The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-08 00:00:00

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MR. ZABA'S SECOND LECTURE, on " The History
of Woman, and her Influence onithe Progress of Civi-
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George-street, on THURSDAY nett', the 10th instant, at
Half-past Seven o'clock in the Evening.
Admission, 2s. ; Members of the Mechanics' Inititution, is.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We thank our respected correspondent J. T. for pointing out
to us an error or two in our brief and imperfect, because
necessarily hasty report of the meeting at the Music Hall,
on behalf of the Gaelic Society. The speaker described as
the Rev. Dr. Stewart, was the Rev. J. H. Stewart, of St.
Bride's. In describing the identity of the old" soldiei.,
described by Mr. Campbell, our reporter was misled only
in common with the mass of the audience, through the pe-
culiar language employed by that gentleman, as is, indeed,
noticed by a contemporary in his long report on Saturday.
Alluding to this soldier, Mr. Campbell said,—(we adopt
the words of our contemporary),—" That soldier, 1 cannot
part with yet. He is a particular friend of thine, and I
wish him to address you. He turns to you, and you see a
weather-beaten man, his countenance showing that he has
been in rather warmer climates. Suppose him one of the
skeletons of the 73d' which came home from India, about
30 or 40 men out of 700 or 800 ; and that man now ad-
dresses you. (Rapturous and prolonged applause, the
audience simultaneously catching up the idea that the
speaker was drawing his owp portrait.)" „
As we understand it is the intention of Captain Sullivan, of
the Freeman, to institute legal proceedings against the par-
ties who have animadverted on his conduct, we cannot, of
course, republish the statement forwarded to us.
We are in possession of some interesting particulars respect-
ing the " Revivals in Scotland," of which we may shortly
avail ourselves."

Ebr Eibrrpoot ittanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1339.

By the Great Western, which arrived at Bristol on
Friday last, we have rereived New York. papers to
the 21st ultimo, inclusive. The Great Westermaccom-
plished the voyage home in twelve days and fifteen
hours. The British Queen arrived at New York on
the 20th ultimo, having accomplished the voyage in
seventeen days exactly. The British Queen was to sail
from New York on the Ist inst. : she may, therefore, be
expected to arrive at Portsmouth, about Sunday or
Monday next. The Great Western has brought home
43 passengers, and £116,051 in specie, from the United
States Bank, to their agent in London, Mr. Jaudon.
But for the arrival of the British Queen the day before
she sailed, it is calculated that she would have brought
home about £1,000,000 sterling.
The commercial intelligence from the United States
is of considerable importance. The news taken out by
the British Queen had produced an unfavourable effect
upon the money market. The Banks at New York
still adhere to their. policy of curtailment. They seem
determined to place themselves beyond the possibility
of another suspension. In the present state of the
public mind, they seem to think that such a catastrophe
would be the death-blow to the banking system. The
merchants were complaining bitterly against the banks,
charging them with diverting their funds from the legi-
timate purposes of mercantile discount to loans to the
government, to speculations in stock, to the purchase
of the post notes of the United States Bank, and to
usurious negotiations through the aid of the brokers.
In consequence of this policy an extreme pressure ex-
isted in the market, but as yet no failures had taken

place.
The position of the cotton trade had elicited from all
quarters estimates of the probable quantity of the grow-
ing crop. According to the Morning Herald, the state
of the crop was, in July last, universally allowed to be
favourable, and the figures ranged from 1,700,000 to •
2,000,000 bales, according to the interests of the par-
ties putting them forth. Since that period many causes
have combined to change the hopes of the planters,.
Many experienced planters, particularly lin Georgia;
have reduced their figures to 1,600,000 bales; on ac-
count of the continued drought which set in about the
first of August. This is said to have damaged the crop
to a great extent, and at the same time to haVe _so
far reduced the rivers as to make the crop very
backward. The general impulse at New York was,
that the crop of 1840 will exceed that of 1839 by 1 to
200,000 bales. There continued to be an active de-
mand for cotton at New YOrk, chiefly for export. • The
stock on sale was reduced to 17,000 bales. The sales
of the week were 1,900 Upland, at 10 to 131, in-
cluding 28 of the new crop, at 13 to 13k; 950 Mo-
bile, at 91 to 14 : 1,300. New Orleans, at 91 to 13,
and a few at 14 ; 600 Florida.—Total 4,750 bales.

The corn crops had been exceedingly abundant
,throughout the States. The Morning Herald states
that, " there are to be no shipments of bread-
stuff to Europe—it is now a settled question. The
little that Eng'and will want she will get from the Con-
tinent." This fact had produced a considerable decline
in prices.

