daughte r o f t h e late Mr. Edwin -kw'. watchmaker, Holywell, Flintshire. Moo t. pleasant, Same day, at the Wesleyan A ssoc i a ti on Chapel, •••° of, pleasant, Burnley. by the Rev. Mr. Gilchrist, of Bactlih Simon Carter, cotton.dealer, &c., to Miss Margaret Harglea . l daughter of the late Mr. Hargreaves, calico-printer, ClithereV' Same day, at St. John the B a pti st ' s Ch urch, b y t h e Rev' of ITassall, Esq., to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Canis, Esq' t 'roxteth Park. On the 2nd instant, at Crosto n Ch urc h , b y the Re v.'.. Lip ter, Mr. John Evans. of Live r p oo l, t o M argaret, daughter o f Richard Norris. Lines Walton. g, fp Same day, at St. Pier's Ch u r c h, Ch ester, b y the Rev. ' A — b( Taylor, Mr. James Bell, bre wer , t o M rs. Ann Paeasey, b°`' Chester. Same day, by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, Mr. Brownbill to g ill° Sarah Anne. e dest daughter of the late Mr. Thomas ‘T.' both of this town. rai• On the 3d instant, at the Crescent Chapel, by the Re ° ,4o, Thomas, Mr. Edward Price J ones, l ate of Wrexham , to o' youngest daughter of Mr. Ri c h ar d Wi l li ams, of Great Me rsei street, Kirk dale Same day, at Farndon,by the Rev. Mr. Piccup, John M'Greg e -- "- E q., surgeon, Weaverham, to Ell en, d aughter of the l a te IS Mille(, Esq., of Farndon. da d Same day, at Renshaw- s t ree t Ch apel, Mr. James 1-170-_,O, Rawlins, Syddall Cottage, near Wrexham, to Harriet 1.0 youngest daughter of G. L. Cox, Esq., of Spring-bank, Ws hreck Same day, at Trinity Church, M ary l e b one, London, by by J 0 Rev. Richard Vevers, M.A., R ec t or of Cubley, the Bev' 00 Geo' ge Beresford, youngest son o f t h e late Admiral Sir J 0• Poo Bcresford. I art., t o th e H onou r able Caroline A'"` youngest daughter of the Rigl.t Honourable Lord Denms n 's, Same day, at St. Geor ge ' s C h urch, Hanover-square, IA)"e reel by the Rev. W. H. Dick enson, 8.C.L., Marianna, 3,0%g, daughter of the late Capt a i n B r id ge, of Calcutta and Chette c E. 1., a d of Elie. Fifeshire, to M. Dillon, Fitzeerald, Bloomsbury, and Turlongh. county of Roscommon. C. Same day, at the Ch urc h o f S t. Mary, Bryanston.squaret. V4l don, Viscount Curzo n , son of Earl Howe, to Miss Harriet Sturt. second daughter of Mr. H. C. and Lady Charlotte S" and niece of the Fart of Cardigan. On the 4th instant, in Monkstown Church. by the Rev. t he Atkinscn, rector of Claddagh, county of Carlow, brother O tf of bridegroom, Charles Atki nson, Esq., of Green Hall, couVrie, Armagh, to Rebecc a S ara h , only child of the late Henry ''"the E,q , of Montpellier Parade, county of Dublin, and niece t° Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Cork. Same day. at St. George's Church. Everton, by the ri% b " eth W. Ewbank, Mr. Tho mas D av i es, t tilor, to Miss Eliza,, or Jones, youngest da ug ht er o f the late Mr. Daniel Jones, bo this town. t °. Same day, at the U n it ar i an Chapel, Gee Crocs, Manrb es s by the Bev. J. Brook s, T. B. Potter, Esq., son of the I rrole Thomas Potter, to Mary, dau g ht er o f S. Ashton, Esq., °' Bank. DIED Lately, at Stanley-place. Ch ester, Miss Elizabeth Veneabl of, Lately, at his seat in Inland, in the 71st year of hii age' Admiral , amuel C. Rowl, y. ..„geft At skipton. aged Si years, M rs. Eli zaheth Cockshott, ri:80 daughter of the late Thomas Cockshott, Esq., of Marley , Bingley, Yorkshire. O f Lately, at Milton, Somerset, aged lON Betty Ryden• decea,el possessed all her faculties up to the time of her & Ivo ately, at Mr. Crosby' s, b utc h er, Kitkdale, aged 18, Mr• of Hamby, eldest son of the late Mr. H. Horoby, former" Huyton. 'll o i Lately, at Birley, near Bradford, age d 97 4 years, .-I'.odo. Verity, retaining his ment a l f acu lti es up to t h e l ast P e'l his life. Lately, at the residence of hi s ) d aug ht er, W illow . c oWe West Derby, aged g 3 years, Charles Stewart, Esq., of T o o(: m ire, re, King's County, Ireland ; a gen tl eman throughout # a lo of life universally beloved and re s p ec t e d , and one of the las t the old volunteers of '62. 