The tobacco crop of the present year is said to be
unusually good. That of Virginia is estimated at
45,000 hogsheads; last year it was only 26,000. The
entire tobacco of Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and
Ohio, for this year is estimated at 115,000 hogsheads;
last year it was only 72,000.
It is said that public confidence in the United States
Bank remained unshaken, though its stock fluctuated
from 100 to 1031 dollars, between the 10th and 21st
ultimo. It had recently negociated, on terms most fa-
vourable to itself, a loan of upwards of two millions of
dollars for the State of Pennsylvania. For this the
Bank obtains a handsome interest, and the privilege of
issuing five dollar bills, to be taken by the state go-

vernment for the payment of the Contractors of its
public works. Exchange on England stood on the
21st at 9 to 101.

The Philadelphia Inquirer states, that a person

in the employ of some of the parties implicated in the
recent seizures of smuggled goods had become States'
evidence, and developed much important. testimony as
connected with the offence. The plan is said to have
extended to a number of individuals, and to have in-
volved a large amount of property.
Two disastrous fires are reported to have taken
place, one at St. Louis, and the other at Natchez. The
former originated in a warehouse, whence it communi-
cated to several buildings on each side, which it de-
stroyed. Five individuals were burnt to death. A
quantity of gunpowder was stored in several of the
buildings, and this increased the terror and de-
structiveness of the event by exploding from time to
time. The total loss is estimated at about 130,000
dollars. The fire at Natchez was nearly as destructive.
It commenced in Cotton Alley, and rapidly communi-
cated to several adjoining warehouses. The loss is
estimated at upwards of 83,000 dollars.
A fire had also taken place at Charleston, which
destroyed 13 dwelling-houses in Bedon's Alley and
Elliott-street. Seven of them were brick, and the rest
wooden houses. The total loss amounted to 30,000

dollars. A ropewalk at Montreal, which was 2,000
feet long, was also destroyed by fire on the 10th ult.,

,n the short space of twenty minutes.
The number of steerage passengers that had arrived

at New York from European ports from the Ist to the
sth of September, inclusive, was 2,141. Of this large
number, 1,657 had arrived from Liverpool alone.
The yellow fever was alarmingly on the increase in
the southern states. In New Orleans on the 11th of
September the fever raged with unmitigated violence.
The deaths in that city, during the week ending the
Bth ultimo, had been 189, and during th• two follow-
ing days 24 had died from the same disease. Natchez

papers to the Gth had been received, but they do not
state that the fever was worse in that place. From
Mobile the news is very distressing; the city, whose
whole population in winter is 15,000, had been reduced
to 3,000 inhabitants on the 6th ultimo. Most of the
inhabitants had fled, or were removing as fast as they
could. All the courts were closed, and business was
at an end. There were 54 persons buried who died of
the yellow fever within the three days preceding the
6th. The newspapers being nearly without a hand,
would be issued after the 6th, only once a week.. In
eight days, (from September 1 to September 8 in-
clusive,) one hundred and twenty nine perished out of a
population of 3,000 souls ! A letter from the same
place, dated September 9, states that " the city had
become like an hospltal, and that the doctors stated
that about 1,200 persons were sick, out of a popula-
tion computed at 3,500." Some of the deaths were
very sudden, "say in 24 hours—others from 3 to 5 days."
At Augusta the fever was also very bad. Though the
place was comparatively deserted—the inhabitants
having taken refuge at Aiken—eight died in 24 hours
ending at 12 o'clock on the 15th ult. The population
is said to have been reduced to about 1,000 whites.

The Evening Star gives an account of the launch of
the first American iron steam-boat, which took place
at Pittsburg. She is said to have drawn only nine
inches astern, and nine and a half forward. She is 160
feet long, and 25 broad—is divided into three water
tight apartments by iron bulk heads—has one engine,
and one set of boilers, all furnished with the newly-
invented safety valves of Mr. Evans of Pittsburg.
She is intended for the Ohio river, which is frequently
shallow from droughts.
The news from Galveston, Texas, extends to the 9th
of September. An affair had occurred on the Ist be-

tween the citizens of Texas and the sailors of the
Zavalla, in which several persons were severely hurt.
The citizens mustered in a large body, and drove the
sailors on board their vessel. The particulars are not
detailed. No news of importance had been received
from the interior. The Indians on the frontier had
committed no fresh depredations. The crops were
generally good, and the country improving as rapidly
as ever, A new channel has been discovered into the
harbour of Galveston. through which vessels drawing
twelve feet can enter with the most perfect safety at all
times, and of thirteen feet during high water. Hitherto,
vessels of twelve feet have found a passage with diffi-
culty ; and as the new.channel has an advantage of at
least twenty inches over the old, this discovery will be
Of great service to the navigation of Texas. The
Galveston Gazette reports, (without vouching for the
truth of the statement.) that a proposition for an alli-
ance with the Texian Government had been sent in by
four of the Northern States of Mexico, which had re-
volted. A strong party in Texas was in favour of the
connexion. Others opposed it. These States, it seems,
wish to be recognised as independent goVernments,
and offer in return to recognise the independence of
Texas. One great objection urged against the arrange-
ment was, that thereby the boundary between Texas
and Mexico would be fixed, and the extension of the
Texian territory to the south be prevented. Others,

again, were of the opinion that this would be the best
possible plan for obtaining a footing in the Northern
Provinces of Mexico, and that instead of hindering it
would accelerate the future acquisition of the country.
The subject appears to have caused considerable em-
barrassment.

Accounts from Mexico had been received at, New
Orleans to the 17th of August. They describe the
state of affairs as peaceful. General Bustamente had
been successful in his plans of reform. The yellow
fever was alarmingly prevalent and fatal to strangers
at Vera Cruz. The commander of the English packet

Hope, which sailed early in August for England, died
of the black vomit, before the vessel reached Havana.
It is said that the Mexican government has passed a

:lecree, ordering all foreign merchandize, imported into

Tampico after its date, to be seized and condemned,
unless the shipper proves that he was ignorant of such
decree at the date of shipment.
Advices from Monte Video to the 31st of July had
been received at Baltimore. It was expected that the
Governor of Monte Video had _collected an army and
intended to attack the town. Reports from the inte-
rior were favourable for a continuance of tranquillity.
Several Brazilian men of war had arrived, their object

being to make certain demands of the Government,
which, if not complied with, may possibly end in a
blockade.

The blockade of Buenos Ayres continues rigoitrously
enforced, and all communication, except by the British
packet once a month is prohibited.
Papers from Lima, under date of the 23rd of June,
state that peace had been again established in the pro-
vinces of Peru, and that Gamara was likely to be con-
tinued in the Presidency.
The news from Canada is unimportant. The Mon-
treal papers are chiefly occupied with speculations on
the anticipated appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson
to the office of Governor General. The Herald states
that there never was a Governor more popular than the
present, and regrets that he is to be succeeded by a
person whose declared sentiments are hostile to the
trade of the provinces, and whose views, if carried into
effect, "would bring about a rebellion among the hi-
therto loyal, and thereby hasten a separation between
the North American Colonies and the British Empire."
It suggests that Mr. Thomson must be told on his ar-
rival, that, if he maintain his anti-colonial views, he may
at once return to England, as his mission will be worse
than a failure.

The new patchwork of the ministry resembles the
fairy cabinet-work of Harlequin at the Christmas
theatre. Stuffed with every absurd device, and intend-
ed, apparently, for nothing so much as for a quiz upon
the popular fancies and a mirror for the gullible public
to see its own chimeras reflected and held forth to ri-
dicule, a single stroke of the wand dashes the whole
creation to pieces ; but not for a very long or serious
destruction, since some other unexpected stroke is
given, and lo ! a new construction just as fantastic as
the last. So is it in the great Pantomime of politics.
England is told, in the Morning Chronicle, and the
Globe, and the Edinburgh Review, that she is fructify-
ing under all the blessings which a democratical Minis-
try must of course be expected to bestow. And then,
hey presto ! before we can look round, the Prime Mi-
nister is telling the House of Lords that neither the
Commons in Parliament nor the people of England
will have anything to do with him or his. Away goes
the whole fabric of Government, like the castle of Co-
lumbine. Whizz, and round goes the wheel ; and in
a trice we see a contrary and most extraordinary eight,

the democratic doctors of the state figged up in the
garb of courtly pageantry, and arrayed in Windsor
uniforms. There is the same Prime Minister, the same
Jack-in-the-box, the same Globe, and Chronicle, and
Edinburgh,—the same party, the old jokes, all the same
personnel, and just the opposite professions; and what
you were taught to believe a moment before, you find
disproved at the present instant by the surest evidence
of the senses. Verily
This little round world has enough to do,
Rolling and boiling about the sun,
Till it makes its denizens wondrous blue
With the whirligig rigs they run.
One cannot for one's life tell what is in earnest and
what is in sport. One looks to the programme of this
astounding performance, and the plot is thicker than
How came it, in the name of magic, that the
man who voted against transferring the franchise in
1827 from Retford to Birmingham is figuring it in this
farce as a Reform Premier ? How chances the author
of those touching eulogiums on the old Constitution—
the destroyer indeed of Gatten, but the saver of Sa-
rum—to be leader of the Reformed Parliament ? How
chances the author of Yes and No to be Home Secre-
tary ? Aye, indeed, how chances it ? We cannot tell.
Perchance this is

A question like asking you " How is your wife ?"
At once so confounded domestic and foreign.