4 , On the 29th of Octobe r , a t L' ;e k now, East Indies, ageAltple months, Egerton Smith, i n f an t son of Captain Bracken, ° of, • 9th Bengal Native Infantry, and grandsJn of the Itit' Egerton Smith, of this town Ann Irvia, 0 On the 4th ultimo, at Annan, aged 101, Mrs On the 18th ultimo, a t A u B ar bi n, depae Loireement dela .1 00 Inferieure, France, in hi s 8 1s t year, F reder i c k Terry, Esq* of Finsbury-place. London. A tO On the 16th Dec em b er. at Demerara, by falling overboar d °( barque Mary. aged 15 y ears and g months, Alfred, third 01' Mr James Carrot, of this town. rJ•ciff e On the 3rd ultimo, a t C arraccls, South America, Sir Macgregor. On the 1 th ultimo, at Mylor, aged 85 years. Mr. J. .1 tbe This veteran was the last survivor of th e ga ll ant crew ?,iptf Antelope packet, of which lie wai boatswai n , w h en i n IS 'err took the French schoone r , p r i vateer, Ata ' anta. All the OP officers being killed. he t oo k the command, and per°,3sll/ %et , lashed the schooner's yardarm to the rigging of the P! c b orit c uring winch he had three shots through his hat, but V" injury to himself. Same day. Mrs Simpson, of Stanhope-street, relict of the' Captain E Simpson, of this port. cits On the 22nd ultimo, at Marseilles, M; Casselle, surgel e sil board the Osiris packet. H e was se i ze d w i th a pain i n the ef• when walking on th e d ec k , an d was taken to his cab n. ired almost immediately. Same day, aged 54, Mr. Evan Thomas, grocer, Sten b stro.eet.the Toxteth- 23rd ultimo, w' de e ( 1 aged 9 yes, Prince William Fre vi Nicholas Albert, only s on o f P r i nce Frederick, and nephe the King of Holla n d. Ad el' Same day, aged 42, Mr. Joseph Roberts, boat-builder , RO soonri the .atreet2'sth ultimo, at his re s id ence, Copley Hill, in "400°' year of his age, Mr. Willi am Wi lkinson, youngest son of la Wilkinson, neson, day, E his in or S 6 t B i t le h yb y r e i a d r g . e m . Same day. in her 91st year, Margaret , Douglas. Isle of Man. e l f " T. Faulkner, of Hale. .. c go pl On the 27th ultimo. at Speke, aged 61 years, Sarah, ' the late Mr. George Bramall. ,rer f • jf Same day, aged Si, Susan, wife of Mr. J. Dearden, ° ., e d stead. Rossendale. Her immediate descendants cornig i '„ n d chiitlren, 114 grandchildren, 125 great grandchildren , great great-grandchildren. making a total of 260. ?Pe Same day, at the Maiden's-bower, Knowsley, aged 7 3 ' c 0111,4 Gre n, for upwards of thirty years schoolmaster in tna t t, !E r , On the 24th ultimo, at Charlton, in the county of g e " e aSt` a ß re n t b . e r r e t li C ct re o e f r, th f e orm .. e t a 74 years, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William MO K.C.H , late Inspector-General of Fortifications. ..,,yr! Same day, at Manche s t er. su dd en l y, Mr. G . Cocks, tnnlle' the representative of the house of Cocks and Co music"' London. On thi twenty. tI tjae I°l Mr. Marshall, for - 29th ultimo, at Calais, , . .......•,.. ~,,i,:scat caL tuat, Mill. C. ..,,t 0' ,o On the 3' th ulti mo , a t W orcester, Mrs. Yeomans, re li c a' Rev. W. R. Yeomans., DAL, Rector of Bucknell, 00 5 p 0 ,4 Warndon, Worcestersh ir e. Same day. at the Rectory House, Donhead St. AndreVoll Mary Cecilia. second daught er o f th e Revth..er t4 ~P °lo Same day, aged 54 years, M r . W i lli am S au oers, John and Miss Saunders, of the Theatre-Royal, an d Jr 35 years Saunders, of the Royal Amphith ea t re, o f t hi s town. n' 14 Same day, at his residence, Charlotte-street, Lan do i n k' Carpue, the celebrated r ef o r mer i n t h e med i cal pr ofess'" On the 31st ultimo. aged 41 years, Richard Bolton 4754 ;', 5 , Same day, aged 37 years, Mr. Crewe Edwards Da v 'tocti" surviving son of th e ;a t e R ev. C rewe ( h etwood D a vies ' bent of Flin its o. Same day, in Dexter-st ree t , age d 40 years, Mr... n ob et say, block maker. ~are, _,,fr Same day, at his house, Davies-street. BerkeleY-sl",„cli , don, in the Soth ye ar o f hi s age, R i chard James HiteuV;ore o ol Same day, at Mou t .t R a df ord terrace E x eter, Lt FOP' Henry U. Baugh, R.N., e ld est son of C aptain Baugh, R.N. chile P 1 Same day, aged eight d ays, M ary Jane. infan t Edward Bickersteth, Park-lane On the Ist instant. in w a ver u t r a e Pl 4 the long period of 46 3 ears the respected clerk of the c hat viiiag 111' r - .wces.street. London. 1 ‘" 0 */ )le` Superintendebt of the H Div.sion Same day, at his hou Fitz niaurice Pie,. f l 'i politan Police. ri t 0 Same day. at Laurie-terrac e. Westminster-road, L9nneotili 65 years, John Mack enz i e , E sq., M.D., surgeon of l'i Fields. I• 41 ( ' ~ , rt, r ti, same day, at his residence, Nlarle Hill House. R ° °f 3, :.0., ton I.eaper Newton, Esq., of Mickleover, in the coun t y mil , ' P' and late Lieut. Colonel of the Derbyshire Regiment o so, pit' Same day, at the Rectory House, Nantwich. the slllir Gretton, rector of that p ar i s h . ~D e r, „0 Same day, aged 48 years, Mr. James Brockey, J'' J ob street. J ~r Idr• . d . rom G Nit; lea "'Mei Ma , •0? c tutu, Do b 'or t le. e or . a 14 ktui '4%1 fr AR ! , 21 ° ' n • St. jot Tw o h ere tr !!,ict, A Z b ~ fr ok -43Dr'n, 1 .0 4144 led ; ep, 0 vet.. I,_ eb le It o , 1 0 4 I I le Vi r il 3 . 1 3: Th e