How got the Rhetorician to the Board of Trade ?—the
sworn Repealer to the Council of his Queen ?—and
then what, in the name of either hemisphere, took away
the thin, attenuated, meagre little dealer in Barilla from
the concerns of Manchester and Petersburgh to the
dominion of Northern America ?—why Darius was
posted on the throne of Persia by the neighing of his
horse, and why not Pow. Pow. be made the Emperor
of America by the braying of an ass ?
But lo ! another whizz, and yet again the fabric of
the Cabinet is changed. A short and swarthy man,
with a grey goose quill behind his car, and a blue and
yellow volume in his hand, conies tbrward on the stage.
Shrouded in his own foolscap, and defended from
questions by his own unceasing volubility, he takes es-
pecial care, like Harlequin's clown, to have all the talk
to himself. Questions he abhors ; for, however inter-
minable his vocabulary, he is not good at answers. He
is a dab at declamation, but Sheil himself is not a
worse debater.

Sydney Smith is reported to have observed of this
Northern Luminary that he has been greatly improved
by his residence in India, inasmuch as certain faint
streaks of silence have been observable in his conver-
sation since his return. Surely it transcends the powers
of mortal imagination to conceive the disturbance his
rhetorical habits will occasion at the Council board,
where it is understood that little but dumb show has
hitherto prevailed—a smile from the easy-tempered
Premier, a nod from pragmatic Russell, and a roguish
leer from Normanby. Northern lights are said to be
the harbingers of stormy weather. Let the slumber-
ridden Cabinet beware, lest the Bore-all-ian properties
of their new recruit be not among the signs and the
causes of their sure destruction.

It is getting too late now for them to dissolve under
the old registration, and we will lay our lives they will
not chance it prematurely upon the new. But the
farce must come to its end. Politics, like pantomimes,
have their conclusions, and all that now remains is the
assemblage of the actors upon the stage, preparatory to
the final drop.

It would fatigue our readers to recapitulate one-
tenth of the infinite absurdities through which the au-
dience has hitherto been dragged ; just as not the mer-
riest schoolboy in the boxes would bear a repetition
even of Mother Custard and Dame Mustard, which, so
far as our memory will serve, (and we protest that we
mean no offence either to the Mayor of Pimlico or the
pungent Dictator of Durham,) is the most popular by
far of all the holiday diversions. We would not for
the world be absent 'when Her Majesty's Servants shall
enact this crowning scene; and sparing as we must
confess we have hitherto been of our applause, we de-
sire it to be understood we are only keeping ourselves
in reserve to do honour with all due effect, at the fitting
time ; and we respectfully entreat them to " stand not
on the order of their going. Go at once."

'We resume to-day the subject of the opium-trade
with China. The memorial addressed by the British
merchants and their agents at Canton to Lord Palmer-
ston is an important document, and places in a strong
light their claim upon the Government of this country
for compenSation. If the statements therein made are
substantiated, we think that they will have established
their case. With reference to what we said last week
as to the connivance on the part of the Chinese autho-
rities, the memorialists state that " the opium-trade
has steadily increased from an import of 4,100 chests
in 1796 to upwards of 30,000 chests in 1837, with the
open and undisguised connivance of the local authori-
ties." "No penalties have ever been enforced against
foreigners bringing it to China, and the prohibitory
laws have never been a rule to the functionaries of the
Chinese Empire who should have administered them,
nor to the Chinese people on whom they were intended
to operate, which facts are openly admitted in the recent
edicts of the Imperial Commissioner, in which he states
that the prohibitions formerly enacted by the Celes-
tial Court against opium were comparatively lax,' and
that ' foreigners are men from distant lands, and have
not before been aware that the prohibition of opium is
so severe.' "

We do not see the force of the reasoning by which
the memorialists endeavour to fix the Imperial Parlia-
ment—or, what comes to the same thing, the British
Government—with such a knowledge of the extent to
which this traffic has been carried on, as to render it
in ford conscienthe liable to indemnify them for the
losses they have sustained. They say—" We may
further state, that the peculiar character of the opium-
trade was distinctly recognised in the report of the
Select Committee of the House of Commons in 1830,
and that in the report in 1832, the Committee express
their opinion that it does not seem advisable to aban-
don so important a source of revenue as the East India
Company's monopoly of opium in Bengal.' " We do
not happen at this moment to have by us the former
of these reports, but the latter merely alludes to the
monopoly of the sale of opium to the Bombay and
Bengal merchants kept in the hands of the East Indian
Government, without reference to the subsequent use
which the purchasers might make of the article in
exporting it from India. In other respects we concur
in the view taken by the petitioners, and have already,
in a previous article, explained the grounds on which
we think that they are entitled to receive compensation
for their loss at the hands of the Imperial Legislature.
They traded with a foreign power which had suffered
its prohibitory laws to grow obsolete ; their principal

article of barter was the very drug against which such
furious edicts are now promulgated ; they traded on

the faith that the British public were perfectly cogni-
zant of_ their proceedings, and that they sanctioned
this nominal infringement of the laws of China, be-

cause not a whisper of 'disapprobation was heard from
the millions who consumed the tea which was received

chiefly in exchange for opium imported from our In-
dian possessions. This question will be one of the
first pressed upon the attention of Parliament at the
opening of the next Session, and as it is one into which
the jarring interests of Party cannot enter, we trust
that it will meet with a speedy and satisfactory settle-
ment.

But graver considerations are behind. Indepen-
dently of the temporary embarrassment into which the
houses of a few merchants may be thrown by this
confiscation of their property, the effect which late
events will have upon our intercourse with China de-
serves serious attention. Unhappily we have placed
ourselves towards them in the wrong, and it is painful
to see ti'e consciousness they display of this fact in the
recent proclamation issued to the Hong merchants.
The inability to deny the justice of the demand, that
all the opium-chests should be immediately surren-
dered, has inflated the barbaric arrogance of these
children of the moon and stars to an almost ludicrous
degree ; and we doubt whether the great " Hokey
Pokey Yankey Fum, King of the Cannibal Islands,"
ever fulminated a more lordly edict than that in which
the Celestial Emperor informs the world that " China
has indeed no need of commercial intercourse with
outer barbarians; but, because you have tome from
far over the seas, we cannot bear to push you utterly
away ; you have enjoyed the overshadowing, the com-
prehensive, and deep benevolence of the Great Em-
peror, who has given sanction to the trade with
kwangtung," and so forth. After the delivery of the
foreign resident applying 20,283 chests of opium, any

for leave to depart might do so, but on the express
condition of never returning; and death is denounced
against all who shall for the future attempt to smuggle
the forbidden article into the country. The words of
this sanguinary decree are :—" So often as opium is
brought, in all cases, in accordance with the new law,
the parties shall be capitally executed, and the property
entirely confiscated. Say not that it was not told
beforehand !" If these stringent enactments continue
in force, as we have no doubt they will for at least
some years, what is to become of our export and im-
port trade with China ? We showed in our former
article what a large proportion in value the opium bore
to the manufactured goods sent to Canton : in fact, it
constituted the staple of our trade. How are we to
purchase the tea which has become in this country
almost a necessary of life ? Bullion the Chinese do
not want, for the Government possesses extensive sil-
ver mines, and a large quantity of that metal has been
hitherto every year exported to India. The degree of
perfection to which the arts have arrived there (although
stationary perhaps for the last five hundred years), and
the utter stagnation of enterprise amongst that indolent
and degraded people, render China a bad market for
European manufactures; and we fear that, as their
passion for opium was one of the strongest induce-
ments for their keeping up an intercourse with foreign
traders, the disappearance of this drug may diminish
the amount of goods already exported annually to that
country.

But looking at the question in a moral and social
point of view, we are hound to acquiesce in the vigo-
rous steps which have been taken to annihilate this
traffic. The drug, when used in large quantities, is so
pernicious to mind and body, and the effects are so
debasing, that we applaud the Chinese Emperor and
his Ministers for rendering penal its importation. It
prostrates all mental vigour, and, after the temporary
exhilaration produced for a short period has passed
away, a languor and depression follow, which rendei
the unhappy victim of its influence imbecile and mise-
rable. It causes, in fact, a kind of dreamy -drunken-
ness, and unhinges rapidly all the faculties of the soul.
The late Sultan of Turkey is said to have prohibited
its use in any part of Constantinople, except in one
particular square, where an opium-divan was allowed ;
and, as a fitting monument of the effects of this de-
structive drug, one side of the square is occupied by a
mad-house ! Here the poor wretches come, and,
seated cross-legged on their cushions, purchase a mo-
ment's peace from the gnawing fiend that tortures
them, by chewing opium. In a short time they die,
or sink into a state of hopeless idiotcy. But on the
demoralising effects of opium we purpose to say a few
words hereafter.

We have every reason to expect that a vigorous at-
tempt will be made in the course of the ensuing win-
ter to " get up " an anti-Corn-law agitation. The
perplexities in the money-market which have paralysed
enterprise and speculation, and the inclemency of the
weather at the time when the harvest was ready for
the sickle, have been a source of diabolical satisfaction
to those who are never better pleased than when the
presswe of want deprives the people of this country of
their reason. These creatures are like the bird called
the stormy petrel. When the heavens are black and
lowering, they rejoice in the signs of the approaching
tempest. When England is prosperous and happy,
they are miserable ; for they well know that the people
then will not minister to the ends of their own guilty
ambition. They crawl from their hiding-places, like
vipers from a dunghill, when they think any national
calamity is at hand. Their own individual happiness
is exactly in an inverse ratio with that of the country
at large. Their feelings are those expressed in the
well-known line,

My grief is great, because it is so small;

and deserve the same rejoinder,
Then 'twould be greater, if 'twere none at all.

It is ludicrous to see how at this moment events are
tortured by the opponents of the Corn-laws into con-
nection with them. The old joke told by Bishop La-
timer, of Tenterden Steeple being the cause of Goodwin
Sands, is strictly applicable to the reasoning of these
logicians. If the Thames Tunnel were to fall in to-
morrow, we verily believe that the cause would be
discovered by them to be the existence of the Corn-
laws. Did we believe that their object was the justifi-
able one of procuring cheap bread for the people, we
might, however widely we differ from some of their
opinions and views, treat their efforts with more re-
spect : but this is merely a claptrap to deceive their
dupes. They want some exciting topic of agitation
just now. Repeal will do very well for the ignorant
Irish across the Channel ; but that cock will not fight
here. Therefore the banner of No-Bread-Tax is t 4 be
unfurled, and carried at the head of the ragged regi-
ments in the pay of the desponding Liberals. By this
they know they will give no offence to the Government,
for Lord Melbourne has declared that he only waits
for pressure from without to have his opinion of " the
madness of any attempt to repeal the Corn-laws"
changed into cordial approval of such a measure. But
in this nefarious endeavour to set the commercial and
agricultural interests at variance, the demagogues will
find themselves at fault. They will not thereby secure
the votes of the towns, and will infallibly lose those of
the counties. They are sowing dragons' teeth, and
will be destroyed by their own acts. In the meantime
we recommend to attentive peruSal the speech delivered
by Sir James Graham at Netherby on the 17th of last
month, and which appeared in our colums last Tues-
day.

We rejoice to learn that our Conservative friends are
making suitable preparations for contesting with vi-
gour the several wards at the approaching municipal
election, and that their prospects, in every direction,
are encouraging in the extreme. If they will only per-
severe in the course which they are now adopting until

the first of November, we have no doubt that we shall
have to congratulate them upon the most signal victory
ever obtained, in this town, over the combined forces
of the Papists, Radicals, and political Dissenters. Let
them, however, bear in mind that their factious oppo-
nents have not relaxed in their activity. We have
reason to believe that unprecedented exertions are be-.
ing made by the liberals to maintain their ascendancy
in the Town Council. Money, to an immense amount,
has been already lavished in the qualification of voters.
Every art of cajolery, indirect bribery, and intimidation,
has been unscrupulously resorted to, for the purpose
of strengthening the liberal interest. But all this will
he in vain, if the Conservatives will only continue to
exert themselves as they ought. Past success ought
to encourage future combined and persevering efforts.
We earnestly trust that no paltry jealousy—no feelings
of personal pique—no private considerations-7-will su-
pervene to mar the brightening prospects of Conser-
vatism. We are not aware of the existence of any
such feelings : we only throw out a timely caution. It
should be remembered that union is strength. We
hope to witness that hearty and harmonious co-opera-
tion—that united energy of purpose and action—and
that disinterested self-devotion—which are alike wor-

thy of the hallowed cause of true Conservatism and
calculated to secure the gratifying reward of success.
Let every ward in the town be contested in the most
determined manner. A brief canvass will soon de-
monstrate the probability of ultimate success, and in-
spire a degree of confidence which will triumph over
every difficulty. The Conservatives of Liverpool are
not yet sufficiently aware of the strength of their cause.
Let it be fully tested and ascertained by an active and
immediate canvass, and Are have no doubt of the result.
We shall have more to say on this subject when the
candidates for all the wards are announced.

Like a boy who is frightened at the echo of his own
voice, the liberal promoters of the dock warehouse
scheme are beginning to quake in their shoes under
the alarm inspired by the agitation to which they have
themselves given rise. They feel that they have gone
too far—that they have embarked on an undertaking
which they have not the courage to carry into execu-
tion—that they have raised around them. -a host of
enemies upon whose opposition they did not calculate
—and that it was a most miserable stroke of policy to
venture upon a division on the eve of a municipal elec-
tion. We know that this has proved already a preg-
nant source of inconvenience to the liberal candidates
now in the field. They find the warehouse owners—
a numerous and influential class—unappeasably hostile
to them. The large classes who are dependent upon
the warehouse owners, and whose interests are identical
j with theirs, are not to be conciliated at any price. All

his we anticipated and predicted. We are glad that
he question has been agitated, and that the liberals

have, to use a figurative expression, " cut their own
throats." They must-now " chew the end" of bitter
disappointment with as much resignation as they can
command. We do not envy their situation ; and as
they have themselves alone to blame, we can scarcely
extend to them our pity.
That we do not exaggerate the fears of the liberal
advocates of the dock warehouses will appear very
evidently if any one will take the trouble to read the
articles on this subject which appeared in the Journal
of Saturday, and in the Albion of yesterday. Our
liberal contemporaries are quite at loggerheads on this
" vexatious question." The astute and clever editor
of the Journal has, at length discovered that the ware-
houses on the dock quays " have not been sufficiently
clamoured for—that, in fact, there has been no insur-
rection in their favour." His language is thus con-
strued by the Albion. Now, this is precisely the point
upon which we have been insisting for the last twelve
months. We have repeatedly asserted the unpopu-
larity of th 6 question. We have proved to demonstra-
tion that the " cry for warehouses—warehouses—
warehouses"—as very felicitously expressed by Alder-
man Earle—has been the cry of a faction, and that it
has been raised for essentially factious purposes. That
a few conservatives have joined in this cry is not our
fault. They will, ere long, find out their mistake, as
they did after joining the. Radicals in the cry for a
revision of the. corn-laws.

It is amusing to find the Journal asserting that the
Liberals, in adiroCating the warehouse question, " ex-
change present odium fOr future glory." Of the odium
there can'be no' doubt. The Liberal canvassers, whe-
ther principals or understrappers, have to encounter the
" odium" at every step of their progress through the
several wards. We are afraid that the " future glory"
is a dream never to be realised—a sort of "
Will-o'-
the-wisp" that has led the Liberal ,scheiners through
the mire of degradation into the slough of despond.
Equally amusing is *it to find so thorough-going a

liberal as the Albion asserting that the representative
system " becomes a farce, if the representatives are to
sit, like spoon-fed children, waiting upon intimations
from without, and to be considered as fit only, in a
passive state, to reflect the feelings of their constituents."
This, he it remembered, is the deliberate language of a
journal pre-eminent, in times past, for its advocacy of
the " pressure from without." Its doctrine now is
that the " representatives are not," like spoon-fed
children, "to represent the feelings of their consti-
tuents." We shall never henceforth touch a spoon
without thinking of the Albion. Call you this backing
your friends ? Is this a proper sort of appeal to " the
people—the source of all power"—on the eve of an
election ?

It is quite clear that the liberals are alarmed at the
consequences of their own agitation.

- They back recoil (they well know why)
Even at the sound themselves have made.

" There is something rotten in the state of Den-
mark." The aristocratic Whigs are fast deserting the
Ministerial ranks. The Duke of Devonshire is, we
are confidently informed, on the point, if he have not
already done so, of intimating to Lord Melbourne that
he must no longer calculate upon his support. There
is every reason to believe that Earl Grey also is deter-
mined to stand up for " his order." That nobleman
is said to have recently used the following words at
dinner-table while speaking of Lord John Russell
" He is a conceited coxcomb, and essentially wicked."
We give the rumour as it has reached us. Was this
remark provoked by the recent tricks of legerdemain
in the Cabinet, by which the Papists Sheil and Wyse
have been promoted to office ? Or had it anything
to do with the cashiering of the " crotchety" Lord
Howick ?

MELANCHOLY SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, Mr. Munn,
surgeon, Moon-street, near Pembroke-place, put a period to
his existence by cutting his throat. The inquest will be held
this day. Meantime we have not been enabled to learn
any cause for the rash act on the part of the unfortunate
deceased.

WATCHMAKING.—This trade, one of the most important
in Liverpool, is now in a very dull state. We are informed
on very good authority that during the last week upwards of
500 workmen in its different departments have been thrown
out of employment by the cessation of American orders.

BODY FOUND.—The body of a man, apparently a sailor,
was, on Monday last, found washed upon the sea shore, near
Maryport. He was about 5 feet 4 inches in height, had on
blue cloth jacket and trowsers, fancy striped shirt, and 'Wel-
lington boots • and an address card in his pocket, with " Mar-
tin, 24, Blundell-street, Liverpool."--Carlisle Patriot.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Monday evening a poor mall
was knocked down on the Liverpool-road, near to where the
Birkenhead railway crosses it, in the township of Upton, and,
after being most brutally treated, was robbed of thrL e shillings
in money and a bundle. The unfortunate victim was in a
dreadful state when he applied to the Chester police the
same evening, and was most humanely taken care of. Next
day his worship the Mayor obtained admission for him into
the Infirmary, in order that he might have surgical aid.—
Chester Chronicle.
THE MAGICAL FIGURES.—Our readers will regret to per-
ceive by Mr. Colles's advertisement in our paper of this day,
that his visit to Liverpool is drawing to a close ; his rooms
continue to be daily thronged with fashionables, most of
whom express their admiration of his talents in the most sub-
stantial manner, i. e. by becoming his pupils, and in their
turn astounding their friends in the same way in which they
have been themselves astonished. We advise all who have
not already visited Mr. C. to do so immediately, as we per-
ceive that he has received a fresh supply of his amusing
novelties.

INQUEST.—On Saturday last, an inquest was held before
P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of an old
man named David Pritchard. The deceased had been par-
tially employed as a night watchman, at the Clarence Dock,
by the St. George's Steam Packet Company, and he occupied
a room in a house tenanted by a man named Harvey, in
Maguire-street. He had gone to his room (which it ap-
peared he was in the habit of locking inside,) at noon on
Wednesday, and as he did not make his appearance as usual,
Harvey felt some alarm, and at three o'clock in the afternoon
of Thursday, he called in two of the constables, and they
broke open the door, and found him in a debilitated condition.
One of the constables immediately went for a surgeon, and
brought Mr. Dean, of the North Dispensary, who found the
deceased in a dying state. Every means were used to pro-
long his existence ; but he expired in less than an hour after
being found. A post nzortem examination of the body took
place, when it appeared that the deceased had died by the
visitation of God—of cancer in the stomach. The jury re-
turned a verdict accordingly.
EXHIBITION OF PORTRAITS, BY MR. MERCIER.—We
yesterday had the pleasure of visiting, for the first time, the
exhibition of portraits by Mr. Mercier, at his rooms, No.
100, Bold-street, and were highly gratified to recognise ad-
mirable likenesses of many of our most respected fellow-
townsmen and fair townswomen, all of which have been pro-
duced with an astonishing rapidity of execution. Mr. M.,
who has been known for years in Manchester, and highly es-
teemed in that town,_ not only as a fine limner, but a gentle-

man of most agreeable manners and polished conversation,
is, we are happy to say, rising to equal, or even greater, fame
in our own town ; and the great moderation of his charges
holds out a strong additional inducement to all who desire
to preserve those admirable records of affection—correct
portraits of themselves and the several members of their
families. We are by no means singular in our praises of
Mr. M., as possessing great facility in the taking of like-
nesses, in colouring them to the life, and in finishing the
whole in the most perfect manner, in a comparatively short
space of time. We find that during his residence in London
his works were noticed with the highest encomiums by the
most talented journals and periodicals of that metropolis.
But we need not go abroad for confirmation of our opinion.
Those who will take the trouble to call and examine his
specimens will at once admit the justice of our remarks,
when they see the portraits of Captain Fayrer, R.N.,of the
steamship Liverpool ; Mr. Wilson, of the Liverpool anking
Company, and his lady; Mr. Perry, of the Dublin Steam-
packet Company ; Mr. Lacey, of Bold-street ; Mr. Sander-
son, and several others. We shall take some future occa-
sion to notice Mr. Mercier's style of painting, and meantime
wish him all possible success.
MARTIN'S PICTURE OF THE CORONATION. --TIAS gore
geous and truly transcendant picture, now exhibiting at the.
Lyceum, which has been the theme of admiration by all who.
have seen it, is certainly beyond all praise, and cannot be
too much studied and admired. The spectator, on first
viewing the work, is for awhile completely paralyzed by the
vastness of design, and the effulgence of light and brilliancy,
that everywhere meets the eye ; and where to begin our ad-
miration, is for some time a very pleasing perplexity ; and,
however singular it may appear, the " old and venerable
Abbey" is the first part that attracts our attention, the scenic
effect of which is so beautiful and true to nature, that, for a
moment, we imagine that we stand within its walls; we
think that we see through and through its arching columns,
vaultings, &c. The stained glass window is so managed,
that nothing hut a very close inspection will satisfy the
spectator, that there is not a light behind it; indeed, the
illusion is perfect, and would have been a splendid picture
without one figure, one bit of drapery, one sparkling gem.
What then must be the effect, when we see thousands of
figures, groups upon groups, all gorgeously and splendidly
attired. Peers, generals, bishops, judges, pages, men at
arms, ladies, and such ladies, " beauty in a thousand forms,"
the young Queen rushing to the front of the throne, to assist
Lord Rolle, for it is at the moment of this accident that
Martin has fixed upon for his picture—a happy choice, and
which has enabled him to throw a dash of feeling and poetry
into it, for which his works are so celebrated.
BATHING.—We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Penn of the
Baths, George's Pier, on the spirited preparations which they
have made for the comfort and accommodation of their visit-
ors during the approaching winter.
THE GREAT WESTERN.—We understand that despatches
will be forwarded to Bristol from the office of Messrs. Gibbs,
Bright, and Co. on the 19th instant, to reach in time for the
next voyage of the Great Western to New York.—See Advt.
MADEMOISELLE RUDERSDORFF'S SOISEE MUSICALE.—
We find in the Manchester Guardian the following flattering
testimony to this lady's performances :—" This concert, gi-
ven on Thursday evening last, in the new lecture and concert
room of the Athenaeum, was well attended and very suc-
cessful. Its principal novelty and attraction was the d6but
of Mademoiselle Rudersdorff herself. This young lady pos-
sesses a fine sophrano voice, of considerable compass and
great power. Her singing is pure, but it is not cold ; there
is a warmth, an energy, and a correctness and delicacy of ex-
pression about it, that cannot fail to carry away the auditors,
as the songstress herself is swayed. She is young and full of
promise, and if there be one caution that she more needs
than another, it is to guard herself against beinF, carried
away by the ardour of her enthusiasm for her art. —Man-
cheater Guardian.